January 5, 2026 • 36 mins
The left goes from “no kings” to “Free the dictator!” But, inside the republican party how does Trump’s Venezuela move play out?? Party Consultant and YMS contributor Chris Walker will join us with analysis.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, I had a job or every year wasn't a
happy New year. It was the same miserable year over
and over again, like groundhog Day for sixteen straight years.
And I never got two weeks off. And if I did,
I would have enjoyed every second. You know, this vacation,
I actually missed you guys. After about four days.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I wanted to be back. What has happened to me?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's a new day, It's a new year, Happy new year.
It's good to be back in the saddle. It's Monday,
January the fifth, twenty twenty sixth, eight minutes after the hour.
I trust you had a very merry Christmas, a very
happy New Year. Venezuelan president or drug lord and cartel
leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife just took a helicopter
ride from the jail to the federal courthouse where they
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will be a ragin today. Meanwhile, a big news conference
in Minnesota where the Governor Tim Walls, we believe is
dropping out of running for reelection. And it's the last
day for Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. And I don't
know how I did it. I had enough of them
trying to cough on me. One I got to the
airport and have barely had enough time to eat, so
(01:42):
I grabbed the amount of new diet with PhD. So
there's very little I could eat, but I grabbed what
I could eat, and I sit down to eat it,
and these two people are going to try to cough
on me while I'm eating, so I had to move.
Then I got on the plane. Kids were trying to
cough on me. Dodge in the flu. Some of you
got caught. So far, I seem to be okay, But
federal health officials say the US has seen a major
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spike in the number of flu cases in December and
now into January.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And how about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How about the priest who bless the field and maloitd
This is an Italian expression when you put the malocha
on somebody. But the priest touched the field in Pittsburgh
with holy water and I don't know, missed field goal
from a pretty proven kicker, the mali like. And then
the vintage Aaron Rodgers' final drive, the final piece of
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the puzzle. The Steelers are in, the Ravens are out
twenty six to twenty four of Baltimore last night in Pittsburgh.
All right, the left is, by the way, can't have
your morning show without your voice, nor would we ever.
From Hannah to Roger, to Michael de Joey to Russ
the Woody and whoever is going to be calling while
I'm talking to Chris Walker. We'll get to your calls
(02:51):
and your emails here shortly. All right, the left is
going to go from no Kings to free the Dictator
within minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You expect that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
In the matrix about inside the Republican Party, you know,
the whole battle between the far far right that now
suddenly doesn't like Israel, doesn't like any US involvement abroad,
or the old neocons or just every day and will
anyone focus on the Venezuelan people and the future.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Chris Walker is joining us.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He is a party consultant, an analyst, and a contributor
here on your morning show to give us the analysis.
How might we know how the Democrats are reacting? How
might the Republicans react to this?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And good morning, Michael, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How are you. I'm great, happy to you here, Thank you,
same to you.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
You know, yes, yeah, good time, good to be back.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Though I just said, this is going to be a
very interesting time. I mean, this is uh, this is
uh the Bush doctrine being being leveled in uh in
the Trump administration. I think it'll be interesting to see
how some of these folks who kind of in the
podcast brows fear react to it.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
I would say some of them are going to be negative.
I'll be curiously what Martine Taylor Green says today and
the last day in Congress. You know, she she took she.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Took to the same position as a CD over the weekend,
which is a bizarre move on my you know, from
my position. But you know, there seems to be this
this growing concern within some.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Of the GFP.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I don't think all or even the majority of isolationism.
And you know, using it under the term of America first, well,
America first doesn't mean America only. And when you're looking
at China and Russia and Iran making inroads and countries
in South America over the last twenty plus years, whether
you know, the Obama administration and the Biden administration after
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Trump won, you know, things have to be done here
to kind of make sure that America isn't a position
of success in our own hemisphere. I mean, it's the
Moroau doctrine, but you know it's the Roosevelt corollary and
now the Trump corollary the Morou doctrine.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
So then and they.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Even President Trump has said this, has laid this out
in his national security strategy over the summer. So you know,
this is not a surprise in per se and like
policy public surprise to me in terms of actual action.
But I think America is definitely better off with Maduro out.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
What happens in Venezuela afterwards is going to be as
we saw in Iraq.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
We need to learn the lessons of Iraq and make
sure that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, that's not going to right people in place, right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't think that's gonna happen, but yes, that's that's
the risk, all right. So Number one, it's going to
be very interesting to see how history used Donald Trump
and remembers Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Reality can't. It's caught in a matrix. Journalism is dead.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I get all that, but yeah, that really boils it
down there are and I could lace, you know, light
everybody up with with Joe Biden quotes about murduall not
being a rightful leader and not dually you know, rightfully
or elected properly, or refusing to leave and all that
other stuff. Donald Trump does it. He doesn't say it,
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he does it. This is not a president who has
been plucked out of Venezuela. This is a drug cartel
leader who's facing charges who he deserves to face. The
Venezuelan people have an uncertain future. This regime. Change has
not taken place, just the extraction of its president. Let
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me ask you this, and again, you know, I don't
like to play the matrix game and be a part
of it, but you know, Donald Trump has never really
been I know he's a Republican, probably about as Republican
as me in that he You know, I'm not a
Republican or a Democrat. I think both are a part
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of the problem. And the Republicans live what they believe.
I'm on their side, they just so rarely do it.
I'm sure that's his frustration too. Let's do this like
a checklist. Number one. Can we all agree that Donald
Trump couldn't care less about what Marjorie Taylor Green thinks.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I know, I couldn't are what.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Any of the Republican Party factions think on this. He's
doing what he has to do for our time and
for all time. End of stories, so we don't even
need to cover that. But inside the party, do you
think there'd be a Are they capable of going beyond
narratives to actual reality in order to understand and respond
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to this?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You know again, I think there's a growing cock You know,
we saw this with some of the podcap holeks. There
there's a knee jerk reaction against Israel and others for
any type of military action.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It's silly, but it's.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
There, and you know, I agree with you. I think
it's too part a question. Does president care about it?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
No, he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
No, I mean discuss their position or change.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Their narrative on it. No, they're not. Some of them
are going to be critical of it, and.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I think that's going to lead to some interesting discussions
within the GOP on where things are going. We saw
it over the break with the Turning Point USA group
and others.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
There's there's a fight amongst the right.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I know aside. I'm on on that, and it's certainly
not the Tucker Carlson brocast side, but you know they're there.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
There are those people.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Are having a voice to trying to have a say
in it. I think the president obviously when his flag
opposite that as well.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
We'll see how some of that shakes out over them.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Chris Walker.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
In months, Chris Walker, do you have pianalyst joining us
and a contributor on your morning show? All right, So
that's kind of now that we're all on the same footing.
There's no divisions here that could ultimately impact the kind
of unity necessary to withstand a left attack during a
midterm election or a presidential election two years later. Right,
Not in this, I wouldn't think. No, not in this
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not in this specifically. I mean what's going to happen
is the domino effect after this? Does this effect Cuba
to suspect Mexico? So does this affects affect hemispheric challenges?
You know, does this allow for a remigration of folksure
in this country that don't want.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
To be or are here better here illegally, but there's
a place for them to go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I think there are some domestic implications on this by
reorienting our hemispheric leadership here that I think will actually
have domestic impact as well. I mean, this is something
that the president has unique authority in its foreign policy,
and so you know, whether solving these domestic problems, obviously
his hands are tied because he has Congress in a
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boat of gureocracy that he's fighting an international foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
He has a unilateral control here, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We're seeing reactions to that that are actually positive and good.
I they can impact domestic policy as well.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I guess what I'm kicking around or dancing around
is probably the better expression. If Donald Trump is not
a red wave, and I don't think he is, I
think he was an orange wave twice. In other words,
I would even so far you are Republican. I am not,
But I would go so far as to say, I
don't know that you know who your party is or
or what strong standing your party is in, or what
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weaknesses of Donald Trump don't translate to your party or
the future of your party. And I think this would
fall under that. You know, what does this really say
in terms of impacting not only the position of the
Republican Party, but the strengths of the Republican Party, the
enthusiasm of the Republican Party, and.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The unity the Republican Party moving forward.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't think we know, like this, is this a
victory for heg Seth more than Rubio or Rubio more
than Trump and ultimately Rubio more than JD.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, I think that's all premature, but it is interesting,
and this is your segment to discuss those kinds of things.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
It is being written about, it is being talked about,
it is being looked at. I mean, the horse race
of twenty eight is already being discussed. President Trump has
even finished his first full year in office, So some
of it is premature. I mean, the President is going
to insist that he is still relevant as that you know,
to bring back an old political terms. So I think
some of it is depending.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
On what the present is going to do.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He's still the massive political flow of the Republican Party.
Nothing moves without his you know, endorsement or his involvement.
As that wanes or somebody tries to tries to move ahead,
I don't see a Rubio jd Vance you know, element
coming out of that that isn't more unified along with
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him because they're serving his administration. Where that where that
negativity or negative.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Wrong word, where that.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Opposite view would come from would be someone like a
Margie Taylor Green or someone who is coming outside of
the MAGA world now and saying I'm planting my own
flag and I'm going to stay mistake my own.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The real the real players for your party, and I
root for your party over the Democrat Party obviously, but
the real leaders are clearly Marco Rubio jd Vance or
Governor DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Everybody else is not a serious player.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I'm just wondering, and I favor Rubio, so I'm just
even in transparency, putting myself in check.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The real series.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's almost as like is if jd Vance is far
more background, far more air apparent or continuation, whereas when
it comes to serious world leader and ready to carry
the torch forward, Marco Rubio seems to be getting all
the big victories in involvement on the things that really matter.
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But I'm really your opinion on this one is more
important than mine, because I can't speak for Republicans.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Well, I can't either. I mean, I can think for myself,
but you know, and I'm with.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You on the fact that I think Rubio he's looking
more serious.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
My general position is, but.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I think I would not dis count the margin tailligam
voice on it. Do not assume that because we disagree
with what her position doesn't mean that she's trying to
gain favor within that contingent of the right. And I
would say there's a large chunk of the MAGA movement that.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Is is growing in that campus.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Seen it with Steve Bannon, We've seen it with others
trying to stake out that territory, and I think that's
where Marge's trying.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
To stuff her territory.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I don't think it is a large enough one to
win a primary, but it is certainly where the loud
voices are going to go.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Who are going to.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Try to find a place outside of this kind of
muscular foreign policy that a lot some people are opposed to.
It's not where I am, it's not where you are,
but it is where some people are trying to stake
a stake out territory to build some political.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Momentumunth if the Republicans are trying to turn this four years,
I've had people look at me and go, there's not
gonna be a Democrat for twenty years. President, Well, you
need to need you need to hang out to your
outrageous opinions because they could turn.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They could win in two year years.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But if you want to turn this four years into
I don't know, twelve or sixteen years. For me, I'm
outside looking in, you're inside looking out. I think a
Rubio Desanta's ticket might be your ticket for sixteen years.
I absolutely do. But now how this shakes out, I
don't know, and time will tell. We got enough to
handle in twenty twenty six. We extracted a drug lord
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and a person that's done nothing but wreak havoc on
his own people. You decapitated the head, the head of
the snake, but a new head could grow. You have
not achieved regime change. Yet, let's keep our eye on
the ball. And it's still very early in twenty twenty six. Chris,
We're going to need you all year long to give
us these perspectives. Thanks for joining us. Happy new Year,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I'm thinking your you brother. Welcome, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
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Speaker 1 (16:15):
The Venezuelan president or cartel leader, Nicholas Mrduro and his
wife took a little helicopter ride from the jail to
the courthouse. We visited with Natalie mcgliori in the first hour.
She'll be there all day covering this. But the arrangement
is today and there is word that Madua could be
deported after he stands trial. Meanwhile, big news conference Tim
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Wallas is going to have today. He may be dropping
out of his re election bid. That's what all the
speculation is. And Aaron Rodgers did have one last drive
in him a touchdown pass. The Steelers are in, the
Ravens are out. I'm gonna do emails now. We're gonna
at your talkbacks right after the break. Happy New Year,
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glad to have you back. My name is Joe from Albuqur,
New Mexico, a very poor blue welfare state. I was
just listening to John Decker about Venezuela. He kept repeating
that now we have no idea what happens next in Venezuela,
when yesterday Marco Rubio explained what the plan was moving forward.
Yet I think he was referring to and if they
resist that plan, then what do you invade? There doesn't
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seem to be any local forces to support. So if
you want to use the Cuban missile crisis as an example,
there's no resistance for US waiting there to be supported.
I think that's the point he was making. Good morning, Michael,
there's a pool forming on picking the Dayton segment. When
you miss your break time, well take the under thirty
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after the hour.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
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It's a new down, it's a new day. You feel
it's a new down. It's a new day, It's a
new live.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Ell.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I mean that's what everyone says, right, Frock strikes midnight,
Happy Year?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And it probably was. After all, what could have possibly
gone wrong that fast? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But as this weekend proved for to a Venezuelan president,
sometimes even that only lasts just a few short moments. Now,
first of all, I want you to hear me loud
and clear. I want you to have a happy New Year,
and I wish it were as easy as just me
wishing it, and then it was so for you. However,
life doesn't work that way, does it, And neither does
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New Year's anymore than when we say happy birthday, it
necessarily means you're having a happy birthday or about the greatest.
Have a nice day doesn't often equate to you having
a nice day. But that doesn't stop us. And at
New Year's we shout it, we wish it, we even
try to eat it. Cabbage for money, black eyed peas
for good luck. We so desperately want to blame everything
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that's wrong in our lives or went wrong on the
previous year that we actually convince ourselves this year will
be different, this year will be better, this year will
be happy. The problem is, while the calendar has changed,
we probably haven't. Twenty twenty six, like all New Years,
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holds no magical powers. The ball that drops to end
one and light up the next simply serves to remind
us time is ticking. It's ticking on our hopes, our dreams,
and yes, our lives. As for twenty twenty five, well,
it was a year filled with political divisions and a
lot of uncertainty, divisions over socialism versus capitalism, affordability and
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whose fault is it that it's unaffordable, uncertainty over tariffs
and interest rates, and especially AI.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We solved the.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Border crisis and we created a government shutdown crisis. The
spread of war continues, and the widening of divisions at home. Well,
they got even greater, didn't they. We say goodbye to
old Joe, and hellu again, Hellou to the Donald, Goodbye
to Nancy, and hello to Mom Donnie. In short, twenty
twenty five was another chilling reminder that policies and elections, well,
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they do have consequences. Twenty twenty five was the year
of Doge, the advancement of AI. Said goodbye to one
pope and hello to a new one. And I think
the official emergence of the Big Tech cabal a year
were the only thing as tragic as Charlie Kirk's assassination
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was perhaps everything that bizarrely followed it. Then it was
an expensive year. We lost Rob Reiner, Dick Cheney, Ace Frehley,
Diane Keaton, astronaut Jim Lovell, Lonnie Anderson, the Hulk, Ozzy Osbourne,
Connie Francis, Brian Wilson, Val Kilmer, George Foreman, my favorite
actor of all time, Gene Hackman.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And that's just to name a few.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Personally, Andrea and I had another challenging year taking care
of both of our mothers. We discovered this sadness and
the joys of an empty nest, and here at your
morning show we said hello to fifty eight new radio markets.
We start this new year, twenty twenty six with a
roster of one hundred and eight stations gathering around this small,
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still intimate kitchen table, and I suspect twenty twenty five
was the same for you, filled with little hurts, great joys, gains, losses,
success and challenges, and like all years, good and bad,
after all, that's life.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, but
I do have a couple of reminders that I think
may help us all make real, solid life changes other
than a bunch of empty wishes. One the acknowledgment that
we are who we are, and we are all right
where we are by the choices we have made and
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or our reactions, not responses to circumstances that were out
of our control. That's sixty years of living that comes
up with that sentence, and it's a mouthful. Simply put,
circumstances and choices, that's what shapes our lives and our
values and the rules for those values, Our beliefs, learned, experience,
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our priorities, well, they shape our choices and ultimately they
all shape our destiny. Are you confused yet? I hope not.
Wondering what comes first, the choice or the character. Well,
like all the great mysteries in life, the answer is,
of course both. If you don't like your life, stop
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blaming the calendar, stop blaming the year, and change easier
said than done.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That type of personal responsibility and will power. It's going
to take some character, and I promise together it'll create
more than just a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It could make a happy new you.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Whether it's eating better, moving, exercising, breaking that phone addiction
and actually having real human interactions, getting rid of that
nasty habit, whether it's smoking or chewing, impulsive spending, laziness,
time management, Write it all down, do it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Do one otherwise.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I suspect twenty twenty six will go just about like
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Remind you number twenty number two.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
New Year's is a lot about the future, the mysterious unknown,
as much as it is about getting a clean slate
and starting over. Here's what I know most about the future.
It's shaped by today. It's shaped by this morning. It's
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shaped by this moment we're spending together. It's polished or
tarnished by all the unexpected that will happen to us.
The future is rarely about the expected. It's always about
the unexpected. Moreover, our response to the unexpected truth is
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prepared people. How many times have you read Prepare your
hearts and minds. Prepared people respond. Unprepared people they react.
What's the difference all success in failure, life and death? Everything?
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When attacked? The prepared person always responds, calmly, measured with
successful actions. The unprepared always react, and usually too quickly, regretfully,
and it usually ends not just in failure, but with
a problem bigger than the one that they reacted to.
That's probably too much for the New Year. But we
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all are where we are and who we are, shaped
by the choices we have made and our responses versus
reactions to circumstances that happened.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And if that's how we got here, that's how we
got into this mess.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
How do we get out of it?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
For one better character, make a list, work on it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Achieved one two.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Thus you'll make different, wiser, better choices. Character can come
from role modeling. It's the great shortcut in life. It
can come from wisdom from having lived. It can be learned,
but for me, for me, I've learned it comes mostly
through faith and obedience. Wherever you find it, here is
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the good news. One you found it two twenty twenty
six does hold three hundred and sixty five days and
at twenty four hours each to make better choices. And
while it has no magical powers in its printed calendar,
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it does give us opportunity to live differently. And who knows,
better choices could equal a healthier you. I more fulfilled you,
I better you. Hey, it could even equal a happier you.
And by doing so, finally, a happy New Year. That's
my prayer, that's my wish for you. Now go make
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it so. I'm Michael del Jornal, Happy New Year from
all of us at your morning show.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Johno.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Hey, my twenty twenty five was an awesome year, but
not as good as twenty twenty four, because that's the
year when I got back my sin say and I
gained a morning show. And my morning show is your
morning show with Michael del Jornal.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He's obviously still playing with the Christmas bubble wrap too.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's been a while since somebody called me sense.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
That goes back to when I was going through my
Karate cave. Not Karate Kid, but the tele the series. Yeah,
Cobra Kai. I was put to my cobra kay face,
all right, fifty minutes after the hour. Can't have your
morning show without your voice. To Hannah in Delaware, Wilmington,
we go.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
How would Americans feel if someone in another country decided.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Trump was a criminal and kidnapped him and put him
on trial in their country.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I don't think we'd like it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, the Democrat Party tried to do that for about
five years within our borders. Again, that goes from narrative
to reality. This is not a president that's been captured.
This is a drug lord and a cartel leader that
is facing justice. Rogers and Sacramento mor.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Ning, Michael Japarent read Hey, welcome back, missed all you guys. Hey, Michael,
You're opening this morning was amazing. I had probably dozens
of things running through my head in the two weeks
you were gone, and in that opening monologue you probably
answered a dozen of them or more. I have many
more questions about this year, but it's good to have
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somebody that's so tuned into what's going on and so
willing to help us understand everything.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You guys have a safe, productive day one. We're understanding
them together too.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
We got a lot more days this year to continue
to answer all those questions.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Michael's in oh hi, oh oh eight. Michael, we missed you.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
I hope you had a good time all in your
morning show is my Morning Show with Michael Dell Journal
I did.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I got some golf, and I got great presence for Christmas.
I am rested, but I was ready to be back
about eight days ago. To be honest with you, Joey's
and Pa, I say that because I missed you guys.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Joey and Joey Wrightsville, Pennsylvania More and Mikey, welcome back.
I hope you enjoyed your well deserved vacation. I hope
you guys had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Happy New Year to everyone there. Missed you guys a lot.
We're back on track. Let's take us New year bottle
horns and have a great year.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I sence the year of victory coming, not necessarily that
it's gonna be all good times, No, I think. In fact,
I kind of feel some bad times coming. But some
of the greatest things in life are achieved, and the
bad times not the good. That's where real life change comes.
But I'm glad we're all in the same. I'm surprised
more of you aren't talking about Venezuela as much as
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us being that's how much we love each other.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We're happy to be back together. I'm gonna give whatdy
the final.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Say, I go, I get onto Rory in Top Stories here,
but Woody in Arizona, Ownie.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Michael, Jeffrey and Red welcome back. Don't realize how much
you miss friends until they're not around. For a couple
of weeks, I found my self sleeping in no reason
to get up at four am, intern on the radio
with you guys not there but out with twenty twenty
five and the disappointment on my Buckeyes and onto the
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twenty twenty six Matrix.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Boy, the buck guys. That was a punch of the face,
wasn't it? And then what Indiana did and how they
did it to Alabama? Wow, those games are set, by
the way. The Fiesta Bowl will be Thursday night at
six thirty Miami and Old Miss. The Peach Bowl will
be Friday night at six thirty. That'll be Oregon in Indiana.
And the NFL playoffs are set. Here's how this schedule
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plays out. Saturday at three point thirty, Rams and Panthers.
At seven o'clock, Packers and Bears. How big that was
for the Bears to get that number two seed to
avoid the Rams. Then we come back on Sunday with
a tripleheader Bills and Jags at noon three point thirty
forty nine, Ers and Eagles, and then at seven pm
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the Chargers and Patriots. Monday night the final wildcard game,
it'll be Texas and the Steelers. And how about that
priest last night who dowsed it's still Heinz Is that
maybe it isn't Heinz Field? Is it still Heinesfield? Now
they change a name. I can't change up with all
that but he doused the field with holy water maloy
like the other kicker. And then Aaron Rodgers with a
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big drive. And the Pittsburgh Steelers are in and the
Baltimore Ravens are up. Nicholas Maduro and his wife are
out of jail temporarily and at the federal courthouse for
their arraignment today. We expect that to happen around eleventh
Central noon Eastern.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But what do why know?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm not The National News corresponded Rory O'Neil is. Good morning, Rory,
and happy new year.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Hey there, Michael, good morning and happy New Year to
you as well. We're also closely following the oil markets.
We're not really seeing the big shock. I think many
people had expected oil right now up about fifty seven
cents a barrel. Typically, when there's a headline, a bad
one involving some of these oil rich nations, the price
of a barrel of oil goes up twenty bucks and
you and I are paying fifty cents more a gallon
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within hours. But in this case it's been sort of
a whole hum Maybe we've had time to digest the
headlines since Saturday, but not much of a big player.
Also because Venezuela's oil industry has been falling apart in
recent years. They produce now less than a million barrels
a day. They're not the big global player in oil
that they could and should be. I guess it could possibly.
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I mean, because uncertainty is always bad for markets. Could
the market have some certainty about where this is going?
Because the truth of the matter is, and I'm as
honest as the next person, you've achieved justice or a
step towards justice and removing a cartel leader who happened
to stay in office after he was voted out, but
you have not achieved regime change, and there's still some.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Bad people in power.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm surprised there's not more oil uncertainty, even with the
lesser share of the market that they've had.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Well right, And I think though, because the oil infrastructure
has collapse so much, because it's going to take a
long time a lot of investment in order to get
it back up and running to meet its potential. I
think that's why that like, yeah, maybe that's a long
term thing, but for right now.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oil prices are low.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
The oil companies like to see oil trading eighty eighty
five bucks a barrel. That's sort of their sweet spot.
But we're at fifty seven dollars a barrel right now.
I'm not sure there's a whole lot of motivation for
these oil companies to start spending tens of billions of
dollars in Venezuela to increase the supply in perhaps lower prices.
Even more so, I think that for now, short term,
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Venezuela is not much of a.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Player in this business.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I only have one minute, but we didn't have a
chance to do that, you know, final week before New
Year's together. You're in the news business. I'm serious as that. No,
I was working, No, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Ory, I actually missed you, I missed everybody. I was
ready to come back last week. I gotta take my time,
but I'm glad. I'm refreshed.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But the point is, you do this for a little
You cover news. What were the big stories from twenty
twenty five from your perspective over the year.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Well, obviously, the return of President Trump's got to be
topping the list. As far as his domestic success, has
to be the border situation and shutting that down an
incredible turnaround right there. But yeah, you know, okay, so
I guess technically Maduro goes into year two.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I would say economic.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Stories at the government shut down, Yeah right, you know, yeah,
moving on and the curcessination and then all the bizarre
stuff after that.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
What's going on. It's on social media and I try
not to acknowledge it.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
I meant, the rise of AI and slop is something
that's also affecting us more and more every day. Sort
of that junk that gets out there, and you know,
so many of us self included, spend too much time
correcting saying, oh, didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I thought that was real.
Speaker 10 (35:54):
And I'm much more reluctant and hesitant and I'm so
much more skeptical now.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, and then they and it started with the inauguration
when they were all there. But the rise of the
big tech cabal and yes, AI, that's a big part
of twenty.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
And whatever twenty six as.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
In store Royal will join us to make sure we
understand it, keep it in perspective, all right, Go make
a difference in someone's life today, Cherish your own.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
We'll see you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, I had a job or every year wasn't a
happy New year. It was the same miserable year over
and over again, like groundhog Day for sixteen straight years.
And I never got two weeks off. And if I did,
I would have enjoyed every second. You know, this vacation,
I actually missed you guys. After about four days.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I wanted to be back. What has happened to me?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's a new day, It's a new year, Happy new year.
It's good to be back in the saddle. It's Monday,
January the fifth, twenty twenty sixth, eight minutes after the hour.
I trust you had a very merry Christmas, a very
happy New Year. Venezuelan president or drug lord and cartel
leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife just took a helicopter
ride from the jail to the federal courthouse where they
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will be a ragin today. Meanwhile, a big news conference
in Minnesota where the Governor Tim Walls, we believe is
dropping out of running for reelection. And it's the last
day for Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. And I don't
know how I did it. I had enough of them
trying to cough on me. One I got to the
airport and have barely had enough time to eat, so
(01:42):
I grabbed the amount of new diet with PhD. So
there's very little I could eat, but I grabbed what
I could eat, and I sit down to eat it,
and these two people are going to try to cough
on me while I'm eating, so I had to move.
Then I got on the plane. Kids were trying to
cough on me. Dodge in the flu. Some of you
got caught. So far, I seem to be okay, But
federal health officials say the US has seen a major
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spike in the number of flu cases in December and
now into January.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And how about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How about the priest who bless the field and maloitd
This is an Italian expression when you put the malocha
on somebody. But the priest touched the field in Pittsburgh
with holy water and I don't know, missed field goal
from a pretty proven kicker, the mali like. And then
the vintage Aaron Rodgers' final drive, the final piece of
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the puzzle. The Steelers are in, the Ravens are out
twenty six to twenty four of Baltimore last night in Pittsburgh.
All right, the left is, by the way, can't have
your morning show without your voice, nor would we ever.
From Hannah to Roger, to Michael de Joey to Russ
the Woody and whoever is going to be calling while
I'm talking to Chris Walker. We'll get to your calls
(02:51):
and your emails here shortly. All right, the left is
going to go from no Kings to free the Dictator
within minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You expect that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
In the matrix about inside the Republican Party, you know,
the whole battle between the far far right that now
suddenly doesn't like Israel, doesn't like any US involvement abroad,
or the old neocons or just every day and will
anyone focus on the Venezuelan people and the future.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Chris Walker is joining us.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He is a party consultant, an analyst, and a contributor
here on your morning show to give us the analysis.
How might we know how the Democrats are reacting? How
might the Republicans react to this?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And good morning, Michael, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How are you. I'm great, happy to you here, Thank you,
same to you.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
You know, yes, yeah, good time, good to be back.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Though I just said, this is going to be a
very interesting time. I mean, this is uh, this is
uh the Bush doctrine being being leveled in uh in
the Trump administration. I think it'll be interesting to see
how some of these folks who kind of in the
podcast brows fear react to it.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
I would say some of them are going to be negative.
I'll be curiously what Martine Taylor Green says today and
the last day in Congress. You know, she she took she.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Took to the same position as a CD over the weekend,
which is a bizarre move on my you know, from
my position. But you know, there seems to be this
this growing concern within some.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Of the GFP.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I don't think all or even the majority of isolationism.
And you know, using it under the term of America first, well,
America first doesn't mean America only. And when you're looking
at China and Russia and Iran making inroads and countries
in South America over the last twenty plus years, whether
you know, the Obama administration and the Biden administration after
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Trump won, you know, things have to be done here
to kind of make sure that America isn't a position
of success in our own hemisphere. I mean, it's the
Moroau doctrine, but you know it's the Roosevelt corollary and
now the Trump corollary the Morou doctrine.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
So then and they.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Even President Trump has said this, has laid this out
in his national security strategy over the summer. So you know,
this is not a surprise in per se and like
policy public surprise to me in terms of actual action.
But I think America is definitely better off with Maduro out.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
What happens in Venezuela afterwards is going to be as
we saw in Iraq.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
We need to learn the lessons of Iraq and make
sure that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, that's not going to right people in place, right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't think that's gonna happen, but yes, that's that's
the risk, all right. So Number one, it's going to
be very interesting to see how history used Donald Trump
and remembers Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Reality can't. It's caught in a matrix. Journalism is dead.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I get all that, but yeah, that really boils it
down there are and I could lace, you know, light
everybody up with with Joe Biden quotes about murduall not
being a rightful leader and not dually you know, rightfully
or elected properly, or refusing to leave and all that
other stuff. Donald Trump does it. He doesn't say it,
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he does it. This is not a president who has
been plucked out of Venezuela. This is a drug cartel
leader who's facing charges who he deserves to face. The
Venezuelan people have an uncertain future. This regime. Change has
not taken place, just the extraction of its president. Let
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me ask you this, and again, you know, I don't
like to play the matrix game and be a part
of it, but you know, Donald Trump has never really
been I know he's a Republican, probably about as Republican
as me in that he You know, I'm not a
Republican or a Democrat. I think both are a part
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of the problem. And the Republicans live what they believe.
I'm on their side, they just so rarely do it.
I'm sure that's his frustration too. Let's do this like
a checklist. Number one. Can we all agree that Donald
Trump couldn't care less about what Marjorie Taylor Green thinks.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I know, I couldn't are what.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Any of the Republican Party factions think on this. He's
doing what he has to do for our time and
for all time. End of stories, so we don't even
need to cover that. But inside the party, do you
think there'd be a Are they capable of going beyond
narratives to actual reality in order to understand and respond
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to this?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You know again, I think there's a growing cock You know,
we saw this with some of the podcap holeks. There
there's a knee jerk reaction against Israel and others for
any type of military action.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It's silly, but it's.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
There, and you know, I agree with you. I think
it's too part a question. Does president care about it?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
No, he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
No, I mean discuss their position or change.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Their narrative on it. No, they're not. Some of them
are going to be critical of it, and.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I think that's going to lead to some interesting discussions
within the GOP on where things are going. We saw
it over the break with the Turning Point USA group
and others.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
There's there's a fight amongst the right.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I know aside. I'm on on that, and it's certainly
not the Tucker Carlson brocast side, but you know they're there.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
There are those people.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Are having a voice to trying to have a say
in it. I think the president obviously when his flag
opposite that as well.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
We'll see how some of that shakes out over them.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Chris Walker.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
In months, Chris Walker, do you have pianalyst joining us
and a contributor on your morning show? All right, So
that's kind of now that we're all on the same footing.
There's no divisions here that could ultimately impact the kind
of unity necessary to withstand a left attack during a
midterm election or a presidential election two years later. Right,
Not in this, I wouldn't think. No, not in this
(08:53):
not in this specifically. I mean what's going to happen
is the domino effect after this? Does this effect Cuba
to suspect Mexico? So does this affects affect hemispheric challenges?
You know, does this allow for a remigration of folksure
in this country that don't want.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
To be or are here better here illegally, but there's
a place for them to go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I think there are some domestic implications on this by
reorienting our hemispheric leadership here that I think will actually
have domestic impact as well. I mean, this is something
that the president has unique authority in its foreign policy,
and so you know, whether solving these domestic problems, obviously
his hands are tied because he has Congress in a
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boat of gureocracy that he's fighting an international foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
He has a unilateral control here, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We're seeing reactions to that that are actually positive and good.
I they can impact domestic policy as well.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I guess what I'm kicking around or dancing around
is probably the better expression. If Donald Trump is not
a red wave, and I don't think he is, I
think he was an orange wave twice. In other words,
I would even so far you are Republican. I am not,
But I would go so far as to say, I
don't know that you know who your party is or
or what strong standing your party is in, or what
(10:10):
weaknesses of Donald Trump don't translate to your party or
the future of your party. And I think this would
fall under that. You know, what does this really say
in terms of impacting not only the position of the
Republican Party, but the strengths of the Republican Party, the
enthusiasm of the Republican Party, and.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The unity the Republican Party moving forward.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't think we know, like this, is this a
victory for heg Seth more than Rubio or Rubio more
than Trump and ultimately Rubio more than JD.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, I think that's all premature, but it is interesting,
and this is your segment to discuss those kinds of things.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
It is being written about, it is being talked about,
it is being looked at. I mean, the horse race
of twenty eight is already being discussed. President Trump has
even finished his first full year in office, So some
of it is premature. I mean, the President is going
to insist that he is still relevant as that you know,
to bring back an old political terms. So I think
some of it is depending.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
On what the present is going to do.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He's still the massive political flow of the Republican Party.
Nothing moves without his you know, endorsement or his involvement.
As that wanes or somebody tries to tries to move ahead,
I don't see a Rubio jd Vance you know, element
coming out of that that isn't more unified along with
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him because they're serving his administration. Where that where that
negativity or negative.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Wrong word, where that.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Opposite view would come from would be someone like a
Margie Taylor Green or someone who is coming outside of
the MAGA world now and saying I'm planting my own
flag and I'm going to stay mistake my own.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The real the real players for your party, and I
root for your party over the Democrat Party obviously, but
the real leaders are clearly Marco Rubio jd Vance or
Governor DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Everybody else is not a serious player.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I'm just wondering, and I favor Rubio, so I'm just
even in transparency, putting myself in check.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The real series.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's almost as like is if jd Vance is far
more background, far more air apparent or continuation, whereas when
it comes to serious world leader and ready to carry
the torch forward, Marco Rubio seems to be getting all
the big victories in involvement on the things that really matter.
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But I'm really your opinion on this one is more
important than mine, because I can't speak for Republicans.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Well, I can't either. I mean, I can think for myself,
but you know, and I'm with.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You on the fact that I think Rubio he's looking
more serious.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
My general position is, but.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I think I would not dis count the margin tailligam
voice on it. Do not assume that because we disagree
with what her position doesn't mean that she's trying to
gain favor within that contingent of the right. And I
would say there's a large chunk of the MAGA movement that.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Is is growing in that campus.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Seen it with Steve Bannon, We've seen it with others
trying to stake out that territory, and I think that's
where Marge's trying.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
To stuff her territory.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I don't think it is a large enough one to
win a primary, but it is certainly where the loud
voices are going to go.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Who are going to.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Try to find a place outside of this kind of
muscular foreign policy that a lot some people are opposed to.
It's not where I am, it's not where you are,
but it is where some people are trying to stake
a stake out territory to build some political.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Momentumunth if the Republicans are trying to turn this four years,
I've had people look at me and go, there's not
gonna be a Democrat for twenty years. President, Well, you
need to need you need to hang out to your
outrageous opinions because they could turn.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They could win in two year years.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But if you want to turn this four years into
I don't know, twelve or sixteen years. For me, I'm
outside looking in, you're inside looking out. I think a
Rubio Desanta's ticket might be your ticket for sixteen years.
I absolutely do. But now how this shakes out, I
don't know, and time will tell. We got enough to
handle in twenty twenty six. We extracted a drug lord
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and a person that's done nothing but wreak havoc on
his own people. You decapitated the head, the head of
the snake, but a new head could grow. You have
not achieved regime change. Yet, let's keep our eye on
the ball. And it's still very early in twenty twenty six. Chris,
We're going to need you all year long to give
us these perspectives. Thanks for joining us. Happy new Year,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I'm thinking your you brother. Welcome, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's good to be back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Twenty one minutes after the hour, we have all of
your talkbacks and some emails coming forward, and somehow I'll
try to sneak in the top five stories of the day. Well,
everyone forgets things now and then, maybe like me, it's
a name, it's a word. Maybe a walk into a room,
why did I come in here? Happens to all of us.
But when those slips start happening more and more often,
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This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The Venezuelan president or cartel leader, Nicholas Mrduro and his
wife took a little helicopter ride from the jail to
the courthouse. We visited with Natalie mcgliori in the first hour.
She'll be there all day covering this. But the arrangement
is today and there is word that Madua could be
deported after he stands trial. Meanwhile, big news conference Tim
(16:36):
Wallas is going to have today. He may be dropping
out of his re election bid. That's what all the
speculation is. And Aaron Rodgers did have one last drive
in him a touchdown pass. The Steelers are in, the
Ravens are out. I'm gonna do emails now. We're gonna
at your talkbacks right after the break. Happy New Year,
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glad to have you back. My name is Joe from Albuqur,
New Mexico, a very poor blue welfare state. I was
just listening to John Decker about Venezuela. He kept repeating
that now we have no idea what happens next in Venezuela,
when yesterday Marco Rubio explained what the plan was moving forward.
Yet I think he was referring to and if they
resist that plan, then what do you invade? There doesn't
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seem to be any local forces to support. So if
you want to use the Cuban missile crisis as an example,
there's no resistance for US waiting there to be supported.
I think that's the point he was making. Good morning, Michael,
there's a pool forming on picking the Dayton segment. When
you miss your break time, well take the under thirty
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after the hour.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
This is Paul David Patterson down in Toledo District.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:01):
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It's a new down, it's a new day. You feel
it's a new down. It's a new day, It's a
new live.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Ell.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I mean that's what everyone says, right, Frock strikes midnight,
Happy Year?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And it probably was. After all, what could have possibly
gone wrong that fast? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But as this weekend proved for to a Venezuelan president,
sometimes even that only lasts just a few short moments. Now,
first of all, I want you to hear me loud
and clear. I want you to have a happy New Year,
and I wish it were as easy as just me
wishing it, and then it was so for you. However,
life doesn't work that way, does it, And neither does
(19:31):
New Year's anymore than when we say happy birthday, it
necessarily means you're having a happy birthday or about the greatest.
Have a nice day doesn't often equate to you having
a nice day. But that doesn't stop us. And at
New Year's we shout it, we wish it, we even
try to eat it. Cabbage for money, black eyed peas
for good luck. We so desperately want to blame everything
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that's wrong in our lives or went wrong on the
previous year that we actually convince ourselves this year will
be different, this year will be better, this year will
be happy. The problem is, while the calendar has changed,
we probably haven't. Twenty twenty six, like all New Years,
(20:15):
holds no magical powers. The ball that drops to end
one and light up the next simply serves to remind
us time is ticking. It's ticking on our hopes, our dreams,
and yes, our lives. As for twenty twenty five, well,
it was a year filled with political divisions and a
lot of uncertainty, divisions over socialism versus capitalism, affordability and
(20:41):
whose fault is it that it's unaffordable, uncertainty over tariffs
and interest rates, and especially AI.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We solved the.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Border crisis and we created a government shutdown crisis. The
spread of war continues, and the widening of divisions at home. Well,
they got even greater, didn't they. We say goodbye to
old Joe, and hellu again, Hellou to the Donald, Goodbye
to Nancy, and hello to Mom Donnie. In short, twenty
twenty five was another chilling reminder that policies and elections, well,
(21:14):
they do have consequences. Twenty twenty five was the year
of Doge, the advancement of AI. Said goodbye to one
pope and hello to a new one. And I think
the official emergence of the Big Tech cabal a year
were the only thing as tragic as Charlie Kirk's assassination
(21:35):
was perhaps everything that bizarrely followed it. Then it was
an expensive year. We lost Rob Reiner, Dick Cheney, Ace Frehley,
Diane Keaton, astronaut Jim Lovell, Lonnie Anderson, the Hulk, Ozzy Osbourne,
Connie Francis, Brian Wilson, Val Kilmer, George Foreman, my favorite
actor of all time, Gene Hackman.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And that's just to name a few.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Personally, Andrea and I had another challenging year taking care
of both of our mothers. We discovered this sadness and
the joys of an empty nest, and here at your
morning show we said hello to fifty eight new radio markets.
We start this new year, twenty twenty six with a
roster of one hundred and eight stations gathering around this small,
(22:20):
still intimate kitchen table, and I suspect twenty twenty five
was the same for you, filled with little hurts, great joys, gains, losses,
success and challenges, and like all years, good and bad,
after all, that's life.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, but
I do have a couple of reminders that I think
may help us all make real, solid life changes other
than a bunch of empty wishes. One the acknowledgment that
we are who we are, and we are all right
where we are by the choices we have made and
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or our reactions, not responses to circumstances that were out
of our control. That's sixty years of living that comes
up with that sentence, and it's a mouthful. Simply put,
circumstances and choices, that's what shapes our lives and our
values and the rules for those values, Our beliefs, learned, experience,
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our priorities, well, they shape our choices and ultimately they
all shape our destiny. Are you confused yet? I hope not.
Wondering what comes first, the choice or the character. Well,
like all the great mysteries in life, the answer is,
of course both. If you don't like your life, stop
(23:43):
blaming the calendar, stop blaming the year, and change easier
said than done.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That type of personal responsibility and will power. It's going
to take some character, and I promise together it'll create
more than just a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It could make a happy new you.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Whether it's eating better, moving, exercising, breaking that phone addiction
and actually having real human interactions, getting rid of that
nasty habit, whether it's smoking or chewing, impulsive spending, laziness,
time management, Write it all down, do it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Do one otherwise.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I suspect twenty twenty six will go just about like
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Remind you number twenty number two.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
New Year's is a lot about the future, the mysterious unknown,
as much as it is about getting a clean slate
and starting over. Here's what I know most about the future.
It's shaped by today. It's shaped by this morning. It's
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shaped by this moment we're spending together. It's polished or
tarnished by all the unexpected that will happen to us.
The future is rarely about the expected. It's always about
the unexpected. Moreover, our response to the unexpected truth is
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prepared people. How many times have you read Prepare your
hearts and minds. Prepared people respond. Unprepared people they react.
What's the difference all success in failure, life and death? Everything?
(25:41):
When attacked? The prepared person always responds, calmly, measured with
successful actions. The unprepared always react, and usually too quickly, regretfully,
and it usually ends not just in failure, but with
a problem bigger than the one that they reacted to.
That's probably too much for the New Year. But we
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all are where we are and who we are, shaped
by the choices we have made and our responses versus
reactions to circumstances that happened.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And if that's how we got here, that's how we
got into this mess.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
How do we get out of it?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
For one better character, make a list, work on it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Achieved one two.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Thus you'll make different, wiser, better choices. Character can come
from role modeling. It's the great shortcut in life. It
can come from wisdom from having lived. It can be learned,
but for me, for me, I've learned it comes mostly
through faith and obedience. Wherever you find it, here is
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the good news. One you found it two twenty twenty
six does hold three hundred and sixty five days and
at twenty four hours each to make better choices. And
while it has no magical powers in its printed calendar,
(27:20):
it does give us opportunity to live differently. And who knows,
better choices could equal a healthier you. I more fulfilled you,
I better you. Hey, it could even equal a happier you.
And by doing so, finally, a happy New Year. That's
my prayer, that's my wish for you. Now go make
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it so. I'm Michael del Jornal, Happy New Year from
all of us at your morning show.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Johno.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Hey, my twenty twenty five was an awesome year, but
not as good as twenty twenty four, because that's the
year when I got back my sin say and I
gained a morning show. And my morning show is your
morning show with Michael del Jornal.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He's obviously still playing with the Christmas bubble wrap too.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's been a while since somebody called me sense.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
That goes back to when I was going through my
Karate cave. Not Karate Kid, but the tele the series. Yeah,
Cobra Kai. I was put to my cobra kay face,
all right, fifty minutes after the hour. Can't have your
morning show without your voice. To Hannah in Delaware, Wilmington,
we go.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
How would Americans feel if someone in another country decided.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Trump was a criminal and kidnapped him and put him
on trial in their country.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I don't think we'd like it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, the Democrat Party tried to do that for about
five years within our borders. Again, that goes from narrative
to reality. This is not a president that's been captured.
This is a drug lord and a cartel leader that
is facing justice. Rogers and Sacramento mor.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Ning, Michael Japarent read Hey, welcome back, missed all you guys. Hey, Michael,
You're opening this morning was amazing. I had probably dozens
of things running through my head in the two weeks
you were gone, and in that opening monologue you probably
answered a dozen of them or more. I have many
more questions about this year, but it's good to have
(29:19):
somebody that's so tuned into what's going on and so
willing to help us understand everything.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You guys have a safe, productive day one. We're understanding
them together too.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
We got a lot more days this year to continue
to answer all those questions.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Michael's in oh hi, oh oh eight. Michael, we missed you.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
I hope you had a good time all in your
morning show is my Morning Show with Michael Dell Journal
I did.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I got some golf, and I got great presence for Christmas.
I am rested, but I was ready to be back
about eight days ago. To be honest with you, Joey's
and Pa, I say that because I missed you guys.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Joey and Joey Wrightsville, Pennsylvania More and Mikey, welcome back.
I hope you enjoyed your well deserved vacation. I hope
you guys had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Happy New Year to everyone there. Missed you guys a lot.
We're back on track. Let's take us New year bottle
horns and have a great year.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I sence the year of victory coming, not necessarily that
it's gonna be all good times, No, I think. In fact,
I kind of feel some bad times coming. But some
of the greatest things in life are achieved, and the
bad times not the good. That's where real life change comes.
But I'm glad we're all in the same. I'm surprised
more of you aren't talking about Venezuela as much as
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us being that's how much we love each other.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We're happy to be back together. I'm gonna give whatdy
the final.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Say, I go, I get onto Rory in Top Stories here,
but Woody in Arizona, Ownie.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Michael, Jeffrey and Red welcome back. Don't realize how much
you miss friends until they're not around. For a couple
of weeks, I found my self sleeping in no reason
to get up at four am, intern on the radio
with you guys not there but out with twenty twenty
five and the disappointment on my Buckeyes and onto the
(31:13):
twenty twenty six Matrix.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Boy, the buck guys. That was a punch of the face,
wasn't it? And then what Indiana did and how they
did it to Alabama? Wow, those games are set, by
the way. The Fiesta Bowl will be Thursday night at
six thirty Miami and Old Miss. The Peach Bowl will
be Friday night at six thirty. That'll be Oregon in Indiana.
And the NFL playoffs are set. Here's how this schedule
(31:36):
plays out. Saturday at three point thirty, Rams and Panthers.
At seven o'clock, Packers and Bears. How big that was
for the Bears to get that number two seed to
avoid the Rams. Then we come back on Sunday with
a tripleheader Bills and Jags at noon three point thirty
forty nine, Ers and Eagles, and then at seven pm
(31:58):
the Chargers and Patriots. Monday night the final wildcard game,
it'll be Texas and the Steelers. And how about that
priest last night who dowsed it's still Heinz Is that
maybe it isn't Heinz Field? Is it still Heinesfield? Now
they change a name. I can't change up with all
that but he doused the field with holy water maloy
like the other kicker. And then Aaron Rodgers with a
(32:18):
big drive. And the Pittsburgh Steelers are in and the
Baltimore Ravens are up. Nicholas Maduro and his wife are
out of jail temporarily and at the federal courthouse for
their arraignment today. We expect that to happen around eleventh
Central noon Eastern.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But what do why know?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm not The National News corresponded Rory O'Neil is. Good morning, Rory,
and happy new year.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Hey there, Michael, good morning and happy New Year to
you as well. We're also closely following the oil markets.
We're not really seeing the big shock. I think many
people had expected oil right now up about fifty seven
cents a barrel. Typically, when there's a headline, a bad
one involving some of these oil rich nations, the price
of a barrel of oil goes up twenty bucks and
you and I are paying fifty cents more a gallon
(33:03):
within hours. But in this case it's been sort of
a whole hum Maybe we've had time to digest the
headlines since Saturday, but not much of a big player.
Also because Venezuela's oil industry has been falling apart in
recent years. They produce now less than a million barrels
a day. They're not the big global player in oil
that they could and should be. I guess it could possibly.
(33:25):
I mean, because uncertainty is always bad for markets. Could
the market have some certainty about where this is going?
Because the truth of the matter is, and I'm as
honest as the next person, you've achieved justice or a
step towards justice and removing a cartel leader who happened
to stay in office after he was voted out, but
you have not achieved regime change, and there's still some.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Bad people in power.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm surprised there's not more oil uncertainty, even with the
lesser share of the market that they've had.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Well right, And I think though, because the oil infrastructure
has collapse so much, because it's going to take a
long time a lot of investment in order to get
it back up and running to meet its potential. I
think that's why that like, yeah, maybe that's a long
term thing, but for right now.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oil prices are low.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
The oil companies like to see oil trading eighty eighty
five bucks a barrel. That's sort of their sweet spot.
But we're at fifty seven dollars a barrel right now.
I'm not sure there's a whole lot of motivation for
these oil companies to start spending tens of billions of
dollars in Venezuela to increase the supply in perhaps lower prices.
Even more so, I think that for now, short term,
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Venezuela is not much of a.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Player in this business.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I only have one minute, but we didn't have a
chance to do that, you know, final week before New
Year's together. You're in the news business. I'm serious as that. No,
I was working, No, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Ory, I actually missed you, I missed everybody. I was
ready to come back last week. I gotta take my time,
but I'm glad. I'm refreshed.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But the point is, you do this for a little
You cover news. What were the big stories from twenty
twenty five from your perspective over the year.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
Well, obviously, the return of President Trump's got to be
topping the list. As far as his domestic success, has
to be the border situation and shutting that down an
incredible turnaround right there. But yeah, you know, okay, so
I guess technically Maduro goes into year two.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I would say economic.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Stories at the government shut down, Yeah right, you know, yeah,
moving on and the curcessination and then all the bizarre
stuff after that.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
What's going on. It's on social media and I try
not to acknowledge it.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
I meant, the rise of AI and slop is something
that's also affecting us more and more every day. Sort
of that junk that gets out there, and you know,
so many of us self included, spend too much time
correcting saying, oh, didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I thought that was real.
Speaker 10 (35:54):
And I'm much more reluctant and hesitant and I'm so
much more skeptical now.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, and then they and it started with the inauguration
when they were all there. But the rise of the
big tech cabal and yes, AI, that's a big part
of twenty.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
And whatever twenty six as.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
In store Royal will join us to make sure we
understand it, keep it in perspective, all right, Go make
a difference in someone's life today, Cherish your own.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
We'll see you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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