How novel, the MSM fake news blames everyone but themselves for distrust in the media. Self-driving cars don't seem to work well in power outages and did Hunter Biden just go MAGA?
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Hopefully Michael is resting, maybe golfing. I heard him before
the break talking about possibly going south to play golf
for North to enjoy some winter weather. Probably staying home though,
So whatever he's doing, I hope.
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Michael does aero's enjoying his time off.
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My name's Kelly Nashpinch hitting today, and I see Chuck
Todd is making some national news today because he has
a unique perspective on why you know the polling comes back.
I wish they would change the name of the poll
from lack of trust in the media, because it's not
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the media that Americas are not trusting it's the news
that they don't trust.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
That's what the.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Mainstream legacy news outlets have been basically openly lying to
you for twenty years now that we're aware of. I'm
sure that they fudged it a lot back in the
eighties and previous too, but we know that they've been
lying because we're able to get we have the receipts
to show that. But Chuck Todd has to comment on
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why people no longer trust the media.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so
lower is, remember what the media is. I'm as good
as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want.
At times, if you're getting untrustworthy sources, you may be
reporting untrustworthy information, right You get my drift here, And
so I think that the collapse of trust in overall institutions,
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the media in some ways is a reflection of that distrust,
and so that we may be reporting what the quote
unquote experts tell us, but if the public doesn't trust
those experts, and then we in the media are quoting
those experts, they don't trust us too. It's sort of
across the board. And what you have now is Essentially,
the left doesn't trust the media now, and.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The right doesn't trust the media.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that
sort of make it too easy for too many people
to live in a bubble. I always say, we have
too many journalists in Washington and New York and not
enough everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
If you're wondering how you can avoid responsibility for your
mess up, Chuck Todd just gave you a master's class
on that. It's not my fault, it's my source's fault,
it's the algorithm's fault, it's the experts fault, everybody's fault,
but the actual newsperson's fault. If you just listen to
his argument, he's saying the experts. People don't trust the experts.
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Why don't they trust the experts, Chuck, because the experts.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You knew.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
COVID exposed a lot, and one of the things that
exposed was that you can't trust the people who have
an a vested interest in telling you a lie. So
when Fauci is telling you, look, this is going to
be totally safe. It's absolutely proven to be perfectly safe,
and now we're going to demand that everybody takes how
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could it be perfectly safe when you know that in
order to test a drug for long term effects it
takes like twenty years. You created it in less than
twenty months. There's no testing on this thing, and it's
totally safe.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You must use it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That didn't make any sense, So we didn't trust Fauci.
A lot of Americans that a lot of people did
trust Facci. Unfortunately for them, a lot of people regretted
trusting Fauci and the other experts in that field. But
it's not just them, it's it's it's this whole idea
that when they're telling you what is a demonstrable lie
and then saying that you're not smart enough to understand it,
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that the issue is too complex, Well you've already lost me.
If you're telling me that I can't understand the issue,
then I don't trust you. I'm not a I'm not
a rocket scientist, but I should be able to understand
the issues that you're talking about that are going to
affect our lives generally, and that that's one of them. Now,
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the whole algorithm thing. So now it's social media's fault
that we don't trust. What you're saying is media, which
I'm calling news because that's really what the pole is
talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Do I trust TikTok?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I don't trust TikTok.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't think most Americans even look to TikTok, although
I'm told that they do.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't believe that most people do look to TikTok
for their information, nor do they look to the I
guess probably some of them do look at the Daily Show,
but I don't think most Americans look to the sitcoms
and the you know, the Stephen Colberts of the world
for their news and information. Now do I trust what
I see on X because that's the now the conservative's choice.
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I'm like Ronald Reagan. I think most people are this way.
They should be at least trust but verify. If you
read something in your timeline and you say, well, that's interesting,
how do I check that? How do I prove that
that is a correct statement, a correct news analysis.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Whatever. You have to do a little deep dive.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You have to go dig around a little bit, try
to look for an opposite opinion. Do they have some
interesting facts on the opposite side to push back on that.
If you're not doing that work, I mean, look, this
goes as far back. I remember Denzel Washington saying, was
it like fifteen twenty years ago? If you don't read
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the newspapers, you're uninformed, but if you do read the newspapers,
you're misinformed. I mean, that is old school thinking. And
that's again back when we used to read newspapers. But
Chuck Todd blaming everybody but Chuck Todd for the fact
that nobody trusts Chuck Todd and his coworkers. We were
talking earlier about the illegal aliens, and I don't even
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know how I feel about this, because it seems to
me when I agree with the idea that if they're
here illegally, they shouldn't be, I don't agree with the
fact that we should be paying them to leave. Apparently,
according to this story, we're now upping the offer to
three thousand dollars if you get a three thousand dollars
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exit bonus if you're an illegal alien who agrees to
self deport using the CBP home app according to Christy
Nome And I don't know how cues how could she
make this statement, we'll get you home in time for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Heck, I know people right now who have airline.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Tickets that aren't going to get home in time for Christmas?
How are you going to get them home for Christmas?
There's that could be fake news too. Christy better watch
what you're saying. But we're we had been offering one
thousand dollars. We've now this is the way it says.
This Christmas season, the US taxpayer is now generously tripling
the incentive for illegal aliens to leave voluntarily. Now through
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the end of the year, you not only get the
three thousand dollars, but you also get the opportunity to
return eventually, whereas if you are caught and deported, then
you'll never have another opportunity to legally live in the
United States of America. I'm honestly, I'm not a fan
of it. They broke the law, they came in illegally,
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and now they're going to get three thousand dollars. I
don't like it. What I want is them to be removed.
I like the fact though, that it does say that
one point nine million people have already deported. One point
nine million illegal aliens have voluntarily self deported since January
of twenty twenty five. And I think that you're already
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starting to see the benefits of that. And that's interesting
that I'm using that term benefits because if you listen
to the left, who's cleaning the toilets? There's nobody left
to clean the toilets or apparently drive trucks. But there
are people who can drive trucks and clean toilets and
be the maids and do all those things. They're called Americans.
We still have Americans who are willing to work hard
for a living. But there are benefits in the sense
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that rent is starting to come down Nationally. We're seeing
that across the board, rents are coming down, so that
is fantastic news. As more and more places become available,
the rent is going to become more and more affordable.
You should also see overall wages increase as because it's
been artificially deflated by people who are willing to take
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jobs below minimum wage, and so that is changing as well.
If you've got thoughts on the easier any of the
stories that we're talking about this morning, obviously i'd love
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This is your morning show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wherever you are, if you're enjoying your Christmas season, whether
it's warm and tropical, or perhaps you've got snow out
in your front yard and you're enjoying that. I hope
you're having the best holiday season I know. According to
a new survey, ninety five percent of Americans are going
to have packages delivered to their home. And believe it
or not, fifty seven percent of all thefts from porch
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pirates happens this week. This is the week that they're
coming for you. Fifty seven percent of all package thefts
happened this week. So you've got to be on the lookout.
And this is really important that you know. You can't
just let it sit out on the front porch for
a couple of hours. And I know we've heard people
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come up with these, you know, these kind of safe
lock boxes that they can put it in and so
on and so forth. But you need to do better.
I cannot believe the amount of theft that is happening
right now. The average theft costs the person or the
amount of good stolen, it's two hundred and four dollars.
I think oftentimes the company eats that. If it's like
Amazon or whatever, oftentimes they'll eat it for you. But
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of course that in the long term just drives up
prices for everybody. But yeah, do not let your stuff
sit on the porch overnight if you're going away.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Have a neighbor.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Collected another survey that we were talking about earlier this morning,
sixty three percent of Americans don't want teenagers sixteen and
under to have access to social media. And this was
a law that was passed in Australia, I guess early
this year, but it went into effect about two three
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weeks ago. Now where if you're under the age of sixteen,
you cannot have a social media account. And yes, I
know that the critics are saying that that's being sidestepped
by parents who are like, well, I want my kid
to have access to the social media or whatever it is,
but the parents are allowing the kids to use their
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social media accounts to look, scroll whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But for the for the most part, I'd be interested in.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Hearing if there's somebody out there who has a teenager
who benefited from social media, where something good happened, anything
I mean and I've heard stories of people being reunited
through social media or go fund me accounts were started
because somebody was in a tragedy and that helped. I'd
love to hear those heartwarming tales. But in general, when
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you look at social media and how it is legit
ravaged the childhoods of so many Americans. And we were
talking about the suicide and homicide rates in the United States,
and they were pretty steady through the seventies. This when
they basically started tracking it. It looked like in the late seventies,
through the eighties, through the nineties, into the two thousands,
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and then every year since two thousand and seven, both
the suicide and homicide rates have increased year over year.
It just continues to go up and up amongst teenagers.
And you know, the only thing you can point to
that has been a major change would be the implementation
of social media. Before two thousand and seven. I mean,
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I guess there was some forms of social media. I
don't really remember them. My Space would have come out.
I'm guessing around four oh five something like that. But
you know, as it ratchets up with the Instagram accounts,
and it's just picture after picture after picture, and people
were becoming more and more depressed.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I heard somebody say it once.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I thought it was fantastic in the old days, and
that would have been any day before social media. We
were trying to keep up with the Joneses, which is
a human nature instinct. You want to do as well
as your neighbors. And so if your neighbor gets a car,
you want a car. If your neighbor gets a fancy coat,
you want a fancy coat. And that's just something that's,
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I guess, kind of part of probably our sin nature.
It's baked into us, though, it seems. But now you're
not trying to keep up with the Joneses. You're trying
to keep up with the Kardashians. You're trying to they're billionaires.
How can you possibly live? And it's not just the
Kardashians that are all over social media, it's that we
have all these quote unquote social media influencers and all
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they do is go to exotic locales, get the absolute
perfect video with the perfect lighting is sitting in a
car that's more than likely not their own, hanging out
with beautiful people. And then you compare that to your
humdrum life, and if you're not mentally mature enough to
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handle that. It can become very depressing. And then you
start seeing some of your friends who are doing a
better job of telling the lie. That's why I call
it fake book. It's not real. It's fake book. People
are just pretending that their lives are this happy. In
your life, and you might even put some of that
content out your own How many times have we seen
I mean, even just this week, I saw where a
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twenty six year old TikTok influencer unfortunately took their own lives.
Everybody thought they were happy, had a great life, everything's
going great, wonderful, or all these cool parties and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But that was fake. They were living a lie.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They knew they were living a lie, and yet they
probably believed that all the other people that were competing
with that they really were enjoying their lives, that it's
incredibly wonderful to live this incredible life of luxury and parties,
and it's just the good times never end. That's not
the way life is. And if you live your life
through social media, it's very dangerous. And so sixty three
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percent of Americans, and that's bipartisanship, that's the majority of Republicans,
the majority of Independence, and the majority of Democrats all
want to end access to social media for kids under
the age of sixteen. And yet now we have two
different state cases, one in Louisiana one in Arkansas where
those local state municipalities they passed the law that would
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end it, and now federal judges have stepped in and
overruled them and said, the First Amendment guarantees that kids
can look at this? Are you kidding me? Red and
I were talking about this earlier. There's no way that
the First Amendment means that you can look at Do
kids have the right to look at what we would
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call pornography?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Of course not. It's illegal for them to look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So why aren't you I guess probably what's his name,
Larry Flint probably was suing for that ability back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
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My name's Kelly nashvilling in for Michael del Zerno. Good morning.
I hope you're having a great start to the Christmas break.
If you're on a Christmas break, if you're one of
the people like myself who are working, thank you for
spending some time with us this morning. It is your
morning show, which means we'd love to hear your thoughts
on any of the subjects that we've been talking about.
And apparently yesterday Hunter Biden unburdened himself. This is a
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I mean, I'm just reading through it. I have not
yet listened to this podcast. The podcast, by the way,
is featured on the iHeartRadio app. Sean Ryan is the
host five Hours, five Hours. He sat and talked with
Hunter Biden yesterday. Wow, And they're saying it's a lot
different than the YouTube interview that he did in the summer.
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Remember that one where he was hammering George Clooney and
some other people turning on his father. Now is Hunter
Biden turning on his own father. He's talking about the
immigration policy. Is it a failure? Uh yeah, yeah, that was.
We need a vibrant immigration, but we don't want immigrants
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that are coming here illegally and draining us of our resources.
He said, Boyle, but that sounds maga? Did Hunter Biden
just go maga? And then talking about what happened in Afghanistan,
he said that you know that Trump and his people
set up a lot of it. I can blame the generals,
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I can blame some of the military people, but ultimately
it ends with my father and it was a failure.
This guy what And then he goes on to say, surprise,
Hunter Biden is currently fifteen million dollars in debt.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
What how much money has that guy gone through?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I mean just off the stuff that we that were
aware of the money that you know, we've seen the
paperwork on ten percent for the big guy. Then Hunter
and his friends divvied up the rest. It was like
tens of millions of dollars. It's all gone fifteen million
dollars in debt. And then we like he had a
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was it two years ago? He got a seven million
dollar quote unquote loan that really didn't have to be
paid back. So I mean unbelievable what this guy is doing. Anyway,
if you like the iHeartRadio app, that's a great place
to check out that Sean Ryan podcast. I don't have
five hours, though I hope they edited down a little bit.
A five hour interview, that's a that's a bit much
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to try to take in. But uh yeah, thoughts on Hunter,
go ahead, let us know about him. Usually not too
many fans of Hunter Biden in this audience that I'm
aware of. You know, as we head into Christmas, one
of the things that I think about, and it's just
ironic because I am gen X and grew up in
that era where television kind of dominated the scene is
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the Christmas commercials. And do you have a favorite Christmas
commercial that you remember? The one that always stuck out
to me was was And this is bad because I'm
not sure if the product is right. Sometimes the great
commercials we get the product wrong. But I think it
was Folgers and it was the military kid came home
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and he's making the coffee. He's making the Folgers, and
his mother wakes up and she smells the Folgers and
she knows that only Timmy or whoever Tommy would do that.
Tommy was the first one of Tommy is Tommy Holme
and she comes down and hugs him. That was a
fantastic Christmas commercial. Another one that I loved from the era.
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Not that normally you get a little mushy thinking about
Mike Tyson, but Mike. I think it's because Mike Tyson
has always been.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
A very tough guy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Mike Tyson's persona when he walked into the ring, He's
the only guy that I remember walking into the ring
without wearing a robe. He didn't want the frivlou a
robe was too frivolous for this gladiator, and he would
He usually didn't wear socks either. It was just like
the boxing shoes and that was it. And he was
just like a wrecking machine. And Mike Tyson was knocking
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people out in record time. I mean, and if you
look at the year nineteen eighty five, Mike Tyson I
think had something like fourteen fights in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It was like he was fighting like every three weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Mike Tyson had a boxing match, which is insane, and
knocked everybody out pretty much in the first round. And
he was a wrecking machine. And the guy behind him,
the guy who trained him was an older white guy
named Cus Tomato. And I don't remember the year of
the Christmas commercial, but I think it was around nineteen
eighty nine something like that. So Cus Tomato had passed.
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But in this commercial, they were showing photographs of Cus
and Mike together. Cus often looking like he was just
in love with Mike. He just loved that guy, and
he just wanted the best for Mike. And then it
ends Mike's sitting there and if I remember right, Michael,
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Mike Tyson has like a tear on his cheek and
he says, I miss you, Cus, And then it says
for all your Kodak moments, the new Kodak camera or whatever,
you don't want to miss the best pictures of your life,
or something to that effect. Man, that was a powerful commercial.
You have a favorite Christmas commercial? Love to hear about
your favorites through the years. On the iHeartRadio app. Just
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hit the talk back feature. See what else we got
going on here this morning. It's just a you know,
when you look at the world, it's just never ending.
I was joking with Red yesterday, you can't do the
show prep, you know, the night before, because so many
things happen like yesterday, the Trump administration announced late yesterday
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immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind projects that are
currently under construction due to what they call a national
security risk.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
So we've had billions of.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Dollars now in investments into these wind projects, and yet
according to the Interior Department, it's a national security risk.
And I guess what's going on here, if I understand
it correctly, is that we're getting quote unquote noise. The
noise that is being brought on by these things are
affecting the way we're able to monitor, whether it's a
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submarines or those types of things. Obviously, the Democrats are
less than pleased. Chuck Schumer says Trump's obsession with killing
offshore wind projects is unhinged, irrational, and unjustified. You know,
when you think about just common sense stuff. Though, why
would Donald Trump want to raise energy costs? That's the
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other part of Chuck Schumer's things. At a time with
these soaring energy costs, this decision is a backward step
that will drive energy bills even higher. Of course, Trump
doesn't want energy costs to be higher. He doesn't want
unlike when Obama and Biden, when they were talking about
the fact that they were going to have to drive
up the prices of oil in order to get you
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to switch to electric vehicles.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That was there and that was their plan.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
We have to drive it up in order to get
you off of oil and onto what they thought was
going to be fantastic sustainable energy electricity. Well it turns
out now we can't make electricity in lots of parts
of the country. We got these rolling brownouts that are
happening because we don't have enough energy. The story maybe
over the weekend up in San Francisco they had a
power outage and I hadn't even considered this. That the
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what are those little vehicles called, like the govi's or
whatever they're called, or is that the drug loss materei?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is we go via drug drug or is it the
thing that's the self driving taxi? I can't even remember anymore,
But whatever it is, those self driving taxis in San
Francisco over the weekend were stopped because they didn't know
what to do because the lights were out. There was
no red lights, green lights, yellow lights. They lost the
power so they couldn't drive, so they caused massive traffic jams.
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I'm sure somehow in the future, Elon Musks and the
geniuses of these self driving vehicles will have to try
to figure out a way for them to operate when
the power is out. But Donald Trump has ended immediately
the construction of all offshore wind projects. You have some
thoughts on that. Do you think that Donald Trump just
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hates wind? Is that what it is is he's very
angry about the wind. By the way, where was the
one that I did like the quote here? Yes, Robin
Shae for President of Protect our Coast, New Jersey, which
Protect our Coast, New Jersey, sounds like it's going to
be a liberal type of organization.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I don't know if they are.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They aren't, but Robin Shae for the President of Protect
our Coast, New Jersey said in a statement in response
to this, this is an incredible Christmas gift for our
thousands of supporters, hardworking fishermen, small business owners, and families
who value reliable, affordable energy over climate virtue signaling. I'm
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going to guess they're not a far left group as
the name might have implied, But I don't know. Maybe
somebody from New Jersey's listening this morning and they can
let us know about that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's your morning show with Michael Delchno.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Did you know that today is the day we begin
with the atic of grievances?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It is the Festivus for the rest of us? Day?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Today is that day? Are you celebrating Festivus for the
rest of us? That's one of those Seinfeld classic bits
that happens on the twenty third of December. And of
course you have to have your feats of strength. Good
luck to you if you're competing in the Festivus for
the rest of us. Looking around the country, we've got
some possibly white Christmas. It's definitely stormy, wet Christmas week
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for lots of Obviously, southern California is getting up to
nine inches of rain through Wednesday. But if you're looking
up in New York City, Boston, they're expecting some snow
in those areas in all of New England. So whatever
the weather is, I hope it doesn't impede your travel
and other things. Flu flu is getting very active right now,
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and it's in lots of the country. It's New Mexico,
the Carolina's mid Atlantic like Michigan, excuse me, Maryland and
DC down south to Carolina's jo up North Massachusett. Everybody
seems to be getting the flu, so be careful this
year if you're hiding out and trying to visit friends
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and family. And this was an interesting survey the sexiest
Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I mean, I don't know why we.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Had to have that survey done, but it turns out
that right now the number one sexiest one is the
Santa Claus and the Target commercials. But here amongst us,
we've had some people voting for maybe I voted for
dan Ackroyd and trading places and Billy Bob Thornton got
to vote from Jeff. All right, Rory O'Neil is ready
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to join us. Now, good morning, Rory. How are you
doing today?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Getting through it? I think we're all mentally tuned out,
aren't we? Or am I the only one?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We'll no, no, no, we're trying to tune out.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But you know, one of the fun things to cover
is the Trump administration and some of their announcements. And
yesterday there was a huge announcement guarding the Trump Class battleships.
What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Right, we're going back to the days of the battleship
we haven't built one since nineteen forty four. But the
President and his Naval secretary both say that they want
to bring back the battleship. Now, this isn't going to
be like the USS Missouri, which essentially had those sixteen
inch guns and could you know, lob huge ammunition in
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great distances.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Instead, these are going to be decked out with some
of the best tech.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The hypersonic missiles, the high powered lasers, even perhaps a
nuclear capable version of a Tomahawk missile could be on
these brand new battleships.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Now, the President, this is where he goes off the
rails a.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Little bit, saying that he thinks the first one of
these could be sailing in two and a half years. Boy,
that is rosy and optimistic. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, well, he did go out of his way to
make sure that you understood these are the biggest, most
powerful battleships ever built. And I like the like the
I don't know, I find it amusing that he names
things after himself, right, it's the it's the Trump Class.
And then he's got that what do they call him, like,
the Golden Fleet? Is that what we're calling it?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
All?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
We had the White fleet back in the days of
Teddy Roosevelt. But of course the Donald Trump is going
to be a golden fleet, and he wants to see
a big surge in ship building all across the country. Look,
maybe has struggled, you know when it comes especially to
building new ships, to design and develop new ships on
budget and on timetables. I think the Zumwalt class of
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destroyers was the last sort of big commitment. I mean,
I think they were going to build thirty five of them.
They were ten years late. They quit after building just
three of them, saying these things stink. So now, you know,
it's interesting to see how they're adjusting the fleet moving forward. Look,
some I've already heard some naval strategists say, you know,
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there's a reason we moved away from the battleship, and
they're not fans of bringing them back.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Are there any military strategists that you're aware of that
are fans of this idea that they think it's going
to actually enhance our security.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well, the one.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Standing next to President Trump, But other than that, you know,
we haven't really heard much of that. The US Secretary
of the Navy is a gifted businessman. He used to
manage the money for Michael Dell. But he has zero
experience in the military or the navy. But he wants
to bring back these battleships.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
As well, as we heard at the press competition today.
And you know, so the question is.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Are these the fighting vehicles for the twenty first century?
You look at what Ukraine and Russia are doing right now.
You know, Russia is sending in their big heavy ships
and Ukraine is taking them out with tiny drone boats.
You know, so where is the future of the next conflict?
Does it be a battleship or something else smaller, more nimble.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Interesting? And did Pete Hegseth add any insights? But he
was there right well.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
He was Secretary of Hegsetts, Secretary Rubio, and the Secretary
of the Navy, all in attendance when President Trump made
the announcement at Mar A Lago. Secretary of Hegsets seems
confident that this is the way to go. You wouldn't
expect him to step out a line from the President's
vision during a speech like that, but he thinks this
is the path of the future. You know, they see
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a lot of the symbolism as being important and important
part of this is to have a big, old record
setting battleship just over the horizon, being a threat, a
threatening positure. They think that there's a lot of value
just in that. But you know, some of us said, look,
putting nuclear capable missiles on a slow moving ship is
just a bad idea.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
That's why we hide them on submarines.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, we certainly appreciate your insights as always and looking
forward to working with you again next week hopefully.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Are you in next week?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I am Monday through Wednesday next week. Are you in tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
All right? I am not in tomorrow, but I'll be
back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So enjoy your Christmas break and I will see you
next week.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Merry Christmas, talk to you mindy, all right, Rory.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
O'Neil, Merry Christmas. Thank you so much, my man.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Listen, we have a lot of fun here every morning,
whether I'm hosting or whoever's hosting, it's always a good time.
It's a great way to start the day, and we
certainly appreciate all of your participation. And as we start
to kind of you know, wrap things up as we
head out on our Christmas breaks again, Be safe, be cognizant.
We talked earlier about the CDLs and the commercial drivers'
(32:48):
licenses that apparently have been given to thousands and thousands
of illegal aliens and have now just yesterday alone, the
Trump administration arrested a hundred people in California who have
these illegal CDLs, And so you don't know who's driving
next to you. Be careful when you're out there driving
(33:09):
today and tomorrow and over the next few days. As
we've got about one hundred plus million people taking to
the highways here for the Christmas break, we certainly want
everybody to be back next week.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
That's that's important.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Next Monday, when we get back together, I better have
you all here. I don't want anybody missing next week.
That would be my Christmas present from you to me
is that you make it back safe and sound. So
enjoy the Christmas break, Enjoy cakes and pie season. Yes,
go big on cakes and pie seasons. It's the one
time of the year you can just let it go,
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let it rip, enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hopefully Michael is resting, maybe golfing. I heard him before
the break talking about possibly going south to play golf
for North to enjoy some winter weather. Probably staying home though,
So whatever he's doing, I hope.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Michael does aero's enjoying his time off.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
My name's Kelly Nashpinch hitting today, and I see Chuck
Todd is making some national news today because he has
a unique perspective on why you know the polling comes back.
I wish they would change the name of the poll
from lack of trust in the media, because it's not
(01:19):
the media that Americas are not trusting it's the news
that they don't trust.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
That's what the.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Mainstream legacy news outlets have been basically openly lying to
you for twenty years now that we're aware of. I'm
sure that they fudged it a lot back in the
eighties and previous too, but we know that they've been
lying because we're able to get we have the receipts
to show that. But Chuck Todd has to comment on
(01:49):
why people no longer trust the media.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so
lower is, remember what the media is. I'm as good
as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want.
At times, if you're getting untrustworthy sources, you may be
reporting untrustworthy information, right You get my drift here, And
so I think that the collapse of trust in overall institutions,
(02:13):
the media in some ways is a reflection of that distrust,
and so that we may be reporting what the quote
unquote experts tell us, but if the public doesn't trust
those experts, and then we in the media are quoting
those experts, they don't trust us too. It's sort of
across the board. And what you have now is Essentially,
the left doesn't trust the media now, and.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
The right doesn't trust the media.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that
sort of make it too easy for too many people
to live in a bubble. I always say, we have
too many journalists in Washington and New York and not
enough everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
If you're wondering how you can avoid responsibility for your
mess up, Chuck Todd just gave you a master's class
on that. It's not my fault, it's my source's fault,
it's the algorithm's fault, it's the experts fault, everybody's fault,
but the actual newsperson's fault. If you just listen to
his argument, he's saying the experts. People don't trust the experts.
(03:09):
Why don't they trust the experts, Chuck, because the experts.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You knew.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
COVID exposed a lot, and one of the things that
exposed was that you can't trust the people who have
an a vested interest in telling you a lie. So
when Fauci is telling you, look, this is going to
be totally safe. It's absolutely proven to be perfectly safe,
and now we're going to demand that everybody takes how
(03:36):
could it be perfectly safe when you know that in
order to test a drug for long term effects it
takes like twenty years. You created it in less than
twenty months. There's no testing on this thing, and it's
totally safe.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You must use it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That didn't make any sense, So we didn't trust Fauci.
A lot of Americans that a lot of people did
trust Facci. Unfortunately for them, a lot of people regretted
trusting Fauci and the other experts in that field. But
it's not just them, it's it's it's this whole idea
that when they're telling you what is a demonstrable lie
and then saying that you're not smart enough to understand it,
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that the issue is too complex, Well you've already lost me.
If you're telling me that I can't understand the issue,
then I don't trust you. I'm not a I'm not
a rocket scientist, but I should be able to understand
the issues that you're talking about that are going to
affect our lives generally, and that that's one of them. Now,
(04:39):
the whole algorithm thing. So now it's social media's fault
that we don't trust. What you're saying is media, which
I'm calling news because that's really what the pole is
talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Do I trust TikTok?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I don't trust TikTok.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't think most Americans even look to TikTok, although
I'm told that they do.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't believe that most people do look to TikTok
for their information, nor do they look to the I
guess probably some of them do look at the Daily Show,
but I don't think most Americans look to the sitcoms
and the you know, the Stephen Colberts of the world
for their news and information. Now do I trust what
I see on X because that's the now the conservative's choice.
(05:20):
I'm like Ronald Reagan. I think most people are this way.
They should be at least trust but verify. If you
read something in your timeline and you say, well, that's interesting,
how do I check that? How do I prove that
that is a correct statement, a correct news analysis.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Whatever. You have to do a little deep dive.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You have to go dig around a little bit, try
to look for an opposite opinion. Do they have some
interesting facts on the opposite side to push back on that.
If you're not doing that work, I mean, look, this
goes as far back. I remember Denzel Washington saying, was
it like fifteen twenty years ago? If you don't read
(06:01):
the newspapers, you're uninformed, but if you do read the newspapers,
you're misinformed. I mean, that is old school thinking. And
that's again back when we used to read newspapers. But
Chuck Todd blaming everybody but Chuck Todd for the fact
that nobody trusts Chuck Todd and his coworkers. We were
talking earlier about the illegal aliens, and I don't even
(06:26):
know how I feel about this, because it seems to
me when I agree with the idea that if they're
here illegally, they shouldn't be, I don't agree with the
fact that we should be paying them to leave. Apparently,
according to this story, we're now upping the offer to
three thousand dollars if you get a three thousand dollars
(06:48):
exit bonus if you're an illegal alien who agrees to
self deport using the CBP home app according to Christy
Nome And I don't know how cues how could she
make this statement, we'll get you home in time for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Heck, I know people right now who have airline.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Tickets that aren't going to get home in time for Christmas?
How are you going to get them home for Christmas?
There's that could be fake news too. Christy better watch
what you're saying. But we're we had been offering one
thousand dollars. We've now this is the way it says.
This Christmas season, the US taxpayer is now generously tripling
the incentive for illegal aliens to leave voluntarily. Now through
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the end of the year, you not only get the
three thousand dollars, but you also get the opportunity to
return eventually, whereas if you are caught and deported, then
you'll never have another opportunity to legally live in the
United States of America. I'm honestly, I'm not a fan
of it. They broke the law, they came in illegally,
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and now they're going to get three thousand dollars. I
don't like it. What I want is them to be removed.
I like the fact though, that it does say that
one point nine million people have already deported. One point
nine million illegal aliens have voluntarily self deported since January
of twenty twenty five. And I think that you're already
(08:07):
starting to see the benefits of that. And that's interesting
that I'm using that term benefits because if you listen
to the left, who's cleaning the toilets? There's nobody left
to clean the toilets or apparently drive trucks. But there
are people who can drive trucks and clean toilets and
be the maids and do all those things. They're called Americans.
We still have Americans who are willing to work hard
for a living. But there are benefits in the sense
(08:29):
that rent is starting to come down Nationally. We're seeing
that across the board, rents are coming down, so that
is fantastic news. As more and more places become available,
the rent is going to become more and more affordable.
You should also see overall wages increase as because it's
been artificially deflated by people who are willing to take
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jobs below minimum wage, and so that is changing as well.
If you've got thoughts on the easier any of the
stories that we're talking about this morning, obviously i'd love
to hear your thoughts on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3 (09:09):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wherever you are, if you're enjoying your Christmas season, whether
it's warm and tropical, or perhaps you've got snow out
in your front yard and you're enjoying that. I hope
you're having the best holiday season I know. According to
a new survey, ninety five percent of Americans are going
to have packages delivered to their home. And believe it
or not, fifty seven percent of all thefts from porch
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pirates happens this week. This is the week that they're
coming for you. Fifty seven percent of all package thefts
happened this week. So you've got to be on the lookout.
And this is really important that you know. You can't
just let it sit out on the front porch for
a couple of hours. And I know we've heard people
(10:00):
come up with these, you know, these kind of safe
lock boxes that they can put it in and so
on and so forth. But you need to do better.
I cannot believe the amount of theft that is happening
right now. The average theft costs the person or the
amount of good stolen, it's two hundred and four dollars.
I think oftentimes the company eats that. If it's like
Amazon or whatever, oftentimes they'll eat it for you. But
(10:22):
of course that in the long term just drives up
prices for everybody. But yeah, do not let your stuff
sit on the porch overnight if you're going away.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Have a neighbor.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Collected another survey that we were talking about earlier this morning,
sixty three percent of Americans don't want teenagers sixteen and
under to have access to social media. And this was
a law that was passed in Australia, I guess early
this year, but it went into effect about two three
(10:55):
weeks ago. Now where if you're under the age of sixteen,
you cannot have a social media account. And yes, I
know that the critics are saying that that's being sidestepped
by parents who are like, well, I want my kid
to have access to the social media or whatever it is,
but the parents are allowing the kids to use their
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social media accounts to look, scroll whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But for the for the most part, I'd be interested in.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Hearing if there's somebody out there who has a teenager
who benefited from social media, where something good happened, anything
I mean and I've heard stories of people being reunited
through social media or go fund me accounts were started
because somebody was in a tragedy and that helped. I'd
love to hear those heartwarming tales. But in general, when
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you look at social media and how it is legit
ravaged the childhoods of so many Americans. And we were
talking about the suicide and homicide rates in the United States,
and they were pretty steady through the seventies. This when
they basically started tracking it. It looked like in the late seventies,
through the eighties, through the nineties, into the two thousands,
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and then every year since two thousand and seven, both
the suicide and homicide rates have increased year over year.
It just continues to go up and up amongst teenagers.
And you know, the only thing you can point to
that has been a major change would be the implementation
of social media. Before two thousand and seven. I mean,
(12:29):
I guess there was some forms of social media. I
don't really remember them. My Space would have come out.
I'm guessing around four oh five something like that. But
you know, as it ratchets up with the Instagram accounts,
and it's just picture after picture after picture, and people
were becoming more and more depressed.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I heard somebody say it once.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I thought it was fantastic in the old days, and
that would have been any day before social media. We
were trying to keep up with the Joneses, which is
a human nature instinct. You want to do as well
as your neighbors. And so if your neighbor gets a car,
you want a car. If your neighbor gets a fancy coat,
you want a fancy coat. And that's just something that's,
(13:11):
I guess, kind of part of probably our sin nature.
It's baked into us, though, it seems. But now you're
not trying to keep up with the Joneses. You're trying
to keep up with the Kardashians. You're trying to they're billionaires.
How can you possibly live? And it's not just the
Kardashians that are all over social media, it's that we
have all these quote unquote social media influencers and all
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they do is go to exotic locales, get the absolute
perfect video with the perfect lighting is sitting in a
car that's more than likely not their own, hanging out
with beautiful people. And then you compare that to your
humdrum life, and if you're not mentally mature enough to
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handle that. It can become very depressing. And then you
start seeing some of your friends who are doing a
better job of telling the lie. That's why I call
it fake book. It's not real. It's fake book. People
are just pretending that their lives are this happy. In
your life, and you might even put some of that
content out your own How many times have we seen
I mean, even just this week, I saw where a
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twenty six year old TikTok influencer unfortunately took their own lives.
Everybody thought they were happy, had a great life, everything's
going great, wonderful, or all these cool parties and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But that was fake. They were living a lie.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They knew they were living a lie, and yet they
probably believed that all the other people that were competing
with that they really were enjoying their lives, that it's
incredibly wonderful to live this incredible life of luxury and parties,
and it's just the good times never end. That's not
the way life is. And if you live your life
through social media, it's very dangerous. And so sixty three
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percent of Americans, and that's bipartisanship, that's the majority of Republicans,
the majority of Independence, and the majority of Democrats all
want to end access to social media for kids under
the age of sixteen. And yet now we have two
different state cases, one in Louisiana one in Arkansas where
those local state municipalities they passed the law that would
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end it, and now federal judges have stepped in and
overruled them and said, the First Amendment guarantees that kids
can look at this? Are you kidding me? Red and
I were talking about this earlier. There's no way that
the First Amendment means that you can look at Do
kids have the right to look at what we would
(15:32):
call pornography?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Of course not. It's illegal for them to look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So why aren't you I guess probably what's his name,
Larry Flint probably was suing for that ability back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
My name's Kelly nashvilling in for Michael del Zerno. Good morning.
I hope you're having a great start to the Christmas break.
If you're on a Christmas break, if you're one of
the people like myself who are working, thank you for
spending some time with us this morning. It is your
morning show, which means we'd love to hear your thoughts
on any of the subjects that we've been talking about.
And apparently yesterday Hunter Biden unburdened himself. This is a
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I mean, I'm just reading through it. I have not
yet listened to this podcast. The podcast, by the way,
is featured on the iHeartRadio app. Sean Ryan is the
host five Hours, five Hours. He sat and talked with
Hunter Biden yesterday. Wow, And they're saying it's a lot
different than the YouTube interview that he did in the summer.
(17:03):
Remember that one where he was hammering George Clooney and
some other people turning on his father. Now is Hunter
Biden turning on his own father. He's talking about the
immigration policy. Is it a failure? Uh yeah, yeah, that was.
We need a vibrant immigration, but we don't want immigrants
(17:26):
that are coming here illegally and draining us of our resources.
He said, Boyle, but that sounds maga? Did Hunter Biden
just go maga? And then talking about what happened in Afghanistan,
he said that you know that Trump and his people
set up a lot of it. I can blame the generals,
(17:48):
I can blame some of the military people, but ultimately
it ends with my father and it was a failure.
This guy what And then he goes on to say, surprise,
Hunter Biden is currently fifteen million dollars in debt.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
What how much money has that guy gone through?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I mean just off the stuff that we that were
aware of the money that you know, we've seen the
paperwork on ten percent for the big guy. Then Hunter
and his friends divvied up the rest. It was like
tens of millions of dollars. It's all gone fifteen million
dollars in debt. And then we like he had a
(18:32):
was it two years ago? He got a seven million
dollar quote unquote loan that really didn't have to be
paid back. So I mean unbelievable what this guy is doing. Anyway,
if you like the iHeartRadio app, that's a great place
to check out that Sean Ryan podcast. I don't have
five hours, though I hope they edited down a little bit.
A five hour interview, that's a that's a bit much
(18:54):
to try to take in. But uh yeah, thoughts on Hunter,
go ahead, let us know about him. Usually not too
many fans of Hunter Biden in this audience that I'm
aware of. You know, as we head into Christmas, one
of the things that I think about, and it's just
ironic because I am gen X and grew up in
that era where television kind of dominated the scene is
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the Christmas commercials. And do you have a favorite Christmas
commercial that you remember? The one that always stuck out
to me was was And this is bad because I'm
not sure if the product is right. Sometimes the great
commercials we get the product wrong. But I think it
was Folgers and it was the military kid came home
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and he's making the coffee. He's making the Folgers, and
his mother wakes up and she smells the Folgers and
she knows that only Timmy or whoever Tommy would do that.
Tommy was the first one of Tommy is Tommy Holme
and she comes down and hugs him. That was a
fantastic Christmas commercial. Another one that I loved from the era.
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Not that normally you get a little mushy thinking about
Mike Tyson, but Mike. I think it's because Mike Tyson
has always been.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
A very tough guy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Mike Tyson's persona when he walked into the ring, He's
the only guy that I remember walking into the ring
without wearing a robe. He didn't want the frivlou a
robe was too frivolous for this gladiator, and he would
He usually didn't wear socks either. It was just like
the boxing shoes and that was it. And he was
just like a wrecking machine. And Mike Tyson was knocking
(20:36):
people out in record time. I mean, and if you
look at the year nineteen eighty five, Mike Tyson I
think had something like fourteen fights in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It was like he was fighting like every three weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Mike Tyson had a boxing match, which is insane, and
knocked everybody out pretty much in the first round. And
he was a wrecking machine. And the guy behind him,
the guy who trained him was an older white guy
named Cus Tomato. And I don't remember the year of
the Christmas commercial, but I think it was around nineteen
eighty nine something like that. So Cus Tomato had passed.
(21:12):
But in this commercial, they were showing photographs of Cus
and Mike together. Cus often looking like he was just
in love with Mike. He just loved that guy, and
he just wanted the best for Mike. And then it
ends Mike's sitting there and if I remember right, Michael,
(21:32):
Mike Tyson has like a tear on his cheek and
he says, I miss you, Cus, And then it says
for all your Kodak moments, the new Kodak camera or whatever,
you don't want to miss the best pictures of your life,
or something to that effect. Man, that was a powerful commercial.
You have a favorite Christmas commercial? Love to hear about
your favorites through the years. On the iHeartRadio app. Just
(21:57):
hit the talk back feature. See what else we got
going on here this morning. It's just a you know,
when you look at the world, it's just never ending.
I was joking with Red yesterday, you can't do the
show prep, you know, the night before, because so many
things happen like yesterday, the Trump administration announced late yesterday
(22:18):
immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind projects that are
currently under construction due to what they call a national
security risk.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
So we've had billions of.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Dollars now in investments into these wind projects, and yet
according to the Interior Department, it's a national security risk.
And I guess what's going on here, if I understand
it correctly, is that we're getting quote unquote noise. The
noise that is being brought on by these things are
affecting the way we're able to monitor, whether it's a
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submarines or those types of things. Obviously, the Democrats are
less than pleased. Chuck Schumer says Trump's obsession with killing
offshore wind projects is unhinged, irrational, and unjustified. You know,
when you think about just common sense stuff. Though, why
would Donald Trump want to raise energy costs? That's the
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other part of Chuck Schumer's things. At a time with
these soaring energy costs, this decision is a backward step
that will drive energy bills even higher. Of course, Trump
doesn't want energy costs to be higher. He doesn't want
unlike when Obama and Biden, when they were talking about
the fact that they were going to have to drive
up the prices of oil in order to get you
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to switch to electric vehicles.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That was there and that was their plan.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
We have to drive it up in order to get
you off of oil and onto what they thought was
going to be fantastic sustainable energy electricity. Well it turns
out now we can't make electricity in lots of parts
of the country. We got these rolling brownouts that are
happening because we don't have enough energy. The story maybe
over the weekend up in San Francisco they had a
power outage and I hadn't even considered this. That the
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what are those little vehicles called, like the govi's or
whatever they're called, or is that the drug loss materei?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is we go via drug drug or is it the
thing that's the self driving taxi? I can't even remember anymore,
But whatever it is, those self driving taxis in San
Francisco over the weekend were stopped because they didn't know
what to do because the lights were out. There was
no red lights, green lights, yellow lights. They lost the
power so they couldn't drive, so they caused massive traffic jams.
(24:37):
I'm sure somehow in the future, Elon Musks and the
geniuses of these self driving vehicles will have to try
to figure out a way for them to operate when
the power is out. But Donald Trump has ended immediately
the construction of all offshore wind projects. You have some
thoughts on that. Do you think that Donald Trump just
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hates wind? Is that what it is is he's very
angry about the wind. By the way, where was the
one that I did like the quote here? Yes, Robin
Shae for President of Protect our Coast, New Jersey, which
Protect our Coast, New Jersey, sounds like it's going to
be a liberal type of organization.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I don't know if they are.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They aren't, but Robin Shae for the President of Protect
our Coast, New Jersey said in a statement in response
to this, this is an incredible Christmas gift for our
thousands of supporters, hardworking fishermen, small business owners, and families
who value reliable, affordable energy over climate virtue signaling. I'm
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going to guess they're not a far left group as
the name might have implied, But I don't know. Maybe
somebody from New Jersey's listening this morning and they can
let us know about that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's your morning show with Michael Delchno.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Did you know that today is the day we begin
with the atic of grievances?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It is the Festivus for the rest of us? Day?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Today is that day? Are you celebrating Festivus for the
rest of us? That's one of those Seinfeld classic bits
that happens on the twenty third of December. And of
course you have to have your feats of strength. Good
luck to you if you're competing in the Festivus for
the rest of us. Looking around the country, we've got
some possibly white Christmas. It's definitely stormy, wet Christmas week
(26:27):
for lots of Obviously, southern California is getting up to
nine inches of rain through Wednesday. But if you're looking
up in New York City, Boston, they're expecting some snow
in those areas in all of New England. So whatever
the weather is, I hope it doesn't impede your travel
and other things. Flu flu is getting very active right now,
(26:49):
and it's in lots of the country. It's New Mexico,
the Carolina's mid Atlantic like Michigan, excuse me, Maryland and
DC down south to Carolina's jo up North Massachusett. Everybody
seems to be getting the flu, so be careful this
year if you're hiding out and trying to visit friends
(27:09):
and family. And this was an interesting survey the sexiest
Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I mean, I don't know why we.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Had to have that survey done, but it turns out
that right now the number one sexiest one is the
Santa Claus and the Target commercials. But here amongst us,
we've had some people voting for maybe I voted for
dan Ackroyd and trading places and Billy Bob Thornton got
to vote from Jeff. All right, Rory O'Neil is ready
(27:39):
to join us. Now, good morning, Rory. How are you
doing today?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Getting through it? I think we're all mentally tuned out,
aren't we? Or am I the only one?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We'll no, no, no, we're trying to tune out.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But you know, one of the fun things to cover
is the Trump administration and some of their announcements. And
yesterday there was a huge announcement guarding the Trump Class battleships.
What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Right, we're going back to the days of the battleship
we haven't built one since nineteen forty four. But the
President and his Naval secretary both say that they want
to bring back the battleship. Now, this isn't going to
be like the USS Missouri, which essentially had those sixteen
inch guns and could you know, lob huge ammunition in
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great distances.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Instead, these are going to be decked out with some
of the best tech.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The hypersonic missiles, the high powered lasers, even perhaps a
nuclear capable version of a Tomahawk missile could be on
these brand new battleships.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Now, the President, this is where he goes off the
rails a.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Little bit, saying that he thinks the first one of
these could be sailing in two and a half years. Boy,
that is rosy and optimistic. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, well, he did go out of his way to
make sure that you understood these are the biggest, most
powerful battleships ever built. And I like the like the
I don't know, I find it amusing that he names
things after himself, right, it's the it's the Trump Class.
And then he's got that what do they call him, like,
the Golden Fleet? Is that what we're calling it?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
All?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
We had the White fleet back in the days of
Teddy Roosevelt. But of course the Donald Trump is going
to be a golden fleet, and he wants to see
a big surge in ship building all across the country. Look,
maybe has struggled, you know when it comes especially to
building new ships, to design and develop new ships on
budget and on timetables. I think the Zumwalt class of
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destroyers was the last sort of big commitment. I mean,
I think they were going to build thirty five of them.
They were ten years late. They quit after building just
three of them, saying these things stink. So now, you know,
it's interesting to see how they're adjusting the fleet moving forward. Look,
some I've already heard some naval strategists say, you know,
(30:03):
there's a reason we moved away from the battleship, and
they're not fans of bringing them back.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Are there any military strategists that you're aware of that
are fans of this idea that they think it's going
to actually enhance our security.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well, the one.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Standing next to President Trump, But other than that, you know,
we haven't really heard much of that. The US Secretary
of the Navy is a gifted businessman. He used to
manage the money for Michael Dell. But he has zero
experience in the military or the navy. But he wants
to bring back these battleships.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
As well, as we heard at the press competition today.
And you know, so the question is.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Are these the fighting vehicles for the twenty first century?
You look at what Ukraine and Russia are doing right now.
You know, Russia is sending in their big heavy ships
and Ukraine is taking them out with tiny drone boats.
You know, so where is the future of the next conflict?
Does it be a battleship or something else smaller, more nimble.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Interesting? And did Pete Hegseth add any insights? But he
was there right well.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
He was Secretary of Hegsetts, Secretary Rubio, and the Secretary
of the Navy, all in attendance when President Trump made
the announcement at Mar A Lago. Secretary of Hegsets seems
confident that this is the way to go. You wouldn't
expect him to step out a line from the President's
vision during a speech like that, but he thinks this
is the path of the future. You know, they see
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a lot of the symbolism as being important and important
part of this is to have a big, old record
setting battleship just over the horizon, being a threat, a
threatening positure. They think that there's a lot of value
just in that. But you know, some of us said, look,
putting nuclear capable missiles on a slow moving ship is
just a bad idea.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
That's why we hide them on submarines.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, we certainly appreciate your insights as always and looking
forward to working with you again next week hopefully.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Are you in next week?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I am Monday through Wednesday next week. Are you in tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
All right? I am not in tomorrow, but I'll be
back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So enjoy your Christmas break and I will see you
next week.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Merry Christmas, talk to you mindy, all right, Rory.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
O'Neil, Merry Christmas. Thank you so much, my man.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Listen, we have a lot of fun here every morning,
whether I'm hosting or whoever's hosting, it's always a good time.
It's a great way to start the day, and we
certainly appreciate all of your participation. And as we start
to kind of you know, wrap things up as we
head out on our Christmas breaks again, Be safe, be cognizant.
We talked earlier about the CDLs and the commercial drivers'
(32:48):
licenses that apparently have been given to thousands and thousands
of illegal aliens and have now just yesterday alone, the
Trump administration arrested a hundred people in California who have
these illegal CDLs, And so you don't know who's driving
next to you. Be careful when you're out there driving
(33:09):
today and tomorrow and over the next few days. As
we've got about one hundred plus million people taking to
the highways here for the Christmas break, we certainly want
everybody to be back next week.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
That's that's important.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Next Monday, when we get back together, I better have
you all here. I don't want anybody missing next week.
That would be my Christmas present from you to me
is that you make it back safe and sound. So
enjoy the Christmas break, Enjoy cakes and pie season. Yes,
go big on cakes and pie seasons. It's the one
time of the year you can just let it go,
(33:42):
let it rip, enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
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