1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, I have with 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: me the eldest son of former President Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan. Michael, 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: Good to begger getting older. 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Hey, it's always good to be getting older, right, That's 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: what people don't realize. 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 3: It is good to be getting older. 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: But you have had quite a special life with your 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,159 Speaker 1: dad being the President of the United States, and I 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: think he started running for office when you were twenty, right, gosh, I. 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: Was twenty years old. But remember I had a mother. 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 3: That's right. 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: For good, I had a mom. You know. It's really 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: hisstuy up. 15 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 4: Until my dad gave the speech A Time for Choosing 16 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 4: back in nineteen sixty four, I was Jane Wyman's son. 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 4: And then my dad gave the speech A Time for Choosing, 18 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 4: and literally overnight I became Ronald Reagan's son. 19 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: That's so funny because I want to talk about both worlds, 20 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: because today people oftentimes call Washington, d C. The Hollywood 21 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: for ugly people, because people have become like really obsessed 22 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: with themselves. But you got to see a different I 23 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: think you probably saw a different side of Hollywood than 24 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: we know today, right, oh yeah, much. 25 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 4: Different side of Hollywood, you know than you see today. 26 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 4: Not they didn't have activists, didn't have you know, the 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 4: liberals in there and communism in there. 28 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 2: What happened with my dad. 29 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 4: Thought back basically in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. 30 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 4: You know, a lot of actors don't realize that it 31 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 4: was my dad who gave them health care insurance. It 32 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 4: was my dad who gave them residuals. They didn't have 33 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 4: residuals up until that point in time. And to show 34 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 4: you why the Reagan was, I mean, I go, are 35 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 4: you crazy? 36 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: Dad? 37 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 4: When he wrote the bill and signed it to give 38 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 4: residuals to actors, he wrote himself out of it because 39 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 4: he didn't want people to think that he only passed 40 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 4: his bill through SAG so that when his career was over. 41 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: He would have a way to make a living, so 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: he didn't get residuals. 43 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: And you're why people love him because he was about 44 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: the people. 45 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he truly was. And it was never about him. 46 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 4: It was about people around him and what have you, 47 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 4: And whether you were a friend of his or your 48 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 4: a family member. You know, he really treated people pretty 49 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 4: well equally. He told stories. And as a good friend 50 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 4: of mine, Bill Clark, Judge Bill Clark said, years ago 51 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 4: and a great friend of my father's, I said, you know, 52 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 4: your father spoke to us in parables, and you really 53 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 4: think about it, you go back and listen to his speeches. 54 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 2: He did. 55 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: He spoke to us in parables, He told us a story, 56 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 4: and he prayed to God afterwards. 57 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: You got it. 58 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: Was it like that growing up? I mean, was he 59 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: like that as a father too? 60 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 2: Always a lesson? You know, if he took me to 61 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: the ranch, which he took me every Saturday morning, go 62 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: out to the ranch and shoot ground squirrels in the afternoon, 63 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: the lesson wasn't shooting straight. The lesson was to wait 64 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 2: for these little damn things to pop their heads out 65 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: of the ground. And if you didn't get the shot 66 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 2: the first time, you. 67 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 4: Had to sit and wait and wait wait until it 68 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 4: would pop up again. So the lesson there was patience. 69 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 4: And that's just what he did, you know, with members 70 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 4: of the family. 71 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 2: And you know, you look back at that point, I. 72 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 4: Went, like, Dad, just let me shoot the damn squirrel. 73 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 4: But then later on you look back and say, oh, 74 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 4: he was teaching me a lesson. 75 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of how I mean. 76 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: I would say, even today, Democrats are starting to talk 77 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: about him that way, which I find fascinating because I 78 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: think the first the first time Trump ran in twenty sixteen, 79 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: I didn't get that strong love of your father from 80 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: the Democrats. But now this time, I mean, even Alissa 81 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: Slotkin is saying, well, he's not Ronald Reagan. 82 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 3: And I'm like, what do you do You now love 83 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan? 84 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, interesting enough, I said, on so many occasions 85 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 4: I might written about the fact they love Ronald Reagan 86 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 4: the day we buried him. Up until that point in time, 87 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 4: he was at war with the media and what have you, 88 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 4: and some of them, Sam and others came to be believers. 89 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: In Ronald Reagan. 90 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 4: But again it was always a battle. And people talk 91 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: about what's going on today. Well, you know, back in 92 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 4: my day, the time of my dad, it was ABCNBC 93 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 4: and CBS. But they were all talking about him. They're 94 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 4: all negative. They're all saying he was a racist. They're 95 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 4: all saying he was going to stop social Security, they're 96 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 4: all saying he was going to start a war. They 97 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 4: were saying the same things back then on three channels 98 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 4: where today they're saying on every channel, if you will, 99 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 4: and there's so many. 100 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: And there's so many, and there's so many other ways 101 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: for people to say all the social media, and everybody 102 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: thinks they're a journalist, and everybody's going out and they're 103 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: all attacking, and it's very tough. But you said something 104 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: at the beginning that you were Jane wyman Son before 105 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: you were Ronald Reagan's son. 106 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 3: And I think that's if you've watched. 107 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: The movie, and I'm sure you watched the movie of 108 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: your father's life at the beginning. So it's fascinating from 109 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: my perspective because as a viewer, I'm watching that and 110 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, man, he was in a situation where his 111 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,799 Speaker 1: wife was really famous and she was a really great actress, 112 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: and he was an okay actor. You know, he wasn't 113 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: the one in the spotlight. But there has to be 114 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: a security in that lifestyle, and there has to be 115 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: kind of like an allure to that lifestyle. For him 116 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: to step out and run for governor would have been challenging. 117 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: But also he had the name IDs, So what tell 118 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: us a little bit about what that was like from 119 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: the perspective of family. 120 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 4: I remember He was the first president elected who had 121 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 4: been divorced, no, probably been divorced. So that was a 122 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 4: real big issue, you know, during the campaign, but it 123 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 4: was interually after the We saw the movie at the 124 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 4: Grammin's here in Hollywood. And I've known market everybody for 125 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 4: twenty years. I'll be telling them stories for twenty years. 126 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: So and a lot of those stories showed. 127 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 2: Up in the movie. But they came the actor he said, 128 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: do we treat your mother? Okay? Was that all right? 129 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 4: I said, let me tell you something. I said, my 130 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 4: dad gave a speech during the nineteen eighties, and I 131 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 4: called my mom on the phone. I said, Mom, did 132 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 4: you see Dad's speech tonight? She said no, I said 133 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 4: you didn't. 134 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 2: Why? 135 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 4: She said I didn't like it in nineteen thirties, Why 136 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 4: would I. 137 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: Like it today? And I said, you got her absolutely 138 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 2: honor present. Correct. 139 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 4: She didn't like politics, she didn't like it at all, 140 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 4: and she didn't liked being dragged into these things. But 141 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 4: yet she voted for him twice. She didn't say a word. 142 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 4: What was great about my mom? And which doesn't happen anymore. 143 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 4: My mom was offered. I can't tell you how many 144 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 4: books to write during my father's presidential life about Ronald Reagan, 145 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 4: negative books offered a lot of money her contract she 146 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 4: had without and Crest simply said, I will not ask 147 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 4: answer any questions about my former her husband. If that 148 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 4: question is asked, I will simply get up from the 149 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 4: table or chair and walk away. 150 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that. And she's never said. 151 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 4: A word about my father, her former husband, until the 152 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: day we buried my dad at the library, and then 153 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 4: she said some wonderful I get choked up wonderful worries 154 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 4: about my dad. And that's the kind of woman she was, 155 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: and that doesn't exist anymore in Hollywood, and that's really sad. 156 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: Such leadership she showed, and what you could be like. 157 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: And it's not like that at all. She was terrific. 158 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 4: I am the way I am because my mom. I 159 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 4: am the way I am politically because of my father, 160 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 4: because I never knew my mother's politics. I never asked 161 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 4: her who she voted for, never talked politics for my 162 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 4: mom at all, except for that one phone call. What 163 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 4: do you think of Dad's speech? Didn't like it nineteen. 164 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: Thirty or forties? Why would I like it today? 165 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: But it is really hard on family members and she probably. 166 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: I think that's the ugly side that people don't get 167 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: to see that your life is on display, whether you 168 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: want it to be or not. If you are the spouse, 169 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: if you are the ex, no matter what, they're going 170 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: after you. They're trying to get information on you, and 171 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: they're trying to break your family apart. And I can't 172 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: imagine what it was like because you mentioned he's the 173 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: first person to be elected president who was divorced and. 174 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 3: Had young kids. So at that time you. 175 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: Have these forces in these three major media corporations that 176 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: are just trying to destroy you, because that's really what 177 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: it is. It's not news. They're trying to destroy you. 178 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 2: I couldn't find a. 179 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 4: Job after my dad became president of United States. Nobody 180 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 4: wanted to hire me. They thought I was going to 181 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 4: be the next Billy Carter, and the media was after me. 182 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 4: The ANLA pulled two or three search wards on my 183 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 4: house looking for information to use. I guess my father 184 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 4: in the nineteen eighty campaign. Yeah, people asked me, why 185 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 4: didn't you ever run? I should ask my wife standing 186 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 4: at the front door watching LA come in and do 187 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 4: a or DA come in and do search warrants on 188 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 4: her house, her privacy. That's like great in many cases 189 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 4: when they walk into the house like that and tear 190 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 4: everything apart. And I said, I'll go out and speak 191 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 4: and write articles, but I'm not going to run and 192 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 4: allow my family to go through what we went through 193 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 4: then at that point. So I always create jobs for 194 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 4: myself because nobody would hire me. And that's how I 195 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 4: got back into boat racing, doing fundraising for different charitable causes, 196 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 4: setting five world records in nineteen eighties with a powerboat 197 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 4: raising million and a half two million dollars for cistic fibrosis, 198 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 4: the Olympic Committee and all of those things. 199 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 2: But they're all fundraising events because I said, if I'm 200 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: going to get. 201 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 4: Into something, I need to do something to raise money 202 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 4: for different charities so the media cannot attack me for me. 203 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 2: You're so Reagan, You're so right. 204 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: Because after I ran for governor here in the state 205 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: of Michigan, when I came out, I had one of 206 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: the people that supported me say, I want you to 207 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: come and interview for a job my company, and the 208 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: CEO of the company looked at me and he said, 209 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: I can't hire you as an out Republican like you 210 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: can't be hired. And that was right after the race, 211 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: and I thought, hmm, this could be really bad. And 212 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: then another guy said to me, He's like, once you've 213 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: run for office, you're you're like toxic. You can't and 214 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: that for you, you never ran. It was your dad 215 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: that because and that's that's the destructive force that I 216 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: don't think people realize. And that's the kind of behind 217 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: the scenes that I wanted people to understand, is that 218 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: when you do this and you offer yourself up to serve, 219 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 1: you are taking your entire family with you. And you 220 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: talk about it as being just as ugly back then 221 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: as it is now. And I think people oftentimes go, gosh, 222 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: you know, it's so bad now. You see what happened 223 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: to Governor Shapiro, which was horrible. You see the violence, 224 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: and I think that maybe on the level of exposure 225 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: of the things that are happening. But your father, they 226 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,839 Speaker 1: attempted to assassinate him, They went after him. 227 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 3: I mean, this is the politic. Hicks is an ugly game. 228 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 4: It is a game, and it is affected by children. 229 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 4: Cameron and Ashley. Ashley's lost jobs. She's a teacher and 230 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 4: now you know she runs a school. She's a principal, 231 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 4: but getting a principal job. She actually signed a contract 232 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 4: to be principal for one school, and within forty eight 233 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 4: hours it was rescinded because they found out Ronald Reagan 234 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 4: was her her grandfather. 235 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're saying me. 236 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 4: No, same things happened to my son trying to get 237 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 4: jobs because Ronald Reagan is his grandfather. 238 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 2: I mean, people don't see that side of it and 239 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 2: the damage it does. 240 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 4: So you know, we've been there to kind of help 241 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 4: our kids and they're doing great, but again, this is 242 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 4: what they face in life too. It really trickles down 243 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,599 Speaker 4: all the way down, and it's the anger and the 244 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 4: mad I mean, go see the movie Reagan. One of 245 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 4: them several parts of the movie is my dad's shot. 246 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 4: He's in the hospital. He wakes up in the hospital 247 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 4: and who's in the hospital room with him, hipp O'Neil 248 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 4: with his rosary in his hand, praying for my father, 249 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 4: and the two of them pray together for the healing 250 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 4: and my father. 251 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 2: Now, I asked Michel, would that happen today? Would that 252 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: happen today? And I think not. I think not, it 253 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 2: would not happen today. 254 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 3: And I think that's the sad thing about it. 255 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: I mean, even this past week you see Gretchen Whitmer 256 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: go into the Oval office and obviously she did some 257 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: silly things putting. 258 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 2: The yes, yes, I'm not on your show. Okay, right, I. 259 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: Said, I think there are two groups of people that 260 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: haven't figured out how Pikaboo works, and that's the toddlers 261 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: and Governor Whitmer so doesn't realize that when you put 262 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: the folder up, we can still see you. But to 263 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: be fair, she was going there to meet with the 264 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: president and that enough, that alone was enough for the 265 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: Democrats to just eviscerate her. I mean the people that 266 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: came out, especially on the state level, that went after her. 267 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: How could you negotiate with him? 268 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 2: How could you? 269 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: I mean, he's the president. What does it come to 270 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: if you don't have people that are willing to sit 271 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: down together and you can't. 272 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: You can't sit down together. They don't allow it. 273 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 4: And look with Bill Maher, Bill mar goes and has 274 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 4: you know, dinner with the President of United States. You 275 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 4: say what you want to say about you know what 276 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 4: Bill Marer did and president did and what have you? 277 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 4: Presidenty Graceius. 278 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 2: But he's being an attacked from where he'd been an 279 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 2: attacked from the left for daring to do that. And 280 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 2: so how do you how do you. 281 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 4: Get together and solve any issues when you've got those 282 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,599 Speaker 4: kinds of things going on? And I will tell you, 283 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 4: I mean, you look at Trump, you say what you 284 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 4: want to say about Trump, but he is wide open. 285 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, so wide open. If you don't know Donald Trump 286 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: is by now, where have you been where? 287 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 4: I mean, if you're going to say something about Donald Trump, 288 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 4: you don't think there's gonna be a return, return. 289 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: Salvo at that point in time. Uh No, I mean 290 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: he is very open. 291 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 4: Cross conferences, bringing people into the Oval Office and Witbert 292 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 4: invited into the Oval office where you saw an executive order? 293 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 4: Has he ever signed executive order by himself in the 294 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 4: middle of the night. There's always meeting in the Oval Office, 295 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 4: and point. 296 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 2: He does that. So what does she think? 297 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 4: Is she not paying attention to the President United States? 298 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 4: She paid attention enough to say, jeez, I love to 299 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 4: work with you, I appreciate you, I love your terrorists. 300 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 4: Going to help me here in Michigan with a building 301 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 4: of cars and all these other things. 302 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: That's great. But I don't want. 303 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: Anybody to know me well, and I can't remember a 304 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: time when she was invited by Biden, and that to 305 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: me is even more bizarre. Here's a woman who was 306 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: so she was literally promised the vice presidency and then 307 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: it was rescinded. It went to Kamala Harris after the fact. 308 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: I mean, her staff we had heard was actually in 309 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: DC looking for homes because they were planning on moving 310 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: to be the vice president. 311 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 3: And then she doesn't. 312 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: I mean, she's never talked about going to the White 313 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: House with that I can remember with Joe Biden as president, 314 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: but she goes with Donald Trump. And I think you 315 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: brought up Bill Maher going there, and I think one 316 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: of the things that was very critical that he said 317 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: was all of the things that I didn't like about 318 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: him were absent when I actually met him. 319 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 3: Well, isn't that interesting how. 320 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: That works when you've heard terrible things and then you 321 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: actually meet the person that's called finding out who they 322 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: really are it. 323 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 2: Really is and the fact that. 324 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 4: There's a way to laugh at himself. And in fact, 325 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 4: Bill Maher brings a whole list of these are the 326 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: things you've said about me, and Trump signs it gives 327 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 4: it back to him. Now he's got a signature on it. 328 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 4: So Trump gets it, I mean, and it's like, doesn't 329 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 4: anybody else get it? I mean the reason he's doing well, 330 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 4: he's having fun, right, having fun, and nobody. 331 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: Else is having fun. They're angry and you're going why 332 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 2: are you angry? 333 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 4: I mean you look at Coachella Valley this last weekend, 334 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 4: cell A Valley, Bernie going down there. I mean talking 335 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 4: about in a great weekend, people at Cochella who never 336 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 4: draw a sober breath. Anyway, Coachella at that point done. 337 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 4: I mean you could have put anybody on stage say yeah, 338 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 4: I love like you were great. 339 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 2: I mean seventeen dollars lemonade, which I'm sure with Spike, 340 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 2: and there's a little bit of weed floating around down 341 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: there at Gazella. I mean you know. 342 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 4: So again it's why are you angry? Why are you upset? 343 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 4: And who caused you to be upset? You lied for 344 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 4: four years, You lied about the President United States and 345 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 4: is cognitive ability. 346 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: You lied about it for the public and you got 347 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: found out. 348 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more with Michael Reagan. But first let 349 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: me tell you about my partners at IFCJ. 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It's never a fair election on their side, 371 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: and they can never say that it wasn't a fair 372 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: election on our side because there are plenty of establishment Republicans. 373 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 3: Trump would not have been their first choice. 374 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: But the people chose, the people chose, and the people 375 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: chose Donald Trump, and he is president. Now, well, let 376 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: me ask you this. A lot of people do compare 377 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: your father and Donald Trump. What do you think your 378 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: father would think of Donald Trump? 379 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 2: I think my dad. 380 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 4: You know when I said, Donald Trump in twenty fifteen, 381 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 4: you call me on the phone, I'm running for president 382 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 4: of United States. 383 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 2: What do you think? I said, I think you'll destroy 384 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: the Republican Party. You have another question? Yeah, And so 385 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 2: we talked for a moment. 386 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 4: He said, well, I didn't know your father, but I 387 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 4: liked your father. Because I liked your father, I like you. 388 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 4: I said, well, I appreciate it. 389 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: I didn't know your. 390 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 4: Father either, but I liked your father. Because I liked 391 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 4: your father, I like you. And he said, will you 392 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 4: ever come to the White House so we have a 393 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 4: reggae day? Said absolutely, you know, I'll return it. 394 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: You come up to the ranch and we'll have a 395 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 2: Trump Day up there. But well, I didn't realize. Then 396 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: I wrote up at a piece about this not long 397 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,679 Speaker 2: after the election. I said, I didn't realize he had 398 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 2: to break the party to rebuild the party to win 399 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 2: again because it. 400 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 4: Was not in a winning mode, and so I had 401 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 4: him on the back. And so I was right in 402 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 4: twenty fifteen. But I was right when I wrote the 403 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 4: piece and said I didn't realize he had to break 404 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 4: the party to rebuild the party to in fact win 405 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 4: again like he won in November. So, you know, I mean, 406 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 4: there's always gonna be some similarities between them, if you will. 407 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 4: But one thing is they both knew what they both 408 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 4: knew what they wanted. They both you know, and I 409 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 4: wrote up at pieces last week. 410 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 2: You know, China is his Russia, my Dad's Russia. I mean, 411 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 2: that's how I look at He's. 412 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 4: Dealing with China and she dad had a deal with 413 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 4: Soviet Union, Mikyle Gorbacheff and all the leaders before him. 414 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: So similarities, they're how they're handling, they're being tough, they're 415 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 2: being strong. What happened in the Oval office with the 416 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 2: President of Ukraine, I said. 417 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 4: That was another Ronald Reagan moment, because Ronald Reagan did 418 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 4: the same thing in Rekovic with magow Gorbachev when magau 419 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 4: Gorbachev said. 420 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 2: Hey, you have to give up Sdi or Star Wars, 421 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 2: and my dad said yet and walked away. 422 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 4: In fact, my dad told me in nineteen seventy six 423 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 4: when he lost, I said, why do you want to 424 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 4: even run for president? He said, for so long I've 425 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 4: watched American president sit down with secretary generals of the 426 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 4: Soviet Union, and Michael, every time we sit down, they 427 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 4: always ask us to give up something to get. 428 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: Along with them. 429 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 4: I wanted to be the first president sit down with 430 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 4: a secretary general of the Soviet Union. And while he 431 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 4: was telling me what it was, I was going to 432 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 4: have to give up. I was going to get up 433 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 4: from my side of the table, lean over and whisper 434 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 4: in his ear. 435 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 2: Yet I told Mark that story. 436 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 4: In nineteen gosh, twenty years ago when he was getting 437 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 4: ready for the movie, And that's what shows up in 438 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 4: the movie in Rekovict, because that's what he said when 439 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 4: my dad walked recollect. He did the same thing a 440 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 4: record that Donald Trump did in the Oval Office. No difference, 441 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 4: so there is similarities to what they in fact do. 442 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 4: They do it differently Donald Trump does it as a 443 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 4: New York businessman in your face. 444 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 2: I mean, there's not a New York businessman that. 445 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 4: Isn't like Donald Trump. There is a crazy businessman that 446 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 4: isn't like Donald Trump. There is a Chicago businessman not 447 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 4: like Donald Trump. Roland Reagan from Hollywood in the Midwest. 448 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: Donald Trump fighting the people he had to fight in 449 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 4: New York to get building things done, to build buildings. 450 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 2: It's how he is and had to be to be successful. 451 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 3: That scene in the movie was so powerful. 452 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: I remember sitting in the theater and I think, City, 453 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: you really have to see that in the theater too, 454 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: because it's just such a powerful having the big screen 455 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: up there and watching this all unfold on the big screen. 456 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 1: That scene was so powerful. I remember thinking to myself, 457 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: what is it in him that makes him negotiate in 458 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: such a strong manner? Because here's a guy who had 459 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: a really tough childhood father that had all kinds of issues. 460 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 3: He comes from Hollywood, not. 461 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: Not the guy that America looks at and goes, Okay, 462 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: this film star is going to be a great negotiator 463 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: on the world stage. But God has different plans for everybody. 464 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: Did what is it in him, Like when you were 465 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: growing up, what was it that you went, Man, this 466 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: guy's going to be great. 467 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. I always thought he was great with my dad, 468 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 2: you know. 469 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 4: And I learned about America seeing the right front seat 470 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 4: of a station wagon on a Saturday morning, right out 471 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 4: to the ranch, regaling me with songs of the Army, 472 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 4: the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coastguard, telling you about 473 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 4: the greatness of America. I learned that eight years old, 474 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 4: seven years old, sitting in the right front seat of 475 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 4: a car, and always thought he was great. 476 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 2: I mean, marine probably looked at him more as president. 477 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 4: To be honest with you, when he ran for governor, 478 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 4: I was just twenty My first vote was for him, 479 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 4: you know, in nineteen sixty six. 480 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: To be governor. 481 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 3: Oh he always been just turning that age. 482 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 4: And to be honest with people asking me, I take 483 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 4: people on tours in the library all the time, and 484 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 4: they always ask me, you know, what were you thinking 485 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 4: back to when he ran for governor, I said, I 486 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 4: was twenty one years old. I was thinking to my 487 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 4: next date, That's what I was thinking, you know. I 488 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 4: was thinking, I hope he wins poet has could be 489 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 4: really nice, you know, but h and like when he 490 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 4: got scorn in at midnight? 491 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: What in nineteen sixty seven, they called me. I was 492 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 2: in gosh. 493 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 4: I was in up in Lake Tahoe skiing with friends 494 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 4: of mine. I said, you think I've got to come 495 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 4: down from Lake Tahoe for two minutes when you're crazy? 496 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 2: I'm up. Yeah, I'm having a great talking So I 497 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 2: had to really learn this stuff. And what have you? 498 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 4: I asked, he used to ask marine, you know, tell 499 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 4: me about different a democrat and Republican liberal and conservatives. 500 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: You know, hello, I'm just out here talking to Republican women. 501 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 2: I don't know what to say and what have you. 502 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 4: But Maree's the one really pushed my dad into becoming 503 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 4: a Democrat. 504 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 2: And you go back and you can google this. 505 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 4: My dad becomes a Democrat within forty eight hours of 506 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 4: General Electric theater being canceled and he's off the air. 507 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: Why did that happen? 508 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 4: Bobby Kenny called the head of General Electric and said, 509 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 4: you've got contracts coming up, and you'd be better served 510 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 4: to find a way to get rid of that guy 511 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 4: speaking about my brother the president and get him off 512 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 4: of television to get those contracts done. And so guess what, 513 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 4: forty eight hours later, Democrat Ronald Reagan is fired, the 514 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 4: show is canceled, and he's without a job. But you 515 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 4: know something else, he has more time on his hands down, 516 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 4: he writes a brand new speech called the Time for Choosing, 517 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 4: which he gives for Barry Goldwater launches a political career 518 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 4: the governorship and president. 519 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 2: But forty eight hours after going. 520 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 4: Off the air, my sister brow beat him enough he 521 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 4: changed his registration from Democrat to Republicans. 522 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: So people always say to me, was it Nancy? It 523 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: changed him to a Republican and got him to run 524 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 2: for office. 525 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 4: I said, no, is Bobby Kennedy did that when he 526 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 4: got him fired from general elector theater and got it canceled. 527 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 3: What would you think of Bobby Kennedy Junior today? 528 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 2: That'd be interesting. 529 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 4: But again my dad was so you know, my dad's 530 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 4: the one who gave I think one of the first talks. 531 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 4: John of Children came to him and said, will you 532 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 4: help us raise money for the library. They said, you know, 533 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 4: all the other libraries have like living presidents and. 534 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 2: What have you. We don't. So my dad gave a 535 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 2: phenomenal speech. I think he gave it. 536 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 4: Ted Kennedy's town home in Virginia to raise money for 537 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 4: the Kennedy Kennedy Center of the Library, and he did that, 538 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 4: and it's one of the best speeches you'll ever hear 539 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 4: from my dad. You know, he understood the battle, but 540 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 4: he understood when the battle was over, you get on 541 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 4: with it. You shake hands, as you did with tip 542 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 4: O'Neil with shows in the movie Uh with tip O'Neil. 543 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 4: You know, tip O'Neil him disagreed on everything known to 544 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 4: mankind politically, but they found a way to get things 545 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 4: done when they had to. 546 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: I think that's been the confusion after seeing Nancy Pelosi 547 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: stand up and tear up the speech in the middle 548 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: of the State of the Union, all of this negativity. 549 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: You've got Bernie Sanders at like you said, at Coachella, 550 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: standing up and giving speeches, and this just feels like 551 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: politics is trying to take over every part of life. 552 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: And really, I mean, I see kids in middle school 553 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: talking about politics. I never thought about it. You talk 554 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: about your own dad running when you were twenty, and 555 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: it wasn't your first thought, because when we were young, 556 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: that wasn't that isn't how it was. It wasn't every 557 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: every thing you turned on. It wasn't just in your 558 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: face all the time. But this generation of young people, 559 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: they have politics in their face constantly, and it's not 560 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: a joyful situation. 561 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 3: It's not politics is not joy. Entertainment is joy. 562 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: Yeah it where's the entertainment? No, right, where is the 563 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: entertainment at this point. 564 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 4: My family, my son took his kids eyes, got three 565 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 4: nine year old, seven year old and the two year 566 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 4: old to see King of Kings the other day to 567 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 4: get entertainment and get a story and what have you. 568 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 2: But the agger, it's even our family. Like Patty used 569 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 2: to send me your op ed. 570 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 4: Pieces and when I saw one that I could put 571 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 4: up on my Twitter ex account and not make the 572 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 4: world go crazy, I put up and she would thank me. 573 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 4: And then a year ago she sent me when I 574 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 4: thought was really good, I put it up and I 575 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 4: let her know I just put it up on X 576 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 4: and she you got to get down. 577 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: You got the guy. I can't have one of my 578 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 2: pieces on as it's owned by the Musk. You can't 579 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 2: do that. I said, well, I'm not taking it time. 580 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 4: You're going like, why are you so up? Why are 581 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 4: you so upset? Why they can't even have a conversation. 582 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 4: It's just they're mad and they're angry and they don't 583 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 4: calm down. And that's that's what's really sad about this 584 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 4: whole thing. But you know, my dad, and I've said 585 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 4: this so many times, my dad had four children, two 586 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 4: from Jane. I was adopted in the family. Best decision 587 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 4: they ever made, and the where I met the other kids, 588 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 4: the best decision they ever made. But I was adopted 589 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 4: into the family. So you have Mareen and I with Jane, 590 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 4: and you have Patty and Ron with Nancy. And you know, 591 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 4: Marie and I are more conservative and Patty and ronn 592 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 4: A are not. But you know something, Thanks Jimmy dinner, 593 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 4: we're all at the same table. We're all at the 594 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 4: same table. Even though he had two children, he led 595 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: a march on Washington when he was president, brought the 596 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 4: people in who co marched with her. 597 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 2: He invited him into the Oval office. She wrote books 598 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 2: about her mother, you know, the hatreds for her mom 599 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But you know, so. 600 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 4: He still had them a Thanksgiving dinner. They were still there. 601 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 4: And that's the difference between people talk about my father. 602 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 4: Then if you're going to talk about my father, really 603 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 4: look at my father. The deep deepened my father's soul 604 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 4: and who he was. He didn't he didn't cancel people 605 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 4: because he disagreed with them. He invited them in. That's 606 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 4: how he's able to ultimate make a decision with Mikile 607 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 4: Gorbacheffer get together with You know, all these people who 608 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 4: were against him for so. 609 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 2: Many years, and his own children who'd love him to death. 610 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 4: But the fact is he didn't get angry because they 611 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 4: came out against him. He embraced them. And if we're 612 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 4: going to solve the pro in America, we have to 613 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 4: learn to embrace each other. You want to follow wrong 614 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 4: the Reagan's rules, those are wrong with the Reagan's rules. 615 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 3: Stick around. 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I think 639 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: that's been the most shocking reaction from legislators in Michigan 640 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: to Gretchen Whitmer being in the Oval office. It's like 641 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: ban her. She broke the rule. She wasn't allowed to 642 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: do that. How could she go against us like this? 643 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: And how do you expect to get anywhere if you 644 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: can't sit down together? And like I said, I am 645 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: not the person to come out and defend Gretchen Whitmer, 646 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: but the reaction to it has been shocking that there. 647 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 3: Is this divide. 648 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: There is a wall you do not cross line you 649 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: cannot stick your toe across or else that party will 650 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: just eat you alive. 651 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 3: And it's unreasonable. 652 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 4: It is, it's absolutely unreasonable, and that you can't find 653 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 4: you know, you can't find common ground or anything. 654 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 2: They don't want to find common ground. 655 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 4: There is no common ground right long yours as long 656 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 4: as as long as you are a Trump's supporter, there 657 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 4: is no common ground. 658 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 2: Now. 659 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 4: We don't want him to succeed. We do not want 660 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 4: him to succeed. We want him to fail because we're 661 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 4: going to do what what's your message? We want him 662 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 4: to fail so we can and they never. 663 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: Have the we can answer, right, right, that's what they've 664 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: been looking for now for a while. Well, before I 665 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: let you go, we've talked a lot about your dad, 666 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: But I want to ask, what would your mom think 667 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: of Hollywood today? 668 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: You would she would turn she really would turn away 669 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 2: from what Hollywood's done. See. 670 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 4: You know, she was such a gracious, wonderful woman, and 671 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 4: she would she would be appalled by it that they 672 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 4: did issues back in the day. But she never played 673 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 4: in those she never played those games. She did her work, 674 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 4: you know, and and she did it well. 675 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: You know. 676 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 4: They referred to her as one take Wyman, one take Wyman, 677 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 4: which is really tough. 678 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 2: If you're working with her on set. Don't come in 679 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 2: for a second take, and god forbid a third take, 680 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: because she took that very seriously. 681 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 4: You know, here's here's a woman who was left a 682 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 4: doorstep of a neighbor, went through foster care, basically had 683 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 4: a tough childhood growing up, and and put it put 684 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 4: it all together. And Maury and I we were lucky 685 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 4: to have her. You know, we're the only two people 686 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 4: ever raised in a family, born into a family where 687 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 4: the father would go on to become president and the 688 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 4: mother would go on to become a. 689 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 2: Commy Award with the actress. 690 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 4: And and the night that I went to the Grammins 691 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 4: and we saw the movie Reagan, I walked out with 692 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 4: Dennis and others to the out front because my mom's 693 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 4: hand puts and footprints and they're at Grandma's Chinese in 694 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 4: the ground and we looked at that. So it was 695 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 4: a great memory for my mom. I'm lucky to be 696 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 4: where I'm at. You know, I've done a lot of 697 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 4: things myself in my life. But I'm not ready to 698 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 4: celebrate my fiftieth anniversary with my wife in November, and 699 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 4: we're going to get remarried at the same church and 700 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 4: my mom and dad got married in back in the forties. 701 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 4: And I have two great kids, Cameron Ashley. Ashley's about 702 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,479 Speaker 4: ready to get birth to her child, my first child, 703 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 4: and Cameron's got three of his own. So I'm blessed 704 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 4: with my family. I'm married a midwestern's farm girl who 705 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 4: keeps me grounded. 706 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 3: Those Midwestern where else, they're good. 707 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 2: And my mother loved her. My mother thought she was great. 708 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: That's so awesome. That is such a great story. And 709 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: your mom what a glamorous woman. I was looking at 710 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,959 Speaker 1: pictures of her today, really so beautiful. And I'm sure 711 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 1: that that idea of Hollywood and glamour and taking you 712 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: someplace that you never could have imagined was so real 713 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: for her. And to see how that has changed and 714 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: taking away the glamour. It's unfortunate. She was a beautiful woman. 715 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 4: It is sad that that glamor's been taken away. And 716 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 4: I don't know when it comes back, but we need 717 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 4: to get it back. Everywhere we knew we need to 718 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 4: do rosary sitting in a chair praying for Ronald Reagan 719 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 4: moment which we don't have today. 720 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 721 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's funny because I love movies and my 722 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: mom is such a movie nut. When I was a kid, 723 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 1: we went to the movies every weekend and sometimes twice 724 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: a weekend, and there were always new movies coming out, 725 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: and was always just like that way you went, you 726 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,279 Speaker 1: went into the theater, you just got to take into 727 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: another place. And I remember every time it was the 728 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: Academy Awards, we sat as a family. We watched and 729 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: we listened to every speech and they were all these 730 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,880 Speaker 1: speeches about loving your family and how they were so positive. 731 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: It was all opportunity. And that's what I think, going 732 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 1: back to a space where you just hear positive lessons, 733 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 1: you hear positive messages, that's what this country wants. 734 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 2: It wants that, it. 735 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,360 Speaker 4: Wants that we were getting it with one candidate in 736 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 4: the last election. Yeah, one cat was in fact giving 737 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,439 Speaker 4: us that. And you know it's my dad. 738 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,240 Speaker 2: You know, both he and the president now both shot 739 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 2: I would be assassin. What did they do? They came 740 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 2: back stronger. What did my dad do? 741 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 4: My dad forgave John Hickley before he went back to 742 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 4: the White House hope. 743 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,439 Speaker 2: John Paul gets shot. 744 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 4: A couple of months later, he forgives his would be 745 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 4: assassin before he goes back to resume his pop duties, 746 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 4: and the. 747 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 5: Two of them ultimately get together not long after that 748 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 5: and form a phenomenal bond that brings peace to poland 749 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 5: wraps it around and ends up bringing down the Berlin Wall. 750 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it has been such a joy to talk 751 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 1: to you and hear all these stories about your father. 752 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,920 Speaker 1: He did so much for everyone in this country and 753 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 1: people around the world. He honestly deserves all of the 754 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,160 Speaker 1: love and all of the praise that he gets, and 755 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you were willing to share so 756 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: much with us, And even the side of how challenging 757 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: it is for the family when someone runs. I think 758 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: that's something that people don't hear very often, the side 759 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 1: where it affects generations to come, and even your children 760 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: have been affected by it, but I'm just so grateful 761 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,879 Speaker 1: you came on today, Michael Reagan, thank you so much 762 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: for joining me. 763 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 3: Thank me, thank you, absolutely, thank you all for joining 764 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 3: us on the Tutor Dix of Podcasts. For this episode 765 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 3: and others. 766 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: Go to Tutor Dickson podcast dot com, the iHeartRadio app, 767 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and join 768 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:55,879 Speaker 1: us next time. 769 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 3: Have a blessed day.