Hour 4: Carry-on

Mike Brumhead Show, KTAR News, 923, and the KTAR News app. All right, news broke this morning that the committee in the Senate said they are going to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress because he was already had immunity because he had a blanket pardon. And yet he pled the Fifth Amendment when he was asked questions 111 times he did that. You know, I don't know, Paul, we haven't talked with you about the COVID thing. I don't want to get a HIPAA violation here. If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. But how did that whole that? that time for you. You were in school. I think you told us that once before when that was going on. Did you get the vaccine? I did, yes. I did too. I think Patricia did as well. And I wouldn't do it again. I'm not getting any of the boosters. And it's just based on new information. It's just how I feel about it. But the memory for me is how we treated each other. Oh, yeah. To me, that was the issue. Very ugly. So I played this earlier. I want people to hear this. Before we get into the Anthony Fauci thing, Stephen A. Smith, who is, I think everybody knows Stephen A. Stephen A. Smith over at ESPN, he was one of the people that was going after Kyrie Irving. He went after Aaron Rogers, these professional athletes that didn't get the vaccine. And they all went after them. The difference is Stephen A. Smith, now watching the information we have now and also watching Dr. Anthony Fauci plead the fifth 111 times, said this. You know, the other day, I did a special edition of the Stephen A. Smith show. So apologize, Kyrie Irvin. Thought it was the right thing to do? I still think it's the right thing to do. He took a lot of heat over the whole vaccine mandate back in 2021 or so. And I was one of those people that was all over him about that. Thought it was selfish. Thought he had assembled the crew in Brooklyn and he owed it to them take the same risk everybody else was taken. But in the aftermath of all of that and seeing so much skepticism, so many questions about what really transpired during the whole coronavirus pandemic in terms of what was going on in this country at that time. I was wrong. Kyrie Irvin was right. And dare I say villainized by a lot of people. And I put myself to top of the list. So I'm going to pause it there. Not a lot of people doing that. There are some, but not a lot of people doing that. We all make mistakes and we all do things based on the information we had. I've said to people, I got the vaccine and I have a lot of anti-vax friends who were really upset with me. They thought I was, first of all, they thought I was stupid. There were others that were concerned for my health because of the side effects that people were hearing were happening, myocarditis and some of the other heart-ish lung issues. But I took a lot of heat from people about it, did a lot of explaining about it, why it was. I was doing it. But I explained to them, I've got a doctor at the time. My doctor was my doctor for over 25 years. And.

I trust him. I still trust him. And I sat down with him. I also had another friend that's a doctor in a different, a medical doctor, an MD, but he practices a different kind of medicine. And I asked them both. And they both said almost the identical thing. Based on the information we have, based on the data, the Pfizer vaccine would be the right one to get. And because I live a public life, it would be good for me to get the vaccine. So I took into consideration that I speak to a lot of groups. And I wasn't at the time during COVID, but I was going to. And there are a lot of the groups that I would go into, Patricia, that are anti-vaccin wouldn't care. But there are some groups that would want to know. And I wanted to be able to say to them, yes, I've been vaccinated. So I did it. I haven't had a conversation directly with my doctor since, but I know him pretty well. And I don't think that he would give the same advice now because he was getting the data that everybody was getting. So the doctors were one thing. But it was how we were behaving. And you, Stephen A. Smith. And I mean, I couldn't find it. I was looking for there was a montage that was out of what was said about Aaron Rogers, specifically Aaron Rogers. He has every right to be angry now. Just like the people that are anti-vax were also vicious to people that got the vaccine. We were in a position in this country where we were at each other's throats. It was stressful for everybody. People were losing their jobs and losing their livelihood. People were having cooped up in their house, the isolation got to me. I don't know that I would say I was depressed, but I certainly was not in a good place during that isolation. Then on top of that was this pressure, the vaccine mandates and get this, and if you do this, you can't spread the virus. Well, listen, I understand if you're an average person that just doesn't care about politics at all, but the president of the United States is saying to you, If you get the vaccine, you can't spread the virus. And this is a virus that's killing people. I would understand somebody saying, well, don't be stupid. Go get the vaccine. We all got to be in this together. And then it went to a level that got to be so vitriolic. And they at the time had the information that could have calmed a lot of this down. That's what this diary looks like. And you know, it's funny. Whenever this whole thing happened with COVID and getting your vaccine. I just went out and got one because that's, you know, I didn't even consult my doctor. I thought, you know, it's just another vaccine, like the flu vaccine, but I don't even get the flu vaccine. I don't know. Me either. I got it because that's what was happening. That's what we had to do. Right. And then when I heard, you know, more of who was getting it and the guidelines, I was like, no, I'm not going to subject my child to this. There's no need for it.

So I don't know. I kind of went both ways on the, you know, consulting and not. Isn't it weird for you or is it going to be weird for you that you have two children now? You have one child that will remember that time in her life because of the isolation and everything else. And you've got a child that wasn't even born yet that has no clue what that was like. Yeah, that's going to be really weird. Because you're... Katie still makes references to COVID. Yeah. She's still, you know, I'm not saying she makes fun of it, but she does sometimes. All the stuff that was happening during that time, and it looks as if from what they're releasing that's in the diaries, one of the things that Anthony Fauci was saying is that the infection rate was not nearly as big as he said it was. And the data showed that. And he didn't want to give the other data because he didn't want to have people say, oh, because of that, I'm not going to get the vaccine. That's not giving people a choice to make a medical decision. That's dictating stuff to get them in the right direction, someone like you or someone like me. And I just, I don't know how people can't be angry. Even if you agreed with what he was saying at the time, you have to admit you overreacted. And I'm telling you, I understand why you overreacted because the people in charge were telling you that people like me or the people that don't get vaccinated. are killing people. He was kind of taking it like as in people are listening to me, like I'm this great and powerful Oz. Yes. And no, no offense to Dr. Oz. Yeah, yeah, not that Oz. But then you've got, you have the president of the United States gives him a blanket pardon. And he's been pardoned for all those things, which means he doesn't get to plead the fifth. He's got to answer the questions because he can't incriminate himself because he has a pardon. So now he's going to be held in contempt of Congress, and it makes everybody want to know why doesn't he, because he doesn't have to risk jail. What is it that he doesn't want to say? You know, I want to know those supporters still of Anthony Fauci. What are they saying now that are still supporting him? Like, don't you want to hear from him? Like, don't you want to hear why he's pleading the fifth? Yeah. They don't. And I think they want, I think because they want this to go away. Are they blind? Yes. I think, you know, honestly, I think that they, they probably deep down inside feel like now they realize that they overreacted. But I just... You know, I supported Dr. Anthony Fauci back in the day. I didn't overreact, but I listened to whatever we had to do. And I want to know, like, why would you, why are you pleading the fifth, first of all? Right. And why would you lie like that on such a scale, on such a stage that you had? Yeah. And if you could have been the hero the other way. If he goes back and say, if he ever has to, if he's forced to testify and he says... that what I was afraid of because I believe that the vaccine was effective or is effective is that if I gave out this other information that less people would get the vaccine and more people would die. At least that's an explanation. Give the explanation, but he's not doing that. He should have gave that explanation too right then in there and then you do what you want with it. If they had told me at the time, if the leadership in this country had said to me,

We are doing the best we can with the information we have because none of us know what's happening next. We're giving you the best information and advice we can give you. But that gives you an out to do something else, fine. Then people are making a decision based on whether they believe your information or not. But when you have a mandate and you're out there actively saying to people, people are going to die because of you if you don't get the vaccine. The Rachel Maddow thing, where we now know for a fact, if you get the vaccine, it stops with you and it doesn't spread. And she was pounding her finger on the desk. And she believed it because that's what she was told. What are they saying now? I wonder what Howard Stern has to say. Yeah. He was doing the same thing. Yes. Aaron Rogers and he talked about the idiots. Why can't we force them to get the vaccine? Yeah, tough stuff. All right, coming up, we go, did you hear this? We get caught up on the headlines here in just one second. Strong values, strong opinions, the Mike Broomhead show, KTAR News 923, and the KTAR News Act. All right, let's catch up on our biggest headlines. Did you hear this? Did you hear this? Brumet reacts to today's hottest news stories. All right. So this is a truly, did you hear this? I don't know if you have. You have to listen to this very closely. Okay. So Senate Democrats are set to introduce legislation today that aims to prevent the Pentagon from resetting a war's casualty count by reclassifying the dead and wounded under new operational labels. This comes after following what the Pentagon called a technical error in changes from casualties from the Iran War and new efforts to shift some wounded or deceased. to a broad new category labeled overseas operations. Now, the effort is being led by Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, who served as an Army helicopter pilot in Iraq and suffered severe combat wounds, including losing both of her legs during the service. Tammy Duckworth spoke on why she says it matters the way service members are classified. There is different statuses for how our service members are treated for their wounds and compensated if they are wounded or killed. killed in a combat operation as opposed to a non-combat injury or death. And so this will affect, you know, the family members of those who were killed in action. And this will also affect the pensions. So this move, it could make it difficult to track the exact number of specific in conflicts. So from what you heard so far, I know this is a truly, did you hear this? How are you feeling about this new legislation in the way they're classified? Now, this depends. Again, I have to know more about it, but I wouldn't normally say I agree with Senator Tammy Duckworth. That's a new statement for me.

When a combat veteran transitions from active duty into veteran status, things change and there's a crossover period. Because then now you're not under what's called TRICARE when you're getting medical, you're getting your medical. care taken care of by the military. This is through the Veterans Administration, and it is how you're classified and all of that stuff matters. So if they're going to reclassify injuries, they're going to have to make sure that they don't reclassify people into areas where their benefits are diminished because of that reclassification. That would be a terrible thing to do. So if that's the case, it does need to be studied more. I would say we probably need to know the difference in how people are injured and what they're classified as. But I don't want to see veterans lose benefits because of it. That would be a horrible, horrible thing to do. And U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is in Arizona. And while here he exclusively sat down with you, Mike, to highlight how new federal policies are impacting the average American. The bottom 25 percent of wage earners have done better than the top 25 percent. Bottom 25 percent over the past 12 months, their incomes have increased 5.5 percent, almost three times the top 25 percent. So percent credited the wage growth to non-tax on tips. And we talked about it. You asked me and Paul how he felt about it. So what are your thoughts on no tax on tips when it comes to the Valley? I think that the no tax on tips thing is a great thing for service workers, and it keeps people in the industry if you're going to be able to keep more of your own money. The comments he made that I thought that went along with that that were good was that they wanted to be better, that it is the top 25% or the bottom 25% are doing better than the top 25%. But he basically said it's not good enough. They want to see more gains. The way we're going to get out of this inflationary situation is we do want to see inflation down around 2%. It does need to drop more than that. There's no doubt about it. But the key to success is going to be wage growth. And that is when. And they are competing for you and they're competing for your hours. You're making more money per hour. And it doesn't matter that the inflation is dropping if you are exceeding it. And that's got to happen more than anything else. Help businesses grow. Get the jobs going again. And if we do that, we're going to be a lot more successful. You are listening to Did You Hear This Every Day at 1120 to catch you up on the headlines. And food and drug administration officials are expanding the investigation into Halapeno's served at Chipoli restaurants across the country. reportedly infected nearly 350 people across 27 states with salmonella. ABC News medical contributor, Daryon Sutton, has more on the signs and symptoms of the virus. Symptoms of salmonella, or at least what patients often present to in the emergency room, often include symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps, and often an intense fever that can come along with it. And these symptoms can start anywhere from six hours to six days after you eat that contaminated food, and it can last up to a week. Oh, no. Six days! Yeah, this is...

beginning to be fishy. So what don't you, don't you think this is kind of weird we're seeing this? So, which leads me to my next question, what could possibly be behind this? Are we just seeing this more? People getting dirty. What's going on out there? That's one of the things I always, I saw this over and over again and I wondered, okay, if it was isolated to one place, like if they could narrow down what farm it came from, but is, is something, are we getting poisoned? And I don't want to start a conspiracy theory. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but All of these cases happening to our food at once. It's happening to our vegetables where who's policing the fields to make sure nobody's doing anything. Our water is already getting attacked. If it's in transit somewhere. So, yeah, I would like, would they need to be able to reassure people of where this is coming from? And then it was something natural that happened or it wasn't an intentional act by someone. But the jalapenos thing worries me. Spicy. Very spicy. And a recent Instagram post from the White House has me asking questions. I saw this and I was like, I'm going to. make this into it. Did you hear this? Because I want to know Mike's opinion. It's obviously Spider-Man's hand throwing out a web onto illegal immigrants. And it says in the caption, your friendly neighborhood ICE agents. This is straight up copyright infringement. Don't you think? If it isn't, explain how they're getting away with this. I wonder what the makers of Spider-Man are going to say. They're going to be upset. Exactly. That's what I want to know. I don't know. I don't know if it's a, is it an infringement? I don't know. It looks exactly like his hand. It's shooting a web. It says, your friendly neighborhood. Ice agents. It's your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. So it is totally an exact copy. I showed it to Paul because I was blown away by how exactly it's just the same. Is it still up there or do they take it down? I have no idea. It should be still up there. But. I don't know. I just wanted to think, if it's not, how do they get away with that? Because I know that they can say, we don't want you to use our music to promote this or promote that. But I don't know that you have to say, I won't. But people usually do it out of courtesy. I wonder if the Spider-Man franchise came out and said, we don't, what if it was Indiana Jay Jones? What if it was, I don't know. Any other. I don't know the law. It does sound, it sounds like once again, trolling. But it could cost them. It could. It could cost us. Yeah. If it costs me money, I'm going to be angry. I'm shutting off the mics now. Yeah, that's where I draw the line. It better not cost me any money. My spidey senses are telling me. All right, in a moment, an interesting thing happened. By the way, tomorrow we're going to talk to Sheriff Teeple. But he put out a video. He is the sheriff of Pineau County. What did he have to say about the flock cameras and what he's doing about it? That's what we're going to talk about. Next.

Strong values, strong opinions, the Mike Broomhead show, KTAR News 923, and the KTAR News app. All right, before we get to the next topic, Patricia, I got a great message you have to hear from a guy named Tony on Facebook. Tony. You're going to love this. Okay, let's go. He's mad at me. Oh, no, Tony. You defend President Trump a lot, and you're infecting your partner, Alicia Valencia. Oh, you know what? I've heard from Tony, actually. He's told me the same thing. Yeah. My name is Alicia now? Alicia. Nice. She's against the Trump administration. I can tell in her voice, but she won't say it because she's afraid of being zacked. I think she means sacked, like fired. Oh. I'm guessing. I think it was a misspelling. Oh, I see what you mean sacked. So here's what I think is really funny about that and why I brought this up. Okay. Was I really appreciate that they know the people on the show. I really do. And how to spell our names? But the fact he called you Alicia instead of Patricia is funny to begin with. And you know what's really funny is because I am probably the one on the show that says my name more than anybody in this room. But the best part about this is the picture they have of who we are is so small. Paul, I'm going to let you be the judge here. What are the chances on a scale of 1 to 10? One being no chance at all. and 10 being absolutely positively. What are the chances that Patricia would be afraid to tell me what she actually thinks? I knew Patricia for probably two months before I started this show, and I knew then 10. Right. This is why she's on the show. Absolutely. And I hope that Tony knows this. When we have meetings with the boss separately, they call them one-on-ones. When we have those meetings with the boss, by the way, this is, I've got a meeting with the boss today. I want you guys to know this. I've been to a squillion meetings to talk about this stuff that could have been an email. I'd rather have a back alley colonoscopy than go to another meeting. I swear, I want Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, like, eulogize me or something. But we have our meetings. One of the things that just recently the boss asked me, how often does Patricia disagree with you? I said fairly, you know, fairly often. And good.

Good. And she tells you the same thing. Yeah, I do. I ask you questions sometimes because I know you're going to disagree and have a different opinion. This is true. That's important. It is. I mean, and I'm sorry that if I don't think what you think, because, you know, it sounds like I'm like on the fence. No. But I truly don't have any political stance either way. None. None. It doesn't make you angry to have to agree with the president, and it doesn't. It doesn't. And you don't feel like you need to pound him into the ground either. I don't. I just think logically, Tony. At least in your mind. Maybe you should try to listen to Alicia every now and then. We work on the show for the conversation. Right. No. But I just thought that was hilarious because I've had people. I told you the story at the D-BACs game at the playoff game. I don't know if you've heard me tell the story. I got to go to two separate D-BACs playoff games when they went to the World Series. A friend of my name, George, very gracious. Let me sit with him. Well, the KTAR seats are three rows behind my friend George's seats. Maybe two rows. But they're right. I mean, the same end of the row, just two rows behind us. And so during the first game, D-back's won. Every time they did something good, I'm running behind and I'm high-fiving the boss and everybody's with him and we win the game. Two days later, I go back. Same group is behind us. Same group of people behind us. And this guy that I had been talking to and high-fiving within the game before us to say, I've got to tell you something. And I said what? He said to our boss's name is Ryan. He said I said to Ryan how much I like K-T-A-R. but I can't stand Broomhead. And the boss said to him, well, it's funny, you've been high-fiving in the whole game. So he came up to shake my hand and say, I'm really sorry. But the picture that people have of us are so small, which I appreciate, but they think that this, I can assure Tony, very honestly, that there is not one chance on this planet if Patricia had an opinion. She wouldn't say it. That's why she's on the show. I mean, I just pushed back on you and asked you about what they're posting on the White House. Like, I don't know. I guess I don't have an opinion. But if he thinks you'd get, you would get fired for giving your opinion. I don't know. Who thinks I worked for? Yeah. You would get, you would get fired if you didn't. I know. If I didn't talk, that would be probably. If you were, if you were, if you were mousy about your opinion. I don't, first of all, I don't think that we would have asked you to be on the show. But if you turned out that you were kind of mealy mouth or you were very timid, it wouldn't work out. No, I don't think so. And then, you know, I think maybe probably just because I don't really have that big of an opinion on Trump and people get mad that I don't. Right. Right. Sorry that I don't hate as much as you. Right. Sorry. Yeah, so I'm poisoning you. How dare you? I'm infecting you, is the word, infecting you. If anything, I'm probably worse for you. No. We compliment each other for you. I was going to say, I promise you that there's a really good balance here.

Anyway, we are going to have Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple on with us tomorrow at 9 a.m. Ross, Sheriff Teeple, I should say, said that he is not renewing the contract with the flock cameras because of concerns about data. And so I'm going to ask him about that tomorrow. I think it's a very interesting takes. We're going to do that tomorrow. Coming up in a moment, what we're going to do is our story roundup. It's how we end every one of our shows. We'll get to it here in just a moment. He's your Huckleberry. He's Mike Broomhead, and this is another story roundup. Yeah, let's get it done. First of all, by the way, we didn't play this last week, Paul. I don't know if you heard this, but recently Patricia was able to sing the anthem, and I want you to hear a little of this. And you see, by the time, now I know why you're so popular. It wasn't my best moment, but... As someone who does this at big events, the sons, the cardinals, the debacks, all kinds of events, when you saw that, heard that. I was sad. I'm sorry. That was real? That was real. Wow. It was at the first women's baseball game. Yeah, women's baseball league. Why would they do that to us, first of all? But these were famous singers, too. These were Motown singers. From like the 70s and 80s, though. Motown singers, really? They should go back down. So it leads me to my first story. Sorry. This is foreign to me because I've, not that I'm a guy, I don't care, but I've never used any illegal drugs. I've never smoked weed. I've never done anything. America's hit a major marijuana milestone. Daily weed use has surpasses daily drinking. Ooh. Younger people are not drinking. Younger people are using weed products. Edibles in wheat. Yeah. I wonder what that causes, you know? Yeah, I don't know. Drinking and driving. The survey said that reveals there are 21.4 million daily or near daily marijuana users that surpasses the 19.9 million who smoke cigarettes and 17.2 million who consume alcohol daily or almost daily. Well, you know, it makes sense, too, because a lot of people are using marijuana to get away from alcohol. Okay. So. I guess. I don't know. When they were talking about legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana, the fear in the alcohol industry was going to be something like this. Right. That it would go away. Wow. Only 24 states have legal. Yeah. And it's still more use than. Yeah. This one got me. I pulled this the other day and I've been kind of waiting. A woman who had gotten divorced, I think only women would do this. Guys would go to Vegas, I would guess, and go maybe go party with their friends. She threw a divorce party. Oh. And she had a sign made up.

with all of the horrible things that her ex did. I saw this. Did you see the video? Yes. People are reading and they're like, their faces are like, so she's like exactly what she says he did. And they went and they read that. See the look on your face? That's how they were looking when they read that sign. That's pretty epic. That is bitter. Receipts to the max there. That is bitter. A Malaysian airline pilot got arrested. 14 packages containing 57 pounds of ecstasy in his carry-on luggage. A pilot? The pilot for the airline. Nice. Nice. How big was that carry-on? I know. Actually, I saw a video of him and he's like twirling through the, he's like wheeling it through the airport. He was promised $13,000 if he could get it. That's why he was twirling it and he was happy. Payday. All right. The next couple, all right, I'm going to do it. This one is called Lala Piluza. Have you guys seen this? At Lollapalooza, people didn't want to lose their place. Oh, I get it now. Yeah. So they were crowd, they were showing crowd surfing a very, very large bag of urine through the crowd. Ew. Oh. No. Oh. That's. Yeah. I like concerts, but that's too much. Um, and there was also another report of a girl who, uh, did the other thing in a bag, so not to lose her place. dedicated concert goers. I just, I can't. Dignity. Yeah, no dignity. You're still hearing the music. Yeah. Super loud guys. Yeah. There is, we talked, you talked earlier about the salmonella thing. This is the last gross one I'll do, but I'm going to finish on a better note. There is a laboratory in Clifton, New Jersey that now has six stacks wide. because they are getting typically between 30 and 40 cyclospora tests into their lab a day. Oh, no. So you know what these are samples of. Oh, no. Nice. Oh, no. I don't even know what else is. Now, you're the one that wanted to be a scientist. This is why I'm not there. This is why you're not there. Now, when you say to me, I'm not putting up with that anymore. It has a completely different meaning. Oh, poor people. My goodness. That's why they have that. There is a, and I know it's lunchtime. I'm going to leave this topic, but there is a test you can get in the mail that tests for colon cancer called Coligard. and it's they send you an empty box and you send them back a full one. Nice. Yeah. Okay, a nice little present. Right. Can you imagine how bad you need a job if you have a degree and what biology or whatever it is that your job is to open that box? I got a box of poo today. Yeah, right? Fascinating. Yeah. Let's see what's in it. Yeah. Last one is because it's Florida.

Of course, it's always Florida. There is a steakhouse in Florida that is offering the opportunity to have a meal at their restaurant completely naked. Do you still get steak knives? Do you don't drop them? Careful. The chef told the USA Today Network that he got the special idea for a stripped-down dinner after a nudist group rented out the restaurant and ate their meal. Completely nude. Completely nude. He was inspired. What is, like, the health codes on that? I know. I'm not, you got, you got me. You have to, like, lay a napkin down before you sit down. Yeah, yeah, what are you putting over the seats? It's going to look like my grandma's house. Yeah, like the plastic over there. Oh, yeah. So, but so the couples, I think couples have to pay $2.50. single guys have to pay like $300 or $500 or something, and then single women pay whatever. But it's different prices for the meal and the experience. Oh, my goodness. That is wild. Florida. Yeah. I mean, it does get hot. I don't know why people, I mean, people that like don't wear clothes when they're in the house or one thing, but why do people want to be naked so much? I don't know. To each their own. There's a place up in Cave Creek or Carefree Cave Creek area. It's called Shangri-La and it's a nudist group. And I knew the owners of it. They invited me and I'm like, I'm good. I don't want to. I'm okay right now. Thanks. I'm good. Hey, don't forget, we've got our interview with the Secretary Scott Bessent is up on our website. It's up at KTR.com and the YouTube channel, the Treasury Secretary. Go and watch that tomorrow. Sheriff Teeple joins us at 9 o'clock. Have a great afternoon, everyone. God bless.