A Decade of Conservatism: Celebrating 10 Years of The Todd Huff Show | August 8, 2025 - The Todd Huff Show

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Show, America's home
for conservative not bitter talk and education. Be advised. The
content of this program has been documented to prevents and
even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean
to the right. And now coming to you from the

(00:30):
Full Sweet Wealth Studios here is your conservative but not
Bitter host, Todd Huff.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
That is right, my friends, And if you've been listening
to this program, you will have heard a variation of
that introduction, variation of that introduction for ten years now. Yes,
it is now the full Sweet Wealth Studios here that
we broadcast from, So we did recently change the intro
to the program, but you will have listened. You would

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have heard Lynn, our program narrator, Glenn Harris. You would
have heard him announced this program for ten years. As Sunday,
August tenth, twenty twenty five is our tenth anniversary, and
I want to talk a little bit about that today.
But that's not where I want to start. I want
to give you commentary on what else is happening out there.

(01:21):
I want to talk specifically about jerry mandering, which has
become a topic people who didn't even know what jerry
mandering was five minutes ago. Are now out there on
social media and other places trying to tell you what
it is. They never they might have heard of the word,
they didn't know what it was or anything like that.
But everyone is an expert in today's in today's political world,

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so I want to talk about that, but I want
to spend some time reminiscing with you. That's what I
want to do most of the program today. In fact,
there might be someone who joins me here to do
a little bit of reminiscing about something that happened. I'm
going to tell some stories, share some things, and just
appreciate you because this ultimately could not happen, would not
exist without you, the listener, without our advertising partners, and

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without our station affiliates. I am grateful for everyone who
makes this program possible and for Oz here behind the scenes,
who once more credit than you can possibly imagine. So anyway,
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Let's start here by talking about jerrymandering. Now I've learned.
I've learned that the definition of jerrymandering as is commonly
used today has evolved somewhat, has evolved somewhat. You'll know
that if you listen to this program from the beginning,
which that I mentioned was ten years ago this weekend,

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you'll know that my background is in.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
It is in talking about politics.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
This is something I said that I had had an
interest in this from the time I was a teenager,
was a political science student at Butler that a pre
law program at American University. This has been a while ago.
Served as a school board member for a time right
out of college twenty some years ago. Believe that or not,

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And it's just been what I've had an interest in.
We all have our interest in inclinations and all that.
So I remember talking about jerry mandering. Jerry Mandering used
to mean, and it still does because they just like
to redefine it to try to further their side's point
or to win a political argument. But jerry mandering used

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to simply mean when odd shaped congressional districts were drawn
so as to create a political advantage for the party
that drew them. So if you look at the In fact,
I saw a video yesterday of someone here talking about
how jerrymandered Indiana was, Indiana is probably the least jerrymandered state,

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or one of them that you're going to find. In fact,
the vast majority of districts in Indiana are simply the counties,
right Like I'm in Morgan County now, I think I'm
the southernmost county or one of the southernmost counties in
District four. But it's it's contiguous counties. It's Morgan County,

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it's Hendricks County, it's maybe Montgomery county or whatever else
goes kind of north and a little bit to the
west there, and it's it's just counties. Now, some of
the counties are split because you have to have an
equal you know, approximate population in each district. But Indiana's
districts are anything but jerrymander. This is straightforward, simple, rectangular

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ish counties. It's the last thing that you would say
that they are is jerrymander. Now, on the state level,
what we've had to do to you know, for state
senators and state represented you know in the House, in
the state House that might I haven't looked at those
maps closely, but when it comes to federal gerrymandering, this

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is one hundred percent not jerrymandered state. But we have
I have had people out there, you know, saying that
Indiana is incredibly jerrymannered. They have no idea, they have
literally no idea what they're talking about. And so today
the term jerrymandering has come to mean. Let's just let
me just give you an example of what I mean
so or what they say that it's come to mean.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Let's say that you have a state that has.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Ten congressional districts just for the sake of understanding this,
and let's say, let's say that in the presidential election,
they voted for the blue state in this terrible example here,
because it makes me sick to even pretend this, Let's
just say that out of the population of the of
the voters, right, the voting results were sixty percent for

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the Democratic presidential candidate and forty percent for the Republican. Now,
jerrymandering means if you draw districts that don't lead to
an equal outcome in congressional districts, you've jerrymandered, which is crazy,
it's insane talk. So that means, in other words, in
this example, there should be This is just the left

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and how they think, because again they want to use
this to their political advantage. There should be six Democrat
districts and four Republican districts. But again I want to
point something out. There's there's a reason that things are
set up this way, not the way that is being
proposed here in this example, but the way the reasons

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that we do the things that we do.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
And I like to.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Use because I know, for you know, for newer people
who follow politics, I feel like I've had people say
that this helped them understand. But when it comes to winning,
let's just say, let's just say when it comes to well,
you can break down the congressional districts this way as well.

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I typically use this when talking when talking about the
elect that are awarded the elector the electoral college, because
people people get upset the way that this is counted.
They want to base things off the overall popular vote,
say of the state, and then say, well X percent

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should be this, and Trump should have gotten that, and
Kamala should have gotten this.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
But when it comes to the electoral college, and I'll
get back to the senator or excuse me, the state
representatives here in a moment. When it comes to the
electoral college, most states are winner take all, and some
people are bothered by that. Well, if if you get
some votes in a state, they would say, I should
be able to get some electors from a state. I
like to think about it like it's a seven game

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NBA playoff series. You know, it's theoretically possible for the
team who wins the series to not have more overall
points than the other team. I mean, just in simple math,
if you win, let's just say, you know, you have
to win four games in a seven game series. Let's
say this, the series goes to seven games. The team

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that wins four games could theoretically could have won all
four games by one point, which means they would have
had four more points than their opponents. They may have
lost three games if they lost the three games by
a total number of points that's greater than four, which
is absolutely possible. In fact, it's very likely then they

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could have won the series but not scored as many points.
In fact, it's possible for them to have much fewer
points overall. But it's not my total cumulative points that
you win a NBA seven game series. It's the person
or the team that wins the most number of games.
And so in a same similar fashion. It's not a

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perfect it's a good analogy for the electoral college. It's
not a perfect analogy when you look at these congressional districts,
but it's still the same sort of thing. You can't
what if you have a post pocket of blue voters
on one side of the state and a pocket of
blue voters on the other that need to be connected
in order for the statistics to show that the representative

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of that district would be a Democrat. Should you make
an odd shaped, skinny district that just connects these two
blue areas across the entire region of the state. I mean,
that's not how this was envisioned to happen. In fact,
our founders were not driven by political parties. They were
driven by the ideas, but not by political parties, not

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by a two party system. The problem is there is
no such thing. No such thing exists here, no such
mechanism exists to ensure that this could even happen. And
by the way, just because someone votes for a Republican
or a Democrat for president doesn't mean that they'll even

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cast a ballot for someone who is running for congress.
Maybe they personally like the person, maybe they split their ticket,
maybe they only want to vote for president. Maybe they
don't like their party's nominee. There are so many possible
explanations for this. This is overly simplistic. This is not
the way that it's supposed to go. Jerry Mandering is

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simply the tool, as I said at the beginning, that
is used by politicians who draw congressional maps in such
a way, in odd shapes and things that don't really
make sense, so that they.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Can get a political advantage.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
And by the way, it is completely within the confines
of the constitution. Now, the Voting Rights Act says that
you can't break those these districts up, that you can't
do this based upon race, but you can do this
based upon politics. This becomes a very sticky sort of
situation because one group can say, well, we did it

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because of political factors, and the others the other group
can say, yeah, but you broke it up based upon
where the higher city of certain races were within the city,
and the other party can say yeah, because that's where
our votes come from. And they can say yeah, because
you're wanting to disenfranchise a certain race or whatever. And
so you can see where the fight comes from. But

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there is no just simple and obvious way to do this.
Everybody has their own preferences and everybody wants to see
it benefit their political party. So the idea of a representative,
which is what we have House of Representatives, is to

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represent people in a certain area of a state.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now, it's much more complicated and nuanced when it comes
to determining how to draw those boundaries. But and we
can all realize and recognize a strange shape of a
particular district when we see it. But when we say
what is the best way, what is the fair way?
What is the most unbiased way, I don't know that

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it exists. It's naturally a political process, and voters can
hold the people who draw the maps politically responsible if
they think that they are designed so as to prevent
voters from making a certain choice.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
But it's a political activity.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
So now you know that what's happening in Texas. I
got a map in the stack of stuff that shows
that shows there are now ten states who are considering redistricting,
one of those in my state. The ten states are
and there could be more. But as of right now,
what I know California, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, Wisconsin,

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and New York. So this is this is hardball time.
This might be unpleasant, This might be something that politicians
don't openly talk about, like trumpet, but this is something
that has been happening for a long long time. It's
done by both parties. It's comical to me listening to

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the media, listening to these people in social media who
literally didn't know what jerry mandering was last week tell
us that or well, either believe or pretend that Democrats
don't do any of this, or that they don't do
it as egregiously as Republicans, and that the Democrats are
the victims. That is nonsense. Democrats have been looking to

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find ways. Both sides have been looking to find ways
to get the votes they need to have political power
for a long time. Now, it's just the nature of it.
Why wouldn't they This is the way that it works.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I would maintain and present to you what I think
many of you agree with the Democrats.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Part of the.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Reason they ignored and abdicated their responsibility when they were
in the White House. They ignored the open border was
because because that was a political advantage to them. That
was something that they thought they could use to turn
into voters. Make no mistake about it. So pretending like
there aren't a bunch of games and shenanigans that are

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going on to help the political parties win more seats,
keep their seats, win a majority, and all that is
utter foolishness. This is a political exercise. There's no obvious
and simple way to do this. It requires discretion. There
will be opposing opinions. We can certainly understand when things

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have been drawn specifically for the reason of trying to
get a district to have an outcome that's not a
natural one. By the way, something else to think about,
a lot of these folks, A lot of these folks,
a lot of these folks, excuse me, they a lot

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of these states, I should say, have set up a
situation where if you stretch your votes too thin, I mean,
the whole the whole premise is that you want to
have just enough votes in each district to win so
that you can, you know, have win the next one.
Push some of the votes that you would have in
one district into another. Well, that becomes a risky proposition.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
At some point.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
These things are not foregone conclusions. Elections matter, the candidates matter,
the campaigns matter. So that's all I care to say
about this today, because I really really it's important stuff.
But I really want to share with you a little
bit about the history of the of the program here
since this is our tenth anniversary show.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
So let me pause here.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Let me pause here, because we're gonna shift to just
going down memory lane talking about this show celebrating ten years,
sharing some story, some stories, and so forth along the way. Friends,
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Speaker 3 (18:23):
All right.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
That being said, I want to say that we started
this program. We started this program in a bedroom closet
August fifteenth, twenty fifteen. Excuse me, August tenth, twenty fifteen.
Why did I put the fifteenth. That's not right.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's August tenth.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
So that's that the ten year anniversary would be Sunday.
I had spent some time. I actually after graduating college. Well,
just real quick, I guess I out of high school.
I got accepted into the United States Naval Academy, into

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the Military Academy West Point. Did not get accepted into
the Air Force Academy. You can take from that what
you will. But I couldn't get in there, but I
could get into the other two. I got the Congressional
I went through the whole process. I got the nominations
from Congressman at the time, Congressman John Myers from Senator
Dan Coates at the time. Got them from both of

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those folks, And I spent the night at the United
States Naval Academy, and I really enjoyed that in Annapolis.
But I failed, my friends the physical. Now, before you
think that there's some huge health risk here, that's not
the case. I was a little bit embarrassing to say

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I've said this so much, though I don't even care anymore.
I was a frequent sleep frequent sleepwalker back in the day,
and so if you had frequent sleepwalking episodes, this would
have been in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
You could not.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Enter the academies and it was non waverable in those days.
I also tried to get into Marine Corps OCS. I
was shot down on all of these attempts, so ended
up playing football at Butler University, graduating from Butler University
political science. The plan at the time was to go
to law school and become an attorney, which I know

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many of you, well, I shouldn't say many, but some
of you in this audience are. So I attended a
pre law program. It was before I graduated Butler, so
it was still part of the undergrad and I it
was what an exchange program, It wasn't foreign exchange student.
I went to Washington, d c. For a semester at
American University, and it was there where it was me

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versus the class virtually every single day. We had class
three days a week. We interned twice a week. I
interned a place called the Christian Defense Fund, and I
argued with classmates.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
The other day, and I loved it.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I learned during that time that law school was not
something I felt like I should do, and while I
appreciated the opportunity and I learned a lot, Actually what
I learned was that this was my dream. I didn't
know it yet, because it was when I returned home
and graduated school and decided not to go to law school.

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I found myself managing a two hundred acre standard bred
horse farm.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
It sounds absolutely made up, but it's the truth.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
We had race horses, or mayors some more retired racehorses,
but we had a well's say small. It was two
hundred acres, but it was small in the sense that,
you know, we would typically sell the horses, occasionally race
them ourselves, and.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
So we had this farm.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
It was a yeah, I don't want against not small operation,
but certainly not enormous either. And I started listening to
talk radio when I was out there, and I fell
in love with Rush Limbaugh, who I still maintain is
the all time great. You want to talk about the goat,
it's Rush Limbaugh. Everyone else is playing for second place,

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distant distant second place my friends. So anyway, started listening
and I thought, this is what I wanted to do,
But how do I get into this career?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Podcasting wasn't a thing yet. I had no.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Training in radio, so I took the scenic route, followed
a career, just did my my thing, and this just
kept becketting me and calling me, and it's what I
feel like. I felt compelled to do it, So I
started podcasting after researching a lot, started researching in May,
decided late May of twenty fifteen that I was going

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to do this, and then we launched ten years ago
this week in August tenth, twenty fifteen, and we'll talk
about that. My friends on the other side of the break,
Sit tight, listen to conservative not better Talk. I'm your
host TDT huff back in just a minute. Welcome back,
my friends. I told you today is the well, it's

(23:10):
technically Sunday, but this weekend is our tenth anniversary. And
as I've been thinking about that, kind of going through
down memory lane, there's a couple of stories that I
don't think I've ever shared on here before, and one
of them, so we started the program August tenth, twenty fifteen,
started podcasting from the bedroom closet. Now, the truth is

(23:33):
that it was a bedroom closet that belonged to my wife.
And I used to say my wife's bedroom closet, but
that didn't communicate the right idea because people wanted to
know why we had different bedrooms.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
No, it was the same bedroom.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
She just had her own closet and I was able
to broadcast from that closet. And it was humbling experience,
especially when my big old nose was bumping up against
her clothes in the closet. But anyway, that's where we
started in overtime. Over time, we took that program to

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a station here in Indianapolis, and that station is Freedom
ninety five. It's our flagship station. It's the one station
that I wanted to be on in Indianapolis. They have
a great lineup. Of course with our show, that's a
no brainer, but they've got other great shows as well,
and so it was a special that's where I wanted
to be. And so after some conversations with the folks there,

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one of them is about to join us. His name's
Jeremy if you tell he's the program director. After some conversations,
we agreed that our show would start, but we had
the ever so popular time back in.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Those days of two am.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's when we started in Indianapolis on October third, I
think it was technically the morning of October fourth, but
October third, twenty sixteen, which was about a month before
the election of twenty sixteen. Somehow I had been on
the radio at this point for a month. Somehow we

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thought it was a good idea for me to be
on live election night, which would have been November eighth,
twenty sixteen, about a month later, and I was supposed
to have the opportunity to give updates for the election
during commercial breaks, which you know, four or five minutes
whatever it is, every say, roughly ten minutes or so,

(25:26):
there'd be an update. Well, something happened that night that
was an interesting thing to happen, and I'm going to
have Jeremy, who's on the phone with me now, program
director at Freedom ninety five, kind of fill in what
happened that night. Jeremy, my friend, Welcome to the program.
So we're on election night and there was a problem, right.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
So I just listening there.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
I didn't realize it had been in just a month
that you were on our airwaves. That's kind of become
a tradition of ours to assemble here on election night.
But that was the first one. I can't believe it
was nine years ago almost, And yeah, you you had
agreed to what six minute segments?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
I think, yeah, at the most a few per hour.
So you were set up.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
There and at the time, we had the Michael Savage Show,
which started at nine o'clock, So I imagine you went
live right at nine o'clock, filled the news break, it
was your opening remarks and then yeah, and then at
nine oh six, Michael Savage and music was not there,

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and so I probably played.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
A couple of commercials or something, and I ran in the.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Studio and I'm like, Todd, I have dead air. Can
you can you carry this thing? And what we found
out later and the flukiest thing ever, had nothing to
do with the fact that it was election night.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Long story.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
An engineer who had helped off and on over the
years had somehow gotten into our satellite receiver and had
stricken the Michael Savage Show from our lineup, and so
literally Savage, you know, there was no way, there was
no warning. Savages are just there every night at nine
oh six, and he wasn't that night, and next hour started,

(27:22):
he wasn't there. It wasn't there. So you pretty much
just did bulk programming, flying by the seat of your
pants for what four hours?

Speaker 3 (27:32):
I think we went to one.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, And I remember your face, Jeremy, when you came in,
and you know, the people listening like you and I
hadn't known each other for that long. First of all,
in my mind, I was like, man, why are they
letting some guy that's just started started being on live
election nights? And then and then you know, we're getting
to know each other and trust each other. Your face
as you came in, I just remember you just kind

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of said the feed went down, and so I'm just
fixing picture dead air and you said, I said, you
want me to take the whole thing? And you said yeah,
And you said how long do you need? I remember this,
and I said sixty seconds. And you walked back behind
the glass and I heard them music in my ears.
And so for people listening like this is a big deal,

(28:16):
because I'm thinking I'm going to become on every you
know whatever ten minutes or so, talking for four, five,
six minutes just basically saying this is what's happening in Florida.
This state's been called here, and I thought I had
to give a lot of information in a little time,
and suddenly it goes to basically the wild West, where
there's format. There's no format anymore, right, it's whatever we

(28:36):
make it. And so my mindset goes to, how am
I going to talk about this for the next however
many hours? And it turned out to be fined, but
it there was a minor panic, I will tell you
in my mind there for about five seconds. So I
appreciate you having enough trusted us to pull that off
that night, Jerby.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
So I just pulled up our Instagram feed. Took a
while to scroll back years, but yeah, there's a post
of you backwards hat on the mic, and the caption
is we're often running tune in for live updates during
Levin and Savage with our own tot hup there, He's
got you covered for as long as it takes tonight.
I also remember a big baseball fan. The Cubs had

(29:18):
just won the World Series. Yes, just a couple a
couple of days prior, so I know I was up
to at least three thirty that night, and I'm pretty
sure I hadn't caught up on sleep yet, and I
remember midnight rolls around and that Trump Hillary election wasn't
even close to being called at midnight, and so you
and I look at each other like, are we in

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this thing?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
I know we went to one. I don't think we
went to two.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
That night, But then I remember driving home, driving home,
we were waiting for a Hillary concession speech.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Right, yeah, it didn't happen that night.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, they wanted a giver to the next morning, I believe, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's suppo to be young.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Aga flag. You said backwards baseball hat. I guess I
was cool enough in those days to do that. I
can't pull that off anymore, hear me.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Were we in our thirties back then?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah we were. Yeah, time was a little bit different.
But now I want to say thank you. I've told
the folks on this, the listeners, thank you. But you know,
ten years to me is a big deal. I started this,
as you know, in a closet and just felt compelled
to do this. But you're where we started and this,
your your station, has been nothing but good and gracious

(30:29):
to me. I consider you a friend. You're a fantastic
human being and obviously you've got a great taste in
selecting talent. But I just want to say thank you, Jeremy.
It's been a heck of a time and your station's
been great. You've got a great lineup and we wouldn't
be here without you and the folks at Freedom ninety five.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
So thank you.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, happy ten years. We love having the local voice. Obviously,
I know it's been a grind. Ten years is legit
like that is, you know, hats off and building building
this thing and doing it because it's a calling and
a passion, and that's that's pretty inspiring for all of
us who know you.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
I appreciate that too, my friend.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thank you very much, and again thank you to the
folks at Freedom ninety five as well. Absolutely cheers as
Jeremy Butel, program director of Freedom ninety five, and I
am grateful for all that they've done for us.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
It's been a heck of a heck of a it's
just hard to believe.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's hard to believe, it seems, you know, what do
they say that the days are long or that what
is it? The years are short, the days are long
sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
It is.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
An interesting thing to look back over the time. So
Freedom ninety five has been absolutely wonderful to me and
to this program. So I wanted to share that with you,
my friends, as we as we go through memory lane
a little bit here today. Now think about this as well,
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(32:03):
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Speaker 3 (32:17):
That do not align with your faith.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
It's all part of their purpose centered financial pledge, helping
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what you have your investments in today, if those aligned
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Speaker 3 (32:36):
It's easy to do. I've done it. It's only takes
a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
All you have to do is go to for eight
financial dot com slash todd. That's for eight financial dot
com slash todd for eight Financial. They're here to worry
about your money so that you don't have to, folks,
I have so I could do so much today, so
much about going down this memory lane. Just a couple
of tidbits and factoids for those of you who may

(33:03):
not know or find this sort of thing interesting. The
program was originally called do You Know This? The program
was originally called The Antidote to Liberalism?

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Back when I.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Launched the podcast ten years ago. It first aired, as
you know, August tenth, twenty fifteen. It first went to
Radio August excuse me, October third, technically the fourth, because
it was two am on the morning of the fourth,
twenty sixteen, and we started at two am. That was
the time we were given. We shared this story of

(33:33):
being live Election night twenty eighteen, which was something else,
and really quickly, do you know before there was an OZ,
there was a Casper? Do you remember that? Casper still
a friend? But Casper's out there and is a part
of this program as well, folks. Other things I want
to share with you about the program as we go

(33:53):
down memory lane, celebrating our tenth anniversary. But I've got
to take a break, quick time out.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
My friends back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
We've done.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
If you're listening for the first time today to this program,
it's a little bit different today because we're celebrating ten years,
which is hard to believe, ten years of starting this program.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
We're going through.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Down memory line a little bit, sharing my appreciation to you.
Of course, first and foremost the listener, I want to
say thank you to our advertisers. That's one way, by
the way, if you want to support this program, support
the advertisers that you find here advertising on this program.
It's one of the ways that we can make this

(34:37):
program available to you. It's one of the reasons it's
free for you to listen. There's costs involved, as you
might imagine, and advertisers in return for getting their information,
their brand, their products before you, they pay for that,
and so they help us to expand and to each

(35:00):
new audiences and to hopefully improve the program, the quality
and so forth.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
So you can.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Support the advertisers you hear here, or you can also
go to freedommarketplace dot net, where you will find other advertisers.
Conservative type businesses, businesses that care about the things that
you care about, care abouts freedom, care about what we
have in this great nation, free speech, and all those

(35:29):
sorts of things. You can support those folks there as well.
At Freedom marketplace dot net. I told you that the
show was originally called The Antidote to Liberalism. I gave
you the air dates. I told you there was a
Casper before there was an OZ. Some questions that I
might get, what's my favorite interview? Well, first of all,
why don't we do more interviews? Well that's a great question,

(35:53):
and I have to tell you we might do more
in the future. I've never wanted this to be an
interview based per I would rather talk with you about
the issues in practical ways.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
And think through these things.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
A lot of times I'm bothered by interviews where people
come on for five eight minutes and it's just talking points.
There's no substance. I don't feel like there's any value
a lot of times. Now I will be having an
interview next week with someone that I think you would
like to hear from. Mark Levin is going to be
joining us on this program for a segment, but it's

(36:32):
very rare.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
So, but what's my favorite interview? You know, my favorite interview?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
And I know that some folks are going to have
maybe a problem with this, but the most enjoyable interview
that I've ever done, I believe, was with Marcus Latrell.
It's like you know from Loan Survivor, the book about
Marcus Latrell, the movie I liked.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
I loved my conversation with Marcus.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
He's just uh it was it was very very you
never know where the story, what was going to happen
next when I talked with him. So I enjoyed that conversation.
Also enjoyed my conversation with Lee Strobel years ago. Lee
Strobel was instrumental. He wrote a book, He's written several books.
The former atheist who became a Christian Christian apologist wrote

(37:23):
The Case for christ which is probably my favorite book
that he had written, The Case for Faith, the Case
for Easter, the Case for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
He's written other things as well.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
I believe he was just such an impactful man in
my life. I loved talking with him as well. Now,
what about the parts of just some of the experiences
though that I've had. I got to tell you, perhaps
the most I don't know, fun or interesting.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
I don't know. It's hard to say over ten years, but.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I remember in two thousand and I don't know, eighteen,
I want to say Jeremy who we just spoke with
on freedom said, hey, Fox News just reached out to us,
and they were wanting to get a perspective from a local,
you know, someone that talks about these things about a
Supreme Court nomination.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
I think this was.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
What was it.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I think it was a Supreme Court nomination. And anyway,
I just remember Joe Donnelly was a senator here in
Indiana's at the time. It was a Democrat, and so
we were going to talk about his vote and how
he was, you know, what he was going to do
on a particular nominee. It might have been Kavanaugh, I
can't remember now. It was during Trump's term. It might

(38:36):
have been Gorsis, the first, the first nominee that Trump had.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
I don't remember. All I remember is that it went
like this.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
So we we had a home studio at the time.
We don't live there now, but the basement we had
as our home studios, a Finnish basement, and you know,
it was nice, nice area. And originally I knew it
was a television interview, but I thought that I was
going to be meeting them. I don't know if I

(39:06):
thought I was going to meet them at like the
local Fox affiliate, or if I was going to meet
them at Freedom ninety five. But it quickly became, Hey,
they want to come and record you live doing your
program and then talk with you afterwards, and which meant
they would have had to have been at our home,
which meant my wife needed that information. And I remember

(39:28):
I wrote about this. It's somewhere on the website, but
I remember telling her, Hey, and this happened so fast
in this world. Hey, Fox News wants me to be interviewed.
Oh that's great, Todd, that's great opportunity. Now they're asking
about coming to the house, and I think the response
was something like, they want to come to my house.

(39:51):
You know, immediately she's thinking, I don't know, I got
to probably clean the corners and make sure it's one
million percent presentable because it's going to be on television.
And then it went from yeah, they're asking to they're
gonna be there at five in the morning on whatever
morning it was. And I just remember that experience. It
was a lot of fun as well. But you know,

(40:12):
I've just had such a great experience meeting with and
hearing from people in this audience. I love that more
than you might realize. Doing the Truth Tour, when we
traveled around the country, meeting some incredible people. I had
someone once tell me I saved their life, which seems
a little much for me, but that's what he told me.

(40:35):
Being told by a liberal that I almost humanized her
in the way that I talked about her sharing the gospel,
a compliment I'd gotten from Jeff Allen from Drybar Comedy.
So many memories, so little time. Gotta go my friends,
SDG

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