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Enjoy, good morning Americans.
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Starting your morning off right.
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A new way of talk, a new way of understanding,
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with michae O'Dell Jordan. You know, I sometimes go back
and listen to old Paul Harvey's either special addresses he
did or even so many of the now you know.
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The wresh of this show. It sounds like the end
of Paul Arvey's career. What a brilliant man.
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Oh his head inside his head and float for a while.
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He was just amazing. What a treasure.
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Where if I was the devil Moses, that's scary. That
was Noster Harvey. Yeah, eight minutes after the hour Friday thing, God,
it is Friday Friday.
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But the little pitchy, Am I in tune? I don't know.
I'm toned down. Will have to say, I mean you
have great pitch.
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That is one of the things that has always marked
me about people is when they sing and they're off pitch.
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But as a general rule, really the more you play.
My brother tells me, don't ever sing. Yeah, no, that's
not true.
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Well, when you try to sing your pitchy, when you're
just in your moment, in your element and you're playing,
your pitch is perfect. Well, I have no I have
no right to celebrate this Friday. I was off Monday
and Tuesday red, and I are cele I don't feel
like I've put in the time to celebrate Friday. So
let's just say I'm celebrating on both.
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Of your behalf, thank you. What was your last day off?
Both of you? Christmas?
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No?
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I had a colon husky, So how is it that special?
What is day off? Chris shd like since last October? Row,
little boy, Row? Where were we?
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Oh?
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We should probably restart nine minutes after the hour on
the air and streaming live on your iHeart app.
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You'r you.
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I'm Michael and this is Friday. Made the twenty third
Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five on the air
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the iHeart app or emailing Michael d at iHeartMedia dot
com if you're just waking up. The US and Iran
are set to hold another round of nuclear talks. I
don't think this one's off the table. Just jet Supreme
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Court is granting President Trump's request to fire independent federal
agency members, and another eleven hundred troops are headed to
the border. I think that's going to round out the
number to ten thousand troops there, and many of them
will be doing some building in addition to protecting. And
I know so many of you it's graduation season, and
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I really can't speak to whether you're going to your
children's high school graduation or college graduation. Maybe you're going
to your grandchild's high school graduation or college graduation. Graduation
has a funny effect on all of us. I think
there's the kids down on the floor, sitting in the
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chairs with everything in front of them. There's us in
the stands with everything behind us. I often use the
expression life is best understood looking back. Unfortunately, it has
to be lived looking forward. And that's true at every
graduation because I remember being that seventeen year old sitting
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there now that having a single clue as to what
I wanted to be headed to LSU though I hated school,
and I didn't know at that point when I was
sitting in that chair.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You want to know what I was going to be?
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And actually I think I would have been very good
at it, and it's in essence, I think one of
the things that made me a great manager. I wanted
to be a what do they call it?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Industrial psychologist? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Industrial that's where you come in you analyze everybody and
you find out what personality types and people work best together.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh you wanted to be a know it all? Did you?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And as you can see, it paid off. It's no,
well that's rory, but no, I wanted to be. So
I'm sitting in a chair at seventeen thinking I'm gonna
go to LSU, get a psychology degree and become an
industrial psychologist.
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What a joke?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right, And of course I was nervous as can be.
I remember I was probably twelve years old, I think,
and I was sitting watching my father pay the bills,
and it just dawn him.
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He was like, oh my gosh, what is all that?
How do you do that? How do you keep track
of all of that? Oh my gosh, am I gonna
have to do this?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And it was just completely overwhelmed at the thought of it,
just like you guys remember the well, I think even
greater than the first time you drive a car, which
mine was Jayan Chowstighi's Volkswagen Beetle, and we had a
racetrack not far from our house called Jefferson Downs with
a big parking lot, and it was a rainy day
when he decided to teach me and destroy his gears.
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But oh wow, and I guess at one point I
got going pretty fast. It's a friend and he's hanging
on for dear life as we're almost turning over the Beetle.
But I think that drive home with your first child
from the hospital, it's more memorable than the first time
you know, you're in a car and you're like, oh
my gosh, I'm driving. But you know, we have these
little milestone things that remind us we're heading into uncharted territory.
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Now for everybody sitting in the stands watching these people graduate.
And there are some that know what they want to
be and they're gonna go be it, but most don't,
and nor did we. And what was the secret that
made it all work out? I will say to the
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seventeen year old that I was one thing he got.
Don't worry about what you're going to do, worry about
who you're going to be. I think that was a
pretty good north star for me. And whatever I did,
I was going to work as under God and I
was going to give it my all. And I started
in radio as a minimum wage. I think I was
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trying to remember the other day what I think it
was four dollars and ten cents an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh you remember what your first was? Three thirty five
an hour?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, so well, and I was in New Orleans, so
maybe I had you by fifty cents, but you know,
and and who knew what that was going to grow into?
And I think of Matthew six thirty three, and I
kind of it's the kind of thing someone has to
do for themselves. I wish I could speak it into
other people. But as I was watching my son, and
I can't believe he's gone from in my arms to
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walking around with me where he's about the size of
my knee holding my hand, to with a cap and
gown last night, and all I kept thinking was seekers
the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.
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He'll take care of the heavy lifting of life.
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That's all you have to do, because the odds are
you're not going to be anything what you think.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're going to be. We're all on a boat and
we're not the captain. Enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So but last night we in particular, it was I
think sixty eight degrees, maybe it was seventy. There was
no humidity, a cool breeze. It was just like Tampa,
only completely different. I mean the weather, the skies couldn't
have been clearer, the temperature couldn't have been more perfect.
You weren't chilly, you weren't hot, it was and then
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this breeze is just bathing you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We take in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They do something different now, I don't know if you've
noticed this. Like when I was growing up and it
was never me. You had a valeditorian and a salutatorian, right, sure,
they don't do that now Now salutatorians you have like
twelve thirteen and they all get recognized in stand and
then I think there were seven valedictorians, all of which spoke.
And then there was no keynote address, which I thought
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was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Everybody is that's the that's equality, right, I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Mean, that's the main I mean, we live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Think of the people you could have do commencement address. Sure,
but there was no commencement address. But otherwise beautiful ceremony
pictures taken afterwards. Joey was one of Nick's earliest friends.
And you know you always want to capture I don't
know for all the pictures. It's the ones when you
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knew I was. I gave he doesn't like to be
called matea anymore. I gave Matthew a hug. Matthew and
Nick had a play day together when they were four.
All right, that's how far we go back. And I'm
hugging this mother, thinking I remember meeting you dropping Nick
off for play day.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Here we are at graduation. Oh just time.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't know how fast it went buy for them,
but for me it was a blink. And then I
had to get a picture of him and Joey culabras
because they were the two the two Italians, and I
have a picture of them when they were really young
at the little league field. Actually it was a girls'
softball field, and it was just so it didn't look
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like a picture taken in the two thousands. It so
looked like two kids from the Bronx in the fifties
up against this fence, goofing around.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And I have that in black and white.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It is one of my two favorite pictures of my
son in life. And then I got a picture of
these two, one going to Alabama, one going to Belmont
on the football field and cap and gown.
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How did that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So you know, for everybody out there listening going through graduations,
do what you can. Don't forget. We didn't know what
the heck we were going to be. We were scared
to death to I mean, we all give the old
it's a commencement. This isn't the ending of something. This
is the beginning of your big blank feud. That's what
gets them scared. Tell HER's a God that lived yesterday,
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today and forever, past, present and future, and knows every
hair on their head and has every moment of their
life planned for them, and he will never forsake them.
He will never abandon them, and he will never fail them.
And life will find its way. The wife will find
its way, the husband will find its way, that children
will find their way, the job will find its way.
And don't be like uncle Michael and stayed a crummy
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one for sixteen years.
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There there's my commencement addressed.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno. Hope you
have a safe and wonderful three day Memorial Day holiday weekend.
We'll talk more about Memorial Day in minutes. Voice things first,
if you're just waking up, you know what sound is
going to happen. By four minutes after the hour, it's
time for your top five stories of the day. Let's
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see what's on the menu for breakfast this morning. The
suspect in Wednesday's deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff
members is in Washington, d C. Having been formally charged
with two first degree murders. Mark Mayfield fills us in interraim.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
US Attorney four the District of Washington, Janine Piro, made
the announcement.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Murder in the first degree for the murder of thirty
year old Iran Loshinsky, a foreign official and official guest
of the United States. Mister Leshinski was here on official
business for the state of Israel.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Elias Rodriguez fass two counts of first degree murder, along
with murder of foreign officials and two firearm related charges.
Rodriguez was taken into custody following the shooting outside of
the Capitol Jewish Museum. He's reported to have shout at
Free Palestine while he was being arrested. US Attorney General
Pam Bondi says the death penalty for Rodriguez is a possibility.
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I'm Mark Mayfield.
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Well, we've been talking about the expected amount of travel
this weekend. Well, the Memorial Day weekend travel rush has
already begun.
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TSA regional spokes versus Den Belez as his agency is ready.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Normally, when you have a holiday falling on a Monday,
your Thursday's and Fridays prior to that Monday are always
going to be very busy.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yes, he is expecting record breaking travel. Over three and
a half million people are expected to get to their
destination by plane, an almost two percent increase from last year. Meanwhile,
TRIPAA is forecasting forty five million Americans will hit the
road through Monday for the holiday weekend. That would break
the previous record set in two thousand and five. I'm
Tammy Trihillo at my staff. We're doing nothing to clog
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up lines. We never get a day off.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The sex trafficking trial of Sean Ditty Combs in Lower
Manhattan is over for the week.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Christian Marx reports.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
A rapper, Kid Cutty, took the stand Thursday, testifying that
Diddy broke into his Hollywood home to confront him about
his relationship with Cassie Ventura, Ditty's ex Cutty detailed the
time Amolotov cocktail set his car on fire in twenty twelve,
an incident he believes Diddy was behind, and described a
meeting with a rap mogul in an LA hotel room
for counting Diddy calmly looking out a window and looking
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like a Marvel supervillain. Other witnesses that testified Thursday included
a makeup artist for Ventura who said she saw her
with injuries to her face after being in a room
with Diddy. The trial will resume on Tuesday. Did he
faces life in prison if convicted? Kristen Marx, NBC News Radio.
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I'm going to do this upfront, so you're not distracted
during the storytelling. There's a good reason national theater chains
are offering one dollar movies to keep children busy this summer.
One reason is that's all they're worth is a book.
The other is it's air conditioned, it's indoors, and it
keeps them out of trouble.
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They'll be sound asleep with the poor storytelling.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The witness for a book, Michael Casner has more Welcome
to Regal Cinemas.
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Regal Cinemas has over four hundred multiplexes across the country
with over fifty seven hundred screens. This week, the theater
chain announced its Regal Summer Movie Express, which will offer
family friendly movies on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for only
a dollar a show. The summer lineup starts June tenth
with showing of Puss in Boots and Sing Too. I'm
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Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, if you think nobody would dare make a Judas
Priest documentary, you got another thing coming.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
The Ballad of Judas Priest has begun production and a
fellow rocker is making his debut as a director. Rage
Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is co directing the
film with documentary filmmaker Sam Dunn. Judas Priest said in
a statement, we are summoning our congregation to officially witness
our lives uncensored in a never before seen way in
the documentary. The film's title comes from the title of
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the nineteen sixty seven Bob Dulman song The Ballad of
Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.
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Which inspired the name of the band. There's no word
yet on a release date for the documentary. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
ACE is the place with the helpful hardware. Think about
the last time you were at an ACE Hardware stour.
I can't even remember, but that could all change. This weekend,
ACE Hardware is giving away one million American flags down
are members of the US Armed Forces ahead of Memorial Day.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Pre tennis with the details.
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The flags are eight by twelve, but size doesn't matter.
It's the message of honor and mourning military members who
died while serving our country. The flags will be available
Saturday at participating ACE Hardware stores. No purchase necessary, one
flag per customer while supplies last. There are nearly six
thousand ACE Hardware stores coast to coast.
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City one eighteen one oh three over the Tea Wolves.
That's getting the job done, winning both home games, thunder
Up two games to nothing, Game three in Minnesota tomorrow night.
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being a psychologists would have paid off if you could
figure out how to treat liberalism and make them think
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normal again. Now you know where you're Before this job started,
I didn't know anything other than in my spirit, my
best job was about to begin, the best portion of
my entire career on and off the air was about
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to be. That's all I knew. It has taken on
a strange form. I never thought it'd be national, and
it's become national. I never thought anybody would know my
childhood nickname Moke and ever use it on the air,
and thanks to game they do. Yep, thanks to forty
seven of Pizza Boy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Never mind.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know it used to be you know, nobody could
pronounce my name. I'm grateful to tojourno Pizza. But now
I'm Pizza Boy. And I don't know if you've noticed.
But in the last we'll see if he does it today.
In the last forty seven, I'm not I'm just Pizza. Listen, Pizza.
I'm not even pizza boy anyway. I've just been shortened
to pizza. He shortened, He's had things to do. It's
a valid point, Gabe, We've got to It would take
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an industrial psychologist to get people of different views to
live less violently, to interact functionally, and to find consensus.
I get that I didn't arrive at my political views
from a psychological standpoint. It's part experiential, but it is
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ninety nine point nine percent through faith. My faith defines
me and defines my worldview, and then the politics fit
into that worldview. So I bring that up because do
you think we have a psychological problem or a spiritual
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dysfunction in this country? Because this particular republic it was
created for a moral people who could self govern. I
think America has more of a spiritual problem than an
intellect or psychological problem. And then again, when in doubt
taking a test, there's always all of the above. Thirty
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seven minutes after the hour, Good morning, Welcome to Friday.
We normally pride ourselves on starting your morning off right.
Today we're starting your three day weekend off right. We
have several things. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said his
Making America Healthy Again report is a call to action
and a call to common sense.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
When you look at the obesity crisis in our youth,
it's common sense. It's what we're eating and that we're
not moving. We used to play with football, play stickball,
play pick up basketball games and football games, and run
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and ride our bikes, and now we're scrolling or playing
video games, and nobody's cooking at home anymore. That kind
of became victim of both mom and dad having to work.
So it's pretty simple to solve. It really is common sense.
We're not failing health in America because we don't know
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what to do. We're failing because we don't know we're
not doing what we know US and Aroun are set
to hold another round of nuclear talks. That's a great sign.
This President's not going to stop till everything's done. Big
beautiful deal, end of the war with Russia and Ukraine,
and yes, protect the region and the world from a
nuclear run. Very very encouraging. And another eleven hundred troops
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headed to the border. Many of these will be doing construction,
but that'll round out the number to ten thousand. There's
a reason Donald Trump has stopped the gushing flow of
people breaking into our country. He prioritized it, and he
put our military there, which kind of brings us to
Memorial Day. There are so many expressions that come out
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during Memorial Day, and I'm going to hone in on
one from General Patten, arguably one of the greatest generals
of all time. He said, notice this interesting take from
his perspective. It is foolish and it is wrong to
mourn the men who have died serving our country. Rather,
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we should be thanking God that such men lived. Chew
on that for a second, because I've seen him throughout
my life a mile away. If this is a really
different analogy, but if you ever wonder, and I think
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kids do.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Where does this love come from?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How can you have one child love it so completely
and so perfectly, and then you have another and you
love that one just as much. You got to love
one more than the other. And then you have a third,
or a fourth or a fifth. How life is about capacity?
When do you run out of capacity? And you and
I know who have children, something happens in that delivery room.
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The baby comes out and gets placed into our arms.
But God has already imparted a new measure of love
beyond any of our capability. That's why I hate when
people miss out on parenting or miss out on a good, healthy,
covenant marriage, because you miss out a lot of an
experiential understanding of how God loves and where love comes
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from and how it's endless. And then there are some
that are just born. King David said, Father, you knew
me when I was being knit together in my mother's womb.
You knew every hair on my head. You fearfully, wonderfully
made me, gifted me, and purposed me. And I don't
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know what that means experientially for each individual listening to
me right now, but I can tell you there are
a lot of people that were just born with a
higher calling, a higher courage, a higher sense of duty
and bravery. Patent's right, we should spend some time this
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weekend thanking God that such men lived.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Now. I watched the documentary.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That influenced me, and it's only because technology now allows
you to, you know, clean it up so it looks
as clear as things today, colorize it so it looks
as real as things today. And I'm watching these kids
on the boat heading to the shores of Normandy, and
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I don't know why, but more so than even a
black and white picture, I could see these were kids.
They looked like my son, and I got news for you.
A lot of them looked really scared, but the door
opened anyway, and they went out anyway. You know, All
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too often between Veteran's Day Memorial Day, there's a lot
of conflating. And I always make the distinction. At Veterans
Day there are people who come back from war, but
in essence they're a Memorial Day casualty as well, because
they're never the same for the things they saw, for
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the things they lived, and for the pain and the scars,
the physical ones that have healed, but the heart scars
and mind scars that will never heal, and they're heroes.
And then there's a memorial Day for those that paid
the ultimate price, and it's the same reminder, and it's
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the same application to remember that's a function of the
mind and does nothing. To honor is a function of
the heart and life. They served with a level of
courage and bravery and duty that some of us weren't
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born with. They didn't come home. Now it's our turn
to serve them and what they died for. And that's
how we live out, maintain and protect and build upon
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the spirit of this republic. That's honoring. Anybody can look
back and go, oh, yeah, I guess a bunch of
people have died. That does nothing. Honoring the republic they
died for does something another thing that I do, and
it's really simple, and I encourage you to do it.
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I had somebody come to me they lost their temper
with somebody and they were feeling so convicted to the
point where they were crying, and I knew what the
answer was. First of all, there's something worse than how
bad you're feeling. Had you not felt bad, there's a
god that has convicted you. There's a god that knows,
your heart knows you're sorry, Finish confessing, repent, but ultimately
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you're not going to move on till you find that
person and make things right. Humbly apologize, let them know
how sorry you are, and that will end it. So
there's something we have to do, and I don't know
how you do it, because I'm telling you there's no
one who died for this country that wouldn't want you
to spend time with family and friends and children in
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a three day weekend. They would never begrudge you time
out on the boat, or on a golf course or
a barbecue in your backyard. There's nothing to feel guilty of.
Throughout our history, and some may be our children in
the future, men and women have had to step up
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and defend our freedom. But I do think there is
an action you can take that for those of you
that really feel this. Some of you have paid the
price yourself, losing your father, your uncle. I just and
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it's simple. Before I see anybody, I grab a cup
of coffee, I go out on my back deck, the
same place I paced when I was uncertain about the
next step in my life for days. I go out
in that same holy ground and deck, And like George
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Patten would suggest, I thank God for those men and women.
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That they were who they were, made the way they were.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Made, and fulfilled the highest calling there is, because greater
love has no man than this.
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Then they lay down their life for their friend Christ,
the ultimate example.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But every one of these Memorial Day heroes are one
because they never got to come home. They never got
to get married, they never got to have children, they
never got to go to their children's graduation, they never
got to walk a daughter down the aisle. Everything that
we've taken for granted, this blessing of time and life,
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they gave up so we could have it. I just
thank God for them, and then for their relatives, because
I got news for you. There are people very wrinkled
right now who lost a husband in World War Two
and they're ninety five years old today and they're still
not the same for that loss. Or there are children
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now sixty five, seventy, or even fifty five or sixty
depending on the war, even far younger for those that
have been lost in the Middle East. They went the
rest of their life without their father, or the rest
of their life life without their brother. See every one
of these people who have made the sacrifice, where someone's
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sons or daughter, or someone's mother or father, or someone's
brother or sister, or someone's dearest friend, and their lives
were never the same.
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So for me, I grab my.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Cup of coffee, I thank God for them, and then
I specifically because I can't do anything to make anything better,
but an all knowing, all powerful, I'm the present God
who can grant peace that passes all understanding, that can
heal and re put together destroyed hearts can, And so
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I pray for those who were the closest to them,
whose lives have never been the same since they've made
that sacrifice, that they may feel the gratitude of a
nation forever in their debt, That they may have the
hope that they'll see them again and freach maternity and
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nothing can rob it or take it away. Have all
the fun this three day weekend you could have they'd
want you to.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
If it's golf, golf, if it's fish, fish, if it's boat,
if it's barbecue, barbecue, Just find some moments to stand
with your God, thank him for such individuals of sacrifice,
and pray for their family who's lived without them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Then go about you're traveling fun. And for all who
serve this republic, may we honor them by preserving, protecting,
and building upon it. And with that in mind, we say,
have a safe, an honor focused Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your morning show with Michael del Cho.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You can't have your morning show without your voice. That's
why we always encourage you to use the talk back button,
just like David did.
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One can have morals and be conservative without being Christian,
such as myself. I was raised Christian. I found that
it is not for me and it is not necessarily
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the bane of existence not to be Christian.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I don't know. I guess I made a comment. Some
made made a joke about maybe I should have become
an industrial psychologist to help liberals, and I was being
very honest in saying, who would have to decide whether
or not that was a intellect problem And I don't
think it is. Whether it's a psychological problem, and in
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some cases it might be, but it's really probably more
of a spiritual problem. And I know that I arrived
at my politics first by arriving at a worldview which
came through faith. Now that doesn't just suggest you can't
have a worldview without faith. Obviously you can. Doesn't mean
you can't be a good person without being a Christian.
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But if you have what you would say is good
morals defined by what that's the challenge.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I actually think Bill Clinton may prioritize marriage in the
same way I do, but he certainly has different rules.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So where you're taking your cues from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
How do you know you have good morals because culture
tells you so, and isn't that forever changing? Can you
really have the right view of abortion without having the
right view of a creator and his creation made in
his image and the sacredness of life.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So part of me does not react.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I have to spend more time with you, David, but
I would tell you first and foremost, I would never
tell you you can't be a good person, or that
you're the dredge of society for not being a Christian.
But if your good morals are in line with Christianity,
even though you reject Christianity, why did you reject it?
Was it the church you went to? Was it the
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example of your parents? Because true Christianity is answering this
one question. Is Christ who he said he was?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Period?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
End of story, that's all that matters. And then beginning
your personal journey with him. Now, what you're clearly saying
is I reject him, but I live by morals based
on him or based on culture, and I just I
always worry there are some that have been destroyed by
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human example, not Christ's example.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Either way, I.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Never intended to make anybody who is in a Christian
I feel like a dreadge of society.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm just saying that's usually where our worldview comes from.
We're all in this to give. This is your Morning
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Enjoy, good morning Americans.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's Friday two three.
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Starting your morning off right.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding,
because we're in this together. This is your morning show
with michae O'Dell Jordan. You know, I sometimes go back
and listen to old Paul Harvey's either special addresses he
did or even so many of the now you know.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The wresh of this show. It sounds like the end
of Paul Arvey's career. What a brilliant man.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh his head inside his head and float for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He was just amazing. What a treasure.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Where if I was the devil Moses, that's scary. That
was Noster Harvey. Yeah, eight minutes after the hour Friday thing, God,
it is Friday Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But the little pitchy, Am I in tune? I don't know.
I'm toned down. Will have to say, I mean you
have great pitch.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
That is one of the things that has always marked
me about people is when they sing and they're off pitch.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But as a general rule, really the more you play.
My brother tells me, don't ever sing. Yeah, no, that's
not true.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, when you try to sing your pitchy, when you're
just in your moment, in your element and you're playing,
your pitch is perfect. Well, I have no I have
no right to celebrate this Friday. I was off Monday
and Tuesday red, and I are cele I don't feel
like I've put in the time to celebrate Friday. So
let's just say I'm celebrating on both.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Of your behalf, thank you. What was your last day off?
Both of you? Christmas?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I had a colon husky, So how is it that special?
What is day off? Chris shd like since last October? Row,
little boy, Row? Where were we?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We should probably restart nine minutes after the hour on
the air and streaming live on your iHeart app.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
You'r you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm Michael and this is Friday. Made the twenty third
Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five on the air
and streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. Can't have your
morning show without your voice. Use the talkback button on
the iHeart app or emailing Michael d at iHeartMedia dot
com if you're just waking up. The US and Iran
are set to hold another round of nuclear talks. I
don't think this one's off the table. Just jet Supreme
(02:48):
Court is granting President Trump's request to fire independent federal
agency members, and another eleven hundred troops are headed to
the border. I think that's going to round out the
number to ten thousand troops there, and many of them
will be doing some building in addition to protecting. And
I know so many of you it's graduation season, and
(03:12):
I really can't speak to whether you're going to your
children's high school graduation or college graduation. Maybe you're going
to your grandchild's high school graduation or college graduation. Graduation
has a funny effect on all of us. I think
there's the kids down on the floor, sitting in the
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chairs with everything in front of them. There's us in
the stands with everything behind us. I often use the
expression life is best understood looking back. Unfortunately, it has
to be lived looking forward. And that's true at every
graduation because I remember being that seventeen year old sitting
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there now that having a single clue as to what
I wanted to be headed to LSU though I hated school,
and I didn't know at that point when I was
sitting in that chair.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You want to know what I was going to be?
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And actually I think I would have been very good
at it, and it's in essence, I think one of
the things that made me a great manager. I wanted
to be a what do they call it?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Industrial psychologist? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Industrial that's where you come in you analyze everybody and
you find out what personality types and people work best together.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh you wanted to be a know it all? Did you?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And as you can see, it paid off. It's no,
well that's rory, but no, I wanted to be. So
I'm sitting in a chair at seventeen thinking I'm gonna
go to LSU, get a psychology degree and become an
industrial psychologist.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What a joke?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right, And of course I was nervous as can be.
I remember I was probably twelve years old, I think,
and I was sitting watching my father pay the bills,
and it just dawn him.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He was like, oh my gosh, what is all that?
How do you do that? How do you keep track
of all of that? Oh my gosh, am I gonna
have to do this?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And it was just completely overwhelmed at the thought of it,
just like you guys remember the well, I think even
greater than the first time you drive a car, which
mine was Jayan Chowstighi's Volkswagen Beetle, and we had a
racetrack not far from our house called Jefferson Downs with
a big parking lot, and it was a rainy day
when he decided to teach me and destroy his gears.
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But oh wow, and I guess at one point I
got going pretty fast. It's a friend and he's hanging
on for dear life as we're almost turning over the Beetle.
But I think that drive home with your first child
from the hospital, it's more memorable than the first time
you know, you're in a car and you're like, oh
my gosh, I'm driving. But you know, we have these
little milestone things that remind us we're heading into uncharted territory.
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Now for everybody sitting in the stands watching these people graduate.
And there are some that know what they want to
be and they're gonna go be it, but most don't,
and nor did we. And what was the secret that
made it all work out? I will say to the
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seventeen year old that I was one thing he got.
Don't worry about what you're going to do, worry about
who you're going to be. I think that was a
pretty good north star for me. And whatever I did,
I was going to work as under God and I
was going to give it my all. And I started
in radio as a minimum wage. I think I was
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trying to remember the other day what I think it
was four dollars and ten cents an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh you remember what your first was? Three thirty five
an hour?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, so well, and I was in New Orleans, so
maybe I had you by fifty cents, but you know,
and and who knew what that was going to grow into?
And I think of Matthew six thirty three, and I
kind of it's the kind of thing someone has to
do for themselves. I wish I could speak it into
other people. But as I was watching my son, and
I can't believe he's gone from in my arms to
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walking around with me where he's about the size of
my knee holding my hand, to with a cap and
gown last night, and all I kept thinking was seekers
the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He'll take care of the heavy lifting of life.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That's all you have to do, because the odds are
you're not going to be anything what you think.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're going to be. We're all on a boat and
we're not the captain. Enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So but last night we in particular, it was I
think sixty eight degrees, maybe it was seventy. There was
no humidity, a cool breeze. It was just like Tampa,
only completely different. I mean the weather, the skies couldn't
have been clearer, the temperature couldn't have been more perfect.
You weren't chilly, you weren't hot, it was and then
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this breeze is just bathing you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We take in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They do something different now, I don't know if you've
noticed this. Like when I was growing up and it
was never me. You had a valeditorian and a salutatorian, right, sure,
they don't do that now Now salutatorians you have like
twelve thirteen and they all get recognized in stand and
then I think there were seven valedictorians, all of which spoke.
And then there was no keynote address, which I thought
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was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Everybody is that's the that's equality, right, I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Mean, that's the main I mean, we live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Think of the people you could have do commencement address. Sure,
but there was no commencement address. But otherwise beautiful ceremony
pictures taken afterwards. Joey was one of Nick's earliest friends.
And you know you always want to capture I don't
know for all the pictures. It's the ones when you
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knew I was. I gave he doesn't like to be
called matea anymore. I gave Matthew a hug. Matthew and
Nick had a play day together when they were four.
All right, that's how far we go back. And I'm
hugging this mother, thinking I remember meeting you dropping Nick
off for play day.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Here we are at graduation. Oh just time.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't know how fast it went buy for them,
but for me it was a blink. And then I
had to get a picture of him and Joey culabras
because they were the two the two Italians, and I
have a picture of them when they were really young
at the little league field. Actually it was a girls'
softball field, and it was just so it didn't look
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like a picture taken in the two thousands. It so
looked like two kids from the Bronx in the fifties
up against this fence, goofing around.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And I have that in black and white.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It is one of my two favorite pictures of my
son in life. And then I got a picture of
these two, one going to Alabama, one going to Belmont
on the football field and cap and gown.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
How did that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So you know, for everybody out there listening going through graduations,
do what you can. Don't forget. We didn't know what
the heck we were going to be. We were scared
to death to I mean, we all give the old
it's a commencement. This isn't the ending of something. This
is the beginning of your big blank feud. That's what
gets them scared. Tell HER's a God that lived yesterday,
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today and forever, past, present and future, and knows every
hair on their head and has every moment of their
life planned for them, and he will never forsake them.
He will never abandon them, and he will never fail them.
And life will find its way. The wife will find
its way, the husband will find its way, that children
will find their way, the job will find its way.
And don't be like uncle Michael and stayed a crummy
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one for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
There there's my commencement addressed.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno. Hope you
have a safe and wonderful three day Memorial Day holiday weekend.
We'll talk more about Memorial Day in minutes. Voice things first,
if you're just waking up, you know what sound is
going to happen. By four minutes after the hour, it's
time for your top five stories of the day. Let's
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see what's on the menu for breakfast this morning. The
suspect in Wednesday's deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff
members is in Washington, d C. Having been formally charged
with two first degree murders. Mark Mayfield fills us in interraim.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
US Attorney four the District of Washington, Janine Piro, made
the announcement.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Murder in the first degree for the murder of thirty
year old Iran Loshinsky, a foreign official and official guest
of the United States. Mister Leshinski was here on official
business for the state of Israel.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Elias Rodriguez fass two counts of first degree murder, along
with murder of foreign officials and two firearm related charges.
Rodriguez was taken into custody following the shooting outside of
the Capitol Jewish Museum. He's reported to have shout at
Free Palestine while he was being arrested. US Attorney General
Pam Bondi says the death penalty for Rodriguez is a possibility.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Well, we've been talking about the expected amount of travel
this weekend. Well, the Memorial Day weekend travel rush has
already begun.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
TSA regional spokes versus Den Belez as his agency is ready.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Normally, when you have a holiday falling on a Monday,
your Thursday's and Fridays prior to that Monday are always
going to be very busy.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yes, he is expecting record breaking travel. Over three and
a half million people are expected to get to their
destination by plane, an almost two percent increase from last year. Meanwhile,
TRIPAA is forecasting forty five million Americans will hit the
road through Monday for the holiday weekend. That would break
the previous record set in two thousand and five. I'm
Tammy Trihillo at my staff. We're doing nothing to clog
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up lines. We never get a day off.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The sex trafficking trial of Sean Ditty Combs in Lower
Manhattan is over for the week.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Christian Marx reports.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
A rapper, Kid Cutty, took the stand Thursday, testifying that
Diddy broke into his Hollywood home to confront him about
his relationship with Cassie Ventura, Ditty's ex Cutty detailed the
time Amolotov cocktail set his car on fire in twenty twelve,
an incident he believes Diddy was behind, and described a
meeting with a rap mogul in an LA hotel room
for counting Diddy calmly looking out a window and looking
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like a Marvel supervillain. Other witnesses that testified Thursday included
a makeup artist for Ventura who said she saw her
with injuries to her face after being in a room
with Diddy. The trial will resume on Tuesday. Did he
faces life in prison if convicted? Kristen Marx, NBC News Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm going to do this upfront, so you're not distracted
during the storytelling. There's a good reason national theater chains
are offering one dollar movies to keep children busy this summer.
One reason is that's all they're worth is a book.
The other is it's air conditioned, it's indoors, and it
keeps them out of trouble.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
They'll be sound asleep with the poor storytelling.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The witness for a book, Michael Casner has more Welcome
to Regal Cinemas.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Regal Cinemas has over four hundred multiplexes across the country
with over fifty seven hundred screens. This week, the theater
chain announced its Regal Summer Movie Express, which will offer
family friendly movies on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for only
a dollar a show. The summer lineup starts June tenth
with showing of Puss in Boots and Sing Too. I'm
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Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, if you think nobody would dare make a Judas
Priest documentary, you got another thing coming.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
The Ballad of Judas Priest has begun production and a
fellow rocker is making his debut as a director. Rage
Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is co directing the
film with documentary filmmaker Sam Dunn. Judas Priest said in
a statement, we are summoning our congregation to officially witness
our lives uncensored in a never before seen way in
the documentary. The film's title comes from the title of
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the nineteen sixty seven Bob Dulman song The Ballad of
Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Which inspired the name of the band. There's no word
yet on a release date for the documentary. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
ACE is the place with the helpful hardware. Think about
the last time you were at an ACE Hardware stour.
I can't even remember, but that could all change. This weekend,
ACE Hardware is giving away one million American flags down
are members of the US Armed Forces ahead of Memorial Day.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Pre tennis with the details.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
The flags are eight by twelve, but size doesn't matter.
It's the message of honor and mourning military members who
died while serving our country. The flags will be available
Saturday at participating ACE Hardware stores. No purchase necessary, one
flag per customer while supplies last. There are nearly six
thousand ACE Hardware stores coast to coast.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm pre tennis thunder.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Up Baby Game two one two the Thunder in Oklahoma
City one eighteen one oh three over the Tea Wolves.
That's getting the job done, winning both home games, thunder
Up two games to nothing, Game three in Minnesota tomorrow night.
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being a psychologists would have paid off if you could
figure out how to treat liberalism and make them think
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normal again. Now you know where you're Before this job started,
I didn't know anything other than in my spirit, my
best job was about to begin, the best portion of
my entire career on and off the air was about
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to be. That's all I knew. It has taken on
a strange form. I never thought it'd be national, and
it's become national. I never thought anybody would know my
childhood nickname Moke and ever use it on the air,
and thanks to game they do. Yep, thanks to forty
seven of Pizza Boy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Never mind.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know it used to be you know, nobody could
pronounce my name. I'm grateful to tojourno Pizza. But now
I'm Pizza Boy. And I don't know if you've noticed.
But in the last we'll see if he does it today.
In the last forty seven, I'm not I'm just Pizza. Listen, Pizza.
I'm not even pizza boy anyway. I've just been shortened
to pizza. He shortened, He's had things to do. It's
a valid point, Gabe, We've got to It would take
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an industrial psychologist to get people of different views to
live less violently, to interact functionally, and to find consensus.
I get that I didn't arrive at my political views
from a psychological standpoint. It's part experiential, but it is
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ninety nine point nine percent through faith. My faith defines
me and defines my worldview, and then the politics fit
into that worldview. So I bring that up because do
you think we have a psychological problem or a spiritual
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dysfunction in this country? Because this particular republic it was
created for a moral people who could self govern. I
think America has more of a spiritual problem than an
intellect or psychological problem. And then again, when in doubt
taking a test, there's always all of the above. Thirty
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seven minutes after the hour, Good morning, Welcome to Friday.
We normally pride ourselves on starting your morning off right.
Today we're starting your three day weekend off right. We
have several things. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said his
Making America Healthy Again report is a call to action
and a call to common sense.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
When you look at the obesity crisis in our youth,
it's common sense. It's what we're eating and that we're
not moving. We used to play with football, play stickball,
play pick up basketball games and football games, and run
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and ride our bikes, and now we're scrolling or playing
video games, and nobody's cooking at home anymore. That kind
of became victim of both mom and dad having to work.
So it's pretty simple to solve. It really is common sense.
We're not failing health in America because we don't know
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what to do. We're failing because we don't know we're
not doing what we know US and Aroun are set
to hold another round of nuclear talks. That's a great sign.
This President's not going to stop till everything's done. Big
beautiful deal, end of the war with Russia and Ukraine,
and yes, protect the region and the world from a
nuclear run. Very very encouraging. And another eleven hundred troops
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headed to the border. Many of these will be doing construction,
but that'll round out the number to ten thousand. There's
a reason Donald Trump has stopped the gushing flow of
people breaking into our country. He prioritized it, and he
put our military there, which kind of brings us to
Memorial Day. There are so many expressions that come out
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during Memorial Day, and I'm going to hone in on
one from General Patten, arguably one of the greatest generals
of all time. He said, notice this interesting take from
his perspective. It is foolish and it is wrong to
mourn the men who have died serving our country. Rather,
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we should be thanking God that such men lived. Chew
on that for a second, because I've seen him throughout
my life a mile away. If this is a really
different analogy, but if you ever wonder, and I think
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kids do.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Where does this love come from?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How can you have one child love it so completely
and so perfectly, and then you have another and you
love that one just as much. You got to love
one more than the other. And then you have a third,
or a fourth or a fifth. How life is about capacity?
When do you run out of capacity? And you and
I know who have children, something happens in that delivery room.
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The baby comes out and gets placed into our arms.
But God has already imparted a new measure of love
beyond any of our capability. That's why I hate when
people miss out on parenting or miss out on a good, healthy,
covenant marriage, because you miss out a lot of an
experiential understanding of how God loves and where love comes
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from and how it's endless. And then there are some
that are just born. King David said, Father, you knew
me when I was being knit together in my mother's womb.
You knew every hair on my head. You fearfully, wonderfully
made me, gifted me, and purposed me. And I don't
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know what that means experientially for each individual listening to
me right now, but I can tell you there are
a lot of people that were just born with a
higher calling, a higher courage, a higher sense of duty
and bravery. Patent's right, we should spend some time this
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weekend thanking God that such men lived.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Now. I watched the documentary.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That influenced me, and it's only because technology now allows
you to, you know, clean it up so it looks
as clear as things today, colorize it so it looks
as real as things today. And I'm watching these kids
on the boat heading to the shores of Normandy, and
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I don't know why, but more so than even a
black and white picture, I could see these were kids.
They looked like my son, and I got news for you.
A lot of them looked really scared, but the door
opened anyway, and they went out anyway. You know, All
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too often between Veteran's Day Memorial Day, there's a lot
of conflating. And I always make the distinction. At Veterans
Day there are people who come back from war, but
in essence they're a Memorial Day casualty as well, because
they're never the same for the things they saw, for
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the things they lived, and for the pain and the scars,
the physical ones that have healed, but the heart scars
and mind scars that will never heal, and they're heroes.
And then there's a memorial Day for those that paid
the ultimate price, and it's the same reminder, and it's
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the same application to remember that's a function of the
mind and does nothing. To honor is a function of
the heart and life. They served with a level of
courage and bravery and duty that some of us weren't
(24:54):
born with. They didn't come home. Now it's our turn
to serve them and what they died for. And that's
how we live out, maintain and protect and build upon
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the spirit of this republic. That's honoring. Anybody can look
back and go, oh, yeah, I guess a bunch of
people have died. That does nothing. Honoring the republic they
died for does something another thing that I do, and
it's really simple, and I encourage you to do it.
(25:36):
I had somebody come to me they lost their temper
with somebody and they were feeling so convicted to the
point where they were crying, and I knew what the
answer was. First of all, there's something worse than how
bad you're feeling. Had you not felt bad, there's a
god that has convicted you. There's a god that knows,
your heart knows you're sorry, Finish confessing, repent, but ultimately
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you're not going to move on till you find that
person and make things right. Humbly apologize, let them know
how sorry you are, and that will end it. So
there's something we have to do, and I don't know
how you do it, because I'm telling you there's no
one who died for this country that wouldn't want you
to spend time with family and friends and children in
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a three day weekend. They would never begrudge you time
out on the boat, or on a golf course or
a barbecue in your backyard. There's nothing to feel guilty of.
Throughout our history, and some may be our children in
the future, men and women have had to step up
(26:45):
and defend our freedom. But I do think there is
an action you can take that for those of you
that really feel this. Some of you have paid the
price yourself, losing your father, your uncle. I just and
(27:09):
it's simple. Before I see anybody, I grab a cup
of coffee, I go out on my back deck, the
same place I paced when I was uncertain about the
next step in my life for days. I go out
in that same holy ground and deck, And like George
(27:32):
Patten would suggest, I thank God for those men and women.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That they were who they were, made the way they were.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Made, and fulfilled the highest calling there is, because greater
love has no man than this.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Then they lay down their life for their friend Christ,
the ultimate example.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But every one of these Memorial Day heroes are one
because they never got to come home. They never got
to get married, they never got to have children, they
never got to go to their children's graduation, they never
got to walk a daughter down the aisle. Everything that
we've taken for granted, this blessing of time and life,
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they gave up so we could have it. I just
thank God for them, and then for their relatives, because
I got news for you. There are people very wrinkled
right now who lost a husband in World War Two
and they're ninety five years old today and they're still
not the same for that loss. Or there are children
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now sixty five, seventy, or even fifty five or sixty
depending on the war, even far younger for those that
have been lost in the Middle East. They went the
rest of their life without their father, or the rest
of their life life without their brother. See every one
of these people who have made the sacrifice, where someone's
(29:03):
sons or daughter, or someone's mother or father, or someone's
brother or sister, or someone's dearest friend, and their lives
were never the same.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So for me, I grab my.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Cup of coffee, I thank God for them, and then
I specifically because I can't do anything to make anything better,
but an all knowing, all powerful, I'm the present God
who can grant peace that passes all understanding, that can
heal and re put together destroyed hearts can, And so
(29:39):
I pray for those who were the closest to them,
whose lives have never been the same since they've made
that sacrifice, that they may feel the gratitude of a
nation forever in their debt, That they may have the
hope that they'll see them again and freach maternity and
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nothing can rob it or take it away. Have all
the fun this three day weekend you could have they'd
want you to.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
If it's golf, golf, if it's fish, fish, if it's boat,
if it's barbecue, barbecue, Just find some moments to stand
with your God, thank him for such individuals of sacrifice,
and pray for their family who's lived without them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Then go about you're traveling fun. And for all who
serve this republic, may we honor them by preserving, protecting,
and building upon it. And with that in mind, we say,
have a safe, an honor focused Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your morning show with Michael del Cho.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You can't have your morning show without your voice. That's
why we always encourage you to use the talk back button,
just like David did.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
One can have morals and be conservative without being Christian,
such as myself. I was raised Christian. I found that
it is not for me and it is not necessarily
(31:27):
the bane of existence not to be Christian.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I don't know. I guess I made a comment. Some
made made a joke about maybe I should have become
an industrial psychologist to help liberals, and I was being
very honest in saying, who would have to decide whether
or not that was a intellect problem And I don't
think it is. Whether it's a psychological problem, and in
(31:52):
some cases it might be, but it's really probably more
of a spiritual problem. And I know that I arrived
at my politics first by arriving at a worldview which
came through faith. Now that doesn't just suggest you can't
have a worldview without faith. Obviously you can. Doesn't mean
you can't be a good person without being a Christian.
(32:13):
But if you have what you would say is good
morals defined by what that's the challenge.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I actually think Bill Clinton may prioritize marriage in the
same way I do, but he certainly has different rules.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So where you're taking your cues from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
How do you know you have good morals because culture
tells you so, and isn't that forever changing? Can you
really have the right view of abortion without having the
right view of a creator and his creation made in
his image and the sacredness of life.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So part of me does not react.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I have to spend more time with you, David, but
I would tell you first and foremost, I would never
tell you you can't be a good person, or that
you're the dredge of society for not being a Christian.
But if your good morals are in line with Christianity,
even though you reject Christianity, why did you reject it?
Was it the church you went to? Was it the
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example of your parents? Because true Christianity is answering this
one question. Is Christ who he said he was?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Period?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
End of story, that's all that matters. And then beginning
your personal journey with him. Now, what you're clearly saying
is I reject him, but I live by morals based
on him or based on culture, and I just I
always worry there are some that have been destroyed by
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human example, not Christ's example.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Either way, I.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Never intended to make anybody who is in a Christian
I feel like a dreadge of society.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm just saying that's usually where our worldview comes from.
We're all in this to give. This is your Morning
Show with Michael Del Jorno.
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