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January 16, 2026 36 mins

Fresh off his controversial hand gesture, President Trump has had a busy week at home and abroad …lots to catch up on.  Don’t miss Friday with 47! 

Space labs and asteroid science: why space is driving breakthroughs in medicine and biology. Futurist and host of iHeartMedia’s HELLO FUTURE podcast, Kevin Cirilli, will join us to explain.

National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the latest on President Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act amid protests in Minnesota and meeting with Venezuela’s opposition leader at the White House. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's me Michael.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Now.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
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way of talk, a new way of understanding.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Because we're in this together.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
This is your Morning Show with Michael.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
O'dill Jordan seven minutes after the hour.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Good morning, and welcome to your morning show on the
air and streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. It is Friday,
January sixteenth, twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
A divisional NFL playoff weekend.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Protesters continue to face off with law enforcement at federal
buildings in Minneapolis. They wanted another George Floyd, and they
got it in Renee Good, and they got the rioting
to go along with it. The President is threatening if
local law enforcement and local leadership can't get this under control,
bill invoke the Insurrection Act. More on that with Roy

(01:03):
O'Neil coming up next half hour. NASA plans to roll
out the Artemis two rocket that's to get us to
the moon again, and that's to get us ultimately to Mars.
We'll talk to futureist Kevin Sarilli about that. And can't
have your morning show without your voice, and thank god
we never have to. I would like to choose we
have time for one because the White House phone is

(01:25):
going to ring. Let's do Michael in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Michael is Friday with forty seven in Pizza.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh the sounds of Friday. Hail to the Chief. He's
the one we all say hail to.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
He has the power because he takes a shower, and
he has the power because he has a lot of testoster.
Mister President, Good morning, well, good.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Morning, pizza boy. I had to say, we're having the one.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Henck of a week.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thinking about it, We're doing a lot, we're winning a lot,
and there's a lot of people who are losing a lot.
There's a lot of losers out there. They're losing a lot.
So but I'm not a loser and one of the
greatest winners in the history of the world. And you
know that because of the ratings. You see the ratings
go through the room every Friday. You see the ratings
go through the room.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
So only Friday.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
We're very happy about that.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
We're very happy about that.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
So like nothing's uh, I don't know, nothing sacred, nothing's
kept personal or private.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, but if you're going.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
To have something league, I guess the highest testosterone doctor
Oz has seen for someone your age, is it a bad.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Thing to leak?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, you know he had to say that. First of all,
it's the truth. But even if it wasn't the truth,
he had to say that, you can't have a beta president, right,
you can't have a beta president. You know, you can't
have Obama. He suffered from something called low T and
low IQ.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Also did we know that low T?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
He did?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
We know that? Now we do that, we do that.
You can look at him.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
You can look at the way.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
He plays basketball, very low testosteron person, very weak.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
You know, I did very well.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I did very well. And you know you see that
speak softfully, but carry a big stick. And nobody has
the biggest stick than I do. So you look at it.
We're doing very well. And the rest of the world
sees a guy with high pest house or all natural
by the way, and they don't want to mess you know,
the United States.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I figured while everybody else is being too personal. Maybe
I should just ask Anny Pellett's all right, Detroit was
the big story. You went there with a very important
economic message. The media loved jumping on the exchange. For
the worker, he gets suspended. And then for you, the
media obsesses on your response to a heckler, which included

(03:44):
a gesture.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, it was a beautiful gesture, pizza boys, A beautiful gesture,
you know, I call it. It was beautiful, and I
call it bird watching. Right, we were bird watching, and
you know what we found. We found the North American
ech you bird, That's what we found. It was a
beautiful bird, a talented bird. We're actually changing the national
bird of the United.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
States of America from the bald eagle to the middle finger.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And they were very happy about it. I also got
along very well with the you have heard of them,
the Vans Apps. They wrote free bird. I wrote that song.
I actually played the guitar solo. That was a free bird,
and there was me and that was one of the
greatest and freest birds the world has ever seen. But
we did a little bird watching, and everybody saw a

(04:29):
very nice bird, a very highly respected bird, a very
noble bird. Is very noble. And the media doesn't like
the gesture. They don't like it, and we're going to
give them a bird next. We're going to do that next,
you know why, because they can't stop spreading fake news.
And we give the bird to a lot of people
who are fake news people. And so you look at it.

(04:51):
But we were bird watching, you know, I'm sure there's
going to be a documentary about it.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Look at the bird and its natural habitat.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Look at the bird what it does. And we found it.
It was a beautiful bird. You know. They say the
bird is the word the word, and excuse me, would
you like a bird too?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, no, you don't want to have a bird.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
We don't want to have a bird. We don't want
to have a bird.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, but I don't want a bird.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
No I want to do that. No, I don't want
to do that.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
So, uh, Jesse water Is called it a thunderbird. Very stupid.

Speaker 6 (05:26):
It's there was nothing underous about it.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was a beautiful bird. It was a talented bird.
It was a highly respected birds. Many people loved it.
Many people loved it, and we're going to continue to
do that. The people were doing nasty things that they
were saying very nasty things to me, and we gave
him a gesture. Now we all of a sudden, they can't.
They can call me every name in the book, and

(05:49):
they can try to have me killed, but when I
flip a little birdie, they're very upset about it. Were
this is what I'm talking about. Their losers, and they're
messing with the wrong guy.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
You were simple signing, all right.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
So we have McDonald's fry cook, we have the garbage truck,
and now we have the American scissor tail free birt.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's it's it's a legacy in the making.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
And here comes whole milk back to our schools.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, I got along very well with Bobby, and I
call it Bobby. He's a tremendous guy. And he was
talking about my diet and that it's not great, but
it actually is great because you look at me and
and you look at.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
The relationship that I have with a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Of very highly respected people and beautiful people. You look
at Zeus, you look at Neptune, you look at all
of the Greek gods, and they look at my body.
They say, so you're a specimens there.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
How did you do that?

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Sir? I said, it's a lot of McDonald's, it's a
lot of beautiful things. But we're bringing back milk, whole
milk from the greatest cows in the history of the world.
When I'm getting on milk from the cows.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
On the view, you look at the vial for the.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Stupid cows, you look at many of the stupid people
in Congress school. But with getting our milk from the
greatest and highly respected, most highly respected cows in the
history of the respect the world, beautiful cows. And you know,
you look at Bobby, he wants to make sure that
it's whole. We're two percent of that skim.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Garbage is garbage.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
We don't want to deal with the skim. We want
the whole, milk, the whole. It's a beautiful, beautiful glass,
a warm, tall glass of milk. It's a beautiful glasses.
We're gonna give the kids what they deserve, and we're gonna.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Give them nutrition.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
We're gonna make lunch nutritious again. And that's what you're
seeing in the schools. And the kids are gonna do
very well. Calcium, they're gonna do very well, and they're
gonna do a great job. You know, we're doing a great.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
Job making America healthy again.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
And Bobby, who have known for a long time. We
have called Bobby for a long time. He's a tremendous guy. Uh,
he's one of these people who's doing a fantastic job
making America healthy again.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
It's Friday with highly respected cow Friday with forty seven continues.
You know, we had a long discussion on the show
about X factors in allowing you to win victory, and
there's many variables. The assassination attempt that you know, really
kind of humanized you in United America. Behind you, there

(08:25):
is the X factor of going on Joe Rogan, which
I think was your son's idea. And then there was
Elon Musk and the purchase of X because the first
time they controlled the narrative not so much. The second
time because of talk radio podcasting and Elon buying X
block them from you know, blocking any naysayers or opposition thought.

(08:47):
And now here comes Elon Musk. I wonder if when
you said help is on the way to the people
of Iran, you meant Starling this is a brilliant idea.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, we have help us on the way with Starlk.
We also have, and you're not supposed to talk about it,
but we're going to talk about it. And there's a
possibility that we're going to bomb the Iotola's cave and
he's going to come out of there with his fifteen
goats and all of those things.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
And probably.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
They're not highly I'm the goat and the most respected goat,
greatest of all time. These goats are not very great
and they're not being treated very great, if.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
You know what I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
About, which is all we have to say about.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
It, right, it's all we have to say.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
You know what I'm talking about. It's a terrible thing.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
You look at these.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Goats, it's very bad. And I got along very well
with the three Billy goats gruff, but.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Not that well.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
It was a nasty guy, but I got along very well.
Those are different. You have a problem in Iran and
the Iyatola, the Mullas, whatever the heck you want to
call them. These are nasty people, yes, and we're looking
at taking action against them. You know, you have decent saying.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
He's a great Treasury secretary.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Scott I call him Scottie Shotty, too hoty, tremendous guy.
But you look at him and he talks about it.
He said, the Rats are fleeing the ship. You know,
they're moving their money to Dubai. So we'll see they
may be leaving very soon, and they may be going
to Russia. Putin doesn't want us to do that, but
it's you know, maybe he should have listened to me

(10:19):
a couple of months ago. We weren't in the war.
Doesn't word end the war. So we may be getting
rid of these Iatola. The Iatola might be going goodbye
Atola and that might be the end of that. So
help us on the way. But Elon is doing a
tremendous job with Silt, and we're getting a lot of
video and a lot of a lot of information coming

(10:41):
out of my Red. What they're doing to their people.
It's horrible and we're not.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Gonna let it happen.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
So we'll see what we do. But we want Iran.
We want to make Iran free again. Lifa, make I
ran free again. Prince Raisa Pallavi, I've known him for
a long time, great guy in the pre print. So
we're looking to see if I ran his freed very soon,
and I think they will be free suit all right.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
I think if we had a discussion and we're talking
about milk, for example, and we said, can a bull
produce milk?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
There'd be no problem with a consensus.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
It would be one of those things that we'd say,
is self evident, No, a bull can't. Why is it
we're having so much trouble again before the Supreme Court
and in congressional hearings getting the left to simply say
a man cannot have a baby or define what a

(11:38):
woman is. You've done so much to move us away
from all of this woke political correct insanity, and yet
that is still lingering.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well, it's hard to believe that, Pizza Boy, it's hard
to believe that. But a bowl cannot produce milk and
a male cannot have a baby.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
And this is what the left for us to do.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
They wanted to transcend it for everybody. Everybody has to
be trans It's unbelievable. Uh.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
And so they're playing with fire because I could in
a day or two come out and say my name
is Donna Trump and I'm your first thing gender president,
and they'd be very very unhappy about it.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm very unhappy about it. But if they don't, Pizza boy,
if they don't acknowledge or affirm my identity. It makes
them a bunch of lousy bigots, doesn't it. It's their rule.
You have my rules. We don't want you. I could
do the funniest thing in the history of the world.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You would be doing that, Donna.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
You would be the most highly respected woman in the world,
in the free world.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
What I would look highest ceiling?

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Do it? Do? It?

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Probably be hotter than Malaia too.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
You would not be happy enough. But we're not do
is that We're a man with highness, noster or own?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Uh yeah, too far. You're not out of the milania.
There you have it. Friday with forty seven.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Hell to the Chief's the one we all say heil
to mister President.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
We are so grateful for your time. Thank you, God.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Bless you be.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
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That's the very funny Sean Farage that is not really
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Donald Trump, and I that too.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
All right, Top five stories today, Let's start with Numeral odo.
President Trump is unveiling his new healthcare plan.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
In a video posted on social media Thursday, Trump said
is so called Great Healthcare Plan aims to lower costs
and give money to the American people so they can
buy their own coverage. This comes as subsidies for the
Affordable Healthcare Act expired at the beginning of the year,
raising premium prices for millions of Americans. Around one point
four million less Americans have signed up for acaight plans
this year compared to the same time last year. Earlier

(15:30):
this month, the House passed a bill that would extend
the tax credits for three years.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'm marketfield.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has been moving carrier strike units into
place from South China to the Mideast to the USS
Lincoln and Strike Group, which includes jets, subs, guided missile
defense systems as tensions.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Rise with Iran. Meanwhile, as for the Middle East, the
President has revealed some of the next steps in the
Plan for Lasting Peace.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Gym Roop reports President Trump taking a truth Social to
announce a Board of Peace has been formed to oversee
things in Gaza. The President's 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 (16:19):
I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
John Cougar Mellencamp sharing details of his twenty twenty sixth tour.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Dancing Worlds.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
The Greatest Hits Tour will kick off July the tenth
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He sent less promises to include
Mellencamp's best known songs plus tracks he hasn't performed live
and over a decade, including nine Need a Lover and
Ain't Even Done with the Night. The tour wraps up
August the twelfth in Mountain View, California. Tickets go on
sale next Friday, I'm mark Mee for you.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's my favorite.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
With the night Harve, we got NFL Division of Playoffs. Saturday,
r CHA the Frozen Tundras. Seattle will host San Francisco.
Buffalo is a mile high in Denver, and Houston travels to.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
New England to take on the Patriots. Griz lost. Pistons
beat the Suns thunder by twenty over the Rockets. The
Blazers a winner over the Hawks on the ice, Penguins
beat the Flyers sabers one five. Three of the Canadians
at birthdays today A J. Foyt ninety one. He was
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Speaker 9 (17:50):
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Venezuelan opposition leader mari Ja Gottina Muchado the White House

(20:00):
and gave the President her no belt peace price, and
he took it.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Protesters are facing.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Off against law enforcement at federal buildings as Minneapolis continues
out of control and the President continues to warn that
he will enact the Insurrection Act. We'll have more on
that with Rory o'nealan minutes, and we just covered the
divisional round of playoffs, who also have winter storms.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I told a funny story in the Platinum Card Hour.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
If you want to go back and listen to the
podcast later at nine, it would be first hour. But yeah,
serious weather, serious cold and snow coming to the Midwest
to mid Atlantic, eleven states going to be blanketed in snow,
all right. We talked a lot about the the need

(20:45):
to go to the moon again because we're ultimately going
to Mars. We also had four astronauts from the Space
Lab that had to be returned home.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
One was sick.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
They wouldn't tell us what, but space labs, asteroids, going
to Mars. These all are very futuristic things. Who better
to talk to about that than a futurist. Kevin So
really joining us from the iHeartMedia, Hello Future Podcast, Kevin.
Good morning, there he is, Good morning, Kevin, Kevin Goo.

Speaker 9 (21:17):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I think the first thing is most people listening to
me right now are thinking, wow, well we get to Mars,
I probably won't be alive not so fast, right, Yes
you will.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
We're going to be there.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
We're going to be there in like the next ten years.
But I think, like the reason I love this story
is because who could have predicted what going to the
Moon would have unleashed for everyday life? You know what
I mean? I mean face exploration single handedly with GPS
navigation and is something that Americans utilize every day, right,

(21:55):
I mean even our banking systems, our five G networks
ver Eizen struggled this week with that all of it
touches space exploration. And so the idea of going to
space is not about going to a space hotel, which
they will be created, but or taking a selfie and
lowers orbit. It's really about expanding the supply chain, expanding

(22:17):
the reach of scientific research, and expanding the potential for
human life here on planet Earth. And to do that
we have to go to the stars.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
So John F.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Kennedy, if you were live today or if we studied
history accurately, would tell you space was necessary for two reasons,
just as ground warfare and ground supremacy is important, and
then see supremacy and then air supremacy. Eventually space supremacy

(22:49):
would be the controlling force of Earth.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
That was number one.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Defense Number two was the what you're addressing, which is
the amount of industries and innovation, and that kind of
came up during well why the Moon? I mean what
we gain by going to the moon? Well that stretch
of just a little bit of really really hard to impossible,
that gets thoughts to go in a different way. And

(23:14):
then you did a great job of giving some of
the things that have changed our life.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
What might thank you?

Speaker 5 (23:20):
But what might Mars stretch in need of creation? Innovation
and eventually industry and jobs.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
Fusions putting fusion to get there, and the energy, and
then what we discover when we're actually there with regards
to our earth minerals and mining. You know, look, I
mean whether you're an environmentalist or someone who says drill, baby, drill,
it doesn't really matter because we should be looking elsewhere
in our solar.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
System, in our solar system.

Speaker 9 (23:49):
Neighborhood, which is Mars, the Moon, the mini moons, yes,
asteroids in.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mining and let's let's set up you know, supply.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
Chains on other planets. Let's do it, and Mars able
to build that infrastructure, which the planning for that is
already underway. That'll take some time. You know, that's harder
than just landing on the moon or I'm sorry landing
on Mars. But the robotics, the artificial intelligence, yes, the
quantum computing to harness the mining of Mars and the
mining of moons is going to be huge. It's gonna

(24:19):
be amazing. I love what you said about JFK.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
This month on my show.

Speaker 9 (24:23):
Hello Future, which you can get on the iHeartMedia app.
The whole month, I'm focusing on the United States Space Force, which,
by the way, folks, people made fun of it when
they were trying to launch that. But the Space Force
and the guardians, And I asked, I interview a guardian,
but what is it like to be an everyday guardian
in the United States Space Force. That's a great episode
that we have coming out this month, A guardian for

(24:45):
folks who are scratching their heads. The Army has soldiers,
the Navy has sailors, the Space Forces guardians, and the
Space Force is only six years old. And I was
just in Orlando before the holiday interviewing a bunch of
Space Force folks, and it's incredible because we need to
have people protecting our space domain. Even if we don't
have astronauts or a lot of astronauts up there, we

(25:07):
will one day. But the same way that our navy
protects our ports for our supply chains. It's the same
exact analogy. You mentioned Kennedy, who is one of my
favorite presidents in terms because of space largely, and he
liked cigars and I'm known as Snork and cigars.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
But he knew that whoever controlled space was ultimately going
to and so he just looked at it this way,
better us than them will control that for good. They won't,
Which is my next interesting question for you. Kevin Surreally
as a futurist, he presides over the iHeartMedia podcast Hello Future.
He wouldn't be on the show if I didn't think
that podcast was great, and you'll find him just as energetic,

(25:46):
just as optimistic, and just as informative as you find
him as a guest. But you know, when we'd had
the original space program and vision from Kennedy, it was
about beating the Soviet Union, beating China, eating any enemies,
and then after that for more of the you know,
space station era, it was about humanities, space exploration and

(26:11):
humanities benefit. Well, we find ourselves headed to Mars, and
once again it's about the US getting their first.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Exactly.

Speaker 9 (26:21):
I mean and it's and one of the reasons I'm
so bullish on space exploration. Let's talk about national security
for a second. There are thousands of satellites that are
up Zoom and around ZIP and around planet Earth. And
the Chinese and the Russians have demonstrated publicly to the
ability to have their satellites speed on up to our satellites,

(26:43):
or they've conducted drills to suggest that they have the
potential to do that. To spy on our satellites, or
to cloud our system, or to inject communications failures into
all of that, that's a huge problem. It's the same
exact analogy of you know, an water drone going up
to one of our submarines. If it was a Russian

(27:04):
or a Chinese underwater drone, you'd have a huge We
would rightfully have a huge problem with that. The public
needs to understand that we need to have the same
problem with them coming up to our satellites. Again, even
if it's all autonomous, that this is the new world
that we live in, Even if it's all autonomous and
there aren't humans aboard that technology. Do you want to

(27:26):
live in a world where the Chinese or the Russians
can take out our satellites up there and mess up
our militaries communication systems, or even take out our financial
communication systems for trading or for even you know, hospitals.
I don't want to live in that world.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
So that's why Space.

Speaker 9 (27:42):
Force, they're incredible brave men and women serving as guardians
are so incredibly needed. I get asked a lot quickly,
I'll say this, where are the jobs of the future.
The Space Force is a great job of the future
if you're a young person interested in all of these fields.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
Last question, you know, by studying your history, there were
the notions of getting to the moon. Do we go
straight there? Do we have a orbital first step and
then a rendezvous and then go from there. That's kind
of how this turned out. It's important to get to
the moon in order to stage for the next journey

(28:18):
to Mars.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
That'll be important to lay out.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
And the last question I have to ask you, and
I almost don't want to ask them because I want
them to go listen to the podcast Hello Future.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
But how do we get energy from asteroids?

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Because I'm getting a sneaking vision, a discerning sneaking vision
that our answer is not battery. I always felt like
that was beta and not VHS, certainly not digital, certainly
not Wi Fi. But our ultimate energy answer, not solar,
not even nuclear, not any of this other stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
I think we're going to find it through the space program.

Speaker 9 (28:52):
Yes, I love this question, and this is something that
I don't want to say to scare people, but I
want to say it to provide some perspective, which is,
if you remember map quests back in the early nineties
and you would have to look at it, and I
remember my dad would print them out and it resold
ordeal this but it replaced keeping the maps in the

(29:12):
glove compartment box like the actual maps.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
But we do not even have a map.

Speaker 9 (29:17):
Of every object in our own solar system. I just
want to repeat that we do not have a map
of every object in our solar system. There are millions
of asteroids, millions of asteroids of all different shapes and
sizes and classifications millions, and we do not even know
literally how many there are because we haven't mapped it.

(29:38):
We are at We've just put our tow in the
water in terms of understanding our own place in our neighborhood.
And I mentioned that because to your very good point
about energy resources in our solar system. If we don't
even have it mapped, we don't even know what's on
the specific objects in our solar system, or they're even

(30:00):
really made of and where to even look. But that
race is very much underway, and it sounds like a
science fiction novel of creating the map of the solar system.
But that's where we're at.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
The name of the podcast, Hello Future. The futurist name
Kevin Sirilli, and we're proud because we found him. Love
our visits, Keviny, God bless you and continue success year
with Hello Future.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
It's your morning show with Michael Dell Churno.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
I love this, uh Tom Bass as a listener and
Facebook friend, he said, first, one of the high Ground
Wins All we really need now is a really cool
movie about space force, kind of like Officer and the
Gentleman or Top Guns something like that. You know, it's
a really I mean, it is something that you know.

(30:50):
Of course, I don't know where Hollywood would be if
it didn't have all these political disagreements to I didn't
watch the Golden Globes, but I understand it was quite
pay But yeah, high Ground Wins, and yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Mean something like that to give people's idea. But I
I just sensed that the impossible solution to energy is
going to be found this time on the on the
journey from the Moon to Mars Venezuela, opposition leader Maria
Gotti no Mutato gifted her twenty twenty five Nobel Peace
Prize to the President and he took it. Roy O'Neil
our national correspondence here.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Orry, if if I won the Nobel Peace Prize and
we were hanging out, I'd probably want to give it
to you, But you shouldn't take it.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Should you.

Speaker 10 (31:32):
I earned it, well, yeah, and then would you want it? Right?
But she was smart enough to have it in a
big gilded gold frame, and so it lends right in
with the rest of the decort. President Trump beaming with
a smile accepting the award. But again, it's really just
the physical award, right. The folks over at the Nobel

(31:54):
Committee said, you know, you don't really give him the prize.
You can give them the medal. But she still keeps
the title of winning the prize last year. But look,
she is actively campaigning to get the President's blessing to
become the next leader of Venezuela, and she's trying to
get him to reverse course because in the hours after
the president ordered that military strike in Venezuela, I was

(32:15):
doing the Maduros. He had said that Mahado was not
the person for the job, that she didn't have the
respect of the Venezuelan people, and he still hasn't really
signaled that he wants her to be the next leader there.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, I think that's what it was all about, Alphie.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
All right, you know there was a time I sense
that talk radio was starting to become indoctrination narrative. In
other words, a part of the problem. From an opposite perspective,
and one of the solutions would be to stop telling
people how to think, give them the information again and
let them decide for themselves, and returning talk radio to

(32:52):
a conversation. So, at the risk of this sounding like
a narrative, if in fact, those in politics and that
is the fight for power, we're looking for another momentum changer,
like a George Floyd. They certainly seized it and renee
good and they got the violence to go along with it.
And now, from a narrative perspective, if the president invokes

(33:16):
the Insurrection Act. Ah, that'll play right into their script,
just as it may be the only way to restore peace.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
For the citizens it would like to just go to
school and go to work and feel safe again. So
where does all that stand?

Speaker 10 (33:29):
Yeah, and we are getting reports that we might see
some counter protests happening in Minneapolis this weekend. That would
be protesters who support the federal intervention, the ICE agents
coming in to remove the people who are in the
country illegally, So you might have a protester on protester
kind of a scenario moving forward. I think this weekend
is going to be telling, you know, and let's see

(33:51):
what the weather is. That may play a big part.
But I think that if things just calm down, sort
of been at this bubbling just below the surface level,
I get through things into next week.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
And then abroad, well, one, we just moved the USS
Lincoln and Strike Group, the Carrier Strike Unit from South
China in and off the Middle East as tensions rise
with a run. Now that's going to include the Lincoln,
many many jets, at least one submarine, if not more,

(34:26):
guided missile destroyers.

Speaker 10 (34:28):
You can never never count submarines because you don't know
how many if.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
We can count them, they're not effective, but that's a
shift that's troubling the president. Now turning the tension to
phase two of the Middle East is encouraging. And a
rocket red glare that is headed to the moon. That's
kind of what we're looking at. It was any of
that coming up on the Weekend Dive. I think someone

(34:58):
in space just shot down Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I think they did. This is why we need a
space force in space supremacy the Weekend Dive.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
I'll end it this way. Just google Weekend Dive into
the podcast podcast section of your Heart radio app.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
It'll pop up. Rory works very hard on that.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
It's kind of like a weekend review, but hand picking
a few stories. And then of course I would remind
you that if you missed any of our shows, and
that includes Monday and Tuesday with Kroc, who I appreciated
filling in, but Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we covered a
lot of things this week and I think, and I
can say this just unbiased, I think the funniest Friday

(35:36):
with forty seven we've ever had in two years. So
catch up using the podcast this weekend and make sure
you get some rest, enjoy that NFL playoff action, get
ready for an NFL or a college football championship game
on Monday, and make some memories. One chance to live
this day, though, Go make a difference in someone's life. Cherishers,
I'll see a Monday morning on the next to a

(35:56):
morning show.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
We're all in this together. This is you, your morning
show with Michael Tel journo
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