West Michigan Live - LIVE FROM THE SWAMP DAY 3 4-24-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Buy from hyatad Monroe Center in downtown Grand Rapids. We're
talking about what matters most to you in West Michigan.
Joining a conversation now at six one six seven seven
four twenty four twenty four. At six one, six seven
seven four twenty four to twenty four, it's West Michigan
Live with Justin Barklay on Wood Radio and Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Back at it Live from Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
And the Swamp. It's Justin Barklay and man, I'm at
the past several days, we've really had some great conversations
with some fantastic folks. In fact, we're gonna be joined
by folks today that I think you're really going to
enjoy hearing from. Harrison Field is with us from the
White House Press Office, and of course we're going to

(00:45):
get into some conversations with our good friend James Dixon
down I seventy five over on Exit Twitter, and of
course the Enjoyer podcast. He's got, well the latest you
won't want to miss. Forget the swamp, how about our
own neck of the woods. We got enough of those
creatures at Lansing and beyond. We'll talk about what is

(01:07):
on the way, the stories of the day, and we're
all coming up right here on West Michione Live. So
strap in whether you're listening live or to the archive
of the iHeartRadio app of the podcast. We always appreciate
you being here. Let's welcome in our first guest of
the show.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Welcome in.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
It is West Michigan Live. Justin Markleay live from the
White House today and I left my blue folder at home.
Prince of the Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields is here
with us now. So that was an interesting moment with
our Governor Whitmer in the Oval office.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Wild.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
It was wild, but she also played clean up because
she had a speech in which she said she agrees
with the president's terror policies, which I think that's a
bigger news story than her covering her face in the
Oval office. She agrees with the President of the United
States and his trade policies, which no Democrat has been
brave enough to come out and say. The funny thing
about that is that she's singing the same tune that
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer did thirty years ago, before

(02:08):
I was even born. The Democrats supported the president's trade
policies in the nineteen nineties, in the nineteen eighties. Now
all of a sudden in twenty twenty five, because President
Trump and the Republican Party are supporting these things, they
don't want anything to do with it. They would rather
embolden China than stand up for workers in Cincinnati and Columbus.
It's absolutely bonkers that they would want to do this.

(02:28):
But this is the state of the Democratic Party. President
Trump is working for Main Street, not Wall Street. The
same Wall Street the Democratic Party wants.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Nothing to do with.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
They would rather have their friends with.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
White collars get rich while blue collars stayed poor. President
Trump doesn't want anything to do with that.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You know, we're just talking about auto workers for Trump.
Our good friend Brian Pannabecker and you mentioned the auto workers,
the industry, and to get the manufacturing back. Not only
do we want to see it, and it's coming already
coming back, deal after deal after deal. President has already
sort of headed towards again. Seventy plus countries coming together.

(03:05):
Country companies are actually talking about their investment, trillions of
dollars in investments coming in. We want to make sure
that lands in Michigan. How do we make sure that
happens to support at the state level everything. President Trump's
doing everything he can at the national level.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, this is why the President meets with these governors
because he understands that Michigan is a crucial place for
investment to pour back into. But it's also incumbent on
the states and the governors and state wide leadership to
have a business friendly environment. You're not seeing this investment
go to California wide. California is not a business friendly state.
This is why Tennessee, my home state of Florida, South Carolina,

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Louisiana is getting so much investment. If you're a high tax,
high regulation you're dealing with all this crazy Green New
Deal policies, Businesses aren't going to come to your state.
It's just not going to happen. This is why Governor
Whimer came here because she wants some of this stuff back.
And the one thing is President Trump made a commitment
to the UAW. This is why they didn't endorse. That

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was shook shockwaves throughout the political apparatus when they did
not endorse Kamala Harris.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
President Trump spoke.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
To these men and women and said, I will be
a fighter for you in the White House. Less than
one hundred days into this administration, he has a promise
made that was kept because he's standing up for the
UAW and making sure that we produce American cars the
likes of which we've never done before, and we're also
taking it to other countries. We're refusing to take our
good cars. We are making sure that the UAW and

(04:32):
auto workers are prioritized in the economy once again. The
Democrats allowed them to just fail and to go away,
and we're not doing that anymore.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, it's such a big, you know, piece of I
think the puzzle here. You know, we're talking about trade,
we're talking about tariffs, but really what we're talking about
is the economy overall in jobs, and we want to
see folks in Michigan want to be working again.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
They want to have those great chops. I'll tell you this.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
People don't talk talk about it a lot, but you know,
let's seeing those egg prices have come down and Harrison,
you know what's even bigger than that.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
And we talk about Wall Street all you want.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
You talk about what's happening in the stock market, but
I think I care most Americans care about what's happening
in the supermarket and I'll.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Tell you this, gas prices have come.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, I'm paying two eighty something, two seventy something
when we've been in the three thirties three when Biden
was in office. We thought we were going on at
five at different points. And it's just I mean, you're
talking about saving ten twenty dollars a tank every time
someone fills up.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's huge for the American This is why.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
There's such a disconnect between the American media and the
Democratic Party, the Republican Party and the American people. The
Democratic Party in the media don't understand. They have no
comprehension how the American people can give President Donald Trump
a fifty five percent approval rating when they're reporting doom
and gloom and lies. The reason why is because you
touched on it when they go to the gas station,
when they go to the grocery store, and their prices

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are much lower forty fifty sixty cents lower at the
gas tank than it was not like two years ago,
six months ago, a direct switch in prices due to
the actions of the administration that's giving them the higher
approval of the president. They're not listening to all these
fake stories about what the tariff war is doing with
this that the other thing is doing. They are talking

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about what is personally impacting them, and that's prices. They
know the border is secure. They see the President talking
to BBN net and Yahoo and trying to end the
war in the Middle East. Had Zelenski here standing up
for America, trying to end that war. They see those
things that are directly impacting them, and they're not listening
to the Democratic Party or the media.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, it's so funny because it's every single layer and level.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
And here in a media row where we're seated.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
With lots of different folks from different radio stations and
different media outlets.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know, we've got folks coming in. You guys have
opened the doors.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
For us, and it's an amazing transparency to see that
it's a different a new sheriff in town. It's a
new era. We're watching that unfold for us. This is
just the first one hundred days. What's coming in the
days ahead, Well.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We still have an historic tax cut agreement through the
Reconciliation Bill, where you're going to see no tax on tips,
overtime social security. You're going to see lower taxes not
just for individuals, but also for corporations. You're going to
see continued deregulation, continue unleashing of American energy. You're more
than likely to see peace deals in the Middle East
and in Eastern Europe. You're going to see the continued

(07:31):
deportation of illegal immigrants. You're going to see massive investment
pouring into the country. You're probably going to see some
advancements when it comes to space, and then we'll see
what the rest of we can do. But like there's
so much we've done in less than one hundred days now,
it's just to solidify it. Four years is really not
a long time when you look at it. We have
to make sure that whatever we do in the last

(07:52):
Trump administration, maybe who knows, maybe there'll be more, that
it stays, that it's lasting, that the cuts that doing,
the efficiency that doses bringing to the favor government lasts
for generations. So we're just getting started. It's all gas,
no brakes, and we are doing what the American people
elected us to do.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
There should be no surprises.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
And I was watching Morning Joe the other day, and
to Mika's credit, she said, listen, you can't say he
didn't say he wasn't going to do everything he's doing.
And I said, you know, Mika, even a broken clock
is right twice a day.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Didn't that something?

Speaker 6 (08:24):
You know?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And promises made, promises kept. I think that's why we
saw the way the American people came out.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
In numbers that they did.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
And I also remind people, you know, in Michigan, we're
looking ahead. I know we're talking one hundred days here
in the next hundred days, but we're looking ahead into
twenty twenty six. We got a chance to take our
state back. We've seen what happens when you get active.
It's not enough, though, just to be active.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And get out and vote.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
We got to do that, for sure, but we got
to make sure that we're staying focused and we're staying
active in a part of the conversation because as you mentioned,
you know, these things that are happening we see right
in front of our face, and media lies to us
every day about these.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, all politics is local, and I think you know,
the midterms reproved that we've got an off year election
in Virginia as well. The American people cannot just vote
for presidential elections. Everything that is impacting them on such
a personal level is done so by their school board,
done so by their mayor, done so by their local
state and House and senator, and also their governor. And

(09:28):
I know you guys got a big race coming up
next cycle, and you guys got an amazing candidate coming up.
But we have to be engaged on all levels. It's
not just President Trump. And President Trump understands that, which
is why he endorses so many people. We have to
really secure the Republican majority across the entire country, and
states like Michigan are crucial. I mean, we Michigan has

(09:50):
a chance to be greater than it is right now,
and that's going to take a Republican leadership in that
state once again. And I think you guys know what
you need. This is why he showed up in historic
levels for President and Trump. You completely shattered that blue wall.
There was no Kamala Harris if Michigan did not go
for President Trump. So we are glad that Michigan and

(10:10):
Wisconsin and just the amazing rust spelt performed the way
it did. But because they understand what they got with
President Trump, and it's pro America policies that are showing
proof right now.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, it's amazing to see it will continue to stay
up to date on this. But as you mentioned, twenty
six so important for Michigan, but also to make sure
that President Trump continues to have the support he needs
here to get the job done, no doubt about.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
It, and we need that.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Without the House, without the Senate, this administration looks very
very different. Versident Trump understands that, which is why he's
going to be very committed to making sure that we
secure the House and the Senate. But we've got a
lot of work to do, and luckily we have a
Speaker who's committed to seeing through the president's two year goals.
Also you have a leader Thoon that is very committed.
They're all on the same page to make sure that

(10:59):
we have this historic majority and do something with it.
But you're right, without the House and without the Senate,
it's going to be very, very difficult. And the Democrats
have already said what they're going to do if they
get back to the House. They were going to run
impeachment in quiry after impeachment in quiry.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
And it's going to be a mess.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
So we need to make sure we secure this trifecta.
President Trump's going to do everything possible to make sure
that the American people give us more an opportunity to
perform on our duties. I think they're very happy.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
They're thrilled what we've been able to do. Right now.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
If you look at the Democratic parties approval rating in
the House and in Congress in general, horrible, they're like
maybe at twenty percent approval rating, Democrats have nothing to
stand on. The Americans understand that the Republican Party is
doing everything that they just voted for a November fifth,
and we're going to move full steam ahead.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Harrison Fields with us in another big day in the
hundred days here of course leading up to it. We
appreciate you guys opening the doors wide open for us,
welcoming so many of us in here to have these conversations,
and thank you for the transparency.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Everything is different. I mean even the Easter egg role.
The other day, he saw that Easter Bunny.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
That Easter Bunny was beautiful. That was a beautiful Easter Bunny.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Not only that was he fantastic, tremendous and whatnot, But
I also, as President Trump kind of chuckle to people
about how what a difference it was last year. You know,
Biden had to be let around by.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
The Eastern it was crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
The Easter Bunny was not a chaperone for the President
of the United States this time around, which is a
big difference from last year. And it was beautiful. The
First Lady did an amazing job designing that. The White
House Historical Association, everyone that played a role in making
yesterday a logical moment in celebration of Easter. And we
did not proclaim Transvisibility Month. That also is no longer
a thing in this White House's kind.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
It's such a major difference. Hey, we're back. We're back America.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Harrison Fields is Principal Deputy Press Secretary and always a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Thank you for taking the time, guys, Thank you sir.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
We check in with our news coming up next bottom
of the hour. It's justin Barklay, West, Michigan Live and
we're live from the Swamp. Our good friend James Dixon
joins us coming up in just moments. He'll touch on
some of the things happening here back at home in
the state and more.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
You won't want to miss it.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Right after this, we're back next on Wood Radio. Welcome
in Live from the Swamp. From the Swamp, back home
to what really probably matters most in our backyard. Our
good friend James Dixon has joined us down I seventy
five over on X and of course with the Enjoyer podcast.

(13:33):
He's in his studio. I'm on the road. It literally
in the swamp, James. It's been a heck of a
week already. Man. We got lots going on and we
can talk about some of those things. They're just telling
you about some of the trip. Meeting RFK and ask
christin home about her purse yesterday, which was fantastic, and
I sat down with an interview for I'm not kidding you.

(13:54):
When she got up to leave, I said, wait a minute,
you got your purse, don't you used to make sure
we have had a great trip, and it's really it's
been fantastic. But we are we're you know, we got
a lot of things going on back home. It's like
a whirlwind. We've got lots of things happening and lancing
and I want to cover and talk about some of those.

(14:17):
We got some of the Oversight Committee stuff that's happening
right now. But you've got a peace out in the
New York Post. Congratulations. This is a fantastic story. In fact,
James says, you've been writing for the New York Places.
You wrote a lot for them back in the campaign
during the election. Yeah, but you've got a story out

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of Michigan that is to me. We hear about law fare,
we hear about the judges and the courts and how
they came after Trump. This is the way the swamp
fights back, and we're meeting them. It sounds like folks
on their level. So to bring us up to speed,
what's happening with this particular lawsuit and why is it
so significant that it landed a story in the New York.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Po Yeah, absolutely, So you know, July twenty twenty, just
two months after George Floyd dies, Gretchen Whitmer, in the
heat of the moment, passes this executive directive that says,
we have all these health disparities in Michigan, which she
actually uses COVID data to cite this, and basically says,

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because we have health disparities, it must be because people
in the medical fields are doing something wrong. And so
she puts into place what would become an implicit bias
training requirement. Okay, so Whitmer directs it. Then LAURA, which
handles occupational licensing, the Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Department. Then
they put this training requirement into place as a rule,

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and so now you have four hundred thousand people in
Michigan who if you want to get your medical license
of various types, it could be acupuncture, midwifery, physical therapy.
If you want to get licensed, you need to take
this training. And if you want to get your license renewed,
you need to take this training, which is premised on

(16:04):
the idea that you're racist, but for the training, except
for you being taught how not to be.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
And when you look at how the.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Democrats are operating during the Biden years, Debbie Dingle, one
of our congress women, slips it into one of Biden's bills,
Ignition Interlock, that you have to blow into a breath
a lot, you have to have a vehicle installed with
a breathalyzer, and that unless you blow negative, you can't drive.

(16:34):
So Democrats, whether it's national, whether it's local, have this
mentality that you are guilty until proven innocent. And you know,
implicit bias training is another example of that. We're not
saying people who've had a specific problem, you know, They're
not the only one sent to it. Everyone has to
take it every time. At absolute best, it's a racket.

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At absolute worst, it's indoctrination. And here's my problem, justin
if today they say you need to take this kind
of training to have a license, and ten years from now,
the people who don't like it leave and the people
who are fine with it stay. By twenty thirty five,
they could be saying you have to take implicit bias
training to get medical care.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, that's the thing that I think. We have slippery
slope conversations all the time. Folks talk about this stuff,
and I think for some it may seem a little
bit like, you know, chicken, little like this sky is falling,
But right, you know, don't we don't have to look
much further than what we've seen and recently, these are

(17:42):
really policies that have I think disastrous negative consequences, you know,
and there's really very little upside to it. By the way,
this crazy thing that you know you have implicit bias
based on who you are, how you were born, or
whatever that might be the color of your skin, I mean,

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isn't this it's reverse racism? It sounds like I.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Think it's just racism.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
And and it's funny though, so everyone has bias to
deal with because you know, that's why you need to
take the seminar. But then when you look at their
definition of racism, it says basically only certain types of
groups can be racist depending on relative power dynamics within
the group, which is a version of what we all
heard in college.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Right.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
Essentially, black people can't be racist because you don't have power,
as if things like power are not all environmental. There
could be power within a room, there could be power
within who gets to use the bench press in the gym,
there could be power. Power happens in multiple ways. It's
not just all resources and assets and things like that.

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And and to create this definition where only black people
could be exempt from the possibility of racism, when in fact,
we all know that the black within your heart exists
in every man. We all have the capabilities to do that,
and it's our job as men to overcome those things.
And so it takes something that we all wrestle with

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and turns it into an accusation and absolution doesn't God,
it could only come from taking my required training seminar, which,
by the way, that'll run you ninety nine bucks.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
So now we're on to the key here. Who is
providing this at the state? Is it the state providing it?
Have they contracted with another company to provide it? Who's
getting rich off of this?

Speaker 6 (19:40):
You can get some that that element that purport to
have free elements, But whether it's nine dollars, you know,
you can get them for as low as ten dollars.
You can get them for ninety nine dollars. I guess
whatever right off you choose to take.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
But this is absolutely a racket, and it's no different
than DEI trainings because basically we have a way to
enrich the consultant class of our movement by forcing you
into trainings with them. But here's my biggest concern, though, Justin,
is that this whole story revolves around this guy, this dentist,
Kern Wildern, this grand rapids dentist for forty years, who

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at age seventy one, would like to come back to
dentistry and service community, probably not for much money, probably
has more of a community service. The Kerrent Wilderns of
the world leave the field. Okay, So a guy like
Garrett Saldano ran for governor of twenty twenty two chiropractor,
big anti lockdown guy. He has to stay, and he

(20:41):
has to grit his teeth and do it because he's
only mid career.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
What about all the people who leave after twenty thirty
forty years who have another decade of working life in them,
but they don't want to take these requirements. What it's
ultimately going to do is it's going to turn the
field of medicine into something where only a liberal could
tolerate being in that field. Only a liberal would tolerate

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the trainings. And someone who doesn't want to do it
wouldn't go that route in the first place. And so
every time conservatives tell young men don't go to college,
that's bad advice. You know, we're learning now apparently the
US Supreme Court of the most powerful people on earth.
You think you're gonna get there not going to college.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
And so there's no easy path, there's no easy way,
there's no right way, there's no absolution that can be
given if you take a seminar. These are human struggles,
and when we try to pathologize them, what we try
to do is say there's this one group of enlightened
people who do things the right way and you all
need to learn to be like them. That's a bogus

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mentality from the beginning. We have to reject it.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
James Dixon is with us right now West Michigan. Lie
I've Wood Radio. He's down I seventy five over on
X in the Michigan Enjoyer podcast. I want to ask you, James.
One of the things that came up while I was here.
We had conversations over and over again about the economic policy,

(22:17):
the different prongs of what Trump is trying to do,
the plan to get America back on track. We've talked
to tariffs and the trillions of dollars that are coming
back here. We talked to manufacturing, what it takes to
make things in America again. Well, one of the things
that I brought up is one of the things we're
thinking about here in Michigan, which is, Hey, it's great
that things are going to be made in America again,
but what about Michigan.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
But what about Michigan.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
We're not left out right, and we've already been plans
announced in Indiana and Illinois and Louisiana and beyond. And yes,
the auto industry is big here, but we should be
making things, not just autos. But we should be making
everything here in Michigan. But right now, politicians like Whitmer

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and those Democratic policies have done anything but make things
easy to get things made here. In fact, they made
it a whole lot worse.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
That's exactly it.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
And when you think about something like right to work,
you know, we had that for a decade and then
they repealed it in twenty twenty three, and at the
time that was a terrible thing. But right now, with
the governor's race next year, I'm almost looking at it
as an opportunity. So what if, what if right to
work did find a champion, but not what we had

(23:32):
ten years.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
You know, no one cares about what we had.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Refighting an old battle is not something anyone's going to
sign up for, probably not even the Macanaw Center.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
But what if you.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Modernized it and said, we don't just need to free
you from the obligation to be a union member. We're
also going to free you from Oh, your company says
you have to get a job to keep your job.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
We're going to free you from that too.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
We're going to free you from government coercion too, that
says you have to get this certain ideological training to
keep your job, almost like a worker's bill of rights,
that kind of thing. Because we talk about freedom from
and that is important. We need the freedom from, we
need the freedom from this coercion that we've seen take

(24:17):
multiple forms one hundred years ago. Yes, people were losing
their lives over I want to work in this mine,
but I don't want to have a union card.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's not the threateningmore, it's not the only threat.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
There's these there's these other ways that they can coerce
action out of you and cost you your livelihood. And
that's what someone needs to grab onto. And so who's
going to modernize right to work? Who's going to take
that on as a champion and say, yes, let's free
you from a union, but let's also free you from jabs.
Let's also for you from these seminars. Let's also free

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you from the people and the forces that are trying
to push you out of the workforce.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Lots going on here, not only in the swamp, but
also back at home as well. And James, let me
ask you. I know you're focused on a lot of
these different issues. What else are you looking at? In
the days ahead, we got the article in the New
York Posts to encourage people to go read that. We'll
put that in the Link city. But what else are
you looking on and planning there?

Speaker 6 (25:15):
You know, we just had a podcast dropped today about
how the Democrats have become no party for white men.
Fun fact, the last time the Democrats had a white
man win the governor's race in Michigan was nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
It'll be forty years from now by the time twenty
twenty six rolls around. And so when you look at
our twenty first century history, you have eight years of
grand home, you have eight years of whitmer. When you
look at a Mike Duggan saying the Democrat Party left me,
what does he mean by that? By that, he means this,
He means white men and men in general are not

(25:54):
valued in that party anymore. And when you look at
our recent history, when you look at the twenty eighteen
pink wave, they don't think they need him, they don't
value him.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
And so that's why he had to leave. It's pink
that ran him off.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
You know. And and think about this, they don't want
to steal your thunder. But it's not just men, you know,
we've got McMorrow in a race here for for Senate,
and I guess Stevens is announced too. But you know
they've got they've got some tough and especially with is
it a duel else Enne Diane. That's right. I interviewed

(26:35):
him years ago when he ran for government the first
time round, and he's gonna out left them all. In
fact that he got Bernie's endorsement. So they've got trouble
and it's they're gonna.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Push each other so far left.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
It's like Belman, Louise, I love it right over the cliff.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
You're gonna go off the cliff together.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
What we need. I'm I'm actually excited about seeing that. Hey,
thank you for joining us because I think you know
this make it a lot easier. But you know, you
have great conversations having on the podcast every day. We
appreciate your you know, weighing in on Twitter as well.
And X down I seventy five the Enjoyer James from
the swamp to your studio back home and we'll be

(27:14):
back home very soon. I appreciate you taking the time
for being here with us today. Thank you so much,
my friend.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Enjoy yourself in DC.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Justin you got it back with more after this. It's
West Michigan Live on ONOD Radio.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
God bless, that's gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Lapping up things here live at the White House. Some
fantastic memories and great conversations we had with folks. Of course,
we got a chance to talk to and hear from
Secretary Doug Collins over the VA. We got a chance
to talk with and hear from folks all around, Linda

(27:49):
McMahon stopping by and just brief conversations off the record
with some of these folks.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
But RFK Junior.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Didn't even get a chance to share my story with
Bumping into RFK Junior on the first night in town
going to dinner and we went to the same place.
I was very happy to hear that not only am
I making America healthy again, but apparently I'm eating healthy,
so I'm making myself healthy again, down about thirty pounds.
He was excited to hear that I shared that picture.

(28:22):
By the way, if you haven't seen it yet, check
it out justin barklay dot com. And of course we
share that all over the social media. But we are
back tomorrow with a live show. It's a free for
all Friday Kyle Olsen will join us, and we've got
so much more to get into us.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
The week rolls on right here, make it a great one.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
The Glenn Beck Program, again live from DC, is up
next on Wood Radio.