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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning, Americans, It's Friday two three.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Starting your morning off right. A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding, because we're in this together.
This is your morning show with Michael Gil Charna. It
is nice to pay a tribute to Paul Harvey every Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Isn't it. It's nice to hear his voice. Yes, be nice.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
If we could work in rush somehow, we got to
think of a it's got to happen naturally.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You can't force these things. Did you ever work on
a radio station that had Paul Harvey?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No, well, yes, I did? What am I saying? For
ten years?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yes I did.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
If you were like five minutes we were a music
rock station. But if you you were like two three
minutes late with Paul, people would call and just lose
their minds.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Where's Paulah?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Because I remember being a teenager and Paul Harvey was
on WRNO, the Rock of New Orleans, which I thought
was odd to do a newscast and then the rest
of the story on a rock station. Now in Tulsa,
Paul Harvey was on KARMG, which I had the as
Davidson and I he would say, the great one hundred
privilege of programming as well as being the afternoon host.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Paul Harvey, what a treasure.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
All right, it is Friday, the Friday before Saint Patrick's Day,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Stop. Shouldn't do that Friday the thirteenth? You didn't? That
was from Friday the thirteenth, wasn't it close? I have
to be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I have never seen an I saw the beginning of
Friday the thirteenth, and I didn't never finish it.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
So and there's been several Yeah, because Halloween was the piano.
It was Friday the thirteenth. Friday that was Jason.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, it is Friday the thirteenth, March the thirteenth year
about lowerd twenty twenty six. Listen if if I was
on in Times Square right now, I just be a
giant billboard. Two terror attacks, still no funding of homeland
security from Democrats. Now, I my gosh, and I can't
(02:27):
believe I'm saying this. It's twenty five years ago. I
wrote a book, and in that book, I cover terrorism
and I cover media bias, probably the two biggest themes.
As you can imagine, shortly after two thousand and one.
So I have been, you know, following media bias long
before it was exposed, and I think everybody knows it's biased.
(02:49):
It's still disgusting. Though it's not a revelation. I don't
have to prove it to you, but it is still shocking.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
In fact, the only thing left shocking in life is
the truth.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
And I cannot tell you what a difficult day I'm
having finding anybody covering these two packaged terror attacks compared
to covering the Democrats refusing to reopen homeland security and
fund it. And I almost wanted to, you know, I thought, well,
(03:24):
why go backwards?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Why do that?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
We all get it, but somebody needs to say it
out loud. Just watch today how much focus is on
a plane down in a rock, the price of gasoline
versus these two acts of terror and the Democrats not
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funding it.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It's really rather breathtaking, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The truck attack had a temple Israel and West Bloomfield,
Michigan on Thursday is being called a deliberate act of
violence targeting the Jewish community by federal investigators. I think
it's an active terror. The FBI is saying the gunman
who opened fire at Virginia's Old Dominion University while shouting
(04:14):
a la Ahbar, at least at least this guy's background
with ISIS and his worship chance as he's trying to kill.
Can't really brush this one under the rug. Obviously this
was an active terror. The war in Iran has now
reached two weeks long. Yeah, take a moment. That's a
(04:36):
lot of progress in two weeks. Iran's newest Supreme leader
is vowing to continue to block the strait of Horn Mouz.
That's if we can confirm he's even conscious. And we
did have a nasty week of weather here in Middle Tennessee.
It was like kind of muggy, late spring, early summer
feeling at the beginning of the week, and then the
cold front to ride with the nasty severe thunderstorm.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was Chili.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yesterday more of those thunderstorms, warm air meeting cold air
thunderstorms developed. We warned yesterday would be the golf all
the way up into the East Atlantic and North Atlantic,
and that's exactly what happened. National Weather Service is confirmed
at least last night in Louisiana, six tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
We owe it all to Italy, but we advanced and
we play Canada tonight eight o'clock on Fox. All right,
it is rather interesting that the Democrats continue to block
funding for homeland security. I don't wish it. I pray
against it. I hope eternally that it's never the case.
(05:45):
But after yesterday, someone must say out loud, it looks
like it could happen now if there are sleeper cells,
or if there are individuals. You know, when you have
twenty million just flowing. I think in the particular case
of was it the Temple or the Old Dominion shooter
(06:11):
that was in jail for eight years Old Dominion, Yeah,
the Old Dominion.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So he came during Obama's administration. He was arrested for
supporting isis being material support? Sentence to twelve years let
out in eight there's any My point was gonna be
there's any number of places to rest your eyes at failure,
things that could have kept this from ever happening. When
(06:39):
we hear stories like this, this could be our talkback
question of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Do they shock you?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You know what shocks me that we don't hear them
more and every day, knowing everybody that I mean, when
you have twenty million people come through a porous border,
who knows? Is there anybody that could definitively answer the
question today? Do we have any idea who's in our country?
(07:09):
And even if we did, are we doing.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Anything about it?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Like this guy came in through Obama and I'm not
pointing fingers at Obama, but came in through Obama. Then
he gets arrested clear ties to terrorism, and he only
serves two thirds of his sentence and he's released, and
then nobody's been following or keeping track of him. Well,
(07:33):
the old minion ROTC took care of him. Finally, I
guess that's the last line of defense. Now, two terrorist
acts in the same day and the Democrats continue to
block funding for homeland security. How is this even possible?
How is this even imaginable? How derelict and duty. How irresponsible, moreover,
(07:58):
how entrenched they're all supposed to be there on our dime,
serving us, making this a more perfect union, and providing
(08:21):
us a blanket of security and an opportunity at a
pursuit of happiness. And somehow it's become all about them
government four of buy the.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Politicians for the politicians.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Their little shirts and skins match between each other is
more important than everybody walking into that temple yesterday, or
walking into old Dominion or fill in the blank of
whoever's next. Senate Democrat it's on Thursday, defeated a motion
to proceed House past bill to reopen the Department of
(09:04):
Homeland Security and end the twenty seven day shutdown. Listen
a war with Iran promising to activate sleeper cells, chatter
confirming the intel of activation of sleeper cells, loan acts
of terrorism like we saw yesterday, no cause for blink.
(09:26):
Motion failed fifty one to forty six. Should we make
this the talk back question of the day. Who do
you think was the only Democrat to vote for funding
Department of Homeland Well, John Fetterman. And because of what
(09:56):
David's and not he taught yesterday on the filibuster of
course it needed sixty I mean, if we're going to
play the filibuster game, you'll have nothing but paralysis till
you get over sixty percent majority. And the last time
it happened, you got Obamacare. So I don't know if
you should rush to wish for it to happen, but
(10:18):
I will not allow all of this to get me
in a bad, negative mood. By the way, have you
worked on I just want to say, for the record,
I have been teased.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
An elder from my church and a dearest friend, Kenny
Stevens Sure is on the back deck and he looks
at me and he goes, hey, at rough Greens, is
it really good? Are you just saying that because you're paid?
Oh boy, can you believe that? And I just looked
at him. I said, do you think I would do
something just to be paid? I mean, I know your
(10:53):
commission on this house was a lot, but right I
said no, look at him and right on QE like
Lassie overcomes hoping by and right in front of him
wheels and squads that has a perfect stool. I say
all this to say, so I started saying, and you
made it. You act like it was so cheesy, which,
(11:15):
by the way, is just encouraging me to do it
more because I like cheesy. I thought it was very clever.
Rough Greens, your dogs so good, your dogs will ask
for it by name? And I go, now, how do
you think I got that idea just to be stupid?
It's because every time I get out the rough Greens
he starts going crazy, and then you say, oh, we'll
prove it, and then I got to be around. Remember,
(11:35):
so yesterday we remembered and filmed it. You could hold
it up to the microphone at all work, and I
have to because I'm not figured you even dubbed it yet.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
But I've been able to get this file off my phone.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Oh I could have done it by now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Say that's far by name? Wait rough, I like how
it ends with that. Okay, now, don't you think you
both of you.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Owe me an apology? Well this seems a little contrived.
I'm just gonna admit, what do you mean contrived? I
just started filming. I had to film because Andrew cound
figured it out.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
So you could have said, I want to go for
a walk, go outside.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You heard what I said? Do you want heard what
you said? I said, do you want rough greens? Read
back me up, ask for my name.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Then then the mother yells at him. See see rough greens.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So good.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You still don't believe me, you know, I want a
little respect around here.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
You don't see him doing this on the set of Fox.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
They all sit in their couch and respect each other.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I don't do anything dog ai here that is not
dog a. Yeah, that's boomer anyway, make a long story short.
I don't talk about anything I don't believe in, and
boy do I believe in this. In fact, let me
paint you have a nice clear picture.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
We don't have couches, by the way, we have a
couple of cardboard boxes with the towels over them.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't have Ainsley either. I got you tube. They're
like I'm in a Turkish bath every morning.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Red looks like somebody that would be in a Turkish
bath and a towel, doesn't he well kind of no,
not in that sense, just you know, getting it anyway,
Let me paint a picture for you. It's midnight. You
love your family, right, kids are in their beds. When
our kids were young, we'd walk around, we'd pray for them,
look at them one last time before we went to bed.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
All right, so it's a minute now.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
A siren, Blair is you got seconds to get the kids,
your wife and you into a bomb shelter.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Imagine the same thing. And you're wondering where your parents are.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, they're elderly and their legs don't work like they
used to it, and they got to get downstairs.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It feels impossible.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
And by the time they get to the shelter, they
just stay there because who knows that they can get
up again the next bomb.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
This is what it's been like for two weeks, and
Israel well a lot longer, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Children are being traumatized, families are exhausted, homes are being destroyed.
That's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews even exists,
and they're on the ground right now bringing food, emergency equipment,
care for children, help for the elderly, supplying bomb shelters,
medical centers with critical needed essentials and supplies. If you've
ever wondered, at what moment should I stand with Israel
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
This is your morning show with Michael del Truanoch.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
That's all I know because I never really watched the movie.
I just know this music was what he was he
saying killer, chit.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I thought it was chit, chickunt kilt guilt. Oh it is.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, Friday, the thirteenth of Mauch twenty twenty six. If
you're just waking up, here are your top stories. Probably
shouldn't have spooky music running while I do this one.
The FBI is now leading the investigation into the attack
at Temple Israel and West Bloomfield in Michigan. They have
identified the man who drove a truck into the temple
as a forty one year old.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Ahman Mohammad Ghazali.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
He was born in Lebanon, immigrated to the US in
twenty eleven, became an American citizen in twenty sixteen, armed
security guards and Mohammed or Ahmed Mohammed Ghazali engaged in
a shootout. The suspect was killed. Oakland County Sheriff Michael
Bouchard says he was the only fatality.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
One of the head.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Of security was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He got knocked down.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
By the car when it preached the building, and we've
had thirty law enforcement officers taken to the hospital for
smoke inhalation.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
The FBI is investigating it as a targeted act of
violence against the Jewish community based on his name, I
would say.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
An act of sheihad.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The FBI says it was a terrorist act when a
gunman with ISIS ties opened fire at Virginia's Old Dominion
University while shouting a la acbar. Mister Bago says his son,
a senior at Old Dominion, and his other ROTC peers,
helped subdue the shooter who began the who began to
shoot at the instructor.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
What he said was that someone came into the classroom
and asked was this RTC and began shooting, at which
time he and his fellow classmates went into active protective.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Mode, yeah, and killed him.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
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But so glad you're here. Now enjoy the podcast.
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My Morning Show is your Morning Show with Michael. Pizza Boy,
no jorn O the Paison Guba. Hey, have a cup
of cof they I am having a cup of You
know what.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
I feel like?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I preside over an asylum.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah, guess who runs it? The inmates.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
The inmates throning, look at my can making me into
a I don't know, a breakfast Danish Joey making me
into a pizza. Only Roger has something positive to add,
he emailed me at Michael d at iHeartMedia dot com.
You mean this book now? First of all, he's got
my book on a table and I don't know what
(18:08):
he's doing over here, but he's got his glasses. He's
doing all kinds of paperwork. He's got color markers. Very
busy table this morning. And then there's my book. Look
at that they have that handsome young man. You got
a coloring book? No, he has my book standing up
for which has a coloring book?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Though?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Right? No, it is you got boomer barking when I
asked him if you wanted rough greens, I got it
right here on my phone.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I like to vindicate myself at his thirty six minutes
after the hour, early bird gets the worm, Rise and shine,
Sleepy squirrel misses the nut. Welcome to Friday, the thirteenth
of March, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. A
truck attack on a temple in Michigan, looking very much
like a terrorist attack targeting a temple.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And then we had a.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
A naturalized US citizen, Mohammed Jolar, who yelled a lah
akbar as he walked in shooting at Old Dominon University. Meanwhile,
the war in Iran reaches two weeks and with two
terror attacks at home, chatter of a sleeper cell, revival
and attack and retaliation. The Democrats have once again blocked
(19:22):
funding FEMA, which you might need. We just had a
rash of tornadoes last night in Louisiana. The National Guard,
you might have something off our coast, and Department of
Homeland Security to protect us from cuckoo frans and Ali's
like this. We'll keep an eye on all those top stories.
Every week, we decided to start doing our Spotlight Interview
of the Week and this one, this one was special
(19:44):
because you know, Marv Albert is a big part of
the soundtrack of my life, especially when it comes to
basketball and hockey. And his son, Kenny Albert, is probably
just as much of a legend as his father, and
maybe perhaps, if it's even possible, more versatile. And we
caught up with Kenny to talk about his new book.
He is just that a mic for all seasons. And
(20:08):
I started by telling him our ties. He didn't know it,
but in nineteen sixty and I don't know if it
was Wolf and Syracuse or WNDR in Syracuse, but my
dad was the morning man and his dad was the
sports guy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I've learned a lot about his Syracuse days, starting out
as a disc jockey and then moving over to the
sports side.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, and then of course the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
What's it like? Is that a shadow?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I mean, my father was very successful in radio. I
don't really compete with that or think about that. I
can recognize some gifts I have from him, some things
I've learned from him.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
What was the dynamic of.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Having Marv Albert as a father and how has that
impacted you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, first of all, I didn't know any different, right,
That's how I answered.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
For me, it was the norm.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But it was great getting to tag along to various
sporting events.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He was doing the Nixon.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Rangers radio at the time when I was a kid,
and also the six and eleven the clock sports on
WNBC in New York. So from as early as I
can remember, he would take me once in a while
to games.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
To the studio.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And I also received a tape recorder from my parents
for my fifth or sixth birthday, and I set up
my bedroom. I'm sure you did a lot of the
same thing. I set up my bedroom like a radio studio.
I had the desk and the bed in the middle
and the TV and I would call games off the
television into the tape recorder. When I was old enough,
I started to bring it to Madison Square Garden Say Stadium,
(21:33):
and it was just so much fun. And I actually
received a huge break in high school when I was
in tenth grade on Long Island and I.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Was covering a lot of the high school sports for.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The town newspaper in the school newspaper, and a small
cable station showed up at my school to film this
girl's basketball game in nineteen eighty four, and they didn't
have any announcers. They had two cameras a little production van,
and I was introduced to the producer and he gave
me the opportunity to announce the game. They clipped a
microphone on my shirt. I shot a couple of rows
(22:06):
behind the bench and did the game and spoke to
the producer the next day. He gave me his number,
and he then offered me the opportunity to work all
of these games over the next three years. I probably
did seventy five to one hundred, all different sports. I
would bring friends along as the color analyst, and.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It really gave me a head start to your head start.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I was just gonna say they also wanted to.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Do it at that time.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I would guess if we had that tape you probably
were just naturally. Like I can play you tapes of
me at eighteen nineteen years old, and I don't sound
any different on the radio than I do today. It
was just natural. And I don't know how you process it.
I think back and I go, like, I remember the
first time my dad brought me to a radio station,
and I wasn't going to be in radio, and then
(22:50):
it wasn't until I was like eighteen nineteen volunteering at
a radio station, and I just felt comfortable the first moment.
And I suspect that's how it was for you, And
I don't don't know how you process that. Were we
just gifted the same as our father, or did our
father influence us, because I could tell you you're as good
as your dad and more versatile.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Just how it turned out anyway, Well.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And he did a lot of sports also, you know,
mostly basketball, hockey, football, but he did a little bit
of baseball, some boxings. He was involved in a lot
of different sports too. But I think and I've talked
about it with other sons of announcers, Joe Buck, Tom Brenneman,
Noah Eagle, who's of the younger generation does a great job.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Oh is he talented? We all, you know, we all
grew up around it.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
So we learned via osmosis.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We were in the broadcast booth, we went on road trips,
so we just did have a little bit of an
advantage as far as learning the chemistry between a broadcaster
and the analyst, what goes on between the booth and
the truck, you know, the production folks. So it was
(24:06):
just not that I didn't learn much in school, because
I did.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It was probably.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Just as important as anything we learned in class, was
tagging along and watching professionals and learning how they do it.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
A Voice for All Seasons, what a perfect title. Kenny
Albert is joining us? Kenny, my goodness, But did it
fall in your lap? The Olympics and I don't know
which was more fun to watch and hear the call
of the women or the men. The men was not
the Miracle of nineteen eighty, but it was kind of
a thrillical, you know, a miracle in and of itself.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I was just wondering.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
One of the most iconic calls ever was the Miracle game,
and it happened on the actual anniversary.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And do you believe in miracles.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Yes, did you have any pressure or thoughts the night before? Hey,
if they pull this off and be candid, I better
have a good line.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You think about it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And the thing is, it was the seventh Olympics that
I've worked for the copy men's and women. So I've
been there before. I've worked prior to this year five
gold medal games on the men's and women's side, but
this was different because the NHL players were back.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The US and.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Canada wind up getting to the gold medal game. On
the women's side, it's the US and Canada just about
every time, seven out of.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Eight gold medal games. So if the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
US and Canada did not make it on the women's side,
it would have been a huge upset.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
But on the men's side.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You had Sweden, you had Finland, you had Slovakia, all
filled with NHL players. And think back to how close
the US and Canada both came to losing in the
quarterfinal round. They both went to overten, so it was
certainly not a given that those two teams would be there.
And then once they won their semi final matchups on
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Friday night, all of a sudden, we were all thinking.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Wow, this is really happening.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And Eddie Olchak, Brian Bouschet and Katherine Tappan and I
we called the bronze medal game on Saturday, so it's
not like we were sitting around thinking about.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
It all day. We had to work another game Saturday night, and.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Then fourteen hours later was the gold medal game. And
I do think about it a little bit in those situations.
I've been lucky enough to call three Stanley Cup finals
on the TV side and several more on radio, and
I'm not one that really scripts out a final call
or a final line. I don't want it to sound
too forced, but you do think about keywords.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, When Tampa.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Bay won in twenty twenty one, they had won the
year before, so my line was Lightning strikes twice in
Tampa Bay, lightning when they're second straight Stanley cupp When
the Vegas Golden Knights won two years later, I said
the silver trophy to the Golden Knights, playing off of
the Stanley Cup and then their dame. So I wanted
to somehow include the fact that it was the first
(26:54):
since nineteen eighty if the US won. So you know,
in hockey, you never know what kind of goal is
going to end it if it goes to overtime, right
if the game ends in regulation, and there's a like
al Michaels in nineteen eighty, it was the countdown, you know,
five seconds three, yeah, four to three. But when it
goes to overtime, it could end at any time. You
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don't know how the goal is going to be scored.
There are a million different ways. So I wound up
calling the goal, then paused and referred to it as
the Golden Goal, which Mike Emrick and Chris Cuthbert brilliantly
worked in in twenty ten when Sydney Crosby scored the
golden goal for Canada. But then I had thought a
little bit about incorporating the nineteen eighty team into part
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of the call. So the third part was, for the
first time since the nineteen eighty miracle, the United States
takes the goal. So it was sort of a three
part call, and that was the part that I had
thought about a little bit.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
A voice for all seasons, Kenny Elbert joining us. All right, So,
by far, hockey's the hardest, right, I mean, you have
mastered I would be my guests. I mean on some
I did arena football and stuff, But I mean, I
would think baseball for me is naturally the easiest.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
But hockey is you got all those names.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
It's like tennis player names coming out in four different shifts,
all these different teams, the actions so fast. I'm telling you,
I don't know how your brain works and does it,
But I'm going to ask you the question.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
But guess hockey is by far the hardest, right.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Uh, it's the exact opposite. Actually, for me, hockey is
the easiest. You're kidding me how it's the easiest.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It just is you're calling the game, the pucks at
action for sixty minutes. People always think because of the
names and because of the line changes on the fly,
it's hard. But maybe because I've been doing it for
thirty five years professionally and into the tape recorder, it
just flows.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
You're just calling the game.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Basketball is similar, but slower, forty eight minutes, more whistles,
more stoppages, slower.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Football is the most rhythmic.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
It's one play and then it's twenty to twenty five seconds.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Of ref Yeah. Of the four, Baseball to.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Me is the most challenging because there's so much downtime
in between pitches and between batters. Now it has gotten
a little bit easier because of the pitch clock, but
I'm sure for the folks who do baseball every day,
one hundred and sixty two games, to them, it's probably
the easiest.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Well, baseball's mostly of relationship. It's a very slow relationship.
I mean, it's like sitting at the game with somebody.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Michael Kay is one of the greats at that. Harry
Carey was one of the greats of that. It's more
of an experience. But boy, I'm telling you, when it
comes to doing hockey and basketball, you and your father
are simply in the league of your home.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Best advice your dad ever gave you, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You know. He never really sat down and gave much advice.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Growing up, and was more taking me along and having
me listen in and watch and observe.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Certainly through the years, especially when I started out, he
would listen to the tapes and give advice, but I
would say overall it was just watching and learning.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Yeah, you're very, very, very good. I'm looking forward to
the book. I have not read it yet in full confession,
but I am going to. You are simply a voice
for all seasons. I think you're very humble about it.
I think you were gifted in a very unique way
and happened to be the offspring of someone gifted in
a very similar way. But as my I'll end the
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way my son said it. You are my favorite Kenny
Albert and this has been a thrill.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
God bless you.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Writing a book was such a fun project, and I
might have a couple couple of new chapters.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I might be read it for a sequel pretty.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Soon, following the Olympics and some other events I've covered
since the book came out.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
It was a pretty magic Olympic game. He's a pretty
special guy. If you've ever done any of these things,
they make it look so easy, it's not. And he
does them all, and he does them all at a
very high level. Truly a mic for all seasons. Check
out the book everywhere great books are sold.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Their Spotlight. Interview of the Week Kenny Albert, Son of.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Arms Your Morning Show with Michael del Joino.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I want to start your morning off with all the
information you need to start your day off right, and
so let's get started. The FBI is now leading the
investigation and do an attack at a temple Israel in
West Bloomfield, Michigan yesterday. They've identified the man who drove
the truck into the temple as a forty one year
old aman, Muhammad Ghazali. He was born in Lebanon, immigrated
to the United States in twenty eleven, became an American
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citizen in twenty sixteen. Armed security guards and Ghazali engaged
in a shootout and the suspect was killed.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
One of the head.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Of security was taken to the hospital he got knocked
down by the car when it preached the building. And
we've had thirty law enforcement officers taken to the hospital
for smoke inhalation.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Meanwhile, in Virginia, the FBI says it was a terrorist
act when a gunman with the ISIS ties opened fire
at Virginia's Old Dominion University while shouting a la Akbar
crazy to Allah. He's worshiping God as he's killing innocent people.
Said one pastor, whose son was a senior at Old
Dominion that he and his other ROTC peers helped subdue
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the shooter once he began to fire at the instructor
What he.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Said was that someone came into the classroom and asked
was his RTC and began shooting, at which time he
and his fellow classmates went into active protective mode.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
A reminder war is dangerous.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
A US military refueling tanker it's part of Operation Epic
Fury has crashed in Western Iraq.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
US Central Command since it's aware of the loss of
a KC one thirty five Strato tanker and that two
aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft
went down in Western Iraq while the other landed safely.
SITCOM says the incident happened in friendly airspace and was
not due to hustle or friendly fire. The status of
the crew is unknown, but officials say rescue efforts are ongoing.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
A federal judge is handing President Trump his first win
in a New York New Jersey Gateway tunnel project lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Sarahle Kessler reports.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
Judge Shared Hurtling of the Federal Claims Court in Washington
has dismissed six of eight counts in the lawsuit over
the Trump administration temporarily freezing funds for a new rail
tunnel under the Hudson River that happened last October and
led to one thousand construction worker layoffs, stopping work on
the sixteen billion dollar project for.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
More than a week last month.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
The judge says the case is mostly moved because Offens
had resumed the flow of two hundred million dollars and
it had frozen.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl's.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
Response, we will continue to fight and continue to win
if Donald Trump tries to illegally stop funding again. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Universal Pictures will be keeping its movies in theaters longer.
The studio announced Thursday that'll extend the theatrical release window
for its films to at least five weekends starting this year.
It will further extend to seven weekends next year. This
marks a major shift and strategy since the theatrical lens
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were shrunk during the pandemic era. Since theaters reopened, the
average window has been around forty five days, about half
of what it used to be. Although I might remind
Universal and others it may not be the length of time,
but the quality of the movie. It's not like we
didn't have time to get there. We were never coming well,
(34:18):
there's an old saying in Saint Patrick's Day is Tuesday
next week. There's an old saying that everyone's just a
wee bit tied at ashen Saint Patrick's Day. But according
to the US Census Bureau, about thirty five million people
in American claim Irish ancestry.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Pre Tennis has more.
Speaker 13 (34:33):
That's about ten percent of the US population. But that
small group parties big. There will be hundreds of Saint
Patrick's Day celebrations across the country this weekend. Parades, festivals,
Leprechaun runs, Dying the River in Chicago, and don't forget
the pub crawls, Irish music and lots of dancing. It's
enough to make anyone want to be Irish. And on
Saint Patrick's Day you can be because he was an
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Irish either Saint Patrick was British.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I'm pre Tennis. We are all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning, Americans, It's Friday two three.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Starting your morning off right. A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding, because we're in this together.
This is your morning show with Michael Gil Charna. It
is nice to pay a tribute to Paul Harvey every Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Isn't it. It's nice to hear his voice. Yes, be nice.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
If we could work in rush somehow, we got to
think of a it's got to happen naturally.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You can't force these things. Did you ever work on
a radio station that had Paul Harvey?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No, well, yes, I did? What am I saying? For
ten years?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yes I did.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
If you were like five minutes we were a music
rock station. But if you you were like two three
minutes late with Paul, people would call and just lose
their minds.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Where's Paulah?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Because I remember being a teenager and Paul Harvey was
on WRNO, the Rock of New Orleans, which I thought
was odd to do a newscast and then the rest
of the story on a rock station. Now in Tulsa,
Paul Harvey was on KARMG, which I had the as
Davidson and I he would say, the great one hundred
privilege of programming as well as being the afternoon host.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Paul Harvey, what a treasure.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
All right, it is Friday, the Friday before Saint Patrick's Day,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Stop. Shouldn't do that Friday the thirteenth? You didn't? That
was from Friday the thirteenth, wasn't it close? I have
to be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I have never seen an I saw the beginning of
Friday the thirteenth, and I didn't never finish it.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
So and there's been several Yeah, because Halloween was the piano.
It was Friday the thirteenth. Friday that was Jason.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, it is Friday the thirteenth, March the thirteenth year
about lowerd twenty twenty six. Listen if if I was
on in Times Square right now, I just be a
giant billboard. Two terror attacks, still no funding of homeland
security from Democrats. Now, I my gosh, and I can't
(02:27):
believe I'm saying this. It's twenty five years ago. I
wrote a book, and in that book, I cover terrorism
and I cover media bias, probably the two biggest themes.
As you can imagine, shortly after two thousand and one.
So I have been, you know, following media bias long
before it was exposed, and I think everybody knows it's biased.
(02:49):
It's still disgusting. Though it's not a revelation. I don't
have to prove it to you, but it is still shocking.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
In fact, the only thing left shocking in life is
the truth.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
And I cannot tell you what a difficult day I'm
having finding anybody covering these two packaged terror attacks compared
to covering the Democrats refusing to reopen homeland security and
fund it. And I almost wanted to, you know, I thought, well,
(03:24):
why go backwards?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Why do that?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
We all get it, but somebody needs to say it
out loud. Just watch today how much focus is on
a plane down in a rock, the price of gasoline
versus these two acts of terror and the Democrats not
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funding it.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It's really rather breathtaking, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The truck attack had a temple Israel and West Bloomfield,
Michigan on Thursday is being called a deliberate act of
violence targeting the Jewish community by federal investigators. I think
it's an active terror. The FBI is saying the gunman
who opened fire at Virginia's Old Dominion University while shouting
(04:14):
a la Ahbar, at least at least this guy's background
with ISIS and his worship chance as he's trying to kill.
Can't really brush this one under the rug. Obviously this
was an active terror. The war in Iran has now
reached two weeks long. Yeah, take a moment. That's a
(04:36):
lot of progress in two weeks. Iran's newest Supreme leader
is vowing to continue to block the strait of Horn Mouz.
That's if we can confirm he's even conscious. And we
did have a nasty week of weather here in Middle Tennessee.
It was like kind of muggy, late spring, early summer
feeling at the beginning of the week, and then the
cold front to ride with the nasty severe thunderstorm.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was Chili.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yesterday more of those thunderstorms, warm air meeting cold air
thunderstorms developed. We warned yesterday would be the golf all
the way up into the East Atlantic and North Atlantic,
and that's exactly what happened. National Weather Service is confirmed
at least last night in Louisiana, six tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
We owe it all to Italy, but we advanced and
we play Canada tonight eight o'clock on Fox. All right,
it is rather interesting that the Democrats continue to block
funding for homeland security. I don't wish it. I pray
against it. I hope eternally that it's never the case.
(05:45):
But after yesterday, someone must say out loud, it looks
like it could happen now if there are sleeper cells,
or if there are individuals. You know, when you have
twenty million just flowing. I think in the particular case
of was it the Temple or the Old Dominion shooter
(06:11):
that was in jail for eight years Old Dominion, Yeah,
the Old Dominion.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So he came during Obama's administration. He was arrested for
supporting isis being material support? Sentence to twelve years let
out in eight there's any My point was gonna be
there's any number of places to rest your eyes at failure,
things that could have kept this from ever happening. When
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we hear stories like this, this could be our talkback
question of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Do they shock you?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You know what shocks me that we don't hear them
more and every day, knowing everybody that I mean, when
you have twenty million people come through a porous border,
who knows? Is there anybody that could definitively answer the
question today? Do we have any idea who's in our country?
(07:09):
And even if we did, are we doing.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Anything about it?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Like this guy came in through Obama and I'm not
pointing fingers at Obama, but came in through Obama. Then
he gets arrested clear ties to terrorism, and he only
serves two thirds of his sentence and he's released, and
then nobody's been following or keeping track of him. Well,
(07:33):
the old minion ROTC took care of him. Finally, I
guess that's the last line of defense. Now, two terrorist
acts in the same day and the Democrats continue to
block funding for homeland security. How is this even possible?
How is this even imaginable? How derelict and duty. How irresponsible, moreover,
(07:58):
how entrenched they're all supposed to be there on our dime,
serving us, making this a more perfect union, and providing
(08:21):
us a blanket of security and an opportunity at a
pursuit of happiness. And somehow it's become all about them
government four of buy the.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Politicians for the politicians.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Their little shirts and skins match between each other is
more important than everybody walking into that temple yesterday, or
walking into old Dominion or fill in the blank of
whoever's next. Senate Democrat it's on Thursday, defeated a motion
to proceed House past bill to reopen the Department of
(09:04):
Homeland Security and end the twenty seven day shutdown. Listen
a war with Iran promising to activate sleeper cells, chatter
confirming the intel of activation of sleeper cells, loan acts
of terrorism like we saw yesterday, no cause for blink.
(09:26):
Motion failed fifty one to forty six. Should we make
this the talk back question of the day. Who do
you think was the only Democrat to vote for funding
Department of Homeland Well, John Fetterman. And because of what
(09:56):
David's and not he taught yesterday on the filibuster of
course it needed sixty I mean, if we're going to
play the filibuster game, you'll have nothing but paralysis till
you get over sixty percent majority. And the last time
it happened, you got Obamacare. So I don't know if
you should rush to wish for it to happen, but
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I will not allow all of this to get me
in a bad, negative mood. By the way, have you
worked on I just want to say, for the record,
I have been teased.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
An elder from my church and a dearest friend, Kenny
Stevens Sure is on the back deck and he looks
at me and he goes, hey, at rough Greens, is
it really good? Are you just saying that because you're paid?
Oh boy, can you believe that? And I just looked
at him. I said, do you think I would do
something just to be paid? I mean, I know your
(10:53):
commission on this house was a lot, but right I
said no, look at him and right on QE like
Lassie overcomes hoping by and right in front of him
wheels and squads that has a perfect stool. I say
all this to say, so I started saying, and you
made it. You act like it was so cheesy, which,
(11:15):
by the way, is just encouraging me to do it
more because I like cheesy. I thought it was very clever.
Rough Greens, your dogs so good, your dogs will ask
for it by name? And I go, now, how do
you think I got that idea just to be stupid?
It's because every time I get out the rough Greens
he starts going crazy, and then you say, oh, we'll
prove it, and then I got to be around. Remember,
(11:35):
so yesterday we remembered and filmed it. You could hold
it up to the microphone at all work, and I
have to because I'm not figured you even dubbed it yet.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
But I've been able to get this file off my phone.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Oh I could have done it by now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Say that's far by name? Wait rough, I like how
it ends with that. Okay, now, don't you think you
both of you.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Owe me an apology? Well this seems a little contrived.
I'm just gonna admit, what do you mean contrived? I
just started filming. I had to film because Andrew cound
figured it out.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
So you could have said, I want to go for
a walk, go outside.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You heard what I said? Do you want heard what
you said? I said, do you want rough greens? Read
back me up, ask for my name.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Then then the mother yells at him. See see rough greens.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So good.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You still don't believe me, you know, I want a
little respect around here.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
You don't see him doing this on the set of Fox.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
They all sit in their couch and respect each other.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I don't do anything dog ai here that is not
dog a. Yeah, that's boomer anyway, make a long story short.
I don't talk about anything I don't believe in, and
boy do I believe in this. In fact, let me
paint you have a nice clear picture.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
We don't have couches, by the way, we have a
couple of cardboard boxes with the towels over them.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't have Ainsley either. I got you tube. They're
like I'm in a Turkish bath every morning.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Red looks like somebody that would be in a Turkish
bath and a towel, doesn't he well kind of no,
not in that sense, just you know, getting it anyway,
Let me paint a picture for you. It's midnight. You
love your family, right, kids are in their beds. When
our kids were young, we'd walk around, we'd pray for them,
look at them one last time before we went to bed.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
All right, so it's a minute now.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
A siren, Blair is you got seconds to get the kids,
your wife and you into a bomb shelter.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Imagine the same thing. And you're wondering where your parents are.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Well, they're elderly and their legs don't work like they
used to it, and they got to get downstairs.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It feels impossible.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
And by the time they get to the shelter, they
just stay there because who knows that they can get
up again the next bomb.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
This is what it's been like for two weeks, and
Israel well a lot longer, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Children are being traumatized, families are exhausted, homes are being destroyed.
That's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews even exists,
and they're on the ground right now bringing food, emergency equipment,
care for children, help for the elderly, supplying bomb shelters,
medical centers with critical needed essentials and supplies. If you've
ever wondered, at what moment should I stand with Israel
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
This is your morning show with Michael del Truanoch.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
That's all I know because I never really watched the movie.
I just know this music was what he was he
saying killer, chit.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I thought it was chit, chickunt kilt guilt. Oh it is.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, Friday, the thirteenth of Mauch twenty twenty six. If
you're just waking up, here are your top stories. Probably
shouldn't have spooky music running while I do this one.
The FBI is now leading the investigation into the attack
at Temple Israel and West Bloomfield in Michigan. They have
identified the man who drove a truck into the temple
as a forty one year old.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Ahman Mohammad Ghazali.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
He was born in Lebanon, immigrated to the US in
twenty eleven, became an American citizen in twenty sixteen, armed
security guards and Mohammed or Ahmed Mohammed Ghazali engaged in
a shootout. The suspect was killed. Oakland County Sheriff Michael
Bouchard says he was the only fatality.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
One of the head.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Of security was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He got knocked down.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
By the car when it preached the building, and we've
had thirty law enforcement officers taken to the hospital for
smoke inhalation.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
The FBI is investigating it as a targeted act of
violence against the Jewish community based on his name, I
would say.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
An act of sheihad.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The FBI says it was a terrorist act when a
gunman with ISIS ties opened fire at Virginia's Old Dominion
University while shouting a la acbar. Mister Bago says his son,
a senior at Old Dominion, and his other ROTC peers,
helped subdue the shooter who began the who began to
shoot at the instructor.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
What he said was that someone came into the classroom
and asked was this RTC and began shooting, at which
time he and his fellow classmates went into active protective.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Mode, yeah, and killed him.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Tell you this is Mike the Baptist in Cotton Down, Tennessee.
And My Morning Show is your Morning Show with Michael
Bill Giorno.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
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Would love to be a part of your morning routine.
But so glad you're here. Now enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
My Morning Show is your Morning Show with Michael. Pizza Boy,
no jorn O the Paison Guba. Hey, have a cup
of cof they I am having a cup of You
know what.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
I feel like?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I preside over an asylum.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah, guess who runs it? The inmates.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
The inmates throning, look at my can making me into
a I don't know, a breakfast Danish Joey making me
into a pizza. Only Roger has something positive to add,
he emailed me at Michael d at iHeartMedia dot com.
You mean this book now? First of all, he's got
my book on a table and I don't know what
(18:08):
he's doing over here, but he's got his glasses. He's
doing all kinds of paperwork. He's got color markers. Very
busy table this morning. And then there's my book. Look
at that they have that handsome young man. You got
a coloring book? No, he has my book standing up
for which has a coloring book?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Though?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Right? No, it is you got boomer barking when I
asked him if you wanted rough greens, I got it
right here on my phone.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I like to vindicate myself at his thirty six minutes
after the hour, early bird gets the worm, Rise and shine,
Sleepy squirrel misses the nut. Welcome to Friday, the thirteenth
of March, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. A
truck attack on a temple in Michigan, looking very much
like a terrorist attack targeting a temple.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And then we had a.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
A naturalized US citizen, Mohammed Jolar, who yelled a lah
akbar as he walked in shooting at Old Dominon University. Meanwhile,
the war in Iran reaches two weeks and with two
terror attacks at home, chatter of a sleeper cell, revival
and attack and retaliation. The Democrats have once again blocked
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funding FEMA, which you might need. We just had a
rash of tornadoes last night in Louisiana. The National Guard,
you might have something off our coast, and Department of
Homeland Security to protect us from cuckoo frans and Ali's
like this. We'll keep an eye on all those top stories.
Every week, we decided to start doing our Spotlight Interview
of the Week and this one, this one was special
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because you know, Marv Albert is a big part of
the soundtrack of my life, especially when it comes to
basketball and hockey. And his son, Kenny Albert, is probably
just as much of a legend as his father, and
maybe perhaps, if it's even possible, more versatile. And we
caught up with Kenny to talk about his new book.
He is just that a mic for all seasons. And
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I started by telling him our ties. He didn't know it,
but in nineteen sixty and I don't know if it
was Wolf and Syracuse or WNDR in Syracuse, but my
dad was the morning man and his dad was the
sports guy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I've learned a lot about his Syracuse days, starting out
as a disc jockey and then moving over to the
sports side.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, and then of course the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
What's it like? Is that a shadow?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I mean, my father was very successful in radio. I
don't really compete with that or think about that. I
can recognize some gifts I have from him, some things
I've learned from him.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
What was the dynamic of.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Having Marv Albert as a father and how has that
impacted you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, first of all, I didn't know any different, right,
That's how I answered.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
For me, it was the norm.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But it was great getting to tag along to various
sporting events.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He was doing the Nixon.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Rangers radio at the time when I was a kid,
and also the six and eleven the clock sports on
WNBC in New York. So from as early as I
can remember, he would take me once in a while
to games.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
To the studio.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And I also received a tape recorder from my parents
for my fifth or sixth birthday, and I set up
my bedroom. I'm sure you did a lot of the
same thing. I set up my bedroom like a radio studio.
I had the desk and the bed in the middle
and the TV and I would call games off the
television into the tape recorder. When I was old enough,
I started to bring it to Madison Square Garden Say Stadium,
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and it was just so much fun. And I actually
received a huge break in high school when I was
in tenth grade on Long Island and I.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Was covering a lot of the high school sports for.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The town newspaper in the school newspaper, and a small
cable station showed up at my school to film this
girl's basketball game in nineteen eighty four, and they didn't
have any announcers. They had two cameras a little production van,
and I was introduced to the producer and he gave
me the opportunity to announce the game. They clipped a
microphone on my shirt. I shot a couple of rows
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behind the bench and did the game and spoke to
the producer the next day. He gave me his number,
and he then offered me the opportunity to work all
of these games over the next three years. I probably
did seventy five to one hundred, all different sports. I
would bring friends along as the color analyst, and.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It really gave me a head start to your head start.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I was just gonna say they also wanted to.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Do it at that time.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I would guess if we had that tape you probably
were just naturally. Like I can play you tapes of
me at eighteen nineteen years old, and I don't sound
any different on the radio than I do today. It
was just natural. And I don't know how you process it.
I think back and I go, like, I remember the
first time my dad brought me to a radio station,
and I wasn't going to be in radio, and then
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it wasn't until I was like eighteen nineteen volunteering at
a radio station, and I just felt comfortable the first moment.
And I suspect that's how it was for you, And
I don't don't know how you process that. Were we
just gifted the same as our father, or did our
father influence us, because I could tell you you're as good
as your dad and more versatile.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Just how it turned out anyway, Well.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And he did a lot of sports also, you know,
mostly basketball, hockey, football, but he did a little bit
of baseball, some boxings. He was involved in a lot
of different sports too. But I think and I've talked
about it with other sons of announcers, Joe Buck, Tom Brenneman,
Noah Eagle, who's of the younger generation does a great job.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Oh is he talented? We all, you know, we all
grew up around it.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
So we learned via osmosis.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We were in the broadcast booth, we went on road trips,
so we just did have a little bit of an
advantage as far as learning the chemistry between a broadcaster
and the analyst, what goes on between the booth and
the truck, you know, the production folks. So it was
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just not that I didn't learn much in school, because
I did.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It was probably.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Just as important as anything we learned in class, was
tagging along and watching professionals and learning how they do it.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
A Voice for All Seasons, what a perfect title. Kenny
Albert is joining us? Kenny, my goodness, But did it
fall in your lap? The Olympics and I don't know
which was more fun to watch and hear the call
of the women or the men. The men was not
the Miracle of nineteen eighty, but it was kind of
a thrillical, you know, a miracle in and of itself.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I was just wondering.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
One of the most iconic calls ever was the Miracle game,
and it happened on the actual anniversary.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And do you believe in miracles.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Yes, did you have any pressure or thoughts the night before? Hey,
if they pull this off and be candid, I better
have a good line.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You think about it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And the thing is, it was the seventh Olympics that
I've worked for the copy men's and women. So I've
been there before. I've worked prior to this year five
gold medal games on the men's and women's side, but
this was different because the NHL players were back.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The US and.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Canada wind up getting to the gold medal game. On
the women's side, it's the US and Canada just about
every time, seven out of.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Eight gold medal games. So if the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
US and Canada did not make it on the women's side,
it would have been a huge upset.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
But on the men's side.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You had Sweden, you had Finland, you had Slovakia, all
filled with NHL players. And think back to how close
the US and Canada both came to losing in the
quarterfinal round. They both went to overten, so it was
certainly not a given that those two teams would be there.
And then once they won their semi final matchups on
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Friday night, all of a sudden, we were all thinking.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Wow, this is really happening.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And Eddie Olchak, Brian Bouschet and Katherine Tappan and I
we called the bronze medal game on Saturday, so it's
not like we were sitting around thinking about.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
It all day. We had to work another game Saturday night, and.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Then fourteen hours later was the gold medal game. And
I do think about it a little bit in those situations.
I've been lucky enough to call three Stanley Cup finals
on the TV side and several more on radio, and
I'm not one that really scripts out a final call
or a final line. I don't want it to sound
too forced, but you do think about keywords.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, When Tampa.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Bay won in twenty twenty one, they had won the
year before, so my line was Lightning strikes twice in
Tampa Bay, lightning when they're second straight Stanley cupp When
the Vegas Golden Knights won two years later, I said
the silver trophy to the Golden Knights, playing off of
the Stanley Cup and then their dame. So I wanted
to somehow include the fact that it was the first
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since nineteen eighty if the US won. So you know,
in hockey, you never know what kind of goal is
going to end it if it goes to overtime, right
if the game ends in regulation, and there's a like
al Michaels in nineteen eighty, it was the countdown, you know,
five seconds three, yeah, four to three. But when it
goes to overtime, it could end at any time. You
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don't know how the goal is going to be scored.
There are a million different ways. So I wound up
calling the goal, then paused and referred to it as
the Golden Goal, which Mike Emrick and Chris Cuthbert brilliantly
worked in in twenty ten when Sydney Crosby scored the
golden goal for Canada. But then I had thought a
little bit about incorporating the nineteen eighty team into part
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of the call. So the third part was, for the
first time since the nineteen eighty miracle, the United States
takes the goal. So it was sort of a three
part call, and that was the part that I had
thought about a little bit.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
A voice for all seasons, Kenny Elbert joining us. All right, So,
by far, hockey's the hardest, right, I mean, you have
mastered I would be my guests. I mean on some
I did arena football and stuff, But I mean, I
would think baseball for me is naturally the easiest.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
But hockey is you got all those names.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
It's like tennis player names coming out in four different shifts,
all these different teams, the actions so fast. I'm telling you,
I don't know how your brain works and does it,
But I'm going to ask you the question.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
But guess hockey is by far the hardest, right.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Uh, it's the exact opposite. Actually, for me, hockey is
the easiest. You're kidding me how it's the easiest.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It just is you're calling the game, the pucks at
action for sixty minutes. People always think because of the
names and because of the line changes on the fly,
it's hard. But maybe because I've been doing it for
thirty five years professionally and into the tape recorder, it
just flows.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
You're just calling the game.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Basketball is similar, but slower, forty eight minutes, more whistles,
more stoppages, slower.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Football is the most rhythmic.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
It's one play and then it's twenty to twenty five seconds.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Of ref Yeah. Of the four, Baseball to.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Me is the most challenging because there's so much downtime
in between pitches and between batters. Now it has gotten
a little bit easier because of the pitch clock, but
I'm sure for the folks who do baseball every day,
one hundred and sixty two games, to them, it's probably
the easiest.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Well, baseball's mostly of relationship. It's a very slow relationship.
I mean, it's like sitting at the game with somebody.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Michael Kay is one of the greats at that. Harry
Carey was one of the greats of that. It's more
of an experience. But boy, I'm telling you, when it
comes to doing hockey and basketball, you and your father
are simply in the league of your home.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Best advice your dad ever gave you, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You know. He never really sat down and gave much advice.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Growing up, and was more taking me along and having
me listen in and watch and observe.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Certainly through the years, especially when I started out, he
would listen to the tapes and give advice, but I
would say overall it was just watching and learning.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Yeah, you're very, very, very good. I'm looking forward to
the book. I have not read it yet in full confession,
but I am going to. You are simply a voice
for all seasons. I think you're very humble about it.
I think you were gifted in a very unique way
and happened to be the offspring of someone gifted in
a very similar way. But as my I'll end the
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way my son said it. You are my favorite Kenny
Albert and this has been a thrill.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
God bless you.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Writing a book was such a fun project, and I
might have a couple couple of new chapters.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I might be read it for a sequel pretty.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Soon, following the Olympics and some other events I've covered
since the book came out.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
It was a pretty magic Olympic game. He's a pretty
special guy. If you've ever done any of these things,
they make it look so easy, it's not. And he
does them all, and he does them all at a
very high level. Truly a mic for all seasons. Check
out the book everywhere great books are sold.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Their Spotlight. Interview of the Week Kenny Albert, Son of.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Arms Your Morning Show with Michael del Joino.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I want to start your morning off with all the
information you need to start your day off right, and
so let's get started. The FBI is now leading the
investigation and do an attack at a temple Israel in
West Bloomfield, Michigan yesterday. They've identified the man who drove
the truck into the temple as a forty one year
old aman, Muhammad Ghazali. He was born in Lebanon, immigrated
to the United States in twenty eleven, became an American
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citizen in twenty sixteen. Armed security guards and Ghazali engaged
in a shootout and the suspect was killed.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
One of the head.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Of security was taken to the hospital he got knocked
down by the car when it preached the building. And
we've had thirty law enforcement officers taken to the hospital
for smoke inhalation.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Meanwhile, in Virginia, the FBI says it was a terrorist
act when a gunman with the ISIS ties opened fire
at Virginia's Old Dominion University while shouting a la Akbar
crazy to Allah. He's worshiping God as he's killing innocent people.
Said one pastor, whose son was a senior at Old
Dominion that he and his other ROTC peers helped subdue
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the shooter once he began to fire at the instructor
What he.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Said was that someone came into the classroom and asked
was his RTC and began shooting, at which time he
and his fellow classmates went into active protective mode.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
A reminder war is dangerous.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
A US military refueling tanker it's part of Operation Epic
Fury has crashed in Western Iraq.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
US Central Command since it's aware of the loss of
a KC one thirty five Strato tanker and that two
aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft
went down in Western Iraq while the other landed safely.
SITCOM says the incident happened in friendly airspace and was
not due to hustle or friendly fire. The status of
the crew is unknown, but officials say rescue efforts are ongoing.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
A federal judge is handing President Trump his first win
in a New York New Jersey Gateway tunnel project lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Sarahle Kessler reports.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
Judge Shared Hurtling of the Federal Claims Court in Washington
has dismissed six of eight counts in the lawsuit over
the Trump administration temporarily freezing funds for a new rail
tunnel under the Hudson River that happened last October and
led to one thousand construction worker layoffs, stopping work on
the sixteen billion dollar project for.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
More than a week last month.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
The judge says the case is mostly moved because Offens
had resumed the flow of two hundred million dollars and
it had frozen.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl's.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
Response, we will continue to fight and continue to win
if Donald Trump tries to illegally stop funding again. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Universal Pictures will be keeping its movies in theaters longer.
The studio announced Thursday that'll extend the theatrical release window
for its films to at least five weekends starting this year.
It will further extend to seven weekends next year. This
marks a major shift and strategy since the theatrical lens
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were shrunk during the pandemic era. Since theaters reopened, the
average window has been around forty five days, about half
of what it used to be. Although I might remind
Universal and others it may not be the length of time,
but the quality of the movie. It's not like we
didn't have time to get there. We were never coming well,
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there's an old saying in Saint Patrick's Day is Tuesday
next week. There's an old saying that everyone's just a
wee bit tied at ashen Saint Patrick's Day. But according
to the US Census Bureau, about thirty five million people
in American claim Irish ancestry.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Pre Tennis has more.
Speaker 13 (34:33):
That's about ten percent of the US population. But that
small group parties big. There will be hundreds of Saint
Patrick's Day celebrations across the country this weekend. Parades, festivals,
Leprechaun runs, Dying the River in Chicago, and don't forget
the pub crawls, Irish music and lots of dancing. It's
enough to make anyone want to be Irish. And on
Saint Patrick's Day you can be because he was an
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Irish either Saint Patrick was British.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I'm pre Tennis. We are all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
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