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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I got a lot of heavy lifting, a
lot of hard work today to day. So I'm going
to lean on my good friend Kyle Wilson to do
some of this for me. I saw this yesterday and
I just share. I go, well, should be an interesting
day tomorrow. And here we are, Kyle, welcome, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I want to talk about those things in the news nashally,
but also shift our focus if we can the Michigan
as well, where Gratching Whitmer's out there giving herself a
grade that I certainly wouldn't agree with for her term
in office. She's also wearing in on data centers, which
is a big story that we ought to make sure
we get to as well, and some of the other
(00:38):
big news and headlines happening throughout the state. All right,
so let me start what's happening with the podcast wars
and President Trump. It does seem to be one of
these scenarios where we see fractioning happening within some of
the folks who previously voted or say very vocal they
voted for President Trump. Maybe they have questions about things
(00:58):
that they've seen, or maybe they're watching some of these
podcasts just streamers. And I gotta tell you, I mean,
I'm just as perplexed. Not necessarily is his message. I'm
actually I'm surprised it took this long for this type
of message to come out. I think that shows a
lot of restraint, unfortunately, frustration with with with folks who
(01:22):
were still very close at one point. Marjorie Trader Brown
as he calls her now and and and the low
i Q Tucker car These these are people who were
very close to him at one point. It seems like,
but boy, they have really gone off the deep end,
and in a big way.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Right Well. I saw I saw that APAC congratulated the
person who won Marjorie Taylor Green's old seat earlier this week,
and I just thought to myself, I mean, she she's
got to be screaming into her pillow about the fact
that someone who apparently, I guess was supported by APAK
won her seat. But the I mean, one of the
(02:03):
problems with this business is the podcast business is that
you've got to do things to get attention because the
podcast market is oversaturated. There's too many people, and so
people have to get more and more outrageous in order
to get attention, which means downloads, which means money. And
(02:26):
so whether it's Megan Kelly or whoever it is, they've
got to do things in it. And so some people,
I guess, are calculating that it's now it's in fashion
to attack President Trump. What's strange to me is if
you look at the polling, the vast, vast majority of
Republicans support him, and so the media likes to sort
(02:50):
of play up, oh, there's this division, and you've got
you know, these people who have big platforms are attacking him,
and there's this massive divide. But you look at the
pole and President Trump has anywhere from high eighties to
low nineties approval rating in the Republican Party. Republicans overwhelmingly
Trump supporters overwhelmingly supported what he did in Iran. So
(03:16):
a lot of this, I think is sort of stoked by,
you know, whether it's Bulwark or CNN or you know,
these sort of haters, these you know, never Trumpers, they're
they're just trying to stoke this division. I think what
is not being talked about enough is what we're seeing
play out in Michigan, specifically in the Senate, the Democrat
(03:39):
Senate primary race, where and you've got Alyssa Slockin, who
is who was in Ohio last night, She's in Iowa,
she's in Idaho. There is a major fracture in the
Democrat Party over Israel, over Gaza, over people like Hassan Piker,
and so they're trying to play up this this apparent
(04:03):
division on the on the right, but it's really playing
out in real time on the left.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, that is interesting because a lot of the fireworks
are happening on the right right now in and I
at in public then Democrats do their knifing behind closed tours.
It seems like you done, but it is a real thing.
There's there's division happening there too. But the question and
i'll and i'll and i'll put this is because this
(04:28):
is the most important thing. What about the midterms? How
does any of this help or well in the midterms.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's a that's a very valid point because the Democrats
have made it very clear if they win the majority,
they're going to impeach and then there will be a
trial in the Senate and you know the whole process.
They have their their campaigning on that, and so you
would think the talker Carlson's in the Marjorie Taylor, Greens
(04:58):
and the candae Owens and all of those people. They
would be focusing their energy on Democrats and what Democrats
stand for, and people like Hassan Piker and Abdul el
Said and all of these people that are radically different
than what they think. But yet they want to have this.
(05:19):
You know, I don't know if it's a purity war.
I don't know what their ultimate objective is, but they
would rather fight on the inside instead of fighting the left.
And I think people should look at where are people
really spending their energy. Is it to defeat Democrats or
is it to defeat our own side? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Hey, speaking of the places we should be spending our energy,
how about Gretchen Witmer. She's on her way out. There's
a big race obviously for the next governor here in
twenty twenty six in Michigan. It's twenty twenty six is
going to be just as big, if not bigger, as
twenty twenty four was for the nation. In the state
of Michigan, you get to choose the governor, You get
(06:00):
to choose the attorney general, the Secretary of State, the
individual that will represent the state as the next senator.
From the city and there, and there's you know, Supreme Court, right,
so many other pieces. But it is, it is, it is.
I can be more clear about this. It is critical
that we make sure that we we because this is
going to determine the direction of this day. Do you
(06:21):
like we've gone nearly the last, like I said, near
the last decade under the Democrat reign and control the
Wolverine Queen and the rest of them, or do you
think it's time for a change. Gretchen Whitmer she loves
the work. She's done. Fact story at the Midwestern this morning.
She's gathered herself a grade that I would disagree with. Kyle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, she she gave. She made an appearance earlier this
week and she was asked, what grade, what grade would
you give yourself for making Michigan a place to live,
work and play? And she said, I would give myself
an A. Unbelievable And I thought to myself, well, first
of all, I mean I think most relatively humble people
(07:02):
would say, oh, there's you know, there's things that we
could have done. And I treve myself a B plus sure,
But she gives herself an A. But what we do
with the midwesterner is you know, we'd like to look
at the facts, in the statistics, in the reality of
the situation, and Michigan has gone down, whether it's per
(07:22):
capita income, whether it's reading rates, whether it's affordability in Michigan,
and it's all because of her policies.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
She says, she gives herself an a for making Michigan
a place where people want to live, but they're leaving
in the drugs. I mean, they continue to lose population
here year after year because of all of the things
that she's done and the results that she's delivered. Unfortunately,
as you mentioned, it is a very expensive place to live,
(07:55):
and unfortunately we're not really getting much for it. We're
not getting the roads fixed, we're not getting education, we're
not getting those things that she has any control over.
And unfortunately we're losing a lot of talent. Young people
don't want to stay here. You know that with with
with young kids that you know are going to be
up to a point where they decide where they go
to school, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And it's so bad that even you take Bridge, which
is I think Bridge does some good work. They had
an excellent story about the whole Munday township situation and
what a boondoggle that has been. But Bridges, you know,
generally I would I would argue is left of center.
And they published a story looking at her corporate welfare
(08:41):
schemes and looked at the jobs that were promised and
the money that was doled out in corporate welfare versus
the reality, and they concluded that it was costing eight
hundred thousand dollars per job. Eight hundred thousand dollars in
taxpayer money was given to create these jobs. And so
(09:05):
these corporate welfare schemes that she's come up with, they're
great for ribbon cuttings, they're great for press releases that
a lot of the Michigan media just regurgitates. But then
when you actually follow up and you look at the results,
they're pathetic. And then she has the goal to go
out and say she's made Michigan a better place to live.
(09:25):
And you mentioned the population. Her own administration admits and
they claim that this is a positive thing, that the
only reason Michigan's population has grown is because of migrant
inbound migrants, international migrants. Otherwise Michigan would be would be shrinking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, you know, you know, what's interesting is we watch
these these stories play out and I think people are
saying through it now more than ever. But you just
get straight propaganda, talking points, lies from the left. A
lot of times media will repeat that. That's why it's
important to have an alternative source actually digging into these stories.
(10:11):
The Midwestern or the Midwesterner Dot News. I'm direct you.
We don't have a lot of time here, but just
the quick sixty seconds maybe Kyle about the data centers,
This is a story I know you've been following, will
continue to follow us. It as big story for twenty
twenty six. But she says Michigan needs the data centers,
and her reasoning is really strange. Again the story at
the Midwesterner Dot News.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, she makes this argument basically, it's like an active
charity that we Michigan needs to is Michigan needs to
take the lead on these because we know best how
to protect consumer rights, rate payers rights, property rights, and
therefore we need to do them. Well, well, I mean,
first of all, you don't think other states are going
(10:52):
to do that, But secondly, it just the audacity of
all of this. So we were scheduled Monday, and there's
going to be a hearing. I'm trying to remember the township,
but south of Grand Rapids, where they're trying to put
a massive data center, we're going to be scheduling or
we're going to be live streaming that because this fight
(11:14):
is playing out across communities and a lot of rural
communities across the state, and so we're going to continue
to cover this because Gretchen Whitmer is doing the opposite
in terms of protecting rate payers and protecting property rights
and local control. She's doing the opposite of all of that,
and we're trying to educate people about that.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Kyle, Also, the Midwestern and Midwestern News, make sure you
not just book markt do that for sure, but then
also while you're at it, make sure you sign up,
get the email updates, and you can stay up to
date and actually watch as they livestream those events. Kyle,
always a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here
with us today, and always thank you. You got it.
All right, I got a lot of heavy lifting, a
lot of hard work today to day. So I'm going
to lean on my good friend Kyle Wilson to do
some of this for me. I saw this yesterday and
I just share. I go, well, should be an interesting
day tomorrow. And here we are, Kyle, welcome, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I want to talk about those things in the news nashally,
but also shift our focus if we can the Michigan
as well, where Gratching Whitmer's out there giving herself a
grade that I certainly wouldn't agree with for her term
in office. She's also wearing in on data centers, which
is a big story that we ought to make sure
we get to as well, and some of the other
(00:38):
big news and headlines happening throughout the state. All right,
so let me start what's happening with the podcast wars
and President Trump. It does seem to be one of
these scenarios where we see fractioning happening within some of
the folks who previously voted or say very vocal they
voted for President Trump. Maybe they have questions about things
(00:58):
that they've seen, or maybe they're watching some of these
podcasts just streamers. And I gotta tell you, I mean,
I'm just as perplexed. Not necessarily is his message. I'm
actually I'm surprised it took this long for this type
of message to come out. I think that shows a
lot of restraint, unfortunately, frustration with with with folks who
(01:22):
were still very close at one point. Marjorie Trader Brown
as he calls her now and and and the low
i Q Tucker car These these are people who were
very close to him at one point. It seems like,
but boy, they have really gone off the deep end,
and in a big way.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Right Well. I saw I saw that APAC congratulated the
person who won Marjorie Taylor Green's old seat earlier this week,
and I just thought to myself, I mean, she she's
got to be screaming into her pillow about the fact
that someone who apparently, I guess was supported by APAK
won her seat. But the I mean, one of the
(02:03):
problems with this business is the podcast business is that
you've got to do things to get attention because the
podcast market is oversaturated. There's too many people, and so
people have to get more and more outrageous in order
to get attention, which means downloads, which means money. And
(02:26):
so whether it's Megan Kelly or whoever it is, they've
got to do things in it. And so some people,
I guess, are calculating that it's now it's in fashion
to attack President Trump. What's strange to me is if
you look at the polling, the vast, vast majority of
Republicans support him, and so the media likes to sort
(02:50):
of play up, oh, there's this division, and you've got
you know, these people who have big platforms are attacking him,
and there's this massive divide. But you look at the
pole and President Trump has anywhere from high eighties to
low nineties approval rating in the Republican Party. Republicans overwhelmingly
Trump supporters overwhelmingly supported what he did in Iran. So
(03:16):
a lot of this, I think is sort of stoked by,
you know, whether it's Bulwark or CNN or you know,
these sort of haters, these you know, never Trumpers, they're
they're just trying to stoke this division. I think what
is not being talked about enough is what we're seeing
play out in Michigan, specifically in the Senate, the Democrat
(03:39):
Senate primary race, where and you've got Alyssa Slockin, who
is who was in Ohio last night, She's in Iowa,
she's in Idaho. There is a major fracture in the
Democrat Party over Israel, over Gaza, over people like Hassan Piker,
and so they're trying to play up this this apparent
(04:03):
division on the on the right, but it's really playing
out in real time on the left.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, that is interesting because a lot of the fireworks
are happening on the right right now in and I
at in public then Democrats do their knifing behind closed tours.
It seems like you done, but it is a real thing.
There's there's division happening there too. But the question and
i'll and i'll and i'll put this is because this
(04:28):
is the most important thing. What about the midterms? How
does any of this help or well in the midterms.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's a that's a very valid point because the Democrats
have made it very clear if they win the majority,
they're going to impeach and then there will be a
trial in the Senate and you know the whole process.
They have their their campaigning on that, and so you
would think the talker Carlson's in the Marjorie Taylor, Greens
(04:58):
and the candae Owens and all of those people. They
would be focusing their energy on Democrats and what Democrats
stand for, and people like Hassan Piker and Abdul el
Said and all of these people that are radically different
than what they think. But yet they want to have this.
(05:19):
You know, I don't know if it's a purity war.
I don't know what their ultimate objective is, but they
would rather fight on the inside instead of fighting the left.
And I think people should look at where are people
really spending their energy. Is it to defeat Democrats or
is it to defeat our own side? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Hey, speaking of the places we should be spending our energy,
how about Gretchen Witmer. She's on her way out. There's
a big race obviously for the next governor here in
twenty twenty six in Michigan. It's twenty twenty six is
going to be just as big, if not bigger, as
twenty twenty four was for the nation. In the state
of Michigan, you get to choose the governor, You get
(06:00):
to choose the attorney general, the Secretary of State, the
individual that will represent the state as the next senator.
From the city and there, and there's you know, Supreme Court, right,
so many other pieces. But it is, it is, it is.
I can be more clear about this. It is critical
that we make sure that we we because this is
going to determine the direction of this day. Do you
(06:21):
like we've gone nearly the last, like I said, near
the last decade under the Democrat reign and control the
Wolverine Queen and the rest of them, or do you
think it's time for a change. Gretchen Whitmer she loves
the work. She's done. Fact story at the Midwestern this morning.
She's gathered herself a grade that I would disagree with. Kyle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, she she gave. She made an appearance earlier this
week and she was asked, what grade, what grade would
you give yourself for making Michigan a place to live,
work and play? And she said, I would give myself
an A. Unbelievable And I thought to myself, well, first
of all, I mean I think most relatively humble people
(07:02):
would say, oh, there's you know, there's things that we
could have done. And I treve myself a B plus sure,
But she gives herself an A. But what we do
with the midwesterner is you know, we'd like to look
at the facts, in the statistics, in the reality of
the situation, and Michigan has gone down, whether it's per
(07:22):
capita income, whether it's reading rates, whether it's affordability in Michigan,
and it's all because of her policies.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
She says, she gives herself an a for making Michigan
a place where people want to live, but they're leaving
in the drugs. I mean, they continue to lose population
here year after year because of all of the things
that she's done and the results that she's delivered. Unfortunately,
as you mentioned, it is a very expensive place to live,
(07:55):
and unfortunately we're not really getting much for it. We're
not getting the roads fixed, we're not getting education, we're
not getting those things that she has any control over.
And unfortunately we're losing a lot of talent. Young people
don't want to stay here. You know that with with
with young kids that you know are going to be
up to a point where they decide where they go
to school, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And it's so bad that even you take Bridge, which
is I think Bridge does some good work. They had
an excellent story about the whole Munday township situation and
what a boondoggle that has been. But Bridges, you know,
generally I would I would argue is left of center.
And they published a story looking at her corporate welfare
(08:41):
schemes and looked at the jobs that were promised and
the money that was doled out in corporate welfare versus
the reality, and they concluded that it was costing eight
hundred thousand dollars per job. Eight hundred thousand dollars in
taxpayer money was given to create these jobs. And so
(09:05):
these corporate welfare schemes that she's come up with, they're
great for ribbon cuttings, they're great for press releases that
a lot of the Michigan media just regurgitates. But then
when you actually follow up and you look at the results,
they're pathetic. And then she has the goal to go
out and say she's made Michigan a better place to live.
(09:25):
And you mentioned the population. Her own administration admits and
they claim that this is a positive thing, that the
only reason Michigan's population has grown is because of migrant
inbound migrants, international migrants. Otherwise Michigan would be would be shrinking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, you know, you know, what's interesting is we watch
these these stories play out and I think people are
saying through it now more than ever. But you just
get straight propaganda, talking points, lies from the left. A
lot of times media will repeat that. That's why it's
important to have an alternative source actually digging into these stories.
(10:11):
The Midwestern or the Midwesterner Dot News. I'm direct you.
We don't have a lot of time here, but just
the quick sixty seconds maybe Kyle about the data centers,
This is a story I know you've been following, will
continue to follow us. It as big story for twenty
twenty six. But she says Michigan needs the data centers,
and her reasoning is really strange. Again the story at
the Midwesterner Dot News.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, she makes this argument basically, it's like an active
charity that we Michigan needs to is Michigan needs to
take the lead on these because we know best how
to protect consumer rights, rate payers rights, property rights, and
therefore we need to do them. Well, well, I mean,
first of all, you don't think other states are going
(10:52):
to do that, But secondly, it just the audacity of
all of this. So we were scheduled Monday, and there's
going to be a hearing. I'm trying to remember the township,
but south of Grand Rapids, where they're trying to put
a massive data center, we're going to be scheduling or
we're going to be live streaming that because this fight
(11:14):
is playing out across communities and a lot of rural
communities across the state, and so we're going to continue
to cover this because Gretchen Whitmer is doing the opposite
in terms of protecting rate payers and protecting property rights
and local control. She's doing the opposite of all of that,
and we're trying to educate people about that.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Kyle, Also, the Midwestern and Midwestern News, make sure you
not just book markt do that for sure, but then
also while you're at it, make sure you sign up,
get the email updates, and you can stay up to
date and actually watch as they livestream those events. Kyle,
always a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here
with us today, and always thank you. You got it.
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