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Apparently it's fifty five dollars for a centerfield T shirt.
Fifty dollars for a baseball sleeve centerfield T shirt.
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This is your morning show.
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I'm Michael Jeffreyes keeping controls of the sound read keeping
an eye on the content. And one of the big
topics of the week is the president. Now, in addition
to being laser focused on peace and security in our
inner cities, is also going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Taking a look at ending mail in voting.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
David'sanadi is our senior correspondent and a contributor. He's also
a host of The Public Square, heard on two hundred
stations nationwide. And there was a time we used to
do an eighteen fifty podcast and when we did, we
discussed a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Of this havoc that was going on with mail in voting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How about just giving the listeners not because, by the way,
David's not a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I used to be a Republican they failed to usually
live with they believe, so I am now a free
agent and an independent. But by and large, in general,
how I think calling balls and strikes fairly. The Democrats
used mail in voting to create an outcome. Well, first off,
some chaos, I should say.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah, you'll notice the T shirt being worn specifically today
for advertising purposes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Vote it's backwards on my vote loud. I like that.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, that's a campaign that we did twenty six years ago.
Because for forty five years we've been in the voter registration,
voter information and basically the voter business is one of
the things that we do as a public policy group.
So it's one thing to talk about voting from on
top of the food chain. It's another to talk about
it on the ground where the actual product is grown.
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So people have all kinds of narratives in their minds
about how voting works around the country. The fact is
it does work. Does it work well? Probably not. Did
it used to work better?
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
How come hm, Well, because it was simpler, And that's
the argument that's being completely missed here, and all the
fantasies and who stole what in blah blah blah, and
this is rigged and that is fixed and so on
and so forth. Voting is a very simple process. It's
a very fundamental process. And it is a sacred trust.
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It's a very serious process. This is the only government,
constitutional republic built solely upon the moral authority of the populace,
we the people, and the consent of the governed. Now
there's a process by which this happens. It's not a gross,
vast democracy. It is, in fact a representative form of government.
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So voting is the single portal by which we all
are equal in our lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
What's been the bigger influence early voting, mail in voting,
or even quite frankly, electronic voting would have been probably all.
I mean, I know it's gonna be all the above,
but you know, I got to ask the question in
that in that.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Each has laid more steps into the process, each has
a negative side. The simplest thing is to show up
on the day, fill out the paper yourself, because you
were soletly and singularly responsible for it, and hand it in.
Then your community is responsible for the faithful accounting of that.
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And that's why it's got to be done locally, where
everybody can look and see and hold each other accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's voting. It's it's that simple.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It never had to be harder than that, though each
of these things has more downsides than upside upside.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, So we said a long time ago, we
have a two party stranglehold that was never intended by
our founding fathers, and it does nothing but create distraction
and division. Then you add to that a one party
media that clearly was in the back pocket of the
Democrat Party. It has since died depth of journalism, but
it would take that distraction and division and create confusion
to mistrust, and then finally you'd have the people just
by default focusing on the presidency because that was the
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only thing that they could really kind of focus on
one person to trust. And then that gets completely out
of line. So we said to get everything back in
line and to kind of put it on autopilot. If
you did these four or five things, you would do it,
and that'd be a zero based prioritize balance budget, which
we don't have with no continuing resolutions and tied the
two year term of Congress. Then a flat and fair
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tax system, something where everybody has skin in the game fairly.
Then term limits because we've got career politicians who are
getting rich while we're getting poorer and maintaining their power
and control and fourth on our list was only paper
ballots and in person voting, and here comes Donald Trump,
among other things, now trying to get back to pay
per votes and.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No mail in votes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
COVID was a great example of how they seized the moment.
They changed election laws without going to legislatures at the
state level. Who really dropped the ball as governors dropped
the ball, and they took mail in voting to a
whole new level, and they were able to harvest ballots
place them where they needed them.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That was the real abuse.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And so just as COVID got them to do it,
global warming would never get them to do it. Did
get them to do with mail in voting what never
was allowed prior, and that needs to be reeled in
right well, it needs to be identified.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Barack Obama and Eric Holder have been about this since
two thousand and eight. They have a what's been largely
a secret organization just because it's not in the profile.
The media leaves it alone, but funded by the same
type of Arabella Advisor type networks and foundations to basically
deconstruct voting and to do all of this complication, and
they seized upon COVID. They're also the ones behind the
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whole redistricting fight as well. That's another subject for another day.
But they are endlessly seeking to manipulate the vote so
that the top of the food chain has more control
over the power on the bottom. And this is a
sophisticated strategy that is very well funded. Donald Trump is
just beginning to learn this piece of the swamp, and
his instincts are on the right spot. By saying simplification
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is the answer to get rid of mail in voting
would be a very good idea, except for people who
are confirmed and cannot get to the pole.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We're serving in the military.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We're serving in the.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Military under proper trails of custody, keeping it very low
and very specific, and proof upon the burden of proof
upon the person who needs the assistance.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's fine.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
We don't want to discriminate against people who cannot physically
get somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
After that, the convenience mail in voting is nothing but
a portal for problems. Jimmy Carter said that. Jimmy Carter
said it was a bad idea. Look, the more hands
you put in this, the more problem you're going to have.
And you're handing it out to newman at the postal shit.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, and some people say, oh, eventually we're going to
vote right on our phone, So what's mail in voting?
I mean, I just think that's so naive to the
reality of how this has been abused. Some just mailed
them to you about just arrives in the mail. Some
wait for you to request him. Some count em early,
some count them last, Some disqualify them if the stamp
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on the envelope is past the deadline.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Some don't. I mean, there's no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uniformity whatsoever precisely, which means which is riddled for abuse.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
That you got it, and that's what happened in COVID people.
It's interesting because, excuse me, I read the comment of
the former Attorney General William Barr where he said something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Like, oh, I can't real the election was not.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Stolen by such and such, But he didn't say it
wasn't completely not stolen right by fraud. He said it
wasn't stolen by fraud. Of course, he's exactly right, it
wasn't stolen by fraud. And I don't think the election
was stolen either.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think it was.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Manipulated significantly by design, exploited by weaknesses.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
David and I is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable.
They preside over Eye voters dot com. He also hosts
The Public Square on two hundred stations on demand any
time at the Public Square dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You used to coin a phrase all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't think we like to say it out loud anymore,
especially because people would conflate it with stealing the cheating
far and square. They stole a far and square, right,
all right, Explain what that means, because that's what early
voting opens the door too.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's what mail in voting opens the door to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's what all these different rules depending on where they're
at or whether you send these ballots, whether they're requested
or not, because they do get harvested by the way
they can cheat and square on campuses too.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Right, all the time.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And the way the cheat far and square on campuses
is they register the student in the state where he's
at school, and then he votes there. He's not a
citizen there, he's only a temporary resident. Everybody votes there,
but the secretaries of states don't have a system whereby
that vote voting record then disappears in the home state
vote twice or she can vote twice and get away
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Is this really because you know what's going to happen.
Donald de Trump is addressing the right thing to an
American people stuck in bubbles of a matrix. I mean,
they're never going to see this for the problem it
really is because they're ignorant of it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And all it's going to.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do is end up being, oh, he's a threat to democracy.
Now he's trying to keep people from voting and silence voting.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And we get this every day. And it's just so
for what happens.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
When you try to do policy without history.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
There is a legitimate history, and when you go back
far enough, all the passion disappears. And we just had
the opportunity to deal with the facts. Your vote is
your voice. It is your sacred trust of participation in
the process. And what is a vote. A vote is
either your hand raised and identified or your mark that
is secured to your name, that is entered into the
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voting record.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It is your ballot.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
That ballot should be cast on the same day, all right,
And because we make our decisions on the same day
with the same set of information.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Now you know, in this world, unfortunately we're all.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Half slaves to something, so we have no time either
slaves or the government system or slaves to pay for
the government system, one or the other, all of us now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So we're so busy that we need three days to vote.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Okay, we can live with three days, but you got
to show up.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And if you don't show up, you don't count.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I've had people say in paper, in person, paper voting
with voter ID and give everybody that day off. Would
you go that far? Look, that's fine, that those are simple.
The last part is the fine part.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
I'm absolute on the first three and the other thing is, yeah,
that's why we want to do it. Fine, I'm gonna
do a three days fine, but you have to show up. Look,
we're not in the convenience business. Running a representative public
at least ought to be worth getting off the couch,
making your plans and casting your ballot in person. And
if you don't have enough integrity to do that, I
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don't care what your color, race, creed, or political party.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is, then stay home. Let somebody else to side.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I mean going to church every Sunday doesn't make
you a Christian anymore. Keith Green once said, any more
than going to McDonald's every day makes you a hamburger.
But it is the very least you can do as
a believer, the very least you can do as an
American citizen. And there's a lot more is at least
show up and vote. You talk about trying to understand
things without history. How about jerrymandering. It goes back to Elbridge.
(12:23):
Jerry a real person, Mary in the original Yeah, in
eighteen twelve Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's a real person.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
When we come back, I'm going to ask you about
the conflating of redistricting, which is a constitutional republic representative
republic necessity, and jerry manning, which is its abuse. I
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This is your Morning show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
President Trump looking to end mail in voting. Well, the
matrix on the left will say this is more interference
of the president. He's trying to destroy the democracy, He's
trying to meddle. No, what's been destroying the democracy is
the abuse so early voting plus mail in voting, plus
all different standards of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
When and how to count.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'll give you an example on mail in voting, which
got really out of control with COVID. What do you
make in places like Oregon that are already one hundred
percent mail in voting, Or what if we get down
the road or we're all voting on their phone? What
could possibly go wrong with any of this? David, it's
not just because the President suggesting it, we support it.
This is the chaos and the threat we've been dealing
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with and the abuse we've been dealing with for years,
and it's only getting worse and out of hand. Now
can the American people under standard? So what does happen
if we go all mail in voting, we're all voting
in on our phone?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Well, we've been on this since before forty five? Was
forty five? We started this forty five years ago. Right
in this process. The idea of everyone voting by phone
is a disastrous idea because it does not require your
personal appearance. You're asked to attestation with your own hand
to your vote. It is a sacred trust and it's
not sentimentality. It is simplicity. If something goes wrong, who
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do you blame?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
We blame a myriad of people and end up in
nothing but partisan political advantage warfare. If something goes wrong
and it's a paper ballot and you showed up, you
did it, or the person who counted your vote did it.
Now we can fix it. Simplicity is the key to trust.
What all of these people want to do is to
devolve trust in the system because ultimately they want to
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get rid of voting with integrity and turn the country
into a popular opinion poll.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That's they want.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It is that the single greatest threat in America today
a lack of trust.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Whether that's it.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
You lose God, you lose man, you lose god, you
lose trust. You lose trust, you lose your government. And
when you lose trust in the voting process, you're done.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So we have early voting that's been abused. We have
district redistricting, and jerry mandering is the abuse of redistricting.
You got early voting that's been abused and ballots have
been harveted. Why does one side all against voter id
all for early voting, all for mail in voting, all
for jerry mandering, unless the other person's doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Because they've but.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
They've been out playing the other side.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
That's why, because they bought the narrative that it's racist
to want accountability.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Just that simple.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
It's just that simple. And a ballot that doesn't have
a color connected to it never has.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Can the president get this done?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
They take that back, a ballot did have a color
assessed to it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We fought a war you want to talk about eighteen fifty.
We fought a war over this.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Can the president get this done?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
No, because it's not within the power of the constitution
the presidency. But he can use his bully pulpit to
help others wake up. And the bully pulpit is the
president's most powerful tool.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And the wake up is for we the people, and
then holding members of Congress accountable to do that work.
David as always great, Maybe we'll get a bonus visit tomorrow.
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Who knows it's possible.
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Santasy. John Fogerty, what an honor. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Great to be here now.
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I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Obviously I can't take infield without the song center Field
like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well, you wrote that song.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Did you have any idea would be in between every
ending of minor league major league baseball?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You know, I just hoped.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
At the time, I think I knew I was kind
of swimming upstream without a paddle or something because I
wanted to make a rock and roll record, but talk
about baseball, and that just had never really been done before.
The two things didn't seem to go together. And I've
been just so happily blessed with the way Centerfield was
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received and adopted, especially by baseball and especially by Little league.
You know, kids, even my own kids playing the league
got to hear Centerfield in between innings every year.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Every year I do a State of the Baseball address.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It goes back to when I met my wife and
she couldn't understand why I love baseball so much, and
it goes through everything and it always ends with that
song and who's starting in center field that night?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
My son wanted me to ask you when.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You wrote that, were you the center fielder or is
it just kind of in general your love for baseball
coming out in the song.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Well, it was.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
A time at which I was sort of making a
comeback with my career. The album center Field came out
right well in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I've been away since about.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Nineteen eighty two, and this was certainly a statement. And
center field to me, was a mythical place in sports
lore and to me was kind of the center of
the universe. The team I was probably thinking about was
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centerfield at Yankee Stadium because my dad had told me
about Babe Ruth when I was, you know, three, four
years old, and that's you know, these were days of.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Your to a little kid, Oh Babe.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I mean, as I grew older, I realized he was
telling me about a man that had passed away long ago.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
At the time when I.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Was three, I thought he was still running around playing baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So that was the mindset.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I wanted to rejoin that place. I wanted my music
to be back in that center of the universe, like
what center appeld is. So it seemed to be a
I guess they call it a metaphor, And you know,
I was symbolically trying to get myself back in the limelight.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So glad you did.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
John Fogerty is joining us speaking of my son, you
and CCR they translate to twenty year olds today. Still
some of his favorite music, The Library, Proud Mary, Bad
Mood Rising. Yeah, I could go through all of them,
Green River, Around the Bend, Who'll Stop the Rain? All
these great song You finally have the ability to sing
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these songs that you made magic in our life, and
now you get to do it with your kids. Tell
them about it, the new album and the new tour.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Well, yes, my sons, Shane and Tyler are in my band.
They've been in my band for some time now, I
mean officially, even when they were youngsters, teenagers, you know,
they would come and play a couple of songs with me,
that sort of thing. But they have become really great musicians,
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and so it's always fun to have them playing, you know,
side by side. Really, you know, it's just a wonderful
feeling and the whole show really that we do live
it just has a sense of joy and family and
love and togetherness, you know, all the right things in
the world. I know that that's in some ways kind
(22:53):
of corny and maybe not rock and roll in some quarters,
I guess, but I don't care anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I gotta ask you, what is this secret?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I mean, you're eighty years old. You don't look it,
you don't feel it, you don't sing that way. It's
like you're trapped in time and we got all older.
But I am so looking forward to the album that
is now out tell them about the songs that are
on it, because this is kind of like you now
with your kids, singing all these great songs we've cherished
(23:27):
for a lifetime.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Well it was, and I think what the identity of
this record is is it's kind of a statement of
me reclaiming my complete in emotional investment in these songs.
You know, I wrote these songs a long time ago,
when I was in my early twenties, and then a
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whole lot of book has happened in the time since.
Pretty confusing, let's say, to the average fan. And now,
you know, because of the process I think going through
this with my two sons, of course, my wife kind
of overseeing as moms do the whole thing, and the
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rest of my family kind of watching day to day as.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
This thing unfolded.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
The process of recording and figuring out how to do
things and make them sound right, make them sound great right,
you know, lifting yourself up to get to that level
to where you're performing again at that level that was
on the original tracks. That was a whole thing that
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we did together as love. I mean, it's hard to describe,
but it's a way of doing it when you both
look at each other, you're not judging each other, You're
helping each other.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And that's just a process that's.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
We all need that, I guess going through that together
like we did, and then having the result be this
album that's so full of joy has been a wonderful
experience for me and my family, and I believe that
I think the fans now or the world really will
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see this as Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
John's got it together.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
He's singing songs in a way that he's sang of
them all those years ago, and feel, I think more important,
the feel of it is like it was all those
years a.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Well, you know, you at eighties one thing, and then
you and your twenties were one. I mean, these songs
are timeless, they're still relevant, they're still great. John Fogerty
is joining us, will this come with a tour as well.
I know you're gonna do the iHeart Music Festival, but
will there be any kind of I'd love to come
see you.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Well, yes, I'm looking forward to the iHeart Festival, and
then in the fall there I think it's late October.
In the November, we're doing a tour, you know, publicizing
this album or behind this album as some people say,
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and kind of showing the world, you know, trying to
spread the word. I guess about the album and the music,
and I'll be out there with my son's kicking butt.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I mentioned earlier one of my all time favorites that
nobody ever talks about is looking out my back Door.
I used to be an oldies radio so I love
playing all these songs. Who'll Stop the Rain is an
anthem classic Proud Mary. I got to ask you, what
was your favorite?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
You know? My answer is probably all of them. It's
hard to pick one. But I do have a big
sentimental spot for Proud Mary because at the time I
wrote it, I had never written a really good song.
I'd been writing songs since I was about eight years old.
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My mom had blessed me with the concept of what
a songwriter is just by talking about some of the
people she loved, like Irving Berlin or Hogy Carmichael. And
I began to find people on my own that were,
you know, my generation, for instance, Lennon and McCartney or
liber and Stoller or Bob Dylan, you know, these great songwriters.
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And the day I wrote Proud Mary, I crossed that
line and finally went into the room where great.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Songs are, and I was aware of it.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I looked at the page that, you know, my completed
song that had come in just a burst of energy.
Oh my god, I've written the classic. John, You've written
the classic. Did you excited about it?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Did you do?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was your process music first? Then words? Or and do
you hear it first? Do you get like a chord
a medley?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
How does it come down?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Mostly I'll be strumming the guitar, that can working about
some musical figure on the guitar, and that will trigger
some sort of vision or feeling, a musical feeling. And
then if it seems promising, is oh I like this,
you know, I'll keep going and that will result in
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a song.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
John Fogerty closing moments, I'm wearing a Yankees jersey and
a Yankee hat.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I guess I dressed well for this interview.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I remember the great Mickey Mantles quote, if I'd have
known I was going to live this long and have
taken better care of myself, You've obviously taken great care
of yourself and your voice, and you lived long enough
to get what was rightfully yours decades ago.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I'm so glad that you finally have this music back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You can perform it, I can download it, I can
come to the concert. You've made such an impact on
so many of my listeners in my life, and it's
watching my kid sing all your songs and love them
all these years later. What it means to me, and
I hope it means a lot to you, and we're
all looking forward to seeing you this fall.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Well you've just described how I feel ill I'm watching
people sing you know, they know all the words, and
oh we do it might be twelve years old. That
just blows my mind, and I feel absolutely blessed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I'm just the luckiest guy in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
You've always been a treasure. We look forward to the album,
and we look forward to seeing you in concert.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
God bless you, sir.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Great.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Thank you, So now I'm the name of the album
is Legacy the Creeden's Clearwater Revival Years it is.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You can pre order it now.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It's out this Friday, August the twenty second, with a
fall tour coming and a visit to the iHeart Concert Series.
Just terrific to see him have the rights to his
music back and back performing and with his kids.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
A great story.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
John Forberty our special Spotlight guest of the day. All right,
forty seven minutes after the hour, we've come back, not one,
not two, not three much top five stories of the day.
And the unemployment numbers are low, but the labor force
is shrinking.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
That can't be good.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Roy O'Neal has the story next. When your morning show continues, Hi.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
This is John Fogerty from center Field and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorna.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Fuck me, it's your morning show with Michael del Johno.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Michael del Jarno, your interview with Ease are just so influential.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I mean, you're crying hearing the.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Wondrousness of John Fogerty and his family to think that
they stood bad him and stayed with him. This man
is eighty years old. He's the one hundred and sixty. It's amazing.
I've been the black girl who loved rock and roll
music and I love CCR.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Oh, an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm glad you got it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We did have one listener call up and say, you know,
I think he's anti Trump, redhead the line.
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Of the day off there.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He said, we only listened to music that loves Trump.
We'd be listening to a lot of YMCA and Lee Greenwood.
I'd rather have my Trump and my CCR and need
it too, all right, the White House says, Russian President
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John Fogerty is celebrating his new album with an iHeartRadio
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You need to find the song Jeffrey Radio, Where did
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And Nut Roy O'Neil loves it when I sing Rory,
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Sitko moved. They didn't just leave Tulsa, and they were
the largest employer. They left the country, and the headline
in the local newspaper was office space widely available in
(32:41):
South Tulsa. Trying to spin it into good news, But
you know, we have underemployment that has never talked about.
We have unemployment, which is always measured, and then of
course nobody was keeping their eye on a shrinking labor force,
which was the real problem. And once again it's wearing
its ugly heads. So unemployment remains low, labor force is
shrinking not good right.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Down about eight hundred thousand just in the past three months,
so a pretty significant fall off.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Lots of different reasons.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
More people are retiring than entering the workforce a new
You've got the immigration crackdown, a lot of people sort
of stepping back, not wanting to get caught up in that.
You've also got this trend with more couples saying, you
know what, when you do the math, it doesn't make
financial sense for both of us to work and pay
for childcare. You know, we might be losing money in
(33:30):
this deal. So childcare is another big factor here. But
that's why it's also going to be complicated to try
to figure out ways to return to that growing workforce,
which you need in a growing country.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, you brought up everything in that mouthful, as you
often do, as they know adult. But yeah, if you
have a million people that have volitionally left they've left
the workforce because they left the country, they shouldn't have
been here to begin with. That would impact this number.
But boy, you hit one that is a hot button
for me. I used to talk about this twenty twenty
(34:01):
five years ago, and everybody thought I was in some
way being elitist, and I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Have you ever, people.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Always react when I say my wife was an attorney
and when we had the miracle of finally having a child,
which we struggled to have for years and then it
ended up being two, she left the workforce. We made
that choice, and part of that decision where it was
they have calculators. You can google it when you factor
in what her parking cost, what dry cleaning cost, how
(34:36):
often we ate out because of that, the maid that
we had. Then if the kids were later, you know,
we would have had daycare. You're not making very few
people are making money. And then they would all respond with, well,
we both have to work. Well, keep doing it. The
government's getting double taxation. You're not really neting a whole lot.
That's something nobody ever looks at.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
Right, especially when it came to twins. My sister and
her husband did the same thing with twins and he
ended up staying home. So you know, they ran the
numbers much like you did and said at the end
of the day, you know, this may be what's better
off for the family. So it's a it's a difficult
conversation to have, but again it can be there.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And I'd say black and white, but green and white.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, So with one minute to go, Yeah, let me
ask you, is that necessarily, point blank a bad thing
if the labor force is shrinking. Yeah, I mean it's explainable.
But is it bad and why yes?
Speaker 10 (35:31):
Because it can be very inflationary in that if there
are fewer workers to build the house, to put the
new roof on, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
If there are fewer workers.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
Available, he the more prices go up for them. And
if you're a roofer, that may be great, but it
also goes down the line so that the thing other
things that the roofer buys are also more expensive.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So this can be inflationary overall, something we better keep
our eye. And I suspect you will reporting today as always.
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Did I mention John Fogerty is on the show today?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I think you did?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Did I mention that we were looking at his merchandise?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Apparently it's fifty five dollars for a centerfield T shirt.
Fifty dollars for a baseball sleeve centerfield T shirt.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How does that happen? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But if the listeners aren't if one listener doesn't want
me to talk to him because of him not being
a Trump fan, I wonder if he'd be really disgusted
if I bought the T shirt.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So I'm afraid to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hey, Welcome to Wednesday, August the twentieth, the uf Our
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
This is your morning show.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm Michael Jeffreyes keeping controls of the sound read keeping
an eye on the content. And one of the big
topics of the week is the president. Now, in addition
to being laser focused on peace and security in our
inner cities, is also going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Taking a look at ending mail in voting.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
David'sanadi is our senior correspondent and a contributor. He's also
a host of The Public Square, heard on two hundred
stations nationwide. And there was a time we used to
do an eighteen fifty podcast and when we did, we
discussed a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Of this havoc that was going on with mail in voting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How about just giving the listeners not because, by the way,
David's not a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I used to be a Republican they failed to usually
live with they believe, so I am now a free
agent and an independent. But by and large, in general,
how I think calling balls and strikes fairly. The Democrats
used mail in voting to create an outcome. Well, first off,
some chaos, I should say.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah, you'll notice the T shirt being worn specifically today
for advertising purposes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Vote it's backwards on my vote loud. I like that.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, that's a campaign that we did twenty six years ago.
Because for forty five years we've been in the voter registration,
voter information and basically the voter business is one of
the things that we do as a public policy group.
So it's one thing to talk about voting from on
top of the food chain. It's another to talk about
it on the ground where the actual product is grown.
(02:47):
So people have all kinds of narratives in their minds
about how voting works around the country. The fact is
it does work. Does it work well? Probably not. Did
it used to work better?
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
How come hm, Well, because it was simpler, And that's
the argument that's being completely missed here, and all the
fantasies and who stole what in blah blah blah, and
this is rigged and that is fixed and so on
and so forth. Voting is a very simple process. It's
a very fundamental process. And it is a sacred trust.
(03:24):
It's a very serious process. This is the only government,
constitutional republic built solely upon the moral authority of the populace,
we the people, and the consent of the governed. Now
there's a process by which this happens. It's not a gross,
vast democracy. It is, in fact a representative form of government.
(03:47):
So voting is the single portal by which we all
are equal in our lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
What's been the bigger influence early voting, mail in voting,
or even quite frankly, electronic voting would have been probably all.
I mean, I know it's gonna be all the above,
but you know, I got to ask the question in
that in that.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Each has laid more steps into the process, each has
a negative side. The simplest thing is to show up
on the day, fill out the paper yourself, because you
were soletly and singularly responsible for it, and hand it in.
Then your community is responsible for the faithful accounting of that.
(04:29):
And that's why it's got to be done locally, where
everybody can look and see and hold each other accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's voting. It's it's that simple.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It never had to be harder than that, though each
of these things has more downsides than upside upside.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, So we said a long time ago, we
have a two party stranglehold that was never intended by
our founding fathers, and it does nothing but create distraction
and division. Then you add to that a one party
media that clearly was in the back pocket of the
Democrat Party. It has since died depth of journalism, but
it would take that distraction and division and create confusion
to mistrust, and then finally you'd have the people just
by default focusing on the presidency because that was the
(05:05):
only thing that they could really kind of focus on
one person to trust. And then that gets completely out
of line. So we said to get everything back in
line and to kind of put it on autopilot. If
you did these four or five things, you would do it,
and that'd be a zero based prioritize balance budget, which
we don't have with no continuing resolutions and tied the
two year term of Congress. Then a flat and fair
(05:28):
tax system, something where everybody has skin in the game fairly.
Then term limits because we've got career politicians who are
getting rich while we're getting poorer and maintaining their power
and control and fourth on our list was only paper
ballots and in person voting, and here comes Donald Trump,
among other things, now trying to get back to pay
per votes and.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No mail in votes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
COVID was a great example of how they seized the moment.
They changed election laws without going to legislatures at the
state level. Who really dropped the ball as governors dropped
the ball, and they took mail in voting to a
whole new level, and they were able to harvest ballots
place them where they needed them.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That was the real abuse.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And so just as COVID got them to do it,
global warming would never get them to do it. Did
get them to do with mail in voting what never
was allowed prior, and that needs to be reeled in
right well, it needs to be identified.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Barack Obama and Eric Holder have been about this since
two thousand and eight. They have a what's been largely
a secret organization just because it's not in the profile.
The media leaves it alone, but funded by the same
type of Arabella Advisor type networks and foundations to basically
deconstruct voting and to do all of this complication, and
they seized upon COVID. They're also the ones behind the
(06:46):
whole redistricting fight as well. That's another subject for another day.
But they are endlessly seeking to manipulate the vote so
that the top of the food chain has more control
over the power on the bottom. And this is a
sophisticated strategy that is very well funded. Donald Trump is
just beginning to learn this piece of the swamp, and
his instincts are on the right spot. By saying simplification
(07:09):
is the answer to get rid of mail in voting
would be a very good idea, except for people who
are confirmed and cannot get to the pole.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We're serving in the military.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We're serving in the.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Military under proper trails of custody, keeping it very low
and very specific, and proof upon the burden of proof
upon the person who needs the assistance.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's fine.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
We don't want to discriminate against people who cannot physically
get somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
After that, the convenience mail in voting is nothing but
a portal for problems. Jimmy Carter said that. Jimmy Carter
said it was a bad idea. Look, the more hands
you put in this, the more problem you're going to have.
And you're handing it out to newman at the postal shit.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, and some people say, oh, eventually we're going to
vote right on our phone, So what's mail in voting?
I mean, I just think that's so naive to the
reality of how this has been abused. Some just mailed
them to you about just arrives in the mail. Some
wait for you to request him. Some count em early,
some count them last, Some disqualify them if the stamp
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on the envelope is past the deadline.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Some don't. I mean, there's no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uniformity whatsoever precisely, which means which is riddled for abuse.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
That you got it, and that's what happened in COVID people.
It's interesting because, excuse me, I read the comment of
the former Attorney General William Barr where he said something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Like, oh, I can't real the election was not.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Stolen by such and such, But he didn't say it
wasn't completely not stolen right by fraud. He said it
wasn't stolen by fraud. Of course, he's exactly right, it
wasn't stolen by fraud. And I don't think the election
was stolen either.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think it was.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Manipulated significantly by design, exploited by weaknesses.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
David and I is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable.
They preside over Eye voters dot com. He also hosts
The Public Square on two hundred stations on demand any
time at the Public Square dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You used to coin a phrase all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't think we like to say it out loud anymore,
especially because people would conflate it with stealing the cheating
far and square. They stole a far and square, right,
all right, Explain what that means, because that's what early
voting opens the door too.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's what mail in voting opens the door to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's what all these different rules depending on where they're
at or whether you send these ballots, whether they're requested
or not, because they do get harvested by the way
they can cheat and square on campuses too.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Right, all the time.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And the way the cheat far and square on campuses
is they register the student in the state where he's
at school, and then he votes there. He's not a
citizen there, he's only a temporary resident. Everybody votes there,
but the secretaries of states don't have a system whereby
that vote voting record then disappears in the home state
vote twice or she can vote twice and get away
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Is this really because you know what's going to happen.
Donald de Trump is addressing the right thing to an
American people stuck in bubbles of a matrix. I mean,
they're never going to see this for the problem it
really is because they're ignorant of it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And all it's going to.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do is end up being, oh, he's a threat to democracy.
Now he's trying to keep people from voting and silence voting.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And we get this every day. And it's just so
for what happens.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
When you try to do policy without history.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
There is a legitimate history, and when you go back
far enough, all the passion disappears. And we just had
the opportunity to deal with the facts. Your vote is
your voice. It is your sacred trust of participation in
the process. And what is a vote. A vote is
either your hand raised and identified or your mark that
is secured to your name, that is entered into the
(10:49):
voting record.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It is your ballot.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
That ballot should be cast on the same day, all right,
And because we make our decisions on the same day
with the same set of information.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Now you know, in this world, unfortunately we're all.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Half slaves to something, so we have no time either
slaves or the government system or slaves to pay for
the government system, one or the other, all of us now.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So we're so busy that we need three days to vote.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Okay, we can live with three days, but you got
to show up.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And if you don't show up, you don't count.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I've had people say in paper, in person, paper voting
with voter ID and give everybody that day off. Would
you go that far? Look, that's fine, that those are simple.
The last part is the fine part.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
I'm absolute on the first three and the other thing is, yeah,
that's why we want to do it. Fine, I'm gonna
do a three days fine, but you have to show up. Look,
we're not in the convenience business. Running a representative public
at least ought to be worth getting off the couch,
making your plans and casting your ballot in person. And
if you don't have enough integrity to do that, I
(11:56):
don't care what your color, race, creed, or political party.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is, then stay home. Let somebody else to side.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I mean going to church every Sunday doesn't make
you a Christian anymore. Keith Green once said, any more
than going to McDonald's every day makes you a hamburger.
But it is the very least you can do as
a believer, the very least you can do as an
American citizen. And there's a lot more is at least
show up and vote. You talk about trying to understand
things without history. How about jerrymandering. It goes back to Elbridge.
(12:23):
Jerry a real person, Mary in the original Yeah, in
eighteen twelve Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's a real person.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
When we come back, I'm going to ask you about
the conflating of redistricting, which is a constitutional republic representative
republic necessity, and jerry manning, which is its abuse. I
wonder if Americans know the difference between two, they may
throw out the baby with the bathwater. We'll have more
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Speaker 3 (14:09):
This is your Morning show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
President Trump looking to end mail in voting. Well, the
matrix on the left will say this is more interference
of the president. He's trying to destroy the democracy, He's
trying to meddle. No, what's been destroying the democracy is
the abuse so early voting plus mail in voting, plus
all different standards of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
When and how to count.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'll give you an example on mail in voting, which
got really out of control with COVID. What do you
make in places like Oregon that are already one hundred
percent mail in voting, Or what if we get down
the road or we're all voting on their phone? What
could possibly go wrong with any of this? David, it's
not just because the President suggesting it, we support it.
This is the chaos and the threat we've been dealing
(14:55):
with and the abuse we've been dealing with for years,
and it's only getting worse and out of hand. Now
can the American people under standard? So what does happen
if we go all mail in voting, we're all voting
in on our phone?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Well, we've been on this since before forty five? Was
forty five? We started this forty five years ago. Right
in this process. The idea of everyone voting by phone
is a disastrous idea because it does not require your
personal appearance. You're asked to attestation with your own hand
to your vote. It is a sacred trust and it's
not sentimentality. It is simplicity. If something goes wrong, who
(15:28):
do you blame?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
We blame a myriad of people and end up in
nothing but partisan political advantage warfare. If something goes wrong
and it's a paper ballot and you showed up, you
did it, or the person who counted your vote did it.
Now we can fix it. Simplicity is the key to trust.
What all of these people want to do is to
devolve trust in the system because ultimately they want to
(15:52):
get rid of voting with integrity and turn the country
into a popular opinion poll.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That's they want.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It is that the single greatest threat in America today
a lack of trust.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Whether that's it.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
You lose God, you lose man, you lose god, you
lose trust. You lose trust, you lose your government. And
when you lose trust in the voting process, you're done.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So we have early voting that's been abused. We have
district redistricting, and jerry mandering is the abuse of redistricting.
You got early voting that's been abused and ballots have
been harveted. Why does one side all against voter id
all for early voting, all for mail in voting, all
for jerry mandering, unless the other person's doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Because they've but.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
They've been out playing the other side.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
That's why, because they bought the narrative that it's racist
to want accountability.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Just that simple.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
It's just that simple. And a ballot that doesn't have
a color connected to it never has.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Can the president get this done?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
They take that back, a ballot did have a color
assessed to it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We fought a war you want to talk about eighteen fifty.
We fought a war over this.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Can the president get this done?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
No, because it's not within the power of the constitution
the presidency. But he can use his bully pulpit to
help others wake up. And the bully pulpit is the
president's most powerful tool.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And the wake up is for we the people, and
then holding members of Congress accountable to do that work.
David as always great, Maybe we'll get a bonus visit tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Who knows it's possible.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
This is Eric from East Liverpool, Howe in My Morning show?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is your Morning Show with Michael del Jerald. Hi, It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Your Morning show airs live five to eight am Central,
six to nine Eastern in great cities like Memphis, Tennessee,
tell Usa, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California. We'd love to be a
part of your morning routine, but we're happy you're here now.
Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for bringing us along with you.
This is your morning Show. I'm Michael del Jornal. The
White House says Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to
(17:59):
begin the next of the peace process. Hurricane Aaron will
not make landfall on the US mainland, but reek havoc
along the Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
And prices off. Some of the popular weight.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Loss drugs are being slashed for cash paying customers and
or patients wanting to lose weight and at eighty years
old and not looking at and not sounding it. Rock
legend John Fogerty has the rights to his music back
and is celebrating with a new legacy album and a
fall tour.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
He's our Spotlight Interview.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Santasy. John Fogerty, what an honor. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Great to be here now.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Obviously I can't take infield without the song center Field
like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well, you wrote that song.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Did you have any idea would be in between every
ending of minor league major league baseball?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You know, I just hoped.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
At the time, I think I knew I was kind
of swimming upstream without a paddle or something because I
wanted to make a rock and roll record, but talk
about baseball, and that just had never really been done before.
The two things didn't seem to go together. And I've
been just so happily blessed with the way Centerfield was
(19:35):
received and adopted, especially by baseball and especially by Little league.
You know, kids, even my own kids playing the league
got to hear Centerfield in between innings every year.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Every year I do a State of the Baseball address.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It goes back to when I met my wife and
she couldn't understand why I love baseball so much, and
it goes through everything and it always ends with that
song and who's starting in center field that night?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
My son wanted me to ask you when.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You wrote that, were you the center fielder or is
it just kind of in general your love for baseball
coming out in the song.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Well, it was.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
A time at which I was sort of making a
comeback with my career. The album center Field came out
right well in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I've been away since about.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Nineteen eighty two, and this was certainly a statement. And
center field to me, was a mythical place in sports
lore and to me was kind of the center of
the universe. The team I was probably thinking about was
(20:47):
centerfield at Yankee Stadium because my dad had told me
about Babe Ruth when I was, you know, three, four
years old, and that's you know, these were days of.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Your to a little kid, Oh Babe.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I mean, as I grew older, I realized he was
telling me about a man that had passed away long ago.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
At the time when I.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Was three, I thought he was still running around playing baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So that was the mindset.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I wanted to rejoin that place. I wanted my music
to be back in that center of the universe, like
what center appeld is. So it seemed to be a
I guess they call it a metaphor, And you know,
I was symbolically trying to get myself back in the limelight.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So glad you did.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
John Fogerty is joining us speaking of my son, you
and CCR they translate to twenty year olds today. Still
some of his favorite music, The Library, Proud Mary, Bad
Mood Rising. Yeah, I could go through all of them,
Green River, Around the Bend, Who'll Stop the Rain? All
these great song You finally have the ability to sing
(22:01):
these songs that you made magic in our life, and
now you get to do it with your kids. Tell
them about it, the new album and the new tour.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Well, yes, my sons, Shane and Tyler are in my band.
They've been in my band for some time now, I
mean officially, even when they were youngsters, teenagers, you know,
they would come and play a couple of songs with me,
that sort of thing. But they have become really great musicians,
(22:30):
and so it's always fun to have them playing, you know,
side by side. Really, you know, it's just a wonderful
feeling and the whole show really that we do live
it just has a sense of joy and family and
love and togetherness, you know, all the right things in
the world. I know that that's in some ways kind
(22:53):
of corny and maybe not rock and roll in some quarters,
I guess, but I don't care anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I gotta ask you, what is this secret?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I mean, you're eighty years old. You don't look it,
you don't feel it, you don't sing that way. It's
like you're trapped in time and we got all older.
But I am so looking forward to the album that
is now out tell them about the songs that are
on it, because this is kind of like you now
with your kids, singing all these great songs we've cherished
(23:27):
for a lifetime.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Well it was, and I think what the identity of
this record is is it's kind of a statement of
me reclaiming my complete in emotional investment in these songs.
You know, I wrote these songs a long time ago,
when I was in my early twenties, and then a
(23:51):
whole lot of book has happened in the time since.
Pretty confusing, let's say, to the average fan. And now,
you know, because of the process I think going through
this with my two sons, of course, my wife kind
of overseeing as moms do the whole thing, and the
(24:14):
rest of my family kind of watching day to day as.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
This thing unfolded.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
The process of recording and figuring out how to do
things and make them sound right, make them sound great right,
you know, lifting yourself up to get to that level
to where you're performing again at that level that was
on the original tracks. That was a whole thing that
(24:40):
we did together as love. I mean, it's hard to describe,
but it's a way of doing it when you both
look at each other, you're not judging each other, You're
helping each other.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And that's just a process that's.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
We all need that, I guess going through that together
like we did, and then having the result be this
album that's so full of joy has been a wonderful
experience for me and my family, and I believe that
I think the fans now or the world really will
(25:20):
see this as Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
John's got it together.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
He's singing songs in a way that he's sang of
them all those years ago, and feel, I think more important,
the feel of it is like it was all those
years a.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Well, you know, you at eighties one thing, and then
you and your twenties were one. I mean, these songs
are timeless, they're still relevant, they're still great. John Fogerty
is joining us, will this come with a tour as well.
I know you're gonna do the iHeart Music Festival, but
will there be any kind of I'd love to come
see you.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Well, yes, I'm looking forward to the iHeart Festival, and
then in the fall there I think it's late October.
In the November, we're doing a tour, you know, publicizing
this album or behind this album as some people say,
(26:13):
and kind of showing the world, you know, trying to
spread the word. I guess about the album and the music,
and I'll be out there with my son's kicking butt.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I mentioned earlier one of my all time favorites that
nobody ever talks about is looking out my back Door.
I used to be an oldies radio so I love
playing all these songs. Who'll Stop the Rain is an
anthem classic Proud Mary. I got to ask you, what
was your favorite?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
You know? My answer is probably all of them. It's
hard to pick one. But I do have a big
sentimental spot for Proud Mary because at the time I
wrote it, I had never written a really good song.
I'd been writing songs since I was about eight years old.
(26:59):
My mom had blessed me with the concept of what
a songwriter is just by talking about some of the
people she loved, like Irving Berlin or Hogy Carmichael. And
I began to find people on my own that were,
you know, my generation, for instance, Lennon and McCartney or
liber and Stoller or Bob Dylan, you know, these great songwriters.
(27:23):
And the day I wrote Proud Mary, I crossed that
line and finally went into the room where great.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Songs are, and I was aware of it.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
I looked at the page that, you know, my completed
song that had come in just a burst of energy.
Oh my god, I've written the classic. John, You've written
the classic. Did you excited about it?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Did you do?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was your process music first? Then words? Or and do
you hear it first? Do you get like a chord
a medley?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
How does it come down?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Mostly I'll be strumming the guitar, that can working about
some musical figure on the guitar, and that will trigger
some sort of vision or feeling, a musical feeling. And
then if it seems promising, is oh I like this,
you know, I'll keep going and that will result in
(28:17):
a song.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
John Fogerty closing moments, I'm wearing a Yankees jersey and
a Yankee hat.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I guess I dressed well for this interview.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I remember the great Mickey Mantles quote, if I'd have
known I was going to live this long and have
taken better care of myself, You've obviously taken great care
of yourself and your voice, and you lived long enough
to get what was rightfully yours decades ago.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I'm so glad that you finally have this music back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You can perform it, I can download it, I can
come to the concert. You've made such an impact on
so many of my listeners in my life, and it's
watching my kid sing all your songs and love them
all these years later. What it means to me, and
I hope it means a lot to you, and we're
all looking forward to seeing you this fall.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Well you've just described how I feel ill I'm watching
people sing you know, they know all the words, and
oh we do it might be twelve years old. That
just blows my mind, and I feel absolutely blessed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I'm just the luckiest guy in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
You've always been a treasure. We look forward to the album,
and we look forward to seeing you in concert.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
God bless you, sir.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Great.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Thank you, So now I'm the name of the album
is Legacy the Creeden's Clearwater Revival Years it is.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You can pre order it now.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It's out this Friday, August the twenty second, with a
fall tour coming and a visit to the iHeart Concert Series.
Just terrific to see him have the rights to his
music back and back performing and with his kids.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
A great story.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
John Forberty our special Spotlight guest of the day. All right,
forty seven minutes after the hour, we've come back, not one,
not two, not three much top five stories of the day.
And the unemployment numbers are low, but the labor force
is shrinking.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
That can't be good.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Roy O'Neal has the story next. When your morning show continues, Hi.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
This is John Fogerty from center Field and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorna.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Fuck me, it's your morning show with Michael del Johno.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
Michael del Jarno, your interview with Ease are just so influential.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I mean, you're crying hearing the.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Wondrousness of John Fogerty and his family to think that
they stood bad him and stayed with him. This man
is eighty years old. He's the one hundred and sixty. It's amazing.
I've been the black girl who loved rock and roll
music and I love CCR.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Oh, an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm glad you got it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We did have one listener call up and say, you know,
I think he's anti Trump, redhead the line.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Of the day off there.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He said, we only listened to music that loves Trump.
We'd be listening to a lot of YMCA and Lee Greenwood.
I'd rather have my Trump and my CCR and need
it too, all right, the White House says, Russian President
Vladimir Putin has agreed to begin the next phase of
this piece process, not crystal clear clarity and what that
phase will be. Hurricane Aaron will not make landfall on
(31:20):
US mainland, but wreak some havoc along the Eastern seaboard.
John Fogerty is celebrating his new album with an iHeartRadio
Icon performance, And as you heard, you can get that
album through Concord Music at Concord dot com. You can
pre buy it or it comes out on Friday. And
the dates for the fall tour yet to be announced.
And today's a very special day. You don't realize it,
(31:40):
but you're already celebrating it. Today's National Radio Day, pre
ten pre Tennis with everything you need to know about
the magic of radio.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Radio was invented in the eighteen nineties and moved into
most homes by the twenties. It was Chevrolet who first
put the man cars in nineteen twenty two, and we've
been hooked ever since. Radio's our friend. Get up to
date on local news and world events. We sing along,
shout opinions, win concert tickets, and stay close for emergency updates.
Nielsen Media Research says eighty eight percent of us listen
(32:10):
every week, and for that we thank you. I'm pre Tennis.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
You need to find the song Jeffrey Radio, Where did
you ever go?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Why don't you please come back?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And Nut Roy O'Neil loves it when I sing Rory,
I'll never forget. I was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and
Sitko moved. They didn't just leave Tulsa, and they were
the largest employer. They left the country, and the headline
in the local newspaper was office space widely available in
(32:41):
South Tulsa. Trying to spin it into good news, But
you know, we have underemployment that has never talked about.
We have unemployment, which is always measured, and then of
course nobody was keeping their eye on a shrinking labor force,
which was the real problem. And once again it's wearing
its ugly heads. So unemployment remains low, labor force is
shrinking not good right.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Down about eight hundred thousand just in the past three months,
so a pretty significant fall off.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Lots of different reasons.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
More people are retiring than entering the workforce a new
You've got the immigration crackdown, a lot of people sort
of stepping back, not wanting to get caught up in that.
You've also got this trend with more couples saying, you
know what, when you do the math, it doesn't make
financial sense for both of us to work and pay
for childcare. You know, we might be losing money in
(33:30):
this deal. So childcare is another big factor here. But
that's why it's also going to be complicated to try
to figure out ways to return to that growing workforce,
which you need in a growing country.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, you brought up everything in that mouthful, as you
often do, as they know adult. But yeah, if you
have a million people that have volitionally left they've left
the workforce because they left the country, they shouldn't have
been here to begin with. That would impact this number.
But boy, you hit one that is a hot button
for me. I used to talk about this twenty twenty
(34:01):
five years ago, and everybody thought I was in some
way being elitist, and I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Have you ever, people.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Always react when I say my wife was an attorney
and when we had the miracle of finally having a child,
which we struggled to have for years and then it
ended up being two, she left the workforce. We made
that choice, and part of that decision where it was
they have calculators. You can google it when you factor
in what her parking cost, what dry cleaning cost, how
(34:36):
often we ate out because of that, the maid that
we had. Then if the kids were later, you know,
we would have had daycare. You're not making very few
people are making money. And then they would all respond with, well,
we both have to work. Well, keep doing it. The
government's getting double taxation. You're not really neting a whole lot.
That's something nobody ever looks at.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
Right, especially when it came to twins. My sister and
her husband did the same thing with twins and he
ended up staying home. So you know, they ran the
numbers much like you did and said at the end
of the day, you know, this may be what's better
off for the family. So it's a it's a difficult
conversation to have, but again it can be there.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And I'd say black and white, but green and white.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, So with one minute to go, Yeah, let me
ask you, is that necessarily, point blank a bad thing
if the labor force is shrinking. Yeah, I mean it's explainable.
But is it bad and why yes?
Speaker 10 (35:31):
Because it can be very inflationary in that if there
are fewer workers to build the house, to put the
new roof on, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
If there are fewer workers.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
Available, he the more prices go up for them. And
if you're a roofer, that may be great, but it
also goes down the line so that the thing other
things that the roofer buys are also more expensive.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So this can be inflationary overall, something we better keep
our eye. And I suspect you will reporting today as always.
We'll talk tomorrow. We're all in this together. This is
your Morning Show with Michael del Joano
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