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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
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This is your morning show with Michael del john.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, Good morning everyone, and happy Friday to all of you.
Jamie Allman really happen to be filling in for the
green Michael Del Giorno on your morning show. Hope you
all are having a continued wonderful Christmas. And I'm going
to be dragged, kicking and screaming into a John Benet
(00:57):
Ramsey update because nothing says the Hollys like a good
old fashioned John Benet Ramsey update. And I I'm thinking
to myself, you know, I wish I could just avoid
the story altogether, because it's so disturbing anyway, and it's
thirty years old and it keeps on going, and you know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Don't trust the day.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I just there's nothing, nothing that is seemingly right about
any of this, and it's so hard to explain and
nobody knows and everybody got suspicions and things like that.
And then I'm thinking to myself, well, maybe I just
won't talk about it. And then of course I realized
that if I don't talk about it and give people
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an update, and then people hear about it somewhere else,
and I have to go before the Radio God Tribunal
and they will say, ohman, how come you didn't talk
about the John Benet Ramsey store. I'm like, well, I
just didn't feel I just didn't feel it. I just
felt kind of you know, you know, I don't know,
just dirty, I don't I don't like the story, or
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I like, that's not doing radio that Almond. And then
somebody will chime in from the tribunal, which is made
up of six six individuals that I know of, and
there's always one I could reliably depend on, and it's
a she and so coming in and go, well, maybe
if you maybe talked about your favorite Glenn Campbell's song
(02:26):
before you got into John Benet Ramsey, you could possibly
get away with it. It'd be like a great segue, and
I'd be like, what's the segue, no, no, never mind,
but it might be like a good thing for you
to kind of lay the groundwork. Happy Day, Glenn Campbell.
You ran across this on the internet because you did,
and then you get into John Benny ramsay, I'm like, oh,
(02:46):
that's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And the other.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But by the way, Almond, we understand it your favorite
song from Glenn Campbell's at the Ryman Auditorium.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is it not?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Mean?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah? It is. Well, it's our understanding.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You went to see George Jones's funeral at the Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Like I did?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Actually, because George Jones is like my Elvis. I loved
him and when he died I went to his funeral
and it was fantastic. Talk about that then and then
segue into what's the segway? Segue into Glenn Campbell's story,
and then get the John Benet rams and that's a
good idea. So I run across this. Beautiful. Glenn Campbell
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is such an underestimated although many of you probably love him,
but to me, when you think about his talent and
all that he did, he's like the most underestimated musician
on the planet.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
In terms of his talent.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I ran across this video of him and he's
on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium, where, by the way,
I did actually go to George Jones's funeral, and it
was a trip and a half, let me tell you,
Like they had him laid out like in front of
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the stage and dry ice and fog and everything, and
Randy Travis was.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
There and Kid Rock and it was it was a
trip and a half.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And he showed up for it too, which is amazing
to all the people who came out, because no, the possum,
you never know when he's not going to be there,
but this time he actually was there, or at least
his body was.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
So uh, he's the right there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's Glen Kemp was the Rhein Auitorium, and he's with
Willie Nelson, Chad Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Porter Wagner, Roy Clark
is there too, Bobby Bear is there, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gale,
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and Ray Stevens and so they're all talking about this
song gennle on My Mind and and he talks about
how though John Hartford, John Harford's song, he talks about
how you know I listened to this song and it
really moved me, but it was too slow. And so
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here is Glenn Campbell in front of all these people
who are just astounded by his talent as he sits there,
like Roy Clark's looking at him like going, man, dag,
who this guy is something else? And this is actually
from nineteen ninety nine, so it's not like it was
he was brand new or anything. And and by the way,
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the Roy Clark Buckowens heathaw thing is brilliant. Whoever came
up with that idea of having the Nashville sound married
to the Bakersfield sound is just beyond crazy to me,
but a great idea.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, here's Glenn.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
If you were listening live, this is where the song
would play after such an emotional story. But we don't
have licensing for the podcast, but feel free to look
it up and listen to it online.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltona.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Your comments are welcome on anything you've been hearing this
morning on the show or otherwise. And all you have
to do is go to the iHeartRadio app and click
that Mike button and talk away. And I would love
to hear from you, all right, So, here's the John
Benet Ramsey story. All right, so is this story is
(06:37):
the strangest thing. It's one of those stories where, like,
I think everything is on the table at this stage
in the game, nothing is off the table. I still
kind of believe that we landed on the moon. Everything
(06:59):
else you could probably convince me is totally fake and concocted.
And I'm trying hard not to be dragged into that mode.
But young people all are thinking this way. You talked
(07:19):
to a twenty year old and you bring up this idea,
for instance, that the CIA dropped a bunch of crack
in LA back in the nineties and created the crack epidemic,
They'll be like, that's right, man, they sure did. There's
no way they didn't. I mean so, and that may
or may not be true. But sometimes conspiracy theories are
(07:43):
really fun and sometimes they're really right, and you start
thinking about things and you're thinking, well, there's okay. It's
hard to think about because then, because you want to
trust people, and you want to trust that your government,
and you want to trust the world you live in.
(08:04):
Walking around not trusting anybody is a dirge and you just.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Don't want to get into that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But now that President Trump has kind of opened up
the door a little bit on things like like, I
had no idea that canola oil was actually probably bad
for you because you were telling me, not you, but
that it was good for me.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Like McDonald's even.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Stopped doing French fries in beef tallow and look at us,
we're amazing nineteen ninety McDonald's. We're going to start using
seed oil because it's better for you. It turns out
might be linked to colon cancer and prostate cancer and
think you know that they it can't be possible. So
(08:54):
it's the one thing in life I trusted is that
canola oil was good for you without not really but
still and you're thinking to yourself, but nothing. Everything is
different now, you know. And RFK Juniors ruined em and
m's for everybody pretty much. That red dye right there
is gonna give you, you know. So I don't want to
(09:15):
be panicked about everything, but.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And sometimes you realize things and you're like, wow, I
didn't know that, and you guys were telling me this.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And you were lying or you or either that or
you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's kind of like when COVID came about, and they
started to talk about things they didn't know about as
if they knew about them, Like I've never seen a
time in my life where the lack of knowledge became knowledge. Oh,
you don't know, so therefore we're gonna shut that down.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And you gotta dan six feet apart? Why six feet
just just do it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Shut up and do it, and don't go to work
anymore and squirt this stuff in your arm because you
otherwise Grandma will die. Like okay, you sure, yep, yep, yep, yep,
sure am believe us, Like well, okay, I guess that's
you're the NIH and the CDC and you're a doctor,
(10:27):
so I guess I'll believe you whatever, and so it
things like even with like so back to the John
Bene Ramsey story.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's like, you know, everybody thinks about there's no way
that they were dead, killed or whatever, but.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Something is up here and how they haven't solved this
is beyond me. And so now John Bene Ramsey's dad
is going to be meeting with the Boulder, Colorado police
to talk about DNA testing. I'm thinking, wow, really, like
(11:04):
what do you what are you up to.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
That found in January nineteen ninety seven by the lab
that the crime scene samples are taken to, and that's
what's been used to exclude people like the John Mark
car is DN did match, so they let him go.
Didn't match that nineteen ninety seven sample. We need a
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new sampling done in a different format. That format at
that time isn't compatible with the genealogy research that could
be done now.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It needs to be a different format.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
And I don't understand that DNA is pretty complicated stuff.
I have learned that, but that's the reason that it
needs to be retested.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So after the first of the year, he's coming out
of no and going and talking to the Bolder police
and a DNA person to check out whatever new developments
there are. And you know, again, I'm thinking to myself, well,
(12:16):
that's weird because that story is just.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Coming out of nowhere. So it's twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Years since his six year old daughter was murdered, and
it was twenty eight years of the day yesterday, and
you know, since then, unfortunately her her mother has passed away,
and he's pushing the police to allow an outside lab
(12:47):
to test the crime scene evidence from this murder case
from nineteen six, ninety six, and to this day her
killer is obviously unknown and people have had their thoughts
and if he's trying to solve the case himself with
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the aid of this independent lab and they can conduct
his testing on the three decades old crime scene items.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And he's been pushing for this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Remember at one point people were like, yeah, he did it,
you know whatever, But he's actually the only one still
talking about this.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It seems.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There are a lot of similarities with Hanukkah and Christmas.
And I think people think that Jewish people think Hanukkah
like it's.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's like, oh, it's the Jewish people's Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's like not really, it's not the most important Jewish holiday.
In fact, it's probably not even in the top four.
But but still it's an important time and a lot
of similarities with the Christian commemoration of the birth of
Jesus Christ. Although I don't really want to get into
that because it's the Jewish.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh really, omen huh, you're going to.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Start talking about the birth of Jesus Christ Savior. Yeah,
uh no, not really, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But then but then you see Kwansa and it's okay,
I'm going to talk about it, but just for a second.
Then I'll get to it later. So she's she's sitting
in front of quants apparently has like a candle arrangement
and so it's red and green candles. It looks like
a minora, but it's not.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's just kind of like a I know what we'll do. Well,
it's kind of because it's kind of a.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, it's the guy who made it up in the
sixties was had his issues whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I who knows. I don't want to get into all that.
I support and love all people.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But it is interesting how the candle arrangement is interesting
because it looks like a minora but it's not. And
it looks like it has seven candles I think, not eight,
And it has, if I can remember it, three candles
that are red, three candles that are green, and the
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black candle in the middle, and that's the Kwanza candle.
And I mean, obviously, I know I can appreciate it
at this juncture that people think some things, if you
look at it from the outside.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Are kind of silly, right like this Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean if somebody just like dropped out of the
sky and landed here and saw Santa Claus, they'd be like,
what is what.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Do you what is that?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, no, he comes down chimneys and stuff. Oh really,
where'd you come up with that one? I'm like, well,
no he does, like okay, whatever, So I mean I
get it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Then people have like different view views of things.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's kind of funny to talk about if you have
a sense of humor. Okay, if you don't, then it's
not much fun because then everybody's ears start perking up
and you're like, uh, you're offending people all the time.
And but if you have a sense of humor about it,
then it's fun. But in this day and age, I'm wondering,
(16:31):
I'm kind of we're in that mode now where like
three years ago, even joking around about COVID and all
the branch Covidians out there, you'd be fired or you know,
you'd be offending people and you wind up on the
Internet or whatever, you know, And I think we're getting
into that mode where everything is kind of now fun.
(16:55):
So you've got a guy who's the president elect who
wants say, hockey Hall of Famer to be the Prime
Minister of Canada.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And to me, that's funny, that's fun, and it's loosey goosey,
and it's about time we had a little fun in
this country, you know, about time we just kind of
like throw things against the wall. I don't care. Elon
Musk House speaker, Yeah, sure, yeah, Ronald McDonald, I don't care.
I actually want to see that happen, just for the
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fun of it. And oftentimes you think, well, you're you
obviously are senile, and you're going nuts and you're not
taking this country seriously and you're not doing all this
kind of stuff, and I'm thinking, well, no, not really.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I just think it's fun to think about.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And I kinda I kind of do want the Panama
Canal back now that you've mentioned it, And I wouldn't
mind buying Greenland.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I mean, if you're gonna spend if you give people
from the IRS fourteen hundred dollars checks for COVID in
twenty twenty four, which I'll get to eventually, then anything
can happen. But everybody without a sense of humor absolutely
is not having a fun time now in the United
States of America. All the sour pussies out there, all
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the crab apples, as my mom used to call me,
are out there, are not having a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
All the pearl clutching Republicans are wits in the party.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
We recognize why what's going on here, it's you know,
they don't have a sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It relax a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And sometimes it's to your detriment if you don't take
things very seriously. But sometimes actually it's not a bad
way to live, you know, it's kind of loosen up
a little bit. When we speaking of Christmas, when you
go back in the day, just discover this little gem
that back about sixty years ago, that Charlie Brown Christmas Special,
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which ultimately became an American favorite, It was really controversial.
It was like people were up in arms at you
go figure the network level, CBS, for instance, I told
(19:22):
Charles Schultz, it's like, you know, hey, you need to
you need.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
To cut out that part about the Bible.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
In this Charlie Brown Christmas Special. You need to kind
of get that out of there. The these are a
bunch of people at the network level who were afraid
that linuses talk about the Bible and the Christmas story
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would offend people. And this was in nineteen sixty five,
so even back then there are a lot of people
who didn't have a sense of humor or a sensive
any kind of daring what have you. And they told
Charles Schultz, you're gonna have to cut that out of
the Charlie Brown Christmas and Charltzon is like, well, you
know what, You're gonna have to pound some sand because
(20:14):
I'm not going to do it. And if you want
Charlie Brown Christmas Special, then you're gonna have to You're
gonna have to work with us here and take it over.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltrono.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Jamie Alman. Pleased and privileged to be with you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Marry Christmas, and Merry Christmas to my old friend Jimmy
Carafano from the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Jim Carrafano. First of all, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
How you doing, buddy. So here's some radio trivia that
only you and I actually would care about. So the
second hosted radio partnership I have because you're the oldest
without with no competition, But the second oldest is Michael Dolorna.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Is that right.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yes, he's the guy I've been talking to the second
longest and h I love radio history.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, Oh well good, I'm I We're in good company.
Then he's a great guy, and I'm glad to glad
to know that he's an awesome dude.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And so were you. So, Jimmy, this is.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
This is kind of I was saying this because I
know that you.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Know, you've got a great sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You also have a great sense of balance in gravitos
when it comes to world events.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But then all these things.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are happening, Like just when you think, well, President Trump
is just kidding about Canada being the fifty first state
and all that jazz, suddenly people are really actually seriously
talking about some kind of adoptive partnership with Canada, and
some of it actually makes sense.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What do you think, Well, look, I think the Canadians
are going to have an election in uh whenever dis
government collapses, because it will. They're they're going to elect
an incredibly conservative leader who is in the Malay Trump model,
(22:17):
and that's that's going to solid everything. So I'll tell
you two things about the guy who win the elections
on the one hand, and a lot of things. He
will not be afraid to partner with Trump, and this
is going to scare the Bejesus not a lot of people.
On on the other hand, there will be some issues
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because you know, unlike the US, the Canadians have a
more European style government, and and he will have some
other coalitions in his party and there and there are
voters in Canada who are still kind of Trump skeptic.
People say some things in public which push back against
Trump for domestic purposes, but then in private he'll tell
(23:04):
Trump will do this anyway, it's the right thing to do.
So I'm super optimistic about the future of US Cannon relationship.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Watching Pierre's speeches, I mean nothing short of really amazing.
It's just so reminiscent of the Trump connection to average
everyday Americans. And he's hitting on average everyday Canadians, which
you wouldn't know existed if you just kind of follow
Justin Trudeau around.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So it's pretty amazing, it is.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But you know, they have these they have these parliamentary
coalition governments. We're in order to get a ruling majority,
you have to partner with other parties. Some of these
parties are not conservatives, and they hate Donald Trump as
because you know, there's this massive global echo chamber. I mean,
people I don't know have to put two fine a
(23:55):
point on this, but people like George Stephanopoulos and MSNB
and Rachel Madda on these papers, they are so poisonous
globally because they just not they don't just stewalize in
the United States about Donald Trump, including your presidential candidates
like Kamala Harrens, you know, calling Trump hitler. These things
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echo globally and then for a lot of people all
they hear about the United States is this constant drumday
if Trump is this, Trump is that, and they just
and they just echo that back. And so there are
you know, people in Canada who think that Trump is
the person Rachel Matto described because that's all they know
about Donald Trump. And so the Canadian government is going
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to have to walk the line between that and so
on the one hand, Trump will work close to the other.
On the other hand, there there are times where Trump
will have to pressure him and put this down because
the Canadians will need that kind of pressure and authority
(25:01):
to do the right thing. This is also going to
be true in the Europeans. There will be time when
Trump will put his foot down and he'll wait more
than where they invite wer. Trump will say you have
to do this, and and secretly they'll be appreciative because
it's the right thing to do. And we as an
America media consuming public and our administration are going to
(25:24):
have to recognize this, you know, when there's a place
for tough loves and when there's a place to kind
of ignore when somebody says something that's just kind of
wacky because because of just saying it right. So, you know,
we even saw this in the first administration in Europe.
And I'm sure I told you a story about Mexico before.
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There was a guy who was negotiating with I didn't
remember what it was on, but he was negotiating with
the Mexicans on something and it was the Mexicans are
just being very, very difficult. And then the nd US
just put it foot down and said, like Donald trub
will not going for this. You will do this, and
they cut a deal. And then right after the deal
with cut they went to and make it thank you.
They said, this is a you know, this is a
really important thing. We should have done this. This is
(26:05):
good for our country, but politically it was impossible to
the United States. So now we get a two for it.
We can say, you know, we're doing the right thing,
and then we can basically say, oh, it's the evil
Americans are forced us to do this, so we won't
pay a political price for.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So I guess in a couple of minutes we have
left here. Jim Carafano, I know I've been talking to
you a long time, as Michael has, and it seems
to me I feel, and I sense this from talking
to you as well, that the world is probably in
its best position in spite of some of the turmoil
around then we've ever been. It seems like there's a
(26:44):
coalescence that we haven't seen before. South America, Western Europe,
Eastern Europe, Canada, even Mexico talking about accepting deportations and
things like that. It seems like the world is a
pretty good place right now and will be.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I don't disagree, and there's nothing. You know, people look
at Canada and they forget how important that relationship is.
First of all, it's not an American energy base. It's
actually America Canada and Mexico together, which create the global
dominant enmity because even as we're exporting some energy, we're
(27:24):
actually importing oil from Mexico and Canada because because it's
it's actually you know, it's called sweet oil. It's it's
better to refine. So energy is important. Resources from Canada important.
We have manufact manufacturing partnerships. The threat of Russia and
China and the Arctic is important. There are so many
(27:47):
reasons why for our secuity. Look at our electrical grade.
We have one electrical grade, so if the Chinese are
in the Canadian electrical grade, we're just as vulnerable. It
doesn't matter how much we've blocked them out of the
United States.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You are the best man. Thank you for the enlightenment.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I wish you a fabulous rest of the Christmas season.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
In a happy new Year, and love you brother. Thank you,
Jim Carafano.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Hey, thanks for going man. Happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding, because we're in this together.
This is your morning show with Michael del john.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, Good morning everyone, and happy Friday to all of you.
Jamie Allman really happen to be filling in for the
green Michael Del Giorno on your morning show. Hope you
all are having a continued wonderful Christmas. And I'm going
to be dragged, kicking and screaming into a John Benet
(00:57):
Ramsey update because nothing says the Hollys like a good
old fashioned John Benet Ramsey update. And I I'm thinking
to myself, you know, I wish I could just avoid
the story altogether, because it's so disturbing anyway, and it's
thirty years old and it keeps on going, and you know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Don't trust the day.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I just there's nothing, nothing that is seemingly right about
any of this, and it's so hard to explain and
nobody knows and everybody got suspicions and things like that.
And then I'm thinking to myself, well, maybe I just
won't talk about it. And then of course I realized
that if I don't talk about it and give people
(01:39):
an update, and then people hear about it somewhere else,
and I have to go before the Radio God Tribunal
and they will say, ohman, how come you didn't talk
about the John Benet Ramsey store. I'm like, well, I
just didn't feel I just didn't feel it. I just
felt kind of you know, you know, I don't know,
just dirty, I don't I don't like the story, or
(02:01):
I like, that's not doing radio that Almond. And then
somebody will chime in from the tribunal, which is made
up of six six individuals that I know of, and
there's always one I could reliably depend on, and it's
a she and so coming in and go, well, maybe
if you maybe talked about your favorite Glenn Campbell's song
(02:26):
before you got into John Benet Ramsey, you could possibly
get away with it. It'd be like a great segue, and
I'd be like, what's the segue, no, no, never mind,
but it might be like a good thing for you
to kind of lay the groundwork. Happy Day, Glenn Campbell.
You ran across this on the internet because you did,
and then you get into John Benny ramsay, I'm like, oh,
(02:46):
that's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And the other.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But by the way, Almond, we understand it your favorite
song from Glenn Campbell's at the Ryman Auditorium.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is it not?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Mean?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah? It is. Well, it's our understanding.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You went to see George Jones's funeral at the Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Like I did?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Actually, because George Jones is like my Elvis. I loved
him and when he died I went to his funeral
and it was fantastic. Talk about that then and then
segue into what's the segway? Segue into Glenn Campbell's story,
and then get the John Benet rams and that's a
good idea. So I run across this. Beautiful. Glenn Campbell
(03:32):
is such an underestimated although many of you probably love him,
but to me, when you think about his talent and
all that he did, he's like the most underestimated musician
on the planet.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
In terms of his talent.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I ran across this video of him and he's
on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium, where, by the way,
I did actually go to George Jones's funeral, and it
was a trip and a half, let me tell you,
Like they had him laid out like in front of
(04:09):
the stage and dry ice and fog and everything, and
Randy Travis was.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
There and Kid Rock and it was it was a
trip and a half.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And he showed up for it too, which is amazing
to all the people who came out, because no, the possum,
you never know when he's not going to be there,
but this time he actually was there, or at least
his body was.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
So uh, he's the right there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's Glen Kemp was the Rhein Auitorium, and he's with
Willie Nelson, Chad Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Porter Wagner, Roy Clark
is there too, Bobby Bear is there, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gale,
(05:00):
and Ray Stevens and so they're all talking about this
song gennle on My Mind and and he talks about
how though John Hartford, John Harford's song, he talks about
how you know I listened to this song and it
really moved me, but it was too slow. And so
(05:21):
here is Glenn Campbell in front of all these people
who are just astounded by his talent as he sits there,
like Roy Clark's looking at him like going, man, dag,
who this guy is something else? And this is actually
from nineteen ninety nine, so it's not like it was
he was brand new or anything. And and by the way,
(05:43):
the Roy Clark Buckowens heathaw thing is brilliant. Whoever came
up with that idea of having the Nashville sound married
to the Bakersfield sound is just beyond crazy to me,
but a great idea.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, here's Glenn.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
If you were listening live, this is where the song
would play after such an emotional story. But we don't
have licensing for the podcast, but feel free to look
it up and listen to it online.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltona.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Your comments are welcome on anything you've been hearing this
morning on the show or otherwise. And all you have
to do is go to the iHeartRadio app and click
that Mike button and talk away. And I would love
to hear from you, all right, So, here's the John
Benet Ramsey story. All right, so is this story is
(06:37):
the strangest thing. It's one of those stories where, like,
I think everything is on the table at this stage
in the game, nothing is off the table. I still
kind of believe that we landed on the moon. Everything
(06:59):
else you could probably convince me is totally fake and concocted.
And I'm trying hard not to be dragged into that mode.
But young people all are thinking this way. You talked
(07:19):
to a twenty year old and you bring up this idea,
for instance, that the CIA dropped a bunch of crack
in LA back in the nineties and created the crack epidemic,
They'll be like, that's right, man, they sure did. There's
no way they didn't. I mean so, and that may
or may not be true. But sometimes conspiracy theories are
(07:43):
really fun and sometimes they're really right, and you start
thinking about things and you're thinking, well, there's okay. It's
hard to think about because then, because you want to
trust people, and you want to trust that your government,
and you want to trust the world you live in.
(08:04):
Walking around not trusting anybody is a dirge and you just.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Don't want to get into that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But now that President Trump has kind of opened up
the door a little bit on things like like, I
had no idea that canola oil was actually probably bad
for you because you were telling me, not you, but
that it was good for me.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Like McDonald's even.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Stopped doing French fries in beef tallow and look at us,
we're amazing nineteen ninety McDonald's. We're going to start using
seed oil because it's better for you. It turns out
might be linked to colon cancer and prostate cancer and
think you know that they it can't be possible. So
(08:54):
it's the one thing in life I trusted is that
canola oil was good for you without not really but
still and you're thinking to yourself, but nothing. Everything is
different now, you know. And RFK Juniors ruined em and
m's for everybody pretty much. That red dye right there
is gonna give you, you know. So I don't want to
(09:15):
be panicked about everything, but.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And sometimes you realize things and you're like, wow, I
didn't know that, and you guys were telling me this.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And you were lying or you or either that or
you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's kind of like when COVID came about, and they
started to talk about things they didn't know about as
if they knew about them, Like I've never seen a
time in my life where the lack of knowledge became knowledge. Oh,
you don't know, so therefore we're gonna shut that down.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And you gotta dan six feet apart? Why six feet
just just do it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Shut up and do it, and don't go to work
anymore and squirt this stuff in your arm because you
otherwise Grandma will die. Like okay, you sure, yep, yep, yep, yep,
sure am believe us, Like well, okay, I guess that's
you're the NIH and the CDC and you're a doctor,
(10:27):
so I guess I'll believe you whatever, and so it
things like even with like so back to the John
Bene Ramsey story.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's like, you know, everybody thinks about there's no way
that they were dead, killed or whatever, but.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Something is up here and how they haven't solved this
is beyond me. And so now John Bene Ramsey's dad
is going to be meeting with the Boulder, Colorado police
to talk about DNA testing. I'm thinking, wow, really, like
(11:04):
what do you what are you up to.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
That found in January nineteen ninety seven by the lab
that the crime scene samples are taken to, and that's
what's been used to exclude people like the John Mark
car is DN did match, so they let him go.
Didn't match that nineteen ninety seven sample. We need a
(11:28):
new sampling done in a different format. That format at
that time isn't compatible with the genealogy research that could
be done now.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It needs to be a different format.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
And I don't understand that DNA is pretty complicated stuff.
I have learned that, but that's the reason that it
needs to be retested.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So after the first of the year, he's coming out
of no and going and talking to the Bolder police
and a DNA person to check out whatever new developments
there are. And you know, again, I'm thinking to myself, well,
(12:16):
that's weird because that story is just.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Coming out of nowhere. So it's twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Years since his six year old daughter was murdered, and
it was twenty eight years of the day yesterday, and
you know, since then, unfortunately her her mother has passed away,
and he's pushing the police to allow an outside lab
(12:47):
to test the crime scene evidence from this murder case
from nineteen six, ninety six, and to this day her
killer is obviously unknown and people have had their thoughts
and if he's trying to solve the case himself with
(13:15):
the aid of this independent lab and they can conduct
his testing on the three decades old crime scene items.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And he's been pushing for this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Remember at one point people were like, yeah, he did it,
you know whatever, But he's actually the only one still
talking about this.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It seems.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltno.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There are a lot of similarities with Hanukkah and Christmas.
And I think people think that Jewish people think Hanukkah
like it's.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's like, oh, it's the Jewish people's Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's like not really, it's not the most important Jewish holiday.
In fact, it's probably not even in the top four.
But but still it's an important time and a lot
of similarities with the Christian commemoration of the birth of
Jesus Christ. Although I don't really want to get into
that because it's the Jewish.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh really, omen huh, you're going to.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Start talking about the birth of Jesus Christ Savior. Yeah,
uh no, not really, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But then but then you see Kwansa and it's okay,
I'm going to talk about it, but just for a second.
Then I'll get to it later. So she's she's sitting
in front of quants apparently has like a candle arrangement
and so it's red and green candles. It looks like
a minora, but it's not.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's just kind of like a I know what we'll do. Well,
it's kind of because it's kind of a.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, it's the guy who made it up in the
sixties was had his issues whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I who knows. I don't want to get into all that.
I support and love all people.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But it is interesting how the candle arrangement is interesting
because it looks like a minora but it's not. And
it looks like it has seven candles I think, not eight,
And it has, if I can remember it, three candles
that are red, three candles that are green, and the
(15:30):
black candle in the middle, and that's the Kwanza candle.
And I mean, obviously, I know I can appreciate it
at this juncture that people think some things, if you
look at it from the outside.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Are kind of silly, right like this Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean if somebody just like dropped out of the
sky and landed here and saw Santa Claus, they'd be like,
what is what.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Do you what is that?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, no, he comes down chimneys and stuff. Oh really,
where'd you come up with that one? I'm like, well,
no he does, like okay, whatever, So I mean I
get it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Then people have like different view views of things.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's kind of funny to talk about if you have
a sense of humor. Okay, if you don't, then it's
not much fun because then everybody's ears start perking up
and you're like, uh, you're offending people all the time.
And but if you have a sense of humor about it,
then it's fun. But in this day and age, I'm wondering,
(16:31):
I'm kind of we're in that mode now where like
three years ago, even joking around about COVID and all
the branch Covidians out there, you'd be fired or you know,
you'd be offending people and you wind up on the
Internet or whatever, you know, And I think we're getting
into that mode where everything is kind of now fun.
(16:55):
So you've got a guy who's the president elect who
wants say, hockey Hall of Famer to be the Prime
Minister of Canada.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And to me, that's funny, that's fun, and it's loosey goosey,
and it's about time we had a little fun in
this country, you know, about time we just kind of
like throw things against the wall. I don't care. Elon
Musk House speaker, Yeah, sure, yeah, Ronald McDonald, I don't care.
I actually want to see that happen, just for the
(17:27):
fun of it. And oftentimes you think, well, you're you
obviously are senile, and you're going nuts and you're not
taking this country seriously and you're not doing all this
kind of stuff, and I'm thinking, well, no, not really.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I just think it's fun to think about.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And I kinda I kind of do want the Panama
Canal back now that you've mentioned it, And I wouldn't
mind buying Greenland.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I mean, if you're gonna spend if you give people
from the IRS fourteen hundred dollars checks for COVID in
twenty twenty four, which I'll get to eventually, then anything
can happen. But everybody without a sense of humor absolutely
is not having a fun time now in the United
States of America. All the sour pussies out there, all
(18:17):
the crab apples, as my mom used to call me,
are out there, are not having a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
All the pearl clutching Republicans are wits in the party.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
We recognize why what's going on here, it's you know,
they don't have a sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It relax a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And sometimes it's to your detriment if you don't take
things very seriously. But sometimes actually it's not a bad
way to live, you know, it's kind of loosen up
a little bit. When we speaking of Christmas, when you
go back in the day, just discover this little gem
that back about sixty years ago, that Charlie Brown Christmas Special,
(19:00):
which ultimately became an American favorite, It was really controversial.
It was like people were up in arms at you
go figure the network level, CBS, for instance, I told
(19:22):
Charles Schultz, it's like, you know, hey, you need to
you need.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
To cut out that part about the Bible.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
In this Charlie Brown Christmas Special. You need to kind
of get that out of there. The these are a
bunch of people at the network level who were afraid
that linuses talk about the Bible and the Christmas story
(19:52):
would offend people. And this was in nineteen sixty five,
so even back then there are a lot of people
who didn't have a sense of humor or a sensive
any kind of daring what have you. And they told
Charles Schultz, you're gonna have to cut that out of
the Charlie Brown Christmas and Charltzon is like, well, you
know what, You're gonna have to pound some sand because
(20:14):
I'm not going to do it. And if you want
Charlie Brown Christmas Special, then you're gonna have to You're
gonna have to work with us here and take it over.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
This is your morning show with Michael Deltrono.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Jamie Alman. Pleased and privileged to be with you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Marry Christmas, and Merry Christmas to my old friend Jimmy
Carafano from the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Jim Carrafano. First of all, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
How you doing, buddy. So here's some radio trivia that
only you and I actually would care about. So the
second hosted radio partnership I have because you're the oldest
without with no competition, But the second oldest is Michael Dolorna.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Is that right.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yes, he's the guy I've been talking to the second
longest and h I love radio history.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, Oh well good, I'm I We're in good company.
Then he's a great guy, and I'm glad to glad
to know that he's an awesome dude.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And so were you. So, Jimmy, this is.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
This is kind of I was saying this because I
know that you.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Know, you've got a great sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You also have a great sense of balance in gravitos
when it comes to world events.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But then all these things.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are happening, Like just when you think, well, President Trump
is just kidding about Canada being the fifty first state
and all that jazz, suddenly people are really actually seriously
talking about some kind of adoptive partnership with Canada, and
some of it actually makes sense.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What do you think, Well, look, I think the Canadians
are going to have an election in uh whenever dis
government collapses, because it will. They're they're going to elect
an incredibly conservative leader who is in the Malay Trump model,
(22:17):
and that's that's going to solid everything. So I'll tell
you two things about the guy who win the elections
on the one hand, and a lot of things. He
will not be afraid to partner with Trump, and this
is going to scare the Bejesus not a lot of people.
On on the other hand, there will be some issues
(22:39):
because you know, unlike the US, the Canadians have a
more European style government, and and he will have some
other coalitions in his party and there and there are
voters in Canada who are still kind of Trump skeptic.
People say some things in public which push back against
Trump for domestic purposes, but then in private he'll tell
(23:04):
Trump will do this anyway, it's the right thing to do.
So I'm super optimistic about the future of US Cannon relationship.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Watching Pierre's speeches, I mean nothing short of really amazing.
It's just so reminiscent of the Trump connection to average
everyday Americans. And he's hitting on average everyday Canadians, which
you wouldn't know existed if you just kind of follow
Justin Trudeau around.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So it's pretty amazing, it is.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But you know, they have these they have these parliamentary
coalition governments. We're in order to get a ruling majority,
you have to partner with other parties. Some of these
parties are not conservatives, and they hate Donald Trump as
because you know, there's this massive global echo chamber. I mean,
people I don't know have to put two fine a
(23:55):
point on this, but people like George Stephanopoulos and MSNB
and Rachel Madda on these papers, they are so poisonous
globally because they just not they don't just stewalize in
the United States about Donald Trump, including your presidential candidates
like Kamala Harrens, you know, calling Trump hitler. These things
(24:17):
echo globally and then for a lot of people all
they hear about the United States is this constant drumday
if Trump is this, Trump is that, and they just
and they just echo that back. And so there are
you know, people in Canada who think that Trump is
the person Rachel Matto described because that's all they know
about Donald Trump. And so the Canadian government is going
(24:40):
to have to walk the line between that and so
on the one hand, Trump will work close to the other.
On the other hand, there there are times where Trump
will have to pressure him and put this down because
the Canadians will need that kind of pressure and authority
(25:01):
to do the right thing. This is also going to
be true in the Europeans. There will be time when
Trump will put his foot down and he'll wait more
than where they invite wer. Trump will say you have
to do this, and and secretly they'll be appreciative because
it's the right thing to do. And we as an
America media consuming public and our administration are going to
(25:24):
have to recognize this, you know, when there's a place
for tough loves and when there's a place to kind
of ignore when somebody says something that's just kind of
wacky because because of just saying it right. So, you know,
we even saw this in the first administration in Europe.
And I'm sure I told you a story about Mexico before.
(25:44):
There was a guy who was negotiating with I didn't
remember what it was on, but he was negotiating with
the Mexicans on something and it was the Mexicans are
just being very, very difficult. And then the nd US
just put it foot down and said, like Donald trub
will not going for this. You will do this, and
they cut a deal. And then right after the deal
with cut they went to and make it thank you.
They said, this is a you know, this is a
really important thing. We should have done this. This is
(26:05):
good for our country, but politically it was impossible to
the United States. So now we get a two for it.
We can say, you know, we're doing the right thing,
and then we can basically say, oh, it's the evil
Americans are forced us to do this, so we won't
pay a political price for.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So I guess in a couple of minutes we have
left here. Jim Carafano, I know I've been talking to
you a long time, as Michael has, and it seems
to me I feel, and I sense this from talking
to you as well, that the world is probably in
its best position in spite of some of the turmoil
around then we've ever been. It seems like there's a
(26:44):
coalescence that we haven't seen before. South America, Western Europe,
Eastern Europe, Canada, even Mexico talking about accepting deportations and
things like that. It seems like the world is a
pretty good place right now and will be.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I don't disagree, and there's nothing. You know, people look
at Canada and they forget how important that relationship is.
First of all, it's not an American energy base. It's
actually America Canada and Mexico together, which create the global
dominant enmity because even as we're exporting some energy, we're
(27:24):
actually importing oil from Mexico and Canada because because it's
it's actually you know, it's called sweet oil. It's it's
better to refine. So energy is important. Resources from Canada important.
We have manufact manufacturing partnerships. The threat of Russia and
China and the Arctic is important. There are so many
(27:47):
reasons why for our secuity. Look at our electrical grade.
We have one electrical grade, so if the Chinese are
in the Canadian electrical grade, we're just as vulnerable. It
doesn't matter how much we've blocked them out of the
United States.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You are the best man. Thank you for the enlightenment.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I wish you a fabulous rest of the Christmas season.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
In a happy new Year, and love you brother. Thank you,
Jim Carafano.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Hey, thanks for going man. Happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael nheld Choo
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