WEBVTT - Midterm Referendum 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.320 News round up in Information Overload Hour. Here's a toll 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.640 free telephone number. It's eight hundred and nine point one 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.480 Sean if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.760 I have been telling all of you that this is 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.200 the single most important midterm in our lifetime. And I'm 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:19.200 only asking one thing of the twenty plus million listeners 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.160 that we have to this radio program on seven hundred 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.159 and fifty sixty stations whatever the number is, and that 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.320 is this year. I am asking one thing that in 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.400 your mind, you make a commitment that you are not 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.199 going to sit out this midterm election. This is the 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.200 biggest choice election you'll have in your lifetime. You elect 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.519 Democrats and the result is going to be predictable, and 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.839 that is that there's going to be endless investigation, rancor, hostility, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.880 madness the radicals now run this party, I mean the 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.240 Mamdani Party. Or you're going to want America to continue 0:00:54.280 --> 0:01:00.160 to progress economically, to achieve a golden era of prosperity 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.200 for every American, and you're going to want to progress 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.520 and create freedom around the world with the Trump doctrine 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.039 that I think is the perfect doctrine. You know, all 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.880 of that is on the ballot. Now, I'm not really 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.319 looking closely at polls. There was a good poll by 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.399 inside or advantage last week Matt Towry our friend fifty 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.240 forty six. The approval rating of the president. If you 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.600 look at the mainstream media and the legacy media mob 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.280 that that have never pulled Donald Trump right, they would 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.200 tell you Donald Trump is at historically low levels for 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.720 any sitting president. I don't believe them. I think they've 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.680 been wrong again and again. Let's go to fake news CNN. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:42.440 Harry Enton says, no clear Democratic front runner or president. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.560 It's a downright clown car. That is what I said. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.440 This is just a downright clown car at this point 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.560 on the Democratic side. I mean, just take a look 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.000 here top choices for the twenty twenty eight dem pres nominee. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.000 You have a leader, but it's not really a clear leader. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.560 It's within the margin. Mary, I've news him at nineteen percent, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.680 and you have former Vice president Kamala Harris at eighteen percent. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.520 Quite a weak number for her, given that, of course 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.760 she was the nominee last time around. Pete pou To Judge, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.919 who of course has run before, thirteen percent. Alexandi Arcasio 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.840 Cortez at twelve percent. This is just a total clown car. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.640 It is a total mess. There is no clear front 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.919 runner at this particular point on the Democratic side. Who 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.520 the heck knows who the nominee is going to be 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:22.519 in three two years. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.559 It's been a long time since we've had a Democratic 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:26.600 race like this. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.760 Yeah, it has been a long time. This is very 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.960 unusual for the Democratic side to not have a clear 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.840 front runner at this point, national early pole leader at 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.480 least twenty five percent. Look at this this year we 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.720 get the giant question mark no. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.079 One, no one, no one, no one. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.160 In twenty twenty one, there was no incumbent. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:46.600 It was Joe Biden who. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.280 Was there, Hillary Clinton in both eight and sixteen, and 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.600 Al gormbothousand and two thousand and fourth this point where 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.240 at least at twenty five percent in the early ones, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:54.840 you have to. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.400 Go all the way back, all the way. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.000 Back from when I wasn't even an elementary school yet, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.440 not even in pre k yet to nineteen hundred and 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.880 ninety two. That was the last cycle in which there 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.919 was no clear front runner at this point. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.800 Very unusually, and what's interesting, after my big fight with 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.639 Gavin Newsom, yesterday, Linda, did you notice after I kept 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.600 hitting him and hitting him and hitting him, he was 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.120 he went away all of a sudden, he got very quiet. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.320 I don't think he wanted to engage with me anymore. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.080 You think that maybe he realizes I am unrelenting when 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.720 it comes to Twitter fights. I won't stop. And if 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.120 you don't believe me, look at my history with ALC. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.240 Baldwin and with Jimmy Kimmel. Is it true if you 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.200 engage in a Twitter war with me, it's over or 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:35.400 an export to be more? 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.680 I mean, I remember the Acosta days. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.280 They were rough. Oh yeah, bake news Acosta. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.880 But the event about him because they quit, they cry uncle, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:45.640 they give up. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.040 Well, I think, if we're being honest, we both know 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.360 that de Niro and Newsom went home last night and 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.000 gave each other a big hug and cried together. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.280 They cou'd probably right about that. Interesting. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.000 Mike Lee put up a post what is the best 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.400 thing the GOP could do to boostp voter turnout in 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.240 twenty six And you know, I think these are really 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.400 good questions we need to ask, and I'd rather be 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.560 asking them now than asking them the day after the 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.320 midterms and saying, well, what went wrong? And I think 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.800 to be introspective, self reflective, making course corrections is always 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.720 a smart thing to do. For the first time since 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.760 early voting began, the GOP has outvoted Democrats, you know, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.440 in this one particular district in the state of Texas, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.799 and I think that's very very important. Over five hundred 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.720 and forty two thousand Republican primary ballots in just six days, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.920 and it's dramatically higher than twenty twenty two. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.040 That's going to be very interesting to watch. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:48.039 And anyway, here's Harry Enton talking about how Gavin Newsom 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.039 is flailing. I don't think his little fight with me 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.919 dropping f bombs on me and me dropping him back 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:53.640 helped him. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.520 But here's what he said. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.800 It seems to me that Gavin Newsom is flailing a 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.080 little bit, at least compared to where he was prior. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.840 Because just take a look here, okay, chance Newsom is 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.640 the twenty twenty eight Democratic nominee three months ago according 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.240 to the cash prediction market. Look at that, it was 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.320 a thirty seven percent chance. Now it's just a twenty 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.640 eight percent down. He goes, he's definitely flailing a little bit. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.240 And I will note, John, I will know that. It 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.400 also seems to me people are a little less interested 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.320 in Gavin Newsom than they used to be. Look at 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.320 this Google searches for Gavin Newsom down sixty three percent 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.320 from the August peak. You remember back then it was 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.599 when he started that social media right going after President Trump, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 there was a lot of interest from Democratic voters. But 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.960 maybe that interest is waning off just a little bit. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.159 And of course you don't necessarily want to wane it off, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:37.800 chick Jeff, because I think we still have a lot 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:38.200 of time. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.520 To the votes. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.920 Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.200 And as we head into the State of the Union tonight, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.760 don't forget our coverage eleven o'clock right after the President 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.480 and Abigail's span Berger. Don't worry, she'll speak for less 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.080 than ten minutes and be boring as hell. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:53.359 But VORDA. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.880 Turnout for early voting in both Texas and Georgia are 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.640 incredibly strong right now, in many cases also for Democrats. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:01.760 But what does it mean? 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.800 Democrats historically vote early vote more than Republicans do, but 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.960 I hope Republicans are turning out in numbers two. John 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.960 McLaughlin's brother, Jim or with us from the McLachlan Associates group. Gentlemen, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.040 welcome back, Jim. It's nice for you to show up 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.479 on time. I can't believe. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.840 It only for you, Sean, will I show up on time? 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.559 Great to be here, yeah, but because John always shows 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.320 up on time, I'll start with him. What do you 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.240 make of this early voting? And where do we stand? 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.640 You know, now what eight months away from these midterms. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.120 Well but by the way, thanks for the opportunity, and 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.880 it's great to be here. But with Linda, this is 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.880 really like a three on one McLachlin match with Sean 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.920 Hannity's we get ready for Saint Patrick's month. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.240 That's what it takes. Three on one if you're going 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.880 to battle against me, Oh my god. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.680 Oh well we have Linda on our side. That's when 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:53.440 we have a chance. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:54.760 All right. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.240 Now, Notice the two McLaughlin brothers hoping that the other 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.279 McLachlin can bail them out, you know, the female McLaughlin. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:07.920 See, that's what that speaks. That speaks volumes about toxic masculinity. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.600 Yes, but to your point originally, there's a lot of 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.080 fake poles out there right now. I mean when you look, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.320 the economist Yugo put out a poll today of one thousand, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.120 five hundred and fifty one adult citizens that you know, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.480 God knows who these adults are. They have only thirty 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.679 five percent Trump voters in their poll. They have actually 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.440 thirty nine percent Harris voters. They have They put out 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.120 a poll with more Harris voters than Trump voters. And 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.760 then we get fifty percent? Did we get fifty percent 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.280 in the last election. They are submarining us with these poles, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.880 trying to convince us that Trump has the lowest numbers ever. Now, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.640 Matt Towery offered tracks close with ours, like our January 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.520 poll had Trump with fifty percent job approval, forty seven 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.680 percent disapprove, and Adams. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.000 It's almost a direct match of Matt Towery and you. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:02.520 Matt Towery, Robert Kahelly, the three people for three presidential elections, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.360 and rask me of some by the way, I got 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.560 to give them a tip of the hat, the four 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.640 people that tend to poll Donald Trump accurately. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.520 Yeah, and then thank Heaven for Jim and I because 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.800 we got to deliver those poll numbers to him, and 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.160 he still tells me those aren't right. I have my 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.680 best poll numbers ever, and I'm like, nah, you were 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.720 best on election day. But that was the good That 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.720 was good timing when he swept all seven battleground states 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.600 and we won the popular vote because he made our 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.920 polls right and right now, by the way, November, he's 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.840 not on the ballot. He's not on the ballot. The 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.640 Republicans for Congress are and they think that Donald Trump's 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.079 going to lift him to get re elected. No, I mean, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.760 Donald Trump is succeeding as president. But they better draw 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.160 a contrast election with the Democrats in November because you've 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.520 got I mean, think about Donald Trump went after Joe Biden, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.520 Kamala Harris straight up was the better president. Won on 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.280 issues where there was tax cuts, whether it was strengthening defense, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.880 securing the borders. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:04.240 He did it. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.160 The Republicans in Congress better go after the Democrats because 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.560 the Democrats they voted against the Trump tax cuts for 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.040 the largest tax cuts in history. They are now they 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.280 are now defending illegal immigrants to stay in this country 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:24.800 by going after ration enforcement officers. So that's an issue 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:30.480 that analys Paul eighty seven to ten Americans favored deporting 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.400 illegal immigrants, and the Democrats are shutting down the government 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.160 precisely to keep criminal legal immigrants in this country. So 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:45.560 the Republicans and the save AC voter id to vote 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.320 in the United States, it's an eighty twenty issue and 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.800 Republicans need to get that through the Senate. So it 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.040 has passed. But the Republicans better have an agenda like 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.960 Neuke Gingrich had in ninety four with the Contract for America, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.520 or like Donald Trump had in twenty twenty four versus 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.040 Kamala Harris that we were able to win that election. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.079 It's a contrast election, and right now in the polls 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.080 I was talking about, the Republicans are losing the generic 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.280 ballot for Congress forty four to forty seven. We need 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.599 to go. We need to go to Warwick. The Democrats 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.480 have a good contrast election and win in November and 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.120 bring the Trump owns back out. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.000 All right, we continue with our posters heading into tonight's 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.840 State of the Union. Remember our coverage right after the 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.199 President speaks at about eleven o'clock Eastern time. Of course 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.280 we have the Democratic response Abigail Spanberger, but that's less. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.760 Than ten minutes. That'll be boring as well. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.360 But stay there because we're going to have great coverage 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.880 analysis that you'll never get from anyone else in the 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.480 legacy media mob right after the State of the Union 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.640 around eleven o'clock Eastern time. Look forward to that tonight 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.720 from Washington. I do think that Trump, in one way 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.960 is on the ballot and that it will be a 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.160 little bit of a referendum. And I think a lot 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.840 of people need to understand that the president's agenda will 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.679 be stopped right and its tracks if in fact Democrats 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.360 got control of Congress, they'll be endless investigation, impeachment, and 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.880 the country's progress will stop and will have nothing but 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.200 endless distractions. And I think that that should be top 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.440 of mind for voters. Also, Jim, what are you think? 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.640 Oh, without a doubt. And I think Susie Wiles she 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.600 gets it better than anybody because she said, we're putting 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:35.560 President Trump and his common sense, successful agenda, We're putting 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.880 that on the ballot in this election. And that's one 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.800 of the reasons why the Republicans underperformed back in twenty 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.120 eighteen during the midterms, because we literally had millions of 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.480 Trump voters that didn't come out for the midterms. We 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 need to make sure we get these folks out, and 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.320 the best way we're going to get them out there 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.840 is a contrast with these Democrats on the issues that 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.160 people care about most. Just think about this. I mean, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.679 the Democrats are the party they want open borders. That's 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.440 what they want. Literally, as John said, the first shutdown, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.000 it was all about giving welfare benefits to illegals. Now 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.559 the new one is they want to They literally want 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.800 to defund ice. It's just like you know, first they 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.319 wanted to defund the police. Now they want to defund ice. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.000 The other thing is this is look, if God forbid 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.120 we put the Democrats in power, Look what's going on. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.040 I think the Democrats are making a huge mistake tonight 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.360 by having Abigail Spamberger give the response, because look what 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.840 she did. She quote unquote ran as a moderate. Now 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:46.400 she's governing as probably the most radical left wing governor 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.360 in the history of the state of Virginia. She's come 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:54.160 out supporting over a hundred new tax increases. And that's 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.360 the kind of stuff that the Democrats are going to 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:57.280 give us right now. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.199 And look, the American people are also going to see Democrats, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.200 many of them don't show up in the room, but 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.160 that's great because he gives room and seats for American 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.520 hockey players, the ones that won goal for the first 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.600 time since nineteen eighty. I'm glad they're going to be 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.440 in the room tonight. They deserve it. They make our 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.840 country proud. And if they're not going to stand at 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.080 all or cloud for the president at all part of 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.480 their strategy, or at least telegraph strategy, what then we 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.600 have another moment where they look like they have no 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.160 conscience or soul because they wouldn't stand for the family 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.840 of Lake and Riley or Joscely and Nungary. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.400 Good luck with them with that strategy. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.920 It's crazy and it shows the extreamism that we have 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.440 right now in the Democratic Party. And you know, one 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.160 of the things that's interesting was when we used to 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.920 do focus groups during the campaign, we'd ask swing voters. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.520 We'd have swing voters, Okay, what's Joe Biden's greatest accomplishment? 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.520 They would laugh at you, They would literally laugh at you, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.000 and they couldn't give you any of his accomplishments. But 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:01.880 with Donald Trump, even some voters that voting Democrat for Congress, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.400 they will give you real accomplishments. When it comes to 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.040 Donald Trump, they'll tell you, well, you know, he cut 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.600 our taxes, or he secured the border, or he's making 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.120 you know, city safer and whatnot. And that's going to 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.440 be the contrast tonight. And I think, by the way, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.800 I think the Democrats are making a big mistake by 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.480 with their counterprogramming and they're boycotting the State of the Union. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.960 I think it's really bad for the country, and they've 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.280 said a horrible precedence. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.480 I don't really care if they come or not. I mean, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.800 if Donald Trump announced I am here to announce that 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.000 we have come up with a cure for cancer, they 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.720 would sit there. They wouldn't clap, they wouldn't applaud, they 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.960 wouldn't celebrate a scientific breakthrough that's going to save how 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.680 many millions of lives. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:45.600 They wouldn't care. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.560 Anyway, We're going to be watching tonight and we'll see 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.960 what happens. Our coverage begins at eleven o'clock Eastern. But John, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.920 Jim McLoughlin, we appreciate both of you. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.160 Thank you, Thank you, Suan. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.600 Every time we play that bumper music from John and 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.400 Rassic Superman Hi for fighting. I just love that song. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.840 And he's a good friend of the program. He apparently 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.800 was in Washington, d C. Didn't tell us why. He 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.520 said he would share it after the fact, but I'm 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.120 going to find out why. Unfortunately, I will miss him 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.120 while I'm in DC tonight for the State of the Union, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.640 and I wish i'd see him because I think the 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.520 world of him and I love his music. But every 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.760 time we play that bumper music, I want to play 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.280 more of the song because I really like it. Play 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.240 a little bit of Superman. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:09.680 I can't stand to fly. I'm not dead nice, I'm 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:17.360 just now to find the better part of me. I'm 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:22.200 more than a bad a, more than a plane, more 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:27.560 than some prettyfice beside a train. And it's nat. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:31.120 Easy to be he me. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.400 Wish the head I could. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:48.560 Cry fall upon my knees. Final wait life, but a 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:54.680 home I never see. It may sound absurd, but to 0:16:54.960 --> 0:17:00.800 me nive even hears him not to leave. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:01.240 You don't. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:07.800 Maybe it's wont you can see even hear us have 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:09.880 the rot to dreams. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.880 It's not easy, super. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.280 You can BLEEPU. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.520 Or anything. I can't stand fly. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.600 By the way, is it you know what's amazing? I mean, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.560 it's the story of Superman. From Superman's perspective, I mean, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.920 and he takes it, he turns it into this beautiful song, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.680 and it's one of those moments. I never really wish 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.320 that I had another life. I love the life that 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.040 God gave me, but every once in a while, I 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.439 wish I could do what he can do and be 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:13.159 a great musician, songwriter and singer. But we both know, Linda, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.440 that I can't sing. You can sing. I don't know 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.960 why you'd ever pursued professional singing, because I think it 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.119 would have been amazing at it. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.760 You're really good at it. I mean, you did cover. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:29.120 Band singing for decades in your life, and you're good. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.919 You're great at it. How come you never pursued it? 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.880 I did, Actually I did. I got a record contract, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:37.760 and I gave up my job and my car and 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.679 my apartment and I bought uh stuff to move to 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.200 LA And the day before I left, they pulled the deal. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.199 And that's a to the deal. You never told me 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:48.440 that story all these years. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.880 Yeah, it's a very depressing story. But yes, I got 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.879 the deal and all the things, and then they pulled it. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.760 They decided to go with a boy band and the 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.000 label only had room for me. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.880 Did you curse at them and make them mad. No, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:02.120 that was a dark time. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.480 But I went back to school and got my masters 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:05.760 and just went a different. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.679 Direc forty master's degrees after that. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.240 Just I channeled it positively. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.280 I don't know, it's so funny because we do have 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.359 parallel lives in this sense. Is that I used to 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.560 tembar at a wedding factor. I do five weddings every weekend. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.399 I became so cynical of weddings. It was terrible. I mean, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.920 I'd sit around with other bartenders and we'd be like, yeah, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:26.800 this couple's gonna last like five minutes. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.159 I mean it was well, listen, it's worse for me 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.520 because I had to work with them all as the 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.719 MC and the lead singer. And I would do people's 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.720 first weddings, and I would do their second weddings, and 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.240 I would do their third weddings because they liked me 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:38.800 from their. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:43.520 First and their seconds. The whole the whole America was. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.399 Like, I recognize that dress, that's awkward, Okay, just you 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:47.879 know weird. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.560 Oh they'd wear the same dress. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.280 There's so many things, Sean, honestly I should do like. 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.520 All, isn't it terrible? 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:01.000 I mean, I honestly wish that I did not have 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:05.159 that experience of my life because you get so cynical. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.080 I mean, you know the cake. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.159 Yeah, And the good thing is I went from that 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.480 to politics, which really lifted me up. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:15.359 That's a good point. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.199 And then you see like both families and you make 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.760 judgments about the families. I know this is terrible, but 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.479 I but I would do we would do this. And 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.400 every family, I always say, has an Uncle Joe. Uncle 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.200 Joe is the guy that would come up to the bar, 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.240 you know, right after either the ceremony or right after 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.240 you know, right is the receptions beginning. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.280 He'd hit you with a twenty and keep him coming, kid, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:39.600 keep him coming all night. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:40.240 You know. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.399 And I'd be like, okay, I'm going to keep them coming. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.600 By the time that night ended, I had two hundred 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.320 bucks from Uncle Joe. And he'd be the guy with 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.840 the tie around his neck, his shirt half open, you know, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.359 sweating like a slob, and you know, to the song 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:54.560 celebrate good times. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:54.919 Come on. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.120 I mean, I mean what I will tell you. You've 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.200 observed that I love a. 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.600 Good uncle Joe, though, because he gets the potty started 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.959 on the dance floor. People get a little nervous sometimes, 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.640 and Uncle Joe already has his tie, you know, it's 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.280 wrapped around his forehead. He's ready to go, and everybody 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.439