The Dom Giordano Program

The Speaker and The Talker (Full Show)

12 - Will Mike Johnson be re-elected as Speaker of the House? Dom hopes so. 1205 - Why did the Allstate CEO make this bizarre statement before the Sugar Bowl yesterday? 1210 - Side question - What is an all time famous street? 1220 - We’re not masking up again, aggregators. Stop posting old stuff. There’s a Phil Murphy documentary coming out? 1235 - Musical artist Michael Harrison joins us to break down his new song with the band Gunhill Road titled “Don’t Stop Talking”, which features talk radio hosts from across the country, including our own Dom Giordano. Why did he make this song? How does Michael feel about the art form that is talk radio? 1250 - Your calls 1 - Will Mike Johnson survive the vote as certain Republicans don’t think Johnson is the right fit for Speaker? 110 - Is alcohol causing cancer? The outgoing Surgeon General wants people to think so, but what does this announcement accomplish? 130 - Hall of Fame Sportswriter Ray Didinger joins the program to discuss the controversial decision to rest Saquon Barkley in the final game of the season as he chases Eric Dickerson’s single season rushing record. Is it the right plan? Do we like the plan? How does this affect Saquon’s legacy? How bad is Jalen’s concussion? How is “Tommy and Me" turning out? Juxtaposing the NFL back then vs. now. 150 - Who did Thomas Massie just vote for? Are Republicans okay? 2 - Kamala Harris messes up the Pledge of Allegiance?!? 205 - Will we have a speaker by the end of the show today? Your calls. 210 - Money Melody! 215 - Winner? 240 - Is the Speaker vote over? 250 - Lightning Round!

Duration:: 2h 23m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jan 2025
Audio Format:: other

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Okay, now look, it's not a perfect choice. I just want to recall though, and I want to call out. Those people who, with McCarthy, now each case is different. Matt Gaetz was one. They were just insufferable. They were not pushing just for somebody who would be great or whatever. These people are all in their little tribes doing whatever they want. They've come to their senses this time around. It's only Massey who's in a safe district in Kentucky. He's holier than thou. He's a libertarian on most issues. I think he's a smart enough guy and he said, well, I'm going to play you what Massey said. He's the one no vote. This is cut 10. Here's Thomas Massey from Kentucky telling us why he will not vote for Johnson. If Chip Roy were asked to serve as chairman of the Rules Committee, would that be enough to get your vote for Mike Johnson? Oh no, you can pull all my fingernails out. You can shove bamboo up in them. You can start cutting off my fingers. I am not voting for Mike Johnson tomorrow. And you can take that to the bank. Okay. And you know how thin the margin is. Again, if it's one round, that's what I'm asking you today. If it's one round and they don't like Johnson, they want to show their displeasure. They're two, three, four votes. God knows what these people, whatever it is. Okay. And then around two, we get on board and we have Johnson. I like Byron Donald's, as you know, tremendously. You may too. I really like Jim Jordan because of the Trump influence. And I guess his own thought process. He thinks it's too disruptive. He's not running to be speaker. So there's nobody else that's going to get the required votes to be speaker. And Trump has wholeheartedly supported Johnson. So if you're in Congress, you have your own will. That's all true. But you got to look at this, that a lot of things are hanging in the balance. What will be served by this protracted battle over the speakership? 855-839-1210. If you're in that camp that wants a raw, raw, put on your skirt, shave the legs, pom-poms, and tell us, you're the only purist here. Look at what Johnson gave us with that monstrous bill. I get it. I get all that. Can I guarantee that Mike Johnson is going to be aggressive enough working with the slim majority? No, I think there are other potentially better choices. But given where we've landed at this point, this is the choice. So you want to have some fun, knock yourself out, one round of votes, and then we move on. I think it's solidified, and I think other than Massey, at least after the first ballot, I don't think we're going to see others pushing, although the woman from Indiana, the sports woman, if is problematic also. So the question is this. Are they your heroes? Are these heroes chip Roy? I mean, he makes a lot of good points. I get it. The budget, the funding, and all that. But you know, Trump has not been that diligent on the spending himself. Is that the critical thing right now in front of us? This is the alamo. This is the time to have a vote on this. Or are the more heroic, if you will, people, those that see the big picture here to see what we have to get done. And if we have a protracted struggle like the other time, this is going to get in the way of everything that we have to hit the ground running on. The clock is already ticking of Democrats trying to slow anything down. Then we get to the midterms. 8, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10. That's how you get on board. Now, last night, it wasn't an unbelievable game, Sugarball. The result though now is an ESPN taking some heat. I saw it first from Nick Cal's Twitter, and they deserve to be taking heat for this. And it's an interesting question. Are we living in a day and age where we don't have to announce what ESPN did on their Twitter? ESPN, first time, there will be a Blackhead coach in the championship game, first time ever, no matter what happens in the two brackets. Because Franklin is African American, and so is the coach of Notre Dame. So there'll be a Blackhead coach in there. Is that something? Look, I get it. Although the numbers have changed slightly. I'm not going to go into the weeds of calculating each one. In the NFL, of the number of African American coaches. And in college, I don't think it was as bad of a percentage as it might have been in the NFL. But are we rapidly getting to a point where this isn't because neither coach, particularly the Notre Dame coach, has gone out of his way to tap being an African American coach at Notre Dame. I believe the first in their history, but I'd go back and look. It doesn't matter, but I mean, it's rare. Is that something that ESPN is right to be marketing, to be talent? The battle of the two Blackhead coaches, one of whom will now then be in the big ring for the national championship. And speaking of the sugar ball, now I have no, I don't have insurance with them. I have nothing against them as a company. I'm kind of agnostic about them, but no longer. You have to know about this. Here's this guy who's the president. This is cut six and CEO of all state before the sugar ball last night. In which due to lax policies, particularly in New Orleans, where they don't know what they're doing, that police chief and others, they didn't protect people. Now, the first blame is on the killers, also on radical Islamic fundamentalism, but it's also on these clowns like this woman who's the police commissioner, didn't know about these archers she was calling them that would have blocked the street. Well, we're changing over from one thing to another. So you're kind of on your own if a maniac wants to run you over. Listen to the all state CEO and president. I guess they were the presenter at the sugar ball in this big moment in New Orleans, talking about the word that particularly has bothered people in perfections. Here's the CEO of all state. Welcome to the all state sugar bowl. Wednesday, tragedy struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers with the victims and their families. We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. What? All state working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust, and accept people's imperfections and differences. Together, we win. Imperfections, differences, let's stop being divisive. We have people, sir, who are here and tried to kill us, at least in one instance, and multiple, and we have a lot of others who would kill every one of us. What are you talking about with your cockamimi DEI nonsense? Talking about divisiveness and overlooking imperfections. About whom are you speaking? What the hell are you speaking about? Are you actually tying some bizarro work world of DEI and related things? And I see on Twitter, they have a lot of DEI action on their board. They're big in that. Now, this hasn't taken off with the like Bud Light yet. But this guy, in the middle of this, rather than just saying prayers, tragedy, New Orleans, we dedicate to football game and New Orleans will come together. They will overcome this. Our sympathies goes off in this DEI trail about divisiveness and imperfections and things of that nature. It's like, what kind of company are you in good hands here? Are you in the hands of the very same people that gave us Bud Light? This was a big moment, carefully scripted, to say all this nonsense. If you missed it, I mean, that's word-by-word what he said. It strikes me as a chat GPT-generated statement almost. It was too bland, too non-offensive. I think it's, yeah, that. But I think it goes beyond that, though, when you start talking about linking the events of this to we have to overcome divisiveness. Yeah, no, I agree. We're not being divisive. We have people that want to kill us. And this idea, I don't mind people. I don't mind that countries divide it. People have opinions on the other side. They see it one way or another. We're not united. We're divided. And all it means is we can't take out the worst instincts of that division. But as far as being divided, we don't share the same fundamental values. The other side wants more of the federal government, more encroachment of that. The conservative side wants a lot less even than where we are now. There's nothing wrong with that. That's divide. We are divide it. And elections are what's settled this. And the American people are going to have to decide in the next election. Do they want to reaffirm what Trump was elected on and bring it to it? Or do they go, no, no, no. That wasn't such a good idea. We want something to restrain Trump for the last two years. That's divided. Divisiveness, though. When we have people clearly insane, clearly radicalized, and incompetence who let them kill us. All right. So 855-839-1210. I don't think anything's going to take off like the Bud Light situation. But this guy is amazing. He's both the president and CEO of a major company. He and his advisors think that's a way to talk about things like this. You don't have to get into the politics of it. You don't have to call out radical, fundamental Islam. You don't have to do that. Just say our thoughts are with the victims of this. May this game be played with that in mind. All-state, supportive across the country. People entrapped something like that. That's fine. And just move on. I realize you may not want to say all-state. Happy tonight with the football. Inappropriate with people dead and all that. I get that. But imperfections, like what language did this go through? If it is AI generated, and that comes out. That's a bigger scandal than anything. And Moron's over there. Heat AI to generate a statement of this. Less is more here. All right. 855-839-1210. We got the big vote coming up. It was supposed to start at noon, but I'm assuming I'm not watching here yet. There'll be speeches. There'll be people saying this, that, and the other. And then they have the vote for speaker. No Democrat is going to vote for Johnson. No Democrat is going to vote present. They're all just going to unlock step. Vote for Jeffries. And if too many Republicans are the wrong thing here, they could elect Jeffries, Speaker of the House. Don't think it will happen. Think it will be Johnson. Are you in the camp still, though, to get your jolly saying, "No, I don't like what Johnson's done here. I want someone better." Okay. How is that going to happen, though? So you just don't want to hear that the battle lines are drawn. And Johnson is the only one that can get to that number of votes. That's where we are. And not that Trump should dictate to Congress, but when you have the leader of the party telling you he's on board with this, with Johnson giving everything that he faces. And once it moved forward, I think you have to take that under advisement a pretty good bet. All right. Let me give you the side question. We didn't do it yesterday. It was too close to the event, but Bourbon Street in the news big time to becoming back Super Bowl, Mardi Gras and all the rest of it. I started to look it up because I knew I was going to do the side question on this. It was only in the top fifth or sixth most famous streets in the world. Now they said in the world, I think Bourbon Street is in the top three, really. But we want to hear, and it's all in the call. It's all in how you phrase it. It's all in what you do. Hit us with that all time favorite street, for whatever reason, in the world. It could be real or it could be fictional. Think of a street in a movie, film, play, whatever it might be. I'm going to take off because it may have won two years ago. We did this something like Easy Street. We know that. You're not going to win with that one. I'm going to take off Sesame Street. And I'm going to take off a real one, Broadway, going down Broadway, New York. So you can have a real one. You can have a fictional one. Henry, how about yours? Yeah, so I will take off the song that is playing in the background here, Ocean Avenue, by the band Yellow Card. I will also take off the street. The griffons live on in Family Guy Spooner Street. Okay, that's pretty prominent. That was in the top 10 when I looked up a fictional current. Yeah, it's in a couple of places it was. Cool. Yeah, so 855-839-1210, that's at the end of your call. We're watching this. I could see it going more than one round. Okay, no harm, no foul. Let them all vent. I want this. I want that. Johnson didn't do it. And then we get into round two here. But remember how tight the margin is. We don't want to start an all-out fight here. President Trump is more clearly on board than he was a few days ago. Guys like Massey, you're not going to please him. In this divided government that we have. Will I give Johnson an A? No, I might give him a B for what he's done. I'd like to see a couple of others in there. But I don't see how that's happening. Now, Jeff Van Drew may pop in after the vote, something like that. We're hoping to hear from him and a couple of other Congress people. Scott Perry is one in the top 10 that people say may turn and vote against Johnson. If he does along with Massey, now we're starting to get into trouble here. So I guess I'd say when it was McCarthy, there's a big difference between Johnson and McCarthy. And there's a big difference between having a little bit more of a margin and almost no margin. And there's a big difference between where we were at that date in time and having Trump and the Senate ready to go. Is there not? Aren't these a different fact set? Isn't this time not to get your jowies to be talking kind of pie in the sky here and to move into this to lean into a particularly with the Trump. If Trump did not endorse, God knows what might happen here. And now Trump shouldn't be able to dictate to Congress. Everybody agrees with it. It's not dictating, but he's going to make his feelings known. Given everything, does he think Johnson did okay here? Can he live with that? Can he work with Johnson? He's saying yes, yes, yes. Okay then. It's time to stand up and move on to this. The other stuff is just helping Democrats, helping them slow things down, helping set up more roadblocks. And we have to certify the election come what January 6th. I got something on that coming up. More information on the pipe bomb and how the end four years after the fact, the FBI still has no more leads on the pipe bomb in front of the DNC. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. All that you have to do is just push pound 12 10. All right, it is Dom Time. Welcome in Good Friday. So the terrorist with the truck in New Orleans won the anti-terror medal while he was in the military. It's amazing stuff, but right now the speaker's race is the thing that will quench it this day and we'll move on and we'll start next week, be looking at the confirmation hearings and then the inauguration. But 855-839-1210, you get on board. You have people like Byron Donald's going to play you saying, yes, it's got to be Mike Johnson. That's the only way that we can move forward. All right, Jim Jordan, others. Are they not heroes? Are they not standing up? Is that what the issue is here? By the way, yesterday occurred. They're fuffle and I checked it out. It was on Twitter and people getting upset because I'll give you the backstory with Birdflow. Four states, California and Jersey are the most prominent, are now saying in many areas of the state in hospitals and medical settings, you have to wear a mask again. 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You know, I'm still reluctant because they're kids and there will be vitriol. They're 17, 18. They made a documentary because Murphy says in the tape, "They're the architects of getting adults to realize we need a law against book banners, against the book banners." So the first thing, I couldn't read it on the air. I'd have to clean it up. Longboy books like that, you think 10-year-olds should have access to it. Yeah, the side never wants to answer this. The librarians don't want to answer it. Oh, the poor librarian. No, not the poor librarians. Any number of them are out of control. They're not reflecting their community. They're not reflecting the school. No one's bent that there are people out there that would ban a lot of things that certainly shouldn't be banned. But there's a clear line and one of the test is if everybody would be uncomfortable, if you read that aloud at a school board meeting that cuts you off. Well, then why would that be in the library, particularly for younger kids? So now there's a feature documentary coming by these two kids who Murphy says they got the adults attention. They're the ones that pushed this anti-book banning stuff in New Jersey. Remember when he signed it, we had done Fantasia on and others breaking it down. How clearly out of line this was that had nothing to do with what we're talking about. But this is the game they continue to play and the media continues to be both incompetent and ideologically bent to say these are book bands. Answer the question. Should Longboy, should any number of these books that we're talking about, you have access of 10 or 12-year-olds? Mike Testa, when he was on, the senator from the shore said you would be under Meghan's law, you would be in big trouble with some of these things. If you were a neighbor, an adult, and you gave that book to someone who's underage, how in the world then, or he's calling us book banners, it's the law. But now he's got two kids, this is always the tactic of the left. Seemed to be relatively smart, engaged, all nice, and what are they doing? They're out there in this big documentary saying we were amazed that adults still want to ban books. No, that's not the case. That's not what the issue is. But the fiction continues. You'll be seeing some more of that without a doubt. All right, 855-839-1210. Hit me with that all-time street, real or fictional. You can hit us with, in honor of Bourbon Street, sadly, in a negative way being in the news. We've got the All-State guy. How insufferable? Did they really resort to AI with that? I don't know about that, but their team of people, if AI were involved, talking about imperfections, again with the divisiveness. There's no divisiveness. Nobody did anything to these two. They were insane and evil. At least in the case of New Orleans, together I got to sort out what was happening with that guy. But anybody who wants to take a life on it, they're evil and insane. We're not divisive. They have problems. They have mental problems. Wouldn't you love to go back and forth with the All-State guy with this nonsense? But this is the type of stuff you get with DEI run operations. And apparently All-State is one of them. I never knew. I hear All-State and I think of smaller communities. I think of the good neighbor and all that stuff. This guy, CEO and president, is the face of it. That's indicative that, yeah, this is DEI Central. Okay, coming up, we're going to talk. We all share something as we head into 2025, our deep love of talk radio. A rock group, it's been around for a while, has put out not one, but two songs. And there's a lot of visuals, videos, really. As an homage to talk radio, one we talked about a year or two ago, idiots, the new one is musical anthem for talk radio. Don't stop talking. And you'll see in this, I'm in it. It's one of my credits, but it's maybe 40 of the top talk stations across American video form with this band providing music and the theme around it. All that is straight ahead and your calls at 855-839-1210. Hey, looking to achieve your health goals and start the new year right, now is the time to optimize and support your heart health, cholesterol, digestive health, energy levels, and more with rescue natural supplements with their new year savings. Rescue is celebrating you. Save 35% on single bottles of rescue supplements. Use the code HEALTH35, health35. Try the popular rescue 1250 omega-3s for heart health, rescue probiotic for better digestion, or rescue or is seen for more energy. Whatever your health goals, rescue has you covered. To place an order, call 826 alive. That's 800-262-5483. 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And the band Gunhill Road, don't stop talking, is a homage to that with some of the biggest stations and people in the country. They got the hair right in this. That's the biggest thing that I can say when I sent them my minute or so that's featured in it. I forget exactly, Henry, feel free during the interview to thumb through and tell people the exact moment I appear on the screen. Oh, you were just up here too, a few seconds ago. All right, I'm gonna go find it. Yeah, we need to get the exact moment there. That's where people want to go to this. Come on now. All right, let's go without further ado to Michael Harrison. Michael, happy new year. Welcome back. Happy new year to you and all the listeners. And you have a very important moment in that. We have about 87 or 88 major and medium talk show hosts from around the country. And you're up there for longer than most of them. And it's great to have you on the video, certainly is. Well, thank you, Michael. 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Basically is in support of the First Amendment, freedom of speech, the role that talk radio plays in our society and just how proud we all are to be part of the talk radio community in America, which has been nothing short of a phenomenon. When you were starting out, it was decades ago and we're still doing it on a medium that many people say, "Oh, radio is dead." I don't think it's quite dead yet. Yes, and it's morphed into something that had appeals, say in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, to where now you hear national guests with us and other places and where it's a place people go. But I really think about it as a club and it always has been a club where people come together. That's the call-in part, which other mediums are trying to adopt and fool around with it, where people have the fun of it, the side question that we do, things of that nature, where they get to know people that are guests that are unfairly regularly. It is something that is freeform. I remember doing a show once, I won't say any names, but they actually had a script for it for the last hour of the show and I try to tell these guys, you can't write a script for this. Are you kidding? I don't know what I'm going to say next. It's intuitive, it's spontaneous, and that's what's exciting about it. That's the most exciting thing about radio. There's audio and audio is important and it's podcasting and podcasting and audio and cable news talk television and satellite radio and streaming radio and all of these kinds of radio that do talk are all offshoots, off spring of talk radio. Talk radio has its fingerprints in all of those cross-platform media and still is on the good old AM and FM band. The stuff that's on the AM and FM dial is often long form, which means it goes deep, and what you just said before, spontaneous. There's a huge difference, and you know as a season broadcaster, there's a big difference between when you are on a live show, like you and I are on right now. This is live. There's no turning back. We've got to be responsible for what we say and we have to think fast and there are real people in the thousands. Who knows how many? Listening to this. That brings out something different than when you're in the studio recording something to a podcast or something for later playback. Don't you feel that when you do your various kinds of broadcasting? Oh, it's electric. Even something to your point that's taped versus live. I feel what other people tell me they can't hear it when they're listening to the tape. I know you and we would hear it. There's a slight difference when you're taping versus live, amping yourself up live. You don't have to think about it. You're doing it no matter when it is and what it is. No turning back. There's no retakes. I didn't like the way I said that. Let's do that again. But it's all important. But most important is that radio and talk radio need to be recognized for what they do. The people that do it are working under tough conditions now. There are economic issues that are applied to all the media and movies, newspapers, magazines. It's not just radio. Television has its problems. It's been a pretty tough time to be in radio. And especially with all the controversy, the polarization, people get angry at you. It's a nastier world. Perhaps in some cases, management is not as dedicated to controversy as it once was in this politically correct, hyper polarized society. People have righteous indignation. They're looking for a reason to be offended and shut down. So we're trying to encourage the people in the business. Keep on talking. As long as you have a voice, don't ever stop. And as long as you have the truth, don't ever stop. And the truth, of course, is your truth. It doesn't have to be my truth. As long as you're authentic and you believe what you say, as long as you have the truth, as long as you have the voice, as long as you have love, as long as you have goodwill, don't ever stop talking. And for the listeners, support your talk radio station. And the best way you can do that is one, listen regularly, become part of the community that Dom is talking about. And if I may face that, it's important, support the sponsors of talk radio, because they're the ones that are keeping it alive. And it's a very important thing to do to support the sponsors of the station or host if you like them. It's much easier to be a sponsor, just something on a music station or sports pretty much. But here, you get the upside of it. People really go, there's a connection with sponsors, but also you have people that come after them. Michael, where do we find don't stop talking? Okay, make it very easy. Here's a URL. Go to talkradioforever.com and it'll take your right to it at the Talkers Media YouTube page. Talkradioforever.com. And I think you'd be very pleased. And you'll get to see Dom's your donna folks. Absolutely. 2025 and talk radio. Rush Limbaugh used to say, I remember, I think it's one Clinton one, he made this point. Yeah, we don't like this, but it's much easier being on offense than defense when the side that you favor pretty much is in the White House. I would say this though, with Trump, the fodder for everyday talk radio, I think it's pretty much unmatched. I don't remember moments. There were times with Bill Clinton. Obama was heated but often flat to me. Clinton was the one that Limbaugh really struck old with. So with Trump in the White House, what's the status of talk radio? I think that the offense defense argument doesn't hold up anymore in this completely almost 50/50 polarized environment. I think everybody has to play offense and defense. Even if you're in power, there are as many forces out there trying to get you out of power as there are people supporting you. So I think with Trump in the White House, it's extremely challenging not only to defend Trump if you love Trump, attack Trump if you don't love Trump, or deal with the intra-party problems. The conservatives have battles ahead among them, and as we are already seeing, the liberals, and in some cases leftists, and we know there's a difference between those two, they've got their infighting, especially after the bitter loss that they suffered at the ends of Donald Trump with Kamala Harris. So a lot of those old tenets are being thrown out the window and it's indeed a new era. It's going to be very different than Trump's first term. And of course, when people always ask me, what's going to be the big story or what are people going to talk about? I always say the unknown. New presidency's are always sidetracked by unknown events, whether it was 9/11 for George W. Bush, whether it was the pandemic for the first Trump administration. I can go through lists all the way back to George Washington. So we don't know what's going to happen in this crazy world in the next few months or next four years. And that's going to be the defining factor. So hang on to your seat because it's going to be a wild ride. Absolutely. Again, Michael Harrison, with us, Michael, where do we find don't stop talking? Okay, once more, please folks, take it down. We'd love for you to see this, especially since Dom is on it. Talkradioforever.com. Michael, thank you very much. And thanks for all that you do for talk radio. Thank you, Dom. Keep up the good work and happy new year to all your listeners. All right, Michael Harris and the founder and publisher of Talkers. That was one of the all time great when I first broke in the talk radio. Great branding, great names, and don't stop talking. All right, just a bit part in there. It's like, I don't think there's a minute. You appear at 54 seconds. 54 seconds. All right. There's the time stamp. Oh, at 54 seconds. Oh, okay. And what's the time I'm in there about six seconds. I am a bit less than that. Okay, go to the go to the 54 second marker. And you'll see me in there along with some of the really big stations across the country. 855-839-1210. All right, you got the side question today. Hit us with that all-time street. Now, remember, it's in the call. Don't just blurt a street. That doesn't do anything. You got to tell us why you're nominating that one to be the street of the day. It could be real. It could be fictional. All right. I mentioned too, we're watching the speaker vote. We'll give you the result when we have it. And I would bet it might go more than one time around pro forma, but that Mike Johnson, maybe before the end of the show, is going to retain his speakership. There is not any movement out there that's going to work. And if they don't go with him, that's going to be big trouble. I don't think Trump's going to back away on this. And I don't see the others jumping in and being able to overthrow Johnson when you look at everything. It should be a relatively simple matter. I think Johnson's pressure is going to come from Trump because the hammer is always there. If Trump turns, then we could see another speakership. But as long as Trump is on board with this, as close as it is, there's no way around this. Also, a little bit later, the Surgeon General out the door. Now it is true based statistically, but there's some caveats that alcohol is the third biggest causal element with some kinds of cancers. Obviously smoking, obviously obesity, but then we get to alcohol. Should people be made more aware of that? Do these labels work at all? I know people have studied. Did the smoking labels work at all? At that point in history, they did. Do people realize that now? The smoking numbers are pretty much way down. All right, 855-839-1210. All right, it is Dom Time. Welcome in 855-839-1210. Remember, it's all in the telling. No blurting. Give us that street. We already took one of them off, though. We took Easy Street off, Robert. So be thinking of another one. Oh, did we? Yeah, honestly, yes. Because people that may have won a couple years ago, so Easy Street off, Sesame Street. I had Broadway, but I don't see any others up here that have been taken off. So we got that going on. We're watching the speaker race. Nothing to report on that yet. As soon as it happens, we'll let you know. Don't know that I would call to fade it completely. The only need one more vote against. And then we're into turmoil here with Johnson, but I do think it will be John Mike Johnson. And again, it's not a popularity contest. It's an effectiveness contest. The stakes are different than when it was McCarthy, and I get all the back and forth. Well, you know, what about freedom of speech? And we want something better here. I get that. We also want to get things done. We want to win here, and winning is actually hitting the ground running, getting people confirmed, getting bills up, stopping what Biden has done on the way out the door. It looks like he's putting into play something that's going to be very difficult to knock out when it comes to drilling in certain areas. That's right. Big story today, what they have planned. Again, just another miserable relic from this guy that will maybe slow Trump down, they think. And what will it do if we can't move on energy quickly? Well, it will continue the big den inflation. That's it. Yeah, you miserable. Guys searching a destiny continue to burn in the average American. I wonder if Joe's going to write another bunch of phony memoirs that will read to ghost writers, or it'll have to trigger his memory, or Dr. Jill Biden will have to write that too. Let's go to Joe in board in town. Joe is in on talk radio 1210. Hello, Joe. Good afternoon. Hello. I'm ready for my close up, Mr. Deville. Okay, the Hollywood Boulevard. All right, why that one? Well, it's very famous. There's a song by the Tinks. Yes. So avoid heroes. And also there was the movie Hollywood Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson to classic. Yes, Watson to one I think of when I think of think of that. Yes, very good. And in Seinfeld, if they say in Seinfeld, or was it an actual movie line? I didn't get small. The pictures did. All right. The medium did. Yeah, I'm ready for my close up, Mr. Deville. Very good. All right, that's good start. Yeah, Hollywood Boulevard certainly works 855-839-1210. You can get on board. And again, the moment we know about the speaker vote, remember, it only takes two here. And we're into what could be uncharted territory. Here is here are representatives to be cut 12. Ronnie Jackson, Byron Donalds and James Comer, particularly listen to what Donald said, talking last night on I believe it. Yeah, with Chaffetz on Fox about voting for Trump endorsed Mike Johnson. If these people you're talking about, I hope that if they do vote against him, it's just a protest vote. We can get past that. We can come together as a conference because we will not win Jason unless we come together as a team. It's one team, one fight right now. We've got the House. We've got the Senate and we've got the presidency coming up. We've got to take advantage of this. We may never get another chance. Congressman Donalds. Oh, I'm voting for Mike Johnson. I agree with Ronnie Jackson. Look, I think this thing is going to be wrapped up pretty quickly. So, you know, everybody's getting excited about tomorrow. I think this thing is going to get wrapped up and then we move forward. Okay. I hope you're. Yeah, I think it will be wrapped up today, but you never know here. There's at least six or seven of these people that like to blab on and make out as if they're the only purists there, constitutionally or otherwise. And I wouldn't give Johnson an A for what he's done despite the difficulties. Maybe a B. Could we do better? Yeah, but they're not going to do that. The alliances are not there for that. And Trump is wholeheartedly on board. All right. Coming up. Should we put labels on alcohol telling us that this is potentially cancer causing? This is another Biden. This is the surgeon general. Out the door. Do they do any good? I'll tell you what I think and I'll tell you what the evidence says about doing that. It's the third leading cause allegedly of various cancers. Do you have to drink a whole lot? Yeah, I'm in a camp that thinks that's pretty much who we're talking to. 855-839-1210. You get him with Dom. Dom Cheer Donno. Weekdays 9-2-9. On talk radio 12-10-W-Ph-D. Dom Cheer Donno. On talk radio 12-10-W-Ph-D. On Philadelphia's talk radio 12-10-W-Ph-D-W-Ph-D-H-D-W-G-L-E-D-3. Philadelphia. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time. Now Dom Cheer Donno. Hi Good Friday, everyone. It is Dom Time. So, the outgoing surgeon general, Vivek Murphy, in the last three days suddenly a brilliant idea occurs to him that he wants to put warning labels on all manner of alcohol, at least as I understand it, not just things that are hard liquor, and he calls for cancer warnings on alcohol. And I have in front of me the stuff that he put out. Biden DHS issues last minute regulation advisory on the link between alcohol and cancer risk. Surgeon General, new advisory outlining the direct link he says between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States after tobacco and obesity, increasing he says the risk for at least seven types of cancer. While scientific evidence for this connection has been growing over the past four decades, fewer than half of Americans recognize it as a risk factor for cancer. Now, his claim is that alcohol is well established preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States greater than the 13,500 alcohol associated traffic fatalities per year. The advisory lays out steps we can all take to increase awareness of alcohol cancer risk and minimize them. The direct link is well established for at least seven types of cancer. Breast cancer, colorectum, esophagus liver, mouth, throat, and voice box. Regardless, he says of the type of alcohol, beer, wine and spirits, it's consumed for breast cancer specifically, 16.4% of total breast cancer cases are attributable to alcohol consumption. Now, I'm holding this. I wish you were in the studio, Dan, YouTube going with this. I find that to be preposterous. 16.4% of total breast cancer cases are attributable to alcohol consumption. All right, now, you know, we know alcoholism or we know if we want a better term, hard drinkers, you know, some problems associated with that. But approaching one fifth of breast cancer cases, you can attribute to alcohol consumption. So it brings up something that's happened here. I think the cigarette warnings were appropriate when they came down, you know, whether people pay attention to them now, there's so much information out there. But they were a breakthrough when the surgeon general and the tobacco companies fought that. And look, there is no doubt, right? There is no doubt that people know it doesn't mean everybody's going to get cancer, but it means that this is an elevated risk factor and people are aware of that. And does the warning on the pack of cigarettes, or in this case, on the bottle of beer, this is much more of a stretch to me. But his papers, what he lays out, they attributed close to 17% of breast cancers, for example, to alcohol consumption. Now, I'm looking through, I don't have this just broke this morning, well, how much alcohol consumption are we talking about? And I think they would probably say, we're not talking about that you have to be an alcoholic, you know, it should be substantial though. And we get these things that go back and forth like red wine. Now, because I'm a connoisseur of red wines, you know, I buy into the notion of the health benefits of red wine in proportion at dinner, that kind of thing. I've been limiting since the new year, you know, a little weight loss type of thing, but I would say I probably have five glasses a week, something like that. They're not huge goblets. They're not small, but they're not a whole goblet of wine and counting that as one glass. That's ridiculous, right? But what would you have to drink? I didn't find it anywhere to get to this level of risk for breast cancer. Why the surgeon general didn't bring this up earlier? And it would be interesting, you know, where I'm going with this, it brings up the broadest thing because now once we get this speaker settled, the main topic, even more than the inauguration, it's going to be these, I can hardly wait for these confirmation hearings. This gets into it with Kennedy and Kennedy is wildly, roundly opposed, and I'm going to agreement with him to opposition that the government shouldn't be encouraging paying for Ozempic. People like Elon Musk. So, after what we've seen with the HB one visa, are we going to see Elon Musk taking on Kennedy over Ozempic because Elon Musk uses it as proud of it and talks about it all the time, or a lot. And it gets into the broader thing with Kennedy. Is he going to make Americans aware of this? I think the best thing for Kennedy first year is going to be the food supply. There's solid numbers with him on that that there are things and it's just a simple thing when we talked about it with McDonald's, the beef tallow versus the seed oils had a lot of action on that, a lot of people interested in that, a lot of people want that looked at and ultra processing. And, you know, are there, and this will be debated during the confirmation hearings, is it really true that certain dies you can't use in Canada or Europe, but we use it here to what degree? These are all matters of the devil's in the details. But I'm wondering, I don't see this happening with Kennedy that he's going to get into this, but maybe the surgeon general will be. This is still out there. And that number is hard for me to believe. You know, you can throw that number out there. Do I believe at one fifth of breast cancers are directly attributable to alcohol consumption? You got a lot of convincing to do to get me to that point. All right, here's how you get in. So, what is it? The direction now that this impacts all of us. You know, the pete hexes of the world, we're going through the whole thing with terrorism now, cash Patel, I would rank them the most that people are going to talk about pay attention to is RFK Jr. As far as if he gets the job in 2025 of what we're going to be talking to, it'll be constant. You got the vaccines, you got this, you got random things like alcohol and breast cancer. It'll be constant. The second most will be cash Patel, the FBI, Pete Haggs F and defense and all that. There would be a lot of stuff there. There's no doubt, but it seems like more macro stuff, you know, that we'll talk about, I don't know about callers and social media and all that, but Kennedy, cash Patel and the FBI, that's where there will be a lot of action. Of course, Homeland Security, but Christine Ohm, even though she's not the lightning rod necessarily, the difference with her and how she'll approach it versus my orcas will be newsworthy and she will be great. I witnessed it standing right next to her with the media in the spin room. Very composed, very quick on her feet. She'll do well in this. And I think she's got the executive experience, etc. All right, here's how you get in. 855-839-1210. So let's put that warning on beer. Now, I have to admit the argument that this is the third biggest preventable. I don't know what's fourth, fifth or sixth that's involved in this. I wouldn't have guessed that. I would have guessed it had to have something to do with being around toxicity fumes of one sort or another, work related. I don't know. Maybe they're saying that's not preventable. You got to work where you're going to work. But smoking slash cigarettes followed by obesity and then alcohol consumption to the level that I told you about. That's hard to believe that we reach that level, almost 20%. Directly, though, from the outgoing surgeon general. All right, let's go to Robert of Ben Salem and Robert's in on talk radio 1210. Hello, Robert. Hey, Tom, Dan. How you guys? I'm sure I'm sure I'm aware. I'm curious, Tom, has anything notable been done by our new mayor in Philadelphia, Cheryl Parker? I mean, has she made any kind of a dent in anything? I would say the cleanup stuff that she's done now, does she break into the attitude of Philadelphia as far as wrong stuff around? That's long term. But yeah, I would say the cleanup thing has been the biggest thing. Yes. Well, that's not too bad because I'm looking at the mayors in Philadelphia. And I have to think that Cheryl is definitely a step up from Jim Kenny. But I think that everything turned after Rendell and the, I guess the anger in the left in the city started with the answer to my side question. And that would be the street brothers, Milton and John. I think John was an effective mayor, but he wasn't a good mayor. Do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Well, he was antagonistic to everything. I mean, very difficult. Yeah. He had decent political instincts, but I think there was an anger issue there. But I want to go with that for my side question. I know it's a little out of the box, but I'm going to go with Milton and John Street brothers. All right. That's the street. That is outside the box. Looks at that one. Thank you, Robert. Have a good weekend. All right. 855-839-1210. That's how you get on board. Surprising to you close to 20% breast cancer. I can't challenge it. I'm not a scientist on that in front of me. I'd have to see multitude of studies and how they get that attributable. But this is the type of stuff they're basing it on so that women should see that, should be on the BRA breast cancer close to 20%. Do you really want to consume that? And it's across the board. It's beer, wine, spirits, not just so-called, you know, lighter like beer. You got a heavy lift if I'm going to put more on packaging though with this. Does the warning labels on the packaging work? I think it did with cigarettes. I think it was a big causal element because they affirmed what was controversial at that point that people believing this was a direct cause, potential direct cause of cancer. And you put it on the cigarette and it becomes established as a fact. It does give visibility. Now it's another regulation forcing companies to go through this. All the regulations already around alcohol adding cancer to it. I mean, is that going to restrain people from drinking? I'll give you the argument that says no. Already you know about liver damage. You know about potential drunk driving. You know about all these things that potentially can, you know about just being buzzed and not making good decisions saying something or shouldn't, getting into fight, whatever that are related to it, potentially. And you're going to be stopped by this. But when you tell me that breast cancer is 16 point, whatever the, almost 17% directly attributable to alcohol. Well, if that's just not a made up thing, they're doing because they're regulators and that's all that they want to do. That's pretty stunning to me. Not buying it yet, but pretty stunning. I don't know. I can't answer why this guy didn't start earlier with this type of campaign. But Americans rightly were rejecting and it's the same thing with government. They cry wolf too much. I told you the story of the bird flu thing. It's going to be hard to convince people if we really do have a worry here because of what they did with COVID. We don't want to go down that path again. Almost no matter what it is. They blown their chance. It was so repressive, so unscientific, so arrogant, so virtuous on their side. Remember Murphy, the king of hair, remember him with Tucker Carlson saying that was above his pay grade, why he could shut down liquor stores, but he could shut down churches because he alcoholics needed alcohol. Didn't he get the memo from the Surgeon General? But he could shut down churches. Just stuff like that, the constant wolf man hack. Governor Wolf, that petty little tyrant, choosing winners and losers. So because of that experience, it's going to be very difficult if you actually do have a health thing. And that's where Kennedy comes in. On all sides of this, you got to realize he's got a libertarian side, but he's got a side of what he thinks is true science that he's going to go like with the Ozempic. Doesn't think the government should be subsidizing this. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten. You get in, hit us with that street too. All-time famous street, it could be real, it could be fictional, and it's all in the call, remember, rather than just blurting out the name of some street. And you could extend it, it might be a road or whatever, but mainly we're dealing with streets like Bourbon Street, which I think Broadway is the most famous American street. That's a real street probably, broad streets across the country might be, but Broadway, because of New York, the Canyon of Heroes, and all that. Why do you have one you think is more prominent ever? Wall Street, possibly. Wall Street, yeah, now it's actually a street with Broadway, you don't say Broadway Street. It's true. And maybe people associate Broadway with the theater district, but up until recently, that's a good test. Wall Street would be definitely in the same way. I'd like to know if Broadway is still associated with the plays and all, rather than what would it be, I guess, Nashville, right? That's the main street in Nashville now, and Nashville's on the come up more than any other city in America. Well, you got the plays, but you also have, going down Broadway is where the Canyon of Heroes is, where you got ticker day parades and all that. I don't know the last one that we've had. It's both. It meanders through both. All right, so it's 8.5.5, 8.3.9.12.10, and does that scare you at all? You know, wow, you know, if that's true, 17% attributable breast cancer to alcohol, or do you say to yourself, you got to drink it again? You're not convinced of me of that. I'm unconvinced of it. I'm just telling you what the report out today that they put out. And with RFK Jr. coming in, I don't know which side he probably is against putting this on the beer or whatever, I think. But he is going to make moves here. This is the most consequential of all the nominees. It's RFK Jr. 8.5.5, 8.3.9.12.10, A-T-N-T, and Verizon, wireless, all you have to do is just push pound 1210. Now, CNN and MSNBC, of course, billing this if Johnson doesn't get confirmed on the first ballot as a test of Trump, meaning it's not Johnson. It failed. It's Trump that failed here because of this whole hearted endorsement. I would say this. If this becomes inconclusive for days, then yeah, there is something going on here where Trump doesn't have the leverage that we think he does. But what I think is going to happen is pro forma is going to be at least one round, maybe two, where Johnson doesn't get the knot. And then the glacial pace these guys move at. Who knows if that's tomorrow or not, he will. So it's not a test of Trump's leverage here, a fear of Trump or whatever. It's just that it's so close to the margins that it's very difficult to imagine other than guys like Massey. So is Massey a hero? Well, he's the one guy. If Dom, if Johnson didn't do what he could do the last time around, I don't want him. And we ought to just, who cares? You have these idiots calling, you know, stuff like, what do Democrats take over? Then people will learn. No, no, we're not into this. We want to get moving on this. We don't want to fight over this battle. We get it with Johnson. We get it with the spending. That's up to the leverage Trump will use going forward on this and the leverage of others who still have power over Johnson to have another up and down vote on the speaker if it gets too far out of line. Marjorie Taylor Greene this time yesterday at the speech at the news conference said time to get behind Mike Johnson. That's what we have to do in this. Try to hold him in line. I agree. It's maddening to deal with this after what was a landslide, at least in the winning all seven of the swing states and how well Trump did in Jersey and places like that. But the bottom line is somehow another in the house Republicans barely hung on. You know that. I know that. We have the midterms coming up. So every day is precious for them to get the agenda done. And it is a lot of items here. And the other side is already trying to slow walk it, set things up, et cetera. That's what this is about. You don't want to give them any more space with this. So I don't see Massey as a hero. I mean, I think he's consistent maybe with what he's done before. But on this isn't a time to vote for the bigger picture. Isn't that what should happen here? This is not a profile encourage. This is a guy who's a bit of a grandstander on this. And he's got to know that Johnson is the choice. Yeah, I love Byron Donald's. I'd love to see that. Jim Jordan. Neither one's moving on this. And Jordan, whatever the reason was the last time couldn't get over the wall with these Republicans. I don't know why. You'd have to be inside this. And there's at least 15 of them that are very difficult to keep on board. And you know, some of them I might even agree with on a particular issue in the spending, et cetera. But the bottom line is it got to get things done here. How do we do that? How do we preserve the maximum of that? All right, let's go to Susan. Chester Springs. Susan's on talk radio 1210. Hey, Susan. Yeah. Good morning, Don. Boy, you're touching on so many subjects today. As far as the alcohol, I wonder how much they're they're talking about. I mean, in France, they do not have higher rates of breast cancer. And they drink lots of wine. I mean, like anything else, moderation. I mean, again, I say to you, though, that isn't it surprising, though, even if it's a fairly let's say it's a fairly high rate of whatever the alcohol is, that 16.4% of total breast cancer cases are attributable to alcohol consumption. That's still pretty surviving, you know, surprising, because that would mainly be women. So I don't know that it's outrageously high. It's probably higher than normal. They're indicating I'm trying to dig through their files to get that. But I, well, it's definitely, yeah, it's definitely a poison. I mean, my daughter died because of a drunk driver. My husband died because he was an alcoholic and he exploded from the inside out. I mean, it was a horrible death. And so obviously, and my great, great grandfather was a prohibitionist and he was a police commissioner and he got fired because he did a job too well. But yeah, no, no, no, no, no. But and as far as the Republicans, there they go again. They cannot stick together. They can't look at the big picture. Yeah, exactly right. Democrats fall online on this, you know, Susan, there were people the last time around now, look, it was a little bit different in McCarthy. They had a little bit more of an edge. They were lecturing people like me when I would say, all right, we had our fun here after a day or two gates, particularly. They were loving it. And they were telling us they were like patriots or something. At a certain point, there's a reality here of who is going to be picked at this. And these people that are Congress people have a pretty good sense of that. You got to give it up and move on for on the bigger picture. Well, and my my answer is, I mean, where do you go that you see Cartier, Versace, Gucci, Hermes? I mean, it's on the it's Fifth Avenue of the West Coast. It's Rudeo Drive. Yeah, Rudeo Drive. Now, do you think that's the most expensive in the world when we took listeners to Italy a couple years ago? Milan, I'm telling you, the guards all had automatic glocks, etc. And they would let you in one at a time. In this big shopping center, it was hard to believe him and looking at it. Yeah. Rudeo Drive's got to be up there. Yeah, that is good. Thank you. Thanks, Susan. Have a nice weekend. Rudeo Drive, good choice. We'll put that one in. Ray did injure us next. I wanted to talk to Ray about the Eagles, where they're going and a couple of other things, but including the Saquon Barkley, has that died down? And Nick Sariani, even though I think he's just a guy who tumbles over stuff, said probable about Barkley playing, but I thought he meant he's not going to play. Do I think at the 11th hour, suddenly they're going to put him in there? I don't think so. No, the way they already put out all the people who are starting the next game, it's not happening. Yeah, it doesn't seem likely at all. And I'm going to ask Ray, well, why would they keep him out with 11 minutes left in the Dallas game? Yes, he had broken 2000 yards. Did they make the inner mind? All right, we'll let him get 2000 yards. And after that, it stops. All right, Ray did ensure with us here. I'll talk radio at 1210. Before we go to Ray, little scoreboard of Rome with the speaker race, it appears that we told you the Massey guy voting for, we don't know that yet, but Norman, another guy who is hard to please, is going to vote for Jim Jordan. So I don't think this is going to be a first round. Ray did ensure, of course, knows no interest that needs no introduction all the years here in Philadelphia, the books, the commentary, and the people just love him. When it comes to that, is he going to break my heart by what he says about Barkley in the Eagles seeming decision here? All right, the tensions building. Let's go to Ray here on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Ray, happy new year. Thanks for joining us. Happy new year to you, Tom. How are you doing? Good. Well, I'll let you know in a moment here. You're the ultimate judge of this. So how did you come down in here on WIP Ray prior to the decision of the Eagles seemingly, not to use Barkley Sunday? What was your ultimate judgment? Well, I was on with John Richie and Jody Cameron on Monday, and obviously that was all anybody was talking about. And of course, everybody had to have an opinion on that. And I was of the mind. I don't like the decision, but I would have done the same thing as Sirianni. I would have sat him this week. And I know having said that, well, I know what the reaction was among most of the callers at WIP this week. The last time I heard, it was running like 70/30 for people saying let him go for it. It was an overwhelming support for fans wanted to see him go for it. And I think that that's, and the reaction that I got after I went on a radio and said what I said in terms of emails I received and other stuff, it was pretty much the same way people say, no, no, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. If you're that close to making history, you go for it. But I still feel that Sirianni did the prudent thing. I really do. And, you know, that this team has been playing a lot of football for a long time now. I mean, they've played 12 weeks without a break. Their buy was in week five. And you went into the postseason. The best thing you could do was just give your guys a rest, sit your starters out, give them, make this their buy week so that if you go on and play a number one seed in the playoffs, that you're playing them on a level playing field, these guys really needed a rest. And if you saw the reaction of them, were they disappointed? Yeah, some of them were. But other guys came up forward and said, you know, this is the best thing for us. I mean, to just get us physically ready and go into the postseason and take a run at the Super Bowl because that's really what they're all after. Well, let me make the case though. I think Barkley, though, I think he said it, then he had a back away being accused of selfishness. Doesn't some of this depend rate on among other factors, Barkley, his condition, but also the significance of the record. So if you think this record is not that significant, it's okay, then you make this decision. I happen to think it's very significant. Football, unlike baseball and the other sports, you know, like do I know you would know an offensive lineman as a Hall of Famer or not? But what kind of statistics do you have? And for a runner, how do we judge a runner? Isn't this something that sets people apart immortal if you have this? Well, I mean, you could say that, but I'll ask you this. Do you consider Eric Dickerson immortal? He's the guy that has the record now. No, he doesn't based upon that. I would agree. I mean, I think of some of the other people that did this OJ, for example, in 14 games is the standard. This would be in 17 games. I dare say if you talk to people, whether they're big-time fans or not, if you say to them, who are the greatest, who's the greatest running back in the history of the National Football League? That's an easy one, Jane Brown. I agree. A lot of people sort of of our generation would probably say Jim Brown. You'd probably, you might have some people say Gale Sayers. You might have some people, a lot of people would probably say Walter Payton. You'd probably have a whole bunch of people would say Barry Sanders. Some of them would say OJ. I dare say that nobody would say Eric Dickerson. Now, he's got the record. He's got the numbers, but is there anybody that would say that he was the best? I'm not saying that the record doesn't matter. You're clearly making history here, but the idea that this would be like DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, that the guy is immortal. He's going to be remembered and talked about forever. I don't think Dickerson's in that class. He's got the record, but it's just not. I mean, Barkley has been so great this year. With everything he's done, with coming to the city, what he's meant for this team, what he's meant to, what he's always connected with the fans, the way he's carried himself, everything about him. He has just been great. I don't think he needs the record. I don't think he needs that. I mean, if he can actually, if resting up here, gets him ready for a big postseason run, which it could, and they go on and they win the Super Bowl, I can't even see you. When they come down Broad Street with the Lombardi Trophy, there's not going to be anybody worried about the record, and nobody's going to be talking Eric Dickerson. Well, I like what you're doing here, and I wish maybe the, you know, but I guess the coach making this argument. You are diminishing the record a little bit here, because of Eric Dickerson and the argument, and I think that's an effective way to go about this. You discount Ray, too, that the offensive line really wants to play because they're part of this. This is not just one person. You seem to be indicating you think some of them would rather just rest. Lane Johnson has said that. Okay. I mean, a couple of the guys like immediately, after the game one Sunday, after the win over Dallas, reporters were in the locker room talking to everybody about this issue, because that's really all anybody wanted to talk about. And some of the guys, and Jordan Myalata, the left tackle, I mean, he came out right away and said, we want to go for it. We absolutely want to go for it. That's a chance for all of us to make history, which I totally get. I mean, I totally get that. They went to Lane Johnson, and Lane Johnson said, no, no, no. That's better. His words were, "It's better to be safe and sorry." They could use the rest, and the thing is they don't want to get any of them hurt in this game that is utterly, utterly meaningless. You know, in the last year, they were in a similar situation. They came to the end of the year. It was different in the sense that the team was really struggling, falling apart at the end of the year. I understand Siriani wanted to win that last game to try and get things right before the playoffs. But they played the game, which really, in effect, didn't mean anything. But he went ahead and played it. And, you know, Hertz breaks a finger, and AJ Brown hurts his knee, and does, can't play the next week in a playoff game, and he gets bounced. So that's the risk you're taking here. And I know, and you look at Barkley. Barkley's had 345 carries this year. If you factor in past receptions, he's got 378 touches. And this is a guy that, as big and tough and dynamic as he is, has a history of injury. I mean, he's a guy who has been hurt in his career. So if you play him in this game with the idea of what we're going to set their record, and could they set their record against? Absolutely. A hundred yards against his Giants defense. Barkley could probably do it blindfolded, but at what cost? I mean, if he were to get hurt in that game, and it could happen on any play, wouldn't even have to happen on a tackle. I mean, he could be blocking for somebody else and have a lineman roll up the back of his leg and take him out of the game. It could happen on any snap. I think the safest thing to do. And I'm sure, listen, I'm sure it was not an easy decision for Siriani. And to come up with, but I think it was the right decision. And I give all the credit in the world, tremendous credit in the world, to Barkley for the way he's handled this. You know, I mean, he has been the ultimate pro in this thing. And he said, look, it's the coach's decision, whatever he decides, I'm going to go with it. You know, he would love to get the record. His family has said they would love to see him get the record. And what better way to do it than against the team that let you walk? You know, I mean, everything, everything. I mean, this is a storybook setting here that they're all walking away from. But I think it's the right decision. Where does Ray did in your place? The Eagles chances now going forward with, I wouldn't say he's banged up, but he's still in protocol unless something has happened with Jay one Hertz. Ray, he won't have what I think he will have had 12 snaps. I heard the other day, if he doesn't play this week, and I definitely would not play him looking at his face coming off the field. It was frightening. Yeah, 12 snaps in all of December, going into a playoff game doesn't strike me as a guy who necessarily can just plug in. That would be difficult. Not ideal. It's not. But I certainly agree with you. I mean, given the, I mean, given what we know about concussions now, and given the fact that, I mean, he wasn't, I don't even think he was at the stadium last Sunday, and they haven't even, he hasn't even come out to watch practice, much less take part in practice. This was a bad concussion. So, I mean, there's not, I don't think there's even any consideration of putting him on the field, even for one series on Sunday, because it wouldn't make any sense. Is there going to be a, the fear of rust? Yeah, it could be. I mean, it could be, but I think it's, you know, it's one of those things you just have to deal with in a 17 game season. I mean, you look around the league. That's one of the reasons why I know the NFL is not going to change because they're going to keep adding games because they want to keep making more money. But the, I mean, the season is so long. Oh, yeah. And it's so punishing for these players. I mean, you, you're asking these guys to play 17 games, and then they get to the playoffs, and then they, they say now the real season starts. And you have, you have so many players in the league, and so many teams in the league that are just banged up. I'm, I'm amazed. I am frankly amazed that the Detroit Lions have been able to accomplish what they've accomplished this year because they have, they have a million guys hurt. I mean, I mean, you look at the rob, especially, especially on the defensive side. But their team has just been racked with injuries, and yet they continue to, they continue to win. And I give them, and their coaches, tremendous amount of credit because they have fought through a lot of adversity. But it's, but the war of attrition that goes on in the NFL with the, with the, with the body count week after week to, to, you know, when you get into this point in the year, I mean, that has to be the biggest consideration when you're going into the playoffs to try and go in as healthy as you possibly can. And as much as I think it was tough for Siriani to make the decision that he made, I think he made the right decision. Ray, Tommy and me, the people we gave tickets to in a family haven't gone yet. So, but they love the idea of it. It was really a great gift. Thank you. You, you make Christmas every year by the continuation of that play. Pretty easy that a lot of people love the sentiment of value. I've seen it the two times, particularly the second time in New Hope, when we led the discussion, the first one, it was very new then. But the second one, I just saw how many people were there. Many daughters with their dads to reliving this. There's something about Tommy McDonald. You're telling of it that captures something, in my view, better than what today is when you could actually be the players there at Hershey. And a guy like Tommy McDonald is just one of the characters. It's once in a lifetime. So is the play running through January? The play is running through January because the demand for tickets has been such that they had to add a week to it. So, the run has been extended for a week. So, we open next Tuesday and we now run through February the first. And it's going to be a People's Light Theater in Malvern, which is a really great theater. We've never been there before, but we're looking forward to this. And I think you described it really well. I think you described it really well, Dom, in that the play really kind of evokes that era of the National Football League when it was kind of the NFL's wonder years. It was just, the NFL was just really coming of age and it hadn't turned into this monolith that it is today, this billion dollar industry. It was a very humble kind of game. Does that surprise you, Ray, because the management of it, the commissioner and others, to me, leave a lot to be desired versus some of the great commissioners that were there, despite itself, it just gets bigger every year. Yeah. And one of the, I mean, to underscore that point, I mean, one of the elements in Tommy and me and the point that we make is in the 1960, which the play kind of revolves around the year the Eagles win the World Championship, the NFL, the game was supposed to be played on December 25th. That was the Sunday, the P Roselle stepped up and said, no, no, no, no, we're not playing football on a holy day. So the NFL championship game, Eagles Packers, was played on a Monday afternoon at Franklin Field, because Roselle wouldn't play on Christmas Day. This year, the NFL played a triple header on Christmas Day because they wanted the TV money, because they wanted the TV money. And somehow and other, they committed to hold up. I don't know who held the mask and who had the gun. The Netflix did pretty well, but still what the NFL got from it is it just emboldens them. Are we going to come to a point that you think in the next five years where half of the games you'll have to pay for? Do you think something like that? I wouldn't say half, but we're certainly moving in that direction. I mean, more games are on streaming now. Every year, there's more. And the one thing that I really fear dumb, and I mean, people tell me it's not going to happen, but we're certainly moving in that direction, is the Super Bowl will be. That the Super Bowl will be a pay-per-view. I would hate if that happened. I mean, it'd be enormous complaining and people groucing about it. But if the NFL does it, people are going to pay for it. And it'll be the biggest windfall in the history sports. Oh, God. Yes. Without a doubt. So Ray, tickets still available. Again, tell us where to go. Tickets are still available. Go to the website for People's Late Theater out in Malvern, and they have the listing there. Some dates, some shows are sold out. Other shows, it's kind of limited. Other shows, because they've added the week now at the end, that last week of January, those shows have been added, so there are more tickets available for those. But there are tickets across the board, but there are going fast. So if you want to come out and see us, and I really recommend you do, it's a great play, and people do love it. We'll be there starting on Tuesday and running through the whole month. People's late in Malvern, come on out and see Tommy and me. Absolutely, Ray. Thank you so much to be continued Ray Deniger. Thank you. Absolutely. Hope we have a deep run in January. Take care. All right. Thank you, Ray. Ray Deniger here. All right. Our hearts broke and still different. Did a good job of diminishing the record a bit. We'll take your calls 855-839-1210. Poor Eric Dickerson. Even I had to concede that. Come on, now. It's not an immortal guy. I don't think about that when I think of Dickerson. Just not. Does that tarnish this? That was dirty pull using that as an argument. It is right. I only really know Eric Dickerson because he has the right. Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, he was physically imposing and all that stuff, but it wasn't anything that excites you like a Sanders or an OJ or Jim Brown, something generational. It wasn't like that. He just persevered and they were going to run the ball. It's 855-839-1210. We'll get you on board. Hey, are you looking to achieve your health goals and start the new year, right? Now's the time to optimize and support your heart health cholesterol, digestive health, energy levels, and more with rescue natural supplements with their new year savings. Rescue is celebrating you save 35% on single bottles of rescue supplements with the code Health 35. 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Remember when this came up before Emmer, maybe the second person after McCarthy last year or maybe it was the beginning of this in 2024. It was proposed and you started looking at some of the stuff that Emmer did. How in the world can this guy Massey vote for Emmer? How? You vote for Jordan. You vote for Donald's. All right, all right. You know. And Chip Roy, at least in the last moment that I saw, is declined to vote at this point. This is setting up where potentially if they screw this up, technically somehow or another, Jefferies could be the speaker by the time we get to the Richie always show. My God. Newkin Rich weighs in and said these Republicans need a team of psychiatrists. They do. There is no other. You're not heroes. You're not reminding us and it is true of the overspending. I'm in that camp. You're in that camp. We know that, right? But is the way to go with this to be having votes for Emmer? I believe it's three Republicans, at least on the clock. I'm not sure how this Roy thing refused to vote, how it plays out. But there is potential. They're dancing with this. The Jefferies, you know, the Democrats are all going to go there. I don't think it's going to happen. But once again, toward what point, toward what point are we doing this? Well, we're just going to show you. We're not going to take all the spending anymore. That's why we're doing it. No, it's their own internal demons. That's why they're engaged in this. There's nothing heroic. And I see several people now believing because it appears that a Democrat here or there may be a couple, maybe more. Ultimately, we'll vote for RFK Jr. In other words, the word today as we head toward the confirmation is that RFK Jr. has better than a 50/50 shot at getting health and human services. And I believe that's going to happen. I think Hegsef is going to make it also. The Tulsi Gabbard one is the one a lot of people think that's going to be difficult. And Cash Patel, I told you yesterday, my read, is after what we've seen play out with the FBI, my God, what an embarrassment that strengthens his shot at being the FBI director. And the most consequential jobs you'll see over this next year are going to be RFK Jr. Health and Human Services. And they're going to be Cash Patel as the FBI director of both are confirmed. These are the key, key spots. Yeah, Pam Bondi, it's always your attorney general is a critical role. But these other two, given how disruptive they are, and that's what we need, disruptors. So is Thomas Massey? Is he a disruptor? Of course, he's just a guy who likes to more likely to grandstand. I'm not saying he's not a guy that I agree with him on most things. But on this, Emmer, how in the world can you vote for Emmer if you're telling me that you're serious here and you're making a point? Emmer, one of the all time rhinos of rhinos. We've gone through it before about this guy. All right, here's how you get in. Give me a reaction 8 by 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10. Also hit us with that all time street, like bourbon street, real or fictional. Hit us with that all that straight ahead on Talk Radio 1210. All right, final stretch for this week with Dom. Jump in here. He got a little bit of chaos. More than a little bit in the speaker race voting for Emmer. Massey, Chip Roy, I haven't seen any more resolution of that. Refusing to vote when it was his term. What the hell is he waiting for? Come on. What are we waiting for here? Playing around in Democrats, sitting there in unison. Time after time after time. All right. Kamala Harris strikes again though. I haven't heard this. I've just seen on Twitter the reaction to it. She's at the swearing in of the new senators. And I didn't know that the president of the Senate, the vice president in acting is at, says the Pledge of Allegiance for some reason. I didn't know that part of the ceremony. So without further ado, here's Vice President Harris with the pledge. Join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. Pledge allegiance to the United States of America. She catch it. I do not. We'll play one more time. I mean, do you hear a trail off in that at all? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Pledge allegiance to the United States. Nope, that's not the line. Oh, I see what you're saying. That's what she says. Yeah, United States. Yeah, how are you going to pledge allegiance to the United States? Pledge allegiance to that flag. Come on. That's why we look at it. Yeah. And Oh, God. Yep. You would think they'd have it written down just because these guys, you know, it's a type of thing. It can happen, but it happens an awful lot with Harris, Biden. The of America. Yeah, it's pretty hard to imagine messing that up. God, it's like riding a bike. I don't know how you do it. Yeah, you would think somehow or not as spontaneously. It's got a flash through your mind. All right. 855-839-1210. The whole world watching. She's not going to be the nominee in 2028. I don't see the path there, particularly with Josh Shapiro and Newsom. You're going to be governor of California. I mean, California is wacky no matter what. Go ahead. Just imagine though, at one point, at least based upon polling and all that, she appeared to be neck and neck with Trump. Oh my God. All right. So the vote continues is the story. And Republicans, just what is the gain out of this? What do they think they're doing? Do Massey, Chip Roy and a few others here now, do they feel that they're actually going to turn this into whom that the body of Republicans would accept and would be better? There are better people. I think that Mike Johnson based upon everything that's going on, but does that mean that they'd have the confidence of Trump and they can function in this environment, which is this tight. And now it appears, well, on paper, we'll see that we have the ability in the Senate to do better, but then we still have Collins, Murkowski and maybe one or two others that you can't count on. I'm talking about when it comes to confirmation of the nominees because I think any number of them, it's going to be razor thin and Democrats, we know, are going to vote against them. RFK Jr. in a strange way, though, might be getting Democrat voters here. They see an opportunity. Federalmen could go for it. Corey Booker is rumored. They see an opportunity to say we stand with health, we stand with good food, etc. and RFK Jr. does. So they could vote for that to kind of hitch their wagon to the star here. Cash Patel is strengthened by what we've seen play out pretty close to the confirmation hearings. So if those two get confirmed, then you got to watch Democrats and maybe some of these Republicans will try to sink at least one Trump nominee. I don't think it'll be Pete Haggseth. I think he's gotten past. There's talk. The woman in question that we heard news about, will she testify? Are we going to go down that path? That seems to be up in the air but could happen. The most contentious, though, could be Tulsi Gabbard then, as far as people coming at her. All right, 855-839-1210. I'd love to get you on board. As I said, we are still stuck in the speaker mode here, something that should be, I get it. They don't like Johnson on that huge bill, how it was negotiated and all that. We get that. But people from President Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Byron Donalds, they're all saying, come on, the play here has to go with Johnson. We don't see a path with any of these others. You're not going to get that. And all you're doing is weakening the momentum that we have to the big picture because remember, Johnson does not get an unlimited term then. In a heartbeat or almost a heartbeat, if Trump and a certain number of voters turn against him, then we could be into a situation where he's ultimately taken out. He's going to have a period of a little bit of grace to show us that he was forced into that disastrous bill. And now that the decks are cleared, we'll be able to move forward. And if he doesn't, he can still be voted out. So it's not like, oh man, this is a lifetime appointment or something. And who can Rich is right? These guys need a team of psychiatrists. They can't govern as a body here, even though they have the power. You know, Democrats, if they had this small of a majority, they still would be unified. They'd be more unified. And if you were the person doing what Massey's doing, you would realize you're going to be primary beyond belief. They're going to go all in after you. So are these people like Massey, are they a hero of yours? They're standing up here because they realize Johnson has been part of the swamp, the spending, and everything else. Oh, Jim and Lansdale. You might be right too. Play it one more time, Henry. Then we'll go to Jim. Do you have the vice president again? Pledge allegiance to the United States of America. All right. Let's go to Jim. Jim, you hear something else there. I'm not sure if you're right. I listened for it. What do you say? Yeah, I mean, I always say, Dom, one-time listener, first-time caller, I always start with, I pledge allegiance to the flag. And she just says, it sounded to me like she says, let's pledge allegiance. And she left out the eye. Like, yeah, she wants everybody else to pledge, but he's not going. Well, do you hear the eye there, Henry? I thought I heard it. Yeah. Well, I think both things are true. I believe at the beginning of the clip, she says, let's pledge allegiance to the flag. And then she starts with I, and then obviously, you have to pledge allegiance to the flag. I'm sorry. I didn't hear the eye. It's a little bit, it's a little bit uncertain, but the United States, not of America, it's almost like even with a gunpoint in your head, you would say of America because you've heard it 25,000 times. Well, that's not the issue. It's that she didn't pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Right. She just went straight to US. Oh, let me hear again, then. Okay. Let me hear it one more time. Join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. Pledge allegiance to the United States. Okay, you're right. Yeah. There's no flag. Yeah. I don't know what the the trailing off after United States if that we just go in here, but right. Oh, she did on purpose. Yeah. She went. Oh, I screwed up. Yeah. Okay. But yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you. How would thank you, Jim? Thanks. Make that call again. Thank you very much. How would the flag be left out of this? All right. 855-839-1210. Will we know before the end of the show today? I would put it 7525 probably not. I can't quite tell how quickly they're going to vote on this, but it appears that we're kind of stymied here. Could it be several votes going on? Yeah, it could be several. Or at least by tomorrow. They can't let this go into tomorrow. Just be done with this. You're getting Johnson. That's where we're going. This is not heroic. That's the bottom line. Let's go to Kathy in South Jersey. And Kathy, you're on talk radio 1210 afternoon, Kathy. Hi, Tom. I'm a longtime listener. Sometimes I call. Thank you, Kathy, very much. Yeah. I enjoy your show. Thank you. Regarding the alcohol and the warning, I want to say that I think it's a good thing to do because just like smoking in the Surgeon General, it took a while for people to really understand it. And I almost think it's generational. So maybe we all know how bad it is, but young kids coming up. They don't know as much. They don't know about the liver disease and all of that. They just drink. So I think anything you put out there in the social consciousness that helps them be a little healthier. And it's truth. Yeah. Yeah, this really does cause cancer. I think it's helpful. So I think it should happen. Okay. I hear you, but Kathy, I got to tell you on the surface of it right now. I just saw it this morning. So I haven't seen all the research on it. Really, we believe 17% of breast cancer is attributable to alcohol. Do I believe that? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah. My husband is a physician and I'm around a lot of medical data. I think any study can show you just about anything. If you want to pull it that way, you know how stats are statistics and, you know, so I think it does. And he says it that alcohol is an alcohol and obesity and smoking are the number one causes of all the diseases and cancers. So depending on how you take your population and slice it and sample it and say, yeah, this percentage, I don't know if it's exactly that percentage. But I know that it's not good for people to be drinking excessively in hard liquor. I'm not talking about wine. I'm talking about hard liquor on a regular basis. Well, now, now you realize this would be on beer, wine, and spirits. So he was clear about that search in general. I get you. I mean, you're you're downing anything to kill or whatever and doing all this stuff. You got to realize that could be damaging over the course of time. No, but wine and beer and that particularly to me is hard to believe. Well, I think that they're able to skew the data any way they want, you know, that's what it's all about. You think about it. Ask your husband, no beer and wine included and that in close to 17% of breast cancer. I don't know the percentage of alcoholics that are women, but it strikes me as it's more male than female. That's a classic pattern, but that's what I'm up. I disagree. I know a lot of women with drinking from me. Yeah. You don't know it. You just don't see it. They're really better at hiding it. Well, I think it's because when I think of that, we think of wine ladies like Kamala Harris may or may not be one white wine and something like that. Yeah, I think of an alcoholic. It's interesting. I still think of an alcoholic as a hard drinker to kill a round, you know, bourbon stuff like something that's hard liquor. Right. I don't think of alcoholics that people drink in wine, but women, that would be the path. Yeah. Yeah, but hey, alcoholics, that's where the word wino came from. They drink wine. I mean, people never thought of it that way. I can't imagine a wino. You know, now you're dealing with the rot gut wine or something, you know, because I drink wine, I like to think, no, I'm doing something helpful. Kathy, what's your street? What's your street? Okay. So in South Jersey where I live, right off Route 42 in Green Street Road is a side street to a shopping mall, a strip mall called No Name. The word No Name Street. And it actually has a sign that says No Name Street. Why do they do that? Because it's this little probably when the township was just starting to grow back in the 70s when all the farmers were selling, it was probably at first just a little dirt road, very small road, to get into this shopping center. And then over time, you know, they started paving all the roads in South Jersey. My husband grew up here. So that same No Name buts up to another street called Shoppers Lane that actually was going to the shopping center. And that was a dirt road. And they finally paid that over and everyone's like, they paved over Shoppers Lane. So it's just a tiny little idiosyncrasy here in Turner's, Washington Township where there's a new name street. Thank you. Thank you, Kathy. We got to put somebody's name on it. So I got to hear more about this. And we got to think who should it be named after? You know, why not? I mean, I've had a lot of things named after me. I could take a note. You go straight for you. You're not even going to nominate someone else. Of course, that's where I'm going. I South Jersey's my second home. Scott Pressler delivers Jersey back to the Republicans, didn't it for him? If I don't know is Turner'sville and wherever else Kathy said, is that Republican? Because most of these towns, almost every one of them, Audubon Park, I think, was the only one the guy turned because of Trump, the mayor, we were friendly with him at one point from Democrat, moderate, Democrat, very moderate to Republican. I don't know if there are any others out there. So I don't think they would go with Pressler, but if Pressler wins the State House, then yeah, we got to name that road after him. Has no name on it. We'll put up the money. I bet listeners will do an event right there from Kathy. You're giving us the idea for 25. I'm going to have one on Monday. Scott, you got to win it. We're going to name a street after you in South Jersey. I mean, how much could the naming rights to like a little lane next to a strip ball really be? Yeah, it's just a sign. I'm sure Scott Pressler, no. Can you imagine the guy signs it? He doesn't know who Pressler is and then all help protesters out there? Of course, we want that. Let him protest. Yes. All right. Kathy, you've given us a project here. Thank you for that. No name street. That's a good one. All right. We are talking. We're watching the voting going on and Kathy and I referring to this outgoing attorney surgeon general saying he wants to put the labeling that alcohol causes cancer, third leading cause, whatever. You know, I think to be to put something like that as a big warning label, it's got to be marquee. What I put obesity, why alcohol? Why not obesity? Is that on any alcohol? Obesity, you know, it's the second leading cause of cancer or is obesity on anything? You know, should we put that on what? You name the most obesity-ridden snacks. This is like picking on again how we picked on soda. Should that be on soda? Cancer causing cigarettes deserve it. That's a marquee. Come on. The evidence is overwhelming. You can't get past the evidence. The argument on secondhand smoke and all that, that's another day. But the evidence is direct. So come on. It's true. But 17% of breast cancer caused by alcohol. I'm going to pull up studies. I have to scratch this itch and get to it. But right now, it is time for it's dog money melody. That is right. And it's a big prize again today. We're playing for a 50-hour Metro Diner gift certificate visit metrodiner.com for a location near you. All right, Henry, what do you have? Yeah, Dom. So in honor of today's side question that, what is that all-time famous street, I'm going to play you a song that tells the story of a fictional street. You may have heard of it. It's the highway to hell. So I'm going to play a cover of that favorite famous song by ACDC. I want to know who the band covering the song is. [Music] All right. Nothing distinguishing. I can pick up with this. This might be a little bit hard. It is, because all right. So this is a 2000s era band. I will say, I think this rendition of ACDC's highway to hell sounds nothing like this band. Sounds maybe some people can hear it. I don't. I think the lead singer is a very distinct voice and it usually does not sound like that. But yeah, we're looking for this mid 2000s band still relevant into the 2010s covering this ACDC song. How would it help? All right. There we go. 855-839-1210, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. All you have to do jump in right now, be heard and you'll be getting a 50-hour metrodiner gift certificate. We'll update you on the big vote on the speaker race and also comedian Rob Schneider, meeting with some heavy hitters about creating a mega-friendly version of the view. I'll tell you about that and ask you, which women would you have on there? All straight ahead on Talk Radio 1210. Yeah, that's right. Every day, usually at around 2.13 or so, 2.14. Dom's money melody. Here's the clue. Who is the band covering this classic song? All right, let's try Deborah in maple shade on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Deborah, good afternoon. Who's covering the song? Understruck? No, it is not. Thank you, Deborah. Have a nice weekend. Liam on an Ambler on Talk Radio 1210. Who's covering the song? Hey Dom, I just want to say great show, man. I'm a big fan. Well, thank you very much. Yep, loud and clear. Yes. All right, good. I was just going to give it a shot. I don't know if I'm right, but I think it's audio flavor. No, good try. Have a good weekend. All right, you might want to give a clue at this. Yeah, okay. So this this has been a very commercially successful band. Their first original name when they first got together was Cara's Flowers. Cara's Flowers back in 1994 when they were formed didn't blow up to the early mid 2000s. I'll say that. Do you think I need more? I was going to say there if too much to say, there's a number. Yes. No, we can we can say that there's a number associated with the title of the band. Yes. Anthony in Chesterfield, Talk Radio 1210. Hey Anthony, who's the band? Hi, is that nine in Snail? No, that would be a number. That's pretty good. All right. So I would say if you if you can take a few off air, that's probably yeah, yeah, I'll take some off air. I mean, I'll give one more hint before we go there. If there was a girl, if this lead singer had a girl, I could say that in a relationship, she will be loved. Oh, okay. She will be loved. Okay. Got you. Good clue. 855-839-1210. You can call in. Henry will put on the winner when we get the winner here in a moment. Hit us with who it is that is covering that song. Give us the name of the band. Very popular. A name that you would recognize. I saw this all day and I just wanted to drop this in now. It's amazing. New York Post has a big piece, something ominous coming up on Monday. Now, you probably know by now, and it maybe it's intuitive, common sense, stress of the holidays, end of the year, people then moving on something, relationship not going well, that January is, I believe, by most standards, the biggest month of divorce, either being filed or talking to divorce lawyers. Maybe it starts with the divorce lawyer. And guess what day is the biggest day the New York Post says divorce lawyers tell them? It is the first working Monday in January. So, the first working Monday in January is going to be this Monday, January 6. Keep that in mind if things are brewing around that. It's amazing. Isn't it? They actually calculate the day. People wait through the holiday and then they make the call or maybe they make the appointment right after Christmas or something and they set it for that day. That's the day when things start churning that these divorce lawyers figure that that's when they're going to be the busiest in January, but particularly on that day, not January 6, but whatever the first working Monday is. All right, John and Wilmington might be the winner here. And John, who's covering the song? It's Maroon 5. Nicely played, John. Yes. Enjoy the metro diner. 50 bucks goes a long way there and with Joe Biden, if you wait a few weeks out of office, it will go even farther. All right. Nicely played, John. We'll do it again on Monday for a nice... Yes. I got a lot of wrong answers off air too. That was... Okay. Yeah. Well, it was a little bit indistinguishable. It is because usually Adam Levine's voice is very high. Exactly. And right there, I couldn't believe it was him. I was like, is that the same guy, really? Yeah. That was them in Amsterdam in 2004. Okay. Good one. Again, well, as needed, throw more clues in when we have to. All right. 855-839-1210. Hit us with that all-time street. That's the side question. In addition to that, Surgeon General calls for cancer warnings on alcohol. And the factoid did jump out at me. He made the claim in the document he put out that close to 17 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses are attributable to alcohol. I have been looking for what study or how they arrive at that versus other causal elements. That just seems to me to be preposterous though. I just... There's not that number and I'm thinking, yeah, men, we know about cancer too, but it's predominantly women in this. And there are that many. It doesn't have to be extremely having drinking. He's not saying that. He's saying that, you know, normal to above normal, not even extremely heavy, you should be aware that you are elevating your chances. And the more you drink, of course, the more you elevate it toward cancer. Now, I vaguely knew that, but not to the level that this guy's talking about where it's worthy. Look, when you want to regulate stuff, you want to make people aware of it, right? We talked about this last week and I loved it because Dan was on the other side and it was like a 50/50 thing about drug advertising on TV. I think you want to be able to advertise drugs on TV, but I'm open to the regulation where they have to be clearer about the side effects yada, yada, yada around this and anything that you should know and give you a website and do it more slowly than just blowing past it. But why would we suppress that information? But I am sensitive in that the glitz in the glitter, we could argue about that. You know, how many dancing bears can you have in the ad? Oh, this is glamorous. Give me more some more of that. It was epic. Everyone in the ads having the best day of their entire lives. Yes. No matter what the drug is, they want to sell you the best time of your life if you're taking this. But doesn't that backfire on people? We're kind of saying people are unintelligent if they're seeing these people and thinking, that's going to be me. Like the ad froze epic. The woman's doing some artwork and she takes off the smock and she walks with them. A guy comes out of some building he's in for some reason. This other guy, fraudulently, is working on a car with some kid and suddenly hands over everything and he gets in the front of the line. Are people going, yeah, that could be me. I did see a picture of Kelly Clarkson and it's ridiculous. If that's what she wants to do, it's America, knock yourself out. But is that making her more healthy by doing this? Well, apparently, Elon Musk makes that argument. Robert Kennedy Jr. says, now, and the federal government shouldn't be paying for this. That's going to be Big O's epic, big pharma. But they ought to be on TV. What requirement can you put in? I'm open to that. But you cannot censor information like this. I just don't see it. All right, 855-839-1210. Jump in, get a line. Let's get a winner today. Then we'll have the winner of the week here on Talk Radio 1210. All right, down to your down O's show. It's priceless seeing JD Vance watching Kamala Harris screw up the Pledge of Allegiance. We'll play that for you here just in a moment. But I'm following this. DJ just sent it to me that. Well, I can't confirm that yet, but Johnson, I've seen it in a couple of places. I'm going to wait here for a moment to see if we have confirmation that Johnson is clear to hurdles after all these shenanigans of the Freedom Caucus. But I believe that he will be speaker again. All right, side question, hit us with that all time street. And Henry, if you can, here is Kamala Harris and it's going viral, JD Vance watching this. The smirk is pretty good, as Kamala has trouble with the Pledge of Allegiance. Join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. Pledge allegiance to the United States of America. Oh my gosh. Oh, she did get the United States of America. I didn't hear it the first time. Well, yeah, she gets it, but she forgets the flag. Like she says, the United States goes, I missed our trail off. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's, yeah, the Vance look here. All right. So you see no word on Johnson here. I'm not seeing anything official. I see people saying that the vote is he wanted 218 to 215, but I'm not seeing official. Yes, that's it. Okay, I'm seeing unofficial. Yeah. I don't know who's giving that. Let me see if we can try a couple different sources here, but that's good. That still would be that one vote. It still would be Massey, who I assume is the vote. He voted for Emmer. All right. Before the end of the show, I think we may have that cleared up here. We're looking for the all time street name and this debate about alcohol causing cancer, 17%, according to the sitting surgeon general attributable breast cancer to alcohol consumption. And that just doesn't square here. I don't think this is where the warnings kind of like cigarette smoking is, but we will continue. Let's go to Joe in Columbus, New Jersey. Don't talk radio 1210 afternoon, Joe. Good afternoon, Don. You know what's gold about that Kamala faux pas? From all accounts, she's never paid allegiance to the United States, let alone our flag. If you think about it, with all her antics, she has no allegiance to anything but herself. So I'm glad she made that mistake. My submission is a Jersey landmark out of the seashore town of Belmore, not the Camden County town of Belmore. It's been taken. It's been photographed many times back when this gentleman was wild and innocent and not political and biased. And Bruce Springsteen, we all learned to dislike him, but it's the corner of 10th Avenue and East Street. I give you a credit for that, Joe, because you're on a week here with the cowboy thing, and it was Springsteen. And, you know, I know that you're saying it because it is a landmark and you put it in the proper turns. Now, if Dan were here, I'd have to put on the restraining devices that are used. No, we've all restrained ourselves. I mean, back in the 70s, me and my buddies, we have photo lapsed pictures of us around this on our trek to Asbury Park. He's broken collectively all of our hearts with, you know, cutting his audience in half. Joe, you're a master of the side question. You think this would be? You just inspired me. Are there enough of them? Because it would be pretty wild. Call in on Monday with the story of someone who broke your heart. I could give you several, but one, not quite breaking my heart, but really disappointed me. I had my hopes for Christie, if you remember back in the day. And I could stop thinking about how fast he fell out of grace. New Jersey, you got your rock star. It wasn't soon after that. He just, he just fell apart. I had seven interviews with him. And on the seven, some people were coming at me in the beginning. It was really hand-to-hand combat. This is after he hugged Obama, so to speak, around after Sandy, right before the election. This was, as insane of talk radio, Joe, is anything you'll ever hear. On this, I wasn't budging. It was like we were arm wrestling there or something worse. And he wasn't. He was snorting during it. It was that bad. And I knew at that moment, he's a bully. He would never come back on again. It was irreparable. It didn't bring my heart, but close. I got the embarrassment irony to Governor Christie. He's a cowboy fan and a springsteen fan. Oh, God. The double. Yeah. That's a good one, though, Joe. That's a very good one. You had the nerve to come up with it. I salute you for that. All right. I'm getting scatter reports. I'm going to try to make it official that Johnson has won. And we'll have that coming up. We'll declare a winner for today. And then we'll pick out of the hat and declare a winner for the entire week. And you get the book Letters to Trump, all that straight ahead here on Talk Radio 1210. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us the lightning round. That's right. All right. I'm looking at Fox reporting that Mike Johnson has been retained as speaker. My God. What happened is they held the voting out before he banged the gaveled it down, the first round for an extended period of time. And two of them flipped back for him. One, Norman from South Carolina had voted for Jim Jordan and self. I'm not sure where he's from. He had voted for Byron Donald's. They both flipped back. But in the end, Massey still would not vote for Mike Johnson. Oh my goodness. All right. So he's retained the speakership. We move on. Dave and Oakland's on Talk Radio 1210. Dave, what's yours? Abbey Road. Give us a reason. Well, Abbey Road is there with EMI studios on Abbey Road and the Beatles recorded Abbey Road there. Now EMI is called Abbey Road Studio. Yeah. And what's a very famous cover with all kinds of subliminals apparently. Bill in box, Bill afternoon. What's yours? Well, good afternoon there, Dom. Mine is rolling down the road trying to loosen my load. And they stopped at Kingsley Avenue, a second street. That being the legendary corner in Winslow, Arizona. Yeah, I like that song a lot. I didn't know though that's the legend. Yeah, it is. Okay. Richard in summerdale, Bill Devlin texted me from Cuba or in his way back from Cuba. This was his answer. Pastor Bill Devlin, Richard, what's yours? Okay. Well, before I do that, I was pulling for Jim Jordan myself. But yes, I agree. That's the guy. Yeah. Anyway, a song made famous in a 1939 movie. And then years later was made known by Elton John and the Great Song. And then in a Broadway musical and now a new movie, the Wicked. And that's the Yellow Brick Road. Absolutely. Bill Devlin says he's on the Yellow Brick Road. Kind of interesting coming from Cuba. All right. One more Bob and Sherry Hill talk radio 12th and Bob, what's yours? Hey, Dom, this is in reference to all the Democrats that were roundly defeated and rightly so on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Yes, exactly great song. I got your point there. All right. Let's see. Do I have time to take one more here? Yeah, I can get Chuck in Newtown all here on Talk Radio 1210, Newtown Square. Whoops, I'm sorry about that. Chuck, one second. I had two guys. I'm static. Hey, great day there, Dom. I'll be fast, but here we go. We've got some snow coming in on Monday. And I'll tell you what, even this time of year is there a better road to be driving than on Ocean Drive down the shore. You find yourself in Ocean City over to Sea Isle. Maybe you stop at the OD for a quick one. Before you know it, you're in Wildwood at Mulligan. It's your favorite place. You got to take the OD, don't you? It's that smell. That smell, that ocean smell when you first came in. It's a bit marshy and all two. Every year I talk about that. Yeah, Johnny Z's all prepared. Remember, we may have to have a lottery for your seat at the bar this year. If Bob Kelly's there, can't just have everybody sitting at the bar. We may have to have a big drawing. Something we've got to cook up from that. All right, Henry, let's get a winner here. Then we'll get the winner of the week. Yeah, yeah. So I like Kathy and Seltier's answer of No Name Street. I also like Joan Columbus's answer of 10th Avenue and East Street. I like Bill and Buck's answer of Kingsley Avenue and 2nd Street. And then right there at the end, Chuck in Newtown Square with the OD, Ocean Drive. Yeah, I think Kathy's answer, the call, the whole thing, was pretty good. All right. All right. About that No Name Street. That was really a great one. All right, let's put them in the hat and have the drawing for the winner of the week. So Monday's winner, best Philly news story of the year, Joan Bordentown, answer with Dom getting rid of the Barca Lounder. Yes. The 31st New Year's Eve, something to leave in 2024, Joe of extant said out of state politicians. The second yesterday, what are headlines you'd like to see this year? Tom and Rosemont said Dom no longer supports Savie, saves these during snowstorms. And then today, obviously, famous streets. Kathy and Seltier as he said, the No Name Street. So if we put those all into the hats. Boom. Number five, Kathy and Seltier, the you are the winner of the week. All right, Kathy and get back to me. I want to see those breast cancer studies on Twitter and all over the place. Can you imagine 17? I still can't get past that. Kathy, you're the winner, letters to Trump. It's a great book. It's funny, but serious at the same time. Trump didn't throw anything out. All these beyond famous people, telling him how much they loved them. And then when he ran, they stabbed him. So how things change. All right, great week here. It's by mostly the holidays and people all over the place. And Monday, Scott Prezler pays his house call at two o'clock. He's on Twitter trying to get the Jersey people to give us their voter registration. Are they holding something back? Because he's already having an impact. We'll get all the information from him. And hopefully we'll hear from Jeff Van Drew what happened here at the 11th hour with Johnson, who is now the speaker retained. And this guy, Massey, is he a hero, or is he just a guy, grandstanding? Then he knows better. Got to stop the spending. Can't have Johnson. Come on. It got done in one round, but agony here. All right, follow on Twitter this weekend at Dom Show 1210 at Dom Show 1210. Mary Walter's up next sitting in for Rich for four big hours. Thanks for a great week. And we pick it up full bore on Monday. Don't forget Monday. Divorce lawyers say that's the day the most divorces start to get hashed out in their legal offices. What a ghastly day they actually have it probably giant scoreboard up there. You know, nothing else happens on Monday, except divorce being a divorce lawyer. I don't know. How do you make a case for that? All right. Mary's next. Have a great weekend, everyone. Talk Radio 1210 WPH Day. Dom's here, Donald. Weekdays 9 till noon on Talk Radio 1210 WPH Day.