July 13, 2026 • 35 mins
Remembering Lindsey Graham properly and ignoring the hate wisely.
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Michael del Journal Jeffries got the sound, red keeping and
eye in the content. Of course, most of the conversation
today will be the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham. Flags
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flying at half staff at the White House and on Capitol.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hill following his death.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This weekend, US forces are carrying out new waves of
strike on Iran military assets. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has
finally released a statement. McConnell eighty four years old, same
age as my mother. I can tell you that when
you fall, you go to the hospital. Usually, being at
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the hospital, you get some form of pneumonia because that's
what they do best, and then the family scrambles to
get you to a rehab center, which is usually a
twenty day rehab. What you see Mitch McConnell going through
is what every elderly American goes through. You'd be shocked
at how real falling can be in your pathway to
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death at an elderly age. But of course, when you're
Mitch McConnell and we live in a crazy social dilemma outrage,
internet conspiracy theory America, you don't live in the norm,
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you live in the extreme. Now, having said that, I
don't know why they waited so long to release a
formal statement. Waking up, I just saw Sam Neil. Was
it obsession that he's in. I don't know why. Andrew
and I have gone to like three movies. We've gone
to more movies in the last two weeks than we've
gone in the last ten years. But I think he
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was in something that I saw, and I don't think
it was The Tuner, which, by the way, I haven't
said this on the area yet out of all of them.
Go see the Tuner. Dustin Hoffman's and at the Star
is a guy from the last the Italyque episode of
White Lotus. He's a terrific I mean terrific young actor.
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And that was a really good script, really good movie.
Go see the Tuner. There's more to it than pianos,
I assure you. But I think Sam Neil was in
a session. That's the one where the guy makes the
kid makes the wish and then careful what you ask for.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The woman gets obsessed with him. I see him in Possession.
He wasn't an upset. He was in something I just saw.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I mean, he could be, but these I'm just running
down what I'm seeing on the screen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean that seventy eight. Again, we're gonna talk
about life expectancy. Even though he's from New Zealand. You know,
these people are at an age where it can happen.
And but this this seemed rather a sudden. I think
we're going to find that he had an ongoing illness.
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And then finally, what a big weekend in sports we have.
You've got the fe Fass semi finals of World Cup
soccer that begins on Tuesday too. And by the way,
these times are tough on on Americans. I mean this,
this reminds me when I was a little kid, Major
League Baseball would have playoff games and they'd have them
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during the day. Now, this became a big issue for
my brother Vic. Well, that's an issue for any del
genonal child who hates school to start with. But when
the Detroit Tigers were they would go on to win
the World Series, but they were in the playoffs first,
and you know they didn't want to go to school.
I mean, it's just so both games are two o'clock,
un fast and care.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
If you've noticed, they don't use the the sponsor names
for the stadiums either. They referred to the stadiums as
like Atlanta. Well, yeah, yeah, I know they do that,
but doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, you would think, listen, I don't you know,
kids aren't in school, so that's not relevant.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I wasn't trying to make that point, and I don't care.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
My day's usually done by one then I have a
little brief thing I have to do in the afternoon.
Two brief things. But you would think for ratings would
want everybody home from work. But this is gonna have
like a like a Final four field. I think there's
gonna be a lot of people skipping work, a long
lunch at the bub We got France and Spain. I
don't think anybody can be France a period. I don't
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want to make a big deal out of it, but
they just seem to me to be the best team
in soccer. But there was a lot of talk about, oh,
it's gonna be France or Spain. Well you're gonna find
out in the semis they play. Coming up on Tuesday,
we have England and Argentina. I don't know why I
find myself rooting for Argentina. MESSI yeah, line knows a
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good reason. I do like them, and I do like
the outfits too. Red what what's your theory?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know what my theory is they don't want them
drinking all day.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's probably not a bad theory. Wow, So France, Spain, England, Argentina.
Look out for England though. That's I was golfing with
something I made. Have a new friend this week and
I love every time I go golfing all alone. I
make a new friend and it's really awkward, like because
you know, you have a great time, because golfing's like fishing.
You're together five six hours, you know, four or five hours,
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and you know, and then you go back, you know,
you're in your cart. It's like where did you park?
And then I actually was before him. I guess you
get stuck with the card. And we get out and
we're saying goodbye, and of course we're both thinking the
same thing, we should play together again. We just had
a really good time and I was like, Wow, what
are you gonna do? All you can say is nice
to meet you. And then there was this awkward moment
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and he's like, hey, can I get your number? And
I felt like, oh my god, you just asked me out.
But I'm dying to take him to Montgomery Bell to play.
He's never played there. Yeah, I love Montgomery Bell. So
but yeah, we we were talking about England because we
had the game on in the cart while we were playing,
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and there is something about England, you know that that
that's that team that's playing its best or even above best.
I mean just everything the chemistry you know about us,
it's just all coming together at the right moment. Maybe
England France could be a pretty exceptional final. Argentina likes
to just get by this whole tournament that you could
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see that's going to catch up with them at some point.
Will it be the Semis or the finals? So huge
week in sports FIFA Semis Tuesday and Wednesday at two
on Fox. I think we have, argue, without question, the
four best teams. So what more could you ask for?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You have the home run Derby, which I don't know.
When I was a kid, I remember I was on
the air my one oh seven point seven FM K
I m y no punk, no funk, no elevator junk.
That was our slogan in Oklahoma City, terrible radio station.
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And I remember I had to be on the air
during the All Star Game. And I'm sitting there watching
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I'm on the air.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But other than that, All Star Game was always appointment
for me. Not so much anymore now. Pro Bowls in
the NFL you can't even watch them. They don't have them.
Maybe we went from tackle to not tackling the flag.
It's just stupid, don't even have them. NBA lost interest
in five decade ago the All Star Game, but the
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home run Derby, isn't that the new appointment when it
comes to the All Star Break? That's tonight from Philadelphia.
Then the All Star Game is Toronto, and then Thursday's
the Open. The one and fifty first, fifty fourth Open
Championship takes place at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in England.
So that's coming up on Thursday. Huge weekend sports. All right,
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Lindsey Graham, where would one begin? Well, there's two little twists.
One he just got back from Ukraine where he had
been eleven times to support Zelensky, and then he dies
just you know, night or the day after the night
of returning, and then days after his seventy first birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This is what he had to say while in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So when I get back to Washington, I'm going to
go with Senator Bluemothal to the Republican the Democratic leader,
to say, if we can find time to move this
Russian sanctious package that would give tools to President Trump
to help end this war. We have a magic moment
in time here in the coming months. If we do
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this right, increase your train's lethality, get people to help
us with Putin rather than propping him up.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We can end this war.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I mean, a pretty important guy on a pretty important
trip with some pretty important agenda items upon returning, and
of course death had something else in mind. The President
was on the phone, remembering Lindsey Graham over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And I know that we are all just absorbing this news.
We are all in shock.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Can you tell us, mister President, how you receive this
news and your immediate gut reaction when.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You heard it.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So what makes it even stranger is that I got
a call last night sometime a you know, the early evening,
maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said,
we're all set for the Save America Act. He was
pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back,
said he.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just landed from Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I said, that's a long trip to me. CA said,
he sounded a little tired but perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
But it's a little bit tired. I had a right
to be.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And he was a worker, He was really a worker.
But but he sounded great, actually, but he was he was.
He actually said he was tired, but he wanted to
pass the Save America Act. And I said, well, we're
going to get it done, lindsay, we're going to get
it done.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I'll see you like soon. We thought we might even
meet today, and then.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That was it.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
And that was, you know, very around the time.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It couldn't have been much longer. It could have been
his last call. I don't know exactly, but I got
a message about one o'clock in the morning from one
of the people in his office that he had That's
the way.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
I said, you just can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He was like a member of the family. That it's
very tough.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's pretty strong words coming from the president. They have
obviously gotten close. It's interesting what I saw on the internet.
And again, you know, algorithms, what gets fed. If an
idiot falls in a forest and I'm not there, does
he really make a sound? But there were some really,
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some really vicious things that I wouldn't I mean, you
would expect Iranian television to announce his death and congratulate
the people of Iran on his death and to proclaim
he's headed to hell. I mean, you would expect that.
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But I mean people like Margaret Show. This was Margaret Show.
I don't want to give any of them any time,
but this is the kind of stuff I was seeing
that was really sickening.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Bye Lindsey, Bye Lindsey Graham from.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The closet to the coffin real seamless. I mean, the
left is just.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the only reason why I've been bringing up is
number one, see it, know it's there, and don't be
like it. I'm so glad we didn't behave the way
they're behaving for eight years while Barack Obama was president.
Though there was a lot of crap then too, But
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to make this about political hatred when a man dies,
it's just.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I mean, greater love has no man than this.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Love the Lord like God with all your heart, soul
and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. I mean,
we're just so freaking lost that it'll make you want
a puke. And then there was a lot of support too,
and in the support, and I think the President brought this. Yeah,
President definitely brought it up. And trying to think who
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else might have. But I'm talking about everyday people posting
this is the Lindsey Graham they choose to remember. I
think it was his perhaps finest moment, Lindsay Graham at
the Kavanaugh hearing.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I would never do to them what you've done to
this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
This is the most.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you
really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell
wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Are you a gang rapist?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I hope the American people can see through this sham
that you knew about it, and you held it. You
had no intention of protecting none. Jesus as much of
a victim as you are.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
God.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I hate to say because these have been my friends,
but let me tell you, when it comes to this,
you're looking for a fair process. You came to the
wrong town at the wrong time, my friend, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Afraid that the times have gotten even worse since then.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina Senator, dies suddenly at the
age of seventy one, just days after his seventy first birthday.
On the evening, he returns from a Ukraine visit with
so much work ahead. We'll have more coming up throughout
the morning, a lot of people to help us understand
these things.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Rory's going to be along.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
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Speaker 7 (17:04):
Good morning, Michael and grew and a happy Monday to
all from the US Virgin Islands.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
All I can say this morning is you got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Michael. You call out one senator for.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Making a comment on Lindsey Graham's passing, and I haven't
heard you once comment on DJT making comments on other
people's passing.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
All right, well, yeah, one, I think you're you're living
on a Virgin island. Of the show one. I did
not make any comments about what senators said. I was
just talking in general about the vile responses on social
media over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And I think the clip I played.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Was an actress Markert show that's number one, number two,
give an example, And it didn't come to mind because
it wasn't relevant to the top. But we do hold
the president accountable when he did it with Robert Muller.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I know I did.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But then again, Donald Trump is not my way truth
or life. He's just the president who does a lot
of things really right and says a lot of things
really wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
But I'm used to that, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Irrelevant to and I get that this is like an
internet attack right now that if the president says something
good about Lindsey Graham, then it has no meaning. Lindsey
Graham certainly didn't earn it because the president says something
bad about someone else in death. It's just childish. Sheldon,
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I disinvite you to listen to this show if you
can't listen better or behave better. I said from day
one on this show, there's only one intolerable act, and
that is disrespect. You can disagree till the cows come home.
And not only is it okay, but I love it.
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Disrespect I'll draw the line on. So it's really not
relevant to this story. Donald Trump's sadness over the passing
of Lindsey Graham is not the story. Lindsey Graham's death
is the story. And when the President spoke ill of
the dead in the past, we have spoke against that.
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So if you think this is typical shirts and skins,
conservative talk, good guys, bad guy, you got the wrong show.
It's the wrong person to accuse. And my point was simple,
if your first thought should be love. Now I realize
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outside of Christ that's not going to be possible. My
moral over point was if you can't have your first
thought be love, whether you're value Bertinellie mar Margaret Choe,
or the president in the past, or anyone today or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Then how about if you have.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Nothing good to say, say nothing at all, which is
what you could have done before that call. Look, this
shouldn't be all that shocking, I guess for Lindsey Graham,
because there were no signs of ill health, sudden death.
I guess we could throw in the way his office
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handled it.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And then this is the sickness.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, I keep telling you we live in a
matrix and in a social dilemma. They're bigger than the
problems that it makes us incapable of solving. They and
of themselves, are the biggest problem. They are the biggest
threat to not just our unity, our sustainability as a republic.
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I mean, it is the consequence of abandoning God, abandoning
our intent. I mean, we all know. I could name
a city right now, and when I say this, you'll
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think of your own.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But I mean the.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Worst sports towns, they are classless. And you know when
they're in your town, and you know when they're in
your stadium and you see them by the concession stands,
just behaving like idiots. That's how we become as Americans
playing the shirts and skins game. But this social dilemma
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over the week, if I were to rewind to about
eighteen hours ago, we're all.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Thinking who killed him? Did putin poison him while he
was in Ukraine?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And these conspiracy theories, by the way, will take hold.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
What do we always quote John F. Kennedy? Too often?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's the Internet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
If you ask me to define the freaking Internet, that
would be the definition.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Bandwagon, immovable, immediate, even if irrational, fixed position, no thought,
no grace of time before you form your opinion.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
At seventy one years old, probably after Look, there are
scans you can get for ninety bucks that'll measure your calcium.
There's no reason to be walking around with blockage. But
if you do, you'll either luck out and have a
heart attack and live, or you'll drop dead. If you
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add that high blood pressure, you can have an aortic
terror and you will die relatively fast and have very
little time of knowing. You don't feel very well, And
if you make the fatal mistake of all, maybe I'll
go to doctor tomorrow. No, maybe you're gonna go to
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heaven tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now that's seventy one. That's young.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The average life expectancy of a male in twenty twenty
six in the United States of America is seventy six
and a half years. So Lindsey Graham only died five
years before life expectancy. Now our perception is, well, he
was really young, and he seemed really healthy. I mean
he was just in Ukraine, he just got home. Or
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you're like President Trump, he's not a little tired. But
he was saying old, lindsay, five years from his expiration date.
On average, the life expectancy of a woman is eighty
one point four. Now I was not born yesterday. I understand.
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This is all a game of power. That's why when
a Supreme Court justice appointed for life gets up there
in age, people start, you know, pressuring them to step down.
Why because the odds are they could die any minute,
and if they die while this guy's in office, they'll
pick his successor get out of the way while I'm
in office.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And it's the same with senators.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Immediately the attention turn say, well, thank god, we got
a governor in South Carolina that'll point the right temporary
person and then we'll have a special election, and I'm
sure Nancy Masa win. He's not even embalmed yet, and
we go right.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Out to securing power.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I want to make a simple point, and it's
not a crude point, and it's not an immature point.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Only God knows every hair in my head, every thought
in my mind, and the deepest corners of my heart.
He goes before me, with me, after me. He fearfully
and wonderfully made me, gifted me, purposed me, and he
knows the moment I'm coming home. And I've had three experiences.
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I cannot tell you how I'm here. I had one
at fourteen years old. I was in the backseat of
a Camaro on Lud's in marijuana. The driver goes eighty
five miles an hour with fog, hat slow ride. Think
of the irony there eighty miles an hour into a
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parked truck that was stopped on the side of the road.
My brother Bobby was in the front seat, was between
the floorboard and the engine. I was in the front seat.
We all got out of that car. Paul Capatano was
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the driver's father, was a Golden Gloves boxer, showed up
at the scene. The first thing he did was decked.
His son punched him right in the face. Wow, and
I got a talent show to dance in tonight. Never
should have lived, none of us wearing seatbelts. Keith Andrews
is one of the ones that was in the car
who calls from Mobile, Alabama. Never should have lived. I'm
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on the interstate in Nashville, Tennessee. Stop dead, I'm gonna
be late for my show. I look in the rear
view mirror and there's no cars behind him, and look
at Look at my luck. Not only is traffic stop dead,
I am the back of the line, and right as
I'm thinking that, I'm seeing a white blur coming towards me.
And it's a van and it happened this fast. Oh
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my gosh, is this guy gonna stop? I don't think
he's gonna stop. What's that smoke? Great irony was I
got smashed into the car in front of me. The
car in front of me was one of my listeners,
and we all lived and shouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
How dumb is this.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm a teenager and I go whitewater rafting and I
don't know how to swim and then I dropped my cigarettes.
They fall out of the boat and I go to
reach to get them, and I fall out of the boat.
Now I'm going, I don't know what, thirty miles an
hour through these white rapids, and I reach up and
grab a branch. Now I'm hanging from the branch. Now
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I got nowhere to go. Eventually my hand slipped from
the branch. I'm back going twenty five thirty miles n whatever,
I'm going. Boom, and I was said, boom. I'm on
my boat, which had wedged on a rock, and I
was very safe, very secure, And this ruins the whole story.
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My back of cigarettes were sitting right there on the rock.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
What are the odds of that?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Thank you Lord, not for saving my life, but saving
my barbaros.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Saving me three bucks a back. I mean, I don't
think I'm going anywhere, so God says.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So that's how I choose to live by faith, because
God knew what he had to do with me. He
knew what I would obey disobey, and how he was
going to use me till I was done. But having
said that, we do have average life expectancies, and then
we have a few more clues about our own life
because we know what we've been ignoring. We know what
we eat, we know what we drink, we know what
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we smoke. We know how we don't exercise, we know
how we don't go to the doctor, and we don't
get our tests or have things that are strange on
us that we don't get checked out. But on average,
put us all in a blender. On average, the average
male is going to die at sixty seventy six and
a half and the average woem's gonna die at eighty one.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And that's good.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Provided you're able to live to that point. And when
you start living beyond that point, except for a special few,
you start falling. Your whole life becomes fall hospital rehab,
fall hospital rehab, nursing home. But look at our Senate
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Chuck Grassley, Republican, Iowa, ninety one years old. What's this
guy doing still in the Senate, hanging out of power.
Everybody waking up this morning was like shocked. I can't
believe it was Lindsay Graham. I mean, I thought for
sure it was gonna be Mitch McConnell. No, Mitch's just
eighty four fell. Now he's in rehab got a little
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pnemonia while he was in the hospital, but now he's
in rehab because that's what eighty four year olds do.
It happens. I'm around them every day. I'm not speaking
ill of the elderly. I love and care for them.
But only the sick Internet makes this all about. He's
dead and they won't admit it. You should have seen
the nasty posts. Okay, well, now that Lindsay's dead, come on,
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Mitch's dead.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Two.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Everything's a freaking conspiracy theory. Gosh, you gotta turn these
phones off. We'll drive you knots. I mean, I have
to do it for my job, but you don't. But
here's Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Ninety one.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And you're wondering who could be the third any of
these people Bernie eighty three, Mitch McConnell, Angus King is eighty,
Dick Durbin, Well, Dick's at least trying to leave eighty,
Blumenthal seventy eight, Marquee seventy eight, Welsh seventy seven, Shaheen
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seventy seven, wade In seventy seven, more In seventy six.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They're all They're all at life expectancy or beyond.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Marcia Blackburn's on this list because she's turning seventy five.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
This year and she's running for governor.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Only god knows, but as life expectancy goes in America today,
who would want to spend their last five years being
governor of a state?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Go home?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You could fall, go home and be with your husband,
your children, your grandchildren. I'm plotting my holes seventy six
and a half to give me five.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
To ten good years to travel the world.
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Speaker 1 (33:16):
President Trump says Senator Lindsey Graham was like a member
of the family to him.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Trump mourned the death of Graham on NBC's Meet the Press,
which the South Carolina Republican had been scheduled to appear
on Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
He's a tough one to lose. It was great. He
was unique.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
In every way.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Actually.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
The President also said he spoke to the seventy one
year old Graham just hours before his passing, saying other
than being tired, he was fine. Graham's communications director said
in a post on x that the DC Medical Examiner
said Graham died from a wordic dissection. The South Carolina
Republican was one of President Trump's closest allies in Congress.
Graham was chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and was
seeking his fifth term in office. In November, A Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
The US Ambassador of the United Nations Waltz, says the
ceasefire between the US and Iran has broken down.
Speaker 11 (34:04):
The ambassador told ABC's This Week Iran is not living
up to the memorandum of understanding and that all options
are back on the table.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Regardless of whether your party to some conflict, you cannot
start shooting in all directions, attacking your neighbors, attacking civilian shipping,
civilian infrastructure, throwing mines and international waterways.
Speaker 11 (34:25):
Waltz accuses Tehran and repeatedly violating a ceasefire agreement. This
amid tension surrounding the Strait of Horror moves. USSNCOM insists
the strait remains open. Iran has said the strait is
closed until further notice. I'm Scott Carr in Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
While the star of Jurassic Park and many other Hollywood films,
Actor Sam Neil has died at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Doltor god idea doctors actually welcome to Jurassic Bunk.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
The New Zealand Actors Family confirmed Monday Neil died in Sydney, Australia.
Neil had been diagnosed with stage three blood cancer, but
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death was sudden and unexpected. While best known for Jurassic Park,
Neil appeared in films including Omen three, The Final Conflict,
Dead Calm, The Hunt for Run, October, The Piano and
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Michael del Journal Jeffries got the sound, red keeping and
eye in the content. Of course, most of the conversation
today will be the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham. Flags
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flying at half staff at the White House and on Capitol.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hill following his death.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This weekend, US forces are carrying out new waves of
strike on Iran military assets. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has
finally released a statement. McConnell eighty four years old, same
age as my mother. I can tell you that when
you fall, you go to the hospital. Usually, being at
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the hospital, you get some form of pneumonia because that's
what they do best, and then the family scrambles to
get you to a rehab center, which is usually a
twenty day rehab. What you see Mitch McConnell going through
is what every elderly American goes through. You'd be shocked
at how real falling can be in your pathway to
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death at an elderly age. But of course, when you're
Mitch McConnell and we live in a crazy social dilemma outrage,
internet conspiracy theory America, you don't live in the norm,
(02:06):
you live in the extreme. Now, having said that, I
don't know why they waited so long to release a
formal statement. Waking up, I just saw Sam Neil. Was
it obsession that he's in. I don't know why. Andrew
and I have gone to like three movies. We've gone
to more movies in the last two weeks than we've
gone in the last ten years. But I think he
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was in something that I saw, and I don't think
it was The Tuner, which, by the way, I haven't
said this on the area yet out of all of them.
Go see the Tuner. Dustin Hoffman's and at the Star
is a guy from the last the Italyque episode of
White Lotus. He's a terrific I mean terrific young actor.
(02:50):
And that was a really good script, really good movie.
Go see the Tuner. There's more to it than pianos,
I assure you. But I think Sam Neil was in
a session. That's the one where the guy makes the
kid makes the wish and then careful what you ask for.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The woman gets obsessed with him. I see him in Possession.
He wasn't an upset. He was in something I just saw.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I mean, he could be, but these I'm just running
down what I'm seeing on the screen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean that seventy eight. Again, we're gonna talk
about life expectancy. Even though he's from New Zealand. You know,
these people are at an age where it can happen.
And but this this seemed rather a sudden. I think
we're going to find that he had an ongoing illness.
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And then finally, what a big weekend in sports we have.
You've got the fe Fass semi finals of World Cup
soccer that begins on Tuesday too. And by the way,
these times are tough on on Americans. I mean this,
this reminds me when I was a little kid, Major
League Baseball would have playoff games and they'd have them
(04:02):
during the day. Now, this became a big issue for
my brother Vic. Well, that's an issue for any del
genonal child who hates school to start with. But when
the Detroit Tigers were they would go on to win
the World Series, but they were in the playoffs first,
and you know they didn't want to go to school.
I mean, it's just so both games are two o'clock,
un fast and care.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
If you've noticed, they don't use the the sponsor names
for the stadiums either. They referred to the stadiums as
like Atlanta. Well, yeah, yeah, I know they do that,
but doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, you would think, listen, I don't you know,
kids aren't in school, so that's not relevant.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I wasn't trying to make that point, and I don't care.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
My day's usually done by one then I have a
little brief thing I have to do in the afternoon.
Two brief things. But you would think for ratings would
want everybody home from work. But this is gonna have
like a like a Final four field. I think there's
gonna be a lot of people skipping work, a long
lunch at the bub We got France and Spain. I
don't think anybody can be France a period. I don't
(05:03):
want to make a big deal out of it, but
they just seem to me to be the best team
in soccer. But there was a lot of talk about, oh,
it's gonna be France or Spain. Well you're gonna find
out in the semis they play. Coming up on Tuesday,
we have England and Argentina. I don't know why I
find myself rooting for Argentina. MESSI yeah, line knows a
(05:25):
good reason. I do like them, and I do like
the outfits too. Red what what's your theory?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know what my theory is they don't want them
drinking all day.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's probably not a bad theory. Wow, So France, Spain, England, Argentina.
Look out for England though. That's I was golfing with
something I made. Have a new friend this week and
I love every time I go golfing all alone. I
make a new friend and it's really awkward, like because
you know, you have a great time, because golfing's like fishing.
You're together five six hours, you know, four or five hours,
(05:55):
and you know, and then you go back, you know,
you're in your cart. It's like where did you park?
And then I actually was before him. I guess you
get stuck with the card. And we get out and
we're saying goodbye, and of course we're both thinking the
same thing, we should play together again. We just had
a really good time and I was like, Wow, what
are you gonna do? All you can say is nice
to meet you. And then there was this awkward moment
(06:17):
and he's like, hey, can I get your number? And
I felt like, oh my god, you just asked me out.
But I'm dying to take him to Montgomery Bell to play.
He's never played there. Yeah, I love Montgomery Bell. So
but yeah, we we were talking about England because we
had the game on in the cart while we were playing,
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and there is something about England, you know that that
that's that team that's playing its best or even above best.
I mean just everything the chemistry you know about us,
it's just all coming together at the right moment. Maybe
England France could be a pretty exceptional final. Argentina likes
to just get by this whole tournament that you could
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see that's going to catch up with them at some point.
Will it be the Semis or the finals? So huge
week in sports FIFA Semis Tuesday and Wednesday at two
on Fox. I think we have, argue, without question, the
four best teams. So what more could you ask for?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You have the home run Derby, which I don't know.
When I was a kid, I remember I was on
the air my one oh seven point seven FM K
I m y no punk, no funk, no elevator junk.
That was our slogan in Oklahoma City, terrible radio station.
(07:37):
And I remember I had to be on the air
during the All Star Game. And I'm sitting there watching
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I'm on the air.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But other than that, All Star Game was always appointment
for me. Not so much anymore now. Pro Bowls in
the NFL you can't even watch them. They don't have them.
Maybe we went from tackle to not tackling the flag.
It's just stupid, don't even have them. NBA lost interest
in five decade ago the All Star Game, but the
(08:03):
home run Derby, isn't that the new appointment when it
comes to the All Star Break? That's tonight from Philadelphia.
Then the All Star Game is Toronto, and then Thursday's
the Open. The one and fifty first, fifty fourth Open
Championship takes place at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in England.
So that's coming up on Thursday. Huge weekend sports. All right,
(08:24):
Lindsey Graham, where would one begin? Well, there's two little twists.
One he just got back from Ukraine where he had
been eleven times to support Zelensky, and then he dies
just you know, night or the day after the night
of returning, and then days after his seventy first birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This is what he had to say while in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So when I get back to Washington, I'm going to
go with Senator Bluemothal to the Republican the Democratic leader,
to say, if we can find time to move this
Russian sanctious package that would give tools to President Trump
to help end this war. We have a magic moment
in time here in the coming months. If we do
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this right, increase your train's lethality, get people to help
us with Putin rather than propping him up.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We can end this war.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I mean, a pretty important guy on a pretty important
trip with some pretty important agenda items upon returning, and
of course death had something else in mind. The President
was on the phone, remembering Lindsey Graham over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And I know that we are all just absorbing this news.
We are all in shock.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Can you tell us, mister President, how you receive this
news and your immediate gut reaction when.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You heard it.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So what makes it even stranger is that I got
a call last night sometime a you know, the early evening,
maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said,
we're all set for the Save America Act. He was
pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back,
said he.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just landed from Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I said, that's a long trip to me. CA said,
he sounded a little tired but perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
But it's a little bit tired. I had a right
to be.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And he was a worker, He was really a worker.
But but he sounded great, actually, but he was he was.
He actually said he was tired, but he wanted to
pass the Save America Act. And I said, well, we're
going to get it done, lindsay, we're going to get
it done.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I'll see you like soon. We thought we might even
meet today, and then.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That was it.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
And that was, you know, very around the time.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It couldn't have been much longer. It could have been
his last call. I don't know exactly, but I got
a message about one o'clock in the morning from one
of the people in his office that he had That's
the way.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
I said, you just can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He was like a member of the family. That it's
very tough.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's pretty strong words coming from the president. They have
obviously gotten close. It's interesting what I saw on the internet.
And again, you know, algorithms, what gets fed. If an
idiot falls in a forest and I'm not there, does
he really make a sound? But there were some really,
(11:32):
some really vicious things that I wouldn't I mean, you
would expect Iranian television to announce his death and congratulate
the people of Iran on his death and to proclaim
he's headed to hell. I mean, you would expect that.
(11:53):
But I mean people like Margaret Show. This was Margaret Show.
I don't want to give any of them any time,
but this is the kind of stuff I was seeing
that was really sickening.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Bye Lindsey, Bye Lindsey Graham from.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The closet to the coffin real seamless. I mean, the
left is just.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the only reason why I've been bringing up is
number one, see it, know it's there, and don't be
like it. I'm so glad we didn't behave the way
they're behaving for eight years while Barack Obama was president.
Though there was a lot of crap then too, But
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to make this about political hatred when a man dies,
it's just.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I mean, greater love has no man than this.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Love the Lord like God with all your heart, soul
and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. I mean,
we're just so freaking lost that it'll make you want
a puke. And then there was a lot of support too,
and in the support, and I think the President brought this. Yeah,
President definitely brought it up. And trying to think who
(13:09):
else might have. But I'm talking about everyday people posting
this is the Lindsey Graham they choose to remember. I
think it was his perhaps finest moment, Lindsay Graham at
the Kavanaugh hearing.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I would never do to them what you've done to
this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
This is the most.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you
really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell
wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Are you a gang rapist?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I hope the American people can see through this sham
that you knew about it, and you held it. You
had no intention of protecting none. Jesus as much of
a victim as you are.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
God.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I hate to say because these have been my friends,
but let me tell you, when it comes to this,
you're looking for a fair process. You came to the
wrong town at the wrong time, my friend, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Afraid that the times have gotten even worse since then.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina Senator, dies suddenly at the
age of seventy one, just days after his seventy first birthday.
On the evening, he returns from a Ukraine visit with
so much work ahead. We'll have more coming up throughout
the morning, a lot of people to help us understand
these things.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Rory's going to be along.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
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Good morning, Michael and grew and a happy Monday to
all from the US Virgin Islands.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
All I can say this morning is you got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Michael. You call out one senator for.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Making a comment on Lindsey Graham's passing, and I haven't
heard you once comment on DJT making comments on other
people's passing.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
All right, well, yeah, one, I think you're you're living
on a Virgin island. Of the show one. I did
not make any comments about what senators said. I was
just talking in general about the vile responses on social
media over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And I think the clip I played.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Was an actress Markert show that's number one, number two,
give an example, And it didn't come to mind because
it wasn't relevant to the top. But we do hold
the president accountable when he did it with Robert Muller.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I know I did.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But then again, Donald Trump is not my way truth
or life. He's just the president who does a lot
of things really right and says a lot of things
really wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
But I'm used to that, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Irrelevant to and I get that this is like an
internet attack right now that if the president says something
good about Lindsey Graham, then it has no meaning. Lindsey
Graham certainly didn't earn it because the president says something
bad about someone else in death. It's just childish. Sheldon,
(18:42):
I disinvite you to listen to this show if you
can't listen better or behave better. I said from day
one on this show, there's only one intolerable act, and
that is disrespect. You can disagree till the cows come home.
And not only is it okay, but I love it.
(19:04):
Disrespect I'll draw the line on. So it's really not
relevant to this story. Donald Trump's sadness over the passing
of Lindsey Graham is not the story. Lindsey Graham's death
is the story. And when the President spoke ill of
the dead in the past, we have spoke against that.
(19:29):
So if you think this is typical shirts and skins,
conservative talk, good guys, bad guy, you got the wrong show.
It's the wrong person to accuse. And my point was simple,
if your first thought should be love. Now I realize
(19:50):
outside of Christ that's not going to be possible. My
moral over point was if you can't have your first
thought be love, whether you're value Bertinellie mar Margaret Choe,
or the president in the past, or anyone today or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Then how about if you have.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Nothing good to say, say nothing at all, which is
what you could have done before that call. Look, this
shouldn't be all that shocking, I guess for Lindsey Graham,
because there were no signs of ill health, sudden death.
I guess we could throw in the way his office
(20:29):
handled it.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And then this is the sickness.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, I keep telling you we live in a
matrix and in a social dilemma. They're bigger than the
problems that it makes us incapable of solving. They and
of themselves, are the biggest problem. They are the biggest
threat to not just our unity, our sustainability as a republic.
(20:56):
I mean, it is the consequence of abandoning God, abandoning
our intent. I mean, we all know. I could name
a city right now, and when I say this, you'll
(21:17):
think of your own.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But I mean the.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Worst sports towns, they are classless. And you know when
they're in your town, and you know when they're in
your stadium and you see them by the concession stands,
just behaving like idiots. That's how we become as Americans
playing the shirts and skins game. But this social dilemma
(21:42):
over the week, if I were to rewind to about
eighteen hours ago, we're all.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Thinking who killed him? Did putin poison him while he
was in Ukraine?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And these conspiracy theories, by the way, will take hold.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
What do we always quote John F. Kennedy? Too often?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's the Internet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
If you ask me to define the freaking Internet, that
would be the definition.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Bandwagon, immovable, immediate, even if irrational, fixed position, no thought,
no grace of time before you form your opinion.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
At seventy one years old, probably after Look, there are
scans you can get for ninety bucks that'll measure your calcium.
There's no reason to be walking around with blockage. But
if you do, you'll either luck out and have a
heart attack and live, or you'll drop dead. If you
(22:59):
add that high blood pressure, you can have an aortic
terror and you will die relatively fast and have very
little time of knowing. You don't feel very well, And
if you make the fatal mistake of all, maybe I'll
go to doctor tomorrow. No, maybe you're gonna go to
(23:21):
heaven tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now that's seventy one. That's young.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The average life expectancy of a male in twenty twenty
six in the United States of America is seventy six
and a half years. So Lindsey Graham only died five
years before life expectancy. Now our perception is, well, he
was really young, and he seemed really healthy. I mean
he was just in Ukraine, he just got home. Or
(23:48):
you're like President Trump, he's not a little tired. But
he was saying old, lindsay, five years from his expiration date.
On average, the life expectancy of a woman is eighty
one point four. Now I was not born yesterday. I understand.
(24:12):
This is all a game of power. That's why when
a Supreme Court justice appointed for life gets up there
in age, people start, you know, pressuring them to step down.
Why because the odds are they could die any minute,
and if they die while this guy's in office, they'll
pick his successor get out of the way while I'm
in office.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And it's the same with senators.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Immediately the attention turn say, well, thank god, we got
a governor in South Carolina that'll point the right temporary
person and then we'll have a special election, and I'm
sure Nancy Masa win. He's not even embalmed yet, and
we go right.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Out to securing power.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I want to make a simple point, and it's
not a crude point, and it's not an immature point.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Only God knows every hair in my head, every thought
in my mind, and the deepest corners of my heart.
He goes before me, with me, after me. He fearfully
and wonderfully made me, gifted me, purposed me, and he
knows the moment I'm coming home. And I've had three experiences.
(25:24):
I cannot tell you how I'm here. I had one
at fourteen years old. I was in the backseat of
a Camaro on Lud's in marijuana. The driver goes eighty
five miles an hour with fog, hat slow ride. Think
of the irony there eighty miles an hour into a
(25:44):
parked truck that was stopped on the side of the road.
My brother Bobby was in the front seat, was between
the floorboard and the engine. I was in the front seat.
We all got out of that car. Paul Capatano was
(26:05):
the driver's father, was a Golden Gloves boxer, showed up
at the scene. The first thing he did was decked.
His son punched him right in the face. Wow, and
I got a talent show to dance in tonight. Never
should have lived, none of us wearing seatbelts. Keith Andrews
is one of the ones that was in the car
who calls from Mobile, Alabama. Never should have lived. I'm
(26:28):
on the interstate in Nashville, Tennessee. Stop dead, I'm gonna
be late for my show. I look in the rear
view mirror and there's no cars behind him, and look
at Look at my luck. Not only is traffic stop dead,
I am the back of the line, and right as
I'm thinking that, I'm seeing a white blur coming towards me.
And it's a van and it happened this fast. Oh
(26:49):
my gosh, is this guy gonna stop? I don't think
he's gonna stop. What's that smoke? Great irony was I
got smashed into the car in front of me. The
car in front of me was one of my listeners,
and we all lived and shouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
How dumb is this.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm a teenager and I go whitewater rafting and I
don't know how to swim and then I dropped my cigarettes.
They fall out of the boat and I go to
reach to get them, and I fall out of the boat.
Now I'm going, I don't know what, thirty miles an
hour through these white rapids, and I reach up and
grab a branch. Now I'm hanging from the branch. Now
(27:33):
I got nowhere to go. Eventually my hand slipped from
the branch. I'm back going twenty five thirty miles n whatever,
I'm going. Boom, and I was said, boom. I'm on
my boat, which had wedged on a rock, and I
was very safe, very secure, And this ruins the whole story.
(27:56):
My back of cigarettes were sitting right there on the rock.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
What are the odds of that?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Thank you Lord, not for saving my life, but saving
my barbaros.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Saving me three bucks a back. I mean, I don't
think I'm going anywhere, so God says.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So that's how I choose to live by faith, because
God knew what he had to do with me. He
knew what I would obey disobey, and how he was
going to use me till I was done. But having
said that, we do have average life expectancies, and then
we have a few more clues about our own life
because we know what we've been ignoring. We know what
we eat, we know what we drink, we know what
(28:30):
we smoke. We know how we don't exercise, we know
how we don't go to the doctor, and we don't
get our tests or have things that are strange on
us that we don't get checked out. But on average,
put us all in a blender. On average, the average
male is going to die at sixty seventy six and
a half and the average woem's gonna die at eighty one.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And that's good.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Provided you're able to live to that point. And when
you start living beyond that point, except for a special few,
you start falling. Your whole life becomes fall hospital rehab,
fall hospital rehab, nursing home. But look at our Senate
(29:20):
Chuck Grassley, Republican, Iowa, ninety one years old. What's this
guy doing still in the Senate, hanging out of power.
Everybody waking up this morning was like shocked. I can't
believe it was Lindsay Graham. I mean, I thought for
sure it was gonna be Mitch McConnell. No, Mitch's just
eighty four fell. Now he's in rehab got a little
(29:40):
pnemonia while he was in the hospital, but now he's
in rehab because that's what eighty four year olds do.
It happens. I'm around them every day. I'm not speaking
ill of the elderly. I love and care for them.
But only the sick Internet makes this all about. He's
dead and they won't admit it. You should have seen
the nasty posts. Okay, well, now that Lindsay's dead, come on,
(30:04):
Mitch's dead.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Two.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Everything's a freaking conspiracy theory. Gosh, you gotta turn these
phones off. We'll drive you knots. I mean, I have
to do it for my job, but you don't. But
here's Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Ninety one.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And you're wondering who could be the third any of
these people Bernie eighty three, Mitch McConnell, Angus King is eighty,
Dick Durbin, Well, Dick's at least trying to leave eighty,
Blumenthal seventy eight, Marquee seventy eight, Welsh seventy seven, Shaheen
(30:45):
seventy seven, wade In seventy seven, more In seventy six.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They're all They're all at life expectancy or beyond.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Marcia Blackburn's on this list because she's turning seventy five.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
This year and she's running for governor.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Only god knows, but as life expectancy goes in America today,
who would want to spend their last five years being
governor of a state?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Go home?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You could fall, go home and be with your husband,
your children, your grandchildren. I'm plotting my holes seventy six
and a half to give me five.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
To ten good years to travel the world.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Most of you are waking up this morning shocked. Lindsey
Graham's dad and I get it. I've shocked. More of
them aren't dead. Who will be the third? This fields
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It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
President Trump says Senator Lindsey Graham was like a member
of the family to him.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Trump mourned the death of Graham on NBC's Meet the Press,
which the South Carolina Republican had been scheduled to appear
on Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
He's a tough one to lose. It was great. He
was unique.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
In every way.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Actually.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
The President also said he spoke to the seventy one
year old Graham just hours before his passing, saying other
than being tired, he was fine. Graham's communications director said
in a post on x that the DC Medical Examiner
said Graham died from a wordic dissection. The South Carolina
Republican was one of President Trump's closest allies in Congress.
Graham was chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and was
seeking his fifth term in office. In November, A Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
The US Ambassador of the United Nations Waltz, says the
ceasefire between the US and Iran has broken down.
Speaker 11 (34:04):
The ambassador told ABC's This Week Iran is not living
up to the memorandum of understanding and that all options
are back on the table.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Regardless of whether your party to some conflict, you cannot
start shooting in all directions, attacking your neighbors, attacking civilian shipping,
civilian infrastructure, throwing mines and international waterways.
Speaker 11 (34:25):
Waltz accuses Tehran and repeatedly violating a ceasefire agreement. This
amid tension surrounding the Strait of Horror moves. USSNCOM insists
the strait remains open. Iran has said the strait is
closed until further notice. I'm Scott Carr in Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
While the star of Jurassic Park and many other Hollywood films,
Actor Sam Neil has died at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Doltor god idea doctors actually welcome to Jurassic Bunk.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
The New Zealand Actors Family confirmed Monday Neil died in Sydney, Australia.
Neil had been diagnosed with stage three blood cancer, but
was declared cancer free in April. The famili said his
death was sudden and unexpected. While best known for Jurassic Park,
Neil appeared in films including Omen three, The Final Conflict,
Dead Calm, The Hunt for Run, October, The Piano and
(35:18):
many others.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'm Martin Neefield. We're all in this together. This is
your morning show with Michael Enthel Joano
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