WKXL - New Hampshire Talk Radio
Cail & Company LIVE with AJ Kierstead & John Leahy
In the aftermath of last Thursday's Presidential Debate we talked politics on the Monday edition of the program with A.J. Kierstead, formerly of WKXL and currently host the the NewEnglandTake.com In addition, we were joined by our Hockey East guru John Leahy who talked about the recent National Hockey League draft. Monday also marked the debut of WKXL's new contest, "Vanity Insanity".
- Duration:
- 44m
- Broadcast on:
- 01 Jul 2024
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- mp3
Good Monday morning, it is Kail and Company Live here on WKXL. NH.Radio.com. Great to have you along with us. Hope everyone had an outstanding weekend. We are presented by Northeast Eladental with individual and family plans designed to fit your lifestyle, learn more and find your plan. At DeltaDental covers me at .com and happy to say that joining us in studio today are all fun. Well, I mean our long time is not old folks. He's still a young man. AJ Kiersted, AJ a long time veteran here at WKXL now working for the New Hampshire Insurance Department and also doing the New England take. And AJ, welcome back. Thank you so much. You had New England take.com. If you want to check out more of what I'm up to. And who wouldn't? Who wouldn't want to check that out? And AJ is here on a very special occasion. Now we've been hinting about this and talking a little bit about it. But today marks the start AJ of WKXL's highly anticipated vanity insanity. Boy, our WKXL spotters are out on the road spotting clever and intriguing New Hampshire vanity license plates. Oh, gosh. And there are a lot. Oh, yeah, there are. I mean, I think per capita, New Hampshire has the most vanity plates in the country. And each Monday, we are going to identify a New Hampshire vanity plate. And if the owner of that plate calls us between 8 and 9 a.m. You don't have to do it today. I mean, I hope you do. But anytime during this week at 603, 224, 1450 and can identify that they are in fact. The owner of that that clever license plate. You will be winning from weed family automotive and concrete, a free conventional oil change with a synthetic blend oil in addition to a thorough truck up of your vehicle. And our first, here it is AJ, our first vanity insanity plate here on July 1, 2024. You'll always remember the state. Oh, yeah. Being in studio for this. New Hampshire plate got lost. And if that is your plate, call us at 603, 224, 1450. And that plate was spotted and conquered. And because of the 4th of July holiday this week, the owner of the plate will have until a week from today. And that would be July 8 to claim the prize. Again, 603, 224, 1450, our esteemed executive producer Andrew Gibson is standing by, but you can do it up until a week from today. We're going to extend it this week because of the 4th of July. And you can claim your prize from WK XL and a weed family automotive 124 store street and conquered. And we will repeat this plate all week or until the owner of the plate claims their prize. All right, AJ. Yes. Of the New England take.com. There was a debate last week. I heard a little bit of something about it. It has been rumored that there was a debate last week that took place in Atlanta. And I am anxious to hear your thoughts about what took place. It was far worse for Joe Biden than I could have possibly have imagined. I was on WDV last week at the Vermont viewpoint and we were doing some predictions. I was a traditional. It was four years ago. It's going to be a lot of repeats and craziness. It was so much worse for Joe Biden. He, I'm just going to put it right out there. He has to have dementia. The sundowning in the evening. The fact he can't make it through a complete day. The fact the next morning he was a totally different person again. I mean, this is the zoning out. I mean, the post debate rally he had with Jill Biden trying to ham him up. And he's on another planet. He was just glossed over. That was State of the Union Joe right there. Oh my God. How do you let this guy do this? I cannot comprehend why they think this is what they were going to do because he's been like this for months. Years. Yeah. I think if you ask me, I think, and when he first ran for president back in 2020, he said he was going to be a one-term president. Yeah. And so at any rate, that did not turn out to be the case. Well, I mean, he's running again. That's not to say he's going to win. But he's running again. I think there's one reason. And I think that's Dr. Jill. I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, she's on the cover of Vogue today, I believe. It's like how much this, she has not done anything from a policy perspective. It's not like Michelle Obama, where she had the food food thing that she was doing with the schools that the kids hated, but whatever will ignore that. There was, she doesn't really have anything except for the fact she's carting around this guy. She had to help him off the debate stage. Like, yes. Yeah, I was going to say three, but okay, I'll give you four. Yeah. Like, she, like, I understand, like, it was supposed to be an analysis by the Daily Wire. The Andrew Clavin said, well, if it was me, like, of course, I'd be that guy up there probably, from that much of a narcissist. But everyone else are out for all the Daily Wire crew around. I'm like, it just doesn't seem that way. It seems like Jill Biden is propping this person up, whether it's because she's hearing it from the DNC, whether it's her own future. She's looking to see in politics because she is obviously still fully functional and a lot younger than him. Exactly. So, what do the Democrats do at this stage? I mean, they have pretty much, for the last four years, and even it goes back longer than that, really, have been covering up for Joe Biden, along with most of the media. So, what do they do now? Now that the secret is, is, is not... You can't hide from this anymore. Like, I don't, they can't win with him. At least if they have to have some huge rebound over the next few months, if they, if they ever expect this to work. He, I've seen the most hardcore anti-Trump Democrats say, oh no, we can't vote for this guy. Joe Scarborough, the next morning saying, he said, he's the most stalwart. Like, this, like, Biden is the best thing since sliced bread, suddenly going, oh no, we made a mistake. They have to get someone else in, but it can't be Kamala. Like, they can't just like, and that's the issue. As far as I really said, what I've understood from the analysis, Biden is the one that has to say he's got to step down in order for the convention to change. Right. He's got all the delegates now. Because otherwise, this can be Kamala. Kamala is not going to do well. There's no, I cannot picture her this first time she's on the debate stage or she's got to take hard questions. I mean, she was taking questions the next day and she had nothing. Because if there's a politician more unpopular than Joe Biden, it's Kamala Harris. Yeah, shocking. It's like, she was hovering like 30% when Biden's at 35. Like, there are always five points behind him. And yeah, I don't know what they're going to need to get someone. I mean, they're not going to put Dean Phillips in there. He's already burned too many bridges with the DNC. And they're not going to go say, Hey, RFK, come back over. Of course not. Like, they've burned every bridge for possible alternatives. And the fact of the matter is that their bench, the Democrat bench is not deep at all. It's a systemic problem. Both parties. How is it you're not getting new blood in? The Republicans seem to be doing better with Matt Gates and the MAGA crew seem to elevate some of their leaders from that movement for better or worse. But when you're looking at the Democrats, they got nothing. They've got a bunch of very weak people that can barely win their own primary. It was a Jamal Bowman was knocked out of his own district for the upcoming election. After that rally, he held last week, which was just unbelievable for a sitting Congress person to hold a rally like he did. It's a fundamental problem I brought up on the show before where it's... The parties are not bringing in the future leaders that are going to replace these 70 and 80 something-year-old individuals. And that's all that we're at the point now where we've got where it's a problem. I was thinking, "Oh, maybe we've got a couple more years." No, we're at catastrophe now, in my opinion, when it comes to the Democratic Party. Well, I think the Republicans have a much deeper bench. I mean, you could put any one of six or seven Republicans in there. And probably would it be a much better candidate than Donald Trump? It's kind of the nature of the Republican Party where it's instead of a single message party or it's across the board. This is the only thing we care about. The Republicans are more inclusive when it comes to if you're kind of somewhat in the Republican side. So here's why the Libertarian crew in there with Thomas Massey and Rand Paul. They're able to, with the kind of the disadvantage, I would say, were on the MAGA movements. They're kind of able to get co-opted so effectively. But on the other hand, all these MAGA guys came up and they've met in the middle when it comes to a lot of stuff. And you've got Liz Cheney out now so that kind of movement is kind of, they have no power anymore. Well, AJ, you hear the bumper music. You know what that means? We have to take a quick break here at WKXL. Now, we are going to talk sports after the break. AJ will be with us throughout. But John Leahy, our regular Monday morning guest, is going to chime in and we'll talk a little bit about the recently held NHL draft. And where John is going to be to sign and sell his great books, his great works of literature. And we will talk with John right after the break. AJ will be here and we'll talk more about what are the Democrats to do at this point in time. Right back after these words, Kaylin Company Live, presented by Northeast Delta Dental, right here on WKXL, NHChalkRadio.com. Welcome back, Kaylin Company Live here, WKXL, NHChalkRadio.com, first day of vanity in Sanity. And our play to the week, if you missed it, is Got Lost, G-O-T-L-O-S-T. So if that's your play, give us a call. And when the great oil change from a weak family automotive, 603-224-1450, a man who just dialed that number is with us right now. And that is the great John Leahy John, good morning. And good morning, happy July for you. And that's right, as some people say, rabbits, right? Why do they say that, AJ? Do you know? I have no idea. Some people might say other things, but rabbits. And John Leahy, author, scholar, sportscaster, and true Renaissance man. And John of the NHL draft was held a few days ago, and as we talked about a few weeks ago, no surprise here. The number one pick was Macklin Celebrini out of BU to the San Jose Sharks. What is he going to mean to the Sharks? Well, that addition of Macklin Celebrini is going to make San Jose better immediately. Celebrini, of course, spent just the one year at BU, but he was lauded for his maturity. He was lauded for his outstanding play. And he is going to step in and make an immediate impact on San Jose, clearly the best player in the draft. And I had the chance to see him up close than personal this past year with BU when they played against Merrimack. And he is an all-world generational talent, much in the mold of Jack Eichl. And for San Jose, just got immediately better. And you'll see that he will make an immediate impact. Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about that for anyone that had the opportunity to see him play, whether it was in a regular season game or the Beanpot or whatever it might be. He is, I think, a game changer for San Jose, no doubt about that, who obviously holding the number one pick have a long way to go, but he is going to try to get them ultimately to the promised land. I mean, it takes a while for this to happen. I mean, as you know, with a guy like Connor McDavid, as great as he is. I mean, it took him a while to get Edmonton into the Stanley Cup final, and they nearly pulled it off. So it won't change overnight. I mean, San Jose will get better, I'm sure, but it does take a while. Yeah, it won't change overnight, but in Celebrini, San Jose has an outstanding building block to work around. I think that it is common knowledge that San Jose has struggled, and they are at the point where rebuilding needs to happen, and I can think of no better way for that to start than bringing in the number one overall pick in Macklin, Celebrini, and as I said, Ken, the sharks are getting a generational talent. And very true. Now, John, we texted during the week, I want to tell everyone that this Thursday, the 4th of July, we will be playing in the estimation of our WKXL listeners, friends of mine, including yourself, John. Their suggestions as the top nine baseball songs of all time will be played on the 4th of July. Don't you think that's a great soundtrack for the 4th of July, John? Yeah, and I like the psychology behind it, right? The top nine songs which correspond to the 9 innings of a baseball game. Right, or 9 players on the field, whatever it might be, and so, yep, top 9 will be played on Thursday during our special 4th of July broadcast right here on Caitlin Company between 8 and 9, and I tell people, record it, or listen to it online, whatever, and use it as your 4th of July soundtrack. You know, I know you love some patriotic songs, but use it as your 4th of July soundtrack, and you know, it's your barbecue, or whatever you might be up to on the 4th of July. And I know, speaking of music, John, you have a little concert coming up. Yeah, I do, but before I talk about that, can I get to ask you, how did you narrow it down to just 9? There's so many out there. Well, it is difficult. It is difficult. You know, some important decisions had to be made, and it's not finalized yet. I mean, we're still trying to work it out, but we're trying to get some of the kinks out of it, but it'll be the top 9 as determined by, you know, some of the people that responded to my Facebook post, some of the people I have talked to that have great baseball knowledge, including yourself, John Leahy, and I asked you what your favorite all-time baseball song was, and this was your response. Yes, there was a song that came out in the 70s, which was called "Hey, Hey, Red Sox", I believe. All right, do you have that racked up, Andrew? Here we go. It's summer again up in Boston, the red Sox are playing today, and once that first ball had been tossed in, and the dirt game gets underway. I always sit up in the bleachers. I get such a wonderful tail. I scream, and I yell like a madman, so the Sox know I'm their biggest fan. There's two outs and faces loaded. Three cones, two strikes is the call. Round and out, standing and cheering. Yes, it won over the wall, and now it's the end of it. The Sox are ahead 12 to 10. I'm glad when my home team is ready. Yeah, I didn't get to hear it on my end, Ken, but I'm sure you didn't. You didn't? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. People calling in on the radio when they call it on the phone, for some reason they can't hear it. Wow, I wasn't aware of that, but I'm sorry, John, but I think that was the one. Hey, Hey, Red Sox, that was John Lincoln Wright. Yes, John Lincoln Wright, and I'm not sure the exact year, but that was the song that you mentioned in our little texting conversation last week. There were so many. It could be good for the whole week. We could play the 45 best baseball songs of all time. But, you know, and I told people that Sweet Caroline is not a baseball song. If it's a baseball song, it has to have the word baseball in it, or at least some reference to baseball. Well, it's written by Neil Diamond. You have a baseball ball. Oh, man. Oh, what a stretch. What a stretch that was. Oh, my, my, my kid would be yelling at you too. Every time we go to the Fisher Cats, my kids freaking out about Sweet Caroline and we will rock you over and over again. I'm like, Oh, my God. Right. Oh, man. Oh, boy, that was a stretch. Everybody gets one. You know what I like. I like a lot better than Sweet Caroline. The Orioles seventh inning stretch song at Camden Yards. And you know what that is, John. Yes. Thank God I'm a country boy, John. Give that to me every day of the week over Sweet Caroline. Because that gets to me. That gets to, I know Sweet Caroline to a certain degree gets the crowd pumped up, but I love, thank God I'm a country boy, which goes back to Memorial Stadium years ago in Baltimore, long before Camden Yards. But anyway, all right, John. That song was written by John Summers, who was the fiddle player in John Denver's band. I have a great live version of one of the great songs ever written. I agree. I agree. Gets me more, a lot more pumped up if I, you know, if I'm there in the stands then Sweet Caroline. But nonetheless, we won't debate Sweet Caroline. It has to have a, say baseball in it or have a baseball reference of some kind. So that's why that's excluded too, because it doesn't. Thank God I'm a country boy. So John, talk about your appearances in New Hampshire. We want to hear about them. Yeah. Well, Ken, there have been a couple of book signings that have been scheduled in New Hampshire. And I'm happy to say that on the 18th of August, going to be at the Barnes and Noble in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. So if there are any UNH folks, we'd love to see you. That's very, very close to UNH. And that's on a Sunday afternoon in the 18th of August. And then of course, the final stop on the book tour is going to be September 14th. That's going to be in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Fine Noble in Kent. It's going to be doing a live internet radio broadcast for that final stop on the book tour. And I'm delighted to have you with me that day. And we're going to have a tremendous time at the Fine to Noble in Manchester. Well, I look forward to that. I have circled on my calendar. I know the New Hampshire Mountain Kings will be played hockey that same day. But I am going to be there at Barnes and Noble on September the 14th in Manchester, right across from the mall of New Hampshire. And be with my great friend John Leahy, a true, true Renaissance man. Hey, John, we have to run. But thank you. And we will talk to you soon. Have a great 4th of July. All right, Ken, thank you, thank you, and it is always a pleasure to talk to you. All right, and don't forget to tune in on Thursday. Oh, yeah, we'll be there for sure. All right. John Leahy, ladies and gentlemen, and we will take a break. AJ Kierstent is here in studio, and we will talk more. What does the DNC do now, folks? Right here, WKXL, NH ChalkRadio.com, proudly presented by Northeast Delta Dental. We'll be right back. Kale and Company Live here on WKXL, NH ChalkRadio.com, first day of July. And you know what that means, AJ? The end of the day. The end of the day. The end of the day. The end of the day. You've been to Canada, right? Yes, but that's why we invited you here. Oh, yeah. It's Canada Day. And aren't you many baseball games today, but the Toronto Blue Jays always play on Canada Day, and they're playing today against Houston. There was one year they played the Red Sox on Canada Day, and it wasn't too long ago. And for some reason, whoever was managing the Blue Jays at the time, because they usually have the biggest crown of the year on Canada Day, and they did not have Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the lineup on Canada Day. And this caused an outrage throughout the entire country. I mean, the one day, you know, I mean, he plays most of the time. He's a pretty reliable guy, and they have him out of the lineup for a little rest on Canada Day. Not the day. Not the day. Not the day. At all. They usually pack the place on Canada Day, and I'm sure they will today. And I'm sure he'll be in the lineup today for the Toronto Blue Jays. But we have more important things to talk about than Vlady Jr. today anyway. And we are talking about what the DNC will do now, the Democratic National Committee. Now, here's Aja. I don't know if you saw this over the weekend, but their convention is coming up in Chicago August 19th to the 22nd, and over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune. Now, pleaded with Biden in an editorial, normally a paper favorable to Joe Biden. And they pleaded with him to step aside. There's so much of that. Like, I can't think of anyone that is a serious, even somewhat serious political commentator on the left. So, we're not going to do something like this, but we're going to do something to alter Biden's image or recover, or he needs to drop out. Matt Robeson of Beyond Politics used to be here in KXL, was in Newsweek with Notbeds, talking about, like, he's been pretty. He's on Cliff Schechter's YouTube channel, who is the most pro Biden, Clinton, like, old, like, establishment Democrats. It's a terrible channel, my opinion, sorry. Cliff does a good job with how it looks and everything, but I hate the channel. The amount of Matt, but come on. It's Matt saying, like, this is a real issue. They need to completely change his image, either do the, maybe do the, maybe he didn't say this, maybe do the COVID method of hiding him away in his basement until election day and hoping no one notices. That's what they did last time, Matt. I think that's what they're going to have to do this time. I can't imagine more exposure to the public is going to help anything. You cannot try out a bunch of celebrities and Jill and all these other people that aren't policy people to say, oh, we're fine. Don't worry about it. He'll be just fine. When we saw on the news, on CNN, rebroadcast and all the other cable news outlets, how terrible he did. You know what scares me the most? I mean, I don't care. I, you know, I think that he is going to be the candidate come November for the Democrats. But what scares me the most is, you know, what the rest of the world thinks about us and how weak we look with him as president of the United States, the leader of the free world. Allegedly an important thing we should be considering during the Trump administration, but suddenly we don't care about that so much. Funny how that works, huh? It is. It is very strange how that works. And, you know, we have to look weak to the rest of the world. I mean, you think about, you know, all the, you know, the tumult there is going on in the world these days in so many parts of our world that you really have to be concerned about that. I think everyone's so distracted by Ukraine and Israel that the blinders are on and they're not caring. They're ignoring the flailing economy, the inflation through the roof all over the planet right now. The fact that Russia is not hurting as bad as we thought they were going to be, the world is split when it comes to Israel Gaza. On what side we should go with or not go with and where war funding should go. We're ignoring the immigration problem and the Republicans are paying attention to it, but on a whole, I think if you're not politically involved, you're not really paying attention to it. And this is a global movement problem. This isn't just the southern border. I mean, you hear what's going on over in Europe with their immigration issues and the fallout from what Germany went through and Sweden went through a decade ago. And they're feeling it big time right now and we're ignoring the impacts of it. I think as far as the election is concerned, I am convinced that Biden will still be the standard bearer for the Democrats because he has all the power. He has all the delegates. It's only him that can decide to step down. And he's not going to be discouraged by Jill. Dr. Jill, he won't be discouraged by her. Who is there anybody out there? There's only one person that comes to my mind. Anybody that could talk with him and say, "Joe, you got to step aside." My thought is Barack Obama would be the only one that could possibly talk him out of it. And he probably wouldn't do it because he's probably pulling the strings to everything we do now anyway. Yeah, exactly. It's the Obama cabinets in place. It's going to make him look terrible. He helped prop Biden up, even though it doesn't look like they're really like each other in any possible way. It's the strangest relationship between the two of them. I don't know what Biden did in the background during that administration, but they basically can't say anything unless they have someone else to prop up instead. Who's it going to be? I'd say, unfortunately, I just wrote comments on my Twitter account. It's beyond parody, but Jill Biden is the only one. It's obvious she's there pulling the strings of Biden himself in the cabinet. Yeah. Who else is there? It's not his chief of staff. I can't even remember off the top of my head who it is because it's a non-existent person. Usually that's the key person. A Korean Jean Pierre, who's the face of the entire administration, because everyone else is hiding. It's strictly the press secretary. And what are they going to do? Who's the transportation dude there? Yeah, former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Who do they do? You push Buttigieg up, who is allegedly being grown to go in that position? He's shown as an outer failure when it comes to executive politics. Yeah, I think, you know, of all the Democrats on the bench as it were, Senator Amy Klobuchar would not be a bad selection. Yeah, they won't go with another normie kind of background random Democrat because they've made the case that we don't want that. Repeatedly, they've pushed the progressive wing of the party to such an extent that they've cannibalized a lot of the normie Democrats that were there to begin with. It's going to be too problematic when it gets to the press because they're going to want someone that's going to be anti-Israel and pro-Palestine. They're going to want someone that's got to balance when it comes to Ukraine. They're going to want someone that's going to push for universal health care and all these things. I think the reason why Biden has run ran as kind of a normie but ended up kind of in the presidency as more of a progressive individual for the most part, at least on the face of it, is because that's where the winds of popular opinion are right now. It's not going to be someone like that who would be reasonable. I don't necessarily like the person, but I don't see it working out. I think you're right about that. They have gone so far to the left that it is unbelievable. Bernie would have won if it wasn't for what happened four years ago. He would have. That's what they were scared of. I mean, New Hampshire voters are smart. Biden was fifth in the New Hampshire primary in 2020. Obviously, he did not get the stamp for approval and it looked like after New Hampshire that he was pretty much done, but then South Carolina to the rescue. Definitely. I mean, just looking to the current state of affairs, you don't need to watch the whole debate. Watch the first 15 minutes. You'll see Biden wave to no one. There's no audience in the room. If anyone didn't realize that, there's no audience in the room. It's just TV production equipment. I think Dana Bash gave him a little wink. Yeah. We'll take care of you, Joe. Honestly, I thought people ahead of time and I was maybe a skeptic myself, thought that CNN would be there to protect him every step of the way, but I thought they did a pretty good job. There's the best debate moderators I could have imagined, which is shocking, because I didn't speak well of Bash or Tapper going into it. You bashed Bash? Yes. Yes, you did. And Jake Tapper. AJ Kirsten is here, AJ, of course, formerly of WKXL. Now, host of the New England Take. How long does the New England take on the internet? 2021. When I started here at KXL, went online 100% last September. No, there you go. Any take.or New England Take. New England Take. Not any take. No, no, no, no. Not any take. It's AJ's Take. Yes. New England Take.com. And, of course, with the New Hampshire Insurance Department. Oh, and they appear with us every month. The first Tuesday of every month, including tomorrow. There's a rumor of that effect, anyway, that they will be represented here tomorrow. AJ is here. We have one more break on this rapidly paced Monday morning, the first of July. We will be right back. We are presented by the Northeast Elded Endle. ♪♪ ♪♪ Kaelin Company live here on WKXL and htockradio.com. Presented by Northeast Elded Endle. AJ Kiersted. Live and in living color in our WKXL studios this morning. Studio, he's very familiar with all of them right here at WKXL. He knows them better than anybody. He knows. So, AJ, who was the big winner on Thursday night in the debate? Our friend Robert Kennedy Jr. 100% that RFK there by... I was going into it going, "I don't know whether he should be there or not," because of the numbers. He's not in that many state ballots. But him not being there, it's going to be huge for him because the progressives and the Democrats, they're not going to vote for Biden so many of them now. They're definitely not going to vote for Trump. Literally, it's the screw you vote is officially RFK Jr. And he's going to probably get in the double digits. Oh, yeah. I mean, the way the polling is right now, he's definitely in double digits. I saw like 18% the last polling I saw. Yeah. And Biden and Trump are just about neck and neck. And, you know, don't have a candidate RFK does not have the numbers they do. But I think he was a beneficiary because I honestly, I thought Trump, you know, we know how Biden did. But I thought Trump was just okay at best. I think that's the best we could have asked for because we don't want peak Trump where he goes screaming over the dementia-ridden old guy in the next podium. Personally, just talking about his delivery and the way he handled himself, I think he did exactly what he should have done. Because if he came across as too aggressive or too argumentative or anything like that, it would have been a problem. And he got the one-liners. He got the comebacks, the whole, we've beat Medicaid by Biden. And Trump turns around and says, "Yeah, you did. You killed it. You beat it in the ground in Medicare, too." That was a perfect setup, wasn't it? It was amazing because he kept doing, kept screwing up. And Trump was low energy Trump, which I think for first debate in June, where he wants to basically, he did what I was saying was going to be the best thing going into it for the most part, which is point at the other guy. The other guy is the problem. I'm just not him. Just vote for me because I'm not him. You have good memories in the back of your head on when I was president three and a half years ago. Use that nostalgia push there to pull ahead. I mean, Trump lied constantly. I mean, there's no way around it. He said, "A whole bunch of nonsense. So did Biden. They're politicians. I really don't care." When was the last time we had a debate where honestly we were caring about facts? Well, in all honesty, I mean, to me, the entire Biden administration has been a lie. Yeah. I mean, from start to finish. Well, it's not finished yet, but it may be soon. Is it though? Is it though? It may be soon. I don't know. I'm not sure it is even the Biden administration. I don't know who's pulling the strings, but judging by the performance on Thursday, that, you know, it's not him. You know, he can go up there on the next day and look like a completely different guy. I remember in the state of the union. I mean, he came out fired up, and I think that's one of the reasons. The Trump, prior to the debate on Thursday, wanted a drug test. Yep. You know, I mean... Which is... I know it's bizarre because Trump would fail it too. Because Trump knows what that guy's on. He's 78 years old, and he comes into these evening rallies, just jacked up and ready to go, and full of like the vigor of someone who's in his 50s. And like, the rumors have been forever. He takes suit of methamphetamine. And like, this has been something that's been well known for a very long time. He's a New Yorker from the good old days. I can't imagine he's 100% sober. He doesn't drink, and he survives off Diet Coke. Yeah. But it was... When was the last time? And I don't think there was a time during the Biden administration that he has held a press conference where the questions and the questioners were not pre-screened. Yeah. And he had all the note cards on the podium when he was taking these questions from reporters. I mean, Trump during his four years. I mean, he was holding a press conference really, not officially, but almost every day when he got on a plane, he'd be surrounded by reporters and he'd be talking to them for a half hour, you know, just off the cuff. And Biden has not done that. He's held fewer press conferences. I do believe than any other president. Yeah, I believe that's the case. And anyone that doesn't believe the... Oh, the screening questions is revealed a year ago. I think the New York Times even covered it. Like, it is very well known. He screens questions. And just pay attention. Any of the clips that go viral of him blankly staring at the press waving at them like the Queen or something. Or just screaming at him. Come on, man. I don't think he said come on, man, one time. He did not. He said, come on. I know he said come on. No, come on, man. I was waiting for the match. I was harassing my kid nonstop the whole week leading up to the debate because it's just hilarious to me at this point. But he didn't say it once. I mean, that's one win. Yeah, he didn't rely on that. There you go. There's one check mark in the Biden column. But other than that, it was just a horrific performance and the next day he comes out in Raleigh, North Carolina. Comes out in Angry Joe once again. Like he was at the State of the Union. I mean, he was on fire at the State of the Union. And the same thing Friday, you know, like 12 hours after the debate or just a little bit more than 12 hours after the debate. But that's what teleproctors in a script will do. Exactly. It's going to be definitely like Reagan and such. We're not going to know what exactly is going on until many years in the future, unfortunately, because it's obvious there's a health issue. It seems like so many people are saying that it appears dementia. Like he's early stages. He's probably taking medicine for it. Right. Shouldn't say early stages. He's having obvious decline. He can't walk anymore properly. He's in there. We say, oh, Trump could barely walk. There was one clip of a wet ramp. And the guy is once again in his mid 70s. Right. Like it is not comparable. It's dishonest if you're making that argument. Yeah. And you know that everybody ages differently. It's not all the same. Look at Bernie's fine. He's always been cranky. And he's older than Biden. Yeah. We know Bernie. And you're right. I mean, if the DNC and South Carolina hadn't stepped in, there's a very, very good chance that he would have been president the last four years. And I just don't think that Trump went hard enough in the debate on energy. Yeah. I really don't. Because of course, the Keystone pipeline was shut down by Joe Biden. Day one of his administration. Remember how many executive orders he signed? The first day of his administration. One of them was the Keystone pipeline. And at that time, we were energy independent. We're not any longer. We're not buying gasoline and oil from some of our biggest enemies, like Venezuela. Yeah. And we're funding some of the wars by the money we're spending on oil from other countries. Yeah. And you brought up during the break, too. This is a huge impact on inflation because everything needs to be transported. We're a huge country that relies on air and ground transport to get anything anywhere. But when your food prices go up, it's 30 percent like we've seen over the last year easily. Gas prices are a huge impact on that. Now, just prior to the election, and we're assuming that Biden will still be the candidate for the Democrats, the Hunter Biden trial is going to take place. Yeah. And there's going to be a lot more dirt coming out from the laptop. It'll be very public, I would think. And is that going to have an impact? At this point, I think that the spotlights all on Biden. The only people that are going to care about what's going on with Hunter Biden are the Republicans. They're just going to use it for more ammo in the can there for attacking. But I really don't see the average person carrying at this point when things are so obviously bad. It's been kind of helpful to show the Biden family corruption and the issues at hand with that. But I think it would have been a problem forever ago. The big thing that I'm really hoping is we don't continue this as they've been doing with Trump is bringing up charges three years after the fact when they're no longer in office. So either do it or don't. Now's your chance, they're not going to do it. The legislature split. Nothing's going to become a video thing. Alright, so when we go to the polls in early November, what will a Democratic ticket be? It'll probably still be by. If he doesn't have a deathly decline where he cannot stand in front of a crowd or a teleprompter anymore, then things are going to change. But as is, it was in the New Hampshire Bulletin today, Dana Warmold, who's the editor over there, wrote his article was, "How did you guys not know this was going on?" And I'd say, because you guys have been covering it up with your left-wing op-eds. Everybody's been obvious. It's obvious. You know, feigning shock, I think, over the last few days. Exactly. From the left. Yeah. It's going to be Trump, probably, in the 40s. It's going to be Biden somewhere in the 40s, maybe. And then the rest of our Mr. RFK Jr. Yeah, there you go. So who's going to be Trump's vice president? I want to see Tim Scott so bad, but I don't know. Oh, me too. I'd love to see the Liberty-loving dude who's got South Carolina. We'll see. I wanted, I didn't want Tim originally. I think Tim is great. I really do. But at any rate, I think that would be a great ticket for the Republicans. Well, at least half of it anyway. I wanted to see Telsi Gabbard. Yeah. Yeah. But at any rate, or even Nikki Haley, but I don't think that's going to happen as vice president. All right, that'll do it. AJ, you've been great, as always. AJ Kierz dead from the New Hampshire and Pool Department of Insurance. Also from the New England Take, NewEnglandTake.com. And AJ, thanks so much. Always fun to have you in the studio. And thanks to you for listening. Don't forget our Play to the Week is got lost. That's yours. 603-224-1450. Thanks very much for listening. Thanks to our executive producer Andrew Gibson. And remember, folks, to always look on the bright side of life. We are presented by Northeast Delta Temple. Have a great Monday, everybody. [MUSIC]