Ep. 3301: Monday LIVE starring Michael Patrick Shiels

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
We called him Bumbayaga.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
You're the Ernest Hemingway of radio.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Okay, so you.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Are that guy, your traveler.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn.

Speaker 7 (00:50):
I know you want someone to look past all that.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 8 (00:56):
Good morning world, Good morning Michigan. Michael Patrick from the
end of the road, at the top of the world,
with the tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
It's MPs. We get your turkey on the road this morning.
It's a Monday one bite, everyone knows the rules, another
one and here we go right now. It's kind of

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ironic We're getting close to the All Star break here,
We're getting close to the fourth of July. We're getting
close to the middle of the baseball season. And the
two teams that started the season with an opening series
are the two best teams in baseball in their respective leagues,
the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Dodgers. And what

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could be cooler than that. Congratulations. We'll get the details
from Tony Cuthbert coming up in sports a little bit later.
We've got lots of politics for you in business and
all of that this morning, but I want to tell
you the new Brad Pitt movie is at the top
of the office. The racing thriller F One made twenty

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five million dollars on Friday, and thirty of them were mine,
and Sundays sixty of them were Tony Cuthberts. It's going
to pull in over sixty million dollars on the weekend.
And that beats How to Train Your Dragon and Megan
and that is what went down. And Tony Cuthbert was

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going to watch it on the small screen until I
admonished him. I said, please, you love F one so much,
you watch the what is the Netflix series that you
watch on all the Time.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Drive to Survive, which got a shout out in the
F one movie by the way.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
Yes, and then you went to Las Vegas just to
try to see the F one race, which you did,
which was featured in the movie. Yeah, and I you know,
I don't want to. There's no spoiler alerts. There's really
nothing to spoil. You can guess what the movie's all
about and how it all goes and everything. It's a
sports movie, and it's a romance movie, dramatic movie. And

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if you see it on the Imax, which it was
shot on and meant to be seen on. In my experience,
oh my god, I felt like I was in the car.
And there were more than one time that I laughed
out loud. I mean lots of times. There was one
time I got tears, and there was one time where
I went, oh, f like, I was like, oh like that.

Speaker 9 (03:25):
You know.

Speaker 8 (03:26):
So to me, it was really worth the money. It
was a very nice movie. It was an exciting movie.
You don't have to really understand all of it, but
I still learned a little about F one racing and
why it's so popular worldwide and so forth. But most
of all, I was very curious to hear what Tony
Kupper thought about it. In the way I would wonder
what he thought about it if he had a beer,

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because he knows a lot about beer. He's like a
wine connoisseur. So if he has a glass of SuDS,
I say, what do you think of that? It's a
reasoned answer this I turned to you now for dying
to find out what you thought. Honestly.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Honestly, I thought the movie was great. I did take
my seven year old son Josh to the movie with me.
It was just the two of us in You know,
you can feel it in those seats if you go
see it in imax. It's not necessarily like your your
seats are gonna shaked to something enhanced. It's the audio.
This thing just pumps out the audio and it's gonna
knock you around. You feel like you're in the cockpit

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of these cars. And something you sent me on Saturday night,
I believe it was about your son Harris, and he
thinks F One is boring, and you know what, to
some extent, I do agree with him. I'm afraid that
people are gonna see this movie then try to watch
a race. For example, this weekend and it's not exactly
the same thing because these races do take a couple
hours and there's very few exciting moments in these different races.

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But the movie it just takes you, what was it
nine different races that they take you on the trail
for and you get it drummed down and it's just
a very very fun watch the cast on this movie.
I got a shout out Hoavier bar Dem because, my goodness,
No Country for Old Men was the movie I knew
him from. He comes out as the team owner and
he's just a swah. He's awesome in this movie. And

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of course Brad Pitt and the other guy too. Carrie Condon,
I know she was in the Banshees of Innishar and
she's another main character in this movie. I thought the
cast was just fantastic. So all around, I would say
if you're not an F one fan, this movie is
perfect for you.

Speaker 10 (05:23):
If you're a.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Diehard, you can probably point out some inconsistencies and things
that would never occur, especially with teamwork. You never see
teamwork on an F one track when it comes to anything,
but you do in this movie, and it makes the
story so much sweeter.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
But isn't that part of I mean, there are two
cars for each team, and they gain points for the team, right,
not necessarily if the individual wins the race or how
they finish. So there is no strategy between the two
members of the quote unquote team. Typically they just each
want to win for themselves.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
There is strategy, there is no question, but right now,
for example, in real life, the top two racers are
part of Team McLaren, right. But you can watch these
different races and you can tell these dudes are just
doing it for themselves. They're not doing any enhanced moves
to try to rub out another car or something like that.
They are fighting for their championship for themselves, and in
the end, the team is going to win the team

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championship as well, so it doesn't really matter on that.
But there's not a lot of strategy from what I
can tell as a fan, I guess.

Speaker 8 (06:24):
I guess in any sports movie you have to suspend
your belief a little bit, whether it's baseball or hockey
or golf or you know, Happy Gilmore is coming out
pretty soon, they'll require a lot of it. So some
of that, you know, they never show qualifying or anything
like that. Thankful taught me about. So it's always like
the race, and usually toward the end of the race.
But that's what we want to see anyway, right right.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's the main event of any sporting event. You want
to see the final two minutes of an NBA game,
you want to see overtime in an NHL game, the
ninth inning, and a TI game in baseball. That's really
all you care about. There's so much that goes to
build up to that, but especially when you're trying to
attract non f one, I thought they just knocked it
out of the park.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
I would like to have seen more of the partying
on the circuit that the party circuit would have been before.
And I liked when he's in the press conference and
they're in this guy, the English guy is like hitting
him Brad Pitt, with all the terrible things that happened
in his life, and he's just got yep, yep, yep,
he just owned it. Yeah, you got bankrupt, yep, you

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get married fortet yep, he just flat outside. That was
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
And the other thing that I loved about this movie
is that sometimes you see a sports movie and they're
alluding to a team that they're on, but they can't
really show the logos or anything to do with a
professional sports league. This thing shows at all. You can
tell it's connected to these actual drivers that they show
in the movie, but they're not main characters. It just
adds so much to it in my opinion.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
Oh, you would have been able to spot to the
what are they call cameos of the real driver.

Speaker 11 (07:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, throughout they're sprinkled in and the different race sequences
where it's Brad pitt in the car and he's beside
I don't know, world class racer Lewis Hamilton or Max
Verstapp and it all takes place. And I think that
puts the movie over the top because it's not what
any given Sunday it's the Sharks or something. You know,
this doesn't have the same feel as a movie like this.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
He's gotten ver stapping over his shoulder. Brad Pittney says, oh,
he's pretty good.

Speaker 10 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, I thought that.

Speaker 8 (08:15):
Was funny too.

Speaker 9 (08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
So anyway, you know, it's a we won't talk about
the ending or anything, but in terms of a wild
ride and a movie, and think about how did they
make such a movie like that? That just puts you
right in the race. I thought it was really super cool,
a summer blockbuster, and there wasn't any killing, and there
wasn't any sex. It was really nice, a nice, fun

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movie as movies were meant to be. It's Michael Patrick
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Speaker 14 (11:01):
The prosecution resting its case in the sex trafficking trial
of Seawan Diddy Combs in New.

Speaker 15 (11:06):
York after twenty nine days of testimony. The prosecution told
jurors Thursday, it's time to find Diddy guilty. The government
argued that hip hop mogul led a criminal enterprise in
order to conduct illegal activity like kidnapping, drug deals, forced labor,
and sex trafficking, and that he used his power intimidation, violence,
and drugs to force two ex girlfriends to take part
in free gops. The defense will make its case Friday. Afterward,

(11:28):
the government will get to speak to the jury again
before jury deliberations. Kristen Marx, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 14 (11:33):
Please say Brad Pitt's Los Angeles home was ransacked by burglars.
It happened Wednesday night. Bid was not home at the
time doing publicity for his new movie f One. Veteran
TV journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of
ninety one. Moyers worked mostly at PBS for more than
forty years, where he won more than thirty Emmy Awards.
His son Williams as his father died of prostate cancer complications.

(11:54):
Anna Wintour is stepping down as the US editor in
chief of Vogue. Sara Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 16 (12:00):
Winter reportedly told staffers on Thursday that Vogue is looking
for a new head of editorial content. That person will
report to her. She's staying on as Chief Content Officer
of Conte Nest and Global Editorial Director of Vogue. Win
Tour's in charge of major brands including Vanity Fair, GQ,
Glamour and Allure. Winteror, who's seventy five, has been Vogue's

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editor in chief for thirty seven years.

Speaker 17 (12:25):
That's entertainment. I'm Jennifer pulsnyday.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
I knew was on En.

Speaker 8 (12:41):
Made Stiffs eleven, Manic mon Monday with Michael Patrick Shields.
And if you went to the movies in Michigan to
see the f One movie, or you're gonna go and
you're going to see the Jurassic Park movie or the
Superman movie that's coming out, or maybe you went to
see the Mission Impossible movie, you might have gone to
an MJR theater. Tony Cuthbert took his son Josh. Who

(13:06):
is is he seven to eight?

Speaker 9 (13:07):
Now?

Speaker 10 (13:08):
I'm seven years old?

Speaker 5 (13:09):
All right? Now?

Speaker 8 (13:10):
He you told me loves the jingle at the MJR
theaters And I said, you know what, that jingle's been
going for decades. Because when my son Harrison was little,
and he's twenty eight now, he loved that jingle too.
And you know what, it isn't just kids that love it.
I love it. And they haven't changed it in a long, long,

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long time. Obviously he did probably twenty thirty years, and
they stick with it. So if you go to the
movie and you sit through all of that, now they
have commercials at the movies, and now they have trailers
and whatnot at the movies, and all of a sudden
they give y'all a falde all the police, turn your
phone off, and don't forget to buy a popcorn, and
then boom, this hits.

Speaker 18 (14:00):
Makes you feel so good.

Speaker 19 (14:05):
It's welcome to m j R. Your hometown show plays
for great movies and fresh popcorn. Thank you for juicing

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us for your escape into the world of movies. Now
sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
This Now, that is a toe tapper. I think so welcome.

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And Madame de Stall said in life one must choose
between boredom and suffering. You don't get any boredom with
movies like that f one, that's for sure. And it
won't be that long, no, un till we have a
Double O seven movie to go see. And Amazon has
stated they will be showing that movie only on the

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big screen at the start. Anyway, they're committed to that
now that they have a director too. They don't have
an actor yet to play Double O seven or a
villain or a Bond girl or any of that yet,
but we have a new director, Jan Evenu who did
the Dune movies, and he's on record on record as
saying he's gonna be good I think for the Double

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O seven franchise. Here's why.

Speaker 20 (15:46):
What is your guilty pleasure?

Speaker 11 (15:48):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (15:49):
I would say that I'm a major Bond fund. Yeah,
And there's nothing like a good James Bond to cheer
you up.

Speaker 20 (15:57):
I would say, there is no guilt in this room,
in the country, in this world about loving James Bond.
Do you have a particular Bond that you turned to?
I noticed myself during Lockdown it was Roger Moore and
a bit of Pierce Proson in but that's where I
went because I just went, you know what, I need
to see an underwater layer.

Speaker 21 (16:14):
Oh yeah, but I will say that the cause Norway.
The first Daniel Greg movie, Bond is still one of
my favorite of all time, I want to say, and
Skyfall as well.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
About that.

Speaker 21 (16:27):
I went through these movies several times, I must say,
and difficult periods.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Now, this is what he said before he became the
Double oh seven director, So he's on record. I don't
mind him. If he's gonna pick Daniel craig movies Casino
or Ayll and Skyfall were the two best. I would
rather have said Diamonds Are Forever or something like that
or maybe you know, but it is what it is.
It's the modern era. So we look forward to his hmm,

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what's the word. He's gonna caretake the series and maybe
modernize it and jazz it up, and we look forward
to that. By the way, there's a new Superman movie coming.
Did they have trailers when you went to Sunday and
was Superman one of the trailers?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
It was, And they've actually been playing trailers for this
on every movie I've been to for the last two months.

Speaker 10 (17:18):
So yeah, a lot of anticipation.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
I am wondering why we can't have a fun, happy Superman.
It looks kind of dark, although I see there's a
dog involved, like a super dog. Did you catch that?

Speaker 10 (17:32):
So one of them I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
It was a kid's movie a while ago that I
went to and they played a whole trailer just focused
on the dog that was probably oh five minutes long.
It was the longest trailer I've ever seen. It was
all about the trying to get the kids to go
see this movie.

Speaker 8 (17:45):
I guess.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
See.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
So because you go to children's movies, they show trailers
that are aimed at the kids. Right, Okay, So the
one that I saw during F one, it was like,
really like the whole world's gonna explode and Superman's kind
of dark and they smash him in the ground and
Blex Luther's got It just was like it seemed kind
of dark, but you know, maybe it's maybe it's just

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tailored that way. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, Remember,
he was going to come out when he emerged from
COVID and he was going to open up his shirt
and have a Superman shirt on. He just loves to
be the entertainer in chief and the president in chief
and the commander in chief and all of that. Here
is some vintage Donald from a press conference this weekend.

Speaker 22 (18:32):
Should by the way, so many questions should we keep
this going? Panis this is the opposite of Biden. Biden
would take half a question and he'd leave without answering
it because you tell me when it gets boring.

Speaker 8 (18:51):
See that he likes to be a television star and
the presidency is the biggest way to do it. And
people say, but it's not a TV show, but it
kind of is. That's how you get elected, and that's
how you win again, I guess, and maybe that's how
you're effective. I don't know, but this is the bottom
line with the dude. And that's why I always thought

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the Democrats could have easily snake charmed him. Just go
in there and tell him what he wants to hear
and tell him you like him and all that, and
you be surprised. I really think that's what he really
wants and that's it, and that's all. I don't think
he needs money. I think he needs love. And they're
not going to ever give him that Blue crosswill though.

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Speaker 16 (20:00):
As summer temperatures rise, health experts are warning parents and
caretakers once again about the risks of heatstroke to children
left inside hot vehicles. Lisa Taylor, with More.

Speaker 23 (20:11):
Kids in Car Safety, which collects data on hot car deaths,
says already this year, nine children have died after being
left alone in cars in California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico,
New Jersey, and North Carolina. Five of those deaths were
in June. Last year, at least thirty nine children died
after being left in hot cars. Ale Staeler.

Speaker 24 (20:30):
The FDA is.

Speaker 16 (20:31):
Requiring two common COVID nineteen vaccines to update their warning labels.
New information on two rare heart side effects, inflammation of
the heart muscle and inflammation of the thin sec surrounding
the heart, will need to be included on the labels.
The updated warnings will now feature info on how the
conditions have been seen, most commonly among boys ages twelve

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and up and young men as old as twenty four.

Speaker 25 (20:55):
Health Update. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 26 (21:00):
In Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
Shields State Senator Thomas Albert, the Republican from Lowell. The
restoration of right to work Given the makeup of the legislature,
are you shouting into the wind?

Speaker 27 (21:11):
I'm not, because I'm on the call with you right
now on the radio talking about this bill, masking the
case to the public as to why we need it.
We always have next term. We got to get the
message out there, and we have to keep trying to
move forward.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
We saw something unusual happen to Pope Leo, and Christopher
White is the author of Pope Leo Inside the Conclave
and the Dawn of a New Papacy. We're going to
have an extended conversation with him in just a couple
of minutes, but I wanted to ask you first, Christopher White,
were you shocked when you saw some item? I don't
know if it was a Teddy bear or if it

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was a baseball glover or what it was. Come flying
out of the crowd and knock the cap almost off
of Pope Leo.

Speaker 28 (21:53):
Yeah, you know, crazy things happened during papal audiences. People
get all excited and worked up, and including in this
audience when they bear that almost hit him. You know,
it's certainly a breach of protocol, but it's not something
that unusual. We've seen people do all sorts of crazy
things in the presence of popes, and that certainly a

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memorable one.

Speaker 8 (22:16):
And then I saw like they tried to reach him,
and Pope Leo was like putting his hands as if
to push everybody away for a minute. I don't know,
I guess to calm everybody down. It makes me nervous though,
because you know, it was in I don't know about
your lifetime but mine, when there was an assassination attempt
in the square there of the pope.

Speaker 28 (22:37):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting. There is you know, high
levels of security, but you know, crazy things do happen,
and in this particular instance, it's a group of young
priests who frankly should have known better. Popleio is sixty
nine years old, he's in good health, he's agile, and
he could easily dodge the flying object. But it's important

(22:58):
to remember that Pope Francis, who you know, is you know,
towards the end of his life quite frail, would often
get jerked around by people trying to pull him, and
it often caused great pain when people would pull at
his arm just trying to get a get a get
up close to him.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Yeah, I remember that time that Pope Francis has slapped
that person's hand to get his hand free, and then
later he apologized and he.

Speaker 9 (23:21):
Met with her.

Speaker 28 (23:23):
One of his not so proud moments.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
But that's not the glass popemobile anymore. He seems very
accessible and Christopher White is luckily accessible to us. And
we will talk more about Pope Leo inside the Conclave
and the Dawn of a New Papacy. That's his book
and it's Michael Patrick Shields in Medias dot Vitus. The
Truth is in the middle La pacha sia con tuttivoi

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Back in a flash.

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(24:24):
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the cause of death. President Trump is shrugging off an
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(24:45):
inform those countries that they can trade with the US,
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Wilson letters, Jay, mister Japan, you're going to pay a
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The White House deadline for countries to come to the
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announced on Sunday he won't run for re election in
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Speaker 31 (25:05):
The two term Republicans said in a statement the decision
is quote not a hard choice, and that he hasn't
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Speaker 29 (25:26):
At least one person is dead and two others injured
after an explosion and fire in Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
The blast costs several buildings to collapse in the city's
Nice Town section. Shortly before five am. A K nine
found the remains of one victim, while fire officials say
two elderly women were taken to the hospital for smoke
inhalation and burns. At least five row houses were affected,

(25:46):
and the new brand Pitt movie is racing to the
top of the box office. The racing thriller F one
is expected to pull in sixty million dollars over the weekend.
You are listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.
Canada and the United States have resumed trade new negotiations
after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the
country's digital services tax on US technology companies. According to Newsweek.

(26:08):
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he was suspending all trade talks with Canada effective immediately
over the tax policy. Jobs being lost to AI not
a concern for President Trump. He told Fox News he
understands the need for immerging technology and how it's replacing
some American workers, but he insists there's solutions.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
One thing very simple, bring more companies and more job The.

Speaker 29 (26:29):
President insists the job losses will be offset by more
companies coming to the US because his tariffs are leveling
the playing field. He adds that he has instructed his
team to speed up the permit process to build new
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Speaker 8 (27:14):
This is the theme from The Young Pope and he
was an American pope in that series too. What do
you know we have a Youngish pope who's also an American.
It's Michael Patrick Shields Joseph Donnelly, the former US Ambassador
to the Vatican, has been on this program with us
and he is praising the new book by Christopher White,

(27:38):
who is a veteran Vatican correspondent. You've seen him on
NBC News and lots of other outlets, and he's with
us now with his new book, and it's called Pope Leo,
Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy.
And he is on our radio stage, our AT and
T line right now. Where do we find you in
this vast world, sir? As we speak today, diam in

(28:01):
New York, back home in New York. At the moment,
all right, were you in Rome? I suppose you were
during the conclave, the conclave that we all saw in
the movie in the same year that there was a
real one.

Speaker 28 (28:13):
I was in Rome, you know, from the minute Pope
Francis got ill last February. I didn't dare leave Rome
because it was sort of touch and go for a while,
and then he came home from hospital, and then just
a few weeks later, the day after Easter died, setting
things in the motion. And as you said, you know,
conclaves are always of great interest to the entire world,

(28:34):
because it's the most secretive election process on earth. But
this one for Dad, you know, even heightened interest because
of the movie that it could have come out just
a few.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Months beforehand, just just twenty seconds of a snapshot of
what it was like to cover Pope Francis. If you
would something in your mind that will always stand out,
you know.

Speaker 28 (28:54):
But Francis had a remarkable gift for connecting with people.
And I traveled around the world with him, over to
in countries, and you know, in the process, you know,
was able to interact with him on many, many occasions,
and I was always amazed at his memory. I would
say something to him on the plane to one country,
and then several months later he would remind me of
something I said to him, And that's a real gift

(29:18):
for someone to be able to do that, considering how
many people he interacted with on a daily basis.

Speaker 8 (29:23):
I always thought it was strange that, you know, you think,
when the Pope speaks, it's the infallible thing and the
encyclicals and all the rest of it. It's like ef Hutton.
People listen his words matter, and often what we would
learn from him came during a flight when he would
just walk up the aisle and talk to the reporters.

Speaker 28 (29:43):
Yeah, you know, he was very much informal in that sense.
He probably could be credited and something would say faulted
for making the paper seem more accessible. And he became known,
you know, in twenty thirteen, he was elected very quickly
forgiving these arranging press conferences when he traveled, and you know,
those were real attention grabbing moments. That's why, you know,

(30:08):
news broadcasters from around the world wanted to be on
that plane with him because she just didn't know what
he was going to say. And you know, some people
would say, look, you know, what he said on the
press conference is an infallible teaching. But I think, you know,
for whether it was a you know, official dogmatic church
teaching or not, it certainly gave you a glimpse of

(30:29):
who he was as a person and where his mind
was at.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
Pope Leo Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a
New Papacy is the book by Christopher White. Cardinal Timothy Dolan,
very very sort of outspoken and accessible voice in the
Catholic Church, certainly in America, seemed to be taking a
little bit of credit for the maneuvering that may have
took place during the conclave, is that what happened. How

(30:54):
did we end up with Pope Leo, a man who
was educated here in Michigan and grew up in Chicago
and then spent the most of the rest of his
life outside America.

Speaker 28 (31:04):
Well, I think you know, Cardinal Dolan was certainly one
figure inside the room. But you know, if you read
the book, I tell a slightly different story that the
election of pop Lio came about because he brought together
a wide coalition of cardinals, really starting from Latin America,
who backed his papacy because they saw him as one

(31:26):
of their own, even though he was Chicago born, miseducated.
You know, much of his adult life had been spent
in Italy and in Peru, where he is also a citizen,
and that sort of was the initial base of support
he had going into this conclave where cardinals from Latin America,
who of course were supportive of Pote Francis the first

(31:48):
ever vote from Latin America, and saw in Cardinal Provos
now but Leo someone who could continue in that same tradition,
And then he picked up support from Cardio those that
worked in Rome in the Curia and then of course
cardinals in the United States as well, which gave him
sort of a diverse coalition that elected him on poor ballots,

(32:10):
which I think has surprised a lot of people how
quickly he emerged as Pope.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
Do you think quote unquote father Bob wanted to be Pope?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Hello?

Speaker 8 (32:26):
Hm, that was a good question to ask, but I
like to lose the line on that one. That was
a mic dropper there. Christopher White, we will reconnect. He's
the author of Pope Leo Inside the Conclave and the
Dawn of a New Papacy, and he is a veteran
Vatican correspondent. As you heard there, he speaks in a
very unassuming way, but he was with Pope Francis many

(32:49):
times on the airplane and otherwise, and had a chance
to talk with him over the course of his papacy,
going back to twenty thirteen, and I presume probably before
that Pope Benedict. Then he's with us right now. The
question was for Christopher White, the author of Pope Leo
Inside the Conclave, the Dawn of a New Papacy, do
you think quote unquote Father Bob wanted to be Pope.

Speaker 28 (33:13):
Oh, certainly not. I mean, I have the pleasure of
getting to know him before he became pope, and he
was generous and quick to talk to people, but he
reassists the spotlight. I mean, he's not a very sort
of charismatic man. He's very kind, but he's not someone who,
like Pope Francis, thrived off of the attention of people.

(33:35):
So I think his election came as very much a
surprise to him as it did.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
The rest of the world.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
Couldn't you put the brakes on it? If he really
didn't want to?

Speaker 28 (33:45):
Of course he could have, But I think, you know,
anyone that enters into the Sistine Chapel has to sort
of wrestle with the fact that part of their job,
part of their calling as a cardinal, is to be
willing to say yes if asked to carry on the
weight of the office. And you know, he is a
missionary at heart, and I think he knew that. You know,

(34:06):
part of being a missionary is saying, you know, putting
others' needs before your own, and being asked to carry
on this responsibility. He was certainly asked and I'll do
this at a much greater level than he's ever been
asked to do so before.

Speaker 8 (34:21):
Does it trivialize the papacy to some degree, at least
in perception when people keep showing up with Chicago White
Sox hats and stuff, and you know, Chicago Bear jerseys
and all the rest of that.

Speaker 28 (34:33):
Well, of course we sild that with Pote Francis. You know,
the first Argentine pote people showed up with the mate gord,
the little cup that they drink out tea out of
in Argentina. So I think everyone, you know, anytime there's
a pope, people are keen to sort of try to
make a connection where they can. So I think for
those of us, you know, from the United States, it's

(34:56):
natural that we try to immediately link him to things.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
That we have in common.

Speaker 28 (35:00):
So I don't think it trivialized the papacy. I think
it shows a desire on the parts of people to connect.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
Interesting just real quickly. Christopher White Pope Leo. He's in
high demand because his book is called Inside the Conclave
and the Dawn of a New Papacy. You you knew
the pope before he was the Pope? What's it like
now when you look at the same man you knew before?
Now that he's got that title.

Speaker 28 (35:25):
Well, and it's in a sense demystifies the papacy because
you realize, you know, he is just a man now.
He certainly has the weight of the entire world on
his shoulders in many respects. But I mean it also
shows you, you know, the fact that you know, part
of the job of the pope is it's a very
human job. And you know it's not sort of a

(35:47):
divine person that has to be pope. It's just a
person who's asked. You know, a commoner.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
You're fun to talk to. And I bet the book
is fun to Pope Leo inside the Conclave and the
dawn of a new papacy.

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I'll tell you what I count on the Sunday reads.
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(40:24):
still North. People can yell at you. North is still North.
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(40:47):
See that's the funny thing. There are some people who
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I digress. The Sunday Reads is a list of curated

(41:08):
articles that got Greg's attention, and they got my attention too,
And so you settle in and you pick and choose
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I mean, you can find this kind of stuff if
you go to TMZ if you're into celebrity gossip and so.
But this is a broad sort of wide ranging intellectual approach,

(41:32):
and it's not stuffy intellectual. It's life intellectual. For instance,
if you saw a little bullet point, what is life
like without a smartphone? If you considered that for yourself,
what if you put the thing away for a week.
What if you pretended you didn't have it? What would

(41:52):
life be like?

Speaker 11 (41:53):
Now?

Speaker 8 (41:54):
You know, I wanted to do it the other day
when I was taking a walk at the beach, and
I'm like, I better not. But if I have an
emergency or something, better keep it with me. That's one consideration.
The other consideration, I'm sure you're gonna say, as if
somebody needs to reach me, Oh what if I need
to look something up? And in fairness, I was reading
the Sunday Reads on the smartphone. Yeah, at the beach,

(42:18):
so you know I went all the way there to
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my but I'm guilty as charged, okay. And then below
Attison item called how teens are using their smartphones? Yikes,
and it's not safe for work now. Anytime you see
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Speaker 35 (42:37):
Right.

Speaker 8 (42:38):
So I'm picking and choosing through some of these. I
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at the Sunday Reads. And oh, by the way, we're
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So he's got a podcast there that talks about what
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(44:09):
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And that's why there are fireworks and picnics and parades
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Had professional golf in Midland this weekend and in Detroit,
and Tony Kupfert has that and more.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
You remember on Friday, I butchered a name for Aldrich Pottgeater.
They are kind of laughing about it. Well, he did
go on to win the Rocket Classic at the Detroit
Golf Club and this thing went way into the night
almost I guess they tried to wrap it up early.
But you know what, when you go five playoffules, this
is going to happen. The crowd thinned out attad MPs.

(49:29):
Aldrick is twenty years old and is the seventh youngest
Tour winner since nineteen eighty three. And he's from South
Africa and he said in one of the interviews that
during the program he played with a couple of Detroit
Lions current players. So he said going forward, he is
a Detroit Lions fan and he will be coming back
to Detroit.

Speaker 10 (49:47):
So good on him on that he.

Speaker 8 (49:49):
Going to be coming back later in the summer. It
sounds like they're going to be moving that event too
late in the summer season. I don't know if that's
good or bad or what the deal is, but at
least it's coming back, because for a minut there they
weren't so sure it's going to be held July thirtieth
till August second, in twenty twenty six. New dates.

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Well, it has to be better than what it is
right now, because of course we have the Open Championship
next week and this weekend we have the John Deere.
So you know what, if we can get away from
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All eyes in the Major League Baseball world were on
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(50:28):
on Sunday Night Baseball, and they brought in the Minnesota Twins.
And who did the Tigers have on the mountain None
other than Trek schoobl And boy did he show out.
He struck out thirteen batters, think seven in a row.
At one point the Tigers went on to win three
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They took two to three in the series. And for

(50:49):
all of that, they get today off and then they
will open their final road trip of the first half
tomorrow and they will be in the Nation's capital to
take on the Nationals. And then over the holiday weekend,
the team will visit Cleveland tomorrow, though Jack Flaherty will
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I knew it was going to happen because the Royals
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Speaker 10 (51:17):
They lost.

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I'm talking about the Royals to the Dodgers five to one.
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INBC news Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. Two firefighters are dead
and another is injured after a reported ambush in Idaho,
oh The firefighters were responding to a call yesterday and
Cortlane of a small brushfire that was starting to grow
when they were then shot by an unknown person in
the woods. A possible suspect has been found dead near
a firearm. Jobs being lost to AI is not a

(52:14):
concern to President Trump, Tammy trueO explains.

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Trump told Fox News he understands the need for the
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he insists there's a solution.

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It's one thing, very simple. Bring more companies and more jobs.

Speaker 39 (52:29):
You know.

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The truth is we don't have enough people to take
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The President insists the job losses will be offset by
more companies coming to the US because his tariffs are
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Speaker 34 (52:48):
In the Northeast expect a mix of sun and scattered thunderstorms,
especially across upstate New York and New England. Highs willtop
out in the mid eighties. The mid Atlantic stays hot
and muggy, with temperatures near ninety. Some storms could develop
lad especially in Pennsylvania and western Maryland, a whereas the
Southeast another sweltering day with temperatures pushing into the nineties.
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heavy rain and frequent lightning. In the Midwest, that coldfront
is bringing some strong thunderstorms from Wisconsin through Indiana. Behind
the front, cooler air is settling in, with temperatures stopping
out in the low eighties. The Plains remain split, with
temperatures in the north in the seventies, but hot and
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(53:33):
with highs stopping out at one point fifteen, while along
the West coast the beaches will be in the seventies
with the nineties inland. The Pacific Northwest enjoys mild and
dry weather with temperatures in the low to mid seventies.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 29 (54:01):
INBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. Investigators believe a man
who killed two firefighters and injured a third sent a
brush fire near Cordelaine, Idaho to ambush them. When firefighters
started battling the fire, they came under gunfire. Two firefighters
were killed and a third was wounded. Roughly three hundred
police officers descended on the area and exchanged gunfire with

(54:22):
the suspect. They located the shooter's cell phone signal, which
led them to a deceased man with a gun nearby.
They quickly removed his body because of the approaching wildfire.
The man's name hasn't been released and the medical examiner
will determine the cause of death. President Trump is shrugging
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(54:44):
will soon inform those countries that they can trade with
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Speaker 30 (54:49):
And Wilson letters, Jay, mister Japan, you're going to pay
a twenty five percent tariff.

Speaker 29 (54:54):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. North Carolina Senator Tom Jillis
announced on Sunday he won't run for re election in
twenty twenty six. More from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 31 (55:05):
The two term Republicans said in a statement the decision
is quote not a hard choice, and that he hasn't
exactly been excited about running for another term. His announcement
comes after he said that he would oppose President Trump's
Big Beautiful Bill. Tillis Is seat in the battleground state
was already a top target for Democrats in the twenty
twenty six mid term elections. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 29 (55:26):
At least one person is dead and two others injured
after an explosion and fire in Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
The blast caused several buildings to collapse in the city's
Nice Town section. Shortly before five am. A K nine
found the remains of one victim, while fire officials say
two elderly women were taken to the hospital for smoke
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Speaker 40 (55:58):
The Senate debating President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. He wants
it back on his desk by the fourth of July.

Speaker 18 (56:04):
Peter Alexander with more it's passed to the President's desk,
still faces obstacles. The Senate's parliamentarian think of her as
the referee, just as qualified several key provisions in the
bill that Republicans were relying on to pay for President
Trump's tax cuts. Changes made in the Senate will still
have to go through the House, where there are divisions
over critical issues, but Republican leaders are still confident they'll

(56:26):
get it across the finish line.

Speaker 40 (56:27):
The US and China have reached a deal over rare
earth elements. Rebecca Bundan reports. President Trump says an agreement
has been signed.

Speaker 41 (56:34):
Although he didn't provide any further details on what this involved.
News agency Routs reports a White House official saying that
the US and China have reached an understanding about how
they can implement expediting rare earth shipments to the US.

Speaker 40 (56:49):
A record number of travelers over the Fourth of July
expected Triple A says all fifty states will see gas
prices go up a bit too, and if you're staying
close to home, the cost of an Pendence Day barbecue
isn't cheap either.

Speaker 34 (57:02):
A new report from the Wells Fargo Agrafood Institute says
food and beverages for a typical Fourth of July barbecue
for ten people will cost one hundred and thirty dollars
this year. That's up a little over two percent from
a year ago. The increase is due in large part
to the price of ground beef, which has risen over
seven percent from last year. Another survey from coupon follow
shows one in three Americans will not be celebrating the holiday,

(57:24):
with many saying they aren't feeling patriotic or they feel
disconnected from American culture right now, I'm Tammy trheo.

Speaker 40 (57:31):
Ford Motor Companies telling the owners of over twenty three
hundred super duty pickup trucks from model year twenty twenty
five to not drive them. It's all because of an
issue with a hydraulic brake system that can lead to
break failure. The affected models are F two, fifty, F three, fifty,
f four, fifty, and f five to fifty super duty trucks.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a spring in

(57:53):
the breaking system might not have been installed. I'm Monica
Nelson with your Consumer and Business News NBA News.

Speaker 37 (58:00):
The Timberwolves signed Julius Randall to a three year, one
hundred million dollar deal. James Harden intends to re sign
with the Clippers two years, eighty one and a half million.
Jazzer trading guard Colin Sexton and a twenty thirty second
round pick to the Hornets for center Yusuf Nurkic. MLB
Cardinals over the Guardians seven nothing, Gorman and Scott with
home runs. Pirates hammer the Mets twelve to one. O'Neil

(58:20):
Cruz with two home runs, Yankees twelve, A's five, Aaron
Judge a couple two run homers. The Phillies beat the
Braves two to one. Ranger Swuorez strikes out eight and
seven innings. Orioles over the Rays five to one. Dean
Kramer with six strikeouts. Jays beat the Red Sox five
to three as they get home runs from Barger and
Vlad Guerrero Junior in eleven frames, Rockies four and the

(58:40):
Brewers three. That snaps a five game skid for Colorado.
Astros blank the Cups two nothing. Jose Altuve had two
run shot reds over the Patres three two, Will Benson
the game winning single, and the Dodgers beat the Royals
five to one. LA tied with the Tigers for the
best mark in MLB that sports I'm Trey Bender.

Speaker 34 (58:58):
In the Northeast, expect a mix of such and scattered thunderstorms,
especially across upstate New York and New England. Highs will
top out in the mid eighties. The mid Atlantic stays
hot and muggy, with temperatures near ninety. Some storms could
develop late, especially in Pennsylvania and western Maryland. Rossa Southeast
another sweltering day with temperatures pushing into the nineties. Widespread
thunderstorms are expected, especially from Georgia through Florida, with heavy

(59:21):
rain and frequent lightning. In the Midwest, that coldfront is
bringing some strong thunderstorms from Wisconsin through Indiana. Behind the front,
cooler air is settling in, with temperatures stopping out in
the low eighties. The Plains remain split, with temperatures in
the north in the seventies, but hot and dry across Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas, where temperatures will reach the low one hundreds.
In the Southwest, the extreme heat continues, with high stopping

(59:43):
out at one fifteen, while along the West Coast the
beaches will be in the seventies with the nineties inland.
The Pacific Northwest enjoys mild and dry weather with temperatures
in the low to mid seventies. That's your national forecast.
I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
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Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
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Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthbert.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lancing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 42 (01:00:35):
That's a one boring man, need another man and own.

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That's all one boring man.

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All fin born.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 8 (01:00:50):
Good morning world. Hey, that's the great Irish actress Carrie
Condon who is in the F one movie this weekend,
and she plays an engineer who is an aerospace company
and decided to get involved in racing and has a
very fun role and she'd be very happy to know
that up the raw, Porig Harrington is your winner at

(01:01:11):
the US Senior Open this weekend at the Broadmoor Golf Club. Congratulation.
He beat Stuart Sink by a shot and Miguel and
hell Jimnef by three shots. And he had a little
tip with Roger Malty by the way during the weekend
because they saw them arguing after the round and it
seemed like Parig Harrington was complaining about where Roger Malty

(01:01:34):
stood while he was doing his encourse commentary and Roger
Malty said, I'm not a player and he was a
player a long time ago, and Parig was saying, you know,
you ought to know. And there was also some talk
that Harrington lost his ball and Maltby didn't help look
for it, and Maltby was like, you know, I'm not
paid to look for your ball. You know the fans

(01:01:54):
can do that. I'm paid by the television company all
these years, NBC. I guess I thought Roger Maltby was retired,
but they must have brought him out for the US
Senior Open. But congratulations to Parring Harrington from Dublin, Ireland,
your winner.

Speaker 10 (01:02:12):
Can somebody get a.

Speaker 8 (01:02:13):
Hold of Aldrich Popgeiter. Aldrich Pottgeiter sounds like somebody that
you would hear in a Harry Potter movie. But he's
twenty years old, and he had the lead, and he
lost the lead, and he tied for the lead and
then won it in Detroit at the Rocket Classic at
Detroit Golf Club. Yes, it was five playoff holes of

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sudden death to get that first PGA Tour victory. And
that was wow. Eight years old when he said he
was going to play the PGA Tour. His father is
Heinrich Pottgeiter, another Harry Potter character. But congratulations, and the
word is the Rocket Classic will be returning. They're going

(01:02:57):
to have it later though, in late July, instead of
the position where it is an unenviable position on the
PGA to our calendar right now, between what the John
Deere Classic and the British Open, So I know it's
the Open Championship, but some people don't not care anyway.
If you were at Midland, Michigan, the LPGA was playing,
Sony Lee poured in an eight foot birdie putt on

(01:03:19):
the first playoff hole. Nobody wants to leave Michigan golf
once they're doing it with the fellow South Korea Jin
he M, and they won the Dow Championship on Sunday.
That denied Lexi Thompson her first LPGA title and her
partner Megan Kang. It was apparently some sort of team
event there. So that's the golf update for what was

(01:03:41):
going on in Michigan this weekend. Did you play golf somewhere?
The jury is expect to get the case today in
the Diddy trial racketeering and sex trafficking. This is kind
of the well not exactly but sort of the OJ
of our time, and we'll be very he is to
see exactly what goes down. Was it a swinger lifestyle,

(01:04:05):
recreational drugs over zealous or was it in fact sex trafficking.
That's what the jury will have to decide about the
hip hop mogul. People protested in Venice on Saturday the
lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos he married Lauren Sanchez, the

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American billionaire, was big celebrity deal and a three day event,
private jets and water taxis and what have you. He
also donated three point five million dollars to local charities.
So the local mayor was like, hey, come on, he
had to have the wedding somewhere. We're proud that he
had it in Venice. And there were some people, including

(01:04:52):
Senator Elizabeth Warren, saying if he can rent Venice for
fifty million dollar wedding, he can pay his share of taxes.
So some people are going to say that sort of thing. Oh.
Maureen Callahan and the Daily Mail and on her podcast
said the wedding was an obscenity. I thought that was

(01:05:13):
a funny way to put it, an obscenity. General Motors
is recalling more than sixty two thousand Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks.
There's an issue with the break pressure sensor leaking possibly
and causing a fire, and that could result in whether
the vehicle is either driving or parked. So take it

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in if you got one they're going to have to
fix it for you. By the way, Tony Cuthbert, I
never told you this, but when I got to be
in the race car in Modina at the beginning of June,
they give you a class. You can drive this Ferrari
Challenge vehicle or be the passenger and let a real
race car driver drive it. But in the briefing at

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the beginning where they show you how to turn and
how to paddle shift and what to do with this
rocket ship of a three hundred thousand dollars car with
a roll cage in it and a helmet and all that,
the guy said, when you break, he said, you stomp
on this break like you're stomping on it, and then

(01:06:17):
you lift your foot to the measure of what type
of breaking you need.

Speaker 10 (01:06:22):
Geez, how complicated.

Speaker 23 (01:06:25):
I know.

Speaker 8 (01:06:25):
I didn't know that. And he literally pounded his foot
like that on the floor and then he said any questions,
And I.

Speaker 10 (01:06:32):
Said, yeah, I'll beat the passenger me vodio.

Speaker 8 (01:06:37):
Mama, I want my mommy, and he said no, no, no, no,
But anyway, I decided to be the passenger. But the
breaking story that I just and I know you saw
the f one movie this weekend, so you can imagine
those cars. They are not fun to drive. I don't
think it's a very difficult thing to do, but you'll

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see it on the movie and you'll see what it's like.
Gas prices in Michigan are three cents lower to start,
three dollars and twenty six cents a gallon. Lansing has
the state's highest, three dollars and thirty cents, Marquette the lowest.
You're paying forty eight dollars for a fifteen gallon tank.
One person has died and another is missing. Their canoe

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flipped in Lake Superior early Saturday morning Kiewana County Sheriff's office.
Only one of three people was able to swim to
shore and call nine to one one. This was at
four am. One person's body was recovered from Copper Harbor.
Wouldn't that be sad to be the person that survives.

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I mean, I know you'd be happy to survive, but
you'd be saying, you know this. Sometimes they talk about
survivors guilt, like why me, Why did my two friends
have to die?

Speaker 42 (01:07:50):
And I lived.

Speaker 8 (01:07:53):
Sad for everyone. And if you're inclined to pray, please
do so. And in Luddington, a twenty four year old
Whalen man died in an industrial accident. He was electrocuted
and fell off a building. He'd been operating a boom
lift and it came in contact with electrical wires and
he fell thirty feet to the ground. God rest his
soul and comfort his family as well. Livingston County, three

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teenagers led deputies on a one hundred mile an hour
chase and a stolen Camray. Maybe they thought they were
in an F one race. They were all from the
West side of Michigan and the driver was fifteen years
old and started at three am. What could possibly go
wrong in nine ninety six at three am with a
fifteen year old at the wheel going one hundred miles

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an hour. The truth is stranger than fiction. It's Michael
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The boys up their stick in that manim.

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Speaker 14 (01:11:01):
The prosecution resting its case in the sex trafficking trial
of Seawan Diddy Combs in New.

Speaker 15 (01:11:05):
York after twenty nine days of testimony, The prosecution told
jurors Thursday, it's time to find Diddy guilty. The government
argued that hip hop mogul led a criminal enterprise in
order to conduct illegal activity like kidnapping, drug deals, forced labor,
and sex trafficking, and that he used his power intimidation, violence,
and drugs to force two ex girlfriends to take part
in Free Gops. The defense will make its case Friday. Afterward,

(01:11:27):
the government will get to speak to the jury again
before jury deliberations.

Speaker 25 (01:11:31):
Kristen Marx, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 14 (01:11:33):
Please say Brad Pitt's Los Angeles home was ransacked by burglars.
It happened Wednesday night. Pi was not home at the
time doing publicity for his new movie f One. Veteran
TV journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of
ninety one. Moyers worked mostly at PBS for more than
forty years, where he won more than thirty Emmy awards.
His son Williams as his father, died of prostate cancer complications.

(01:11:54):
Anna Wintour is stepping down as the US editor in
chief of Vogue, Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 16 (01:12:00):
Winter reportedly told staffers on Thursday that Vogue is looking
for a new head of editorial content. That person will
report to her. She's staying on as Chief Content Officer
of Conte Nest and Global Editorial Director of Vogue. Wintors
in charge of major brands including Vanity Fair, GQ, Glamour,
and Allure. Wintor, who's seventy five, has been Vogue's editor

(01:12:23):
in chief for thirty seven years.

Speaker 17 (01:12:25):
That's entertainment. I'm Jennifer Bulsony.

Speaker 8 (01:12:37):
The summertime in Northern Michigan. Business Leaders for Michigan as
united by an ambitious goal to make Michigan a top
ten stay for jobs, talent, and a thriving economy. It's
Business Leaders for Michigan dot Com. It's Michael patrick Shields
with you. Are you going away for the Fourth of July?

(01:13:00):
Where are you gonna go? Mckinawe Island Mission Point Resort.
I salute you with that decision. See fireworks over the
mackinaw Bridge. That would be pretty good. If you're going
to the Capital, well, fireworks there too.

Speaker 9 (01:13:13):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
You can stay at the Double Tree by Hilton in
downtown Lansing. They have a free shuttle from Capitol Region
International Airport and indoor Walkway to the Lansing Center. If
you have an event there in the summer or the winter.
Avoid the elements. It's the Double Tree by Hilton in
downtown Lancing, by the ballpark and by the studios of
Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shield's Spotlight Studios, and

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it's right across from the Governor's office and the Capitol
Building and the Mayor's office and so forth and so on.
And you heard me mentioned Capital Region International Airport. You're
gonna fly from fly Lancing dot com. Nicole and Oell
Williams is the CEO of that airport.

Speaker 7 (01:13:50):
We've got Applefications announcing their sixteenth year of international service
right here at the Lansing Airport. The beautiful thing is
you're hopping on a plane for staying in the morning.
You're at the beach by noon, whether it's kan Kuhn
or Puntakata and Kabo being our new market, we're excited
about that. But when you come back into Lansing, you
clear customs right at the Landing Airport, so there's no
need to stop anywhere else. We want you to come

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and start your vacation as soon as you ride to
the airport. A lot of different options and we always
recommend contact a local travel agent. They can help navigate
through which property. They would recommend that you.

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
Say thank you very much. We appreciate that. Michael Patrick
shields with you. There's so much to get to this morning.
Coming up a little later. John Cherry, the former Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan. Do you trust election results? He's going
to talk to you about that. A funeral home owner

(01:14:41):
is learning his fate. Do you know what this son
of did? He defrauded customers and the government out of
nine hundred thousand dollars. How did he do that? You
really want to know? Do you really want to know?
He stashed one hundred and ninety dead by in a
decrepit building, and he sent the grieving families fake ashes death.

(01:15:09):
Sounds like something out of a monster movie, but it
really happened Colorado. He's going to prison for twenty years
for wire fraud. You know what I think they ought
to do with them. They ought to put him in
that building with the one hundred and ninety dead bodies,
that decrepit building. That should be his prison at least

(01:15:34):
for a week, all right, for one night whatever. Travelers
are going to Afghanistan. There's a vacation for you. Solo
travelers and tour groups are venturing into a country that's
been racked by war, according to the Associated Press, and

(01:15:55):
the Taliban government sees power three years ago, not even
formally recognized by any other nation. But they're welcoming tourists.
The afghan people are warm and welcoming and wish to
host tourists from other countries, said the Deputy Minister of
Tourism for Afghanistan. By airplane, motorbike, camper van, even on bicycles,

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tourists are discovering Afghanistan. Would you go even if you
were going for free to Afghanistan? Drivers are upset with
hurtz renakar by the way, Why well, they have this
sort of system. Now you know, it's all cool when

(01:16:40):
you pick up the car and you don't even have
to go to the counter, and you drop it off
and you don't even have to see anyone. You throw
the keys in a thing and off you go. Well,
that means the car is being inspected when you're not there.
And guess what they're finding minor damage and artificial intelligence
is helping them do it with scanners. They have AI

(01:17:02):
to detect trivial damage and charge guess what steep fees
for it? Oh, you want to talk to someone about it,
Good luck, talk to a human. I thought you didn't
want to have to see anybody when you picked up
the car and drive. The bill is sometimes for damage
two hundred and fifty dollars and one hundred and twenty

(01:17:23):
five for processing, and oh there's a sixty five dollars
administration fee on top of it. Another driver said they
got one hundred and ninety five dollars fee for a
tiny dent. Yeah, technology, the snitch is AI Now say oh, well,
you got a scratch on the car that wasn't there before.

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And they can even have dirt. That's not a scratch.
That's dirt, but AI says it's a scratch, so it is.
Try to change it, Just try to change it. See
what happens. And here's the best news of all. Have
you decided maybe you don't want a real girlfriend too
expensive now that the tech options are there. There's a

(01:18:10):
robot girlfriend that'll serve you coffee and speak four languages.
That sounds pretty intriguing, right. The world's most expensive robot
girlfriend sixty four seven hundred pounds sterling, the price of
a three bedroom house in some parts of the UK.
I guess that's probably about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars,

(01:18:32):
So you see, even the robot girlfriends are expensive and
boyfriends all right. Steven Spielberg is screening the first footage
of his new Top secret movie. It's a sci fi
film rumored to involve UFOs. Not too much of a surprise,

(01:18:55):
I guess from the guy who made et and who
will be the next It' Dali Lama. I don't know
anything about this. We talked about the conclave with the
pope and the presidential election and all that stuff. The
search for a successor recognizing the leader's reincarnated form is

(01:19:16):
shrouded in mysticism. You better not let the Maga people
find out about this, because this is how they'll get
the next president. Yeah, it's a religious thing. The Tibetan monks,
they have an elaborate quest. They seek out the Dali
Lama's next incarnation, dream interpretation, inference from omens, ancient rituals,

(01:19:40):
pilgrimages to sacred sites, clues to find out when the
real Dali Lama, the current one, is cremated. Which direction
did the smoke go. Let's follow that and we'll find
out who it is. The current Dali Lama was discovered
at the age of two. Stay tuned.

Speaker 29 (01:20:00):
And the United States have resumed trade negotiations after Canadian
Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's digital
services tax on US technology companies. According to Newsweek, the
development follows President Donald Trump's announcement on Friday that he
was suspending all trade talks with Canada effective immediately over
the tax policy. Jobs being lost to AI not a
concern for President Trump. He told Fox News he understands

(01:20:22):
the need for emerging technology and how it's replacing some
American workers, but he insists there's solutions.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
One thing very simple, bring more companies and more judge.

Speaker 29 (01:20:30):
The President insists the job losses will be offset by
more companies coming to the US because his tariffs are
leveling the playing field. He adds that he has instructed
his team to speed up the permit process to build
new power plants to help with the AI energy need.
And YouTube is offering a feature that helps users find
content faster. Tech Crunch reports that the new AI powered
search results carousel suggests videos and displays brief AI generated

(01:20:53):
topic descriptions to help users find what they're looking for.
Faster Tech report.

Speaker 26 (01:20:57):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick.

Speaker 8 (01:21:02):
Shields State Senator Thomas Albert, the Republican from Lowell, the
restoration of right to work given the makeup of the legislature.
Are you shouting into the wind?

Speaker 27 (01:21:11):
I'm not because I'm on the call with you right
now on the radio talking about this bill missing the
case to the public as to why we need it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:18):
We always have next term.

Speaker 27 (01:21:19):
We got to get the message out there, and we
have to keep trying to move forward.

Speaker 8 (01:21:23):
I broadcast from Venice a couple of weeks ago, Venice,
Italy that is, and of course the big Lauren Sanchez
Jeff Bezos wedding was there this weekend. They went to
Harry's Bar after the wedding, I think the next day,
and closed it down for lunch with a few of
their friends. The entire place was closed. Now it's a
tiny little place and I always am certain to make

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a stop there when I'm in Venice. They invented the
Bellini at Harry's, but that's what they did, shut the
whole thing down for a little while. And I guess what.
The law of random synchronization now dictates that apparently the
newlyweds on their honeymoon are going to Taramina in Sicily.
He's got that big ship, you know that he built

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that yacht and they're going to anchor in Taramina off Sicily,
and they're going to spend time at the four Seasons there.
That was the hotel used in The White Lotus season two,
where a suite can cost upwards of seven thousand dollars
a night. It's a hilltop town in Sicily, very near
Mount Etna. And when I stayed there a few years

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ago in Taramina at the Belmont Grand Timio, which is
right next door. That's when you can visit all the
sites that were used in the filming of The Godfather
in the Sicilian sections at Barbatelli where Michael meets Apollonia's
father is right there, and lots of other sites too.

(01:22:47):
So anyhow, I was at Harry's and I was at
Taramina and following in the Jeff Bezos trail, don't say
that mbs, I know. Are they influencers even though they're not?
Will people go to the places they've been now? I
suppose they probably will. Influencers are dangerous though, and reality television.

(01:23:11):
Can you help somebody find their head, not their hat,
their head. Police are attempting to find the head of
a man who was murdered and decapitated by his model,
former girlfriend and reality television star. Where is the head
of Julian's story, and officers found the rest of his

(01:23:31):
body when they were responding to reports of a fire
boy that went down big didn't it? A fire and
a missing head and a model from reality TV. Welcome
to modern Culture. It's Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 13 (01:24:02):
NBC News Radio.

Speaker 29 (01:24:04):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Investigators believe a man who killed two
firefighters and injured a third set a brushfire near Cordelaine,
Idaho to ambush them. When firefighters started battling the fire,
they came under gunfire. Two firefighters were killed and a
third was wounded. Roughly three hundred police officers descended on
the area and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. They located

(01:24:24):
the shooter's cell phone signal, which led them to a
deceased man with a gun nearby. They quickly removed his
body because of the approaching wildfire. The man's name hasn't
been released and the medical examiner will determine the cause
of death. President Trump is shrugging off an upcoming deadline
for US tariffs to go back new effect on several countries.
Trump told Fox News he will soon inform those countries

(01:24:46):
that they can trade with the US, but tariffs are returning.

Speaker 30 (01:24:49):
I want to send letters game mister Japan You're going
to pay a twenty five percent tariff.

Speaker 29 (01:24:54):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. North Carolina Senator To Tillis
announced on Sunday he won't run for re election in
twenty twenty six. More from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 31 (01:25:05):
The two term Republicans said in a statement the decision
is quote not a hard choice, and that he hasn't
exactly been excited about running for another term. His announcement
comes after he said that he would oppose President Trump's
Big Beautiful Bill. Tillis's seat in the battleground state was
already a top target for Democrats in the twenty twenty
six midterm elections. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 29 (01:25:26):
At least one person is dead and two others injured
after an explosion and fire in Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
The blast cossed several buildings to collapse in the city's
Nice Town section. Shortly before five am. A K nine
found the remains of one victim, while fire officials say
two elderly women were taken to the hospital for smoke
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and the new brand Pitt movie is racing to the
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You are listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.

Speaker 16 (01:25:57):
As summer temperatures rise, health experts are warning parents and
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Speaker 23 (01:26:08):
Kids in Car Safety, which collects data on hot car deaths,
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The FDA is requiring two common COVID nineteen vaccines to
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and T Lines, the former Lieutenant governor of Michigan from
the Flint area. Welcome back, sir, hey, it's a pleasure
to be with you this morning. I always love talking
to you. We were just talking about an article in
the Times about who will be the next Dali Lama
because the current Dalai Lama is turning ninety and you know,

(01:28:51):
I didn't know anything about this, but it's Tibet and
there's some Chinese repression going on there and so forth.
But when they search for a success or, it's not
a conclave like the pope like we saw in the movie.
There's a lot of mysticism and there's not much understood
outside these religious circles. But for instance, they may when
they when they cremate the current Dalai Lama, they might

(01:29:15):
look which way did the smoke go? That could lead
us to the next Dali Lama. They for instance, they
have dream interpretation, and they have rituals and omens and
pilgrimages to sacred sites, and I was thinking, you know
that it's basically a reincarnation. They believe of the current
Dalai Lama that they will find in the next one.

(01:29:37):
And for instance, the one they found now was two
years old at the time he became the Dali Lama.
I was thinking, if the Maga people find out about this,
we'll have Trump forever, won't we.

Speaker 11 (01:29:50):
Well, that's a possibility. You know, the earth is round,
so it doesn't matter what direction that smoke goes, anybody
will be eligible.

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
That's a good point.

Speaker 9 (01:30:02):
See that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:03):
That's why you were lieutenant governor, and that's why also
you know, I'm joking around about it, but the confidence
in elections is very important to you, and you've partnered
with Republicans and Democrats to sort of kind of remind
the public that they can be confident in the elections.
But can we we're not talking about following cremation smoke.

(01:30:26):
We're talking about going to the polls.

Speaker 11 (01:30:31):
We are And you know, a few years back, the
accuracy of the election was a major political issue, rightly
or wrongly. Nonetheless, it clearly divided us, and they gave
a number of us pause and because you know, we
were former elected officials, we served in government. We understand

(01:30:51):
that elections are the foundation of our democracy. And so
when you begin to bring them into question, and you're
beginning to bring in to question in our very way
of politically deciding questions in this country and other democracies,
so you know, we decided we needed to take a
look at what was happening. But secondly, if it was

(01:31:14):
if things were going well, we needed to let people
know so that we took some of the misinformation out
of this process. And so we've been doing that for
the last almost two years now, and and part of
that is the full process, and we're finding that increasingly

(01:31:34):
people are becoming more and more confident in the accuracy
and fairness of Michigan elections at least, and so we
wanted to publicize that and make it clear that in
spite of what you might read or hear, that by
and large, Michigan residents have some confidence in what is
transpiring here. You know, in the end, Michigan can be

(01:31:58):
kind of unique in the sense of our local control
of elections and the people who really run our elections
are neighbors, and there's a there's a degree of trust
in our neighbors, I think, and I think that that
bears out here.

Speaker 8 (01:32:12):
Why is it such a chore to ask people to
show an I D if they're going to register to vote,
or prove that they're a citizen and bring an ID
when they come to vote.

Speaker 11 (01:32:21):
Well, I think for most Americans that it's not a
chore at all. Well, and it is a requirement currently,
but there is efforts to put it into the Constitution,
which gives it more legal authority than what exists now.

(01:32:44):
And and the only downside, quite frankly, are a couple
of little problems, unique problems. For instance, a woman when
she gets married may change her name. That she changes
her name, the name on her license drivers license is
different from the name on her birth certificate, and the
birth certificate is the real authority right now on whether

(01:33:08):
you can vote. I mean, but those are minor issues,
and I think a thoughtful legislature we'll figure out a
way to deal that deal with that in a convenient way.
If it becomes a political football, however, you know, it
can make a difficult It can become difficult for a
citizen to exercise the right. So part of what we're

(01:33:29):
doing here is to try to say, you know, let's
look at the facts. Let's not treat elections as a
political football, but instead less do some common sentin Owdy Minister.

Speaker 8 (01:33:40):
What would you say, former Lieutenant Governor John Cherry to
someone who said, I'm not sure in the first election,
Joe Biden got all those votes, but probably it wouldn't
have changed the end result, but I'm not sure he
actually got all those votes.

Speaker 11 (01:34:00):
Would say, first of all, let's let's not dwell so
much on what has happened. Let's take a look at
what's happening, and that we both ought to just get
in the car and go down to our township clerk
and talk to the clerk and have the clerk show
us what transpires in our community and then make an
assessment there about whether what's happening is going to result

(01:34:23):
in an accurate election in the future. You know, and
I think that's the way to proceed, is this look
forward and make an assessment of what is transpiring, where
there are problems, and what is the common sense way
to correct those problems that they exist.

Speaker 8 (01:34:41):
Are you confident that, let's say, the next election we
have and mind you, a lot of people focus on
the presidential But there are all kinds of elections that
have all kinds of consequences in the tiniest hobbles that
they are in fact accurate to you know, as accurate
as they can be.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Put it that way, I am.

Speaker 11 (01:35:03):
I am confident. And one of the things that give
me gives me confidence is in Michigan, you can recount
an election, and elections are recounted and almost inevitably, if
there are problems, they're they're miniscule percentage wise in terms
of votes, and they can and if there's a battery result,

(01:35:24):
it can be corrected. But you know, uh, these these
recounts almost always always uh confirm the initial count, and
so uh, you know, we can be disappointed, and I will.
You know, I've I've had friends and candidates I've supported
moved lost and I certainly wish that they haven't lost.

(01:35:48):
But you know, the election is the election, and so.

Speaker 8 (01:35:53):
The ball bounced in bounds whether we like it or not.
And we like it. Thank you, John Cherry. Sweet to
hear people.

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Speaker 35 (01:39:07):
I was born.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
In Saganaw, Michigani.

Speaker 8 (01:39:14):
I grew up anahau so Sagamob, Saganaw's favorite son, Jimmy Green,
is with me. Michael Patrick shields on our AT and
T line right now. He's always up early, He's always
on the move. He is a force to be reckoned with.
Welcome back to the airwaves, sir, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:39:33):
Thank you, Michael Patrick. It's always a pleasure to be
with you.

Speaker 8 (01:39:36):
I'm curious to hear about your experience with the LPGA
and the DOW event in Midland this weekend. But first
I sort of wanted to get your reaction to this
guy in New York who might end up being the mayor,
and he upset a como, which is a big, big deal, Mom, Donnie.
And he was on the Sunday shows Kirsten Welker here

(01:39:57):
at NBC and said.

Speaker 47 (01:39:59):
This, there's a policy proposal that says your plan, and
I'm going to quote it for folks, is to shift
the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners and the outer burrows
to more expensive homes in richer and wider neighborhoods. Explain
why you are bringing race into your tax proposal.

Speaker 10 (01:40:17):
That is just an description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race.

Speaker 48 (01:40:21):
It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being
under tax versus overtaxed. We've seen time and again that
this is a property tax system that is inequitable. It's
one that actually Eric Adams ran on saying that he
would change in the first hundred days. He's since sought
to defend it and lost at every juncture in court.

Speaker 47 (01:40:37):
And I understand you're saying, we're simply describing the types
of neighborhoods that would see these increase in taxes, and
yet by invoking race, do you run the risk of
potentially alienating key constituents.

Speaker 48 (01:40:49):
I think I'm just naming things as they are. And ultimately,
the thing that motivates me in this is to create
a system of fairness. It is not to work backwards
from an a racial assessment of neighborhoods or our city. Rather,
it's to ensure that we actually have an equal playing field.
And right now, what we see with the property tax
system is one that is overtaxing a number of New
Yorkers and undertaxing others, and an inability of political will

(01:41:12):
to result that.

Speaker 47 (01:41:13):
So no plans to change that language on your website.

Speaker 48 (01:41:16):
The focus here is to actually ensure a fair property
tax system, and that the use of that language is
an assessment of the neighborhood.

Speaker 8 (01:41:23):
All right, Jimmy Green, can you get away with that
kind of subtlety?

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
No, you know, it's funny. I don't know if I
hate or love watching these news shows, but I reeled
back when I heard that. First of all, you know,
the condescension that somehow those neighborhoods don't have black people
in them, you know, is a whole different kind of racism.
And you know, again, I think economically, and I guess

(01:41:50):
it goes to show you his political bent, that he's
already got this face, these colors of people who he's
trying to both attack and and the idea that he
would insert racial politics into property taxes, you know, But again,
I guess it goes to show you his type of politics.
I found it amazing that he was even elected to

(01:42:13):
beat a Colombo as who suggested who I thought was
uber liberal to begin with. And this is a whole
new page right here. But no, I don't think anybody
I put it this way. If I said that and
I was attacking white neighborhoods with the same kind of
attack that he purposed, I don't think I could get
away with that at all.

Speaker 8 (01:42:35):
And Ully so Tommy Lee made an eight foot birdie
putt on the first playoff hole to win the Dow
Championship with Jin I was there in that. Must amaze
you were You were there, not only that you played
in the program with Corey Pavin.

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
I have that right, Oh my god, I'll tell you what.
It was ninety three degrees and that was in the shade.
It was about one hundred and fifteen degrees on the course.
It was the hell of an event, though, But I
have fun, a lot of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:43:05):
I got to play with Corey Paven once just by
total random at the last Buick Open program, and it
was and I asked him. He was friendly, I thought,
I said, I keep pushing that ball to the right.
I said, it's kind of a slice. Do you have
any advice on that? And he said, yeah, here's what
you're going to do. You're going to aim left.

Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
Oh my god, that's so funny. He got to use
that sort of language with us too, you know. And
he said, there's nothing I'm going to teach you out
here today is going to change what you do tomorrow.

Speaker 44 (01:43:38):
Wow.

Speaker 30 (01:43:39):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:43:40):
Years later he's saying the same thing, and he said,
you don't have time to practice. You work for a living.
You know, there's not no point in giving anything technical.
Just to have fun and aim left.

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
I mean, he's just a great guy, just fantastic.

Speaker 8 (01:43:55):
How was the event for the for the community.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
I mean, it's it's spectacular, you know, when you watch
the thousands of people walk through there. First of all,
it's a great introduction to and to invite people back
the community. Really rolls out. Our entire region shows up
and supports that that outings, and so it's kind of
a really cool time to say, hey, this is a
this is a great place to come back and visit.
And I've bet you that has a lot to do
with our marketing when it comes to tourism as well too.

(01:44:24):
But it's a great event that the purse gets higher.
H they've added more tents, more concessions, the demand continues
to grow. So that's the market success and uh, you know,
and and it's great golf too. It's fantastic golf.

Speaker 8 (01:44:39):
It's interesting. The LPGA event and the PGA Tour event,
both in Michigan this weekend, both went to extra holes.
When people come here to play golf, they don't want
to leave.

Speaker 4 (01:44:49):
Well, you know, it's funny too, because you know, when
they look at our window of opportunity, Let's face it,
we've got three months and with our fingers crossed that
we can pull off these kind of tournaments and and
we'll do it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:00):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:45:01):
It was great to see both events do so very well.

Speaker 8 (01:45:05):
You're just already getting ready for hockey season, aren't you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
Seventy three days there you go.

Speaker 9 (01:45:15):
I knew it I.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
Knew seventy three days.

Speaker 8 (01:45:19):
Have you seen the F one movie yet? I know
you love movies.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
I'm going, I'm going to go. I'll be there this weekend.
I've got a couple of things I want to see.
I want to see the new Durrastic, I want to
see F one, and there's something else that's got Superman.
So those three are hot on my list. I can't
wait to get on your show and talk about them.

Speaker 8 (01:45:37):
Yeah, you've become our movie reviewer, and you can also
if you follow Jimmy Green on social media, you get
his movie reviews, whether it's on the big screen or
the little screen or whatever. Tony Cuthbert and I have
already gone to see F one on the Imax. We
both give it the thumbs up. I think Cisco and
Ebert style, Isn't that true? Tony?

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
I am probably already planning my second trip, which I've
never done before.

Speaker 10 (01:45:59):
For that's my stamp of approval on this.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
Yeah, Okay, I'm in.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
I'm in.

Speaker 4 (01:46:05):
I'll let you guys know I'm going this weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:46:07):
All right. And I'd be curious to get his opinion.
How many times can you make the Jurassic Park movie
over and over. But we'll see and Jimmy Green will
let us know whether it's a green light or a
red light for the F one movie and beyond it's
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Speaker 37 (01:47:30):
The Timberwolves signed Julius Randall to a three year, one
hundred million dollar deal. James Harden intends to re sign
with the Clippers two years, eighty one and a half million.
Jazzer trading guard Colin Sexton and a twenty thirty second
round pick to the Hornets for center Yusuf Nurkic MLB
Cardinals over the Guardian seven nothing, Gorman and Scott with
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(01:47:51):
Cruz with two home runs, Yankees twelve, A's five, Aaron
Judge a couple two run homers. The Phillies beat the
Braves two to one. Ranger Suarez strikes out eight seven innings.
Orioles over the Raise five to one. Dean Kramer with
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(01:48:12):
That snaps a five game skid for Colorado. Astro's blank
the Cubs two nothing, Jose altwove At two run shot
Reds over the Potter's three two, Will Benson the game
winning single, and the Dodgers beat the Royals five to one.
LA tied with the Tigers for the best mark in MLB.
That's sports. I'm Trey Bender.

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Speaker 8 (01:49:01):
Let's talk some sports. It's Michael Patrick Shields. One of
the reasons I despise in a sense social media, and
I puzzled from a psychological standpoint as to why it
brings out the worst in people. Somebody posted on the
Michigan Football U of M go blue post the record
of Lloyd Carr when he coached the Wolverines versus every

(01:49:23):
other Big Ten team. Okay, as you can imagine, because
he's in the College Football Hall of Fame, he has
a decidedly winning record against every other team in the
Big Ten and even Michigan State. He was ten and
three against the Spartans. Okay, and then there is one
you know, black tile in this mosaic. And then it's

(01:49:45):
Ohio State. He was six and seven against the Buckeyes.
Some guy named Darren Coy points out in a comment
terrible versus OSU. Did that make you feel good to
point that out? And by the way, it's supposed to
be like that, there wouldn't be a rivalry. One team

(01:50:07):
should win half the time, the other team should win
the other half of the time, in my opinion, or
it wouldn't be much of a rivalry. From the soapbox down,
I now, step.

Speaker 10 (01:50:18):
Tony, turn off the social media.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Now, this is what I was talking about last week
in terms of college sports. For whatever reason, fans take
more pride in watching the opposition lose than their own
team winning. It's really a sad state of affairs.

Speaker 10 (01:50:33):
And yeah, that's just what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:50:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
Today's a big day, do you know that you might
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believe it or not.

Speaker 8 (01:50:44):
The All England England Long Tennis Club.

Speaker 49 (01:50:48):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
I'm trying to find the actual price for strawberries and cream,
and all the searches show that people are very frustrated
with a twenty percent price rise on just about every product,
whether it be the wine or what's the other thing,
the Pim's cup or they even have an ipa on
the menu. So if you're going, that would be right
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(01:51:09):
in some strawberries and cream, it's there, and it's on
TV all day long and for the next couple weeks.

Speaker 30 (01:51:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
The Tigers, they were on Sunday Night Baseball last night
and they did beat the Twins three to hing. And
right now, believe it or not, Detroit fifty three and
thirty two the only team in the American League Central
with a winning record, eleven and a half.

Speaker 10 (01:51:30):
Games ahead of Cleveland. This is Is it wrapped already?
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More to come and anytime at amibig show dot com.
He's Tony Cupferd. I'm Michael Patrick Shields. Let's keep talking.

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Speaker 34 (01:52:17):
Trump told Fox News he understands the need for the
emerging technology and how it's replacing some American workers, but
he insists there's a solution.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
It's one thing, very simple. Bring more companies and more jobs.

Speaker 23 (01:52:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
The truth is, we don't have enough people to take
care of these jebs.

Speaker 34 (01:52:32):
The President insists the job losses will be offset by
more companies coming to the US because his tariffs are
leveling the playing field. I'm Tammy Truheo, and the.

Speaker 29 (01:52:41):
Jury couldn't get the case today in Sean Diddycombe's rocketeering
and sex trafficking trial, Mark Mayfield INBC News Radio.

Speaker 34 (01:52:48):
In the Northeast, expect a mix of sun and scattered thunderstorms,
especially across upstate New York and New England. Highs willtop
out in the mid eighties. The mid Atlantic stays hot
and muggy, with temperatures near ninety. Some storms could developed
lad especially in Pennsylvania and western Maryland. Aross the southeast,
another sweltering day with temperatures pushing into the nineties. Widespread
thunderstorms are expected, especially from Georgia through Florida, with heavy

(01:53:11):
rain and frequent lightning. In the Midwest, that coldfront is
bringing some strong thunderstorms from Wisconsin through Indiana. Behind the front,
cooler air is settling in with temperatures stopping out in
the low eighties. The Plains remain split, with temperatures in
the north in the seventies, but hot and dry across Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas, where temperatures will reach the low one hundreds.
In the Southwest, the extreme heat continues, with high stopping

(01:53:33):
out at one point fifteen, while along the West Coast
the beaches will be in the seventies with the nineties inland.
The Pacific Northwest enjoys mild and dry weather with temperatures
in the low to mid seventies. That's your national forecast.
I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 29 (01:54:01):
INNBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. Investigators believe a man
who killed two firefighters and injured. A third set a
brushfire near Cordelaine, Idaho, to ambush them. When firefighters started
battling the fire, they came under gunfire. Two firefighters were
killed and a third was wounded. Roughly three hundred police
officers descended on the area and exchanged gunfire with the suspect.

(01:54:23):
They located the shooter's cell phone signal, which led them
to a deceased man with a gun nearby. They quickly
removed his body because of the approaching wildfire. The man's
name hasn't been released and the medical examiner will determine
the cause of death. President Trump is shrugging off an
upcoming deadline for US tariffs to go back new effect
on several countries. Trump told Fox News he will soon

(01:54:44):
inform those countries that they can trade with the US,
but tariffs are returning.

Speaker 30 (01:54:49):
Emilson letters game, mister Japan, You're going to pay a
twenty five percent tariff.

Speaker 29 (01:54:54):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis
announced on Sunday he won't run for re election in
twenty twenty six. More from Lisa Carton, the.

Speaker 31 (01:55:05):
Two term Republicans, said in a statement that decision is
quote not a hard choice and that he hasn't exactly
been excited about running for another term. His announcement comes
after he said that he would oppose President Trump's Big
Beautiful Bill Tillis Is seat in the battleground state was
already a top target for Democrats in the twenty twenty
six midterm elections. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 29 (01:55:26):
At least one person is dead and two others injured
after an explosion and fire in Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
The blast caused several buildings to collapse in the city's
Nice Town section shortly before five am. A K nine
found the remains of one victim, while fire officials say
two elderly women were taken to the hospital for smoke
inhalation and burns. At least five row houses were affected,

(01:55:46):
and the new brand Pitt movie is racing to the
top of the box office. The racing thriller F one
is expected to pull in sixty million dollars over the weekend.
You are listening to the latest from NBC.

Speaker 40 (01:55:56):
News Radio the Senate debating President Trump. That's a big
beautiful bill. He wants it back on his desk by
the fourth of July. Peter Alexander, with more.

Speaker 18 (01:56:05):
Its pass to the President's desk, still faces obstacles. The
Senate's parliamentarian think of her as the referee, just as
qualified several key provisions in the bill that Republicans were
relying on to pay for President Trump's tax cuts. Changes
made in the Senate will still have to go through
the House, where there are divisions over critical issues, but
Republican leaders are still confident they'll get it across the

(01:56:27):
finish line.

Speaker 40 (01:56:27):
The US and China have reached a deal over rare
earth elements. Rebecca Bundan reports. President Trump says an agreement
has been signed.

Speaker 41 (01:56:34):
Although he didn't provide any further details on what this involved.
News agency Routers reports a White House official saying that
the US and China have reached an understanding about how
they can implement expediting rare earth shipments to the US.

Speaker 40 (01:56:49):
A record number of travelers over the fourth of July expected.
Triple A says all fifty states will see gas prices
go up a bit too, and if you're staying close
to home, the cost of an Independence Day barbecue isn't
cheap either.

Speaker 34 (01:57:02):
A new report from the Wells Fargo Agra Food Institute
says food and beverages for a typical Fourth of July
barbecue for ten people will cost one hundred and thirty
dollars this year. That's up a little over two percent
from a year ago. The increase is due in large
part to the price of ground beef, which has risen
over seven percent from last year. Another survey from coupon
follow shows one in three Americans will not be celebrating

(01:57:23):
the holiday, with many saying they aren't feeling patriotic or
they feel disconnected from American culture right now. I'm Tammy trheo.

Speaker 40 (01:57:31):
Ford Motor Companies telling the owners of over twenty three
hundred super duty pickup trucks from model year twenty twenty
five to not drive them. It's all because of an
issue with a hydraulic brake system that can lead to
break failure. The affected models are F two, fifty, F three, fifty,
F four, fifty, and F five to fifty super duty trucks.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a spring in

(01:57:53):
the breaking system might not have been installed. I'm Monica
Nelson with your consumer and business news NBA News.

Speaker 37 (01:58:00):
September, Wolves signed Julius Randall to a three year, one
hundred million dollar deal. James Harden intends to re sign
with the Clippers two years, eighty one and a half million.
Jazzer trading guard Colin Sexton and a twenty thirty second
round pick to the Hornets for center Yusuf Nurkic. MLB
Cardinals over the Guardian seven nothing, Gorman and Scott with
home runs. Pirates hammer the Mets twelve to one. O'Neil

(01:58:20):
Cruz with two home runs, Yankees twelve, A's five, Aaron
Judge a couple two run homers. The Phillies beat the
Braves two to one. Ranger Suarez strikes out eight and
seven innings. Orioles over the Rays five to one. Dean
Kramer with six strikeouts. Jays beat the Red Sox five
to three as they get home runs from Barger and
Vlad Guerrero Junior in eleven frames, Rockies four and the

(01:58:41):
Brewers three. That snaps a five game skid for Colorado.
Astros blank the Cubs two nothing, Jose Altuve a two
run shot, Reds over the Potres three two. Will Benson
the game winning single and the Dodgers beat the Royals
five to one. LA tied with the Tigers for the
best mark in MLB that sports I'm Trey Bender.

Speaker 34 (01:58:58):
In the Northeast, expect a mix of un and scattered thunderstorms,
especially across upstate New York and New England. Highs will
top out in the mid eighties. The mid Atlantic stays
hot and muggy, with temperatures near ninety. Some storms could
develop lade, especially in Pennsylvania and western Maryland. Aross the Southeast,
another sweltering day with temperatures pushing into the nineties. Widespread
thunderstorms are expected, especially from Georgia through Florida, with heavy

(01:59:21):
rain and frequent lightning. In the Midwest, that coldfront is
bringing some strong thunderstorms from Wisconsin through Indiana. Behind the front,
cooler air is settling in, with temperatures stopping out in
the low eighties. The Plains remain split, with temperatures in
the north in the seventies, but hot and dry across Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas, where temperatures will reach the low one hundreds.
In the Southwest, the extreme heat continues, with high stopping

(01:59:43):
out at one fifteen, while along the West coast, the
beaches will be in the seventies, with the nineties inland.
The Pacific Northwest enjoys mild and dry weather with temperatures
in the low to mid seventies. That's your national forecast.
I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (02:00:04):
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Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
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Speaker 4 (02:00:35):
When we look at the state, you probably have about
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Speaker 47 (02:00:39):
Percent on the hard right, and there's about seventy percent
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Speaker 5 (02:00:41):
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Speaker 8 (02:00:56):
On the air Good Morning World. Interesting article in the
New York Post, an exclusive. The headline is sad state
of the Unions, not the state of the union, address
the labor unions, and that Andrew Cuomo's election loss reveals
the one time king maker New York City unions are

(02:01:17):
now toothless paper tigers. They couldn't get him across the
finish line. And with a name like CMO, you would
think he would have been a favorite. Not much help.
I guess we are, interestingly enough involved in a situation
in Michigan that is sort of an is is you
Ain't My baby? Over the last ten to twelve years,

(02:01:38):
and Alan Jernigan is a manager for the Commerce, Insurance
and Economic Development Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange
Council ALEC for short. He's on our AT and T
line or radio stage right now, as once again the
concept of right to work takes the stage in Michigan

(02:01:59):
thanks to Senator Albert who introduced Senate Bill four thirty six.
I think we spoke to him just a couple of
days ago about this. In the meantime, mister Jernagan, welcome
to the airwaves.

Speaker 24 (02:02:12):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 8 (02:02:14):
So we didn't have right to work and then it
was very dramatic a decade ago, and right to work
was instilled in Michigan, and then it got overturned with
the current administration. And now there is a bill to
restore right to work in the Michigan Senate. What is
right to work? If somebody's hearing this for the first time,

(02:02:35):
and what happens next?

Speaker 24 (02:02:39):
Yeah, So simply right to work is just giving an
employee the right to choose whether they want to financially
support or join a union without an effect on their
employment status. So just really letting them choose the path
and option that's best for them. As far as what next,
you know they're for peel right to work in Michigan

(02:03:01):
was the first time a state has repealed that protection
in nearly sixty years. You know, they can write Michigan
can write the ship with leadership that prioritizes labor freedom
and reform and really returns the power back to the
workers rather than the unions.

Speaker 8 (02:03:17):
Basically, you get a job and it's a union job.
Or a union shop, I guess is what they kind
of call it. I don't know when they say, all right, yeah,
you can have the job, but you have to pay
the labor union thousands of dollars to join, and you
don't have a choice in the matter. That's how it
is right now, simple as that.

Speaker 11 (02:03:36):
Yeah, without right to work.

Speaker 24 (02:03:37):
For for private workers, you know, they can be compelled
to join a union essentially the condition of being employed.
So right to work just takes that away and gives
them the choice on they can make their own decision.
They're welcome to join the union if they'd like, but
if they don't want to, they also don't have to
or pay any sort of dues for that.

Speaker 8 (02:03:58):
Some people might want to, they might see some benefit
from it. What would those benefits be.

Speaker 24 (02:04:05):
Well, some people like the protection of the overall bargaining
power that comes with the union. But you know, it
really allows workers to be individuals if they choose not
to join one and argue and kind of advocate on
behalf of themselves and what's best for their specific situation,
which empowers the workers and gives them kind of that
word I keep coming back to the freedom to kind

(02:04:27):
of find their own version of the American dream.

Speaker 8 (02:04:32):
So the initial contract usually that they enter was negotiated
by the union, so they do get the benefit of
that if it's presumably a good contract for the worker.
But I'm curious to know why is it the government's business.
Why is it the state legislature's business to mandate that
somebody join a union in order to have a job.

Speaker 24 (02:04:53):
I think that's a great point. I'm not sure why
it would be. I think it's really kind of some
government interfer and getting in the way of just true,
simple protections for workers.

Speaker 8 (02:05:05):
And why is it presumed that Democrats support being compelled
to join a union as opposed to a right to
work situation?

Speaker 24 (02:05:18):
You know, I think it's in my mind it's kind
of a common sense issue. But I think for a
lot of it it's just kind of where priorities lie,
and whether that be letting the government kind of put
to some on the scale and more situations.

Speaker 44 (02:05:30):
Or.

Speaker 24 (02:05:32):
Kind of the more free market approach which is allowing
the businesses and market to play itself out.

Speaker 8 (02:05:38):
There was a study released called States that Work Nice
play on words. There a labor policy ROGUEMAP across America
and it analyzed the fifty states and the worker policies.
What about those states that have the right to work
for workers? The right to choose basically is what it is,
whether you want to join a union or not. How
are they doing? And I mean it's probably apples and

(02:06:00):
oranges in some cases. But what can we learn about
the states that do have right to work?

Speaker 5 (02:06:07):
Well?

Speaker 24 (02:06:08):
Yeah, as you mentioned, we recently did a report where
we looked at key ALEC model policies across all fifty
states and ranked the states on what pro worker policies
they had. The Michigan finished rank thirty fifth out of fifty.
But interestingly enough, if they were to state right to

(02:06:28):
work and move all the way up to twenty second
and kind of following the trend of just interesting on
how well right to work states performed in this report
is they're twenty sixth right to work states across the
country and the lowest rank one of them came in
this report was twenty eighth.

Speaker 8 (02:06:44):
Where's Michigan.

Speaker 24 (02:06:47):
Michigan's thirty fifth overall.

Speaker 8 (02:06:50):
And do you believe that if Senate Bill four thirty
six were to pass somehow and right to work were
to be restored in Michigan that Michigan's position wouldn't proof.

Speaker 35 (02:07:01):
Absolutely.

Speaker 24 (02:07:03):
If all stayed the same now and Michigan just added
right to work, they would move up to twenty second,
So a big jump.

Speaker 8 (02:07:10):
All right, You have it there in the statistics and
the facts, Thank you very much. Right to work is
right to choose. Sort of ironic, isn't it. Michael Patrick
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Speaker 14 (02:11:00):
The prosecution resting its case in the sex trafficking trial
of Seawan Dinny Combs in New York.

Speaker 15 (02:11:06):
After twenty nine days of testimony, the prosecution told jurors Thursday,
it's time to find Diddy guilty. The government argued that
hip hop mogul led a criminal enterprise in order to
conduct illegal activity like kidnapping, drug deals, forced labor, and
sex trafficking, and that he used his power intimidation, violence,
and drugs to force two ex girlfriends to take part
in free gops. The defense will make its case Friday. Afterward,

(02:11:28):
the government will get to speak to the jury again
before jury deliberations.

Speaker 25 (02:11:31):
Kristen Marx, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 14 (02:11:33):
Please say Brad Pitt's Los Angeles home was ransacked by burglars.
It happened Wednesday night. Bid was not home at the
time doing publicity for his new movie f One. Veteran
TV journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of
ninety one. Moyers worked mostly at PBS for more than
forty years, where he won more than thirty Emmy Awards.
His son Williams as his father died of prostate cancer complications.

(02:11:54):
Anna Wintour is stepping down as the US editor in
chief of Vogue. Sara Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 16 (02:12:00):
Winter reportedly told staffers on Thursday that Vogue is looking
for a new head of editorial content. That person will
report to her. She's staying on as Chief Content Officer
of Conte Nest and Global Editorial Director of Vogue. Wintur's
in charge of major brands including Vanity Fair, GQ, Glamour,
and Allure. Winter, who's seventy five, has been Vogue's editor

(02:12:23):
in chief for thirty seven years.

Speaker 17 (02:12:25):
That's entertainment. I'm Jennifer BULSONI.

Speaker 49 (02:12:31):
Somebody tell me if it's worth going on. Stuck in
the saddle from the first light of dawn, wherein if
I one of them homes stuck in my belly is
worth being bold, stuck in the saddle, the found and

(02:12:53):
the dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:12:54):
The day.

Speaker 8 (02:12:56):
I'm going to need more than a dollar a day, I.

Speaker 49 (02:13:00):
Bound up too soon. I never can seem to get
past the saloon. Cowboy and money don't mix, can't you see?
I need only briefly then part company.

Speaker 8 (02:13:18):
The rent is due tomorrow. Good god, it's the first
day of July already tomorrow thirty found. By the way,
the art of the deal seems to have worked again
for those of you who don't believe in it. Canada
has now scrapped its digital services tax that was supposed

(02:13:39):
to start last night. And this is all in the
negotiations with the United States. The Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Carney and Donald Trump are going to resume negotiations after
they broke down on Friday, and Canada came back two
days later and said, well, all right, we'll scrap the uh,

(02:14:00):
We'll scrap the digital tax. It's working, you see, Peace
through strength works. It seems. I'm no expert, but it
looks that way on paper. Florida Wildlife authorities have released
a new report. Remember that vicious alligator attack in May
that took the life of a Michigan woman named Cynthia Daikima.
She was sixty one years old and killed while canoeing

(02:14:22):
with her husband in Lake Kasimi State Park. They didn't
know it, but they approached an eleven foot alligator that
was lurking beneath the surface, and the alligator thrashed under
the canoe. They were thrown into the water. The victim
was immediately bitten on the torso her husband was trying
to save her, unsuccessfully. The alligator did the death rule

(02:14:46):
swam away with the victim. The trappers later caught the alligator.
But can you believe the nightmare that we're talking about
the movie Jaws? Can you imagine the nightmare of that
poor man trying to save his sixty one year old
wife alligator was taking or while they were canoeing and Kassimi.
I don't know how you avoid that other than don't

(02:15:07):
canoe in waters where there could be alligators. Please pray
for them and their family. Catholic bishops are trying to
rally opposition to Donald Trump's immigration agenda. Outrage at mass deportation,

(02:15:28):
mass pardon the fun anybody been talking about in the homilies. Well,
Chief Justice John Roberts of the United States Supreme Court
has given a homily of sorts. He's concerned about threats
against judges. They're on the rise, and he warned Saturday
that elected officials, yeah, you an elected official when you

(02:15:51):
use heated words about judges, that can lead to threats
or acts of violence by others. He didn't identify anyone
by name. You might remember Chuck Schumer and New York
who said that they're going to reap the whipper wool
or whatever he said. And Justice Roberts said it becomes

(02:16:12):
wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who's
doing their job is part of the problem. And the
danger is somebody might pick up on that. There've been
serious threats of violence and murder against judges who are
just doing their work. So he says, I think the
political people on both sides need to keep that in mind.

(02:16:32):
Judges are not legislators. Much as you want to say,
conservative judge, liberal judge. They're emboldened by Donald Trump, you
know that kind of thing. I don't know. I'm going
to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're
judging justice is supposed to be blind, right and interpreting

(02:16:54):
the Constitution and so forth.

Speaker 49 (02:16:56):
I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the
world oh wind, and you will pay the price.

Speaker 8 (02:17:04):
Yeah, that's a US senator talking like that.

Speaker 37 (02:17:07):
You won't know what hit you if you go forward
with these awful decisions.

Speaker 8 (02:17:13):
What is that supposed to mean? President Donald Trump is
suggesting his administration will pressure reporters to giving up sources
on the recent stories about the military strike on Iran
and potentially prosecute those sources. Who is leaking military information
and why? New York Times says there's a UN inspector

(02:17:37):
saying Iran could be enriching fuel again in a matter
of months. Of course, this is another thing. We don't
front political spin on this. We want to know the
truth Senate's taking up or you know what, we don't
even maybe need to know some of these things. How
about that Senate takes up Donald Trump's policy bill. GOP

(02:17:59):
is scrounging for votes to pass the big beautiful bill.
Apparently it took sixteen hours to read it. Can you man,
that must have been some boring reading, you know what
I'm saying? But how can they vote on something that
hasn't been read into the record. Michael Patrick shields with you.
I don't want to know how the sausages are made.
Somehow too much. I don't know. Maybe maybe I don't know.

(02:18:21):
Jeff Bezos's new wife, Lauren Sanchez, has a three million
dollar thirty carrot ring and a ten million dollar thirty
five carrot ring. Yeah, and you're worried about meeting a mortgage. Amazing,
isn't it. And every time you push that little button
order something from Amazon, Yeah, a pretty good deal. It's

(02:18:47):
Michael Patrick shields with you. Yeah, you get free shipping,
and she gets a thirty five million dollar ring. MPs
with you, radio stations across the state of Michigan. You
know all that by now. It's good to be with you.
And hmm. We keep an eye on things from time
to time around here. Apparently there was a bill that

(02:19:11):
would deport illegal immigrants who were busted for drunk driving
and cleared the Lower Chamber. Haley Stevens didn't vote. She's
running to replace Gary Peters as a US Senator, and
she didn't bother to vote. I don't know. Maybe that
happens sometimes. Hillary Skulton, Kristen MacDonald. Rivett voted in support,

(02:19:34):
like all the Republicans did. Debbie Dingle, Democrat Rashida to
Leeve and shree Thanadar oppose the measure. That's probably more
complicated than it sounds. But you know, if you're a
guest in the country, you probably ought to behave maybe
don't drive drunk through the at and t microphones. It's

(02:19:55):
Michael Patrick shields. We'll check the stock market next.

Speaker 29 (02:20:00):
Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations after
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's
digital services tax on US technology companies. According to Newsweek,
The development follows President Donald trumps announcement on Friday that
he was suspending all trade talks with Canada effective immediately
over the tax policy. Jobs being lost to AI not
a concern for President Trump. He told Fox News he

(02:20:22):
understands the need for emerging technology and how it's replacing
some American workers, but he insists there's solutions.

Speaker 3 (02:20:28):
One thing, very simple, bring more companies and more job.

Speaker 29 (02:20:31):
The president insists the job losses will be offset by
more companies coming to the US because his tariffs are
leveling the playing field. He adds that he has instructed
his team to speed up the permit process to build
new power plants to help with the AI energy need.
And YouTube is offering a feature that helps users find content.
Faster Tech Crunch reports that the new AI powered search
results carousel suggests videos and displays brief AI generated topic

(02:20:53):
descriptions to help users find what they're looking for. Faster
Tech Report.

Speaker 26 (02:20:57):
I'm Marknyfield, Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick.

Speaker 8 (02:21:03):
Shields State Senator Thomas Albert, the Republican from Lowell. The
restoration of right to work, it's given the makeup of
the legislature. Are you shouting into the wind?

Speaker 27 (02:21:11):
I'm not, because I'm on the call with you right
now on the radio talking about this bill, masking the
case to the public as to why we need it.
We always have next term. We got to get the
message out there and we have to keep trying to
move forward.

Speaker 8 (02:21:23):
You may be gearing up to start the grill and
prepare for the July fourth picnic. Some sticker shock though
on grocery store shelves. According to a new report, the
average cookout what will it cost this year? Slightly less
than last year? Believe it or not. According to the
American Farm Bureau Federation, it isn't going to stop you anyway,

(02:21:44):
isn't it? The average cost of a fourth of July
picnic for ten people seventy dollars. It was seventy one
dollars last year. You can scrounge up a dollar, can't you?
I think so? Probably through the at and t he
microphones you're listening to Michael Patrick Shields. We're worrying about
a dollar for a cookoff. And in the meantime, the

(02:22:07):
Bezos wedding has drawn the ire of those who say
that it is just a scene to spend that kind
of money, and to do so so blatantly and openly vulgarity,
excess for the ultra rich in your face, or maybe
they're just sort of jealous and bitter. Thomas grafora senior

(02:22:29):
wealth advisor at Great Lakeswealth dot Us, has the stock
market numbers and more.

Speaker 44 (02:22:33):
Good morning, Good morning, Michael Patrick. Well, the stock market
reminded us last Friday that North was still north. Friday,
the DAL finished up four hundred and thirty two points
two forty three eight nineteen s and P five hundred
finished up thirty two points two six one seventy three.
That was a new fifty two week high. The NASDAK

(02:22:55):
finished up one hundred and five points two twenty thousand
and two seventy three, That also was a new fifty
two week high. In this morning futures, we have our
foot on the gas. The dolls approxim me up two
hundred and fifty points, SNP five hundreds approxicing me up
twenty points, The nantaks approxim me up one hundred and
fifty points. W TA Kurol is holding up sixty five

(02:23:15):
dollars a barrel. Commex Gold is currently at three thousand
and two ninety. Bitcoin is currently at one hundred and
seven eight hundred, and the US one year treasury has occurred,
you know, the three point nine eight percent this morning
and what we're talking about in the office today. Investors
are waxing their surfboards today, getting ready for what could
be the big beautiful bill wave that Donald Trump is

(02:23:37):
pushing to get through the Senate. The bill promises big
text cuts deregulation and spending on energy and infrastructure.

Speaker 8 (02:23:45):
Stay tuned to go to Great Lakeswealth dot US and
connect with them like I.

Speaker 29 (02:23:50):
Do INBC News Radio I'm Mark Mayfield. Investigators believe a
man who killed two firefighters and injured a third set
a brush fire near Cordelaine, Idaho to ambush them. When

(02:24:13):
firefighters started battling the fire, they came under gunfire. Two
firefighters were killed and a third was wounded. Roughly three
hundred police officers descended on the area and exchanged gunfire.

Speaker 5 (02:24:23):
With the suspect.

Speaker 29 (02:24:24):
They located the shooter's cell phone signal, which led them
to a deceased man with a gun nearby. They quickly
removed his body because of the approaching wildfire. The man's
name hasn't been released and the medical examiner will determine
the cause of death. President Trump is shrugging off an
upcoming deadline for US tariffs to go back new effect
on several countries. Trump told Fox News he will soon

(02:24:45):
inform those countries that they can trade with the US,
but tariffs are returning.

Speaker 30 (02:24:49):
Emison letters game, mister Japan, You're going to pay a
twenty five percent tariff.

Speaker 29 (02:24:54):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. North Carolina's Senator Tom Tillis
announced on Sunday he won't run for re election in
twenty twenty six. More from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 31 (02:25:05):
The two term Republicans said in a statement that decision
is quote not a hard choice, and that he hasn't
exactly been excited about running for another term. His announcement
comes after he said that he would oppose President Trump's
Big Beautiful Bill Tillis seat in the battleground state was
already a top target for Democrats in the twenty twenty
six midterm elections. I'm Lisa Carton.

Speaker 29 (02:25:27):
At least one person is dead and two others injured
after an explosion and fire in Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
The blast caused several buildings to collapse in the city's
Nice Town section. Shortly before five am. A K nine
found the remains of one victim, while fire officials say
two elderly women were taken to the hospital for smoke
inhalation and burns. At least five row houses were affected,

(02:25:47):
and the new brand Pitt movie is racing to the
top of the box office. The racing thriller F one
is expected to pull in sixty million dollars over the weekend.
You are listening to the latest from NBC News radio.

Speaker 16 (02:25:58):
As summer temperatures rise, health experts are warning parents and
caretakers once again about the risks of heatstroke to children
left inside hot vehicles. Lisa Taylor, with More.

Speaker 23 (02:26:09):
Kids in Car Safety, which collects data on hot car deaths,
says already this year, nine children have died after being
left alone in cars in California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico,
New Jersey, and North Carolina. Five of those deaths were
in June. Last year, at least thirty nine children died
after being left in hot cars Ainly Stailer.

Speaker 16 (02:26:29):
The FDA is requiring two common COVID nineteen vaccines to
update their warning labels. New information on two rare heart
side effects, inflammation of the heart muscle and inflammation of
the thin sac surrounding the heart, will need to be
included on the labels. The updated warnings will now feature
info on how the conditions have been seen, most commonly

(02:26:50):
among boys ages twelve and up and young men as
old as twenty four.

Speaker 25 (02:26:55):
Health Update. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 8 (02:27:19):
It looked like beautiful weather for the Bezos wedding, the
Venetian Bach and all that to some say delivered a
pitch perfect ad for socialism. It was like Marie Antoinette
at a foam party. Let them eat cake and drink billinis.
I do when I give Bezos credit. He was over

(02:27:42):
the moon, obviously, and he said this about Venice. It's
an impossible city. It can't exist, and yet here it is.
And that is the truth about that place. Doctor John
Wycoff was in Venice recently with his wife Cindy, and
I missed him by one day when I was there also,
it was very late May and early June. And doctor

(02:28:04):
John Wycoff the Wycoff Wellness Center and East Lansing on
Michigan Avenue and at Wycoff Wellness dot Com is on
our radio stage right now. Did not get an invitation
to the bezos wedding, but we were there in the
weeks in the lead up. Welcome to the airwaves.

Speaker 35 (02:28:19):
Yeah, thank you, Michael.

Speaker 4 (02:28:20):
No, I didn't you could be invite.

Speaker 35 (02:28:22):
But Venice is a specifal place.

Speaker 8 (02:28:24):
What did you think of it?

Speaker 24 (02:28:26):
What did you do?

Speaker 8 (02:28:27):
I mean, and it was really hot when I was there,
and you know, you certainly get your steps in in
Venice too, no.

Speaker 35 (02:28:34):
Doubt about it. It's beautiful a lot of people.

Speaker 9 (02:28:37):
So if people are visiting there this summer, really get
your excursions in early, get your sight seen early. We
spend a lot of time on Morano. I really liked Morano.
My wife's into laftwork, glass beating, and so that was
a little bit more her scene, not quite as crazy,
but you know, we had a great time and I'm

(02:28:58):
not sure I need to go back, but it was
enjoyable and I'm glad we were over.

Speaker 8 (02:29:03):
Stuff there if you do go back. There's a hotel
called the nh Mrano Villa on the island of Rano,
which was a glass factory that's been converted into a hotel,
and I think Cindy would probably like the cooler heels
there and you could have a nice time without having
to move it around so much. What other impressions you

(02:29:23):
went through there on a cruise ship, if I'm not mistaken,
how far did the cruise ship have to park from
let's say Piazza San Marco, and how did they move
you around by boat?

Speaker 9 (02:29:34):
Yeah, we were at Tachoga here, which was probably a
thirty minute bus ride to get on a boat, and
then the boat another twenty to thirty minutes to get
is to downtown Venice, the Square. But two days there
and then two nights we were on an island, the JW. Marriott,

(02:29:59):
and that was a fed was placed too. Just beautiful
the island with just the Mariotts. They had taxis that
drove right into the hotel via the waterway and picked
you up. You know, you fellow a little Italian wood
and shiny crisscraft kindle like vehicles, and that's what that
was kind of cool. They dipped us around to whatever

(02:30:19):
island we wanted to go to, and from about twenty
year old, you get anywhere you wanted to go.

Speaker 8 (02:30:25):
Yeah, those are the water taxis and you could climb
up and down and in and out. And when you're
riding on one of those through the lagoon or down
the Grand Canal and you're standing there and the wind
is in your face and you're looking around at a
place that looks like it's made of frosting, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 9 (02:30:43):
It is cool. And you know how they navigate those
things at night, it's just amazing.

Speaker 50 (02:30:48):
It's terrifying, really really just a channel that marked during
the day, but there are no lights at night, and
you know, you got these tilings all over the.

Speaker 9 (02:30:59):
Place that does make the channel, and yet these guys
getting to go through these at forty miles an hour
like they're nothing, and the pitch of night so pitch
black of night.

Speaker 35 (02:31:11):
It was an experience, but.

Speaker 9 (02:31:14):
Was fantastic and other than the other you know, a
couple of million people that were there, it was great.

Speaker 8 (02:31:22):
You know, there is some irony exactly what you experienced.
I experienced when I was back there in the fall
and I get to Marco Polo Airport, and it might
surprise some people that you can go by boat from
the airport. In fact, you almost have to to your hotel.
And the guy picks me up late at night and
he starts flying across that lagoon in that boat, and
I can see these big wooden posts that mark the

(02:31:44):
channel and there are no lights on them, and I
guess he knows where he's going, you know, like but
it was I was holding my breath and definitely not
relaxed as he zoomed through there. But he got me there,
and that that's one of the things that might surprise people.
I do take your point. It's you know, there is
no off season anymore, though you can try to go

(02:32:06):
during the holidays maybe and sometimes in the winter it's
a little quieter, but there is no more soft season
and travel since the pandemic. I do want to ask
you the irony of the fact that you have a
boat that you keep in Saga Tuck where very soon
they will have the Venetian Festival. Will will you look
at a little differently now that you've been to Venice.

Speaker 35 (02:32:30):
Well, you know, the Venetian Festival is a lot of fun.
There's not too much Venice in the Venetian Festival. I'm
not sure how they come up with the name, but.

Speaker 9 (02:32:40):
It's just more of just an excuse for, you know,
some partying and drinking and some bands and some little
markets to go on and some fireworks at night. And
it's a good time always the last weekend in July.
It's just been there forever since we've been going, and
it runs truth and it's a good time. It does

(02:33:03):
make the city look a lot like Venice because there
are so darn many people that weekends, but it's a
good time and we're blessed we have a place to
park so we can pull in and pretty much just
walk around the town. At that point in time, Sag
attacks quite walkable. What's like that us You can walk
the whole town and a short period of time.

Speaker 8 (02:33:25):
So did you make it into Harry's Bar? I know
the newlyweds Bezos and Sanchez closed it down for lunch.
It's a little tiny place anyway, but that's where you
can get yourself a nice twenty five year old bellini.
That's it's about the size of an orange orange orange
juice glass.

Speaker 35 (02:33:44):
You know, we did not make it.

Speaker 9 (02:33:45):
We did have a quaint little restaurants and bars that
we popped in, and eateries and drinkeries. They're certainly all
over on the island, and you know, they have a
little flavor and each has a little different characteristic and
it was enjoyable.

Speaker 8 (02:34:03):
I went out to San Giorgio Island. That's where most
of the festivities were for the wedding. There were a
couple of signs here and there that were I like,
kind of protesting a little bit the wedding. But it's
over now. Everybody survived and we move on. You and
I are going to talk, if you don't mind, over
the next few days about different health issues in the summertime,
because you're such a resource for that and if you

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go to the Wycoff Wellness Center. You can do that
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starts July and that means you're having a sale.

Speaker 9 (02:34:35):
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Speaker 8 (02:35:41):
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You can also shop online at Wycoff Wellness dot com
and thank you doctor Wycoff. Here comes the Venetian Festival
from a doctor who was just in Venice. Have you
ever wondered why health insurance costs seem to keep going up?

(02:36:03):
I was doing some research online and I stumbled upon
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that the cost Blue Cross pays for prescription drugs rose
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or a concern for so many of us. That's why
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You'll be glad you did. It's eye opening information that
can help everyone better understand the complexities of the healthcare
system and its impact on your health insurance costs. Michael
Patrick shields here looking around Dusty Cellar and I want
to talk to Matt Rhodes because I want to have
a private party event here at Dusty's. What are my options?

Speaker 51 (02:37:09):
Thanks Michael. Luckily you have many options depending on the
number of guests you plan on hosting.

Speaker 8 (02:37:13):
I'm not sure yet how many Where can we go?

Speaker 51 (02:37:15):
Well, we have four rooms to choose from range from
eight guests up to forty two depending occation. We can
do both stand up cocktail parties, buffets and multi course dinners.

Speaker 8 (02:37:23):
So the NAPA and Tuscan rooms I see here are
for smaller parties, and then you have this Lelanois Patio
and the Bordeaux room. Those are for the bigger ones.

Speaker 5 (02:37:31):
That's right.

Speaker 51 (02:37:32):
Napa Tuscan for parties of eight to fourteen and Leidon
on Bordeaux for parties up to forty plus guests.

Speaker 8 (02:37:37):
I'm glad I'm here because i can get my six
for sixty six dollars wine club selections. And then I'm
stopping the wine bar, of course in the tap room
for a.

Speaker 51 (02:37:45):
Fight and a drink that'd like to offer the seller
for retail wine bar for casual find dining in the
tap room, our local neighborhood pub.

Speaker 10 (02:37:52):
Cheers Matt.

Speaker 8 (02:37:52):
It's Dusties on Grand River and Okamus. And you can
go online too at Dustysellar dot com.

Speaker 51 (02:37:58):
Cheers Michael,