1 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American. 3 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 2: That's us, that's that love this American. 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Toud starts. 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 3: Well, Hello, everybody, welcome to the Tod Starts Radio Show. 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 3: Great to have you with us. Man, it is a 7 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 3: very busy, very busy newsday here on the program, President 8 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: Trump honoring the Angel Families. Those are Americans who lost 9 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: a loved one to an illegal alien on American soil, 10 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: and the President hosting just a really moving, a beautiful 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 3: ceremony at this hour at the White House. And we've 12 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 3: got some audio from that will play in just a 13 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: little while. I want to start out, though, with what 14 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 3: an incredible event yesterday. And you know, in American history 15 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 3: there are those special moments, those moments when just for 16 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 3: even if it's a brief period of time, we're able 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 3: to all rally around one cause. And that happened yesterday 18 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 3: morning for many of you in the wee hours as 19 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 3: Team USA, the men's hockey team played for the gold 20 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 3: medal at the at the Olympic Games. And it was 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 3: really one of these one of these special moments when 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: people were many people got up early. They were watching 23 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 3: in their living rooms. Just about every major neighborhood pub 24 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: in America was filled to overflowing with hockey fans yesterday. 25 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 3: And then even at church there were a and I'll 26 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: just say this, my church, we're not known for spontaneous 27 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 3: shouts from the pews. You know what I'm talking about. 28 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: The We're not a shouting church. 29 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: Right. 30 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 3: There are some churches out there they're shouting Baptist churches, 31 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 3: and they'll shout Amen or hallelujah or preach or something 32 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 3: like that, and our church is certainly not one of 33 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 3: those churches. However, at very weird times during the sermon, 34 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 3: you would hear people say praise the Lord or Halleujah, 35 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 3: and I think they were watching on their smartphones. So 36 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 3: people literally in churches across America, I don't think anybody 37 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: remembered the sermon because they were all glued to their 38 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 3: phones watching the watching the big game yesterday. And I 39 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: got to tell you, I am just it was really 40 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: just one of the I'm not a big hockey guy, 41 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 3: but yesterday. You know what I did yesterday last night 42 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: before I went to bed, I rewatched Miracle on Ice, 43 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 3: which was the incredible story of the Americans defeating the Russias. 44 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people think that was the 45 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: gold medal, that's how the US Olympic team won the 46 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: gold medal and hockey, and it was not. It was 47 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 3: It was actually Finland. So the US team advanced to 48 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 3: the finals to compete against Finland and they took on 49 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 3: the gold. But the story that everybody remembers, the miracle 50 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 3: on ice, the team of misfit guys from around these random, 51 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 3: random universities, and of course back then they did not 52 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: have a professional NHL players on the hockey team. These 53 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: were these were just college kids and they went out 54 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 3: there and they took on the most ferocious hockey team 55 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: in the world and whipped their butts. And that was 56 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 3: the same vibe I got watching the watching the men 57 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: play for the gold yesterday, and the reaction from folks 58 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 3: was just truly remarkable. And we're going to play a 59 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: lot of that throughout the show to because it just 60 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 3: it's a it makes you smile, it makes you proud 61 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 3: to be an American. I guarantee you today somebody is 62 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 3: driving around they were driving into work this morning in 63 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 3: a pickup truck and They've got an American flag posted 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 3: in the back of the truck and they were blasting 65 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: free Bird on the radio. I know that's what I 66 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: was doing. And I don't leave a drive a pickup truck, 67 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 3: but I was. It was it was awesome. I had 68 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 3: nowhere to I had nothing to do yesterday. I just 69 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 3: I felt compelled to go to the Cadillac, roll down 70 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 3: the windows and just drive down Germantown Parkway blasting free Bird. 71 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 3: That no, well, no, no, it's well, it's the official 72 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: song or the unofficial song of the hockey team. So anyway, 73 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 3: there there are a lot of great heroes, and I 74 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: think one of the one of the kids who's going 75 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 3: to be an icon is this guy Jack Cues. And 76 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: he's just a good old all American kid. And you 77 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 3: knew from the mobile he was being interviewed it was 78 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: gonna be an incredible moment when he gets up there 79 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 3: and the guy had his tooth like not even knocked out, 80 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 3: it was like broken. He had a broken tooth right 81 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 3: there in the front. You know, that's painful. He's got 82 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 3: blood all over his face and the reporter just sticks 83 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 3: a microphold in his face. And here's what the guy 84 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 3: had to say, this is all about our. 85 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 2: Country right now. 86 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 4: I love the USA, I love my teammates. 87 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: That's unbelievable. 88 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 4: The us R Hockey brotherhood, it's so strong, and we 89 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 4: had so much support next players. I'm so proud of 90 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,119 Speaker 4: the American today. 91 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 5: It's just grow. 92 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 6: This was such an incredible game to grind out. 93 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 4: I mean you're bleeding right through it just looking at 94 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 4: you right now. 95 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 7: Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal 96 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 7: was to win. 97 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 4: Unbelievable game by hellibuck, he was our best player tonight 98 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 4: by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team. That's 99 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 4: just a gutsy win. That's American hockey right there. That's 100 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 4: a great Canadian team. But were USA. We're so proud 101 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 4: to be Americans. Today was all for the country. 102 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 7: What does this gold medal mean to USA Hockey? 103 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 5: It's everything. 104 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 4: Like I said, the USA Hockey brotherhood means so much. 105 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 4: Look at these guys where it's such a team. We've 106 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 4: been there over two weeks. We're such a team. The 107 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 4: USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we're so proud 108 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 4: to win for our country. 109 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I mean, if you weren't cheering if you 110 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 3: weren't standing up and shouting and singing the national anthem 111 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 3: after that, there's something wrong with you. 112 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 7: You know. 113 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 3: The one guy that was missing in all of this. 114 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 3: Who was that little soy boy snowflake cover reporter who 115 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 3: was asking all the figure skat, the male figure skaters, 116 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 3: whether or not they they loved America? What was the 117 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 3: guy the guy was asking all these questions earlier on 118 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 3: in the Olympics. You know, it must be such a 119 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: difficult thing for you to play for America knowing that 120 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: Donald Trump is president. Then you know they're rounding up 121 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 3: all the black and brown people. How does that make 122 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 3: you feel? You know, they didn't they didn't have that 123 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 3: guy out there, and I think one of the here's 124 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 3: what I I mean if you're talking, I mean, it 125 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 3: was a picture of perfect day yesterday. I mean, there's 126 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: it could not get any better. Well, it could possibly 127 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 3: get any better if they would have sent that guy 128 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 3: out there to ask the hockey guys that question. You know, 129 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: missed your hockey man. I'm just wondering, was it difficult 130 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 3: for you to shoot the puck when you know all 131 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: those horrible things they're happening it? You know what happened. 132 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 3: That guy would have been missing some teeth. I guarantee 133 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 3: you the hockey guys would have laid him out. Okay, 134 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 3: that would have been the cherry on top. But all 135 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 3: I'm telling you is these guys, they represent the real America, right, 136 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 3: That's that's what happened yesterday. I was trying to I 137 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: was sitting back and I'm watching all of this this 138 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: unfold and watching the reaction. I mean, it was folks. 139 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, this was a rare moment in recent 140 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 3: American history when we're able to come together, and it 141 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: dawned on me that this is who we really are. 142 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: You know, the media tries to cover up all of that. 143 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 3: They try to make us out to be at war 144 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 3: with each other, that they try to make us out 145 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 3: to believe that those of us who love the red, 146 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 3: white and blue, we love the military, we love our president, 147 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 3: we love our borders, that we're somehow the anomaly in 148 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 3: this country and we're not. And yesterday once again illustrated 149 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 3: that point. We are the majority, we are the silent majority, 150 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:50,479 Speaker 3: but we we roared yesterday, and I'm telling you that terrifies, 151 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 3: It just terrifies the left. You see they've got control 152 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 3: of the media. And I hate to say this, but 153 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 3: even the concerns servative media, they don't even get it. 154 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 3: Conservative cable they don't get it. Nobody gets it. We're 155 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 3: gonna be talking about this on my show tonight because 156 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: I'm going to try to explain to cable television why 157 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 3: what happened yesterday is important. Because if we can somehow 158 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 3: harness that pro America energy and enthusiasm and we can 159 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: direct it towards Washington, DC, we will fix every problem. 160 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 3: Everything that is wrong with our country we can fix. 161 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 3: I mean, that's the message coming out of yesterday. But no, 162 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 3: it wasn't just a hockey game. No, this was America 163 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: and we were on display for the entire world to see. 164 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 3: We're back and we're ferocious. Let me tell you something 165 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 3: there was. You know, I'm going to play another piece 166 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 3: of audio here. This is Jack Hughes again and he's 167 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: got this. He's doing an interview with some dude and 168 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 3: he's got the gaping hole there. Take a listen to 169 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 3: cut died and we're. 170 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 8: The golden out of this. So I'm so happy with USA. 171 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 6: Hawk is on top. 172 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 1: You know, I only have that. 173 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 5: As a reminder you get that. It's a reminder too. 174 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 7: Did that just show about this game? 175 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 9: Just I'm lucky. 176 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 8: I'm from the best country in the world, and we 177 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 8: got great dentists there too, So I'm lucky. I'm American 178 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 8: and they're going to fix me. 179 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 5: Right up standing there listening to the anthem, what's going 180 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 5: through your head? 181 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 8: I'm just so proud. I'm so proud of the American 182 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 8: I'm so proud of this group. I'm so happy that 183 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 8: we could win. You know, we have so many people 184 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 8: here supporting us. There's so many people back home supporting us, 185 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 8: and you know, we're just we're so thrilled with how 186 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 8: this whole tournament played out. And you know, just an 187 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 8: unbelievable moment. 188 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it really was. And again the guy 189 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 3: goes on to talk about the great dentist we have 190 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 3: here in America. We've got the best dentist. Well, if 191 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 3: you don't believe me, take a look. Just ask the 192 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: royal family over in the UK to smile, just give 193 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: us a big ear to ear grin, and you'll see 194 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 3: exactly what I'm talking about. We got great dentists here. 195 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 3: The Huffington Post. Now these people, they're they're really irrelevant. 196 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 3: But this bears repeating because you cannot loathe the mainstream 197 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 3: media enough. You just can't do it. And so while 198 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 3: while everybody out, everybody is just celebrating, they're having a 199 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 3: great time. You know, they're chanting USA, They're they're running 200 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 3: through the streets. There was some guy, it was sixteen 201 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 3: degrees in Red Wing, Minnesota, sixteen degrees. Some old dude 202 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 3: is running outside and he's waving the American flag. People 203 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 3: are honking their horns, having a great time. And so 204 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,479 Speaker 3: then you have the Huffington Post. The writer is Monica Torres, 205 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 3: and she actually boasts on her LinkedIn that she's a 206 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 3: diversity higher I'm not too sure I would have admitted that, 207 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 3: but whatever. So anyway, she's writing this piece and it's 208 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: a pretty ugly piece, and she says, if waiving the 209 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 3: American flag or chanting USA turned you off, right now, 210 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 3: you're not alone, and then she commences to attack the 211 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: United States of America. Now, I will just say that 212 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 3: many of the responses to this article are not repeatable 213 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: on radio. But Jimmy's Famous Seafood, which has been around 214 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy four, they are serving America's favorite cram cakes. 215 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 3: They basically invited the Huffington Post to go do something. 216 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 3: Oh well, no, I can't repeat it, but I don't 217 00:12:53,200 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 3: disagree with it. I love this so anyway, This Jimmy Seafood, 218 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 3: Jimmy's Famous Seafood rather has now announced that they're offering 219 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: free crab cakes to the entire Olympic Hockey team for 220 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 3: the rest of their lives. And they know, I'm for 221 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: the rest of their natural boor life. I just love 222 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 3: this so God bless you Jimmy's Seafood. But when it's 223 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 3: you know it's bad and you're on the wrong side. Well, 224 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: they're they're in Maryland, by the way, Baltimore. Apparently they 225 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 3: have like establishments all over the place. I don't know, 226 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: but they're apparently beloved, beloved. They're in the Maryland area, 227 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 3: and I'm sure our wcbmlisters are are going to be 228 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 3: doing brisk business at Jimmy's Famous Seafood. But if you've 229 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 3: got Jimmy's Famous Seafood coming after you, you know you're on 230 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 3: the wrong side of history. Now here's the deal. If 231 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 3: you are liberal and you're being triggered right now by 232 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: all of us loving on our country and flying the 233 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 3: flag and singing the national anthem. If that is in 234 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 3: fact you and you've got a problem with that, and 235 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 3: you get triggered, might I suggest you immediately relocate to Canada. 236 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 3: We share a border. I'm sure they'll be more than 237 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 3: happy to welcome you across the border. But anyway, well done, 238 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: Team USA, And what a great day it is to 239 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 3: be an American. And I hope that that you've celebrated. 240 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 3: I hope you're having a you had a great time yesterday. 241 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 3: I hope you feel proud to be an American because 242 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 3: these young men they demonstrated, they demonstrated the heart and 243 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 3: the soul of this country. By the way, President Trump 244 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: did a phone call with him, and he was on 245 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 3: some he was in the locker room, and the President 246 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 3: is so excited and so proud of these young men. 247 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 3: He said that he wanted them to come to the 248 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: State of the Union address, and the President said, we 249 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 3: will send a military transport plane to pick you up 250 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 3: and bring you there. Now, a lot of Democrats are 251 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 3: going to be boycotting the President's speech. Right, They're gonna 252 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: be out on the Washington Mall. I don't know what 253 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 3: they're gonna be doing, and I don't care. Here's what 254 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: the president ought to do. You ought to take all 255 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 3: of those empty desks where the Democrats would be sitting, 256 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 3: and he ought to put the US men's hockey team 257 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 3: and their families in every single one of those seats, 258 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: every single one. That's what the President ought to do. 259 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 3: And you know what, invite the owners of Jimmy's famous seafood. Two. 260 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 3: All right, we got to take a break. I got 261 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 3: a lot to say. I'm sure you have a lot 262 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: to say about this. This was a special moment, folks. 263 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 3: Never you'll always remember this. 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By the way, all of this there is 301 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 3: a backstory here. The Canadians have been no friend of 302 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 3: the United States. I want you to listen to what 303 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 3: they did. This is and the Canadians are all upset 304 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 3: right now. I mean they're enraged with us. Well, the 305 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 3: Americans are like, they're just poor sports a and they've 306 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 3: got no sportsmanship A. Well, go cry in your Canada, 307 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 3: dry pal. Here's the reason why there's a big deal. 308 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 3: These are the Canadians booing our national anthem. 309 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: Got tip. 310 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 7: All right? 311 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 3: You know, we should have invaded them right then and there, 312 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 3: but we don't like their bacon, so you know, let 313 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 3: them be. Let them be. They're like a little they're 314 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: a pesky fly, the Canadians are. But all I can 315 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 3: tell you a Canada, and I hope you've learned your lesson. 316 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 3: You never boo the Star Spangled banner. Otherwise, Mother Liberty 317 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 3: is going to be ringing her bell, all right, kind 318 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 3: of take a break here at nine oh one two 319 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. This is the tot 320 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 3: Stern Show. Candles were lit on Bontai Beach by families, children, 321 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 3: people of faith to celebrate a festival of light, a 322 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 3: festival from Bible times ones that Jesus himself celebrated, But 323 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 3: instead of light, there was darkness, violence, fear, hatred showing 324 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 3: itself at a time meant for prayer and rejoicing. 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But the and 343 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the videos we had 344 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 3: them over on our website, Todd Stens dot com, where 345 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 3: just miles of billowing clouds of smoke as the cartels 346 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 3: are waging war right now, and many many Americans are 347 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 3: trapped right now in Puerto Vallarta. That is what they 348 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 3: call it may juacamole. That's the extent of my Spanish vocabulary. 349 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 3: So I just have a question, what's wrong with you people? 350 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 3: Do you do you not know how dangerous it is 351 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 3: in mayh cole? 352 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 7: Right? 353 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 3: Do you not realize that? But no, I get it. 354 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 3: I know a lot of people go down there on 355 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 3: the cruises and the vacation, but are you are you stupid? 356 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: Who in their right mind would be down in Mayhko 357 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 3: on a vacation. It is incredibly dangerous down there. And 358 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 3: by the way, forget just a moment that they that 359 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 3: the Mexican army killed one of the big drug lords 360 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 3: down there. That's not even the issue they see. They 361 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 3: see Americans as potential fodder for kidnappings, ransom demands. Let 362 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 3: me tell you something, if if you want a taste 363 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 3: of old may Co, just go down to Taco Bell 364 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 3: or Chipoltway, all right, and just no need to go 365 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 3: south of the border. So anyway, the President here is 366 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 3: trying to make sure that what's happening in Mayhico right 367 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 3: now does not happen in this country, which is why 368 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 3: we have homeland security out there rounding up these very 369 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 3: dangerous cartol members. You do understand that among the millions 370 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 3: of people coming into this country was a literal army 371 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 3: of cartel members. And we're not talking about these street thugs. 372 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 3: We're talking about very well trained, paramilitary organizations that are 373 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 3: very well funded, and they are all here on our 374 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 3: side of the border because of the Biden policies, which 375 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 3: is why Donald Trump is so determined to get these 376 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 3: people rounded up and out of our country. So anyway, 377 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 3: the President hosting this powerful event, I mean, this is 378 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 3: just awful, And at one point, the President invited up 379 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 3: the police officer who arrested Laken Riley's killer. Now, the 380 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 3: killer's name Jose Abarra. You might not be aware of this, 381 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 3: but Jose Abarra was in the country illegally. He had 382 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: been arrested twice before, and yet he was let back 383 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 3: out on the streets based on Democrat policies. So the 384 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 3: President actually invited the police officer who arrested Jose Abara 385 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: before he was just let out to go and kill 386 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 3: beautiful Lacoln Riley. 387 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 7: Take a listen, police officer, and you could explain what happened. 388 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 7: To come on up, thank you. 389 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 11: With him, mister President. It's an honor to be here today, 390 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 11: and it's an honor to be speaking with you guys. 391 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 11: My name is Ethan Carreri. I'm a police officer in 392 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 11: Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former New York City 393 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 11: police officer. While serving in the New York City Police Department, 394 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 11: I personally arrested Jose Ebara for endangering the welfare of 395 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 11: a child. A few months later, I saw his face 396 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 11: again in the news after he viciously murdered Lake and Riley. 397 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 11: I did my job. I put him in custody. The 398 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 11: system failed. No detainer, no account of ability, no deportation, 399 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 11: and an innocent American life was taken. If you enter 400 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 11: our country illegally, there will be consequences under this administration. 401 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 11: The American citizens must always come first to Lake and 402 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 11: Riley's family. Your laws should have never happened. We owe 403 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 11: it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, 404 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 11: secure our border, and protect innocent lives. Mister President, thank 405 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 11: you so much for having me here today, and thank 406 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 11: you for all you've done for our country. 407 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. 408 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 7: And I noticed you left New York to come to Florida. 409 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 7: It's in a way, it's too bad, right you couldn't 410 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 7: couldn't take it anymore. They don't let you do your job. 411 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 7: But thank you very much, Nathan. It's great. Highly respected person. 412 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 7: Have to do a little checking before I introduce people, 413 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 7: otherwise I get in trouble. Sometimes I introduce people and 414 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 7: they say, sure, did you know this or that? But 415 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 7: you checked out very very well well. Stories like Lincoln's 416 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 7: are one more reason why my administration will do everything 417 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 7: in our power to end the scourge of sanctuary cities. 418 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 7: Once in for all, They protect criminals. Why do people fight? 419 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 7: They protect criminals with a vengeance. They fight for these 420 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 7: criminals like murders. That protecting murders. They fight for them 421 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 7: so hard, I can't there's something wrong with them. Were 422 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 7: joined today by so many angel families who are grieving 423 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 7: a terrible loss. They've gone through hell. Steve Runnebeck was 424 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 7: the father of twenty one year old Grant Runnebeck. Beautiful, 425 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,719 Speaker 7: a beautiful guy who was shot and murdered by an 426 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 7: illegal alien while he was working behind the cam outer 427 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 7: of a convenience store in Arizona. He was working behind 428 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 7: a counter. 429 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 3: And he was killed. These are the stories that we're 430 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 3: hearing today, and the nation is hearing. And there are 431 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 3: no clear cut numbers of exactly how many Americans have 432 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 3: been killed by the illegals. They but the numbers are 433 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 3: in the thousands, but no definitive number. But thousands of 434 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 3: Americans would still be alive if we had just secured 435 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,719 Speaker 3: the border. So the President the talking, and I mean, 436 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 3: it is a major national event that's unfolding right now 437 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 3: at the White House. CNN is not covering this at all. 438 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 3: CNN is completely ignoring this story. Now, let me just 439 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: say and Caroline Love at the White House Press Secretary 440 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 3: saying CNN is a total disgrace. She says, CNN doesn't 441 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 3: even care about the victims of illegal alien crime. They 442 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 3: pretend to be a news organization. They refuse to cover 443 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 3: anything that doesn't fit the left narrative. This is why 444 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 3: CNN is failing and losing all of their viewership. Well, 445 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 3: I want to take this a step further. I hold 446 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 3: the conservatives who go on CNN to be just as 447 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 3: responsible because look, a lot of a lot of the 448 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 3: conservatives who are on CNN, they could not get jobs 449 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 3: at Newsmax or see It or at Fox News. So 450 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 3: they go on CNN and they pretend to they play 451 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 3: the part of a conservative. That's how they're you know, 452 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 3: I've often thought about this, How in the world could 453 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: a true conservative maintain their sanity by being around those 454 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 3: people on CNN? And I don't think you can. I 455 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 3: really don't. So when you look at somebody like a 456 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 3: Scott Jennings, is Jennings gonna call out c No, No, 457 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: Jennings is not going to call out CNN. Again, it's 458 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 3: a paycheck. As a matter of fact, he was boasting 459 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 3: about it that he gets paid very well by CNN. Well, 460 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 3: I consider that to be part of the problem. No, 461 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 3: I'm not. No, I'm just telling you that these people 462 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 3: are being paid, these conservatives are being paid big money 463 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 3: to prop up CNN, and I think that's a problem, 464 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 3: especially when CNN is out there actively working against the 465 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 3: Trump administration. Let I say this, Let CNN die a 466 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 3: disgraceful death, That's what I say. But you've got some 467 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 3: of these conservative folks out there, at least the ones 468 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 3: that pretend to be conservative, and they're out there on 469 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 3: CNN trying to prop them up. I don't think it works. 470 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 3: So here's what Caroline Levet ought to do. CNN has 471 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: a prominent place in the White House Press court. If 472 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 3: they're not going to cover White House press events, revoke 473 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 3: their credentials. I mean, it's really that simple. I mean, 474 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 3: you can complain about it all you'll want to, but 475 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, if you really got 476 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 3: a problem with what CNN is doing and the way 477 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 3: they're covering the administration, the way they're maligning the administration, 478 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 3: and the way they are ignoring big important news events, 479 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 3: just kick them out of the White House. I mean, 480 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 3: how difficult is that. But people they don't want to 481 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 3: do that. They you know, they don't. I'm just telling 482 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 3: you that's what I would do. This is why I 483 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 3: was not asked to be the Press Secretary, because I 484 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 3: would be tearing people new ones every single day. I 485 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 3: would not be very diplomatic about it. Speaking of that, 486 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 3: Gavin USKM is making a tour of the Southern States, 487 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 3: and you need to be aware that the media is 488 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 3: getting this story wrong. So the accusations are that Nuskam 489 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 3: is out there and he's insulting black people, and it 490 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 3: may be I mean, part of that may be true. 491 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 3: There's actually a study out there that Yale commissioned several 492 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 3: years back, and they said that actually Democrats liberals actually 493 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: talk down to black people when they're having conversations. I'm 494 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 3: telling you, the Democrat Party and all of their ilk 495 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 3: they are flaming racist, every single one of them, every 496 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 3: single one. But anyway, you've got newscom out there and 497 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 3: he's doing a tour of the Southern States. I think 498 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 3: he was in Tennessee. Now he's in Georgia, and the 499 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 3: allegation is that he was out there attacking black people. However, 500 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 3: the crowd that Newscombe was speaking to in Georgia in 501 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 3: Atlanta was mostly white people. So I want you to 502 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 3: listen to what he had to say, and I'm going 503 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 3: to try my best to interpret this for our great 504 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 3: learned audience. Take a listen. 505 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 6: I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you. 506 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,239 Speaker 6: I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. 507 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 6: I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a nine 508 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 6: sixty SAT guy and you know, and I'm not trying 509 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 6: to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there 510 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 6: if you got nine forty, but literally a nine sixty 511 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 6: SAT guy, I cannot you you've never seen me read 512 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 6: a speech. Because I cannot read a speech, maybe the 513 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 6: wrong business to be. 514 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 3: So basically he's saying and the way that people interpreted 515 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 3: this was he was telling the black audience that he 516 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 3: related to them because he got low test scores and 517 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 3: he couldn't read. That's but that's not it because the 518 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 3: crowd is mostly white. So here's what he was really doing. 519 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 3: He was insulting all of you Southern people. That's who 520 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 3: he was going after because he was saying that he 521 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 3: he's just like you you readnecks in Georgia. He's just 522 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 3: like you can't read, can't do arithmetic, can't do book learning. 523 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 3: He's just a good old boy. And he talked about 524 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 3: how he had the microwave stovers mac and cheese and lasagna, 525 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 3: acting like he was just like a good old boy. No, 526 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 3: he wasn't a good old boy. As a matter of fact, 527 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 3: one of the San Francisco newspapers back in the early 528 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 3: nineteen nineties did a feature story on Gavin Newscomb because 529 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 3: it turns out his father very wealthy man. And it 530 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 3: turns out the whole point of the feature story where 531 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 3: the sons of the of San Francisco's rich and Newscomb 532 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 3: is out there trying to let you know, or at 533 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 3: least trying to I don't know, cosplay that he's some 534 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 3: sort of a I don't know, an ignorant redneck. That's 535 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 3: who he's really that that is who he's really going after. 536 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 3: That being said, I wouldn't be surprised at the guy 537 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 3: walking around with a bottle of hont sauce in his pocket. 538 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just saying, pulling an inner Hillary. All right, 539 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 3: gotta take a break. Care And by the way, I'm 540 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 3: just curious, you Southerners. Is that true that most of 541 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 3: us do poor on testing and we were not literate? 542 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. 543 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. 544 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 3: By the way, tonight, five o'clock Eastern, the Don Stern 545 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 3: Show on Newsmax two, and there is a lot happening. 546 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 3: Millions of Americans are switching to Newsmax, just like President 547 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 3: Trump did watching great shows Greta, Carl Higbee, Rob Schmidt, Fenderdy. 548 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 3: If you're tired of big media, folks, you gotta start 549 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,479 Speaker 3: watching Newsmax free. 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Coming up, we're going to be talking to 559 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 3: Don Tracy. He's running for the US Senate in Illinois 560 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 3: and he's a Republican, so we'll be chatting with him. Also, 561 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,960 Speaker 3: we're going to talk to a member of law enforcement 562 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 3: about the situation right now what's happening in Mexico with 563 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 3: the cartels. Our good Buddy's Steve Gill is going to 564 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 3: drop by and the next hour of the program to 565 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 3: weigh in on the big news items of the day. 566 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 3: By the way, TSA still shut down, and now the 567 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 3: reporting is that the TSA pre check lines are going 568 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 3: to be shut down as a result of the Democrats 569 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 3: shutting down the federal government, this partial government shutdown. I 570 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,359 Speaker 3: hope that is not the case. Tomorrow. I'm flying out 571 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 3: to Houston and I actually have TSA pre check and 572 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 3: Global Injury has been suspended also, and this is exciting news. 573 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 3: First of all, I'm shocked they do this, but whatever 574 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 3: you've got. So let's just say you're a member of 575 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 3: Congress and you're going on a plane trip. So you 576 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 3: show up at the airport, let's say Memphis International arm 577 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 3: You show up at Memphis International Airport, you are provided 578 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 3: with special services to get you through. You don't have 579 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 3: to do what all of us regular people have to do. No, 580 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 3: if you're a member of Congress, you have a special 581 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 3: way to get on board the airplane. I got a 582 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 3: big problem with that, ladies and gentlemen now here hear 583 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 3: me out. It turns out Homeland Security has now suspended 584 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 3: that program for members of Congress. And I say, good 585 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 3: for you, Christy Nome. If all the rest of us 586 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 3: have to suffer in long line, so do members of Congress. 587 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,919 Speaker 3: I mean, and are you no, No, I'm not yet. 588 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 3: I know they're elected members of Congress, but are they 589 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 3: Are they in a rush to do anything? Apparently not, 590 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 3: based on their track record over the past two years. 591 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 3: They're not in a hurry to get anywhere, so they 592 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 3: can wait along along with the rest of us. That's 593 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 3: when i'm and they can get the special extra extra 594 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,760 Speaker 3: security pantdowns. Just because you're a member of Congress doesn't 595 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 3: mean that you are exempt from being molested by TSA agents. 596 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 3: I'm just telling you it's their little handsy. That's just 597 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,359 Speaker 3: a little handsy. I remember when I was working back 598 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 3: at Fox News. I used to have my Fox News 599 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 3: ID badges and plastered all over my luggage, and I 600 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 3: realized right away that was not a good thing. So 601 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 3: every time they saw those Fox News, I got pulled 602 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 3: aside for the extra screening. So yeah, I took those off, 603 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 3: and miraculously I didn't get stopped as much. But apparently, 604 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,320 Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, they will allow the Islamic radicals 605 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 3: to go right on through, but the rest of us 606 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 3: we get manhandled and mauled by TSA. They're lonely people. 607 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 3: What do you want me to tell you? All right? 608 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 3: Gotta take a break here? Nine oh one two six 609 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 3: zero five nine two six our number, that's nine oh 610 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,840 Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six. A reminder, 611 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen to visit Todd Stearns dot com. We 612 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 3: have lots of great material for you there, great stories. Also, 613 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 3: check out our store. We've got a lot of great 614 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 3: products for you. T shirts, ball camps, tumblers, you name it, 615 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 3: we've got it over there at Todd Stearns dot com. 616 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,799 Speaker 3: Stick around everybody. Hour two of the Big Show coming 617 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 3: up next. 618 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's 619 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:39,839 Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd Stars American. 620 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 2: And Hello everybody. 621 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 3: Welcome to the Todd Stars Radio program. Great to have 622 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 3: you with us today. So I was where was I 623 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:57,320 Speaker 3: last week? I was in Nashville for the National Religious 624 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 3: Broadcasters Convention. About SIT five or six thousand convention goers. 625 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 3: It's pretty big doings. And this is it's really an 626 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 3: interesting thing because you get to meet a lot of 627 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 3: these folks you see on the Christian TV networks. You 628 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 3: guys know what I'm talking about. What is that the 629 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 3: TBN crowd and the makeup that is just caked on. 630 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,640 Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about the Christian media world, 631 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 3: but they love their makeup and they love just slathering 632 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 3: it on you. I've never seen anything quite like it. 633 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 3: And I know for Newsmax, we had the lovely Miss 634 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 3: Kristen and she comes in every morning right before the 635 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 3: radio show and she does she gets my face on 636 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,400 Speaker 3: for a TV for Newsmax. It takes like all of 637 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 3: ten minutes. And I'll never forget the story. This was gosh, 638 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,759 Speaker 3: oh wow. Years ago and I was invited on TBN 639 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,759 Speaker 3: and I was working at Fox News in New York 640 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 3: City and they actually have a TBN studio there, but 641 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 3: they wanted me to come to Santa Ana, California, which 642 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,359 Speaker 3: I believe at that time was headquarters and it may 643 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,399 Speaker 3: still be headquarters. So they fly me out there. There's 644 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 3: a stretch limousine that picks me up at the airport, 645 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 3: and I keep thinking to myself, this is a Christian ministry, 646 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,400 Speaker 3: and I mean Fox News, you know their for profit, 647 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,920 Speaker 3: and you know they've got no I was going to 648 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,760 Speaker 3: catch myself. 649 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,280 Speaker 2: I can't. 650 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 3: I'm not going to say that, but all I can 651 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,839 Speaker 3: tell you is they don't treat people like that. But man, 652 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,200 Speaker 3: they roll out the red carpet, and so they had 653 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 3: this limousine. I took the Red Eye, so it was 654 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 3: I love that flight, Delta first class from JFK to LAX. 655 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,239 Speaker 3: They fly me in there and send the limo and 656 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 3: I get to the studio and I'll never forget this. 657 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 3: I walk in and you know it's that smell, you 658 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about, the church mothball spell, especially 659 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 3: for the old churches. You'll walk into the church and 660 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,840 Speaker 3: you're like, ooh, that's that's punge it. So I got this, 661 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 3: like I know of this whiff of mothball church mothball. 662 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 3: And then I look around and everything is like mirrors 663 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 3: and gold. That was the that was the interior design 664 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 3: of TBN. It was sort of like, I don't know, 665 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 3: Saturday Night Fever meets Ben to her. And so anyway, 666 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 3: they escort me in and they sent me down with 667 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,719 Speaker 3: the makeup artist and she had me looking like a 668 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 3: sun kissed orange. By the time she was it was, 669 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,400 Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you, folks, sixty five minutes in the 670 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,799 Speaker 3: makeup chair, and it was there was so much I mean, 671 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 3: she used one of those things that you used for 672 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 3: I was spackle, like for the side of like of 673 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,839 Speaker 3: a building, or maybe you're painting, and it was just 674 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,400 Speaker 3: it felt as if I had a mask on my face. 675 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,840 Speaker 3: The makeup was that thick. And I forget who the 676 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 3: person was because they were still alive at the time, 677 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,960 Speaker 3: and they've got like new I think the children of 678 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,160 Speaker 3: the owners now run the place, and I think everybody 679 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 3: looks kind of normal. But back then, oh, who was it. 680 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 3: I can't the woman. It was a husband and a 681 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,920 Speaker 3: wife and she used to wear I they had to 682 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,520 Speaker 3: the makeup bil must have been a million dollars a year. 683 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,640 Speaker 3: And so anyway, I'm sitting there and I've got all 684 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:39,319 Speaker 3: this makeup on and she says. The makeup artist says, oh, 685 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,359 Speaker 3: I need you to roll up your sleeves, and I'm 686 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,680 Speaker 3: like what, And so I roll up my sleeves and 687 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,359 Speaker 3: then she starts like hosing down my hands with this 688 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:55,920 Speaker 3: orange paint to match whatever's on my face. It was 689 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,640 Speaker 3: the weirdest thing I've Oh, yeah, I'm gonna tell this story. 690 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever told this story. It 691 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,799 Speaker 3: was Kirk Cameron's show. Kirk Cameron had just started doing 692 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,640 Speaker 3: a show on TBN and I had written a book. 693 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 3: Oh it was, oh jeez, a book number two or three. 694 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,600 Speaker 3: It was about Obama. So we're sitting down with the producers. 695 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,919 Speaker 3: They hit me on for the entire hour of the show. 696 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,359 Speaker 3: It was just me and Kirk Cameron. So they sit 697 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,560 Speaker 3: me down and we're I had just flown in, I'm exhausted. 698 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 3: I've got like tons of paint on my face, and 699 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,840 Speaker 3: I was afraid to touch anything because you know, I 700 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,600 Speaker 3: didn't want to get it dirty with the orange face 701 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,759 Speaker 3: paint on my hands. So the producer sits me down 702 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,719 Speaker 3: and says, so, Todd, we need to talk to you 703 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,960 Speaker 3: about something. Kirk Cameron was there. First time I ever 704 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,520 Speaker 3: met the guy in person. This is like fifteen sixteen 705 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 3: years ago. And so I'm sitting there and they said, Todd, 706 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,799 Speaker 3: so congratulations on the new book, which was why they 707 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,640 Speaker 3: flew me out here in the first place to talk 708 00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,640 Speaker 3: about it. And they said, we just have one. 709 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:00,400 Speaker 2: It's you. 710 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,520 Speaker 3: And I thought, oh boy. I said, well, what's the 711 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:11,000 Speaker 3: what's the issue? And they said, well, a lot of 712 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:16,399 Speaker 3: our donors here at Trinity Broadcasting Network are Obama supporters. 713 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:22,280 Speaker 3: I thought, okay. They said, in your book, you write 714 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 3: a lot about Obama. I said, well, yes, he is 715 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:31,359 Speaker 3: the focus of the book. And they said, yeah, that's 716 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,440 Speaker 3: gonna be a problem for us. I said, what do 717 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,200 Speaker 3: you mean. They said, We're not going to be able 718 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 3: to let you say Obama's name during your interview. I'm like, what. 719 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:45,359 Speaker 7: Do you mean. 720 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,759 Speaker 3: I'm on the show for an entire hour, We're about 721 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,480 Speaker 3: to go live in ten minutes, and I can't say anything. 722 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 3: What And I'm just I'm flabbergasting. And poor Kirk camera 723 00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,440 Speaker 3: is sitting there and he was like, man, I'm really 724 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,120 Speaker 3: sorry about this. I'm like, what are we supposed to 725 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,919 Speaker 3: talk about for sixty minutes? What in the world? But yeah, 726 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,400 Speaker 3: they were very concerned that their big donors might get offended, 727 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 3: and so therefore they told me I could not mention 728 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,920 Speaker 3: anything about Barack Hussein Obama on the TV show. So 729 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,840 Speaker 3: we sit down for the interview and Kirk Cameron first question. 730 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,920 Speaker 3: Kirk Cameron asked, so, what's your book about? And I'm 731 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 3: sitting here going what is this a trick question? So 732 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,600 Speaker 3: I told Kirk Cameron, I said, well, the book is 733 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 3: about a guy, and this guy runs for president, Like 734 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:45,160 Speaker 3: are you kidding me? This is insane? So anyway, that's that. 735 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,080 Speaker 3: So there was a point to all of this, and 736 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,200 Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll get back to it in just a moment. 737 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 3: But all that to say, oh yeah, I was at 738 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:58,080 Speaker 3: the NRB, the National Religious Broadcasters, and it took me 739 00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,680 Speaker 3: days to get that makeup off. I don't know how 740 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,959 Speaker 3: you ladies do it, but man, that was that was rough. 741 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:09,320 Speaker 3: And I looked orange. I mean I looked very orange, 742 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,000 Speaker 3: is the best way to say it. So anyway, I'm 743 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,919 Speaker 3: at the hotel they put you up at the Grand 744 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,800 Speaker 3: Old Opera. I'm getting back to my original, my original 745 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,160 Speaker 3: fond here. So I'm so anyway, I'm oh, by the way, 746 00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,719 Speaker 3: let me just say something else about that book, And 747 00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 3: that's all you Southern Baptists out there, you have something 748 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,400 Speaker 3: called LifeWay Christian Resources. So I'm a Southern Baptist and 749 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,400 Speaker 3: I met the guy who headed it up years ago. 750 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,960 Speaker 3: I met him at a writer's conference. It was their 751 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 3: writer's conference, and they invited him to come and speak 752 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,040 Speaker 3: at their writer's conference, which I did, and he just 753 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,320 Speaker 3: happened to be there. He said, I'm really disappointed because 754 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,160 Speaker 3: we're You didn't ask us to publish your book, and 755 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,400 Speaker 3: I said, oh, yes, I did. You guys never responded. 756 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,359 Speaker 3: He goes, well, well, I can't believe that, so we're 757 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,759 Speaker 3: going to fix that. So they asked me to write 758 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,680 Speaker 3: a book for him, which I did, which was the 759 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,800 Speaker 3: book I was supposed to be on TV and talking 760 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:10,960 Speaker 3: about that was the craziest experience LifeWay Christian Resources. I 761 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,759 Speaker 3: get a call one day from the manuscript had been 762 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:21,440 Speaker 3: turned in and these people they're not all that conservative. 763 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,759 Speaker 3: And I didn't realize that at the time until I 764 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,960 Speaker 3: started working with these book editors, and then I realized, 765 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,120 Speaker 3: Holy Grant, these people at the Southern Baptist Convention publishing 766 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:37,520 Speaker 3: house are all flaming democrats. They're libtards, Baptist libtards, which 767 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,120 Speaker 3: is even worse. Man, I'm spilling all. 768 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:40,720 Speaker 2: The tea today. 769 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,719 Speaker 3: So anyway, I get a call from there, from the 770 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,400 Speaker 3: person to editing my book, and they were very concerned 771 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,080 Speaker 3: about two things. First of all, I told the story 772 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,439 Speaker 3: about going to New Hampshire sitting down for the very 773 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,080 Speaker 3: first time in the diner the Red Arrow diner, sat down, 774 00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,840 Speaker 3: ordered meat loaf, got the blueplate. 775 00:48:58,880 --> 00:48:59,240 Speaker 2: Specially. 776 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,000 Speaker 3: I'm writing about this in the opening of the book, 777 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,359 Speaker 3: talking about how things get lost in translation. And I 778 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:10,160 Speaker 3: was enjoying a lovely meal until until the waitress said 779 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,440 Speaker 3: would you like some whoopee? And I said, pardon me, 780 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,680 Speaker 3: and she goes pie, would you like some whoopee pie? 781 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 2: I told her. 782 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,719 Speaker 3: I said, I'm a Baptist. I don't do that kind 783 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,880 Speaker 3: of thing. And so anyway, they got upset with that. 784 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:24,560 Speaker 3: They said, we have to call it something other. We 785 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,760 Speaker 3: can't use the word whoopee in a Baptist publishing house. 786 00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,360 Speaker 3: And I'm like, but it's not whoopy whoopy, it's whoopy 787 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:37,120 Speaker 3: with well a cherry and whipped cream, which apparently made 788 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 3: it worse. I don't know. So anyway, they were all 789 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:46,239 Speaker 3: upset about this, and then this was classic. Then I 790 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,919 Speaker 3: get a call one day and they say, Todd, we've 791 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,720 Speaker 3: gone through and we've counted, and there are over one 792 00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:01,560 Speaker 3: thousand references to Barack Obama in your book and there 793 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:08,280 Speaker 3: are very few references to Jesus. And I'm like, okay. 794 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 3: They said, well, we think that's a problem. And I said, 795 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,920 Speaker 3: you guys hired me to write a book about Obama 796 00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:21,880 Speaker 3: and not Jesus, so what's the problem. And again, this 797 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,279 Speaker 3: was like in the early stages of what we now 798 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:28,439 Speaker 3: know is woke evangelicalism. And at that moment I knew 799 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,120 Speaker 3: the Southern Baptist Convention, Honest to goodness, I knew at 800 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,879 Speaker 3: that moment the Southern Baptist Convention was going to turn 801 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,839 Speaker 3: down a very bad path, much like the Catholics did 802 00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,239 Speaker 3: at the time. And it all came from their publishing materials. 803 00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,960 Speaker 3: So the publishing house, they provide the Sunday school materials 804 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,960 Speaker 3: and the teaching materials. And if all of those folks 805 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:50,880 Speaker 3: are as woke as the day is log, or a 806 00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,640 Speaker 3: good many of them are, then guess what happens you're 807 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,919 Speaker 3: going to get If you're not checking in your local church, 808 00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,759 Speaker 3: you're not paying attention, then it turns out your local 809 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,719 Speaker 3: church is going to become woke. It's as soon as 810 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,560 Speaker 3: you infect the publishing houses of these these denominations, it's 811 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:11,239 Speaker 3: all over with. So anyway, where was I? Oh, yes, 812 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,960 Speaker 3: the NRB the hotel. So I'm at the I'm staying 813 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,440 Speaker 3: at the opry Land Hotel. That's what we still call it. 814 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,160 Speaker 3: I know, the high falutin people we stay at the 815 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 3: Gay Lord. Yeah, I'm good with ipry Land, thank you 816 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,200 Speaker 3: very much. So I'm at the oppery Land Hotel and 817 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:31,640 Speaker 3: they give you this teeny tiny little room, and I 818 00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:36,680 Speaker 3: mean it is tiny, but thank god this they actually 819 00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,880 Speaker 3: have a door on the bathroom. And I bring this 820 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:43,719 Speaker 3: up because there's a raging debate in the hotel industry 821 00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,520 Speaker 3: about these open concept hotel rooms. Have you guys heard 822 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,560 Speaker 3: about these? It's insane. I had to stay in one 823 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,960 Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago when I was back in Nashville. 824 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,359 Speaker 3: I was speaking at the Young America's Foundation. They had 825 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,360 Speaker 3: me up in one of these. This hotel was like 826 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,080 Speaker 3: jungle themed or rainfalls themed. So I get up to 827 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,759 Speaker 3: I mean like jungle stuff. So anyway, I take the 828 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,760 Speaker 3: elevator up to the room. I get into the room 829 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,520 Speaker 3: and I realize there are no doors. It's like you 830 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,400 Speaker 3: walk in, I mean, there's a door to the room 831 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,879 Speaker 3: and that's it. So it had double bed So theoretically, 832 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,600 Speaker 3: I'll tell you what happened after the break. 833 00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:38,200 Speaker 9: All right. 834 00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,440 Speaker 3: So anyway, I get to this new fangled hotel in 835 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,880 Speaker 3: downtown Nashville, and I realize it's all open concept, so like, 836 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,680 Speaker 3: there's no door on the bathroom, there's no door to 837 00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,480 Speaker 3: write where you go take your showers. So you're I mean, 838 00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,880 Speaker 3: let's just say you're you're sharing a room with somebody. 839 00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,280 Speaker 3: They're gonna see you doing your business. And I'm wondering 840 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,200 Speaker 3: who came up with this idea. So I was talking 841 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,479 Speaker 3: to somebody about it the other day and oh, yeah, 842 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,239 Speaker 3: the lovely miss Kristen. She was doing the makeup, and 843 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,400 Speaker 3: you know, we talk about this and that or this 844 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,720 Speaker 3: or that, and she said that she and her husband 845 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,760 Speaker 3: were at one of these in Branson, Missouri, of all places. 846 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:24,200 Speaker 3: So apparently it's all the rage. So CNNs, CNN's got 847 00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,960 Speaker 3: a great piece here. They say, let's set the scene. 848 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,640 Speaker 3: You've been dating someone for a few months. Things go well, 849 00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,240 Speaker 3: it's time to take the next step a weekend away together. 850 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:38,360 Speaker 3: Oh this is definitely a liberal perspective, because on the 851 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,279 Speaker 3: conservative side, you would go to church together first, and 852 00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:46,520 Speaker 3: then you would get separate hotel rooms. Then you check 853 00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,600 Speaker 3: in entering the room together, you quickly realize things are 854 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,120 Speaker 3: going to get a bit more intimate than planned. The 855 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,440 Speaker 3: toilet is shielded only by a thin panel of glass 856 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:03,680 Speaker 3: with strategically placed frost, just steps from the bed. The 857 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,759 Speaker 3: human form, though blurred, will most certainly be seen and 858 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,520 Speaker 3: dare I say heard? And if I may be so 859 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:16,799 Speaker 3: bold smelled? So anyway, this is part of the whole 860 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:21,840 Speaker 3: new open concept for hotels across America. A lot of 861 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,960 Speaker 3: the new hotels are now doing this open concept. They 862 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 3: say it's I guess more economical just to knock down 863 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,799 Speaker 3: the walls and put everything there. You know what, I 864 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,440 Speaker 3: think this is coming over from Europe. That's where I 865 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,160 Speaker 3: think this is coming from. Look what about the Madays, right, 866 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,400 Speaker 3: I mean, how many times have you for going to 867 00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,160 Speaker 3: borrow from Gavin Newsom's illustration, how many times have you 868 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,360 Speaker 3: heard of someone from Alabama going to a high falutin 869 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,279 Speaker 3: hotel in Vegas and wondering why on social media there's 870 00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,320 Speaker 3: a water fountain emanating from the toilet. 871 00:54:59,400 --> 00:54:59,960 Speaker 2: Just ask him. 872 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,279 Speaker 3: It's an example. It's an example, don't send me the 873 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,359 Speaker 3: nasty emails. So anyway, people are very upset about this. 874 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,200 Speaker 3: People are posting videos on TikTok and they're saying, this 875 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:16,440 Speaker 3: is just weird to have all of this just out 876 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,399 Speaker 3: there in the open. And there's actually a website that's 877 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,000 Speaker 3: being started called bring back doors dot com. So there 878 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:30,360 Speaker 3: you have it. Ladies and gentlemen, I even married couples. 879 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:35,120 Speaker 3: Don't you want a little bit of privacy mister and missus, 880 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,839 Speaker 3: especially when you're doing your business. I would think more 881 00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,440 Speaker 3: so from the missus than the mister. But I I. 882 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:42,560 Speaker 2: Don't know. 883 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,040 Speaker 3: One time I was on a book tour and my 884 00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,880 Speaker 3: publicist put me up in a hotel. It was Panama 885 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,000 Speaker 3: City Beach and I was staying at the Holiday Inn, 886 00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,200 Speaker 3: which was like high falutin back in the day. 887 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:56,520 Speaker 2: But it was one of these. 888 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,640 Speaker 3: Holiday inns where you open the doors from the doors 889 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,919 Speaker 3: open to the outside. It was like one of those 890 00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,520 Speaker 3: old school two story holiday inns. And I'll never forget 891 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,279 Speaker 3: if they put me up in the presidential suite at 892 00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,840 Speaker 3: the Holiday Inn in Panama City Beach, which also happened 893 00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,560 Speaker 3: to be the honeymoon suite. So I opened the door 894 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,640 Speaker 3: and there right at the foot of the bed was 895 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:25,280 Speaker 3: a giant jacuzzi, a hot tub in the shape of lips, 896 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,839 Speaker 3: ruby red lip. The whole thing was painted this light 897 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:35,480 Speaker 3: ruby red. And it was quite remarkable that the honeymoon 898 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,759 Speaker 3: suite there at the Holiday Inn in Panama City Beach. 899 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,160 Speaker 3: I remember waking up the next morning goes a little 900 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:47,359 Speaker 3: disconcerting because they had mirrors on the ceiling. And no, no, 901 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:48,720 Speaker 3: it was not by the Hour. 902 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,080 Speaker 2: It was Helen. 903 00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,200 Speaker 3: It was a very decent It was an isote, it 904 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,040 Speaker 3: was an is hotel. It would have been back in 905 00:56:55,080 --> 00:57:00,480 Speaker 3: the seventies, maybe the sixties. I'm just saying, not have 906 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,560 Speaker 3: a poll and they're just the hunt up with shape 907 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,160 Speaker 3: like ruby red lips. I'll never forget that as long 908 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,279 Speaker 3: as I live. All Right, We got to take a break. 909 00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,040 Speaker 3: Coming up Steve Gill talking politics, President State of the 910 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,400 Speaker 3: Union address coming up. Nine oh one two six zero 911 00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,720 Speaker 3: five nine two six hour telephone number. That's nine oh 912 00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,560 Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six. Hey, don't 913 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,560 Speaker 3: forget the Todd Sterns Show podcast. You can listen to 914 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:29,120 Speaker 3: all three hours of the show free of charge. Just 915 00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,640 Speaker 3: download our podcast. You can do that over at Todd 916 00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,680 Speaker 3: Sterns dot com. And you can also sign up for 917 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:39,040 Speaker 3: our newsletter comes out every day. More than two hundred 918 00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,280 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand conservatives now get our newsletter. We'll be 919 00:57:42,360 --> 00:58:03,959 Speaker 3: right packed. Everybody, all right, welcome back to the Todd 920 00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,280 Speaker 3: Stearns Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today. 921 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,600 Speaker 3: Let's go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line Patriot Mobile 922 00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,960 Speaker 3: dot com. By the way, that's Patriot Mobile dot com 923 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,800 Speaker 3: slash Todd if you want to check out some incredible 924 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,640 Speaker 3: cell phone coverage from America's only Christian conservative wireless carrier, 925 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:27,120 Speaker 3: Patriot Mobile dot com slash Todd. Steve Gill, publisher of 926 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,000 Speaker 3: Trystardaily dot com, joining us. Steve, hope you're. 927 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,120 Speaker 9: Doing well, doing great, Todd. Thank you. 928 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:37,640 Speaker 3: You know, Steve, we were playing some audio from Gavin 929 00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,520 Speaker 3: Newskam a little while ago. He was in Tennessee and 930 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:45,200 Speaker 3: then yesterday in Georgia making some headlines. And the conservative 931 00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,960 Speaker 3: media coverage is they got it wrong here because it 932 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,680 Speaker 3: was a mostly white crowd he was talking to when 933 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,080 Speaker 3: he said the following words, let's play cut eight plays. 934 00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,280 Speaker 6: I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you. 935 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,040 Speaker 6: I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you, 936 00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,600 Speaker 6: I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a nine 937 00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:12,920 Speaker 6: sixty Sat guy. Yeh, And you know, and I'm not 938 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,200 Speaker 6: trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all 939 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:20,560 Speaker 6: there if you got nine forty, but literally a nine 940 00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,320 Speaker 6: sixty SAT guy, I cannot You you've never seen me 941 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:30,200 Speaker 6: read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech. Maybe 942 00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:31,240 Speaker 6: the wrong business to be. 943 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,360 Speaker 3: All right, So Steve, a lot of people, oh he's 944 00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,840 Speaker 3: talking about black people. Actually was a mostly all white crowd, 945 00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,640 Speaker 3: So Steve, I think he was actually talking about Southerners 946 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,040 Speaker 3: and he thinks we're all just a bunch of backwoods 947 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,560 Speaker 3: reddeck country bumpkin hillbillies. 948 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,200 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's a great perspective. And he had a 949 00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,080 Speaker 9: black interviewer on stage with him, But you're right, he 950 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:57,640 Speaker 9: was more addressing the southern white crowd in Georgia and Tennessee. 951 00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,560 Speaker 9: And hey, I'm dumb just like y'all. If he didn't 952 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,840 Speaker 9: use the y'all term to show that he really isn't 953 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,600 Speaker 9: as down with us as he was trying to attend. 954 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,600 Speaker 9: And I was just waiting for somebody in the crowd 955 01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:09,840 Speaker 9: to shout out bless y'all heart. 956 01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,920 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well it's Atlanta, so I'm not you know, 957 01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,960 Speaker 3: I'm not even sure there are any Southerners left in 958 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,000 Speaker 3: Atlanta these days. I was down there last year. Steve 959 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:25,200 Speaker 3: Nobody talked with with a Southern accent in Atlanta proper. 960 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:26,160 Speaker 5: Yeah. 961 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,160 Speaker 9: I was doing a show the other day and pointed 962 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,439 Speaker 9: out that it was all the folks moving in from 963 01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:35,520 Speaker 9: California and Chicago and New York that we almost have 964 01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,919 Speaker 9: to have stud titles underneath us as Southerners so they'll 965 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,760 Speaker 9: be able to understand us, and probably we need them 966 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,360 Speaker 9: to have the same thing so we can understand them. 967 01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,280 Speaker 9: But it's not just the language disparity. It is the cultural, 968 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:51,360 Speaker 9: it is the mental. It is the political and ideology 969 01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:56,200 Speaker 9: or ideological disparity that really separates us. And I keep 970 01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,040 Speaker 9: telling all my friends and when I'm on national shows, 971 01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,920 Speaker 9: we're falling, Tennessee. Stay out of here. We got mosquitoes 972 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,760 Speaker 9: the size of cockroaches. We got cockroaches the size of rats. 973 01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:10,360 Speaker 9: It's hot, it's humid, we got snakes. You don't want 974 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,600 Speaker 9: to come down here. You go to Missouri. 975 01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're done. We are over extended here. You're 976 01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,479 Speaker 3: not gonna like it. You know, we we have sweet tea. 977 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,400 Speaker 3: We don't do unsweet, you know, I just make it 978 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,120 Speaker 3: sound as miserable as possible for the Yankees, But we 979 01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:32,000 Speaker 3: don't want their politics here in the volunteer state at all. 980 01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,160 Speaker 9: Well, and we're seeing, you know, indications, I mean, they 981 01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:41,560 Speaker 9: want to run away from from the taxation and idiots 982 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,760 Speaker 9: being crazy of California and New York and Chicago. And 983 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,720 Speaker 9: then they come south to Texas and North Carolina and 984 01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,120 Speaker 9: Florida and Tennessee. And the next thing they do is 985 01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,120 Speaker 9: want the same things they were running away from, and 986 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,479 Speaker 9: it is it is insanity. Now. There are many though, 987 01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,640 Speaker 9: who are literally refugees for the insanity, who are are 988 01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:06,000 Speaker 9: pursuing a better conservative, Christian, faith based lifestyle with like 989 01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:09,560 Speaker 9: minded people, but all too many of them come and 990 01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:13,160 Speaker 9: then try to bring the bad policies they were fleeing 991 01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,840 Speaker 9: to bear here. And again we've just got to continue 992 01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,120 Speaker 9: to reject it and not get fooled by the so 993 01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:24,400 Speaker 9: called moderate talking Democrats and Republicans in name only who 994 01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,000 Speaker 9: try to act like they're one of us. And I'm 995 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,680 Speaker 9: not like the crazy left winger radicals. But when they 996 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,200 Speaker 9: get into office, whether it's in state office, whether it's 997 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 9: certainly in Congress or the US Senate, or in governorships 998 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:40,439 Speaker 9: like we see in Virginia with Spamberger. They are full 999 01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:44,880 Speaker 9: on all the way. They are truly wolves in sheep's clothing. 1000 01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,240 Speaker 9: And we've got to make sure that not only are 1001 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,600 Speaker 9: we not schooled, but we don't let our friends, neighbors, 1002 01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,280 Speaker 9: and family members get fooled. 1003 01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:55,080 Speaker 3: Steve Gell is the publisher of tri Star Andeale dot com, 1004 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,560 Speaker 3: and he joins US live from Nashville. Steve, We've been 1005 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,560 Speaker 3: following the developments out of New York City where they 1006 01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,480 Speaker 3: got this huge blizzard. I think you're gonna have like 1007 01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:06,440 Speaker 3: two feet of snow up there. And yesterday or day 1008 01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,840 Speaker 3: before yesterday, the mayor comes out and says, hey, we 1009 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:15,120 Speaker 3: need you to register to voluntarily shovel snow. We're going 1010 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,800 Speaker 3: to pay you some money. But they're looking for just 1011 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,600 Speaker 3: the average citizen to go out there and shovel snow. 1012 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,920 Speaker 3: But here's what's interesting about this the story. If you 1013 01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,800 Speaker 3: are going to shovel snow, you have to provide five 1014 01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:35,200 Speaker 3: forms of identification, including a Social Security card and at 1015 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:40,120 Speaker 3: least two original forms of ID plus copies. And you 1016 01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,560 Speaker 3: have to provide two small photographs. This is coming from 1017 01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,880 Speaker 3: the same people who say that you should not show 1018 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,200 Speaker 3: any ID to go and vote on election day. 1019 01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,400 Speaker 9: Well, and as another indication of the disparity of our 1020 01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,240 Speaker 9: culture in the South, there also were I think zero 1021 01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,160 Speaker 9: people who volunteer to do this. Now, they weren't going 1022 01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:02,880 Speaker 9: to be volunteers, they were going to be paid. As 1023 01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,480 Speaker 9: you pointed out, they wouldn't even go do it for 1024 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,080 Speaker 9: money much, let's do it to help their neighbors. So 1025 01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,200 Speaker 9: there is a difference and a distation that you're right, 1026 01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,640 Speaker 9: the hypocrisy of so you got to show photo ID 1027 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,240 Speaker 9: to shovel snow and get paid, but you don't have 1028 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:21,520 Speaker 9: to show photo ID to go vote. And at the 1029 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,000 Speaker 9: same time, nobody was really willing even to get paid, 1030 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:29,120 Speaker 9: much less volunteer to help in this brutal snow stom. 1031 01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,720 Speaker 9: I thought, there's some reports that they're looking at three 1032 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,640 Speaker 9: feet of snow in some of these areas. 1033 01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, look, and I lived through. I got there were 1034 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,520 Speaker 3: a couple of blizzards and they were pretty awful. But 1035 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,600 Speaker 3: the interesting thing is, even under the Democrat rule of 1036 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,479 Speaker 3: someone like a Bill de Blasio or you know, even 1037 01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:52,080 Speaker 3: Mike Bloomberg, who switches parties like he changes underpants. Those 1038 01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,920 Speaker 3: those streets were clear, and you know, there was not 1039 01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,840 Speaker 3: a big issue even in the big blizzards. And a 1040 01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,800 Speaker 3: lot of people are giving mam Domi the riot Act 1041 01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:03,880 Speaker 3: because they're still trying to recover from the last snowstorm 1042 01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:04,360 Speaker 3: they had. 1043 01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,520 Speaker 9: Well, and I love the breathless media covered. I was 1044 01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,960 Speaker 9: just watching Fox News a few minutes ago. There are 1045 01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:13,960 Speaker 9: six hundred thousand homes without power, like we had three 1046 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,880 Speaker 9: hundred thousand here in Nashville alone, and they weren't breathless 1047 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,840 Speaker 9: with their reporting of the disaster here and Mississippi had 1048 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,600 Speaker 9: hundreds of thousands. The one of the problems, and we've 1049 01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:27,240 Speaker 9: talked about this before time the media is so focused 1050 01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,760 Speaker 9: on New York City and Washington, d C. That whether 1051 01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,280 Speaker 9: it's a flood in North Carolina, a flood in the Midwest, 1052 01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,600 Speaker 9: a snowstorm or ice storm in the South, if it 1053 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:42,440 Speaker 9: doesn't affect them personally or their friends or their neighbors, 1054 01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:44,919 Speaker 9: it's not as big a news. But if you get 1055 01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,720 Speaker 9: three inches of snow in Washington, DC or New York City, 1056 01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,920 Speaker 9: they'll make that all day news coverage when it doesn't 1057 01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,240 Speaker 9: matter to us down here. So yeah, they're focused on 1058 01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:59,160 Speaker 9: those little burrows and suburbs. 1059 01:05:58,640 --> 01:05:59,080 Speaker 5: Of d C. 1060 01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,800 Speaker 9: Gives an overwrought appearance that that matters to America more 1061 01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:04,600 Speaker 9: than it really does. 1062 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,840 Speaker 3: Well, they're saying that, for example, in New York Islip, 1063 01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:13,919 Speaker 3: New York, twenty nine point one inches of snow, that's 1064 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,880 Speaker 3: the that breaks the all time record. They call it 1065 01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:20,600 Speaker 3: other people's weather though. Right in the news business, do 1066 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,360 Speaker 3: people really care if you're in, for example, Houston or Memphis, 1067 01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,240 Speaker 3: do you really care that the blizzard shut down the 1068 01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:28,400 Speaker 3: Broadway shows? 1069 01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:32,360 Speaker 9: No, And we had a little I don't know about 1070 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,320 Speaker 9: you know, I know you broadcast out of Memphis. We 1071 01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,240 Speaker 9: had a few snow flurries earlier. Today it's back into 1072 01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:40,760 Speaker 9: the thirties. We had sixty to sixty five degree temperatures 1073 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,040 Speaker 9: last week. So we're on the roller coaster of If 1074 01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,280 Speaker 9: you don't like the weather right now, just wait a 1075 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,080 Speaker 9: few hours here in the most of the South these days. 1076 01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,680 Speaker 9: But you're exactly right, don't you know? We don't breathlessly, 1077 01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,400 Speaker 9: you know, watch what's happening in New York or Washington, DC. 1078 01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:59,280 Speaker 9: Whether it's the political news, the business news, or their 1079 01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,760 Speaker 9: personal lows. It doesn't affect most of us and I 1080 01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:06,440 Speaker 9: think again, this it's all about me mentality that the 1081 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,200 Speaker 9: New York City based media and the DC based media have, 1082 01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:11,680 Speaker 9: I think is one of the reasons that people are 1083 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:15,440 Speaker 9: kind of rejecting what they're told when these you know, 1084 01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:22,000 Speaker 9: guys with great Anchorman hair and women with perfect fake piece, 1085 01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,560 Speaker 9: you know, tell us what they think or what they believe. Sorry, 1086 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:25,640 Speaker 9: you're not like the rest of them. 1087 01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,520 Speaker 3: So back in I think it was twenty eleven when 1088 01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:33,200 Speaker 3: they had that was the previous big blizzard, and Fox 1089 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:36,960 Speaker 3: sent me out to I was working on Megan Kelly 1090 01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:39,200 Speaker 3: show at the time, and Fox sent me out in 1091 01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:43,040 Speaker 3: to Central Park for a live hit during her show. 1092 01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:47,080 Speaker 3: And oh it was. It was two thousand and eleven. 1093 01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:50,360 Speaker 3: They had nine we had nineteen inches of snow, and 1094 01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,880 Speaker 3: I was trying to illustrate how freaking cold it was. 1095 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,320 Speaker 3: So if you remember, remember Duck Dynasty Steve, the old 1096 01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:59,840 Speaker 3: Duck Dynasty TV show. So Uncle Cy gave me one 1097 01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:03,080 Speaker 3: of his tupperware glasses and I actually had it as 1098 01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,000 Speaker 3: a memento on my in my office. So I went 1099 01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:10,040 Speaker 3: downstairs to the we have a little bodega at Fox News, 1100 01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,200 Speaker 3: got some iced tea, poured that iced tea into the 1101 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,679 Speaker 3: tupperware cup and took it with me to the live shot, 1102 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:20,120 Speaker 3: and so we had forty five minutes before they hit. 1103 01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:23,679 Speaker 3: I put that cup outside and when we went live 1104 01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,360 Speaker 3: on the air, it was frozen rock solid. 1105 01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,439 Speaker 9: Well, And I know it had to be unsweete because 1106 01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,800 Speaker 9: they should would not have been serving sweet tea at 1107 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,559 Speaker 9: the Fox headquarters up there, so that might have been 1108 01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:37,599 Speaker 9: why it throze so quickly. The sugar might have delayed 1109 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:39,479 Speaker 9: it just a moment or two. 1110 01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:40,120 Speaker 2: Just a smidge. 1111 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:41,920 Speaker 9: By the way, we do the same thing here in 1112 01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:43,559 Speaker 9: the South, and we have those one hundred and five 1113 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:47,320 Speaker 9: degree temperatures in Memphis. Some reporter somewhere we'll go out 1114 01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,559 Speaker 9: and find an egg on the sidewalk. And I'm sure 1115 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:54,200 Speaker 9: people in Canada, in Minnesota, in Milwaukee, you're going, what 1116 01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:55,439 Speaker 9: the heck are they doing at me. 1117 01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,719 Speaker 3: It's a great point. It's a great point, all right, Steve, 1118 01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:01,920 Speaker 3: Always appreciate you. 1119 01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:03,280 Speaker 9: One quick question, Yeah. 1120 01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:03,439 Speaker 2: Go ahead. 1121 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,639 Speaker 9: We are not seeing the media cover the personal stories 1122 01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:11,160 Speaker 9: of Americans trapped in Mexico, being taken hostage, perhaps being 1123 01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:15,280 Speaker 9: threatened because of you know, the cartels, who's taken over 1124 01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:18,320 Speaker 9: Mexico for years now. And I've been shocked at the 1125 01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:22,400 Speaker 9: lack of media coverage of individual stories of Americans who 1126 01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,840 Speaker 9: are literally trapped. I have a friend whose son is 1127 01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:28,879 Speaker 9: in Cancun right now, but the airplane departures have been canceled. 1128 01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,960 Speaker 9: They are literally trapped in what has become a war zone. 1129 01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:35,360 Speaker 9: And those same cartels are here in the US, and 1130 01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,240 Speaker 9: the Democrats, having shut down our government, do not have 1131 01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:43,080 Speaker 9: DHS and other enforcement agencies seeking out and finding the 1132 01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:47,599 Speaker 9: cartel members who are ravaging Mexico who are also here 1133 01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,960 Speaker 9: because the Democrats have shut down our government. 1134 01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:52,599 Speaker 3: Well, we were saving that story for our next guest, 1135 01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:56,439 Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean it's a it's a big challenge there. Again, 1136 01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:58,920 Speaker 3: just a reminder that Mexico is not a safe place 1137 01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,280 Speaker 3: to go. I don't know why anybody would want to 1138 01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:05,320 Speaker 3: go their own vacation, but again it's you know, now, 1139 01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,000 Speaker 3: what are we going to do? What if they do 1140 01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:12,080 Speaker 3: start taking Americans hostage, what's going to be the administration's 1141 01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:12,920 Speaker 3: response to that? 1142 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,040 Speaker 9: Well, and I just feel sorry for all those Canadians 1143 01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:17,879 Speaker 9: that were told by their government to go to Mexico 1144 01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,920 Speaker 9: rather than Florida, because you know, Trump is president and 1145 01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,720 Speaker 9: Americans make Florida not safe for you. How are those 1146 01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:29,960 Speaker 9: Canadians puddled in their hotel rooms in Guadalajara and Cantuon 1147 01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:33,160 Speaker 9: and Tuloom right now feeling about their government telling them 1148 01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:33,960 Speaker 9: where to vacation. 1149 01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:36,880 Speaker 3: Well, there you go, all right, Steve Gill, try and 1150 01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,880 Speaker 3: start Daily dot Com. Go check out the website. Thanks Steve. 1151 01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:43,799 Speaker 3: Thanks all right, got to take a break here, folks. 1152 01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,800 Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six 1153 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,240 Speaker 3: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six 1154 01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:54,360 Speaker 3: zero five nine two six, three feet of snow. Can 1155 01:10:54,400 --> 01:11:09,760 Speaker 3: you imagine, Oh Jesus alone. We'll be right back, all right, 1156 01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:11,840 Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. Hey, I want to bring you up 1157 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,920 Speaker 3: to speed on a story that we brought you exclusively 1158 01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:19,559 Speaker 3: here on the Tom Stearns Radio Show, and we have 1159 01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,400 Speaker 3: an update to share with you. So, there was a 1160 01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:29,800 Speaker 3: kindergarten teacher at Fort Bragg and the teacher showed up 1161 01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,760 Speaker 3: to school wearing a dress a man. By the way, 1162 01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:38,600 Speaker 3: This was Mildred B. Poole Elementary, and the kindergarten and 1163 01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,800 Speaker 3: pre k students were subjected to this man in a 1164 01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:46,280 Speaker 3: dress who was wearing a dog collar and also had 1165 01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,880 Speaker 3: a tail, a fake like animal tail protruding from his 1166 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:58,000 Speaker 3: nether regions as the parents and multiple families complained that 1167 01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:02,760 Speaker 3: the teacher would provocatively dressed in female attire, confusing the 1168 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,679 Speaker 3: kids tell student stories about turning into a wolf, which 1169 01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:10,080 Speaker 3: was apparently his sexual fetish anible. I'm sorry, but why 1170 01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:14,879 Speaker 3: is a grown man talking to kindergarteners about his sexual 1171 01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:21,639 Speaker 3: fetishes on a military base? They required this teacher required 1172 01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:24,679 Speaker 3: students to call him by some of his online wolf 1173 01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:30,639 Speaker 3: character names, and also make statements to the children about 1174 01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:33,559 Speaker 3: being born in a man's body but actually being a 1175 01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:39,800 Speaker 3: woman who likes boys. So we can tell you that. Gosh, 1176 01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,479 Speaker 3: about an hour or so after we had the attorney 1177 01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:47,880 Speaker 3: for the parents on the show, we got word that 1178 01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,800 Speaker 3: War Secretary Pete Hecseth stepped in and announced the teacher 1179 01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:57,120 Speaker 3: has been fired. So well done to all of you 1180 01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:00,519 Speaker 3: folks who reached out. And one of the things we 1181 01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,759 Speaker 3: hear from lawmakers up on Capitol Hill that you guys 1182 01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,000 Speaker 3: listeners of the Todd Sterns Show are out there making 1183 01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:10,880 Speaker 3: the calls. You're sending the emails, and you're raising You're 1184 01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:15,280 Speaker 3: raising the right kind of cain. And I certainly appreciate that, 1185 01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,960 Speaker 3: and I know that the parents of these preschoolers appreciate 1186 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:24,160 Speaker 3: it as well. Just really unbelievable behavior on a military base. 1187 01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:28,120 Speaker 3: But yet another reason why we've got to we've got 1188 01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:29,559 Speaker 3: to double down, and we got to make sure we 1189 01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:34,680 Speaker 3: know what's happening inside those school classrooms. Also in Connecticut, 1190 01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:38,600 Speaker 3: every kindergartener is now being asked to whether or not 1191 01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:43,120 Speaker 3: they identify as male, female, or non binary. These are 1192 01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:47,040 Speaker 3: five year olds, five year olds, ladies and gentlemen, and 1193 01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:51,040 Speaker 3: they're wanting to know if these kids are male, female, 1194 01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:58,000 Speaker 3: or non binary. Just unbelievable. By the way, I want 1195 01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,160 Speaker 3: to go back to this. We were talking about this with 1196 01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:04,759 Speaker 3: Steve Gill where Gavin Uscomb insults most of the Southern 1197 01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:11,720 Speaker 3: states talking about Southerners. Remember it was, oh gosh, what 1198 01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:15,360 Speaker 3: was it? Kathy Hochel, the governor of New York. Remember 1199 01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:19,160 Speaker 3: what she had to say about black kids in the Bronx. 1200 01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:21,720 Speaker 3: Take a listen cut eleven. 1201 01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,320 Speaker 11: Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't 1202 01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:27,640 Speaker 11: even know what the word computer is. 1203 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:29,759 Speaker 3: They don't know, they don't know these things. 1204 01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:33,920 Speaker 2: And I want the world open up to all of them. 1205 01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,519 Speaker 3: What is she talking about now, By the way, all 1206 01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,120 Speaker 3: of you ladies out there and the new argument is 1207 01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:42,360 Speaker 3: when it comes to voter ID, the new argument is 1208 01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:47,800 Speaker 3: that women will not be able to vote because you 1209 01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:51,120 Speaker 3: have a hard time getting all of your papers transferred 1210 01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:55,000 Speaker 3: over to your new married name. Is that true, ladies 1211 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,400 Speaker 3: of the Toime Stern Show audience, is that true when 1212 01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,920 Speaker 3: you got married? Did you have difficulty switching everything over 1213 01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,759 Speaker 3: to your new name? Because now they're saying that tens 1214 01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:07,880 Speaker 3: of millions of women in America are too stupid to 1215 01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,479 Speaker 3: know how to do that, and therefore you will be 1216 01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,200 Speaker 3: disenfranchised and you will not be able to vote. That 1217 01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:17,160 Speaker 3: is that is literally the new talking point coming from 1218 01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:20,479 Speaker 3: the Democrats. Not that it's going to matter because I 1219 01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:27,120 Speaker 3: don't see Majority Leader John Thune moving one iota. And again, folks, 1220 01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,320 Speaker 3: if we do not have voter ID, if we do 1221 01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:35,000 Speaker 3: not secure our ballot box, we will not have a republic. 1222 01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:38,160 Speaker 3: I mean, it really is that simple. So we're going 1223 01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,280 Speaker 3: to keep you updated. We're trying to put pressure on 1224 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,479 Speaker 3: the majority leader in the Senate, but right now he's 1225 01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:46,800 Speaker 3: not budging, and that tells me that he's got big, 1226 01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,720 Speaker 3: big money on the line here and a lot of 1227 01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:54,719 Speaker 3: people are forcing him to ignore all of you people 1228 01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,240 Speaker 3: and focus on whoever's giving him those big dollars. All right, 1229 01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,400 Speaker 3: got to take a break. Here one two six zero 1230 01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,840 Speaker 3: five nine two six. Our telephone number, that's nine oh 1231 01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,320 Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six. 1232 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:07,800 Speaker 9: Hey. 1233 01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:10,400 Speaker 3: Our website, go check it out Todd Stearne dot com. 1234 01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:13,280 Speaker 3: Lots of great information for you there, lots of great 1235 01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:37,559 Speaker 3: stories and content. We'll be right back, everybody. 1236 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:41,120 Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's 1237 01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:52,680 Speaker 1: America's conservative Blowtorch's American Tod starts. 1238 01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:57,600 Speaker 3: Yea, and hello, everybody. Welcome to our three of the 1239 01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:00,640 Speaker 3: Big Show. Glad to have you with us. Bordered a 1240 01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:05,320 Speaker 3: border coast to coast, across the Fruited Plain, and certainly 1241 01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:09,280 Speaker 3: are our thoughts and prayers and shovels are with the 1242 01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:13,000 Speaker 3: good people of New York. In the entire northeast. They 1243 01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,880 Speaker 3: call it the I ninety five Corridor. You guys are 1244 01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,320 Speaker 3: getting pounded with snow. They're saying upwards of three feet 1245 01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:23,080 Speaker 3: of snow now in some places, records already being broken. 1246 01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,160 Speaker 3: And look, when you get a foot of snow, there's 1247 01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,120 Speaker 3: really not much you can do. Three feet of snow. 1248 01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:32,439 Speaker 3: I hope you, I hope you've got provisions, So just 1249 01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:35,120 Speaker 3: to hang in there and it'll warm up in April 1250 01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:39,040 Speaker 3: or May. That's that's that's, that's all I can offer 1251 01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:45,280 Speaker 3: in the way of sympathy. By the way, zorn Man Dommy, 1252 01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:50,200 Speaker 3: Comrade zorn out there announcing that just a few days 1253 01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:53,720 Speaker 3: ago that they needed volunteers. Apparently they don't have enough 1254 01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:57,280 Speaker 3: people to shovel snow, which is a big problem. And 1255 01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,559 Speaker 3: so now they're they're telling people, we need you to 1256 01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,240 Speaker 3: volunt come on down, We're going to pay you a 1257 01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:05,559 Speaker 3: few bucks. It's like thirty bucks an hour. And they 1258 01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:10,200 Speaker 3: need just regular citizens to shovel snow. However, illegals are 1259 01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:13,720 Speaker 3: not allowed to shovel and the reason why is you 1260 01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,040 Speaker 3: have to show at least five forms of identification if 1261 01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,720 Speaker 3: you want to volunteer to shovel snow. That led the 1262 01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:25,320 Speaker 3: mayor to reach out just a few moments ago, and 1263 01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:29,200 Speaker 3: Comrade Zoron is now having to defend the fact that 1264 01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:32,519 Speaker 3: you've got to show ID two forms of ID plus 1265 01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:36,240 Speaker 3: two forms of photo ID plus a Social Security number 1266 01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,080 Speaker 3: if you want to shovel snow. 1267 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:43,840 Speaker 5: Federal law requires that employers get authorization and documentation to 1268 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,280 Speaker 5: pay people for their work. We are not allowed to 1269 01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,960 Speaker 5: just cut checks to individuals for their work. This is 1270 01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,760 Speaker 5: all long standing. This is a long standing program and 1271 01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:54,800 Speaker 5: long standing requirements, and this is a way that New 1272 01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:58,600 Speaker 5: Yorkers get paid to shovel snow in assistance with the 1273 01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:02,439 Speaker 5: city's response to a winter storm event. These are the 1274 01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:04,360 Speaker 5: policies that we've had in place, but I understand that 1275 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,000 Speaker 5: for many it's the first time that they've ever heard 1276 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:06,320 Speaker 5: about it. 1277 01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:11,200 Speaker 3: All right, there you go, ladies and gentlemen, your mayor, 1278 01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:15,280 Speaker 3: your communist mayor, zoron Mamdami. I want to bring into 1279 01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:19,080 Speaker 3: the conversation a good friend of this program and making 1280 01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:23,040 Speaker 3: his debut on the Tom Stearns radio show. He is 1281 01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:27,280 Speaker 3: a top law enforcement officer in the entire nation, and 1282 01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:31,679 Speaker 3: he wants to be the next top cop for Shelby County, Tennessee, 1283 01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:36,160 Speaker 3: which is the largest county in Tennessee. Marco is a 1284 01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:40,559 Speaker 3: Gary joins us. Marco, Good to see you today. So 1285 01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,599 Speaker 3: it's interesting you got to show an id to shovel 1286 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,439 Speaker 3: snow in New York City. You don't have to show 1287 01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:46,880 Speaker 3: an idea to if you want to vote. 1288 01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very interesting how it works, trying to make 1289 01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:50,240 Speaker 2: a work. 1290 01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:54,760 Speaker 3: So a lot happening in the world, especially when it 1291 01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:57,120 Speaker 3: comes to law enforcement. And I want to get to 1292 01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:00,919 Speaker 3: the incredible success story what's been happened in the Memphis 1293 01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,920 Speaker 3: area with the National Guard. But I know that we 1294 01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:07,800 Speaker 3: were talking earlier today about what's happening south of the 1295 01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:11,480 Speaker 3: border where you have these cartels. I mean, how dangerous 1296 01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,280 Speaker 3: of a situation are we talking about right now when 1297 01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:15,879 Speaker 3: it comes to what's happening in Mexico. 1298 01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:19,799 Speaker 2: It's very dangerous that, as you know, the drug cartel 1299 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:26,200 Speaker 2: organizations is a very sophisticated group, terrorists group that they 1300 01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:29,360 Speaker 2: just want to come over here to America and just 1301 01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,640 Speaker 2: make money and destroy our lives. 1302 01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:35,000 Speaker 3: I was surprised when you see the At first I thought, 1303 01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,599 Speaker 3: oh wow, they've got the Mexican Army down there. These 1304 01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:39,160 Speaker 3: guys are running a gun And that was not the 1305 01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,680 Speaker 3: army we were looking at. Those were the cartels. I mean, 1306 01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:46,920 Speaker 3: can you describe the military apparatus that the cartels themselves have. 1307 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:50,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, the cartels will organize and if you look back, 1308 01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:52,000 Speaker 2: if you look back in the day in the late 1309 01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:56,799 Speaker 2: eighties nineties, we used to train the American Mexican Army 1310 01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:59,360 Speaker 2: in the United States. In Georgia. It used to call 1311 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:03,160 Speaker 2: this School of the Americas. So when they went back 1312 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,839 Speaker 2: to Mexico, the cartels recruit these people, pay them, triple 1313 01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,559 Speaker 2: them on a salary, and they to work for them 1314 01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:14,000 Speaker 2: as an enforcement. They were the enforcers for the cartels. 1315 01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:19,360 Speaker 2: But it's a very well multi billionaire organization and they 1316 01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:21,520 Speaker 2: are in America. They are in Memphis. 1317 01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:24,880 Speaker 3: That and I think is the shocking thing is that 1318 01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,960 Speaker 3: when you see and the videos there were a couple 1319 01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:29,360 Speaker 3: of videos. I don't know if you saw them, but 1320 01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,080 Speaker 3: as far as I could see, there were like clouds 1321 01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,880 Speaker 3: of smoke, like I mean, it was a war zone. 1322 01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:37,639 Speaker 2: Right right, That's correct, And they're trying their main goal 1323 01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,679 Speaker 2: is to create panic, to create panic on the people, 1324 01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,040 Speaker 2: you know. And then when you put panic on the people, 1325 01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:47,120 Speaker 2: it worked for them. It'sues the war against cartel and 1326 01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,960 Speaker 2: cartel and cartel they fight them on because of territory. 1327 01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,800 Speaker 3: And the reality though is that Trump doesn't want that 1328 01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,400 Speaker 3: happening here on American soil. 1329 01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,880 Speaker 2: That's right. Our great president has put the you know 1330 01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:03,800 Speaker 2: that the hammer in Mexico right at the border and 1331 01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:06,000 Speaker 2: it's working, and it's working. We don't want that in 1332 01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:10,680 Speaker 2: America because I'm telling you, there that organization is so organized, 1333 01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:14,479 Speaker 2: todd that they have sales in America. But this cartel 1334 01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:19,280 Speaker 2: now they become so strong, the Cartel Jalisco Neuvaazion has 1335 01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:22,479 Speaker 2: become so strong that they have so much money, power 1336 01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:25,720 Speaker 2: and weapons. They out numbers. And when it comes to 1337 01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:26,760 Speaker 2: the police force. 1338 01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,919 Speaker 3: When when you look at what's happening down in Mexico 1339 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,320 Speaker 3: right now, a lot of people on vacation, a lot 1340 01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:35,880 Speaker 3: of American tourists are down there. I was and there. 1341 01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,320 Speaker 3: My understanding is they've been told to shelter in place, 1342 01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:42,759 Speaker 3: don't get out there. These Yahoo Americans, they're out there 1343 01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:45,720 Speaker 3: doing TikTok videos live on the streets of Mexico. Are 1344 01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:46,720 Speaker 3: these people insane? 1345 01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,280 Speaker 2: They must be in saying that is so dangerous to 1346 01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,920 Speaker 2: be there. Now, it's easy to pick up an American there. 1347 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:55,519 Speaker 2: They're gonna kidnap you. They canna ask for money, ransom extors. 1348 01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,120 Speaker 2: They're gonna extortion you. So I would tell them too 1349 01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,960 Speaker 2: to just look sheltered in the room and try to 1350 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,160 Speaker 2: find a way to get to the airport called the embassy. 1351 01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:04,960 Speaker 2: You know, we need to gauge you out of there 1352 01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:05,919 Speaker 2: as soon as possible. 1353 01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the airport I mean that was insane. 1354 01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:12,080 Speaker 3: People were literally running for their lives on the tarmac right. 1355 01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,360 Speaker 2: Right, And that is their goal to create ko or 1356 01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,559 Speaker 2: some panic, to let people know they are in charge. 1357 01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,599 Speaker 3: You mentioned and you've been in law enforcement for how 1358 01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:21,080 Speaker 3: long now? 1359 01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:22,280 Speaker 2: Almost three decades? 1360 01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:24,200 Speaker 3: Wow, all right, you don't look that old. 1361 01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:25,080 Speaker 2: Thank you. 1362 01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:28,160 Speaker 3: You're a young guy. No, but so you've I guess 1363 01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:30,360 Speaker 3: you've certainly seen a lot. But when you think of 1364 01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,880 Speaker 3: a place like Memphis, you would not necessarily think, oh, 1365 01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:36,479 Speaker 3: this is a major drug corridor, but you're telling me 1366 01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:36,920 Speaker 3: it is. 1367 01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,320 Speaker 2: It is tough. So I used to I used to 1368 01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,160 Speaker 2: work on the Interestate doing drug interdiction on the highway 1369 01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:47,160 Speaker 2: and forty and we see so much cocaine, heroin, fent 1370 01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:51,559 Speaker 2: and large amounts of drugs coming into into our highway. Now, 1371 01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,400 Speaker 2: we usually if we see one way facing the traffic 1372 01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:58,280 Speaker 2: going east, then we're gonna see drugs. If we face 1373 01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:01,800 Speaker 2: we sit on the highway facing the opposite way, we 1374 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:05,040 Speaker 2: sees a lot of money. So I've sees about maybe 1375 01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:09,400 Speaker 2: one hundred kilos of cocaine just the Memphis alone. To 1376 01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:11,960 Speaker 2: when we were doing a case in the wire. We 1377 01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,719 Speaker 2: have customers that they were oring ten kilos by ten am. 1378 01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,960 Speaker 2: By three pm they ordered ten more kilos. That's twenty 1379 01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,599 Speaker 2: kilos in one day. That's a lot. 1380 01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,599 Speaker 3: That's insane. And again, when you look at a place 1381 01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:28,280 Speaker 3: like Memphis, we've got the I fifty five corridor, which 1382 01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:29,360 Speaker 3: takes you all the way down. 1383 01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,160 Speaker 2: To New Orleans. All the way with New Orleans, you've. 1384 01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:33,960 Speaker 3: Got the I forty which is across that's trans continental. 1385 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,160 Speaker 3: You've got right the whole country. And then you've got 1386 01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:38,800 Speaker 3: the Mississippi River. I have to imagine as well, do 1387 01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:41,879 Speaker 3: you guys see much drug traffic at all along the rivers. 1388 01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:46,080 Speaker 2: That's funny you mentioned that because the Mississippi River is 1389 01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,519 Speaker 2: not being watched. It's not so just the highways. But 1390 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:54,080 Speaker 2: just to let you know, we're not. Our unit is 1391 01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:57,080 Speaker 2: not on forty right now, so these people can travel 1392 01:24:57,080 --> 01:25:01,439 Speaker 2: all the way to Ferriesview. But the Mississippi River is wide, 1393 01:25:01,479 --> 01:25:03,640 Speaker 2: wide open. And if you take a look at the 1394 01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:07,880 Speaker 2: map that it connects with five different rivers among the 1395 01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:10,240 Speaker 2: United States to the east and to the west, so 1396 01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:11,120 Speaker 2: is wide open. 1397 01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:15,320 Speaker 3: You're you're running to be the next sheriff in Shelby County, 1398 01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:17,920 Speaker 3: which is you know one point three one point two 1399 01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,880 Speaker 3: one point three million people live in this part of 1400 01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:25,720 Speaker 3: the country. When you see what's been happening, let's talk 1401 01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,960 Speaker 3: before Trump sent in the National Guard and the federal 1402 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,920 Speaker 3: agents and the before the Memphis Safe Tansk Force. What 1403 01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,840 Speaker 3: was it like here from a law enforcement perspective. 1404 01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:39,160 Speaker 2: Oh, it was disgusting. It was disgusting. People were being 1405 01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:42,439 Speaker 2: killed every single day. The homicides in Memphis were in 1406 01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:46,360 Speaker 2: the three hundreds. That's funny thought. Just by enforcing the law, 1407 01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,720 Speaker 2: everything changed. But crime was out of control. Just in 1408 01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:54,040 Speaker 2: one night alone, the midnight shift patrol, we respond to 1409 01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:58,400 Speaker 2: forty vehicles being broken into. Forty in one night. 1410 01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:00,919 Speaker 3: That's It's insane. 1411 01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,360 Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense, 1412 01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:05,720 Speaker 2: you know, for why are we allowing that? So that's 1413 01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,719 Speaker 2: when I'm coming in to enforce the law, law and order. 1414 01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:11,639 Speaker 3: So that's that's your campaign. You're running on a law 1415 01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:12,559 Speaker 3: and order campaign. 1416 01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:15,240 Speaker 2: Law and order, enforce the law, and I'm not going 1417 01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:18,160 Speaker 2: to allow criminals to dictate the way we live our lives. 1418 01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:18,600 Speaker 2: I'm just not. 1419 01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:19,760 Speaker 3: And you're a Republican. 1420 01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,040 Speaker 2: I am a Republica, yes, sir. So I'm an immigrant 1421 01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,879 Speaker 2: came to America. Embrace the culture, Embrace America. 1422 01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:27,960 Speaker 3: I had know. I thought you were maybe from Alabama. 1423 01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:33,000 Speaker 3: So with this, so you came here, you took it 1424 01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:34,719 Speaker 3: as a complany that you do take it as. 1425 01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:36,479 Speaker 6: Sorry. 1426 01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:39,679 Speaker 3: I'm a Tennessee fan. So tell me, tell me your story. 1427 01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:42,200 Speaker 3: You came here from what country and how long have 1428 01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:43,080 Speaker 3: you been here in America. 1429 01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:45,120 Speaker 2: I came from Lima, Peru at the age of twenty, 1430 01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,880 Speaker 2: seeking the American dream. I loved America. I fell in 1431 01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,360 Speaker 2: love with America at the early age of twenty. I 1432 01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,800 Speaker 2: just love it so much that joined the US Army 1433 01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,360 Speaker 2: Infantry Unit, got deployed overseas, got my citizenship. You know, 1434 01:26:57,400 --> 01:26:59,840 Speaker 2: I followed the process. I got align you know, I 1435 01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,799 Speaker 2: obey the laws, and then I want to continue to serve. 1436 01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,120 Speaker 2: I joined the Memphis Police Department. She'll become a shared office. 1437 01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,760 Speaker 2: And I worked at the FBI Task Force here in 1438 01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:15,160 Speaker 2: Memphis for twelve years investigating, taught and dismantling drug cartails 1439 01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,519 Speaker 2: organizations in Memphis right here. 1440 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,640 Speaker 3: So all that to say, you've got a solid background 1441 01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,599 Speaker 3: in law enforcement and you know what works. And I 1442 01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:26,640 Speaker 3: have to imagine what resources you guys need to do 1443 01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:27,679 Speaker 3: the job right. 1444 01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:30,800 Speaker 2: We need manpower, we need training. I know what it 1445 01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:35,120 Speaker 2: takes to this mental destruct cartail organizations. In Memphis, there's 1446 01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,439 Speaker 2: a lot everything. All the crimes is being driven by 1447 01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:43,040 Speaker 2: drugs everything. So there's so much drugs in Memphis, Todd 1448 01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:46,200 Speaker 2: that we're not tackling enough. We're doing some, but we 1449 01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:46,840 Speaker 2: can do more. 1450 01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,519 Speaker 3: I'm curious why are Republican? What brought you to the 1451 01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:50,559 Speaker 3: Republican Party? 1452 01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,120 Speaker 2: Because with the party aligned with the values, we have values. 1453 01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:55,280 Speaker 2: I'm a Christian and irot your book, you know this 1454 01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:59,040 Speaker 2: nation was funded in Christianity. I'm a Christian, I say, 1455 01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:02,320 Speaker 2: but twenty five years ago in America everything lined that 1456 01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:07,880 Speaker 2: with my values, which is family, my faith, family and country, faith, 1457 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:08,719 Speaker 2: family and county. 1458 01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,080 Speaker 3: In this case, what does it say about this Republican 1459 01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,880 Speaker 3: I mean, for me, this is a tribute to what 1460 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:17,000 Speaker 3: Donald Trump has done to the Republican Party. Because if 1461 01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:19,080 Speaker 3: it all works out the way it's going to work 1462 01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,439 Speaker 3: out here in this area, you're going to have two 1463 01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:25,600 Speaker 3: very well accomplished black men running for the top the 1464 01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:29,040 Speaker 3: mayor's spot here, and then you're gonna have yourself running 1465 01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:32,320 Speaker 3: as a legal immigrant right to America as the top 1466 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,840 Speaker 3: law enforcement guy. What does that tell you? 1467 01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:35,840 Speaker 2: That's okay? 1468 01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:36,280 Speaker 11: That? 1469 01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:38,960 Speaker 2: And I tell people all the time, don't look at rais, 1470 01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:41,840 Speaker 2: look at the person's character. And I can tell you 1471 01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,400 Speaker 2: I am an American. I am an American. You know, 1472 01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:48,599 Speaker 2: I'm Hispanic. I speak to languages, but I embrace this country. 1473 01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,360 Speaker 2: But I hate it when people come and tell me, well, 1474 01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:55,080 Speaker 2: you're not black and whatever. Yeah, I'm a Hispanic, and 1475 01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,599 Speaker 2: hey it is, it is where it is, and I'm 1476 01:28:57,640 --> 01:28:59,960 Speaker 2: a Hispanic guy. But first of all, I'm an American. 1477 01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,880 Speaker 3: You you talk a lot about the Task Force, how 1478 01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:07,599 Speaker 3: bad it was. How quickly did you notice, wait a second, 1479 01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:09,200 Speaker 3: this is really working here. 1480 01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:12,160 Speaker 2: It was pretty quick that people will tell us, thank you, sir, 1481 01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:14,920 Speaker 2: thank you for being here for us. But the Task 1482 01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,240 Speaker 2: Force Crime TOD we have over six thousand and three 1483 01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:22,240 Speaker 2: hundred arrests right now. You know, over one thousand weapons 1484 01:29:22,280 --> 01:29:26,519 Speaker 2: being seized, that they were obtained illegally. Between twenty twenty 1485 01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,759 Speaker 2: three and twenty twenty four, over four thousand, two hundred 1486 01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:33,280 Speaker 2: guns were stolen from vehicles and cars and houses to 1487 01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:36,240 Speaker 2: four thousand weapons and the recovery only one thousand, So 1488 01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:38,439 Speaker 2: the other three thousand were out committing crimes. You know, 1489 01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:41,360 Speaker 2: people were committing crimes with these weapons. So but now 1490 01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:43,639 Speaker 2: that number has been reduced. You know it's working. 1491 01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,639 Speaker 3: And the big story today is that even the suburbs 1492 01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:50,040 Speaker 3: are now reporting a massive dropping crime sorts of seventy percent. 1493 01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:53,880 Speaker 2: I hear, absolutely, absolutely seventy percent. Easy, that's what they're 1494 01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:57,479 Speaker 2: But they're taking credit now everybody coming into the race. Well, 1495 01:29:57,520 --> 01:30:00,639 Speaker 2: we're doing this because we're running. It's working. Wait a minute, 1496 01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:03,840 Speaker 2: I tell him, is this wouldn't happen if the task 1497 01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,639 Speaker 2: was one here. You know, the task is me here 1498 01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:09,360 Speaker 2: since October. So if you look at the stats that 1499 01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:13,040 Speaker 2: you know it's working just by enforcing the law. 1500 01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:15,840 Speaker 3: What is it that that's gonna set you apart from 1501 01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,599 Speaker 3: the Democrats that are running, because there are a lot 1502 01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:21,160 Speaker 3: of them and this is a predominantly Democrat area of 1503 01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,559 Speaker 3: the country. What is it that's gonna set you apart 1504 01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:24,320 Speaker 3: from these guys? 1505 01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:28,240 Speaker 2: Enforce the law. The law's not written. We have to 1506 01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:31,160 Speaker 2: just enforce the law. Enforce it that policies and laws, 1507 01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,240 Speaker 2: the laws has been there for many, many years. And 1508 01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:35,200 Speaker 2: if we can set up a good the good Christian 1509 01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:38,280 Speaker 2: people who got strown values and enforce the law or todd, 1510 01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:40,559 Speaker 2: we're going to be unstoppable. I love this. 1511 01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,639 Speaker 3: What a great story. And uh, Marco. And by the way, folks, 1512 01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:48,559 Speaker 3: Marco for sheriff dot com is the website Marco or 1513 01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,720 Speaker 3: sheriff dot com. And I would encourage you to go 1514 01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:54,200 Speaker 3: and check out his platform and the message that that 1515 01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:56,960 Speaker 3: he has. But man, what a great story. And it's 1516 01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:59,240 Speaker 3: we appreciate you coming in. It's always nice to have 1517 01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:00,000 Speaker 3: guests in stution. 1518 01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,000 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I appreciate it too, saying your person at work. 1519 01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:06,639 Speaker 3: All right, it's yeah. Sometimes that's a good thing. Marco. 1520 01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:09,000 Speaker 3: Best of luck to you out there on the campaign trail. 1521 01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:10,080 Speaker 2: Thank you, God bless you. 1522 01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:12,720 Speaker 3: All Right, Marco is a Gary who is running for 1523 01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:17,000 Speaker 3: sheriff and weighing in. And this guy, what a great story. 1524 01:31:17,280 --> 01:31:21,000 Speaker 3: Came to America from Peru, joined the army, became a citizen, 1525 01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:24,599 Speaker 3: has been in law enforcement for thirty years. These are 1526 01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:26,960 Speaker 3: the kinds of stories that we love to share on 1527 01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:29,280 Speaker 3: this program. All right, we've got to take a quick 1528 01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:33,160 Speaker 3: break here. Wow, time has ck quickly flown by nine 1529 01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:36,120 Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Our number, 1530 01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:39,679 Speaker 3: that's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. 1531 01:31:40,080 --> 01:32:08,240 Speaker 3: This is the Todd Sterns Show. Well, that's what it 1532 01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:13,120 Speaker 3: sounded like at a dive bar yesterday morning. 1533 01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:20,960 Speaker 2: Wow. 1534 01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:25,519 Speaker 3: So that was just one of many many celebrations people 1535 01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:28,680 Speaker 3: watching the game all over America. I won't know how 1536 01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:33,040 Speaker 3: many people played hookey from church to watch to watch 1537 01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:35,720 Speaker 3: the big game. By the way, this is called the 1538 01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:40,280 Speaker 3: People's Bar. Here's what the celebrations sounded like inside that 1539 01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:41,400 Speaker 3: watering hole. 1540 01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:15,520 Speaker 2: Just have caught an air horn. 1541 01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:16,200 Speaker 3: Into the bar. 1542 01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:21,760 Speaker 7: I was. 1543 01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:25,040 Speaker 3: I am wondering if anybody out there in the listening 1544 01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:28,040 Speaker 3: audience has been driving around playing free bird. I don't 1545 01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:33,439 Speaker 3: lenyard skinnyard has uh has experienced a new revival of 1546 01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:39,280 Speaker 3: sorts as people celebrate. By the way, this is UH. 1547 01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,360 Speaker 3: This is a popular spot for Jack Hughes. They call 1548 01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:46,479 Speaker 3: it Breakstreet. And there must have been five hundred people 1549 01:33:46,680 --> 01:34:12,960 Speaker 3: inside the bar. Cut number three place those bag pipes. Yeah, 1550 01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:17,800 Speaker 3: good day yesterday to be an American. Right, Nobody celebrates 1551 01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:22,160 Speaker 3: like Americans celebrate, and we had a big reason to celebrate. Also, 1552 01:34:22,200 --> 01:34:25,760 Speaker 3: I have been getting messages Todd, what about the women's 1553 01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:30,000 Speaker 3: hockey team? Yes, the women taking home the gold as well. 1554 01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:33,639 Speaker 3: You know, if only Canada had agreed to become part 1555 01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:36,280 Speaker 3: of the United States, they would be celebrating a hockey 1556 01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:39,639 Speaker 3: team victory today, right, they would be celebrating a gold medal. 1557 01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:43,679 Speaker 3: Oh well, President Trump trying to tell him he sure 1558 01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:46,640 Speaker 3: did all right, hang tied. Everybody got to take a 1559 01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:50,000 Speaker 3: quick break here. Nine oh one two six zero five 1560 01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:53,519 Speaker 3: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five, 1561 01:34:53,640 --> 01:35:24,280 Speaker 3: nine two six. This is the Todd Stern Show, and 1562 01:35:24,560 --> 01:35:27,719 Speaker 3: welcome back everybody. This is the Top Stars Radio Show, 1563 01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:32,080 Speaker 3: and we are cranking out of salutes to Team USA. 1564 01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:36,040 Speaker 3: Let's keep that going to Helen if you can't silence 1565 01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:41,000 Speaker 3: Freebird for crying out loud. By the way, men's hockey 1566 01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:45,120 Speaker 3: team just landing at Miami International Airport. They're back on 1567 01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:46,240 Speaker 3: American soil. 1568 01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:48,560 Speaker 9: Jez A. 1569 01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:53,080 Speaker 3: Look that getitar Solo gets me all the time. I 1570 01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:58,479 Speaker 3: gotta tell you, folks, I told you that after the match, 1571 01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:01,200 Speaker 3: I went out and in the AC and just rolled 1572 01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:04,120 Speaker 3: down the windows and cranked up Freebird. I didn't realize 1573 01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:07,439 Speaker 3: I was doing eighty five miles an hour on IWO forties. 1574 01:36:07,479 --> 01:36:10,800 Speaker 3: So it's a good thing that Marco It's Scary was 1575 01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:12,720 Speaker 3: not behind me. I would have gotten a ticket for 1576 01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:16,000 Speaker 3: that one. To welcome into the conversation, a man running 1577 01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:19,080 Speaker 3: for the US Senate in Illinois but he is right 1578 01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:21,559 Speaker 3: here in Memphis today. Don Tracy and Todd, I know 1579 01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:22,760 Speaker 3: you're a big hockey guy. 1580 01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:27,240 Speaker 12: Oh, Todd, I remember the miracle in nineteen eighty very. 1581 01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:30,040 Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, a miracle. Wow, it was miracle on ice 1582 01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:33,240 Speaker 3: back in the nineteen eighties. And I think it was 1583 01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:37,080 Speaker 3: almost to the exact day, if not very close to 1584 01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:38,479 Speaker 3: the big victory. 1585 01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:40,360 Speaker 12: And I was living in Memphis at the time. And 1586 01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:42,559 Speaker 12: of course the difference then it was all amateurs and 1587 01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:45,599 Speaker 12: now they're professionals. But great result. And at that time, 1588 01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,439 Speaker 12: I think we were more of an underdog. I mean, 1589 01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:50,240 Speaker 12: nobody thought we could beat the Russians, of course, and 1590 01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:52,519 Speaker 12: we were, you know, we weren't that far out out, 1591 01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:53,800 Speaker 12: you know, we were still in the middle of the. 1592 01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:57,400 Speaker 3: Cold War, well we were. And the of course back 1593 01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:00,879 Speaker 3: then the teams were made up of college hockey players, 1594 01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:03,880 Speaker 3: so not the professionals. And I know that that was 1595 01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:06,360 Speaker 3: a big source of controversy. I think that was one 1596 01:37:06,400 --> 01:37:08,840 Speaker 3: of the few. Not too long after that victory is 1597 01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:12,599 Speaker 3: when they switched over to the professional guys right back 1598 01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:14,960 Speaker 3: in the day, you know, I think Memphis used to. 1599 01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,240 Speaker 3: I know one of our callers in Memphis will let 1600 01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:20,360 Speaker 3: us know about this, but I believe Memphis used to 1601 01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:22,840 Speaker 3: have a hockey team back in the day, and if 1602 01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:24,880 Speaker 3: you guys remember the name of that hockey team, give 1603 01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,559 Speaker 3: us a call. But hockey is a very popular sport, 1604 01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:30,719 Speaker 3: shockingly in the Southern States, you know, with a with Nashville, 1605 01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:31,720 Speaker 3: you've got the Predators. 1606 01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:34,040 Speaker 12: So it is. And I haven't but I haven't been 1607 01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:36,760 Speaker 12: to a hockey game actually since the last night, so 1608 01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,480 Speaker 12: it's been a while. Well, I went to the Bloomington 1609 01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:40,639 Speaker 12: Bison's hockey game. 1610 01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:43,559 Speaker 3: Last Well, there you go. So and by the way, 1611 01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:46,320 Speaker 3: of course, in Illinois, our good friend Mary Miller who 1612 01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:49,240 Speaker 3: just endorsed you for the US and Mary's going to 1613 01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:52,880 Speaker 3: be on our NEWSMAC show TV show later tonight. That's 1614 01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:56,519 Speaker 3: an exciting thing. I know, Dick Durbin retiring and there's 1615 01:37:56,560 --> 01:37:59,439 Speaker 3: going to be a crowded Republican field. How's the campeing 1616 01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:00,000 Speaker 3: going so far? 1617 01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:04,600 Speaker 12: There are five other competitors in my primary race, but 1618 01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:08,120 Speaker 12: as the Tribune in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports it, 1619 01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:11,000 Speaker 12: the field is basically Don Tracy and five others and 1620 01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:14,040 Speaker 12: that happens to be my name, but the other five 1621 01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:16,759 Speaker 12: of not. They're kind of political novices. They just haven't 1622 01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:18,320 Speaker 12: been involved. I don't think they have a chance at 1623 01:38:18,360 --> 01:38:21,000 Speaker 12: winning the general. The general in Illinois for an Illinois 1624 01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:23,639 Speaker 12: Republic and unlike here in Great Tennessee, the Free State 1625 01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:26,599 Speaker 12: of Tennessee is going to be an uphill dog fight. 1626 01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:30,879 Speaker 12: But I think I've got the experience and the ability 1627 01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:33,360 Speaker 12: to pull this off with a little luck and a 1628 01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:38,120 Speaker 12: great economy thanks to the big, beautiful Bill and the 1629 01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:40,120 Speaker 12: other great things the administration is doing. 1630 01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:43,240 Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. And by the way, folks were 1631 01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,439 Speaker 3: honored to have Don Tracy with us running for the 1632 01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:48,960 Speaker 3: US Senate for in Illinois here in Memphis today, and 1633 01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:52,120 Speaker 3: we'll talk about the reason for that in just a moment. 1634 01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:57,559 Speaker 3: But I was listening to James Carvill, who is the 1635 01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:00,920 Speaker 3: I guess the statesman of the Democrat Party, which is 1636 01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:05,240 Speaker 3: sort of shocking. He said that JB. Pritzker may actually 1637 01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,680 Speaker 3: be the ideal candidate for the Democrats to run in 1638 01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:09,639 Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. 1639 01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:13,880 Speaker 12: Well, he's certainly running hard and as a result, he's 1640 01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:15,120 Speaker 12: not governing well. 1641 01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:19,360 Speaker 3: Losing weight. Yeah, you know, that's always the clue, you know, 1642 01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:21,160 Speaker 3: when they start chunking off the weight. 1643 01:39:21,360 --> 01:39:25,960 Speaker 12: Yeah, he Yeah, he is spending more time running for 1644 01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:28,639 Speaker 12: president than he is governing Illinois, and it's showing he's 1645 01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:31,880 Speaker 12: been a terrible governor. There's so much mismanagement and dysfunction 1646 01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:32,719 Speaker 12: throughout the state. 1647 01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:35,880 Speaker 3: This may be a sore topic, so my apologies for asking, 1648 01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:37,439 Speaker 3: but is it I mean, it looks like you guys 1649 01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:40,760 Speaker 3: are losing the Chicago Bears. They're going to Indiana. 1650 01:39:40,920 --> 01:39:44,080 Speaker 12: Todd. It's that we are very much at risk of 1651 01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:48,320 Speaker 12: losing the Bears to Indiana, but it's symptomatic of what's 1652 01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,600 Speaker 12: going on all over the state with a lot of businesses. 1653 01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,000 Speaker 12: The other businesses that leave don't normally make the headlines, 1654 01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:56,320 Speaker 12: but of course the Bears doo, we lost Boeing, we 1655 01:39:56,400 --> 01:40:01,080 Speaker 12: lost Caterpillar, we lost Citadel and others. It's an anti 1656 01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:05,719 Speaker 12: business state, the highest about the highest taxes, the worst 1657 01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:11,800 Speaker 12: economic performance. We're lagging all the economic indicators, but we 1658 01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:12,799 Speaker 12: lead in taxes. 1659 01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:16,120 Speaker 3: What would you say is the number one issue for 1660 01:40:16,320 --> 01:40:17,280 Speaker 3: folks there. 1661 01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:22,599 Speaker 12: In Illinois affordability? Like I know that Democrats say they're 1662 01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:24,800 Speaker 12: running on that issue, which is crazy. I mean, I 1663 01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,160 Speaker 12: think it's some kind of cruel joke for the Democrats 1664 01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:30,200 Speaker 12: to say elect us because we'll reduce the cost of living. 1665 01:40:30,240 --> 01:40:34,000 Speaker 12: Because everything Democrats do increases the cost of living, you know, 1666 01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:36,599 Speaker 12: whether it's new taxes or old taxes that they're hiking, 1667 01:40:36,920 --> 01:40:41,800 Speaker 12: the war on traditional affordable, reliable energy are I mean 1668 01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:44,760 Speaker 12: even crime. You know, shoplifting is a national epidemic. I 1669 01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:46,479 Speaker 12: don't know what it's like here in Memphis. I bet 1670 01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:49,000 Speaker 12: it's like it is everywhere else. In my hometown of Springfield, 1671 01:40:49,040 --> 01:40:52,200 Speaker 12: which is not a blue city, shopping is Shoplifting is 1672 01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:56,280 Speaker 12: epidemic because the Democrats have a nationalized that who pays 1673 01:40:56,320 --> 01:40:58,080 Speaker 12: for that. It's one of the number one drivers of 1674 01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:00,560 Speaker 12: retail prices. Anything you can care out, carry out is 1675 01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:03,320 Speaker 12: going on. Biden inflation, you know, it's twenty to thirty percent. 1676 01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:06,880 Speaker 12: You know, it's I mean, everything they do makes things 1677 01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:10,360 Speaker 12: more expensive. The Unaffordable Affordable Care Act. Excuse me, I 1678 01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:13,599 Speaker 12: call it the Unaffordable Care Act. I mean, inflation in 1679 01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:18,120 Speaker 12: healthcare is like running it three times regular inflation. And 1680 01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:19,240 Speaker 12: that's a Democrat thing. 1681 01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:21,840 Speaker 3: One of the big one of the big issues that 1682 01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:25,040 Speaker 3: we've been harping on for quite a long time now 1683 01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:29,120 Speaker 3: is voter is the voter id And we just think 1684 01:41:29,160 --> 01:41:33,400 Speaker 3: that is so vitally important to secure those ballot boxes. 1685 01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:37,759 Speaker 3: And yet there is there's big trouble in the Senate, 1686 01:41:37,800 --> 01:41:42,080 Speaker 3: the Republican led Senate. Let's say you get elected, where 1687 01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:43,479 Speaker 3: do you stand on voter ID? 1688 01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:48,600 Speaker 12: I supported one hundred percent. I do understand the Democrats 1689 01:41:48,720 --> 01:41:50,360 Speaker 12: argument against a photo voter. 1690 01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:51,080 Speaker 2: I d though. 1691 01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:54,880 Speaker 12: Their argument is that it will suppress voting. And it's true, 1692 01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:59,599 Speaker 12: it will suppress illegal voting. And I say, okay, that's 1693 01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:00,760 Speaker 12: that's a problem. 1694 01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:01,439 Speaker 2: Tough. 1695 01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:02,320 Speaker 7: Yeah. 1696 01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,759 Speaker 3: Look, I mean we were poking fun at Comrade zoron 1697 01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:08,519 Speaker 3: Mandami out in California, out of New York City. You 1698 01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:10,680 Speaker 3: got to have five forms of ID if you're going 1699 01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:13,599 Speaker 3: to shovel stow today. But you don't need any idea 1700 01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:14,240 Speaker 3: if you want. 1701 01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:14,679 Speaker 2: To go and vote. 1702 01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:18,640 Speaker 12: Yeah, well, in Illinois it's even I think illegal to 1703 01:42:18,720 --> 01:42:21,920 Speaker 12: ask for an ID uh if you're an election judge. 1704 01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:25,280 Speaker 12: But when the DNC came to Chicago for their convention 1705 01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,800 Speaker 12: in twenty twenty four, guess what they required to get 1706 01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:29,639 Speaker 12: in a photo ID? 1707 01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:32,000 Speaker 3: There you go. I mean, it's that simple. 1708 01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:33,200 Speaker 12: It makes no sense at all. 1709 01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:36,320 Speaker 3: By the way, have you You're the first person I've 1710 01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:39,960 Speaker 3: talked to from actual Illinois, So my apologies. But what's 1711 01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:43,160 Speaker 3: going on with the Obama death star that they're building 1712 01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:45,840 Speaker 3: the Presidential Museum. Have you seen that, Monstross? 1713 01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:46,320 Speaker 2: I have not. 1714 01:42:46,479 --> 01:42:49,679 Speaker 12: I have not paid any attention to that. My there's 1715 01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:52,360 Speaker 12: so many other things that are wrong about Illinois thanks 1716 01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:55,080 Speaker 12: to Democrat dysfunction. I haven't focused on that. 1717 01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:57,800 Speaker 3: You know, the challenge there is that Obama plans to 1718 01:42:57,920 --> 01:43:01,080 Speaker 3: use his library as a really a treening ground for 1719 01:43:01,360 --> 01:43:04,639 Speaker 3: radical leftist and you know that is that is certainly troubling. 1720 01:43:04,680 --> 01:43:08,599 Speaker 3: But again, you know, we have got to stand up 1721 01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:11,320 Speaker 3: and we've got to fight back. And I'm glad that 1722 01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:14,360 Speaker 3: you're running for the Senate because we need people like 1723 01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:16,960 Speaker 3: you that are going to be standing on rock solid 1724 01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:18,120 Speaker 3: conservative principles. 1725 01:43:18,280 --> 01:43:21,040 Speaker 12: Yeah, Tod what I emphasized two things about this seat. 1726 01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:23,160 Speaker 12: First of all, it's very important Illinois where one party 1727 01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:25,200 Speaker 12: state and one party state is not a healthy state, 1728 01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:28,519 Speaker 12: and it's a corrupt state, and we don't have a 1729 01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:30,760 Speaker 12: seat at the table. There's eight state white offices in 1730 01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:33,280 Speaker 12: Illinois and the Democrats have all eight. Wasn't that long 1731 01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:36,400 Speaker 12: ago we had all eight. But nationally, it's also a 1732 01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:39,320 Speaker 12: very important seat because we do need sixty votes for 1733 01:43:39,720 --> 01:43:42,760 Speaker 12: shut down, you know, just just close out, you know, 1734 01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:46,240 Speaker 12: stupid government. Shutdowns like we're experiencing right now. We need 1735 01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:49,759 Speaker 12: sixty votes to do the reform to welfare that it needs. 1736 01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:51,960 Speaker 12: You know, there's we're spending a trillion dollars a year 1737 01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:54,160 Speaker 12: and eighty welfare programs and there's a lot of fraud 1738 01:43:54,240 --> 01:43:56,920 Speaker 12: in there, as we saw in Minnesota. That's just a 1739 01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,519 Speaker 12: tip of the Iceberg I thing. But we can't we 1740 01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,439 Speaker 12: can't put in the anti fraud guard rails we need 1741 01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:05,599 Speaker 12: and the eligibility checks that we need, you know, without 1742 01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:08,240 Speaker 12: unless we have sixty votes and the Democrats don't wont 1743 01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:10,760 Speaker 12: agree to it. Immigration, there's some changes that we need 1744 01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:13,679 Speaker 12: to make there. You know, they're gaining the asylum system. 1745 01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:17,320 Speaker 12: You know, nonsensens shouldn't be getting benefits and they're getting benefits. 1746 01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:20,519 Speaker 12: There's things we need to do there. And healthcare. Healthcare 1747 01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:23,840 Speaker 12: really needs to be reformed. It's it's costing the nation 1748 01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:28,000 Speaker 12: close to eighteen percent, approaching twenty percent of gmp GDP. 1749 01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:29,480 Speaker 12: That is unsustainable. 1750 01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:33,559 Speaker 3: It is unsustainable, and we've got to address those those issues. 1751 01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,480 Speaker 3: I truly believe, no matter there's a lot of chaos 1752 01:44:36,560 --> 01:44:38,679 Speaker 3: in the country right now, a lot of dumpster fires 1753 01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:40,720 Speaker 3: that are still burning. But at the end of the day, 1754 01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:43,360 Speaker 3: it's going to be about the economy and you know, 1755 01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:48,040 Speaker 3: again pocketbook issues. And I think the president, you know, 1756 01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:50,479 Speaker 3: is doing a great job on that and getting all 1757 01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:51,400 Speaker 3: of that under control. 1758 01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:53,160 Speaker 12: He has, he is doing a great job on that. 1759 01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:55,320 Speaker 12: I mean, he's already got gas prices under three dollars. 1760 01:44:55,400 --> 01:44:57,720 Speaker 12: Even in ILLINOI wear our gas taxes like seventy five 1761 01:44:57,760 --> 01:45:00,120 Speaker 12: cents of the three dollars, which is kind of ridiculou. 1762 01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:02,080 Speaker 12: I remember with the gas wars when I was growing 1763 01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:04,120 Speaker 12: up in my hometown, around thirty cents a gallon, and 1764 01:45:04,200 --> 01:45:08,040 Speaker 12: yet gas taxes alone now our seventy five. Since he's 1765 01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:11,160 Speaker 12: also you know, attacking healthcare off with a plan, you know, 1766 01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:16,200 Speaker 12: the Americant, the Great Health Plan, which will enhance price transparency, 1767 01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:21,360 Speaker 12: result in better negotiation for drug prices, more market competition 1768 01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:24,160 Speaker 12: for health and insurance, and more consumer choice. 1769 01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:27,320 Speaker 3: How does a guy from Illinois end up in Memphis 1770 01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:29,759 Speaker 3: going to school? You went to University of Memphis. 1771 01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,960 Speaker 12: We have a family business. I've been blessed to live 1772 01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:35,439 Speaker 12: the American dream through that family business. I'm the oldest 1773 01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:37,600 Speaker 12: of twelve. My dad started when I was ten. I 1774 01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:40,200 Speaker 12: was employee number one in the warehouse. The warehouse then 1775 01:45:40,240 --> 01:45:43,559 Speaker 12: was a two car garage, and when I came down here, 1776 01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:46,840 Speaker 12: I was the only salesman. I like to tell it 1777 01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:49,280 Speaker 12: joke that it's taken two or three hundred salesmen to 1778 01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:51,760 Speaker 12: replace me. But the company's quite a bit bigger now. 1779 01:45:52,240 --> 01:45:55,559 Speaker 12: Mom and Dad are gone. But my eleven siblings and 1780 01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:58,120 Speaker 12: I co owned the business. And I had my own 1781 01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:01,519 Speaker 12: small business which I which I ran, and I had 1782 01:46:01,520 --> 01:46:03,920 Speaker 12: to make payrolls sometimes when I couldn't afford it. But 1783 01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,280 Speaker 12: I was a traveling salesman for the business now coming 1784 01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:09,679 Speaker 12: through Memphis. Wanted a law degree to help in business. 1785 01:46:10,080 --> 01:46:12,439 Speaker 12: And a gentleman I was traveling with who was helping. 1786 01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:16,800 Speaker 12: We see, at that time, the Yankees were down here. 1787 01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:19,720 Speaker 12: They thought damn Yankee was just one word. And so 1788 01:46:19,840 --> 01:46:21,800 Speaker 12: I needed some help, you know, opening some of those 1789 01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:24,200 Speaker 12: doors to some of our Southern customers. And so we 1790 01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:26,920 Speaker 12: had a Memphis salesman helping me. And he said, Memphis 1791 01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:28,640 Speaker 12: State's a great law school. I know you want your 1792 01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:30,519 Speaker 12: law degree, but you're not going to practice. Why don't 1793 01:46:30,520 --> 01:46:32,759 Speaker 12: you go there you can keep your job. So I did. 1794 01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:36,160 Speaker 12: I went to law school here. It's now the University 1795 01:46:36,160 --> 01:46:39,040 Speaker 12: of Memphis of course. And then I realized after law 1796 01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:41,160 Speaker 12: school I still didn't know the loss. I decided to 1797 01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:43,559 Speaker 12: practice lass. So I joined Baker what is now known 1798 01:46:43,600 --> 01:46:45,960 Speaker 12: as Baker and Donaldson. And I was a lawyer Baker 1799 01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:49,200 Speaker 12: and Donaldson for about four years. And they missed me 1800 01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:51,759 Speaker 12: so much there that when I left in nineteen eighty, 1801 01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:54,360 Speaker 12: they had forty lawyers and now I think they have 1802 01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:55,000 Speaker 12: twelve hundred. 1803 01:46:55,360 --> 01:47:01,000 Speaker 3: Wow, that's yeah, you were hard to replace. We're honored 1804 01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,519 Speaker 3: to have Don Tracy with us. He is running for 1805 01:47:03,600 --> 01:47:08,080 Speaker 3: the Senate US Senate Republican from Illinois, and you're here 1806 01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:11,000 Speaker 3: in Memphis to help out a guy that's been on 1807 01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:13,360 Speaker 3: Fox News quite a bit, Pastor Corey Brooks. 1808 01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,000 Speaker 12: Right, he's doing his Walk for America to raise money 1809 01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:19,519 Speaker 12: to build this ninety thousand foot community center in Chicago 1810 01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:21,320 Speaker 12: and one of the roughest what used to be one 1811 01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:24,719 Speaker 12: of the roughest parts of Chicago. It's across the street 1812 01:47:24,760 --> 01:47:28,400 Speaker 12: from O Block. O Block is a place of five 1813 01:47:28,479 --> 01:47:33,200 Speaker 12: thousand single parent households. It's a really, really tough neighborhood. 1814 01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:35,120 Speaker 12: He's gonna have two schools in there, one for girls 1815 01:47:35,120 --> 01:47:38,759 Speaker 12: and boys and CPS Cargo Public Schools is just just awful, 1816 01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:42,360 Speaker 12: and he's gonna that's why he's gonna have a special school. 1817 01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:47,920 Speaker 12: So he first started sleeping on rooftop. This hotel across 1818 01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:52,280 Speaker 12: the street was like a drug and prostitution center, and 1819 01:47:52,360 --> 01:47:54,160 Speaker 12: so he bought it, and then he slipped on the 1820 01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:57,719 Speaker 12: rooftop to raise some money. Then he tore that down finally, 1821 01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:00,960 Speaker 12: and then he put in the eight truck rail container 1822 01:48:01,040 --> 01:48:03,560 Speaker 12: cars and set up another rooftop. And I spent a 1823 01:48:03,640 --> 01:48:06,479 Speaker 12: night there with him on very cold, cold morning a 1824 01:48:06,520 --> 01:48:09,640 Speaker 12: couple three years ago, helping helping him raise money. But 1825 01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:15,160 Speaker 12: the thing about the other thing about Memphis is that Memphis, 1826 01:48:15,200 --> 01:48:18,519 Speaker 12: you know, has benefited from the federal law enforcement coming 1827 01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:18,880 Speaker 12: in here. 1828 01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:21,080 Speaker 3: Have you noticed that? Isn't that nice out there? 1829 01:48:21,160 --> 01:48:21,400 Speaker 12: Yeah? 1830 01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:22,720 Speaker 2: It's very nice, incredible. 1831 01:48:22,760 --> 01:48:26,600 Speaker 12: You know, over five thousand arrests, over a thousand illegal firearms, 1832 01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:29,559 Speaker 12: and one hundred and fifty missing children. Why do people 1833 01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:32,839 Speaker 12: not talk about the missing children that federal law enforcement 1834 01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:36,080 Speaker 12: surges have helped find. I don't understand that. And you know, 1835 01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,360 Speaker 12: I know Memphis from having been here. I mean I 1836 01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:41,320 Speaker 12: was robbed at gunpoint here down in the Overton Square area, 1837 01:48:41,520 --> 01:48:44,160 Speaker 12: coming out of Hughes after a football game. Gun to 1838 01:48:44,200 --> 01:48:48,240 Speaker 12: my head. So you know, you know, crime is not 1839 01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:50,680 Speaker 12: a talking point. You know, it's not something you read 1840 01:48:50,720 --> 01:48:53,280 Speaker 12: about the papers. That hadn't happened to me in Chicago. 1841 01:48:53,439 --> 01:48:56,320 Speaker 12: But I have a place in Chicago. I'm downstate Springfield, 1842 01:48:56,360 --> 01:48:58,160 Speaker 12: but I have a place up there, so I haven't 1843 01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:02,479 Speaker 12: experienced crime personally up there. But in early December, at 1844 01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:04,800 Speaker 12: the beginning of the season, maybe the Christmas season, maybe 1845 01:49:04,840 --> 01:49:07,880 Speaker 12: the end of November, I was said my place just 1846 01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:10,960 Speaker 12: a few blocks north of the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, 1847 01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:16,639 Speaker 12: and in Chicago, what happens. Three hundred kid takeover flash mob, 1848 01:49:17,160 --> 01:49:21,320 Speaker 12: eight shot, one killed. Earlier that day, the same day, 1849 01:49:21,360 --> 01:49:22,960 Speaker 12: I think it was maybe the day before, I was 1850 01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:25,960 Speaker 12: riding the CTA Redline. They call it the l Downtown. 1851 01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:28,920 Speaker 12: It's a great system if you're not afraid to write it. 1852 01:49:29,120 --> 01:49:32,000 Speaker 12: But I wrote it during the day. A few days later, 1853 01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,840 Speaker 12: Bethany McGee was sitting there, twenty six year old professional 1854 01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,760 Speaker 12: mining her own business, looking at her telephone and some 1855 01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:43,040 Speaker 12: career criminals been arrested seventy two times, and he spray's 1856 01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:45,639 Speaker 12: lighter fluid all over. She tries to run away with him, 1857 01:49:45,720 --> 01:49:48,120 Speaker 12: he lights her. He tried he burns her alive, and 1858 01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:51,400 Speaker 12: now she's recovering from massive burns a few weeks. A 1859 01:49:51,400 --> 01:49:54,840 Speaker 12: couple weeks later, a guy rolls a woman in a 1860 01:49:54,840 --> 01:49:58,639 Speaker 12: wheelchair off off the l of the off the train 1861 01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:02,599 Speaker 12: onto the platform, pulls, pushes are off the wheelchair, pulls 1862 01:50:02,600 --> 01:50:05,360 Speaker 12: her off and rapes her, sexual assaults her. I mean, 1863 01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:07,640 Speaker 12: it's it's just crazy. They say the stats are going 1864 01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:09,879 Speaker 12: down there, but doesn't feel like it. I walk outside 1865 01:50:09,920 --> 01:50:12,240 Speaker 12: the door of my building and the dorman says, late 1866 01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:13,719 Speaker 12: at night one night, he said, be careful. 1867 01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:14,760 Speaker 2: I said, what for what? What? 1868 01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:16,760 Speaker 12: What do you mean the little kids? Watch out? What 1869 01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:18,800 Speaker 12: do you mean watch out for little kids? Watch out 1870 01:50:18,840 --> 01:50:21,720 Speaker 12: for groups of little kids, because if you see him, 1871 01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:23,640 Speaker 12: go the other way. Otherwise beat the hell out you 1872 01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:25,000 Speaker 12: and steal everything you got. 1873 01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:28,519 Speaker 3: When and we've got about a minute here when you 1874 01:50:28,560 --> 01:50:31,880 Speaker 3: look at Chicago's South Side and there has just been 1875 01:50:32,040 --> 01:50:36,360 Speaker 3: massive rebellion and revolt against the policies of Pritzker and 1876 01:50:36,560 --> 01:50:40,599 Speaker 3: Brandon Johnson, and I'm wondering, are there are are there 1877 01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:45,120 Speaker 3: avenues for Republicans to reach out to areas that used 1878 01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:48,960 Speaker 3: to be Democrat strongholds and say, hey, there's a better 1879 01:50:49,040 --> 01:50:50,439 Speaker 3: way here. 1880 01:50:50,240 --> 01:50:53,960 Speaker 12: There seemed to be uh and Pastor cor Brooks is 1881 01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,120 Speaker 12: actually I think one of those avenues. He is a 1882 01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:00,479 Speaker 12: proud a black Republican. He's been Republican since he nineteen 1883 01:51:00,560 --> 01:51:02,840 Speaker 12: years old. He was actually born and raised in a 1884 01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:04,840 Speaker 12: Union City well till age ten, and then he moved 1885 01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:08,439 Speaker 12: to Chicago. So he's one. We just need more more 1886 01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:12,200 Speaker 12: Pastor Corey Brooks in his church, and I'll be visiting 1887 01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:14,519 Speaker 12: those churches that are open to a Republican and the 1888 01:51:14,600 --> 01:51:18,599 Speaker 12: Hispanic churches as well. There's a group called Chicago Flip 1889 01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:23,120 Speaker 12: Flip's Red African American Women, and I'll be doing a 1890 01:51:23,160 --> 01:51:26,679 Speaker 12: podcast with them this coming Saturday. So there are groups 1891 01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:30,360 Speaker 12: like that. There's a lot of dismay is probably not 1892 01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:35,800 Speaker 12: a strong enough word over the all the illegal all 1893 01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:39,000 Speaker 12: the benefits that are going to illegal immigrants in Chicago. 1894 01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:41,559 Speaker 12: You know, we're losing population and we're going to lose 1895 01:51:41,640 --> 01:51:44,719 Speaker 12: another a congressional seat or two, and so Pritzker's trying 1896 01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:48,639 Speaker 12: to make it up by attracting illegal immigrants to Chicago 1897 01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:51,360 Speaker 12: because apparently they're still counted in the census. I'm not 1898 01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:52,200 Speaker 12: sure why that is, but. 1899 01:51:52,160 --> 01:51:56,000 Speaker 3: It is Don Tracy for il dot Com. That's Don 1900 01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:59,080 Speaker 3: Tracy for il dot com is the website you can 1901 01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:03,360 Speaker 3: find out all about his positions on the issues. Certainly 1902 01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:07,040 Speaker 3: a conservative and a pro Trump conservative. And you're gonna 1903 01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:09,560 Speaker 3: want to check out. Wow, you got a lot of grandkids. 1904 01:52:09,960 --> 01:52:12,400 Speaker 12: Well, I have eight grandchildren. But remember I'm I'm the 1905 01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:14,960 Speaker 12: I have more nieces and nephews. I'm the oldest of 1906 01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:17,840 Speaker 12: twelve children. And we've spawned about four weeks. So there's 1907 01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:20,120 Speaker 12: forty seven in the next generation now, and half of 1908 01:52:20,160 --> 01:52:23,080 Speaker 12: them are married. No, that's another fifty and they've produced 1909 01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:26,240 Speaker 12: another sixty. So we all get together. We're about one 1910 01:52:26,320 --> 01:52:28,080 Speaker 12: hundred and fifty people. We all and all of us 1911 01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:30,479 Speaker 12: are directly or indirectly shareholders in the family business. 1912 01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:31,120 Speaker 2: I love that. 1913 01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:32,880 Speaker 3: All right, Don, it's great to see you. 1914 01:52:33,479 --> 01:52:34,040 Speaker 2: Great to see you. 1915 01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:34,920 Speaker 12: Thanks for having me time. 1916 01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:38,120 Speaker 3: All right, Don Tracy for il dot com. Go check 1917 01:52:38,120 --> 01:52:41,000 Speaker 3: out his great website. We're going to have to take 1918 01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:52,080 Speaker 3: a quick break. This is the Ton Sterns Show. All right, 1919 01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:53,479 Speaker 3: I've got ten seconds. 1920 01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:54,479 Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. 1921 01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:57,920 Speaker 3: Mike in Memphis, Tennessee. Kwam, Mike, what was the name 1922 01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:00,200 Speaker 3: of that hockey team? 1923 01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:04,719 Speaker 13: Graeties? You want the first of the last? The last 1924 01:53:04,800 --> 01:53:06,200 Speaker 13: is the River Kings. 1925 01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:07,880 Speaker 3: The River Kings, and who was it before that? It 1926 01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:09,439 Speaker 3: was like Chicks or something. 1927 01:53:10,320 --> 01:53:10,720 Speaker 2: Was that now? 1928 01:53:10,760 --> 01:53:13,439 Speaker 13: The Memphis Back in the sixties, we used to go 1929 01:53:13,439 --> 01:53:16,519 Speaker 13: to the roomhouse and skate after the game. 1930 01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:19,679 Speaker 3: Well, okay, well there you go. All right, the River Kings, 1931 01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:23,080 Speaker 3: all right, Mike. I knew somebody listening out there would 1932 01:53:23,240 --> 01:53:26,200 Speaker 3: know that. All right, hanging tight, everybody, We've got to 1933 01:53:26,240 --> 01:53:28,320 Speaker 3: take a break. It's a long one. Yeah, we'll be 1934 01:53:28,400 --> 01:53:32,240 Speaker 3: back tomorrow noon o'clock. Tonight, we'll see at five o'clock 1935 01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:36,439 Speaker 3: Eastern on Newsmax TV. Be good, everybody,