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Welcome to Monday, April the fourteenth, eve of Tax Day
twenty twenty five. I am Michael del jorno at Wisconsin Tine,
charged with killing his mother and stepfather, living with the
corpses for weeks, obviously mentally ill, now accused of plotting
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to kill the president as well.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What ties to Ukraine? We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
President Trump is in excellent health following his annual physical
and Rory McElroy is a Masters champion and now how
completes the career Grand Slam And Jordan's a pretty elite
group of five others.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A different Rory.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Rory O'Neill is here to talk about the trial to
break up Facebook. It starts today. What's it going to
take and what are the key issues? Rory, good morning
and congratulations, wearing my thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm wearing my green jacket right now.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, is suing
to try to break up Meta, the one point for
a trillion dollar company that's the parent of Facebook and
Instagram and whats App. They accuse essentially Meta of trying
to buy and bury competitive companies and that's really against
(01:42):
some of the federal antitrust laws. And that's going to
be the heart of the case that will be unfolding
over about the next two months or so. This case
was initially brought during the first Trump administration, so they're
still holding out hopes perhaps of some sort of a
settlement before we get a verdict here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So we have the former ployee comes out with a book,
then testifies before Congress at some pretty shady dealings with China.
We have this trial now getting underway. It's all starting
to make sense why Zuckerberg was at the inauguration and
maybe trying to smooth things over heading into this second
term of Donald Trump. How much of this is possible.
(02:19):
I mean, AI is also looming in the background too,
with meta right.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, right, and again this whole idea that the company
was really trying to withhold information from federal regulators when
they approved the meta, I think it was still the Facebook.
Then Facebook purchase of Instagram and whatsappened. You know, WhatsApp
is used much more internationally than it is here in
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the US, but still a massive company and a massive
stream of revenue and advertising for Meta. So breaking this
up there, comparing it to the kind of breakup that
AT and T had to face back in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
When it was mob Bell. So let me ask you,
because my sense and I don't have the statistics and
you may not either, but anybody fifty five sixty plus
are in the world of Facebook. Anybody below that are
in the Instagram world. And as you brought up with
the other, what's up that's more in international? Is that
(03:19):
pretty much the landscape? Because I don't see too many
young people on Facebook anymore. I wouldn't say Facebook is
not dominant under sixty years old at all, but Instagram
is not even much so under thirty or thirty five.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right, there's not a lot of Facebook presence. They tend
to have the page but then do nothing with it.
Because their grandmothers are on it too. But yeah, it's
a lot more about the Graham at this point, and
of course TikTok is the other massive player for the
younger social media users.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
All right, Rory, you'll be back in the third hour
looking at the Iranians. They're quickly developing a nuclear bomb
and those talks are about to kick back in today
as a matter of fact, and this week more with
Rory coming up. All right, we talked about kind of
a slow news day, which most people on talk radio
with dread.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I love them like a manager who spends all their
time in the world of urgent getting to do things done,
but never really getting to the important things that really matter.
I a few days like this where we can get
some important conversation done. So we walked through in shameless
plug for the podcast. If you missed the five o'clock hour,
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I'm not going to redo the entire setup for you.
But in this nation, we've abandoned God and we replaced
it with moral relativism, which led to anything goes there
is no right, there is no wrong, only what's right
and wrong in your mind. Well, that just doesn't work
unless you live alone on an island, and so we've
ended up into cultural chaos. And then as long and
(04:47):
sustained as it was, this new tolerance and creating hatred
and enemies and what ends up being a dual reality
that the two people could be in the same country,
watching the same news and have a completely different reality.
That has led to what we call the matrix and
or the social dilemma, this notion that if we don't agree,
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we can't be friends, and we start the road to
being enemies. Can you do me a favor and completely
lower the feed you're giving me, because I'm hearing myself
from two minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But anyway, so we're going down this road of division,
this road of hatred. You added that the social dilemma
and mental illness. Now it starts getting very violently volatile.
In the midst of all of this, suddenly, this whole
(05:47):
train of new tolerance and political correctness and wokeness just ends, happened,
gradual ended. Suddenly there's a cultural shift to culture awakening
at foot, and usually right behind it as a spiritual revival,
which is a story we have later today from the
(06:07):
Daily Signal. It is young people driving the increase in faith,
in church attendance, young something's up. So in the midst
of all of this, to get out of the urgent
and have an important conversation, could somebody like of all people,
Kid Rock inviting of all people, Bill Maher to sit
down with of all people, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Could that be the start.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of something that could end the social dilemma, end the
matrix as we know it? Or is it just wishful thinking?
Well Kid Rock did, and Bill Maher went, and he
returned to his audience to share how things went at
the White House listen.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
With President Trump and dinner that was set up by
my friend Kid Rock. First good sign before I left
with the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print
out this list of almost sixty different insulting epithets that
the President had said about me. I brought this to
the White House because I wanted him to sign it,
which he did, which he did with good humor. And
(07:17):
I know, as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters
just tightened.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So no, I didn't go maga.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And to the President's credit, there was no pressure to
just for starters. He laughs. I'd never seen him laugh
in public, but he does.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Including it himself and it's not fake.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
At one point we were walking through his amazing it
is an amazing tour of the whole house, and I
don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but it
must have been something with the twenty twenty election, because
I know he used the word lost, and I distinctly
remember saying, wow, I never thought i'd hear.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You say that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware, and
he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm just taking.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
As a positive that this person exists, because everything I've
ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent,
at least on this night with this guy. Bob kid
Rock told me the night before, he said, if you
want to get a word in edgewise, you're gonna have
to cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He'll just go on. Not at all.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I've had so many conversations with prominent people who are
much less connected, people who.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Don't look you in the eye, people don't.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Really listen because they just want to get to their
next thing. People whose responds to things you say just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Track, like what? None of that with him, and.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
He mostly steered the conversation to what.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I know your mind is blown, so's mine. And honestly,
I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never
feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able
to talk with Donald Trump. That's just how it went down.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Make of it what you will me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so
unpopular these days. I'm just reporting exactly what I saw
over two and a half hours. I went into the
mine and that's what's down there. A crazy person doesn't
live in the White House. Trump was gracious and measured,
and why he isn't that in other settings, I don't know,
(09:27):
and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer.
I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So the whole.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Monologue is about six minutes and forty seconds. He uses
a couple of bad words throughout. That's why you get
overly edited versions like that. It really needs to be
heard in its entirety. You'll have a couple of F
bombs and then he refers to the room off the
oval office, which is called the executive office. He has
(09:58):
a different name for it that I can't air that
has to do with Monica Lewinsky. But because there's some
really charming and revealing exchanges that are missed in these
edited versions. So here's Bill Maher, Bill Maher, who was
once considered the crazy far left atheist, having an experience
(10:20):
like this with Donald Trump. This notion, mind you, that
you can disagree with somebody, not on everything, just on
some things, and not hate them, not wish them dead.
In other words, he doesn't have to be Hitler. He
doesn't have to be the pub botch or the boogeyman
or the devil himself. He could just be our president
(10:43):
that we have a couple of disagreements with. And you say, well,
that's reasonable, No, it's not. There was a person I
used to do a weekly segment with and we used
to do what we used to call TN University, Bill Warner.
He was an is Lombist expert, and all is Loambists
(11:08):
are Muslim, but not all Muslims are his Lobist and
his Loamists are not interested in being one of many.
It's a form of government, it's a form of law.
It's a system of life, and it's it's a threat.
So in one of our interviews, he goes, you know,
what my wife taught me was don't watch the videos
(11:31):
or don't read the articles, go read the comments. They're
very revealing. And so every since he shared that with me,
I do that. Just like David Zanati once said, I noticed,
you know, whenever I would just open an article and
start reading, I would never go to the bio of
the writer. What a blind spot that was to just
to say, oh, well, this is news so and I'll
(11:52):
read it. No, this is a goofball, cool crack pot
who's writing this? That's relevant before you read it. Messenger
and the message are both revealing. So thanks to David Zanati,
I never just read an article without first reading the
bio of the writer. And thanks to Bill Warner, I
never watch a video like this and not go read
the comments. You want to hear some of the comments
(12:13):
real quick. If you don't think it's blanked up that
Trump pretends to be crazy as he works to destroy
this country, our constitution, and the rule of law, then
I don't give up blank about your opinion either. Here's
another person, Bill Maher, dining with Trump is a betrayal
of principles. Both are opportunists, mar pandering for relevance, Trump
(12:39):
for optics. This stunt won't bridge divides, It just fuels
their egos while division's fester. This is hypocrisy at its finest.
Here's another one, Mayo, Mussolini, Castro. They could all be
extremely personable and charming in person. What's your point? Here's
another You've been just like the millions of gullible followers,
(13:02):
Trump is a textbook malignant narcissist. This dual personality you
describe as a hallmark of a psychopath. The public ranting
nasty Trump is a genuine model. Maybe in time Bill
will understand it's the media who scares the public by
(13:22):
refusing to report accurately on anything Donald Trump does one
positive to every six negative. But the question of the
day is how did Bill Maher end up here? I
don't think Bill Maher thinks of himself as a Democrat anymore,
just like I don't think of myself as a Republican.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We had this immediate death of wokeness. Is that a
cultural shift and awakening? We have the story of the
youth leading back to faith in church. Is there a
spiritual revival? Did Kid Rocks introduction to Bill Maher? So
Bill Maher and Donald Trump can prove to all of
us we can have disagreements and not hate each other.
When did that become a law? And do we want
(14:05):
to continue to live under it? This is the best
ex I know. I'm late. I've got one more exchange.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
This is somebody from the Washington Post trying to beat
up on Bill Maher for even meeting with him. I
don't know if I people look this said and he's well,
I don't think I can do it in this amount
of time. But I don't know if it's going to
open with him now say it's not all right. I
got a break because I'm going to be late, and
it's a network and the whole thing crash the stations
(14:36):
across the country. But I want you to hear how
Bill Maher handles this. One naysayer in person would have
been the perfect I needed this segment, but I'll have
to wait till after the break. It's Your Morning Show
with Michael del Chino. He Wisconstantine charged with killing his
mother and stepfather. Now the plot has thickened, he was
thinking about or trying to arrange the finances to kill
(14:56):
President Trump. We also had a thirty eight year old
rested in an arson case with the governor's mansion concerning
Governor Shapiro. And history was made at Augusta. Rory McElroy
wins the masters. So I want to give you this
final cherry on the whippream. So here's all this movement.
We've seen the death of journalism, which is the death
(15:17):
of the left's ability to control the narrative. We saw
the death of technocracy, which was their ability to silence
any opposing views. Because now Musk owns X, it's no
longer Twitter as you deserve. For Mory and Neil, they
may even bust up Facebook. Then we saw the death
of intelligency, or maybe that's still in progress. The left's
(15:37):
control over K through twelve and then later higher education.
Maybe we're seeing the death of wokeness and with it
now we might be seeing the death of the matrix.
Here's Bill Maher with the President. I want to play
this a little quick. This is and it's not lost
on me. This is a Washington Post reporter criticizing him.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I believe too much of it made about this, but
I think you fall into the trap. I think I
represent ninety nine percent of the Internet when I say
this is that you've played the game of proximity as principle.
And what people are worried about it's not your motivation.
We believe you, We love you, Bill, everybody loves Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Right. Watch this.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm not questioning your motivation. I'm questioning Trump's. Okay, and
if we can say that you went there in good faith,
but maybe just maybe he wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
In good faith. I mean you sold him on the
irandial and he watch Bill Mar's response to that when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Hey, this is Leigh Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
My morning show is your morning show with Michael Bill Jorno.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Hey, it's me Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
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Thanks for listening to your morning show. I'm Michael del Journa.
The President in great excellent health after his physical the
FAA says the tour company that operated the fatal flight,
(17:11):
that the helicopter the crash into the Hudson River is
now shutting down.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And history was made.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
At Augusta, Rory wins the Green jacket finally and joins
the elite group, winning a career grand Slam. I see
that the Havid Yad hotline is ringing. That must be
Jimmy Suitz who predicted d Chambeau would win Pizza Boy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Let's forget about last week.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
You know he folded like a tee too.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Congrats to Rory. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know, I actually because I bet he was feeling
great after the two three holes. Because d Chambeau just
stormed into the lead and Rory was folding, Grobby felt
pretty good about his prediction. My fear was that the
two would focus on each other and somebody like Ludwig
Oberg would just fly up. And it turned out to
be the round one Round two leader that flew back
(18:04):
up to the top. Justin Rose, but probably one of
the most exciting Sundays of a master, perhaps even in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was that good yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Most of us needed a Xanax and probably an EKG.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
To make sure, we were okay watching it? Who next up?
I don't remember where it's from, Mike for you, Mike, okay,
give me Mike. Good morning Michael.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
If you would explain what the Grand Slam is of
golf for some of your listeners that don't follow golf
all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh well, the Grand Slam is winning the US Open,
the Open, which is commonly referred to as the British Open.
So the British Open, the US Open, the PGA Championship
and the Masters. You have to win all four of
those in your career, and only five others have done it.
So he's in a pretty unique class with Gene Saracen,
Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, and now
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Maac overright, all right, our White House correspondent is here.
Before we do our topic, John, you took a little
trip this weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are we allowed to talk about it?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Sure, absolutely, I mean what you did. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
By the way, this is not the same George Soros.
This is a World War Two hero, George Morris a R. R.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Os So.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, and John Spent did a remarkable peace on him.
And I can't remember if it was Veterans Day or
D Day anniversary, I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It was the eightieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Of D Day, Djay, that was it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But your meeting with him, it was it was award
winning journalism, but put that aside. It was life changing
for you. And what you just went back to North
Carolina to do for him, I think might have been
life changing for him.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And I am so grateful you did it. Tell him
what you did, what your visit was.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Well, it was George's one hundredth birthday, and the celebration
for George's one hundredth birthday was this weekend. My wife
and I headed down to Asheville, North Carolina, just for
the day, just to celebrate the remarkable life of George
Sarrow's who participated in the D Day Invasion Great American
and he's become a really good friend and he's such
(20:16):
a nice person as well. So it was so nice
to spend a few hours with George, and he couldn't
have been happier just being around friends and family, and
it was just a really nice event.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You brought him something special, and I don't know if
that if you don't want to talk about that, I understand.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
No, that's all right, I brought him a letter from
the President, President Trump. I reached out to President Trump
to see if he could write a letter to George
to celebrate his one hundredth birthday, and he indeed came through,
and I brought that to George, and he was just
bowled over, just ecstatic about receiving a letter from the
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's why John Decker is my favorite boy.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
What you did for his one hundredth birthday, which you
did in that interview piece, something you should be very
proud of in career and life. All Right, President Trump
exempting smartphones and laptops. You know, you could almost ask
the question this way, is this the president playing a
super smart game of chess? Or is this the president
kind of caving as he goes?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Which is it? Is this chess or mess?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well, I don't know. I think it also is the
way that you view the president in terms of answering
that question. But indeed, there is a carve out an
exemption for electronics coming from China. But interestingly enough, a
number of individuals who speak on behalf of the president,
who work on behalf of the president, says say this is.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Not an exemption.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
In fact, they say more tariffs are coming in the
form of computer chips that you know, essentially make all
of those electronics work. Those tariffs are forthcoming, as are
tariffs on pharmaceuticals as well. So the president's tariff's policy
is not in any way ending a temporary reprieve for smartphones,
(22:02):
as you point out, and other types of electronics, laptops,
flat screens. All of those goods, of course, have key
components from China.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
John, Does some of this have to do with you
know that balance we were talking about? Is this a
process or a destination? Seems like a process with other nations,
but seems like a destination with China. And yet does
carve out a couple of things that would cause massive
disruption to keep the process kind of running smoothly.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
But I don't. I can't figure it out yet. I
don't and don't.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't know that we can even watching it and talking, well,
we don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
We know that one thing has remained in plate, those
twenty five percent tariffs on all automobiles manufactured outside the US.
No carve outs for that. That is certainly going to
impact demand. You would think for some of those new
foreign built automobiles from all over the world, whether it's Canada, Mexico,
(23:03):
Europe for Asia. And in addition to that, we know
that another constant throughout is targeting China. Enormous tariffs on
Chinese products coming into the United States, one hundred and
forty five percent tariffs on those goods. And those tariffs
are not going away, Michael anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know, the President says a lot. You got to
use discernment to catch what really matters. And I remember
I said early on, I don't think he liked the
thought of China flooding cheap evs through Mexico into the US.
It's looking more and more as this plays out that
that's ultimately the block he's got in play here. John Decker,
great reporting, great job going to see George on his
(23:44):
one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I think the world of you, sir. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Thanks Michael.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
What a great story. By the way, if you missed
that piece on the eightieth anniversary of D Day. And
I don't know what awards they have, is it Peabody,
but Larry used to win them all. Lenny Kington would
be a good one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He used to put the Peabody on the near the
Davenport in the Batta, right by his afghan. But it
was a brilliant piece by John Decker. It should have
won an award, and maybe it did. But nobody pays
John Decker to leave our nation's capital and spend the
weekend back in Asheville, North Carolina with this one hundred
(24:22):
year old World War Two treasure that says a lot
about John Decker. All Right, I want to get back
to what I was trying to do. So the point
is Bill Maher goes to the White House and reports
The big picture is why is Bill Maher no longer
the leader of the far left? Did the left leave him?
Or is he leaving the left? That's something to watch.
(24:44):
So is the death of wokeness? So is this dysfunctional
matrix we find ourselves in. So I've been dying to
play you this one clip without I'm going to rewind
it and do it without anterruption. So Bill Maher gives
this six and a half minute monologue about his meeting
with Donald Trump, and the gist of it is Donald
tr Trump was wonderful. He asked questions, he listened, he laughed,
(25:07):
He wasn't a tyrant, he wasn't the devil, he wasn't
a boogeyman.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Bill Maher was also.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Very forthright in the many things he agreed with with
Donald Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem, and he carved
out a list of things. Then he has some disagreements,
but ultimately, what he's showing you is you can disagree
with somebody and you don't have to hate him and
wish him dead, that you could actually be friends with
somebody you disagree with. That kind of difference and debate
(25:37):
and unity in division and debate is what made this
country great. This matrix and social dilemma we're living in
is what's destroying it. So I share that monologue and
then I share with you what the comments were, and
they were vicious towards Bill Maher. Well, a Washington Post
reporter already irrelevant due to the death of journalism. He
(25:59):
tries to take Bill mahert to task. Now, those that
are making comments on the internet to YouTube videos, they
don't get challenged. But you're on Bill Maher's show and
you're going to try to belittle you get a response.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Here's how it went.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So here's how Bill Maher would respond to all those
who would, he knows, violently react to him having anything
good to say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yes, I believe too much have been made about this,
but I think you've fallen into the trap. I think
I represent ninety nine percent of the Internet when I
say this is that you've played the game of proximity
is principle.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And what people are worried about it's not your motivation.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
We believe you, We love you, Bill, everybody loves Bill.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Right. Oh, you're gonna get zapp for that.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm not questioning your motivation. I'm questioning Trump's, Okay. And
if we can say that you went there in good faith,
but maybe, just maybe he wasn't there in good faith.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I mean you sold him on the irandial and he
took it in. I mean, give you a break, Okay.
So the idea here.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Is that your motivation is sound, But what's the impact.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And I think a.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Lot of people out there fans of your, people who
love you, people were.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Fans of you like me. I've been you. Don't patronize me, dude,
I don't know you. I never met your I'm just
saying that I got to stop and share a personal story.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So my senior year of high school, my mom and
dad are going through a rough time and they separate.
In the meantime, I've got a sociology teacher and a
psychology teacher who thinks he can throw a pen at
me and pick on me. Well, he threw a pen
at the wrong Italian, and one thing led to another,
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and he was like, well, I want to see your parents,
and I said, well, I'm almost eighteen years old. You
can see me. And I saw him the minute class ended.
He effectively ended my baseball career that much he did.
I don't know that my headmaster wasn't on my side
for what happened, but he had. I didn't know it,
(28:03):
but my headmaster had stolen my keys. So I'm trying
to find my car, and when I got to it,
I didn't have any keys. So one thing leads to another,
and my worst nightmare. My father is called in to school,
and so there's the headmaster, there's me and my mom,
here's this teacher, and my dad walks in and the
teacher gets up to shake my dad's hand, and my
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dad's immediate response was, I don't know you. I don't
want to shake your hand. I don't even know what
happened here yet it's a eulogy moment I'll share someday.
I was scared to death. My father was gonna do
me worse than I did that teacher, and his loyalty
(28:47):
was to me. Immediately, I thought a dad. When Bill
Maher gave that response, I want you to hear it again.
And I love it because it's a Washington Post reporter.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
People love you, people were fans of be like me.
I've been channing.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You don't patronize me, dude, I don't know you never
I never met your I'm just.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Saying that this is not everybody else to like it.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I we said there are people who didn't want it
to happen at all. It sound like one of them. No, no, no,
I just but did you hear what I Did you
hear what I said?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Like?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What is the alternative to not talking? Just at your
lunch table and don't talk to anybody?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
By the way, he had a better analogy in his
six minute speech, which was twenty five hour monologues into
the wind, countless hit pieces and print and on the
internet hating one another. Is that what you think is
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the better idea? Listen I know I'm being wishful thinking here,
but I have watched journalism die. I mean, my whole
radio career was exposing media bias. My career ends, It
starts with records, queuing up records and reels. It ends
all digital or you can have a studio in your home.
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But my talk career began with exposing media bias. It
ends with the death of journalism, the death of technocracy
and control over opposition fought on the internet, the death
of what I believe is the intelligentsia that went beyond
controlling universities but k through twelve curriculum. We're watching the
(30:25):
Department of Education at the federal level be dismantled. Are
we also witnessing the death of wokeness? And could this
be the first shots fired in the death of the matrix?
Nothing has destroyed our republic more than abandoning God and
self governance. And next to that, I would say, the
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social dilemma and this matrix it's been created, and the
response to Bill Maher and the hatred towards him for.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Doing it tells me.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Or right in the thick of it, right in the
pits of hell, and remember truth in light exposes darkness
and ends the lie.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Something tells me in my gut.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't know that I've made the case in the
court from a public opinion very well, But something in
my gut, and in my soul and in my heart
tells me this is the beginning of the death of
the Matrix. And now I have real hope that we
can return to being one nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all again. And if you got
(31:41):
to create a new Mount Rushmore, now it's got to
be Kid Rock, Bill Maher and Donald Trump. I always say,
the only thing left shocking in life is the truth.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Rory made history Augusta, not just getting the green jacket,
but joining the elite group of those now six who
have completed the career grand Slam that is, winning the
Master's US Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.
He now joins Gene Saracen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas,
Tiger Woods and now Rory McElroy. It was a great
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Sunday at Augustam, Roger, writes Michael di at iHeartMedia dot
Com Talkback Abuse there.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Is no such thing, Roger. I will preempt you, he writes.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
My wife is constantly telling me that I'm talking back
to your morning show too much. I tell her, well,
if they don't use Mike clipp it's their decision, and
I'm always okay if it doesn't make the air. I
just want you all to know how helpful your show
has been at a difficult time in my life. Talk
to you soon. My favorite talkback exchange was after the
(32:49):
extended van Zandt interview. Well, let me tell you something
plain and simple. You can't use the talkback too much.
It's your show, and you can't talk too much to
your show. Good morning, Michael. I watched the Masters yesterday
and cheered for Rory along with thousands of other fans
(33:09):
who spent a lot of time watching and rooting for him.
Along with everyone else who watched, I was ecstatic when
he sank that final putt, but my happiness for him
and for the moment quickly dissipated when he walked through
that massive crowd without so much as a wave or
a tip of the hat.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This is not true.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
First of all, Rory, by nature, was trying to stay focused.
That's why you saw so much emotion after the putt
went in. The hole just all came out. That's what's
been being held back. And so his focus, as he described,
was to stay in a cocoon because he didn't want
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to get into the mental aspects of d Chambeau or others,
but just play the course. This all began with a
wonderful lunch with Jack Nicholas where they went over every
hole the strategy for all eighteen holes at Augusta. And
when Roy laid out his strategy, he said, perfect strategy.
Now just do it and don't let anything change your
(34:11):
focus from that. Don't let any emotions change your focus
in that. That's a lot of stuff to wind down from,
but he was He gave a lot of people, look,
it was a moment, and.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
You know, I don't know. That just seems a little
too critical for me.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Per you're mentioning the generational history of the United States,
I'd recommend the Neil Howe William Strauss nineteen ninety six
book The Fourth Turning. It's a sociology study of America's
history in eighty year spans. I am a gen xer,
so not quite your generation, but it's neat to hear
how each generation supposedly has a role in the destiny
(34:49):
within the Democratic the demographic progression of this country.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I'm going to check that book out. We're all in
this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael All
Join now, Hm
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This is your Morning Show with Michael o'del jordan. Good morning,
Welcome to Monday, April the fourteenth, eve of Tax Day
twenty twenty five. I am Michael del jorno at Wisconsin Tine,
charged with killing his mother and stepfather, living with the
corpses for weeks, obviously mentally ill, now accused of plotting
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to kill the president as well.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What ties to Ukraine? We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
President Trump is in excellent health following his annual physical
and Rory McElroy is a Masters champion and now how
completes the career Grand Slam And Jordan's a pretty elite
group of five others.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A different Rory.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Rory O'Neill is here to talk about the trial to
break up Facebook. It starts today. What's it going to
take and what are the key issues? Rory, good morning
and congratulations, wearing my thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm wearing my green jacket right now.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, is suing
to try to break up Meta, the one point for
a trillion dollar company that's the parent of Facebook and
Instagram and whats App. They accuse essentially Meta of trying
to buy and bury competitive companies and that's really against
(01:42):
some of the federal antitrust laws. And that's going to
be the heart of the case that will be unfolding
over about the next two months or so. This case
was initially brought during the first Trump administration, so they're
still holding out hopes perhaps of some sort of a
settlement before we get a verdict here.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So we have the former ployee comes out with a book,
then testifies before Congress at some pretty shady dealings with China.
We have this trial now getting underway. It's all starting
to make sense why Zuckerberg was at the inauguration and
maybe trying to smooth things over heading into this second
term of Donald Trump. How much of this is possible.
(02:19):
I mean, AI is also looming in the background too,
with meta right.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, right, and again this whole idea that the company
was really trying to withhold information from federal regulators when
they approved the meta, I think it was still the Facebook.
Then Facebook purchase of Instagram and whatsappened. You know, WhatsApp
is used much more internationally than it is here in
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the US, but still a massive company and a massive
stream of revenue and advertising for Meta. So breaking this
up there, comparing it to the kind of breakup that
AT and T had to face back in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
When it was mob Bell. So let me ask you,
because my sense and I don't have the statistics and
you may not either, but anybody fifty five sixty plus
are in the world of Facebook. Anybody below that are
in the Instagram world. And as you brought up with
the other, what's up that's more in international? Is that
(03:19):
pretty much the landscape? Because I don't see too many
young people on Facebook anymore. I wouldn't say Facebook is
not dominant under sixty years old at all, but Instagram
is not even much so under thirty or thirty five.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right, there's not a lot of Facebook presence. They tend
to have the page but then do nothing with it.
Because their grandmothers are on it too. But yeah, it's
a lot more about the Graham at this point, and
of course TikTok is the other massive player for the
younger social media users.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
All right, Rory, you'll be back in the third hour
looking at the Iranians. They're quickly developing a nuclear bomb
and those talks are about to kick back in today
as a matter of fact, and this week more with
Rory coming up. All right, we talked about kind of
a slow news day, which most people on talk radio
with dread.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I love them like a manager who spends all their
time in the world of urgent getting to do things done,
but never really getting to the important things that really matter.
I a few days like this where we can get
some important conversation done. So we walked through in shameless
plug for the podcast. If you missed the five o'clock hour,
(04:25):
I'm not going to redo the entire setup for you.
But in this nation, we've abandoned God and we replaced
it with moral relativism, which led to anything goes there
is no right, there is no wrong, only what's right
and wrong in your mind. Well, that just doesn't work
unless you live alone on an island, and so we've
ended up into cultural chaos. And then as long and
(04:47):
sustained as it was, this new tolerance and creating hatred
and enemies and what ends up being a dual reality
that the two people could be in the same country,
watching the same news and have a completely different reality.
That has led to what we call the matrix and
or the social dilemma, this notion that if we don't agree,
(05:09):
we can't be friends, and we start the road to
being enemies. Can you do me a favor and completely
lower the feed you're giving me, because I'm hearing myself
from two minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But anyway, so we're going down this road of division,
this road of hatred. You added that the social dilemma
and mental illness. Now it starts getting very violently volatile.
In the midst of all of this, suddenly, this whole
(05:47):
train of new tolerance and political correctness and wokeness just ends, happened,
gradual ended. Suddenly there's a cultural shift to culture awakening
at foot, and usually right behind it as a spiritual revival,
which is a story we have later today from the
(06:07):
Daily Signal. It is young people driving the increase in faith,
in church attendance, young something's up. So in the midst
of all of this, to get out of the urgent
and have an important conversation, could somebody like of all people,
Kid Rock inviting of all people, Bill Maher to sit
down with of all people, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Could that be the start.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of something that could end the social dilemma, end the
matrix as we know it? Or is it just wishful thinking?
Well Kid Rock did, and Bill Maher went, and he
returned to his audience to share how things went at
the White House listen.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
With President Trump and dinner that was set up by
my friend Kid Rock. First good sign before I left
with the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print
out this list of almost sixty different insulting epithets that
the President had said about me. I brought this to
the White House because I wanted him to sign it,
which he did, which he did with good humor. And
(07:17):
I know, as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters
just tightened.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So no, I didn't go maga.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And to the President's credit, there was no pressure to
just for starters. He laughs. I'd never seen him laugh
in public, but he does.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Including it himself and it's not fake.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
At one point we were walking through his amazing it
is an amazing tour of the whole house, and I
don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but it
must have been something with the twenty twenty election, because
I know he used the word lost, and I distinctly
remember saying, wow, I never thought i'd hear.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You say that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware, and
he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm just taking.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
As a positive that this person exists, because everything I've
ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent,
at least on this night with this guy. Bob kid
Rock told me the night before, he said, if you
want to get a word in edgewise, you're gonna have
to cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He'll just go on. Not at all.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I've had so many conversations with prominent people who are
much less connected, people who.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Don't look you in the eye, people don't.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Really listen because they just want to get to their
next thing. People whose responds to things you say just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Track, like what? None of that with him, and.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
He mostly steered the conversation to what.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I know your mind is blown, so's mine. And honestly,
I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never
feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able
to talk with Donald Trump. That's just how it went down.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Make of it what you will me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so
unpopular these days. I'm just reporting exactly what I saw
over two and a half hours. I went into the
mine and that's what's down there. A crazy person doesn't
live in the White House. Trump was gracious and measured,
and why he isn't that in other settings, I don't know,
(09:27):
and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer.
I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So the whole.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Monologue is about six minutes and forty seconds. He uses
a couple of bad words throughout. That's why you get
overly edited versions like that. It really needs to be
heard in its entirety. You'll have a couple of F
bombs and then he refers to the room off the
oval office, which is called the executive office. He has
(09:58):
a different name for it that I can't air that
has to do with Monica Lewinsky. But because there's some
really charming and revealing exchanges that are missed in these
edited versions. So here's Bill Maher, Bill Maher, who was
once considered the crazy far left atheist, having an experience
(10:20):
like this with Donald Trump. This notion, mind you, that
you can disagree with somebody, not on everything, just on
some things, and not hate them, not wish them dead.
In other words, he doesn't have to be Hitler. He
doesn't have to be the pub botch or the boogeyman
or the devil himself. He could just be our president
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that we have a couple of disagreements with. And you say, well,
that's reasonable, No, it's not. There was a person I
used to do a weekly segment with and we used
to do what we used to call TN University, Bill Warner.
He was an is Lombist expert, and all is Loambists
(11:08):
are Muslim, but not all Muslims are his Lobist and
his Loamists are not interested in being one of many.
It's a form of government, it's a form of law.
It's a system of life, and it's it's a threat.
So in one of our interviews, he goes, you know,
what my wife taught me was don't watch the videos
(11:31):
or don't read the articles, go read the comments. They're
very revealing. And so every since he shared that with me,
I do that. Just like David Zanati once said, I noticed,
you know, whenever I would just open an article and
start reading, I would never go to the bio of
the writer. What a blind spot that was to just
to say, oh, well, this is news so and I'll
(11:52):
read it. No, this is a goofball, cool crack pot
who's writing this? That's relevant before you read it. Messenger
and the message are both revealing. So thanks to David Zanati,
I never just read an article without first reading the
bio of the writer. And thanks to Bill Warner, I
never watch a video like this and not go read
the comments. You want to hear some of the comments
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real quick. If you don't think it's blanked up that
Trump pretends to be crazy as he works to destroy
this country, our constitution, and the rule of law, then
I don't give up blank about your opinion either. Here's
another person, Bill Maher, dining with Trump is a betrayal
of principles. Both are opportunists, mar pandering for relevance, Trump
(12:39):
for optics. This stunt won't bridge divides, It just fuels
their egos while division's fester. This is hypocrisy at its finest.
Here's another one, Mayo, Mussolini, Castro. They could all be
extremely personable and charming in person. What's your point? Here's
another You've been just like the millions of gullible followers,
(13:02):
Trump is a textbook malignant narcissist. This dual personality you
describe as a hallmark of a psychopath. The public ranting
nasty Trump is a genuine model. Maybe in time Bill
will understand it's the media who scares the public by
(13:22):
refusing to report accurately on anything Donald Trump does one
positive to every six negative. But the question of the
day is how did Bill Maher end up here? I
don't think Bill Maher thinks of himself as a Democrat anymore,
just like I don't think of myself as a Republican.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We had this immediate death of wokeness. Is that a
cultural shift and awakening? We have the story of the
youth leading back to faith in church. Is there a
spiritual revival? Did Kid Rocks introduction to Bill Maher? So
Bill Maher and Donald Trump can prove to all of
us we can have disagreements and not hate each other.
When did that become a law? And do we want
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to continue to live under it? This is the best
ex I know. I'm late. I've got one more exchange.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
This is somebody from the Washington Post trying to beat
up on Bill Maher for even meeting with him. I
don't know if I people look this said and he's well,
I don't think I can do it in this amount
of time. But I don't know if it's going to
open with him now say it's not all right. I
got a break because I'm going to be late, and
it's a network and the whole thing crash the stations
(14:36):
across the country. But I want you to hear how
Bill Maher handles this. One naysayer in person would have
been the perfect I needed this segment, but I'll have
to wait till after the break. It's Your Morning Show
with Michael del Chino. He Wisconstantine charged with killing his
mother and stepfather. Now the plot has thickened, he was
thinking about or trying to arrange the finances to kill
(14:56):
President Trump. We also had a thirty eight year old
rested in an arson case with the governor's mansion concerning
Governor Shapiro. And history was made at Augusta. Rory McElroy
wins the masters. So I want to give you this
final cherry on the whippream. So here's all this movement.
We've seen the death of journalism, which is the death
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of the left's ability to control the narrative. We saw
the death of technocracy, which was their ability to silence
any opposing views. Because now Musk owns X, it's no
longer Twitter as you deserve. For Mory and Neil, they
may even bust up Facebook. Then we saw the death
of intelligency, or maybe that's still in progress. The left's
(15:37):
control over K through twelve and then later higher education.
Maybe we're seeing the death of wokeness and with it
now we might be seeing the death of the matrix.
Here's Bill Maher with the President. I want to play
this a little quick. This is and it's not lost
on me. This is a Washington Post reporter criticizing him.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I believe too much of it made about this, but
I think you fall into the trap. I think I
represent ninety nine percent of the Internet when I say
this is that you've played the game of proximity as principle.
And what people are worried about it's not your motivation.
We believe you, We love you, Bill, everybody loves Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Right. Watch this.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm not questioning your motivation. I'm questioning Trump's. Okay, and
if we can say that you went there in good faith,
but maybe just maybe he wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
In good faith. I mean you sold him on the
irandial and he watch Bill Mar's response to that when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Hey, this is Leigh Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
My morning show is your morning show with Michael Bill Jorno.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Hey, it's me Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Your morning show can be heard live five to eight
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Thanks for listening to your morning show. I'm Michael del Journa.
The President in great excellent health after his physical the
FAA says the tour company that operated the fatal flight,
(17:11):
that the helicopter the crash into the Hudson River is
now shutting down.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And history was made.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
At Augusta, Rory wins the Green jacket finally and joins
the elite group, winning a career grand Slam. I see
that the Havid Yad hotline is ringing. That must be
Jimmy Suitz who predicted d Chambeau would win Pizza Boy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Let's forget about last week.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
You know he folded like a tee too.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Congrats to Rory. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know, I actually because I bet he was feeling
great after the two three holes. Because d Chambeau just
stormed into the lead and Rory was folding, Grobby felt
pretty good about his prediction. My fear was that the
two would focus on each other and somebody like Ludwig
Oberg would just fly up. And it turned out to
be the round one Round two leader that flew back
(18:04):
up to the top. Justin Rose, but probably one of
the most exciting Sundays of a master, perhaps even in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was that good yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Most of us needed a Xanax and probably an EKG.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
To make sure, we were okay watching it? Who next up?
I don't remember where it's from, Mike for you, Mike, okay,
give me Mike. Good morning Michael.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
If you would explain what the Grand Slam is of
golf for some of your listeners that don't follow golf
all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh well, the Grand Slam is winning the US Open,
the Open, which is commonly referred to as the British Open.
So the British Open, the US Open, the PGA Championship
and the Masters. You have to win all four of
those in your career, and only five others have done it.
So he's in a pretty unique class with Gene Saracen,
Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, and now
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Maac overright, all right, our White House correspondent is here.
Before we do our topic, John, you took a little
trip this weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are we allowed to talk about it?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Sure, absolutely, I mean what you did. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
By the way, this is not the same George Soros.
This is a World War Two hero, George Morris a R. R.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Os So.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, and John Spent did a remarkable peace on him.
And I can't remember if it was Veterans Day or
D Day anniversary, I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It was the eightieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Of D Day, Djay, that was it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But your meeting with him, it was it was award
winning journalism, but put that aside. It was life changing
for you. And what you just went back to North
Carolina to do for him, I think might have been
life changing for him.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And I am so grateful you did it. Tell him
what you did, what your visit was.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Well, it was George's one hundredth birthday, and the celebration
for George's one hundredth birthday was this weekend. My wife
and I headed down to Asheville, North Carolina, just for
the day, just to celebrate the remarkable life of George
Sarrow's who participated in the D Day Invasion Great American
and he's become a really good friend and he's such
(20:16):
a nice person as well. So it was so nice
to spend a few hours with George, and he couldn't
have been happier just being around friends and family, and
it was just a really nice event.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You brought him something special, and I don't know if
that if you don't want to talk about that, I understand.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
No, that's all right, I brought him a letter from
the President, President Trump. I reached out to President Trump
to see if he could write a letter to George
to celebrate his one hundredth birthday, and he indeed came through,
and I brought that to George, and he was just
bowled over, just ecstatic about receiving a letter from the
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's why John Decker is my favorite boy.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
What you did for his one hundredth birthday, which you
did in that interview piece, something you should be very
proud of in career and life. All Right, President Trump
exempting smartphones and laptops. You know, you could almost ask
the question this way, is this the president playing a
super smart game of chess? Or is this the president
kind of caving as he goes?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Which is it? Is this chess or mess?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well, I don't know. I think it also is the
way that you view the president in terms of answering
that question. But indeed, there is a carve out an
exemption for electronics coming from China. But interestingly enough, a
number of individuals who speak on behalf of the president,
who work on behalf of the president, says say this is.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Not an exemption.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
In fact, they say more tariffs are coming in the
form of computer chips that you know, essentially make all
of those electronics work. Those tariffs are forthcoming, as are
tariffs on pharmaceuticals as well. So the president's tariff's policy
is not in any way ending a temporary reprieve for smartphones,
(22:02):
as you point out, and other types of electronics, laptops,
flat screens. All of those goods, of course, have key
components from China.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
John, Does some of this have to do with you
know that balance we were talking about? Is this a
process or a destination? Seems like a process with other nations,
but seems like a destination with China. And yet does
carve out a couple of things that would cause massive
disruption to keep the process kind of running smoothly.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
But I don't. I can't figure it out yet. I
don't and don't.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't know that we can even watching it and talking, well,
we don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
We know that one thing has remained in plate, those
twenty five percent tariffs on all automobiles manufactured outside the US.
No carve outs for that. That is certainly going to
impact demand. You would think for some of those new
foreign built automobiles from all over the world, whether it's Canada, Mexico,
(23:03):
Europe for Asia. And in addition to that, we know
that another constant throughout is targeting China. Enormous tariffs on
Chinese products coming into the United States, one hundred and
forty five percent tariffs on those goods. And those tariffs
are not going away, Michael anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know, the President says a lot. You got to
use discernment to catch what really matters. And I remember
I said early on, I don't think he liked the
thought of China flooding cheap evs through Mexico into the US.
It's looking more and more as this plays out that
that's ultimately the block he's got in play here. John Decker,
great reporting, great job going to see George on his
(23:44):
one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I think the world of you, sir. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Thanks Michael.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
What a great story. By the way, if you missed
that piece on the eightieth anniversary of D Day. And
I don't know what awards they have, is it Peabody,
but Larry used to win them all. Lenny Kington would
be a good one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He used to put the Peabody on the near the
Davenport in the Batta, right by his afghan. But it
was a brilliant piece by John Decker. It should have
won an award, and maybe it did. But nobody pays
John Decker to leave our nation's capital and spend the
weekend back in Asheville, North Carolina with this one hundred
(24:22):
year old World War Two treasure that says a lot
about John Decker. All Right, I want to get back
to what I was trying to do. So the point
is Bill Maher goes to the White House and reports
The big picture is why is Bill Maher no longer
the leader of the far left? Did the left leave him?
Or is he leaving the left? That's something to watch.
(24:44):
So is the death of wokeness? So is this dysfunctional
matrix we find ourselves in. So I've been dying to
play you this one clip without I'm going to rewind
it and do it without anterruption. So Bill Maher gives
this six and a half minute monologue about his meeting
with Donald Trump, and the gist of it is Donald
tr Trump was wonderful. He asked questions, he listened, he laughed,
(25:07):
He wasn't a tyrant, he wasn't the devil, he wasn't
a boogeyman.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Bill Maher was also.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Very forthright in the many things he agreed with with
Donald Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem, and he carved
out a list of things. Then he has some disagreements,
but ultimately, what he's showing you is you can disagree
with somebody and you don't have to hate him and
wish him dead, that you could actually be friends with
somebody you disagree with. That kind of difference and debate
(25:37):
and unity in division and debate is what made this
country great. This matrix and social dilemma we're living in
is what's destroying it. So I share that monologue and
then I share with you what the comments were, and
they were vicious towards Bill Maher. Well, a Washington Post
reporter already irrelevant due to the death of journalism. He
(25:59):
tries to take Bill mahert to task. Now, those that
are making comments on the internet to YouTube videos, they
don't get challenged. But you're on Bill Maher's show and
you're going to try to belittle you get a response.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Here's how it went.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So here's how Bill Maher would respond to all those
who would, he knows, violently react to him having anything
good to say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yes, I believe too much have been made about this,
but I think you've fallen into the trap. I think
I represent ninety nine percent of the Internet when I
say this is that you've played the game of proximity
is principle.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And what people are worried about it's not your motivation.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
We believe you, We love you, Bill, everybody loves Bill.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Right. Oh, you're gonna get zapp for that.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm not questioning your motivation. I'm questioning Trump's, Okay. And
if we can say that you went there in good faith,
but maybe, just maybe he wasn't there in good faith.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I mean you sold him on the irandial and he
took it in. I mean, give you a break, Okay.
So the idea here.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Is that your motivation is sound, But what's the impact.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And I think a.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Lot of people out there fans of your, people who
love you, people were.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Fans of you like me. I've been you. Don't patronize me, dude,
I don't know you. I never met your I'm just
saying that I got to stop and share a personal story.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So my senior year of high school, my mom and
dad are going through a rough time and they separate.
In the meantime, I've got a sociology teacher and a
psychology teacher who thinks he can throw a pen at
me and pick on me. Well, he threw a pen
at the wrong Italian, and one thing led to another,
(27:42):
and he was like, well, I want to see your parents,
and I said, well, I'm almost eighteen years old. You
can see me. And I saw him the minute class ended.
He effectively ended my baseball career that much he did.
I don't know that my headmaster wasn't on my side
for what happened, but he had. I didn't know it,
(28:03):
but my headmaster had stolen my keys. So I'm trying
to find my car, and when I got to it,
I didn't have any keys. So one thing leads to another,
and my worst nightmare. My father is called in to school,
and so there's the headmaster, there's me and my mom,
here's this teacher, and my dad walks in and the
teacher gets up to shake my dad's hand, and my
(28:25):
dad's immediate response was, I don't know you. I don't
want to shake your hand. I don't even know what
happened here yet it's a eulogy moment I'll share someday.
I was scared to death. My father was gonna do
me worse than I did that teacher, and his loyalty
(28:47):
was to me. Immediately, I thought a dad. When Bill
Maher gave that response, I want you to hear it again.
And I love it because it's a Washington Post reporter.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
People love you, people were fans of be like me.
I've been channing.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You don't patronize me, dude, I don't know you never
I never met your I'm just.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Saying that this is not everybody else to like it.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I we said there are people who didn't want it
to happen at all. It sound like one of them. No, no, no,
I just but did you hear what I Did you
hear what I said?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Like?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What is the alternative to not talking? Just at your
lunch table and don't talk to anybody?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
By the way, he had a better analogy in his
six minute speech, which was twenty five hour monologues into
the wind, countless hit pieces and print and on the
internet hating one another. Is that what you think is
(29:42):
the better idea? Listen I know I'm being wishful thinking here,
but I have watched journalism die. I mean, my whole
radio career was exposing media bias. My career ends, It
starts with records, queuing up records and reels. It ends
all digital or you can have a studio in your home.
(30:05):
But my talk career began with exposing media bias. It
ends with the death of journalism, the death of technocracy
and control over opposition fought on the internet, the death
of what I believe is the intelligentsia that went beyond
controlling universities but k through twelve curriculum. We're watching the
(30:25):
Department of Education at the federal level be dismantled. Are
we also witnessing the death of wokeness? And could this
be the first shots fired in the death of the matrix?
Nothing has destroyed our republic more than abandoning God and
self governance. And next to that, I would say, the
(30:48):
social dilemma and this matrix it's been created, and the
response to Bill Maher and the hatred towards him for.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Doing it tells me.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Or right in the thick of it, right in the
pits of hell, and remember truth in light exposes darkness
and ends the lie.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Something tells me in my gut.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't know that I've made the case in the
court from a public opinion very well, But something in
my gut, and in my soul and in my heart
tells me this is the beginning of the death of
the Matrix. And now I have real hope that we
can return to being one nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all again. And if you got
(31:41):
to create a new Mount Rushmore, now it's got to
be Kid Rock, Bill Maher and Donald Trump. I always say,
the only thing left shocking in life is the truth.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Rory made history Augusta, not just getting the green jacket,
but joining the elite group of those now six who
have completed the career grand Slam that is, winning the
Master's US Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.
He now joins Gene Saracen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas,
Tiger Woods and now Rory McElroy. It was a great
(32:17):
Sunday at Augustam, Roger, writes Michael di at iHeartMedia dot
Com Talkback Abuse there.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Is no such thing, Roger. I will preempt you, he writes.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
My wife is constantly telling me that I'm talking back
to your morning show too much. I tell her, well,
if they don't use Mike clipp it's their decision, and
I'm always okay if it doesn't make the air. I
just want you all to know how helpful your show
has been at a difficult time in my life. Talk
to you soon. My favorite talkback exchange was after the
(32:49):
extended van Zandt interview. Well, let me tell you something
plain and simple. You can't use the talkback too much.
It's your show, and you can't talk too much to
your show. Good morning, Michael. I watched the Masters yesterday
and cheered for Rory along with thousands of other fans
(33:09):
who spent a lot of time watching and rooting for him.
Along with everyone else who watched, I was ecstatic when
he sank that final putt, but my happiness for him
and for the moment quickly dissipated when he walked through
that massive crowd without so much as a wave or
a tip of the hat.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This is not true.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
First of all, Rory, by nature, was trying to stay focused.
That's why you saw so much emotion after the putt
went in. The hole just all came out. That's what's
been being held back. And so his focus, as he described,
was to stay in a cocoon because he didn't want
(33:49):
to get into the mental aspects of d Chambeau or others,
but just play the course. This all began with a
wonderful lunch with Jack Nicholas where they went over every
hole the strategy for all eighteen holes at Augusta. And
when Roy laid out his strategy, he said, perfect strategy.
Now just do it and don't let anything change your
(34:11):
focus from that. Don't let any emotions change your focus
in that. That's a lot of stuff to wind down from,
but he was He gave a lot of people, look,
it was a moment, and.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
You know, I don't know. That just seems a little
too critical for me.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Per you're mentioning the generational history of the United States,
I'd recommend the Neil Howe William Strauss nineteen ninety six
book The Fourth Turning. It's a sociology study of America's
history in eighty year spans. I am a gen xer,
so not quite your generation, but it's neat to hear
how each generation supposedly has a role in the destiny
(34:49):
within the Democratic the demographic progression of this country.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I'm going to check that book out. We're all in
this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael All
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