There's an event coming up soon called an Evening with Michael Savage. Life as a Conservative in San Francisco. Now the event is actually being there is sold out. You can watch it as a pay per view at Michael Savage dot com. And we thought we'd talked to the man himself. Indeed, one of the unique voices in the history of radio. Um, whether you love him or hate him, you've got to recognize that he is a brave man
who doesn't particularly care whether you agree or not. And in spite of being one of the giants of talk radio, he has been unfailingly kind and generous to us throughout our careers. Michael Savage joins us. Now, Michael, how are you, sir? God you have some way of delivering stuff. I'm humbled, man, you're the best. How do you do that? Stop? That's what an introduction? That was? Holy God, I was raised right.
Try to be kind. I remember when you didn't didn't you appear on stage with the years and years and years ago a couple different times. Oh yeah, yeah, you guys did a great job, and you're doing you're doing great now on KGO locally right in US. The country is syndicated you know it's going it's going pretty well. We just keep grinding. That's all you can do. As you've probably thought of various times, the fact that I get to pay my house payment and feed my family
by talking on the radio is a pretty awesome deal. Yeah, it's a long it's a long haul. It's a very tough business in this polarized world we live in, primarily because there's no freedom of speech. The left wing has decided that they should control uh literally all the air waves, all the print medium. Universities are gone, and if they don't like what you say, they try to shut you down. This is the problem of being, let us say, an independent in San Francisco or a liberal community. Why we
don't have freedom? The First Amendment went out the window? Win, right? And I'm sure because and you know, this is one of a series of contrasts I want to bring up that that really speak to your life in the shape it's taken. But you've lived in the very very liberal Bay Area as a conservative man or independent man for a very long time. Have you seen in the tone of the conversation change in those years? And how it's
an interesting question. When I first arrived here, in nineteen seventy four, there were two newspapers and they were moderate B plus or B newspapers that they were pretty good. Well one went. Now all we have is a mimigraphs she put out by Nancy Pelosi or Willie Brown. There is no newspaper in the city. There's no opposition, a position on anything. Libertarianism gone. You know that Jerry Brown compared to Governor Newsom is almost conservative. What Newsom has
done since you've become governor. But there's no opposition permitted, is what I'm getting at. Yet it's changed dramatically. The meanness, the hostility, the hatred, the outright violence of the left is what has emerged, and it's leading to i would say, very bad consequences for everyone. It's pretty interesting you look at some of the college campuses like Berkeley, for instance.
You know, some of the some of the very homes of the free speech movement who will now no longer let anybody who's to the you know, slightly to the right of Nancy Plose even show up at their campus. It's surprising to me that some of the old hippies that fought for free speech allow that to happen. Well, the old hippies are dead or have Alzheimer's disease, is something like that. There there are no old hippies anymore.
There's a new generation, a new wave of intolerant people who call themselves liberals, but actually, if you analyze what they are, they are the fascists of our time under the disguise of liberalism. But let's stop catching about it. What can we do about it other than to stand up to them and you know, assert our own rights. It's as simple as that they don't like what we have to say. I don't like what they have to say. That's what makes for um, I guess the democracy. It's
called disagreement, isn't it absolutely? You know, speaking of disagreement, contrast and that sort of thing. We understand that you you wrote on Air Force One with President Trump recently, which had to be an amazing experience. Who wanted to tell us about that a little bit? Well, I'll tell you what I can. I mean, it was it was design its pinnacle of my professional career. I was thrilled to be with the President on Air Force One. Just being on the plane alone was a goal of mine.
I'm a machinery guy, equipment. Man, I love planes. I love cars, you know what I'm saying. I mean, I do like equipment engines, the roar of the of the engines alone. But let's say, yeah, okay, I was at a fundraiser for the President in the Menlo Park somewhere up in the hills and Palo Alto, let's say, And he was going to be flying with his with his you know, his team, the whole flying white House down to l A that very afternoon to another fundraiser, and
I asked if I could go. They said, sure, you've got carte blanche. But it wasn't until a few minutes before they were leaving. Actually, I was only told twenty minutes before that they could get me on the flight. This was not pre planned. So I mean, let's say I have friends and high places. Let's put it that way. They got me on the plane. Unto itself, it was like walking into like Jonah and the whale. Okay, let's
put it that way. Jonah and the whale. You walk into the whale and these all these people doing things. Everyone's working so hard that I like talk show hosts actually do things to run the country, to run the departments, of defense and whatnot to make the plane run. They have to work and they have to do it right, and it was amazing. So I did not know if I get to meet the box. I certainly didn't push
I'm not a pushy guy, not much. But they knew I wanted to see him because I have been very critical of some of the President's positions for a long time, and I don't think he really likes people who disagree with him very much. He respects them, but he doesn't really, you know, want them around him. I mean, like any other leader. I don't think Obama really invited people around them unless they agreed with him. Any great leader, any leader of any great nation, any leader of anything, doesn't
like criticism. I never I met one who did. Did you know? They might claim they do, but it makes him bristle. You're right, okay. So I didn't know if if he'd want to see me. So I had a quick meal of some for shudo and melon in the dining area of the boardroom. I guess that's not disclosing any secrets. And then I was not a Russian asset, are you No? No, not yet, not that I know of. I'm still waiting for my papers. Uh uh yeah. So then they said, okay, first they gave me a tour.
My my host gave me a tour of the plane up and down all the way up into the flight control center. It was amazing. No, that was pretty awesome. If you like flying, and if you like planes, you know it's only a minute flight down to l A to where we went from Offfittfield. We're flying into l A. X H anyway comes to Yeah, okay, he's gonna see you. Now, let's see what I could disclose without violating protocol. Here they bring me into the flying oval office that people
who hosted me. Sat on the sofa. The king waved his hand to the left as a chair next to his desk. Didn't even look at me, put his waved his hand to the left, meaning sit there. Wow. Uh. He didn't say hello, Michael, He just said nothing. He pointed, I sat there. He was like the principle, right, you called into the principal's office. Sit there, basically with the hand. Then he said something which I can't repeat, and um, I said, no, I disagree with you completely. And we
had a little actual dispute. Truthfully, we did. Wow. Well, he's open to discussion. We wouldn't have had me there, right, Okay, So I didn make a long story short, so this is a short flight. Valet comes in with his lunch. He had just given a tremendous speech. Uh, which were two hot dogs. I don't need a lot of hot dogs, but when they were on me and I'm hungry, he must have seen my eyes dart at the hot dog. You know what I'm saying, Like, when you're hungering, your
eyes and dart it will be food. You're like a wild animal. He's so sensitive to people. He says, do you want one? I'm sure? All right, So he has the valet signals. Valet brings out dish. Valet spoons one onto my plate. The president listen to this. Show you how people don't understand this. He looks at me and he says, do you want mustard to catch up? Which was on his plane. Yeah, the president in the United States is asking you if you want mustard. That's what
I'm trying to say. People don't understand this. You can tell more about a man by the small things than by the big things. Anyone can fake the big things, you can't fake the small things. He's actually a very generous, sensitive individual. You say, well, hell are you talking about mustard? To ketchup? Mustard to ketchup? I said, I don't need sugar, so she gave me the mustard offers plate. It was a great hot dog. I hear it was kosher. Now
that's a loaded statement. I was totally afterwards. There was a kosher hot dog. So I joked on my radio yesterday that Trump served kosher hot dogs on the airplane, which shows that he's anti Semitic. What well, that's to cover up the fact that he's anti Semitic. He gets kosher hot dogs. Link that to the Washington Post. Right, he uses kosher hot dogs to disguise his membership in the ku Klux Planer. Michael Savage is on the line and evening with Michael Savage will have uh information on it.
You can see it at Savage at Michael Savage dot com. Hey listen, um, I was going to ask you about you know, you've always been a proud and stubborn outsider er. How do you resist the temptation become an insider? But you just answer that you sit on Air Force one, tell the president he's wrong. So we can move on from that topic to I didn't say you're wrong. Well I did say you're wrong. I actually could say no, you're wrong about something. Yeah, that's that's fact I think
about it. That is my rhetoric. Yes, yeah, so hey, listen, in the time we have left I Joe especially have I've stopped using the term the homeless, and I'm using bums and junkies because the thank you they are bums and junkies. And there's a nice award we just called vagrance, right, yeah, yeah, because the folks who are down on their luck and trying hard and they got kids and blah blah blah,
they're not causing any of these problems. The problems folks are talking about, especially in your progressive cities, are caused by bums and junkies. Reopen the mental hospitals. Reopened the mental hospitals, build new hospitals, build new mental hospitals. Get them off the streets. They are a disaster for our society.
And let's be very very clear. The violence has gotten out of control, whether it's in San Francisco or New York City, pushing people on the railroad tracks, beating them up, hitting them with things, even in San Francisco, you see these crazy bums walking around with golf clubs. This is not civil society. This is a breakdown of civil society brought about by uber liberalism. Ultraliberalism has destroyed our cities. Well, California has half the homeless population of the entire country
and can't keep its electricity on. So that's not a good look. Well, if you were a who didn't work and you're a drug addict and you're collecting all of these wonderful benefits, and you go around beating people up in the street and the cops can't arrest you, and you get all the benefits, and you've got all these social workers getting on their hands and knees giving you a turkey sandwich. Uh, and ask you how you feel today, Mr Jones. Wouldn't you come to California? Hell? Yeah, unless
I went to Portland or Seattle. Oh, I'm sorry, right, but the weather is not quite as good this time of year, right, And they're likewise choked with bums and junkies. These are once the most beautiful cities in the country. Again, I say, let us say liberalism is a good idea for some. It has failed societies around the globe miserably well. All humanity needs balance in all things, in my opinion, and the politics a lot of these cities have become
completely unbalanced, and we've seen the results. An evening with Michael Savage Life as a Conservative in San Francisco is sold out, but you can view it online at Michael Savage dot com. I'm sure you can find it there. If not, we'll have a link at Armstrong and Getty dot com so you can find your way. Thank you for your time, Dr Savage. I love you, guys. I'd
love to have you at an event next time. Make You're too big for me now stop it so always a pleasure, Michael, best of the family and be well. Thanks guys, you got it. Good story about having a hot dog with the president. Wow. Air Force one quality hot dogs. You know. I don't know that I should live so long. I don't know if anybody can get past politics anymore. There's a time when you know, every sports team visited the White House, no matter who was I would be thrilled to ride on Air Force one
with the flipping President of the United States. I don't care who it is, of course, not what an unbelievable experience to have just be going around shaking door handles. What's find this one? Oh yeah, and just the thought of that go, well, just the thought of the power that is on that plane and the technology which would be the best in the world of everything. Well, yeah,
it's funny. Michael who if you don't know, he's trained as a scientist, and the fact that he's fascinated by the machinery of it and the efficiency and the technology doesn't surprise me. Yeah, I would once in my life love to see that. But tend to sit down with whoever is the president in this case Trump and have a well you wouldn't have a hot dog with most presidents. He has a b expansion. He gets two hot dogs. You need some cutchuper mustard. Yeah, here's the mustard. Fantastic.
The clip we need is that that was a good hot dog. It was a great hot dog. Or runever, that was funny, That's cool, what a great experience. So I didn't realize that, so he got on the plane. He didn't know if he was going to get to talk to the president just right on the plane, or I didn't know he was gonna get on the plane until right before the plane. Then it's all very walk this way the Flying Oval Office. What a cool place to get to sit. Yeah, yeah, very and I wish
you could have told us what they were discussing. No pictures, Nothing leaves this room. Secret Service agent will tell you for the rest of your life to make sure that you know holds. Yeah, that's wild. Yea interesting story. Our text line four five two nine five k f TC The Armstrong and Getty Show, Armstrong