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January 16, 2026 35 mins

Pending home sales hit their lowest level on record outside the pandemic, as more Americans find themselves underwater on car loans. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL breaks down what it means for consumers.

American voters are identifying less with both parties and more independent with leans.  But is America any more conservative or liberal?  Any less divided as it steps away from the two big parties?  Further, is it possible party partisan divide (divided states) will just become the divided people of America??? YMS senior contributor will walk us through the partisan shifts and what it means in the midterms to come?? 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is your.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Morning Show with Michael O'Dell John.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Those are nice picks, Mike.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
We love the bills and we absolutely love the younger
Sunday Night for the pairs game book.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Am I the one? First of all?

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Two things I'd like to acknowledge seven minutes after the
hour on the air and streaming live on your iHeart app.
This is your kitchen table, America. This is your morning show,
and I'm honored to serve you on Michael del Joner.
Two things. I make a comment about the fig Newton
being my favorite cookie. Oh and then that launched you
to in a five minute tirade over how awful fig

(00:59):
newtons are. Say they were your favorite cookie? That I'm
hearing about white blonde oreos. And I loves you do love,
I love neons, but no, they are not good for you.
They are the worst. I mean when you read the
calorie count. And I used to eat him by the sleeve.
Oh I love a fake Newton, all right? And then

(01:20):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Just thinking, why is Big John quiet over my picks?
But did you catch the subtlety of that? What's that? Play?
Big John? Again?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Those are nice picks, Mike. We loved the Bills, and
we absolutely loved the on the Sunday Night for the pis.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Those are nice picks, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
All right, the Bills was the one I took a
gut feeling than you. I put an asterisk by the
Bills because I think that's a lot of my wishing
and hoping and heart.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I said it was my least comment.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
No, my locks are the Bears plus four, San Francisco
plus seven and New England minus three.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
He had even comment on those. All right, keep tracking
me in Big John.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
He likes the under and the Bears and Buffalo plus
one and a half. And keep track of mine. Buffalo,
San Francisco and New England and the Bears. Let's see
who does better on Monday. All right, we still have
a home problem. I think we kind of have an
automobile problem. I mean, when you start financing cars for.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ten years, that's a problem.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
But pending home sales hit their lowest level on record
outside of the pandemic as Americans find themselves underwater on
car Loans, Rory, these are not Friday good news stories.
I was trying to keep things positive. Thanks for raining
on our fun Friday parade.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Oh here I come, storm cloud Rory, Rory and the hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a whole Beatle story anyway.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, so the numbers from Redfin show the pending home
sales dropped almost six percent month of a month in December.
But what's interesting they described the housing buyer, the home
buyer as skittish in terms of, look, some places, we
are seeing home prices come down, especially condo and townhouse prices,
and we're also like on the verge of perhaps seeing
mortgage rates come down. So I think the analyst essentially

(03:05):
says that a lot of people are on standby, just
waiting to pounds, eager to get in there, but thinking
the numbers are going to move, So they're just waiting
to see what happens.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
You missed earlier in the Platinum hour, the first hour,
I talked about how I was just talking to God
about the Bears, and you know, we started going through
some memories of going to Bears games, and so then
I just kind of asked him, could you make it cold?
That would probably hurt the Rams. And the next thing,
you know, we got an arctic.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Freeze sprawling the Midwest to the mid Atlantic. I cursed it.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
I have asked God that one day he would lead
me to a condominium in Florida, and if it was
possible that when I would go outside about my front
door and find out I live next door to you.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I'm coming to haunt you. So condo sales do it? Okay?
Everything else is a little skittish. What's bad on the
car front, we're underwater.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Now, of course, now you've got me praying, well that
was the real goal.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Then here's the car thing.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
A report from Edmunds finds almost a third of trade
ins that the owner hasn't paid it off yet and
they owe about seventy two hundred dollars on that car
that they're trading in. So right now, the average average
car price just topped fifty thousand dollars. Now you're adding
seventy two hundred bucks, which is still got to fold

(04:25):
into that new car payment. So a lot of people
stretching out those terms. As you said, the ten year
car payment is out there with people still determined to
buy when maybe they should be over at the used
car lot.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Eggs. Well, that's the bottom line.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
My wife and I had a fascinating conversation about leases,
and you can put a lot of money down on
a lease to bring the payment down. You leave that
lot and you get an accident and it's totaled, that
money's gone. So yeah, you know, I mean, and so
it was a fun conversation, But you can't. I mean,
cars cost what houses you used to. We're financing them

(05:01):
for the length of time we used to finance houses.
The problem is one traditionally appreciates the other depreciates. This
upside down thing is going to become a much bigger
factor in the years to come.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
We'll keep following that.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Rory's going to be back in the third hour, the
President threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
What that means? Will that end things in Minneapolis or.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Will that incite things to even further violence in Minneapolis? Well,
that just depends if you're looking at sensible reality or narrative.
Narrative wise, it would be insightful inciting. I should say,
all right, Roy, appreciate that very much. I have a
very dear friend here who happens to just so happens
to be a CEO of the American Policy Roundtable, presides

(05:44):
over ivoters dot com, and is the co host or
host of the Public Square Herd on two hundred stations.
He's also one of my dearest friends. And I have
to tell you, David Cheade did yourself. I think I
have my favorite shirt of my life. And you ought
to see how your MIC's off, by the way, and
you ought to see how wonderful I look. I don't

(06:06):
know if it's the PhD weight loss, if it's the quality,
and how Johnny Yo pulled this off, I don't know,
but he's the he's the guy to wear now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
And thank you.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I don't know where. I don't know where that came from,
but I needed that. This week. You're welcome and he
pick me up. You can get this week. Yeah, I've
got one myself and I love it.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
And yes it's got the UH, it's got the Orlando
logo on it, so that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's very cool. All right. So two things. One I
just did in the Platinum Hour.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
If you'd have tapped me on the shoulder seven eight
years ago and said, what do you think of John Fetterman?
What do you think of Bill Maher, you'd get a
completely different answer than than you'd get today. Every time
I see John Fetterman, I want to hug him. As
I've said, he has entered the via door rosa uh
walk of perdition that I've only seen people like Congressman

(06:55):
Scott Dejarlais walk. I mean, it takes very takes great courage.
Steve Large, i'man the courage to bust out of this
matrix bubble and speak truth. And now I find myself
searching for what Bill Maher is saying. And you know,
these are people that get the real problem, death of journalism,

(07:17):
the real problem, the narrative matrix, and they're speaking courageously.
I mean, just I don't know if you heard the
Bill Maher one, but he just breaks down and describes
death of journalism like we've been describing for the last
four years, in a funny way, which is his job,
but also in a very powerful way, because the toughest
question people ask me, and I don't know if it's

(07:39):
true for you. Where can I trust getting my news?
And the answer is nowhere. Boy, I'm sorry, I'm going
to do it.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
I wasn't planning on it, but I've got to the
first thing that comes to my mind is man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. That's an Old Testament
and New Testament idea, the concept being if we don't
have something that's bigger than ourselves from the realm of
idea and words and truth coming into our spirits, who

(08:10):
do you? You don't have anything? Because the truth is, Michael,
it's always been this way. There's nobody you can trust,
and it's worse now than it has ever been.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
But the scripture you just use and the concept you
just use. I believe discernment is a gift and some
have it, you know, proportioned differently, but that's what creates
a natural discernment in you. What I've always used this
analogy and I think you'll appreciate it. One day I
looked at my brother, fascinated about you know, how do

(08:42):
you keep track of all these coins? And how do
you how do you keep track of all the fakes.
And he looked at me and goes, I don't study
the fakes. I study the real and then the fakes
are apparent. Isn't that because that's what we do every day?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Right? I read, doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
If it's if it's names you trust and Fox would
be an easy one, or names you don't trust in
MSNBC and CNN would be a good one.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't like any of them.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
So kind of what Red and I and I think
you do for for your team at the public Square,
we read everything and it takes a lot of time,
and what we're really doing is all right, this is
the right, I'm defining, this is what the right's narrativizing.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
This as this is what the left's narrativizing.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Then we go through the facts and then we discern
and we have to find the truth.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
There's nobody just reporting it. No, and and Michael, there's
a lot of reasons for this. At the risk of
you being called an overusing word person of the matrix.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thank you for at least being sensitive. Red isn't I'll
take I'll.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
Take full responsibility for that. There's so many components that
have brought us to where we are saying, not the
least of wishes is the education system. If you and
I study our teams studies every time we get an article,
doesn't matter where it comes from, left or middle, who's
the author, what's the author's background, and if the author's
background is basically that of the traditional pattern of went

(10:08):
to high school, went to college, got a degree in journalism,
and started, you know, schlepping papers in podunk nowhere to
work their way up to be a person who has
qualified to write about reality. Well, being qualified because you're
a writer doesn't mean you've lived life enough to understand
what you're writing about. And that's the fundamental problem, particularly

(10:30):
if you've been propagandized through Columbia University or so many
of the other places of Syracuse and others, where you've
been basically converted into a leftward thinking person philosophically fitting
into a niche that may go back, you know, three
thousand years in history, and you don't even know what
the origins are of the thinking that you have because
we haven't learned how to think, we haven't learned what's truth,

(10:53):
we haven't learned how to trust one another in communication,
and so now you're just basically writing for your boss for.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Your audience, like you used to write for your professor.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
And if you dare take a different angle than their worldview,
it would cost you a grade.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean it just ingrains in you how to sell
a narrative. I mean, that's the most powerful thing. Bill
mar said.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
The minute news became for profit, they're not about telling
you what's happening, They're about reinforcing your views.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Well, and now that's a key point. That's a really shorthand.
When the minute the news became for profit because a
nonprofit news sources, some of.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Them are work by the worst.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, But the point he's making is when it became corporatized,
right when news became the lost leader, the same way
that a grocery store will have milk and bread as
a lost leader to get you in to tell you
something else.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's when we really got into trouble.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Interesting, we've been talking about death of journalism to the
point where people are sick of hearing those words or
Matrix and David it's something awful. While he was sick,
he revisited the Matrix movies. Just watch the Matrix, watch
the Circle. Everything will make sense, but what you have

(12:12):
ever thought Fetterman and Bill Maher. I can't say Ted
Cruz is talking about this. I can't say Marco Rubio
is talking about I can say Caroline Levitt is talking
about this. But no one has described it better than
Bill Maher. I find a great deal of hope in that.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
So do I and I find there's great reasons for
hope because it's our different Doctor Allen told us over
the holidays.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
And we thought he was crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
See, human nature hasn't changed, it's not likely to do so,
and God hasn't given up on the earth. We're still
in the same fight we've been in for thousands.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
The difference is today we have pseudo knowledge. We walk
around feeling that we know what we know, but when
we actually get tested on it, we realize that by
in large, we don't. And most people in America are
on autopilot. It's such a beautiful country. You can actually
pay no attention to politics but for fifteen minutes every

(13:12):
two years in a major election and still maintain your citizenship.
Problem is you can't maintain government that way, or a republic.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
David Sinati's joining US CEO of the American Policy round
Table when we come back American voters. I don't know
whether to do this, just a technical thing in transparency
for the listeners. If I play a piece of audio,
David can't hear it for fifty seconds. That doesn't work
in live radio. So I'm going to play it for
you later when we do Sounds of the Day. I'll

(13:43):
probably summarize it for David. But we know that Americans
are becoming more and more independent, less and less dependent
on the two party system, but they still have leans
and their makeup has changed. So while you would say, oh,
thank god, forty percent of Americans are now independent, well
what does that leave for Democrats? So the party itself

(14:05):
has shifted far left. It brings up a concept and
follow me on this, because this is a big thing.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I think we ought to Maybe we should get a
whiteboard like Glenn has.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
But you would want to put this on a whiteboard
and keep it behind you and keep an eye on it.
The right is getting more right, the left is getting
more or less more left.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
And while number looks like, well, we're.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Getting less divided because we're less two party, no, we're
just as divided or more divided than ever, just not
over party lines and partisan divide. So are we about
to become more of the divided people of America than
the divided states of America? Chew on that it's a

(14:51):
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Speaker 3 (16:07):
This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Hey you, Mike, don't pay no attention to them guys.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
They don't know what they talking about. Have a big
Newton baby and the figur of h I like a
big Newton with a cup of quids. I don't get
soften it.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Twenty eight minutes after the hour, our question of the
day for David's Nati is really a glimpse of our
future that's coming up. But I just have to acknowledge
that David is kind of taking our show themes a
little too seriously. He actually moved his studio into the kitchen.
You are really the only one that is not figuratively
but literally at the kitchen table this morning.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
At the kitchen table. Yeah, that's right. It just it
just don't dawned to me. I thought somebody's got to
do this because this is exactly what your vision was
your morning show. We sit together at the kitchen table.
Some of us are, you know, got shirt and tie on,
ready to go out the door. Others are getting ready
for their.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
I make sure that I officially the guy coming down
the stairs lay.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Down in their bathrobe. Right.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
But we got to figure this stuff out and we
get to start first thing in the morning doing that.
What a refreshing difference.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, I realized, bet ye. I love the concept. All right.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
We have NASA planning to roll out the Artemis two
rocket this weekend. We have to go to the moon
to get to Mars. We'll tell you more about that.
A winter storm, just talking to God about the bears,
and I think I created that hilarious Midwest Atlantic and
with it dumping heavy snow across the Pat Robertson. Pat
used to pray those hurricanes the other's days that said, Pat,

(17:39):
you can't do that, wy, that's their job, and pray too.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I said, just send it.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Out to the ocean.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
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is your Morning Show with Michaeldale, GEORGEA. Ahi It's Michael.
Your morning show could be heard live weekday mornings five
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(18:08):
We'd love to join you on the drive to work live.
But we're glad you're here now. Enjoyed the podcast, got my.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
Coffee, got my crackling fireplace, and I got my morning show,
which is your morning show with Michael Dell Jornal. Ain't
nothing going to make me move? Yes, honey, I'll be
right there.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
It is. Oh well, are our listeners doing stick now?
I think doing skit comedy?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Now, kids, We're a variety show thirty six minutes after
the hour. If you're in the Eastern time zone, you
got twenty four minutes to be to work by eight o'clock.
And we are honored you're bringing us along with you.
This is your morning show on the air and streaming
live on your iHeart app. I'm Michael, honored to serve you.
Jeffrey's got the sound, Red's got the content our your
morning show. Senior contributor David Snatti's with us. I just

(18:54):
got this text.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I used to.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Believe that spontaneity was planned well in advance, and then
I started working for this show.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I love it. It's funny.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
By the way it comes from Jeffrey. Jeffrey, why are
you texting me like a listener. Well, there's conversation going
on and I don't want to break in, so I
just thought i'd let you know.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
You know, I'm right.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
That's like the guy that's, you know, telling everybody on
Facebook how wonderful their wife is. You know what, Put
your phone down, turn your head and tell her.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I got things to do. But you know what, it's funny.
I am not good at planned comedy.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
In fact, I can't tell stories twice right, and I can't.
All I have is real spotan eighty. Everything else isn't
really that funny. Did I just hear you say you
went over? I'll have to make it up. Say it
isn't so lol.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Jerry, Jerry. All I meant was that one segment went
a little long. Wohild shorten the next segment. You still
haven't won your bet that I was late for a
national break? Was this Jerry? The time clock, but the
five o clock keeping an eye on me? I uh, mafia,
we got Jerry the time clock.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Well, listen, But we had one the other day, David
that I that was the closest. So I thought I
could get one more story in. And it was one
of those where Mark Mayfield played like fifteen seconds of
a music intro and I was about five seconds into
the music intro and I looked up and I said, oh,
we're breaking in five seconds. So the story didn't make sense.

(20:20):
I had to cut it short. But you know, we
can't be late or we make one hundred and seven
stations mess up.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
So trust me, it's just not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
It's just going to sound rough, all right, David, this
is the question of the day.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is the reason I have you here today. I'll
read it as I wrote it.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
American voters are identifying less and less with both parties.
That doesn't mean they're not still leaning parties, all right.
So when we say forty eight percent of America is independent,
not really, because a lot of them are like me.
I am an independent. I have nothing in common with Democrats.
I am worldview, policy view ideologically anathetical to everything they

(20:58):
stand for. But I have a lot in common with
the Republican Party when they live it and they rarely do.
So I'm an independent, but I'm probably, in all honesty
an independent who leans caucuses with Republicans. What does this
mean beyond that whole leaning thing is that my mixter

(21:19):
pre wrote a book called The Art of Leadership. He said,
the first responsibility of a leader is to find reality. Well,
the first responsibility of upholsters to define the question. And
so when you ask people, if you were to ask
them straight up, open ended question, to find what it
is that the Democrat Party stands for, Oh, they won't
define what the Republican Party stands for. You'd have thousands

(21:43):
of answers, and and so we're pulling jello for starters.
But one thing people are beginning to figure out is
that both these are problems. Stand for the preservation of
power and control over federal and state budgets, not or

(22:04):
a republic or the prosperity and security of its people.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Not the principled practice of government for the common good.
And that's the dramatic difference between political parties at the
beginning of the country and where we are today. Not
only was the government too small to want to own
and control, the government was in trouble for the first
hundred years, as far as the wars and debts and sacrifices.

(22:31):
When you got involved in public service, you could die
now or go broke now in five years, you got
a lifetime pension.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
I mean, you compare some of our early We just
did a whole big study that culminated in a book
and Christmas in America on John Quincy Adams, who is
always one of my favorite presidents that nobody ever talks
about the one thing that you really helped enlighten me on.
I never realized that the width of his wings go
from the founding of our nation and founding Fathers, of

(23:01):
which his father was the second president, and the other
stretch goes all the way to Abraham Lincoln. That's and
he's one of the few guys that served as a
president and then went on to be just a representative.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
He's just an amazing human being.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
But you know, when we were looking at all of that,
these are people that used to either risk their life
or almost certainly lose their fortune yes to serve, create
and ultimately begin the era of preserving the republic. And
then you have people today that come into office for
five six years and leave with millions you say you're

(23:37):
married to your brother. Get here as a Somali refugee,
become a member of Congress, and now you have thirty
million dollars.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Where'd that come from?

Speaker 7 (23:44):
You exist a whole power for a specific contingency group,
and to leverage that power. That is the antithesis of
what public service is supposed to be in a constitutional republic.
We're supposed to serve for the common good for the
party that controls the budget. We're talking trillions and trillions
of dollars and all the attending money that comes with that. Now,

(24:09):
you know, forty five years in the public policy business.
Our team is very careful going to Washington, DC. We
try to never stay overnight. We bring our own bottled water. Okay,
we don't trust anything about that environment at all.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
I always feel the need for a host and a shower.
All right.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
So rather than break this down, they asked the question,
are you Republican?

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Are you a Democrat?

Speaker 5 (24:30):
And then if you say you're an independent, do you
lean Democrat or lean republic What do you do? We've
been training these for many years, so the question is
what it is? Over and over again, and that part
and again you got to get to sample size and everything.
But that part makes me say, Okay, we're feeling less
two party system oriented and we're starting to bust out

(24:52):
of that. Some are leaving one more than the other
and then at the end or at any point in
the process, remnant. So what's left in the Democrat Party
nothing but far left. What's left in the Republican Party?
You still have establishment, you still have conservative, and you

(25:12):
still have evangelicals. Now you head into a midterm, now
you head into a presidential cycle. And I guess the
thesis of my question became as America becomes less and
less partisan to the two parties, is it any more
conservative or any more liberal?

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Or does it remain just as divided as.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Both any less divided as we step away from the
two big parties. Further, is it possible for a party
partisan divide, which is the divided states of America, to
simply just become the divided people of America? And then
how does that impact? And when I say midterms, I'm

(25:55):
talking to the eye voters dot Com, David Sanati, because
you know it's really twelve races, Yes it is.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
It's twelve races in the House, six races in the Senate.
And that's the point of reality, the challenge, Michael, and
this is in some ways it's inspiring.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
In some ways it.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
Makes you almost want to throw up because it's frightening
what was happening right now. There are people who are
making millions of dollars sitting in luxury suites in Arlington, Virginia,
who are making up the narrative for what this election
will be about. They now spin it like showrunners in Hollywood,

(26:33):
and they will create the narrative that they want to
sell to people that when they've gone through the little
Netflix special in their mind as to what this election means,
then they'll vote the way that the consultants have gotten
paid to push them to vow, God, I.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Love the way you were to that. I bet they
even start with the sizzle reel.

Speaker 7 (26:51):
Oh yeah, it's they start with a whiteboard, even you know,
they start with a white board. They create the universe
of fifty one percent, and then they create the narrative
of what it's going to take to get there's like
a Broadway musical. That's what they do because they don't care.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
And the way the.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
Politicians work out and the consulting world is you have
to pick a side. You're one side or the other.
You can't. There's no common good left in that world.
And you get paid millions of dollars to win. This
is a reel, and then to win the election, even
if it's by one vote. And they set the stage.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Yes, so right now they know that the Republicans big
play to offset their narrative, which I think is going
to be affordability, tyrant, illegitimacy. I don't even think they're
going to get to abortion this time, but they might.
But they're trying to use this Minneapolis, use this ice dictatorship,

(27:43):
turning law enforcement against the people to discredit him, and
I don't know that they haven't done it. I even
saw Joe Rogan buying some of these narratives, and that's
very influential to offset Donald Trump's ability to have a
response to their narrative, which would give them Congress. And
at once they get Congress, they won't be impeaching Christy Nolan,

(28:05):
They'll be impeaching Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
Sure, and then building toward that twenty twenty eight power
shift where they get control of the administrative side of
government once again. Since the nineteen hundreds, the Progressives of America,
which is what the Democrat Party is want an administrative government.
They want us to be the batteries that work for
a living and pay the taxes, and they make all

(28:29):
the decisions as to who gets the money and the benefits.
That's the way they want it to work. And that's
the balancing act that they're in NonStop. It has nothing
to do with that blessed thing we call the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Nothing.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Senior contributor David Sonati closing moments. All Right, so I
can see how twenty twenty eight plays out. Vans will
be damaged goods because that's still trump Ism, and trump
Ism is tyrants, you know, tyrancy.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
I don't know how taint Rubio.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Is for being in, but you could make a case
he might want to leave rather soon or certainly after
the midterms. DeSantis, I think, is far more in play
than people think. And I will say what I always say,
DeSantis is a proven strong leader. He'll be a great
president like he was a great governor. He'll be a

(29:23):
weak candidate. Yeah, And this move to independence could open
a door for somebody like a Bobby Kennedy.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Yeah, Bobby Kennedy, Ran Paul, there's all kinds of possibility.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
It could get very interesting.

Speaker 7 (29:37):
One question I have for you is to me, Rubio
right now is the canary in the coal mine.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
He's the one we got to watch because he's.

Speaker 7 (29:45):
Knocking himself out, working for jobs, trying to do the
right thing the right way. When we see Rubio move
on exit begin to look like he's moving out, that's
a signal. I'll use a really stupid analogy. He's the
Buffalo bills. I can't tell if it's my heart or

(30:06):
if it's just that obvious. He's next and Marco Rubio,
maybe even Bobby Kennedy ticket would be tough. But I
don't think it would be Bobby Kennedy on the ticket.
But I think it's a Rubio. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
But what do you say, as much as we painted
that picture all right, and one minute or less, what's
the picture you can almost see playing out like like
you've had an advance of the sizzle reel of the midterms,
affordability and tyrancy.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, this is it's all.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
It's all anti orange, it's all this is the chance
to finally stop the Orange guy. And yeah they will
just yeah, it's going to be nothing. But the commercials
are going to be nothing but nuclear blasts of authoritarianism
and destruction. And uh, only the rich make it. It's
all gilded, it's all gold. He's given them so many

(30:59):
bullets for commercials. Sorry, let me retract that he's given
them so many magic markers for the board of commercials.
That it's going to be and by the way, they'll
do a great job at it. It's just a question
of whether the rest of us will be buffaloed.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
By last question, So if they're gonna make the mid
term bills upon by the way, I know the last
question is if they're going to make the mid terms
a presidential race, why would it be a different outcome
than the one we just had a year and.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
A half ago.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Ah, because they have the luxury now of pointing Donald
Trump to be a failure.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I guess we should have brought up the word
tariff too.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
It's your Morning Show with Michael Delchno.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (31:43):
All the lecturing is great, but here's the bottom line.
If you don't vote against the Democrats, and I will
take sides here, the country is going to go to
Heck you guys say, we'll say I'm exaggerating. Take a
look what they're gonna do. They're in defund eyes. All
the illeagers will flow back into the country and massive numbers.

(32:03):
You gotta vote Democrats out of office right now.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I mean it's the next election. Because that's what's going
to happen. One, no one was lecturing.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Two. I don't disagree with you. Three.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
All I have to do is look at California, Minneapolis,
who we are.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm just never going to tell you how to thank you,
but I like where you arrived.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
Venezuelan opposition leader on Mari I got in on Machado
at a gift for the President at the White House.

Speaker 10 (32:34):
The two met at the White House on Thursday, and afterward,
Bachando told reporters she presented the medal to Trump in
appreciation for deposing Venezuela's former.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Leader Nicholas Maduro.

Speaker 10 (32:43):
Trump later took to social media to thank her, calling
the movie a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. It comes
after the Nobel Committee reiterated earlier this month that once
a Peace Prize winner has been announced, the decision stands
for all time.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
I mark Meefie, you went over this yesterday and you
can use the pot cast this weekend. To catch up
on shows you missed, to search your morning show into
the iHeartRadio app or you'll find the link at your
morning show online dot com. But the President elaborated more
on the next steps in his plan for lasting peace
in the Middle East.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
Doesident Trump taking the truth social to announce a Board
of Peace has been formed to oversee things in Gaza,
the President saying the members of the board will be
announced soon and calling it the greatest and most prestigious
board ever assembled at any time, any place. He went
on to add that it is officially the next phase
of Gaza's twenty point piece plan.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'm Jim Roop. Well, things got pretty heated at the
White House.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
In the press room, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt got into
it with a calumnists from the Hill when asked about
the deadly ice involved shooting of Renee Good.

Speaker 12 (33:46):
Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically.

Speaker 11 (33:49):
Killed because on I shaped and doctor recklessly until they'm justified.

Speaker 12 (33:52):
Oh okay, so you're a biased reporter with a left
wing opinion. Yeah, because you're a left wing hack and
you and the people in the media who have such
biases but fake like you're a journalist.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
You shouldn't even be sitting in that seat.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Well, there's big bucks and derangement, that's for sure. Go
fund me donations for suspended Ford employee TJ.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Sabula.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
I wonder what his salary was that all he had
to do was heckle the president get him to flip
him off. Eight hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 13 (34:24):
Later, Sabula was suspended after a heckel President Trump Tuesday
at the Ford River Rouge plant in Michigan, yelling quote
pedophile protector, leading Trump to mouth an expletive adam and
flip him off twice with his middle finger. Sabula is
being paid well. Suspended Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tleeb of Detroit

(34:45):
called Sabula a national hero and says Trump is protecting pedophiles.
She called for the Epstein files to be fully released.
I'm Michael Casslerriday Night Live.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Saturday Night Live returns this weekend with actor Finn Wolford
no idea.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Who that is? As host? Joining him will be.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Rapper Asap Rocky no idea who that is?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
But it doesn't really matter. I don't watch anymore.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
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