09-09-26 YMS HR3 The Islamist Inconvenient Truth Meets 9/11 Anniversary

The Islamist inconvenient truth meets 9-11 anniversary. Jimmy Brown from UB40 anniversary tour and happiest cities list.

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Speaker 3 (00:22):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
I'm as addicted to football as you are, but I'm
not going to watch it tonight. I really used to
like Mike Grable a lot when he was coaching the
Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
He did a lot for that team.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
But after the offseason, I just think he's got.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
The ick around him. So I'm not watching that. I'm
not watching the rally either. Maybe I'll listen to the
Your Morning Show podcast. Hey, and I'll email Andrea a
chicken soup recipe for you.

Speaker 6 (00:57):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Chicken soup. I need something.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I did do a, let's see, tea, lemon, honey drink
last night. That kind of felt good. And I got
my meds. I went to the doctor. So yeah, a
little chicken soup might help, Mary. You know, you get
a sense that not many people For me, I said
I'm really not interested in the Seahawks and the Patriots,

(01:23):
and I don't feel very well, so I doubt I'm
going to even watch the game. But the timing is unmistakable.
Here comes the Republicans trying to do something that's never
been done before, an RNC midterm convention. And of all
the timing, and the schedule's been set for quite some time,
you pick the first two NFL games of the season
to try to compete with in primetime. So this is,

(01:44):
as a caller said wisely, likely to be just a
Matrix soundbite event. I think if you're trying to rally
your base, I'm looking at the list of speakers, wouldn't
rally me. You want to rally the base, you might
want to address oil at $ 100 a barrel right now.
A war that we were trying to negotiate an end to,

(02:05):
but still haven't between Russia and Ukraine and with Iran
and getting the straits secure and open and for good.
There are a lot of things they could be doing
to rallying their base. I don't know that a trade
war with Canada or Renaming a lake is one of them.
David Zanotti is our senior contributor. He's joining us. I'm
going to trust you're not sick.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I can't blame you.

Speaker 7 (02:30):
No, I regret to tell you that it seems like
every time you fly commercial, people get sick.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I'm going to have to be like that one
guy and make fun of wearing a mask, maybe. It
must have been the return flight, thankfully. Because all I
could think of was how many times we were sharing
different food items during the trip. What do you make?
I mean, there was a time when the chief executive,
the president, would do a State of the Union in

(02:56):
writing to Congress. Then it became a big television event.
We've never had midterm conventions before. There is no convention business.
There's a part of me that's rooting against this because
I don't want it to succeed. We don't need more rah-rah,
more politics, more endless campaigning. What we need is governance
and solutions. But here comes nonetheless.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
I've been listening all morning, and we didn't talk much
about this last week when we were together. But it's interesting,
since we've been together, I've gotten a strong number of
reports from across the country and monitoring other media sources.
This theme that I'm picking up is that folks are
already exhausted and sick and tired of this entire midterm election,

(03:44):
primarily because it's been so invasive in regards to advertising
and nothing but negative ads and nothing but bombastic stuff
all across the country, particularly in swing states and swing districts.
So I don't know whether this is going to work
or not. I guess it's for the Republican point of view,
it's better to do something rather than to do nothing.

(04:06):
And it would be completely like Donald Trump to go
ahead and go up against the NFL two nights and
then say my ratings were as good as theirs. I mean,
other than that, I don't I don't know what's to
be gained here.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, the question becomes, like the commercials that you're seeing,
it's a blame game. Is anybody going to be a
solution game? Donald Trump is always famous for saying, that
would have never happened if I was president. Well, you
are president, and the trade war was initiated by you.
You weren't president, but you've been president before. Now, and

(04:43):
we can't get an end to the Russian-Ukraine war. We
can't seem to secure the Strait of Hormuz and move
on from the Iranian war. Renaming lakes. I think, I
don't know. I think I would have been silent and
let the Democrats deal with the 9-11 anniversary with an
Islamist mayor. I think that might have been the better

(05:05):
taste in everyone's mouth. Yeah, politically, strategically, absolutely. Nothing we
can do.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
Sit on the sidelines and watch and wonder and observe.
I will tell you this much about the two points.
One is that the campaign has already descended into the
Halloween style commercials. So we're already past Halloween. Everything is
black and white and cartoon-like in regards to the, and
that just exhausts people. In addition to that, it seems

(05:35):
that the consultants have convinced the candidates across the board
that all that matters is social media bias. Because you
cannot watch social media without being inundated with all of
these negative type campaign commercials all across the country.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
And that exhausts people very, very quickly.

Speaker 7 (05:52):
So, again, if the idea of a convention gives them
any footage to change the narrative, it might be refreshing
for those of us stuck watching this stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
If you're listening to the radio or watching television or
cable television or streaming television... All you're getting are pharmaceutical
ads and gambling ads. You're not really getting many of
these political ads. But you say that's mostly on social media.
They've gone overboard with that. It totally dominates YouTube. And
no matter what your YouTube service is, it totally dominates YouTube.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And that is significant.

Speaker 7 (06:27):
And it's totally dominating all the streaming platforms as well,
unless you're subscription commercial free. Now, that might be the
wisest way for the big tech companies to increase their subscriptions.
But you mentioned the 9-11 celebration. We did an interesting
recording session yesterday on the public square talking about how
do you get from 9-11 to a Muslim mayor in

(06:50):
New York City? And when you get underneath that and
you look at the numbers and the statistics, it is fascinating.
First off, a lot of people don't know that Zoran
Mondani is only 35 years old. He's only been a
citizen of the United States since 2018. He came here

(07:10):
at the age of seven and he's actually born in
Africa and from India. So people, this is not a
Middle Eastern Muslim by any stretch of the imagination. In
addition to that, he only got a million votes to
be elected mayor of New York city, but that's more
votes than any other mayoral candidates got since 1969 because

(07:34):
people in New York don't vote for the mayor's race. 61%
of the people stayed home that election day.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
And we all, we also kicked around between illegal immigrants
and illegal voting as well as, uh, the amount of
as many as 30% now, uh, were not alive for 9-11.
That number gets even higher if you go all the
way to 35. Yeah, that's a very interesting cut line
you're on there. Yeah, which was the strength of his support.
The other thing that you brought up, and again, there

(08:03):
are three types of Muslims today because there were three Mohammeds.
Some practice a very peace-loving religion. I don't think that necessarily,
from my biblical worldview, leads to eternal life, but I
don't judge them and I don't speak against them. Others
are political Islamists and their intent is is to populate
other countries for the purposes of infiltrating, agitating, and waging war.

(08:28):
That I will identify and stand up against. And the
final is a jihadist who plans to kill you immediately.
Two of the three have the same goal, which is
to convert you, tax you, or kill you. That makes
it different. When you bring up Mamdani from Africa by
way of India, and India is not a Muslim nation,

(08:49):
it makes one think maybe he was... perhaps converted online,
a more radical form, or that would be the proclivity.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Well, he does identify in all of the writings that
we can find online. I've not spoken to the man personally,
so this may be, but from all we can, he
identifies with the Shia community and the Muslim community, which
would bring you to that third version of Islam.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Radicalized, yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think I was the only one on the radio
that has done this, and nobody's attacked me for it,
so it must be true. To position him as a
socialist is to miss that he's an Islamist.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
First and foremost.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yes, and the same could be said for Al-Sayed. These
are Islamists that have joined with the socialists, and they
will have their say as they grow. So the Democrats
were dumb to allow the socialists in, the socialists were
dumb to allow the Islamists in, now the three are
going to fight it out. But that kind of brings
us full circle to the point I wanted to make, David,
which is I see the poor timing of 9-11 for

(09:45):
the Democrats and Mamdani on a 25th anniversary and El-Sayed comments.
I see the bad timing of the RNC. Both parties,
I was suspicious, could be gone by the end of
the decade. They're all making moves. to make that prophecy
come true, that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (10:02):
Well, they're certainly alienating themselves with people who work for
a living.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
There's just no doubt about that.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
And again, when you take a look at it, there's
a very key point you brought up, and I'd like
to just grab it for a second, because The worldview
of Mamdani is Shia Muslim. That's that third level of
Islam you spoke about. That's where he, from all the
records that we have, that's where he identifies. That's where
he moves. So his reality, his worldview is radical Islamist.

(10:32):
His process is Democrat Socialist of America. And that's where
people need to understand the link between the radical Islamists
and the democratic socialists. Because AOC is not an Islamist.
She's a democratic socialist. Bernie Sanders is not an Islamist.
They're using each other for their own purposes. And so

(10:52):
you've got to guess as a voter, if you give
them power, which of those worldviews is going to prevail?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Well, the enemy of my enemy is my friend in
the election process, but they are not in worldview. friends
at all. The only thing they have in common is
first come Saturday, I assure you that in the case
of Mamdani, he does not see Israel's right to exist,
nor America's right to exist. First comes Saturday, Israel, then

(11:20):
comes Sunday, America. The destruction of Christians and Jews for
the purposes of world control is the end game. The
timing is what just blows up in their face. Here
is the 25th anniversary, and as we go from personal
remembrance as we slip into history, and history defined by
the Internet, by higher education professors, who knows how accurate

(11:43):
that is. This is a scary time. We're going to
talk more about 9-11 between now and Friday. But just
to close out this segment, if I were to ask
you point blank, where are we 25 years later? Have
we identified the enemy any more clearly? Have we protected ourselves?
Have we honored those who died by ensuring it never

(12:05):
happens again? And is time on our side? I got
a bad feeling about all those questions.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Well, maybe tomorrow we can talk about David Beamer. You're
Todd Beamer's dad because you brought him up earlier. And
this is taking a little bit more time than we
have this morning. But I had the privilege to meet
him last year. And I want to talk to you
about that meeting because it was quite surprising to me.
But the point that you're making is, I think the
single most important point you're bringing up right now is

(12:32):
we are now on the historic cusp when people who
are leaky earthen vessels made of dust start to forget
what happened. And therein lies grave danger, because unless you're
older than five years old in 2001, you don't have
an experience, that shared experience. And a lot of people
are tired of seeing pictures of it now. It's like

(12:54):
old history. It's like a history book I don't want
to look at. We can't, this is, they'll be like
saying forget Pearl Harbor, but we're on the edge.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, the biggest difference is when I was four, five,
six years old and I was watching WGN and they'd
show the old black and whites of Hitler, he was
a threat that no longer existed. And that was about
the same proximity of time as today is from 9-11.
Only the threat still exists. That's the difference.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
We're at war with Iran, which is the height and
the headquarters, if you will, of all of this, even
as we speak. So yeah, no, it hasn't gone away.
The problem hasn't gone away. And one thing I will
say for the president, I don't think he planned this out.
And I think you've cited this well. I'm repeating things
you've said because you're right. It appears that Donald Trump

(13:41):
is realizing we have a 1400 year problem here, not
a 49 year problem. He's come to terms with the
fact that we are not going to be able to
coexist with an Iran that's intending to cause Sharia law
and Islam to rule and reign in this country right now.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
They think they're winning. They're winning in New York city.
They're winning in Dearborn.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
The missed opportunity is to explain to the American people.
This isn't an American problem. It is the world's problem.
They are an enemy of the world and it's the
world's problem to solve. He hasn't convinced all other nations
to see it that way, nor is he convinced the
American people to see it that way. And I go
back to the Kennedy cause I wasn't alive. Um, If

(14:23):
you're getting an honest documentary or narrative of the day,
you have to understand, nobody thought it ended with Kennedy
being killed. At the time it was happening, the president
was decapitated and the notion was it was going to
be followed up by bombs or invasion. And that's why

(14:45):
such great lengths were made and the rush to have LBJ,
take the oath of office. And I bring that up
because in 9-11, you see it as a complete story.
When it was happening, we didn't know. Everything was happening
30 minutes apart. First one building, then another building, then
the Pentagon, then a Shanksville crash, then a building collapses,

(15:08):
another building collapses. And we didn't know what was coming
later in the day or the next day or the
next month.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's a perspective that is lost.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Let alone what the internet has turned this over, like
turned it into like with Kennedy, a bunch of conspiracy theories.
I don't even know as we slip into history, if
there'll be an accurate account of 9-11, let alone what
it really felt like, let alone motivate you to ensure
it never happens again. You have the luxury of time

(15:38):
and what time dims. And at some point, There are
those who have made the case. It took 9-11 to
wake America up to this enemy. Let's hope it doesn't
take another. We're going to visit more on this between
now and Friday, David. I won't thank you for the cold.
I'll thank Southwest Airlines. It could have even been that

(16:00):
giant dog that was sitting on my plane. Talk about
an emotional companion. Six feet tall dog.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
But you do sound quite a bit like Larry King
this morning.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Larry King.

Speaker 8 (16:12):
I'm going to have Jimmy Brown, the drummer of UB40,
for the full hour coming up next. How's Larry feeling
these days? Does he still sit with Mary Hart at
the Dodger game? Is that Larry I'm seeing right now?
Am I having a vision?

Speaker 3 (16:29):
David Zanotti is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable,
the host of the Public Square. He was my host
in Youngstown, where I am the key. I am the
king of Youngstown. Tell them how I was received at
the Tippecanoe.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh, they loved it. They were honored.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
Jeffrey, I got to tell you, even some of the
folks that worked there came up and said hello, and
they knew exactly who they were talking to.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I didn't even believe them. I said, you don't listen
to my radio show. Yeah, Chris is filling in today.
You know, it was selfies, the whole thing, yes.

Speaker 7 (16:55):
And this was in a very private situation, so it
was private.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I was pretty impressed.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, I sought to go to Ohio to get normal
earthly temperatures to golf. It feels like over 100 every day.
But thank you so much for giving me three great days.
And I'm home drinking out of my public square mug,
even as we speak.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
There we go. You made it home safely.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I made it home safely, as did the chocolate.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Tell them.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Torno.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 9 (17:29):
This is Jill in Phoenix.

Speaker 10 (17:31):
And my morning show is your morning show.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Good morning. And thanks for listening to your morning show.
I am Michael DelGiorno. Adam filling in great for Jeffrey today.
Red keeping an eye on the top stories. John Sununu,
no big surprise. He won that primary race in New
Hampshire yesterday. He'll take on the Democrat Chris Pappas. No
victory for the socialist Democrats. And the primary season continues

(17:55):
in New England with Rhode Island voters headed to the
polls today. We do have the RNC midterm convention. John Decker,
our White House correspondent. checked in from Dallas. They'll kick
off two nights of a never before RNC midterm convention,
and they'll compete with the opening kickoff of the NFL
football season tonight. It is a rematch of Super Bowl

(18:16):
60 with the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots.
That's tonight on NBC. And you ever wonder where the
name UB40 came from? You're about to find out. The
original UB40 band member and drummer Jimmy Brown is joining
us from England to discuss their upcoming and unstoppable tour
about this band celebrating 40 years of bringing.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
White guys with a reggae sound.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
We're not all white.

Speaker 11 (18:40):
We're kind of half white and half black. Kind of
is the point of the band really.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, how did you get that sound, though?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
I mean, how did you guys become fascinated with that
unique reggae sound and taking cover songs and making them
completely different?

Speaker 11 (18:58):
Well, it's simply because we lived in an area where
there were a lot of immigrants from Jamaica. And we
were surrounded by them. It was an inner city area.
And that's where they came to in the late 50s.
And the guys in the band were kind of the
first generation black.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
British, really.

Speaker 11 (19:18):
We were at school together in the 60s. And that's
how we got to know each other. And, you know,
that's kind of the mix of the band is kind
of one of the big sort of plus.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
Points of the band.

Speaker 11 (19:32):
We are a multicultural success story in that way. And yeah,
that's because we're so familiar with the music. I mean,
the alternative was either prog rock or glam rock. And
we didn't like any of that. You know, it wasn't...
We were in the city, boys, you know. We wanted
to get dressed up at the weekend and go out
and meet girls. And, you know, that was the kind

(19:53):
of culture we come from. And you're not going to
do that with prog rock or glam rock, you know.
So we were into R & B and reggae, you know,
which was important to us.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
So that's how we got to know it. And I think.

Speaker 11 (20:07):
You kind of have to understand the music and have
some kind of background in it to be able to
play properly. A lot of rock musicians, however good they are,
find it quite difficult to play reggae, and I understand why.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
And then the.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Cover songs that were all great, I mean, Can't Help
Falling in Love, Red Red Wine, I mean, all these things,
but they're completely different in your style. I mean, it
wasn't like a cover. It was like a new creation.
Did you ever hear from Neil or others about your versions?

Speaker 11 (20:37):
Not personally, but apparently when he played Birmingham, my hometown,
which he did a few years back, he did a
sort of cod reggae version of that song. He even
did the rap almost as bad as you just did it.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (20:55):
So he said that he knew that he'd heard some
guys from Birmingham had had done a cover version of
that song, and it was bigger.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
We made it a bigger hit than he ever did.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh, ever, ever. I mean, he.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm sure he's grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, I would honestly say I like your version better,
and I'm a huge Neil Diamond fan.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
UB40.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Do you want to tell them what UB40, how you
got your name?

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, sure.

Speaker 11 (21:23):
Well, we decided we wanted to be in a band,
and various band members had jobs, but they weren't good jobs.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
They were dead-end jobs.

Speaker 11 (21:29):
So we decided we would go on Unemployment benefit and
then just lock ourselves away and learn our instruments. Unemployment
benefit is UB and it's form 40. You had to sign.
That's where we got the name from.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's the unemployment form in Great Britain. And many of
you were at the time. Not anymore. Getting ready to
have your 2026 Unstoppable Tour just for your morning show
audience listeners out there. You'll be coming to Philadelphia, Albuquerque, St. Paul,
San Diego. Anaheim, Las Vegas, Orlando, just to name a
few of our cities. I wish you were coming to Nashville.

(22:05):
Read my producer said, you've got to adjust that and
come to Nashville. At what point did you guys all
look at each other, because you're one of the original members,
and said, oh my gosh, we made it.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
We're huge.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
What did that feel like?

Speaker 10 (22:18):
At first, because we got big really quick.

Speaker 11 (22:24):
We were invited by Chrissy Hynde onto the Pretenders Tour
at the time, which was 1980. And that was a
sold-out tour already. She had a number one single, number
one album. And she came to see the band in
a place called the Rock Garden in London, which is
sort of a toilet of a venue. And we'd only
played about 30 shows, I think, up until that point.

(22:46):
And she said, do you want to come on tour
with us? And we said, yeah, thank you very much, Chrissie.
We'll snap your hand off for that offer. And yeah,
and by the end of that tour, we'd had a
hit record. So it happened really quickly. We weren't really
ready for it. I don't suppose anybody is. I think

(23:07):
for about 10 years we were, like, just trying to
hold on. We were riding the whirlwind and just trying
to hold on because things were just getting bigger and
bigger and bigger. Yeah, I suppose it was about 10
years after we started where, you know, we managed to
let the dust settle a little bit and take stock.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Of where we were. And, you know, we were riding high,
and so it was a beautiful moment, what can I say?

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, well, because, you know, we all dream big, but
that doesn't mean we're prepared for the big life that
comes with it, especially at a young age. You know,
we talked about the uniqueness of the sound, and there
have been some band member changes. You're one of the
original ones. But you guys have kept the chemistry alive.
I was just talking to Tears for Fears last week

(23:53):
and they sound as good or better today than they
did then. How have you guys kept the chemistry and
the longevity alive? That's not easy and not many achieve it.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
Yeah, because, well, there are six original members that go
all the way back to when they were 11 years old.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
We knew each other as children.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
And now that's the basic nucleus of the band. And
there's still four of us still together. And we are,
apart from Brian, who was our saxophone player, is no
longer with us. Ali left, the singer, went to go
do his own thing. But that sort of nucleus of

(24:32):
songwriting and arranging and recording was done by the four
of us that are still left working. So we control
everything when it comes down to that. And that gives
a consistency of sound. And I think right now we've
got a few.
Added family members because our new singer is the percussionist's

(24:56):
nephew and there's another singer who is Robin's son so
we're keeping it in the family but we're bringing a
new generation into the band as well and that gives
us a bit of enthusiasm to keep us going and
they take up some of the songwriting responsibilities.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
So it's right now, the band have never sounded better.

Speaker 13 (25:19):
So maybe, maybe.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Jimmy, we need a reggae version of It's a Family Affair.
Jimmy Brown joining us, one of the original UB40 members, drummer.
The Unstoppable Tour is coming to Philadelphia, Albuquerque, St. Paul,
San Diego, Anaheim, Vegas and Orlando, just among the Your
Morning Show cities. You always brag about America being some
of the best and loudest crowds.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Is that true?

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Yeah, it is true. You know, Americans are loud. You
have to admit it.

Speaker 11 (25:43):
I mean, compared to Europeans, especially English, who are quite reserved,
you know. So, yeah, that's why it's a very satisfying
crowd to play to. And they don't have to be
too drunk to get loud and have fun, you know.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
So it's actually kind of easy, really.

Speaker 11 (26:05):
If you perform well, the American audience will respond well.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
And that's all you.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Can ask for, really. You know, time is such a
funny thing and it goes by so fast. If you
could go back into that room with your original members
that formed UB40 and give yourself one piece of advice,
now with the wisdom that has come from time, what
would it be?

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Well, that's a simple question to answer.

Speaker 11 (26:31):
It would be, carry on what you're doing, son.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
You're doing all right.

Speaker 11 (26:34):
Because we've succeeded, you know.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
So I wouldn't want to change any of that.

Speaker 11 (26:40):
You know, I think we're the luckiest people in the world.
It's sickening how lucky we are, really. And we've been
through a.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Lot of things, but we've always come out the other end.
and we're still doing it.

Speaker 11 (26:52):
So we're still living the dream, you know, and I'm
very grateful for that and wouldn't want to change anything.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
What qualifies a song to be UB40' d? And has there
been one, a big one, in the last 15 years
you'd love to take a crack at?

Speaker 10 (27:09):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we like to write our
own material, and the new album we've got coming out,
which is called Unstoppable, strangely enough, that's pretty much full of.

Speaker 11 (27:23):
Original new material that we bring. So I prefer to
do that to cover versions. But cover versions are easy
because they're already, the chord sequence had already worked out,
the song is already there. You just have to find
a way of expressing it your way, which I think
we do. We redefine tunes when we cover them. We're

(27:44):
just doing a great cover of Shania Twain.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
You're the one. Oh, you're the one.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Still the one.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Still the one.

Speaker 11 (27:51):
Yeah, and that's going to be on the new album,
and we're going to be performing it live. And it
kind of says a lot about where the band are.
You know, here we are after all these years still together.
And there's a double meaning to the words in the song.
So it was kind of an obvious cover version to do.
And I hope people enjoy it, but we enjoy playing it.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
I'm just trying to figure out why we look the
same age. And I was in college, and you were
playing on stage.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
God bless you.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Well, you know, I've got the white beard.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
You've got a little bit of the white to give
it away. Well, the closest you're getting to me is Atlanta,
and I'm telling you, Red and I are going to
be there. So if you see a loud Italian, that's me.
You be 40. 40, I don't know. Well, actually, you
guys started in the 70s, so you're actually even younger.
Longer than that, right?

Speaker 11 (28:38):
We're 150 years old.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
No, not 150, but 40th anniversary on the road. It's
the 2026 Unstoppable Tour coming to a city near you.
And I mentioned some of the cities in the New
York Morning Show family. Check and see how they're. You
may have to go somewhere kind of close to you
like I am shooting from Nashville to Atlanta, but I
can't wait to hear you guys in concert. Jimmy Brown,
thank you so much for 40 plus years of soundtrack

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to our life and great music. And I wish you
nothing but the best.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Torno.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Results are in following New Hampshire's primary. Mark Mayfield has
the results.

Speaker 12 (29:21):
Congressman Chris Pappas is the winner of the Democratic Senate primary.
He defeated progressive Karishma Manzoor. Sununu and Pappas will face
off in the midterms.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
A coalition of 9-11 family members don't want New York
City's Mayor Zoran Mamdani to attend the remembrance ceremony.

Speaker 14 (29:36):
The controversy surrounds Mamdani's appointment of Ramzan. Qasem as the
city's chief legal counsel. Qasem previously represented a convicted al-Qaeda
member who was the brother-in-law of one of the 9-11 hijackers.
During a 9-11 signing last week, the mayor reportedly gave
a ceremonial pen to Qasem, which has drawn considerable backlash.

(29:57):
The mayor's attendance has already become a contentious issue. An
online petition circulating has now garnered more than 100,000 signatures
calling on Mamdani to skip Friday's ceremony.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
In New York, I'm Liz Warner.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
The RNC Midterm Convention is about to get underway for
two nights in Dallas. Scott Kimbler has more.

Speaker 15 (30:14):
President Trump will speak both nights with Vice President Vance
speaking Thursday as well. Other speakers include Senators Ted Cruz
and Rick Scott, along with many others seeking higher offices.
There is no party business to conduct, as in a
traditional convention. RNC website says the convention is a way
of reflecting the contrast between Republican and Democrat candidates leading

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into the November midterms.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
I'm Scott Kimballer. So do you want to watch the
Republicans talk to their base or last year's Super Bowl
matchup take each other on to kick off the NFL season?

Speaker 12 (30:47):
The Seahawks waged their championship banner against the runner-up Patriots
from Seattle. The Hawks trounced the Pats 29-13 in a
lopsided victory to hoist the Lombardi Trophy last season. Week
one continues on Thursday when the Rams and the 49ers
duel from Australia.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Well, you didn't think they were going
to forget, did you? Apple preparing to roll out all
their new devices today.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
The event is called Surprise and Shine. It's expected to
feature the long-awaited debut of a foldable iPhone. It will
also be a big moment for Apple's brand-new CEO, John Ternes,
with this being his first launch ever after taking over
for Tim Cook. I'm Tammy Trujillo.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Meanwhile, how happy are you and your neighbors compared to
the rest of the country? Or maybe the better question.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Is, what's a neighbor?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
A new poll is out comparing happiness across the country.
National correspondent Rory O'Neill is here to run down just
how happy your neighbors are compared to other states. Good morning, Rory.

Speaker 13 (31:39):
Hey there, Michael.

Speaker 11 (31:40):
Good morning.

Speaker 13 (31:41):
The folks over at WalletHub compiling this list and putting
the data into three different categories. They looked at the
emotional and physical well-being of the state, the work environment
of that state, and the community and environment of that
state as well. And crunching all the numbers, I think
number one came out pretty obvious as the happiest state.

(32:03):
Maybe not today or this week, but it's Hawaii coming
in at number one. But number two is the real
head scratcher, jaw dropper, or maybe they're just happy they're
not in New York. It's New Jersey that's number two,
followed by Utah, Idaho, and Maryland at number five.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Three out of the five blue states. Boy, America has changed.
You know, we talk about what is a neighbor anyway?
Do we even know our neighbor? It's just another clever
way of saying what are the happiest states? What does
the neighbor have to do with it?

Speaker 13 (32:37):
Why don't we pose that to the individual who wrote
that line for us?

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Because it really wasn't about neighbors as much as happy estates.
And what defines happiness and happiness, of course, comes from happenstance.

Speaker 13 (32:48):
He throws me under the bus all the time.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I didn't know. I thought there might be a twist
with neighbors. Do you know your neighbors?

Speaker 11 (32:59):
I do.

Speaker 13 (33:00):
I've actually had them. Same one on one side for
several years now. The other ones are relatively new. Yeah,
I don't know the neighbors to one side. I do
know the older couple next door, though they never come outside.
I am friends with two doors down and four doors down.
And I used to be friends with across the street,
but they have since moved. But yeah, we don't know
our neighbors as much anymore. And that was a big

(33:21):
part of community and happiness at one point. I thought
it might have been interesting. I have a church across
the street that has a little daycare there. And boy,
they are the worst.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
That daycare is the worst neighbor.

Speaker 13 (33:35):
Screaming kids all day.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
We got a minute to go. You got the NFL
kicking off the season. We talked about the billions and
billions of dollars. And by the way, if you missed that,
go listen to the podcast because these other sites where
you bet political things and, you know, Kashi and others
like that. Yeah, the prediction market is really a way
of getting around 21-year-old betting ages and states that don't

(33:58):
allow it because what was it, 80%? of their betting
is sports as well?

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Right.

Speaker 13 (34:03):
On the prediction markets, about 80% of their business comes
in sports-related gambling.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
And you've got states like Utah that don't want this
stuff to be happening.

Speaker 13 (34:13):
But the websites, these prediction sites sort of skirt around
the rules.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're still waiting for some.

Speaker 13 (34:19):
Courts to weigh in here and perhaps rein in these businesses.
But they are billion-dollar businesses when it comes to these bets.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Sorry, predictions. Will one of the predictions be what will
people watch, the NFL kickoff or the kickoff of the
Republican midterm convention? Because I think I know where I
put my money, but I don't gamble. All right, Rory,
I'll have more great reporting for you on tomorrow. Well,
that's going to do it for today. Adam, thank you.
You did a terrific job. And I know you're working
in the middle of the night in Los Angeles. One

(34:47):
chance to live this Wednesday, September the 9th, 2026. It's
never going to happen again. Make it count. Make a
difference in someone's life. Cherish your own. We'll see you
again tomorrow for the very next Your Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael DelGiorno.