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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning, Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's Friday two three, starting your morning off right.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding,
because Friday, We're in this together. This is your morning
show with Michael O'Dell chorna thing.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
God, It's Friday, Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Friday, Friday, seven minutes after the hour. Welcome to Friday,
May the sixteenth. You have our Lord twenty twenty five.
I gotta tell you, I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I've heard Donald Trump say, what was it?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Total?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Trump said, was it thirteenth trilliond just pulled a nut brow.
I've got the total with another one point four trillion
out of the UAE somewhere around five trillion. Fox just
showed some numbers indicating about a trillion. Though I can't
(01:18):
get my mind off of the I don't know what
that was.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was that hair swirling? Twirling?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What is the I have never been greeted by walls
of women waving their hair? Was it the camels? Was
it the swords? Was it the waving hair? It was
a a wild week in the Middle East. The New
York Post had the headline Trump shaakes it up in
(01:46):
the Middle East. Well, he certainly shook up chock up
a lot of money for the economy. And it's interesting,
what do you do if you're a Democrat? I mean,
how do you be an opposing party when there's something
a that is so productive or be trying to do
something so right? You know, and walk that line of
(02:08):
being an opposition party versus being just pure obstructionists and uncredible.
I mean that's the part you know. Well, Congressman Swallows
will give you an example of Eric S. Walwell will
give you an example of how to how to really
play it ignorantly.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Listen in an MSNBC political analyst. Congressman, I want to
start with Eugene's implicit question there, what do you think
Donald Trump was giving up or exchanging in these negotiations?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So never mind the trillions of dollars of commitment in business.
I mean the Boeing deal alone in Saudi Arabia and
the impact of jobs in two hundred and ten planes
being ordered. Notice, the implication is a suspicious Well, what
do you think he's been giving up? I mean, if
they're giving us five trillion, what did he give up
our sovereignty? We're all going to have to stay speaking Arabic.
(03:00):
I mean, this is this is the nonsense on MSNBC.
And when he's not flagellating, the king of nonsense.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Eric Swawall response, it's a me, me me presidency that
he's running. And as I look at you know, this
trip and what he's getting out of it, I.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
See how he benefits.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I don't see how Americans at home are going to benefit.
You know, right now as we speak, Republicans are gutting
healthcare and kicking millions of people off their healthcare so
billionaires can get tax cuts. Four oh one k's have
become two to one k's. The Port of Los Angeles
has thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Whose four to oh one k is down? Right now?
Who's four oh one k has not recovered.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
From that narrative of being slightly down for you know,
three four weeks, it's all recovered.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Just back to fear narrative this, I mean, part of
this is the matrix.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean, if you're listening and watching MSNBC, you know,
I guess you buy this. But I mean, that's one
way to respond to this personally. If I can't, I
don't have any comparison to it. But you know, I
guess if an opposing radio station was doing raising a
(04:20):
million dollars for hurricane victims or something, do you go
on the air and try to find some way to
just shut up, just say nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
They're doing something good, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I mean, even if it was nuanced, Well, he could
have done this.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, that's great, but ha, do he achieve that?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I want to give you an idea of what a
sensible person sounds like. Here's a Democrat, a ranking member,
Jim Hindes from Connecticut. He's not a fan of Donald
(05:06):
Trump and Republicans. But you either shut up or you
just acknowledge the good right and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The habit of praising Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
But I gotta tell you, I the last week or
so in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia is a different story.
The last week in the Middle East, I go into
the week fearing that the Prime Minister of Israel is
hell bent on going to war with her on. I
go into the week worried that we're going to miss
the thread of an opportunity in Syria.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
For the new leadership there.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
And I gotta tell you, I.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Think the President has in this last week or so
played the Middle East pretty darn well. My guess isn't
the Prime Minister of Israel as cool and his heels
a little bit on planning for a ram I guess
is that he's probably thinking through a better situation than
he otherwise might want for a Gaza And look at.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Peers, We're going to give shot Ah a chance and
see it. That's pretty good stuff. Again.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean that's the way you handle it. I mean,
either say nothing at all, or just acknowledge the good. Listen,
If at the end of the day, all that matters
is the number of rs or numbers of d's, or
the amount of power for the rs and the d's,
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that's the wrong scoreboard, because you'll never get around to
the a's. The Americans, whether it is five trillion or
thirteen as the President may have stretched it, these are
trillions of dollars of money invested. That's also worthy to
(06:42):
point these are Middle Eastern nations with healing relationship repairs.
Turkey specifically. If you can isolate radical Islam to Iran
(07:04):
and it's terrorist organizations it supports, that's a big deal
and these people can keep a lot of them in line.
And then building these relationships with the Middle East keeps
Russia from developing those This isolates the problems. Red and
(07:30):
I were talking yesterday, I think was off the air.
But when you just compare Joe Biden's version, he calls
Saudi Arabia a pariah, and then he gets there and
tells him release oil. We need oil because he reversed
all the Trump policies and oil prices had risen.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
People forget he needed raid the reserve.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So you call him a pariah, you come there, tell
them to release more on and they say no, that's
a great visit compared to camels and swords and swinging
air and trillions of dollars of investment. I mean, I
just you know, again, we've just been keeping an eye
on the ball. Following this line, You've got an ongoing
(08:14):
war within the Democrat Party with the socialist left, and
they've come close three times to having the nominee for
President of the United States. That would be the end
of the party, and they're gonna take another run, this
time with probably AOC. Now you have this Biden crisis,
and let's face it, anybody that had anything to do
(08:37):
with Joe Biden, including the authors of the book.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Quite frankly, is it Tapper? We have?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Who do we have that that's coming up? In Sounds
of the Day. One of the guys that was covering
it up explains, Yeah, that was Tapper, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Why he new but didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well, even if you take them at new and didn't
say anything, why were you selling the narrative and criticizing
anybody that came on suggesting there were problems. None of
it adds up. So you got the ongoing long war
with the socialist Democrats. Now you have the crisis with
the Biden hoax and everybody that knew, and now they're
(09:24):
trying to come clean, but they're taking down people like
how does Pete Boodhagic run for president? Now you were
a part of hiding how does Kamala Harris have any
credibility with the Vice president? You were hiding this condition
and then this line of opposing party versus obstruction, and
(09:49):
they're not doing well on any of those fronts. But
you know, the president goes and hits. I'll never forget.
I was in a Cubs game and Mike Schmid hit
three four home runs in a single game.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What are you gonna do? Heckle him? What kind of
an idiot? What heck Schmidt?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You stick? You just said having a four home run
a day. Just take your loss, go say hi to
Harry Carrey and uh, you know, get down the l
that's it. What are you gonna do? So they just
don't know how to respond. Meanwhile, we do have more
on the Biden scandal, which we will cover. Bid a
(10:27):
former former Biden officials. Just whoever was in charge of
the auto pen? You know, you hear me often say
John Podesta, Ron Klain. These are the people that carried out.
In the case of Podesta, he ran eight years of Clinton,
he ran eight years of Obama, and trust me, he
ran the four years of Joe Biden. I think John
Podesta is the auto pen, but there might have been
(10:48):
others involved. Eventually, they obviously were icing out cabinet members
from having access to the President, that scandal begins to
brew continues to brew. We're gonna have a visit with
Lenah Hall. She's our Spotlight Interview of the week. Apple's
got a huge hit show and Your Friends and Neighbors
with John Hamm and Amanda Pete. She plays the bipolar
sister of John Hamm's character. She is extraordinarily talented and decorated,
(11:12):
a Tony Award winner on Broadway. But this is a
first of combining her amazing singing talent with her amazing
acting talent. And you'll meet her next half hour in
our Spotlight interview or recovering two stories. One hurricane season is
two weeks away? Is FEMA ready? I'm a little more
concerned with this. Air traffic Control ready today for my flight,
(11:35):
But is FEMA ready? And Walmart is warning price increases
are coming due to the tariff battles that are of
course over and White House correspondent John Decker's covered eight presidents.
I don't think he's going to have words to describe
This is probably one of the most significant foreign policy
(11:55):
visits in presidential history, or at least in the top three.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I would think.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I can't get a girl to look at me let alone.
Hundreds of them line up and wave their hair as
I walk by. But I don't want to say they read.
But Jeffrey's got it down better than you if he
had a wig on right now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
He knows the move. It's as if you've done it
at an earlier age.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's kind of part of the It's kind of part
of Mustevie Wonder impersonation.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, it's a define line, kind of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And there will be no Triple Crown, the second jewel
of the Triple Crown, the second leg of the Triple Crown,
whatever expressions you like, will take place tomorrow. A lot
of people don't realize that snuck up on us. There
will be no Triple Crown winner though Casoberty will not
run in the race. Then Nuggets forced a Game seven
last night. What a great series this has been. I
(12:47):
am thoroughly convinced. What do I know, I'm no expert,
but I would think the Denver Nuggets are the Oklahoma
City Thunder are going to be your NBA champion, and they're.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
In a semi final, duking it out. Game seven coming
up on Sunday. Oh one other thing.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's Friday, right, Yeah, obviously it's been a big week
for the President. Don't miss Friday with forty seven coming
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It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Also get the Preakness tomorrow. Go to be Beautiful Weather
you like to see who you like?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, he always makes me go first. Well, obviously we
will not have a triple crown winner. Sovereignty will not
run there. We never did really get an explanation as
to why you know, Red said something off the air
to the effect of they really might want to look
at separating these races by three or four weeks. You
can't you do that, then then we have no measurement
(15:36):
of any horse of the past. That that's part of it.
That's the only consistency that we can have in order
to compare a horse from twenty years ago or fifty
years ago to today times and the grueling aspect of
the Triple Crown, that's what makes it special. So you know,
(15:56):
if you can't get a Grand Slam winner, you don't
start moving up t boxes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, just wait for it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But we didn't get a real explanation for why sovereignty.
I mean, there was the jockey was suspended, although I
think there's going to be some appeals to that. There
might have been some distractions, There may have been something
with the horse. So your Kentucky Derby winn Sovereignty will
not run in the Preakness. A lot of people are
looking at this Osger, which is a real speed horse,
(16:23):
but stepping up huge in class. What about mister Sandman
got a rough ride at the Derby, or he'd have
been there and with a shorter distance he won't have
some of the issues that he had in the stretch.
Clever again's getting a lot of talk. Sorry, gang, I'm
gonna go real easy and real obvious. This is one
of those where I got a big cigar in my mouth.
(16:45):
Rudy Arena, I would have said clash of the race.
This one is Journalism's I like journalism big. In the preakness,
we'll hear big John spicks and yours.
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Speaker 3 (17:37):
I wrote a book about twenty oh this is your
morning show and I'm Michael del Journo. I wrote a book.
I guess it's been twenty three years ago. Now that's scary.
But I chose the subtitle of the only thing left
shocking in life is the Truth because I had watched
the laws of diminishing return, that flushing of the tlet,
(18:00):
That which is shocking today becomes normal tomorrow. So what
do I got to do is shock you tomorrow that
becomes normal two days later. It just got worse and
worse and worse. And we have been living for two
decades in a period where really the only shocked it's
not shocking. Somebody could marry a robot now and we
wouldn't even be shocked marry a horse. Maybe that's why
(18:22):
sovereignty isn't running. Of course, maybe his white maybe his
boy you know whatever, you know, don't know what bathroom
to go do all this what is shocking, The truth
is shocking. The president is in the Middle East. That's
a kingdom versus kingdom, holy or territory. President's in the
(18:43):
Middle East. He's safe, He's getting camel parades, hair waves,
and the death threat to the president comes from home
in the United States and from a former head of
the FBI. I'm telling you, Gang, the only thing left
(19:06):
shocking in life is the truth. Now here's James Comey's
big defense. Jim says, oh, I didn't know eighty six
implied you were the director of the FBI, and you
don't know what eighty six. And somebody is, by the way,
this is your morning show with Michael del Jorno, and
(19:27):
I'd have to be born yesterday to buy that. Secretary
of State Mark Rubio is suggesting a meeting with President
Trump and Putin is the only way to move forward.
I think everybody sees that. And Putin's made that crystal
clear after a no show in Turkey, and the Supreme
Court seems poised to hand President Trump a partial victory.
Remember there's two steps to this.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I thought.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And by the way, this has got to be the
quote of the year. Justice Samuel Alito, Well, the problem
is there are six hundred eighty district court judges. Well,
I have the disease of thinking that they're right and
they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That pretty much sums it up.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It was very difficult picking this week's Spotlight Interview of
the Week, we interviewed two people. One was my hero,
Dave Berry, which would have been easy for me to
pick him just because he's my hero. The other is
a very very talented woman on a very very big
hit show. John Ham's your friends and neighbors, and I
chose Lena Hall. So nice to meet you. He too,
(20:32):
I got to tell you a real story. So we're
watching this show. Obviously John Hamm is terrific, you know,
and we followed him. So we start watching the show.
The show's terrific. Amanda Pete, great to see her again.
And then your character appears. I look at my wife
because I love this that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You can't really go see a good move anyboy. Nobody
tells good stories, nobody, you know. All the best shows
are on Apple and Netflix, and I'm meeting some very
talented people. I look at my wife and I go, oh,
this one, this one's special, this one's the real deal.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And it was you.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And then and I, because I'm not a big Broadway fan,
don't I don't get a chance to get there very often,
so I had no idea what your background was. And
then that scene at Amanda Pete's birthday and you sing
that song blown Away and I'm in love. You're just
doing terrific. You're a highlight and a very hot show.
Must feel great, thank you?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, it does. It's uh, it's a lot.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I mean, it was a struggle to get to this
point because I thought my career was over. I wasn't
booking anything. I was doing tons of auditions. I was
being passed over by, you know, for so many things
because I don't you know, there were certain things that
like a lot of it had to do with I
didn't have a big enough following.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
On social media.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Or oh I know that kind of thing, right, And
and I'd be like frustrated by it because you know, I,
as an actor, you really want to work. As a performer,
you want to perform, and and it's my livelihood, but
also it feeds my soul. And so when I got
this audition, I just didn't even think I would book it,
(22:08):
Like there was no way then and then I did
so and now the rest is, you know, happening, and
it feels like, like really good.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I'm glad I never gave up.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
There were years and years where I didn't work and
I would have given up, but I just don't have
the I don't have the.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
The ability to give up on something.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, why you know, there is this issue of why
I was blown away by you singing and by the way,
just you and the guitar and a flawless vocal and
a song that was done in contemporary times in such
a way. You didn't realize what a poetic masterpiece that
song is. And I never really heard the words till
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you sang. Of course, you're Grammy nominated, You're a Tony
Award winner, You're very, very talented. I'm not much for
social media either, and they tell me you got to
get a bigger following out of you isn't talent enough anymore.
But I really think if you re released that song,
it'd be a hit. It's really the way that song
should have been sung.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yeah, the I actually did release it. It's on Spotify
and Apple Music. And I released an album of all
of the songs that Ali does on the show.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Oh yeah, I did all my own versions.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So and I thought I had a great idea way
to go well.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Fake plastic Trews is out there.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
And then I did a song called two More Days,
which is actually an original. And then and then that song,
which is gorgeous, and I knew of the song.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I think everybody knows that song.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
And then when you listen to the lyrics or when
you read the lyrics, you're like, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well, especially when their two characters are having the most
dysfunctional birthday that's going on simultaneously as you're singing this mastery.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's just a great moment.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Lena Hall's joining us from the hit show Your Friends
and Neighbors. I guess everybody's gonna do this. In interviewing
for him, I talk about it all the time, but
describe the show. I think it proves that we focus
on all the wrong things in life.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We make a mess of life.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But in the midst of that mess, guess what the
essence of what makes life great is all around us.
And I see that with your character in John Hamm too.
But it's about materialism and shallowness.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's it's it really is neat.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
It's a different pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's
what I usually say.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
The show is.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
About the death of the American dream, So basically it's
about this dream.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
That you know, the more.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
The bigger the house, the more money I make, you know,
the happier I'll be, the more successful I'll be, the the.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Way I love your house in the background right now,
but go ahead.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
But you know, like that idea of the American dream,
you know, own a house and have kids and then
have a fancy car and have all this stuff and
like like it means anything, but it doesn't. Like what
what I love is that John Hamm's character is going
through a destruction.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Of what he thought would make him happy.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Exactly, these beliefs that were fed from a very early
age of what would make us happy. When it's he
had it, he had it, he lost sight of it,
he had the family, and that you know, it's like
it's like this destruction of what he thought was success
and what made him happy and what he needed is
making him realize what actually does matter is is a
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real family and real friend.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, and that that's where your character comes in, because
that's really they display very quickly through your character and
John Hamm that following Mother's Day, this is a funny
time to bring it up, but the mother character is
just awful, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So you guys obviously didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
You had a clueless father that was being overrun by
a terrible mother. But there's a but in the midst
of all of this dysfunction, the function with you and him,
there's true love, not inappropriate, but brother and sister love
and care. It's like, in all of that insanity, you
two are the only sane ones, and you're supposed to
be mentally ill, and you're the only.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
One that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean that had it's got to be by design.
The writers did a terrific job. I mean, with the
exception when you're at your ex's house singing in the
front yard that I was embarrassed for you on that one,
Dana Ali, who are you? That's I never even stooped
out drive by stock, Yes, but.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Just sit there in the front yard and sing no, yeah,
Well that's That's the interesting thing is that they wrote
her to be the most normal character exactly the.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Show, and yet she struggles so hard with her with
being bipolar and and just trying to function in a
world that was not built for her.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Do you have any by the way, I know the
whole world is so politically correct, and I'm just not
into that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But when you play a role like this. You know,
there's people watching.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I have a friend who has a son and he
just when he's on his meds, he's doing great, but
he just doesn't feel alive, he doesn't feel you know,
he's connected, so he goes off of them and then
crazy things happen. There's a little responsibility in portraying this too,
isn't there And I think you do a great job
of walking that line. And they don't shove it down
our throat either.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
I mean, when you really, you know, if you do
know someone who is bipolar, there's.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
A lot of there's a big it's a big struggle.
It's a big struggle.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
And there's a lot of masking that happens. So there's
there's tons of turmoil and things going on underneath the surface.
But oftentimes you won't get that when you're just hanging
with the person unless you really know them and you're
deep in deep in their circle. So, you know, what
was so important to me is to convey It's to
(27:53):
convey just a human being, someone who.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Goes through regular struggles.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Who you know, we all struggle, We all struggle in
some way.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, you probably noticed my weight problem just looking at.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Too many I'll never forget I snuggled up with It
was a chilly night a Yankee stadium with this obese
guy who was sneaking to watch the baseball game from
his wife. He comes back with those you know, those
big buckets where the fries are half.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Of it and then the chicken's on top.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, and he's like, you know, I'm diabetic and my
wife never lets meet this stuff. You know, next thing
you know, we're Sharon Fries Sharon Chicken together. But we
all ever know, but we all ever struggle. It's just beautifully,
beautifully portrayed. You have a real gift, and you are
surrounded by a great cast, and you still stand out.
So you don't need me to say this. You've got
(28:43):
a Tony Award, You're Grammy nominated. The show is just terrific.
It is filled with dysfunction, but I think it's dysfunction
that's all around us, and it's a warning I think
all of us should take very seriously. Nobody cares about
your job, Nobody cares about your house, Nobody cares about
your car.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Our new landscape.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Look around you, at your kids, at your wife, it's
your brothers and sisters. It's the love and the relationships
that we have that if we keep that the focus,
you'll avoid these nightmares. But I got to tell you,
the nightmares are very entertaining to watch.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
They are very entertaining to watch.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Yeah, my dad is like, I hate those people. Like
he's watching the show and it's just like, I hate
those He's ninety three years old and he's like, I
hate those people like the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
But the show does make you want to go steal something, though,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Listen, it's I don't think there's anything more popular.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
The hardest part is we discovered it week two, so
I'm literally having to wait every Friday night for a
new lesher.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
I'm sorry it is so painful. But that's great.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
I like it because it makes people talk about like
their hypotheses. They get more like in depth with the
character because you have time to think about, you know,
the characters, and you have time to like really like
talk with friends and b over.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Like hating someone on the show.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah there's someone to hate every episode.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
Right, Yeah, So it's like it's like it's great. It
brings back what you know, what used to be the office,
like the water cooler conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, can we get one? Does Alley get somebody? Just
one thing?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I keep watching, I'm like, why isn't anybody dayton Alley
crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
What is she chop going to the clubs at night?
Nobody's hitting on her.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Yeah, it's a shame, you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Everybody's got to be pleased with how the show is
being received.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's a it's a no brainer.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I would think that we're going to get more seasons
after this one, but so far, Magnifiko, you know.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
I've got good news for you. We're filming a season
two right now.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh right now?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, Well there's our that's our spoiler of the of
the interview.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Oh no, it's been it's been announced. Don't worry, it's
been announced.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well you have, You've done me.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I didn't know about your your Broadway career, which is extraordinary.
Singing blew me away, your acting has blown me away,
and the show is terrific. Congratulations on your success. Good
things come to good people, and those who wait, God blessed.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
I do have an insider for you.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
They used I force them because I'm a singer and
because I do that professionally. I was like, do not
overdub any of my vocals, do not overdub any of
the guitar playing or any of the vocals, because it
will it will connect more with an audience if it's
live and in real time, which is true because anytime
I watch something that has been a little overdubbed, there's
(31:34):
a little bit of a disconnect that happens. But this way,
it's like, because it's live and because it's happening in
real time and you're watching it, it connects so so
much better in the moment than having.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Something can I know we're out of time. I know
we're out of time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
But is do they have a run through version of
you doing that song live during her birthday party versus
the one that you released probably never went through continuously?
Speaker 9 (32:02):
Right, Yeah, well no we did.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I did play through it a bunch of times. You know,
I would mess up a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The show is called Your Friends and Neighbors and it
is spectacular. It's on Apple TV. John hamm is the star.
It's got a lot of other people in it. You're
going to see Amanda Pete. You haven't seen her in
a while. But you'll notice his sister ally Lena Hall.
By the way, the song we were talking about is
the Thompson Twins Hold Me Now, which I don't know
for some reason.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You know that song was playing.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's on the soundtrack of my early life and I
never really listened to the words until Lena sang it.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I have a picture.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Pinned to my wall.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
And em and if you and me and we laugh
and we love and it all this is.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
A beautiful lyric.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
But look it all now, I'll tattered and twer it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
This is what life does to you.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
We fuss out, we fight and you lied in the
tears it we cry and till darn.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Ooh hold me No, isn't it different? Hearing it in
this style? It's absolutely good. She is.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
She's a gem and what a lesson in life.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Right when you have a dream, never ever give up,
never let the timing of it, just stay the course.
I actually believe that Lena Hall didn't get any breaks
until now because this role was waiting for very very
special show, very very special lady. Why she even bumped
my hero Dave Berry is our Spotlight interview of the week,
(33:50):
Lena Hall, from your Friends and neighbors, I gift to
you in our spotlight interview of the.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Week, This is Your Morning Show with Michael del True.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
President Safe Sound celebrated throughout the Middle East the death
threats at home from a former FBI director.
Speaker 12 (34:09):
The post included a photo of seashells on a beach
arranged to form the numbers eighty six forty seven. The
post faced criticism from Trump administration officials, with Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Noms saying Komy was calling for the assassination
of President Trump. The number eighty six is occasionally used
as a slang term for getting rid of someone or something,
(34:30):
while forty seven was interpreted as a reference to Donald
Trump's status as the forty seventh president. In a post
on ex Nomes said DHS and the Secret Service are
investigating the threat. Komy has since taken the post down.
I'm Mark Mayfield, Yeah, pay him a visit.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Secretary of State Mark or Rubio is suggesting a meeting
between President Trump and Vladimir.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Putin is the only way to move forward with peace talk.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Supreme Court seems poised to hand President Trump a partial victory,
just as Samuel Alito said, the prop is there's six
hundred and eighty district court judges, and they all have
the disease of thinking they're right and they can do
whatever they want. The fret mistakes are coming, but there'll
be no triple crowns. Sovereignty can't run and the Nuggets
have forced a Game seven with Oklahoma City on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
That's your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning, Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It's Friday two three, starting your morning off right.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
God, It's Friday, Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Friday, Friday, seven minutes after the hour. Welcome to Friday,
May the sixteenth. You have our Lord twenty twenty five.
I gotta tell you, I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I've heard Donald Trump say, what was it?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Total?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Trump said, was it thirteenth trilliond just pulled a nut brow.
I've got the total with another one point four trillion
out of the UAE somewhere around five trillion. Fox just
showed some numbers indicating about a trillion. Though I can't
(01:18):
get my mind off of the I don't know what
that was.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was that hair swirling? Twirling?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What is the I have never been greeted by walls
of women waving their hair? Was it the camels? Was
it the swords? Was it the waving hair? It was
a a wild week in the Middle East. The New
York Post had the headline Trump shaakes it up in
(01:46):
the Middle East. Well, he certainly shook up chock up
a lot of money for the economy. And it's interesting,
what do you do if you're a Democrat? I mean,
how do you be an opposing party when there's something
a that is so productive or be trying to do
something so right? You know, and walk that line of
(02:08):
being an opposition party versus being just pure obstructionists and uncredible.
I mean that's the part you know. Well, Congressman Swallows
will give you an example of Eric S. Walwell will
give you an example of how to how to really
play it ignorantly.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Listen in an MSNBC political analyst. Congressman, I want to
start with Eugene's implicit question there, what do you think
Donald Trump was giving up or exchanging in these negotiations?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So never mind the trillions of dollars of commitment in business.
I mean the Boeing deal alone in Saudi Arabia and
the impact of jobs in two hundred and ten planes
being ordered. Notice, the implication is a suspicious Well, what
do you think he's been giving up? I mean, if
they're giving us five trillion, what did he give up
our sovereignty? We're all going to have to stay speaking Arabic.
(03:00):
I mean, this is this is the nonsense on MSNBC.
And when he's not flagellating, the king of nonsense.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Eric Swawall response, it's a me, me me presidency that
he's running. And as I look at you know, this
trip and what he's getting out of it, I.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
See how he benefits.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I don't see how Americans at home are going to benefit.
You know, right now as we speak, Republicans are gutting
healthcare and kicking millions of people off their healthcare so
billionaires can get tax cuts. Four oh one k's have
become two to one k's. The Port of Los Angeles
has thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Whose four to oh one k is down? Right now?
Who's four oh one k has not recovered.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
From that narrative of being slightly down for you know,
three four weeks, it's all recovered.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Just back to fear narrative this, I mean, part of
this is the matrix.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean, if you're listening and watching MSNBC, you know,
I guess you buy this. But I mean, that's one
way to respond to this personally. If I can't, I
don't have any comparison to it. But you know, I
guess if an opposing radio station was doing raising a
(04:20):
million dollars for hurricane victims or something, do you go
on the air and try to find some way to
just shut up, just say nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
They're doing something good, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I mean, even if it was nuanced, Well, he could
have done this.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, that's great, but ha, do he achieve that?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I want to give you an idea of what a
sensible person sounds like. Here's a Democrat, a ranking member,
Jim Hindes from Connecticut. He's not a fan of Donald
(05:06):
Trump and Republicans. But you either shut up or you
just acknowledge the good right and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The habit of praising Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
But I gotta tell you, I the last week or
so in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia is a different story.
The last week in the Middle East, I go into
the week fearing that the Prime Minister of Israel is
hell bent on going to war with her on. I
go into the week worried that we're going to miss
the thread of an opportunity in Syria.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
For the new leadership there.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
And I gotta tell you, I.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Think the President has in this last week or so
played the Middle East pretty darn well. My guess isn't
the Prime Minister of Israel as cool and his heels
a little bit on planning for a ram I guess
is that he's probably thinking through a better situation than
he otherwise might want for a Gaza And look at.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Peers, We're going to give shot Ah a chance and
see it. That's pretty good stuff. Again.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean that's the way you handle it. I mean,
either say nothing at all, or just acknowledge the good. Listen,
If at the end of the day, all that matters
is the number of rs or numbers of d's, or
the amount of power for the rs and the d's,
(06:22):
that's the wrong scoreboard, because you'll never get around to
the a's. The Americans, whether it is five trillion or
thirteen as the President may have stretched it, these are
trillions of dollars of money invested. That's also worthy to
(06:42):
point these are Middle Eastern nations with healing relationship repairs.
Turkey specifically. If you can isolate radical Islam to Iran
(07:04):
and it's terrorist organizations it supports, that's a big deal
and these people can keep a lot of them in line.
And then building these relationships with the Middle East keeps
Russia from developing those This isolates the problems. Red and
(07:30):
I were talking yesterday, I think was off the air.
But when you just compare Joe Biden's version, he calls
Saudi Arabia a pariah, and then he gets there and
tells him release oil. We need oil because he reversed
all the Trump policies and oil prices had risen.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
People forget he needed raid the reserve.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So you call him a pariah, you come there, tell
them to release more on and they say no, that's
a great visit compared to camels and swords and swinging
air and trillions of dollars of investment. I mean, I
just you know, again, we've just been keeping an eye
on the ball. Following this line, You've got an ongoing
(08:14):
war within the Democrat Party with the socialist left, and
they've come close three times to having the nominee for
President of the United States. That would be the end
of the party, and they're gonna take another run, this
time with probably AOC. Now you have this Biden crisis,
and let's face it, anybody that had anything to do
(08:37):
with Joe Biden, including the authors of the book.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Quite frankly, is it Tapper? We have?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Who do we have that that's coming up? In Sounds
of the Day. One of the guys that was covering
it up explains, Yeah, that was Tapper, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Why he new but didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well, even if you take them at new and didn't
say anything, why were you selling the narrative and criticizing
anybody that came on suggesting there were problems. None of
it adds up. So you got the ongoing long war
with the socialist Democrats. Now you have the crisis with
the Biden hoax and everybody that knew, and now they're
(09:24):
trying to come clean, but they're taking down people like
how does Pete Boodhagic run for president? Now you were
a part of hiding how does Kamala Harris have any
credibility with the Vice president? You were hiding this condition
and then this line of opposing party versus obstruction, and
(09:49):
they're not doing well on any of those fronts. But
you know, the president goes and hits. I'll never forget.
I was in a Cubs game and Mike Schmid hit
three four home runs in a single game.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What are you gonna do? Heckle him? What kind of
an idiot? What heck Schmidt?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You stick? You just said having a four home run
a day. Just take your loss, go say hi to
Harry Carrey and uh, you know, get down the l
that's it. What are you gonna do? So they just
don't know how to respond. Meanwhile, we do have more
on the Biden scandal, which we will cover. Bid a
(10:27):
former former Biden officials. Just whoever was in charge of
the auto pen? You know, you hear me often say
John Podesta, Ron Klain. These are the people that carried out.
In the case of Podesta, he ran eight years of Clinton,
he ran eight years of Obama, and trust me, he
ran the four years of Joe Biden. I think John
Podesta is the auto pen, but there might have been
(10:48):
others involved. Eventually, they obviously were icing out cabinet members
from having access to the President, that scandal begins to
brew continues to brew. We're gonna have a visit with
Lenah Hall. She's our Spotlight Interview of the week. Apple's
got a huge hit show and Your Friends and Neighbors
with John Hamm and Amanda Pete. She plays the bipolar
sister of John Hamm's character. She is extraordinarily talented and decorated,
(11:12):
a Tony Award winner on Broadway. But this is a
first of combining her amazing singing talent with her amazing
acting talent. And you'll meet her next half hour in
our Spotlight interview or recovering two stories. One hurricane season is
two weeks away? Is FEMA ready? I'm a little more
concerned with this. Air traffic Control ready today for my flight,
(11:35):
But is FEMA ready? And Walmart is warning price increases
are coming due to the tariff battles that are of
course over and White House correspondent John Decker's covered eight presidents.
I don't think he's going to have words to describe
This is probably one of the most significant foreign policy
(11:55):
visits in presidential history, or at least in the top three.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I would think.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I can't get a girl to look at me let alone.
Hundreds of them line up and wave their hair as
I walk by. But I don't want to say they read.
But Jeffrey's got it down better than you if he
had a wig on right now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
He knows the move. It's as if you've done it
at an earlier age.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's kind of part of the It's kind of part
of Mustevie Wonder impersonation.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, it's a define line, kind of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And there will be no Triple Crown, the second jewel
of the Triple Crown, the second leg of the Triple Crown,
whatever expressions you like, will take place tomorrow. A lot
of people don't realize that snuck up on us. There
will be no Triple Crown winner though Casoberty will not
run in the race. Then Nuggets forced a Game seven
last night. What a great series this has been. I
(12:47):
am thoroughly convinced. What do I know, I'm no expert,
but I would think the Denver Nuggets are the Oklahoma
City Thunder are going to be your NBA champion, and they're.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
In a semi final, duking it out. Game seven coming
up on Sunday. Oh one other thing.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's Friday, right, Yeah, obviously it's been a big week
for the President. Don't miss Friday with forty seven coming
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It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Also get the Preakness tomorrow. Go to be Beautiful Weather
you like to see who you like?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, he always makes me go first. Well, obviously we
will not have a triple crown winner. Sovereignty will not
run there. We never did really get an explanation as
to why you know, Red said something off the air
to the effect of they really might want to look
at separating these races by three or four weeks. You
can't you do that, then then we have no measurement
(15:36):
of any horse of the past. That that's part of it.
That's the only consistency that we can have in order
to compare a horse from twenty years ago or fifty
years ago to today times and the grueling aspect of
the Triple Crown, that's what makes it special. So you know,
(15:56):
if you can't get a Grand Slam winner, you don't
start moving up t boxes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, just wait for it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But we didn't get a real explanation for why sovereignty.
I mean, there was the jockey was suspended, although I
think there's going to be some appeals to that. There
might have been some distractions, There may have been something
with the horse. So your Kentucky Derby winn Sovereignty will
not run in the Preakness. A lot of people are
looking at this Osger, which is a real speed horse,
(16:23):
but stepping up huge in class. What about mister Sandman
got a rough ride at the Derby, or he'd have
been there and with a shorter distance he won't have
some of the issues that he had in the stretch.
Clever again's getting a lot of talk. Sorry, gang, I'm
gonna go real easy and real obvious. This is one
of those where I got a big cigar in my mouth.
(16:45):
Rudy Arena, I would have said clash of the race.
This one is Journalism's I like journalism big. In the preakness,
we'll hear big John spicks and yours.
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I wrote a book about twenty oh this is your
morning show and I'm Michael del Journo. I wrote a book.
I guess it's been twenty three years ago. Now that's scary.
But I chose the subtitle of the only thing left
shocking in life is the Truth because I had watched
the laws of diminishing return, that flushing of the tlet,
(18:00):
That which is shocking today becomes normal tomorrow. So what
do I got to do is shock you tomorrow that
becomes normal two days later. It just got worse and
worse and worse. And we have been living for two
decades in a period where really the only shocked it's
not shocking. Somebody could marry a robot now and we
wouldn't even be shocked marry a horse. Maybe that's why
(18:22):
sovereignty isn't running. Of course, maybe his white maybe his
boy you know whatever, you know, don't know what bathroom
to go do all this what is shocking, The truth
is shocking. The president is in the Middle East. That's
a kingdom versus kingdom, holy or territory. President's in the
(18:43):
Middle East. He's safe, He's getting camel parades, hair waves,
and the death threat to the president comes from home
in the United States and from a former head of
the FBI. I'm telling you, Gang, the only thing left
(19:06):
shocking in life is the truth. Now here's James Comey's
big defense. Jim says, oh, I didn't know eighty six
implied you were the director of the FBI, and you
don't know what eighty six. And somebody is, by the way,
this is your morning show with Michael del Jorno, and
(19:27):
I'd have to be born yesterday to buy that. Secretary
of State Mark Rubio is suggesting a meeting with President
Trump and Putin is the only way to move forward.
I think everybody sees that. And Putin's made that crystal
clear after a no show in Turkey, and the Supreme
Court seems poised to hand President Trump a partial victory.
Remember there's two steps to this.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I thought.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And by the way, this has got to be the
quote of the year. Justice Samuel Alito, Well, the problem
is there are six hundred eighty district court judges. Well,
I have the disease of thinking that they're right and
they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That pretty much sums it up.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It was very difficult picking this week's Spotlight Interview of
the Week, we interviewed two people. One was my hero,
Dave Berry, which would have been easy for me to
pick him just because he's my hero. The other is
a very very talented woman on a very very big
hit show. John Ham's your friends and neighbors, and I
chose Lena Hall. So nice to meet you. He too,
(20:32):
I got to tell you a real story. So we're
watching this show. Obviously John Hamm is terrific, you know,
and we followed him. So we start watching the show.
The show's terrific. Amanda Pete, great to see her again.
And then your character appears. I look at my wife
because I love this that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You can't really go see a good move anyboy. Nobody
tells good stories, nobody, you know. All the best shows
are on Apple and Netflix, and I'm meeting some very
talented people. I look at my wife and I go, oh,
this one, this one's special, this one's the real deal.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And it was you.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And then and I, because I'm not a big Broadway fan,
don't I don't get a chance to get there very often,
so I had no idea what your background was. And
then that scene at Amanda Pete's birthday and you sing
that song blown Away and I'm in love. You're just
doing terrific. You're a highlight and a very hot show.
Must feel great, thank you?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, it does. It's uh, it's a lot.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I mean, it was a struggle to get to this
point because I thought my career was over. I wasn't
booking anything. I was doing tons of auditions. I was
being passed over by, you know, for so many things
because I don't you know, there were certain things that
like a lot of it had to do with I
didn't have a big enough following.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
On social media.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Or oh I know that kind of thing, right, And
and I'd be like frustrated by it because you know, I,
as an actor, you really want to work. As a performer,
you want to perform, and and it's my livelihood, but
also it feeds my soul. And so when I got
this audition, I just didn't even think I would book it,
(22:08):
Like there was no way then and then I did
so and now the rest is, you know, happening, and
it feels like, like really good.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I'm glad I never gave up.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
There were years and years where I didn't work and
I would have given up, but I just don't have
the I don't have the.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
The ability to give up on something.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, why you know, there is this issue of why
I was blown away by you singing and by the way,
just you and the guitar and a flawless vocal and
a song that was done in contemporary times in such
a way. You didn't realize what a poetic masterpiece that
song is. And I never really heard the words till
(22:51):
you sang. Of course, you're Grammy nominated, You're a Tony
Award winner, You're very, very talented. I'm not much for
social media either, and they tell me you got to
get a bigger following out of you isn't talent enough anymore.
But I really think if you re released that song,
it'd be a hit. It's really the way that song
should have been sung.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yeah, the I actually did release it. It's on Spotify
and Apple Music. And I released an album of all
of the songs that Ali does on the show.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Oh yeah, I did all my own versions.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So and I thought I had a great idea way
to go well.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Fake plastic Trews is out there.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
And then I did a song called two More Days,
which is actually an original. And then and then that song,
which is gorgeous, and I knew of the song.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I think everybody knows that song.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
And then when you listen to the lyrics or when
you read the lyrics, you're like, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well, especially when their two characters are having the most
dysfunctional birthday that's going on simultaneously as you're singing this mastery.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's just a great moment.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Lena Hall's joining us from the hit show Your Friends
and Neighbors. I guess everybody's gonna do this. In interviewing
for him, I talk about it all the time, but
describe the show. I think it proves that we focus
on all the wrong things in life.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We make a mess of life.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But in the midst of that mess, guess what the
essence of what makes life great is all around us.
And I see that with your character in John Hamm too.
But it's about materialism and shallowness.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's it's it really is neat.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
It's a different pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's
what I usually say.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
The show is.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
About the death of the American dream, So basically it's
about this dream.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
That you know, the more.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
The bigger the house, the more money I make, you know,
the happier I'll be, the more successful I'll be, the the.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Way I love your house in the background right now,
but go ahead.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
But you know, like that idea of the American dream,
you know, own a house and have kids and then
have a fancy car and have all this stuff and
like like it means anything, but it doesn't. Like what
what I love is that John Hamm's character is going
through a destruction.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Of what he thought would make him happy.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Exactly, these beliefs that were fed from a very early
age of what would make us happy. When it's he
had it, he had it, he lost sight of it,
he had the family, and that you know, it's like
it's like this destruction of what he thought was success
and what made him happy and what he needed is
making him realize what actually does matter is is a
(25:35):
real family and real friend.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, and that that's where your character comes in, because
that's really they display very quickly through your character and
John Hamm that following Mother's Day, this is a funny
time to bring it up, but the mother character is
just awful, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So you guys obviously didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
You had a clueless father that was being overrun by
a terrible mother. But there's a but in the midst
of all of this dysfunction, the function with you and him,
there's true love, not inappropriate, but brother and sister love
and care. It's like, in all of that insanity, you
two are the only sane ones, and you're supposed to
be mentally ill, and you're the only.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
One that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean that had it's got to be by design.
The writers did a terrific job. I mean, with the
exception when you're at your ex's house singing in the
front yard that I was embarrassed for you on that one,
Dana Ali, who are you? That's I never even stooped
out drive by stock, Yes, but.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Just sit there in the front yard and sing no, yeah,
Well that's That's the interesting thing is that they wrote
her to be the most normal character exactly the.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Show, and yet she struggles so hard with her with
being bipolar and and just trying to function in a
world that was not built for her.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Do you have any by the way, I know the
whole world is so politically correct, and I'm just not
into that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But when you play a role like this. You know,
there's people watching.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I have a friend who has a son and he
just when he's on his meds, he's doing great, but
he just doesn't feel alive, he doesn't feel you know,
he's connected, so he goes off of them and then
crazy things happen. There's a little responsibility in portraying this too,
isn't there And I think you do a great job
of walking that line. And they don't shove it down
our throat either.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
I mean, when you really, you know, if you do
know someone who is bipolar, there's.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
A lot of there's a big it's a big struggle.
It's a big struggle.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
And there's a lot of masking that happens. So there's
there's tons of turmoil and things going on underneath the surface.
But oftentimes you won't get that when you're just hanging
with the person unless you really know them and you're
deep in deep in their circle. So, you know, what
was so important to me is to convey It's to
(27:53):
convey just a human being, someone who.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Goes through regular struggles.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Who you know, we all struggle, We all struggle in
some way.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, you probably noticed my weight problem just looking at.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Too many I'll never forget I snuggled up with It
was a chilly night a Yankee stadium with this obese
guy who was sneaking to watch the baseball game from
his wife. He comes back with those you know, those
big buckets where the fries are half.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Of it and then the chicken's on top.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, and he's like, you know, I'm diabetic and my
wife never lets meet this stuff. You know, next thing
you know, we're Sharon Fries Sharon Chicken together. But we
all ever know, but we all ever struggle. It's just beautifully,
beautifully portrayed. You have a real gift, and you are
surrounded by a great cast, and you still stand out.
So you don't need me to say this. You've got
(28:43):
a Tony Award, You're Grammy nominated. The show is just terrific.
It is filled with dysfunction, but I think it's dysfunction
that's all around us, and it's a warning I think
all of us should take very seriously. Nobody cares about
your job, Nobody cares about your house, Nobody cares about
your car.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Our new landscape.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Look around you, at your kids, at your wife, it's
your brothers and sisters. It's the love and the relationships
that we have that if we keep that the focus,
you'll avoid these nightmares. But I got to tell you,
the nightmares are very entertaining to watch.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
They are very entertaining to watch.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Yeah, my dad is like, I hate those people. Like
he's watching the show and it's just like, I hate
those He's ninety three years old and he's like, I
hate those people like the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
But the show does make you want to go steal something, though,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Listen, it's I don't think there's anything more popular.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
The hardest part is we discovered it week two, so
I'm literally having to wait every Friday night for a
new lesher.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
I'm sorry it is so painful. But that's great.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
I like it because it makes people talk about like
their hypotheses. They get more like in depth with the
character because you have time to think about, you know,
the characters, and you have time to like really like
talk with friends and b over.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Like hating someone on the show.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah there's someone to hate every episode.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
Right, Yeah, So it's like it's like it's great. It
brings back what you know, what used to be the office,
like the water cooler conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, can we get one? Does Alley get somebody? Just
one thing?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I keep watching, I'm like, why isn't anybody dayton Alley
crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
What is she chop going to the clubs at night?
Nobody's hitting on her.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Yeah, it's a shame, you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Everybody's got to be pleased with how the show is
being received.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's a it's a no brainer.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I would think that we're going to get more seasons
after this one, but so far, Magnifiko, you know.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
I've got good news for you. We're filming a season
two right now.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh right now?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, Well there's our that's our spoiler of the of
the interview.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Oh no, it's been it's been announced. Don't worry, it's
been announced.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well you have, You've done me.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I didn't know about your your Broadway career, which is extraordinary.
Singing blew me away, your acting has blown me away,
and the show is terrific. Congratulations on your success. Good
things come to good people, and those who wait, God blessed.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
I do have an insider for you.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
They used I force them because I'm a singer and
because I do that professionally. I was like, do not
overdub any of my vocals, do not overdub any of
the guitar playing or any of the vocals, because it
will it will connect more with an audience if it's
live and in real time, which is true because anytime
I watch something that has been a little overdubbed, there's
(31:34):
a little bit of a disconnect that happens. But this way,
it's like, because it's live and because it's happening in
real time and you're watching it, it connects so so
much better in the moment than having.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Something can I know we're out of time. I know
we're out of time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
But is do they have a run through version of
you doing that song live during her birthday party versus
the one that you released probably never went through continuously?
Speaker 9 (32:02):
Right, Yeah, well no we did.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I did play through it a bunch of times. You know,
I would mess up a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The show is called Your Friends and Neighbors and it
is spectacular. It's on Apple TV. John hamm is the star.
It's got a lot of other people in it. You're
going to see Amanda Pete. You haven't seen her in
a while. But you'll notice his sister ally Lena Hall.
By the way, the song we were talking about is
the Thompson Twins Hold Me Now, which I don't know
for some reason.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You know that song was playing.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's on the soundtrack of my early life and I
never really listened to the words until Lena sang it.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I have a picture.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Pinned to my wall.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
And em and if you and me and we laugh
and we love and it all this is.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
A beautiful lyric.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
But look it all now, I'll tattered and twer it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
This is what life does to you.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
We fuss out, we fight and you lied in the
tears it we cry and till darn.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Ooh hold me No, isn't it different? Hearing it in
this style? It's absolutely good. She is.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
She's a gem and what a lesson in life.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Right when you have a dream, never ever give up,
never let the timing of it, just stay the course.
I actually believe that Lena Hall didn't get any breaks
until now because this role was waiting for very very
special show, very very special lady. Why she even bumped
my hero Dave Berry is our Spotlight interview of the week,
(33:50):
Lena Hall, from your Friends and neighbors, I gift to
you in our spotlight interview of the.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Week, This is Your Morning Show with Michael del True.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
President Safe Sound celebrated throughout the Middle East the death
threats at home from a former FBI director.
Speaker 12 (34:09):
The post included a photo of seashells on a beach
arranged to form the numbers eighty six forty seven. The
post faced criticism from Trump administration officials, with Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Noms saying Komy was calling for the assassination
of President Trump. The number eighty six is occasionally used
as a slang term for getting rid of someone or something,
(34:30):
while forty seven was interpreted as a reference to Donald
Trump's status as the forty seventh president. In a post
on ex Nomes said DHS and the Secret Service are
investigating the threat. Komy has since taken the post down.
I'm Mark Mayfield, Yeah, pay him a visit.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Secretary of State Mark or Rubio is suggesting a meeting
between President Trump and Vladimir.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Putin is the only way to move forward with peace talk.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Supreme Court seems poised to hand President Trump a partial victory,
just as Samuel Alito said, the prop is there's six
hundred and eighty district court judges, and they all have
the disease of thinking they're right and they can do
whatever they want. The fret mistakes are coming, but there'll
be no triple crowns. Sovereignty can't run and the Nuggets
have forced a Game seven with Oklahoma City on Sunday.
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