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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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This is your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
This is your morning show. Chris Kroc in for Michael DelGiorno.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Five minutes after the hour. And here we go. Rock
and roll.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
In just a moment, we'll talk to our national correspondent,
Roy O'Neill, about the Lindsay Clancy trial. Producer Red and
I were just talking off the air, and we find
out that one of the jurors was just arrested for
intimidation just minutes after the jury announced the deadlock. This lady,

(01:19):
Producer Red, you said that you read this morning, because
I only know that there's somebody who was arrested for it,
and you're saying it's because she was taking a picture
of a jury, a juror?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
An outside person.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah so some person outside took a picture of a
juror i mean that that is to me that's total
jury intimidation now i don't know who what their position
is the person who's been arrested for doing this uh
some woman right we don't know the name of the
person but um i'm willing to bet you it's one
of the sycophant people that thinks uh lindsey clancy is

(01:51):
is practically some kind of a hero or something This
is crazy what people are doing. A lot of self-importance
with the women saying, you know, crying on social media
about this stuff as if it's them.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's just unreal.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Let's go to Rory O'Neill, national correspondent on the latest
on the Lindsay Clancy trial. Rory, welcome back to the show.
And this is crazy. A juror was just arrested.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Not a juror, a witness was- I'm sorry, a witness,
I'm sorry. Right, so a 56-year-old Dawn Light was arrested
for allegedly attempting to photograph some of the jurors as
they were leaving the courtroom there in Plymouth, Massachusetts. So
one person was arrested there at the scene. Again, we're
gonna start day five of deliberations in just a couple

(02:34):
of hours.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yesterday, it was interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
They started, they got back to work, probably less than
an hour, then sent a question to the judge saying,
what do we do?

Speaker 5 (02:42):
We're deadlocked.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
And then that's when the judge said, okay, take a breath.
You've had 80 witnesses and 300 pieces of evidence. Why
don't you go back in there and try a little harder?
And that's what they did. They were pretty quiet for
the rest of the day yesterday, went home and we'll
try it again today.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
If they don't if they come back again today or
tomorrow and say we're still deadlocked, there's no hope that
would be a mistrial. And then also I'm asking, but
that's my understanding. And then second of all, second of all,
there'd be the prosecution is not going to just let
it end in a mistrial.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
They're going to re prosecute the case, aren't they?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
They may or may not. That would be their discretion.
So if we get to the point of being a
hung jury, or let's back up even more. Typically, a
judge gives them two bites of the apple, all right?
If they come back again and say we're deadlocked, I
think the judge is gonna try to ask them like, well,
are you making any progress?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
That kind of thing. And if they say no, then
they'll likely move on to a mistrial. Then it goes
back to the prosecution to decide, do they want to
bring this case up again? Because what makes you think
the outcome is going to be any different? Is there
some sort of new evidence that's come to light during
this trial or some ruling by the judge you want
to challenge and maybe take a different tactic? But essentially,

(04:04):
what's changed? I can't find 12 people who agree on
this case. I don't think they're going to. So it
could end in.
Either the prosecution saying, we're not going to bring the
charges again, or we're going to bring charges and maybe
try to move toward a plea deal to a lesser charge.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
If they do, if it's a mistrial, and then the
prosecution doesn't, says, well, we're never going to get a conviction,
so we're going to let this go, then she walks
free and she can go having more kids with somebody else,
and then perhaps again attempt to, or to kill them.
I mean, she will walk free if they don't do
another trial, right?

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Well, I'm not sure if she's going to walk anywhere
because she was left partially paralyzed as a result of this.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But yeah, it is possible.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
There's also the court system could say, well, look, in
this attack when she killed her children, she also cut herself.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
She jumped out of a second story window.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
We think she's a harm to herself. And because of that,
we think she needs to be institutionalized so she doesn't
hurt herself. And then that would likely come under a
regular six-month review that they can keep her held in
a facility, not a prison.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now, the prosecution also has to prove there's three options.
There's first, first, first degree murder, second manslaughter. Or I
think you said the other day, it's like, well, they
can decide to not prosecute her. She period like let
it go that she's doing. She's whatever, not guilty. But

(05:31):
the second and manslaughter seem ridiculous. It seems like it's
either first or, you know, nothing.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well, right, so the prosecution actually wanted manslaughter to be
included in here to give the jury an option. And
then so it's murder one, murder two, manslaughter, or the
jury says not guilty by reason of mental deficiency or
just not guilty. So just not guilty isn't gonna fly.
She's admitted to killing the kids, so that's not gonna fly.

(06:00):
But then do you say she's not guilty by reason
of criminal responsibility?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
That's an open question.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
So that's kind of where we're at, I think.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I don't know what else there might be to offer
on this for now other than waiting and waiting. The
last thing I wanted to ask you about, the prosecution
has to, they have a burden that most states, if
not any state in the nation has with this, with
proving her mental health issues.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, there is a different standard in Massachusetts. Essentially, it's
the prosecution that has to prove she didn't have any
underlying mental health conditions, I think, that were prior to this.
So it's on them to prove that she wasn't suffering
a long-term issue. So it's a little bit different in
the way that things work in Massachusetts compared to other states.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thank you, Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
We'll talk to you a little bit later in the
show about the Postal Service. Appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Thanks, Chris.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
There he goes.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I think this is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I don't think there's any way they're going to let–
if they declare a mistrial, they're going to just let
it off. Wouldn't you agree, Red? I just think there's
no way.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
I don't think they can because she's already admitted she
did it, but by mental defect. So you can't say
you're innocent because you're actually admitting it.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
She can't punish herself and say, I'm going to commit myself.
That's not how this works. You kill three.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Of your kids.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
This is a.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Horrible case because obviously postpartum depression is a huge thing
in women and do experience that. But there's a big
leap to that and children.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
And postpartum psychosis is not postpartum depression. Postpartum psychosis is
extraordinarily rare. You do not hear voices for 18 minutes
right before, during, and after.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And then later on when you're talking to priests, have
the voices come again.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
And then if you try to kill yourself to take
your life with a knife on your throat, there's only abrasions.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, there's no cuts. There's abrasions. And then People
get so mad.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I put up a social media post on this, and
I said the woman, she jumped out from one of
the things I said was she jumped out from 12 feet.
12 feet, oh boy, that's a big one. You know
what I mean? 12 feet, maybe 13 max. And some
people are just, most people agree with me on this,
but some people are just nasty on you.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
And like, dude, it's 20 feet.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
20 feet, a second story house out of the windows,
20 feet. There are no second story windows that are
20 feet out of a residential house unless it's some
kind of an elite custom home that has all sorts
of weird specs that nobody else has, right?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So, yeah, so I think you also.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Have to understand that this has taken place in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
I don't know how they're going to find would not
get a hung jury. I mean, you'd have to move
it to.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Not Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
You have nine women and three men. And what might
be surprising is you might find that most of those
women agree with me. you know, I've seen a lot
of women who you've got, I think you've got these
self-important people, these self-important women that we've seen and heard
about that are going on social media and crying and say,

(09:23):
you know, trying to latch onto this and say they understand.
And they're calling her attorney or defense attorney, big red,
like they're, they're lionizing these people. It's just, it's the
woman murdered her three children, uh, in her own, you know,
she admitted it. And, um, It's just horrifying. She should
never be out for the rest of her life, whether

(09:44):
it's in a mental institution or not. But I totally
think it's first degree murder. I don't believe that you
have psychosis for 18 minutes. It doesn't come back until
you talk to a priest and then it's gone back again.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
You don't have it anymore. No, I don't believe that
at all.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
But it also shows you that the judge really should
have sequestered the jury, even with this whole picture taking.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
I mean, I don't believe for one second that people
aren't watching television or online.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh, I don't believe that either. You're so right. You're so, so,
so right. You're so right. And guess what else, too?
The sequestering, absolutely so right. That should have been done.
The other thing is, if they sequestered, you may have
had a verdict by now.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Because if they're sitting.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Together and they can't get out, and people say, like
experts say, that sequestering barely happens anymore because it's extraordinarily expensive,
and that they usually only do it, it takes a
high level of coordination, but they usually only do it
when somebody, one of the witnesses or the jurors could
be threatened because of the nature of the case, like
a mob case.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
But I don't care.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I think this was absolutely, sequestration was mandatory for this.
And they probably, quite frankly, yeah, maybe they really would
have had a verdict by Monday.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yes or no doesn't matter. Just give us a verdict.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
By Monday because they were all being sequestered. They're not
with their family. At some point you go, I want
to get this done and whatever it is. And people
start getting more malleable to, you know, obviously you got
12 people on the jury and, you know, you might
become more malleable the more you're being inconvenienced by not
being able to go see your loved ones and go

(11:17):
back to a normal life and not go out and about. Now,
when they're even in a sequester, they can still watch
TV unless they yank the TV out of the room.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Then you got to get a lot of books. Well,
we'll keep following this, obviously.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Coming up next, AOC caught off guard when asked by
TMZ if she would date a conservative. I have a
lot to say about that. Oh, what else do I have?
With the socialists like AOC.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
And how the Democrats.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Some of them voted to denounce socialism, but most of them,
I guess, are down with socialism. They refuse to condemn
it in all forms.

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Speaker 8 (12:09):
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can't imagine what's going through your mind. Gotta be gun sites, right?
Gotta be how to dispose of body sites.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
No.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
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address and do so for like a couple of bucks.
Do an experiment today or over the weekend. Type in
your name into one of them and boom, there you are.
Your address, your phone number, your family names. Some of
you even have photos of your front door. Anyone can

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Speaker 2 (13:44):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Giorno.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Chris Kroc in for my friend Michael Del Giorno. Follow
me on X, Insta, and Facebook at Chris Kroc Show.
That's at Chris Kroc Show, C-H-R-I-S-K-R-O-K. Podcast on YouTube and
Rumble at Kroc Talk, K-R-O-K-T-A-L-K. In just a moment, we'll
get to AOC asked about whether she'd date a conservative
and the socialist vote in the House yesterday. But first,

(14:12):
top five stories of the day.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Three, two, one.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Alanis Morissette claims ex-staffer is trying to blackmail her with
drug trafficking allegations.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
What? Can you say that again?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
She's the victim she claims of a, quote, calculated blackmail
campaign orchestrated by her former tour manager.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Who knows who to believe on that?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Taiwanese man jailed.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I decided to go a little light on this one.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Taiwanese jail man jailed after using robot vacuum to record
wife's affair.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
What the heck? On a separate note, this morning.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I retweeted this on my Twitter, my X feed, at
Chris Croxhill, Z-H-R-I-S-K-R-O-K. There is a Roomba lawnmower That is
running around on a golf course. And there's an alligator
sitting there. And he's looking at the thing. And then
the Roomba got closer to the thing. And the alligator
turns around and flops back in the lake there. You know,
the little golf course. Yes, it's so funny. He's afraid

(15:12):
of the Roomba lawnmower.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Report. I like this one.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Jelly Roll loses hundreds of thousands of followers after trashing
Trump and his supporters on Kimmel Live.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Good.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
What a fool.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I really feel like he's a fool for what he
did there. Dolly had it right. Jagger has it right.
They don't do politics in their shows because that's not
what people want.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
We love what you do and we want to watch
you perform.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Gas station chain stealing Domino's customers with cheap pizza. Now
it's the fifth largest pizza chain in the USA.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Casey's. The Midwestern convenience store chain.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Look, if I'm there and I'm hungry, I'll order pizza maybe,
I guess. But, dude, I'm not ordering Casey's for pizza.
I'm ordering Domino's more than Casey's. My gosh.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Right, guys? Yeah, I would have to agree with that.
No gas station pizza. That is absolutely not good. No,
thank you. You guys are being ridiculous. Well, that was
way too loud. I'm sorry. Gosh, let me try that again.
I apologize. I blew my ears out.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Better?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Do I need to go quieter on it again? I
can do a third try. That was pretty good. I'm
a little slow here. This is one of my favorite ones.
I just need to pull the volume down a little.
I apologize.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
You guys are being ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
You guys are being ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Okay, America. That was some twit that was said that
here in Dallas-Fort Worth on a news clip. I saved it.
Just need to turn the volume down. Americans deliver stunning
verdict on Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Stunning verdict. Canada trade war piles on.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Anyways, 20% of Americans support the name change.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
46% oppose it. Remember yesterday, or the day before, was it?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
I played the exclusive video of the first king salmon
caught on Lake America.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
The guy that came back. I love that guy.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Speaking of which, there is, I think.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I have audio of... uh i gotta i gotta pull
it up for.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
You uh a little later i guess there's uh no
here no i got it right here cbc the cbc
canadian broadcast corporation telling you how you can change lake
america back to lake ontario listen to these clowns.

Speaker 9 (17:17):
The technology that powers these maps is american so yes
while it's supposed to say lake ontario in canada is
showing up on some websites in ontario and in other
places across canada They got.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Lake America on the Canada side, too. That's a victory, y'all.

Speaker 9 (17:33):
Well, so some companies and government organizations here essentially don't
want to develop their own mapping software. So they use
what are called third party APIs. That stands for application programming.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
OK, we're done, lady.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
I love that it's like America on your side of
the lake. That's so great. It is and always will
be Lake America.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Good morning, guys.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
This is Jeff in Pleasant View, Tennessee, and my morning
show is Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
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Speaker 5 (18:24):
Chris, if you're in Germany, if you have not tried
Casey's Pizza, dude, you have no idea what you're missing
out on. It is fantastic. I miss it a lot.
I used to get it when I was in Kansas City.
You need to give it a shot, dude. It's unbelievably good.

Speaker 10 (18:39):
Well, hey, about your pizza thing, Casey's Pizza is really good.
It's not a gas station sushi situation. They have an
actual small kitchen in each Casey's. It's made super fresh,
and they're pretty darn good.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Have you actually had Casey's Pizza?

Speaker 4 (18:53):
And if you did, I think you'd change your mind.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I say shame on all of you.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
And the first person who had the talk back said,
and it's not gas station sushi. No one said it
was gas station sushi. This is not gas station sushi.
I can't say that fast enough.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Slurring.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
You are correct.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
This is not gas station sushi. This is gas station pizza.
Of course it's not gas station sushi. It's gas station pizza. Now, yes,
I know Casey's. I'm a Midwest dude, born and raised
proud of that. Born in Chicago, raised in the Burbs
and went to school in Western Illinois and did the

(19:37):
whole Midwest thing, worked in the Midwest in radio, all
sorts of stuff, working my way up. So Casey's, I've
seen them a million times. I've been to them, but
it's scary. But because of you guys I will try it.
But the problem is where I'm sitting right now in
Dallas-Fort Worth, I don't think there's Casey's Pizza here. I

(19:58):
don't think there's a Casey's. Producer Red, are you checking?
Is that what you're doing right now? He is checking
the location. Can you please find the foremost southern restaurant
Casey's Pizza, well, Casey's Gas Station.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I am sitting in Dallas-Fort Worth. Maybe there's one in Oklahoma.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
We'll drive home to Chicago twice a year, once a year.
We fly a lot more lately. But, like, if we drive,
we'll probably pass some for sure, right?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Maybe in St. Louis. Not St.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Louis, but in Missouri. Maybe in Oklahoma as it's crossing
over into Joplin, Missouri.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
In just a moment, we're going to talk to John
Decker about the kerfuffle over the Army leadership vacuum with
the resignation of Army Secretary, who is leaving a big
wake in his path, apparently, Driscoll, Dan Driscoll. So we'll
see what they're saying about Pete Hegseth and all this stuff.

(20:58):
By the way, can you guys believe that Pete Hegseth
is possibly going to run for president? No. That's going
to be a no for me. I mean, do you
really think he is red? You're saying no, you don't
want him to? Or you think, yeah, you don't think
he's going? I don't think so either. I think it's stupid.
I think he'd have to be a megalomaniac to do that,
you know? I mean, right now you're the Sec War.

(21:22):
Stick to that.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Do that.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
But there's a lot of kerfuffle over maybe he's firing
too many generals, too many admirals and such. and hurting
the ability to prepare the military I don't know but
let's do this AOC caught off guard when asked by
TMZ whether she'd ever date a conservative after reported split

(21:45):
from fiance well let's see here I do believe I
have the.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
AOC sound somewhere over here. Here we go.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Listen closer to this and listen to AOCs. Okay, we're
going to pause.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
We'll go to that in a moment.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
First, let's go to White House correspondent John Decker to
talk about the Army leadership vacuum. John, thanks for joining
us this morning on your morning show.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well, good morning. Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
What we're talking about here is indeed a vacuum because
over the course of the past year and a half,
since 2008, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been the
Secretary of Defense. He has purged a number of very
high-level admirals, generals, and civilian leadership from the Pentagon. And
the latest is the person who serves as the Secretary

(22:37):
of the Army. That person just submitted their resignation after
many run-ins with Pete Hegseth. Lots of tension between himself
and Pete Hegseth. And as a result, these are his
final days serving at the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
So John, what I've read is that Dan Driscoll was
concerned because Pete Hegseth was firing too many generals, too
many admirals, that the original purge of quote woke generals
and woke admirals went way too far to beyond that.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Is that what the reports are?

Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, those are the reports and nothing confirmed, obviously, by
the Secretary of Defense. I don't know what a woke
general or a woke admiral looks like. These are individuals
that are the most highly qualified people to serve our
country in those positions. They've attended the most prestigious schools
in America, West Point, the Naval Academy. They've gone through OCS.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
In some cases.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
And these are people that have served our country admirably
for literally decades. But for whatever reason, Pete Hegseth wants
to have his own people serving in high leadership roles.
The problem is, is that when you essentially fire or
end the careers of these individuals, it's not like there's
another individual who can easily fill the shoes of someone

(24:02):
who has served for so many years and has that
type of experience.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
And that's the problem.

Speaker 7 (24:08):
That's the reason for this leadership vacuum that we're seeing
right now.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I've also heard, John, that this may very well affect readiness.
Some of the generals that were there were specifically tasked
with getting our army ready for combat or other things
or getting it up to speed for the modern day warfare.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Is that accurate?

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Well, beyond that, there's a war going on. There's an
ongoing conflict. We're now on the seventh month of the
conflict with Iran. Just for some, including members who are
in the Republican Party, they say this is not the
time to be ridding the Pentagon of such high qualified

(24:49):
people to serve in those roles. And obviously, the resignation
letter submitted by Dan Driscoll came at a point where
he had reached a breaking point in terms of the
ongoing tension that existed between himself and the Secretary of Defense,
Pete Hegseth. Now, as for the White House, they put
out a statement praising Dan Driscoll for all of his

(25:14):
work serving at the Pentagon. Dan Driscoll, by the way,
came in President Trump's orbit because of Vice President J.D.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Vance.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
They attended law school together.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
So this is one of those situations where President Trump
is allowing Pete Hegseth to run the Pentagon the way
he feels fit And the president did not in any
way intervene to essentially let Dan Driscoll continue to serve
in his capacity as the secretary of the army during

(25:48):
the course of his time there.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
White House correspondent John Decker, thanks for joining us this morning.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Okay, getting back to AOC call off guard. Interesting because
I was... I was watching, listening to Jesse Waters last night.
He was talking to Premier Radio Network's Clay Travis, Fox
News contributor, of course, as well, last night.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
And they were talking about googly eyes, AOC, and.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
How she was approached on the street out of nowhere
by supposedly by TMZ's head of the D.C.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Bureau for TMZ.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
And that the way she handled this and the way
she talked and the way she appeared was very disarming.
and works to her advantage to be more of a
mainstream candidate now that many of us believe that she's.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Going to declare candidacy at some point for president.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Here's the conversation that has so many people googly-eyed over
googly eyes.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Do you ever date a conservative?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Is that anything you'd ever entertain?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I have to say it's... Probably not.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
No, it's no foul to people who do. And of course,
how you define that is very different from person to person, right?

Speaker 6 (27:18):
But I think a lot of politics sometimes, at least
for me, is about values. And being aligned in values,
I think, is tremendously important.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
At least to her credit, she didn't say absolutely not.
What's wrong with you? You're crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
I wouldn't date one of those.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
But I think I think there's something missing here. The
question was, would you date a conservative, not marry one?
And a lot of people have been saying, I think
this is very accurate. I think a lot of I
think she may date a conservative if it came about
the right way.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I think that a conservative baby girl don't even play.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
I apologize to my Latina lady, or Latinx lady, excuse me,
I didn't mean to slurp. But people are saying, no,
I think, and there's something, I'm gonna tell you the truth.
There's something, I'm a married man here, but there's something
attractive about her entertaining, there's something attractive about dating the forbidden,

(28:21):
the opposite of your political aspirations. And I don't think
that she, James Carville, for example, married Mary Madeline. Mary
Madeline went to the same college I went to, Western
Illinois University. She's conservative. She helped run George Bush's campaign,
George Bush Sr. And so they work. And Carville says
there really is something wrong with you if you won't

(28:42):
consider that.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
He was asked about this, too.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
He lamented how people in the modern era use politics
as a reason to date or not date somebody. In
my case, this is great. In my case, I wasn't
good-looking enough. I had to broaden the base. All right. Now,
Producer Red, you were asking what date sites would she
go on to hook up with a guy, you know,
to date a guy, not hook up with a date.
And you were thinking about, you looked up online some

(29:05):
of the dating services for people like her.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Is Kami Mingle? Where do you think she would date?
Kami Mingle? Yeah, or I think one of the, yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I almost think she would, wouldn't she date somebody if
it was expedient for her political career?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's exactly what I was about to say. Yes.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Because why did she dump the current one? Why did
she purge her entire crew? It's all about her getting
ready to run for president. There's no question.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's all it is. And I think you're right.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
And I think that if it was behooving her for
her career, and expediency that she would absolutely date a
conservative absolutely it would have to be a lame fake
conservative like john cornyn for example right oh gosh so
um now i'm speaking of socialists like her And by
the way, you know what's coming up here in a few?

(29:57):
I think maybe we'll get into this in the next segment.
If not, we'll get into it in the next hour.
Right now, it's, of course, 45 after the hour, 15
minutes before the hour, top of the hour. But I
have some new tweets that have just been released from
Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al-Sayed, and they're not good. I also
have some new evidence that I retweeted on my X

(30:20):
feed of him, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al-Sayed, actually at a
socialists of america detroit socialists of america event and then
he says i'm not a socialist yeah that's why you
were speaking at going to a socialist event uh by
the way speaking of the socialists there was a brand

(30:40):
new resolution last night that was uh that did pass
it rejecting socialism in all its forms and what happened
was you had two democrats that had to.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Say yes.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Two moderate Democrats, Jared Golden from Maine and Marie Glusenkamp
Perez from Washington, they defected to help the procedural vote
succeed so they could actually cast their votes on, quote,
a resolution denouncing socialism in all its forms. Went 220
to 192, it passed. Two people voted present. Only eight

(31:18):
Democrats voted to denounce socialism in all its forms. And
in fact, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, is super angry.
He appears to be stunned by the defections, though he
was also careful not to denounce his fellow Democrats outright.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
But they are super miffed that they did this.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Why?

Speaker 3 (31:38):
For crossing over to the other side of the aisle
to denounce socialism? And you want to protect socialism. You
want to be rocking and rolling and be friends and
besties with the socialists because I guess you're afraid of
them too, Hakeem, which you are.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
They all kind of are. But going back to AOC.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
I absolutely think, and there is something attractive about the
way she answered that question, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
She wasn't mad, angry.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
She was giggling about it and just having a nice conversation.
It is all about, according to Clay Travis and Jesse
Waters last night, well, Clay particularly, that she is absolutely
running and she's trying to be more mainstream, more down
to earth. And if people like that and getting her
eggs out, people like the idea of freezing her eggs,

(32:22):
I don't know about all that.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
I hope she runs. She will lose spectacularly. She will.
I do believe she'll lose spectacularly. It'll be great.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Although Kamala would be even better, wouldn't she? I mean,
that's the first one we really want. All right, coming
up next, I'm going to share with you these Abdulrahman Al-Sayed,
Mohammed Al-Sayed deleted 9-1-1 tweets, 9-11 tweets that just were
released this morning from town hall, as.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well as what major U.S.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
City has just eliminated half of its lock cams.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
And I do not think that's a good idea. We'll
get all that coming up next. It's Chris Kroc.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
And for my friend Michael DelGiorno, this is your morning show.

Speaker 8 (33:08):
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pulled back. So are precious metals still a good buy? Well,
major banks think so. In fact, it's already been proven.
So gold is on the rise as we speak. and
they're forecasting even higher prices ahead.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Why?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
We're $ 40 trillion in debt. We have a declining dollar.

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Speaker 1 (34:09):
It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Chris Crockin for Michael DelGiorno.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
And in a moment, I have deleted 9-11 tweets from
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, the Senate candidate for Democrat in Michigan.
I will read them to you from town hall this morning.
And also what major city has eliminated half of their
flood camps kind of overnight, really.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
But first, the top five stories of the day.

Speaker 7 (34:39):
Three, two, one.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Ed Markey, far-left Democrat, 80-year-old, was not defeated. He beat
younger Representative Seth Moulton for the Senate primary in Massachusetts.
Ohio man accused of vandalizing J.D. Vance's home pleads guilty.
Remember this guy, 26-year-old William DeFore, who said when he
was arrested, call me.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Where's this name here? He said.
Call me Julia.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, now that you're going to prison for a long time,
they'll call you Julia if you'd like, but I don't
know if you want that to go down.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Also, U.S. Open player. This is funny.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
U.S.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Open player goes viral for racket smashing meltdown after brutal loss.
It's on my X feed. Check it out at Chris
Kroc show. C-H-R-I-S-K-R-O-K. She shakes the hands of the ref
and whoever she played, and then she goes around the corner,
picks up a racket, and just bashes it. nonstop for
like 20 seconds.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Adam Schiff and Donald Trump form an unlikely alliance.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's all about Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
One of Trump's most persistent political foes has found common
ground with him in their shared push to save Hollywood.
Senator Schiff once led the first impeachment against Trump.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
But here it is. I am in strong agreement with
the president.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Congress should immediately take up and pass federal film tax
incentive to bring back these good paying jobs we've lost
to other countries. From Fox 26 in Houston, naked doordash
driver caught on camera delivering food to northeast Houston home.
Producer Red wants to know, or wants to say, let
this be a lesson to all the lazy folks in

(36:20):
the post-COVID era. Go out and get your own food.

Speaker 8 (36:23):
Really?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Burger King delivery? I guess they got more burger and buns.
More than burger and buns.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, they sure did. They got a little something else.
I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Alanis Morissette claiming her ex-staffer is trying to blackmail her
with drug trafficking allegations.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, she says.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
She's a victim of a calculated blackmail campaign orchestrated by
her former tour manager.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Now that is bizarro.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Taiwanese man jailed after using robot vacuum to record wife's affair.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Need I say more?

Speaker 7 (36:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Let me give you the newly released deleted tweets. I
guess they're all deleted, but they found them.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Tom Hall did. This one is new.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
The New York Times says in a tweet, and then
he responds to it.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
The tweet from New York.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Times says, President Biden's moving to split the $ 7 billion
in frozen Afghan central bank assets between 9-11 victims' families
and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Sounds good to me, doesn't it to you? Not to him.
El-Sayed said the fact that the U.S.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Government continues to pit the Afghan people against 9-11 families
is appalling. All our victims all deserve full share of
the support they owe.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Are you kidding me? The Taliban is who that was
going to. We're all in this together. This is your
morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
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