Hour 2: The newest Covid treatment

The newest Covid treatment.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Tell you thanks for being with us this morning.
A whole lot going on today and the Big Three.
President Trump says he is sending the National Guard into Chicago.
Whether the mayor or governor likes it or not, Well,
we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in
when you lose. Look, I have an obligation. This isn't
a political thing. I have an obligation, right, an obligation

(00:24):
to fight crime, an obligation that apparently the mayor and
governor in Illinois and Chicago are ignoring. After meeting with
ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, the House Oversight Committee
will hold a public hearing with some of the victims
that we're going to testify in public today. This is

(00:45):
what Congressman Tom Massey said yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's going to change everything is tomorrow at ten thirty,
when we have the survivors testifying in public, some of
whom have never spoken public, and they've already met with
the Oversight COMMITTI interviews, allegedly a very emotional meeting, and
that's all behind closed doores. But it's going to be

(01:09):
open to the public.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, some of the congress members after that meeting they
had behind closed doors yesterday, came out visibly shaken, asking
for charges against the men involved in the New York
City Mayor's rays. Candidate Jim Walden was running fifth with
about three percent of the vote, and now he's ended

(01:32):
his campaign and he's urging other candidates to do the same.
But at this point it's really important that there'd be
one free market candidate against the socialist agenda of mister Mumdani.
It was the first day back to school for many
kids in New York, like in the Upstate and also
on Long Island, and it's the first day of the

(01:54):
no cell phone policy, which, by the way, from the
kids got mixed reviews. I don't really like it. I'll
comely is like is born today.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I felt like like I paid attention.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah productive.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Is that a good thing?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
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(02:31):
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let's go to high profile defense attorney Jeffrey Lickman, host
of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast, which can be found
on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you, Jeffrey, Thanks

(02:54):
again for being here this morning. Good to talk to
you today. A lot going on. Uh, let's start with
the Epstein files. Are you surprised this has such legs?
I mean, this, this doesn't seem to be going away
until everything is released.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
I think I'm not really surprised because I think for
the most part, people are idiots and they you know,
they see a shiny object and they can't keep their
eyes off it. I mean, who really cares about this
at this point? I mean, how does it really change
what's going on in the world. The guy's dead. People
did what they did. I mean, there's so many more

(03:32):
important things. You've got a communist is about to take
over in New York City. You've got your hottest and
terrorist meeting in Detroit over the weekend, talking about destroying
America and destroying Israel and you know, taking over America.
And then you've got you know, idiots that are concerned. Oh,
you know, Jeffrey Epstein. There may have been There may

(03:53):
have been a cover up. We don't know, but we
think there may have been because Trump is acting a
little dodgy. I mean, you know, you know who cares
for me?

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Look?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Is it bad stuff that Epstein did?

Speaker 7 (04:05):
Of course?

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Was there a cover up? Was there government involvement? I
have no doubt at this point, who really gives it them?
We've got so many other bigger fish to fry that
I just you know, who cares.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I happen to agree with you. The only reason I
would care at all is because the victims care. I'll
follow their lead whatever they say they want at this
point that I'll go along with that. But but I
agree with you. When this first happened, I thought, really, really,
we're gonna go down this rabbit hole when you have
so much going on in the world, and so I'm

(04:41):
in one hundred percent agreement with you. Let's talk about
something that is real and is happening right now. And
is dominating the news, and that is the crime problem
in Chicago. I thought that Brandon, Johnson and Pritzker looked
like idiots, especially Pritzker when he was talking about a
beautiful d in Chicago today after they had fifty eight

(05:03):
shootings and eight murders over the weekend. At that is
all playing in the background. Does Donald Trump have any
standing to go in now?

Speaker 6 (05:16):
You know, it's it's a question because they're gonna They're
gonna sue. The Liberals are gonna sue and try to
keep the National Guard out, and they tried that in California,
and there they were successful, at least at this point.
At Court said that Trump had no right to put
in troops. The liberals would rather have their dumps of
cities overrun with crime than to admit that Donald Trump

(05:42):
is right. They would rather die than to admit that
Donald Trump is right. I mean, this is just.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
How it is.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
So I'm not surprised every one of these large cities
has become a toilet bowl. I'm tired of hearing about
how the crime is going down. Oh, in New York City,
you know, there's less murders. They'll redefine what a murder
is Larry, if it will help their agenda to show
that crime is going down. I mean, this is just
what you know. This is what the country has become.

(06:10):
We're so divided that they would rather die. The liberals
have become They are Palestinians at this point, the Palestinians.
A poll just came out that says that they want
the war to continue if it means that Hamas has
to be disarmed. I mean their crime genocide, holocaust, famine, slaughter,

(06:33):
sixteen Holocaust one is not enough, Larry. But we would
rather die. We would rather our children die than to
allow the terrorists that destroyed Gaza to have them disarmed.
This is the same mentality of liberals. We'd like to
see our cities destroyed just so that we can say
that Trump has been defeated.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is, it is sickening, and that is exactly what
is happening across the country. Let's get back to New
York because you brought this up in a moment ago
in your answer when you were talking about the fear
of Zorin Mamdanni taking over. Jim Walden dropped out of
the race today, and that's that's not significant because he
was only getting about three percent in the polls. But

(07:15):
what he did is he shamed some of the other
candidates and said, the only way you're going to stop
Zurin Mamdanni you is if you do what I do.
And he's pushing Eric Adams and Curtis Lee will both
to drop out of the race. First of all, that
sounds like a good idea, right, and but there's it
doesn't seem at this point like that's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Well, it's not gonna happen because if you ever spent
any time with Curtis Leewa and Eric Adams, do you
think it's possible to shame the two of them? I mean,
Eric Adams belongs in a cage. He's a criminal. He's
polling in single digits. Only cares about his going to
the club and putting in his jewelry into his ears.
And Curtis Lee was living in It's nineteen fifty inside

(07:59):
his head. He's like, you know, he's like skip mahoney,
you know at the West End Gang whatever the hell
they were. This guy's like not even living in reality.
I don't even know. He's living with twenty nine cats.
Larry and he can't win. He's never won an election.
He's not gonna win this one. But this is what
we're dealing with him, which what I've been saying is

(08:20):
that the two of them, for the rest of their
natural lives, every time anybody sees them on the street,
they need to be shamed, abused, pointed at, because they're
the ones they're gonna give us. Now, Listen, I can't
say that it's completely their fault because in New York City,
the fact that zorn Mundani is even has the potential
to get any votes shows what a cesspool, a leftist

(08:43):
cesspool in New York City has become. But that being said,
because I think it's gonna happen eventually. Adams and Sliwa,
as far as I'm concerned, they're public enemies number one,
and they get every kind of abuse and misery for
the rest of their lives that they get.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
They deserve it all.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
But yeah, so you would love to see them drop
out at this point, is what you're saying. You would
love that to happen.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, look, part of me,
I've said this before, there is a part of me
that wants Mamdani to win because I want New York
City to hit such total rock bottom that they get
exactly what they deserve for all these years of leftism,
of brainwashing kids in schools, of supporting all of this garbage. Yes,

(09:26):
at the other part of me says, do we really
want the biggest city in the world, the greatest city
in America to go that low? You know, of course not.
But it'll be because of Adams. It'll be because of Sliwa.
There is no way that Mamdanni is losing this election
if those two morons. And I use the word moron,

(09:47):
you know I'm being conservative in the words.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
I'd like to.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Say something much worse, but this is a family program, Larry,
and I can't say what I really do think of
the other two.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Jeffrey Lackman, high profile defense attorney and and also host
of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast, which you can find
on the iHeartRadio app Jeffrey, thanks again.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was a scary situation at an amusement park in
Pennsylvania when a little boy was spotted walking on the
monorail high above the park, all by himself. But there's
a hero in this story. We'll tell you what he did.
When we come back, plus tickets to see Hugh Jackman

(10:30):
at eight twenty five. So stay with us. I really
love your talkbacks. You inspire conversation, you bring up things
we haven't thought of, and sometimes, just like Tom from Queens,
you just called a bragg.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Hi Larry talk from Queens down here in Cirosou in
the Caribbean, just to let you guys know you sounded
good down here. And a shout out to Jack and
Carl as we're just about ready to go Scuba Divan
for today. Boren life doown here was excellent.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh I'm so jealous.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
All right, Tom Gray, So I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'm like half happy just now, I'm happy excited.

Speaker 8 (11:13):
He brought us on his vacation with him.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
It was nice to go on especially he said, you're
sounding good down here. Thanks for listening even when you're
on vacation.

Speaker 9 (11:21):
Marie, I am so tired of the Trumps, sick of
fans defending Trump on these criminal crime controls in these cities.
The federal government has no business zip, zero nada in
terms of crime control. That's up to the governor and
the mayor. Okay, if you don't like what they're doing,

(11:43):
vote for new governors and new mayors, get the federal
government out of this. And oh, by the way, I
voted for Trump, so have a good day.

Speaker 7 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, look at, you bring up a legitimate point. It's
very difficult for him to go in. It's very difficult
for him. First he asked to declare a state of emergency,
which will be challenged in court when he Even when
he goes in, he's very limited on what they can do.
But if you've noticed what he's done, and this just
happened yesterday, Ice called to notify both the city and

(12:17):
the state that they are coming into Chicago and they're
sending hundreds of agents. And so this is the first
step in what Donald Trump's trying to do. He's going
to go in there with ice and just flood Chicago
right now. And so just the appearance of ice in
the communities he's hoping is going to is going to

(12:40):
fight some crime. Look At, I don't think these are
just Trump sycophants that are now coming and defending Trump
on this. I think it's a lot of people that
are appalled about what's happening in Chicago. Now that the
focus is on Chicago and we're seeing how much crime
there is, when we're seeing how much death there is,

(13:01):
when we're seeing people living in fear. If you were president,
wouldn't you want to do something? And the fact that
the governor and the mayor are just saying no because
he's a Republican and he's Donald Trump, that can't stand.
Something has to happen in Chicago. And you're right, it's

(13:22):
very difficult to try to work around the law on this,
but something has to happen, and I think that's what
Donald Trump is trying to figure out. Thanks for the
Thanks for the talkback.

Speaker 10 (13:34):
South Side Chicago has been that way from my whole life.
I started traveling out to Chicago back in the seventies
and the comment you always got was, you go to
the south Side Chicago, you're dead.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, Jim Croche told us a long time ago, south
Side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. Then
you're right. I've worked there for seven years and the
South Side is where a lot the crime is. That's
not the only area, and some of the areas have
gotten better. But you're right, south side of Chicago is
the baddest part of town.

Speaker 11 (14:08):
But you know what, Larry's speaking about Chicago and Illinois
and Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson is a remedy for
the situation. It's called the vote, and the people voted
for these people. So on some level, maybe we should
just let him have at it, because this is the

(14:28):
democracy they've always been crowing about. They can vote these
people out and they don't.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, they will now. I don't know about Pritzker, but
Brandon Johnson's out. He was out before this. He has
screwed up that city like you wouldn't believe, especially with
the city budget. Do you know that he spent so
much money on the migrant crisis because he wanted to
be out in front of that, protecting the migrants they
came in that he told the school board to take

(14:55):
a loan for the schools. That's how bad things are
in Chicago right now, and that's why he's grabbing onto
this issue. He thinks just running against Donald Trump is
going to save his mayoralship. That's not going to happen.
He's a disaster. All right. Let's get to this story
from Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. I don't know if any
of you have been there to Hershey Park. Yeah, you
have all been there. Yeah, I think people almost everybody

(15:19):
in the Northeast went to Hershey Park, to the amusement park.
There is a monorail there that goes all around the
park and a little boy, I would guess just from
looking at the video of him, he's probably about eight
or nine, and he got up on the mono rail
and was just walking back and forth, seemingly having the

(15:40):
time of his life. And you say, where are his parents?
They're probably looking for him. They didn't look thirty feet
up at the mono rail, but luckily John Samson did.

Speaker 12 (15:49):
This kid is walking on the monorail, and obviously Panda
kind of sits in a little bit. When you have
that kind of dad instinct, it doesn't matter if it's
your kid or it's a child. You want to make
sure they're safe as possible.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
He climbed a fence, then he hopped on top of
a roof. Then he pulled himself up to the monorail,
got the kid, and gave it to another person who
jumped on top of the roof. And then he thought
to himself this, well.

Speaker 12 (16:17):
When I finally got him in my arms, honestly, there
was no words. I was just mumbling I'm so happy,
you know, I got you. You're okay, You're okay, and
then it was the okay, Now, how do I get
down from here?

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
He did make it down, But the guy's a hero.
John Sampson. Now, let's get the seven thirty News with
Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline Larry.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Good Morning. Victims of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and
Gallaine Maxwell will speak about their abuse on Capitol Hill today.
It's the latest chapter and what's turned into the contentious
investigation into the so called Epstein Files. And New Jersey
Senator Corey Booker, a longtime bachelor and former New York mayor,
is getting married.

Speaker 13 (16:56):
The fifty six year old Democrat made the announcement on
in Tuesday afternoon, posting a photo of himself on a
Hawaiian beach, down on one knee and popping the question
to Alexis Lewis. In another photo, his now fiance was
flashing her engagement ring. The two were set up on
a blind data and have been together for sixteen months.
Booker and his fiance, who works at a real estate office,

(17:19):
have been living together in Washington, d C. Natalie Migliori
wo our news.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Apparently this woman looks exactly like his ex Rosario Dawson.
They could have been separated at birth. We've seen the pictures.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
No, I haven't yet, but I will tell you this.
I think it's the I'm running I hate to be cynical,
but it's the I'm running for president marriage.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Okay, Well, anyway, I love stories like this. It's throw
a baby Puffin off a cliff season in Iceland. According
to IFL Science, every August in Iceland's Westman Islands, locals
rescue baby puffins by literally throwing them off cliffs. What
happens are this is the islands there are home to
the world's largest puffin colony, and they're so cute. There's

(18:03):
about eight hundred and thirty thousand breeding pairs, and when
they're born, they're They're trained to follow the moon to
get to the ocean, but the city lights confuse them,
so rescue teams and hundreds of volunteers search the towns
each night during peak season, collecting up to ten lost
puffins per person, and they thousands of puffins are saved

(18:24):
this way every year. And by the way, when they're babies,
they're called pufflings. I want one.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
Oh, pufflingling.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean you see them in Elf in the movie Elf.
They're so cute, the Puffins. Have you seen the movie Else? Yes,
you know the little Puffins? Of course, Oh my god,
they're so cute. Anyway, I have to do stories like this.
I'm compelled. My DNA compels me to do them. And
there I think it's just really sweet that these people
in this town go all over to rescue all these
little pufflings.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
It is very cute. Thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
That's what Jacqueline's going to do with your life when
she wants.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Oh my god, that's all.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
Yeah, yeah, I could see it.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Puffling's forever.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
Champlin.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Could a common nasal spray lower your risk of COVID?
How about that? Plus why colo rectal cancer is rising
in young adults? Doctor Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic
talks about it all.

Speaker 7 (19:20):
Next.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
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let's get to doctor Gregory Poland. He is a health
and medical expert who is a leader in vaccine and
infectious diseases at the world renowned Mayo Clinic. He's also

(20:05):
president of the atrea research institute in New York. And
doctor Paulwin. This is pretty exciting news, especially in the
wake of a pushback on the COVID vaccine. There is
apparently a popular antihistamine that can decrease the risk of COVID.
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (20:24):
Yeah, this is really interesting, Larry. It's an antihistamine that's
used in a lot of nasal sprays called azol asteine,
and somebody had the idea to do a study with it,
and lo and behold, what did they show? They showed
a decrease by seventy percent in PCR confirmed COVID infection,

(20:46):
a decrease in the number of symptomatic days, and a
different virus called rhinovirus. People who got that nasal spray
had about a one point eight percent incidents of getting
infected if they didn't use it about a six point
three percent increase. Now, the kicker on this is we
don't really know the mechanism and in this study people

(21:10):
had to use the nasal spray three times a day
for almost sixty days.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
So most people don't use a nasal spray three times
a day for sixty days. I guess that is your point.
And also finding the active ingredient I think is it
will really be the pot of gold. Right, as soon
as you find that, then everything else about the nasal
spray you don't really need.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
That's right, and they'll be able to exploit that. It's
an early study. It's a really interesting study, and stay tuned.
More needs to be learned.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
So you said a popular antiastamine nasal spray. What is
the nasal spray? Is it many of them or just
or just a custom.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
There's a lot of them that use this particular in
green being called as a lastein, and it's an antihistamine,
as I say, So you know that's interesting is it's
shutting down something that the body makes that actually encourages
COVID infection through the nose. We don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is there any drawback to taking a nasal spray three
times a day?

Speaker 7 (22:20):
This is a good question, Larie, and the answer is yes.
People get dryness, they can get cracking of the mucosa
around the nose, they can get burning, stinging headaches. So
it's not like well, I mean, it's like anything. There's
always side effects to something that we use. It's the

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balance of benefit and risk that we look for.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
So I would imagine your recommendation is to people that
are hearing this and may go out and start using
nasal sprays three times a day, to wait for further
studies exactly.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
It would be premium sure to start using this clinically.
But you know, I wanted to make people aware of
it that there are what we call repurposed drugs. So
this is a drug that's out there for allergic rhinitis
that may have a repurposing that's valuable. We'll see.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, this is a little bit concerning. There is a
surprise increase in colorectal cancer among the young.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yeah, this is this is we've been watching this year
by year. Larry the risk has increased by two percent
every year. So in the last twenty five years, the
risk of colorectal cancer and people under the age of
fifty five has gone has doubled. Now you look at
it at a lifetime level, one in twenty four men

(23:47):
and one in every twenty six women will develop colorectal cancer.
That's why we have screening guidelines. What's new is that
the guideline has said if you're of average risk, that is,
you don't have a family member who had coorectal cancer
or inflammatory biol disease, you start screening at age fifty.

(24:09):
That has now been moved down to age forty five
for everybody because of this dramatically increased risk. When I
was training, I saw one case of coorectal cancer in
a woman in her thirties. This diagnosis is now being
made much more commonly for people in their twenties and thirties.

(24:33):
In fact, coorectal cancer is now the second leading cause
of cancer death in people under the age of fifty.
This is really surprising.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
It is surprising, and immediately you go to what could
be the cause of that, and do I guess, we
don't know.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
At this point, Well, there's speculation and there's some biologic
plausibility behind it. But the high fat, ultra processed food
diets that people eat, we know that obesity, smoking, alcohol
use all are implicated because they cause changes in what's

(25:13):
called the bowel or gut microbiome, that is the pattern
of microbes that are in the bowel that keep it healthy.
So I think what it has to do with is
our own lifestyle choices and the way our culture is
sort of shaping lifestyle behaviors and sedentary behaviors.

Speaker 8 (25:37):
So now you're saying kolonoscopy is needed starting at the
age of forty five rather than fifty. What about these
non invasive colon cancer tests that I see.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Yeah, good question, Natalie. These are these are really helpful
that you know, there's a variety of ways to screen colonoscopy,
which is which everybody has heard of, colography CT colography
where you swallow die and they do CT scans through
the bowel, not quite intive. And then the non invasive

(26:07):
test that you're talking about, cola guard that looks for
DNA evidence of not only bowel but along the whole
GI track cancer. The problem with that test is that
it doesn't. It's not very sensitive for catching very early
cancers or the precursor to colorectal cancer, which is colon polyps.

(26:33):
So the advised thing is that you have a colonoscopy
first determine if you're at risk because of polyps, and
then with your doctor work out the schedule and type
of screening.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
You know, Natalie is really into this one story I'm
about to bring up, so I'm gonna let her take
the lead after I just mentioned that in Europe they
have banned nail polish use the jael Gel.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Nail gel mail. Yes, yeah, that's a that's an interesting one,
starting September first, and it was a it was a
hard stop. You couldn't use existing stock or anything. No
use of gel nail polish that contains something an ingredient
called TPO. It's got a long name, trimethyl benzoil dipentyl

(27:22):
phosphine oxide. The reason that's why they pay me so
much where yeah wish. The reason they use it is
that it dries very quickly under the UV light and
it gives that strong ultra glossy machine. But the problem is,

(27:44):
and if you've ever accompanied your daughter or your wife
into one of these nail salons. You smell it immediately.
It is been associated with fertility issues, adverse reproductive health
damage to the nail plate, infections of the nails where
the nails turn thick and yellow or green. So it's

(28:08):
Natalie and I were talking a little bit earlier about it.
It's actually a pretty strange custom that women paint their nails,
that they put on the acrylic nails, et cetera. I
suspect I don't know this, but I suspect that's something
you see in wealthier societies rather than poorer societies.

Speaker 8 (28:30):
Well, I know we're running out of time, but it's
a really interesting story because if you go into any
nail salon, I mean, just from my experience, over fifty
percent of the women are using gel nails. They're putting
their nails under the UV lights and they're using these products.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
So it's something I guess to be aware of just quickly,
Doctor Pauland would you suggest to stop that?

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Well, there are TPO free gel nail polishes, so ask
for a polish that's TPO free.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Doctor Paul and Gregory Poland Health and medical Expert Leader
Vaccines and Infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic and president
of the Atria Research Institute in New York. Thanks so much. Well,
the US Space Command is heading to Alabama. We're going
to talk about that with Rory O'Neil, National correspondent next. Well,
Donald Trump anounced yesterday he's moving Space Command to Alabama.

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First of all, I guess the question is what is
Space Command and why Alabama? Let's get that from Rory O'Neil, WR,
National correspondent. He's with us every day at this time. Rory,
two big questions for you, What is Space Command and
why Alabama?

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah, and don't confuse Space Command and Space Force. A
lot of people make that mistake. So think of a
Central Command centcom as they call it. That's the part
of the Pentagon. It's based in Tampa, but they deploy
and they organize what forces will respond to events in
the Middle East, whether it's sending in an aircraft carrier,
sending in aircraft for bombing raids in a on that

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all goes through Central Command. Well, Space Command will do
the same thing for things in space, whether it's GPS, satellites,
communications satellites, maybe it's that incoming asteroid like we see
in movies like Armageddon, that's going to come under the
purview of Space Command Space comm and that would include
the Air Force, the Navy perhaps, and even the Space Force,

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which is an equal branch of the military, that would
also fall under Space Colm, which is moving from Colorado
to Huntsville, Alabama.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I've been doing commentaries on Space Force for a long time,
and it is interesting that it gets some ridicule. There
was even a series if you remember, ridiculing it with
Steve Carell, and yet they've been talking about this since
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Right, Yeah, I mean Reagan talked about it.
It is necessary, this is roy this is where the

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next war could be.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Fought, absolutely and where the first strikes will likely if
it is if we are to be attacked by someone
else with these capabilities. Yeah, to take out the I
mean imagine taking out GPS. You take out GPS, then
you take out the ways that we It's how we
gained the targets for our weapons that we use, or

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you know, how ships know where they are at sea,
those kinds of things, and that's how most of us
would navigate around the streets of New York with with
our GPS, So it's uh, it's used in everything.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
And that's just one little thing.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
That space Com would be responsible for managing and supervising.
But as the President said in the Oval Office yesterday,
as we perhaps adopt our own Golden Dome here in
the US, he thinks they would be responsible for that
as well.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Really so, so Space Command, and that's the official name
for it now is Space Commanding Command. Space Command is
not that's space, that anything above the Earth really is space, right.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Right, So Space Command. So as Central Command, as I
was saying, Central Command is based in Tampa, and they
handle the central part of Africa and Asia. That's their
scent coom. That's where that's their area of operation. So
that's for Scent Comm. Well, space com their area of
operation will be space. And as you point out, so

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many of our assets are based there now. We rely
on it more than we know and it would be
one of the first strategic targets that our enemies would
take out is our capabilities in orbit.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, from what I understand, Space Force, one of their
top priorities is just protecting the satellites. And so that
makes a lot of sense because your satellites get taken out,
as you have just pointed out, that's a big problem.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Why Alabama, Well because it has Rocket City, and there's
a deep roots with NASA, and it's an aerospace industry.
A lot of their headquarters are there. But this has
been a battle for about five years now between Colorado
and Alabama. Colorado's got the Air Force Academy, They've got Norrad.
You know, they've got a lot of assets there too.
But as President Trump said, this decision was not political.

(33:06):
But I won Alabama by forty seven points and Colorado
has a corrupt mail in ballot system, But it's not
a political decision.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, And Tommy Tuberville is a very good friend of
his too, And I know Tommy and Senator britt as well.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
She did that big speech at the convention and things
like that.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
But look, we also have the history of this.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Why do you think the Johnson Space Centers in Houston,
and it's name for mister Johnson or the Vice presis
or then President Johnson. You know, so it's a yeah,
these have long been sort of patronage decisions that have
been made.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, how many jobs? How much money is involved in this?
Do we know?

Speaker 5 (33:41):
It's a few thousand jobs right now. This is a
pretty new branch of the government. And then how this
command because it's so isolated, or it will be so isolated.
Exactly how many have to move in? It's a little
bit gray, but it's going to be a few thousand
workers that they're going to have to make the move
and the technology to go with it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I know you're all so covering affordable retirement. Can we
talk about that really fast?

Speaker 7 (34:03):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
What are the best and worst places to retire right now?

Speaker 7 (34:07):
Well?

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah, best place, believe it or not, is Orlando, Florida,
Believe it or not. But one of the ones that's
number one on the survey, A lot of the cities
you'd expect, Scottsdale, Arizona, Miami, Forth Lauderdale. One of the
ones that threw me though, Minneapolis, Minnesota comes in at
number three on the survey, So that was a bit
of an outlier. But I thought I was more struck
by the fact that forty three percent of Americans expect

(34:28):
to keep on working until they die.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
How about that?

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Is that because New York? Is that because they don't
feel that they have enough money to retire?

Speaker 7 (34:37):
Exactly?

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Yeah, Newark comes in one hundred and seventy eight on
the list, Jersey City one sixty one, and I think
New York was one thirty seven, So not a great
showing in this wallet hub survey.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Look, Newark is a great city, but I really have
not heard anybody say their dream was to retire in Newton.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Retirement but by the way worse.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
A whole bunch of California city is way worse.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh good, are you going to name him? I thought
that's what that was leading to.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
Yeah, No, I've got some of them I can name
for if you like, but no, to give me the worst,
I'm in the barrel. Sam Bernardino is the worst at
number one eighty two. Rancho Kucamonga comes in at one eight,
And I just like saying that. So that's why he
wanted to.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Mention if Rory O'Neill wo r national correspondent with us
every day at this time, showing off what he can pronounce.
Thanks so much, Rory, appreciate it. There are renewed calls
for Eric Adams to drop out of the race for
mayor so that Andrew Cuomo has a better chance of
defeating Zorin Mamdani. We're gonna ask Republican Councilmen, in fact

(35:39):
Vicki Palladino about that coming up after the eight o'clock
news