Ep. 113 Today's Peep Reflects on Tragic Trump Rally Incident, JD Vance's CPAC Critique, Border and Ukraine Policies, Explores Media Bias, Immigration, and Election Strategies, and Closes with Emotional Song Reflection

What if a single, tragic event could momentarily bridge the divide between conservatives and liberals? Join us as we reflect on the harrowing assassination attempt on former President Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania, a shocking incident that claimed the life of an innocent bystander. The gravity of this event prompted a rare Saturday night studio session with Bill White and Sheriff John McGinnis. We draw somber parallels to past political assassinations and consider the fleeting unity these tragedies evoke, reminiscent of the national solidarity witnessed after 9/11.

JD Vance's powerful critique at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference is our next focal point. Vance challenges the current U.S. administration's priorities, arguing that the focus on the Ukraine-Russia conflict has led to the neglect of critical domestic issues like border security and manufacturing. Our discussion sheds light on the intricate dance between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate over the border bill, revealing the superficial efforts on border security in exchange for more Ukraine funding. We question the broader implications of U.S. foreign policy, emphasizing the need for a shift towards addressing the real needs of American citizens.

From immigration policies to the influence of big tech and media bias, we tackle the pressing issues shaping today's political climate. We scrutinize President Biden's policies and their potential impact on the upcoming elections, alongside a call to break up monopolistic tech giants like Google. As we navigate through controversies of immigration, media bias, and the Ukraine conflict, we leave you with a heartfelt reflection on the song "Without You," delving into its emotional resonance and expressing gratitude for the unwavering support from our listeners. Catch every moment of this thought-provoking journey on "Pat's Peeps 114.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:13

we are back again, my friends. Thank you so much for paying attention and being a part of the pats peeps podcast family. So grateful number 113. I'd like to say that it's matching the I don't know, maybe I don't want to say that it's matching the temperature of the day, but it, doggone. It's probably pretty close, man, we are in a heat wave, baby, that's right. Yeah, today is the 15th day of july, so we are right there in the middle of summer and it's doing what it does, you know, in the middle of summer.

Speaker 1: 0:49

Gavin Newsom, if you're listening which you're not it's hot because that's what summer is. If this isn't climate change, then tell me what is Shut up. Anyhow, hi there, how are ya? Hope you had a great weekend. It's Monday, like I said, 15th day of July 2024. As I stare out of my studio windows in the beautiful foothills of Northern California Again, I don't have to repeat it, it's hot, it's hot, that's just the way. It is no biggie, unless you're having trouble dealing with it. Then that's a big deal. But I just, overall, I hope you're doing well. That's all I'm gonna say. Of course, this weekend, unbelievable, unbelievable weekend, right, that's where we're going to jump into this today, just like I'm probably going to do on my show tonight. For those of you know or maybe do not know, I'm Pat Walsh, host of Pat's Peeps podcast and Pat's Peeps and boy, let me tell you we have some huge news coming up, something that I've been waiting for for a while, and we're gonna I think this week we're gonna be able to spring this on you. So exciting. But over the weekend, we all know what happened on Saturday the former president Trump speaking in Pennsylvania, a sniper on the roof, a 20-year-old piece of crap on the roof, cowardly 20-year-old who shoots and almost assassinates the former president Trump. That's what happened. So the whole nation is shocked. Thank God that the man was not killed, assassinated, murdered. How that happened is still going to be investigated. It should have never happened, but I already spoke at length on Saturday night about that on my show.

Speaker 1: 2:40

If you're thinking, what do you mean Saturday night? Well, saturday night Sunday is my day, saturday, and Sunday my day off. I never work on a Saturday, so I'm sitting here and I'm watching the coverage and going to make some dinner, and what have you really? Relaxing as best you can on your day off when you're watching coverage of this horrible, tragic incident when, by the way, really what we need to say is that someone else, an innocent person, died doing something very patriotic. One of the most American things you could possibly do is supporting your candidate at a rally. I mean, come on, it's like fried chicken or red and white tablecloths and barbecuing and baseball. It's just Americana man going and supporting your candidate and someone lost their lives in front of a bunch of witnesses who are going to have to perhaps relive that in their minds for God knows how long. And somehow this coward got on this roof. Anyhow, talked about that a great deal Saturday night because, as I'm sitting and I'm trying to relax, this is going on taking in the coverage like everyone else.

Speaker 1: 3:48

And I get a phone call from work saying hey, you know what, pat, we know it's your night off, but, boy, it would be so great if you could come in and do a show tonight. I said what? What Serious? Are you serious Saturday night? Yep, I said wow, yes, absolutely. So I went into work, went into the studio. Bill White and Sheriff John McGinnis were doing the show prior to me, covering what had happened that day. I came in at 8 o'clock. It was so bizarre Again, because I'm never working on a Saturday night, ever doing my show. So I go in and we had this discussion. I don't know if they put that up as a podcast or not. I hope that they did. If not, I'm going to ask them to do that. So I just want to say this I was honored to do that.

Speaker 1: 4:47

It was a shameful day in American history Another presidential assassination attempt. We've seen this with Gerald Ford. I mentioned this on my show, george Wallace. You know Bobby Kennedy was killed, ronald Reagan assassination attempt. But Sirhan Sirhan took out Bobby Kennedy and I remember Rosie Greer of the Rams at the time took the gun out of his hand. If you listen to that recording, take it from his hand. Grab his thumb. Grab his thumb and break it if you have to.

Speaker 1: 5:22

I'll never forget that audio. I was eight. I remember someone in the and now it's on to Chicago Bobby Kennedy says and then you hear all this chaos, and then you hear the Rosie Greer. Rosie Greer, right, has his thumb, he's trying to grasp the gun away from Sirhan. Sirhan, this piece of crap. And you hear someone in the audience go grab the gun, grab his thumb, grab a stomp, break a stomp if you have to.

Speaker 1: 5:49

I don't know, that's the words that still ring in my mind, but of course we've lost presidents through assassination. So it was an ugly day, it was a shameful day. And how is this going to affect? Now we have conservatives and liberals calling for unity. So it kind of takes a tragedy, doesn't it seem like? Is it just me, or doesn't it take a tragedy, seemingly to quote unite? We don't know what this guy's reasoning was. We're never going to know he's done.

Speaker 1: 6:28

But the last time I remember as a nation, the nation uniting, and it reminded us that it didn't matter of our skin colors or ethnicity, we were Americans, that was 9-11. We all were like, hey, it felt like we can kick each other. You know, it's like a big brother and a younger brother. We can kick each other like siblings. We can kick each other around and be smart asses to one another and treat each other with disrespect all we want but don't you try it, don't you mess with my brother. I'm whipping your ass. So it felt like after 9-11, we were all on the same side. We were all Americans.

Speaker 1: 7:16

It's a shame that it takes a near tragedy like this one, or a real, real tragedy in this no, let me take that back. Let me rephrase that. No, no, me take that back. Let me rephrase that. No, no, no, I'm going to rephrase that and I'm sorry. I'm going to say sorry, I misspoke. It's a shame that it takes a real tragedy like this, not a near tragedy, a real tragedy, because this is a tragedy in every single way. You're trying to assassinate a former president. Single way, you're trying to assassinate a former president. You killed an innocent person. You opened fire to the crowd of civilians. It's a my heartfelt apology. Sometimes you know you misspoke, but that's not what I meant. What I mean is this is a freaking tragedy, just like 9-11.

Speaker 1: 8:03

I meant near, because it almost assassinated the president. Then I former president then I immediately realized what I just said. So thank you for allowing me one misstep there. It's a tragedy in every single way and when I hear some of these people who are oh geez, some of these people who are oh geez, some of these snide comments, I'm not even going to give them two seconds to even think about. So maybe I'll talk about that on my show tonight, the Pat Wall Show on KFPK iHeartRadio, heard nationally and internationally. But here's the big news. As we move on Now, I think that this so in terms of uniting again, I'm making my point, I made my point.

Speaker 1: 8:44

I think it's terrible that we have to have a tragedy to unite as a country. Today, former President Trump, who now probably a lot of people have sympathy for that, did not have sympathy before. I'm sure there's a segment of sick individuals going damn, I wish that guy wouldn't have missed. And those people please don't ever vote, because that's pathetic. But today the big news is the RNC begins and the news about Trump's presidential running mate, the VP, his selection. Today it is JD Vance. That's going on right now the opening of the RNC, jd Vance.

Speaker 1: 9:37

I love the intro. Former Marine, you know, I thought because he's going to take the stage soon. He might even be on the stage right now, but he's going to talk about and he's going to talk about how he feels about the country, what he wants to do, but he hasn't come on yet. So here I am doing the podcast and I thought, well, let's go back and listen to JD Vance and let's go back to when he was at the. Let's go back to when he was at the. Let's see, this was at the 2024 conservative sorry, I barely can see it the conservative political action conference. All right.

Speaker 4: 10:24

So here he is talking about his thoughts and ideas. My argument is pretty simple. First of all, I think that it is absurd for us to devote so many resources, so much attention and so much time to a border conflict 6,000 miles away, where our own US southern border is wide open. We've got to focus more on our own problems close to home. That's that's, that's my first position. Really, if you dig in from there, what I've argued is look, we know that Democrats are obsessed with Russia, the Russia collusion hoax, that everything for the past six years has been Russia, russia, russia, and it's clouded our judgment. We need to be smart about what we're doing Now. Of course, we don't like that.

Speaker 4: 11:00

Russia invaded Ukraine, but the question becomes what can we do about it? And there are a couple of separate ways, I think, in which the elites of this country Democrats and Republicans have fundamentally failed the American people in this moment. The first is that we have expended decades worth of supplies of American weapons on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. We don't make enough of that stuff on our own. We know the story.

Speaker 4: 11:24

One of the reasons Donald Trump was elected in 2016 is we don't manufacture enough of our own stuff anymore, so we need to make more of our own stuff, but they've put us in this position where we don't. We don't do enough of it, so we don't make enough of our own stuff. And at the same time that we don't make enough of our own stuff, they want us to send all of our critical weapons overseas. Well, what happens, god forbid, if the Chinese invade Taiwan? What happens, god forbid, if there's a direct threat to American soil? We now no longer have the weapons in store to actually prosecute our own national security. Let's focus on our own problems. That's the first failure, rob.

Speaker 1: 12:01

I'm going to interrupt just a moment. I want to say this as he continues. This is JD Vance, senator out of Ohio, vp, running mate for Donald Trump, just announced today. But here's what I want to point out, and then I'll let this go. Here's the rhetoric that we have heard. Here's the propaganda and the rhetoric that we have now heard from Democrats for the last what? Eight years almost. Is that now? Please keep this in mind.

Speaker 1: 12:27

Whether you're conservative or liberal, democrat or Republican, whether or not you have a distaste for Donald Trump and his personality, his, whatever it is, here's what we get to hear rubbed in our faces on a daily basis by the media. Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy in this country. They've compared him to Adolf Hitler, which is a complete and utter joke. But as we listen, let's listen specifically, shall we for anything that JD Vance says that is against, that is a threat to democracy. Let's listen to that. He's talking right now about being able to protect our own country, and I have a feeling and I have not listened to this that he's about to talk about and echo what Trump says about other countries in NATO and around the world doing their part to not deplete the resources of America to our defense systems. I don't know if he's going to say that I could be wrong, but let's listen and really pay attention and scrutinize this and hear. If we hear anything that is a threat to our democracy. If I hear something, I'll point it out.

Speaker 4: 13:53

And the second thing, if I may say, is the way that these guys have obsessively focused on the problems of Ukraine to the exclusion of everything else that's going on in our country. I have seen colleagues of mine, even Republican colleagues, who are much more emotionally invested in what's going on 6,000 miles away than they are in their own country. If the thing you care most about, we can agree to disagree on Ukraine. I imagine a lot of you agree with me.

Speaker 1: 14:20

Some of you don't but if the thing you care most about, One more interruption sorry, I'll let him go If you're saying to yourself well, pat, the threat to democracy is you have to stop the Russians from expanding like Hitler. You have to be able. We are the leaders of the free world and you have to stop and put an end to you, just like World War II. Some people are thinking this and saying this to themselves, and in that regard I cannot say that I disagree with that. I mean, can we stand by and allow Russia to expand with no resistance and mow other mow over neighboring countries? I get that point of view, so I am curious to hear what he has to say, because I don't know what the answer is. I'm curious if JD Vance does A conflict 6,000 miles away.

Speaker 4: 15:18

You should not be a leader of this country. Focus on our own country's problems.

Speaker 3: 15:21

And that's that was the crux of my question is I mean, and especially, that what you're describing is so evident in the Senate, I think, more than anywhere. I mean, what is that? Clarify what that is that exists inside of Washington? Why is it that when people go to Washington, they forget about the rest of the country and I think that all the wealth of this country exists inside of this bubble, here in this city and why is it that the rest of the world becomes so important and the domestic issues that we have go to the background? What happens when you get to Washington?

Speaker 4: 15:54

So here's what I think is going on, rob. I think it's hard for these guys to psychologically accept that they have let the country become weaker on their watch. It was, of course, donald Trump, a complete outsider to politics, who ran in 2016 saying you people, the bipartisan consensus in this country has failed and we need something else. Now, of course, he was born, I believe, in 1940, so he's seen all of this happen, but he's seen it happen as an outsider, with the recognition that new leadership needs to happen. Now, let me just give you an example here.

Speaker 4: 16:23

So my family obviously we're all from Ohio, but I have a lot of family from eastern Kentucky, the Appalachian part of Kentucky and the county that my grandparents were born in life expectancy in that county is 67. 67, that's comparable to a lot of third world countries. If you are a leader and you have allowed that to happen to your own country, in your own backyard, if you're Mitch McConnell and you're a senator from Kentucky and you care more about the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine than about the fact that your own citizens are getting murdered by fentanyl brought in by cartels and that's lowering life expectancy, you need to look in the mirror and accept that your job has been a failure. You've been a failure at your job of leadership.

Speaker 3: 17:10

And what is the diagnosis of that, though? What happens to them, though? Because there's no reason why that should be that way. That's what I don't understand.

Speaker 4: 17:17

The reason I think it's that way is because it's harder, it's easier to look at the problem 6,000 miles away, to look yourself in the mirror and accept that you've been a failure in leading your country over the past generation. Think in leading your country over the past generation. Think about this the bipartisan consensus. Over the last 40 years in this country, it's seen the rise of China. It's seen the destruction of the American manufacturing base, which is why we don't have enough weapons to send to Ukraine and also focus on ourselves.

Speaker 4: 17:41

I mean, I'm the father of three little kids a six-year-old, a four-year-old and a two-year-old. Take your kids to a pharmacy today and be told that there's not enough amoxicillin for the kids of your own country because we let the communist Chinese make the antibiotics that we put into the bodies of our kids. This is a legacy of failure from these guys and it's very hard for them to look themselves in the mirror and say we screwed this up. And, of course, the biggest screw-up, the biggest problem we have right now is the American southern border, and if you're not focused on that and you're not getting fired up about that and you're not pulling all-nighters at the US Senate about that, you're in the wrong job.

Speaker 3: 18:18

Can I ask you that's a good point. I want to ask about the Senate border bill that has gone through. That is basically being held up in the House at this church. Johnson doesn't want to bring it to the floor. How did a bill like that get crafted? I mean, was there any actual concern? I mean, was it leadership that put it together? Was there any actual concern about the border or was it just used as a ruse to get money for foreign wars? I mean, how did something like that happen?

Speaker 4: 18:46

How much time do we have, rob?

Speaker 4: 18:48

We could go a long time on it. Here's basically what happened. So any negotiation we're a divided government right. Democrats control the presidency. Republicans control the House. The thought was going into it. Republicans are divided about Ukraine, but we're united on border security. We want border security. Democrats are divided on, or are united on, ukraine. They're divided on border security. So there's the seed of a negotiation, a successful negotiation. The Democrats will give us border security and then we'll give them money for Ukraine. Now, set to the side, whether you like, that negotiation. That was the way it was set up.

Speaker 4: 19:24

The problem, rob, is the border security was always fake, and I've heard from Democratic colleagues, I've heard from Democratic staffers who have said the Republican leadership in the Senate never pushed that hard for border security. There was always this kind of wink-wink. Well, we've got to go through the motions here. We've got to convince the conservative knuckle-draggers like JD Vance that we care about border security, but we don't really care about it that much. So the American people got screwed in that deal. So then they don't want a secure border.

Speaker 4: 19:52

Exactly, it was always it was. Well, they at least care more about Ukraine than they do about border security in their own country. It was always a fig leaf. It was always the idea was we're going to write another $61 billion to Ukraine and we'll sort of you know, throw a bone to the people of CPAC and say we tried to do border security. But think about it. If you go into a negotiation saying we don't actually care about the thing that we're allegedly negotiating over, you're not going to get anything. And that's exactly what happened over the last couple of weeks in Washington DC. It's a disgrace and every person here should be pissed off about it.

Speaker 3: 20:25

I'm sure they are. And to clarify, when we're talking about you, you're not anti-Ukraine. You don't have an anti-Ukraine position. You don't want Ukraine to lose this war. They try and paint anybody that wants perhaps diplomacy in this situation which is something on my show we talk about all the time I talk about with Rick Grinnell all the time Like what happened to diplomacy the last two years of this war. Why is nobody fighting to figure out a way to end this war? Why is it just send more money, send more bullets, send more guns? Why is that the only option that we have here? Why is that the only option that they're willing to look at? Why is it that there's no Tony Blinken in the room trying to figure out a way to get out of this thing? It feels like they want the war.

Speaker 4: 21:13

Yeah, rob, I hate to say it, but I think it's all about the money. It's all about money for people who are getting, but let's be honest, whether it's the reconstruction that will come to Ukraine hopefully soon, but maybe not for another couple of years or whether it's the direct supply of resources, whether it's the corruption in the country, we know that a lot of money is getting skimmed off the top here. We don't know how much, we don't know exactly how it works, but we know there are real problems. And I think another thing that's going on, rob, is that these people have convinced themselves meaning the leadership of our country today that diplomacy is a bad word.

Speaker 4: 21:44

I remember when Donald Trump maybe the most important thing he said during the campaign was what's in America's interest is for the killing to stop, like such a simple, a simple insight. Right, we want the killing to stop. We want energy prices to come down, food prices to come down. All of these things are made worse by a never ending conflict in Eastern Europe. But these guys, if you talk about diplomacy, oh, you're a Putin shill. Where we heard that from? We've heard that for the first four years of Donald Trump's administration that he was a Putin shill, even though Vladimir Putin the only time he didn't invade another country was when Donald Trump was president. It doesn't even pass the smell test, but these people have gotten themselves convinced that it's a bad word to engage in statesmanship. It's crazy. It's bad for the country, but it's where we are today.

Speaker 1: 22:30

All right. So this is JD Vance. I'm just. It's the Pat's Peeps podcast, obviously. I just thought it was important for us to listen to some of this, and I'm listening for the anti-democratic rhetoric here, which I don't really. I mean a threat to democracy. I should say His threat being a threat to democracy representing Trump.

Speaker 1: 22:49

So far I don't hear it. I don't hear a single thing. The things he's talking about gas prices going down, inflation, grocery prices going down, securing the border Tell me, how is that going to bring democracy as we know it to an end? How is that a threat to democracy, an existential threat to democracy? It just goes to show.

Speaker 1: 23:16

It is complete rhetoric that's being used these days. It's absolute propaganda that we're all supposed to buy into, but a lot of people simply are not buying into it. So it's still a mystery to me. I do understand what he's saying in terms of you know, what do we do? Why are we, instead of fighting and not even, and maybe there are discussions and I'm certain that our discussions going behind the scenes when it comes to the war in Ukraine, the invasion by Russia into the Ukraine, I think the world would like to see more of the leaders on television, whether it's, you know, press conferences, news conferences, getting together, being more diplomatic talking. Perhaps that's one way to at least start something Now. Again, maybe they're doing that. I'm not privy to that. But what he is saying, what JD Vance is saying here, I agree with it and I understand.

Speaker 3: 24:15

The politics. It's so insidious. It's so frustrating. The people in this room are paying attention and most people aren't, which is why these stupid little games work the way they do. But if you're paying attention and you're watching this and you're seeing it, it's so frustrating to see that when you're just trying to do the right thing and you get painted as a certain way, they vilify people for just having a difference of opinion. That's the most dangerous thing and in this country we see that constantly, and they have complete control of the media narrative.

Speaker 4: 24:47

So it's funny. There are, I believe, three us senators who are on a permanent lifetime ban list to russia and I'm one of them, right? So the mainstream press you know the mainstream press calls me a putin shill. I've never even talked to the guy. I don't get to go to moscow to have the pierogies in russia like it's a lose-lose proposition for me, but of course it's. It's good. It's good for the country to have somebody saying how long does this go on? How much money are we supposed to funnel into this country? And importantly, Rob, something needs to be said.

Speaker 4: 25:16

You asked me am I anti-Ukraine? Of course I'm not. In fact, I think these people are very brave. Most of them are just obviously good people who are trying to do the right thing. The average age for a soldier in the Ukrainian military right now is about 45 years old. I'm 39. I was in the Marine Corps when I was 19 years old. That is not a healthy thing. So if you care about Ukraine, but most importantly, if you care about America, you should be wanting this thing to come to some diplomatic resolution. I think that's the only hope from here on out.

Speaker 3: 25:45

Zelensky's not pushing for that, though.

Speaker 4: 26:11

I mean, that's the one thing that confuses a lot of people. His people are dying. I don't have any question that the only person who believed the things that I do there. Uh, people said, well, you're, you're on an island. I said, well, I'm on an island, maybe in munich, but I'm not on an island. United states of america the majority of the american people actually agree with my world view here and I think that's that's important. But what? What the leaders of Ukraine, from Zelensky on down, have said? That there was a negotiated peace to be had back in the early days of fighting. You know who prevented it the Biden administration and Boris Johnson, who was the prime minister of the United Kingdom. So I actually think that there was an opportunity for peace. I still think there's an opportunity for peace. You just have to get the wackos and the idiots out of the White House. Well said.

Speaker 3: 26:51

Ah, yes, amen. I want to talk about 2024 here for a moment. I mean, all right just a couple of more seconds of this. I know it's my podcast, I just thought we should all hear this. When you look even at the specific issues, former president, president Biden, I should say you know is getting.

Speaker 1: 27:06

Thank you to Forbes for presenting this by the way, you know.

Speaker 3: 27:09

You look at specifically immigration, foreign policy. He's getting eviscerated and people get excited, right, because they think, oh great, you know Trump has a great chance in the next election. That's wonderful. What I see, and what I think terrifies me if you look at a country that's been pulled for decades to the left, to the left, to the left, to the left, to the left, you got to think long term. What I see is you know that this next election is going to be competitive. You know it's not going to be a landslide. Look at what they're able to do to a country. Yep.

Speaker 1: 27:39

And also to put this in perspective, as he's talking about what they're able to do this country. Keep this in perspective as well. It's a good reminder this is February 23rd of this year. This is way before the presidential debate Still compete electorally and still compete for power.

Speaker 3: 27:59

I mean, I've never seen, I could never have imagined that Biden was going to come in and just start dismantling every single thing that works about this country as fast as he can and then somehow get to a point where you know, point where you know it's going to be close. I mean, you can look at the polls all you want, but you know damn well when that election comes down. It's going to be tight, it's going to come down to four or five states and it's going to be close. How have we gotten to the point in this country where I almost feel like we're just full of guilt and self-loathing that we elect people that dismantle everything that we love about our country?

Speaker 4: 28:31

I think we have to be honest about two things, rob. This is by design, so there are two major structural problems in the American Republic right now. The first is that we gave control over our entire information ecosystem to big technology companies that hate the values of the people in this room. If you really want to have a free and fair election in 2024, the most important thing, break up Google. Break up Google and return power over the information economy to the American people. Just think about this, you. That's where 99 percent of people, regardless of their politics, get their information. We know now that it's completely dominated by left wing radicals. It has a complete monopoly. I think it's illegal, by the way, to have that monopoly control over information. Ha, let's do this.

Speaker 1: 29:16

Watch this. I'm going to Google. Here we go. Is Google controlled by left-wing fanatics? Let's just do this and use their own resource and see what they say. Why does it matter if Google has a liberal bias? The internet as a whole is censoring almost anything which doesn't echo official narratives, on almost any subject. We knew it would happen.

Speaker 2: 29:49

Hmm.

Speaker 1: 29:51

Huh, that's just a little headline. Google News bias skewed even further left in 2023. Let's see what it says here. You know this makes me think. Like you know, I'm about to say screw Google. Someone recommend something else to me that I can use, because I don't want to be a part of that either. Google News. This is from, let's see the New York Post. This is February, same day. The same day is what we're hearing here February 23rd, 2024. What a weird coincidence. That's just a strange coincidence. Business headlines all right. Same day that Vance is speaking here.

Speaker 1: 30:31

Google's already left-leaning news aggregator platform, Google News, skewed even more off the charts in 2023, according to recent analysis. Media company AllSide's latest bias analysis found that 63% of articles that appeared on Google News over two weeks were from left-leaning media outlets, a 2% increase from 2022, when 61% of articles on the aggregator were from liberal outlets. Listen, I can tell you that in my job as a talk show host, it is so evident and I never thought about this. Honestly, I's not that I'm ignorant to it. I've heard things about Google. I wasn't quite sure if it was rhetoric. I really wasn't sure In my job. I need a search engine, I need a good search engine and I don't think there's any denying maybe you will that Google is a good search engine. It's a good search engine and I don't think there's any denying maybe you will that Google is a good search engine. It's a good search engine. However, I guarantee you page one you're going to find all left-leaning articles. It's truly amazing. I've said that on my show many, many times. That's one thing I really noticed. Yeah, media companies, all sides. Latest bias analysis 63% of the articles appeared on Google's news over two weeks left-leaning. By contrast, a number of right-leaning news resources picked up by Google News in 2023 was 6%, which they. This is a relative improvement from the 3% the previous year and after looking roughly at 500 articles curated on Google News homepage, all sites found that 16% come from left-leaning CNN. 12% came from the equally liberal New York Times. Percent came from the equally liberal New York Times. Of the 10 news sites, Google News aggregates from eight of them lean left, including Yahoo News, CBS, Associated Press, NBC, according to all sides.

Speaker 1: 32:41

Let me tell you something you want to hear someone in the media cut through the BS? Tune into my show, I'll point it out every single time the absolute bias that you see in the media. It's true. If there's one thing I know, it's media. It's propaganda, it's rhetoric. I've studied it, I've dealt with it for years, and so I know Am I keyed up right now? I don't mean to be Just making a point. I hope I'm not all keyed up right now. I don't mean to be, I was making a point. I hope I'm not all keyed up on this. All right, a couple of more thoughts from JD Vance, and then lightening the mood with music. My friends, here we go.

Speaker 4: 33:27

Did Donald Trump say such and such about immigration, or is Joe Biden too old to be President of the United States? Well, the answer is yes, right, you don't need a Google search for that, but the results will be so biased and so corrupted in a left wing direction. That's one of the reasons why we have major problems with our elections in this country. One other point, rob I didn't realize this until a few weeks ago the immigration chaos. We talk about it all the time. We talk about the sex trafficking, these poor kids who are brought into this country by the cartels and sold into slavery. We, of course, talk about the fentanyl problem, the reason why we have a border crisis. It is by design.

Speaker 4: 34:04

Biden is invading the country with people who he knows are going to vote disproportionately for Democrats, and this is an important point. Again, I didn't realize this until a few weeks ago. California has five more congressional representatives than it should. Do you know why? They count illegal aliens for purposes of assigning apportionment in Congress. So when these guys flood the country with millions of people who shouldn't be here, they destroy the voting power of citizens in our own republic. This is by design, and this is maybe the last very good chance. We have to stop in 2024.

Speaker 3: 34:38

It is something else.

Speaker 1: 34:41

I want to. I'm going to leave it at that. I have a bold prediction. I almost I shouldn't do it.

Speaker 1: 34:49

I have a bold prediction. I almost I shouldn't do it. I have a bold prediction this guy will be president of the United States in the near future. Thank God, in my opinion, that this guy was chosen by Donald Trump. This is not a paid announcement for Donald Trump.

Speaker 1: 35:10

I couldn't believe Donald Trump was running for president. When he ran for president, I thought it was a novelty. I didn't know what was going on. I couldn't believe it. But it's true. I never used to watch. You know what is it? What were the Trump shows? You're fired. What were those shows? I've never seen any of them.

Speaker 1: 35:30

I used to hear them once in a while on, like Howard Stern, and he'd be funny with Howard Stern, who's now a piece of crap. Who turned on him? You know, trump gave Stern all these great interviews and really went out there and just had fun with him and let him be loose and all that. Now, howard Stern, just, you know Howard Stern sucks. You know, howard, if you ever get a clip of this and you put it on your show. I love Baba Booey and I love Fred no-transcript. You're a radio guy, you're good at what you do, but guess what? Somewhere you went off the rails, brother, I saw the gathering of the crew. I'm changing topics slightly, but you know bringing your, you know all your colleagues together, the people that work on your show, and tell them that you know taking credit for Jerry Seinfeld's later success and all this crap and give me the A that you know taking credit for Jerry Seinfeld's later success and all this crap and give me the A plus. You know celebs, guess what A lot of us tuned out at that point. As I digress, I like Robin and Fred and everyone surrounding you, but you went off the rails. You used to have Trump on. Now you turn around and you ambush the dude.

Speaker 1: 36:47

So this is not a paid thing for Trump, but the reality for me is that there's not a damn thing in anything. Jd Vance just said where I go. That is a threat to our democracy, an existential threat to our democracy. An existential threat to our democracy. I don't know what it is. The only thing that I can think of in there where I go well, I'm not so sure how they're going to handle this is again the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 1: 37:16

You can't blame people Ukrainians for defending their country from the Russian invasion. You can't blame them. You know we do have to stand as the leaders of the free world for what is right. But I do believe at least, and I've always believed this, and I am no expert and I admit that, but I am somewhat an expert. I'm not an expert in any military affairs, now, obviously I don't have to tell you that, you know that but kind of an expert in communications, I feel like I can deal with people, a lot of different people. I've always been big with people, bigel, you know, I'm always the best with people. I'm still working on my Trump impersonation. I've got the biggest with people. I'm still working on my Trump impersonation. I've got the biggest with people.

Speaker 2: 38:05

I can't do the Trump thing Anyhow.

Speaker 1: 38:08

It'll be huge. I can't do it. But if you can't have that knack, I think that sometimes, if you have the right person in play, that you can be diplomatic and at least get to talking on a more visible. If they're doing it now, make it more visible. Let the world know that you're really trying, because we don't see that. We see Zelensky, we see film, I mean video from the war sites and all this. I mean you know the destruction and the death. We see coverage of hey, do we need to send more bombs? And all of this stuff that JD Vance was just talking about. It's a topic all the time. It's a very real concern. But let's see some diplomatic efforts.

Speaker 1: 38:58

If Donald Trump, in my opinion, is saying, yes, I could stop it tomorrow, this wouldn't be going on. Damn, I'm going to stop doing the Trump thing. I apologize with all my heart Again. Two apologies in one podcast, that's right. If he's saying that we could stop this war, if he means diplomatically, that's wonderful, because I don't know what the other alternative is. I mean, I hope we don't go once again in the route of the Moab which we went Moab in Afghanistan, remember that. And we didn't hear from ISIS for a while we were hearing from ISIS every day. Moab means I'm freaking serious. Anyhow, that's enough from me on that.

Speaker 1: 39:45

It's a Monday. I got to go do a radio show. I love talking to you Like I say big news on the front coming up here on the Pat's Peeps. This is number 113. Let's go. You know, I want to say let's go out with something light. So I pluck a record out of my collection, my rare 45 collection. Wait a minute. Before I do that, I have some other things. Hold on a second Hold on before I get to this.

Speaker 1: 40:13

Mickey Dolan's Tomorrow, part two. I don't know why they're only giving me the man's busy. All right, he's older, he's busy, but I get another 20 minutes. All right, he's older, he's busy, but I get another 20 minutes. I may only get a couple of questions in because Mickey, he's a pretty good talker, so I'm going to get to whatever I can. I'm going to try to get to some things that maybe not every single person has asked him a million times, but if that's the case, if I can't, then I can't, but I'm going to try my best. So Mickey Dolan's part two tomorrow. Let's see A couple of other notes.

Speaker 1: 40:49

One you know what I'm tired of. You get these people on TV and they've got to guess I'm thinking about having Mickey Dolan when I have him on tomorrow. We're right now doing it by phone Soon, we're going to be doing it by Zoom. But one thing about it I pay attention to my guests. I come in prepped Even Mickey said that and I'm very grateful for that. I come in prepped, I'm ready to go, I've got my stuff ready to go.

Speaker 1: 41:17

It is so freaking rude when I watch these shows and the host is asking the guest a question. Now the guest and I saw this with Vance today and I see it all the time in today's media TV the guest is answering the question. It's still a two-shot. You can still see both people, excuse me on TV and the host begins to look at their computer and start to read whatever they're reading on their computer. For a period of time 10, 20 seconds they give the obligatory glance up real quick. Then they look back at the computer. Hey, put the computer down, unless it's breaking news. Have your crap together, man. Ask the person a question and be ready, have a conversation.

Speaker 1: 42:07

It is so rude to ask someone a question and then, when they begin to respond. You just don't even look at them. You start looking at your computer. So what are you doing at your computer? You're reading. What are you doing? Playing video games. You're reading. So A you're either reading ahead what your next question is going to be or you're reading for some kind of I don't know more information of what to talk about. What you do is you have your notes, you have it all whittled down professionally to bullet points. You don't have to. You have your homework done. You don't do your homework on the fly. Right To be critical. It's rude. And the other thing I'll talk about the hideous monstrosity of the black pole that, without my knowledge, was installed right in the middle of my property. That's for tonight's show on the Pat Wall Show. Back to music.

Speaker 1: 43:09

I was going to say, hey, let's lighten it up. So I'm going to pluck the record out of my rare 45s. And, man, as I'm looking at this one, this may not be from the radio station where I got all these. This might be. Someone gave this to me because it has a name on it. It's on Sussex Records and it's got a written name on there. I wonder if you're listening right now. It says Yvette Bernal. Anyone out there named Yvette Bernal? If so, I have your record right here. It's in pretty good condition, sussex Records. It's a really cool looking kind of orangish, very 70s looking orange and green label, light yellow from 1973. And when I say let's go out with something much lighter than what we've been talking about, it isn't this song literally. Excuse me as I lose my voice. I am parched. I need something to drink. I'm going to drink a bit.

Speaker 1: 44:16

This song is a teenage tragedy song Written by Wayne Cochran, first recorded by Cochran in 61 for the Gala label Version failed to do well on the charts. Rerecorded the song on a King label In 1963, revived by Jay Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers baby, they took it to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. This artist that I have and Pearl Jam and several other international artists also covered the song with varying degrees of success. Do you know what song I'm talking about? I bet you, as soon as I said Pearl Jam and Teenage Tragedy song, you probably know what I'm talking about, which song it is. If I may be honest with you on this, when I was growing up and they played this song, I hated it and it's this version. I hated this song, but I haven't heard it since then. But I couldn't stand this song.

Speaker 1: 45:22

The singer borrows his father's car See, you're going to know what it is To take his girlfriend on a date. Comes upon a stalled car on the road. Hold on, you know, it just seems to me Okay. Anyhow, I was just thinking about maybe there was a different name. I thought this always was a different name. It kind of confused me for a second. Yeah, that's weird. I was thinking it went under a different name Anyhow. So where was I? A guy, kid, you know, borrows his dad's car, takes his girlfriend on a date. Come upon a stalled car in the road, unable to stop. The singer then swerves to the right to avoid it, loses control, crashes violently, lighter note huh, yeah, yeah, knocking his girlfriend and himself unconscious. The singer regains consciousness in the midst of the rainstorm and finds several people at the scene of the collision. While partially blinded by the blood flowing from his injuries, the singer finds his girlfriend still lying unconscious. When he cradles his girlfriend lovingly in his arms, she regains partial consciousness, smiles, asks the singer to hold me darling for a little while. And the singer then gives her a well, a last kiss as she dies. In the song's chorus, the singer vows to be a good person so that he may reunite with his love when he dies, believing she has made it into heaven.

Speaker 1: 46:51

I don't mean to be insensitive. You know what. You know. What was another really what would you call it song that was sort of loving and tender and boy, you feel like a jerk if you hate. It was seasons in the sun by terry jacks. I didn't like that one either, even though it was a sensitive song and all that. But I thought I don't know what it is, I just didn't like it. I just didn't like this one. But without further ado ado, you probably know it as Last Kiss. This is the Wednesday version. Last Kiss, here we go, drop it on the screen.

Speaker 2: 47:39

Well, where, oh where, can my baby be? The Lord took her away from me. She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good, so I can see my baby when I leave her.

Speaker 1: 47:54

I mean it's not as bad as other songs that I dislike. Yes, I don't know they get to the chorus.

Speaker 2: 48:04

I hate it. Oh no, be good, so I can see my baby when I leave this world. When I woke up, the rain was pouring down, there was people standing all around, something warm was running in my eyes, but I found my baby somehow that night. I raised her head and she smiled and said Only darling. For a little while I held her close, I kissed her, our last kiss. I found the love that I knew I had missed. Now she's gone, even though I hold her tight. I lost my love, my life, by the night.

Speaker 1: 49:29

Oh, where, oh where, can I go? Okay, this is the part I know a lot of people are going to like this song. It's a big hit. You know, I just can't this part. Ugh, she's gone to heaven, so I got to be good. I mean, it's not as bad as others. Back when I was riding the bus, when I was a kid, you know, with Bessie the bus driver, and this song would come on K-R-O-Y. This is Wednesday. This is Last Kiss. K-r-o-y. Hey, it's going to be hot today, Don't forget about that.

Speaker 1: 49:57

Stay cool, baby. I'd be like dang, I can't stand this song Anyhow, thank you very much. You know what just occurred to me too? This is the strangest thing. It just occurred to me that the last song I played, the last record that I played, was about because that's, someone got killed in an accident car accident. The last record that I played was about because that's, someone got killed in an accident car accident. The last record I played was about someone getting killed in a car accident. What are the odds on Pats Peeps 112? I play Luke the Drifter and a song called On Trial and it's about dying in a car accident. Absolutely unbelievable, two in a row. Man, goodness Boy, whatever happens today, including myself, please drive carefully. Hey, let's flip it over. The other side is the song Without you? This can't be the Nilsson cover. It's not a Nilssen cover, is it? Or Badfinger? Let me see what this is. Let's flip it over, okay, without you, this is by Wednesday.

Speaker 2: 51:20

I wish that I could see her Standing on the corner. I know I can't be with her. She claims nobody owns her. She plays on all your feelings and leaves you all alone. She gets you where she wants. You Didn't use you like a home, though. I gave up trying a long, long time. That's not the without you that I'm hip to even wore my ring. But now I'm left without her. I know it's for the best.

Speaker 1: 52:10

This song serves as a real reminder to me by the way it's called.

Speaker 2: 52:14

Without you, I gave up trying a long, long time ago. Within her arms is the warmest place I know, all right.

Speaker 1: 52:24

I just want to say I couldn't do it without you because no one would even listen to any of this stuff. So I'm thankful to you because again my radio show or this, I couldn't do without you. I look forward to seeing you on the radio. Thank you for listening Back tomorrow with Pat's Peeps 114.

Speaker 2: 52:44

Oh, I gave up trying a long, long time ago. One for change.