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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Tarna Morning Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Family Man is one of my favorites as well, but
don't forget the family Stone.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wonderful, wonderful, and I'm with you on that movie family Man.
Love that movie and hardly anyone mentions it, but I
watched that every time it pops up on the streaming services,
and it's just such a heartwarming movie and it really
does remind you of what's in life. I work on
the road and I'm currently in a hotel in Amarillo,
Texas and looking forward to flying.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Home this weekend. To be with my family. Happy holidays
and May Christmas to y'all. Oh that's so sweet. Yes,
Merry Christmas to you and yours. We had Tim daly
on I think last month or the month before, and
I told him, we're going to say to tell your
wife thank you for a treasure and family man. Tia
Leoni played the wife family Stone. I will just tell
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you this, I agree completely. I saw it in its entirety.
I have never watched it again. There is that scene
where she's dying of cancer and opens up the picture
of Rachel McAdams young and that's you and me, kid,
and then it's just you know, there have been some
profoundly sad movies that have been made and their masterpieces,
(01:48):
and I acknowledge them. I just living at once was
painful enough. But you're right, that was a terrific movie.
And we're talking about this because we did. We're counting
down our top ten Christmas stories and songs, and at
number nine was my owde to Christmas movies, and we
chose Love Actually and played a song from that. David
and I both are addicted to Feast of the Seven Fishes,
but there are a lot of great ones and just
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like number ten on our list, we need a little
Christmas decorating, prepares our hearts and minds for the holidays.
Movies can become a part of our traditions and prepare
our hearts and minds for the holidays, because guess what,
Christmas comes once a year, whether you're ready or not,
and whatever state your life is in, it arrives and
it paints a reminding picture sometimes and a guiding picture sometimes.
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All right, Royannil is here because we have a new
national poll that tracks America's views from the President to Congress,
to foreign policied immigration to Australia's social media ban. And
he's been pouring through the numbers. He's here with full analysis. Roy,
Good morning man, Good morning Michael. It's your favorite Quinnipiac
folks out two monthly polls this time of you know,
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it's always like the third or fourth week of the month,
and there was an awful lot in this poll. I
laughed that eighteen percent of voters approve of the way
Democrats are behaving in Congress eighteen percent. And even among
Democrats it's only forty two percent approve of the way
their fellow Democrats are doing their job. Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
While eighteen percent of voters support Democrats, when you ask
them if an election were held today, forty seven percent
of voters say they want Democrats to run things there
in the House.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
So it's a bit of a heads.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I believe that's the definition of insanity, is what they
say right somewhere there.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Yeah, forty three percent want Republicans to keep control.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, you know, we make this partisan, but the truth
of the matter is we want people to govern, to represent,
to govern, and to lead, and we're in a perpetual
state of constant campaigning and dividing. I think they're frustrated
with both, and rightly. So what did it show on immigration?
Solved immigration?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Most voters fifty five percent think the Trump administration is
being too harsh in its treatment of undocumented migrants. Fifty
seven percent said they prefer giving most undocumented immigrants in
the US some sort of a pathway to legal status.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I thought was interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
A lot of this is about the economy, cost of living,
and the two thirds of Americans think that the current
economy is either not so good or downright poor. And
they say that this is Donald Trump's economy. Despite the speech,
you heard last night Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Fifty
seven percent of voter said this is a Trump economy.
(04:29):
Thirty four percent said it's a Biden economy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
These polls, like all polls, show me, people are driven
by narratives, not reality. This is the narrative being pounded.
And I told you that America would be fine closing
the border and sealing it, and the President showed you
could do it in less than a month. And there
hasn't been a crossing since. You got to get rid
of all these unknown criminal or known criminal elements in
America would be behind that when you get to other
(04:53):
than breaking the law of entering the country illegally, those
that have committed no other crimes. I knew that would
be a difficult sell for the American people, But that's
rooted in the housing crisis, that's rooted in the unsustainability
of our entitlement system. So America needs to get more
interested in fought than opinion. Is what this shows. What
was the most surprising Before you go, I have two
(05:15):
notes about Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Fifty three percent of voters do not like the way
they're taking out those suspected drug votes. Sixty three percent
opposed US military action inside of Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I think there were a lot of people last
night Rory thought that that speech was going to be
a Kennedy's speech about Venezuela, and it wasn't ry.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
That was what I thought, and instead it was, Oh,
I think I've heard these lines before.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh yeah, it's a little fireside chat roby back in
the third hour with more you're going to be covering
the new Epstein files that are going to be released
finally and the exit of Dan Bongino to go along
with it. So the president, that's a big story yesterday,
and the secrecy of nobody knowing exactly what was going
to be addressed. The assumptions for many people were, well,
(05:58):
Venezuela is the new Q and the links to Iran
is the new Soviet Union from the past, and he's
been a massing force. He's announcing his military actions. No,
And after you watched it, it either struck you as
a holiday fireside chat, a state of the Union, maybe
(06:20):
a response to some of the mistakes of earlier in
the week, or maybe struck you as a chance to
show energy and have the last say. I'll tell you this,
I thought it was very smart to do because of
the error the President made with the Rob Reiner post
and then the doubling down the air Susie wilds Maid
(06:42):
spending too much time with an adversarial publication. You didn't
want people to go into a three week holiday vacation
with that taste in their mouth, so you had to
do something. Translation, this was damage control. Secondly, I noticed
a burst of energy from the president. That's a dress.
Everybody to think something happened to him, or he's old,
or he's getting slow. And finally, did anybody else put
(07:06):
me in red? Notice? They were very little to know
Ad Lips. He stuck to the script as he was
probably told to. That's my take. Let's bring in our
senior contributor, David Sanati. He's also the CEO of the
American Policy I should say, more importantly, the CEO of
the American Policy Roundtable and hosted the Public Square. What
was your take? I mean, it was damage control, which
(07:27):
was smart. It was high energy, which was smart. It
was short under twenty minutes, which was smart. And it
gets the final say, which was smart. Whether anybody buys it,
I don't know. My take is a question.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
I now may very well be convinced that Fridays with
forty seven are real.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's our little speaker. By the way, do not out
that secret.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I swear they listened to yesterday's broadcast and taylored the
delivery of the speech in accordance. Now, of course I
can't prove that night. I bring it in jest, of course,
but they're clearly getting the message that he belongs back
on the garbage truck and not calling people garbage.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Time out. I'm gonna do something very old and very cheesy,
but it needs to be done. Say that again slowly, that.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
He needs to be back on the garbage truck and
not calling people garbage.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
And they're getting the message.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Now, I will say one other thing.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
We've been dealing with Donald Trump for a long time now,
all right. I mean this goes back. Look, this is
he's been around a long time. He's never delivered a
short speech until last night.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
With God, all things are possible, all right. That is
a miracle. I don't think Donald Trump has ever delivered
a twenty minute speech in his political life.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
High energy concise.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Seventy eight RPMs.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Okay, so it was a little bit manic in the
delivery to tone of it all. But he got it
in twenty minutes. You got to give him credits.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He stole a fireside chat, he stole a State of
the Union address. He did it at the right length,
the right energy, the right tone, all right. To Rory's
quote from the Quinnipiac University poll, does this just get
matrixed or does it effectively dull the unforced errors earlier
in the week and give people an optimistic heading into
(09:36):
the holiday final taste in their mouth?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Well, too soon to all, And like you always say,
the other side gets a vote and they have a
play too. And so while they were talking about moving
into a holiday period, it's we're not moving out of
time and space. So this is going on for quite
a long time. So there's more to do. But it's
clear that there's messaging going on. It's also clear from
after having read Dandy Fair and watched yesterday's performance, that
(10:01):
there seems to be no rift between Donald Trump and
Susie Wilds. They're still working at this together, because it
looks like her influence was most significant on the speech.
So I think that I don't think that there is
a rift based on the Vanity Fair piece. And when
you read the Vanity Fair piece in its totality and
not just the summary comments of the siloed media, you
(10:22):
find that there's a little bit more substance in that article,
and it depends on what the second piece of it
looks like. So yeah, it was I don't think he
did himself any harm last night, for certain, And he
is right about the facts. And if he's right about
the future, if what they have put in place is
about to bear fruit, that's good news. One other point, Michael,
(10:43):
that I think is pivotal to all the to everybody
watching this process. Where did we lose our minds to
come to the place of thinking that you could elect
somebody in eleven months? They turned the country upside down
inside out, and all of a sudden it be unicorns
and puppies.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
For the whole world be over using my would you
say that again? You know it's funny. The president did
shut down the border faster than I thought possible, and
I mean stopped it zero crossings.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Only within the context of exact.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But an economy doesn't work that way. This goes back
to COVID when they were talking, and it was him
talking about sending everyone home and shutting down the economy.
We were like, you know, an economy is not a
light switch. You can't turn it off and then once
the pandemic passes, turn it right back on. It doesn't
work that way. And America's expectations of oh, well, it's
(11:33):
his economy now, well, he just inherited something just nine
months ago. And you don't turn economies around that much.
And especially with some of the long term benefit strategies,
they have some short term pain, like the tariffs of
which he announced, the cleverly seventeen seventy six dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
The troble ramifications of COVID, the Biden piece of COVID,
and then weekend at Bernie's for four years. Okay, that's
pretty hard to recover from. When you're talking about prices
escalating based on energy costs. You can't turn energy costs
on and off like a switch. But you can hardly
do more than they've already done. Overlooked, radically overlooked chart
(12:15):
yesterday's speech was the electric power generation plants that he
noted there as being coming online. I don't know, Michael,
I don't know if you can get changed faster. I
just don't know that anybody can work any harder than
they've worked.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, when's the last time he saw Donald Trump speak
for just twenty minutes? When's the last time he saw
him sat? Yeah, never stick to the script and not
ad lib do it with high energy and get the
final say it was smart, it was damage control, but
it needed to be done. I don't know about you,
(12:47):
but his mistake on Monday, the Susie Wiles on Tuesday,
the focus of the strategy and tax on him to
win the midterms that have already formed, and looking like
they don't know what they'd do. No things look back
on track at the White House. I would say, not
just short, not just the right energy, not just damage
(13:08):
control and smart. I'd say it worked. I feel a
little better heading into the new year that they they
might have just gotten the little I'm trying to not
use an old expression. Someone jerked a not in there,
but it appears as though they have and they're responding, well.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Well, if we could give the if I could.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Personally give the president any advice, and I mean, look,
I'm just I'm only speaking now from the context of
a Biblical morality, which is healthy is It would be
very wise for him to write a private apology to
the survivors of the Whiners, and for him, as President
of the United States, to take somewhere in his day
today and say, I need to let you know I've
(13:46):
never gotten along with Rob Reiner, and I was wrong
to speak the way that I did, and what happened
was a tragedy for our country, for them, and for
our family. He'll be greatly missed. And I spoke in anger,
and I was wrong. Smartest thing he could possibly do.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well. He did a short speech, stuck to the script,
did it with the right energy. There might be another
miracle left. I don't know that I would backtrack to that.
I would leave it just the way it is, with
the taste in everybody's mouth. I like the private part.
I would do it privately.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He's got an obligation though, because you made it public.
He could go on through social put it in writing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yo the world David, and I we I guess won't
talk to you. Well, I'll I'll talk to you a lot,
but I won't talk to you again on the air
until next year. For someone that tells Christmas and stories
and songs better than anybody. We got to get onto
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(14:45):
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He may have been one of the most extraordinary and
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(15:08):
and it's in video form now, so you cannot just
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Speaker 3 (16:56):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Delchu.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I was just watching that video again. That the courage
it took, and he wasn't the first, by the way.
Two others had tried to stop that gunman in Sydney, Australia,
were killed trying to do so. The last one, Ahmed
al Ahmed, he succeeded. Do you know the fundraiser for
him is up to two point five million dollars And
guess what isn't it fun to focus on and celebrate
(17:20):
the person that stops the shooting rather than committed the shooting.
And he deserves every penny of it. But boy, that
was that That could have turned out really, really bad,
and he took out half of the problem. Really love it.
We salute him today. Dan Bongino's leaving after all and
going back to his show. What about the person took
his place on his show? He guess he's going to
back to whatever he was doing.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
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Speaker 10 (18:14):
Enjoy Good morning from Nolansville, Tennessee. Last night address was
fabulous one because it was short, and number two, I
loved all the charts. I love a good visual that
will stick with people more so than what he said.
And those charts will go around on social media and
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people will look at them a lot.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Good morning, Michael to you and Read and Rory. I
just want to say one thing before you go on
your holiday break.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I wish you Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I wish you merry Christmas. I wish you merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And that be new that's like a Marilyn Monroe, Oh
Christmas Way, beautiful voice. Thank you, sorry though she should
you and Red and roared, well she didn't remember you, Jeff,
it happens. Look just another one of our beautiful talented
listeners acknowledging me. There you go. That's what it's all about.
What are you gonna do if you're just waking up?
(19:18):
The President gave what I think is up for everyone
to decide. I think it's all of the above. It
was a little like the State of the Union. It
was like a little Christmas greeting company, Christmas Greeting, here's
what we achieved this year. The best days are ahead.
It was a bit of a response to some mistakes
(19:39):
earlier in the week. It was getting a last say,
but here's the truth. It probably was damage control, but
it was the right energy at the short length, with
no ad libs into the one caller. I'll add some
great charts and visuals, and it was smart to do.
Whether it worked, time will only tell. In Rhode Island,
they couldn't find the first guy. Now we have a
(20:01):
second person of interest in the manhunt for a Brown
University shooter and Nick Reiner appeared in court in Los
Angeles and suicide protection vests. Could this be a sign
that a insanity please to come and out, goes Dan Bongino.
He got in a little bit late. He didn't go
through the confirmation process, so I can't remember read what
we said. We think he came on board March, late February,
(20:25):
early March, came on in February. That's a non uh,
he didn't need to be confirmed. Yeah. So it was,
but not very long. And he gave up a lot
to do that. And he's leaving awful quickly. And he
got in and made most of his popularity online on
the Epstein case. Does he go back to media with
(20:47):
the same credibility that he left with. I'm sure the
left will make this more people jumping ship. John Decker
is our White House correspondent. None of us knew what
the President planned to do. I think many people assumed
it was to announce it's an escalation of war with Venezuela.
It wasn't. It wasn't a lot of things too, wasn't
filled with ad libs. It wasn't long, it was short,
(21:08):
it was high energy. It was to the point if
it was damage control. It was his best effort. Whether
it works, time will tell, and the American people will decide.
Your take on the president's speech last night, And what
was the media take. Well, I can't speak for the
entire media. I can tell you my take.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
My take was, and I made this point with you
before earlier this week. You know, if you're a family
out there, you're feeling anxiety about your economic condition, you know,
and you feel that literally every time you go to
the grocery store. There's no speech by any president, none
that can make you feel better, that can get rid
of that anxiety. So the president's task isn't just making
(21:48):
a speech, which was fine. It's doing something about the
economic situation that we're in right now with rising unemployment,
low job creation game and doing that in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That is the task for the president and his team. Yeah.
And when I say I don't expect you, I always
love when you give me an attorney's response, What I'm
saying is when when you're standing in a pool, a
white house pool, surrounded every day, I'm surrounded with miserable people.
Today you're surrounded with wonderful pork. What was their take?
You know, the president sealed the border, finished, solved, there's
(22:24):
no questioning. Everybody has to admit a president can fix
the border. But an economy is not that way and
it takes more than nine months. Yeah, no, that's right.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
So the President very much deserves taking a victory lap
on the issue of border security. I think that's one
of the reasons why he was elected president in twenty
twenty four, what he promised to do on border security,
and he's delivered on that in a very short amount
of time. And the President's poll numbers on that particular
issue they're pretty good. But the issue in terms of
(22:54):
how is the President handling the economy, that's where his
poll numbers have seen some declines.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And the White House is well aware of that.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
And that's the reason why the President did that speech
last night from the Diplomatic reception room, Michael. It's the
reason why he's hitting the road just before heading down
to Florida tomorrow. He'll be in Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
another one.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Of those battleground states.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
And we'll see more of that from the President in
twenty twenty six leading up to the midterm elections.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Permission to approach the bench and speak candidate.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Obviously, the White House had some self induced errors. The
President's response on the death of Rob Reiner, which I
was dumbfounded by and offended by. Then we have Susie
Wiles spending a lot of time with an adversarial publication
and then wondering why it went wrong. There's no question
there was some damage control in this. I hope there
(23:48):
was also some awareness and awakening to the fact that
Donald Trump is the target of the midterm election because
he is the best hope for the Republicans to put
him on the ballot go to these ten or twelve
key races and make the difference. So they're going to
damage him. They're going to damage him on affordability, They're
going to damage him on starting wars, not ending wars.
(24:09):
And it looked like last night the fact that he
never ad lipped and with high energy, that was a
little ode to the people that think he's fading or
something medically is going on with high energy, and under
twenty minutes he hit the point. I please tell me
there's a sense they know he's the target, not four
hundred and thirty five people running for Congress. Oh, they
(24:30):
know that.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
You know, Trump is essentially on the ballot, even though
his name will not be at the top of the ballot.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You are absolutely right about that.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
And as for the President, you know, doing a very
disciplined type of speech. Yeah, that's what I expected. I mean,
it's not a campaign rally. But when he heads down
to North Carolina early Friday evening, he will go off script,
he will go off the teleprompter, will.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Rally Himian rally for him. But yeah, it'll be in
rally for him. Yes, sir, if this turns things around,
this could become a new tradition. I mean, this little
like the Queen used to do. The Queen did a
Christmas address every year in Britain. And if this turns
out to be some big political victory, watch this become
a new tradition. I couldn't tell. There were times I thought,
(25:19):
is this going to be a fire visually? Is this
a fireside chad? Is this? Then you got into things?
Is this the state of the Union? It probably was
damage control, but it was the right length, right energy.
And as to one of my callers said, a lot
of visuals. You can hear more of the analysis from
John Decker his podcast, The White House Briefing Room. It's
up by nine eastern eight am, about an hour and
a half from now, and he'll have more during the
(25:40):
podcast and we'll talk again tomorrow. Thanks for joining us, John,
Thank you, Michael. You got it all right. Quick break.
When we come back, we're counting down my top ten
Christmas stories and songs. It's our holiday gift to you.
And we had at number ten, Johnny mathis needed a
little Christmas. That's our ode to everybody that decorates and
makes our streets and homes look so we can feel
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It's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Good morning, and welcome to your morning show on the
Aaron streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. Honor to serve you,
I'm Michael. President Trump gave what was like a fireside chat.
One moment like a State of the Union, another probably
a little bit of damage control. What was very unique
under twenty minutes at a very high energy and sticking
to the script. Red and I had a little conversation
(28:01):
off the year. I don't know if that was intended
to do damage control for the left or that the
left is they're gonna stick. I mean, CNN immediately afterwards
started talking about you can't blame this on Biden, and
people are feeling this every time they go to the store.
I get the matrix. I think that speech was for
me and you and for some of us who love
what the president does, don't always like the way he
(28:22):
does it or says it. It's us. He had to
get trusting and supportedly excited about the new year, and
I think he did it. Please are now entering a
second suspect in Rhode Island. Nick Reiner showed up in
court wearing a suicide vest. I think an insanity plea
is coming. And Dan Bongino stepped down in his position.
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He's going back to the media. That was a short run,
and we're counting down our top ten Christmas stories and songs.
That's our holiday gift to you. We had our owe
to holiday decorating. That gets us looking at and starting
to feel the importance of the season. Johnny mathis, we
need a little Chrisstmas at number nine are owed to
all the great Christmas music that and movies there the
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Christmas movies rather that get us in the Christmas spirit.
And now we're at number eight. Andrew and I made
a decision the minute we had our twins that was it.
Christmas was in our home and for forever. So we
exited that track that is Christmas with your parents one year,
(29:28):
Christmas with my parents one year. No no, no. We
will have our traditions and our children will have their
childhood and memories in our home. Anyone's welcome to come.
If a grandparent wants to come, great, we got the rooms,
but there will be no dysfunction from the past that
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comes into the present unless we created. It's the wisest
thing as parents we ever did. Now, I have to
tell you I look back at traveling with a little
bit nostalgia. There was something about being the traveler, you know,
being the one that didn't live at home, that came
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home for the holidays, kind of like the story of
the Prodigal Sun. The people that are there every day,
they're just kind of taken for granted. But me, no,
I get the robe and the fatted calf on arrival.
And I remember one in particular because it was a hassle. First,
We're all in a department head meeting and Pat Robertson
looks around and when Pat used to get mad, he'd
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talked lower and lower and lower, not louder and louder
and louder. Italians. We get louder and we start louder.
And he was like, if any of you people, I
think you're going home for Christmas and having a happy
New Year without your budgets done, you've got another good
by the end, he's just lipping. Now. My budget was
(30:54):
done quite frankly, but I tweeted a couple of things
and I put it back in. I left late, and
we were all racing to leave before a heavy snowstorm.
I got out a national but I didn't make it
far and they reroute us all the way to Seattle,
which I note Salt Lake City, where I had never
been before. It was nice. I perused some warmon Menus.
(31:18):
Cookbooks is one that I bought. Anyway, make a long
story short, we didn't get out. I don't know what
time it was, but I mean I felt like those
Navy people I used to see napping during the holidays
when I was a kid. It just took forever to
get on the plane. And that's the place I was
at Jeffrey where the one woman came out and she
was carrying two kegs of beer, not empty, full. She
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was giant and she was strong. I'll never forget her,
and I said, man, they grown big. Finding on the
plane finally started heading to New Orleans, and then we're
coming through the clouds over lake. Poncha train and boom,
I see the lake, I see the shore, I see
my neighborhood. Minutes later, I'm coming out a baggage and
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there's this van filled with crazy people screaming. My brother's driving,
my mom's head sticking out the window. I always take
this time to warn people traveling sometimes things go wrong
and it's draining and it's aggravating. Your reward is being
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celebrated home like that. Leave the travel nightmares the minute
you hit the curb, because all those people that are
picking you up, they have set the expectation waiting for you.
Make sure they get you and not your frustrated travel
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and cherish it because as much as I recommend once
you have children, Christmas is in your home and you
make your own memories those days young when you're single
and moved away and come home to be celebrated. I
mean the travel. Sure, we'll all have our nightmare stories,
but the bottom line is it's worth it to be
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celebrated home. So we always make this stop. On our
list are owed to Christmas travelers, and it's as much
for the traveler as it is for those that are
waiting for them to celebrate them home. Warning, if you're traveling,
don't bring the frustrations of travel with you. They've been
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waiting a long time. And for all of you that
weather the storms, we celebrate you home. Number eight on
our Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs list.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Is I'll believe. I'll list teaching men. I'm owning here.
It's journal in the place it's found.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Sarah, letting your servants, love.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Friends, celebrate me. Gim me U celebrate.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
Let me one bo so that aloes from.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
The bird I can recall and ever ride. But myself too,
all alone, I can.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
See uneasy family traveling where the rest of the woods fire.
Somebody try to tell me let the.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I didn't tell me what happened. I can't. I'll come out.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
Come on, Come on, Daddy, tell your mom from me here.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
You believe.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Sad, give me an Sam you want to urger can
become never myself.
Speaker 12 (35:47):
And make honey I better going saying things.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Stracting Jimmy, what on earth are you kids still doing up?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And why are you at the airport?
Speaker 11 (36:11):
Monk?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You look good? Have you lost a little wade? Well
a few? I think it's stress. Oh, so many memories
flood when I heard this song, and there is no
going back. So for those of you in the phase
of traveling, it's worth it. You're going to be celebrated
when you get there, and it may not be forever.
You may have kids soon, and when you do have kids,
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that's when the traveling stops. That's Kenny Loggins Celebrate Me
Home or as my son said, what is it enough
to do with Christmas Dead? That song's boring and has
everything to do with my Christmas can come back?
Speaker 7 (36:43):
Sound like Nick.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That's Nick number eight on our Top ten Stories and Songs.
Kenny Loggins with a Road to Christmas Travelers and Celebrate
Me Home coming up next, I will tell you for
new affiliates and listeners, When it comes to the top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs, Stop is always everyone's favorite,
and I assure you it's not stretched. And I assure
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you it is true. Up next at number seven are
owed to a New Orleans Christmas. When your morning show
continues straight ahead.
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This is your morning show with Michael gil.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Tarna Morning Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Family Man is one of my favorites as well, but
don't forget the family Stone.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wonderful, wonderful, and I'm with you on that movie family Man.
Love that movie and hardly anyone mentions it, but I
watched that every time it pops up on the streaming services,
and it's just such a heartwarming movie and it really
does remind you of what's in life. I work on
the road and I'm currently in a hotel in Amarillo,
Texas and looking forward to flying.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Home this weekend. To be with my family. Happy holidays
and May Christmas to y'all. Oh that's so sweet. Yes,
Merry Christmas to you and yours. We had Tim daly
on I think last month or the month before, and
I told him, we're going to say to tell your
wife thank you for a treasure and family man. Tia
Leoni played the wife family Stone. I will just tell
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you this, I agree completely. I saw it in its entirety.
I have never watched it again. There is that scene
where she's dying of cancer and opens up the picture
of Rachel McAdams young and that's you and me, kid,
and then it's just you know, there have been some
profoundly sad movies that have been made and their masterpieces,
(01:48):
and I acknowledge them. I just living at once was
painful enough. But you're right, that was a terrific movie.
And we're talking about this because we did. We're counting
down our top ten Christmas stories and songs, and at
number nine was my owde to Christmas movies, and we
chose Love Actually and played a song from that. David
and I both are addicted to Feast of the Seven Fishes,
but there are a lot of great ones and just
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like number ten on our list, we need a little
Christmas decorating, prepares our hearts and minds for the holidays.
Movies can become a part of our traditions and prepare
our hearts and minds for the holidays, because guess what,
Christmas comes once a year, whether you're ready or not,
and whatever state your life is in, it arrives and
it paints a reminding picture sometimes and a guiding picture sometimes.
(02:32):
All right, Royannil is here because we have a new
national poll that tracks America's views from the President to Congress,
to foreign policied immigration to Australia's social media ban. And
he's been pouring through the numbers. He's here with full analysis. Roy,
Good morning man, Good morning Michael. It's your favorite Quinnipiac
folks out two monthly polls this time of you know,
(02:54):
it's always like the third or fourth week of the month,
and there was an awful lot in this poll. I
laughed that eighteen percent of voters approve of the way
Democrats are behaving in Congress eighteen percent. And even among
Democrats it's only forty two percent approve of the way
their fellow Democrats are doing their job. Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
While eighteen percent of voters support Democrats, when you ask
them if an election were held today, forty seven percent
of voters say they want Democrats to run things there
in the House.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
So it's a bit of a heads.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I believe that's the definition of insanity, is what they
say right somewhere there.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Yeah, forty three percent want Republicans to keep control.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, you know, we make this partisan, but the truth
of the matter is we want people to govern, to represent,
to govern, and to lead, and we're in a perpetual
state of constant campaigning and dividing. I think they're frustrated
with both, and rightly. So what did it show on immigration?
Solved immigration?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Most voters fifty five percent think the Trump administration is
being too harsh in its treatment of undocumented migrants. Fifty
seven percent said they prefer giving most undocumented immigrants in
the US some sort of a pathway to legal status.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I thought was interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
A lot of this is about the economy, cost of living,
and the two thirds of Americans think that the current
economy is either not so good or downright poor. And
they say that this is Donald Trump's economy. Despite the speech,
you heard last night Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Fifty
seven percent of voter said this is a Trump economy.
(04:29):
Thirty four percent said it's a Biden economy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
These polls, like all polls, show me, people are driven
by narratives, not reality. This is the narrative being pounded.
And I told you that America would be fine closing
the border and sealing it, and the President showed you
could do it in less than a month. And there
hasn't been a crossing since. You got to get rid
of all these unknown criminal or known criminal elements in
America would be behind that when you get to other
(04:53):
than breaking the law of entering the country illegally, those
that have committed no other crimes. I knew that would
be a difficult sell for the American people, But that's
rooted in the housing crisis, that's rooted in the unsustainability
of our entitlement system. So America needs to get more
interested in fought than opinion. Is what this shows. What
was the most surprising Before you go, I have two
(05:15):
notes about Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Fifty three percent of voters do not like the way
they're taking out those suspected drug votes. Sixty three percent
opposed US military action inside of Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I think there were a lot of people last
night Rory thought that that speech was going to be
a Kennedy's speech about Venezuela, and it wasn't ry.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
That was what I thought, and instead it was, Oh,
I think I've heard these lines before.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh yeah, it's a little fireside chat roby back in
the third hour with more you're going to be covering
the new Epstein files that are going to be released
finally and the exit of Dan Bongino to go along
with it. So the president, that's a big story yesterday,
and the secrecy of nobody knowing exactly what was going
to be addressed. The assumptions for many people were, well,
(05:58):
Venezuela is the new Q and the links to Iran
is the new Soviet Union from the past, and he's
been a massing force. He's announcing his military actions. No,
And after you watched it, it either struck you as
a holiday fireside chat, a state of the Union, maybe
(06:20):
a response to some of the mistakes of earlier in
the week, or maybe struck you as a chance to
show energy and have the last say. I'll tell you this,
I thought it was very smart to do because of
the error the President made with the Rob Reiner post
and then the doubling down the air Susie wilds Maid
(06:42):
spending too much time with an adversarial publication. You didn't
want people to go into a three week holiday vacation
with that taste in their mouth, so you had to
do something. Translation, this was damage control. Secondly, I noticed
a burst of energy from the president. That's a dress.
Everybody to think something happened to him, or he's old,
or he's getting slow. And finally, did anybody else put
(07:06):
me in red? Notice? They were very little to know
Ad Lips. He stuck to the script as he was
probably told to. That's my take. Let's bring in our
senior contributor, David Sanati. He's also the CEO of the
American Policy I should say, more importantly, the CEO of
the American Policy Roundtable and hosted the Public Square. What
was your take? I mean, it was damage control, which
(07:27):
was smart. It was high energy, which was smart. It
was short under twenty minutes, which was smart. And it
gets the final say, which was smart. Whether anybody buys it,
I don't know. My take is a question.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
I now may very well be convinced that Fridays with
forty seven are real.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's our little speaker. By the way, do not out
that secret.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I swear they listened to yesterday's broadcast and taylored the
delivery of the speech in accordance. Now, of course I
can't prove that night. I bring it in jest, of course,
but they're clearly getting the message that he belongs back
on the garbage truck and not calling people garbage.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Time out. I'm gonna do something very old and very cheesy,
but it needs to be done. Say that again slowly, that.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
He needs to be back on the garbage truck and
not calling people garbage.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
And they're getting the message.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Now, I will say one other thing.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
We've been dealing with Donald Trump for a long time now,
all right. I mean this goes back. Look, this is
he's been around a long time. He's never delivered a
short speech until last night.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
With God, all things are possible, all right. That is
a miracle. I don't think Donald Trump has ever delivered
a twenty minute speech in his political life.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
High energy concise.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Seventy eight RPMs.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Okay, so it was a little bit manic in the
delivery to tone of it all. But he got it
in twenty minutes. You got to give him credits.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He stole a fireside chat, he stole a State of
the Union address. He did it at the right length,
the right energy, the right tone, all right. To Rory's
quote from the Quinnipiac University poll, does this just get
matrixed or does it effectively dull the unforced errors earlier
in the week and give people an optimistic heading into
(09:36):
the holiday final taste in their mouth?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Well, too soon to all, And like you always say,
the other side gets a vote and they have a
play too. And so while they were talking about moving
into a holiday period, it's we're not moving out of
time and space. So this is going on for quite
a long time. So there's more to do. But it's
clear that there's messaging going on. It's also clear from
after having read Dandy Fair and watched yesterday's performance, that
(10:01):
there seems to be no rift between Donald Trump and
Susie Wilds. They're still working at this together, because it
looks like her influence was most significant on the speech.
So I think that I don't think that there is
a rift based on the Vanity Fair piece. And when
you read the Vanity Fair piece in its totality and
not just the summary comments of the siloed media, you
(10:22):
find that there's a little bit more substance in that article,
and it depends on what the second piece of it
looks like. So yeah, it was I don't think he
did himself any harm last night, for certain, And he
is right about the facts. And if he's right about
the future, if what they have put in place is
about to bear fruit, that's good news. One other point, Michael,
(10:43):
that I think is pivotal to all the to everybody
watching this process. Where did we lose our minds to
come to the place of thinking that you could elect
somebody in eleven months? They turned the country upside down
inside out, and all of a sudden it be unicorns
and puppies.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
For the whole world be over using my would you
say that again? You know it's funny. The president did
shut down the border faster than I thought possible, and
I mean stopped it zero crossings.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Only within the context of exact.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But an economy doesn't work that way. This goes back
to COVID when they were talking, and it was him
talking about sending everyone home and shutting down the economy.
We were like, you know, an economy is not a
light switch. You can't turn it off and then once
the pandemic passes, turn it right back on. It doesn't
work that way. And America's expectations of oh, well, it's
(11:33):
his economy now, well, he just inherited something just nine
months ago. And you don't turn economies around that much.
And especially with some of the long term benefit strategies,
they have some short term pain, like the tariffs of
which he announced, the cleverly seventeen seventy six dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
The troble ramifications of COVID, the Biden piece of COVID,
and then weekend at Bernie's for four years. Okay, that's
pretty hard to recover from. When you're talking about prices
escalating based on energy costs. You can't turn energy costs
on and off like a switch. But you can hardly
do more than they've already done. Overlooked, radically overlooked chart
(12:15):
yesterday's speech was the electric power generation plants that he
noted there as being coming online. I don't know, Michael,
I don't know if you can get changed faster. I
just don't know that anybody can work any harder than
they've worked.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, when's the last time he saw Donald Trump speak
for just twenty minutes? When's the last time he saw
him sat? Yeah, never stick to the script and not
ad lib do it with high energy and get the
final say it was smart, it was damage control, but
it needed to be done. I don't know about you,
(12:47):
but his mistake on Monday, the Susie Wiles on Tuesday,
the focus of the strategy and tax on him to
win the midterms that have already formed, and looking like
they don't know what they'd do. No things look back
on track at the White House. I would say, not
just short, not just the right energy, not just damage
(13:08):
control and smart. I'd say it worked. I feel a
little better heading into the new year that they they
might have just gotten the little I'm trying to not
use an old expression. Someone jerked a not in there,
but it appears as though they have and they're responding, well.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Well, if we could give the if I could.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Personally give the president any advice, and I mean, look,
I'm just I'm only speaking now from the context of
a Biblical morality, which is healthy is It would be
very wise for him to write a private apology to
the survivors of the Whiners, and for him, as President
of the United States, to take somewhere in his day
today and say, I need to let you know I've
(13:46):
never gotten along with Rob Reiner, and I was wrong
to speak the way that I did, and what happened
was a tragedy for our country, for them, and for
our family. He'll be greatly missed. And I spoke in anger,
and I was wrong. Smartest thing he could possibly do.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well. He did a short speech, stuck to the script,
did it with the right energy. There might be another
miracle left. I don't know that I would backtrack to that.
I would leave it just the way it is, with
the taste in everybody's mouth. I like the private part.
I would do it privately.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He's got an obligation though, because you made it public.
He could go on through social put it in writing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yo the world David, and I we I guess won't
talk to you. Well, I'll I'll talk to you a lot,
but I won't talk to you again on the air
until next year. For someone that tells Christmas and stories
and songs better than anybody. We got to get onto
our stories and songs list. But I encourage everybody to
watch Christmas in America. It is a spectacular view of
(14:45):
the Manger and a spectacularly told view of John Quincy
Adams more than just a president's son, somebody that spanned
from the founding Fathers all the way to Abraham Lincoln.
He may have been one of the most extraordinary and
wisest servants in government ever. You can access to Christmas
in America at the Public Square dot com and reads you,
(15:08):
and it's in video form now, so you cannot just
listen to it like a radio program. You can watch
it the way I did, like you're sitting in the
theater on YouTube. David, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and
thanks for all your contributions to your morning show this year.
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This is your Morning Show with Michael Delchu.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I was just watching that video again. That the courage
it took, and he wasn't the first, by the way.
Two others had tried to stop that gunman in Sydney, Australia,
were killed trying to do so. The last one, Ahmed
al Ahmed, he succeeded. Do you know the fundraiser for
him is up to two point five million dollars And
guess what isn't it fun to focus on and celebrate
(17:20):
the person that stops the shooting rather than committed the shooting.
And he deserves every penny of it. But boy, that
was that That could have turned out really, really bad,
and he took out half of the problem. Really love it.
We salute him today. Dan Bongino's leaving after all and
going back to his show. What about the person took
his place on his show? He guess he's going to
back to whatever he was doing.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
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Enjoy Good morning from Nolansville, Tennessee. Last night address was
fabulous one because it was short, and number two, I
loved all the charts. I love a good visual that
will stick with people more so than what he said.
And those charts will go around on social media and
(18:37):
people will look at them a lot.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Good morning, Michael to you and Read and Rory. I
just want to say one thing before you go on
your holiday break.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I wish you Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I wish you merry Christmas. I wish you merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And that be new that's like a Marilyn Monroe, Oh
Christmas Way, beautiful voice. Thank you, sorry though she should
you and Red and roared, well she didn't remember you, Jeff,
it happens. Look just another one of our beautiful talented
listeners acknowledging me. There you go. That's what it's all about.
What are you gonna do if you're just waking up?
(19:18):
The President gave what I think is up for everyone
to decide. I think it's all of the above. It
was a little like the State of the Union. It
was like a little Christmas greeting company, Christmas Greeting, here's
what we achieved this year. The best days are ahead.
It was a bit of a response to some mistakes
(19:39):
earlier in the week. It was getting a last say,
but here's the truth. It probably was damage control, but
it was the right energy at the short length, with
no ad libs into the one caller. I'll add some
great charts and visuals, and it was smart to do.
Whether it worked, time will only tell. In Rhode Island,
they couldn't find the first guy. Now we have a
(20:01):
second person of interest in the manhunt for a Brown
University shooter and Nick Reiner appeared in court in Los
Angeles and suicide protection vests. Could this be a sign
that a insanity please to come and out, goes Dan Bongino.
He got in a little bit late. He didn't go
through the confirmation process, so I can't remember read what
we said. We think he came on board March, late February,
(20:25):
early March, came on in February. That's a non uh,
he didn't need to be confirmed. Yeah. So it was,
but not very long. And he gave up a lot
to do that. And he's leaving awful quickly. And he
got in and made most of his popularity online on
the Epstein case. Does he go back to media with
(20:47):
the same credibility that he left with. I'm sure the
left will make this more people jumping ship. John Decker
is our White House correspondent. None of us knew what
the President planned to do. I think many people assumed
it was to announce it's an escalation of war with Venezuela.
It wasn't. It wasn't a lot of things too, wasn't
filled with ad libs. It wasn't long, it was short,
(21:08):
it was high energy. It was to the point if
it was damage control. It was his best effort. Whether
it works, time will tell, and the American people will decide.
Your take on the president's speech last night, And what
was the media take. Well, I can't speak for the
entire media. I can tell you my take.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
My take was, and I made this point with you
before earlier this week. You know, if you're a family
out there, you're feeling anxiety about your economic condition, you know,
and you feel that literally every time you go to
the grocery store. There's no speech by any president, none
that can make you feel better, that can get rid
of that anxiety. So the president's task isn't just making
(21:48):
a speech, which was fine. It's doing something about the
economic situation that we're in right now with rising unemployment,
low job creation game and doing that in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That is the task for the president and his team. Yeah.
And when I say I don't expect you, I always
love when you give me an attorney's response, What I'm
saying is when when you're standing in a pool, a
white house pool, surrounded every day, I'm surrounded with miserable people.
Today you're surrounded with wonderful pork. What was their take?
You know, the president sealed the border, finished, solved, there's
(22:24):
no questioning. Everybody has to admit a president can fix
the border. But an economy is not that way and
it takes more than nine months. Yeah, no, that's right.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
So the President very much deserves taking a victory lap
on the issue of border security. I think that's one
of the reasons why he was elected president in twenty
twenty four, what he promised to do on border security,
and he's delivered on that in a very short amount
of time. And the President's poll numbers on that particular
issue they're pretty good. But the issue in terms of
(22:54):
how is the President handling the economy, that's where his
poll numbers have seen some declines.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And the White House is well aware of that.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
And that's the reason why the President did that speech
last night from the Diplomatic reception room, Michael. It's the
reason why he's hitting the road just before heading down
to Florida tomorrow. He'll be in Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
another one.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Of those battleground states.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
And we'll see more of that from the President in
twenty twenty six leading up to the midterm elections.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Permission to approach the bench and speak candidate.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Obviously, the White House had some self induced errors. The
President's response on the death of Rob Reiner, which I
was dumbfounded by and offended by. Then we have Susie
Wiles spending a lot of time with an adversarial publication
and then wondering why it went wrong. There's no question
there was some damage control in this. I hope there
(23:48):
was also some awareness and awakening to the fact that
Donald Trump is the target of the midterm election because
he is the best hope for the Republicans to put
him on the ballot go to these ten or twelve
key races and make the difference. So they're going to
damage him. They're going to damage him on affordability, They're
going to damage him on starting wars, not ending wars.
(24:09):
And it looked like last night the fact that he
never ad lipped and with high energy, that was a
little ode to the people that think he's fading or
something medically is going on with high energy, and under
twenty minutes he hit the point. I please tell me
there's a sense they know he's the target, not four
hundred and thirty five people running for Congress. Oh, they
(24:30):
know that.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
You know, Trump is essentially on the ballot, even though
his name will not be at the top of the ballot.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You are absolutely right about that.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
And as for the President, you know, doing a very
disciplined type of speech. Yeah, that's what I expected. I mean,
it's not a campaign rally. But when he heads down
to North Carolina early Friday evening, he will go off script,
he will go off the teleprompter, will.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Rally Himian rally for him. But yeah, it'll be in
rally for him. Yes, sir, if this turns things around,
this could become a new tradition. I mean, this little
like the Queen used to do. The Queen did a
Christmas address every year in Britain. And if this turns
out to be some big political victory, watch this become
a new tradition. I couldn't tell. There were times I thought,
(25:19):
is this going to be a fire visually? Is this
a fireside chad? Is this? Then you got into things?
Is this the state of the Union? It probably was
damage control, but it was the right length, right energy.
And as to one of my callers said, a lot
of visuals. You can hear more of the analysis from
John Decker his podcast, The White House Briefing Room. It's
up by nine eastern eight am, about an hour and
a half from now, and he'll have more during the
(25:40):
podcast and we'll talk again tomorrow. Thanks for joining us, John,
Thank you, Michael. You got it all right. Quick break.
When we come back, we're counting down my top ten
Christmas stories and songs. It's our holiday gift to you.
And we had at number ten, Johnny mathis needed a
little Christmas. That's our ode to everybody that decorates and
makes our streets and homes look so we can feel
(26:01):
the holiday tradition and spirit. And then at number nine
was The Beach Boys God Only Knows from the movie
Love actually in our ode to Christmas movies. Number eight
are ode to travelers when you're a morning show continues next.
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It's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Good morning, and welcome to your morning show on the
Aaron streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. Honor to serve you,
I'm Michael. President Trump gave what was like a fireside chat.
One moment like a State of the Union, another probably
a little bit of damage control. What was very unique
under twenty minutes at a very high energy and sticking
to the script. Red and I had a little conversation
(28:01):
off the year. I don't know if that was intended
to do damage control for the left or that the
left is they're gonna stick. I mean, CNN immediately afterwards
started talking about you can't blame this on Biden, and
people are feeling this every time they go to the store.
I get the matrix. I think that speech was for
me and you and for some of us who love
what the president does, don't always like the way he
(28:22):
does it or says it. It's us. He had to
get trusting and supportedly excited about the new year, and
I think he did it. Please are now entering a
second suspect in Rhode Island. Nick Reiner showed up in
court wearing a suicide vest. I think an insanity plea
is coming. And Dan Bongino stepped down in his position.
(28:42):
He's going back to the media. That was a short run,
and we're counting down our top ten Christmas stories and songs.
That's our holiday gift to you. We had our owe
to holiday decorating. That gets us looking at and starting
to feel the importance of the season. Johnny mathis, we
need a little Chrisstmas at number nine are owed to
all the great Christmas music that and movies there the
(29:05):
Christmas movies rather that get us in the Christmas spirit.
And now we're at number eight. Andrew and I made
a decision the minute we had our twins that was it.
Christmas was in our home and for forever. So we
exited that track that is Christmas with your parents one year,
(29:28):
Christmas with my parents one year. No no, no. We
will have our traditions and our children will have their
childhood and memories in our home. Anyone's welcome to come.
If a grandparent wants to come, great, we got the rooms,
but there will be no dysfunction from the past that
(29:48):
comes into the present unless we created. It's the wisest
thing as parents we ever did. Now, I have to
tell you I look back at traveling with a little
bit nostalgia. There was something about being the traveler, you know,
being the one that didn't live at home, that came
(30:10):
home for the holidays, kind of like the story of
the Prodigal Sun. The people that are there every day,
they're just kind of taken for granted. But me, no,
I get the robe and the fatted calf on arrival.
And I remember one in particular because it was a hassle. First,
We're all in a department head meeting and Pat Robertson
looks around and when Pat used to get mad, he'd
(30:32):
talked lower and lower and lower, not louder and louder
and louder. Italians. We get louder and we start louder.
And he was like, if any of you people, I
think you're going home for Christmas and having a happy
New Year without your budgets done, you've got another good
by the end, he's just lipping. Now. My budget was
(30:54):
done quite frankly, but I tweeted a couple of things
and I put it back in. I left late, and
we were all racing to leave before a heavy snowstorm.
I got out a national but I didn't make it
far and they reroute us all the way to Seattle,
which I note Salt Lake City, where I had never
been before. It was nice. I perused some warmon Menus.
(31:18):
Cookbooks is one that I bought. Anyway, make a long
story short, we didn't get out. I don't know what
time it was, but I mean I felt like those
Navy people I used to see napping during the holidays
when I was a kid. It just took forever to
get on the plane. And that's the place I was
at Jeffrey where the one woman came out and she
was carrying two kegs of beer, not empty, full. She
(31:40):
was giant and she was strong. I'll never forget her,
and I said, man, they grown big. Finding on the
plane finally started heading to New Orleans, and then we're
coming through the clouds over lake. Poncha train and boom,
I see the lake, I see the shore, I see
my neighborhood. Minutes later, I'm coming out a baggage and
(32:01):
there's this van filled with crazy people screaming. My brother's driving,
my mom's head sticking out the window. I always take
this time to warn people traveling sometimes things go wrong
and it's draining and it's aggravating. Your reward is being
(32:22):
celebrated home like that. Leave the travel nightmares the minute
you hit the curb, because all those people that are
picking you up, they have set the expectation waiting for you.
Make sure they get you and not your frustrated travel
(32:42):
and cherish it because as much as I recommend once
you have children, Christmas is in your home and you
make your own memories those days young when you're single
and moved away and come home to be celebrated. I
mean the travel. Sure, we'll all have our nightmare stories,
but the bottom line is it's worth it to be
(33:06):
celebrated home. So we always make this stop. On our
list are owed to Christmas travelers, and it's as much
for the traveler as it is for those that are
waiting for them to celebrate them home. Warning, if you're traveling,
don't bring the frustrations of travel with you. They've been
(33:28):
waiting a long time. And for all of you that
weather the storms, we celebrate you home. Number eight on
our Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs list.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Is I'll believe. I'll list teaching men. I'm owning here.
It's journal in the place it's found.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Sarah, letting your servants, love.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Friends, celebrate me. Gim me U celebrate.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
Let me one bo so that aloes from.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
The bird I can recall and ever ride. But myself too,
all alone, I can.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
See uneasy family traveling where the rest of the woods fire.
Somebody try to tell me let the.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I didn't tell me what happened. I can't. I'll come out.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
Come on, Come on, Daddy, tell your mom from me here.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
You believe.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Sad, give me an Sam you want to urger can
become never myself.
Speaker 12 (35:47):
And make honey I better going saying things.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Stracting Jimmy, what on earth are you kids still doing up?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And why are you at the airport?
Speaker 11 (36:11):
Monk?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You look good? Have you lost a little wade? Well
a few? I think it's stress. Oh, so many memories
flood when I heard this song, and there is no
going back. So for those of you in the phase
of traveling, it's worth it. You're going to be celebrated
when you get there, and it may not be forever.
You may have kids soon, and when you do have kids,
(36:32):
that's when the traveling stops. That's Kenny Loggins Celebrate Me
Home or as my son said, what is it enough
to do with Christmas Dead? That song's boring and has
everything to do with my Christmas can come back?
Speaker 7 (36:43):
Sound like Nick.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That's Nick number eight on our Top ten Stories and Songs.
Kenny Loggins with a Road to Christmas Travelers and Celebrate
Me Home coming up next, I will tell you for
new affiliates and listeners, When it comes to the top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs, Stop is always everyone's favorite,
and I assure you it's not stretched. And I assure
(37:06):
you it is true. Up next at number seven are
owed to a New Orleans Christmas. When your morning show
continues straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
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