WEBVTT - Midterms in Uncharted Waters 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.240 All right, News Roundup and information Overload hour. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.240 Here's our toll free telephone number if you want to 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.880 be a part of the program. It is eight hundred 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.000 ninety four one sean if you want to join us. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.680 I have been making the case on this program on 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:19.520 my TV show that these are uncharted waters in terms 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:25.560 of a midterm election year. Usually, historically, trend show that 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.720 the party in power, in other words, the party that 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.120 has the White House more often than not there have 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.800 been a few exceptions, will lose seats in the House 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.239 and usually the Senate as well, and it usually is 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.319 a better off year election year for the party out 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.680 out of power. I'm arguing that all bets are off 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.040 and these are uncharted waters because the Democratic Party that 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.600 once existed, that we once talked about and spoke about 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:03.160 for decades, no longer exist as it once was for 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.800 a democratic party to adopt. And we've gone over you 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.560 know Grand Platner's record, you know at nauseum. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.039 I won't repeat it all here. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.800 And the more interesting part of it is that so 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.479 called leaders of the Democratic Party will not condemn Grand Platner, if, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.640 if anything, they have embraced him. You've got a guy 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.680 Elsayed running for the Senate in Michigan. That is out 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.000 there campaigning with a guy by the name of Hassam 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:35.720 Piker who said that America deserved nine to eleven. Then 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.880 you got six gender tell Rico and God is non 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.920 binary and all these other bizarre comments about putting a 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.840 welcome mat on the border with Texas and having open borders, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.880 and he doesn't. He wants to run a meatless campaign 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.200 down there, and wants to fight for the rights of 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:01.120 transgender men to have access to abortion. Other comments about 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.480 Jesus have really raised a lot of people's eyebrows there. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.480 So if you look at this party, now you add 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:13.280 to this what happened last last week, and you've got 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:18.640 all these Mamdani back radicals, democratic socialists, I would argue communists, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.080 but let's not you know, split hairs here, people that 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.280 don't want police at all, like this woman of Villa 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.640 or supporting you know, the block the Bombs Act to 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.040 halt any US defense of Israel. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.480 It's become you know, the squad. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.120 The anti Israel crowd has gotten louder and louder and louder. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.840 This is a woman that participated in a pro Palestinian 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.919 rally in Times Square in New York on the day 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.840 after October seventh, twenty twenty three. Now you got all 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:59.440 the other candidates, and their radicalism is just as bad. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.880 But then you've got like, where where is the rest 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.760 of the Democratic Party that used to be more reasonable, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.880 more moderate? And but for the exception of John Fetterman, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.200 I can't think of one Democrat that has the moral 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.440 courage to stand up against what is a full on 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.359 takeover of a party that used to be far more moderate. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.440 And I thought they were always kind of extreme anyway. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.359 But there's a political report today that the Democratic Socialists 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.839 are now planning to topple Chuck Schumer. I think that's 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.400 just you know that that's going to be the canary 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.440 and the coal mine for them. But you know, the 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:44.520 their silence is deafening. Jefferies has a socialism dilemma. New 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.880 York victory is exposed in the Democratic Party. You know, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.840 Van Jones has just hit the panic button, warning that 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.480 the roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party. He says, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:59.120 this is a new era of Democratic Party politics. And 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.560 then you look at, you know, other things like polls 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.840 that have just recently come out America's pride in the 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:11.680 US and democracy is dropping dramatically, especially among Democrats. It's 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:17.599 stayed relatively the same among Republicans. Anyway, here to analyze 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.720 or help us analyze all of this, we welcome back 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.960 to the program our friend Mark Halpern. He's the editor 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.520 in chief of Two Way. Do you agree with me 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.000 that these are uncharted waters We've never seen a midterm election, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.000 you know, unfolding like this before. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.200 Sean good afterc and good evening, a good day. I 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.480 agree with about ninety eight percent of what you said. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.240 I'll say we're not waiting for the canary in the 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.600 coal mine. The canary has passed away and has been 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.239 long buried. We've already seen in this New York race 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.039 just a watershed moment, not just for the Democrats but 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.279 for the country. I've been trying to think of what 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.520 would be the equivalent laundry list of right wing positions 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.320 that if a candidate took them, and then they were 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.320 endorsed by Speaker Johnson, how the media would react to that. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.840 Because on Saturday, after days of equivocating, Hakeem Jeffries tweeted 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.240 at his support for these three radical candidates in New 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.279 York and he doesn't want to engage on their policy 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.560 positions and their past social media posts. But this is 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.600 an extraordinary group of people who have infiltrated the Democratic Party. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.040 They're hostile to the Democratic Party, but because they're outsiders, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.400 and because they're left wing, and because they oppose the 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.240 status quo, they're winning races, not in every district, but 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.360 in enough places that there has an existential and fundamental 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.560 question for the party. Is this kind of person welcoming 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.560 the Democratic Party or not? The verdict you know, Fetterman's 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.479 not to the only one. Josh Gotttheim, or the congressman 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.040 from New Jersey, There's a few other examples. The rest 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.359 of the party seems to be so afraid of this 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.400 part of the movement that they're welcoming them in. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.320 So how does this play out? Now? 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.839 You can add to this a couple of other parts 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.039 of this equation heading into this midterm. One, you have 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.080 a Supreme Court decision on racial jerry mandering that did 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.760 not go the Democrats way, Abigail Spamberger's power grab that 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.200 didn't go Democrats way. I think you're looking at a 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:15.120 net ten to twelve jerry mandered seats that will help Republicans. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.080 I argue they just basically are catching up to what 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.880 the Democrats have been doing for decades. But so there's 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.880 a lot of factors here, a lot of things, a 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.240 lot of balls in the air that to me make 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.160 this unpredictable. 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.400 Now I'll add this, and then I want your thoughts. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.040 I don't think the events that will define the outcome 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.480 of this election have even happens. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.360 Yet. We have to see how a ran plays out. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.000 We have to see if Scott Besson is right and 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.359 the economy is going to rebound in a massive way. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.080 Oil prices, by the way, went below price of a 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.640 barrel of oil went below what it was even before 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.080 the Iran conflict started. I think that's going to bring 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.520 needed relief for American taxpayers. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:54.679 I mean, do you agree that. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.760 It's too unpredictable this moment to figure out what's going 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:58.159 to happen. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.640 I said the two factors you sided. The third, E'd 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.560 add the end of the war, if it happens, whether 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.840 Scott Bessen's right about the economy, and then how do 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.599 people feel about the president and the job he's doing 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:15.120 as of today. Despite those those factors you cited, redistricting 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.720 and the Senate battleground map which favors Republicans, despite that, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.640 as of today, the Republicans would lose both chambers. But 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.920 there's there's time for things to improve for the Republicans, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.000 and part of that improvement could come with the Democrats 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.520 welcoming Democrats socialists into their tent. I think that's an 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.160 unpredictable variable too. It's as unpredictable as the whether the 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.520 economy gets better, whether the war comes to a good 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.559 conclusion for the United States. Because on paper, this should 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.760 be this should just be a layup, slam dunk, whatever 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.560 you want, whatever metaphor you want to use for the 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.000 President and Republicans. But let's see how it gets executed, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.160 and let's see how much worse it might get. We've 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.960 seen new tweets from this lady in New York, Chevalier. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.960 Let's see if there's new videos of her. I bet 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.160 there are, And we're Democrats going to say, well, she's 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.600 just one person. She does represent our party. Well, if 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.520 she didn't represent the party, I think the President's going 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.640 to make them pay a price for not repudiating her 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.680 for being a member of the party. And I think 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.760 that's potentially when you talk about this being an unpredictable year, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.960 We've never seen a party welcome in people with positions 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:20.320 like this. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.200 Never and it's leadership not having the moral clarity courage 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.400 to take them on. With the exception of one guy, 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.680 John Fetterman. Let me go to your prediction that you think, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.240 as if the election were held today, that Democrats would 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:33.880 take the Senate. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:35.679 Are you saying that. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.079 Graham Platner wins Maine because I don't think so. Are 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.920 you suggesting that they win Iowa? I don't think they 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.440 win Iowa. Do you think el Saied wins Michigan. He's 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.200 got a shot, for sure, but so does Mike Rogers. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.240 I think Republicans there's no way I see tell A 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:59.319 Rico winning in Texas, and that leaves Georgia North Carolina 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.440 also advantage him definitely going into you know, this election 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.760 year for Mike Wattley, he's got up his game if 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.240 he wants to win in North Carolina. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.800 Yeah, well you left you left too off Alaska New 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.080 Hampshire and look today. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.040 Yes, I don't think Alaska is a problem. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.040 Okay, today I don't either. That's what it sounded people's 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.960 listening today today, some of those states would go Democrat. However, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.400 obviously there's time. But if you look at internal Republican 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.920 polling in those states today, Mike Rodgers would lose today, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.680 today Collins would lose today. But these races are not 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.600 going to are not blowouts. And again this is not 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.200 a partisan position or a media analysis. This is what 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.199 Republicans will tell you. Things have to get better in 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.440 terms of the President's approval rating. Republicans have to do 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.000 a stronger job of defining this as a choice election 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.040 rather than a referendum on the president. I don't believe 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.400 in the end the Republicans will lose Iowa or or 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.840 main I just don't. But today they will. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.920 And you don't think they'll lose Alaska either. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.320 I don't. I don't. I don't think they'll lose Texas either. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.680 In fact, I still believe that Republicans have a better 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.959 chance of picking up Net one than Democrats have of 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.960 taking the majority. And I i'n't heard many people frame 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.640 it that way, but I really do believe that Democrats 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.439 are in real danger of losing Democratic kelseats in Michigan 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.319 and in New Hampshire and Georgia because of what happened 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.920 in the governor's race and the primaries. I think Georgia 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.240 is going to be more in play than people are 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.280 generally thinking now. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.880 So I'm telling tell me why you think Georgia Senate 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.280 race will be in play more. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.840 Because if you look at the two gubernatorial nominees, the 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.880 Republicans nominated a billionaire who already spent tens of millions 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.680 to get the nomination. I don't think he's going to 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.920 close his check book, and he's a pretty good fit 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.320 for the state. Democrats nominated the former very liberal governor, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.800 a mayor of Atlanta, And while Democrats deride the Republican 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.360 Senate nominee, mister Collins, I think he's done a good 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.680 job so far of defining the terms of the race. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.320 So it's a red state, it's not a purple state 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.840 or a blue state. I think Governor camp very much 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.640 is determined to play a big role here. I think 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.680 you'll be in the sink for the first time in 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.640 a while with the president. And so if you're looking 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.200 at ass Off, you know, maybe winning by three on 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.040 a great day. And now we look at the governor's race, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.920 and I suspect a lot of straight ticket voting in Georgia. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.200 I think I think I'll be curious to see, after 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.520 things settle down and get to the fall, what the 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.880 polling is like in the governor's race. But I wouldn't 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.600 be surprised to see Jackson with a substantial lead if 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.400 the economy looks good, and if Jackson is going to 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.200 win the governor's race by a lot. You know, you 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.959 think about who's a Jackson as off voter. If you 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.120 think there are going to be a lot of those, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:42.520 I don't. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.160 I don't think so either. I quick break more with 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.400 Mark Alprin on the other side. We'll also get your 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.839 calls in. All right, we continue with Mark Alprin, editor 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.160 in chief of Two Way, as we break down what 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:58.200 is really an unprecedented, you know, a midterm election year, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.200 uncharted waters. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.280 As I always say, I'm sure you saw. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.520 Political today and they're pointing out the Democratic Socialist are 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:10.079 now planning to take down Schumer. Schumer's silence has been deafening. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.800 It was deafening on Mom, Donnie. It's been deafening on 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.840 these three people that got elected last week. It seems 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.319 to me that the only thing took Schumer and Hakim 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.640 Jefferies really care about at this point in time, is 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.320 hanging on to you know, their quote positions of power, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:34.240 and they showed just it's not even a reluctance or resistance, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.680 it is a complete unwillingness to take on these radical ideas. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.240 Does that spread across the country? Is there a nationwide 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.520 effect to what they're doing? 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.880 Look, we had in twenty sixteen two people run for 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 the major party presidential nominations who weren't members of their 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.040 own party. One became the nominee of his party and 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.160 changed the party fundamentally and it's kept control of it 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.679 for ten years, remade it in his image. The other 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:04.119 was cheated out of the nomination by the establishment Bernie Sanders. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.640 Had had they not cheated the Democrats out of the 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.319 established the established and not cheated Bernie Sanders out of 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.520 the nomination, I suspect Sanders would have been in control 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.920 of the Democratic Party and done the mirror image of 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.280 what Donald Trump is. What's more popular within the Democratic 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.080 base right now where all the energy and active activeness 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.520 is socialism or Chuck Schumer. We know the answer to 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.520 that is so they can read polls, they hear from 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.960 their advisors, They read social media. They're they're trying to 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.920 save their lives, and they're thinking very old fashioned terms 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.760 about power and about party and about the country, and 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.560 maybe they can hang on a little bit longer. But 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.000 they're making a deal with the devil here regarding the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.320 traditional views of the party, and they're really taking a 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.520 risk that what they're going to end up with is nothing. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.800 They'll lose their jobs, they'll be overthrown by the by 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.160 the by the by the Socialists, and they won't have 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.400 done everything they could to try to keep the party 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.600 moored to something more towards the center. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.319 I'd say with ninety five percent in agreement at this 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.000 moment in time. I think obviously events will change things. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.079 I want to see how the economy recovers. I want 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.000 to see how the issue with the RAM plays out. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.400 So there's a lot that will happen between now and November. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.000 It's going to be. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.280 To me, it's the most fascinating midterm I've ever seen 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.640 in my lifetime. But Mark Alpin, appreciate you. Don't forget 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.040 you can find Mark. He's the editor in chief of 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.600 Two Way. Appreciate you being with us as always. Thanks Mark, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.960 Thank you, sir, Linda. Did we get any more calls 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.000 since I took a couple of days off to try 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.600 and heal a little bit about whether I was dying 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:42.920 or not. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.040 I told him you were just playing hooky and to 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.760 stop with all the you know, the fear and wonder. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.280 I was like, listen, he's tired, he just needs the rest. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.080 That's actually not what was going on. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.920 I mean I had so let me give you the 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.120 you want the full version or you want the half version. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.360 You already know the version I know, so I tell 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:01.080 the whole version. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.120 You should tell the version. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.240 Probably okay. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.280 So I've had look over the years, I was a 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.040 pretty good athlete, active athlete, and over the years in 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.760 my cervical spine, I've had degeneration and I have bulging 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.800 discs like two, three, four, and five I think is 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:18.240 the number. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.239 And one of them got. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.800 Pinched and it was like the worst pain I ever 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.640 had ever. So go to the doctor like you're supposed to. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.080 I get an MRI, like you're supposed to. Doctor says 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.600 inflammation has to come down. And the way they take 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.480 down inflammation is a medicine called prednozone, which is the 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:44.360 worst medicine ever made that actually works, it lowers inflammation. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.080 I've taken it probably like two hundred times over the 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.960 course of my career. When my vocal cords get inflamed 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.480 and I'm on the road and I don't have the 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.360 luxury of taking off, I would take prednizone and it 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.240 would lower the inflammation of my vocal cords. Linda, you've 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.440 been with me. When I had it, usually get a 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.200 little bit bloated. That's a known side effect of pread 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.080 in the zone. And then I tried to get off 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.440 it a little bit too quickly. My mistake, my bad, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.640 my dumb, and then it impacted my voice last week, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.200 and for most of last week my voice was kind 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.440 of struggling a little bit. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.760 And every day you will give me a grade on 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.200 my voice. How does it sound today? 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.720 Oh my god, it's the best it sound in a week, for. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.400 Sure, exactly. So you know with that, I said, okay, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.800 I'll take off. Because all these articles are being written Hanned. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:33.960 He looks like he's dying. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.120 Hanned. He looks like he's headed for the grave. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.840 Now, the funny part is when I put up on 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:46.080 X this post explaining just that this has happened to 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.920 me so many times in my career. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.480 It is. It is a necessary medicine. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.280 First of all, you get bloated, you get flush, you 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.080 get ravenous, You're like hungry as can be. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:00.720 You can't can't sleep. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.480 That makes you irritable, and it just but it does 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.520 take down the imflammation. Now, the good news is I 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.200 am completely pain free because the imflammation came down. It's 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.240 settled down. My voice is back. I still have a 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.720 little bit of the bloat still there. People will watch 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.840 TV tonight and say, adn't he's about to die. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:21.399 No, I'm not. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:26.280 It's a it is a natural side effect to this medicine. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.000 You have worked for me for twenty years. How many 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.000 times do you recall I've taken this medicine. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.520 Oh, many, many times, many. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:35.800 Times right because we're on the road. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.680 Yeah, I mean that's it's always been your kind of 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:39.919 You hate it, but it's your go to. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.840 I hate it, it's a go to anyway. The good 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.440 news is I've been off at six days. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.840 But sometimes it takes about four to five weeks to 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.399 totally get out of your system. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:49.760 So you know, I still well. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.200 I mean, you should probably let people know that's why 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.560 you have what they call moonface because you know you're 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:55.520 on prendices. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:55.879 That's what they call it. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:56.760 Yeah, so you know I. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.919 Think I look better with moonface? Do you think I 0:17:58.960 --> 0:17:59.960 look better with moonface? 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:01.840 I don't know that. I think that you look better 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:02.399 at movies. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.560 I think that might be fake news, but uh, that's 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:06.080 what it is. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:06.720 I mean. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.960 Were you as surprised as I was that people actually 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.520 were writing these ridiculous comments? 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.120 Oh, I'm not surprised. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.879 I think everybody's doctor Google. Some of it came out of, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.560 you know, hope for you to be better. Some of 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.600 them wanted you to be dead. There was a weird 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.240 mix in between, I mean, but it was a lot 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.360 of chatter. I'm glad you took control of the narrative. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.720 Well, the problem is we took control of the narrative 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.959 on this radio show probably three or four days last week. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.880 It's not like I didn't talk about it. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:37.280 No. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.040 In the post office was helpful. That was helpful too. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.800 When Blair put it up. I wrote him like an 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.280 hour later, I said, how's the reaction? 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.960 He goes, well, half a wishing you well and praying 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.520 for you, and the other half want you dead. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.040 Yeah, the same thing I saw exactly right. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.600 Oh is it still up there or is it calmed down? 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:58.480 It's up there. People are talking. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.520 I'm sure there's a lot of chatter today because you're 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.359 back in your yapp and and you sound fine. So 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.879 the librizzal said, the Conservatives and the Christians are fine. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:07.080 We'll all move along. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.119 Oh my gosh, you'd think it is the worst thing 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:11.159 on earth. It actually is not. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.560 All right, We've got to get We got so much 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:19.399 to get to Bill Maher I found made the most 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.280 interesting comments over the weekend. He did have JD Vance on. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.360 I thought it was an interesting exchange, and he told JD. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.159 If this is where the Democratic Party is heading, meaning 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:36.080 this hardcore radical, anti Semitic left, he said, his vote 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.040 will be in play. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.280 Let's play that this is where. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.679 The Democratic Party is going, where this democratic socialist, this 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.160 obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating with they don't 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.320 believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they're going, 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:50.960 my vote is in. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.520 Play, okay. And I like to hear that. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.159 It actually always has been. I just every year. I 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.160 don't make my decision by who is an R or D. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.560 Actually came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better, sure, 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.399 and voted for them. And Trump can't run again, and 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.240 he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway, So it's. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.120 Either going to be you or Rubia. And then mar 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:15.720 praised Republicans. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.199 They're the ones that go on a show, and he 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.119 says he can't get Democrats like Mamdani or AOC or 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.640