Speaker 1: Showing up next our final News round up and Information
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Speaker 2: All right, News round Up in Information Overload Hour. Here's
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Speaker 2: four one sean if you want to join us. I've
Speaker 2: been arguing that the left liberals they have never regained
Speaker 2: their footing after Donald Trump's beat down of them in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four election. In large part there's not
Speaker 2: been any introspection. There's been noose course correction. You know,
Speaker 2: in my life, if things go wrong, I usually try
Speaker 2: to stop, stand back and say, okay, what did I
Speaker 2: do wrong? What can I do to improve my life?
Speaker 2: How can I change? How can I be a better person.
Speaker 2: That's not happened in terms of the Democratic Party, and
Speaker 2: it's very interesting to watch the evolution, for example, of
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, you know, from day one when
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was elected, he made the decision he wanted
Speaker 2: a legal fund so he could fight the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Then he seemed to moderate, he became a podcaster, and
Speaker 2: then he's interviewing conservatives so they could we can now
Speaker 2: begin to have a dialogue as a country interviewing the
Speaker 2: likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. And then, of
Speaker 2: course in the Charlie Kirk interview, you know, he got
Speaker 2: caught saying, I don't know where this word LATINX came from.
Speaker 2: And he you know, we found instance after instance where
Speaker 2: he was using the term LATINX and the same with
Speaker 2: gender affirming care issues and men playing women's sports. But
Speaker 2: that's not Gavin's biggest problem.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And now he's now, he's getting very aggressive. Now he's
Speaker 2: talking about punching people in the face. And I'm willing
Speaker 2: to take the hit rather than go after some probably
Speaker 2: overweight politician that doesn't know how to defend themselves in
Speaker 2: Texas because he doesn't like what they're doing legally in
Speaker 2: Texas with redistricting. Meanwhile, every Blue state has been Jerry
Speaker 2: Manner to death. I'm offering to let him take a
Speaker 2: swing at me if he wants, just just because I
Speaker 2: care about other people. I know how to defend myself.
Speaker 2: These guys probably don't know how to defend themselves. So
Speaker 2: I'm wedding Gavin. I'm offering to be let Gavin take
Speaker 2: the punch at me. Listen, the Republican parties. It doesn't
Speaker 2: even reflect itself. I mean, look at these Republicans cowering
Speaker 2: to this guy. Look at your Republican governor, used to
Speaker 2: claim to be a conservative.
Speaker 3: What a farce.
Speaker 4: Nothing conservative about this, by definition, nothing conservative about that.
Speaker 3: This is radical.
Speaker 4: Rigging of a midterm election, radical rigging of an election, destroying,
Speaker 4: vandalizing this democracy, the.
Speaker 3: Rule of law.
Speaker 4: So I'm sorry. I know some people's sensibilities. I respect
Speaker 4: and appreciate that, but right now, with all due respect,
Speaker 4: we're walking down a damn different path. We're fighting fire
Speaker 4: with fire and with a punch these sons in the mouth.
Speaker 2: I'm sure this is all going over very very well
Speaker 2: with moderates and independence. And I'm sure when he makes
Speaker 2: has run for the presidency, I'm sure America is going
Speaker 2: to choose to become California, even though it's the state
Speaker 2: with the number one mass migration, the highest poverty rate
Speaker 2: in the nation, the highest gas taxes in the nation,
Speaker 2: the highest state income taxes in the nation, the most
Speaker 2: regulation in the nation, record homelessness in the nation, and
Speaker 2: the list goes on and on, and I'll get into
Speaker 2: more specificity as we go on to this half hour.
Speaker 2: But first we welcome back to the program, friend of
Speaker 2: the program, editor in chief of the new interactive video
Speaker 2: platform it's called Two Way, host of the Next Up podcast.
Speaker 2: He's on Megan Kelly's network. Our friend met Mark Kalper
Speaker 2: and his back with us. How are you good to
Speaker 2: have you back?
Speaker 1: Sean, good to talk to you now.
Speaker 2: I brought you on because I saw your comments that
Speaker 2: you opened up with a monologue on your show on
Speaker 2: why Gavin Newsom is misunderstood and what sets him apart
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty eight, and you said you challenge people
Speaker 2: to be repaired, to put aside their preconceived notions of
Speaker 2: who this man is and what he is about. And
Speaker 2: you've talked about then former Senator Mark Pryor, who joined
Speaker 2: you on the on the Democrats structural challenges, et cetera,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Look, I don't doubt that he could be
Speaker 2: the nominee in twenty twenty eight at all. I don't
Speaker 2: doubt that one bit. And I think that he's made
Speaker 2: a political calculation that trying to be a moderate and
Speaker 2: trying to get along with conservatives and have a conversation
Speaker 2: and understand them is not something he's willing.
Speaker 1: To have Well, look, I appreciate your listening to what
Speaker 1: I said in a nuanced way, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people are misunderstanding. I'm not saying Gab Newsen is going
Speaker 1: to be president. I'm not a fan of gabnews and
Speaker 1: that's not my job. But this is a very weak field,
Speaker 1: and Sean, you know because you've spent time with him,
Speaker 1: this guy has some talent. Is he a hugely successful gouverner.
Speaker 1: You could talk for three hours about why he's not.
Speaker 1: The point is it's a weak field, and this guy
Speaker 1: can haines multitudes. He's a complicated person. He has some
Speaker 1: positions that are liberal, some that are super liberal, but
Speaker 1: he's also got some ones that are more moderate in
Speaker 1: the context of the Democratic Party. So when people want
Speaker 1: to say he's a disaster, he's so liberal, he's so failed.
Speaker 1: He can't possibly win the presidency. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the general election. Can he be the Democratic nominee in
Speaker 1: a weak field? He can't. My grandfather, my great great grandfather,
Speaker 1: back in the Old Country, was like five foot ten
Speaker 1: in Eastern Europe. He was the tallest man in the village,
Speaker 1: Sean at five to ten. Because the best of the
Speaker 1: people in the village were five eight and below. This
Speaker 1: guy is a major, major at the political figure in
Speaker 1: his party. And if you look at the other people running,
Speaker 1: they don't have anything like his experience. So all I'm
Speaker 1: telling people on the right is, if you want to
Speaker 1: think about who the Democrats are going to nominate, this
Speaker 1: is the guy to focus on today. Now, ironically, I'm
Speaker 1: the only one I know he doesn't think he'll run
Speaker 1: in the end. I think he'll approach the finished starting
Speaker 1: line and then bail out. Right now, he's in a
Speaker 1: class by himself because he's done. He's done what he's done,
Speaker 1: what Barack Obama did, Bill Clinton did, George Bush did,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump did. He's simultaneously doing some things on
Speaker 1: the base side and some things in the center. And
Speaker 1: for people to say that new.
Speaker 2: Something, what is he doing on the center, I'd take
Speaker 2: issue with that. I mean, he tried for a brief
Speaker 2: period to be a little bit in the center. I
Speaker 2: don't see any center policies of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what they are.
Speaker 1: And again I'll say they're in the center in the
Speaker 1: context of the Democratic Party, are they Are they in
Speaker 1: the Center.
Speaker 2: For the Republicle you're talking about a radical left party
Speaker 2: now that's about to elect a Marxist in New York
Speaker 2: City as mayor.
Speaker 1: But John, that's the state of the Democratic Party. Someone
Speaker 1: who says what he says to Charlie Kirk, someone who,
Speaker 1: as Faz is dealing with the homeless in a more
Speaker 1: aggressive way than the party. Someone who will talk to
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. These are in the context of the.
Speaker 2: No somebody who would have tried to talk to Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk it didn't work with his polling, and then shifted
Speaker 2: gears and like a chameleon politician, you know, decided to
Speaker 2: go this aggressive route, talking about punching people in the
Speaker 2: mouth and fighting fire with fire when his state is
Speaker 2: one of the most Jerry manderd in the country.
Speaker 1: I agree, and that's what he's doing. And look the
Speaker 1: whole Democratic Party of crime crocodile tears over Texas when
Speaker 1: they then have to accept the Illinois and Massachusetts and
Speaker 1: Maryland and all these blue states have done it. I'm
Speaker 1: not again, I'm not here as a spokesman for Gavin News.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you he in his and if you
Speaker 1: look at it.
Speaker 2: By the way, We're totally getting that message. You've given
Speaker 2: enough caveats. I get it. You've just given political analysis,
Speaker 2: which is what you're great at.
Speaker 3: I want your political analysis.
Speaker 1: So what I'm telling you is to be the nominee
Speaker 1: in this day and age, you have to be an
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier. You have to be able to hire great people,
Speaker 1: raise tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. You
Speaker 1: have to have to go on on toe to toe
Speaker 1: with Sean Hannity. And right now there's no other aircraft
Speaker 1: carrier in this field, in this forming field. So if
Speaker 1: Republicans just want to denounce anyone who says Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: is the front runner, so free. But you're making a
Speaker 1: mistake because today you would be the nominee with all
Speaker 1: the variables out there, what states are going to vote first,
Speaker 1: and who else is going to run? No one else.
Speaker 1: These other people who are talking about Basher Shapiro, Wes Moore,
Speaker 1: they are not in this guy's league in terms of
Speaker 1: what you look at to say who's an aircraft carrier.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say he's been a great governor.
Speaker 1: It's not to say he's not super liberal on some issues,
Speaker 1: but this is the Democratic nomination we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Right, quick break, Welcome back More with Mark Alpern. He's
Speaker 2: the editor in chief of the new interactive video platform
Speaker 2: called two Way and host of the next podcast More
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Speaker 2: calls coming up as well as Friday.
Speaker 3: I would continue our.
Speaker 2: Friend Mark Alpern is with us, editor in chief interactive
Speaker 2: video platform two Way, host of the next up podcast. Okay,
Speaker 2: if we're only talking about the Democratic nomination, I can
Speaker 2: completely and totally utterly agree with you. And but it's
Speaker 2: you know, often people in a primary, you know this
Speaker 2: from you many many decades of following politics, they will
Speaker 2: they will run hard to the left or to the right,
Speaker 2: and then they'll move to the center in a general election.
Speaker 3: Gavin's got a big problem.
Speaker 2: He's got a Michael Ducacas problem, and that is, you know,
Speaker 2: do you want America to be Massachusetts? Do you want
Speaker 2: America to be California? And you know I said this
Speaker 2: last night, and I'm going to stop and I'm going
Speaker 2: to backtrack and just tell you.
Speaker 3: I know, Gavin.
Speaker 2: I even texted him last night during my show and
Speaker 2: I said, please don't stop doing what you're doing It's
Speaker 2: like it's manna from heaven for me to get this
Speaker 2: material from him every single day of him ranting like
Speaker 2: a lunatic, and he's going for the hard left and
Speaker 2: he's passionate. If you meet him in real life, he's charming,
Speaker 2: he is slick, he is nice. He did have courage.
Speaker 2: He did the debate. No first, he did an interview
Speaker 2: with me one on one, and then he did the
Speaker 2: debate that I had with him in Ron De Santis.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: He has since pulled back.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 3: I tried to reach out to him.
Speaker 2: I said once he came out when Donald Trump was reelected,
Speaker 2: and I said, instead of you know, funding you know,
Speaker 2: a legal strategy against Donald Trump to Trump proof your state,
Speaker 2: I said, why don't you go sit down with him
Speaker 2: all arrange the meeting. I actually offered to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't mind making that part of public. And you know,
Speaker 2: he just dismissed my suggestion. And that's fine too, but
Speaker 2: I think it would have been a lot better off
Speaker 2: for him and the people of California. With all that said,
Speaker 2: after the Pacific Palisades, he you know, Donald Trump stepped
Speaker 2: up and he's helping, but they're still not giving permits
Speaker 2: for people to build homes out there.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. Yeah, and that's his problem.
Speaker 2: I mean, his record is so bad when America becomes
Speaker 2: aware of it, I'm just telling you there's no way
Speaker 2: this guy could get elected in my opinion as of today.
Speaker 1: And Sean and you mean you mean when the presidency
Speaker 1: and again I share your view and that skepticism, and
Speaker 1: that's in part why I don't think he'll run. There
Speaker 1: are other reasons. We had a guy on two Way
Speaker 1: last night, a dad, two young kids now lives in Oregon,
Speaker 1: left the Bay Area, had to say he couldn't afford
Speaker 1: to They couldn't afford to live there, couldn't deal with
Speaker 1: all the negative impacts that he largely attributes to Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: If Gavin Newsom does run, and again I don't think
Speaker 1: you will, there are going to be people who run
Speaker 1: against him from the left who will find thousands of
Speaker 1: Californians who say, Gavin Newsom sailed us and we're on
Speaker 1: the left. And you'll also find thousands and tens of thousands,
Speaker 1: millions maybe on the right. If he's the nominee, who
Speaker 1: will be in the Republican ad makers will not know
Speaker 1: who to cast in the ads because they will have
Speaker 1: sympathetic real Californians, many of whom have left the state,
Speaker 1: who will say, if you will, if America thinks getting
Speaker 1: a deal with Gavin Newsom and getting California, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe in the end that'll be part of why
Speaker 1: he doesn't run. But right now, the Democratic Party value
Speaker 1: is one thing above all else. Are you there round
Speaker 1: the clock punching Donald Trump in the face metaphorically and
Speaker 1: he's doing it. That's what the party wants.
Speaker 3: He's doing it now.
Speaker 2: This is the latest iteration, this is the latest evolution
Speaker 2: of him and him and the social media team. I
Speaker 2: think for him, knowing him, it's inauthentic, and I find
Speaker 2: it embarrassing. I'm kind of embarrassed for him. I think
Speaker 2: he's looking stupid. But he can't run away from something.
Speaker 2: He's very sensitive. But if Trump calls him nuskam, he
Speaker 2: hates it. He's very sensitive. If you point out his
Speaker 2: failures surrounding the Pacific Palisades wildfires and they had hydrants
Speaker 2: that had no water in them in an empty reservoir,
Speaker 2: you know, he's very, very sensitive on issues about being
Speaker 2: the highest taxed state, in the country and they still
Speaker 2: have a massive budget deb He's very sensitive about all
Speaker 2: the illegal immigrants that I've committed crimes. Although they don't
Speaker 2: keep statistics out there, he's very sensitive, you know, about
Speaker 2: the highest poverty rate, homelessness rate, highest gas taxes, income taxes.
Speaker 2: It's to me that's why he won't run. I think
Speaker 2: in the end, I think you're right, he's going to
Speaker 2: get right up to that line and then probably not.
Speaker 2: I can see the announcement, you know, at the last minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and his family is a big consideration as well,
Speaker 1: and the scrutiny he'd get. This guy has gotten. People
Speaker 1: always say Alway's been Governor Califournie, He's been scrutinized. He
Speaker 1: has not. There's tons of scrutiny that will come his
Speaker 1: way or anyone else who runs, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he wants to deal with that, and his family deal
Speaker 1: with that. But with the reason I've been talking about
Speaker 1: this so much this week is because you can learn
Speaker 1: a lot about where's the Democratic Party right now and
Speaker 1: what does it mean to compete with Donald Trump for attention.
Speaker 1: You can't deny that he's succeeded by that metric. Everybody's
Speaker 1: about him, and they're not talking about well more, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that is something. You may say that he's
Speaker 1: an authentic in how he's doing it. You may say successive,
Speaker 1: or it's undignified, as our friend Dana Prino says, but
Speaker 1: it is. It is achieving what two things that Democrats want,
Speaker 1: they want, they want.
Speaker 2: He's placating a very very small and dwindling base, and
Speaker 2: he is not. He's not expanding the base that he
Speaker 2: would need if he wanted to be a real if
Speaker 2: he wanted to be a contender. He's not doing that.
Speaker 2: We do appreciate your insight. Thank you, Mark Alprin. We
Speaker 2: appreciate you as always. And I think you're right. I
Speaker 2: think he is. He's the front runner for the nomination.
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Speaker 5: How are you hey, Sean, Sean, Sean, how you doing.
Speaker 5: It's good to talk to you again.
Speaker 3: It's good to talk to you again. How are you?
Speaker 3: When's the last time you.
Speaker 5: Oh it's been several years, but it's good to hear
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Speaker 5: You know, I used to not like him until I
Speaker 5: read his book. What an amazing man. He's really overcome
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Speaker 5: he just got a great perspective about people now. I
Speaker 5: really appreciate and admire him now, so that we need
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Speaker 5: So I have a gift that I want to send
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Speaker 6: I am well, Sean, I am really well. It's good
Speaker 6: to talk to you, first time caller. I love your information.
Speaker 6: I love what you talk about. It's so good and informative.
Speaker 6: I got lots of weeding done the last two days
Speaker 6: and yard work, listening to your show and enjoying it.
Speaker 6: But what you're talking.
Speaker 2: About, by the way, isn't weeding like one of the
Speaker 2: worst things in the world to do.
Speaker 6: Oh it's satisfying, though, because it takes a lot longer
Speaker 6: for them to come back than a dish to get dirty.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean, I for three years of my life
Speaker 2: at a plot of land, and I had my own garden,
Speaker 2: and I used to have to weed that garden, which
Speaker 2: was the most painful, arduous, difficult, annoying thing to do
Speaker 2: because you get out there with the woe and you
Speaker 2: have to get underneath so they don't pop back up again.
Speaker 3: And I grew corn and back and.
Speaker 6: Ye, man, kill them up and do all that nonsense,
Speaker 6: and make sure you throw the weeds that will read
Speaker 6: it all the way out of the garden or into
Speaker 6: a bucket. So you got to know your weeds to
Speaker 6: which weeds you can pull them, which weeds you can
Speaker 6: leave where. And then yeah, that part is arduous, I
Speaker 6: would say.
Speaker 2: But you know what made me stop gardening, even though
Speaker 2: it was very cool, because I love corn. I used
Speaker 2: to love to grow my own corn, but cucumbers and
Speaker 2: bell peppers and watermelons, and you know, we grew everything.
Speaker 2: But here's the worst part of it is, after three
Speaker 2: years of doing it and all the hard work, I
Speaker 2: realized I passed by a farmer's market on the way
Speaker 2: home from picking my corn, which I work so hard
Speaker 2: to get, and you can get like a dozen corn
Speaker 2: for a dollar or two dollars a dozen, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: why am I working so hard when it's only two
Speaker 2: bucks for a dozen? And I realized it was cheaper
Speaker 2: to do it that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know Jersey was the farm state for
Speaker 6: a reason that it really is. It's a garden state.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: And yeah, well I didn't grow up in a jury.
Speaker 2: I grew up and this was actually at a point
Speaker 2: when I lived in Rhode Island in my life. But anyway,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, you've been talking about DC and how people
Speaker 6: aren't given Trump affair shake, our levels, our president a
Speaker 6: great guy, a fair shake and things. But you pointed
Speaker 6: out too that it's all the white people that don't
Speaker 6: have the problems, but the people that are in the
Speaker 6: lower income neighborhoods and in the parks where the kids
Speaker 6: can't go out and play. You know, it's just not
Speaker 6: fair to them to be able to not enjoy their
Speaker 6: life the way the people that are protesting enjoy their life.
Speaker 6: And I used to do a lot of traveling. I
Speaker 6: used to do a lot of traveling. I went into
Speaker 6: New York City probably from nineteen seventy eight ninety eight
Speaker 6: ninety nine, and once a year I would go to
Speaker 6: New York City because I had some specialty shop that
Speaker 6: I needed to do. And you could see the difference
Speaker 6: in that city because it was filthy, and then it
Speaker 6: would get a little better. But I still loved it.
Speaker 6: The smells were there, the homeless you could deal with
Speaker 6: because there weren't so many, and you could. You could
Speaker 6: walk down to a little little leier down just down
Speaker 6: the Red to Chinatown. You could go to Washington Square
Speaker 6: for a free show. You can't do that anymore. It
Speaker 6: used to be the big Apple. You could go to
Speaker 6: New York. You could be anybody and you could make it.
Speaker 6: Now it's the rotten apple I've had.
Speaker 2: When I grew up, New York was an Adam Schiff Hall.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you went to forty second Street, back
Speaker 2: in the day you were confronted by nothing but drug dealers.
Speaker 2: And I mean they had, you know, triple X rated
Speaker 2: movie theaters and you know, peep shops and strippers and hookers.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember going in there, you know, when
Speaker 2: I was in my teens, and you know, it might
Speaker 2: have been fun for me and my friends, you know,
Speaker 2: just to get in the middle of quote the action,
Speaker 2: but it was probably pretty dangerous. We shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 2: But long story short, the person that cleaned it up
Speaker 2: was Rudy Giuliani. Can it be cleaned up again? Absolutely
Speaker 2: if mom Donnie wins, Is it going to get cleaned up?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. It's going to become worse. And it's I've
Speaker 2: ever been and it's bad now, it's very bad.
Speaker 6: Well what was that about the gifts? Anyway, I got
Speaker 6: back from Australia and I happen to be traveling the
Speaker 6: subway because we would do that too. I fired up
Speaker 6: a cigarette. I got so many dirty looks and I'd
Speaker 6: realized the city had cleaned up, but I hadn't noticed
Speaker 6: that there was no smoking on the subway anymore. That place.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying you could eat off the floor, but
Speaker 6: it was so nice. Every other time I'd come to
Speaker 6: New York City, I'd either see a murder or hear gunfire.
Speaker 6: And you would have to pay me a lot of
Speaker 6: money to go to New York City now, and then
Speaker 6: I would be packing in spite of stuff.
Speaker 3: The best part of your story is I lit up
Speaker 3: a cigarette.
Speaker 2: I got dirty looks, but nobody dared speak up and
Speaker 2: say put that cigarette out. That is a typical New
Speaker 2: York City subway ride. Nobody looks at each other or
Speaker 2: talks to each other. I mean, because they're all afraid.
Speaker 2: Do you never know what you're dealing with.
Speaker 6: No, but back then they did. They gave me dirty looks,
Speaker 6: and I loudly said, excuse me, everybody, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 6: didn't allized. There wasn't any smoking on the subway anymore.
Speaker 6: I used to travel with a circus, so when you traveled,
Speaker 6: you weren't a tourist. You were working there. You were
Speaker 6: part of the working people, and you got a totally
Speaker 6: different view of what the.
Speaker 3: City were you with Wringling Brothers, Ringling is.
Speaker 6: Pretty much it's a big show. But they use all
Speaker 6: communists block acts because the Communists trained their children just
Speaker 6: like the Chinese metal lady in Australia that from the
Speaker 6: time she was four years old she was taught how
Speaker 6: to be a contortionist. And she said, they came into
Speaker 6: the nursery school and they did all these tests and
Speaker 6: they told you, which, Oh it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you can get a really good
Speaker 2: life experience, Pam. I could talk to you all day,
Speaker 2: I've got to run. I got to get to another call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you being one of us. God bless you. Congratulations
Speaker 2: on your gardening, and I hope you share some some
Speaker 2: of those ears of corn with us. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to Rod in Kansas. Rod, how
Speaker 2: are you glad you called?
Speaker 7: I'm good, Sean. What an honor to speak to you.
Speaker 7: I really appreciate all you do to thank you. To
Speaker 7: my point, so here's my deal.
Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 7: Issue is putin Russia. Why are we not putting sanctions
Speaker 7: on him now? After he blew up that commerce factory there?
Speaker 2: Oh we are, we are big time. Okay, I mean
Speaker 2: Donald Trump did it before the meeting in Alaska. It
Speaker 2: was only a week ago. Yeah, but Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: putting on sanctions in this way. Number one, the European
Speaker 2: Union and his trade deal are committing nearly a trillion
Speaker 2: and energy purchases that would have gone to Putin. Now
Speaker 2: they're going to buy their energy from US number one
Speaker 2: fifty percent tariff on India if they continue to buy
Speaker 2: Russian oil. And Trump's about to unload on Putin big time.
Speaker 2: His patience has run out. It's over now, it's going
Speaker 2: to be. Okay, negotiation two point zero, which is to
Speaker 2: break Russia financially.
Speaker 7: Good because I just feel so disrespected and I feel
Speaker 7: like they're disrespecting him in the United States by just
Speaker 7: not putting the hammer down on this deal. And you know,
Speaker 7: it's a sad.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll give Trump credit. I mean, he gave the
Speaker 2: Iranians fifty days. He was patient, He gave them time
Speaker 2: to negotiate a settlement. They wouldn't do it now, they
Speaker 2: don't have any nuclear program. They could have done it
Speaker 2: peacefully and with Russia. Okay, it'll take a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: But the sanctions bill as eighty five co sponsors in
Speaker 2: the US Senate, and those sanctions that you know, it'll
Speaker 2: cut off the funding for a Putin's war machine, and
Speaker 2: then we'll fund Ukraine and let them buy our sophisticated weaponry,
Speaker 2: and now Putin's life just became even more miserable.
Speaker 7: No, I hope so Sean, and I just hope there's accountability.
Speaker 7: I love John Solomon. All of that reporting is awesome,
Speaker 7: over the top.
Speaker 2: So thank you, buddy. Listen, you have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Daniel in Texas. God bless Texas, Daniel. We have the
Speaker 2: last minute and a half and it's all yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was just kind of curious about Bill Maher and
Speaker 8: what he was saying in an article that you know,
Speaker 8: most Republicans want to actually go on his show and
Speaker 8: they're not afraid, and Democrats are running scared.
Speaker 1: And I know that you know him.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you've ever actually interviewed with him.
Speaker 1: I was kind of curious if you're ever going to.
Speaker 8: Like either team up with him and kind of get
Speaker 8: like a lift and a right view and kind of
Speaker 8: do something like that, or go on a show and
Speaker 8: it's kind of something similar to what you do.
Speaker 2: He's been on my show a number of times, not
Speaker 2: any anytime recently. He has invited me on his show
Speaker 2: many many times. But to do a show, I got
Speaker 2: to fly out to la and flying out to La
Speaker 2: eleven hours to do a one hour TV show is
Speaker 2: not the best use of my time. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: got a seven hundred and fifty plus radio stations here
Speaker 2: and I've got a show on Fox, and with all
Speaker 2: due respect to build, my ratings are much higher. And
Speaker 2: you know, why do I want to go there and
Speaker 2: get made fun of by a funny guy. He's a
Speaker 2: good comedian. Now, if he really wanted to have a
Speaker 2: good discussion and really you know, go deep in the
Speaker 2: paint and just I'm I would consider doing it. I
Speaker 2: think he's very smart, I think he is funny, But
Speaker 2: you know, I'd have to know that he wanted a
Speaker 2: serious conversation and not not waste my time.
Speaker 8: That's kind of what I'm getting at, because it seems
Speaker 8: like he's turned around, even though he won't say it,
Speaker 8: like I actually praised him for like you know, he
Speaker 8: went to the White House with Trump, he actually admitted
Speaker 8: when he was wrong.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like.
Speaker 8: Changed a lot of his point of view. Now I
Speaker 8: don't really I don't believe it.
Speaker 3: He's not really changing his point of view.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a pretty liberal Democrat, but he sees
Speaker 2: that his party's gone radical left and it's not going
Speaker 2: to work anyway. Appreciate the call, my friend. I'll take
Speaker 2: it under advisement. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: That's gonna wrap things up for today. I forgot to
Speaker 2: tell you the CBO now says Trump's tariffs could reduce
Speaker 2: the national debt by four trillion dollars, and that home
Speaker 2: sales rose in July, defying expectations once again in US
Speaker 2: manufacturing surge to a three year high. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: get to some of that good news on Monday. Hope
Speaker 2: you have a great weekend. We'll see you then. Thank
Speaker 2: you for making this show possible.