August 1, 2025 • 35 mins
Dems dying on another impossible to win hill…voter ID.
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Former President Biden in Chicago on the attack. It's more
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Biden now travels on foot like the blow up floats
at the Macy's state parade. He now has someone on
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there's one spot and from behind.
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Was a bad dude. He was a bad.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Dude, but he took to attacking the president. So Joe's
on the attack of Trump. Kamala meanwhile, is out with
a memoir called one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
There's apparently I'm never on.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
TikTok just in full confession, so I don't know any
of the TikTok crazes. But apparently there's a new TikTok
craze where Mamala Kamala is. It looks like it's a
like she's in a library surround a book. I don't
know what part of the the thing is TikTok tick
(03:09):
and trend, but she's like in a library whispering to
an imaginary person.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Everyone thinks you've been kicking back, drinking Marguerita's on the beach,
but really you've been hard at work writing a book,
meeting with leaders, thinking about the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How does how does word salads work in a book? Well,
they can get edited right, and I guess it's a
it's some kind of a terrem where you talk to yourself,
whether you're you know, the the accusation and then you
answer it kind of thing. It's a big flop.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Where I come from, we call that bi bowler.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well there is that too, so there's really no Look,
there's two ways to look at Kamala Harris and I
try to be kind to all people. She wasn't likablele
that was her problem, and I would dissect that even
further by saying, well, she only knows how to play
the role of a prosecutor, so everything is kind of mean, tough,
(04:14):
and it just came across nasty, even when everything has
to be in like I'm delivering evidence and she's always
going for conviction and Jerry decision. And it just didn't
play well. Didn't play well well on the campaign trail,
didn't play well and interviews, it didn't play well on
debate stages. And she was the first one out in
(04:36):
an open primary aggressively attacking Joe Biden for being a
racist and not caring about girls like her when they
were waiting.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
For the school month.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So she's very, very unsuccessful on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's just a fact. Now you start.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Getting into opinion me, you say, well, why is she
some unsuccessful Well, Donald Trump will take you She's just
not smart and she doesn't speak well. She's now famous
for the word salads. She's somewhat infamous for perhaps drinking
too much as an explanation for odd behavior. But she's
(05:20):
just a terrible candidate.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Bob Ucker, first of all, wasn't as bad of a
baseball player as he used to like to self deprecatingly
joke about. And first of all, you got to be
pretty good to become a major league baseball player. So
even if you make it to the big leagues, you
make it to the show and you don't have the numbers,
you still made it to the show. But it begs
(05:46):
the question, someone so famously unlikable, infamously either a drunk
or goofy, and a proven failure, who cares about that?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Memoir? Number two?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Most people write books to run for president, But that
would be about for people that need to really introduce
themselves and get in depth issue by issue, stance by
stance to try to win voters heart's minds and ultimately vote.
Is one hundred and seven Days about her terrible performance
(06:34):
and a scandalous handoff of a presidency after a scandalous
cover up. Is that really a launch book for her campaign?
I mean, she announced this week she's not running for governor,
so what does that leave author So she's clearly running
(06:57):
for president. This is clearly the start of at it's
one hundred and seven days looking into failure and trying
to put lipstick on it, and who's interested in reading
the memoir of a failure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just all very odd.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And I say all that to say, as odd as
that is, nothing's odder than this video she releases in
TikTok style.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean it just strikes.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Every well, everything she does strikes people creepy. So Joe
Biden gets ten million dollars to write a memoir and
we're pretty much convinced he has no memory, and that's
the scandal. And he's getting money to write a memoir
with no memory. And Kama's out with one hundred and
seven days what she learned failing miserably in a short
(07:51):
run rate for president against a candidate who was tied
up in court dodging bullets, and she's still lost.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Just a reminder, word on the street is auto pin
wrote the Biden memoir, it's going to have.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
To How are you kidding me? I want to give
you one quick example of the Dems still dying on
unwinnable hills. This was in Sounds of the Day on Monday.
But this is what the left does, all right, So
and again if they were just so you know, go
(08:32):
buy a pack of cigarettes today. Someone's going to have
to see your driver's license. Now you can always not
show it and not smoke preferably, we might add, but
when it comes to voting, oh, you can't show your ID.
That's discriminating, that's trying to disadvantage people. That's trying to
(08:57):
keep people from showing up to vote. Well, I got
news for you. The guy wanting the liquor, the guy
wanting the cigarette, he shows his ID every time and
he don't care. He wants the cigarette. So I don't
know showing your ID would keep you from voting. Number one,
Why is it only Democrats are anti voter ID. Why
aren't they anti voter ID in all the other ways
(09:18):
we have to show IDAs. I mean, it's all crazinin
It's been going on for decades. There is another layer
to this that we talk about that I don't think
anybody else talks about, and that is the great Democrats
scam and shift. All right, So first, we're a constitutional
representative republic. You're the king, never a politician. We got lazy,
(09:42):
they got egotistical. Now we worship them. They demand to
be worshiped. They're there for life, they're getting rich. You're
enslaved to them. And you've volitionally give him this power.
They eventually, through Barack Obama, just start referring to us
as a democracy, say the pledge of agents silently to
yourself right now and you'll realize, and to the republic
(10:04):
for which it stands. So they change it from republic
to democracy. Some people corrected, others eventually got tired of correcting,
and then all of a sudden it just became youseeted enough,
it became so and then the shift was, Okay, now
that we got you believe in you're a democracy mob
(10:25):
rule and not a republic. Now democracy is the Democrat
Party platform, and anyone who stands against a Democrat candidate
or a Democrat policy or anything in its platform is
now anti democracy than an insurrectionist. So how quick did
(10:45):
they change it from republic to democracy to Democrat Party
to any opposition is hate at war with democracy against
democracy and insurrectionists. That's a game they played. So here's
Chuck Schumer earlier in the week. Now they are anti
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voter ID. Voter id is. It's an epicenter earthquake to
democracy and certainly to their John R. Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act. So here's what he says about anybody that's
for voter ID, because these guys are undoing everything in
(11:31):
every way they can.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They don't want poor people to vote, they don't want
people of.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Color to vote, they don't want Democrats to vote.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
They don't believe in democracy.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So the right doesn't believe in democracy. Anybody that believes
in voter ID doesn't believe in democracy. You're racist, you're hateful,
and you're out of control, and you're just getting started.
And yet our Rasmussen poll today and our polls of
plenty by a three to one marchin and voters continue
to favor election integrity.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And voter ID.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Seventy three percent of likely US voters believe requiring a
photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect
the integrity of elections. Or, as we always say, everybody
is an agreement, we're a Banana republic without fair and
accurate elections.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We have a problem with election fraud.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I once broadcast in a city whose mayor voted in
two different states. So voter fraud happens. What's your plan
to stop it? Why are you as so opposed to it?
Is it as obvious as that you need voter fraud
in order to maintain power.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But that's not even my point.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
My ultimate point is this is how out of step
they are with the American people. Seventy three percent of
likely US voters believe that requiring a voter IDA vote
is a reasonable measure. And you just heard the words
of Chuckie Schumer. No, it's not it's racist, it's hateful.
It's hating democracy. That's how out of touch they are
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with the people. And they continue to fight on these
hills like they're winnable and worth dying on voter id
open borders. I wonder how hard they're going to fight
when it comes to banning them from being able to
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buy and sell stocks while in office, getting inside information
before it happens.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
All right, so we've got a lot to kick around.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
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good Arab States really putting the muscle on Hamas to disarm.
I think those meetings that the President had in Saudi
Arabia and Cutter are really paying off. And I think
this is not only the way we get Muslims to
keep the other Muslims in check, but maybe help out
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What was the movie you cordially invited or what was it?
Remember we watched it? It was so funny.
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Oh, you're cordially invited with Reese Witherspoon and Old School.
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If you if you loved her in that, Netflix gave
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(19:01):
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I don't know if Leanne works in large doses like
Julia Louise Streyfuss in.
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Elaine.
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Used to be a listener here. She's a comedian. She
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at fifty nine years old, sixty years old, get all
their big breaks and then just knock it out of
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all right, that'll be on Netflix. Lou Diamond Phillips. You
(20:14):
know him most for doing the Richie Vallens story in
La Bamba.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But he's going on to.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Do great work stage, screen, television, directing, acting, writing, as
we always say, plays a great bad guy. He's out
with a new movie and you can download it over
the weekend. It's streaming on demand it too, And what
a thrill it is to have him join us. And
he was our Spotlight Interview of the week. Thank you, Michael.
(20:43):
Absolutely you know, I guess you know, I remember being
a teenager and Richie Allens died as a teenager, and
you're probably so sick of talking about that, but your
portrayal of ritchie Vallens is so memorable, you know. And
I always think about that when somebody has their best
work early on, but that's not the case with you.
I mean, I'm thinking of a character you did in
Law and Order, Victor Gatano. Yeah, you're you're portrayaling young guns.
(21:07):
I've seen you in Goliath, The Ranch, blue Bloods, and others,
and I got to make an observation because you're a
very very nice man, but you play you play a
really good bad guy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Thank you. Uh, it's so funny.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I mean, there's a lot of fantastic bad guys throughout
the years, you know, I've met, I've you know, worked with,
and they're always the nicest people. Uh, you know, I
think it's I think it's therapy for us. It's a
scannel of the dark right out.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I was just gonna say, I would think it's probably
harder to portray something similar to yourself when something's so
different you can get lost in it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, then it's acting. You know, you know, it's it's funny.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I mean the Victor Gatano role was a bit of
an amused boosh, uh for me to play Richard Ramirez
and the Nights Talker and people go, how do you
do that?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
I mean, it's it's it's a very intellectual approach, you know.
I mean, you know, I don't think you can method
that because that they'd be a little psychotic. But you know,
I mean it's it's uh, it goes back to your
theater training, and it goes back to building the character
and doing your research and then the magic if you
put yourself in that character shoes and you you think
and you operate like they do, you know, for a
(22:18):
finite amount of time. So uh, those are a lot
of fun. Those are a lot of fun. And that is,
you know, as I said, a pure acting job.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You know what, what is the work? You're most proud
of the fact that I've been doing this for forty years.
That's not easy.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you know, the people have
come and gone and and I've I've been one of
the lucky ones.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I've also you know, and I'm still here.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
I mean, there are you know, so many friends, you know,
Patrick Swayze, Luke Perry, you know, I just oh my god,
Malcolm Jamal Warner recently it's just like good God, you know,
to wake up in the morning and a walk on
the planet.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Is what is the hardest part? Is it juggling all
the challenges? I mean, you've done stage, TV movies all well,
you've acted, written, directed. It kind of all comes together
any too. We're going to talk about that in a second.
But is it managing because you've mentioned some others that
didn't fare out as well, they're not still with us.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Is it managing fame or managing the work? What is
it that's managing all of it? Yeah, No, it's it's
it's finding a balance, you know.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
And and I think when you know early on, like
you said, you know, you can get overwhelmed by it.
And and uh, I think, you know, learning to relax,
learning that that the the business isn't the the you know,
be all and end all to it. And and you know,
I think being grateful and knowing that I'd be doing this,
(23:45):
you know, in community theater, you know, for free, if
I was, if I was you know, if I had
never gotten lucky because I do love it, and but
it's it is the pacing yourself, you know, and and
getting your priorities, you know, right, whether it's family or
you know, being a father, you know, just or being
a normal person. Uh, it's you know, it's it's a
constant I don't want to say struggle. But you have
(24:09):
to be, you know, mindful. You have to be mindful.
Sure if you were very young when you did I
was twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Four when I did that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
And by the way, it's thirty July twenty fourth is
the thirty eighth year anniversary of the premiere of the Thing.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thank you for reminding me that I'm mortal. I'll be
dead soon.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And it's crazy, man, but that was such an extraordinary
story and performance.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And I mean just boom, you were a household name. Well,
thank you man. That's a lot to handle at twenty four.
It was it was, it was crazy.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
It's so funny because I think about it, because I'm
reflecting on this on this day, because the night before
Danny Veldez, who played my uncle and was also the
associate producer on the film, he literally said, We're going
to hand you the keys to the candy store. Yeah,
your teeth, you know, and it was good advice. Man,
it really early, but.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The caps look good, Lou Diamond Phillips. Is what the
talk to us about? Am I saying it right?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
At two? Yeah? At two?
Speaker 7 (25:03):
You know it's it's the famous phrase at two brute
from the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Uh, And and
that that sums it up. It's I play a director
who has mounted a regional theater production of at two.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
He's a purist, uh, an idealist, a bit pretentious. Uh,
but he also thinks that the hunky young guy who
got the role through nepotism, uh, who's playing brutus uh
is stooping his wife.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So and let the.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Exactly and find Shakespeare in othello like fashion. The jealousy
and the rage and the insecurity and all all.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Of that start to uh to escalate, and you know
there's a blood bath pretty much. Yes, uh props fabulous.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Unfortunately we have seen uh that props in movies and yeah,
well yeah is the real deal. And yeah, there are
a lot of daggers. There's a lot of daggers flying
around and two uh uh so uh, you know, without
spoiling anything, it gets very twisted.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
What does it remind I mean, how would you describe this?
You know, I thought a little bit of what was
the drummering? They were all in drummer school. The guy
that does the insurance commercially is such a great actor.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Uh JK. Simmons. Is a little bit of that to it,
Isn't there kind of don't you think? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Because sure, because Brent is is that demanding, is that
he's a sociopath, you know, and and uh really, I
mean it's all about the theater and about the art
and everything else, and and uh, you know, he takes
that to the end degree. But it also reminds me
of you know, like like the revenge you know, thriller
horror movies that Vincent Price did yes back in the day,
(26:48):
and those were those were always so elevated and so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So it was, yeah, a bit of a throwback.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I mean some people have said it's like the Shining
meets you know, Birdman.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I like that. We'll go with that. Lou Diamond, Phil
was joining us it too. Is the new movie.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
By the way, you got to work with somebody I
think is just terrific. I remember him in Oh, what
was the movie about Fox? What's wrong with my memory today?
I need you do that exercise I learned online that
supposedly connects the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Two sides of your brain. But oh, the movie about
Fox News and Roger Ayles. He was in that. He
played Rupert Murdoch. Oh there, oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I can't remember the name of it. Now it's gonna
I'll remember it immediately after we're done. But Malcolm McDonald
was in that. He played Rupert Murdoch. He's just such
a great actor.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
He's amazing, and I mean completely going back to you know,
the iconic clockwork Orange, you know, Stanley Kubrick. So yeah,
I knew I was in the presence of greatness and
I knew it. And Malcolm's wonderful. I mean that chemistry
that you know, that sort of bone on me, that
that that you see on screen is very very much
the nature of our relationships.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So because we.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Did these long takes and these wide shots and everything,
and it wasn't all cut up, you know. Uh so
so you had to be prepared and you had to
come and uh you know that that tennis matches is
exactly what you're watching.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
By the way, it was bombshell. Getting old is no fun. There.
You don't even start. Don't start with me.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
No, I was just gonna say, uh, it really is
kind of everything. Uh that the stage, I mean you
you had so much to draw on this. It's a
great story. Uh, I bring up you and Malcolm McDonald.
But there's a lot of people that are not going
to know that they're going to be introduced to, including
one of the lead performers. Just really amazing young actors,
very very well done.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
No I and the rest of the cast is is
quite young. They're wonderful and they they they they really
brought it, you know. Uh, the heart is in there
and uh, it's it's such a special little film. It's
just so left of center. It's not down the middle.
It's not anything that you know you're you're seeing. Uh,
And that's that's why I I I love doing it
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and have hopes that it was going to get out.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And so now it's available to find this audience, which
I love, and it's gonna be primarily through HBO or no.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's on video on demand on tons of platforms, I think,
including Fandango.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You can run it.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
You can buy it streaming on July twenty fifth and
for hopefully weeks after.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, so look forward on demand and lou Diamond Phillips
for a body of work that I hope you can realize.
Me and my staff we were going through everything and
I was bringing up Goliath and Ranch, which are two shows.
I really love Goliath. I mean, of course land Man,
now we got to get you on land Man. Let
you play somebody Dark.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I'm waiting by the phone for Billy Bob to call.
I mean, my gosh, he is. Don't you love Billy Bob.
He's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
But then they started bringing up the Law and Order
character and I was like, oh, I remember that character,
and we thought, for what began is such a innocent
portrayal of a set. I mean, can you imagine what
Richie Bollence might have done had he not gone down
that dam.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I mean they had so much Mony imagined it a lot. Yeah.
I mean he was a pioneer.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
I mean one of the first people to you know,
to rock and roll in Spanish and he was experimenting.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
With with global music.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
I mean he predated the Beatles with that, he predated
Boal Simon and you know Graceland. I mean, Richie gave rise,
you know, to Carlos Santana, which was also why it
was such an honor to have Carlos do our score,
you know, and to have him produce all the music.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I mean, really just just an amazing stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
I mean, Richie, Richie, we'd be we'd still be talking
about him today.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, and he wouldn't be that old. He was seventeen
years old. He didn't look seventeen. He didn't write like
he was seventeen. He didn't sing and performed like he
was seventeen. He was. He was a freak of nature,
and you played that so well. But the bottom line
of our conversation was, nobody plays a dark bad guy
like one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, Lou David.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Phillips, It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno, my.
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Wi's best Brandon half schoon with Leanne's older sister. We've
known Leancy Sheeld in high school.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
What do you say in the movies and owner TV
show that is leand there's no put onto.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
The show's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Hey, Mike, am I having deja vu? Or have I
already heard this interview. I mean it's a great interview,
don't get me wrong. I just feel like, uh, we're
trying to push it like it's happening right now. Anyway,
great show, great interview. I just want to make sure
it ain't crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, no, you're not crazy. I assure you're not crazy.
We call it the spot Light Interview of the Week.
Like I can tell you right now. Next week Michael
McDonald the Dewey Brothers out with a new album, a
new tour. Michael McDonald, he's going to be with us Tuesday,
and I'm almost certain he'll be the Friday Spotlight Interview
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of the Week.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But we do a lot of things during the week.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And we thought a long time ago, it was six
seven months ago we knew to is take one of
those things that we you know, if we said, gosh,
I hope nobody missed that, and make that our Spotlight
interview of the week. So there are some people who
listen at certain times in the morning and they don't
other times. Podcasting kind of changes that, but still some
people listen only so we do it on purpose. It's
called a Spotlight Interview of the week. So yes, happened
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once and just happened again. You're not going crazy, that's
for me.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I may be crazy. Fifty five minutes. You may be right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm may be crazy, hey, fifty five after the hour.
The high price of pharmaceuticals that's gotten on the radar
for Trump at the White House, Folksperst.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
And Caroline Lovett, since the US based three times surprise
for drugs compared to other countries, and President Trump is
determined to tackle the problem.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The President is determined to solve this problem and took
further action today.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
He has signed seventeen letters to pharmaceutical companies Ceosllward.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Says the letters from Trump to the CEOs of several
drug companies tell them it's an unacceptable burden on hardworking Americans.
The letters will be asking for immediate relief and includes
a sixty day deadline.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm Marknefield. When I tell you I was a good
baseball player, I was. I tell you enjoyed football I did.
Wasn't very big, wasn't very good. When it came to
the presidential fitness test, you would of died laughing watching
me try to climb a rope and guess what it's
coming back.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
President Trump called it a great American tradition.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Graduate scholars all across our country competed against each other
in the Presidential Fitness tests, and it was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
This was a wonderful tradition and we're bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Flanked by pro athletes at the White House, the President
said he's bringing back the tests that used to include
push ups or pull ups, sit ups, a mile run,
and to sit and reach where you sit on the
ground and reach for your toes. Former President Obama has
replaced it with an assessment focused more on personal health.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Alec
Baldwin alleging he was maliciously prosecuted for the death of
a crew member in his recent film Jennifer Pulsen has More.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Baldwin filed a lawsuit earlier this year, alleging he had
become a celebrity scapego for the twenty twenty one death
of cinematographer Helena Hodgins during the filming of the movie Rust.
Hudgins died after a prop gun accidentally misfired on the set.
A weapons handler for the movie eventually served fourteen months
for involuntary manslaughter.
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I'm Jennifer BULSONI if I was rich, I'd be all
over this.
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Margaritaville's own Jimmy Buffett's yacht is up for auction, according
to South Florida based G three Auctions. The ninety foot
Expedition yacht built in nineteen ninety nine with the original
price tag of close to three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
The minimum bid is one point two million dollars. What
will it go for?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Time will tell. The G three to twenty four hour
auction begins on September. Fourth NFL season began. Last night,
Chargers get the first w of the year. It was
all Chargers thirty four to seven over the Lions at
the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. Birthdays, I'm
telling you, August first is not a good day for birthdays.
I had to go all the way to Sunday to
find Martha Stewart turning eighty four and Martin Sheen turning
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big deal. And we are glad you were born and
thank you so much for making us part of your
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Well, someone's excited. It's Friday and it's August.
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I'm thinking about making the entire month of birthday celebration.
Oh I thought you did that anyway, No, usually just
celebrate on the thirtieth. But I'm thinking this maybe a
reference every day, just in case some of my audience
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Hey, it's eight minutes after the hour and it is
August and it is Friday. If you're just waking up,
the Trump administration is finalizing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries,
but they've come out.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Swinging against Canada.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
This president doesn't like the Canadian Prime Minister and he
didn't do himself any favors by supporting Palestine as estates.
So the President has now escalated the Canadian tariffs to
thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
We'll give me a little grace and mercy towards may quote.
More on that coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The threat of severe weather and potential floods is impacting
millions in the mid Atlantic and the Northeast. High price
of pharmaceuticals has gotten the attention of the White House.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We have.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Former President Biden in Chicago on the attack. It's more
of that nursing home screaming style. After being literally Joe
Biden now travels on foot like the blow up floats
at the Macy's state parade. He now has someone on
(02:23):
each arm and then, just like at the nursing home,
there's one spot and from behind.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Was a bad dude. He was a bad.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Dude, but he took to attacking the president. So Joe's
on the attack of Trump. Kamala meanwhile, is out with
a memoir called one hundred and seven days.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
There's apparently I'm never on.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
TikTok just in full confession, so I don't know any
of the TikTok crazes. But apparently there's a new TikTok
craze where Mamala Kamala is. It looks like it's a
like she's in a library surround a book. I don't
know what part of the the thing is TikTok tick
(03:09):
and trend, but she's like in a library whispering to
an imaginary person.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Everyone thinks you've been kicking back, drinking Marguerita's on the beach,
but really you've been hard at work writing a book,
meeting with leaders, thinking about the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How does how does word salads work in a book? Well,
they can get edited right, and I guess it's a
it's some kind of a terrem where you talk to yourself,
whether you're you know, the the accusation and then you
answer it kind of thing. It's a big flop.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Where I come from, we call that bi bowler.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well there is that too, so there's really no Look,
there's two ways to look at Kamala Harris and I
try to be kind to all people. She wasn't likablele
that was her problem, and I would dissect that even
further by saying, well, she only knows how to play
the role of a prosecutor, so everything is kind of mean, tough,
(04:14):
and it just came across nasty, even when everything has
to be in like I'm delivering evidence and she's always
going for conviction and Jerry decision. And it just didn't
play well. Didn't play well well on the campaign trail,
didn't play well and interviews, it didn't play well on
debate stages. And she was the first one out in
(04:36):
an open primary aggressively attacking Joe Biden for being a
racist and not caring about girls like her when they
were waiting.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
For the school month.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So she's very, very unsuccessful on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's just a fact. Now you start.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Getting into opinion me, you say, well, why is she
some unsuccessful Well, Donald Trump will take you She's just
not smart and she doesn't speak well. She's now famous
for the word salads. She's somewhat infamous for perhaps drinking
too much as an explanation for odd behavior. But she's
(05:20):
just a terrible candidate.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Bob Ucker, first of all, wasn't as bad of a
baseball player as he used to like to self deprecatingly
joke about. And first of all, you got to be
pretty good to become a major league baseball player. So
even if you make it to the big leagues, you
make it to the show and you don't have the numbers,
you still made it to the show. But it begs
(05:46):
the question, someone so famously unlikable, infamously either a drunk
or goofy, and a proven failure, who cares about that?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Memoir? Number two?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Most people write books to run for president, But that
would be about for people that need to really introduce
themselves and get in depth issue by issue, stance by
stance to try to win voters heart's minds and ultimately vote.
Is one hundred and seven Days about her terrible performance
(06:34):
and a scandalous handoff of a presidency after a scandalous
cover up. Is that really a launch book for her campaign?
I mean, she announced this week she's not running for governor,
so what does that leave author So she's clearly running
(06:57):
for president. This is clearly the start of at it's
one hundred and seven days looking into failure and trying
to put lipstick on it, and who's interested in reading
the memoir of a failure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just all very odd.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And I say all that to say, as odd as
that is, nothing's odder than this video she releases in
TikTok style.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean it just strikes.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Every well, everything she does strikes people creepy. So Joe
Biden gets ten million dollars to write a memoir and
we're pretty much convinced he has no memory, and that's
the scandal. And he's getting money to write a memoir
with no memory. And Kama's out with one hundred and
seven days what she learned failing miserably in a short
(07:51):
run rate for president against a candidate who was tied
up in court dodging bullets, and she's still lost.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Just a reminder, word on the street is auto pin
wrote the Biden memoir, it's going to have.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
To How are you kidding me? I want to give
you one quick example of the Dems still dying on
unwinnable hills. This was in Sounds of the Day on Monday.
But this is what the left does, all right, So
and again if they were just so you know, go
(08:32):
buy a pack of cigarettes today. Someone's going to have
to see your driver's license. Now you can always not
show it and not smoke preferably, we might add, but
when it comes to voting, oh, you can't show your ID.
That's discriminating, that's trying to disadvantage people. That's trying to
(08:57):
keep people from showing up to vote. Well, I got
news for you. The guy wanting the liquor, the guy
wanting the cigarette, he shows his ID every time and
he don't care. He wants the cigarette. So I don't
know showing your ID would keep you from voting. Number one,
Why is it only Democrats are anti voter ID. Why
aren't they anti voter ID in all the other ways
(09:18):
we have to show IDAs. I mean, it's all crazinin
It's been going on for decades. There is another layer
to this that we talk about that I don't think
anybody else talks about, and that is the great Democrats
scam and shift. All right, So first, we're a constitutional
representative republic. You're the king, never a politician. We got lazy,
(09:42):
they got egotistical. Now we worship them. They demand to
be worshiped. They're there for life, they're getting rich. You're
enslaved to them. And you've volitionally give him this power.
They eventually, through Barack Obama, just start referring to us
as a democracy, say the pledge of agents silently to
yourself right now and you'll realize, and to the republic
(10:04):
for which it stands. So they change it from republic
to democracy. Some people corrected, others eventually got tired of correcting,
and then all of a sudden it just became youseeted enough,
it became so and then the shift was, Okay, now
that we got you believe in you're a democracy mob
(10:25):
rule and not a republic. Now democracy is the Democrat
Party platform, and anyone who stands against a Democrat candidate
or a Democrat policy or anything in its platform is
now anti democracy than an insurrectionist. So how quick did
(10:45):
they change it from republic to democracy to Democrat Party
to any opposition is hate at war with democracy against
democracy and insurrectionists. That's a game they played. So here's
Chuck Schumer earlier in the week. Now they are anti
(11:08):
voter ID. Voter id is. It's an epicenter earthquake to
democracy and certainly to their John R. Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act. So here's what he says about anybody that's
for voter ID, because these guys are undoing everything in
(11:31):
every way they can.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They don't want poor people to vote, they don't want
people of.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Color to vote, they don't want Democrats to vote.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
They don't believe in democracy.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So the right doesn't believe in democracy. Anybody that believes
in voter ID doesn't believe in democracy. You're racist, you're hateful,
and you're out of control, and you're just getting started.
And yet our Rasmussen poll today and our polls of
plenty by a three to one marchin and voters continue
to favor election integrity.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And voter ID.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Seventy three percent of likely US voters believe requiring a
photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect
the integrity of elections. Or, as we always say, everybody
is an agreement, we're a Banana republic without fair and
accurate elections.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We have a problem with election fraud.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I once broadcast in a city whose mayor voted in
two different states. So voter fraud happens. What's your plan
to stop it? Why are you as so opposed to it?
Is it as obvious as that you need voter fraud
in order to maintain power.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But that's not even my point.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
My ultimate point is this is how out of step
they are with the American people. Seventy three percent of
likely US voters believe that requiring a voter IDA vote
is a reasonable measure. And you just heard the words
of Chuckie Schumer. No, it's not it's racist, it's hateful.
It's hating democracy. That's how out of touch they are
(13:11):
with the people. And they continue to fight on these
hills like they're winnable and worth dying on voter id
open borders. I wonder how hard they're going to fight
when it comes to banning them from being able to
(13:32):
buy and sell stocks while in office, getting inside information
before it happens.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
All right, so we've got a lot to kick around.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Some other Mom Donnie comments about Israel have surfaced, not
good Arab States really putting the muscle on Hamas to disarm.
I think those meetings that the President had in Saudi
Arabia and Cutter are really paying off. And I think
this is not only the way we get Muslims to
keep the other Muslims in check, but maybe help out
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the Palestinian territory is overseen and operated. In the future,
we'll kick all this around and more so, stay with us.
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This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono.
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Tariffs under President Trump are set to take effect next week.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Mark Mayfield has to tails.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
The president announced he has given Mexico a ninety day
extension after he spoke with that country's president earlier this week.
Trump refused to w well for deadline extensions as he
pushes for countries around the world to agree to train deals.
Deals so far have been agreed to with the European Union,
the UK, Japan, and South Korea, among others. On Wednesday,
Trump announced a twenty five percent tariff against India with
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a penalty due to what he said was them buying
military equipment and energy from Russia.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
A deal was.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Also reached with Canada, raising tariffs from twenty five to
thirty five percent.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Well, most in America don't think it
worked and benefited the people it intended to. And the
Department of Justice, well, they're continuing to go after diversity,
equity and inclusion practices, Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
According to a DOJ memo issued Tuesday, Attorney General Pam
Bondi is prepared to restrict funds to entities that use
DEI practices, which is likely to impact universities and K
through twelve schools. Bondi wrote in the memo, entities receiving
federal funds, like all other entities subject to federal anti
discrimination laws, must ensure that their programs and activities comply
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with federal law. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
The threat of severe weather and potential floods is impacting
millions in the Mid Atlantic, in the Northeast and worth
keeping our eye on today. And the first football game
is in the books. Thursday night Football Hall of Fame
game from Canton, Ohio is all Chargers thirty four to
seven over the Lions, and baseball raise lost to the Yankees,
Mariners six nothing over the Rangers.
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and plug?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What's your show? You? You can do that?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
What was the movie you cordially invited or what was it?
Remember we watched it? It was so funny.
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Oh, you're cordially invited with Reese Witherspoon and Old School.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, Will Ferrell Old School just you know, everything that
goes wrong goes wrong kind of comedy. And it was brilliant,
and there was one person that stuck out, stole every
single scene, Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Now I've been on the Klans for three days. I'm
awake as water. I can't even make up Lance.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
If you if you loved her in that, Netflix gave
her her own series called Leanne. When I tell you,
the first three episodes, every line is brilliant. But I
mean it's a great cast of characters that you're really
gonna you know, those kinds of shows were like I'm bored,
(19:01):
Oh my friends are there and you can go hang
out with them kind of a thing. But it's really
really well. She's so funny, and I was worried. I
got to tell you, I was worried because I thought,
I don't know if Leanne works in large doses like
Julia Louise Streyfuss in.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Elaine.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Elaine was in very that character because she was nothing
like that in VIEP and Veep. You could take her
in long doses. It was hilarious, but you couldn't do
a lane and too much exposure.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
She's too much.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I dated a girl one time that acted just like her,
and I got too much in a week. So I
was worried about that. And there's no need to worry.
She's just brilliant. It's not since Roseanne Roseanne Bar have
I seen a show this good. So this weekend, if
you're looking for something to watch Netflix, Leanne. It's Leanne Morgan.
(19:52):
Used to be a listener here. She's a comedian. She
started very late in life. I mean to see somebody
at fifty nine years old, sixty years old, get all
their big breaks and then just knock it out of
the park. Free pick to click. Leanne Morgan in Liam
all right, that'll be on Netflix. Lou Diamond Phillips. You
(20:14):
know him most for doing the Richie Vallens story in
La Bamba.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But he's going on to.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Do great work stage, screen, television, directing, acting, writing, as
we always say, plays a great bad guy. He's out
with a new movie and you can download it over
the weekend. It's streaming on demand it too, And what
a thrill it is to have him join us. And
he was our Spotlight Interview of the week. Thank you, Michael.
(20:43):
Absolutely you know, I guess you know, I remember being
a teenager and Richie Allens died as a teenager, and
you're probably so sick of talking about that, but your
portrayal of ritchie Vallens is so memorable, you know. And
I always think about that when somebody has their best
work early on, but that's not the case with you.
I mean, I'm thinking of a character you did in
Law and Order, Victor Gatano. Yeah, you're you're portrayaling young guns.
(21:07):
I've seen you in Goliath, The Ranch, blue Bloods, and others,
and I got to make an observation because you're a
very very nice man, but you play you play a
really good bad guy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Thank you. Uh, it's so funny.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I mean, there's a lot of fantastic bad guys throughout
the years, you know, I've met, I've you know, worked with,
and they're always the nicest people. Uh, you know, I
think it's I think it's therapy for us. It's a
scannel of the dark right out.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I was just gonna say, I would think it's probably
harder to portray something similar to yourself when something's so
different you can get lost in it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, then it's acting. You know, you know, it's it's funny.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I mean the Victor Gatano role was a bit of
an amused boosh, uh for me to play Richard Ramirez
and the Nights Talker and people go, how do you
do that?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
I mean, it's it's it's a very intellectual approach, you know.
I mean, you know, I don't think you can method
that because that they'd be a little psychotic. But you know,
I mean it's it's uh, it goes back to your
theater training, and it goes back to building the character
and doing your research and then the magic if you
put yourself in that character shoes and you you think
and you operate like they do, you know, for a
(22:18):
finite amount of time. So uh, those are a lot
of fun. Those are a lot of fun. And that is,
you know, as I said, a pure acting job.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You know what, what is the work? You're most proud
of the fact that I've been doing this for forty years.
That's not easy.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you know, the people have
come and gone and and I've I've been one of
the lucky ones.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I've also you know, and I'm still here.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
I mean, there are you know, so many friends, you know,
Patrick Swayze, Luke Perry, you know, I just oh my god,
Malcolm Jamal Warner recently it's just like good God, you know,
to wake up in the morning and a walk on
the planet.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Is what is the hardest part? Is it juggling all
the challenges? I mean, you've done stage, TV movies all well,
you've acted, written, directed. It kind of all comes together
any too. We're going to talk about that in a second.
But is it managing because you've mentioned some others that
didn't fare out as well, they're not still with us.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Is it managing fame or managing the work? What is
it that's managing all of it? Yeah, No, it's it's
it's finding a balance, you know.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
And and I think when you know early on, like
you said, you know, you can get overwhelmed by it.
And and uh, I think, you know, learning to relax,
learning that that the the business isn't the the you know,
be all and end all to it. And and you know,
I think being grateful and knowing that I'd be doing this,
(23:45):
you know, in community theater, you know, for free, if
I was, if I was you know, if I had
never gotten lucky because I do love it, and but
it's it is the pacing yourself, you know, and and
getting your priorities, you know, right, whether it's family or
you know, being a father, you know, just or being
a normal person. Uh, it's you know, it's it's a
constant I don't want to say struggle. But you have
(24:09):
to be, you know, mindful. You have to be mindful.
Sure if you were very young when you did I
was twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Four when I did that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
And by the way, it's thirty July twenty fourth is
the thirty eighth year anniversary of the premiere of the Thing.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thank you for reminding me that I'm mortal. I'll be
dead soon.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And it's crazy, man, but that was such an extraordinary
story and performance.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And I mean just boom, you were a household name. Well,
thank you man. That's a lot to handle at twenty four.
It was it was, it was crazy.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
It's so funny because I think about it, because I'm
reflecting on this on this day, because the night before
Danny Veldez, who played my uncle and was also the
associate producer on the film, he literally said, We're going
to hand you the keys to the candy store. Yeah,
your teeth, you know, and it was good advice. Man,
it really early, but.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The caps look good, Lou Diamond Phillips. Is what the
talk to us about? Am I saying it right?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
At two? Yeah? At two?
Speaker 7 (25:03):
You know it's it's the famous phrase at two brute
from the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Uh, And and
that that sums it up. It's I play a director
who has mounted a regional theater production of at two.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
He's a purist, uh, an idealist, a bit pretentious. Uh,
but he also thinks that the hunky young guy who
got the role through nepotism, uh, who's playing brutus uh
is stooping his wife.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So and let the.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Exactly and find Shakespeare in othello like fashion. The jealousy
and the rage and the insecurity and all all.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Of that start to uh to escalate, and you know
there's a blood bath pretty much. Yes, uh props fabulous.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Unfortunately we have seen uh that props in movies and yeah,
well yeah is the real deal. And yeah, there are
a lot of daggers. There's a lot of daggers flying
around and two uh uh so uh, you know, without
spoiling anything, it gets very twisted.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
What does it remind I mean, how would you describe this?
You know, I thought a little bit of what was
the drummering? They were all in drummer school. The guy
that does the insurance commercially is such a great actor.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Uh JK. Simmons. Is a little bit of that to it,
Isn't there kind of don't you think? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Because sure, because Brent is is that demanding, is that
he's a sociopath, you know, and and uh really, I
mean it's all about the theater and about the art
and everything else, and and uh, you know, he takes
that to the end degree. But it also reminds me
of you know, like like the revenge you know, thriller
horror movies that Vincent Price did yes back in the day,
(26:48):
and those were those were always so elevated and so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So it was, yeah, a bit of a throwback.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I mean some people have said it's like the Shining
meets you know, Birdman.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I like that. We'll go with that. Lou Diamond, Phil
was joining us it too. Is the new movie.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
By the way, you got to work with somebody I
think is just terrific. I remember him in Oh, what
was the movie about Fox? What's wrong with my memory today?
I need you do that exercise I learned online that
supposedly connects the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Two sides of your brain. But oh, the movie about
Fox News and Roger Ayles. He was in that. He
played Rupert Murdoch. Oh there, oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I can't remember the name of it. Now it's gonna
I'll remember it immediately after we're done. But Malcolm McDonald
was in that. He played Rupert Murdoch. He's just such
a great actor.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
He's amazing, and I mean completely going back to you know,
the iconic clockwork Orange, you know, Stanley Kubrick. So yeah,
I knew I was in the presence of greatness and
I knew it. And Malcolm's wonderful. I mean that chemistry
that you know, that sort of bone on me, that
that that you see on screen is very very much
the nature of our relationships.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So because we.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Did these long takes and these wide shots and everything,
and it wasn't all cut up, you know. Uh so
so you had to be prepared and you had to
come and uh you know that that tennis matches is
exactly what you're watching.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
By the way, it was bombshell. Getting old is no fun. There.
You don't even start. Don't start with me.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
No, I was just gonna say, uh, it really is
kind of everything. Uh that the stage, I mean you
you had so much to draw on this. It's a
great story. Uh, I bring up you and Malcolm McDonald.
But there's a lot of people that are not going
to know that they're going to be introduced to, including
one of the lead performers. Just really amazing young actors,
very very well done.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
No I and the rest of the cast is is
quite young. They're wonderful and they they they they really
brought it, you know. Uh, the heart is in there
and uh, it's it's such a special little film. It's
just so left of center. It's not down the middle.
It's not anything that you know you're you're seeing. Uh,
And that's that's why I I I love doing it
(28:59):
and have hopes that it was going to get out.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And so now it's available to find this audience, which
I love, and it's gonna be primarily through HBO or no.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's on video on demand on tons of platforms, I think,
including Fandango.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You can run it.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
You can buy it streaming on July twenty fifth and
for hopefully weeks after.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, so look forward on demand and lou Diamond Phillips
for a body of work that I hope you can realize.
Me and my staff we were going through everything and
I was bringing up Goliath and Ranch, which are two shows.
I really love Goliath. I mean, of course land Man,
now we got to get you on land Man. Let
you play somebody Dark.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I'm waiting by the phone for Billy Bob to call.
I mean, my gosh, he is. Don't you love Billy Bob.
He's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
But then they started bringing up the Law and Order
character and I was like, oh, I remember that character,
and we thought, for what began is such a innocent
portrayal of a set. I mean, can you imagine what
Richie Bollence might have done had he not gone down
that dam.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I mean they had so much Mony imagined it a lot. Yeah.
I mean he was a pioneer.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
I mean one of the first people to you know,
to rock and roll in Spanish and he was experimenting.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
With with global music.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
I mean he predated the Beatles with that, he predated
Boal Simon and you know Graceland. I mean, Richie gave rise,
you know, to Carlos Santana, which was also why it
was such an honor to have Carlos do our score,
you know, and to have him produce all the music.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I mean, really just just an amazing stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
I mean, Richie, Richie, we'd be we'd still be talking
about him today.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, and he wouldn't be that old. He was seventeen
years old. He didn't look seventeen. He didn't write like
he was seventeen. He didn't sing and performed like he
was seventeen. He was. He was a freak of nature,
and you played that so well. But the bottom line
of our conversation was, nobody plays a dark bad guy
like one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, Lou David.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Phillips, It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno, my.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Wi's best Brandon half schoon with Leanne's older sister. We've
known Leancy Sheeld in high school.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
What do you say in the movies and owner TV
show that is leand there's no put onto.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
The show's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Hey, Mike, am I having deja vu? Or have I
already heard this interview. I mean it's a great interview,
don't get me wrong. I just feel like, uh, we're
trying to push it like it's happening right now. Anyway,
great show, great interview. I just want to make sure
it ain't crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, no, you're not crazy. I assure you're not crazy.
We call it the spot Light Interview of the Week.
Like I can tell you right now. Next week Michael
McDonald the Dewey Brothers out with a new album, a
new tour. Michael McDonald, he's going to be with us Tuesday,
and I'm almost certain he'll be the Friday Spotlight Interview
(31:41):
of the Week.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But we do a lot of things during the week.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And we thought a long time ago, it was six
seven months ago we knew to is take one of
those things that we you know, if we said, gosh,
I hope nobody missed that, and make that our Spotlight
interview of the week. So there are some people who
listen at certain times in the morning and they don't
other times. Podcasting kind of changes that, but still some
people listen only so we do it on purpose. It's
called a Spotlight Interview of the week. So yes, happened
(32:05):
once and just happened again. You're not going crazy, that's
for me.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I may be crazy. Fifty five minutes. You may be right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm may be crazy, hey, fifty five after the hour.
The high price of pharmaceuticals that's gotten on the radar
for Trump at the White House, Folksperst.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
And Caroline Lovett, since the US based three times surprise
for drugs compared to other countries, and President Trump is
determined to tackle the problem.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The President is determined to solve this problem and took
further action today.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
He has signed seventeen letters to pharmaceutical companies Ceosllward.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Says the letters from Trump to the CEOs of several
drug companies tell them it's an unacceptable burden on hardworking Americans.
The letters will be asking for immediate relief and includes
a sixty day deadline.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm Marknefield. When I tell you I was a good
baseball player, I was. I tell you enjoyed football I did.
Wasn't very big, wasn't very good. When it came to
the presidential fitness test, you would of died laughing watching
me try to climb a rope and guess what it's
coming back.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
President Trump called it a great American tradition.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Graduate scholars all across our country competed against each other
in the Presidential Fitness tests, and it was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
This was a wonderful tradition and we're bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Flanked by pro athletes at the White House, the President
said he's bringing back the tests that used to include
push ups or pull ups, sit ups, a mile run,
and to sit and reach where you sit on the
ground and reach for your toes. Former President Obama has
replaced it with an assessment focused more on personal health.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Alec
Baldwin alleging he was maliciously prosecuted for the death of
a crew member in his recent film Jennifer Pulsen has More.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Baldwin filed a lawsuit earlier this year, alleging he had
become a celebrity scapego for the twenty twenty one death
of cinematographer Helena Hodgins during the filming of the movie Rust.
Hudgins died after a prop gun accidentally misfired on the set.
A weapons handler for the movie eventually served fourteen months
for involuntary manslaughter.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm Jennifer BULSONI if I was rich, I'd be all
over this.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Margaritaville's own Jimmy Buffett's yacht is up for auction, according
to South Florida based G three Auctions. The ninety foot
Expedition yacht built in nineteen ninety nine with the original
price tag of close to three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
The minimum bid is one point two million dollars. What
will it go for?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Time will tell. The G three to twenty four hour
auction begins on September. Fourth NFL season began. Last night,
Chargers get the first w of the year. It was
all Chargers thirty four to seven over the Lions at
the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. Birthdays, I'm
telling you, August first is not a good day for birthdays.
I had to go all the way to Sunday to
find Martha Stewart turning eighty four and Martin Sheen turning
(34:53):
eighty five. But if it's your birthday today, that's a
big deal. And we are glad you were born and
thank you so much for making us part of your
big day.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
We're all in this Together. This is your Morning Show
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