The Dom Giordano Program

Americans Vs. Europeans: Who's Soft?

1 - Jim Worthington of The Newtown Athletic Club joins us today to give his year in review and what is to come in the new year. What kind of celebrities will be in attendance on Inauguration Day? Some personal, light news from Jim. 110 - Your calls. 120 - More on the immigration debate. Are European basketball players soft? 135 - Is the timing of the H5N1 hysterics odd? How serious should it be taken? The Guardian angels are making their return to NYC subways. 140 - Will mayors across the country oppose federal law ridding illegal immigrants of the country? 150 - We discuss the man who authored a book disavowing kids having phones in schools. Your calls.

Duration:: 56m
Broadcast on:: 30 Dec 2024
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In Philadelphia's Tock Radio 1210 WPhD, WPhD, WGLE, HD3, Philadelphia. From the Cheerio Volo Studios, where relationships matter. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time. Now Dom Girdano. It is Dom Time. Before we go to our good friend Jim Worthington from the NAC out there in Bucks County, the center of the political world, for a little look back and look forward, on Twitter, a pretty good one. New story, last 25 years, filled off the area. The Columbus statue. Think of all the twists and turns, and when I remember, the protectors, the gravy seals. All those Italian guys from Packer Park-- Great name. --who showed up car, new statue. That's a good one. That could have been a winner. Because that is one of those stories that had layers. Sagas. It continues forever. Was the Joey Vento-- I want to say that's under 25-- yeah, that's got to be under 25 years-- the sign that became the international. You're in America now, please speak English when ordering. Six by nine inch sign that caused all that fewer. That's got to be circa in the 2000s. It can't be more than 25 years ago. It can remember it as if it were yesterday. All right, Jim Worthington is labeled, without a doubt, one of the biggest supporters, creative supporters, of President Trump and one of the biggest fundraisers in the entire country. In addition to that, the engine behind the scene, who convincing a guy over there in-- what was it? Feasterville on Street Road to allow the McDonald's to be used for one of the top five moments of the entire presidential campaign. In addition to a multitude of other things, he joins us here on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Jim, good afternoon. Dom, how you doing? Very well. So what's the most vivid moments of 2024 during this campaign? I think when you told me about Susie Wiles how much you admired her and how much control she had, that was a big moment for me, Jim, because yesterday, even some of the critics of Trump said this is a much more buttoned-up operation than 2016. Yeah, she's definitely the gatekeeper. And she made it clear when she got appointed, she said the circus won't be coming to the White House. She's a no-nonsense, hardworking, very, very bright woman. I'm sure your listeners, many of them probably don't know. She's Pat Summerall, the football announcer, ex-NFL player's daughter. I didn't know that. Yeah, kind of interesting story lying behind her. But she was one of the brainchild behind the Santa's campaign when he ran a few years ago for governor. And she is just an incredible, incredible woman and very, very nice and just very accomplished, so well-respected. I mean, when I hear people talk about the president not respecting women, if you look around, some of the very key positions in his administration and in his campaign were held by women. Look at Laura Trump and Susie and a good friend of mine, Meredith O'Rourke, who was in charge of all his fundraising, and then Alina Haba. And the list goes on and on. He loves strong women. He loves women that can-- are loyal, that can take his position and stand by him. But she's phenomenal. Well, I'm not sure Homeland Security rings in my mind immediately with her, but she's got great executive experience, Christine Ohm, who has that talent, despite what happened from the biography, Trump still stuck with her and put her in charge. And I think she'll get through the nomination process because I have to tell you, Jim, I stood there interviewing her and then there was a TV crush in the spin room. She was as composed as sharp as anybody I've ever seen under that kind of fire that was going back and forth. I think she'll do fine as Homeland Security and she'll be on TV a lot, having to defend. So he looked past some of the other things that caused such disruption. Yeah, she's awesome. I had gotten-- had the good fortune of two years ago being asked to have a private-- she was meeting with her in Warminster. She was there for an event for the GOP in Bucks County. And I got to spend a good 45 minutes with her and her chief of staff just talking about Pennsylvania and what we needed to do and so on and so forth. And she was very, very impressive. Yeah, what came out of that autobiography was not-- I don't know, I never really delved into it. It seems to me like it was a little bit taken out of context in regards to the dog issue and all that, because nobody's a bigger dog lover than me. But at the end of the day, I think she's going to do a phenomenal job. Pambi Andes, another one. I mean, the list goes on and on. Yeah, so Jim, looking back now, 2024, the inauguration coming up, give us a sense of what you're anticipating. Well, I think it's going to be electric. It's going to be an amazing day. I can tell you how many people have reached out to me in terms of trying to secure an inauguration ticket, get to the balls that evening. I actually do have all the information on that in terms of people that are interested in going to it. If you've raised money or given money, there's an opportunity to get inauguration tickets as part of what you've done. There's also tickets in each congressional district through their congress. Congressman, there are a number of tickets that are available for free. But the demand has just been crazy. And it started the day after the election victory, people were reaching out hundreds and hundreds of people that have just reached out to me personally. And I know that's the case all across the country. The enthusiasm for the Trump presidency is just incredible. And in 16, when he won, I was down there for that. And it was very underreported what a disaster that was with security and police being able to control the people around there is really an untold story. But I think they're going to have it all cleared up for this go around. They know what to expect. And there's going to be a million people there. You've been to 2016, then. My advice, the one that I was the Obama first time around, it was beyond cold. And I can take the cold usually, but oh my goodness. This was-- and when you have a big crowd like that, it's hard to move around, hard to get into position, everything else, Jim. So I don't know what the weather forecast is. Let's hope it's rolled if we mild. Yeah, it was brutal in 2016. And that's what everybody says. It's gone to the east side. I have one friend that's going to aid in these things, believe it or not. And he just says the weather is so key on a day like that. Because you just said, Dom, once you get in there, there's not any moving around. You're in there shoulder to shoulder with a million other people. But it's still-- it's a once in a lifetime for most people. If you haven't done it, I urge you to go. I would also urge you to take the train down from Philly, this area, not to drive down. Even flying down there is a hassle, because even if you flew, if you had the means to fly privately, it's a disaster, because there's so many planes coming in. And the best way to get down there is by train. I agree. They were looking at getting me in by boat, Jim. Or getting me out by boat. That's how difficult it was to cover it. So it's very, very difficult. Well, we'll have full coverage that day. And we hope to get you on if you're available at any point between noon until 3. So what are you hearing, Jim? What is it on your mind, executive order-wise, that Trump might do on the first day? What are you most interested in? Well, certainly, you know, closing the borders, then executive order to put everything back in place that Biden had taken away would be number one on the list. In terms of other detailed individual things, I mean, that would be number one in my book. For sure. I mean, that's the number one promise. I think coming out with all the initiatives that he is going to launch, I think, keeping the tax reform that he initiated in place going forward, I think would be important for the economy. Certainly opening up the drilling is at the top of the list, again, drill baby, drill, as he's everything he's basically said he was going to do. I think he's just got to come out. And if you can do it by executive order, do it. And if not, get Congress to vote on it ASAP. The one thing I am concerned about, I did hear that I think it was this morning, I was told that he came out in support of Mike Johnson, which I think is important just for a continuation of the momentum we have. What we don't need is to come up the works right now and have a diversion of getting things done ASAP. Because people don't realize it sometimes, but you have a short window here. You've really got a year, year and a half at most. Exactly. You get things done. You get into the second half of the second year. Forget about it, nothing's happening. You've got to get things done ASAP. No, particularly with this small of a margin in the house. So Jim, thank you and thanks for just at the knack. I haven't done a better event ever, including the 40 yard football throw that you caught. You can witness that and put that down for listeners. It was quite a catch and the spike was very good too. Yeah, it was over the shoulder spike. And I'm very proud of that moment. It was my only TD ever in football. Hey, Dom, and the late inauguration day. You know, you're going to start at 9 a.m. at my place and it goes to what time? Well, it goes to at least three. For the event? Yes. Yeah. OK. Well, we're really looking forward to the night. I'm not sure if it was earlier than nine or the morning shows there or not. So we'll ask them to clarify that with you. Because I only know noon to three. I'll be there and I love it. And again, happy for you. You'll be at the inauguration. But we still want to get you on and talk up the nack that I'm there. So, Jim, thank you. Yeah, I'll be sitting pretty upfront there. So I will give you a bird's eye view, if you want me to call in. Oh, yeah, definitely. I want to know if you spot any two paywearing in the wing. Come on. What celebrities, Jim, do you think might be there? Do you have any sense of who might be? Trump draws more wild people coming to an inauguration than almost anybody? I think you're going to see what's amazing. Tomorrow night at Mar-a-Lago is going to be a who's who in the history of-- and honestly, the most powerful people in the world are going to be at Mar-a-Lago. I expect the same group, Elon, being there. Everybody, Joe Rogan, I think you're going to see on an inauguration day. A bigger list of people than you've ever seen is what I'm hearing. And I know that they're all down there tomorrow night. Unfortunately, I've been there the last three years. I will not be there this year, because, Dom, I didn't tell you on Christmas day, my wife, and I had a baby girl. Oh, I didn't even know that. Congratulations, Jim. Yes, they had, yes. Yeah, so we're five days into it, so I won't be able to go down there or Tuesday night. But it's going to be a who's who. And I think that same group is going to be coming to the inauguration and to the balls afterwards. There's like seven balls. So it's going to be an amazing, amazing two days down there. You're our guy. We'll get full coverage of you, Jim. Just button up, nice and warm, the whole thing, and all could be brutal. But thank you, Jim. And thanks for the NAC again. My pleasure, Dom. Thanks for having me on. All right, Jim Worthington from the NAC. Newtown Athletic Club. Yes, I know I'll be-- I'm not sure the exact time. We'll be announcing it shortly. But I know I'll be there noon till three again. You want to be there. You want to see the inauguration on that day. That's the place to be, OK, together. We saw it last year at, well, in 2016 over Chicky and Pete's. It's a magical moment when we all see it together. All right, side question today. Something quintessentially Philly. Big impactful story, funny one. Something that happened over the last 25 years. I brought it out to 2000. Let's go to Joe in Columbus on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Joe, happy new year. And thanks for an unbelievable time during our call of the year. Really appreciate it. You're welcome, Dom. It was worth all the time, fun, effort, everything. And I made some-- thanks to you guys. I made some really good, solidified connections with people. So I think I may have said it before, but they're relationships that are probably going to last a lifetime. Thanks to you. Well, you know what, that's part of the fun. The side question does it a little bit because nothing bonds. Having more fun with it, the events that we do. We're already looking forward, Joe, with Prezler. He's making wild with the capital this entire effort. So it's going to be a real short summer. Yeah, it will. It will. Now the New Jersey is the next hurdle. That's going to be interesting. My side question answer is the one all agonizing Philly fans I've been waiting for with Nick Foles and the Philly Special. Absolutely, Joe. And I got thwarted when I had Nick Foles, the speaker series. It was called, then, "Not Politics and Pints." I was going to reenact it with him. But then in the middle of it, he walked a little too close to the stage, and like 500 people started swarming him. Oh, my God. Well, I don't know if I told you this. I'm the only non-Eagle fan in my house. I get bombarded for four different ways on Sunday. But that was worth my kids enjoying that. Your Giants, Joe? No, I'm a cowboy fan. Oh, come on, Joe. Oh, my God. We have to work on this. What's the connection to the Cowboys? I'm glad you asked. It's the only team I ever picked on my own. I had to be a Yankee fan because of my father and his ties with Joe tomorrow. I was six years old, and I'm sitting watching an Eagle game, Cowboys and Eagles. And my dad said, "See number 22? He's the fastest guy in the world." And that guy ran a bomb. He caught a bomb for a touchdown. He ran a punt back for a touchdown that day. I saw the star on the helmet, and I've been a cowboy fan ever since. But with Bob Hayes, right? Was it both Bob Hayes? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I was so happy for my kids. That touchdown, that Nick Holz touchdown. Oh, it is remarkable. And they were calling it Philly Philly, rather than the Phillies, especially when a little nuts. And I've got to tell you, Joe, when you see these guys up close football players, Falls is the best example I give. I thought he was a skinny guy, and they have him in the program. It's 243. That's frightening. Well, I want the school. I want the school. I love you to remember him. When I was at Temple, I went to school at a guy named Steve Watson. Yeah. He was John Elway's wide receiver for the Broncos. We were working out in the Army, the baseball team and the track team during the winter months. And I was a freshman. One of the upperclassmen brings me over to Steve Watson. He goes, Joe, I'd like you to meet Steve Watson. He just got drafted by the Denver Broncos. This guy had legs up to his navel. And there was nobody on the Temple track team that could beat him in the 40-yard dish. And the next year, I'm seeing him catch passes from. And when you see this guy on the football field, he looks like a Fred Bolittnikov. When you see him in person, this guy was put together. He was built. That's a great thing. These are not normal humans. They're just not. No, world class. Absolutely. Thank you, Joe. Great one today. Thank you. All right, John. Bye-bye. All right, Henry. Cowboy fan, though. Cowboy fan. I was hoping he'd say, like, jets or something. Yeah, we'll have to work on them. We'll have to work on them. A few drinks at Mulligans. And we'll have them in the right fold. It could be easy to turn them back. I mean. Exactly. All right, so the Philly special. That is a good one. The horse running down 95. Could be a big, impactful story. It could be a story that just is quintessential Philadelphia, like the hitchpot. 855-839-1210. And you heard, Jim, start marking that calendar. You want to watch it with us there at the NAC. Together, I remember it. Chicken and pizza, mob of people. Coming together, celebrating that moment when Trump takes the oath of office again, and all that goes with it. Full coverage. We'll have one, all kinds of people. But it's the coming together, meeting everybody that you hear. You may have met him before. Reviving all that, just as Joe said. It's quite a moment, quite a facility. And if we're going to do it in the room, I think we did it last time. I may have to throw the football at that moment. Henry, that will be quite a-- that football that the guy from Ambor brought perfectly fit. But I realize now why Kenny Pickett is not-- wait a minute. Am I transposing its pickett, right? Yeah, Kenny Pickett. Yeah, yeah. I remember them measuring-- and Chip Kelly started this-- hand size on a quarterback. Yeah. It matters an awful lot, particularly in cold weather. And he was among the smaller, hands guys. And he's guys with enormous hands that grip a ball in cold weather, particularly. He got much better chance of throwing the spiral. And really, not worrying about it. See the play he did yesterday where he held on to the ball? Oh my god. Yeah, and it looked bad. And it looked worse in real time. And you see it on the replay. You see his hand was tipped. But man, in real time, I was like, what is he doing? Yeah, exactly right. And how much does Daoas quit that the Eagles with backups all over the place can beat him merciless? Yeah, I don't even think that was quit. I just think they stink. They got nobody left. I mean, I think it'd have been a little different if CD lamb was on the field, but the fact that they're throwing like Jalen Tolburton. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that, yeah. Exactly. Boy, merciless. All right, 855-839-1210. You can get in with that. Scott Prezler at 2 o'clock. Again, the story out there we're talking about is Elon Musk and this whole nonsense. The Vivek Ramaswami went completely wild over the top on his view on America and why we don't produce the best engineers and all the rest of it. Please, come on, come on now. Really? We don't have those engineers. A lot of these jobs are not those top engineers, even the IT jobs. They're rungs down and you know how you can tell? I have the salary figures here and a lot of them are like 75 to 100 a year. Does that seem like they're, oh man, we're having a bidding war here. In today's economy, particularly living in Silicon Valley where a lot of this is, no, they're willing to work for less. They're willing to do the grunt work. They're fearful they'll be sent back to the native country. We've got to protect all American workers. Not just let's shut down the border. Absolutely, but I'm not in for the deal. Wow, well shut down the border. You let us run wild. No, that is not what this movement is about. So it doesn't mean that Vivek and Elon Musk are out of the family business, but it means we're all in this big tent together, but they don't get their way. That is antithetical to the core of this movement. Is that provincial? Or is that exactly on point of what Trump has run on, particularly in 2016, but then again, this time around? 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According to an attorney for the plaintiffs, individuals who were not Indian or South Asian were 8.4 times more likely to be terminated from the bench than individuals who fit the preferred category, the Indian nationals. What's more, South Asian employees were terminated at a 1% rate compared to 27, 20, and 9% for black Hispanic and white employees." Oh, well, I'm sure Vivek Ramaswamy would say, well, those white, black, and Hispanic employees, they were inferior. Toughing up. Get your mom to be a tiger, mom. You're not tough enough here. Really? Come on now with this stuff. It's got to stop. It's just got to stop this back and forth on this. Find to have this coalition. I get it. But they don't get to win on this in some kind of bargain. Well, we're going to stop the incursion from Mexico, but we are going to do what we want when it comes to this abusive program. No, that's not what we signed up for to support. Or maybe you think, well, what do I care? These are IT workers. That doesn't influence me, et cetera. Well, that's how the other side wins. We're all in this together. Every American worker we care about. We care about all of it, protecting them. That's what it's about. I don't care what the job is. By the way, Henry, you were off last week, but I do stand on this. I'm tired of even hearing about European basketball players. By and large, how many of them are really, or have been, or will be? All world, et cetera. I don't see it. I know Joe Kitchez won the MVP award, et cetera. That's a different type of European player. He plays pretty tough, given maybe the country, the background. But by and large, there's style of play in the NBA. Ultimately, it's not going to beat American players. So there are little add-on around the edges. Elon Musk brought this up in the conversation, saying, well, that's what it's about. The engineers will bring it in. No, there's not 50 European players in the NBA that are among the first 75 players. It's not like that. It's a limited number, and I get it. You scour the world. We want to win. We're going to do whatever it takes to win. But you don't find as many of these guys, and any number of them are suspect to me when it comes to toughness. Do you agree with that, Henry, or no? No, I can't say that again. I think a lot of Europeans bring over a different type of toughness that we don't necessarily see in the States a lot. Which is-- I just think they play fundamentally. They play sound basketball. And I think a lot of American-born players play a little bit more freewheeling, only focusing on offense. It's not to say that Europeans don't either. But they come-- Oh, they're among the worst defensive players. They can't play defense. They're too slow. I disagree. I think a lot of them are built sturdy. I think a lot of them are long-ranging players. And I think it's changed over the last, I'd say, five or 10 years. I think they're-- one of those things is just where they got that reputation as being soft, can't play. And I think just that has kind of fueled them into becoming better, more athletic players. And you see that coming over a lot in these past few drafts. I mean, someone like-- you may not even know who he is. His name's Al Perrin Shengoon. He plays for the Rockets. That guy, he's probably a 6/8 center. He averages 25 and 5, and he's tough as nails. I think that's the new archetype of player that we're going to see coming over from Europe. All right. I trust guys that have grown up-- I've said this many-- you grew up the way Alan Iverson did and extraordinary talent. He's going to die. He's going to kill you on a basketball court. That's what it comes down to. Yeah. And at the end of that, you do need killers like that. It's my ball. It's my game. I'm going to go win the game. Yeah. I still don't see it on that particular in defense. Oh, man, it's my specialty. I'm not sanctioning that yet. I got to see more. I don't know that guy per se, but-- Yeah, look him up. I mean, fantastic skill set. I think that guy might win an MVP in his career. Well, one of our MVPs is here. Robert and Ben Saleh. Hey, Robert. Good afternoon. Hey, Dom Henry. It's good to talk to you guys. Thank you. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We always talk about the left and how they misconstrued history to twist it to their own political narrative. And a big example of that is the whole Christopher Columbus debacle. And you hear them say, he enslaved this. He killed that. He decimated that. And it couldn't be further from the truth. The fact of the matter is Christopher Columbus was probably the only Italian on the ships. They were Spanish ships with Spanish crews, and he had to keep them on the ship at times to stop them from running wild on the natives. And it's to come keys to doors who came afterwards, who were Spanish, that committed all of the atrocities against the native people. Attias didn't come over here and colonize anything. Attias didn't come over here and commit all kinds of atrocities, like the English, and the Spanish, and the Dutch, and the French. Why does Christopher Columbus get such a bad rap? And his commitment to the other house. Yeah, he's the main explorer. He's the guy they can go after to diminish Western civilization. He is among the most three, four, five consequential figures in human history. And their ignorance is causing them to marginalize him all in the effort to advance the political narrative. So with all of this in mind, my headline for the Philadelphia area for the last 25 years was taking Christopher Columbus out of the box, and I wish they would do the same thing to their voters one day. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Thank you, Robert. Wonderful week, man. Thank you, Robert, very much. Yeah, I still haven't here on the wall in the domdom. My piece of that that George Peketa was good enough to-- I never in a million years thought the judge would force them to take down the silly box around Columbus. And nothing has happened. It's there. Everything's fine. You can see it down at Marconi Plaza. No big deal. But just the childishness of it. I've gone after Columbus because the mob in Philadelphia wanted to and was starting to attack. They didn't do that when the gravy seals were there, though, protecting it. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. Now, are we on the cusp of another COVID part two? Public health voices lay the groundwork for a new pandemic that's timing out just to reach President Trump for turning to office. Will they get away with it this time? I'll tell you what that is, and I don't think they'll get away with it. You get in, though, at 855-839-1210. All right, it is time time. Welcome in, 855-839-1210. So you may be in holiday mode one to another. Over the weekend, what's happening is now because of bird flu. People like Dr. Deborah Birx have surfaced. The doctor that's in the Washington Post, Dr. Is it when? Also, one of the architects of various shutdowns during COVID has surfaced. And look, we ought to take a look scientifically at each one of these. But are we going to see, through bird flu, even some of the incursions with farmers examining cows once a week, some of them are calling for? Seems like an insignificant thing until you have to go through this. I think we have to be on top of it. And I'm going to be interested to hear what Dr. Marty says when we get him back on again. How he would proceed with this, Dr. Oz. And also Robert Kennedy Jr. But particularly Marty, I have the most faith in out of all those. He's the guy. He's our guy during COVID. I haven't seen him say anything. I don't think he will until after the confirmation hearings, which can't get here quickly enough that we start to move on this. But keep your eye on this again. Would a place like Jersey start to move to shutdown schools? Yeah, they might do anything. Would that be something that some of the Democrats running for governor would want? Probably not. Because they're trying to masquerade enough now. They see a change in Jersey, at least more Republicans voting, more minority groups voting, potentially red. So we'll see. But the voices are starting to lay the groundwork in their mind for this new pandemic. And again, it can't be frivolous about this stuff. It can't just be dismissive. But how far do we go, particularly with Biden not doing anything, doing anything here? Marty will be the guy on this. Now, he'll be FDA. But I still think he's the guy that I'll be looking at Dr. J, with national health and NIH from Stanford. Also, we didn't have him on as much. But he is high quality also. So Trump has different people in charge that have a good track record against COVID. Marty wasn't opposed to the vaccine, but just the fair warning, myocarditis, things of that nature that we talked about. And I think he is a perfect go-to figure on this stuff. But isn't it strange we're starting to hear these warnings just as the new administration gets movement. And COVID really stopped movement of the Trump administration and some of the bigger things that they were engaged in because of the widespread shutdowns, even though he's the one that pushed and got the vaccine. All right, 855-839-1210, you get a line AT&T and Verizon wireless. All you have to do is just push pound-1210. Hit its two on that side question, which is simply some news event might be quirky. That happened over the last 25 years, Philadelphia area on Twitter, somebody has the Jason Kelsey speech, yes. That was pretty wild. Some of the stuff that he said, particularly a critique of each eagle, Lane Johnson, can't stay off the juice. Who says something like that in the middle of that? The outfit, the whole thing, yeah, we get it. But pretty wild stuff to put it mildly. Here is, well, over the weekend, and we'll try to get them on soon. Curtis Sleehwa surfaced again. We now have the guardian angels back in the subways. Next time I'm on, I get a rundown. I'm like, how many times did they actually intervene? Is their presence there really gonna come some of the craziness we've seen, like the guy that was set on fire in an escalator, what was it, was it Friday, I wanna say? 67 year old man set on fire again. And just the, a lot of it is homeless slash illegal immigrants, involved in this stuff. We know the guy was here illegally, have been deported once, that allegedly set on fire. The woman on the Brooklyn subway train. It just is an endless cycle of this stuff. And the crackdown will come on this. This is cut seven. Here's the New York City Department of Corrections saying, they are not, listen to this, gonna honor an ice detainer for the migrant, the illegal immigrant who apparently set the woman on fire, cut seven. - So ICE has issued a new immigration detainer for Zapetta, but says the New York City Department of Corrections has indicated they will not honor the request. The indictment against Zapetta will be officially unsealed on January 7th when we expect him to appear back in court, as for the woman killed. The district attorney says investigators are making progress using advanced fingerprinting and DNA evidence to confirm her identity. - All right, so they're not gonna honor the ICE detainer on this. Meaning somehow or another, depending what happens here, he could be walking out the door. He is here illegally, we know that. He was deported once he came back and the Biden years had contacted him, let him go. So there's gonna be a real showdown, but I believe Chicago will be where this starts. And have you noticed that the mayor of Philadelphia, despite increasing pressure, has not come out full bore, saying that she is going to push back on Trump or the administration or what they do here in Philadelphia? I don't know that we're gonna see anything in the Philadelphia area for a while, but I'm thinking even some suburban areas, there could be action because they've grown to be known as areas where you might find people that are here illegally. Jersey, will they go after that first? Apparently not, looks like Chicago, maybe LA, New York, the usual areas, but Chicago first and that's smart. Right down the belly of the beast with this, Denver. They're gonna go after that guy, the mayor there. He may even tell them not only not to help, but to resist. We'll see if he does it, if he tries to get in the way of federal law on this and Tom Homing. And they're gonna need quite a space for people they take in until they're officially deported. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210, AT&T, and Verizon wireless, all that you need to do is just push pound 1210. So we'll keep our eye on this bird flu thing as they try to ratchet it up. I'm not saying it's not potentially a problem. We've seen it before. Is this more serious? But again, any sniff of what we've been through with COVID, putting that into play is not gonna fly. I mean, COVID has just damaged so many institutions. Let's hope Dr. Marty, Dr. Oz, Dr. J from Stanford and assorted others will be able to restore some of that in the public health sphere. And with RFK Jr., well, we've already talked about some of the things that he's gonna bring to the table on the food issue, that's the strongest suit. I'm still adamantly against taking so-called drug ads off TV. I think it's a freedom speech issue. I think people ought to be able to see it. Now, if you wanna beef up, I have round and round, but Dan, last week on this, if you wanna beef up the side effects, okay, and even have more space that they have to add or even put them more early on, something like that, okay, I think people ought to know about these things though. My other, they're gonna go to their doctor and ask, well, that's a doctor's job to sort this out. He doesn't just have to say yes, and there's gonna be a big battle between Dr. Oz, who apparently favors Ozempic and RFK Jr., who does not. I'm on the RFK Jr. side on this. I know what the argument is. Well, if you use this, you're not gonna be overweight. That's gonna cut down a lot of, I just think it's another excuse mechanism here. And I think you're gonna see quite a battle over that. And I think Dr. Oz, in the position he's in, he's gonna have a pretty powerful perch there. All right, phone lines. Our 855-839-1210, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless, you just push pound 12-10. All right, it is Dom Time. Welcome in 855-839-1210. Still a chance to jump on board before Scott Presler joins us. Hit us with something that was a news story, filled up the area as we count down the end of the year over the last 25 years. Can be quirky, can be really impactful. I let off, I took off the board. Let's see, the hitchpot beheaded. Krasner election, big deal. Suburbs going blue, Philly Jesus. And Henry's was the chicken guy who seems to have been off chicken now, probably after. Yeah, he might get a little sick of it. Yeah. The I-95 thing was a shiny moment. Shapiro was smart with sort of papering it over, showing the construction on the stream. Only in Philadelphia people watch that. They like to watch it, they had it on. Kind of soothing in the background. I'll take off the board now. No one said the 2017 Super Bowl win, certainly. But there have been any number of things that have happened that are major. I think in the entire area is what we're looking for. It's something that happened, and we tried mightily to get this guy on. It was like getting the president on. Headline today, Jonathan Haidt won the fight against smartphones in schools. This is a guy's book that talked about scientifically, what's happened to kids as far as just the overwhelming amount of time spent on their phone, social media, all of that. And Apple released the first iPhone. He writes in the summer of 2007. It was until May, 2023, that Florida governor, Ron Tassanis, became the first state leader in the nation to ban phones in K to 12 public schools. After Governor Sanders read Hyatt's book this year, she sent a copy to every legislator in the state, as well as all 49 other US governors urging them to ensure phone-free schools. So we're starting to do that, but doing it is in our area. And it's going to be interesting to see in 2025, I think Cherry Hill was one that I remember how this has worked out. I mean, everybody knows it, but securing the phone, access to it because of all the things that can happen, difficult battle. But you're seeing more and more schools do it. Finally, this guy broke through. This guy broke through with it in a way that a few others have. Now with just about things like TikTok, all kinds of things that have proliferated, the battle still ongoing. But Jonathan Hyatt won the fight on this, and you're gonna see more and more schools engage in this. They are going to then study this. And we'll start to see, by mid-year, how it turned out, then other schools are gonna do it next year. And on and on and on, it will go. It makes perfect sense. But again, it's a slow plotting battle to engage in this. All right, hit us on the side question. Also, Scott Prezler on Deck Circle, and Scott has some great new Pennsylvania registration numbers as he gets ready to head to Jersey. I can tell you behind the scenes, a lot of big doings ready for Scott Prezler. Let's go to Mark and Philly. Mark, you're in on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Mark. - Hey, I just wanna start off. You look handsome yesterday morning when you're a new year silver bow tie. - Oh, well, thank you. It was supposed to be black tie, but that's all that I had left there. And you would not know, Mark, the what it took for me to get into that tuxedo after not wearing it for four years. Oh my God, I don't know how women do it. I felt like I was stuffed in there. I was ready to burst at any moment. - That's funny. Yeah, hey, so my news for the past 25 years just happened this year. It's the couple that parked along the scoocle and they were like doing it and they banded it out of gear and rolled into the scoocle. - Yes, I think I know the bridge. I think it was off of the drive, right? - Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we're right off the Kelly drive. Yeah. - Yeah, right off can we drive? Yeah, I think that's exactly it. - Hey, can I make a comment? - Sure. So the whole Elon and the Vex thing is like really like, Bob Kennedy, Robert Kennedy drew my vote over to Trump. I voted for Biden last time. Hopefully, we talked about before, but the whole the Vex and Elon thing is so disgusting that they dare talk about the American people that way. It's like, why doesn't Elon go back to South Africa and clean up his, you can't even like walk down the street without getting mugged or like the Vex country, India, you can't even walk down without like, it's a mess. It's like the 30th country and they're talking about us. Like, why did they come here? And then, you know what I mean? - I couldn't agree more. Look, they want to make a point about HB1. It needs to be reformed. No, it doesn't. It needs to be reformed to almost shut it down. And the Vex were so over the top. You know what he thought, Mark? We do this. You hear him talk radio, people call in the school district sucks. We get that and we go after that. He went so many bridges farther though. I don't know what happened to him in high school as far as, you know, quarterbacks and prom queens and all, but that's ridiculous. We have room for everybody. - And these two guys, these two guys are going to be troubled for Trump. I think they use Trump as a Trojan horse to get all these knuckleheads in here. And I hope I pray as strong as maggot, quote maggot is that they like straighten it out because if they don't catch it early, Elon is going to eff things on big time. I mean, you know they're working together. - Yeah, I think Trump is the one who will cut it off at some point. Thank you, Mark. Great stuff. Yeah, that couple plunging into the river off Kelly Drive. Yes, that is pretty good. It could have happened other places, but it seems to happen more here. Very good call it. Yeah, and Vivek and Elon Musk. Look, it's a big tent. They're still inside the tent, but they don't get their way on this. The Grand Bargain seems to be subtly. All right, we're going to help shut down the border. We're being inundated, but in return, we want all these quote geniuses, many of whom are not. This is America after all. I may ask tomorrow. Yeah, I might do this because of this conversation. I might ask, who truly comes to mind when you think of a genius? And I might take off a whole bunch of them, okay? Obviously, we do still say, or do we say he's no Elon Musk? I don't think so. I think we say he's no Einstein at this point still. I don't know, over and under, maybe he's no Elon Musk. Is he Elon Musk a genius? Yeah, I would say so. He's no Einstein though, all right. Yeah, that phrasing for him, a lot of the come around, I think long after he's passed. Yeah, yeah, I don't think we're getting off Einstein for a reason. It's a hair. That tells you right there. Yeah, exactly. It might be thinking of geniuses. That might appear to be the side question tomorrow, but this man is a genius in incrementalism. 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