January 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Biden sabotage games leaving and understanding Zuckerberg and FB about face.
The American people spoke very clearly in the election, will they watch intently to make sure why they voted is carried out??!! We discussed with senior contributor Dave Zanotti if they left plays the same games that cost them the election…what more will it cost them next?
Elvis 90th Birthday, we will visit with foremost Tom Brown from Tupelo on why he was the King, and still lives through his music today!
Millions of Americans are being walloped by brutal winter weather this week, with more on the way. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will take a look at the weather pattern, and how the rest of the month is shaping up.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Welcome to Wednesday, January, the eighth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five. The Palisades fires have reached the Pacific
Ocean and the winds are making it very difficult to
put these out, and the ambers that are falling are
just starting new fires. Well have the very latest with
Rory O'Neal in about forty two minutes. Elvis turns ninety today.
For those who believe he's still alive, he's ninety. For
(00:57):
those who believe he is not, he would have been
ninety today. The King, What made in the King? How
does his music survive and his career survive after all
these years. Tom Brown, one of the foremost authorities from Graceland,
will be joining us a little bit later on. And
Donald Trump had the news conference of all news conferences yesterday,
and he did address the spiteful Joe Biden Kamakazi presidency
(01:20):
and the things they're doing on the way out the door.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt
to block the reforms of the American people, and that
they voted for They just we had a landslide election.
We won every swing state, We won the popular vote
by millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I love the way he word framed that the American
people spoke in a very clear voice. Now when we
start looking at the numbers, in the clearest voice, stop
the bleeding and secure the border. Don't let anybody else in.
If it's technology, if it's troops, if it's walls, end it,
stop it. For those who took love or broke the law,
(02:01):
after breaking the law entering illegally to port them, He's
got a blank check to do that, and to drill,
baby drill, and to end a lot of these regulations
that are stifling the economy, and to bring down energy
costs in with the cost of living and secure the
tax cuts. He's got carte blanche to do that. When
(02:24):
you start drifting into renaming the Golf of Mexico the
Golf of America, although I do think Golf of Americas
would be more appropriate, you might be getting a little
more off topic and giving fodder for the left. But
it was a very extensive news conference, and the president,
unlike the sitting president, answers questions, and that's when the talks.
(02:45):
The topics change, and he's a negotiator and you're asking
specific questions about taking things off the table.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Within the left media goes he's threatening war, He's going
to take over a content in a country.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, all this nonsense To the point of that
little clip on the offshore band, for example, the American
people spoke very clearly in this election, and they'll be
watching intently to make sure that what the reason they
voted the way they did is carried out. So he
first and foremost needs to focus on leading and doing it.
(03:20):
He doesn't really need to comment along the way. But
if the Democrats ignored that and lost and continue to
ignore that and try to obstruct. What's the further cost
for them if they play that game? Because the midterms
will be here before you know it. David's and not
(03:41):
He's with the American Policy Roundtable, he is the co
host of the Public Square. He's also presides over I voters. David,
what do you make of the games? First of all,
we don't even know if Joe Biden's been president. I
presume he hasn't been. So who's never been president? Is
doing all this nonsense? But they continue to ignore the
(04:02):
wild American people. What might be the greater cost for
them if they continue to play this game?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well? This is such a weird time, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I mean weird slash beautiful. There's something different in the air.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Half the nation is coughing and half hacking in the
largest state in the Union is running from the fires.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
What a strange set of headlines today.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
And then there's Zuckerberg, who listening to his voice alone
is like taking too big of a spoonful of the
sweetest breakfast through you can imagine with warm milk.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Take your time, because we're gonna we're gonna dress Zuckerberg
in full coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But let's just put to rest.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If they want to see when he got into certain
things yesterday, I was like, don't go there. Remember when
I said it this way and again, Donald Trump is
Donald Trump. I'm a nobody, But I would think, you
don't need to keep campaigning, you don't need to keep
fighting fights. You want just get in and govern. And
when you get into some of these side top and
(05:02):
they come up mostly during questions, which is then unfairly
twisted and used against him, you get off topic. I
would be laser focused on the border in the economy,
and I would just start acting and not even comment
on what these morons are doing, because everybody sees it
and gets it already.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
That makes me wonder, Michael, I don't have an answer
for this. It's an honest question without an answer prescripted.
I think sometimes he just enjoys messing with the press,
and so he's got a group of people that are focused,
laser focused on what they're going to do, and instead
of walking down that path with the media, he's going
(05:37):
to go ahead and just talk with him about what's
on his mind and let them chase every rabbit that
he sets up while he gets his job and.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
There could be part of stress, and there could be
brilliance to that, don't get me wrong, you know, and
that leads right into the Zuckerberg conversation because it's and
that's why I probably shouldn't have, but I used the
devil as an analogy Donald Trump. Donald Trump's already won.
The media is already defeated. Now I unders stand they
made his life a living hell. Government officials, government agencies
(06:06):
all the way to an assassination attempt, fanning those flames,
the media, controlling the narrative, social media, you know, silencing
any opposition voices. I'm sure there's a temptation for Donald
Trump to have a lot of what would be the
expression that be most appropriate, unfinished business scores to settle.
That would eat at him, but it'd be wasted time
(06:28):
because he doesn't know it, or maybe he does. You
defeated the mainstream media, you defeated the internet. And I
don't mean you because you won another four years in
a presidency. You turn down the light switch, along with
Elon Musk and others, and the truth has been seen
and it can't be unseen.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They have no ratings, they have no revenue, they have
no influence. They're not even dead anymore. They're decomposing. They're
rotting as a corpse. I don't think you need to
spend any time addressing that, especially with the majority of
the American people in the mandate they've given him. But
I could be wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
No, I think you've got a very good point there,
And I'm going to go back to Zuckerberg for just
a second.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And yeah, because if his slips are moving, trust me,
he's not done and he's still lying.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Well, the premise of all of it is, as you
mentioned earlier. I don't know if people here when you
talk about when Zuckerberg talks about returning to his roots,
if we're going to return to the roots of Facebook,
then we better go back to the dorm rooms at
Harvard where he was bullying women who wouldn't go out
with him and traded Facebook as a rating system to
(07:29):
crush them.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
In regards to a perfection.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Culture, even the left, who likes to rewrite history and
rewrite reality daily, had to begin their movie with that. Yeah,
that was the motivation. The central theme in that whole
movie was not the technology that changed our lives, but
his obsession in his life in trying to strike back
(07:52):
at a girl who rejected him. Well, this is the
way the movie begins there and ends there. Do you remember,
and so this and you capture that one great line
of it. And you were doing this while you should
have been doing what. But the second piece of all
of that is the introduction into our culture of the
(08:13):
digital methodology of turning humans into products. And we missed
all that. When everyone came out, I can remember pastors
lecturing us on the power of using the now free opportunities.
We don't have to buy radio time anymore, we don't
have to buy television time anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We can just get on Facebook.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
We don't have to print bulletins anymore.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
We can do all of this stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
And then it took us a while to finally realize
that while we were doing that, we were making Mark
Zuckerberg the youngest richest multi billionaire in the history of
the planet, because we were delivering over to him all
of our data, which he was then turning around and
marketing brilliantly at wonderful and extraordinary profitability. But it hasn't
stopped there. Google's doing the same thing right now. The
(08:59):
whole world is running after YouTube as if it is
the great deliverance. Well, the fact of the matter is,
look at YouTube makes me crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I'm not the next man.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It doesn't take long before becomes next demon up right
wow wow? Yeah, on that we can just dismount right
where a where are my thick glasses like the gymnast?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So for Zuckerberg, and I would say this much is true.
I don't think he was ever really driven by greed
and money. He was driven by acceptance from women, and
one woman in particular. But don't be misled by that.
He doesn't have personal interest in the wealth, but he
(09:44):
likes to use his wealth to influence his worldview, a
worldview that I would suspect most listening to the show
this morning would find very anathetical to not only freedom
of speech, but all aspects of what we cherish and
is necessary in our intent as a republic. It's like yesterday,
I'm out of my back porch. Gosh, those are good
old days. That's when I used to be able to
breathe and smoke. Now I can't even breathe, and I'm
(10:06):
not a smoker. But you know, And we saw him
come into Ohio with millions and millions of dollars on
these ballot issues. He's been doing that ever since. He's
been trying to win and score elections along with George
Soros and other bad players, and doing it mostly with
his checkbook too, So make no mistake about how he's
using as wealth. Now, all the sudden he cares about
(10:28):
freedom of speech. Now, all the sudden he wants to
role model the devil himself, Elon Musk and the way
exis facts checking. And so it begs the question, do
we really think he releases that video yesterday if Donald
Trump had lost and Kamala Harris was about to be president, Well, yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Market has just gotten hing walked away from him and
he's no longer a hero. And I think that's what
really bothers him is because what like everybody else, meet you,
everybody else, he's got an ego, and he cares about
what people think about him. And suddenly, you know, it
was cute being it was cute being the guy wearing
the dark hat for a while, but now he's uncomfortable
with it now. And I was, we're back to the
(11:07):
emperor syndrome. We've got to return to our roots.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Part of this, Michael is a vengeance. Mentality is a
concept of certain people feel that they that America owes
them an answer, and they have scores to settle and
they have to get even with the American reality. But
there's a bigger question here, and it's hard to talk
about in brief periods of time. It's even hard to
talk about if you got an hour. Yeah, And that's
(11:31):
the notion of why do we need this technology? What
in us makes us think that we need these digital
platforms where we can simply open up a computer screen,
say whatever we want and think we're significant.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Suddenly everybody's an anchor, everybody's a talk host, so everybody's
a pastor, everybody's a life coach. What they are insecure
people very lonely, not having real, meaning fulfilled interaction with
human beings as God intended, and trying to fill it
with an artificial source. And just like those who try
(12:09):
to use drugs to fill it with an artificial source,
it never fills up a void that you were created
to fill in a different way.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And it's a fool's chase, it really is.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I want to just end with this is I think
I would say, yes, this is a victory for free speech. Yes,
I think Facebook and Zuckerberg has been defeated. I think
he probably cares more about Instagram and AI and where
meta is headed than Facebook itself, which is now mostly
just old people posting memes. But should he be trusted? Wow,
(12:44):
unfair to put you in a judgment seat like that.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
But no, no, no, that's such a good question. That's
such a good question. I'm not even sure that it
requires an answer. The very fact we have to ask
it is the answer in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
He hasn't given up his worldview, He hasn't given up
his ambitions for America in the world.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Let me answer the question with a question, why should
Mark Zuckerberg be relevant to anyone's life, let alone the
life of our.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Nation at all?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And that's our dysfunction, not his.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Next, it's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The plate is pretty simple to set. We got wildfires,
three big ones out of control from the Palisades to
the Pacific Ocean. The winds aren't helping putting any of
them out, and new ambers are starting new ones. Trump
with a pretty long news conference yesterday to break down,
and the thirty ninth President of the United States arrived
at the Capitol Rotunda to be a lion state. And
then the National Services are tomorrow we're visiting with David Sonati.
(15:30):
I went through something. I'm gonna give a real short
version of this. There's John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan,
and then there's everybody else. I mean, there's just no
comparing Kennedy sixty eight percent net positive, Reagan thirty eight
net positive. Then Barack Obama's at twenty one percent, hw
Bush seven percent, Jimmy Carter's at six percent. Time has
been good to Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Time.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Carter went from minus thirty two when he left office
to plus six now at burial and then Bill Clinton
was at plus twenty five when he left office. Now
he's just at plus five. Time has not been good
to Bill Clinton. Donald Trump time has been very good too.
He left office minus thirty two, re enters office at
minus four. But Joe Biden is headed to the bottom
of the heap with Richard Nixon as one of the
(16:17):
worst presidents ever. He starts at minus thirty five, and
I don't believe time's going to be kind to him.
In fact, I think it's going to prove that he
wasn't even really president. But what do you make of
all these presidential ratings and the interesting nature in which
some are remembered through time better than when they leave
and the others vice versa.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Well, the fact that we're talking about it is helpful
because presidents do matter. Now, we've talked so many times together.
A television and the legacy media has turned the presidency
into a side freak show, if you will, where we
really put way.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Too much confidence, trust, etc.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
We've been through all that, but look, I mean, I
spent much of last night studying the Van Buren administration
and the life of John Quincy Adams, a former president
who went back to serve in the United States Congress
and died on the floor of the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
John Quincy Adams one of the unsung heroes. Time is
not done hundreds of years. He'll continue to grow Washington.
Lincoln Kennedy, the first television president, and the mystery of
his death. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a revolution. Trump
will be a revolution. He'll ultimately craft his legacy with
this second term.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know if we can do tomorrow, but if
we can, can we do that more tomorrow. I'd love
to get into some of these presidential legacies because I
don't know why. It's so hard to say, but Jimmy
Carter was a terrible president. He was a good man.
And that's what America is dealing with this week, is
he lays to rest. We'll do more maybe tomorrow. David,
thanks for your time. Got to break. Elvis turns ninety.
One of the foremost authorities joins us.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Next.
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We've got the Palisades Fire reaching all the way to
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and our capital. And the House is passing the Lincoln
Riley Act to ramp up border security. And today I
say this would have been or for those that believe
he's still alive. Is Elvis's ninetieth birthday and one of
(19:22):
the foremost authorities. I used to listen to him on
SiriusXM all the time. From gracelamb is Tom Brown, and
he joins us from Tupelow this morning. He's also the
co producer of the Nashville Elvis Festival that's coming up
in March.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Tom, we have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It seems like all the time Elvis why he was
the king, and how the King still lives through his
music and work. He's bigger than ever.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
And I was going to say, every generation finds Elvis,
and I wanted to first of all, good morning to you.
Happy Elvis' birthday. And actually I'm not in my hometown
and Elvis's hometown of Tupelo. I'm actually at Graceland about
to go out on the lawn and help host the
birthday celebration in the front lawn with all the fans
(20:03):
of Graceland here for the ninetieth birthday. So I'm very
honored to be on hallow ground to Elvis fans here at.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Wethand you always live when it comes to Elvis, You're
always right there and living a more exciting life than me.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
We've talked about this.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know that the fast the most fascinating thing I've
often shared with you is my son and his reaction.
Now there's no reaction to the movies. I enjoyed the
movies and I still watch them every now and then.
Doesn't get the movies, but he does get the music.
The Elvis is that way, The Beatles are that way.
Not everyone, but some Why Elvis? What was so unique
about Elvis? Because I think he was probably one of
(20:39):
the most gifted entertainers ever.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I think there's there's something about certain people that you
hear the you know, the old saying when they walked
into the room, everybody knew they were there. That's that's
what people said about Elvis. I think what it was
in the fifties was he represented a new generation, a
different voice for young people that were listening. You know,
their parents were me to Perry Como and watching Ed
Sullivan and that youth generation. You know, you're less than
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ten years out of World War Two, and that generation
didn't have anyone. Elvis represented that different, totally different kind
of sound and look. And I think at all points
during his career there were new generations of people, and
it happens even today. And one of the sayings that
we have is no matter your age, if you get
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Elvis in front of the young people, Elvis will take
care of the rest. He's been doing it since nineteen
fifty four.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So uniqueness.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
There's just something unique, something about the voice and the
look and the whole combination.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You really don't get on stage unless you have the
life right. So you've got to be one of two
twins that survives. You got to be raised in a
single room home, You've got to be influenced by blues music,
gospel music. I mean, all of that's a part of it,
but you know, and the uniqueness is you're right to
point that out. Thinking I go back to even the Hayrite.
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I mean, nobody knew who he was and it was instant.
There was just there was a giftedness, charisma and a
stage presence that maybe we could bring up names like
Michael Jackson, but very few. This guy had the talent,
the voice, and the ability to own a room no
matter how big, in fact, probably bigger than every room combined, and.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
To make a song his own, make someone else's song
his own, and just spoke to people. And here's the
one statistic I wanted to hit you with a number.
I went back and looked at this. On the day
the movie opened, the Elvis movie that came out in
June of twenty twenty two with Austin Butler, which we
credit with bringing an entirely new generation of fan into Elvis.
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But it wasn't just the movie. The movie opened the
door for them to consider Elvis, and when they went
to Elvis, they stayed there's something about him. On the
day he On the day that movie opened, there were
thirteen point seven million fans following Elvis on Spotify thirteen
point seven million today forty seven point eight Wow. A
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little bit of a difference. The movie opened the door.
They stayed for the music. They stayed for Elvis. And
just like your son, doesn't matter which prong of the
attack of Elvis, the movies, the look, the sound, something's
going to latch onto them. And for your son it
was the song. Not even knowing what the guy looked like,
knowing nothing about his history, the music, you said one
(23:35):
time you were flipping around and wait, and your son said,
what was that?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Was that? What was that?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
No, yeah, And he made he also he made a
very interesting observation a lot of Elvis's songs. The title
of the song is the first words out of his mouth,
which my son picked up on that I never picked
up on that. Tom Brown is one of the foremost
Elvis authorities. He'll be hosting the festivities today at Graceland
in Memphis. Elvis would have been ninety today. No doubt
(24:00):
in your mind that Elvis has actually gone right, but
he lives on through his music. And really, you know,
I was doing oldies radio and Elvis Buddy Holly Dion,
the belmonts. I mean that's and probably Chuck Berry. That's it.
That's the fifties and no one higher than the King.
Then he gets trapped into the music. Then the Beatles arrived,
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then he reinvents himself in sixty nine with the Comeback,
and then closes out in the seventies, a really nice,
kind man who fought loneliness. I thought the movie captured
the trap of fame very very well.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I think it was what they call a cautionary tale.
Sometimes the fame you seek is not the thing that
fulfills you. And he got to a point in his
life and I think about what's happened in the world
since nineteen seventy seven, what there is available for people
who have addictions, who have problems, depression, all those things
(24:59):
that Presley family itself all had, and what has been
happening with people being able to be helped. And I
think now a lot of a lot of people have
been helped because of all this. And I do think,
you know, when when Elvis passed away at forty two,
I was seventeen, so I thought, wow, forty two, that's
pretty good. But when I hit forty two, I thought, wow, now,
(25:23):
what do you.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Think, what do you think we missed? If Elvis had lived,
it would have been the next reinvention.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
You think that's the thing, you know, you bring up
a great point. There was another one coming. Yep, there
was another one coming. I think there would have been
a I already know that. And everybody always says, you know,
they didn't they didn't tour in Europe because Colonel Parker,
you know, was an illegal alien. He would have gotten caught.
Colonel Parker was best friends with Lyndon Johnson. He knew
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all the presidents. Colonel Parker was actually he was a
young man in the army for ten years, so I
think he had his identity pretty well covered with being
able to travel and he will he wanted and Europe.
Actually venues were booked for Europe when Elvis passed away,
So we lost him too early. I think there would
have been a new reinvention. I think he needed a challenge,
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just like he got himself in shape for the for
the Comeback Special, just like he got himself in shape
for Aloha from Hawaii. I think he needed a challenge,
and I think Europe would have been a challenge for him,
and interesting point, he would have risen to that challenge.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, it's impossible.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I wonder what ret what would have happened, what would
have what? I wonder what would have happened, how he
would have changed things, and who he would have influenced
if he had been around.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Impossible to pick a favorite song, Impossible to pick a
favorite aspect of Elvis. I always come back to the
Comeback tour and if I can dream if for those
that want to relive the Elvis experience, nobody does it
like Tom and Brian do. The Nashville Elvis Festival, which
is actually held every year in Franklin, Tennessee. We bring
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some of the best Elvis performers and it's a legitimate
contest for a champion, and then we have the Sunday
Brunch with all the gospel music. We pay tribute to
Elvis throughout the week in the intimate settings of Franklin, Tennessee.
And if anybody's interested, you can go to Nashville Nashville
(27:21):
Elvisfestival dot Com. Right on the front is tickets and
it takes you right to a ticket link. But if
you've never been to the Nashville Elvis Festival, it is
a week long celebration of the life. How do you
think Elvis would want us to remember him today on
his ninetieth birthday.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Listen to the music.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, and it speaks, and it speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That moment, the Comeback Special and this song and what
America was going through.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Man, this was Elvis at his best.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If I can dream, Tom Brown, thanks so much for
joining us.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Burning Bride Somewhere got to be Birds Fly High.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
King lives on at ninety forty five after the hour.
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And if you are just waking up, multiple life threatening
wildfires burning across southern California this morning.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Margaret Stewart from the Los Angeles Fire Department says the
wind speeds and the dry conditions have created the ultimate firestorm.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Fire as large as it is now, it starts to
kind of create its own weather, and the winds will
swirl and the ember cast can travel a mile downwind
and start a spot fire.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
We're gonna more with Rory O'Neil in a mon but
Stuart said, the extreme winds are making it very difficult
to fight the fires that exist, let alone the ones
that are igniting.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses that you can't reach as far
because the wind will just push it aside. So we
have to get in there. We have to get close.
But the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same.
It just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose
visibility and the winds will be increasing. This is just
(29:26):
the scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The remains of President Carter are now lying in state
in the US capital. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
The remains of the thirty ninth president arrived Tuesday afternoon
after being flown from Georgia earlier in the day. Carter's
family and one hundreds of the lawmakers watched as an
honor guard carried his casket up the steps of the Capitol.
Lawmakers including former House Speaker and Nancy Pelosi, attended an
evening ceremony in the Capital Rotunda. Carter's body will remain
at the Capitol for public viewing until his funeral Thursday
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morning at the Washington National Cathedral.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Apple's planning to update it's artificial intelligence after complaints ab
out inaccurate news alerts on iPhone.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
The company said Monday it would work to have the
software clarify when notifications are AI generated summaries. The BBC
raised concerns last month after a summary incorrectly told readers
that accused healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangioni had shot himself.
I'm Michael Kastner. Peter of Peter Paul and Mary Peter
(30:22):
Yarrow has died.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
The Magic.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Peter Yero reportedly died of bladder cancer in his home
in New York City. The nineteen sixties folk trio Peter,
Paul and Mary instrumental in helping popularize the work of
Bob Dylan. Yero co wrote the song Poff the Magic Dragon.
In nineteen sixty nine, Yarrow pleaded guilty to taking immoral
and improper liberties with a child and over a decade
later was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter Yaro was eighty
(30:50):
six years old. I'm Jennifer BULSONI.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
The iHeart Podcast Awards Ever, returning this March to honor
twenty twenty four's most innovative and influential voices in podcasting.
This year's Podcast of the Year nominees include Normal Gossip, Three,
Giggly Squad, Call Her Daddy, Matt Rogers, and Bowen Yang.
Podcasts like Hysterical Telepathy Tapes and Who Killed JFK, Empire City,
(31:16):
The Untold Original Story of the NYPD, and The Good
Will have also been nominated. Nowhere on the list is
your Morning show and your show's podcast, It too, right, Rory?
The Weekend is yep. Yes, well we gotta you know,
we gotta make that list next year. But we work
too hard to not be noticed.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
I'm not paying off the judges, right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't win anything. I have to enter myself, that's
for sure. I will not do it.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
They don't want me. It's south By Southwest or wherever.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
They're they're yeah, it's south By souths.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Let's talk about these fires, three main ones, but it's
raining embers. Who knows how it's going to grow wins
any favorability today compared to yesterday.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Well, yeah, they're just about going to have some some
light soon.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
And really they have this information blackout as well because
the winds are seventy five eighty five. I think I
saw a ninety eight mile per hour wind gust, So
that means there are no helicopters flying, no planes flying,
So it's tough to get a good idea about what's
actually happening on the ground in real time.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
So hopefully that information blackout lifts.
Speaker 13 (32:22):
As the winds are expected to die down over the
next few hours. We're going to get an update from
local officials in about two hours. I know President Biden
is still on the ground there. He pushed back his
departure to return to Washington. I think they leave Pacific
two o'clock this afternoon Pacific time.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So we've had some areas where there's little water pressure,
and with ninety mile in our winds, shoot a hose
into ninety miles, it doesn't go where you aim. Anyway,
you're talking about getting real time information, it really kind
of gets very old school quick, doesn't it. Old fashioned
phone pictures being sent in from different areas to know
what the conditions currently are. That makes this makes it
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extra challenging to keep people safe well.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Right, and when people have to flee their homes now,
they have anxiety not knowing how their home is right,
so they're trying to find every bit of data they
can to figure out if their home is still standing.
This is going to pile on to what's already a
serious insurance crisis in the state of California. This is
some of the most expensive real estate in the country,
so it's going to be an expensive fix and a
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lot of insurance payouts, and a lot of those insurance
companies have already been leaving the state because of the
high costs of insuring people there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You know, it's funny you bring that up.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I said, there were two compelling visuals from yesterday, and
I have people there that I work with, so it's
a very real story and we were following it closely.
But you know that one picture, I guess a car
had stalled. They were trying to push it out of
the way, and then the smoke kind of overcame and
they just left their cars, and then the fire department
had to use their bulldozers to clear the road, and
I mean they're clearing what I know are one hundred
(33:55):
and forty thousand dollars Mercedes and like the homes that
are being a feed of such high values, so were
the vehicles just being bull dozed off the road. It
was just a remarkable site. And then that satellite shot
of the smoke plume extending out into the ocean, breath taking.
Speaker 13 (34:13):
Luckily the wind was blowing in that direction by the way, yeah,
dumping it on top of the city. We're expecting the
winds to start to die down now, so hopefully things
will start improving in the next couple of hours and
hopefully they can get some air assets up to try
to tackle this.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And in the meantime, the other extreme for the rest
of the American people brutal winter weather. I know, we've
got snow coming here to Middle Tennessee. That should bring
things to a crashing hult. We tend to see the
areas that are used to getting what we would call winter,
but areas that aren't is used to getting things like
snow and ice on roads. It becomes very problematic.
Speaker 13 (34:51):
Dallas, Birmingham, Dallas Birmingham, Alabama. They're looking at Mississippi and
Georgia getting some snow afall and even Central Florida temperatures
down into the teams.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
So good thing. Harry Potter, where's that scarf? He's going
to need it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Roy O'Neil, always great reporting, have a great day. We'll
talk again tomorrow. In our final minute, you know, we
had one.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Listener who got all upset.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We had some fascinating conversations about past presidents, how well
they age and time. Some leave office pretty unpopular and
then fall further. Some leave unpopular and rise with time.
In the case of Jimmy Carter, he left with a
minus thirty two and he sits at a plus six.
Jimmy Carter is a really easy one for me from
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a worldview or policy perspective, mostly policy perspective. I didn't
have much in common with him, and history's not going
to be kind to his foreign policy blunder in Iran
or energy and domestic policy decisions at home. It might
be oversimplifying a life to say, maybe not the greatest
president in the world, but a really good guy, and
(35:59):
that's kind of how he's being remembered. And if that's
offensive to some people, so be it. I'm able to
separate politics with eternity. I do think there are some
things you did, like the creation of the Department of Education,
that have been since seized and taken over and are
now proven failures. That may not have been his intent,
But a really ineffective president lived a really effective life
(36:20):
of faith, and those two are coming together and being
remembered in our nation's capital as a new president is
getting ready to arrive for his second act. That's worth
keeping an eye on, and we will and we'll talk
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Will see in the morning.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Welcome to Wednesday, January, the eighth year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five. The Palisades fires have reached the Pacific
Ocean and the winds are making it very difficult to
put these out, and the ambers that are falling are
just starting new fires. Well have the very latest with
Rory O'Neal in about forty two minutes. Elvis turns ninety today.
For those who believe he's still alive, he's ninety. For
(00:57):
those who believe he is not, he would have been
ninety today. The King, What made in the King? How
does his music survive and his career survive after all
these years. Tom Brown, one of the foremost authorities from Graceland,
will be joining us a little bit later on. And
Donald Trump had the news conference of all news conferences yesterday,
and he did address the spiteful Joe Biden Kamakazi presidency
(01:20):
and the things they're doing on the way out the door.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt
to block the reforms of the American people, and that
they voted for They just we had a landslide election.
We won every swing state, We won the popular vote
by millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I love the way he word framed that the American
people spoke in a very clear voice. Now when we
start looking at the numbers, in the clearest voice, stop
the bleeding and secure the border. Don't let anybody else in.
If it's technology, if it's troops, if it's walls, end it,
stop it. For those who took love or broke the law,
(02:01):
after breaking the law entering illegally to port them, He's
got a blank check to do that, and to drill,
baby drill, and to end a lot of these regulations
that are stifling the economy, and to bring down energy
costs in with the cost of living and secure the
tax cuts. He's got carte blanche to do that. When
(02:24):
you start drifting into renaming the Golf of Mexico the
Golf of America, although I do think Golf of Americas
would be more appropriate, you might be getting a little
more off topic and giving fodder for the left. But
it was a very extensive news conference, and the president,
unlike the sitting president, answers questions, and that's when the talks.
(02:45):
The topics change, and he's a negotiator and you're asking
specific questions about taking things off the table.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Within the left media goes he's threatening war, He's going
to take over a content in a country.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, all this nonsense To the point of that
little clip on the offshore band, for example, the American
people spoke very clearly in this election, and they'll be
watching intently to make sure that what the reason they
voted the way they did is carried out. So he
first and foremost needs to focus on leading and doing it.
(03:20):
He doesn't really need to comment along the way. But
if the Democrats ignored that and lost and continue to
ignore that and try to obstruct. What's the further cost
for them if they play that game? Because the midterms
will be here before you know it. David's and not
(03:41):
He's with the American Policy Roundtable, he is the co
host of the Public Square. He's also presides over I voters. David,
what do you make of the games? First of all,
we don't even know if Joe Biden's been president. I
presume he hasn't been. So who's never been president? Is
doing all this nonsense? But they continue to ignore the
(04:02):
wild American people. What might be the greater cost for
them if they continue to play this game?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well? This is such a weird time, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I mean weird slash beautiful. There's something different in the air.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Half the nation is coughing and half hacking in the
largest state in the Union is running from the fires.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
What a strange set of headlines today.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
And then there's Zuckerberg, who listening to his voice alone
is like taking too big of a spoonful of the
sweetest breakfast through you can imagine with warm milk.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Take your time, because we're gonna we're gonna dress Zuckerberg
in full coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But let's just put to rest.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
If they want to see when he got into certain
things yesterday, I was like, don't go there. Remember when
I said it this way and again, Donald Trump is
Donald Trump. I'm a nobody, But I would think, you
don't need to keep campaigning, you don't need to keep
fighting fights. You want just get in and govern. And
when you get into some of these side top and
(05:02):
they come up mostly during questions, which is then unfairly
twisted and used against him, you get off topic. I
would be laser focused on the border in the economy,
and I would just start acting and not even comment
on what these morons are doing, because everybody sees it
and gets it already.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
That makes me wonder, Michael, I don't have an answer
for this. It's an honest question without an answer prescripted.
I think sometimes he just enjoys messing with the press,
and so he's got a group of people that are focused,
laser focused on what they're going to do, and instead
of walking down that path with the media, he's going
(05:37):
to go ahead and just talk with him about what's
on his mind and let them chase every rabbit that
he sets up while he gets his job and.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
There could be part of stress, and there could be
brilliance to that, don't get me wrong, you know, and
that leads right into the Zuckerberg conversation because it's and
that's why I probably shouldn't have, but I used the
devil as an analogy Donald Trump. Donald Trump's already won.
The media is already defeated. Now I unders stand they
made his life a living hell. Government officials, government agencies
(06:06):
all the way to an assassination attempt, fanning those flames,
the media, controlling the narrative, social media, you know, silencing
any opposition voices. I'm sure there's a temptation for Donald
Trump to have a lot of what would be the
expression that be most appropriate, unfinished business scores to settle.
That would eat at him, but it'd be wasted time
(06:28):
because he doesn't know it, or maybe he does. You
defeated the mainstream media, you defeated the internet. And I
don't mean you because you won another four years in
a presidency. You turn down the light switch, along with
Elon Musk and others, and the truth has been seen
and it can't be unseen.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They have no ratings, they have no revenue, they have
no influence. They're not even dead anymore. They're decomposing. They're
rotting as a corpse. I don't think you need to
spend any time addressing that, especially with the majority of
the American people in the mandate they've given him. But
I could be wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
No, I think you've got a very good point there,
And I'm going to go back to Zuckerberg for just
a second.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And yeah, because if his slips are moving, trust me,
he's not done and he's still lying.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Well, the premise of all of it is, as you
mentioned earlier. I don't know if people here when you
talk about when Zuckerberg talks about returning to his roots,
if we're going to return to the roots of Facebook,
then we better go back to the dorm rooms at
Harvard where he was bullying women who wouldn't go out
with him and traded Facebook as a rating system to
(07:29):
crush them.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
In regards to a perfection.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Culture, even the left, who likes to rewrite history and
rewrite reality daily, had to begin their movie with that. Yeah,
that was the motivation. The central theme in that whole
movie was not the technology that changed our lives, but
his obsession in his life in trying to strike back
(07:52):
at a girl who rejected him. Well, this is the
way the movie begins there and ends there. Do you remember,
and so this and you capture that one great line
of it. And you were doing this while you should
have been doing what. But the second piece of all
of that is the introduction into our culture of the
(08:13):
digital methodology of turning humans into products. And we missed
all that. When everyone came out, I can remember pastors
lecturing us on the power of using the now free opportunities.
We don't have to buy radio time anymore, we don't
have to buy television time anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We can just get on Facebook.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
We don't have to print bulletins anymore.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
We can do all of this stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
And then it took us a while to finally realize
that while we were doing that, we were making Mark
Zuckerberg the youngest richest multi billionaire in the history of
the planet, because we were delivering over to him all
of our data, which he was then turning around and
marketing brilliantly at wonderful and extraordinary profitability. But it hasn't
stopped there. Google's doing the same thing right now. The
(08:59):
whole world is running after YouTube as if it is
the great deliverance. Well, the fact of the matter is,
look at YouTube makes me crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I'm not the next man.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It doesn't take long before becomes next demon up right
wow wow? Yeah, on that we can just dismount right
where a where are my thick glasses like the gymnast?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So for Zuckerberg, and I would say this much is true.
I don't think he was ever really driven by greed
and money. He was driven by acceptance from women, and
one woman in particular. But don't be misled by that.
He doesn't have personal interest in the wealth, but he
(09:44):
likes to use his wealth to influence his worldview, a
worldview that I would suspect most listening to the show
this morning would find very anathetical to not only freedom
of speech, but all aspects of what we cherish and
is necessary in our intent as a republic. It's like yesterday,
I'm out of my back porch. Gosh, those are good
old days. That's when I used to be able to
breathe and smoke. Now I can't even breathe, and I'm
(10:06):
not a smoker. But you know, And we saw him
come into Ohio with millions and millions of dollars on
these ballot issues. He's been doing that ever since. He's
been trying to win and score elections along with George
Soros and other bad players, and doing it mostly with
his checkbook too, So make no mistake about how he's
using as wealth. Now, all the sudden he cares about
(10:28):
freedom of speech. Now, all the sudden he wants to
role model the devil himself, Elon Musk and the way
exis facts checking. And so it begs the question, do
we really think he releases that video yesterday if Donald
Trump had lost and Kamala Harris was about to be president, Well, yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Market has just gotten hing walked away from him and
he's no longer a hero. And I think that's what
really bothers him is because what like everybody else, meet you,
everybody else, he's got an ego, and he cares about
what people think about him. And suddenly, you know, it
was cute being it was cute being the guy wearing
the dark hat for a while, but now he's uncomfortable
with it now. And I was, we're back to the
(11:07):
emperor syndrome. We've got to return to our roots.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Part of this, Michael is a vengeance. Mentality is a
concept of certain people feel that they that America owes
them an answer, and they have scores to settle and
they have to get even with the American reality. But
there's a bigger question here, and it's hard to talk
about in brief periods of time. It's even hard to
talk about if you got an hour. Yeah, And that's
(11:31):
the notion of why do we need this technology? What
in us makes us think that we need these digital
platforms where we can simply open up a computer screen,
say whatever we want and think we're significant.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Suddenly everybody's an anchor, everybody's a talk host, so everybody's
a pastor, everybody's a life coach. What they are insecure
people very lonely, not having real, meaning fulfilled interaction with
human beings as God intended, and trying to fill it
with an artificial source. And just like those who try
(12:09):
to use drugs to fill it with an artificial source,
it never fills up a void that you were created
to fill in a different way.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And it's a fool's chase, it really is.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I want to just end with this is I think
I would say, yes, this is a victory for free speech. Yes,
I think Facebook and Zuckerberg has been defeated. I think
he probably cares more about Instagram and AI and where
meta is headed than Facebook itself, which is now mostly
just old people posting memes. But should he be trusted? Wow,
(12:44):
unfair to put you in a judgment seat like that.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
But no, no, no, that's such a good question. That's
such a good question. I'm not even sure that it
requires an answer. The very fact we have to ask
it is the answer in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
He hasn't given up his worldview, He hasn't given up
his ambitions for America in the world.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Let me answer the question with a question, why should
Mark Zuckerberg be relevant to anyone's life, let alone the
life of our.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Nation at all?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And that's our dysfunction, not his.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, more with DZ when we continue on your morning
show twenty minutes after the hour, we'll talk more with
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
The plate is pretty simple to set. We got wildfires,
three big ones out of control from the Palisades to
the Pacific Ocean. The winds aren't helping putting any of
them out, and new ambers are starting new ones. Trump
with a pretty long news conference yesterday to break down,
and the thirty ninth President of the United States arrived
at the Capitol Rotunda to be a lion state. And
then the National Services are tomorrow we're visiting with David Sonati.
(15:30):
I went through something. I'm gonna give a real short
version of this. There's John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan,
and then there's everybody else. I mean, there's just no
comparing Kennedy sixty eight percent net positive, Reagan thirty eight
net positive. Then Barack Obama's at twenty one percent, hw
Bush seven percent, Jimmy Carter's at six percent. Time has
been good to Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Time.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Carter went from minus thirty two when he left office
to plus six now at burial and then Bill Clinton
was at plus twenty five when he left office. Now
he's just at plus five. Time has not been good
to Bill Clinton. Donald Trump time has been very good too.
He left office minus thirty two, re enters office at
minus four. But Joe Biden is headed to the bottom
of the heap with Richard Nixon as one of the
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worst presidents ever. He starts at minus thirty five, and
I don't believe time's going to be kind to him.
In fact, I think it's going to prove that he
wasn't even really president. But what do you make of
all these presidential ratings and the interesting nature in which
some are remembered through time better than when they leave
and the others vice versa.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Well, the fact that we're talking about it is helpful
because presidents do matter. Now, we've talked so many times together.
A television and the legacy media has turned the presidency
into a side freak show, if you will, where we
really put way.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Too much confidence, trust, etc.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
We've been through all that, but look, I mean, I
spent much of last night studying the Van Buren administration
and the life of John Quincy Adams, a former president
who went back to serve in the United States Congress
and died on the floor of the Capitol Building.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
John Quincy Adams one of the unsung heroes. Time is
not done hundreds of years. He'll continue to grow Washington.
Lincoln Kennedy, the first television president, and the mystery of
his death. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a revolution. Trump
will be a revolution. He'll ultimately craft his legacy with
this second term.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know if we can do tomorrow, but if
we can, can we do that more tomorrow. I'd love
to get into some of these presidential legacies because I
don't know why. It's so hard to say, but Jimmy
Carter was a terrible president. He was a good man.
And that's what America is dealing with this week, is
he lays to rest. We'll do more maybe tomorrow. David,
thanks for your time. Got to break. Elvis turns ninety.
One of the foremost authorities joins us.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Next.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
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Speaker 1 (19:00):
We've got the Palisades Fire reaching all the way to
the Pacific Ocean. Members of the public getting ready to
pay respects to Jimmy Carter as he lies in state
and our capital. And the House is passing the Lincoln
Riley Act to ramp up border security. And today I
say this would have been or for those that believe
he's still alive. Is Elvis's ninetieth birthday and one of
(19:22):
the foremost authorities. I used to listen to him on
SiriusXM all the time. From gracelamb is Tom Brown, and
he joins us from Tupelow this morning. He's also the
co producer of the Nashville Elvis Festival that's coming up
in March.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Tom, we have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It seems like all the time Elvis why he was
the king, and how the King still lives through his
music and work. He's bigger than ever.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
And I was going to say, every generation finds Elvis,
and I wanted to first of all, good morning to you.
Happy Elvis' birthday. And actually I'm not in my hometown
and Elvis's hometown of Tupelo. I'm actually at Graceland about
to go out on the lawn and help host the
birthday celebration in the front lawn with all the fans
(20:03):
of Graceland here for the ninetieth birthday. So I'm very
honored to be on hallow ground to Elvis fans here at.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Wethand you always live when it comes to Elvis, You're
always right there and living a more exciting life than me.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
We've talked about this.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know that the fast the most fascinating thing I've
often shared with you is my son and his reaction.
Now there's no reaction to the movies. I enjoyed the
movies and I still watch them every now and then.
Doesn't get the movies, but he does get the music.
The Elvis is that way, The Beatles are that way.
Not everyone, but some Why Elvis? What was so unique
about Elvis? Because I think he was probably one of
(20:39):
the most gifted entertainers ever.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I think there's there's something about certain people that you
hear the you know, the old saying when they walked
into the room, everybody knew they were there. That's that's
what people said about Elvis. I think what it was
in the fifties was he represented a new generation, a
different voice for young people that were listening. You know,
their parents were me to Perry Como and watching Ed
Sullivan and that youth generation. You know, you're less than
(21:07):
ten years out of World War Two, and that generation
didn't have anyone. Elvis represented that different, totally different kind
of sound and look. And I think at all points
during his career there were new generations of people, and
it happens even today. And one of the sayings that
we have is no matter your age, if you get
(21:29):
Elvis in front of the young people, Elvis will take
care of the rest. He's been doing it since nineteen
fifty four.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So uniqueness.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
There's just something unique, something about the voice and the
look and the whole combination.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You really don't get on stage unless you have the
life right. So you've got to be one of two
twins that survives. You got to be raised in a
single room home, You've got to be influenced by blues music,
gospel music. I mean, all of that's a part of it,
but you know, and the uniqueness is you're right to
point that out. Thinking I go back to even the Hayrite.
(22:02):
I mean, nobody knew who he was and it was instant.
There was just there was a giftedness, charisma and a
stage presence that maybe we could bring up names like
Michael Jackson, but very few. This guy had the talent,
the voice, and the ability to own a room no
matter how big, in fact, probably bigger than every room combined, and.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
To make a song his own, make someone else's song
his own, and just spoke to people. And here's the
one statistic I wanted to hit you with a number.
I went back and looked at this. On the day
the movie opened, the Elvis movie that came out in
June of twenty twenty two with Austin Butler, which we
credit with bringing an entirely new generation of fan into Elvis.
(22:47):
But it wasn't just the movie. The movie opened the
door for them to consider Elvis, and when they went
to Elvis, they stayed there's something about him. On the
day he On the day that movie opened, there were
thirteen point seven million fans following Elvis on Spotify thirteen
point seven million today forty seven point eight Wow. A
(23:12):
little bit of a difference. The movie opened the door.
They stayed for the music. They stayed for Elvis. And
just like your son, doesn't matter which prong of the
attack of Elvis, the movies, the look, the sound, something's
going to latch onto them. And for your son it
was the song. Not even knowing what the guy looked like,
knowing nothing about his history, the music, you said one
(23:35):
time you were flipping around and wait, and your son said,
what was that?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Was that? What was that?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
No, yeah, And he made he also he made a
very interesting observation a lot of Elvis's songs. The title
of the song is the first words out of his mouth,
which my son picked up on that I never picked
up on that. Tom Brown is one of the foremost
Elvis authorities. He'll be hosting the festivities today at Graceland
in Memphis. Elvis would have been ninety today. No doubt
(24:00):
in your mind that Elvis has actually gone right, but
he lives on through his music. And really, you know,
I was doing oldies radio and Elvis Buddy Holly Dion,
the belmonts. I mean that's and probably Chuck Berry. That's it.
That's the fifties and no one higher than the King.
Then he gets trapped into the music. Then the Beatles arrived,
(24:21):
then he reinvents himself in sixty nine with the Comeback,
and then closes out in the seventies, a really nice,
kind man who fought loneliness. I thought the movie captured
the trap of fame very very well.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I think it was what they call a cautionary tale.
Sometimes the fame you seek is not the thing that
fulfills you. And he got to a point in his
life and I think about what's happened in the world
since nineteen seventy seven, what there is available for people
who have addictions, who have problems, depression, all those things
(24:59):
that Presley family itself all had, and what has been
happening with people being able to be helped. And I
think now a lot of a lot of people have
been helped because of all this. And I do think,
you know, when when Elvis passed away at forty two,
I was seventeen, so I thought, wow, forty two, that's
pretty good. But when I hit forty two, I thought, wow, now,
(25:23):
what do you.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Think, what do you think we missed? If Elvis had lived,
it would have been the next reinvention.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
You think that's the thing, you know, you bring up
a great point. There was another one coming. Yep, there
was another one coming. I think there would have been
a I already know that. And everybody always says, you know,
they didn't they didn't tour in Europe because Colonel Parker,
you know, was an illegal alien. He would have gotten caught.
Colonel Parker was best friends with Lyndon Johnson. He knew
(25:49):
all the presidents. Colonel Parker was actually he was a
young man in the army for ten years, so I
think he had his identity pretty well covered with being
able to travel and he will he wanted and Europe.
Actually venues were booked for Europe when Elvis passed away,
So we lost him too early. I think there would
have been a new reinvention. I think he needed a challenge,
(26:12):
just like he got himself in shape for the for
the Comeback Special, just like he got himself in shape
for Aloha from Hawaii. I think he needed a challenge,
and I think Europe would have been a challenge for him,
and interesting point, he would have risen to that challenge.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, it's impossible.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I wonder what ret what would have happened, what would
have what? I wonder what would have happened, how he
would have changed things, and who he would have influenced
if he had been around.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Impossible to pick a favorite song, Impossible to pick a
favorite aspect of Elvis. I always come back to the
Comeback tour and if I can dream if for those
that want to relive the Elvis experience, nobody does it
like Tom and Brian do. The Nashville Elvis Festival, which
is actually held every year in Franklin, Tennessee. We bring
(26:58):
some of the best Elvis performers and it's a legitimate
contest for a champion, and then we have the Sunday
Brunch with all the gospel music. We pay tribute to
Elvis throughout the week in the intimate settings of Franklin, Tennessee.
And if anybody's interested, you can go to Nashville Nashville
(27:21):
Elvisfestival dot Com. Right on the front is tickets and
it takes you right to a ticket link. But if
you've never been to the Nashville Elvis Festival, it is
a week long celebration of the life. How do you
think Elvis would want us to remember him today on
his ninetieth birthday.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Listen to the music.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, and it speaks, and it speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That moment, the Comeback Special and this song and what
America was going through.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Man, this was Elvis at his best.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If I can dream, Tom Brown, thanks so much for
joining us.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Burning Bride Somewhere got to be Birds Fly High.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
King lives on at ninety forty five after the hour.
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And if you are just waking up, multiple life threatening
wildfires burning across southern California this morning.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Margaret Stewart from the Los Angeles Fire Department says the
wind speeds and the dry conditions have created the ultimate firestorm.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Fire as large as it is now, it starts to
kind of create its own weather, and the winds will
swirl and the ember cast can travel a mile downwind
and start a spot fire.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
We're gonna more with Rory O'Neil in a mon but
Stuart said, the extreme winds are making it very difficult
to fight the fires that exist, let alone the ones
that are igniting.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses that you can't reach as far
because the wind will just push it aside. So we
have to get in there. We have to get close.
But the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same.
It just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose
visibility and the winds will be increasing. This is just
(29:26):
the scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The remains of President Carter are now lying in state
in the US capital. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
The remains of the thirty ninth president arrived Tuesday afternoon
after being flown from Georgia earlier in the day. Carter's
family and one hundreds of the lawmakers watched as an
honor guard carried his casket up the steps of the Capitol.
Lawmakers including former House Speaker and Nancy Pelosi, attended an
evening ceremony in the Capital Rotunda. Carter's body will remain
at the Capitol for public viewing until his funeral Thursday
(29:53):
morning at the Washington National Cathedral.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Apple's planning to update it's artificial intelligence after complaints ab
out inaccurate news alerts on iPhone.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
The company said Monday it would work to have the
software clarify when notifications are AI generated summaries. The BBC
raised concerns last month after a summary incorrectly told readers
that accused healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangioni had shot himself.
I'm Michael Kastner. Peter of Peter Paul and Mary Peter
(30:22):
Yarrow has died.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
The Magic.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Peter Yero reportedly died of bladder cancer in his home
in New York City. The nineteen sixties folk trio Peter,
Paul and Mary instrumental in helping popularize the work of
Bob Dylan. Yero co wrote the song Poff the Magic Dragon.
In nineteen sixty nine, Yarrow pleaded guilty to taking immoral
and improper liberties with a child and over a decade
later was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter Yaro was eighty
(30:50):
six years old. I'm Jennifer BULSONI.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
The iHeart Podcast Awards Ever, returning this March to honor
twenty twenty four's most innovative and influential voices in podcasting.
This year's Podcast of the Year nominees include Normal Gossip, Three,
Giggly Squad, Call Her Daddy, Matt Rogers, and Bowen Yang.
Podcasts like Hysterical Telepathy Tapes and Who Killed JFK, Empire City,
(31:16):
The Untold Original Story of the NYPD, and The Good
Will have also been nominated. Nowhere on the list is
your Morning show and your show's podcast, It too, right, Rory?
The Weekend is yep. Yes, well we gotta you know,
we gotta make that list next year. But we work
too hard to not be noticed.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
I'm not paying off the judges, right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't win anything. I have to enter myself, that's
for sure. I will not do it.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
They don't want me. It's south By Southwest or wherever.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
They're they're yeah, it's south By souths.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Let's talk about these fires, three main ones, but it's
raining embers. Who knows how it's going to grow wins
any favorability today compared to yesterday.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Well, yeah, they're just about going to have some some
light soon.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
And really they have this information blackout as well because
the winds are seventy five eighty five. I think I
saw a ninety eight mile per hour wind gust, So
that means there are no helicopters flying, no planes flying,
So it's tough to get a good idea about what's
actually happening on the ground in real time.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
So hopefully that information blackout lifts.
Speaker 13 (32:22):
As the winds are expected to die down over the
next few hours. We're going to get an update from
local officials in about two hours. I know President Biden
is still on the ground there. He pushed back his
departure to return to Washington. I think they leave Pacific
two o'clock this afternoon Pacific time.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So we've had some areas where there's little water pressure,
and with ninety mile in our winds, shoot a hose
into ninety miles, it doesn't go where you aim. Anyway,
you're talking about getting real time information, it really kind
of gets very old school quick, doesn't it. Old fashioned
phone pictures being sent in from different areas to know
what the conditions currently are. That makes this makes it
(33:02):
extra challenging to keep people safe well.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Right, and when people have to flee their homes now,
they have anxiety not knowing how their home is right,
so they're trying to find every bit of data they
can to figure out if their home is still standing.
This is going to pile on to what's already a
serious insurance crisis in the state of California. This is
some of the most expensive real estate in the country,
so it's going to be an expensive fix and a
(33:25):
lot of insurance payouts, and a lot of those insurance
companies have already been leaving the state because of the
high costs of insuring people there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You know, it's funny you bring that up.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I said, there were two compelling visuals from yesterday, and
I have people there that I work with, so it's
a very real story and we were following it closely.
But you know that one picture, I guess a car
had stalled. They were trying to push it out of
the way, and then the smoke kind of overcame and
they just left their cars, and then the fire department
had to use their bulldozers to clear the road, and
I mean they're clearing what I know are one hundred
(33:55):
and forty thousand dollars Mercedes and like the homes that
are being a feed of such high values, so were
the vehicles just being bull dozed off the road. It
was just a remarkable site. And then that satellite shot
of the smoke plume extending out into the ocean, breath taking.
Speaker 13 (34:13):
Luckily the wind was blowing in that direction by the way, yeah,
dumping it on top of the city. We're expecting the
winds to start to die down now, so hopefully things
will start improving in the next couple of hours and
hopefully they can get some air assets up to try
to tackle this.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And in the meantime, the other extreme for the rest
of the American people brutal winter weather. I know, we've
got snow coming here to Middle Tennessee. That should bring
things to a crashing hult. We tend to see the
areas that are used to getting what we would call winter,
but areas that aren't is used to getting things like
snow and ice on roads. It becomes very problematic.
Speaker 13 (34:51):
Dallas, Birmingham, Dallas Birmingham, Alabama. They're looking at Mississippi and
Georgia getting some snow afall and even Central Florida temperatures
down into the teams.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
So good thing. Harry Potter, where's that scarf? He's going
to need it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Roy O'Neil, always great reporting, have a great day. We'll
talk again tomorrow. In our final minute, you know, we
had one.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Listener who got all upset.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We had some fascinating conversations about past presidents, how well
they age and time. Some leave office pretty unpopular and
then fall further. Some leave unpopular and rise with time.
In the case of Jimmy Carter, he left with a
minus thirty two and he sits at a plus six.
Jimmy Carter is a really easy one for me from
(35:36):
a worldview or policy perspective, mostly policy perspective. I didn't
have much in common with him, and history's not going
to be kind to his foreign policy blunder in Iran
or energy and domestic policy decisions at home. It might
be oversimplifying a life to say, maybe not the greatest
president in the world, but a really good guy, and
(35:59):
that's kind of how he's being remembered. And if that's
offensive to some people, so be it. I'm able to
separate politics with eternity. I do think there are some
things you did, like the creation of the Department of Education,
that have been since seized and taken over and are
now proven failures. That may not have been his intent,
But a really ineffective president lived a really effective life
(36:20):
of faith, and those two are coming together and being
remembered in our nation's capital as a new president is
getting ready to arrive for his second act. That's worth
keeping an eye on, and we will and we'll talk
about in the morning. Five Central, six Eastern. Go seize
the day, make a difference in someone's life, and cherish yours.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Will see in the morning.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
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