December 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Loved it or hated it, 2025 is about to slip into history. David Zanotti joins to look forward at 2026 and what to expect and the dreaded possibility of the unexpected!
As the U.S. continues to mass military power off Venezuela, Secretary Hegseth responds to requests to release video of the “second strike” on the suspected drug boat in the Caribbean. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on what the Pentagon is saying about President Trump’s efforts to stop drug trafficking – and the military buildup.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Michael. Your morning show can be heard weekday
mornings in great cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Memphis,
in Nashville, Tennessee, and we got you covered in California,
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento. We'd love to
be a part of your morning routine. We're thrilled you're here.
Now enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well two three, starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in the stigold. This is your morning show with Michael
o'deill Tarman.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Seven minutes after the hour. Thank you, Mike McCann. Good
morning one and all, and welcome to America's kitchen table.
It is Wednesday, December the seventeenth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five on the air, streaming live nationwide on
your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
This is your morning show. Well, President Trump's going to
address the.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Nation tonight and nobody knows about what is it just
to tell us where the hottest nation and things have
never been better? Is it to do a year in
review and next year in preview? Is it about a
quarantine in Venezuela? We just simply don't know, but it'll
address the Nation nine Eastern, eighth Central. Tonight, Rob Reiner's
(01:08):
son has been charged now with two counts of first
degree murder. That timeline and evidence is starting to become
a parent. He checked in to a Santa Monica hotel
about or just before four a m. On Sunday morning
or late Saturday night. Now the timeline begins to look
(01:28):
as though he killed his mother and father after whatever
altercation was happening at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party, went back
to the house. It obviously ended in both dead. The
hotel room, which he paid for with his own credit card,
was filled with blood in the shower, blood in the bed.
I don't have to tell you that blood is likely
going to come back as Rob and Michelle Reiner. So
(01:51):
we're getting a little better sense of the timeline. Someone
was to have a massage Sunday morning, and when no
one answered the gate, Rob Reiner's daughter was notified and
she came immediately identified her father's body, not she did
not see her mother's body. She was found by the
Corners in law enforcement when they arrived, and the manhunt
(02:11):
continues with not a whole lot to go on. It's
like watching Dateline where they do like a whole two
hour show with you know, two polaroid shots at people.
But we did get a third video of the gunman,
but not a lot to go on and a lot
to piece together to try to find out who it
was it carried out the killing of two young students
(02:34):
and injuring others. And then the big controversy is Susie
Wiles spent apparently eleven hours with Vanity Fair. You can
say a lot in eleven hours, all digitally recorded, maybe taken,
as they're claiming, out of context. That's a lot of
time to spend with an adversarial media group. You know,
you wouldn't spend eleven hours. I wouldn't think with The
(02:58):
Atlantic to get a good write up. So that's the
unforced error of the day. And you have and you'll
hear in our Sounds of the day. By I got
an email for somebody said, did you see that elderly
target worker being harassed? That woman was so vile that
I just if I turned that over to Jeffrey to edit,
(03:22):
it would take up his entire morning. That's how many
f bombs were in a short period of time. I
did watch the video. I do know how she was
harassed and knew, and I do know how wonderfully she
handled it. But we'll have in the sounds of the
day how the left is already using the President's truth
(03:44):
social post on Rob Reiner as a deplorable moment that
happened on Jimmy Kimmel with Michelle Obama, who doesn't seem
to go away. I wonder if, I wonder if she's
gonna pop up by the end of twenty twenty six. Well,
that brings us to this segment. Whether you loved twenty
twenty five or hated twenty twenty five, it's about to
(04:07):
slip into the history. And the truth is, what will
next year be? Well, if we think the same, act
the same, do the same as we did this year,
I suspect a lot like this year, or perhaps a
little worse. What is looking forward to be expected in
twenty twenty six and what unexpected could rear its ugly
(04:30):
head and be dreaded in twenty twenty six? Big topics
Get our senior contributor David Sanadi, CEO of the American
Policy Roundtable and host of The Public Square Good Morning David.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Good morning, Michael. It's thanks for putting that really absurd
Christmas song in my head lest Christmas and I gave
you my wrong with ac Caseum, can I tell you
he moved up four big notches this week? No, I,
the listeners are all wanting to do a Christmas party.
You think we should do one next year? You know,
(05:01):
I've got to be really careful because we have staff
around the country with the American Policy around table that
listens every morning to your morning show. So if I
tell you everything that I'm thinking about that wonderful idea
and how we would love to combine it with you
on that and I think we should combine it with
Christmas in America to bring the band up. You know,
there's all man, it's it's it's possibility. I mean, the
(05:25):
Christmas in America program that was done in Nashville is
about to go up on a YouTube video for the
first time. We produced it, and it's I've seen the
first act and it's it's outstanding. And uh, we've already
got requests now to pull the music from the show
and do a separate album of the music. No, honey, Ali,
we could have a great party. I would love that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'd love to meet Mary loved I missed Big John
when he was in town. Jimmy suits, we're trying to
get together, I'll tell you, and fly in for Christmas
in America every year. Isn't a heartbeat You've done this
first as many years.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I can't believe about it. I can hear the resignations
being written right now by people. Well, no, Big John.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Big John has already notified his wife for going to
Nashville on Christmas next year. I've never had in forty
two years of radio relationship with listeners like this. It's
so neat that, you know what, that would be my
crown jewel that we actually have a not an office
Christmas party, a listener kitchen table Christmas party in Nashville
every year.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Maybe we'll travel to a different place. Yeah, you got
my attention on that. So hopefully i'll have staff. I've
got meetings in an hour. Hope show up for work today.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Repetition is supposedly the mother of all learning. And so
I know I say this a lot, but what is
media bias? How is it carried out? Well, it's the
stories you cover and then the stories you ignore, the
angles you choose to cover the angles, you choose to ignore,
the people you talk to, the people you would never
talk to, the quotes you use, the quote you wouldn't
dare use, and then how you word it all. You
(06:53):
spend eleven hours with Vanity fair as Susie Wiles, the
chiefest staff for the President with a digital recorder. That's
a disaster before it happens. And I don't care who
you are. That's a lot of undeserved trust for Vanity Fair.
Red's line of the day was what they can't get
with the folks at Atlantic. I mean it is such
(07:13):
an unforced air. I mean, having done this as long
as I have, what were they thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, I started in this work at the age of thirty.
In the first several years I spent a lot of
time doing media consultations and seminars, sitting with consultants and
people like that, learning how they do what they do.
And there's a lot of the fundamentals that haven't changed.
So the technologies have. And as you were mentioning earlier
in the broadcast, you have to be very well trained
(07:42):
in a media interview to control the content, and even
in spite of everything that's going to end up on
the cutting room floor, and I think she would have
had a better chance of getting an honest shake with
sixty minutes. But the reality is is if you do
eleven hours, you just bought yourself ten hours of trouble.
And look, she has been riding high and has had
(08:04):
nothing but A plus reviews from the President and everybody
around them. So this is what you called an unforced error.
I have to agree, but it's it's got magnitude to
it because I've been reading some of the quotes. Now,
what's happening right now is the campaign for twenty twenty
six is start, and the other side is getting phenomenal
(08:25):
quotes from the president directly and from Susie wils Those
are dangerous commercials.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, we saw on Jimmy kimmellive Michelle Obama. She doesn't
go away, does she. She was last seen lecturing us
that we're not worthy of her and she won't waste
her time. America is sexist, and if you won't elect
a woman, don't waste my time. When you're ready implying
I will run, she shows up. It took them one
second after giggling and saying hello, to get right into
(08:52):
the President's tweet of Rob Reiner. They're they're going to
there's no question they're going to use that as a deplorable.
They won't acknowledge Hillary's deplorable, but they will create Trump's deplorable.
Is that because the midterms are difficult without Trump and
a tariff damaged Trump, which they're going to try to
(09:14):
create an affordability damage Trump. That tweet on Rob Reiner
seizing boats and trying to pick wars with Venezuela tra
They're doing that to win the midterms. That's not an
anti Trump strategy, that's a midterm strategy.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Right, Let's connect the dots here. Also, Susie Wiles just
recently said that the key to winning the twenty twenty
sixth election is to put Trump on the ballot in
all of the races that are genuinely contested. Now, that
changed dramatically in the last forty eight hours based on
the Rob Reiner story banned the Vanity Fair interview. There
(09:47):
are now two issues that are out there. Let's try
to a baseline here. You've got a situation where there
are people that handicap these races and have been doing
so for lifetimes, and is looking at what we've got
right now. Somewhere around eighteen races of the four hundred
and thirty five races for Congress are actually in play.
(10:08):
Cook has got it as ten Dems and eight RS
to seventy to win, has nineteen contests involved, and roll
Call has ten. We could go down five different other
sorting agencies. Somewhere between ten and twenty rases are competitive.
Let me simplificant reality.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, let me add a little color analysis, because you're
about to make my big point, that's how four How
do you fight? How do you fight four hundred and
thirty five people at once? It's hard and it's not
likely you can win. But it really isn't four hundred
and thirty five because there's some really solid blue, and
there's some really solid red, there's some really a couple
of solid independent. It's going to be No, it's not
(10:46):
really four hundred and thirty five. It's really eighteen contested,
and of the eighteen contested, it maybe five or six
of the ten dem and eight leaning Republicans. But when
you make the strategy and it appears is though. This
goes back to something I talked about a lot. These
haven't been read victories and red waves. They've been orange waves.
(11:11):
So trump Ism is doing very well. We don't know
how Republicanism is doing. And then now the trump Ism
is having some struggles on some issues. Now all of
a sudden there's a far right Maga presence that's anti Israel,
which is that counter with the administration. The cost of
the tariffs, the cost of rightfully letting these expired incentives
(11:35):
not incentives for the healthcare Yeah, expire. That's going to
be not just for the individuals whose premiums go up,
but for small business owners, which are a big part
of the Republican party. So we know that they need
Donald Trump. Now we have a Donald Trump that's under attack.
Why because the dem strategy for the midterm is don't
(11:57):
deal with all four hundred and thirty five, with these
eighteen top contested of which we have a two advantage.
And if they're going to give us Trump, let's boil
it down to one that we can attack and make
a difference. That's how you win a fight. They just
got the fight from four and thirty five down to one.
You can expect a lot more of what we've seen
in the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, and this is good and just give you one example. Now,
this is an extreme example for a reason. So if
you rate congressional races from say zero to ten in
regards to competition, you have to understand the makeup of
the district, and then you have to understand the makeup
of the candidates. And that's the big mystery. Right now,
we're talking eighteen races. We haven't got any candidates yet.
We've got a number of contested primaries, and we have incumbents,
(12:38):
but we don't have the real matchups. So you can't
until you put the players in the ring. You can
speculate all you want, you're just talking about phantoms. So
that's also a piece of the puzzle. But let's just
take one race on the extreme. This would be a
Republican race that's held right now by Don Bacon, who
is a Republican incumbent. He won last time in his
(12:58):
district by one point eight percentage of the vote and
Donald Trump lost by four point six points. All right,
so this is an anti Trump district. You know why,
because it's Omaha, Nebraska, Insurance Warren Buffett's hometown, the most
Democrat Republican you could ever find. There's a seat that's
contested right now, Who will they run? What are the options?
(13:20):
It's just a point. You say, well, there's an our seat,
is it really an our seat? I mean, so this
is the kind of stuff now that's the extreme. Some
are pretty much cut and dry. But you take a look.
We're talking about California, California, Washington, Maine, North Carolina, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
New York, and Nebraska. You've got a dozen races across
a half a dozen states. They can mobilize billions into
(13:43):
those races.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
The narrative is going to be focused on discrediting the president.
The money's going to flow to those districts. Oh and
speaking of money in the new year, where will the
big grass top billionaire bucks go? Well for Elon Musk,
he's not starting a third party, after all, he's one
of the biggest donors to Republicans heading into the midterm election.
(14:05):
What's more powerful Trump's endorsement, Trump's visit to your town,
Elon Musk's checkbook.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
One of the big stories today is everyone's coming to
the defense of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Would she do spend eleven hours with Banity Fair. That's
a lot of trust, that's a lot of digital recording.
Now they're claiming they took things out of context, David
in this unforced are is there anyone she left out bashing?
(14:38):
I mean this is either really like the tweet or
the true social post of Donald Trump. Politically, this is
dumbfounding unless it's on purpose. Is this a strategy to
begin to distance everyone else from Trump? Or did they
really think they could spend eleven hours with banity Fair.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And they were going to get a good, good article. Yes,
since we were told it was an hour a month
for eleven months, that means it started at the beginning,
because we're only eleven months past the inaguration, so it
looks like it was institutionalized from the start, in which
case there's really hard to find any agenda. Now it's
up to Vanity Fair to create what they want. This
(15:21):
is a mess. There are at least three outstanding commercials
to be used against Republicans in twenty twenty six. And
the contradiction is this, if Susie Wilds is convinced that
if Donald Trump's on the ballot in these eighteen congressional
races that are contested that the Republicans win. She better
(15:41):
come up with another magic Wand because the stuff that
she's talking about in this interview I think are very dangerous. Well,
give me the top two words you think that are
the most dangerous. The doge comments about Elon Musk is
just huge, and the conspiracy theory stuff about Jade Vance
is also significant, And I could keep going. I mean,
there's some really messy stuff in here.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
This is like in North Dallas forty when mac Davis
is out in front of the office and he goes,
my name come up in their boot.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Did Rubio's name come up in any negative way? No? No,
but she certainly blasted Bondy and the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing.
So and Michael the people that and there are no
objective resources that I'm aware of in regarding to ranking
and rating congressional races. It's a very ego driven game.
And so I we're a nonprofit and non parson, So
(16:33):
I mean, I'm just giving you the facts that companies
are putting up. This race is close. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Hey, this is Top Cop Kathy Hinters and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael Dale Jorno.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Hey it's Michael.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm so glad you found the podcast, and don't forget
you can listen to your morning show live each weekday morning.
Your morning show can be heard in great cities like Youngstown, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee,
Saint Louis, Sacramento, Phoenix, just to name a few. You
can find your morning show city closest to you on
our website, your Morningshow online dot com. And we're glad
you're here for the podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Enjoy good morning, Michael. This is Mary and Idaho.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Okay, So I have an itinerary already set for the
Christmas party next year. Start with a prayer, breakfast and
a tour of music city. Go see the Grand Old O,
bringing a couple honky tonks the person on. Then everyone
retires for a nap and meet up again for a
cocktail hour with maybe with a little bit of a
piano bar vibes. Then dinner and Dan saying, and the
following morning we all meet up for a farewell breakfast.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
At the waffle house. What do you think I'm in?
This is Tanya from Barstown, Kentucky. You host the party
and I'll bring the bourbon.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
So Big John wants to close out the wish and everybody,
all the talkbacks, all the listeners, all the gamblers hope
you cased them, not traditional, all the chefs that are
ready to whack something up this Christmas. A Merry Christmas,
a happy New Year, Jeff. We've read even you, Big Mic.
And by the way, I just mentioned to missus Big
(18:04):
John that we're going to Nashville for Christmas next year.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Book.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm officially making Mary our fun and events coordinator.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
We've got a lot of people wanting to do a
Christmas party here next year. I promise you I'm gonna
I'm gonna see what I can do. I don't know
whether we should do it. See the problem with the
Christmas in America is here. It's the Sunday after Thanksgiving,
which is a little early for the Christmas party. But
and people have family plan. We're going to figure something out.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I do love the idea of the way it's a
home game in naturale. Either way, we got we gotta shot.
Either way.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Maybe get you guys do an encore performance. All right,
if you're just waking up. The President is going to
address the nation tonight, Red brought up a great question
off the air, how do we know the networks are
going to comply?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Is this about Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I keep telling you that Venezuela is a lot like
Cuba and its ties or to Iran, not the Soviet Union,
And we're all but doing a Kennedy style quarantine right now,
including seizing oil tankers. Is tonight's address like when Kennedy
addressed us on the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I don't know. I hope it's not a pep.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Talk on how we're the greatest nation on earth. And
if so, I don't think the networks are going to
stay on very long, So we don't know if it's
something really serious or after Tuesdays True Social Post and
then Susie Wiles Vanity Fair Unforced Air, I hope we
don't have another one coming tonight, which kind of leads
(19:35):
me David's Nadi our senior contributors joining us to this conversation,
which is, you know as well as I do. If
I got a bomb on you, I'm going to lay
it on Thursday or Friday. Why so it sits all
weekend long in their hearts and minds and this case
it's on steroids because of the way Christmas falls. They've
dumped this Susie Wiles, and who knows what they have
(19:57):
coming towards the end of the week as well, right
before a long holiday you brought up off the air
as talk radio all goes on vacation and won't be
here to fend for itself.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yes, the midterms have begun.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yes, the strategy is to target and discredit Trump and
all of his cabinet. And the four hund and thirty
five races are really eighteen, which really come down to
about three or four, and you're taking it out at
the head with Trump. And for those that don't think
the Democrats can take back control of the House, probably
not the Senate, but the House next year in the
(20:32):
midterm election, you are extraordinarily hubris. And I'm telling you
they not only probably will, they got a chance of
winning the White House two in twenty twenty eight. So
you might want to humble yourself, be smart, and outwork
them and outthink them. But I will say this, or
I'll let you say this. They're going to try to
(20:53):
turn Donald Trump's post on Rob Reiner into a deplorable
moment and this eleven months of eleven hours digitally recorded
with Susie Wiles discrediting every member of this cabinet. And
you say out of context, but they can play you
the entire audio in its entirety. This is not a
(21:14):
great way to head into the holidays.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, and that's the idea, is to paint it and
then paint the audience and then let it sit and
then they'll come right back to it in January. And
you're right. The only place where these things are debated
from the ground is talk radio, and particularly at your
morning show, which begins first thing in the morning, at
the table, and you bring people in who actually do
(21:40):
public policy. I'm honored to be one of those people.
Carafano has been at this for a long time. Bonsen
is in the field of economics, and we're not talking
about talking heads here. We're talking about people that do
this stuff. And so you've get an on the ground
sort of perspective, and one that is coming at this
from not carrying the weight in the water of either
local party. As Redd says, we're trying to call balls
(22:02):
and strikes here, and we've been at that a long time.
So yes, this is a careful strategy, a constructed strategy.
It will be matched by billions of dollars into a
dozen or eighteen races. And the Republicans have got a
massive challenge. It's not saying it's an impossible task, but
it is a massive task, and the opponents are clearly energized.
(22:26):
Twenty twenty six is there opening salvo for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And while I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I
caucused with Republicans. If they live what they believe, which
isn't always the case, I'd have a lot in common
with them. The reality is this will energize the Democrats
so they have the affordability and tariffs they have what
they'll try to create. Michelle Obama started on Kimmel last night,
the deplorable moment of the president's post on Rob Reiner,
(22:53):
and now you know what, Frankly, we don't know all
they have. Remember it was an hour a month. We
still have one more installment of this in December. They
could paint this. We go into the weekend and then
a long holiday, everybody's on vacation, and they come back
in January in paint December where she for all we
(23:14):
know said the worst. So the headline is, and these
are from favorable places, Susie Wilds makes shocking statements about Trump,
Vans White House.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Insiders Michael the comment that she made, and again I'm
going to contend that this is most likely totally out
of context and only touch it lightly. But the idea
of coming on the president's personality and that it resembles
someone who's been around an alcoholic. Okay, I don't even
(23:41):
want to go farther than that, because the way that
it was worded, and I've not got the transcript is
out there, David, I can guess it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Her father was a terrible alcoholic who came to Christ
and reformed his life. I'm telling you I know why
she would draw on that making a more positive point. Yes,
but you said we talked about this, I think before
you came on. If I, no, you can't. If I
was doing an interview, first of all, you choose who
you do it with. But eleven hours of trust to
(24:12):
fanity fair that that is just dead on arrival.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So yesterday I was saying, where was Susie Wiles when
the president was posting this thing?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
On Rob Reiner. Why didn't she stop him?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh, she'd been busy hanging out with Vanity Fair all
year and then and doing something even dumber. But when
somebody asked you a question, you give the answer just
as you wanted printed, and it can't be longer than
a sentence or so, and you don't go long. And
if they ask you again, or do they want to
try to get you to elaborate, you give them the
same answer again. After about two or three times, they know, oh,
(24:43):
this guy knows what he's doing. We're not gonna get anywhere.
But if you get loose and feel friendly and start
saying step oh, you're gonna you deserve.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
To get hung. At that point, I sat in enough
crisis management and candidate media consulting moments to know that
making comparisons is very dangerous. The first things you have
to learn is there are certain things you never compare to.
Alcoholism would be one of it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, how about whatever they here's Elon Musk already writing
big checks for Republicans, diving into the twenty twenty six term,
abandoning his third party threat, supporting Republicans, and then he
cracks open Vanity Fair and she's talking about the Pilsey's popping.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, yeah, and now it's this is there's just there's
no way you can put lipstick on this one man.
This is a bad.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Situation, all right. So let me do the hardest question
before we go. What's going on with Michael and DZ?
What are they also all of a sudden anti Trump
first bashing with the President said he had every right
to say about Rob Reiner. I mean, Rob Reiner celebrated
him getting shot. Everybody celebrates Charlie Kirk getting shot. Why
shouldn't we celebrate Rob Reiner and his wife being stabbed
(25:53):
to death by their son. And now you're going with this,
Susie Wiles. These are two big stories and they could
be too big threats, not to the president. He's only
got three years left, no matter what if he's got that,
but for the midterms. But what would you say? Have
we gone crazy anti trumble.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
With me thrown off of your show? And first I've
got another job. But you're saying, but the point of
it is this clear thinking, clear thinking. There is no
perfect person, and when people who who we respect make mistakes,
(26:31):
we certainly don't want to pile on. But if we
don't call a mistake a mistake. Why are we here now.
It might be a misfortunate mistake. It might call for
great compassion, it might call for solid understanding. But a
mistake is a mistake. I make them all the time,
and I have to admit them. And when listeners to
the public square call me out and we go on
(26:52):
the air, not only to respond personally. If we could call,
I go, I go on the air and say, look,
you know, we got corrected and they're right and we're wrong.
So he didn't he doubled down. Yeah, well, and that
they have the right to do that. The nice thing
is is because we are not carrying water for a hero,
We are not carrying water for a party. We're just
(27:13):
trying to talk about how do you live in a
representative republic under the rule of law and maintain credibility
with your neighbors so we can actually work toward loving
each other and doing the right thing. Because if we
can't get along down here on this part of it,
we're going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I've got to find away. Here's another last question. I
promised this one is last. About to just go into tomorrow.
They have what they have translated the look I'm not
saying the tariff thing is an unforced error. I am
saying there's a lot of pain up front and paid
for by the American people, most of which probably will
(27:51):
never get a rebate check, certainly not the means tested
who are paying the most, because a tariff, at the
end of the day, is always a tax, right, So
they turned the tariffs into affordability. With the tariffs and
of course all the crap and their previous administration they created,
so they got affordability, They've got Venezuela where suddenly, of
(28:15):
course the drug lords are king. They've got this deplorable
moment that they're going to try to create with the
Trump Rob Reiner post and now Susie Wilde, what what
do Republicans have momentum wise heading into the year, Because
I can tell you this, the Joe Biden Kamala Harris
(28:37):
narrative is past.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It expired. So what's your new? What's your new? What's
their new? Momentum silence for a reason. Sure, a lot
of good things have been done and the results of
them will be manifest in the coming year. The only
question is will they be manifest in time to be
able to take into primaries in May and into the
(29:00):
general election by November. If the things they put in
place do pay off the way they anticipate, they'll have
a lot to talk about.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Then.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Right now they're ending the year on defense, which is unfortunate.
Or tomorrow, thank you, David, if you're just waking up.
As we mentioned, the President of the United States is
going to address the nation. I don't know if the
networks are going to carry it, or all of the
networks or some of the networks. We don't even know
what he's going to talk about.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
In a truth social post, the President said he will
speak from the White House at nine pm Eastern.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He did not.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Provide any details about what he will be speaking about.
Trump ended his post by saying, it has been a
great year for our country and the best is yet
to come.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
A Mark Neefield director Rob Reiner's son is being charged
with two counts of first degree murder for the stabbing
death of both of his parents.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman made the announcement
on Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
These charges will be two counts of first degree murder
with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also faces
a special allegation that he personally use a dangerous and
deadly weapon, that being a knife.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
If convicted, Nick Reiner could face life in prison. The
bodies of seventy eight year old Rob Reiner and his wife,
seventy year old Michelle Singer Reiner, were discovered in their
Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. I'm Tammy TRUHILLO.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I got good news and I got bad news.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
We are spending money this holiday season. The bad news
not as much.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
It's a season to be jolly, but apparently it's also
time to be thrifty. And NBC News Decision Desk poll
found that fifty five percent of US are spending less
on the holiday gifts this year, thirty six percent say
they're spending about the same, and just nine percent are
shelling out more for holiday gifts. The poll didn't find
a lot of correlation with our financial situations. Forty one
(30:48):
percent of Americans say it's about the same as last year,
twenty four percent called it better, and only thirty five
percent said it's worse.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh, there is some good news, David. You haven't thought
of this last Christmas For thirty minutes. See, I told
you it wouldn't get stick. Oh sorry, Whams. Last Christmas
is claiming the number one spot on Billboard's Global two
hundred Last Christmas at the top of the charts with
(31:18):
ninety five point three million streams five thousand sold. Since
that was just a five day period December fifth through
the eleventh, And who did it knock off the top spot?
All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey. In sports,
I don't know why they do this. My son understands
it more than me. But the Knicks were the NBA
(31:39):
Cup champions defeating the Spurs last night one twenty four,
one thirteen.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Kind of have some little stick to give you interest
in the middle of the year.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
This has nothing to do with the NBA Finals. That'll
be the Oklahoma City Thunder On the ice, Red Wings
beat the Islanders. Ducks lost in overtime, but get a
point against the Blue Jackets Flyers one four to one
over the Canadians.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Penguins lost at home six to four.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Today's Eugene Levy eighty years old, actor Bill Pullman seventy three,
and Sarah Paulson is fifty two.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
If it's your Birthday, Happy Birthday, We're glad you were born.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Rory gets the final story and Venezuela is the topic.
Will that also be the topic of the President addressing
America tonight? Kick it around with Rory next. This Christmas,
we celebrate the ultimate gift of life, and you have
the opportunity to share the same gift with a mother
and a baby. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy,
(32:31):
feeling all alone, unsure of what to do. Oh, there's
a lot of cultural pressure and messaging out there to
have them make one choice. They call it choice, but
somehow you always have to make the death choice. She's
searching for hope and that's where Preborn ministries and you
come in. At Preborn, we provide free ultrasounds because the
ultrasound is the game changer. They make different decisions when
(32:55):
they see their baby on that ultrasound and they hear
the heartbeat for themselves with someone who really loves and
cares and will stand with them in the months ahead
in making that decision, whether it's diapers or formula. So
a twenty eight dollars ultrasound could be the game changer
(33:18):
and the life decision. And with a corporate sponsor that
is now matching our contributions. You give twenty eight dollars,
that's really fifty six dollars. Now, statistically you have saved
a life. Just say the keyword baby and dial pound
two to fifty and you can give securely pound two
fifty keyword baby or securely online at preborn dot com
(33:41):
slash yms. That's preborn dot com slash yms sponsored by Preborn.
Can you imagine Christmas while your kids are opening their presence,
you've probably saved a life that's giving the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno, Roy and Neil.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And correspondent as joining us. We've got a couple of
big stories today. The US continues to mass military power
off the coast of Venezuela, Hegseth response to request to
release videos of the second strike, and now the President
wants to talk to America tonight. Rory.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Are these all connected? Well, that's a good question.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Venezuela seems to be the theme of at least two
of those, with the Defense Secretary saying that they won't
release that second strike video from the September second strike
on that suspected drug boat there had been some bipartisan
calls to release it. President Trump said I have no
problem with releasing it, but then later said he'd leave
it to Hegseth's discretion. And then that was the decision
(34:37):
announced yesterday. And as you teased, tonight, the President will
be speaking we think from the Diplomatic Reception room at
the White House. They say it's about the past year,
what's going to be coming up in twenty twenty six,
But based on that truth Social post, it looks like
a lot of this may also focus on military operations
involving Venezuela and what's next.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
And we don't even know if the networks will carry
it right or how long they'll in it if it's
not something that's newsworthy.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
But right I think we'll get some better guidance from
the White House going into this about what the speech
is about. More specifically, you know, if it's going to
be just the President reading off a teleprompter or if
he starts going off on tangents, you know, that might
make the networks want to bail.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
So it's a bit of a wait and see.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
Certainly the news networks will carry it, but whether or
not it's done on the other broadcast channels has not
been determined.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I'll give the credit President credit.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
He knows that this Friday, everybody's going to be gone
Pecan and on Christmas vacation, especially those that are traveling.
This could just be to talk about the year and
wish everybody a happy holiday. And then again it could
be a Kennedy like speech, only this time not Cuba
Venezuela and not the Soviet Union but Iran. Who knows.
(35:50):
I guess we'll just all wait and see. I'm gone
for con while reading the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yep, you had to go there, didn't you o.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Neil great reporting as usual. He'll be back tomorrow covering
our top stories, and Rory was on earlier. We covered
the latest not a whole lot on Brown University and
the latest on the Whiners. It was a massage therapist
who did not get a response at the door and
the daughter who found her father. Later they found the mother,
not the daughter, and it looks like the sun might
have done it Saturday night, then checked into a hotel
(36:22):
and spread a lot of evidence. Anyway, we'll get you
all the very latest again tomorrow. Hey, one thing you're
in control of living this day, Go make a difference
in someone's life, Cherish your own.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Will see you tomorrow morning. We're all in this together.
This is Your Morning Show with Michael, Vindheld, Joano
Hi, it's Michael. Your morning show can be heard weekday
mornings in great cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Memphis,
in Nashville, Tennessee, and we got you covered in California,
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento. We'd love to
be a part of your morning routine. We're thrilled you're here.
Now enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well two three, starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in the stigold. This is your morning show with Michael
o'deill Tarman.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Seven minutes after the hour. Thank you, Mike McCann. Good
morning one and all, and welcome to America's kitchen table.
It is Wednesday, December the seventeenth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five on the air, streaming live nationwide on
your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
This is your morning show. Well, President Trump's going to
address the.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Nation tonight and nobody knows about what is it just
to tell us where the hottest nation and things have
never been better? Is it to do a year in
review and next year in preview? Is it about a
quarantine in Venezuela? We just simply don't know, but it'll
address the Nation nine Eastern, eighth Central. Tonight, Rob Reiner's
(01:08):
son has been charged now with two counts of first
degree murder. That timeline and evidence is starting to become
a parent. He checked in to a Santa Monica hotel
about or just before four a m. On Sunday morning
or late Saturday night. Now the timeline begins to look
(01:28):
as though he killed his mother and father after whatever
altercation was happening at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party, went back
to the house. It obviously ended in both dead. The
hotel room, which he paid for with his own credit card,
was filled with blood in the shower, blood in the bed.
I don't have to tell you that blood is likely
going to come back as Rob and Michelle Reiner. So
(01:51):
we're getting a little better sense of the timeline. Someone
was to have a massage Sunday morning, and when no
one answered the gate, Rob Reiner's daughter was notified and
she came immediately identified her father's body, not she did
not see her mother's body. She was found by the
Corners in law enforcement when they arrived, and the manhunt
(02:11):
continues with not a whole lot to go on. It's
like watching Dateline where they do like a whole two
hour show with you know, two polaroid shots at people.
But we did get a third video of the gunman,
but not a lot to go on and a lot
to piece together to try to find out who it
was it carried out the killing of two young students
(02:34):
and injuring others. And then the big controversy is Susie
Wiles spent apparently eleven hours with Vanity Fair. You can
say a lot in eleven hours, all digitally recorded, maybe taken,
as they're claiming, out of context. That's a lot of
time to spend with an adversarial media group. You know,
you wouldn't spend eleven hours. I wouldn't think with The
(02:58):
Atlantic to get a good write up. So that's the
unforced error of the day. And you have and you'll
hear in our Sounds of the day. By I got
an email for somebody said, did you see that elderly
target worker being harassed? That woman was so vile that
I just if I turned that over to Jeffrey to edit,
(03:22):
it would take up his entire morning. That's how many
f bombs were in a short period of time. I
did watch the video. I do know how she was
harassed and knew, and I do know how wonderfully she
handled it. But we'll have in the sounds of the
day how the left is already using the President's truth
(03:44):
social post on Rob Reiner as a deplorable moment that
happened on Jimmy Kimmel with Michelle Obama, who doesn't seem
to go away. I wonder if, I wonder if she's
gonna pop up by the end of twenty twenty six. Well,
that brings us to this segment. Whether you loved twenty
twenty five or hated twenty twenty five, it's about to
(04:07):
slip into the history. And the truth is, what will
next year be? Well, if we think the same, act
the same, do the same as we did this year,
I suspect a lot like this year, or perhaps a
little worse. What is looking forward to be expected in
twenty twenty six and what unexpected could rear its ugly
(04:30):
head and be dreaded in twenty twenty six? Big topics
Get our senior contributor David Sanadi, CEO of the American
Policy Roundtable and host of The Public Square Good Morning David.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Good morning, Michael. It's thanks for putting that really absurd
Christmas song in my head lest Christmas and I gave
you my wrong with ac Caseum, can I tell you
he moved up four big notches this week? No, I,
the listeners are all wanting to do a Christmas party.
You think we should do one next year? You know,
(05:01):
I've got to be really careful because we have staff
around the country with the American Policy around table that
listens every morning to your morning show. So if I
tell you everything that I'm thinking about that wonderful idea
and how we would love to combine it with you
on that and I think we should combine it with
Christmas in America to bring the band up. You know,
there's all man, it's it's it's possibility. I mean, the
(05:25):
Christmas in America program that was done in Nashville is
about to go up on a YouTube video for the
first time. We produced it, and it's I've seen the
first act and it's it's outstanding. And uh, we've already
got requests now to pull the music from the show
and do a separate album of the music. No, honey, Ali,
we could have a great party. I would love that.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'd love to meet Mary loved I missed Big John
when he was in town. Jimmy suits, we're trying to
get together, I'll tell you, and fly in for Christmas
in America every year. Isn't a heartbeat You've done this
first as many years.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I can't believe about it. I can hear the resignations
being written right now by people. Well, no, Big John.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Big John has already notified his wife for going to
Nashville on Christmas next year. I've never had in forty
two years of radio relationship with listeners like this. It's
so neat that, you know what, that would be my
crown jewel that we actually have a not an office
Christmas party, a listener kitchen table Christmas party in Nashville
every year.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Maybe we'll travel to a different place. Yeah, you got
my attention on that. So hopefully i'll have staff. I've
got meetings in an hour. Hope show up for work today.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Repetition is supposedly the mother of all learning. And so
I know I say this a lot, but what is
media bias? How is it carried out? Well, it's the
stories you cover and then the stories you ignore, the
angles you choose to cover the angles, you choose to ignore,
the people you talk to, the people you would never
talk to, the quotes you use, the quote you wouldn't
dare use, and then how you word it all. You
(06:53):
spend eleven hours with Vanity fair as Susie Wiles, the
chiefest staff for the President with a digital recorder. That's
a disaster before it happens. And I don't care who
you are. That's a lot of undeserved trust for Vanity Fair.
Red's line of the day was what they can't get
with the folks at Atlantic. I mean it is such
(07:13):
an unforced air. I mean, having done this as long
as I have, what were they thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, I started in this work at the age of thirty.
In the first several years I spent a lot of
time doing media consultations and seminars, sitting with consultants and
people like that, learning how they do what they do.
And there's a lot of the fundamentals that haven't changed.
So the technologies have. And as you were mentioning earlier
in the broadcast, you have to be very well trained
(07:42):
in a media interview to control the content, and even
in spite of everything that's going to end up on
the cutting room floor, and I think she would have
had a better chance of getting an honest shake with
sixty minutes. But the reality is is if you do
eleven hours, you just bought yourself ten hours of trouble.
And look, she has been riding high and has had
(08:04):
nothing but A plus reviews from the President and everybody
around them. So this is what you called an unforced error.
I have to agree, but it's it's got magnitude to
it because I've been reading some of the quotes. Now,
what's happening right now is the campaign for twenty twenty
six is start, and the other side is getting phenomenal
(08:25):
quotes from the president directly and from Susie wils Those
are dangerous commercials.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, we saw on Jimmy kimmellive Michelle Obama. She doesn't
go away, does she. She was last seen lecturing us
that we're not worthy of her and she won't waste
her time. America is sexist, and if you won't elect
a woman, don't waste my time. When you're ready implying
I will run, she shows up. It took them one
second after giggling and saying hello, to get right into
(08:52):
the President's tweet of Rob Reiner. They're they're going to
there's no question they're going to use that as a deplorable.
They won't acknowledge Hillary's deplorable, but they will create Trump's deplorable.
Is that because the midterms are difficult without Trump and
a tariff damaged Trump, which they're going to try to
(09:14):
create an affordability damage Trump. That tweet on Rob Reiner
seizing boats and trying to pick wars with Venezuela tra
They're doing that to win the midterms. That's not an
anti Trump strategy, that's a midterm strategy.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Right, Let's connect the dots here. Also, Susie Wiles just
recently said that the key to winning the twenty twenty
sixth election is to put Trump on the ballot in
all of the races that are genuinely contested. Now, that
changed dramatically in the last forty eight hours based on
the Rob Reiner story banned the Vanity Fair interview. There
(09:47):
are now two issues that are out there. Let's try
to a baseline here. You've got a situation where there
are people that handicap these races and have been doing
so for lifetimes, and is looking at what we've got
right now. Somewhere around eighteen races of the four hundred
and thirty five races for Congress are actually in play.
(10:08):
Cook has got it as ten Dems and eight RS
to seventy to win, has nineteen contests involved, and roll
Call has ten. We could go down five different other
sorting agencies. Somewhere between ten and twenty rases are competitive.
Let me simplificant reality.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, let me add a little color analysis, because you're
about to make my big point, that's how four How
do you fight? How do you fight four hundred and
thirty five people at once? It's hard and it's not
likely you can win. But it really isn't four hundred
and thirty five because there's some really solid blue, and
there's some really solid red, there's some really a couple
of solid independent. It's going to be No, it's not
(10:46):
really four hundred and thirty five. It's really eighteen contested,
and of the eighteen contested, it maybe five or six
of the ten dem and eight leaning Republicans. But when
you make the strategy and it appears is though. This
goes back to something I talked about a lot. These
haven't been read victories and red waves. They've been orange waves.
(11:11):
So trump Ism is doing very well. We don't know
how Republicanism is doing. And then now the trump Ism
is having some struggles on some issues. Now all of
a sudden there's a far right Maga presence that's anti Israel,
which is that counter with the administration. The cost of
the tariffs, the cost of rightfully letting these expired incentives
(11:35):
not incentives for the healthcare Yeah, expire. That's going to
be not just for the individuals whose premiums go up,
but for small business owners, which are a big part
of the Republican party. So we know that they need
Donald Trump. Now we have a Donald Trump that's under attack.
Why because the dem strategy for the midterm is don't
(11:57):
deal with all four hundred and thirty five, with these
eighteen top contested of which we have a two advantage.
And if they're going to give us Trump, let's boil
it down to one that we can attack and make
a difference. That's how you win a fight. They just
got the fight from four and thirty five down to one.
You can expect a lot more of what we've seen
in the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, and this is good and just give you one example. Now,
this is an extreme example for a reason. So if
you rate congressional races from say zero to ten in
regards to competition, you have to understand the makeup of
the district, and then you have to understand the makeup
of the candidates. And that's the big mystery. Right now,
we're talking eighteen races. We haven't got any candidates yet.
We've got a number of contested primaries, and we have incumbents,
(12:38):
but we don't have the real matchups. So you can't
until you put the players in the ring. You can
speculate all you want, you're just talking about phantoms. So
that's also a piece of the puzzle. But let's just
take one race on the extreme. This would be a
Republican race that's held right now by Don Bacon, who
is a Republican incumbent. He won last time in his
(12:58):
district by one point eight percentage of the vote and
Donald Trump lost by four point six points. All right,
so this is an anti Trump district. You know why,
because it's Omaha, Nebraska, Insurance Warren Buffett's hometown, the most
Democrat Republican you could ever find. There's a seat that's
contested right now, Who will they run? What are the options?
(13:20):
It's just a point. You say, well, there's an our seat,
is it really an our seat? I mean, so this
is the kind of stuff now that's the extreme. Some
are pretty much cut and dry. But you take a look.
We're talking about California, California, Washington, Maine, North Carolina, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
New York, and Nebraska. You've got a dozen races across
a half a dozen states. They can mobilize billions into
(13:43):
those races.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
The narrative is going to be focused on discrediting the president.
The money's going to flow to those districts. Oh and
speaking of money in the new year, where will the
big grass top billionaire bucks go? Well for Elon Musk,
he's not starting a third party, after all, he's one
of the biggest donors to Republicans heading into the midterm election.
(14:05):
What's more powerful Trump's endorsement, Trump's visit to your town,
Elon Musk's checkbook.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
One of the big stories today is everyone's coming to
the defense of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Would she do spend eleven hours with Banity Fair. That's
a lot of trust, that's a lot of digital recording.
Now they're claiming they took things out of context, David
in this unforced are is there anyone she left out bashing?
(14:38):
I mean this is either really like the tweet or
the true social post of Donald Trump. Politically, this is
dumbfounding unless it's on purpose. Is this a strategy to
begin to distance everyone else from Trump? Or did they
really think they could spend eleven hours with banity Fair.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And they were going to get a good, good article. Yes,
since we were told it was an hour a month
for eleven months, that means it started at the beginning,
because we're only eleven months past the inaguration, so it
looks like it was institutionalized from the start, in which
case there's really hard to find any agenda. Now it's
up to Vanity Fair to create what they want. This
(15:21):
is a mess. There are at least three outstanding commercials
to be used against Republicans in twenty twenty six. And
the contradiction is this, if Susie Wilds is convinced that
if Donald Trump's on the ballot in these eighteen congressional
races that are contested that the Republicans win. She better
(15:41):
come up with another magic Wand because the stuff that
she's talking about in this interview I think are very dangerous. Well,
give me the top two words you think that are
the most dangerous. The doge comments about Elon Musk is
just huge, and the conspiracy theory stuff about Jade Vance
is also significant, And I could keep going. I mean,
there's some really messy stuff in here.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
This is like in North Dallas forty when mac Davis
is out in front of the office and he goes,
my name come up in their boot.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Did Rubio's name come up in any negative way? No? No,
but she certainly blasted Bondy and the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing.
So and Michael the people that and there are no
objective resources that I'm aware of in regarding to ranking
and rating congressional races. It's a very ego driven game.
And so I we're a nonprofit and non parson, So
(16:33):
I mean, I'm just giving you the facts that companies
are putting up. This race is close. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Hey, this is Top Cop Kathy Hinters and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael Dale Jorno.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Hey it's Michael.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm so glad you found the podcast, and don't forget
you can listen to your morning show live each weekday morning.
Your morning show can be heard in great cities like Youngstown, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee,
Saint Louis, Sacramento, Phoenix, just to name a few. You
can find your morning show city closest to you on
our website, your Morningshow online dot com. And we're glad
you're here for the podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Enjoy good morning, Michael. This is Mary and Idaho.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Okay, So I have an itinerary already set for the
Christmas party next year. Start with a prayer, breakfast and
a tour of music city. Go see the Grand Old O,
bringing a couple honky tonks the person on. Then everyone
retires for a nap and meet up again for a
cocktail hour with maybe with a little bit of a
piano bar vibes. Then dinner and Dan saying, and the
following morning we all meet up for a farewell breakfast.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
At the waffle house. What do you think I'm in?
This is Tanya from Barstown, Kentucky. You host the party
and I'll bring the bourbon.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
So Big John wants to close out the wish and everybody,
all the talkbacks, all the listeners, all the gamblers hope
you cased them, not traditional, all the chefs that are
ready to whack something up this Christmas. A Merry Christmas,
a happy New Year, Jeff. We've read even you, Big Mic.
And by the way, I just mentioned to missus Big
(18:04):
John that we're going to Nashville for Christmas next year.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Book.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm officially making Mary our fun and events coordinator.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
We've got a lot of people wanting to do a
Christmas party here next year. I promise you I'm gonna
I'm gonna see what I can do. I don't know
whether we should do it. See the problem with the
Christmas in America is here. It's the Sunday after Thanksgiving,
which is a little early for the Christmas party. But
and people have family plan. We're going to figure something out.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I do love the idea of the way it's a
home game in naturale. Either way, we got we gotta shot.
Either way.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Maybe get you guys do an encore performance. All right,
if you're just waking up. The President is going to
address the nation tonight, Red brought up a great question
off the air, how do we know the networks are
going to comply?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Is this about Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I keep telling you that Venezuela is a lot like
Cuba and its ties or to Iran, not the Soviet Union,
And we're all but doing a Kennedy style quarantine right now,
including seizing oil tankers. Is tonight's address like when Kennedy
addressed us on the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I don't know. I hope it's not a pep.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Talk on how we're the greatest nation on earth. And
if so, I don't think the networks are going to
stay on very long, So we don't know if it's
something really serious or after Tuesdays True Social Post and
then Susie Wiles Vanity Fair Unforced Air, I hope we
don't have another one coming tonight, which kind of leads
(19:35):
me David's Nadi our senior contributors joining us to this conversation,
which is, you know as well as I do. If
I got a bomb on you, I'm going to lay
it on Thursday or Friday. Why so it sits all
weekend long in their hearts and minds and this case
it's on steroids because of the way Christmas falls. They've
dumped this Susie Wiles, and who knows what they have
(19:57):
coming towards the end of the week as well, right
before a long holiday you brought up off the air
as talk radio all goes on vacation and won't be
here to fend for itself.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yes, the midterms have begun.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yes, the strategy is to target and discredit Trump and
all of his cabinet. And the four hund and thirty
five races are really eighteen, which really come down to
about three or four, and you're taking it out at
the head with Trump. And for those that don't think
the Democrats can take back control of the House, probably
not the Senate, but the House next year in the
(20:32):
midterm election, you are extraordinarily hubris. And I'm telling you
they not only probably will, they got a chance of
winning the White House two in twenty twenty eight. So
you might want to humble yourself, be smart, and outwork
them and outthink them. But I will say this, or
I'll let you say this. They're going to try to
(20:53):
turn Donald Trump's post on Rob Reiner into a deplorable
moment and this eleven months of eleven hours digitally recorded
with Susie Wiles discrediting every member of this cabinet. And
you say out of context, but they can play you
the entire audio in its entirety. This is not a
(21:14):
great way to head into the holidays.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, and that's the idea, is to paint it and
then paint the audience and then let it sit and
then they'll come right back to it in January. And
you're right. The only place where these things are debated
from the ground is talk radio, and particularly at your
morning show, which begins first thing in the morning, at
the table, and you bring people in who actually do
(21:40):
public policy. I'm honored to be one of those people.
Carafano has been at this for a long time. Bonsen
is in the field of economics, and we're not talking
about talking heads here. We're talking about people that do
this stuff. And so you've get an on the ground
sort of perspective, and one that is coming at this
from not carrying the weight in the water of either
local party. As Redd says, we're trying to call balls
(22:02):
and strikes here, and we've been at that a long time.
So yes, this is a careful strategy, a constructed strategy.
It will be matched by billions of dollars into a
dozen or eighteen races. And the Republicans have got a
massive challenge. It's not saying it's an impossible task, but
it is a massive task, and the opponents are clearly energized.
(22:26):
Twenty twenty six is there opening salvo for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And while I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I
caucused with Republicans. If they live what they believe, which
isn't always the case, I'd have a lot in common
with them. The reality is this will energize the Democrats
so they have the affordability and tariffs they have what
they'll try to create. Michelle Obama started on Kimmel last night,
the deplorable moment of the president's post on Rob Reiner,
(22:53):
and now you know what, Frankly, we don't know all
they have. Remember it was an hour a month. We
still have one more installment of this in December. They
could paint this. We go into the weekend and then
a long holiday, everybody's on vacation, and they come back
in January in paint December where she for all we
(23:14):
know said the worst. So the headline is, and these
are from favorable places, Susie Wilds makes shocking statements about Trump,
Vans White House.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Insiders Michael the comment that she made, and again I'm
going to contend that this is most likely totally out
of context and only touch it lightly. But the idea
of coming on the president's personality and that it resembles
someone who's been around an alcoholic. Okay, I don't even
(23:41):
want to go farther than that, because the way that
it was worded, and I've not got the transcript is
out there, David, I can guess it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Her father was a terrible alcoholic who came to Christ
and reformed his life. I'm telling you I know why
she would draw on that making a more positive point. Yes,
but you said we talked about this, I think before
you came on. If I, no, you can't. If I
was doing an interview, first of all, you choose who
you do it with. But eleven hours of trust to
(24:12):
fanity fair that that is just dead on arrival.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So yesterday I was saying, where was Susie Wiles when
the president was posting this thing?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
On Rob Reiner. Why didn't she stop him?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh, she'd been busy hanging out with Vanity Fair all
year and then and doing something even dumber. But when
somebody asked you a question, you give the answer just
as you wanted printed, and it can't be longer than
a sentence or so, and you don't go long. And
if they ask you again, or do they want to
try to get you to elaborate, you give them the
same answer again. After about two or three times, they know, oh,
(24:43):
this guy knows what he's doing. We're not gonna get anywhere.
But if you get loose and feel friendly and start
saying step oh, you're gonna you deserve.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
To get hung. At that point, I sat in enough
crisis management and candidate media consulting moments to know that
making comparisons is very dangerous. The first things you have
to learn is there are certain things you never compare to.
Alcoholism would be one of it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, how about whatever they here's Elon Musk already writing
big checks for Republicans, diving into the twenty twenty six term,
abandoning his third party threat, supporting Republicans, and then he
cracks open Vanity Fair and she's talking about the Pilsey's popping.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, yeah, and now it's this is there's just there's
no way you can put lipstick on this one man.
This is a bad.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Situation, all right. So let me do the hardest question
before we go. What's going on with Michael and DZ?
What are they also all of a sudden anti Trump
first bashing with the President said he had every right
to say about Rob Reiner. I mean, Rob Reiner celebrated
him getting shot. Everybody celebrates Charlie Kirk getting shot. Why
shouldn't we celebrate Rob Reiner and his wife being stabbed
(25:53):
to death by their son. And now you're going with this,
Susie Wiles. These are two big stories and they could
be too big threats, not to the president. He's only
got three years left, no matter what if he's got that,
but for the midterms. But what would you say? Have
we gone crazy anti trumble.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
With me thrown off of your show? And first I've
got another job. But you're saying, but the point of
it is this clear thinking, clear thinking. There is no
perfect person, and when people who who we respect make mistakes,
(26:31):
we certainly don't want to pile on. But if we
don't call a mistake a mistake. Why are we here now.
It might be a misfortunate mistake. It might call for
great compassion, it might call for solid understanding. But a
mistake is a mistake. I make them all the time,
and I have to admit them. And when listeners to
the public square call me out and we go on
(26:52):
the air, not only to respond personally. If we could call,
I go, I go on the air and say, look,
you know, we got corrected and they're right and we're wrong.
So he didn't he doubled down. Yeah, well, and that
they have the right to do that. The nice thing
is is because we are not carrying water for a hero,
We are not carrying water for a party. We're just
(27:13):
trying to talk about how do you live in a
representative republic under the rule of law and maintain credibility
with your neighbors so we can actually work toward loving
each other and doing the right thing. Because if we
can't get along down here on this part of it,
we're going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I've got to find away. Here's another last question. I
promised this one is last. About to just go into tomorrow.
They have what they have translated the look I'm not
saying the tariff thing is an unforced error. I am
saying there's a lot of pain up front and paid
for by the American people, most of which probably will
(27:51):
never get a rebate check, certainly not the means tested
who are paying the most, because a tariff, at the
end of the day, is always a tax, right, So
they turned the tariffs into affordability. With the tariffs and
of course all the crap and their previous administration they created,
so they got affordability, They've got Venezuela where suddenly, of
(28:15):
course the drug lords are king. They've got this deplorable
moment that they're going to try to create with the
Trump Rob Reiner post and now Susie Wilde, what what
do Republicans have momentum wise heading into the year, Because
I can tell you this, the Joe Biden Kamala Harris
(28:37):
narrative is past.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It expired. So what's your new? What's your new? What's
their new? Momentum silence for a reason. Sure, a lot
of good things have been done and the results of
them will be manifest in the coming year. The only
question is will they be manifest in time to be
able to take into primaries in May and into the
(29:00):
general election by November. If the things they put in
place do pay off the way they anticipate, they'll have
a lot to talk about.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Then.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Right now they're ending the year on defense, which is unfortunate.
Or tomorrow, thank you, David, if you're just waking up.
As we mentioned, the President of the United States is
going to address the nation. I don't know if the
networks are going to carry it, or all of the
networks or some of the networks. We don't even know
what he's going to talk about.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
In a truth social post, the President said he will
speak from the White House at nine pm Eastern.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He did not.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Provide any details about what he will be speaking about.
Trump ended his post by saying, it has been a
great year for our country and the best is yet
to come.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
A Mark Neefield director Rob Reiner's son is being charged
with two counts of first degree murder for the stabbing
death of both of his parents.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman made the announcement
on Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
These charges will be two counts of first degree murder
with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also faces
a special allegation that he personally use a dangerous and
deadly weapon, that being a knife.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
If convicted, Nick Reiner could face life in prison. The
bodies of seventy eight year old Rob Reiner and his wife,
seventy year old Michelle Singer Reiner, were discovered in their
Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. I'm Tammy TRUHILLO.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I got good news and I got bad news.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
We are spending money this holiday season. The bad news
not as much.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
It's a season to be jolly, but apparently it's also
time to be thrifty. And NBC News Decision Desk poll
found that fifty five percent of US are spending less
on the holiday gifts this year, thirty six percent say
they're spending about the same, and just nine percent are
shelling out more for holiday gifts. The poll didn't find
a lot of correlation with our financial situations. Forty one
(30:48):
percent of Americans say it's about the same as last year,
twenty four percent called it better, and only thirty five
percent said it's worse.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh, there is some good news, David. You haven't thought
of this last Christmas For thirty minutes. See, I told
you it wouldn't get stick. Oh sorry, Whams. Last Christmas
is claiming the number one spot on Billboard's Global two
hundred Last Christmas at the top of the charts with
(31:18):
ninety five point three million streams five thousand sold. Since
that was just a five day period December fifth through
the eleventh, And who did it knock off the top spot?
All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey. In sports,
I don't know why they do this. My son understands
it more than me. But the Knicks were the NBA
(31:39):
Cup champions defeating the Spurs last night one twenty four,
one thirteen.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Kind of have some little stick to give you interest
in the middle of the year.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
This has nothing to do with the NBA Finals. That'll
be the Oklahoma City Thunder On the ice, Red Wings
beat the Islanders. Ducks lost in overtime, but get a
point against the Blue Jackets Flyers one four to one
over the Canadians.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Penguins lost at home six to four.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Today's Eugene Levy eighty years old, actor Bill Pullman seventy three,
and Sarah Paulson is fifty two.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
If it's your Birthday, Happy Birthday, We're glad you were born.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Rory gets the final story and Venezuela is the topic.
Will that also be the topic of the President addressing
America tonight? Kick it around with Rory next. This Christmas,
we celebrate the ultimate gift of life, and you have
the opportunity to share the same gift with a mother
and a baby. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy,
(32:31):
feeling all alone, unsure of what to do. Oh, there's
a lot of cultural pressure and messaging out there to
have them make one choice. They call it choice, but
somehow you always have to make the death choice. She's
searching for hope and that's where Preborn ministries and you
come in. At Preborn, we provide free ultrasounds because the
ultrasound is the game changer. They make different decisions when
(32:55):
they see their baby on that ultrasound and they hear
the heartbeat for themselves with someone who really loves and
cares and will stand with them in the months ahead
in making that decision, whether it's diapers or formula. So
a twenty eight dollars ultrasound could be the game changer
(33:18):
and the life decision. And with a corporate sponsor that
is now matching our contributions. You give twenty eight dollars,
that's really fifty six dollars. Now, statistically you have saved
a life. Just say the keyword baby and dial pound
two to fifty and you can give securely pound two
fifty keyword baby or securely online at preborn dot com
(33:41):
slash yms. That's preborn dot com slash yms sponsored by Preborn.
Can you imagine Christmas while your kids are opening their presence,
you've probably saved a life that's giving the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno, Roy and Neil.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And correspondent as joining us. We've got a couple of
big stories today. The US continues to mass military power
off the coast of Venezuela, Hegseth response to request to
release videos of the second strike, and now the President
wants to talk to America tonight. Rory.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Are these all connected? Well, that's a good question.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Venezuela seems to be the theme of at least two
of those, with the Defense Secretary saying that they won't
release that second strike video from the September second strike
on that suspected drug boat there had been some bipartisan
calls to release it. President Trump said I have no
problem with releasing it, but then later said he'd leave
it to Hegseth's discretion. And then that was the decision
(34:37):
announced yesterday. And as you teased, tonight, the President will
be speaking we think from the Diplomatic Reception room at
the White House. They say it's about the past year,
what's going to be coming up in twenty twenty six,
But based on that truth Social post, it looks like
a lot of this may also focus on military operations
involving Venezuela and what's next.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
And we don't even know if the networks will carry
it right or how long they'll in it if it's
not something that's newsworthy.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
But right I think we'll get some better guidance from
the White House going into this about what the speech
is about. More specifically, you know, if it's going to
be just the President reading off a teleprompter or if
he starts going off on tangents, you know, that might
make the networks want to bail.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
So it's a bit of a wait and see.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
Certainly the news networks will carry it, but whether or
not it's done on the other broadcast channels has not
been determined.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I'll give the credit President credit.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
He knows that this Friday, everybody's going to be gone
Pecan and on Christmas vacation, especially those that are traveling.
This could just be to talk about the year and
wish everybody a happy holiday. And then again it could
be a Kennedy like speech, only this time not Cuba
Venezuela and not the Soviet Union but Iran. Who knows.
(35:50):
I guess we'll just all wait and see. I'm gone
for con while reading the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yep, you had to go there, didn't you o.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Neil great reporting as usual. He'll be back tomorrow covering
our top stories, and Rory was on earlier. We covered
the latest not a whole lot on Brown University and
the latest on the Whiners. It was a massage therapist
who did not get a response at the door and
the daughter who found her father. Later they found the mother,
not the daughter, and it looks like the sun might
have done it Saturday night, then checked into a hotel
(36:22):
and spread a lot of evidence. Anyway, we'll get you
all the very latest again tomorrow. Hey, one thing you're
in control of living this day, Go make a difference
in someone's life, Cherish your own.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Will see you tomorrow morning. We're all in this together.
This is Your Morning Show with Michael, Vindheld, Joano
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!