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The Chris Plante Show

12-1-25 Hour 1 - Opelka on Cyber Monday

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0

Look, Donald Trump insulting means a badge of honor for me, but I think we all know as both as an educator for a couple decades and as a parent, using that term is just so damaging.

0:16.0

It's hurtful.

0:19.3

Well, did you notice he didn't say it was inaccurate or incorrect?

0:26.9

Hmm.

0:28.3

That's interesting.

0:30.9

How about that?

0:33.8

And it is Cyber Monday, Michael Pelka, back in for my friend Chris Plant.

0:39.3

This is the Chris Plant show, Chris, with a last minute, last minute called to the bullpen.

0:46.6

I did expect Chris to be here today.

0:49.2

He should be back tomorrow, but I'm here and we'll do my level best with the help of Michael

0:56.3

Piercy and Jeff Wolf and everyone else to hold up the fine standards of this show.

1:02.9

But that clip from Kamala's running mate and the current governor of the state of Minnesota

1:10.7

is just very interesting to me.

1:13.8

It is a reaction, a gigantic reaction to something said by the President of the United States.

1:21.9

And the question of the R word, as it has been called so many times now, since the president referred to the governor of Minnesota as the R word.

1:36.3

I'm not saying it because there are places that do not want it on the radio.

1:42.4

I know many in the media couldn't wait. Many on the left side of

1:46.4

the mainstream media could not wait to quote the president and say, well, the president said it.

1:51.5

Yeah. We're going to say regarded, highly regarded. Yes, the highly regarded. Tim Walls. President

2:00.6

Trump referring to him slightly differently. Neurodivergent, I think, was the word that Chris latched onto from the people out in Berkeley when California put out a list of alternate terms that the woke world wanted us to use instead of the terms we've been using forever.

2:18.0

But no, you aren't allowed to use the R word there, but they want to say neurodivergent.

2:24.7

And I think it's just easier to call them highly regarded.

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