June 6, 2024 • 33 mins
D-Day was the triumph of good over evil, could we even identify evil 80 years later??
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This is your Morning Show with Michael del John Thursday,
June sixth, the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four.
Thanks for waking up with your morning show on the
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air and streaming live on your iHeart app. Obviously, the
eightieth anniversary of the D Day Invasion. So much is
kind of remembered and so much is kind of lost.
At this time eighty years ago, it was called Operation Overload,
and it was very controversial.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Really, Dwight D.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Eisenhower took the risk, made the final decision dawn on
the fifth. By the way, the invasion was originally to
take place on June the fifth. It got delayed one
day due to weather, but amidst the backdrop of on
certain weather and disagreements and strategy related timing dilemmas, Eisenhower
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decided before dawn on June the fifth to proceed with
Operation Overload. Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note
intended for release, accepting complete responsibility for the decision. I'm
going to share that note with you. It's one of
the more inspiring pieces of leadership you will ever hear
in your life. Also, our John Decker got together with
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a ninety nine year old World War Two veteran who
actually was on the beaches of Normandy that day stormed
them at nineteen years old. He's ninety nine today. Don't
miss that piece coming up in less than thirty minutes
from now. We talk every week with the money Whiz
from the Bonsen Financial Group. He's also author of the
book Full Time and you can find that at full
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Time book dot com. He's in addition to being a
money whiz, he is also a theologian. You know, I
want to start with the theologian side of you, David.
We look back at this, there's a big difference between
remembering and honoring. One is a function of the mind.
The other is a function of the heart. One looks back,
one lives forward. I think that eighty years later is
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what's really staring us in the face, because I got
news for you. Evil like Adolf Hitler does still exist.
It will rear its ugly head. And when it does,
will we have the character and courage and determination that
this generation eighty years ago had because it was forged
in the depression. I think that's a remarkable thing to
kind of take all of our breath away today eighty
years later.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh, I totally agree. And I also agree it's a
theological question. A lot of people want to tell themselves
and formulate our feelings about morality divorced from theology. But
Hitler was the embodiment of evil, because evil is defined
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for us by a creator who has absolute standards right
and wrong, who has a holy law, and he made
us to be a certain way, then entered the world
and broke this and now we are in a process
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of being redeemed back to God by his son's work
on across and along the way. The sinful, depraved world
has people like Gadolf Hitler in it, and I think
that what we have our problem today is exactly what
you just said, would we have the courage that our
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parents of grandparents great grandparents had eighty years ago, But
would we even have the clarity to identify evil for
what it is. I'm not sure we would. No.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And you know, we can look at Okinawa.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
There were so many battles in the Pacific that were
you know, two different folks at the same time. There
was evil in Japan, there was evil in Germany there,
and so you know, it's hard you lose the Battle
of Midway Okinawa, they were huge. A lot of people
will point to the Battle of the ball so they'll
point to this invasion on the beaches of Normandy. No, really,
the first most decisive thing that led to victory was
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the determination that there is good and there is evil,
and good triumphs over evil, and good must triumph and
over evil. And therefore that's set in motion the determination
that led to decisions like D Day and Operation Overload.
But I don't know that America could agree on what
good is and what evil is today.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Well, they certainly couldn't on college campuses now. And this
is a problem where and see, I don't like to
go to the culture war on every single thing. And
I'm not one who sits around obsessing all these issues,
even though maybe I should, because they pretty much are
to the essence of the stupidity of our age. But
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in a society that can't identify what a man and
a woman is is going to have a very hard
time identifying what good and evil is. They're going to
have a very hard time apparently noticing the difference between
Hamas and the Jewish people, and the difference in the
morality of these respective causes. One wants to exterminate the
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other from planet Earth. And yet our college students, and
again it isn't all of them, but it's a loud amount,
and it's at prestigious universities, and you have this immorality
where not only do they pick the bad guys in
the good versus bad guys discussion, but then all of
the grown ups in the room that are around totally
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unable to know what to do, like, well, I guess
we have to give them three weeks encampment so they
can sit around defending the bad guys. I've never seen
anything like it in my life.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It's a lack of courage, but it's a lack of
moral clarity.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So a nation that remembers eighty years later is just
as vulnerable for it to happen again. But a nation
that honors eighty years later, prepares differently, lives differently, is
prepared and ready if it should rear its ugly head,
and of course it certainly would.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's also my son was watching this. If you've never
seen it, it's a colorized version on Netflix. It's a
documentary series that goes into World War Two. I can't
remember the name of it now, but if you just
google Netflix colorized World War two series, it'll pop right up.
But there's such a difference, David, when you're staring into
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the face of a colorized face and eyes in uniform
versus something about the black and white distances, it makes
it less real. I mean, these were nineteen year old
kids in hell on Earth, in battle and in most
cases certain to die. And then there is the end
of it, which is the victory. And how they came home,
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and how they appreciated home, how they lived differently at home,
how they repopulated at home. I don't know. They paid
the ultimate price in war, but they enjoyed the ultimate
blessing in returning That I think is lost too. In
taking all of this for granted, it was just so
powerful and moving. And when my son looked at me
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and said, oh my gosh, Dad, that'd be like me
being on that boat. Yeah, prepared to face a wall
of bullets and where nine out of ten of you
would be dead instantly. It's there's just no words. There's
no words for much of World War two other than
we don't want to experience World War three.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
No, that's right.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And what are represented in the twentieth century, not only
in terms of the rewards we reap by being the victors,
by having defeated evil, all the historical profundity that it
came out of defeating fascism and Nazism, and yet the
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fact that communism then was allowed a beachhead in Eastern
Europe and what took place in the second half of
the twentieth century. There there's historical things to understand out
of it that we ought to study. I'm not sure
that we do anymore, but we ought to study. And
whether it's netflix documentaries that capture it or textbooks like
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the way you and I probably learned it, I will
say there's very few things that are more important for
people to understand than the magnificent moments of victory out
of World War Two. And I think that when we
talk about the events of nine eleven, when we look
at the various evil embodiments that have taken place since
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World War Two, it requires the moral clarity that we
had to identify Hitler for where it is, for what
he was. Where are the Churchills of this day? The
moral equivocation that takes place an American pop culture around
the great embodiments of evil today, it's stunning, And I
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think that that's my biggest fear. I mean, of course,
you can wonder, do we have the people that have
the courage to go put their life on the line
defending these things. I mean, all of those things have
to be wondered and discussed, but I'm not sure that
we would even have the culture prepared to identify the need,
let alone the courage to stand up for the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
By the way, it was World War II in color
Road to Victory. It's a Netflix series. I encourage everybody
to watch it. They do a really terrific job. They
get out of the way and let the pictures and
the events accurately tell the story. And there's a lot
to remember, and there's a lot to honor, and there's
a lot to search souls.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
About eighty years later, we just.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Did an interview with Aaron Rayel, and you know, when
I have somebody as brilliant as Shoe, I want to
just run it by you. It'd be almost derelection of
duty if I didn't. So we were talking about the
diamond industry. It's in big trouble right now because these
are not cubic zirconians. These are lab grown, real diamonds
done through extreme pressure in a lab. It's the real thing.
So it's no less a child than an in vitro
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child is from a naturally conceived child, and it is
driving diamonds in value are down thirty percent from their high.
They continue to follow dramatic rates and they're only going
to be more of them. And all of us are
sitting here with expensive diamonds that we think we're an
investment and they're losing their value. Have you been following
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that at all and the impact is having on the
diamond industry.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
No, I have not, other than just hearing kind of
the same highlights that you just highlighted. And yet I
have been arguing for twenty five years about why commodities
are not investments and that the entire so what you
just explained for listeners at a high level is perfectly
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adequate information. To make a very important point. You never
get a return on investment from something that does not
involve human activity. Now, that is one of the most
theological things, believing that oil prices are going to go up,
or that diamonds are going to go up, or any
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other scarce element which includes gold and silver. By the way,
it is only true when either attached to speculation, which
is what most commodity investors are doing, and it could
be intelligence speculation, but it's still speculation, or when it's
attached to human use of something. And so I don't
believe that something is a good investment just because it's rare, because,
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first of laus, we're seeing with this diamond store may rare. Well,
that's exactly right. Remember you know peak oil fears. I mean,
but you know, the idea that we right now could
have a glut of oil was not exactly the magazine
cover theme twenty years ago before fracking, people talked about
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us running out of oil. So there's constantly mistakes made
about how rare something really is. It turns out natural
resources often have a much bigger supply than people think.
But I don't necessarily have a thoughtful, intelligent opinion on
what is going on in the manufacturing of real diamonds
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through this new process, as I do that diamonds being
rare was never a great investment thesis to begin with,
because I want investment return out of the activity of
human beings that innovate human action always in forever. Even
when someone says it's just a debt, but it's a
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debt being paid back by the act activity of human
some operating enterprise.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
So even bonds ultimately at the end of the day
alone that is paid back to a base. Right, it's
a debt for one party, but it's an asset for another.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But it's an asset that is that is paid off
by the activity of humans.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Like a mortgage someone, you think, well, it's just a
very impersonal, cold financial asset, but not really. The mortgage
is paid on a home because someone goes to work,
it gets the paychecked and then pays the mortgage from that.
I think with diamond sitting in a vault somewhere, to
restricts human activity and I would encourage people to always.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Think of investments as something to be connected to the
human ingenuity that drives free enterprise.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm just taken by how peaceful your setting sounds for
the birds in the back. Well, we didn't get to today,
we'll get to next week. Is I want to look
at debt that's the real threat to the economy. There's
a lot of political views of the economy. They're really
driven by the prices of gas, rice is of food,
and then everybody's blaming something Biden or what have you, COVID.
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The reality is what are the real what is the
real state of our economy and what is the real
threat to our long term future? And I think you're
going to agree it's debt. We'll do that next week.
I think your insights on D Day and remembering versus
honoring and identifying good and evil all very appropriate and
very powerful for today.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
David Bonson, by the way, don't miss his book.
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It's called Full Time and you can find it at
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Thank you so much for these weekly visits.
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George Sarros was nineteen years old when he stormed the
beaches at Normandy. He's ninety nine years old, and he
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I don't think anybody has captured D Day like John
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much more to explore than the obvious when it comes
to D Day. D Day for the European portion of
World War two very significant and credited properly with leading
to victory. It may have actually shaped the decision to
use an atomic bomb in Japan. The amount of lives
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lost in order to take Europe by force may have
influenced using a bomb in Japan to break the will
versus the amount of lives. Things that people forget well.
D Day was Operation Overload, That's what it was called
at the time, and it wasn't a settled issue. In fact,
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there were a lot of differing opinions as to whether
or not we should have done it, and in the
end Dwight D. Eisenhower, a future president, made that final call.
It was originally to happen on June fifth, but weather
delayed one day, and even with whether as a question mark,
on June sixth, amidst the background of whether, timing, disagreements
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and strategy, the decision was made to proceed In talking
to David Bonds, and he says, where's Churchills of today? Well,
where are the Eisenhowers of today? The Macarthurs of today?
Knowing all the people that disagreed, all the people that
would armchair quarterback, I mean, does his presidency happen? Does
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victory happen? If Operation Overload doesn't work, he takes full responsibility.
He makes the call, knowing the lives it would cost.
Quietly starts penning out a message to his troops. When
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it was done, it sounded.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Like this, The soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied
Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon the great
crusade toward which we have striven these many months.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
The eyes of the world are upon you.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you, in company with our brave allies and brothers
in arms on other fronts.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You will bring about the destruction.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny
over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves
in a free world. Your task will not be an
easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and
battle hardened.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
He will fight savagely. But this is the year nineteen
forty four.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty
forty one. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans
great defeats in open battle.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Man demand.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the
air and their capacity to wage war.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
On the ground. Our home fronts have given us.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
An overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and
placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
The tide has turned.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
The freemen of the w the world are marching together
to victory. I have full competence in your courage, devotion
to duty, and scale in battle. We will accept nothing
less than full victory. Good luck, and let us all
beseeks the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and
noble undertaking.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
What a message, what a leader, and the risk and
the cost of overload it paid off. Now it's easy
to look back and remember, not as easy to honor
d Day eighty years later, its military and world history significance,
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and the courage of the greatest generation to pull it off.
Here's White House correspond to John Decker with our special
and I mean special report.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
For most Americans. Archival footage of D Day June sixth,
nineteen forty four is our only connection to one of
the most important battles of World War II. Eighty years
after that day that saved the world, ninety nine year
old George Sarrows still vividly remembers how he felt as
he landed on Utah Beach aboard his transport ship LST.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
I know we were worried whether we're going to make
it or not, whether we were going to keep the
beach there or God.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Sarah's, the native of Chicago, was just nineteen years old
his mission as a motor machinist when his ship hit
the beach at one pm deliver AMMO troops, tanks, ambulances,
and jeeps in exchange for wounded paratroopers to be brought
back to England for medical attention.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
When we hit the beach, we opened the bow doors
and lowered the ramps, and the ambulance were coming and
we were taking all the guys who were wounded, putting
them on the tank deck. I don't know how holiday
we picked up. We wrote it a whole handta that's
what all the LSTs were doing.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
The D Day invasion was the largest naval, air, and
land operation in history. Success didn't come easy. Some four
thousand Allied troops were killed by German soldiers defending the beaches.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I really alive, you guys. We were all together. We worked, live,
stup for each other.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
For George, Sarah's D Day was a noble cause. Here
at the World War II Memorial in Washington, the words
of President Roosevelt, delivered to the nation on D Day
are engraved in memoriam. They fight not for the love
of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
When they're stopping, think of those that sacrifice our lives.
When those guys hit the beach and lost four or
five thousands on the beach, we should honor them, make
it a regular celebration because of it. Hadn't for the
generation that I grew up. I don't know what our
nation would have been if we'd have lost the war.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Why were you so lucky, George?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
I think the Lord was there. I have a great
trust for the Lord. I often think about that.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
You know, why us if there's one lament of this
true American hero. It is more about this country's future
rather than our past.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I'll tell you, I'm really disappointed in our country now.
I think we're going the wrong way. I don't see
the comradity we have when we were.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
In to war. That camaraderie is what helped America defeat Tyranny.
For George Sarah's who will soon turn one hundred d
day is a reminder of what our country can achieve
when it comes together and is unified in purpose. In
Flat Rock, North Carolina, I'm John Decker, and that is a.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Perfect way to look at remembering and honoring on the
sadieth anniversary.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Great work, John Decker.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
All right, just waking up forty three minutes after the hour.
These are your top five stories of the day.
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Georgia Court of Appeals indefinitely pause the case against the
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a dozen of his allies are charged with racketeering for
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Called a very dangerous thing.
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Finley said Taylor, well, sometimes all this news can get
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We started parking and watching movies in nineteen thirty three,
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The end of that memory comes down to progress and
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Things I didn't get to today were the poles of plenty.
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North Carolina, Georgia. Those are all looking heavily Donald Trump's way.
And by the way, when you add in RFK, it
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I want to spend this time with Rory O'Neil, or
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get to the Hunter Biden trial. We did get butch
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we speak.
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Our ship this is from SpaceX. This is the massive rocket,
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I'm looking at something that doesn't look good, but all right,
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It's big.
Speaker 16 (28:54):
This is the rocket that Elon Musk wants to use
to bring people to Mars and to the Moon. And
this is the has the capability of being that heavy
lifter that can bring people and things in large quantities.
His ultimate vision is to produce one of these rockets. Again,
it's about three hundred and seventy five feet tall. Produced
one of these a.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Day is the goal.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
At what cost?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Well, that's the hook in terms of we don't know.
Speaker 16 (29:22):
There's a lot of NASA money involved in this because
NASA is going to rely on Starship obviously a lot
of Elon Musk money in here. And then you know,
he tries to use the profits he's making off his
Falcon nine rockets and the Starlink service to try to
funnel that into this program.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right, So Butcher and Sonny they made their way
towards the space station finally, and now Elon must Starship
and a test launch, and we do that just and.
Speaker 16 (29:47):
To update Butcher and Sonny, they'll dock at the space
station today. We now have two more helium leaks on
board their Boeing built Starship capsule. So that's something else
a star Liner cap so rather so star on Liner
has now three helium leaks.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
That's an interesting situation.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't know that i'd get out anything made by
Boeing right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
All right, So the Hunter Biden trial ex wife yesterday,
that was a real dysfunctional glimpse at what a drug
addiction looks like and how you struggle to protect your
kids from being exposed to it. But ultimately this gets
really dysfunctional when his former sister in law, ex girlfriend
and the person who disposed that the gun takes the stand.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
When will that be?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
That could be as early as today.
Speaker 16 (30:36):
Something say that it's possible the prosecution could wrap up
its case today, believe it or not. I think it's
more likely they'll go into tomorrow though, and then it'll
be well, let's have the defense start on Monday, which
seems to make more sense as a timeline, But what
do I know. So well, it's wait and see. But
they've all the prosecution says they've only got about six
more witnesses to call.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is kind of playing out to be the bottom
line is I think if he gets off, I think
that's the worst case scenario for President Biden. If he
doesn't he fass twenty five years and it's his son,
then you have all the other things that may trigger
from this. But the bottom line is you're you seeing
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the interest in the details of this. I think people,
you know, you always use that expression baked the cake
is it's baked into the cake. I think our views
of Hunter Biden is baked into the cake right.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Well.
Speaker 16 (31:27):
Without TV cameras, yeah, without TV and radio or audio
clips to move the needle, I don't think this is
going to do much of anything.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (31:36):
I mean, by the way, he's also got the September
trial coming up as well in the tax charges.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, the rough road ahead for Hunter Biden. All right, Rory,
great reporting. By the way, you were seeing something it
didn't look right. Yeah, it was just a bad camera view,
so it looked a little okay, just making sure there's
nobody on board. But it's a pretty Now when you
say it lands, where will it pretend to land?
Speaker 16 (31:59):
So the booster section is going to splash down in
the Gulf of Mexico, that's what they're hoping.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
We'll also land upright.
Speaker 16 (32:06):
The starship itself will splash down, hopefully vertically as surviving
re entry in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Presumably that it could do the same if it was
at Mars or wherever it was headed.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Well, that and we can land it back here on Earth.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
So we haven't.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
We haven't landed one of these BFRs, one of these.
Speaker 16 (32:26):
Larger rockets vertically yet that's what Falcon does so well,
that's why it could be reused. You know, we've got
these Falcon rockets that have gone on twenty flights. We're
still trying to get a starship to where it could
be reusable that space.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Today, Roy O'Neil, appreciate your reporting today. We'll talk again tomorrow.
It is fifty seven after the hour.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Our thanks to Robert Greenway, who is a military and
historian putting D Day into perspective, and it should looking back.
Membering does force us to look forward and to honor.
It's a great, great conversation, David Bonson with some of
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the good versus evil of eighty years ago, versus can
we agree on what is good and what is evil today?
Let alone a generation forged in the depression that was
able to carry out this liberation. Does that kind of
character and determination exist today? Appreciated his insights.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
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This is your Morning Show with Michael del John Thursday,
June sixth, the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four.
Thanks for waking up with your morning show on the
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air and streaming live on your iHeart app. Obviously, the
eightieth anniversary of the D Day Invasion. So much is
kind of remembered and so much is kind of lost.
At this time eighty years ago, it was called Operation Overload,
and it was very controversial.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Really, Dwight D.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Eisenhower took the risk, made the final decision dawn on
the fifth. By the way, the invasion was originally to
take place on June the fifth. It got delayed one
day due to weather, but amidst the backdrop of on
certain weather and disagreements and strategy related timing dilemmas, Eisenhower
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decided before dawn on June the fifth to proceed with
Operation Overload. Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note
intended for release, accepting complete responsibility for the decision. I'm
going to share that note with you. It's one of
the more inspiring pieces of leadership you will ever hear
in your life. Also, our John Decker got together with
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a ninety nine year old World War Two veteran who
actually was on the beaches of Normandy that day stormed
them at nineteen years old. He's ninety nine today. Don't
miss that piece coming up in less than thirty minutes
from now. We talk every week with the money Whiz
from the Bonsen Financial Group. He's also author of the
book Full Time and you can find that at full
(02:06):
Time book dot com. He's in addition to being a
money whiz, he is also a theologian. You know, I
want to start with the theologian side of you, David.
We look back at this, there's a big difference between
remembering and honoring. One is a function of the mind.
The other is a function of the heart. One looks back,
one lives forward. I think that eighty years later is
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what's really staring us in the face, because I got
news for you. Evil like Adolf Hitler does still exist.
It will rear its ugly head. And when it does,
will we have the character and courage and determination that
this generation eighty years ago had because it was forged
in the depression. I think that's a remarkable thing to
kind of take all of our breath away today eighty
years later.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh, I totally agree. And I also agree it's a
theological question. A lot of people want to tell themselves
and formulate our feelings about morality divorced from theology. But
Hitler was the embodiment of evil, because evil is defined
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for us by a creator who has absolute standards right
and wrong, who has a holy law, and he made
us to be a certain way, then entered the world
and broke this and now we are in a process
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of being redeemed back to God by his son's work
on across and along the way. The sinful, depraved world
has people like Gadolf Hitler in it, and I think
that what we have our problem today is exactly what
you just said, would we have the courage that our
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parents of grandparents great grandparents had eighty years ago, But
would we even have the clarity to identify evil for
what it is. I'm not sure we would. No.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And you know, we can look at Okinawa.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
There were so many battles in the Pacific that were
you know, two different folks at the same time. There
was evil in Japan, there was evil in Germany there,
and so you know, it's hard you lose the Battle
of Midway Okinawa, they were huge. A lot of people
will point to the Battle of the ball so they'll
point to this invasion on the beaches of Normandy. No, really,
the first most decisive thing that led to victory was
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the determination that there is good and there is evil,
and good triumphs over evil, and good must triumph and
over evil. And therefore that's set in motion the determination
that led to decisions like D Day and Operation Overload.
But I don't know that America could agree on what
good is and what evil is today.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Well, they certainly couldn't on college campuses now. And this
is a problem where and see, I don't like to
go to the culture war on every single thing. And
I'm not one who sits around obsessing all these issues,
even though maybe I should, because they pretty much are
to the essence of the stupidity of our age. But
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in a society that can't identify what a man and
a woman is is going to have a very hard
time identifying what good and evil is. They're going to
have a very hard time apparently noticing the difference between
Hamas and the Jewish people, and the difference in the
morality of these respective causes. One wants to exterminate the
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other from planet Earth. And yet our college students, and
again it isn't all of them, but it's a loud amount,
and it's at prestigious universities, and you have this immorality
where not only do they pick the bad guys in
the good versus bad guys discussion, but then all of
the grown ups in the room that are around totally
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unable to know what to do, like, well, I guess
we have to give them three weeks encampment so they
can sit around defending the bad guys. I've never seen
anything like it in my life.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It's a lack of courage, but it's a lack of
moral clarity.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So a nation that remembers eighty years later is just
as vulnerable for it to happen again. But a nation
that honors eighty years later, prepares differently, lives differently, is
prepared and ready if it should rear its ugly head,
and of course it certainly would.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's also my son was watching this. If you've never
seen it, it's a colorized version on Netflix. It's a
documentary series that goes into World War Two. I can't
remember the name of it now, but if you just
google Netflix colorized World War two series, it'll pop right up.
But there's such a difference, David, when you're staring into
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the face of a colorized face and eyes in uniform
versus something about the black and white distances, it makes
it less real. I mean, these were nineteen year old
kids in hell on Earth, in battle and in most
cases certain to die. And then there is the end
of it, which is the victory. And how they came home,
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and how they appreciated home, how they lived differently at home,
how they repopulated at home. I don't know. They paid
the ultimate price in war, but they enjoyed the ultimate
blessing in returning That I think is lost too. In
taking all of this for granted, it was just so
powerful and moving. And when my son looked at me
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and said, oh my gosh, Dad, that'd be like me
being on that boat. Yeah, prepared to face a wall
of bullets and where nine out of ten of you
would be dead instantly. It's there's just no words. There's
no words for much of World War two other than
we don't want to experience World War three.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
No, that's right.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And what are represented in the twentieth century, not only
in terms of the rewards we reap by being the victors,
by having defeated evil, all the historical profundity that it
came out of defeating fascism and Nazism, and yet the
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fact that communism then was allowed a beachhead in Eastern
Europe and what took place in the second half of
the twentieth century. There there's historical things to understand out
of it that we ought to study. I'm not sure
that we do anymore, but we ought to study. And
whether it's netflix documentaries that capture it or textbooks like
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the way you and I probably learned it, I will
say there's very few things that are more important for
people to understand than the magnificent moments of victory out
of World War Two. And I think that when we
talk about the events of nine eleven, when we look
at the various evil embodiments that have taken place since
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World War Two, it requires the moral clarity that we
had to identify Hitler for where it is, for what
he was. Where are the Churchills of this day? The
moral equivocation that takes place an American pop culture around
the great embodiments of evil today, it's stunning, And I
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think that that's my biggest fear. I mean, of course,
you can wonder, do we have the people that have
the courage to go put their life on the line
defending these things. I mean, all of those things have
to be wondered and discussed, but I'm not sure that
we would even have the culture prepared to identify the need,
let alone the courage to stand up for the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
By the way, it was World War II in color
Road to Victory. It's a Netflix series. I encourage everybody
to watch it. They do a really terrific job. They
get out of the way and let the pictures and
the events accurately tell the story. And there's a lot
to remember, and there's a lot to honor, and there's
a lot to search souls.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
About eighty years later, we just.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Did an interview with Aaron Rayel, and you know, when
I have somebody as brilliant as Shoe, I want to
just run it by you. It'd be almost derelection of
duty if I didn't. So we were talking about the
diamond industry. It's in big trouble right now because these
are not cubic zirconians. These are lab grown, real diamonds
done through extreme pressure in a lab. It's the real thing.
So it's no less a child than an in vitro
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child is from a naturally conceived child, and it is
driving diamonds in value are down thirty percent from their high.
They continue to follow dramatic rates and they're only going
to be more of them. And all of us are
sitting here with expensive diamonds that we think we're an
investment and they're losing their value. Have you been following
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that at all and the impact is having on the
diamond industry.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
No, I have not, other than just hearing kind of
the same highlights that you just highlighted. And yet I
have been arguing for twenty five years about why commodities
are not investments and that the entire so what you
just explained for listeners at a high level is perfectly
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adequate information. To make a very important point. You never
get a return on investment from something that does not
involve human activity. Now, that is one of the most
theological things, believing that oil prices are going to go up,
or that diamonds are going to go up, or any
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other scarce element which includes gold and silver. By the way,
it is only true when either attached to speculation, which
is what most commodity investors are doing, and it could
be intelligence speculation, but it's still speculation, or when it's
attached to human use of something. And so I don't
believe that something is a good investment just because it's rare, because,
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first of laus, we're seeing with this diamond store may rare. Well,
that's exactly right. Remember you know peak oil fears. I mean,
but you know, the idea that we right now could
have a glut of oil was not exactly the magazine
cover theme twenty years ago before fracking, people talked about
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us running out of oil. So there's constantly mistakes made
about how rare something really is. It turns out natural
resources often have a much bigger supply than people think.
But I don't necessarily have a thoughtful, intelligent opinion on
what is going on in the manufacturing of real diamonds
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through this new process, as I do that diamonds being
rare was never a great investment thesis to begin with,
because I want investment return out of the activity of
human beings that innovate human action always in forever. Even
when someone says it's just a debt, but it's a
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debt being paid back by the act activity of human
some operating enterprise.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
So even bonds ultimately at the end of the day
alone that is paid back to a base. Right, it's
a debt for one party, but it's an asset for another.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But it's an asset that is that is paid off
by the activity of humans.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Like a mortgage someone, you think, well, it's just a
very impersonal, cold financial asset, but not really. The mortgage
is paid on a home because someone goes to work,
it gets the paychecked and then pays the mortgage from that.
I think with diamond sitting in a vault somewhere, to
restricts human activity and I would encourage people to always.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Think of investments as something to be connected to the
human ingenuity that drives free enterprise.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm just taken by how peaceful your setting sounds for
the birds in the back. Well, we didn't get to today,
we'll get to next week. Is I want to look
at debt that's the real threat to the economy. There's
a lot of political views of the economy. They're really
driven by the prices of gas, rice is of food,
and then everybody's blaming something Biden or what have you, COVID.
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The reality is what are the real what is the
real state of our economy and what is the real
threat to our long term future? And I think you're
going to agree it's debt. We'll do that next week.
I think your insights on D Day and remembering versus
honoring and identifying good and evil all very appropriate and
very powerful for today.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
David Bonson, by the way, don't miss his book.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's called Full Time and you can find it at
full timebook dot com. David Bonson with the Bonson Financial Group,
Thank you so much for these weekly visits.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
George Sarros was nineteen years old when he stormed the
beaches at Normandy. He's ninety nine years old, and he
sat down to tell a story that is brilliantly told
by John Becker. John Decker and I do not want
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Special report, but I think this one is.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't think anybody has captured D Day like John
Decker has today. Don't miss that that's coming up in
minutes if you're just waking up. The stories are what
they are, and I think you're pretty aware of most
of them. The Hunter Biden trial will continue yesterday. His
wife his ex wife testified what a glimpse behind the
dysfunctional Biden curtain that was. And we still have his
sister in law slash former girlfriend slash, the one who
(15:49):
got rid of the firearm in question, still to take
the stand. We'll have more on that with Rory O'Neil
coming up. Donald Trump's election submersion subversion case has gone
the way of his document's case in Florida. In Georgia
that's been put on pause. That's a pretty simple equation.
If law fair was the game, it has failed in Florida,
(16:09):
in Georgia, they got thirty four guilty verdicts. In New
York and guess what, no one cares. I can't get
to that polling information to share.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
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is your morning show. I'm Michael del Jarno. There's so
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much more to explore than the obvious when it comes
to D Day. D Day for the European portion of
World War two very significant and credited properly with leading
to victory. It may have actually shaped the decision to
use an atomic bomb in Japan. The amount of lives
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lost in order to take Europe by force may have
influenced using a bomb in Japan to break the will
versus the amount of lives. Things that people forget well.
D Day was Operation Overload, That's what it was called
at the time, and it wasn't a settled issue. In fact,
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there were a lot of differing opinions as to whether
or not we should have done it, and in the
end Dwight D. Eisenhower, a future president, made that final call.
It was originally to happen on June fifth, but weather
delayed one day, and even with whether as a question mark,
on June sixth, amidst the background of whether, timing, disagreements
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and strategy, the decision was made to proceed In talking
to David Bonds, and he says, where's Churchills of today? Well,
where are the Eisenhowers of today? The Macarthurs of today?
Knowing all the people that disagreed, all the people that
would armchair quarterback, I mean, does his presidency happen? Does
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victory happen? If Operation Overload doesn't work, he takes full responsibility.
He makes the call, knowing the lives it would cost.
Quietly starts penning out a message to his troops. When
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it was done, it sounded.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Like this, The soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied
Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon the great
crusade toward which we have striven these many months.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
The eyes of the world are upon you.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you, in company with our brave allies and brothers
in arms on other fronts.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You will bring about the destruction.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny
over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves
in a free world. Your task will not be an
easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and
battle hardened.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
He will fight savagely. But this is the year nineteen
forty four.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty
forty one. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans
great defeats in open battle.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Man demand.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the
air and their capacity to wage war.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
On the ground. Our home fronts have given us.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
An overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and
placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
The tide has turned.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
The freemen of the w the world are marching together
to victory. I have full competence in your courage, devotion
to duty, and scale in battle. We will accept nothing
less than full victory. Good luck, and let us all
beseeks the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and
noble undertaking.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
What a message, what a leader, and the risk and
the cost of overload it paid off. Now it's easy
to look back and remember, not as easy to honor
d Day eighty years later, its military and world history significance,
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and the courage of the greatest generation to pull it off.
Here's White House correspond to John Decker with our special
and I mean special report.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
For most Americans. Archival footage of D Day June sixth,
nineteen forty four is our only connection to one of
the most important battles of World War II. Eighty years
after that day that saved the world, ninety nine year
old George Sarrows still vividly remembers how he felt as
he landed on Utah Beach aboard his transport ship LST.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
I know we were worried whether we're going to make
it or not, whether we were going to keep the
beach there or God.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Sarah's, the native of Chicago, was just nineteen years old
his mission as a motor machinist when his ship hit
the beach at one pm deliver AMMO troops, tanks, ambulances,
and jeeps in exchange for wounded paratroopers to be brought
back to England for medical attention.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
When we hit the beach, we opened the bow doors
and lowered the ramps, and the ambulance were coming and
we were taking all the guys who were wounded, putting
them on the tank deck. I don't know how holiday
we picked up. We wrote it a whole handta that's
what all the LSTs were doing.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
The D Day invasion was the largest naval, air, and
land operation in history. Success didn't come easy. Some four
thousand Allied troops were killed by German soldiers defending the beaches.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I really alive, you guys. We were all together. We worked, live,
stup for each other.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
For George, Sarah's D Day was a noble cause. Here
at the World War II Memorial in Washington, the words
of President Roosevelt, delivered to the nation on D Day
are engraved in memoriam. They fight not for the love
of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
When they're stopping, think of those that sacrifice our lives.
When those guys hit the beach and lost four or
five thousands on the beach, we should honor them, make
it a regular celebration because of it. Hadn't for the
generation that I grew up. I don't know what our
nation would have been if we'd have lost the war.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Why were you so lucky, George?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
I think the Lord was there. I have a great
trust for the Lord. I often think about that.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
You know, why us if there's one lament of this
true American hero. It is more about this country's future
rather than our past.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I'll tell you, I'm really disappointed in our country now.
I think we're going the wrong way. I don't see
the comradity we have when we were.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
In to war. That camaraderie is what helped America defeat Tyranny.
For George Sarah's who will soon turn one hundred d
day is a reminder of what our country can achieve
when it comes together and is unified in purpose. In
Flat Rock, North Carolina, I'm John Decker, and that is a.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Perfect way to look at remembering and honoring on the
sadieth anniversary.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Great work, John Decker.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
All right, just waking up forty three minutes after the hour.
These are your top five stories of the day.
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Brian Shook reports a.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
Georgia Court of Appeals indefinitely pause the case against the
former president and several of his code defendants until a
panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis should be removed. Trump's legal team is pushing
to disqualify Willis over her relationship with a special prosecutor
she hired to lead the case. Trump and more than
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a dozen of his allies are charged with racketeering for
efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
President Biden says, there's every reason for people to believe
that the Israeli Prime Minister BB Detnieh who is prolonging
the war in Gaza, and he's doing it for political
reasons to aid Donald Trump. Donald Trump went on Sean
Hannity on Fox with a very simple message, finished the
job to BB NETANYAHUO Mark Mayfield reports.
Speaker 13 (25:09):
Trump gave an interview to Sean Hannity on Fox News
Wednesday and was asked about the war in Gaza. Trump
said Israel doesn't have the backing of Congress and that
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has become like a Palestinian,
which he.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Called a very dangerous thing.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
The former president said, Israel has to finish the job
in Gaza, and finish it quickly and strongly, because it's
taking too long.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
There's a big, very revealing story today that you'll probably
find all over social media, and that is that a
lot of including Democrat lawmakers who were involved in the
Wall Street Journal interviews that led to the story about
diminishing cognitive ability and energy of Joe Biden, we're approached
by the administration to push back, to retract, to get
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them to not necessarily say this or that this is
all a part of a pushback movement against the Wall
Street Journal on President Biden's mental fitness.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 14 (26:07):
The story includes accounts that the eighty one year old
Biden displays an unevenness in meetings and is sometimes hard
to hear when he speaks. White House officials criticize the
story for being based largely on accounts from anonymous Republicans.
The paper interviewed more than forty five people, and while
most of those who voice concerned were Republicans, some Democrats
also said it was noticeable Biden allies took issue with
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the fact the only lawmaker to strongly criticize the president
on the record was former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who
said the president is not the same person he was
when he was Vice president.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Finley said Taylor, well, sometimes all this news can get
you down and you want to, you know, just go
back to the good old days.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
For me, that's like the fifties but great.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Maybe just a good old fashioned drive in movie as
a trip down memory lane, Breed Tennis has to take.
Speaker 15 (26:53):
We started parking and watching movies in nineteen thirty three,
when the first drive in opened in New Jersey. In
the fifties, there are four thousand drive ins. Driveway dot
Com says now there's only three hundred and twenty one
left in the US, But it is fun to reminisce
about piling into the car and watching a movie outside.
The end of that memory comes down to progress and
the invention of the VCR, the DVD streaming services, and
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that big screen TV you have at home.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm free Tennis, and that's your top five stories of
the day.
Speaker 15 (27:22):
Hi, I'm Andrea del Jorno and my husband and my
morning show is your Morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Things I didn't get to today were the poles of plenty.
I'll summarize this way. The polls would suggest Donald Trump
narrowly in general, beating Joe Biden within the margin of
error depending on which polling service you use. But that's
not what the significance is it's the swing states Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
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North Carolina, Georgia. Those are all looking heavily Donald Trump's way.
And by the way, when you add in RFK, it
swings even more trumps way. Maybe we'll get to it tomorrow.
I want to spend this time with Rory O'Neil, or
your morning show correspondent. Two things. One, Rory, we're gonna
get to the Hunter Biden trial. We did get butch
and Sunny. And now there's another launch happening even as
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we speak.
Speaker 16 (28:15):
Our ship this is from SpaceX. This is the massive rocket,
bigger than a Saturn five. There, it's on its fourth
test flight right now. Liftoff was just about one minute ago,
so we still are waiting for a stage separation to
come up here in a moment there this is no
one's on board. They're trying to test whether or not
Starship can perform a rotation maneuver so that it could
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land on its own in the future.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I'm looking at something that doesn't look good, but all right,
we'll wait and see. So it's really a test flight
for these two segments. We'll see how things go.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So Starship, how's this different from others?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
It's big.
Speaker 16 (28:54):
This is the rocket that Elon Musk wants to use
to bring people to Mars and to the Moon. And
this is the has the capability of being that heavy
lifter that can bring people and things in large quantities.
His ultimate vision is to produce one of these rockets. Again,
it's about three hundred and seventy five feet tall. Produced
one of these a.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Day is the goal.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
At what cost?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Well, that's the hook in terms of we don't know.
Speaker 16 (29:22):
There's a lot of NASA money involved in this because
NASA is going to rely on Starship obviously a lot
of Elon Musk money in here. And then you know,
he tries to use the profits he's making off his
Falcon nine rockets and the Starlink service to try to
funnel that into this program.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right, So Butcher and Sonny they made their way
towards the space station finally, and now Elon must Starship
and a test launch, and we do that just and.
Speaker 16 (29:47):
To update Butcher and Sonny, they'll dock at the space
station today. We now have two more helium leaks on
board their Boeing built Starship capsule. So that's something else
a star Liner cap so rather so star on Liner
has now three helium leaks.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
That's an interesting situation.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't know that i'd get out anything made by
Boeing right now.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
All right, So the Hunter Biden trial ex wife yesterday,
that was a real dysfunctional glimpse at what a drug
addiction looks like and how you struggle to protect your
kids from being exposed to it. But ultimately this gets
really dysfunctional when his former sister in law, ex girlfriend
and the person who disposed that the gun takes the stand.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
When will that be?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
That could be as early as today.
Speaker 16 (30:36):
Something say that it's possible the prosecution could wrap up
its case today, believe it or not. I think it's
more likely they'll go into tomorrow though, and then it'll
be well, let's have the defense start on Monday, which
seems to make more sense as a timeline, But what
do I know. So well, it's wait and see. But
they've all the prosecution says they've only got about six
more witnesses to call.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is kind of playing out to be the bottom
line is I think if he gets off, I think
that's the worst case scenario for President Biden. If he
doesn't he fass twenty five years and it's his son,
then you have all the other things that may trigger
from this. But the bottom line is you're you seeing
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the interest in the details of this. I think people,
you know, you always use that expression baked the cake
is it's baked into the cake. I think our views
of Hunter Biden is baked into the cake right.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Well.
Speaker 16 (31:27):
Without TV cameras, yeah, without TV and radio or audio
clips to move the needle, I don't think this is
going to do much of anything.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (31:36):
I mean, by the way, he's also got the September
trial coming up as well in the tax charges.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, the rough road ahead for Hunter Biden. All right, Rory,
great reporting. By the way, you were seeing something it
didn't look right. Yeah, it was just a bad camera view,
so it looked a little okay, just making sure there's
nobody on board. But it's a pretty Now when you
say it lands, where will it pretend to land?
Speaker 16 (31:59):
So the booster section is going to splash down in
the Gulf of Mexico, that's what they're hoping.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
We'll also land upright.
Speaker 16 (32:06):
The starship itself will splash down, hopefully vertically as surviving
re entry in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Presumably that it could do the same if it was
at Mars or wherever it was headed.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Well, that and we can land it back here on Earth.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
So we haven't.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
We haven't landed one of these BFRs, one of these.
Speaker 16 (32:26):
Larger rockets vertically yet that's what Falcon does so well,
that's why it could be reused. You know, we've got
these Falcon rockets that have gone on twenty flights. We're
still trying to get a starship to where it could
be reusable that space.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Today, Roy O'Neil, appreciate your reporting today. We'll talk again tomorrow.
It is fifty seven after the hour.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Our thanks to Robert Greenway, who is a military and
historian putting D Day into perspective, and it should looking back.
Membering does force us to look forward and to honor.
It's a great, great conversation, David Bonson with some of
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the good versus evil of eighty years ago, versus can
we agree on what is good and what is evil today?
Let alone a generation forged in the depression that was
able to carry out this liberation. Does that kind of
character and determination exist today? Appreciated his insights.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
We're all in this together.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
This is your Morning Show with Michaeldenheld, Joino
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