Dion, minus the Belmonts, out with his new book, The Rock & Roll Philosopher, joins to discuss his life and lessons.
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Talk radio in thirty seven years, forty two years of radio.
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I've never had to say this, So let's go on.
I can't. I'm too tired. I'm serious. I'm so tired.
Are you any any sweep last night? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Tired of winning? Great, it's exhausted.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You know. Donald Trump once said we would get tired
of winning. Yep, He's so right. I'm exhausted.
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H Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
First of all, I can't believe it's Friday, March to fourteenth. Well,
that's us a great song, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Favorite Satana songs? Yeah, it really is great song. Why
are we waiting?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Well, Chucky Schumer blinked, and now the Democrats, so Chucky blinks,
and now the party freaks. That's basically what you're waking
up to this morning. I mean they're going there, They're
going cuckoo, fran and Ali. For us, it's just another
We got a lot of those today. I would get
a sore throat from rooster crowing. I send you a
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rooster crowing. Well you only crowed twice, okay, so you
wanted three.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well it's a false doctor. It was unbiblical. I couldn't
do it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Actually, by the way, everybody thinks of the cock crowing
three times. Peter denied three times. We don't know that
the cock crowed more than once. He said, before the
cock crows, you will deny me three times. But I
don't know why I always do the crow in threes.
I guess an honor of Peter. Guy makes one mistake
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right and walks on water, which was pretty impressive till
he look down.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now, all the talking about looking drowned, I put a
d in there, did not I drowning.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No, so Chucky blinks and he's going to vote to
keep the government open.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We told you what. I was like, what's his play.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You can't you don't hold the cards and you don't
realize it, but you're in checkmate. So you're trying to
make doze everything and loss of government jobs everything. And
now if you, despite the president allow a government shut down,
well that costs more jobs and doge. And by the way,
if they're wanting to get rid of you know, week
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wait week lumber on the employment dolls, you're gonna make
it hard for them to get back. You know, when
I know you got a pair of deuces, you can
play the game. I mean, just think twenty four hour
hours ago, how Chucky was talking, I got the votes
to shut the government down, and I'm like, okay, yesterday
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this time we were saying, what are you bragging about?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Right, that's a disaster for you.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Less than twenty four hours it's certainly before the cock crowed.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Chucky had this to say, to.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Have the conflict on the best ground we have summed
up in a sentence that they're making the middle class
pay for tax cuts for billionaires. It's much much better
not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which
to divert people from the number one issue we have
against these bastards, sorry, these people, which is not only
all these cuts, but they're ruining democracy.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I mean, so gracious a defeat right, Well, that gets
the freak going. And here's how the freak out sound.
And who's the best at freaking out? Well, really, Maxine Waters.
But let's start with AOC.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I guess the Senate Democratic leader, your senator said at
this meeting that he is going to vote for cloches word,
he is going to vote to allow there to be
a simple majority vote.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You think that's wrong, I'm sorry, I just want to
backtrack a second. Win again. Okay, let's go back to
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AOC all ready and.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
A tremendous mistake I think, well, first and foremost the
American people, if anyone has held a town hall or
has seen what has been happening in town hall, Yes,
American people, whether they are Republicans, independence, Democrats, are up
in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting a
federal agency.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's nobody upset. Her voice shaken that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I don't even know how you do that with a
straight now again, this begs the question, are they this
much of a liar or do they really believe this?
Do they only hang out with each other and watch
CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Have they not seen the poll?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Two thirds of the American people to eighty percent of
the American people are behind doege and outrage to what
they're finding. And they keep doing all these narratives and
visual stunts and rallies of federal employee. They're thoroughly convinced
that the whole nation is outraged when they're not.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh girl, baby girl, don't even.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Play Chuckie Blaze.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And now the rest of the Dems are freaking By
the way, did I mention yesterday that I think rob
em Manuel is going to run for president?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think you did it. Guess what came out today
breaking news.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Politico reports former Chicago mayor Robbie Manuel is considering a
run for president of the United States. Okay, there's a
lot of things that I see coming. I tell you
they're coming, then they come. I take a bow. I
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remind you of the great Noster del Jorda, who, by
the way, if he's talking about sports is never right.
But if he's talking about culture, world and politics.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
He's never wrong. Here he goes, hey, hey, hey, hey,
here he comes this ought it'll be good, which shall
be by the early twenty six.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
That'll be a sequel to Saly, only.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
This time on the ground.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh hey, when I said, Daddy, proby, daddy, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It's okay, Soddy, you fishing? Dad? Here?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Are you here here? Old on, come back to the show.
What did I say? I don't really understand what you said.
Oh I think what I said was By the year
twenty twenty six, there'll be another Sully movie, only this
time American Airlines and on the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Your bed was too loud. I couldn't understand you.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Okay, I understand a lot of stuff that's going on,
and it's my job to get your thoughts. Hey, don't
forget to use that talk back button on your iHeartRadio app.
Can't have your I want to show without your voice
what's on your mind. But I can't figure out how
an American Airline is plane filled with smoke, they get
on the ground, they get back towards the gate instead
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of getting the gate and letting everybody off. Or you know,
even if you did the slide that have been dramatic,
But I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Do the slide.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Get these people off the plane and as far away
from the plane as possible. It's a plane full of
fuel with smoke. You want people off, right, I'm all for.
But they put them on the wings. They put them
on the wings like they're in the Potomac and there's
this engine was on fire.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, and put them on the wing right above the fire.
Can we get everybody for a group picture? Real quick,
real quick, captain? What should we do?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I know, my weaper grill. It's always good to just
a little piece of metal right above the plane. That's
the best way to cook them. Put them out of
the wing. And so these poor guys are all on
the wing and the smoke is blowing right in their face,
and I'm thinking, if what is going what is going on?
One guy saying those peanuts.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Some small dog. Everyone I'm sick.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It is pazzl But I mean, why are they on
the wing? I mean Red was staring at it. I
was staring at him like I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Waiting to go down the slide, bye bye, bye bye.
So all I could think of was, you know that
they're in the cockpit.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
They're thinking, you know, the bright thing to do with
me to get him off the plane immediately and as
far away from the aircraft as possible. Let's get some
uh fire retired units in here and douse these engines.
But no, let's put him on the wing. Maybe we'll
get a Clint Eastwood movie. I mean, what were they thinking.
That's a bizarre one. Did I mention not to push
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a theme too far to the point where it's actually aggravating?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But did I mention?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Vladimir Putin said he's very interested in here.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I can't, I can't send.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Duck.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What the fuck was that?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, it must have been.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, it wasn't a she waiting outside the door. It
was actually Vladimir Putin waiting outside the door, and.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
He's very interested in this ceasefire.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
We agree, correct, it was the propositions to stop hostilities.
But we proceed from the fact that such ceasefire. But
it should be such that would lead to a permanent
peace and remove the initial original causes of the crisis.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
All right, if I could just reel it in and
be a serious host for you. This this is a
remarkable first sign. We knew that these two sides really
hated each other. They've lost a lot of lives. They
have some really tough, serious concerns on both sides. For
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the Ukrainian side, they've got to know that if they
go into a ceasefire, if they come to an end
of the war peace deal, that this just won't happen again.
Five years from now, ten years from now. Ever, that's
a pretty big lift for Marko Rubio and the President.
On the Russian side, clearly they don't want any UN
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encroachment towards their land. So no UN status ever for Ukraine.
But you know, as the President laid out in the
Oval Office, man, there's a lot of stuff in this
There's energy, plants, there's lands. I mean, there's a lot
to it. You could not have asked for a more
positive first side. Everybody knew the heavier lifting would be
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the Russian side, And here's Vladimir Putin coming right out
and saying words that I know the media they must
have been carpal tunnel cramping as they had to type it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to US President Trump's ceasefire
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proposal with Ukraine in principle. That's a great, great first step.
Don't let anybody tell you anything else. But both sides
need this war to be over. They just need the
path to end it in a way that both can
feel comfortable. And we took a giant leap towards that.
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So that's a giant leap towards a nobel peace price
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
But just what everybody said, well, he stopped this war,
he's this terrible war.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well the Canadian.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Apologize, Well, they're gonnaend up in a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's gonna be a disaster for everybody. I had somebody
actually say to me yesterday, I hope they.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Don't cut off my social security all of yourself. But
I mean, look at all of these stories. You know
it's my goal. Usually because it's Friday, I mean, how
much can we all get? Beat ourselves up? Gotta have
you gotta have a fun Friday? Could it get more
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fun than this? Putin agreeing and principle to a cease fire,
ready to talk serious about finding common ground for peace
and permanent peace. Chucky knew, well if he just listened
to this show for the last five days, he had
known he was in checkmate.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When the hour arrived, he couldn't go all in.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
He had to fold, so Chuckie blinks, the party freaks.
Putin's interested in peace.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Stup hup messed up my tickets and made my life great.
I did have one very unfortunate moment at White Castle
that I'm ashamed with you. A little bit later on.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Russian President Putin says his country agrees in principle with
a ceasefire plan and very optimistic about finding permanent peace.
There's going to be some tough demands on both sides,
but both sides now are ready to talk. Another victory
for the Trump administration. NAS. We'll try again tonight to
launch the mission to retrieve two stranded astronauts Sonny and
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Butch and Jackie blinked, And because of that, a vote
will advance the GOP's six month funding bill. Oh and cockadoodle,
do I told you he would run for president? Political
reports Former Chicago Mayor Romney Manuel. Stop worrying about the
baththrom stop worrying about the locker room. Let's start worrying
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about the classroom. I'm worried about the White Castle. Are
you going to tell us about the White Castle? That's
very embarrassing. I really don't know if I want to
share it. So first I get on seat geek and
I try to get tickets for the first session of
the SEC tournament at the Bridgetone Arena. They confirm session one.
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Then when it's time to get the tickets, they send
me session three Thursday at noon. I'm upset. I'm trying
to get a human being to change these tickets. I'm
getting bought after bot. Finally I just give in. I
go on Thursday. The games on Wednesday stunk. Yesterday's game
a buzzer beater three for Old Miss to win, double
overtime for Texas to win. We saw great games and
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then they decided, hey, let's swing buy White Castle on
our way home Old and I'm like, that is so unhealthy,
that's disgusting. At place is a grease pit. I want
you to know. I got the two double cheeseburger sliders
with cheese fries. It was gone. We were getting it
to go, and I ate it all before we left.
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Before you even pulled up. The bag never made it
to the car. That's how good they were. I forgot
how good a white Castle. I mean, you're talking about
Melton really are they really are?
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Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Red just sent me yet another victory, which is the
United States Postal Service agreeing with Elon Muskin Doge in
the cutting of what was it, how many jobs?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Ten thousand one?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, just another victory for the Trump administration. The other
is Putin making a major announcement that agrees with President
Trump's plan for peace and a call for a ceasefire
and principal they're working out the details. We take a
giant leap towards ending the Russian Ukraine War. What a
triumph that would be for a promise made, promise kept
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by Donald Trump. Also, we have Chuckie Schumer caving there'll
be no government shutdown. The Democrats will approve the GOP
six month funding bill. Chucky makes it happen. And now
the Dems go crazy and freak out on him. But
you know, there is a picture this morning of progress,
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people not fighting over everything. You know, really, Donald Trump
is living out the inaugural address of Joe Biden in
a way that Joe Biden failed it. And so America
is sick of fighting over everything. The President's different, America's
behind him, He's doing what he said he would do.
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America loves what he's doing. And then you have the
Democrats crashing Trump Tower. That's a private place. You're going
to just end up in jail. Yeah, Maxine Waters and
AOC freaking out. They're talking about the end of Democrat
all this nonsense, and America has moved on. It really
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is a breathtaking picture, and it kind of comes to
a crescendo today. I mean, is there a better visual
than this. Governor Kathy Hochel is headed to the White
House to visit with the President this morning about New
York City's the New York States sanctuary statuses.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Wouldn't you love.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
To be a fly on that wall where narrative meets
reality in the Oval Office. That's kind of what the
picture of the day is. If you go back to
the fifties, there was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Diana, the Belmonts.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
These were the big, big bands, and Deane had huge
hits with Wanderer Run Around Sioux, later Abraham Martin and
John and then a very very successful contemporary Christian music career.
He was into the rock and roll Hall of Fame
and a lot of his friends call him the rock
and roll Philosopher. I can't think of a better name
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for his new book. Dion minus the Bellmont's out with
his new book, rock and Roll Philosopher is Joining us
and I love it because it doesn't doesn't really read
like a book.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's more like a conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, it's intimate. There's a lot of First of all,
I want to say, it's a joy to be with you.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Michael, thank you. You are a hero of mine. You
should note that.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
Ah, that's sweet man, thank you. You know, I just
have a lot of friends. When we're sitting around, you know,
I've been clean and sober fifty seven years, and I
have a lot of friends that are in recovery. We
go out for lunch and I tell these stories about
Bob Dylan and Nick Clark and you know, and you
know Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochlan and you know, maybe
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Sam Cook and Jackie Wilson. They're all like, hey, you
got to write a book. I know, and these stories.
I think everybody should hear these stories. And that's what
the book is about.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh it was by the way, I learned a lot
and I thought I knew everything. So I took a
trip from Chicago to New Orleans with my best friend
Keith Collins. It's a thirteen hour drive and I call
it the thirteen hour drive that went by in thirteen minutes.
And it was very much like what you describe in
the book. Kind of a walk to a mais like
the journey that you and Adam had. And I don't
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know what happened, but time revealed itself as non existent
and we just blinked and we were at our exit
in New Orleans and we don't know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It was one of the most supernatural things.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And that's kind of how this book reads, as we
fly through a life that like, I had no idea
you were on the Winter Dance Party tour with Buddy
Holly and Ritchie and Big Bopper.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I had no idea of that. I mean I learned
a lot and I thought I knew everything.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yes, I was like, yeah, I knew them.
Speaker 13 (20:58):
Well, I went on a tour with Buddy Holly before that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, not the Ninth tour obviously, but well.
Speaker 13 (21:04):
I was on that tour also, but I was on
another tour with him a month before that, for like
about two months, and we became good friends, and that's
why we went out on the Winter Dance Party tour.
But yeah, you know, I was the guy. You know,
there was only four of us in the room, and
he rented he chartered a small plane, a one engine
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plane to take take us from clear Lake to Moorhead, Minnesota.
And you know, the plane never made it because the
pilot didn't know how to read the instruments and a
bad storm and they crashed like five minutes after they
took off. But I just, you know, I want a
coin to us to get on that plane. But when
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he told me it was thirty six dollars that was
the rent.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Thirty six saved your life.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I was gonna say it never really comes out in
the book, but I wanted to ask you, right to
your face, how much did Buddy Holly's death impact you.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You know, that's hard to measure, but I miss him.
Speaker 13 (22:08):
He he really influenced me on a lot of levels,
you know, And you know he.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Was he was a brother.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
He was like a great guitarist and songwriter and rocker
and just a great person. The guy was like statuesque.
He was a decisive he was a He was.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
A remarkable human being to know. So I miss him.
I think of him often.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
The name of the book is called the rock and
Roll Philosopher Deon de Mucci from Dion and the belmonts
I love the way you wove in lyrics in chapter six.
I'm the type of guy who will never settle down.
By the way, It's different when you're singing it, isn't it.
We're pretty girls are well?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know that I'm around.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I kiss him and I love him because to me,
they're all the same. I hug him and I squeeze him.
They don't even know your name. They call me the wan, Yeah,
the wanderer. I roam around around, around, run around, seu
about your wife of sixty one years. That's a different
Diondimuci than walk down the Sager stage and changed my life.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But That's what I love about the book.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're not afraid to share all of your flaws and
all of your weaknesses, because the journey and the making
of the messenger is what makes the message right.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
You know. The Wanderer really would be Yeah, you're right,
But you know.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I wonder my dad loved you. That's his song.
Speaker 13 (23:33):
It's all in there, and it's a little bit of
everything the Wanderer, you know, it's it was.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
A little bit of me, but I threw in. I
roam from town to town, I go through life without
a care.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I'm happy as a clown with my two fists of iron,
but I'm going nowhere. So in one part of the song,
he sees himself accurately that he's kind of a very shallow,
you know, thin nerror of a man, and he kind
of catches it for a second, but then he off
he goes again.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I brought up my dad. I want to tell you
a funny story. So I went to the Sanger Theater
to see Amy Grant. I had no idea who was
opening for her, and this guy walks out with a
guitar with like one of those golf hats on and
blew us all away. No one's music and inside Job
in particular impacted my life more than yours and you.
So I'm home. I got your new album. I went
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to this concert. It's blaring. We were used to the
banging on the door, which was always followed by.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Lola music down.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So my dad bangs on the door and I immediately
lowered the music down. He goes, oh, no, open the door,
and so I opened the door and he goes, I
don't want you to lower it down.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
What are you listening to?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I go, gosh, Dad, it's a new art, I said,
can you believe this Dion. I would later do Oldi's
Radio and realize what you were in the fifties and sixties,
But at the time I'm like, oh, it's a new artist,
and he's absolutely Michael. That's Dion Demucci from di Ou
to the Belmonts. Turn that up and you know what
my dad heard, Dion. Now, my dad, you know, at
that time, not a very godly man at all, and
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this is what he heard. Center of my life in
this world on a train, bow for glory. Get on
board and I'll tell you the story. If you run,
you'll seek foolish pleasures. You get still you're fine hidden treasures.
And then you know he was soaking it all in
and I couldn't resist. I said, oh, do you want
to hear a song called Truth will set you free?
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And I don't know what that seed meant. Eventually my
father would give his life to Christ. But it all
began in that conversation. But I'm gonna make this about
me for a second, in that I never got inside job.
I mean, I guess I did, literally, But after reading
this book, I get inside job now because we can
change outwardly to try to impress God, or we can
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have an inside job and inward work, and regardless of
what's coming out, we're a new creation and the center
of my life. All those lyrics and putting in those priorities,
I was fourteen years old and I made those my priorities.
Keep Christ the center of my life. Not eyes on
the storm, eyes on Him in the boat. And that's
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where my wife will come from, that's where my children
will come from, that's where my work will come from.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I always love Paul more than the others.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
But and you know what, here I am blinking forty
five years later, and I've kept those priorities and that's
the influence you've had on my life. Inside job, I
think you know, I played a lot of Deanna the Belmont.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I think it was your greatest piece of work, greatest
you know.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Yeah, that's why I'm on track, and that's why I'm here,
and that's why I'm healthy, sane and still relevant and creative.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And it's all because of him, you know.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
I I ask what my He's the uh. He is
the fulfillment of all desire. And it keeps me on track.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You know.
Speaker 13 (26:49):
That's I have a gift. And if you have a gift,
there's got to be a gift giver. And so I
don't take it for granted. I cherish the gift and
I want to hone it and just become better at it.
And I'm still doing that. And I love taking people
on a trip, like you're saying, like to enchantment, to sendence,
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you know, bring them to a higher reality.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So it's fun. That's what the book is about.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Also, Dean Deomucci, the name of the book is the
Rock and Roll Philosopher. You wrote this along with Adam.
It's really not a book as much as it's a conversation.
But you want to know talk about cheesy. We haven't
done this in a long time, but I love the
sections where I got to hear my hero tell me
his favorite movies.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
His favorite artist, favorite songs.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't know whose idea that was, but I have
to shamelessly say I was having a field day with
that too. I mean, I just loved everything about the
book and the way it flowed. It was just a
fun journey through your life.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
Yeah, it's you know, people ask you these questions. They
want to know, what are your favorite duopstors? You know,
who's your favorite female singers? You know, how do you learn?
There's a section and how I learned, you know, and
I talk about all these people that, you know, like
Bob Dylan taught me that thinking wasn't rearranging your prejudices, right,
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you know, and like some people taught me how to compromise,
and some people taught me about humility, which I didn't
even know what it was, you know. So I talk
about all these things in the book, and I think
in an entertaining way where people can enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Dean de Mucci rock and Roll Hall of Famer and
rock and roll philosopher, that's the name of his new book.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
We'll have more with Dean here at moments. First, if
you're just.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Waking up the big blink, where is that up? Minority
Leader Chucky Schumer. Schumer says he will vote to advance
the GOP six month funding bill that passed the House
in order to stop a government shutdown.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Shumer centertor of flor speech that there are no winners
in a government shutdown, adding that the bill is a
terrible option, but that he believes allowing Trump to take
more power through a shutdown is a far worse option.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
There is nobody in the world, nobody who wants to
shut the government down more than Donald Trump and more
than Elon Musk.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
The comments from the Senate minority leader or contrast from
Wednsmay just a day earlier, when he said Democrats would
not let it pass. If the Senate passes the bill,
it would then go to President Donald Trump's desk for
a signature.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
President Trump says he will place a two hundred percent
tariff on all alcohol products.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
From the European Union. Michael Cassner reports.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
In a post on his Truth Social Trump said it
would be in response to a fifty percent tariff on
whiskey implemented by the EU. The President said the union
was created for, in his words, the sole purpose of
taking advantage of the US. He added the tariff will
be great for champagne and wine businesses across the country.
(29:45):
It all comes after both the EU and Canada responded
with tariffs of their own yesterday after Trump placed some
on steel and aluminum imports. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
President Trump says he still has a very good relationship
with the North Korean leader Kim Joe ung un.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Brian Shook as details.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
He touted his relationship with Kim as he met with
the NATO's Secretary General in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I have a great relationship with Kim Jong un, and
we'll see what happens, but certainly he's.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
A nuclear power.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
Trump noted that things got off to a very rough
start between him and Kim during his first term in office.
He suggested he would consider reopening talks with Kim. Trump
claimed there would have been a nuclear war with North
Korea had Hillary Clinton won the twenty sixteen presidential election.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Of course, you know today's March the fourteenth, But did
you know it's pie Day?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Somewhere John fort Coley's getting excited thinking about a baked pie.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
No pie as in the Humble Potato People.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
Go crazy for pies on Pie Day, celebrating the date
of three fourteen. But what if you're among the twenty
two percent of Americans who don't like pie? Today is
another food day. It's National Potato Day. Chip Leader lace
as eighty six percent of us love a good potato chip.
In fact, Americans he close to two billion pounds every year.
That breaks down to over six and a half pounds
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of the crunchy, salty, deep fried potato slices each I'm
pre tennis.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono. There's
an old expression I've always lived by.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
God can't glorify himself through us until we stop trying
to glorify ourselves through him.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
That's the that's the that's the lesson of Dion de
Mucci's life. He's out with a new book, Rock and
Roll Philosopher.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It really is. It is an inward work before outward work,
isn't it.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
That's perfectly said. Yeah, life is not about me. At
one point I thought it was. I thought it was
the center of the universe, you know, until I open up.
You know, God created us in such a way only
to work well.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
When we're in union with him.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
And you know, the most courageous thing a man can
do is open his home.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
To his creator.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Because God's not in competition with us. He wants us
to be fully alive. He knows us inside out, and
he wants to use us in miraculous ways.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But you got to be open. It's such an important word.
Speaker 13 (32:16):
Some people think they're open and tolerant, and they're so intolerant.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It's incredible how closed they are.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
And they you know, they self enlightened instead of being
enlightened from above.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You know, right, Dean de Muci closing moments. Don't got
to get a copy of this book, The Rock and
Roll Philosopher. Whether you're a fan of Deona, the Belmonts,
or dion the contemporary Christian years, or Abraham Martin and
John whatever era, there's been so many different dion Eras.
He's my hero. I will say this people that had
the greatest influence on my life. One was a high
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school coach, the other was you. The other was Keith Green,
Steve Camp, Amy Grant, I hope you all realize, and
then later in oldies I would realize what you meant
in contemporary music in the fifties and sixties as well.
I hope you realize the impact you've had on lives,
including this book. You're still impacting my life, Deanna, and
for that I thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Michael. I did, by the way, I did a Christmas.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Song with Amy Grant called Hello Christmas. She's a great
friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, they're great people. Diana Mucci. Get the book.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
So whether you love Dianna, the Belmonts or what have you,
the rock and roll philosopher, get it. Everywhere books are
sold The Life and Lessons of Dion de Mucci.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enjoy Good Morning Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Bite Friday two three.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Because we're in this together.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Charny. I've
been in.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Talk radio in thirty seven years, forty two years of radio.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've never had to say this, So let's go on.
I can't. I'm too tired. I'm serious. I'm so tired.
Are you any any sweep last night? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Tired of winning? Great, it's exhausted.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You know. Donald Trump once said we would get tired
of winning. Yep, He's so right. I'm exhausted.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
H Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
First of all, I can't believe it's Friday, March to fourteenth. Well,
that's us a great song, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Favorite Satana songs? Yeah, it really is great song. Why
are we waiting?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Well, Chucky Schumer blinked, and now the Democrats, so Chucky blinks,
and now the party freaks. That's basically what you're waking
up to this morning. I mean they're going there, They're
going cuckoo, fran and Ali. For us, it's just another
We got a lot of those today. I would get
a sore throat from rooster crowing. I send you a
(01:55):
rooster crowing. Well you only crowed twice, okay, so you
wanted three.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well it's a false doctor. It was unbiblical. I couldn't
do it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Actually, by the way, everybody thinks of the cock crowing
three times. Peter denied three times. We don't know that
the cock crowed more than once. He said, before the
cock crows, you will deny me three times. But I
don't know why I always do the crow in threes.
I guess an honor of Peter. Guy makes one mistake
(02:25):
right and walks on water, which was pretty impressive till
he look down.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now, all the talking about looking drowned, I put a
d in there, did not I drowning.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No, so Chucky blinks and he's going to vote to
keep the government open.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We told you what. I was like, what's his play.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You can't you don't hold the cards and you don't
realize it, but you're in checkmate. So you're trying to
make doze everything and loss of government jobs everything. And
now if you, despite the president allow a government shut down,
well that costs more jobs and doge. And by the way,
if they're wanting to get rid of you know, week
(03:09):
wait week lumber on the employment dolls, you're gonna make
it hard for them to get back. You know, when
I know you got a pair of deuces, you can
play the game. I mean, just think twenty four hour
hours ago, how Chucky was talking, I got the votes
to shut the government down, and I'm like, okay, yesterday
(03:29):
this time we were saying, what are you bragging about?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Right, that's a disaster for you.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Less than twenty four hours it's certainly before the cock crowed.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Chucky had this to say, to.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Have the conflict on the best ground we have summed
up in a sentence that they're making the middle class
pay for tax cuts for billionaires. It's much much better
not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which
to divert people from the number one issue we have
against these bastards, sorry, these people, which is not only
all these cuts, but they're ruining democracy.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I mean, so gracious a defeat right, Well, that gets
the freak going. And here's how the freak out sound.
And who's the best at freaking out? Well, really, Maxine Waters.
But let's start with AOC.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
I guess the Senate Democratic leader, your senator said at
this meeting that he is going to vote for cloches word,
he is going to vote to allow there to be
a simple majority vote.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You think that's wrong, I'm sorry, I just want to
backtrack a second. Win again. Okay, let's go back to
(04:52):
AOC all ready and.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
A tremendous mistake I think, well, first and foremost the
American people, if anyone has held a town hall or
has seen what has been happening in town hall, Yes,
American people, whether they are Republicans, independence, Democrats, are up
in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting a
federal agency.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's nobody upset. Her voice shaken that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I don't even know how you do that with a
straight now again, this begs the question, are they this
much of a liar or do they really believe this?
Do they only hang out with each other and watch
CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Have they not seen the poll?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Two thirds of the American people to eighty percent of
the American people are behind doege and outrage to what
they're finding. And they keep doing all these narratives and
visual stunts and rallies of federal employee. They're thoroughly convinced
that the whole nation is outraged when they're not.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh girl, baby girl, don't even.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Play Chuckie Blaze.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And now the rest of the Dems are freaking By
the way, did I mention yesterday that I think rob
em Manuel is going to run for president?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think you did it. Guess what came out today
breaking news.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Politico reports former Chicago mayor Robbie Manuel is considering a
run for president of the United States. Okay, there's a
lot of things that I see coming. I tell you
they're coming, then they come. I take a bow. I
(06:41):
remind you of the great Noster del Jorda, who, by
the way, if he's talking about sports is never right.
But if he's talking about culture, world and politics.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
He's never wrong. Here he goes, hey, hey, hey, hey,
here he comes this ought it'll be good, which shall
be by the early twenty six.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
That'll be a sequel to Saly, only.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
This time on the ground.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh hey, when I said, Daddy, proby, daddy, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It's okay, Soddy, you fishing? Dad? Here?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Are you here here? Old on, come back to the show.
What did I say? I don't really understand what you said.
Oh I think what I said was By the year
twenty twenty six, there'll be another Sully movie, only this
time American Airlines and on the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Your bed was too loud. I couldn't understand you.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Okay, I understand a lot of stuff that's going on,
and it's my job to get your thoughts. Hey, don't
forget to use that talk back button on your iHeartRadio app.
Can't have your I want to show without your voice
what's on your mind. But I can't figure out how
an American Airline is plane filled with smoke, they get
on the ground, they get back towards the gate instead
(08:12):
of getting the gate and letting everybody off. Or you know,
even if you did the slide that have been dramatic,
But I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Do the slide.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Get these people off the plane and as far away
from the plane as possible. It's a plane full of
fuel with smoke. You want people off, right, I'm all for.
But they put them on the wings. They put them
on the wings like they're in the Potomac and there's
this engine was on fire.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, and put them on the wing right above the fire.
Can we get everybody for a group picture? Real quick,
real quick, captain? What should we do?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I know, my weaper grill. It's always good to just
a little piece of metal right above the plane. That's
the best way to cook them. Put them out of
the wing. And so these poor guys are all on
the wing and the smoke is blowing right in their face,
and I'm thinking, if what is going what is going on?
One guy saying those peanuts.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Some small dog. Everyone I'm sick.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It is pazzl But I mean, why are they on
the wing? I mean Red was staring at it. I
was staring at him like I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Waiting to go down the slide, bye bye, bye bye.
So all I could think of was, you know that
they're in the cockpit.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
They're thinking, you know, the bright thing to do with
me to get him off the plane immediately and as
far away from the aircraft as possible. Let's get some
uh fire retired units in here and douse these engines.
But no, let's put him on the wing. Maybe we'll
get a Clint Eastwood movie. I mean, what were they thinking.
That's a bizarre one. Did I mention not to push
(09:40):
a theme too far to the point where it's actually aggravating?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But did I mention?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Vladimir Putin said he's very interested in here.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I can't, I can't send.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Duck.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What the fuck was that?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, it must have been.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, it wasn't a she waiting outside the door. It
was actually Vladimir Putin waiting outside the door, and.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
He's very interested in this ceasefire.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
We agree, correct, it was the propositions to stop hostilities.
But we proceed from the fact that such ceasefire. But
it should be such that would lead to a permanent
peace and remove the initial original causes of the crisis.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
All right, if I could just reel it in and
be a serious host for you. This this is a
remarkable first sign. We knew that these two sides really
hated each other. They've lost a lot of lives. They
have some really tough, serious concerns on both sides. For
(11:06):
the Ukrainian side, they've got to know that if they
go into a ceasefire, if they come to an end
of the war peace deal, that this just won't happen again.
Five years from now, ten years from now. Ever, that's
a pretty big lift for Marko Rubio and the President.
On the Russian side, clearly they don't want any UN
(11:28):
encroachment towards their land. So no UN status ever for Ukraine.
But you know, as the President laid out in the
Oval Office, man, there's a lot of stuff in this
There's energy, plants, there's lands. I mean, there's a lot
to it. You could not have asked for a more
positive first side. Everybody knew the heavier lifting would be
(11:52):
the Russian side, And here's Vladimir Putin coming right out
and saying words that I know the media they must
have been carpal tunnel cramping as they had to type it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to US President Trump's ceasefire
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proposal with Ukraine in principle. That's a great, great first step.
Don't let anybody tell you anything else. But both sides
need this war to be over. They just need the
path to end it in a way that both can
feel comfortable. And we took a giant leap towards that.
(12:35):
So that's a giant leap towards a nobel peace price
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
But just what everybody said, well, he stopped this war,
he's this terrible war.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well the Canadian.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Apologize, Well, they're gonnaend up in a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's gonna be a disaster for everybody. I had somebody
actually say to me yesterday, I hope they.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Don't cut off my social security all of yourself. But
I mean, look at all of these stories. You know
it's my goal. Usually because it's Friday, I mean, how
much can we all get? Beat ourselves up? Gotta have
you gotta have a fun Friday? Could it get more
(13:18):
fun than this? Putin agreeing and principle to a cease fire,
ready to talk serious about finding common ground for peace
and permanent peace. Chucky knew, well if he just listened
to this show for the last five days, he had
known he was in checkmate.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When the hour arrived, he couldn't go all in.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
He had to fold, so Chuckie blinks, the party freaks.
Putin's interested in peace.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Stup hup messed up my tickets and made my life great.
I did have one very unfortunate moment at White Castle
that I'm ashamed with you. A little bit later on.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Russian President Putin says his country agrees in principle with
a ceasefire plan and very optimistic about finding permanent peace.
There's going to be some tough demands on both sides,
but both sides now are ready to talk. Another victory
for the Trump administration. NAS. We'll try again tonight to
launch the mission to retrieve two stranded astronauts Sonny and
(14:26):
Butch and Jackie blinked, And because of that, a vote
will advance the GOP's six month funding bill. Oh and cockadoodle,
do I told you he would run for president? Political
reports Former Chicago Mayor Romney Manuel. Stop worrying about the
baththrom stop worrying about the locker room. Let's start worrying
(14:47):
about the classroom. I'm worried about the White Castle. Are
you going to tell us about the White Castle? That's
very embarrassing. I really don't know if I want to
share it. So first I get on seat geek and
I try to get tickets for the first session of
the SEC tournament at the Bridgetone Arena. They confirm session one.
(15:09):
Then when it's time to get the tickets, they send
me session three Thursday at noon. I'm upset. I'm trying
to get a human being to change these tickets. I'm
getting bought after bot. Finally I just give in. I
go on Thursday. The games on Wednesday stunk. Yesterday's game
a buzzer beater three for Old Miss to win, double
overtime for Texas to win. We saw great games and
(15:30):
then they decided, hey, let's swing buy White Castle on
our way home Old and I'm like, that is so unhealthy,
that's disgusting. At place is a grease pit. I want
you to know. I got the two double cheeseburger sliders
with cheese fries. It was gone. We were getting it
to go, and I ate it all before we left.
(15:50):
Before you even pulled up. The bag never made it
to the car. That's how good they were. I forgot
how good a white Castle. I mean, you're talking about
Melton really are they really are?
Speaker 11 (16:04):
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Speaker 8 (16:06):
My morning show is your Morning Show with Michael Del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (16:15):
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But we're happy you're here.
Speaker 12 (16:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Red just sent me yet another victory, which is the
United States Postal Service agreeing with Elon Muskin Doge in
the cutting of what was it, how many jobs?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Ten thousand one?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, just another victory for the Trump administration. The other
is Putin making a major announcement that agrees with President
Trump's plan for peace and a call for a ceasefire
and principal they're working out the details. We take a
giant leap towards ending the Russian Ukraine War. What a
triumph that would be for a promise made, promise kept
(17:04):
by Donald Trump. Also, we have Chuckie Schumer caving there'll
be no government shutdown. The Democrats will approve the GOP
six month funding bill. Chucky makes it happen. And now
the Dems go crazy and freak out on him. But
you know, there is a picture this morning of progress,
(17:26):
people not fighting over everything. You know, really, Donald Trump
is living out the inaugural address of Joe Biden in
a way that Joe Biden failed it. And so America
is sick of fighting over everything. The President's different, America's
behind him, He's doing what he said he would do.
(17:46):
America loves what he's doing. And then you have the
Democrats crashing Trump Tower. That's a private place. You're going
to just end up in jail. Yeah, Maxine Waters and
AOC freaking out. They're talking about the end of Democrat
all this nonsense, and America has moved on. It really
(18:07):
is a breathtaking picture, and it kind of comes to
a crescendo today. I mean, is there a better visual
than this. Governor Kathy Hochel is headed to the White
House to visit with the President this morning about New
York City's the New York States sanctuary statuses.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Wouldn't you love.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
To be a fly on that wall where narrative meets
reality in the Oval Office. That's kind of what the
picture of the day is. If you go back to
the fifties, there was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Diana, the Belmonts.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
These were the big, big bands, and Deane had huge
hits with Wanderer Run Around Sioux, later Abraham Martin and
John and then a very very successful contemporary Christian music career.
He was into the rock and roll Hall of Fame
and a lot of his friends call him the rock
and roll Philosopher. I can't think of a better name
(19:07):
for his new book. Dion minus the Bellmont's out with
his new book, rock and Roll Philosopher is Joining us
and I love it because it doesn't doesn't really read
like a book.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's more like a conversation.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, it's intimate. There's a lot of First of all,
I want to say, it's a joy to be with you.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Michael, thank you. You are a hero of mine. You
should note that.
Speaker 13 (19:32):
Ah, that's sweet man, thank you. You know, I just
have a lot of friends. When we're sitting around, you know,
I've been clean and sober fifty seven years, and I
have a lot of friends that are in recovery. We
go out for lunch and I tell these stories about
Bob Dylan and Nick Clark and you know, and you
know Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochlan and you know, maybe
(19:55):
Sam Cook and Jackie Wilson. They're all like, hey, you
got to write a book. I know, and these stories.
I think everybody should hear these stories. And that's what
the book is about.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh it was by the way, I learned a lot
and I thought I knew everything. So I took a
trip from Chicago to New Orleans with my best friend
Keith Collins. It's a thirteen hour drive and I call
it the thirteen hour drive that went by in thirteen minutes.
And it was very much like what you describe in
the book. Kind of a walk to a mais like
the journey that you and Adam had. And I don't
(20:27):
know what happened, but time revealed itself as non existent
and we just blinked and we were at our exit
in New Orleans and we don't know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It was one of the most supernatural things.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And that's kind of how this book reads, as we
fly through a life that like, I had no idea
you were on the Winter Dance Party tour with Buddy
Holly and Ritchie and Big Bopper.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I had no idea of that. I mean I learned
a lot and I thought I knew everything.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yes, I was like, yeah, I knew them.
Speaker 13 (20:58):
Well, I went on a tour with Buddy Holly before that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, not the Ninth tour obviously, but well.
Speaker 13 (21:04):
I was on that tour also, but I was on
another tour with him a month before that, for like
about two months, and we became good friends, and that's
why we went out on the Winter Dance Party tour.
But yeah, you know, I was the guy. You know,
there was only four of us in the room, and
he rented he chartered a small plane, a one engine
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plane to take take us from clear Lake to Moorhead, Minnesota.
And you know, the plane never made it because the
pilot didn't know how to read the instruments and a
bad storm and they crashed like five minutes after they
took off. But I just, you know, I want a
coin to us to get on that plane. But when
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he told me it was thirty six dollars that was
the rent.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Thirty six saved your life.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I was gonna say it never really comes out in
the book, but I wanted to ask you, right to
your face, how much did Buddy Holly's death impact you.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You know, that's hard to measure, but I miss him.
Speaker 13 (22:08):
He he really influenced me on a lot of levels,
you know, And you know he.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Was he was a brother.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
He was like a great guitarist and songwriter and rocker
and just a great person. The guy was like statuesque.
He was a decisive he was a He was.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
A remarkable human being to know. So I miss him.
I think of him often.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
The name of the book is called the rock and
Roll Philosopher Deon de Mucci from Dion and the belmonts
I love the way you wove in lyrics in chapter six.
I'm the type of guy who will never settle down.
By the way, It's different when you're singing it, isn't it.
We're pretty girls are well?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know that I'm around.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I kiss him and I love him because to me,
they're all the same. I hug him and I squeeze him.
They don't even know your name. They call me the wan, Yeah,
the wanderer. I roam around around, around, run around, seu
about your wife of sixty one years. That's a different
Diondimuci than walk down the Sager stage and changed my life.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But That's what I love about the book.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're not afraid to share all of your flaws and
all of your weaknesses, because the journey and the making
of the messenger is what makes the message right.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
You know. The Wanderer really would be Yeah, you're right,
But you know.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I wonder my dad loved you. That's his song.
Speaker 13 (23:33):
It's all in there, and it's a little bit of
everything the Wanderer, you know, it's it was.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
A little bit of me, but I threw in. I
roam from town to town, I go through life without
a care.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I'm happy as a clown with my two fists of iron,
but I'm going nowhere. So in one part of the song,
he sees himself accurately that he's kind of a very shallow,
you know, thin nerror of a man, and he kind
of catches it for a second, but then he off
he goes again.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I brought up my dad. I want to tell you
a funny story. So I went to the Sanger Theater
to see Amy Grant. I had no idea who was
opening for her, and this guy walks out with a
guitar with like one of those golf hats on and
blew us all away. No one's music and inside Job
in particular impacted my life more than yours and you.
So I'm home. I got your new album. I went
(24:27):
to this concert. It's blaring. We were used to the
banging on the door, which was always followed by.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Lola music down.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So my dad bangs on the door and I immediately
lowered the music down. He goes, oh, no, open the door,
and so I opened the door and he goes, I
don't want you to lower it down.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
What are you listening to?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I go, gosh, Dad, it's a new art, I said,
can you believe this Dion. I would later do Oldi's
Radio and realize what you were in the fifties and sixties,
But at the time I'm like, oh, it's a new artist,
and he's absolutely Michael. That's Dion Demucci from di Ou
to the Belmonts. Turn that up and you know what
my dad heard, Dion. Now, my dad, you know, at
that time, not a very godly man at all, and
(25:04):
this is what he heard. Center of my life in
this world on a train, bow for glory. Get on
board and I'll tell you the story. If you run,
you'll seek foolish pleasures. You get still you're fine hidden treasures.
And then you know he was soaking it all in
and I couldn't resist. I said, oh, do you want
to hear a song called Truth will set you free?
(25:26):
And I don't know what that seed meant. Eventually my
father would give his life to Christ. But it all
began in that conversation. But I'm gonna make this about
me for a second, in that I never got inside job.
I mean, I guess I did, literally, But after reading
this book, I get inside job now because we can
change outwardly to try to impress God, or we can
(25:47):
have an inside job and inward work, and regardless of
what's coming out, we're a new creation and the center
of my life. All those lyrics and putting in those priorities,
I was fourteen years old and I made those my priorities.
Keep Christ the center of my life. Not eyes on
the storm, eyes on Him in the boat. And that's
(26:08):
where my wife will come from, that's where my children
will come from, that's where my work will come from.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I always love Paul more than the others.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
But and you know what, here I am blinking forty
five years later, and I've kept those priorities and that's
the influence you've had on my life. Inside job, I
think you know, I played a lot of Deanna the Belmont.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I think it was your greatest piece of work, greatest
you know.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Yeah, that's why I'm on track, and that's why I'm here,
and that's why I'm healthy, sane and still relevant and creative.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And it's all because of him, you know.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
I I ask what my He's the uh. He is
the fulfillment of all desire. And it keeps me on track.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You know.
Speaker 13 (26:49):
That's I have a gift. And if you have a gift,
there's got to be a gift giver. And so I
don't take it for granted. I cherish the gift and
I want to hone it and just become better at it.
And I'm still doing that. And I love taking people
on a trip, like you're saying, like to enchantment, to sendence,
(27:14):
you know, bring them to a higher reality.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So it's fun. That's what the book is about.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Also, Dean Deomucci, the name of the book is the
Rock and Roll Philosopher. You wrote this along with Adam.
It's really not a book as much as it's a conversation.
But you want to know talk about cheesy. We haven't
done this in a long time, but I love the
sections where I got to hear my hero tell me
his favorite movies.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
His favorite artist, favorite songs.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't know whose idea that was, but I have
to shamelessly say I was having a field day with
that too. I mean, I just loved everything about the
book and the way it flowed. It was just a
fun journey through your life.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
Yeah, it's you know, people ask you these questions. They
want to know, what are your favorite duopstors? You know,
who's your favorite female singers? You know, how do you learn?
There's a section and how I learned, you know, and
I talk about all these people that, you know, like
Bob Dylan taught me that thinking wasn't rearranging your prejudices, right,
(28:12):
you know, and like some people taught me how to compromise,
and some people taught me about humility, which I didn't
even know what it was, you know. So I talk
about all these things in the book, and I think
in an entertaining way where people can enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Dean de Mucci rock and Roll Hall of Famer and
rock and roll philosopher, that's the name of his new book.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
We'll have more with Dean here at moments. First, if
you're just.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Waking up the big blink, where is that up? Minority
Leader Chucky Schumer. Schumer says he will vote to advance
the GOP six month funding bill that passed the House
in order to stop a government shutdown.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Shumer centertor of flor speech that there are no winners
in a government shutdown, adding that the bill is a
terrible option, but that he believes allowing Trump to take
more power through a shutdown is a far worse option.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
There is nobody in the world, nobody who wants to
shut the government down more than Donald Trump and more
than Elon Musk.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
The comments from the Senate minority leader or contrast from
Wednsmay just a day earlier, when he said Democrats would
not let it pass. If the Senate passes the bill,
it would then go to President Donald Trump's desk for
a signature.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
President Trump says he will place a two hundred percent
tariff on all alcohol products.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
From the European Union. Michael Cassner reports.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
In a post on his Truth Social Trump said it
would be in response to a fifty percent tariff on
whiskey implemented by the EU. The President said the union
was created for, in his words, the sole purpose of
taking advantage of the US. He added the tariff will
be great for champagne and wine businesses across the country.
(29:45):
It all comes after both the EU and Canada responded
with tariffs of their own yesterday after Trump placed some
on steel and aluminum imports. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
President Trump says he still has a very good relationship
with the North Korean leader Kim Joe ung un.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Brian Shook as details.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
He touted his relationship with Kim as he met with
the NATO's Secretary General in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I have a great relationship with Kim Jong un, and
we'll see what happens, but certainly he's.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
A nuclear power.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
Trump noted that things got off to a very rough
start between him and Kim during his first term in office.
He suggested he would consider reopening talks with Kim. Trump
claimed there would have been a nuclear war with North
Korea had Hillary Clinton won the twenty sixteen presidential election.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Of course, you know today's March the fourteenth, But did
you know it's pie Day?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Somewhere John fort Coley's getting excited thinking about a baked pie.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
No pie as in the Humble Potato People.
Speaker 11 (30:48):
Go crazy for pies on Pie Day, celebrating the date
of three fourteen. But what if you're among the twenty
two percent of Americans who don't like pie? Today is
another food day. It's National Potato Day. Chip Leader lace
as eighty six percent of us love a good potato chip.
In fact, Americans he close to two billion pounds every year.
That breaks down to over six and a half pounds
(31:09):
of the crunchy, salty, deep fried potato slices each I'm
pre tennis.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono. There's
an old expression I've always lived by.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
God can't glorify himself through us until we stop trying
to glorify ourselves through him.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
That's the that's the that's the lesson of Dion de
Mucci's life. He's out with a new book, Rock and
Roll Philosopher.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It really is. It is an inward work before outward work,
isn't it.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
That's perfectly said. Yeah, life is not about me. At
one point I thought it was. I thought it was
the center of the universe, you know, until I open up.
You know, God created us in such a way only
to work well.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
When we're in union with him.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
And you know, the most courageous thing a man can
do is open his home.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
To his creator.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Because God's not in competition with us. He wants us
to be fully alive. He knows us inside out, and
he wants to use us in miraculous ways.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But you got to be open. It's such an important word.
Speaker 13 (32:16):
Some people think they're open and tolerant, and they're so intolerant.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It's incredible how closed they are.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
And they you know, they self enlightened instead of being
enlightened from above.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
You know, right, Dean de Muci closing moments. Don't got
to get a copy of this book, The Rock and
Roll Philosopher. Whether you're a fan of Deona, the Belmonts,
or dion the contemporary Christian years, or Abraham Martin and
John whatever era, there's been so many different dion Eras.
He's my hero. I will say this people that had
the greatest influence on my life. One was a high
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school coach, the other was you. The other was Keith Green,
Steve Camp, Amy Grant, I hope you all realize, and
then later in oldies I would realize what you meant
in contemporary music in the fifties and sixties as well.
I hope you realize the impact you've had on lives,
including this book. You're still impacting my life, Deanna, and
for that I thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Michael. I did, by the way, I did a Christmas.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Song with Amy Grant called Hello Christmas. She's a great
friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, they're great people. Diana Mucci. Get the book.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
So whether you love Dianna, the Belmonts or what have you,
the rock and roll philosopher, get it. Everywhere books are
sold The Life and Lessons of Dion de Mucci.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael nhild Joano
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