February 24, 2025 • 34 mins
Is this Reagan-conservative Republican, Tea Party, Trumpism, or all of the above??!!
Trumpism vs Republican Party at CPAC…we ask GOP consultant Chris Walker who exactly the conservatives are happy with??
It has now been three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Where do things stand and what about the peace talks between Trump and Putin? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL is back with the story.
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That's probably got the left puckered up a little bit.
This morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Today marks the three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Meanwhile,
Ukraine's President Zelenski says he's ready to step down if
that would bring peace to his country or Ukraine to
the UN. There is method to Donald Trump's madness. And
the Sagawarts took place Sunday night. The movie Conclave and
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Nobody tells my producer what to do but me, and
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Like Hell America. I'm Casey casham count down the forty
top podcasts.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
There is no like official way to know podcasts. I mean,
you can go by Apple, you can go by pod Track,
you can go by any number of the different people's rankings.
But if you're looking at at Dan Bongino, he ranks
twenty first on Apple's list, He ranks seventh on pod track,
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probably not so well on YouTube because of his language.
He'd be edited to Kingdom come. But I think pretty
consistently you can say you know in a sea of
seven million podcasts, Dan Bongino is a top ten podcast,
and he also promotes himself quite well on Rumble, which
is the Yeah, Rubble is huge, but you you know,
there is no They probably ought to come up with
something like a Nielsen for podcasts, you know, a source
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we can go to. But he's pretty persistently and consistently
in the top five, top ten, and he's been doing
very very well since the elections. So he's walking away
from quite a bit in podcast audience, not to mention
a national radio show through Cumulus that he's been pretty
outspoken against Cumulus, especially with their vaccine threats.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But he's walking away from all of it to be
the deputy director of the FBI. That's pretty significant news.
Waking up, look at some happy days. I'm struggling to
find a.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Theme for our weekly visits with Chris Walker, so I
thought I would go with happy days.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So much to talk about with Chris Walker.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He is a GLP consultant, an analyst, and a contributor
here weekly on your morning show, All.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right, Sea Pack It was at Kumbai. Yah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But who are they in love with trump Ism or
the Republican Party? Where did the conservative stand and does
it matter? Good morning, Chris, Good morning, Michael, how are
you happy to here again?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I am going to call that a failed introduction, will
continue to look for.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
One yours more appropriate for me, So.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, we'll just we can find something there. But
but what did you make of Sepack give us a
Seapack in review. The Republican Party seems to be in
line with conservatives, that's for sure. But is it trump
Ism or the Republican Party?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I mean, certainly trump Ism, and I think that's kind
of what sea Pack is is is kind of trump
Ism incarnate. You know. What I found interesting was how
many kind of media folks were there. You know, you
were mentioned podcasting earlier, and you know, a lot of
the podcasts I listened to all have like a special
you know, episode from Seapack. Whether it's a panel or
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some other type of discussion, whether it's Megan Kelly or
you know, the the Daily Wire guys, or or any
type of kind of media consumption. It's it's a very
media forward or you know conference. And yes, the speakers
were important, but I also think there was a piece
of you know, a continuation of the of the of
(05:56):
the right leaning media ecosphere really kind of honing in
on the mass of like, what's president from doing one
of the wins?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
How do they how do we keep them going?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So, if we were going to do the podcast world
in terms of royalty, Joe Rogan's King, Tucker Carlson is
probably duke, certainly, Megan Kelly is princess, and Dan Bongino
was Prince. Well Prince just left for the FBI. But
those are the significant voices that are out there. You know,
you brought Dally Wire not so much anymore. They kind
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of peaked four years ago. They're not the new voices
in the crowd. But to the conversation we were having,
what do you how do you compare the Reagan Revolution
to the Tea Party movement to trump Ism, MAGA to
Republican Party conservativism. They are kind of five different things,
but they've kind of morphed into one, haven't they.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
That's an interesting That's an interesting point, Michael, and I
would say that you know what you're talking about. From
a aside from Rogan, which is just teased the universe
to himself, Bongino and Meghan and Tucker have all kind
of embraced trump Ism as a kind of a daily
kind of message perimeter, and so you know, a lot
of their content and a lot of their activity are
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based around what Trump's saying, what he's doing, what his
team is. And obviously dong Gino had an FBI. It's
all very Trump media.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Focus, which is which is understandable because.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
He's the president and there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Given Megan Kelly, keep in mind Fox was never conservative.
They were never a conservative alternative to the bias media.
They were establishment Republican response to the mainstream far left media.
And Megan Kelly, could you have gotten off to a
more anti Trump start than her? If you go back
to the twenty sixteen debates, and I mean here comes
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their their biggest names, Megan Kelly, Tucker, and Carlson, and
they are completely under the Trump bandwagon. Bong Gino always
has been. That's interesting. I mean, so you know, we
know the tea party. We know that for the older demo.
All right, so now we're talking about people my age
to forty they're still Reagan Revolutionaries. Then you've got a
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mid you know, maybe thirty five to forty five. That's
your tea party, and then you have this new movement
of trump Ism. Well I got news for you. Trump
ism is in line with all three. Therefore, it didn't
absorb trump Ism. Trump Ism absorbed it. That's a significant statement.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, that's right, and I mean that that's really what's happened.
I mean, but I think that's also just in a
connection to winning. I mean, look at the election, and
look at the numbers that Trump brought in this this election,
I mean every state. I mean what I read something
this weekend. You know, Trump was closer to winning New
Jersey than Kamala was winning Florida. And you know that
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just kind of shows you, you know, this kind of
the flip that has kind of happened. So yeah, I mean,
you know, conservative industry, conserv you know, we're probably a
party of all kind of shifted towards Trump because he's
the leader right now.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm the same thing.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Happened within the Bush years. I mean, and I know
that's kind of a ten year kind of moment, but
I mean, you know, let's not forget Congresses everything they
could try to pass PUSH's agenda in two thousand and
two thousand and one, and I mean some of that's
just kind of the natural kind of flow of a party.
But you know, this is much different because Trump's such
a cultural phenomenon, just not a political phenomenon, and so
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you know, whether that's Sea Pack or whether that's you know,
kind of rank abile people who don't go to conferences
but are just kind of watching the news and seeing
what doge is and seeing what Elon Musk's sweeting got
on a daily day basis is really kind of moving
that that that you know, that direction right were, which
is a great thing for the country overall because the
results are happening from Trump's first month is really really
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vital that all Republicans have been talking about for a
very long time, and as Trump it's getting it done.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Chris Walker is a Republican consultant analyst. He's also your
morning show contributor weekly. I bring this up because there's
two very important things to think about. On one side,
there is going to be an election, a mid term
in less than two years. A president dential election in
twenty twenty eight, which, by the way, the campaigning and
positioning will begin in less than two years, which is
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crazy to think about it and of itself, we have
not had the two parties working together for the American
people probably since Bill Clinton, and boy has the Democrat
Party changed since then.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Working with Nute.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Gingrich, trump Ism is the first one to kind of
show there might be an ability for both parties to
work together as long as you're not crazy left. Kind
of like the governor of Wisconsin waking up this morning,
We're not going to call them mothers anymore. We're going
to call them inseminated people. But with the exception of
that far left that still hasn't figured out Wolke is dead,
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there might be opportunities to work together. The other reverse
side of it is, we're going to have a presidential election.
We're going to come back to swing precincts of swing
districts in swing states, and once Trump is gone, if
this is trump Ism embodying Tea Party, Reagan Revolution, and
modern day conservativism, So what's lapped if it's jd Vance
(11:02):
most presumably, or DeSantis or Rubio heading into that twenty
twenty eight election, because you're right back to a tight
race again, tighter than people realize.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, one hundred percent, And you know you mentioned the midterms.
I think there's a really important piece to think about
on this because I think a big part of what
happened in twenty twenty four. With social media and Elon
buying Twitter in twenty twenty two, he didn't buy it
enough time to really make an impact on the midterms,
and so I think there was an you know, there
was a you know, that was a more normal midterm
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in the sense of like, you know, Republicans not having
the red wave that people thought they would. But I
really do think that this midterm will be kind of
a watershed moment on the idea of like the old
media is basically dying and rushing to irrelevance. Social media's
kind of taken over that platform, and the red you know,
the rest is is kind of a conservative kind of
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confluence of happening on social media. So I think that's
going to help help a lot of Republicans in the
way that people aren't thinking about for a midterm usually
because everyone thinks that the party in power gets wiped out.
I think this midterm will be a little bit different
because of social media and Elon. We'll see, time will tell. Well,
the Democrats still got to find be a title election
in every front.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, the Democrats still got to find a leader, and
they got to find a message and a pivot, and
they haven't yet. They're headed off a cliff. But they
don't have control of the narrative because the media is dead.
Nobody's reading newspapers, nobody's watching cable news. They don't have
any influence, not of any audience. I mean MSNBC fires
Joy Read, but MSNBC was down to forty five thousand
viewers during the day, sixty three thousand viewers in demo
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during peak hours of night. As I mentioned, that's half
of what my local radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma was
in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I mean, these are unheard of numbers.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So they don't They can't control the narrative because they
don't have a media influence. They can't control social media
because they don't have X any longer. I mean, they
don't have a tactic or a strategy, a leader, or
a message. I mean they've got a lot of trouble.
Now they can overcome them, and they're going to have
a plan. I don't think they're ready to reveal it yet,
and I don't think James Carvell represents it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
But there's no question they're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's no question that the Republican Party is enjoying a
conservative renaissance by way of trump Ism, and that was
evident at Seapack. Any other highlights from Seapack worthy.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Of note, you know, it's just just a joy. I
mean everyone feels like there's a you know, kind of
movement towards you know, the world is healing. So I mean,
I think it's a big piece of it, for sure.
So it's the positive feelings coming out of and I
think are really good and something that people were talt about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So the state of the Republican Party or the state
of trump Ism, or maybe they're one and the same.
Is conservative in Kumbaya by way of Seapack?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Absolutely, absolutely not the same, but certainly aligned.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
For now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The has the party ever enjoyed such conservative affirmation? Is
this higher than or roughly as it was during Ronald Reagan? Well,
I loved both, and I can't answer that.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Question no, but I would say, I mean in my
local experience, know, because I think most conservatives have been
looked at with derision from kind of estaushed Republicans. Now
conservatives and the Maga crew are the established Republicans, and
that's a big difference for kind of where you know,
where the we talked about the Overton window a couple
of weeks ago. There's a big difference where that's kind
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of happening now.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
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Speaker 2 (14:39):
Ukraine's president Zelenski says he's willing to resign if that
would mean peace for his country.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
The Ukrainian president made the offer at a news conference Sunday, saying, quote,
if it is peace for Ukraine and you really want
me to leave my post, I'm ready. Zelenski also said
he would also trade his position for immediate Natal membership
if it means the safety of his country this fall
those public disputes with President Trump last week, after Trump
implied Zelensky was responsible for Ukraine's war with Russia and
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called the Ukrainian leader a dictator, Zelenski also insisted that
he does not intend to stay in power for decades.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The Pope remains in critical condition, with blood tests showing
mild signs of kidney failure.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Vatican officials say he is still getting supplemental oxygen to
help him breathe as he fights double pneumonia, and there
has been no new respiratory crisis. However, the eighty eight
year old did have some mild kidney failure, which the
Vatican says is under control, and.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The Yankees are going to allow facial hair.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
The team is parting with tradition and will now allow
players to have well groomed beards starting the season. The
Yankees have bar players from having facial hair other than
a mustache since the nineteen seventies. Managing general partner hal
Steinbranner said the decision was made after speaking with former
and current players. He added, quote, it's the appropriate time
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to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.
While some other major North American sports teams have policies
regarding dress or appearance, the Yankees beer policy was among
the strict and the most well known.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'm Lisa Carton. I'm a traditionalist. I don't like it.
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Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's been about exactly three years to the day that
Russia invaded Ukraine. Where do things stand and where are
the piece talks between Trump and Putin and ultimately one
of our top stories today Zelinsky making the announcement that
he would step down if that would bring peace to
his country or a place at the UN table. Roy
O'Neil is our national correspondent with the very latest on
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Ukraine three years later.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good morning, Rory Michael, Good morning, Where to begin? Where
are we well?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I think both sides are ready for this to be over.
It's finding the exit strategy and the settlement for the
terms right right.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
We saw a lot of the European leaders and the
Prime Minister of Canada make the trip to Ukraine today
on this third anniversary of Russia's invasion to show their
support and look, they're also going to have an emergency meeting,
I think on March sixth to try to figure out
what's next for Europe because the US position right now
is a bit in flux, I guess is the best
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way to describe it, and they're not exactly sure what
role European forces may play in any long term piece deal,
whether or not they'll have to have boots on the
ground in Ukraine maintaining some sort of a border.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So this is where you know, you don't want things
to turn political, but in the conversation, here's kind of
where things are suspended in mid air. Method to the
Trump madness. I found it very strange last week, all
this Sunden's talking about Zilinsky being a below average comedian
and the cause of the war started giving him the
Jeb Bush treatment, and I thought, well, obviously, Donald Trump
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seems to be most moved by the eighteen nineteen twenty
year old men who are dying in this war. On
both sides, he sees the future for the war to
be over and peace in Ukraine. He doesn't necessarily see
a place for Zelensky to be involved in that. Well,
now you have Zelensky saying, oh, I'll step down if
that means peace for my country or a place on
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the UN.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, that's the trick, right, Donald Trump's got with NATO.
What did I say, you went with NATO?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But that's the trick, right, because they're not going to
get a place with NATO, and he still needs to
step down and that could lead to peace, but that
always remains to be seen. And then the European leaders
are wondering what they're going to inherit once this is over, well, right.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
And Secretary Heigs already said that they're not going to
go back to the twenty fourteen borders. So at some
point is Putin being rewarded for this bad behavior?
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And then what's next?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
And that's got Poland worried and Estonio worried saying, gosh,
are we going to be victims to the same thing
where Putin essentially gets what he wants? Because even President
Trump's envoy to the Middle East, who was on one
of the Sunday shows I think CNN was asked, well,
what's Russia giving up in all this? And we really
he didn't have an answer for it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, one of the answers might be the continuing of
the fight, giving up the aspiration of having all of
Ukraine or more beyond Ukraine, that would be. But the
point I was going to make is that's really all
that's left now. Rory is political, right.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
I suppose, So, I mean strategically though, whether or not
you you know, I mean, at this point it's about
drawing new boundaries, and do you reward Putin letting him
get take this land? And then the broader question the
eggheads will say, well, is this a message to China.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Then about what it can do with Taiwan?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Is there progress? Yeah, because on the third anniversary of
the start of this war. I don't think there's anybody
that believes this war is going to still be going
on a month from now. That's progress, I guess. But
the terms are everything. They mean a lot for the future,
I get it.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
And then and the mineral rights and whether or not
the US then provides protection in exchange for part of
this mineral rights deal that's still hanging overhead, which they
say there could be some sort of an agreement this week,
but Ukraine wants some guarantee, saying all right, if we're
going to give you half our minerals, then you've got
to provide protection to us.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And is that the X factor here? Final thirty seconds.
Things don't look good for the pope, first of all,
eighty eight years old to be bed ridden for this
long not good, suffering double demonia already with the compromise,
lung that's not good. Now the blood work is showing
some kidney failure. This is not going in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
No, thankfully they said that.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The I guess asthma attack that he had on Saturday
that put him in critical condition. Officially, they say they
haven't seen a repeat of that, so that's encouraging. But
we heard Cardinal Dolan this week saying that perhaps the
Pope is close to death.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
This is a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Roy O'Neil has always great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow,
all and everybody, look alone.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I just got after the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Sure perhaps you'd like to be alone with a deteriorating
mental condition.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Politics, I don't know us.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Uh, yeah, I gotta love all right, Today Sounds of
the Day could be tomorrow Sounds the Day open.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Remember that? All right? So last week we talked about
what Stephen A. Smith up to.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Here's a respected sports commentator, all of a sudden gets
caught up in the political narratives and of a presidential
cycle and then just stays there and he's become the
Democrat Party's number one critic. Somewhat explainable in that if
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the Democrats, and I don't even know if they've done
a post mortem yet on the election, Honestly, did Kamala lose,
did the disrespect of its voters in a primary process
by switching from Joe to Kamala without giving them a say,
just like you switched from Bernie to Joe in twenty
twenty without them having a say, Just like you switched
from Bernie to Hillary in twenty sixteen without them having
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a say. Do they have platform issues? Do they have
leadership issues? Message issues? The answer is all of the above.
In the end, they lost the youth vote and they
may have lost them for a generation. They've lost the
Hispanic vote and they definitely lost them for a generation.
And then they lost a lot of black mail votes.
And that's where Stephen A. Smith comes in, and he's
(23:56):
been very critical to Democrat Party. Now bring on James
carve Well from a long, long time ago. This is
the Clinton strategist of the establishment of the Democrat Party
that I'm not even sure exists anymore. And they're certainly
in a civil war with the far left of their party.
And you got James carvel saying this guy already just
stick to sports, for which I have a lot of respect,
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and then the showing you how we use adjative.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Down in Louisiana. Well, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Smith responded, and when we were having the conversation last week.
The conversation was, is Stephen A Smith setting himself up
for a run for office or is he setting up
the governor of Maryland wes Moore? Is he the John
the Baptist to West Moore? Well, guess what, Ah Carvell
(24:52):
was wrong? Nose try Dell Jarno was right and he
made it crystal clear.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Listen, so respectfully, let me state this again for everybody
to listen. My life is pretty damn good. I have
no desire to be a politician. I wouldn't want to
contaminate and sully my life by entrenching myself in that.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Cesspool in the nation's capital. I'm very very clear about that.
And the pay would be significantly less.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Let me add that too, at least for the eight
years I'm in office, because I damn sure if I
win the first election, I ain't losing a second.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
All Right, that's grant you, dripping with the ego, dripping
with hubris. But here comes the answer. So understand, I
have no desire for it. What I said was, it's
an absolute embarrassment that I.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Am the person that's being mentioned and named. It's a
disgrace to this democratic party. It shows you have no
bullpen and I know that's what got your your intendas
as you brought up how I have a relationship with
Wes Moore and Josh Shapiro. Josh Shapiro I met him
one time in my life. I talked to him one
time in my life, and hey, I think he's a
(26:08):
fabulous governor for the state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And I think he knows his stuff. And Josh Shapiro
met him once. Good guy, doing a great job. So
so far, it's not about Steven A. Smith running for office.
It's certainly not about supporting Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
What does that leave.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
I wanted to have met him, and I'm looking forward
to cultivating a relationship with him.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
West Moore is a different animal. I love this brother.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
I know him through sports because he and I talk
about the Ravens all the time. I think he's doing
a damn good job with the state of Maryland, and
if there is a Democratic nominee to look at, it
is definitely him. I think Wes Moore is an absolute winner.
I'm not apologizing for that to anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
All right, So I was right, it's about Wes Moore. Look,
I remember watching the Democrat convention for the re election
of Bill Clinton, and some young guy got up and
started talking, and I looked at my wife and I said,
that guy's going to be a president.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Of the United States. And who defunk it after nine
to eleven with the name Barack Hussein Obama. He was
Wes Moore is going to be president of the United States.
The question is when Stephen A. Smith is casting his
vote for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Meanwhile, we had Joe Rogan giving us the Native American
analogy of the best way to get the most buffalo. Sure,
you can circle and get a couple of them, bring
him back and you're a hero for a barbecue once.
Or you can chase the whole herd right off a
cliff and you're eating all winter. And Joe Rogan said,
the Democrats are like buffalo, They're going to go right
(27:47):
off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Ah, that's Joe Rogan.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
But here is a former Clinton polster, a Democrats strategist,
saying the Democrats are falling off the cliff as we speak.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
Well, I've got some new polem come out Monday that
I've just looked at. And frankly, the Democratic Party is
falling off a cliff. The ratings, which were in the
high forties are going to be like thirty five percent.
And I think the basic question who's doing better job
as president Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with
fifty seven percent. I think you're seeing a retrospective assessment
(28:22):
of Biden and the direction the Democratic Party was going
really a lot more negative than it was on election day.
And they're looking at the contrast on immigration, on economic policy,
on some of the social policies, and boy, they're reevaluating
in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have never seen anything like this.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
This is a record low for the Democratic Party in
terms of favorability.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Mark Penn saying the present isn't too rosie and the
future most uncertain for Democrats. And our polls of plenty
fifty three percent approve of what Donald Trump's doing with DEI,
only forty two percent disapprove. Fifty seven percent to forty
three percent think he's doing a better job than Joe
Biden is approval rates at fifty two percent, that's the
new seventy. By the way, media trust down to twenty
(29:08):
nine percent. Twenty six percent have no trust or confidence
in the media at all. And we talked about joy
Red getting canceled. They were down to forty six thousand
viewers on MSNBC. How do you even call that a network?
My gosh, if they had one thousand viewers, for how
big their egos are, none of it makes any sense.
(29:33):
So television news is dead, Cable news is dead, has
no audience, has no advertisers, has no influence. Everything's gone
to podcasting in digital and I'm not even sure what
the state of radio is anymore, a once last bastion
of truth, once a part of the solution in some cases,
a part of the problem. Now and look out, here
(29:54):
comes one of your top ten podcasts and one of
your top ten national shows, Dan Bongino, leaving to be.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Deputy director of the FBI.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But the Democrat Party's never been lower, Still doesn't have
a message, Still doesn't They could get one by midterm,
they could certainly get one by twenty twenty eight, and
they might have it Wes Moore. But right now they
are leaderless, messages, messageless, and headed off a cliff, and
they've never been lower in polling numbers. Now, one thing
(30:26):
we can agree on, laying low playing possum, working with
the Republicans, you know, moving on to slight differences that
could be a legitimate strategy. The dumbest thing you could
be doing is what the Democrat governor of Wisconsin, Tony
Evans is doing. Changing mother to inseminated person in state law.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Go more woke, or.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Drawing a line a line in the sand to have
men competing against women. And boy, didn't lead to our
best sound of the day, the President in the White
House confronting the main governor right to her face.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good,
but I understand Maine is the main here, the governor
of man.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Are you not going to comply with it? Well, we
are the federal law. Well you better do it.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
You better do it because you're not going to get
any federal funding at all of you don't. And by
the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal orlthough
I did very well there, your population doesn't want men
playing in women's sports. So you better you better comply
because otherwise you're not getting any any federal funding. Every state. Good,
I'll see you and could I look forward to that.
(31:43):
That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your
life after governor. Because I don't think you'll be an
elected politics.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We aboucher early man aubility to speak.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Che that the day for this Monday, the twenty fourth
of February, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Chrono. If
you're just waking up.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Ukraine's President, Vladimir Zelensky says he's willing to resign in
exchange for peace or NATO membership. The pope remains in
critical condition. Blood tests now showing mild signs of kidney
failure to go along with double pneumonia and other issues.
He's been hospitalized for over a week. The condition is
considered guarded very grave. A former army chief, well, of
(32:43):
course he would say this. Former army chief says President
Trump's firing up the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff is tremendously destabilizing to the US military. Dan Bongino
is leaving his talk show National with Cumulus, his podcast
very successful in the top ten to become the new
Deputy Director of the FBI. Now you got Josh Pattel
(33:05):
and Dan Bongino. When you look through the little people
on your dour I wonder what they got on us.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
All, well, here comes the Bongino Paatel team and.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
The uh.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The SAG Awards were last night and it's just pathetic.
I mean, only Hollywood is celebrating Hollywood. Nobody really cares
about these people anymore. They've so alienated themselves. And they
give the Lifetime Achievement to Jane Fonda and she said,
so much plastic surgery. She looked like the award she received,
and then went on a liberal rant. It was just
but I guess Showgun was the big TV winner. And
(33:39):
when it came to movies, and I don't know if
there's a precursor to the Oscars because I don't care,
But the big winner was I'm blank on the name
of it now conclict. All right, one last caller, if
we can get it in real quick.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Steven Dover. Yeah, Stephen A.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Smith is a total and complete more on his ghetto
speech pattern and everything about him just screams, I'm a
sports announcer and that he should just stick to that.
He may be right about the Democrat Party because they
are trash also, but he's basically the epitome of a
moronic Democrat.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, this moronic Democrat, as you and James Carvil call him,
pretty much sees the Democrat Party for the dire straits
that's in. He pretty much sees its only future in
wes Moore. Doesn't seem too stupid. I will say this,
If that party is so disrespected by him, why is
it not an option to leave that party? Why is
it a desire to try to fix it? I don't
(34:40):
get that, but I'm not a Democrat or a Republican.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Now it's leaving the world of podcasting in national talk radio.
He has been named the new Deputy director of the
FBI under Cash Patel.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's probably got the left puckered up a little bit.
This morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Today marks the three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Meanwhile,
Ukraine's President Zelenski says he's ready to step down if
that would bring peace to his country or Ukraine to
the UN. There is method to Donald Trump's madness. And
the Sagawarts took place Sunday night. The movie Conclave and
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It was a few years ago. I don't know if
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Nobody tells my producer appreciate you listening at kt OK
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Nobody tells my producer what to do but me, and
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Like Hell America. I'm Casey casham count down the forty
top podcasts.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
There is no like official way to know podcasts. I mean,
you can go by Apple, you can go by pod Track,
you can go by any number of the different people's rankings.
But if you're looking at at Dan Bongino, he ranks
twenty first on Apple's list, He ranks seventh on pod track,
(03:31):
probably not so well on YouTube because of his language.
He'd be edited to Kingdom come. But I think pretty
consistently you can say you know in a sea of
seven million podcasts, Dan Bongino is a top ten podcast,
and he also promotes himself quite well on Rumble, which
is the Yeah, Rubble is huge, but you you know,
there is no They probably ought to come up with
something like a Nielsen for podcasts, you know, a source
(03:52):
we can go to. But he's pretty persistently and consistently
in the top five, top ten, and he's been doing
very very well since the elections. So he's walking away
from quite a bit in podcast audience, not to mention
a national radio show through Cumulus that he's been pretty
outspoken against Cumulus, especially with their vaccine threats.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But he's walking away from all of it to be
the deputy director of the FBI. That's pretty significant news.
Waking up, look at some happy days. I'm struggling to
find a.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Theme for our weekly visits with Chris Walker, so I
thought I would go with happy days.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So much to talk about with Chris Walker.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He is a GLP consultant, an analyst, and a contributor
here weekly on your morning show, All.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right, Sea Pack It was at Kumbai. Yah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But who are they in love with trump Ism or
the Republican Party? Where did the conservative stand and does
it matter? Good morning, Chris, Good morning, Michael, how are
you happy to here again?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I am going to call that a failed introduction, will
continue to look for.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
One yours more appropriate for me, So.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, we'll just we can find something there. But
but what did you make of Sepack give us a
Seapack in review. The Republican Party seems to be in
line with conservatives, that's for sure. But is it trump
Ism or the Republican Party?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I mean, certainly trump Ism, and I think that's kind
of what sea Pack is is is kind of trump
Ism incarnate. You know. What I found interesting was how
many kind of media folks were there. You know, you
were mentioned podcasting earlier, and you know, a lot of
the podcasts I listened to all have like a special
you know, episode from Seapack. Whether it's a panel or
(05:36):
some other type of discussion, whether it's Megan Kelly or
you know, the the Daily Wire guys, or or any
type of kind of media consumption. It's it's a very
media forward or you know conference. And yes, the speakers
were important, but I also think there was a piece
of you know, a continuation of the of the of
(05:56):
the right leaning media ecosphere really kind of honing in
on the mass of like, what's president from doing one
of the wins?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
How do they how do we keep them going?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So, if we were going to do the podcast world
in terms of royalty, Joe Rogan's King, Tucker Carlson is
probably duke, certainly, Megan Kelly is princess, and Dan Bongino
was Prince. Well Prince just left for the FBI. But
those are the significant voices that are out there. You know,
you brought Dally Wire not so much anymore. They kind
(06:27):
of peaked four years ago. They're not the new voices
in the crowd. But to the conversation we were having,
what do you how do you compare the Reagan Revolution
to the Tea Party movement to trump Ism, MAGA to
Republican Party conservativism. They are kind of five different things,
but they've kind of morphed into one, haven't they.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
That's an interesting That's an interesting point, Michael, and I
would say that you know what you're talking about. From
a aside from Rogan, which is just teased the universe
to himself, Bongino and Meghan and Tucker have all kind
of embraced trump Ism as a kind of a daily
kind of message perimeter, and so you know, a lot
of their content and a lot of their activity are
(07:10):
based around what Trump's saying, what he's doing, what his
team is. And obviously dong Gino had an FBI. It's
all very Trump media.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Focus, which is which is understandable because.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
He's the president and there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Given Megan Kelly, keep in mind Fox was never conservative.
They were never a conservative alternative to the bias media.
They were establishment Republican response to the mainstream far left media.
And Megan Kelly, could you have gotten off to a
more anti Trump start than her? If you go back
to the twenty sixteen debates, and I mean here comes
(07:45):
their their biggest names, Megan Kelly, Tucker, and Carlson, and
they are completely under the Trump bandwagon. Bong Gino always
has been. That's interesting. I mean, so you know, we
know the tea party. We know that for the older demo.
All right, so now we're talking about people my age
to forty they're still Reagan Revolutionaries. Then you've got a
(08:06):
mid you know, maybe thirty five to forty five. That's
your tea party, and then you have this new movement
of trump Ism. Well I got news for you. Trump
ism is in line with all three. Therefore, it didn't
absorb trump Ism. Trump Ism absorbed it. That's a significant statement.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, that's right, and I mean that that's really what's happened.
I mean, but I think that's also just in a
connection to winning. I mean, look at the election, and
look at the numbers that Trump brought in this this election,
I mean every state. I mean what I read something
this weekend. You know, Trump was closer to winning New
Jersey than Kamala was winning Florida. And you know that
(08:47):
just kind of shows you, you know, this kind of
the flip that has kind of happened. So yeah, I mean,
you know, conservative industry, conserv you know, we're probably a
party of all kind of shifted towards Trump because he's
the leader right now.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm the same thing.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Happened within the Bush years. I mean, and I know
that's kind of a ten year kind of moment, but
I mean, you know, let's not forget Congresses everything they
could try to pass PUSH's agenda in two thousand and
two thousand and one, and I mean some of that's
just kind of the natural kind of flow of a party.
But you know, this is much different because Trump's such
a cultural phenomenon, just not a political phenomenon, and so
(09:19):
you know, whether that's Sea Pack or whether that's you know,
kind of rank abile people who don't go to conferences
but are just kind of watching the news and seeing
what doge is and seeing what Elon Musk's sweeting got
on a daily day basis is really kind of moving
that that that you know, that direction right were, which
is a great thing for the country overall because the
results are happening from Trump's first month is really really
(09:40):
vital that all Republicans have been talking about for a
very long time, and as Trump it's getting it done.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Chris Walker is a Republican consultant analyst. He's also your
morning show contributor weekly. I bring this up because there's
two very important things to think about. On one side,
there is going to be an election, a mid term
in less than two years. A president dential election in
twenty twenty eight, which, by the way, the campaigning and
positioning will begin in less than two years, which is
(10:06):
crazy to think about it and of itself, we have
not had the two parties working together for the American
people probably since Bill Clinton, and boy has the Democrat
Party changed since then.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Working with Nute.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Gingrich, trump Ism is the first one to kind of
show there might be an ability for both parties to
work together as long as you're not crazy left. Kind
of like the governor of Wisconsin waking up this morning,
We're not going to call them mothers anymore. We're going
to call them inseminated people. But with the exception of
that far left that still hasn't figured out Wolke is dead,
(10:40):
there might be opportunities to work together. The other reverse
side of it is, we're going to have a presidential election.
We're going to come back to swing precincts of swing
districts in swing states, and once Trump is gone, if
this is trump Ism embodying Tea Party, Reagan Revolution, and
modern day conservativism, So what's lapped if it's jd Vance
(11:02):
most presumably, or DeSantis or Rubio heading into that twenty
twenty eight election, because you're right back to a tight
race again, tighter than people realize.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, one hundred percent, And you know you mentioned the midterms.
I think there's a really important piece to think about
on this because I think a big part of what
happened in twenty twenty four. With social media and Elon
buying Twitter in twenty twenty two, he didn't buy it
enough time to really make an impact on the midterms,
and so I think there was an you know, there
was a you know, that was a more normal midterm
(11:35):
in the sense of like, you know, Republicans not having
the red wave that people thought they would. But I
really do think that this midterm will be kind of
a watershed moment on the idea of like the old
media is basically dying and rushing to irrelevance. Social media's
kind of taken over that platform, and the red you know,
the rest is is kind of a conservative kind of
(11:57):
confluence of happening on social media. So I think that's
going to help help a lot of Republicans in the
way that people aren't thinking about for a midterm usually
because everyone thinks that the party in power gets wiped out.
I think this midterm will be a little bit different
because of social media and Elon. We'll see, time will tell. Well,
the Democrats still got to find be a title election
in every front.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, the Democrats still got to find a leader, and
they got to find a message and a pivot, and
they haven't yet. They're headed off a cliff. But they
don't have control of the narrative because the media is dead.
Nobody's reading newspapers, nobody's watching cable news. They don't have
any influence, not of any audience. I mean MSNBC fires
Joy Read, but MSNBC was down to forty five thousand
viewers during the day, sixty three thousand viewers in demo
(12:38):
during peak hours of night. As I mentioned, that's half
of what my local radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma was
in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I mean, these are unheard of numbers.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So they don't They can't control the narrative because they
don't have a media influence. They can't control social media
because they don't have X any longer. I mean, they
don't have a tactic or a strategy, a leader, or
a message. I mean they've got a lot of trouble.
Now they can overcome them, and they're going to have
a plan. I don't think they're ready to reveal it yet,
and I don't think James Carvell represents it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
But there's no question they're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's no question that the Republican Party is enjoying a
conservative renaissance by way of trump Ism, and that was
evident at Seapack. Any other highlights from Seapack worthy.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Of note, you know, it's just just a joy. I
mean everyone feels like there's a you know, kind of
movement towards you know, the world is healing. So I mean,
I think it's a big piece of it, for sure.
So it's the positive feelings coming out of and I
think are really good and something that people were talt about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So the state of the Republican Party or the state
of trump Ism, or maybe they're one and the same.
Is conservative in Kumbaya by way of Seapack?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Absolutely, absolutely not the same, but certainly aligned.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
For now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The has the party ever enjoyed such conservative affirmation? Is
this higher than or roughly as it was during Ronald Reagan? Well,
I loved both, and I can't answer that.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Question no, but I would say, I mean in my
local experience, know, because I think most conservatives have been
looked at with derision from kind of estaushed Republicans. Now
conservatives and the Maga crew are the established Republicans, and
that's a big difference for kind of where you know,
where the we talked about the Overton window a couple
of weeks ago. There's a big difference where that's kind
(14:31):
of happening now.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I love our visits with Chris Walker. It's your Morning
Show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Ukraine's president Zelenski says he's willing to resign if that
would mean peace for his country.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
The Ukrainian president made the offer at a news conference Sunday, saying, quote,
if it is peace for Ukraine and you really want
me to leave my post, I'm ready. Zelenski also said
he would also trade his position for immediate Natal membership
if it means the safety of his country this fall
those public disputes with President Trump last week, after Trump
implied Zelensky was responsible for Ukraine's war with Russia and
(15:07):
called the Ukrainian leader a dictator, Zelenski also insisted that
he does not intend to stay in power for decades.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The Pope remains in critical condition, with blood tests showing
mild signs of kidney failure.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Vatican officials say he is still getting supplemental oxygen to
help him breathe as he fights double pneumonia, and there
has been no new respiratory crisis. However, the eighty eight
year old did have some mild kidney failure, which the
Vatican says is under control, and.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The Yankees are going to allow facial hair.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
The team is parting with tradition and will now allow
players to have well groomed beards starting the season. The
Yankees have bar players from having facial hair other than
a mustache since the nineteen seventies. Managing general partner hal
Steinbranner said the decision was made after speaking with former
and current players. He added, quote, it's the appropriate time
(15:59):
to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.
While some other major North American sports teams have policies
regarding dress or appearance, the Yankees beer policy was among
the strict and the most well known.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'm Lisa Carton. I'm a traditionalist. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
This is Andy Hickson, formerly of Nashville, now living in Detroit, Michigan.
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Hey, it's me Michael.
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the your Morning Show table. In sports, Grizzfeld to the Calves.
Pistons won over the Hawks, Thunder up the Wolves, Warriors
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Lightning beat the krack in four to one, Caps Big
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The Devils five to nothing. And that's sports.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's been about exactly three years to the day that
Russia invaded Ukraine. Where do things stand and where are
the piece talks between Trump and Putin and ultimately one
of our top stories today Zelinsky making the announcement that
he would step down if that would bring peace to
his country or a place at the UN table. Roy
O'Neil is our national correspondent with the very latest on
(17:59):
Ukraine three years later.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good morning, Rory Michael, Good morning, Where to begin? Where
are we well?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I think both sides are ready for this to be over.
It's finding the exit strategy and the settlement for the
terms right right.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
We saw a lot of the European leaders and the
Prime Minister of Canada make the trip to Ukraine today
on this third anniversary of Russia's invasion to show their
support and look, they're also going to have an emergency meeting,
I think on March sixth to try to figure out
what's next for Europe because the US position right now
is a bit in flux, I guess is the best
(18:41):
way to describe it, and they're not exactly sure what
role European forces may play in any long term piece deal,
whether or not they'll have to have boots on the
ground in Ukraine maintaining some sort of a border.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
So this is where you know, you don't want things
to turn political, but in the conversation, here's kind of
where things are suspended in mid air. Method to the
Trump madness. I found it very strange last week, all
this Sunden's talking about Zilinsky being a below average comedian
and the cause of the war started giving him the
Jeb Bush treatment, and I thought, well, obviously, Donald Trump
(19:18):
seems to be most moved by the eighteen nineteen twenty
year old men who are dying in this war. On
both sides, he sees the future for the war to
be over and peace in Ukraine. He doesn't necessarily see
a place for Zelensky to be involved in that. Well,
now you have Zelensky saying, oh, I'll step down if
that means peace for my country or a place on
(19:39):
the UN.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, that's the trick, right, Donald Trump's got with NATO.
What did I say, you went with NATO?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But that's the trick, right, because they're not going to
get a place with NATO, and he still needs to
step down and that could lead to peace, but that
always remains to be seen. And then the European leaders
are wondering what they're going to inherit once this is over, well, right.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
And Secretary Heigs already said that they're not going to
go back to the twenty fourteen borders. So at some
point is Putin being rewarded for this bad behavior?
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And then what's next?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
And that's got Poland worried and Estonio worried saying, gosh,
are we going to be victims to the same thing
where Putin essentially gets what he wants? Because even President
Trump's envoy to the Middle East, who was on one
of the Sunday shows I think CNN was asked, well,
what's Russia giving up in all this? And we really
he didn't have an answer for it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, one of the answers might be the continuing of
the fight, giving up the aspiration of having all of
Ukraine or more beyond Ukraine, that would be. But the
point I was going to make is that's really all
that's left now. Rory is political, right.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
I suppose, So, I mean strategically though, whether or not
you you know, I mean, at this point it's about
drawing new boundaries, and do you reward Putin letting him
get take this land? And then the broader question the
eggheads will say, well, is this a message to China.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Then about what it can do with Taiwan?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Is there progress? Yeah, because on the third anniversary of
the start of this war. I don't think there's anybody
that believes this war is going to still be going
on a month from now. That's progress, I guess. But
the terms are everything. They mean a lot for the future,
I get it.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
And then and the mineral rights and whether or not
the US then provides protection in exchange for part of
this mineral rights deal that's still hanging overhead, which they
say there could be some sort of an agreement this week,
but Ukraine wants some guarantee, saying all right, if we're
going to give you half our minerals, then you've got
to provide protection to us.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And is that the X factor here? Final thirty seconds.
Things don't look good for the pope, first of all,
eighty eight years old to be bed ridden for this
long not good, suffering double demonia already with the compromise,
lung that's not good. Now the blood work is showing
some kidney failure. This is not going in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
No, thankfully they said that.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The I guess asthma attack that he had on Saturday
that put him in critical condition. Officially, they say they
haven't seen a repeat of that, so that's encouraging. But
we heard Cardinal Dolan this week saying that perhaps the
Pope is close to death.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
This is a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Roy O'Neil has always great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow,
all and everybody, look alone.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I just got after the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Sure perhaps you'd like to be alone with a deteriorating
mental condition.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Politics, I don't know us.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Uh, yeah, I gotta love all right, Today Sounds of
the Day could be tomorrow Sounds the Day open.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Remember that? All right? So last week we talked about
what Stephen A. Smith up to.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Here's a respected sports commentator, all of a sudden gets
caught up in the political narratives and of a presidential
cycle and then just stays there and he's become the
Democrat Party's number one critic. Somewhat explainable in that if
(23:14):
the Democrats, and I don't even know if they've done
a post mortem yet on the election, Honestly, did Kamala lose,
did the disrespect of its voters in a primary process
by switching from Joe to Kamala without giving them a say,
just like you switched from Bernie to Joe in twenty
twenty without them having a say, Just like you switched
from Bernie to Hillary in twenty sixteen without them having
(23:35):
a say. Do they have platform issues? Do they have
leadership issues? Message issues? The answer is all of the above.
In the end, they lost the youth vote and they
may have lost them for a generation. They've lost the
Hispanic vote and they definitely lost them for a generation.
And then they lost a lot of black mail votes.
And that's where Stephen A. Smith comes in, and he's
(23:56):
been very critical to Democrat Party. Now bring on James
carve Well from a long, long time ago. This is
the Clinton strategist of the establishment of the Democrat Party
that I'm not even sure exists anymore. And they're certainly
in a civil war with the far left of their party.
And you got James carvel saying this guy already just
stick to sports, for which I have a lot of respect,
(24:20):
and then the showing you how we use adjative.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Down in Louisiana. Well, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Smith responded, and when we were having the conversation last week.
The conversation was, is Stephen A Smith setting himself up
for a run for office or is he setting up
the governor of Maryland wes Moore? Is he the John
the Baptist to West Moore? Well, guess what, Ah Carvell
(24:52):
was wrong? Nose try Dell Jarno was right and he
made it crystal clear.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Listen, so respectfully, let me state this again for everybody
to listen. My life is pretty damn good. I have
no desire to be a politician. I wouldn't want to
contaminate and sully my life by entrenching myself in that.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Cesspool in the nation's capital. I'm very very clear about that.
And the pay would be significantly less.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Let me add that too, at least for the eight
years I'm in office, because I damn sure if I
win the first election, I ain't losing a second.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
All Right, that's grant you, dripping with the ego, dripping
with hubris. But here comes the answer. So understand, I
have no desire for it. What I said was, it's
an absolute embarrassment that I.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Am the person that's being mentioned and named. It's a
disgrace to this democratic party. It shows you have no
bullpen and I know that's what got your your intendas
as you brought up how I have a relationship with
Wes Moore and Josh Shapiro. Josh Shapiro I met him
one time in my life. I talked to him one
time in my life, and hey, I think he's a
(26:08):
fabulous governor for the state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And I think he knows his stuff. And Josh Shapiro
met him once. Good guy, doing a great job. So
so far, it's not about Steven A. Smith running for office.
It's certainly not about supporting Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
What does that leave.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
I wanted to have met him, and I'm looking forward
to cultivating a relationship with him.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
West Moore is a different animal. I love this brother.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
I know him through sports because he and I talk
about the Ravens all the time. I think he's doing
a damn good job with the state of Maryland, and
if there is a Democratic nominee to look at, it
is definitely him. I think Wes Moore is an absolute winner.
I'm not apologizing for that to anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
All right, So I was right, it's about Wes Moore. Look,
I remember watching the Democrat convention for the re election
of Bill Clinton, and some young guy got up and
started talking, and I looked at my wife and I said,
that guy's going to be a president.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Of the United States. And who defunk it after nine
to eleven with the name Barack Hussein Obama. He was
Wes Moore is going to be president of the United States.
The question is when Stephen A. Smith is casting his
vote for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Meanwhile, we had Joe Rogan giving us the Native American
analogy of the best way to get the most buffalo. Sure,
you can circle and get a couple of them, bring
him back and you're a hero for a barbecue once.
Or you can chase the whole herd right off a
cliff and you're eating all winter. And Joe Rogan said,
the Democrats are like buffalo, They're going to go right
(27:47):
off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Ah, that's Joe Rogan.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
But here is a former Clinton polster, a Democrats strategist,
saying the Democrats are falling off the cliff as we speak.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
Well, I've got some new polem come out Monday that
I've just looked at. And frankly, the Democratic Party is
falling off a cliff. The ratings, which were in the
high forties are going to be like thirty five percent.
And I think the basic question who's doing better job
as president Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with
fifty seven percent. I think you're seeing a retrospective assessment
(28:22):
of Biden and the direction the Democratic Party was going
really a lot more negative than it was on election day.
And they're looking at the contrast on immigration, on economic policy,
on some of the social policies, and boy, they're reevaluating
in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have never seen anything like this.
Speaker 12 (28:41):
This is a record low for the Democratic Party in
terms of favorability.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Mark Penn saying the present isn't too rosie and the
future most uncertain for Democrats. And our polls of plenty
fifty three percent approve of what Donald Trump's doing with DEI,
only forty two percent disapprove. Fifty seven percent to forty
three percent think he's doing a better job than Joe
Biden is approval rates at fifty two percent, that's the
new seventy. By the way, media trust down to twenty
(29:08):
nine percent. Twenty six percent have no trust or confidence
in the media at all. And we talked about joy
Red getting canceled. They were down to forty six thousand
viewers on MSNBC. How do you even call that a network?
My gosh, if they had one thousand viewers, for how
big their egos are, none of it makes any sense.
(29:33):
So television news is dead, Cable news is dead, has
no audience, has no advertisers, has no influence. Everything's gone
to podcasting in digital and I'm not even sure what
the state of radio is anymore, a once last bastion
of truth, once a part of the solution in some cases,
a part of the problem. Now and look out, here
(29:54):
comes one of your top ten podcasts and one of
your top ten national shows, Dan Bongino, leaving to be.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Deputy director of the FBI.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But the Democrat Party's never been lower, Still doesn't have
a message, Still doesn't They could get one by midterm,
they could certainly get one by twenty twenty eight, and
they might have it Wes Moore. But right now they
are leaderless, messages, messageless, and headed off a cliff, and
they've never been lower in polling numbers. Now, one thing
(30:26):
we can agree on, laying low playing possum, working with
the Republicans, you know, moving on to slight differences that
could be a legitimate strategy. The dumbest thing you could
be doing is what the Democrat governor of Wisconsin, Tony
Evans is doing. Changing mother to inseminated person in state law.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Go more woke, or.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Drawing a line a line in the sand to have
men competing against women. And boy, didn't lead to our
best sound of the day, the President in the White
House confronting the main governor right to her face.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good,
but I understand Maine is the main here, the governor
of man.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Are you not going to comply with it? Well, we
are the federal law. Well you better do it.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
You better do it because you're not going to get
any federal funding at all of you don't. And by
the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal orlthough
I did very well there, your population doesn't want men
playing in women's sports. So you better you better comply
because otherwise you're not getting any any federal funding. Every state. Good,
I'll see you and could I look forward to that.
(31:43):
That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your
life after governor. Because I don't think you'll be an
elected politics.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We aboucher early man aubility to speak.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Che that the day for this Monday, the twenty fourth
of February, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Chrono. If
you're just waking up.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Ukraine's President, Vladimir Zelensky says he's willing to resign in
exchange for peace or NATO membership. The pope remains in
critical condition. Blood tests now showing mild signs of kidney
failure to go along with double pneumonia and other issues.
He's been hospitalized for over a week. The condition is
considered guarded very grave. A former army chief, well, of
(32:43):
course he would say this. Former army chief says President
Trump's firing up the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff is tremendously destabilizing to the US military. Dan Bongino
is leaving his talk show National with Cumulus, his podcast
very successful in the top ten to become the new
Deputy Director of the FBI. Now you got Josh Pattel
(33:05):
and Dan Bongino. When you look through the little people
on your dour I wonder what they got on us.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
All, well, here comes the Bongino Paatel team and.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
The uh.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The SAG Awards were last night and it's just pathetic.
I mean, only Hollywood is celebrating Hollywood. Nobody really cares
about these people anymore. They've so alienated themselves. And they
give the Lifetime Achievement to Jane Fonda and she said,
so much plastic surgery. She looked like the award she received,
and then went on a liberal rant. It was just
but I guess Showgun was the big TV winner. And
(33:39):
when it came to movies, and I don't know if
there's a precursor to the Oscars because I don't care,
But the big winner was I'm blank on the name
of it now conclict. All right, one last caller, if
we can get it in real quick.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Steven Dover. Yeah, Stephen A.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Smith is a total and complete more on his ghetto
speech pattern and everything about him just screams, I'm a
sports announcer and that he should just stick to that.
He may be right about the Democrat Party because they
are trash also, but he's basically the epitome of a
moronic Democrat.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, this moronic Democrat, as you and James Carvil call him,
pretty much sees the Democrat Party for the dire straits
that's in. He pretty much sees its only future in
wes Moore. Doesn't seem too stupid. I will say this,
If that party is so disrespected by him, why is
it not an option to leave that party? Why is
it a desire to try to fix it? I don't
(34:40):
get that, but I'm not a Democrat or a Republican.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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