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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At the end of the day, we got to get
you news and people who can break it down for you.
You got a guy who helps unsheap the people every
time he's on the air with us. His name is
Jeff Angelo. He hosts the Who Morning show on her
sister station into More in ten forty Who Jeff, How
are you doing on this Friday?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I am doing terrific, trying to get a bunch of
holiday events in around the icing. We're expecting that's the
big issue, but we'll get her done.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, we're not excited about that either. Over Here, I
will say this, though, you are one guy who probably
loves Christmas more than anyone I've ever met in my
entire life. How do you grade yourself and your Christmas fanaticism?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I would get myself an A plus, and I wish,
really everyone would carry the joy of Christmas in their
heart that I did. There would be world peace and
probably a lot more free candy. So I am I'm
sad that other people don't match my level of Christmas enthusiasm,
although I have to say that of course my girlfriend
the Queen does so, and we are the King and
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Queen of Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, I thought I thought Santa Claus and missus Claus
were the King and Queen of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But no, we we surpassed them last year. There was
a there was a there was a little bracket like
the college football playoff, and we beat them. Wow for
number one.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Upset. Okay, I gotta ask how many Hallmark Christmas movies
have you consumed so far this season?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I have consumed one for every day since they premiered
October twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Sixth, October twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Whatever that number is. I have flipped on a Hallmark
Christmas movie every single day. So I love tis The
season to be Irish so far has been my favorite.
Based in Ireland. Young woman trying to restore house in Ireland?
Is that Lacy the local guy?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Pardon is that lacyber No?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was not her? That was she was? She was
in twenty two others, but that was one of the
are zomes because she did not start in but you
know the I don't know. I was on a razor's
edge wondering if these two they help guy helpfully helpfully
read helping her redecorate for Irish home as they were
in fact going to fall in love. But then amazingly
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they did.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh yeah, it's crazy. They have like a one hundred
percent success right on these movies. I have to I
have to admit though, I watched Checking It twice, which
is one. My wife got into that one, and it's
got hockey in it. Yeah, and I don't know, I
ended up watching the whole thing as a solid Sea
C movie. But I was actually by the end of
it like kind of invested. I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, I think what happens now because there are so
many Christmas movies across so many channels. I think you
just hit on it, which is they just figure out,
like what audience have haven't we hit yet? I mean
there's a there's a Touchdown Christmas movie for Chiefs fans.
It's Chiefs themed. So I think that they basically now
just try to figure out, like what audience do we
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need to hook And I mean they're gonna apply the
same it's just whatever them they need to reach out to. Somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That's interesting. Jeff Angelo is joining us. He's obviously the
Czar of Christmas apparently in the King of Christmas, as
we've learned today, But you also are up on the
news and all these information that's going on. We haven't
checked in with you, but since before the election, actually
in November. What do you think of the fallout in
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the nomination process right now? Obviously Matt Gates had kind
of all the crosshairs on him for a while, but
now it seems Pete Hegseith is the one that we're
looking at, and Jony Ernst, the Iowa Senator, seems to
be kind of one of those people that seemingly has
been in the way of the confidence knowing he's going
to get confirmed. Can you give us a little bit
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of insight from your vantage point on that one?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I sure can so. Singer Earnst a few years
ago went public with the fact that she is a
sexual assault survivor, and sexual misconduct in the Miller Harry
has been one of her top issues. It's an issue
of passion for her and an issue she often pursues
legislatively or by holding the military accountable for any type
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of sexual misconduct. So, of course, the controversy that zimbroiled
Pete Heeksa is allegations of sexual misconduct, which he's been fighting.
He and Senator Earnest had a conversation a few days back.
She called a frank conversation they were going to talk
about it. She didn't seem to come out of it
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leaning toward voting for his nomination. But the statement that
she put out after the meeting, she headed her bets
just a bit. She said, I'm going to support him
through the process. I'm going to support him through the process.
So that was an endorsement with a caveat, which is
if he's going through the processes and anything reveals itself,
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she said, you know, I think she will withhold her
vote for nomination. But that said, these nominees do go
through extensive background checks, and Senator Ernst did say in
her statement that she looked forward to an investigation based
on facts, not anonymous sources, and of course that's what's
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occurred here, is news media articles with anonymous sources. So
I think she's starting to lean his way towards voting
for him. And I think when he first became embroiled
in the controversy, certainly things seem to be pessimistic. People
seemed pessimistic about his nomination processes. But as he's continued
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to meet with the senators and say, you know, these
are allegations that have been thoroughly investigated and have not
been proven to be true. Then I have sense that
support is starting to grow for Pete hagsf and so
I do think that he looks like he's likely on
track to be the nominee, barring that there's some kind
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of revelation that we haven't heard yet.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Pretty interesting how that has continued on the fallout here?
Have you had any beef with anything that Trump is
put together?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Here?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Because there are some names that are going to be
in positions that many people are like, are they even
able to do that job? What say you? You're pretty
You're pretty down the middle guy when you look at
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I really like his nomination j Emory, And I'll tell
you why, because you know, this was a change election.
People voted for change. They don't like the direction of
the country. They are very skeptical about the direction of
their government, what they're being They don't trust their government.
You know, we don't trust what we're being told. We
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don't trust that the government is acting in our best interest.
These are actual people who will radically shake up the
status quo. They will ask penetrating questions. They will a
lot of times I think when politicians get elected and
they promise you change, you get more of the same,
but they just try to talk about it differently, like, oh,
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I'm really making change, and the voter says, I'm not
really seeing any change. If you're talking nominees here that
will radically shake the status quo and ask I think
really interesting questions. This truly is a change administration. This
is truly an administration that is going to challenge the establishment.
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And DC doesn't like it, but I think this is
for what the voters have wanted for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now, well, that's one thing that we know for sure
based on what we are seeing in the vote and
the vote totals. Can you stick around for another segment.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Jeff, Yeah, no problem at all.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
All right, we will step aside. I got to ask
Jeff about some drones, maybe some pardons and who knows,
maybe now dead CEO of a healthcare company. We'll talk
about that coming up on newser eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
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Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm sure you have an opinion on the Joe Biden
pardons and commutations that we saw yesterday and what we
may end up seeing as well. Is this unusual because
I see a lot of people, you know, throwing kind
of fits about this, But it isn't really that different
than anything I've seen from other presidents towards the end
of their presidency.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right it is. But it is a record number of
these pardons and commutations. And I think what you're going
to see Emory over time is there going to be
some individual stories come out of some of these people
whose sentences he's commuting or pardoning, and people will go,
why why did you do that? I really do think
it raises a legitimate question memory about we've been taking
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for granted this kind of power that we just sort
of grant our presidents Patato, as you said, at the
end of their term. Is this really a good thing?
I mean, what's happening, of course, is that the number
of pardons each president issues at the end of their
term is growing. So you got Biden now with a
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record number of commutations and pardons. Trump's going to look
at that at the end of his sentence, at the
end of his sentence, at the end of his sentence
to be president, at the end of his term, and
maybe he's going to say, you know, well, yeah, I can.
I can partner a whole lot of people too, and
I do think eventually it builds up to where we say,
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should we as Americans really be taking this for granted
and letting the president have this kind of awesome power
because the issue is especially I think as this pertains
to President Biden memory. I mean, this is a guy
that you know, you don't have any political fallout anymore
to whatever you do, And I honestly believe with Joe Biden,
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you're going to find out over time how angry he
is for what happened to him politically. He legitimately won
his party's nomination to be re elected, and his donors
and his leaders shoved him out, and I think he
put on a happy face for the country, but I
think he's really angry and bitter, and I don't think
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he cares about the political fallout of anything that he
does anymore. And normally that would happen at the end
of the presidency, but I think it's especially amplified right
now because I think you have a really angry guy
who feels like he was mistreated by the political process,
so he's just issuing pardons and commutations all over the place.
I think he's going to continue to do it, and
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I really think it leads to a legit question amongst
the American people about do we really want our presidents
having this kind of unchecked power near the end of
their term. I'm starting to feel really uncomfortable with it.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, yeah, it is one thing that it's been a
saying the entire time that we've had a presidency, and
it's really the only thing that doesn't have a check
or of balance to it that no one can kind
of undo. Jeff, Right, let's talk about the drones thing,
because I think more and more people are curious and
some people, I think are worried that we're not being
you know, we're not investigating our government's not investigating enough
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of what these drones are. How much on a scale
of like one to ten, are you actually concerned that
this is something worth being scared about?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You know, I'm going to say eight, and I'm going
to say eight because this really exposes the incompetence of
the higher ups that are tasked with protecting us. I mean,
these are supposed to be smart people, and to quote
the Internet, you have one job. You're supposed to be
protecting my safety, and all you can do is come
to the podium and say, well, I don't think there's
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any problem. These aren't foreign adversary. I think I think
these are manned aircraft. We don't think that there's anything
to be worried about. But we really can't tell you
where they're coming from or why they're doing this. Well,
I think those last two points are what I'd like
to know. Where are these groans coming from and what
are they doing? You can't answer that. All you can
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tell me is what it's not. And I just find
it crazy that the combined budget of our military, our
intelligent community, our plente gone, they can't figure out what
these drones are. All they can do is tell us, hey,
no need to panic. We don't know what these things are.
They're as big as an suv soaring around the sky,
seemingly spying on our citizens. But no need to panic.
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We'll figure it out someday. I mean, that's what I
think is crazy, is a government that is tasked with
protecting us seems totally bamboozled about what this is or
what to do in this situation.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Last thing, Jeff, before I let you go, how about
your opinion on Luigi Mangioni and his the crime that
he committed, the way that he committed it, and then
also just the public outcry and support of him even
though he seemingly has murdered somebody in cold blood.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is absolutely horrifying, Emory. And you know, you're talking
to a guy who broadcasts to Iowa every single morning
on the WHO Radio Horning Show. This guy who is
the head of this company. He was a husband, he
was a father, he was a farm kid, he was
highly highly thought of in his community. He was a
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human being. And are there a lot of problems with
our healthcare system this country. Absolutely, But I think you
have a huge problem with a slice of people in
this country that are willing to cheer on or maybe
even by a Christmas ornament celebrating a murderer, a person
who murdered another person because he wanted to make a
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point about healthcare. And I think Emory, as you're hearing,
we think this guy was actually a client of the
healthcare system, right, you know, he just he just wanted
attention drawn to him self and he murdered somebody to
do it. And I just think that's horrid. It's horrid
of the people who would celebrate this.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Hey and Jeff, thanks so much for the time today.
It's excellent stuff, and Merry Christmas to you. We'll talk
to you again soon. More on the Way on news
radio eleven ten KFAB