Ep. 3333: Thursday starring Michael Patrick Shiels

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Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
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Good morning World, Good morning Michigan. A A very pleasant
Thursday to you from the end of the road at
the top of the world. When a tail well calculated
to keep you in suspense, we get your Thursday morning
Turkey on the road. One bite, Everyone, knows the rules.
Another one, as European leaders are asking President Trump not

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to act unilaterally on a Ukraine peace deal when he
meets Russian President Putin in Alaska on Friday. Several including
the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland, NATO, and
of course the Ukrainian president, Lord Marzolinski, held a virtual
meeting with Trump Wednesday to talk about his meeting. Emmanuel

(01:48):
Macron from France said that while Washington is clear on
its desire to get a ceasefire step Moore's been going
on three and a half years, territorial issues can't be
negotiated without you ranes participation. Some incentives might be on
the table for a ceasefire, but European leaders are also
clear Russia shouldn't be rewarded for its invasion of Ukraine.

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So the art of the deal must include well, the
sort of rubber stamp of all the other countries, particularly
the one involved Ukraine. So Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
can't say all right, let's make a deal and then
they go tell Zelensky, here's your deal. It seems likely

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that might happen. I don't know, but they already are
anticipating it and trying to head it off at the pass.
A Minnesota teenager is filing discrimination charges against a Buffalo
Wild Wings restaurant. What for Eighteen year old Grika Madra
says that a server followed her into the women's restroom

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and demanded she prove she was a girl. Mudra said
she attempted to tell the server her gender before she
resorted to unzipping hoodie and showing the worker her chest.
The lawsuit was filed by the Minnesota based Gender Justice,
arguing that what happened violates the state's Human Rights Act.

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I've often wondered about this. If let's say I've got
to go to the bathroom and they have two bathrooms,
men and women, and let's say the male bathroom is occupied,
can I just go in the women's bathroom? Well, if
it's a you know, small bathroom and no one's in there,
I certainly don't see why not. If it's a bigger

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bathroom with multiple options, I don't know. Maybe that's a
little different. But I've always wondered about that kind of
because you know, in Europe that's not a big deal.
They have sometimes very often shared large bathrooms with different
stalls and the stalls are separated. But let's not get
too far into the toilet stuff this morning. But anyway,

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that's what's going on at the Buffalo Wild Wings. And
I'm pretty sure you shouldn't ask someone to prove what
they are, especially if you're just a server at the
Buffalo Wild Wings. Maybe you have to have some kind
of an id. They won't like that either. Nobody likes
anything Taylor Swift. If you're a fan, mark October third

(04:22):
on your calendar. That's when her latest project a project.
It's an album, right, or they don't call it an album,
but they still make albums. The Life of a Showgirl
is what it's called. Is going to drop big reveal
during the episode of the New Heights podcast hosted by
Travis Kelsey, her boyfriend and his brother Jason. She went

(04:43):
on there as a guest. Oh, there was crying and
laughing and all kinds of stuff on that podcast. It's
rich if you're interested in it. Yeah, I see. The
cover for the album is pretty sexy by the way,
if you like that kind of thing. A proposed one

(05:03):
hundred million dollar relief bill for northern Michigan counties impacted
by the ice storm in March stalled in the state Senate,
and you heard yesterday Senator Eric Nesbit, who wants to
be governor on this program, besieching the legislators to get
it passed because a dozen counties were hit hard by
the freezing rain and that led to power outages and

(05:25):
millions of dollars in losses, and so the storm's been
declared a natural disaster by FEMA. The House passed the
bill one hundred and seven to one, but it's stuck
in the State Senate Appropriations Committee. Some frinksmanship going on.
Speaking of brinksmanship, Winnie Brinks, the Senate Democrat majority leader,
says looking like there might be a government shutdown October first,

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for the very same reason she's worried about it, and
reports that she and the Republican House Speaker Matt Hall
haven't had a one on one meeting in about a month.
Aren't helping Hall countered by saying he doesn't want to
contradict her statement, but I actually talked to her quite
a bit. The legislature missed its July first deadline by

(06:12):
law to pass a balanced budget. So are they talking
or are they not? I wonder do we have Senator
Brink's phone number. Uh talking or not talking? Michigan State
Superintendent is talking. He says students need more time in
the classroom. Doctor Michael Rice said policy changes have reduced

(06:35):
actual classroom time. Well, that might be funny to those
who are sending their kids to school today. Rice says
state law requires them to have one hundred and eighty
days of instructional time every year, but says two laws
have reduced that time. One of them, passed in twenty nineteen,
allowed teacher professional development days to count as instruction time,

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so even though the students aren't in a classroom, the
teacher learning, so we call it a day. And the
other was twenty twenty three that allowed for fifteen days
of virtual school a year, which I guess, he says,
since I'm really helping the situation, this is unbelievable. Michigan
State Police held an active shooter training for church leaders

(07:19):
across the state. Yeah Texas Corners Bible Church security leader
and retired trooper from the Michigan State Police, David van Loppik,
said most of the incidents involving an armed intruder are
over within thirties of sixty seconds, and they need to
be ready. So training for church leaders for active shooters

(07:41):
is the world in which we live, and it happened
already in Detroit, as you will recall, I have more
for you. Grand Rapids officials are considering adapting a noise
ordinance to limit the volume of amplified sound near the
entrance of facilities like Planned Parenthood facilit You can't go
there and make a bunch of noise and irritate people

(08:03):
and harass them. I hope that doesn't include this program.
It's Michael Patrick Shields with you through the AT and
T microphones with the music by the Brock and Roll group.
Kiss count Well. Kiss is going to be a Kennedy
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President Trump announced the group yesterday and Rashida Taleb wants
legislation to ban price gouging and grocery stores. They're using
AI to figure out how much they can get out
of people for this and that and whatever. So she's
on the case there. It's MPs. We have a birthday,
a big, big birthday of a lot of beautiful people

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that's coming up shortly, and one of them we will
play her music, maybe through the rest of the morning.
If we can get the orchestra to whoop up all
the music of Sarah Brightman, it's MPs.

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Speaker 8 (11:03):
There will only be one Prince, but now a new
actor has been named for his most famous role. Deadline
reports that Chris Collins will play the Kid in the upcoming.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Stage musical version of Purple Rain.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
Collins is described as an up and coming singer songwriter.
Actress Rachel Webb will play the role of Appollonia. A
promotional video of the two performing take Me with You
has already been posted on YouTube. The Purple Rain stage
musical is set to debut from October sixteenth through November
sixteenth at the State Theater in Minneapolis. Taylor Swift talked

(11:35):
about her latest project during Wednesday's episode of The New
Heights podcast, hosted by her boyfriend Travis Kelcey and his
brother Jason.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
So this is my brand new album, The Life of
a Showgirl. It comes out October third.

Speaker 8 (11:48):
The singer went on to reveal the cover art and
a track list that features Sabrina Carpenter. She called this
the album she's been wanting to make for a very
long time. At one point, the podcast had over a
million people watching live on you ub. Eddie van Halen's
nineteen eighty two Kramer Electric guitar, a piece of rock history,
is set to be auctioned by Southerby's in New York
in October. The black, white and red striped guitar, modeled

(12:11):
after Van Halen's iconic Frankenstrat design, is expected to fetch
between two to three million per consequence. The instrument was
used by Van Hallen during his nineteen eighty two eighty
three tours and later became a part of Motley Cruz
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Why dream.

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Sarah Brightman the unmistakable voice that I hate to even
step on with my voice. It's Michael Patrick Shields. She's
sixty five today, the Broadway star. The role of Christine
was written specifically for her in Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation
of the Phantom of the Opera, and we never let

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the birthday of a beautiful person pass without taking note.
Sarah Brightman celebrating her birthday today and tomorrow will celebrate
the voices of radio on the anniversary of the passing
of J. P. McCarthy, my late guide and mentor, the
Hall of Fame radio host who won the Marconi and
was number one in Detroit for more than thirty years.

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Sarah Brightman will grace this program throughout the morning today
as she celebrates wherever she is. I suspect possibly London
and best to her. Hallie Berry, who was a Bond Girl,
is fifty nine today and she won the Oscar for
her work in the movie Monsters Ball. Wish her a
happy birthday. And speaking of Double O seven, there's some

(14:27):
talks and rumors this morning. I'm not saying I'm just
saying that there's a person by the name I know
you're not going to know the name Scott Rose marsh Hey,
someone who goes by three names, who is a reportedly
very much in the running to be the next Double

(14:48):
O seven. And you're like, who's that. He's an unknown
thirty seven year old redhead that could be up for
the coveted role of Double O seven. I regress because
we were talking really about Halle Berry, who's been also
I guess Catwoman too. It was Die Another Day, the
Double seven movie she was in. Catherine Bell is fifty seven,

(15:13):
who was in the TV show Jag and in the
movie Bruce Almighty and I once interviewed her at a
celebrity golf tournament in Carolina and we walked next to
a tent and we sat together in a car well.
I recorded the interview with her. And she's a close
talker and she speaks Farsi because she's of Persian descent.

(15:34):
Catherine Bell, what do I mean by close talker? Someone
who sits right in your face when they talk. And
when it's Katherine Bell, you don't mind me. La Cunis
is forty two model mother me Lacunas. You know what
she was in that movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That's I
think where she first became known. And I saw the

(15:56):
guy from that movie at the Polo Lounge a couple
of weeks ago. The guy who was, you know, trying
to forget Sarah Marshall in the movie. Who was what
was Kirsten Bell ironically Jason Siegel, Yeah, that's him. He
was there. He seemed very friendly. I didn't talk to him,
but he was crossed the room. And Kirsten Bell is
from Royal Oak, Michigan, and she was Sarah Marshall in

(16:18):
that movie. So okay, Meela Cunis, Oh, she's married to
Ashton Koocher for what it's worth. And Meela Cunis was
in Black Swan, wasn't she. Oh Yeah, that was one
whale of a movie. When that movie was over, I
had to sit there for a minute. And that was

(16:38):
ah small world. That was directed by Darren Aronofsky. And
I once was the stand in for Darren Aronofsky at
Gramma's Chinese Theater when he was there to introduce his
movie something about pie, not pie like cherry pie, pie
like the mathematical equation. Yeah, guy actually made a movie

(16:59):
about it. So you know, they were having a showing
of the movie and then he was going to take
questions and there was going to be a panel. And
so when they do something like that, they have to
get everything ready with the lights and the cameras and
the chairs, and then they don't want the people there
to do that, so they bring in stand ins. That's
what I did. So was he was friendly. I met

(17:20):
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(18:48):
Berry and all that stuff. Abby Phillips I think is
her name. Abby Phillip and she hosts a show at night,
and she was talking about how the presidents can deploy
federal troops the Washington DC, and she compared Donald Trump
to Batman and Washington d C being Gotham City. And
some people said, hey, that's making him look really cool.

(19:12):
If you compare the president to Batman and CNN, that
doesn't fly because Donald Trump has declared himself the crime
fighter in Chief in addition to being, of course the
leader of the free world and the commander in chief.
He wants to fight crime too, and she called him Batman. Well,

(19:34):
whatever it takes, right MPs through the AT and T microphones.
Welcome to Thursday. I'm Batman.

Speaker 13 (20:00):
A new device is capable of spotting meningitis in babies
with up to ninety four percent accuracy. The non invasive
ultrasound device is an alternative to a spinal tap. It
was developed by scientists at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
The percentage of American adults who say they consume alcohol
is reaching a record low.

Speaker 14 (20:17):
According to a recent Gallup poll, only fifty four percent
of respondents as said they consume alcohol, and the low
metric was repeated across several demographics, including gender, race, and age.
Polling also found that adults age thirty five and older
were more likely to drink than their younger counterparts, and
more men reportedly drank alcohol than women. The poll's findings

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come during a growing shift in americans belief on drinking
and health effects. I'm Chris Krahia.

Speaker 13 (20:42):
A new patch could be used to test for skin cancer.
The patch, developed at the University of Michigan, successfully detected
melanoma in mice. Researchers say it could eventually make testing
as simple as taking a COVID nineteen test at home.
Health update. I'm Jonathan o'hullerin.

Speaker 15 (21:00):
Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields Ronald McDaniel.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
She was chair of the Republican National Committee. Winning this
open Senate seat for the Republicans is absolutely paramount, is
it not for the future of the state of Michigan.

Speaker 16 (21:15):
All eyes will be on Michigan going to be the
key state in twenty twenty six. We have an open
governor seat and open Senate seat, and we're going to
have some keyhouse races.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
You've been hearing a lot about hotels with our coverage.
A Virtuoso Travel Week. It's Michael Patrick Shields Claudemullinari at
visit Detroit dot com. In addition to the Shinola Hotel
has an hotel called The Roost that you might want
to consider if you're going downtown Detroit.

Speaker 17 (21:41):
Well, that's another fantastic hotel. Bedrock has done an amazing
job of rehabilitating the Bookteller and the restaurants in there
Lay Supreme in the Japanese Steakhouse. There's so many awesome
places to eat and hang out, and the views from
that facility and the hotel itself is really strong. We've
been and incredible reviews, positively from how our partners and

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our shows and conventions that have been coming there and
sports teams are starting to stay there again, You're talking
about another differentiator, very positive that shows how Detroit is
coming back and being a super destination.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Of course, Mission Point Resort on Mackinaw Island is definitely
one of our most favorite spots, and hopefully you can
get there before the season ends. And one of the
ways you can get anywhere is through Capitol Region International
Airport at fly Lansing dot com, where Nicole No Oil
Williams the CEO has some ideas for you.

Speaker 18 (22:37):
We've got Applefications announcing their sixteenth year of international service
right here at the Landing Airport. The beautiful thing is
you're hopping out a plane for staying in the morning,
you're at the beach by noon. Whether it's can Kun
or pun Takata 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

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come and start your vacation as a 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.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
You say, would you drive an electric truck? Well, electric
truck sales aren't what the automakers thought they would be.
We'll talk to Paul Eisenstein about that. And a guy
who I saw online was driving a Tesla and he
kept a generator, a gas generator in the trunk of

(23:28):
the Tesla so that he could charge his Tesla. What
does Paul Eisenstein think about that. That's coming later too.
We haven't talked to Sam Singh in a while, the
state Senator. He will be here and he is the
former House Democrat leader, former mayor of East Lansing. Stay
right there, We'll be right here.

Speaker 19 (24:02):
In DC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. European leaders are
asking President Trump not to act unilaterally on a Ukraine
peace deal when he meets with Russian President Putin in
Alaska on Friday. Several including the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland,
NATO and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, held a virtual meeting
with Trump Wednesday to discuss the upcoming meeting. French President

(24:25):
Emmanuel Macrone said that while Washington is clear on its
desire to get a ceasefire in the three and a
half year war, territorial issues can't meet negotiated without Ukraine's participation.
President Trump doesn't sound optimistic about reaching a congressional budget deal.
Brian Shook reports.

Speaker 20 (24:40):
On Wednesday, Trump was asked if he'll meet with Democratic leaders.

Speaker 21 (24:44):
Well, I will, I guess, but it's almost a waste
of time to meet because they never approve anything.

Speaker 20 (24:50):
A deal must be struck by September thirtieth to avoid
a government shutdown. The president says the Democrats will only
say no to anything he wants, and as spending bill
will have to be passed by Republicans, he added that
he thinks the Democrats are being led by lunatics. I'm
Brian Shook.

Speaker 19 (25:08):
The FDA is considering a move to revoke the authorization
of Pfizer's COED vaccine for children under five. Tamy Trujillo
has details.

Speaker 22 (25:15):
Heiser confirmed Wednesday, and noted in a statement that the
deliberations are not related to the safety and efficacy of
the vaccine. It follows a Health in Human Services announcement
saying the CDC would no longer recommend the vaccines for
healthy children or pregnant women. If the FDA polls its
emergency use authorization, it will add another barrier for parents
who want to vaccinate healthy children, since Maderna and Novavak's

(25:37):
shots are now approved for more limited populations. I'm Tammy Truheo.

Speaker 19 (25:42):
And Harvey Weinstein is being tried for a third time
by New York prosecutors in a sexual assault case. The
disgraced Hollywood producer will be trying again in his case
involving Jessica Man after a jury could not render a
verdict in June. You're listening to the latest from NBC
News Radio. Open ai founder Sam Altman is invested in
a new brand of computer interface startup called merge Labs.

(26:03):
Merge Labs will compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. Neuralink is
currently in clinical trials for people with severe paralysis. Altmann
has reportedly not yet committed to a deal. The talks
between open ai and Merge are reportedly ongoing. Nvidia has
unveiled Cosmos, its new world model to help train AI
agents and to robots. World models allow an AI agent

(26:24):
to simulate and predict how the environment will evolve in
a response to its actions. The inspiration comes from the
mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. Anthropic
is offering its conversational AI assistant CLAW to the workforce
of all three branches of government for one dollar. The
move comes after OpenAI offered chant gp to executive branch
workers for the same one dollar cost. Anthropic says the

(26:46):
offer is good for one year, and according to tech Crunch,
AI search platform Perplexity is offering to buy Chrome from
Google for thirty four point five billion dollars in cash.
Tech report on Markmefield.

Speaker 23 (27:08):
So.

Speaker 24 (27:16):
Josto.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Sarah Brightman is sixty five today and that's her voice,
and we're celebrating it all morning long. It's Michael Patrick
Shields with you through the AT and T microphones. Politics
is our family, business and medias Dot Virtus. The Truth
is in the middle. Lapaca, Sia contuti. Boy All are welcome.
And the next person we're welcoming to our radio stage

(27:48):
is John Gordon, a national political analyst and host of
the syndicated radio show The Truth with John Gordon. We
could sure use some truth and he is on our
AT and T line right now. Welcome to the program.

Speaker 25 (28:04):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Are you excited about the prospect of this summit meeting
in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and President Trump? Do you
think it will be fruitful? What do you expect?

Speaker 25 (28:17):
I am optimistic, I'm cautiously optimistic. I think that Trump
has been trying to lower our expectations. They have not
invited Zolensky at this point. You know, Zolensky did not
have a good first meeting with Trump in the Oval Office.
The whole world was able to watch it, and Putin
has been very deceptive and manipulative. Throughout the attempted talks

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to end the war, He's refused to agree to a
cease fire, and he has publicly stated that he wants
to put the Soviet Union back together again, and I
think this is part of that plan. It's important to him,
important to his legacy. I don't think this is going
to be an easy one, Frankly.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Isn't it true? Mostly when you have a summit like that,
you know the result and it's kind of pomp and circumstance.
That doesn't seem to be the case this time, as
you're indicating.

Speaker 25 (29:16):
It doesn't feel that way to me.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Does it to you?

Speaker 21 (29:20):
No?

Speaker 5 (29:21):
But I'm reckoning back to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev,
where the stagecraft of Reagan leaving after he said he
took Gorbachev to the woodshed actually ended up paying off.
So is this kind of maybe going to be the
art of the deal like that?

Speaker 25 (29:39):
It's I think that's a very good possibility. And I
do think that the peace talks are going to be
a lengthy, drawn out process. I don't think Putin's going
to cave without getting some concessions. He wants part of
the Ukraine, make no spake, no mistake about it.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
And I think that.

Speaker 25 (30:02):
Everybody's going to have to walk away from the deal
being a little unhappy, and no one's going to be
so unhappy that they can't live with it. I think
that's probably the sweet spot that they're going to work
to towards trying to get to. But it's going to
be messy, and I don't expect Trump to leave there

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on Saturday or Sunday with the deal. But Trump has
surprised us many times before.

Speaker 26 (30:31):
He is very good at what he does, and like
you alluded.

Speaker 25 (30:35):
To, I think there is probably cause for optimism, or
else he wouldn't have gone.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
He wouldn't have agreed to go to begin with. So
we'll just have to see.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Well, you got his endorsement when you were running in Georgia,
so you must know him fairly well. I am reading
here that Russia and the United States have talked about
a model for ending the war in Ukraine that mirrors
the Israel's occupation of the West Bank, where Russia would
have military and economic control of those occupied parts of Ukraine,

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imitating the de facto rule of the Palestinian territory back
in nineteen sixty seven. What I say to that is,
what could possibly go wrong with a situation like that?
Doesn't seem that smart to me. But I'm not that smart.
What do I know?

Speaker 27 (31:21):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (31:22):
I think you're plenty smart, Michael, And I think that
that is a good model to start from. The problem
with that, in my view, is that I don't trust
Vladimir Putin as far as I can throw the house
I'm sitting in right now, and I think that I
think putting military troops inside the Ukraine for whatever purposes,

(31:43):
I do think that part of the issue is, you know,
this whole thing kind of got kicked off. And I
don't know whether Putin used it as a lever or
whether he was legitimate and his response, but when we
were talking about annexing Ukraine into NATO and Putin said, no,
you're not doing that. You're not putting nuclear weapons on

(32:05):
my border, that's what really that's the lever he used
to get into the war with Ukraine. To me, it
could have been smoked because of what I said earlier.
He wants to put the Soviet Union back together again.
That's the legacy he wants to leave. And I think
very much like Trump. I think Putin really does love

(32:27):
his country and Trump loving the United States. He wants
America first. I think Putin is a loyalist and the
patriot for Russia, and he would like to put the
Soviet Union back together again, and he wants to be
one of the superpowers of the world in for patuity.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how Donald Trump is
handling his job as president. Fifty four percent disapprove. That's
not that unusual for a president, is it.

Speaker 25 (33:07):
Those numbers, No, those are actually good numbers. I just
wonder what rock the fifty four percent or living under
a He's the best president I've ever seen. I thought
Trump one point oh was the best president of my lifetime.
I think two point zero is probably the best presidency
in the history of the country. If you look at
the thing his accomplishments, they are absolutely mind blowing. And

(33:30):
we're two hundred days in that what he's done in
two hundred days is equivalent to what most presidents do
in four years. Trump is taking a take no prisoner approach,
and he is bringing the people of America together largely
in this America First agenda. People are digging it me,

(33:51):
especially me.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
The California Governor Gavin Newsom says California is going to
draw new congressional maps that he says in cap the
letters will end the Trump presidency and get Democrats to
take control of the House of Representatives. As a regular
average voter, why can't the issues stand for themselves and

(34:14):
the voters be trusted. Why would Democrats say right out loud,
and I guess Republicans too, that they got to try
to rig the system so the election comes out their way.

Speaker 25 (34:25):
It's their only avenue. They cannot win in a competition
for ideas, you get Mandami in New York and that
lunatic congresswoman from Texas and AOC and Pelosi and Schiff
and Schumer and Nadler and the guy who slept with

(34:48):
the Chinese spy and had the audacity last month to
say that he was worried about Chinese spies being in
the United States. Well, I guess he knows that firsthand.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
So, I don't know. They would rather tell a lie.

Speaker 25 (35:04):
Than the truth when the truth would serve them better.
And these sound like highly partisan statements that I'm reflecting
a bias, and I'm really not I'm just tired of
being lied to. I'm tired of the phony, fake January,
the Sixth Commission. I'm tired of the Russia Russia Russia collusion.
I'm tired of being told that inflationary is transitory. I'm

(35:27):
tired of being told everything's all right, don't worry. I mean,
I'm tired of Butler, Pennsylvania and.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
The deep state.

Speaker 25 (35:35):
I mean has got to stop. If we're going to
save this country and preserve it for our children and grandchildren.
That's what I wake up we're thinking about every morning
and go to sleep at night thinking about.

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Speaker 19 (38:03):
In BC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump is
pleased with his crime crackdown in Washington, DC. Trump said
on Wednesday, DC will soon be crime free with the
National Guard, troops and federal officers on the streets. Trump
said he's planning to ask Congress for an extension of
the federalization of the local police force in the nation's capital.
GE Appliance is shifting production of refrigerators, gas ranges, and

(38:26):
water heaters out of China and Mexico and back to
the US. Tammy Trujeo has details.

Speaker 22 (38:32):
The company's president and CEO, says GE Appliances will expand
operations in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina. The
three billion dollar investments expected to add more than a
thousand jobs. Move comes as President Trump raises tariffs in
part to try and lure manufacturing back to the US.
I'm Tammy TREEO and the.

Speaker 19 (38:51):
New Taylor Swift album will be out in October. The
Life of a Showgirl will be released October third. Mark Mayfield,
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this very moment. Thank you for being here and welcome
back to the program.

Speaker 30 (40:20):
Good morning, MPs, thanks for having me back.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Tony Cuthbert is sending Josh to school? Is it today? Josh?
For the Tony for the first time this year.

Speaker 15 (40:28):
Monday of next week is when the school bell will ring.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Yes, So you've done your school shopping yet, have you?

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (40:35):
We did.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's all done, thankfully.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
That's always fun. Though it's fun for everybody. I think
it's nostalgic. And you did it in a store, not online, right.

Speaker 15 (40:47):
We actually did. We've gone to multiple stores and he
is ready to rock and roll. The problem is, though,
we got new shoes and all these nice clothes and
he wore them yesterday and they already have smudges and
a rip, So I guess we got to go back.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
Well, maybe they should be lived in. You know, isn't
it like a baseball uniform. You're not trying hard enough
if there isn't some mud on your shorts. Yeah, that's right,
you know. Speaking of shopping online and learning online, this
is part of the oh h question about classroom quote
unquote time in the quote unquote classroom, the state superintendent

(41:21):
is saying students need more time. Doctor Michael Rice, he's
leaving anyway, right But anyway, he says, the policy changes,
and we were talking about this earlier this morning, say
that there are supposed to be one hundred and eighty
days of instructional time every year, and Beth has shown
are students getting that. No, they're not.

Speaker 30 (41:43):
But listen, I have one message for doctor Rice. Too little,
too late for like, go sit down. The fact that
he's doing this week's before he retires. When we, folks, teachers, parents,
families were crying for help during the pandemic, before the
pen certainly after the pandemic, when we recognize that our

(42:03):
children are suffering significantly from learning loss, this message falls
for me and Duff years from him.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
There have been laws that have reduced the time, according
to what I'm reading here, that teacher professional development days,
for instance, somehow count as instructional time for students.

Speaker 30 (42:26):
Yeah. I mean some of these things need to be revisited.
But I think you know this conversation right now is
being looked at in the wrong way about time. Time
itself isn't what's going to fix the problem if it's
not accompanied by high quality instruction and an accountability system
to ensure that teachers are teaching properly and students are

(42:50):
learning properly. Again, one in four fourth graders can read,
one in four eighth graders can do math. We have
done nothing to change the course of this at during
this administration or doctor Rice's tenure, and so we need
to get serious about some different solutions and making sure
that it's again high quality instruction and that there's an

(43:12):
accountability system in place to ensure that kiddos can be successful.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
You said one in four fourth graders can read.

Speaker 30 (43:23):
Yeah, twenty five percent means three and four fourth graders
cannot read at grade level.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
Do you know how that compares to other states.

Speaker 30 (43:36):
We are forty fifth in the nation, so we are
sinking further and further behind every year. And you look
at other states that are doing great. You look at Mississippi.
They call it the Mississippi Miracle. Just this year, Mississippi
has been celebrating its success for its students, and the
single most important thing they did as a state was

(43:58):
ensure that they had an incredibly strong and accountable third
grade reading law, which includes the possibility of an extra
year of third grade reading to make sure that that
ketto has all of the foundational support they need before
they pivot to that point of reading to learn.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
I hate to bring Josh back into this, Tony, but
he's going into second grade, that's right. Can he read something?
I'm trying to remember when I was in second grade,
third grade? Fourth? Can he read at the stage at all?
He can?

Speaker 15 (44:30):
He's picking it up. He's obviously he can't rip through
a book or anything like that. But if we give
him a children's book, he can pretty much figure it out.
It's impressive to watch. We need to do work as parents.
I'm speaking for myself and my wife to help him
out a little bit. But he's I think he's progressing, right.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
I hope, Beth. I saw a short list the other
day of the possible next superintendence. Is there any reason
for hope amongst that list? Did you look at it?

Speaker 30 (44:57):
I did see the list. I don't know a ton
about all of them, you know, for me, and not
not to be a pessimist, but I think you know,
we've not seen any reason to believe that the Teachers'
Union isn't going to tip the scale on this. And
it sounds like doctor Rice has been potentially involved in

(45:21):
these conversations, so I'm not holding a ton of hope.
But but you know what, whoever they pick, would love
to be able to have a conversation with them about,
you know, the things that are needed and really try
to buckle down and focus on rules and policies that
support student learning and teacher learning. Because it's a twofold thing.

(45:43):
We're we're failing our teachers at colleges of educations. Why
when we're not preparing them adequately to go into the
classroom and teach and we're clearly failing our students by
not having a successful, high quality instruction time.

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How we are a website Michigan Forward dot com. We
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Speaker 5 (46:15):
Well, thank you, And they're doing math over there counting
the number of days Bay County has been without a
state senator because the governor won't call a special election
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Speaker 33 (47:30):
Let's start with Basebob William Contreras drove in for it up.
The Brewers down the Pirates for their twelfth straight win.
Angels rallied with two runs in the eighth to sweep
the Dodgers. Padres with a seven runs second crush of
the Pirates for their fifth straight win and move a
game ahead of the Dodgers for first in the NL West.
Padres manager Mike Schultz says their upcoming series against the

(47:53):
Dodgers will be highly anticipated.

Speaker 34 (47:56):
You know, I always feel good for a grocery play,
So we're starting to go compete, and you know, clearly
it's a serious people are going to be paying attention
to and we're going to go play good, clean, fundamental
body baseball.

Speaker 33 (48:05):
This is the first time the Padres have held sole
possession of first place this late in the season since
twenty ten. NFL News Browns quarterback Shadeorge Sanders was held
out of joint practice with the Eagles on Wednesday due
to an oblique injury, and Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix Junior
involved in a fight during joint practice with the Titans.

(48:26):
That's sports.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
I'm Ronza Moss.

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the Dolphins in their practice this week, so there's that.
Tony Cuthbert will have more details and there's no reason

(49:23):
to talk about what happened in Anaheim yesterday. I guess Jesus,
how about the rest of it?

Speaker 15 (49:29):
Oh boy, We'll start with the Lions because they will
hold their second joint practice today with the Miami Dolphins.
We did have a light skirmish yesterday MPs and it
was between old teammates Jamison Williams, the star wide receiver
for the Lions, and former Lions safety oh Man, this
guy is a type of graphical tear if fat to

(49:51):
Melafan Wu. They both got into it yesterday and Jamison
Williams said, you know what, it's just football and that's
going to happen. Will there be more skirmish, if not
all out brawls. At some point today we will see
it's super hot out. The two teams will meet in
preseason action on Saturday, and the betting line on this
game because you can bet on the preseason. I don't
know why you would, but it's out there. It is

(50:12):
Miami favored by two and a half, believe it or not,
and tickets are right around let's say forty dollars if
you want to go to Ford Field and check out
that practice football or whatever we got going on there.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Now baseball, we'll.

Speaker 15 (50:25):
Touch on the Tigers, and just remember you want to
leave a city if you're on a road trip winning
the series, and that's what the Tigers did against the
White Sox wasn't pretty, especially yesterday, I won nothing win
over the cellar dweller of the American League Central White Sox.
Troy Melton, the rookie, got the start for Detroit and
he combined with a few other pitchers for a two

(50:45):
hit shutout and will Veask got the save in that
one win. Seal Perez played at the lone run on
a sackfly and the sixth inning for the Tigers and
they took.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
He did the run. Never heard it put that way before.

Speaker 15 (50:57):
I don't know if I like that. Maybe I'll scrap
that from Would you make that up? Yes, probably not,
probably not. There's been a lot of talk about baseball
on the plate. The Tigers do open up a four
game series against the Twins tonight in Minnesota, and who's
on the mound none other than Tarrek Scooble, Si Scooble.
We'll get the start for Detroit. Lightly swing around the

(51:18):
major leagues. It was the Cubs over the Blue Jays
four to one, and let's just say the Angels swept
the season series against the Dodgers, and the Brewers won
their twelfth consecutive game yesterday. It is Time over the
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Speaker 19 (51:53):
National Guard troops and federal officers on the streets. Trump

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the US. Tammy Trujeo as details.

Speaker 22 (52:22):
three billion dollar investments, expected to add more than a
I'm Tammy Trheo and.

Speaker 19 (52:41):
The new Taylor Swift album will be out in October.
The Life of a Showgirl will be released October third.
Mark Mayfield, NBC.

Speaker 22 (52:48):
News Radio in the Northeast. In Mid Atlantic, it's a
warm but comfortable day with highs in the mid seventies
to the mid eighties. Watch for scattered pop up showers
and thunderstorms inland. Across the Southeastern Gulf Coast, It's steamy
and stormy in spots Highs range from the upper eighties
to the mid nineties, but the Gulf humidity will push
feels like temperatures closer to one hundred. Southern Texas, especially Houston,

(53:09):
may top out near ninety two before tropical moisture brings
some rain. The plains in Midwest are sweltering under extreme heat,
with highs hitting one oh four in many spots, with
heat into seas over one ten. There's a cold front
moving into the Dakotas in Minnesota that could bring storms
and drop temperatures. In the West, it's clear and hot inland,
with highs topping out at one oh five from California

(53:30):
Central Valley through Arizona and Nevada Coast. Hilarias stay more
comfortable in the low eighties thanks to the ocean breezes.
The Pacific Northwest is seeing sunny skies with highs topping
out in the eighties west of the Cascades and the
low nineties further inland. That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trheo.

Speaker 19 (54:02):
In VC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. European leaders are

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will have to be passed by Republicans. He added that
Brian Shook.

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of Pfiser's COVID vaccine for children under five. Tamichruhio has details.

Speaker 22 (55:15):
Weiser confirmed Wednesday and noted in a statement that the
healthy children or pregnant women. If the FDA pulls its
who want to vaccinate healthy children, since Manderna and Novavak

(55:38):
shots are now approved for more limited populations. I'm Tammy Truheo, and.

Speaker 19 (55:43):
Harvey Weinstein is being tried for a third time by
New York prosecutors in a sexual assault case. The disgraced
Hollywood producer will be trying again in his case involving
Jessica Man after a jury could not render a verdict
in June. You're listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.

Speaker 9 (55:58):
Treasury Secretaries S'stbiscent called for steep cuts to interest rates.
Speaking with Bloomberg News, he pushed for a half point
reduction and a series of cuts that would substantially lower rates.
The Treasury Secretary's latest comments are in line with the
Trump administration's pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve to lower rate.
President Trump's been calling for interest rate cuts since the
beginning of the year, while the Fed has been waiting

(56:21):
to see the effects of tariffs on the economy. The
US Department of Agriculture predicting a record setting corn crop
for twenty twenty five. Craig Michaels explains.

Speaker 36 (56:30):
A forecast harvest of sixteen point seven billion bushels was
issued by the USDA yesterday. That's up thirteen percent from
last year. But that's not necessarily good news for Iowa farmers.
Chad Hard, an economics professor at Iowa State, says demand
for corn has not cut up to supply. He adds
that's dropped corn prices back to twenty sixteen levels, and

(56:50):
that'll force some farmers to store corn or sell below
production cost.

Speaker 9 (56:55):
Spirit Airlines raising concerns it might not survive much longer
without raising more cats. Tammy trehil With details the leg of.

Speaker 22 (57:02):
Airlines that it continues to be affected by adverse market conditions,
including weak demand for domestic leisure travel. This comes us
in six months after Spirit came out of bankruptcy. Spirit
says it's considering selling airport gates, real estate, and some
aircraft to get more money. The airline said management has
substantial doubt of its ability to continue operating for another year.

Speaker 9 (57:22):
People both for and against to propose casino in New
York's Times Square are rallying Kristen Marx with more.

Speaker 37 (57:29):
Critics like Jason Lax of the Broadway League say it
would affect the Broadway community and lead to more quality
of life issues.

Speaker 38 (57:36):
This casino is going to decimate the neighborhood, and decimate
our industry and decimate what is a cultural icon of
New York City.

Speaker 37 (57:43):
Supporters like Chris Kohler of the Mason Tenders District Council
Pack say a casino would create jobs and revenue.

Speaker 39 (57:49):
Hundreds of construction jobs and I'm sure one hundreds, if
not a thousand, permanent jobs.

Speaker 9 (57:55):
I'm Monica Nelson with your Consumer and Business News.

Speaker 33 (57:58):
Let's start with Basebob Contreras drove in for it up.
The Brewers down the Pirates for their twelfth straight win.
the Dodgers. Padres with a seven run second crush of

(58:22):

Speaker 34 (58:25):
You know, I always feel good for groc who we play,
So we're sorry to go compete, and you know, clearly
to serious people are going to be paying attention to
and we're gonna go play good, clean, fundamental Audrey Baseball.

Speaker 33 (58:34):
twenty ten. NFL News Browns quarterback Shaudor Sanders was held

Speaker 13 (58:56):
That's sports.

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Speaker 22 (58:59):
In the Northeast. In mid Atlantic, it's a warm but
comfortable day with highs in the mid seventies to the
mid eighties. Watch for scattered pop up showers and thunderstorms inland.
Across the southeast and Gulf Coast, It's steamy and stormy
in spots. Highs range from the upper eighties to the
mid nineties, but the Gulf humidity will push feels like
temperatures closer to one hundred. Southern Texas, especially Houston, may

(59:19):
top out near ninety two before tropical moisture brings some rain.
The plains in Midwest are sweltering under extreme heat, with
highs hitting one oh four in many spots, with heat
into seas over one ten. There's a cold front moving
into the Dakotas in Minnesota that could bring storms and
drop temperatures. In the West, it's clear and hot inland,
with highs topping out at one oh five from California's

(59:40):

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Good morning world. I wonder what Sheriff Buford T Justice
would think of this video. I saw where a guy
said he needed some gas. He was pulled over on
the side of the car, side of the road, and
the man said, what do you need gas? That's a Tesla.
You're gonna have to get a charge somehow. And he
opens up the trunk and he's got a gas tank
in the trunk of the tesla that's connected to a

(01:01:16):
generator so he can charge the car when he needs to.
I don't know if that's realistic or not, but it
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contributing editor at Headlight dot News, is on our AT
and T line right this very moment. Have you ever
heard of a situation like that? And would that make
any sense at all?

Speaker 41 (01:01:37):
Well, it's a bit of a silly idea, but yet
it's one that the industry is actually looking at. There
is a whole new class of vehicle out there called
the range extender. In fact, oh sometime in the next
few months, we're going to start seeing a version of

(01:01:58):
the RAM fifteen hundred come out that will use what's
called an e REV. The vehicle will have enough batteries
to drive maybe one hundred miles without plugging in, but
if you want to go even longer, there will be
a gas tank and there will be an internal combustion engine.
Now this may sound like something called a plug in hybrid,

(01:02:21):
but this is a little bit different. In this case,
the RAM fifteen hundred EREV will actually have motors, only
motors driving the wheels. The gasoline or the internal combustion
engine will only serve as a generator, and it'll only
fire up if you need to drive extended range here's

(01:02:41):
the cool thing. Those motors will be more powerful than
the typical gas motor is when it comes to driving wheels.
It'll make crazy amounts of horsepower and massive amounts of
stumpling torque. But again, you'll be able to drive almost
all the time in electric mode. But let's say you
want to go up to the Upper Peninsula, Well, no problem.

(01:03:02):
If you can't find a charging station, and there are
lots more of those, you'll be able to run on gas.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Everybody knows I have fuzzy math, but I'm looking at
numbers here that collectively the automakers sold thirty five thousand
electric pickups in the first half of this year. That's
down four percent. Meanwhile, one point six million gas powered
full size pickups flew off the lots.

Speaker 27 (01:03:27):
Are you to take anything away from that, Well, there's
definitely some concern about electric vehicles, and I think that
a lot of the pushback has been political, unfortunately.

Speaker 41 (01:03:39):
Interesting. In my little town of pleasant Ridge in Michigan,
the police department just acquired an F one fifty lightning,
the electric version. I've talked to every officer there and
they just love it. They all sort of battle between
themselves to see which one of them is going to
be able to drive the Lightning in the morning and
the rest of the day. It's the favorite car. I

(01:04:00):
have an F one fifty Lightning. You know how many
times I've had a plug in publicly in three years?

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
This month?

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
How many?

Speaker 41 (01:04:09):
About six or seven times? I get about I get
about three hundred miles range. And every single morning when
I come down, that vehicle has full capacity because I
keep it charged up overnight. How many people can say
that every morning they don't have to go to the
gas station.

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
I don't have to.

Speaker 41 (01:04:27):
So and by the way, I haul heavy loads. I
tow a boat. I routinely tow or carry in my
cargo bed and everything from stone to mulch and other
things that can have weighed as much as a ton.
So I think a lot of people are surprised when
they actually get in vehicles like the F one fifty

(01:04:49):
Lightning or the Rivan R one T and go, oh
my gosh, I really can live with that.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
So it's just a matter of taking some time, an
anecdotal story and media stories and hearing you say someone
that we all trust because you've been covering the automotive
business at a worldwide level forever that the trucks can
haul things, they can work, and the range anxiety. Anxiety
is not necessarily realistic.

Speaker 41 (01:05:17):
No, not realistic for most people. If I was pulling
an eight hundred, well, let's put this way. If I
was pulling an extremely large boat and I was heading
up to, say like Charlevoi on a regular basis, which
isn't that common, would I go for a gas vehicle
or a plug in hybrid or this new EREV that

(01:05:40):
Ram is coming out with. I probably would right now.
There are certain situations where electric pickups. I'm perfect, But
it's interesting to note that Chevrolet just did a test
where they took the vehicle, their silver Auto Evy, which

(01:06:01):
has a rated range of over four hundred and seventy miles,
and they decided to say, well, how far could we go?
We just took a little bit more and made a
little more effort to try to maximize range. You know
how much they got out of that, I don't know.
If you reported on this, I might have.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
Missed a show.

Speaker 41 (01:06:19):
Over they got over one thousand miles a thousand, wow,
one thousand and fifty nine point two if memory serves.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Well, No, we are not Headlight Dot News here. We
rely on you for this kind of thing. But then, well,
you know, that's really exciting to hear, and also it's
exciting to hear that the prices may be coming down
to Ford Motor Company. Oh yeasting strongly in that.

Speaker 41 (01:06:49):
Yeah, we had a big, a big announcement from Jim
Farley and his team, Jim of course, being the CEO
at Ford Motor Company. They have been talking about trying
to get their entry level vehicles, their EV's down into
a more affordable area. Everybody's trying to push out EV's

(01:07:11):
that will come in at or below thirty thousand dollars,
and according to Ford, they should be able to do
that with a new concept called the Universal EV that
will go into production down at their Louisville assembly plant
in twenty twenty seven. This vehicle, what's fascinating about this

(01:07:31):
It isn't a stripped down EV. Some people like Tesla
are looking at ways to take just about everything out
of the vehicle. We've all seen these stripper cheap O cars. Well,
Ford has completely redesigned the entire design and engineering process
and then will completely change the assembly line. That's the

(01:07:53):
amazing thing, you know, Ford of course, invented the assembly line,
put the first one into work to work in nineteen thirteen,
and here we are one hundred twelve years later, and
they say, completely reconceive the assembly line. The vehicles that
will roll off of that line will actually be made

(01:08:13):
up of three parts, and they will essentially bring together
three separate subassembly lines building this universal ev Well. The
best way I can describe it is like bringing it
together like a sandwich.

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There will only be one Prince, but now a new
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the two performing take Me with You has already been

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posted on YouTube. The Purple Rain stage musical is set
to debut from October sixteenth through November sixteenth at the
State Theater in Minneapolis. Taylor Swift talked about her latest
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by her boyfriend Travis Kelcey and his brother Jason.

Speaker 10 (01:11:43):
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Michael Patrick Shields. We'll learn more about why the State
Senate held up funding for relief for the people who
were just savaged and ravaged in late March by the
ice storm that took place in northern Michigan. Where we're

(01:13:28):
heard on WMKT AM and FM with Sam Singh, the
state Senator, and find out what's going on now. We
also see that senator when he brinks says she's not
been talking to how Speaker Matt Hall. He says they've
been talking all the time. She's worried about a potential
government shutdown come October first, because there's no budget on

(01:13:49):
the horizon and there was supposed to be one set
by July first. We'll see what old Sam sing has
to say. Michael Patrick Shields. I don't sing, but I
travel and can read my travel writing at goworldtravel dot
com and in the Lansing State Journal. And I'm glad
I wasn't on this flight bound for Los Angeles when
a passenger went nuts it was a Breeze Airways flight

(01:14:13):
and started yelling racial slurs and striking everybody on board
with his waist belt. Yeah, somehow the seat belt got detached,
and then they tried to contain him, and he broke
free from the shackles and he went mad and he
was like whipping people with it. Not an they had

(01:14:34):
to try to contain him and control him. And I
you ever had anything like that happen, I'll tell you
what happened to me. Just the other day. I was
on a flight, very short flight from Las Vegas, and
there was a man sitting across the aisle, one row
in front of me, and he had come on board

(01:14:56):
with a styrofoam container of food. And he sat down
in his seat and he took off and he proceeded
to put the seat back and pass out. I mean
he went to sleep. And I guess when you leave
Vegas that sometimes can happen. But this was the middle
of the day. So I look over and he's got

(01:15:17):
this styrofoam container full of it looked like cheese, fries
and a hamburger, and I'm not sure what else was
in there, but it was open on his lap, tilted
to the side, and his hand was like laying in
the food. Oh, it was so gross and he was out,

(01:15:37):
so he didn't realize that the food was just kind
of in his lap. And I'm looking at this, and
I'm like, should I take a picture? I gotta take
a picture. I got to chronicle this. This This is
the iconic photo of somebody leaving Las Vegas. Okay, So
I was hoping no one else would see me. I

(01:15:58):
was trying to take some sneaky picture and I did.
And then so it comes time to land and he's
got to put his seat back up. So the flight
attendant comes over. He was a mess too, by the way,
this was on delta. He had he was a bigger guy,
and I'm not saying, I'm just saying, but they made
him wear this vest that didn't fit him, like the uniform.

(01:16:22):
So this whole scene was just not the glamour of travel.
So he gets over there and he starts trying to
wake the guy up and he won't wake up, and
I thought, oh my god, did he die? And he
was like he was out cold. He says, sir, you
have to wake up, Sir, sir, I have to wake
you up. And thank god, the guy he sort of

(01:16:45):
wakes up, but he's still so out of it. He's
just staring at the flight attendant like, who the hell
are you, Like he didn't know where he was. And
the guy says, you have to put your seat up,
and the guy nods and goes back to sleep, and
so then he tries to wake him up again, you
have to put your seat up. And meanwhile, the man's
gotten the food all over the place, so he becomes

(01:17:08):
a little more aware. And what does he do while
he's laying there staring at the guy with a seatback,
He starts eating the food, just staring at him eating
the food. So the man goes into this flight attendant
goes and gets a trash bag and he comes over
and he goes, do you want to And the guy
just staring at him, eating and like in his zone,

(01:17:30):
and this flight attendant says, sir, I'm trying to help
you clean up here. Do you want to throw this out?
And then the food is falling on the floor and
I'm just smiling at this. This is really something. So eventually,
I don't know, they get his seat up and you
get rid of some of the food and whatever, and god,
there's a woman in the next to him, empty middle seat,

(01:17:52):
thank god, And She's just staring at this, like, why
did I have to get this kind of a seat today?
If that wasn't bad enough. I get in the taxi
at the airport to get myself home. There's a man
on the phone opening the trunk. While I'm putting my
luggage in the trunk. He's talking on the phone the
whole time, and in the cab there's no air conditioning.

(01:18:15):
He's talking on the phone, shouting on the phone in
a foreign language, barely asks me where I'm going, and
he's driving with the phone in one hand, shouting this
is what it sounded like.

Speaker 11 (01:18:29):
Yeah what.

Speaker 5 (01:18:43):
I listened to this for half an hour, and at
one point he looks back and he's sir, where are
we going? So then when I tell him that, he
starts googling it on his phone to figure out how
to get there. This is a taxi, A yellow Taxi's.

Speaker 45 (01:18:58):
Not gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
I'm like, well then, And when he finishes with his
phone call, he puts on some kind of radio with
the same thing on it and also is texting the
whole time. And I'm sitting in the back after that flight,
totally exhausted from my business trip, and just like, oh,
boy boy with the glamor of travel. Oh what happened anyway?

(01:19:29):
And I thought about reporting him to the taxi company
because it's not exactly you know, safe, even that fashion.
But then I thought, well, what if he finds out
I'm the one who called in I didn't. I'm on
the fence about that. Anyhow, we're traveling through your morning
on radio stations across the state of Michigan. It's Michael

(01:19:50):
Patrick Shields, Go World, travel dot Com and the book
travel Tattler less than Torrid Tales.

Speaker 19 (01:20:00):
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is investing in a new brain
to computer interface startup called Merge Labs. Merge Labs will
compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. Neuralink is currently in clinical
trials for people with severe paralysis. Altman has reportedly not
yet committed to a deal. The talks between open ai
and Merge are reportedly ongoing. In Nvidia has unveiled Cosmos,

(01:20:20):
its new world model to help train AI agents and
to robots. World models allow an AI agent to simulate
and predict how the environment will evolve in a response
to its actions. The inspiration comes from the mental models
of the world that humans develop naturally, Anthropic is offering
its conversational AI assistant CLAW to the workforce of all
three branches of government for one dollar. The move comes

(01:20:41):
after OpenAI offered chat gp to executive branch workers for
the same one dollar cost Anthropics as the offer is
good for one year, and according to tech Crunch, AI
search platform Perplexity is offering to buy chrome from Google
for thirty four point five billion dollars in cash. Tech
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Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
President Trump headed to Alaska for a summit meeting with
Vladimir Putin, somewhat reminiscent of the Reikievic summit with Mikhail
Gorbachev that Ronald Reagan did. But meanwhile, the Vice President jd.
Vance is in the Kottswolds, which is a sprawling area
of natural beauty in the southwest of England. And he's

(01:21:20):
rolled into that tiny hamlet there of Dean Oxfordshire, staying
in an eighteenth century manor house with his family. And
you know, a convoy of twenty strong when a man
of that level, the vice president goes on vacation. Even so,
there are protesters there. Larry Olmsted, who writes Real Food
Fake Food, and fans how watching sports makes us happier,

(01:21:42):
healthier and more understanding. Spend some time in England lately
a number of times, if I'm not mistaken, Do you
know anything? Have you ever been to the Kottswalds?

Speaker 46 (01:21:52):
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But unfortunately no golf courses or ski resorts in the Cotswolds.
So a lot of lakes though, why.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
Why would somebody go there? Is it nice?

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 46 (01:22:13):
It's sort of I would say, you know, like the
Hampton's of the UK, the lake homes or you know,
or maybe more like the Lakes region of Minnesota. There
beautiful countryside cottages. People have summer homes there. It's you know,
England's a relatively small country with some you know, really

(01:22:33):
densely populated cities London and Manchester, and it's a place
people go to get away National park style.

Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
Where have you been and where are you going?

Speaker 4 (01:22:45):
I Am going to.

Speaker 46 (01:22:46):
Maine next week actually to play some golf at Sugar
Loaf and Sunday River, which are probably the two top
ski resort golf resorts in the Northeast. I've never been,
believe it or not to play golf. I've been skiing there,
so I'm looking forward. I was like Maine in the
summer and otherwise. I My last big trip was to

(01:23:08):
England to play golf a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
Can you name a couple of places if we're going
to England we should play golf?

Speaker 46 (01:23:15):
Yeah? Absolutely, I mean England has all these British open
courses that are easier to get on than the ones
in Scotland because there may be a little bit less famous,
though they shouldn't be. So the two big areas that
I really like, I've been to both of them recently
are Liverpool, where you have a Royal Liverpool and a
couple of other big you know, Birkdale, you know several

(01:23:36):
British open venues. And then on the southeast coast, just
an hour and a half from London you have Sandwich
where you have Royal Litham and Saint Anne's.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Those are historic golf courses and he's an historic writer
Larry Olmstead.

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of Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children under five, Tami Trujillo,
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Weiser confirmed Wednesday, and noted in a statement that the
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shots are now approved for more limited populations. I'm Tammy Truheo.

Speaker 19 (01:25:42):
And Harvey Weinstein is being tried for a third time
where New York prosecutors in a sexual assault case. The
disgraced Hollywood producer will be trying again in his case
involving Jessica Man after a jury could not render a
verdict in June. You're listening to the latest from NBC
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Speaker 13 (01:25:57):
A new device is capable of spotting men in jitis
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It was developed by scientists at the Barcelona Institute for
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consume alcohol is reaching a record low.

Speaker 14 (01:26:15):
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come during a growing shift in Americans belief on drinking
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Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
Does our state have a unified vision for collective action
that draws talent and increases investment and creates a healthy
pipeline of scalable companies. Do we have the innovation? Do
we have the R and D? Do we have the
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(01:28:20):
and economic growth? Business Leaders for Michigan says that's the
pathway to do it. You can learn more at Business
Leaders from Michigan dot com. They want Michigan to be
a top ten state for jobs and talent and have
a thriving economy. And to that point, Sam Singh, the
state Senator, the Democrat from East Lansing, is on our
radio stage right now. Thank you for being here. It's

(01:28:42):
good to hear your voice again.

Speaker 23 (01:28:45):
Yeah, thank you for having me on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
I am reading this morning that Winnie Brinks the senator
from Grand Rapids, where we're heard on WTKG, says that
it's been more than a month since she spoke to
the House Speaker Matt Hall, and I guess politely said,
I don't want to contradict her, but we talk all
the time. What do you make of that?

Speaker 23 (01:29:08):
Again, I don't know their schedule or their calendar and
how they communicate. I just know that there hasn't been
serious negotiations on the state budget, and that's very concerning
to me. We have a state law that requires a
state budget to be done by July first. Our Republican
colleagues in the House only sent over five budgets to

(01:29:29):
us by July first. They haven't done a Department of
Human Services, they haven't done a state police budget, they
haven't done the judiciary budget. There's fifteen other budgets they
haven't done, and we're getting very close to the October
first fiscal year, and if we don't get those budgets done,
the government's going to shut down.

Speaker 5 (01:29:47):
So the average person listening says, you're all adults, how
come you can't figure it out?

Speaker 23 (01:29:55):
Well, I think that's the question you really have to
ask the Speaker of the House. You know, he's the
new equation I've been in elected office. This is going
to be my ninth budget. Every budget was done on
time when I was under when I was a legislator
under Republican Governor Rick Snyder, or the two budgets I've
done under Governor Whitmer. So to me, if the Speaker

(01:30:16):
is serious he wants to do it, he's got to
pass his budgets, or he's got to set targets for
each of those departments and come to the table. You know,
they weren't in session this week, for example, so it's
hard to negotiate when you're not here. And so my
hope is over the next week or two they'll get serious,
get these other budgets, at least the framework done so

(01:30:38):
we can actually be in true negotiation.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
We often hear Senator saying a lot about road funding
when it comes to this budget. What's the truth about
cats and dogs when it comes to the ideas for
road funding? Since you mentioned Governor Whitmer, yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:30:54):
Listen, I think there's, you know, been good discussions around
road funding. I'm very supportive of finding a good compromise
for road funding. You know, we had obviously a lot
of federal dollars come in. The governor had a bonding program.
Both of those programs are coming to a close, and
so we need to continue to put resources in, especially

(01:31:17):
at the local and county level for roads. And so
I know that Senate Democrats are ready to negotiate that.
I'm very comfortable finding more dollars and resources to go
to roads because that's what our local communities are asking for.
But that's part of the reason why we have to
be at the table to negotiate. You can negotiate the
whole budget along with roads and economic development, and we

(01:31:40):
can get that all done by October first, but the
Speaker has to come back to Lansing and come back
to the table.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
Senator Nesbitt was with us yesterday. He's running for governor Republican,
and he was besieging the Senate to come up with
a way to get that relief money to the people
in northern Michigan who were impacted by the ice storm
one hundred million dollars as I understand it, dozen counties.
No movement on that yesterday is what I'm reading. Do
you know anything about why?

Speaker 23 (01:32:10):
Yeah, I think we're trying again. This is all part
of the budget process. We have these federal dollars. We
can do a supplemental. But there was a supplemental that
was introduced earlier in the year that would bring federal
dollars to different resources. This is one piece and that
was not passed by the House. So again, for us

(01:32:32):
to be able to work those dollars in resources, they're
asking them to be an agreement that we're going to
do a supplemental and do a budget. We are very
comfortable getting that money out. We want to get that
money out, but again, everyone's got to be at the
table so those resources can be voted on and then
moved out into an appropriate fashion.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
What happens next, Well, I'm very you.

Speaker 23 (01:32:55):
Know, I'm always an optimistic person. So even though right
now I think we're in a very precarious situation, I
still believe we have enough time between now and October
first to get the budget done, to get those emergency
resources out to northern Michigan, to get a roads deal done,
and so you know, my hope is that you know,
the Speaker and the Republicans are back in session next week,

(01:33:20):
that they start putting targets together. Even if they don't
do their own budgets that they haven't done yet and
start negotiating. I think we can come to a compromise
over the next two three weeks and then get all
those bills done and then we can get the budget
finally put to bed. There's enough time, but the Speaker
has to commit to that timeline.

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
I know that you were the mayor of East Lansing.
Of course, have you been following in all that situation
with East Lansing being a sanctuary city?

Speaker 23 (01:33:50):
You know, obviously you know following that. You know, in
the end, the city council and the mayor of the
city make decisions on behalf of the residents, and you know,
I'm sure that they're having conversations about that issue.

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Do you know who you would like to be the
next governor?

Speaker 23 (01:34:11):
Well, you know, I having conversations with, you know, a
number of the candidates on the Democratic side. Obviously as
a Democrat, you know, I'm proud of the work that
we've been able to accomplish over the last two years
and want to see that type of work continue, and
so we'll continue to have those conversations. You know, we're
still a year out from a primary type of situation

(01:34:34):
and then a you know, a year and a few
months before a general election, so I'll continue to have
those conversations with all of the candidates.

Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
Does the current governor have any role or responsibility in
the fact that there is no budget yet and there
might not be won by October.

Speaker 23 (01:34:50):
First, Well, I think everyone is trying to get a
budget done, you know. I know that I've had a
number of conversations with the governor directly and then with
her team over the last few months, and I know
that they are trying hard to make sure that everyone
stays at the table and continues to you know, bring
ideas to the negotiation table. But again, we've had now

(01:35:15):
over a month where we haven't had negotiations. I'm not
at that table, but I like everyone to come back
start talking about these budgets, especially the ones that haven't
been done, because there's a lot of implications. At the
same time, the federal government, you know past they call
it a big beautiful bill. I call it a big
bad bill. But there's you know, close to a billion

(01:35:36):
dollars plus of impact in the negative to us. We're
seeing Medicaid cuts to you know, our hospitals, our health centers,
our number of our citizens are going to lose healthcare,
and so we have to address all those issues. And
so my hope is that over the next few weeks
will get very serious.

Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
About that guy who loves to travel wants everyone to
come back to work and lancing. Sam Singh, Senator, thank you.

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pleased with his crime crackdown in Washington DC, Trump said

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I'm Tammy Treeo.

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And the new Taylor Swift album will be out in October.
Mark Mayfield NBC News Radio.

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Name the Stranger in Paradise, losting O Stranger in Paradise.
Hef I stand story as a.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Speaking of being starry eyed. It's Michael Patrick shields through
the AT and T microphones and Americans for Prosperity, the
nation's largest grassroots organization, is fighting to reignite the American
dream and help secure the border and end inflation and
make energy more affordable. Visit Americans for Prosperity dot org

(01:39:49):
and get involved today. Can we secure the border with space?
Well we may find out come October, because there is
this object that's flying toward us. Some people say it's
a comet. Some people say it's not acting like a comet.
It's wobbling in a way that a comet wouldn't and

(01:40:10):
the tail is in the front, not the back. Hmm, mysterious.
Could it be some sort of alien craft coming from
another universe and barreling toward us at something like one
hundred and twenty thousand miles a second something like that.
It's coming a long way, okay, and it's going to close,

(01:40:32):
like ostensibly closer to Mars than Earth, but it's going
to come nearby, And it's not necessarily that we're worried
it's going to hit us. People are worried that it's
maybe going to send some probes down to Earth, or
that it's coming to check us out and figure out
what we are and what do we do. It depends

(01:40:53):
who you believe. Some of the scientists say don't worry.
Some people say worry and be ready. Well, how do
you be ready for something like that? And I wonder too,
is there's something they're not telling us? Is that part
of the deal. Brian Cox is a space expert, and

(01:41:14):
you find him in media all over the place, throughout
social media and so forth, and he talks about the
skies and the stars and the universe and the galaxies
and the black holes and all of that stuff. And
when you hear him speak, well, it's kind of hard
not to come away thinking there must be life out

(01:41:37):
there somewhere else. And if there is, well they're probably
better at it than we are. I don't know, but
it can make you feel very, very very insignificant. And
mister Cox, well, here's a sample of the kind of
things that he will teach you.

Speaker 51 (01:41:57):
If civilizations are coming, oh did slightly coming? Then there
should be civilizations ahead of us, Yes, because there's been
so much time.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
But wouldn't you want to see what that's like? Yeah,
I mean we've been so compelling.

Speaker 51 (01:42:07):
You imagine the time scales we've been around a civilization.
Let's let's give it, say forty thousand years. I don't
know how long our civilization has been around. Let's say
that the galaxy is pretty much as old as the universe.
It's thirteen billion years worth of time. The idea that
there are no civilizations arose one hundred million years ago,
two hundred million years ago, one billion years ago. And

(01:42:28):
imagine what they'd be like if they'd survived. I mean,
we've been around, We've had science for let's say, since
Newton or Copernicus, five hundred years at most we've had
Look what we've done. We've gone beyond the Solar system
with Voyager, We've walked on the Moon. We're about to
go to Mars. I would think, so we're about to
begin colonizing our own solar system. That we've done that

(01:42:50):
in five hundred years, so imagine a million years. There
are a lot of things the universe that I find
it almost impossible to imagine. Well actually in pos to imagine.
One's just the size and scale of it. I mean,
in the peace of the universe, we can see there
are something like roughly two trillion galaxies. We haven't counted

(01:43:11):
them all, but that's an estimate based on surveys of
the local universe two trillion, two thousand billion galaxies in
each galaxy is let's say, around the size of the
Milky Way. Some of the biggest summer smaller, but the
Milky Way has four hundred billion stars in It takes
light over one hundred thousand years to cross a galaxy,
and there are two trillion of them in the piece

(01:43:33):
of the universe we can see. And we're very sure
that that piece that we can see is a small
bit of what may be an infinite universe beyond.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
We don't know, Actually we don't know. And one one
said to me, maybe that that item traveling toward Earth
as Christ coming back. Could that be possible? By the
way the blood they found on the shroud of Turin
always been this debate that Jesus burial cloth is authentic

(01:44:03):
or not. But the scientists now say, with radio carbon
dating back, they're able to figure out that the blood
type on there is ab identified as semitic only in
six percent of the population at the time. It's confirmed
as human and male, and it's both pre mortem and
post mortem, meaning you'd have to actually kill someone if

(01:44:26):
you were trying to reproduce the shroud, meaning that the
shroud is real and aligns with the resurrection accounts Science
now says, So, Michael Patrick, Shield's not trying to spook
you out today. We'll take a little bit of a
sense of humor with it. That's what Monty Python did

(01:44:48):
when they said, here's our version of space.

Speaker 30 (01:44:53):
I'd be stood or.

Speaker 41 (01:44:58):
I'll tell you all.

Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
Padish.

Speaker 52 (01:45:03):
Whenever life gets you down, missus Brown, and things seem
hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
and you feel that you've had.

Speaker 53 (01:45:17):
Quite in.

Speaker 40 (01:45:24):
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting
at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned. A sun
that is the sorts of all our power. The Sun
and you and me and all the stars that we

(01:45:44):
can see are moving at a million miles a day
in an hour to spiral arm at forty thousand miles
an hour of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

(01:46:05):
Our galaxy itself contains one hundred billion stars. It's one
hundred thousand light years signed to sign it boundes in
the middle sixteen thousand light years thick but out by
us it's just three thousand light years, wine, we're thirty
thousand mass.

Speaker 5 (01:46:22):
Is that for fuzzy math?

Speaker 40 (01:46:24):
It's MPs go around every two hundred million years.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But what if we're only
seeing part of the picture. The truth is our health
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But to really understand what's driving up costs, we need
to look upstream to the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there
are costs like the price is charged by hospitals and doctors,

(01:46:53):
and the cost of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology.
These costs flow downstream directly into your health insurance premium.
That's why Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is advocating
for a system wide solution to address the rising cost
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(01:47:13):
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Speaker 9 (01:47:30):
Let's start with baseball.

Speaker 33 (01:47:31):
William Contreras drove in Ford up the Brewers down the
Pirates for their twelfth straight win. Angels rallied with two
runs in the eighth to sweep the Dodgers. Padres with
a seven run second crush of the Pirates for their
fifth straight win and move a game ahead of the
Dodgers for first in the NL West. Padres manager Mike
Schultz says their upcoming series against the Dodgers will be

(01:47:54):
highly anticipated.

Speaker 34 (01:47:56):
You know, we always feel good for a grocery play,
So we're starting to go compete, and you know, clearly
it's a serious people a going to be paying attention to,
and we're going to go play good, clean, fundamental body baseball.

Speaker 33 (01:48:05):
twenty ten. NFL News Brown's quarterback should George Sanders was
held out of joint practice with the Eagles on Wednesday
due to an oblique injury, and Falcons quarterback Michael Pettite
during joint practice with the Titans. That's sports.

Speaker 9 (01:48:26):
I'm Ronda Moss.

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Speaker 5 (01:48:58):
Tony Kuthbert Tim mcweagh was listening to our conversation earlier
with Beth the shown from the Michigan Forward Network about
the fourth grade reading situation that only one in four
fourth graders can read, and he points out that his
grandson Barry is eight and he's already read all of
the Harry Potter books.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Oh jeez wow.

Speaker 5 (01:49:19):
Now, having said that, Saint Martha is where he goes
to school, and so that's a different situation than most
people who are in the public school system. Not every
child has an opportunity for that kind of education. And
I know sometimes the government seems like they don't want
you putting your kids into private school, but they're certainly

(01:49:39):
not going to help you do it. So therein lies
all of this complication. Anyway, he's going to report next
week from Charlevoie and Mackinaw because he's going to play
in the Mackinaw Straits Health Foundation Golf Outing, so it
probably have some stories to tell along the way. Or
maybe he'll get the Mission Point Resort, like anybody would
if they can get anywhere near it. In the meantime, boy,

(01:50:04):
the Brewers are hot, and so are the Pirates.

Speaker 15 (01:50:06):
It seems like, well, the Pirates have one key pitcher,
that's of course, Paul Skiings, and he was no match
for the Brewers yesterday, and the Pirates could not find
a way to win a game against the Brewers as
they won their twelfth consecutive game. Speaking on Milwaukee, twelve
to five was the final on that one, and I
guess we should give it up to Central Michigan's own

(01:50:28):
Jacob Marcy. He's playing his first season with the Miami Marlins.
He's from Allen Park, and he homered twice yesterday, matched
a franchise record with seven RBIs in Miami's thirteen to
four victory at Cleveland, and that pushed the Guardians to
six and a half games behind the Tigers in the
American League Central Division. So a little bit of help

(01:50:50):
from Central Michigan University and mister Marcy, thank you for that.
The Tigers moved to that six and a half game
lead because they beat the White Sox yesterday one to nothing.
They close out that series took two to three, and
now they will open up a four game series against
the Twins tonight at Minnesota. And you usually feel good
when Trek Scoobl's on the mound. He will be tonight,

(01:51:12):
even though he is not too hot in his last
outing over the weekend in downtown Detroit. Our swing around
Major League Baseball quickly. The Cubs over the Blue Jays
four to one, and the Dodgers lost by a run
to another team close by. That's brought to you by
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In BC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump is

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the US. Tammy trueO, as details.

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I'm Tammy Trheo.

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And the new Taylor Swift album will be out in October.
Mark Mayfield, NBC News.

Speaker 22 (01:52:47):
Radio in the Northeast. In Mid Atlantic, it's a warm
but comfortable day with highs in the mid seventies to
the mid eighties. Watch for scattered pop up showers and
thunderstorms inland. Across the Southeastern Gulf Coast, it's steamy and stormy,
and spot highs range from the upper eighties to the
mid nineties, but the Gulf humidity will push feels like
temperatures closer to one hundred. Southern Texas, especially Houston, may

(01:53:08):
top out near ninety two before tropical moisture brings some rain.
The plains in Midwest are sweltering under extreme heat, with
high hitting one oh four in many spots, with heat
into seas over one ten. There's a cold front moving
into the Dakotas in Minnesota that could bring storms and
drop temperatures. In the West, it's clear and hot inland,
with highs topping out at one oh five from California

(01:53:29):

Speaker 19 (01:54:00):
In DC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. European leaders are
Alaska on Friday. Several including The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland,
NATO and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky held a virtual meeting

(01:54:23):
half year war, territorial issues can't be negotiated without Ukraine's participation.

Speaker 20 (01:54:39):

Speaker 21 (01:54:43):

Speaker 20 (01:54:48):
a government shut down. The president says the Democrats will
only say no to anything he wants, and a spending
bill will have to be passed by Republicans. He added
that he thinks the Democrats are being led by lunatics.
I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 19 (01:55:06):
of Pfizer's Covied vaccine for children under five. Tami Trujillo
has details.

Speaker 22 (01:55:14):
who want to vaccinate healthy children, since Manderna and Novavak

(01:55:36):
shots are now approved for more limited populations. I'm Tammy
Truhieo and.

Speaker 19 (01:55:41):
New York prosecutors in a sexual assault case. The disgraced
Jessica Man after a jury could not render a verdict.

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In June.

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You're listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.

Speaker 9 (01:55:57):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bissen called for steep us to interest rates.
Speaking with Bloomberg News, he pushed for a half point
reduction and a series of cuts that would substantially lower rates.
The Treasury Secretary's latest comments are in line with the
Trump administration's pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve to lower rate.
President Trump's been calling for interest rate cuts since the
beginning of the year, while the Fed has been waiting

(01:56:19):
to see the effects of tariffs on the economy. The
US Department of Agriculture predicting a record setting corn crop
for twenty twenty five. Craig Michaels explains.

Speaker 36 (01:56:28):
A forecast harvest of sixteen point seven billion bushels was
issued by the USDA yesterday. That's up thirteen percent from
last year, but that's not necessarily good news for Iowa farmers.
Chad Hard, an economics professor at Iowa State, says demand
for corn has not caught up to supply. He adds
that's dropped corn prices back to twenty sixteen levels, and

(01:56:49):
that'll force some farmers to store corn or sell below
production cost.

Speaker 9 (01:56:53):
Spirit Airlines raising concerns it might not survive much longer
without raising more cash. Tammy Treheel, with detail.

Speaker 22 (01:57:00):
The budget Airlines that it continues to be affected by
adverse market conditions, including weak demand for domestic leisure travel.
This comes us in six months after Spirit came out
of bankruptcy. Spirit says it's considering selling airport gates, real
estate and some aircraft to get more money. The airline
said management has substantial doubt of its ability to continue
operating for another year.

Speaker 9 (01:57:21):
People both for and against to propose casino in New
York's Times Square are rallying Kristen Marx with more.

Speaker 37 (01:57:27):
Critics like Jason Lax of the Broadway League say it
would affect the Broadway community and lead to more quality
of life issues.

Speaker 38 (01:57:35):
This casino is going to decimate the neighborhood, and decimate
our industry and decimate what is a cultural icon of
New York City.

Speaker 37 (01:57:41):
Supporters like Chris Kohler of the Mason Tenders District Council
Pack say a casino would create jobs and revenue.

Speaker 39 (01:57:47):
Hundreds of construction jobs and I'm sure hundreds, if not
a thousand, permanent jobs.

Speaker 9 (01:57:53):
I'm Monica Nelson with your Consumer and Business News.

Speaker 33 (01:57:56):
Let's start with Basebob william Contreres drove in for up
the Brewers down the Pirates for their twelfth straight win.
the Dodgers. Padres with a seven run second crush of

(01:58:21):

Speaker 34 (01:58:24):
You know, I always feel good a a groc who
we play. So we're started to go compete, and you know,
clearly to serius people a gonna be paying attention to
and we're going to go play good, clean, fundamental Audrey Baseball.

Speaker 33 (01:58:33):
twenty ten. NFL News Browns quarterback Shador Sanders was held

(01:58:55):
That's sports.

Speaker 9 (01:58:56):
I'm Ronza Moss.

Speaker 22 (01:58:57):
In the Northeast. In mid Atlantic, it's a warm but
comfortable day with highs in the mid seventies to the
mid eighties. Watch for scattered pop up showers and thunderstorms inland.
Across the southeastern Gulf Coast, it's steamy and stormy in spots.
Highs range from the upper eighties to the mid nineties,
but the Gulf humidity will push feels like temperatures closer
to one hundred. Southern Texas, especially Houston, may top out

(01:59:18):
near ninety two before tropical moisture brings some rain. The
plains in Midwest are sweltering under extreme heat, with highs
hitting one oh four in many spots, with heat into
seas over one ten. There's a cold front moving into
the Dakotas in Minnesota that could bring storms and drop temperatures.
In the West, it's clear and hot inland, with highs
topping out at one oh five from California's Central Valley

(01:59:39):
through Arizona and Nevada Coast. Hilaria stay more comfortable in
the low eighties thanks to the ocean breezes. The Pacific
Northwest is seeing sunny skies with highs topping out in
the eighties west of the Cascades and the low nineties
further inland. That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
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Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
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I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

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Now in the shadow of.

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The Capitol Dome and Lancing. He's heard from the beaches
of Lake Michigan, to the halls of power and behind
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And one of the lucky people in the world.

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I found something I always wanted to do, and I
have enjoyed every single minute of it.

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I was lucky enough to be in a business where
I really didn't have to work. It was a joy
to go in and meet people from all walks of
life and ask them questions.

Speaker 5 (02:00:54):
And get paid for it. And I got to be
on the radio and then television. Who could imagine that?

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Who could imagine the privilege of doing that.

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I want us on the air twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 5 (02:01:15):
Good Morning World. We will celebrate radio tomorrow on this program,
and we will also mark the anniversary of the passing
of J. P. McCarthy, the greatest radio host in the
history of Michigan, more than thirty years at number one
and in the Radio Hall of fame and the Marconi

(02:01:35):
Award winner significant fellow, and it was lucky enough to
be his producer for the last five years of his life.
And I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for him.
So we'll talk about that tomorrow. And also the sort
of magic of listening to the radio that happened to
me as a kid. Baseball, overnight talk shows, all of it.

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And we're on radio stations across the state of Michigan
right now, streaming audio and podcasting too. That's the reality
of life. You know, the old days, you did a
radio show, it was gone. You didn't get to hear
it again, you didn't get to go back.

Speaker 23 (02:02:10):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:02:11):
At the three Letter station I worked at in the
Fisher Building in Detroit, we had something called a skimmer,
and the skimmer was a real to real tape that
would go so slowly. You could fit twenty four hours
of radio on one skimmer. So if for instance, a
client needed something, or perhaps something was news making that
we needed to go back and get, you could go

(02:02:33):
on the skimmer, but it was very hard, nothing digital
about it. You rolled it back and forth until you
found the exact minute, which, as you can imagine was
not very easy and the quality was terrible too. Things
are much different now. You can hear this again if
you should want to atmibig show dot com and we
have everything podcasted. You can pick and choose through the

(02:02:54):
interviews and share them through social media. Apple podcasts too,
put Michigan's Show you can get them all right there.
The NFL is doing this too, and Tony Kuthbert knows
that it's the most popular programming on television. Used to
be sixty Minutes. Now it's the NFL. And for the
first time ever, by the end of this month, every

(02:03:16):
single NFL game will be available to consumers streaming online.
You don't need a pay TV subscription required, and so
that is a big, big thing that sort of sort
of leads to the idea that maybe the NFL will
own its own content one day instead of the broadcast

(02:03:38):
networks probably.

Speaker 15 (02:03:40):
Coming maybe in many respects, it's going to happen almost
immediately because with the NFL selling the NFL Network and
Red Zone to ESPN, there was no cash in that
transaction NPS. It was for a ten percent stake in ESPN. Therefore,
the NFL owns a part of ESPN. Can they dictate

(02:04:00):
the content at that point in time, that's the question.

Speaker 5 (02:04:03):
Naturally they can't. Yeah, there certainly is precedent for it.
Look at the Masters tournament and CBS. They dictate the
content there all the time. Yep.

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
Ye.

Speaker 5 (02:04:16):
By the way, Mike Bouchard, the sheriff in Oakland County,
is ticked off because Ram. You know, the Chrysler name
plate has this thirty four thousand dollars mechanical bull that
they use at festivals. And there's something called Roadkill Night's
drag race in downtown Pontiac and they brought this mechanical

(02:04:36):
bull and it disappeared and so Stillantas said, someone stole
our bull. It's shaped like a HEMIV eight engine with
a big ramhead on the front of it. And so
they started investigating, and then Mike Bouchard said, this is
very frustrating, a tremendous waste of valuable investigative time because

(02:05:00):
apparently it turned up and somebody that was in the
breakdown crew said, oh, we've got it. We're going to
give it back. We just you know, and it's in process.
So anyway, it's like a kind of a little thrill
ride thing like that. A curious story, to say the least,
a contractor had it. And at the Roadkill Nights festival,

(02:05:24):
I don't Roadkill Nights, who knows, But anyway, it's sort
of cool that the auto industry still has innovative ways
to try to promote themselves, that's for sure. Now once
again we have trucks and SUVs and the sad, sad
story of Michigan's Amish community suffered two losses in parts

(02:05:44):
of the state on Tuesday and unrelated crashes and it's
a total of seven victims, six who died in Tuscola
County when a driver ran a stop sign and the
truck key boned a van. Authorities a police were dispatched
at about four forty five pm a crash between a
pickup truck and a van in Guildford Township, fifteen miles

(02:06:08):
east of Bay City. The van was occupied by an
Amish family traveling west on M one thirty eight when
it was struck by a truck and multiple passengers were
ejected from the van and the pickup. What a hideous, horrible,
sad scene that would be. And you might say, well,
wait a minute, I didn't think Amish people winning cars,

(02:06:29):
but apparently they do as long as they're not driving.
They can be driven sometimes if they have to go
somewhere outside the range of their horse and buggies that
they usually use for transportation, And that's not uncommon, but
we often hear about these collisions between the buggies and

(02:06:52):
the cars. This time it was a car in a car.
They just can't get a break. Separately, a four month
old Amish four month old died after a driver crashed
into a buggy trying to pass on a Montcom County
highway again five nineteen pm, pickup truck traveling down Dickerson

(02:07:14):
Lake Road, Montcom Township, nine miles north of Greenville, tried
to pass a buggy occupied by an Amish family of seven.
The truck driver noticed the oncoming vehicle, tried to swerve
back into the right lane and hit the buggy. Twenty
four year old woman and all five children in the buggy,
they were all under the age of five, went to

(02:07:36):
the hospital. The mother and the one year old girl
in stable condition, two year old boy in critical condition.
In the four month old died. There was an adult
male in the buggy too, and I guess he's going
to be okay. But this situation with these vehicles crashing
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There will only be one Prince, But now a new
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upcoming stage musical version of Purple Rain. Collins is described
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will play the role of Appollonia. A promotional video of
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More on them coming up shortly. And Jerry Jones, the
Cowboys' owner, was apparently saved by a multi million dollar
experimental drug. We'll hear more about that coming up soon.
He had skin cancer. It sounds like, quite seriously, let's

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talk about your house. Let's have a drink and talk
about it. Oh maybe let's not have a drink and
talk about it. I hear the song coming from the
orchestra right now, and it's true.

Speaker 24 (02:14:03):
I like a spetal wind.

Speaker 5 (02:14:07):
You don't have to get necessarily wasted, but you know,
we could get a little tipsy with our tipple, whatever
it might be, copper Craft. Possibly fewer Americans are reporting, though,
that they drink alcohol, amidst a growing belief that even
moderate alcohol consumption is a health risk. A gallop pull

(02:14:28):
says a record high percentage of adults fifty three percent
now say that moderate drinking is bad for their health.
Do you know what that number was in twenty fifteen,
ten years ago twenty eight percent. So fuzzy math, but
it's nearly double. Doctor John Wycoff is the founder and
CEO of the Wycoff Wellness Center East Lansing on Michigan Avenue,

(02:14:51):
a little east of one twenty seven and at wycofwlleness
dot com. And he is a doctor who deep dives
into what is best for you. And I remember he
told me once when I was having a consult with him,
that I should never drink beer again. It wasn't the alcohol,
it was the beer specifically, as I recall, doctor, do
you remember that?

Speaker 4 (02:15:13):
Ad Michael, good morning.

Speaker 46 (02:15:14):
Yes.

Speaker 55 (02:15:16):
I think the idea that alcohol has some long term
negative effects even in moderate consumption is probably true, and
maybe that's what's gaining traction amongst people today. I think
we think of alcohol as causing addiction and liver disease,
but clearly there's an association with alcohol consumption, cancer, heart disease, stroke,

(02:15:40):
and just having accidents, along with consumption during pregnancy causing
fetal issues. But the green specifically use for beer have
polic acid in them, and the polic acid can be
very hard to metabolize. About half of the patients or
half the people in the world. So I think there
is some validity for maybe not having.

Speaker 5 (02:16:02):
Beer sometimes when I'm out and a cocktail is double
the price of a beer. That's what makes my decision
for me and Tom King, the great friend of J. P. McCarthy,
used to say beer is for poorer people because he
drank whiskey. But I don't know if this would be
I wonder if these stats would be different in Europe.

(02:16:23):
I suspect they would, wouldn't They more people, Probably they
drink freely all day long, even at lunch. They don't
seem much bothered by it.

Speaker 4 (02:16:34):
You know.

Speaker 55 (02:16:34):
It is interesting the laws in Europe very different with
grains as compared to the US, where the United States
government requires that all greens be treated with polic acid.
That is not the case in most of Europe. So
I think you're right the alcohol, especially the beer, and

(02:16:55):
probably the warring too because of fewer pesticides and herbicides
that are really allowed. Europe just doesn't allow the chemicals
to be tainting their food supply like we do here
in the United States.

Speaker 5 (02:17:09):
Somebody from Ireland the other day, from Jermoalin Castle, told
me that Ireland has a new drunk driving law. They
call it drink driving there. Zero zero is what you
must show if you're pulled over and you can blow
in the breathalyzer in Ireland, of all places.

Speaker 55 (02:17:27):
Very interesting, clearly societal shift occurring with the Irish.

Speaker 5 (02:17:32):
I guess, do you think you can have one pint
and still get away with zero or probably not? Huh not?

Speaker 55 (02:17:39):
Within probably a couple hours drinking. So that is an
interesting shift, no out about it.

Speaker 5 (02:17:47):
Young people seem to be driving according to the stats,
this move away from alcohol. Do you think it's because
they are using cannabis instead.

Speaker 55 (02:17:56):
I think a lot of young people are, and maybe
older people too. You know, I don't think the police
department and enforcement really knows how to get their hands
around cannabis use and cannabis testing. I think it's much
more prevalent than people want to believe, kind of like
cel phone use with people driving, with the with all people,

(02:18:19):
but the young generation especially is such. It's so prevalent
and so dangerous.

Speaker 5 (02:18:26):
If somebody came into you and said, you know, Doc,
I got to have a little buzz of some kind.
Should I use marijuana or should I use alcohol? What
would you say?

Speaker 55 (02:18:39):
I would probably suggest red wine? I think that's probably
the safest poison. I just never had been into the
cannabis camp. I think it's still a gateway type of drug,
and we just don't know the long term and even
short term side effects, which I think will turn out
to be quite significant.

Speaker 5 (02:19:00):
Hmm. Interesting. I don't know about the gateway thing. I'm
not so sure about that. But you are the doctor,
so we will listen to you. Red wine not white wine.
Red wine? Why the distinction?

Speaker 56 (02:19:15):
You know, there's less sugar in the red wines. They
tend to be dryer. And you know, nothing wrong with
white wine either. But if you're looking for consumption, the
effect on glucos and the insulin, probably going to see
the less for thread wine, and the cannons and red
wine supposedly have some resveraterrawl and such that.

Speaker 4 (02:19:35):
They may have some help.

Speaker 5 (02:19:36):
Then well, Scott Ellis from the Michigan License Beverage Association
just drove off the road. And it wasn't because he
was drinking, just because he's fearful of the idea of
not drinking. Whycoughwellness dot com spell at wy coo f F.
He's doctor John. It's Michael Patrick Shiels. Thank you.

Speaker 19 (02:20:00):
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(02:20:20):
new world model to help train AI agents and to robots.
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She was chair of the Republican National Committee. Winning this
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All eyes will be on Michigan going to be the
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Thank you to Andy Hutzel at BCBSM dot com the
Line five pipelines. There was an environmental impact study and
Bridge Energy did about the project to put that tunnel
under the straits of Macinon. Ryan Duffy told us what
was in the report with.

Speaker 53 (02:22:22):
The tunnel project. There are only those small areas of
construction above ground, very minimal, and the environmental disturbances we're
looking at here, they're going to be short term as
construction takes place, and that's what the eis described because
that will be when the construction is happening, and then
after construction we do the reading of mediation work, we

(02:22:44):
restore those natural areas, and then once in operation, the
tunnel is not going to have any ongoing adverse environmental impacts,
and I think that really is key. So the draft
eis it analyzed where impacts have been avoid It is
the measures we've taken to minimize those impacts, and we're
doing all that as we're replacing the current Line five

(02:23:07):
crossing with a safer underground alternative that really enhances environmental
protection to the Great Lakes. So that's part of the
draft eis it also really highlighted the need for Line five.
It's of course an existing pipeline that is carrying five
hundred and forty thousand barrels of product every day, and

(02:23:28):
those are going to markets in the US and Canada,
and all that product is being used. It's needed, there's
a demand for it, and according to all the projections
and those were in THEIS too, demand's going to be
steady for quite some time.

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New York prosecutors. In a sexual assault case. The disgraced
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A new device is capable of spotting meningitis in babes
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The percentage of American adults who say they consume alcohol
is reaching a record low.

Speaker 14 (02:26:14):
According to a recent Gallup Pole, only fifty four percent

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come during a growing shift in Americans belief on drinking
and health effects. I'm Chris Krasio.

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Speaker 44 (02:27:09):
My Least Day, The John Secret Night.

Speaker 5 (02:27:14):
And if you were to stand in Cape Canaveral or
Cocoa Beach and watch a rocket blast off into the
sky and leave this world, you might say, what a

(02:27:35):
wonderful world. And while you did it, you'd likely be
standing under Florida Palms. That's the name of the first
novel of Joe Pan the author who grew up on
Florida's Space Coast, and his writing has been read in
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and lots
of other publications. And he's on our AT and T

(02:27:55):
line right this moment. Thank you for being here, Oh
thanks for having me. What is it like to grow
up on the Space coast? Is that sort of element
of the rocket shots part of your childhood? Did you
run outside? Did you get to leave school? What was
that like?

Speaker 45 (02:28:14):
Yeah, well, we didn't actually have to leave school. I
was in Palm Bay and Melbourne growing up, and you
could just walk outside. They would take us onto the
soccer fields. Actually, I remember when I was really young,
like the Challenger would come. The Challenger exploded directly overhead.
When I was a kid, I mean we saw all

(02:28:34):
the rocket launches, We saw all the satellites go up.
So growing up there was you know, it was it
was interesting. I based the book on some of those experiences.

Speaker 5 (02:28:45):
Book is called Florida Palms. Did you see the Shuttle explosion?

Speaker 45 (02:28:50):
I did, I did, very much.

Speaker 5 (02:28:53):
Did you know it was an explosion?

Speaker 45 (02:28:56):
Well, as a kid, it was. It was really odd
because I nobody expected that necessarily. We were we were kids.
We were ushered out onto the onto the soccer field.
Everyone was playing around and I remember looking up and
it this thread, you know, the white thread comes up
over the pines, and you know, seventy two seconds or
so in like that explosion, we were you know, I

(02:29:18):
knew what a what what the solid rocket boosters coming
off looked like normally, and knew that that wasn't normal,
even as a child because we had seen so many
of them.

Speaker 5 (02:29:27):
How did you feel, Wow, it's horrible.

Speaker 45 (02:29:30):
It was a horrible experience. And then we went back
inside and I remember them they wheeled in. They used
to have these giant televisions as they wheel in, and
they wheeled in, and we had to kind of rewatch
it over over again on the news. There was a
it was a horrible day.

Speaker 5 (02:29:46):
I've written a number of nonfiction books. But what's it, right,
what's it like to write a novel? This is your
first novel, Florida Palms. It's called.

Speaker 45 (02:29:56):
Yeah, Well, writing a novel takes a lot of the time.
This one took a little bit over two decades. Actually,
I've written some of the novels but happened. Yeah, yeah,
this is a long one.

Speaker 4 (02:30:07):
I was a poet.

Speaker 45 (02:30:08):
I was a publishing poet for a long time, so
I have I have seven books out, but this is
my first novel. And I had been working on this
one because you know, I grew up in the shadow
of the space industry. All of my grandparents worked for
NASA or the defense, the defense industry, while my father
was a jail guard, and so I seen both sides

(02:30:29):
of that economic coin, and I wanted to write about
some some of the uh, some of the people that
I knew growing up, which tended to be you know,
low income, uh blue collar.

Speaker 4 (02:30:44):
I wrote about a.

Speaker 45 (02:30:45):
Good amount of bikers in this book for example. So yeah,
I just wanted to get into I wanted to show
the other side of the Space coast. And you know,
writing a book, it takes a long time.

Speaker 46 (02:30:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:31:00):
This book is called Florida Palms, and Daytona is a
big area for motorcycles, isn't it.

Speaker 45 (02:31:06):
Daytona is absolutely and we'd get up that way every
once in a while. But we had a you know, uh,
they're they're a great deal of motorcycle enthusiasts and and
and people and biker clubs all around Florida. I had
just happened to this one time when I was like
in my late teens, go to a biker party. One

(02:31:29):
of my friends there, their parents with little bikers, and
we went to this biker party. We had a really
great time, and I had happened to meet like this
really philosophical biker. I met this guy who uh who
had he was known to be a possible hit man
and use a blow dart to do the deeds. Now,

(02:31:50):
whether it's true or not, have no idea, but I
met him and that stuck with me, and so that
became the inspirations. Two people became inspirations for the characters
of Gumby and del Rey in my book, and that
if you read the first session, the first chapter actually
has to deal with a biker party that was very

(02:32:11):
similar to what I had experienced.

Speaker 5 (02:32:13):
Did you say your father worked in a prison.

Speaker 45 (02:32:17):
Yeah, my father worked where He worked at Sharpe's Jail
for sixteen years jail.

Speaker 5 (02:32:21):
And did he ever take you to work on you know,
take your child to work day?

Speaker 45 (02:32:27):
Actually, I've been down there to see him several times.
My brother another I have three brothers, and one of
them actually worked in there as well. My father was
also a pre trial release officer in size of jail,
So when you first came in, he would see people
and he'd always come back and let me know, like
who who from my group of friends he had seen

(02:32:47):
that day. So, yeah, it was a funny. It was
a funny experience, but it was it was interesting to
have a father that worked in jail. He was he
was a very good hearted man and like to see
the best in people, but had met some some people
who had done some truly terrible things, and so we'd

(02:33:08):
get some of those stories.

Speaker 4 (02:33:10):
You know.

Speaker 45 (02:33:11):
He was pretty open about those things, just to let
us know what the world was.

Speaker 5 (02:33:14):
Like and I imagine it's a bit the scariest straight, right, say, look,
this is where you could get off the path and
don't go hanging around with bikers. For gods, not at all.

Speaker 53 (02:33:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 45 (02:33:27):
Yeah, Well, at the time, my parents were divorced, so
he was living up of course Saint John, and my
mother was living down in Palm Bay with us with
with two of my brothers, so we see him on
the weekends. But before before that, when he when they
were together, yeah, yeah, he had so many interesting stories

(02:33:47):
from the jail, and occasionally he'd bring home stuff that
that he found that the prisoners were working on, which
sometimes were like bars of soap that had these little
release carded carved into him or like because some of
the old jails were so we're so old, they'd have
lead walls, lead paint walls, and so what the prisoners

(02:34:10):
would do is they'd peel off the lead paint and
turn them in these balls, so you get this giant
solid ball and they put them into the neck of
a sock and just hit each other with them. I mean,
they were like lead balls.

Speaker 4 (02:34:23):
So they would have to.

Speaker 45 (02:34:24):
Confiscate those at times, so it was always interesting whenever
Dad brought home something from the office.

Speaker 5 (02:34:30):
Your book maybe going to HBO.

Speaker 45 (02:34:35):
Yeah, so it was often by HBO about thanks so much.
And we've been working on the pilots for almost eight
months now, and yeah, very excited about that. Who knows
it it'll actually make it to the actual show, But
has been a heck of a learning experience. And I

(02:34:56):
think they're doing the book real justice too. I mean,
it's it's a pretty gritty coming of age story, you know,
about a group before kids running moves to a drug
running operation. So it's people call it the written a godfather,
So it's a lot to take on, but they're doing
a good job with it.

Speaker 5 (02:35:15):
You live in California, now, Yeah, I lived straight in Hollywood.
There's a guy called Greg Sutter. I don't know if
you ever met him. He was Dutch Leonard's researcher, and
he lives in West Hollywood, and I take a walk
with him every once in a while, and I see
some elements of Elmore Leonard and what you're growing up

(02:35:37):
was like and what you're doing here. So if you
ever want to meet Greg Sutter, let me know and
we'll get together and take a walk and talk literature.
Joe pan Of course, Elmore Leonard had a lot of
his books made into movies and series too, like Justified.
Joe pan is the author of Florida Palms, available wherever
books are sold. Have you ever wondered my health insurance

(02:36:00):
costs seem to keep going up? I was doing some
research online and I stumbled upon some surprising information on
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's websitemibluedaily dot com slash affordability.
I was surprised to learn that the cost Blue Cross
pays for prescription drugs rose by a staggering fifteen percent
last year. Fifteen percent. That's five times higher than inflation.

(02:36:22):
It's no wonder healthcare costs or a concern for so
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your health insurance costs. Michael Patrick shields here looking around
Dusty Cellar, and I want to talk to Matt Rhoades
because I want to have a private party event here

(02:37:06):
at Dusty's. What are my options?

Speaker 4 (02:37:07):
Thanks, Michael.

Speaker 12 (02:37:08):
Luckily you have many options depending on the number of
guests you plan on hosting.

Speaker 5 (02:37:11):
I'm not sure yet how many where can we go?

Speaker 12 (02:37:14):
Well, we have four rooms to choose from range from
eight guests up to forty two depending on the occasion.
We can do both stand up cocktail parties, buffets, and
multi course dinners.

Speaker 5 (02:37:22):
So the NAPA and Tuscan rooms I see here are
for smaller parties, and then you have this Lelandois patio
and the Bordeaux room. Those are for the bigger ones.

Speaker 12 (02:37:30):
That's right, NAPA Tuscan for parties of eight to fourteen
and Leidon On Bordeaux for parties up to forty plus guests.

Speaker 5 (02:37:35):
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 bite and a drink.

Speaker 12 (02:37:45):
That'd like to offer for the seller for retail wine
bar for casual find dining in the tap room, our
local neighborhood pub.

Speaker 5 (02:37:50):
Cheers Matt. It's Dusties on Grand River and Okamus, and
you can go online too at Dustysellar dot com.

Speaker 12 (02:37:57):
Cheers Michael,

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