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Speaker 5 (00:39):
He Yeah, Welcome to Tuesday, February the eighteenth to twenty
twenty five. Our thanks to Chris Crocklefield in yesterday, and
it's wonderful to be back from the University of Oklahoma.
Rby Son has decided to be a sooner and we
all three returned home with COVID. At least eighteen people
are injured after a Delta flight from Minneapolis flipped upside
down on a runway in Toronto. The US holding talks
(01:01):
with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine. Not only
are no European leaders at the table, there's no Ukrainian
leaders at the table. A longtime listener, first time called
a Rory O'Neil is checking in our National correspondent. This
is interesting. I'm sure their interests are at the table,
but why aren't they at their own table?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Well, the argument is that this is a preliminary meeting
that Russia and the US are sitting down for the
first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, So this is sort
of a planning session. Maybe, and that's being polite, but
it certainly has spooked the leaders of Ukraine, the EU
and NATO concerned that some deal is being broken behind
these closed doors that could directly impact them, and they
(01:46):
don't have a seat at the table.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
If the US is playing the role of middleman to
the point of what you're describing, they're going to visit
with Russia that I would presume a visit alone with
Ukraine and then take it from there.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Then that sounds.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Appropriate, right, Or are we in the middle I don't
know why did we assume to be the middleman? Well,
I guess somebody's got to do it right, somebody's got
to broke with this. So originally the conversations were had
with Trump and Putin and Trump and Zelenski, and then
he ordered the officials to start the talks. And then
the talks start with Russia, we would presume, then maybe
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onto Ukraine and then together and at some point I
think European leaders do have a say in how this
is all negotiated. After all, they're going to live with it, right.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, right, General Kellogg met with the President of the
EU in the past twelve hours or so. He's the
President's point person on Ukraine. So it's also interesting that
General Kellogg is not in Saudi Arabia for this meeting,
although Ukraine is his purview. So we'll see what comes
of this and how it unfolds. But again there's a
lot of unease as European leaders are saying, hey, look,
(02:58):
you can't let Putin get a big win here, because
if he does, then we're next.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Second order business is, Pope Francis, When you're eighty eight
years old and you have a respiratory infection that's already
serious because of the age and a lot of our elderly,
that's usually what can get them is an infection and
the turning of an affection. What is the condition of
the pope and what do we know?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Still stable?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
He has what they're calling a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.
This pope has had lung issues for most of his life.
He gets these wintertime infections usually in wintertime, so that's
not too unusual. But of course, now, as you said,
he's now up to eighty eight years old, and this
seems to be particularly stubborn. He's in the hospital, he's alert,
(03:47):
he's reading. He's had some video calls with some of
his colleagues around the world, but they all say he's
very short of breath, can't speak in full sentences as
he tries to battle back from this infection.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All microbial.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That ends up being what I've been through this with
my mom when she had pneumonia in the hospital, and
I was like, well, we got to find out if
it's bacterial or if it's viral. This is viral, bacterial,
fung guy and parasites combined.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Wow, that's a bad combination.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Does seem to be a bit of souper, And apparently
they started him on one course of therapy before he
was hospitalized. Then they started him on something else on Friday,
but then they've changed course again, so I think he's
on his third kind of treatment for this and.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Last, but not at least a delta flight that lands
on its back instead of its wheels. You know, at
this time we had but at least three different videos
of the plane that ended up in the Potomac. Have
we had a video surface of this?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Yes, I just saw a short time ago that shows
the full plane coming in and if someone was on
the side of the runway recording the whole thing. Can't
play it for you because of some of the audio
that was described by the person who saw it. But yes,
we have gotten now full video of the plane coming
in for that landing, appearing to come down hard. One
of its wings seems to have tilted hit the runway
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and then that caused the plane to flip over.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, we'll talk more about that when you come back.
I think you need to run. It's twelve after the hour.
That's Rorey O'Neil covering all three of our top stories.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Today.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
We're going to have more on the DOGE, the Department
of Government Efficiency, trying to get access to personal taxpayer
data from the IRS. That's it'd be like read you
like the wording of that. I mean, I guess technically
that's what they're wanting. But there are safeguards in place
you're trying to First of all, I would think I
(05:40):
hate when I have differences with Decker. But let's see
if it happens next half hour. I think the number
one story here is, you mean we haven't been doing
audits period. Nobody's been auditing social Security. Now there are
safeguards in place where one person can see the account
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and another person can see the payments.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
The two can't see both.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So the necessity for DOGE to discover Wow, it looks
like we may have found millions of instances of Social
Security fraud. You're going to need access to both sides.
You've got to track the Social Security number and then
somebody's got to attract the payments. So you can say, well,
and believe it or not, this is true. We've got vampires,
(06:27):
and we've got people three hundred and sixty years old still.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Getting Social Security checks.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
All right, But at some point to see that, somebody's
got to see the account and then somebody's got to
see the payments.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Am I understanding it right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Red?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
So naturally if if you're in an audit process, your
first question should be, I mean, we haven't been doing audits.
Your second question would be, all right, well, to do
the audit, we're gonna have to see both sides. We'll
kick that around with John Decker coming up next half hour.
All right, we're looking at part two now of our
journey of discovery. We were looking at COVID through the
(07:00):
lens of looking back five years later, and where we
left off was the differences partisan differences in our view.
So the first thing that if you're going to study
this pure research number numbers depending on which aspect, you
had three societal trends that were happening when COVID hit
(07:29):
a growing political divide between the left and the right,
and then how COVID played that. That's why you had
two completely. That's when we officially became a matrix. You
had one America believing one thing about COVID, another America
believing something completely different, one doing and accepting no matter
what the government said to do, one standing in resistance.
(07:51):
So that was the way COVID met that growing partisan
divide of left and right, and the matrix in America.
You also had a decreasing trust in many ausitutions. Is
that we talked about in the Part one, not just governmental, economic, education, cultural,
beyond medical to CDC World Health organization, right down to
(08:16):
your primary doctor or your local school board. Based on
some of the decisions that were made. And so now
five years later, some who still have that trust, and
I don't know how because most of what was considered
a conspiracy is now truth. And then those who have
a great mistrust. So understanding COVID five years later is
(08:36):
important understanding America today. And then a massive splintering in
the information environment. So went through a lot of the numbers,
and what you see is how the left viewed doctors,
how the left viewed politicians and government, how the left
viewed essential workers, how the left viewed social distancing and
masks versus the right.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Now we get to.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
The point when it comes to education, because I think
that was one of the greatest betrayal I would have
to give to the elderly, they were the most If
you understood COVID, not narratives, the actual virus, it's a
whole different world. Why were you doing that gain of function?
How did that gain of function get leaked? Did it
(09:19):
get leaked accidentally or on purpose. Why was China so
purposeful and how they protected the spread in their country
and so reckless with how they allowed to spread outside
of their country. But then you get to betrayals, and
you would have to go to the most vulnerable, the
elderly and then the young. So when it comes to
K through twelve, fifty five percent of Republicans say schools
(09:42):
in their area stayed closed too long, while just seventeen
percent of Democrats agreed, you're in the matrix again. Close
the economy, close the schools, stay home, stay safe.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
This is the new normal. We're all gonna die. The
let believed all the fear the right not so much.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
About half of Democrats forty nine percent say schools in
their area were closed for about the right amount of time. No,
I don't think there's anybody. It was funny our tour
guide at the University of Oklahoma. I asked him, I said, well,
you know, how tough is it?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh? You scholastically.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And he talked about how you know you're going to
be challenged, and then he quickly said, now you know,
I went through COVID in high school. And then he
immediately talked about how behind he was, and so when
he got to basic courses that he should have had
in high school, he was behind and he had to
really buckle up. It's like he had to learn what
he should have known getting there and then pick it
(10:42):
up from there.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Is what he was trying to describe.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
In other words, this senior at the University of Oklahoma
is still feeling the effects of COVID and how it
impacted his high school. Anybody that knows anything about SATs
and acts know how colleges had to change everything. We
have a whole generation that will I always use this
analogy because I lived it back when I had a
hernia surgery. Well, you were out of school six weeks,
(11:06):
you were in the hospital two weeks, and in my
case it was third grade.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I don't think I ever caught up.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
In fact, my mom should have probably just left me
out of school the rest of the year and just
repeated third grade.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The next year. She'd have done me a bigger favor.
But who knew.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
But I don't have to tell you COVID had a
much bigger effect than six weeks. I can only fathom.
And then lost in all This is our view of
the education system, fight after fight with local school boards.
What we witnessed on our kids' computers at home. This
is what school looks like now. COVID's effect on our
(11:49):
view of education. Yeah, a lot of it is decisions
that were made, decisions that were followed. But a lot
of it just was revealed. I remember what we keep
saying with COVID. It revealed more than it did about education,
about our government, about our media, the information environment. This
was a great section in the pure research. I know
(12:10):
it's seventeen after trust me, I'm aware of trying to
get through this. As Red said, we could have probably
spread this out one section a day. That might have
been the wiser way to do it. We're gonna do
more of this with David Sanati tomorrow. The information environment.
Many say the media exaggerated the risks of COVID nineteen.
That shouldn't be an opinion. That's a fact.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I know. I was in the media.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I know what the companies were saying you had to
say or you'd be fired, versus what the truth was revealing.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But let's see how much America caught on.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Overall, fifty four percent of Americans say the news media
exaggerated the risks of COVID at least slightly. This includes
eight to ten Republicans who say the media greatly sixty
five percent or slightly fifteen percent exaggerated risk. Now compare
that to three and ten Democrats who expressed similar views.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It was all a fear game for the purposes of control.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
If you haven't figured out what they were trying to
control yet, I could break that down politically, medically, societally, culturally,
but there's no question one side bought the fear, lived in,
the fear obeyed the fear. Hell, they're still obeying it.
(13:29):
But it's a matrix that pre existed. There are similar
patterns in views towards public health officials like those at
the CDC, Joe Biden his administration state officials. In each case,
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say these sources
exaggerated the risks. Bottom line, and how do I do
this in fifteen seconds? Remember these three big cultural societal
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realities that were in place when COVID hit were just
strengthened by COVID. That's the growing divide between partisans of
the left and the right. The matrix a decreasing trust
in institutions, from your primary physician to the CDC, to
the Office of the Presidency, to your government and state officials.
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A decreasing trust in those institutions and a massive splintering
or the official call it death of journalism, time of death.
That's COVID life should be better understood looking back than
looking forward. Half of America still can't look back and
(14:36):
see the truth. That's the power of the matrix and
that's our journey of discovery.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
It's your Morning Show with Michael Delchno.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
The top officials at Social Security is stepping down after
a disagreement with DOGE.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Mark Mayfield has that story.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Rachelle King resigned after refusing a request from DOGE to
access sensitive government records at the agency. The information reportedly
dealt with Americans bank info, social security numbers, marital status,
and date of birth. President Trump has appointed leland A. Dudek,
a manager in charge of Social Securities Anti Fraud Office,
as acting Commissioner.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm Mark Mayfield used to be the Left, of course,
was all behind electric vehicles and all anti gas and energy.
Now the Democrats are set to lead a nationwide protest
in front of Tesla dealerships Scott Sean Hannity promising to
buy a tesla.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You'll hear that in our Sounds of the Day.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, Lisa Taylor has more of this developing, taking it
to the streets from the left.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
The organizing group is called Indivisible and has thirteen hundred chapters.
Its goal is to bring attention to DOZE Executive Elon
Musk and President Trump's efforts to gut federal agencies like
the Department of Education. Indivisible co founder Ezra Levin said,
I can't think of something that polls worse. And the
richest man in the world is coming after your Social
Security check, or your meals on wheels, or your head starts.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm sad tailor well, only the vampires and those three
hundred years or older.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Pope Francis is to remain in the hospital as doctors
changed his treatment for a respiratory track infection.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Michael Kastner has more.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Once, according to the Vatican, which said the Pope will
remain in the hospital for as long as needed. In
a statement, the Vatican said test results have shown a
poly microbial infection that has led to further changes in
the pope's therapy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
As we mentioned, they were having the nation of the
four Nations face off and the US for some reason
had to play Sweden even though they were already advancing
to the finals versus Canada. So we lost two to one,
but it didn't matter against Sweden. Will play Canada for
the finals of the four nation faceoff Thursday night. John
Travoltas seventy one, We're all getting old. Actress Molly Ringwald
(16:44):
is fifty seven, Wheel of Fortunes, Van of White is
sixty eight. Rapper Doctor Dre is sixty one.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
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to be a part of your morning routine. Now enjoy
the podcast. I finally saw the video of the Delta flight.
That is nothing like I pictured.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I knew there were seventy mile in hour winds, and
I've seen these landings before and you come in crazy
sideways hoping to straight out the last minute. I thought
that's what happened, and then Augusta Winn flipped it. No,
it comes down straight. Just seemed like it came down
a little too hard and bounced and flipped. That is
not what I was expecting. But eighteen people injured, no
(17:51):
deaths whatsoever. A miracle in Toronto. US is holding talks
with Russia, but Ukraine's not even at the table. Israel
set to receive more hostages held by Hamas by Sunday,
and frigid temperatures are set to impact millions of US
across the country. I am home from the University of Oklahoma,
where my son, Nicholas has made his decision to become sooner.
(18:16):
I was not excited about my son going to college
so far away, but I got to tell you, I
was very impressed with the University of Oklahoma campus.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Josh our tour.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Guide was simply more entertaining than anybody during the Saturday
Night Line fiftieth anniversary special. And we even attended a
basketball game where my alma manter Lsus snuck up bit
them and won in the last eight seconds, and then.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We all arrived home with COVID.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
The onset was Saturday first, Andrea then me Sunday, so
I'm running a day behind, and as you would tell
in our talkbacks, tomorrow's not a very good day for
me apparently. But yeah, we just all of a sudden
had like a scratchy sore throat, then all of a
sudden got terrible body aches and headache, and then just
(19:05):
zero energy and then the stuffiness ensued and uh Nick
was tested COVID, Andrew was tested COVID. I've decided to
host the show with COVID today. You will hear how
Andrew sounds momentarily, but first your talk back. Can't have
your morning show without your voice. Let's start with Big
John right now, there's some poor three hundred year old
(19:26):
lady whose social Security is going to get cut off
by musk. We had, we had, we had a vampire
getting social security and yes, we had a three hundred
and sixty year old woman that was getting social Security.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Now the audit's got to go through.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They've literally they believe they found millions of instances of fraud.
We'll have more of a conversation on that with John Decker.
But the reality is these audits are necessary, and someone's
got to see the account side, and somebody's got to
see the payment side.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Perry is next. Good morning, Michael. This is Perry right
here in beautiful Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
COVID is where shaky Bill Lee lost all of my
support when he gave in to the Liberals and through
our constitution out the window.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I can never support him again.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I didn't support him then and I will never support
him again.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Love you show brother, keep it up well. Unfortunately, Perry,
I can relate. I actually lost a friend too over that.
That didn't have to happen. We could disagree on COVID,
but somehow I lost a friend because he lost my support. Anyway, Yeah,
there was a lot of following, and I think you know,
Governor Billy, there were worst governors when it came to COVID.
I can think of Ohio for one.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But I can tell you that a lot of them
were taking their cute.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Look, Donald Trump got duped by Fauci, and so did
a lot of governor governors get duped by Fauci by
way of getting duped by following Trump's lead too.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's kind of lost in history.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
As much as I love Donald Trump today, Donald Trump
certainly got duped by Fauci. Last, but not least, is
from the home office. My wife in the other room.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'm so sick. Blessed the rona got me. Bless her.
That's horrible.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
And I am literally twenty four hours behind her. So
I was having the bad headache and aches and the
stuffing its beginning Sunday.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
She started on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
So that's what I'm gonna sound like tomorrow, probably hopefully
geting red in the morning.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Somebody got Chris Croc's number. It could happen again. I
feel it.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Time for your sounds of the day.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We will win.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
We will win. Look like a bunch of girly men's.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Even Sunday, always interesting, often entertaining. Welcome to your Sounds
of the day for Tuesday, February the eighteenth. Do you
ever have these moments where you just allow yourself to
go I used to always do this whenever we were
discussed sing Ronald Reagan's victory and taking office in eighty one?
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What if we would have had a second term of
Jimmy Carter? What might have happened? And you're like, what
if Kamala Harris would have won. What if Hillary Clinton
would have won. I actually think by now Barack Obama
(22:29):
would be somewhere at a global level and after eight
years of Hillary, America would have just been handed over
on a silver platter. But let's just take them one
at a time. What if Kamala Harris had won, this
wouldn't be a Sound of the day, This would be
a top story of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Kamala talking to Broadway dancers.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
When we think about like these moments where we see
things that are being taken, but also let's see it
as were you know, nature of wors a vacuum, so
where some where there's a vacancy experience filing right, And
let's know that the reality is that the progress of
our nation has always been about the expansion of rights
(23:15):
and our restriction of rights.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
We're seeing a u turn right now.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
For those rights to be maintained, which means we have
to be vigilant.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And it's just the nature of it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I look what I mean in this beautiful play and.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Everything that we know hand and that he was surprising
at to.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Suppress so much, but he knew, and you know, I
almost can't listen to anymore other than to say, who
really is seeking inspiration from Kamala Harris right now?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Mm hm?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Six dancers, I guess at a Broadway show with empty seats.
I still don't even know what that word Salad was saying.
Some of it was really hard to understand. I'm just
trying to figure out how she still has an audience.
(24:06):
And then I try to figure out when she talks,
I hear nothing and they seem to hear something. It's
a matrix moment, isn't it? Take take the difference? Here
comes Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. Now here's a guy that
when he talks, I'm following him. I understand exactly what
(24:26):
he's saying. I can't figure out to this day what
Kamala was saying to those dancers. But I can't understand
what Senator Kennedy's trying to say to his friends who
are Democrats.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Listen, terms of the Democrats, I've got a I've got
I've got a lot of friends are Democrats and they
haven't asked me for advice. But if I did, I
tell them, Look, you just gotta try harder not to suck.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I mean, think about it.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
Over the past four years, the Democrats mismanaged Congress. They
mismanaged COVID, then mismanaged the COMMO may They mismanaged inflation.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
By the way, Republicans are guilty of mismanaging COVID too.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
They mismanaged the national debt. They mismanaged Afghanistan. More recently,
in their opposition to President Trump and mister Musk, the
Democrats have chosen to support the bureaucrats and the spending
porn over the American taxban.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
By the way, I haven't heard that expression yet, the
spending porn. That's a claim. I love this guy.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I love America could really benefit from somebody like being
president Laker than.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
To be press secretary. He continued. Listen.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
Just like they support illegal immigration over over the rule
of law, Just like they support transgender athletes over women's sports,
just like they support Hamas Terras over Israel.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
All Democrats are not like this.
Speaker 13 (25:58):
But the already is controlled right now by people who
measured in online activism with a minor and puberty blockers.
I know these people if they think when they think men,
they think men can breastfeed. They're triggered by rage. They
cry if you if you use the wrong pronoun, and
(26:22):
most fair minded Americans look at this and they go,
these people are about ten exits pass normal.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Where I need that audio, please? Ten exits past normal.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
By the way, at the beginning, Sean basically says, now
that the left is so attacking Elon Musk and Tesla,
my next vehicle's got to be a Tesla.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I'm buying a Tesla next. And I thought to myself,
this is the crazy pendulum that we keep swinging on.
Remember one the right was anti having electric vehicles shoved
down your throat. Remember when Elon Musk was the toast
of the left. Now conservative television hosts are buying Teslas
(27:07):
to support him. I mean, but he did in that
laundry list, with the exception of COVID. COVID was the
right failed as much as the left. I know, I
lived it. But other than that, that's a pretty laundry,
pretty good laundry list of you know, stop sucking, stop
being for exits past normal. Once again, Senator Kennedy from
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the Great State of Louisiana, nobody does it better. Now,
this is a problem for the Democrat Party. And I
don't know how people I always say it this way
because I don't like to play left versus right. I
just play right versus wrong. But I wonder how those
on the left. You know, we just had the recent
on president's stay polling, and nobody pulls better still to
this day than Barack Obama. Well, here's Barack Obama talking
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about the very things the Democrat Party is obstructing against
and standing again in protesting against today. Why was it
great when Obama said it? And why is it evil
now that Trump and Musk are saying it? Histories are
very very unfriendly reminder and a very effective reality check Listen,
(28:18):
Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity.
Speaker 14 (28:22):
The American people are entitled to transparency.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer
dollars on programs that have outlive their usefulness or exists
solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
They're 'titally be able to figure out where their dollars
are going, and they're entitled to accountability to make sure
that we're using the dollars for what we said it
was for.
Speaker 16 (28:48):
We are going to go through our federal budget as
I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line,
eliminating those programs we don't need, and that those that
we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Imagine the headlines that didn't exist when they were doing it,
that do exist today while Trump and Musk are doing it.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
And now you're beginning to understand the matrix, the partisan
political social dilemma, matrix and death of journalism we're living in.
I like this one where he's standing in front of
a two and a half foot stack high of paper.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Should be easy.
Speaker 16 (29:34):
Is getting rid of the pointless waste.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
And stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
We hope to be instilling an entire new culture, but
not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will in
fact pursue.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
By the way, when I look at those videos, are
we sure that's the same Joe Biden. You know, I'm
starting to believe in that CIA mask theory, and it
goes back to Bill Clinton as well.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
First, I am ordering reduction of the federal bureaucracy by
at least one hundred thousand positions over the next four years.
At least ten percent of these cuts must come from
senior management These cuts will make our government.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
More efficient and more effective.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
The government is full of dedicated people whose hard work
is being choked off by our own bureaucracy. Second, I'm
ordering each federal department and agency to reduce its administrative
as opposed to its program costs, by twelve percent over
the next four years. With better planning and innovation, we
can make better use of the money we already have.
(30:38):
In many agencies, overhead is too high, red tape is
too thick, and the day to day operations of the
agencies have not been re examined in a very.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
When Clinton was cutting jobs, it was wonderful. When Biden
and Obama were cutting spending and holding transparency and accountability
because it was your money being wasted.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Now the Trump and doing it is the end of
democracy as we know it.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, that's the problem. Sorright everybody, Lad, I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't define what a woman is.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That was just complete felation.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Cab Fat is your Sounds of the Day.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I've heard two bricks short of a load. I've heard
not the ship. Sharpest knife in the drawer I got.
I never heard four exits past normal.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
It's a new one. Chalk that one up to Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
All right, at least eighteen people are injured, No depths
in the plane landing on its head rather than its wheels.
In Toronto, US holding talks with Russia, although Ukraine isn't
even at the table today, and UH top official at
Solid Security Administration stepping down after disagreement with Doge.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Speaking of Doge.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
They're wanting to get out access to personal taxpayer data
from the IRS. What are they looking for? Will it happen?
White House correspondent John Decker's here with that story. Good morning, John,
Good morning to you, Michael.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
Yet that's what I've seen those reports. I have not
had confirmation that indeed is what's happening, but let's assume
that's what's happening. There's a really important hearing that took
place yesterday here in Washington, d C. Presided over by
Judge Tanya chuck In regarding a lawsuit brought by thirteen
Democratic state attorneys general challenging all of the authority regarding
(32:34):
Doge regarding Elon Musk's team, and yesterday during this hearing,
Judge chuck In did not appear to be very sympathetic
to the arguments being put forward by those Democratic state
attorneys general. She may issue her opinion today. And what
those attorneys general are looking for a temporary restraining order
regarding the activities of DOGE. I don't think they're going
(32:56):
to get it, and then we'll see an appeal, likely
to the DC Court of Appeals.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I'm driving home from the University of Oklahoma with COVID
and I'm looking at all of this and I'm like,
she sees partisan obstruction. Look, we got to be able
to have audits of government agencies. And I mean part
of this is you can see the line, you know,
in other words, maybe it's a vampire, maybe it's somebody
three hundred and sixty years old, whatever the crazy daily
(33:22):
narrative is, that doesn't mean money's flowing to it until
you and they have safeguards in place. Some see the lines,
some see the payment. So you've got to be able
to see both to find out is this three hundred
and sixty year old woman still getting payments? So, I
mean the thing I was struck with the most. John
is has nobody been doing audits and how long has
it been since we've been doing audits?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Period? But you got to have the process to be
able to do them. Well, that's right.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
And there are consultants all over the federal government. And
that's the way I would describe the Department of Government Efficiency.
It is a consulting firm essentially makes recommendations. Those recommendations,
like all consultants, you know, the people that make decisions,
the decision makers, they have to decide whether to accept
those recommendations. And I think that's an important distinction to
(34:12):
think about when you think about Elon Musk and the
team that he's put together going into these various departments
and agencies. If there's waste, if of taxpayer dollars, who
wouldn't before finding that waste, you know, and getting rid
of that waste and making certain that America's taxpayer dollars
are sent properly. But you know, I think that there's
(34:33):
a fine line, you know, in the sense that if
indeed it's Elon Musk and his team that are making
these decisions, that's where you cross the line, you know,
That's where I think that the decision that comes out today,
likely from Judge chuck.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
In, will be interesting in teams in terms of seeing
her rationale for her decision.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yeah, at least for one judge, she doesn't think that
line's been crossed. John Decker is always great reporting. We'll
talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
We're all in this together.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
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Speaker 5 (00:39):
He Yeah, Welcome to Tuesday, February the eighteenth to twenty
twenty five. Our thanks to Chris Crocklefield in yesterday, and
it's wonderful to be back from the University of Oklahoma.
Rby Son has decided to be a sooner and we
all three returned home with COVID. At least eighteen people
are injured after a Delta flight from Minneapolis flipped upside
down on a runway in Toronto. The US holding talks
(01:01):
with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine. Not only
are no European leaders at the table, there's no Ukrainian
leaders at the table. A longtime listener, first time called
a Rory O'Neil is checking in our National correspondent. This
is interesting. I'm sure their interests are at the table,
but why aren't they at their own table?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Well, the argument is that this is a preliminary meeting
that Russia and the US are sitting down for the
first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, So this is sort
of a planning session. Maybe, and that's being polite, but
it certainly has spooked the leaders of Ukraine, the EU
and NATO concerned that some deal is being broken behind
these closed doors that could directly impact them, and they
(01:46):
don't have a seat at the table.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
If the US is playing the role of middleman to
the point of what you're describing, they're going to visit
with Russia that I would presume a visit alone with
Ukraine and then take it from there.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Then that sounds.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Appropriate, right, Or are we in the middle I don't
know why did we assume to be the middleman? Well,
I guess somebody's got to do it right, somebody's got
to broke with this. So originally the conversations were had
with Trump and Putin and Trump and Zelenski, and then
he ordered the officials to start the talks. And then
the talks start with Russia, we would presume, then maybe
(02:25):
onto Ukraine and then together and at some point I
think European leaders do have a say in how this
is all negotiated. After all, they're going to live with it, right.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, right, General Kellogg met with the President of the
EU in the past twelve hours or so. He's the
President's point person on Ukraine. So it's also interesting that
General Kellogg is not in Saudi Arabia for this meeting,
although Ukraine is his purview. So we'll see what comes
of this and how it unfolds. But again there's a
lot of unease as European leaders are saying, hey, look,
(02:58):
you can't let Putin get a big win here, because
if he does, then we're next.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Second order business is, Pope Francis, When you're eighty eight
years old and you have a respiratory infection that's already
serious because of the age and a lot of our elderly,
that's usually what can get them is an infection and
the turning of an affection. What is the condition of
the pope and what do we know?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Still stable?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
He has what they're calling a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.
This pope has had lung issues for most of his life.
He gets these wintertime infections usually in wintertime, so that's
not too unusual. But of course, now, as you said,
he's now up to eighty eight years old, and this
seems to be particularly stubborn. He's in the hospital, he's alert,
(03:47):
he's reading. He's had some video calls with some of
his colleagues around the world, but they all say he's
very short of breath, can't speak in full sentences as
he tries to battle back from this infection.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All microbial.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That ends up being what I've been through this with
my mom when she had pneumonia in the hospital, and
I was like, well, we got to find out if
it's bacterial or if it's viral. This is viral, bacterial,
fung guy and parasites combined.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Wow, that's a bad combination.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Does seem to be a bit of souper, And apparently
they started him on one course of therapy before he
was hospitalized. Then they started him on something else on Friday,
but then they've changed course again, so I think he's
on his third kind of treatment for this and.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Last, but not at least a delta flight that lands
on its back instead of its wheels. You know, at
this time we had but at least three different videos
of the plane that ended up in the Potomac. Have
we had a video surface of this?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Yes, I just saw a short time ago that shows
the full plane coming in and if someone was on
the side of the runway recording the whole thing. Can't
play it for you because of some of the audio
that was described by the person who saw it. But yes,
we have gotten now full video of the plane coming
in for that landing, appearing to come down hard. One
of its wings seems to have tilted hit the runway
(05:06):
and then that caused the plane to flip over.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, we'll talk more about that when you come back.
I think you need to run. It's twelve after the hour.
That's Rorey O'Neil covering all three of our top stories.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Today.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
We're going to have more on the DOGE, the Department
of Government Efficiency, trying to get access to personal taxpayer
data from the IRS. That's it'd be like read you
like the wording of that. I mean, I guess technically
that's what they're wanting. But there are safeguards in place
you're trying to First of all, I would think I
(05:40):
hate when I have differences with Decker. But let's see
if it happens next half hour. I think the number
one story here is, you mean we haven't been doing
audits period. Nobody's been auditing social Security. Now there are
safeguards in place where one person can see the account
(06:02):
and another person can see the payments.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
The two can't see both.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So the necessity for DOGE to discover Wow, it looks
like we may have found millions of instances of Social
Security fraud. You're going to need access to both sides.
You've got to track the Social Security number and then
somebody's got to attract the payments. So you can say, well,
and believe it or not, this is true. We've got vampires,
(06:27):
and we've got people three hundred and sixty years old still.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Getting Social Security checks.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
All right, But at some point to see that, somebody's
got to see the account and then somebody's got to
see the payments.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Am I understanding it right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Red?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
So naturally if if you're in an audit process, your
first question should be, I mean, we haven't been doing audits.
Your second question would be, all right, well, to do
the audit, we're gonna have to see both sides. We'll
kick that around with John Decker coming up next half hour.
All right, we're looking at part two now of our
journey of discovery. We were looking at COVID through the
(07:00):
lens of looking back five years later, and where we
left off was the differences partisan differences in our view.
So the first thing that if you're going to study
this pure research number numbers depending on which aspect, you
had three societal trends that were happening when COVID hit
(07:29):
a growing political divide between the left and the right,
and then how COVID played that. That's why you had
two completely. That's when we officially became a matrix. You
had one America believing one thing about COVID, another America
believing something completely different, one doing and accepting no matter
what the government said to do, one standing in resistance.
(07:51):
So that was the way COVID met that growing partisan
divide of left and right, and the matrix in America.
You also had a decreasing trust in many ausitutions. Is
that we talked about in the Part one, not just governmental, economic, education, cultural,
beyond medical to CDC World Health organization, right down to
(08:16):
your primary doctor or your local school board. Based on
some of the decisions that were made. And so now
five years later, some who still have that trust, and
I don't know how because most of what was considered
a conspiracy is now truth. And then those who have
a great mistrust. So understanding COVID five years later is
(08:36):
important understanding America today. And then a massive splintering in
the information environment. So went through a lot of the numbers,
and what you see is how the left viewed doctors,
how the left viewed politicians and government, how the left
viewed essential workers, how the left viewed social distancing and
masks versus the right.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Now we get to.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
The point when it comes to education, because I think
that was one of the greatest betrayal I would have
to give to the elderly, they were the most If
you understood COVID, not narratives, the actual virus, it's a
whole different world. Why were you doing that gain of function?
How did that gain of function get leaked? Did it
(09:19):
get leaked accidentally or on purpose. Why was China so
purposeful and how they protected the spread in their country
and so reckless with how they allowed to spread outside
of their country. But then you get to betrayals, and
you would have to go to the most vulnerable, the
elderly and then the young. So when it comes to
K through twelve, fifty five percent of Republicans say schools
(09:42):
in their area stayed closed too long, while just seventeen
percent of Democrats agreed, you're in the matrix again. Close
the economy, close the schools, stay home, stay safe.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
This is the new normal. We're all gonna die. The
let believed all the fear the right not so much.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
About half of Democrats forty nine percent say schools in
their area were closed for about the right amount of time. No,
I don't think there's anybody. It was funny our tour
guide at the University of Oklahoma. I asked him, I said, well,
you know, how tough is it?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh? You scholastically.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And he talked about how you know you're going to
be challenged, and then he quickly said, now you know,
I went through COVID in high school. And then he
immediately talked about how behind he was, and so when
he got to basic courses that he should have had
in high school, he was behind and he had to
really buckle up. It's like he had to learn what
he should have known getting there and then pick it
(10:42):
up from there.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Is what he was trying to describe.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
In other words, this senior at the University of Oklahoma
is still feeling the effects of COVID and how it
impacted his high school. Anybody that knows anything about SATs
and acts know how colleges had to change everything. We
have a whole generation that will I always use this
analogy because I lived it back when I had a
hernia surgery. Well, you were out of school six weeks,
(11:06):
you were in the hospital two weeks, and in my
case it was third grade.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I don't think I ever caught up.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
In fact, my mom should have probably just left me
out of school the rest of the year and just
repeated third grade.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The next year. She'd have done me a bigger favor.
But who knew.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
But I don't have to tell you COVID had a
much bigger effect than six weeks. I can only fathom.
And then lost in all This is our view of
the education system, fight after fight with local school boards.
What we witnessed on our kids' computers at home. This
is what school looks like now. COVID's effect on our
(11:49):
view of education. Yeah, a lot of it is decisions
that were made, decisions that were followed. But a lot
of it just was revealed. I remember what we keep
saying with COVID. It revealed more than it did about education,
about our government, about our media, the information environment. This
was a great section in the pure research. I know
(12:10):
it's seventeen after trust me, I'm aware of trying to
get through this. As Red said, we could have probably
spread this out one section a day. That might have
been the wiser way to do it. We're gonna do
more of this with David Sanati tomorrow. The information environment.
Many say the media exaggerated the risks of COVID nineteen.
That shouldn't be an opinion. That's a fact.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I know. I was in the media.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I know what the companies were saying you had to
say or you'd be fired, versus what the truth was revealing.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But let's see how much America caught on.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Overall, fifty four percent of Americans say the news media
exaggerated the risks of COVID at least slightly. This includes
eight to ten Republicans who say the media greatly sixty
five percent or slightly fifteen percent exaggerated risk. Now compare
that to three and ten Democrats who expressed similar views.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It was all a fear game for the purposes of control.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
If you haven't figured out what they were trying to
control yet, I could break that down politically, medically, societally, culturally,
but there's no question one side bought the fear, lived in,
the fear obeyed the fear. Hell, they're still obeying it.
(13:29):
But it's a matrix that pre existed. There are similar
patterns in views towards public health officials like those at
the CDC, Joe Biden his administration state officials. In each case,
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say these sources
exaggerated the risks. Bottom line, and how do I do
this in fifteen seconds? Remember these three big cultural societal
(13:53):
realities that were in place when COVID hit were just
strengthened by COVID. That's the growing divide between partisans of
the left and the right. The matrix a decreasing trust
in institutions, from your primary physician to the CDC, to
the Office of the Presidency, to your government and state officials.
(14:15):
A decreasing trust in those institutions and a massive splintering
or the official call it death of journalism, time of death.
That's COVID life should be better understood looking back than
looking forward. Half of America still can't look back and
(14:36):
see the truth. That's the power of the matrix and
that's our journey of discovery.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
It's your Morning Show with Michael Delchno.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
The top officials at Social Security is stepping down after
a disagreement with DOGE.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Mark Mayfield has that story.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Rachelle King resigned after refusing a request from DOGE to
access sensitive government records at the agency. The information reportedly
dealt with Americans bank info, social security numbers, marital status,
and date of birth. President Trump has appointed leland A. Dudek,
a manager in charge of Social Securities Anti Fraud Office,
as acting Commissioner.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm Mark Mayfield used to be the Left, of course,
was all behind electric vehicles and all anti gas and energy.
Now the Democrats are set to lead a nationwide protest
in front of Tesla dealerships Scott Sean Hannity promising to
buy a tesla.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You'll hear that in our Sounds of the Day.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, Lisa Taylor has more of this developing, taking it
to the streets from the left.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
The organizing group is called Indivisible and has thirteen hundred chapters.
Its goal is to bring attention to DOZE Executive Elon
Musk and President Trump's efforts to gut federal agencies like
the Department of Education. Indivisible co founder Ezra Levin said,
I can't think of something that polls worse. And the
richest man in the world is coming after your Social
Security check, or your meals on wheels, or your head starts.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm sad tailor well, only the vampires and those three
hundred years or older.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Pope Francis is to remain in the hospital as doctors
changed his treatment for a respiratory track infection.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Michael Kastner has more.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Once, according to the Vatican, which said the Pope will
remain in the hospital for as long as needed. In
a statement, the Vatican said test results have shown a
poly microbial infection that has led to further changes in
the pope's therapy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
As we mentioned, they were having the nation of the
four Nations face off and the US for some reason
had to play Sweden even though they were already advancing
to the finals versus Canada. So we lost two to one,
but it didn't matter against Sweden. Will play Canada for
the finals of the four nation faceoff Thursday night. John
Travoltas seventy one, We're all getting old. Actress Molly Ringwald
(16:44):
is fifty seven, Wheel of Fortunes, Van of White is
sixty eight. Rapper Doctor Dre is sixty one.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
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Your Morning Show with Michael gil Joano.
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to be a part of your morning routine. Now enjoy
the podcast. I finally saw the video of the Delta flight.
That is nothing like I pictured.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I knew there were seventy mile in hour winds, and
I've seen these landings before and you come in crazy
sideways hoping to straight out the last minute. I thought
that's what happened, and then Augusta Winn flipped it. No,
it comes down straight. Just seemed like it came down
a little too hard and bounced and flipped. That is
not what I was expecting. But eighteen people injured, no
(17:51):
deaths whatsoever. A miracle in Toronto. US is holding talks
with Russia, but Ukraine's not even at the table. Israel
set to receive more hostages held by Hamas by Sunday,
and frigid temperatures are set to impact millions of US
across the country. I am home from the University of Oklahoma,
where my son, Nicholas has made his decision to become sooner.
(18:16):
I was not excited about my son going to college
so far away, but I got to tell you, I
was very impressed with the University of Oklahoma campus.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Josh our tour.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Guide was simply more entertaining than anybody during the Saturday
Night Line fiftieth anniversary special. And we even attended a
basketball game where my alma manter Lsus snuck up bit
them and won in the last eight seconds, and then.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We all arrived home with COVID.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
The onset was Saturday first, Andrea then me Sunday, so
I'm running a day behind, and as you would tell
in our talkbacks, tomorrow's not a very good day for
me apparently. But yeah, we just all of a sudden
had like a scratchy sore throat, then all of a
sudden got terrible body aches and headache, and then just
(19:05):
zero energy and then the stuffiness ensued and uh Nick
was tested COVID, Andrew was tested COVID. I've decided to
host the show with COVID today. You will hear how
Andrew sounds momentarily, but first your talk back. Can't have
your morning show without your voice. Let's start with Big
John right now, there's some poor three hundred year old
(19:26):
lady whose social Security is going to get cut off
by musk. We had, we had, we had a vampire
getting social security and yes, we had a three hundred
and sixty year old woman that was getting social Security.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Now the audit's got to go through.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They've literally they believe they found millions of instances of fraud.
We'll have more of a conversation on that with John Decker.
But the reality is these audits are necessary, and someone's
got to see the account side, and somebody's got to
see the payment side.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Perry is next. Good morning, Michael. This is Perry right
here in beautiful Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
COVID is where shaky Bill Lee lost all of my
support when he gave in to the Liberals and through
our constitution out the window.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I can never support him again.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I didn't support him then and I will never support
him again.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Love you show brother, keep it up well. Unfortunately, Perry,
I can relate. I actually lost a friend too over that.
That didn't have to happen. We could disagree on COVID,
but somehow I lost a friend because he lost my support. Anyway, Yeah,
there was a lot of following, and I think you know,
Governor Billy, there were worst governors when it came to COVID.
I can think of Ohio for one.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But I can tell you that a lot of them
were taking their cute.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Look, Donald Trump got duped by Fauci, and so did
a lot of governor governors get duped by Fauci by
way of getting duped by following Trump's lead too.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's kind of lost in history.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
As much as I love Donald Trump today, Donald Trump
certainly got duped by Fauci. Last, but not least, is
from the home office. My wife in the other room.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'm so sick. Blessed the rona got me. Bless her.
That's horrible.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
And I am literally twenty four hours behind her. So
I was having the bad headache and aches and the
stuffing its beginning Sunday.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
She started on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
So that's what I'm gonna sound like tomorrow, probably hopefully
geting red in the morning.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Somebody got Chris Croc's number. It could happen again. I
feel it.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Time for your sounds of the day.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We will win.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
We will win. Look like a bunch of girly men's.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Even Sunday, always interesting, often entertaining. Welcome to your Sounds
of the day for Tuesday, February the eighteenth. Do you
ever have these moments where you just allow yourself to
go I used to always do this whenever we were
discussed sing Ronald Reagan's victory and taking office in eighty one?
(22:07):
What if we would have had a second term of
Jimmy Carter? What might have happened? And you're like, what
if Kamala Harris would have won. What if Hillary Clinton
would have won. I actually think by now Barack Obama
(22:29):
would be somewhere at a global level and after eight
years of Hillary, America would have just been handed over
on a silver platter. But let's just take them one
at a time. What if Kamala Harris had won, this
wouldn't be a Sound of the day, This would be
a top story of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Kamala talking to Broadway dancers.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
When we think about like these moments where we see
things that are being taken, but also let's see it
as were you know, nature of wors a vacuum, so
where some where there's a vacancy experience filing right, And
let's know that the reality is that the progress of
our nation has always been about the expansion of rights
(23:15):
and our restriction of rights.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
We're seeing a u turn right now.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
For those rights to be maintained, which means we have
to be vigilant.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And it's just the nature of it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I look what I mean in this beautiful play and.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Everything that we know hand and that he was surprising
at to.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Suppress so much, but he knew, and you know, I
almost can't listen to anymore other than to say, who
really is seeking inspiration from Kamala Harris right now?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Mm hm?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Six dancers, I guess at a Broadway show with empty seats.
I still don't even know what that word Salad was saying.
Some of it was really hard to understand. I'm just
trying to figure out how she still has an audience.
(24:06):
And then I try to figure out when she talks,
I hear nothing and they seem to hear something. It's
a matrix moment, isn't it? Take take the difference? Here
comes Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. Now here's a guy that
when he talks, I'm following him. I understand exactly what
(24:26):
he's saying. I can't figure out to this day what
Kamala was saying to those dancers. But I can't understand
what Senator Kennedy's trying to say to his friends who
are Democrats.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Listen, terms of the Democrats, I've got a I've got
I've got a lot of friends are Democrats and they
haven't asked me for advice. But if I did, I
tell them, Look, you just gotta try harder not to suck.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I mean, think about it.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
Over the past four years, the Democrats mismanaged Congress. They
mismanaged COVID, then mismanaged the COMMO may They mismanaged inflation.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
By the way, Republicans are guilty of mismanaging COVID too.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
They mismanaged the national debt. They mismanaged Afghanistan. More recently,
in their opposition to President Trump and mister Musk, the
Democrats have chosen to support the bureaucrats and the spending
porn over the American taxban.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
By the way, I haven't heard that expression yet, the
spending porn. That's a claim. I love this guy.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I love America could really benefit from somebody like being
president Laker than.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
To be press secretary. He continued. Listen.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
Just like they support illegal immigration over over the rule
of law, Just like they support transgender athletes over women's sports,
just like they support Hamas Terras over Israel.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
All Democrats are not like this.
Speaker 13 (25:58):
But the already is controlled right now by people who
measured in online activism with a minor and puberty blockers.
I know these people if they think when they think men,
they think men can breastfeed. They're triggered by rage. They
cry if you if you use the wrong pronoun, and
(26:22):
most fair minded Americans look at this and they go,
these people are about ten exits pass normal.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Where I need that audio, please? Ten exits past normal.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
By the way, at the beginning, Sean basically says, now
that the left is so attacking Elon Musk and Tesla,
my next vehicle's got to be a Tesla.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I'm buying a Tesla next. And I thought to myself,
this is the crazy pendulum that we keep swinging on.
Remember one the right was anti having electric vehicles shoved
down your throat. Remember when Elon Musk was the toast
of the left. Now conservative television hosts are buying Teslas
(27:07):
to support him. I mean, but he did in that
laundry list, with the exception of COVID. COVID was the
right failed as much as the left. I know, I
lived it. But other than that, that's a pretty laundry,
pretty good laundry list of you know, stop sucking, stop
being for exits past normal. Once again, Senator Kennedy from
(27:31):
the Great State of Louisiana, nobody does it better. Now,
this is a problem for the Democrat Party. And I
don't know how people I always say it this way
because I don't like to play left versus right. I
just play right versus wrong. But I wonder how those
on the left. You know, we just had the recent
on president's stay polling, and nobody pulls better still to
this day than Barack Obama. Well, here's Barack Obama talking
(27:55):
about the very things the Democrat Party is obstructing against
and standing again in protesting against today. Why was it
great when Obama said it? And why is it evil
now that Trump and Musk are saying it? Histories are
very very unfriendly reminder and a very effective reality check Listen,
(28:18):
Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity.
Speaker 14 (28:22):
The American people are entitled to transparency.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer
dollars on programs that have outlive their usefulness or exists
solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
They're 'titally be able to figure out where their dollars
are going, and they're entitled to accountability to make sure
that we're using the dollars for what we said it
was for.
Speaker 16 (28:48):
We are going to go through our federal budget as
I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line,
eliminating those programs we don't need, and that those that
we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Imagine the headlines that didn't exist when they were doing it,
that do exist today while Trump and Musk are doing it.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
And now you're beginning to understand the matrix, the partisan
political social dilemma, matrix and death of journalism we're living in.
I like this one where he's standing in front of
a two and a half foot stack high of paper.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Should be easy.
Speaker 16 (29:34):
Is getting rid of the pointless waste.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
And stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
We hope to be instilling an entire new culture, but
not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will in
fact pursue.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
By the way, when I look at those videos, are
we sure that's the same Joe Biden. You know, I'm
starting to believe in that CIA mask theory, and it
goes back to Bill Clinton as well.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
First, I am ordering reduction of the federal bureaucracy by
at least one hundred thousand positions over the next four years.
At least ten percent of these cuts must come from
senior management These cuts will make our government.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
More efficient and more effective.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
The government is full of dedicated people whose hard work
is being choked off by our own bureaucracy. Second, I'm
ordering each federal department and agency to reduce its administrative
as opposed to its program costs, by twelve percent over
the next four years. With better planning and innovation, we
can make better use of the money we already have.
(30:38):
In many agencies, overhead is too high, red tape is
too thick, and the day to day operations of the
agencies have not been re examined in a very.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
When Clinton was cutting jobs, it was wonderful. When Biden
and Obama were cutting spending and holding transparency and accountability
because it was your money being wasted.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Now the Trump and doing it is the end of
democracy as we know it.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, that's the problem. Sorright everybody, Lad, I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't define what a woman is.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That was just complete felation.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Cab Fat is your Sounds of the Day.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I've heard two bricks short of a load. I've heard
not the ship. Sharpest knife in the drawer I got.
I never heard four exits past normal.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
It's a new one. Chalk that one up to Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
All right, at least eighteen people are injured, No depths
in the plane landing on its head rather than its wheels.
In Toronto, US holding talks with Russia, although Ukraine isn't
even at the table today, and UH top official at
Solid Security Administration stepping down after disagreement with Doge.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Speaking of Doge.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
They're wanting to get out access to personal taxpayer data
from the IRS. What are they looking for? Will it happen?
White House correspondent John Decker's here with that story. Good morning, John,
Good morning to you, Michael.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
Yet that's what I've seen those reports. I have not
had confirmation that indeed is what's happening, but let's assume
that's what's happening. There's a really important hearing that took
place yesterday here in Washington, d C. Presided over by
Judge Tanya chuck In regarding a lawsuit brought by thirteen
Democratic state attorneys general challenging all of the authority regarding
(32:34):
Doge regarding Elon Musk's team, and yesterday during this hearing,
Judge chuck In did not appear to be very sympathetic
to the arguments being put forward by those Democratic state
attorneys general. She may issue her opinion today. And what
those attorneys general are looking for a temporary restraining order
regarding the activities of DOGE. I don't think they're going
(32:56):
to get it, and then we'll see an appeal, likely
to the DC Court of Appeals.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I'm driving home from the University of Oklahoma with COVID
and I'm looking at all of this and I'm like,
she sees partisan obstruction. Look, we got to be able
to have audits of government agencies. And I mean part
of this is you can see the line, you know,
in other words, maybe it's a vampire, maybe it's somebody
three hundred and sixty years old, whatever the crazy daily
(33:22):
narrative is, that doesn't mean money's flowing to it until
you and they have safeguards in place. Some see the lines,
some see the payment. So you've got to be able
to see both to find out is this three hundred
and sixty year old woman still getting payments? So, I
mean the thing I was struck with the most. John
is has nobody been doing audits and how long has
it been since we've been doing audits?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Period? But you got to have the process to be
able to do them. Well, that's right.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
And there are consultants all over the federal government. And
that's the way I would describe the Department of Government Efficiency.
It is a consulting firm essentially makes recommendations. Those recommendations,
like all consultants, you know, the people that make decisions,
the decision makers, they have to decide whether to accept
those recommendations. And I think that's an important distinction to
(34:12):
think about when you think about Elon Musk and the
team that he's put together going into these various departments
and agencies. If there's waste, if of taxpayer dollars, who
wouldn't before finding that waste, you know, and getting rid
of that waste and making certain that America's taxpayer dollars
are sent properly. But you know, I think that there's
(34:33):
a fine line, you know, in the sense that if
indeed it's Elon Musk and his team that are making
these decisions, that's where you cross the line, you know,
That's where I think that the decision that comes out today,
likely from Judge chuck.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
In, will be interesting in teams in terms of seeing
her rationale for her decision.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yeah, at least for one judge, she doesn't think that
line's been crossed. John Decker is always great reporting. We'll
talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
We're all in this together.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
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