Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks in this episode. Where do you
Speaker 1: even want to start carry Underwood's delay, baron Trump's heights,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, Beyonce's seat, Milania's hat, the air kiss, the
Speaker 1: black preacher, billionaire's row, or you want to talk Trump's speech.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Amy and DJ, where we
Speaker 1: will start with at least this robes. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: officially once again the president of the United States. He
Speaker 1: is number forty five and officially now number forty seven.
Speaker 2: And it was I would say, confidently the most entertaining
Speaker 2: inauguration I have ever personally witnessed.
Speaker 1: How about you, Well, we say it was unorthodox in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, I guess, and part of that
Speaker 1: had to do with the fact that it had to
Speaker 1: be moved inside because of the weather, So that changes
Speaker 1: the mood. But when you talk about the cast of characters,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, the
Speaker 1: UFC president Dana White is sitting right behind former President
Speaker 1: George W. Bush. That's interesting.
Speaker 2: So for me when I said it was entertaining, it look,
Speaker 2: depending on where you fall on your political beliefs and
Speaker 2: who you backed for president, it could be disturbing it
Speaker 2: could be empowering, it could be any of the above,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't boring. And it was like nothing I
Speaker 2: had ever seen before. And you and I, look, I
Speaker 2: have covered plenty of inaugurations. You and I were there
Speaker 2: eight years ago together reporting on the mall as President
Speaker 2: Trump was inaugurated in twenty seventeen, and that was a
Speaker 2: wildly different environment. I've just I've never seen a cast
Speaker 2: of characters put together. And yes, having it in an intimate,
Speaker 2: indoor setting made it more focused on perhaps that versus
Speaker 2: when you're looking outside. It's just there's a lot to
Speaker 2: take in. This was very concentrated, and the focus the
Speaker 2: lens was focused on a few and there were there
Speaker 2: were people in that room that you wouldn't normally see
Speaker 2: out of presidentialuration.
Speaker 1: More awkward too, because they had to be in such
Speaker 1: close quarters and so intimate. And he gave a speech
Speaker 1: that was not unifying. No, you could argue, but he
Speaker 1: he I don't say take shots, he said, he very
Speaker 1: strongly made clear that the people who were sitting to
Speaker 1: his left were you say, five seven feet if the
Speaker 1: current president and excuse me, no longer the current now
Speaker 1: the former president now Biden and Kamala Harris were sitting
Speaker 1: right there. It made just a It made it awkward,
Speaker 1: and it made it interesting. It was a human drama
Speaker 1: playing out. It was there were just so much to
Speaker 1: what we.
Speaker 2: Saw CNN, so we had all the networks up on
Speaker 2: varying screens. But CNN actually did the double screen where
Speaker 2: they had a camera or they took the camera of
Speaker 2: then President Biden and Vice President Harris reacting to some
Speaker 2: of what Trump was saying, which Shadow and I and
Speaker 2: you were like is that appropriate? And I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it is, but I'm into it
Speaker 2: because I couldn't stop watching because you're wondering in your mind,
Speaker 2: what are they thinking? How are they processing this? As
Speaker 2: now President Trump is declaring this National Liberation Day. Watching
Speaker 2: Biden and Harris listening to Trump eviscerating their time in office,
Speaker 2: eviscerating their choices and applauding the records he sat beating them.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was just I had to sit there
Speaker 2: something I have never seen before.
Speaker 1: But a part of it, there is a there was
Speaker 1: an awkwardness to that. There was a graciousness there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, a different You don't want to be a
Speaker 1: sore loser. Also don't want to be a sore winner.
Speaker 1: And I guess presidents in the past there was no
Speaker 1: nod to the previous administration. I know this is some
Speaker 1: of this stuff is tough. Just to thank you for
Speaker 1: a tough campaign or good He never acknowledged those two
Speaker 1: other than to, like you say, a visceraate their record.
Speaker 1: But there was something too the beauty of and the
Speaker 1: pageantry is one thing, but just the beauty of a
Speaker 1: system that can allow people who just got beat in
Speaker 1: an election and the guy who beat them they have
Speaker 1: to sit there while he talks bad about their record,
Speaker 1: and they sit there graciously and they take it. And
Speaker 1: power has been transitioned.
Speaker 2: And that is part of what America makes America great.
Speaker 1: There's the beauty of that, no matter what you think
Speaker 1: about either party. That's just cool.
Speaker 2: It was I watched. We watched every second from start
Speaker 2: to finish, from when they were even arriving for tea,
Speaker 2: which didn't happen four years ago, which I kept wondering
Speaker 2: what that was like. In the White House where you
Speaker 2: saw Joe and Jill Biden welcome Milania and Donald Trump
Speaker 2: to the White House for tea. It was very cool
Speaker 2: to see them altogether, to see them ride to the
Speaker 2: Capitol together, that was something that I took in and
Speaker 2: it did give me. I guess it just relaxed my
Speaker 2: shoulders and made me think, Okay, like, no matter what,
Speaker 2: this is what is supposed to happen. And it makes
Speaker 2: you feel in that moment, proud to be an American
Speaker 2: that that can happen.
Speaker 1: But we've been so politically unsure, it feels like for
Speaker 1: so long, given what happened four years ago. It's just
Speaker 1: it's nice to see us getting back to routine, I guess,
Speaker 1: getting back into what we're doing.
Speaker 2: What we did this was routine. To see the uh
Speaker 2: what do they say that the Titans of Tech. They
Speaker 2: were in the third row, so I you know, to
Speaker 2: be able to watch Elon Musk react to what was happening,
Speaker 2: it was just it was bizarre. It was strange but interesting.
Speaker 1: Well it's it's I think, guess at this point we've
Speaker 1: come to expect that from Trump. We've seen this cast
Speaker 1: of characters I suppose of his, but to see them
Speaker 1: there on stage, like I said, Dana White, the UFC
Speaker 1: president has a as good of a seat as the
Speaker 1: former president of the United States and I guess who
Speaker 1: it last time it was, I guess it would have
Speaker 1: been Michelle Obama, who wasn't there again for the inauguration.
Speaker 1: She skipped as she did Carter's funeral. She would have
Speaker 1: been sitting between Barack Obama and Donald Trump at that funeral.
Speaker 1: So I was looking at Lauren Sanchez, the fiance of
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, sitting between that guy, and it was Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was in between Mark Zuckerberg and her say yeah,
Speaker 2: and she put on quite the show. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I just I kind of feel like I have to say,
Speaker 2: it was hard to miss her choice and outfits to
Speaker 2: watch the president get take his oath of office. It
Speaker 2: was a very beautiful white lace spraw underneath a tailored suit,
Speaker 2: and that was the only thing underneath her suit. And
Speaker 2: she was in a very prominent position. So, you know,
Speaker 2: to each their own, it's just a it was an
Speaker 2: interesting choice of alfus. So I was just curious if
Speaker 2: people would be commenting on.
Speaker 1: Of course they are. I wouldn't have gotten it if
Speaker 1: you hadn't pointed it out once I saw it. Okay, finally,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, I didn't notice it to just
Speaker 1: think anything of it. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: have thought anything of it, and I've been watching with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. I do not know, But
Speaker 1: I just thought it was a cool seat of the
Speaker 1: between those two guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was a lot to look at, and a
Speaker 2: lot of those folks were all on display for all
Speaker 2: of us to see in a very concentrated way, in
Speaker 2: a way that I don't know how it would have
Speaker 2: been if they had all been outside. I know they
Speaker 2: would have been on the dais and so they would
Speaker 2: have had a prominent seat regardless, but this felt more
Speaker 2: I don't know, it felt more intimate. So it felt
Speaker 2: like the camera was pointed directly at that, like I
Speaker 2: think Baron Trump was said was at least the way
Speaker 2: the camera lens was right next to or near Elon,
Speaker 2: so the two of them, it was just constantly being
Speaker 2: able to see people's facial expressions reacting to what Trump
Speaker 2: was saying in his inaugural address, which was not like
Speaker 2: other inaugural addresses we've been used to hearing.
Speaker 1: But I guess we weren't surprised it was a speech
Speaker 1: we're used to hearing him. Yeah, I suppose He didn't
Speaker 1: say anything that anybody would say, Oh my goodness, Trump
Speaker 1: just went out of left field on it was very Trump.
Speaker 1: We was very Trump. But it was necessarily a inauguration speech,
Speaker 1: but it was it was more divisive that it was unifying.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will argue and I
Speaker 1: guess we haven't gotten to the speech necessarily. I guess
Speaker 1: what we'll jump out all the He announced he's going
Speaker 1: to have but one hundred plus executive orders. But among them,
Speaker 1: and he talked about these in the speech, birthright, citizenship,
Speaker 1: two genders, man and woman, that the federal government is
Speaker 1: not going to recognize, taking back the Panama Canal, and
Speaker 1: planning the flag on Mars Mars, in addition to changing
Speaker 1: the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf.
Speaker 2: Of America, invoking the Alien Enemy Act of seventeen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: He got lots of standing ovations. I started first, I
Speaker 2: started to actually try to mark how many they were
Speaker 2: were and then truly they there became too many to count.
Speaker 2: When he said drill, baby, drill. Another standing oh, when
Speaker 2: he said he was going to end the new the
Speaker 2: Green New Deal, the electric car man date, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to herald oil workers Standing ovation, you can buy
Speaker 2: the car of your choice. The External Revenue Service talked
Speaker 2: about tariffs, another standing ovation. The two genders also got
Speaker 2: a standing ovation, backpay and full reinstatement for military members
Speaker 2: who refused the COVID vaccine Standing Ovation. Mount McKinley. He
Speaker 2: wants to change the name that Barack Obama. Barack Obama
Speaker 2: gave the highest Barack Obama. Yeah, Barama named the highest
Speaker 2: mountain in North America to Denali. He wants to he is,
Speaker 2: he says, going to change it back to Mount McKinley. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was so many I was saved by
Speaker 2: God to make America great again. There were just a
Speaker 2: of nuggets.
Speaker 1: You blew right past that line, But that was a
Speaker 1: very prominent line in his speech, saying, in fact, he
Speaker 1: survived that assassination attempt because God wanted him to save
Speaker 1: this country. Not mincing words, I'm not putting words in
Speaker 1: his mouth. That is the context. That's everything you need.
Speaker 1: He said that, and that's a heck of a statement.
Speaker 1: I mean, he believes that. He believes that.
Speaker 2: If others believe that, they believe another thing. He said,
Speaker 2: I remember getting a standing ovation speaking to border wars
Speaker 2: and certainly involving the issue of immigration. He said, all
Speaker 2: cartels are now going to be named foreign terrorist organizations
Speaker 2: being put in that category. That got a standing ovation,
Speaker 2: a national emergency at our southern border, standing ovation.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: And he also made a nod to Mlkday. He said
Speaker 2: in his honor, we will make his dream come true.
Speaker 2: He didn't really go into details about how he would
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: Get a standing ovation on that one.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't mark as standing out on that one.
Speaker 2: It's not that it it may have happened. I started
Speaker 2: to try to just every time he made a comment
Speaker 2: that got a standing out, just put standing gos, standinghos. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then it just got to be overwhelming.
Speaker 1: But it felt like a we said it during a
Speaker 1: stayed with the Union address, And I think that was
Speaker 1: only possible because it moved indoors. If this was outside,
Speaker 1: and obviously a big crowd of thousands and thousands wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to be a you know, in unison with
Speaker 1: standing ovations, and they don't do them up on the podium,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it would have been different, and it allowed
Speaker 1: for it. And there was an overflow room of a
Speaker 1: couple thousand, I believe, but only about six hundred folks
Speaker 1: could get into that main room, and so it was
Speaker 1: the vip of the VIPs to get in there. So
Speaker 1: a lot of members of Congress and VIPs and governors
Speaker 1: and folks weren't able to get in there. So he
Speaker 1: was able to fill that room with people who love him,
Speaker 1: and it did. It felt like it felt like a
Speaker 1: home game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that room and he you know, it's We've seen
Speaker 2: him in different states, different moods, but today he was gonfident,
Speaker 2: he was measured, he was calm, and his demeanor, the
Speaker 2: way he presented the speech, he was very presidential. He's
Speaker 2: done this before, he knows what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 2: But as he was all of those things I just said,
Speaker 2: he listed all the superlatives that you've come to know,
Speaker 2: like just what that something that the US will become
Speaker 2: or be restored to. It was all going to be
Speaker 2: the best that there was or ever has been. And
Speaker 2: so yes, he was very trump like, but he was
Speaker 2: I think the word I thought of when I was
Speaker 2: listening to and was measured, And.
Speaker 1: That's not something folks are used to. You were saying,
Speaker 1: he's measured, and I think the way, yes, undred percent,
Speaker 1: the way he delivered the speech, his tone, at the tone,
Speaker 1: A lot of people will say the message wasn't very
Speaker 1: it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an important distinction. What he said wasn't necessarily measured,
Speaker 2: but how he said it was. Yes, that's a big
Speaker 2: difference between the two.
Speaker 1: No, he was slow and delivered and delivered the lines
Speaker 1: they were the way they were supposed to be delivered.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe we've been having this discussion this long
Speaker 1: because without mentioning something in particular, because it was the
Speaker 1: it was the reason when coverage first started that I think.
Speaker 1: I yelled at you in the other room to come
Speaker 1: look at the TV. I said, you've got to see
Speaker 1: what she's got on. Oh, I screwed. This was the
Speaker 1: one time I said, hey, come check out Malania.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know you said she nailed it. And
Speaker 2: she did. She looked incredible, she looked powerful, she looked
Speaker 2: pulled together, she looked elegant, she looked the part. However,
Speaker 2: I couldn't see her eyes. Don't you always want to
Speaker 2: see someone's eyes to know what they're thinking.
Speaker 1: I kept asking you. I said that that was a
Speaker 1: choice that was deliberate and as we sit here, I'm
Speaker 1: still looking at the screen, you cannot just as she's
Speaker 1: sitting normally, you can't see her eyes. And that isn't
Speaker 1: I don't know, I I mean, she looks. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: The hat, the whole gap is incredible, and she always
Speaker 1: looks the part. She's a woman's got a great style.
Speaker 1: I just that had to be a choice. You can't
Speaker 1: see her face today, on this day of old days.
Speaker 2: And people are already commenting like, oh you so that
Speaker 2: you couldn't see her eyes rolling when her you know,
Speaker 2: and when Donnie said this or said that, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: people are already going to town conjecturing why she chose that?
Speaker 2: And that was a choice to your point, yes, very elegant,
Speaker 2: but very mysterious. But isn't that kind of how and
Speaker 2: who she's been always been. There's always been mystery surrounding her, and.
Speaker 1: There might be nothing to the hat other than she
Speaker 1: loves it and it looks amazing.
Speaker 2: It did get in the way though, in one key
Speaker 2: moment that also has I'm sure will be a meme
Speaker 2: ever rewhere uh Trump going in for a kiss and
Speaker 2: ended up having to be an air kiss because I
Speaker 2: believe he'd kind of if you if you really watched
Speaker 2: the moment after he was it after or before he
Speaker 2: took his.
Speaker 1: Oath, it was before, it was before, it was when
Speaker 1: he first walked out.
Speaker 2: Okay, when he first walked out, he went to go
Speaker 2: give her a kiss, and the hat got on the way,
Speaker 2: so they ended up awkwardly air kissing, which was kind
Speaker 2: of funny.
Speaker 1: You pointed out to me. I said, huh uh, and we.
Speaker 2: Actually relounded and then you were wounded again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I looked at it. Ford. Yeah, he and he
Speaker 1: did it caught him in the forehead and to stop.
Speaker 1: But then later on he was able to come back
Speaker 1: after the speech and was able to give her a kiss,
Speaker 1: and that was.
Speaker 2: He sealed the deal.
Speaker 1: But it's just these little moments happened. It's just fascinating
Speaker 1: to see these characters in the same room. And you know,
Speaker 1: some of it was we saw the former presidents and
Speaker 1: vice presidents that they were walking into the ceremonies and
Speaker 1: we're like, wow, these guys got all quick, right, and
Speaker 1: I just stayed walking a little slower. They put on
Speaker 1: a few pounds, and it's just the ravages of time.
Speaker 1: It happened.
Speaker 2: I was like time is rarely anyone's friend after the
Speaker 2: age of fifty.
Speaker 1: So they're walking through pretty slowly and then pulling in
Speaker 1: the rear, coming in by himself. Barack Obama, what a strut.
Speaker 2: He he strutted in without his wife by his side.
Speaker 2: He just he was like, you know what I got this?
Speaker 1: He was moving. He looks good. But yes, once a
Speaker 1: Mishelle Obama wasn't. Wasn't at this one. Still no reason given,
Speaker 1: Maybe no reason has to be given.
Speaker 2: I don't even I don't know that we're going to
Speaker 2: get one. And that's okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted her to come and say, hey, it's
Speaker 1: just that's another work event of yours. Now let's give it.
Speaker 2: I did enjoy watching Elon fist pumping, though in moments
Speaker 2: like he was actually fist pumping. It was so crazy
Speaker 2: and how you you know, another moment for me, And
Speaker 2: there were a lot of them that we'll get to.
Speaker 2: But even like you mentioned how crowded or cramped it was,
Speaker 2: I mean it was it. We all saw when the
Speaker 2: US Naval Academy was coming in playing music, bumping like
Speaker 2: literally bumping into people as they came down the aisle,
Speaker 2: Like you could tell this was last minute we got
Speaker 2: we gotta change, and I don't was it Trump. It
Speaker 2: was Trump's inaugural team who decided to move it indoors
Speaker 2: because it ended up not being as cold as they
Speaker 2: thought it was gonna be. I mean, look, it was
Speaker 2: still windschill in the teens. But you know, we've run
Speaker 2: a half marathon in that so I mean it could
Speaker 2: have been outside.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it could have. I mean, you
Speaker 1: are on the side of safety, I suppose, And and
Speaker 1: part of it, I mean, given everything that's going on
Speaker 1: in this campaign season, the part of me was relieved
Speaker 1: it went inside. I was like, Okay, at least we
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that or anything crazy going
Speaker 1: on security. Why so, And we're looking at the screen
Speaker 1: here and the farewells, right, Biden? Is this is it?
Speaker 1: This is the end of a career in public service. Today.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 2: Many people have pointed out, it's not just him leaving
Speaker 2: the Oval Office or the White House, it's him leaving
Speaker 2: his entire political career, which has spanned five decades. And
Speaker 2: he's seen a lot. He's lived through a lot of
Speaker 2: trauma and tragedy and a lot of triumph. But this
Speaker 2: is not the way he wanted to leave, because this
Speaker 2: is Yeah, there's a sadness to his departure in the
Speaker 2: sense that he didn't get to even run against the
Speaker 2: opponent he wanted to run against, and so he obviously
Speaker 2: ceded that to Vice President Harris. So there is a
Speaker 2: different feel to that, like, you know, unfinished business, maybe
Speaker 2: even for him where he feels you almost feel like
Speaker 2: you can see the regret that he didn't go for it.
Speaker 1: But it's not like you're leaving because you lost the campaign.
Speaker 1: You didn't even get a chance you two run.
Speaker 2: That camp about out because of political pressure and your age,
Speaker 2: given all your experience and all of your service. But
Speaker 2: you know what you asked me, where I would go
Speaker 2: if I were leaving after all of those years of
Speaker 2: service and all of that public spotlight and all of
Speaker 2: that scrutiny and all of the noise. I mean, I
Speaker 2: cannot even imagine. We've had a taste of it in
Speaker 2: the spotlight, taste a drop in the bucket. To have
Speaker 2: a life like that, where people expect you to do
Speaker 2: things a certain way, you can't help but disappoint people
Speaker 2: or upset people. You just it's a divisive thing to do,
Speaker 2: to be a leader of a country with so many
Speaker 2: different opinions, and to finally say goodbye to that all. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd go to Fiji.
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense, get away, But my
Speaker 1: thought was to go to Atlanta, to go to Memphis,
Speaker 1: to go to places that are familiar to me, like
Speaker 1: I want to be surrounded by like home and things
Speaker 1: I missed, and I want to be in a familiar
Speaker 1: kitchen and I want to cook that night, right.
Speaker 2: You're finne. I want to be surrounded by nature and
Speaker 2: away from every other living, breathing person other than perhaps you.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I'm kidding with Key, But we watched this now,
Speaker 1: and look, this is a new era. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of as we we just watched him get on
Speaker 1: the plane here as we're recording this. But you know what,
Speaker 1: he's going out now with another question about legacy with
Speaker 1: the you'll hear plenty about it, but one of his
Speaker 1: I think in the final certainly moments, but even minutes
Speaker 1: of his presidency, he issued some preemptive pardons for members
Speaker 1: of his family, and a lot of people are looking
Speaker 1: at that and going again, just so once again, on
Speaker 1: what the hell like you're It's not even like you're
Speaker 1: forgiving someone for what they did. You're just making sure
Speaker 1: they aren't able to be touched later. And I know
Speaker 1: it's a political back and forth. You'd worry about your
Speaker 1: family members, maybe the someone from the other party coming
Speaker 1: after them. But it's just that left a bad taste
Speaker 1: in people's mouth. The way he left office today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean even pardoning Anthony Fauci, pardoning members of
Speaker 2: the January sixth committees, you know, just preemptively, but making
Speaker 2: a point and making a statement certainly with those preemptive
Speaker 2: pardons that perhaps weren't necessary, but he thought they could be.
Speaker 2: And that says a lot in another.
Speaker 1: And now the issue whole new can of worms has
Speaker 1: been opened with the pardons. Wow, because now they've pardoned
Speaker 1: for any crime. Now nothing stops them. They can't plead
Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment. If Congress now wants to subpoena any
Speaker 1: of them about anything, you can't say because it might
Speaker 1: incriminate me because you have protection, so you have to testify. Now,
Speaker 1: So whole new can of worms. But you know, it's politics,
Speaker 1: So a little politic in on this.
Speaker 2: Last day, A lot of politician on this last day
Speaker 2: and on this first day, for sure. But there was
Speaker 2: also some whoopsies that were taking place, at least that
Speaker 2: made some the inauguration ceremony even more interesting.
Speaker 1: One in particular, Okay, we were waiting. This was a
Speaker 1: big deal. Carrie Underwood was supposed to perform. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: and it was a big deal ahead of time because
Speaker 1: she got a lot of.
Speaker 2: She got a lot of backlash for people who said
Speaker 2: they were angry, at worst, disappointed perhaps at best, that
Speaker 2: she accepted the offer to perform America the Beautiful at
Speaker 2: the inauguration. She put out a statement saying, it's an
Speaker 2: honor and if this is about unifying the country, this
Speaker 2: is about celebrating a peaceful transfer of power, and to
Speaker 2: that point, I can accept her like putting politics aside.
Speaker 2: She's never publicly said who she supported either way, and
Speaker 2: if she had, that's her right as well as an
Speaker 2: American like that's the thing as an American performer. A
Speaker 2: lot of people get upset, Funny enough, when actors or
Speaker 2: people who are paid entertainers wig in politically on things, somehow,
Speaker 2: thinking they're swaying the vote or at least persuading their
Speaker 2: followers or their fans to vote a certain way. She
Speaker 2: didn't do any of that she just accepted the offer
Speaker 2: to sing, and so yeah, a lot of people were
Speaker 2: waiting for it. Some people were really excited, some people
Speaker 2: were a little annoyed. Whatever, But she was supposed to
Speaker 2: sing right before President Trump took the oath of office.
Speaker 1: And you knew the schedule well, and apparently it seemed
Speaker 1: a lot of people knew the schedule.
Speaker 2: Well, well, it was actually people were even posting online
Speaker 2: the official program that clearly showed she was singing before
Speaker 2: President Trump took the other So.
Speaker 1: She didn't show up. Uh oh he and we move on.
Speaker 1: He makes the speech and a lot of people wondering, well,
Speaker 1: maybe she just got bumped for time, maybe she's going
Speaker 1: to be moved to a later time. And sure enough, yes,
Speaker 1: he got done speaking. Here she comes finally comes out.
Speaker 1: A lot of people sigh relief, a lot of people
Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing her. She takes her position, microphone
Speaker 1: in hand. Her position is what on the stage stage?
Speaker 2: It's stage right.
Speaker 1: He's right, okay, in front of Biden and Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: essentially right right in that section has the mic places quiet.
Speaker 2: You could hear a pin drop, right, that's what they say.
Speaker 1: Wait for the music.
Speaker 2: Deafening silence, waiting for the music, and we wait, and
Speaker 2: we're waiting.
Speaker 1: We wait some more.
Speaker 2: And then it starts to play, but then it quickly
Speaker 2: turns off. Then we wait some more, and then we
Speaker 2: waited a little bit more, and then we wait some more,
Speaker 2: and then it got like like really awkward.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, anyone, anyone who is a broadcaster or
Speaker 3: who has ever been a part of a public presentation
Speaker 3: of any kind, Silence is your enemy.
Speaker 2: It's the worst. One second can feel like one minute,
Speaker 2: and so how long do we even have?
Speaker 1: I don't know how to give It felt.
Speaker 2: Like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: It was sold and awful.
Speaker 2: You were yelling at the at the TV, going just sing,
Speaker 2: just sing, And I look like I've never sung in
Speaker 2: any sort of uh forum like that, but I've certainly
Speaker 2: sung publicly plenty of times. And when you're waiting for
Speaker 2: your music your accompaniment there oftentimes is a little bit
Speaker 2: of a delay, which is and she's used to that
Speaker 2: like that happens a lot, right, but this was extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to put a put an estimate
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: I mean, was it felt like forever? And I did so.
Speaker 1: She was smiling, smiling, awkwardly.
Speaker 2: Everybody was smiling except for Trump. Did you see Trump's face?
Speaker 2: He was a little peeved. You could tell he was, yeah,
Speaker 2: but he was not getting any amusement out of the
Speaker 2: fact that there was an awkward silence and somebody messed
Speaker 2: up the audience.
Speaker 1: You know, it did, okay, And we've seen some things
Speaker 1: like this here and there and whatever. You go to theater,
Speaker 1: you go to a show's whatever. Okay, there are moments.
Speaker 1: This was beyond those awkward moments you've seen. This went
Speaker 1: so long. It was awful for everybody in the room.
Speaker 2: It was I think it was. This was one of
Speaker 2: the most, if not the most awkward waiting for someone
Speaker 2: to sing moment I've ever seen. In my wife anyway,
Speaker 2: So you know, and I have to give her such
Speaker 2: credit because yes, she's an amazing singer. She's done a
Speaker 2: million concerts. She is, she knows what she's doing, She's
Speaker 2: paid to do this, and yet to have to sing
Speaker 2: a cappella without a pitch pipe. Look, I'm sure she's
Speaker 2: practiced this a million times. But you count on your
Speaker 2: music not only just for the sound of it, but
Speaker 2: to get you on the right note and to set
Speaker 2: you on the right path. If you start a little
Speaker 2: too high or a little too low, you are screwed,
Speaker 2: except for she has a range like most people do,
Speaker 2: not so she but she nailed it.
Speaker 1: We know.
Speaker 2: But even if you can sing, when you're under that
Speaker 2: much pressure, you don't have your music. The world is waiting.
Speaker 2: She could have cracked.
Speaker 1: This is why you win American Idol and one of
Speaker 1: the biggest stars.
Speaker 2: Like do you remember even when Beyonce sang at Obama's
Speaker 2: inauguration she lip synced it because she was so nervous
Speaker 2: about messing it up, and everyone gave her so much
Speaker 2: hate and so much crap for it. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: just even if you are the world's best singer, it
Speaker 2: is so much pressure.
Speaker 1: And she did this unexpectedly seeing at the most watched
Speaker 1: of to one of the most watched that we'll have
Speaker 1: of the year.
Speaker 2: She was supposed to have an accompaniment from like I
Speaker 2: saw it was like this band in that band, like
Speaker 2: and she was on her own. She did say, and
Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty cool. She was like, everyone
Speaker 2: sing with me, and I think that gave that probably
Speaker 2: gave her the confidence like, Okay, I'm not in this alone.
Speaker 2: That is excruciating.
Speaker 1: And you said immediately after any of the negativity and hate,
Speaker 1: this was the best outcome today was to get bumped
Speaker 1: and for this awkward moment to happen and her to
Speaker 1: deliver in that big moment. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: She came off as the consummate professional, and she showed
Speaker 2: what she can do under pressure. She showed what she
Speaker 2: was made of. And you know, I have to think
Speaker 2: all of those negative comments and people saying what they
Speaker 2: said are it's hard to completely eliminate that noise. But
Speaker 2: when everything was hitting the fan and she was like,
Speaker 2: what do I do? All of that uncertainty, all of
Speaker 2: those just all the controversy, I was thinking that that
Speaker 2: would all get in your head in that moment, and
Speaker 2: she didn't let it and she delivered. And I was
Speaker 2: really impressed with her, like super super impressed with her.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was always been a fan, but today it
Speaker 1: went in a moment like that, when you step up
Speaker 1: in the biggest moment and she did it, you have
Speaker 1: to you just she just on the spot, not just
Speaker 1: at some local party or local underground club on the
Speaker 1: biggest day. I thought impressive her. Another highlight was watching
Speaker 1: some of the reactions. I think I didn't see all
Speaker 1: of them, didn't watch them all that closely the whole time.
Speaker 1: But I think Hillary Clinton was the most demonstrative when
Speaker 1: it came to her reaction to things that she heard
Speaker 1: from Trump's speech. She wasn't that shy about her reaction,
Speaker 1: so that was.
Speaker 2: Kind of she was shaking her head. She was shaking
Speaker 2: her head. And I don't know because the camera wasn't
Speaker 2: close enough, but I thought I saw a couple eye rolls.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were in there. That was kind of
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Again. Barack Obama, it's times I saw
Speaker 1: him with his arms folded.
Speaker 2: Oh the body language of I guess at that point
Speaker 2: he was former President Biden and former VP Harris. She
Speaker 2: was almost like slouched in her chair, you know they
Speaker 2: I mean, look, that is tough to hear some of
Speaker 2: the things he said. I don't want to say indirectly,
Speaker 2: but they were directly pointed at them without naming them.
Speaker 2: And that's that's a tough thing to sit through or
Speaker 2: to hear in the privacy of your own home, let
Speaker 2: alone knowing all the cameras are trained straight on you,
Speaker 2: and in fact, CNN has a side camera devoted solely
Speaker 2: to your reaction. That's and they know it, and they
Speaker 2: knew it, and they're right there in the front.
Speaker 1: And they handle it well, they handle it professionally. And
Speaker 1: now here we are, we're off and running on the
Speaker 1: next presidency.
Speaker 2: And look, I mean, do you want to discuss So
Speaker 2: you walked away. You walked away when it seemed like
Speaker 2: things were over and the benedictions were taking place, and
Speaker 2: we had talked on the morning ron our Daily podcast
Speaker 2: about how you know, it sounded like the beginning of
Speaker 2: a joke. You have a rabbi, a pastor, and a
Speaker 2: priest walk into a bar. Now they ended, or at
Speaker 2: least they gave the benediction for the inaugural ceremony event,
Speaker 2: and there was an unexpected highlight. Oh, the Reverend Lorenzo School.
Speaker 2: If you didn't know him before, I think you probably
Speaker 2: might know him now, or at least if you go online.
Speaker 2: I haven't really fully checked out what the reaction has been.
Speaker 2: I know you've done a little bit, but let's just
Speaker 2: say he made a statement. It was quite the show.
Speaker 2: In fact, that for me was one of the highlights,
Speaker 2: and a very unexpected last minute highlights.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't know the brother at all, don't know
Speaker 1: anything about him, so I am not. And look he was.
Speaker 1: He was entertaining, he was passionate. He was as passionate
Speaker 1: and loud, and yeah, you could argue performative in what
Speaker 1: he did. And that's okay.
Speaker 2: He had everybody, you know, what he did everybody that
Speaker 2: I could see who some of them had had scowls
Speaker 2: or concerned looks, like we're all smiles, all smiles. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: he everybody. I feel like he almost got high fives
Speaker 2: as he was walking out, like he was getting hugs.
Speaker 2: He was getting like, way to go. He brought up
Speaker 2: the beat, the emotion, the excitement. He rallied the crowd
Speaker 2: with Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yes he did. And look, there's a debate online and
Speaker 1: you go check it out because I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into it here because I don't know what a brother.
Speaker 1: I just don't know the brother. But that's just a
Speaker 1: debate online and it's kind of split along racial lines
Speaker 1: if you argue, and one size is very appreciative and
Speaker 1: celebrating the performance they saw in the prayer they saw
Speaker 1: at that time, and the other side and mainly black
Speaker 1: folks who view it a different way, and it came
Speaker 1: off to folks in the black community who come up
Speaker 1: in black churches. It came off in a different way,
Speaker 1: so you could get into that debate that I do
Speaker 1: not want to touch. I just don't know a brother,
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I just don't know what a brother.
Speaker 2: Well, he put a smile on my face.
Speaker 1: A lot we saw today put a smile on our
Speaker 1: face and look left right, It doesn't matter independent, whatever
Speaker 1: you are out there, This is this is sometimes just
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to watch in this country. Just how
Speaker 1: we do this thing, and you see so many other
Speaker 1: countries and how they struggle in their politics. Just it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most beautiful things about this
Speaker 1: country is to watch this ceremony every four years. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think you know a lot of folks
Speaker 2: are buckling up for not even what the next four
Speaker 2: years are going to be like, but what the next
Speaker 2: four hours are going to be like, for the next
Speaker 2: four days are going to be like. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is truly like nothing we've ever seen before. And this
Speaker 2: President Trump seems very different than the first President Trump
Speaker 2: we saw.
Speaker 1: It almost seems like he knows what he's doing now. Right,
Speaker 1: He was doing some all on the job training. Last
Speaker 1: time around, he wasn't a politician. Now he knows the
Speaker 1: halls of Congress a little bit, He knows how the
Speaker 1: system and the process works a little bit more he does.
Speaker 1: He has a different level of confidence, and he's coming
Speaker 1: in with that confidence and the stamp from the American
Speaker 1: people who put him in overwhelmingly.
Speaker 2: And as we talked about earlier, he has taken credit,
Speaker 2: whether you believe it's do or not, for negotiating Middle
Speaker 2: East peace and TikTok. So uh yeah, I think he
Speaker 2: feels pretty confident that he's off to a good start
Speaker 2: and has created some goodwill from and for a lot
Speaker 2: of people. But there are going to be a lot
Speaker 2: of folks who, you know, I've already seen it in
Speaker 2: some of my circles and people reacting to especially the
Speaker 2: two gender comment he made about male and female that
Speaker 2: is going to you know, I think that, I mean,
Speaker 2: that is a very serious line in the sand that
Speaker 2: he drew. That I think a lot of folks who
Speaker 2: in that community were excited about where we were going
Speaker 2: as a country, that we were becoming more accepting, that
Speaker 2: we were understanding that just because people are different than
Speaker 2: us doesn't mean that they don't have rights and shouldn't
Speaker 2: be recognized and maybe we yes, there are things that
Speaker 2: can be done to feel more inclusive, and that feels
Speaker 2: like for a lot of that community that that all
Speaker 2: may have just been wiped away in one sentence in
Speaker 2: that an aurorall address, or at least they're fearful of
Speaker 2: what that executive order actually is will be, how it
Speaker 2: would be enforced, what it means for just even you know,
Speaker 2: non gender bathrooms or just all of the things that
Speaker 2: so many folks, underrepresented people have been fighting for might
Speaker 2: be lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, we didn't talk about that. We said what
Speaker 1: he said. We didn't hit on that and talk about
Speaker 1: that a lot early on. But the federal government, he said,
Speaker 1: moving forward, this day forward, is only going to recognize
Speaker 1: two genders. That's male and that's female. And that's it, period,
Speaker 1: point blank. That's the end of it, is what he's saying.
Speaker 1: And that's just it. To have it in that, it's
Speaker 1: some one thing. If he were just signed it, it's
Speaker 1: another thing. If he would have talked about it later
Speaker 1: or brought it up later to use this platform to
Speaker 1: put it on this speech, man, it elevated it in
Speaker 1: a way that just.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my heart goes out to people who
Speaker 2: are not only in that category, but the families of
Speaker 2: people who love their children, their parents, their sisters, their brothers,
Speaker 2: who are all in that place and now feel completely
Speaker 2: not just unsupported and unrecognized, but perhaps demonied or vilified
Speaker 2: or yeah, I just or ostracized at the very least.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I know that that is something I
Speaker 4: saw from some of you know, we all have chat groups,
Speaker 4: and that was a big concern from a lot of people,
Speaker 4: and understandably so hearing his speech, so yes, it was Look,
Speaker 4: it was not a unifying speech.
Speaker 2: We made that very clear. But he is staying true
Speaker 2: to what he said he was going to do on
Speaker 2: the campaign trail, what he said he wanted to put
Speaker 2: into place at all of those campaign rallies, and America
Speaker 2: voted him overwhelmingly into office, and so four years from now,
Speaker 2: Americans have a chance to vote whomever they want into
Speaker 2: office as well. But you were even saying he's probably
Speaker 2: gonna find a way to do away with term limits.
Speaker 2: I mean, who knows, Like, I mean, really, at this point,
Speaker 2: when you are talking about the Gulf of America and
Speaker 2: the Panama Canal being reclaimed in US, annexing Greenland in Canada. Like,
Speaker 2: at this point, I feel like anything's possible. Inousness, it's
Speaker 2: not like you kind of say it with a laugh,
Speaker 2: but it actually shouldn't have any sort of like humor
Speaker 2: associated with it, because these are all things that he
Speaker 2: has said he wants to do.
Speaker 1: How many times have you heard me say in the
Speaker 1: past month or two he just cannot stop winning. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just keeps on in court. He had four cases
Speaker 1: down to zero done over, forget about one. Give me
Speaker 1: that sixteen million won the election. He's winning. The hostage
Speaker 1: are out, hostages are out.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's suing CBS, TikTok it just.
Speaker 1: You cannot I don't know whatever you think. He has
Speaker 1: win after win after when that he's stacking up. So
Speaker 1: you tell me, Pennlacanel, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't be either. And and look this is
Speaker 2: you know, this is going to be the next four years,
Speaker 2: and we'll have a lot to talk about, babe, to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 1: All right, well, folks, and enjoy the rest of the festivities.
Speaker 1: The balls inauguration.
Speaker 2: What the balls are tonight? What the inaugural balls?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, how many.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to say just girls, but
Speaker 2: some of us girls get very excited about looking at
Speaker 2: all of the fashion.
Speaker 1: No no, no, I do too, So, folks, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening. As always. For now, I'm TJ.
Speaker 2: Hol and I'm Amy Roeboch. Have a great day, everyone,
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