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Speaker 4 (00:37):
I always agreed with JFK.
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Too often we enjoyed the comfort of opinion without the
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
We like to combine them both.
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That's what makes it a new way of talk, because,
after all, we're all in this together.
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It's seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Welcome to Is this where we all do our cheesy,
spooky Halloween voices. It's Halloween Friday, October the thirty first,
twenty twenty five. I finally watched the movie Halloween last night.
I've never seen any of the halloweens. Andrea forced me
to sit down and watch the original with Jamie Lee Curtis.
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I thought it stunk, and you guys loved it right
and Rotten Tomato says it's the best Halloween of the
franchise ever, and I was like, Eh, well, dated, I'm
into the candy.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
That's it. That's all I want is the candy.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, when else do I ever find heath bars
in my house? All right, welcome to Halloween. It's government shutdown.
It's not only the thirty first day of October. It
is the thirty first day of the government shutdown, and
things are getting kind of heated, as millions of low
income Americans could soon be without their food assistance. You
have the President urging Republicans to end the filibuster. May
(01:56):
I speak on behalf of red when I say, which
is what he thinks. They've been trying to get the
Republicans to do all along, and now that way they've
set the trap, and now the President's urging them to
walk into it. Meanwhile, Delta and United calling on Congress
to immediately end the shutdown. The Democrats they are fighting
(02:17):
now with the federal workers unions they're wanting I mean,
you have pressure from every side to end this you're
heading after Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas holiday travel. That would be
an absolute disaster. And that would be after missing about
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four paychecks in the height of that travel, four to
eight paychecks. This just can't continue, Kennet. Why would the
Democrats want to allow this to continue? Which, by the
way gets me to a later story.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
We're going to have.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
American stim view of both parties heading into the midterms
is in the most significant well, I shouldn't say that,
read I found the most significant point fifty seven percent.
I think both parties are too extreme. How many times
have we talked about this is nineteen sixty eight, right
down to the assassination attempts, the violence, the wars the
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far right is fighting now over Israel as if a
world war as they feared, did start with our attacks
on Iran and it didn't. As if we're sending troops
to Armageddon to fight, I mean, which isn't happening. We're
heading towards peace. We just got every now and then
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some Hamas people to shoot. But but now there's this
anti Semitic, anti Israel movement within the far right of
the Republican Party. It's nineteen sixty eight. How do we
get to nineteen sixty nine. Richard Nixon, yes before Watergate,
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made the choice after Bobby Kennedy's death, to talk to
the sensible center of America. You're gonna hear a story
later on, and Gavin Newsom is basically praising Joe Biden
(04:27):
is one of the most effective presidents in history, Joe Biden,
who we believe wasn't even president. Imagine Gavin Newsom wants
to choose the lane of Joe Biden. The lane to
choose is the Sensible Center, and this rass me. Some
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poll lays that out for you. At least fifty people
are dead across the Caribbean after being battered by Hurricane Melissa.
The UN and China are finalizing Remember yesterday we talked
about the big mystery we knew going into the talks
in South Korea that we felt like we had the
TikTok sale deal done, just needed to be finalized by
the two leaders. We felt like the fentanyl issues ingredients
(05:15):
mainly had all been worked out, that a fentanyl deal
could be overcome, and in the end we get a
one year temporary tariff deal with China, one that will
please the farmers but probably not have accomplished a whole
lot other than that, and then nobody mentioned anything about
the TikTok deal. Well, now the US and China apparently
(05:38):
our finalizing agreement on TikTok that will keep the app
available and shift the ownership. We'll see as more details
come forward. Lamar Jackson was back two hundred yards four
touchdowns and if Lamar is back, the Ravens are back
twenty eight to six easy over the Dolphins. Last night
and a little bit later on we will feature a
pre tennis story on superstition.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Baseball is probably more than any.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Other sport, the most superstitious people that won't when they're
coming out and off the field touch the first or
third baseline. Every time I was at bat, I had
the same routine. I did the same thing entering the
batter's box. The rally cap made famous by the game
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of baseball. There are a lot of superstitions. Adam, I'm
I'm shocked to say, is wearing the same underwear today
he wore three games ago when the Dodgers won.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And fortunately we're in different studios. No, did you.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They under Yeah, the shimmel This will go on and
watched but anyway, Bretennis has all the superstitious things you
Dodger fans can do so that they can survive Game
six tonight in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They're up three games to two, the Blue Jays and
the Dodgers. So we have that preview from coming up
for you. King Charles the Third stripped Prince Andrew of
his titles. But wait, it gets more awkward than that.
Uh and sorry, because you're evicted. What's he doing? Did
he just do like an Oscar Matt and just shows
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up with his pots and pans. Yeah, he's he's checking
into the Motel six.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
In London. His furniture was thrown outside the mansion. I mean,
you lose your title and you get evicted, that's a
bad day. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Did anything bad happen to you yesterday like that? That's
a bad day if you're a prince. The new ratings
are fascinating. Just to show you, I often make the
joke that I really do believe that my father and
Red's mother at some point hooked up on the East Coast,
because since the day we met online. Bright, you got admit,
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it's it's uncanny the way we think. We don't just
think the same things. We have the exact same thoughts
at the exact same time. Sometimes it even comes out
at the same time. Now neither of us can sing,
but I would guess, like the Begi's we'd have perfect harmony.
So as I'm looking at the ratings, I'm thinking, you
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know what would be fascinating, Compare this to Walter Cronkite.
And then I look down two lines later and he's
got Walter Cronkite's ratings. And I thought, I'm calling my
dad the minute I get off the air. And I
don't know what happened to you, because your mother must
have been good looking. My father only dated good looking people,
(08:39):
all right. So when we go inside these numbers, this
is fascinating. There are three ways to look at this.
I think you'll find interest.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
One.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, who's doing best on Fox? And we're gonna have
a spotlight interview with Brett Baer from Fox News coming
up in twenty minutes. Sean does the worst, but right
before Sean is Brett Baer. The actual news hour does
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the worst on Fox, and Fox does the best on cable.
Fox even beats the networks. Now, so Fox represents sixty
three percent of all cable news viewings.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's a big victory.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And inside the victory, the Five is far and away
the big show. Now, keep in mind, the Five happens
at five Eastern, that's four Central, that's two o'clock Adam time.
That's what I refer to it now Adam, Now that
we're bonding, that isn't the available audience of primetime. I mean, really,
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when you look at this, the story is the five?
How did it get high? Three millions in that time slot?
Jesse Waters comes in second, Gutfeld Late Night comes in third.
I really expected that to be first or second because
of the way, just like network news has failed, late
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night talk on the three main networks has failed. But
he's climbing towards that. Special Report was fourth. Hannity was
last special report. I found interesting because that's the only
news hour. In other words, nobody likes news. They like
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news entertainment or news conversation, not an actual straight news.
Because that's one of the things Brett Bear's doing, and
a lot of people on the right are not liking
him because of it. He's trying to be the first
example of how we can go back to just sticking
to the facts and news. Because here's the thing we
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talk about the death of journalism. If you returned the
first there'll never be another Walter Cronkite. So I don't
know how you're gonna launch it that way. But if
you went back to doing the news like Walter did,
I don't know that anybody wants it. This is an
internet add short attention span audience. People don't want to
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look Nobody hungers and thirsts for the truth anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
That's why you have so many lies.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That isn't the ultimate standard that must be met, and
nobody wants just the facts. Enrage me, scare me, makee
me hate somebody. I mean, I thought the numbers inside
the numbers were actually more fascinating. Now the numbers are fascinating.
How dead are the networks? Fox had three point two
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eight million viewers. ABC Nightly News. I can't remember the
guy's name, something Nerror. He looks like I don't know,
he looks like a weird Calvin Klein model. He's at
three point two five million, CBS is at three point
zero nine million, tied with NBC at three point zero
nine million. I mean, even my younger years, when when
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ham broke jaw, when Tom. Was it a me di
Aver time? Other time I stood next to Tom Brohaw.
I was in law in New York City and I
took the NBC tour. I had some time off during
the day. It was great. I got to walk around
the Saturday Night Live set. I was walking around the
Today set and I was crossing over. I was going
over to see Howard Stern and I got stopped in
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the hallway. Something was going on and they made us
all stand while people were passing, and I looked out,
I don't know, five feet away from me, and I
saw the most gorgeous pair of slacks. I know that
sounds weird to say, but I could just tell they
were very expensive, like nothing I've ever worn. And as
my eyes went up from the slack, that was Tom
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Brokehaw wearing a beautiful bird flag. But I remember those
Dan Rabbit, Tom Broke a Walter Kronkite. You go back
to Reynolds and these people were bigger than life. Do
you know what Walter Cronkite's audience size was in the
late seventies, fifty three million. Fifty three million people watched
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Walter Cronkite tell you what was happening in America, in
the world, it's.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Down to three million.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, every CEO of CBS from nineteen eighty till
today ought to be in a room and shot like
the final scene in Valkyrie.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I mean, what did you do to your network?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Fifty three million down to three I remember a long
time ago. Ted Turner gets a crazy idea of twenty
four hour news, news whenever you wanted, what a joke, right,
what next?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Weather whenever you want it, Sports whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, And of course CNN is pirsontally nowhere to be found,
and the major networks are all losing to Fox, a
cable news network, and inside the numbers, they don't even
want the news.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
This is your morning show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm Michael del Jornal. Can't have your morning show without
your voice. Don't forget to use the talkback button or
email Michael di at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, if you're
just waking up the government shutdown, we'll continue until at
least Monday.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Mark Mayfield has our top story.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
The Senator journed on Thursday and won't meet again until
after the weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
There continues to be no clear end in sight.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
As millions of low income Americans will soon feel the
pain of the shutdown. The food stamp benefit known as
SNAP is set to expire on Saturday for roughly.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Forty two million people in the US.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Democrats so the Trump administration can use contingency funds to
continue the benefits, but the USDA, he says the move is.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Not allowed by law.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Republicans and Democrats approved the House plan to temporarily reopen
the government before there's any negotiations on healthcare.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I'm Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
At least fifty people are dead across the Caribbean after
being battered by Hurricane Melissa. We'll have more on that
with Rory O'Neal next hour. The US and China are
finalizing an agreement on a TikTok deal. We didn't have
much mention of it yesterday, but apparently the progress is
real and this will be wonderful news for my daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Morgan. Wallen will return.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
To stadiums across the country next summer. The Superstar will
kick off is still the Problem Tour, with two nights
at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on April tenth and eleventh.
The twenty three day tour will also include two nights
at Michigan Stadium that would be your largest football stadium
in the country and Arbor and pre ticket sales go
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on sale November fifth, Brooks and Dunn opening for him
on one night. And in sports, Lamar Jackson was back
and so.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Were the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Four touchdowns for Lamar, four touchdowns for the Ravens, twenty
eight six over the Dolphins, thunder now six and zero
easy win one twenty seven to one, Await over the
Wizard Warriors won twenty one to ten over the Bucks.
World Series Game six tonight, seven o'clock on Fox. If
Toronto wins their World Series champions just bigeto.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Rob Schneider sixty two years old.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Today, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice fifty eight and the coach,
Nick Saban is seventy four. It's your birthday. Happy birthday,
and thank you so much for waking up with your
morning show. Brett Bear with our spotlight Interview of the
week is next on.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Your morning show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thirty five minutes after the hour, Early Bird gets the worm,
Lazy squirreled missus a nut. Never mind about the second
mouse that gets the cheese. It's thirty five minutes after
the hour, and it's Halloween, Friday, October, the thirty first
day thirty one of the government shutdown. At least fifty
people are dead across the Caribbean. After her came, Melissa
plowed through the many islands. And it looks like US
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and China have finalized an agreement on a TikTok deal
to keep the app available. That's good news for some.
I've never been on it. I'm still getting over watching
Halloween the first movie for the first time. All right,
long time ago. We got the idea that you know,
during the week, we visit with a lot of people
in the Great Interviews, and you know, obviously you can
listen to the show live and make it a part
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of your morning routine, or you may and you may
be daily someone who listens to the podcast version. Well,
if you listen to the podcast version, it really doesn't
matter what day or what hour you hear the whole thing.
But for those that listen in terms of the morning routine,
most of these guests happen in the third hour, and
you may not be available in the third hour. So
we've got the idea to do a spotlight interview of
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the week, take one of them that we thought was
the most bull and interesting and share it with the
early Premium card listening class in the first hour. So
today Fox News anchor Brett Behar he's out with a
new book on President Theodore Roosevelt, not Fdr Theodore Roosevelt
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inside joke for Adam. He's also got rumors that, you know,
CBS is trying to lure him away to come to CBS.
We had a lot to catch up with and it
was it was fun to visit with Brett Baer this week.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Here's how it started. Hey, Michael, your day isn't busy enough,
is it?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
There you go, I'm out west right now, so it's
a little early.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh you're really sleepy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well, you've done Ike, You've done Reagan, You've done Fdr.
Grant Washington, and now Teddy Roosevelt. Why tech Well listen.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
It was he's a consequential figure in history. He kind
of jumps off the pave so it's are so rich
and uh, you know he's he's obviously on Mount Rushmore
and is very significant. But each one of these book
that look kind of at a soda straw moment that
maybe history overlooked or wasn't covered at the time that well,
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or didn't get talked about. And one of the things
with Teddy Roosevelt is that his legacy, he wanted his
legacy to be that he put America on the map
in the world, that he was a global leader, that
America was leaning forward in the world. And he does
that by reaching out to two warring nations Russia and
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Japan fighting over a territorial dispute it's evolving into what
could become a world war. And he telegrams, writes letters
to the leaders of those countries, gets messages to them
and says, I will host a peace negotiation in the US.
And he brings the delegations from Russia and Japan to Portsmouth,
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New Hampshire, and he sets up the logistics, and he
sets up all of the peace treaty negotiations, and he.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Shuttles back and forth.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
He becomes the guy the crucial element to getting a
piece deal between Russia and Japan.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He does it, and he gets the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So you do realize this kind of sounds like somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Exactly and this is so crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Every time I write one of these books, it seems
like it clicks into modern day one way or another.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You know, it's funny these journeys.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
My friend David Sonati just finished a book on John
Quincy Adams, who was always one of my favorite presidents
the Sun and maybe one of the most accomplished American
servants ever. And it's amazing these life lessons they're out
there in this And I can't imagine the amount of
research you do. But in all of this research, what
surprised you the most that you discovered that maybe none
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of us even noticed.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah, well, first of all, he's a super complex guy.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
He's not.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
You know, all these people are humans, so they have
ups and downs, they have flaws, they have great things.
One of the things that surprised me is how much
he valued family, how much that he took time out
of every day to play with his kids, even inside
the White House. He at four o'clock, his kids would
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come run into the office and say, Paul, it's time,
and he would say goodbye to whoever he was with,
and he would go run the halls of the White
House with roller skates and bicycles, and there were animals
inside him.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It was like a fun playhouse at times.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Edith, his wife at the time, said that he was
the seventh child, had six kids, and so I was
surprised at how much he valued family.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And that was something that really came out through the research.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ike Reagan, Fdr Grant Washington, where's Teddy fitting and all
of this.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
You know, he's a different character, but definitely consequential and
makes the difference. You know, he gives this speech after
he leaves office in Paris called the Citizenship in the
Republic Speech, which eventually becomes the Man in the Arena speech,
and it is basically, get in the game, be a doer,
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do something.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Don't be the critic on the sidelines.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
That's you know, throwing grenades at the guy who's doing something.
Be the person who's down in the mud. And he
was one of those people. And if you look at
his life along the way, he's just got so many
different chapters of his life, but they add up to
something that's really consequential.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hands down my favorite at Fox Brett Baer his new
book on Teddy Roosevelt. Research can only take it so far,
especially when we go this far back in time. Any
unresolved questions you have for Teddy. If you could ask
him a question that could complete the book for you,
what would it have been?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, that's such a good question.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
You know, he was a troublemaker in each position that
he went into, and the establishment hated him, and he
was always stirring the pot and pushing the envelope, And yeah,
I guess I would ask would he change anything about that?
In some ways, to be more diplomatic, to get along,
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to be along to, you know, somehow, you know, work
through some of that. In each job he is sort
of promoted out of it because they're trying to get
him out of there. And in the ultimate is when
he's New York governor and the establishment says, this guy
is too much. We have to put him someplace where
he doesn't do any harm. And where do they put him?
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Vice President? And you know, at the time, it was
a very ceremonial position, and McKinley's friends say.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
To him, why are you putting this crazy man here?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Whatever you do, your number one job is to not
die in the next four years so that he's not president.
And six months later, assassin takes McKinley out in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So this disruptive force sounds very much like Trump. I
sense that Donald Trump is a big JFK guy. I
think he's probably a big Washington guy. Are you suspicious?
Maybe he knows a little bit more about Teddy Roosevelt
than he's let on.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
I do think so there are similarities. You know, Teddy
Roosevelt is called a human cyclone. I've been through days
where I've ripped up my rundown of my newscast six
times because of the human cyclone of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
So we all have.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Yeah, I think I think he knows a little bit more.
He was a fan of McKinley, though he was you know,
he re established the Mount McKinley. He McKinley liked tariffs,
and you know, he points to McKinley, But he looks
at Teddy Roosevelt as a character and larger than life,
and that's what he is.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Right Bear.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
What a thrill it is to visit with you. When
you study all these early presidents and you compare them,
not just to today's presidents, but today's America. It's almost
an obsession on the presidency and an over focus on
the presidency, and presidents love to stretch their powers.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
We're different, the presidency's different. Are we worse? Well, you know,
that's a great question.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I think that the founders believed that it was crucial
to have that balance. You know, the last book I
wrote was to Rescue the Constitution about George Washington, and
focused in the so to Straw moment on the Constitutional
Convention and how much George Washington meant to that we
as a country would not get off the starting line
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without George Washington and what he did inside that room.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
But they really cared about the balance. I think the balance.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Has gotten, you know, arguably more focused on the presidency
and the executive And one of the people who did
that was Teddy Roosevelt. And from George Washington to Kinley,
so president one through twenty five collectively all of them
signed twelve hundred executive orders. Teddy Roosevelt signed thirteen hundred
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executive orders in his presidency.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Now you talk about.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Expanding the executives, A lot of that had to do
with conservation and protecting specific lands and national parks and
forests and all that he believed in, which really to
this day is a huge, huge deal for America that
we saved all that land, but still you talk about
expanding the executive Teddy Roosevelt?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Bret Bear of Fox News, author of To Rescue the
American Spirit, Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
All right, well, it's going to beg.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The question they should consume this one and if they
haven't read your Special heartbook, read that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
But what could be next?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Yeah, I'm not sure of the who I'm going to
dig in. I'm going to look for another soda straw
moment that's overlooked in history.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I do know. I'll tell you, but I haven't put
it out there yet.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Come out soon that I'm going to do a compilation
book with all six presidents and interviews with consequential people
around America.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Ahead of the two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
So it's called the Case for America, making sort of
like a case for the country before a jury of
your peers, the readers, and so the Case for America
will come out and you see twenty six.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Do you see why I love you? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look, this is the tugger War of twenty twenty six.
America is going to turn two hundred and fifty. The
left does not want you reading the Declaration of Independence,
exploring any of the intent of the Declaration of Independence.
I think the right is going to fight for that,
and then there just can't be enough emphasis on our
intent on nonfounding fathers on this document on our two
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hundred and fiftieth birthday, and you're right there fighting the
battle for it.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Well, I mean, listen, I really think that it's important,
and I really think that in each one of these presidents,
each one was really striving to reach across the aisle.
They all have some element of common ground, and I
have that thing on my show, common Ground, and I
bring left and right together talking about what they're working
on as opposed to what they're fighting about. And a
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head of the two fiftieth, I just don't think there's
anything more important than realizing that there is something bigger
than all of us in our party, in our ideology,
that the country itself is worth fighting for.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I said, you're my favorite. I trust you. I trust
you when my television's on. I don't trust many others.
I am not going to insult you, although listeners are
gonna probably want me to ask you a question because
of all the rumors that are flying. I'm just gonna
leave it at wherever you go, I will go with you,
and I will trust you even if you don't go.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
So well, you're nice to phrase it that way. Yeah,
there's a lot of noise out there.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I'll just live it this way. I have a long
term contract, so it's all noise. Really. Oh good, don't
go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's all right, Hey, listen. The books are terrific. But
if you've never Dad's out there. If you've never read
Special Heart, the Journey of Faith, Hope, courage, and love,
the personal story of a father and a family and
a son. And it has a happy ending too, because
life's all about the journey right at their destination. That
(29:20):
that's where our character is really formed. I loved your
Heart in that, and I want everyone to read that.
It was It's a it's a pretty special book. It's
just a pleasure to meet you. I love your books.
I love you most on Fox.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Thank you very much. Really enjoyed the Sooner. I really
enjoyed it too.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I love that line because I know a lot of
you are suspicious of him that he does this feature.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You know everything's about pick a.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Side, but I think his intent is to get Republicans
and Democrats together on TV and discuss what they're working on,
not what they're fighting about. And when he said that,
in addition to soda straw moment seventeen times times, which
I'm trying to work so to Straw moment into mind nacular,
(30:05):
it's actually a great expression. I always think a steak
and shake, but you know that's me. Give me a
burger and a shake. So to Straw's like when you
take a straw and put it over your eye and
try to understand what you're seeing when you're only seeing
a little bit, and narratives dry of what we see now,
so it's missing the big picture by focusing on so
(30:27):
to Straw moments as they happen. It's actually a great expression.
I wouldn't use it three times in an interview, but
I'm not being critical, but I love that when you
think about how often you witness or see members of
Congress working on something versus fighting about something, it'll really
(30:47):
be an eye opener for you because that's how they
fight great and that's why we've become so dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Otono.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Prince Andrew not only stripped of his title by the King.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
But also evicted.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Buckingham Palace made the announcement on Thursday. The Palace also
said that a formal notice had been served for Andrew
to leave his home at the Royal Lodge close to
Windsor Castle. The change has come as the Royal faces
growing pressure over his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
While the government shutdown is now in its thirty first
day and it will continue at least until Monday, the.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Senator adjourned on Thursday and won't meet again until after
the weekend, there continues to be no clear end in sight,
as millions of lower income Americans will soon feel the
pain of the ongoing shutdown. The food stamp benefit program,
known as SNAP, is set to expire on Saturday for
roughly forty two million people. A federal judge in Massachusetts
on Thursday took up a lawsuit brought by twenty five
(31:52):
states to compel the Trump administration to release contingency funds
to keep SNAP funded. There's been no ruling yet. I'm
Tammy Truchillo.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The candidates to be in the New York City's mayor's
race are making their last appeals as early voting continues.
Nataliemcglori has more from New York.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
New Yorkers say they've just about had it with hearing
from candidates who have been campaigning this week and a
lasted che effort to pick up support from undecided voters.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
I'm got any touch messes. I got email, and I
shall delete it. Don't pick off.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Too much emails asking for donations, asking for my preferential candidate,
stuff like that. But they just overwhelmed my text messages.
You know, they come knocking your door.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Two recently released polls show Mom Donnie continues to lead
the pack, with Cuomo lagging by ten percentage points and
Curtius Lee while maintaining support in the teens.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I'm Natalie mcgleiori SOMEBC News Radio. Sorry. Natalie.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
South Park is releasing a new episode tonight on Halloween.
As Michael Caster reports, it's not likely they're going to
be loving it at the White House are Halloween night?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
I am speaking to the entity in this House.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
It takes on President Trump's demolition of part of the
White House to build a massive ballroom titled The Woman
in the Hat. The show is the second episode of
the new season twenty eight of the long running animated
hitter so far. It'll hit Comedy Central at ten pm Friday,
instead of the show's usual Wednesday night time slot.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
All right, there's no question Adam wants the Dodgers to
win tonight, but he will not wear the same underwear
four days in a row. You know, baseball is wildly
superstitious as a sport, and the Dodgers could use a
little extra mojo today. Here's bre tennis with some help
for Adam and Dodger fans.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
Players have been known to sleep with baseball bats for
lock where socks repeatedly, and avoid walking on the foul
line when taking the field, all to gain and edge
to beat the competition. The World Series continues today. The
Toronto Blue Jays lead the series three to two in
a best of seven. So the Dodgers could use your
help today. Where that unwashed jersey sit in the same
spot for viewing blue candles and do anything else that
(34:02):
will help the boys in blue. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Game six tonight, Fox at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
All right, Well, Lamar Jackson was back last night, two
hundred yards passing four touchdowns, a lot of pushtushing going on.
So Lamar was back and so were the Ravens twenty
eight to six on Thursday Night football over the Dolphins
in Miami. On the Ice Red Wings with a shootout
win four to three over the Kings, Blues lost four
to three in a shootout with the Canucks, Sabers lost
(34:29):
in overtime four to three to the Bruins, Lightning one
two to one in overtime over the Stars, and only
the Preads were able to get beat up in regulation,
losing four to one to the Flyers in Philadelphia on
the Heartwood Thunder up still six and oh the champs
are undefeated, winning one twenty seven, one oh eight last night.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
All right, when we come back roory O'Neil, We're all
in this. This is your Morning Show with Michael del Jo.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enjoy two three, starting your morning off right.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding. Well,
because we're in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael gil Chorno.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I always agreed with JFK.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Too often we enjoyed the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We like to combine them both.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's what makes it a new way of talk, because,
after all, we're all in this together.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
It's seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Welcome to Is this where we all do our cheesy,
spooky Halloween voices. It's Halloween Friday, October the thirty first,
twenty twenty five. I finally watched the movie Halloween last night.
I've never seen any of the halloweens. Andrea forced me
to sit down and watch the original with Jamie Lee Curtis.
(01:18):
I thought it stunk, and you guys loved it right
and Rotten Tomato says it's the best Halloween of the
franchise ever, and I was like, Eh, well, dated, I'm
into the candy.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
That's it. That's all I want is the candy.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, when else do I ever find heath bars
in my house? All right, welcome to Halloween. It's government shutdown.
It's not only the thirty first day of October. It
is the thirty first day of the government shutdown, and
things are getting kind of heated, as millions of low
income Americans could soon be without their food assistance. You
have the President urging Republicans to end the filibuster. May
(01:56):
I speak on behalf of red when I say, which
is what he thinks. They've been trying to get the
Republicans to do all along, and now that way they've
set the trap, and now the President's urging them to
walk into it. Meanwhile, Delta and United calling on Congress
to immediately end the shutdown. The Democrats they are fighting
(02:17):
now with the federal workers unions they're wanting I mean,
you have pressure from every side to end this you're
heading after Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas holiday travel. That would be
an absolute disaster. And that would be after missing about
(02:39):
four paychecks in the height of that travel, four to
eight paychecks. This just can't continue, Kennet. Why would the
Democrats want to allow this to continue? Which, by the
way gets me to a later story.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
We're going to have.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
American stim view of both parties heading into the midterms
is in the most significant well, I shouldn't say that,
read I found the most significant point fifty seven percent.
I think both parties are too extreme. How many times
have we talked about this is nineteen sixty eight, right
down to the assassination attempts, the violence, the wars the
(03:22):
far right is fighting now over Israel as if a
world war as they feared, did start with our attacks
on Iran and it didn't. As if we're sending troops
to Armageddon to fight, I mean, which isn't happening. We're
heading towards peace. We just got every now and then
(03:42):
some Hamas people to shoot. But but now there's this
anti Semitic, anti Israel movement within the far right of
the Republican Party. It's nineteen sixty eight. How do we
get to nineteen sixty nine. Richard Nixon, yes before Watergate,
(04:06):
made the choice after Bobby Kennedy's death, to talk to
the sensible center of America. You're gonna hear a story
later on, and Gavin Newsom is basically praising Joe Biden
(04:27):
is one of the most effective presidents in history, Joe Biden,
who we believe wasn't even president. Imagine Gavin Newsom wants
to choose the lane of Joe Biden. The lane to
choose is the Sensible Center, and this rass me. Some
(04:53):
poll lays that out for you. At least fifty people
are dead across the Caribbean after being battered by Hurricane Melissa.
The UN and China are finalizing Remember yesterday we talked
about the big mystery we knew going into the talks
in South Korea that we felt like we had the
TikTok sale deal done, just needed to be finalized by
the two leaders. We felt like the fentanyl issues ingredients
(05:15):
mainly had all been worked out, that a fentanyl deal
could be overcome, and in the end we get a
one year temporary tariff deal with China, one that will
please the farmers but probably not have accomplished a whole
lot other than that, and then nobody mentioned anything about
the TikTok deal. Well, now the US and China apparently
(05:38):
our finalizing agreement on TikTok that will keep the app
available and shift the ownership. We'll see as more details
come forward. Lamar Jackson was back two hundred yards four
touchdowns and if Lamar is back, the Ravens are back
twenty eight to six easy over the Dolphins. Last night
and a little bit later on we will feature a
pre tennis story on superstition.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Baseball is probably more than any.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Other sport, the most superstitious people that won't when they're
coming out and off the field touch the first or
third baseline. Every time I was at bat, I had
the same routine. I did the same thing entering the
batter's box. The rally cap made famous by the game
(06:21):
of baseball. There are a lot of superstitions. Adam, I'm
I'm shocked to say, is wearing the same underwear today
he wore three games ago when the Dodgers won.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And fortunately we're in different studios. No, did you.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They under Yeah, the shimmel This will go on and
watched but anyway, Bretennis has all the superstitious things you
Dodger fans can do so that they can survive Game
six tonight in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They're up three games to two, the Blue Jays and
the Dodgers. So we have that preview from coming up
for you. King Charles the Third stripped Prince Andrew of
his titles. But wait, it gets more awkward than that.
Uh and sorry, because you're evicted. What's he doing? Did
he just do like an Oscar Matt and just shows
(07:15):
up with his pots and pans. Yeah, he's he's checking
into the Motel six.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
In London. His furniture was thrown outside the mansion. I mean,
you lose your title and you get evicted, that's a
bad day. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Did anything bad happen to you yesterday like that? That's
a bad day if you're a prince. The new ratings
are fascinating. Just to show you, I often make the
joke that I really do believe that my father and
Red's mother at some point hooked up on the East Coast,
because since the day we met online. Bright, you got admit,
(07:55):
it's it's uncanny the way we think. We don't just
think the same things. We have the exact same thoughts
at the exact same time. Sometimes it even comes out
at the same time. Now neither of us can sing,
but I would guess, like the Begi's we'd have perfect harmony.
So as I'm looking at the ratings, I'm thinking, you
(08:16):
know what would be fascinating, Compare this to Walter Cronkite.
And then I look down two lines later and he's
got Walter Cronkite's ratings. And I thought, I'm calling my
dad the minute I get off the air. And I
don't know what happened to you, because your mother must
have been good looking. My father only dated good looking people,
(08:39):
all right. So when we go inside these numbers, this
is fascinating. There are three ways to look at this.
I think you'll find interest.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
One.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, who's doing best on Fox? And we're gonna have
a spotlight interview with Brett Baer from Fox News coming
up in twenty minutes. Sean does the worst, but right
before Sean is Brett Baer. The actual news hour does
(09:09):
the worst on Fox, and Fox does the best on cable.
Fox even beats the networks. Now, so Fox represents sixty
three percent of all cable news viewings.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's a big victory.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And inside the victory, the Five is far and away
the big show. Now, keep in mind, the Five happens
at five Eastern, that's four Central, that's two o'clock Adam time.
That's what I refer to it now Adam, Now that
we're bonding, that isn't the available audience of primetime. I mean, really,
(09:49):
when you look at this, the story is the five?
How did it get high? Three millions in that time slot?
Jesse Waters comes in second, Gutfeld Late Night comes in third.
I really expected that to be first or second because
of the way, just like network news has failed, late
(10:12):
night talk on the three main networks has failed. But
he's climbing towards that. Special Report was fourth. Hannity was
last special report. I found interesting because that's the only
news hour. In other words, nobody likes news. They like
(10:33):
news entertainment or news conversation, not an actual straight news.
Because that's one of the things Brett Bear's doing, and
a lot of people on the right are not liking
him because of it. He's trying to be the first
example of how we can go back to just sticking
to the facts and news. Because here's the thing we
(10:54):
talk about the death of journalism. If you returned the
first there'll never be another Walter Cronkite. So I don't
know how you're gonna launch it that way. But if
you went back to doing the news like Walter did,
I don't know that anybody wants it. This is an
internet add short attention span audience. People don't want to
(11:18):
look Nobody hungers and thirsts for the truth anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
That's why you have so many lies.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That isn't the ultimate standard that must be met, and
nobody wants just the facts. Enrage me, scare me, makee
me hate somebody. I mean, I thought the numbers inside
the numbers were actually more fascinating. Now the numbers are fascinating.
How dead are the networks? Fox had three point two
(11:50):
eight million viewers. ABC Nightly News. I can't remember the
guy's name, something Nerror. He looks like I don't know,
he looks like a weird Calvin Klein model. He's at
three point two five million, CBS is at three point
zero nine million, tied with NBC at three point zero
nine million. I mean, even my younger years, when when
(12:12):
ham broke jaw, when Tom. Was it a me di
Aver time? Other time I stood next to Tom Brohaw.
I was in law in New York City and I
took the NBC tour. I had some time off during
the day. It was great. I got to walk around
the Saturday Night Live set. I was walking around the
Today set and I was crossing over. I was going
over to see Howard Stern and I got stopped in
(12:34):
the hallway. Something was going on and they made us
all stand while people were passing, and I looked out,
I don't know, five feet away from me, and I
saw the most gorgeous pair of slacks. I know that
sounds weird to say, but I could just tell they
were very expensive, like nothing I've ever worn. And as
my eyes went up from the slack, that was Tom
(12:56):
Brokehaw wearing a beautiful bird flag. But I remember those
Dan Rabbit, Tom Broke a Walter Kronkite. You go back
to Reynolds and these people were bigger than life. Do
you know what Walter Cronkite's audience size was in the
late seventies, fifty three million. Fifty three million people watched
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Walter Cronkite tell you what was happening in America, in
the world, it's.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Down to three million.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, every CEO of CBS from nineteen eighty till
today ought to be in a room and shot like
the final scene in Valkyrie.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I mean, what did you do to your network?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Fifty three million down to three I remember a long
time ago. Ted Turner gets a crazy idea of twenty
four hour news, news whenever you wanted, what a joke, right,
what next?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Weather whenever you want it, Sports whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, And of course CNN is pirsontally nowhere to be found,
and the major networks are all losing to Fox, a
cable news network, and inside the numbers, they don't even
want the news.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
This is your morning show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm Michael del Jornal. Can't have your morning show without
your voice. Don't forget to use the talkback button or
email Michael di at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, if you're
just waking up the government shutdown, we'll continue until at
least Monday.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Mark Mayfield has our top story.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
The Senator journed on Thursday and won't meet again until
after the weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
There continues to be no clear end in sight.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
As millions of low income Americans will soon feel the
pain of the shutdown. The food stamp benefit known as
SNAP is set to expire on Saturday for roughly.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Forty two million people in the US.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Democrats so the Trump administration can use contingency funds to
continue the benefits, but the USDA, he says the move is.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Not allowed by law.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Republicans and Democrats approved the House plan to temporarily reopen
the government before there's any negotiations on healthcare.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I'm Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
At least fifty people are dead across the Caribbean after
being battered by Hurricane Melissa. We'll have more on that
with Rory O'Neal next hour. The US and China are
finalizing an agreement on a TikTok deal. We didn't have
much mention of it yesterday, but apparently the progress is
real and this will be wonderful news for my daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Morgan. Wallen will return.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
To stadiums across the country next summer. The Superstar will
kick off is still the Problem Tour, with two nights
at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on April tenth and eleventh.
The twenty three day tour will also include two nights
at Michigan Stadium that would be your largest football stadium
in the country and Arbor and pre ticket sales go
(15:58):
on sale November fifth, Brooks and Dunn opening for him
on one night. And in sports, Lamar Jackson was back
and so.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Were the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Four touchdowns for Lamar, four touchdowns for the Ravens, twenty
eight six over the Dolphins, thunder now six and zero
easy win one twenty seven to one, Await over the
Wizard Warriors won twenty one to ten over the Bucks.
World Series Game six tonight, seven o'clock on Fox. If
Toronto wins their World Series champions just bigeto.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Rob Schneider sixty two years old.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Today, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice fifty eight and the coach,
Nick Saban is seventy four. It's your birthday. Happy birthday,
and thank you so much for waking up with your
morning show. Brett Bear with our spotlight Interview of the
week is next on.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Your morning show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thirty five minutes after the hour, Early Bird gets the worm,
Lazy squirreled missus a nut. Never mind about the second
mouse that gets the cheese. It's thirty five minutes after
the hour, and it's Halloween, Friday, October, the thirty first
day thirty one of the government shutdown. At least fifty
people are dead across the Caribbean. After her came, Melissa
plowed through the many islands. And it looks like US
(17:14):
and China have finalized an agreement on a TikTok deal
to keep the app available. That's good news for some.
I've never been on it. I'm still getting over watching
Halloween the first movie for the first time. All right,
long time ago. We got the idea that you know,
during the week, we visit with a lot of people
in the Great Interviews, and you know, obviously you can
listen to the show live and make it a part
(17:35):
of your morning routine, or you may and you may
be daily someone who listens to the podcast version. Well,
if you listen to the podcast version, it really doesn't
matter what day or what hour you hear the whole thing.
But for those that listen in terms of the morning routine,
most of these guests happen in the third hour, and
you may not be available in the third hour. So
we've got the idea to do a spotlight interview of
(17:56):
the week, take one of them that we thought was
the most bull and interesting and share it with the
early Premium card listening class in the first hour. So
today Fox News anchor Brett Behar he's out with a
new book on President Theodore Roosevelt, not Fdr Theodore Roosevelt
(18:16):
inside joke for Adam. He's also got rumors that, you know,
CBS is trying to lure him away to come to CBS.
We had a lot to catch up with and it
was it was fun to visit with Brett Baer this week.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Here's how it started. Hey, Michael, your day isn't busy enough,
is it?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
There you go, I'm out west right now, so it's
a little early.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh you're really sleepy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well, you've done Ike, You've done Reagan, You've done Fdr.
Grant Washington, and now Teddy Roosevelt. Why tech Well listen.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
It was he's a consequential figure in history. He kind
of jumps off the pave so it's are so rich
and uh, you know he's he's obviously on Mount Rushmore
and is very significant. But each one of these book
that look kind of at a soda straw moment that
maybe history overlooked or wasn't covered at the time that well,
(19:07):
or didn't get talked about. And one of the things
with Teddy Roosevelt is that his legacy, he wanted his
legacy to be that he put America on the map
in the world, that he was a global leader, that
America was leaning forward in the world. And he does
that by reaching out to two warring nations Russia and
(19:32):
Japan fighting over a territorial dispute it's evolving into what
could become a world war. And he telegrams, writes letters
to the leaders of those countries, gets messages to them
and says, I will host a peace negotiation in the US.
And he brings the delegations from Russia and Japan to Portsmouth,
(19:53):
New Hampshire, and he sets up the logistics, and he
sets up all of the peace treaty negotiations, and he.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Shuttles back and forth.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
He becomes the guy the crucial element to getting a
piece deal between Russia and Japan.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He does it, and he gets the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So you do realize this kind of sounds like somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Exactly and this is so crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Every time I write one of these books, it seems
like it clicks into modern day one way or another.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You know, it's funny these journeys.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
My friend David Sonati just finished a book on John
Quincy Adams, who was always one of my favorite presidents
the Sun and maybe one of the most accomplished American
servants ever. And it's amazing these life lessons they're out
there in this And I can't imagine the amount of
research you do. But in all of this research, what
surprised you the most that you discovered that maybe none
(20:48):
of us even noticed.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah, well, first of all, he's a super complex guy.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
He's not.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
You know, all these people are humans, so they have
ups and downs, they have flaws, they have great things.
One of the things that surprised me is how much
he valued family, how much that he took time out
of every day to play with his kids, even inside
the White House. He at four o'clock, his kids would
(21:16):
come run into the office and say, Paul, it's time,
and he would say goodbye to whoever he was with,
and he would go run the halls of the White
House with roller skates and bicycles, and there were animals
inside him.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It was like a fun playhouse at times.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Edith, his wife at the time, said that he was
the seventh child, had six kids, and so I was
surprised at how much he valued family.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And that was something that really came out through the research.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ike Reagan, Fdr Grant Washington, where's Teddy fitting and all
of this.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
You know, he's a different character, but definitely consequential and
makes the difference. You know, he gives this speech after
he leaves office in Paris called the Citizenship in the
Republic Speech, which eventually becomes the Man in the Arena speech,
and it is basically, get in the game, be a doer,
(22:13):
do something.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Don't be the critic on the sidelines.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
That's you know, throwing grenades at the guy who's doing something.
Be the person who's down in the mud. And he
was one of those people. And if you look at
his life along the way, he's just got so many
different chapters of his life, but they add up to
something that's really consequential.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hands down my favorite at Fox Brett Baer his new
book on Teddy Roosevelt. Research can only take it so far,
especially when we go this far back in time. Any
unresolved questions you have for Teddy. If you could ask
him a question that could complete the book for you,
what would it have been?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, that's such a good question.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
You know, he was a troublemaker in each position that
he went into, and the establishment hated him, and he
was always stirring the pot and pushing the envelope, And yeah,
I guess I would ask would he change anything about that?
In some ways, to be more diplomatic, to get along,
(23:18):
to be along to, you know, somehow, you know, work
through some of that. In each job he is sort
of promoted out of it because they're trying to get
him out of there. And in the ultimate is when
he's New York governor and the establishment says, this guy
is too much. We have to put him someplace where
he doesn't do any harm. And where do they put him?
(23:39):
Vice President? And you know, at the time, it was
a very ceremonial position, and McKinley's friends say.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
To him, why are you putting this crazy man here?
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Whatever you do, your number one job is to not
die in the next four years so that he's not president.
And six months later, assassin takes McKinley out in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So this disruptive force sounds very much like Trump. I
sense that Donald Trump is a big JFK guy. I
think he's probably a big Washington guy. Are you suspicious?
Maybe he knows a little bit more about Teddy Roosevelt
than he's let on.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
I do think so there are similarities. You know, Teddy
Roosevelt is called a human cyclone. I've been through days
where I've ripped up my rundown of my newscast six
times because of the human cyclone of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
So we all have.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Yeah, I think I think he knows a little bit more.
He was a fan of McKinley, though he was you know,
he re established the Mount McKinley. He McKinley liked tariffs,
and you know, he points to McKinley, But he looks
at Teddy Roosevelt as a character and larger than life,
and that's what he is.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Right Bear.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
What a thrill it is to visit with you. When
you study all these early presidents and you compare them,
not just to today's presidents, but today's America. It's almost
an obsession on the presidency and an over focus on
the presidency, and presidents love to stretch their powers.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
We're different, the presidency's different. Are we worse? Well, you know,
that's a great question.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I think that the founders believed that it was crucial
to have that balance. You know, the last book I
wrote was to Rescue the Constitution about George Washington, and
focused in the so to Straw moment on the Constitutional
Convention and how much George Washington meant to that we
as a country would not get off the starting line
(25:40):
without George Washington and what he did inside that room.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
But they really cared about the balance. I think the balance.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Has gotten, you know, arguably more focused on the presidency
and the executive And one of the people who did
that was Teddy Roosevelt. And from George Washington to Kinley,
so president one through twenty five collectively all of them
signed twelve hundred executive orders. Teddy Roosevelt signed thirteen hundred
(26:10):
executive orders in his presidency.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Now you talk about.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Expanding the executives, A lot of that had to do
with conservation and protecting specific lands and national parks and
forests and all that he believed in, which really to
this day is a huge, huge deal for America that
we saved all that land, but still you talk about
expanding the executive Teddy Roosevelt?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Bret Bear of Fox News, author of To Rescue the
American Spirit, Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
All right, well, it's going to beg.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The question they should consume this one and if they
haven't read your Special heartbook, read that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
But what could be next?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Yeah, I'm not sure of the who I'm going to
dig in. I'm going to look for another soda straw
moment that's overlooked in history.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I do know. I'll tell you, but I haven't put
it out there yet.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Come out soon that I'm going to do a compilation
book with all six presidents and interviews with consequential people
around America.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Ahead of the two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
So it's called the Case for America, making sort of
like a case for the country before a jury of
your peers, the readers, and so the Case for America
will come out and you see twenty six.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Do you see why I love you? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look, this is the tugger War of twenty twenty six.
America is going to turn two hundred and fifty. The
left does not want you reading the Declaration of Independence,
exploring any of the intent of the Declaration of Independence.
I think the right is going to fight for that,
and then there just can't be enough emphasis on our
intent on nonfounding fathers on this document on our two
(27:48):
hundred and fiftieth birthday, and you're right there fighting the
battle for it.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Well, I mean, listen, I really think that it's important,
and I really think that in each one of these presidents,
each one was really striving to reach across the aisle.
They all have some element of common ground, and I
have that thing on my show, common Ground, and I
bring left and right together talking about what they're working
on as opposed to what they're fighting about. And a
(28:14):
head of the two fiftieth, I just don't think there's
anything more important than realizing that there is something bigger
than all of us in our party, in our ideology,
that the country itself is worth fighting for.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I said, you're my favorite. I trust you. I trust
you when my television's on. I don't trust many others.
I am not going to insult you, although listeners are
gonna probably want me to ask you a question because
of all the rumors that are flying. I'm just gonna
leave it at wherever you go, I will go with you,
and I will trust you even if you don't go.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
So well, you're nice to phrase it that way. Yeah,
there's a lot of noise out there.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I'll just live it this way. I have a long
term contract, so it's all noise. Really. Oh good, don't
go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's all right, Hey, listen. The books are terrific. But
if you've never Dad's out there. If you've never read
Special Heart, the Journey of Faith, Hope, courage, and love,
the personal story of a father and a family and
a son. And it has a happy ending too, because
life's all about the journey right at their destination. That
(29:20):
that's where our character is really formed. I loved your
Heart in that, and I want everyone to read that.
It was It's a it's a pretty special book. It's
just a pleasure to meet you. I love your books.
I love you most on Fox.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Thank you very much. Really enjoyed the Sooner. I really
enjoyed it too.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I love that line because I know a lot of
you are suspicious of him that he does this feature.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You know everything's about pick a.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Side, but I think his intent is to get Republicans
and Democrats together on TV and discuss what they're working on,
not what they're fighting about. And when he said that,
in addition to soda straw moment seventeen times times, which
I'm trying to work so to Straw moment into mind nacular,
(30:05):
it's actually a great expression. I always think a steak
and shake, but you know that's me. Give me a
burger and a shake. So to Straw's like when you
take a straw and put it over your eye and
try to understand what you're seeing when you're only seeing
a little bit, and narratives dry of what we see now,
so it's missing the big picture by focusing on so
(30:27):
to Straw moments as they happen. It's actually a great expression.
I wouldn't use it three times in an interview, but
I'm not being critical, but I love that when you
think about how often you witness or see members of
Congress working on something versus fighting about something, it'll really
(30:47):
be an eye opener for you because that's how they
fight great and that's why we've become so dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Otono.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Prince Andrew not only stripped of his title by the King.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
But also evicted.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Buckingham Palace made the announcement on Thursday. The Palace also
said that a formal notice had been served for Andrew
to leave his home at the Royal Lodge close to
Windsor Castle. The change has come as the Royal faces
growing pressure over his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm Marknefield.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
While the government shutdown is now in its thirty first
day and it will continue at least until Monday, the.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Senator adjourned on Thursday and won't meet again until after
the weekend, there continues to be no clear end in sight,
as millions of lower income Americans will soon feel the
pain of the ongoing shutdown. The food stamp benefit program,
known as SNAP, is set to expire on Saturday for
roughly forty two million people. A federal judge in Massachusetts
on Thursday took up a lawsuit brought by twenty five
(31:52):
states to compel the Trump administration to release contingency funds
to keep SNAP funded. There's been no ruling yet. I'm
Tammy Truchillo.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The candidates to be in the New York City's mayor's
race are making their last appeals as early voting continues.
Nataliemcglori has more from New York.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
New Yorkers say they've just about had it with hearing
from candidates who have been campaigning this week and a
lasted che effort to pick up support from undecided voters.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
I'm got any touch messes. I got email, and I
shall delete it. Don't pick off.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Too much emails asking for donations, asking for my preferential candidate,
stuff like that. But they just overwhelmed my text messages.
You know, they come knocking your door.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Two recently released polls show Mom Donnie continues to lead
the pack, with Cuomo lagging by ten percentage points and
Curtius Lee while maintaining support in the teens.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I'm Natalie mcgleiori SOMEBC News Radio. Sorry. Natalie.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
South Park is releasing a new episode tonight on Halloween.
As Michael Caster reports, it's not likely they're going to
be loving it at the White House are Halloween night?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
I am speaking to the entity in this House.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
It takes on President Trump's demolition of part of the
White House to build a massive ballroom titled The Woman
in the Hat. The show is the second episode of
the new season twenty eight of the long running animated
hitter so far. It'll hit Comedy Central at ten pm Friday,
instead of the show's usual Wednesday night time slot.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
All right, there's no question Adam wants the Dodgers to
win tonight, but he will not wear the same underwear
four days in a row. You know, baseball is wildly
superstitious as a sport, and the Dodgers could use a
little extra mojo today. Here's bre tennis with some help
for Adam and Dodger fans.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
Players have been known to sleep with baseball bats for
lock where socks repeatedly, and avoid walking on the foul
line when taking the field, all to gain and edge
to beat the competition. The World Series continues today. The
Toronto Blue Jays lead the series three to two in
a best of seven. So the Dodgers could use your
help today. Where that unwashed jersey sit in the same
spot for viewing blue candles and do anything else that
(34:02):
will help the boys in blue. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Game six tonight, Fox at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
All right, Well, Lamar Jackson was back last night, two
hundred yards passing four touchdowns, a lot of pushtushing going on.
So Lamar was back and so were the Ravens twenty
eight to six on Thursday Night football over the Dolphins
in Miami. On the Ice Red Wings with a shootout
win four to three over the Kings, Blues lost four
to three in a shootout with the Canucks, Sabers lost
(34:29):
in overtime four to three to the Bruins, Lightning one
two to one in overtime over the Stars, and only
the Preads were able to get beat up in regulation,
losing four to one to the Flyers in Philadelphia on
the Heartwood Thunder up still six and oh the champs
are undefeated, winning one twenty seven, one oh eight last night.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
All right, when we come back roory O'Neil, We're all
in this. This is your Morning Show with Michael del Jo.
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