December 16, 2025 • 36 mins
It was a year of trying to reach peace, but from Venezuela to now Syria, it looks like just the opposite. One last visit for the year with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano.
Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the very latest on the search for the gunman who opened fire at Brown University, the arrest of Rob Reiner’s son and a terror plot that was planned for New Year’s Eve in Southern
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well two three, starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in this togein.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is your Morning Show with Michael O'Dell chain all right,
seven minutes after the hour, This is your morning show
on Tuesday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
By the way, it is your morning show number one.
And what's keeping a topic going are your emails and
I share them with the kitchen table, and yes I
respond to them. That's what keeps the topic going. But
also I would tell you the murder of Robin Michelle
Reiner is one of the top three stories of the day,
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as is isis now apparently having a connection with the
Bondai Beach mass murder and shooting, with ISIS flags and
explosives found in their vehicles. Other than that, there's three
new strikes on suspected drug vessels off the Eastern Pacific
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that killed eight alleged narco terrorists, and what appears to
be a retaliation coming to Syria or a strike on ISIS,
and the potential for maybe some breakthrough in the peace
talks from the Ukrainian side, which usually leads to being
a downfall on the Russian side. That's the news. So
(01:45):
don't email me over every Why do keep going on
and on about this Trump post because it is one
of the top stories of the day, and we talk
about news, and you can disagree with me, make sure
you're consistent. I wonder how everyone would have felt had
Joe Biden been president when Charlie Kirk got killed and
(02:08):
Joe Biden, with nothing to do with the case, tried
to tie it to maga hatred towards the left when
it was clearly a son who stabbed to death his
mother and father. I don't have I haven't lost my
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critical thinking or moral standards. I don't have to worship
Donald Trump, and I don't have to be deranged and
hate him. He's my president. I can respect the office.
I can agree with him mostly and when he does
dumb things, or what I would call dysfunctional, dumbfounding, and
disgraceful like he did yesterday. I can acknowledge that too.
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And if that makes you hate me, well then you've
got some kind of a other relief there might. If
there can be a Trump derangement syndrome, there can also
be a Tromp worship syndrome. I don't suffer from it.
If you do hate me, send me the FEUs. I
don't care. James Carafino's joining us. I am so thrilled.
Nothing's going to ruin my fund and having one last
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visit with you this year. I think you're one of
the foremost military and foreign policy authorities on Earth and
I have loved an over fifteen year relationship with you.
And I'm watching Warren Peace play out in twenty twenty five,
and it looks like Wars winning. We talked about peace
piece piece for the first eight months, and now we've
got troop build ups in Venezuela, We've got strikes coming
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to Syria, and it looks like the head that was
decapitated by Trump and the first administration has grown back
with isis Oh, we got a lot to cover good morning,
Lieutenant colonel.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You know, you just get it wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So the problem with how.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Most of us think about war and peace is we.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Think about it in.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
The way that we learned it in school.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I don't if you remember school. That was we used
to go to get educated, and you would come out
knowing more things than when you would in it, and you
could think for yourself. But you know, you would read
a history book and a war would start, you know,
on the you know, chapter six, page one, and then
the war ended on you know whatever, chapter twenty and chapter.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Two, you move on to something else.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
That is not how the world works. The world works
doesn't move in these smooth continuities of times of war
in times of peace. And not only does the reality
of constant kind of go through this thing, but it
it doesn't follow that kind of narrative that.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We're used to. And we see movies and other.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Things like there's very few problems that just get solved.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
And never returned.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
So I would go through all these and I'd say,
you know what, I'm relatively optimistic, then, Azuela, We'll start
there is ground zero for almost everything wrong in the
Western hemisphere. It has become the Disneyland of trafficking, terrorists, Islamist, everything.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Else you name it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's literally where places like Cuba and other leptist regimes
have outsourced everything to just do it there. And the
Maduro machine is a threat, most of all.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
So I don't think we're going to go to war
in Venezuela. I think the president is going to follow
what looks like I call the Anaconda strategy. They're just
going to keep squeezing Maduro till it pops, and then
we have a legitimate leader that can come in. We
probably have government structures that will survive, and and Venezuela
is actually a potentially rich and wealthy country, so I
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don't see us having to go in and doing regime
change and all.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
The other stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
And it's largely surrounded by countries that, unlike ran after
the Iraq War, don't want the country to fail, and
so there are a lot largely I'm going to want
Venezuela to be successful. So I think that's okay there.
You know, in Syria, if you came to me a
year ago, I would have said, dude, is fifty to
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fifty whether today Syria would be in an all out
civil war or not. So the fact that the killing
of American soldiers isn't early tragic and horrifying to to
all of us. And I mean, you know, having served
in the military for twenty five years, nobody feels these
losses more than I do. But the reality is Syria
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could be a hell of a lot worse. And the
fact that the US is paying attention, and I think
a very restrained and appropriate way, I take that.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
As a good sign.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
And the one thing I would say about the Ukraine
conflict is whether the peace.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Succeeds or fails.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
The one thing that the President's accomplices, He's largely gotten
Ukraine and Europe and the United States are a relatively
common vision in for the future of the country. And
that's a real achievement because that vision will be implemented
regardless of the war with Russia stops or not. And
Ukraine is not losing this word. Russia is not running
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over them. And every day this war goes on, Russia's
strategic threat to the United States, whether it's in Europe
and the Middle East or our interests in South Cox
and Centralia, it declines so I'm looking at Christmas and saying.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You know, break out, the break out the uh, you know,
the Christmas gifts and the mould line.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
All right, let's take them one at a time, you know,
is right.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That's the most important thing at Christmas?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Wait? Wit is it?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Scrufa? No?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Little little fried goball go balls makes the honey and
hard candy like the best thing ever?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I don't think we ever did those, oh amond all
the Italian cookies, but I don't think we ever did those.
You can send me up a nice gesture. It seems
like I brought up the seesaw earlier. You know, you
can't look if Russia wants to get everything its way
and you Ukraine wants to get everything its way, they
need to fight and somebody needs to win. If you
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want to stop the fighting, because it's ultimately going nowhere,
there's going to have to be concessions. And it seems
like we're just on a seesaw where we get Russia
to like something and then then Ukraine doesn't. Then we
got Ukraine back on board. I suspect now Russia won't
be happy. I mean, like, I love your vision of
long term what it's achieved, there will be a Ukraine
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without being you know, in the UN and it will
have a place and it will be supported. And we're
on the same page. And Russia is isolated, and I
think even China's running out of patients with this. But
bringing it to an end anytime soon looks like a
difficult proposition.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Maybe it's it's really kind of all up to Vladimir.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The reality is it's a grinding war of attrition and
grinding more of attritions. When the two sides have no
support from each other, usually fight themselves.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Into exhaustion.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
And they make a piece and neither side can.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Really benefit from that.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
When you have a war of attrition in which both
sides essentially have the back door and there's continue a
flowing in, that war can continue for actually a very
long time. And you know, the warrant Syria actually went
on for fourteen years, the Civil War in Syria, largely
because Syria had an open door to Russia, and the
Russians kept the Syrians in the fight, and they had
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the Iranians, and the Iranians kept the Syrians in the fight.
And so you would say, well, the simple answer is heeries.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Let's just close off the back door. Well, the Chinese.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Aren't going to do that because they don't want the
Russians to get humiliated. And we're not going to do
that because we're not going to hand Ukraine over to
Russia because there's no advantage for the Western doing that.
And I mean, people talk about the money that are
pouring in. It's a lot, you know, it's a lot
cheaper than essentially having Russians running around owning Ukraine and
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on your door stuff. So the reality is that somebody
has to blink or get a bullet to the head
and uh, you know, we'll.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
See, all right.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
But here's the thing. This is the genius. Sorry, this
is the genius of the Donald Trump strategy. Sorry, we
are we are in. We are supporting Ukraine, I think
at a very acceptable level of resource and risk met
And the thing is is Trump. And this is the
genius I love about Trump. Trump has designed a strategy
where he wins either way.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And this is also true in Venezuela. We win either way.
And this is true with a lot of the things.
When Trump gets to unfold and put his.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Strategy in place, it usually winds up.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
With hey, we get a deal. I win, we don't
get a deal, I win.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I love that very Italian James Carafinal joining US Lieutenant
colonel from the Heritage Foundation. I was talking about how
insensitive and it's one of those things I just wish
you wouldn't do stuff like his his post yesterday on
on on Rob Reiner and his wife's tragic death. Things
he does that. I love the comment that I was
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ready to defend before he did that we got distracted,
which was maybe we should look at fentanyl like a
weapon of mass destruction. Maybe that one in the context
in which the President brought it up first and foremost,
but specifically when you add up how many people die
every year and the intentionality of how the fentanyl gets
to Mexico, gets mixed and gets or to Venezuela, or
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to Columbia wherever it comes from, and then gets into
the United States, it's killed as much as a weapon
of mass destruction. Would. I mean, you know, I like
the thought of calling it a war on drugs because
it is, and fighting it like a war. I think
he's kind of taken a Kennedy esque strategy in more
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of a quarantine where if we're going to stop you
from bringing it when we find it, or we're going
to seize it and some oil along the way. How
does that play out? Has has Venezuela somewhat reminded you
a bit of Cuba and the affiliations with Iran versus
Cuba's with the Soviet Union, I mean, and the fact
that it's in the hemisphere makes it different.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So I'm looking back to the President's comment because this
is one of the things I actually love and admire
about our president, and that is he says what's on
the top of his mind. And I really actually appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
And you know, I'm sure we all.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Have moments and I could lose stories when we said,
oh my god, I wish.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
He hadn't said that.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But what I love about our president is he's actually genuine. Now, look,
I don't think he's going to go into a jihad
against Reiners. But the reality is is he was trying
to be president of Nited States. He's trying to save
this country. He's trying to do all these things, and
here was some guy that was throwing rocks at him,
you know who, And a lot of those rocks were okay,
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So he was angry about that, and he was honest.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
About that anger. I get that. You should.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Maybe it's not the most empathetic, comforting, maybe not the
most correct thing to say, because while Rob Reiner was
a jerk, he was also a person who was willing
to talk to other people, argue with other people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
To debate other people.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
He was as as passionate in his views as Donald
Trump is in his views. So maybe we should start
respecting that in each other's when it's when it's genuine
and and but but whatever. But so I don't have it,
I get it, and we have the president we have.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
You don't necessarily say it a different way?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Can I say it a different way? Just to make
sure that we're in the same place. I think Donald
Trump was a disruptive force. I think he will be
a historic figure. He was great at our preparation for
exodus because he revealed the captivity we're in. Comments lest
like yesterday showed me he's not the one to lead
us into the Promised Land because we don't want to
bring a lot of those bad traits into the new
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Promised Land. But that doesn't it doesn't it doesn't finish
the prep role. It just means there's got to be
something after Donald Trump that does more than just reveal
the negative side of media bias and mainstream media doesn't
just reveal the hatred of the other side, but that
we go back towards our intent and creation and less
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like our enemies that he has defeated for a short
period of time, because those enemies enemies can defeat us.
And and this could be really disagree.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
I think the problem is. The thing is I want
a leader that is perfect instead of what we get,
which is leaders that are often flawed and imperfect. And
I'll take Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Any day of the week.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I don't want a nicer, smoother, more gentle Donald Trump.
I like Donald Trump, and I gotta tell you he's
the most empathetic person on the universe if people reached
out to him in an honest way, and he would
be the first to be.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
A healer and not an instructor. But so but on on.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Uh, you know, Latin America. I think you're right and everything.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
You said, and what's really.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Important is, you know, everybody's fixtated on you know, spoo,
you know getting you know, blown up drug boats. But
the reality is, if you want to take them on
the cartels.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
You have to move up the value chain.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
And you know, just like you know with Donnie Brasco,
we went in, you know, we got into a low
level gang.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We mapped the larger thing. We moved up from there.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
You know, the president went after the drug boats, but
that was the first data point of moving up the
value chain. And what he's doing now is is.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
He's moving up to the things.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That the hitting the cartels in the boat thing, impinging
on their profits low. That's a great stimulant to get
the network to light up. You know, you think second
thoughts and start to move. But then you've got to
move up the chain. And that's what he's what he's doing.
I've got it.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
We're up against We're up against the heartbreak. It's definitely
about regime change. I get that. I wasn't born yesterday.
There is something I know. And with all this focus
on Russia and all this focus on China, China mostly
through tariffs, Russia mostly through invasion of Ukraine ran mostly
because of the tensions in the Middle East. North Korea
is somewhat silent but careful. With a different president, they
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won't behave We've all ignored the other greatest threat, which
is Islam. And it's a problem in Paris, it's a
problem in London, it's a problem in America. It's certainly
a problem around the world that we've taken our eye
off of. And it doesn't matter how much time we
had to talk. The isis the president identified, destroyed and
defeated and cut its head off, seems to have grown
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its head back, not just in this attack in Syria,
but what was planned and what was carried out in Sydney,
and maybe even some of these other plans. So we've
got to get to that in the new year. We
better not take our eye off that ball. It's been
marching along too.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Well. I ven Azuela as in Latin America. Part of
all that, it's because being secure in your own backyard
is a pre purserver to march it out and going
out to these things. And there's a long conversation of
how did ices get back that's really worth having.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well, kind of what my teas was, we'll get But
that's why you're coming back. Let's travel in the new
year is what I pray for. But then again, I
want you to go to all these places they need
to hear your brilliant says to Weed, thanks for the
bright spot. That's the end of the year. We'll talk
to you in twenty twenty six. Merry Christmas, my friend,
and Happy New Year.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
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Speaker 1 (17:21):
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in Rhode Island they continue their search. All we have
are a couple of images from cameras of what appears
to be an over white an overweight white male wearing
a mask like a COVID mask.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And that's about all we have to go on. And
we have two dead teenagers. One was eighteen, the other
was nineteen two. Brilliant one, a beautiful young lady and
one a young man that was going to be a
brain surgeon. This tragedy, we can only pray for justice
in Los Angeles. Please say the son of Hollywood director
Rob Reiner is responsible, or at least being charged with
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the deaths of his mother and father. I got one
email from somebody that said, why is it when anybody
else is in custody. It's alleged, and now this is
just assumed to be the killer. He is accused of
murdering his mother and father. He is charged with murdering
his father, and he's being held without bail on the
murder of his father. In all of American justice, you're
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presumed until proven interest proven guilty. He will get a
trial and the evidence will convict him of what he
is now charged of. I don't know that I'm noticing
the difference in referral. I'm sensitive that kind of thing.
I spent twenty five years covering leftist media bias, which
has now since mostly been exposed. I haven't noticed it
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on this. Have you read Maybe I'm being no, I mean,
everybody's saying accused. I've seen it both ways. I've seen alleged.
Please confirm the gunman in the Bondai Beach mass shooting
in Sydney, Australia, they had ISIS flags and explosives in
their vehicle. Now does that prove that they were members
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of ISIS. No, but it adds to the motive. They
were targeting Jews at a Honka celebration on the beach,
and with these flags, perhaps this father and son shooting
team will eventually have clear ties to ISIS. Worthy of
note because it's ISIS taking credit for the attacks on
two soldiers and an interpreter in Syria that the president
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is promising to retaliate them. As for the cancelation of
the New Year's Eve celebrations in southern California, in the
blocking of a plot that did not turn out to
be ISIS. It turned out to be Turtle Island Liberation Front,
which Royal'll have more on them, but they're mostly an
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anti capitalist group. And then the Friendship canceled their New
Year's Deep concert, which is kind of a tradition. The
fireworks will go on, but there's a lot of Islam's
threat there. There's a lot of people that have migrated
there and England and they certainly haven't assimilated, but They've
had a tremendous effect on change, and that change has
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reared its head in terms of New Year's security. That's
pretty much the top stories. Powerball jackpot we had a rollover,
so it'll be worth one point two billion dollars. And
last night the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dolphins twenty eight
to fifteen. Now we don't have talkbacks today because we're
having some kind of problem with it. I almost promise you,
knowing premiere and iHeart it'll be resolved by tomorrow. But
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we've been relying on emails. This one comes from Jim
in Life. It seems that Rob I think he's talking
about Rob Ryner obviously had hatred for Donald Trump overruled
his ability to use common sense. Seems Trump suffered from
the same problem. His hate for Rob Ryaner led him
throw out to some comm throw out some common sense.
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The common sense of not bashing the dead reminds me
of a Star Trek episode. This is going to shock people.
Are you ready for this? I've never seen an episode
of Star Trek. I know, look at Red. Did I
miss something? Now, when you say Star Trek, what are
we talking about? One of the twelve movies? One of
the five series. I never saw any of them, but
would you have wanted me to watch the William Shatner
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one or one of the later ones. He's referring to
the William Shatner one, I thought reminds me of a
Star Trek episode where the two half white and half
black guys hated each other so much that even when
they saw the hatred had wiped out their planet, they
still tried to kill each other. Does that ring a bell?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Barely?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Not?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Uh, Joey, Not that I agree with all the President
Trump says, Yet I seem to remind myself that we
all have faults, including Jesus himself. That's a new one.
You're gonna have to email me back. I think, more
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importantly than Charlie Kirk that you later mentioned, or Rob
Ryan or that you lead with, I'd like to list
have a list of Jesus's faults. I don't recall any, Michael.
There are actually two forms of Trump derangement syndrome. One
Trump is the embodiment of all evil and all he
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believes should be rejected or worse. And two Trump is
God like good deserves all praise. Always. Look what I've
heard a lot this morning is anger at me for
stating something you know is wrong. And that doesn't mean
I condemn him. It doesn't mean I regret my votes
for him. I just wish he wouldn't do it. I
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wish he took a role, that's all. But if that
leads you to now hate me, say f you. I'll
never listen again. I'm wondering if Mary here is on
to something. Maybe they're Actually it's not Mary, I don't
think I think it's their husband, Bill, Bill. Why do
you use Mary's email? It's very confusing to me. So
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there is Trump derangement. He's all evil, everything he believes
should be rejected or worse. And then there's Trump is
godlike good and deserves all praise always or you more
easily sweep it aside. And all I'm saying is if
this is insensitive but justified, well, then relaxed. When people
are praising Charlie Kirk's death and celebrating it, I'm disgusted
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with both. I'm dumbfounded over both. And this isn't a
new standard I'm willing to take on. Because of the Left.
I've been conformed, I have been or ordered to obey
not conforming to the patterns of this world, but being
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transformed through the renewing of my mind. So I'm not
going to change my character because culture's rotting. I'm going
to maintain that character. I'm going to maintain that light.
I'm going to maintain that salt. I don't think there's
any higher calling in life than being godly in the
midst of an ungodly world, as ungodly as I can
behave no problem forgiving the president. It's just very, very disappointing.
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And if you see it that way but feel a
need to brush it aside, that's about the only difference
we have. But if you've been listening for a while,
that shouldn't be that shocking. Just wanted to comment on
President Trump's comments about Rob Reiner. And by the way,
I'll get accused of keeping beating this drum. It's all
your emails. I wanted to comment on President Trump's comments
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about Rob Reiner. The fact that the son murdered his
parents as a horrible tragedy, and I want to first
acknowledge that. Why can't I just end there? However, Rob
Reiner was a horribly deranged person. If you ever read
any of his tweets on next he was way over
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the top. And it wasn't just once or twice, it
was regular. I said this yesterday.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I kind of found Rob Reiner in real life very
much like Michael Stivic Meathead on the show All in
the Family.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think they. I don't think he was acting much
there so naturally. Like you, I have nothing in common
with him. I didn't like anything he had to say.
I don't think he deserved to be stabbed to death
along with his wife by his son. That's why it
just ends there. And I wouldn't be surprised if he
belittled his son in the Now we're gonna Now we're
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going to read into all this. This we ad dressed
yesterday when I talked about did Rob Reiner's father Karl
looked like a much better human being? Yes? Did it
like he be a much better father?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yes? Was he?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I had no clue. Did Rob Reiner look like he'd
be a very difficult father? Yes? Do I know he was?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't have a clue. But even if I played
your game and he belittled his son in the midst
of a conversation, does that justify the son stabbing his
mother and him to death, of course not, which isn't
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even the issue. The issue is why would you say
something so celebratory of that or justifying of that, and
then it ended with me? They rest in pes. Does
anybody have an email about anything other than Rob Reiner
or the President? I like this one. Dear Michael, what
a Putin's drug addicted son has stabbed him to death?
(27:01):
How would you feel President Trump views Rob Reiner as
a despicable, evil narcissist, so naturally make his death about him,
and somehow that doesn't make him a narcissist. I've been
listening for a long time, and I really appreciate everything
(27:24):
you say and talk about everything, of course not you
stated your piece. Now move on. That's what we do,
because the right never hangs on a mistake of Joe Biden. Heck,
it's been three decades you're still talking about deplorable. But
now words don't matter.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Move on.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
This one. I can teach you a complete sentence in
Spanish in about five seconds if you spell out the
words socks is SoCs Should I hit the dumb button?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know, I don't know what I just said
it Well, I don't lie when I tell you I
didn't study. I didn't study.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'm desperate search of anything other than Donald Trump, anything
other than Rob Reiner, and I don't think I'm going
to be filing it anytime soon. Listening today, December sixteenth,
I felt the need to write and say that somebody's
actually thanking me for being honest in your commentary. Listen,
I don't want to be thanked. It all began with
the President posting something and then somebody asking me the
(28:32):
simple question, why does he do this? In other words,
we all love most of what Donald Trump does. I
guess Lieutenant Colonel Carafana was trying to justify it as well.
I like a president that says what he means, you know,
says what he's thinking. And of course he's going to
say some bad things too, and maybe that's an explanation.
(28:53):
I don't know if the President wrote this original post
or if someone else did, but he certainly owned it
and doubled down in a press conference, and so somebody
presumably him, thought about it, thought about it, typed it,
thought about it, and hits end. And that's what makes
(29:17):
me say dumbfounding that nobody surrounding him would have said. See,
maybe that's not the best thing to send right now,
Maybe that's not the best way to word it. Goose
meat gander, gander meat goose. And can't we all just
get along? All right? Can I play? I'm gonna end
(29:41):
with one thing, and I think I have time because
it's kind of what we broke into, right, we're all
talking about. You know, what do you do when somebody
is so ridiculously opposite? Well that's what James Woods always
found himself in that situation. Because nobody's more conservative than
(30:01):
James Woods. Nobody was more left than Rob Reiner, nobody's
more outspoken than either of them. How on earth could
they be friends.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I'd be at a party at my friend's house, and
people who didn't know that Rob and I knew each other,
they'd see us laughing and you know, kidding each other,
and they go, how is it that you and Rob
Reiner are friends? And I said, what do you mean?
They said, well, you are so different in your politics
and so on. I said, look, let me explain some
(30:33):
of you, Rob Reiner, so that you know, first of all,
I judge people by how they treat me. And Rob
Reiner was a godsend in my life. We got along great,
We loved each other, We had more fun together doing
a very serious subject.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It was a way to kind of get through it.
And he was always on my side.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
But when people would say to me, well, what do
you think of his politics?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I would say, I.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Think Rob Reiner is a great patriot. I agree with
some or many of his ideas on how that patriotism
should be enacted to celebrate the America that we both love. No,
but he doesn't agree with me either, but he also
respects my patriotism. We had a different path to the
same destination, which was a country we both loved. And
(31:21):
when people would say terrible things to me on social
media about him, I said, you got it all wrong.
And yes, I can see how you can disagree with him,
But because you disagree with people doesn't mean that you
have to hate people.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And what Rob and I could do.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Rob and I could sit in a room I consider
room with Sean Penn, by the way, I consider a
room with a lot of my liberal friends and say, look,
I think you're wrong about this and this, and they
can say the same to me, and we would find
a way to work it out and that was one
of the great things about him. He was a real
thinker when you had a chance to talk to him,
(31:58):
and a lot of people just don't think anymore. And look,
I knew he And by the way, we're talking about
a tragedy here about Rob and Michelle, two extraordinary, lovely people.
And you can't forget how important it is because that
marriage Michelle did in Rob's life, what Rob did in
(32:19):
my life at a time when I needed him. And
all I've ever said about Rob Reiner is somebody I love,
respect and cherish. And when my friend Cheryl called me
and said, listen, I want you to hear about this
before it's on the news. Rob and Michelle were murdered,
and I literally said, Robin, Michelle who she goes?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Reiner?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
And I said, I literally, you know when you can't breathe,
I literally said.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And you know, the bottom line is, you can't get
more conservative than James Brooks, and you certainly couldn't get
more leftist than Rob Reiner. I stand here every day
with a flag and it has a quote from John F. Kennedy.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought. Listening to that I've kind of related
to that. I have several friends. We don't have God
(33:15):
in common, we don't have politics in common, and it works.
But I suspect you reject testimonies like that in hand
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Today, it's your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Please and Sydney, Australia say they found ISIS flags and
bombs in the vehicle of the two shooters, Muslim shooters
and he had recently traveled to the Philippines. That doesn't
look good. ISIS ties. US military says strikes on three
boats in eastern Pacific have killed at least eight people
Narco terrorists and had fore charged in the New Year's
(35:13):
Eve plot of mass killing in southern California. And we're
still looking for whoever carried out the shooting at Brown University.
All we know is white, pudgy and wearing a COVID mask.
Rory O'Neil is here with the very latest. Good morning, Rory, we.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Had good morning, and you know there's a lot of
building anxiety, of course, as this drags on and you've
got this mass shooter still on the loose, and typically
a very affluent part of Providence where it's all unfolded,
and not knowing an agenda here, not knowing why the
shooting happened at the school was targeted, if it was
an individual, what the motivation was. You're not even sure
(35:51):
if he's still anywhere in town. The train station's not
too far away, I ninety five not too far away
from this campus, so you know, it could be anywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
This may be days later, and we just scratch our
head and wonder why weren't there more cameras that caught this.
At least we're up to two views of him, and
why there wasn't more security. But the search continues and
at this moment, no clues to go on real strong.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
Leads, not particularly I think I said before, I'm curious
to find the meta data from his phone. You know
that phone data really helped to crack the case of
the Charlie Kirk assass and at least helped get some
of the evidence they attracked. They said phone activity led
them to the gun that was in the woods in
the Charlie Kirk case, and perhaps that's an option here
(36:37):
as well.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That's the latest. We'll have more tomorrow. If there's any
new news on that, go have a great day. Make
sure you cherish your own life. We'll see you tomorrow.
We're all in this together.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well two three, starting your morning off right, A new
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is your Morning Show with Michael O'Dell chain all right,
seven minutes after the hour, This is your morning show
on Tuesday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
By the way, it is your morning show number one.
And what's keeping a topic going are your emails and
I share them with the kitchen table, and yes I
respond to them. That's what keeps the topic going. But
also I would tell you the murder of Robin Michelle
Reiner is one of the top three stories of the day,
(01:03):
as is isis now apparently having a connection with the
Bondai Beach mass murder and shooting, with ISIS flags and
explosives found in their vehicles. Other than that, there's three
new strikes on suspected drug vessels off the Eastern Pacific
(01:24):
that killed eight alleged narco terrorists, and what appears to
be a retaliation coming to Syria or a strike on ISIS,
and the potential for maybe some breakthrough in the peace
talks from the Ukrainian side, which usually leads to being
a downfall on the Russian side. That's the news. So
(01:45):
don't email me over every Why do keep going on
and on about this Trump post because it is one
of the top stories of the day, and we talk
about news, and you can disagree with me, make sure
you're consistent. I wonder how everyone would have felt had
Joe Biden been president when Charlie Kirk got killed and
(02:08):
Joe Biden, with nothing to do with the case, tried
to tie it to maga hatred towards the left when
it was clearly a son who stabbed to death his
mother and father. I don't have I haven't lost my
(02:31):
critical thinking or moral standards. I don't have to worship
Donald Trump, and I don't have to be deranged and
hate him. He's my president. I can respect the office.
I can agree with him mostly and when he does
dumb things, or what I would call dysfunctional, dumbfounding, and
disgraceful like he did yesterday. I can acknowledge that too.
(02:52):
And if that makes you hate me, well then you've
got some kind of a other relief there might. If
there can be a Trump derangement syndrome, there can also
be a Tromp worship syndrome. I don't suffer from it.
If you do hate me, send me the FEUs. I
don't care. James Carafino's joining us. I am so thrilled.
Nothing's going to ruin my fund and having one last
(03:13):
visit with you this year. I think you're one of
the foremost military and foreign policy authorities on Earth and
I have loved an over fifteen year relationship with you.
And I'm watching Warren Peace play out in twenty twenty five,
and it looks like Wars winning. We talked about peace
piece piece for the first eight months, and now we've
got troop build ups in Venezuela, We've got strikes coming
(03:34):
to Syria, and it looks like the head that was
decapitated by Trump and the first administration has grown back
with isis Oh, we got a lot to cover good morning,
Lieutenant colonel.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You know, you just get it wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So the problem with how.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Most of us think about war and peace is we.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Think about it in.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
The way that we learned it in school.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I don't if you remember school. That was we used
to go to get educated, and you would come out
knowing more things than when you would in it, and you
could think for yourself. But you know, you would read
a history book and a war would start, you know,
on the you know, chapter six, page one, and then
the war ended on you know whatever, chapter twenty and chapter.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Two, you move on to something else.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
That is not how the world works. The world works
doesn't move in these smooth continuities of times of war
in times of peace. And not only does the reality
of constant kind of go through this thing, but it
it doesn't follow that kind of narrative that.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We're used to. And we see movies and other.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Things like there's very few problems that just get solved.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
And never returned.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
So I would go through all these and I'd say,
you know what, I'm relatively optimistic, then, Azuela, We'll start
there is ground zero for almost everything wrong in the
Western hemisphere. It has become the Disneyland of trafficking, terrorists, Islamist, everything.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Else you name it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's literally where places like Cuba and other leptist regimes
have outsourced everything to just do it there. And the
Maduro machine is a threat, most of all.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
So I don't think we're going to go to war
in Venezuela. I think the president is going to follow
what looks like I call the Anaconda strategy. They're just
going to keep squeezing Maduro till it pops, and then
we have a legitimate leader that can come in. We
probably have government structures that will survive, and and Venezuela
is actually a potentially rich and wealthy country, so I
(05:38):
don't see us having to go in and doing regime
change and all.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
The other stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
And it's largely surrounded by countries that, unlike ran after
the Iraq War, don't want the country to fail, and
so there are a lot largely I'm going to want
Venezuela to be successful. So I think that's okay there.
You know, in Syria, if you came to me a
year ago, I would have said, dude, is fifty to
(06:05):
fifty whether today Syria would be in an all out
civil war or not. So the fact that the killing
of American soldiers isn't early tragic and horrifying to to
all of us. And I mean, you know, having served
in the military for twenty five years, nobody feels these
losses more than I do. But the reality is Syria
(06:26):
could be a hell of a lot worse. And the
fact that the US is paying attention, and I think
a very restrained and appropriate way, I take that.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
As a good sign.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
And the one thing I would say about the Ukraine
conflict is whether the peace.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Succeeds or fails.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
The one thing that the President's accomplices, He's largely gotten
Ukraine and Europe and the United States are a relatively
common vision in for the future of the country. And
that's a real achievement because that vision will be implemented
regardless of the war with Russia stops or not. And
Ukraine is not losing this word. Russia is not running
(07:04):
over them. And every day this war goes on, Russia's
strategic threat to the United States, whether it's in Europe
and the Middle East or our interests in South Cox
and Centralia, it declines so I'm looking at Christmas and saying.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You know, break out, the break out the uh, you know,
the Christmas gifts and the mould line.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
All right, let's take them one at a time, you know,
is right.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That's the most important thing at Christmas?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Wait? Wit is it?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Scrufa? No?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Little little fried goball go balls makes the honey and
hard candy like the best thing ever?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I don't think we ever did those, oh amond all
the Italian cookies, but I don't think we ever did those.
You can send me up a nice gesture. It seems
like I brought up the seesaw earlier. You know, you
can't look if Russia wants to get everything its way
and you Ukraine wants to get everything its way, they
need to fight and somebody needs to win. If you
(08:03):
want to stop the fighting, because it's ultimately going nowhere,
there's going to have to be concessions. And it seems
like we're just on a seesaw where we get Russia
to like something and then then Ukraine doesn't. Then we
got Ukraine back on board. I suspect now Russia won't
be happy. I mean, like, I love your vision of
long term what it's achieved, there will be a Ukraine
(08:25):
without being you know, in the UN and it will
have a place and it will be supported. And we're
on the same page. And Russia is isolated, and I
think even China's running out of patients with this. But
bringing it to an end anytime soon looks like a
difficult proposition.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Maybe it's it's really kind of all up to Vladimir.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The reality is it's a grinding war of attrition and
grinding more of attritions. When the two sides have no
support from each other, usually fight themselves.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Into exhaustion.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
And they make a piece and neither side can.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Really benefit from that.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
When you have a war of attrition in which both
sides essentially have the back door and there's continue a
flowing in, that war can continue for actually a very
long time. And you know, the warrant Syria actually went
on for fourteen years, the Civil War in Syria, largely
because Syria had an open door to Russia, and the
Russians kept the Syrians in the fight, and they had
(09:24):
the Iranians, and the Iranians kept the Syrians in the fight.
And so you would say, well, the simple answer is heeries.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Let's just close off the back door. Well, the Chinese.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Aren't going to do that because they don't want the
Russians to get humiliated. And we're not going to do
that because we're not going to hand Ukraine over to
Russia because there's no advantage for the Western doing that.
And I mean, people talk about the money that are
pouring in. It's a lot, you know, it's a lot
cheaper than essentially having Russians running around owning Ukraine and
(09:53):
on your door stuff. So the reality is that somebody
has to blink or get a bullet to the head
and uh, you know, we'll.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
See, all right.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
But here's the thing. This is the genius. Sorry, this
is the genius of the Donald Trump strategy. Sorry, we
are we are in. We are supporting Ukraine, I think
at a very acceptable level of resource and risk met
And the thing is is Trump. And this is the
genius I love about Trump. Trump has designed a strategy
where he wins either way.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And this is also true in Venezuela. We win either way.
And this is true with a lot of the things.
When Trump gets to unfold and put his.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Strategy in place, it usually winds up.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
With hey, we get a deal. I win, we don't
get a deal, I win.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I love that very Italian James Carafinal joining US Lieutenant
colonel from the Heritage Foundation. I was talking about how
insensitive and it's one of those things I just wish
you wouldn't do stuff like his his post yesterday on
on on Rob Reiner and his wife's tragic death. Things
he does that. I love the comment that I was
(10:59):
ready to defend before he did that we got distracted,
which was maybe we should look at fentanyl like a
weapon of mass destruction. Maybe that one in the context
in which the President brought it up first and foremost,
but specifically when you add up how many people die
every year and the intentionality of how the fentanyl gets
to Mexico, gets mixed and gets or to Venezuela, or
(11:20):
to Columbia wherever it comes from, and then gets into
the United States, it's killed as much as a weapon
of mass destruction. Would. I mean, you know, I like
the thought of calling it a war on drugs because
it is, and fighting it like a war. I think
he's kind of taken a Kennedy esque strategy in more
(11:40):
of a quarantine where if we're going to stop you
from bringing it when we find it, or we're going
to seize it and some oil along the way. How
does that play out? Has has Venezuela somewhat reminded you
a bit of Cuba and the affiliations with Iran versus
Cuba's with the Soviet Union, I mean, and the fact
that it's in the hemisphere makes it different.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So I'm looking back to the President's comment because this
is one of the things I actually love and admire
about our president, and that is he says what's on
the top of his mind. And I really actually appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
And you know, I'm sure we all.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Have moments and I could lose stories when we said,
oh my god, I wish.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
He hadn't said that.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But what I love about our president is he's actually genuine. Now, look,
I don't think he's going to go into a jihad
against Reiners. But the reality is is he was trying
to be president of Nited States. He's trying to save
this country. He's trying to do all these things, and
here was some guy that was throwing rocks at him,
you know who, And a lot of those rocks were okay,
(12:46):
So he was angry about that, and he was honest.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
About that anger. I get that. You should.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Maybe it's not the most empathetic, comforting, maybe not the
most correct thing to say, because while Rob Reiner was
a jerk, he was also a person who was willing
to talk to other people, argue with other people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
To debate other people.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
He was as as passionate in his views as Donald
Trump is in his views. So maybe we should start
respecting that in each other's when it's when it's genuine
and and but but whatever. But so I don't have it,
I get it, and we have the president we have.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
You don't necessarily say it a different way?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Can I say it a different way? Just to make
sure that we're in the same place. I think Donald
Trump was a disruptive force. I think he will be
a historic figure. He was great at our preparation for
exodus because he revealed the captivity we're in. Comments lest
like yesterday showed me he's not the one to lead
us into the Promised Land because we don't want to
bring a lot of those bad traits into the new
(13:47):
Promised Land. But that doesn't it doesn't it doesn't finish
the prep role. It just means there's got to be
something after Donald Trump that does more than just reveal
the negative side of media bias and mainstream media doesn't
just reveal the hatred of the other side, but that
we go back towards our intent and creation and less
(14:09):
like our enemies that he has defeated for a short
period of time, because those enemies enemies can defeat us.
And and this could be really disagree.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
I think the problem is. The thing is I want
a leader that is perfect instead of what we get,
which is leaders that are often flawed and imperfect. And
I'll take Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Any day of the week.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I don't want a nicer, smoother, more gentle Donald Trump.
I like Donald Trump, and I gotta tell you he's
the most empathetic person on the universe if people reached
out to him in an honest way, and he would
be the first to be.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
A healer and not an instructor. But so but on on.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Uh, you know, Latin America. I think you're right and everything.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
You said, and what's really.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Important is, you know, everybody's fixtated on you know, spoo,
you know getting you know, blown up drug boats. But
the reality is, if you want to take them on
the cartels.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
You have to move up the value chain.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
And you know, just like you know with Donnie Brasco,
we went in, you know, we got into a low
level gang.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We mapped the larger thing. We moved up from there.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
You know, the president went after the drug boats, but
that was the first data point of moving up the
value chain. And what he's doing now is is.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
He's moving up to the things.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That the hitting the cartels in the boat thing, impinging
on their profits low. That's a great stimulant to get
the network to light up. You know, you think second
thoughts and start to move. But then you've got to
move up the chain. And that's what he's what he's doing.
I've got it.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
We're up against We're up against the heartbreak. It's definitely
about regime change. I get that. I wasn't born yesterday.
There is something I know. And with all this focus
on Russia and all this focus on China, China mostly
through tariffs, Russia mostly through invasion of Ukraine ran mostly
because of the tensions in the Middle East. North Korea
is somewhat silent but careful. With a different president, they
(16:01):
won't behave We've all ignored the other greatest threat, which
is Islam. And it's a problem in Paris, it's a
problem in London, it's a problem in America. It's certainly
a problem around the world that we've taken our eye
off of. And it doesn't matter how much time we
had to talk. The isis the president identified, destroyed and
defeated and cut its head off, seems to have grown
(16:23):
its head back, not just in this attack in Syria,
but what was planned and what was carried out in Sydney,
and maybe even some of these other plans. So we've
got to get to that in the new year. We
better not take our eye off that ball. It's been
marching along too.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Well. I ven Azuela as in Latin America. Part of
all that, it's because being secure in your own backyard
is a pre purserver to march it out and going
out to these things. And there's a long conversation of
how did ices get back that's really worth having.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well, kind of what my teas was, we'll get But
that's why you're coming back. Let's travel in the new
year is what I pray for. But then again, I
want you to go to all these places they need
to hear your brilliant says to Weed, thanks for the
bright spot. That's the end of the year. We'll talk
to you in twenty twenty six. Merry Christmas, my friend,
and Happy New Year.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
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But in the meantime, enjoy the podcast. If you're just
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in Rhode Island they continue their search. All we have
are a couple of images from cameras of what appears
to be an over white an overweight white male wearing
a mask like a COVID mask.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And that's about all we have to go on. And
we have two dead teenagers. One was eighteen, the other
was nineteen two. Brilliant one, a beautiful young lady and
one a young man that was going to be a
brain surgeon. This tragedy, we can only pray for justice
in Los Angeles. Please say the son of Hollywood director
Rob Reiner is responsible, or at least being charged with
(18:16):
the deaths of his mother and father. I got one
email from somebody that said, why is it when anybody
else is in custody. It's alleged, and now this is
just assumed to be the killer. He is accused of
murdering his mother and father. He is charged with murdering
his father, and he's being held without bail on the
murder of his father. In all of American justice, you're
(18:39):
presumed until proven interest proven guilty. He will get a
trial and the evidence will convict him of what he
is now charged of. I don't know that I'm noticing
the difference in referral. I'm sensitive that kind of thing.
I spent twenty five years covering leftist media bias, which
has now since mostly been exposed. I haven't noticed it
(19:00):
on this. Have you read Maybe I'm being no, I mean,
everybody's saying accused. I've seen it both ways. I've seen alleged.
Please confirm the gunman in the Bondai Beach mass shooting
in Sydney, Australia, they had ISIS flags and explosives in
their vehicle. Now does that prove that they were members
(19:22):
of ISIS. No, but it adds to the motive. They
were targeting Jews at a Honka celebration on the beach,
and with these flags, perhaps this father and son shooting
team will eventually have clear ties to ISIS. Worthy of
note because it's ISIS taking credit for the attacks on
two soldiers and an interpreter in Syria that the president
(19:43):
is promising to retaliate them. As for the cancelation of
the New Year's Eve celebrations in southern California, in the
blocking of a plot that did not turn out to
be ISIS. It turned out to be Turtle Island Liberation Front,
which Royal'll have more on them, but they're mostly an
(20:03):
anti capitalist group. And then the Friendship canceled their New
Year's Deep concert, which is kind of a tradition. The
fireworks will go on, but there's a lot of Islam's
threat there. There's a lot of people that have migrated
there and England and they certainly haven't assimilated, but They've
had a tremendous effect on change, and that change has
(20:23):
reared its head in terms of New Year's security. That's
pretty much the top stories. Powerball jackpot we had a rollover,
so it'll be worth one point two billion dollars. And
last night the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dolphins twenty eight
to fifteen. Now we don't have talkbacks today because we're
having some kind of problem with it. I almost promise you,
knowing premiere and iHeart it'll be resolved by tomorrow. But
(20:46):
we've been relying on emails. This one comes from Jim
in Life. It seems that Rob I think he's talking
about Rob Ryner obviously had hatred for Donald Trump overruled
his ability to use common sense. Seems Trump suffered from
the same problem. His hate for Rob Ryaner led him
throw out to some comm throw out some common sense.
(21:07):
The common sense of not bashing the dead reminds me
of a Star Trek episode. This is going to shock people.
Are you ready for this? I've never seen an episode
of Star Trek. I know, look at Red. Did I
miss something? Now, when you say Star Trek, what are
we talking about? One of the twelve movies? One of
the five series. I never saw any of them, but
would you have wanted me to watch the William Shatner
(21:28):
one or one of the later ones. He's referring to
the William Shatner one, I thought reminds me of a
Star Trek episode where the two half white and half
black guys hated each other so much that even when
they saw the hatred had wiped out their planet, they
still tried to kill each other. Does that ring a bell?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Barely?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Not?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Uh, Joey, Not that I agree with all the President
Trump says, Yet I seem to remind myself that we
all have faults, including Jesus himself. That's a new one.
You're gonna have to email me back. I think, more
(22:16):
importantly than Charlie Kirk that you later mentioned, or Rob
Ryan or that you lead with, I'd like to list
have a list of Jesus's faults. I don't recall any, Michael.
There are actually two forms of Trump derangement syndrome. One
Trump is the embodiment of all evil and all he
(22:37):
believes should be rejected or worse. And two Trump is
God like good deserves all praise. Always. Look what I've
heard a lot this morning is anger at me for
stating something you know is wrong. And that doesn't mean
I condemn him. It doesn't mean I regret my votes
for him. I just wish he wouldn't do it. I
(22:59):
wish he took a role, that's all. But if that
leads you to now hate me, say f you. I'll
never listen again. I'm wondering if Mary here is on
to something. Maybe they're Actually it's not Mary, I don't
think I think it's their husband, Bill, Bill. Why do
you use Mary's email? It's very confusing to me. So
(23:20):
there is Trump derangement. He's all evil, everything he believes
should be rejected or worse. And then there's Trump is
godlike good and deserves all praise always or you more
easily sweep it aside. And all I'm saying is if
this is insensitive but justified, well, then relaxed. When people
are praising Charlie Kirk's death and celebrating it, I'm disgusted
(23:45):
with both. I'm dumbfounded over both. And this isn't a
new standard I'm willing to take on. Because of the Left.
I've been conformed, I have been or ordered to obey
not conforming to the patterns of this world, but being
(24:05):
transformed through the renewing of my mind. So I'm not
going to change my character because culture's rotting. I'm going
to maintain that character. I'm going to maintain that light.
I'm going to maintain that salt. I don't think there's
any higher calling in life than being godly in the
midst of an ungodly world, as ungodly as I can
behave no problem forgiving the president. It's just very, very disappointing.
(24:30):
And if you see it that way but feel a
need to brush it aside, that's about the only difference
we have. But if you've been listening for a while,
that shouldn't be that shocking. Just wanted to comment on
President Trump's comments about Rob Reiner. And by the way,
I'll get accused of keeping beating this drum. It's all
your emails. I wanted to comment on President Trump's comments
(24:53):
about Rob Reiner. The fact that the son murdered his
parents as a horrible tragedy, and I want to first
acknowledge that. Why can't I just end there? However, Rob
Reiner was a horribly deranged person. If you ever read
any of his tweets on next he was way over
(25:14):
the top. And it wasn't just once or twice, it
was regular. I said this yesterday.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I kind of found Rob Reiner in real life very
much like Michael Stivic Meathead on the show All in
the Family.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think they. I don't think he was acting much
there so naturally. Like you, I have nothing in common
with him. I didn't like anything he had to say.
I don't think he deserved to be stabbed to death
along with his wife by his son. That's why it
just ends there. And I wouldn't be surprised if he
belittled his son in the Now we're gonna Now we're
(25:54):
going to read into all this. This we ad dressed
yesterday when I talked about did Rob Reiner's father Karl
looked like a much better human being? Yes? Did it
like he be a much better father?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yes? Was he?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I had no clue. Did Rob Reiner look like he'd
be a very difficult father? Yes? Do I know he was?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't have a clue. But even if I played
your game and he belittled his son in the midst
of a conversation, does that justify the son stabbing his
mother and him to death, of course not, which isn't
(26:37):
even the issue. The issue is why would you say
something so celebratory of that or justifying of that, and
then it ended with me? They rest in pes. Does
anybody have an email about anything other than Rob Reiner
or the President? I like this one. Dear Michael, what
a Putin's drug addicted son has stabbed him to death?
(27:01):
How would you feel President Trump views Rob Reiner as
a despicable, evil narcissist, so naturally make his death about him,
and somehow that doesn't make him a narcissist. I've been
listening for a long time, and I really appreciate everything
(27:24):
you say and talk about everything, of course not you
stated your piece. Now move on. That's what we do,
because the right never hangs on a mistake of Joe Biden. Heck,
it's been three decades you're still talking about deplorable. But
now words don't matter.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Move on.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
This one. I can teach you a complete sentence in
Spanish in about five seconds if you spell out the
words socks is SoCs Should I hit the dumb button?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know, I don't know what I just said
it Well, I don't lie when I tell you I
didn't study. I didn't study.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'm desperate search of anything other than Donald Trump, anything
other than Rob Reiner, and I don't think I'm going
to be filing it anytime soon. Listening today, December sixteenth,
I felt the need to write and say that somebody's
actually thanking me for being honest in your commentary. Listen,
I don't want to be thanked. It all began with
the President posting something and then somebody asking me the
(28:32):
simple question, why does he do this? In other words,
we all love most of what Donald Trump does. I
guess Lieutenant Colonel Carafana was trying to justify it as well.
I like a president that says what he means, you know,
says what he's thinking. And of course he's going to
say some bad things too, and maybe that's an explanation.
(28:53):
I don't know if the President wrote this original post
or if someone else did, but he certainly owned it
and doubled down in a press conference, and so somebody
presumably him, thought about it, thought about it, typed it,
thought about it, and hits end. And that's what makes
(29:17):
me say dumbfounding that nobody surrounding him would have said. See,
maybe that's not the best thing to send right now,
Maybe that's not the best way to word it. Goose
meat gander, gander meat goose. And can't we all just
get along? All right? Can I play? I'm gonna end
(29:41):
with one thing, and I think I have time because
it's kind of what we broke into, right, we're all
talking about. You know, what do you do when somebody
is so ridiculously opposite? Well that's what James Woods always
found himself in that situation. Because nobody's more conservative than
(30:01):
James Woods. Nobody was more left than Rob Reiner, nobody's
more outspoken than either of them. How on earth could
they be friends.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I'd be at a party at my friend's house, and
people who didn't know that Rob and I knew each other,
they'd see us laughing and you know, kidding each other,
and they go, how is it that you and Rob
Reiner are friends? And I said, what do you mean?
They said, well, you are so different in your politics
and so on. I said, look, let me explain some
(30:33):
of you, Rob Reiner, so that you know, first of all,
I judge people by how they treat me. And Rob
Reiner was a godsend in my life. We got along great,
We loved each other, We had more fun together doing
a very serious subject.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It was a way to kind of get through it.
And he was always on my side.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
But when people would say to me, well, what do
you think of his politics?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I would say, I.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Think Rob Reiner is a great patriot. I agree with
some or many of his ideas on how that patriotism
should be enacted to celebrate the America that we both love. No,
but he doesn't agree with me either, but he also
respects my patriotism. We had a different path to the
same destination, which was a country we both loved. And
(31:21):
when people would say terrible things to me on social
media about him, I said, you got it all wrong.
And yes, I can see how you can disagree with him,
But because you disagree with people doesn't mean that you
have to hate people.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And what Rob and I could do.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Rob and I could sit in a room I consider
room with Sean Penn, by the way, I consider a
room with a lot of my liberal friends and say, look,
I think you're wrong about this and this, and they
can say the same to me, and we would find
a way to work it out and that was one
of the great things about him. He was a real
thinker when you had a chance to talk to him,
(31:58):
and a lot of people just don't think anymore. And look,
I knew he And by the way, we're talking about
a tragedy here about Rob and Michelle, two extraordinary, lovely people.
And you can't forget how important it is because that
marriage Michelle did in Rob's life, what Rob did in
(32:19):
my life at a time when I needed him. And
all I've ever said about Rob Reiner is somebody I love,
respect and cherish. And when my friend Cheryl called me
and said, listen, I want you to hear about this
before it's on the news. Rob and Michelle were murdered,
and I literally said, Robin, Michelle who she goes?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Reiner?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
And I said, I literally, you know when you can't breathe,
I literally said.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And you know, the bottom line is, you can't get
more conservative than James Brooks, and you certainly couldn't get
more leftist than Rob Reiner. I stand here every day
with a flag and it has a quote from John F. Kennedy.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought. Listening to that I've kind of related
to that. I have several friends. We don't have God
(33:15):
in common, we don't have politics in common, and it works.
But I suspect you reject testimonies like that in hand
as well. If we disagree, we must hate. Problem with
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Speaker 4 (34:52):
Please and Sydney, Australia say they found ISIS flags and
bombs in the vehicle of the two shooters, Muslim shooters
and he had recently traveled to the Philippines. That doesn't
look good. ISIS ties. US military says strikes on three
boats in eastern Pacific have killed at least eight people
Narco terrorists and had fore charged in the New Year's
(35:13):
Eve plot of mass killing in southern California. And we're
still looking for whoever carried out the shooting at Brown University.
All we know is white, pudgy and wearing a COVID mask.
Rory O'Neil is here with the very latest. Good morning, Rory, we.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Had good morning, and you know there's a lot of
building anxiety, of course, as this drags on and you've
got this mass shooter still on the loose, and typically
a very affluent part of Providence where it's all unfolded,
and not knowing an agenda here, not knowing why the
shooting happened at the school was targeted, if it was
an individual, what the motivation was. You're not even sure
(35:51):
if he's still anywhere in town. The train station's not
too far away, I ninety five not too far away
from this campus, so you know, it could be anywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
This may be days later, and we just scratch our
head and wonder why weren't there more cameras that caught this.
At least we're up to two views of him, and
why there wasn't more security. But the search continues and
at this moment, no clues to go on real strong.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
Leads, not particularly I think I said before, I'm curious
to find the meta data from his phone. You know
that phone data really helped to crack the case of
the Charlie Kirk assass and at least helped get some
of the evidence they attracked. They said phone activity led
them to the gun that was in the woods in
the Charlie Kirk case, and perhaps that's an option here
(36:37):
as well.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
That's the latest. We'll have more tomorrow. If there's any
new news on that, go have a great day. Make
sure you cherish your own life. We'll see you tomorrow.
We're all in this together.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
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