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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well two three Starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in this Togebon This is your morning show with Michael Odell.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Charm YEP Guy says it believes the suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Who drove through a crowd at Bourbon Street in New
Orleans was not acting alone. Also, security barriers that would
have protected the crowds on Bourbon Street had been removed
before Wednesday's attack. Meanwhile, please say at Tesla cyber truck
exploded outside of Trump International Hotel in Vegas was rented
in Colorado, same company, by the way that the Bourbon
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Street terrorist rented his vehicle from. President elect Trump says
he plans to attend former President Jimmy Carter Carter's funeral
and official say the Sugar Bowl game between Georgia and
Notre Dame and New Orleans. We kick off today for
Eastern three Central, and that will get us started on
our next trip around the sun. Gang, Good morning, It
is eight minutes after the hour, and welcome to your
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Speaker 3 (01:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:40):
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, happy new year everyone, at
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least that's what everyone says, right, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
When the clock.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Strikes midnight, and it probably was, after all, what could
have possibly gone wrong? Yet, But as yesterday and New
Orleans proved, sometimes even that only lasts a few short hours. First,
I wish it were that easy. You could just wish
it and it would be so woola. But it doesn't
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work that way for New Year's any more than it
does for Happy Birthday or have a nice day. But
that doesn't stop us. At New Year's we shouted, we
wish it. We even try to eat it. Couldn't get cabbage,
it was sold out, but I had my black eyed
peas for good luck and my greens for money.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
In the new year.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We also desperately want to blame everything that's wrong in
our lives or that went wrong in our lives on
the previous year. We actually convince ourselves this year will
be different, this year will be better, even happy. The
problem is, while the calendar changes, we usually don't. Twenty
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twenty five, like all New Years, holds no magical powers
in it. The ball that drops to end one year
and light up the next simply serves to remind us
time is ticking, and it's ticking on our hopes, our dreams,
and yes, ticking on our lives.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
As for twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Four, well, it was a year filled with election uncertainty,
inflation and high cost of living certainty, along with very
little interest rate relief and skyrocketing home prices. The border
crisis continued, the spread of war abroad intensified, and the
widening of divisions at home, well.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They became even greater and short.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Twenty twenty four was another chilling reminder policies have consequences,
and in the end, Old Joe said bye bye to
running American voters said bye bye to Mama La Kamala,
and we all said hello again hello to Donald Trump.
Twenty twenty four also brought us a nerdy gymnast in
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thick glasses to ensure gold for us all, a women's
rugby star, and almost all of us set a big
hello to wicked star Cynthia Arrivo. We said goodbye to
Quincy Jones, Chris Christofferson, James Earl Jones, the say Hey Kid,
Willie Mays, and to our one hundred year old president,
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Jimmy Carter. And that's just to name a few. Personally,
Andrew and I had a challenging year taking care of
both of our mothers, including the long, slow goodbye as
they say, with hers. But I also said hello to
about fifty new radio markets, and in my forty three
years of radio, I've simply never loved what I do,
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who I do it with, and for whom I do
it for more in my life, and I suspect twenty
twenty four for You was filled with both good and bad.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
After all, that's life right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm not a big fan of resolutions that really wishes,
but here's a few reminders that I think may help
all of us make solid, real life changes rather than
a bunch of wishes and dreams. One, we are who
we are, and we are all right where we are
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by the choices we have made and or our reactions,
not responses to circumstances.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That were out of our control.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Circumstances and choices, they shape our lives and our values, beliefs,
learned experiences, and priorities. Well, they shape our choices, and ultimately,
together they shape our destiny. Confused yet, wonder what comes first,
the choices or the character that makes them. Like all
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the great mysteries in life, The answer is, of course both.
I mean, if we don't like our lives, let's stop
blaming the year.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Let's change. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The type of personal responsibility and willpower it will take
to do those changes.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well, that needs character.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I promise together it'll create more than just a
happy New Year. It could make a happy new you
knew me, whether it's eating, exercising, smoking, spending laziness. Do
I have to put nick Atte on that list, Jeffrey,
I guess I probably I should write it down and
do it. Otherwise I suspect twenty twenty five is going
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to go up like twenty twenty four. The second reminder,
New Year's is a lot about the future, the mysterious unknown,
as much as it is about a clean slate and
a new start. And here's what I know most about
the future. It is shaped by today and polished or
tarnished by the unexpected. The future is rarely about the expected.
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I mean, ask any presidential candidate. It's mostly about the
unexpected in what we do with it, meaning our response
to the unexpected. Now here's the truth. Prepared people respond,
Unprepared people react. What's the difference success and failure? Hey,
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sometimes even life and death when attacked. The prepared person
always responds, calmly, measured with successful actions. The unprepared, well,
they almost always react and too quickly and regretfully, and
it usually ends not just in failure, but with the
problem bigger than the one that attacked them to start with.
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So we're all right where we are and who we are,
shaped by the choices we have made and our responses
or reactions to circumstances that happened. I mean, if that's
how we got here, how do we get out of
this mess? Or for one? Better character? Thus different, wiser,
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Better choices and character can come from a host of areas,
could come from role modeling, or from wisdom from having
lived and learned. For me, I guess it mostly boils
down to faith and obedience wherever you find it. Here's
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the good news. While twenty twenty five may not have
any magical powers in a printed calendar, it does hold
for all of us three hundred and sixty five days
with twenty four hours in each to make better choices.
And who knows, better choices might equal a healthier you,
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a more fulfilled you, a better you. Hey, it could
equal a happier you. Thus, finally, even a happy New Year. Anyway,
that's my wish and prayer for you. I'm Michael del Jorno,
and this is the New Year, and this is your
morning show.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
It's your morning show with Michael del Jono.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Boy, did Arizona State put on a show or what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Have you ever seen such a show stealing team that
doesn't advance and lost? I mean they grabbed victory even
from defeat. It's got a bush, got a boosh when
you do the fun gundor the boat of lightning, very
very frightening. All right, So in the end, I've got
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to do this for my son Nicholas. Do you want
to know the top six right before the Bulls season?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oregon was one, Georgia was two, Texas was three, Notre
Dame was four, Ohio State their Penn State was fifth.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ohio State was sixth. We got all the same teams.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know, we make us such a big deal out
of this every year, and I do think you know
those first game, the first round where they were they
were at their home. That was kind of fun, but
they were all one sided. So far, we haven't had
the Notre Dame Georgia version. Might not be very good
for Notre Dame the way things have been trending because
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none of these games have been closed and when it's
all said and done, if we end up with Georgia,
Penn State, Texas, Ohio State, are we really did we
learn anything from twelve that we wouldn't have guessed with four?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But I mean it's been fun, right games.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, And I think what it did solidify too, was
that the bowl games themselves, unless they're involved with this playoff,
just have no meaning. And when you combine that with
a portal nightmare, which which is a simple fix you
don't allow the portal to be made until after bowl season,
but it's just destroyed the entire bowl system. The only
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bowls that are going to matter are the ones that
are affiliated with the National Championship. But anyway, we did
get our winners, and I thought, you know, some really
great games along the way. In the end, you're you're
going to get the answer to the Notre Dame piece
and Georgia. I think it'll be Georgia and Penn State
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will await that winner. Easy win over Boys State thirty
one to fourteen, Texas double overtime with Arizona State thirty
nine thirteen. I mean, you were three hundred and twenty
two yards three touchdowns. But how about scatabo a forty
two yard touchdown pass Puss. He ran for one hundred
and forty three yards and two touchdowns, including a two
point convert.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I mean, they just put on a show.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Everyone will remember the twenty twenty five Bowl season by
this Texas Arizona State game and then for Texas, who's
the winner?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Are you really get ready? Ohio State?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think David and as Anai and I had dinner
just a couple of nights ago, and we both saw
this coming. David especially, everybody thought Ohio State, after losing
to Michigan, you know it's time to fire the coach.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And you knew, you knew.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They were going to come back with vengeance, and they
did against the Balls and then they pounded and took
advantage and got sweet revenge over the Ducks forty one
to twenty one. And it wasn't even that close at
the Rose Bowl. Will Howard, I mean, this guy is
like got it all, doesn't he? For the for the NFL.
He's got the size, he's got the arm, he can
read defenses. Three hundred nineteen yards, three touchdowns, and he's
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got a freshman wide receiver in Jeremiah Smith. It's amazing.
One hundred and eighty seven yards and two touchdowns. So
the Sugar Bowl will be this afternoon at four o'clock
in New Orleans Eastern Orange Bowl. The semi final will
be Penn State versus the winner of tonight's Notre Dame
Georgia game. Cotton Bowl semi finals Ohio State and Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That'll be almost a home game for the Longhorns right
in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And basketball, the Pistons beat the Magic one oh five
to ninety six, Wizards won twenty five one oh seven
over the Bulls, MAV's lost by eleven of the Rockets,
and the Kings won one thirteen one oh seven to
the seventy six ers on the ice, Kings three zip
over the Devil's. Kings now in second place in the
Pacific Division, just four points behind Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And if you're just.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Waking up these ah yah the top five stories of
the day, although it really kind of boils down to
a top two stories, doesn't it. Numero Uno President Biden
says the man who drove through a crowded Bourbon street
to New Orleans was possibly inspired by Isis Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Biden gave remarks Wednesday night at Camp David on what
he called the despicable attack on Bourbon Street in New
Orleans that left at least fifteen people dead and injured
dozens more.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The mere hours before the attack.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He posted videos on social.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Media indicating is inspired by ISIS, A desire to kill,
desire to kill.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
FBX spokesperson ALTHEA. Duncan said at a news conference. The
man has been identified as forty two year old chamsud
Din Jabbar, who was a US born citizen from Texas
that also served in the Army. An ISIS flag was
found on the trailer hitch of the pickup truck that
he used. Investigators do not believe that Jabbar acted alone.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm Mark Mayfield, President elect forty seven, plans to attend
the funeral of thirty nine Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Trump made the comment Tuesday while speaking to reporters at
a New Year's Eve celebration at mar A Lago. Former
President Carter died Sunday at the age of one hundred.
Trump wouldn't say if he had look to the Carter
family since his death, but said he would attend the
state funeral for Carter next week in Washington. He also
predicted that Republican Mike Johnson would retain his position as
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House Speaker and double down on his support for HB
one visas for high skilled immigrants.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm Brian shuck Services.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Former President Jimmy Carter will begin January fourth in his
hometown of Plains, Georgia. Carter will lie in response at
the Carter Presidential Center. Then the thirty ninth President will
lie in state at the Rotunda at the US Capitol
on Tuesday. The Seventh Day Service at Washington National Cathedral
will follow on January the ninth. Officials say the Sugar
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Bowl game between Georgia and Notre Dame in New Orleans
will kick off today for Eastern three Central. Former longtime
FBI official Rob Diamico says other college bowl games and
big New Year's events stepped up security following yesterday morning's attack,
but accounting for every possible scenario is still a challenge.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Security can only do so much.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
You have to really look at where the biggest crowd
and the most vulnerability is going to be.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
You want to put all your resources and assets because
that's the worst catastrophic event.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The explosion and fire of a Tesla cyber truck at
Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is being investigated as
another possible terrorist attack. Retired ATF agent Scott Sweette says
early video evidence is showing that the deadly fire was
not an accident.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
You can see multiple large flashes. You also hear whistling
sounds in that video, and those whistling sounds are very
consistent with the sort of fireworks that you could buy
as a consumer.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And so, and that's your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
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I am Michael del Joe of the teams back together
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Speaker 3 (18:32):
We have all eyes on.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It was interesting I think to unpack this first was
a terrorism that'll pop up in our sounds of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
FBI. Quick, No, it's not terrorism, first.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Of all, and this is kind of a reminder moment
for us Aul not a teacher, shouldn't be a teachable moment.
The FBI itself defines terrorism as the unlawful youth use
of violence or force, in this case a rented truck
mowing down innocent people in the street after midnight on
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New Year's Mourning, but any use of violence or force
against people or property to intimidate, coerce a government, a
civilian population, or any segment thereof. Now, we have non
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defining working things that are kind of in our head.
When you see names like shamsu Din Jabar, used tend
to oh, that's terrorism because that's a Muslim name. Well,
not necessarily. Now, when you add that samsu din Jabbar
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had a trail of ISIS support in his social media
footprint and a flag go on the truck, then you
can connect the dots. That shouldn't have been hard for
the FBI. It certainly wasn't hard for local law enforcement.
The next twist, of course, was the Turo rentals, which
is the we have a little debate going on here
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at your morning show thanks to the Nick Saban commercials
two of my members favor, but they know is it
vbro or vb r O?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
How do they say it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
V bro.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Usually they just say vbro O.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
But I mean, you know, it's kind of like remember
when we used to say, hey, what would you like
to drink?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
We say coke? Well we only have Pepsis that okay?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Because coke became synonymous instead of pop or soda or
soft drink. The same is true for band aid. Nobody says,
hand me a cureaid. Even if you give me a
cure aid, I asked for a band aid, So for me,
Airbnb is kind of the synonymous name with this concept.
I own this property, but I'm gonna let you stay
and pay for it for a little while, make a
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vacation out of my home. Well, tururo Rental is kind
of that of cars. The quick conclusion to make is
it wasn't some confused people that the Tesla cyber truck
that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Vegas was
a turo Rental, as was the pickup truck that mowed
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down to escent people on Bourbon Street. I think it
was to be less traceable more than connected through terrorism.
But we could even decide if it was terrorism or not. Right,
So let's start with just a few hours after the
ball drops on the New Year, and the death toll
has now risen to fifteen, with about thirty people injured.
The truck hit people celebrating New Year's even the French
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Quarter on Bourbon Street. One of the interesting twists to
all of this is that the security barriers that would
have protected crowds on Bourbon Street had been removed before
Wednesday's attack. This area is always barricaded off, usually every
Friday and Saturday night. Quite frankly, you can't drive on
Bourbon Street because of the crowds. But whenever there is
Super Bowls or National Championships or Bowl games or New
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Year's which has become New Orleans. I think New Orleans
and Nashville really kind of rival New York City now
as New Year's Eve destinations. By the way, in our
Sound of the Day, I almost want to play it
just a real quick what is the deal with CNN
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just kind of going all goofy on New Year's Eve?
All right, So it's a news network with its primary
news anchor stars, So this would be like Dan rather
in the day or Walter Cronkite in the day, Walter
Cronkite joining Dick Clark drunk with shots. I just I
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look at this culturally and I find it a little outrageous.
So they pick, you know, two game reporters to host
New Year's Eve. Who cares that they're gay, right except
for their content if you're watching, And then they slowly
get sloshed, and then they ring in the New Year drunk,
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and they did it again this year.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Listen, cheers, Hey, everybody, thanks for hanging out with us. Yeah,
thanks for all the love.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
And I hope twenty twenty five is everything.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Really what it is to be get fired?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Sweety?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I think I don't think you all right?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So that's Anderson Cooper, So pretend that's Walter Kronkit and
he just referred to him as sweetie ye and he
times in clearly slurring his words.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I hope we don't get fired. Hoped that every year
I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
A day, guys, what this clip would have got him fired?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I hope twenty twenty five is everything really what it
is to be get fired?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well, Sweety, I think I don't think you're going to
get fired now. I do want to interrupt and say
I am a little insulted.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In fact, from now on, right, I'd like you to
call me honey, Bun and Jeffrey, I'd like you to
refer to me as sweetie. All right, sugar, sugar, I
like sugar when you're good.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I got a contract. I'm going back to you. I
got a contract, but you're probably gonna get fired. It
is really so funny.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He is always so uptight and then he gets loose
on New Year's Oh yeah, yeah, he speaks when he walks.
May I just say, for the record, there's just something
about Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I do like I do like Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But all right, so here's you know, I don't know.
This is like Martin and Lewis, only both are drunk.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Brother, you are come.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
New season of the Outside of Atlanta, coming out of
amazing stuff, coming out.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Alright, like you haven't pulugged whatever.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
The Mayor's still running around enough really kindness in twenty
twenty five kindness.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
He's indicted kind because everybody needed fighting a great battle.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Yes kind of the battle, because everybody has been indapmens,
that's what he is fighting.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Dial it down, bringing it into the new year. Right,
all right, okay, well let's talk. We don't want to
wake up in the morning with a shoulda?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Is that Anderson Cooper trying to talk Italian? By the way,
the only person watching was Kamala Harris, also drunk.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Wake up with extra Twitter or whatever, because my son
is gonna wake us, wake me up, Yes, very, my son's.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Gonna wake up. And you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I'm gonna go home, and I'm gonna go into my
to Wyatt's room and I'm gonna go sleep in white
Guess what.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Before that, we're gonna go crash Patty LuPone.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That that's what we're all right, cheers everybody yours. You know,
there's a lot of people wondering how can CNN somehow
resurrect this failed network.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Maybe they should just start anchoring drunk.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
The sad part is nobody would have seen or known
about that if it weren't for social media.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Now everybody, well, yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't.
I don't know that. This is the first year. By
the way, I didn't watch anything.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I had a this is not for an air, but
we had a uh, we had a Christmas party for
the for for friends and and and staff. I guess
you would say, I don't view you as staff, I
mean fat friends, and then extended friends and family here
at the house. And then we were in the hospital
the next morning. Oh and that was how my entire
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vacation went. And so now I had to get the
apartment empty, cleaned, repaired. My wife is an absolute hero.
This is for your mom, right from my mom. Then
we had to go empty the assisted living home that
we had just settled as mom has transitioned now to
full full skilled nursing.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then we had a transition from the hospital there.
So our entire I mean we had Christmas Eve off
that we got off.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
We went to George we ate and did our little traditions.
But other than that, my week vacation at Thanksgiving was
all family health related with my mother and then the
entire week so listen, they're drunk. I just wanted to
get back to work sober, you know, and and and
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get back to normal.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It was obviously a crazy busy time for all of us.
But for the first time, I did not even watch
New Year's Rocking Eve. I didn't watch anything. I didn'tven
see the ball drop. I just we had been moving
and cleaning, and I mean I had no got home.
I just I went in my bedroom to have a
moment of silence and it turned into sleep.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So I missed New Year's altogether. I did watch a
movie which.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I highly recommend, Unsung Hero, and I won't spoil a
surprise for you because I enjoyed it so much. But
the big takeaway was who that person was at the
very end, not the unsung hero, that's the mom, but
who the daughter went on to be.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It just blew me away. It was kind of like
a sixth sense moment, Oh that's who that is.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They didn't reveal it and held it all the way
to the end, and then I just fell asleep and
knotted off. And I never saw the ball drop. But
I mean, who would watch CNN. I mean, if you did,
when you watch New Year's Rocket Eve or exactly, you
would watch it.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Well, I would have probably watched the one from Nashville,
but I had to be here and work.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Well, we had Donny pan Sam wasn't not Donny Johnny
pan Sam wasn't it. It was the year last year,
not the one that just ended, but the year before that,
and I remember watching that. So I did watch Nashville
last year and the ball drop and they Leonard skinnered
at the end, but it was I don't know who
would watch it at CNN, But I mean, it was
a rough year for all of.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That, so maybe it's fitting.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But this is becoming an annual tradition that these two
are drunk on New Year's Eve, And I'm like, and
you're the main anchor, You're the main franchise. I just
I wonder what Julie Talbot would do if I started
making a tradition of being on the air drunk every
minute versus sitting here.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What would top all of that? Is you and Bobby
Bones host a new and who called? And which one calls? Whosweety?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
By the way, that's chest him from the home office. Andrea, Yeah, why.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Is Jeffrey echoing in a tunnel? Good catch?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Love?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I think I have it corrected now, though, don't I?
She has a great ear, doesn't she? Now that we
got that fixed time for your top five stories up
the day?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I wanted to start this particular cast with some good news.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Wages are about to go up for millions of Americans.
Mark Mayfield explains a.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Total of twenty one stays are raising their wage floors
as the new year gets started.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The pay hikes are expected to affect more than nine
million workers.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Once the pay hikes are enacted, Washington will become the
state with the highest minimum wage at sixteen sixty six
an hour. York and California we'll share in second place,
offering workers sixteen fifty.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
This just in.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
In three states.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Most will be replaced by a kiosk.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Now, we're going to start
the year off with good news. All. So much for that.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
President Biden says he's grateful for the brave and swift
response from local law enforcement in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Brian Shook reports on our New Year's Day tragedy.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
He said his homeland security team has briefed him on
the deadly incident.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I'm not going to comment on any specific editor all.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
I've contacted every agency in the federal government as well
as a state.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
They're all coordinating to get.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
To the fair facts. Remember the factuating.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Biden has directed his team to ensure every resource is
available for the city. He added, his heart goes out
to the victims and their families who are simply trying
to celebrate the holiday. I'm Brian Shook, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So obviously there were concerns that this particular individual was
not acting alone and was the Sugar Bowl itself a
target that could not be resolved in time. The Sugar
Bowl in New Orleans was postponed until this afternoon for
Eastern after fifteen people were killed and dozens more injured
when a man drove a pickup truck through a crowded
Bourbon street early Wednesday morning. George's president, by the way,
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the university president confirmed a student was one of those
injured in the attack. Representative Troy Carter of Louisiana said
the decision to postpone the game was not done lightly,
yet it was done with one single thing in mind,
public safety. Meanwhile, the explosion and fire of a Teslas
cyber truck at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
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It's being investigated as a possible terror attack. Retired ATF
agent Scott Sweetee says early video evidence is showing that
the deadly fire was not an accident, but rather intentional.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can see multiple large flashes.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
You also hear whistling sounds in that video, and those
whistling sounds are very consistent with the fireworks that you
could buy as a consumer.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And set off.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
One person inside the cyber truck was killed and at
least seven others near the vehicle suffered minor injuries. The
Clark County Sheriff says the truck exploded burst into flames
Wednesday morning around eight forty am local time. It's unclear
if the dead person inside the cyber truck was a
man or a woman. Sheriff Kevin M. Mcmahill of Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirms the cyber truck was rented
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from the same company that the vehicle was rented from
used in the New Orleans attack.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We're looking for secondary devices.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
We're taking it slow, and we are going to make
sure that we remain safe in our community.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The World Health Organization is urging China to share its
coronavirus data related to the start of the pandemic rob
Marty eight reports.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
The organization, in a statement this week, says without transparency,
sharing and cooperation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent
and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. Some scientists think
COVID transferred from animals to humans, but others suspect it
escaped from a laboratory in China. China in the past
has rejected the lab theory. The country has not responded
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to the World Health Organization's request. I'm Rob Martyr. Well,
Joe Biden is doing some things before he leaves office.
He's giving the second highest civilian award the leaders of
the January sixth Congressional Panel, and he's writing some big
checks real quick for Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Lisa Carton reports more on that.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
On Monday, President Biden announced two and a half billion
dollars in security assistance for Ukraine. Biden said the US
will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen Ukraine's position in
its war with Russia for the remainder of his time
in office. February will mark three years since Russia invaded Ukraine.
On Sunday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called the USA crucial
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to stabilizing the front lines. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's a new year and a new generation. Michael Kasner reports.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
According to the demographers who helped define the generational age groups.
Generation Alpha came to an end at midnight, and those
born in the new year will technically be part of
Generation Beta.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
The experts say.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Gen Beta will include those born between twenty twenty five
and twenty thirty nine. They say by twenty thirty five,
Gen Beta will make up sixteen percent of the global
population and that many of them will live to see
the twenty second century.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm Michael cass Well.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Penn State's one of the final four. Texas is one
of the final four, although I think Arizona States told
everyone's heart and Ohio State got sweet revenge over the Ducks.
Therein all we await now is the Sugar Bowl winner,
Notre Dame Georgia. This afternoon at four Eastern Pistons winter over,
the Magic, Wizards beat the Bulls, MAVs lost to the Rockets,
and the Kings won.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
One thirteen, one oh.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Seven of the seventy six ers Kings on the ice,
one three Zip over the Devils.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael hild Joano
Hey, gang, it's me Michael. You can listen to your
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podcast Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well two three Starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in this Togebon This is your morning show with Michael Odell.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Charm YEP Guy says it believes the suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Who drove through a crowd at Bourbon Street in New
Orleans was not acting alone. Also, security barriers that would
have protected the crowds on Bourbon Street had been removed
before Wednesday's attack. Meanwhile, please say at Tesla cyber truck
exploded outside of Trump International Hotel in Vegas was rented
in Colorado, same company, by the way that the Bourbon
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Street terrorist rented his vehicle from. President elect Trump says
he plans to attend former President Jimmy Carter Carter's funeral
and official say the Sugar Bowl game between Georgia and
Notre Dame and New Orleans. We kick off today for
Eastern three Central, and that will get us started on
our next trip around the sun. Gang, Good morning, It
is eight minutes after the hour, and welcome to your
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don't you think it's time talk radio is a conversation again.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Can't have your morning show without your voice.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
For those of you that are listening on the iHeartRadio
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eight ninety five. You can always email me Michael d
at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, happy new year everyone, at
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least that's what everyone says, right, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
When the clock.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Strikes midnight, and it probably was, after all, what could
have possibly gone wrong? Yet, But as yesterday and New
Orleans proved, sometimes even that only lasts a few short hours. First,
I wish it were that easy. You could just wish
it and it would be so woola. But it doesn't
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work that way for New Year's any more than it
does for Happy Birthday or have a nice day. But
that doesn't stop us. At New Year's we shouted, we
wish it. We even try to eat it. Couldn't get cabbage,
it was sold out, but I had my black eyed
peas for good luck and my greens for money.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
In the new year.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We also desperately want to blame everything that's wrong in
our lives or that went wrong in our lives on
the previous year. We actually convince ourselves this year will
be different, this year will be better, even happy. The
problem is, while the calendar changes, we usually don't. Twenty
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twenty five, like all New Years, holds no magical powers
in it. The ball that drops to end one year
and light up the next simply serves to remind us
time is ticking, and it's ticking on our hopes, our dreams,
and yes, ticking on our lives.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
As for twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Four, well, it was a year filled with election uncertainty,
inflation and high cost of living certainty, along with very
little interest rate relief and skyrocketing home prices. The border
crisis continued, the spread of war abroad intensified, and the
widening of divisions at home, well.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They became even greater and short.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Twenty twenty four was another chilling reminder policies have consequences,
and in the end, Old Joe said bye bye to
running American voters said bye bye to Mama La Kamala,
and we all said hello again hello to Donald Trump.
Twenty twenty four also brought us a nerdy gymnast in
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thick glasses to ensure gold for us all, a women's
rugby star, and almost all of us set a big
hello to wicked star Cynthia Arrivo. We said goodbye to
Quincy Jones, Chris Christofferson, James Earl Jones, the say Hey Kid,
Willie Mays, and to our one hundred year old president,
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Jimmy Carter. And that's just to name a few. Personally,
Andrew and I had a challenging year taking care of
both of our mothers, including the long, slow goodbye as
they say, with hers. But I also said hello to
about fifty new radio markets, and in my forty three
years of radio, I've simply never loved what I do,
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who I do it with, and for whom I do
it for more in my life, and I suspect twenty
twenty four for You was filled with both good and bad.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
After all, that's life right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm not a big fan of resolutions that really wishes,
but here's a few reminders that I think may help
all of us make solid, real life changes rather than
a bunch of wishes and dreams. One, we are who
we are, and we are all right where we are
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by the choices we have made and or our reactions,
not responses to circumstances.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That were out of our control.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Circumstances and choices, they shape our lives and our values, beliefs,
learned experiences, and priorities. Well, they shape our choices, and ultimately,
together they shape our destiny. Confused yet, wonder what comes first,
the choices or the character that makes them. Like all
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the great mysteries in life, The answer is, of course both.
I mean, if we don't like our lives, let's stop
blaming the year.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Let's change. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The type of personal responsibility and willpower it will take
to do those changes.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well, that needs character.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I promise together it'll create more than just a
happy New Year. It could make a happy new you
knew me, whether it's eating, exercising, smoking, spending laziness. Do
I have to put nick Atte on that list, Jeffrey,
I guess I probably I should write it down and
do it. Otherwise I suspect twenty twenty five is going
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to go up like twenty twenty four. The second reminder,
New Year's is a lot about the future, the mysterious unknown,
as much as it is about a clean slate and
a new start. And here's what I know most about
the future. It is shaped by today and polished or
tarnished by the unexpected. The future is rarely about the expected.
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I mean, ask any presidential candidate. It's mostly about the
unexpected in what we do with it, meaning our response
to the unexpected. Now here's the truth. Prepared people respond,
Unprepared people react. What's the difference success and failure? Hey,
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sometimes even life and death when attacked. The prepared person
always responds, calmly, measured with successful actions. The unprepared, well,
they almost always react and too quickly and regretfully, and
it usually ends not just in failure, but with the
problem bigger than the one that attacked them to start with.
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So we're all right where we are and who we are,
shaped by the choices we have made and our responses
or reactions to circumstances that happened. I mean, if that's
how we got here, how do we get out of
this mess? Or for one? Better character? Thus different, wiser,
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Better choices and character can come from a host of areas,
could come from role modeling, or from wisdom from having
lived and learned. For me, I guess it mostly boils
down to faith and obedience wherever you find it. Here's
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the good news. While twenty twenty five may not have
any magical powers in a printed calendar, it does hold
for all of us three hundred and sixty five days
with twenty four hours in each to make better choices.
And who knows, better choices might equal a healthier you,
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a more fulfilled you, a better you. Hey, it could
equal a happier you. Thus, finally, even a happy New Year. Anyway,
that's my wish and prayer for you. I'm Michael del Jorno,
and this is the New Year, and this is your
morning show.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
It's your morning show with Michael del Jono.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Boy, did Arizona State put on a show or what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Have you ever seen such a show stealing team that
doesn't advance and lost? I mean they grabbed victory even
from defeat. It's got a bush, got a boosh when
you do the fun gundor the boat of lightning, very
very frightening. All right, So in the end, I've got
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to do this for my son Nicholas. Do you want
to know the top six right before the Bulls season?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oregon was one, Georgia was two, Texas was three, Notre
Dame was four, Ohio State their Penn State was fifth.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ohio State was sixth. We got all the same teams.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know, we make us such a big deal out
of this every year, and I do think you know
those first game, the first round where they were they
were at their home. That was kind of fun, but
they were all one sided. So far, we haven't had
the Notre Dame Georgia version. Might not be very good
for Notre Dame the way things have been trending because
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none of these games have been closed and when it's
all said and done, if we end up with Georgia,
Penn State, Texas, Ohio State, are we really did we
learn anything from twelve that we wouldn't have guessed with four?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But I mean it's been fun, right games.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, And I think what it did solidify too, was
that the bowl games themselves, unless they're involved with this playoff,
just have no meaning. And when you combine that with
a portal nightmare, which which is a simple fix you
don't allow the portal to be made until after bowl season,
but it's just destroyed the entire bowl system. The only
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bowls that are going to matter are the ones that
are affiliated with the National Championship. But anyway, we did
get our winners, and I thought, you know, some really
great games along the way. In the end, you're you're
going to get the answer to the Notre Dame piece
and Georgia. I think it'll be Georgia and Penn State
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will await that winner. Easy win over Boys State thirty
one to fourteen, Texas double overtime with Arizona State thirty
nine thirteen. I mean, you were three hundred and twenty
two yards three touchdowns. But how about scatabo a forty
two yard touchdown pass Puss. He ran for one hundred
and forty three yards and two touchdowns, including a two
point convert.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I mean, they just put on a show.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Everyone will remember the twenty twenty five Bowl season by
this Texas Arizona State game and then for Texas, who's
the winner?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Are you really get ready? Ohio State?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think David and as Anai and I had dinner
just a couple of nights ago, and we both saw
this coming. David especially, everybody thought Ohio State, after losing
to Michigan, you know it's time to fire the coach.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And you knew, you knew.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They were going to come back with vengeance, and they
did against the Balls and then they pounded and took
advantage and got sweet revenge over the Ducks forty one
to twenty one. And it wasn't even that close at
the Rose Bowl. Will Howard, I mean, this guy is
like got it all, doesn't he? For the for the NFL.
He's got the size, he's got the arm, he can
read defenses. Three hundred nineteen yards, three touchdowns, and he's
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got a freshman wide receiver in Jeremiah Smith. It's amazing.
One hundred and eighty seven yards and two touchdowns. So
the Sugar Bowl will be this afternoon at four o'clock
in New Orleans Eastern Orange Bowl. The semi final will
be Penn State versus the winner of tonight's Notre Dame
Georgia game. Cotton Bowl semi finals Ohio State and Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
That'll be almost a home game for the Longhorns right
in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And basketball, the Pistons beat the Magic one oh five
to ninety six, Wizards won twenty five one oh seven
over the Bulls, MAV's lost by eleven of the Rockets,
and the Kings won one thirteen one oh seven to
the seventy six ers on the ice, Kings three zip
over the Devil's. Kings now in second place in the
Pacific Division, just four points behind Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And if you're just.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Waking up these ah yah the top five stories of
the day, although it really kind of boils down to
a top two stories, doesn't it. Numero Uno President Biden
says the man who drove through a crowded Bourbon street
to New Orleans was possibly inspired by Isis Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Biden gave remarks Wednesday night at Camp David on what
he called the despicable attack on Bourbon Street in New
Orleans that left at least fifteen people dead and injured
dozens more.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The mere hours before the attack.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He posted videos on social.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Media indicating is inspired by ISIS, A desire to kill,
desire to kill.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
FBX spokesperson ALTHEA. Duncan said at a news conference. The
man has been identified as forty two year old chamsud
Din Jabbar, who was a US born citizen from Texas
that also served in the Army. An ISIS flag was
found on the trailer hitch of the pickup truck that
he used. Investigators do not believe that Jabbar acted alone.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm Mark Mayfield, President elect forty seven, plans to attend
the funeral of thirty nine Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Trump made the comment Tuesday while speaking to reporters at
a New Year's Eve celebration at mar A Lago. Former
President Carter died Sunday at the age of one hundred.
Trump wouldn't say if he had look to the Carter
family since his death, but said he would attend the
state funeral for Carter next week in Washington. He also
predicted that Republican Mike Johnson would retain his position as
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House Speaker and double down on his support for HB
one visas for high skilled immigrants.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm Brian shuck Services.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Former President Jimmy Carter will begin January fourth in his
hometown of Plains, Georgia. Carter will lie in response at
the Carter Presidential Center. Then the thirty ninth President will
lie in state at the Rotunda at the US Capitol
on Tuesday. The Seventh Day Service at Washington National Cathedral
will follow on January the ninth. Officials say the Sugar
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Bowl game between Georgia and Notre Dame in New Orleans
will kick off today for Eastern three Central. Former longtime
FBI official Rob Diamico says other college bowl games and
big New Year's events stepped up security following yesterday morning's attack,
but accounting for every possible scenario is still a challenge.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Security can only do so much.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
You have to really look at where the biggest crowd
and the most vulnerability is going to be.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
You want to put all your resources and assets because
that's the worst catastrophic event.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The explosion and fire of a Tesla cyber truck at
Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is being investigated as
another possible terrorist attack. Retired ATF agent Scott Sweette says
early video evidence is showing that the deadly fire was
not an accident.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
You can see multiple large flashes. You also hear whistling
sounds in that video, and those whistling sounds are very
consistent with the sort of fireworks that you could buy
as a consumer.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And so, and that's your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I'm executive Chef George Harvel. My Morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael del Jornah.
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And this morning we welcome WFDF nine ten am in Detroit, Michigan.
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Speaker 3 (18:27):
This is your morning show.
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I am Michael del Joe of the teams back together
around a what I call the mission from God.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
We have all eyes on.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It was interesting I think to unpack this first was
a terrorism that'll pop up in our sounds of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
FBI. Quick, No, it's not terrorism, first.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Of all, and this is kind of a reminder moment
for us Aul not a teacher, shouldn't be a teachable moment.
The FBI itself defines terrorism as the unlawful youth use
of violence or force, in this case a rented truck
mowing down innocent people in the street after midnight on
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New Year's Mourning, but any use of violence or force
against people or property to intimidate, coerce a government, a
civilian population, or any segment thereof. Now, we have non
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defining working things that are kind of in our head.
When you see names like shamsu Din Jabar, used tend
to oh, that's terrorism because that's a Muslim name. Well,
not necessarily. Now, when you add that samsu din Jabbar
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had a trail of ISIS support in his social media
footprint and a flag go on the truck, then you
can connect the dots. That shouldn't have been hard for
the FBI. It certainly wasn't hard for local law enforcement.
The next twist, of course, was the Turo rentals, which
is the we have a little debate going on here
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at your morning show thanks to the Nick Saban commercials
two of my members favor, but they know is it
vbro or vb r O?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
How do they say it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
V bro.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Usually they just say vbro O.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
But I mean, you know, it's kind of like remember
when we used to say, hey, what would you like
to drink?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
We say coke? Well we only have Pepsis that okay?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Because coke became synonymous instead of pop or soda or
soft drink. The same is true for band aid. Nobody says,
hand me a cureaid. Even if you give me a
cure aid, I asked for a band aid, So for me,
Airbnb is kind of the synonymous name with this concept.
I own this property, but I'm gonna let you stay
and pay for it for a little while, make a
(21:01):
vacation out of my home. Well, tururo Rental is kind
of that of cars. The quick conclusion to make is
it wasn't some confused people that the Tesla cyber truck
that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Vegas was
a turo Rental, as was the pickup truck that mowed
(21:21):
down to escent people on Bourbon Street. I think it
was to be less traceable more than connected through terrorism.
But we could even decide if it was terrorism or not. Right,
So let's start with just a few hours after the
ball drops on the New Year, and the death toll
has now risen to fifteen, with about thirty people injured.
The truck hit people celebrating New Year's even the French
(21:41):
Quarter on Bourbon Street. One of the interesting twists to
all of this is that the security barriers that would
have protected crowds on Bourbon Street had been removed before
Wednesday's attack. This area is always barricaded off, usually every
Friday and Saturday night. Quite frankly, you can't drive on
Bourbon Street because of the crowds. But whenever there is
Super Bowls or National Championships or Bowl games or New
(22:04):
Year's which has become New Orleans. I think New Orleans
and Nashville really kind of rival New York City now
as New Year's Eve destinations. By the way, in our
Sound of the Day, I almost want to play it
just a real quick what is the deal with CNN
(22:28):
just kind of going all goofy on New Year's Eve?
All right, So it's a news network with its primary
news anchor stars, So this would be like Dan rather
in the day or Walter Cronkite in the day, Walter
Cronkite joining Dick Clark drunk with shots. I just I
(22:51):
look at this culturally and I find it a little outrageous.
So they pick, you know, two game reporters to host
New Year's Eve. Who cares that they're gay, right except
for their content if you're watching, And then they slowly
get sloshed, and then they ring in the New Year drunk,
(23:12):
and they did it again this year.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Listen, cheers, Hey, everybody, thanks for hanging out with us. Yeah,
thanks for all the love.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
And I hope twenty twenty five is everything.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Really what it is to be get fired?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Sweety?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I think I don't think you all right?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So that's Anderson Cooper, So pretend that's Walter Kronkit and
he just referred to him as sweetie ye and he
times in clearly slurring his words.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I hope we don't get fired. Hoped that every year
I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
A day, guys, what this clip would have got him fired?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I hope twenty twenty five is everything really what it
is to be get fired?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well, Sweety, I think I don't think you're going to
get fired now. I do want to interrupt and say
I am a little insulted.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
In fact, from now on, right, I'd like you to
call me honey, Bun and Jeffrey, I'd like you to
refer to me as sweetie. All right, sugar, sugar, I
like sugar when you're good.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I got a contract. I'm going back to you. I
got a contract, but you're probably gonna get fired. It
is really so funny.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He is always so uptight and then he gets loose
on New Year's Oh yeah, yeah, he speaks when he walks.
May I just say, for the record, there's just something
about Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I do like I do like Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But all right, so here's you know, I don't know.
This is like Martin and Lewis, only both are drunk.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Brother, you are come.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
New season of the Outside of Atlanta, coming out of
amazing stuff, coming out.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Alright, like you haven't pulugged whatever.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
The Mayor's still running around enough really kindness in twenty
twenty five kindness.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
He's indicted kind because everybody needed fighting a great battle.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Yes kind of the battle, because everybody has been indapmens,
that's what he is fighting.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Dial it down, bringing it into the new year. Right,
all right, okay, well let's talk. We don't want to
wake up in the morning with a shoulda?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Is that Anderson Cooper trying to talk Italian? By the way,
the only person watching was Kamala Harris, also drunk.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Wake up with extra Twitter or whatever, because my son
is gonna wake us, wake me up, Yes, very, my son's.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Gonna wake up. And you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I'm gonna go home, and I'm gonna go into my
to Wyatt's room and I'm gonna go sleep in white
Guess what.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Before that, we're gonna go crash Patty LuPone.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That that's what we're all right, cheers everybody yours. You know,
there's a lot of people wondering how can CNN somehow
resurrect this failed network.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Maybe they should just start anchoring drunk.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
The sad part is nobody would have seen or known
about that if it weren't for social media.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Now everybody, well, yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't.
I don't know that. This is the first year. By
the way, I didn't watch anything.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I had a this is not for an air, but
we had a uh, we had a Christmas party for
the for for friends and and and staff. I guess
you would say, I don't view you as staff, I
mean fat friends, and then extended friends and family here
at the house. And then we were in the hospital
the next morning. Oh and that was how my entire
(26:45):
vacation went. And so now I had to get the
apartment empty, cleaned, repaired. My wife is an absolute hero.
This is for your mom, right from my mom. Then
we had to go empty the assisted living home that
we had just settled as mom has transitioned now to
full full skilled nursing.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And then we had a transition from the hospital there.
So our entire I mean we had Christmas Eve off
that we got off.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
We went to George we ate and did our little traditions.
But other than that, my week vacation at Thanksgiving was
all family health related with my mother and then the
entire week so listen, they're drunk. I just wanted to
get back to work sober, you know, and and and
(27:30):
get back to normal.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It was obviously a crazy busy time for all of us.
But for the first time, I did not even watch
New Year's Rocking Eve. I didn't watch anything. I didn'tven
see the ball drop. I just we had been moving
and cleaning, and I mean I had no got home.
I just I went in my bedroom to have a
moment of silence and it turned into sleep.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So I missed New Year's altogether. I did watch a
movie which.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I highly recommend, Unsung Hero, and I won't spoil a
surprise for you because I enjoyed it so much. But
the big takeaway was who that person was at the
very end, not the unsung hero, that's the mom, but
who the daughter went on to be.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It just blew me away. It was kind of like
a sixth sense moment, Oh that's who that is.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They didn't reveal it and held it all the way
to the end, and then I just fell asleep and
knotted off. And I never saw the ball drop. But
I mean, who would watch CNN. I mean, if you did,
when you watch New Year's Rocket Eve or exactly, you
would watch it.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Well, I would have probably watched the one from Nashville,
but I had to be here and work.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Well, we had Donny pan Sam wasn't not Donny Johnny
pan Sam wasn't it. It was the year last year,
not the one that just ended, but the year before that,
and I remember watching that. So I did watch Nashville
last year and the ball drop and they Leonard skinnered
at the end, but it was I don't know who
would watch it at CNN, But I mean, it was
a rough year for all of.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That, so maybe it's fitting.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But this is becoming an annual tradition that these two
are drunk on New Year's Eve, And I'm like, and
you're the main anchor, You're the main franchise. I just
I wonder what Julie Talbot would do if I started
making a tradition of being on the air drunk every
minute versus sitting here.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What would top all of that? Is you and Bobby
Bones host a new and who called? And which one calls? Whosweety?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
By the way, that's chest him from the home office. Andrea, Yeah, why.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Is Jeffrey echoing in a tunnel? Good catch?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Love?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I think I have it corrected now, though, don't I?
She has a great ear, doesn't she? Now that we
got that fixed time for your top five stories up
the day?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I wanted to start this particular cast with some good news.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Wages are about to go up for millions of Americans.
Mark Mayfield explains a.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Total of twenty one stays are raising their wage floors
as the new year gets started.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The pay hikes are expected to affect more than nine
million workers.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Once the pay hikes are enacted, Washington will become the
state with the highest minimum wage at sixteen sixty six
an hour. York and California we'll share in second place,
offering workers sixteen fifty.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
This just in.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
In three states.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Most will be replaced by a kiosk.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Now, we're going to start
the year off with good news. All. So much for that.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
President Biden says he's grateful for the brave and swift
response from local law enforcement in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Brian Shook reports on our New Year's Day tragedy.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
He said his homeland security team has briefed him on
the deadly incident.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I'm not going to comment on any specific editor all.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
I've contacted every agency in the federal government as well
as a state.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
They're all coordinating to get.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
To the fair facts. Remember the factuating.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Biden has directed his team to ensure every resource is
available for the city. He added, his heart goes out
to the victims and their families who are simply trying
to celebrate the holiday. I'm Brian Shook, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So obviously there were concerns that this particular individual was
not acting alone and was the Sugar Bowl itself a
target that could not be resolved in time. The Sugar
Bowl in New Orleans was postponed until this afternoon for
Eastern after fifteen people were killed and dozens more injured
when a man drove a pickup truck through a crowded
Bourbon street early Wednesday morning. George's president, by the way,
(31:16):
the university president confirmed a student was one of those
injured in the attack. Representative Troy Carter of Louisiana said
the decision to postpone the game was not done lightly,
yet it was done with one single thing in mind,
public safety. Meanwhile, the explosion and fire of a Teslas
cyber truck at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
(31:38):
It's being investigated as a possible terror attack. Retired ATF
agent Scott Sweetee says early video evidence is showing that
the deadly fire was not an accident, but rather intentional.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can see multiple large flashes.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
You also hear whistling sounds in that video, and those
whistling sounds are very consistent with the fireworks that you
could buy as a consumer.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And set off.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
One person inside the cyber truck was killed and at
least seven others near the vehicle suffered minor injuries. The
Clark County Sheriff says the truck exploded burst into flames
Wednesday morning around eight forty am local time. It's unclear
if the dead person inside the cyber truck was a
man or a woman. Sheriff Kevin M. Mcmahill of Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirms the cyber truck was rented
(32:27):
from the same company that the vehicle was rented from
used in the New Orleans attack.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We're looking for secondary devices.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
We're taking it slow, and we are going to make
sure that we remain safe in our community.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The World Health Organization is urging China to share its
coronavirus data related to the start of the pandemic rob
Marty eight reports.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
The organization, in a statement this week, says without transparency,
sharing and cooperation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent
and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. Some scientists think
COVID transferred from animals to humans, but others suspect it
escaped from a laboratory in China. China in the past
has rejected the lab theory. The country has not responded
(33:06):
to the World Health Organization's request. I'm Rob Martyr. Well,
Joe Biden is doing some things before he leaves office.
He's giving the second highest civilian award the leaders of
the January sixth Congressional Panel, and he's writing some big
checks real quick for Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Lisa Carton reports more on that.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
On Monday, President Biden announced two and a half billion
dollars in security assistance for Ukraine. Biden said the US
will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen Ukraine's position in
its war with Russia for the remainder of his time
in office. February will mark three years since Russia invaded Ukraine.
On Sunday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called the USA crucial
(33:45):
to stabilizing the front lines. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's a new year and a new generation. Michael Kasner reports.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
According to the demographers who helped define the generational age groups.
Generation Alpha came to an end at midnight, and those
born in the new year will technically be part of
Generation Beta.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
The experts say.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Gen Beta will include those born between twenty twenty five
and twenty thirty nine. They say by twenty thirty five,
Gen Beta will make up sixteen percent of the global
population and that many of them will live to see
the twenty second century.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm Michael cass Well.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Penn State's one of the final four. Texas is one
of the final four, although I think Arizona States told
everyone's heart and Ohio State got sweet revenge over the Ducks.
Therein all we await now is the Sugar Bowl winner,
Notre Dame Georgia. This afternoon at four Eastern Pistons winter over,
the Magic, Wizards beat the Bulls, MAVs lost to the Rockets,
and the Kings won.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
One thirteen, one oh.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Seven of the seventy six ers Kings on the ice,
one three Zip over the Devils.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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