11-25-25 YMS HR1 Stephen A for Pres, Dems push rank choice for primaries and family first…hardly!

Stephen A for Pres, Dems push rank choice for primaries and family first…hardly!

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Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Today is expected to be one of the busiest days
on the roads for Thanksgiving travelers, and that's not even
mentioning the eighty million we expect at the airport. Attorney
General Vam Bondi says she'll appeal all the criminal indictments
against former FBI Director James call Mey and New York
Attorney General Latita j Latisha James, that we're dismissed by

(00:53):
an activist judge over a technicality, and the President has
accepted an invitation to visit China.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Meanwi.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
All the forty nine ers survived three party first half
interceptions to go on.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And beat the Panthers twenty to nine.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Yesterday, Red and I spent about let me rephrase that,
yesterday Red and I wasted about three minutes of our
life trying to figure.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Out if Carolina wins. Are they in first place or
the bus they lost? So it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
That's just some of the things we're going to be covering,
not even the most interesting. Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday,
November the twenty fifth. You have an old twenty twenty
five on the air and streaming live on your iHeart app.
This is your morning show. I'm Michael. That's Jeffrey then
Plaid no less well, thank you so much. It's part
of my best pro shop collection. It's not really Plaid

(01:40):
Weather yet. It's not well no, I mean it is
by the calendar. But have we had a November yet?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:47):
I have to get out drive in all this rain
that we're having around the middle Tennessee area right now
in order to get here. It's chilly to me.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
You know, Hakeem Jeffries is blaming Trump for global warming.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I thought he was a man.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
And you gotta blame somebody because we simply haven't had
a November yet.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
What happened to the new ice age that was seventies time.

Speaker 6 (02:08):
Mackersony, Yeah, no, what happened to that?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Never came to be.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Red's in red today, which is always a good sign.
He'll keep an eye on the content. And of course
you at the star of the show, don't forget. Can't
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So use that talkback or for you old fashioned people,
you can email me Michael de at iHeartMedia dot com. Well,
we know what the left believes, right, you're never above
the law.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
But if we can kick the can install for a while,
that's uh, that's usually a good plan.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
So we have US District Judge Cameron McGowan Curry, appointed
by Bill Clinton, Monday, dismissed the criminal cases against Comy
and Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the
charges at President Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the

(03:16):
Justice Department. The ruling for the US district judge halts
at least for now, a pair of prosecutions. Look, it's
important to note none of this had anything to do
with the grounds of the case or the merits of
the case. They go for a technicality that Pam Bondi

(03:39):
has already said. They'll be appealing instantly, and we suspect
her to go to higher court. We would watch this
for the better part of a year, right an activist
judge does something, goes to the higher court, gets repaired.
Though the defendants had asked for the case to be
dismissed with prejudice, meaning the Justice Department would be from

(04:00):
bringing them again, Curry instead dismissed without prejudice. So everybody
knows the appeals coming, the charge is coming. They will
get their day in court. This is nothing more than
a stall.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Steven A.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Smith just doesn't seem to go away, does he? And
I don't know if this speaks of the party or him.
Can you imagine him yelling a State of the Union address? Yes,
I can, Oh my gosh. Or would he brings several
people with him, you know, to fight with.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I don't even know. He probably grabs the other front row.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Will you face that get over here you see Vice
President Matt Dogg.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Who would be the perfect running made for stephen A. Smith.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Charles Barkley, that would be a perfect running maid. Actually,
all right, so does this reflect on the Democrat Party? Look,
I think people like Bill Maher, stephen A. Smith, they're
a handful that would suggest that there are still normal
Democrats out there.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
What became of their home, they can't tell you, but
they're still out there. I don't know that they're going
to have a home for much longer. So maybe they
are the founding fathers and first voices of a new
party that's going to emerge because the Socialist Democrats and
the Islamist Democrats plan to take over the Democrat Party. Now,

(05:34):
if somebody could make a run and stop this trajectory,
go for it. Do you know what this boils down to?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
More than anything?

Speaker 5 (05:45):
This is like goes along with the the Dems raying
ranked choice voting for primaries. This party, I think it
was Red who said it this way, will do anything
but allow you to vote and rust your vote.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Anything. Anything's on the table.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
When you think Bernie would have gotten the nomination in
twenty sixteen, they rigged it for Hillary. Bernie would have
got the nomination in twenty twenty, they got involved and
rigged it for Old Joe. Bernie would have got it
again in twenty twenty four, but they kept Old Joe
and the race long enough to get all the delegates.
Then they just bypassed him and handed it to Kamala Harris.
That's who they wanted back in the first place. But

(06:30):
she's such an awful candidate. She was always the first
eliminated and she'll be the first eliminated again. But in
all those instances, if you were a member of the
Democrat Party, you never got your say. What's coming in
twenty twenty eight, they're not going to get their say again.

(06:51):
AOC is the new Bernie. He's handed the torch to her.
She will run for president. She will be the runaway
early leader. The DNC will have to get evolved again
to avoid that and rig it. Maybe that's when you
see Romney Manuel or a governor put with him. And

(07:14):
whether it's using rank choice in primaries, or whether it's
using technicalities to stop runaway trains that get off to
early leads, it's all about blocking their own people's votes.

(07:35):
I mean, if the party isn't there for its people?
What's its existence? Its own agenda? But they can't even
play you to be the pawn without you knowing it
any longer. And so I see these rising voices like
Bill Maher saying, no, this is wrong, Stephen A. Smith, No,

(07:58):
this thing is this is a mess. On the case
of Stephen A. Smith, I think he's begging for people
to beg him. Now he's a legitimate player, isn't he
showing up roughly about the same level as AOC And
one of the polls I saw he was. I mean,
I don't think it's a joke by any stretch of
the imagination, But what.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Does it tell you about Steven A. Smith or the party?

Speaker 7 (08:19):
We got to figure out what what does he bring
other than an argument? I mean honestly, I mean it'll
be great sodder.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
But well, because opinions are not leadership, is what you're suggesting.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
In other words, an opinion can be entertaining. Steven A.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Smith's never run a sports team. He just has opinions
about sports teams and its players. He has opinions about
politics and its players. That doesn't mean he understands the
issues inside and out and would have the intellect or
the ability or the track record of inspiring many people
to go in one direction and making ideas, realities and solutions.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's the problem.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
I mean, I could rephrase the question the fact that
we would look for anybody with passion and thirst for them,
anyone that can form a sentence, which by the way,
is no small thing. I try not to be critical,
but when you get to Sounds of the Day and

(09:31):
you hear Hillary Clinton, you hear Hakeem Jeffries, you hear
Senator Slocking, trust me, passion, honesty and eloquence, It's not
a given anymore. I will say this, If Stephen's Smith

(10:00):
really is rich and he loves for you to know
he's rich and really makes a lot of money and
is really happy, why doesn't he let it go? Let
it go? I mean, he's always keeping his name alive.
I will quote the great Terrell Owens. I love me

(10:23):
some meet.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
He was good.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
But yeah, the minute we stopped thinking about Stephen a
you know, when his constant criticism of the Democrat Party
is in top of mind and everybody's you know, focused
on Mom, Donnie and the socialist and he needs to
get a little attention again. He'll just do something. Let
you know, I don't know if I don't run for

(10:51):
president one day. I don't know if I'm gonna run
for president some day. What wait, what are you? But
what I do know is I want to make a
profound impact on who the next president is going to be. Right,
But I'm not to run. I mean these games places
in triple negatives. Yeah, I mean these games have been

(11:15):
played by far better.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
But you know it.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I don't know if it's worthy of being the talkback
question of the day. Does this reflect more on him?
I love me some me or a party that is
leaving its base has ignored it in three presidential elections,
they plan to ignore it again. You know where I
come from. I can't restate my case over an Oregon.
I think one or both parties are going to be
gone by the end of the decade. I've see him

(11:42):
both imploding, and I see an America in the middle.
It's getting so disgusted. I think frighteningly, it might result
in apathy. That matter what I believe, doesn't matter who
I vote for. Both parties are broke. Who cares? Who've
got a survey? Later? Out of every thing, only eleven

(12:05):
percent of Americans. And this was a pretty big poll.
I mean, the sample was huge. Only eleven percent of
Americans ranked family as number one most important thing to them.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
This is you know, I grew up. I have the
family I was born into and then the family that
I made. They're two very different families. But even in
all of its dysfunction, the family that I was born into,
my whole life was family. My friends were cousins. There

(12:48):
was nobody that had a higher place than a mother
and father, and there was no more loyal allies than
your two brothers.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
Now, it may have been in a survival mode, in
a chaos and dysfunction mode, but it was still existing.
Now did better with the family I made. As my
brother says, we're thicke as thieves. If you've ever seen
the movie Family Man, that's me. I don't know where
radio would fall on my list. I probably wouldn't want

(13:23):
my employers to know where radio falls on my list.
Now you and I right now communicating being together, understanding
and experiencing life together, Oh that'd be very high. But
personally I wouldn't care if we were doing it over
a cup of coffee and a dive breakfast joint, or

(13:43):
if it was a local radio station or a national station,
but family would always be number one. In fact, I
have to get specific within family. There was a time
we thought, well, but the left is really after or
whoever's trying to destroy America from within, they got to

(14:06):
first destroy the family.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, it looks like they did. And not only did
they destroy it with all this technology, it's not even
a priority because it's not any more than a reality,
the one they're dialing up and taking a picture of
themselves for today and counting the likes. Look, if we're
a patient, we're sick, but our two parties are dying

(14:32):
and we're all traveling. Does that pretty much cover what
today is all about?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
We're getting, you know, like, look a fine pilot who
just eases back on the throble just a little bit
to comfortably get you through the turbulence. We're getting into
holiday mode here, losing a little of our seriousness.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh but it's still there when you need it.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Twenty eight minutes after the our Attorney General Pam Bondi
says she will appeal the criminal indictments against Letitia James
and James Comby that were dismissed by an activist. Federal
Judge Mark Mayfield has our top story. Bondi spoke to
reporters Monday afternoon.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
We'll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate
appeal to hold Letitia James and James Comy accountable for
their unlawful conduct.

Speaker 9 (15:24):
Both then claimed the appointment of Lindsay Halligan as the
US Attorney for the Eastern District was unlawful. Comy was
indicted for allegedly lying to Congress about the Trump Russia investigation,
while James was indicted for a mortgage fraud. Bondi said
all available action would be taken a Murtney Field.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
President Trump has accepted an invitation to visit China. Today
should be one of the busiest day on the roads
for Thanksgiving travelers, about eighteen million using the air and
last night surviving three first half interceptions forty nine ers
take out the Panthers twenty to nine on Monday Night.
Football birthdays today, I don't know if I've saying this right.

(16:00):
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
Now. Enjoy the podcast.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Today should be one of the busiest days on the
road for Thanksgiving travelers. President Trump has accepted an invitation
to China. The forty nine ers survived turnovers to beat
Panthers last night twenty to nine. Everything about me was
the same, But I talked like this. See how fragile
life is.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
I do not like the hard news.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
So what if that's how I talked. You mean to
tell me I can't have a career because I talked
that way.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, yeah, because it sounds fake. It's not who you are.
But if that's who you are, What if that's who
I was.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
I wouldn't be here and Red wouldn't be here. See Red,
there's so much to be thankful for. Now, I disagree
with you. I want don in Philadelphia. Do you really okay? Oh? Dun,
she gets it. It's about Thanksgiving, you cold man.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
It is always my favorite time of the year. Our
family would come together to discuss the past, the present,
and the future, and we would always bring somebody in
who was alone for that holiday. It was just a
joyous time.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's what it's all about. You know.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
I want to use that call. Please don't get serious, Michael,
Please don't get serious. Sorry, if you know someone's going
to be alone. My family was great about that. I
mean we you know, I loved I told the story
to AJ when he was on Jim Croche's wife, Widow,
used to tell the story. She would literally fear her

(18:12):
husband running up to the store because she just never
knew what he'd come back with. He would leave and
go to the store for butter or milk or something
and come home with a human being.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
You know.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Like like we pass homeless people all the time, Jim
Crochy didn't pass them hey, man, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Just a little down on my luck. Well, don't be
down on your luck. I got plenty room in my house.
And he'd just take him in the car. And she
tried to explain.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
To him one night, you know, one of these times, Jim,
you're going to bring home a killer or something. We
don't know who these people are trying to He was like,
I mean, he was a wonderful man. But that's kind
of how our family was too. I don't think a
Thanksgiving table is complete if if a loved one is missing,

(18:59):
if of a close friend, like we're very close with
the Watses, and you know, it's just like it's a
no brainer. I mean, we could have our two homes
have Thanksgiving alone, but it's so much better together. I
don't have any childhood. I mean, I will tell you shamelessly.
There are some funny stories about when the Labrador retriever

(19:20):
got the turkey before it got to the table. Oh wow,
well funny now, Mom cried, it's a sitcom. It did
kind of a little bit revolve around football. But you know,
when you grow up in the Midwest and you know
the Lions Thanksgiving Day tradition in the latter years with
John Madden, which then you get into the turducan, which,

(19:43):
by the way, it was my father who introduced John
Madden to the Traducan.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah, he came to New Orleans to cover a Super
Bowl and they had him up at the radio station
at w W and Dad had him on the air
with one of the chefs and they made a turduck
out to the player. So in fact, they still air
the was that CBS or Fox? I can't remember that time.

(20:09):
It was Pat Summerle and Madden on CBS. I think
it was CBS. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, because it
was a CBS pregame show where they did the feature
with my dad and John Madden and him learning all
about producted and then that became a tradition. But like
in our house, the door doors were never locked, they
were never closed for long.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
People were always coming and going.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Here's my most vivid Donna memory, and that is it'd
be late in Thanksgiving. So now we're making, you know, sandwiches,
which was my favorite, turkey, white meat, lots of salt.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Swiss cheese.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Have you have v mayo and like wonderbread that will
stick to the roof of your mouth when you bite
it while you're watching a football game. And that's when Bernard,
the chef from Chateau Country Club would show up, the
chef from the Entry Club.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
When he was done feeding everybody on Thanksgiving, he come
to our house.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Wow, but that's what Thanksgiving should be, all right, you know,
you should be surrounded by the things you're most thankful for.
And I just you know, in Donna's stories and and
in my memories, I can't imagine anybody past the turkey.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Do you see what that damn Nixon did? I mean,
come on, who's talking.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
We always lived in the We lived in the shadow
of Fort Campbell up around Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Who road Kentucky?

Speaker 6 (21:27):
So at Tuck Thanksgiving and Christmas, my parents would always
invite a military couple at our church to come to
our house for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so they weren't.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Alone, that's the way.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
And they parachute in and that was really it was
always fun, have a flyover after the great.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hey, you don't mind if I eat mine out of
this little tin plate? Do you put this in my
rec sect? Neanxt thing?

Speaker 5 (21:54):
You know, your uncle's out back smoking with a soldier. Yeah,
I got him good. No, I mean just close your eyes.
I mean, what do you have to be thankful for?
It's it's everywhere around you. Thanksgiving has always been my
favorite holiday, and it's my wife's least favorite.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
But then again, I don't do the cooking. She's married
to you.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
That's the one time I really am a lousy husband Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
And then, you know what, I had the nerve to do. What?
Oh this is so low. Someone's listening right now.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
I would have thought he'd be a good husband, and
he's really he's really jerk.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
I like my husband. BA. Why do I picture listeners
that talk like that? They don't, I don't know. No.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
But after I have like I get up early, you know,
and I start doing the cellar, you know, the celery
with the cream cheese and the black olives.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Like I like, that's for pre game.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Oh yeah, I started grabbing a little sweet potato, grabbing
a little stuffing on I'm watching the pregame show.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know, I'll have an average a little bit of everything.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
I am particular, like my I like my cranberry sauce
to have the lines of the can that came in,
you know, because you can get like real cranberries, or
you can get like the pasty whatever that is. I
like the pasty one. And then yeah, then I fall
into like a nap. So yeah, I'm that fat guy
on the couch you fall asleep or in.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
The game.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Death Rattle or Turkey Coma. And then I have the
nerve to wake up after everything's clean.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Like the kid you needy help in the kitchen. No,
it's done.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
And then I'll just sit there and I'll be like, ah,
I can go for a cup of coffee. Then I
get my coffee and I sit down, I said, and
I go. You gotta get started on the Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
I do?

Speaker 5 (23:44):
I do?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I have that guy?

Speaker 6 (23:47):
See our Christmas tree stuff is already up because as
I'm handing out candy on Halloween night, normally Windy is
pulling out all of the Christmas decorations and decorations.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
I you know, I have great intentions, like every day,
I have great intentions to my forty five minutes of cardio,
But there's just something about watching my wife buzz around
and move so much.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
It makes me exhausted. All right, So we wish you
one thing. I say about you. Your heart is always
in the right place. Oh it is, it's your actions
that fail you over. I am lazy like my mother,
I really am. I'm working on it.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
There's so much for us all to be thankful for,
starting with our faith God his son, a chance for
eternal life that we didn't deserve, a chance for an
abundant life on earth.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
We certainly don't deserve daily.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Our spouses, our children for some of you that are
really lucky grandchildren or great grandchildren, our jobs, the people
we work with, our friends, the unique people that God
has brought into our life. We're just surrounded by blessings.
It shouldn't be a once a year your holiday. It
should be every morning before your feet ever touched the ground,

(25:04):
a thankful heart. And even for those of you with loss,
we don't mourn like those without hope. That same God
gives us the hope will be together again. So God
bless you guys as you stay focused as Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
If you said what is America? I mean, I'm a
big fan of I drive.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
I used to drive my local listeners crazy with this,
but I love I love businesses that have mission statements.
There was some place and I only went there once.
It was to get take out. They were like caterers.
And when you walked in, I mean, right by the
register was this big, giant mission statement. And that mission
statement is there for me as a customer to know

(25:47):
who's cooking for me, and why it's therefore its employees
to see and remember who they cook for and why.
I just love mission statements. And anybody that used to
work for me in radio when I was in management
knows we would have a mission statement and we would.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Have a war cry. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
I mean, America's mission statement is the declaration of independence,
and maybe the pledge.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Is kind of a.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Short version war cry or longer version of war cry,
and the shortest of war cries would be God, Family country.
That's the essence of America. We are a different country
because of the way we view and live and prioritize God,
a specific God, and living the calling He's put on

(26:45):
our life. And because of that God, and because of
that obedience, we can be self governed. And then we
were family, and then we had an allegiance that we
pledged to a flag of that country and the liberty

(27:09):
and justice it stands for. Think about today, you've allowed.
And I won't blame it just on the left. I
will blame it on just anti influences, probably Satan himself. Literally,

(27:30):
we think we are evolved and elite and high minded
to say all gods, any god, or no god.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Family? What's that? In country?

Speaker 5 (27:48):
We crucify and hate a president right now, first and
foremost because he wants to make America great again, and
he wants Americans to put America first. And that's called nationalism.
And if they can get you in the ultimate checkmate,
combine them Christian nationalism, God and country.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Well.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't know if God comes first, but he should.
I don't know if family comes next, but it should.
I don't know if country comes next, but it should.
Let's focus on family. Do you remember the show focus
on the family? Apparently we've lost that focus. Is there
anything worse than Thanksgiving?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Travel? Yet?

Speaker 5 (28:44):
Eighty million of us will brave trains, planes, and automobiles
to get home? Why because family comes first? Writes The
Wall Street Journal. Except it doesn't. What's the biggest thing
we all think think about? Oh, don't bring up politics?
Why because politics comes first. Anybody that would have a

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strained relationship with their biological mother and father over political policies.
Let's just agree, at the very least puts politics over God,
because you're to honor your mother and father and family.
You have life because of them, and you will only

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get one mom, and you will only get one dad.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
And whether you're.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Functional or dysfunctional, you're to honor them, and then you
will miss them. So the question becomes, how did we
come to this? Wall Street Tryna writes a value Bridge
study which ranks in order each respondent's values on a
scale of one to sixteen.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
There were nearly ninety.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Thousand assessments, the largest data set of its kind, and
the results are heartbreaking. Only eleven percent of the ninety
thousand assessments of Americans ranked family as their number one value.

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I know, I'm all these things. I Some might think, Oh,
he's an author, Oh he was an actor, he was
a movie Oh he was a stand up comedian. Didn't
stand up comedy. No he's a talk show host. No
he was a disc jockey. No he was a manager.
No he was a All you need to put on
my tombstone is family man. I was defined by my
loyalty to my family growing up, and I was defined

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by loyalty and nothing, nothing even tempted me to take
my gaze off my wife and children. I'm a family man.
Whatever I'm doing, I assure you they're involved. And it
didn't matter married, married, wealthy, poor. Less than half of

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all Americans even placed family in their top five values.
God family country not in any of the five. In fact,
thirty five percent had it in the middle range of values.

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For many Americans, personal wellbeing matters more than family and
their personal self care and feeling good. That's top five
for sixty two percent of Americans. The second value is voice,

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the term we use to describe the desire for authentic
and individualistic self expression.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
If America was a kid needs to go to its room,
needs a smack in the back of the head, how
amount of time.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Ultimately with the finding show.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Is for many Americans the life side is actually self
care and self expression. How tragic, how dysfunctional. My entire

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life has been everybody outside of me somehow, whether it's
social dilemma, whether it's in doctrinations, socialization, through education, through
entertainment media, We've become isolated, narcissistic, egotistical, selfish people But

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if your plan was to destroy this country and you
knew how are we going to do it? They got
the strongest military, they got the strongest economy, they got
unshakable faith. The foundation is the family that spreads to
the street, to the neighborhood, to the community, to the county,
to the state, to the country, and they're loyalty to
put their country for well. I guess, to quote Donna,

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when you're talking God, family country, you might have to
be talking about Thanksgiving past, because it's certainly not present.
But if my people called by my name will confess
their sins and repent, I will hear their prayers, and
I will hear their land, and that could give us
a fantastic Thanksgiving of.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
The It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chorno.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Let's review this platinum our.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
You want to have a nice Thanksgiving, Surround yourself with
thankful people, not a bunch of food, because if you
have a table full of narcissists inconsiderate, selfish ingrates, it's
going to be hard to have a nice Thanksgiving. Why

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is he saying that? Ah, you'll need the podcast if
you just woke up, all right, have a great Thanksgiving.
Surround yourself with thankful people, and you will have a
great Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, it's the busiest day of Thanksgiving travel today,
and the President's headed to China.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Why all coming up next hour.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael nil Jorno.