May 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Kentucky Derby, Trump at Bama and Waltz out or in?
We go behind the face and fame with Christie Brinkley on her new memoir, “Uptown Girls.” It’s our spotlight interview of the week!
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
John is obviously ready for the one hundred and fifty
first running for the Roses. Go Kentucky Derby, Churchill downs
on Saturday. I have my long shot special. Wouldn't it
be Oh wait a minute, I know what I did.
I hit something? Okay, are they good?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I had I had my Kentucky Derby notes propped up
and it lowered one of the I was wondering why
everything sounded so low? No, I I thought, wouldn't it
be amazing? With everything? Really? With everything? Donald Trump said
to the graduates at the University of Alabama last night.
What if a horse named American, promised at thirty to one,
won the Kentucky Derby, Wouldn't that be something that would
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be great. I'd probably put, as my dad would say,
put a couple on his nose just for the fun
of it. Journalism is your odds on favorite at three
to one. That's a quality horse. That's as Rudy Arena
used to say, I went to handicapping school at eight
years old. I had a colorful childhood. I think that's
why I was such an old soul. And Rudy Arena,
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whose son played Little League with me, which always up
doing a big shagar.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
This is the kind of guy that put a shagar
in his mouth so long that we put the cigar out.
The mouse stay the same position, and the teeth the teeth,
not teeth teet Dave rotted perfectly in the shape of
the chiga.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Rudy would always go class at the race. Bob. You
know he did it after he said something almost got
this burgous meritith thing going on when you do, I'm
not getting to morrow, rock. I think Rudy would have said,
journalism is the class of the race. Listen. I know
the pathway isn't always the Arkansas Derby, but call me crazy,
mister Sandman, let me on you boom boom, boom boom,
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I like Sandman, that's six to one. How do you
dut these horses? I mean you you're educated in this stuff.
When you look at all these odds, how do you
Because the first thing I think of is I like
flying Mohawk, I just like the name. The first thing
you look at is the breeding. Second thing you look
at is the previous races. Third thing you look at
is is you you want to identify the class of
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the race. The speed of the race, breeding class, past
performances all point to journalism. You know. The next thing
you want to look at is the conditions. It should
be partly cloudy sixty eight, so a cool Kentucky Derby
weather will be absolutely perfect. Tracks should be fast. That's
good for speed, So then you could take care you know,
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closers and off track runners and throw them out as
less likely and you know distance. You know the big speed.
Speed is supreme at the breakness because it's the shortest.
You need a little bit of speed, a little bit
of endurance. It's kind of like your first all around
check and then the all ultimate speed endurances at the Belmont.
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I like sadman and journalism in this, throw a dart
at the wall and pick a pick horse. This is
very I've had. I've had many do that in my
day and be more accurate. We used to have a
guy at the race striking you. I had it. I
had it, and I'm like, you know what if I
to pick that lousy horse with Elmer's branded on it's
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rear end ready to be glue, I don't think I'd
be bragging had it? Yeah, but we'll see, you know,
these are the questions we'll run by Paul Miles. He'll
kick us off next hour. He'll have the prognostication and
all the color and pageantry of the one hundred and
first running, which, by the way, I don't know why
if you asked me, Hey, Michael, biggest memories from your childhood? Uh,
(04:27):
hank Aaron's home run. That's a big night. The miracle
could be the biggest of them all. I think Popeye's chicken.
Laying on the carpet floor watching the hockey game. The
hockey game, I couldn't blee my eyes. I looked at
my brother. Later, as an adult, when the New Orleans
Saints made the Super Bowl, I cried, actually the field
(04:53):
goal when they beat the Vikings to get to the
super Bowl. For some reason, emotion I couldn't control it.
I started crying, Oh my gosh, the Saints are going
to the super Bowl, and that, in all honesty, that
was enough for me. I never for a moment thought
we were gonna be Peyton Manning and the Colts. Neither
did anybody else. And when, oh how can I forget
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his name of all times? Right now, it's etched in
my heart and mind, Well, at least I thought it was.
When Porter stepped in front of that Manning pass in
the split second it stuck to his fingers and I
could see there was nothing between him and the end zone.
I just quietly looked at my wife and I went,
(05:39):
oh my god, we're gonna win. We're gonna at the
super Bowl, all right. So that's but that was as
an adult, and then the Cubs World Series was huge
as well. Xanax was involved in that one. Thanks to
terrible coaching, we almost gave that away to the only
city more Jinx than us, Cleveland. Sorry, Akron Youngstown. We're
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like in five or six cities now in Ohio, we
really need to do really well there. Somehow, well, I'm
the king of Ohio. It's some guy from Akron. But
I got to tell you, I we went through this
when the calendar flipped to a new century and everybody
wanted to say, what was the greatest this of the
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last one hundred years, the greatest that, And you just can't.
You can't pick our greatest song, our greatest movie. When
it came to greatest Athlete, and everybody made fun of me,
and I stand by it today. Greatest athlete I ever
saw in my life was Secretariat. You're not human. Oh,
some would beg to differ with you, and so with
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the Kentucky Derby upon us yesterdaet On. For some reason
I watched Secretariat a I forgot how much I was
in love with Diane Lane. They tried to make her
look frumpy in that movie. They could to appear to be,
you know, the genery, and they couldn't do it. She's
still dancing washing the horse, and I'm like, ha, manda amamamamam.
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But you know, when you get to the Belmont and
the test of the Belmont, and this is where it
was supposed to all end for Secretariat. Too far to go.
I mean Sham, you know, arguably one of the greatest
horses ever. Boy, did he pick a bad year to
be one of the greatest horses have ever because the
greatest horse that ever lived was running against him. And
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what Secretariat did at the Belmont, going out to the
lead on a distance run and then coming around the
turn and pulling away from Sham and everyone by thirty
one lens is the most remarkable thing I've ever seen
in my life. He is the most remarkable athlete who
ever lived. And there's something about this horse. From when
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I was nine years old, I was in love with
this horse. And it doesn't matter how many times I've
seen that movie. And you know, I hate Disney. I
hate Disney, but I thank him for that one. And
the tears just start coming down my eyes. And that
ain't even Secretariat, that's the horse portraying him. There is
something about the sport of Kings and the Triple Crown
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and the test. In the short period of time, these
are the best horses at a very young age, given
the three distance grueling tests that will be breeding speed
and endurance all together. The one hundred and fifty first
run for the Roses. I wasn't even gonna talk about it,
and you played that if I was only about fifty
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pounds fatter, hand me a bugle, I could do that.
But me in the little red tuxedo, I know how
to lead my horse. But yeah, I'm going with mister Sandman.
Boom boom bum bum. Let me boom boom boom boom.
But we'll see what Paul Miles thinks. He's our national correspondent.
He's at Churchill Downs for the Saturday Kentucky Derby and
he will preview the big race. What I forget this ready,
(08:57):
But I just see a talk about coming in from
Big John, So I guess who's going to be chiming
in about Well here you do that while I's just
a couple of other things. We decided, I think about
a month ago that we and this week was tough
because I really love Brooke Burns. She I think she's
the one of the best. I think Regis Felban and
who wants to be a Millionaire, Howie Mandel and Dealer
(09:18):
No Deal and Brooke are the three best of my
adult life. Game show hosts childhood. You know, Dick Clark
was really smooth on the twenty five thousand dollar Pyramid.
Everybody forgets that. I always loved Bert Convey, Gene Rayburn
on Match Game, Richard Dawson on Family Feud was about
(09:42):
as good as it gets. Bob Barker was a filthy
old man, filthy, filthy old man. He was Brent Musburger
before Brent Musburger was Brett Musburger. But you know, my
favorite was always wink Martindale as a child, but as
an adult, brook Burns is simply slickt not She's great
and she's now take looking over Tic Tactoe. It was
a tough call between that and then we had a
(10:04):
late entry with Christy Brinkley in her new book. But
we want to do one spotlight interview of the week,
and I think we got to give it to Christy
Brinkley for proving once again that all things do work
together for the good, whether you notice it or not.
God's doing it. And life isn't about whether it's smooth
sailing or rough sailing. It's about you keep sailing and
the lessons you learn. And I think there's some great
(10:26):
things to take away from her new book, Uptown Girl,
a memoir, So we'll feature that in our spotlight interview.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Jason camp Bedonia. I give this guy such a hard
time because I think if he was a child, Harry
would have said his name camp Bedonia from kate Key, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Here at Wrigley Field today, Jason going to talk about
the new invention that came out of the California wildfires.
And then more importantly, little bit later on the everybody
thought was a signal GIT related firing that turns out
to be a promotion. And how about this. Do you
remember what a big family were of Kevin Surilli. Well,
(11:12):
somehow he comes back to me through Premiere. Oh no bad,
or they were listening to our show and stole our guest.
Let's figure the same. Maybe we got him a gig. Yeah, Well,
if you don't know, if you didn't hear, Kevin's a
futurist and he's amazing. In fact, he is the founder
of Meet the Future website MTF dot com, FtM dot tv.
He's going to join us about how big this deal
(11:33):
is for these mineral earth, the deal with Ukraine and
what that means for our economy. Oh, and something. If
tomorrow's Saturday and they run for us, this must be
Friday Friday with forty seven from the Big Rally in Michigan,
the Kamalis Big Flop in San Francisco. We got it
all with the President coming up to kick off the
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third hour. So it's a big, big show, all right.
Big John's got his pick. Well, he kind of has
got an update about the speed of the track. Check
that supposed to rain all day in Kentucky. Yeah, so
he's not expecting it to be a fast field in Kentucky. Well,
the last report I got was partly Claudi in sixty eight.
Let me go to the weather channel. He's an odds
maker though he knows these things. He's not just making
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it up. Well, you can't out him as a bookie.
What you're doing. No, it did not him at all.
Just said he's it seemed like you were outing he's
well studied. This is not for out here. But all right,
Well the hour by hours I can't get until five,
so let's do this week. Oh, he is absolutely right.
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Periods of rain do you know what I'm saying? The
question is when one percent chance of rain inch and
a half locally happy. I got mister Sandman, I need,
I need myself a mutter.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Rodriguez is a great off track horse. This one would
get real interesting. Mike Smith on board. This would be
Bob Bafford returning first year after his suspension and getting
the goal the Kentucky Derby. That'd be huge. Final Gambit
is also a good off track course if for those
of you who are looking for off track horses. Sor right,
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to be his sloppy track. Rachie is scratched, opens up
by ASA. Watch out for that horse. I'll come in
with my pigs in a little bait. What a minute?
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What's it is? Big John actually doing teases now like
it's a show to the come back with my bu Yes,
Rodriguez is scratch. So much for Bob Baffrick get a
win after his three year suspension. It does bring an
off sloppy track, does bring American promise into the conversation.
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The Dean Wayne Lucas hosts horse and this horse has
really been improving. You know what. The more I look
at this, I think journalism is going to be there.
But I'm going to go with mister Sandman. This is
a closer. There's a lot of speed in the race,
which is good for a closer. They'll burn themselves out.
Set in the pace. Question is can you close in
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an off track? And that depends on the horse and
how it responds to the off track. Sometimes closers do
better in an off track. Sometimes you know they need
the good track to make up the ground. We'll see,
time will tell. But there is one final reason, I
like Sandman in the one hundred and fifty first running
of the Kentucky Derby, that.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
The great one needs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Boom boom boom boom make him Cray ever seen boom
boom boom boom into the Arkansas Derby winner boom boom
boom boom boom boo. We decided about a month ago
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to do a spotlight interview of the week when we
have a great visit with someone and usually they happened
in the third hour. And so for you, my platinum
card listeners, at the end of the week that we
can't believe has gone by so fast, we want to
make sure that you had a chance to hear it.
I sat down. I don't know what was going through
my head when when they sent me the book by
Christy Brinkley, a supermodel memoir, but this is an amazing life,
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A childhood in Paris and a phone booth and so beautiful.
She gets recognized and then immediately as our magazine covers
all over the world, and is a household name, then
a very public marriage to an iconic singer like Billy Joel.
There's a lot of ups and downs in this, but
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this is actually a very raw, very intimate book about life,
what it throws at you, and the lessons learned and
how quickly it goes by and you have to keep
your perseverance in perspective. It really was a great visit.
We enjoyed sitting down with Christy Brinkley.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you, Thank you for the compliment on the book.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I'm loving it and for all of us that just
remember you iconically and are like thanks for all the
pictures too, but the words most important. You know. The
first thing that came to my mind reading the book was, boy,
days are long, but life is short, isn't it? I
mean for you and me, because it seems like yesterday
is a teenager. I'm watching you in the video Uptown Girl,
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or seeing you at the grocery store on magazine covers,
or watching the vacation movies, and now here we are
all a little bit older and a little bit wiser.
What I was telling my audience was everybody knows your face,
but what they don't know is the life you've lived
and the wisdom that's come from it. And the life
is tough and it beats us up, but we learn
a lot along the way. I guess that was the
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reason for writing this, right, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yes and no.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I started.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
My dad always said to me, honey, if you if
you don't do anything else, promise me you'll write about
your romantic years in Paris. So that was one book
that I thought the whole book would just be Paris
because it was magic.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's where it all began.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Then I had a.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Few divorces, and as I got further away from the divorces,
they started seeming funnier and funnier to me, and I
started looking at them like a Nancy Myers movie. And
I thought maybe I should write a script and present
it to Nancy Myers, my favorite director. My girl could lucky,
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you never know. And then I found my journals in
my cleaning out my art studio, and I sat down
and started reading a few pages, and there's such fun
adventures and funny stories and detail in there. And I thought,
there's something here. So I took the whole lump of
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ideas into, you know, a couple publishers, and I got
a letter back from Lisa Sharky at HarperCollins, and she
wrote the most magnificent letter about why I really should
write a book. Because after I did all of that,
then I sort of pulled back and thought that was
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really presumptuous of me to go in there and act
like anybody would want to read a book about my life.
And so when they called to do a follow up,
I was like, no, I've decided against it.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
And then I got the letter and she convinced me.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
As soon as I got to the end of the letter,
I thought, Okay, maybe she'll help me write it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well that's what I loved. But that's what I loved
about it, Christy. Everybody knows your face, your trap to
time in our life and our memory, and I hope
there's some interest. I know I had a lot, and
the book fulfilled it. In the life that you lived,
I mean mistakes, you made, chance, fortune that took you,
but that always comes at a price. There was so
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much to learn and really finally know about you, somebody
we recognized but didn't really know. I'm so glad you
did it. I'm just wondering how you're doing having done it.
Some things are best done relived, aren't they.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
You know, some chapters I really didn't want to write.
I didn't want to go there, and it was painful,
and so I made them as short as I possibly could.
I did not go into all the sordid details. I
tried to give you an understanding of that moment in
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time and then tried to move on. And I think
even that much was difficult to do. But each one
of those bad moments led to something, a discovery about myself,
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a lesson for my kids and me, a launching pad
to take on a challenge, you know, to sometimes when
something bad happens, you got something to prove that, no,
you're not going to keep me down. I'm not going
to just you know, and you get this courage that
you never knew you had. There's a lot of different
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things that you can take out of it. But I found,
in reviewing my life like that that I'm actually so
grateful for everything that happened to me. You know, it
was a very securitous route to finding each one of
my children. But I mean, you know, I say in
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my book, I went to Hell. I mean it was
hell at one point, but I came out with a
beautiful angel, my son.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah. And there's an old expression, Christy, that life is
best understood looking backwards, unfortunately has to be lived looking forward.
I think that's part of what they're going to experience
when they read the book. Christy Brinkley out with the
book A Memoir Uptown Girl, I thought, you know a
lot of people. Of course, the connection is with you
and Billy Joel because, let's face it, he, I think,
is one of the most talented performers and songwriters and
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consequential artists of my lifetime. And every time I hear
him in interviews, it's almost more interesting than even the music.
And he's just such an eat guy. I loved what
he said to you because I think, out of everybody,
whenever you do a memoir and people are still alive,
they're going to read it. And he told you seven words,
simple words to say what you need to say. I
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thought that was really cool, because not everything you had
to say was positive.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Yeah, and I think no, he He's think it's just
the strength of his character. You know, he knows who
he is. He knows, and he knows that.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
He said to me once that people make mistakes, and
in fact, mistakes are a person at their most.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Original, which is very interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You know, we all make mistakes.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I mean, I don't know if it ended up in
the book the fine I can't remember, because you know,
you're through, and then the readers go through, and then
they count the words and then they have to edit it.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh, I've wrote a book. The minute you're done writing
it is the beginning, not the end. Yeah, it's so true.
It's awful.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
The deadlines, right, like, okay, we've done this. Now you
reread it and now you you know, make any changes
to that one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh wad you get to book signings, Christie, it's even
more fun.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Oh I'm on day three now, oh d three.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay that you're already there. Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
I signed five hundred books in a row, and this
afternoon I'm signing four hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So I was trying to figure out what of all
these stories I would pick. I mean, listen, I remember
when I was twenty years old and nobody looked at
me or noticed me, let alone discovered me at a
phone booth in Paris and next thing you know, I'm
on every magazine cover, or what that fame would have
done to my life at that age, or relationships. Relationships
are hard enough, let alone with everyday household names and
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all the temptations that come along with their fame. And
I was trying to think if I could pick one story,
but you really can't write it's not one major one
in childhood or it's all of them together, the cumulative
adding up of all of them. Because I did notice
some things in your childhood that I think came to
marriage with you, which reminded me just as the reader,
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so you can get some positive feedback. This is why
I've loved my daughters so perfectly, so they know what
love is. I feel sorry for any guy, selfish guy
or a cheat, or somebody that's cheap or does it
know how to cherish. They're never going to make it
past a date with my daughter because I showed them
how a man cherishes a woman. So you know, some
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of these things aren't all of our blame, but they
all come with us until we figure it out. At
what age do you think you figured it out? And
what will you're figuring it out? As they're reading reveal
about their life.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Oh that's a big question. I mean, I still think.
I think every day. Still there's still more lessons to
learn and more ways to evolve.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
And you know, I just I follow.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I follow what my dad always said to me, Baby,
you write your own script. And I always tell my
kids that number one, the most important thing in the
world is love. And you always want to make sure
that everyone you love knows how much you love them.
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And next you need to always be aware that each
day that you have is a magnificent gift and it's
yours to decide how you want to live that day.
It's yours, you know, to decide. I want to make
every person I encounter smile. You know, there's some people
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that go out and they want to like be an
online haters, you know. But and sometimes you wonder, like
is this getting through? And my daughter Sailor has a
couple of dainty tiny tattoos, and the first one she
got was on her pointer finger, And I said, what
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is that saying?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It says, I decide, Christy Brinkley, how about that? For
I guess we got to get Billy Joel the credit
for the quote I love a great expression. Mistakes, They're
a person at their most original And I'm a person
of faith, so I can tell you that I was
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born in sin and fallen regardless of the love of
my parents, and so I get that that is that
is me and my sinful nature at its most original form.
I really don't, you know, after being a believer for
so long, I don't. I can kind of remember some
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things about me, but I don't even remember who I am.
And by the way, if I can identify anything, I
get right to crucifying it, or at least being willing
to have God reveal more so that I will. But
that's a great quote. Mistakes are a person at their
most original form. That's one to remember for that. But
(29:43):
that speaks full circle to what I was saying. Who'd
have thought a Christie Brinkley book? And this is the
kind of book when you're walking at Walmart or somewhere
you know it's just sitting there, Oh, Christy Brinkley wrote
a book. Would have read that HarperCollins Uptown Girl, a
memoir of Christy Brinkley. I don't think you'll be sorry. Gang.
There's a lot behind that face of fame.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chruno.
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This is David Renzo's in Bloomington, Minnesota. I'm gonna decide
whether they continue listening to you if you start announcing
from Minnesota sports scores and they continue to listen. But
for some reason, you leave out Minnesota sports scores all
the time, and.
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It hurts me to thank you. Well, first Guardians beat
the Twins four to three. Let me go care for
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(30:48):
I listen. Look, if that's the only value you have
in this show, is if I give Minnesota sports scores.
And I'm not thinking we're the show for you anyway,
But I'm to my knowledge, I'm not aware that we're
on any radio stations in the state of Minnesota. Now.
It has happened in the past where I didn't think
I was on somewhere and I was that's out. Sometimes
(31:13):
I'm not communicated with. But to my knowledge, nowhere in
the state of Minnesota is your morning show on a
terrestrial radio station. And I can't give all scores. I mean,
somebody could I guess through the iHeartRadio app be listening
in Dubai right now. That doesn't mean I'm gonna give
a cricket scores or we should all sit through cricket scores.
But to answer your question, yes, the Twins lost four
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to three to the Guardians. All right, if you're just
waking up fifty five minutes after the hour April jobs
report due out today, that's a big ep. The Florida
Governor DeSantis says over eleven hundred arrests were made as
part of a massive statewide immigration crackdown. Maple Leafs, Golden Knights,
Oilers all headed to the second round of the Stanley
Cup playoffs, and the run for Roses is tomorrow. We'll
(31:54):
have a preview from Churchill Downs coming up in just
about ten minutes with Paul Miles. Two things I want
to get in one. David Snati is really onto something.
So you get the announcement that Waltz is out right away,
I mean within minutes. The Atlantic comes out with a
story by David Graham, if Signal Gate created by their editor.
(32:19):
All right, this is why we need. You need to
follow stories if you want to know what's going on.
If signal gate hadn't led to the ouster of Trump's
national security advisor. The president still wasn't likely to keep
him around long anyway. Then they send you three articles
that are hatchet jobs on him. For weeks, Washington has
been waiting to see how long National Security Advisor Michael
Waltz could hold on the answer. Well, now we know
(32:39):
one hundred and one days. So they're bragging, thinking we
got him fired. Now this may be a giant point
to Waltz as how Goldberg ended up on that signal call.
Who knows, but it all blows up in their face
when jd Vance announces you didn't get fired. In fact,
(33:01):
he's getting a promotion.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I think the media wants to frame this as a firing.
Donald Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn't
give them CINEC confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is
that Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration
most importantly of the American people in that role.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And I haven't agree with him. So we'll wait and
see what the Atlantic's response to that is. But there
is something going on between the Trump administration and the Atlantic,
and if yesterday is any indication the administration seems to
be a step ahead of them. The word leagues waltzes out,
(33:37):
they pounce and reveal all their cards, and then you
get jd Vance later on Fox saying he's been fired.
He's moving to ambassador to the United Nations. It's a promotion.
I think that's going to come up on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
John is obviously ready for the one hundred and fifty
first running for the Roses. Go Kentucky Derby, Churchill downs
on Saturday. I have my long shot special. Wouldn't it
be Oh wait a minute, I know what I did.
I hit something? Okay, are they good?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I had I had my Kentucky Derby notes propped up
and it lowered one of the I was wondering why
everything sounded so low? No, I I thought, wouldn't it
be amazing? With everything? Really? With everything? Donald Trump said
to the graduates at the University of Alabama last night.
What if a horse named American, promised at thirty to one,
won the Kentucky Derby, Wouldn't that be something that would
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be great. I'd probably put, as my dad would say,
put a couple on his nose just for the fun
of it. Journalism is your odds on favorite at three
to one. That's a quality horse. That's as Rudy Arena
used to say, I went to handicapping school at eight
years old. I had a colorful childhood. I think that's
why I was such an old soul. And Rudy Arena,
(01:52):
whose son played Little League with me, which always up
doing a big shagar.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
This is the kind of guy that put a shagar
in his mouth so long that we put the cigar out.
The mouse stay the same position, and the teeth the teeth,
not teeth teet Dave rotted perfectly in the shape of
the chiga.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Rudy would always go class at the race. Bob. You
know he did it after he said something almost got
this burgous meritith thing going on when you do, I'm
not getting to morrow, rock. I think Rudy would have said,
journalism is the class of the race. Listen. I know
the pathway isn't always the Arkansas Derby, but call me crazy,
mister Sandman, let me on you boom boom, boom boom,
(02:34):
I like Sandman, that's six to one. How do you
dut these horses? I mean you you're educated in this stuff.
When you look at all these odds, how do you
Because the first thing I think of is I like
flying Mohawk, I just like the name. The first thing
you look at is the breeding. Second thing you look
at is the previous races. Third thing you look at
is is you you want to identify the class of
(02:55):
the race. The speed of the race, breeding class, past
performances all point to journalism. You know. The next thing
you want to look at is the conditions. It should
be partly cloudy sixty eight, so a cool Kentucky Derby
weather will be absolutely perfect. Tracks should be fast. That's
good for speed, So then you could take care you know,
(03:17):
closers and off track runners and throw them out as
less likely and you know distance. You know the big speed.
Speed is supreme at the breakness because it's the shortest.
You need a little bit of speed, a little bit
of endurance. It's kind of like your first all around
check and then the all ultimate speed endurances at the Belmont.
(03:39):
I like sadman and journalism in this, throw a dart
at the wall and pick a pick horse. This is
very I've had. I've had many do that in my
day and be more accurate. We used to have a
guy at the race striking you. I had it. I
had it, and I'm like, you know what if I
to pick that lousy horse with Elmer's branded on it's
(04:00):
rear end ready to be glue, I don't think I'd
be bragging had it? Yeah, but we'll see, you know,
these are the questions we'll run by Paul Miles. He'll
kick us off next hour. He'll have the prognostication and
all the color and pageantry of the one hundred and
first running, which, by the way, I don't know why
if you asked me, Hey, Michael, biggest memories from your childhood? Uh,
(04:27):
hank Aaron's home run. That's a big night. The miracle
could be the biggest of them all. I think Popeye's chicken.
Laying on the carpet floor watching the hockey game. The
hockey game, I couldn't blee my eyes. I looked at
my brother. Later, as an adult, when the New Orleans
Saints made the Super Bowl, I cried, actually the field
(04:53):
goal when they beat the Vikings to get to the
super Bowl. For some reason, emotion I couldn't control it.
I started crying, Oh my gosh, the Saints are going
to the super Bowl, and that, in all honesty, that
was enough for me. I never for a moment thought
we were gonna be Peyton Manning and the Colts. Neither
did anybody else. And when, oh how can I forget
(05:17):
his name of all times? Right now, it's etched in
my heart and mind, Well, at least I thought it was.
When Porter stepped in front of that Manning pass in
the split second it stuck to his fingers and I
could see there was nothing between him and the end zone.
I just quietly looked at my wife and I went,
(05:39):
oh my god, we're gonna win. We're gonna at the
super Bowl, all right. So that's but that was as
an adult, and then the Cubs World Series was huge
as well. Xanax was involved in that one. Thanks to
terrible coaching, we almost gave that away to the only
city more Jinx than us, Cleveland. Sorry, Akron Youngstown. We're
(06:04):
like in five or six cities now in Ohio, we
really need to do really well there. Somehow, well, I'm
the king of Ohio. It's some guy from Akron. But
I got to tell you, I we went through this
when the calendar flipped to a new century and everybody
wanted to say, what was the greatest this of the
(06:24):
last one hundred years, the greatest that, And you just can't.
You can't pick our greatest song, our greatest movie. When
it came to greatest Athlete, and everybody made fun of me,
and I stand by it today. Greatest athlete I ever
saw in my life was Secretariat. You're not human. Oh,
some would beg to differ with you, and so with
(06:47):
the Kentucky Derby upon us yesterdaet On. For some reason
I watched Secretariat a I forgot how much I was
in love with Diane Lane. They tried to make her
look frumpy in that movie. They could to appear to be,
you know, the genery, and they couldn't do it. She's
still dancing washing the horse, and I'm like, ha, manda amamamamam.
(07:07):
But you know, when you get to the Belmont and
the test of the Belmont, and this is where it
was supposed to all end for Secretariat. Too far to go.
I mean Sham, you know, arguably one of the greatest
horses ever. Boy, did he pick a bad year to
be one of the greatest horses have ever because the
greatest horse that ever lived was running against him. And
(07:29):
what Secretariat did at the Belmont, going out to the
lead on a distance run and then coming around the
turn and pulling away from Sham and everyone by thirty
one lens is the most remarkable thing I've ever seen
in my life. He is the most remarkable athlete who
ever lived. And there's something about this horse. From when
(07:49):
I was nine years old, I was in love with
this horse. And it doesn't matter how many times I've
seen that movie. And you know, I hate Disney. I
hate Disney, but I thank him for that one. And
the tears just start coming down my eyes. And that
ain't even Secretariat, that's the horse portraying him. There is
something about the sport of Kings and the Triple Crown
(08:12):
and the test. In the short period of time, these
are the best horses at a very young age, given
the three distance grueling tests that will be breeding speed
and endurance all together. The one hundred and fifty first
run for the Roses. I wasn't even gonna talk about it,
and you played that if I was only about fifty
(08:35):
pounds fatter, hand me a bugle, I could do that.
But me in the little red tuxedo, I know how
to lead my horse. But yeah, I'm going with mister Sandman.
Boom boom bum bum. Let me boom boom boom boom.
But we'll see what Paul Miles thinks. He's our national correspondent.
He's at Churchill Downs for the Saturday Kentucky Derby and
he will preview the big race. What I forget this ready,
(08:57):
But I just see a talk about coming in from
Big John, So I guess who's going to be chiming
in about Well here you do that while I's just
a couple of other things. We decided, I think about
a month ago that we and this week was tough
because I really love Brooke Burns. She I think she's
the one of the best. I think Regis Felban and
who wants to be a Millionaire, Howie Mandel and Dealer
(09:18):
No Deal and Brooke are the three best of my
adult life. Game show hosts childhood. You know, Dick Clark
was really smooth on the twenty five thousand dollar Pyramid.
Everybody forgets that. I always loved Bert Convey, Gene Rayburn
on Match Game, Richard Dawson on Family Feud was about
(09:42):
as good as it gets. Bob Barker was a filthy
old man, filthy, filthy old man. He was Brent Musburger
before Brent Musburger was Brett Musburger. But you know, my
favorite was always wink Martindale as a child, but as
an adult, brook Burns is simply slickt not She's great
and she's now take looking over Tic Tactoe. It was
a tough call between that and then we had a
(10:04):
late entry with Christy Brinkley in her new book. But
we want to do one spotlight interview of the week,
and I think we got to give it to Christy
Brinkley for proving once again that all things do work
together for the good, whether you notice it or not.
God's doing it. And life isn't about whether it's smooth
sailing or rough sailing. It's about you keep sailing and
the lessons you learn. And I think there's some great
(10:26):
things to take away from her new book, Uptown Girl,
a memoir, So we'll feature that in our spotlight interview.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Jason camp Bedonia. I give this guy such a hard
time because I think if he was a child, Harry
would have said his name camp Bedonia from kate Key, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Here at Wrigley Field today, Jason going to talk about
the new invention that came out of the California wildfires.
And then more importantly, little bit later on the everybody
thought was a signal GIT related firing that turns out
to be a promotion. And how about this. Do you
remember what a big family were of Kevin Surilli. Well,
(11:12):
somehow he comes back to me through Premiere. Oh no bad,
or they were listening to our show and stole our guest.
Let's figure the same. Maybe we got him a gig. Yeah, Well,
if you don't know, if you didn't hear, Kevin's a
futurist and he's amazing. In fact, he is the founder
of Meet the Future website MTF dot com, FtM dot tv.
He's going to join us about how big this deal
(11:33):
is for these mineral earth, the deal with Ukraine and
what that means for our economy. Oh, and something. If
tomorrow's Saturday and they run for us, this must be
Friday Friday with forty seven from the Big Rally in Michigan,
the Kamalis Big Flop in San Francisco. We got it
all with the President coming up to kick off the
(11:55):
third hour. So it's a big, big show, all right.
Big John's got his pick. Well, he kind of has
got an update about the speed of the track. Check
that supposed to rain all day in Kentucky. Yeah, so
he's not expecting it to be a fast field in Kentucky. Well,
the last report I got was partly Claudi in sixty eight.
Let me go to the weather channel. He's an odds
maker though he knows these things. He's not just making
(12:17):
it up. Well, you can't out him as a bookie.
What you're doing. No, it did not him at all.
Just said he's it seemed like you were outing he's
well studied. This is not for out here. But all right,
Well the hour by hours I can't get until five,
so let's do this week. Oh, he is absolutely right.
(12:39):
Periods of rain do you know what I'm saying? The
question is when one percent chance of rain inch and
a half locally happy. I got mister Sandman, I need,
I need myself a mutter.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Rodriguez is a great off track horse. This one would
get real interesting. Mike Smith on board. This would be
Bob Bafford returning first year after his suspension and getting
the goal the Kentucky Derby. That'd be huge. Final Gambit
is also a good off track course if for those
of you who are looking for off track horses. Sor right,
Let's get back to our top stories of the day.
(13:20):
Just waking up twenty seven minutes after the hour, President
Trump has signed an executive order cutting taxpayer funding to
NPR and PBS.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Trump said in the order that government funding of news
media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary,
but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. The White
House said on its X profile that outs received million
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disguised his news. The broadcasters receive upwards of half a
(13:50):
billion dollars through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is launching a
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Me all night Long reports.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
The FAA will give five thousand dollars bonuses to all
academy graduates and new hires that complete initial qualification training.
Academy graduates assigned to thirteen facilities that have faced additional
hiring struggles will receive ten thousand dollars bonuses. New incentives
are being offered for a limited time. However, a formal
(14:25):
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to get your I have the rona or what is dwinking?
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Ready? Okay, I'll give you about thirty seconds to have
that ready. The start of the Atlantic hurricane season just
a month away. Lisa Taylor has details.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
The latest models are predicting a slightly above average season
with seventeen name storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes.
The season begins June first and runs through November. I'm
Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I say that because the first named hurricane will be Andrea. Oh,
my wife thinks so sick they're naming a hurricane after well,
she comes through the house like a hurricane cleaning see jinking.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I keep reading that and hearing it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
She'll be the first hurricane. Americans are being urged to
pay attention to their mental health this month. Tammy Trihilo
reports May is.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
Mental Health Awareness Month, which has been observed in the
US since nineteen forty nine. A leading doctor in the US,
doctor Jen Brule of the American Academy of Family Physicians,
is urging people to find healthy ways to cope with stress.
Experts recommend having a healthy work life balance and finding
a support system to avoid social isolation. I'm Tammy Triheo.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It's okay, Detroit. We've been here before. But the Pistons
were eliminated, losing one sixteen, one thirteen. They put up
a good fight against the Knicks but losing six games.
Clippers won one eleven, one oh five to force a
game seven with the Nuggets. The winner will go on
to play Oklahoma City and in the NHL, the King's eliminated.
They lost six to four of the Oilers last night
and losing six games. Hey, I'm Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton.
(16:05):
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of your morning routine. Now enjoy the podcast. Definitely going
to be his sloppy track. Rachie is scratched, opens up
by ASA. Watch out for that horse. I'll come in
with my pigs in a little bait. What a minute?
(16:48):
What's it is? Big John actually doing teases now like
it's a show to the come back with my bu Yes,
Rodriguez is scratch. So much for Bob Baffrick get a
win after his three year suspension. It does bring an
off sloppy track, does bring American promise into the conversation.
(17:10):
The Dean Wayne Lucas hosts horse and this horse has
really been improving. You know what. The more I look
at this, I think journalism is going to be there.
But I'm going to go with mister Sandman. This is
a closer. There's a lot of speed in the race,
which is good for a closer. They'll burn themselves out.
Set in the pace. Question is can you close in
(17:31):
an off track? And that depends on the horse and
how it responds to the off track. Sometimes closers do
better in an off track. Sometimes you know they need
the good track to make up the ground. We'll see,
time will tell. But there is one final reason, I
like Sandman in the one hundred and fifty first running
of the Kentucky Derby, that.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
The great one needs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Boom boom boom boom make him Cray ever seen boom
boom boom boom into the Arkansas Derby winner boom boom
boom boom boom boo. We decided about a month ago
(18:19):
to do a spotlight interview of the week when we
have a great visit with someone and usually they happened
in the third hour. And so for you, my platinum
card listeners, at the end of the week that we
can't believe has gone by so fast, we want to
make sure that you had a chance to hear it.
I sat down. I don't know what was going through
my head when when they sent me the book by
Christy Brinkley, a supermodel memoir, but this is an amazing life,
(18:42):
A childhood in Paris and a phone booth and so beautiful.
She gets recognized and then immediately as our magazine covers
all over the world, and is a household name, then
a very public marriage to an iconic singer like Billy Joel.
There's a lot of ups and downs in this, but
(19:04):
this is actually a very raw, very intimate book about life,
what it throws at you, and the lessons learned and
how quickly it goes by and you have to keep
your perseverance in perspective. It really was a great visit.
We enjoyed sitting down with Christy Brinkley.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you, Thank you for the compliment on the book.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I'm loving it and for all of us that just
remember you iconically and are like thanks for all the
pictures too, but the words most important. You know. The
first thing that came to my mind reading the book was, boy,
days are long, but life is short, isn't it? I
mean for you and me, because it seems like yesterday
is a teenager. I'm watching you in the video Uptown Girl,
(19:43):
or seeing you at the grocery store on magazine covers,
or watching the vacation movies, and now here we are
all a little bit older and a little bit wiser.
What I was telling my audience was everybody knows your face,
but what they don't know is the life you've lived
and the wisdom that's come from it. And the life
is tough and it beats us up, but we learn
a lot along the way. I guess that was the
(20:04):
reason for writing this, right, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yes and no.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I started.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
My dad always said to me, honey, if you if
you don't do anything else, promise me you'll write about
your romantic years in Paris. So that was one book
that I thought the whole book would just be Paris
because it was magic.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's where it all began.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Then I had a.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Few divorces, and as I got further away from the divorces,
they started seeming funnier and funnier to me, and I
started looking at them like a Nancy Myers movie. And
I thought maybe I should write a script and present
it to Nancy Myers, my favorite director. My girl could lucky,
(20:51):
you never know. And then I found my journals in
my cleaning out my art studio, and I sat down
and started reading a few pages, and there's such fun
adventures and funny stories and detail in there. And I thought,
there's something here. So I took the whole lump of
(21:14):
ideas into, you know, a couple publishers, and I got
a letter back from Lisa Sharky at HarperCollins, and she
wrote the most magnificent letter about why I really should
write a book. Because after I did all of that,
then I sort of pulled back and thought that was
(21:35):
really presumptuous of me to go in there and act
like anybody would want to read a book about my life.
And so when they called to do a follow up,
I was like, no, I've decided against it.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
And then I got the letter and she convinced me.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
As soon as I got to the end of the letter,
I thought, Okay, maybe she'll help me write it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well that's what I loved. But that's what I loved
about it, Christy. Everybody knows your face, your trap to
time in our life and our memory, and I hope
there's some interest. I know I had a lot, and
the book fulfilled it. In the life that you lived,
I mean mistakes, you made, chance, fortune that took you,
but that always comes at a price. There was so
(22:15):
much to learn and really finally know about you, somebody
we recognized but didn't really know. I'm so glad you
did it. I'm just wondering how you're doing having done it.
Some things are best done relived, aren't they.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
You know, some chapters I really didn't want to write.
I didn't want to go there, and it was painful,
and so I made them as short as I possibly could.
I did not go into all the sordid details. I
tried to give you an understanding of that moment in
(22:50):
time and then tried to move on. And I think
even that much was difficult to do. But each one
of those bad moments led to something, a discovery about myself,
(23:12):
a lesson for my kids and me, a launching pad
to take on a challenge, you know, to sometimes when
something bad happens, you got something to prove that, no,
you're not going to keep me down. I'm not going
to just you know, and you get this courage that
you never knew you had. There's a lot of different
(23:36):
things that you can take out of it. But I found,
in reviewing my life like that that I'm actually so
grateful for everything that happened to me. You know, it
was a very securitous route to finding each one of
my children. But I mean, you know, I say in
(23:56):
my book, I went to Hell. I mean it was
hell at one point, but I came out with a
beautiful angel, my son.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah. And there's an old expression, Christy, that life is
best understood looking backwards, unfortunately has to be lived looking forward.
I think that's part of what they're going to experience
when they read the book. Christy Brinkley out with the
book A Memoir Uptown Girl, I thought, you know a
lot of people. Of course, the connection is with you
and Billy Joel because, let's face it, he, I think,
is one of the most talented performers and songwriters and
(24:29):
consequential artists of my lifetime. And every time I hear
him in interviews, it's almost more interesting than even the music.
And he's just such an eat guy. I loved what
he said to you because I think, out of everybody,
whenever you do a memoir and people are still alive,
they're going to read it. And he told you seven words,
simple words to say what you need to say. I
(24:49):
thought that was really cool, because not everything you had
to say was positive.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Yeah, and I think no, he He's think it's just
the strength of his character. You know, he knows who
he is. He knows, and he knows that.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
He said to me once that people make mistakes, and
in fact, mistakes are a person at their most.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Original, which is very interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You know, we all make mistakes.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I mean, I don't know if it ended up in
the book the fine I can't remember, because you know,
you're through, and then the readers go through, and then
they count the words and then they have to edit it.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh, I've wrote a book. The minute you're done writing
it is the beginning, not the end. Yeah, it's so true.
It's awful.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
The deadlines, right, like, okay, we've done this. Now you
reread it and now you you know, make any changes
to that one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh wad you get to book signings, Christie, it's even
more fun.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Oh I'm on day three now, oh d three.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay that you're already there. Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
I signed five hundred books in a row, and this
afternoon I'm signing four hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So I was trying to figure out what of all
these stories I would pick. I mean, listen, I remember
when I was twenty years old and nobody looked at
me or noticed me, let alone discovered me at a
phone booth in Paris and next thing you know, I'm
on every magazine cover, or what that fame would have
done to my life at that age, or relationships. Relationships
are hard enough, let alone with everyday household names and
(26:26):
all the temptations that come along with their fame. And
I was trying to think if I could pick one story,
but you really can't write it's not one major one
in childhood or it's all of them together, the cumulative
adding up of all of them. Because I did notice
some things in your childhood that I think came to
marriage with you, which reminded me just as the reader,
(26:46):
so you can get some positive feedback. This is why
I've loved my daughters so perfectly, so they know what
love is. I feel sorry for any guy, selfish guy
or a cheat, or somebody that's cheap or does it
know how to cherish. They're never going to make it
past a date with my daughter because I showed them
how a man cherishes a woman. So you know, some
(27:07):
of these things aren't all of our blame, but they
all come with us until we figure it out. At
what age do you think you figured it out? And
what will you're figuring it out? As they're reading reveal
about their life.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Oh that's a big question. I mean, I still think.
I think every day. Still there's still more lessons to
learn and more ways to evolve.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
And you know, I just I follow.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I follow what my dad always said to me, Baby,
you write your own script. And I always tell my
kids that number one, the most important thing in the
world is love. And you always want to make sure
that everyone you love knows how much you love them.
(27:57):
And next you need to always be aware that each
day that you have is a magnificent gift and it's
yours to decide how you want to live that day.
It's yours, you know, to decide. I want to make
every person I encounter smile. You know, there's some people
(28:18):
that go out and they want to like be an
online haters, you know. But and sometimes you wonder, like
is this getting through? And my daughter Sailor has a
couple of dainty tiny tattoos, and the first one she
got was on her pointer finger, And I said, what
(28:38):
is that saying?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It says, I decide, Christy Brinkley, how about that? For
I guess we got to get Billy Joel the credit
for the quote I love a great expression. Mistakes, They're
a person at their most original And I'm a person
of faith, so I can tell you that I was
(29:01):
born in sin and fallen regardless of the love of
my parents, and so I get that that is that
is me and my sinful nature at its most original form.
I really don't, you know, after being a believer for
so long, I don't. I can kind of remember some
(29:22):
things about me, but I don't even remember who I am.
And by the way, if I can identify anything, I
get right to crucifying it, or at least being willing
to have God reveal more so that I will. But
that's a great quote. Mistakes are a person at their
most original form. That's one to remember for that. But
(29:43):
that speaks full circle to what I was saying. Who'd
have thought a Christie Brinkley book? And this is the
kind of book when you're walking at Walmart or somewhere
you know it's just sitting there, Oh, Christy Brinkley wrote
a book. Would have read that HarperCollins Uptown Girl, a
memoir of Christy Brinkley. I don't think you'll be sorry. Gang.
There's a lot behind that face of fame.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chruno.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
This is David Renzo's in Bloomington, Minnesota. I'm gonna decide
whether they continue listening to you if you start announcing
from Minnesota sports scores and they continue to listen. But
for some reason, you leave out Minnesota sports scores all
the time, and.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It hurts me to thank you. Well, first Guardians beat
the Twins four to three. Let me go care for
what you ask for? Well, for one, let me just
give you a little inside information the listener threat, whether
it's email or phone call, I'm going to decide whether
(30:48):
I listen. Look, if that's the only value you have
in this show, is if I give Minnesota sports scores.
And I'm not thinking we're the show for you anyway,
But I'm to my knowledge, I'm not aware that we're
on any radio stations in the state of Minnesota. Now.
It has happened in the past where I didn't think
I was on somewhere and I was that's out. Sometimes
(31:13):
I'm not communicated with. But to my knowledge, nowhere in
the state of Minnesota is your morning show on a
terrestrial radio station. And I can't give all scores. I mean,
somebody could I guess through the iHeartRadio app be listening
in Dubai right now. That doesn't mean I'm gonna give
a cricket scores or we should all sit through cricket scores.
But to answer your question, yes, the Twins lost four
(31:33):
to three to the Guardians. All right, if you're just
waking up fifty five minutes after the hour April jobs
report due out today, that's a big ep. The Florida
Governor DeSantis says over eleven hundred arrests were made as
part of a massive statewide immigration crackdown. Maple Leafs, Golden Knights,
Oilers all headed to the second round of the Stanley
Cup playoffs, and the run for Roses is tomorrow. We'll
(31:54):
have a preview from Churchill Downs coming up in just
about ten minutes with Paul Miles. Two things I want
to get in one. David Snati is really onto something.
So you get the announcement that Waltz is out right away,
I mean within minutes. The Atlantic comes out with a
story by David Graham, if Signal Gate created by their editor.
(32:19):
All right, this is why we need. You need to
follow stories if you want to know what's going on.
If signal gate hadn't led to the ouster of Trump's
national security advisor. The president still wasn't likely to keep
him around long anyway. Then they send you three articles
that are hatchet jobs on him. For weeks, Washington has
been waiting to see how long National Security Advisor Michael
Waltz could hold on the answer. Well, now we know
(32:39):
one hundred and one days. So they're bragging, thinking we
got him fired. Now this may be a giant point
to Waltz as how Goldberg ended up on that signal call.
Who knows, but it all blows up in their face
when jd Vance announces you didn't get fired. In fact,
(33:01):
he's getting a promotion.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I think the media wants to frame this as a firing.
Donald Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn't
give them CINEC confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is
that Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration
most importantly of the American people in that role.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And I haven't agree with him. So we'll wait and
see what the Atlantic's response to that is. But there
is something going on between the Trump administration and the Atlantic,
and if yesterday is any indication the administration seems to
be a step ahead of them. The word leagues waltzes out,
(33:37):
they pounce and reveal all their cards, and then you
get jd Vance later on Fox saying he's been fired.
He's moving to ambassador to the United Nations. It's a promotion.
I think that's going to come up on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
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