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And we did have big talks in Kiev that we
thought were going to amount to maybe Vladimir Putin would
take his off ramp. And then bombing overnight makes us
feel a little bit differently about that. And there is
no bigger story this week than the 25th anniversary of
9-11 and whether you actually lived it and remember it
or whether you learned about it as it slips from
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personal experience into a history recollection. And the big question
is 25 years later, What have we learned and how
safer are we? Stephen Bucci is here, our Colonel from
the Heritage Foundation, largest think tank in the world to
discuss all of this. Let's start with Vladimir Putin. There
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is no path to victory. Why not take an off ramp?
How long is this guy gonna fight?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I always told people I didn't think Vladimir Putin was crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
He thinks differently than we do, but he wasn't crazy.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I'm not sure my original assessment is.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Accurate because this is an irrational.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Level of determination.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I'm going to do this no matter what, no matter
how much it costs me or my nation or people.
That's lunacy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's not leadership.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
And he thinks of himself as a grand leader, the
new czar. But he is the new czar, because that's
the way the czars used to think, too. People's lives
don't matter.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
So I'm not sure if there's an offering for Putin.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Because he refuses to take the ones that are being
offered to him. This is not a good situation. And
I don't think President Trump is wise to push the
Ukrainians and say, well, you guys need to give up something. What?
They already lost a big chunk of their country.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
They get hit all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I just don't think that's the right answer to reward Putin.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I always thought, obviously, a young Vladimir Putin was probably
not in favor of the dissolving of the Soviet Union,
being of a KGB background. I never thought he was
trying to bring back the Soviet Union as much as
reassemble the the Russian empire map. That doesn't seem possible
any more than victory in Afghanistan seem possible. The difference
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is he doesn't wanna take the off ramp and admit it.
But I don't think he's getting anywhere the longer this
wage is on. And boy, I guess at some point
somebody has to say this out loud for a Trump
administration and those he chooses to go and handle these negotiations.
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another positive sign that blows up in their face before
anybody could get up in the morning and talk about it.
Because the bombing overnight erased any optimism whatsoever that these
talks were actually going to lead to somewhere. Another ding
in the Witkoff and Kushner trust, I guess we would say,
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when it comes to negotiating all these things. They have
made progress in other negotiations, but as far as this
in Iran goes- There hasn't been much good news there.
All right, 9-11, 25 years later. Wow. Well, what have
we learned?
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, from a technical standpoint, the kind of business that
I was in, from policy, from counterintelligence, counterterrorism, we've learned
a heck of a lot. We are so much stronger.
better off than we were prior to 9-11 as far
as our capabilities to deal with these things, to catch
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these things before they happen, to the point where the
bad guys are left with nothing. But, well, maybe we
can convince somebody over the internet to do something for us,
mostly because they're not all there. They've got their own
psychological and mental health kind of issues. Maybe we can
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influence them to do something because all of us over here,
wherever here is around the world, they can't get here
without getting caught.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
We also have learned that there are limits to our
desire for security.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Some of the things we did, a.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Lot of the Patriot Act, we're maybe a step too
far in the hearts of a choke of our citizenry.
The desire to protect us does have limits. You know,
thinking back to the famous Ben Franklin quotation, we've got
to do it, but we got to do it right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Because our constitution is worth it, which is now a.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
New issue that comes up and it's remembered on 9-11
as that I was calling for, let's throw out the Constitution.
It's outdated. We don't need it anymore. No, we do.
It's still the best legal document setting up a government
that's ever been created. And the fact that we can
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have these discussions, Michael, about an issue like that is
the evidence of how.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Great that document is.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
So all of that can be tied to the 9-11.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So we haven't had another, we haven't had a 9-12,
if you will, another major terror attack. And it's not
that they haven't tried, they did, and they've been thwarted.
They're left with just trying to create some homegrown, and
even that has been thwarted. Are we any better at
understanding the true enemy here?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Some of us are, but there's a heck of a
lot of us, and I include you in that we are.
There are more people who understand that the radical Islamist,
and again, we always point out that's Islamist, not Islamic.
It doesn't mean every person who believes in Islam is
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out to kill us.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Unfortunately, there's a bunch that are.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Because that's the theology that's baked into that faith. You know,
in my Christianity, not everybody in Christianity believes everything that
you and I might believe is fundamental Christianity. There's a
lot of Muslims out there that don't believe all this,
you know, crazy, let's go kill the whole world thing.
But the mullahs in Tehran, the Al Qaeda, the ISIS,
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those kind of folks do. And I think there's more
of us that recognize it, but still not enough. There's
too many Americans who are in la-la land who think, oh, no, no,
we just need to accommodate them. And once we accommodate them,
they'll be friends. They'll be just like us. They're not.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They're very different.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Those radical Islamists are not looking for accommodation. They're looking
for victory.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was the radical Taliban that gave bin Laden safe
haven in Afghanistan that we asked them to turn him over.
They refused, which led us to Afghanistan. And by the
end of that war, we were asking our troops to
be allies with the enemy, the Taliban. And we were
negotiating an end of the Afghan war with the Taliban
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who took over before we even got out. I mean,
from a war standpoint and victory standpoint, it's hard to
look at Iraq and Afghanistan and say the world is
any different than it was on 9-11-2001, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yeah, it's not different enough.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Let's put it that way for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
All right. Stephen Bucci joining us, Colonel from the Heritage Foundation,
largest think tank in the world. How are we safer
today and how have we gone too far? I think
that's what we're still trying to get our arms around, right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, it's an ongoing debate. It should be an ongoing debate.
It's not something that we're.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Ever going to finish, either of those categories.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
And as Americans, if you think about it, take a
step back, take a breath. As much as we'd like
to finish something and move on to the next thing,
That's just not realistic. There's always going to be this
kind of threat because there's people out there who believe
fundamentally differently than we do, and we're never going to
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end the debate of how much is too much, how
do we do it internally to protect ourselves, because there's
always an ongoing debate for that. There are people domestically
who want the cops to go away because, gee, the
cops are mean to people. Well, if there is a
cop that's mean to people, that needs to be addressed
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and fixed. But most of the cops are there protecting
us every day in all sorts of ways. So we
have that kind of push and pull in a constitutional
republic like we have.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
And that's, in my mind.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
A good thing. It's been 250 years now that we're
still having that same set of questions about because they're
good questions and there.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Is some push and pull to that.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
That keeps us in a better place than we would
be if we went all the way to one side
or all the way to the other.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I'll conclude with this. My dad finished his career at
I think 55 or 56 years on the radio. I
don't think there's any question. The most memorable day he
was ever on the air was the day John F.
Kennedy was assassinated. I don't think there's any question. In
my 43, 44 years, the most memorable day was 9-11.
It was a 15-hour day, and it is certainly the
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most significant, memorable day of my broadcast career. I'm looking
at this poll where 64% of U.S. adults told Gallup
they believe America has permanently changed the way it lives
as a result of the terror attacks of 9-11, if
that's true. Bin Laden succeeded, did he not?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
The fact that he moved our dial does not mean
he succeeded. It means we were hit. We had to adjust.
Our system is capable of adjusting, and we're doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Is it inconvenient?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yes. Is it uncomfortable for those of us who remember
what everything.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Was like before 9-11?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yeah. But it doesn't mean he won. Last time I checked,
he was bad. floating somewhere being finished off.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
By the fishes. He didn't win. His people didn't win.
We were able.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
To pull together for a little while and all faced
in the same direction while that debate continued, to be.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Honest with you.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
But that's what America is about. We didn't leave the
Middle East.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
We didn't retrench.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
From everything in the world, though there are people who
still like us to do that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
We're still a global power. We're still the best friend.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Unless you're Canadian, you might disagree with that thing because
President Trump's really being snarky. But we're still....
Speaker 7 (14:27):
The country in the world that people turn to when
stuff really goes badly in their own country. And most
of the time, you know what? We show up and
help even people we don't like. We still go help them. So, no,
I would never give bin Laden the accolades that he won.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He did not, and he never will, nor will his ilk.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I will say this. This is my 25th anniversary coming up.
I still don't think we get the difference between remembering
and honoring. And now we're getting too close to a
percentage of America that has learned about 9-11 and have
not lived it. And that makes us trust Hollywood, classrooms,
and the wild, wild west of internet outrage and conspiracy.
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I think it even gets tougher to understand and honor.
as the years move forward. Fortunately, we'll have you to
help us do that. Stephen Bucci, Colonel, thanks for joining us.
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This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina. And my morning
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Speaker 5 (17:34):
Um.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This came to Michael D. at iHeartMedia.com, which is another
way to communicate with us. You can use the talkback
button or good old-fashioned email for those that prefer to write.
We're living on an AFB, Air Force Base, on 9-11.
I had just put my kids on the school bus.
The news was on, and I saw the second plane
hit the tower. They held the kids at the school
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off base. We were not allowed to leave base. to
get them and they wouldn't send them home. All military
wives met and prayed together. We had no idea what
was going to happen next. That's the key in this
email that I want to hone in on because I
think that's what's lost. You know, we talked about the
25th anniversary and that makes everybody who's probably 30 years
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or younger having no personal recollection of this and probably
as high as 35. And what's lost in that, the
difference between watching something or hearing or learning about it
in class or discussing it on the internet, there's a
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lot lost having lived it. One was you didn't know
what was coming next. First plane, second plane, third plane,
first tower. Second Tower, Shanksville. And that's where it all
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ends for everyone who learns about it. But when you
were living it, you didn't expect it to end. I
remember finally going off the air after about 15 hours.
And I remembered the release when I got to my car.
And that was not crying. That was weeping. And it
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was weeping for what I saw. Weeping for what had
been lost and weeping for the uncertainty of what was next.
That can't be taught. That has to be lived. And
the way I know that is I know how I
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studied Pearl Harbor, but I wasn't on that island. If
we are on a precipice of much of America learning
about this versus having lived it, then you're on the
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precipice of personal recall and having lived, slipping into history.
And that will be two different things. As different as
remembering versus honoring. There's going to be a lot to
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address on this 25th anniversary. There is going to be
some honest things that were understood And corrected. And we
are safer. There are some things we've made no progress.
We talked about identifying the enemy. That becomes difficult. I
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appreciate Colonel Bucci bringing up not all Muslims are terrorists.
But the problem is all terrorists are Muslims. In this
particular brand. And they're worshiping the same prophet and the
same God and using the same text. That's what makes
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it different. And if you think it's just the jihadists
and the mullahs that we battle and the terrorist organizations,
that's not true either. Because there is political Islam that
plays the very patient game of populating, infiltrating, agitating before
it wages war. And there is, thankfully, a third type
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of Muslim that is peace-loving, following the first example of Muhammad.
The problem is we don't know which until they act,
and that's too late. There's a certain level of suspicion
that seems intolerant, but it almost becomes necessary. Now, there
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is no shortcut. You have to study these three types
of Muhammad. to understand its three types of followers. You
have to know the language and know how to discern
which of the three you're dealing with. Because one must
be tolerated. One must never be tolerated or validated. And
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I don't know that we may have much progress there.
But as we enter this 25th anniversary, this slippage, from
I lived it, I remember it, and I remember it accurately,
now slips into history. And once it slips into history,
now I got to trust the internet. Now I got
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to trust Hollywood. Now I got to trust university professors
or conspiracy theorists online. This is going to get more
and more difficult to do accurately and historically, or at
least that's the challenge we see ahead. in this week
leading up to the 9-11 anniversary. Sean wrote, hello, Michael.
I worked for Peter for 16 years running events around
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the country. That's Peter Jacobson, the golfer. I asked what
the party is that you were talking about a couple
of weeks ago that you were having trouble trying to
figure out. Is it something we can help you with?
We also did group cruises. Sean, well, we had listeners
(23:30):
that just kind of wanted all to get together and
meet each other. It turned out to be a little
bit more problematic than we thought. Hey, who knows? Maybe
the cruise is the ticket. Anything can keep me off
a plane and from catching filthy viruses from American emotional
support animals or its owners. I'm all about the cruise.
(23:54):
Cruise would be nice. Yes, it would be. We could get...
Get Gary Chapman to do some music. We could get
John Ford Coley from England Dan and John Ford Coley.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Walter Egan, my son's substitute teacher. He could do Magnet
and Steel. He could make a yacht rock cruise out
of it. And don't you know, you'll want to be
there when Big John asks Mary to dance. All right,
if you're just waking up, gas prices remain high after
the long weekend. We had high hopes of negotiations for
(24:27):
peace between Ukraine and Russia, but Russian bombing overnight seems
to have dampened any of that optimism. The NTSB is
moving forward with its investigation. We're always gonna have more
on this. They clearly came in too fast or landed
too late, or they were having some break issues. We
have now recovered the audio recorders and the flight data.
Maybe we can piece that together. Don't forget, this crew
(24:48):
is alive. The deaths were all ground crew members. But
we start piecing together just what happened at Miami International
Airport with that Amazon cargo plane. Not operated by Amazon,
but operating for Amazon. Rory has the very latest on
that and the Russian-Ukraine negotiations that seem to have been
(25:09):
very optimistic and have died of reality. That and more
coming up as your morning show continues. But first things first.
Why is that taking so long? There we go.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Oh, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We will win.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
We will win.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
They all look like a bunch of girly men, huh?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
When the.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
People fight, we win. The ability to speak does not
make you insensitive. Are you not hesitating? I am hesitating. Apparently,
our intro for Sounds of the Day was still on vacation.
Nice to have it join us late. Better late than never.
This is the always entertaining Louisiana Senator John Kennedy on
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Meet the Press. He offered five pieces of advice to
the AI industry to change the public's mindset on data centers.
The gotcha question from Kristen Welker was, all right, let's
move to another issue. And then she goes over the
polling numbers. 69% opposed building data centers in their community.
(26:12):
President Trump said something very centers, quote, want to end
up being backwards and poor. Do you agree with the president?
This was his answer.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
69% oppose building data centers in their community. President Trump
said something interesting. He said communities that oppose data centers, quote,
want to end up being.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Backwards and poor.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Backwards and poor, he says, Senator, do you agree with
President Trump?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No, I think the president can say what he wants.
You know, he's aggressively unpredictable. Here's what I see. The
people who have developed AI are very, very smart, but
they're high IQ, stupid people. You might let them tutor you,
but you wouldn't want them to date your sister. They're
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terrible marketers. Either that or they hired, I don't know,
the marketing director for Cracker Barrel. They started out by
saying we have this wonderful technology and it's gonna cost
everybody their job and it costs a lot of money
for electricity and your bills might go up and it
uses a lot of water, but trust us, you'll love it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
By the way, that's a mouthful. Let that sink in.
There's so much to let sink in, right? I mean,
we're living in a very moment where the far left
can't distance itself from a proven failure for over 100 years, socialism.
And you can't get any of them to throw this
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out of their party or speak against it. They'll do
whatever it takes to whatever line just in order to win.
And here's a United States senator saying, no, I don't
agree with the president. But let me tell you why.
And then he talks about this high IQ people that
you wouldn't let date your sister. having a worse marketing
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team than Cracker Barrel. You're gonna love this technology, it's
gonna cost you your job and expect your electric bills
to double, triple and water bills to double. I appreciate
the honesty, I appreciate the accuracy and he goes on.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Now here's what AI can get it, and the data
centers can get their momentum back, but they're going to
have to do a few things. First, they're going to
have to stop using so much.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Water, go to a closed-loop system.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Number two, they're going to have to provide their own energy.
Number three, they're going to have to devise buildings that.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Are slightly aesthetic.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mean, the buildings they build now look like a
broken arm with the bones sticking out. Number four, they're
going to have to stop going into these states and
demanding all these tax subsidies and demanding all.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
The tax breaks. They're all rich.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Number five, they're going to have to talk straight up
to the American people about what AI means. American people
look at it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
They're not stupid. They get it.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
They think, well, AI could make our lives better if
it doesn't take our jobs and kill us all first.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Have we learned anything from social media? I know it's
all being argued and fought in courtrooms. But we knew
from the beginning. I think the documentary The Social Dilemma
is going on eight years old now. Eight years ago,
these are the people that created the algorithms telling you
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we created a monster and we can't control it. The
only thing we control is we don't allow our kids.
have access to this until they're after 16 or 18
years old. They knew what was going to control you
and they knew what was out of their control. I
could say the same thing about AI. They know how
it's going to control you and they know how it
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can go out of control. You might want to address
it now before it impacts a generation. Number two, and
nowhere in this explanation from John Kennedy, was the president
needs to stop with this narrative that's false. This is
not a race with China. If it is, we won
a long time ago. This is the most sensible, close
(30:37):
to sensible conversation on AI I've ever heard. And always
colorful when it's John Kennedy. He also didn't necessarily toe
the line for the president on the economy. Listen.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, here's what I think about the economy for what
it's worth, except for inflation, which, as I said, sucks.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
The economy's solid. Growth is okay. Unemployment's low. Wages, they're
going up, not as high as we'd like.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Average income tax refund increased about 12%. Business profits are solid.
We created 136,000 jobs last year.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Our last month. But look, that inflation is a big if.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
And it's gutting people like a fish. Inflation is pernicious.
And we've had it for a few years now. It's
been up and down since President Biden's administration. What we
ought to do is something about it. I'm not blaming
it on the president of the House. The Senate Republicans
about five months ago For a reconciliation bill, we should
(31:48):
have addressed it.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
We didn't for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Number one, I couldn't convince the majority leader to put
a bill like that on the floor. And number two,
we're probably three or four votes short. We've got a
few Republicans on the Senate side that are kind of
like the feral kid in Mad Max 2. You've got
to spend a little time with them. But we still
(32:12):
have time. And I'll be glad to talk about what
we can do.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The biggest cause of inflation is our spending problem, which
is our identity problem. Senator Kenney probably would like to
discuss what I would like to discuss. What is the
proper size and role of the federal government? And what
is the role and responsibility of the self-governed? Or are
we even interested in a self-governed people? And both parties
(32:42):
are to blame for 40 plus trillion dollars of debt,
inflationary debt. And a spending pattern that continues to inflate.
But it's a midterm election. And honest views of the
economy usually mean change of control. And how that plays out,
(33:06):
only time will tell. You're a fresh person. I think that's... He.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person, okay?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
This is what democracy looks like. They call me king now,
do you believe it?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
No king.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm such a king, I can't get a ballroom approved.
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It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Jim from Franklin, Tennessee wrote, Michael, time is a very
interesting thing. When you and I were born in 1964,
it was only 23 years since Pearl Harbor. And yet
now it's 25 years from 9-11. Oh, it changes everything perspective.
Keep the emails and the talkbacks coming. Can't have your
morning show without your voice, and we appreciate them. Primary
day in New Hampshire today. Billions of dollars in American
(35:06):
goods are now subject to Canadian tariffs. NTSB is moving
forward with its investigation after recovering flight data and auto
recorders from the deadly crash at Amazon's plane at Miami
International Airport. And the White House is gonna have the
steel beam from the World Trade Center on display. Rory
O'Neill's here with the very latest. Rory, we were optimistic
(35:27):
that we were getting close to some kind of an
off-ramp for Russia and Ukraine. Bombing suggests otherwise, right?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
It does.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spending the weekend traveling to
both Moscow and Kiev, meeting with both Presidents Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Both sides agreed.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
To withhold some of their attacks while the two men
were traveling back and forth between the countries. But after
Witkoff and Kushner got home, well, it seems that Russia
was back at it again, launching new strikes onto civilian
targets inside Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All right, and then we have the plane that obviously
was coming in too hot or didn't land quick enough.
It went off the runway, killing five. All the members
of the crew are alive, and now we have this information.
Perhaps we'll have a better idea of just what happened
in Miami tomorrow for you. We'll be back with that.
One Chance to Live, Tuesday, September the 8th. Go make
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A new way of talk. A new way of understanding. Because...
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Michael DelGiorno. So I started in radio, I don't know
how many years ago it is.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
44?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
43 years ago? First record I ever played was Sincerely
Yours by Gary Chapman. No kidding. He just texted me.
So glad you're back. With all due respect to the
radio people everywhere, you are forbidden from ever leaving town again.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Ha ha!
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, all I managed to do was find worse golfing
conditions in Ohio than here in Tennessee, and then the
worst respiratory infection ever from commercial air travel. I think
I may not be ever leaving again. I'm only really
healthy and safe here in my studio with you. There's
no place like home. But it is wonderful to be back. Mary,
listening in Boise, where they almost got a big win
(01:19):
over Oregon. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I am as happy as a little girl that you're
back on the air this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Hope you're feeling well.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I have a quick question because it was Labor Day
weekend and I went to the store and there's a
whole aisle of Halloween candy there. So I kind of
want to know if preseason NFL games don't count towards
the team record, does preseason Halloween candy calories count? Can
you ask Jared maybe? Have a great day and get better.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, they count. Trust me.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
They count.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Heath Bars, Butterfingers. Hands down my favorite. Every now and then,
just mix in a Baby Ruth or go real old
school in just a regular Hershey bar with an almond. Yeah,
what about the Almond Joys, the little baby fun signs?
I mean, you know, the celebration of demonic activity and
(02:12):
ghosts and goblins, the candy, now you're on to something.
Gas prices remain high as the long holiday weekend is
winding down. It's primary day in New Hampshire and billions
of dollars in American goods are now subject to Canadian tariffs.
To break that down for you, I can tell you
that it's upwards of a 50% tariff on milk, steel,
(02:33):
aluminum products, 25% on cheese, paper, household appliances. Glad I
got my refrigerator last month. Technology, tools, and industrial equipment, 15%.
And you're also looking at products ranging from wine to
hockey equipment and cement with slight tariff increases as well.
(02:53):
And we did have big talks in Kiev that we
thought were going to amount to maybe Vladimir Putin would
take his off ramp. And then bombing overnight makes us
feel a little bit differently about that. And there is
no bigger story this week than the 25th anniversary of
9-11 and whether you actually lived it and remember it
or whether you learned about it as it slips from
(03:17):
personal experience into a history recollection. And the big question
is 25 years later, What have we learned and how
safer are we? Stephen Bucci is here, our Colonel from
the Heritage Foundation, largest think tank in the world to
discuss all of this. Let's start with Vladimir Putin. There
(03:37):
is no path to victory. Why not take an off ramp?
How long is this guy gonna fight?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I always told people I didn't think Vladimir Putin was crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
He thinks differently than we do, but he wasn't crazy.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I'm not sure my original assessment is.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Accurate because this is an irrational.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Level of determination.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I'm going to do this no matter what, no matter
how much it costs me or my nation or people.
That's lunacy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's not leadership.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
And he thinks of himself as a grand leader, the
new czar. But he is the new czar, because that's
the way the czars used to think, too. People's lives
don't matter.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
So I'm not sure if there's an offering for Putin.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Because he refuses to take the ones that are being
offered to him. This is not a good situation. And
I don't think President Trump is wise to push the
Ukrainians and say, well, you guys need to give up something. What?
They already lost a big chunk of their country.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
They get hit all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I just don't think that's the right answer to reward Putin.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I always thought, obviously, a young Vladimir Putin was probably
not in favor of the dissolving of the Soviet Union,
being of a KGB background. I never thought he was
trying to bring back the Soviet Union as much as
reassemble the the Russian empire map. That doesn't seem possible
any more than victory in Afghanistan seem possible. The difference
(05:21):
is he doesn't wanna take the off ramp and admit it.
But I don't think he's getting anywhere the longer this
wage is on. And boy, I guess at some point
somebody has to say this out loud for a Trump
administration and those he chooses to go and handle these negotiations.
(05:43):
another positive sign that blows up in their face before
anybody could get up in the morning and talk about it.
Because the bombing overnight erased any optimism whatsoever that these
talks were actually going to lead to somewhere. Another ding
in the Witkoff and Kushner trust, I guess we would say,
(06:04):
when it comes to negotiating all these things. They have
made progress in other negotiations, but as far as this
in Iran goes- There hasn't been much good news there.
All right, 9-11, 25 years later. Wow. Well, what have
we learned?
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, from a technical standpoint, the kind of business that
I was in, from policy, from counterintelligence, counterterrorism, we've learned
a heck of a lot. We are so much stronger.
better off than we were prior to 9-11 as far
as our capabilities to deal with these things, to catch
(06:44):
these things before they happen, to the point where the
bad guys are left with nothing. But, well, maybe we
can convince somebody over the internet to do something for us,
mostly because they're not all there. They've got their own
psychological and mental health kind of issues. Maybe we can
(07:05):
influence them to do something because all of us over here,
wherever here is around the world, they can't get here
without getting caught.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
We also have learned that there are limits to our
desire for security.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Some of the things we did, a.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Lot of the Patriot Act, we're maybe a step too
far in the hearts of a choke of our citizenry.
The desire to protect us does have limits. You know,
thinking back to the famous Ben Franklin quotation, we've got
to do it, but we got to do it right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Because our constitution is worth it, which is now a.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
New issue that comes up and it's remembered on 9-11
as that I was calling for, let's throw out the Constitution.
It's outdated. We don't need it anymore. No, we do.
It's still the best legal document setting up a government
that's ever been created. And the fact that we can
(08:14):
have these discussions, Michael, about an issue like that is
the evidence of how.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Great that document is.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
So all of that can be tied to the 9-11.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So we haven't had another, we haven't had a 9-12,
if you will, another major terror attack. And it's not
that they haven't tried, they did, and they've been thwarted.
They're left with just trying to create some homegrown, and
even that has been thwarted. Are we any better at
understanding the true enemy here?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Some of us are, but there's a heck of a
lot of us, and I include you in that we are.
There are more people who understand that the radical Islamist,
and again, we always point out that's Islamist, not Islamic.
It doesn't mean every person who believes in Islam is
(09:13):
out to kill us.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Unfortunately, there's a bunch that are.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Because that's the theology that's baked into that faith. You know,
in my Christianity, not everybody in Christianity believes everything that
you and I might believe is fundamental Christianity. There's a
lot of Muslims out there that don't believe all this,
you know, crazy, let's go kill the whole world thing.
But the mullahs in Tehran, the Al Qaeda, the ISIS,
(09:42):
those kind of folks do. And I think there's more
of us that recognize it, but still not enough. There's
too many Americans who are in la-la land who think, oh, no, no,
we just need to accommodate them. And once we accommodate them,
they'll be friends. They'll be just like us. They're not.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They're very different.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Those radical Islamists are not looking for accommodation. They're looking
for victory.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was the radical Taliban that gave bin Laden safe
haven in Afghanistan that we asked them to turn him over.
They refused, which led us to Afghanistan. And by the
end of that war, we were asking our troops to
be allies with the enemy, the Taliban. And we were
negotiating an end of the Afghan war with the Taliban
(10:31):
who took over before we even got out. I mean,
from a war standpoint and victory standpoint, it's hard to
look at Iraq and Afghanistan and say the world is
any different than it was on 9-11-2001, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yeah, it's not different enough.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Let's put it that way for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
All right. Stephen Bucci joining us, Colonel from the Heritage Foundation,
largest think tank in the world. How are we safer
today and how have we gone too far? I think
that's what we're still trying to get our arms around, right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, it's an ongoing debate. It should be an ongoing debate.
It's not something that we're.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Ever going to finish, either of those categories.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
And as Americans, if you think about it, take a
step back, take a breath. As much as we'd like
to finish something and move on to the next thing,
That's just not realistic. There's always going to be this
kind of threat because there's people out there who believe
fundamentally differently than we do, and we're never going to
(11:38):
end the debate of how much is too much, how
do we do it internally to protect ourselves, because there's
always an ongoing debate for that. There are people domestically
who want the cops to go away because, gee, the
cops are mean to people. Well, if there is a
cop that's mean to people, that needs to be addressed
(11:59):
and fixed. But most of the cops are there protecting
us every day in all sorts of ways. So we
have that kind of push and pull in a constitutional
republic like we have.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
And that's, in my mind.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
A good thing. It's been 250 years now that we're
still having that same set of questions about because they're
good questions and there.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Is some push and pull to that.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
That keeps us in a better place than we would
be if we went all the way to one side
or all the way to the other.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I'll conclude with this. My dad finished his career at
I think 55 or 56 years on the radio. I
don't think there's any question. The most memorable day he
was ever on the air was the day John F.
Kennedy was assassinated. I don't think there's any question. In
my 43, 44 years, the most memorable day was 9-11.
It was a 15-hour day, and it is certainly the
(12:57):
most significant, memorable day of my broadcast career. I'm looking
at this poll where 64% of U.S. adults told Gallup
they believe America has permanently changed the way it lives
as a result of the terror attacks of 9-11, if
that's true. Bin Laden succeeded, did he not?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
The fact that he moved our dial does not mean
he succeeded. It means we were hit. We had to adjust.
Our system is capable of adjusting, and we're doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Is it inconvenient?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yes. Is it uncomfortable for those of us who remember
what everything.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Was like before 9-11?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yeah. But it doesn't mean he won. Last time I checked,
he was bad. floating somewhere being finished off.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
By the fishes. He didn't win. His people didn't win.
We were able.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
To pull together for a little while and all faced
in the same direction while that debate continued, to be.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Honest with you.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
But that's what America is about. We didn't leave the
Middle East.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
We didn't retrench.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
From everything in the world, though there are people who
still like us to do that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
We're still a global power. We're still the best friend.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Unless you're Canadian, you might disagree with that thing because
President Trump's really being snarky. But we're still....
Speaker 7 (14:27):
The country in the world that people turn to when
stuff really goes badly in their own country. And most
of the time, you know what? We show up and
help even people we don't like. We still go help them. So, no,
I would never give bin Laden the accolades that he won.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He did not, and he never will, nor will his ilk.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I will say this. This is my 25th anniversary coming up.
I still don't think we get the difference between remembering
and honoring. And now we're getting too close to a
percentage of America that has learned about 9-11 and have
not lived it. And that makes us trust Hollywood, classrooms,
and the wild, wild west of internet outrage and conspiracy.
(15:16):
I think it even gets tougher to understand and honor.
as the years move forward. Fortunately, we'll have you to
help us do that. Stephen Bucci, Colonel, thanks for joining us.
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This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina. And my morning
show is your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
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Speaker 5 (17:34):
Um.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This came to Michael D. at iHeartMedia.com, which is another
way to communicate with us. You can use the talkback
button or good old-fashioned email for those that prefer to write.
We're living on an AFB, Air Force Base, on 9-11.
I had just put my kids on the school bus.
The news was on, and I saw the second plane
hit the tower. They held the kids at the school
(17:58):
off base. We were not allowed to leave base. to
get them and they wouldn't send them home. All military
wives met and prayed together. We had no idea what
was going to happen next. That's the key in this
email that I want to hone in on because I
think that's what's lost. You know, we talked about the
25th anniversary and that makes everybody who's probably 30 years
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or younger having no personal recollection of this and probably
as high as 35. And what's lost in that, the
difference between watching something or hearing or learning about it
in class or discussing it on the internet, there's a
(18:42):
lot lost having lived it. One was you didn't know
what was coming next. First plane, second plane, third plane,
first tower. Second Tower, Shanksville. And that's where it all
(19:03):
ends for everyone who learns about it. But when you
were living it, you didn't expect it to end. I
remember finally going off the air after about 15 hours.
And I remembered the release when I got to my car.
And that was not crying. That was weeping. And it
(19:24):
was weeping for what I saw. Weeping for what had
been lost and weeping for the uncertainty of what was next.
That can't be taught. That has to be lived. And
the way I know that is I know how I
(19:45):
studied Pearl Harbor, but I wasn't on that island. If
we are on a precipice of much of America learning
about this versus having lived it, then you're on the
(20:06):
precipice of personal recall and having lived, slipping into history.
And that will be two different things. As different as
remembering versus honoring. There's going to be a lot to
(20:27):
address on this 25th anniversary. There is going to be
some honest things that were understood And corrected. And we
are safer. There are some things we've made no progress.
We talked about identifying the enemy. That becomes difficult. I
(20:50):
appreciate Colonel Bucci bringing up not all Muslims are terrorists.
But the problem is all terrorists are Muslims. In this
particular brand. And they're worshiping the same prophet and the
same God and using the same text. That's what makes
(21:10):
it different. And if you think it's just the jihadists
and the mullahs that we battle and the terrorist organizations,
that's not true either. Because there is political Islam that
plays the very patient game of populating, infiltrating, agitating before
it wages war. And there is, thankfully, a third type
(21:36):
of Muslim that is peace-loving, following the first example of Muhammad.
The problem is we don't know which until they act,
and that's too late. There's a certain level of suspicion
that seems intolerant, but it almost becomes necessary. Now, there
(21:58):
is no shortcut. You have to study these three types
of Muhammad. to understand its three types of followers. You
have to know the language and know how to discern
which of the three you're dealing with. Because one must
be tolerated. One must never be tolerated or validated. And
(22:25):
I don't know that we may have much progress there.
But as we enter this 25th anniversary, this slippage, from
I lived it, I remember it, and I remember it accurately,
now slips into history. And once it slips into history,
now I got to trust the internet. Now I got
(22:48):
to trust Hollywood. Now I got to trust university professors
or conspiracy theorists online. This is going to get more
and more difficult to do accurately and historically, or at
least that's the challenge we see ahead. in this week
leading up to the 9-11 anniversary. Sean wrote, hello, Michael.
I worked for Peter for 16 years running events around
(23:10):
the country. That's Peter Jacobson, the golfer. I asked what
the party is that you were talking about a couple
of weeks ago that you were having trouble trying to
figure out. Is it something we can help you with?
We also did group cruises. Sean, well, we had listeners
(23:30):
that just kind of wanted all to get together and
meet each other. It turned out to be a little
bit more problematic than we thought. Hey, who knows? Maybe
the cruise is the ticket. Anything can keep me off
a plane and from catching filthy viruses from American emotional
support animals or its owners. I'm all about the cruise.
(23:54):
Cruise would be nice. Yes, it would be. We could get...
Get Gary Chapman to do some music. We could get
John Ford Coley from England Dan and John Ford Coley.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Walter Egan, my son's substitute teacher. He could do Magnet
and Steel. He could make a yacht rock cruise out
of it. And don't you know, you'll want to be
there when Big John asks Mary to dance. All right,
if you're just waking up, gas prices remain high after
the long weekend. We had high hopes of negotiations for
(24:27):
peace between Ukraine and Russia, but Russian bombing overnight seems
to have dampened any of that optimism. The NTSB is
moving forward with its investigation. We're always gonna have more
on this. They clearly came in too fast or landed
too late, or they were having some break issues. We
have now recovered the audio recorders and the flight data.
Maybe we can piece that together. Don't forget, this crew
(24:48):
is alive. The deaths were all ground crew members. But
we start piecing together just what happened at Miami International
Airport with that Amazon cargo plane. Not operated by Amazon,
but operating for Amazon. Rory has the very latest on
that and the Russian-Ukraine negotiations that seem to have been
(25:09):
very optimistic and have died of reality. That and more
coming up as your morning show continues. But first things first.
Why is that taking so long? There we go.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Oh, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We will win.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
We will win.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
They all look like a bunch of girly men, huh?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
When the.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
People fight, we win. The ability to speak does not
make you insensitive. Are you not hesitating? I am hesitating. Apparently,
our intro for Sounds of the Day was still on vacation.
Nice to have it join us late. Better late than never.
This is the always entertaining Louisiana Senator John Kennedy on
(25:49):
Meet the Press. He offered five pieces of advice to
the AI industry to change the public's mindset on data centers.
The gotcha question from Kristen Welker was, all right, let's
move to another issue. And then she goes over the
polling numbers. 69% opposed building data centers in their community.
(26:12):
President Trump said something very centers, quote, want to end
up being backwards and poor. Do you agree with the president?
This was his answer.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
69% oppose building data centers in their community. President Trump
said something interesting. He said communities that oppose data centers, quote,
want to end up being.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Backwards and poor.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Backwards and poor, he says, Senator, do you agree with
President Trump?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No, I think the president can say what he wants.
You know, he's aggressively unpredictable. Here's what I see. The
people who have developed AI are very, very smart, but
they're high IQ, stupid people. You might let them tutor you,
but you wouldn't want them to date your sister. They're
(27:06):
terrible marketers. Either that or they hired, I don't know,
the marketing director for Cracker Barrel. They started out by
saying we have this wonderful technology and it's gonna cost
everybody their job and it costs a lot of money
for electricity and your bills might go up and it
uses a lot of water, but trust us, you'll love it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
By the way, that's a mouthful. Let that sink in.
There's so much to let sink in, right? I mean,
we're living in a very moment where the far left
can't distance itself from a proven failure for over 100 years, socialism.
And you can't get any of them to throw this
(27:50):
out of their party or speak against it. They'll do
whatever it takes to whatever line just in order to win.
And here's a United States senator saying, no, I don't
agree with the president. But let me tell you why.
And then he talks about this high IQ people that
you wouldn't let date your sister. having a worse marketing
(28:13):
team than Cracker Barrel. You're gonna love this technology, it's
gonna cost you your job and expect your electric bills
to double, triple and water bills to double. I appreciate
the honesty, I appreciate the accuracy and he goes on.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Now here's what AI can get it, and the data
centers can get their momentum back, but they're going to
have to do a few things. First, they're going to
have to stop using so much.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Water, go to a closed-loop system.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Number two, they're going to have to provide their own energy.
Number three, they're going to have to devise buildings that.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Are slightly aesthetic.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I mean, the buildings they build now look like a
broken arm with the bones sticking out. Number four, they're
going to have to stop going into these states and
demanding all these tax subsidies and demanding all.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
The tax breaks. They're all rich.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Number five, they're going to have to talk straight up
to the American people about what AI means. American people
look at it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
They're not stupid. They get it.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
They think, well, AI could make our lives better if
it doesn't take our jobs and kill us all first.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Have we learned anything from social media? I know it's
all being argued and fought in courtrooms. But we knew
from the beginning. I think the documentary The Social Dilemma
is going on eight years old now. Eight years ago,
these are the people that created the algorithms telling you
(29:53):
we created a monster and we can't control it. The
only thing we control is we don't allow our kids.
have access to this until they're after 16 or 18
years old. They knew what was going to control you
and they knew what was out of their control. I
could say the same thing about AI. They know how
it's going to control you and they know how it
(30:15):
can go out of control. You might want to address
it now before it impacts a generation. Number two, and
nowhere in this explanation from John Kennedy, was the president
needs to stop with this narrative that's false. This is
not a race with China. If it is, we won
a long time ago. This is the most sensible, close
(30:37):
to sensible conversation on AI I've ever heard. And always
colorful when it's John Kennedy. He also didn't necessarily toe
the line for the president on the economy. Listen.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, here's what I think about the economy for what
it's worth, except for inflation, which, as I said, sucks.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
The economy's solid. Growth is okay. Unemployment's low. Wages, they're
going up, not as high as we'd like.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Average income tax refund increased about 12%. Business profits are solid.
We created 136,000 jobs last year.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Our last month. But look, that inflation is a big if.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
And it's gutting people like a fish. Inflation is pernicious.
And we've had it for a few years now. It's
been up and down since President Biden's administration. What we
ought to do is something about it. I'm not blaming
it on the president of the House. The Senate Republicans
about five months ago For a reconciliation bill, we should
(31:48):
have addressed it.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
We didn't for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Number one, I couldn't convince the majority leader to put
a bill like that on the floor. And number two,
we're probably three or four votes short. We've got a
few Republicans on the Senate side that are kind of
like the feral kid in Mad Max 2. You've got
to spend a little time with them. But we still
(32:12):
have time. And I'll be glad to talk about what
we can do.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The biggest cause of inflation is our spending problem, which
is our identity problem. Senator Kenney probably would like to
discuss what I would like to discuss. What is the
proper size and role of the federal government? And what
is the role and responsibility of the self-governed? Or are
we even interested in a self-governed people? And both parties
(32:42):
are to blame for 40 plus trillion dollars of debt,
inflationary debt. And a spending pattern that continues to inflate.
But it's a midterm election. And honest views of the
economy usually mean change of control. And how that plays out,
(33:06):
only time will tell. You're a fresh person. I think that's... He.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person, okay?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
This is what democracy looks like. They call me king now,
do you believe it?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
No king.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm such a king, I can't get a ballroom approved.
And that's your Sounds of the Day for Tuesday, September
the 8th, Year of Our Lord, 2026. Well, gold and
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Speaker 3 (34:41):
It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Jim from Franklin, Tennessee wrote, Michael, time is a very
interesting thing. When you and I were born in 1964,
it was only 23 years since Pearl Harbor. And yet
now it's 25 years from 9-11. Oh, it changes everything perspective.
Keep the emails and the talkbacks coming. Can't have your
morning show without your voice, and we appreciate them. Primary
day in New Hampshire today. Billions of dollars in American
(35:06):
goods are now subject to Canadian tariffs. NTSB is moving
forward with its investigation after recovering flight data and auto
recorders from the deadly crash at Amazon's plane at Miami
International Airport. And the White House is gonna have the
steel beam from the World Trade Center on display. Rory
O'Neill's here with the very latest. Rory, we were optimistic
(35:27):
that we were getting close to some kind of an
off-ramp for Russia and Ukraine. Bombing suggests otherwise, right?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
It does.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spending the weekend traveling to
both Moscow and Kiev, meeting with both Presidents Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Both sides agreed.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
To withhold some of their attacks while the two men
were traveling back and forth between the countries. But after
Witkoff and Kushner got home, well, it seems that Russia
was back at it again, launching new strikes onto civilian
targets inside Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All right, and then we have the plane that obviously
was coming in too hot or didn't land quick enough.
It went off the runway, killing five. All the members
of the crew are alive, and now we have this information.
Perhaps we'll have a better idea of just what happened
in Miami tomorrow for you. We'll be back with that.
One Chance to Live, Tuesday, September the 8th. Go make
(36:19):
a difference in someone's life. Cherish your own. We'll see
you again tomorrow morning for the next Your Morning Show.
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael DelGiorno.
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