Ep. 3397: Thursday starring Michael Patrick Shiels

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.

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I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

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

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't care Travis Chingao, goood morning, Good morning down
a des Meo. I just wish that I could marry
somebody rich so I wouldn't have to go to work anymore.
I don't want to wake up this early, Louke. I'm
waking with the sunrise.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Good Morning World.

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Want us t S and Migo Michael Patrick Shields, Miguel
Patricio Sheels do servesosporfivar? No that Airo or maybe a
tequila sunrise might be better. How do we get off
on these flights of fancy. It's the thirteenth of November,
a Thursday, had a very pleasant one to you from

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the end of the road at the top of the world,
with a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
It's Michael Patrick shields with you and if you were
in suspense about something's sort of silly. But yesterday I
had a role on a it's called a vertical movie,

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and it was a character that gets a drink thrown
in his face because he's kind of a drunken guy
and he's a bit lecherous, and he's at a high
end charity auction. So I go to play this role
and Gioia le Bardoni is the woman who portrays my wife.

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Now it turns out she's a very accomplished Italian an
actress who has moved to California. So we spent the
day on set waiting for our turn to shoot these scenes,
and you have to shoot them in all different directions
and everything, and we were having such fun. She is
from not too far from Verona, where I was recently,

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and so we talked and got to know each other
and had a very nice time. And I said, you know,
when it comes time to throw that drink in my face,
you're not going to be able to do it. Because
you're going to like me too much. And so that
was my best shot and she said I'll be able
to do it, you know. And it was kind of
funny and this and that and all that. So it

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comes time, all the lights around, all the cameras are pointed.
She threw the drink and it missed me, missed my
head to the side completely. The all liquid went flying by,
so everybody had to go back to one, as they
call it, reset all the cameras everything. Second time she
missed me and hit my chest and so finally the

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director came over, who was Asian, and said, could you
just pour this water on your face so it looks
like you got wet, And so I took the glass
and just doused myself right in a face with it.
And then they had to do one more where the
camera had to see the hand throwing the water in
my face. So the assistant director did it. But it
was kind of funny and she's very interesting, and I

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was telling her how we play audio from Georgia Maloney
and she's like, no, why would listeners in Michigan care
about Georgia Maloney? The Italian Prime Minister, I said, because
I do we'd take him on a little flight of fancy.
Georgia Maloney's new book is out by the way, and
she's one of the top leaders of the world. You know.
Our theory here is that we like to learn a

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little something along the way, so that when you go
to the office for the gym or the school or
whatever you're doing, you know you can somehow in the
course of conversation, maybe the name Georgia Maloney will pop up,
and your colleagues will say, oh, damn, that's a seasoned
person knows some of the world leaders right. Just about

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an inch deep though in a mile wide, that's all.
And so you go with me and we learn together.
TIMPs with you. It's Joe Montana's birthday. Speaking of Italians,
he was in The Godfather three and he's a very
popular actor. We'll hear my interview with him coming up shortly.

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He was Joey Zaza in The Godfather Part three. Of course,
he's done lots of other things. I think probably what
he's best known for right at this moment is Criminal Minds.
If you've ever seen that on television and stay tuned
for that's interview, okay, is it's his seventy eighth birthday today,

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so I have that coming up. The Tiger ace pitcher
Trek Scoogle has won the American cy Young Award for
the second consecutive season. He's the second Tiger to do
it twice. Can you name the other one? Yeah, Deddy
McLean In nineteen sixty eight and nineteen sixty nine. Former
Congressman Mike Bishop says he is not going to run

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for the US House in twenty twenty six. Simply not
the right time for him and his family, he said,
And family always come first. John James hold that seat.
He's running for governor, and so somebody thought maybe that
Mike Bishop might jump back in. He's not. Mike Cox
is running for governor still though, So some of these

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names from the past continue to wash up, like the
body that washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan
near New Buffalo in April of nineteen eighty eight, finally
identified as seventy one year old Dorothy Glanton of Chicago.
She was missing after she left her home in nineteen

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eighty seven, and they reopened the case two years ago
with the help of a DNA project. Science is astonishing,
so they couldn't really figure out who she was, and
now they know she washed over from Chicago. Governor Gretchen
Whitmer was heckled last night at the Governor's Service Awards
ceremony in East Lansing over not being able to shut

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down Line five pipeline under the straits of Mackinaw. Two
protesters asked her when she was going to shut down
the pipeline like she promised in her campaigns. The litigation
has been unsuccessful, and now, of course there'll be The
Great Lakes Tunnel will be created, and that was all
approved under Governor Snyder. Can you believe it's been going

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on that long? While it has? Because it's an important
infrastructure project and Enbridge Energy is going to spend five
hundred million dollars to do it. And those pipelines have
been there as long as the Mackinaw Bridge more than
sixty years, built by the exact same company that built
the bridge. So Ryan Duffy from Enbridge Energy, the Michigan
Supreme Court decided it will here a case on the

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Enbridge Tunnel project permits. Can you bring us up to
date on that?

Speaker 7 (07:06):
This goes back to the approval we received from the
Michigan Public Service Commission the NPSC for the tunnel project,
and it made that approval decision and back in twenty
twenty three, and then the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed
that was the right decision. But now here a couple
of groups have asked the Michigan Supreme Court to look
at it. So that's what's going to be happening. So
from our perspective, we're confident in the FPSC thorough process.

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It did take more than three years. They carefully reviewed
the project, and then we agree with that February decision
from the Court of Appeals that affirmed all the work
the NPSC did. The Court of Appeals basically said that
the NPSC appropriate appropriately looked at the location of Line
five replacement segment that will be there in the tunnel,

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that the approval was consistent with Michigan law. So for
us and our tunnel project team, now you know, they're
hard at work every day moving this forward, focused on
the work the moving line, fight into it subtle that
will be there deep out of the lake bed at
the strait. Who really will make what's always been a
safe pipeline that much safer and then also make sure

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that people have access to that energy they need and
used every day. And the project's also going to support
jobs and the economy.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Government shutdown is over. Oklahoma and Florida are going to
carry out executions today of rape and killers, and they
of course say they're innocent, but they're not. They're going
to be sent to death. Jesse Jackson is in the hospital.

(08:42):
The eighty four year old was admitted and it was
just a week or so ago. We talked to Abby
Phillip from CNN, who had just written a book about
Reverend Jackson. We might hear some from her coming up.

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Speaker 11 (11:01):
George Lucas will open his art museum next year in
Los Angeles. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced it
will welcome its first guests on September twenty second, twenty
twenty six. It will feature thirty five galleries and include
works from Norman Rockwell, Free to Collo and comic art
icon Jack Kirby, Props, costumes and concept art spanning Lucas's filmmaking.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Career will also be spotlighted.

Speaker 11 (11:26):
Another beloved cartoon character now in the public domain is
getting the horror movie treatment.

Speaker 12 (11:38):
This time it's Betty Boop, the nineteen thirties girl who's
being turned into a gruesome villain by VMI worldwide. The
creators are calling their upcoming film a true testament to
feminism as well as a wildly violent, ridiculously fun ride.
Other characters who have been put into horror movies since
entering public domain include Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye.

Speaker 13 (11:58):
I'm Tammy trichio.

Speaker 12 (12:02):
Bottom.

Speaker 11 (12:03):
Dolly Parton has released a new memoir. The seventy nine
year old country superstar says her new book, Star of
the Show My Life on Stage, takes a look back
at her seven decade performing career, and a cover story
for People magazine, Pardon says she realized when she was
putting the book together just how much she had sacrificed
in her life.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
That's entertainment. I'm Jacqueline Carl.

Speaker 14 (12:34):
Then beat down, but I don't stay little got mud
on my jean, Still ready to go. Every scars a
story that I survived.

Speaker 15 (12:48):
I've been through hell, but I'm still ALIVEE this slow
down boy.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
So tell me the truth? Making her break it? Do
you like this song?

Speaker 15 (13:01):
Moving forward?

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Never looking this is breaking rusts. The song is called
Walk My Walk.

Speaker 15 (13:09):
You can kick rocks if.

Speaker 16 (13:10):
You don't lie.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
It's on the top of the US charts for Country
music for the first time this week. Changing my song.

Speaker 15 (13:19):
I was born this way.

Speaker 17 (13:21):
Being allowed too long you gave my.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Style and the entire song is generated by artificial intelligence.
A chart topping song created by generative artificial intelligence technology.

Speaker 14 (13:49):
I've lost some friends, made a few new folds, but
that's just live.

Speaker 18 (13:54):
That's how it goes.

Speaker 19 (13:56):
I ain't bending over just to please a crowd.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
I fall down.

Speaker 18 (14:01):
I'll fall down.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
I'm not sure what to think of that. I don't
dig it. Maybe you do. Pope Leo has decided to
share with us his favorite movies, Yeah, the Pontiff and
so in terms of chart toppers for him personally.

Speaker 20 (14:22):
Here they are my four favorite films. It's a Wonderful
Life Jimmy Stewart from nineteen forty six, The Sound of
Music from nineteen sixty five with Julie Andrews, Ordinary People.
The year was nineteen eighty. The stars were Donald Sutherland
and Mary Tyler Moore. Lavite Bella nineteen ninety seven, Roberto Benini.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Okay, he and I agree on that one. That's my
favorite movie of all time with Roberto Benini. The others,
you know, kind of big epic, sort of heart tugging movies.
I guess you would say it's Michael Patrick shields with
you through the AT and T microphones. We wish traveling

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mercies to anyone driving. This is where artificial intelligence can
probably better help accidents. Forty three thousand Americans died in
traffic collisions in one year in the United States. Distracted driving, fatigue,
speeding between six pm and midnight. Those are the leading

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causes of fatal crashes, despite the fact that modern cars
have advanced safety features, so please be careful. And by
the way, one of the deadliest stretches of highway in
the United States, with poor lighting, limited soldiers, US sold shoulders,
outdated signing, etc. Is the drive between Las Vegas and

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Los Angeles, which we will do next week. Speaking of driving,
this is Interstate fifteen, a lot of tourists, a lot
of freight, dangerous desert conditions and so forth and so on.
We'll be there for the Formula One race next week

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Thursday and Friday with Tony Cuthbert. Coverage of the Las
Vegas Grand Prix, and there'll be events at the with
the d and at the racetrack and at the F
one Arcade inside Caesar's and we're going to talk to
people in the industry too, attend some Ferrari events and
bring it all to you. And Tony will be flying

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on Delta. I'll be driving on that highway like one
of those race car drivers trying to get there. It's
Michael Patrick Shields with you. Caitlin Collins went on a
podcast one that you would recognize and she works for
CNN and she smashes on the president most of the time,

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and she says President Obama almost never responded to shouted questions,
but you know who does, Donald Trump.

Speaker 21 (17:05):
It's different because Trump is such an accessible president that
like if he's just swearing in the ambassador to Greece,
like typically, that wouldn't be a newsworthy event if the
President Biden or any typical president was probably doing it.
But Trump's moments, anytime the camera's around and the reporters
are around, it can it can turn into a press conference.
And so you never go into the oval thinking, oh,

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this is going to be a quick we call them sprays.
That's where you go in basically a photo op, and
then you leave because Trump will swear someone in and
then he'll turn to you and say, you know, any questions,
and he'll take maybe questions for forty five minutes, and
so you have to, like I always keep a running
list of questions on my phone, okay, because you never
know when you're going to run into him or when

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he's going to start taking questions, and so you can't
just have one or two, like, you have to have
like ten ready to go.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
Because you said the word typical president, right, not your
typical president. Typical president was swearing in someone from Greece
would know?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Is that because of predictability here?

Speaker 21 (18:02):
Well, so Trump is my first president that I recovered,
and I covered Biden as well, and so I can
compare it to him. But even with President Obama, you know,
there are these moments in the Oval office that everyone
has come to know because.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
You see them on TV so often.

Speaker 21 (18:15):
Right, But when you speak to reporters who covered President Obama,
he almost never responded to shouted questions.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
He just wasn't his thing.

Speaker 21 (18:21):
He didn't you know.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
He would have his.

Speaker 21 (18:23):
Moments with world leaders and then you would leave the
oval Trump kind of up ended that when he came
into the White House, and sometimes presidents are press a verse.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Trump embraced the media.

Speaker 21 (18:32):
I mean he did it for decades as like this
New York mogul, sure, and so he just had a
different approach to the press and always has, you know,
long before taking office. Most politicians are not very press savvy.
It kind of depends on who it is. I think
Trump always understood the value of a camera and a microphone.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
In fact, speaking of welcoming world leaders, he had the
Syrian president at the White House, which is historic because
it hadn't happened in nineteen forty six. And listen to
what they talked about. This is the president sort of chiding.

Speaker 22 (19:03):
Him, Old, yeah, it's the best fragrance.

Speaker 23 (19:15):
Give me a movie I have won him, sir, okay,
So what we'll do is just take Pat Joe put
it in.

Speaker 18 (19:23):
And then the other one is you want somebody.

Speaker 15 (19:28):
You guys, I never know.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
It's kind of hard to hear. But what he does
is he gives him some Trump cologne two hundred and
forty nine dollars a bottle. He sprays him with the cologne.
He says, this is a men's fragrance. It's the best.
And then he says, how many wives do you have?
The guy says one, and he said, well, with you guys,
I never know. And the guy just stood there and

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with a like frozen grin on his face. Awkward diplomacy
for sure.

Speaker 24 (19:57):
A common chemical used by dry clean and at home
in stainless steel, polished spot cleaners, and some adhesives is
being linked to liver disease. Researchers at University of Southern
California's medical schools say tetrachloroethylene, often called PCEE, is associated
with the three times greater risk of liver fibrosis that's

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a build up of scar tissue that can cause liver cancer,
liver failure, even death. Researchers say they found that people
with higher incomes are at higher risk, theorizing that could
be because they're more likely to use dry cleaning services.
Poor air quality is associated with an increase in emergency
room visits. The Oregon Health Authority tracks real time health

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trends cross the state. They found that when air quality worsened,
visits to the er jumped. The visits were for asthma, COPD, anxiety,
and other respiratory or stress related symptoms. Health update. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 25 (21:00):
Against Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Shane Hernandez as the president of the Michigan Forward Network.
In the end, it was all for nothing. This shutdown eventually.
Doesn't this tarnish the American opinion of Congress in general.

Speaker 26 (21:15):
For sure, they got their political points out of it
at the cost of American families, and a lot of
the media did their bidding. Luckily, we got people like
you who don't and are willing to tell the real story.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Come fly with me, says Nicole Noell Williams, the CEO
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Speaker 27 (21:33):
We've got Applefications announcing their sixteenth year of international service
right here at the Landing Airport. The beautiful thing is
you're hopping on a plane for saying in the morning,
you're at the beach by noon, whether it's ken Kuhn
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Speaker 28 (21:48):
Excited about that.

Speaker 27 (21:49):
But when you come back into Lancing, you clear customs
right at the Lansing Airport, so there's no need to
stop anywhere else. We wanted to come and start your
vacation as soon as you ride to the airport. A
lot of different options and we always recommend and contact
the local travel agent. They can help navigate through which
property they would recommend that you say at.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
We will be live from downtown Detroit. One of our
broadcasts will be at Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Michigan headquarters.
The other will be at the Godfrey Hotel in Corktown
and that'll be in mid December, and we hope you
will join us there. If you're in downtown Detroit, We're
gonna check out the Ralph Wilson Riverwalk thanks to Claude
Maullinari and visit to Troit.

Speaker 28 (22:25):
They can start at Bellisle or start at the far
end right by the Ambassador Bridge, everywhere in between on
the Riverwalk to spectacular. The Ralph Wilson Centennial Park is
right next to the current post office down by the
Ambassador Bridge, but it is beautiful, but all along the
whole riverwalk from Belaide Park to Cohen Plaza to where

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the Gilbert family put in the Pirate Ship. That's a
great water park. During the summer, the Riverwalk is just spectacular.

Speaker 29 (22:54):
Couldn't be better.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
That week, we will also visit Oakland University in Rochester
and we'll be live from there as well, and also
from fire Keepers Casino and from downtown Lansing for our
Christmas Spectacular, which we hope you will join us for.
So that's in mid December. We don't bother you with
the dates just yet, but the middle week of December,

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the week before Christmas week see us in person at
all those places. And three out of four Oakland University
students combine academics with internships or research preparing to make
them a professional from day one and discover how at
Oakland dot E d U. It's Michael Patrick Shields. Temperatures

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are cold all across the country. That's a dip now
and through the weekend and next week too.

Speaker 17 (24:00):
INBC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a month
and a half, the government shutdown is over.

Speaker 23 (24:06):
This was a no brainer. This was an easy extension.
But they didn't want to do it the easy way.
They to do it the hard wain. They looked very bad,
the Democrats do.

Speaker 17 (24:15):
President Trump signed the legislation in the Oval Office Wednesday night,
where he blamed Democrats for the shutdown while he was
surrounded by Republican lawmakers and other GOP officials. The measure
finally made it out of the Senate on Monday, after
a handful of Democrats joined Republicans to pass the spending bill,
which extends funding until January.

Speaker 15 (24:31):
The thirtieth.

Speaker 17 (24:32):
Speaker Mike Johnson says a bill compelling the Dog to
release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files will receive
a vote on the House floor next week. With the
discharge petition now reaching the two hundred and eighteen signatures needed,
Johnson is required to put the bill on the floor soon,
although he suggested he would not use some of the
extra time that he was allowed. Democratic Congresswoman at alite
A Grijalva became the two hundred and eighteenth signature on

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the discharge petition shortly after she was sworn in on
Wednesday afternoon. This follows reports at Fstein referenced Trump in
emails else to his associate Gilane Maxwell, as well as
a journalist claiming in one that Trump knew about the Girls.
getting the horror movie treatment. Tammy Trueio explains.

Speaker 12 (25:19):

Speaker 13 (25:38):
I'm Tammy, Tricheo.

Speaker 17 (25:40):
And solar activity is forcing NASA to delay a planned
Blue Origin rocket launch. The new Glenn rocket was supposed
to last off Wednesday afternoon with two Mars orbiters. However,
intense solar storms forced the second delay of the week.
You're listening to the latest from NBC News Radio. Waymo's
driver Lost Taxis are picking up speed in three cities,
Matt Maddinson explained.

Speaker 19 (26:00):
The company announced freeway routes are now being offered to
select writers in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The
robo taxis have been tested on expressways with employees for
more than a year ahead of Wednesday's launch. Waimo plans
to expand to Miami, Washington, d C, San Diego and
London next year. It's also started testing cars in New
York City and Tokyo.

Speaker 17 (26:21):
Google is following Apple's lead by adding notification summaries for
its Pixel phones. It will also label suspicious messages as spam,
while pushing messages from frequent contacts to the top. Google
Pixel is also adding a power saving feature for the
Maps app, and Google is also suing a group of
cyber criminals who they allege are responsible for illegal fishing
scams targeting account holders. According to the lawsuit, over two

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hundred scammers have used Lighthouse software to impersonate reputile entities,
including easy Pass and the US Postal Service, resulting in
over one million victims across more than one hundred and
twenty countries. Tech report by Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
He's already got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
That's because he was in Godfather Three, Criminal Minds, The Simpsons,
The rat Pack, House of Games, and he's read Dutch
Leonard's audio books and more. He's Joe Montagne. I'm not
on Do you remember about your star day? What sticks

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out that? Listen there?

Speaker 15 (27:32):
I gotline Oh my God so much and it sticks home.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Do you ever go over there? How often you go
over there? I look at it take people, you shine
it up at all.

Speaker 16 (27:40):
I don't know, you know, I don't want to be
that guy like they go any wait a bite, isn't
that him?

Speaker 15 (27:43):
What's other one here? But of course it is.

Speaker 16 (27:46):
Ironically just some relatives were in town from Oregon yesterday
and that was one of you know, I haven't seen
them in years, and they called me to said.

Speaker 6 (27:52):
Hey, we're here.

Speaker 15 (27:53):
We're at your star you know. I said, oh, great,
does it look okay?

Speaker 16 (27:56):
He said yeah, you should have told us when to
come and went buffed, and I said, no, no, that's fine.

Speaker 15 (28:00):
I just you know, so it's yeah, it's such a
wonderful tradition. I'm so.

Speaker 16 (28:05):
I think of one thing in particular. I moved out
here in nineteen seventy eight with Dennis Franz, everybody.

Speaker 15 (28:11):
Knows from NYTV Blue and other things.

Speaker 16 (28:13):
He drove the moving van with the stuff and I
held one car with the other exactly.

Speaker 15 (28:18):
So that was nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 16 (28:20):
But ten years later or so, I gave I was
one of the speakers who gave the speech for him
when he got his.

Speaker 15 (28:26):
Star on the walker Face Wow. And a few years
later he was there when.

Speaker 16 (28:30):
I got my start on the locker and I remember
both of us as we drove down Hollywood Boulevard when
we arrived in seventy eight.

Speaker 15 (28:36):
We were going, oh, this is that stream, Look at
this is where the stars are, you know what I mean.
And to think you're a permanent part of it, permanent
part of it, it's like, you know, dreams do come
tom in Hollywood sometimes.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
My friend Jim Nance, the sportscaster, is going to get
a star next year.

Speaker 15 (28:55):
Excellent.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
Any advice for him about how well.

Speaker 16 (28:57):
Nance is so deserving of it? I mean he's I
think he's the epitome of the sportscast. The first of all,
he doesn't need any advice. I mean, Nance is so
comfortable up there. No, he'll be just fine, but well deserved.
And I congratulated him because I you know, he's and
what's great about him he does everything I mean, paulf
you know, but he kind of covers it all. He

(29:18):
seems to be very a depth at all the sports.
So he's a real parl and well deserved.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Just a couple of your other awards as an Italian American,
when you won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival,
that must have been very emotional.

Speaker 16 (29:33):
It was very emotional. As it turned out. I was
filminging a film. Other times I couldn't be there. But
I shared that award with Donamici. The great acts for
Donna Michi. Because we've done this film together, things change
and so they gave us both the best.

Speaker 15 (29:45):
Actual award of the year. So I remember Don calling
me from Italy. The event was so wonderful.

Speaker 16 (29:52):
We got an ovation, and he says, if.

Speaker 15 (29:54):
You don't mind, I'm going to have them ship your award.

Speaker 16 (29:56):
I'm having them ship both of our awards rather than
to take him on the plane.

Speaker 15 (30:02):
John was probably near eighty at the time, and I'm
thinking makes sense.

Speaker 16 (30:05):
I mean, he doesn't want to have just slept his
I'm thinking, you know, left, think something like an oscar
in a suitcase. So he comes to La about a
week or so later as a knocking on my door
was a FedEx delivery. Like guy, he's got he's got
one of those push carts. He goes delivery and I go,
I'm not expecting anything, and there's a box that came
up to momw I waist almost and we open it

(30:27):
up and it was the award from the Venice him
when you get that award the coop with the Volci
they call it this thing. You think he won the
Indianapolis five hundred. I mean, I've wanted Tony and Emmy's
and other things.

Speaker 15 (30:40):
You could put those inside of this award.

Speaker 16 (30:42):
It's a huge loving cup and it was way about
you know, thirty, and I'm thinking, of course, don couldn't
carry this. You'd have to buy a seat for this.
But I thought that's the Italians. The Italian's probably said
that would give it the award. The Oscars and nice,
and the Mbey is a nice so Tony is nice,
but then no, we need a bigger water on and

(31:03):
so this little ward is like you would literally think
I went the indianaplus five hundred.

Speaker 15 (31:06):
If you're come in my home and see this cup
was the.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Dore of an honor to sing the uh take me
out to the ball game at the Cubs game.

Speaker 16 (31:13):
Oh god, well, I've you know, I've done it numerous
times now, and it's from the from the first time
I did.

Speaker 15 (31:18):
It was such a thrill. I mean, I thought about
going five years old and my dad taking me to
the ballpark, and I just did it again, you know,
just about a month ago.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
Oh wow.

Speaker 16 (31:27):
Yeah, whenever I can try, I host a national memorially
concert over here in Western d C. And what I
try to do is, and I've been doing that twenty
three years now, what I do is I stop in.

Speaker 15 (31:36):
Chicago, my wife and I kids.

Speaker 16 (31:38):
We stopped to see family on the way back, since
it's usually June, because it's right after Monroe Day. If
the Cubs are in town, they'll say, hey, Joe, you
want to sing the song throughout the first pitch I'm
in And so I've done it, maybe Twollet thirteen forty.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
And there's always Loue Malnatties.

Speaker 15 (31:53):
Loue Malnatties. There's the pizza exactly. No, Yeah, nothing wrong
with the food in Chicago, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
The last question is are busy? But did it feel
like getting an award? When you are welcomed into the
Godfather family and your role on Godfather three?

Speaker 16 (32:07):
You know what my dear friend Vinni questa Pharaoh, another
Italian actor, as he put it, when he found out
I was I'd gotten the role, he went, Joey, you're
going to be in one of the Godfather movies. You're
in the Italian Star Wars Joe Joey's So I guess
I guess. I thought, yeah, I guess that would be
the Italian Star Wars.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Did you feel the reverence standing across from Michael Corleone?

Speaker 15 (32:31):
Absolutely?

Speaker 16 (32:32):
In fact, I remember specifically my very first scene we're
shooting in Rome.

Speaker 15 (32:36):
I'm doing that reopened with that.

Speaker 16 (32:38):
My first scene in the film was not the first
scene in the film there. My first scene that I
shot it was this big scene in the in the
meeting room with all the guys there. I have to
talk to Calpuccino as Michael and and and a couple
of courses there, and he's getting ready to say okay,
roll sound, and I'm getting ready to.

Speaker 15 (32:54):
Get shoot, and Collins is going through my hand.

Speaker 16 (32:56):
I'm thinking, oh my god, I don't know about it,
say some lines as a.

Speaker 15 (33:01):
Character and Godfather three al Pacino.

Speaker 16 (33:04):
You know a movie that had you know, resonated with
me since I was like a teenager. So I'm like
and for a second, I almost got a little heady like,
and then I thought to myself, you know what I've
been doing theater. I'm on a film and not movie
since I started as a teenager in high school and
work my way up got to this point. You know,
been at the snow for so many years, Francis Copo

(33:26):
feels I should be doing this role. I felt, and
I thought to myself, I was a baseball player, and
I've been in the little league, in a pony league and
all that, and worked my way through the miners, and
now I was like, Okay, you're in che Stadium and
you're about to be in the World Series.

Speaker 15 (33:40):
What would you do? And so the my attitude was
I gotta step up. He chose me to be here.

Speaker 16 (33:46):
I guess I should be here, So let's man up,
Joe and go, you know, get rid of that that
the second off like marvelousness, and go, no, that's right.

Speaker 15 (33:55):
I'm here. Let's do it. And from that point on
everything was great.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
Did you ever meet Amanda Evander Holyfield? He's the other
guy got his year bit off?

Speaker 7 (34:04):
No?

Speaker 15 (34:04):
And yes, exactly right. No, I never did read him.

Speaker 6 (34:07):
What about Dean Martin before your HBO got And you.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Know, I never got to know Dean, not to know
Frank Sinatra because they used to playing his golf tournament.

Speaker 15 (34:14):
Every Dean had passed away before I got the movie.

Speaker 16 (34:17):
Since I've become very dear friends with members of his family,
unless you daught or Dinah, who has been so sweet
in in that. You know, they embraced the fact that
I played their dad, and I told him how much
I respected him about wherever, and.

Speaker 15 (34:32):
I was about doing that role, which I was. That's
the reason I accepted. I was like, oh my god, I'm.

Speaker 16 (34:37):
Kidding at such an honor, and I was almost scared.
But then I thought, if I don't do it, I
don't want anybody else to do it. It shows me
to do it. I'm doing it. And uh and and
as it turned out that that was the only role
I've ever been.

Speaker 15 (34:48):
Nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.

Speaker 16 (34:50):
And I thought, oh, at least hopefully the public suspended
belief for those couple of hours that accepted me as
being this great icon.

Speaker 15 (34:59):
And I love doing the role and it was a
wonderful experience.

Speaker 18 (35:02):
Just all those years later.

Speaker 6 (35:03):
The line that sticks with me was, Genie, in order
to share intimate thoughts, you have to have intimate thoughts.

Speaker 16 (35:09):
Yeah, or, as I said people, I've often said this,
this is what helped you get into the role of
Dean Mark. He said, well, part of it is was
the voice, and I thought to myself, how.

Speaker 15 (35:20):
Do I do it?

Speaker 16 (35:20):
But I don't want to mimic the guy. I'm trying
not to create him, but I'm trying to get close.
And I thought, who does he sound I'm like? And
I thought, you know, when I was a cute, we
used to watch those Sugar Cris commercial where the sugar
Bear would tell me, oh, he' getting never of them
Sugar Cris, Hey, sugar Beard. I thought the sugar Bear
songs to me a little bit like Dean Martin. So
if all I got to do is think about the

(35:41):
sugar Bear, Oh why all these people get in my room?

Speaker 15 (35:43):
And so that my voice. So Dean Martin came from
the sugar Bear.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
From sugar Oh, and now we know the rest of
Thank you for sharing your intimate thoughts.

Speaker 15 (35:51):
Oh my pleasures.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
Thank you, God bless you from criminal minds.

Speaker 15 (35:58):
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Speaker 17 (38:00):
and a half, the government shutdown is over. President Trump
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(38:21):
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Speaker 32 (38:25):
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Speaker 17 (38:47):
Dallas Cowboys have launched a memorial fund to support the
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Speaker 6 (39:17):
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Speaker 10 (39:27):
May you love me.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
Even always dreamed about living in your radio. I don't
think the President and Congresswoman Elon Omar like each other
very much. She is the Muslim Democrat from Minnesota and
she put out an X yesterday. It's directed straight at
the president that said, unlike you, I can read. And

(39:52):
that's why I know what the constitution says. Here's what
Donald Trump said, our president about elan Omar.

Speaker 34 (40:01):
And I look at somebody that comes from Somalia, who
where they don't have anything that on a police, they
don't have military, they don't have anything.

Speaker 18 (40:09):
All they have is crime.

Speaker 34 (40:11):
And she comes in and tells us how to run
our country. The constitution says this, the constitution. The whole
thing is crazy.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Anthony Hudson is a candidate for governor, a Republican, and
he is going to have a march in Dearborn on
November eighteenth to quote expose Dearborn for what it is.
That's according to an article by Craig Mauger in the
Detroit News. And mister Hudson joins us on our state
wide radio airwaves right now. Thank you for being here,

(40:41):
welcome to the program.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Hey, good morning, thanks for having me. I'm actually in
Dearborn this morning, and I do want to set the
record strata. That is a misquote for me. I'm not
exposing anything. This is a unity walk that we are
trying to have here in deer Born where we're bringing
communities together, getting Muslims to get involved and walk with

(41:05):
us in peace so that we can calm the temperature
about what's going on down here in this city.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
You're from Grand Blank, correct, yes, sir, And what is
it about Deerborn that's got your attention?

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Well, I'm running for governor in this state. I should
be able to go to any city, in any township,
any county in this state without being feared. And there's
a lot of rhetoric about Deerborn right now. There's a
lot of talk about called the prayer music being played
five o'clock in the morning, six o'clock in the morning.

(41:43):
Citizens are saying that they're upset about it, they're tired
of hearing it. There's been women go on TikTok and
Facebook that they're being harassed and spit on. And we
want to see this for ourselves. And we came down
this morning at four o'clock to each Dearborn and set
outside the Dearborn Community Center. And they had advertised a

(42:06):
call to prayer at six oh one. And you'd be
shocked to know that nothing played on a loud speaker
at six oh one. It's like the call to prayer
didn't even exist, but the community center was open. People
were going in, they were praying, they were coming out,
they were getting on with their day. But not a
single sound was played out of the speakers at six

(42:27):
oh one this morning.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
So what do you attribute that.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
I think that there's a lot of misinformation being spread
around by the lame duck media, mainstream media trying to
incite division between Dearborn and the folks that don't live
in Dearborn. They're trying to spread this rhetoric that, uh,
these call to prayers are happening early in the morning
before the uh the noise ordinance is lifted at seven am,

(42:56):
and we came down here unannounced. No one knew we
were coming down this morning, so it should have been
business as usual, and yet it was silent all across
the entire city.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
So that argument or comparison to church bells, I mean,
as age old, it's nothing new about that there are
church bells. Nobody complains much about that, But the call
to prayer is different sound but kind of the same
sort of idea. It's not people practicing Islamic faith that

(43:29):
bothers you. But what would bother you and maybe a
lot of people. Is the idea that Sharia law is
taking a foothold in the United States and maybe even Michigan,
maybe even Dearborn. Is that a bigger concern.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
I honestly, personally, I don't see any signs of Sharia
law down here. We hear stories about it, you know,
we we've looked into Shria law. We come to Dearborn.
There's liquor stores, there's gentlemen's club, there's nightclubs, there's all
these things here. We spoke to a business owner two
days ago, a female business owner wearing regular clothes barking

(44:10):
orders at men, which would be a violation of their
Sharia law. And she was just she was a bulldog
in there. I mean, she knew exactly what she wanted
with her business. She is Muslim, and everything she was
doing and saying and wearing would go against Sharia law.
So again, we're here to lower the temperature and bring

(44:32):
unity to a community that lives within the boundaries of Michigan.
And I think when people can see it firsthand, they
can get a better perspective as to what life is
like in Dearborn. I hear all the stories. We've seen
videos on Facebook, TikTok YouTube of thousands of people in

(44:54):
the streets screaming death to America, death to Israel. And
the fact of it is is either those are AI
videos or those are videos that were filmed in other locations,
not even in Michigan, and they're declaring that it is Dearborn.
I've spoke to the chief of police here, I've talked
to other city officials, and that rhetoric is not happening here,

(45:16):
or at least that's what they're telling me. And this
is our third day in Dearborn and we haven't seen anything.
And you know, I've gotten a lot of messaging on
social media that they're going to push back against our walk.
You know, I don't know if it's the islam radicals
or the terrorists in this town or whatever, but we're

(45:38):
expecting opposition when we walk through here. But the goal
of our walk is to be peaceful and to unify
this community with the rest of the state, because that
is a concern amongst a lot of people who don't
live in Dearborn, is as governor, what are you going
to do about Dearborn? If there's nothing to be done
there's nothing to be done. So we're doing our research

(45:59):
and we want to get involved in this community and
find out for ourselves.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Three point thirty pm, November eighteenth, The corner of Schaefer
Road and Michigan Avenue is where I understand that March
we'll start and uh, I'll be interested to see what
you find out. And congratulations, I'm throwing your helmet in
the ring to run for Governor. Anthony Hudson early this
morning in Dearborn. Republican candidate for Governor with MPs sure.

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Thursday Night Football and AFCE showdown between the Patriots, winners
of seventh straight and the Jets from Foxborough, Pat's QB
Drake May says they're taking the Jets seriously.

Speaker 38 (47:38):
They're coming here with you want to beat Indivision. We're
wearing you know whatever jerseys and they're gonna have something
to play for and they still do so they're gonna
be no tough challenge. And I think it's, like I said,
any given weeks, so you got to prepare on a
short weekend and kind of win that bott.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
Everything is fine in Philly.

Speaker 37 (47:51):
That according to Eagles head coach Nick Siriani, who said
that AJ Brown's unhappiness with the offense not a distraction.
Despite Brown calling everything outside of his family life a
crap show. Tiger's lefty Derek Scoble won the al Cy
Young Award for the second straight season, while Pirates ace
Paul Skens was a unanimous selection for the nl CY

(48:12):
Young Award. Thunder torch the Lakers by twenty nine. Nicola
jokicch erupted for fifty five. The Nuggets took down the Clippers.
Steph Curry season high forty six tuped the Warriors down
the Spurs.

Speaker 9 (48:24):
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Speaker 25 (49:14):
Sports how in the world on November eleventh. Can we
start with baseball? Actually the thirteenth, maybe we would have
on the eleventh, but the thirteenth. Trek schoobl is your
Cy Young Award winner for the second straight season, and
all the talk in the state of Michigan continues to
be what do the Tigers do with this guy? He's
entering the final year of his contract. He's looking to
be the highest paid pitcher in the history of Major

(49:36):
League Baseball. Do you trade him and try to get
something in return if they deem that they cannot pay
that amount that he wants, or do you just ride
it out for one last season, see what he can
get out of him, and say thanks for everything, now
see you. Paul Skens was the winner. On the NL side,
they will announce the MVP Awards and the All Major
League Baseball Team today. College basketball Michigan State back at

(49:59):
it Tonight they bring in San Jose State to the
Breslan Center. The Spartans two to zero on this young
season Michigan. They take on TCU tomorrow night in Fort Worth.
They two are also to and oh the Pistons were
without basically their whole team last night. They brought up
a bunch of reserve players from the practice squad. If
you want to call it that two way contracts. I

(50:20):
guess they call it in the NBA, and they still
beat the Bulls one, twenty four, one thirteen. Paul Reid,
who's that well? He scored twenty eight points last night.
The Pistons have won eight in a row. They sit
at ten and two on the season, and they host
the seventy six ers tomorrow, hopefully with their star players.
If you're going to downtown Detroit, that's exactly who you
want to see. The Red Wings resume their four game

(50:42):
homestand tonight against the Anaheim Ducks at LCA. The Wings
have dropped three straight, including that five to one blowout
loss to Chicago over the weekend. Nine and seven is
what they sit on the season. Did you watch it
last night or did you have a life? MPs Central
Michigan was on the football field at Kelly Short Stadium
and was nationally broadcast on the CBS Sports Network. Buffalo

(51:03):
was in and the Chippewas blew them out thirty eight
to nineteen.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
So CMU Bowl.

Speaker 25 (51:08):
Eligible six and four on the season and the rest
of the slate for the State of Michigan. Michigan visits
Northwestern at Wrigley Field over the week in Michigan State
brings in Penn State two winless teams at Spartan Stadium.
Eastern Michigan visits vault ball State. Michigan State also has
been placed on three years probation for violations by former
coach Mel Tucker, and they also vacated fourteen wins.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
That is what do you do wrong?

Speaker 25 (51:34):
Recruiting nonsense? I guess you could call it on that one. Yeah,
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Let's talk soon.

Speaker 17 (51:50):
INBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a month
to pass the spending bill, which extends funding until January thirtieth.
Yesterday we said goodbye to a tiny monetary unit of payment.

(52:10):
The US Mint processed the last penny more from bre Tennis.

Speaker 32 (52:14):
The Treasurer says, Indy. The penny is going to save
the US fifty six million dollars.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
But at what cost?

Speaker 32 (52:20):
able to give your two cents. What will you throw
a jar in your kitchen.

Speaker 17 (52:33):
I'm pre Tennis and the Dallas Cowboys have launched a
memorial fund who support the pregnant girlfriend of defensive end
Marshawn Neeland, who died in apparent suicide last week. Mark
Mayfield NBC News Radio.

Speaker 12 (52:44):
In the Northeast, Chillian breezy in the wake of Tuesday's storms.
Showers will taper off across coastal New England, with skies
clearing from west to east and highs in the low fifties.
Clouds are breaking in the Mid Atlantic across Maryland to
Delaware and Virginia, temperatures topping near sixty, and there's plenty
of sunshine in the South from Atlanta to Orlando with
temperatures reaching the low eighties. In the Deep South, spoty

(53:04):
Gulf showers are drifting across coastal Texas and Louisiana, but
most of the regions stays dry, with temperatures around eighty
brisk and chillian the Midwest, with some sprinkles lingering around
the Great Lakes as temperatures hit the mid forties in
Chicago and the low fifties further south in the Plain
States as southern plains will hit the seventies, while up north,
temperatures will be in the fifties across the Dakotas and Nebraska.
They're in sunny across the Southwest, with temperatures hitting the

(53:26):
mid eighties in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Central and southern
California remain mostly sunny, with temperatures topping the mid eighties inland.
In the Pacific Northwest, more rain is rolling in from
the Pacific. Expect showers from northern California to Portland with
highs in the upper fifties and snow in the higher Cascades.

Speaker 13 (53:43):
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trio.

Speaker 17 (54:00):
DC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a month

Speaker 18 (54:05):
This was a no brainer.

Speaker 23 (54:07):
This was an easy extension, but they didn't want to
do it easy.

Speaker 18 (54:11):
With that to do it the hard wain. They look
very bad. The Democrats do.

Speaker 17 (54:14):
finally made it out of the Senate on Monday after
which extends funding until January. The thirtieth Speaker, Mike Johnson
says a bill compelling the DOJ to release all of

(54:34):
its Jeffrey Epstein case files will receive a vote on
the House floor next week. With the discharge petition now
reaching the two hundred and eighteen signatures needed, Johnson is
required to put the bill on the floor soon, although
he suggested he would not use some of the extra
time that he was allowed. Democratic Congresswoman at Alite at
Grijalva became the two hundred and eighteenth signature on the
discharge petition shortly after she was sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.

(54:56):
This follows reports at Fstein referenced Trump in emails to
his associate Kielane Maxwell, as well as a journalist claiming
in one that Trump knew about the Girls. Another beloved
cartoon character now in the public domain is getting the
horror movie treatment. Tammy Truchio explains.

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creators are calling their upcoming film a true testament to feminism,
as well as a wildly violent, ridiculously fun ride. Other
characters who have been put into horror movies since entering
public domain include Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye.

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I'm Tammy trueO, and solar activity is forcing NASA to
delay a planned Blue Origin rocket launch. The new Glen
rocket was supposed to last off Wednesday afternoon with two
Mars orbiters. However, intense solar storms forced the second delay
of the week. You're listening to the latest from NBC
News Radio. After nearly a month and a half, the
government shutdown is over.

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This was an easy extension. But they didn't want to
do it the easy way. They to do it the
hard wain. They looked very bad, the Democrats do.

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which extends funding until January the thirtieth. The Trump administration
is preparing announcements on affordability soon. That's according to Treasury

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Secretary Scot percent who said Americans will see substantial announcements
over the next couple of days for items not grown
in the US. Assent did not provide details on how
prices will be lowered, but he said such items as coffee, bananas,
and other fruits will likely be impacted. The Trump administration
has argued its working to address affordability concerns. Besson asserted
that Americans are going to start feeling better early next year,

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after predicting inflation will cool and wages will increase. Unionized
Starbucks Maurristas are planning to strike today. Here's Monica Nelson.

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The action coincide with the coffee giant's popular Red Cup Day.
The union, representing around five hundred and fifty stores, accuses
Starbucks of refusing to fairly negotiate and has rejected the
company's previous proposal. Starbucks claims it already offers competitive pay
and benefits and is ready to negotiate if the union
returns to the table. The strike could expand if no

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progress is made, with union members pledging to continue escalating
actions if needed.

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Toyota is building a thirteen point nine billion dollar battery
plant in North Carolina. The automaker announced on Wednesday. The
eighteen hundred and fifty acre facility will create up to
fifty one hundred jobs. It's the company's first battery plant
outside of Japan and the US Mint struck its final
penny on Wednesday. President Trump previously announced plans in February
to retire the coin, which dates back to seventeen ninety three.

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There are approximately three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
Consumer and Business News. I'm Mark Neefield.

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Thursday Night Football and AFC showdown between the Patriots, winners
of seven straight and the Jets from Foxborough. Pats if
you beat, Drake May says they're taking the Jets seriously.

Speaker 38 (58:03):
They're coming here with you want to beat Indivision we're
wearing you know whatever jerseys, and they're gonna you have
something to play for and they still do. So they're
gonna be tough challenge. And I think it's, like I said,
an given weeks, so you got to prepare on a
short weekend and kind of win that battle.

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Everything is fine in Philly, that according to Eagles head
coach Nick Siriani, who said that Aj Brown's unhappiness with
the offense not a distraction, despite Brown calling everything outside
of his family.

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Life a crap show.

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Tiger's lefty Derek Scooble won the al Cy Young Award
for the second straight season, while Pirates ace Paul Skens
was a unanimous selection for the nl Cy Young Award.
Thunder torched the Lakers by twenty nine. Nicola jokicch erupted
for fifty five. The Nuggets took down the Clippers. Steph
Curry season high forty six taped the Warriors down the Spurs.

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That's sports. I'm Ron Samoas.

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In the northeast Chilean breeze in the wake of Tuesday's storms,
showers will taper off across coastal New England, with skies
clearing from west to Easton in the low fifties. Clouds
are breaking in the Mid Atlantic across Maryland to Delaware
and Virginia, with temperatures topping near sixty, and there's plenty
of sunshine in the Southeast from Atlanta to Orlando, with
temperatures reaching the low eighties. In the Deep South, spoty

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most of the region's days dry, with temperatures around eighty.
Brisk and chili in the Midwest, with some sprinkles lingering
around the Great Lakes as temperatures hit the mid forties
in Chicago and the low fifties further south in the
Plain States as Southern Plains will hit the seventies, while
up north, temperatures will be in the fifties.

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Across the Dakotas and Nebraska.

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They're in sunny across the Southwest, with temperatures hitting the
mid eighties in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Central and southern
California remain mostly sunny, with temperatures topping the mid eighties inland.
In the Pacific Northwest, more rain is rolling in from
the Pacific. Expect showers from northern California to Portland with
highs in the upper fifties and snow in the higher Cascades.

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Good Morning World.

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Most of our days survive around politics and media stat
virtus though the truth is in the middle and it's
pennies from heaven. In the political world these days if
you have a talk show plenty to talk about, and
luckily we have plenty of people to talk to. One
of them is Dennis Lennox, the freelance columnist and political
strategists from northern Michigan, who's on our radio stage right now,

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our AT and T line. Welcome back to the airwaves.

Speaker 29 (01:01:20):
Hey, good morning, Michael Patrick. You know, if you come
across a penny from heaven, you better keep it because
the government's not making any more pennies as of today.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
How about that. We always heard this could happen, and
they're just not going to make them anymore. And I
guess you can still spend them as long as they're here.
It could take a long long time to flesh them
all out of the system, as I understand, but they
won't be making them anymore. Too expensive. It costs more
than a penny to make a penny.

Speaker 29 (01:01:47):
Yeah, they will still be legal for a very long
time to come. Of course, as you probably know, the
real problem these days is a lot of merchants just
won't take cash of any denomination, whether it's coins or bills.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
It's amazing because when I was young, I remember hearing
about a cash list society and I remember thinking, no
way that whatever happened. But sure enough, you know we're here,
and I like to have a little walking around money.
But young people they leave the house without a red
scent on them pardon the pun.

Speaker 29 (01:02:20):
Yeah, and then we wonder why everybody has all this debt.
And it's just so much. It's so easy to swipe
without realizing how much you're actually spending.

Speaker 6 (01:02:27):
Absolutely incredible. And I know you go to a lot
of airports. How about those stores where you walk in,
you just put your card on the machine as you
pass into the store, pick all the items you want,
and just walk right out of the store and it
goes right on your bill. You don't even check out, well,
any store in the airport.

Speaker 29 (01:02:46):
You're in for quite the surprise once the bill finally
does come. I know I was at the airport the
other day and I think I paid thirty one dollars
for two Diet cokes and a Caesar salad wrap. I
almost had a heart attack.

Speaker 18 (01:02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
By the way, I see that Fox News sought you
out yesterday because somebody has decided to join the race
for US Senate and they're going to have a primary
against the presumed Republican nominee Mike Rodgers.

Speaker 29 (01:03:15):
Well, that's a little bit of an assumption on your part,
Michael Patrick, at this person, Bernardette Smith, who until the
other day was the co chairman of the Michigan Republican
Party under Senator Jim Earnstead, is actually going to qualify
for the ballot. But yeah, she's claiming she resigned, she's
claiming she's running for the US Senate and that she's
a serious candidate. I'm not taking her seriously. Mike Rodgers

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shouldn't take her seriously. You and the listeners shouldn't take
her seriously unless Democrats are actually funding her campaign, and
that isn't in fact possible. She has zero path to
qualify for the ballot. He would have to get something
like thirty thousand signatures in the winter time when it's
snowing in Michigan, which is pretty difficult to do, and

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she would then have to somehow defeat the Trump endorsed candidate,
Mike Rogers at the primary. Neither of those two things
are going to happen.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
Bernadette Smith can't be completely naive. So what is she thinking?

Speaker 29 (01:04:17):
Well, I won't pretend to understand people who have tinfoil
hats that they're wearing crackpot hats. Look, I think she's
legitimately crazy. This is the same sort of people who
ruined the Michigan Republican Party under Christino Carramo. Unfortunately, Jim
Runstead got in bed with some of those people figuratively speaking,

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to become party chairman earlier this year, and he's been
paying the price ever since then. I hope the Democrats
aren't doing this, but they've done it in other states
where they've put up fake candidates to cause problems. Because
let's not forget the single biggest difference in the dynamic
right now versus twenty twenty four is Mike Rogers is

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the presumptive Republican nominee, whereas Democrats have this DEI primary,
and it's becoming pretty divisive on the Democratic side. And
so if you were Democrats looking for some way to
shape things up, you would plant a candidate in the
Republican primary. So Mike Rogers has to do all the
uncomfortable pandering that you have to do in a primary.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
You are a member of the media as well as
a political analyst. I watched a post from CNN's Aaron Burnett,
and I thought CNN was going to try to be
more nonpartisan, but here it is Aaron Burnett with a
whiteboard displaying why the math isn't adding up on Donald
Trump's proposed solution to send rebate checks for the tariffs,

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And I just thought, wow, you know, is this opposition
media or not? When they have a picture of her
with the board and a post telling everybody why it
won't work, is that content?

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
Well?

Speaker 29 (01:06:05):
I mean, that's probably why CNN is in third place,
Michael Patrick. They're losing to MSNBC, which I believe, in
two days from now is now going to be called
ms now. I don't know how you lose to them,
but you know, it's sad because, as you know, when
you travel, and certainly some of the listeners know this,

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when you travel internationally, the only station you can get
often is CNN. So internationally CNN still has a lot
of prestige. Domestically, they're in third place for most shows
during most slots, and I'm not sure that many people
actually care what CNN is saying, any of you anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
I don't know why anyone cares about an approval rating,
but Donald Trump's approval rating thirty three percent on how
he's handing the domestic economy, et cetera, and so forth.
And I'm also curious here now I'm on Ross Saint Brown,
who plays for the Detroit Lyons, apparently did a Trump
dance in the Washington Commander's game in DC on the

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weekend and Donald Trump was at the game. The President
was there because it was heading into Veterans Day. The
apology says, if I offended anyone, I do apologize. I
didn't mean to. We were just having fun. If any
president was at that game and they had a dance,
I would have done it. Why does an NFL player

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have to apologize for embracing the American President of the
United States.

Speaker 29 (01:07:33):
Well, I you know, this is the same NFL that
just a couple of years ago was Wolf that used
to take the knee.

Speaker 16 (01:07:41):
You know, it is what it is.

Speaker 29 (01:07:42):
Michael Patrick, I think we're so polarized as a society
in a country. It's you know, Republicans and Democrats go
to different churches, they shop at different grocery stores, they
vacation in different sorts of places. They don't listen to
the same media, consume the same media. You know, it's
a problem, and I think, you know, unfortunately we're seeing

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that on a daily basis now where we can't all
agree that one plus one equals too.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
I know you've been to the White House very quickly.
The pictures that I've seen of all that gold all
over the place, all over the walls and everywhere, to
me is a little stomach turning. What do you think?

Speaker 29 (01:08:24):
I think some of the White House needed redecorating. Parts
of it kind of looked like a showed in an
airport hotel.

Speaker 43 (01:08:32):
No, it's parts of.

Speaker 29 (01:08:33):
It, did Michael pat You know, we like to think
the White House is old. It's not. The White House
was basically demolished except for the exterior walls under Harry Truman,
and it was rebuilt in the nineteen fifties, and so
you know, it just was ugly.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
Little gold leaf goes a long way, it seems to me.
But anyway, the next person will probably remove it all.
Dennis Lennox, thank you, sir.

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Another beloved cartoon character now in the public Domain is
getting the horror movie treatment.

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This time, it's Betty Boop, the nineteen thirties girl who's

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I'm Tammy Triheo.

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Dolly Parton has released a new memoir.

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The seventy nine year old country superstar says her new book,
Star of the Show My Life on Stage, takes a
look back at her seven.

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Decade performing career.

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In a cover story for People magazine, Pardon says she
realized when she was putting the book together just how
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And if I had a boat, I go out on
the ocean.

Speaker 6 (01:12:42):
And if I had a pool here rid my bo Well,
if you went out on a boat on the ocean
in the Dominican Republic, you were in for the ride
of your life. Because dozens of cruise ship passengers were
left stranded at sea. They're forty foot catamarans sank off

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the coast of the dr The ship was called the
Boca de Yuma and it was in Samana Bay and
there was a breach in the hull and a vessel
took on water, accorded to the Dominican Navy, and they
have pictures of people swimming in the sea. Can you
imagine that they had fifty five passengers from a cruise

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ship and fortunately they all had life vests and they
were rescued by the navy. But you know, when you
climb on one of those big catamarans, you don't expect
the thing to sink. And there's some suspicion that it
hit something and one of those pontoons had a hole
in it and down went the boat. Now this is
right around here the anniversary of the sinking of the

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Edmen Fitzgerald. But you just don't think those kind of
things will happen. And sometimes they do a place that
is accessible by boat. Hey, you can get there by
airplane too, I suppose, But mainly people go on the
is Mackinaw Island, where we find Liz ware, the vice
president of sales and marketing at Mission Point Resort and

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a member of the Michigan Travel Commission. And before we
get to her, speaking of boats, the USS Gerald R.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
Ford.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Now that's an aircraft carrier. In fact, it's the United
States's largest warship is in the Caribbean, ratcheting up pressure
on Venezuela. If we're going to talk about boats, we
can't leave out the USS Gerald Ford. Michigan's presidents and
the current president, Donald Trump has taken some stick from

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his own supporters. Gave an interview with Laura Ingram and
talked about the H one B visas during that interview,
and you can decide for yourself. Here's what he said.

Speaker 34 (01:14:48):
There's never going to be a country like what we
have right now. And does that the Republicans have to
talk about it at lot?

Speaker 46 (01:14:53):
And does that mean the H one BE visa thing
will not be a big priority for your administration? Is
if you want to raise wages for American words, you
can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds.

Speaker 18 (01:15:04):
Agree, But we also do have to bring in talent.
When we're counting talent, and I know you know you don't.

Speaker 46 (01:15:09):
We don't have talent right.

Speaker 18 (01:15:11):
No, you don't have you don't have certain talents, and
you have to people have to learn.

Speaker 34 (01:15:15):
You can't take people off an unimployment like an unemployment
line and say I'm going to put you into a
factory who we're going to make missiles or I'm.

Speaker 18 (01:15:22):
Going to put do we ever do it before?

Speaker 43 (01:15:24):
Well, you and I.

Speaker 18 (01:15:25):
I'll give you an example. In Georgia.

Speaker 34 (01:15:28):
They raided because they wanted illegal immigrants. They had people
from from South Korea that need batteries all their lives.
You know, making batteries are very complicated and it's not
an easy thing and very dangerous, a lot of explosions,
a lot of problems. They had like five or six
hundred people early stages to make batteries and to teach

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people how to.

Speaker 15 (01:15:49):
Do it well.

Speaker 18 (01:15:50):
They wanted them to get out of the country. You're
going to need that lure. I mean, I know you
and I disagree on this.

Speaker 34 (01:15:55):
You can't just say a country's coming in, going to
invest ten billion dollars to build the plant and going
to take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked
in five years and they're going to start making the missiles.

Speaker 18 (01:16:07):
It doesn't work that well.

Speaker 6 (01:16:09):
Liz where what is an H one.

Speaker 47 (01:16:11):
B visa, the H one B visas for highly educated
positions as opposed to H two B visas, which is
what we use in the tourism industry here in Michigan,
which are seasonal visas for people to come in and
fill jobs that most Americans don't leant and I would
consider that to be like housekeeping dishwashing. So when we

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look at H H one visas, there's so much different
than what we're looking at here in northern Michigan, which are.

Speaker 6 (01:16:41):
The H two B visas, And near as you can tell,
is the administration supportive of the H two B visas
that your business and others in the tourism industry rely on.

Speaker 47 (01:16:53):
I think that there's confusion sometimes between an H two
B visa worker and immigration and the immigration the H
TOB visa workers are people who come for six months,
do a job, pay taxes, and then they go back
to their countries where they live for the other six months,
and so it is not immigration at all. They're not
trying to be American citizens, although there are pathways if

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that were to happen, but most people want to go
back home because they are the jobs that they have
here for six months, are supporting their families back at home.
For instance, a lot of our HTV visas are from Jamaica.
They have families there, their roots are there. They come
here to work, they save their money, they buy American
products and ship them back to their families, and then

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they go home.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
You're an industry leader and tourism, the Michigan Hospitality and
Tourism Authority is not too keen on a proposalizer to
understand by State Representative John Roth about enacting a three
percent tax on short term rentals, Can you walk us through,
navigate us through, since we're talking in boat language about

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this and what it means to vrbos and airbnbs and
tourism in Michigan.

Speaker 39 (01:18:05):
Sure.

Speaker 47 (01:18:06):
So, currently, right now, short term rentals, airbnbs, vbros, they
don't pay any taxes to support local tourism efforts. On
the other hand, hotels do.

Speaker 43 (01:18:19):
So.

Speaker 47 (01:18:19):
Hotels pay depending on the municipality at tax and we
call it a bed tax. So right now mission point,
for every room, we pay three percent bed tax, which
short term rentals do not have to pay. So this
legislation would say three percent is going to be added
to short term rentals, but it would also be added
to the hotels, which isn't There's no parity there, so

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it adds an additional tax to hotels. Those monies right
now for hotel taxes go back to the support the
local economy. The three percent that would go from short
term rentals, it's not dedicated to do that. It can
go anywhere. What we would say is you take that
in half and half of it goes back to the

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municipality to support local tourism efforts and the other half
of that would go to support the Pure Michigan campaign.
So the money's collected from tourism are going back to
support this industry, and we know how important those dollars are.
And with Pure Michigan, for every one dollar invested in
the Pure Michigan campaign, there's a tax return to the

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state of eleven dollars and that is a great investment.

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
So Representative Roth is in the right frame of mind.
You just don't like the forum at the moment. It
needs more work back to the drawing table.

Speaker 47 (01:19:42):
Yes, and I think that there is an opportunity for
open dialogue for everyone to understand the situation. And I'm
pleased that that is happening.

Speaker 6 (01:19:51):
And pure Michigan funding maybe will be restored. We shall see.
Because of the efforts of Liz.

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Where Waimo's driver, lose taxis are picking up in three cities.
Matt Maddinson explains.

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hundred scammers have used Lighthouse software to impersonate reputal entities,
including easy Pairs and the US Postal service, resulting in
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Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Schielns.

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Shane Hernandez is the president of the Michigan Forward Network.
In the end, it was all for nothing. This shutdown eventually.
Doesn't this tarnish the American opinion of Congress in general.

Speaker 26 (01:21:13):
For sure, they got their political points out of it
at the cost of American families, and a lot of
the media did their bidding. Luckily, we got people like
you who don't and are willing to tell the real story.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
Kelly Wolgemott, who heads up Pure Michigan Travel Michigan, would
remind you that Michigan's tourism industry contributed a total of
fifty four point eight billion dollars in economic impact to
the economy. In twenty twenty four. They did a study
and released that study at Travel Michigan. One hundred and

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thirty one point two million visitors traveled to Michigan, spending
thirty point seven billion in destinations across the state. That
was up four point nine percent from the year before,
and the Pure Michigan campaign is what we can attribute
to a lot of the people who have that kind
of awareness inside our state and out of it. So

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that is a conversation that will continue, and it will
continue among the business leaders from Michigan. They're united by
an ambitious goal to make Michigan a top ten state
for jobs, talent, and a thriving economy. They say innovation
has always been central to Michigan's story, and there's lots
of innovation in the tourism industry these days. By demands,

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We're moving on to him right now. He's on the
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Thank you for the very valuable time.

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MPs. Good morning.

Speaker 42 (01:27:53):
A lot of mortgage information in the news, including this
new proposed fifty year mortgage which is kind of interesting
in creating a lot of buzz. So it's great to
be with you today.

Speaker 6 (01:28:05):
What do you make of I mean, thirty is as
far as it goes right now, right.

Speaker 42 (01:28:10):
Yeah, that's right, thirties as far as it goes. You know,
it's an interesting thing because you know, people have different
views on the fifty year mortgage. I always try to
find the opportunity in it, and the reality is is
that majority of first time home buyers specifically that would
be the ones utilizing this program to move the payment down,
they would be saving about two hundred dollars a month

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versus the thirty year, and what would be happening is
that the amount of principle that they'd be paying into
their home would be less, but it would be a
more affordable payment. And seventy five percent of those first
time home buyers they refinance within the first four years,
So you're not going to be in a fifty year
mortgage for fifty years. You're going to utilize it as

(01:28:52):
a tool to get into a home with a more
affordable payment and then probably refinance, maybe do a thirty
of twenty five or a twenty year after you've been
in the home for a couple of years. So I
choose to look at it as a positive. But there's
certainly a lot more details that need to come out,
but it would create more affordability for folks that want
to get into a home that right now can't.

Speaker 6 (01:29:13):
Let's be realistic, how many people on average, actually, you know,
spend the entire thirty years pay it off one day
and that doesn't really happen, does it? Or does it? Nobody?

Speaker 42 (01:29:26):
Almost nobody, And with the exception of maybe that period
in twenty twenty when we saw those crazy low rates
and a lot of folks bought their home at that
kind of break, that'll probably be the highest percentage just
because of that. But most folks have gotten a five
to six seven percent interest rate at some point and
then after three or four years they're either going to

(01:29:46):
move or they maybe take need to take some cash out,
or they can lower their payment from market conditions. So yeah,
the average is that most folks are refinancing at least
once every seven years and sometimes twice. Very few people
make it through their mortgage for thirty years, very very few.

Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
So effectively you do have a fifty year mortgage. It's
just a series of mortgages over your lifetime.

Speaker 42 (01:30:09):
Right, yeah, exactly right, I mean, and people are taking
advantage of different situations. When people get to a certain
point in their life. Maybe they're forty five years old,
fifty five years old. I'm just using some classic examples.
That's where a lot of people go on at ten
or fifteen year mortgage. Maybe they want to have a
plan to pay their house down. A lot of people
keep a mortgage their whole life because it's the best

(01:30:30):
debt that you can have. It's low interest, it's tax deductible,
and so a lot of folks have a mortgage for
fifty sixty years of their life. If they started off
as a homeowner at the age of twenty five, there's
no real reason not to have a mortgage. Most people
in the world that are wealthy have debt, and the
mortgage would be the number one debt you would want
to carry.

Speaker 6 (01:30:51):
So when people come to you at Hall Financial I
mentioned eight sixty six, call Hall or call Hall first
dot com, do you collaborate with them where they might say,
you know, I'm trying to figure out what the best
thing to do here is. Is it a holistic approach
where you can advise them financially?

Speaker 42 (01:31:08):
Very much so, and I think that we need to
understand exactly their situation.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
What makes sense.

Speaker 42 (01:31:13):
I'll tell you there are a lot of situations where
I'll tell people now's not the time for you to
buy a house, whether it be because of their down
payment situation or their credit score. We might hold off
for ninety or one hundred and eighty days while we
get things in order. So it's very much a counseling,
holistic approach like you mentioned, And we've got to make
sure that folks are in a good position before they're

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buying a home because there's a lot to consider. Credit
score is big, down payment is big.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
We've got to make.

Speaker 43 (01:31:39):
Sure that folks are in the right position.

Speaker 6 (01:31:42):
What about this time of year, you know, people maybe
they want to spend some money on the holidays, They
want to maybe give some money to their children, that
kind of thing. Is there money in their house that
they might not know about that they have access.

Speaker 42 (01:31:54):
To more than ever, And you've got to be proactive.
The last thing you want to have happen as it
comes January and you've got all these bills racked up
that you haven't really paid attention to. Get proactive, create
a holiday budget, and if you need to take some
cash out, whether it be with a home equity, line
of credit or whatever it is, consult with somebody at

(01:32:15):
Hall Financial to make sure that you're in a good
position so that you don't get to January tenth and
you're overwhelmed by what you spend. Get ahead of it,
make a plan, make a budget, and we can help
you potentially not make a January January first mortgage payment,
which is extremely helpful at this time of year. I
would say it's the number one month of the year

(01:32:36):
that folks don't want to have to make a mortgage payment.
And if you're refinanced, we can arrange that for you
where you roll it into your payment, you get some
payment relief, and you get more cash in your pocket
for the holidays.

Speaker 6 (01:32:48):
So say say that again slowly. You're saying, we could
not have to make a payment on January first, have
a new mortgage with a lower monthly payment too. Sounds
too good to be true, right.

Speaker 42 (01:33:00):
Well, No, when you refinance, you roll in one month
of your payment. Sometimes we can do two, so you
get some payment relief. It's a form of cash out.
The other thing is that interest rates have gone down
a full percentage point from where they were the majority
of last year and the year before, so it's an
incredible opportunity for somebody to potentially cut their payment, maybe

(01:33:22):
roll in a little bit of money into their mortgage
so that they get through the holidays with some relief.
I'll tell you, this is the time of year when
a lot of folks start to spend more than they
have at any other point during the year. So you
want to be proactive about that spending so that your
budget doesn't get away from you and you don't land
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(01:33:44):
and spending twenty percent on interest to credit cards. Because
we know that that's way too much and we don't
want anybody to be in that type of a situation.

Speaker 6 (01:33:52):
What if somebody is listening right now and says, yeah,
that sounds good, but I'm really busy. I don't know
if I can go through all that. Is it painful?

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
Well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 42 (01:34:01):
We've made a career out of making it easy for people.
That's our claim to say, nine business days is our
average from start to finish. When you call us, we're
going to get to the paperwork right over the phone.
We're going to have you e sign everything very simple
through the computer. We've perfected it. That is the reason
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I can honestly say, and I'm very proud of it.
People are amazed by our service, and when we sometimes
call them and tell them they're ready to close, we
get some shocking responses of like already, you know. So
it's like we try to take care of everything up front,
and that's from thirty years of us doing this that
we understand how to make sure that we get everything

(01:34:43):
from you upfront to make it a very smooth process
in and out quickly. People want to be in the
mortgage process about as much as they want to be
in the dentist chair, and I understand that better than anybody,
So we want to get them in and out of
there as quickly as we can to make it pain
free and make sure that you're in a great position
with your finances.

Speaker 6 (01:35:01):
So have yourself a check up. I mean, it sounds
like you could be done by Thanksgiving if you wanted to.
And see where you stand right now, you might be
surprised at the options available to you, especially with the
interest rates. As David mentioned a point lower. It's eight
sixty six Call Hall, Call Hall first dot com, and
I think this is largely a paperless transaction, isn't it.

Speaker 42 (01:35:24):
Very very little bit? But we do need a few
things up front. We'll tell you all about that, but
I'm telling you it's going to be simpler than you
can even believe. It's going to take you about twenty
to thirty minutes initially, and the rest of it is
on us.

Speaker 6 (01:35:37):
David Hall, thank you so much for the eye opener
and the straight skinny on your finances collaborative effort eight
sixty six. Call Hall and call Hall first dot com.
I've done it, and I too was astonished, and I
have fuzzy math. Everybody knows.

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Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
And David Hall is a fine communicator, and we got
a message from a listener in Grand Rapids who owns
a small business who said, ask about interest only loans mortgages.
I will have to ask him next time. I'm not
aware of that, but we have smart listeners who listen
and they seek response, and we will get them response.

(01:39:37):
I was reading Tony Cuthfert, a Woody Allen book yesterday.
It's an older book, but it's like the book is
an entire conversation with Woody Allen and he says, this
struck me. He wanted to work with a guy called
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(01:39:58):
And he said the only way to reach Denholm Elliott
was to call a bar in a Beitha at a
certain time of day and they would call him to
the phone. What I want to live like, Yeah, that
sounds pretty good. His agent said, well, if you're going
to if you want to talk to him, you have
to call this bar and Abifa at this certain time

(01:40:21):
and they'll call him to the phone. Of course, that
was before cell phones and whatnot. But I don't think
Denham Elliott would have carried a cell from from what
it sounds like, pretty pretty, pretty pretty good, what a life. Yeah,
I'd be able to do that. It's kind of like
when I used to have to call Sparky Anderson, the

(01:40:42):
Tiger manager. You'd have to call the Green Tree restaurant
at the Holiday Inn in Lakeland, Florida, and you'd have
to call it seven point thirty, not exactly a Betha
to put him on the J. P. McCarthy show. Sparky there, Yeah,
we'll get him. Michael Patrick shields with you through the
at and t he microphones. A lot of talk of

(01:41:03):
Jeffrey Epstein yesterday as Democrats release some emails about what
they're calling dirty Donald and what did he know and
when did he know it? And who said what about what?
And this seems like maybe it's the new Russia, Russia Russia.
Maybe it's the new perfect phone call with Ukraine. I
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(01:41:25):
friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Crump. He's admitted that
he was friends with him, but then he cut him off.
And I don't want to dig too far into this
because it's dirty business. But politics is these days, isn't it.
It sure is, so I guess we'll see what happens.

(01:41:45):
Sean diddy Comb's prison redate, the day he's going to
get released, is already pushed back. You know why. Apparently
he violated rules in the prison already, and one of
them had to do with being on a three way
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a way to get on a phone call. And the

(01:42:07):
other one I think had to do with making some
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ways to make hooch. And he's obviously got a substance
abuse problem, so they must have caught him making some
kind of radiator whiskey or whatever they do in the
prison like that. It's Michael Patrick shields with you through
the AT and T microphones and very pleased to be

(01:42:29):
with you. By the way, Americans are falling behind on
their car payments, never mind mortgages. There is a share
of subprime borrowers sixty days overdue on their auto loans
right now, how are you doing in your car payment?
Are you able to make that car payment? They do
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(01:42:51):
car that you really want, don't they by saying, you know, well,
it's only gonna be X amount of month, and then
that bill comes due and the car feels good, but
the payment doesn't. Gavin Newsome, by the way, he's been
doing some international travel the governor of California. He seems
to be at the moment for what it's worth, the
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(01:43:16):
It's a long long way to go, though, but he
seems to be getting all the attention. There are others,
of course. Zach ru Datt is the director of the
Michigan Alliance for Legal Reform. Now we've been speaking with
him for a couple of years on the program, and
now he is in that capacity. He joins the radio

(01:43:37):
stage to take a bow and tell us what it's
all about. Alfie, welcome back to the airwaves.

Speaker 33 (01:43:42):
Yeah, good morning, Michael Patrick. Glad to be back with you.

Speaker 6 (01:43:45):
Who represents that alliance, and thank you for saying that.

Speaker 33 (01:43:49):
Yeah, So I just started this new role a couple
months ago. We've been pieced together, this Michigan Alliance for
Legal formed the last couple of months, and we formerly
launched yesterday. So we're a coalition of thirty plus different organizations,
the associations across Michigan looking to brain and loss of
abuse across the state of Michigan and bring some fairness
and balance back to the legal system, make sure it

(01:44:10):
works for everybody. So very excited about the work we've
been doing and excited to be talking about it with
you this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
What's an example of lawsuit abuse?

Speaker 33 (01:44:18):
Yeah, so I'll give you. I'll give you two different examples. So,
two of the biggest priorities that we have out of
the gate right now legislatively is restoring Michigan's open and
obvious premise ability protection and implementing some transparency on third
pre litigation funding. So open and obvious premise ability protection,
this is a protection that we used to have in
Michigan for property owners. Like let's say you had a

(01:44:40):
patch of ice or a pothole in your parking lot,
if you had some kind of hazard that was open
and obviously the average person that property owner would be
protected from any kind of lawsuit on that type of hazard.
Our court overruled that protection two years ago, and now
we're one of nine states across the country that doesn't
have something like that in the state of Michigan. So
we're looking to restore or at least pressure restore that

(01:45:01):
protection in the state of Michigan. And then on third,
pre litigation funding. This is a practice where if you're
a financer, you approach a plan, if you approach a
law firm and say, hey, I'll file finance your lawsuit
exchange for a cut up a settlement, and on face
value might not sound super problematic, but it creates problems
where it's just adding fuel to fire for lawsuits against
the job employer or employers hard and small. There's absolutely

(01:45:23):
nothing on the books here in Michigan regulating this practice,
so sometimes the plans themselves might not even know that
their case is being financed or influenced by some other funder.
And because there's such a lack of disclosure here, I mean,
it creates quite a hot bed. First, a pretty significant
national security risk in Michigan. So if you're a financer
from Russia, from China and you're on the receiving of
the tariffs right now and you want to retaliate in

(01:45:44):
a way without being detected. This creates a mechanism for
them to come into Michigan finance lawsuits against you know,
our big industries like manufacturing and agriculture, and undermine us
economically without even being detected. So we're not looking to
ban the practice all together. We're just looking to put
some commentsome scargos on it to make sure that zumers
are protected in our acconomy at largest protected orderling costs
for everybody.

Speaker 6 (01:46:05):
You got the likes of Jim Holcombe, the president of
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Life a crap show.

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Tiger's lefty Derek Scooble won the al Cy Young Award
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Coming soon. In the meantime, Tony Cuthbert's talking sports.

Speaker 25 (01:49:53):
The NFL back at it tonight, Michael Patrick. I want
to classify this as a must watch, but if you
need your fix, here it is. The New York Jets
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visit the seven and two Eagles on Sunday Night Football
on NBC.

Speaker 6 (01:50:13):
And you know what, the.

Speaker 25 (01:50:13):
National slate isn't all that bad. If you want to
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Washington taking on the Miami Dolphins.

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And where is this game?

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Madrid?

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If you want to watch that game at nine am
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Oh that's a bad game actually, Dallas at Las Vegas
on Monday Night football. Yeah, the Raiders are one of
the worst teams in the NFL. And always I always
wonder why they schedule all these games way in advance,
because then you get clunkers like that one. We did
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and Eastern Michigan visits Ball State.

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I just feel if there's an NFL game on, that's
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it gets priority. It's like a triage because we only
get so many games, and I love every one of them.
I don't care who's playing back with more next.

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Hour INBC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a
month and a half, the government shutdown is over. President
Trump's signed the funding measure that was just passed by
the House Wednesday. The measure final. They made it out
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until January thirtieth. Yesterday we said goodbye to a tiny

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monetary unit of payment. The US Mint processed the last
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The Treasurer says, Indy, the penny is going to save
the US fifty six million dollars, but at what cost?
We'll lose a penny for your thoughts, You won't be
able to give your two cents? What will you throw
a jar in your kitchen. I'm pre Tennis and the Dallas.

Speaker 17 (01:52:35):
Cowboys have launched a memorial fund who support the pregnant
girlfriend of defensive end Marshawn Neeland, who died in an
apparent suicide last week. Mark Mayfield, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 12 (01:52:43):
In the Northeast, Chillian breezy in the wake of Tuesday's storms.
Showers will taper off across coastal New England, with skies
clearing from west to east and highs in the low fifties.
Clouds are breaking in the Mid Atlantic across Maryland to
Delaware and Virginia, temperatures topping near sixty, and there's plenty
of sunshine in the Southeast from Atlanta to Orlando, with
temperatures reaching the low eighties. In the Deep South, spotty

(01:53:04):
most of the region's days dry, with temperatures around eighty.
Brisk and Chile in the Midwest, with some sprinkles lingering
Plain States, as southern plains will hit the seventies, while
up north, temperatures will be in the fifties across the
Dakotas and Nebraska. They're in sunny across the Southwest, with

(01:53:25):
temperatures hitting the mid eighties in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Central and southern California remain mostly sunny, with temperatures topping
the mid eighties Inland. In the Pacific Northwest, more rain
is rolling in from the Pacific. Expect showers from northern
California to Portland, with highs in the upper fifties and
snow in the higher Cascades. That's your national forecast. I'm
Tammy Trio.

Speaker 17 (01:54:00):
News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a month and
a half, the government shutdown is over.

Speaker 18 (01:54:05):

Speaker 23 (01:54:06):
This was an easy extension, but they didn't want to
do it easy. With that to do it the hard wain,
they looked very bad. The Democrats do.

Speaker 17 (01:54:14):
President Trump signed the legislation in the Oval office Wednesday night,
which extends funding until January.

Speaker 15 (01:54:30):
The thirtieth.

Speaker 17 (01:54:31):
Speaker, Mike Johnson says a bill compelling the Dog to
release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files will receive
a vote on the House floor next week. With the
discharge petition now reaching the two hundred and eighteen signatures needed,
Johnson is required to put the bill on the floor soon,
although he suggested he would not use some of the
extra time that he was allowed. Democratic Congresswoman at Alite
of Grihalva became the two hundred and eighteenth signature on

(01:54:52):
the discharge petition shortly after she was sworn in on
Wednesday afternoon. This follows reports at Epstein referenced Trump in
emails to his associate geel In Maxwell, as well as
a journalist claiming in one that Trump knew about the girls.
getting the horror movie treatment. Tammy Trujeo explains, heowingo.

Speaker 12 (01:55:18):

Speaker 17 (01:55:37):
I'm Tammy Trucheo, and solar activity is forcing NASA to
delay a planned Blue Origin rocket launch. The new Glenn
rocket was supposed to last off Wednesday afternoon with two
Mars orbiters. However, intense solar storms forced the second delay
of the week. You're listening to the Latest from NBC
News Radio. After nearly a month and a half, the
government shutdown is over.

Speaker 23 (01:55:57):
This was a no brainer. This was an easy extension.
But they didn't want to do it the easy way.
They to do it the hard wain. They look very bad,
the Democrats do.

Speaker 17 (01:56:06):
which extends funding until January the thirtieth. The Trump administration
is preparing announcements on affordability soon. That's according to Treasury

(01:56:28):
Secretary Scot percent who said Americans will see substantial announcements
over the next couple of days for items not grown
in the US. Assent did not provide details on how
prices will be lowered, but he said such items as coffee, bananas,
and other fruits will likely be impacted. The Trump administration
has argued it's working to address affordability concerns. Besson asserted
that Americans are going to start feeling better early next year,

(01:56:50):
after predicting inflation will cool and wages will increase. Unionized
Starbucks maristas are planning to strike today. Here's Monica Nelson.

Speaker 40 (01:56:58):
The action coincides with the coffee giant's popular Red Cup Day.
The union, representing around five hundred and fifty stores, accuses
Starbucks of refusing to fairly negotiate and has rejected the
company's previous proposal. Starbucks claims it already offers competitive pay
and benefits and is ready to negotiate if the union
returns to the table. The strike could expand if no

(01:57:19):
progress is made, with union members pledging to continue escalating
actions if needed.

Speaker 17 (01:57:24):
Toyota is building a thirteen point nine billion dollar battery
plant in North Carolina. The automaker announced on Wednesday. The
eighteen hundred and fifty acre facility will create up to
fifty one hundred jobs. It's the company's first battery plant
outside of Japan and the US Mint struck its final
penny on Wednesday. President Trump previously announced plans in February
to retire the coin, which dates back to seventeen ninety three.

(01:57:46):
There are approximately three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
Consumer and Business News I'm Mark Neefield.

Speaker 37 (01:57:52):
Thursday Night Football and AFC showdown between the Patriots, winners
of seven straight and the Jets from Foxborough. Pats QB.

Speaker 38 (01:58:03):
They're coming here with you want to beat in division.
We're wearing you know whatever jerseys and they're gonna you
have something to play for. And they still do. So
they're gonna be no tough challenge. And I think it's,
like I said, any given weeks, so you got to
prepare on a short weekend and kind of win that battle.

Speaker 9 (01:58:14):

Speaker 37 (01:58:16):
that Aj Brown's unhappiness with the offense not a distraction,
despite Brown calling everything outside of his family life a
crap show. Tiger's lefty Trek Scooble won the al Cy
Young Award for the second straight season, while Pirates ace
Paul Skens was a unanimous selection for the nl Cy

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Young Award. Thunder torched the Lakers by twenty nine. Nicola
jokicch erupted for fifty five. The Nuggets took down the Clippers.
Steph Curry season high forty six taped the Warriors down
the Spurs.

Speaker 9 (01:58:49):
That's sports. I'm Ron Tamoss.

Speaker 12 (01:58:52):
In the northeast Chilean breeze in the wake of Tuesday's storms,
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(01:59:12):
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(01:59:34):
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Speaker 13 (01:59:52):

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of you. It was nineteen forty six. After surging through
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hundred and fifty nine people in destroying buildings. It was
the deadliest such event in modern US history, and it
sparked a reckoning because the wave was caused by an

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underwater earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, and nobody
in Hawaii knew that tremor occurred or that a massive
wall of water was coming their way as high as
one hundred and thirty feet and it was moving as
fast as a commercial jet. If you can imagine that
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that was one of the the cities that was most struck.
You've figured out that the United States beefed up their
alert system, the National Tsunami Warning Center, and that's been
monitoring seismic activity for a long time. That agency will
go offline by the end of the month. Funding three

(02:02:21):
hundred thousand dollars of it was supposed to come and
they missed the deadline. So now there's a lack of
available funding. I don't know necessarily what will happen. But
in Michigan, the storms we're worried about right now are
not great lakes tsunamis necessarily, but cold and wind and
ice and snow. And when a storm hits, Consumers Energy

(02:02:45):
and their eight thousand dedicated team members don't hesitate. They
set aside their lives for the millions of Michiganders who
count on them for the energy they need. Twenty four
to seven, that's all of us. Visit Consumers Energy dot
com slash reliable to learn more. Lots of people looking
at the weather this weekend because it's rifle season Saturday

(02:03:07):
morning at dawn, it's the morning you can hear dawn breaking.
And I know the ski operators are excited too, because
maybe you get early snow, you can open up by
Thanksgiving and that usually means you're going to have a
very good tourism season. Not everybody is lucky enough to
have the nutrition they need, and that's another area where

(02:03:30):
Consumer's Energy comes to life. Brian Wheeler is a media
relations specialist for that company, and he's going to talk
to us about the Consumer's Energy Foundation and a grant
that they've given to the Food Bank Council of Michigan
to help those who need it. Thank you for being here,
and that sounds like an early holiday presence and the

(02:03:52):
joy and the sort of thing that Jimmy Stewart was
just talking about.

Speaker 43 (02:03:56):
Brian and I did morning to you, and I think
you know, as you talk about those milestones for this
time of year, certainly the holidays are on our minds,
and so we at the Consumer's Energy Company and our foundation,
a charitable arm, are trying to reach out to our
neighbors and our friends, and so you mentioned our foundation
yesterday provided a quarter of a million dollars two hundred

(02:04:19):
and fifty thousand dollars to support the Food Bank Council
to really help feed up the process and be more
active and getting food to those who need it, especially
this winter.

Speaker 6 (02:04:30):
How does that work? And I know there was a
lot of attention paid recently because of the government shut
down to the disruption of the snap benefits.

Speaker 43 (02:04:40):
Right, and as we've talked about, as everyone knows, the
federal government signed the proclamssion to reopen yesterday. So I
think that's going to mean better news for getting some
SNAP benefits to people, but really the issue of what
we call food insecurity. As many as one in nine
Michiganders have issues getting the three square meals the day

(02:05:03):
they need, or they don't know where their meal is
going to come from. So our contribution to the Food
Bank Council is going to have a state by the impact.
They're actually launching a new program to do more in
terms of making deliveries of food to people at home.
So you think about seniors, people who may have issues
getting on the road, for example, or going to food bank,

(02:05:25):
people's abilities, those with young, people with children. This program
is going to help deliver food seven days a week
to people's homes to make sure that they've got their
next meal ready to go out there in front of them.

Speaker 6 (02:05:39):
It's interesting because there would be a fair amount of people,
including myself, who wouldn't have known what a SNAP benefit
was until we found out people weren't getting it when
the shutdown happened. It's one point six million Michigan residents
and essentially it is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Speaker 43 (02:05:57):
Right exactly. And you think about this really as a network.
There are advocacy and policy efforts that are designed to
strengthen the economy and get more people jobs. But at
the most basic level, I think we acknowledge that there's
a public role in ensuring that nobody goes hungry. And
that's not just a governmental role with the SNAP program,
but we look to our food banks, food pantries across

(02:06:20):
the state. You think about Feeding America for example in
West Michigan, or those regional food pantries, and then the
ones that are in churches and community centers right where
you live. There's a constant need to get food on
the shelves and in this case, getting that food delivered
to people's homes. If they can't get to the pantries themselves,
whether there's a government shutdown or not, that need doesn't

(02:06:42):
go away. Like we said, one in nine michigan Anders
are typically facing some sort of challenge or hardship, and
so we try to connect people with those resources, calling
to one one for example we've mentioned before, to get
you in touch with assistance of all types. But at
that basic level, nobody should go hungry, and so really
proud that the Foundation Sumers Energy Foundation we can make
a difference.

Speaker 6 (02:07:03):
You know, it's interesting when you hear about power companies
in the news often it has to do with rates,
and Consumer's Energy is Michigan's largest energy provider. They have
the Consumer's Energy Foundation, as you're just hearing about here.
But also when you are providing power for that many
people in the state of Michigan, it's a giant responsibility

(02:07:25):
and that's in the you know, Department of security on
a day to day basis, especially when we get the
winter that we typically get.

Speaker 43 (02:07:36):
Yeah, our company, with just electric, electricity and natural gas,
touches close to seven million in Michigans of a state
of ten million people. We see a lot of different
communities and a lot of different needs, and we, like
everybody else, we know, we have responsibility to step up
and be part of solutions for the communities that we serve,

(02:07:57):
and so I think it's important that we can provide
these dollars. There's actually right now on inside our company,
there's going to be a push to encourage people like me,
people who work for Consumers Energy, to volunteer. That's always
a priority for ours for us, but working in volunteering,
say at those two banks, and to see what we
can do in terms of making additional personal donations. Our

(02:08:19):
company's foundation will be able to match those dollars to say,
Brian Wheeler, write a check to the Food Bank Council.
So it doesn't stop here, because it never really stops
the need for feeding people from beings. You know, those
hung never ends, and especially as we hit winter, we
hope everybody can do their part well.

Speaker 6 (02:08:38):
Those Consumers Energy employees and retirees contributed more than fifteen
million in support from Michigan nonprofits and so we say
thank you and you can learn more and contribute to it.
Consumers Energy dot com Slash Foundation. He's Brian Wheeler, I'm
Michael Patrick Shields.

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Speaker 17 (02:12:35):
Anton to Gibbs, running right, runs through a tackle, gets
out of the tent, gets through five still fighting.

Speaker 14 (02:12:41):
Down two out of the one to the ansa touchdown
Detroit Lions.

Speaker 6 (02:12:46):
He did not quit that as a touchdown by Gibbs
of the Detroit Lions. And we know my mother, Gladys
Shields is smiling when she hears a touchdown by Gibbs
because your famous saying is what.

Speaker 52 (02:13:05):
Give it to Gibbs.

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Give it to Gibbs. That's what you always we get
texts my brother and sister and I in the middle
of the Lions games on the weekends. Give it to Gibbs.
And if we happen to disturb my mother by calling
her in the middle of the Lion's game, we're likely
to hear you say, what, give it to Gibbs. Yeah,
it works out most of the time, doesn't it.

Speaker 41 (02:13:27):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 52 (02:13:28):
Oh, he's great, he's great.

Speaker 6 (02:13:31):
Yeah, he's fun to watch for sure. Well, Gladys Shields
is on our radio stage today, our AT and T line,
because you know what you're in the news. Would you
like to know why?

Speaker 52 (02:13:43):
Well, I think you sent me this story about the names, Gladys.

Speaker 15 (02:13:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:13:48):
Well, a reporter has revealed the ten names that have
seen a significant decrease in use over the years. And
the word is that these names are going to be
virtually extinct now and I'm going to reveal them here.
These are names you don't probably hear anymore. Dale is one,

(02:14:08):
Neville is one. Gary, not too many Gary's anymore. Roderick
you know which you would sureten to Rod? I guess
Galavin Sheila. It's kind of an Australian sort of a name. Brenda.
You had a cousin Brenda. Not too many Brendas anymore. Yes,

(02:14:30):
I know. Lauren is not a name that you hear
much anymore. And Karen Karen. Nobody wants to name their
daughter Karen anymore because that's become like a pejorative for
a pleasant woman, I guess. But here's where we get
to the tenth name that's nearly extinct, and it is Glass. Yeah,

(02:15:01):
what do you think about that?

Speaker 52 (02:15:03):
I know, I know I'm the only one in the
building of there's two hundred and five people in this building,
and I'm the only one with the name Gladys. So
when they say glad they all know who they're talking about.

Speaker 6 (02:15:16):
You don't meet too many Gladyses. Did you ever ask
your mother Hattie Harriet, by the way, that's another name
you don't hear too much anymore, why she named you Gladys?

Speaker 52 (02:15:27):
I did, but I can't remember what she told me.
I thought she told me that was a movie star
at that time, in the nineteen forty three. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:15:38):
It wasn't Gladys Knight in the Pips, Was it.

Speaker 52 (02:15:40):
No, no, no, no, no, I've been called that before.

Speaker 6 (02:15:45):
There was a guy in the There was a weather
man in Detroit. He was on the radio and on TV.
You might remember. His name was Jim Maddis and oh
ye yeah, they called him the mad dog, Jim the
mad Dog Maddie and his mother's name was Gladys. They
always used to talk about Gladys Maddess, Oh.

Speaker 52 (02:16:03):
Yeah, or Gladass happy Bottom. What did you say, glad
happy Bottom?

Speaker 6 (02:16:15):
Who said that was that? That must have been mean
teenage kids saying that.

Speaker 52 (02:16:21):
They all called me that.

Speaker 6 (02:16:23):
That was your I never heard this before. That was
your nickname.

Speaker 52 (02:16:27):
Yes, Gladass happy Bottom.

Speaker 6 (02:16:29):
I'm glad you're saying that and not me. Oh yeah,
well the name Gladys is going away. And also did
you hear yesterday they're not going to make pennies anymore
as of yesterday, or more minting pennies.

Speaker 52 (02:16:47):
I have a whole can of pennies. I don't know
what to do with it now.

Speaker 6 (02:16:51):
You can still spend them, but they're not going to
make them. But I think you ought to take them
over to Meyer and dump them in that machine. Can't
you do that?

Speaker 52 (02:17:00):
I was thinking about that, yes, I know Kroger's has
a machine.

Speaker 6 (02:17:05):
Meyer has it too, and you can get all of
the things you want most at Meyer.

Speaker 52 (02:17:10):
I always stop at Myers.

Speaker 6 (02:17:14):
Ad Meyer. You get more of the things you want most,
more local produce, more home decor more free prescriptions. You
get them all for less, admire Why would you pay more?
You know what you could do is take all those
pennies a meer, dump them in that machine, turn it
into paper or put it on your debit card or
whatever fire Keepers and make something.

Speaker 52 (02:17:36):
I have a bunch of silver pennies, silver coins, and
another container I'm going to take over there too.

Speaker 6 (02:17:44):
That's another thing. You know, you don't have to have
coins at the casino anymore because you put it all
in your card or you put cash in the machine.
No more of those, however, you'd have to have those
fantastic cups with all the coins in it.

Speaker 52 (02:17:57):
Oh yes, that was a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (02:18:00):
So you will be making an appearance at fire Keepers
in December when we broadcast from the money Keeper's main stage,
and anybody who wants to meet Gladys Gladys glad Ass
Happy Bottom, this can be at our Christmas presentation in
downtown Lancing, our Christmas radio show, and then the very

(02:18:22):
next day she'll be at fire Keepers as well, So
if you want to mark your calendars, that will be
the eighteenth of December in downtown Lancing and the nineteenth
of December at fire Keepers. And I suppose you're at
fire Keepers, you could probably go put some prop bets
on your favorite Detroit lyon at Dacy Sports.

Speaker 52 (02:18:42):
Oh yes, I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 6 (02:18:45):
In fact, that weekend, Jim Nance is in our buddy
from CBS to call the Lions at Steelers game, so
we'll catch up with him. But you could make some
prop bets on Gibbs, Jamal Gibbs to score, Jamirs to score.

Speaker 52 (02:19:02):
Yees, yeah, go give it us again.

Speaker 6 (02:19:05):
What if he scored a touchdown and the camera was
on him and he was holding up the football and
he looked in the camera and he said that one's
for you, gladass, happy bottom pennies from heaven. All right,
love you and thank you for the good chat this morning.

(02:19:26):
Although her name is going away on that midnight train
to Georgia for Gladys Shields my mother. Here's Gladys Knights
from lad Let's bother me, what man, we'll see about that.

Speaker 9 (02:19:51):
He's come to me.

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Shane Hernandez as the president of the Michigan Forward Network.
In the end, it was all for nothing. This shutdown. Eventually.
Doesn't this tarnish the American opinion of Congress in general?

Speaker 52 (02:21:13):
For sure.

Speaker 26 (02:21:13):
They got their political points out of it at the
cost of American families, and a lot of the media
did their bidding. Luckily, we got people like you who
don't and are willing to tell the real story.

Speaker 6 (02:21:23):
Thank you very much. That's nice to you to say.
Liz Ware at Mission Point Resort was listening to that
interview with my mother in center a text good interview. Gee,
happy bottom. I think that might stick. We will see
Liz where hopefully she will join us in our downtown
Detroit broadcast at the Godfrey that week in mid December.

(02:21:44):
That will be on Wednesday morning. With visit Detroit and
she's on a travel commission, so look forward to seeing her.
She spends a lot of time in the city of
Detroit and also at Mackinaw Island obviously, and really all
over the country. Andy Hetzel from Blue Cross Blue Shield
of Michigan, and we're going to broadcast from their headquarters
on that Tuesday that week on Lafayette down there is

(02:22:08):
talking about the competition between drug companies and how that's
very important for bringing down the cost of healthcare.

Speaker 53 (02:22:16):
Competition, as we all know, lowers price. The more competitors
that you have selling a product, the more choice there
is in the market, and that choice lowers prices. Companies
compete on price, and that is not what's happening in
the prescription drug space right now for a lot of
drugs that are granted these patent monopoliefs ten fifteen years

(02:22:38):
or more, and until the government reforms that practice and
allows competition to get to the market faster, we at
Blue Cross want to do what we can to innovate
biosimilar We intend to introduce more as these high cost
drugs come off of patent in the future.

Speaker 6 (02:22:55):
Next week, these microphones will be in Las Vegas where
we'll get our fire keepers on at the d the
casino owned by Derek Stevens, the detroiter who also owns Circa.
We'll be broadcasting from the F one Las Vegas Grand Prix,
which goes right down the strip and we will visit
the f one Arcade two in the Forum Shops at Caesar's.

(02:23:18):
There'll be a couple of days from Miami two in
early December, from Loewe's Hotel at the Beach and possibly
at Coral Gables. What's better than Thanksgiving at Joe Stonecrab?
What can I tell you? Crab instead of Turkey? I
don't know. It's always a good time. We move these around.

(02:23:38):
And as a travel writer, you can read my writing
every other Sunday in the Lansing State Journal, LSJ dot com,
Yahoo News Travel Tatler dot org, and go World Travel.

Speaker 17 (02:24:00):
In BC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. After nearly a
month and a half, the government shutdown is over.

Speaker 18 (02:24:06):

Speaker 23 (02:24:07):
do it easy way. They to do it the hard way,
and they looked very bad the Democrats do.

Speaker 17 (02:24:15):
which extends funding until January the thirtieth. Speaker Mike Johnson

(02:24:35):
time that he was allowed. Democratic Congresswoman at Alita Grijalva
became the two hundred and eighteenth signature on the discharge
petition shortly after she was sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.

(02:24:57):
This follows reports at Fstein referenced Trump and ems to
his associate Gilane Maxwell, as well as a journalist claiming
in one that Trump knew about the girls. Another beloved
cartoon character now in the public domain is getting the
horror movie treatment. Tammy tru Heo explains.

Speaker 12 (02:25:19):
creators are calling their upcoming film a true testament to feminism,
as well as a wildly violent, ridiculously fun ride. Other
characters who have been put into horror movies since entering
public domain include Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye.
I'm Tammy, Tricheo and.

Speaker 17 (02:25:40):
Solar activity is forcing NASA to delay a planned Blue
Origin rocket launch. The new Glenn rocket was supposed to
last off Wednesday afternoon with two Mars orbiters. However, intense
solar storms forced the second delay of the week. You're
listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.

Speaker 24 (02:25:55):
A common chemical used by dry cleaners and at home
is stainless polished spot cleaners and some adhesives is being
linked to liver disease. Researchers at University of Southern California's
medical schools say tetrachloroethylene, often called PCEE, is associated with
the three times greater risk of liver fibrosis. That's a

(02:26:17):
buildup of scar tissue that can cause liver cancer, liver failure,
even death. Researchers say they found that people with higher
incomes are at higher risk, theorizing that could be because
they're more likely to use dry cleaning services. Poor air
quality is associated with an increase in emergency room visits.

(02:26:38):
The Oregon Health Authority tracks real time health trends across
the state. They found that when air quality worsened, visits
to the er jumped. The visits were for asthma, COPD, anxiety,
and other respiratory or stress related symptoms. Health Update. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 54 (02:27:05):
That's so easy flitter has brown. Take my hand, Mama,
We're going to town. Whoa what no wand up a
thing to do? Eggs over easy hash browsing you. We'll
have coffee, sausage and hot buttered toes. Yes, this breakfast

(02:27:26):
is really the most what a wand up for?

Speaker 6 (02:27:30):
Thing to do?

Speaker 54 (02:27:32):
Eggs over easy has brows and you.

Speaker 15 (02:27:35):
We'll go to it.

Speaker 6 (02:27:35):
Good morning, It's Michael Patrick Shields radio stations across the
state of Michigan. Good afternoon, good evening, whenever you might
be listening to this program, because you can catch us
live on one of the great radio stations across the
state of Michigan. Performed in the morning, but available streaming
audio and podcasting at any time of day. So if
you're listening on wj I AM or WTKG Lancing, Grand

(02:27:58):
Rapids Kalamazoo, Track City, Potoski, Charlevoi, Benton, Harbor, Saint Joe, Muskegon,
Big Rapids, Read City, Cadillac. I say good morning to you,
but maybe you decided to sleep in today, or you
were too busy to listen in the morning, or you
save it up for the weekend. You say, I'm a
listen MPs while I'm mowing the lawn or shoveling the

(02:28:18):
snow or shopping, or I have to drive up north
for hunting season. I'll put him on the radio through
my bluetooth. All of that is available to you at
mibigshow dot com and there you can go to Apple
Podcasts too, and every interview is podcasted there, and some
of the more creative segments that Tony Cuthbert decides to

(02:28:40):
post are there as well, and then you can share
them through social media, pick and choose whatever you like.
And we do have an announcement coming soon about WJIM
in Lansing and an expansion. I'm not really supposed to
say much about it yet, but Kirk Squires, who's listing

(02:29:01):
in Florida right now in the streaming, texted me and says,
what are you up to? I want to know ahead
of time, and Tony Cuthbert, I'm going to resist giving
him the inside skinny because you know, you tell one
person and they it's like the old shampoo commercial and
so on and so on and so on.

Speaker 15 (02:29:22):
It's something.

Speaker 6 (02:29:24):
Related to what I was just kind of talking about
in terms of our affiliate radio stations across the state. Okay,
and irony of ironies. Paul Long sent me a message.
He's the CEO of the Michigan Catholic Conference. He sent
me a picture out the window of where he is
listening this morning. Can you guess where that is? He's

(02:29:45):
at the Godfrey in downtown Detroit, and that's where we're
going to be broadcasting from in mid December when we
do our Detroit shows. So he sent me sunrise over
the Detroit River. Because everybody knows when you're looking for
Detroit to see Canada, remember that old thing. I'd be like,
what country would you hit if you went south from Detroit,

(02:30:07):
And a lot of people thought Cuba, but it's actually
Windsor because it sticks out there. So anyway, he's doing
a little advance work for us. He says, they have
a rooftop bar. But I'm not sure in December that's
going to be a viable option for us. It would
be pretty chilly. Thank you mister Long for that advance.
And if you go to visit Detroit dot com, you

(02:30:27):
can plan your visit to Detroit. Man who has business
all over the state and has been in high profile
cases all over the country and has recently become not
only a world traveler, but a podcast or too, with
the A List podcast, which you can get at Apple
Podcasts or anywhere you get your podcast, is Andrew Abood,

(02:30:48):
the Abode Law Firm, and he's on our radio stage,
our at and T line right this very moment.

Speaker 41 (02:30:52):
Welcome back, counselor, Good morning, Michael Patrick, and good morning
to Captain Kirk and uh Paul.

Speaker 6 (02:30:59):
Along everybody else and all the ships at sea. I
listened yesterday to the Bill Maher Club Random podcast because
he had Cheryl Hines on, who from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
She's been on the show with me, but she's also
Robert Kennedy's wife now, so I thought it might be interesting.

(02:31:19):
It was not interesting. And I gotta say, if you
did a word count of who talked the most, Bill
Maher probably did ninety eight percent of the talking, and
she probably did two percent, and the two percent she said,
added absolutely nothing to the conversation. It was kind of
out of her depth for him to talk politics to her,

(02:31:41):
even though she's married to a cabinet secretary. But I
thought that was a very disappointing example of how to
operate a podcast. What is your philosophy with the intriguing
guests you've been bringing to the A List podcast?

Speaker 41 (02:31:56):
Well, it's about them, not about me, And I I'm
pretty conscious of, you know, adding in, you know, my
own observations, and it's really about finding out who they
are and why they are and why they're here and
lancing for whatever reason. And I mean, once you understand

(02:32:19):
that philosophy, it's easy to make it about yourself. It's
a lot more difficult to try and make it interesting
about them. Not that my not that my guests aren't interesting,
but it's you have to temper your ego.

Speaker 6 (02:32:36):
I'd imagine too. The technique must be a lot different
than when you're doing an examination or a cross examination,
because when you're in the courtroom in that situation and
you got somebody on the stand, you almost want them
to answer the questions you know, you give them a
question and you want them to answer a certain way, right.

Speaker 41 (02:32:56):
Well, it's the difference between cross and direct and on
cross examination you want to actually be sort of testifying.
So a lot of your questions are isn't it true that?
Do you agree with this statement? Isn't you know? So
a lot of isn't it true? They have to say
yes or no, and that from a listener's point of view,

(02:33:19):
establishes facts, but you don't get to learn about the guests.
So it's more direct exam and open ended questions.

Speaker 6 (02:33:30):
Is that why sometimes someone will yell out objection leading
the witness.

Speaker 41 (02:33:36):
Well, you can't lead your own witness. You can you
can ask leading questions on cross examination. So yeah, if
it's your own witness and you're asking a question that
really comes down to a yes or no, it often
is considered leading.

Speaker 6 (02:33:55):
I remember in the Johnny Jepp trial when Camille Vasquez
would have Amber heard on the stand and she would
say things like you were very angry at mister Depp,
weren't you That kind of a question.

Speaker 41 (02:34:09):
That would be leading if it was your lawyer. You know,
you're filling in the blank instead of asking how did
you feel? About it.

Speaker 6 (02:34:17):
So that was her cross examination, so she was like
trying to it's interesting. All of this is fascinating to me,
and your podcasts are too. I think you're quite a
natural and very fun. You're a master at it.

Speaker 4 (02:34:30):
You are a master at it.

Speaker 41 (02:34:32):
You're very very good. And I never worry about coming
on your show because you never try and get a
gotcha moment, and so I think you make people feel
comfortable and open up to you, which is a great
technique and a great skill.

Speaker 6 (02:34:48):
Well that's very sweet of you. Just a minute left,
a Flint father was charged with violating the safe gun
storage Dear God, I got eight years in prison because
his five year old got hold of a gun and
shot herself through her eye and out the back of
her skull. Somehow that toddler survived, Praise God. But the lesson,

(02:35:12):
and this is what.

Speaker 41 (02:35:15):
I don't know, the lesson. Those are really tough cases.

Speaker 6 (02:35:17):
I had one years ago, and did you.

Speaker 41 (02:35:21):
I thought we were gonna win it, but my guy
wanted to plead guilty and he took a plea and
I think the judge felt bad. Everybody felt bad, but
we ended up.

Speaker 52 (02:35:32):
You know.

Speaker 41 (02:35:32):
It's those are just tough cases. I mean, the lesson
for sure is lock up your gun.

Speaker 4 (02:35:40):
If you have especially if you have kids around.

Speaker 6 (02:35:43):
The second lesson is if you need entertainment, go to
the A List podcast with Andrew A. Boot And if
you need legal advice go to him too in East Lansing.
Thank you, counselor have you ever wondered my health insurance
costs seemed to keep going up? I was doing some
research online and I stumbled upon some surprising information on

(02:36:04):
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.
It's no wonder healthcare costs or a concern for so
many of us. That's why Blue Cross Blue Shield of

(02:36:27):
Michigan is working hard to help all of us better
understand the factors driving up healthcare costs and sharing what
they are doing is a business to address it. Because
Blue Cross knows that healthcare is personal, it needs to
work for everyone, and affordability matters. So I encourage you
to take a minute and check outmibludaily dot com, slash
affordability and get informed. You'll be glad you did. It's

(02:36:49):
eye opening information that can help everyone better understand the
complexities of the healthcare system and its impact on your
health insurance costs.

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