April 25, 2025 • 34 mins
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This is a huge story and one that might take
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LGBT community. Their agenda was first demanding tolerance, and remember
they got it, and then that wasn't enough. They wanted
acceptance and then they got it, and then that was
not enough, and they wanted validation and participation. By the way,
that's not me being cute saying participation. There were times
(03:59):
to be cute. I wondered what would satisfy these people.
They had tolerance that we're biblically required to do, that
we are from our founding fathers constitutionally required to do.
And they got acceptance and that wasn't enough. That it
was validation. You have to like praise that choice. Then
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it became about participation literally forcing you. There was a
meme this week and it was so me. You're into
a show, you're binging next thing, and I know two
guys are kissing that they've always got a slip it in.
And then of course where they really went too far
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and this is probably going to make it go all
the way to this, you know, well what made it
finally go to the United States Supreme Court removing parental
opt outs? And this is the LGBTQ teaching of elementary
school students. I mean to start the indoctrinations so aggressively
(05:09):
and so young, and then who do these kids belong
to the parents or these agendas So first you had
the opt out. If the parent was in touch enough
to know, then they just removed the opt out. No
we're gonna make kids do this. Parents rose up. No
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we're gonna be parents, You're gonna be teachers. And now
it's all the way to the Supreme Court. So two
huge issues to talk about with David Sonati, our senior
contributor today. Beyond anything in the news, that's what's really
going on.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We also have the death of a pope, which will
be the funeral tomorrow. Heads of state from nations around
the world will be gathering. And then not beyond that
very far is the conclave to elect a new pope,
which is is it's very interesting if you've seen the
movie Conclave. The ultimate issue in the movie Conclave is progressive,
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liberal versus conservative. Does the church need to return to
its traditional roots or does it need to continue on
a path of progressivism liberalism? That was really at the
root of it. Now you had a lot of other
side stories, and that's what made it a great movie,
and it shows you that this can be very political.
(06:34):
Like in fact, I think it's even a line in
the movie, this looks more like a convention political convention
in Washington, DC than it does allowing the Holy Spirit
to lead us to the next pope.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And that's back.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I mean, how did the movie know because it new,
but that is literally what's shaping for this conclave. So
John Paul the Second was a very, very conservative pope,
probably arguably one of the all time great popes. His
right hand man later became Pope Benedict. Conservative, then health faltered,
(07:19):
stepped down. That was odd to have two popes actually alive,
let alone two popes that were so different.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I don't get into the telling you how to think business,
and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
A Catholic, so out of respect, but I think most
that follow this would tell you that Francis's spirit was great.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
They questioned.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That he while he captured Christ's spirit, well, he didn't
quite hang on to doctrine very well. And this is
a particular problem for Catholics in the United States. So
that needs to be talked about because that conclave begins,
and you know, I don't want to say administrative state,
(08:07):
but Francis did something really smart in that. Well, there's
the rule you can't vote once you're eighty, and he
loaded up a bunch of cardinals since twenty thirteen, enough
to make up eighty percent of the vote to keep
things going progressive. The papacy tends to pendulum a little bit,
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and that if you have a conservative pope, then you
get a less conservative one. Then if you have a
less conservative one, you come back to a conservative one.
I just don't know if the votes are there. So
there's a lot of fascinating things to talk about. Rory
and Neils can have all the final details as everything
is set in place for tomorrow's funeral of Pope Francis,
and we will do the best we can to remember
him as best we can and then anticipate what a
(08:56):
conclave of cardinals are going to get in a room sequestered,
locked up, no windows open, and select the next pope
for who did we say it was? It was two
point four billion Catholics worldwide, sixty to seventy million here
in the United States. And as you know, President Trump
is going to Rome for Francis's funeral on Saturday. White
(09:19):
House correspondent John Decker will have a preview of that visit.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
As well. As they had the big dinner the press
what do they call that again? Now I'm going blank.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The corres correspondent center is tomorrow night actually, and last
night was the Norway Prime Minister. So all things President
Trump with our White House correspondent John Decker, I do
have a bit of sad news today. There will be
no Friday with forty seven. And it's all Jeffrey's fault.
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That was it my fault? Oh, can't be mine. The
computers I didn't know. You know, yesterday I was so
helpful with Red because he couldn't do anything. We get
issued computers no matter where you work, and then they
had an issue with the company. And so I walk
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this doesn't affect me, but I'll help Red. So I
get read all the information to get back online, and
then I wake up this morning and forget that I'm
going to need all that information. So Red was just
talking me through like I was the steward is trying
to crash land the plane, and whatever I did, I
did wrong because it all turned out Red.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
See that button on the lift, don't push that one.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, but no, we just couldn't get the schedule to work,
you know. I mean, the President has got a lot
going on I mean he had the Norway Prime Minister.
He's got to travel all the way to Italy with
the first lady. I mean, we just couldn't get the
travel plans and the live interview to work. I think
we can, all, out of respect for the Pope and
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the presidency, give forty seven a little slack, let him slide,
and then as you know, we start a new feature,
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interview of the week, and we spotlighted on Friday mornings
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(11:22):
so good you don't mind hearing it twice. It was
a big week for Valerie Burton Nelly. We all had
a crush on her when we were kids. She's not
a kid anymore. She celebrated her sixty fifth birthday and
she's kicked off her new big gig as host of
Bingo Blitz on the Game Show Network. So we caught
up with Valerie Burton Nelly. She'll be our spotlight interview
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of the week coming up next half hours. So we
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We got a big problem, and we've been talking about
this for a long time. Birth rates in the unit,
birth rates in the world are a real problem. Birth
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Mayfield has more.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
New data released by the CDC says about three point
six million babies were born in the US last year,
and so a one percent increase from twenty twenty three,
which saw an all time low birth rate in the US.
The Trump administration has been considering new policies to encourage
women to have more babies, including getting five thousand dollars
in cash to each woman.
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Who gives birth.
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When asked about it by reporters this week, President Trump
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I'm Mark Mayfield. Oh you owe me fifteen all right.
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A federal judge is pausing parts of the executive order
issued by President Trump aimed at changing election laws. Brian
Shook has details.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
The judge says Trump doesn't have the authority to require
proof of citizenship for voters in federal elections. The ruling
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The judge opted not to block another provision of the
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Speaker 1 (13:13):
More than one hundred cardinals, including New York's Timothy Dolan,
continued to meet ahead of the upcoming conclave, during which
the next Pope will be selected.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Tammy Trijello has details.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Dolan commented on the meetings following a massy held Thursday
night at the top of Rome's famous Spanish Steps.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Well, each of the cardinals will have a chance to speak.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
They don't speak about you know, and we think this
cardinal would be a good pope.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, they speak about.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The beauty and the challenges of the church in their diocese.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Dolan was part of the conclave that chose Pope Frances
in twenty thirteen. Meanwhile, scores of people from around the
world continue to line up to see the late Pope's
body at Saint Peter's Basilica. More than one hundred thousand
people are expected in Rome Saturday, the day of Pope
France's funeral.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Southwest Airline says it's offering fewer flights in the second
half of the year.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
The Dallas based carrier is making the change as fewer
people are booking flights within the US. Southwest also announced
Wednesday it expects to earn less money per ticket, up
to four percent less than last year. Other airlines like
United and Delta are also cutting back due to the
uncertain economy.
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I'm Michael Cassner, a spokesperson, is confirming Carlos Santana is
returning his tour and will return today despite testing positive
for COVID. The seventy seven year old rock and roll
Hall of Famer collapse from dehydration during a sound check
in San Antonio on Tuesday. Released from the hospital after
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it was found as condition wasn't life threatening. Santana's Oneness
tour continues today and Saturday, with shows in Oklahoma to
Oklahoma Listeners heads up on that and Carlos is back
is canceled. Shows earlier from this week in Texas will
all be rescheduled.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And the NFL draft.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Cam Ward was the first overall pick the Miami Hurricane
quarterback is going to the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Second, the Browns chose, they.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Kept calling him a unicorn, the most transformative potential player
in draft history, Travis Hunter, who does insist on going
both ways. How that's going to look in the NFL
versus college time will tell, But the Browns chose to
trade that and then later this probably in Ohio is
(15:33):
going to be scrutinized for a long time. You got
a really good defensive lineman from Michigan, but I think
this is one that's going to be Mason Graham second
guest for quite some time. To pass up on a
transformative player that many believed was the best player in
the draft, hands down, Travis Hunter, as always in Cleveland,
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that will be second guest. In the NBA playoffs, Thunder
up three games to nothing after winning one fourteen one
of eight over the grizz Piston's lost when eighteen one sixteen,
they're gonna they trail the Knicks now two games to one,
and the Clippers are up two games to one after
winning one seventeen eighty three over the Nuggets, and Hockey
Blues won Lightning lost.
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All eyes of course around Vatican City where the Ope
Francis will be laid to rest. Leaders from around the
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world will be making their way to Italy, including President
Trump and the First Lady. That funeral is tomorrow. We'll
get more of a preview on that from Rory O'Neil.
The first round of the draft is in the history books.
The first pick overall went to the Tennessee Titans, and
they chose exactly who we thought they would. Cam Ward Should, Should,
should How do I say it? Shador Sanders. Everyone expected
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him to go.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
No later than.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ninth to the Saints. He still hasn't been drafted, so
no shock in the first pick overall. Big shock in
Deon Sanders, quarterback son yet to be drafted. He'll have
to wait till today. Things will begin and we group
with the packers later as the draft resumes.
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All right.
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We decided a little over a month and a half
ago we have an interview that will take place during
the week, in maybe the third hour, and and we thought,
wouldn't it be neat if we did a spotlight replay
of the best interview of the week just for our
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of the Week.
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There's your spotlight sound effect.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This week it was Valeri Burtonelli and it was a
big week or sixty fourth birthd sixty fifth birthday and
to catch up on her new job as host of
the Bingo Blitz on the Game show Network.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's great to meet her.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Nice to meet you too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Listen, I caught your new game show and you were terrific.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Well, thank you. I'm having a ball. I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know, I was thinking to myself before we started,
life was pretty simple growing up. The girls were all
in love with I think, and I have to remember,
but I think it was like David Cassidy, some the
older girls, Leif Garrett, Scott Bayo, was actually guys, we
were simple. We were in love with Christy mcnickel or
Valerie Burton, Ellie.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Ye, Christy, I Love It.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Or Farah Fawcett.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It was that simple.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And I was thinking to myself, I'm fifteen years old.
I'm trying to figure out how to play nose tackle
at ninety eight pounds and get Jean Duezan to go
study with me, and you're in a Norman Lear sitcom
with I mean, people forget Pat Harrington Junior was in
the Danny Thomas.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean he was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
He was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, and Bonnie Franklin and Mackenzie Phillips. I mean that
had to be crazy to be fifteen years old and
every guy in the world was in love with you.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Well, I didn't know that.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
There wasn't social media back then. I just, you know,
I was just trying to, you know, do the best
job I could. And I was so green, and I
so didn't know what I was doing, and I had
so much help and so much support. It was I
was very, very blessed, and I am so grateful that
that's my introduction to the business because it can be
pretty rough.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
But I had soft places to fall everywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So how did you go from? I mean I presume
Italian right like me?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yes, I'm Italian and Irish and English?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, So how did that happen? How do you end
up in a Norman Lear sitcom? At fifteen?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
I looked a lot like his daughter, Maggie, and I
think that sparked something in Norman.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Something in me reminded him of his daughter.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And I was lucky enough to get the job, because
god knows, I.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Wasn't a pretty good actress.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I actually thought you were.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
He sent me to acting school the first season, and.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, it's been paid off. You did great. So then
we you know, we start with that. I didn't realize
that show was on so long? Were you there all
the way to eighty four?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I was nine years yeah, nineteen seventy five to nineteen
eighty four.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Man, it's a long time.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And then you know, after that, Emmy Award winning host,
best selling author the memoirs, the Cookbooks, spokesperson and now
game show host.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
I keep myself busy.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well there was some other stuff in between two Yes.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yes, I got married.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I had a kid. Yeah, there's that too. I did
a you know, a mini series. But I just I
love to work. I love to stretch my brain, I
love to learn new things, and I love to be
around people.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Most of the time.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
I'm this very strange mix of introvert and extrovert where
I love being around people, I love giving them energy,
love feeling their energy, and then.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
I need to like not see a soul for like
a Day's Animals.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Valer Burtnelly joining us because Bingo Blitz is there a
new game show? It airs seven thirty week nights on
the Game Show Network. I have a mom who is
in a nursing home and we visit constantly and.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It never moves from the Game Show Network.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
So I want to know, because yeah, my parents were
in a facility.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You know, there was different things on the television, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, Well, and then I think you're on right before
the Wall. I believe, if I have the timing writer,
maybe there's one between you and the wall, and the
wall is a huge ship. But I have to tell you,
I'm not saying this because I'm talking to you. I
don't know what I mean. I was very good friends
with Wink Martindale, who we just lost.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I loved him. I loved him he.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Was an amazing, amazing human being just at the perfect post.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yes he was. He was really terrific. Such a beautiful smile.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh, he was just the great. He gave me one
of his sport codes. I wanted a gaudy one to
hang up next to all my football jerseys. Brought one
so nice. I wear it if you flip the lapel,
there's a note from a minute. But I mean nice
to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All about that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Because game shows are different, right, I mean, let's I
want to get to the premise of the show and
how many you film in a single day, but I
want to start and I mean this wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You're unnatural. You are very very good so much.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
It's a it's a very different animal, and it took
me a little bit.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
To adjust to it.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
We did have some rehearsals here in Los Angeles so
that I could adjusted the game. Luckily, the game is
easy to play, and the trivia is really written so well,
giving out four answers and then you know, messing with
your head a little bit with the question because you're
not expecting where it's going to go. I love what
the writers did with that. But yeah, I mean Bingo's easy, right.
(22:46):
I mean, it's not a very difficult game to play.
It's it's a game of chance. There's very little skill,
but the skill involved is answering the trivia and getting
the because you don't get the balls without the trivia.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You gotta have a lot of balls to get, and then.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
More of balls you get, the more you better chance
you have of getting bingos.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There's the golden ball. You didn't think I knew about
the golden ball, didn't.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah, you can put that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I can't put that anymore that Yeah, you know, thought
I thought the interesting too. I mean, you see all
these shows all the time visiting Vally. Burtnelli is the
new host of Bingo Blitz week Night seven thirty. I
think it debuted almost a week ago tonight or something
like that. But yeah, it's the way you get the
one of four. I guess it's kind of mixing trivia
(23:28):
and multiple choice. And you wouldn't think there's any trivia
questions left with all.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
These shows, that's true.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
But the way that we put the little spin on
it is really fun.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
It makes your brain. They're like brain teasers. They're great.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And then when it's all said and done, you got
sixty seconds to take a shot at ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
That final round always made me so nervous because I
wanted to get everything right so that the contestant had everything,
as you know, put in perfectly so that they could
be at their best. If I was so nervous, I
knew that I had to do the best job I
could because those sixty seconds ago by really quick. When
you're asking and you're saying a lot of words, and
you're asking a lot of questions, it's really scary.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well do you remember what was the game show with
the Beast and Brooke Burns was the host of it
at the time, and it was but it was similar
to that in that there's a lot writing on you
not taking a long time asking the questions because every
fluff you make is taking away time from them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So yeah, that's a right.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
So big the villain in this, and god knows, I
hate being a villain.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So were you a big game show fan or does
this come kind of out of.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The blue for you?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I do love game shows.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
I did a lot of them when I you know,
when I was younger, I did you know Pyramids Whares?
I did what ten thousand dollars pyramid? I did family
feud match game a bunch of them in the seventies
and maybe the early eighties, and then I didn't do
so so many anymore. But yeah, I love playing games
(24:55):
at home. I'm I have every board game I think
there possibly is I I have. You know, we play
card games all the time. I just I love games.
And to be a host of a really fun game
show that people I know you're going to want to
play this at home, like you're gonna want to scream
out the answers, I'm so thrilled to be a part
of it.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
I loved every second of it.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
It was I'm definitely out of my wheelhouse, but I
got adjusted to it very quickly, and I really had
fun with it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm a little embarrassed. You notice how quickly I knew
you run the ten thousand dollars pyramid.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I guess I did stalk you a little bit as
a team. No, that was that's from skipping school and
actually watching you, Michael. I did well, yeah, a lot,
a lot and did. And what was the one with
no whammies no whammis pressure luck?
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Well like that that was hysterical I was one of
my favorites.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Valerie Bertinelli from One Day at a Time for nine
years and a teen heart throb to best selling author,
spokesperson now game show host Bingo Blitz, Game show Network
seven thirty. I highly encourage everyone to give it a try.
You're an absolute natural. Now, I know you've been doing
stuff with Oh. Now I'm going to blank on her
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from was it et Drew barrymore?
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Drew?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Yes, I'm from part of the Drew crew on her show.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
So I show up.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I think I did about fifty some odd episodes last season.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I'll be back to do more next season. I adore her.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
She's like a sister from another mister.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
I just absolutely love her. She's what you see is
what you get. She's very much like Betty where that.
That's how authentic she is.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
She's just everything you could you see and you could
want from a human being. She is it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I got to tell you, if they're going to keep
giving a bunch of people shows, they ought to give
you a shot at I think you'd be a natural
having your own show.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
I do not want my Ellen talk show. I'm telling you,
I watch how hard Drew works. I watched how hard
Rachel watch.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
I'm going to be sixty five in a couple of days.
I don't want to work that hard. I want to
have fun.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well fun, Yeah, we're both getting up there, all right,
So let me ask you this. How many do you film.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
In a day?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
We filmed six episodes in a day, and that's a
lot of talking. And I was done talking by the
end of the day. I didn't want to talk. I
didn't want to say, I didn't want to see anybody.
I would go back to my hotel room and just
like make myself dinner and then just like, I think
it's we're shooting during football season, so I would just
turn on a game and I you know, there was
like Monday night games, Thursday night games, Sunday. I was
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just like I just wanted to watch football or nothing
and just like not talk.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Now, do you think there's any way you can rig
it where the Dell journos can get beyond h on
the Blitz?
Speaker 9 (27:38):
I would love that, but I you know, that's not
up to me. Game Show Network is very very out.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Of particular goals.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
See, we've tried to get on other game shows. You
got to do all these films to show that you'll
be theatrical and you know put on.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
They do want you to have energy.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
I mean we are we are filming television, so obviously
that's part of it.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
And if you have a sense of humor.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
That's a plus always. But I don't see why you couldn't.
I mean, game show network is you're.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Going to do that?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, we are famous.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We go to Mexican Knight and do trivia and we
are the Harry Potheads and we are val.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You love this.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We are always in first place going into the final
question and we have never come in the top three.
That's how much me so I probably should How do
you do that?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
We choke every time, and we don't cheat. Some people cheat.
I can see him googling. We don't cheat, but we
all sat.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I mean, how do you have Well, you don't have
time to shoot when you're playing Bingo Blitz, that's for sure, no,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
On the spot.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But I would be like that Ralph Cramton episode Rober
just like Hamada Haamanda. I would choke on the final question.
It's probably the best. I don't let me tell you something.
You were in love with her, I know, and you
have a lot of reason to still be in love
with her. At sixty five. It's called Bingo Blitz. You're
gonna love it. On the Game show Network week nights
at seven thirty. A lot of us had crushes on
you as kid, A lot of us have prayed for
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you throughout life. All of us are very proud of you.
You and she said thank you. That would be the
rejoin music. I can't deal with human error and computer
error in the same day.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'll snap.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chuno.
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Don't forget if you missed anything throughout the week. He
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Speaker 3 (29:31):
Just waking up.
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These are your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
No more.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Former New York.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Congressman George Santos says he's expected to receive the maximum
prison sentence today.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Mark Mayfield has the story.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft,
and admitted that he sold from campaign donors and lined
about it to Congress. On Thursday, Santos told reporters that
he expects the maximum eighty seven month prison sentence to
be handed down, adding he's totally resigned to being in
prison for over seven years. Santos attorneys are hoping for
a later two year term behind bars.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
President Trump is suggesting he gave Russia a week to
reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Speaking from the White House, Trump was asked about possible
sanctions against Russia if it keeps bombing Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Would rather answer that question in a week. I want
to say we can have a deal.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
No reason answer it now, but I won't be happy.
Let me put it that way, things will happen.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Trump added that he doesn't believe Russia is an obstacle
to peace. Trump again said he's not happy with Putin
about strikes conducted by Russia on the capital of Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I'm Brian Shook. Well.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
There are fears of a possible serial killer in the
New England area after an eighth body has been discovered
in the region.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
At least a tailor has more.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
On Tuesday, police found the body of a woman near
a bike path in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her cause of death
has yet to be determined and it's being investigated as
unattended death. Talk of a serial killer has been happening
in the region since March, as seven other bodies, mostly women,
have been found in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. A
Facebook group titled New England serial Killer has driven speculation.
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Police have not confirmed any connection between the deaths.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Finally, se Tailor, what to do with expired drugs or
drugs who don't take anymore? The Drug Enforcement Agency would
like you to get rid of them and give them
to them.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
This Saturday is National Prescription Drug take Back Day, where
the DEA sponsored sites across the country for disposal of
unused prescription drugs. A goal is to keep them from
being flushed and contaminating the water supply or ending up
in the wrong hands. Collection sites will be opened between
ten am and two pm. I'm Michael Kassner.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, here's something I didn't expect this morning. Eating chickens healthy? Right?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What's more healthy?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Eating chicken on a regular basis is now linked to
a higher risk of dying of cancer.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Italian researchers collected data on the dies of about five
thouars adults for nearly twenty years and found those who
ate about four servings of chicken per week had a
twenty seven percent higher risk of dying early from digestive cancers.
They found the risk was higher for men than for women.
The researchers added that more data is needed and that
the increased risk of death may be related to how
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the chicken is cooked, possible pesticide in the chicken feed,
or hormones in the chickens. I'm tammage rhio.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
In sports, in the NFL Draft, things went the way
we expected. Cam Ward going first overall and he did
to the Titans. Travis Hunter going second overall, but he
didn't to the Cleveland Browns. They traded that pick with
the Jaguars, who then in turn took Travis Hunter, arguably
the best talent in the entire draft, something for Cleveland
(32:44):
to mull over again in the future. Giants went third
with Abdul Carter. He is a dominating defensive vent. Patriots
took LSU's tackle, probably the best offensive lineman in the draft.
Will Campbell, and then the Browns used their pick to
get Mason Graham. One big shocker of the day is
Dion Sanders' son did not get selected.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
He has to wait until today.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
He hopes NBA playoffs Thunder up three games to nothing
now after winning one fourteen one to weight over the
grizz last night, Pistons lost one eighteen one sixteen a
heartbreaker to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Next lead that series now two games to one.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Clippers are up two games to one, beating the Nuggets
one seventeen to eighty three on the ice, Blues one
seven to two over the Jets, but Winnipeg still leads
that series two games to one, and the Lightning loss
two to one to Panthers and Florida now up two
games to nothing. In baseball, four games of Your Morning
show Interest, Giants over the Brewers six to five, Nats
lost to the Race seven to four, and the Nats
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the d Backs lost to the Race seven to four.
Nats fell to the O's two to one, and the
A's beat the Rangers four to three. Birthdays today, many
people would say, probably the best actor of our generation.
Al Pacino eighty four years old today, actress renee Zelwigger.
She had us at Hello and now she has fifty
five years old. I think Azaria is sixty years old. If
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it's your birthday, Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born,
and thanks for making your morning show a part of
your big day.
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Uh note to Redd, it's all Red. So there's my answer. Obviously,
we're having a.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Couple of technicum glitches here this morning that I can't
seem to get worked out. But hey, that's what makes
Fridays fun. Right, Let's do a national radio show without
a clock because of something with our.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Computers, without the net on a tight wire. Let's do it, babe.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'll just Hey, what was that day we had that
I just I just kept talking. Yeah, I just kept
talking till it manually broke. I think I can remember
that it is Friday. Love that word. Friday, April to
twenty fifth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five on
the Aaron streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. This is
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can fulfill this. Name your morning show now if you're
just waking up. A federal judge is halting parts of
an executive order issued by President Trump aimed at changing
election laws. Luigi Mangioni expected to plead not guilty today
for his murder trial of the killing alleged killing of
(02:45):
CEO Brian Thompson from United Healthcare Pentagon restarting gender affirming care.
This is a huge story and one that might take
this finally all the way to the Supreme Court and
fin finally we'll look at where everything went wrong on
personhood decades ago. There's this reawakening right this, Remember how
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it all fell apart, abandonment of God, his ways, his truth,
his life, moral relativism, legal relativism, and now the whole
thing starts coming back together. And at the root of it,
you may find, is personhood. This is a big, big topic,
so big we're going to visit with our senior contributor
David Sanati about that. We also have another biggie, the
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LGBT community. Their agenda was first demanding tolerance, and remember
they got it, and then that wasn't enough. They wanted
acceptance and then they got it, and then that was
not enough, and they wanted validation and participation. By the way,
that's not me being cute saying participation. There were times
(03:59):
to be cute. I wondered what would satisfy these people.
They had tolerance that we're biblically required to do, that
we are from our founding fathers constitutionally required to do.
And they got acceptance and that wasn't enough. That it
was validation. You have to like praise that choice. Then
(04:23):
it became about participation literally forcing you. There was a
meme this week and it was so me. You're into
a show, you're binging next thing, and I know two
guys are kissing that they've always got a slip it in.
And then of course where they really went too far
(04:44):
and this is probably going to make it go all
the way to this, you know, well what made it
finally go to the United States Supreme Court removing parental
opt outs? And this is the LGBTQ teaching of elementary
school students. I mean to start the indoctrinations so aggressively
(05:09):
and so young, and then who do these kids belong
to the parents or these agendas So first you had
the opt out. If the parent was in touch enough
to know, then they just removed the opt out. No
we're gonna make kids do this. Parents rose up. No
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we're gonna be parents, You're gonna be teachers. And now
it's all the way to the Supreme Court. So two
huge issues to talk about with David Sonati, our senior
contributor today. Beyond anything in the news, that's what's really
going on.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We also have the death of a pope, which will
be the funeral tomorrow. Heads of state from nations around
the world will be gathering. And then not beyond that
very far is the conclave to elect a new pope,
which is is it's very interesting if you've seen the
movie Conclave. The ultimate issue in the movie Conclave is progressive,
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liberal versus conservative. Does the church need to return to
its traditional roots or does it need to continue on
a path of progressivism liberalism? That was really at the
root of it. Now you had a lot of other
side stories, and that's what made it a great movie,
and it shows you that this can be very political.
(06:34):
Like in fact, I think it's even a line in
the movie, this looks more like a convention political convention
in Washington, DC than it does allowing the Holy Spirit
to lead us to the next pope.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And that's back.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I mean, how did the movie know because it new,
but that is literally what's shaping for this conclave. So
John Paul the Second was a very, very conservative pope,
probably arguably one of the all time great popes. His
right hand man later became Pope Benedict. Conservative, then health faltered,
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stepped down. That was odd to have two popes actually alive,
let alone two popes that were so different.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I don't get into the telling you how to think business,
and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
A Catholic, so out of respect, but I think most
that follow this would tell you that Francis's spirit was great.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
They questioned.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That he while he captured Christ's spirit, well, he didn't
quite hang on to doctrine very well. And this is
a particular problem for Catholics in the United States. So
that needs to be talked about because that conclave begins,
and you know, I don't want to say administrative state,
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but Francis did something really smart in that. Well, there's
the rule you can't vote once you're eighty, and he
loaded up a bunch of cardinals since twenty thirteen, enough
to make up eighty percent of the vote to keep
things going progressive. The papacy tends to pendulum a little bit,
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and that if you have a conservative pope, then you
get a less conservative one. Then if you have a
less conservative one, you come back to a conservative one.
I just don't know if the votes are there. So
there's a lot of fascinating things to talk about. Rory
and Neils can have all the final details as everything
is set in place for tomorrow's funeral of Pope Francis,
and we will do the best we can to remember
him as best we can and then anticipate what a
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conclave of cardinals are going to get in a room sequestered,
locked up, no windows open, and select the next pope
for who did we say it was? It was two
point four billion Catholics worldwide, sixty to seventy million here
in the United States. And as you know, President Trump
is going to Rome for Francis's funeral on Saturday. White
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House correspondent John Decker will have a preview of that visit.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
As well. As they had the big dinner the press
what do they call that again? Now I'm going blank.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The corres correspondent center is tomorrow night actually, and last
night was the Norway Prime Minister. So all things President
Trump with our White House correspondent John Decker, I do
have a bit of sad news today. There will be
no Friday with forty seven. And it's all Jeffrey's fault.
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That was it my fault? Oh, can't be mine. The
computers I didn't know. You know, yesterday I was so
helpful with Red because he couldn't do anything. We get
issued computers no matter where you work, and then they
had an issue with the company. And so I walk
Red through everything I'm getting. Isn't that so me? Thinking
(10:18):
this doesn't affect me, but I'll help Red. So I
get read all the information to get back online, and
then I wake up this morning and forget that I'm
going to need all that information. So Red was just
talking me through like I was the steward is trying
to crash land the plane, and whatever I did, I
did wrong because it all turned out Red.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
See that button on the lift, don't push that one.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, but no, we just couldn't get the schedule to work,
you know. I mean, the President has got a lot
going on I mean he had the Norway Prime Minister.
He's got to travel all the way to Italy with
the first lady. I mean, we just couldn't get the
travel plans and the live interview to work. I think
we can, all, out of respect for the Pope and
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the presidency, give forty seven a little slack, let him slide,
and then as you know, we start a new feature,
we take our what we found to be our best
interview of the week, and we spotlighted on Friday mornings
for our platinum card listeners because normally these interviews happened
later in the show, and if we select right, they're
(11:22):
so good you don't mind hearing it twice. It was
a big week for Valerie Burton Nelly. We all had
a crush on her when we were kids. She's not
a kid anymore. She celebrated her sixty fifth birthday and
she's kicked off her new big gig as host of
Bingo Blitz on the Game Show Network. So we caught
up with Valerie Burton Nelly. She'll be our spotlight interview
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of the week coming up next half hours. So we
got a big, big show for you. Only one chance
to live this Friday, April the twenty fifth. You'll never
get another chance to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's your Morning show with Michael Del Choano.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We got a big problem, and we've been talking about
this for a long time. Birth rates in the unit,
birth rates in the world are a real problem. Birth
rates in the United States a near record low. Mark
Mayfield has more.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
New data released by the CDC says about three point
six million babies were born in the US last year,
and so a one percent increase from twenty twenty three,
which saw an all time low birth rate in the US.
The Trump administration has been considering new policies to encourage
women to have more babies, including getting five thousand dollars
in cash to each woman.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Who gives birth.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
When asked about it by reporters this week, President Trump
said the proposal sounded like a good idea to him.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Oh you owe me fifteen all right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
A federal judge is pausing parts of the executive order
issued by President Trump aimed at changing election laws. Brian
Shook has details.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
The judge says Trump doesn't have the authority to require
proof of citizenship for voters in federal elections. The ruling
maintains that this authority rests with Congress and the states.
The judge opted not to block another provision of the
executive Order that withholds federal funding from states that don't
comply with the deadline for mail in ballots. She found
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the groups who challenged the provision lacked the standing to
do so. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
More than one hundred cardinals, including New York's Timothy Dolan,
continued to meet ahead of the upcoming conclave, during which
the next Pope will be selected.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Tammy Trijello has details.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Dolan commented on the meetings following a massy held Thursday
night at the top of Rome's famous Spanish Steps.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Well, each of the cardinals will have a chance to speak.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
They don't speak about you know, and we think this
cardinal would be a good pope.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, they speak about.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The beauty and the challenges of the church in their diocese.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Dolan was part of the conclave that chose Pope Frances
in twenty thirteen. Meanwhile, scores of people from around the
world continue to line up to see the late Pope's
body at Saint Peter's Basilica. More than one hundred thousand
people are expected in Rome Saturday, the day of Pope
France's funeral.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Southwest Airline says it's offering fewer flights in the second
half of the year.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
The Dallas based carrier is making the change as fewer
people are booking flights within the US. Southwest also announced
Wednesday it expects to earn less money per ticket, up
to four percent less than last year. Other airlines like
United and Delta are also cutting back due to the
uncertain economy.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm Michael Cassner, a spokesperson, is confirming Carlos Santana is
returning his tour and will return today despite testing positive
for COVID. The seventy seven year old rock and roll
Hall of Famer collapse from dehydration during a sound check
in San Antonio on Tuesday. Released from the hospital after
(14:43):
it was found as condition wasn't life threatening. Santana's Oneness
tour continues today and Saturday, with shows in Oklahoma to
Oklahoma Listeners heads up on that and Carlos is back
is canceled. Shows earlier from this week in Texas will
all be rescheduled.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And the NFL draft.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Cam Ward was the first overall pick the Miami Hurricane
quarterback is going to the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Second, the Browns chose, they.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Kept calling him a unicorn, the most transformative potential player
in draft history, Travis Hunter, who does insist on going
both ways. How that's going to look in the NFL
versus college time will tell, But the Browns chose to
trade that and then later this probably in Ohio is
(15:33):
going to be scrutinized for a long time. You got
a really good defensive lineman from Michigan, but I think
this is one that's going to be Mason Graham second
guest for quite some time. To pass up on a
transformative player that many believed was the best player in
the draft, hands down, Travis Hunter, as always in Cleveland,
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that will be second guest. In the NBA playoffs, Thunder
up three games to nothing after winning one fourteen one
of eight over the grizz Piston's lost when eighteen one sixteen,
they're gonna they trail the Knicks now two games to one,
and the Clippers are up two games to one after
winning one seventeen eighty three over the Nuggets, and Hockey
Blues won Lightning lost.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
This is Dan calling from Heree, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
My morning show is your morning show, Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Hi, It's Michael.
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All eyes of course around Vatican City where the Ope
Francis will be laid to rest. Leaders from around the
(16:54):
world will be making their way to Italy, including President
Trump and the First Lady. That funeral is tomorrow. We'll
get more of a preview on that from Rory O'Neil.
The first round of the draft is in the history books.
The first pick overall went to the Tennessee Titans, and
they chose exactly who we thought they would. Cam Ward Should, Should,
should How do I say it? Shador Sanders. Everyone expected
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him to go.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
No later than.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ninth to the Saints. He still hasn't been drafted, so
no shock in the first pick overall. Big shock in
Deon Sanders, quarterback son yet to be drafted. He'll have
to wait till today. Things will begin and we group
with the packers later as the draft resumes.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We decided a little over a month and a half
ago we have an interview that will take place during
the week, in maybe the third hour, and and we thought,
wouldn't it be neat if we did a spotlight replay
of the best interview of the week just for our
platinum card listeners, and we call it our Spotlight Interview
of the Week.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
There's your spotlight sound effect.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This week it was Valeri Burtonelli and it was a
big week or sixty fourth birthd sixty fifth birthday and
to catch up on her new job as host of
the Bingo Blitz on the Game show Network.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's great to meet her.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Nice to meet you too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Listen, I caught your new game show and you were terrific.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Well, thank you. I'm having a ball. I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know, I was thinking to myself before we started,
life was pretty simple growing up. The girls were all
in love with I think, and I have to remember,
but I think it was like David Cassidy, some the
older girls, Leif Garrett, Scott Bayo, was actually guys, we
were simple. We were in love with Christy mcnickel or
Valerie Burton, Ellie.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Ye, Christy, I Love It.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Or Farah Fawcett.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It was that simple.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And I was thinking to myself, I'm fifteen years old.
I'm trying to figure out how to play nose tackle
at ninety eight pounds and get Jean Duezan to go
study with me, and you're in a Norman Lear sitcom
with I mean, people forget Pat Harrington Junior was in
the Danny Thomas.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean he was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
He was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, and Bonnie Franklin and Mackenzie Phillips. I mean that
had to be crazy to be fifteen years old and
every guy in the world was in love with you.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Well, I didn't know that.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
There wasn't social media back then. I just, you know,
I was just trying to, you know, do the best
job I could. And I was so green, and I
so didn't know what I was doing, and I had
so much help and so much support. It was I
was very, very blessed, and I am so grateful that
that's my introduction to the business because it can be
pretty rough.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
But I had soft places to fall everywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So how did you go from? I mean I presume
Italian right like me?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yes, I'm Italian and Irish and English?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, So how did that happen? How do you end
up in a Norman Lear sitcom? At fifteen?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
I looked a lot like his daughter, Maggie, and I
think that sparked something in Norman.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Something in me reminded him of his daughter.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And I was lucky enough to get the job, because
god knows, I.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Wasn't a pretty good actress.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I actually thought you were.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
He sent me to acting school the first season, and.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, it's been paid off. You did great. So then
we you know, we start with that. I didn't realize
that show was on so long? Were you there all
the way to eighty four?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I was nine years yeah, nineteen seventy five to nineteen
eighty four.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Man, it's a long time.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And then you know, after that, Emmy Award winning host,
best selling author the memoirs, the Cookbooks, spokesperson and now
game show host.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
I keep myself busy.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well there was some other stuff in between two Yes.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yes, I got married.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I had a kid. Yeah, there's that too. I did
a you know, a mini series. But I just I
love to work. I love to stretch my brain, I
love to learn new things, and I love to be
around people.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Most of the time.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
I'm this very strange mix of introvert and extrovert where
I love being around people, I love giving them energy,
love feeling their energy, and then.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
I need to like not see a soul for like
a Day's Animals.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Valer Burtnelly joining us because Bingo Blitz is there a
new game show? It airs seven thirty week nights on
the Game Show Network. I have a mom who is
in a nursing home and we visit constantly and.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It never moves from the Game Show Network.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
So I want to know, because yeah, my parents were
in a facility.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You know, there was different things on the television, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, Well, and then I think you're on right before
the Wall. I believe, if I have the timing writer,
maybe there's one between you and the wall, and the
wall is a huge ship. But I have to tell you,
I'm not saying this because I'm talking to you. I
don't know what I mean. I was very good friends
with Wink Martindale, who we just lost.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I loved him. I loved him he.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Was an amazing, amazing human being just at the perfect post.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yes he was. He was really terrific. Such a beautiful smile.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh, he was just the great. He gave me one
of his sport codes. I wanted a gaudy one to
hang up next to all my football jerseys. Brought one
so nice. I wear it if you flip the lapel,
there's a note from a minute. But I mean nice
to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All about that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Because game shows are different, right, I mean, let's I
want to get to the premise of the show and
how many you film in a single day, but I
want to start and I mean this wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You're unnatural. You are very very good so much.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
It's a it's a very different animal, and it took
me a little bit.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
To adjust to it.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
We did have some rehearsals here in Los Angeles so
that I could adjusted the game. Luckily, the game is
easy to play, and the trivia is really written so well,
giving out four answers and then you know, messing with
your head a little bit with the question because you're
not expecting where it's going to go. I love what
the writers did with that. But yeah, I mean Bingo's easy, right.
(22:46):
I mean, it's not a very difficult game to play.
It's it's a game of chance. There's very little skill,
but the skill involved is answering the trivia and getting
the because you don't get the balls without the trivia.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You gotta have a lot of balls to get, and then.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
More of balls you get, the more you better chance
you have of getting bingos.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There's the golden ball. You didn't think I knew about
the golden ball, didn't.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Yeah, you can put that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I can't put that anymore that Yeah, you know, thought
I thought the interesting too. I mean, you see all
these shows all the time visiting Vally. Burtnelli is the
new host of Bingo Blitz week Night seven thirty. I
think it debuted almost a week ago tonight or something
like that. But yeah, it's the way you get the
one of four. I guess it's kind of mixing trivia
(23:28):
and multiple choice. And you wouldn't think there's any trivia
questions left with all.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
These shows, that's true.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
But the way that we put the little spin on
it is really fun.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
It makes your brain. They're like brain teasers. They're great.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And then when it's all said and done, you got
sixty seconds to take a shot at ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
That final round always made me so nervous because I
wanted to get everything right so that the contestant had everything,
as you know, put in perfectly so that they could
be at their best. If I was so nervous, I
knew that I had to do the best job I
could because those sixty seconds ago by really quick. When
you're asking and you're saying a lot of words, and
you're asking a lot of questions, it's really scary.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well do you remember what was the game show with
the Beast and Brooke Burns was the host of it
at the time, and it was but it was similar
to that in that there's a lot writing on you
not taking a long time asking the questions because every
fluff you make is taking away time from them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So yeah, that's a right.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
So big the villain in this, and god knows, I
hate being a villain.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So were you a big game show fan or does
this come kind of out of.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The blue for you?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I do love game shows.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
I did a lot of them when I you know,
when I was younger, I did you know Pyramids Whares?
I did what ten thousand dollars pyramid? I did family
feud match game a bunch of them in the seventies
and maybe the early eighties, and then I didn't do
so so many anymore. But yeah, I love playing games
(24:55):
at home. I'm I have every board game I think
there possibly is I I have. You know, we play
card games all the time. I just I love games.
And to be a host of a really fun game
show that people I know you're going to want to
play this at home, like you're gonna want to scream
out the answers, I'm so thrilled to be a part
of it.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
I loved every second of it.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
It was I'm definitely out of my wheelhouse, but I
got adjusted to it very quickly, and I really had
fun with it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm a little embarrassed. You notice how quickly I knew
you run the ten thousand dollars pyramid.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I guess I did stalk you a little bit as
a team. No, that was that's from skipping school and
actually watching you, Michael. I did well, yeah, a lot,
a lot and did. And what was the one with
no whammies no whammis pressure luck?
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Well like that that was hysterical I was one of
my favorites.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Valerie Bertinelli from One Day at a Time for nine
years and a teen heart throb to best selling author,
spokesperson now game show host Bingo Blitz, Game show Network
seven thirty. I highly encourage everyone to give it a try.
You're an absolute natural. Now, I know you've been doing
stuff with Oh. Now I'm going to blank on her
(26:05):
from was it et Drew barrymore?
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Drew?
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Yes, I'm from part of the Drew crew on her show.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
So I show up.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I think I did about fifty some odd episodes last season.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I'll be back to do more next season. I adore her.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
She's like a sister from another mister.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
I just absolutely love her. She's what you see is
what you get. She's very much like Betty where that.
That's how authentic she is.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
She's just everything you could you see and you could
want from a human being. She is it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I got to tell you, if they're going to keep
giving a bunch of people shows, they ought to give
you a shot at I think you'd be a natural
having your own show.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
I do not want my Ellen talk show. I'm telling you,
I watch how hard Drew works. I watched how hard
Rachel watch.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
I'm going to be sixty five in a couple of days.
I don't want to work that hard. I want to
have fun.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well fun, Yeah, we're both getting up there, all right,
So let me ask you this. How many do you film.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
In a day?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
We filmed six episodes in a day, and that's a
lot of talking. And I was done talking by the
end of the day. I didn't want to talk. I
didn't want to say, I didn't want to see anybody.
I would go back to my hotel room and just
like make myself dinner and then just like, I think
it's we're shooting during football season, so I would just
turn on a game and I you know, there was
like Monday night games, Thursday night games, Sunday. I was
(27:28):
just like I just wanted to watch football or nothing
and just like not talk.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Now, do you think there's any way you can rig
it where the Dell journos can get beyond h on
the Blitz?
Speaker 9 (27:38):
I would love that, but I you know, that's not
up to me. Game Show Network is very very out.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Of particular goals.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
See, we've tried to get on other game shows. You
got to do all these films to show that you'll
be theatrical and you know put on.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
They do want you to have energy.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
I mean we are we are filming television, so obviously
that's part of it.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
And if you have a sense of humor.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
That's a plus always. But I don't see why you couldn't.
I mean, game show network is you're.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Going to do that?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, we are famous.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We go to Mexican Knight and do trivia and we
are the Harry Potheads and we are val.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You love this.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We are always in first place going into the final
question and we have never come in the top three.
That's how much me so I probably should How do
you do that?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
We choke every time, and we don't cheat. Some people cheat.
I can see him googling. We don't cheat, but we
all sat.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I mean, how do you have Well, you don't have
time to shoot when you're playing Bingo Blitz, that's for sure, no,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
On the spot.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But I would be like that Ralph Cramton episode Rober
just like Hamada Haamanda. I would choke on the final question.
It's probably the best. I don't let me tell you something.
You were in love with her, I know, and you
have a lot of reason to still be in love
with her. At sixty five. It's called Bingo Blitz. You're
gonna love it. On the Game show Network week nights
at seven thirty. A lot of us had crushes on
you as kid, A lot of us have prayed for
(28:56):
you throughout life. All of us are very proud of you.
You and she said thank you. That would be the
rejoin music. I can't deal with human error and computer
error in the same day.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'll snap.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chuno.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
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Speaker 3 (29:31):
Just waking up.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
These are your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
No more.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Former New York.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Congressman George Santos says he's expected to receive the maximum
prison sentence today.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Mark Mayfield has the story.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft,
and admitted that he sold from campaign donors and lined
about it to Congress. On Thursday, Santos told reporters that
he expects the maximum eighty seven month prison sentence to
be handed down, adding he's totally resigned to being in
prison for over seven years. Santos attorneys are hoping for
a later two year term behind bars.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
President Trump is suggesting he gave Russia a week to
reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Speaking from the White House, Trump was asked about possible
sanctions against Russia if it keeps bombing Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Would rather answer that question in a week. I want
to say we can have a deal.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
No reason answer it now, but I won't be happy.
Let me put it that way, things will happen.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Trump added that he doesn't believe Russia is an obstacle
to peace. Trump again said he's not happy with Putin
about strikes conducted by Russia on the capital of Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I'm Brian Shook. Well.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
There are fears of a possible serial killer in the
New England area after an eighth body has been discovered
in the region.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
At least a tailor has more.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
On Tuesday, police found the body of a woman near
a bike path in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her cause of death
has yet to be determined and it's being investigated as
unattended death. Talk of a serial killer has been happening
in the region since March, as seven other bodies, mostly women,
have been found in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. A
Facebook group titled New England serial Killer has driven speculation.
(31:13):
Police have not confirmed any connection between the deaths.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Finally, se Tailor, what to do with expired drugs or
drugs who don't take anymore? The Drug Enforcement Agency would
like you to get rid of them and give them
to them.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
This Saturday is National Prescription Drug take Back Day, where
the DEA sponsored sites across the country for disposal of
unused prescription drugs. A goal is to keep them from
being flushed and contaminating the water supply or ending up
in the wrong hands. Collection sites will be opened between
ten am and two pm. I'm Michael Kassner.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, here's something I didn't expect this morning. Eating chickens healthy? Right?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What's more healthy?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Eating chicken on a regular basis is now linked to
a higher risk of dying of cancer.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Italian researchers collected data on the dies of about five
thouars adults for nearly twenty years and found those who
ate about four servings of chicken per week had a
twenty seven percent higher risk of dying early from digestive cancers.
They found the risk was higher for men than for women.
The researchers added that more data is needed and that
the increased risk of death may be related to how
(32:17):
the chicken is cooked, possible pesticide in the chicken feed,
or hormones in the chickens. I'm tammage rhio.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
In sports, in the NFL Draft, things went the way
we expected. Cam Ward going first overall and he did
to the Titans. Travis Hunter going second overall, but he
didn't to the Cleveland Browns. They traded that pick with
the Jaguars, who then in turn took Travis Hunter, arguably
the best talent in the entire draft, something for Cleveland
(32:44):
to mull over again in the future. Giants went third
with Abdul Carter. He is a dominating defensive vent. Patriots
took LSU's tackle, probably the best offensive lineman in the draft.
Will Campbell, and then the Browns used their pick to
get Mason Graham. One big shocker of the day is
Dion Sanders' son did not get selected.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
He has to wait until today.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
He hopes NBA playoffs Thunder up three games to nothing
now after winning one fourteen one to weight over the
grizz last night, Pistons lost one eighteen one sixteen a
heartbreaker to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Next lead that series now two games to one.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Clippers are up two games to one, beating the Nuggets
one seventeen to eighty three on the ice, Blues one
seven to two over the Jets, but Winnipeg still leads
that series two games to one, and the Lightning loss
two to one to Panthers and Florida now up two
games to nothing. In baseball, four games of Your Morning
show Interest, Giants over the Brewers six to five, Nats
lost to the Race seven to four, and the Nats
(33:41):
the d Backs lost to the Race seven to four.
Nats fell to the O's two to one, and the
A's beat the Rangers four to three. Birthdays today, many
people would say, probably the best actor of our generation.
Al Pacino eighty four years old today, actress renee Zelwigger.
She had us at Hello and now she has fifty
five years old. I think Azaria is sixty years old. If
(34:03):
it's your birthday, Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born,
and thanks for making your morning show a part of
your big day.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
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