Hannity: Fox News Pressured Me to Push Covid Vaccines

SPEAKER_1 (0:11)

From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.

Todd Starnes (0:30)

Oh, is the microphone on, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Extravaganza. Yes, I said it, Extravaganza.

Wow, we have got a great show for you today. You know what it is, Dylan, I hit the wall. I... You know, I've been going a million miles an hour, and I don't know what it is, but today I just, boom, hit the wall.

Dylan (0:57)

I think the wall hit you, Todd.

Todd Starnes (0:58)

And it was one of those situations where this morning, I'm like, the alarm went off, and I always set the alarm knowing I've got 30 extra minutes to sleep. So then the 30 minutes was up, and I hit it for another 10 minutes, and then another five minutes, and another minute.

It was rough getting up this morning.

Dylan (1:21)

You're better than me because I will set a certain amount of alarms to wake me up, and if I pass that threshold of alarms, then I just leave it up to chance at that point.

Todd Starnes (1:30)

Ten days on the road, nonstop, sun up to sun down, got back at one o'clock in the morning yesterday.

We did the show, raced over to the church because we were hosting a national convention. And I had volunteered to work a shift. So we've got like 2,500 Christian counselors at the church. And my job was, well, first of all, they had me on dessert duty. So I had to put like the dollop of whipped cream on the chocolate brownies.

And then after that, I had to work, I had manned the coffee machine. And these are like, I put pictures on Facebook. And these are like, industrial size coffee things. These Christian counselors are guzzling this stuff. In just one day, 120 gallons of coffee was consumed.

Dylan (2:25)

Should have took some for yourself, Todd.

Todd Starnes (2:27)

I was ready just to jump in. But anyway, it's all that to say, ladies and gentlemen.

We will persevere today. We will fight the good fight because we've got a lot going on. We have a lot happening in the country. We have a midterm election. We've got to save the country from the communists. Dylan, tell Ian to put on some coffee.

I'll show him how to work the filters. I know how it works now. You know, I felt like I was a barista. I don't want to get pulled back into this, but I felt like I had learned a life skill.

Dylan (3:03)

No, you really have. And now we can just get rid of our Keurig here. Who needs it? We have Todd Starnes.

Todd Starnes (3:09)

I wouldn't go that far, but yeah, I wouldn't go that far.

Dylan (3:12)

It's never too late to learn a new skill.

Todd Starnes (3:13)

I don't need to add more to my daily responsibilities. So bad news, America. Memphis, Tennessee has made the Babylon Bee.

We had a problem. We had a situation last night. We've got the video up at toddstarnes.com. It's a mess. So, look, Elon Musk has... Elon Musk is at the Center of Controversy here in Memphis. And I want to explain why and what's going on, because it was insane. So, Elon is building the data centers. And let's get real.

They're being put in industrial areas and areas that are somewhat impoverished. Okay? So, the reality is they're a little noisy. And apparently, they're trying to figure all of that out. But the other side, the anti-data center people, are out there saying, Well, you know what?

Those data centers are killing people. They are literally killing people. So we did some research and investigation. First of all, nobody's been killed by the data centers, and nobody's actually suffered any sort of health issues as a result of the data centers being constructed. So that's that. Those are the facts. So anyway, Elon's coming in, building all of these bazillion dollar data centers, what is called Colossus, and it's generating the tax revenue that this is all generating is off the charts, which is great because Memphis, of course, is being the deadliest city in America. We've had thousands and thousands of people leave.

There is the businesses are have fled. There was a shocking story that all of the high rises in downtown Memphis are completely empty. There's nobody there.

It's insane. So all of this is going on.

The county leaders came out a few days ago and said, look, we got a problem here because all these businesses have packed up. They've moved out. Citizens have left and they're preparing people for massive property tax increases. So while all that is happening, here comes Elon to save the day. And Elon Musk builds these beautiful data centers. And the people became enraged. I've never seen anything like this. So they had a meeting last night at City Hall, and the city leaders were going to decide whether or not to halt any future data center construction. And the mob showed up. Now, there's this guy we've been telling you about. He's running for Congress. And he's like our version of Jasmine Crockett. I think she's more masculine than he is. But anyway, the guy, he's not a very tall little fella. His name is Justin Pearson. So he wears a power throw, which adds, I don't know, Dylan, would you say about two, two and a half feet?