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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Chum, Should I share our fight on the air?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's not a fight. We don't fight.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're like, Aul, you've been yelling at me all morning long.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, I have not been yelling, all right, So I'll
do it seven minutes after the hour. Chris won't mind,
so I've already worn Chris Well, no, no, but here's
in a minefield. First of all, I don't want them
to think we fight. We don't fight. But I said,
how can I never hear the rejoin of two princes?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And he's like, we don't have it? And I said,
are you kidding me? We've had it? For a year
and you've been playing it. Yeah, and so he'll.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Start searching sign of the times. I don't even know
what you were talking.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I do think the listeners will agree with me that
we kind of play the same rejoints over and over again.
He thinks he's rotating them evenly. He's not. Trust me,
there's some great songs you're not hearing. But anyway, so
he proceeds all while the show is going on, distractingly,
going through every rejoin, and then he finally hits it.
I goes, say, there it is, and he goes, no,
that's Spin Doctors.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, no, wait a minute, that's Third Eye Blind or
Third Eye Blind.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, but watch how much third Eye Blind and Spin
Doctors sound alike?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So which one you gonna do first? So let's do
the one that you've been calling for all morning? No,
here's two princes. Yeah, Spin Spin Doctors. Listen, like, how
do you get away with this? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Somebody's getting sued after this though. Today you watch it,
see do you think?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
All?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And now here third Eye Blind, which we did have,
they're very similar. But I know I sent you two
prinstance a long time. But we weren't like last week.
What I didn't appreciate was the fact that you accused
me of being in a bad mood and taking it
out on you over my back, which I don't do.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You've been cranky all morning long and for all I know,
and also.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
From ripped the songs off of Taylor Swift, who was
six years old at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I know you're just having back pain issues. You don't
feel good, You're ready for some time off, and so
I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Have any time off. I mean, well, no, but I
mean I'm fine. I'm just I knew. I thought we
had had that song for a year. And the reality
is we've discovered two songs that sound almost identical, and
I don't know how they got away with it. I'm
gonna copy build. That's why when you're watching the movie
American Pie, all the songs sound the same. Maybe that
(02:56):
was just that era. Yeah, Chris Walker is here. He
is our Republican consultant and analyst and your morning show contributor.
You know, I'm looking over I haven't really had a
chance to do the story. But they're all pouring, you know,
onto these talking head shows and the Georgia Senator Rafael
Warnock asked the same question everybody's getting asked, same thing.
(03:18):
Bill Clinton was asked, at what point did you know
or did you ever notice that Joe Biden was cognitively
impaired and that the White House was covering it up? Now,
for Warnock, he basically is going to test the question
can you remain a denier or an ignorer and still
win a reelection? Because he's like, not going there, We're
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moving on. That never stopped Hill January sixth, Whereas Bill
Clinton saying I didn't notice anything. I thought he had
a great presidency either one don't sound like winning. Answers
to me, what about you, Chris.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Simoni, Michael and more For the record, two Princess better
than third Eyeline. But that's a whole other story. You know,
obviously this is this is troubling. I don't know what's
more troubling the media pretending to care about it now
because Jake Tapper's trying to sell a book, or you know,
the Democrats kind of playing you know this, this this
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kind of hindsight game.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
But you know, obviously we all knew that Joe.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Biden was talking to declined even in the twenty twenty election.
I mean, the basement campaign that we all saw him
doing was kind of talked about and defended because of COVID,
but it was also because man, couldn't you.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Know, do have more than two good hours?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You know, Robert Hurr obviously has owed a huge, you know,
apology from all the media. You know, folks like Joe
Scarborough who said he was the best he's ever been
were obviously lying and covering for the president. And you know,
it defies logic to pretend otherwise. And I see Jake
Capper and these other guys talked about this this way.
(04:57):
It's just well, those of us.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Who know Jake Tapper's ratings were down thirty three percent,
and by the way, he didn't have thirty three percent
to give, all right, So how will the Biden fake
presidency and its cover up impact the midterms and beyond
with Democrats? Is really what we're talking about, because this
is the greatest unless we can prove that the US
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government killed John F. Kennedy. This is the biggest political
scandal in American political history, and way bigger than Watergate,
and no one the media revealed Watergate, not covered it up.
So if you're Bill Clinton, You're like, I didn't notice anything.
In fact, I thought you had a great presidency. Well
that doesn't seem like a winning answer, then let's move on.
(05:42):
Doesn't seem like a winning answer. How can the Democrats
get out of this?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Well, you know you're going to see Andrew Cromo when
the New York Marya races, you know here in a
couple of weeks, and you know, there's going to be
a lot of moving on, just from the standpoint of
just like Politico's political politicians finding new people to kind
of win elections. So ultimately, the further in the rear
view mirror Joe Biden becomes, the easier it is will
be to talk about something else. So I think ultimately,
(06:11):
even though it's a huge scandal and it and it
should be there, they're just there's no shame there, and
they're going to find ways to kind of talk about
other stuff. So, you know, my general sense is, even
though we are rightfully you know, upset about this and
and and see this from the political scandal.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
That it was, I think they're going to quickly memory.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Hold it because because they have to, and they're not
going to the media still hates stylin some more than
they do anything else, and that's just what they're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, the problem is Joe Biden won't go away. It
keeps resurfacing. That won't let the story disappear. All right.
Chris Walker, Republican consultant analysts joining us, What do you
make of Wes Moore diving? I think, you know, Politico's
headline says at all Wes More dives into twenty twenty
(07:01):
eight race in South Carolina. I know he's got to
play up that, you know, because he's got to seek
reelection before it. But I think he could find a
way to be re elected in Maryland as governor h
next year and still find the time to run for
president a year later, and probably will. And I think
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a lot of his strong talk in South Carolina suggests
I'm going to be right about this one too.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I mean, obviously he's running for president. Obviously he's gonna
win reelection to Maryland and walk And you know, the
problem isn't the candidacy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Or the person.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
The problem is the policies that they're espousing, and they're
you know, it's up to Republicans and those of us
on the on the Republican side to hang Joe Biden
and other ones around their neck. I mean again like
this was a this is a political scandal, you know,
of generational proportions, Like the president was unqualified to be
to run the first time. They hit him in a
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basement to try to run him again and then try
to have them resign and have Kamala Harris come in
in the first year and replace so that she could
run for two terms and have another year on top
of that. So, I mean, you know, this is something
that the Republicans are gonna have to really talk about.
The disingenuousness and the you know, the lying, frankly is
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going to need to be front and center. But it
also talks about the policies like these are people who
are going out of their way to try to protect
the legal immigrants. They're trying to go down to El
Salvador to you know, pretend somehow these gang members are
are people that are worthy of saying in our country.
I mean, look at what's happening in Europe. They want
that year. So you know, Wes Moore can can talk
(08:41):
about what he's doing, you know in Maryland, but Blues
state management is a problem, and it's going to have
to be really up to the Republicans and the media
and the conservative media to really.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Highlight that and make that.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
The number one issue for them, because it's something they're
going to have to depend over and over again.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, how did they handle Palestine? In Israel? They were divided.
The Socialist Justice Democrats were pro Palestinian, the regular progressive
and establishment Democrats were well, not really pro Israel but
really remained silent. Border you have open border invasion versus
open border let's ignore invasion. I mean, you're right, they
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can't distance themselves for their flawed positions, but they can't
win for losing either. Because we brought this up last hour,
Chris Joe Biden, if he doesn't die of cancer, could
run again, talk about not going away. Kamala Harris could
run again, talk about not going away. What about goofy
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Tim Walls? He could run again, talk about not letting
it go away. And then you're gonna have the Wes
Moores and the Rommy Manuals trying to talk sensibly to
the establishment Democrat Party or the normal progressives as socialists.
Well for the socialists that won't be left enough for them,
you know, that won't be distance enough.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So I don't know, I don't know how they get out.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Of this one. It looks it looks like political checkmate
to me. But I shouldn't say such definitive things. Yeah,
I mean a lot of life to live.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But yeah, and look again, this is a fifty to
fifty country we're talking about. Unfortunately, even though President Trump
is doing a lot of the right stuff, you know,
is twenty thousand votes away from not having one because
you're talking about you know, three or four swing states
that are still fifty to fifty states. I mean, it's
going to be a really tough election next year in
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the House and the Senate in Michigan and in Georgia
and in North Carolina because you know, Democrats hate Trump
so much that any any kind of failures that they
have just or a rallying point for coming out against
President Trump because they just hate him. It doesn't matter
what he's doing, doesn't matter that he's you know, kind
of bringing the country off the break.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Of what was Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
All of that is irrelevant because there's so many people
that just are animated completely and solely just on their
Trump animous.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Let me do the other side. Here's a no win situation.
Here's a no win situation for the Republicans. Aren't you
passed the Big Beautiful Bill and with it you increase
debt three to five trillion dollars. That's a kind of
a win lose win lose, right.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
It is.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And you know, we have a.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Huge debt problem. We have to fix it.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Congress has done. You know, the Big Beautiful Bill is
in of itself a step, but it's not a good
enough one.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
In terms of dealing with the debt crisis.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I mean, when something Elon Muss talked about and something
that we need to kind of address seriously, like Republicans
in Congress need to get serious about the debt. Thomas
Massey is looked at as a you know, as a
as a bill and sometimes but he's right. There's a
lot of things that we need to be fixing from
a discretionary standpoint that that's not being fixed. And you know,
Ron Joms talked to some Tucker Carlson showed the last week,
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like there's a lot of a death spial that has
to be addressed or else we're going to be in
serious trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, So if the question of the week is
how will this Biden fake presidency scandal impact the mid
terms and beyond, what's your.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Answer, Well, I mean that's the that's the multi million
dollar question.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
We have a huge and look the debt, because the
numbers are so big a lot of times just doesn't
resonate with voters. And so ultimately it's it's it's a
feeling of it's the country going in the right direction.
And you know, President Trump is taking the reins and
fixing a huge, huge problem.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
He was Susanna from from Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Let's not forget COVID stuff is never supposed to be
discretionary spending or contiguous spending. And that's something that Joe
Biden took as a as a baseline, said let's.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Build on it, built back better.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Wasn't just you know, a number, it was it was
on top of COVID spending and then some and so
fixing all of that and turning this back into a
more you know, serious budget, budget Congress and budget country
is going to take a lot of work. And so
you know, when you look at the midterms, those are
the things that are going.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
To be looked at.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
VCV buzz and sup trying to fix these big.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Problems immigration budgets, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Kind of.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Where we were not being looked at seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Sorry, and then a few wars too, would be nice.
Let's send on something we can agree on when it
comes to the midterms. We're going to come back after summer,
have a short time before we start kicking into holiday mode,
maybe a month and a half. They better get rid
of Joe Biden by then so that they can head
into the new year, the midterm year, with this behind him,
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if they're going to have any chance of distancing themselves
from the scandal. We can agree on that much anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right, it's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not but nothing, both keeping complaining all morning long. I
stand with Jeffrey and right this one. Thanks Jad Morton, Michael.
Randy's here from Greenwood, Indiana. I've been listening to you
faithfully for over a year.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
And I don't recall every year in either.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One of those na I am.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
I don't know the bands they do sound like, but yeah,
that's music we've missed for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Thank you, Thanks, thank you. Randy. Indiana wants me Lord,
I can't go back then uh ans for Big John.
Come on, let's face it, he's just better than next
loft right, take it out our bad Be careful now.
I will not fall for the top of your top
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The White House says a trade deal with China is
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a coming.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassid was asked about the
status of trade negotiations on ABC's This Week. He said
the trained team has been focused on like a laser
beam on the China matter. Hasid adds if he expects
President Trump will update the terror flan. This week, Trump
accused China of violating its train deal and announced that
he was doubling steel and aluminum tariffs.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I'm Mark Mefield. Call upon your spirit to bless Randy today.
Bless him big, bless him. You're doing hey, man, still
thinking about Randy? What President Trump calls the big Beautiful bill.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
It's a coming to the Senate for multi trillion dollar
package narrowly past the House, and the Senate will debate
the measure of this month, where Republicans can only afford
to lose three votes to pass it. Democrats complain the
White House is trying to cut Medicaid and other social
safety nets by billions of dollars. Republicans like Office of
Management and Budget Director Russell Votes say the bill will
(15:32):
cut the federal deficit.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He spoke with CNN State of the Union. This bill
doesn't increase the deficit or hurt to death. In fact,
it lowers it by one point four trillion dollars.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
After passage in the Senate House, lawmakers will have to
approve any changes.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm Scott Carr in Washington. You create Security Service claims
it carried out massive drone strikes and destroyed at least
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day before Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for
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Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm mis sid Heeler. From overcoming addiction to overcoming all
the challengers, we got the winner of Season twenty seven,
the voice Adam David.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Next, Hey, this is Leigh Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee. My
morning show is your Morning Show with Michael Bill Jorno.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning show can be heard weekday
mornings in great cities like Tulsa, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Memphis,
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Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento. We'd love to be a
part of your morning routine. We're thrilled you here now
enjoy the podcast. I'm uncomfortable doing this. I almost really
want to invite Chris Back. You know, here's where I differ.
(16:55):
I mean, I understand you know you don't want to,
you know, take your opposition lightly. But this notion that
we're a fifty to fifty country not so fast. Read
just share real quickly. What were the swing state differentials
in the twenty twenty four presidential election, of which Donald
(17:16):
Trump took every swing state.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Georgia he won by one hundred and fifteen thousand, Pennsylvania
one hundred and twenty thousand, Michigan eighty Nevada forty six thousand,
Arizona one hundred and eighty seven thousand, Wisconsin twenty nine thousand,
North Carolina one hundred and eighty three thousand.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, that's not eighty thousand collectively, all right, or even individually.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Seven hundred and sixty one thousand votes right.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Nearly, you know, three quarters of a million. That's number one.
Number two. That was Donald Trump held up with a
gag order in court throughout the entire primary season, character assassinated,
physically attempted to be assassinated twice, and now the scandal
(18:03):
of Joe Biden and Donald Trump making America great again.
In other words, Democrats don't even feel the same about
Democrat candidates today like they did then. They can't make
an election close again without another rampant harvesting of ballots
(18:25):
or cheating, quite frankly, and don't forget, it's not going
to be made easy by themselves. You've got Democrat voters
who feel betrayed because three times they were ignored in
their own primaries and Baiton switched with candidates. That's number one.
Number two. Tim's not going to go away, Biden's not
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going to go away, Kamala is not going to go away.
Nobody's gonna let him. Forget. I don't see the party
surviving the decade let alone being able to survive this scandal.
I think the impact is going to be great. Oh
the champ is here, shadows go, So for me, that's
exactly how I sound in the shower, ad him Just
(19:09):
like that. I have that natural bluesy sound love that
you picked to Peter Frampton's song. Congratulations, Adam David is
your voice Season twenty seven champion? Well that's a life
changer right so far it feels like it. How does
this you know all play? Because you know, you know,
the very first American idol. Everybody remembers some of the
(19:32):
famous ones. The early voice Season twenty seven doesn't diminish
the accomplishment nor the open door God's created in terms
of opportunity, right.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
No, man, you know, and I like the number twenty seven,
you know forever twenty seven, you know what I mean.
I love all those guests.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It was great. It was great to I think for
everybody this season to get to know you. It was
great to hear you perform, and it was great I
gat to hear your life story. I have an old
expression that I even included it in my book, and
that is the making of a messenger. It's as important
as the message, And I guess you could say the
making of an artist is as important as the message.
(20:12):
Just got there watching the Dylan movie that was you know,
part of that. But what you've overcome in life and
sharing that story that really made an impact. And who
knows how many people you've helped in this open door opportunity.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, man, A lot of people have reached out continue
to reach out, you know, talking about their experiences with addiction,
or you know, their their clean x amount of days,
or you know, their their father passed away because of
you know, an overdose or something, and it's I think
it's important to talk about these things.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
It's kind of like the room in the house that
no one wants to go into, but like you got
to go in. Man, it's there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's all a part of what made you right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, man, I would not I wouldn't be here
as this person if I if I didn't go through
what I went through, and if I didn't get clean,
you know, and I don't think I would have. I
definitely wouldn't have been on the voice and I wouldn't
have I still know how I won.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But well, David, do you want me to want me
to break it to you. You're very good and I'm
glad they found you. We'll talk more about the influence
of Michael Bublay and the mentors. But for those that
didn't watch the show or the season, UH, tell them
a little bit about your story, because I know that
there's parents struggling for hope, they have kids struggling with addiction.
(21:33):
There might be some parents with addiction. Because I think
there's still nothing greater than hearing from somebody that's been
through it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, man, well, thank you for the opportunity to talk
about it. I mean, first, first and foremost. You know,
I I've been a musician all my life. You know,
I started playing when I was eight, and uh, it's
it can be grueling, you know, it can be growing,
it's it can be soul sucking, you know, with with
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with the wrong mindset and a certain set of circumstances.
And yeah, I found myself in a cycle that I
could not get myself out of, you know. And I've
been through a lot of scary things, but that that
was probably the most scary. I realized like I was
completely out of control of myself and I did not
(22:28):
know how to change.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, but that's the key one, right, And that's what
addiction is. It's changing the way you feel. So we
lose our hope, we lose our purpose, we lose our hope.
You know, the next thing, you know, you turn to
something to change the way you feel. And a lot,
I would think a lot of it too, is the lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's like people that are in the food and beverage business,
it becomes the lifestyle. They only hang out together, they
hang out after work together. I would think that's the
same with musicians too, right.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, I would say so, you know, I would say so.
And you know, people in the food industry are also
rock stars, I think, right, I think I think some
of some of the most rock star people are are
friends that I have that are in the in the
food industry.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, it's an energy, it's an energy that is a tenaciousness.
I mean every day great. I talked about enough no
and obviously obviously that's where you got your free drinks.
Adam David is joining us The Voice season twenty seven
champ A. I don't know, I think everybody is going
to describe you like this in in pr pieces it
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is a rocky, bluesy influence and they go so well
together it begs the question, who were your influences or
is this just the natural you coming out in song?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Man, I'm an amalgam of everything I've heard growing up.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know. I think.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I listened to a lot of classic rock growing up.
My mom was as an old hippie, you know, she
went to Woodstock sixty nine. You know, she tells stories
about waking up to Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner,
and I can only imagine. But I grew up on
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You know, Jimmy hendricks Is was my first real like idol,
you know, and not just because of his guitar playing,
but he's so raw and people accepted him, you know
what I mean. I I I feel like I can identify.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That if that's the guitar in your hand, who influenced vocally?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I think that's probably a combination of Joe Cocker, Ray
Charles I heard. I heard Cocker influence immediately. Wonder. You know,
it's all the blues guys man, see Ray Vaughn, you know,
Albert King. I mean, it's all, it's all just it's
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all just soul stuff, you know what I mean, soul
and and and r and B and classic rock stuff,
you know, the Allman Brothers.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
When when you said, when you sat down the first
time with Michael Bullblain, what did he build upon? What
did he identify and see in you from the very beginning.
I'm wondering if it's the same thing I saw. But
I mean, I'm just curious what did he say to you?
And here's where we're going to go with this.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He from the start kind of came from a I
think he sensed a hesitation in me to trust myself, man,
and he just kind of ran with that, like kind
of just building me up, you know, reminding me incessantly,
you know that I can trust myself, my instincts, telling me,
(25:49):
you know that I have great musical instincts.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Just get out, get out of my head, get out
of my way, which has definitely been my issue all
my life.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
That's a lot of our issues, you know. You we're
visiting with Adam David. He is season twenty seven winner
of the Voice. That's back to Beck Wins by the
way for Michael Bublay. He's on a little role as
a mentor. But I just saw all the ability and
all the gifting, which is easy for somebody to observe
and see when you live in your skin, your whole life.
I'm guessing like me, you see all your weaknesses, not
(26:21):
your strengths. But you know, it's kind of like you know, Okay,
there's the voice, you know, there's the guitar, but all that,
but it's really the you, the life you've lived, what
survived the life you lived? Because what is soul music?
It comes from the soul. And if you could have
just em boy you by the end of the season,
you nailed it. And it begs the question, what do
(26:41):
you plan to do with this gift?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
What do you have to say? Because right now you've
mostly performed other people's music. Now it's time to show
them your music. What kind of impact are you wanting
to make? Well, you've hit it right on the head man.
I mean now the work doesn't stop. Now, the work
really just starts.
Speaker 12 (26:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I want to put out I want to put out music.
I want to travel the world playing it. I want
to connect with as many people as I can, you know,
who are struggling, who aren't struggling, who just like music,
you know, but sharing my message. You know that that
anybody can can change their life and or get clean
(27:21):
or get help if they need it, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's uh.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I when I got clean, man, it was the biggest gift,
you know. And and as a whole, you know, big picture,
like my addiction was a gift, you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
And I can only say that now, you know, But
uh yeah, I think it's just like you don't change
what's been working, You just keep doing it. And this
is just an opportunity and it reinforces like that. What
I'm doing is is what I need to be doing,
you know. So hopefully I'll just keep doing it on
(28:00):
on a on a grander scale, and and that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Adam, Adam David, how do you even a show like
the Voice? You know, I mean, just your anonymities out
the window right now? People now people know your name,
they know your face, they know your voice. How how
has all this changed you that you don't strike me
as somebody that likes this much attention.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
It's uh, it's it's it's been. It's taken some getting
used to for sure, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Uh, it's it's yeah, it's it's taken some.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I was just gonna say, people probably wonder like what
do you win, you know, and does it come with
a record deal? And now who will you work with
or will some of these mentors work with you even
as you put a project together? Does a tour come
with it? And is date's been announced? All that stuff?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Well, it's it's you know what's crazy, man, is it's
been just over a week and so much has changed.
Like if you really if you really look at the time,
like if I just sit and think about, man, this
was Tuesday, Like, you know, I've had so many conversations
(29:17):
with so many people. I don't know exactly what the
future looks like. There are things that come with winning.
There's a cash prize, and there is a relationship with
the label. What exactly it ends up looking like we're
still kind of navigating, like truthfully, but it's all good stuff,
(29:38):
you know what. I like to collaborate with Michael Heckiah,
you know what I mean? Playing the Weight with him
was so fun. That was so fun.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Man.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
I grew up playing that song with my cousins and
my uncle and to be able to play with him
was just nuts, full circle moment. So yeah, I mean,
and then also Adam Levine, you know, Adam Levine got
a lot nicer, and we got a lot, We got
got on a lot, you know, a lot, a lot
(30:09):
better as the season went on. And and he's an
idol of mine. You know, Maroon five.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Five is the bomb. Moroon five cold Play, that's like
a league of their own in our in our time.
But I hope we don't have to all look back
to appreciate that there's great greatness right in front of
our eyes. Adam David joining us, Well, you can't control
the future, you know that, And songs you haven't written
yet that you're gonna write, or concerts you're going to perform.
All you can do is control who you're gonna be
when it all happens. And that's what I think is
(30:35):
the celebration of your life. I remember an old Joe
Walsh interview and he started talking about all the rock
and roll influences and all the people that he got
to know whence start him hit, and then it dawned
on him they're all dead, you know what I mean.
Don't get sucked into that. You just you just stay
you and let God do what he plans to do
with this gift, and you stay focused on encouraging giving
(30:56):
people hope because they're all one good choice away from
being their best version of themselves. Oh man, I love
that and I'm just so good.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
What's your book called, man, I feel like, Oh, it's
got a couple of phrases.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I wrote the greatest book that no one ever read.
It's called Standing Up for What's Right. But it's got
a lot of politics stuff in it too, But it
was really about, you know, living right and not just
it's not enough to know what's right or think what's right.
You gotta live it. And you're doing a lot of
things right now, and I celebrate the turnaround in your life.
And I wish you nothing but the best. I have
to tell you. I loved when you did the Frampton song.
(31:31):
I gotta share a funny story. So I'm at the
Mercedes dealership. My car was getting fixed and my service
guy isn't there, so I'm just sitting talking to this guy.
He's got an old Mercedes station wagon, which I didn't
even know Mercedes made, and it was as ugly as
ugly as a station wagon, and he was like, I
just can't get rid of this thing, and I won't
stop dumping money into it. I said, man, I had
(31:51):
a car like that one time. Sometimes you love him.
And then when I finally traded in, I felt bad
when I drove off and we're just talking away. It
was just the nicest person, and all of a sudden,
my service advisor walks in. I said, hey, nice to
meet him, and so we're walking back to his office
and he goes, don't you love Peter Frampton? And I thought,
that's what I thought was so odd, what a strange
(32:13):
thing out of the blue to say to me, And
I well, as a matter of fact, I do love
Peter Frampton. But why would you ask that? He goes, well,
you were just talking to him, because you know, Peter
Frampton was just tramped, you know, stamped in my mind
and trapped in time with the long hair. And Brampton
comes a live album cover. I didn't know. He's older
now and bald, and we got a chance to get
to know each other and have an interview. He's just
(32:34):
a terrific and what a great what a great talent
and songwriter. So h you even finished with one of
my favorite artists songs and it brought me back to
eighth grade. You've got a timeless gift, A Timeless Voice again.
I am very you focus just on who you are,
but I am so excited where God's going to take
(32:55):
this gifting and the lives that you're going to touch
moving forward. I I don't really get involved a lot
with these you. I liked you, I liked a lot
and I'm rooting for you here.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Thank you, brother, appreciate you. Oo.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
What is next for this Voice season twenty seven? Champ
Adam David's sure got to knowing all of us to
find out. It was great to meet him, and congratulations
on that success. This is your Morning Show with Michael
del Chuno. Over the weekend, Ukraine hit Russia hard, destroying
(33:31):
dozens of aircraft and a drone strike. Now everybody looks
on wondering what are the chances of a ceasefire and
how might Russia respond. Roory O'Neil is following that story.
Good morning Rory, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And we've got peace talks or ceasefire talks that should
be happening right now in Istanbul, Turkey. But as you said,
this comes just hours after that incredible drone attack launched
by Ukraine. Some of the drone striking targets two thousand
miles away from Ukraine, deep in side of Russia. So
an unprecedented kind of attack, apparently eighteen months in the making,
(34:06):
effectively taking out a large portion of Russia's air force.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And we'll wait to see. Is that a message to
Russia that we're not going to stop fighting, you're not
going to start winning. We might as well talk peace
or are things going more towards escalation Something to follow
in the days to come. Great reporting today, Rory as always,
all right, that's going to do it for us for today.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Chum, Should I share our fight on the air?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's not a fight. We don't fight.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're like, Aul, you've been yelling at me all morning long.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, I have not been yelling, all right, So I'll
do it seven minutes after the hour. Chris won't mind,
so I've already worn Chris Well, no, no, but here's
in a minefield. First of all, I don't want them
to think we fight. We don't fight. But I said,
how can I never hear the rejoin of two princes?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And he's like, we don't have it? And I said,
are you kidding me? We've had it? For a year
and you've been playing it. Yeah, and so he'll.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Start searching sign of the times. I don't even know
what you were talking.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I do think the listeners will agree with me that
we kind of play the same rejoints over and over again.
He thinks he's rotating them evenly. He's not. Trust me,
there's some great songs you're not hearing. But anyway, so
he proceeds all while the show is going on, distractingly,
going through every rejoin, and then he finally hits it.
I goes, say, there it is, and he goes, no,
that's Spin Doctors.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, no, wait a minute, that's Third Eye Blind or
Third Eye Blind.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, but watch how much third Eye Blind and Spin
Doctors sound alike?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So which one you gonna do first? So let's do
the one that you've been calling for all morning? No,
here's two princes. Yeah, Spin Spin Doctors. Listen, like, how
do you get away with this? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Somebody's getting sued after this though. Today you watch it,
see do you think?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
All?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And now here third Eye Blind, which we did have,
they're very similar. But I know I sent you two
prinstance a long time. But we weren't like last week.
What I didn't appreciate was the fact that you accused
me of being in a bad mood and taking it
out on you over my back, which I don't do.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You've been cranky all morning long and for all I know,
and also.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
From ripped the songs off of Taylor Swift, who was
six years old at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I know you're just having back pain issues. You don't
feel good, You're ready for some time off, and so
I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Have any time off. I mean, well, no, but I
mean I'm fine. I'm just I knew. I thought we
had had that song for a year. And the reality
is we've discovered two songs that sound almost identical, and
I don't know how they got away with it. I'm
gonna copy build. That's why when you're watching the movie
American Pie, all the songs sound the same. Maybe that
(02:56):
was just that era. Yeah, Chris Walker is here. He
is our Republican consultant and analyst and your morning show contributor.
You know, I'm looking over I haven't really had a
chance to do the story. But they're all pouring, you know,
onto these talking head shows and the Georgia Senator Rafael
Warnock asked the same question everybody's getting asked, same thing.
(03:18):
Bill Clinton was asked, at what point did you know
or did you ever notice that Joe Biden was cognitively
impaired and that the White House was covering it up? Now,
for Warnock, he basically is going to test the question
can you remain a denier or an ignorer and still
win a reelection? Because he's like, not going there, We're
(03:42):
moving on. That never stopped Hill January sixth, Whereas Bill
Clinton saying I didn't notice anything. I thought he had
a great presidency either one don't sound like winning. Answers
to me, what about you, Chris.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Simoni, Michael and more For the record, two Princess better
than third Eyeline. But that's a whole other story. You know,
obviously this is this is troubling. I don't know what's
more troubling the media pretending to care about it now
because Jake Tapper's trying to sell a book, or you know,
the Democrats kind of playing you know this, this this
(04:13):
kind of hindsight game.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
But you know, obviously we all knew that Joe.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Biden was talking to declined even in the twenty twenty election.
I mean, the basement campaign that we all saw him
doing was kind of talked about and defended because of COVID,
but it was also because man, couldn't you.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Know, do have more than two good hours?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You know, Robert Hurr obviously has owed a huge, you know,
apology from all the media. You know, folks like Joe
Scarborough who said he was the best he's ever been
were obviously lying and covering for the president. And you know,
it defies logic to pretend otherwise. And I see Jake
Capper and these other guys talked about this this way.
(04:57):
It's just well, those of us.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Who know Jake Tapper's ratings were down thirty three percent,
and by the way, he didn't have thirty three percent
to give, all right, So how will the Biden fake
presidency and its cover up impact the midterms and beyond
with Democrats? Is really what we're talking about, because this
is the greatest unless we can prove that the US
(05:20):
government killed John F. Kennedy. This is the biggest political
scandal in American political history, and way bigger than Watergate,
and no one the media revealed Watergate, not covered it up.
So if you're Bill Clinton, You're like, I didn't notice anything.
In fact, I thought you had a great presidency. Well
that doesn't seem like a winning answer, then let's move on.
(05:42):
Doesn't seem like a winning answer. How can the Democrats
get out of this?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Well, you know you're going to see Andrew Cromo when
the New York Marya races, you know here in a
couple of weeks, and you know, there's going to be
a lot of moving on, just from the standpoint of
just like Politico's political politicians finding new people to kind
of win elections. So ultimately, the further in the rear
view mirror Joe Biden becomes, the easier it is will
be to talk about something else. So I think ultimately,
(06:11):
even though it's a huge scandal and it and it
should be there, they're just there's no shame there, and
they're going to find ways to kind of talk about
other stuff. So, you know, my general sense is, even
though we are rightfully you know, upset about this and
and and see this from the political scandal.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
That it was, I think they're going to quickly memory.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Hold it because because they have to, and they're not
going to the media still hates stylin some more than
they do anything else, and that's just what they're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, the problem is Joe Biden won't go away. It
keeps resurfacing. That won't let the story disappear. All right.
Chris Walker, Republican consultant analysts joining us, What do you
make of Wes Moore diving? I think, you know, Politico's
headline says at all Wes More dives into twenty twenty
(07:01):
eight race in South Carolina. I know he's got to
play up that, you know, because he's got to seek
reelection before it. But I think he could find a
way to be re elected in Maryland as governor h
next year and still find the time to run for
president a year later, and probably will. And I think
(07:21):
a lot of his strong talk in South Carolina suggests
I'm going to be right about this one too.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I mean, obviously he's running for president. Obviously he's gonna
win reelection to Maryland and walk And you know, the
problem isn't the candidacy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Or the person.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
The problem is the policies that they're espousing, and they're
you know, it's up to Republicans and those of us
on the on the Republican side to hang Joe Biden
and other ones around their neck. I mean again like
this was a this is a political scandal, you know,
of generational proportions, Like the president was unqualified to be
to run the first time. They hit him in a
(08:00):
basement to try to run him again and then try
to have them resign and have Kamala Harris come in
in the first year and replace so that she could
run for two terms and have another year on top
of that. So, I mean, you know, this is something
that the Republicans are gonna have to really talk about.
The disingenuousness and the you know, the lying, frankly is
(08:20):
going to need to be front and center. But it
also talks about the policies like these are people who
are going out of their way to try to protect
the legal immigrants. They're trying to go down to El
Salvador to you know, pretend somehow these gang members are
are people that are worthy of saying in our country.
I mean, look at what's happening in Europe. They want
that year. So you know, Wes Moore can can talk
(08:41):
about what he's doing, you know in Maryland, but Blues
state management is a problem, and it's going to have
to be really up to the Republicans and the media
and the conservative media to really.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Highlight that and make that.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
The number one issue for them, because it's something they're
going to have to depend over and over again.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, how did they handle Palestine? In Israel? They were divided.
The Socialist Justice Democrats were pro Palestinian, the regular progressive
and establishment Democrats were well, not really pro Israel but
really remained silent. Border you have open border invasion versus
open border let's ignore invasion. I mean, you're right, they
(09:22):
can't distance themselves for their flawed positions, but they can't
win for losing either. Because we brought this up last hour,
Chris Joe Biden, if he doesn't die of cancer, could
run again, talk about not going away. Kamala Harris could
run again, talk about not going away. What about goofy
(09:44):
Tim Walls? He could run again, talk about not letting
it go away. And then you're gonna have the Wes
Moores and the Rommy Manuals trying to talk sensibly to
the establishment Democrat Party or the normal progressives as socialists.
Well for the socialists that won't be left enough for them,
you know, that won't be distance enough.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So I don't know, I don't know how they get out.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Of this one. It looks it looks like political checkmate
to me. But I shouldn't say such definitive things. Yeah,
I mean a lot of life to live.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But yeah, and look again, this is a fifty to
fifty country we're talking about. Unfortunately, even though President Trump
is doing a lot of the right stuff, you know,
is twenty thousand votes away from not having one because
you're talking about you know, three or four swing states
that are still fifty to fifty states. I mean, it's
going to be a really tough election next year in
(10:42):
the House and the Senate in Michigan and in Georgia
and in North Carolina because you know, Democrats hate Trump
so much that any any kind of failures that they
have just or a rallying point for coming out against
President Trump because they just hate him. It doesn't matter
what he's doing, doesn't matter that he's you know, kind
of bringing the country off the break.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Of what was Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
All of that is irrelevant because there's so many people
that just are animated completely and solely just on their
Trump animous.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Let me do the other side. Here's a no win situation.
Here's a no win situation for the Republicans. Aren't you
passed the Big Beautiful Bill and with it you increase
debt three to five trillion dollars. That's a kind of
a win lose win lose, right.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
It is.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And you know, we have a.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Huge debt problem. We have to fix it.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Congress has done. You know, the Big Beautiful Bill is
in of itself a step, but it's not a good
enough one.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
In terms of dealing with the debt crisis.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I mean, when something Elon Muss talked about and something
that we need to kind of address seriously, like Republicans
in Congress need to get serious about the debt. Thomas
Massey is looked at as a you know, as a
as a bill and sometimes but he's right. There's a
lot of things that we need to be fixing from
a discretionary standpoint that that's not being fixed. And you know,
Ron Joms talked to some Tucker Carlson showed the last week,
(12:00):
like there's a lot of a death spial that has
to be addressed or else we're going to be in
serious trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, So if the question of the week is
how will this Biden fake presidency scandal impact the mid
terms and beyond, what's your.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Answer, Well, I mean that's the that's the multi million
dollar question.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
We have a huge and look the debt, because the
numbers are so big a lot of times just doesn't
resonate with voters. And so ultimately it's it's it's a
feeling of it's the country going in the right direction.
And you know, President Trump is taking the reins and
fixing a huge, huge problem.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
He was Susanna from from Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Let's not forget COVID stuff is never supposed to be
discretionary spending or contiguous spending. And that's something that Joe
Biden took as a as a baseline, said let's.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Build on it, built back better.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Wasn't just you know, a number, it was it was
on top of COVID spending and then some and so
fixing all of that and turning this back into a
more you know, serious budget, budget Congress and budget country
is going to take a lot of work. And so
you know, when you look at the midterms, those are
the things that are going.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
To be looked at.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
VCV buzz and sup trying to fix these big.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Problems immigration budgets, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Kind of.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Where we were not being looked at seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Sorry, and then a few wars too, would be nice.
Let's send on something we can agree on when it
comes to the midterms. We're going to come back after summer,
have a short time before we start kicking into holiday mode,
maybe a month and a half. They better get rid
of Joe Biden by then so that they can head
into the new year, the midterm year, with this behind him,
(13:44):
if they're going to have any chance of distancing themselves
from the scandal. We can agree on that much anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right, it's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not but nothing, both keeping complaining all morning long. I
stand with Jeffrey and right this one. Thanks Jad Morton, Michael.
Randy's here from Greenwood, Indiana. I've been listening to you
faithfully for over a year.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
And I don't recall every year in either.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One of those na I am.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
I don't know the bands they do sound like, but yeah,
that's music we've missed for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Thank you, Thanks, thank you. Randy. Indiana wants me Lord,
I can't go back then uh ans for Big John.
Come on, let's face it, he's just better than next
loft right, take it out our bad Be careful now.
I will not fall for the top of your top
five stories of the day. And we gotta move quickly now.
The White House says a trade deal with China is
(14:39):
a coming.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassid was asked about the
status of trade negotiations on ABC's This Week. He said
the trained team has been focused on like a laser
beam on the China matter. Hasid adds if he expects
President Trump will update the terror flan. This week, Trump
accused China of violating its train deal and announced that
he was doubling steel and aluminum tariffs.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I'm Mark Mefield. Call upon your spirit to bless Randy today.
Bless him big, bless him. You're doing hey, man, still
thinking about Randy? What President Trump calls the big Beautiful bill.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
It's a coming to the Senate for multi trillion dollar
package narrowly past the House, and the Senate will debate
the measure of this month, where Republicans can only afford
to lose three votes to pass it. Democrats complain the
White House is trying to cut Medicaid and other social
safety nets by billions of dollars. Republicans like Office of
Management and Budget Director Russell Votes say the bill will
(15:32):
cut the federal deficit.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He spoke with CNN State of the Union. This bill
doesn't increase the deficit or hurt to death. In fact,
it lowers it by one point four trillion dollars.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
After passage in the Senate House, lawmakers will have to
approve any changes.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm Scott Carr in Washington. You create Security Service claims
it carried out massive drone strikes and destroyed at least
forty Russian bombers.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Video released on social media appears to show the attack,
with explosions visible and smoke rising from the Beyla Air
Base deep inside Russian territory. Moscow did not immediately comment
on the report. News of the attack comes just a
day before Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for
a second round of direct ceasefire talks in Istanbul.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm mis sid Heeler. From overcoming addiction to overcoming all
the challengers, we got the winner of Season twenty seven,
the voice Adam David.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Next, Hey, this is Leigh Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee. My
morning show is your Morning Show with Michael Bill Jorno.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning show can be heard weekday
mornings in great cities like Tulsa, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Memphis,
in Nashville, Tennessee. We got you covered in California, San Diego,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento. We'd love to be a
part of your morning routine. We're thrilled you here now
enjoy the podcast. I'm uncomfortable doing this. I almost really
want to invite Chris Back. You know, here's where I differ.
(16:55):
I mean, I understand you know you don't want to,
you know, take your opposition lightly. But this notion that
we're a fifty to fifty country not so fast. Read
just share real quickly. What were the swing state differentials
in the twenty twenty four presidential election, of which Donald
(17:16):
Trump took every swing state.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Georgia he won by one hundred and fifteen thousand, Pennsylvania
one hundred and twenty thousand, Michigan eighty Nevada forty six thousand,
Arizona one hundred and eighty seven thousand, Wisconsin twenty nine thousand,
North Carolina one hundred and eighty three thousand.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, that's not eighty thousand collectively, all right, or even individually.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Seven hundred and sixty one thousand votes right.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Nearly, you know, three quarters of a million. That's number one.
Number two. That was Donald Trump held up with a
gag order in court throughout the entire primary season, character assassinated,
physically attempted to be assassinated twice, and now the scandal
(18:03):
of Joe Biden and Donald Trump making America great again.
In other words, Democrats don't even feel the same about
Democrat candidates today like they did then. They can't make
an election close again without another rampant harvesting of ballots
(18:25):
or cheating, quite frankly, and don't forget, it's not going
to be made easy by themselves. You've got Democrat voters
who feel betrayed because three times they were ignored in
their own primaries and Baiton switched with candidates. That's number one.
Number two. Tim's not going to go away, Biden's not
(18:46):
going to go away, Kamala is not going to go away.
Nobody's gonna let him. Forget. I don't see the party
surviving the decade let alone being able to survive this scandal.
I think the impact is going to be great. Oh
the champ is here, shadows go, So for me, that's
exactly how I sound in the shower, ad him Just
(19:09):
like that. I have that natural bluesy sound love that
you picked to Peter Frampton's song. Congratulations, Adam David is
your voice Season twenty seven champion? Well that's a life
changer right so far it feels like it. How does
this you know all play? Because you know, you know,
the very first American idol. Everybody remembers some of the
(19:32):
famous ones. The early voice Season twenty seven doesn't diminish
the accomplishment nor the open door God's created in terms
of opportunity, right.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
No, man, you know, and I like the number twenty seven,
you know forever twenty seven, you know what I mean.
I love all those guests.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It was great. It was great to I think for
everybody this season to get to know you. It was
great to hear you perform, and it was great I
gat to hear your life story. I have an old
expression that I even included it in my book, and
that is the making of a messenger. It's as important
as the message, And I guess you could say the
making of an artist is as important as the message.
(20:12):
Just got there watching the Dylan movie that was you know,
part of that. But what you've overcome in life and
sharing that story that really made an impact. And who
knows how many people you've helped in this open door opportunity.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, man, A lot of people have reached out continue
to reach out, you know, talking about their experiences with addiction,
or you know, their their clean x amount of days,
or you know, their their father passed away because of
you know, an overdose or something, and it's I think
it's important to talk about these things.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
It's kind of like the room in the house that
no one wants to go into, but like you got
to go in. Man, it's there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's all a part of what made you right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, man, I would not I wouldn't be here
as this person if I if I didn't go through
what I went through, and if I didn't get clean,
you know, and I don't think I would have. I
definitely wouldn't have been on the voice and I wouldn't
have I still know how I won.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But well, David, do you want me to want me
to break it to you. You're very good and I'm
glad they found you. We'll talk more about the influence
of Michael Bublay and the mentors. But for those that
didn't watch the show or the season, UH, tell them
a little bit about your story, because I know that
there's parents struggling for hope, they have kids struggling with addiction.
(21:33):
There might be some parents with addiction. Because I think
there's still nothing greater than hearing from somebody that's been
through it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, man, well, thank you for the opportunity to talk
about it. I mean, first, first and foremost. You know,
I I've been a musician all my life. You know,
I started playing when I was eight, and uh, it's
it can be grueling, you know, it can be growing,
it's it can be soul sucking, you know, with with
(22:06):
with the wrong mindset and a certain set of circumstances.
And yeah, I found myself in a cycle that I
could not get myself out of, you know. And I've
been through a lot of scary things, but that that
was probably the most scary. I realized like I was
completely out of control of myself and I did not
(22:28):
know how to change.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, but that's the key one, right, And that's what
addiction is. It's changing the way you feel. So we
lose our hope, we lose our purpose, we lose our hope.
You know, the next thing, you know, you turn to
something to change the way you feel. And a lot,
I would think a lot of it too, is the lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's like people that are in the food and beverage business,
it becomes the lifestyle. They only hang out together, they
hang out after work together. I would think that's the
same with musicians too, right.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, I would say so, you know, I would say so.
And you know, people in the food industry are also
rock stars, I think, right, I think I think some
of some of the most rock star people are are
friends that I have that are in the in the
food industry.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, it's an energy, it's an energy that is a tenaciousness.
I mean every day great. I talked about enough no
and obviously obviously that's where you got your free drinks.
Adam David is joining us The Voice season twenty seven
champ A. I don't know, I think everybody is going
to describe you like this in in pr pieces it
(23:35):
is a rocky, bluesy influence and they go so well
together it begs the question, who were your influences or
is this just the natural you coming out in song?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Man, I'm an amalgam of everything I've heard growing up.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know. I think.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I listened to a lot of classic rock growing up.
My mom was as an old hippie, you know, she
went to Woodstock sixty nine. You know, she tells stories
about waking up to Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner,
and I can only imagine. But I grew up on
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You know, Jimmy hendricks Is was my first real like idol,
you know, and not just because of his guitar playing,
but he's so raw and people accepted him, you know
what I mean. I I I feel like I can identify.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That if that's the guitar in your hand, who influenced vocally?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I think that's probably a combination of Joe Cocker, Ray
Charles I heard. I heard Cocker influence immediately. Wonder. You know,
it's all the blues guys man, see Ray Vaughn, you know,
Albert King. I mean, it's all, it's all just it's
(25:00):
all just soul stuff, you know what I mean, soul
and and and r and B and classic rock stuff,
you know, the Allman Brothers.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
When when you said, when you sat down the first
time with Michael Bullblain, what did he build upon? What
did he identify and see in you from the very beginning.
I'm wondering if it's the same thing I saw. But
I mean, I'm just curious what did he say to you?
And here's where we're going to go with this.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He from the start kind of came from a I
think he sensed a hesitation in me to trust myself, man,
and he just kind of ran with that, like kind
of just building me up, you know, reminding me incessantly,
you know that I can trust myself, my instincts, telling me,
(25:49):
you know that I have great musical instincts.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Just get out, get out of my head, get out
of my way, which has definitely been my issue all
my life.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
That's a lot of our issues, you know. You we're
visiting with Adam David. He is season twenty seven winner
of the Voice. That's back to Beck Wins by the
way for Michael Bublay. He's on a little role as
a mentor. But I just saw all the ability and
all the gifting, which is easy for somebody to observe
and see when you live in your skin, your whole life.
I'm guessing like me, you see all your weaknesses, not
(26:21):
your strengths. But you know, it's kind of like you know, Okay,
there's the voice, you know, there's the guitar, but all that,
but it's really the you, the life you've lived, what
survived the life you lived? Because what is soul music?
It comes from the soul. And if you could have
just em boy you by the end of the season,
you nailed it. And it begs the question, what do
(26:41):
you plan to do with this gift?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
What do you have to say? Because right now you've
mostly performed other people's music. Now it's time to show
them your music. What kind of impact are you wanting
to make? Well, you've hit it right on the head man.
I mean now the work doesn't stop. Now, the work
really just starts.
Speaker 12 (26:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I want to put out I want to put out music.
I want to travel the world playing it. I want
to connect with as many people as I can, you know,
who are struggling, who aren't struggling, who just like music,
you know, but sharing my message. You know that that
anybody can can change their life and or get clean
(27:21):
or get help if they need it, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's uh.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I when I got clean, man, it was the biggest gift,
you know. And and as a whole, you know, big picture,
like my addiction was a gift, you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
And I can only say that now, you know, But
uh yeah, I think it's just like you don't change
what's been working, You just keep doing it. And this
is just an opportunity and it reinforces like that. What
I'm doing is is what I need to be doing,
you know. So hopefully I'll just keep doing it on
(28:00):
on a on a grander scale, and and that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Adam, Adam David, how do you even a show like
the Voice? You know, I mean, just your anonymities out
the window right now? People now people know your name,
they know your face, they know your voice. How how
has all this changed you that you don't strike me
as somebody that likes this much attention.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
It's uh, it's it's it's been. It's taken some getting
used to for sure, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Uh, it's it's yeah, it's it's taken some.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I was just gonna say, people probably wonder like what
do you win, you know, and does it come with
a record deal? And now who will you work with
or will some of these mentors work with you even
as you put a project together? Does a tour come
with it? And is date's been announced? All that stuff?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Well, it's it's you know what's crazy, man, is it's
been just over a week and so much has changed.
Like if you really if you really look at the time,
like if I just sit and think about, man, this
was Tuesday, Like, you know, I've had so many conversations
(29:17):
with so many people. I don't know exactly what the
future looks like. There are things that come with winning.
There's a cash prize, and there is a relationship with
the label. What exactly it ends up looking like we're
still kind of navigating, like truthfully, but it's all good stuff,
(29:38):
you know what. I like to collaborate with Michael Heckiah,
you know what I mean? Playing the Weight with him
was so fun. That was so fun.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Man.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
I grew up playing that song with my cousins and
my uncle and to be able to play with him
was just nuts, full circle moment. So yeah, I mean,
and then also Adam Levine, you know, Adam Levine got
a lot nicer, and we got a lot, We got
got on a lot, you know, a lot, a lot
(30:09):
better as the season went on. And and he's an
idol of mine. You know, Maroon five.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Five is the bomb. Moroon five cold Play, that's like
a league of their own in our in our time.
But I hope we don't have to all look back
to appreciate that there's great greatness right in front of
our eyes. Adam David joining us, Well, you can't control
the future, you know that, And songs you haven't written
yet that you're gonna write, or concerts you're going to perform.
All you can do is control who you're gonna be
when it all happens. And that's what I think is
(30:35):
the celebration of your life. I remember an old Joe
Walsh interview and he started talking about all the rock
and roll influences and all the people that he got
to know whence start him hit, and then it dawned
on him they're all dead, you know what I mean.
Don't get sucked into that. You just you just stay
you and let God do what he plans to do
with this gift, and you stay focused on encouraging giving
(30:56):
people hope because they're all one good choice away from
being their best version of themselves. Oh man, I love
that and I'm just so good.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
What's your book called, man, I feel like, Oh, it's
got a couple of phrases.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I wrote the greatest book that no one ever read.
It's called Standing Up for What's Right. But it's got
a lot of politics stuff in it too, But it
was really about, you know, living right and not just
it's not enough to know what's right or think what's right.
You gotta live it. And you're doing a lot of
things right now, and I celebrate the turnaround in your life.
And I wish you nothing but the best. I have
to tell you. I loved when you did the Frampton song.
(31:31):
I gotta share a funny story. So I'm at the
Mercedes dealership. My car was getting fixed and my service
guy isn't there, so I'm just sitting talking to this guy.
He's got an old Mercedes station wagon, which I didn't
even know Mercedes made, and it was as ugly as
ugly as a station wagon, and he was like, I
just can't get rid of this thing, and I won't
stop dumping money into it. I said, man, I had
(31:51):
a car like that one time. Sometimes you love him.
And then when I finally traded in, I felt bad
when I drove off and we're just talking away. It
was just the nicest person, and all of a sudden,
my service advisor walks in. I said, hey, nice to
meet him, and so we're walking back to his office
and he goes, don't you love Peter Frampton? And I thought,
that's what I thought was so odd, what a strange
(32:13):
thing out of the blue to say to me, And
I well, as a matter of fact, I do love
Peter Frampton. But why would you ask that? He goes, well,
you were just talking to him, because you know, Peter
Frampton was just tramped, you know, stamped in my mind
and trapped in time with the long hair. And Brampton
comes a live album cover. I didn't know. He's older
now and bald, and we got a chance to get
to know each other and have an interview. He's just
(32:34):
a terrific and what a great what a great talent
and songwriter. So h you even finished with one of
my favorite artists songs and it brought me back to
eighth grade. You've got a timeless gift, A Timeless Voice again.
I am very you focus just on who you are,
but I am so excited where God's going to take
(32:55):
this gifting and the lives that you're going to touch
moving forward. I I don't really get involved a lot
with these you. I liked you, I liked a lot
and I'm rooting for you here.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Thank you, brother, appreciate you. Oo.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
What is next for this Voice season twenty seven? Champ
Adam David's sure got to knowing all of us to
find out. It was great to meet him, and congratulations
on that success. This is your Morning Show with Michael
del Chuno. Over the weekend, Ukraine hit Russia hard, destroying
(33:31):
dozens of aircraft and a drone strike. Now everybody looks
on wondering what are the chances of a ceasefire and
how might Russia respond. Roory O'Neil is following that story.
Good morning Rory, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And we've got peace talks or ceasefire talks that should
be happening right now in Istanbul, Turkey. But as you said,
this comes just hours after that incredible drone attack launched
by Ukraine. Some of the drone striking targets two thousand
miles away from Ukraine, deep in side of Russia. So
an unprecedented kind of attack, apparently eighteen months in the making,
(34:06):
effectively taking out a large portion of Russia's air force.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And we'll wait to see. Is that a message to
Russia that we're not going to stop fighting, you're not
going to start winning. We might as well talk peace
or are things going more towards escalation Something to follow
in the days to come. Great reporting today, Rory as always,
all right, that's going to do it for us for today.
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michaelpenheld. Show now,
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