Mississippi Mayor Snubs Dolly Parton, Refuses to Lower Flag

**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite, gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.

**Todd Starnes** (0:28)
All right. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio show. The good news is we did not blow up Carg Island last night. I just, I don't know what's going on here with the president's true social feed.
The AI, geez, we're just gonna, we're gonna AI ourselves into a world war. What the heck, why not? Hello, everybody, great to have you with us today.
Wow, we have a lot of content to get through over the next three hours together. Wanna say a very special thank you to all of you listeners who came out last night, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Franklin Road Baptist Church. We had a terrific time, did a big Q&A session on my new book, The Golden Age. And it was really fun to share the stage with Gabriel Delaney, who is our resident history teacher. And Gabriel was up on the stage fielding questions. And honestly, I think just did a terrific job. And had just a great, great weekend. Fine people there at Franklin Road Baptist Church. And let me just say this. You know, we talk a lot about churches that are not engaged in their communities, not engaged in the political process and culture. This is not one of those churches.
It was so exciting. Dilley, you're not going to believe this. The chairman of the Rutherford County Library System is a member of the church, bought 25 copies of the book. Oh, wow. To go into the libraries.

**Dylan** (2:01)
That's pretty cool.

**Todd Starnes** (2:03)
I know it may be the only conservative book in those libraries. I'm just saying.

**Dylan** (2:08)
A light in a dark world.

**Todd Starnes** (2:09)
No, it's just all I'm telling you is just so nice and refreshing. And may I just say this? I just so I was a very productive, sort of leisurely weekend, drove to Nashville over to Nashville from Memphis up Interstate 40 First of all, my hat is off to Sean Duffy. They're they're cracking down on these big rig drivers. I'm telling you, these guys are all over the place. And I guarantee you, if you look inside the cabs of these big rigs, you're going to find illegals. So, and we're going to get to that in just a little while, Sean Duffy announcing an emergency shutdown of 110 commercial drivers license schools.
And the reason why is more than 5,000 drivers have failed their English proficiency test. So they don't know what those signs like stop or slow down or laying closed ahead actually mean. So anyway, I was having to maneuver through all of that, I went to Nashville and this is maybe this is just me, but this made an impression on me. So I had lunch with a friend of the station, one of our staffers in college there in the Nashville area and went to the Green Hill. Is it the mall at Green Hills?
Folks, I felt like I had been transported to some sort of, I don't know, utopia. I mean, it was beautiful. It was a massive indoor mall and it had the big high-end stores, like Nord Street, all the stores. They even have the, oh, what's the one that stinks to high heaven, Dylan? They sell the $500 pair of jeans.

**Dylan** (3:50)
It's not coming to me.

**Todd Starnes** (3:51)
Abercrombie.

**Dylan** (3:52)
Oh yeah. Oh, it stinks to you?

**Todd Starnes** (3:53)
It stinks, it smells. Yeah, you can smell it.

**Dylan** (3:55)
They do spray a lot of cologne in there.

**Todd Starnes** (3:57)
You know, it's in the ventilation system.

**Dylan** (3:59)
It is.

**Todd Starnes** (4:00)
I asked about that once. I said, what's the deal here?
And then they hose down the clothing, so you never can get that smell out.

**Dylan** (4:06)
It's terrible. You can't even watch it.

**Todd Starnes** (4:08)
It's brutal. It's brutal. The only thing worse than that is watching a 40-year-old man wearing Abercrombie. That ought to be against the law.
But I digress. Dylan, this was amazing. I mean, here in Memphis, you go to the Galleria, which is like the premier shopping destination. It looks like a ghost town. And all you've got are like hip hop stores and tennis shoe shops. That's it.

**Dylan** (4:30)
They've really downgraded our malls here.

**Todd Starnes** (4:33)
It's bad. And it's like rip offs, it's like knock off stores. So I mean, it was, Dylan, I'm telling you, it was like I was in a different world. And people were laughing and smiling and carrying on. There were no thugs or little thuglings running around shooting people. The food court, everybody was well behaved. I'm like, where am I? What is going on here?