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The Doobie Brothers are out with their first studio album in 40 years, and their North American tour kicked off in Detroit last night! The legendary Michael McDonald joins us to talk about what it’s like to have the boys all back together!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Two three Starting your morning off right, A new way
of talk, a new way of understanding.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Because we're in the stage. This is your morning show
with Michael, Bill Chruman, Hey, good morning show.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How you doing this?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is Gary out of Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
The two number ones were What a Fool Believes and
Blackwater by the Deobie Brothers. That was my Saturday morning
in a music that we would listen to every single
week and when it was time to do our chores
after having a long week of school.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So yeah, that was my music back in the day.
The dreaded words my childhood, get out there and clean
the garage. Not even the Dupe Brothers could make me
feel better about that? What do they sound like? Forty
years later, Gimme Taste Got a Lot, Grammy Award winning,
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platinum selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and now
in the Writers Hall of Fame. The Doobie Brothers first
album in forty years, Walk This Road in the great
Michael McDonald with us. Good morning, Michael, Hey Michael, how
are you? Thank you so much for the soundtrack of
my entire life? What was it like and whose idea
was it for all of you to get back together?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, it's something we had talked about over the years.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know. I had actually played with the guys from
time to time for you know, a charity event or
a special event some here or there. Some corporate gigs
would request the band with me included, and we always
look forward to doing that. You know, we weren't playing
together regularly at the time, but there's so many of us.
(02:06):
There's a few of us that that aren't with us
even now, you know. So there's just so many people
who were Doobie Brothers at one time. You know, it
would be difficult to get them all on stage at once.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
But I was really always kind of in the back.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Of my mind thinking it would be fun to go
back out because I've always missed playing that songbook. I
enjoy playing Tommy and Pat's stuff every bit as much
or more sometimes than my own stuff because it's songs
I don't get to play that often unless I'm with
the Doobies, And so it's.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Been fun for me and and I think.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
For all the guys to uh to do this kind
of a version of the band. And uh, you know,
the hang has always been the easy part for us,
you know, getting on them up with buses that we
get paid for, you know, hanging out in airports. But
the playing and and and the you know, the camaraderie
has always been what we enjoy about it. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Does it feel like no times past everything just got
right back it?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Really? It really, it really did in a person in
a personal way because we we have stayed in touch
over the years, Not so much Tommy and I because
we didn't have the opportunities to, but we always did
stay in touch and have been friends all these years.
But Pat and I were neighbors for a while on
the island of Maui, and uh, so we saw a
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bit more of each other, you know, and the kids,
our kids all kind of uh grew up on Maui together,
and uh that that kept them in touch.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And uh so you know, we we have mutual friends there,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Willie Nelson and a bunch of people that live over there,
you know, Woody Harrelson and so all their kids and
our kids, you know, kind of commune. So even when
we weren't in touch, they were more or less and
uh it was kind of a fun uh time in
all of our live to be over there.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And you know, so we talked about it from.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Time to time, Pat and I, you know, and then
we just were waiting for the time to be right
for both of us at the same time. And Tom
and I had talked about it most recently, right before
we the fiftieth anniversary. Idea came up and it was
just you know, in general. He said, you know, maybe
would you consider coming back on the road with the band.
And at the time, I was releasing a record and
(04:28):
I really couldn't in that moment, I said, Man, I
would love to. I just can't right now because I
got so many people on the hook with this record
of mine that you know, I have to kind of
see this thing through and then maybe afterwards, you know,
we'll talk about it. And then that's when the fiftieth
anniversary idea came up. Was pretty much the next year
or so after that record came in.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And whole law It is the first studio album in
forty years. The new Doobie Brothers album Walk This Road
ten tracks plus a North American tour headed to many
your morning show cities. I'll give you that list in
just a little bit. I wasn't really flat, just trying
to puff you up. I mean literally I was. You know,
everybody had a lot of different favorite things.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Me.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was the Doobie Brothers. I was Fleetwood, Mac, I
was Boston, I was led Zeppelin, and I was Kansas
and that was it. So you are literally the soundtrack
of my life. And I was sitting here a minute ago,
and I can't believe there was only two number one
Doobie brother songs. And what a full believes? Do you
realize that is forty six years ago? What a fool believe?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'd rather not think about it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Michael, I was starting second base in varsity baseball with
my middle brother at first base, my big brother Vic
behind the plate. It seems like yesterday for crying out Low.
But it's nice to hear so some of these songs.
You're going to bring back some of the great ones
too with the new ones on this concert tour, right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I we will do all of them, you know, we
as as many as we can. You know, we try
to kind of do the songs we think people want
to hear, you know, the most.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And then we're going to do the three I think
four new songs that we do.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And it's been wonderful because, you know, typically when we
would play new songs, whoever it is with my band
or with the Doobies, that's a good excuse for the people.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
In the audience to go to the bathroom, you know,
when you've been around as long as we have. But
for some reason, people seem to be familiar with these
songs already, and that's a kind of a pleasant surprise
for us.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, Well, Blackwater, what if wull believes two number
one songs? You had five top ten singles, sixteen a
top forty Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty twenty.
You you all got into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Just in June of this year, the Grammys, the Hall
of Fame, the Writers Hall of Fame, the forty eight
million albums. How does it all rank for you? Do
(06:55):
you strike me as someone that the Songwriters Hall of
Fame may have meant the most?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I did really mean a lot to us collectively
as songwriters in the band, because that's the list of
people that goes way back. And you think about being
on the same list with some of those people, and
you just the Burke Backracks and you know, Lennon McCartney's
people like that, you just kind of go, my gosh,
(07:23):
you know, who would I never would have dreamed.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And I think all in all, no one's more surprised
than all of.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Us and who were around.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
In the seventies playing music out there on the road,
that we're still doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I don't think any of us thought we would be.
And you know, so you know, when we take the
stage with you know, other bands from that same era,
I think we're all pretty grateful to be still playing.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
These venues with these audiences, some of.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Which have been coming for the entire fifty years to
come see us play.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, because is the songs right? They're just as relevant today,
They're just as enjoyed today, they mean as much today.
I mean, not everybody can write a song that can
stand the test of time. You have another thing going
for you, and that is in addition to having I
always said this, if I could sound like anybody, I
would love to sound like Michael McDonald. I mean that
would get girls. But you know what, really, but really,
(08:22):
what hones it in is I can't sing your songs
in my voice. You would sound like an idiot. Uh.
He came from some place backing long ago. You gotta go.
You get from some place. But that's what makes you
just iconic in my mind. And then when I'm listening
to the new music, because I can imagine you guys
(08:42):
after forty years, sitting around and who's got what?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, but it just I mean that's pretty much yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, well I know, but I mean it doesn't sound
that way. It just sounds like like That's why I
asked you, did it feel like no time passed? Because
in listening, especially the title track Walk This Shrow, it's
like no time passed. I mean that could have been
your next record forty years ago, which I think is
a powerful testimony.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think for yeah, I think for for us, it's
We've never really been a band that wanted to reinvent
itself necessarily with each album or you know, with any
period of time. We always just kind of strove to
do what we always did, hopefully a little better this
time around, you know, and and improve and just kind
(09:26):
of nuanced kind of ways, and you know, but basically
tried to be the same and and in that we
changed greatly over the years. We tried things, you know,
but not because we wanted to reinvent ourselves. It was
just typically for us, it was like we would think
about some old band that we used to like that
you know that you probably wouldn't even guess that we liked,
(09:48):
you know, whether it was The Four Seasons or you know,
whoever it was, and we would, you know, one of
us would come up with a song that kind of
was reminiscent of of of that air of music. And
you know, we're all big pop, R and B fans,
so that's a very wide gap swath of different styles
(10:10):
of artists and music. So we always kind of drew
from that, you know, pool of influences.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, Michael McDonald, the Doobie Brothers there as we
always call them growing up, the Doobies. They're back together.
They got a ten track album called Walk This Road.
They're doing a North American tour now for cities and
if your morning show interest, You'll be in Saint Louis
on September the fourth, Milwaukee on the ninth of September,
Cincinnati on the twelfth of September. Franklin, Tennessee at our
(10:37):
new first Bank Amphitheater that'll be on September fifteenth, And
of course, for the complete list of all the tour dates,
including Detroit, you will find that at the Doobie Brothers
dot com. I'm thinking, because you're a musician as much
as you are a songwriter and a singer, what was
the tougher? I mean, where were the chops at?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I mean, can you like I when I stopped playing
baseball was when my body couldn't do what my mind
instinctively wanted to do. So that was the skill passing.
You can still sing, you can still play, But how
was it? What was it like all of you getting
back together and getting up to the kind of excellence
you're used to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, we've we've actually talked about taking a physical therapist
on the road with it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Keep going, I volunteer, I'll be it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah. Back in the back in the days, it was
a chef and a masseuse. Now it's a physical therapist,
may a psychiatrist. But yeah, you know, you give up
as you go. You know. I think being a musician
is one of the things you can keep doing, but
never at the level.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You did when you were younger. You know, like I
don't sing like I did when I was younger. Uh,
you just kind.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Of renegotiate with something like your voice, and you.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Try to figure out what.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Are my strengths still, or you know, what rings do
I sing in? Do I need to lower this song?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
And you know, and you find a way in all.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Those different avenues to just keep going. And and you play,
and you don't play as fast and as furiously as
you might have when you were younger, but you play
a little more thoughtfully, hopefully, and you know, like I say,
it's kind of a renegotiation with whatever you got left.
You know, I always say, you know, people say, you know, oh,
you know, we're a big fan of the band. I said, yeah, yeah,
(12:28):
what's left of us? You know, because we we kind
of you know, feel like, you know, we get a
certain energy when we get up on stage together and
it's almost like being nineteen again. But at the same time,
when one of us goes flying across the stage, which
is usually Patrick, he's the only one that still kind
of leaps through the air. The rest of us are
(12:49):
all biting our knuckles like you're gonna land. Okay for
it this hip, you know, but you.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Know we we we still enjoy.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What we do. And like I said, we would do
that part for free. We get paid for traveling, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Patrick Simmons, Tommy Johnson, John McPhee and of course Michael McDonald.
Adobie Brothers are back together the new album, and I
would assume they can download that. Go to Doobie Brothers
dot com for any of the concert dates or access
to the album. They're gonna love it. It's called Walk
This Road. Ten new studio tracks and a North American tour.
And let me say what I didn't bother you at
(13:24):
an athletic event one time. You're pretty hard to miss.
I mean, I can name that tune in your voice
in the first note, and I can spot you across
the stadium from a mile away, and I wanted to
do it so bad and I just respected your privacy
and didn't bother you. But let me tell you right
now what I was going to walk up and say
to you at that baseball game. Thank you for a
(13:46):
lifetime of music and what it meant to me and
the soundtrack to my life that it represents. Always loved you,
always looked up to you, and I can't wait to
see you in Franklin come September fifteenth. God bless you
on this tour and I'm so glad that you and
the guys got back together.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Thanks Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Michael McDonald, looking forward to playing at the Quarry out there.
They're back. This one is call me right, but you
know the guys still got it.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
They're gonna love the album. They're gonna love the concert.
Detroit last night, Coming to Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Franklin, Tennessee.
Many of our your morning show cities. Go to Theedoobie
Brothers dot com for more information. What a thrill, Michael McDonald,
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Speaker 2 (15:55):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This is Joe and Pa. More thing, Michael.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
My two guesses would have been Blackwater and Long.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Train Running because it was the two favorite songs my
mom used to play on Music Night on Friday nights
back when we were kids in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Have a great day, Love your show, Yeah, and I
would have thought China Grove too, but it wasn't. Keith
in Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Just heard your interview with Michael McDonald and that you're
getting ready to go see one of their shows in
a bit. You're gonna absolutely love that. Had the opportunity
to see them at the Amphitheater in downtown Youngstown a
couple of years ago. They were absolutely fantastic, all those
great songs, bringing back all those great memories. You will
absolutely love it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm looking forward to it, you know, because They're one
of those bands you've forgotten so many you don't really
real love. Ain't no mountain high enough. Jesus is just alright? Yeah,
will be there, keeps you running Blackwater, China Grove. What
a fool believes? Listen to the music. Listen to the
music as one. I can't believe didn't make it to
(17:04):
number one as well? About that's right? Yeah, go to
the Doobie Brothers dot com you want to learn the
latest down their album. It's called Walk This Road, first
studio album in forty years. Their North American concert tour
started last night in Detroit, Michigan. Coming to your morning
city near you. All Right, the Texas governor wants those
Democrats back or they're going to get arrested. Meanwhile, governors
in New York and California saying, when we're gonna do
(17:25):
the same thing in redistrict? What a mess? This is?
Dan from Hereie, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
My morning show is your Morning show with Michael del Jorna.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Hi, it's me Michael. Your morning show can be heard
on great stations across the country like Talk Radio eleven
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FYI and Phoenix, Arizona. We'd love to be a part
of your morning routine or take us along on the
drive to work, but as we always say, better late
than never. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for bringing us along
(18:02):
with you on the drive to work. Texas Governor Greg
Abbott is warning the Democrats who have fled his state
return or be arrested. Mean wow. Gavin Newsom and Buck tooth.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Ulcal warning they're going to redistrict in their thing they
get you back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's just so out of control. And then we've had
Pam Bondi issue the call for a grand jury to
investigate Russia Gate. Could this lead to a special prosecutor?
Could this lead to arrests and convictions? It's what the
American people want to the tune of seventy percent. They're
interested in accountability for these actions. And the President has
(18:41):
sent an envoy, Steve Whitskoff, to Russia to try in
the last closing days to get a Ukrainian cease fire
deal done. That is basically the top stories waking up.
We just had a great visit with Michael McDonald. If
you missed it, the Doobie Brothers are back together after
forty years, and the interview will be up on the
podcast about nine Central ten Easterns. So if you miss
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any of your morning show, the podcast is up, you
can always catch it immediately when you are available. I
also have the talk back line at your morning show.
If you're listening on the iHeart app. It's a little
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Roy O'Neil is back. I don't
know this. This kind of smells like a thanks to
tariffs look out. But people who love to decorate for
the holidays, well that's certainly my wife. The cost is
maybe going way up this year. I would assume tariffs right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, that's going to be part of it. I think
more than than the cost, it's going to be the
supply in that you know, we started the tariff talk.
Just as most stores place their orders for the Christmas decorations,
there are three big Chinese companies that make all this stuff.
Remember for a time. They're the tarifs were one hundred
and forty five percent. So the American Christmas Tree Association
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is telling us that the stores were ordering sewer items,
so you're going to see probably the same variety, but
just not as much inventory. So you may see ten
different items on the shelf, but they've only got two
in inventory, not twenty like they used to have. So
the word is going to be if you see it
and you like it, you better buy a bias when
you build at the store of the week after, it's
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not going to be there.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I don't know how you guys are you do it?
But Andrea is big on Halloween, which I'm kind of
anti Halloween. I'm not a fun sucker, but you know,
there's just some things I don't think are fun and funny.
So she went one crazy with Halloween. Fine, have your Halloween,
and then I went crazy with Christmas, including a twenty
(20:51):
five hundred dollars Santa Claus who sits in my hallway.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Noo.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, no, it was it's my favorite. You know what.
It was impulse, It was ridiculed, but it's one of
my favorite purchases in life. And I always gather the
kids around. I say, when I'm dead, who's taken Santa?
Because he's gore. He looks like a real living short man.
And I got him at Christmas World in Gatlinburg. And
so anyway, you know, I went crazy for great and
(21:17):
then we go every year Halloween, I bite it and
do it, and then Christmas I do it. We add
something new every year. So I like when you said
the variety'll be there, but the plentifulness may not. And
it's more shortage than it is cost. I would presume
this ghost for Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, all decorations.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, we think that Halloween made it under the wire
in terms of the calendar because they may have been
ordering that. If you were ordering eight months in advance,
you might have missed the tip Liberation Day, so they
may have snuck in before a lot of this. But
Christmas is certainly under the gun with just a few
months to go, because I'll forget this stuff hits the
shells Labor Day weekend, so it's less than a.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Month at this point.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Halloween is out right now, did you write?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I was there yesterday.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Christmas is coming, Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I know where did this year, go see how we're
growing old together, Rory, and you still don't like me.
You're still not embracing our friendship.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Maybe the Christmas spirit, but uh.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Great reporting. As always. We're back to the phone because
we're having technical difficulties with your your studio, like, but.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
They're on my end of the cable. Guys outside right now.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh well, I just blame it on Jeffrey. Anyway, I
blame everything on jeff whether it is there isn't. All right, royal,
great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow. You know what's always
revealing and often entertaining, and today Grammy Award winning it's
the sounds, all right, everybody look up.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Look, you just gotta try harder not to show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I'm gonna have the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Sure perhaps you like could be alone with you aorating
mental condition.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Politics, I don't know us, all right. I don't play
shorts and skins, and I don't play shirts and skins today.
I can't help what is all a bad look for
the Democrats, and I suspect they've earned it, starting with
(23:12):
their won't back down tour that nobody wants. They want
them to return to common sense, pivot back to the
will of the American people. Who was it we were
talking to this morning. I think it was wasn't John Decker,
may have been Carafano, but you know you said about
(23:35):
they're not pivoting back to serving the American people. All
they want to do is serve their power. And there
was it was that Decker. Was it was Carafano? Yeah,
And it was a real old Wold moment. And I'll
give you an example. Here's Jasmine Crockett and well, you
knew she was going to come out swinging because this
(23:57):
redistricting actually put her home outside her own district. But
it's not just I guess you could say, to some degree,
at least pokeland Newsome are just gonna, you know, turn
this into oh you want to do that in Texas,
or we're gonna do it in California New York, all right,
but not foul mouthed, just okay, you want to play
(24:20):
that game, We'll play that game. Well, the reality is
they've all been playing that game. That game is always
played and when someone else does it, it's cherry mannering.
And when you do it, it's just census response where
Jasmine Crockett went and with that same poo poo mouth.
Remember from Anchorman say that those words with your poopoo mouth,
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that poop pool comes out of your mouth. I don't know.
I don't get to deal with the foul language. I
don't know if they're trying to be hip and cool,
but they sound.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
There.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It is.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
All right, cue the poop mouth Jasmine Crockett in Texas.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Well, what are we going to need to then?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
For me?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Is getting aggressive? Now listen, I'm not gonna say this
is what we're gonna do, but I'm telling y'all what
my vision would be.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Number One, this Supreme Court is corrupt, so so so.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Again serving on the Judiciary Committee, there.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Are by the way, the Supreme Court is that it's
highest approval rating ULLs.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
That we have put into place. We need to have
some real guardrails around the Supreme Court because the Supreme
Court has paved the way for half the stuff that
we see that is going on. Listen, Donald Trump is
a piece of Okay, we know that.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, you just can't refer to a president of the
United States like that, not as a member of Congress.
That's disgusting. That's discrediting. I know your party's dying, but man,
do we have to smell the decay like this? Yes,
he is, he is, his is, but.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
In a functioning democracy he's still not be able to
get away with this. But he's been able to get
away with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He's
been able to get away with this because Senate Republicans
are complicit. But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court,
(26:17):
is complicit. And so I think one of the places
that we have to start is we are absolutely they
are the highest court in the lands and they have
no ethics guard rails. Now you go down to the
lower courts and they do.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I remember when Roger Riils was begging and making his
case to not be fired, and Rupert Murdoch goes, there's
just no oxygen for that narrative. That's the problem the
Democrats are having. There's no oxygen for this narrative. One
(26:52):
of the big situations is okay, you got mom, Donnie,
which is actually the birth of an Islamist party that's
forming within the Democrat Party. He's also more communistic than socialistist,
which is a little bit of a strange bedfellow with
the aocs, the Jasmine Crocketts and the squad who are
more socialistic. So Sean Hannity has on Stephen A. Smith
(27:16):
last night, and in the eight seconds Sean allowed him
to speak, Sean is saying, look, as a party, you're
a Democrat, you gotta own Mom, Donnie, you gotta own AOC,
you gotta own Jasmine Crockett. Steven A. Smith. Ain't interested
in knowing any of them. Listen, question why'd that happen?
(27:37):
It's prob Rory's internet? Do I have Rory's Internet? Now?
Could be festering on me.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Basically, Sean is trying to pin all that on him
and he's just not going to allow it. Now. I
can't get it to queue.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I will.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So basically he's saying, no, I no, I disallowed them.
I disabowed it, disallowed them. The same thing was kind
of asked of Elizabeth Warren and you get a completely
different response than AOC. So Stephen A. Smith is more
common sensical, more traditional democrat. He didn't know. He doesn't
know what's going on and his party and why they're
(28:16):
they're being so stupid and going so crazy anymore than
you do, but not Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Listen when someone stands up and says, I will lead
this city by making it more affordable. And here are
my plans, real plans, Plans to deliver on childcare, plans
to deliver unhousing, plans, to deliver an experiment. We're going
to try things on groceries. That is the Democratic message.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh sh that should be the hardest words for the
Democrat Party to survive. Mom Donnie is the Democrat Party
and tafada is the Democrat Party seizing private properties the
Democrat Party. Well read, that should be in political ads.
(29:06):
Oh my gosh, that's all you need. And as she stopped,
that's on the campaign trail with Mom Donnie. But then,
if you were hoping Elizabeth Warren when she fell, hit
her head and knocked some sense into her, abandon that.
Here she is on CNBC, and watch how the CNBC
host won't let her get away with it, because basically,
(29:27):
these are New Yorkers ready to send her in her
pants suit back to New England. Listen, the issue is affordability.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Do you know how many working families are chased out
of New York City every day because they can't afford
housing they can't afford groceries, they can't afford childcare.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What Zaran is.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Saying, I want people to be able to afford to
live in New York City.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's what keeps it a vibrant city.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
That's what makes people want to leave.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Nobody disagrees with that, Senator, But raising taxes in order
to do it?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Oh, why is that the answer?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
Speaker 7 (30:03):
No, I'm worried that they're going to leave and spend
their money elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I got it this dollar a second. Oh, I'm loving
this guy, But that doesn't stop numb skull over here.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
They've threatened to do that over and over, and they have.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They have, they've left. I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
And Golden Sacks, when they create new jobs, they do
it in Dallas. Blackstone won't build a new headquarter. You
want to have a workable city. You want to have
a city that's vibrant. You want to have a city
with streets are full, but there are things for sale
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Things are things not for sale twenty four hours a
day in New York? Are the streets not full of
new York is New York kind of fibrant city. It's
the city that never sleeps, the never sleep damning.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
We need people who can live here and world.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We got that right now.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
By the way, I have to point out New York
is thriving so right now it's doing pretty well.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Actually, did you think they're doing well because a lot
of people are struggling to pay for housing, A lot
of people are struggling to pay for groceries. And I
got to tell you mamas and daddies who are facing
twenty five thousand dollars a year to pay for childcare.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
A lot of national issues.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
I mean, I know they are the local state, but
in New York City, yes, but if you deal with
them in that way, by what is always your backup,
just tax them more, they will leave.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
No.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
The backup is make this city and make this country.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Work for everyone. I get that.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
The Republican point of view is make this country and
make every city in this country work better and better
for a handful of billionaires and let everybody else eat dirt.
But what mom Dommy won on in a Democratic primary
is he said I'm going.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To address He wouldn't have wonted a Democrat primary. But
you rigged the primary well, a special way of voting
that got him through. Otherwise there would have been a
runoff and he would have lost to Cuomo. Now you've
got a four person race. So it was the rank
style that got him through. But don't don't miss the dismount.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
That's affordability, and he didn't win.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
It's very much clear he has the ability to actually
do it, by the way, based on the laws and
what the governor has to say and what he would
actually have to do.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You know, I love that as.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
The fallback position, and that is he's fighting for the
right thing, but maybe maybe the billionaires way.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
He wants a more affordable city. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
The question is at.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
This he told me, you know, I wonder that. So
the whole experiment is this. There is going to be
Democrats that will distance themselves from AOC, distance themselves from Mondani,
and those who will call it jas mccrockett, like Elizabeth Warren.
That is the new party. And what you're really seeing
is the demise and the end of the party. I
(32:46):
think Scott Jennings is about to exit CNN. I don't
know where he's headed. But they're going to replace him
with Harry Inton, and he's really expanding his role here.
He is breaking down all the hills the Democrats fought
and died on, all this care tactics that they initiated
and lost.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
A lot of folks have claimed Trump always chickens out
taco when it comes to tariffs.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I don't think that's true, Omar, And I think the
theme of this segment is going to be love it
like a lumpet. Trump's remaking the United States of America.
We can start there with tarris. What are we talking about?
No tacos for Trump. The effective tariff rate, get this,
eighteen percent. It is the highest, Omar, the highest since
the nineteen thirties, up from get this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Just two percent last year.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
As I'm going to talk about in this segment, I
can't think of a more influential president during this century.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
And it starts here with tariffs.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
He said he was going to raise tarris, and despite
the claims otherwise, he is in fact doing that. The
effective tariff right at this point looks to be nine
times as high as it was last year, the highest
since the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
In FDR Omar. Yeah, this goes back to what I
was saying with Tarafano. You want to play shirts and skins.
You want to sit here and play political matrix. You're
missing a president that's doing a lot of things historically.
Right here, we go to immigration.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Let's jump the other big thing that Trump ran on,
right was immigration. How about net migration in the United States.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Get this, It's down. It's going to be down.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
At least sixty percent. We may be dealing with. Get this,
negative net migration to the United States in twenty twenty five.
That would be the first time there is negative net
migration in this country in at least fifty years. We're
talking about down from two point eight million in twenty
twenty four. So Donald Trump ran has always run on
(34:41):
tariffs and he's running a hawkish line on immigration. And
on both of those issues, we are seeing record high
tariff rates for this century, going all the way back,
well back into the early part of the twentieth century.
And when it comes to immigration net migration, we are
seeing record low levels, way down from where we were
during the Abiden administry. We are potentially looking at negative
(35:02):
net migration for the first time.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And at least fifty years. This is a historic It's
a historic presidency. And what I love is Harry Anton.
You know, CNN is selling these false narratives and lies
every day and then he comes on and pops in
with the truth. But he only gets that one quick
segment to pop in and tell the truth. The other
part of this story is we have lived in a
(35:25):
time where politicians tickle ears, they pander, they say things,
but they don't do them. Donald Trump says them, promises them,
and then delivers no wonder He is the most significant
president of the century and I think history will put
(35:46):
him in the top three. America may not view it
in real time, and they didn't with Reagan, but the
numbers are there, and that just sounds the day.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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How you doing this?
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
The two number ones were What a Fool Believes and
Blackwater by the Deobie Brothers. That was my Saturday morning
in a music that we would listen to every single
week and when it was time to do our chores
after having a long week of school.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So yeah, that was my music back in the day.
The dreaded words my childhood, get out there and clean
the garage. Not even the Dupe Brothers could make me
feel better about that? What do they sound like? Forty
years later, Gimme Taste Got a Lot, Grammy Award winning,
(01:20):
platinum selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and now
in the Writers Hall of Fame. The Doobie Brothers first
album in forty years, Walk This Road in the great
Michael McDonald with us. Good morning, Michael, Hey Michael, how
are you? Thank you so much for the soundtrack of
my entire life? What was it like and whose idea
was it for all of you to get back together?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, it's something we had talked about over the years.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know. I had actually played with the guys from
time to time for you know, a charity event or
a special event some here or there. Some corporate gigs
would request the band with me included, and we always
look forward to doing that. You know, we weren't playing
together regularly at the time, but there's so many of us.
(02:06):
There's a few of us that that aren't with us
even now, you know. So there's just so many people
who were Doobie Brothers at one time. You know, it
would be difficult to get them all on stage at once.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
But I was really always kind of in the back.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Of my mind thinking it would be fun to go
back out because I've always missed playing that songbook. I
enjoy playing Tommy and Pat's stuff every bit as much
or more sometimes than my own stuff because it's songs
I don't get to play that often unless I'm with
the Doobies, And so it's.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Been fun for me and and I think.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
For all the guys to uh to do this kind
of a version of the band. And uh, you know,
the hang has always been the easy part for us,
you know, getting on them up with buses that we
get paid for, you know, hanging out in airports. But
the playing and and and the you know, the camaraderie
has always been what we enjoy about it. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Does it feel like no times past everything just got
right back it?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Really? It really, it really did in a person in
a personal way because we we have stayed in touch
over the years, Not so much Tommy and I because
we didn't have the opportunities to, but we always did
stay in touch and have been friends all these years.
But Pat and I were neighbors for a while on
the island of Maui, and uh, so we saw a
(03:27):
bit more of each other, you know, and the kids,
our kids all kind of uh grew up on Maui together,
and uh that that kept them in touch.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And uh so you know, we we have mutual friends there,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Willie Nelson and a bunch of people that live over there,
you know, Woody Harrelson and so all their kids and
our kids, you know, kind of commune. So even when
we weren't in touch, they were more or less and
uh it was kind of a fun uh time in
all of our live to be over there.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And you know, so we talked about it from.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Time to time, Pat and I, you know, and then
we just were waiting for the time to be right
for both of us at the same time. And Tom
and I had talked about it most recently, right before
we the fiftieth anniversary. Idea came up and it was
just you know, in general. He said, you know, maybe
would you consider coming back on the road with the band.
And at the time, I was releasing a record and
(04:28):
I really couldn't in that moment, I said, Man, I
would love to. I just can't right now because I
got so many people on the hook with this record
of mine that you know, I have to kind of
see this thing through and then maybe afterwards, you know,
we'll talk about it. And then that's when the fiftieth
anniversary idea came up. Was pretty much the next year
or so after that record came in.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And whole law It is the first studio album in
forty years. The new Doobie Brothers album Walk This Road
ten tracks plus a North American tour headed to many
your morning show cities. I'll give you that list in
just a little bit. I wasn't really flat, just trying
to puff you up. I mean literally I was. You know,
everybody had a lot of different favorite things.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Me.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was the Doobie Brothers. I was Fleetwood, Mac, I
was Boston, I was led Zeppelin, and I was Kansas
and that was it. So you are literally the soundtrack
of my life. And I was sitting here a minute ago,
and I can't believe there was only two number one
Doobie brother songs. And what a full believes? Do you
realize that is forty six years ago? What a fool believe?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'd rather not think about it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Michael, I was starting second base in varsity baseball with
my middle brother at first base, my big brother Vic
behind the plate. It seems like yesterday for crying out Low.
But it's nice to hear so some of these songs.
You're going to bring back some of the great ones
too with the new ones on this concert tour, right.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I we will do all of them, you know, we
as as many as we can. You know, we try
to kind of do the songs we think people want
to hear, you know, the most.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And then we're going to do the three I think
four new songs that we do.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And it's been wonderful because, you know, typically when we
would play new songs, whoever it is with my band
or with the Doobies, that's a good excuse for the people.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
In the audience to go to the bathroom, you know,
when you've been around as long as we have. But
for some reason, people seem to be familiar with these
songs already, and that's a kind of a pleasant surprise
for us.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know, Well, Blackwater, what if wull believes two number
one songs? You had five top ten singles, sixteen a
top forty Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in twenty twenty.
You you all got into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Just in June of this year, the Grammys, the Hall
of Fame, the Writers Hall of Fame, the forty eight
million albums. How does it all rank for you? Do
(06:55):
you strike me as someone that the Songwriters Hall of
Fame may have meant the most?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I did really mean a lot to us collectively
as songwriters in the band, because that's the list of
people that goes way back. And you think about being
on the same list with some of those people, and
you just the Burke Backracks and you know, Lennon McCartney's
people like that, you just kind of go, my gosh,
(07:23):
you know, who would I never would have dreamed.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And I think all in all, no one's more surprised
than all of.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Us and who were around.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
In the seventies playing music out there on the road,
that we're still doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I don't think any of us thought we would be.
And you know, so you know, when we take the
stage with you know, other bands from that same era,
I think we're all pretty grateful to be still playing.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
These venues with these audiences, some of.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Which have been coming for the entire fifty years to
come see us play.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, because is the songs right? They're just as relevant today,
They're just as enjoyed today, they mean as much today.
I mean, not everybody can write a song that can
stand the test of time. You have another thing going
for you, and that is in addition to having I
always said this, if I could sound like anybody, I
would love to sound like Michael McDonald. I mean that
would get girls. But you know what, really, but really,
(08:22):
what hones it in is I can't sing your songs
in my voice. You would sound like an idiot. Uh.
He came from some place backing long ago. You gotta go.
You get from some place. But that's what makes you
just iconic in my mind. And then when I'm listening
to the new music, because I can imagine you guys
(08:42):
after forty years, sitting around and who's got what?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, but it just I mean that's pretty much yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, well I know, but I mean it doesn't sound
that way. It just sounds like like That's why I
asked you, did it feel like no time passed? Because
in listening, especially the title track Walk This Shrow, it's
like no time passed. I mean that could have been
your next record forty years ago, which I think is
a powerful testimony.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think for yeah, I think for for us, it's
We've never really been a band that wanted to reinvent
itself necessarily with each album or you know, with any
period of time. We always just kind of strove to
do what we always did, hopefully a little better this
time around, you know, and and improve and just kind
(09:26):
of nuanced kind of ways, and you know, but basically
tried to be the same and and in that we
changed greatly over the years. We tried things, you know,
but not because we wanted to reinvent ourselves. It was
just typically for us, it was like we would think
about some old band that we used to like that
you know that you probably wouldn't even guess that we liked,
(09:48):
you know, whether it was The Four Seasons or you know,
whoever it was, and we would, you know, one of
us would come up with a song that kind of
was reminiscent of of of that air of music. And
you know, we're all big pop, R and B fans,
so that's a very wide gap swath of different styles
(10:10):
of artists and music. So we always kind of drew
from that, you know, pool of influences.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, Michael McDonald, the Doobie Brothers there as we
always call them growing up, the Doobies. They're back together.
They got a ten track album called Walk This Road.
They're doing a North American tour now for cities and
if your morning show interest, You'll be in Saint Louis
on September the fourth, Milwaukee on the ninth of September,
Cincinnati on the twelfth of September. Franklin, Tennessee at our
(10:37):
new first Bank Amphitheater that'll be on September fifteenth, And
of course, for the complete list of all the tour dates,
including Detroit, you will find that at the Doobie Brothers
dot com. I'm thinking, because you're a musician as much
as you are a songwriter and a singer, what was
the tougher? I mean, where were the chops at?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I mean, can you like I when I stopped playing
baseball was when my body couldn't do what my mind
instinctively wanted to do. So that was the skill passing.
You can still sing, you can still play, But how
was it? What was it like all of you getting
back together and getting up to the kind of excellence
you're used to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, we've we've actually talked about taking a physical therapist
on the road with it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Keep going, I volunteer, I'll be it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah. Back in the back in the days, it was
a chef and a masseuse. Now it's a physical therapist,
may a psychiatrist. But yeah, you know, you give up
as you go. You know. I think being a musician
is one of the things you can keep doing, but
never at the level.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You did when you were younger. You know, like I
don't sing like I did when I was younger. Uh,
you just kind.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Of renegotiate with something like your voice, and you.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Try to figure out what.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Are my strengths still, or you know, what rings do
I sing in? Do I need to lower this song?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
And you know, and you find a way in all.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Those different avenues to just keep going. And and you play,
and you don't play as fast and as furiously as
you might have when you were younger, but you play
a little more thoughtfully, hopefully, and you know, like I say,
it's kind of a renegotiation with whatever you got left.
You know, I always say, you know, people say, you know, oh,
you know, we're a big fan of the band. I said, yeah, yeah,
(12:28):
what's left of us? You know, because we we kind
of you know, feel like, you know, we get a
certain energy when we get up on stage together and
it's almost like being nineteen again. But at the same time,
when one of us goes flying across the stage, which
is usually Patrick, he's the only one that still kind
of leaps through the air. The rest of us are
(12:49):
all biting our knuckles like you're gonna land. Okay for
it this hip, you know, but you.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Know we we we still enjoy.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What we do. And like I said, we would do
that part for free. We get paid for traveling, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Patrick Simmons, Tommy Johnson, John McPhee and of course Michael McDonald.
Adobie Brothers are back together the new album, and I
would assume they can download that. Go to Doobie Brothers
dot com for any of the concert dates or access
to the album. They're gonna love it. It's called Walk
This Road. Ten new studio tracks and a North American tour.
And let me say what I didn't bother you at
(13:24):
an athletic event one time. You're pretty hard to miss.
I mean, I can name that tune in your voice
in the first note, and I can spot you across
the stadium from a mile away, and I wanted to
do it so bad and I just respected your privacy
and didn't bother you. But let me tell you right
now what I was going to walk up and say
to you at that baseball game. Thank you for a
(13:46):
lifetime of music and what it meant to me and
the soundtrack to my life that it represents. Always loved you,
always looked up to you, and I can't wait to
see you in Franklin come September fifteenth. God bless you
on this tour and I'm so glad that you and
the guys got back together.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Thanks Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Michael McDonald, looking forward to playing at the Quarry out there.
They're back. This one is call me right, but you
know the guys still got it.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
They're gonna love the album. They're gonna love the concert.
Detroit last night, Coming to Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Franklin, Tennessee.
Many of our your morning show cities. Go to Theedoobie
Brothers dot com for more information. What a thrill, Michael McDonald,
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in New York and California saying, when we're gonna do
(17:25):
the same thing in redistrict? What a mess? This is?
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Abbott is warning the Democrats who have fled his state
return or be arrested. Mean wow. Gavin Newsom and Buck tooth.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Ulcal warning they're going to redistrict in their thing they
get you back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's just so out of control. And then we've had
Pam Bondi issue the call for a grand jury to
investigate Russia Gate. Could this lead to a special prosecutor?
Could this lead to arrests and convictions? It's what the
American people want to the tune of seventy percent. They're
interested in accountability for these actions. And the President has
(18:41):
sent an envoy, Steve Whitskoff, to Russia to try in
the last closing days to get a Ukrainian cease fire
deal done. That is basically the top stories waking up.
We just had a great visit with Michael McDonald. If
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Roy O'Neil is back. I don't
know this. This kind of smells like a thanks to
tariffs look out. But people who love to decorate for
the holidays, well that's certainly my wife. The cost is
maybe going way up this year. I would assume tariffs right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, that's going to be part of it. I think
more than than the cost, it's going to be the
supply in that you know, we started the tariff talk.
Just as most stores place their orders for the Christmas decorations,
there are three big Chinese companies that make all this stuff.
Remember for a time. They're the tarifs were one hundred
and forty five percent. So the American Christmas Tree Association
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is telling us that the stores were ordering sewer items,
so you're going to see probably the same variety, but
just not as much inventory. So you may see ten
different items on the shelf, but they've only got two
in inventory, not twenty like they used to have. So
the word is going to be if you see it
and you like it, you better buy a bias when
you build at the store of the week after, it's
(20:29):
not going to be there.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I don't know how you guys are you do it?
But Andrea is big on Halloween, which I'm kind of
anti Halloween. I'm not a fun sucker, but you know,
there's just some things I don't think are fun and funny.
So she went one crazy with Halloween. Fine, have your Halloween,
and then I went crazy with Christmas, including a twenty
(20:51):
five hundred dollars Santa Claus who sits in my hallway.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Noo.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, no, it was it's my favorite. You know what.
It was impulse, It was ridiculed, but it's one of
my favorite purchases in life. And I always gather the
kids around. I say, when I'm dead, who's taken Santa?
Because he's gore. He looks like a real living short man.
And I got him at Christmas World in Gatlinburg. And
so anyway, you know, I went crazy for great and
(21:17):
then we go every year Halloween, I bite it and
do it, and then Christmas I do it. We add
something new every year. So I like when you said
the variety'll be there, but the plentifulness may not. And
it's more shortage than it is cost. I would presume
this ghost for Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, all decorations.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, we think that Halloween made it under the wire
in terms of the calendar because they may have been
ordering that. If you were ordering eight months in advance,
you might have missed the tip Liberation Day, so they
may have snuck in before a lot of this. But
Christmas is certainly under the gun with just a few
months to go, because I'll forget this stuff hits the
shells Labor Day weekend, so it's less than a.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Month at this point.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Halloween is out right now, did you write?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, I was there yesterday.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Christmas is coming, Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I know where did this year, go see how we're
growing old together, Rory, and you still don't like me.
You're still not embracing our friendship.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Maybe the Christmas spirit, but uh.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Great reporting. As always. We're back to the phone because
we're having technical difficulties with your your studio, like, but.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
They're on my end of the cable. Guys outside right now.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh well, I just blame it on Jeffrey. Anyway, I
blame everything on jeff whether it is there isn't. All right, royal,
great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow. You know what's always
revealing and often entertaining, and today Grammy Award winning it's
the sounds, all right, everybody look up.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Look, you just gotta try harder not to show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I'm gonna have the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Sure perhaps you like could be alone with you aorating
mental condition.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Politics, I don't know us, all right. I don't play
shorts and skins, and I don't play shirts and skins today.
I can't help what is all a bad look for
the Democrats, and I suspect they've earned it, starting with
(23:12):
their won't back down tour that nobody wants. They want
them to return to common sense, pivot back to the
will of the American people. Who was it we were
talking to this morning. I think it was wasn't John Decker,
may have been Carafano, but you know you said about
(23:35):
they're not pivoting back to serving the American people. All
they want to do is serve their power. And there
was it was that Decker. Was it was Carafano? Yeah,
And it was a real old Wold moment. And I'll
give you an example. Here's Jasmine Crockett and well, you
knew she was going to come out swinging because this
(23:57):
redistricting actually put her home outside her own district. But
it's not just I guess you could say, to some degree,
at least pokeland Newsome are just gonna, you know, turn
this into oh you want to do that in Texas,
or we're gonna do it in California New York, all right,
but not foul mouthed, just okay, you want to play
(24:20):
that game, We'll play that game. Well, the reality is
they've all been playing that game. That game is always
played and when someone else does it, it's cherry mannering.
And when you do it, it's just census response where
Jasmine Crockett went and with that same poo poo mouth.
Remember from Anchorman say that those words with your poopoo mouth,
(24:43):
that poop pool comes out of your mouth. I don't know.
I don't get to deal with the foul language. I
don't know if they're trying to be hip and cool,
but they sound.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
There.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It is.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
All right, cue the poop mouth Jasmine Crockett in Texas.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Well, what are we going to need to then?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
For me?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Is getting aggressive? Now listen, I'm not gonna say this
is what we're gonna do, but I'm telling y'all what
my vision would be.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Number One, this Supreme Court is corrupt, so so so.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Again serving on the Judiciary Committee, there.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Are by the way, the Supreme Court is that it's
highest approval rating ULLs.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
That we have put into place. We need to have
some real guardrails around the Supreme Court because the Supreme
Court has paved the way for half the stuff that
we see that is going on. Listen, Donald Trump is
a piece of Okay, we know that.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, you just can't refer to a president of the
United States like that, not as a member of Congress.
That's disgusting. That's discrediting. I know your party's dying, but man,
do we have to smell the decay like this? Yes,
he is, he is, his is, but.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
In a functioning democracy he's still not be able to
get away with this. But he's been able to get
away with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He's
been able to get away with this because Senate Republicans
are complicit. But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court,
(26:17):
is complicit. And so I think one of the places
that we have to start is we are absolutely they
are the highest court in the lands and they have
no ethics guard rails. Now you go down to the
lower courts and they do.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I remember when Roger Riils was begging and making his
case to not be fired, and Rupert Murdoch goes, there's
just no oxygen for that narrative. That's the problem the
Democrats are having. There's no oxygen for this narrative. One
(26:52):
of the big situations is okay, you got mom, Donnie,
which is actually the birth of an Islamist party that's
forming within the Democrat Party. He's also more communistic than socialistist,
which is a little bit of a strange bedfellow with
the aocs, the Jasmine Crocketts and the squad who are
more socialistic. So Sean Hannity has on Stephen A. Smith
(27:16):
last night, and in the eight seconds Sean allowed him
to speak, Sean is saying, look, as a party, you're
a Democrat, you gotta own Mom, Donnie, you gotta own AOC,
you gotta own Jasmine Crockett. Steven A. Smith. Ain't interested
in knowing any of them. Listen, question why'd that happen?
(27:37):
It's prob Rory's internet? Do I have Rory's Internet? Now?
Could be festering on me.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Basically, Sean is trying to pin all that on him
and he's just not going to allow it. Now. I
can't get it to queue.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I will.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So basically he's saying, no, I no, I disallowed them.
I disabowed it, disallowed them. The same thing was kind
of asked of Elizabeth Warren and you get a completely
different response than AOC. So Stephen A. Smith is more
common sensical, more traditional democrat. He didn't know. He doesn't
know what's going on and his party and why they're
(28:16):
they're being so stupid and going so crazy anymore than
you do, but not Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Listen when someone stands up and says, I will lead
this city by making it more affordable. And here are
my plans, real plans, Plans to deliver on childcare, plans
to deliver unhousing, plans, to deliver an experiment. We're going
to try things on groceries. That is the Democratic message.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh sh that should be the hardest words for the
Democrat Party to survive. Mom Donnie is the Democrat Party
and tafada is the Democrat Party seizing private properties the
Democrat Party. Well read, that should be in political ads.
(29:06):
Oh my gosh, that's all you need. And as she stopped,
that's on the campaign trail with Mom Donnie. But then,
if you were hoping Elizabeth Warren when she fell, hit
her head and knocked some sense into her, abandon that.
Here she is on CNBC, and watch how the CNBC
host won't let her get away with it, because basically,
(29:27):
these are New Yorkers ready to send her in her
pants suit back to New England. Listen, the issue is affordability.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Do you know how many working families are chased out
of New York City every day because they can't afford
housing they can't afford groceries, they can't afford childcare.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What Zaran is.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Saying, I want people to be able to afford to
live in New York City.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's what keeps it a vibrant city.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
That's what makes people want to leave.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Nobody disagrees with that, Senator, But raising taxes in order
to do it?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Oh, why is that the answer?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
Speaker 7 (30:03):
No, I'm worried that they're going to leave and spend
their money elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I got it this dollar a second. Oh, I'm loving
this guy, But that doesn't stop numb skull over here.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
They've threatened to do that over and over, and they have.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They have, they've left. I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
And Golden Sacks, when they create new jobs, they do
it in Dallas. Blackstone won't build a new headquarter. You
want to have a workable city. You want to have
a city that's vibrant. You want to have a city
with streets are full, but there are things for sale
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Things are things not for sale twenty four hours a
day in New York? Are the streets not full of
new York is New York kind of fibrant city. It's
the city that never sleeps, the never sleep damning.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
We need people who can live here and world.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We got that right now.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
By the way, I have to point out New York
is thriving so right now it's doing pretty well.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Actually, did you think they're doing well because a lot
of people are struggling to pay for housing, A lot
of people are struggling to pay for groceries. And I
got to tell you mamas and daddies who are facing
twenty five thousand dollars a year to pay for childcare.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
A lot of national issues.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
I mean, I know they are the local state, but
in New York City, yes, but if you deal with
them in that way, by what is always your backup,
just tax them more, they will leave.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
No.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
The backup is make this city and make this country.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Work for everyone. I get that.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
The Republican point of view is make this country and
make every city in this country work better and better
for a handful of billionaires and let everybody else eat dirt.
But what mom Dommy won on in a Democratic primary
is he said I'm going.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To address He wouldn't have wonted a Democrat primary. But
you rigged the primary well, a special way of voting
that got him through. Otherwise there would have been a
runoff and he would have lost to Cuomo. Now you've
got a four person race. So it was the rank
style that got him through. But don't don't miss the dismount.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
That's affordability, and he didn't win.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
It's very much clear he has the ability to actually
do it, by the way, based on the laws and
what the governor has to say and what he would
actually have to do.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You know, I love that as.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
The fallback position, and that is he's fighting for the
right thing, but maybe maybe the billionaires way.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
He wants a more affordable city. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
The question is at.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
This he told me, you know, I wonder that. So
the whole experiment is this. There is going to be
Democrats that will distance themselves from AOC, distance themselves from Mondani,
and those who will call it jas mccrockett, like Elizabeth Warren.
That is the new party. And what you're really seeing
is the demise and the end of the party. I
(32:46):
think Scott Jennings is about to exit CNN. I don't
know where he's headed. But they're going to replace him
with Harry Inton, and he's really expanding his role here.
He is breaking down all the hills the Democrats fought
and died on, all this care tactics that they initiated
and lost.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
A lot of folks have claimed Trump always chickens out
taco when it comes to tariffs.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I don't think that's true, Omar, And I think the
theme of this segment is going to be love it
like a lumpet. Trump's remaking the United States of America.
We can start there with tarris. What are we talking about?
No tacos for Trump. The effective tariff rate, get this,
eighteen percent. It is the highest, Omar, the highest since
the nineteen thirties, up from get this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Just two percent last year.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
As I'm going to talk about in this segment, I
can't think of a more influential president during this century.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
And it starts here with tariffs.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
He said he was going to raise tarris, and despite
the claims otherwise, he is in fact doing that. The
effective tariff right at this point looks to be nine
times as high as it was last year, the highest
since the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
In FDR Omar. Yeah, this goes back to what I
was saying with Tarafano. You want to play shirts and skins.
You want to sit here and play political matrix. You're
missing a president that's doing a lot of things historically.
Right here, we go to immigration.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Let's jump the other big thing that Trump ran on,
right was immigration. How about net migration in the United States.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Get this, It's down. It's going to be down.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
At least sixty percent. We may be dealing with. Get this,
negative net migration to the United States in twenty twenty five.
That would be the first time there is negative net
migration in this country in at least fifty years. We're
talking about down from two point eight million in twenty
twenty four. So Donald Trump ran has always run on
(34:41):
tariffs and he's running a hawkish line on immigration. And
on both of those issues, we are seeing record high
tariff rates for this century, going all the way back,
well back into the early part of the twentieth century.
And when it comes to immigration net migration, we are
seeing record low levels, way down from where we were
during the Abiden administry. We are potentially looking at negative
(35:02):
net migration for the first time.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And at least fifty years. This is a historic It's
a historic presidency. And what I love is Harry Anton.
You know, CNN is selling these false narratives and lies
every day and then he comes on and pops in
with the truth. But he only gets that one quick
segment to pop in and tell the truth. The other
part of this story is we have lived in a
(35:25):
time where politicians tickle ears, they pander, they say things,
but they don't do them. Donald Trump says them, promises them,
and then delivers no wonder He is the most significant
president of the century and I think history will put
(35:46):
him in the top three. America may not view it
in real time, and they didn't with Reagan, but the
numbers are there, and that just sounds the day.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
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