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April 7, 2026 37 mins

 Tuesday is the deadline for a peace deal with Iran. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the very latest. 

White House Correspondent JON DECKER was among those asking questions of President Trump during Monday’s wide-ranging news conference. He will have a recap.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you, Mike McCann. Seven minutes after the hour, on
this seventh day of April Tuesday, this is your day,
this is your morning show. I'm Michael del jono. You're
very tired and humble host. Listen in full transparency and confession,
I was tied up from three point thirty in the
morning till three thirty in the afternoon, and wisdom would
have been, hey, take about a two to three hour
nap before the NCAA National Championship because I wasn't going

(00:52):
to sleep through the game. And then I'm starting to
watch Artemis two. I mean I can lay in my
bed high definition on my phone and being the capsule
with these astronauts as they're viewing the Moon with a
view we haven't had in a long time, and one
that we've been able to share in a technology. Ever,
it was just too compelling. And then the pregame started,

(01:14):
and then the game start. I have no sleep. I
guess I said something about the closest to the Moon
anyone has ever been. Obviously, Neil Armstrong would say, I
stood on it. And so now you're cranky and you're
taking it out on me. No, no, no, I'm just look
I could misspeak today. There's no question I have no
sleep whatsoever. We're keeping our eye on two big balls.
The new ball is Earth. As the astronauts are coming home,
they'll splash down Friday off the coast of San Diego.

(01:37):
Thrills yesterday, I mean again, more descriptions. The Moon is
less gray, less ash looks more brown, more soil, flying
over and seeing you know, the Apollo twelve sitting there,
still the base, still sitting there on the moon. The
camera is still propped up on the Moon. But believe
it or not, we still have naysayers. I'll share that

(01:58):
with you in a minute. The other ball we're watching
is a clock, and it's ticking and the President has
given an ancient enemy, a timeline that I think is
just impossible. Now I'm looking over their final ten demands,
and I can tell you if the President is saying
this or else, it's or else. And I don't even

(02:18):
need or else to get here. But Roy O'Neil's following
this deadline for peace. Doesn't look like there's much of
a chance of them caving in any way. Maybe lining
children up around power plants, but I don't know about caving.
What do you see from your perspective, Rory? Good morning, Yeah, good.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Morning, And again, you know, what are the demands at
this point? Are we demanding regime change? Is it just
that the Strait of Hormuz reopens? Is it getting that
thousand pounds or so of partially enriched uranium and getting
that secured. You know, let's see exactly what happens at
eight pm Eastern time tonight. That's the deadline that's been

(02:55):
imposed by the president. And really, I'm true socially he
spoke almost lusively about the Strait of horm Movez. But
as you mentioned, there there are a lot more items
to be negotiated to try to bring some sort of
a resolution here, and a lot of people are still
scratching their heads, not really seeing the exit ramp or
how it's going to work.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, he made it pretty clear you will not be
allowed to have nuclear weapons. What we don't know. Does
that mean we're coming in to retrieve the enriched geranium
which would be months to do. But okay, you can't
have a nuclear weapon. They're saying they want that program restored,
so that alone, we can end the conversation. He wants
the Strait of Horn moves open. They don't have any intention,

(03:36):
they want sanctions lifted. I mean this this looks very
very far apart. I mean, I know what we don't know,
but I know enough to know that we know the
clock is going to take another thirteen hours and they're
not going to meet any of these demands. So now
what and the President can't back down or that's going
to like the Obama Syrian line and we all know
how the right reacted to that. And then if he

(03:57):
does bone them bomb them into the Stone Age, well
that's a problem too, because if you don't like oil
at four dollars a gallon, how's it gonna look when
they have no refineries? Well?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Right, and then you know Iran still has capabilities.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
They've been launching strikes into.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Israel and to Saudi Arabia and other neighbors there in
the Gulf, and that has them on edge as well.
And to the President's point, he was asked the question essentially,
what do we care?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Why why do we have to have.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
A deal with with the with the straight up wor moves.
Let's just come home, let them figure it out. We
don't depend on that oil anyway. Meanwhile, I watched I
don't know, I'm sure you did. Two You and I
are both space nerds. The access that we have to
this mission.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Just watching on YouTube, I felt like I was first
of all, I think a height limit might be in
order for the next nation. They looked like worms. I
felt like, you know they were in the you know,
the worms are all crawling amongst each other, right. But
the science of the the high zoom lenses still and
the videos and the human eyes all just describing what's

(05:00):
being seen so that it can be compared. The one
thread I'm taking away and I'll ask you for yours.
This moon is less ash, less gray, and more brown
and more soil like, that's for sure, and more sparkly.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
We heard from Christina Cook, who said it's like a
lamp shade that's got a bunch of holes pierced into it,
because there's a lot of material in there that's flashing
the light back at them, which isn't necessarily captured in
all those photos. We really haven't even seen the photos yet.
I mean, you know they were doing they're doing the
data dump as we speak, sending a lot of that
data that is collected with the imagery yesterday. It's being

(05:36):
transmitted right now as the crew was sleeping, So we're
not even seeing the good stuff yet. When it comes
to the pictures they were able to take yesterday.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
And by the way, every now and then they would
film fill with stuff. And there was one feature. Every
American should be seeing this stuff. How the communications is
set up inside our atmosphere, and then once you get
more into outer space, it's a whole different communication system.
Once they start making the journey towards the Moon, it's

(06:05):
a whole different delivery system. It's really quite fascinating to
understand how they do it. I guess I'm just torn.
I know you need to go, but there's something about
all right, well, we've had other humans, by the way,
how about having Jim Lovel before he dies record a
message for that come.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
On naming the crater for the widow. I mean, oh
my gosh, it was.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I told everybody on the air, and I know they
think I'm being crazy. What I saw from three point
thirty in the afternoon until six thirty. Nothing on that
basketball basketball court came close to matching what I was
watching laying in my bed on my phone. It was
just absolutely, well, we'll break it down more in the
third hour, because I know you need to go. I
don't know how to put it into perspective. I can

(06:48):
tell you the furthest we've ever been away from the
Earth and human beings that could you look you're right
in the eye and say we've never been closer to God.
And it's changed the way we look at the Earth
and how we don't love each other. It's it was.
It was better than any Easter service.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I keep hearing that line from the movie Contact about
the car from the Carl Sagan book where she says
they should have sent a poet for that space. Well, no,
but I felt the same way of like what they
were trying to describe, like, yeah, we should have sent
a poet to describe what they were seeing in the
far side of the moon.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, I don't know, but Victor Glover was pretty close
to it, wasn't he all right? Royal'll had more than
the third hour. It was just Artemis two has just
been I feel like that woman in nineteen sixty eight
who sent the telegram to the astronauts. You just saved
nineteen sixty eight. I don't know. I think it's saved

(07:40):
this first quarter of a deck of a century.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
For me.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was. It's just been unbelievable, and it's all right
there on your phone. If I don't know what you did.
Instead of that, I can tell you, I'll make a
case for it. I mean, I'm going to play you
in Sounds of the Day some of the things that
Victor Glover said, I can, I can, I don't. I
try not to influence you, but so many didn't experience
it when it happened. I tend to describe what I

(08:05):
was feeling or what I was hearing and what I
was seeing, and it seems like I'm trying to tell
you how to think. But Victor Glover didn't seem to
have any of this rehearsed pre rehearsed or planned. This
was a man in the moment, so he has a
genuine faith that he has carried with him and lived

(08:26):
out his entire life. Then you place him in that
capsule that far from earth, with all of his earthly
perspective and now this heavenly view. It was just it
was just amazing, and all he could think of was
and he paints this picture. We're on Earth and we're

(08:48):
looking up looking for something else, and he's trying to
tell you where you're at is a where it's at
and all there is, and it's not by chance. Look
we're up here. I mean I can see lights and
stars and this and that, but the only life I
see is your ball. And if you think we're astronauts

(09:10):
in a spaceship, well you're kind of one on your
own on earth. It was really kind of beautiful in
its simplicity. And then he launched into a sermon, Yes,
love your God, but love each other. Don't forget the
other half of what Jesus taught. And I thought, conviction.
He's right. We're all very good about focusing on God

(09:31):
and loving him and loving him through obedience, but we're
not very good at the obedience of loving each other
are we? And it was a too pronged commandment. It
was just profoundly amazing to me. They were further than
from Earth than any human being has ever been, and

(09:55):
all they could think about or see clearly was God.
And that happens to every astronaut. Now you might be
asking yourself, all right, what are all these people that deny?
Look there are people that still deny. They passed over
the Apollo two of the Apollo landing sites, and you
have a clear picture. You can see the base of

(10:16):
the lunar module still there. The camera's still sitting on
the stand. How they get there, Michael, They're still using
the same soundstage. Come on, you know that. Well, good morning.
I'll leave it at this. I've seen both Tom Hanks
and Sandra bullockin space, so seeing video is not believing.

(10:38):
Now you're comparing a Hollywood movie in special effects. Who
got in that rocket? Where'd that rocket go? You think
you just went to the clouds and it disappeared and
they escaped through a hatch. And then, like the ultimate
magic trick, they're going to suddenly appear in that capsule
when it splashes down in the Pacific ocean. Jesus spent

(11:00):
a lot of his time warning of being separated, separate
from the world and not being deceived. I encourage you
all to be willing to question what you believe, whatever
it is, just try to prove it yourself without relying
on the propaganda. I mean, I'm surrounded by propaganda narratives.
This just isn't one of them. If you have to

(11:28):
believe what someone else tells you, it isn't a fact.
It's faith. Be careful where you place your faith. There's
going to be some that still don't believe. By the way,
it might be easier to circle the moon, land on

(11:50):
the moon, maybe even get to Mars, than for some
to get to Heaven. Narrow is the way I get that.
I just don't think these are related. But I am
in awe that they're because I often thought the access

(12:12):
that you're given, and this is where AI is taking
us too, By the way, because it's not you don't
need Hollywood now to create these fake images. Now you
can do it in a single stroke on your phone.
You're not gonna be able to get anybody to believe
anything anymore. Nobody's gonna know what's real, what is we're

(12:32):
gonna lose reality. But boy, you miss something if you
if you lost the reality yesterday, because what these four
individuals saw and described. I mean, can you I mean
to have level pre record a message? Do you remember
how the movie Apaul thirteen ended? And I often came
straight from his book, But I often find myself reflecting

(12:53):
on when will we go back to the moon and
who will it be? And when will it be? Even
pre recorded a message for them just in case we
ever went back and they played it for them. It
was just an extraordinary day in space. It just was
amazing views of the Moon, never before seen, views from

(13:14):
the furthest distance ever traveled, was quite an accomplishment for
the Artemists two crew. They will splash down on Friday
off the coast of San Diego. Meanwhile, the President, the
clock is ticking on his ultimatum with Iran. If he
is true to his word and Iran is true to
their ancient martyrdom and word, this clock is going to

(13:34):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono Morning Michael.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
I'm just curious what does your R ring tell you
on these mornings where you've gotten no sleep, because it
give you some hard love feedback, maybe something like come on, gummy,
go to the does get some sleep.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yes, it says it's going to be all right. It's
time to take action. Your sleep score is declining to
get back on track. Try to keep your sleep schedule
consistent and find something calming to do in the evening. Calming.
I was bouncing off heaven after watching NASA till six
point thirty and then watching the Michigan I was born

(15:55):
in Flint, Michigan, all right, so I might have a
history with the wolf. It said, bright and blue lights
in the evening can be disruptive. No, it was blue
and maize that was disruptive for me. If you're just
waking up the Michigan Wolverines won the national championship. March
Madness is over. We press on now towards the Masters.
Nothing to be taken away from the Yukon Huskies, just

(16:19):
well coached, great team out of everybody on that court
last night. If I was in the draft, I'd be
looking at Reed. So, I mean, there's a lot for
Yukon to take Brighton. But in the end, the Wolverine
sixty nine sixty three, Michigan is your national champion. The
Pentagon has canceled a scheduled briefing for this morning. I

(16:39):
don't think they know what to brief. The President says.
It's a critical period for Iran. They have about thirteen
hours to meet the demands or else, and they gave
ten demands of their own. That's basically, I don't need
to wait thirteen hours. They're choosing or else. And now what.
John Deckrel joined us from the White House. He was

(16:59):
a among those asking questions of the President during Monday's
wide ranging news conference. He'll give you the recap coming
up in minutes, and then I have sounds from Orion
and the crew as they were further away from Earth
than any human has ever been with some extraordinary observations
of the moon and some extraordinary things to say and

(17:22):
perspectives gained from that view. Share all of them with
you straight ahead as your morning show continues.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
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Speaker 4 (17:31):
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(18:03):
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(18:25):
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John Decker was in the think of things, as he
is every day at the White House, and yesterday in particular,
there was a lot to talk about, from space to Iran,
and John was there asking a lot of the questions. John,

(18:45):
good morning, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yes, the President's news conference yesterday one and a half
hours and it was standing room only in the White
House Press briefing room yesterday. If you happen to catching
on television the press and talking primarily about this deadline
which is approaching. It's eight pm Eastern time tonight. That's
the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

(19:11):
The President says that if that deadline comes and goes
and the strait is not reopen, then essentially all hell
will break loose, the President threatening to attack Iran's infrastructure,
and that is something that the President has not backed
away from over the course of the past few days.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, and we did get the ten point Iranian plan.
And I can tell you John, there's just they want everything.
They want a the war over permanently, the ability to
have nuclear weapons, stay away from all of our proxies. Yahda, yeah,
I mean they couldn't be further away. So if the
clock is ticking inside thirteen hours, I don't see any

(19:50):
movement in the next thirteen hours. And if you do
start bombing into the Stone Age and everybody gets their
testosterone up, if we think gas is high, now, what's
going to be when there's no refineries? Did the President
ask that question? Yeah, no, he didn't.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
You know, there were not any questions that really you know,
this war when you think about it, unless you have
a loved one serving in the Middle East. The way
that every American is touched by this war is gas prices.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That is for certain.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
And no one in the White House briefing room yesterday
during that news conference asked a question regarding when the
President anticipates that gas prices will come down. That I
think is the primary concern for most people as they
watch this warplay out from Afar.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
So I'm watching from Afar and I'm looking at an
ancient enemy, and we are their enemy. I know what
the ultimate motive is. They want everyone to convert. There's
only peace when everyone converts to Islam. And if you
don't convert, well you either taxed or you're killed. So
there's no one's going to win or the other is
going to win. So you're playing with a fourteen hundred

(20:57):
year adversary and you're going to give him forty eight hours. Uh.
First of all, they would die and martyrdom happily, that's
the only promise of eternal life that they have. So
I don't know where you were getting with that, but
looking at their ten demands, it's certainly not going to happen.
Now we have there in essence, their their national youth
pastor asking children of Iraan hand in hand to circle

(21:20):
these targets. I mean, they're not backing down. Now. The
president's in this position, he can be like the Republicans
all criticized with Barack Obama. You drew a line in
the sand, and now you're not doing anything. So doing
nothing's not an answer. Doing something's going to drive gas up,
probably prolonged things even more. Rebuildings and beginning going to
become impossible in a world crisis. I mean, I don't know.

(21:44):
Give give me a bright outcome here. How does this
just all go away?

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (21:49):
How does it go away? Well, that's the president's decision.
The president is the ultimate decider. He always is, regardless
of who the president is, and in this particular case, that's.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Never been more clear.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
And what I mean by that is it's a judgment
call for the president when he believes that all of
the goals that he set forward at the beginning of
this conflict back on February the twenty eighth have been met.
The President has indicated he believes it will take two
to three more weeks, and then it's the president's call
as to whether or not those.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Goals have been achieved. So keep your eye on the president.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
That's the only way we'll know for sure when this
conflict will actually.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Come to a conclusion. Yeah, we're gonna talk more about
it with Colonel Stephen Bucci. The enemy also has to say,
So we'll keep an eye on both, all right. President
obviously was kept aware of what was happening in space.
A pretty extraordinary day and some amazing views, and the
moon looks a lot more brown than it does gray
and a lot more soil like than ash like. It

(22:51):
was just an extraordinary day in space and President had
response to that. I think what's getting the most buzz
is candid conversations with the kids on Auto pen. Was
a busy day at the White House. What's coming up
today on the White House Briefing Room, Well, we go.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Into depth with this deadline coming upon us, this deadline
ticking for the President for Iran more than anything else,
to reopen the strait of Foremo's.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
We also talk about.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
A decision by the Supreme Court to essentially dismiss the
case involving the President's former advisor Steve Bannon.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
You remember Steve Bannon.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
He still is relevant with his podcast, but he was
a top ad to President Trump in his first term.
He was convicted served four months in prison for defying
a Congressional subpoena. Well, now that case has been dismissed
altogether by the DOJ and that.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Was affirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday. I thought, probably
the most outside of the Moon and outside of Iran.
The next most interesting story of the day the newly
confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary suggesting that sanctuary saidies
may lose customs enforcement at airport words. For somebody that
travels mostly on air Force one, this won't affect you.
But for others that do travel, that's a blow to

(24:08):
a hair airport or you know, some of these major
hub airports. Let's talk more about that tomorrow when we
have time together. Absolutely so, you got John Decker from
the White House. You too, It's called the White House
Briefing Room. It'll be up by nine Eastern eighth Central
in about twenty minutes, an in depth look at everything
going on around the White House. He won't ever tell
you how to thing, just the facts, just the issues.

(24:29):
I think you'll find it a wise fifteen minutes a day.
When you find it, don't forget to give it a preset.
That way, it's waiting for you every morning. I'm going
to make an observation, at the risk of sounding dramatic,
if this were a kitchen table, let's say, I think
we'd all be just kind of eating quietly. I don't

(24:51):
think there's a lot of joking around. I don't think
there'd be a lot of chatter today. I think there'd
be a heaviness and we'd all be eating and no
one would be talking. So about thirty minute ago, Jeffrey goes,
I don't know what's going on today. When I got
a lot of talkbacks, and I said, I think they're
all feeling just like we are. There was a point

(25:12):
in the Cuban missile crisis where the Air Force chief says,
you're in a pre top position, mister President. In Kennedy's response,
I believe this was in the movie Thirteen Days too, well, Chris,
thirteen Days was basically straight off the White House transcripts.

(25:33):
I mean a lot of that was barbade him. And
he wheels around and looks at General and says, I
don't know if you noticed, but you're in this too.
We're kind of all in this together. But I understand
using the words, the president's created a little bit of
a pickle for himself. You're dealing with a fourteen hundred
year adversary, and he gave him forty eight hours. Well

(25:54):
guess what, They're not going to cave. And now you
told everybody you're going to take out all their bridges
and all their energy. I know you want the strait
of horn moves opened. I know you want ultimately regime change,

(26:14):
but you're not demanding it but they have to give
up their pursuit of nuclear weapons, and you want the
Strait of horn Moves opened, neither of which they're willing
to do. Now what, it's a big problem. And if
you bomb them into the Stone Age, as you're talking
lightly about, there goes their refineries. And without the refineries,

(26:37):
there goes the oil. Now what do you think gas
prices are going to be? I mean, everybody's just a
little unsettled right now. And I get it. I am too.
I don't know what to say. I'm just praying, and
I get peace through strength, but I also get tough times.
And I live in a country that isn't as united

(26:58):
as it used to be. And they're certainly not focused.
They don't understand or comprehend the Iranian danger. For most
of America, this is still a TV event. My work
with the IFCJ gives me a perspective that's just so profound.
The way it's something. I mean, like that guy's email

(27:21):
I saw George Clooney in space. That doesn't mean it happened.
They can't even differentiate between Hollywood and NASA. You're following
this war like it's some kind of a mini series
on Netflix. But if you're in the Holy Land, and
you might be someday in terms of they'll be here
blowing us up, there are real sirens and real bombs

(27:46):
and real damage. Whatever. This is potentially at its worse,
it's coming to a head. I think that's got a
lot of us quiet. I don't know what to do.
I'm not rooting against the president. I'm not rooting for
the president. I'm praying for him. That God Almighty, the

(28:09):
same God you knew was so real Sunday at Easter Service.
Tom is so empty, and he's so high and sitting
above it all, and we all have eternal life. I'm
just praying that God will give this president wisdom and
find a way out where there doesn't seem to be one.
That's it. We did get a couple of calls. One

(28:30):
was from Julie in Tennessee. I want to get this
in real quick because it's already forty four after.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Unfortunately, yesterday afternoon I did not have the option.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
To watch what was going on or part of this.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
So I'm wondering if you have any clips of what
the astronauts were saying that you could share this morning.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
All Right, the significance. We're going back to where we
haven't been since nineteen seventy three. We're doing it with
new technology. All the same science and course, but new technology,
so we're seeing things differently. They're not a black and

(29:11):
white image that's kind of in and out. They're crystal
clear and a cramped capsule with views out their window.
We can see crystal clear now. Some of the pictures
they're taking and some of the videos are taking, and
the narratives that go with it, that'll all be downloaded
and we'll have access to it later. But we saw
enough just watching it live. So they set a record.

(29:32):
They go deeper in space than any human has ever
gone in their flybys of the Moon. First since the
Apollo era. We've got some amazing views. The solar eclipse
greeted the three astronauts from America and the one from
Canada as the Moon temporarily blocked the Sun from their perspective. Mercury, Venus,

(29:54):
Mars Saturn all spectacular divine views. They we got great
views of the two landing sites that they flew over
for Apollo twelve and Apollo fourteen, of which you can
still see the cameras sitting there you can still see
the base of the lunar module still sitting there. And

(30:16):
then to have all of them get a chance to
hear Apollo thirteen commander Jim Lovell wish the crew well
in a recording he made two months before his death
last August. I thought about him all day yesterday, wishing
he had lived. I had no idea that he had
recorded this basically said, welcome to my old neighborhood. It's

(30:43):
a historic day, and I know how busy you'll be,
but don't forget. Here's his one advice from somebody who's
been there before. Don't forget to enjoy the view. It
was a remarkable moment. If he asked me to play
you something, most of the perspective, if there's a spokesperson,

(31:06):
you know, as Rory said, if we could do anything
over again, we would send a poet to better describe
what they're seeing. You may have one pilot, Victor Glover,
and he was asked, you know, talking about the Apollo
eight on Christmas Eve and what they had chose to
talk about, which was the creation story and read from Genesis,

(31:26):
what do you all plan this Easter? As we're back
circling the Moon, and he had this to say.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
Are so far from Earth and looking back at you know,
the beauty of creation. I think that for me, one
of the really important personal perspectives that I have up
here is I can really see Earth as one thing.
And you know, when I read the Bible and I
look at all of the amazing things that were done
for us who were created, it's you have this amazing place,

(31:53):
this spaceship. You guys are talking to us because we're
in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you're on
a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us
a place to live in the universe and the cosmos.
Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think
what we're doing is special. But we're the same distance
from you, And I'm trying to tell you, just trust me,
you are special. In all of this emptiness. This is

(32:15):
a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe.
You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get
to exist together.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
By I mean, I think that's an extraordinary perspective. He
also coined the phrase that there's no atheist strap to
a rocket. So these people always, as they get further
from Earth, get closer to God and the view and
the perspective. I mean, even the most famous scripture, God
so loved the world, We tend to want to make
that God so love to you and me. What we're

(32:44):
really really latching onto is the meat part. But they
have a different view, and it's more of God's view.
You keep looking up thinking there's something else. He's telling
you there's nothing, and looking back you can't imagine what
you are and how special you are. Don't miss that.
When the moment happened, and this is when they were

(33:05):
about to go behind the moon and lose communication for
about remember what it was forty minutes or so from Houston,
they congratulated them and thanked them for this remarkable journey.
And here was the spontaneous response from Victor Glover.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Reminds you of one of the most important mysteries there
on earth, and that's love. Christ said, in response to
what was the greatest command, that it was.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
To love God with all that you are.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
And he also, being a great teacher, said this can
be equal to it, and that is to love your
neighbor as yourself. And so as we prepare to go
out of radio communication, we're still toul feel your love
from earth and to all of you down there on

(33:58):
Earth and around her, we love you from the month.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
And there you have a Julie. That's what the astronaut said.
It was just an extraordinary day yesterday. And I you know,
I can't think of anybody better. I would have wanted
to be my eyes and voice more than Victor Glover.
I thank God for him. Today I want to tell
you about a man named Phineas. Phineas as a child

(34:32):
survived the Holocaust, and he survived because Christians hid him
from the Nazis. They risked everything to save his life. Well,
that's loving your neighbor as yourself. Well now today Phineas
is in his eighties. He can no longer stand on
his own or leave his home to receive any kind

(34:52):
of medical care. And when the sirens sound and the
missiles are falling, he doesn't have time or strength to
reach safety. But once again Christians are standing by him
and helping save his life, this time through the International
Fellowship of Christians and Jews. A mobile clinic brings doctors
in medicine right to his home, providing care he wouldn't receive,

(35:15):
especially in wartime Christians saved my life during the Holocaust,
Phineas says, and now again they're helping me. As Israeli's
Holocaust Remembers Day approaches, we honor survivors just like Phineas
throughout the Holy Land, not just with words, not just
with opinions, but with action. Get forty five dollars right

(35:36):
now to rush life saving essentials to the vulnerable under
fire in Israel. Call eight eight eight four eight eight
IFCJ eight eight eight four eight eight IFCJ. That's eight
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at IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's your morning show with Michael del Choano.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
So you see countries like Ukraine and Israel who when
they're under attack find places for their people to take shelter,
bomb shelters, underground railroad stations and things like that to
preserve life. And then you have a country that's pulling
their children to circle potential bombing sites. These people have
no value in human life and that's all you need

(36:23):
to know about them.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Well, they certainly have a different value from the West,
that's for sure. The Iranian official on Tuesday called on
the youth in the country to form human chains around
power plants ahead of the potential strikes being threatened by
President Trump. Ali raise Rahimi, identified as the Iranian state
television secretary of Supreme Council of the Youth and Adolescence.
It's think they're national Youth pastor inviting all young people athletes, artists,

(36:49):
students and university students and protesters to join hands, be
the first to die different, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
We're all in this together. This is your morning Show
with Michael Ntel, Journo
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