June 27, 2025 • 37 mins
6/28/25 - The Iran Bombing Strikes Aftermath Is #1 This Week
Host Doug Stephan along with Michael Harrison, Editor/Publisher of Talkers Magazine, review the most talked about stories and people on news/talk radio for the week of June 23rd, 2025 through June 27th, 2025. Compiled by the research department at Talkers Magazine - The Bible of Talk Radio and the New Talk Media - www.talkers.com
STORIES
Host Doug Stephan along with Michael Harrison, Editor/Publisher of Talkers Magazine, review the most talked about stories and people on news/talk radio for the week of June 23rd, 2025 through June 27th, 2025. Compiled by the research department at Talkers Magazine - The Bible of Talk Radio and the New Talk Media - www.talkers.com
STORIES
- Iran Strikes Aftermath
- MAGA “Civil War”
- Trump at NATO
- Big, Beautiful Bill
- ICE Raids / SCOTUS Deportation Ruling
- Mamdani NYC Primary Victory
- Powell Testimony / Trump Fed Nomination
- SCOTUS Planned Parenthood Ruling
- ASIP RSV Recommendation
- Bezos-Sanchez Wedding
- Donald Trump
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Pete Hegseth
- Marjorie Taylor Greene / Rand Paul
- Tucker Carlson / Steven K. Bannon
- Mark Rutte
- Mike Johnson
- Zohran Mamdani / Andrew Cuomo
- Jerome Powell
- Jeff Bezos / Lauren Sanchez
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Speaker 4 (01:13):
All across America, talk radio at the voices of freedom.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Don't stop talk, and so that brings us to the
point of delivery. Here on the Talk Radio Countdown Show,
I'm Doug Stefan with my colleague and friend and the
editor and publisher of Talker's Magazine. I think that's the
only really important way to introduce him. He is the
publisher and the author, along with his staff of the
list that we go through each week. Here we don't
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necessarily take time to jump onto all the stories for
all the people, but we certainly weave our way through
many of them with conversation. We have had as a
career aspiration. Michael and I both wanted to harness our
communication skills. When we were younger, we were disc jockey's
and there wasn't enough talking going on, and so therefore
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our communication skills were not developed as well as they
might have been if we were talking for a living.
So here we are folks talking for a living. And
I say to you, Michael, this is a.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Living Remember the old saying people say, I'm comfortable, Yes,
I'm comfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm comfortable, yes, like Jeff Bezos is comfortable.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, right right, And that that leads us into the
tenth topic, The Bezos Sanchez wedding. They're very comfortable. They're
a nice young couple. Did you buy them a toaster?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Did they? I wonder where she registered?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I sent them a crock pot. I thought that would
be right.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I think that I sent them I sent them a
cheese a cheese cutting board.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Probably listen number number number nine A S I P
R S V.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Sounds like the reservations for the Bezos Sanchez wedding recommendations.
That's your guy Robert Kennedy junior stuff. And we'll let
you go through a full medical explanation of that for
our listeners during the show today.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because I haven't got a clue at.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Number eight, the scotis plant parenthood ruling a number seven design.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
By the way, Michael has never clue by design. He
picks and chooses the things he wants to become an
expert on. All right, And so.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Although you said you said at the beginning that we
don't touch on we don't mention everything.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Just by mentioning it in this opening chart.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Is enough some cases, so we don't have to go
into detail about everything. The fact is that this is
the list, and the Powell testimony and the Trump fed
nomination are at number seven. The Mam Danny New York
City primary victory is the buzz of the nation. And
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isn't that often that a New York mayoral race gets
this much national attention. People are looking at it as
some kind of a bell weather. There's a nice word
or a harbinger. There's another word of things that might
be brewing in terms of the left right paradigm.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But that's number six. Number five.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Those ice raids, those pesky ice agents tied with the
Supreme Court of the United States Scotis deportation ruling at
number four, The Big Beautiful Bill at number three, Trump
at NATO at number two, the MAGA Civil War and
we put civil war in quotation marks and at number one,
really gigantic topic that covers a lot of stuff, the
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Iran strikes after math. The people on our survey include
a number ten, a tie between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
Jerome Powell is at nine, Zohoran Mom Donnie tied with
Andrew Cuomo at number eight. He certainly disp catched Cuomo,
didn't they. Mike Johnson at seven, Mark Rutt at six,
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Mark Rudd is the head of NATO is a Secretary
General of man NATO. In case you're wondering who the
heck is Mark Rutt at number five, Tucker Carlson and
Stephen K. Bannon to distinguish figures from the American media
at number four, Marjorie Taylor Green and Ran Paul tied
at number four. The intellectual at the Pentagon Pete Hegseath
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at number three. Number two, Ayatola Ali Kameni is at
number two, and Donald Daddy Trump is at number one.
And there's an approximation of what people have been talking
about on news talk radio and its related fields this
past week.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So the number eight item this week the Supreme Courts
ruling the Planned Parenthood deal. Excuse me if you're not
up on that. Spreme Court has ruled that South Carolina
can lawfully remove planned parent from its medical program, it's
medicaid program, banning patients from suing to protect their choice
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of healthcare providers. This was a six to three decision
which sort of surprised me, frankly, although it's pretty much ideological,
and that's what's wrong with the Supreme Court, and that's
what's wrong with the way people are appointed and the rulings,
the Supreme Court has become bastardized in another political tool.
(06:33):
There should be no politics in this at all, but
there is, and that's why these people are appointed. Although
Amy Conan Bryant has not necessarily towed the mark when
you look back at some of the rulings, and they'll
announce all of their big rulings before the end of
the month because they take a well deserved what is
it three months off or something issue right exactly anyway
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I find it. I don't know if apprehensive is the
right word for this, but it is extraordinarily political. That's
how this ruling came down, and that's how many of
them have. The reason I mentioned Amy Cony Conan whatever
her name is, Brian is because she hasn't followed the
stripes like the rest of the people that Trump and
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others have appointed, and neither's John Roberts. Really those two
have been kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There's a history of that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
There's a history of that, and that's sort of a remedy,
a potential remedy for people who feel that the Court
is stacked by whoever you know, appointed them for political weaponry.
So yeah, you know, once they get the job, they're
not necessarily beholden anymore to the president that nominated them
or appointed them to the position. And some of them
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really do become concerned about their legacy and the real
reason they're there is too are the laws and to
rule upon them in an honest way.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But that does happen if you look at the appointment process,
especially during the Trump I became enlightened by this because
there's an HBO special on how the Supreme Court has
been how the appointments have come around since George Bush
the Junior has brought in his people, brought in a
guy named Leonard Leo who runs an organization full of
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lawyers and corrupt people that are only interested in their
own power, and the arrogance of that group is beyond
My eyes are really opened by this. And you can say, wow, HBO,
they're liberal. I don't know that HBO has any political
bet certainly not like the New York Times or The
Post or Fox. I think they're pretty down the middle.
(08:51):
And if you haven't seen it and you're interested in
stuff like that, you can probably find it on the
HBO app But it's all about the Supreme court and
how the appointments have been made, and this man has
controlled it pretty much singularly. He gave worse twenty names.
He gave Trump twenty names the first time around in
(09:14):
twenty names. This for this session. It's just it's absurd. Anyway,
I'm off on a tude. What do you think about
the planned parenthood read reading and how it impacts people?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Think that.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I think that I think that the issual abortion is
a very unusual issue. It's deeply emotional, It's rooted in
morality in some people's minds. It's not just political, and
there is a shift happening in the country if you
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take the politics out of it, I definitely think the
pendulum is swinging away from just on a social level,
just on a a popular level, forget the politics of it.
I think the pendulum is moving away from abortion being
a favorable thing for people to have legal I'm trying
(10:12):
to find words. You know, it's a complicated issue, so
I hesitate to use it as an example. I do
believe at this point in time this is just my
own observation some of our research, but it's very hard
to really quantify. I think that if this warrant an
issue politically, there would still be fewer abortions today than
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there were eight ten years ago, twenty years ago. I
think people coming around to second giving it a second thought.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I've been on their own without having to be beat
over the y yes by people who have an extra grind,
and you know they claim it's right thing, but it
isn't really. They've just found an issue to pursue and
used to enhance their power, influence, control or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So you send to what I'm saying to be true, Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I do as a matter of fact. You know, you
look at situations. Both my children had one child. My
wife and I had two children. The norm is two
or maybe one. I think I saw the average was
one point five to nine per per household. But however
you bring it down. It raises the question that has
(11:28):
been kind of in the back room when it comes
to the immigration thing. If we don't have enough people
in the country to do the work of the country,
where do we find the people to do the work?
And there are two answers to that. One of them
is we are way too liberal at making it easy
for people not to work in terms of government programs,
and the second is the population thing, which I believe.
(11:52):
I think we should be limiting the population of the
planet because it cannot sustain growth the way you know,
the Indian population over there, they have like ten kids
of family. The mother's dying their forty because they've done
their work. Supposedly, it's just a it's a whole different culture. Certainly,
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there's a different reading on it. But in China you're
prohibited from having more than one child. I think at
the moment just depends on kind of where you are.
And we're people's We all think we have the moral
standard of the world, and we don't even have a
moral standard for ourselves the rest of the world.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, anyway, Yeah, and even the population issue is one
that has some holes in it. People feel it's population
distribution that it really isn't. We're not really overpopulated. We
have vast, vast territories of unpopulated land. It's a matter
of population distribution. And now that we're in the modern
era of telecommunications and all that, I don't know if
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the big urban centers, the big heavily populated areas are
necessary anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Right, Yeah, so it is in Europe. It's very interesting
to see how they handle that thing, okay, So I
promised Michael Harrison that we would talk about the F
bomb as it related to the number one issue of
the week. Mister Trump is, as usual, pretty much in
control of the news cycle. I'm looking at a picture
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of him. He looks tired, doesn't he look at the
circles under his eyes, and you know, yeah, twenty four
hours a day, it would seem.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Well, he's an old guy, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
All those old guys have circles under eye.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I like having Trump as president because I like having
a president who's older than me. No, the only president
that was younger than me in my life was Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Every other president was all And do.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You notice, just as aside, the Barack Obama is inserting
himself in the public discourse more than he has for
the last few years.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Oh yeah, that's a major that's a major story that
people are talking about that and people think his wife
should be the head of the Democratic Party. He's caught
between overdoing it or underdoing it. He as a former
president who's young and vital and incredibly persuasive and very popular.
It's his duty to present the opposition party when they
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don't have a real major leader emerging. But it's his
duty also to not get too much in the way
of the young blood coming up because they need new leadership.
So it's an interesting it's an interesting aspect. Barack Obama
is indeed a player in today's scene, and there have.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Been a lot of things about him and his wife, Michelle.
They're going to get divorced, They're going to do this,
They're going to do that, and Michelle just laughs at that,
and each week some different circumstance she talks about it.
I think she's getting tired of talking about it, though.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
It's getting shadowed by the scandal surrounding conversation about Malania
Trump and the roots of her romance with Donald Trump,
which is kind of one of the peripheral topics out
there this week, that that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He met her.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And I'm not going to add too much fuel to
the fire of this gossip. Come on, but if you
look at the relationship, but how Malania became an American
and how she was introduced to Donald Trump, it's not
the most shall we say, polite and above fort savory.
(15:47):
That's a great word. I mean, come on, you know,
she was a model.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The word model in quotation marks.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, she wasn't you know, she wasn't one of the
those big supermodels.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, remember the whole myth that she was a supermodel,
and she was never a supermodel. Was she was a
model that was arranged to meet Donald Trump? I think
at the KitKat Club or something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I don't like trading in that kind of thing. But
I'm bringing it up only because there's a parallel that
you brought up between the Obamas.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And the Trumps and miss it doesn't like him. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I don't think that missus Obama met Barack in the
kit Cat Club. I don't think that's where that. I
think the men in law school. Actually, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
All across America talk radio and the voices of freedom.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Don't stop talk, don't stop share, don't stop talking and
sharing sounds like wishing and hoping.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
At the Great Pops on in the sixties. Here we
are fast forward through twenty twenty five. We're at the
end of the month of June, already halfway through twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Believe that or not. Until it was sobering when you
start thinking about it in the mid season in the
baseball world comes along in a couple of weeks, and
so we got that'll become a topic. I think I
hope it does, anyway, because I think it's nice to
have sports in the thing every once in a while.
That as an aside, my son and his son, my
grandson are visiting on the farm this week and we
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were watching the draft for the NBA and these kids
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kids all right, anyway, So that takes care of that.
Now back to number one this week, the Iran uh
and what we did and what has happened since then.
During a press conference this week, it was it was
it sort of impromptu. Most of his press conferences are
pretty impromptu, now right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
They happen on the way to a to a helicopter,
or they happen on a lawn, or he.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Sticks his head.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I like the way he sticks his head on air
force one out of his section. He opens the door
and he leans out like he's in a bathrobe or something.
He does this all very calculatedly.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And he's a showman. Yeah, he's a showman.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I hope that this whole administration is a show yep.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And some of the actors are better than others, but
they believe me, they're all actors man on a big stage.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So they keep changing, they keep changing the script on them.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, well, maybe they ought to change a few of
the actors too. It's about time that they cleaned out
the first wave. I'm surprised that that Trumps put up
with guys like Hexith because he can't think that this
guy is doing the the job.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Puts up with them. They're there because Trump wants that
kind of guy there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, the guy that knows nothing and can't figure out how.
That's no one I can talk about it. Let's talk
about we know what has happened, the thing that most
people can't really decide. Did it work or didn't it work?
That did the strikes wipe out their nuclear capability? Or
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as they say, oh yeah, I just set us back
a couple of weeks, No big deal, and so what
do we This whole thing cost America about one hundred
and twenty million bucks with the bombers and the time
of the year whatever else they have to do, was
it worth it? The pr Trump looked like a bold,
strong leader in doing it. I don't know that. I
think that it was a bad decision. A bomb. I mean,
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you got to get rid of all these people that
want to have bombs, especially as irresponsible as they are.
And you could say, all right, well, who are we
to decide, well, we want to survive. We all need
to survive. And those people, at least the Iotola and
the bunch is the bunch around him, which by the way,
it doesn't represent you talk to a lot of Iranians.
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They don't like him at all. I think the country
is close to having an uproar, and you know, they
have sort of a fake president and legislative thing, but
the Ayatola is the supreme leader and he's a quack job.
He's he's like out from outer space and his hatred
heart hatred in his hard anyway, So did they work,
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Michael or not? The strikes?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean, I don't know what you just said, but that's.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm just done slid all over that one.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I just thank you, yes as you realize you did that. Okay,
that's as long as that. And then you throw it
to me, did it work?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The problem here is that there's a total breakdown of
truth and communication from all sides. I've been interviewed a
lot on talk radio, but my take on this, and
my take is that it's absurd. We don't know what
the truth is. Anybody who takes what they read in
the paper or see on the cable news as the
basis of the source of information to have an opinion
(21:25):
to answer your question is talking through their hat because.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We don't know. We don't know what happened.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
There's no video on it. The word, you know, obliterate
is now popular. We don't know if it was obliteration
or not. And for the public and for the press
and for the commentators to be so in the dark
about the truth of answering the question that you asked
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is in fact the issue. We don't know, And that's
the fault of Trump, that's the fault of his administration,
that's the fault of the media.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, the media. The media.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The media is dishonest, but it's corrupt. It's what people
want to hear, and they tell people what they want
to hear in each camp, and there's no truth. So
I am disgusted I am disgusted with the whole damn thing.
And sometimes I'm so disgusted I just want to say
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enough of this and go retire.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Because it's like that.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
But the point is, it's very frustrating to take a
stand based upon all of this very shaky information that
is corrupt at its heart for all.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The latest the latest example of that, Michael, is the
announcement that was made late in the week about the
Chinese and the Americans formalizing a deal on those rare
earth shipments, the things that China has that we need.
So this was the breakthrough in the trade deal. But
do you believe that? I mean, at one point in
time China was at four hundred percent tariffs and it
(23:08):
never happened. None of the tariff's stuff that we were
told actually ever happened.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It never happened.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
But tariffs don't even work the way they say it,
and it still is not being called out by any
source of information that everybody can agree is truthful. When
when Trump says things like we're taking in a lot
of money, We're not taking in any money from anybody
(23:35):
but ourselves. Why how does this miss information about what
a tariff is continue to play. We're taking in money,
China's paying the tariff. China's not paying the tariff. The
tariff is being paid by the American companies that are
(23:55):
importing from China.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And they have to figure out what to do. I
was talking to my friend the car dealer this week
and how they have used Audi as an example. Audi
has brought in a new model and they up the
price on the new model, and they've sort of averaged
in some of the terra for trade costs, but not
(24:18):
much so you don't really see it or feel it
even though it's there. They're just kind of modifying it. Also,
there's a big hoopla about it, but it's not really
what we were told by as you're pointing out so
well at all we were told. It e't close to
what we were told, and nobody's digging into it.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Because because the media, the media is walking on eggshells
not to offend the bosses. I mean, you said earlier,
HBO is not biased. I could argue about that. That's
part of the media complex that is all under the
same thumb.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Whether you're left right.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I mean, you know MSNBC and Fox News.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I mean, what's the difference between them. They just target
a different audience.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's all a bunk them, complete bunkom. And then you
look in the trades and you see, oh, Fox is
way up because people are watching it and how well
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All right back with Michael Harrison. I'm Doug Stefan. This
is the Talk Radio Coptown. I'd like to tie number
two to number six if I can. The story about
the Civil War as you describe it in Maga the
Marga groups, and number six the fact that this fellow mom,
Donnie won in New York. Couple of months ago, my
daughter in law said to me, you watch this guy
(28:19):
and see what you think is going to happen. And
what happened wasn't what I thought was going to happen.
What most of us thought was going to happen was
Cuomo would easily get renominated because everybody knew his name,
and people said, mom, Mom, who However, this guy a
young fellow that seems to know about politics. He can't
ever be president because he wasn't born here. And a
(28:41):
lot of people say he's the new face of what
the Democratic Party means, described by many as a democratic socialist.
And the reason that I bring and put it together
is because that may represent in my mind it already
kind of does the left in the Democratic Party as
opposed to the right, the far the far reaching socialistic
(29:07):
tendencies and the Democrats on that side and the far
right leaning MAGA people, And whether this will cause a
split in the Democratic Party or will they come around
and see that this guy maybe has something that they
can hang their head on. What do you think, Michael?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I think New York City is a very special exception
to the rule in terms of American politics, and I
think that too much is being read into this. I
think that I think that New York is a very
difficult place to govern. New York City is a very
very complicated society, and it takes either a really radical
(29:43):
right winger an iron hand the way Juliani did it
and Bloomberg did at the beginning, or it takes maybe
a iron fisted socialist. I don't think that it translates
to the heartland. I don't think it to other parts
of the country. So I think that we just have
(30:03):
to look at it that way. That's my own personal
view of it. I think he's an interesting politician, and
I think that he probably will go on to become
mayor because he's bright. But don't fool don't don't be
fooled by his brand of socialism some type of super woke,
crazy left wing, lunatic fringe type of thing.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It's a very different type of approach and very.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well, very well put. I think you did analyze that.
So as usual, the news media is trying to make
this out. That's kind of why I took the tack
that I did. They've made something bigger out of the
MAGA movement than really it is, especially now and they're
making something bigger out of Mom Donnie than perhaps. Yeah,
New York. I think you're right. I think he's gonna win,
(30:47):
probably fairly easily in New York, and then you see
what happens after that. There were some people I always
thought Michael Bloomberg ought to have been president, frankly because
I thought he did a great job when he was
mayor of New York. Did he put up with any crap? No,
that's legit, And you tied it in well to Giuliani,
who don't put up with any crap either.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Right, So right, Yeah, you can't run New York if
you put up with crap.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That's no thing. And ultimately you don't put up with crap.
It doesn't matter if you're left or right.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
The problem in New York is it's it's unaffordable for
average people to live there. And what good is having
a city if average people who built it can't live there.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Michael and Doug continue, there's more to focus on, so
stick around up next here on the Talk radio Countdown Show,
The Top.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Radio Countdown, The Top Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Countdown, Bigger than Life. Here we are on the Talk
Radio Countdown Show. Michael Harrison and Doug Stephen, I did
promise earlier we were going to talk about the F bomb,
and I kind of skirted around it, maybe for no
good reason, because you know, the whole discussion of why
(32:05):
Trump dropped the F bomb, this was the Israeli Iranian
sort of post apocalyptic say again, Douglyum, that's good? Yes,
exactly that too. Anyway, the results of the bombing, and
(32:29):
so Trump, for those of you who didn't hear this story,
used the F bomb after one of the reporters asked
if Trump believed Iran was still committed to peace in
light of the claims by the Israelis that the Iranians
had violated the agreement. But he was on camera bigger
(32:50):
than life, and so how much is is that f
Is that word becoming more acceptable? Is it?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I think the attire the entire country has unropped as
a result.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I fainted. I fainted on the spot.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
I was overwhelmed when the word, when the utterance came
out of his mouth, and I haven't been able to
recover since.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I fear for our morality.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Now, actually what we has the word lost its position? Yeah,
of course it has. We need to invent new dirty words.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
We need dirty words. I mean they've tried, they've ever
ruined the F word.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That's too It was too much. And I doesn't have
the same oak back.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
But you need taboo, you know, you need taboos in
a society.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You know the word.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Do you use the word seventeen times? Seventeen times a day?
Under what conditions? Would you use it?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
When I'm talking in front of somebody that will appreciate it,
I'm measured. I never used the word. I never used
the F word until my son was eighteen years old.
He never heard that word in the house. And then
on his eighteenth birthday, his mother and I just let
(34:05):
it all out. It freaked him out.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You know. I never heard my father use it either
until about that age when I had gotten my license
and I was driving and I left drift him off
somewhere and then I had to go ahack and get
him and I was late and he was he had
a tight schedule, and he he yelled at me and
what the F for you doing? Blah blah, And I
never heard that word out of his mouth before. But
the issue here is whether it's presidential or not.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Is it presidential appropriateness? There you go, that's the issue.
The English language is organic. It has always changed. I
remember in my early days of radio. You and I
make no secret about the fact that we've been on
radio for a very long time. And I remember when
other words were considered no nos. You couldn't use the
word hell on the air. You couldn't use the word
(34:51):
damn on the air. And you know, heaven for BIDGI
used the word bitch on the air, all of which
made their way to the air. Now you hear everything.
So we need we need new dirty words, you know,
the new dirty words politically incorrect words.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
The N word is.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, N word is yeah. That oh, what a great
that's a greater observation. The new dirty words are referring
to minorities in a way that is less than appealing
exactory according to some. I don't know how that came about.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Remember the destruction of the self destruction of doctor Lauris Lessinger,
where she said N word, nword, N word, N word.
She just said it like ten times in a row
to show how tough she was, and then she fired herself.
She wasn't even fired for that. She fired herself from
terrestrial radio and is happily working for years on satellite radio.
But it's it's a cultural issue, not a legal one,
(35:50):
because the whole the seven dirty words, that's a George
Carlin bit.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
There's no seven dirty words.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Listen how many times did CBS and Howard Stern get
find using some of those words doing business?
Speaker 5 (36:03):
They didn't mind paying the fines because dollify is good
pr right, But if you have a talent that isn't
making a lot of money, the company would use that
as an opportunity to either suspend them or fire them.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yep, well anyway, and the other sort of the we
only have a few moments left here. The fact that
the president went to NATO, and damn the fact that
Trump was at NATO and got what he wanted about
the countries and you were putting up more dough so
(36:37):
they'd pay their fair share of whatever it is to
defend Europe in case they need it. I thought that
was an interesting move and something that a lot of
people support Trump like, because he's trying to get people,
at least on the outside of things, to pay their
fair share. Can't find fault with that, all right, Michael.
We have wrapped another and we haven't used any bond.
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Speaker 1 (01:18):
Don't stop talk, and so that brings us to the
point of delivery. Here on the Talk Radio Countdown Show,
I'm Doug Stefan with my colleague and friend and the
editor and publisher of Talker's Magazine. I think that's the
only really important way to introduce him. He is the
publisher and the author, along with his staff of the
list that we go through each week. Here we don't
(01:41):
necessarily take time to jump onto all the stories for
all the people, but we certainly weave our way through
many of them with conversation. We have had as a
career aspiration. Michael and I both wanted to harness our
communication skills. When we were younger, we were disc jockey's
and there wasn't enough talking going on, and so therefore
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our communication skills were not developed as well as they
might have been if we were talking for a living.
So here we are folks talking for a living. And
I say to you, Michael, this is a.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Living Remember the old saying people say, I'm comfortable, Yes,
I'm comfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm comfortable, yes, like Jeff Bezos is comfortable.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, right right, And that that leads us into the
tenth topic, The Bezos Sanchez wedding. They're very comfortable. They're
a nice young couple. Did you buy them a toaster?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Did they? I wonder where she registered?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I sent them a crock pot. I thought that would
be right.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I think that I sent them I sent them a
cheese a cheese cutting board.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Probably listen number number number nine A S I P
R S V.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Sounds like the reservations for the Bezos Sanchez wedding recommendations.
That's your guy Robert Kennedy junior stuff. And we'll let
you go through a full medical explanation of that for
our listeners during the show today.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because I haven't got a clue at.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Number eight, the scotis plant parenthood ruling a number seven design.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
By the way, Michael has never clue by design. He
picks and chooses the things he wants to become an
expert on. All right, And so.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Although you said you said at the beginning that we
don't touch on we don't mention everything.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Just by mentioning it in this opening chart.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Is enough some cases, so we don't have to go
into detail about everything. The fact is that this is
the list, and the Powell testimony and the Trump fed
nomination are at number seven. The Mam Danny New York
City primary victory is the buzz of the nation. And
(03:58):
isn't that often that a New York mayoral race gets
this much national attention. People are looking at it as
some kind of a bell weather. There's a nice word
or a harbinger. There's another word of things that might
be brewing in terms of the left right paradigm.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But that's number six. Number five.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Those ice raids, those pesky ice agents tied with the
Supreme Court of the United States Scotis deportation ruling at
number four, The Big Beautiful Bill at number three, Trump
at NATO at number two, the MAGA Civil War and
we put civil war in quotation marks and at number one,
really gigantic topic that covers a lot of stuff, the
(04:41):
Iran strikes after math. The people on our survey include
a number ten, a tie between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
Jerome Powell is at nine, Zohoran Mom Donnie tied with
Andrew Cuomo at number eight. He certainly disp catched Cuomo,
didn't they. Mike Johnson at seven, Mark Rutt at six,
(05:04):
Mark Rudd is the head of NATO is a Secretary
General of man NATO. In case you're wondering who the
heck is Mark Rutt at number five, Tucker Carlson and
Stephen K. Bannon to distinguish figures from the American media
at number four, Marjorie Taylor Green and Ran Paul tied
at number four. The intellectual at the Pentagon Pete Hegseath
(05:28):
at number three. Number two, Ayatola Ali Kameni is at
number two, and Donald Daddy Trump is at number one.
And there's an approximation of what people have been talking
about on news talk radio and its related fields this
past week.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So the number eight item this week the Supreme Courts
ruling the Planned Parenthood deal. Excuse me if you're not
up on that. Spreme Court has ruled that South Carolina
can lawfully remove planned parent from its medical program, it's
medicaid program, banning patients from suing to protect their choice
(06:13):
of healthcare providers. This was a six to three decision
which sort of surprised me, frankly, although it's pretty much ideological,
and that's what's wrong with the Supreme Court, and that's
what's wrong with the way people are appointed and the rulings,
the Supreme Court has become bastardized in another political tool.
(06:33):
There should be no politics in this at all, but
there is, and that's why these people are appointed. Although
Amy Conan Bryant has not necessarily towed the mark when
you look back at some of the rulings, and they'll
announce all of their big rulings before the end of
the month because they take a well deserved what is
it three months off or something issue right exactly anyway
(06:58):
I find it. I don't know if apprehensive is the
right word for this, but it is extraordinarily political. That's
how this ruling came down, and that's how many of
them have. The reason I mentioned Amy Cony Conan whatever
her name is, Brian is because she hasn't followed the
stripes like the rest of the people that Trump and
(07:21):
others have appointed, and neither's John Roberts. Really those two
have been kind of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There's a history of that.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
There's a history of that, and that's sort of a remedy,
a potential remedy for people who feel that the Court
is stacked by whoever you know, appointed them for political weaponry.
So yeah, you know, once they get the job, they're
not necessarily beholden anymore to the president that nominated them
or appointed them to the position. And some of them
(07:52):
really do become concerned about their legacy and the real
reason they're there is too are the laws and to
rule upon them in an honest way.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But that does happen if you look at the appointment process,
especially during the Trump I became enlightened by this because
there's an HBO special on how the Supreme Court has
been how the appointments have come around since George Bush
the Junior has brought in his people, brought in a
guy named Leonard Leo who runs an organization full of
(08:30):
lawyers and corrupt people that are only interested in their
own power, and the arrogance of that group is beyond
My eyes are really opened by this. And you can say, wow, HBO,
they're liberal. I don't know that HBO has any political
bet certainly not like the New York Times or The
Post or Fox. I think they're pretty down the middle.
(08:51):
And if you haven't seen it and you're interested in
stuff like that, you can probably find it on the
HBO app But it's all about the Supreme court and
how the appointments have been made, and this man has
controlled it pretty much singularly. He gave worse twenty names.
He gave Trump twenty names the first time around in
(09:14):
twenty names. This for this session. It's just it's absurd. Anyway,
I'm off on a tude. What do you think about
the planned parenthood read reading and how it impacts people?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Think that.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I think that I think that the issual abortion is
a very unusual issue. It's deeply emotional, It's rooted in
morality in some people's minds. It's not just political, and
there is a shift happening in the country if you
(09:51):
take the politics out of it, I definitely think the
pendulum is swinging away from just on a social level,
just on a a popular level, forget the politics of it.
I think the pendulum is moving away from abortion being
a favorable thing for people to have legal I'm trying
(10:12):
to find words. You know, it's a complicated issue, so
I hesitate to use it as an example. I do
believe at this point in time this is just my
own observation some of our research, but it's very hard
to really quantify. I think that if this warrant an
issue politically, there would still be fewer abortions today than
(10:35):
there were eight ten years ago, twenty years ago. I
think people coming around to second giving it a second thought.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I've been on their own without having to be beat
over the y yes by people who have an extra grind,
and you know they claim it's right thing, but it
isn't really. They've just found an issue to pursue and
used to enhance their power, influence, control or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So you send to what I'm saying to be true, Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I do as a matter of fact. You know, you
look at situations. Both my children had one child. My
wife and I had two children. The norm is two
or maybe one. I think I saw the average was
one point five to nine per per household. But however
you bring it down. It raises the question that has
(11:28):
been kind of in the back room when it comes
to the immigration thing. If we don't have enough people
in the country to do the work of the country,
where do we find the people to do the work?
And there are two answers to that. One of them
is we are way too liberal at making it easy
for people not to work in terms of government programs,
and the second is the population thing, which I believe.
(11:52):
I think we should be limiting the population of the
planet because it cannot sustain growth the way you know,
the Indian population over there, they have like ten kids
of family. The mother's dying their forty because they've done
their work. Supposedly, it's just a it's a whole different culture. Certainly,
(12:12):
there's a different reading on it. But in China you're
prohibited from having more than one child. I think at
the moment just depends on kind of where you are.
And we're people's We all think we have the moral
standard of the world, and we don't even have a
moral standard for ourselves the rest of the world.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, anyway, Yeah, and even the population issue is one
that has some holes in it. People feel it's population
distribution that it really isn't. We're not really overpopulated. We
have vast, vast territories of unpopulated land. It's a matter
of population distribution. And now that we're in the modern
era of telecommunications and all that, I don't know if
(12:58):
the big urban centers, the big heavily populated areas are
necessary anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Right, Yeah, so it is in Europe. It's very interesting
to see how they handle that thing, okay, So I
promised Michael Harrison that we would talk about the F
bomb as it related to the number one issue of
the week. Mister Trump is, as usual, pretty much in
control of the news cycle. I'm looking at a picture
(13:25):
of him. He looks tired, doesn't he look at the
circles under his eyes, and you know, yeah, twenty four
hours a day, it would seem.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Well, he's an old guy, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
All those old guys have circles under eye.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I like having Trump as president because I like having
a president who's older than me. No, the only president
that was younger than me in my life was Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Every other president was all And do.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You notice, just as aside, the Barack Obama is inserting
himself in the public discourse more than he has for
the last few years.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Oh yeah, that's a major that's a major story that
people are talking about that and people think his wife
should be the head of the Democratic Party. He's caught
between overdoing it or underdoing it. He as a former
president who's young and vital and incredibly persuasive and very popular.
It's his duty to present the opposition party when they
(14:29):
don't have a real major leader emerging. But it's his
duty also to not get too much in the way
of the young blood coming up because they need new leadership.
So it's an interesting it's an interesting aspect. Barack Obama
is indeed a player in today's scene, and there have.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Been a lot of things about him and his wife, Michelle.
They're going to get divorced, They're going to do this,
They're going to do that, and Michelle just laughs at that,
and each week some different circumstance she talks about it.
I think she's getting tired of talking about it, though.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
It's getting shadowed by the scandal surrounding conversation about Malania
Trump and the roots of her romance with Donald Trump,
which is kind of one of the peripheral topics out
there this week, that that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He met her.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And I'm not going to add too much fuel to
the fire of this gossip. Come on, but if you
look at the relationship, but how Malania became an American
and how she was introduced to Donald Trump, it's not
the most shall we say, polite and above fort savory.
(15:47):
That's a great word. I mean, come on, you know,
she was a model.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The word model in quotation marks.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, she wasn't you know, she wasn't one of the
those big supermodels.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, remember the whole myth that she was a supermodel,
and she was never a supermodel. Was she was a
model that was arranged to meet Donald Trump? I think
at the KitKat Club or something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I don't like trading in that kind of thing. But
I'm bringing it up only because there's a parallel that
you brought up between the Obamas.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And the Trumps and miss it doesn't like him. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I don't think that missus Obama met Barack in the
kit Cat Club. I don't think that's where that. I
think the men in law school. Actually, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
All across America talk radio and the voices of freedom.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Don't stop talk, don't stop share, don't stop talking and
sharing sounds like wishing and hoping.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
At the Great Pops on in the sixties. Here we
are fast forward through twenty twenty five. We're at the
end of the month of June, already halfway through twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Believe that or not. Until it was sobering when you
start thinking about it in the mid season in the
baseball world comes along in a couple of weeks, and
so we got that'll become a topic. I think I
hope it does, anyway, because I think it's nice to
have sports in the thing every once in a while.
That as an aside, my son and his son, my
grandson are visiting on the farm this week and we
(17:43):
were watching the draft for the NBA and these kids
that are eighteen years old, I have seven to three
and thirty forty shots or points game. There is just
an amazing and they look like kids, because the our
(18:05):
kids all right, anyway, So that takes care of that.
Now back to number one this week, the Iran uh
and what we did and what has happened since then.
During a press conference this week, it was it was
it sort of impromptu. Most of his press conferences are
pretty impromptu, now right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
They happen on the way to a to a helicopter,
or they happen on a lawn, or he.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Sticks his head.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I like the way he sticks his head on air
force one out of his section. He opens the door
and he leans out like he's in a bathrobe or something.
He does this all very calculatedly.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And he's a showman. Yeah, he's a showman.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I hope that this whole administration is a show yep.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And some of the actors are better than others, but
they believe me, they're all actors man on a big stage.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So they keep changing, they keep changing the script on them.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, well, maybe they ought to change a few of
the actors too. It's about time that they cleaned out
the first wave. I'm surprised that that Trumps put up
with guys like Hexith because he can't think that this
guy is doing the the job.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Puts up with them. They're there because Trump wants that
kind of guy there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, the guy that knows nothing and can't figure out how.
That's no one I can talk about it. Let's talk
about we know what has happened, the thing that most
people can't really decide. Did it work or didn't it work?
That did the strikes wipe out their nuclear capability? Or
(19:38):
as they say, oh yeah, I just set us back
a couple of weeks, No big deal, and so what
do we This whole thing cost America about one hundred
and twenty million bucks with the bombers and the time
of the year whatever else they have to do, was
it worth it? The pr Trump looked like a bold,
strong leader in doing it. I don't know that. I
think that it was a bad decision. A bomb. I mean,
(20:01):
you got to get rid of all these people that
want to have bombs, especially as irresponsible as they are.
And you could say, all right, well, who are we
to decide, well, we want to survive. We all need
to survive. And those people, at least the Iotola and
the bunch is the bunch around him, which by the way,
it doesn't represent you talk to a lot of Iranians.
(20:23):
They don't like him at all. I think the country
is close to having an uproar, and you know, they
have sort of a fake president and legislative thing, but
the Ayatola is the supreme leader and he's a quack job.
He's he's like out from outer space and his hatred
heart hatred in his hard anyway, So did they work,
(20:47):
Michael or not? The strikes?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean, I don't know what you just said, but that's.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm just done slid all over that one.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I just thank you, yes as you realize you did that. Okay,
that's as long as that. And then you throw it
to me, did it work?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The problem here is that there's a total breakdown of
truth and communication from all sides. I've been interviewed a
lot on talk radio, but my take on this, and
my take is that it's absurd. We don't know what
the truth is. Anybody who takes what they read in
the paper or see on the cable news as the
basis of the source of information to have an opinion
(21:25):
to answer your question is talking through their hat because.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We don't know. We don't know what happened.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
There's no video on it. The word, you know, obliterate
is now popular. We don't know if it was obliteration
or not. And for the public and for the press
and for the commentators to be so in the dark
about the truth of answering the question that you asked
(21:53):
is in fact the issue. We don't know, And that's
the fault of Trump, that's the fault of his administration,
that's the fault of the media.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, the media. The media.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The media is dishonest, but it's corrupt. It's what people
want to hear, and they tell people what they want
to hear in each camp, and there's no truth. So
I am disgusted I am disgusted with the whole damn thing.
And sometimes I'm so disgusted I just want to say
(22:28):
enough of this and go retire.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Because it's like that.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
But the point is, it's very frustrating to take a
stand based upon all of this very shaky information that
is corrupt at its heart for all.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The latest the latest example of that, Michael, is the
announcement that was made late in the week about the
Chinese and the Americans formalizing a deal on those rare
earth shipments, the things that China has that we need.
So this was the breakthrough in the trade deal. But
do you believe that? I mean, at one point in
time China was at four hundred percent tariffs and it
(23:08):
never happened. None of the tariff's stuff that we were
told actually ever happened.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It never happened.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
But tariffs don't even work the way they say it,
and it still is not being called out by any
source of information that everybody can agree is truthful. When
when Trump says things like we're taking in a lot
of money, We're not taking in any money from anybody
(23:35):
but ourselves. Why how does this miss information about what
a tariff is continue to play. We're taking in money,
China's paying the tariff. China's not paying the tariff. The
tariff is being paid by the American companies that are
(23:55):
importing from China.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And they have to figure out what to do. I
was talking to my friend the car dealer this week
and how they have used Audi as an example. Audi
has brought in a new model and they up the
price on the new model, and they've sort of averaged
in some of the terra for trade costs, but not
(24:18):
much so you don't really see it or feel it
even though it's there. They're just kind of modifying it. Also,
there's a big hoopla about it, but it's not really
what we were told by as you're pointing out so
well at all we were told. It e't close to
what we were told, and nobody's digging into it.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Because because the media, the media is walking on eggshells
not to offend the bosses. I mean, you said earlier,
HBO is not biased. I could argue about that. That's
part of the media complex that is all under the
same thumb.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Whether you're left right.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I mean, you know MSNBC and Fox News.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I mean, what's the difference between them. They just target
a different audience.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's all a bunk them, complete bunkom. And then you
look in the trades and you see, oh, Fox is
way up because people are watching it and how well
produced it is, and theyah yah yah, I'm bloney. All right,
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Speaker 1 (27:56):
All right back with Michael Harrison. I'm Doug Stefan. This
is the Talk Radio Coptown. I'd like to tie number
two to number six if I can. The story about
the Civil War as you describe it in Maga the
Marga groups, and number six the fact that this fellow mom,
Donnie won in New York. Couple of months ago, my
daughter in law said to me, you watch this guy
(28:19):
and see what you think is going to happen. And
what happened wasn't what I thought was going to happen.
What most of us thought was going to happen was
Cuomo would easily get renominated because everybody knew his name,
and people said, mom, Mom, who However, this guy a
young fellow that seems to know about politics. He can't
ever be president because he wasn't born here. And a
(28:41):
lot of people say he's the new face of what
the Democratic Party means, described by many as a democratic socialist.
And the reason that I bring and put it together
is because that may represent in my mind it already
kind of does the left in the Democratic Party as
opposed to the right, the far the far reaching socialistic
(29:07):
tendencies and the Democrats on that side and the far
right leaning MAGA people, And whether this will cause a
split in the Democratic Party or will they come around
and see that this guy maybe has something that they
can hang their head on. What do you think, Michael?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I think New York City is a very special exception
to the rule in terms of American politics, and I
think that too much is being read into this. I
think that I think that New York is a very
difficult place to govern. New York City is a very
very complicated society, and it takes either a really radical
(29:43):
right winger an iron hand the way Juliani did it
and Bloomberg did at the beginning, or it takes maybe
a iron fisted socialist. I don't think that it translates
to the heartland. I don't think it to other parts
of the country. So I think that we just have
(30:03):
to look at it that way. That's my own personal
view of it. I think he's an interesting politician, and
I think that he probably will go on to become
mayor because he's bright. But don't fool don't don't be
fooled by his brand of socialism some type of super woke,
crazy left wing, lunatic fringe type of thing.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It's a very different type of approach and very.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well, very well put. I think you did analyze that.
So as usual, the news media is trying to make
this out. That's kind of why I took the tack
that I did. They've made something bigger out of the
MAGA movement than really it is, especially now and they're
making something bigger out of Mom Donnie than perhaps. Yeah,
New York. I think you're right. I think he's gonna win,
(30:47):
probably fairly easily in New York, and then you see
what happens after that. There were some people I always
thought Michael Bloomberg ought to have been president, frankly because
I thought he did a great job when he was
mayor of New York. Did he put up with any crap? No,
that's legit, And you tied it in well to Giuliani,
who don't put up with any crap either.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Right, So right, Yeah, you can't run New York if
you put up with crap.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That's no thing. And ultimately you don't put up with crap.
It doesn't matter if you're left or right.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
The problem in New York is it's it's unaffordable for
average people to live there. And what good is having
a city if average people who built it can't live there.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Michael and Doug continue, there's more to focus on, so
stick around up next here on the Talk radio Countdown Show,
The Top.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Radio Countdown, The Top Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Countdown, Bigger than Life. Here we are on the Talk
Radio Countdown Show. Michael Harrison and Doug Stephen, I did
promise earlier we were going to talk about the F bomb,
and I kind of skirted around it, maybe for no
good reason, because you know, the whole discussion of why
(32:05):
Trump dropped the F bomb, this was the Israeli Iranian
sort of post apocalyptic say again, Douglyum, that's good? Yes,
exactly that too. Anyway, the results of the bombing, and
(32:29):
so Trump, for those of you who didn't hear this story,
used the F bomb after one of the reporters asked
if Trump believed Iran was still committed to peace in
light of the claims by the Israelis that the Iranians
had violated the agreement. But he was on camera bigger
(32:50):
than life, and so how much is is that f
Is that word becoming more acceptable? Is it?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I think the attire the entire country has unropped as
a result.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I fainted. I fainted on the spot.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
I was overwhelmed when the word, when the utterance came
out of his mouth, and I haven't been able to
recover since.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I fear for our morality.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Now, actually what we has the word lost its position? Yeah,
of course it has. We need to invent new dirty words.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
We need dirty words. I mean they've tried, they've ever
ruined the F word.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That's too It was too much. And I doesn't have
the same oak back.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
But you need taboo, you know, you need taboos in
a society.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You know the word.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Do you use the word seventeen times? Seventeen times a day?
Under what conditions? Would you use it?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
When I'm talking in front of somebody that will appreciate it,
I'm measured. I never used the word. I never used
the F word until my son was eighteen years old.
He never heard that word in the house. And then
on his eighteenth birthday, his mother and I just let
(34:05):
it all out. It freaked him out.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You know. I never heard my father use it either
until about that age when I had gotten my license
and I was driving and I left drift him off
somewhere and then I had to go ahack and get
him and I was late and he was he had
a tight schedule, and he he yelled at me and
what the F for you doing? Blah blah, And I
never heard that word out of his mouth before. But
the issue here is whether it's presidential or not.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Is it presidential appropriateness? There you go, that's the issue.
The English language is organic. It has always changed. I
remember in my early days of radio. You and I
make no secret about the fact that we've been on
radio for a very long time. And I remember when
other words were considered no nos. You couldn't use the
word hell on the air. You couldn't use the word
(34:51):
damn on the air. And you know, heaven for BIDGI
used the word bitch on the air, all of which
made their way to the air. Now you hear everything.
So we need we need new dirty words, you know,
the new dirty words politically incorrect words.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
The N word is.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, N word is yeah. That oh, what a great
that's a greater observation. The new dirty words are referring
to minorities in a way that is less than appealing
exactory according to some. I don't know how that came about.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Remember the destruction of the self destruction of doctor Lauris Lessinger,
where she said N word, nword, N word, N word.
She just said it like ten times in a row
to show how tough she was, and then she fired herself.
She wasn't even fired for that. She fired herself from
terrestrial radio and is happily working for years on satellite radio.
But it's it's a cultural issue, not a legal one,
(35:50):
because the whole the seven dirty words, that's a George
Carlin bit.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
There's no seven dirty words.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Listen how many times did CBS and Howard Stern get
find using some of those words doing business?
Speaker 5 (36:03):
They didn't mind paying the fines because dollify is good
pr right, But if you have a talent that isn't
making a lot of money, the company would use that
as an opportunity to either suspend them or fire them.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yep, well anyway, and the other sort of the we
only have a few moments left here. The fact that
the president went to NATO, and damn the fact that
Trump was at NATO and got what he wanted about
the countries and you were putting up more dough so
(36:37):
they'd pay their fair share of whatever it is to
defend Europe in case they need it. I thought that
was an interesting move and something that a lot of
people support Trump like, because he's trying to get people,
at least on the outside of things, to pay their
fair share. Can't find fault with that, all right, Michael.
We have wrapped another and we haven't used any bond.
(37:00):
We have no bomb words here. We'll have to work
on that for next week. It's The Talk Radio Countdown Show,
The Top Radio Countdown.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
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