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Speaker 1 (00:29):
This and good morning. Thanks for making us a part
of your morning routine. And welcome to Wednesday, January eighth,
yev Aald, twenty twenty five, seven minutes after the hour.
The Palisades Fires now three fires in southern California. They're
hard to fight, they keep spreading, and the winds make
them almost impossible to put out. President like Trump says
all hell will break loose if the Israeli hostages held
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by Hamas are not set free before he takes office.
And the House is passing the Lincoln Riley Act to
ramp up border security, and Jimmy Carter has arrived in Washington,
d C. For the American people to pay respects as
he lies in state at the Rotunda in the Capitol
with the service I believe tomorrow right, and Biden's supposed
to be back for that service, though he has not
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left Los Angeles yet. Now, obviously I don't think a
restricted air travel isn't going to keep him locked, and
he's the president of the United States. But I love
to keep your eye on that as well. You sense
something's changing, don't you. We had talked for years about
the death of journalism. It's now in full decomposition. I said,
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the most significant thing that happened in twenty sixteen was
not Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, which wasn't a
surprise to everyone and it's very explainable. No, the most
significant event of twenty sixteen was the death of journalism,
blatant for all to see, trying to steer an election result,
and when they didn't get it, crying on television for
days and fanning the flames of insurrection for four years.
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That hasn't gone unnoticed, and technology kicked in and things
have shifted. They don't have ratings, they don't have revenue,
but worst of all, they don't have influence. And that
was key to the cabal higher education used to indoctrinate
our kids when they went off to college. Then we
whatever vision Jimmy Carter had in nineteen seventy nine, certainly
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the Department of Education has turned our education system K
through twelve into socialization and indoctrination. The scores speak for themselves.
Kids are not prepared for higher education, the workforce or
citizenry worse than ever. I doubt that was Jimmy Carter's vision,
but that was the Left's result, And so they had
our kids. You drop them off at school at five,
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pick them up at eighteen, and wonder who the heck
they are. Then they go get polished to college. The
media sets the narrative, rewrites the reality. Hollywood rewrites history
about being about a boom, and all that begins to collapse.
And it's either thanks in part to Donald Trump or
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it created Donald Trump. Time will have to tell on that.
But there was a time whenever you did polls, all
they really revealed is what they were trying to get
you to think, not really what you think. And even
the polls are looking different. Headline Rasmussen forty eight percent
say Biden one of the worst presidents ever. One of
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the most significant things about all of this this polling information.
Presidents are allowed like wine. You know, some age, well,
some age really poorly. It's interesting what time and perspective
does to these numbers. I can tell you this. Oh
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my goodness, I can't tell if this is the cold
or if I'm really lightheaded, if if I'm about to hey, hey, hey,
I saw that coming red. Give him a cold, compress
wake him up, okay? Or it shall be oh no,
that the worst shall be revealed as the least legitimate,
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for the wine shall turn to bitters up? Do you
love me? Mother? Are you okay? Can you breathe? I camera?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
What I say?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Said something about wine and oh the great Noster del Giarno. Yes,
I think what he was trying to say was oh
worse today, illegitimate tomorrow. That's how unkind the future will
be to Joe Biden. Oh today, you could just see
him for what he was. Terrible. And it's not gonna
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say seventy years like the Kennedy files. In fact, it's
all sitting right on Time Magazines, February fifteenth, two thousand
and one. Story The Shadow campaign to save the democracy.
You'll see how he got elected, why he was hid,
and why he was hid once he was elected. In fact,
you really can't ultimately rate this presidency. You know why
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everybody it's happy man. Here, here we go again.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, you cannot rate the presidency for you do not
know who has been the president. What did I say?
What did I say?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
All right, stop it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Your line, dog face, pony soldier.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm in a lot of medicine anyway. But you know
so one response to this headline, forty eight percent say
he was one of the worst presidents. Just forty eight percent.
Should I open up the talk back line? Name one
thank Joe Biden. Joe Biden's inaugural address, which was described
by John Podesta, who I believe really has been president
for four years. Is the administrative state headed by Joe
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Biden and Kamala Harris. How he referred to it on
inauguration day and in the speech he talked about unity
and not fighting over everything. And then what do he do?
He walked across the street and did twenty nine executive
orders to reverse the Trump presidency. Most voters couldn't tell
you one thing Joe Biden did in the last four
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years to help them. That's what killed them. That's all
Donald Trump really, well, he didn't have to do anything.
He was just in court. He didn't even have to
run in the primary to get the nomination, and he
certainly didn't even have to run against Joe. He ended
up getting Kamala. But all he really had to say,
is your life better off than it was when I
was president. If so, vote for Joe, or say the
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same thing, vote for Kamala. He stands for the same things.
Voters say nothing President Joe Biden did during the past
four years help them, and nearly half believe he ranks
among the America's worst presidents forty eight percent. There are
right now some twenty one percent who say he'll be
remembered as one of America's best presidents. Well, that's the
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narrative you keep hearing. But that won't age. Well, there's
about thirty percent who think he's nothing but average. Fifty
four percent of US adults believe Biden will be remembered
as unfavorable, thirty seven percent poor, seventeen below average. Only
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nineteen percent said favorable. Compared with nine recent presidents, included
in the new Gallup Poll Biden ranks. All, this is
what's breathtaking. I don't know if I'm explaining. I don't
know quite how to put into words the longer some presidents,
I'll do it this way. I think this is how
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you would do it. Some presidents in the moment aren't remembered,
you know, real fondly, let's say, and time and perspective
changes that and they're remembered much fonder. Some start out,
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most start out high, and as time goes by it
gets lower and lower. If this was a I'll never forget.
This is the people bring up. When we turned to
two thousand and people were talking about the greatest athlete.
I said, well, you better make a distinction here, because
if you're going to talk about just athlete period, I'm
going to say Secretariat, not the greatest horse, the greatest
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athlete ever. For what that horse did in the shortness
of the Preakness and the endurance of the Belmont, and
in the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown and oh
by the way for a speed horse, and Secretariat was
to win the long Belmont by thirty lents. That's kind
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of how this whole thing in history with presidents go,
there's JFK, there's Reagan, and there's everybody else. Isn't there red?
I mean, it's like there's not even any way to
look at it, which is a shame for Lincoln and
a shame for Washington. But we were doing only recent presidents.
If you look at this, JFK has a net positive
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score of sixty eight. John Jack, you're still the most
highly regarded president. I know. I don't call him that.
We don't use that word anymore. Ronald Reagan is next
at thirty eight percent. Twenty two percent believe he was outstanding.
Thirty two percent say above average. When you take out
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the below and the poor, you get a net positive
of thirty eight, and then there's like everybody else. And
guess who's third in most recent presidence nine most recent
then comes Barack Obama over H. W. Bush. I think
Bill Clinton gets the rost of deals. Bill Clinton comes
in it a five net positive. George W. Bush, this
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was fascinating for me. United the country got justice in resolve.
Then we turned around and made him the enemy as
nation building after nine to eleven. George W. Bush is
at minus nine. I think that's unfair, although he was
wrong on the border and was misled by some information,
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as was Trump with COVID that affected their score. I
think time, you know when we were talking about that,
how they change over time. I think time will be
kinder to George W. Bush and Donald Trump's first term,
but not much for Donald Trump because that was a
huge mistake. Listening to Fauci. Donald Trump will change his
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place in history with this second term if he stays focused.
But how bad is Joe And this is already his
net positive is minus thirty five going back to nineteen sixty.
That puts only Richard Nixon below him. And I got
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news for you that this is what Red's going to appreciate.
I think we're on the same wavelength here. Time will
sink Joe Biden to the lowest ever. Give it another
fifty years, and time will bring Richard Nixon up a
few points. I actually believe this. I'm not telling you
how to think. I'm just telling you how. I think
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you're about to learn things in the coming year about
John F. Kennedy's assassination. It's gonna change your view of
America forever. I don't know how to prepare you for it.
Cash Mittel would say it this way, You already know
you're just gonna know that. You know, That's kind of
all he can really say, because he's read everything. If
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you have dissected the assassination, you know all the players,
and you've kind of had your arm around, well, who
hated him the most, who had the most to benefit?
You're gonna piece it all together. There's gonna be a
lost in trust of your government. Well it comes at
a good time, right, could our trust be any lower?
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But time will eventually reveal that Joe Biden was never
even president. So he is today in our polls of
plenty already he hasn't even left, and he's the oldest
and worst president ever, and time will be unkind to that.
But to the Secretariat analogy since nineteen sixty, it's JFK
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and Ronald Reagan and everybody else virtually irrelevant sounds a
day coming up. We have one main sound of the day,
and that's dissecting Facebook. And why now do they suddenly
care about freedom of speech? And would they have? I
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used to always end every discussion, no matter how much
people wanted to debate. What if there wasn't a Ronald Reagan.
What if there was a second term, With all due respect,
he's being laid to rest this week. What if there
would have been a second term of Jimmy Carter? What
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if Kamala had won? Do you think we'd have gotten
that Facebook speech yesterday? I don't think so, Thank you, Michael.
Twenty six minutes after the hour, he said, producer, do
some numbers for us. The headline, fifty four percent of
the US adults believe Joe Biden will be remembered unfavorably.
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Already he is viewed as only forty three percent. I
think it was view him unfavorably. But we were talking
about how time makes it worse for some and better
for others. Time was good to Jimmy Carter. When Jimmy
Carter left office, he left with a negative thirty two
and today viewed positively with a plus six. Still puts
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him towards the bottom. Give you an example of somebody
that it's really gone worse. Is Bill Clinton left office?
He was plus twenty five. Now he's only plus five.
Time not good to Bill Clinton. I think almost unfairly.
Time very kind to Jimmy Carter, and I can't explain why,
great man. We're gonna dress that next half hour. Terrible president.
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But the biggest turnaround is Donald Trump, and that is
he left office after his first term with a minus
thirty two rating and now it's at minus four, twenty
eight point improvement. He will write his legacy in this
second term. That's why I hope he keeps his eye
on the ball and focuses on leading and not fighting.
He's already been given the mandate. But time will tell
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that Joe Biden is the worst president ever. But we
had a Nostrudell journal appearance which was to the effect.
Time will tell he wasn't even president. Time may even
reveal who has been running the country the last four years.
All right, waking up this morning, the table is easy
to set for as you come down to get your coffee.
We got not one, not two, but three central areas
(15:25):
of out of control fires in the Palisades. And the
fires now extend from the Palisades all the way to
the Pacific Ocean. And the winds are so strong, and
the ambers keep igniting further area, it's almost becoming impossible
to fight. President elect Donald Trump had the news conference
of all news conferences yesterday from his home before he
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left for Washington, DC this week. Not the least of
which is all hell will break loose if the Israeli
hostages being held by Hamas or not released before he
takes oath of office. A homage to Ronald Reagan. By
the way, listening to the last segment, most popular presidents
of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, and there's nobody
else even really close. So one of the things that
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we're going to look at is Donald Trump made the
comment about changing the Golf of Mexico to the Golf
of America. Growing up on the golf, I can tell
you we never even call it the Golf of Mexico.
We just call it the Golf. But you know, really,
when you look at it, I could support the legitimacy
of what it should have always been named, the Golf
of Americas, because it's North America, Central America, and South America.
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I would just, you know, not the big, beautiful America.
But maybe Golf of America's does have a ring to
it and probably more accurate. Today. We'll have more coming
up after your local news, including a visit with John Decker.
I was watching Jimmy Carter's remains arrive. John Decker was there.
We'll compare what we saw when you're a morning show continues.
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you're just waking up, there are really three kind of
really big stories, and who's ever on the radio can't
ignore any of the three. So it's a pretty simple
table to set for you. This morning, we got out
of control fires in southern California. They now extend from
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the Palisades all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The
ambers continue to ignite more fires. The wind makes it
almost impossible to stop any of them, and time keeps
ticking and destruction keeps spreading. President like Trump says all
hell will break loose if the Israeli hostages being held
by Hamas are not released. I think Donald Trump has
(18:38):
probably been briefed. I hope you have been prepared. Most
of these hostages are probably not alive. Something tells me
if the President is very serious about this, and I
know he's a piece through strength guy, all hell might
break loose either way because there may not be any
to release. And the body of the thirty ninth President,
Jimmy Carter, has arrived at the nation's capital. I was
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watching on television John Decker happened to be there. Well,
remember an ineffective president. We just went through the polling information.
Literally one of the worst presidents ever, Jimmy Carter. But
his faith and him as a believer. So we have
some guy in Saint Louis. I'm never gonna lose to
your show anymore. I don't know if it was selective
hearing or not. I'm a president has died. That makes
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it a topic and it's it's not a lecture. Really
really bad president, really really good guy. And it has
led to a very interesting set of speeches yesterday as
his body arrived. We'll live that. Relive that with John
Decker coming up in minutes from now. First things first,
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he's got to stopped. I really don't know what he
said at the end of this. I don't think he
knows what he said either. It's got to be a
big bitch understanding.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
How do you like? Oh my time for our Sounds
of the day. Let's start with Facebook.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Hey, everyone, I want to talk about something important today
because it's time to get back to our roots around
free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now that's funny because you know, Zuckerberg's been nothing but
political hundreds of millions of dollars when you watch the
Social dilemma, and this involves Google, Facebook, a lot of things,
but the social dilemma. The takeaway from the documentary is
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remember the old expression, and you were doing that when
you should have been doing what? All right, So, kids
at very impressionable ages, instead of spending time with real
human beings, friends, teachers, coaches, parents, they're spending time on
a computer. They have access to everything in culture you
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would never physically allow them to be exposed to in
real life. And for a lot of young girls in
a perfection culture, they start having mental illness, loneliness, depression.
It's destroying lives. People are projecting a life, not living
a life. They're having fake, artificial relationships, not real ones
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that create fulfillment. It's destroying our culture. And Facebook every
day is less and less the leader. Now they're still Instagram,
but there are other things. But this guy started in
his dorm room rating women at the university. Bullying is
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how it started. But they were an integral part of
something you need to clearly remember so that it never
happens again. You weren't watching the news, you were watching
a narrative ABC, NBCCBS, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Posts, of
New York Times, heck, even Fox to a different extreme.
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They're all guilty. And you were no longer consuming news,
you were consuming narratives. You were no longer understanding. You
were just repeating narratives. So they would control the narrative,
and then social media would censor any opposition. That was
key to the shadow campaign that they used to get
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rid of Donald Trump and create Joe Biden. Now here's
the question of the day for you using your talkback
button or just take it to work with you in
simmer all day on it him down on it. Thank you.
That wasn't bad a second and a half. I shouldn't
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have to wait for Terry O. Terry Man, suffer not
Terry and give you give it to me one more time.
Love her horseports, I love her anyway. Make a long
story short. Here's your question of the day. Do you
think Jef Zuckerberg does this video if Kamala Harris is
the president elect? Do you think free speech? I think
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it did win, and because it won, Donald Trump won,
it didn't work because he's more on thought. They were
still controlling people's narratives. Through ABCNBCCBSCN N, MSNBC, and everybody
moved down to Joe Rogan, Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson. They
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don't have ratings, they don't have revenue, they don't have
influence anymore. They're dead, they're decomposing and to journalism. And
now all of a sudden, you get Zuckerberg coming forward.
Oh we're changing.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I started building social media to give people a voice.
I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about
the importance of protecting free expression and I still believe
this today. But a lot has happened over the last
several years. There's been widespread debate about potential harms from
online content. Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor
more and more.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh wait a minute, legacy media, now they're the enemy,
not the coort.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also
a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism,
child exploitation. These are things that we take very seriously
and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, and.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Then that was taken over by foreign governments.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Lead The problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
Even if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts,
that's millions of people. And we've reached a point where
it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The
recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards
once again prioritizing speech.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You mean Donald Trump broke the internet. You mean Donald
Trump and Elon Musk broke the internet. You know, people
think it takes a big battle, a big war to win,
and sometimes it doesn't. Just a clear view. Some things
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don't have to be prosecuted in a long opening statement
with many witnesses and cross examination. Sometimes like a light switch,
just turn on the light. Watch the roach's scamper wat
I watched the rats run for the high ground. To
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use a faith analogy, you're not supposed to battle it
out with the devil. You're just supposed to remind him
of the reality he already lost, his power was already
taken away. The Bible tells you not to fight. It
tells you to resist him, and he will flee. The
Bible doesn't tell you to go round. Just fix your
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eyes on the truth. Why do you think geez be
salt be light. The salt preserves, the light exposes. The
light wins the war. The truth wins the war. The
truth is something. Remember when we were going through the
presidential polling information on saying there's something changing, even polls
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now look different. This is Mark Zuckerberg. This guy's been
up to no good since college, and not just the
name of greed. And he's never really been about money,
to his credit, but he has been about a worldview,
a one sided worldview, and very intolerant of those who
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don't share it, and has been a very key cog
in a machine that has controlled narrative and silenced opposition views,
one of the more destructive achieved accomplishments against free speech.
And now suddenly he sees the light and suddenly the solution,
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wait for it, is to do the things X is doing.
Do you know how it was just I will not
raise my voice and yell at listeners early in the morning,
but I will remind you just a couple of months ago,
Elon Musk was the mini meed to the antichrist Donald Trump.
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Now he has proven the right way to fact check,
eliminate fact checking and independent fact checkers. Now Zuckerberg's role
modeling Elon Musk and has his Republican executive implementing it
while he reveals it to you. Question of the day,
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if the truth light hadn't lit, if the illumination hadn't exposed,
the death of journalism, the decomposition rot of its dead
body and influence, and Donald Trump and Elon Musk and
RFK and Telsey Gabber didn't win. Do you think Zuckerberg's
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doing this video yesterday?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
So we're gonna get back to our roots and focus
on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression
on our platforms.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
By the way, I don't think he's done fighting either.
If his lips are moving, he's lying, So be careful
moving forward. But Donald Trump broke the Internet. Donald Trump's
broke a lot of strongholds and codes. There really is
a new day brewing now. How to live it? Without
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Daniel and Saint Louis listening. I don't know he's traveling
to night on a plane. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Detona. Multiple life threatening fires burning across southern
California this morning.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Margaret Stewart for the Los Angeles Fire Departments has wind
speeds and dry conditions have created the ultimate firestorm.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
The fire as large as it is now, it starts
to kind of create its own weather, and the winds
will swirl and the ember cast can travel a mile
downwind and start a spot fire.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
The city of Santa Monica has issued mandatory evacuation orders
as the Palisades Fire now continues to spread through southern California,
including the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
The home in Brentwood is in the eastern portion of
the evacuation zone. Harris is currently in Washington, d C.
The fire, whipped by winds of at least eighty miles
per hour, has burned nearly three thousand acres of land
with no containment. I'm Mark Mayview Hey.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The number of people quitting their jobs is the lowest
level since the pandemic. Brian shook you all morning long
has more.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
New Labor Department data from November shows just over three
million people quit their jobs in November, the lowest number
since the summer of twenty twenty. The Department says the
number of job openings is also increasing, and the number
of unemployment claims is at their lowest level in the
last eight months. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Apple is planning to update its artificial intelligence after complaints
about inaccurate news alerts on iPhones.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
The company said Monday it would work to have the
software clarify when notifications are AI generated summaries. The BBC
raised concerns last month after a summary incorrectly told readers
that accused healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangioni had shot himself.
I'm Michael Kassner.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Peter Yarro, Peter Paul and Mary has died or.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Zero reportedly died of bladder cancer in his home in
New York City. The nineteen sixties folk trio Peter, Poul
and Mary instrumental in helping popularize the work of Bob Dylan.
Yero co wrote the song Poff the Magic Dragon. In
nineteen sixty nine, Yarrow pleaded guilty to taking immoral and
improper liberties with a child, and over a decade later,
was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter. Yarro was eighty six
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years old. I'm Jennifer Bulsny in Sports.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And Cities of your morning show interest. I should put
on my grumpy sports voice. Tough day in the Hardwoods.
Signs lost to the Hornets one fifteen one oh four,
Wizards lost by twenty three to the Rockets. Lakers lost
by twenty one of the MAVs. Warriors felt one fourteen
ninety eight to the Heat all garbage. Red Wings won
three to two in overtime over the Senators. Blues lost
(31:46):
six to four to the wild Stars, won five to
four over the Rangers, Lightning one three to two over
the Canes. Of course, the Predators lost they stink five
two to the Jets, and the Ducks shot down three
two in overtime by the Flames. And as always, I'm
sitting suffering an illness on my couch watching the arrival
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of James Earl Carter, the thirty ninth President of the
United States, on a carriage that carried the casket of
Abraham Lincoln. John F. Kennedy. He made his arrival. I'm
sitting there taking it all in. John Decker standing there
living it as always, living a better life than me,
and I think we were both taken by the remembrances
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both of a Republican leader of the Senate, a Republican
Leader of the House, and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
It was just.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
The right tone, the right remembrance, and just a very
very moving ceremony yesterday. What was it like to be
so close to it?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Yeah, beautiful eulogies that were delivered by the three people
that you mentioned. You know, it's something that you know,
you have to appreciate. It doesn't happen that often. A
celebration of the life of Jimmy Carter, a celebration of
the life of a former president happened in twenty eighteen
when George hw Bush left us, and I attended that
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funeral at the National Cathedral. And the funeral for Jimmy
Carter will take place tomorrow. All the former living presidents
will be there, including President elect Donald Trump and President
Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy. So five presidents in
attendance at Jimmy Carter's funeral tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So, you know, you get on talk radio and of
course everything's very partisan, and I get that. You know,
I've stood my ground. I am first and foremost a believer,
long before I'm an American and I'm not even a
Democrat or a Republican anymore. Not interested in the Democrat
Party because I don't share the worldview or policy views
that they do, and disgusted with the Republican party that
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often doesn't live what its platform states. I don't know
that we're to be anything other than one nation under God,
in divisible with liberty and justice for all, not a
two party system. So I'm not a fan of either.
I thought in a very difficult situation. I mean, I
guess Kamala Harris got the most politically narrative in his remembrance,
but I thought it was wonderful and maybe I've been
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thirsting for it, for the American people to be able
to have a ceremony like this where Republicans and Democrats
can sit in the room and not make they could
not turn this humble man, this faithful servant of his
Lord and Savior and family and country into a political football.
I love that.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Yeah, I think that that is a nice thing about
our country. You know, when you do see that, when
you view that, and you'll see that, you know, take
place tomorrow as well. All the leaders Republicans, Democrats paying
tribute to one of our presidents, one of the people
who have held that office is many presidents have acknowledged
it's a very distinct and select club. And tomorrow we'll
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see that club, you know, get together once again. It
will be a visual to send the world that you know, America,
despite all our divisions, comes together to remember the life
of a person who did what he thought was best
for America from a very early age. You know, when
he when he became a member of the military, when
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he attended the Naval Academy, when he served our country
in uniform, to serving as Georgia's governor until running for
president in nineteen seventy six, winning the presidency and serving
for four years. Yes, it wasn't that a successful presidency,
but look at what he accomplished also after he was
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a no longer president, was a private citizen. That's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Bible studies and building homes for the needy, that's what
he did.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I wish there was a way to book you one time,
just as a guest, not a reporter, because I would
love to do a half hour with you on going
over these numbers of how presidents are remembered and rated
time is very unkind to some, it's kinder to others.
It's looking really unkind to Joe Biden, who will be there,
the oldest living president, who is still a sitting president,
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and eutilogizing a former president. But all this history is
happening and you get to live it. John Decker, thanks
for joining us. All right, we come back visit with DZ.
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