Steve Schmidt & Joy Reid: When "How Are You?" Is No Longer A Simple Question To Answer
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Steve Schmidt joined Joy Reid's "Joy's House" today by asking her what should be a simple question: "How are you?" The truth is that in these times, there's no simple answer. It lead to an interesting conversation that spanned the economic instability spawned by Trump's losing war with Iran, America's never-ending wars, how far America has fallen on the global stage, corruption of the Supreme Court and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.6 | They're draining us of all the power with using AI, these AI plans that are taking all the power. |
| 0:11.0 | And it's really not great. |
| 0:12.7 | All right. |
| 0:13.2 | So we're going to go ahead and get started. |
| 0:16.3 | And I want to welcome everybody. |
| 0:17.9 | We are slowly going to let people turn in. |
| 0:19.4 | People are just getting the email now, the premium subscribers, that we are doing another Joyce House Insiders. And this week, we are very pleased to have on, my friend, we used to fight on opposite sides of politics, but we've always been on the same side when it comes to this country and our dreams and goals for it. |
| 0:40.2 | And he's one of the smartest thinkers out there. |
| 0:43.7 | And so I really am excited to talk to him about what the hell is going on right now. |
| 0:46.8 | Steve Schmidt, who you should all be following here. |
| 0:52.5 | The Warning is the name of his must-read newsletter here on Substack. |
| 0:53.5 | Steve, hello. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, Joy. |
| 0:55.9 | How are you? |
| 1:00.7 | You know, it's the most loaded question at the moment, right? |
| 1:01.3 | How are you? |
| 1:03.3 | Has become, like, really one of those loaded questions. |
| 1:09.8 | I think I am, as we were kind of talking about before we started, I think I am at the stage of acceptance. |
| 1:10.6 | I've been through all the |
| 1:11.9 | phases with this president, you know, rage, anger, bargaining. I'm now at acceptance. Like, I accept |
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