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and Donald Trump's administration says Americans detained in Venezuela are
being released. Meanwhile, he's calling off all meetings with Iranian officials,
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and according to human rights activists, they're saying now over
twenty five hundred people have been killed by Iranian authorities
in the crackdown against massive protests, the president's vollowing help
is on the way and asking Tehran to find a
sense of humanity. And I was talking about the new poll,
and I think it's significant. Now forty five percent of
American voters identify as independent, not the independent party, but
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translation not Republican or Democrat. Somebody'd asked the specific question,
I now have the actual question in politics as of today,
do you can consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, or
an independent? That answer is now forty five percent independent.
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The follow up question is just what I knew it was,
but I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We've double checked it.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
As of today, do you lean more Democrat party or
Republican party? And so what we see is twenty seven
percent identify as Republican, twenty seven percent identify as Democrat.
That's dead even at twenty seven percent. Then you have
fifteen percent who identify as independent but lean Republican, twenty
(02:15):
percent that identify as Democrat but lean Democrat. Then you
have ten percent that are right down the line, I'm
independent and independent. Only what has ticked down is Republican
identifiers by one and Democrat identifiers by one and the
three percent that was leaning Republican now is down three percent,
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and the three percent that lean Democrat went straight to them.
So you just had a shift of three percent leaning
Republican that went to Democrat. Could be Trump related, obviously,
but a significant portion of America is independent now. And
so I was just asking hypothetical questions. Is RFK junior
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in play? And twenty twenty eight is an independent candidate?
The days of well you got to be one or
the other? Could they be? Over time? Will Tell could
say something about the expiration date of the two major
parties being more and more perceived as the problem, not
the solution. All right, NASA is rolling out it's massive
SLS rocket.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What's an SLS rocket?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's ahead of the February Moon mission.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Roy O'Neil is not only our national correspondent, he is
our resident space expert. He usually cringes when I say that,
now I have puffed I have puffed.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Him up so much.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He doesn't even cringe when I say that, obviously we're
going to the Moon in this decade.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What's the role SLS is going to play in this?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So SLS the Space Launch System, that's the rocket we
use for these Artemis two or Artemist missions and Artemist
two we hope to launch in just a matter of weeks.
On Saturday, they're going to roll out SLS from that
giant building you see at the Kennedy Space Center, bring
it out to the launch pad and start or I
continue the preparations for a launch as early as February sixth.
(04:12):
That's sort of a cross your fingers and hope things
go well kind of date. And we got more confirmation
that the administration wants to have boots on the lunar
surface again as early as twenty twenty eight, which is
going to be quite the task.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
But President Trump is making this a priority while he's
still in office.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I know, you know what, when we come back in
the third hour, I'm going to I want to dedicate
more time to this.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Kennedy's view was twofold one. He thought we had a
missile deficiency. We didn't, so the space race became a
supremacy race, and whoever got their first would technically win.
We started behind, we got their first. I get all that.
His main thing was why the moon? Because you know,
if you want to lose ten pounds, and I put
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you on a die, you'll probably gain two. I train
you for a marathon, you'll probably lose thirty six. He
knew the technology that the necessary things that would have
to be created would create industries.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So in fifteen to twenty seconds or less, what do
we gain by going back? What's the race here, what's
the statement here, what's the stretch here that's going to
make a measurable difference? Or is this about kind of
just getting loose again with Mars in a horizon, right?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
No, this really is about Mars. That you know, when
you imagine someday the first human stepping foot on Mars today,
do you imagine that person being from China or India
or do you think that person will be an American?
And that's part of the space race that's back again
(05:53):
and trying to get to Mars. It means that the
moon is going to have to be in play and
a massive investment with public private partnerships like with Elon
Muskin SpaceX.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, but it begs the question, is this you know
a shift back? I mean, is it is it nineteen
sixty five again? Rather than think about the whole space station.
It was a humanity mission. Mars began a humanity mission. Boy,
it's kind of gotten nationalized, or so it seems.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Right.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, we are doing this much more alone than the
space station, obviously by its name. But we've got a
lot of partners that are helping but not investing like
other partners did for the space station.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And that's ahead of that Saturday, and that's ahead of
the moon, and then splashdown would be shortly after.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
All right, Saturday is the rollout launched ideally February sixth,
splashdown off California ten days later, Artemis three launching in
twenty twenty eight, putting boots on the surface.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
At least two thousand people have been killed in protests
in Iran. Rory's gonna have more on that in the
third hour. But say hello to my little Colonel Steven Bucci,
very very big brain, one of the more prestigious military
and foreign policy minds in America today. He resides at
the Heritage Foundation in Washington, d C. I had a
long talk with the listeners colonel about nineteen seventy nine,
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and I think it's almost important today that we discussed
nineteen seventy nine before we even dare suggest what our
good moves in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But here is the good news.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Since nineteen seventy nine, the repressive Islamist theocratic under a
hard rule of Islamist law and an ayahtola in Toronto
is weaker than any point since nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So we may have a second chance. The people know it.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
They're risking everything for twoy five hundred and seventy one.
They've lost their lives standing up to it. The President
has signaled two things. One to Tehran, find your humanity,
stop it. To the people of Iran, help is coming.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That begs the question what should the President be saying? Moreover,
what does he mean by help us on the way
and what should he be doing? Tough question, but you're
just the guy to handle it. Colonel Stephen Boucie, Good morning,
Good morning, Michael, thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Where do we take this? Let's start with nineteen seventy nine.
Jimmy Carter meddled with the SHAW. I don't know how
they didn't foresee I mean they may not have foreseen
the hostage crisis, but how they didn't foresee the possibility
of a radical Islamist uprising. Since then, the hostage crisis
ended when Reagan took the oath of office, but since
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then they have been the most predictable threat to a
region and the world, and their nuclear ambitions make them
the most predictable threat to the world, with an offensive
obsession to use whatever technology they have. And here we
are now with a second chance.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
How do we take it?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Well, I mean, you go back to seven. We kind
of blew that one. I think Carter's humanitarian instincts, his
guilt of the fact that America had supported the Shaw
and the Shah was a pretty autocratical leader and early on,
way before seventy nine, back in the fifties, really.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
We did some shady stuff with the Shah.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
There were people killed by the government, you know, not
unlike what's going on now, and there was hard feelings
about that. So he felt, Okay, these people want to
get rid of the Shaw. We're not going to help
the Shaw stay in power. We're going to try and
be on the using air quotes on the radio, the
right side of history, and you know, we'll stand back
(09:45):
and let the people have their will. Okay, they chose
they got rid of the shaw. The Iatola Comeni came in.
You know, he's this benign looking older man America really
not a lot of dealings yet with radical Islam. Probably
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could have talked to these rallies and got some good insights,
but apparently we didn't, and he took power. And it
wasn't just a benign old man. It was a really
radical form of Islam and one that took that entire
country back centuries socially and but like over the top,
(10:31):
aggressive and meddlesome in the worst sense in the region,
like Overnight.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Asuni Muslim, Asuni Muslim is more of a political Islamist
in that they they'll they'll play it very slow, they'll populate,
they'll infiltrate, they'll agitate, they'll play for the next generation,
or they'll wait till they think that a Shia like
what we have the brand of Islam in Iran and
(11:00):
is she hottest. So they modeled the warrior Mohammad. They're
looking to kill someone, They're looking to fund terrorist organizations
to kill, to terrorize and eventually overthrow. That's what makes
them different. This is an epicenter of terror, all right,
so what is what is our course of actions? I mean,
we could support with air strikes, we could support with troops,
(11:21):
with troops.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What does the present mean helps on the way?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Well, I think uh one, he needs to watch saying
that until he has a full plan.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Please praise God, thank you. I was hoping you'd say that.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Yeah, he doesn't want to look like a Barack Obama
did in Syria, where he said, well, don't cross his line,
don't cross his line, and when they crossed the line,
he didn't do anything and he looked completely scheckless, which,
as it turns out.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Was kind of what he really was.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Uh. President Trump, uh has options, we can you know,
he's already starting to use some of the economic elements
of power, raising up tariffs on people who deal with
Iran to make it more difficult for them to do
that which squeezes them financially even tighter than the direct
(12:16):
sanctions on them are doing. He could tighten up the
direct sanctions, do things like frankly, we've done Venezuela turns out.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
As a great rehearsal.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
As far as the ghost ships, Iran uses ghost ships
also to get its oil out to customers like China.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We can close that down completely.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
And that would that's outside Iranian territory, but puts great
pressure on the regime there. And then the last thing,
which is Bucci being a little over the top, but
I think it's a legitimate methodology, is we could target
some of the i r GC cut force facilities around
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the country. We know where those are, their barracks, their
training areas. The IRGC is the most repressive arm of
the Iranian government. They are the tools that do most
of the killing, the torture. They have clearly an international
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mandate that's terrorist in nature. The domestic one is completely repressive,
like you used to see in the old Soviet Union,
terrorizing people, killing them, torturing them. They're the ones that
repress the women if they decide to take off the
hijab in public.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Target those folks that will send a message to the people,
we're not against you, we're against this government and their thugs.
And whereas if you hit other more national level targets,
it could be spun by the regime that oh you know,
look it's the Americans trying to take over there. You know,
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be a patriotic Iranian and join with us. You don't
want that effect for the people in the street to
recognize we're on their side, not the side of.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The Mullus final fifty seconds with the Colonel Stephen Bucci.
You know, for the longest time, I've heard from experts
we have to wait. It's the people's job to rise
up against this regime. And I'm like, they're never gone,
and they're never going to be allowed. And I got
twenty five hundred and seventy one deaths just in trying.
But there is something. There is a resistance that has
(14:43):
been born, a movement that is at a foot that
we have not seen since nineteen seventy nine, and actions
are going to be everything. There are some things we
can learn from seventy nine. There's some things we can
I would also ask you as we get involved in this,
the ultimate lesson of seventy nine is there was something
far worse than the Shaw and they should have saw
(15:03):
it coming. Is there anything we're not seeing coming that's
worse than Ethan, the Ayatola and the Islamic Republic.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
I cannot think of anything worse than them. I can't
or the Iranian people, or the region, or America's interest.
I think they are weak right now, weaker than they've
ever been before. Their options are much lower because Hazbola, Hamas, Syria,
all those proxies are basically off the table as far
(15:32):
as using them for action, and their military has shown
itself to actually be a straw man right now. The
Israelis embarrassed them in a head to head fight. So yeah,
if we do something like I suggest, there might be
some attacks on some of our bases, mortars, maybe a
(15:54):
rocket or two. But they know if they do that,
the repercussion for them will just grow.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And I don't think they have the wherewithal to do it,
I think, but I do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Moment it is a very rare.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There's no story that even compares to this today. I mean,
who the president flipped off doesn't matter. But I will
say this, the canceling of the meetings with Iranian officials,
the saying help is on the way tells me something
is afoot and is coming. But I want to end
with a compliment to the president. The dismantling of these
proxies and terrorist.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Arms is what's created this moment.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
So the President's done a lot, right, Let's pray for
him to have wisdom to continue to doing right because
the greatest evil and the greatest political blunder of my
lifetime is about to get a do over.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Let's get it right this time. I think you would
say a big amen to that. You know what I say.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I love you, Thank you for joining us, Colonel Stephen Bouci,
and thank you for all your kind words off the earth.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
God bless you too. Michael, hang in there and thanks.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
For having me.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
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Speaker 8 (17:30):
Good morning, Michael, welcome back. I've hesitated to say anything
during the first hour. Well, please let us know what
the status is with your dear mother. Because so much
of your families, your radio family has been praying their
hearts out for you, for her, for your entire family
and all those who love her.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And this is why we didn't. For eight years, we
have battled cancer, and cancer is quite a foe and
it has been a very very long, hard journey and
(18:17):
a lot to watch. It's back and we're at a
phase where we don't have a lot of time. So
I'm just getting used to the not fighting and letting
go and now allowing God to be who he is
(18:39):
and only what he can do and find life and
death and victory and defeat. So you know, it's a
unique job. If I was an accountant, I would need
to take a few days off for the eighteen hour
days I had to put in one to get to
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where we're at, and then and I would deal with
people individually. Many of you have emailed Angela, I've heard,
I've heard all of your talkbacks. Just like James, the
answer is Mom's going to pass the exact moment only
God knows. And pray for her her peace in that journey,
(19:23):
because once it happens, she wouldn't come back if I
begged her. Pray for us there there are I go
in waves, so I don't need any you know a
word could trigger. So part of my thing is your
mom isn't dying today, although there are many days. I'm
in a great mood having fun here, and your mom is,
And if I know about it, I'm emailing with you,
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and I'm praying with.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You, and I'm I'm empathetic.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I just don't want I have to do my job
for everybody whose life is normal today. But your compassion
means everything. Whether it's a talk back and I'm listening
to them during the breaks, or it's your emails, it
means everything to me. It's a blessing. We are a
family at this table, and I'm thankful for that. Part
of me avoids it because I don't think you need
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to hear me crying and so, but it means everything,
and your prayers are felt and make a great difference.
And as bad as the last four days have been,
I probably got some really bad days ahead. I want
to thank Kroc for no notice jumping in and you
all for embracing him, and I suspect you'll know the
(20:33):
next development when you don't hear my voice. But thank
you so much for caring, and thank you so much
for praying and I assure you this, we love you
all as much as you love us. Thirty eight minutes
after the hour in the Eastern time zone, you got
about twenty two minutes to me to work by eight
o'clock on time. I talked in an opening monologue about
the toxicity in America, which really adds up to the
(20:54):
social dilemma, the matrix, and the death of journalism. It's
always a bigger problem than the problems that happen, and
so everything just seems to divide us further and further.
We can even look at the same video in Minnesota
and see two different things, or in the end just
choose to hate each other more over it. Or you
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can't find stories about anything other than the president's middle finger.
And here we are, it's nineteen seventy nine all over
again in Iran, and this time we can get it right.
So we're trying to get beyond toxicities to what's important.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And here comes another one.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
So we have growing concern among Republicans and Democrats about
the Department of Justice investigation of the Federal Reserve Chairman
Jerome Powell. I think our White House correspondent John Decker,
who went on that trip yesterday. So I guess we'll
start with the finger. You took the journey with the
President at an air Force one. He had an economic
(21:50):
message and a hope and an encouragement to deliver. And
yet all anybody's talking about is an employee off Ford
who's now been suspended for heckling and the President for
responding and word end gesture.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That was a crazy day you had.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
It was a crazy day, first and foremost. I want
to tell you, Michael, my thoughts and prayers are with
you and what you're dealing with. So many of us,
including myself, you know, going through the same thing with
parents who are getting older. So I just wanted to
tell you that on the air. And you know we
talk off the air. Anytime you want to chat, feel
free to do so. As it as it relates to
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the president's trip. Yeah, it was a day, a day
in which the President toured that factory, that plant in Dearborn,
Michigan where they make those fort a f one fifties,
the most popular pickup truck in America. They need delivered
that economic speech at the Detroit Economic Club, and you're
right that moment on the floor of that fort plant,
getting a lot of attention because you don't see something
(22:52):
like that all the time. By the way, the reason
why you see the video the way you see it,
it's not really shot. Well, it's because it was out
of the frame of the pool that.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Was traveling with the president.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
We were away from him for five to ten minutes,
and that is when that occurs.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
But I would say this will fall just like everything else, right,
I mean, for the media that doesn't like him and
is obsessed with not liking him, they're going to take
this and run. For those that love and support the president,
I suspect this furthered his brand, you know. So it
just but it is unfortunate that no one is talking
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about the truth of the stats and the direction and
are these happy days again?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Are we headed in the right direction?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That all gets lost, And that's where the toxicity in
America makes it impossible to really understand the moment and
the direction.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I hope.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
So you know, I'm not really talking much about that
to me, you know, I'm talking about the trip itself
and what the focus of the trip was.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yesterday. Having said all that.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
The numbers are really good for the US economy, incredible
economic growth and historically low unemployment. But not every American
is feeling it. And that's where the statistics don't match
up with the message sometimes that the president is delivering.
And that's a tough thing. It's a tough thing for
any politician. It's a tough thing, certainly for the President
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of the United States.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
From a messaging standpoint, Should the President be talking about
these indicators indicate that we have turned a corner. We
stop going in the wrong direction, We're heading in the
right direction. I realize some of you aren't feeling it yet,
but continuing in this direction, we'll eventually get to where
you are feeling it. I mean, is there some improvement
(24:43):
in the messaging that could help.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Well, it could help, you know. I think that Joe
Biden tried that as well. You know, it never really
resonated with voters. It's tough, you know. I mean, if
you are having a difficult time making ends meet, if
your costs are going up every week, go to the supermarket.
All the words in the word a world from the
president are not going to make you feel any better.
(25:06):
So that's the difficult thing for politicians, you know, when
they're trying to talk up the economy and the economy
should be topped up. There are some really great bright
spots in our economy, but at the same time, there
is inflation for some of those staples that we typically
get at the supermarket, like beef, and that is reflective
(25:29):
in how people feel about the economy and how they
feel about their situation.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Closing moments with White House correspondent John Decker, I mean,
to me, I've learned most of everything I've learned from
David Zanatti or you, and maybe one or two others.
The Supreme Court has certainly, I mean, it was the
lead to at his best, but the Supreme Court is
clearly signaled to me that they're going to back the
restrictions on this transgendered issue. But what were your thoughts
(25:55):
in what you were able to monitor while you were
following the president.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Yeah, it was difficult always monitoring that actually while flying
on Air Force one, because as you're flying out to Detroit,
those oral arguments were being broadcast, untalked and foxed.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Bitness.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I agree with you.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
It seems as if the Supreme Court conservative super majority
inclined to agree with the states that have imposed these
restrictions as it relates to sports and gender issues. And
you know, to me, it's not a surprise given the
makeup of the Supreme Court and the way that they've
voted on similar issues that have comeing for the US
(26:32):
Supreme Court over the last few years.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
John Decker, White House correspondent, always living a better life
than me, sends me pictures boarding Air Force One.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I said, boy, you're having a better day than me, John.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
But that's every day and he can get way more
in depth in his podcast, which will be up by
eight Central, nine Eastern. It's called The White House Briefing
Room with John Decker, and I highly encourage everyone to
listen to it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
We'll talk to again tomorrow. John. Thanks Michael Boba, you
got it all right.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
If you're just waking up, these are your top five
stories of the day, The President says the US.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I mean, this is where we get beyond words.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
The President says he will act in Iran if anti
regime protesters are hanged. We've had already, according to organizations
that follow this, claiming, twenty five hundred and seventy one
have lost their life. President has spoken to the people
of Iran saying help us on the way. He's warning
the regime of Iran to find its humanity. It's nineteen
(27:31):
seventy nine again, all over in Iran. Where are we headed?
Mark Mayfield has more with our top story.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
He was asked by CBS News about reports of hangings
that could start this week.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We will take very strong action. If they do such
a thing, we will.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Take very strong action.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Trump would not elaborate on what that action would be.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Trump is reportedly also considering airstrikes on Iran to help
protesters tumple the Atola. Trump told Iranian help is on
its way and to keep protesting. The US based human
rights activist news agency has reported at least two thousand
people have died.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
In the protests.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
The USS warn Americans to leave Heron immediately, while Trump
announced that any country who does business with.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Iran will be hit with new tariffs.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A Marke Meet view.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The Trump administration says Americans detained in Venezuela are being released.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
There are reports that at least four Americans have been freed.
State Department says that it welcomes the release of the
detained Americans of Venezuela and goes on to say that
it's an important step in.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
The right direction.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
By the interim government.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
This would be the first known release of American detainees
since US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro earlier this month.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Half of Americans are spending less time looking at screens,
and it seems to be making them a lot happier.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
A new survey from Talker Research finds that gen z
is actually leaving the charge when it comes to unplugging,
with more than sixty percent intentionally putting down the smartphones.
Those numbers start going down. The older people are people
who report spending too much time online feel less connected
and more anxious, while those who intentionally take time to
log off report feeling more productive and present. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Jennifer Pulson has some encouraging news on cancer.
Speaker 12 (29:06):
According to the American Cancer Society's Annual Report on Cancer
Facts and Trends, seven to ten people now survive their
cancer five years or more, up from only.
Speaker 13 (29:14):
Half in the mid seventies.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
The lead author of the report states the studying victory
largely the result of decades of cancer research that provided
clinicians with its tools to treat.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
The disease more effectively.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Turning many cancers from a death sentence into a chronic disease.
Stat show for the first time that five years survival
rate for all cancers combined reach seventy percent for people
diagnosed during twenty fifteen to twenty twenty one in the US.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
I'm Jennifer BULSONI I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Dolly Parton will be able to make her eightieth birthday
bash at the Grand Ole Opry. The iconic singer has
been dealing with some health issues for months that require
her to postpone appearances, including her Las Vegas residency. The
show will still go on, however, Lady Wilson, Vince Gill,
Tranny Anderson training and is a trainee or training I
(30:02):
get that right, gotta be training trainee Anderson.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I don't know who she. I just like that, just
said it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I just like, well, because everybody in well Jeffrey used
to do country, and I am convinced every country disc jockey.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Talks in syllables. Today's hot new country continues. They all
got super deep voices. That's why I didn't do well. Well.
There is that too.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Anyway, They're gonna all gather and sing and celebrate. Dolly
posted online that It means a lot to her that
people are coming together to celebrate her birthday, and she
wishes she could be there in person. This year's Opry
Goes Dolly show is scheduled for January the seventeenth, two
days before Pardon's eightieth birthday. Tickets, of course, they're available
at opry dot com. I finally went to the Opry
(30:47):
for the first time. I lived here nineteen years really,
and my brother came to town and we finally went,
and I had.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The time of my life. It's a great show. Yeah,
it really really. Hey, guess what today is. It's National
Dress Up your Pet Day.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
This is something that my wife and daughters suffer from,
the need to dress my cats, including my mail cat,
with doll clothes. Pre Tennis says how much we spend
on dressing our pets and.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
Why Americans drawb eight hundred and sixty million dollars every
year on pet clothing. Most is spent on Halloween costumes,
but the rest of the year gets some love too.
There are bunny ears, sweaters, patriotic scars, pajamas, even booties.
Some designer most not people do it for fun and fashion,
but psychologists say it's part of a bigger movement of
(31:38):
treating pets like humans, and that's not good for our psyche.
But who can resist a dog in a bow tie.
I'm pre Tennis.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I cannot tell you. Words do not express how I
love her. I'm the Hardwood. Last night, Sun's lost one
seven one. Do they eat Thunder? By twenty one over?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The Spurs beat the Hawks one forty one one sixteen,
Bucks lost by thirty three to the Wolves, and Blazers
lost to Golden State one nineteen ninety seven on the ice,
Lightning two to one winners in a shootout over the Penguins.
Blues shut out the Hurricanes three nothing, Red Wings lost
three nothing to the Bruins. Preds won four to three
in overtime over the Oilers, and the Ducks three won
(32:19):
over the Stars. Birthdays Today, Well, he's the same in
virtually every movie, but he's good at it. Jason Bateman
fifty six years old. Fool Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl
is fifty six. I'll never forget my mother. They were
watching an Awards show and she goes, oh, look that's
LLL cool Jay, And I'm like, how do you know
a rapper? I didn't know he was in some television show.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
She went, Oh, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
LLL Cool Jay.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Ladies love Cool James. Cool.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Jay is fifty seven and I think one of the
most beautiful actresses. She'll always be Bonnie in my book
Fade Down to Way eighty four. If it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born. And thanks
for making your morning show a part of your big day.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Your morning show with Michael del Chino DZ.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
He's going to make a return from a he got
a nasty flu. And you know, David would never allow
me to say like he's vain or handsome or anything
like that. But he's lost a lot of weight and
he's looking breathtaking. But I am so grateful to God
he's healthy. You know what that could only equal. Now
(33:26):
his equipment won't work, but we'll find out, we'll find it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I don't know. I can't pick what I want to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I mean our early conversation about the Texas city in America,
that we could all look at these videos in Minneapolis
and see two different things, or just use it no
matter what, to pick aside and hate each other more.
It's as if the social dilemma, the matrix and the
death of journalism. It will not allow us any to
(33:51):
do anything other than divide more and more. And so
we had this conversation about when you're in a good marriage,
a right marriage, life's.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Gonna come just like it does anybody else.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
But your house doesn't blow down every little thing, and
you're in a bad marriage, anything can make your house
blow up. You can get through anything in a covenant
marriage and it only makes you stronger. But in a
toxic relationship, anything makes you more divided. I have come
to the conclusion America is a toxic marriage right now.
(34:22):
We'll see what David thinks about that. Is the President
about to make a big pro life mistake potentially? What
does the new Netflix merger mean. One of the things
we did in our podcast a long time ago was
show everybody there's really only about three super corporations that
control everything you see and hear and read.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
You better track it.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
And if Netflix is about to graduate and be one
of them, what should our concerns be? And I did
this with Decker, but we'll see what David thinks. I
think the writings on the wall that the Supreme Court
is going to back the restrictions on trans athletes.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I think you can tell by the questions. I think
this was the latest because it happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
But I mean, we were doing the joke of the
old video game, the old basketball where the guy would
get on.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
He's on fire. He's on fire, and.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Then he's going up and down the court on fire,
and he's making a new shot.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
He's on fire.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I mean, Alita was on fire.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
We'll try to get to those actual clips in our
Sounds of the day, but I mean, all those things
point to that this trans athlete division in America is
about to be undivided and solved by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It's time to rise
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Welcome to Wednesday, January fourteenth, year of a Load twenty
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This is your morning show. I'm Michael del journal, Honored
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and Donald Trump's administration says Americans detained in Venezuela are
being released. Meanwhile, he's calling off all meetings with Iranian officials,
(01:00):
and according to human rights activists, they're saying now over
twenty five hundred people have been killed by Iranian authorities
in the crackdown against massive protests, the president's vollowing help
is on the way and asking Tehran to find a
sense of humanity. And I was talking about the new poll,
and I think it's significant. Now forty five percent of
American voters identify as independent, not the independent party, but
(01:25):
translation not Republican or Democrat. Somebody'd asked the specific question,
I now have the actual question in politics as of today,
do you can consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, or
an independent? That answer is now forty five percent independent.
(01:46):
The follow up question is just what I knew it was,
but I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We've double checked it.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
As of today, do you lean more Democrat party or
Republican party? And so what we see is twenty seven
percent identify as Republican, twenty seven percent identify as Democrat.
That's dead even at twenty seven percent. Then you have
fifteen percent who identify as independent but lean Republican, twenty
(02:15):
percent that identify as Democrat but lean Democrat. Then you
have ten percent that are right down the line, I'm
independent and independent. Only what has ticked down is Republican
identifiers by one and Democrat identifiers by one and the
three percent that was leaning Republican now is down three percent,
(02:39):
and the three percent that lean Democrat went straight to them.
So you just had a shift of three percent leaning
Republican that went to Democrat. Could be Trump related, obviously,
but a significant portion of America is independent now. And
so I was just asking hypothetical questions. Is RFK junior
(03:03):
in play? And twenty twenty eight is an independent candidate?
The days of well you got to be one or
the other? Could they be? Over time? Will Tell could
say something about the expiration date of the two major
parties being more and more perceived as the problem, not
the solution. All right, NASA is rolling out it's massive
SLS rocket.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What's an SLS rocket?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's ahead of the February Moon mission.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Roy O'Neil is not only our national correspondent, he is
our resident space expert. He usually cringes when I say that,
now I have puffed I have puffed.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Him up so much.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He doesn't even cringe when I say that, obviously we're
going to the Moon in this decade.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What's the role SLS is going to play in this?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So SLS the Space Launch System, that's the rocket we
use for these Artemis two or Artemist missions and Artemist
two we hope to launch in just a matter of weeks.
On Saturday, they're going to roll out SLS from that
giant building you see at the Kennedy Space Center, bring
it out to the launch pad and start or I
continue the preparations for a launch as early as February sixth.
(04:12):
That's sort of a cross your fingers and hope things
go well kind of date. And we got more confirmation
that the administration wants to have boots on the lunar
surface again as early as twenty twenty eight, which is
going to be quite the task.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
But President Trump is making this a priority while he's
still in office.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I know, you know what, when we come back in
the third hour, I'm going to I want to dedicate
more time to this.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Kennedy's view was twofold one. He thought we had a
missile deficiency. We didn't, so the space race became a
supremacy race, and whoever got their first would technically win.
We started behind, we got their first. I get all that.
His main thing was why the moon? Because you know,
if you want to lose ten pounds, and I put
(04:59):
you on a die, you'll probably gain two. I train
you for a marathon, you'll probably lose thirty six. He
knew the technology that the necessary things that would have
to be created would create industries.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So in fifteen to twenty seconds or less, what do
we gain by going back? What's the race here, what's
the statement here, what's the stretch here that's going to
make a measurable difference? Or is this about kind of
just getting loose again with Mars in a horizon, right?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
No, this really is about Mars. That you know, when
you imagine someday the first human stepping foot on Mars today,
do you imagine that person being from China or India
or do you think that person will be an American?
And that's part of the space race that's back again
(05:53):
and trying to get to Mars. It means that the
moon is going to have to be in play and
a massive investment with public private partnerships like with Elon
Muskin SpaceX.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, but it begs the question, is this you know
a shift back? I mean, is it is it nineteen
sixty five again? Rather than think about the whole space station.
It was a humanity mission. Mars began a humanity mission. Boy,
it's kind of gotten nationalized, or so it seems.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Right.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, we are doing this much more alone than the
space station, obviously by its name. But we've got a
lot of partners that are helping but not investing like
other partners did for the space station.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And that's ahead of that Saturday, and that's ahead of
the moon, and then splashdown would be shortly after.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
All right, Saturday is the rollout launched ideally February sixth,
splashdown off California ten days later, Artemis three launching in
twenty twenty eight, putting boots on the surface.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
At least two thousand people have been killed in protests
in Iran. Rory's gonna have more on that in the
third hour. But say hello to my little Colonel Steven Bucci,
very very big brain, one of the more prestigious military
and foreign policy minds in America today. He resides at
the Heritage Foundation in Washington, d C. I had a
long talk with the listeners colonel about nineteen seventy nine,
(07:11):
and I think it's almost important today that we discussed
nineteen seventy nine before we even dare suggest what our
good moves in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But here is the good news.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Since nineteen seventy nine, the repressive Islamist theocratic under a
hard rule of Islamist law and an ayahtola in Toronto
is weaker than any point since nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So we may have a second chance. The people know it.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
They're risking everything for twoy five hundred and seventy one.
They've lost their lives standing up to it. The President
has signaled two things. One to Tehran, find your humanity,
stop it. To the people of Iran, help is coming.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That begs the question what should the President be saying? Moreover,
what does he mean by help us on the way
and what should he be doing? Tough question, but you're
just the guy to handle it. Colonel Stephen Boucie, Good morning,
Good morning, Michael, thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Where do we take this? Let's start with nineteen seventy nine.
Jimmy Carter meddled with the SHAW. I don't know how
they didn't foresee I mean they may not have foreseen
the hostage crisis, but how they didn't foresee the possibility
of a radical Islamist uprising. Since then, the hostage crisis
ended when Reagan took the oath of office, but since
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then they have been the most predictable threat to a
region and the world, and their nuclear ambitions make them
the most predictable threat to the world, with an offensive
obsession to use whatever technology they have. And here we
are now with a second chance.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
How do we take it?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Well, I mean, you go back to seven. We kind
of blew that one. I think Carter's humanitarian instincts, his
guilt of the fact that America had supported the Shaw
and the Shah was a pretty autocratical leader and early on,
way before seventy nine, back in the fifties, really.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
We did some shady stuff with the Shah.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
There were people killed by the government, you know, not
unlike what's going on now, and there was hard feelings
about that. So he felt, Okay, these people want to
get rid of the Shaw. We're not going to help
the Shaw stay in power. We're going to try and
be on the using air quotes on the radio, the
right side of history, and you know, we'll stand back
(09:45):
and let the people have their will. Okay, they chose
they got rid of the shaw. The Iatola Comeni came in.
You know, he's this benign looking older man America really
not a lot of dealings yet with radical Islam. Probably
(10:06):
could have talked to these rallies and got some good insights,
but apparently we didn't, and he took power. And it
wasn't just a benign old man. It was a really
radical form of Islam and one that took that entire
country back centuries socially and but like over the top,
(10:31):
aggressive and meddlesome in the worst sense in the region,
like Overnight.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Asuni Muslim, Asuni Muslim is more of a political Islamist
in that they they'll they'll play it very slow, they'll populate,
they'll infiltrate, they'll agitate, they'll play for the next generation,
or they'll wait till they think that a Shia like
what we have the brand of Islam in Iran and
(11:00):
is she hottest. So they modeled the warrior Mohammad. They're
looking to kill someone, They're looking to fund terrorist organizations
to kill, to terrorize and eventually overthrow. That's what makes
them different. This is an epicenter of terror, all right,
so what is what is our course of actions? I mean,
we could support with air strikes, we could support with troops,
(11:21):
with troops.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What does the present mean helps on the way?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Well, I think uh one, he needs to watch saying
that until he has a full plan.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Please praise God, thank you. I was hoping you'd say that.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Yeah, he doesn't want to look like a Barack Obama
did in Syria, where he said, well, don't cross his line,
don't cross his line, and when they crossed the line,
he didn't do anything and he looked completely scheckless, which,
as it turns out.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Was kind of what he really was.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Uh. President Trump, uh has options, we can you know,
he's already starting to use some of the economic elements
of power, raising up tariffs on people who deal with
Iran to make it more difficult for them to do
that which squeezes them financially even tighter than the direct
(12:16):
sanctions on them are doing. He could tighten up the
direct sanctions, do things like frankly, we've done Venezuela turns out.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
As a great rehearsal.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
As far as the ghost ships, Iran uses ghost ships
also to get its oil out to customers like China.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We can close that down completely.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
And that would that's outside Iranian territory, but puts great
pressure on the regime there. And then the last thing,
which is Bucci being a little over the top, but
I think it's a legitimate methodology, is we could target
some of the i r GC cut force facilities around
(13:03):
the country. We know where those are, their barracks, their
training areas. The IRGC is the most repressive arm of
the Iranian government. They are the tools that do most
of the killing, the torture. They have clearly an international
(13:24):
mandate that's terrorist in nature. The domestic one is completely repressive,
like you used to see in the old Soviet Union,
terrorizing people, killing them, torturing them. They're the ones that
repress the women if they decide to take off the
hijab in public.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Target those folks that will send a message to the people,
we're not against you, we're against this government and their thugs.
And whereas if you hit other more national level targets,
it could be spun by the regime that oh you know,
look it's the Americans trying to take over there. You know,
(14:10):
be a patriotic Iranian and join with us. You don't
want that effect for the people in the street to
recognize we're on their side, not the side of.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The Mullus final fifty seconds with the Colonel Stephen Bucci.
You know, for the longest time, I've heard from experts
we have to wait. It's the people's job to rise
up against this regime. And I'm like, they're never gone,
and they're never going to be allowed. And I got
twenty five hundred and seventy one deaths just in trying.
But there is something. There is a resistance that has
(14:43):
been born, a movement that is at a foot that
we have not seen since nineteen seventy nine, and actions
are going to be everything. There are some things we
can learn from seventy nine. There's some things we can
I would also ask you as we get involved in this,
the ultimate lesson of seventy nine is there was something
far worse than the Shaw and they should have saw
(15:03):
it coming. Is there anything we're not seeing coming that's
worse than Ethan, the Ayatola and the Islamic Republic.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
I cannot think of anything worse than them. I can't
or the Iranian people, or the region, or America's interest.
I think they are weak right now, weaker than they've
ever been before. Their options are much lower because Hazbola, Hamas, Syria,
all those proxies are basically off the table as far
(15:32):
as using them for action, and their military has shown
itself to actually be a straw man right now. The
Israelis embarrassed them in a head to head fight. So yeah,
if we do something like I suggest, there might be
some attacks on some of our bases, mortars, maybe a
(15:54):
rocket or two. But they know if they do that,
the repercussion for them will just grow.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And I don't think they have the wherewithal to do it,
I think, but I do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Moment it is a very rare.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There's no story that even compares to this today. I mean,
who the president flipped off doesn't matter. But I will
say this, the canceling of the meetings with Iranian officials,
the saying help is on the way tells me something
is afoot and is coming. But I want to end
with a compliment to the president. The dismantling of these
proxies and terrorist.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Arms is what's created this moment.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
So the President's done a lot, right, Let's pray for
him to have wisdom to continue to doing right because
the greatest evil and the greatest political blunder of my
lifetime is about to get a do over.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Let's get it right this time. I think you would
say a big amen to that. You know what I say.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I love you, Thank you for joining us, Colonel Stephen Bouci,
and thank you for all your kind words off the earth.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
God bless you too. Michael, hang in there and thanks.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
For having me.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is Peb from White House and your morning show
is My Morning Show with Michael O del Giorno. Hi,
I'm Michael. I'd love to have you listen to your
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Speaker 8 (17:30):
Good morning, Michael, welcome back. I've hesitated to say anything
during the first hour. Well, please let us know what
the status is with your dear mother. Because so much
of your families, your radio family has been praying their
hearts out for you, for her, for your entire family
and all those who love her.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And this is why we didn't. For eight years, we
have battled cancer, and cancer is quite a foe and
it has been a very very long, hard journey and
(18:17):
a lot to watch. It's back and we're at a
phase where we don't have a lot of time. So
I'm just getting used to the not fighting and letting
go and now allowing God to be who he is
(18:39):
and only what he can do and find life and
death and victory and defeat. So you know, it's a
unique job. If I was an accountant, I would need
to take a few days off for the eighteen hour
days I had to put in one to get to
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where we're at, and then and I would deal with
people individually. Many of you have emailed Angela, I've heard,
I've heard all of your talkbacks. Just like James, the
answer is Mom's going to pass the exact moment only
God knows. And pray for her her peace in that journey,
(19:23):
because once it happens, she wouldn't come back if I
begged her. Pray for us there there are I go
in waves, so I don't need any you know a
word could trigger. So part of my thing is your
mom isn't dying today, although there are many days. I'm
in a great mood having fun here, and your mom is,
And if I know about it, I'm emailing with you,
(19:45):
and I'm praying with.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You, and I'm I'm empathetic.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I just don't want I have to do my job
for everybody whose life is normal today. But your compassion
means everything. Whether it's a talk back and I'm listening
to them during the breaks, or it's your emails, it
means everything to me. It's a blessing. We are a
family at this table, and I'm thankful for that. Part
of me avoids it because I don't think you need
(20:09):
to hear me crying and so, but it means everything,
and your prayers are felt and make a great difference.
And as bad as the last four days have been,
I probably got some really bad days ahead. I want
to thank Kroc for no notice jumping in and you
all for embracing him, and I suspect you'll know the
(20:33):
next development when you don't hear my voice. But thank
you so much for caring, and thank you so much
for praying and I assure you this, we love you
all as much as you love us. Thirty eight minutes
after the hour in the Eastern time zone, you got
about twenty two minutes to me to work by eight
o'clock on time. I talked in an opening monologue about
the toxicity in America, which really adds up to the
(20:54):
social dilemma, the matrix, and the death of journalism. It's
always a bigger problem than the problems that happen, and
so everything just seems to divide us further and further.
We can even look at the same video in Minnesota
and see two different things, or in the end just
choose to hate each other more over it. Or you
(21:15):
can't find stories about anything other than the president's middle finger.
And here we are, it's nineteen seventy nine all over
again in Iran, and this time we can get it right.
So we're trying to get beyond toxicities to what's important.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And here comes another one.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
So we have growing concern among Republicans and Democrats about
the Department of Justice investigation of the Federal Reserve Chairman
Jerome Powell. I think our White House correspondent John Decker,
who went on that trip yesterday. So I guess we'll
start with the finger. You took the journey with the
President at an air Force one. He had an economic
(21:50):
message and a hope and an encouragement to deliver. And
yet all anybody's talking about is an employee off Ford
who's now been suspended for heckling and the President for
responding and word end gesture.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That was a crazy day you had.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
It was a crazy day, first and foremost. I want
to tell you, Michael, my thoughts and prayers are with
you and what you're dealing with. So many of us,
including myself, you know, going through the same thing with
parents who are getting older. So I just wanted to
tell you that on the air. And you know we
talk off the air. Anytime you want to chat, feel
free to do so. As it as it relates to
(22:29):
the president's trip. Yeah, it was a day, a day
in which the President toured that factory, that plant in Dearborn,
Michigan where they make those fort a f one fifties,
the most popular pickup truck in America. They need delivered
that economic speech at the Detroit Economic Club, and you're
right that moment on the floor of that fort plant,
getting a lot of attention because you don't see something
(22:52):
like that all the time. By the way, the reason
why you see the video the way you see it,
it's not really shot. Well, it's because it was out
of the frame of the pool that.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Was traveling with the president.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
We were away from him for five to ten minutes,
and that is when that occurs.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
But I would say this will fall just like everything else, right,
I mean, for the media that doesn't like him and
is obsessed with not liking him, they're going to take
this and run. For those that love and support the president,
I suspect this furthered his brand, you know. So it
just but it is unfortunate that no one is talking
(23:31):
about the truth of the stats and the direction and
are these happy days again?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Are we headed in the right direction?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That all gets lost, And that's where the toxicity in
America makes it impossible to really understand the moment and
the direction.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I hope.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
So you know, I'm not really talking much about that
to me, you know, I'm talking about the trip itself
and what the focus of the trip was.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yesterday. Having said all that.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
The numbers are really good for the US economy, incredible
economic growth and historically low unemployment. But not every American
is feeling it. And that's where the statistics don't match
up with the message sometimes that the president is delivering.
And that's a tough thing. It's a tough thing for
any politician. It's a tough thing, certainly for the President
(24:20):
of the United States.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
From a messaging standpoint, Should the President be talking about
these indicators indicate that we have turned a corner. We
stop going in the wrong direction, We're heading in the
right direction. I realize some of you aren't feeling it yet,
but continuing in this direction, we'll eventually get to where
you are feeling it. I mean, is there some improvement
(24:43):
in the messaging that could help.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Well, it could help, you know. I think that Joe
Biden tried that as well. You know, it never really
resonated with voters. It's tough, you know. I mean, if
you are having a difficult time making ends meet, if
your costs are going up every week, go to the supermarket.
All the words in the word a world from the
president are not going to make you feel any better.
(25:06):
So that's the difficult thing for politicians, you know, when
they're trying to talk up the economy and the economy
should be topped up. There are some really great bright
spots in our economy, but at the same time, there
is inflation for some of those staples that we typically
get at the supermarket, like beef, and that is reflective
(25:29):
in how people feel about the economy and how they
feel about their situation.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Closing moments with White House correspondent John Decker, I mean,
to me, I've learned most of everything I've learned from
David Zanatti or you, and maybe one or two others.
The Supreme Court has certainly, I mean, it was the
lead to at his best, but the Supreme Court is
clearly signaled to me that they're going to back the
restrictions on this transgendered issue. But what were your thoughts
(25:55):
in what you were able to monitor while you were
following the president.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Yeah, it was difficult always monitoring that actually while flying
on Air Force one, because as you're flying out to Detroit,
those oral arguments were being broadcast, untalked and foxed.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Bitness.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I agree with you.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
It seems as if the Supreme Court conservative super majority
inclined to agree with the states that have imposed these
restrictions as it relates to sports and gender issues. And
you know, to me, it's not a surprise given the
makeup of the Supreme Court and the way that they've
voted on similar issues that have comeing for the US
(26:32):
Supreme Court over the last few years.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
John Decker, White House correspondent, always living a better life
than me, sends me pictures boarding Air Force One.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I said, boy, you're having a better day than me, John.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
But that's every day and he can get way more
in depth in his podcast, which will be up by
eight Central, nine Eastern. It's called The White House Briefing
Room with John Decker, and I highly encourage everyone to
listen to it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
We'll talk to again tomorrow. John. Thanks Michael Boba, you
got it all right.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
If you're just waking up, these are your top five
stories of the day, The President says the US.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I mean, this is where we get beyond words.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
The President says he will act in Iran if anti
regime protesters are hanged. We've had already, according to organizations
that follow this, claiming, twenty five hundred and seventy one
have lost their life. President has spoken to the people
of Iran saying help us on the way. He's warning
the regime of Iran to find its humanity. It's nineteen
(27:31):
seventy nine again, all over in Iran. Where are we headed?
Mark Mayfield has more with our top story.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
He was asked by CBS News about reports of hangings
that could start this week.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We will take very strong action. If they do such
a thing, we will.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Take very strong action.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Trump would not elaborate on what that action would be.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Trump is reportedly also considering airstrikes on Iran to help
protesters tumple the Atola. Trump told Iranian help is on
its way and to keep protesting. The US based human
rights activist news agency has reported at least two thousand
people have died.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
In the protests.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
The USS warn Americans to leave Heron immediately, while Trump
announced that any country who does business with.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Iran will be hit with new tariffs.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A Marke Meet view.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The Trump administration says Americans detained in Venezuela are being released.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
There are reports that at least four Americans have been freed.
State Department says that it welcomes the release of the
detained Americans of Venezuela and goes on to say that
it's an important step in.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
The right direction.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
By the interim government.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
This would be the first known release of American detainees
since US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro earlier this month.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Half of Americans are spending less time looking at screens,
and it seems to be making them a lot happier.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
A new survey from Talker Research finds that gen z
is actually leaving the charge when it comes to unplugging,
with more than sixty percent intentionally putting down the smartphones.
Those numbers start going down. The older people are people
who report spending too much time online feel less connected
and more anxious, while those who intentionally take time to
log off report feeling more productive and present. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Jennifer Pulson has some encouraging news on cancer.
Speaker 12 (29:06):
According to the American Cancer Society's Annual Report on Cancer
Facts and Trends, seven to ten people now survive their
cancer five years or more, up from only.
Speaker 13 (29:14):
Half in the mid seventies.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
The lead author of the report states the studying victory
largely the result of decades of cancer research that provided
clinicians with its tools to treat.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
The disease more effectively.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Turning many cancers from a death sentence into a chronic disease.
Stat show for the first time that five years survival
rate for all cancers combined reach seventy percent for people
diagnosed during twenty fifteen to twenty twenty one in the US.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
I'm Jennifer BULSONI I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Dolly Parton will be able to make her eightieth birthday
bash at the Grand Ole Opry. The iconic singer has
been dealing with some health issues for months that require
her to postpone appearances, including her Las Vegas residency. The
show will still go on, however, Lady Wilson, Vince Gill,
Tranny Anderson training and is a trainee or training I
(30:02):
get that right, gotta be training trainee Anderson.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I don't know who she. I just like that, just
said it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I just like, well, because everybody in well Jeffrey used
to do country, and I am convinced every country disc jockey.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Talks in syllables. Today's hot new country continues. They all
got super deep voices. That's why I didn't do well. Well.
There is that too.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Anyway, They're gonna all gather and sing and celebrate. Dolly
posted online that It means a lot to her that
people are coming together to celebrate her birthday, and she
wishes she could be there in person. This year's Opry
Goes Dolly show is scheduled for January the seventeenth, two
days before Pardon's eightieth birthday. Tickets, of course, they're available
at opry dot com. I finally went to the Opry
(30:47):
for the first time. I lived here nineteen years really,
and my brother came to town and we finally went,
and I had.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The time of my life. It's a great show. Yeah,
it really really. Hey, guess what today is. It's National
Dress Up your Pet Day.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
This is something that my wife and daughters suffer from,
the need to dress my cats, including my mail cat,
with doll clothes. Pre Tennis says how much we spend
on dressing our pets and.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
Why Americans drawb eight hundred and sixty million dollars every
year on pet clothing. Most is spent on Halloween costumes,
but the rest of the year gets some love too.
There are bunny ears, sweaters, patriotic scars, pajamas, even booties.
Some designer most not people do it for fun and fashion,
but psychologists say it's part of a bigger movement of
(31:38):
treating pets like humans, and that's not good for our psyche.
But who can resist a dog in a bow tie.
I'm pre Tennis.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I cannot tell you. Words do not express how I
love her. I'm the Hardwood. Last night, Sun's lost one
seven one. Do they eat Thunder? By twenty one over?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The Spurs beat the Hawks one forty one one sixteen,
Bucks lost by thirty three to the Wolves, and Blazers
lost to Golden State one nineteen ninety seven on the ice,
Lightning two to one winners in a shootout over the Penguins.
Blues shut out the Hurricanes three nothing, Red Wings lost
three nothing to the Bruins. Preds won four to three
in overtime over the Oilers, and the Ducks three won
(32:19):
over the Stars. Birthdays Today, Well, he's the same in
virtually every movie, but he's good at it. Jason Bateman
fifty six years old. Fool Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl
is fifty six. I'll never forget my mother. They were
watching an Awards show and she goes, oh, look that's
LLL cool Jay, And I'm like, how do you know
a rapper? I didn't know he was in some television show.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
She went, Oh, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
LLL Cool Jay.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Ladies love Cool James. Cool.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Jay is fifty seven and I think one of the
most beautiful actresses. She'll always be Bonnie in my book
Fade Down to Way eighty four. If it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born. And thanks
for making your morning show a part of your big day.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Your morning show with Michael del Chino DZ.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
He's going to make a return from a he got
a nasty flu. And you know, David would never allow
me to say like he's vain or handsome or anything
like that. But he's lost a lot of weight and
he's looking breathtaking. But I am so grateful to God
he's healthy. You know what that could only equal. Now
(33:26):
his equipment won't work, but we'll find out, we'll find it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I don't know. I can't pick what I want to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I mean our early conversation about the Texas city in America,
that we could all look at these videos in Minneapolis
and see two different things, or just use it no
matter what, to pick aside and hate each other more.
It's as if the social dilemma, the matrix and the
death of journalism. It will not allow us any to
(33:51):
do anything other than divide more and more. And so
we had this conversation about when you're in a good marriage,
a right marriage, life's.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Gonna come just like it does anybody else.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
But your house doesn't blow down every little thing, and
you're in a bad marriage, anything can make your house
blow up. You can get through anything in a covenant
marriage and it only makes you stronger. But in a
toxic relationship, anything makes you more divided. I have come
to the conclusion America is a toxic marriage right now.
(34:22):
We'll see what David thinks about that. Is the President
about to make a big pro life mistake potentially? What
does the new Netflix merger mean. One of the things
we did in our podcast a long time ago was
show everybody there's really only about three super corporations that
control everything you see and hear and read.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
You better track it.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
And if Netflix is about to graduate and be one
of them, what should our concerns be? And I did
this with Decker, but we'll see what David thinks. I
think the writings on the wall that the Supreme Court
is going to back the restrictions on trans athletes.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I think you can tell by the questions. I think
this was the latest because it happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
But I mean, we were doing the joke of the
old video game, the old basketball where the guy would
get on.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
He's on fire. He's on fire, and.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Then he's going up and down the court on fire,
and he's making a new shot.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
He's on fire.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I mean, Alita was on fire.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
We'll try to get to those actual clips in our
Sounds of the day, but I mean, all those things
point to that this trans athlete division in America is
about to be undivided and solved by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael ndheld Joano
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