11-12-25 YMS HR2 Christmas spending, the truth about ACA vs shutdown narrative, common respect and sounds of the day.

A new holiday shopping survey is out, and the results are “not so merry.”  National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the story.

The House of Representatives is voting on the plan to reopen the government. How soon will things be back to normal - and how long until the next possible shutdown? White House Correspondent JON DECKER will have the story.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's me Michael.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
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a new way of understanding.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Because we're in this togel. This is your.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Morning show with Michael o'dill Charman.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
We're expecting the House to vote today on the measure
to reopen the federal government. Meanwhile, for travelers, delays and
cancel cancelations at airports across the country are only going
to get worse until the government's reopen. We're still shouting
down about ten percent of flights at the forty busiest
airports in Venezuela, mobilizing its military against US aircraft carriers
that have arrived in the Caribbean. This escalation continues in

(01:05):
the war on drugs. It's turning out to be a
war with Venezuela and it's the most wonderful time of
the year. Kind of A new holiday shopping survey is
out and the results are not so merry. And who
better to tell you the story than someone who's never
marry our national correspondent for O'Neil.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
You knew that was coming right, good setup, so that
one yep mile away.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
But it shows that the folks over at wallet hubs
say this year, eighty five percent of us say we're
going to spend the same we spent last year, and
maybe even a little bit less because of the economic
conditions right now. They're dubbing this a grinchy economy, as
nearly two and three Americans say this economy will make
the holidays a little less fun this year, and that

(01:49):
could also impact our charitable giving. Three and five Americans
say that their charitable donations this holiday season are being
affected by inflation and just.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
This note, gifts don't equal joy.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Sixty one percent of Americans said they would love to
enjoy the holidays, they would enjoy it more if we
did not exchange gifts at all.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
You know, obviously the story speaks for itself. These are
uncertain economic times. It stands to reason people are people
will plan to spend less and probably still spend as
much or more. That all has to play out. But
I think the bigger discussion is where you just kind
of went rory, and that is, you know, gift giving
is kind of like symbolic or supposed to be a

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child can't afford something for themselves.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, you can, I can, but they can't, And so.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
We do gifts to use the analogy of unmerited favor
or grace. It was used by the original Saint Nicholas
to show people the analogy of God sending his only son.
It had a spiritual application, one we don't even do.
It's now a commercial application. But I can tell you
one of our best Christmases ever. We were broke my mom.
My dad had left my mom. She had to sell

(02:59):
her house. We were moving into a comp We spent
Christmas painting a condo.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Nobody had any money.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
So I came up with the idea, we write on
a piece of paper what we love most about them,
what we wish most for them and what we will
do for them all year long, and we wrapped them
and everything was just like presents, had no monetary value whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It was our greatest Christmas ever, greatest by far.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
But it's hard to do that because you know, you
don't what you kid look at you and go, oh boy, dad,
that's really touching.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
But what are you cheapskate?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Well, when the new modern day Santa Claus who shows
up in an Amazon truck on a daily basis for
a box to unwrap, it's not And maybe that sort
of takes some of the fun out of it. This
happens on a daily basis, these packages arriving.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, and I'm trying to figure out because we are
Nick our final child went to college this year, right,
and so we're newly empty nested, and you know, Christmas
changes And Nick said, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Christmas isn't the same anymore. I said, oh, welcome.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
You know, Christmas is magical when you're a kid, then
it's a it's magical when you have little kids, and
then there's kind of like a lull until you have grandkids.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
I'm seeing more and more travel Christmases, right, People are Oh, well,
let's just do it on a cruise. Let's just go
and make a big trip during the Christmas week. Trouble is,
you're not the only people doing that, so it's it's
a busy time and an expensive time to go. But
I'm seeing more people as you to your point, as
the kids are older, not waiting for Santa in the tree,
a lot more of them are just saying, hey, let's go,
let's go to the mountains, let's go out on a

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cruise ship, let's go to Disney.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
That tends to be happening more and more.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well, that's another source of subject because it ended up
being a Morgan Wallen concert in Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Not my idea.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
That's a good time. Rory's gonna be back in the
third hour. Big airlines are warning the cancelations will continue
even after the government reopens. Rory has that story in
one hour from now.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I wanted to.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, I don't know quite how to set this up.
We had said that it was very, very difficult, even
two hundred or one hundred and fifty years later, to
solve what led to the Civil War. I was on
a golf course. David Sanati asked me it's eighteen fifty.

(05:15):
You've got ten years to solve the differences in America
before the Civil War. Go, it's a great historical intellectual exercise.
And so your mind, you know, unless you're completely unaware,
your mind goes to slavery. Your mind goes to states' rights,
your mind goes to our intent and our declaration, and

(05:37):
had we failed it? So you had moral issues, states
rights issues, you had agricultural issues.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I mean, you had a lot going on there.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
And and the more you have the conversation, you go,
well I can't and they didn't, and we did have
a civil war. Okay, well now it's twenty at the time.
Now it's twenty twenty three. You got ten to keep
the next civil war from happening. It really was a
challenging intellectual exercise, and it led to David and I

(06:08):
creating a podcast called eighteen fifty main Street eighteen fifty,
ten years prior to the Civil War the year and
then we gave main Street because it's a place and
we hope the listeners could put it all together. Well,
now Joe Rogan has come out and made it clear
he thinks we're getting closer and closer to a civil war,
and he thinks the assassination and the celebration of the

(06:31):
death of Charlie Kirk, which is to say, the celebration
of killing those we disagree with, the inability to find
any common ground or any respect. At the end of
the day, when you listen to the show, I hope
you go, well, there's something different. It's not about the host.

(06:51):
He makes it about us. I hope you noticed that.
I hope you noticed it's a conversation because I really
value your ability to figure things out, and I really
value your input because sometimes someone will say something, someone
will say something, mouth by the fifth person, we all
learn from it and kind of paints the picture that
we otherwise couldn't have arrived at on our own. So

(07:14):
it's collaborative, it's conversational. But I hope the one thing
you hear too is respect. I can think of only
three instances. Now in talk radio, it'd be three instances
an hour. But since we've designed this, I really thought
one of the early challenges would be, Okay, when we disagree,

(07:38):
let's show everybody the right way to disagree, and you
do it respectfully. And if we've got fifty things in
common and one thing not in common. We don't stop
appreciating each other. I use the analogy early on. I mean,
I don't love anybody more than my wife, and we
don't agree on everything, and I don't make her an

(08:01):
enemy the minute we find something we don't agree on. Now,
she has never changed my mind on those issues that
we disagree on, but she also hasn't changed my love
for her. And I really think the keyword there is respect.
And I really think the keyword and you'll hear it.
By the way, all of this is a tease for
sounds in the day next half hour, But when Joe

(08:24):
Rogan lays this out, I really think that's I mean,
two things that are in the making news with Joe Rogan.
One is his astonishment that we have gotten here where
if we disagree with somebody, we don't debate. I mean,
wasn't that what Charlie's life stood for. That was his
mission to show you we can disagree, we can debate.

(08:47):
He was trying to kill the matrix. It got him killed.
But what you really hear Joe Rogan saying is are
you serious we've gotten that disrespectful of each other? And
when you think about it, It's just not even logical

(09:07):
why I could have disagreements with myself thirty years ago,
and I certainly don't hate myself, and I certainly don't
feel the need to commit suicide today because of it.
People change, people learn. We all have one thing in

(09:28):
common Biblically, we've all sinned and fallen short, and we've
all had no merit of our own been given an
eternal chance. How is it we have so little grace
for each other, so little mercy for each other, and
for what? Winning a partisan argument?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Now? I don't know who's tricked you.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Into hating everybody, but trick yourself out of it, because
if we don't, where did Joe put us somewhere at
seven out of ten on the scale towards civil war?

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Right?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's about where I got us seven or eight. And
it won't take much to tip the scales. I mean,
what you're seeing right now, You think you know. You
take them all individually, but cumulatively they paint a different picture.
We're already geographically drawing the battlegrounds for a civil war,
with our urban inner cities, at war with our government

(10:30):
and our way of life and our constitutional intent.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Something to keep an eye on something to listen for
the sound of the day. I want to do one
thing with the minute we have.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Going back to Brian's question, I kind of you know,
we we're up against the top of the hour. But
to unsimplify the oversimplified answer, listen, every insurance company makes
these situations different. Now, yes, I wish oh a CT
is a blood test is blank? Depends how much you're testing,

(11:04):
depending who's doing the testing, depending if it's in network,
out of network, that particular facility that's doing the testing.
What's their contract with that particular insurance that you can't
do it.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
McDonald's cheeseburger can be the same every McDonald's you go to,
but you can't do it with insurance. I mean some
of it is that middleman, the insurance company and the
contracts that have been negotiated. I can't tell you my
first introduction to really how important these contracts are. When
I was notified you either need to get all new
doctors or you need to get a new insurance policy

(11:38):
because your doctors no longer accept that insurance company.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
So I did and I switched.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
The next year, they didn't accept that one, and I
had to switch again, I mean red. I don't know
how you would explain it. It depends who your insurance is,
depends where your CT scan is going to be done.
Is it in network, is it out of network? What
was their contract with your particular I mean, how would.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
You answer this. It's so.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
There's a real explanation. It's it's an explanation, but it's
not an excuse. It's still broken and it's frustrating.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Every plan is different.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yeah, within an insurance company, you could have the same insurance,
but there could be one hundred different plans.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
It really depends on how someone's negotiated.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
And if you get your insurance to your company, the
plan you chose during open enrollment can impact it. Yeah,
which is why I'm hustling to get your deductible.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I never thought I would do this.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm going to be pushing my doctor to get my
colonoscopy done before the end of the year because we've
met our deductible. Stop.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm explaining your question.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Trono.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
This is your morning show on Michael Del Jorno, and
these are your top five stories. The deal on the
Table aimed at reopening the federal government comes with what
summer warning could be an industry killing change.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Tammy Tricheo has more.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
The industry in question is the hemp derived THHC market.
The bill that passed the US Senate on Monday includes
a federal ban on hemp products containing more than point
four milligrams of THHC. Democratic Senator Jeff Berkley of Oregon
said the move would effectively quote wipe out an industry
that we've spent more than a decade creating. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
President Trump is saying thank you to US veterans.

Speaker 9 (13:27):
Speaking at the Veterans Day Observant ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery,
Trump said the country We'll never forget what they've done
to make this country safe, sovereign, and free. Everything we have,
everything on country has achieved, has been purchased by the muscle, spine,
and steel of.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
The United States Military. Vice President JD.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
Vance, a US Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq,
also spoke at the ceremony. The president earlier later eef
that the tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Mark Meanfield.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Speaking of the military, Venezuela is mobilizing its military as
US aircraft carriers arrived in the Caribbean.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
The Navy says the USS Gerald R Ford is in
the region. Meanwhile, in response to rising tensions with the US,
Venezuela's defense minister is announcing the country will mobilize troops
and carry out exercises this week. The Trumble administration has
said the recent military built up in the Caribbean is
part of a campaign against drug trafficking. The US military
has carried out strikes on several alleged.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Drug boats in recent months. I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
Apple is showing off a new way to carry your iPhone.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Matt Mattinson explains.

Speaker 11 (14:30):
A tech giant teamed up with fashion brand Izzy Mia
Kai to showcase the iPhone Pocket. The sock like crossbody
strap comes in two versions. The short pocket has a
price tag of around one hundred and fifty dollars, while
the long version will cost around two hundred and thirty bucks.
They're set to be available this Friday online and at
select Apple stores. I'm at Mattinson.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
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Speaker 4 (15:21):
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Speaker 11 (15:38):
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Speaker 2 (15:51):
Hi, It's me Michael. Your morning show can be heard
live daily on great radio stations like News Radio six
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Make us a part of your morning routine, but better
late than never. Enjoy the podcast. Welcome to Wednesday, November
the twelfth. You have twenty twenty five, the day we'll.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Be remembered in infamy, the day the government reopens. But
how soon before it's back to normal? More on that
with our White House correspond to John Decker in a
moment that vote I expect today. I expect the President
to sign it late afternoon, early evening, but it may
take till tomorrow. Delays and cancelations at airports across the
US are only going to get worse today. Remember we're

(16:35):
going from six percent now to ten percent flight cancelations
and cutbacks. But it's at the forty busiest airports, the hubs.
And why is Venezuela mobilizing its military? Things are escalating
in our war on drugs. But obviously today is all
about the government shutdown coming to an end in reopening
so we can get right back to getting to thirty

(16:57):
eight trillion dollars of debt.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know, our normal function.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
But the question looming is how soon before the effects
of this government shut down and things get back to normal?
Clear up John Decker's keeping an eye on that and
at of all places, the White House. Good morning, John, Hey.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Good morning to you. Michael. Hope you're doing well today.
I am well, I'm medicated. Well put it that.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Way, there's something crazy in the air today. I thought
it was just me, and then Joey had a little
song for Chuckie Schumer, one of our listeners. I can
tell you things have just gotten a little crazy, all right?
How soon before things get back to normal? And I
think when we say that, probably the two biggest things
are snap and airports.

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Well, I think that based upon what the Transportation Secretary
has said, it's going to be a little bit of
a while before things are getting back to normal. Even
with the government reopening as early as today. The House,
of course, will vote on that legislation passed by the
Senate just the other day with a sixty to forty margin.
It will be signed by the President. But what we

(18:04):
heard from Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, is it's not
like flipping a switch. All of those individuals who serve
as air traffic controllers need to get back on the job.
In addition to that, the FAA Federal Aviation Administration needs
to have an order to every airport across the country

(18:25):
to essentially allow the full amount of scheduled flights to
actually take place.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
So in sounds of the day, we've got John Stewart
basically saying, you have settled a government shutdown for the
promise of not getting what you shut the government down over.
I get his frustration. All of this seems like political
theater and political theater that led to nowhere but paying
for voters. It's hard to say who the big winners
and losers will be. But do you think in the end, John,

(18:54):
we'll chalk this one up to like other shutdowns that
lasted a while, ultimately travel is what ended it.

Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yeah, that's exactly what ended the last government shutdown that
was before this one, the longest on record, that happened
in President Trump's first term. It was, indeed, that air
traffic situation and delays and cancellations and airports all across
the country that ultimately led to the conclusion of that

(19:23):
government shutdown, the reopening, the passage of the continuing Resolution.
That's what led to this one as well. And you
can see the writing on the wall. I think it's
instructive for members of Congress to know, you know, do
you really want to inflict that kind of pain on
the public and then at the end of the game
not even really gain anything that's noticeable as it relates

(19:44):
to the two areas that you're talking about snap benefits.
And also, let's not forget the ACA subsidies are still
due to expire at the end of this year as
they stand right now.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
A Supreme Court bar attorney, a White House correspondent for
eight presidencies, you worked in Senate office. I mean, you
get the law and you get politics. It'd be very
interesting to ask you who do you think the big
winner of this shutdown was.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
I think in the short term, Republicans absolutely, Republicans you know,
didn't have to give an inch essentially in terms of
reopening the government.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's my belief.

Speaker 7 (20:17):
But the big question, though, is who wins the war.
The battle was won by Republicans. The war is the
midterm elections and what impact this has on the midterms
if indeed those sub didies go away. We're talking about
twenty million Americans that get their insurance through the ACA
through Obamacare that could come back and invite Republicans at

(20:38):
the polls in November of next year. Well, I just
have to wait and see. I think the short term
answer is pretty obvious.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, But actually I disagree with you.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I think the big winner is going to be the
socialist element of the Democrat party, who will use this
in the mid term to unseat centrist Democrats. But I
would say this that you know, at some point, all
it really proved was that a Democrat creates and nobody
likes to call it Obamacare anymore. But I don't think
they should like calling it Affordable Care Act either, because
it's not affordable. All that proved is how flawed that is.

(21:09):
The notion that you need taxpayer dollars in subsidies to
pay other people's premiums is proof that you did not
lower premiums, you increase them. You did not improve the
actuarial pool. You left just the oldest and sickest on there,
which made premiums go out of sight. You haven't improved care,
and you haven't insured everyone, and it and even the

(21:30):
subsidies had an expiration date. I mean, the irony of
two expiration dates being the story.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Michael, that is brilliant insight by you. I think you're right,
absolutely right about the way that you view the ACA.
And you know, now it's incumbent upon the party in power, Republicans,
who they control the House, they control the Senate, they
control the White House, to do something about that. They
have an opportunity to improve a flawed ACA.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Right now, we.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Only have one minute left. John Decker, White House Correspondent.
I have two fears. One shoot the wrong boat. That's
all it's going to take is one mistake and we
blow up a boat that has humanitarian stuff on board
or commercial stuff on board, and this whole war of
blowing up drug ships is going to blow up in
our face. The other is an escalation with Venezuela, and

(22:21):
it seems like that's happening. Is that going to be
on the dock of today for the president? They're mobilizing
the military.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Absolutely. There's the White House press briefing today. It's at
one o'clock Eastern time in the afternoon. And now that
the USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in
the Navy's fleet, has been moved into the Caribbean, essentially
off the coast of Venezuela. That is a big, big
focus for the administration and I'm sure many questions will

(22:48):
be asked of the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
about that this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
For those of you that love presidential politics, nobody's got
a closer eye on it. He's right there at the
White House, the White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
The podcast comes your way, nine Eastern, eighth Central and
Lord Willing.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
We'll talk again tomorrow, John, great visit. I look forward
to it. Thanks.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Michael, can't have your morning show without your voice. Would
never have your morning show without your voice. Email me
at Michael di at iHeartMedia dot com, or use that
talkback button on your iHeartRadio app. It's a microphone. You
don't rot on hold anymore. You press that button. Count
you down very professionally, three two to one, and then
you got thirty seconds to take your place at the
kitchen table with your comment or your question.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Let's start with Lisa.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
Michael d Lisa from Germantown to the Sea. Sorry, I
sound like I smoke packs of camels to day watch
the movie you recommended with my mother with Charlie Throwne
and the fat guy at the Comedian that lost way
not throw out, but anyway, she almost threw holy water
at the TV with all the cusswords. You know, she's
the Bible reader, cross weearing tinle lady, so wouldn't recommend

(23:53):
that with the parents, have a great day, love your show.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah, it was a long shot. It's Charlistaron. She was
a babysitter for Seth Rogan when they were a kid.
They meet up again as adults when she's Secretary of State,
and then she runs for president. It is what I
liked about. It was good writing. I mean, great performance
is but good writing. And then there's a woman who
plays the assistant to Charlie's term that I think is

(24:18):
a show stealer. I mean, she is just terrific. But
it's just good old fashioned. How can it get me worse?
It gets worse, It gets worse, it gets worse. It
really is a brilliant comedy. I'm glad you got to
watch that. Lisa to Josh we Go.

Speaker 14 (24:33):
That's very insightful, Michael. I find myself doing the same thing.
I focus on the things that unite us, so instead
of infighting, we should all unite for the love of
our country.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah, there are some things that have you know, you
can't find common ground on, but then you can still
stand together on that where there's no common ground. Joey
is my favorite caller of the day. I think I'm
going to feature him every hour strike. This is like
a remember when Gong Show we're just out of the blue,
Jean Jean the Dancing Machine would come on stage out.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I think that's how we should do. Joey. Give me
some Joey. He's so ticking when it goes against AOC.
Take a tucky oday.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Love my audience, all right, if you're just waking up,
I would tell you I'd be shocked if the government
isn't reopened early this afternoon and signed by the President
late afternoon, early evening, and that will end this record
breaking shutdown.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Tammy Trio has more.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
Overnight, the House Rules Committee voted along party lines to
advance a government funding deal that's already passed in the Senate.
The majority GOP committee did not adopt any amendments to
the bill that would extend federal health care subsidies. The
funding package now makes its way to the House, where
a final vote is expected before the end of the day.
I'm Tammy Tree.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
The Supreme Court is extending an order allowing President Trump
to withhold full snap payments.

Speaker 9 (26:05):
Last week, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson issued an administrative stay that.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Blocked a lower court order requiring.

Speaker 9 (26:11):
The administration to make the payments. Tuesday's ruling extends that
stay through Thursday. This comes as a spending bill that
would reopen the federal government is set to be voted
on in the House after it was approved by the
Senate earlier this week. The bill would provide full funding
four SNAP benefits through next September and keeps most of
the government running on a short term basis through January thirtieth.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I'm Mark Neefield.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
As I mentioned with John, Venezuela is mobilizing its military
as a US aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean.

Speaker 10 (26:37):
The Navy says the USS Gerald R. Ford is in
the region. Meanwhile, in response to rising tensions with the US,
Venezuela's defense ministers announcing the country will mobilize troops and
carry out exercises this week. The Trumble administration has said
the recent military built up in the Caribbean is part
of a campaign against drug trafficking. The US military has
carried out strikes on several alleged drug boats months.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Debbie Harry doesn't know exactly what's next for Blondie in
terms of touring, Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
The singer says the band isn't the same with the
death of Clem Burke last April and the absence of
guitarist Chris Stein. During an interview with Consequence, Harry said
she sort of rejects the idea of being Blondie without
the rest of her original bandmates. However, if Blondie does
to her, she wants to figure out how to do
it nicely. She explained that bassist Glenn Mattlocke and guitarist
Tommy Kessler and Andy Black Sugar contributed heavily to the

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track on Blondie's upcoming album, high Noon, and she wants
them to feel some pride and identity. Blondie's new album
will be out in the spring of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'm Mark Neeyfield.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Attention everyone that loves Billy, Bob Thornton and Landman. Season
two debuts Friday. I hope it comes out in a
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The company revealed the plan for the price hike when
reporting its third quarter earnings. The price for the AD
supported Paramount Plus Essential tier will go up a dollar
to eight ninety nine a month, while the AD free
Paramount Plus will also see a dollar increase to thirteen
ninety nine a month. The new prices will go into
effect to January fifteenth. This comes following Paramount's merger with
Skydance and the streaming service signing a rights deal with

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the USC for seven point seven billion dollars. I'm Tammy Triheo.

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It's your morning show with Michael del Choano.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
We picked a good time to be listening. It's time
for us of the day, All right, everybody.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
Look, look, you've just got to try harder not to shock.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
So I'm after the opportunity for a brief civics lessons.

Speaker 14 (30:08):
Perhaps you'd like to be alone with antly deteriorating mental
condition politics.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't know us.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, let's start with Joe Rogan having a discussion about
the differences in America and how they're getting more and
wider and wider and more and more heated. And he says,
you have to look no further to the assassination of
Charlie Kirk and the celebration of his death to see
a civil war is brewing.

Speaker 15 (30:34):
Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating, like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
You want people to die that you disagree with? Like,
where are.

Speaker 15 (30:43):
We right now on the scale of one to civil war?
Where are we are we at seven? Because I thought
we were at five. Other were like four, four or five.
But after Charlie Kirk, I'm like, oh, we might be
like seven. This might be like step seven on the
way to a bonafide civil war.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
David Sanati and I started a podcast over two years
ago called eighteen fifty Main Street eighteen fifty, representing the
year eighteen fifty. You're ten years from the Civil War.
Stop it from happening. Relitigate everything that divided us morally
based on our intent in the Declaration of Independence that
we were failing ourselves agriculturally, states' rights. We've got divisions

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even deeper today. We may only have ten years. That's
a pretty good number. Joe Rogan Game seven. I'll buy that.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
The View roughed up John Fetterman. Why did people even
go on the View? Are they getting paid?

Speaker 4 (31:43):
No? You got to get slapped around by these Well
here's here's Sonny slapping around Fetterman.

Speaker 16 (31:51):
Poll after poll found more Americans on both sides of
the aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Green blamed the
GOP as you mentioned. And Democrats have big wins last week,
so you had momentum.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why give in now?

Speaker 16 (32:05):
Why bring a butter knife to a gunfight? Are you
willing to gamble.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
And negotiate?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Good name?

Speaker 16 (32:14):
Watch that gamble is wrong. Half a million Pennsylvanians that
you represent, their healthcare cost will skyrocket if you are wrong,
and I believe you are wrong.

Speaker 17 (32:28):
Well, for first of all, you know MTG is quite
literally the last person in America that I'm going to
take advice or to get their kinds of my leadership
and values from. And now, if Democrats are celebrating crazy
pants like that, then that's on them. And now I
don't need and I don't need a lecture. I don't
need a lecture from from whether it's Bernie or the

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governor in California, because they are representing very deep blue
blue kinds of populations and I would like to, rather
than cite MTG, I'm going to cite one of the
new governor elects saying that my election is not a
green light to continue the shutdown, because I promise you
this isn't a political game. It is viewed by that

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by many of us. But the reality is forty two
million Americans now not sure where their next meal is
going to come from.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
And if anything else approved what a failure Obamacare is,
and we still don't have a solution for that. John
Stewart had a similar reaction. Here's how he said it.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Democrats, you sold out.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
The entire shutdown not to get what you wanted, but
for a promise to not get what you wanted later
where in the.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Art of war political theater. Wise, everybody's taking a stance.
How did Chucky Schumer become the poster child of this failure?
The knives are all out for Chucky. Let's look at
the numbers with Harriett and at CNN.

Speaker 18 (33:56):
What about Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer. I think
the word of the day is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible,
to quote another Charles Barkley when it comes to Chuck Schumer.
Look at this least popular dem Senate leader ever.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
I looked at all of the polls.

Speaker 18 (34:12):
Going all the way back since nineteen hundred and eighty five,
the one was the lowest rating among Democrats.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Is in fact Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Looking because the party's being toppled by socialists and Islamis,
and they're going to take this political theater and work
it for their advantage to take over the party in
the new year.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
And the one who stands to gain the most might
be AOC.

Speaker 12 (34:31):
There has been talks of a challenge to Schumer.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
What are you seeing on that front? Who looks like
they're in place to do it?

Speaker 18 (34:39):
Okay, so you know you see this opening slide here,
and you see, of course that Chuck Schumer is underwater
with Democrats nationally. But of course the ultimate way to
get Chuck Schumer out of office is to beat him.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
In New York State. To how do New York State.

Speaker 18 (34:51):
Democrats feel about Chuck Schumer?

Speaker 1 (34:53):
And take a look here the US forty six points
for AOC. But she's running for president, not Senate.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
All in this together. This is your Morning Show with
Michael Del Jorno.