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I can't believe it's Friday already. With good Morning, Welcome
to Friday, August the eighth. You have our Lord twenty
twenty five. What do Dems in Boston, James Carvel and
Jasmine Crockett all have in common? I don't know, Alex.
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Today we will add them all up to what the
problem really is coming up? Welcome to Friday, and it's
so such a pleasure to serve you. I'm Michael. Jeffrey
is keeping control of the sound. Red is got his
eye on the content, and Trump and Putin and Zelenski
are all ready to meet as the deadline of the
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Russian ceasefire has arrived, which kind of flows naturally into Trump.
The first two hundred days that most experts are saying
is of historic ninety two years significance. Maybe not since
FDR ninety two years ago has there been this impactful
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of a president, even John F. Kennedy, although you know,
you realize John F. Kennedy and that was cut very
very short in three years, so he never got a
second term. No one has ever gotten a second term
like this after four years off. But most experts are
saying this is a presidency that is not just done
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what it said it would do, but rather changed how
things will be done forever. We'll dust that out more
in our journey of discovery. President Trump is directing the
Commerce Department to start working on new census, this time
not counting illegal immigrants. I can only imagine how the
left is going to this is a First of all,
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we're sovereign nation. We have laws. We either have law
or order. We have chaos. We either have borders, or
we're not a sovereign nation. But that's all been lost
in narrative. The truth of the matter is this has
been a Democrat party strategy and if you count the
illegals you get representation. But should non citizens dictate the
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populace in the House Chamber? So again, they never should
have been counted, ever should have been allowed, and they
need to be processed and returned or given citizenship, one
or the other. The only thing that hasn't made sense
is not doing this. And watch how the left freaks
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out over this. The FAA plans to hire eighty nine
hundred air traffic controllers over the next three years, and
the Israeli security Cabinet has approved a full military takeover
of Gozip. The analogy is pretty simple. You wouldn't You
certainly wouldn't have wanted to leave the Germans in Germany.
Why would we allow Hamas to remain in the Palestinian
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area only to rise to power again? Biggest things I
want to talk about today, and again they all kind
of go together when you really stop and think about it.
James Carvel is making news. James Carvell's statement is pretty simple.
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What we need to do, and when he says we,
he means Democrats. What we need to do is add states. Now,
somebody thinks we need to add states, we need to
expand the court. Now. The bottom line to this whole
conversation is, this is what we need to do to
keep our party alive. I don't know how you feel
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about the two party stranglehold. I have some pretty strong feelings,
and I'm not really a fan of either, which is
probably why I like being an independent and sitting back
and watching Trump create a new party that isn't the
Republican Party, and I'm enjoying watching the Democrat Party die.
Why Because the two party stranglehold, the only thing that
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does is create distraction and divide. And when you add
that to the one party media that's since been exposed,
that adds the confusion and the mistrust. Distraction, division, confusion,
mistrust is not a recipe for success. And the default
for the American people is you just can't keep up
with all of that, not in our busy lives. So
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we just focus and put everything on the presidency, which
also was never intended. And all while we're busy playing
that game, the powerful elite, while they're controlling Congress, they're
enslaving us and they're ensuring their agenda so it's very,
very dysfunctional. But make no mistake about it, at some
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point you're not about being somebody willing to go to
Washington and serve and I don't just mean lawyers, I
mean from all walks of life, and you go to
Washington to represent your people in your district, not become
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a congressman and a representative in order to move on
to the Senate, in order to move on to governorship
and just become some career politician. What gives them away
is how long they stay. We have a situation in Tennessee,
and I know everybody's gonna hyper focus on my dislike,
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don't we have a situation? What's that? That's a new
child in the room. Well you just said it. I
was like, I gotta hear it. Will you play please
yourself along the way? I do want that? Listen. I
was searching for Gutfeldt Jimmy Fallon moments all morning long
and couldn't find them. So if you find a sound
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you like, play it all right? You got it? No,
But so here's where what I mean is you would
want We're going to bring up a Marsha Blackburn. Marshall
Blackburn starts runs for Congress, Sirs. I don't know how
many terms, and then, of course it's just natural that
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when you reach retirement age, then you run for Senate.
And now she's leaving the US Senate run for governor,
a governorship that will end in her eighties. Now there's
the person me and this has nothing to do with her.
I think. I once said, Marsha Blackburn was a home
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economics major from Mississippi State University. To what she tried
to get me fired over that. But the truth of
the matter is she was a home economics major form
Misssippi Dauniversity. So I don't I don't know how that
one was supposed to work out. But I have nothing
personal against her. I just always use her as an
analogy as a human being. I can't understand why you
don't go home. We tell you something. The last fifteen
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to twenty years I have with my wife, they're precious
and I will spend them retired with her and our
children and our grandchildren. So maybe it's just me personal personally,
but I can't conceive staying till till the toe tag.
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But I want to get back to what we're supposed
to be. People from all walks of life who go
to Washington to represent the people in their district to
make sure their voice is heard, because that's the people's house,
and that's how the populace is represented. In other words,
your only focus ought to be the people in your
geographic district, to serve them. When you're having an issue,
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and it could be something like getting a passport before
a vacation. They're there to serve you, and whether they're
on the floor, they're there to represent you. That's what
it's intended to be. Is that what it's become. And
James Carvell, we see, oh we need more states, we
need to expand the Supreme Court, why so that our
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party can rule. That was never the intent. Now he's
going to say over and over again, they're mantra it's
in order to save democracy. But you know how democracy
morphed into the Democrat party platform and its candidates. And
now anybody that opposes their party or their candidates is
anti democracy and is certainly a tyrant, an insurrectionist and
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a fascist. It's a sick game and needs to end.
And that's the Carvel part. Now, the good news is
football is getting ready to start. He'll start watching LSU
games and he'll shut up for a little while. Then
we go to the Dems in Boston. We did a
major deep dive into redistricting constitutionally versus jerrymandering, and the
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places these people are fleeing Texas to hide are the
worst examples of jerrymandering, not redistricting. So they have no
credibility whatsoever. If they were against jerry mannering, that's what
the Illinois and Massachusetts are the last place they would go.
But then now they got all these governors saying, well,
we've got to do it. This is a threat to democracy.
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Donald Trump is putting us in a terrible place. So
because of Texas, we're gonna have to redistrict. And it's laughable.
Right in Massachusetts, would you redistrict? There are no Republicans.
In fact, I can do that up the entire East
Coast and there's not a single reporter who will point
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that out. So they're in Boston avoiding redistricting and their
legislative duty.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
For what.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The good of their party nationally, not in their district.
James Carvel the party nationally. He's even going to a
states expand the court. And then we get to Jasmine Crockett.
The New York posted a story talking to people in
her office staffers and the headline is Trump critic Representative
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Jasmin Crockett from Texas is a no show boss from
hell who terrorizes staffers and the AIDS claim is all
diva because she's not there to represent the people of
her district. She's not there to serve the people of
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her district. She's there to serve herself. Do you ever
look at this? And Republicans can be just as guilty.
Don't get me wrong, but these people are more serving
themselves than their district, representing themself or their party, not
their district, not that the collective good of the country.
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They're not interested in being part of solutions. They're like
cast actors and actresses playing roles for a two party
system that quite frankly, is actively dying. And once you
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start actively dying, whether it's one hour, one day, one week,
or one month, you're gonna die. Just like when Jesus
was describing all of the signs of end times, he said,
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that's just the beginning, that's the birth pains. But what
he was saying was, oh, there's going to be a baby.
It's going to happen. This is how disfunctional we have
been for so long. But there's something different in the air, right.
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They're not getting away with it any longer. And I
say all of that only to say this, and I
hope our senior contributor, David Tonati find some more eloquent
way to do it later. I can't point to anything
other than Donald Trump that has caused all this to
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come to an end when you hear spirts are saying
most significant consequential president in ninety two years, because he's
not only changed government, he's changed the way government will
be done for. Donald Trump addressed political correctness. Donald Trump
addressed word police. Donald Trump addressed the death of journalism,
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the border all in ways, trans genderedism, all in ways
that just suddenly everybody saw. So I kind of use
molarry and curly here the Democrats in Boston, Jas mccrockett
and James Carvell. Really to come back to the big
story of the day, Who is this Donald Trump after
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two hundred days and what do we do with him historically?
Because it's really pretty difficult to stop even at FDR
in comparison, he has completely changed everything, and not just now,
but potentially depending on what we do with it forever.
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And the reason I say that, oh boy, my late.
The reason I say that is because you know, think
of all this revenue from tariffs, Well, that's a good thing. Ultimately,
we're going to all be paying for it along the way,
because these companies are going to take ahead and they're
going to pass on some of the costs to us.
But in the long run, if it creates manufacturing and
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jobs and creation of things, it's a good thing. But
if Donald Trump leaves and eventually get a Democrat president
or a Democrat controlled House, they could take all that
revenue and apply it for their agenda, and then you
don't get the good that comes from it. You have
just the higher prices and more redistribution of wealth. So look,
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all of this is in time. The mix looks great,
it looks greatly oven, and it's rising, but it could
still get burnt. But all things being what they are,
this is the most unique first two hundred days in
presidential history, and it may be one of the most
remarkable in presidential history because of everything I just described
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The Doobie Brothers got back together after forty years when
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in studio caught a ten track album and now they're
on tour, and I know what the first thing you're
thinking is what do they sound like?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
They sound great, not a lot, Grammy Award winning, platinum
selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
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 6 (18:47):
Well, it's something we had talked about over.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
The years, you know. I had actually played with the
guys from time to time for a charity event or
a special event. Some I'm here or there, some Corford
gigs would request the band with me included, and and
we always look forward to doing that. You know, we
weren't playing together regularly at the time, but there's so
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many of us. 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 6 (19:20):
But I was really always kind of in the back of.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
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 been fun for me and I think
for all the guys to do this kind of a
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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 they you know, the camaraderie has always been uh
uh what we enjoy about it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, does that feel like no times past everything
just got right back?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It? Really? It really, it really did in a person
in a personal way because we we had 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. And uh
so you know, we we have mutual friends there, you know,
William Nelson and a bunch of people that live over there,
you know, Woody Harrelson and so all their kids and
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our kids, you know, kind of commune. So even when
we weren't in touch, they were more or less. It
was kind of a fun time in all of our
lives to be over there.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
And you know, so we talked about it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
From 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 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
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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 (21:54):
And whoa 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 (22:14):
Me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
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 Brothers songs. And what a full believes? Do you
realize that is forty six years ago? What a full believe?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I'd rather not think about it, Michael.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I was su 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 gonna bring back some of the
great ones too with the new ones on this concert tour,
right yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I will do all of them, you know, we as
many as we can.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
You know, we try to kind of do the songs we.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Think people want to hear, you know, the most, and
then we're going to do the three i think four
new songs that we do. And it's 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 in the audience to
go to the bathroom, you know, when you've been around
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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 (23:37):
You know, well, Blackwater, what if fool believes two number
one songs? You had five top ten singles, sixteen to
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
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you strike me as someone that the Songwriters Hall of
Fame may have meant the most?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
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 the you know, Leonnon
McCartney's people like that, you just kind of go, my gosh,
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you know who I never would have dreamed. And I
think all in all, no one's more surprised than all
of us in who were around in the seventies playing
music out there on the road that we're still doing it.
I don't think any of us thought we would be.
And you know, so you know, when we take the
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stage with you know, other bands from that same era,
I think we're all pretty grateful to be still playing
these venues with these audiences of which have been coming
for the entire fifty years to come see us play well.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Because the secret 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 would really
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but really what hones it in is I can't sing
your songs in my voice. You would sound like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
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
after forty years, sitting around and who's got what? Yeah,
but it just I mean.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
That's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, well I.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
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 Show, 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 (26:10):
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 improve and just kind of nuanced,
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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, you know,
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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 that era 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 of artists and music.
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So we always kind of drew from that, you know,
pool of influences. You know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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 of 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 new First Bank Amphitheater
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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 Thedoobie 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? You know? I mean, can
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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 (28:26):
Well, we've we've actually talked about taking a physical therapist
on the road with it to keep going.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I volunteer, I'll be it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, back in the back in the days, it was
a chef and a masseuse. Now it's a physical therapist,
maybe a psychiatrist. But yeah, you know, you give up
as you go, you know. Uh. I think being a
musician is one of the things you can keep doing,
but never at the level you did when you were younger.
You know, like I don't sing like I did when
I was younger. Uh, you just kind of renegotiate with
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something like voice and you try to figure out one
of my strengths still, or you know, what range do
I sing in? Do I need to lower this song?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
And you know, and you find a way, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
All those different avenues to just keep going. And you play,
and you don't.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Play as fast and as furiously as you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
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,
you know what's left of us? You know, because we
we kind of you know, feel like, you know, we
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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 and the
rest of us are all biting our knuckles like it's
gonna land.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Okay, break this hip, you know, but you know, we
still enjoy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
What we do.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And like I said, we would do that part for free.
We get paid for traveling, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Patrick Simmons, Tommy Johnston, John McPhee and of course Michael McDonald.
Adobie Brothers are back together the new album and you can,
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
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you at 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
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for a 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 frank And come September fifteenth.
God bless you on this tour and I'm so glad
that you and the guys got back together.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Thanks Michael, we appreciate that very much and looking forward
to playing at the quarry out there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Wouldn't miss it for the world. Tell me he doesn't
sound any different. Oh, what a unique sound. The Hall
of Famer, the great one. By the way, he was
sitting with Ashley Judd the baseball game bdo getting there. Wow,
I actually noticed Ashley first. But Michael doesn't need to
know that.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, there are some mixed results about what is next
for the economy. National Correspondent roon you won't have the
very latest on that coming up in minutes before just
waking up. These are your top five stories up the day.
The Israel security cabinet has approved a military takeover of
the Gaza strip. Mark Mayfield has details.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin NTNYA, who says a
majority of his security cabinet back to this proposal early
Friday to begin the gradual military takeover of the Palestinian territory,
beginning with Kaza City. A statement from the Prime Minister
says the goal of the takeover is to achieve a
decisive victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The statement said the takeover plan would allow.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
For the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians outside the
combat zones.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There was no mention of when the takeover would begin.
I'm mark Neythiew. They would like to.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Meet with me, and I'll do whatever I can to
stop the killing.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
President Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to
meet with him. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said
both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky want to meet with him.
As a Friday deadline for Russia to start ceasefire talks approaches,
Trump said, too many people dying still.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Last month, they lost fourteen thousand people killed last month.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Every week is four or five thousand people. Former Governor
Andrew Cromo, who's running for New York City mayor, is
denying having a phone conversation with President Trump about the
mayor's race. Sara Lee Kessler has more.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I've never spoken to him about the mayor's race.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
At a hastily called news conference on Thursday afternoon, Cuomo
said he doesn't remember the last time he spoke with Trump.
This after The New York Times reported a phone call
on Wednesday and Zora and Mom Donnie Besh Cuomo on
the campaign trail.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
New Yorkers do not want a mayor who is working
in tandem with the President to subvert the will of
the people of this city.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Cuomo didn't react to that, instead slamming Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You have Mayor Adams who's running, who is a wholly
owned subsidiary of President Trump.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, the first trailer for the office sped Off the
Paper is out. Now, that's another one of those that
shocked people. And I said, I've never seen an episode
of the Autumn. My gosh, I know my son's a
big fan. Anyway, they got a Spedoff coming the Paper.
It follows the staff of a struggling newspaper into the
Toledo Truth Teller. The character Oscar Martinez from the original
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series just so happens to work for the paper. First
four episodes of the mock youumentary series hits Peacock on
September the fourth, Well, today's a big day for my wife,
really the entire family. It's International Cat Day, pre tennis
with more on, a day to love and pamper your felines.
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The day is said to raise awareness about how cool
cats are. They have power jumping abilities, they knock stuff
over and we're okay with it, and nap about sixteen
hours a day. It's a coveted life and they aren't
just cute. The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University
says petting a cat for ten minutes reduces stress and
anxiety in humans. No doubt there's a cat waiting for
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Maybe you take a peek. I'm pre tennis. That's a
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been able to fight it, depending again how good you
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the Seahawks tied at twenty three. In baseball, off your
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I can't believe it's Friday already. With good Morning, Welcome
to Friday, August the eighth. You have our Lord twenty
twenty five. What do Dems in Boston, James Carvel and
Jasmine Crockett all have in common? I don't know, Alex.
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Today we will add them all up to what the
problem really is coming up? Welcome to Friday, and it's
so such a pleasure to serve you. I'm Michael. Jeffrey
is keeping control of the sound. Red is got his
eye on the content, and Trump and Putin and Zelenski
are all ready to meet as the deadline of the
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Russian ceasefire has arrived, which kind of flows naturally into Trump.
The first two hundred days that most experts are saying
is of historic ninety two years significance. Maybe not since
FDR ninety two years ago has there been this impactful
(01:42):
of a president, even John F. Kennedy, although you know,
you realize John F. Kennedy and that was cut very
very short in three years, so he never got a
second term. No one has ever gotten a second term
like this after four years off. But most experts are
saying this is a presidency that is not just done
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what it said it would do, but rather changed how
things will be done forever. We'll dust that out more
in our journey of discovery. President Trump is directing the
Commerce Department to start working on new census, this time
not counting illegal immigrants. I can only imagine how the
left is going to this is a First of all,
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we're sovereign nation. We have laws. We either have law
or order. We have chaos. We either have borders, or
we're not a sovereign nation. But that's all been lost
in narrative. The truth of the matter is this has
been a Democrat party strategy and if you count the
illegals you get representation. But should non citizens dictate the
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populace in the House Chamber? So again, they never should
have been counted, ever should have been allowed, and they
need to be processed and returned or given citizenship, one
or the other. The only thing that hasn't made sense
is not doing this. And watch how the left freaks
(03:13):
out over this. The FAA plans to hire eighty nine
hundred air traffic controllers over the next three years, and
the Israeli security Cabinet has approved a full military takeover
of Gozip. The analogy is pretty simple. You wouldn't You
certainly wouldn't have wanted to leave the Germans in Germany.
Why would we allow Hamas to remain in the Palestinian
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area only to rise to power again? Biggest things I
want to talk about today, and again they all kind
of go together when you really stop and think about it.
James Carvel is making news. James Carvell's statement is pretty simple.
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What we need to do, and when he says we,
he means Democrats. What we need to do is add states. Now,
somebody thinks we need to add states, we need to
expand the court. Now. The bottom line to this whole
conversation is, this is what we need to do to
keep our party alive. I don't know how you feel
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about the two party stranglehold. I have some pretty strong feelings,
and I'm not really a fan of either, which is
probably why I like being an independent and sitting back
and watching Trump create a new party that isn't the
Republican Party, and I'm enjoying watching the Democrat Party die.
Why Because the two party stranglehold, the only thing that
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does is create distraction and divide. And when you add
that to the one party media that's since been exposed,
that adds the confusion and the mistrust. Distraction, division, confusion,
mistrust is not a recipe for success. And the default
for the American people is you just can't keep up
with all of that, not in our busy lives. So
(05:04):
we just focus and put everything on the presidency, which
also was never intended. And all while we're busy playing
that game, the powerful elite, while they're controlling Congress, they're
enslaving us and they're ensuring their agenda so it's very,
very dysfunctional. But make no mistake about it, at some
(05:27):
point you're not about being somebody willing to go to
Washington and serve and I don't just mean lawyers, I
mean from all walks of life, and you go to
Washington to represent your people in your district, not become
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a congressman and a representative in order to move on
to the Senate, in order to move on to governorship
and just become some career politician. What gives them away
is how long they stay. We have a situation in Tennessee,
and I know everybody's gonna hyper focus on my dislike,
(06:10):
don't we have a situation? What's that? That's a new
child in the room. Well you just said it. I
was like, I gotta hear it. Will you play please
yourself along the way? I do want that? Listen. I
was searching for Gutfeldt Jimmy Fallon moments all morning long
and couldn't find them. So if you find a sound
(06:31):
you like, play it all right? You got it? No,
But so here's where what I mean is you would
want We're going to bring up a Marsha Blackburn. Marshall
Blackburn starts runs for Congress, Sirs. I don't know how
many terms, and then, of course it's just natural that
(06:53):
when you reach retirement age, then you run for Senate.
And now she's leaving the US Senate run for governor,
a governorship that will end in her eighties. Now there's
the person me and this has nothing to do with her.
I think. I once said, Marsha Blackburn was a home
(07:14):
economics major from Mississippi State University. To what she tried
to get me fired over that. But the truth of
the matter is she was a home economics major form
Misssippi Dauniversity. So I don't I don't know how that
one was supposed to work out. But I have nothing
personal against her. I just always use her as an
analogy as a human being. I can't understand why you
don't go home. We tell you something. The last fifteen
(07:38):
to twenty years I have with my wife, they're precious
and I will spend them retired with her and our
children and our grandchildren. So maybe it's just me personal personally,
but I can't conceive staying till till the toe tag.
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But I want to get back to what we're supposed
to be. People from all walks of life who go
to Washington to represent the people in their district to
make sure their voice is heard, because that's the people's house,
and that's how the populace is represented. In other words,
your only focus ought to be the people in your
geographic district, to serve them. When you're having an issue,
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and it could be something like getting a passport before
a vacation. They're there to serve you, and whether they're
on the floor, they're there to represent you. That's what
it's intended to be. Is that what it's become. And
James Carvell, we see, oh we need more states, we
need to expand the Supreme Court, why so that our
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party can rule. That was never the intent. Now he's
going to say over and over again, they're mantra it's
in order to save democracy. But you know how democracy
morphed into the Democrat party platform and its candidates. And
now anybody that opposes their party or their candidates is
anti democracy and is certainly a tyrant, an insurrectionist and
(09:09):
a fascist. It's a sick game and needs to end.
And that's the Carvel part. Now, the good news is
football is getting ready to start. He'll start watching LSU
games and he'll shut up for a little while. Then
we go to the Dems in Boston. We did a
major deep dive into redistricting constitutionally versus jerrymandering, and the
(09:34):
places these people are fleeing Texas to hide are the
worst examples of jerrymandering, not redistricting. So they have no
credibility whatsoever. If they were against jerry mannering, that's what
the Illinois and Massachusetts are the last place they would go.
But then now they got all these governors saying, well,
we've got to do it. This is a threat to democracy.
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Donald Trump is putting us in a terrible place. So
because of Texas, we're gonna have to redistrict. And it's laughable.
Right in Massachusetts, would you redistrict? There are no Republicans.
In fact, I can do that up the entire East
Coast and there's not a single reporter who will point
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that out. So they're in Boston avoiding redistricting and their
legislative duty.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
For what.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The good of their party nationally, not in their district.
James Carvel the party nationally. He's even going to a
states expand the court. And then we get to Jasmine Crockett.
The New York posted a story talking to people in
her office staffers and the headline is Trump critic Representative
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Jasmin Crockett from Texas is a no show boss from
hell who terrorizes staffers and the AIDS claim is all
diva because she's not there to represent the people of
her district. She's not there to serve the people of
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her district. She's there to serve herself. Do you ever
look at this? And Republicans can be just as guilty.
Don't get me wrong, but these people are more serving
themselves than their district, representing themself or their party, not
their district, not that the collective good of the country.
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They're not interested in being part of solutions. They're like
cast actors and actresses playing roles for a two party
system that quite frankly, is actively dying. And once you
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start actively dying, whether it's one hour, one day, one week,
or one month, you're gonna die. Just like when Jesus
was describing all of the signs of end times, he said,
(12:11):
that's just the beginning, that's the birth pains. But what
he was saying was, oh, there's going to be a baby.
It's going to happen. This is how disfunctional we have
been for so long. But there's something different in the air, right.
(12:34):
They're not getting away with it any longer. And I
say all of that only to say this, and I
hope our senior contributor, David Tonati find some more eloquent
way to do it later. I can't point to anything
other than Donald Trump that has caused all this to
(12:55):
come to an end when you hear spirts are saying
most significant consequential president in ninety two years, because he's
not only changed government, he's changed the way government will
be done for. Donald Trump addressed political correctness. Donald Trump
addressed word police. Donald Trump addressed the death of journalism,
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the border all in ways, trans genderedism, all in ways
that just suddenly everybody saw. So I kind of use
molarry and curly here the Democrats in Boston, Jas mccrockett
and James Carvell. Really to come back to the big
story of the day, Who is this Donald Trump after
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two hundred days and what do we do with him historically?
Because it's really pretty difficult to stop even at FDR
in comparison, he has completely changed everything, and not just now,
but potentially depending on what we do with it forever.
(14:05):
And the reason I say that, oh boy, my late.
The reason I say that is because you know, think
of all this revenue from tariffs, Well, that's a good thing. Ultimately,
we're going to all be paying for it along the way,
because these companies are going to take ahead and they're
going to pass on some of the costs to us.
But in the long run, if it creates manufacturing and
(14:29):
jobs and creation of things, it's a good thing. But
if Donald Trump leaves and eventually get a Democrat president
or a Democrat controlled House, they could take all that
revenue and apply it for their agenda, and then you
don't get the good that comes from it. You have
just the higher prices and more redistribution of wealth. So look,
(14:51):
all of this is in time. The mix looks great,
it looks greatly oven, and it's rising, but it could
still get burnt. But all things being what they are,
this is the most unique first two hundred days in
presidential history, and it may be one of the most
remarkable in presidential history because of everything I just described
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of you were trying to find NFL preseason football last
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Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, only to be surprised that
they never discussed politics at all. In fact, it really
was a tribute to what Late Night used to be.
(17:43):
You get together and you have fun, you don't sit
there and fight over politics. I'm beginning to wonder if
it was staged to be so. But I've got some
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of the Day coming up later. It is Friday, so
Friday with forty seven will be off the roof and
on and in your coming up in the third hour.
The Doobie Brothers got back together after forty years when
(18:07):
in studio caught a ten track album and now they're
on tour, and I know what the first thing you're
thinking is what do they sound like?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
They sound great, not a lot, Grammy Award winning, platinum
selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
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 6 (18:47):
Well, it's something we had talked about over.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
The years, you know. I had actually played with the
guys from time to time for a charity event or
a special event. Some I'm here or there, some Corford
gigs would request the band with me included, and and
we always look forward to doing that. You know, we
weren't playing together regularly at the time, but there's so
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many of us. 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 6 (19:20):
But I was really always kind of in the back of.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
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 been fun for me and I think
for all the guys to do this kind of a
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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 they you know, the camaraderie has always been uh
uh what we enjoy about it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, does that feel like no times past everything
just got right back?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It? Really? It really, it really did in a person
in a personal way because we we had 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
(20:32):
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. And uh
so you know, we we have mutual friends there, you know,
William Nelson and a bunch of people that live over there,
you know, Woody Harrelson and so all their kids and
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our kids, you know, kind of commune. So even when
we weren't in touch, they were more or less. It
was kind of a fun time in all of our
lives to be over there.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
And you know, so we talked about it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
From 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 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
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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 (21:54):
And whoa 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 (22:14):
Me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
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 Brothers songs. And what a full believes? Do you
realize that is forty six years ago? What a full believe?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I'd rather not think about it, Michael.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I was su 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 gonna bring back some of the
great ones too with the new ones on this concert tour,
right yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I will do all of them, you know, we as
many as we can.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
You know, we try to kind of do the songs we.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Think people want to hear, you know, the most, and
then we're going to do the three i think four
new songs that we do. And it's 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 in the audience to
go to the bathroom, you know, when you've been around
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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 (23:37):
You know, well, Blackwater, what if fool believes two number
one songs? You had five top ten singles, sixteen to
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
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you strike me as someone that the Songwriters Hall of
Fame may have meant the most?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
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 the you know, Leonnon
McCartney's people like that, you just kind of go, my gosh,
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you know who I never would have dreamed. And I
think all in all, no one's more surprised than all
of us in who were around in the seventies playing
music out there on the road that we're still doing it.
I don't think any of us thought we would be.
And you know, so you know, when we take the
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stage with you know, other bands from that same era,
I think we're all pretty grateful to be still playing
these venues with these audiences of which have been coming
for the entire fifty years to come see us play well.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Because the secret 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 would really
(25:27):
but really what hones it in is I can't sing
your songs in my voice. You would sound like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
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
after forty years, sitting around and who's got what? Yeah,
but it just I mean.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
That's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, well I.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
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 Show, 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 (26:10):
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 improve and just kind of nuanced,
(26:34):
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, you know,
(26:54):
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 that era 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 of artists and music.
(27:16):
So we always kind of drew from that, you know,
pool of influences. You know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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 of 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 new First Bank Amphitheater
(27:44):
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 Thedoobie 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? You know? I mean, can
(28:05):
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 (28:26):
Well, we've we've actually talked about taking a physical therapist
on the road with it to keep going.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I volunteer, I'll be it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, back in the back in the days, it was
a chef and a masseuse. Now it's a physical therapist,
maybe a psychiatrist. But yeah, you know, you give up
as you go, you know. Uh. I think being a
musician is one of the things you can keep doing,
but never at the level you did when you were younger.
You know, like I don't sing like I did when
I was younger. Uh, you just kind of renegotiate with
(28:59):
something like voice and you try to figure out one
of my strengths still, or you know, what range do
I sing in? Do I need to lower this song?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
And you know, and you find a way, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
All those different avenues to just keep going. And you play,
and you don't.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Play as fast and as furiously as you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
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,
you know what's left of us? You know, because we
we kind of you know, feel like, you know, we
(29:39):
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 and the
rest of us are all biting our knuckles like it's
gonna land.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Okay, break this hip, you know, but you know, we
still enjoy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
What we do.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And like I said, we would do that part for free.
We get paid for traveling, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Patrick Simmons, Tommy Johnston, John McPhee and of course Michael McDonald.
Adobie Brothers are back together the new album and you can,
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
(30:29):
you at 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
(30:51):
for a 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 frank And come September fifteenth.
God bless you on this tour and I'm so glad
that you and the guys got back together.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Thanks Michael, we appreciate that very much and looking forward
to playing at the quarry out there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Wouldn't miss it for the world. Tell me he doesn't
sound any different. Oh, what a unique sound. The Hall
of Famer, the great one. By the way, he was
sitting with Ashley Judd the baseball game bdo getting there. Wow,
I actually noticed Ashley first. But Michael doesn't need to
know that.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, there are some mixed results about what is next
for the economy. National Correspondent roon you won't have the
very latest on that coming up in minutes before just
waking up. These are your top five stories up the day.
The Israel security cabinet has approved a military takeover of
the Gaza strip. Mark Mayfield has details.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin NTNYA, who says a
majority of his security cabinet back to this proposal early
Friday to begin the gradual military takeover of the Palestinian territory,
beginning with Kaza City. A statement from the Prime Minister
says the goal of the takeover is to achieve a
decisive victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The statement said the takeover plan would allow.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
For the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians outside the
combat zones.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There was no mention of when the takeover would begin.
I'm mark Neythiew. They would like to.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Meet with me, and I'll do whatever I can to
stop the killing.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
President Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to
meet with him. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said
both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky want to meet with him.
As a Friday deadline for Russia to start ceasefire talks approaches,
Trump said, too many people dying still.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Last month, they lost fourteen thousand people killed last month.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Every week is four or five thousand people. Former Governor
Andrew Cromo, who's running for New York City mayor, is
denying having a phone conversation with President Trump about the
mayor's race. Sara Lee Kessler has more.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I've never spoken to him about the mayor's race.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
At a hastily called news conference on Thursday afternoon, Cuomo
said he doesn't remember the last time he spoke with Trump.
This after The New York Times reported a phone call
on Wednesday and Zora and Mom Donnie Besh Cuomo on
the campaign trail.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
New Yorkers do not want a mayor who is working
in tandem with the President to subvert the will of
the people of this city.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Cuomo didn't react to that, instead slamming Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You have Mayor Adams who's running, who is a wholly
owned subsidiary of President Trump.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, the first trailer for the office sped Off the
Paper is out. Now, that's another one of those that
shocked people. And I said, I've never seen an episode
of the Autumn. My gosh, I know my son's a
big fan. Anyway, they got a Spedoff coming the Paper.
It follows the staff of a struggling newspaper into the
Toledo Truth Teller. The character Oscar Martinez from the original
(34:04):
series just so happens to work for the paper. First
four episodes of the mock youumentary series hits Peacock on
September the fourth, Well, today's a big day for my wife,
really the entire family. It's International Cat Day, pre tennis
with more on, a day to love and pamper your felines.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
The day is said to raise awareness about how cool
cats are. They have power jumping abilities, they knock stuff
over and we're okay with it, and nap about sixteen
hours a day. It's a coveted life and they aren't
just cute. The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University
says petting a cat for ten minutes reduces stress and
anxiety in humans. No doubt there's a cat waiting for
(34:42):
you at a local animal shelter.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Maybe you take a peek. I'm pre tennis. That's a
real thing. By the way you get you get in
bed with Deuce in the middle of the day, you
will be asleep and like Deuce, I'm up in the
middle of the night. In sports, well, it's preseason and
it doesn't really matter and you may not have even
been able to fight it, depending again how good you
are at searching for the NFL. But the Ravens won
(35:05):
twenty four to sixteen over the Colts. Eagles beat the
Bengals thirty four to twenty seven, and the Raiders and
the Seahawks tied at twenty three. In baseball, off your
morning show, interest Ay shout out the nat six to nothing,
and the Mariners beat the White Sox four to three. Birthdays,
Oscar winning actor Dustin Hoffman is eighty eight, Hall of
Fame goaltender Ken Dryden's seventy eight, pop singer Sewn Mendez
(35:25):
is twenty seven, and tennis great Roger Federer's forty four.
If it's your birthday, Happy birthday. We're so glad you
were born, and thanks for waking up with your morning show.
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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