01-14-25 YMS HR1 Toxicity and perspective in the United States, “hang on help is on the way” to Iran says Trump, and 45% now say they are Independent in US

Toxicity and perspective in the United States, “hang on, help is on the way”, to Iran says Trump, and 45% now say they are Independent in the US.

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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thank you, Mike mccanna on the Aaron streaming live on
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to America's Kitchen Table. It is seven minutes after the hour.
The Trump administration says Americans detained in Venezuela are being released.
Human rights activists say over twenty five hundred I could
give you the exact number. Two thy five hundred and
seventy one are have been killed in the Iranian uprising

(01:03):
and crackdowns on massive protests. And an autoworker in Michigan
at the Ford Plant has been suspended for heckling President Trump.
As you know, the President had a response verbally and
in gesture. I wish he would have just kept walking,
but hey, I understand what it is to have a

(01:24):
bad moment. And five time major winner Brooks Kapka is
returning to the PG actor Keifer Sutherland getting charged with
the I guess it was assault. I don't know that
what all happened, but apparently he faces charges for allegedly

(01:45):
having an altercation with a ride share driver. Somebody was
probably running that mouth. Well. Yes, remember, like his character
Jack Power, he only has two speeds whisper and rauh.
You're from him in cowboy way, Chloe, get me out
of this exact, get me out of this super club,

(02:07):
Get me out of this Cooper. But I think the
three big things of the day are toxicity and perspective,
which I'm going to address immediately. But what's happening in Iran,
and again the President saying to the people of Iran,

(02:27):
help is on the way, calling for Tehran to show
some humanity, it really sets the table for Okay, the
iatola is eighty six. Everyone wishfully has always said the
solution in Iran is it's up to the people of Iran.

(02:50):
It was up to them in seventy nine, and no
US meddling helped that. In fact, and this is pure opinion,
although I think think reality proves it. President Carter over
meddled and picked aside. Part of that was a the

(03:12):
interjection and then be the ignorance of how it could
end and then see and picking aside, you actually stirred
an outcome. What am I talking about? Jimmy Carter supported
the overthrow of the Shaw, probably not seeing and should

(03:34):
have seen a radical Islamist theocracy that would be birthed.
And so you got the Ayatola, you got the Islamic
Republic of Iran. You had the hostage crisis. The hostage
crisis ended upon Ronald Reagan taking the oath of office.

(03:55):
But the theocracy and one of the most predictable threats
to a region and the world and an epicenter of
terror was birthed. Well that's nineteen seventy nine. Bad news
is it's now twenty twenty six and it's still the
most predictable threat to the region and the world, and

(04:19):
it's still an epicenter of terror. And now the people
seem to be rising up and have had enough of
an iatola and a theocracy. So now it's nineteen seventy
nine again, What is the proper tone for America to

(04:42):
encourage without inciting, or go beyond words to action. I mean,
there are stories that seem to have your attention or
seem to be getting the clicks in a social dilemma,
and then there are are the John F. Kennedy type
stories that address our time in all time, this is

(05:05):
an all time moment. The repressive government is weaker than
at any point since nineteen seventy nine, and the Iranian
people know it, and they're making a move, and they
are risking everything for twenty five hundred and seventy one

(05:28):
lives already lost in this effort to risk everything to
reclaim their freedom. What did President Trump mean by help
is on the way? What actions can President Trump take
to add to words that could push this organic movement

(05:50):
past a tipping point? And what actions should he be
concerned in taking. Having learned lessons from nonineteen seventy nine,
spit it out del Jarno, I don't know. I would

(06:11):
surround myself with a lot of really smart people and say,
is it possible that there's something worse that could rise.
Is it possible that there's a lot of really entrenched

(06:33):
evil that needs to be addressed in this transition. It's
a real series. I cannot tell you all how odd
in forty two years of radio it has become that
we can't just keep our eyes on simple balls. This

(06:56):
is a big story. This is a big story that
impacts today, tomorrow and many tomorrows to come. I want
to make sure that our kitchen table we're aware of that,
because I can't think of anything. In fact, it informs
everything else. The fact that I will shift to gear

(07:16):
and discuss something as paramounts. This on an equal ground
with the Supreme Court of the United States, has to
address an issue that common sense should have easily solved
before it ever even became an issue. Let alone made

(07:38):
its way all the way to the Supreme Court. But
as that goes, you get a reading from the Court,
and there were some real heroes, and then there were
some real moments that I could play talk radio with
and go listen to. This is the point I may
just do that let you see what the left of
the court sounds like and what the right sounds like.

(08:00):
Because when it comes to judge Alito, well, Red would
say he was on fire. Remember that nobody plays that
video game anyway. Rememberh we first started with that basketball game.
And and then when the when the one player to
get hot to go and the announcer goes, he's on fire,
and he'd literally be on fire. His body was on fires.
He's going up and dow the court. Uh, Alito was

(08:22):
on fire yesterday. And then I think, you know, comparing
in the American bubble, this debate of reality versus narrative,
and that's in the eye of the beholder in Minnesota.
Compare that, you see, what they're trying to incite people

(08:47):
to do in America is based on Donald Trump being
an ayatola and being a regime leader who's threatening his people.
You know, a real regime and a real thug kills
twenty five hundred and seventy one for even having an opinion.

(09:07):
Here at home, we have a woman who we all
wish was alive today, especially for the sake of her son.
But I mean, in America, we're all looking at the
same videos and seeing something different, let alone responding to
two different narratives, and even in discussing it, it makes

(09:29):
me want to take a shower and feel a part
of the problem. Remember when we talked about I don't
know what the election should be, but wouldn't it be
neat if it was DeSantis versus Newsome. If for no
other reason, let America hold before them California and Florida

(09:49):
and maybe, just maybe that will inform your socialism versus capitalism,
liberty freedom argument. That's how I feel today. Now, once
we leave this kitchen table, I can't tell you what
we're going to see in here or who we're going
to bump into. But what you'd love to just hold

(10:10):
up aroan today in Minnesota and say hello. But just
as I say that, the other side will probably do
the same thing and try to tell you it's the same.
So it's all very frustrating, and it got me thinking

(10:36):
this is not to name drop, and it's not even
a big name to drop. Well, it's a big name
to me because he's a wonderful soul and I love him.
But John Schneider is a most people know him from
Dukes of Hazard. Let me tell you something. He is.
One of the most fun I've ever had in my
life is him in my studio with his guitar, because

(10:59):
this guy was made to just stand in front of
you with a guitar and make you happy. The way
he plays, the way he sings, the types of songs
he writes. So I always, I always view him as
a singer and a songwriter. I don't want to say
you share anything really specific about his life other than

(11:22):
he had a really toxic marriage and then he had
a real gifting, covenant, soulmate, heavenly marriage, and the latter
wouldn't last long and be taken quickly by cancer. So

(11:48):
I watched my friend live something awful, live something glorious,
and then have it taken away. It's very painful. And
so we were having a conversation when day about that,
and I said, and it was about a lot of stuff,
but at one point I said, well, you know, yeah,

(12:11):
God hates divorce, and I am never one to culturally
just lightly sweep anything under a rug. But you know, John,
there's another view of this too, it and that is
what do we have appreciated the right one? Like I
almost feel sorry for people that don't know what a

(12:34):
bad toxic marriage is. So that every I mean, I
wonder how much I adore and appreciate Andrew every day
because she just deserves it. And she does. And I
know what it's like. And I don't know what happened.
Look at Jeffrey's looking at me, or you're going to
get to a point I blurted out this word. This

(12:56):
is what you don't do in front of songwriters. And
I just blurted out and I said that, you know,
sometimes you got to marry wrong to know you're married. Right. Oh,
this boomy stops everything, so I so. And when you
do that with a songwriter, well, I mean some of
our greatest songs are that way. Glenn Fry feared for

(13:17):
his life. The guy was going one hundred and sixty
six miles an hour on the LA Freeway and a
Lamborghini jacked up on coke and drunk, and Glenn Fry's thinking,
I'm gonna die. And he looks at the guy and
he goes, don't you think we should slow down? And
the guy goes, hey, baby, that's life in the fast

(13:37):
lay baby. Well, for Glenn Fry, that was like boom,
that's a song. Or he was at a bar one time,
you know, and you could you could tell that this
guy was wanting to cheat on his wife, and this
girl was trying to find some guy to cheat with
his money. And I don't remember it was Jackson Brown
or Glen Fry looked at the other and said, look
at those lion eyes. These things become great song. So

(14:01):
he writes it down, and I have nagged him for
five years. Where are we at? Whether sometimes you have
to marry wrong to know when you're married right? Song?
And I thought always I was thinking of him this
morning when I was thinking about this toxicity, and I said,
we got to call him and wake him up. See
where he's at with my song. But the point is,
if you marry wrong, life's gonna happen still, and everything

(14:23):
that comes at you is going to ultimately be a divisive, contentious,
toxic thing. And when you marry right, everything that comes
at you is in perspective, it's overcomeable and better yet,

(14:45):
it just makes you closer and closer and closer. You
never go through anything alone, and you never go through
anything that tears you apart. That was the point I'm making.
That's America today. We're a talk sick bad marriage. And
that's how we can all look at the same video

(15:06):
and at the end of the day. All it is
is an invitation to hate each other more and fight
even harder. This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Now I hear we had some great NFL playoff games
over the weekend, and we are down to the Rams
and the Bears and the Seahawks and the forty nine

(15:27):
ers in the NFC and the Bills, Broncos and Texans
and Patriots, and don't forget coming up on Monday, we
got a National Championship game. Does this Who's your story? Continue?
The Miami Hurricane and the Indiana Hoosiers for the National Championship.
Coming up, we'll have all the top five stories of
the day. Promise. I want to have a little conversation

(15:52):
about the number of identifying independent now Americans we have.
Is this a sign of whether it's slow or long
the inevitable death of the two party system. This is
Philip on Space Coast in Melbourne, Florida, and my morning

(16:12):
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(16:33):
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January the fourteenth. This is different than other shows. You're

(16:57):
not going to wake up to. I have all the engine.
You are so lucky to be hearing my voice today.
Let me tell you what America is doing. No, we
think talk radio needed to return to a conversation again,
not reading people's texts, not taking calls, not ignoring people.
But no, we're all in this together. Let's discuss it

(17:19):
together because there is no wise man in the room,
and sometimes together we can get to an understanding that
we can't get to alone. That's why we have the
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It's actually very professional. The good news is you don't
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(17:39):
Judy and Poughkeepsie, you're on. No, you just hit that button,
counts you down three to two to one, and you
take your place at a table that belongs to you
with your commoner question. In other words, just do what
may I please? Is this the first of the new year?
Was it? Oh dune, Oh dune?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Michael sonice to hear your voice. I saw that Donald
Trump would like those from Somalia to be returned and
remove temporary protection status. But between the Somalians and Haitians,
our government brought those people to our country. Will this
be a legal problem?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well, I just got through doing a sermon on how
there's no wise man in the room and no one
person that knows it all. I mean, my initial response
would be Number one was in your phrasing. If we're
talking about temporary status, it would be my understanding that
that would be easy to remove. It could also be

(18:46):
based on actions that some would temporary status. It does
get problematic if they've had children, and it does get
problematic if there's been permanent status. So it would depend
on the status, depend on the actions. The uncomfortableness would
be your gut which feels like, Okay, we brought all

(19:10):
those people. Could have been a mistake, could have not been.
But let's just say it was a big mistake, a
great thing for some, and then some bad elements came
with them, and now you're just going to reverse it all.
I get the uncomfortableness. And this is when you hear
the President make references to what was done I think purposefully,

(19:37):
the notion being the floodgates of the Biden administration because
they came in by the millions, which you know is
wrong just on face value, right, because you couldn't vet
millions that fast, let alone. We saw the videos of
how they were arriving. So you know, you come across

(20:01):
the bad element. You know, did they come on a
temporary visa and just stay and we lost track of them?
Were they brought here and given temporary status? Did they
sneak in with others that came in? Did they just
get off a box? I mean, you know, And the
problem is to really fix a problem, you got to
first appreciate the problem that happened, and then secondly, how

(20:23):
would you buy the millions? Let them in exit as
you didn't an entrance. But the answer to your question
is if it's temporary. I don't think there be any
legal issue. You just changed the status having children. I
think red would make that problematic perhaps, But and then

(20:44):
primarily you almost have to wait for a bad action.
But you know, I say this out loud and it's
uncomfortable to say, but I think America is fine with
rounding up the troublemakers or the criminals, like if we

(21:06):
just spend all of our time, right I am of
all things that I'm in awe of is that millions
self deported. I'm in awe of that. And I hope
we keep our word because if they self deported in
order to come back and do it permanent and legal
and right, we should honor that. But as far as

(21:29):
finding the millions who are up to drugs, up to rape,
up to theft, up to murder, up to overthrow, I
think America is fine as we round them up action
by action. But even that's a tall task. So all
of this is difficult because we invited difficult in had

(21:52):
we just followed our intent and laws. But that's the
problem with this part of and divide in America Again.
I go back then that would have been KFAQ so
it's probably twenty two to twenty four years ago, fresh

(22:15):
off being mayor. He would go on to become Vice
President of the United States. But I was doing an
interview with Mike Pence, and I think he said it best, well,
the problem is the left likes the votes and the
right likes the cheap labor. That's the problem with immigration.

(22:35):
And I wonder, after all these years and after all
this chaos, if any of that's really ultimately changed. And
we would just add that right to the laundry list
of reasons why both of these parties are not the solution,
they're the cause. And I believe their days are numbered.

(22:56):
Now if you don't believe me, how about our poll
of the day headline gallup new high. Forty five percent
in the United States identified as political independence. When Ronald
Reagan took office, I was sixteen years old. I would

(23:19):
later turn a voting age, and in his reelection, he
would be my first vote for President of the United States.
In my twenties and into my thirties, I might have
been the proudest Republican on the face of the earth.
Although I was already studying the mind and policies in

(23:41):
life of John F. Kennedy, and I would have looked
at you and said, I don't know what the Democrat
Party was. And by the way, they didn't like Kennedy then,
but they're not that anymore. And what I would have
said about the Republican Party would have been, probably at

(24:02):
that time, solely focused on Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
And that was all I ever needed to see and know.
And I was a proud Republican. But then as I
got older and I started meeting with state senators and
state representatives and US congressmen and US senators, and then

(24:23):
I started getting in Senate meetings and started going to Washington.
I couldn't stomach either. And it all came to a
head with me at a State of the Union because
I was watching not all. In fact, the handful that

(24:45):
weren't were the ones being crucified. And that's why I
still live in a state where there are people in
very high office. As Jesus said in Revelations and Revelation,
I want to that spit you out of my mouth

(25:06):
is the word to mean projectile vomit. That's what they
make me feel like. And that was it. I'm an
independent because I got to just stand by liberty. I
got to stand by the Constitution. I got to stand
by my values, my rules for values and beliefs. And

(25:27):
everybody's a good talker, so I got to vet these
people one at a time, because at the end of
the day, if you think there's more rs and d's
than you one, you're wrong. I can tell you I
live in a state where there's only one I believe
in Scott de Jarlais, period, and that's the end of
the story. So I never thought I would live long

(25:50):
enough to be on the radio and tell everybody I'm
not a Republican. I caucus with them mostly if I
was in office, but I can't stand either of them.
And I think both of the problem and there's nothing
you will ever say to change my mind. And if
you're a Republican, you shouldn't be offended. And if you

(26:11):
feel differently good that party needs you. And if you're
a Democrat and you still don't see that your party
has in platform become an American, I still love you.
There's still a lot we can talk about. But I
have no use for either of them. And guess what,
I'm almost the majority forty five percent I mean, that's

(26:38):
a number to get your arm around, right, because what
do we talk about all the time. We may never
see a president with a fifty percent approval rating? Again, ever,
that's how divided we are. But what are things that
come to my mind quickly? Just like a word cloud, right,
forty five percent an independent can become a president. I'll
be more specific, RFK Junior. The numbers are there at

(27:06):
forty five percent identifying as political independent. I would say,
I wouldn't say RFK can't be president anymore? What does
it say about the lifespan of the two party stranglehold
that I believe our founding fathers foresaw could happen and

(27:27):
never intended to happen. This is a this is you
know how we do bulls of Pleddy. This is the
poll of a lifetime. A record high forty five percent
of US adults identified as political independence in twenty twenty five,
surpassing the forty three percent measured in twenty fourteen, twenty

(27:47):
twenty three, twenty twenty four. We got to go over
this with David Sanati because what is it about twenty
twenty four to twenty three and twenty four that is
so impacted twenty six. And by the way, if it's
forty five in twenty twenty five, what is it right now?
What is it in a couple of years in twenty
twenty eight, the next presidential election cycle, will they get

(28:16):
their own nationally televised convention? What are we really you know,
going back to that Wizard of Oz analogy, what if
we really made these two parties? Never mind the little
man behind the curtain. It's John Podesta, but never mind
that little band behind there, because they ain't nothing anymore,

(28:39):
and together they barely add up to what is independent.
And then the final thought would be, well, are they
really independent? Or is that just a cool thing to say?
In most years since Gallup began regularly conducting its poll
in nineteen eighty eight, independent and it's been the largest

(29:01):
political group. However, the independent percentage has increased markedly in
the past fifteen years, typically registering at about forty percent
prior to twenty eleven. In nineteen forty five, I mean
at forty five percent, that's a different conversation, especially if

(29:24):
that forty five gets to forty eight or fifty. The
recent increases in independent identification is partly attributable to the
younger generation, So don't get excited that that means everybody's
you know, some of them are probably independent, but really
with socialist ambition. Some of them are independent, maybe with
Islamist ambition. But we don't know what we can put

(29:47):
our finger on. Is older stay's party loyal. Younger embraces
independent with a proclivity which do you think time is
on whose side? Generation Z like previous generations before them,

(30:07):
when they were young, they identified disproportionately as political independence.
They eventually in the past had found their way to
a party. We'll see if that holds. One third or
less of Baby boomers and Silent generation adults are politically independent.
So Red, I think you would agree, older you get,
the more you're still you're in a party. That's what

(30:29):
you do. And I think there's a lot of the
older people that believe, look, at the end of the day,
it's going to be a Republican or Democrat, So we
got to stay a Republican. There's going to be a
Republican or Democrats. We've got to stay Democrat. But those
numbers are changing, and it's almost as if if America
realized it, there'd be a paradigm and power shift third

(30:52):
Finnal questions, what should the parties do about that? Well,
you probably ought to find out why people don't need
it your sterunt anymore. I think I've got a pretty
good handle on it, and I think for the Democrat
Party it's what they become, and for the Republican Party
it's because they say the right things but rarely do them.

(31:15):
And if we're talking about Dad, well, they're both guilty
right to the twoe of thirty seven trillion dollars of guilty.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Journo.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Would you say independent? Do you mean American Independent Party
or declined to state? Yeah, no, well neither, but no.
The first funnel would be are you a Republican or
a Democrat? And the person would say no, all right,
so right away you're an independent. And then I think,
in Gallup's case, I don't have it in front of me.

(31:50):
The next thing they would want to identify is are
you leaning like I am certainly independent, but I lean Republican.
In other words, I caucus that I have most in
common with them. If you give me a Democrat and Republican,
I'm gonna probably go Republican. Virtually every time, I will
go Republican every time. But so and of that forty
five percent, by the way, there's twenty percent that lean Democrat,

(32:10):
fifteen percent that lead Republican, and boy, that'd be a
whole other question, right, what does that suggest that there
are more dissatisfied people that are Democrat so they're Democrat leaning,
but they don't not enough to take the name. And
then there's ten percent that are non leaders leaners and
purely independent. Now where you know they find their candidates

(32:33):
and what independent parties that can vary. So the answer
is no, not the actual independent party. If you're just
waking up and I don't know how to do this
in one minute, but here are your top five stories.
I owe you a full cast. I will get it
in next hour, I promise. I think here are the

(32:56):
big stories. The Trump administration says American detainment. Americans who
were detain aimed in Venezuela are being released Numero uno
number two. He's canceling meetings with all Iranian officials as
anti regime protests continue. As to those protests, human rights
activists say about twenty five hundred and seventy one have
been killed simply for taking a stand in these massive

(33:20):
protests and the Iyatola and the government's crackdown on them.
That has the President calling for Tehran to stop that
and find humanity. He's also promising those who are suffering
help is on the way. What does he mean by that.
We're going to delve deep into that about fifteen minutes
with Colonel Stephen Bucci from the Heritage Foundation. It's nineteen

(33:41):
seventy nine all over again. Let's not make any mistakes
of seventy nine and what should the President be saying
and what should he be backing up with action anti
ice protesters. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis after the deadly shooting are
still protesting and there is still a lot of shaky

(34:02):
ground there that we're keeping our eye on. And five
time major winner Brooks Keepka is rejoining the PGA tour.
We'll have all your top five stories coming up for
you next hour visit with Stephen Bucci, and NASA rolls
out it's massive SLS rocket on Saturday ahead of a
February Moon mission. I say we go to the Moon

(34:25):
in this decade, are after, but I also say we
go to Rory O'Neil. Our national correspondent on that more
and guess what DZ's back. If I'm back, DZ's back
later in the third hour, We're all in this together.
This is Your Morning Show with Michael ndheld Joo