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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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because we're in this together.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Jordan. Thank you,
Mike McCann seven minutes after the hour, and good morning.
Welcome to Thursday, March the twenty seventh. This is our day.
We're in this together, and this is your morning show.
I'm Michael Jeffrey keeping an eye on the sound, red
keeping an eye on the content. And then we have
our senior contributor David Zanatti joining us NPRPBS facing allegations
(01:00):
of political bias. Well, they had eighty nine Democrats and
zero Republicans on their team. I think that would suggest
a little bit of bias. It's Major League Baseball's opening day,
fourteen games on the schedule today, and that means next
half hour our State of the Baseball address that we
do annually. Don't miss it talking about signal Gate, you know, David,
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there are several questions. The big question, of course, is
I love the way Donald Trump is handling it. I
still don't like the way Waltz and HEG Sath and
others are handling it. And you would think Donald Trump
would just turn it them and tell them how to
handle it. But the President handled it perfectly and said
I don't know what the issue was. I don't know
how the guy got on there, and it's not going
(01:43):
to happen again. May have been signaled, may have been
one of us. We'll figure it out. But it didn't
affect any of the of the targeting of the hoothy sites.
So it was a very successful military campaign. Nonetheless, So
it suggests that maybe it's a big deal for the
left media, maybe it's a big for the Democrats for
whatever reason, but it's is not such a big deal
to the American people. What I wanted us to focus
(02:06):
on are on the questions that nobody, including the media,
is asking. I don't use signal. I don't know if
it is in the world of texting or messaging. What
like teams is for video meetings. I don't know. But
what are some of the questions in your mind? If
(02:26):
we're going to talk about it, Let's talk about it.
Let's ask the right questions so we get the right answers.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Sure, I mean you've made a comment earlier to me
about teams another like a zoom like format. I've never
used teams, so I think comment how it works. I
do have Signal on my phone. I've had it for
a couple of years, and at least in the way
that Signal works with the people that I work with
Signal on when you send an invitation to someone, they
have to opt in, if they have their phone.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Number in advance.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You have to send it them and say I would
like you to participate with me in Signal, and they
have to say yes. According to the reports from NPR,
which is quite an interesting agency to be reporting on
this because the CEO of NPR right now happens to
also be the chairman of the board of Signal. Wait
a minute, Wait a bit, Wait a bit. Wait, wait
a minute, this is a classic david'sanati.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
David, would you repeat that to everybody because this is
either just a strange coincidence or it's a very revealing fact.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, here's an NPR disclosure in their own words from
their article on Signal and a Signal NPR disclosure. Catherine Mayer,
the CEO of NPR, chairs the board of the Signal Foundation.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's a clinky dinky in and of itself, all right,
So either this person was and we still have clarification
that it's Goldberg that was invited. That link hasn't been
connected yet, but somebody would have to a be invited
and then be accept the invitation. Yes, and at that point,
that's what we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I mean this Goldberg mission.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Goldberg sat for two days after he accepted the invitation
before any texted material from this chat group came to him.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So when the invation came to him, he could have denied.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He could have contacted Walls or Haiksett's office officially or
through back channels. They would take his call and say,
excuse me, I'm on this call. As we spoke about yesterday, Michael,
I'm certain that you didn't mean for that to happen.
That would have been the patriotic and honest thing to do. Instead,
he sat and waited to seem curious.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Which would suggest he wants to embarrass the administration, or
maybe I can't imagine he wants to jeopardize on operation.
He certainly didn't reveal anything until after the air strikes
were successful, So my guess is he just wanted to
embarrass the administration. But how did he get on there?
I mean, has he ever had any contact with walls before?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's the question.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Someone on the government side had to have this contact,
this name and phone number, and or it could have
been in their signal set up as just a phone number.
But someone had to make the intelligent decision of pressing
buttons and sending an invite invite either that name that
number or that name and number.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Who is that person and why? And if the.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Answer is it was absolutely a fat fingered mistake, that
number was somebody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hit a button.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By that's fine, who hit the button? Just tell us.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm not suggesting anybody needs fired, They just need trained.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Right. David Sina, he's our senior contributor and host of
the Public Square heard on Twitter stations Red brought this up.
Any chance you can hack these things?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, it's the most hack proof system that's out there.
I mean, if you look at the reviews, you look
at articles, you look at all the people who use
it across the boards, it is very difficult to hack
that encrypted sense and it's exceptionally difficult to unhack it
at the open end because it requires action on one
party and consent on another.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, that's another question that you asked, which was and
this could be provable. Did Goldberg have signal? Did he
use signal in other ways prior to this, or suddenly
as a non signal user finally on signal, finally has
the same boss you know or the you know you
got MPR and signal, same boss, and now he's invited
(06:12):
to this call mysteriously and accepts mysteriously.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It It doesn't matter which way. This has nothing to
do with politics. This has to do with how did
this happen?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because it's important for all of us that have signal
out there there's some magical way for a mysterious people
to hack into our systems and create something that no
one I think would be a pretty darn good time
for all of us to find out well and hear
from signal.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I mean, look, I have that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Has anybody heard from signal?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, And let me tell you something. I have a sense,
and I could be wrong, but I have a sense.
This is a really big deal for talk radio because
it's something interesting and out of the normal.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's a really big deal for the narrative of the
far left and certainly those at the table of the
cabal in the narrative legacy media. Probably not that big
of a deal with the American people. Doesn't seem to
be in public A big deal for the President though
you can tell he doesn't want to ever happen again.
I wish he would turn to Hegseeth and Walls and
get them to handle it as well as he's handling
(07:16):
it publicly. But all that aside, is this a nothing
burger for the American people? Because if it is, the
only the American people are taking out of this, I
ain't using signal, That's all I'm taken away from it.
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
They weren't using it now, So if that doesn't shows
for it. And by the way, signals are not for
profit organization, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So you have signal. Do you feel good about using it?
First off, I could care less.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I only use signal because there's people that I work
with who are paranoid and they want that encrypted service,
so I am as a courtesy to them, I participate.
I believe that everything that's on my phone is eventually
is going to be on the front page of the
newspaper anyhow, so I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No, you live that too, by the way, Well, but
I mean as believers, we live that right. We don't
say anthing behindybody's back. We wouldn't say front of their face. Well,
we try not to. I would. Well, no, I know
nobody's better at it. I'd crucify you if you were perfect.
After the first text message was sent, why didn't Goldberg
notify Walls. I think he's got to own that it's
obvious to everyone. He just wanted to embarrass. Why has
(08:14):
the person who physically sent the invitation to Goldberg not
been identified? I mean that would be clearly known by now,
and then I'll add one that reads you know, we're
all in different studios, but so that we can communicate.
And by the way, if I was in my studio
downtown on Broadway, I wouldn't see Jeffrey through glass anyway,
he'd be on a large screen TV. So we all
(08:35):
kind of do this right now. But so I see
all four of you, all three of you, I'm the fourth,
and we're all on a big screen together, and I'm
looking you right in the eyes. I'm talking to you.
In these kinds of things, how do you know who's
on a line? And was there presumably somebody there sitting
and you could see a number, but it wasn't identified.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yes, that's how instant messaging works.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
There is an active call, and these are the participants,
and it is disclosed to all participants who's there. It's
also disclosed whether or not it's being recorded. If that oppertuity.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
When they see a name or a phone number usually
both right or at least the phone number and an
I kind of some kind.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
So yes, there's that context.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now it's well, obviously nobody looked down and caught that
that there's somebody here that's not us and they're not participating, and.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's important for us to mention this. These are text messages.
These are words on a screen. This wasn't a video,
this wasn't a phone call. These were words on a
screen to a network of people who believed they were
in a completely encrypted system, all of whom have clearance
to discuss these matters. This is not a breach of
any clearance question except for the fact that there was
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somebody in there. And you know, these people are flying
around that they are exceptionally busy, they are trusting each
other across the board. And if there was someone who
looked and said they didn't see that number, they didn't
understand that set of initials, all.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, this, it would have been a good rason. Excuse me,
who's such and such? What number is that? Who's JG?
I don't get it? Who is that person? Evidently nobody
questioned that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, you've got a lot of questions. Nobody's answered. It's
your morning show with Michael del Chno. Just got this
at Michael d at iHeartMedia dot com. Michael Laura Lumer
reports the following staunch Trump ally Loomer tweeted about Waltz's
deputy Alex Wong's alleged China links. Wongs as married to
Candice Wong, a Chinese woman who was one of the
(10:33):
key attorneys involved in prosecuting the J sixers. So that's that.
We also had a talk back similar to the online
theories that it's it's wong and it was on purpose.
But it it comes back to what I wish I
could have just turned down the commercials and potted you
guys up. You and read had a great exchange. The
bottom line is, how did Goldberg get on a list
(10:55):
that could accidentally be hit? And there are a lot
of theories, you know, like right now, ours say our names,
but let's say Jefferies was just jay Er, and I
was MDG, and Red was RD and you're DZ. Well,
somebody put a name that was close to it, like
dz dot for enough to somehow fool them. It's like
(11:18):
a phishing expedition, knowing they would eventually include him and
he would get something. But I'm looking at the timing.
You got MPR and PBS facing political bias allegations before Congress,
and their funding is at stake, and their CEO is
also the board chairman of Signal and this all happens.
But it just all boils down to how do you
(11:40):
get on that list, how do you get on that call?
And oh, by the way, why isn't he being held
accountable for accepting it, and Michael, and why don't we
have that answer yet at seventy two hours.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
This is the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
There are enough fascinating connections here that this could conspiracy
theory could go on for twenty years, right, because it's
just a question that needs a simple answer.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Somebody did it?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Look, you don't have to fire the person, reassign him,
get him training. We do agree with the president's outcome
that it's much ado about nothing, except for the fact
that if we can't find out who did that, then
we have a problem either in national security or the
Defense Department or something. And that's a bigger problem than
what happened. You can't have this sort of thing happening now.
(12:23):
The other question, of course, is the credibility of the Atlantic.
That's an embarrassing moment for anybody. Because he got caught
with both hands in the cookie jar.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He couldn't trying to figure out how he got in
the cookie jar. Right.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He could have been a patriot. He could have said,
this is not my thing. I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You guys have a problem, say that he's had nothing
but try to embarrass me. He's even release the entire scripts,
but ironic as he could have embarrassed them so much
more effectively by just saying, I'm sending it all back
to you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Take me out now, I'm holding a news conference and saying,
you guys are such bunglers. You were about to send
me classified information and.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I say it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But he doesn't do that. He reveals that the entire
messaging drip drip drip, all right, So why is there
no legal consequence at the moment he accepts that when
he shouldn't have been invited. Never mind the mystery of
how he got there. I mean either somebody within allowed
him access and betrayed the administration or he fished his
(13:19):
way in. Either way, he hits, accept, why is he
not being held accountable for that?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm wondering his pen BONDI and the Justice Department looking
at every single piece of he.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And let him keep doing it, let him keep revealing it.
But he's on a on a on the slow walk
to hang himself well, and he's you see what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Every time that the administration takes a position, he drops
another email to make them look more foolish. This is
exactly falling into the trap. Now, he's playing a trap game,
and it's obvious to everybody, And of course it's what's
the end game?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Where does he think he's going with this?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, this is the Atlantic? Where he's going is everybody's
talking about his magazine.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's not a journalist, he's the editor, right, he's brass
at the Atlantic?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right? Bottom line? When can we stop talking about?
I think for the president, I don't think he wants
these conversations happening anywhere other than the situation room, let alone,
this mistake would never happen again. I don't know if
they'll switch and use something different than signal, or just
make sure these signal mistakes don't happen again. He's handled
it flawlessly. Why is he still handling the messaging so well?
(14:24):
And heg Seth and Waltz aren't And how long does
it take to walk across the hall and tell them
how to handle this and stop with all the finger
pointing in us versus them.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They've either got a they either have a countertrap strategy
on Goldberg. They're going to let him continue, continue to continue,
and then they're going to drop a piece of information
that no one's heard before that will collapse on him
or their inexperience and stumbling, in which case somebody needs
to build them out and help them get out of
this thing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
NPRPBS, there's no question this is bias. Listen, the mainstream media,
the legacy media, is an arm of the Democrat Party.
The difference is NPR and PBS is a funded with
taxpayers arm of the Democrat Party. And if this all
comes back on Signal and NPR, maybe that's the trap.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's where the connections, That's where everybody else to spend
the rest of the week researching, because the deeper that
we get into it, the more interesting all the connections are.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
People would think that's because Signal is designed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
For privacy, that is a conservative organization is not in
any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This gets back to my gut reaction yesterday, which is
everything the left is trying seems to blow up in
their face, and I sense that this one that they
think they're winning is really another bomb getting ready to
blow up in their face. One of the great stories.
I say, we were out of time. I got to
do the baseball address, but the headline was Trump and
Musk Do they have sorrows to de rangement syndrome, and
(15:48):
it was such a classic New York Times story. They
had a catchy headline. Unfortunately they didn't have a story
to put with it. In fact, that's the last time
you heard sorrows his name. We may have to do
that on another day, but we'll get back to that one. Yeah,
there's definitely the messaging of the left, but narratives have
all died of reality. Let's hope this one the signal gate,
goes the same way. David, Thanks so much for your
(16:09):
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if you're just waking up. President Trump down playing signal gait, saying, well,
the attacks went off without a hitch, and we're not
going to make that mistake again. I don't know what
the big deal is. Executives of MPR and PBS are
facing allegations of political bias before Congress. And it's twenty
twenty five, opening day of Major League Baseball with fourteen
games on the schedule today the subject of our annual
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State of the Baseball Address. This all began with my wife,
who was my girlfriend at the time. She couldn't understand
why I loved baseball so much, so I put all
of my thoughts down and one foil swamp to explain
to her why it was so important and it was
so much more than just a game. You know, in
a time where football has replaced baseball as America's pastime,
(17:57):
when more kids are playing youth soccer than Little League baseball,
I'm often asked why do you love the game of
baseball so much? And my answer at sixty is the
same answer it's been all my adult life, because baseball
is so much more than just a game. Baseball is
my first Wilson Dick mccauloff glove. I can still smell
(18:18):
the leather every time I oil one of my son's
new myts. Baseball is playing wifftball in the backyard with
my brothers and friends. It's my mom getting mad at
us for using the last of the flower to be
the chalk around home plate. It's pretending I'm a Chicago
Cup throwing the ball against a wall in the backyard,
but I've been brought in by Leo du Rocher and
(18:39):
the ninth to close the game for the Cups. It's
playing catch with my dad when he got home from work.
Time always seemed to stand still whenever he played catch
with me. You see, baseball is so much more than
just a game. It's my first manager at eight years old,
the Hurricanes coach Burn calling me a garbage boy. Garbage boy,
(19:01):
get in right field. It's my twelve year old little
league team, the Buffaloes. We actually fired our manager after
five games and replaced him with our coach, Coach Rizzo,
and we never lost another game until the Chicago Land Championship.
Baseball is me the star of that team, taking the
final out in the championship game. You see, baseball, it's
(19:22):
so much more than just a game. It's me at
ten years old, meeting mister Baseball, Ernie Banks at a
charity walk with my dad. So walking up the ramp
and seeing Wrigley Field for the first time at seven
years old. Oh, the grass was so green, the infield
was freshly misted, the vines were waving in the breeze
in the outfield, and standing right in front of me
(19:43):
was Don Kessinger and Jose Cardinal ten feet away. Bigger
than life Baseball was returning forty three years later and
taking a picture of my son walking up that very
same ramp at Wrigley Field for the first time. Oh, gang,
baseball is so much more and just a game. It's
skipping out of school in early September to go see
(20:04):
the Cubs play the Expos. It was freezing cold, but
my dad took me to see Maury Wills play his
final game. Baseball is just missing Mark McGuire's sixty first
home run. I mean by a fingertip at Bush Stadium
as an adult, or as a kid going to Dodger
Stadium while on vacation to see Roberto Clementy in The
Pirates in person. To this day, I swear he looked
(20:28):
right at me when I screamed, I love you, Roberto.
It's crying in my bedroom three months later when a
man on television told me Roberto Clementy was dead. He
died in a plane crash. Oh, Baseball, It's so much
more than just a game. Baseball is league of their
own bad News Bears, Bull Durham for the love of
the game. The natural baseball is Joe Garagiola, Tony Kobeck,
(20:51):
Vince Gully, Red Barber, Harry Carry. It's the shot heard
around the world. It's the ground ball going through the
legs Buckner. It's Carlton Fisk waving and willing that ball
fare in Game six of the World Series. And it's
knowing every time Reggie came up in October he'd get
the big hit. It's the Giants won the pennant. The
(21:12):
Giants won the pennant. It's hey, It's holy cow. Baseball
is romantic. It's superstitious. It's believing that every year might
be could possibly be the Cub's year after all. Baseball
is so much more than just a game. Baseball is
my dad's friend at duty. He loved the Chicago White
(21:35):
Sox so much, hated the Cubs so much he absolutely
would not ever step foot in Wrigleyfield. Baseball is Max Patkin,
the San Diego Chicken, the Philly fanatic. It's Ty Cobb,
Blue Garrick, Joe DiMaggio, the Yaz, the Penguin, the Babe,
the Mick, the stand, the man. Oh, It's everything. It's
(21:55):
so much more than just a game. Baseball is the
bark of a beer vendor, the smell of a fresh
poored beer, the crack of the bat, the roar of
the crowd. It's purposely sitting under the radio TV booth
and yelling.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Hey Harry, Hey Harry all game long, until he'd finally
lean over look down at you through those thick lenses
and with a big smile wave.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's hot dogs, peanuts, not so much crackerjacks anymore, but dippin'
dots now. But it's always so much more than a game.
It's starting varsity my freshman year of high school with
a pride of not just my school Kio Academy, but
my family. You see, I was starting at second base,
my brother Bobby was at first, and my big brother
Vic was behind the plate. It was later winning a
(22:41):
high school state championship my junior year. Baseball is the
feeling of hitting a home run. You just know it's
gone the minute it leaves your bat. Baseball is knowing
as a child your mom and dad are watching in
the stands, or in high school, your girlfriend is cheering
from the bleachers. Baseball is teammates hind tar eye, black dugouts,
(23:03):
spit scratching, kicking dirt. It's iq balance, timing and power.
It's victory and it's defeat. It's everything. Today it's still
so much more than a game, whether it was teaching
my son how to play in the backyard or coaching
his little league team, lifting him up into my arms
as a father, not a manager when he got his
(23:23):
first hit, it's going to a sounds game here in Nashville,
or what my son and I do every year, we
travel to a different city and watch the Cubs play somewhere.
This year, I think we're headed to San Francisco. Baseball funny.
We call it America's pastime, But as a father, it
(23:45):
feels so present, so future, and still so much more
than a game. So if you ever wonder why a
guy still loves baseball or still needs to get away
and go to the ballpark, because we have old friends,
old sounds, old smells to visit, I always have one
eye on the game and another eye on a boy
(24:06):
and his dad sitting a few miles away that looks
so familiar to me. You see, in the end, baseball
is life, It's memories, it's hope, still hope, dreams, still dreamed.
If you're ever at a ballgame and you see me,
it may look like I'm sitting there all alone, but
I'm not. Coach Berg's there, Coach Rizzo's there, Coach Weidenbacker's there,
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Dad's there, Vic's there, Bob's there, Harry's there, Roberto's there.
They're all there because Baseball is so much more than
just a game. It's Opening Day twenty twenty five and
the Yankees and the Boords are gonna go add it
at two o'clock and starting in center field, all rise
Aaron Judge, because baseball is so much more than just
(24:55):
a game. By the way, I don't want to chax anybody,
but I like the Guardians to win the American League
and on flight generally, I don't think anybody's gonna beat
the Dodgers. We're gonna win the National League in the
World Series. But let's enjoy the efforts.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
We're bon damn the new Brandon Field.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuna.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let's start with Dave on the talk back line.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
My dad took me to my first baseball game in
nineteen seventy and it was the last game at Crosley Field.
Reds versus Giants. Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back
to back homers in the eighth off of Juan Marischal
and we beat the Giants. I'll never forget that day
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and I love the game ever since.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dant and Fernando Vealezuela the most in my backyard, and
Wilbur Wood, who was a White Sox pitcher. I used
to have his wind up down to an art, but
I used to do a high Kickwan Marischelle my day.
That's a gotta have memory. You don't forget your first
time ever going to a Major league park. Renee also
has a comment, good morning.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Come on.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Now, you know you can't refer to them as the Guardians.
They'll always be the Cleveland Indians and Major League The
movie solidified that for us old heads. Have a great day,
happy first day of opening baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It is one of the great tragedies in baseball that
we can't call them the tribe. Come on, I do
like Cleveland to win the American League. Unfortunately, we all
know the Dodgers are going to win the National League
and the World Series. But let the fun begin. It's
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Speaker 8 (26:56):
A House of dode cheering over public funding for the
outlets Georgia Congres. This woman Marjorie Taylor Green claim that
hardworking Americans are being forced to subsidize news outlets with
a communist agenda and yours had. Katherine Maher and PDS
President Paula Krueger defended their outlets, claiming they both subscribe
to the highest journalistic standards and are not biased, both
side of the continued need for millions of taxpayer dollars,
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noting they are the only source of news in smaller communities.
Mar did call a report concerning that there are eighty
seven employees that are DC Bureau that are registered Democrats
and zero Republicans.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Eighty seven Democrats, zero Republicans, but key revealing,
don't you think. President Trump says he could extend the
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and if they do what Dammi Trahuila as more.
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Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trump also said he might give
China reduction in tariffs if its government approves that TikTok
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There are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we
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I'm worried about our country more.
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Than anything else.
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TikTok's fade isn't up in the air for months due
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There was no grand prize winner, and last night's drawing
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of you winning works out to about one in two
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a chance, just just tiny bit of a chance. Chances.
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How do we go from chance to chances?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Are?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I mean, we don't do this on the weekend. We're professionals,
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as good as when he was young. Unfortunately he's eighty
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were born and thanks for making us a part of
your morning. Well, it looks like YouTube is replacing traditional
media for older America. Older americ what's left for television?
Rory O'Neil, Well, that's the big question, right.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
We've seen the number of users of YouTube and YouTube
TV nearly double in just the past two years. When
you take a close look at the demographics, there are
just as many kids under the age of twelve watching
YouTube and YouTube TV as there are people over the age.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Of sixty five.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
So look for a change in some of the advertisers
you might see there as you know, don't no longer
assume you just ended advertising toys and energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It could be gold and catheters. Well that's already happening,
you know. I look at like cable televisions.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
We all, hey for a company called YouTube, right, why
not a tube?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But you know you're watching all these even Fox, for example,
who was clearly the most successful of the cable news networks.
I mean it's most mostly big pharma and agencies and
organisa have very few regular commercials. I don't know how
sustainable network television cable television is. I mean, it's you know,
it's looking more like Blockbuster today than what it used
(30:47):
to be. How does all this play out when we leave? Eventually,
there was a timery. I thought everything would kind of
come full circle.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's kind of like when cable came out, you had
five hundred channels and you're only really watching five, you know,
But this this seems like a much different cycle. And well,
I don't know how, Like I don't know how the
cable business is staying in business, to be honest with you, Well.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Right, in a lot of ways, it's not making sense anymore,
you know, We're only drawn to cable TV for the
most part because of live sporting events. Otherwise everything is
on demand. And we took about that as two old
guys let alone with some twelve year old you know,
just expects from their video content and then look at
and I still get upset over copyright issues that are
(31:28):
out there and.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Things like that.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
But yeah, this is still that a wild wild West
kind of media landscape. And I know radio went through
a lot of it about twenty years ago at this point,
and it's TV's turn now as they struggle to figure
out a way to.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Make the ends meet. So I'm trying to remember what
the one I do Roku, so you know, and this
was a big step for me. You know, it's harder
to change, gets harder and harder when you get older.
So you know, finally, I just I have friends that
have U two TV and all that I went with Roku.
I went with Roku because I had all but on
TV we're all smart. And then you just put the
(32:03):
little thing in the back and it really was not
traumatic at all. And so I have direct TV the
way I used to use cable at a far less price.
And then where I'm spending most of my time Netflix, Prime,
Hulu or Apple or all those other places, and it's
really easy to get around, especially on a smart TV.
I just don't know how they hold things together other
(32:25):
than people. It's kind of like, you know, how long
did you keep your landline before it was like and
then I should try to cancel it with Comcast and
they go, He're really not paying for it, it's not
worth canceling. But nobody's using there. Yeah, it's going to
fall like a house of cards. It's already falling.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Well, but do you know how much your monthly bill
is then for all that entertainment? I mean, that's the
other hook here, is that a lot of people are
looking for options because if you got the old basic
cable box and the subscription with the DVR and that
also came with your basic internet, I mean, now we're
approaching two hundred bucks a box for each TV and
that's before I get into Netflix and Hulu with d
(33:03):
d D. So yeah, I mean for your baby essentially
two hundred bucks just for TV each month.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, and then there's we could go on and on.
But like when I switched to AT and T for
all the mobile phones for me, my wife, my kids,
my mother. Uh, they had a deal with direct TV,
so I actually saved almost three hundred dollars a month,
and you know it was It's pretty significant. So I
don't know how they can compete. And then we haven't
(33:30):
even gotten into sports is a big driver. And now sports,
I mean even the NFL is going to be starting
already being spread out with games on Netflix, games on
Prime games. I don't know how this all plays out.
I really don't, but it's not playing out well for
traditional terrestrial television right.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
But it's driving all of us crazy because now we
all have to monitor six different services at least to
try to, you know, watch every game, and that's a pain.
Why can't we just have a service where we can
follow one NFL.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Team exactly well? And you know, it's like, do you
remember when I remember when one of my biggest bills
was long distance phone and that was night significent right
under your mortgage. Uh, and now you know, suddenly it's
all free. You wonder I'm just gonna say, you just
wonder what the endgame is? Yeah. I was king of
the five cent Sundays on MC. I I remember those well.
(34:24):
Rory O'Neill. Even the old people are catching on to YouTube.
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This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Jordan. Thank you,
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Welcome to Thursday, March the twenty seventh. This is our day.
We're in this together, and this is your morning show.
I'm Michael Jeffrey keeping an eye on the sound, red
keeping an eye on the content. And then we have
our senior contributor David Zanatti joining us NPRPBS facing allegations
(01:00):
of political bias. Well, they had eighty nine Democrats and
zero Republicans on their team. I think that would suggest
a little bit of bias. It's Major League Baseball's opening day,
fourteen games on the schedule today, and that means next
half hour our State of the Baseball address that we
do annually. Don't miss it talking about signal Gate, you know, David,
(01:23):
there are several questions. The big question, of course, is
I love the way Donald Trump is handling it. I
still don't like the way Waltz and HEG Sath and
others are handling it. And you would think Donald Trump
would just turn it them and tell them how to
handle it. But the President handled it perfectly and said
I don't know what the issue was. I don't know
how the guy got on there, and it's not going
(01:43):
to happen again. May have been signaled, may have been
one of us. We'll figure it out. But it didn't
affect any of the of the targeting of the hoothy sites.
So it was a very successful military campaign. Nonetheless, So
it suggests that maybe it's a big deal for the
left media, maybe it's a big for the Democrats for
whatever reason, but it's is not such a big deal
to the American people. What I wanted us to focus
(02:06):
on are on the questions that nobody, including the media,
is asking. I don't use signal. I don't know if
it is in the world of texting or messaging. What
like teams is for video meetings. I don't know. But
what are some of the questions in your mind? If
(02:26):
we're going to talk about it, Let's talk about it.
Let's ask the right questions so we get the right answers.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Sure, I mean you've made a comment earlier to me
about teams another like a zoom like format. I've never
used teams, so I think comment how it works. I
do have Signal on my phone. I've had it for
a couple of years, and at least in the way
that Signal works with the people that I work with
Signal on when you send an invitation to someone, they
have to opt in, if they have their phone.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Number in advance.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You have to send it them and say I would
like you to participate with me in Signal, and they
have to say yes. According to the reports from NPR,
which is quite an interesting agency to be reporting on
this because the CEO of NPR right now happens to
also be the chairman of the board of Signal. Wait
a minute, Wait a bit, Wait a bit. Wait, wait
a minute, this is a classic david'sanati.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
David, would you repeat that to everybody because this is
either just a strange coincidence or it's a very revealing fact.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, here's an NPR disclosure in their own words from
their article on Signal and a Signal NPR disclosure. Catherine Mayer,
the CEO of NPR, chairs the board of the Signal Foundation.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's a clinky dinky in and of itself, all right,
So either this person was and we still have clarification
that it's Goldberg that was invited. That link hasn't been
connected yet, but somebody would have to a be invited
and then be accept the invitation. Yes, and at that point,
that's what we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I mean this Goldberg mission.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Goldberg sat for two days after he accepted the invitation
before any texted material from this chat group came to him.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So when the invation came to him, he could have denied.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He could have contacted Walls or Haiksett's office officially or
through back channels. They would take his call and say,
excuse me, I'm on this call. As we spoke about yesterday, Michael,
I'm certain that you didn't mean for that to happen.
That would have been the patriotic and honest thing to do. Instead,
he sat and waited to seem curious.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Which would suggest he wants to embarrass the administration, or
maybe I can't imagine he wants to jeopardize on operation.
He certainly didn't reveal anything until after the air strikes
were successful, So my guess is he just wanted to
embarrass the administration. But how did he get on there?
I mean, has he ever had any contact with walls before?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's the question.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Someone on the government side had to have this contact,
this name and phone number, and or it could have
been in their signal set up as just a phone number.
But someone had to make the intelligent decision of pressing
buttons and sending an invite invite either that name that
number or that name and number.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Who is that person and why? And if the.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Answer is it was absolutely a fat fingered mistake, that
number was somebody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Hit a button.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By that's fine, who hit the button? Just tell us.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm not suggesting anybody needs fired, They just need trained.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Right. David Sina, he's our senior contributor and host of
the Public Square heard on Twitter stations Red brought this up.
Any chance you can hack these things?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, it's the most hack proof system that's out there.
I mean, if you look at the reviews, you look
at articles, you look at all the people who use
it across the boards, it is very difficult to hack
that encrypted sense and it's exceptionally difficult to unhack it
at the open end because it requires action on one
party and consent on another.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, that's another question that you asked, which was and
this could be provable. Did Goldberg have signal? Did he
use signal in other ways prior to this, or suddenly
as a non signal user finally on signal, finally has
the same boss you know or the you know you
got MPR and signal, same boss, and now he's invited
(06:12):
to this call mysteriously and accepts mysteriously.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It It doesn't matter which way. This has nothing to
do with politics. This has to do with how did
this happen?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because it's important for all of us that have signal
out there there's some magical way for a mysterious people
to hack into our systems and create something that no
one I think would be a pretty darn good time
for all of us to find out well and hear
from signal.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I mean, look, I have that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Has anybody heard from signal?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, And let me tell you something. I have a sense,
and I could be wrong, but I have a sense.
This is a really big deal for talk radio because
it's something interesting and out of the normal.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's a really big deal for the narrative of the
far left and certainly those at the table of the
cabal in the narrative legacy media. Probably not that big
of a deal with the American people. Doesn't seem to
be in public A big deal for the President though
you can tell he doesn't want to ever happen again.
I wish he would turn to Hegseeth and Walls and
get them to handle it as well as he's handling
(07:16):
it publicly. But all that aside, is this a nothing
burger for the American people? Because if it is, the
only the American people are taking out of this, I
ain't using signal, That's all I'm taken away from it.
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
They weren't using it now, So if that doesn't shows
for it. And by the way, signals are not for
profit organization, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So you have signal. Do you feel good about using it?
First off, I could care less.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I only use signal because there's people that I work
with who are paranoid and they want that encrypted service,
so I am as a courtesy to them, I participate.
I believe that everything that's on my phone is eventually
is going to be on the front page of the
newspaper anyhow, so I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
No, you live that too, by the way, Well, but
I mean as believers, we live that right. We don't
say anthing behindybody's back. We wouldn't say front of their face. Well,
we try not to. I would. Well, no, I know
nobody's better at it. I'd crucify you if you were perfect.
After the first text message was sent, why didn't Goldberg
notify Walls. I think he's got to own that it's
obvious to everyone. He just wanted to embarrass. Why has
(08:14):
the person who physically sent the invitation to Goldberg not
been identified? I mean that would be clearly known by now,
and then I'll add one that reads you know, we're
all in different studios, but so that we can communicate.
And by the way, if I was in my studio
downtown on Broadway, I wouldn't see Jeffrey through glass anyway,
he'd be on a large screen TV. So we all
(08:35):
kind of do this right now. But so I see
all four of you, all three of you, I'm the fourth,
and we're all on a big screen together, and I'm
looking you right in the eyes. I'm talking to you.
In these kinds of things, how do you know who's
on a line? And was there presumably somebody there sitting
and you could see a number, but it wasn't identified.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yes, that's how instant messaging works.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
There is an active call, and these are the participants,
and it is disclosed to all participants who's there. It's
also disclosed whether or not it's being recorded. If that oppertuity.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
When they see a name or a phone number usually
both right or at least the phone number and an
I kind of some kind.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
So yes, there's that context.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now it's well, obviously nobody looked down and caught that
that there's somebody here that's not us and they're not participating, and.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's important for us to mention this. These are text messages.
These are words on a screen. This wasn't a video,
this wasn't a phone call. These were words on a
screen to a network of people who believed they were
in a completely encrypted system, all of whom have clearance
to discuss these matters. This is not a breach of
any clearance question except for the fact that there was
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somebody in there. And you know, these people are flying
around that they are exceptionally busy, they are trusting each
other across the board. And if there was someone who
looked and said they didn't see that number, they didn't
understand that set of initials, all.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, this, it would have been a good rason. Excuse me,
who's such and such? What number is that? Who's JG?
I don't get it? Who is that person? Evidently nobody
questioned that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, you've got a lot of questions. Nobody's answered. It's
your morning show with Michael del Chno. Just got this
at Michael d at iHeartMedia dot com. Michael Laura Lumer
reports the following staunch Trump ally Loomer tweeted about Waltz's
deputy Alex Wong's alleged China links. Wongs as married to
Candice Wong, a Chinese woman who was one of the
(10:33):
key attorneys involved in prosecuting the J sixers. So that's that.
We also had a talk back similar to the online
theories that it's it's wong and it was on purpose.
But it it comes back to what I wish I
could have just turned down the commercials and potted you
guys up. You and read had a great exchange. The
bottom line is, how did Goldberg get on a list
(10:55):
that could accidentally be hit? And there are a lot
of theories, you know, like right now, ours say our names,
but let's say Jefferies was just jay Er, and I
was MDG, and Red was RD and you're DZ. Well,
somebody put a name that was close to it, like
dz dot for enough to somehow fool them. It's like
(11:18):
a phishing expedition, knowing they would eventually include him and
he would get something. But I'm looking at the timing.
You got MPR and PBS facing political bias allegations before Congress,
and their funding is at stake, and their CEO is
also the board chairman of Signal and this all happens.
But it just all boils down to how do you
(11:40):
get on that list, how do you get on that call?
And oh, by the way, why isn't he being held
accountable for accepting it, and Michael, and why don't we
have that answer yet at seventy two hours.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
This is the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
There are enough fascinating connections here that this could conspiracy
theory could go on for twenty years, right, because it's
just a question that needs a simple answer.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Somebody did it?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Look, you don't have to fire the person, reassign him,
get him training. We do agree with the president's outcome
that it's much ado about nothing, except for the fact
that if we can't find out who did that, then
we have a problem either in national security or the
Defense Department or something. And that's a bigger problem than
what happened. You can't have this sort of thing happening now.
(12:23):
The other question, of course, is the credibility of the Atlantic.
That's an embarrassing moment for anybody. Because he got caught
with both hands in the cookie jar.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He couldn't trying to figure out how he got in
the cookie jar. Right.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He could have been a patriot. He could have said,
this is not my thing. I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You guys have a problem, say that he's had nothing
but try to embarrass me. He's even release the entire scripts,
but ironic as he could have embarrassed them so much
more effectively by just saying, I'm sending it all back
to you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Take me out now, I'm holding a news conference and saying,
you guys are such bunglers. You were about to send
me classified information and.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I say it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But he doesn't do that. He reveals that the entire
messaging drip drip drip, all right, So why is there
no legal consequence at the moment he accepts that when
he shouldn't have been invited. Never mind the mystery of
how he got there. I mean either somebody within allowed
him access and betrayed the administration or he fished his
(13:19):
way in. Either way, he hits, accept, why is he
not being held accountable for that?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm wondering his pen BONDI and the Justice Department looking
at every single piece of he.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And let him keep doing it, let him keep revealing it.
But he's on a on a on the slow walk
to hang himself well, and he's you see what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Every time that the administration takes a position, he drops
another email to make them look more foolish. This is
exactly falling into the trap. Now, he's playing a trap game,
and it's obvious to everybody, And of course it's what's
the end game?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Where does he think he's going with this?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, this is the Atlantic? Where he's going is everybody's
talking about his magazine.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's not a journalist, he's the editor, right, he's brass
at the Atlantic?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right? Bottom line? When can we stop talking about?
I think for the president, I don't think he wants
these conversations happening anywhere other than the situation room, let alone,
this mistake would never happen again. I don't know if
they'll switch and use something different than signal, or just
make sure these signal mistakes don't happen again. He's handled
it flawlessly. Why is he still handling the messaging so well?
(14:24):
And heg Seth and Waltz aren't And how long does
it take to walk across the hall and tell them
how to handle this and stop with all the finger
pointing in us versus them.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They've either got a they either have a countertrap strategy
on Goldberg. They're going to let him continue, continue to continue,
and then they're going to drop a piece of information
that no one's heard before that will collapse on him
or their inexperience and stumbling, in which case somebody needs
to build them out and help them get out of
this thing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
NPRPBS, there's no question this is bias. Listen, the mainstream media,
the legacy media, is an arm of the Democrat Party.
The difference is NPR and PBS is a funded with
taxpayers arm of the Democrat Party. And if this all
comes back on Signal and NPR, maybe that's the trap.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's where the connections, That's where everybody else to spend
the rest of the week researching, because the deeper that
we get into it, the more interesting all the connections are.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
People would think that's because Signal is designed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
For privacy, that is a conservative organization is not in
any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This gets back to my gut reaction yesterday, which is
everything the left is trying seems to blow up in
their face, and I sense that this one that they
think they're winning is really another bomb getting ready to
blow up in their face. One of the great stories.
I say, we were out of time. I got to
do the baseball address, but the headline was Trump and
Musk Do they have sorrows to de rangement syndrome, and
(15:48):
it was such a classic New York Times story. They
had a catchy headline. Unfortunately they didn't have a story
to put with it. In fact, that's the last time
you heard sorrows his name. We may have to do
that on another day, but we'll get back to that one. Yeah,
there's definitely the messaging of the left, but narratives have
all died of reality. Let's hope this one the signal gate,
goes the same way. David, Thanks so much for your
(16:09):
good questions and insights. Appreciate it. Thanks mine. Hey, this
is Jeff from Tulsa, Oklaholma, and my morning show is
your Morning Show with Michael dev Jorno. Hi, it's Michael.
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You might even want to put it on a presep
if you're just waking up. President Trump down playing signal gait, saying, well,
the attacks went off without a hitch, and we're not
going to make that mistake again. I don't know what
the big deal is. Executives of MPR and PBS are
facing allegations of political bias before Congress. And it's twenty
twenty five, opening day of Major League Baseball with fourteen
games on the schedule today the subject of our annual
(17:36):
State of the Baseball Address. This all began with my wife,
who was my girlfriend at the time. She couldn't understand
why I loved baseball so much, so I put all
of my thoughts down and one foil swamp to explain
to her why it was so important and it was
so much more than just a game. You know, in
a time where football has replaced baseball as America's pastime,
(17:57):
when more kids are playing youth soccer than Little League baseball,
I'm often asked why do you love the game of
baseball so much? And my answer at sixty is the
same answer it's been all my adult life, because baseball
is so much more than just a game. Baseball is
my first Wilson Dick mccauloff glove. I can still smell
(18:18):
the leather every time I oil one of my son's
new myts. Baseball is playing wifftball in the backyard with
my brothers and friends. It's my mom getting mad at
us for using the last of the flower to be
the chalk around home plate. It's pretending I'm a Chicago
Cup throwing the ball against a wall in the backyard,
but I've been brought in by Leo du Rocher and
(18:39):
the ninth to close the game for the Cups. It's
playing catch with my dad when he got home from work.
Time always seemed to stand still whenever he played catch
with me. You see, baseball is so much more than
just a game. It's my first manager at eight years old,
the Hurricanes coach Burn calling me a garbage boy. Garbage boy,
(19:01):
get in right field. It's my twelve year old little
league team, the Buffaloes. We actually fired our manager after
five games and replaced him with our coach, Coach Rizzo,
and we never lost another game until the Chicago Land Championship.
Baseball is me the star of that team, taking the
final out in the championship game. You see, baseball, it's
(19:22):
so much more than just a game. It's me at
ten years old, meeting mister Baseball, Ernie Banks at a
charity walk with my dad. So walking up the ramp
and seeing Wrigley Field for the first time at seven
years old. Oh, the grass was so green, the infield
was freshly misted, the vines were waving in the breeze
in the outfield, and standing right in front of me
(19:43):
was Don Kessinger and Jose Cardinal ten feet away. Bigger
than life Baseball was returning forty three years later and
taking a picture of my son walking up that very
same ramp at Wrigley Field for the first time. Oh, gang,
baseball is so much more and just a game. It's
skipping out of school in early September to go see
(20:04):
the Cubs play the Expos. It was freezing cold, but
my dad took me to see Maury Wills play his
final game. Baseball is just missing Mark McGuire's sixty first
home run. I mean by a fingertip at Bush Stadium
as an adult, or as a kid going to Dodger
Stadium while on vacation to see Roberto Clementy in The
Pirates in person. To this day, I swear he looked
(20:28):
right at me when I screamed, I love you, Roberto.
It's crying in my bedroom three months later when a
man on television told me Roberto Clementy was dead. He
died in a plane crash. Oh, Baseball, It's so much
more than just a game. Baseball is league of their
own bad News Bears, Bull Durham for the love of
the game. The natural baseball is Joe Garagiola, Tony Kobeck,
(20:51):
Vince Gully, Red Barber, Harry Carry. It's the shot heard
around the world. It's the ground ball going through the
legs Buckner. It's Carlton Fisk waving and willing that ball
fare in Game six of the World Series. And it's
knowing every time Reggie came up in October he'd get
the big hit. It's the Giants won the pennant. The
(21:12):
Giants won the pennant. It's hey, It's holy cow. Baseball
is romantic. It's superstitious. It's believing that every year might
be could possibly be the Cub's year after all. Baseball
is so much more than just a game. Baseball is
my dad's friend at duty. He loved the Chicago White
(21:35):
Sox so much, hated the Cubs so much he absolutely
would not ever step foot in Wrigleyfield. Baseball is Max Patkin,
the San Diego Chicken, the Philly fanatic. It's Ty Cobb,
Blue Garrick, Joe DiMaggio, the Yaz, the Penguin, the Babe,
the Mick, the stand, the man. Oh, It's everything. It's
(21:55):
so much more than just a game. Baseball is the
bark of a beer vendor, the smell of a fresh
poored beer, the crack of the bat, the roar of
the crowd. It's purposely sitting under the radio TV booth
and yelling.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Hey Harry, Hey Harry all game long, until he'd finally
lean over look down at you through those thick lenses
and with a big smile wave.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's hot dogs, peanuts, not so much crackerjacks anymore, but dippin'
dots now. But it's always so much more than a game.
It's starting varsity my freshman year of high school with
a pride of not just my school Kio Academy, but
my family. You see, I was starting at second base,
my brother Bobby was at first, and my big brother
Vic was behind the plate. It was later winning a
(22:41):
high school state championship my junior year. Baseball is the
feeling of hitting a home run. You just know it's
gone the minute it leaves your bat. Baseball is knowing
as a child your mom and dad are watching in
the stands, or in high school, your girlfriend is cheering
from the bleachers. Baseball is teammates hind tar eye, black dugouts,
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spit scratching, kicking dirt. It's iq balance, timing and power.
It's victory and it's defeat. It's everything. Today it's still
so much more than a game, whether it was teaching
my son how to play in the backyard or coaching
his little league team, lifting him up into my arms
as a father, not a manager when he got his
(23:23):
first hit, it's going to a sounds game here in Nashville,
or what my son and I do every year, we
travel to a different city and watch the Cubs play somewhere.
This year, I think we're headed to San Francisco. Baseball funny.
We call it America's pastime, But as a father, it
(23:45):
feels so present, so future, and still so much more
than a game. So if you ever wonder why a
guy still loves baseball or still needs to get away
and go to the ballpark, because we have old friends,
old sounds, old smells to visit, I always have one
eye on the game and another eye on a boy
(24:06):
and his dad sitting a few miles away that looks
so familiar to me. You see, in the end, baseball
is life, It's memories, it's hope, still hope, dreams, still dreamed.
If you're ever at a ballgame and you see me,
it may look like I'm sitting there all alone, but
I'm not. Coach Berg's there, Coach Rizzo's there, Coach Weidenbacker's there,
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Dad's there, Vic's there, Bob's there, Harry's there, Roberto's there.
They're all there because Baseball is so much more than
just a game. It's Opening Day twenty twenty five and
the Yankees and the Boords are gonna go add it
at two o'clock and starting in center field, all rise
Aaron Judge, because baseball is so much more than just
(24:55):
a game. By the way, I don't want to chax anybody,
but I like the Guardians to win the American League
and on flight generally, I don't think anybody's gonna beat
the Dodgers. We're gonna win the National League in the
World Series. But let's enjoy the efforts.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
We're bon damn the new Brandon Field.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuna.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let's start with Dave on the talk back line.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
My dad took me to my first baseball game in
nineteen seventy and it was the last game at Crosley Field.
Reds versus Giants. Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back
to back homers in the eighth off of Juan Marischal
and we beat the Giants. I'll never forget that day
(25:51):
and I love the game ever since.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Dant and Fernando Vealezuela the most in my backyard, and
Wilbur Wood, who was a White Sox pitcher. I used
to have his wind up down to an art, but
I used to do a high Kickwan Marischelle my day.
That's a gotta have memory. You don't forget your first
time ever going to a Major league park. Renee also
has a comment, good morning.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Come on.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Now, you know you can't refer to them as the Guardians.
They'll always be the Cleveland Indians and Major League The
movie solidified that for us old heads. Have a great day,
happy first day of opening baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It is one of the great tragedies in baseball that
we can't call them the tribe. Come on, I do
like Cleveland to win the American League. Unfortunately, we all
know the Dodgers are going to win the National League
and the World Series. But let the fun begin. It's
opening day of baseball. Hope you enjoyed the address. We'll
have that in the podcast section if you want to
share it with anyone later on art if you're just
(26:47):
waking up. The executives at NPR and PBS, ooh, they
were on the hot seat before Congress. Mark Mayfield has
the story during.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
A House of dode cheering over public funding for the
outlets Georgia Congres. This woman Marjorie Taylor Green claim that
hardworking Americans are being forced to subsidize news outlets with
a communist agenda and yours had. Katherine Maher and PDS
President Paula Krueger defended their outlets, claiming they both subscribe
to the highest journalistic standards and are not biased, both
side of the continued need for millions of taxpayer dollars,
(27:19):
noting they are the only source of news in smaller communities.
Mar did call a report concerning that there are eighty
seven employees that are DC Bureau that are registered Democrats
and zero Republicans.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Eighty seven Democrats, zero Republicans, but key revealing,
don't you think. President Trump says he could extend the
deadline for the upcoming TikTok ban if he wants to,
and if they do what Dammi Trahuila as more.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trump also said he might give
China reduction in tariffs if its government approves that TikTok
deal brokeered by America.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, it'll be.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
There are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we
will find the one that's special, best for the country,
for our country.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I'm worried about our country more.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Than anything else.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
TikTok's fade isn't up in the air for months due
to a bill that forces its Chinese owned parent company,
Bite Downs to sell the app to a non Chinese
buyer or be banned in the US. Vice President Vance
has been working to find a buyer for the app,
but so far there have been no takers. I'm Tammy Trihuo.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
There was no grand prize winner, and last night's drawing
for the Powerball jackpot, it's now up to five hundred
and fifteen million dollars. The cash option works out to
nearly two hundred and forty three million, and the odds
of you winning works out to about one in two
hundred and ninety two million. So you're telling me there's
a chance, just just tiny bit of a chance. Chances.
(28:46):
How do we go from chance to chances?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Are?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I mean, we don't do this on the weekend. We're professionals,
all right, Johnny Madness, you can still sing, I mean
as good as when he was young. Unfortunately he's eighty
nine years old and memory issues are calling him to
call it quits. So he's got four more stops on
his current tour, Voice of Romance Tour. He will end
his career and retire after his May eighteenth performance in Inglewood,
(29:10):
New Jersey. Sweet sixteen is tonight BYU Bama, Maryland, Florida, Arizona,
Duke and Arkansas and Texas Tech Birthdays. Pop Diva Mariah
Carey is fifty six, black Eyed Pea singer, Fergie fifteen
director Quentin Tarantino is sixty two, and former Giant catcher
Buster Posey. On this opening day of Baseball thirty eight,
if it's your birthday, Happy birthday. We're so glad you
(29:33):
were born and thanks for making us a part of
your morning. Well, it looks like YouTube is replacing traditional
media for older America. Older americ what's left for television?
Rory O'Neil, Well, that's the big question, right.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
We've seen the number of users of YouTube and YouTube
TV nearly double in just the past two years. When
you take a close look at the demographics, there are
just as many kids under the age of twelve watching
YouTube and YouTube TV as there are people over the age.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Of sixty five.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
So look for a change in some of the advertisers
you might see there as you know, don't no longer
assume you just ended advertising toys and energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It could be gold and catheters. Well that's already happening,
you know. I look at like cable televisions.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
We all, hey for a company called YouTube, right, why
not a tube?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But you know you're watching all these even Fox, for example,
who was clearly the most successful of the cable news networks.
I mean it's most mostly big pharma and agencies and
organisa have very few regular commercials. I don't know how
sustainable network television cable television is. I mean, it's you know,
it's looking more like Blockbuster today than what it used
(30:47):
to be. How does all this play out when we leave? Eventually,
there was a timery. I thought everything would kind of
come full circle.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's kind of like when cable came out, you had
five hundred channels and you're only really watching five, you know,
But this this seems like a much different cycle. And well,
I don't know how, Like I don't know how the
cable business is staying in business, to be honest with you, Well.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Right, in a lot of ways, it's not making sense anymore,
you know, We're only drawn to cable TV for the
most part because of live sporting events. Otherwise everything is
on demand. And we took about that as two old
guys let alone with some twelve year old you know,
just expects from their video content and then look at
and I still get upset over copyright issues that are
(31:28):
out there and.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Things like that.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
But yeah, this is still that a wild wild West
kind of media landscape. And I know radio went through
a lot of it about twenty years ago at this point,
and it's TV's turn now as they struggle to figure
out a way to.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Make the ends meet. So I'm trying to remember what
the one I do Roku, so you know, and this
was a big step for me. You know, it's harder
to change, gets harder and harder when you get older.
So you know, finally, I just I have friends that
have U two TV and all that I went with Roku.
I went with Roku because I had all but on
TV we're all smart. And then you just put the
(32:03):
little thing in the back and it really was not
traumatic at all. And so I have direct TV the
way I used to use cable at a far less price.
And then where I'm spending most of my time Netflix, Prime,
Hulu or Apple or all those other places, and it's
really easy to get around, especially on a smart TV.
I just don't know how they hold things together other
(32:25):
than people. It's kind of like, you know, how long
did you keep your landline before it was like and
then I should try to cancel it with Comcast and
they go, He're really not paying for it, it's not
worth canceling. But nobody's using there. Yeah, it's going to
fall like a house of cards. It's already falling.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Well, but do you know how much your monthly bill
is then for all that entertainment? I mean, that's the
other hook here, is that a lot of people are
looking for options because if you got the old basic
cable box and the subscription with the DVR and that
also came with your basic internet, I mean, now we're
approaching two hundred bucks a box for each TV and
that's before I get into Netflix and Hulu with d
(33:03):
d D. So yeah, I mean for your baby essentially
two hundred bucks just for TV each month.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, and then there's we could go on and on.
But like when I switched to AT and T for
all the mobile phones for me, my wife, my kids,
my mother. Uh, they had a deal with direct TV,
so I actually saved almost three hundred dollars a month,
and you know it was It's pretty significant. So I
don't know how they can compete. And then we haven't
(33:30):
even gotten into sports is a big driver. And now sports,
I mean even the NFL is going to be starting
already being spread out with games on Netflix, games on
Prime games. I don't know how this all plays out.
I really don't, but it's not playing out well for
traditional terrestrial television right.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
But it's driving all of us crazy because now we
all have to monitor six different services at least to
try to, you know, watch every game, and that's a pain.
Why can't we just have a service where we can
follow one NFL.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Team exactly well? And you know, it's like, do you
remember when I remember when one of my biggest bills
was long distance phone and that was night significent right
under your mortgage. Uh, and now you know, suddenly it's
all free. You wonder I'm just gonna say, you just
wonder what the endgame is? Yeah. I was king of
the five cent Sundays on MC. I I remember those well.
(34:24):
Rory O'Neill. Even the old people are catching on to YouTube.
All right, great reporting, we'll talk again tomorrow. We're all
in this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael
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