7-24-26 Hour 3 - Elon Spars with Economist Editor in tense interview

The source of diary is a metaphor for the Trump administration.

Yeah, that's true.

“Right now, because everything is going wrong.”

I cannot pick up the New York Times and not read. He's cutting back on this. I need this. He doesn't want us to have it. I wish I hadn't been front of him.

Yeah. I mean, everything that is right for the world, he's doing the opposite. I don't think you understand the beating of the word "opposite." Ironically named Joy-Bay-Har.

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It is the Chris Blancho, Michael Pelka,

in for my friend Chris Blanch. Happy Friday, Friday, Lua, Tua. Oh, I know when I hear the malif Lewis tones of Joy-Bay-Har. It's going to be something awful and just something riddled with TDS.

“She may have the biggest case of TDS, anyone on the planet.”

She just can't see any good in Donald John Trump. But at least they're not cutting back on the budget. Oh, wait, on the view. Yeah, ABC News, cutting back on the budget on the view. I wonder if that means sunny Austin will be let go.

Oh, wouldn't that be interesting to see? It just curious to see what's going to happen in the wake of sunny Austin's son being arrested for criminal trespass, along some railroad tracks. And she tried to talk his way out of it with the authorities

by telling that she's a federal prosecutor.

That was the first thing she said.

Tell them your mother is a federal prosecutor, he had an unspeaker phone. Like he was in the grocery store, I guess. And then she corrected herself. It said a former federal prosecutor.

I just wonder if sunny Austin has been a big enough problem, yet, for ABC News, because the view being an opinion show is sitting there in the ABC News barn as it were. We will say, but the story is there cutting budgets everywhere. I don't think-- what piece of salary took ahead?

Pretty sure she didn't take any cut to her personal budget. We will see. We have also been talking about several big topics today. The president mulling a serious increase in the attacks on Iran. Last night was the 13th night of our attacks on Iran.

There may be a bigger attack coming this weekend. Speaking of attacks, bigger attacks. We're also hearing that there is a different source for the digestive distress that is sweeping through parts of the country. And it seems to be really hitting Michigan.

The majority of the cases of the digestive distress-- I'm trying to avoid saying explosive diarrhea so many times, because we've all heard it. But it looks like it's more than the lettuce from Taylor Farms, which has been called the source, even though it's not

been fully locked down that it is. But there may be another source of this digestive distress that's picking up the pace. But nobody's died yet. And we hope that stays that way.

But the president and the media-- I wonder if they changed the menu for tonight's White House correspondent's association dinner with the digestive distress problem in mind that won't be a salad. Osperlman will be the entertainment tonight.

The president will be on hand. You'll be able to watch it. It's going to be on TV. I just think the pre-show as it were. The red carpet will be a lot less.

And we're monitoring to see, is there going to be any movement on the Save America Act? Will there be any change at all?

“I think this is the last day, as Michael E. told us earlier this week.”

And once we get done with today, the House and the Senate won't be in session at the same time until mid-September, which makes it virtually impossible to do anything, which will have a credible effect on the midterm elections.

We shall see. But something seems to be stirring among the people. In fact, there is a caller on a hold right here who purports to be a Democrat in favor of the Save Act. Let us go to a call quite early in this hour.

Sharon calling from, is it-- Sharon, is it sootland Maryland? I don't know this town. Yes, it's right by the Census Bureau. OK.

Well, hello. Welcome.

“I'm a serrated shirt that says, I say what everyone else is thinking.”

And here's what I'm thinking.

I get to save America to act past. I am a Democrat. I've been a Democrat all my life. I grew up in a Democratic household. And we need to save America to act because I did not

in the Democratic primaries. I did not vote for any incumbent. And that includes those that ran on the primary ballot Maryland unopposed. I just left it blank.

And then I tried to do my due diligence in being a responsible informed voter and finding a Democrat more to the views I have. I voted for Trump three times. Wow.

Well, Sharon, thank you for listening to the show number one.

And for calling and sharing your thoughts, I'm excited to hear that there are Democrats who, in fact, like the idea of securing our elections or making sure that people who are voting are actual citizens who should be voting so they don't negate.

Anyone else's vote? Can I ask you, how do you feel about the Democrats'

“socialist movement inside the Democrat party these days?”

Does it worry you? Yes, it does. For number one, I grew up in the suburbs and in New York City until I graduated from high school in Rockland County, New York.

OK. And I don't like what's happening there. Well, it feels like there is a seismic shift inside the party and that there's a little bit of battle for control.

And some of the elder states, people, the shimmers, the polocies have been pushed off to the side now. And obviously Biden's not in control at all. And we haven't even seen that much from Barack Obama. Where do you think this goes?

Now, you're in a very Democrat state. Maryland is a very, very, very blue state. But there are Trump voters there.

“But where do you think this is headed for you, party?”

It scares the heck out of me. It really does. I have no idea. And as one caller during a certain radio host on the six o'clock hour on the WMAL radio station-- OK.

--close into that show and said, what can we do? And the guest host at the time said, well, why don't you get out and start a pack? I am a firm believer. I would like to have somebody help me start a pack

that says, I want choices. In other words, choices where I vote-- everything like that. And we need more than one person on the ballot.

Where in 2012, when I first became a disenfranchised voter,

I had no choices when I had to fill out my first Maryland absentee ballot on what, in 2024, was called the-- what was called down ballot voting matters on your school boards, your local policy. You're so right.

There is so much that is driven by local action on school boards, city councils, mayor's races, as well as gubernatorial races. I'm just faster, but go ahead. But you're also.

Yeah, that was one of the first things. I will tell you, the change in school boards in Virginia and parts of the outside of Philadelphia suburban regions in Bux County were the big change in 2016 and again in 2024.

I'm just still kind of amazed that you voted for down Trump three times, but you also vote down ballot for a lot of Democrats, and yet, are you thinking? Let me ask you this question real quickly. Are you thinking that there may be a chance

that a new party forms that has both Democrats and Republicans or a true independent party conform in this country, or do you think the two parties have too much control to let that happen? It, this is what I'm trying to say, it doesn't matter

because you can be a responsible informed voter. If you're an independent Republican, a conservative, just by finding out what you can do and who you can support.

for a choice. I mean you choose one person and I will give you the perfect example, four years ago. I met the person that I had to write in to be county executive for Prince George's County because I had a nice conversation

with her and she believed around the pandemic and everything that the person running four county executive at the time believed in the masked mandate on two years old and above. And I didn't. Well, Sharon, do you feel like those kind of writing votes?

There are some people that say if you're not voting for a candidate

who's on the ballot, you're basically throwing your vote away.

Did you feel like that at all? If, yes, that's why. That's why you got to, I'm on a choice. On those positions that only when you get your ballot,

“only show one person, that's what bothers me.”

OK, I get it. Yeah, you want a choice. Let me ask a one last question here, Sharon. If the 20, 20, a Democrat primary were held today, you as a lifelong Democrat, who do you think you would be voting for?

I don't see any in the primary. I don't see anybody. I would vote for primarily. OK, J.D. Van, is it Rubio? Anybody, anybody that gives me a choice on that ballot?

And the other thing is being from New York,

you had to vote once every four years because on election day, we had four years of worth of election. If you didn't vote in the fourth, in the fourth four years, prior to when you decide you're going to go vote, you had to re-register.

You understand what I'm saying? I do. I do. You're on my team. I'm one of the people who wants us to just immediately wipe out

all voter registration and start from zero. Because there's just too much wrong internally with all the voter registrations in this country in every state.

“I think we zero-basit and we go from scratch.”

And we build the new voter base where we know everybody

that's on those roles is legit, alive, and should be voting.

It's great. You know Sharon has been a pleasure talking to you. Thank you for having a brain and sharing your opinion. You're doing a good job. OK, thank you very much.

I appreciate it, Mike. Take care. And I've been listening to WMAL for the since the 200th anniversary of this country. Wow, wow, God bless.

Thank you so much Sharon, well done. A new life-long New Yorker Democrat voted for Donald Trump three times. And yet, she'll vote for Democrats, but she wants choices. I think there is something to be said

for the wisdom of this woman.

“She's sharing the feelings a lot of people echo.”

Boy, boy, boy, that's kind of refreshing to get that kind of perspective from people. And again, this is the dialogue that wouldn't happen on a left-lating show. You would not welcome the opposing party voter.

All right, I got to take a break. We have some-- I have a crazy story about a former CNN anchor that just popped today. Remember the name Brooke Baldwin? This one kind of threw me for a loop.

I'll share it with you just around the corner. And this Elon Musk interview is absolutely crazy. We will get to it. It's Michael Pelka in for Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. Scrolling with Hayley.

I'm Hayley Carania. I scrolled with the homies here in the live chat because there was a lot to scroll through on X on Instagram, on TikTok, or cutting through the clutter. One hot take at a time.

Love seeing you all in the chat before the show. I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello. I love the chat interaction. Thank you for helping. But I do it to get all of the videos

and all of the content that you won't find anywhere else, scrolling with Hayley to search that up. And I would be there. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. It is the Chris Plant Show.

Michael Pelka in for my friend Chris Plant. I don't know the exact years when Chris worked at CNN. I know he's talked about his time at CNN when he worked covering the Pentagon from inside. The Pentagon, I wonder if he ever crossed paths

with former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin.

Maybe you guys will ask him when he returns.

“But the former CNN actor who was fired by CNN in 2021,”

even though she told everybody she was leaving. She told people on her show, she had an afternoon news program. She told everybody I'm leaving the network on my own, but then a few months later it came out that she was fired,

but she told everybody when she started to show the following. - Hi there and thank you so much for being with me. I'm Brooke Baldwin and you're watching CNN. And before we get going, I want to start with some personal news.

I will be leaving CNN in April. Let me back up. - Now she backed up to the long story.

She started there with a freelancer in 2008.

Last until 2021, that's a pretty good run. But she told everybody she was walking away and sound like she was looking to find maybe another gig in terms of how they fired her.

“And I completely forgotten about her in two, two day”

when a story popped that Brooke Baldwin is now telling everybody at 47 years old that she's just having a lot of fun, having a lot of sex, and that she's pretty darn good at it. I don't know if I needed this information.

I really didn't know if I needed this information. But I wonder about the four men who she has had sexual Congress with in the course of a month. I wonder how they feel about all that coming forward as she's posting this.

Four guys, one month she's talking about them, telling people one guy who used to run a country, another one who literally flew into town just to take me at dinner to dinner. One guy who's just hot and the other guy

which he didn't describe. So he's probably not the hottest guy of all. I just find it's so weird that you think we need to know

“do you used to be an anchor on what you used to be a news network?”

And now you're 47 years old and telling everybody it's so gay to be, I guess, free and easy in this world. Somebody's saying good for you, somebody's saying, just be quiet. I don't get it.

I really don't get it. She did have a, she was at one point, put Baldwin before she was an anchor. She did the Hollywood minute every afternoon during a show anchored by a guy named Rick Sanchez.

And Sanchez made some really idiotic comments, just before she came on the air one day and the network fired him immediately.

She took over the spot and never looked back.

Kept it for years and years and years. I think she was in that spot for almost a decade. Sanchez said something really horrible and ignorant. God fired in the commercial break and she never relinquished the spot

until 2021. Just a kind of a weird media update I had to share with you. Just around the corner, I want to get into this interview that Elon Musk had an in-depth interview with Elon Musk with the editor of the economist,

Elon delivered some pretty blunt advice and pretty blunt opinions. That's next on the Chris Plant Show. (upbeat music) Welcome back to the Chris Plant Show.

Michael Pelco with you, kicking off our weekend, happy Friday Friday, Luria, Tugia. I will get to the Elon Musk interview with the editor from the economist but I saw the story yesterday and Senator Eric Schmidt released a memo

that was discovered a memo that was part of the, really the Biden lame duck era, the transition between the November election in 2024 and President Trump's swearing in in January of 2025. And it's kind of astounding because it shows you

just how disloyal to this country, the Democrats are. Senator Schmidt posting this briefing memo that was from the senior advisor. That sounds like a very vague group of individuals. I'm wondering if Valerie Jarrett was part of it.

I'm just putting that out there but the senior advisors send a memorandum to the president regarding temporary protected status. And while the date on the memo says January 2, 2024, we believe it was misdated.

So early January 2025 and the statement

“of the purpose of this memo is to give them background”

on the temporary protected status programs and quote to expand TPS before you and all caps, you, the word you and all caps and bold face type, leave office. So this is to the president to say, listen,

we need you to extend temporary protected status to all these people. Because let's face a president Trump and campaigned. And hey, you know, we got a lot of people in this country that shouldn't be here and they're game in the system.

They're milking our system. They're taking advantage of America, American taxpayers. And we got to get these people out of here, especially those who work in this temporary protected status. The memo goes on to say that this is status

that allows people to, quote, remain and work legally in the United States. So if you move it, if you extend it, they'll be able to stay here. They'll be able to continue on.

And during the rest of the memo here,

“it openly discusses rushing TPS extensions”

and redesignations, reclassifications, if you will, before January 20, to specifically shield people from Trump's planned mass deportations, that's their actual words. This is a deliberate plan in the actions

that they talked about during the previous administrations, as well as this administration. They talked about 16 grants of TPS

that were in place covering 1.2 million people.

10 of them were in place when Biden took office and his administration designated nationals from seven countries as eligible, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burma, Lebanon, Ukraine, Venezuela. They stressed the council stresses your administration,

extended TPS for Haiti several times. It's an astounding reveal of what they were trying to do to prevent President Trump from living up to a campaign promise. Schmidt explained briefly the TPS scam. TPS was created for emergencies.

Democrats turned it into a one-way racket towards permanent mass migration. Here's how the racket works. In emergency creates temporary status. Then the emergency passes, but the status stays.

The deadline arrives, but Washington extends it. The voters demand enforcement, but Democrats refuse. Every click moves towards permanence. None moves back towards the law. That is the TPS racket.

And those people are not vetted the same way, because it's an emergency. We have to give them temporary status to allow them here. And no one ever leaves. No one ever leaves.

And now you see that the machine, the swamp inside Washington, D.C. was working to prevent Donald Trump to living up to the promises he made to the people who elected him, it really needs some attention. All right, I promise you this interesting interview.

Elon Musk sat down with the editor of the Economist. And she was asking some really interesting questions. I'm a big Elon Musk fan. I'm not a fan of electric cars. I am a fan of people who are innovators.

Fan of people who are inventors and believe in America, as Elon Musk does. But some of this was really interesting to me, because Elon Musk has been losed by so many on the left. And he doesn't let his life his world get affected

by it. Cut number 15, please, Michael. Some people do know that. Yes, some people do. But do you understand why?

“Do you think what you're doing is helpful for Western markets?”

Maybe some people do know with me. And that's probably true. I don't care. But the fact that, as you pointed out,

a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people

actually like me than don't. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize. I do enjoy it when people tell the media, hey, do you realize that there's a whole bunch of people out there

that just don't like you guys because they don't trust you. Elon continued with the economist at her, talking about how the media is loathed. Do you realize the media is despised? Do you realize that journalists, how the view of journalists

is like 15% in the United States.

So the show is on the other foot. They hate you. They hate you. Far more than they hate me.

“I think there is certainly lots of trust in journalists.”

I think in part, there have been mistakes by journalists and journalism. I totally acknowledge that. But I also think that the kind of polarized environment, particularly on social media,

fostered by the kinds of things you are pushing on eggs, actually helps this makes it worse. I don't think so. I think you're the problem, the media. I do enjoy the fact that this woman tries to,

this editor of the economist tries to throw it back to Elon,

and says, you know, yeah, we're hated. But it's because of what you're doing on Twitter acts. It's because of social media, really. Really, it's not to do with the fact that journalism is no longer as respected as it was, say, 30, 40 years ago.

The conversation continued about who's loathed more. And speaking of loathing, you're loathed far more than I am. And you don't even realize that.

“I think I think very few people know who I am relative to use.”

So I don't think I'd play in the same game. The media collectively. So, I mean, you're hated. Do you even know that? You probably don't.

I like to think that I'm aware of my own personal shortcomings and the economist's shortcomings, and I'm a world view shortcoming. Yeah. Don't think you are as aware as you believe you are, madam.

It was interesting because the editor of the economist betto's, I believe, is her name. They were discussing classical liberals. Now here in America, liberals are just people that have been infected with this woke mind virus.

A classical liberal is actually closer to what we call a conservative in this country. And she thought Elon was a classic liberal. I have long thought that you were a classical liberal, but when I read what he was supposed to be.

Cousin liberal, J.S. Mill, limited government, individual freedom. Yeah, I agree with that. But when I read what you post on your feet, I sometimes wonder whether you really do believe in that.

“I literally said, look, I believe in safe cities,”

secure borders, and sensible spending. What a stunning and awful thing to admit to, Elon, safe city, secure borders, and sensible spending. Oh, how shocking is that? Is that Elon talked more about safe cities?

And how they will be safe if we get rid of prisons, et cetera. We fail to incarcerate repeat violence offenders. And that's the classic sort of SARS-D-A, or judges that fail to incarcerate repeat violence offenders. And if somebody gets arrested, 50 times, literally,

for violent crimes, and eventually they're going to kill somebody. So you either incarcerate them, or people will die. Simple thinking. Lock people up, but they can't kill people. That's a good thing.

And he did bring up Soros backed DAs, which I think are a big problem, and they're still in several big cities around the country. The conversation between Elon Musk and the editor of the economist also stepped into the issue of guns,

because let's face it when you've got the British economist, editor, who's talking about guns. It's like talking to Pierce Morgan.

They're always going to see our second amendment as a problem.

I think the province of guns has quite a lot to do with it, too. I mean, this is a much more dangerous country. Moderates are much higher in large part, because there's so much. They're so many guns. Well, let me give you an interesting number.

There are more people that die in Europe from heat deaths than people that die from gun deaths in America. Why aren't you writing an article about air conditioning? I love that stat. That's one of the greatest stats that came out of the summer

when the Europeans were all screaming at us because they had a heat wave. And people were dying everywhere because they won't put air conditioning in due to the environmental wax jobs. This continued and the discussion drifted into far-right, Hillary, Obama, radicals.

You support-- not just the poppinists, right, but the far-right. In fact, very fringe parties in some countries. No, it's what the normal people. What do you call it far-right, falsely?

You think it's the normal person, OK? Yes.

And these policies were completely normal.

In fact, one of the things--

“I know one of the tricks that I think is the chunny.”

Well, I think it's quite funny, too. Like take a speech from Obama and Hillary. And then go to someone who's sort of on the sort of-- what I call the lunatic left. And say, what do you think of the speech by Trump?

I like, oh, wow, he's the worst person ever. Actually, that was the speech by Obama. Well, actually, that was the speech by Hillary. It's true. And if you just give them the text, these people think.

And you could throw a Chuck Schumer in there. We played the clips here with Hillary,

and Obama, and Schumer, and Pelosi all demanding

that we tie in our borders, we don't allow people to be hired who are not here legally on job sites. That's a great point, very good point. The conversation continued. And drifted into whether or not Elon Musk

is anti-Islam. Are you anti-Muslim? I am against having, if people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. Yeah, I'm against it, too.

One of the words that we keep reminding people is, "That's the serve for this country." Or any country to survive is to demand people assimilate and not assassinate a culture. And it feels like, to me, that the radicals

on the Muslim side of things don't want to assimilate, they want to assassinate our culture. Elon addressed more regarding some of the craziness coming up from some of the weird side of the Muslim immigrants. I'm against rape and murder.

I'm against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West.

“And I think it's a crying shame that the traditional media”

like you don't recognize this. Yeah, they really don't. What's happened in Europe is I think beyond saving. If you look what's happening in the UK with the population, and then Sweden's at risk as well, you've got several nations

where they may not be able to reverse what's coming because the immigrant population has repopulated beyond the resident population, and they will be voted out very soon. It is something we should be mindful of here.

And then we always wonder about Elon Musk and his old buddy

Donald Trump, is there still a bromance there? And what kind of rating does Elon Musk give to the Trump administration? Are you disappointed by this administration? No, I think this is the administration on balance as excellent.

No administration is perfect, but it's vastly better than the alternative. Yeah, when you think about it, really, when you think about it, this week, it was two years ago, this week, Joe Biden stepped aside in the 2024 race,

and then shortly after Gabe Kamala Harris, 107 days, and but four, those 107 days, got knows where we would have been if Donald Trump had not gotten reelected, really kind of interesting. All right, tripletes, 630, 965, 888, 860, 965.

Those were my highlights of the Elon Musk interview. When we get back, a couple final thoughts,

“and I believe we have a caller who wants to explain”

how Os Pearlman does the crazy mentalist tricks. Are we allowed to give up the secret? Maybe, we'll get into it just around the corner. So Pelka, in for plant on the Chris Plant Show. [MUSIC PLAYING]

It is the Chris Plant Show. Michael Pelka, for my friend Chris Plant, liking round on the phone, if you're online. We're going to try and make sure we get to it as many as we can. In the brief time, we have remaining.

So please, have your presentation ready to rock and roll. It's been my honor, my pleasure. My absolute joy to be here with you since the last Friday. I'll be back whenever Chris needs me, and I want to thank Michael Peercy for making life easy.

And Isaac, on the phones today and all of you listening, it's just been a blast. It's been a stone gas. All right, let's jump on the phones. As I said, the White House Correspondence Center 2.0 is tonight.

Tonight, they're redoing this. They get to do over.

I think they'll be accepted.

Andrew is in DC.

“Andrew, are you going to the dinner tonight?”

No, but I've been many times. I was a journalist at NBC in the Voice School, America, and the 80s. Very cool. So I know what the vibe is, as they say.

But let me tell you, I've also ever since I was a boy. I do magic and mentalism. Really? Yes. So I can share with you an example.

Let's see. Think of my word to get it very good rest. OK. Yeah, you got it? Yeah.

The first word that came to your mind, right?

Yeah. Yeah. OK. Now, mix up all the letters in the word, mix them up, mix them up, stop. Think of one letter, see it large, large, and a big screen.

Are you-- I'm saying, you see it all. Is that correct? I got to tell you, I'm absolutely stunned. But you're absolutely right.

I wrote down the word score, and I circled the word in the letter R. This is it. Yes. Four score. Yes, yes, you got it.

Well, since I got it right, I'm not going to tell you that I did it. But you're like, are you like the stunt as permanent? You're ready to go in case you get sick.

In case you get to bad salad, that's wild. That's right. That's great. I appreciate that, Andrew. And I thank you for not outing the method.

But yeah, I absolutely didn't.

I've never talked to you before.

OK. Now, are you into telekinesis? Uh, what is that? Oh, yes. I'm just going to say--

OK, raise my hand. If you're into telekinesis, if you're into telekinesis, raise my hand, and my left hand goes up. Thank you, Andrew. Very well done.

“Do we have time to get Christy and Southern Maryland?”

And Christy, if you could do it real quickly, you're on. Yes, Michael, good morning. Good show. I just wanted to just say that it's a fatal miracle act fails in the center again.

The federal government should create an act for our phones that allows us to go to our name in the board of elections. And flag our name so that the people running the elections see a red bar that says ID required. We can then control our own vote.

That's really interesting. Put it in the hands of the people. What a great thought. The founders going to have an idea like that, too. Thank you, Christy.

Have a great weekend, everybody. Spend time with family and friends. Enjoy every sandwich. Until next time, test stood on my friends, test stood on. [MUSIC]

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