Speaker 1: There's an event coming up soon called an Evening with
Speaker 1: Michael Savage. Life as a Conservative in San Francisco. Now
Speaker 1: the event is actually being there is sold out. You
Speaker 1: can watch it as a pay per view at Michael
Speaker 1: Savage dot com. And we thought we'd talked to the
Speaker 1: man himself. Indeed, one of the unique voices in the
Speaker 1: history of radio. Um, whether you love him or hate him,
Speaker 1: you've got to recognize that he is a brave man
Speaker 1: who doesn't particularly care whether you agree or not. And
Speaker 1: in spite of being one of the giants of talk radio,
Speaker 1: he has been unfailingly kind and generous to us throughout
Speaker 1: our careers. Michael Savage joins us. Now, Michael, how are you, sir?
Speaker 1: God you have some way of delivering stuff. I'm humbled, man,
Speaker 1: you're the best. How do you do that? Stop? That's
Speaker 1: what an introduction? That was? Holy God, I was raised right.
Speaker 1: Try to be kind. I remember when you didn't didn't
Speaker 1: you appear on stage with the years and years and
Speaker 1: years ago a couple different times. Oh yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys did a great job, and you're doing you're doing
Speaker 1: great now on KGO locally right in US. The country
Speaker 1: is syndicated you know it's going it's going pretty well.
Speaker 1: We just keep grinding. That's all you can do. As
Speaker 1: you've probably thought of various times, the fact that I
Speaker 1: get to pay my house payment and feed my family
Speaker 1: by talking on the radio is a pretty awesome deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a long it's a long haul. It's a very
Speaker 1: tough business in this polarized world we live in, primarily
Speaker 1: because there's no freedom of speech. The left wing has
Speaker 1: decided that they should control uh literally all the air waves,
Speaker 1: all the print medium. Universities are gone, and if they
Speaker 1: don't like what you say, they try to shut you down.
Speaker 1: This is the problem of being, let us say, an
Speaker 1: independent in San Francisco or a liberal community. Why we
Speaker 1: don't have freedom? The First Amendment went out the window? Win, right?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure because and you know, this is one
Speaker 1: of a series of contrasts I want to bring up
Speaker 1: that that really speak to your life in the shape
Speaker 1: it's taken. But you've lived in the very very liberal
Speaker 1: Bay Area as a conservative man or independent man for
Speaker 1: a very long time. Have you seen in the tone
Speaker 1: of the conversation change in those years? And how it's
Speaker 1: an interesting question. When I first arrived here, in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four, there were two newspapers and they were moderate
Speaker 1: B plus or B newspapers that they were pretty good.
Speaker 1: Well one went. Now all we have is a mimigraphs
Speaker 1: she put out by Nancy Pelosi or Willie Brown. There
Speaker 1: is no newspaper in the city. There's no opposition, a
Speaker 1: position on anything. Libertarianism gone. You know that Jerry Brown
Speaker 1: compared to Governor Newsom is almost conservative. What Newsom has
Speaker 1: done since you've become governor. But there's no opposition permitted,
Speaker 1: is what I'm getting at. Yet it's changed dramatically. The meanness,
Speaker 1: the hostility, the hatred, the outright violence of the left
Speaker 1: is what has emerged, and it's leading to i would say,
Speaker 1: very bad consequences for everyone. It's pretty interesting you look
Speaker 1: at some of the college campuses like Berkeley, for instance.
Speaker 1: You know, some of the some of the very homes
Speaker 1: of the free speech movement who will now no longer
Speaker 1: let anybody who's to the you know, slightly to the
Speaker 1: right of Nancy Plose even show up at their campus.
Speaker 1: It's surprising to me that some of the old hippies
Speaker 1: that fought for free speech allow that to happen. Well,
Speaker 1: the old hippies are dead or have Alzheimer's disease, is
Speaker 1: something like that. There there are no old hippies anymore.
Speaker 1: There's a new generation, a new wave of intolerant people
Speaker 1: who call themselves liberals, but actually, if you analyze what
Speaker 1: they are, they are the fascists of our time under
Speaker 1: the disguise of liberalism. But let's stop catching about it.
Speaker 1: What can we do about it other than to stand
Speaker 1: up to them and you know, assert our own rights.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that they don't like what we
Speaker 1: have to say. I don't like what they have to say.
Speaker 1: That's what makes for um, I guess the democracy. It's
Speaker 1: called disagreement, isn't it absolutely? You know, speaking of disagreement,
Speaker 1: contrast and that sort of thing. We understand that you
Speaker 1: you wrote on Air Force One with President Trump recently,
Speaker 1: which had to be an amazing experience. Who wanted to
Speaker 1: tell us about that a little bit? Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I can. I mean, it was it was
Speaker 1: design its pinnacle of my professional career. I was thrilled
Speaker 1: to be with the President on Air Force One. Just
Speaker 1: being on the plane alone was a goal of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm a machinery guy, equipment. Man, I love planes. I
Speaker 1: love cars, you know what I'm saying. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do like equipment engines, the roar of the of the
Speaker 1: engines alone. But let's say, yeah, okay, I was at
Speaker 1: a fundraiser for the President in the Menlo Park somewhere
Speaker 1: up in the hills and Palo Alto, let's say, And
Speaker 1: he was going to be flying with his with his
Speaker 1: you know, his team, the whole flying white House down
Speaker 1: to l A that very afternoon to another fundraiser, and
Speaker 1: I asked if I could go. They said, sure, you've
Speaker 1: got carte blanche. But it wasn't until a few minutes
Speaker 1: before they were leaving. Actually, I was only told twenty
Speaker 1: minutes before that they could get me on the flight.
Speaker 1: This was not pre planned. So I mean, let's say
Speaker 1: I have friends and high places. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: They got me on the plane. Unto itself, it was
Speaker 1: like walking into like Jonah and the whale. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: put it that way. Jonah and the whale. You walk
Speaker 1: into the whale and these all these people doing things.
Speaker 1: Everyone's working so hard that I like talk show hosts
Speaker 1: actually do things to run the country, to run the departments,
Speaker 1: of defense and whatnot to make the plane run. They
Speaker 1: have to work and they have to do it right,
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. So I did not know if
Speaker 1: I get to meet the box. I certainly didn't push
Speaker 1: I'm not a pushy guy, not much. But they knew
Speaker 1: I wanted to see him because I have been very
Speaker 1: critical of some of the President's positions for a long time,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he really likes people who disagree
Speaker 1: with him very much. He respects them, but he doesn't really,
Speaker 1: you know, want them around him. I mean, like any
Speaker 1: other leader. I don't think Obama really invited people around
Speaker 1: them unless they agreed with him. Any great leader, any
Speaker 1: leader of any great nation, any leader of anything, doesn't
Speaker 1: like criticism. I never I met one who did. Did
Speaker 1: you know? They might claim they do, but it makes
Speaker 1: him bristle. You're right, okay. So I didn't know if
Speaker 1: if he'd want to see me. So I had a
Speaker 1: quick meal of some for shudo and melon in the
Speaker 1: dining area of the boardroom. I guess that's not disclosing
Speaker 1: any secrets. And then I was not a Russian asset,
Speaker 1: are you No? No, not yet, not that I know of.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for my papers. Uh uh yeah. So
Speaker 1: then they said, okay, first they gave me a tour.
Speaker 1: My my host gave me a tour of the plane
Speaker 1: up and down all the way up into the flight
Speaker 1: control center. It was amazing. No, that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: If you like flying, and if you like planes, you
Speaker 1: know it's only a minute flight down to l A
Speaker 1: to where we went from Offfittfield. We're flying into l A.
Speaker 1: X H anyway comes to Yeah, okay, he's gonna see you. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see what I could disclose without violating protocol. Here
Speaker 1: they bring me into the flying oval office that people
Speaker 1: who hosted me. Sat on the sofa. The king waved
Speaker 1: his hand to the left as a chair next to
Speaker 1: his desk. Didn't even look at me, put his waved
Speaker 1: his hand to the left, meaning sit there. Wow. Uh.
Speaker 1: He didn't say hello, Michael, He just said nothing. He pointed,
Speaker 1: I sat there. He was like the principle, right, you
Speaker 1: called into the principal's office. Sit there, basically with the hand.
Speaker 1: Then he said something which I can't repeat, and um,
Speaker 1: I said, no, I disagree with you completely. And we
Speaker 1: had a little actual dispute. Truthfully, we did. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: he's open to discussion. We wouldn't have had me there, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I didn make a long story short, so this
Speaker 1: is a short flight. Valet comes in with his lunch.
Speaker 1: He had just given a tremendous speech. Uh, which were
Speaker 1: two hot dogs. I don't need a lot of hot dogs,
Speaker 1: but when they were on me and I'm hungry, he
Speaker 1: must have seen my eyes dart at the hot dog.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, when you're hungering, your
Speaker 1: eyes and dart it will be food. You're like a
Speaker 1: wild animal. He's so sensitive to people. He says, do
Speaker 1: you want one? I'm sure? All right, So he has
Speaker 1: the valet signals. Valet brings out dish. Valet spoons one
Speaker 1: onto my plate. The president listen to this. Show you
Speaker 1: how people don't understand this. He looks at me and
Speaker 1: he says, do you want mustard to catch up? Which
Speaker 1: was on his plane. Yeah, the president in the United
Speaker 1: States is asking you if you want mustard. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. People don't understand this. You can
Speaker 1: tell more about a man by the small things than
Speaker 1: by the big things. Anyone can fake the big things,
Speaker 1: you can't fake the small things. He's actually a very generous,
Speaker 1: sensitive individual. You say, well, hell are you talking about mustard?
Speaker 1: To ketchup? Mustard to ketchup? I said, I don't need sugar,
Speaker 1: so she gave me the mustard offers plate. It was
Speaker 1: a great hot dog. I hear it was kosher. Now
Speaker 1: that's a loaded statement. I was totally afterwards. There was
Speaker 1: a kosher hot dog. So I joked on my radio
Speaker 1: yesterday that Trump served kosher hot dogs on the airplane,
Speaker 1: which shows that he's anti Semitic. What well, that's to
Speaker 1: cover up the fact that he's anti Semitic. He gets
Speaker 1: kosher hot dogs. Link that to the Washington Post. Right,
Speaker 1: he uses kosher hot dogs to disguise his membership in
Speaker 1: the ku Klux Planer. Michael Savage is on the line
Speaker 1: and evening with Michael Savage will have uh information on it.
Speaker 1: You can see it at Savage at Michael Savage dot com.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, um, I was going to ask you about
Speaker 1: you know, you've always been a proud and stubborn outsider er.
Speaker 1: How do you resist the temptation become an insider? But
Speaker 1: you just answer that you sit on Air Force one,
Speaker 1: tell the president he's wrong. So we can move on
Speaker 1: from that topic to I didn't say you're wrong. Well
Speaker 1: I did say you're wrong. I actually could say no,
Speaker 1: you're wrong about something. Yeah, that's that's fact I think
Speaker 1: about it. That is my rhetoric. Yes, yeah, so hey, listen,
Speaker 1: in the time we have left I Joe especially have
Speaker 1: I've stopped using the term the homeless, and I'm using
Speaker 1: bums and junkies because the thank you they are bums
Speaker 1: and junkies. And there's a nice award we just called vagrance, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because the folks who are down on their luck and
Speaker 1: trying hard and they got kids and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: they're not causing any of these problems. The problems folks
Speaker 1: are talking about, especially in your progressive cities, are caused
Speaker 1: by bums and junkies. Reopen the mental hospitals. Reopened the
Speaker 1: mental hospitals, build new hospitals, build new mental hospitals. Get
Speaker 1: them off the streets. They are a disaster for our society.
Speaker 1: And let's be very very clear. The violence has gotten
Speaker 1: out of control, whether it's in San Francisco or New
Speaker 1: York City, pushing people on the railroad tracks, beating them up,
Speaker 1: hitting them with things, even in San Francisco, you see
Speaker 1: these crazy bums walking around with golf clubs. This is
Speaker 1: not civil society. This is a breakdown of civil society
Speaker 1: brought about by uber liberalism. Ultraliberalism has destroyed our cities. Well,
Speaker 1: California has half the homeless population of the entire country
Speaker 1: and can't keep its electricity on. So that's not a
Speaker 1: good look. Well, if you were a who didn't work
Speaker 1: and you're a drug addict and you're collecting all of
Speaker 1: these wonderful benefits, and you go around beating people up
Speaker 1: in the street and the cops can't arrest you, and
Speaker 1: you get all the benefits, and you've got all these
Speaker 1: social workers getting on their hands and knees giving you
Speaker 1: a turkey sandwich. Uh, and ask you how you feel today,
Speaker 1: Mr Jones. Wouldn't you come to California? Hell? Yeah, unless
Speaker 1: I went to Portland or Seattle. Oh, I'm sorry, right,
Speaker 1: but the weather is not quite as good this time
Speaker 1: of year, right, And they're likewise choked with bums and junkies.
Speaker 1: These are once the most beautiful cities in the country. Again,
Speaker 1: I say, let us say liberalism is a good idea
Speaker 1: for some. It has failed societies around the globe miserably well.
Speaker 1: All humanity needs balance in all things, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and the politics a lot of these cities have become
Speaker 1: completely unbalanced, and we've seen the results. An evening with
Speaker 1: Michael Savage Life as a Conservative in San Francisco is
Speaker 1: sold out, but you can view it online at Michael
Speaker 1: Savage dot com. I'm sure you can find it there.
Speaker 1: If not, we'll have a link at Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: dot com so you can find your way. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your time, Dr Savage. I love you, guys. I'd
Speaker 1: love to have you at an event next time. Make
Speaker 1: You're too big for me now stop it so always
Speaker 1: a pleasure, Michael, best of the family and be well.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, you got it. Good story about having a
Speaker 1: hot dog with the president. Wow. Air Force one quality
Speaker 1: hot dogs. You know. I don't know that I should
Speaker 1: live so long. I don't know if anybody can get
Speaker 1: past politics anymore. There's a time when you know, every
Speaker 1: sports team visited the White House, no matter who was
Speaker 1: I would be thrilled to ride on Air Force one
Speaker 1: with the flipping President of the United States. I don't
Speaker 1: care who it is, of course, not what an unbelievable
Speaker 1: experience to have just be going around shaking door handles.
Speaker 1: What's find this one? Oh yeah, and just the thought
Speaker 1: of that go, well, just the thought of the power
Speaker 1: that is on that plane and the technology which would
Speaker 1: be the best in the world of everything. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Michael who if you don't know, he's trained
Speaker 1: as a scientist, and the fact that he's fascinated by
Speaker 1: the machinery of it and the efficiency and the technology
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me. Yeah, I would once in my life
Speaker 1: love to see that. But tend to sit down with
Speaker 1: whoever is the president in this case Trump and have
Speaker 1: a well you wouldn't have a hot dog with most presidents.
Speaker 1: He has a b expansion. He gets two hot dogs.
Speaker 1: You need some cutchuper mustard. Yeah, here's the mustard. Fantastic.
Speaker 1: The clip we need is that that was a good
Speaker 1: hot dog. It was a great hot dog. Or runever,
Speaker 1: that was funny, That's cool, what a great experience. So
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that, so he got on the plane.
Speaker 1: He didn't know if he was going to get to
Speaker 1: talk to the president just right on the plane, or
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was gonna get on the plane
Speaker 1: until right before the plane. Then it's all very walk
Speaker 1: this way the Flying Oval Office. What a cool place
Speaker 1: to get to sit. Yeah, yeah, very and I wish
Speaker 1: you could have told us what they were discussing. No pictures,
Speaker 1: Nothing leaves this room. Secret Service agent will tell you
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know holds. Yeah, that's wild. Yea interesting story. Our
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