Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. Well, greetings, my friends, and yes it is me. Talk a
little bit about that today as we get the program rolling. But it is a pleasure to be back here, and I'm sorry I've been out for the past what week or so. Email should you want to be part of the conversation today Todd at Todd Huffshow dot com. You can always text us as well three one seven two one zero two eight three zero. Message and data raids may apply. And it is my pleasure to be here, so I
have over the past. I'm just telling oz as we were getting started here, we've only been here a couple of times since before, you know, really since around the Christmas you know, Christmas season, And there's a reason for that, and I've I've not known how to tell you because we did post something on on Facebook, I believe, but we were out. We were out since New Year's Day, my father in law had unexpectedly passed away on New Year's Day. We are all doing well, but he was.
He was huge part of my wife's world and our children's world. We were nearby to Chuck. His name was Chuck, and so he unexpectedly passed on on New Year's Day, late in the evening on New Year's Day, and that's what we've been dealing with for these past the past week or so. The funeral was on Monday, and it's just a lot, a lot to deal with. As I mentioned, I won't go too much into this. I just want to pay him proper, proper respect and honor, and also
let you know where we've been. And look, I know some of you. These are new stations that were on here, new new markets around this this nation, and we haven't had a normal day here since we started with you a week or so ago. So I do apologize for that. This is not normal. This is not the way that it typically is, but it is the way that has been here for the past the past week or so of my family's life. But it was sudden. We do believe that
he passed peacefully and quickly. From what we believed to be a I believe it was cardiac arrest, but there's just a lot that goes along with that. My wife's not from a huge family, and there are people that are close to him but are close to him relationally but far from him geographically. So we had some of those things to manage, and people had to come in and there was just a lot. There was a whole lot, And
candidly, I was completely incapable of doing this program last week. I do want to say a couple of words about about my five In fact, I'm going to share something. I had the honor of doing the eulogy on Monday,
and I do consider it an honor. I didn't obviously want to be in that circumstance, but to be given the opportunity to to share share life experiences and to go a little bit down memory lane, and to also have the assurance through Jesus that we'll see my father in law again one day in the suite, by and by, but a lot of family and friends shared some stories I had too that I was prepared to share, because you never know if someone's going to get to the microphone and not, you know,
they get choked up and they can't tell their something that they wanted to say. So I had to stories in the that I was prepared to share quickly. And I'll do this quickly. This is again an honor my father in law. But my father in law loved to fish. He loved to fish. He was a fisherman his whole life. When he was a young boy, he used to travel with family to a small town that he used to take our son to in Gordon, Wisconsin, where they would fish and he
loved it. And so when Chuck retired, and he retired from AT and T sometime around two thousand and eight, nine ten something like that, he retired, he he bought a fishing boat. And I'm not the fisherman. I have fished in my life, but it's not something I did on a regular basis. But I thought, this is a great opportunity Chuck and I can go out there, you know, fish some of these local lakes or
whatever. And so we'd made some plans to do this, but I'm telling you, something didn't want to go out there on this fishing boat because I think we underestimated just how much bad luck a couple of guys could have. So our first fishing trip was to a local lake here in central Indiana that we just called Cataract. I don't know what they really call the I think it has another name, but anyway, we call it Cataract. And so we get to the lake. So we'd gotten the boat there. It's a
thirty forty minute drive something like that. We pull into the station right before you, you know, get down to the boat rams and so forth. The individual at the station looked a little bit perplexed, came to the window and he said something to the effect of, you can't put your boat here. Because this was about a month or two after the floods. We had some really massive flooding back here, and I think it was two thousand and eight. So the flood the lake it was still I'm talking months later,
it was like fifty feet above flood stage. So there were trees and stuff that were submerged, and of course you didn't want to put your boat out there and get into branches of a tree that was underwater that normally wasn't even in the lake. So we had to turn around and go back home. A few months later, we thought we'd try again. We thought we'd try again. We looked and everything was back to normal levels. So we thought this problem was taken care of. So we hitched the boat up in his
driveway. Early in the morning, we back out of the driveway. We'd drive about ten feet. My friends, this is a true story. We drive about ten feet down the road, hear a noise turn around, and while we thought we had the boat hitched up properly to the back of his truck, we did not, and the trailer was nose first. The boat wasn't damage, the trailer wasn't damage. We probably weren't going five miles an hour, but that boat was sitting in the middle of the road, and
so Chuck and I realized this just wasn't meant to be. We didn't get the get it over the hitch properly. The other story is one that I've told on here before, but I want to tell it again, and I'll give the abbreviated version, which my father in law was a fan of Walt Disney World. His happiest place on Earth is the so called happiest place on Earth, and so he took all of his children to Disney, all of his grandchildren to Disney. At least that I say at least, because some
folks went more than one time, including us. So we were in Disney and it was in twenty twenty, and we were this time. It was with our family and with my wife's brother's family as well. So there's six kids, you know, her brother and his wife, my wife and I and then Chuck and Charlene. And so we're on the bus to and as we're boarding this bus, I remember telling this because I remember hearing from some
of you, some of you about this story. We had the bus driver, the bus driver who was very angry about having to, I guess drive the bus in the COVID year, right, So there were still COVID policies in place. You didn't have to wear the mask in the entire park. You had to wear them inside and on vehicles that sort of stuff. And let me say not one person was not complying with these rules. But the bus driver came up, got out of the bus before we boarded, and
basically gave us a lecture. Came in hot yelling at us, hey, put your mask on, don't give me any stuff. And look, I'm sure he had his people who weren't cooperating or whatever. I thought it was silly, but it was their rules, and then there was that way or nothing. So I was complying. I wasn't being a rebel or anything like that. He was way out of control. I let it slide. We get on the bus. Then he gets on the PA and he starts telling the entire bus. He tells the entire bus, this is a law.
You have to put this on. If you don't put it on, I mean, all hell is gonna break loose on you, basically, and this is true. I started visibly shaking my head because I'm like, that's it's not a law. It's a dictate. It's a mandate. It's an edict of somebody, some governor, judge, Disney executive will not judge, governor mayor somebody in Fauci's position or whatever that are telling us what to do. It was not a law. It never was passed by Congress and all this.
It wasn't a law. So I was shaking my head because I think these things matter. You know, we talk about these sorts of things on this program all the time. And I'm shaking my head. No. The bus driver sees me and decides he's going to engage with me. Over the pa. Hey, yes, it is a law, he says, and
I said, no, it isn't a law. So this goes back and forth for a minute, and he said, well, it's a law at Disney, to which I found myself utterly perplexed and also realizing I'm dealing with someone who has no idea about the importance of the type of constitutional republic we have and how laws are formed and all this sort of stuff. So this
eventually dies down. By the way, turns out we became legend legends that day because as I was boarding the bus later that day, I was talking with someone, someone I didn't know, as I usually do, and she said to me, there was a guy. There's a guy earlier today that got into it with the bus driver about the mask, and I said, well, that was me. We didn't really get into it, but I
can see why people thought that. Anyway, As this all was going down, I remember my father in law was sitting in front in front of me, and he kind of looks over his shoulder and I knew what. He didn't say anything, but I knew what the look mean. The look meant, hey, this is the happiest place on earth. There is nothing that is more important. We want you to be here. But listen, man, you get thrown off this bus and you called yourself problems. You are
on here on your own because we are going to Disney. We have looked forward to this for probably but decades at this point in time for my father in law. So but he was a great man and he will be greatly greatly missed. So thank you for allowing me to share that. Again, this is not normal content here at the show. This is not normal circumstances for me and my family. A lot of this fell upon my wife to
deal with, and she did a fantastic job. She shared some sentiments and thoughts at the funeral on Monday. It was just it was It was a beautiful thing. We mourn his loss. But as I shared during the services on Monday, and i'll share with you today, my friends, we shouldn't be sorry for Chuck. We shouldn't be sorry for Chuck. Chuck is in a place of eternal happiness and joy. He feels no more pain, he
will have no more sorrow. We will see him once again. Thanks be to God Almighty, through his son Jesus Christ, for saving my father in law Chuck. He was baptized back in twenty eighteen. I remember some of those conversations I had to him, had with him before he decided to follow Jesus, and it's a beautiful thing. He will be missed. There is a massive hole in our hearts, but we will see him again in the sweet by and by, my friends, So thank you for alling me to
share that. I've got to take a time out. We're gonna pick up. I got so much stuff here, so many thoughts in my head, so many things in the stack of stuff. But we'll start going through those on the other side of the break again. Thank you so much for indulging me for a moment as I shared those thoughts and sentiments. But you're listening here to the home of conservative bitter talk. I am your host. Back at it here behind the microphone, todt huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. Oz reminded me of another story that I won't share with you at the moment, but who knows, maybe we will at some point. Anyway, I remember on well, the week before the last week before New Year's our weekly column, which, by the way, we have a weekly column that goes out by email. It's also picked up in a couple of places now. In fact, we're working on getting it syndicated in more places. But it goes out as an email. If you sign
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we did not write one last week. I couldn't last last week again, we were dealing with what I told you about last last segment. But the last column I wrote was December twenty seventh, whatever it was, the twenty seventh, I think, and it was talking about what we're going to have in the new year. Right We've got, by the way, we have the Iowa caucuses here that are on Monday. We're just a handful of days less than a week away from the Iowa Caucuses. And then, of course
we've got Super Tuesday here in just a couple of months. We've got Trump's trials that are supposedly supposed to start. Then we've got one trial that is supposed to start the day before Super Tuesday. What a coincidence, What a coincidence. You have something that Trump has been charged with that goes back January
sixth, the twenty twenty one, three years ago. Suddenly the timing works out, ever so perfectly, ever so coincidentally, that they will be starting that trial supposedly the day before Super Tuesday, which is the single most important day on the primary calendar, because sixteen states and territories voice their opinion cast their ballots on who will be their preferred nominee for the Republican presidential candidate in two thousand and twenty four. So we've got all of this coming down very
quickly upon us. And I wrote about these things in the last December twenty seven, which was the last column to go down, so or that we put out, I should say, So you've got all this stuff coming to a head here early in twenty twenty four. And I said again at the end of twenty twenty three. Buckle up. This is going to be the most politically intense, culturally intense moment of time in modern history. Definitely in my lifetime. I mean, you have to go back a long long time
to even find something comparable. I would think the nineteen sixties might be the closest thing, but I think that this one is even I mean, friends, this is for all the marbles, for the lovers of big government, right. And I try to paint this picture, and I try to think of ways to best explain this, but their intention is to remake this nation into something that is not what the founders put together. These individuals, the
lovers of big government. This does not mean every Democrat, This does not mean everyone that didn't vote for Trump or anything like that. These are people who's objective is to rewrite this country's founding documents. These are the people who hate liberty. These are the people that hate that you have a choice. These are the people who hate the idea that there is free market capitalism or anything that's going on in this country or anywhere on planet Earth that they do
not have control in some amount authority over. These folks are tyrants. They are not equipped to be in any position of government in this nation. Whatsoever. These people are a danger, you want to talk about, a true danger to our well, quote unquote, as the left says, as the media says. Democracy. No, no, no, we have a constitutional republic, which is not a democracy, pure democracy. There's a thing called in a pure democracy, I should say, there's a thing called the tyranny
of the majority. And so a constitutional republic seeks to prevent the tyranny of majority, because it says, certain we all have certain unalienable rights, every single individual on planet Earth, well, under the purview of the Constitution, every single American has certain unalienable rights. Of course, they believe the founders believe that these rights were given to everybody by Almighty God, not by government.
But we have governments around the world, people who seek to have authority and power in governments around the world, including ours, by the way, who do not respect that, who do not believe in a creator, who certainly do not believe in a If they do believe in a creator that he gave us rights, they believe that they are the arbiters of what is actually what we have the right to do. They believe they have the final say they're smarter than us. They believe they're better equipped. Our job is,
of course to follow. Their job is, of course to lead and to tax and to get wealthy off of us. Measley peasants that they can boss around and control. That is sorry, as I said that A quick story. This one's quick. We have three children. Oldest son is now fourteen. He when we told him he was a little guy. We told him he was gonna have a baby. A baby turned out to be a baby's sister, and every time we would ask him about it, he was too roughly. He would say, boss around. Logan, you're gonna have a
sister. Boss around. I can still hear him as I say these words in my head. A little bitty guy. He's basically telling us, Hey, I'm gonna have somebody that I can boss around. First of all, that's not the way that that worked out, because number two is the one that's doing a lot of the say signal calling here in the huff household. But the other it was just funny to hear that little guy say that,
And of course it wasn't the way that it worked out. But the bottom line is there are people who are much older than two who think that their goal, their objective, their meaning in life is to boss around, is to make decisions, is to lord it over people. They don't like this concept of liberty because liberty eliminates that power. Liberty says, yes, of course, there are certain things that are under the purview and under the discretion
and under the authority of a government. But by the way, it's only under the authority of the government because the people have given up the consent, have given consents, i should say, to be governed. And so they say, you government can make these sorts of decisions, but that's never enough. They want to do more. They want more control, they want more power, they want more whelp, they want more praise and honor. These
are arrogant. You talk about a pure anti god state of mind. This is what we're dealing with in this particular person that I'm painting this picture of. And so those folks, those folks who operate in the shadows, who love the darkness, who work in ways that many of us just can't even wrap our heads around. The deceit, the evil, the just complete disregard for what is good and right and true truth itself. These things are hated
by these clowns and jokers, and they're all tyrants. But they believe that they're just ever so close, one election away, perhaps from accomplishing their mission. I don't know, they are very very close. In fact, they've got do you know. And this is in the stack of stuff for today, eighty one percent of Democrats want Trump removed from ballots. Eighty one percent. Four it's four out of five. If I've got a Bernie Sanders fan tuned in here today, and it's not very good at math, take it
easy. I love you, I welcome you here, but we're gonna have a little bit of fun because you clearly don't understand mathematics if you're a democratic socialist. But nonetheless, or economics for that matter, but nonetheless, eighty
one percent of Democrats think that Trump should be removed from the ballot. And the question is why, Well, he's tried to stage an insurrection tide, he tried to overthrow the government, which of course is preposterous in every sense of the word and the meaning, and just that entire way of thinking is absolutely preposterous. But suffice that to say, suffice it to say that, let's just assume that he did. Let's assume that the plan was to take
control of the capital, then what what did they do? They do they really believe the eighty one percent of Democrats really believe we want Trump removed from the ballot. Do they really believe that that was the plan? The plan was to get control of the Capitol building. And now they say, well, we're here, we're occupying the building. I guess we're the ones that's going to be making the laws. It's not the way that it works.
And even if they were to barricade themselves in there, there would have been a team of law enforcement professionals to go in and move remove them from the building. It's just it's totally ridiculous. Let's say that they passed laws. Let's say that they went in there and they said, we're calling a quorum. We have said that we are the ones making the rules now, and the first rule we're going to do is passes X. Okay, let's say
that they did that. It's preposterous. It never came close to happening. It wasn't anything remotely in the forefront of the minds of those who were in there. Whatever. I'm not defending all the things that happened, but that's not what was going on. Do you think do you think if you tuned into this program that I would have said, well, I guess we've got a regime change. I guess we've got new laws. I guess the Constitution is out the window. Of course, that wouldn't have been the case.
It's so blatantly stupid. It is disingenuine to believe that this was, in fact what was going to happen. But this is where we are, and so they think they're close. They see Trump as the obstacle. They see you, my friend, as the obstacle. And so if you won't comply with their whims and wishes to accumulate more power, to limit your freedom, to tax you more, and everything else, they're going to turn up the heat. It's the only option that's left. It's the only option because they're
not going to say, well we tried and throw up their hands. That is not who we're dealing with here, my friends. And that's why twenty twenty four is going to be an incredibly wild ride, and we're going to help guide you through it every single step of the way. But a timeout is in order. My friends, sit tight, you're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. It's going to be back to my friends back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Being a conservative, being
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some high points here, just really quickly. And there's other things I want to get a couple of other things I want to spend a little bit more time on. But the House and the Senate have agreed on a package to avert another government shut down. We're going to be funded through I believe, the entire year of twenty twenty four, if I'm not mistaken here. Lots of things, of course happening in my world, but there's some minor,
very minor spending cuts that are included in this deal. I think twenty billion dollars. Of course, we're spending Biden's in Biden's term in office, which is now three complete, almost three complete years. Not quite it seems like three decades, I know, but three complete years. Just a few days short of that. We have watched the deficit increase by I think it was six point two trillion dollars or some such number. So basically, in general,
I'm generalizing here. But we're basically two trillion dollars short every year, two trillion dollars. And according to what I've read, we've cut about twenty billion. And I know it can get We'll all you know, we're talking over radio or podcast. You can't see the numbers, and billions sounds like a million, sounds like trillion, sounds like whatever. So it's sometimes it's
hard to realize we're talking factors of a thousand. It's a thousand millions to make a billion, it's a thousand billions to make a trillion, right, so it can become it's easy for the magnitude of the difference between two trillion and twenty billion to be realized unless you write out the number or chartered on a graph or something, just to give yourself some some sort of perspective on what that difference is. But it's it's pennies, is what it's. I
don't even know if it's pennies, it's portions of pennies. We've got real work to do, and I look, I think, on the one hand, we should think any step in that direction is a positive step. Any step that's going to cut spending we should welcome because it is met with absolute you know, you got people that go in utter panic mode and telling us the end of the world as we know it is upon us if we cut anything from the precious government's spending. But that's simply not true. It's simply
not true. So I'm content that we've taken a step. But it's so tiny. It's it's the equivalent of if you have to run a marathon when you wake up in the morning, if you open your eyes, right, I mean, that's it's not even really taking a step towards the twenty six point two miles. It's just waking up to the possibility that you've got a race to run. So I applauded in the theory medical sense, but it's not a practical thing that has any meaningful significance whatsoever to our reality as Americans.
We've got Mike Pence out there, who used to be running for president, who is no longer running for president, who never should have been running for president, and I again, he's got Indiana tized. So I don't mean that to be personal, but it was crazy from day one, and
we said it was crazy from day one. Here anyway, he's out there saying that he's taking the FBI at their word regarding their involvement in January sixth, which seems you talk about something the founders would have absolutely never been okay with. Just take him out the word and I'm not here to malign the
FBI. Well, I'm here to hold accountable and to criticize those who have abused their positions of power, those who are making decisions, those who are using it to weaponize the department against say Trump or whatever else that needs to
be caught out. Absolutely, there's plenty of people in the FBI that are just trying to do the job, protect the American people, hold people who have broken the law to account, and all that I know, Yet the issue of should there even be Federal Bureau of Investigations a federal policing agency of sorts. But regardless of all that, this concept that we should just take
them at their word is utterly ridiculous. I can't believe someone who is conservative like Pens It makes no sense to me to think that you would take any person in government, any person or organization who has authority and power, Why we would take them at their word for anything that's not I mean, folks, you can. I would challenge you to look up what I talk about.
That's why we got the stack of stuff here. I just taking people at the word, especially when the only way to hold them accountable is to question what they're telling us. I don't know. That's a big problem for me. So that's out there as well. The other things. I want to hit on some high points and spend a little bit of time talking about something good old Kamala said here over the past few days. But a timeouts in order, my friends sit tight back here in just a minute. Welcome
back, my friends. So before the break, I told you that I want her to share. This is a very very short sound bite, very very short clip from our nations vice president, the Vice President of the United States, which is man terrifying notion. When I say who this is, and you know who it is, it's just I got to build up the courage to say the name because of what she wants to do to this country and what she believes about this country anyway, but the vice president is Kamala
Harris. Gives me the chills to even say that. But nonetheless, here she is at the podium trying to frame to a group of Democrat supporters. She's trying to frame the issue of well, she's trying to frame the twenty twenty four election, which of course is going to be rooted in fear mongering and saying that Republicans are dangerous and trying to take away the voting rights of
Americans in this country. So I want you to listen to this as a short clip, and I want you to have a dose of reality as to what is really happening and who the real threat to voting rights, the voice of the American people. Who that really is. Here's Kamala Harris at the podium telling us the dangers of Republicans and of course the danger of Donald J. Trump. We fight to protect this sacred freedom to vote, while they
try to silence the voice of the people. So they fight to protect the sacred right to vote, while we Republicans, conservatives, Trump supporters the fight to silence the voice of the people. Now, what's remarkable to me. What's remarkable to me is that people in this crowd not in agreement. They voice their approval of what she's saying, or at least their agreement with what she's saying. And yes, of course, the Republicans are the ones who
are trying to do this. Democrats are trying to save people and the voice of the people and the sacred right to vote. Republicans are out there just trampling it to the ground. That's the narrative. But it is incredible to me how quickly or how far people can be convinced by words that what they are seeing in reality is not what's really happening. So if you look at this, who are the ones? Now? I did see, I did
see someone's trying to remove Biden from a ballot in one state. I don't have that in the stack of stuff, but I remember reading that yesterday or sometime this in the past few days. So I'm not saying that this is just one party. It's predominantly one party. I mean it's it's massively one party. And there's a lot of Republicans that want to get even and take Biden off the ballot because we can or we should to get even and so forth. I do not take that position. I have told you that repeatedly
on this program. But who are the ones, my friends, who are the ones who are trying to actively remove Trump from the ballot? Is it not people who hate Donald J. Trump? Is it not people who have sold the lie that Trump and gay an insurrection on January sixth, twenty twenty one. Who are the ones who are using the FBI, the Department of
Justice whatever to go after President Trump? Who are the ones who have launched cases, criminal indictments, and so forth against the presumptive nominee of the other parties of the other party? Is it not the Democrat Party? Who are the ones? Even when you look at what they want to do from a voter you know the rights of voters and voter ID and so forth, Look at what they want to do. Who wants to allow people who are not
even citizens to vote in elections? Who wants to eliminate the need for voter ID? Who wants to eliminate even registering to vote? Like? All that stuff is there for a reason? Right? The more people who are registered who don't vote means that there's more possible avenues into fraudulent activity. This is not complicated. If someone has no intention to vote, why should they be automatically registered to vote? That registration can be used by someone in a nefarious
way for a fake vote to be counted. And then if that's the case. Ask yourself if they're doing things that allow for more fraudulent votes and activity, it's actually watering down the real voice of the people. Timeouts in order to my friends just out of time, back in a minute, Welcome back to my friends, waning moments, and look, I know we're on here. We haven't been around for a few it's been very inconsistent with the holiday, of course, and then of course with what I share with you.
Off the top of the passing of my father in law. That's where we've been and I shared some words on that in the first segment if you miss that and want to hear a little bit more about that and so forth. But we're also in new markets. I mean, we've opened up teen new markets on January tewod and if you're in those new locations, you've been hearing encore episodes of the program. So I just want you to know that I'm back here. What we just went through is not in the least bit normal
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