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From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense conservative commentary from Todd Starnes.

Todd Starnes (0:26)

You know, I want to tell you something, and by the way, hello everybody. This is Todd Starnes. Great to be back with you.

I am highly caffeinated and favored, ladies and gentlemen.

First of all, we we've really got a terrific show for you. And I'm telling you, we are we are hitting the ground running. Tony Perkins is going to be here. Family Research Council Congresswoman Mary Miller is here, along with Robin Walensky, who was at the Trump rally in Georgia, in Dalton, Georgia, over the weekend. And we're also introducing you to a lady I met in California. Her name is Jenny Rae LaRue, and she is the Republican nominee for California's 47th Congressional District. Very good chance that she wins that election in spite of the redistricting efforts of Gavin Newscombe. So let me tell you why I'm in a great mood here. I was in California over the weekend, and I was the Master of Ceremonies at the Annual Celebration of Justice, sponsored by the Pacific Justice Institute. Had about 1,000 people. Everybody's in tuxedos and ball gowns and just having a good old time, and raising a lot of money for Pacific Justice Institute as they fight for freedom around the nation. So just a wonderful event there in Anaheim, California.

Do you know that, you know, if you've listened to the show, we have a lot of folks calling in, and folks are a little demoralized, and I get that, and we've been through that. I don't want to rehash that right now. But there's a lot of angst out there, and a lot of anxiety, and a lot of it is actually coming from the Republican Party. And I've been a pretty hopeful person over these, I don't know, past several months. Now, Dylan, have I not been in a good mood? I'm not moaning and groaning and like, oh, my boo hoo, we're going to be, we're going to lose to the Communist.

Dylan (2:29)

You've been pretty glass half full kind of guy recently.

Todd Starnes (2:32)

Absolutely. Well, and I have to be, I cannot allow my mind to go into that dark, dank place. I just can't do that. And the reality of it is, we just, there's no way I can believe that we are going to let Communist to the Congress. And let me just say this. I also don't want to even imagine, God forbid, the Communist get a foothold in the Congress, and they get the majority, and the next thing you know, I'm going to be picking cotton in the Mississippi Delta and living in some gulag. And I can't imagine me doing that. First of all, I don't do well with manual labor.

And picking cotton is hard work. I don't want to be a cotton picker.

I'm just saying. So I can't allow my mind to go there. But, no, in all seriousness, I really do believe that everybody is reading this midterm election the wrong way. I really do. Now, that does not dismiss the complaints and the concerns you have about Republicans at all. And we are going to have to deal with those. But now is not the time to do that. There will be a reckoning. And that time will come. But not right now. We've got to make sure that we get out and we do our jobs. And I will tell you that the voting turnout in Tennessee, especially, has been very, very strong.

Over 30 some odd thousand people just in the Memphis area have already cast early votes, which is over 60 percent more than the last midterm election. So there's something going on. There's something in the air. And I can't tell you if those people are Republican or Democrat. But I saw a lot of people that look like Republicans.

Well, no, they weren't wearing any, like, signs or anything. They weren't wearing badges. I'm a Republican. But they didn't have, like, magenta hair. I didn't see any tattoos or, you know, I didn't see any nose rings in the bunch. I didn't, they didn't smell. I mean, honestly, I think everybody was fairly well bathed. They prop, you know, they had proper hygiene. As a matter of fact, I think a couple of people had just taken some clothes out of the dryer because I smelled game. You know, the laundry detergent, I smell, oh, I'm like, ooh, somebody smells like game.

Dylan (5:03)

That's a good sign, Todd. So they're either Republican or very well-disguised.

Todd Starnes (5:08)

Because if you're downwind from a Democrat, you know it. You're either going to get the body odor, the BO., or you're going to get the patchouli, or you're going to get the devil's lettuce.