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- 0:10Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
- 0:14Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starts American.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Well, Hello, everybody, welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show
- 0:30Speaker 2: one or not. To have you with us wherever you
- 0:32Speaker 2: may be listening to us or watching us today on
- 0:35Speaker 2: our YouTube or Rumble channels, Facebook Live. What an honor
- 0:39Speaker 2: to have you with us for the next three hours
- 0:43Speaker 2: of common sense conservative conversation. Again, we have got a
- 0:49Speaker 2: lot of ground to cover today President Trump in China.
- 0:53Speaker 2: You know what's interesting about the President and he's it's
- 0:57Speaker 2: a who's who, a cavalcade business and economic stars that
- 1:02Speaker 2: are traveling along with the President. And it was the
- 1:08Speaker 2: it was the welcome the president received. You know when
- 1:10Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama was invited to go to China and
- 1:15Speaker 2: they flew over their Air Force one and you had
- 1:17Speaker 2: the grand staircase. They actually made Barack Obama come out
- 1:22Speaker 2: of the buttocks of the airplane. You know, they had
- 1:25Speaker 2: that tiny little the tiny little stairs and what they
- 1:28Speaker 2: would call the the rear of the aircraft be hind
- 1:33Speaker 2: quarters of the ass of Air Force one. That's where
- 1:37Speaker 2: they made that's where they made Obama come out, but
- 1:42Speaker 2: not Donald Trump. Donald Trump, he came down the big
- 1:46Speaker 2: the big boy staircase, the grown up staircase, and there
- 1:50Speaker 2: was the red carpet and people were cheering. And I've
- 1:53Speaker 2: never seen such adelation before. And then you compare that
- 1:58Speaker 2: to what happened with Donald Trump's when he's around reporters
- 2:02Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. Or at the White House Correspondence
- 2:06Speaker 2: Association dinner. Really was really was quite remarkable. You know,
- 2:11Speaker 2: it's interesting. Glenn Back is uh, he's a little concerned
- 2:15Speaker 2: Glenn Back yesterday just the the safety issue, and and
- 2:21Speaker 2: I I have to tell you, I was thinking the
- 2:24Speaker 2: exact same thing. You know, you don't want to jinx.
- 2:26Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to you don't want to
- 2:28Speaker 2: like something. You think about something and it becomes reality,
- 2:31Speaker 2: but you can't help. But wonder that, I mean, I
- 2:36Speaker 2: do I get uneasy every time the president leaves American soil.
- 2:40Speaker 3: I don't.
- 2:40Speaker 4: I don't.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Maybe that's just me, but I do. And one of
- 2:44Speaker 2: the reasons why is the Secret Service. That is that's
- 2:48Speaker 2: a big problem. And I still go back to the
- 2:50Speaker 2: White House Correspondence Association dinner and I nothing against those men.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I think there was a woman there too, and nothing
- 2:59Speaker 2: against the work they did. Those that were assigned the
- 3:02Speaker 2: task of actually guarding the ballroom, well, they did their jobs,
- 3:05Speaker 2: and they had done quite well. To some extent, I've
- 3:10Speaker 2: noticed there was a trend, for example, that they shot
- 3:17Speaker 2: I don't know how many shots were fired. Nobody hit,
- 3:20Speaker 2: nobody hit the suspect. It does make you wonder if
- 3:25Speaker 2: over the years, going all the way back to the
- 3:27Speaker 2: bh Obama years, if instead of finding the best of
- 3:32Speaker 2: the brightest and the most accurate shooters, maybe they were
- 3:36Speaker 2: hiring people for secret service positions based on diversity, equity
- 3:41Speaker 2: and inclusion. And when you look at for example, and
- 3:46Speaker 2: can we go back to Butler for just a moment
- 3:48Speaker 2: here Butler County, Pennsylvania, and we all remember the iconic shot, right,
- 3:54Speaker 2: you've seen it, Trump with his arm raised up, fight, fight, fight,
- 3:58Speaker 2: and you hear the sky fullding on the stage and
- 4:01Speaker 2: the president is concerned about his shoes. One of he
- 4:05Speaker 2: lost his shoe and there was wow, there were a
- 4:10Speaker 2: good few seconds where the president was totally exposed. And
- 4:16Speaker 2: I'm I've often thought about that, and I was sort
- 4:22Speaker 2: of shocked at the lack of immediacy of the response
- 4:26Speaker 2: of the Secret Service. And because these guys are trained,
- 4:29Speaker 2: I mean trained, it's like split second training here. And
- 4:35Speaker 2: you do wonder, especially with you know, the other incident
- 4:39Speaker 2: with the gunman hiding in the bushes at the golf
- 4:43Speaker 2: course in Palm Beach, it makes you wonder what's going
- 4:48Speaker 2: on in the Secret Service. Is this simply a matter
- 4:52Speaker 2: of just you know, ineptness, people that are unqualified that
- 4:56Speaker 2: have been hired for the Secret Service, or is there
- 4:58Speaker 2: something else going on here? Are there bad actors within
- 5:02Speaker 2: the Secret Service who are either trying to do our
- 5:05Speaker 2: president harm or not doing their jobs well enough to
- 5:10Speaker 2: expose the president to those who would try to harm him?
- 5:13Speaker 2: And man, I hate that my brain. I hate that
- 5:16Speaker 2: my brain wanders into that darkness. But it does make
- 5:21Speaker 2: you wondering. That's why I get nervous. I mean, when
- 5:23Speaker 2: you see these stories of Secret Service agents when they're
- 5:26Speaker 2: on these international trips, hanging out with the hookers, getting drunk,
- 5:30Speaker 2: getting wasted. That did not used to happen, and there
- 5:36Speaker 2: was there has been a change in the Secret Service,
- 5:40Speaker 2: and that's got to get fixed, and quite frankly, it
- 5:43Speaker 2: needs to be. It needs to be completely overhauled, and
- 5:47Speaker 2: that should have happened, and that should have happened immediately
- 5:51Speaker 2: after the White House Correspondence Association, because it just seems
- 5:55Speaker 2: to me that there should have been layers layers of security.
- 6:01Speaker 2: They're in that building, and I know that it's a hotel,
- 6:04Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. But when you've got the leader of
- 6:07Speaker 2: the free world, you had the Vice president, you had
- 6:10Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House, you had a majority of
- 6:12Speaker 2: the cabinet there, I mean, this could have been a
- 6:14Speaker 2: catastrophic blow to the nation and that's not good. So anyway,
- 6:24Speaker 2: I'm I'm just yeah, I get Glenn Beck, and I
- 6:29Speaker 2: understand why he feels the way he does, because I
- 6:32Speaker 2: got to tell you, I feel the same way. I
- 6:34Speaker 2: am concerned about the safety of our great President. I
- 6:38Speaker 2: truly am, because there are people what this president is doing.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Do you understand? Do you understand what he is doing here?
- 6:48Speaker 2: The president is waging war, and forget about a ron
- 6:53Speaker 2: for a second. The president's waging war on the deep state,
- 6:57Speaker 2: members of both political parties who have in riched themselves
- 7:01Speaker 2: at the expense of the American taxpayers, who have stolen,
- 7:07Speaker 2: who have grifted off of the American people. And we're
- 7:12Speaker 2: talking about generational wealth that has been stolen from the
- 7:16Speaker 2: American taxpayers and that is just unacceptable. And the President
- 7:21Speaker 2: sees that, and the President's the President's going after that now,
- 7:27Speaker 2: Sebastian Gorka, and we're gonna get We're gonna get doctor
- 7:30Speaker 2: G on the show. I miss him. You know, he's
- 7:33Speaker 2: just a great guy. And he's doing counter terrorism for
- 7:36Speaker 2: the White House. You know what I love about doctor G.
- 7:39Speaker 2: This man, uh does not do a lot of press,
- 7:41Speaker 2: does not do a lot of interviews. He does his job.
- 7:44Speaker 2: And quite frankly, that's something the FBI director could learn from.
- 7:47Speaker 2: That's something that Pam Bondi should have learned from, and
- 7:50Speaker 2: others Christy Nolm. But Gorka, I mean, he was a
- 7:55Speaker 2: celebrity within his own right and he put all that
- 7:58Speaker 2: aside and he's serving the isn't it predominantly in the shadows.
- 8:02Speaker 2: But anyway, he did an interview the other day with
- 8:04Speaker 2: Miranda Divine over at the New York Post and Podforce
- 8:09Speaker 2: one is the it's a very clever name for a podcast.
- 8:13Speaker 2: We call ours the Toodcast.
- 8:14Speaker 5: Dylan, Yes, we do.
- 8:17Speaker 2: I kind of like Podforce one. Pod Force one.
- 8:21Speaker 5: It's pretty sick. Yeah, that's cool.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Yeah, todcast is Yeah. I mean it's not bad, it's click.
- 8:27Speaker 5: It could be the Toddfather too. You know you are
- 8:29Speaker 5: the Todd Father around here.
- 8:30Speaker 6: Tod Father.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Oh I like that. Yeah, get some good Italian music.
- 8:36Speaker 7: Uh So.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Anyway, in this interview, this sort of ties in in
- 8:40Speaker 2: a very morbid sort of way. So Sebastian Gorka says
- 8:44Speaker 2: that in the event President Trump is assassinated, that he's
- 8:48Speaker 2: left Vice President Jade Vance written instructions on what to
- 8:52Speaker 2: do next. Gorka said the president had prepared for a
- 8:57Speaker 2: succession scenario, a mid sigxecurity concern surrounding the president during
- 9:02Speaker 2: his second term. This is the quote from doctor g
- 9:05Speaker 2: There is a letter in the drawer in the resolute
- 9:09Speaker 2: desk that is addressed to the vice president should something
- 9:13Speaker 2: happen to him. The comments came after Gorka said he
- 9:17Speaker 2: did not personally fear an attempt on Trump's life by
- 9:20Speaker 2: a foreign adversary. When Divine expressed concern about the President
- 9:25Speaker 2: traveling to China to meet President Jijiampin described the president
- 9:30Speaker 2: as someone who alone stands between them and world domination.
- 9:35Speaker 2: I am so glad to hear her say that, because
- 9:37Speaker 2: I thought up until now, I was the only person
- 9:39Speaker 2: who saw that, or at least that's how I think
- 9:42Speaker 2: of it. It's Donald Trump versus the world. Miranda Devine
- 9:50Speaker 2: goes on to say, so they have every reason of
- 9:52Speaker 2: the world to take him out. After speaking about the letter,
- 9:57Speaker 2: Divine pressed Gorka on Trump safety, claiming China it could
- 10:00Speaker 2: hurt him in a sneaky way. Gorka said, quote, we
- 10:04Speaker 2: have protocols. Trust me, not ones I can discuss, but
- 10:07Speaker 2: we have protocols. I love this guy. The President had
- 10:12Speaker 2: previously spoken about contingency plans in relation to assassination and
- 10:16Speaker 2: threats from Iran. In January, Trump said he left very
- 10:19Speaker 2: firm instructions that the whole of Iran should be blown
- 10:23Speaker 2: up if he were killed. I can't even think that.
- 10:28Speaker 2: It's just you don't. Three times, no, four times, four
- 10:32Speaker 2: times now they've tried to kill this man. A second suspect, Well,
- 10:39Speaker 2: let me back up here at home. Meanwhile, Trump has
- 10:43Speaker 2: faced multiple assassination attempts in recent years. We mentioned Butler,
- 10:48Speaker 2: a second suspect was arrested after allegedly hiding at his
- 10:52Speaker 2: golf course with a rifle. Again, why did the Secret
- 10:55Speaker 2: Service not know that? How unbelievable. And in April it
- 10:59Speaker 2: would be assassd an attempting to rush the correspondence center
- 11:02Speaker 2: at the Hilton by the fourth one, by the way,
- 11:05Speaker 2: was this guy who showed up and at mar Lago.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Trump was not there, but the guy was wanting to
- 11:10Speaker 2: kill Trump. So anyway, I'm I'm just concerned, that's all.
- 11:17Speaker 2: It's I just get uneasy whenever I see the president
- 11:21Speaker 2: out and about. I don't like it when he's in
- 11:22Speaker 2: front of the big crowds. I mean, I know that
- 11:24Speaker 2: he's got to do that, and I get it, but
- 11:28Speaker 2: I hope that all of you are praying for the
- 11:30Speaker 2: safety of our president. But I will say this, God
- 11:34Speaker 2: forbid something happens in a foreign country is responsible. We
- 11:38Speaker 2: have to. We have an obligation to literally blow the
- 11:41Speaker 2: entire country off the face of the earth. That's the
- 11:45Speaker 2: only proper response here and there are the challenge though,
- 11:50Speaker 2: and I do believe this. I do believe that the
- 11:53Speaker 2: more likely scenario is that people within the nation are
- 11:56Speaker 2: going to try and hurt our president. And a lot
- 11:58Speaker 2: of that, by the way, come from these teachers that
- 12:01Speaker 2: are out there posting videos on TikTok and Instagram literally
- 12:05Speaker 2: calling for the assassination of President Trump. And what concerns
- 12:10Speaker 2: me is a lot of these teachers, their students follow
- 12:13Speaker 2: their social media platforms. God forbid one of those kids
- 12:18Speaker 2: tries to do something that's kind of where we are
- 12:21Speaker 2: right now. We can't live in fear, And I'm not fearful.
- 12:24Speaker 2: I just I'm concerned, I really am. And I love
- 12:29Speaker 2: our president and I want our president to serve out
- 12:32Speaker 2: his term and spend the rest of his years enjoying
- 12:35Speaker 2: golf and the beautiful Presidential Library that he's going to
- 12:39Speaker 2: build in Miami, and I want him and his family
- 12:42Speaker 2: to be safe. The hell these people have been put
- 12:45Speaker 2: through by the left and by the establishment Republicans is
- 12:49Speaker 2: just appalling. And they all bear responsibility for creating this
- 12:55Speaker 2: assassination culture that is permeating America right now. So all
- 13:01Speaker 2: that to say, pray for our president. I know he's
- 13:04Speaker 2: being protected, but again, the Secret Service, h yah yah yay,
- 13:09Speaker 2: it's that's not good. That's not good. All right, We've
- 13:13Speaker 2: got to take a break. Nine oh one two six
- 13:15Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one two
- 13:18Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. Coming up, we're gonna
- 13:21Speaker 2: be talking to Indiana Governor Mike Brown's gonna be joining us.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Also Liz Pete from Fox News, Steve gil from Try
- 13:28Speaker 2: Start Daily News, and of course our good buddies every
- 13:31Speaker 2: Wednesday from Strategic Financial Partners here to answer your financial questions.
- 13:37Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of fun today. Hanging tied, everybody,
- 13:39Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
- 13:57Speaker 8: What way mayor is getting some national Ten thousands of
- 14:01Speaker 8: people voted online to name the new City County building
- 14:04Speaker 8: in his.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Honor, but that probably won't happen because of his name.
- 14:08Speaker 8: The people voted, and the top pick so far with
- 14:10Speaker 8: more than ten thousand votes, is the Harry Balls Government Center,
- 14:15Speaker 8: named after one of the city's longest serving mayors, but
- 14:17Speaker 8: not everyone's on board with that name. To pick the
- 14:20Speaker 8: new name for the building, people went over to feedback
- 14:22Speaker 8: Fort Wayne dot org. They made suggestions and voted. The
- 14:26Speaker 8: overwhelming front runner was the Harry Balls Government Center. Harry
- 14:30Speaker 8: Balls was the mayor of Fort Wayne back in the
- 14:32Speaker 8: nineteen thirties and forties. He even served a term in
- 14:35Speaker 8: the nineteen fifties. We have a street named after Harry Balls,
- 14:39Speaker 8: So what's the big deal about naming the new City
- 14:42Speaker 8: County government building after Some people think the Harry Balls
- 14:45Speaker 8: Government Center would make Fort Wayne the butt of jokes.
- 14:48Speaker 8: After all, the family did change the pronunciation of their
- 14:51Speaker 8: last name from Balls to Bells.
- 14:55Speaker 2: Oh my, well, that that's interesting, Dylan. You know, could
- 15:00Speaker 2: you imagine, I mean, where do you work? I worked
- 15:03Speaker 2: down at harry Balls.
- 15:05Speaker 5: I would just say HB H I work.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yeah, HB HQ. What or what if you're a cleaning
- 15:13Speaker 2: company and you're listing all your contracts and well, I
- 15:16Speaker 2: clean harry Balls. Really well, do you do like toes too?
- 15:21Speaker 2: Can you like you know, no, no, no, no, what
- 15:24Speaker 2: an unfortunate It's really not. I mean you don't want
- 15:26Speaker 2: to say it's an unfortunate name.
- 15:28Speaker 5: I mean it's not. It's not his fault. It's his
- 15:30Speaker 5: mother's fault.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Really, it's his ancest that's true. Who named their child?
- 15:35Speaker 2: Who would name their child harry Balls?
- 15:38Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh, it's kind of funny that the people actually
- 15:40Speaker 5: voted for this, like most people wanted harry Balls.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Of course they won.
- 15:44Speaker 5: Why not?
- 15:45Speaker 2: I mean I guarantee you there was like probably ninety
- 15:47Speaker 2: percent voter turnout just for that one item on the agenda.
- 15:51Speaker 5: And they already had a street named They're just like,
- 15:54Speaker 5: let's just go ahead and name everything.
- 15:55Speaker 2: This could you imagine it? I mean, you're a police
- 15:58Speaker 2: officer out of patrol. We've got a ten thirty one.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Harry Balls like, oh, I'm not going there, just get
- 16:04Speaker 2: some audie else. I'm on break. I'm at the Duncan Donuts.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Oh wait a second, we should have said I'm at
- 16:10Speaker 2: the salad bar. You know it is make you wonder there.
- 16:13Speaker 2: There are like some really unfortunate name combos out there.
- 16:17Speaker 2: And I remember remember Dick Trickle back in the day.
- 16:22Speaker 5: So I missed that one.
- 16:24Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So anyway, you should google. You should google
- 16:29Speaker 2: the Pride of Rampants, Wisconsin. By the way, bigger American
- 16:33Speaker 2: race car driver, Dick Trickle. So I always loved having
- 16:37Speaker 2: his name, you know, broadcast all over the all over
- 16:40Speaker 2: the TV. So up there you go, All right, did
- 16:42Speaker 2: aver and do we know if they actually did decide
- 16:45Speaker 2: to name there? Because it's a B A A LS
- 16:49Speaker 2: is the actual spelling, but the pronunciation is in fact
- 16:52Speaker 2: Balls as you. Hey, my head is off to those
- 16:55Speaker 2: news anchors. Those are professionals.
- 16:59Speaker 5: I feel like they knew that they were going to
- 17:00Speaker 5: say it, like a million times has.
- 17:01Speaker 2: That been on my show? I'd have been on the floor. Yeah, yeah,
- 17:04Speaker 2: that's it.
- 17:05Speaker 5: I'm too childish to do that.
- 17:07Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. By the way, President Trump yesterday
- 17:11Speaker 2: announcing that we got to start having babies. He's calling
- 17:14Speaker 2: on Americans to have more babies. And we're going to
- 17:18Speaker 2: play some audio from an interview we did on the
- 17:20Speaker 2: Newsmax Show in just a little while. But there's actually
- 17:23Speaker 2: there's there's a survey done and it turns out that
- 17:26Speaker 2: Americans are simply not giving birth, you know. I mean,
- 17:30Speaker 2: I think the Baby Boomer generation that was the largest.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Those were the folks coming back from World War Two,
- 17:36Speaker 2: and they started popping out babies all over the place.
- 17:39Speaker 2: And then you had the Gen xers and not so
- 17:44Speaker 2: much as far as you know, having kids. And now
- 17:47Speaker 2: apparently the birth rate has plummeted. I know, the New
- 17:50Speaker 2: York Times says, why so few babies? And they're going
- 17:55Speaker 2: through and looking at all sorts of things. Maybe culture changing.
- 18:00Speaker 2: I will say this though, it certainly appears that Gen
- 18:03Speaker 2: Z seems to be stepping up to the plate, if
- 18:06Speaker 2: you will, and they're focusing and putting more emphasis on
- 18:11Speaker 2: traditional things like marriage and like starting starting families. A
- 18:15Speaker 2: lot of them very young but anyway, I'm I suggested
- 18:19Speaker 2: the president to help things along, should give every young
- 18:23Speaker 2: American couple a bottle of wine and a very white
- 18:29Speaker 2: eight track that ought to do the trick. All right,
- 18:32Speaker 2: hanging tide, everybody will be right back.
- 18:35Speaker 6: There's all kinds fast and solved and slow classic. But
- 18:51Speaker 6: maybe you know this one at you, you.
- 19:04Speaker 2: Know, Dylan, I think we have to do our party
- 19:06Speaker 2: here on the Tod Stearns Radio Show. Ryan.
- 19:10Speaker 5: Uh, I think we're doing a great job so far.
- 19:12Speaker 6: I do too.
- 19:13Speaker 2: I think I think across the country right now, people
- 19:16Speaker 2: are making babies.
- 19:17Speaker 7: You know.
- 19:17Speaker 2: They've got us on, They've got our show in the background,
- 19:21Speaker 2: They've got the mood lighting the Yankee cantle.
- 19:26Speaker 5: The scene is set.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Uh, the scene is set, and you and I are
- 19:30Speaker 2: the background noise.
- 19:32Speaker 5: You're gonna maybe we're doing the opposite. I think we
- 19:35Speaker 5: might not be helping in all of me.
- 19:36Speaker 2: You don't think so.
- 19:37Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 19:38Speaker 2: I don't we're setting the mood.
- 19:41Speaker 5: I don't know. Did Barry White know that he was
- 19:43Speaker 5: gonna be this this icon of love making like when
- 19:46Speaker 5: he uh, he started his career.
- 19:48Speaker 2: He had to anybody with that voice, anybody.
- 19:52Speaker 5: It sounds like he woke up in the morning, and
- 19:54Speaker 5: that's when he goes into the studio, like, I sound
- 19:56Speaker 5: like Verry White when.
- 19:57Speaker 6: I wake up. You.
- 19:58Speaker 2: This is the music. You know, you have intro music
- 20:00Speaker 2: like when you go to you know, wrestling matches and stuff,
- 20:02Speaker 2: and whenever I'm speaking to predominantly female audiences, normally at
- 20:08Speaker 2: Christian romance novel retreats. This is how they introduce me.
- 20:12Speaker 5: You go to those retreats a lot.
- 20:15Speaker 2: You gotta do what you gotta do. Do you sell books.
- 20:19Speaker 2: It's all about selling the I hop up there. You
- 20:24Speaker 2: got the Berry White playing. Hello, ladies. Just call me
- 20:31Speaker 2: Todd your friend on the radio. See somebody just took
- 20:38Speaker 2: a swig of wine right now, or at least to doctor.
- 20:40Speaker 5: Pepper in the middle of the day.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Anyway, I say all this because if you miss the
- 20:46Speaker 2: first segment of the show, you're thinking, what in the
- 20:49Speaker 2: world is going on Todd? Is Todd double up on
- 20:52Speaker 2: his meds? Well, let me just say that is partially true.
- 20:58Speaker 2: But let me this is this is all about Doctor
- 21:01Speaker 2: Oz and the White House. This is the headline from yesterday.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Doctor Oz says Americans are under baby. That's the phrase.
- 21:10Speaker 2: It's a new term. Under baby, and he predicts an
- 21:13Speaker 2: upcoming wave of Trump babies. Doctor Oz says, one of
- 21:18Speaker 2: the things you have to do is get moms healthy
- 21:20Speaker 2: enough to do the most creative thing the universe knows,
- 21:24Speaker 2: which is making babies. Roughly thirty percent of Americans are
- 21:30Speaker 2: under baby. This is according to doctor Oz, and the
- 21:34Speaker 2: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are now predicting a
- 21:38Speaker 2: new wave of Trump babies tied to the administration's efforts
- 21:42Speaker 2: to reverse the nation's declining birth rate. And I want
- 21:47Speaker 2: to stop here for a moment, and we'll read the
- 21:48Speaker 2: quote here from doctor Oz in just a moment. But
- 21:52Speaker 2: this is actually a pretty I mean, it's a pretty
- 21:54Speaker 2: darn serious thing. I mean, this is a national security
- 21:58Speaker 2: matter now because you have aging boomers and there are
- 22:03Speaker 2: not enough people to take care of them. They're not
- 22:05Speaker 2: enough people in the workforce right now. And one of
- 22:09Speaker 2: the reasons why is you know, you've had all right
- 22:12Speaker 2: Gen xers, millennials and now Gen Z which may be
- 22:17Speaker 2: that's sort of a question mark right now, but at
- 22:19Speaker 2: least you've got Gen xers and millennials and they just
- 22:22Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of children. There's a big problem
- 22:25Speaker 2: there now. There are. You're going to hear all the
- 22:28Speaker 2: experts of the psychologists pushing out all these theories as
- 22:33Speaker 2: to why there we are not, you know, making babies.
- 22:37Speaker 2: But I want to posit a couple of theories here.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Since really the nineteen sixties, there has been an effort
- 22:43Speaker 2: in this nation under the Feminazi movement, the National Organization
- 22:49Speaker 2: of Gals as Rush Limbaugh once called them, and or
- 22:54Speaker 2: is it nags is the National Association of Gals nags
- 22:59Speaker 2: that they have been telling women that there's something wrong
- 23:03Speaker 2: with you. If you want to be a stay at
- 23:05Speaker 2: home mom, if you want to be a housewife, there's
- 23:09Speaker 2: something wrong with you. You're not living up to your full potential.
- 23:12Speaker 2: And they have been brainwashing generations of young girls and
- 23:17Speaker 2: telling them that they're less than if they just stay
- 23:21Speaker 2: home and have babies. On the other side, they've been
- 23:25Speaker 2: medicating young boys. They've been telling them there's something wrong
- 23:29Speaker 2: with you, little boy, if you're rambunctious, if you like
- 23:32Speaker 2: to go outside and playfight or wrestle around, and there's
- 23:36Speaker 2: something wrong with you. So they're medicating the boys, and
- 23:40Speaker 2: now you have these very docile, in some cases effeminine
- 23:44Speaker 2: boys have no interest in getting married, putting down roots,
- 23:49Speaker 2: none of that stuff. And then you have the abortion
- 23:53Speaker 2: industry where billions of dollars have been spent to literally
- 23:59Speaker 2: erase es, erase people from the face of the earth,
- 24:04Speaker 2: tens of millions of babies slaughtered. So you have to
- 24:11Speaker 2: factor in all of this, and I wish they would
- 24:13Speaker 2: be talking, and we need to have a national conversation
- 24:16Speaker 2: about this, Doctor Oz says. We're way below what we
- 24:20Speaker 2: need just to replace the people that we have in America.
- 24:24Speaker 2: He said of the birth rate, which has fallen steadily
- 24:27Speaker 2: since around two thousand and seven. The term under babied
- 24:31Speaker 2: means you either don't have any children, or you have
- 24:35Speaker 2: less children than you would normally want to have. Doctor
- 24:41Speaker 2: Oz says the new efforts by President Trump's administration to
- 24:44Speaker 2: make fertility treatments more accessible, including through trump our ex
- 24:49Speaker 2: an online marketplace for discounted prescription drugs. So yesterday, on yesterday,
- 24:57Speaker 2: our good friend Kinsey Beach, who's a colleague of mine
- 25:00Speaker 2: at Newsmas, she was on this story. By the way, Kinsey,
- 25:04Speaker 2: I think she's probably done about your aide. So this
- 25:07Speaker 2: is important for a perspective, because I'm not sure she
- 25:10Speaker 2: got my joke at the end. Let's take a listen
- 25:13Speaker 2: to Kinsey Beach. All right, Kensey, what you got for us?
- 25:16Speaker 9: Hey there, Todd. Yeah, fertility and birth rates have drastically
- 25:19Speaker 9: dropped in the US, and it's why President Trump continues
- 25:22Speaker 9: to prioritize strong families in America. Part of this initiative
- 25:26Speaker 9: is also lowering the cost for those hoping to start
- 25:29Speaker 9: a family using fertility treatments.
- 25:31Speaker 10: To formally create a fertility benefit option for employers that
- 25:36Speaker 10: can be offered to all employees outside of their normal
- 25:39Speaker 10: health insurance plans.
- 25:40Speaker 5: It's a big deal. They were not properly taking care of.
- 25:45Speaker 9: It's no easier for employers to cover fertility treatments, including
- 25:49Speaker 9: in virtual fertalization fertilization or IVF. President Trump's new initiative
- 25:55Speaker 9: creates a new exempted insurance benefit in the same category
- 25:58Speaker 9: as dental and vision benefits coverage for treating infertility.
- 26:03Speaker 1: This is a new benefit or an option that will
- 26:05Speaker 1: be a major help for millions of American mobs that
- 26:09Speaker 1: will result in more beautiful American babies.
- 26:11Speaker 2: We like that.
- 26:13Speaker 9: To reduce the cost of fertility care, the Trump administration
- 26:15Speaker 9: negotiated reduced costs and treatment through Trump RX the President
- 26:19Speaker 9: stating what used to cost nine hundred and sixty six
- 26:22Speaker 9: dollars now costs one hundred and sixty eight dollars, So
- 26:26Speaker 9: that's a five hundred percent decrease in a pharmaceutical cost. Now,
- 26:30Speaker 9: since two thousand and seven, the general fertility rate in
- 26:34Speaker 9: the US has dropped twenty three percent, that having a
- 26:38Speaker 9: major impact on birth rates, according to the CDC. Republican
- 26:43Speaker 9: Senator Katie Britt of Alabama also helped lead the charge
- 26:46Speaker 9: on working family tax cuts, putting childcare at the forefront as.
- 26:50Speaker 4: You work to provide for your family today, that is
- 26:54Speaker 4: easier as a result, and we are proud of what
- 26:56Speaker 4: that needs for the economy of We know twenty four
- 26:59Speaker 4: percent of young families, our young families spent about twenty
- 27:03Speaker 4: four percent of their annual income on childcare. So, mister President,
- 27:06Speaker 4: thank you for all that you've done creating a comprehensive
- 27:08Speaker 4: culture of life.
- 27:09Speaker 9: Last year alone, four hundred and fifty five thousand women
- 27:13Speaker 9: left the workforce due to affordability and accessibility of childcare.
- 27:17Speaker 9: So this new initiative also works to change that. Todd again,
- 27:21Speaker 9: the President putting American families first.
- 27:24Speaker 2: All right, Kenzie, I got a lot of questions for
- 27:26Speaker 2: you here. And first of all, look, I think this
- 27:29Speaker 2: is a good, a good thing that the President's addressing this.
- 27:32Speaker 2: What a couple of days ago there were just saying
- 27:34Speaker 2: there are just not enough American babies, And I'm wondering
- 27:38Speaker 2: have they been able to figure out why exactly is it?
- 27:42Speaker 2: You know, folks just not wanting to have kids. Are
- 27:46Speaker 2: things changing in the culture.
- 27:48Speaker 9: I think it's a big mix. Some people say it's
- 27:50Speaker 9: the economy and the cost. So with these initiatives, they're
- 27:53Speaker 9: also hoping to kind of remove that fear. Katie Britt
- 27:56Speaker 9: really pushing for access in either low come areas or
- 28:00Speaker 9: rural areas, her being in Alabama. But then you also
- 28:04Speaker 9: have just kind of this shift in culture, people putting
- 28:07Speaker 9: it off. So I think seeing the Trump administration really
- 28:11Speaker 9: pour into American families supporting that and kind of giving
- 28:15Speaker 9: that access and resources, hopefully we'll start to see these
- 28:19Speaker 9: birth rates come up.
- 28:20Speaker 2: But also, you know, when you look at the culture
- 28:22Speaker 2: at large, especially gen Z We've seen the stories about
- 28:26Speaker 2: young people going back to church, embracing traditional values, and
- 28:31Speaker 2: this move among I guess gen Zers to actually start
- 28:34Speaker 2: their families, and you're wonder how that is going to
- 28:37Speaker 2: make an impact in the country as well.
- 28:39Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 28:39Speaker 9: I think also you have these Trump investment accounts, just
- 28:42Speaker 9: so many resources that I think we're going to kind
- 28:45Speaker 9: of see the pendulum shift the other way. I mean,
- 28:47Speaker 9: even here in New York, you have so many young
- 28:49Speaker 9: people attending church, like you said, getting married younger, and
- 28:52Speaker 9: even starting their families younger. So hopefully in the next
- 28:55Speaker 9: couple of years we kind of see this shift the
- 28:56Speaker 9: other way.
- 28:57Speaker 2: I'm waiting, kid Zi, President Trump holding a I don't know,
- 29:00Speaker 2: maybe an Oval Office address telling the young people America
- 29:03Speaker 2: to grab a bottle of wine, get some Idelo, Isaac
- 29:06Speaker 2: Kay's Berry White, and start making babies.
- 29:10Speaker 9: Well, he said, more beautiful babies.
- 29:13Speaker 12: We all like that, so we hope to see it.
- 29:16Speaker 2: I wonder if she knew who Barry White was? Did
- 29:20Speaker 2: I stump her?
- 29:21Speaker 5: And she's going to look it up afterwards?
- 29:25Speaker 2: And the word eight track? What's an eight track? But again,
- 29:30Speaker 2: I look, I love this idea and President Trump is
- 29:34Speaker 2: He's bringing love back to America and we need that right.
- 29:38Speaker 2: We need love right. We need men and women preferably
- 29:44Speaker 2: married in a biblical relationship, doing what God intended them
- 29:50Speaker 2: for due right is there anything wrong with that. I
- 29:54Speaker 2: don't think there is. You don't need your dude, Dylan.
- 29:58Speaker 2: I'm calling an audible. Here's what we're going to do
- 30:01Speaker 2: for the for the for the mating couples of America.
- 30:05Speaker 2: We need to come up with a playlist, right and
- 30:09Speaker 2: that that song right there is topping the list. And
- 30:13Speaker 2: we're gonna invite our listeners to call in. Is there
- 30:15Speaker 2: a great song? Men and women of the fertile Todd
- 30:21Speaker 2: Stearns Radio Show listening audience, Are there songs that we
- 30:26Speaker 2: need to add to our list? We'll we'll open it up.
- 30:28Speaker 2: America helping America. That's what we do here. It's love
- 30:32Speaker 2: American style. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
- 30:36Speaker 2: two six. You know what, forget Trump babies, We're gonna
- 30:38Speaker 2: have Ton babies, Dylan. Imagine what we could do here.
- 30:43Speaker 2: We're literally birthing a brand new audience.
- 30:45Speaker 5: What a service that we're doing right now?
- 30:48Speaker 2: God bless America. Wait, is my pastor's calling me? He says,
- 30:53Speaker 2: stop talking now. Nine oh one two six zero five
- 30:59Speaker 2: nine two six. Do you have a song that you
- 31:01Speaker 2: would like to recommend? Give us a called nine oh
- 31:03Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is
- 31:06Speaker 2: the Todd Starting Shower. It's and you America. All right,
- 31:28Speaker 2: welcome back to the Todd star in radio show. I
- 31:31Speaker 2: love this song. That was the weirdest show. Our parents
- 31:35Speaker 2: would not allow us to watch it, so we had
- 31:36Speaker 2: to sneak. We had to sneak around them. But it
- 31:39Speaker 2: was a it was a funny little show.
- 31:41Speaker 6: Back.
- 31:41Speaker 2: What in this in the sixties or seventy late sixties,
- 31:44Speaker 2: early seventies. Let's go to Mary listening to us on
- 31:47Speaker 2: WOCA and the Villages America's friendliest hometown. All right, Mary,
- 31:53Speaker 2: do you have a recommendation for our Baby Macon playlist.
- 32:01Speaker 13: I think it's going to be.
- 32:02Speaker 14: Played now, only you, only you.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Oh that is a great song, Mary.
- 32:09Speaker 10: Yes, that's my wedding my husband and I my husband
- 32:14Speaker 10: couple of years because I like to hear it.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Mary, I don't know if you can hear this over
- 32:19Speaker 2: the phone line, but I think we're I think Dylan's
- 32:21Speaker 2: play the song now and make the Oh Mary, Mary,
- 32:36Speaker 2: that is a great song. Mary. Does it bring back memories? Oh,
- 32:50Speaker 2: don't cry, Mary, don't cry. It's a beautiful song.
- 32:54Speaker 10: Oh That's why I'm crying.
- 32:55Speaker 2: I mentioned. Oh my Mary, tell me how long were
- 32:59Speaker 2: you in your husband married thirty four years? Is that right? Wow?
- 33:04Speaker 2: What a wonderful what a wonderful life together? Well, Mary,
- 33:09Speaker 2: God bless you, and you know we have a lot
- 33:11Speaker 2: of fun on this show, but really it is about
- 33:14Speaker 2: love and it's about that connection and you know, starting
- 33:17Speaker 2: a family and having a family and knowing there's nothing
- 33:20Speaker 2: wrong with that. It's just something very natural. It's the
- 33:23Speaker 2: natural part of life and what we do. Mary, you
- 33:27Speaker 2: are a great lady, and I know you missed your husband,
- 33:30Speaker 2: and I hope when you play that song you're going
- 33:33Speaker 2: to remember all the wonderful memories and great times that
- 33:37Speaker 2: you two haund together. God bless you.
- 33:38Speaker 6: Mary.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Let's go to Ron in Salem, Oregon, listening to us
- 33:43Speaker 2: on kykn All. Right, Ron, what is your selection here?
- 33:47Speaker 2: We've got only you. That's our list right now.
- 33:51Speaker 14: I got seven for you. We can go back with
- 33:53Speaker 14: Barry and White practice what you preached. Because one of
- 33:55Speaker 14: my buddies I never thought forty three years ago, I
- 33:58Speaker 14: try to a pitchfork at down Fantana, California, Bloomington, California,
- 34:02Speaker 14: and he man found a good American, good woman. They've
- 34:05Speaker 14: been married almost thirty years now.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Wow.
- 34:07Speaker 14: Planning fact for what they preach at their wedding. Uh
- 34:10Speaker 14: second song I was, I would throw some Marvin Gaye
- 34:13Speaker 14: on you you know, some let's get it on, or
- 34:16Speaker 14: sexually healing. You know there's always a good doctor.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Oh yes, sexual heal you don't ron. I think that's
- 34:22Speaker 2: what the President is trying to say. The nation needs
- 34:24Speaker 2: a sexual healing.
- 34:26Speaker 14: That's right. And you know, you know it might be
- 34:30Speaker 14: you know, you heard of Marvin c So I'm sure
- 34:32Speaker 14: Johnny Taylor some of their selections might be very intimate,
- 34:37Speaker 14: has a storyline.
- 34:38Speaker 2: But you know, we've got a lot of Baptists listening,
- 34:40Speaker 2: so we don't want to make him too nervous. But yeah,
- 34:45Speaker 2: but let's keep it rated. Well, that train's already left
- 34:50Speaker 2: the station.
- 34:51Speaker 14: So I'm telling you we need a first for our country.
- 34:58Speaker 14: And you know, and that's the thing is that as
- 35:01Speaker 14: a child that was born in seventies, seen Mexing waters
- 35:04Speaker 14: when I was five years old, and it's always a
- 35:07Speaker 14: fugly sight. As I would say, Yeah, but but overall,
- 35:11Speaker 14: you know, we've got to get back to having the families,
- 35:13Speaker 14: got to be down and respecting the families and traditions
- 35:16Speaker 14: and what I'm what made America right now we're being
- 35:20Speaker 14: out populated by the invaders, three to seven kids at
- 35:23Speaker 14: a time in Oregon and California. On we want to
- 35:26Speaker 14: go into it. And then you got some reason why
- 35:28Speaker 14: your price is a gas shop so high as a
- 35:30Speaker 14: lot of people that came over from Indian not the Hindus,
- 35:33Speaker 14: the Punjab, and six's having two or three wives sometimes
- 35:37Speaker 14: not on the payroll, you know, on the on the
- 35:40Speaker 14: Great Society welfare role and uh, I were more kids.
- 35:43Speaker 2: I don't want to get too far off the reservation here.
- 35:46Speaker 2: So we're writing down your We're writing down your suggestions.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Verry White. We're gonna put some Marvin Gay on the list.
- 35:50Speaker 2: Well done, sir, let's try to work in. Uh. Beverly
- 35:56Speaker 2: in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Beverly, what's on your mind? Hello Beverly,
- 36:06Speaker 2: Hey Tom, I.
- 36:07Speaker 13: Got one for you. And I don't even have a
- 36:09Speaker 13: sweet art right now. I mean, I'm just gonna live
- 36:13Speaker 13: rest my life out. If I had one, my favorite
- 36:20Speaker 13: love song would be I'm Gonna love you forever and ever,
- 36:23Speaker 13: forever and ever I'm in and I cannot remember whose things.
- 36:26Speaker 13: But it's a country song.
- 36:28Speaker 2: Well that is a it's a great country song. And Beverly,
- 36:31Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you, w dun, that is a
- 36:34Speaker 2: that is a talk radio, Baby Macon radio machine. I
- 36:38Speaker 2: guarantee you there was someone in the audience who was
- 36:40Speaker 2: looking for a lovely miss, and I guarantee you you're
- 36:44Speaker 2: gonna be able to find your mister. I'm just gonna
- 36:47Speaker 2: predict that right now. So Beverly, God bless you. We've
- 36:53Speaker 2: got to run and we're playing. We've got a little
- 36:54Speaker 2: bit of a little bit of a great song for
- 36:57Speaker 2: you here as we call it an hour Beverly the
- 37:00Speaker 2: thanks for listening. Hang tight, We'll be right back everybody for.
- 37:04Speaker 6: You always Booby.
- 37:07Speaker 10: You not just turn.
- 37:09Speaker 6: I'm kid.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
- 37:27Speaker 1: America's conservative Blowtorch's.
- 37:34Speaker 6: This American.
- 37:37Speaker 2: To start run off Man, this is a it's a
- 37:41Speaker 2: weird show today, folks. Just I doesn't want to warn you.
- 37:45Speaker 2: It's just we're a little uh off filter. Hello, everybody,
- 37:49Speaker 2: welcome hour two of the Big Show broadcasting border to border,
- 37:53Speaker 2: coast to coast across the rooted plane. Coming up in
- 37:58Speaker 2: just a few moments any end of Governor Mike On
- 38:00Speaker 2: is going to be joining us talking about what happened
- 38:03Speaker 2: there in the primary and all of those anti Trump
- 38:06Speaker 2: lawmakers got their rear ends handed to them, so we're
- 38:11Speaker 2: going to talk to him about that. Also Indiana suspending
- 38:14Speaker 2: the gas tax, which is a great move, and we're
- 38:16Speaker 2: also going to talk politics as well. So in the
- 38:19Speaker 2: last hour we had something weird and Dylan, you'll have
- 38:21Speaker 2: to you can back me up on this. Sometimes things
- 38:24Speaker 2: just happen organically. And the story about President Trump and
- 38:29Speaker 2: urging Americans to have babies, which we had a lot
- 38:32Speaker 2: of fun with, but it really is a serious topic.
- 38:34Speaker 2: But we have decided to do our small part here
- 38:37Speaker 2: on the Todd Stearns Radio Show, and we are we
- 38:41Speaker 2: want to do whatever is necessary to put our audience
- 38:45Speaker 2: in the mood. I mean, just that's pretty much what
- 38:49Speaker 2: we're doing. So we're creating a list of baby making
- 38:54Speaker 2: baby making music, that's what we're doing, and we're inviting
- 38:58Speaker 2: you to call in and many of you have already
- 39:00Speaker 2: done so and you have given us your suggestions. We're
- 39:04Speaker 2: going to post the list on the website after the show,
- 39:06Speaker 2: so we're going to compile the list. So if you
- 39:09Speaker 2: have us suggest is there a certain love song that
- 39:11Speaker 2: really just idle know revs your engine. Give us a
- 39:17Speaker 2: call nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Again,
- 39:21Speaker 2: that's nine oh one two six zero five to nine
- 39:24Speaker 2: two six Shanklin. Shanklin sent us a note says he's
- 39:29Speaker 2: he's recommending afternoons to light We thank you, mister Shanklin.
- 39:33Speaker 2: We will mark that down. So give us a call
- 39:36Speaker 2: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
- 39:38Speaker 2: if you would like to to add a song to
- 39:41Speaker 2: the list. Dylan, I know you're the big music officionado.
- 39:44Speaker 2: I mean that's your degree from the University of Memphis.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Got any got any favorite tunes over there?
- 39:50Speaker 5: I do, and I can play it for if you want.
- 39:52Speaker 5: But it's the adjustion or your man.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Oh let's see, then I haven't heard that Women's.
- 39:57Speaker 5: In a minute.
- 40:00Speaker 2: This is country music.
- 40:01Speaker 5: Country music, but it can get you in the mood anytime.
- 40:04Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but here's the thing. I only want the
- 40:07Speaker 5: first line of.
- 40:08Speaker 12: The song, baby locked the door and turned the lads down.
- 40:19Speaker 2: You know, we do that every day before we start
- 40:21Speaker 2: the show.
- 40:22Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 40:26Speaker 2: It's no different, it's not whatsoever. We just make sweet
- 40:33Speaker 2: love on the radio with the microphone. And that kind
- 40:37Speaker 2: of sounded weird. It sounded better in my mind. I'm
- 40:42Speaker 2: just saying that's a good song.
- 40:45Speaker 6: Though.
- 40:46Speaker 2: It's you can't go wrong with country music songs. Those
- 40:49Speaker 2: are always great songs.
- 40:50Speaker 5: Yeah, And if this singer has a low voice, I mean,
- 40:53Speaker 5: what what can go wrong there? I mean, very white
- 40:55Speaker 5: did it perfectly?
- 40:56Speaker 2: You've got to and and the phones are just exploding
- 40:58Speaker 2: right now with folks wanted to weigh in. Uh, let's
- 41:02Speaker 2: go you know what, We're going right to the phones here. Uh,
- 41:05Speaker 2: let's go to Kay in Georgia listening to us on
- 41:08Speaker 2: W N T U and Kay, how are you today?
- 41:12Speaker 13: I'm good?
- 41:13Speaker 15: Thank you?
- 41:14Speaker 7: Kay.
- 41:15Speaker 2: Let's talk about songs. Is there a song that you
- 41:17Speaker 2: would like to add to the Baby Making Music list?
- 41:21Speaker 13: This is my number one song?
- 41:23Speaker 11: Is Josh Turner's your man?
- 41:26Speaker 2: We just play a lot. Let's go ahead, Dylan, you
- 41:28Speaker 2: gotta give her a gotta gotta help Kay out here.
- 41:36Speaker 12: There's no hurry, don't you worry. We can take car time,
- 41:46Speaker 12: come a little.
- 41:47Speaker 2: You gotta sing a little bit now. Well you know, Okay,
- 41:58Speaker 2: this is a great song and we are adding that
- 42:01Speaker 2: to our list.
- 42:03Speaker 7: Kay.
- 42:04Speaker 2: You never know what's going to happen on this show,
- 42:06Speaker 2: do you?
- 42:07Speaker 13: I love that song and no, because I didn't think
- 42:10Speaker 13: i'd actually be owned there.
- 42:12Speaker 2: Well, Kay, well you did a great job, and you
- 42:14Speaker 2: represented all of Gainesville, Georgia right now. And you know
- 42:17Speaker 2: that people in their cars were singing along as you
- 42:21Speaker 2: shared that great tune. K thank you. Let's go to
- 42:25Speaker 2: Mark and Memphis, Tennessee listening to us on k WAM. Hey, Mark,
- 42:30Speaker 2: what song do you have for us?
- 42:33Speaker 7: It's Love in the back Seat.
- 42:35Speaker 2: God, Love in the back Seat. I don't believe I've
- 42:40Speaker 2: heard that song.
- 42:42Speaker 3: Oh you got to hear that one man. That's pro
- 42:45Speaker 3: creation for sure.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Well, we are pro creation. We are pro pro creation
- 42:51Speaker 2: here on the Todd Star Show. I love it. You
- 42:55Speaker 2: know what's going to happen here?
- 42:56Speaker 7: Mark?
- 42:57Speaker 2: In about thirty minutes, I'm going to get a call
- 42:59Speaker 2: from the police chief say, what in the world have
- 43:01Speaker 2: you been talking about on the radio.
- 43:05Speaker 14: I think.
- 43:07Speaker 2: That's it. Well, we're trying to keep it all. We're
- 43:10Speaker 2: trying to keep it all within those guidelines. Mark, We're
- 43:13Speaker 2: going to we're gonna check out your song and we'll
- 43:16Speaker 2: try to play it during the show today. Uh, And
- 43:19Speaker 2: we appreciate you listening to our local affiliate there in Memphis. Tennessee,
- 43:22Speaker 2: k w A. M. All right, here's what we're gonna do.
- 43:25Speaker 2: We're gonna take a real quick break. When we come back,
- 43:28Speaker 2: we're going to be talking to the Governor of Indiana.
- 43:30Speaker 2: We're also going to be taking your calls as we
- 43:33Speaker 2: do our part to help President Trump make more American babies.
- 43:37Speaker 2: Give us a call with your recommendations for the Baby
- 43:40Speaker 2: Making Music Playlist. Nine oh one two six zero five
- 43:43Speaker 2: nine two six. This is the Weird edition of the
- 43:47Speaker 2: Tom Sterns Show. We'll be right back.
- 43:50Speaker 6: Of those guys as youre asul.
- 43:56Speaker 7: This love that.
- 43:59Speaker 6: Is gone.
- 44:00Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to the Todd Startings Radio Show.
- 44:03Speaker 2: Great to have you with us, and we're going to
- 44:04Speaker 2: get back to your recommendations for President Trump. The President
- 44:08Speaker 2: calling on Americans to well have more babies, and we
- 44:13Speaker 2: are doing our part by creating a playlist inspired by
- 44:18Speaker 2: Barry White, So the Baby Making Music Playlist, and you
- 44:21Speaker 2: can give us a call if you have a suggestion.
- 44:23Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
- 44:26Speaker 2: You know, I want to switch gears for just a
- 44:28Speaker 2: moment here and take a look at what's been happening
- 44:31Speaker 2: in Indiana. There are so many wonderful wonderful people. They're
- 44:35Speaker 2: conservatives that are doing some incredible work, and chief among
- 44:39Speaker 2: them is the governor. Governor Mike Brown joins us on
- 44:42Speaker 2: our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line today. Governor, I hope you're
- 44:45Speaker 2: doing well.
- 44:47Speaker 7: Hey, doing fine, Todd. We're getting a lot done in Indiana.
- 44:50Speaker 7: In the six years I spent in the US Senate,
- 44:53Speaker 7: we accomplished a lot there as well, with a good
- 44:56Speaker 7: innovative team. But here you can actually check off deliverables
- 45:01Speaker 7: that you can't Senate because you need sixty senators to
- 45:04Speaker 7: agree to it. So from affordability to healthcare reform, tackling
- 45:09Speaker 7: utility rates, we've been doing a lot in the year
- 45:12Speaker 7: and four months.
- 45:13Speaker 2: You sure have a governor. And before you mentioned the Senate,
- 45:17Speaker 2: and we had Senator Marshall Blackburn on yesterday, and it
- 45:20Speaker 2: was so disheartening to hear her say that they don't
- 45:23Speaker 2: even have the fifty votes they need within their own
- 45:26Speaker 2: caucus to get the Save America Act across the finish line.
- 45:30Speaker 2: And I think one of the things I respect about
- 45:33Speaker 2: you is that you campaigned on promises and you're delivering
- 45:37Speaker 2: on those promises. And I really do think that's a
- 45:40Speaker 2: message that every single Republican in the nation needs to embrace.
- 45:45Speaker 7: And the fact is when you're doing it from a
- 45:48Speaker 7: place where you can't even get your entire party on
- 45:52Speaker 7: board with things like budget reform, doing more with less,
- 45:57Speaker 7: how that place, you know, borrows thirty cents on every dollar.
- 46:00Speaker 7: We live within the framework of a balanced budget amendment
- 46:05Speaker 7: to our state constitution, and we're leaning up our own
- 46:09Speaker 7: state government to make it run more efficiently. So we're
- 46:12Speaker 7: getting a dividend from that, and we're approaching it in
- 46:16Speaker 7: terms of how I organized state government. From a sprawling
- 46:19Speaker 7: system of seventy agencies, I convinced eight private sector people
- 46:24Speaker 7: to come in and head up those policy silos of education,
- 46:29Speaker 7: health care, infrastructure, energy, and that is making a big difference,
- 46:34Speaker 7: because any bureaucracy, even among your well run states, it's
- 46:40Speaker 7: never going to run quite like a business. And I
- 46:42Speaker 7: spent thirty seven years doing that before I became a
- 46:45Speaker 7: US Senator, So it's helped me in both places.
- 46:48Speaker 2: To be honest, when you look at what's been happening
- 46:51Speaker 2: in the state. Of course, there was a huge primary shakeup.
- 46:55Speaker 2: You've been very outspoken about what was happening in the
- 46:58Speaker 2: Senate there in Indiana I'm curious, what do you make
- 47:02Speaker 2: out of this and what is the lesson for Republicans
- 47:05Speaker 2: to learn.
- 47:07Speaker 7: Well, we had the misfortune of our state Senate digging
- 47:11Speaker 7: in on that hill and dying upon it here as
- 47:15Speaker 7: of the primary here recently. What they were thinking when
- 47:20Speaker 7: Trump was after getting a fair level playing field that
- 47:26Speaker 7: has been gerrymandered into a disadvantage for Republicans the tune
- 47:31Speaker 7: of maybe twenty or thirty congressional seats across the country,
- 47:34Speaker 7: not to mention the way you count citizens and non
- 47:39Speaker 7: citizens to construct the congressional district. Of seven hundred and
- 47:43Speaker 7: fifty twenty million illegal immigrants in this country, you've got
- 47:48Speaker 7: over twenty seats that may be housed in places like California, Illinois,
- 47:53Speaker 7: and New York where they've got more congressional seats, and
- 47:56Speaker 7: by the way, those places are run so poorly, people
- 47:59Speaker 7: are moving out of those states. That won't be reflected
- 48:03Speaker 7: probably until the decade read district things. So to me,
- 48:08Speaker 7: New England, Indiana, Massachusetts, same size population, they've had nine
- 48:15Speaker 7: congressional blue seats for twenty years, but that means they've
- 48:19Speaker 7: been gerrymandered for twenty years, and we have got the
- 48:23Speaker 7: same number, and we've got two seats. We're both sixty forty.
- 48:28Speaker 7: Ours reflect the uneven playing field, and those senators didn't
- 48:33Speaker 7: see it, and almost all of them lost their seat
- 48:36Speaker 7: in the primary just a few days ago.
- 48:40Speaker 2: I think I'm curious to hear thoughts on this. It
- 48:43Speaker 2: seems to me that maybe I think voters nationwide are
- 48:46Speaker 2: really frustrated. They see the president's agenda getting jammed up
- 48:50Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill, they see Democrats at the state level
- 48:53Speaker 2: playing hardball. I mean, you see what happened, and you
- 48:56Speaker 2: saw what happened in Virginia, for example, California. At the
- 49:00Speaker 2: at the end of the day, Governor, I'm concerned that
- 49:04Speaker 2: as we headed to the midterms that we are going
- 49:06Speaker 2: to have maybe a demoralized Republican party. How do how
- 49:10Speaker 2: do we fix that?
- 49:12Speaker 7: Well, I think you've recently seen what the Supreme Court
- 49:16Speaker 7: did on racial jerry mandering. I think when it all
- 49:19Speaker 7: on that's out. Virginia obviously was something that was beyond
- 49:24Speaker 7: the pale, and that has been rejected. Republicans could end
- 49:29Speaker 7: up with, you know, maybe seven to ten seats, but
- 49:32Speaker 7: that's only about half the distance or maybe a third
- 49:35Speaker 7: of what is more structurally jerrymandered, so we need to
- 49:39Speaker 7: keep pushing the even that playing field, and then got
- 49:43Speaker 7: to always remind the voter, you know what it was
- 49:46Speaker 7: like under Biden. He gave us the twenty five to
- 49:48Speaker 7: thirty percent inflation that we've all been shouldering for the
- 49:51Speaker 7: last year and four months or year and a half.
- 49:55Speaker 7: They have the audacity to say they're the Party of
- 49:57Speaker 7: affordability when they want to grow government, not the private sector.
- 50:02Speaker 7: Sometimes it takes a little bit of explaining. You know,
- 50:05Speaker 7: you normally don't do as well in the mid terms
- 50:08Speaker 7: with the party in power. I am hoping we articulate
- 50:12Speaker 7: better than we normally do, make sure we paint the
- 50:15Speaker 7: picture of what it was like under the Biden administration
- 50:20Speaker 7: and hopefully hang on to the house. If not, we're
- 50:24Speaker 7: going to be in another period where you get nothing done.
- 50:27Speaker 7: They'll go after Trump on many different fronts and it'll
- 50:30Speaker 7: set the country back. Things have been going so well,
- 50:33Speaker 7: we get the thing in the Mideast settled, which I
- 50:36Speaker 7: hope that does find a resolution. They capitalize on all that.
- 50:40Speaker 7: We can't let them build a case based upon things
- 50:43Speaker 7: generally working well. The border so much has been good.
- 50:48Speaker 7: They generally are faster footed than we are, Todd, and
- 50:51Speaker 7: they articulate that argument, and they always offer more government
- 50:56Speaker 7: that they pay for by borrowing from future generations.
- 50:59Speaker 2: Indiana Governor Mine thank Broun joining us on our Patriot
- 51:01Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line today. And Governor you mentioned inflation which
- 51:07Speaker 2: is ticking up just a bit. A lot of that
- 51:10Speaker 2: being blamed on the war right now. And of course
- 51:12Speaker 2: gas prices are going up all over the place. I
- 51:16Speaker 2: live in Tennessee, this is where we base our national show.
- 51:19Speaker 2: I paid four to sixty nine for a gallon of
- 51:21Speaker 2: regular unleaded. I'm glad to see the move you made.
- 51:26Speaker 2: I want you to tell our listeners what you have
- 51:27Speaker 2: done to help out folks here in Indiana when it
- 51:29Speaker 2: comes to these gas prices.
- 51:32Speaker 7: So constitutionally, I've got the ability to actually to spend
- 51:37Speaker 7: certain taxes, and over a month ago I did it
- 51:42Speaker 7: on the first round on our sales tax on fuel,
- 51:45Speaker 7: which amounted to a seventeen cent savings per gallon. Sadly,
- 51:50Speaker 7: wholesale cost of fuel has gone up. I renewed it
- 51:54Speaker 7: TODD for another thirty days, so that's gone up to
- 51:57Speaker 7: a twenty three cent saving. And then the other even
- 52:00Speaker 7: larger tax is our excise tax on fuel that's thirty
- 52:04Speaker 7: six cents, So thosiers are benefiting from about a fifty
- 52:09Speaker 7: nine cent reduction in what they pay at the pump,
- 52:14Speaker 7: which is over at twelve percent savings. So I'm going
- 52:17Speaker 7: to do everything I can. We're a well run state
- 52:21Speaker 7: and we can afford it. Affordability is real, and I
- 52:25Speaker 7: mentioned it earlier. It's not only on fuel, it's on housing,
- 52:30Speaker 7: it is on property taxes, it is on utility rates
- 52:34Speaker 7: and especially healthcare costs, and we're taking them all on.
- 52:38Speaker 7: And remember, we're running state government more efficiently, so lowering costs,
- 52:43Speaker 7: diving in from better running of state government. And our
- 52:47Speaker 7: economic growth listen to this is twice as fast as
- 52:50Speaker 7: Ohio's in Illinois, three times as fast as Kentucky's, six
- 52:56Speaker 7: times as fast as Michigan's. It's nearly a three percent
- 52:59Speaker 7: GDP growth, So we're out performing all of the Midwestern
- 53:04Speaker 7: pair states on growing the economy.
- 53:06Speaker 2: To boot well, I think you just became America's favorite
- 53:09Speaker 2: governor by what you just said there. Governor, we'd love
- 53:13Speaker 2: to get you back on sometime. I mean, you're right,
- 53:16Speaker 2: you guys are doing so many things right in Indiana
- 53:19Speaker 2: and we'd love to get you back on the show
- 53:21Speaker 2: sometime soon.
- 53:23Speaker 7: Hey, look forward to it. And I'll finish with this.
- 53:25Speaker 7: Having signed the front side of a paycheck for thirty
- 53:28Speaker 7: seven years makes the governor's job much easier than if
- 53:32Speaker 7: you had not. It made a big difference in the
- 53:34Speaker 7: Senate as well, well, said all right, Governor Mike Braun,
- 53:38Speaker 7: great American patriot governor. Thank you, and we appreciate you
- 53:41Speaker 7: joining us today. My pleasure.
- 53:45Speaker 2: All Right, there you go, Mike Braun, the governor of
- 53:47Speaker 2: Indiana suspending the gas tax, which is I'm sure a
- 53:50Speaker 2: lot of people are going to be happy about that
- 53:52Speaker 2: and also not surprised at all at what happened to
- 53:56Speaker 2: those senators. They're in the estate senators in the Indiana primary.
- 54:00Speaker 2: All right, our telephone number nine oh one two six
- 54:03Speaker 2: zero five nine two six, let's go to Bob in Houston,
- 54:08Speaker 2: Texas listening to us on Patriot Talk nine twenty and Bob,
- 54:12Speaker 2: I understand that you may have a song to recommend.
- 54:16Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna recommend Elvin Bishop came out with
- 54:19Speaker 3: Fooled Around and fell in Love. It was back in
- 54:21Speaker 3: the seventies and it was a big hit song. I
- 54:24Speaker 3: think that might help increase population.
- 54:27Speaker 2: Oh this is this is good at fool around and
- 54:30Speaker 2: fall in love? I think Dylan, is this the song?
- 54:35Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. So Bob, you you have experience with
- 54:42Speaker 2: the songs. No, don't mean to pry.
- 54:46Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I made a lot of babies.
- 54:47Speaker 6: With that one.
- 54:48Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, I got a lot of practice make a
- 54:50Speaker 2: baby that maybe tumi, but at least you can voucher
- 54:57Speaker 2: for the song. Bob, I guess that's the civil we're
- 55:00Speaker 2: lying here. It works.
- 55:01Speaker 7: Yeah, good personal experience. Yeah, I highly recommend it.
- 55:05Speaker 2: All right, Bob, Well, look, you never again. You just
- 55:08Speaker 2: never know what's gonna happen on this show. One minute
- 55:10Speaker 2: we're talking to the governor of Indiana, and now we're
- 55:12Speaker 2: talking about baby making music. All right, thanks, all right,
- 55:17Speaker 2: my friend. Thanks Bob Houston, Texas. Dylan and I kind
- 55:20Speaker 2: of liked this one.
- 55:21Speaker 5: It's a great song.
- 55:24Speaker 2: You know, say what you will about the rest of
- 55:26Speaker 2: the world. We've got the best music on the planet.
- 55:29Speaker 2: Got to take a break here, everybody. Nine oh one
- 55:31Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. This is the
- 55:34Speaker 2: Todd Starns Show. Wow, Della Jiggett a.
- 56:08Speaker 5: Little Misty, such a good song.
- 56:13Speaker 2: She really was one of the best singers in the country.
- 56:19Speaker 5: Sometimes I forget about Whinney Houston, and I'm glad that
- 56:21Speaker 5: I'm being reminded now.
- 56:22Speaker 2: But you know who actually covered this song first. It
- 56:26Speaker 2: was it Dolly Park.
- 56:27Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
- 56:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wow. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
- 56:34Speaker 2: come on now, Okay, and it goes on and on
- 56:39Speaker 2: and on. But anyway, welcome back to the Todd Stearns
- 56:41Speaker 2: Radio Show. You say, what in the world is going
- 56:43Speaker 2: on today? Well, the President of the United States is
- 56:45Speaker 2: coming out yesterday and saying that Americans they need to
- 56:48Speaker 2: start making more Americans. And we are doing our part
- 56:51Speaker 2: here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show by creating what
- 56:54Speaker 2: we are calling a baby making music playlist, and you
- 56:58Speaker 2: guys have delivered incredible songs. Our next guest has actually
- 57:03Speaker 2: contributed the song you just heard to the list of
- 57:06Speaker 2: the one the only Liz Peak Liz.
- 57:10Speaker 11: I really love this. Oh what fun, what a good idea.
- 57:14Speaker 11: And by the way, he's right, we do need more babies.
- 57:16Speaker 11: And you know what I mean. Honestly, the whole savaging
- 57:20Speaker 11: of motherhood and family and babymaking on social media to
- 57:25Speaker 11: me is just such a sad sad commentary on sort
- 57:29Speaker 11: of the state of mind of young people and particularly
- 57:31Speaker 11: young women. I find young women afraid of having children.
- 57:37Speaker 11: Who have you even thought about it? I mean, it
- 57:38Speaker 11: was just something that we went ahead and did because
- 57:41Speaker 11: it was the right thing to do. And guess what,
- 57:43Speaker 11: there's going to be a point in all these people's
- 57:46Speaker 11: lives where they will look back and say, this is
- 57:49Speaker 11: a terrible decision, because having children, Raising children, I think
- 57:54Speaker 11: is the most unbelievable gift you can give yourself. And
- 57:58Speaker 11: so anyway, I'm pretty pro family. We have three children.
- 58:02Speaker 11: One of our kids has three children. I think the
- 58:04Speaker 11: others will get there. I'm delighted. I couldn't be happier
- 58:07Speaker 11: for them.
- 58:08Speaker 2: It's a wonderful thing to see so many, especially young people,
- 58:11Speaker 2: And I see this at our church, kids that are,
- 58:13Speaker 2: you know, in their early twenties getting married and you know,
- 58:16Speaker 2: their starting families. One twenty two year old and they
- 58:19Speaker 2: just and his wife just shared the news that they're
- 58:21Speaker 2: going to become parents for the very first time. And
- 58:24Speaker 2: what a great thing of joy and celebration. And I'm
- 58:28Speaker 2: just really excited about all of this or what the
- 58:30Speaker 2: President did.
- 58:30Speaker 11: Yesterday, and honestly, it's a very you know, you look
- 58:35Speaker 11: at Europe. Europe is just weirdly stopped having kids. And
- 58:40Speaker 11: you know, you read these stories about in Italy men
- 58:43Speaker 11: aren't even dating anymore. And I don't know what's happened
- 58:47Speaker 11: to people. But anyway, thanks in the United States is
- 58:49Speaker 11: not quite at that terrible place, but our birth rates low,
- 58:53Speaker 11: There's no question about it. People are not replace themselves.
- 58:56Speaker 11: And you know, again, for anyone listening, I encourage you,
- 59:02Speaker 11: don't think about it, just do it. Really, it really
- 59:06Speaker 11: changes your life in an absolutely spectacular way.
- 59:09Speaker 2: We are I know, RFK Junior did the whole MAHA movement.
- 59:12Speaker 2: Today we have launched the MafA movement, the Make America
- 59:15Speaker 2: Fertile Again movement. By the way, I'm great, Liz. We
- 59:22Speaker 2: got to talk about your column. There is some brand
- 59:25Speaker 2: new polling data out out of California, and I have
- 59:28Speaker 2: been I am so intrigued by the debates, not just
- 59:32Speaker 2: the gubernatorial stuff, but Spencer Prant and the mayor's race
- 59:35Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. But this new polling from Emerson shows
- 59:40Speaker 2: Jamir Bassera homping up into the lead now nineteen percent.
- 59:44Speaker 2: Hilton at seventeen tied with Tom Steyer and then Chad
- 59:47Speaker 2: Bianco at eleven percent. Of course, this is a jungle primary,
- 59:51Speaker 2: so the top two vote getters will advance. How does
- 59:54Speaker 2: all of this play out there? I mean, this is
- 59:56Speaker 2: gonna be a tough slog for the Republicans, but it
- 59:58Speaker 2: still looks doable.
- 1:00:00Speaker 11: It's a tough flog because, as you well know, and
- 1:00:03Speaker 11: I'm sure your listeners know, California is probably I think
- 1:00:06Speaker 11: it's about two times registered Democrats to registered Republicans, and
- 1:00:10Speaker 11: then there's a big part of the states it's independence
- 1:00:13Speaker 11: that tend to lean left, so it's very hard to
- 1:00:17Speaker 11: break through that obviously. I think I've seen other polls
- 1:00:22Speaker 11: three poles. Actually that does have the Chara crawling his
- 1:00:26Speaker 11: way to the top, but Steve Hilton also right up there,
- 1:00:29Speaker 11: so the Emerson's a little bit of a change, I
- 1:00:34Speaker 11: think in that. I think I think those two guys
- 1:00:36Speaker 11: are ahead substantially of Sire and Chad Bianco. Kudos to
- 1:00:41Speaker 11: Chad Bianco, by the way, I didn't think he would
- 1:00:43Speaker 11: really hold up as far as he has as long
- 1:00:45Speaker 11: as he has, But anyhow, I think there's a good
- 1:00:49Speaker 11: chance that Steve Hilton gets there. I think, you know what,
- 1:00:55Speaker 11: Trump said to black voters in twenty sixteen, what do
- 1:00:58Speaker 11: you have to lose? I mean, that really resonates to me.
- 1:01:01Speaker 11: In terms of California. California is a mess. It is
- 1:01:05Speaker 11: chronically a facing massive budget shortfalls, unemployment, homelessness, all the
- 1:01:12Speaker 11: things that are wrong with the state have not been
- 1:01:15Speaker 11: addressed by the management of the state, and yet taxes
- 1:01:18Speaker 11: keep going up. It's pretty hilarious to me always that
- 1:01:22Speaker 11: Democrats talk about affordability when without a question, the most
- 1:01:26Speaker 11: unaffordable places in the country are all run by Democrats.
- 1:01:29Speaker 11: So that includes San Francisco and LA and other California cities.
- 1:01:34Speaker 11: So in the terms of the governor's race, it's tough.
- 1:01:37Speaker 11: In terms of LA, in terms of the LA mayoral race,
- 1:01:42Speaker 11: it's pretty fascinating because, yeah, spenzer Pratt, who not long
- 1:01:46Speaker 11: ago it's all those hated individuals in the world on
- 1:01:49Speaker 11: social media because of his social media presence and whatever,
- 1:01:54Speaker 11: and now he has tapped into really profound anger or
- 1:02:00Speaker 11: about the management of the city, about the fires that
- 1:02:04Speaker 11: burned down his house and his family's house, Karen's house.
- 1:02:08Speaker 11: You know, he's made these great videos. We all know
- 1:02:11Speaker 11: that politics today is nothing without TikTok of him living
- 1:02:15Speaker 11: in a trailer park, the little trailer Uh. Calling out
- 1:02:18Speaker 11: Karen Bass for, let's face it, being a wall when
- 1:02:22Speaker 11: the fires happened, being completely clueless about A how they
- 1:02:26Speaker 11: should have been prevented, B how to fix it and
- 1:02:28Speaker 11: rebuild uh, and see how to make sure it never
- 1:02:31Speaker 11: happens again. I mean, on all, it's three strikes and
- 1:02:34Speaker 11: you're out, and she really should be out. She's a
- 1:02:36Speaker 11: particularly un I don't know, unappealing political candidate. I think,
- 1:02:42Speaker 11: by the way, the charro is not much better. I mean,
- 1:02:44Speaker 11: she's like dull as dishwater.
- 1:02:47Speaker 10: Uh.
- 1:02:48Speaker 11: And so anyway, I think one good thing about if
- 1:02:50Speaker 11: it's if it turns out that Karen Bass is really
- 1:02:53Speaker 11: the rival for h Spencer, then and all, so, if
- 1:03:00Speaker 11: Hilton teams off against the Tera in neither race, do
- 1:03:04Speaker 11: you have a big insurgent mom Donnie like character from
- 1:03:09Speaker 11: the far left who's going to energize young voters and
- 1:03:11Speaker 11: get new people signed up to vote, et cetera. That
- 1:03:14Speaker 11: isn't happening in those races. And that's a good thing
- 1:03:16Speaker 11: for the Republicans.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: I know you point out in your column over at
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: Lizbeak dot com. Going back to just the overall high
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: cost of living in California. Seventy percent in a CBS
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: Pulsa is just unmanageable right now. And I know a
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: good buddy of Mina, Joe Messina, hosts a radio show
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: out in the Santa Clarita and it was a gas
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: almost eight dollars a gallon out there.
- 1:03:39Speaker 11: Yeah, and it's policy driven. I mean yes, right. Gas
- 1:03:42Speaker 11: pisons are up across the country because they ran more,
- 1:03:45Speaker 11: no question about it. But in California it is purposeful.
- 1:03:48Speaker 11: They don't want people driving gasoline powered cars. They want
- 1:03:52Speaker 11: everyone switching to electric. And when they actually mandated all
- 1:03:56Speaker 11: kinds of rules and regulations to make that happen, then
- 1:03:58Speaker 11: the next thing was people got an notice saying, by
- 1:04:00Speaker 11: the way, please don't charge your cars during the day
- 1:04:04Speaker 11: because we'll have blackouts. So it isn't like they prepared
- 1:04:08Speaker 11: or thought ahead about what the electrification of the state
- 1:04:12Speaker 11: required in the way of a new grid, new energy sources,
- 1:04:15Speaker 11: et cetera. They just thought it would all work out,
- 1:04:17Speaker 11: and guess what, it has not. So you have these
- 1:04:20Speaker 11: preposter situations where they're importing all their fossil fuels because
- 1:04:24Speaker 11: they refuse to develop but are still I think substantial
- 1:04:28Speaker 11: oil and gas reserves off shore California on shore California,
- 1:04:31Speaker 11: even they don't want anything to do with it, so
- 1:04:33Speaker 11: instead they're bringing in energy out of the state. I mean,
- 1:04:37Speaker 11: the whole thing is so mind boggling really anyway, So yeah,
- 1:04:43Speaker 11: but it isn't just energy in California. I've done work
- 1:04:47Speaker 11: and written about the cost of prohibitive cost of building,
- 1:04:52Speaker 11: for example, a new apartment building or new home. Part
- 1:04:55Speaker 11: of it is, you know that there's several different layers
- 1:04:59Speaker 11: of permitting and legal fees and all the stuff that
- 1:05:02Speaker 11: you have to apply for in order to do any
- 1:05:05Speaker 11: kind of construction, all of which means that things you
- 1:05:08Speaker 11: build in California tend to be two or three times
- 1:05:10Speaker 11: what they are in Texas. At some point that it's
- 1:05:13Speaker 11: just too much.
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: No, well, you're absolutely right about that, Liz, real quick
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: before we have to let you go nationwide. Of course,
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: gas prices are a big issue, and they're going up
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: all over the place, and you mentioned it's because of
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: the war. My concern is this war is it seems
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: to be draking on now. And this was supposed to
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: be a quick four to five week adventure. We knew
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: that was probably not going to be the case. My
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: concern is, at what point do we say, oh, this
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: could have been a problem for us in the midterms.
- 1:05:43Speaker 11: Oh, I think it already is a problem in the midterms.
- 1:05:46Speaker 11: I've given Democrats a lot to yell and scream about.
- 1:05:49Speaker 11: But it can still there's still time for it to reverse.
- 1:05:53Speaker 11: And honestly, Todd having done what we have done with
- 1:05:56Speaker 11: Iran and spent the money and the blood and the
- 1:06:00Speaker 11: treasure and all the rest of this stuff to take
- 1:06:03Speaker 11: out their military, take out their navy, decimate two ranks
- 1:06:07Speaker 11: of authority, I think the worst thing now would be
- 1:06:11Speaker 11: for Trump to feel so much political pressure that he
- 1:06:13Speaker 11: basically caves. We have got to make sure that Iran
- 1:06:17Speaker 11: does not have a nuclear weapon. Does that mean three
- 1:06:20Speaker 11: more months of rising oil prices? So be it. I
- 1:06:24Speaker 11: know it's not easy. I know people are hurting because
- 1:06:27Speaker 11: of this increase and energy costs, but I do believe
- 1:06:30Speaker 11: it's temporary. President Trump has seen to it that America's
- 1:06:35Speaker 11: resources are within reach and being exploited. People don't realize
- 1:06:39Speaker 11: how much there is yet to come. From Alaska, from Venezuela,
- 1:06:43Speaker 11: from Guyana. There is a tremendous amount of oil available
- 1:06:46Speaker 11: in the next decade. We're not going to run out
- 1:06:49Speaker 11: of oil. This is truly a temporary hiccup, and again
- 1:06:53Speaker 11: it's not pleasant, but we cannot walk away from Iran
- 1:06:58Speaker 11: with them winning, and that's really what it would be,
- 1:07:00Speaker 11: particularly since we've roped in all the golf countries are
- 1:07:03Speaker 11: now teeming with us. My god, that would be such
- 1:07:06Speaker 11: a disaster in terms of geopolitics.
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: I think, Liz.
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: Always fun having you on, and we appreciate all the
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: great work you're doing. Always fun to see you on
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: Fox News, and of course lizpeak dot com, thank you, thank.
- 1:07:20Speaker 11: You so much for having me. All right, appreciate it.
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: Thanks Liz, great lady. Right there, Liz Peak everybody, So
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- 1:08:23Speaker 2: may apply. All right, let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Shelby
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: listening to k W A M. I Shelby, what's on
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: your mind?
- 1:08:32Speaker 15: Well, what's on my mind is making children. Now. I
- 1:08:38Speaker 15: wanted to say song that is my husband and my songs,
- 1:08:43Speaker 15: and he remembered it really right. I just asked him.
- 1:08:48Speaker 15: He remembered exactly what it was. We started dating. I
- 1:08:53Speaker 15: was fifteen years old and we dated four years. I
- 1:08:56Speaker 15: got married at nineteen. We've been married nine years.
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:09:02Speaker 15: Yes, we have four children, twelve grandchildren, nine great grandchildren
- 1:09:07Speaker 15: and one on the way.
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: Is that What a great family you've got.
- 1:09:12Speaker 15: Shelby, And they're all Christians. I got preachers, I got preachers,
- 1:09:16Speaker 15: glory and ministers. So we're doing good.
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: Well it sounds so what's the secret here? I mean,
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: you guys have been married for a long time. You've
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: got a wonderful family. What's the secret, Sauce?
- 1:09:28Speaker 15: The secret was is we were married all through Vietnam
- 1:09:34Speaker 15: and he was overseas, And the secret is I don't know.
- 1:09:38Speaker 15: All I know is it's worked, that it's worth it.
- 1:09:41Speaker 15: But we all we just hung on to God. That's
- 1:09:44Speaker 15: hung on to God. That's we put that to our children.
- 1:09:49Speaker 15: And I guess that's it.
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: Good times, good times, bad times. You got to hold
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: onto God.
- 1:09:54Speaker 15: We had normal time just like everybody else, good and bad.
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: But shell me, you got to tell us, so what
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: is this a big build up here? So what is
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: what is the song?
- 1:10:04Speaker 14: Well?
- 1:10:04Speaker 12: A man.
- 1:10:06Speaker 15: In love did it?
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: When a man loves a woman. Okay, that's a great song. Now, Shelby,
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. Is your husband there? Well,
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: I hope you guys are dancing right now. I mean
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: on the radio.
- 1:10:28Speaker 15: I got a big kids for Mother's Day right out
- 1:10:30Speaker 15: in funk yard. We got pictures of it.
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: Is that right? What's the dog God.
- 1:10:39Speaker 15: Said, we all be dancing.
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: I love it. I love it well, Shelby. God bless you,
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: and God bless your husband, and thank you for listening
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: to our affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee k w A M.
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: And we hope you have another wonderful fifty nine years together.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: Thank you all right, God bless I don't know if
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of this song.
- 1:11:29Speaker 5: Doesn't do it for you? You know it is what
- 1:11:32Speaker 5: it well, it's on the list.
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: So, by the way, could you tell Helen the name
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: of the song is not seasonal love. It's not seasonal.
- 1:11:40Speaker 5: Yeah. She did like she hates winter, so you got
- 1:11:42Speaker 5: to heal from winter.
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: It's yeah, Winter's not good. Oh my word, what what
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: have we created today? This is insane. Welcome back to
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: the Todd Starts Radio Show and we're still taking your question.
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: The lovely miss Helen has compiled a list and we're
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: going to publish this on the website after the show,
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: our official Making Baby Music playlist, doing our part to
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: make America fertile again. Nine oh one two six zero
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: five nine two six is our telephone omber. That's nine
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five to nine two six.
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: A crazy story and we're going to get into this
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: in the next hour. Planet Fitness has come under fire again.
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: There was a lady. This is all happening in New Hampshire,
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: and a lady says that Planet Fitness canceled her gym
- 1:12:32Speaker 2: membership after she complained about a man undressing in the
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: women's locker room. One of the staffers they're at Planet
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: Fitness in New Hampshire accused her of being transphobic. Judy
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: walcott Is has been a longtime member of the location
- 1:12:50Speaker 2: and conquered New Hampshire, and she tells Fox that she
- 1:12:53Speaker 2: felt unsafe, no no doubt about that. She says, I
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: was shaking, like I was actually trembling because it freaked
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: me out that bad. So she rushed to the front
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: desk and a young employee told her there was nothing
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: they could do because it was company policy. She raised
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: the issue again four days later with another staff member,
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: but the employee said she was transphobic, and then a
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: few hours later the gym manager called her to tell
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: her her membership had been canceled for a policy violation.
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: She asked what policy she violated and they refused to
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: say that's really Unfortunately, this is not the first time
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: this has happened with Planet Fitness, but clearly they do
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: not care about the safety of women or girls in
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: their gems, and you guys need to be aware of that.
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: By the way, they also called the police. They called
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: the police on the woman and she was told she's
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: no longer all that she went there because she wanted
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: her money back, and the police said if she showed
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: up again that she would be arrested for Trespassingly sweet
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: woman here and quite frankly, shame on you, Planet Fitness.
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: Jeez aloop. All right, hang tight, everybody, our three coming up.
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five, nine two six.
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: This is the Tom Stern Show.
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable America.
- 1:14:35Speaker 6: That's that's this American.
- 1:14:43Speaker 12: Todd starts welome.
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: Well, hello, everybody, Welcome to our three of the Big Show.
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: Great to have you with us today. By the way,
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: to our telephone number nine oh one two six zero
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: five to nine two six. That's nine oh one two
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: six zero five to nine two six. Dylan, I got
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: a note, you know, tonight's Wednesday and of course, at
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: least in the Southern States. You know what Wednesday night is.
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: It's Wednesday church beer meeting. Yes, and I've been ordered
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: to go to church tonight. I'm being told that our
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: show has been somewhat dare I say, risque?
- 1:15:22Speaker 5: Yeah, just a little bit, just a smidge.
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: But it's overall healing, I think, I think, what kind
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: of healing?
- 1:15:31Speaker 5: Not seasonal healing?
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: Oh, Helen, support, Helen, sweet innocent Helen. She's writing down,
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: you know, and again, welcome to the ton Stern Show.
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: Let me set up the story here. President Trump, of
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: course calling on Americans to make more babies. This is
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: a very important thing. Many of you are not, and
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: I got to get looks, let's get real. I mean,
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: who really wants to mate with, you know, a woman
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: wearing nose rings and purple hair and driving around in
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: a super room wearing birkenstocks. I don't think many people too.
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: On the other side of the table, nobody wants to,
- 1:16:03Speaker 2: you know, go out and date with a wispy little
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: fella wearing a man butt. Not that we have a
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: problem with man buns. Actually I do have a problem
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: with man bun and mullets. But Anyway, we've been doing
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: our part. I know the President came out yesterday making
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: all these announcements and uh what we you know what,
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: we need a little berry white here to set the music,
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: set the scene again and the mood quite frankly. But anyway,
- 1:16:27Speaker 2: we've launched an effort here today on the Todd Stearns
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: radio show called the MafA movement, the make America Fertile
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: Again movement, And as a part of that, we have
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: created the Todd Sterns Show Baby Making Music playlist, and
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: we have dozens of songs. I mean, you guys have
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: been keeping the lovely Miss Helen busy. But again, Miss Helen,
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: it is not seasonal love.
- 1:16:51Speaker 6: That is.
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: Sexual sexual. Sorry, I'm a Baptist. I can't. It's hard
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: to say those kinds of words. By the way, Zellen,
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: I understand we're hearing from a lot of our listeners.
- 1:17:06Speaker 5: Yeah, our influences, uh has gotten pervast.
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: It is vasty, just like our love, our love. We
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: just love. We love America and we want we want
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: you to love America, and we want you to love
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: Americans provided you're already married and you know, follow all
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: the commandments. Don't come at another woman's ass is that
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: what the that's the wrong commandment? Edgum, and I'm gonna
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: get put on another prayer list.
- 1:17:38Speaker 5: Here's another one.
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: Thank you for that, all right? Nine oh one two
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. I'm really scared to
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: go to our next caller, Steve Gill, who is the
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: publisher of TriStar Daily. So, Steve, if you've been hearing
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: reports from Mansheville about what the hell is wrong with
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: Todd Starns. Has he been on his meds or is
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: he off his meds? Well, this is the reason why.
- 1:18:02Speaker 3: I just think it's lack of gravy. I mean, now
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: that you're no longer consuming gravy, your whole mental capacity
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: has diminished from the from the lack of whatever vitamins
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: and minerals and graviness was pouring into your system. But
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: I do not think that Wednesday night church combined with
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: playing Verry White music is gonna say to you at
- 1:18:23Speaker 3: this point.
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: No, I don't think so either. I don't think so.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: They're like I told you, he was episcopalian, Marge.
- 1:18:31Speaker 3: I can't think of a single very white song that
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: is not sexual in content. Now, great, right, I love
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: very white like what was it, David Letterman years ago
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: been a segment on words that sound sexy when Barry
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: White says them with that deep resonant voice, and one
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: of them was jing of bitis.
- 1:18:51Speaker 6: I mean, he.
- 1:18:52Speaker 7: Should make gingavitis sound sexy.
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: Gingervitis. It does kind of sound sexy, though, I mean,
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna be honest here. We're getting real
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: with you, America. That's all we're doing, Steve. We've got
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: to talk politics, though, because there's a lot happening in
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: a lot of states. First, I want to talk about Tennessee.
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: And I have great respect for Cameron Section, who is
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House. They're in Tennessee, who came
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: out yesterday and all these radicalized Democrats who have been
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: causing holy you know what, really it's unholy you know
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: what up on up at the Capitol, and he has
- 1:19:31Speaker 2: now stripped them of all their committee assignments. I'm glad
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: to see the Republicans in Tennessee playing hardball here well.
- 1:19:39Speaker 7: And I was down in the.
- 1:19:39Speaker 3: Midst of them last week with a cameraman interviewing people,
- 1:19:42Speaker 3: recording videotaping, and as I told people, I don't need
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: to play any of the interviews, what they said on
- 1:19:49Speaker 3: the floor, what they said in the committee hearings are irrelevant.
- 1:19:53Speaker 3: What they said and did in their behavior.
- 1:19:56Speaker 7: Yeah, people just seed to see.
- 1:19:57Speaker 3: It for themselves. And thing they did up there, particularly
- 1:20:01Speaker 3: what their activists and radicals were doing f bombing people
- 1:20:05Speaker 3: and their shouts of plan and Nazie and all this
- 1:20:08Speaker 3: other stuff. None of that's going to win rural or
- 1:20:11Speaker 3: suburban voters to their side, So they're not making political
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: gains with their santrum. And then you have justin Pearson
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: and the rest that were literally, you know, using megaphones
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: and air horns and things on the floor, burning a
- 1:20:26Speaker 3: paper copy of the Confederate battle flag on the floor
- 1:20:29Speaker 3: of the House. Everything they were doing were clear violations
- 1:20:33Speaker 3: of House rules. And now they're shouting, well, he's just
- 1:20:36Speaker 3: silencing black voices. While keep in mind that a couple
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: of the legislators who lost their committe assignments because of
- 1:20:42Speaker 3: their behavior and violation of House rules were white people,
- 1:20:46Speaker 3: kind of like the white Jewish congressmen in Memphis. That
- 1:20:49Speaker 3: they're saying is, you know, is the evidity of black
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: voice and black vote in Memphis. It wasn't targeted at
- 1:20:57Speaker 3: black folks it was targeted at behavior in the rules,
- 1:21:00Speaker 3: and to his credit, Speaker Cameron Sexton is enforcing them.
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: I don't think Justin Pearson, who's running for Congress in Memphis,
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: I don't think he qualified to run again for his
- 1:21:10Speaker 3: house district. So he will not be stripped of his
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: committee assignment next year because he won't be in the
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: legislature anyway.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate what Cameron sex did, I still think
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: it's not good enough. And some of the things that
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: happen inside that Capitol building, if it had been white
- 1:21:27Speaker 2: people doing this and directing all of that hate and
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: the threats and the intimidation against blacks, they would be
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: in jail. And Steve, we did a little bit of
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: research here. There were actually black people wearing KKK masks
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: inside that building. That is a class A misdemeanor if
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: it is done with the intent to intimidate, threaten, or
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: deprive others of their civil rights. And that's exactly what
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: was going on.
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: And the news marching with the Klan masks on or
- 1:21:55Speaker 3: clan hoods on. The others were waving nooses wrote as
- 1:22:00Speaker 3: they brandished them, you know, and again they were screaming,
- 1:22:02Speaker 3: you know, plan not see all.
- 1:22:04Speaker 7: This kind of stuff.
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: Apparently they forgot that the Klan were Democrats, the Jim
- 1:22:09Speaker 3: Crow signs, those were Democrats. Everything they're complaining about was
- 1:22:14Speaker 3: what was done by Democrats the blacks in the South,
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: not Republicans.
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: And Steve and again when you're talking about Justin Pearson here,
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: he's got a new campaign add out. He's running for
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: the ninth congressional district in that race, and we're going
- 1:22:27Speaker 2: to get to that in just a second, but his
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: ad it is horrifying, and he makes you think that
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: people in Memphis, Tennessee, are still going out white people
- 1:22:37Speaker 2: are going out and lynching black people. The last time
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: a black person or any person was lynched in Memphis
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: was nineteen seventeen. And as horrible as that is, I
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: don't think it's really that big of an issue right
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: now when it comes to crime and safety in Memphis.
- 1:22:54Speaker 3: Yeah, when the best example you have of truly racist
- 1:22:59Speaker 3: behavior is over one hundred years ago, it's kind of
- 1:23:02Speaker 3: hard to put that into current context. And yet again,
- 1:23:05Speaker 3: when Justin Pearson was screaking and screaming and hollering and
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: dancing in a Memphis church and a graduation note, he
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: was using his justin Pearson Malcolm X. You know black
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: pastor voice.
- 1:23:20Speaker 6: Not his wife.
- 1:23:22Speaker 7: I went to the bouton College.
- 1:23:23Speaker 3: And Maine voice. So again, this guy is continued just
- 1:23:27Speaker 3: a complete pretender in every way possible.
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in South Carolina, they had an opportunity to read
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: district there and what a disaster that turned out to be.
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: You literally had where I think we've got this audio
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: here somewhere of the Dylan if we've got the South
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: Carolina Republican Shane Massey, the leader of the state Senate,
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: and he's out there defying Trump and leading the leading
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: Republicans to defy the president on the redistricting, and sure
- 1:23:58Speaker 2: enough they were able to to upend it. I'm looking
- 1:24:01Speaker 2: for the all right, I don't have that if I
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: don't have it on my list. But Steve again, it's
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: Republicans not manning up and fighting.
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: Back well and again apparently the news is a little
- 1:24:14Speaker 3: slow in South Carolina. The Republican rights in South Carolina
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: apparently haven't seen the election results from Indiana. For those
- 1:24:22Speaker 3: who did the same thing there were literally wiped out
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: in their primaries. Guys who've been serving as long as
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: Shane Matthews in South Carolina obliterated at the poles. Now,
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: this guy thinks he's unfestival because he hadn't had primary
- 1:24:35Speaker 3: opposition the last couple of cycles. He is not up
- 1:24:39Speaker 3: with a primary election until two years from now. But
- 1:24:42Speaker 3: I don't think people in South Carolina are going to forget.
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: Regardless of whether government master and the Republican leadership is
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: able to force through the redistricting plan that that South
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: Carolinians overwhelmingly support, they will not forget in two years.
- 1:24:57Speaker 3: And maybe by that time he will see the election
- 1:25:00Speaker 3: volts from Indiana and realize that his time is done.
- 1:25:03Speaker 3: What should happen today in South Carolina. Republicans in the
- 1:25:07Speaker 3: Senate should stripped him of his leadership position immediately let
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: him cast his vote, but he can cast him from
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: the back of the room.
- 1:25:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think Justin Pearson ought to be expelled
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: after what he did to that state trooper. That's just unacceptable.
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: Real quick, here, there is a congressional race, and there's
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: a guy that you and I both know, State Senator
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: Brent Taylor, who really led the effort to bring the
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: plight of Memphis to the nation's attention. And a lot
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: of people running how do you think this all plays out.
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: Who do you think that the front runner might be?
- 1:25:43Speaker 7: Oh?
- 1:25:43Speaker 3: Well, I think Brent Taylor, thanks senator from Memphis, is
- 1:25:46Speaker 3: the clear front runner. It's almost a replay a little
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: bit in reverse when Senator Marshall Blackburn ran for Congress
- 1:25:54Speaker 3: in a district drawn by Democrats in two thousand after
- 1:25:57Speaker 3: the census. Then it was a district that from Williamson
- 1:26:01Speaker 3: County just south of Nashville, across the southern part of
- 1:26:05Speaker 3: the state to Memphis. And Brent Taylor, Congressman David Custaff
- 1:26:10Speaker 3: he's now in Congress now, and Mark Norris, who's a
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: federal judge in Memphis. They all ran from that western
- 1:26:16Speaker 3: portion of the district. Marshall Blackburn ran from the eastern.
- 1:26:19Speaker 3: She won because they divided up the Memphis vote. This
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: time you have Senator Brent Taylor, who's already put a
- 1:26:25Speaker 3: million dollars in his own money in he's already been
- 1:26:28Speaker 3: endorsement Senator Marshall Bleacty, Senator Bill Hagerty, a co merchant,
- 1:26:33Speaker 3: and a dozen or so of his fellow state senators
- 1:26:36Speaker 3: with the millions two million dollars he've had at his disposal,
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: with the endorsements he has, and with this district in
- 1:26:44Speaker 3: nine now being not a plus twenty three Democrat district
- 1:26:48Speaker 3: as it was before, but with the redistrict thing, it's
- 1:26:51Speaker 3: about a plus twelve Republican districts. He should win the
- 1:26:54Speaker 3: primary handily and then should win the win the general
- 1:26:57Speaker 3: election in November as well.
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: I think there is and he would be a Brent
- 1:27:01Speaker 2: Taylor would be a true we had him on the
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: show yesterday, would be a tremendous asset to the Freedom Caucus.
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: He is a rock solid conservative. But I think the
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: lesson for the rest of the country is to take
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: a long hard look at who the Democrats are going
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: to pick. A guy who is a radical leftist and
- 1:27:20Speaker 2: when you put and people were laughing at me a
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: couple of years ago when I said this, Steve, but
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: everybody who was making fun of AOC and how far
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: left she was, I said, you just wait, because the
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: people coming up after her are going to make AOC
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: look like a reasonable person. And when you put her
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: alongside Justin Pearson, that's exactly what happens.
- 1:27:41Speaker 3: Well, and people ask me all the time time. I'm
- 1:27:43Speaker 3: sure they asked you, why is it that there are
- 1:27:45Speaker 3: no moderate to basically southern conservative Democrats anymore. Their party
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: has moved so far to the left that a moderate
- 1:27:54Speaker 3: Democrat cannot win in a Democrat primary. It is so
- 1:28:00Speaker 3: inhabited by the far left, radical extremists that we saw
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: on those videos at the Capitol last week. That's the
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: Democratic Party. So they're going to continue to nominate folks
- 1:28:12Speaker 3: like that. I think that as we have rational people
- 1:28:15Speaker 3: around the country, they're going to continue to reject the
- 1:28:18Speaker 3: far left extremists that are winning in their primaries. But
- 1:28:21Speaker 3: there is no room in the Democrat Party for somebody
- 1:28:24Speaker 3: who is an old style Democrat from just old styles
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: twenty years ago, moderate Democrats, because they will get destroyed
- 1:28:32Speaker 3: in a primary. That's why you have Schumer and and
- 1:28:34Speaker 3: Pelosi and others that are so terrified of their left
- 1:28:37Speaker 3: that they can't push back against them.
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: All right, Steve Gill, publisher of Try and Star Daily
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: dot com, Go and check out that great website, Steve.
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: We're going to have to leave it there. Always appreciate
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: your analysis.
- 1:28:50Speaker 3: Thanks, busy, we'll talk soon, all right. Pop gravy for
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: you today?
- 1:28:56Speaker 2: Yeah, no gravy, no, no, no, thank you for that. Nella,
- 1:28:59Speaker 2: and I was that Whole Foods again last night. I
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: still park in the EV parking.
- 1:29:06Speaker 5: That's just your way to revolt against there.
- 1:29:09Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole signe is like they've got the
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: other side is of course for handicap parking, and then
- 1:29:14Speaker 2: they've got like out of eight bays right there in
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: the very front, in front of the grocery cards for
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: the EV. Nobody drives EV around here.
- 1:29:22Speaker 5: No, no, I've seen one cyber truck.
- 1:29:24Speaker 2: Otherwise all the rest of us had to have to
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: walk a mile to get inside the supermarket. Just sitting there,
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: it's good for you, Todd. I was gonna see if
- 1:29:32Speaker 2: I a plug in my phone, maybe get a good charge,
- 1:29:34Speaker 2: but you know.
- 1:29:35Speaker 5: The charges to one hundred and one second.
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: I think you need an adapter. It's all right, we
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: gotta take you break here, folks. Nine oh one two
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. This is the Todd
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: Starr Show. I feel like I ought to be running
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: an eighties love song station.
- 1:30:23Speaker 5: At this point.
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great song though. Welcome back to the
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: Todd Stearns Radio Show. As we continue our MafA movement,
- 1:30:34Speaker 2: make America fertile again, and we are doing our part.
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: Let's go to the phone Statesville, North Carolina. Patty listening
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: to us on w S. I c Patty, I can't
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: wait to hear your song.
- 1:30:47Speaker 10: Oh well, it is my husband and I's wedding. So well,
- 1:30:51Speaker 10: we had a couple of phones who were going to
- 1:30:53Speaker 10: stick out. We're gonna you know, but this is it's
- 1:30:57Speaker 10: not from the eighties, so likely sixties seventies. It's called
- 1:31:03Speaker 10: never My Love by the Association. It's the most beautiful
- 1:31:07Speaker 10: song ever.
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: Wow, it's so it's called never.
- 1:31:11Speaker 3: My Love by the Association.
- 1:31:15Speaker 2: By Patty, I think we've got it here. Let's take
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: a listen. Is this it never mind posting I like
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: to sing along? Day is a great song.
- 1:31:34Speaker 10: Yes, it's a great song.
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: Never Patty. I think we need to have more shows
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: like this where you know, chaos. We're gonna cover it,
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: but we gotta have a little bit of fun.
- 1:31:59Speaker 10: Yeah, so ask your question real quick.
- 1:32:02Speaker 2: Yeah we got fifteen seconds.
- 1:32:04Speaker 10: Okay, what do you think was from your from your
- 1:32:09Speaker 10: point of view, what do you really think that he's
- 1:32:12Speaker 10: going to achieve over ri and China?
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: Well, look, President Trump is the master negotiator, and I
- 1:32:20Speaker 2: think I think we're going to come away with some
- 1:32:22Speaker 2: good deals. Let's see how it all plays out. Clearly,
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: there are a lot of big players that are along
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: on the trip with the President, and I think, no
- 1:32:31Speaker 2: matter what happens in America is going to come out
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: better on the other side. Patty, I really do so.
- 1:32:35Speaker 14: Well.
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: Let's let's let's step back and let's see how it
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: plays out. Patty, I got to run, great question, really
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: great song coming up our guys from Strategic Financial Partners.
- 1:32:47Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnge Radio Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
- 1:33:06Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. By the way,
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: Missus Missus Shanklin writing in uh, by the way, Dllan
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: says love is all around by the trogs. I don't
- 1:33:19Speaker 2: think I've heard of them before. I haven't either, Love
- 1:33:22Speaker 2: is all around. The Shanklands are musical officionados. So there
- 1:33:26Speaker 2: you go. Keep those suggestions coming. In nine oh one
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: two six zero five, nine two six. That's nine oh
- 1:33:32Speaker 2: one two six, zero five, nine two six for Chris
- 1:33:37Speaker 2: Chris loftis you have no idea what you just walked into.
- 1:33:40Speaker 16: I'm starting to get an inkling, but I'm kind of regretting,
- 1:33:43Speaker 16: regretting being curious.
- 1:33:44Speaker 2: No inklings in the studio now, you know, with not
- 1:33:47Speaker 2: with the mood lighting.
- 1:33:48Speaker 6: Uh.
- 1:33:48Speaker 2: Chris loftis our financial services rep at Strategic Financial Partners,
- 1:33:53Speaker 2: and one of the things that we really stress on
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: this program is that we want you to be prepared
- 1:33:58Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what part of
- 1:34:01Speaker 2: your life. We want to really help you. And one
- 1:34:04Speaker 2: of the most important things is to make sure that
- 1:34:06Speaker 2: your financial health is in good order. I know a
- 1:34:08Speaker 2: lot of you folks are retiring or getting close to retiring.
- 1:34:11Speaker 2: We have a lot of younger listeners that are just
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: that are just starting out. But one of the things
- 1:34:16Speaker 2: that and remind me of a thing because we've got
- 1:34:18Speaker 2: to talk about your big events you had with the
- 1:34:20Speaker 2: Wiener Dogs. Yes, but right now we're going to talk
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: about disability income. And this is a big deal for
- 1:34:26Speaker 2: me because, as you know, a couple of weeks ago,
- 1:34:29Speaker 2: I was in the hospital, had to have the had
- 1:34:32Speaker 2: to have the roto router things to my artery and fortunately,
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: you know, I was I mean, I was out for
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, but you know, I'm back. But
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: the reality is what if I wasn't back, And you know,
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: talking about disability, disability income and disability insurance.
- 1:34:48Speaker 16: Yeah, well, let's let's go ahead to find what disability
- 1:34:51Speaker 16: means when it comes to insurance. We actually, we don't
- 1:34:53Speaker 16: like to use the word insurance because everybody's immediately assumes
- 1:34:56Speaker 16: they know what that means. We actually prefer to use
- 1:34:58Speaker 16: the phrase income protection when it comes to disability, and
- 1:35:01Speaker 16: that's that's that's a better connotation there. So with what
- 1:35:04Speaker 16: disability is defined as is if you have something whether
- 1:35:08Speaker 16: it's an illness or physical injury, or something in the
- 1:35:12Speaker 16: way that happens to you cognitively where you are unable
- 1:35:16Speaker 16: to work and make an income as you normally would
- 1:35:19Speaker 16: operate on a day to day basis, and if that
- 1:35:22Speaker 16: would prohibit you, whether in the short term or the
- 1:35:24Speaker 16: long term, would you or would you not be able
- 1:35:27Speaker 16: to make an income? And we asked Todd, We ask
- 1:35:30Speaker 16: a lot of different clients and prospects that question of like, hey,
- 1:35:33Speaker 16: if this happened, uh, what would what's the game plan?
- 1:35:37Speaker 16: And half of them, actually more than half of them
- 1:35:39Speaker 16: to say, well, I guess I just have to figure
- 1:35:41Speaker 16: something out. I'm like, that's the plan.
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: Well, in all seriousness, when we when I bought k Ram,
- 1:35:46Speaker 2: you know, nobody here had it, you know, health insurance
- 1:35:48Speaker 2: had they offered no benefits, and so we were looking
- 1:35:50Speaker 2: at that and we were going to offer health insurance.
- 1:35:53Speaker 2: You know for our staff who are all gen zers, right,
- 1:35:56Speaker 2: nobody wanted health insurance, right because they're young.
- 1:35:59Speaker 16: Right, Well, you know that the common denominator there is
- 1:36:01Speaker 16: a lot of young people think, oh we're young, we're invincible.
- 1:36:04Speaker 16: Nothing bad is going to happen to us. That's something
- 1:36:06Speaker 16: I'll think about when I'm thirty, when I'm forty. And
- 1:36:08Speaker 16: you know, that's a that's a can you can kick
- 1:36:10Speaker 16: down the road for a very long time, down a
- 1:36:12Speaker 16: very long way.
- 1:36:13Speaker 2: What would you say? I mean again, a person's ability
- 1:36:15Speaker 2: to earn income. I mean that, really, it seems to me,
- 1:36:18Speaker 2: is the most important thing.
- 1:36:20Speaker 16: Well, it goes far beyond that. When you think about
- 1:36:22Speaker 16: what your greatest asset is. You know, guess what a
- 1:36:25Speaker 16: lot of people think it's your car, they think it's
- 1:36:27Speaker 16: your house. No, it's your ability to it's and your
- 1:36:29Speaker 16: ability and capacity to work and make money. And it's like,
- 1:36:32Speaker 16: how are you able to afford your lifestyle if if
- 1:36:35Speaker 16: you're hurt, Like who's pandel mortgage, who's keeping the lights on,
- 1:36:37Speaker 16: who's keeping food? On the table, and people just don't
- 1:36:40Speaker 16: really think about it that way because they think of
- 1:36:42Speaker 16: all these other things that, oh, I got to keep
- 1:36:44Speaker 16: the car insured, and you know, I got to keep
- 1:36:46Speaker 16: the house insured. I gotta you know, make sure that
- 1:36:49Speaker 16: you know, we got our health insurance, which is great
- 1:36:51Speaker 16: and all that stuff. But you know, what are you
- 1:36:53Speaker 16: using to afford all that stuff in the first place?
- 1:36:56Speaker 16: Is your income? You gotta protect your income.
- 1:36:57Speaker 2: Time and again, it goes back to a lot of
- 1:36:59Speaker 2: people people think, Okay, this cannot happen to me, right
- 1:37:02Speaker 2: they see these you know, dramatic car accidents you know where,
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: or maybe your kids. You know, you're eighteen nineteen years
- 1:37:09Speaker 2: old jumping into a swimming pool. The next thing you know, boom,
- 1:37:11Speaker 2: you're paralyzed. Right, So, but it's not just the dramatic things.
- 1:37:16Speaker 16: It's simple stuff that can hit you out of the blue.
- 1:37:19Speaker 16: And I'm going to give a couple of good examples
- 1:37:21Speaker 16: here that I was actually meeting with. This couple's very sweet.
- 1:37:25Speaker 16: So there is a twenty year age gap between the
- 1:37:29Speaker 16: husband and the wife, and the husband is retired on
- 1:37:31Speaker 16: social Security and the wife is actually executive of a company.
- 1:37:35Speaker 16: And she assured me that they got married before either
- 1:37:37Speaker 16: of them had any money, so it was true love.
- 1:37:40Speaker 16: But I remember she told me. She said she was
- 1:37:42Speaker 16: driving down I fifty five about two years ago, and
- 1:37:45Speaker 16: she had perfect health, never had any cause for concern,
- 1:37:48Speaker 16: and all of a sudden she realized that she had
- 1:37:51Speaker 16: been asleep at the will and she was in the
- 1:37:53Speaker 16: right lane heading into the ditch. And thank god there
- 1:37:56Speaker 16: was nobody coming like on the on the opposite side
- 1:37:59Speaker 16: of her, because that would have been a terrible accident.
- 1:38:01Speaker 16: And she went in and come to find out that
- 1:38:03Speaker 16: she has a blood pressure problem and she had to
- 1:38:06Speaker 16: go get checked out, and that was that was bad.
- 1:38:09Speaker 16: They could have been very, very bad and even worse.
- 1:38:11Speaker 16: And she was actually a disabled She had some minor
- 1:38:14Speaker 16: injuries on her left side that you know, disabled her.
- 1:38:17Speaker 16: She was not able to work for a hot second.
- 1:38:19Speaker 16: And now she's coming to us and she's saying, hey,
- 1:38:21Speaker 16: this is actually a priority for me. I wish somebody
- 1:38:23Speaker 16: had talked to me about this twenty years ago. And
- 1:38:25Speaker 16: I'm like, yeah, absolutely, I can see what that would
- 1:38:27Speaker 16: be an issue.
- 1:38:28Speaker 2: So when I was in my thirties, when I had
- 1:38:29Speaker 2: my first, you know, major heart surgery, and I was
- 1:38:31Speaker 2: out for I mean, it was like six to eight weeks.
- 1:38:34Speaker 2: And fortunately, you know, I had that insurance and so
- 1:38:36Speaker 2: I was able to get you know, keep getting a paycheck.
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: And you've got to be prepared because you just never
- 1:38:41Speaker 2: know when something might happen that'll put you, you know,
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: on the DL for a couple of weeks or a
- 1:38:46Speaker 2: couple of months.
- 1:38:47Speaker 16: Well, just to give another example, so we have an
- 1:38:49Speaker 16: advisor at our firm who he had a long time
- 1:38:52Speaker 16: client who he begged, beg, beg to beg to get
- 1:38:56Speaker 16: income protection, some disability insurance. And this is a man,
- 1:38:58Speaker 16: he has a wife, kids, he owns his company, and
- 1:39:01Speaker 16: he had to have what he thought was just going
- 1:39:03Speaker 16: to be a very minor back surgery. And so, after
- 1:39:06Speaker 16: you know, about a few years of just begging he
- 1:39:09Speaker 16: before he went in for the surgery, he went and
- 1:39:10Speaker 16: purchased a D policy, but grudgingly, I might add, he
- 1:39:13Speaker 16: didn't think you needed it. The back surgery happens, he's
- 1:39:17Speaker 16: out for you know, thirty days, but then he gets
- 1:39:20Speaker 16: twenty twenty five days in and come to find out
- 1:39:22Speaker 16: they actually found some stuff in his back that you know,
- 1:39:25Speaker 16: required some additional TLC, if you know what I mean.
- 1:39:28Speaker 16: And he gets a check in the mail from the
- 1:39:30Speaker 16: insurance company. And he calls the advisor and he says, hey,
- 1:39:33Speaker 16: why are they sending me a check? You know, I'm
- 1:39:35Speaker 16: not playing on being out very long like what's going on?
- 1:39:37Speaker 16: And the advisor told him, he said, hey, they they've
- 1:39:40Speaker 16: seen enough of these procedures and enough of your specific
- 1:39:43Speaker 16: situations to know that you're probably not going to be
- 1:39:46Speaker 16: you know, you're you're probably gonna be down and out
- 1:39:47Speaker 16: for a good long while. He said, Oh, that's not
- 1:39:49Speaker 16: the case. He said, Hey, just go in, cash in
- 1:39:50Speaker 16: the check. You're good. They know what they're doing. We'll
- 1:39:53Speaker 16: see what happens. Todd the business owner never went back
- 1:39:56Speaker 16: to work.
- 1:39:56Speaker 2: Is that right?
- 1:39:57Speaker 16: And never went back to work. He couldn't work. He
- 1:39:59Speaker 16: could not do it in the same capacity had been doing.
- 1:40:01Speaker 16: It was that severe.
- 1:40:02Speaker 2: Chris Loftus is with us from Strategic Financial Partners. The
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: website Strategic Financial Partners dot com. And if you have
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: a question for Chris about disability income disability insurance, give
- 1:40:13Speaker 2: us a call nine oh one two six oh five,
- 1:40:16Speaker 2: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six oh five,
- 1:40:19Speaker 2: nine two six, Dylan and I get our phone number right.
- 1:40:23Speaker 2: I'm sorry you got to thank you. I just you
- 1:40:27Speaker 2: know what it was. I was glancing down at these
- 1:40:28Speaker 2: other phone numbers and I just got lost. Guys, can
- 1:40:31Speaker 2: we just I just have to tell you, I think
- 1:40:34Speaker 2: I hit a wall. Like you know, I'm back, first
- 1:40:37Speaker 2: full week back. I've just you know, hit a wall. Anyway, Yes,
- 1:40:45Speaker 2: or some more of those great drugs. Thank God for
- 1:40:49Speaker 2: legal narcotics. And we have that conversation that we can't
- 1:40:52Speaker 2: We've got to continue this. So look a lot of
- 1:40:55Speaker 2: people say, well, look I've got insurance through the company,
- 1:40:57Speaker 2: you know, piece of cake. I really don't need more.
- 1:41:00Speaker 2: Or is is that a good thought process?
- 1:41:02Speaker 16: So you always want to start with your benefits first
- 1:41:04Speaker 16: and foremost, and that's what we tell everybody. Don't don't
- 1:41:06Speaker 16: go out and just start going on this insurance spreeth like, oh,
- 1:41:09Speaker 16: I need to get you know, as much as my
- 1:41:11Speaker 16: income covered as possible. Yeah, that's a good thought, but
- 1:41:14Speaker 16: you need to start at what's given to you. I mean,
- 1:41:15Speaker 16: you get some very affordable, very favorable, very cost effective
- 1:41:19Speaker 16: benefits out there that should cover your disability disability insurance.
- 1:41:24Speaker 16: But let's look at the centcenario. What happens where if
- 1:41:27Speaker 16: they don't If there's a gap which we see quite
- 1:41:29Speaker 16: a bit, Todd. A lot of companies actually cap their
- 1:41:33Speaker 16: disability insurance up to certain points. So say that, hey,
- 1:41:36Speaker 16: if you have one hundred and twenty thousand dollars salary
- 1:41:38Speaker 16: or thereabouts, are a little less, and they cover up
- 1:41:41Speaker 16: to sixty percent of it. Okay, well that's great, but
- 1:41:43Speaker 16: there's some fine print under there, Todd that if you
- 1:41:46Speaker 16: rise in the company, say you're an engineer and you're
- 1:41:47Speaker 16: doing some fieldwork, and you can make some pretty good
- 1:41:50Speaker 16: money being an engineer, but they cap it at two
- 1:41:52Speaker 16: hundred thousand, and guess what you're going up and up
- 1:41:56Speaker 16: and up, and say you're making four hundred thousand dollars
- 1:41:58Speaker 16: a year, Well, guess what only half of that is
- 1:42:01Speaker 16: going to be You're it's still it's going to get
- 1:42:03Speaker 16: capped two hundred thousand. You're not going to get the
- 1:42:05Speaker 16: full six hundred or yeah, sixty percent. Uh So, what
- 1:42:08Speaker 16: a lot of people don't realize that is that that
- 1:42:10Speaker 16: gives them a pretty tangible lifestyle income gap because they
- 1:42:14Speaker 16: get pretty used to living in that lifestyle and if
- 1:42:17Speaker 16: they get disabled and they're only getting a certain percentage,
- 1:42:21Speaker 16: that's that's that's that's bad news for them.
- 1:42:23Speaker 2: And I think this is so important. It is not
- 1:42:25Speaker 2: just for old people, all right, this you, this is
- 1:42:27Speaker 2: really probably more so for younger people.
- 1:42:30Speaker 16: If you are forty an under, you need to be
- 1:42:32Speaker 16: paying attention to.
- 1:42:33Speaker 2: The absolutely absolutely.
- 1:42:35Speaker 4: So.
- 1:42:35Speaker 2: Look, let's talk about misconceptions that people need to be
- 1:42:39Speaker 2: aware of when it comes to, you know, getting disability insurance.
- 1:42:41Speaker 16: Right right, So a big first misconception is is that, oh,
- 1:42:46Speaker 16: it's only for high risk people. You know, you you're
- 1:42:49Speaker 16: you're people who oh you're you're in risky jobs where
- 1:42:52Speaker 16: it's like you're doing a lot of fieldwork, blue collar. Yeah,
- 1:42:55Speaker 16: that's the case. Those people definitely need it. But let's
- 1:42:58Speaker 16: say you're in a white collar job where or you're
- 1:43:00Speaker 16: sitting at a desk majory of the day, or you're
- 1:43:03Speaker 16: doing things that aren't necessarily deemed risky. Major health events
- 1:43:07Speaker 16: impact us all day, every day without us even knowing it.
- 1:43:10Speaker 16: Car accidents are the deadliest thing in this country known
- 1:43:15Speaker 16: as of right now. It's worse than gun violence, it's
- 1:43:17Speaker 16: worse than anything else right now. And the reality is
- 1:43:20Speaker 16: that that can happen to anybody. I mean, all of
- 1:43:23Speaker 16: us have known somebody who's gotten injured in a carrect
- 1:43:25Speaker 16: if you think about it, and most of those people
- 1:43:28Speaker 16: were disabled permanently or otherwise temporarily to some capacity where
- 1:43:32Speaker 16: they were not able to do it. So the misconception
- 1:43:35Speaker 16: is is that, hey, just because you don't think it
- 1:43:37Speaker 16: applies to you, that mean my whole game, my whole
- 1:43:40Speaker 16: job is a what if scenario? Right, It's my job
- 1:43:43Speaker 16: is to be able to say, Okay, hey, what scenario
- 1:43:45Speaker 16: in your life are you least expecting and are you
- 1:43:47Speaker 16: prepared for it? If slash? When it happens, and it's
- 1:43:49Speaker 16: more often in than not when it's going to happen.
- 1:43:51Speaker 2: I love that. And again, folks, you ensure that car
- 1:43:55Speaker 2: that you crash, so why not ensure the person inside
- 1:43:57Speaker 2: of it and make sure you're protected.
- 1:43:59Speaker 12: Us that well?
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: All right, uh, Chris, we're gonna leave it there. But again, folks,
- 1:44:03Speaker 2: if you have more information, I want you to go
- 1:44:05Speaker 2: to the website Strategic Financial Partners dot com. Chris, give
- 1:44:08Speaker 2: them your number if they want to if folks want
- 1:44:11Speaker 2: to reach out to you directly.
- 1:44:12Speaker 16: That is nine zero one six five seven three three
- 1:44:16Speaker 16: two four.
- 1:44:17Speaker 2: All right, again, give Chris a call. You don't charge
- 1:44:20Speaker 2: for the call.
- 1:44:20Speaker 16: Right, not charge the call. It's a free consultation. I
- 1:44:23Speaker 16: love to the basic analysis. Uh you know, we're not attorneys,
- 1:44:26Speaker 16: we're not CPAs. We don't charge by that hour. We
- 1:44:28Speaker 16: just want to have the conversation.
- 1:44:29Speaker 2: See so, folks, you have nothing to lose at all,
- 1:44:32Speaker 2: and I want to make sure that you guys are
- 1:44:33Speaker 2: very well protected. So take up Chris on the offer
- 1:44:36Speaker 2: of the free consultation. Write down this number again. I
- 1:44:39Speaker 2: want to share it with you. Nine oh one six
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: five seven three three two four. Now if you're driving
- 1:44:44Speaker 2: and you can call in and Helen will give you
- 1:44:47Speaker 2: that information. Nine oh one six five seven three three
- 1:44:51Speaker 2: two four. Before we let you go, you were like
- 1:44:54Speaker 2: you were the star attraction at the Big Wienie Dog
- 1:44:57Speaker 2: of what competition?
- 1:44:58Speaker 16: The Wiener Dog races in Starkville, Mississippi. I think the
- 1:45:02Speaker 16: Wiener Dogs. It was the Wild West Wienies that was
- 1:45:05Speaker 16: the theme this year. It was amazing, three hundred and
- 1:45:08Speaker 16: fifty dogs from twenty six different states. I think there
- 1:45:11Speaker 16: was a dog from Germany, a dog from France, and
- 1:45:13Speaker 16: a dog from Japan. I actually think the dog from
- 1:45:16Speaker 16: Germany won.
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: I had no idea they had weenies over into Japan.
- 1:45:19Speaker 16: I know, right, it's crazy, but so it's amazing. So
- 1:45:22Speaker 16: I had the blessing and privileged opportunity to be the
- 1:45:25Speaker 16: official bugler for the Starkfield Derby, which benefits the Octobeha
- 1:45:29Speaker 16: County Humane Society. I know our friends in Pasca Goula
- 1:45:31Speaker 16: were making fun of me last time for Octobaha County
- 1:45:34Speaker 16: and their funny little name. But it's a great county.
- 1:45:37Speaker 16: And they raised I think almost one hundred thousand dollars
- 1:45:39Speaker 16: for that human society, which was sweet mercy.
- 1:45:42Speaker 2: So Jumbo Wieners jumbo.
- 1:45:44Speaker 16: And hey, the Oscar Meyer wienermobile was it made an appearance.
- 1:45:47Speaker 2: Of course it did.
- 1:45:48Speaker 16: It was amazing.
- 1:45:49Speaker 2: You know, we sent I in the end turned out yeah,
- 1:45:51Speaker 2: so what is super low? And they actually let him
- 1:45:55Speaker 2: go inside. They would not let him drive.
- 1:45:57Speaker 6: Uh huh.
- 1:45:57Speaker 2: But yeah, I had a great time.
- 1:45:59Speaker 16: It's it's it's it's sizable.
- 1:46:01Speaker 2: It's pretty.
- 1:46:05Speaker 6: All right.
- 1:46:06Speaker 2: We got a break. We've got to stop. This is
- 1:46:08Speaker 2: just ridiculous. I'm gonna have to find a new church
- 1:46:11Speaker 2: to go to now, all right, Chris Loft, it's good
- 1:46:14Speaker 2: to see you, my friends. We'll be right back, all right,
- 1:46:25Speaker 2: don't forget Tonight five o'clock Eastern the Todd Searns Show
- 1:46:28Speaker 2: on Newsmax. We'll have a lot of fun, Dylan. We've
- 1:46:31Speaker 2: been talking about love for most of the show, and
- 1:46:34Speaker 2: this story it's in our stack of stuff from the
- 1:46:36Speaker 2: New York Post. I think is. I think it's a
- 1:46:39Speaker 2: great way to end the conversation.
- 1:46:42Speaker 6: Today.
- 1:46:43Speaker 2: AI robots are now moving in with lonely and elderly
- 1:46:48Speaker 2: New Yorkers and keeping them company for free.
- 1:46:52Speaker 5: Of course they are.
- 1:46:55Speaker 2: Wait for free, for free, Okay, Yeah. Sandrakota is the
- 1:47:00Speaker 2: a woman who was interviewed. Her world had grown quiet.
- 1:47:04Speaker 2: The busy pace of her life had slowed in recent years,
- 1:47:07Speaker 2: replaced by long days in her Bronx apartment, where the
- 1:47:11Speaker 2: low drone of the television filled the silence between calls
- 1:47:14Speaker 2: from loved ones. I am already depressed, missus Coda seventy
- 1:47:20Speaker 2: nine said, I'm lonely a lot of the time. My
- 1:47:23Speaker 2: daughter feels that I should have friends and go out
- 1:47:26Speaker 2: and mingle, oh Christian mingle. But I wouldn't even know
- 1:47:30Speaker 2: how to go about looking for someone to have company with.
- 1:47:33Speaker 2: And so they tell her story, and they said she
- 1:47:36Speaker 2: found a company that came to her, and it's called Liq,
- 1:47:42Speaker 2: The AI powered companion robot helping seniors age in place
- 1:47:46Speaker 2: and feel better while doing it. Miss Coda said she
- 1:47:51Speaker 2: just puts a smile on my face. She says of
- 1:47:54Speaker 2: the robot, It's like having a real person here with me.
- 1:47:57Speaker 2: It's very comforting. Coda is among more than nine hundred
- 1:48:01Speaker 2: seniors who have received free LQ through a New York
- 1:48:06Speaker 2: State Office of Aging program. Can We stop here? That
- 1:48:10Speaker 2: is not free, it's paid for by your tax dollars.
- 1:48:14Speaker 2: Technology used to combat social isolation and loneliness among older adults.
- 1:48:22Speaker 2: It's a serious issue across the country. One in three
- 1:48:25Speaker 2: adults age fifty to eighty report feeling lonely, and nearly
- 1:48:29Speaker 2: as many say they feel isolated, a stark reality that
- 1:48:32Speaker 2: can threaten both their mental and physical health. The robots
- 1:48:37Speaker 2: are designed for older adults who live alone and are
- 1:48:41Speaker 2: looking for companionship to combat loneliness while maintaining an independent lifestyle.
- 1:48:47Speaker 2: Every morning, LQ senses when the older adult enters the room. Okay,
- 1:48:52Speaker 2: all right, that's it. I'm out at that point, I'm out.
- 1:48:56Speaker 2: How does the how does the robot actually sense that
- 1:48:59Speaker 2: you're walking into the room.
- 1:49:01Speaker 5: M that's a good question.
- 1:49:04Speaker 2: The robot greets him with a warm good morning, and
- 1:49:08Speaker 2: then asks how they slept, follows up on how they
- 1:49:12Speaker 2: feel and what they plan for the day. This is
- 1:49:15Speaker 2: according to the co founder of Intuition Robotics. You know,
- 1:49:20Speaker 2: I will say this, however, I'll put a canveat in there.
- 1:49:24Speaker 2: What if I had like a pharmaceutical robotics AI companion.
- 1:49:30Speaker 5: You should bring that up, You should you should start.
- 1:49:32Speaker 2: That, Todd, take your cholesterol medicine, right, I mean, because
- 1:49:36Speaker 2: sometimes you forget.
- 1:49:37Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, that's what Amazon Alexis are for. Though,
- 1:49:40Speaker 5: that's what you're uh, that's what we already have is for.
- 1:49:43Speaker 2: I tell you, you know, my doctor, my cardiology is
- 1:49:46Speaker 2: really really great. He just knows that I'm a bad
- 1:49:48Speaker 2: patient and he just kind of puts the fear of
- 1:49:50Speaker 2: God in you in a very kind hearted way. But
- 1:49:53Speaker 2: he was like, you know, I've got to take this
- 1:49:54Speaker 2: in something called plavix, and then this like baby aspirin,
- 1:49:59Speaker 2: and you got to it's a chewable baby aspirin, And
- 1:50:02Speaker 2: so he said, don't forget. He's like, don't forget because
- 1:50:07Speaker 2: if you don't take that Planfix and if you don't
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: take that baby aspiring, your stint's gonna family you'll have
- 1:50:13Speaker 2: a heart attack. Oh my god.
- 1:50:15Speaker 5: That's a good cardiologist though.
- 1:50:17Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, but okay, how do I know. I mean,
- 1:50:20Speaker 2: you know, it's a lot of pressure.
- 1:50:23Speaker 5: You need to buy one of those trays that divides
- 1:50:25Speaker 5: all of your pills up. It has the Monday, Tuesday,
- 1:50:29Speaker 5: et cetera.
- 1:50:29Speaker 2: No, I'm not doing that, and I'm not doing the
- 1:50:32Speaker 2: I fallen and I can't get up Racelet just go alert.
- 1:50:35Speaker 2: Let me die in peace.
- 1:50:37Speaker 5: Oh my god, maybe you do need an a.
- 1:50:39Speaker 2: Shred of dignity.
- 1:50:40Speaker 5: I'm gonna buy you the robot.
- 1:50:42Speaker 2: No, I don't.
- 1:50:43Speaker 5: It's gonna help you.
- 1:50:44Speaker 2: I don't want that. Hello Todd, Oh my god, it's
- 1:50:48Speaker 2: our it's our and our family does elephant gifts. That
- 1:50:51Speaker 2: will not actually be an elephant g that's an actual gift.
- 1:50:53Speaker 5: That's a real gift.
- 1:50:54Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to have to give you a CPR.
- 1:50:57Speaker 5: I'll see you on Christmas time.
- 1:51:00Speaker 2: That's terrible. I really you know what I'm getting out.
- 1:51:02Speaker 2: I gotta get a doctor, pepper. It's been a rough day, okay, folks.
- 1:51:07Speaker 2: That's gonna put a put a pin in it for today.
- 1:51:09Speaker 2: Hopefully the FCC will let us back on the air.
- 1:51:12Speaker 6: Tomorrow.
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