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Live around the world on the internet at michaeldukeshow.com and across the state of Alaska on this, your favorite radio station and or FM translator. Hello, my friends, and good morning to you. How are you doing? Welcome to the big radio show for Monday. That's weird. I got no got no picture. OK. No sweat. We're going to continue on here. We're going to keep things rolling. It's Monday morning and we have got a lot of stuff to go over.
And I want to say, hey, how are you? And congratulations to all those winners for the Homer Winter King Tournament. It was... Well, it was a lot. There was a lot going on on Saturday. For those of you who missed it, it was a great time. A great time was had. Buy all. Let's just put it that way. It was definitely a fun, such a beautiful day down here on the Homer Spit. It was a lot of sunlight. It started off really poorly. It was raining. It was raining pretty hard.
And it was a little cloudy and everything else. And then boom, it got real nice. It got real nice. Big sunshine. uh low winds and lots of fish and there were a lot of folks out there that were uh uh enjoying it and putting putting their lines in the water uh it was my first time broadcasting the uh Winter King tournament and being on the radio and being on the, I was on both the VHF and on the regular radio. And, uh, I just had a great time, just a great time. And, uh, um, I, I felt, uh,
I felt tired but satisfied at the end of eight hours of broadcasting out there throughout the day. So what a blessing to be able to be part of it. So anyway, it was a great weekend. Short weekend, because obviously had some work going on. But here we are. Back to Monday. Back to the grind. Back to the... To the madness that is, I guess, politics today. Politics today. So let's get into it. What do we got ahead of us here? What do we got?
What do we got in the hopper for today? Well, there is a ton of stories, all seemingly related to the potential for cutting of... For cutting the federal government. There's so much fervor and falter. And every time I hear every time I hear another. Yelp or cry or, you know, rending of clothes about how horrible this is and how I'm constantly reminded of the of the old. The old saying that government that is big enough to provide you with everything is also big enough to take everything away.
And that seems to be what a lot of people are trying to embrace, trying to embrace that the government should be providing pretty much everything to everybody. And that's a real problem. That's a real problem for us. So good morning to KGTL and KPEN for joining us this morning. I just realized that I had forgotten to...
I forgot to take something out here. I forgot to take out Mike Gallagher last week when I was traveling, so I apologize for those of you who are catching us now on our sister stations there. But, you know, as I look around, it just surprises me that so many people have got the big butt. They've got big butts and they cannot lie. And the big butts are all around the fact that, well, I mean, I know that there's fraud, waste, and abuse. I know there's fraud, waste, and abuse, but...
Don't cut my program, bro. Or don't cut away this thing, bro. I know that it's horrible and horrific and it's a huge waste of money, but it's... We like the idea of cuts, but you're not doing it right. Well, the problem is that... We've talked about waste, fraud, and abuse for years. We've talked about, I mean, there's been whistleblowers, there's been reports, there's been news stories, there's been, and nobody has ever done anything significant about it.
And that's the huge problem. Nobody has ever done anything significant about all this waste, fraud, and abuse that we know is happening, that we know is going on. And so now it's like, well, we don't like what's happening. We don't like the way that... Well, you know what? Neither do we. We don't like the way that it's happening either. I mean, we really don't.
And but well, I mean, maybe some of us like the way that it's happening. We don't like that. The fact we just don't flat out don't like the fact that it's happening at all and that nothing has been done about it. That's the worst part. Nothing has been done about it. Nothing appears to there doesn't appear to be any reason to to do anything about it because everybody's fat, dumb and happy.
And so now here we are with a president who's finally doing something about it. And everybody's butthurt because, well, we, you know, we. We do our thing and the deal and the other thing and the deal. Sorry. That's just, I mean, we've got to do what we've got to do, right? Because if it doesn't get done now. Nothing is going to get done. If we don't take care of it now, nothing is going to change.
If you admit that we have waste, fraud, and abuse, then you have to acknowledge that what we've tried to do in the past, and if you're intellectually honest with each other... or even with just yourself in the quietude of your own home, you realize that even though we've acknowledged that there's waste, fraud, and abuse and that there's problems across the country, We have not taken any steps to really fix it. Billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.
And, and I mean, and of course the problem is they act like this can all be done without someone or read at this point, everyone. being hurt their protests that have been going on around the country um up in fairbanks they had a there was a protest where like a hundred people showed up and to walk around the town and talk about how, you know, that, you know, that they're upset about.
You know, Trump bad. Elon bad. You know, the whole thing. But Must Read actually wrote a little interesting blurb here. Suzanne Downing said. Locals in Fairbanks said many of the protesters looked like they were not locals. They looked like a tour group. They were dressed up like a tour group. Because Fairbanks is a pretty small town, and you recognize people. When you're driving around and looking at this, but activists on both sides recognize each other.
And still smile and wave even if they're on different sides. The protesters did not look familiar to the local residents and seemed unfamiliar with local residents. So, I mean, are they astroturfing this? Are they bringing people in? I don't know. Maybe. But I know they had a hundred and something people down in Juneau as well, shaking their signs. And it became, it was all about Trump bad, Elon bad.
Not about, see, if you can't attack the message, if you can't go to the root problem of the message, you attack the messenger. And that's where we're at today. Oh, yes, we don't like waste, fraud, and abuse, but Elon is not the guy to do it. Trump is not the guy to do it. Well, if not them, then who? And if not now, then when? Do I understand that people will be hurt? Well, don't you understand? Children and dogs and cats and... Yes, I understand.
I understood from the very beginning that if you go into government and if you cut out the waste, fraud, and abuse, that the recipients of that waste and fraud... And those who are benefiting from the abuse of the system are going to be, you know, they're going to feel the pinch. And in this case, because the federal government is in every part of our life, I mean, it's just, it's everywhere. Because the federal government is in every part of our life.
then, yeah, everybody's going to feel it. Everybody is going to have to shoulder some of that burden. And that's just part of the medicine, right? And unfortunately, we've gone so far that a spoonful of sugar is not going to make the medicine. go down any more or any more smoothly. Because it's in every part of our lives. And so now it's like, well, we got the thing and the deal. what do you think is going here's the thing let me just let me just let me just back this up for a moment
What do you think is going to happen if we leave things just the way they are? What do you think is going to happen? If we continue and I'm talking now at the national level, not at the state level, although the same thing holds true here in the state. What do you think is going to happen if we just left things as they are? And we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion. I mean, $34 trillion.
The $34 trillion. And eventually we're going to hit a wall. We're going to hit a point of diminishing returns. where they'll, you know, the U.S. will be putting more money up for bonds. That's how they borrow money, right, is that they issue U.S. bonds and they do. But pretty soon. There won't be any buyers for those bonds because they don't trust the government's ability to pay them back. And eventually.
our ability to borrow money will evaporate. Now that will cause us just to print more money. and cause a huge inflationary spike, right? I mean, so eventually that will be the beginning. When we can't borrow money anymore, that will be the beginning of the end because then we'll just start inflating the monetary supply. And then things really go off the rail. Right? I mean, folks, we have borrowed so much money.
That the largest single expenditure in the government by far is just the payment on interest. Do you think that can continue? And the fact that they may have found, you know, into the billions of dollars in savings, billions of dollars in savings. The fact that they found some of that things that we could recoup and that people are just squawking about, well, you can't cut my program. You can't cut that. That's just. And then, of course, instead of.
Instead of in some of them, instead of saying that you can't cut my program, they're saying, well, you can't cut it that way. You can't do it that way. I may agree with you, but that's not the right way to do it. I mean, at this point, we've got to kind of cut it out with a chainsaw, don't we? And it's just amazing. But this is where we're at.
And then we've got some homegrown groups, and we're going to talk a little bit about extremism today. A friend of mine sent me something that was just so pertinent. And so we're going to talk about that here in a minute. This big rally in Anchorage, this what do they call it? An empty town hall, empty, empty, empty chair town hall or something like that. It's theater.
More than anything else. We'll discuss that here in a minute. And more. All right. We got to go. We're up against the brake. We're going to continue here in just a minute. The Michael Duke Show, common sense, liberty-based. Free Thicken Radio. We'll be back right after this. If you missed the show, you can listen to it on your time with Duke's On Demand. Oh, and it's free. Like America used to be. Streaming live every weekday morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com.
Okay. Oh, man. That was a little bit of a train wreck here this morning. All right. Hi. How are you? How are you? We need Xanax and Ozempic to make the medication go down. Oh, and another jab. That will do it. Oh, man. Attack the messenger, said Kevin, like four majority members did during Sullivan's speech to the legislature. Total lack of respect of Sullivan and for the House. Zero decorum. I thought it was just one. Was it four? Missed that. Scrolling backwards here. Scrolling backwards.
Anthony says the average mouth breather doesn't understand that excessive waste and bloated budgets is creating the need for itself. As the average citizen gets poorer and poorer, bearing the burden of supporting it. We don't need welfare if you're not going broke for paying for the program. Yeah, I mean, that's a self-licking ice cream cone if I've ever seen one. Alright, back to the morning stuff here. Alright, let me close that here.
Greg says that it was probably out of staters in the Fairbanks talking about the talking about that must read story. But then I saw that Fat Ray said. Michael, those people organized on the Fairbanks Reddit. They do not agree with you that fraud, waste and abuse are bad. Maybe it was maybe it was all local folks that we just that they just never been seen before. But again.
what is their proposal what is their proposal to that sorry my wife's dog is coming to visit me here this morning my door doesn't latch And the dog has decided to come in and visit with me this morning. There we go. Kim says, even my grandkids apparently are watching too much social media. Grandpa, Trump is closing the Department of Education. He's the worst president ever.
16 years old and feels like the world's coming to an end. It's crazy. It took some serious explaining to help him understand the good and why closing and turning it over to the States is a good thing. Of course, because again, you've got a whole. You've got a whole situation where you've got a whole situation where the the answer to every problem is government. Right.
That's what's going on. You've got more kids going to Rome and coming back as Romans looking to Rome for the solution of every problem. You know, it's it's it's just it's insane. The theater. All right. Gray, Zach Fields, Hannon, and Andy Josephson. Oh, I thought, okay. All right. Good morning. Good morning. They are the people that Yuri, Yuri Brezhnev, to make a 60s pop culture reference, imagine a mind under the machine being filled with nothing but bones.
Oh, all right. Let's, oh, Alaska Reddit is, well, let's talk about that for a minute. I'm going to. put that, let me put that post on blast here so that I can, there we go. Fix that. All right, here we go. Jump back into it. The Michael Duke show common sense, Liberty based free thick and radio. Okay, welcome back to the program, The Michael Duke Show. So we were just talking in the chat room and Fat Ray on YouTube said, Michael, the people in Fairbanks.
Those people organized on the Fairbanks Reddit. It wasn't some out-of-town astroturfing thing. And they do not agree with you that fraud, waste, and abuse is bad. Which, again, I'm not paying that close of attention to what's happening in Fairbanks, but interesting. And then Anthony, who's in Fairbanks. and who apparently has been following some of this stuff on Reddit, said Alaska Reddit is currently being bombarded by a quite energetic propaganda campaign.
Tried debating in good faith with several people and found there was zero unifying message or principle amongst the group. It's more about everything sucks and boo Trump because I said so. Pretty low IQ bunch of folks. Well, and there's no telling if those folks are actually Alaskan or not. I mean, the Democratic Party has really, I mean, they've got a very, very efficient arm.
of folks who are working out there in the social media sphere and working on the internet, in the TikToks and in some of the other socials and in places like Reddit. So it's interesting. It's interesting to see that come down. Overall, again, the protests.
are really more I think about the theater and the perception than anything else case in point they had a protest around the country now it was part of this 50 50 50 plus 50 plus one thing where they want 50 protests in 50 states on one day that's what the 50 50 plus one is that's what the fairbanks thing was that's what the juno thing was
And apparently part of that is being driven by a group called the 907 Initiative. Aubrey Weber, who's formerly a journalist for the ADN, interestingly enough. I mean, no, no. No things there. They organized a town hall meeting in Anchorage. And what do they call it? An empty chair town hall meeting or whatever. Basically, they sat two empty chairs on stage.
And they got all organized. They got all organized and they invited a bunch of people. And they said there was about 600 people there. Which, I mean, I suppose is possible. They were up there to protest the firing of federal workers and a freeze on federal funding sources. That's what the that's what the whole point was.
They are upset, and they did the whole empty town hall meeting because they said, well, Begich and Sullivan won't meet with us. Begich and Sullivan won't hold town hall meetings. To which I said, where were these people when Mary Peltola didn't even come back to the state? Where were they when Mary Peltola didn't appear at any of the debates?
Where were they when Mary Peltola didn't engage except during the election season in her own little events? I mean, there was just, you know, where was the I mean, where where was the outrage then?
So they put these chairs up there and they put funny signs up on the chairs so that, you know, and they use the, you know, they use the whole chicken Nick and doormat Dan. They're using, it's like they're trying to take a. page out of trump's playbook of uh little hands marco and all the other stuff that he used to do um and uh but it just comes across as uh it just comes across as uh not um
Not that great. They're not doing as good a job of it as they're going to say there. And then you've got Lisa Murkowski that has been talking about a lot of this stuff as well. And she came back and she said she would not be cowed by the administration that has largely shut down internal dissent.
Anyway, back to this 600-person meeting. Aubrey Weaver is the executive director which led the planning for the event and said, who said there's an element of theater some of this people stand up and they're looking for that viral moment and they're yelling and screaming
If there's constructive engagement, I'm all for it. If it's all about screaming and yelling in a viral moment that they want to send out to their colleagues, you know, it's not necessarily the most constructive way. He said this is one of the reasons why. they, you know, haven't done a lot of the larger town halls. And that he has been, he said,
My number one priority has been constructive and meaningful engagement with my constituents. This is Dan Sullivan. Maybe it's not in Anchorage or Fairbanks, but in a town hall in a small native village or Kotzebue, which I did this summer a couple of times. That's a town hall, right?
So maybe there's a little bit of arrogance saying if you're not doing a town hall in Anchorage, it's not a town hall for Alaska. I mean, there may be something to that, but I mean, one third of Alaskans do live near Anchorage. So, I mean, you know. I think there's a little bit of theater in his reply. But overall, Aubrey Weber, who led this 907 initiative, which led the planning for the event, said that Sullivan's response is a lie.
He said there's zero evidence that he's been talking to constituents. He's staying in very friendly places. Again, where was the outrage when this is what Peltola did? I mean, I asked Pelton to be on this program several times, never appeared on this program to answer questions or talk with us while she was in Congress.
And then I thought this was interesting. The idea of I don't want to go into that uncomfortable place. Maybe you shouldn't be a U.S. senator. That's the job, said Weber. Whose organization, the 907 initiative, by the way. does not disclose his donors. Hmm? Hmm? And maybe there's some truth to what Sullivan is saying. People are standing up. They're looking for that viral moment. The organizers there at this big gathering in Anchorage.
Had a viral moment in town. The organizers handed out posters that read Chicken Nick and Dormat Dan. People in chicken costumes roamed the venue. Organizers repeatedly encourage protesters to post on the event about the event to social media. They're looking for they're looking for that viral moment. So it really is. It seems more about theater than anything else. And this is part of that whole thing about the they.
Right? The they and the them. The othering of other people. And the right does it too. Don't get me wrong. You can't lump everyone together in one certain thing and say they're all a uniform, monolithic deal. And I actually thought there was an interesting comment in here from one of the... from one of the people who attended, and it seemed like she was more reasonable than some of the others. It was Betsy Baker, an Anchorage-based attorney.
said she was part of a group that had met with Sullivan to convey concerns about the Trump administration's actions. She thanked the organizers of the Anchorage Town Hall, but said it was publicized using humorous but disparaging nicknames for our elected officials. that has an effect of turning away some people who might have come had the event been publicized somewhat differently. She said future events should appeal to a wider circle, including to people who voted for Trump.
Find the Trump voters who have remorse, she said. To that, Aubrey Weber, the 907 initiative guy, said the time for being polite is over. This is not a moment for pleasantries. So, again, kind of the framework of the extremes, right? And it's just so amazing to watch the and but. Yes, but. All the buts. Yes, but. We hate the waste, fraud, and abuse, but... And this, again, comes back to that idea of continually dividing us one from another.
that those folks who are kind of in the middle that just want to you know we just want it fixed you know that's the thing a lot of us voted for trump Not because we were in love or enamored with a guy, but he seemed to have the best plan to try and fix the problem. The other side was more like, everything's fine, there is no problem. That seemed to be the messaging from the other side. We may not necessarily like the messenger, but we agreed with the message at least. And that's where we're at.
But the problem is, is that we've just got people on, like you said, I think Anthony just said about Reddit. You've got people who are just so set in their ways, everything sucks, and boo Trump because I said so. That they're not thinking about it. They're not analyzing it. They're not giving it any rational thought. It's just a visceral, emotional reaction. Which leads me to...
A very interesting piece that was sent to me by a friend over the weekend. And I had to laugh because it's so apropos about extremism. And why do these extremes exist? on both sides of the aisle why do these why have we come to the othering why have we come to the they's and us and them and all that i mean aren't we all just shouldn't we all just be together I mean, shouldn't we all come together and try and fix it? I mean, again, all I want is for it to be fixed. That's all I want.
That was the message that Trump had, and he was overwhelmingly elected. So something's going on there. Maybe it's the elites and some of the other folks who are frustrated by it. Maybe it's some of the, you know, again, government workers who are frustrated by it, but the overall that's what the American people wanted. They wanted it fixed. But we've got these extremes.
And they're the ones that are catching a lot of press and everything else. So we're going to talk about that extremism here in just one second. And when we return. Yeah, I know. That's the hook. We'll be back with more in just a moment. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense. Liberty-based. Free thinking radio. Running on 100% pure beard power. Oh, also some coffee. We dip our beard in coffee. Ha, nice beard. The Michael Duke Show.
Okay. Why? I'm sorry. I'm looking at something in here. I'm looking at something. Sorry, I'm moving some stuff around in here while you guys are hanging out amongst yourself. You're just hanging out amongst yourself. I'm going to do that. How about that? How does that sound? You guys like that? Okay, good. No idea what I'm talking about, do you?
No, and Fat Ray, I'm going to get into that here in just a second. He's like, what are you talking about both sides of the aisle? The right didn't burn Teslas when we didn't like them. No, I mean, I'm about to get into that about extremism. So there you go. Tracer said, couldn't even...
Leave a voicemail. Tracer's over on Rumble. Couldn't even leave a voicemail on Mary Peltola's Anchorage office phone. Calls to Dan Sullivan's also gets cyber interference. Did I see Crowder pull the pin on... uh pull the pin at youtube i did not i did not i've been i've been excruciatingly busy um so i haven't had much of a chance to be on the interwebs outside of the show
Randy says absolutely. President Trump promised to fix the economy. People can't reasonably expect that to be accomplished in a mere eight weeks. Be patient. We've endured much harder times. but at least we know Trump will keep his promises as he has always done. Well... Not to be a negative Nancy here, but... He has not always kept his promises. I mean, I think he's tried in a lot of ways. But.
You know, he didn't deliver on a lot of the promises of draining the swamps and everything else during his first term. Partially, it was because he surrounded himself with people who were part of the problem. So that was part of the problem. And he seems to have fixed that in this go around. I will admit that.
But you should avoid, in my opinion, some of the absolutist language that you're talking about there that he always keeps his promises. No, you know, especially when you're dealing with Washington and politicians. I don't know if everybody, anybody would be able to always keep their promises. I, you know, but, but, but I agree with you. He's, he's, you can't wait. You can't say eight weeks in he's failed.
We've got to get to it. Rumble is really growing, says Captain. Well, I mean, I would love to see it. What do we got in Rumble right now? four people watching us on rumble so it's not growing for me but you know it's growing um so feel free to jump in and and uh and be part of it
Richie said it seems like 98 percent of the people all up in arms acting like the sky is falling or are losing their minds because Trump wasn't able to go in and turn off inflation within the first two hours he was in office. Right. I mean, they were asking him. Like three days after he was in office, how come the price of eggs haven't dropped, right?
the entire country was beaten into the ground for four years it won't get fixed overnight he's been in the office for just under two months people should just back off a bit and shut up yeah yeah Patience is a virtue, I guess, is, you know, we got to watch this. I did not expect it to turn around. But also, I will again, kudos to the president. I did not expect him to go full whole hog shock and awe.
one thing after another i mean he is the results are not there yet but it's like putting your hand on the tiller of a big big big ship right and turning the rudder it You may put it hard apart, but it takes a while for the whole thing to catch up. The president went over there and he came into office and from day one spun the wheel hard. And now it's slowly starting to catch up.
with everything. So it'll be interesting to see what the next few months looks like here on this, but it definitely should be interesting to say the least. Yeah, he did learn a lot from his first term, Rick. I agree with that. He did. He did. He did learn a lot from his first term. OK. um took 200 took 250 years to get into this mess give trump a few months to try and fix it I mean, yeah, this is not something that you're going to cure overnight. That is 100%, 100%, 100% true.
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Just as I was getting into this and before we went to break and I was talking about, you know, both sides of the aisle stuff, right? Both sides of the aisle. And Fat Ray over on YouTube made a comment that said, what is this both sides of the aisle? The right didn't burn Teslas and we didn't like them. And he kind of jumped the gun on me because that's where I was going. Well, we're talking about this polarization.
And, you know, there are in it to my mind, when I say both sides of the aisle, I'm talking about the I'm talking about some of the extremist. Extremism, not extremist, but extremism on both sides. Going to the extremes. Sometimes I think that word extremist has kind of gotten overused in certain ways.
But when they go and they start again, they start to other the kind of this divisiveness. Anthony said, all I'm saying is that there's an intentional move towards polarizing the country against itself with some desired outcome. The abilities of these ideologies, especially the left, to have good faith discussion and debate is non-existent. You're either an ally or enemy, no in-between, I find it concerning. And that is the othering.
If you're not with us, then you're obviously against us. Now, to some form or another, some degree or another, you could see this reaction. I mean, the fact that people are and now they're now they're finding out. They fooled around, and now they're finding out. Did you see that they got the one guy on Friday? I saw a little blurb about... All the different incidents where Teslas were being vandalized, attacked, burned. And in one case, they caught the guy who carved a swastika.
On the on somebody's car. And now he's facing five year felony, five year felony charges for threats and a hate crime because he used a swastika. And another guy is potentially. You know, now that Pam Bondi has declared that this is domestic terrorism, which interestingly enough, it is almost the textbook definition of terrorism using fear and intimidation. and destructive things to try and modify your behavior, your political behavior. That's what they're attempting to do.
By burning all it. But see, the problem is, is that we've been, and if you've been listening to the show, you know that I've talked about this for a long time, this divisiveness and this polarization. And so my friend sent me this little clip here back from 1980. I think it was 1989 talking about extremism from an unlikely source. None other than one of my favorite human beings on the whole planet.
John Cleese, who's normally a pretty funny guy, right? I mean, he's Monty Python. But he said some pretty serious things in an interesting and entertaining way. This is John Cleese on extremism. Seriously, though, we've heard a lot about extremism recently. A nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse and bother boy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents. All right, but...
What we never hear about extremism is its advantages. Well, the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you. Attractive, isn't it? So, if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway...
and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons. And that if it wasn't for them, you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time. So, if you want to feel good, become an extremist. Okay, now you have a choice. If you join the hard left, they'll give you their list of authorized enemies. Almost all kinds of authority, especially the police.
The city, Americans, judges, multinational corporations, public schools, furriers, newspaper owners, fox hunters, generals, class traitors, and, of course, moderates.
Or, if you'd rather be an extremist on the hard right, no problem, fine, you still get a lovely list of enemies, only they're different ones. Noisy minority groups, unions, Russia, weirdos, demonstrators, welfare sponges... meddlesome clergy peaceniks the bbc strikers social workers communists and of course moderates and upstart actors now once you're armed with one of these super lists of enemies, you can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behaviors morally justified.
So you can strut around abusing people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth, a fighter for the greater good, and not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are. I mean, right? You can feel vindicated. You can feel virtuous by attacking the list of enemies that you've been given by, you know, whoever. you know, whatever your circle of influence is saying is bad.
And yes, I do agree that it is on both the left and the right to the on the left to a larger degree, in my opinion. And maybe that's just my bias talking. But, you know, again. Just because we didn't like Teslas as an EV, just because we weren't fans of EVs, we weren't going around and burning them up or scratching the hell out of them or doing whatever.
I mean, it's and people are going to extremes. There was a video the other day that I caught of somebody who had taken their Tesla and they pulled all the badges off and they put Nissan badges on their Tesla. Just in case. Didn't want you to burn up my $70,000 car, so I put Nissan badges all over it. So if you're dumb enough, you know that it's not a Tesla. Right?
And by the way, how dumb do these people have to be to go up and attack a car that's got cameras in every place? I mean, there are cameras on every side of a Tesla. And that's how they've caught a lot of these people is that they catch them, you know, especially at the airport. Like.
They can't follow. You don't think that the airport can't follow you from the parking lot to where you got off your gate to figure out who you were on the boarding pad. And that's how they got some of these folks. And they're going to jail. I mean, they're going to get prosecuted, and good for them, they should. Just like somebody on the other side, if they were doing something like that, they should go to jail.
If they're blatantly destroying somebody's property over something like this. But see, they can feel virtuous then. That's the thing. And that is the problem. With this extremism, we we can't have rational discussions. I mean, we were talking about it earlier, you know, about the Reddit thing. And Anthony said he tried to have a what do you say? How do you say it?
I tried to debate in good faith with several people. It's the Internet. Have you? I mean, I would rather slam my hand into a meat grinder repeatedly. I've told my wife, my wife has had, she said, oh, this person, what should I say? And I'm like, you know what, I'm going to say this. And I'm like, okay, but you know, it's the, you're not going to change minds at that point. See, I think the Internet is part of the problem, quite honestly, and social media specifically on the Internet.
Because it gives people a feeling of semi-anonymity. And so they would say things that they would never say to your face. And pretty soon they say it over and over and over again enough that then they feel comfortable saying it to your face. Things that 20 years ago would have caused you to get a knuckle sandwich. You just wouldn't have done that. We've lost propriety. We've lost the ability.
To agree to disagree with people, to have a rational debate. And as John Cleese was just pointing out, the reason why is because they feel virtuous. They feel vindicated in this. I'm fighting for what's right. It's madness. Got a link for that Cleese clip. Everybody wants a link to the clip now. It's, you know, it's some brilliant stuff. And it's 40 years old, folks. That was him 40 years ago. I mean, saying the things that are exactly, it's so.
It's so eerie how it is, how it's, you know, it speaks exactly to today. Speaks exactly to where we are today. And I've been saying this on this program for years. We have to have the ability to have discourse. I mean, it's critical. It is a cornerstone of civilization. to be able to have a polite discourse even with those that you vehemently disagree with. Because otherwise, what are we?
Otherwise, we're a group of ignorant tribesmen just killing each other over things we disagree with because we can't have a rational discussion about it. It's astonishing. But that's where we are right now. So yeah, it's some good stuff out there. I mean, there's some interesting things happening. What was most interesting to me about this whole morning was the fact that the 907 initiative refuses to release its list of donors.
while purporting to be for the people right all right back with more after this Anthony says, debating with this ideology in good faith is less about converting a person to me.
but more about exposing the logical fallacy of the ideology as a whole sure they may be petulant toddlers but once you show everyone there's no teeth in that dog it loses credibility one reddit post at a time well good for you my friend i just feel like i've got better things to do with my life than to argue with some anonymous idiot on the internet but if that's where you're making your stand make your stand
Well, and that's another thing, Rick. Rick just points out the Dems are not even telling them to stop the violence. No, because in their hearts, it seems like, from my perspective, that they support it. That they would lash out if they could, too. Gordon says, the problem with having rules for polite discourse is that the liberals took it to the extent of political correctness. Yeah, but again, you could still be strident.
and be politically incorrect and still be polite about it. It's spooky, man, at this point. Yeah. And the people who are out there, you know, literally organizing and telling people to go out there and wreck. I mean, it's so interesting that four years ago, Elan was the darling of the left. Right. The darling of the left. Everybody wanted a Tesla. Everybody wanted to be part of his green thing. Everybody wanted to be. And then all of a sudden.
You know, he bought he bought Twitter and that's when he became akin to Hitler. And then joining Trump was just a bridge too far for some of these people. Yeah. But again, they feel vindicated. They feel virtuous in what they're doing. And that's a huge part of the problem. To me. You should never feel virtuous when you're. Well, it's. Anyway. Let me go back here and see what else other comments I missed.
Brian says, short term, these people will take the arrest as a badge of honor. Well, except for a couple of them that I saw, the little clip that I saw had a handful of them that they said, and they were all getting hit with. They were getting hit with felonies. It wasn't just a misdemeanor, we're arresting you for protesting. It was felonies. Some of them was some serious jail time, like two or three years jail time.
And the one person, I remember which one it was, it could potentially be, if it goes all the way up to the domestic terrorism threat thing, that's 20 years. So some of them, some of the short-term ones will take it as a badge of honor. But if you just realize that you just wrecked your whole life over wrecking or scratching or defacing a car, yeah, that's a problem.
Anthony says, the Democrats will support it until they cross the line where a percentage of the left is uncomfortable and then walk it back with the usual, I do not condone this thing speeches. and then isolate that element of itself as something else, nothing to see here. Well, to see, here's the thing. I think they are getting to the point to where a lot of the...
moderate middle of the road Democrats, like regular Democrats, like not the fringe, not the extremes. They're already going like, what the, what is happening? They're already asking themselves, you know, that may have an unintended consequence of pushing those people more towards the middle or at least towards the opposite side just long enough to get rid of some of this madness.
Kim just said all this madness should be good for the midterms. You know, maybe. We'll see. Brian said, but they're counting on a coup and pardons. We'll see how that works out. Did you see that the Trump administration decided to, and I just saw it in passing, so I don't know if it was literally from the president himself. But they were talking about waiving and revoking all the pardons because they were all done with the auto pen instead of in person.
And somebody made a point of saying, yeah, you notice how President Trump has been signing all of these executive orders and everything he's doing in person? He's been signing them in front of the cameras? Interesting. Interesting. Anthony says, the middle is good. Come on over. We got no uniforms and don't pay union dues. That's true. You know?
I don't know. Big RJW over on Rumble says, do you think they'll learn anything? They got away with it in 2020. Maybe Kamala will bail them out. You know, maybe. Remember, that was a big thing when all those protesters got bailed out by mainstream Democrats and all their legal fees were paid and everything else. And they were like, you know. I mean, it.
but I think that what you're seeing is more and more people are just getting fed up. I think that's what the response, I think that's why Trump was elected. Not because there was a bunch of people out there that fell in love with him and thought, but they were just, they're so frustrated with the business as usual. He was at least offering an alternative to that. That's that's kind of my takeaway on the elections. All right, we got to go back with more of the Michael Duke show.
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FM translator. Good morning, my friends. Welcome to hour two of the big radio show for this Monday edition. I hope you had a great weekend. It was just spectacular. The 31st annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament ran this weekend. down here in Homer and it was amazing. The place was packed. I got down there about 7.30 Saturday morning and the boats were just streaming out of the harbor. It was like a continuous rush.
for people making it out to their secret fishing spot around the bay. And it was awesome. It was just awesome to watch. And then just a great day throughout the day. With with with so many different boats and so many different. I think they had one. It was one of the highest turnouts. They had over twelve hundred anglers. 1,200 anglers and 375 vessels, something like that. It was crazy. And then the big...
The big winter, it was a big winter. When I left at, I finally left there about 5.30. uh on saturday and the line to weigh the fish or no it must have been before because the cutoff was 5 30 so i must have left right about five there was a huge line people were all in line trying to get their fish weighed
And when I left, the heavy weight was, the highest weight was 24.74 pounds. And then he snuck in under the wire 30. 0.66 pounds for zach wyman i mean wow wow there was a lot of great fish in there and um It was just such a good time. Talking to folks and fishermen out on the water over the VHF and talking to folks on the air. We broadcast throughout the day on our station down here.
Giving updates and talking about what was happening and interviewing folks. And it was just it was just a great time. So good Saturday. Good weekend. I got a little bit of rest yesterday and we're back at it here this morning. We've been talking about extremism. And how it's really it doesn't serve anybody, whether it's extremism on the left or the right.
And while I think that this is a problem and can be a problem on both sides of the aisle, I think the left has definitely taken the lead in some of the madness that we're seeing out there, right? And the overall problem with some of this extremism is that once you've picked a side to be they, you know, when you've othered people and created an outlier group. that is the they to you, then everything that you do feels virtuous. And you can feel you can feel good about.
You know, attacking them verbally. And in the case of what we're seeing today, physically. Trashing their stuff, burning their cars. You could feel virtuous about that. And there's definitely a danger in that. And we talked a little bit about that in hour one, and you can go back and listen to it on the podcast if you want to hear it as you go through. But what are some of the other things?
that are going on around the state. Well, let's talk a little bit about the repeal effort for ranked choice voting. The group that is set up to do the rank choice voting thing and fill eyes on now, as we talked about earlier, this. Earlier this year, Phil Izon has now stepped out of that role. He's not going to be participating in his group because, remember, there was two groups that were going to try and do a repeal thing.
And now it's down to one, and the group is calling itself Repeal Now. And the group is set to launch on April 1st. The petition that they put together has been approved by the Division of Elections, and they have been developing infrastructure and a strategy. To ensure that they do everything right and above board because they are they're they're basically into some meticulous planning right now. They stated that they were aware.
of the scrutiny by opponents of the repeal, namely Scooter Kendall and his group over there at Alaskans for Better Elections. They were watching everything that the previous repeal effort did, and they were the ones that had APOC on speed dial, you know, calling them every time something went wrong or something happened. And so they're aware of that kind of scrutiny. And so they are working to adhere strictly to all APOC regulations and guidelines.
They're going to make sure that they have got every T crossed and every I dotted so that they can't give any ammunition to a scootering company over there who would want to try and... derail them through these APOC initiatives. One of the original petitioners, Ken McCarty, has decided to pull out and do something different, but the Repeal Now group has added Bethany Markham. as a treasurer now.
Bethany, formerly with the Alaska Policy Forum, and now has been working for Americans for Prosperity. And she's going to leave that position and now run full time. She's going to be the treasurer. of the Repeal Now group. And they're saying that they're preparing to raise funds online. They don't have a website up yet. They're still under construction, but they're going to put it up.
And they're going to try and drive donations via credit cards once the site is operational. And they're getting everything kind of squared away for that. But you can expect that this will be another huge... election cycle for this to come about because last time, as we know, the Alaskans for better election and their cronies and their compadres. spent nearly $15 million trying to defeat the repeal, and they only succeeded by 743 votes.
That was many of the ballot, many said that the ballot and somebody, several people said this to me, that they had voted that they had voted no. because they thought that the repeal language, because it was confusing to them. They didn't understand it. They didn't realize that you had to vote yes to get rid of it. Yes to say no, essentially.
They thought that they were being asked to support ranked choice voting in the language. Now, I mean, I don't know how you get that with all the advertising that was going on and everything else. But I mean, and I don't know. I mean, I just kind of looked at my, one of my friends said that to me, they said, oh, I voted, I voted no on it because I thought it was, and I just looked at him like, really? I mean, really? You just didn't, oh, no, you know.
But, you know, they said they were confused and that they voted the opposite of how they intended to vote. But was there 743 of them? Maybe. I don't know. But a new repeal is about to take place. They're expected to distribute the new petition booklets by April 1st. And this time they're going to have all the petition holders, all the book holders will be required to sign an online agreement to comply with all the Division of Elections and APOC requirements.
They're serious about this. They do not want to get hit with all them big fines that APOC was doling out to Phil Lison and company. That should be an interesting thing to see. The races are heating up. We're going to talk about this here in a second. The races are heating up for governor already. How do I know?
Well, let's see. I got two phone calls last week from people who were talking about trying to get somebody onto the program here in the future to talk about running the race. I got a push poll on my phone. of all things. And now there's been another series of polling that's being done to look at who are the Democrats thinking of for the 2026 governor's race.
So here we are. We're just over 18 months away and it's starting to look a lot like election season for Alaska. And who do you who do you think is going to be? Who do you think is going to be some of the biggest names that are going to come out there and be part of it? There's some interesting polling that's going on right now that we're going to get into and talk about as well.
I also want to talk about a couple of the programs that are being discussed in the legislature and the reasons you want to know. Well, here, let's just get into it. Because you want to know why we have a lot of the problems that we have right now financially in this country and in this state? This is the reason why. This is from the Alaska Beacon, James Brooks. The Alaska House of Representatives is backing the preservation of a multibillion dollar federal aid program.
that subsidizes phone and internet services in rural Alaska. Now, the problem with that is that the legality of the FCC's Universal Service Fund is being considered by the Supreme Court. The State House last Monday voted 33 to 6. Yes. If you're doing the math on those numbers, you realize that most of the Republican minority voted with a majority on this.
33 to 6 to request that Congress preserve the fund whether or not the court rules against it. No state benefits from the Universal Service Fund, the USF, more than Alaska. which in 2023 was a beneficiary of $509 million in spending from the fund. That spending subsidizes internet access for rural schools, clinics, and households. Committee chair of the House Labor and Commerce Committee, Zach Field, said there's broad bipartisan support for the USF.
Will Stapp from Fairbanks spoke in support of the resolution, saying that on balance, it's a very beneficial program. especially in the area of delivering communication services in the rural health portion of it, which provides critical needs to all Alaskans, especially those in rural communities.
You know, maybe health clinics, maybe I could get behind that, but how much more beyond, I mean, how much more do we need to look to Uncle Sugar for all this? By the way, the USF, the Universal Service Fund. That comes from a tax that's on every one of your telephone lines, mobile devices, everything else. That's all. You pay for that. You pay for that. Six Republicans voted against the resolution, Jamie Allard, Kevin McCabe, George Rauscher, Dan Sadler, Kathy Tilton, and Sarah Vance.
Our friend McCabe said that he opposes the USF because it's funded by a fee on telecom companies. It's a tax. It's a big, beautiful tax. I understand the need for it. I just can't support a tax. If you're a conservative Republican, you're worried about taxes. This is a tax. And then Fields said, well, it's most of the funds fees are collected outside Alaska. So somebody else pays. Right? Don't tax you. Don't tax me. Tax the man behind the tree. Tax the other guy.
Zach Fields went on to say, if you think that Alaskans should have good infrastructure and that maybe people from New York or Silicon Valley should pay for it, that's a good resolution for you. Our citizens should not be saddled with the worst telecom access on the planet. We deserve equity and access. We deserve? Well, wait a second here. I mean, infrastructure...
Trying to loop this into infrastructure is a whole different thing. And by the way, is this part of this $509 million? Is this all part of that mandated? physical fiber optic thing that we're talking about that's been cut three times in the last year and a half in a couple different locations i mean is this where you guys said no we can't do any starlink options or anything else
Because it's a fraction of the cost? Is that what you're talking about? Is that where all this money's going? I mean, I'm asking for a friend. Just asking. For a friend, just in case. But this is, again, another reason why we're in the dire circumstances that we are. It's fine. Somebody else is paying for it. We should still get that gravy. Somebody else is paying for it. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Oh, all right. We got to go. The Michael Duke show. Common sense radio.
Listened to by more staffers in Juneau than any other show. Because their bosses told them to. And after what they just heard, oh man, they're going to be best. You're a bad, bad man. The Michael Duke Show. Wait, staff tried to amend Starlink into it and it failed? Come on, man. Come on. That, I mean, at some point. Wow. Wow. It's a big, beautiful tax. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right, Brian. Right. We deserve. We deserve. Well, how does. We deserve equity and access.
Somehow, I don't know if that was just laid out there in the Constitution. Kevin said, you should play the YouTube clip from the FCC chairman on broadband. If you deserve access to this, Tawny, pay for it yourselves. You know, again, the whole point here is that $509 million. And again, if it's for the clinics and things, I can get that. But how much of this is going to private individuals? And are they using it to offset the school costs and everything else? And if they are...
I mean, how many millions are we spending when it could have been fixed with a few Starlinks and, you know, a different subscription? I mean, I told you I got that email. Where, I mean, internet access up there on the North Slope was like $500 a month from one of the local telecoms for service that was half of what Starlink could do for $90 a month. It's, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
I get bombarded daily no matter what service I use. Oh, for all the phone calls, Captain? Yeah, you don't call it a tax. It's called a fee. Oh, man. Yeah, I understand how the USF works, Harold. Simply expands the telecom system across the nation, mostly rural. But if I recall, you've been one of the ones that's been advocating out there that should be expanding with Starlink, right?
Right? That's, I mean, part of the problem here is that they're trying to do things with antiquated systems, and it's costing them 5, 10, 15, 20 times as much. Um, anyway. All right. Um, scrolling backwards, scrolling backwards. Um...
election season seems to be constant anymore. Yeah, it really is almost like a never ending cycle of pain, right? I mean, we just ended the election season in November. So December, January, February, March, but only been four months and now we're going to jump right back into it. You know, it's now we're going to jump right back into it. Oh. Daughter smoked me a white king. I want some smoked salmon. I'm, I'm yum. Um, all right.
Okay, I'm all caught up. Call it a bond. Comm should have redundancy. Okay. All right. Well, look at that. We made it all the way to the coming back in. What else did I want to talk about? Oh, the governor's race. That's what it was. That's what I got sidetracked by this bill. Well, it'll be interesting if if the Supreme Court decides that it is whether it's constitutional or not, we'll see where that goes from here.
But we'll continue here in a minute. All right, let's jump into it. Here we go. The Michael Duke Show. Common sense, liberty-based. Like, share, subscribe, ring the bell. Let's do this thing. The Michael Dukes Show. Not your daddy. Wait, sorry. Not your daddy? Ooh, not your daddy's talk radio. Whew. I was scared for a second. Thought we were going down. Here's Michael Dukes and the show. Okay.
Welcome back to the program, The Michael Duke Show, Common Sense, Liberty-based, free-thinking radio. It's Monday. Monday. You guys ready to tackle the day? You ready for a beautiful week? It's going to be a nice one. I'm speaking it into existence that it's going to be a nice week. That's what I want. That's what I need. I need a nice week. What do we got? 43 degrees supposed to be the high today. 41, 43, 41, 39. It's going to be a nice week. It's going to be a nice week here.
Down on top of the world, a beautiful Homer, Alaska. Hopefully the rest of the state feels the same way. Hopefully you guys are going to have a nice week as well. But I'm ready for some. I'm ready for some great summer weather. That's what we need. All right. So, governor's race. They're all it's already spinning up. I like I said, I got a call here last week from one of the surrogates for a candidate that we've talked about in this program.
And so people are like, well, who's going to run? Who's going to run? Well, the Democrats are already working to try and pick their candidates. Who's who do they want in the next election cycle? And that means for the House, the Senate, the governor's office, everything else. And they. One of the questions that was asked by Data for Progress, which is a Democratic-leaning pollster organization.
And they asked if the November 2026 general election for governor of Alaska was being held tomorrow. And these were the candidates. Who would you rank higher? Nancy Peltola. Excuse me, Mary Peltola or Nancy Dahlstrom. Or I would rank neither. Interestingly enough, neither one of them in just this two-way race got a plurality. Mary Peltola was 44%. Nancy Dahlstrom was 34%. 14% said they would rank neither of those choices. Now, this took place back in late February, early this month.
It's interesting that that's where it is. But you can see now that it looks like Mary Peltola. That is potentially, and this is what we talked about earlier, that she was going to come back and run for the governor. Then Suzanne Downing over at Must Read quotes Pat Race. He's a political activist in Juneau, and he's not a professional pollster, but he has done a lot of numbers and things that have been fairly accurate over the years.
And and so he did a little bit of his own poll. And it was very similar to what was done for Data for Progress. And so they ranked a whole bunch of candidates for governor. And, of course, it was in down in Juneau and down in southeast Alaska where it's a kind of a. progressive stronghold, right? Out of the 224 respondents to races poll, only three were Republicans. So, I mean, it's a pretty strong... Pretty strongly slanting, but at the same time, it gives you an idea. Mary Peltola, 30%.
Val Davidson, 12.5. Forrest Dunbar, 11. Click Bishop, 9.38. Bill Wilikowski, 7.5. Heidi Dragas, 7.5. Kathy Giesel, 3.3. Elise Galvin, 3.3. And it just goes on. It just goes down the list here. But again, Mary Peltola coming out on top. I think she's going to be the one to beat. And then, of course, he categorized what he called the flat tires, which he said was anyone who should just stay home. Nancy Dahlstrom.
6.25. Dunleavy, Lackey, and Crumb Bros. This was an actual, the verbatim descriptions. Dunleavy, Lackeys, and Crumb Bros. So anybody who's worked 5.8%. Sarah Palin, 4%. Bill Walker, 3.5%. So who's going to be the who's going to be the the Democratic candidate? I think it's pretty clear who's going to be the Democratic candidate. I think that they, you know, they were able to cruise to victory with Mary Peltola.
And if they do a good job and don't pack the field with any additional with any additional candidates and they only leave pretty much Mary up there. They got a good chance of Mary being a significantly strong candidate for the governor's race. But what about the Republican side? Who is going to step up on the Republican side? Well, there's a couple names in here that you probably recognize. Click Bishop. It's been rumored that he wants to run for governor.
Of course, we talked about Adam Crum and some of his people have been making noises out there around in the Republican circles asking for a meeting or support. Looks like Adam Crum is going to be running for. And of course, there's been speculation that KPB mayor and former Congress or Senator Peter Machicke could be running for governor as well.
And there was even some rumors that maybe Natasha Von Imhoff might want to throw her hat into the ring. Now, whether it's governor or lieutenant governor, I don't know. But those are the options we have so far. Now, let me ask you a question. Listenership, my dear listeners out there. Do any of those candidates inspire you to climb out of your easy boy and and go pull the lever for somebody? Are any of those candidates?
enough to get you excited? Do you feel like any of those candidates that I've just laid out for you on the Republican side, Click Bishop, Peter Machicky, Adam Crum, Natasha, did I miss one? I think that's it. I think that's what I got right now. Click Bishop, right? Did I say Click Bishop? Did any of those candidates... you know, inspire you to get up and go do something? Yeah, Harold. We should have Harold run for governor.
But that's – but again, that's where we're at right now. There's no – yeah, there's no libertarian candidates that – well, I mean that we've heard of. It's early now, right? This is just all – you know? But – It's so uninspiring at this point. And I know I've been saying this for a while, and I'm not, first of all, I don't want anybody to feel like that I am.
critiquing Carmela Warfield's tenure as president of the as chair of the Alaska Republican Party right now, because she's only been in the seat for a hot minute. But as I've said before, we need. We conservatives, those of us who are not party members, we really look to you guys in the Republican Party to try and provide us with decent, well-thought-out candidates here. And so far, we ain't got much.
We don't we don't have much that's just nothing there that is truly inspiring. If the Democrats, you know, do what they've done historically, they'll bring in probably. Maybe they'll bring in Mary Peltola and maybe one throwaway candidate, a Scott Adams type candidate that they can pat on the head and say, we love you, but we're now going to.
stab you at two right and i mean yeah right timothy just said need a net need a none of the above box and a try again box that's what we need on the ballot try again So that leads me to the question of who would be a good governor? Who would you support as a governor? Somebody just threw Ben Carpenter's name out there. Sure.
Ben Carpenter, I think, would make an amazing governor. Unfortunately, he would also have to work with, you know, he'd have to work with the current legislature the way it's aligned now. I mean, I don't think I would even, I'll be honest with you. I don't think I would even want to be governor. I mean, if you not that I'm running, but I mean, I just I think that that would be such an unenviable position because.
You may have the best plans in the world and the best ideals and get everything else, but then you've got to convince 60 other Yehoos that you're right. And again... Not happy with Dunleavy's performance after the last few years, but I see that any time he tries to get anything done, it is the, you know... What did somebody say the other day? DDS, the Dunleavy derangement? We can't give him any wins. We can't give him any wins.
That's just not a position that I would envy anyone to be in. Even somebody who's a strong, you know, somebody said the other day, you know, Mike Schauer for governor. First of all, don't let his wife hear you say that because she will hunt you down. But it's, it would be, it would still be, you know, it's just, it's such a tough position. And, you know, it's intentional.
That whole separation of powers things and the balancing and the legislative versus the administrative, the executive branch versus the court, it's meant to be difficult. But especially as divisive and divided as we are right now, especially like places like the legislature, that would be a hard job. That would be a hard job to try and be a governor in a state where the legislature is so polarized in so many ways to try and get anything done. I mean, it's.
It would be difficult. But so far. But so far, I have not heard a single name being dropped on the Republican side that would make me climb out of the chair and just run right down to the polls. And that's a problem. So maybe I'll ask the chat room, who should we have as governor? Who would you be excited to vote for as governor? Who would you think should run for governor on the...
Republican slash conservative side of the fence. I mean, they don't have to be Republicans, but you know, who would you chat room suggest as a potential candidate for the gubernatorial race coming up in 26. Because again, the choices that we got right now, not that inspiring. I'm just saying, not that inspiring. Oh, my God. Tracer just said Sarah Palin. You want to get banned? That's how you get banned.
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That's an interesting... You know, she's been behind the scenes so much. I just don't know. And I don't know. I know she worked for AFP. I know she's done some other stuff, but I'm not familiar enough with a lot of her positions to know. And she has some name recognition. But would she make a good governor? That's a good question. I mean, I think based on the rest of the field that we just named, probably maybe that would work out.
Armed in AK said, if Vivek Ramaswamy fails in Ohio, maybe he could try it here. Ooh, yeah. Yeah. There you go. According to the Alaska AFL-CIO and NEA, Alaska, it will be a Democrat that will win under the current makeup of electorates. that can run Stutes and win. Stutes? Louise Stutes? Um... Everybody's like Bernadette. Bernadette would be okay. Captain says Bernadette would be okay. Carpenter would be better. I'd love to get Ben Carpenter in there. But man, again, talk about an exercise in.
Oh, frustration. And somebody said that Ben would have been good except for he said the tax word. Ben would be a good governor, but he said the T word. Yeah. Because it's, what have we been talking about? Have you been listening, Fat Ray? It's, it's, it's inevitable, my friend. I know you don't want to hear that, but it is inevitable. Rob says, keep in mind that whoever we nominate, they need to survive in a ranked choice voting environment. True.
And the thing is, is that we can't run a bunch of different candidates. You have to do what they did for baggage, which is somebody has got to bow out. If you get multiple candidates up there in the top, because it will be I mean, Mary Peltola, I think, is is almost ironclad going to be the nominee for the Democrats or at least one of the nominees for the Democrats. But, dang, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be tough.
Based on the names you mentioned, said Harold, Alaska is basically doomed to the same old, same old. I know, right? Who's the fresh blood? Who do we need to put in there that would be? Mm, mm, mm, mm. If the names you put out are all that's on the ballot, says Ron, I will place my name on it just so that I have a place to put my mark because I will not vote for any of them. I mean, there could be some of that going on.
What's Kelly Chewbacca up to these days? I don't know. I don't know what Kelly Chewbacca is up to these days. Would I support Kelly Chewbacca as governor? Maybe. Yeah, I mean, maybe. I would not be... Yeah, I would definitely not. State Senator Mike Schauer. You heard me defend you, right, Schauer? You heard me defend you. And tell them not to look out for your wife, right?
Carpenter said tax is part of a comprehensive plan, not as a standalone measure. It's been misrepresented by those trying to hurt his run for Senate. Yeah, we know we've talked about that. I don't think anybody listening to this program was fooled by that, Mike, but you're right. It did hurt him on the feet on the, on the trail. Bunch of low information voters out there. Uh,
Harold says Kelly is MAGA and MAGA is on the way out. Maybe. Melissa says Shower's wife for governor. Should get Michelle Shower up there. All right. Who else? I mean, there's really no names that are just jumping out. Because, again, as Rob said, you've got to remember, they've got to survive in a ranked choice. voting environment so they got to have some name recognition or be be a hella speaker to convert some people in the in the in the interim
Fat Ray said, I hate to say it, but based on that field, the field that we just talked about, Governor Peltola, it is. Ah, see, that would be E. Ooh, ah. Well. We'll have to see where it goes. Jumping back in. Here we go. Hey, look, we're back on Fairbanks already. You guys are here early. What's going on? Why are you guys with us early? You didn't need to be here. You could have waited. Let's do it.
Public enema number one. Oh, wait, sorry. Enemy. Public enemy number one, which makes more sense. On the other hand, he's a little bit of a pain in the Michael Duke show. Somebody just said in the chat room, we're talking about potential gubernatorial candidates. I know, right? We're talking about the governor's race next year already.
But we were just talking about some of the names that came out. One of the names that came up in the chat room was Kelly Chewbacca. Like, what's Kelly doing these days? I don't know. I haven't really heard. I know she had done some podcasting and some other things. I hadn't heard much. And so somebody threw her name out there and said, well, you know, I probably could support her for governor. But somebody said.
Fat Ray said, I would support Kelly over Mary. The other names that we laid out there just seem like Mary at a slower speed. And again, that was the names that we talked about. Adam Crum, Click Bishop, Peter Machicky, maybe Natasha Von Imhoff. Who was the other one? Did I miss one? That feels like four. I feel like there was five.
Those are the names that have been floating around in the politosphere out there that we've heard about. And the Adam Crum one is guaranteed at this point. I can tell you that for now. But what other, I mean, what other name is going to get you up off the couch to go vote? That's the, that's the question. I don't know.
I don't know what other names are out there. We talked about Ben Carpenter, although I don't think that he would be that interested in doing it. I think he would be a good governor. Could he get elected? I mean, I would vote for Ben in a heartbeat. I'll be honest with you. I would vote for Ben in a heartbeat as for governor. But with the rest of the state. Especially. With them, you know, they did such a great hit job on him during this last election cycle.
where they were talking about him wanting taxes, again, ignoring the fact that he brought it up as a full comprehensive plan and that taxes was just one part of it. It was not a standalone. But they did a really good job of character assassination on him in this last election cycle. So would they be able to expand that to a gubernatorial race? Maybe. You know?
But, you know, we'll see. Kelly Shabaka, I mean, I don't know if she even has an interest. It would be interesting to see a Peltola-Shabaka matchup. It would definitely be. That would be popcorn-inducing right there. I'd love to see that. Oh, Louise Stoots was the other name that I was looking for. Somebody said Louise Stoots, but I, you know, I don't know. I don't know.
But yeah, I mean, if Kelly wanted to throw her hat in the ring, I think that'd be good. Ben and Kelly. Ooh, maybe there's a dream team there. I don't know. But yeah, we're in the... I'm sure this is what everybody's asking themselves, Harold. Where in the world is Andrew Halcrow? Oh, that guy, man. That guy, you know. Ben is a good candidate says Jim but lost his last election and that's hard to overcome. I agree.
I agree that, again, would the stink from that continue on? He'd probably win down on the peninsula, but what about the rest of the state? I don't know. We need more inspiring names than what we have right now. Right? Because I just don't see the electorate groundswell for... The candidates that I've mentioned. You know, it's it's it's interesting to watch. But again, who else who else would step up there?
Somebody mentioned Mike Schauer, but I think that you'd have to get past his bride. I don't think that that would work. Well, especially since he's on his retirement plan, he's getting, you know, he's trying to get to the retired status there. And that would, you know, you don't want to mess with your retirement if you're just a few years, handful of years from being there.
Maybe next cycle. I don't know. I don't know. But we'll see. Harold, sometimes you say the dumbest things. Trump is ending elections. Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly. Right there. But based on the list that we've seen so far, and I think it was Fat Ray that said it, he goes based on the list of candidates so far. Governor Peltola it is. Yeah, I mean, if you're looking at the list that we have right now that is not awe-inspiring.
And the Democrats do a good job of single-candidating the whole thing, and they get just Mary Peltola in there, maybe with one token pawn that can be chopped off in the end. And it's Mary Peltola versus Adam Crum or Peter Machicky or, you know, whoever. That's going to be tough. You know. That's going to be tough. I would love to see somebody like a Ben Carpenter.
Or Sarah Vance or anybody that is of a more fiscally conservative, smaller government mindset. I could get behind a lot of those people. Now, the question is. Could they survive? And thank you, Rob Myers, for pointing that out. Rob Myers for a governor. Rob Myers would not make would not be a bad governor either. But. Sorry, my dog is snoring.
I mean, they've got to survive that ranked choice voting environment. So it's got to be somebody who's strong, who could speak well, who's got a good track record. who maybe has some name recognition on a statewide basis, and then somebody who can actually deliver. Mike Schauer says Peltola would be disastrous considering the momentum and potential Alaska and potential Alaska has under the new administration for resource development. I would agree.
uh harold just said bryce edgeman um bryce edgeman where was bryce edgeman um yeah where was he polling three percent on the polls three percent He, he pulled behind Click Bishop. Click Bishop was a 9%. So I don't think that's going to, Forrest Dunbar pulled higher than Click Bishop. Whew. Run Forrest, run. Maybe that'd be something I could get behind. Forrest, Dunbar, and Mary Peltola, head-to-head. It's interesting.
Fat Ray says, interesting conversation today. I'm convinced Alaska will be blue next election thanks to the inaction of Nancy Mace and the rhinos that spent the last 20 years caving. I mean, I. I'm afraid you could be right. If we don't get a decent candidate up there, and this is why I actually I started to talk about it and I think I got sidetracked, but I was saying, you know, one of the things that I was encouraged by when Carmela Warfield took over the Democrat or the Republican Party.
was that she was saying that they needed to make some major changes. They needed to bring the things into alignment. And I was very hopeful that she would. Now, I haven't seen anything yet, and we've been trying to get her on the program, but we haven't heard back from her yet. But I would love to see something like that happen. And the question is, who would make a good, you know, who would be that good candidate? But we'll have to see. We'll have to see who could run that.
And make happen. We're 18 months out right now from the elections and the polling and the calls and the things have started. It won't be too long before it happens. Crum v. Peltola. Mary Peltola wins. I agree. I think that in that race, unless it was one-on-one and the Republicans just voted Crum for the R, I think that that's probably the case.
Because remember, it's not just one-on-one usually. There'll be other votes in there because of the ranked choice voting. So we'll have to see, you know, we'll have to see what it looks like. I don't agree that it's any Republican versus Peltola and that Mary wins. I think if you have a good candidate that's got, again, the name recognition, the fiscal discipline, the certainty, can speak well, can articulate.
Because that's one thing. Mary is not a good. She does not do well when she's up there on the debate stage. And it's one of the reasons why I think she avoided the debates. during most of that last election cycle because she does not do well so maybe that's what we need to maybe that's what we need to be looking for somebody who can really burn up the tarmac during a debate
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