This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air.

When they see Barack Obama, people remember a time in America where there was unity.

When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son.

I intend to keep this promise. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan.

According to guns or origin or antipathy toward people who want like that.

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Another issue that confronts all democracies as they move to the future is how we deal with

the past.

The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.

Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment

of Native America. And I think to myself, what a wonderful word.

You know that we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices.

There are no quick fixes or silver bullets.

If somebody tells you there are, they're not telling you the truth.

You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.

You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.

You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough,

conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe.

Once they lose trust in their leaders, the mainstream media and political institutions in each other,

...