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Stephen A. Smith (0:00)
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Hitcham (0:40)
Have you ever wondered, if your pet is lying to you, why is my.
Unknown Speaker (0:43)
Cat not here and I go in and she's eating my lunch?
Hitcham (0:45)
Or if hypnotism is real, we will use the suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole?
Stephen A. Smith (0:52)
Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe.
Hitcham (0:56)
Well, we have answers for you in the new I Heart Original podcast Science Stuff. Join me or Hitcham as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains and our bodies. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Unknown Speaker (1:17)
I have no desire to be a politician. My life is pretty well But I've decided I'm no longer going to close that door. I'm going to keep my options open. I'm going to entertain the possibility. And if the if, if it comes in 2020, late 2026, 2027, where I look at this country and I think it's an absolute mess and there's legitimate reason to believe, whether it's via exploratory committees or anything else, that I indeed would have a legitimate shot to win the presidency of the United States. I am not going to rule it out and I'm not playing. I'm going to be very, very calm today because I don't want the excuses coming my way about I'm enraged, I'm angry, and all of this other stuff. I'm a human being. I get disgusted by certain things that I see sometimes and sometimes I don't. But I think today is an important day. Because I think today that I'm going to be, dare I say, a bit more revealing than I ever have been about where I stand on a few things in life. It's clearly necessary in light of the headlines that have been scurrying all over the place over the last 24 hours. That's where we're going to get started. Headlines made by yours truly. Specifically yesterday at the national association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. I was sitting down for a conversation fireside chat with Mike McVeigh, president of McVeigh Media, somebody who's been a mentor and a friend to me for years, helped me resurrect my career in this business. After I was gone in 2009, he asked me about my future as a potential presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. For those of you who didn't see it, here's more of my response. Piggybacking off of that cold open you just saw to those very questions. Listen up right here. I just think that it's a mess right now. I'm not scared. There's a lot that I have to learn. I am no aficionado, make no mistake about it. But damn it, let me hunker down for two or three months. I'll know the issues. And once that happens, then imagining me on a debate stage with these people, these politicians, this is what I do for a living. And if for no other reason than to stand on the debate stage with tens of millions of people watching, where I get to sit back and talk about what you've been doing as politicians to literally dissipate and disintegrate the quality of America before our very eyes because of your own selfishness. Me having an opportunity to do that. That is what I mean when I say I will eat them alive. I am not a politician. I don't have a political record for them to lean on. They all do. Which means I get to look at your record and what you've done and challenge whether you can legitimately say, not just with the cameras rolling, but in front of my face, that you actually operated on behalf of what was in the best interest of all of America. Who's going to pull that off in front of my face? Good luck with that. I wish they would. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd love to sit up here and tell you that I didn't mean what I said, but I do. And I think the time has arrived to let you all know this is not something that I plan. Contrary to people bloviating out there on their podcasts and stuff like that, I'm no political aficionado. There's so much that I have to learn about the intricacies of politics and all that it entails, particularly as it pertains to dealing with people on Capitol Hill. My God, I wouldn't even know how to put a staff together as of yet. We understand that part. But what I've tried to say to many people on many, many occasions is that I'm an American citizen. I'm a voter. And what has transpired throughout the years, as far as I'm concerned, has been reprehensible. I'm a believer that the American people have been played as suckers for decades, that we've allowed politicians to become career politicians to sit up there and pad their own wallets and look out for their own self interest. And it's been at the expense of the American people. My proof is the fact that we have a $37 trillion deficit. How is that possible? How could you possibly be doing your job and be $37 trillion in debt? How could you do that? It's really. Certain things are just very, very simplistic to me. Of course that's not the only problem that we have. But something needs to be said.