The Dom Giordano Program

My Achy Breaky Heart (Full Show)

12 - Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as Mark Zuckerberg looks to move Facebook from fact checkers to community notes, much like X has. 1210 - Side question - all time heartbreak 1220 - How fraudulent is having remote learning on days where school should just be snowed-out? 1230 - Broad + Liberty Author Beth Ann Rosica joins us today to discuss her new article on boys competing in girls sports. Is this more of a safety issue for women or is it more of a fairness issue? Why did the term “sex” suddenly change in the 2020’s? How did the Moms4Liberty lawsuit affect things? 1250 - What is going on with the real estate prices in Levittown? 1 - NJ Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia joins us to discuss the ridiculous bill that would allow teachers to not have to pass reading and writing certification tests, essentially proving you are able to read. What are the excuses that the NJEA using to quantify why eliminating reading requirements? Why would they eliminate the “highly effective” status of teachers? 115 - Who would win in a fight, Elon or Zuckerberg? Is Giant revolting against Big Food? 120 - We return to Zuckerberg speaking on switching Facebook to community notes like they have on X. Girl Scout Cookies are back, but two are leaving. Your calls. 135 - Is this Levittown real estate price hike a reflection of scornful Joe Biden’s America as he wrecks everything on his way out? 155 - Dan time, Duckie time. Jon Cryer whines about the election on Bill Maher’s show and doubles down on woke. 2 - The Pope has appointed a new U.S. Cardinal and he is regarded as one of the most progressive leaders in the Church 205 - NJ Congressman Jeff Van Drew joins us to talk about his new promotion within the Senate. How will this job help to combat the corruption agencies like the FBI and the DOJ? How will Trump react to Biden’s order on offshore oil drilling? Will Trump rename the Gulf of Mexico and take over Greenland? What has changed since Jeff has become a Congressman, and what does he expect from this year? 210 - Money Melody! 215 - Winner? 235 - Linda Kerns joins us to celebrate Trump’s electron win certification. Will we ever wrap up election counting by 10pm on Election Day? What is Linda working on in this new year? What will the festivities on Inauguration Day look like? 250 - Lightning Round!

Duration:: 2h 24m
Broadcast on:: 07 Jan 2025
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Oh, I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, I wrote my amenities. The average now is around $450,000 according to the Bucks County Courier Times, or it's in that range. J.D. Moline says in talking to real estate people there, that most of the people that live in Levittown now, and if you're new to this, Levittown is misty-eyed, it is the American dream. I have a list of what you got when you got one of those Levittown homes. I bet we have people listening. If you are one, call me if you moved into one or over the years. Maybe your parents did, 855-839-1210. Moline says a couple seeking their first house now in Levittown would need an annual income of approximately $120,000 to afford a typically priced Levitt-built house, which today costs between $350 to $450. An average Levittown house that needed kitchen and bath updates now hits the market, though, in that range, even that you would need updates. This is great reporting. J.D. Moline is always my favorite. He says the median annual household income in Levittown, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is 97-750. That means the average Levittown homeowner could not qualify for a mortgage to buy into their own neighborhood. Now, is an out of line to say, this is just another example, and it's graphic because everybody knows Levittown. Oh, well, you're dismissing. You're not taking a look at this dad and the other. I'm reading about this $720,000 home, and I don't deny, probably has amenities and all that. But it's inflation again. And inflation is a symptom of the government printing too much money, spending too much money, taxing too much. It's a symptom of what Biden has done, this miserable guy in a miserable family, and what he continues to do. So late yesterday, I think it was late yesterday. Biden releases double figures, it's unclear whether it's 10 or 11 of these figures in Gitmo to go back to the middle East Omen and start their lives over again, like they're not going to return to the battlefield. I take great pride that we did the first radio broadcast out of Gitmo. Took a lot, a lot of connections, hardship getting the whole thing. The lucky airlines you fly in from Jacksonville, they told you, Hey, please don't get up during the flight. You know, the plane tips one way or another. Lucky airlines. I'm thinking, Oh man, the return trip on that let me off. It's not that far, but still. And there I eyeball these guys, these animals who murdered us. And Biden suddenly, or in his cabinet, they said, what the hell, why not release all of them? Why not release the so-called mastermind? Why not release every prisoner that Biden can get his hands on? This really calls for people of urgency to help the country to rein in presidential powers on these kinds of things once the president is in end days, doesn't it? I know it would take a lot because you got pressing matters. But my God, Gitmo again, the worst of the worst. First, they're going to be executed. That's what should have happened. Rather than all these delays and all these driver, remember interviewing the lawyer who tried to tell me, his guy, he was representing one of these guys, he really wasn't Bin Laden's driver. Bin Laden happened to be around and needed a ride, and this guy was a skilled driver. That's how he became the chauffeur to Bin Laden. Come on. So Biden strikes again, Gitmo now. Back to the Levittown thing, 855-839-1210. I do want to talk about that with you today. What is that a symptom of? And they talk, JD does, market shattering records, frustrating would be buyers. If it were just Levittown, look, Levittowns have faced it, but because it's famous, what you got when you moved into Levittown was, let's say, I have a list here somewhere, let's say, a Levittown-built rancher, the least expensive sold for $89.90 in 1953. At that time, that was less than half the price for a typical new home, and it had more amenities. A 30-year mortgage was $59 a month, including property taxes and insurance. For that, a newlywed couple received 900 square feet, a first floor living space with an unfinished second floor, radiant heat, thermopane windows, and a kitchen outfitted with metal, white, pink, or blue tracy cabinets with matching general electric appliances. Ooh, pink cabinets. Well, the general electric appliances, this was the about Ronald Reagan was doing the commercial GE appliances. Are you kidding me? The GE appliances were the kitchen and the home of the future, the smart home. You know, you hit a button and oh, everything happens. Yes. So thank God Dan's past is now happily in the home. You know, I just found out recently that GE, I guess, did this. They had the dishwashers that you had to roll out and plug into the sink. I didn't know that. Yeah, my grandma had one, and I found it out, and because my mom's like, "Oh, could you imagine having to roll out the dishwasher to plug?" I'm like, "What?" She's like, "Oh, imagine. Then your mom's do the dishes at one point?" You pass that to me? Sure. Well, she ended up becoming such a pain to roll out the dishwasher and plug it in that she just ended up filling it and using it for storage. Kind of like treadmill. Never going to see it in use. All right. So 855-839-1210, love to get to you. What is this symptom of? Oh, you guys are always attacking Biden. You always attacking much, but no, that's one of the largest elements of this. There's no way it ought to be this inflated. Is there gold in Levittown? I mean, is there good neighborhoods, all American neighborhoods? But look at this again. Every year this happens. And in this case, 720,000 dollars, this 1958 country clubber along Fountain Road in the Forcesia Gates section of middle towns is J.T. Mowain. All right. Biden striking at all this stuff. All right. President Trump held a news conference, is holding a news conference. He's taking questions from reporters today. He said a number of things that are interesting about Canada, about energy, and about Wayne Gretzky. He's still back to Gretzky wanting to be the president or the prime minister of Canada. The biggest story out there today, though, and we'll play you a lot of sound of this Zuckerberg, and he doesn't sound his voice is much more powerful than I remember. And he looks kind of balked up. I know he's been doing various things. So here's a little taste. Here is Mark Zuckerberg talking about this transition for Facebook. And I always thought Twitter was worse than Facebook and what they did during COVID, etc. But listen to the first part. They're going to go with community standards, not the fact checkers, cut one. The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again, prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's what we're going to do. First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the US. After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US. So over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. All right, so community notes system. Now, I know the downsides of this several in the so-called legacy media going after that. It takes you forever. Misinformation, all that stuff will be out there. Instantaneously with what Zuckerberg said today and what he's doing, more importantly, I saw a multitude of these legacy media types telling us, well, that used to be the job of the legacy media. They determined they knew how to stop people that were crackpots hiding from the under the First Amendment, did they? So we'll be better off, even with the abuses of social media, the internet, the downsides of that talk radio, Fox News channel, when we just had CBS, ABC and NBC. Bernie Goldberg exposed that way back when it's got to be 25 years, 20 years ago, talking about his tenure at CBS. What I've seen is sometimes they don't even intentionally censor. They just have a worldview, their own a bubble, the same worldview, where what I think is a great story that we want to talk about or that people should know about, they go forward and don't talk about it. They don't think it's anything that people need to know, not because they're intentionally saying we're liberals, it's just kind of a worldview. I'll give you a case in point of something that's happened today. It's going to be fun to see how you react. Dawn Fantasia is one of our favorites. The Assemblywoman from Sussex County. And I saw her last week, she happened to be on family vacation. We couldn't get her. She had a lot to say or a good bit to say then about what we talked about yesterday, this New Jersey law just signed, that will now say that teachers don't have to take a basic skill test reading, writing and math. And we kind of mocked it and rightfully so. Now Dawn is a former teacher. Her argument is that these tests were overkill. In other words, you already had to take a bunch of these tests. And I'm not still sure if I'm in full agreement with her, but I'm getting there, but she's a very reliable source. So did I say, no, no, we're not going to put Dawn on because people that are conservative would rather believe you don't have to read in Jersey. But she also says that teacher evaluations have been dumbed down. So if you can get somebody in there, the NGA has made it that they're not going to be evaluated properly. She'll be here at one o'clock today. And hopefully this is an exhibit of something that was misreported or we jumped on this. And it's a little bit more complicated than that. She's an unimpeachable source to me until proven otherwise. Now with the media though, with ABC, NBC, CBS, you're not going to get that. All right. So we'll give you what's a little bit more of Zuckerberg. So he talks about these new principles. Principle number one, no fact checkers, community standards. We know the downside of the community standards. Here's his second point. Second, we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas. And it's gone too far. So I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms. All right, there you go. Those are two really good examples. I don't know if he said COVID somewhere else in here, but I would have thrown that one in. Isn't that the principle one? Now, what's the downside of this? And it might be somebody who said, well, there's plenty of downside to misinformation, disinformation. Okay, tell me what it is. Why are you going to have people believing X, Y, or Z? Tell me what something dangerous is. Isn't the best way to do that? It's out there, but there are plenty of other sources to challenge it. There's plenty of other things to challenge along those lines. Should we just get rid of this thing? Let it not see the light of day. I mean, I despise Alex Jones straight up. I despise him. What he did with those families in Connecticut, what he put them through, he deserved everything he gets for that. But I don't think Alex Jones should be censored. I mean, that is a very specific, there were specific laws. He shouldn't be shut down. If you want to hear what Alex Jones says versus me, you ought to be able to hear it. And then we'll let you make a determination. Is there a downside? Yeah, we know what the downside is to it, but the upside freedom speech is worth it. All right, whatever the trouble is that's created by this, the downside of attacking freedom of speech is a lot worse. All right, 855-839-1210. Side question today, on Friday, Henry and I were in agreement. And I was on pins and needles because I didn't know what Ray did injure would say about allowing individual effort, in this case, Seguan Barkley, to be rewarded by going after the record. I still stand by that. Ray proceeded to slur Eric Dickerson, essentially. And you wouldn't know Eric Dickerson anyhow. You know, we've had other people saying, hey, it was a great run, but he's not a household name. Okay. And I just said how disappointed I was. You know, just like Michael in Godfather 2, about Fredo, about your heart being broken. Okay. So we want to know somebody or something, you know, it's all on the call that really disappointed you if not broke your heart. Ray did injure was an example. That's when I had personal experience. People say Ray did he is someone that can break your heart down. Yeah, well, he's the epitome of, uh, ruling on something like this. You know, so I can't tell you how disappointed I was in him that he even swayed Henry. All right. So, um, Christie would be my nominee because back in the day, I had him on seven times. I'll never forget. It was like a festival. He was that hot with conservatives when he took over his governor. And then we got into it. And I saw in the middle of it, he would never come back. I knew it as we're going through it. He's a bully. It was over the Obama thing. What exactly did I say? Then we saw a lot more. And now we are where Christie is today. I wonder if there's anybody out there that will say we should take it off the board. Springsteen. Because a lot of people have told me, well, you know, back in the day, it was new. It was different. It was refreshing. And, uh, look at where we are with Springsteen now. Could you still continue the subterfuge of idolizing this guy? You can't. So you got to pretend like he didn't break your heart. Well, you happen to your heart if it's not broken with something like this. All right, Dan, why don't you go? I got one. That's a big heartbreak for me. It was a slow heartbreak and probably later than most heartbreak. But how about Howard Stern, um, and I have a specific moment that my heart was broken. It said, you know, he really kind of went downhill after already. Well, you can ask some people they'll say when he went to serious is when he jumped the shark when already left, he jumped the shark. But I interned in late 2012, and I still love the show at that time. He had a lot of fun with Eric, the midget and some others and Ronnie. Uh, and then 2013, I get off my internship and then a video of a recent meeting leaks after I had left my internship where Howard really just proves how out of touch he really is to his staffers. And at that moment, I had known that his, uh, person that he brought in after I had left, Marcy Turk. Well, not because I mean, I was just interned, but Marcy Turk came in right as I was leaving. I really drove his show into that out of touch, you know, realm. So 12 years ago, in 2013, that meeting comes out, my heart's broken. I'm proven that Howard Stern will never be the same. And sadly, I was proven right. All right. Henry, do you have one? Yeah. So, uh, this question was inspired by Philly sports. So I'm going to keep it in that same vein. I think the definition of heartbreak was the 2019 NBA Eastern Conference semi finals game seven between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Toronto Raptors, where if you remember, Kawhi Leonard hit a shot from the corner, falling away, hit the rim about, I don't know, 10 billion times before going down and just completely shattered the hearts of sixers fans across the Delaware Valley. And to this day, I don't know if they've had a better shot than they did that year. I mean, they've lost three of four right now. They look dysfunctional. It's and looking back on that, I mean, in the moment, it's complete heartbreak. And then given what's happened in the five six plus years since now, uh, just breaks my heart. It really does. All right. So somebody I was looking at in terms of you really idolize them and they let you down, but you could take it the way that Henry did tell the story. You know, go down that route. Somebody who broke your heart, at least Kawhi Leonard broke my heart. Okay. Really, really disappointed you is what I was and Christie was good when Dan would stern and or springsteen is another one. Could be political. It could be an athlete. Could be anybody, not personal. You know, we don't know them. We have to know. All right. 8 5 5 8 3 9 12 10. We'll play a little bit more President Trump. And I have a little bit more of Zuckerberg. Now, Zuckerberg does have an antitrust case coming up in April with the government. But I think his motivation more is to be in tune with, after all, Facebook is kind of the meeting spot, the town council. And that town council is riding high with Trump at this point. I'll prove it to you coming up. We have some of the results from the election that are historic for a Republican. You'll hear NBC break it down. They can hardly believe it. That's all straight ahead on talk radio 12 10. All right, I'm just a show welcome in widespread agreement except with the people who run schools. I'm looking at crossing broad. Dan, do you know it? It's a Kevin Kincaid. It's spelled differently. I know it's Kincaid. It is Kincaid. Yeah, Kevin is a good guy and thoughtful and is written nice stuff at times. He's got a great piece up that he had to stay home with his five year old yesterday. Well, he was at home because of the snow. 90 minutes on Chrome getting ready. There are activities of the day. I think it's a Boratown school district. Five. Guy riding his name is Pearson in the inquiry today for once. I agree with him, the inquire. I said him a note attacking the very same thing and saying, what are these people thinking of? Because they have this new toy. Oh, now let's look at this. This new toy of zoom of remote learning that never worked. But you know what it is? My column is going to be about this. It's the latest brand of fraud. Your frauds. It allows you to check a box and say, you're learning that day. We're counting that day. It's all about counting. We're going to get to 180 no matter what you say. Isn't it fraudulent? Come on. Now, in extraordinary circumstances. Plus, you know what it does, it allows them during COVID more fraud to keep the schools closed and say, well, we have remote learning. This is such a relic from failed program now being used to take away one of the joys of childhood, a snow day. And the guy writing in the inquiry today talks about that magic moment when people would listen to the radio. It was Harry Donahue. I don't know who it was before Harry Donahue. Saying, well, all Philadelphia public and parochial schools will be closed today. At other times, after that, I think they gave the numbers of the ones that were closed. And you had a school number and you had it somewhere safe. And when they said that magic number school will be closed. That's the way that it is. Amazing. Yeah, that's feeling. Yeah, best feeling imaginable. And they've taken that away. Who is it that is running this? Are they all goaded into it? Well, come on, Tom, you don't understand. Well, Kevin makes a great point in his story, too, because he has a five-year-old now. He didn't have a five-year-old during COVID. He didn't recognize how bad it was during COVID. He says BS lingering COVID development that should go back to 2020 and stay there forever, which I completely agree with. But he's essentially saying he has a non-essential job. He writes blogs. She's a five-year-old. You can't expect a five-year-old to know how to navigate a laptop. So he has to take 90 minutes out of his day to essentially walk his daughter through these steps. Yeah, what other parents do? What do other parents do? Essential parents do? There's nothing they can do. Again, this has to be called out. It has to be stopped. Now, fraudulent enterprise is like the Philadelphia Public Schools. They're a complete fraud up and down the line. It can come on. Bring your superintendent up and down the line. They're fraudulent in that they don't work. They're never going to work. We know it. They can't even keep supply. They can't even keep anything straight, and they're going to do remote learning. So they only put in one school a snow day. What's the reason for that? They want to show their emphasizing learning. Really? You think they are? Okay. Catholic schools. Now, I got a note. It wasn't nasty from an archdierson teacher, and he said they were not on remote learning yesterday. It was something about doing assignments. Well, why even that? And what do you do if you build in two or three snow days and you exceed them? Well, you add five minutes to the end of the day or 10, whatever it is, that's what they did. Or worst case, you add a day to the school year. That's what's... What a dumb solution. I apologize, but they're adding the 10 minutes to the end of the day. Yes. Because kids are just going to... What it becomes is teachers like, "Oh, well, we have this extra 10 minutes, so we've got to just wait the 10 minutes before we're able to release you." Well, you have to have a metric. You have to have a count of something, and if they've reached 180 days, because if you don't, they will do anything. They might have 20 days to fill it up with your public schools. What difference would it make? So that's why you got to calculate it. I've always been curious, are you guys in favor of year-round schooling? No. I'm the biggest enemy of that. It is one of the worst ideas. Shirel Parker wants to get that. I will fight that to the death. It's for the bad kids. Send the bad kids to summer school. Keep them in school. They... Them and their parents, who don't want to do anything, why would you take summer away from the good kids? Because fall is a better season. Summertime in the living is easy. So no, I am against year-round schooling. It's just another made-up fraudulent thing. Thank you. That's another 300 words in the column. It's all this stuff versus the core problem. You have people that don't want to learn that are in schools, and their parents are not going to do anything about it, and they make it bad for everybody else, and you got to figure out a way to deal with them, and it's not easy. I'm not saying it's easy, but stop papering it over and pretending to do remote learning. The anticipation of having a snow day off and having a snow day off, that's a part of childhood. It definitely is. I don't care if the vague Rama Swami is going to write that the next time you write about sleepovers. In India, they wouldn't have a day off with snow. I don't think there's too much snow. Is it right about sleepovers? Oh, yeah. You attacked the American too much of an emphasis on sleepovers. Oh, no. Not enough on... You know, while I was going, that's upsetting. Not enough on the Olympiad math students. Stop it already. Stop trying to destroy childhood. Okay? We got enough bright people in America. We don't need you and Elon Musk sending a bunch of people in here that you don't want to pay money to. I don't think we have enough sleepovers anymore, to be quite honest. Well, I just want to go home and play video games and not spend time with each other in person. That's true. Sleepovers are fine. That's what he picked on. Kevin, nice column though. So, the question is, if people feel that way, why are we letting them do this? Then, why are they doing this on school boards and others? Who gave the order in Boyard Town or the Catholic schools? Who gave the order? Now, Bethane Rosica is next. I'll ask her about this, but she's got a great piece today. It brought in liberty about the fact that even though the Biden administration has backed away recently on shoving males into female sports, Pennsylvania is still there. And I believe this is the single best thing that Republicans can go at with Josh Shapiro. Can they focus and use this to take him out for 2028? All that straight ahead here on Talk Radio 1210. All right, it is, Dom Time. Coming to your calls, somebody, something that really disappointed you. It's the type of thing of just the starting thing, but Dan, I mean, if I had worked with Stern, someone like that, it's got to be very, very difficult to see that. Bethane Rosica is our go-to, brought in liberty, is it where this appears and often her stuff appears there. It'll tell you where to find her to, particularly on education matters. Interesting angle. I don't see anybody talking about Bethane contends, despite a federal reversal, Pennsylvania continues to allow boys to compete against girls in sports, her contention, the Biden administration quietly banned in its plan to four school districts to allow boys to compete against girls in sports. Now, that was the big dodge. That's what they said when we had to do it. It's a law. We don't want to be fine. We don't want to do this, that or the other. And in my mind, and I think she probably shares it. This is the ultimate way to really flesh out what Josh Shapiro is all about. Bethane has in here a tweet he put out. August 11, 2020, trans women are women, comma, pass it on. All right, let's go to Bethane Rosica. Happy New Year, Bethane. Thanks for joining us. Always great to be here, Dom. Thank you so much. So that's your contention, right? That you read the Biden administration giving this up, and certainly the Trump administration coming in. You can't hide behind. We're afraid of what they'll do to us if we don't do this. Absolutely, Dom. And I actually think that Pennsylvania passed these regulations back in 2023 before the Biden administration had even proposed the issue of boys competing in girls sports. But I think that they wanted to get ahead of the curve. They wanted to make a stand, a progressive stand, that boys should be able to compete against girls. And the governor has sanctioned this happening in our state. And you're absolutely correct. Now, school districts are required to follow these ridiculous rules because the state of Pennsylvania has issued these regulations. So it really is very, very problematic. And I don't think that people understand that these regulations that were changed in 2023 in Pennsylvania, they didn't even go through the legislature. Nobody voted to change the definition of sex to include gender identity. It happened through an agency, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Human Relations Commission unilaterally made this change, which I believe is unconstitutional. Yeah, I know Chad, Lasseter, well, we've debated sort of, but it shocked me that he would go this wild on this. It's kind of out of character unless I'm misreading him. You say when he did this by changing the definition of the word sex, they're endangering girls both on the field and in private spaces like girls, bathrooms, et cetera. Now, Beth Ann, just a point here, I'm not a fan of emphasizing the safety aspect. I think the winner is the fairness aspect that they can't compete that this is just completely unfair. It kind of gets into women and a competitive workplace and all that in the future. And this is an example of unfairness. Now, I agree, Dom, that the sports issue is the winning issue. I mean, this has been pulled 75 to 80% of Americans don't think that boys should compete against girls in sports. It's obvious. I mean, I don't even know why we have to have conversations about it. In my article, I point out the PIAAA, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, which is the group that regulates secondary sports in the state of Pennsylvania, their bylaws clearly state that there are real and real physical and competitive differences between boys and girls and allowing boys to compete against girls would have a chilling effect on female participation. So even the PIAAA recognizes that there are huge physical advantages that boys have over girls. Yet what the PIAAA did in their bylaws was they only use the term boys and girls, but they say that if a student's gender is questioned or uncertain, then the principal of that school gets to decide where that child gets to compete, whether they get to compete with the boys or with the girls, which again is ludicrous that some random principal likes to say, "Okay, this boy gets to compete against girls." It's the most affinizing I've ever seen. But to your point, most people think that this is all idiotic and nonsensical that we're even having this conversation, but I do want to- Beth Ann? Uh-oh. Josh Shapiro on the line there, reading her out. All right, we'll go back to Beth Ann. Let's- we can re-establish contact, you know, when she was mentioning it at about that line. All I can think of is Dr. Oz saying, "Yeah, the abortion should be decided by the women, their doctors, and local politicians." That line was going through my head. So Beth Ann, cut off a little bit here. Let's bring it up now as this moves forward. What's your sense? Can they get this women's fairness bill passed through the house? It'll pass through the Senate. Josh Shapiro says if it ever reaches his desk, at least in the past, he will veto it. I would tell you, if he vetoes it, that's it for 2028. Right there, there's going to be a big national story that I don't think he can weasel out of based upon where America is now. Can they get it passed? I honestly, I don't think they're going to be able to get it passed. I think he will veto it. I think that he has too much history in posting and being very loud about this issue. And I think that he'll veto it, I really do. Or he'll work behind the scenes to make sure that it doesn't get to his desk. And that may be the more palatable tract for him to get this to not come to his desk. Well, the only way that that would happen is if Democrats don't bring it up in the house, because it's going to happen in the Senate, right? So what would their excuse be? And their excuse is, hey, the media is on our side. Nobody's going to say anything, I guess. Right. Well, and I think so. I think that the Democrats will just support Shapiro on this issue. I mean, Democrats, even though there are some Democrats who are starting to speak up and out about this issue, it's still very much of a Democratic talking point that they don't support banning these kids from competing against girls. So I don't think that the bill will get passed, which is why I think that we are probably going to need either a Supreme Court ruling that says that you cannot expand the term sex, the definition of sex to include gender identity. Or we're going to need a lawsuit here in Pennsylvania, because once again, as I said in the article, I think that it's unconstitutional that the PHRC passed these rules quietly without even having to go through the legislature. I mean, this is a big deal. Changing the definition of the word sex, from the beginning of time, sex has met one thing, and now all of a sudden in 2023, some state agency can indiscriminately say, "No, that's not the case anymore. This is what sex means now." Who would have thunked Chad Lasseter? Call your office. Beth Ann, thank you. Where do we find this article and where do we find you? Yes, thanks so much, Don. So if you go to broadandliberty.com, spell just like I said, broadendliberty.com, and put in my last name, Rossica, R-O-S-I-C-A. All of my articles will come up, and this is my most recent one, and I appreciate, as always, having the opportunity to be on the show with you guys. Thank you, Beth Ann. Thank you very much. All right, take care, Don. Have a great day. Bye-bye. All right, there is the Moms for Liberty. I haven't forgotten about that. There are laws, which one, that if you're a member, and you object in your local school board, then they have to follow the ruling as it stands now. So who is it out there that wants to continue this? Who wants to do this on, or maybe the same people? I'd love to ask these local school boards, though. Are they in favor of their school district not having snow days, or a snow day? Is that what they want them to be doing? Yeah, we're all about education here. No, you're not. No, you're not. Not even a little bit, if that's your attitude. You're not about it. You're not about the welfare of anything here. You're cowed by having this ability now. Maybe there are some parents. Tell them to stay home with their kid and be on Zoom all day long if they're five and play Suzuki violin while they're at it. That's fine. But the other people live a normal life. Don't burden them with this. I wonder what the penalty for the five-year-old that Kevin Kincaid writes about in Crossing Broad would be if they didn't figure it out and do their Zoom lesson yesterday. No play-doh the next day? Hey, well, what would the penalty be? You know, the kid gets put in the back of the room or something? All right. 855-839-1210 getting on the side question too, which is something, somebody who broke your heart in the sense of, or something, disappointment around it. It just occurred to me Ray Dinninger, kidding. I mean, Ray Dinninger is the all-time great. I was just surprised though. Usually when I'm that dead said on this, he did turn Henry around though. Right, Henry? I mean, it seems like you, yeah, by running down Eric Dickerson, he turned you around. Yeah, no, that's all it took, honestly. I mean, I still wanted him to break the record, but like he got me on his side. Well, he's as credible as anybody, great, greatest guy. I mean, he's... To this point, I mean, how many, when you talk about the best ever, does Eric Dickerson come up in conversation off? And I don't think so. No. No. Well, that's exactly what's the point. Yeah, but the reason is, though, that we have people that get records by longevity. I'd have to look at Dickerson and see if it's that. That's a season. But Saquan Barkley, though, at least what he'll do with the Eagles now. I know it's a little bit late in his career. He is a guy of that pedigree. He is a guy that great. He just happened to be on a horrible team. And I mean, playing Monday morning quarterback after seeing what happened with Christian Watson's day flowers. I'm kind of glad we didn't, you know, have that opportunity to get him injured. Starting wide. I hate that thinking. Yeah, exactly. If you play like, oh, I can't get hurt, you're going to get hurt. Oh, guys, it's been, you know, fantasy, well, Henry and Dom. I mean, he's been injured season after season. He's been able to avoid that largely this season. So, why are we going to, you know, play our chances? I... Well, this is making sports. And I see sports as differently. We live for the moment. Something great like this comes along. You go for it. It's not just about percentages, more percentage to win the Super Bowl or not. All right. Eight, five, five. I win the Super Bowl. That's not the goal. That's not the way I look at it, though. I look at other things. You value a week 18, win over more than a Super Bowl. I just might talking about it, though. Meaningless game. No game is meaningless. See, that's the problem. It's the game that I love, not, you know, well, Dan, you missed a whole riff we went through about kids and playoffs. Oh, it's the playoffs now. Oh, my God. It's the game. You show up. You love the game. All the stuff that's backdrop and all. This is little kid stuff. They should have let him play. All right. Eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. You get in, get in on the side question and lab at town. 720,000 dollar home. Is this another example of Biden and inflation? I think it is. J.D. Mo a makes the point in Levitt town. Those it now are there. The median incomes about 97,000 family income. They could not afford by $23,000 a mortgage in Levitt town where they live. There's something wrong in America with that. And I hope Trump talks about that and drills down a little bit more about getting couples, say that are 25 to 35 or whatever into their first home. I'd do anything if I were in that position to make that happen. That's America. That's the American dream, not what Joe Biden did. Eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. All right. It is down time. Welcome in. You got the side question. And I told you this Levitt town story is intrigued. Me. Why is that? That Levitt town has that level of inflation where the people living there now with their family income could not afford a mortgage pretty much anywhere there. And routinely you could have a home selling 400,000 plus even if it needs work. Is it just that valuable? I don't think so. There's something afoot there. Let's go to Gary in Newtown and Gary, you're on talk radio 1210. Hey, Gary. Hey, Don. How are you? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Thank you to you and the rest of the guy there too, of course. Whether it's Levitt town or Honolulu, and I use Honolulu as an example, Honolulu has all five military bases there. And the reason why the real estate there is so expensive is because you can't build and because the military never stops increasing the stipend of food, of housing, of car lounge, of whatever, everything there just continually goes up. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute, Gary. Wait a minute, Gary. They interviewed J.D. and Wayne. He's thinking about that. And he asked the guy who's his guy, the real estate guy. Could you find, I'll give you the exact thing here. He says, could you find this, you know, affordable family home and anywhere in Bucks County? And the guy says, no, we had 28 showings, a house she recently sold in North Park Levitt town, $450,000. We had 28 showings in just five days. That's how tight it is. I'm not disagreeing you. I was trying to make an overall broader point. It all has to do with money supply when the government is subsidy. And I've heard I'll talk about this in Northeast Philly. It's moved into Levitt town into the lower suburbs. And it's the section eight housing that's moving in because there are no greater developments for low income housing in Philadelphia or anywhere for that matter. So these influx of people that continues to grow has got to go somewhere. Now you've got these houses that were built in the late 50s that if they weren't improved, are sold at that low end of 340. And you've got people like BlackRock that buy them up. And then they rent them back to the government for federal. Oh, okay. I'm aware of that. Some of that is half so you want to put in something else here too. It's not just inflation. You're saying BlackRock too. But there's also money supply. We are a trillion dollars in debt in personal debt, a trillion. So you've got people that don't actually understand money. You deal with it all the time. You're probably one of the most frugal people I know verbally. But people really don't understand money. Okay, I can make that $128 minimum payment on my credit card. Let's go out to eat. Yeah, I hear you. Well, Gary, in your spare time, how about having a phone conversation with Ro? Work her over a bit here. Would you please? Next time I'm at an event, bring her on. Bring her on this way. I mean, Dan's lucky. He's got amazing with the green eyeshade looking over his expenses each week. What is this who charged here? God. All right, Gary, who disappointed you? I didn't vote for him. Wouldn't have voted for him. But Barack Obama is really the biggest disappointment ever in my adult life. Here is the opportunity to have the first black president of the United States and basically take what I thought were good relationships then between our African and white community. And he actually made it the worst in my life. That's a fair point. That's how he was elected. And yet he moved past it. I mean, just hold up. Go ahead. No, sorry. I didn't mean to cut you. I do have real estate listings currently in Levittown. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Currently looking at the cheapest I could find within the city limits of Levittown, while $100,000, you can buy some land and build on it. But you're not going to build for under 300, 400 with cost materials at this point. So there's one right near Indian Creek in Levittown for $310,000. That's one that is definitely needs a power wash on the outside. The roof looks like it needs to be replaced. The entire inside has not been updated since it was built. It looks like you're looking at the refurbbed ones cheapest one I could find. What's this one? Nope, that's looks like recently referred, but about 10, 15 years ago, you're looking at $435,000 and a newly refinished one you're at least into 485. And Dan, no offense. But if you tell me in a row, $450,000 and I'm living in Levittown and I'm not offending Levittown. I'm just saying though, it's seen as middle class or, you know, slightly right around there. And I'm paying $450,000. You think you'd be pick a place at Radner or Tavistock or something, wouldn't you? Yeah, well, no, I didn't point because we spent so much time looking for homes. I didn't want anybody, whether it's Jersey, Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, there are no homes that are stand alone homes that have been refinished within the past 20 years. So stand alone with the yard, refinish 20 years under $400,000. And is that due to, oh, that's the world of today, or is it due to Biden policies, et cetera, have a large part? What he said about BlackRock is true. That's one of the things they're engaging in. And one of people going to stand up to that. All right, coming up, we're going to talk with Assemblywoman Don Fantasia. And this is a real good experiment because I wanted to get her on. I thought she was adamantly against getting rid of this basic skills test. Then I read a long detail. She's very detailed Twitter post. And she's not. She thinks it was a scam just charging you more money. The one that we talked about so much. But I'm still happy to have her. She's got a lot of other stuff too that we'll talk about 855-839-1210. Tom Girdano. Weekdays 9 till noon. On talk radio 1210-W-Ph-D. Tom Girdano. On talk radio 1210-W-Ph-D. In Philadelphia is talk radio 1210-W-Ph-D-W-Ph-D-H-D-H-D-W-G-L-H-D-3. Philadelphia. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's dumb time. Now, Tom Girdano. All right, it is dumb time. You know, I hate talk radio where we just all agree all the time, particularly if it's people that we really like and have a lot of credibility. Like, Ray Denninger the other day about Saequan Barkley. You know, we can't all be on unison. But we had a bit of frothing at the mouth here. And the reason is because I think the system's fraudulent top to bottom. In Jersey, it made national news headline New Jersey teacher skip literacy tests to combat shortage. That's the way it was being built. In other words, Murphy and others passed Act 1669. This Act removes the requirement for prospective teachers to pass the Praxis core test, which assesses basic skills in reading, writing, and math. And Dan threw a few questions at me yesterday. Elon Musk jumped in on this and said, "Yeah, so teachers don't need to know how to read in New Jersey." Seems that would make it challenging to teach kids how to read. Oh, man. And then Don Fantasia took the Twitter to set the record straight, but added several things that are interesting. We first talked with Don about bears in Sussex County and some of the stuff going on with bird feeders. But we also talked with her about drones. I'm going to get an update as predicted. No one cares about the drones anymore, even though I think they're still apparent. So let's go to Don here on Talk Radio 1210. Don, happy new year. And thank you for joining us as always. Happy new year to you. Thanks for having me. Well, I'll admit, I bought into it at first glance because I thought that's what the NJEA and what New Jersey would do. And certainly Phil Murphy got a teacher shortage. I'm not a fan of Jim Beach over here in Camden County. So when I heard he was involved in it, I thought, oh, yeah, let's dumb it down more. You tell us though, teachers already, those that are going to get their full fledge, and you went through it as a teacher, Don, I believe, would have to prove they can read math and write. And you had a 12 out of 12 for the record on the writing. Correct. Um, you know, this, this whole debacle could have been easily avoided. Had the governor, had the bill sponsors, had the Democrat majority, Hellhead, even the NJEA stood up and led with, we are eliminating a duplicate test and went that in that direction. Instead, there's radio silence out of that camp, which infuriates me. I can't help but think they feel the public doesn't need any kind of explanation. All of these headlines are flying around in their extraordinary misleading. And the teachers, honestly, in the state of New Jersey have been made to look like the village idiots across the 50 states now. So again, to set the record straight, practice tests are not eliminated in New Jersey at all. Practice is a very, very large collection of tests. And I put up an example on social media. So for example, the teach grades kindergarten through sixth grade, every teacher has to pass the test in English in math and social studies and in science. If you want to teach at the middle school level, you have to take an additional test in whatever specialized content. Mine was English. So I took five tests in order to be certified. If we flash forward to 2015, because I got my certification back in 2008, if we flash forward to 2015, I would have had a pay, another $90 a piece to take another test in reading, another test in math, and another right. So that is what they are eliminating because it was costly. It was duplicative. And it honestly causes time. So when they say it helps us get teachers moving along quicker, there's now no, not an extra financial barrier. And there's not an extra time barrier for them to schedule these duplicate tests to go and take. Instead, they lead with the headline, no more basic skills test, instead of saying because the teachers are already taking a multitude of more difficult tests, right? They let that part out conveniently. Yeah, not understandable. And my first instinct to I would admit it, I just never see these people cutting out any thing that's necessary there. They over regulate all the time to your point. So why would they be cutting this out unless they're trying to squeeze people through, they're unqualified? You're right, clarifying this. And that's exactly what you did on Twitter as a way to go. But you also then took a moment to talk about the NJEA and teachers getting evaluated. Now you and I both share this. We've both been teachers. And sometimes these evaluations are brutal. There was one guy that evaluated in one school district in Jersey. I was in dawn, who would take out a tape measure and be measuring the space between desk row by row while you're teaching. Or they would never come in the middle of the day. They'd always come in first period, cold or last period of the day. This guy was notorious for that because he's going to make it as difficult as possible. So what are they doing with evaluation that you think is suspect? Well, this is extraordinarily suspect. To be honest, I don't think it's suspect. I know it's suspect. First of all, teach NJ and achieve NJ. You know, Christie era reforms were very, very good on the whole. What they did was, you know, tenure teachers were no longer, you know, infallible. They actually could be challenged if they were not doing the proper job in the classroom. It required it actually put in on paper what the set requirements were. And it really had a focus that you had to use an instrument that was approved by the state of New Jersey and a lot of the instruments that were used, whether they be there's a Charlotte Danielson model, there's Newark model, there's there's all different models that you can use a strong model that actually focuses on student performance, student academic, student growth. And an interesting piece was that student test scores were included as part of the valuables, right? Well, there are some subjects where, let's say you're a phys ed teacher, right? So students English or math scores are not indicative necessarily of how you're teaching physical education. So the idea to do student growth objectives was born, where teachers in their administration would set a goal and the teacher would measure it and work towards it together, right? So be careful what you wish for, because what that led to was a lot of whining about too much paperwork, oh, it's too hard, it doesn't really matter, teachers are spending too much time. The teacher set the goal, the administrator set the goal. I found that to be quite frankly an asinine argument. I've written hundreds of SGOs along with teachers across multiple school districts. I've scored teachers on SGOs. I've written my own SGOs. So my honest opinion is that's a load of hooey. However, they want to combine now the SGO, the spirit of SGOs with a professional development plan that's due every year by teachers. But here's the scary part. They put together a little panel, of course, packed with the NJEA and company that analyzed what they would like to see changed. And some of the more egregious pieces were when you combine it with a professional development plan, there's no necessity to say student outcomes or student growth must be a goal in your professional development plan. So you can have it be anything. You can say, oh, I talked to parents more, I sent more emails. I was in the community more. It can completely omit student growth from an academic standpoint. But the kicker, you want the kicker, you're a teacher just like me. They want to eliminate. Right now you are scored either not effective, partially effective, effective, or highly effective. They want to get rid of highly effective. And they just want to say effective. Everybody's effective. No more highly effective because it just makes teachers feel bad if they don't reach highly effective. They get so upset. I don't know what these people are smoking, but we all need it. Because it's the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. The most sally weak thing I'd ever heard in my life. And and I don't like it. Because again, teachers who are repeatedly highly effective, they actually have less teacher observations now once they hit tenure. So now are you telling me that we can do less observations when everybody and their brother is, quote, effective. They are one. I see that. That's what they're that's what they're about. Yeah, Don one thing too to clear up without getting into the weeds too. I'm a big fan of merit pay. I can't imagine doing it in New Jersey with the NJEA. Well, one of the things we just talked about here with student test scores that people have to understand is it's not so much what the kids in your class score, but it's where they start it and where you take them to at the end of the year. People say all the time, well, what if you have kids that were low achievers and they don't score tremendously on test? That's the right way to do it. If legitimate figures are there, where they start and where the teacher takes them, that's how we measure you. That's a very positive change that happens since I've been in the classroom. When I first went in the classroom, proficiency was the be all and all. So the argument was always, well, you know, you do have some teachers. Let's say you deal with students with, you know, significant learning disabilities or special needs, perhaps they're English language learners. So it wasn't a level playing field. So New Jersey really did make a shift and started to put a lot of value on growth. And if you can have the students prove academic growth, but again, in typical fashion, now that's too much. Oh, how could we possibly have student growth be included in our, in our story? I mean, I mean, that's the way to judge. But the high efficiency, I'm writing that one down. I'm going to be using that one for years. Don, we haven't talked with you in a while. And the drone situation, have they completely gone away? Or as we kind of predict it, they're going to wait through the holidays or until Trump is in office, then we're going to get an answer on this. What's happened with the drones? Let me tell you, they have not reduced insight. I still receive videos weekly, if not daily, from people across New Jersey. I have people reaching out to me. One of the more interesting ones that I received is somebody had observed drones and orbs out over the ocean at night. And they were in a very odd pattern. It's very, very troubling when people say they're hovering over what looks like a ship, per se. And that I'm getting more often than not. So we're still seeing them in North Jersey, flying in formation in specific patterns. But I am seeing a lot more ocean activity reports. And again, I have videos sent to me, but we are getting shut down, not a peep out of the governor's office, not a peep federally. It's almost as if they want to dissuade us from even reporting anything anymore, because they'll tell us it's an airplane or a convenience store drone or a bird or whatever. Well, you know, the only good thing out of this, first with the nut bang stuff or the bird feeders, we got to talk with you, then the drones and now this. You bring those school teacher things like I do to Twitter, etc. I mean, it is that report. I still have it. What you wrote about the drone conference there with the governor's representative. I mean, there's no getting around it. We have to bottle you and then put 10 more of you out there in Jersey. So Don, how do you see? We're seeing pretty good signs. And Scott Prezler is our guy in Jersey. And behind the scenes, I'm seeing he's meeting already with a number of county chairs. I'm meeting with some people and him on Saturday. So I'm seeing that Republicans are coming alive here. They are inspired. And they do believe it's at least 50 50 that they can take back the state house. Absolutely. We are excited. I actually had the pleasure of meeting him at our Sussex County GOP holiday party. I didn't realize he was coming. And I guess he was our surprise guest. And he made a very, very good point because, you know, Sussex is solidly red, you know, as a general rule. But what he was stating is when you look at the total numbers who still are not turning out to vote, you need to mobilize those red areas to get maximum voters out. At that point, we need to get new voters registered in even the red areas because that is going to be what we'll be able to counteract the existing blue areas still that hang on in the state. So, you know, he had kind of a new messaging and it was very energizing to hear and see. I mean, he's wonderful on where we pose play by play, right? County by county. I'm in Lucerne County. I'm in Bucks County. You know, I'm here. I'm there. It's very exciting when he is that specific and he's very dynamic. And I think he's just what we needed to get a kick in the pants here in the GOP. Absolutely. Well, Don, thank you so much. Keep us in your loop. Happy New Year again. Thank you. Happy New Year to you. All right, Don Fantasia here on talk radio 1210. No high efficiency for Jersey teachers. Wow. Look, that was, look, we were off the mark yesterday on it going by the best evidence. And she's the one that was able to correct it. That it's more getting rid of these cash cow tests than Jersey teachers not passing tests. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. Coming up, I have more from Mark Zuckerberg today. Kind of surprised by the voice and the look to this guy's bulked up the jiu-jitsu. I guess it must be working. Who was he supposed to fight? Was that Jake Paul? No, maybe not. Might be. Okay, that would be an interesting job. Did you think Zuckerberg's voice sounds like it was supposed to fight you on? Oh, okay. Yeah. I would take Zuckerberg in this. How about you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you kidding me? It's not. That's so bad. Yeah. Let's see if the well, he'd have those impact by then. By the way, it's in the air, so I don't forget this. I'm looking over my giant app for the discounts this week, and they had a dietitian special and they're pitching. They have great dietitian services, giant does. They're pitching, don't use those ordinary seed oil, salad dressing, seed oil. Yeah, I know. But I am going to put the breaks on of Americans wanting to blame everything on big food versus our own phalabilities too. Big food is there, but we don't have the option to not, you know, obliged by these big food decisions. Go on the giant app right now, and you will not use seed oil anymore for your salad dressing. It's right there. That's not a bad thing. Washington Post has a big piece up on the ultra processing. They didn't give credit to Kennedy on this though, saying here are the ones that are at the high end and here are the ones that are not so bad. So Kennedy's having an effect already. Let's see if he got, I think he's going to get through. I think he's going to get a few Democrat votes. I think Federman's going to vote for him. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. I'll tell you who's coming up early next week, the first in line to be confirmed or not confirmed. Who are those Trump people coming up first? One of them's a biggie, 855-839-1210. All right, don't you hear Dan O's show? What a wild press conference with President Trump today, media for about an hour, no handlers, nothing, no holds barred. A lot of stuff said around that. But Matt Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg is the story of the day. Oh, his brother? Yeah, we played you him saying, we're not going to have the fact checkers anymore. Human bias, it's going to be community standards. Here's the second level of what he's, I think this is the third cut in the line now. Here's what else he's going to do with Facebook. Third, we're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations. And for lower severity violations, we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action. The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn't. So by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms. All right, here's a little bit more. There's more of what they're going to do. For a while, the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed. So we stopped recommending these posts, but it feels like we're in a new era now. And we're starting to get feedback that people want to see this content again. So we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. All right. Now Facebook and fairness to them, they were under fire all the way back to 2016, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians. Then it was during COVID. And meanwhile, we think with COVID, they went too far in censoring stuff. So the edict here is much different and much more. And I think he admitted in some way, taking a look at the last election where people are. You have one more day. Yeah, I got one more cut where he tries to take the blame off himself and put on the government table. That's why it's been so difficult over the past four years when even the US government has pushed for censorship. By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it. Well, I might differ with you a little bit. I think he's right about the Biden administration. We know that's exactly what they're doing with all kinds of threats. I know, but to accept some accountability for the way that you completely, well, you know, march to their orders. I never thought Facebook was as much the issue, though, as was Twitter until Elon Musk. Again, they, you know, got singed for the Russian information during COVID. They got attacked. I think they're doing the right things here, but I don't think they were nearly as bad as Twitter was. All right, one other bit of stuff that's always fun to talk about ain't kind of food thing before I take your calls. Girl Scout cookie season starts today. I didn't know it. Yes. And two, and I tremble when I read this this morning at five o'clock, two cookies will be retired this year, meaning this is your last year to get to them. Don't you dare take my Samoan's away. It is called that anymore, Dan. Yeah, it's Girl Scout s'mores and toast. I don't even toast. Yeah, which I don't even know. Oh, yeah. I think I was rolling around for like a year or two. Yeah. Yeah. Now, thin mints, to me, is the chocolate chip of Girl Scout cookies, meaning there should be no, I can't imagine eating any other. If you said, yeah, I have that, and just bring them out and just take a sleeve and just push your head back and let them go down till you can't eat anymore. Once I agreed, but then I started getting heartburn and those things just give me heartburn now. So you're Samoan. I'm Samoan. Yeah. Okay. So the Girl Scout cookies, wait, the website still has them listed as Samoas. Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe they change back. Caramel delights slash Samoas. Oh, yeah. Okay. Raising it out. We're so excited to kick off the Girl Scout season. And they do this, I guess, when the cookies fading a little bit, they get one last bump out of it. But I bet thin mints are still the most popular, right? I don't, what's second place though? What's a secondary cookie? What's the oatmeal raisin cookie of Girl Scout cookies? If oatmeal raisins, I can't imagine anyone listening out. Oh, I could go for an oatmeal raisin cookie. What the heck are you thinking of? You know, I just cannot. Now, the biggest thing to happen with Girl Scout cookies, and I didn't go back and Google her. There was a woman, she was a national psychologist or diet, whatever she was, went on a tirade and made a lot of news attacking Girl Scouts and Girl Scout cookies because of the hazards. Now, do I think RFK junior is going to do a treatise on Girl Scout cookies? I don't think so. I think he gets it. You know, he's just going to go after big food. Ultra process dies, that kind of thing. Girl Scout cookies had to be pretty low on the pecking order here as far as going after people. I mean, they do kind of tastes like preservatives. Oh, the preservatives. Let's talk about this preservative. How are you going to have a product on the market without some preservative in it? I mean, unless you're buying fresh right at that. Well, the Paul brothers launched that knock off lunchable and they have to recall them all because there was less preservatives and a bunch of them rotted out. That's what some foods that's going to be pretty tough to deal with. I mean, I don't need peanut butter crackers anymore because I'm afraid how long they've been in there and the preservative part. I just get get it yourself and do it, but you're going to do that for everything. It's going to be fascinating to see exactly what Kennedy says. I don't think the vaccine thing is going to be the point of contention. You're going to have some weasels in these states, the agriculture states, and they don't like it that he's going to have your big ag, big food, and what they're doing with America's food supply. They're the ones that are going to challenge them. All right, let's go to Richard in Westchester. Richard's on talk radio 1210. Hey, Richard. Greetings. For the question, I was a 1976 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University. I loved Joe Paterto. In fact, that was one of the reasons why I went to Penn State for their football team. And the 80s and the 70s and the 90s were great. And Joe Paterto broke my heart completely in 2012. And that just washed away. Richard, that is a great one. I could tell you when I loved Joe Paterto, but when they were just an independent in the East, they murdered teams. And then when they moved into the Big Tanner, started playing a pretty tough schedule. Do you remember a linebacker? Was it Levar Arrington? Yes, number 11. Well, soon as he went there, I thought, oh, not that he did anything criminal, but that this is where we're going with players. Remember, at one point, they truly did have great students, concert pianists, all that at Penn State. And then Joe was going to continue to win. And it's hard to blame him, but I never thought he'd end up the way that he did. I mean, Penn State was always on the pedestal of athletic program should be run. And they had that to side up for all those years. And then 2012, he completely shattered it. It was said it was all that work was down the drain. What's the motivation, though, if they had come clean on Jerry Sandusky and said, we caught him. And that's it. Why would they, what were they thinking they would suffer? Or were they so arrogant, so big at that point, they thought, we'll just tough it out. Look, look, look at the world today. hubris has brought down so many people. And I defined hubris as outrageous arrogance. And basically, you look at all Chido, our hubris, sold all these big shots. hubris brought them all down. It brought empires down and it's bringing them down too. Thank goodness. Thank you, Richard. Yeah, I would say that's a great one. Joe Proterno, Dan had stern at a certain point, all good ones. 855-839-1210, ghetto on board AT&T and Verizon wireless. All you have to do is just push pound 1210. This will be cut 12. In fact, is this, I see it's kind of dark at YouTube. Yeah, we'll have that on YouTube as well. Yeah. I'll come it up right now. Right now. Right now. Okay. Yeah. Tell people where they can go watch on YouTube, too, if they can get you. Yeah, YouTube.com/at12nwphta, fantastic. And what I want to point out, Dom is on this skit. Yes. It's like what I wish SNL were. And it's not even that funny. It's just slightly funnier than the other. Yeah, the guy that's playing Trump doesn't even look remotely like him, but it's such a bad wig. It gets your attention right away. Mr. President, I must admit, I was worried that you were going to try to humiliate me. I would never embarrass you, Justin, are you kidding me? Thank you, Donald. Now I want to see you eat it. Excuse me? The hamburger. The Big Mac, the president of all boogers. I'm going to make you eat it like a dog with no hands. Mr. President, I have self-respect. Not so much, to be honest. Let me like all the game like a dog, didn't he? He really did. Mona me, I come to you not unbended knee, but as an equal. 30% there. My father taught me. 50% there. We Canadians are a hockey lot. 60% there. For Canada! I'm a hungry little puppy. I'm so hungry for my puppy child. All right, that's enough, Justin. I won't impose a tab. I can't. I'm not even the president yet, am I? What a loser. Now let's DJ. All right, the Trump guy, really good, even the wig and the whole, I still understand the Canadians, how this guy became the president, the leader. It just doesn't fit my image of Canada, but there's a critical mass of people that like it. At some point, we'll play you the guy that might be the new leader, and this guy has a Newt Gingrich quality about him, where he eats an apple, as he's talking to a reporter. Well, let's play him right now. He's eating an apple, and this reporter, I don't think, is that pushy, but he's asking him questions to try to pin him down, doesn't like it, that he's conservative, and the way the guy pushes back is very reminiscent, even more aggressive, Newt Gingrich. Here's how it sounded. On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy, currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway. What does that mean? Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess. I mean, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently. Like what? Left wing, you know, this and that right wing. I mean, it's that type of psychological thing. I haven't really talked about left or right. Anyways, a lot of people believe in that. Okay, a lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump, but like which people would say that? Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians, but they're cool. I don't know who, but one who asks the question, so you must know somebody. Okay, I'm sure there's some out there, but anyways, the point of this question is, I mean, why should Canadians trust you with their vote, given not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page of a Donald Trump's book, but also... What are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you give me a page? Give me the page? You keep saying that. In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left wing and all of this, I mean, you make quite a, you know, it's quite a play that you make on it. So I'm... I'm not sure. I don't know what your question is. Okay, then forget that. This is more a more passive aggressive new Gingrich and Gingrich, and this guy is the odds-on guy to be the next leader. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. You get in, give me somebody or something that you really looked up to, really disappointed in some way, shape, or form. 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Jeff and Drew coming up at two o'clock. He's the new head of the oversight committee of the judiciary and all that mumbo jumbo. It's an important post. This guy is right inside where we want him. And Linda Kearns, we didn't get a chance to thank her yesterday on Certification Day for her role in it. She's got something new too that she's working on that I'll ask her about. Biden now is in talks for a prisoner swap with the Taliban. Does it ever end? And what he did here with these prisoners at Gitmo, just sending them back to the Middle East, a web another. It's stunning to me that we can't somehow or another get thoughtful people together. And rather quickly, I realize this is a constitutional matter, but I think the American people who vote 90 to 10 with some thoughtful restraints on the nonsense that presidents can do toward the tail end of their term. It's not just a part. It's the shuffling of people and the stuff that he's doing that are just outright, even for the Bidens who are just a miserable, miserable group. And he's not coming up with all these ideas necessarily. He's just saying, yeah, let's do it. God only knows between now and election day. Could it be that far away still? All right. 855-839-1210, you get on board. Got a lot of response, a lot of emails too. Call in on it too. This story, J.D. Moline in the Bucks County Courier Times today, because there was a $720,000 sale of a Levittown house, breaking records, et cetera. And he went through and Dan even looked at some of the real estate that's out there that you can't touch homes even some that really need work by and large in the $400,000 range, meaning the average person living in the Levittown developments and all that, J.D. Moline says, could not afford the mortgage, qualify for it, that you would need to get one of those homes today. A lot of reasons, or at least a few big ones, but Biden and inflation's got to be near the top. They say in Bucks County, very hard to get a quality home of any sort, unless it's in that price range. Well, how many people are going to be able to afford that? And the answer is they're not. So, what are they going to have to keep on doing? A number of them are going to have to keep on running, unless Trump untangles this in some way, shape, or form, say, within the first year. Trump talked today a lot about energy. That'll be a key to doing this. And look, he's got to say it, but what Biden putting to play on the way out, no drilling in various areas, offshore, etc. It's not going to be easy. It's going to take a while and Biden knows that this miserable little man and his family and his advisors, sticking it to middle class America, making it harder for Trump to generate energy, which will be one of the biggest things that will start us to actually remove the cake on inflation. Not the rate that may go down or has gone down. It's inflation itself, where prices are. Energy is a large measure toward that. Trump also today talked about, again, this guy and his advice, he's signing off on it, whether he's able to do it or not, going after water heaters, gas powered, essentially, that they have to be electric, they have to meet other standards toward what point? So a bunch of people can get a gold star, this doesn't put a dent in their life for their income. Why do this to the average American? Because that's what they're about. That's what they're going to continue to do. And their strategy is going to try to masquerade. They haven't changed. They're not going to change. They don't want to change. Their strategy is going to try to mask all this as long as they can. That's why guys like Josh Shapiro are so dangerous. He's every bit of that ilk, but he's better at masking it. And we talked today a little bit with Beth Ann Rosica about this bill that we've talked about, the Fairness and Sports Act for women in Pennsylvania. The federal government says, Biden even, you can do what you want in this. So why is Pennsylvania continuing to do this? Because they're in transit, because this is the one issue they're not going to back down on. And I'm hoping, ultimately, this will topple him in Pennsylvania. All right, let's go to Chris in Malvern. Chris, you're on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Chris. Good afternoon. Apparently a Ted Turner. It's been reported last couple days. He's basically on desk doorstep. And of course, being the original creator of CNN, they're going to be back in the news big time. And of course, my heart went cold on CNN a long time ago, especially by the time of President Trump's first election. But during the entire arc of my army years, starting during the first administration of Ronald Reagan, I revered CNN. Bernard Shaw and the rest of them, they were without question. I can think of so many different events like the, when the Korean Airlines 007 was shot down. And we went on deathcom. We were, we went on alert for seven straight days. And we, we'd get breaks and we'd come back for information. And it was CNN. And then Tiananmen Square. And then finally, remember the reporting of the scutted tax turned desert, desert field golf war. They were proud. Yes. And they were the ones who captured international news without a doubt. And it just breaks my heart sometimes to think, you know, how I feel about them now. That's a good one. Thank you, Chris. That was a really passionate call. Somebody in the military around. He's right about CNN at one point. I know it's hard to believe. But yeah, they had international news. They captured international news. And Bernard Shaw, Alstered. He didn't mean to necessarily Michael to caucus during the presidential debate when he said to him, well, what if your wife and daughter were raped and killed? Would you still not be for the death penalty? And to caucus instead of saying, look, I would try to be for the death, against the death penalty. But you're right. As a father, as a husband, as all that, I deep in my heart will want to kill him myself. He didn't. He just said, no, I still would be against the death penalty. So he's right about CNN. I know it's hard to believe now, but he's right overall. It's a good call. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. That's the side question today you can get in. By the way, who is it that will bunch and other progressives are blaming for the Biden failures? Merrick Garland. They're saying, Merrick Garland was too even handed. Did not go after Trump hard enough or early enough, or something. I got, if you think Merrick Garland, as Attorney General was even handed, this is what they're reduced to. This is what they're reduced to blaming. Yeah, he led Hunter Biden down too. I got all right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10, get him with Dom on Talk Radio 12. No, apparently I cannot handle things because it is Dan time with Dom. We're back in the new year. And I want to play back some audio from a friend of the show, Bill Maher, who brought on John Cryer, John Cryer, known as Ducky in Pretty in Pink. Yeah, but two and a half men starring alongside now Ashton Kutcher. Well, recently Ashton Kutcher has been off for like 10 years, but Charlie Sheen as well. Yeah. So Ducky sat down with Bill Maher and refuses to accept the reality of the election, Dom. And I want your thoughts onto what it was the determining factor as to how the election was won by the Trump team. Take a listen as Bill Maher and John Cryer get into it a little bit. But yeah, no, sometimes people say things that trigger me. And of course, we just had the election. And I feel like my conscience is very clear. I warned everybody about Trump. And then I warned them that I warned them about what would get him reelected, which was stupid wokeness, which is what got him reelected. So I feel my conscience is very clear that I told you and I told you and I told you and I lost fans for it. You know, lots of the super woke that like, I'm not, I'm not woke enough of that. Yeah, but like, I think I had it right. Like that kind of stuff is what lost the election for the Democrats. It's in all maybe part of it. Oh, you think it sounds good so far? Right? I mean, that's, that's a fair assessment by Bill, right? Wokeness was a large part of them losing the election saying maybe part of it. Well, listen to Cryer's response. Here you go. Election for the Democrats. It's in all maybe part of it. I don't know. I think a lot. They have polling on it. It's well, I think it's inflation. I think Americans hate inflation. Certainly. They hate inflation. They hate riots. And they hate black women. I'm going to stop right there, Dom. Ducky thinks that Kamala lost the election because America hates black women. That's where we're going to go. Has nothing to do with wokeness. In fact, it's the opposite. We aren't woke enough. Let's continue. They tend. They hate trans people. John, we're not going to do it. They just spent hundreds of millions. They don't hate black trans people. And, and that's the best thing. Oh, here we go. You shouldn't talk politics. Okay. We shouldn't. I mean, great. I don't, I don't have to. And this, you know, I mean, I have this kind of relationship with people on the right also who like, like, yeah, it's just going to take so long to even have this discussion. And I like, I want just like I would like to deprogram them. I feel like there's things that don't get in your bubble on the left that I would love to deprogram. But it's probably not the place to do it. You're real. But, you know, you can try. This is a thing you hear often from people on the left, especially progressives who seem to be unplugged about the whole election that it wasn't wokeness that wanted. They can double down on the wokeness. They really want DEI. Why not continue down that path? It was because America Dom is racist and hates trans people. Yeah, I think they believe that deep down on the trans issue, 35 million dollars. I was on that early on, effectively used in ads on women against men in sports. And the Kamala Harris, yeah, we're going to have gender-affirming care for illegal aliens in prison here and taxpayers are going to pay for it. Yeah, people are dead set against that. But the first thing he said, I still believe inflation in the end, people looked at it and said no more. We're not putting up with this. Trump is going to come back. We have in the next hour some sound from Krennaki over at NBC, MSNBC, breaking down how historic it was Trump reaching African Americans and Hispanics. Now, that can't be explained away. And also, John Federman, look, I think if you just feel your superior as a conservative to say, well, I'm not going to acknowledge any of this. I'm not buying into John Federman. I still don't like him. And I'm not buying into any metamorphosis of John Federman. But he is a contrarian to a lot of Democrats. He is, and this is going on right now, he sponsor the first Democrat sponsor of the Laken Riley Act in the Senate. They're voting on it today. I'm predicting Madeline Dean, Madeline Dean, the Dean of Decency and Mary Gay Scanlander partner in crime. We'll vote against it. What it does is it will ensure detention and deportation of criminal aliens before they can commit heinous crimes like the killing and attempted rape of Laken Riley and Federman sponsored it. So, you know, when someone is doing something that you approve of, what's the loss to acknowledging that? We're not gushing. Would I bring Federman on the show? Yes, I'm trying to get him on the show. Now, there might be an eruption there at a certain point. You know, I have to have Dan step in. Well, maybe Henry, I'm not sure. They already turned me down. I mean, we can always try again, but they did. They just said no. I didn't know that. Okay. Yeah, flat now. Can I just play one more clip from the Bill Maher interview with John Cryer Ducky from a Pretty in Pink. They get into immigration, which turns into a conversation about again, wokeness and the less thoughts, especially on the issue of Muslims in Europe and the way that they treat women. And John Cryer, when Bill Maher goes down the path of how Muslims treat women, how it goes counterintuitive to what is said by the woke crowd about feminism and such, John retorted with this, but Bill Maher has one of the best burns I've heard in a while. Take a listen. One could argue that that women don't have the freedom to dress where they are and that's Cryer. How they want to dress in many places. They used to get catculled all the time. They used to. Well, they were talking about now. Well, they used to a lot of used to happen. But what's going on now in the world? Would you really want to have your wife live in Gaza or any place where she would have to cover up? Well, again, that's not I don't live there. I'm not this on my culture. And you won't judge it? I'm not going to judge it. No. But again, this is not a raising woke to me. That's where it all went off the rails. When we became so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance, I mean, you would never allow something like that to happen in this country. If they proposed a law tomorrow at the LA City Council, women have to cover their face when they go out. I assume you'd be against that. Well, yes, I would. It's just fantastic to hear. It's just fantastic to hear. I would add to that. And you know, and I thought, I don't know if Maher would fully agree. I think he would. Yeah, he would agree. But you know, enough to say, look, when you try to say in this country, I support, and I think most people should support the right of women, their Muslim, one way or another to cover up whatever they want. But that doesn't stop me from saying, in my view, that diminishes women. That's what it's about. Not by law. They choose to do it. I still have the right to say, yeah, you're diminished by that. It's diminishing you. That's exactly what it's about. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to do it. Knock yourself out. But do I think that's feminism? I can't see any way that that's feminism. No way. It's built upon something. It's false. All right. Coming up, the great Jeff Van Drew is with us to talk a number of things, including a promotion he just got here on Talk Radio 1210. Tom Giordano, weekdays 9 till noon. On Talk Radio 1210, W. Ph.D. Tom Giordano, on Talk Radio 1210, W. Ph.D. On Philadelphia's Talk Radio 1210, W. Ph. D. W. Ph. D. W. G. L. E. D. 3. Philadelphia. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's dumb time. Now, Tom Giordano. Hi, Jeff Van Drew. Congressman Van Drew got a big promotion. He'll be with us shortly here on The Dom Show. Pope Francis. This guy did not get the memo. Maybe it's in a language that he doesn't speak to well or think too well in. Apparently, all languages. He has just appointed one of the most virulent clergy Cardinals that is anti-Trump. That's right. Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal critic of President Trump, particularly on immigration, supporter of migrants as the bio and LGBT people, consider one of the country's most progressive Catholic leaders to take over in Washington. The appointment says the Wall Street Journal signals the Pope's wish for a more liberal US hierarchy and comes two weeks before Trump takes office. He's put in Washington to be right there in the belly of the beast, installing one of the country's most progressive Catholic leaders to oversee more than 600,000 faithful around the Capitol. He's been an ally to the Pope. He's from San Diego for nearly a decade. The Pope named him a Cardinal in 2022. Now, he's not the guy that said excommunicado. I think that's another guy. I guess he was unavailable if you were a border agent during the early years of the Trump government, the first term. So it's going to be interesting to see your Catholics routinely going to hear from this guy when devout Catholic Joe Biden leaves. Amazing stuff. I mean, the rain of Pope Francis, Henry and I have talked about seeing Conclave and not going to give away the ending. I like the film a lot. They essentially just promoted Stanley Tucci here. Am I wrong? Yeah. Well, and Stanley Tucci is not as liberal as this guy is based upon what I can say. I'm just really in the mood. Yeah, he's pretty liberal. He's pretty liberal. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't think I want to believe he's not as liberal as this guy. This guy's got a long history. I don't know. Tucci wasn't propping up illegal immigrants. Maybe that line was unavailable to him in the movie. All right, let's go to Congressman Jeff Van Drew. Congressman, happy New Year and congratulations. Thank you, Dom and Happy New Year to you and to all your listeners. And hopefully it's going to be a good one. It's going to be a little rollercoaster. It's going to be bumpy, but we're going to get good things done. Absolutely. To that point, Judiciary Committee is one of the prime committees to be on. And you will now be the head of the Oversight Subcommittee. What does the Oversight Subcommittee do? Well, this is something I've wanted to do for a while. I want to thank Chairman Jordan for working with me on this. I really appreciate him. I enjoy so much working with him. He really is a true patriot and a good American. So, this Oversight Committee is as Chairman, I'm going to have to review over the FBI, the DEA, the Department of Justice, the Attorney General, the Bureau of Prisons, parts of Homeland Security, and other areas as well. Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, not only all those, but that's a good substantive part of it. We're going to do a couple things, Dom. I have just two major parts to this. One, dig in and find out what the hell the culture was that allowed so many of the abuses to average everyday Americans take place. You know, I said this to the Attorney General when we had our hearings in the past in front of the Civil Committee, and I said it to the FBI Director. You know, it used to be they were there to protect us from the bad guys. Now, Lee, the good Americans, we need protections from them. It's not going to be that way with the new administration, but I want to find out what in detail, digging deep, what happened in the past with everything from Russian collusion to the laptop that was supposedly never existed, to, you know, if I can, and we'll have to find if it's my purview, exactly the George Soros connection with prosecutors and attorneys general in these various states, and that we're still researching if that's something I would have purview over. I hope I do, but we're really going to dig into this stuff. And the reason we are, yeah, I was just going to give you a one small request, and maybe it's mine or maybe in some ways. But I think to me, it became the face of this when you talk about weaponizing them. The Richmond, and I'm, I don't think it just stopped in Richmond branch, putting out that memo and then they go out and surveil devout Catholics, just going to a mass that was in Latin as if they were a potential domestic terrorist, taking license numbers, following up on all them. And Christopher Ray would always stonewall you guys or the Senate, at least, and just say, well, that's a private matter. We're not going to bring them in for testimony. Oh, he did stonewall until we got, and I'm proud of our committee in the house, we got the emails that came out of the, you know, the Richmond field office. And then even worse, I remember I asked him this specifically, he says, etched in my memory, I said, are there other offices? Yes, that's it. And he said, no, but only limited to there. Then we got emails, thank God for whistleblowers, that showed it wasn't the only office that they were planning on doing this nationally, unbelievable. But it's not just that, it's Pfizer. We were spying on good Americans only because they had a difference of opinion. That is not allowed in the United States of America, we allow every opinion. So whether you're liberal conservatives, Republican Democrats, whatever you are, socialist, libertarian, you are allowed to express yourself in America. And they were going after people that were conservative. You know the stories, I mean, we have links between the banks and the FBI and Facebook. It's all complicated, but it all amounts to one thing, if you were buying religious items, if you were buying guns or ammunition, if you were a member of conservative groups, if you were a traditional Roman Catholic, and some say I couldn't get him to admit it, and he got angry with me, which lead me to believe there's some truth, you know, evangelicals as well, evangelicals and Roman Catholics are strong in their face. Others are too, but I mean, particularly those two. So that was awful. Here's the deal, Dom. Did we get there? What allows us to fall that much? And how about Pfizer? Again, what happened? We allow millions of times good Americans to be investigated by the FBI. 50% of the FBI budget is for this kind of stuff. Let's find out where that money is really going. Now, these aren't the agents on the ground. These aren't the agents in your district offices who are good people doing their job, trying to stop bad guys. Here's the deal. Most Americans believe that the FBI and the Attorney General and the Department of Justice in the aggregate that are going after bad people, organized crime, disorganized crime, drugs, etc. That's good stuff. We need to do that. We need to stop them terrorism, but we need to find out why we're going after or had gone after Americans and set up a system in place, regardless of whichever power ever party is in power that just never happens again. Yes. Well, I knew this was an important position, but this is right there at the belly of the beast of what's going on. So really, they have the perfect guy for it. We're talking with Congressman Jeff Van Drew. Congressman, the last time you're on, you said something that made news with our listeners. They were heartened to hear it and we're getting only under two weeks away. Thank God to the inauguration about the executive order around wind that would put it on a hiatus and study for six months. Maybe listeners didn't hear it at that point. Tell us what's going to happen, you believe? Well, about a month ago, I spoke with President Trump on this. He said, Jeff, I'm with you. I mean, he kept his word. He said this was something. He said it in Wildwood. We had 107,000 people there. He has said it at various locations. He knows how bad this is. Again, for everybody listening, don't fall into the trap because you think you're a Democrat that you are for wind. Wind is bad for the environment, bad for the fishermen, bad for the rate pay or bad for national security, makes us beholden to foreign countries. It is the worst deal for America ever. It really is. When I spoke to him about a month ago, we said, Jeff, I'm with you, make me an executive order. We got right down to it. I've got some good people. My office, one gentleman by the name of Haddon, and Nuchi, who's worked with me on this wind issue for years, my chief of staff, Allison Murphy. We got an executive order done for him in 48 hours. I then spoke with Doug Bergen, who he instructed me to speak with, who's going to be the new Secretary of Interior, who got it, who was a landing team in Interior, and having their attorneys review it, make sure that we've lost every tea and dotted every eye. They initially like it very much, and it would do exactly what you said. Study the repercussions of this because the leases were not granted properly. When they give leases, like, for example, when you lease out to oil or gas, they've got to jump through hoops, and they should. They just gave these leases out without being concerned of the effect of on regular people who are affected by this at all. Basically, what this executive order would do is look at the effect on the rate payer, look at the effect on the fishermen, look at the effect on tourism, look at the effect on national security, look at the effect on how we're going to rely on foreign countries, foreign energies, just bad. They're looking at that now. I'm hoping in January or February that he does that executive order, but he has indicated total support for it. I am going to see him on Saturday about some other issues as well, and this is one that I am going to bring up with him. Well, tell him listeners really like the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and I personally want to do, see if he can get me in there to do the first broadcast from Greenland. That would be a plus once we and that's Greenland, which I'm starting to think there was a real possibility of that. Well, you know what? I mean, the Democrats should even like Greenland, because it's green. Yeah. They always like, the new green. Yes. To me, it is the real green new deal, right? This is the green new deal. So, look, you know, he's making a point. The point is, what, and I can't say, if you and I were, you know, just sitting somewhere talking, having dinner or a bar, I would say what bull, and you could finish the word, countries like Canada, Trudeau, criticize the United States, beat the United States up, take advantage of the United States, don't maintain your borders. You know, the only reason they exist and they're not afraid of foreign invaders is because of the United States. You know, somebody said humorously, and it's true, the state trooper force in Rhode Island could whip Canada, Canada's military. I mean, they have no basic military. No wonder they can afford to spend money on other stuff. And they still have because of socialist policies, super high inflation, high cost of living, all kinds of problems there economically and otherwise. And now finally, the left is very unpopular. People get it. There's repercussions to the way you vote. And when you vote for these people, they're going to make your life harder. And they have, but his point is this, look, if you're a good country and you're saying, we appreciate the United States, we're with you shoulder to shoulder, the way Israel is, he's not going to say that. He's not going to do that. But he's making a point. Hey, you know, we just give you money, you believe the United States, and then you expect us to take all your crap. And I hate to use that word, but it is what it is. And just, you know, you're allowed to do that. That's weak. And we're not weak. We're America. We're strong and we lead. Now, I think this is the first conversation with you in the new year. We, Dan and I hadn't seen you until last year at Mulligans with the Scotch. And we were amazed at the transformation. Are you doing something new for the new year? Are you keeping the same exercise that resulted in that? So for those that are listening that care, how many really do for decades of my life, I've always worked out really hard. I do a lot of body weight exercises, crazy numbers of them. And they, you know, you get a little older like me, they don't hurt you. So I do literally nose adoration and, you know, two hour workout when I get up really early. I will do thousands of push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, dips. And then every day, I will do a four to five miles on the elliptical and for about an hour. And I always did that. And then I got in Congress and I kitted myself. Oh, I don't take the elevators, which I generally know. I'll walk around the halls and that'll be good enough because I'm so damn busy. And after a few years, man, I felt slow in the forgic. It's not who I am. I'm not a big guy, but I try to keep really active and move and that I can do. So I went back to that routine. It was one of my major New Year's resolutions. Another one was, which I've done pretty well on still not good enough because of my schedule, is to make mass more often. I was getting really bad with that. I've gotten better. I want to get better yet because at the end of the day, guess what? We're all traveling that road, you know? Exactly, right. So for me, that was important. And I had a bunch of other things as well. This year I have less because I had like 10 last year. But my major resolutions were not to sweat the little things. I can get bomb. You have so unbelievably aggravated about things that sometimes end up being inconsequential. I want everything to be right. I want it to be a certain way. And sometimes, especially in this business, it just doesn't work out that way. So I kind of made a resolution. Give it your best. And that's part of my resolution. Always break your back, man. Do everything you can. Give it a thousand and one percent. And if it works out great, and that's good, and if it doesn't, maybe try again, but don't get mad at others, don't get mad at yourself, just push forward. So kind of to let it go once in a while, you know? Good resolution. Well, congratulations again. We look forward to talking in the new year. This is heavy duty stuff. They got the right guy without a doubt. You and Jim Jordan there. So thank you, Congressman, very much. Tom, I always appreciate you. I appreciate you getting the word out real quick. What did you make any new year's resolutions? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I'm back. I'm back in the gym four days a week. Oh, wow. Yeah. Absolutely. Working out with Congressman. Well, no, I couldn't keep up with that now. When we see them at Mulligan's, I hope to organize a physical fitness test between the two of you. Well, I have been having a few participate, Dan. We'll take the first guy coming down. I know. I will not participate. Oh, man. I'll pull up your push up contest. So do 200 pushups. Come on. How many pushups do you do that? Yeah. You know what? No matter what, it's just a matter of moving. And I tell people, you don't have to do the pushups, pullups and all. Yeah. I mean, it's good to do. I love doing them. But you just, you know what? If it's just a matter of, gee, I'm going to skip the elevator. I'm going to get amazing. If you read up on this, how much, you know, how much those little things really can't help. Take a walk after dinner. You know, if you got a dog, walk those types of things, just whatever, just to keep moving a little bit. So sounds good. Thank you, Congressman. We'll see you tomorrow again this year. And I'm getting ready. Oh, man. Can you throw it? Can you throw a football 40 yards out? Man, I, you know, I fill the football with my year-old grandson, and I do okay, but I don't 40 yards. I'm not so sure, you know, so get working on that one too. Can you? Of course. Well, yeah, it's one of the claims that he always makes is a 40 yard football throw. Jordan, my allotted just had to catch with, uh, with, uh, Wayne Johnson, he couldn't make a 40 yards. I don't think he's dead. Dan, have you seen him for 40 yards? No, no. It's just, it's just baseless claims, Congress. We did have a contest. Make it close. It was, it was, it was, it was, make it some mulligans, make it to the beach and see him for 40 yards in the beach. We'll measure it out. All right, you got it. I just want the win to be right that day. Thank you, Congressman, very much. Let's work on the wind schedule down there at Mulligans. Oh, it's going to be a great summer though. Don't miss saying it. By the way, don't miss us at the NAC, Nick Cal Dawn and I all broadcasting from the NAC, you know, if you're not going to Washington, it's the place to be Newtown Athletic Center on inauguration day, particularly at the moment that Trump sworn in for the second term and your chance to talk about it on the air as it goes on in 2016. It was enormous. The response, so get there early, stay, it'll be food, drink, etc. Thank you to Jim Worthington for that. All right. We'll have to revive that. Henry, you can throw 40 yards, right? We'll have to wait and see. I mean, I think I can. I don't think you're going to beat Dan, though. I got to give Dan credit. Oh, really? I think he had flip flops on. We're in the middle of a street and he just threw it. I'd say 44 to 46 yards, at least comment. Yeah. Yeah. I think the ball explodes out of my hands like Josh Allen, but yeah, we'll see. We did have a ringer. There was a ringer from the former mayor who threw it. He hit a car, but off we had to get out of there. Yeah. It was close to 60 yards. Sounds like something I would do hit a car. Yeah. Yeah. Rumor, maybe Ron Chaworsky might turn over this time and participate. He threw it 88 when he tried out. All right. Right now. I'm going to still do that. All right. I stop. Money melody. That is right. And today we're playing for a pair of tickets to the Philadelphia Auto Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, January 11th to 20th for tickets and more information. Visit Philly Auto Show.com. Yeah, Dom, today's money melody has to do with the side question again. Okay. So obviously today we're talking about that all-time heartbreak. Who broke your heart? Yes. Obviously there's a lot of songs about heartbreak. Okay. And I took a very famous one. You're so vain by Carly Son, a very famous tune. I'm sure we're all familiar with it, but I'm going to do a cover version of it. Okay. So I want to know which 90s singer will say is covering this song. Kind of. You can pick a better one. I think it has to be a female singer too. I'm not sure. Yeah. I mean, once you hear it and you know that she needs iconic. Okay, but. Well, to that point, I mean, this guy was kind of ahead of his time. Oh, that's what I'm getting a sense. I've given things away for. All right. So I get this bag on purpose. It is with that and you're off to the Auto Show. Here's how you do it. 855-839-1210, AT&T. And Verizon Wire was all you have to do. Push pound 1210. Yes, that's right. Let's hear the clue again, a cover of your so vain, who's doing this. Yes, this is pretty bad. Let's let's go. Let's go to Michael and ask him. All right, Michael, who's covering that song. It sounds like Marilyn Manson. Yes, you are correct. And Michael, you know, your comments during a break between us, what Marilyn Manson precursor to everything that we see today, right? Well, you take everything that was controversial. Yeah, 1995, Marilyn Manson, controversial for everything. And then you look at 2025 and the guy would fit right in with the Internet credits. Yeah, exactly right. Good year, Michael. I'll put you on hold and we will get those tickets off to you. By the way, Bondi, Rollins, and Zeldin are set for confirmation hearings next week. Don't think any of them is going to have trouble. Bondi may be a little bit of back and forth. And the Senate Armed Services Committee announced it will host Pete Hegseff on January 14th. These guys can't start on Monday. I'll have to get in on Tuesday. And gracily, we'll do Pam Bondi's hearing the same day. Okay. Cash Patel. Let's see. We're not seeing when he's going to be announced yet. That's the big E that in RFK Jr that I'm looking forward to. But we'll have full coverage on that. All right, you get in at 855-839-1210. Today, looking for some, this all is coming off the Ray Deninger thing. Somebody or something that really disappointed you broke your heart. In other words, is what we're looking for. By the way, a lot of reaction to President Trump today might be the side question tomorrow. I'm working it up in my mind. Yeah, why couldn't we rename the Gulf of Mexico, which principally seems to be involved with a lot of U.S. territory, the Gulf of America? Why do that? You know, why go through it? That's what the other side's going to say. Well, why not? Oh, it's going to cost money. That's not. They object to anything like this. It's bold. And I'm not sure if Trump is going to be able to get Congress to go back and rename Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg from Fort Liberty, due to all the nonsense that's happened. Why would they sell to liberals as it's being honoring Alvin Bragg? Then maybe they can get a pass, you know? But you were sitting on that one for a while. Yeah, exactly. So we'll see how much renaming goes on. Dan, what else we have from the Trump press conference today? Yeah, I'm going through it. Do you want the audio of the Gulf of Mexico? Yeah, let's hear him say that. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Yeah, let me say I thought I had that cued up, but I guess I do not. I switched off there. I apologize. I'm first off. I have a Trump talking about the 620 million acres of offshore drilling. Yes. Take a listen. Say we manufacture, we don't manufacture. I think we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world. We're gonna have more of it, too. But they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling. Nobody else does that. And they think they have it, but we'll put it back. I'm gonna put it back on day one. I'm gonna have it revoked on day one. We'll go immediately. If we need to, I don't think we should have to go to the courts. But if we do have to go to the courts, you know, they try to be sneaky. They go in and they say, and remember, this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth. Well, you don't do the kind of things. You don't have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you. Because I did nothing wrong. By the way, I did nothing. Okay, let's stop that one. We'll play to Gotham, Mexico. A point on this. It's not going to be easy from what I'm told. Look, Trump's got to say it's part of their persona on the whole thing. Day one, Biden has laid something here that's going to be fought out in the courts. It's going to take a while. And it's just another example of Dr. Jill Biden, Biden, and the whole crowd around him pulling the strings, how much they want to just continue to inflict damage on the everyday American. And I want to play this day and cut 15. I may stop at some point here. It's Joe Scarborough today saying, how in the world are we not recognizing how good the Biden presidency has been for the first time, Willie, since George W. Bush's inauguration. No American troops were at war. Right there. Not to you clown, but to this clown. That's not due to it. Look at the poll out in Afghanistan. Look at the carnage. Look at what has resulted in damage to the average American. So move on, Joe. Give us another inauguration day. Murders way down. Got illegal immigration. Fall and below where it was when Donald Trump left office. Not true. Not true. Stop it right there. Not true. All right, continue and finished at their best two years in a quarter century and are at record highs. Jobs are up. Wages are rising. The economy is growing as quickly as it did during Trump's pregnancy. That's again, let's stop right there. I wanted to make this point for the millionth time. How often did people like this, he and the wife who are living the good life to just absolute morons who are probably worth 30 to 40 million dollars net worth between the two of them, some way or another. And the average American and what this family did in these historians and the Michael Bachelors and all these people talking to Biden because of inflation. Making Americans have to make all these choices that they shouldn't have to make. We just talked about the housing in Levittown. People trying to get a home. Still wanting to tell us how good the economy is. Well, what metric would you like to use? If I say inflation, they say, oh, well, look, inflation's down. And they actually have made themselves believe it. It's the rate of inflation and by the way, it goes back up and down. It hasn't been steady. We're talking about baked in inflation and here Biden wants to hamstring Trump from the number one thing and Trump gets us that will help us break through on inflation energy sources, cheap energy sources going back to that. How many times did Americans hear that? Why are you complaining about the economy, the economy is great. And we would answer that. We'd go round and round with it. But hey, it's got to feel good after the election. All right, coming up. Yesterday was the day that we certified the second Trump term. And we happened to have on Scott Prezler. And we also had on Michael Watley, two of the key players. It just by happenstance. And we thought, yeah, we got to get Linda Kearns on here. And Dan has some sound of Trump saying we must ensure vote counting and elections finishes at 10 p.m. on election. One of the things we're going to do is we've got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10 o'clock in the evening or something. But they're about they have places where they're still counting votes. Well, we'll find out as Linda Kearns going to be able to have that election count. See, I don't want it to happen Dan at early. I mean, we got a business here. We got radio that was one of our biggest spectaculars. I don't want it to go to three in the morning. I'll settle for a midnight or one o'clock. You know, a little tension here. Linda Kearns, she actually working on making it at 10 p.m. That it's over. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. All right, we had to do that. Of course, it's part of the deal. We all have to go through this. That means Linda Kearns is with us here. Oh, talk radio 1210. Hey, Linda, welcome in. And yesterday we had on some of the people that won this for everyone. And we wanted to not forget you on certification day. We were fully booked, though. We wanted to do that today. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you again and again. I appreciate that, Tom. But were you making fun of my and rolling your eyes at my love of Elvis? Is that what it was just happening? Because tomorrow is the most important day of the year. Yesterday wasn't that important. Tomorrow is Elvis's birthday. So what are you doing to celebrate that? We may have to do some kind of side question around that. I don't know. I've always liked the hair. I'd like to have hair like that. Dan and we'll have to work that. Put that into the milieu there. So Linda, before we get to something you're working on, Dan found this clip of the president today. We just played it saying, yeah, we're going to ensure vote counting by 10 p.m. on election night. Are you working on that? Right. So obviously I agree and principle with that. Absolutely. It's the execution of that that is going to take some forethought. People may not remember, but when Biden first took office, he and Congress, they were talking about taking over elections, federalizing elections, centralizing elections with the federal government. And we as conservatives were saying, no, no, no, you cannot do that. That is not the way we design elections. We leave these decisions to the states. So we do have to be careful with whatever election reform that we're coming up with while Trump is in office that we don't do the exact opposite of what good election integrity is, which would be federalizing elections and centralizing it too much in the federal government. Because, Dan, for instance, here in Pennsylvania, if there was some type of federal law that says all counting has to be done by 10 p.m. The only way, really, to get that done, if we still have mail balloting would be to start counting ahead of time. But before we count those ballots ahead of time, we have to make sure we have systems in place that people cannot vote by mail and then vote on the machine. And while we do have some of those systems in place, it's not as perfect as I would like it. So the last thing I want is to start counting ahead of time before we have those safeguards. And remember, Dom, we have 67 counties. If we don't have some type of uniformity and accountability as to when that pre-counting is going to start, I can't imagine how I would be able to get watchers. It was difficult enough to schedule watchers knowing that they were all going to start an election day. But to think, if I had to schedule watchers for 67 counties not knowing when they're going to start counting, if some of them start a week ahead of time, if some of them start five days ahead of time, if some of them start at 9 a.m. So there's a lot of detail that has to be ironed out. But that's, you know, that's President Trump. He comes up with the big ideas and then people like me execute them. Well, I don't see the need though. I hate to object, but at 10 p.m. Yeah, that's, you know, I'm okay if it's midnight one in the morning, just not the drawn out type of stuff. And we seem to achieve it pretty well this time across the board due to your efforts and others. So Linda, what are you working on at this point? So if you remember, I spent a lot of time on your show on a lot of radio stations all across the Commonwealth recruiting people to be both poll watchers and poll workers. And the poll workers are the people that go that are sitting there when you go in to vote that they check you in, they make sure you're in the book, you sign the book, they set up the machine for you. And in Pennsylvania, what a lot of people don't realize is those are elected positions. We vote for them, and we're going to vote for them this year. And that's part of the problem with not taking care of election integrity every single year is that if we don't as Republicans have people on the ballot and have them voted in this year, then my job is much harder in a presidential year in 2028 because I'm trying to get people appointed. I'm trying to recruit people. I'm trying to put poll watchers where I know I don't have poll workers. So you can actually file to run for it to be a judge of election majority inspector, minority inspector in your election district. And that's this year. And you have to get five signatures and that opens the signature period opens up on February 18. So we're going to see if we can recruit some people to actually run and be on the ballot and then be at every election between now and 2028. So that by the time 2028 rolls around, we have people who are really invested who have been working these elections who know everybody. So that's what we're working on now. That is great stuff. The incrementalism of this way in advance. Certainly. So Linda, all things being equal then, I think you'll be our first guest, the first hour when we're broadcasting from the NAC as we did before. But this one, you'll be there along with we think hundreds of listeners in 2016. It was like that when Trump takes the oath of office. Happy to do it. You know, I am working on the inauguration committee right now. I mean, I'm a lawyer. So I'm not actually planning the party's home, reviewing all the contracts and so forth. So it's really an interesting process. And I think citizens should be aware how much goes into one of these inaugurations. I mean, it's planning a huge event that really goes over a few days because there's events, you know, that Saturday and Sunday and Monday. So it's a lot to plan. Well, I can mention it won't be there for the parties. You'll be with us, which is a better party and better company. And we promise maybe some mentions of Elvis. Well, I did go to the inauguration in 2016 and it was a great experience. And this year there's going to be a big lawyer luncheon the day before that from the Republican National Lawyers Association to honor all the lawyers who participated. But then I'm going to come back to Philadelphia. So yes, I am happy to be there to talk to you guys about the inauguration. And I think we'll be a little bit warmer than the people who are actually asking the inauguration because you will be inside. We won't be out in the in the elements. So it'll be it. I think that's going to be a great day. One question for you. I put this poll up yesterday. I have the results and sadly, it's a sign of the apocalypse. Each year I asked this with the first snowfall. Many years it's been 80%. It's down to the final was 68.9% said if you dig out of space in Philadelphia, wherever you are, Linda, then you deserve to keep that space. Henry says only if you put an object in it or protect it. Dan, Bill Bagan said he's not Philadelphia. What can you expect, Tom? What are you going to expect with Dan Rose that you on Twitter yesterday and I told him, come on. That's that's not right. Right. So Dan, my feeling on that is a Philadelphia and his first of all, I'm a lawyer. And no, that those spaces are on the on the street or community spaces. You should not be able to preserve them. However, I'm also a real us. And I know that if I tried to pull my car in a space where someone had put a chair or some other marker, I'd probably get a brick through it. So I don't think I would try it. That's the entire point is, yeah, that's the reality of what it is. But no, it shouldn't be that way. Of course it should. It's America. Wait a minute. This election was about this. Let me ask you. I go if I go mow the lawn of a vacant lot that's for sale. Do I automatically own the vacant the vacant lot? No. And Dan, so Dan, I'm with you. I said, I don't think you should be able to preserve a public space like that. I absolutely don't think that. However, I'm a realist and I wouldn't pull into someone's space who has reserved because I know how Philadelphia's are not to speak poorly of my fellow Philadelphians, but I am a real and frankly, and I know that, you know, I think I saw them Philadelphia magazine, they're claiming crime is down, but I'm afraid to park my car in the street because it just seems like there's just tons of petty theft. You end up getting scratched or someone breaking into it. So we really have a lot to work on in Philadelphia. Exactly. That's terrible. All right, Belinda, thank you again for everything and will relive everything on inauguration day at the NAC. I can't wait. And if anyone is interested in participating in elections, you still go to protective vote.com. Go to the go to protective vote.com. Just go to Pennsylvania. You can sign up to a volunteer. It still says 2024 in there, but I'm going to have the computer people fix that. And we are recruiting people. We want to see people involved in every election. We have elections in Pennsylvania twice a year every year. We don't just have them in presidential years. Thank you, Linda. See you soon. Take care. Linda currents here on talk radio 1210. It's a lightning round next. And don't forget, get there early. We'll be broadcasting next show, Don show my show up until three o'clock. And I, you know, when President Trump takes the oath, I know in 2016, we were at chicken and pizza. It was a magical moment. You want to be there. You want to be heard. I'm sure there'll be other things that go on to Newtown Athletic Club, right there in Bucks County. Thanks to Jim Worthington. Lightning round next who broke your heart on talk radio 1210. Talk radio 1210. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us a lightning round. I need to eat some time. Who broke your heart in a big way, disappointment, that kind of thing. That's what we're looking for. Let's go to Joe in Westchester. All right, Joe. What's your answer today? I am. Joe in Westchester, you called? Yes, Joe. Who's what's your answer? Yeah. My answer was the FBI. And I'm sitting on a sofa with a blanket from apparently friends who worked for the Department of Justice and and the FBI briefing, you know, not as an agent. Just, you know. Okay, thank you, Joe. All right. And it's personally FBI. Pretty good rep, very good reputation. Dwayne's got a good one. I think it's happened behind the scenes here, Dom. Bruce and the Northeast called us. Okay. And we haven't heard from him in a long time. Remember, we're wondering if he's okay. Yeah. And then Henry answers it and just silence and there's phones. There's no one there. Oh, I think he's calling back. So you might hear from Bruce. Oh, good. Uh, Dwayne in Valley Forge. Hey, Dwayne, afternoon. What do you have today? Hi, Dom. Um, I, she was a featured guest, uh, in a, in a speaker series, 12 10 speaker series, right? Neighborhood at the Colonial Theatre, bright young conservative author. I thought the world of her, but she broke all of our hearts when she stepped rich and John and the entire the only army by not showing up at a speaker event in Berkeley, California. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. Well, and she also wrote these wonderful things about Trump and then turned virantly anti Trump. Joe in Borden town. Joe, what do you have? Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Joe. Thank you. My soul wrenching disappointment was the collapse of the 1964 Phillies. Yeah, it was, uh, shocking. Uh, and, uh, Gene Mock, uh, didn't have any formula out of it. Thank you, Joe. That's a good one. Joe in Columbus next. Hi, Joe. What do you have? Good. Um, I think me and Joe from Borden town are brothers from another mother. We grew up and we were born to fame. Little tiny ghetto, but we never met each other. And he is, he, he's something else. I got to tell him that. Um, my side question answer is, uh, every, everybody's sweetheart, uh, with Arnold Palmer and the Hurts commercials. Uh, he broke our heart overnight and that was O.J. Simpson. Yeah, people that say, oh, they knew they always suspect that that's ridiculous. It was shocking. If you remember, Joe, for three or four days that we've, when they started to say, well, they always think of the husband first, they think of O.J. We were like, what are you kidding me? And Hollywood crafted him, Dom. Yeah, they really did. They protected him. He was, uh, he was a kind of a gangbanger in junior college before he went to USC, you know, in the streets of L.A. They eradicated that whole part of his past and they made him, he made, they made him everybody's sweetheart. Uh, it's a good one. That is a real good one. The Earl of tachone. Earl, what do you have? Uh, my answer is going to be Mitt Romney, Mittens. Uh, he was supposed to be Donald Trump. I mean, you remember when he was running for office? Oh, he's a rich guy. He goes and he buys companies and he fires people and he makes these companies more efficient. And, you know, he lost to Obama and then all of a sudden, you know, Trump comes in doing the Mitt Romney playbook and all of a sudden Mitt Romney's like, oh, this is a bad thing. And they're, oh, wait, this is everything that you were running for. The reason I voted for Mitt Romney is because Mitt Romney was going to do the exact same stuff that Trump ended up doing in the future. Yeah, it was, uh, pretty surprising. Oh, wait, there's bad blood personally, but still overall to get even with him, the impeachment and everything else. Yeah, Mitt Romney definitely qualifies. Our last hitter, Joe in extant on talk radio 12th then. All right, Joe, who do you have today? Yes. Hello, Dom. Hi, Joe. My disappointment is in the person of George Soros. Soros is a native of Hungary who experienced fascistic dictators. Soros then flees Hungary and finds refuge in America, which allows him to use his financial genius to acquire great wealth. Then rather than showing gratitude to the country that gave him shelter, Soros uses his wealth to support left-wing policies that are detrimental to America. Thank you, Joe. All right. Nice list here, particularly at the end. Who broke your heart? All right. We're in love with George Soros. Henry, who is it that you like that of all this? Yeah, the answer that stuck out to me today was Chris and Malvern's answer of CNN. I remember growing up thinking like CNN was like the standard of news. And he detailed his time, you know, serving overseas and like watching that curry passionate call. Yes. And then like, what's happened to them? I don't know. You know, it's hard to believe. It's hard. Yeah, well, they owned international news because they were 24/7 without a doubt. Dan, what do you say? I was actually going to say CNN myself. I really like that answer. But also, I think O.J. Simpson, Joe and Columbus had a really good call there. 1964 Phillies from Joe and Bordentown. And then a third Joe, a lot of Joe's, Joe and Westchester with the FBI as well. Yeah, I think I love the call, the CNN call. And it does take you back. CNN was not always like this. I mean, I'm sure it was always vaguely liberal, but it was newsy. Well, you got to think CNN was the first 24 hour news network war coverage, you know, and a lot of what they did was revolutionary before the buy set in. And I don't know, it's okay to remember when CNN once coverage was in all of it. And the fact that he was serving with this and checking in on it was great call. So Chris and Malvern, your name goes into the hat. Good one today, maybe renaming tomorrow to take us out to end you have that Trump is isolated just saying, why can't we name it the Gulf of America? Or is it in that still in that long thing? Yeah, going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon, we're going to change because we do most of the work there and it's ours. We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets. We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. All right, there you go. And Marchary Taylor Greene just dropped the bill I was reading a moment ago to do that. They're going to say, why do we have to do that? Oh, you jingoistic people, you know, no, it's the right thing to do. Yeah, Lee Greenwood will be there when they pull off the big banner that says Gulf of America. All right, great stuff today. Rich, she always next, join us tomorrow, noon until three, sing it Lee. Follow on Twitter at Dom Show 1210, all that happening each and every day with the side question and everything else. 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