November 22, 2024 • 34 mins
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Speaker 4 (00:40):
So what would happen if you took the Sounds A.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thirty eight special and Leonard Skinnard and mixed it with
the Gospel of Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It would happen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll always look up and keep listening because in a
couple of minutes, the van's answer going to show you
exactly what happens if you're just waking up.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The big story is gates is out. The gates closed.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And it took Donald Trump all of about two seconds
to make the announcement. Pam Bondy is in Linda, is
it me or are all of Linda had a great question,
Now here's Mary.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We have the best listeners on the face of the earth.
Best listen. There's nobody here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
All of our listeners could call host this show. Mary
listening to KSTE and Sacramento had.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Hey, this is Mary, and I'm with Red. I thought
this was orchestrated from the minute that Gates was nominated
to be the Attorney General. He was going to have
to resign his seat in Congress. He's under an ethics investigation.
The Senate doesn't like him, but he could not decline
the president's nomination. I think Speaker Johnson is Michael Corleoni
and Nett Jesus Fredo that nomination was the kiss of
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death for messing with the speakership and being divisive in
a house with a gop razor thin margin.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
First of all, I don't like Red getting a shout out.
I don't like that at all. I thought it was bait,
you know, I thought it was chum. It was bait.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So they would go after Gates and then they get
you know, Telsea Gabbard through RFK Junior through and then
Red brought up that theory. No, this is a gift
to Johnson and sending him down the road to nowhere.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mary, Mary may have nailed it. He's he's afraid of
all right, guys, you not that you're quiet? Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay? Now I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got all the vans in s and the decades of.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Guys of singing.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is so surreal to me because you know, two
sides of my life. Uh, Leonard skinnerd is the soundtrack
of my very early life. I had older brothers.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And so you know, we grew up with free bird.
And I wish I could tell you the story about
how I got thrown out of school.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Over that smelldition. I think we can figure out one.
I think I got that one figured out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And then they made a movie, A Sweet Home Alabama.
But you know, it's the kind of music that I was.
I was sitting in my bedroom. Harry Carey was drunk.
The white Socks are getting killed. So I turned off
the television. I turned on the radio, and I can
feel it like I'm in that. All my posters are
on the wall. And Jeff Davis was on WLS and
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he goes, here's a song about a place I affectionately
call home.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I think you're gonna like it. It's called sweet Home, Alabama,
and I mean it. And it was like it was
already a hit in my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But I mean, I can remember the first time I
heard it and then, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Thirty eight Special was the soundtrack of her senior year
in high school and early years at LSU. And so
here's the hell that is my life. I have so
many friends and they bother me every day. You know, Hey,
I just happened.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
To be delivering.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And frankly, you want to go to lunch, you know?
Or hey, today off, you want to go golf today?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I wanted someone to call so bad so I could say.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I can I'm hanging out with the van man as
you know, because the hell that is my life.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
If I was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Interviewing your supply today, even.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Want to call the one chance I get to be cool.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I just want to say on behalf of all
of our listeners and and kind of for both with
your brother, with the band, the tragedy meant to us,
all with the music still means to us.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Thirty eight Special, You're the soundtrack of our life. Thank you.
Before we talk about anything. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you. I hope you made a lot of money
off a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Other people made a lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, because I can. I'll never forget. I sat
my son down, Nicholas. You'll the thirty eight special sided
like this. So he gets his girlfriend and he's just
like over texting, overclinging. So I get out, you know,
a little thirty eight special. I'm going to give him
the lesson. You know, you got to hold on loosely,
you know, you don't want to hold too tight, you know,
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And he's listening.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's listening.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so then whenever I see him overtexting his girlfriend
being hold on, and then I have one of my
greatest memories.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I moved to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And uh, just me and my bulldog and we're driving
and I will tell you this, after about three years
of living there, it never got old passing the White House.
But this was like the first time we had ever
passed the White House. Right, a second chance came on,
and I just have so many memories. Most of the
skin memories, memories are before Christ and involved in marijuana.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So we're not going to bring that up.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So when Brian called me though, First and foremost, what
to throw you guys?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Faith twenty bucks? Because anytime but anybody says anything about.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Thirty eight thirty eight mentioned first, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'll take it like yeah, I'd be free bird. You know,
they're all there, the soundtracks of our life. So, first
and foremost, thank you talk about faith. You know, if
I were to say the van Zantz, I don't know
that faith would come up in people's minds. But it's
been there through all the decades, right, where's that come from?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Come from? Our dad? Daddy?
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Our dad was an avid reader of the Bible, you know,
so they let you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Come here, started to preaching, and you reading that Bible.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We didn't get up, use the bathroom or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, so you instilled that in us a long long
time ago. And of course we were like every other kid,
you know, listening to religion and went in one air
and out the other. And we went on and did
our stuff. But uh, you know what, as life goes on, man,
you go through different storms of your life, and hey,
you need you need Jesus and have faith and love
and hope and all that good stuff. Yeah, the problems
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get bigger. Yeah, and we make most of them too,
don't know. We were talking about that earlier in the
morning show. And we're not a Christian show by any
stretch of the imagination to just happen to have stuck
with the Christian host. But you know we talked about, Oh,
we want to you know, glorified guy. We want to
be in his power of his resurrection and fellowship and
his suffering.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Of course, the joke is most of our suffering is
caused by us, yes, and our decision. So who was
the worst backslider, who did the most damage, who.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Did the most damage? He won't tell me all of his.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I confess mine. Yeah, I need mine out there just
to confess.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have brothers too, and I can tell you I
had a brother Vic that did everything brother Bobby did.
The difference was Vic got caught every single time.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Bobby never got caught. He's Bobby. I can tell right now,
what have you gotten away with? I'm clean, I got
away with everything.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, But I mean, seriously, we all go through, you know,
different phases of our life.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I guess why now?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Why now? And by the way, this album, the Always
Look Up is all original. And I'm telling you because
can I say something wrong without getting in trouble.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
In the late seventies and eighties, I think Christian music
was better than regular music.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But it lately it all sounds the same.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This doesn't the people that have given up on contemporary
Christian music. You guys bring your family, soul and sound
to the gospel in such a powerful way, loving it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
We had a bucket list of things that we wanted
to do as uh, just together, and that that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Was not to go to jail.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Together, not that I've been there.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
What song did that one?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
But at the top of that bucket, man was doing
a Christian record, you know. And there's other things we
want to do too, like a blues record, you know.
But we're very excited about this.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I got to tell you, what are What's been the
reaction from all the great been.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Great so far?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
On Christian radio? Yeah, on Christian readio, I guess Christian radio.
It's a what was it? Christian Music Weekly. It's kind
of like the equivalent of Billboard. It was funny because
we just found out yesterday. We didn't even know. I
think people are picking up on it and playing it
without us knowing it. But it's like number one on
their country chart. I was like, really, okay, well that's cool.
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So it's but our fans. I feel that Skinner fans
and thirty eight Special fans are hard working, god fearing people,
you know, And so far the response has been good.
But for us, man, hey, we're happy. You know what,
if we offend anybody because we love Jesus, that's your
tough luck, you know what.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
And I like reading the comments to be sure I
have about it, you know. And we've had like two
different churches where the music director came in and they're
actually working the songs up and playing in their church.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Well, I can tell
you must have been nineteen eighty two. We're visiting Madannie
and Johnny Banzant is out with a new Christian CD.
For all of those of you that loved thirty eight
Special and loved Leonard skinnerd you're gonna love this. But
Amy Grant was doing this concert and everybody was there
to see Amy Grant and this guy comes out, you know,
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just quiet. Nobody even introduced him. He's wearing this hat.
He just comes out with his guitar and he blew
the building away and stole the show. And his name
was Dion Demucci. Well, later I would do oldies radio
and I would realize, well, Dion and the Belmonts and
Elvis and Chuck Berry.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
That was the fifth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So he has this Christian albu and it was an
absolute masterpiece called Inside Job, and I bring it home.
That's listening to it over and over again. One day
I hear it at the door and it's my father,
and I thought it was going to be the old
flower that down, like when I'm listening to Skinnard down.
But instead he goes, what do you listen to? And
I go, uh, it's a new singer. His name is Dian.
(10:19):
He ain't new, that's Dion de Mucci. Yeah, that's Dion
the Belmont. And next, you know, my father's listening to
Center of my Life. He's listening, you know, to all
these things. How many people do you think, because of
their love for thirty eight Special, their love for Leonard Skinner,
their love for you two and your brother are going
to get this CD and listen to it, and who
knows how their life's going to be changed in an
instant forever.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, Well, just like I just said, there's we did it.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
If we could just bring one person at Christ, we'd
be happy, you know, it'd be worth the whole product.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So Jeffrey Rededicated is left to Christ when we were
listening to it earlier.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
So there's three. So how long have you guys been
working on these songs?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You know what? We started back doing COVID.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You know, we were like everybody else, staying at home,
wondering what the heck this was, and uh, oh wow,
well we ain't got nothing else to do, and uh,
you know, I have a little studio behind my house
and we just started writing these songs. And be honest,
it's been on the shelf. We've been trying to find
a home and people that we wanted to work with
on this, uh, because we're at an age where we
don't care to work with anybody we don't want to
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work with, and uh, you know what, and this kind
of just came came in our hands here, I mean
really really has been a blessing for it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Do you have a favorite from these songs?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Of them?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Somebody asked us that earlier, you know, and I'll be ture.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
We we probably wrote forty songs for this, you know,
and uh, we're our worst critics. I got to tell you, man,
we you know, when it comes to picking songs, they
got to be really good songs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So I like them all have a lyric guy. But
I mean that doesn't mean you can just you know,
play noise. Yeah, because the music is great on all
of them. Something about Speaker's name and there you are
just kind of turned out be my two favorites. But
they're just they're beautifully written because you can tell they're
written from having lived, Thank you, And you don't have
to be perfect from having lived. In fact, bring all
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your bruises and bring everything. Because the longer I live,
the more I realize.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know, there's a guy named Crowder that's a Christian artist.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just love his music because that's what it's all about,
what he does and just raw and authentic. Yeah yeah,
we're all and authentic and really cool and mercy Me.
We're big fans of Mercy Me. And if I can
only imagine, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, you know his son was on my Little League team.
Oh really yeah. Charlie and Barte Millard is of course
the lead singer of Mercy Me and Charlie.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You know how you can see when kids are even
six seven years old, you can tell and I look,
and I remember I pulled Bart aside and I said,
you know, your son is so naturally good with the
right coaching. I'm telling you, this is like a future
major guer.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And Bart, you know, sometimes beyond two or not at
the games. And then he would show up halfway through
the game, Charlie would show up with no shoes on.
Kid would get off the you know, out of the
cot of the van and just get up and hit
a home run right over the f I think he
went into music as.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Well, like his father. But they're a special fans.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely good people. We just met him
last year.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, he's a terrific guy.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah yeah, you know, I got to tell you, these
are two very special brothers. And when we think about
what song we want to play, the harmonies are just goosebumps,
up up your arm. We haven't quite narrowed it down.
Warriors Spectacular. There's a song they have Jesus Christ. It's amazing.
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There you are is powerful Speaker's name. There's the title track.
Always look up.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Somehow along the line. We got to figure out which.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One we want to feature, and we'll make that selection
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Donnie, what was your fate for thirty eight special song?
See if we match? That's a hard one to uh
caught up in.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You remind me caught up and you reminds me of
we went on. You guys will appreciate this being you know,
cool and Christian. So who wants to go to spring
break in Daytona and share the four Spiritual laws with
all these college kids that came to party and.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Had a good time.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Me from L s U and so I actually spent
all four days with the same Vietnam veteran. But that
song and that spring break trip is synonymous. Whenever I
hear second Chance, I think of me and my bulldog
in DC. Hold on loosely now forever, think of teaching
my son don't strangle your girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I'm thinking.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
I'm thinking of Public's groceries when I hear second.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Chance, Second Public, you never and you'll hear a second chance.
I guess what energy do you? I can't imagine If
it's the.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's all you gotta do in the crowd goes not,
so you got to feel that energy and.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Then are running joke and for that song Alabama's Yeah,
we're gonna play Alabama. We're gonna do the opera version
of it, the acoustic version of it, you know, the
electric version.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Did you get money for the naming of the movie too.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
While you're at it?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
No? But you guys don't have like one that you
loved the.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Most would probably be simple Man from Skinners.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah, I love that song, you know what? And thirty
eight Man. I sort of like the ones that wasn't
to hit songs if you want to. Yeah, I wrote
a song it was actually about my brother called Rabble
to Rebel.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yep, that's cool. How is it taking over for your brother? Uh?
Do you think of them every single sure?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
We paid tribute to them every night, man, you know
to the following members and who are going on up?
And which is all the original ones now? And because
we lost Gary Rossington a few years ago Brusington Collins fan.
Yeah yeah? And Gary you know what, his last show
was done here at a Raymond.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, And uh, how.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Did that tragedy shape both of your life?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm very close to my brother, and he was my
older brother, and he was more like a father to
me than a brother. Had anything ever happened to him
that would have really shaped my life.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We shook up our whole family.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Family.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, I didn't know if we'd ever get right.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Uh, it was tough. It was a tough.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah. Ronnie, you don't ever get over it. You know,
you learn to live with it. It's like losing a family,
you know.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Ronnie was Ronnie was more like a father, yea brother.
You know, he was the guy when he beat him
up a lot he did.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I didn't get this not Oh yeah, let me tell
you some my mons.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Watched my brother beat up four grown men and I
was crying, saying stop.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So I get that. Tell you this is Mike the Baptist,
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Speaker 4 (17:33):
And let me tell you the don't thing.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't want to ruin it for anybody, but if
you get a chance, the video out yet, Oh they
can just google and get that one for free. I
don't know, because you you scared me. You said something
don't share?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
This was anybody like.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm gonna go out and firate, But just there's something
about that guy. Hey, things are tough in radio today.
I right about the layoffs. No, but the video it
was church, you said in East Nashville. But it's just
so beautiful when you guys come in together.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Thank you so much. Appreciate magnificent. My two favorite bands
in life growing up with Leonard skinnerd many A Duber's.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm Born Again by thirty eight special but a lot
of young man memories.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And I'll tell you this one I might cherish the most.
And you know what the most fun is.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We're stuck with each other for return doing me a favorite.
Introduce me to your brother when we get them there,
you go make sure he doesn't beat me up there
you go, Donnie and Johnny van Zandt.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
The CD is van Zant.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It's called always Look Up and this is my favorite
song on it so far.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I'll move on to others, but for right now speak
his name.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And joy Tom's like, please, I pray my Lord.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Came up.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Tell me we can over.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Come Jesus Christop.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
If I'm just said the nugget scared, jickets tied breath
yet it hurts, would be some.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Say sol loutre I sneak as say speak and say.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
He is always saying.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
Saying list like go bro oh yeah, no, persons, I
have no net its slag speaks Dad. It's my stream.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Beat's my strong.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Case, myther your carry n.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Anybody, Oh my jog gets shine.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
I started for loud h and shine.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
The nagget scared naked h read Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
It hurts, be so rus say so.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Loud read speaks it speak you said he is somes
say'st no questions, I ask.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Don't need to expla speak come houts clean.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well en.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
He's always there.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
I'll tell you why your dad is going to be
awfully proud of this project. That's van Zandt Dohnny van
Zandt Johnny van Zandt, the voices of thirty eight Special
and Leonard Skidder their first Christian album, Always Look Up.
I'm telling you, uh, there you are, Jesus Christ, that
this this entire CD is spectacular.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
You are going to love it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I had the impossible task of pick the one I
wanted to play for you, and there's just something about
Speaker's name that spoke to me. That's van Zandt and
their new Christian I mean, get it at Amazon dot
com or go to Frontiers dash Us dot shop. Two
of the nicest human beings you will ever meet. May
God bless this project. I believe he already has all right,
(22:23):
if you're just waking up, Gates is out and took
Donald Trump about two heart beats to make the replacement announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Trump chose former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the position,
saying in a post on truth Social that she'll refocus
the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime and
making America safe again. Former Florida Congressman Gates is accused
of having sex with a minor in the past, and
some Republican senators expressed reservations about the nomination. Gates has
(22:58):
denied the accusations, and the results of a House Ethics
Committee investigation in two Gates are not being released because
he stepped down from his seat last week.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Los Angeles takes a small step towards becoming a sanctuary
city and a giant leap towards being just breathtakingly ignorant.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
More from Mark Mayfield, LA Democratic City Council and Hugo
Soda Martinez. Since the newly passed ordinance is a direct
shot at President elect Donald Trump, the.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
City of Los Angeles will not be collaborating or using
any city resource to enforce his deportation machine.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
It formally establishes a policy preventing the city from helping
federal immigration officials with roundups or other actions aimed at
illegal immigrants. The ordnance still needs a second vote because
of amendments, and then Mayor Karen Mass's signature for approval.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Incumbent Bob Casey finally conceded the Pennsylvania Senate election to
Republican Dave McCormick.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Thank you for the trust you've placed in me for
all these years, It's been the honor of my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In a video posted on social media, Casey said that
he had called McCormick to congratulate him on the victory.
Casey's announcement comes sixteen days after the November fifth election.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
It is called Dave McCormick to congratulate him on his
election to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. As
the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move
forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
We all moved forward a long time ago. It's nice
that you're joining us.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
A Florida man is being detained as he awaits trial
for plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange the
week before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Kristin Marx reports.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
The FBI says Haudrun Abdul Malik ya Nar allegedly planned
on wearing a disguise while planting an explosive device at
does Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan and then detonating it remotely,
the motive to reboot the US government, adding that the
explosion would be like a small nuke went off. The
thirty year old was taken into custody Wednesday. Ynar got
on the FBI's radar after they received a tip he
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was storing bomb making schematics and a storage unit in
Coral Springs. Agents and found bomb making sketches, several watches
with timers, and electronic circuit boards, among other electronics.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Kristen Marks NBC News Radio.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Christmas shopping has started early this year, so have the scams.
Scott Carr has more.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
Consumer experts say scammers have already flooded social media with
ads for knockoffs that come from China. Jason Mesa with
a Better Business Bureau of South Texas says, if a
deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
People are getting duped into counterfeit products.
Speaker 15 (25:34):
And Masa says just because something is being sold on
Amazon or other well known platforms doesn't mean your product
isn't really a scam.
Speaker 16 (25:42):
There is a huge volume of online retailers that are
out there using platforms that are legitimate.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He says.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
Their scam tracker shows losses already totaling one million dollars
more than last year. I'm Scott Carr well, as you
can only imagine the way of looking at inflation is
the cost of a Thanksgiving meal Every year and last
year set a record. This year, not all bad turkey
is among several Thanksgiving items that might be cheaper.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
A new report shows prices for several Thanksgiving items, including
pumpkin pie mix, frozen peas, and sweet potatoes, have dropped
since twenty twenty three. Turkey prices have also decreased by
about six percent. However, processed items like stuffing, cranberry's and
dinner rolls are expected to cost more this year. According
to the American Farm Bureau Federation, a Thanksgiving feast for
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ten is estimated to cost fifty eight dollars and eight cents.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
That's down five percent from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
On Mark Medfield, three really good games in college football
this week at number two Ohio State, number five Indiana.
Game of the week hands down eleven am Arizona State BYU.
That's going to be a good one. Oh you has
number seven Alabama. They should be in it right up
until the kickoff. I did that on purpose because I
said the Browns had no chance of winning, and they did.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Maybe Oh you can, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Brown's twenty four to nineteen beat the Red Hot Steelers.
Last night of your morning show, Interest, We've got the
Titans and the Texans. The Cowboys and the Commanders are
two biggest markets, Dallas and don't know Ellie is bigger.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Two of our bigger markets Dallas and DC.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Going out of the Bucks have the g Men, Cardinals
have the Seahawks, forty nine Ers and Packers.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael vinhild Joano.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
Hey Michael, as a Soso musician and a Soso Christian,
I really appreciate today your interview with the band's ants.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
It makes you want to be a little better at both.
Thank you and have a blessed day.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know, it's interesting we're always so hard on ourselves
when it comes to faith. We're all parents, right, we
know what's best for our kids. If they listen to
us and do it, it'd be a better life. But
when they don't, they make mistakes or they misbehave, it
doesn't impact our love at all. It's the same way
with God. It's not about our imperfection. It's about his
perfection and his perfect complete work, and he loves us
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just the way we are. Probably too much to leave
us that way, but he loves us just the way
we are. You got everything out of that interview. I
wanted you to get who thinks of Donnie and Johnny
van sand as people of profound faith and gifting Because
they are, and they finally, I think, somewhat intribute to
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their father and certainly in honor of their heavenly father.
They made the greatest Christian CD I've heard in a
long time. I encourage you to get at van zandt.
Always look up. It's available at Amazon dot com. All right,
biggest story, hands down, Gates is gone.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Boom. Two seconds later.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
People take longer to hiccup and Donald Trump comes out
with pam Bondi. It reminded me of the movie Bronx Tale.
First I asked you to leave. Now you can't leave.
Oh you thought Gates was gonna be trouble. Say hello
to bond Pambondi. John Decker is joining us.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
This is just another step in a really crazy cabinet journey,
isn't it. We kind of overhear smell a rat that
it was never really about. Maybe Gates was just a
big favor to the speaker. We'll get him out of
your hair once and for all. What do you make
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (29:18):
I think that you know, Matt Gates was certainly and
is certainly a Trump loyalist, and I think that Donald
Trump would have loved to have had him leading the
Department of Justice, but it was not meant to be.
He did not have the support in the US Senate
with Republicans, and that's the reason why the nomination was
ultimately pulled. And it's the reason why Pam Bondi is
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the next person that Donald Trump has put forward to
be the next attorney general.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
She will get confirmed.
Speaker 16 (29:45):
She may even get some Democratic votes.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
After all, she has.
Speaker 16 (29:48):
Served as Attorney general of the state of Florida for
eight years, so she has the experience, the managerial experience,
and the legal experience. She's been a prosecutor for more
than two decades, much more well qualified than Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Was to leave the Department of Johnny. I bring this up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Could you remember when we first met and I said,
I know, you're just a White House correspondent, not an attorney,
and you had interrupt me go, actually I am an attorney.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
That's because we didn't know each other yet. But I
like to brag.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I like to brag on that because yeah, you're, you know,
a very very experienced White House correspondent for decades, but
you are a Supreme Court bar attorney. Come on, if
you and I are sitting in a room, let's just
pretend I'm junior and your Trump and we're kicking around
names and we go, oh, there's Matt Gates, there's Pam Bondi.
That's the end of the conversation. That's the part that
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I can't get. Who wouldn't go with Pam Bondy first,
all her years as a prosecutor, as an attorney general.
I mean, she's she's as beautiful, she is, is as
accomplished as she is.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I mean, she's the bomb. It just I don't know,
it was all and then it was all so fast.
There's just something about it that's all.
Speaker 16 (30:53):
Yeah, looks Pam Bondi has been on the radar of
Donald Trump for a high level position for almost a
full decade, you know, from the time that he was
a president for four years starting in twenty seventeen. She
was considered for the role of Attorney general when Sessions
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was fired by Donald Trump, but she didn't get that role.
Then she will get that role now assuming she's confirmed
by the US Senate, and I think that will happen
when that process takes.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
In early January. She'll be the second woman attorney general.
Jannerino was the first time. I think she'll be the third.
Speaker 16 (31:31):
Actually, but wait, if you want to be accurate about it.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
On it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Oh, who was the other one?
Speaker 16 (31:36):
Well, who's your first one?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Oh? We don't know. I only know Jannerino? Who else?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
There was an attorney general who was a female who
served as attorney general during President Obama's time in office?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Who replaced Eric Hold? I don't remember. That must have
been the car accident.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
What about that? You said? No brainer for Pam Body.
What about the rest the cabinet?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Does the left another one?
Speaker 16 (32:03):
Nothing's ever a certainty, Nothing's ever a certainty. So you know,
all the scrutiny that was being foisted upon Matt Gates
will now focus on Pete haig Seth and also Tulsea Gabbert.
So we'll see, you know, I mean, it's a process.
Republicans of May may have said to President elect Tromp, Hey, look,
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I can't go with Matt Gates, but I'm with you
for the.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Rest of your choices.
Speaker 16 (32:27):
For your cabinet, and maybe that is what you know
was discussed over the course of the past twenty four
hours with those Republican senators who said I cannot support
Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I think it's hegset they go after next.
Speaker 16 (32:40):
Oh, that's where the scrutiny goes immediately.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So it was a great It was a great day yesterday,
I think for the country, for Donald Trump and for
Pam Bond. He was a bad day for Hegseth because
now the laser focused, they turned their attention to him.
And but we go to the holidays, right, you know
that that'll provide I think some rest to relaxation and cover.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I'm just going to say, when do you expect all
this to you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Know, all right now, let's start getting into Christmas in
inauguration mode.
Speaker 16 (33:10):
Yeah, look, you know when we come back from the
Thanksgiving break, that means that attention will once again resume
on the picks of Donald Trump. He has not yet
chosen his economic team, including Google Service, his Treasury secretary,
so waiting to hear who that individual will be, who
is Chief Economic Advisor will be, who is Labor Secretary
will be?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
All important roles in the next Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Always an important role on your morning show. John Decker,
our White House correspondent and Supreme Court bar attorney, thanks
for joining us. You have Hey, look I'm here next week.
I just wanted to say to you. I am very
thankful for my listeners, for this show, for iHeart, for premiere,
for Rory, for everybody that's been a part of the show.
Very very thankful for you, John Decker, God bless you
and have a great thanksgiving you too.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Michael, thanks so much
Speaker 3 (33:54):
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Speaker 4 (00:40):
So what would happen if you took the Sounds A.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thirty eight special and Leonard Skinnard and mixed it with
the Gospel of Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It would happen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll always look up and keep listening because in a
couple of minutes, the van's answer going to show you
exactly what happens if you're just waking up.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The big story is gates is out. The gates closed.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And it took Donald Trump all of about two seconds
to make the announcement. Pam Bondy is in Linda, is
it me or are all of Linda had a great question,
Now here's Mary.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We have the best listeners on the face of the earth.
Best listen. There's nobody here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
All of our listeners could call host this show. Mary
listening to KSTE and Sacramento had.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Hey, this is Mary, and I'm with Red. I thought
this was orchestrated from the minute that Gates was nominated
to be the Attorney General. He was going to have
to resign his seat in Congress. He's under an ethics investigation.
The Senate doesn't like him, but he could not decline
the president's nomination. I think Speaker Johnson is Michael Corleoni
and Nett Jesus Fredo that nomination was the kiss of
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death for messing with the speakership and being divisive in
a house with a gop razor thin margin.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
First of all, I don't like Red getting a shout out.
I don't like that at all. I thought it was bait,
you know, I thought it was chum. It was bait.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So they would go after Gates and then they get
you know, Telsea Gabbard through RFK Junior through and then
Red brought up that theory. No, this is a gift
to Johnson and sending him down the road to nowhere.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mary, Mary may have nailed it. He's he's afraid of
all right, guys, you not that you're quiet? Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay? Now I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got all the vans in s and the decades of.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Guys of singing.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is so surreal to me because you know, two
sides of my life. Uh, Leonard skinnerd is the soundtrack
of my very early life. I had older brothers.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And so you know, we grew up with free bird.
And I wish I could tell you the story about
how I got thrown out of school.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Over that smelldition. I think we can figure out one.
I think I got that one figured out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And then they made a movie, A Sweet Home Alabama.
But you know, it's the kind of music that I was.
I was sitting in my bedroom. Harry Carey was drunk.
The white Socks are getting killed. So I turned off
the television. I turned on the radio, and I can
feel it like I'm in that. All my posters are
on the wall. And Jeff Davis was on WLS and
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he goes, here's a song about a place I affectionately
call home.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I think you're gonna like it. It's called sweet Home, Alabama,
and I mean it. And it was like it was
already a hit in my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But I mean, I can remember the first time I
heard it and then, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Thirty eight Special was the soundtrack of her senior year
in high school and early years at LSU. And so
here's the hell that is my life. I have so
many friends and they bother me every day. You know, Hey,
I just happened.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
To be delivering.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And frankly, you want to go to lunch, you know?
Or hey, today off, you want to go golf today?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I wanted someone to call so bad so I could say.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I can I'm hanging out with the van man as
you know, because the hell that is my life.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
If I was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Interviewing your supply today, even.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Want to call the one chance I get to be cool.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I just want to say on behalf of all
of our listeners and and kind of for both with
your brother, with the band, the tragedy meant to us,
all with the music still means to us.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Thirty eight Special, You're the soundtrack of our life. Thank you.
Before we talk about anything. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you. I hope you made a lot of money
off a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Other people made a lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, because I can. I'll never forget. I sat
my son down, Nicholas. You'll the thirty eight special sided
like this. So he gets his girlfriend and he's just
like over texting, overclinging. So I get out, you know,
a little thirty eight special. I'm going to give him
the lesson. You know, you got to hold on loosely,
you know, you don't want to hold too tight, you know,
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And he's listening.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's listening.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so then whenever I see him overtexting his girlfriend
being hold on, and then I have one of my
greatest memories.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I moved to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And uh, just me and my bulldog and we're driving
and I will tell you this, after about three years
of living there, it never got old passing the White House.
But this was like the first time we had ever
passed the White House. Right, a second chance came on,
and I just have so many memories. Most of the
skin memories, memories are before Christ and involved in marijuana.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So we're not going to bring that up.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So when Brian called me though, First and foremost, what
to throw you guys?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Faith twenty bucks? Because anytime but anybody says anything about.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Thirty eight thirty eight mentioned first, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'll take it like yeah, I'd be free bird. You know,
they're all there, the soundtracks of our life. So, first
and foremost, thank you talk about faith. You know, if
I were to say the van Zantz, I don't know
that faith would come up in people's minds. But it's
been there through all the decades, right, where's that come from?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Come from? Our dad? Daddy?
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Our dad was an avid reader of the Bible, you know,
so they let you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Come here, started to preaching, and you reading that Bible.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We didn't get up, use the bathroom or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, so you instilled that in us a long long
time ago. And of course we were like every other kid,
you know, listening to religion and went in one air
and out the other. And we went on and did
our stuff. But uh, you know what, as life goes on, man,
you go through different storms of your life, and hey,
you need you need Jesus and have faith and love
and hope and all that good stuff. Yeah, the problems
(06:27):
get bigger. Yeah, and we make most of them too,
don't know. We were talking about that earlier in the
morning show. And we're not a Christian show by any
stretch of the imagination to just happen to have stuck
with the Christian host. But you know we talked about, Oh,
we want to you know, glorified guy. We want to
be in his power of his resurrection and fellowship and
his suffering.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Of course, the joke is most of our suffering is
caused by us, yes, and our decision. So who was
the worst backslider, who did the most damage, who.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Did the most damage? He won't tell me all of his.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I confess mine. Yeah, I need mine out there just
to confess.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have brothers too, and I can tell you I
had a brother Vic that did everything brother Bobby did.
The difference was Vic got caught every single time.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Bobby never got caught. He's Bobby. I can tell right now,
what have you gotten away with? I'm clean, I got
away with everything.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, But I mean, seriously, we all go through, you know,
different phases of our life.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I guess why now?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Why now? And by the way, this album, the Always
Look Up is all original. And I'm telling you because
can I say something wrong without getting in trouble.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
In the late seventies and eighties, I think Christian music
was better than regular music.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But it lately it all sounds the same.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This doesn't the people that have given up on contemporary
Christian music. You guys bring your family, soul and sound
to the gospel in such a powerful way, loving it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
We had a bucket list of things that we wanted
to do as uh, just together, and that that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Was not to go to jail.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Together, not that I've been there.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
What song did that one?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
But at the top of that bucket, man was doing
a Christian record, you know. And there's other things we
want to do too, like a blues record, you know.
But we're very excited about this.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I got to tell you, what are What's been the
reaction from all the great been.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Great so far?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
On Christian radio? Yeah, on Christian readio, I guess Christian radio.
It's a what was it? Christian Music Weekly. It's kind
of like the equivalent of Billboard. It was funny because
we just found out yesterday. We didn't even know. I
think people are picking up on it and playing it
without us knowing it. But it's like number one on
their country chart. I was like, really, okay, well that's cool.
(08:49):
So it's but our fans. I feel that Skinner fans
and thirty eight Special fans are hard working, god fearing people,
you know, And so far the response has been good.
But for us, man, hey, we're happy. You know what,
if we offend anybody because we love Jesus, that's your
tough luck, you know what.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
And I like reading the comments to be sure I
have about it, you know. And we've had like two
different churches where the music director came in and they're
actually working the songs up and playing in their church.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Well, I can tell
you must have been nineteen eighty two. We're visiting Madannie
and Johnny Banzant is out with a new Christian CD.
For all of those of you that loved thirty eight
Special and loved Leonard skinnerd you're gonna love this. But
Amy Grant was doing this concert and everybody was there
to see Amy Grant and this guy comes out, you know,
(09:44):
just quiet. Nobody even introduced him. He's wearing this hat.
He just comes out with his guitar and he blew
the building away and stole the show. And his name
was Dion Demucci. Well, later I would do oldies radio
and I would realize, well, Dion and the Belmonts and
Elvis and Chuck Berry.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
That was the fifth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So he has this Christian albu and it was an
absolute masterpiece called Inside Job, and I bring it home.
That's listening to it over and over again. One day
I hear it at the door and it's my father,
and I thought it was going to be the old
flower that down, like when I'm listening to Skinnard down.
But instead he goes, what do you listen to? And
I go, uh, it's a new singer. His name is Dian.
(10:19):
He ain't new, that's Dion de Mucci. Yeah, that's Dion
the Belmont. And next, you know, my father's listening to
Center of my Life. He's listening, you know, to all
these things. How many people do you think, because of
their love for thirty eight Special, their love for Leonard Skinner,
their love for you two and your brother are going
to get this CD and listen to it, and who
knows how their life's going to be changed in an
instant forever.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, Well, just like I just said, there's we did it.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
If we could just bring one person at Christ, we'd
be happy, you know, it'd be worth the whole product.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So Jeffrey Rededicated is left to Christ when we were
listening to it earlier.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
So there's three. So how long have you guys been
working on these songs?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You know what? We started back doing COVID.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You know, we were like everybody else, staying at home,
wondering what the heck this was, and uh, oh wow,
well we ain't got nothing else to do, and uh,
you know, I have a little studio behind my house
and we just started writing these songs. And be honest,
it's been on the shelf. We've been trying to find
a home and people that we wanted to work with
on this, uh, because we're at an age where we
don't care to work with anybody we don't want to
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work with, and uh, you know what, and this kind
of just came came in our hands here, I mean
really really has been a blessing for it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Do you have a favorite from these songs?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Of them?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Somebody asked us that earlier, you know, and I'll be ture.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
We we probably wrote forty songs for this, you know,
and uh, we're our worst critics. I got to tell you, man,
we you know, when it comes to picking songs, they
got to be really good songs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So I like them all have a lyric guy. But
I mean that doesn't mean you can just you know,
play noise. Yeah, because the music is great on all
of them. Something about Speaker's name and there you are
just kind of turned out be my two favorites. But
they're just they're beautifully written because you can tell they're
written from having lived, Thank you, And you don't have
to be perfect from having lived. In fact, bring all
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your bruises and bring everything. Because the longer I live,
the more I realize.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know, there's a guy named Crowder that's a Christian artist.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just love his music because that's what it's all about,
what he does and just raw and authentic. Yeah yeah,
we're all and authentic and really cool and mercy Me.
We're big fans of Mercy Me. And if I can
only imagine, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, you know his son was on my Little League team.
Oh really yeah. Charlie and Barte Millard is of course
the lead singer of Mercy Me and Charlie.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You know how you can see when kids are even
six seven years old, you can tell and I look,
and I remember I pulled Bart aside and I said,
you know, your son is so naturally good with the
right coaching. I'm telling you, this is like a future
major guer.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And Bart, you know, sometimes beyond two or not at
the games. And then he would show up halfway through
the game, Charlie would show up with no shoes on.
Kid would get off the you know, out of the
cot of the van and just get up and hit
a home run right over the f I think he
went into music as.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Well, like his father. But they're a special fans.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely good people. We just met him
last year.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, he's a terrific guy.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah yeah, you know, I got to tell you, these
are two very special brothers. And when we think about
what song we want to play, the harmonies are just goosebumps,
up up your arm. We haven't quite narrowed it down.
Warriors Spectacular. There's a song they have Jesus Christ. It's amazing.
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There you are is powerful Speaker's name. There's the title track.
Always look up.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Somehow along the line. We got to figure out which.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
One we want to feature, and we'll make that selection
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Donnie, what was your fate for thirty eight special song?
See if we match? That's a hard one to uh
caught up in.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You remind me caught up and you reminds me of
we went on. You guys will appreciate this being you know,
cool and Christian. So who wants to go to spring
break in Daytona and share the four Spiritual laws with
all these college kids that came to party and.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Had a good time.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Me from L s U and so I actually spent
all four days with the same Vietnam veteran. But that
song and that spring break trip is synonymous. Whenever I
hear second Chance, I think of me and my bulldog
in DC. Hold on loosely now forever, think of teaching
my son don't strangle your girlfriend.
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I'm thinking.
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I'm thinking of Public's groceries when I hear second.
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Chance, Second Public, you never and you'll hear a second chance.
I guess what energy do you? I can't imagine If
it's the.
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That's all you gotta do in the crowd goes not,
so you got to feel that energy and.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Then are running joke and for that song Alabama's Yeah,
we're gonna play Alabama. We're gonna do the opera version
of it, the acoustic version of it, you know, the
electric version.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Did you get money for the naming of the movie too.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
While you're at it?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
No? But you guys don't have like one that you
loved the.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Most would probably be simple Man from Skinners.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah, I love that song, you know what? And thirty
eight Man. I sort of like the ones that wasn't
to hit songs if you want to. Yeah, I wrote
a song it was actually about my brother called Rabble
to Rebel.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yep, that's cool. How is it taking over for your brother? Uh?
Do you think of them every single sure?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
We paid tribute to them every night, man, you know
to the following members and who are going on up?
And which is all the original ones now? And because
we lost Gary Rossington a few years ago Brusington Collins fan.
Yeah yeah? And Gary you know what, his last show
was done here at a Raymond.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, And uh, how.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Did that tragedy shape both of your life?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm very close to my brother, and he was my
older brother, and he was more like a father to
me than a brother. Had anything ever happened to him
that would have really shaped my life.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We shook up our whole family.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Family.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, I didn't know if we'd ever get right.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Uh, it was tough. It was a tough.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah. Ronnie, you don't ever get over it. You know,
you learn to live with it. It's like losing a family,
you know.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Ronnie was Ronnie was more like a father, yea brother.
You know, he was the guy when he beat him
up a lot he did.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I didn't get this not Oh yeah, let me tell
you some my mons.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Watched my brother beat up four grown men and I
was crying, saying stop.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So I get that. Tell you this is Mike the Baptist,
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I'm telling you, uh, there you are, Jesus Christ, that
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I had the impossible task of pick the one I
wanted to play for you, and there's just something about
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(22:23):
if you're just waking up, Gates is out and took
Donald Trump about two heart beats to make the replacement announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Trump chose former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the position,
saying in a post on truth Social that she'll refocus
the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime and
making America safe again. Former Florida Congressman Gates is accused
of having sex with a minor in the past, and
some Republican senators expressed reservations about the nomination. Gates has
(22:58):
denied the accusations, and the results of a House Ethics
Committee investigation in two Gates are not being released because
he stepped down from his seat last week.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Los Angeles takes a small step towards becoming a sanctuary
city and a giant leap towards being just breathtakingly ignorant.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
More from Mark Mayfield, LA Democratic City Council and Hugo
Soda Martinez. Since the newly passed ordinance is a direct
shot at President elect Donald Trump, the.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
City of Los Angeles will not be collaborating or using
any city resource to enforce his deportation machine.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
It formally establishes a policy preventing the city from helping
federal immigration officials with roundups or other actions aimed at
illegal immigrants. The ordnance still needs a second vote because
of amendments, and then Mayor Karen Mass's signature for approval.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Incumbent Bob Casey finally conceded the Pennsylvania Senate election to
Republican Dave McCormick.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Thank you for the trust you've placed in me for
all these years, It's been the honor of my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In a video posted on social media, Casey said that
he had called McCormick to congratulate him on the victory.
Casey's announcement comes sixteen days after the November fifth election.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
It is called Dave McCormick to congratulate him on his
election to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. As
the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move
forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
We all moved forward a long time ago. It's nice
that you're joining us.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
A Florida man is being detained as he awaits trial
for plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange the
week before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Kristin Marx reports.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
The FBI says Haudrun Abdul Malik ya Nar allegedly planned
on wearing a disguise while planting an explosive device at
does Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan and then detonating it remotely,
the motive to reboot the US government, adding that the
explosion would be like a small nuke went off. The
thirty year old was taken into custody Wednesday. Ynar got
on the FBI's radar after they received a tip he
(24:59):
was storing bomb making schematics and a storage unit in
Coral Springs. Agents and found bomb making sketches, several watches
with timers, and electronic circuit boards, among other electronics.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Kristen Marks NBC News Radio.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Christmas shopping has started early this year, so have the scams.
Scott Carr has more.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
Consumer experts say scammers have already flooded social media with
ads for knockoffs that come from China. Jason Mesa with
a Better Business Bureau of South Texas says, if a
deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
People are getting duped into counterfeit products.
Speaker 15 (25:34):
And Masa says just because something is being sold on
Amazon or other well known platforms doesn't mean your product
isn't really a scam.
Speaker 16 (25:42):
There is a huge volume of online retailers that are
out there using platforms that are legitimate.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He says.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
Their scam tracker shows losses already totaling one million dollars
more than last year. I'm Scott Carr well, as you
can only imagine the way of looking at inflation is
the cost of a Thanksgiving meal Every year and last
year set a record. This year, not all bad turkey
is among several Thanksgiving items that might be cheaper.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
A new report shows prices for several Thanksgiving items, including
pumpkin pie mix, frozen peas, and sweet potatoes, have dropped
since twenty twenty three. Turkey prices have also decreased by
about six percent. However, processed items like stuffing, cranberry's and
dinner rolls are expected to cost more this year. According
to the American Farm Bureau Federation, a Thanksgiving feast for
(26:30):
ten is estimated to cost fifty eight dollars and eight cents.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
That's down five percent from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
On Mark Medfield, three really good games in college football
this week at number two Ohio State, number five Indiana.
Game of the week hands down eleven am Arizona State BYU.
That's going to be a good one. Oh you has
number seven Alabama. They should be in it right up
until the kickoff. I did that on purpose because I
said the Browns had no chance of winning, and they did.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Maybe Oh you can, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Brown's twenty four to nineteen beat the Red Hot Steelers.
Last night of your morning show, Interest, We've got the
Titans and the Texans. The Cowboys and the Commanders are
two biggest markets, Dallas and don't know Ellie is bigger.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Two of our bigger markets Dallas and DC.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Going out of the Bucks have the g Men, Cardinals
have the Seahawks, forty nine Ers and Packers.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael vinhild Joano.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
Hey Michael, as a Soso musician and a Soso Christian,
I really appreciate today your interview with the band's ants.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
It makes you want to be a little better at both.
Thank you and have a blessed day.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know, it's interesting we're always so hard on ourselves
when it comes to faith. We're all parents, right, we
know what's best for our kids. If they listen to
us and do it, it'd be a better life. But
when they don't, they make mistakes or they misbehave, it
doesn't impact our love at all. It's the same way
with God. It's not about our imperfection. It's about his
perfection and his perfect complete work, and he loves us
(28:00):
just the way we are. Probably too much to leave
us that way, but he loves us just the way
we are. You got everything out of that interview. I
wanted you to get who thinks of Donnie and Johnny
van sand as people of profound faith and gifting Because
they are, and they finally, I think, somewhat intribute to
(28:24):
their father and certainly in honor of their heavenly father.
They made the greatest Christian CD I've heard in a
long time. I encourage you to get at van zandt.
Always look up. It's available at Amazon dot com. All right,
biggest story, hands down, Gates is gone.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Boom. Two seconds later.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
People take longer to hiccup and Donald Trump comes out
with pam Bondi. It reminded me of the movie Bronx Tale.
First I asked you to leave. Now you can't leave.
Oh you thought Gates was gonna be trouble. Say hello
to bond Pambondi. John Decker is joining us.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
This is just another step in a really crazy cabinet journey,
isn't it. We kind of overhear smell a rat that
it was never really about. Maybe Gates was just a
big favor to the speaker. We'll get him out of
your hair once and for all. What do you make
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (29:18):
I think that you know, Matt Gates was certainly and
is certainly a Trump loyalist, and I think that Donald
Trump would have loved to have had him leading the
Department of Justice, but it was not meant to be.
He did not have the support in the US Senate
with Republicans, and that's the reason why the nomination was
ultimately pulled. And it's the reason why Pam Bondi is
(29:40):
the next person that Donald Trump has put forward to
be the next attorney general.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
She will get confirmed.
Speaker 16 (29:45):
She may even get some Democratic votes.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
After all, she has.
Speaker 16 (29:48):
Served as Attorney general of the state of Florida for
eight years, so she has the experience, the managerial experience,
and the legal experience. She's been a prosecutor for more
than two decades, much more well qualified than Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Was to leave the Department of Johnny. I bring this up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Could you remember when we first met and I said,
I know, you're just a White House correspondent, not an attorney,
and you had interrupt me go, actually I am an attorney.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
That's because we didn't know each other yet. But I
like to brag.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I like to brag on that because yeah, you're, you know,
a very very experienced White House correspondent for decades, but
you are a Supreme Court bar attorney. Come on, if
you and I are sitting in a room, let's just
pretend I'm junior and your Trump and we're kicking around
names and we go, oh, there's Matt Gates, there's Pam Bondi.
That's the end of the conversation. That's the part that
(30:35):
I can't get. Who wouldn't go with Pam Bondy first,
all her years as a prosecutor, as an attorney general.
I mean, she's she's as beautiful, she is, is as
accomplished as she is.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I mean, she's the bomb. It just I don't know,
it was all and then it was all so fast.
There's just something about it that's all.
Speaker 16 (30:53):
Yeah, looks Pam Bondi has been on the radar of
Donald Trump for a high level position for almost a
full decade, you know, from the time that he was
a president for four years starting in twenty seventeen. She
was considered for the role of Attorney general when Sessions
(31:14):
was fired by Donald Trump, but she didn't get that role.
Then she will get that role now assuming she's confirmed
by the US Senate, and I think that will happen
when that process takes.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
In early January. She'll be the second woman attorney general.
Jannerino was the first time. I think she'll be the third.
Speaker 16 (31:31):
Actually, but wait, if you want to be accurate about it.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
On it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Oh, who was the other one?
Speaker 16 (31:36):
Well, who's your first one?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Oh? We don't know. I only know Jannerino? Who else?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
There was an attorney general who was a female who
served as attorney general during President Obama's time in office?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Who replaced Eric Hold? I don't remember. That must have
been the car accident.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
What about that? You said? No brainer for Pam Body.
What about the rest the cabinet?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Does the left another one?
Speaker 16 (32:03):
Nothing's ever a certainty, Nothing's ever a certainty. So you know,
all the scrutiny that was being foisted upon Matt Gates
will now focus on Pete haig Seth and also Tulsea Gabbert.
So we'll see, you know, I mean, it's a process.
Republicans of May may have said to President elect Tromp, Hey, look,
(32:23):
I can't go with Matt Gates, but I'm with you
for the.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Rest of your choices.
Speaker 16 (32:27):
For your cabinet, and maybe that is what you know
was discussed over the course of the past twenty four
hours with those Republican senators who said I cannot support
Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I think it's hegset they go after next.
Speaker 16 (32:40):
Oh, that's where the scrutiny goes immediately.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So it was a great It was a great day yesterday,
I think for the country, for Donald Trump and for
Pam Bond. He was a bad day for Hegseth because
now the laser focused, they turned their attention to him.
And but we go to the holidays, right, you know
that that'll provide I think some rest to relaxation and cover.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I'm just going to say, when do you expect all
this to you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Know, all right now, let's start getting into Christmas in
inauguration mode.
Speaker 16 (33:10):
Yeah, look, you know when we come back from the
Thanksgiving break, that means that attention will once again resume
on the picks of Donald Trump. He has not yet
chosen his economic team, including Google Service, his Treasury secretary,
so waiting to hear who that individual will be, who
is Chief Economic Advisor will be, who is Labor Secretary
will be?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
All important roles in the next Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Always an important role on your morning show. John Decker,
our White House correspondent and Supreme Court bar attorney, thanks
for joining us. You have Hey, look I'm here next week.
I just wanted to say to you. I am very
thankful for my listeners, for this show, for iHeart, for premiere,
for Rory, for everybody that's been a part of the show.
Very very thankful for you, John Decker, God bless you
and have a great thanksgiving you too.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Michael, thanks so much
Speaker 3 (33:54):
But all right, it's your morning show with Michael del
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