Kayal and Company

Wednesday Full Show

Americans Continue To Seek Alternative Sources Of News And Information, Michael Strahan Explodes When Asked About National Anthem Controversy, Toby Bruno Live From Florida With Politics Sports And Advice For Pet Owners And We Continue Our Veterans Spotlight With Hank Blaze Chick

Duration:: 2h 57m
Broadcast on:: 13 Nov 2024
Audio Format:: other

(upbeat music) - Come join me, Andrew Philponi. - And me, Patrick Peterson, three-time NFL All Throw Cornerback on First and Pod for permit NFL coverage and conversations. - Our motto on the podcast is every team every week, and we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with First and Pod. Follow and listen to First and Pod on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - Cale and company weekday morning, six till 10. - Wednesday morning, November 13th. A brisk, chilly morning with the breeze, still blowing. We'll tell you how warm it won't get in the news. The Center City apartment complex evacuated after a fire, after flames broke out. We have multiple fires and hazmat situations. We're talking about this morning. So we know that the smoke was pouring out of a Delphia house apartment, 1200 block of Chestnut Street, started in a fourth floor apartment according to the fire officials there. One resident was rushed to the hospital, suffered smoke inhalation, and this morning is in serious, but stable condition. So it took crews about an hour and a half to get this thing under control. That cause, still under investigation, Red Cross, helping out those who are displaced, and fire crews still checking for any structural damage. We also had a huge fire destroying an apartment building. This is Pine Hill, New Jersey. So this was, the first call came in around 6 p.m. last night for flames showing from that second floor balcony at the Manchin Apartments. This is on West Branch Avenue in Camden County. So the police chief there says about 16 units were just destroyed and nearly 30 people are displaced as a result of that fire. Sadly, five police officers, as well as a firefighter, were rushed to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. So this is very serious, obviously, with the heavy smoke conditions and the wind. The wind is a factor. That's why we've talked about all of these wildfires going on across the country, across the region, but especially in New Jersey. But in these first two cases, we're talking about apartment building. So it looks like no residents injured, but they're looking into, obviously, investigating the call list. You know, we're doing World War II veterans, and we do our veteran spotlight. We do a tongue with police, obviously, families behind the badge. I'd like to do a Kale & Company Firefighter Appreciation Week. We got a carve out a week throughout the year to start doing that, get to the next level of our heroes out there. I love it. It's a great idea. We send that down to the boys down the hallway when they come in. Well, speaking of which, in Montgomery County, we have reports that five people, including a firefighter, are hospitalized after a hazmat incident was reported. So rescue crews, those first responders, were called to the unit block of Amy Court. This is North Wales, Pennsylvania, for reports of people who were starting to get sick and fall ill. Fire officials say that there was a very strong chemical odor that was later IDED as ammonia. And so this was being used as part of a cleaning solution for power washing. And obviously a spill happened for residents. The firefighter involved take into the hospital and they are expected to be to survive that. So these are not life threatening injuries, but obviously a serious situation there. And just a reminder that today is the big day when former president Donald J. Trump makes a big return. Some are calling it a victor's return to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Joe Biden. And before he meets with Biden, he will meet with GOP lawmakers. In particular, there was a news conference yesterday with House Speaker Mike Johnson. So Johnson, and I don't know if he realized during the news conference that he broke this news, but that President Trump, President-elect Trump, will actually meet with House GOP members prior to the meeting with Biden. - Very interesting. I'm sure we'll have some details developing throughout the day. - Yes. - All right, that's gonna be an interesting little, so technically this would be his first time back since January of 2021, right? And he's not stepped foot on the property since, right? - Yeah, especially the Oval, I mean, they're meeting in the Oval Office. So, yeah. - Yeah. - So Trump planned to meet with Biden, then yesterday we learned that he would meet with GOP leaders in the House. They're obviously, they're holding that so-called secret vote to pick a Senate majority leader. And he's gonna meet with the House. I don't know if he's gonna meet with those in the Senate before meeting with Biden. - Oh, yeah. - But then in the Senate, remember, there's the secretive vote that we've been talking a lot about today. So that we've got that going on. I don't know, maybe they could come up with a new department to help our Philadelphia 76ers. House Joe LMB, it's, I know, big-- - How was that, I was saying, I don't know. - He was back, his debut. - Blue court. - What was up with that court? - I was asking Phil, he's like, yeah, it's the NBA Cup. It's this little sham operation they run in the middle of the season or the beginning of the season to drum up interest in the regular season. Like, you wanna drum up interest? Trim up 25% of these meaningless games. - Look at you, this is your theme. - Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. - Yeah. - It's just a waste, yes. - So the final score was 109 to 99 in Embiid's debut for the season. He looked a little bit rusty. - A little bit. - Paul Jordan. - Against the mix. - Yeah, 25 points, I think he's got six points on one. - Yeah, I watched about the first half of the first quarter and then my retinas started to melt from staring at the television. - Yeah, that was not a pleasant watching experience. - I was getting texts and I guess somebody saw my tweet about how awful the court was and my buddy was there and he said, it's not as bad on the eyes in person. - It was just the team as it is on television. - I can see that. - Yeah, yep. - So, yeah, so against the Knicks, they beat us 109 to 99. Embiid afterwards did say that he was pleased with his progress health-wise. - Did he choke Marcus Hayes? (laughing) - Did he, what? - I'm just wondering if he assaulted any reporters, you know, that wrote something about him that he didn't like. Never got a story we had a couple of weeks ago. - Well, they should not speak about his deceased family members. - I got it. - Or his child, you know? - Mm-hmm. - But they won't do that again. - Yeah, probably not. - Let's talk about your forecast. It is brisk. - It is. - 36 degrees, woo! - Frost on the car of the morning. - Yes, it is frosty. - Yeah. - So, 52 degrees is the high today. I don't, it won't really feel like 52, despite the bright sunshine because of this brisk breeze. Tomorrow, much of the same as far as 52 degrees, but we don't have the sunshine tomorrow, so it'll feel even, tomorrow's kind of raw, might have some drizzle tomorrow, enough, no rain of any substance. Friday, we start a nice little warm-up though for Friday, 58 degrees, partly sunny skies. I'll point out to you that starting Thursday, those overnight lows are in the mid-40s, so just again tonight covering your tender vegetation, as we say, the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, we're looking at 63 degrees for both days. Saturday is the sun of your day, although Sunday looks like a partly sunny day, and we are sponsored, as I say, Piazza Autogroup sponsoring our sports news, our weather, get the Honda of your dream string. Happy Honda days, with financing as low as 0.9% APR, and a select, on those select new models, like the capable ridge line, visit Piazza Honda Philadelphia Langhorn Pots Town, Reading or Springfield online, piazzahonda.com. Thank you, Piazza Autogroup for sponsoring our first edition, Kill and Company News Live. - All right, Don, thank you very much. 614 on Wednesday, let's get to a mid-week, big take. - Look, big take on Kill and Company. - And it is brought to you by Wawa, the big take, media politics and the shift of power. Adapt or perish, that is evolution, and that seems to be one of the reasons why the legacy media landscape continues to narrow and narrow. As people in America seek alternate sources of news, information and entertainment, and that is certainly true within the realm of politics and how Americans seek truth, specifically during an election year. The 2024 election taught us many things, but maybe nothing bigger than quickly, how quickly we've come to realize that mainstream media's influence has eroded before our very eyes. Now, they'll still generate revenue. Their talking heads on TV will still make elitist 1% salaries, but they are nothing more than background noise at this point, largely seen and heard now in the form of clips that go viral on social media or played back on thriving shows and thriving stations, like Talk Radio 1210WPHT and Kill and Company. Politico, with a fascinating story on voting trends and media consumption, the headline, quote, "an overlooked and increasingly important clue to how people vote, where they get their news from. In a shocking result, it is Democrats that appear to consume old media far more than Republicans, which signifies just another shift in the political realignment of America. According to NBC News, 70% of Joe Biden voters get their news from the newspaper, compared to just 21% of Donald Trump's voters. National Network News, Biden voters, 55%, Trump voters, 35%, YouTube and Google, surprisingly, 55% for Trump voters, to just 39% for Biden voters. And with social media, it's relatively close with Republicans at 46% to Democrats at 42%. And when it comes to left-wing news television, it has been a post-election bloodbath. MSNBC seeing a ratings collapse, collapse, excuse me, since last Tuesday. Stephanie Rule, down 67%, Joy Reed, down 55%, Alex Wagner, down 54%, Ari Melber, down 50%, Chris Hayes, down 47%, Morning Joe, down 40%, Andrea Mitchell, also down 40%. And why is this happening? Well, it could be cyclical, post-election, the results are in, the next newsworthy event for the left might be Trump's inauguration on January 20th, or it could also be due to the fact that the playbook has gone stale. Bash Trump, bash Trump, and when in doubt, bash Trump. Well, he won. So what exactly are you bashing? You gonna bash the American voters again? We saw how that turned out for you. And he'll be around for another four years. Joy Reed, the commander of hot takes and cold ratings continues to garner more attention on social media than she actually does in the demographics that her employer likely covets, and she had this embarrassing interview just a day ago. Listen and watch. - Do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint, being around them? We got the holidays coming up. - So I love that you asked this question because there is a push, I think just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time. And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, and it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. To say, I have a problem with the way that you voted, because it went against my very livelihood. And I'm not gonna be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me. And I actually talk to adults as well as advising parents for children. I mean, I think I don't think that you should force children. I don't think you should force adults to be around people just because they're your family. I think there's a level of me to establish boundaries. And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they're your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so. And I think it may be essential for your mental. - Imagine bringing on a psychiatrist to talk about your family and mental health and talk about how to handle the holidays with your uncle who voted for Trump and thinking that's good television. And what's with the me time and this need to, I need to reflect and handle your own mental health. All because what, an election didn't go your way. These people have serious, serious issues. And it's not getting any better for the left wingers over at CNN, a network that has crashed and burned since Trump left office and lost all credibility from a journalistic standpoint. On top of the fact that their personalities have zero charisma and zero entertainment value. Big news coming down yesterday, that CNN will quote, "acts their top stars" in a layoff that'll see hundreds of firings as ratings continue to tank. According to a news report from Puck, Chris Wallace leaving after three years, he leaves voluntarily making $7 million a year and he's gonna go do a podcast. I mean, nobody consumed them on television. I have no idea why anybody will listen to a Chris Wallace podcast. And I literally didn't even know that Chris Wallace was still around. Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, have been denied raises. And looming salaries like Anderson Cooper's $20 million per year, Aaron Burnett's $6 million per year and Kaitlyn Collins $3 million per year are being looked at as well. But this goes beyond just news on television. It also includes the late night shows. Now, one guy on CNN who has stolen the show lately as the counter voice is Republican Scott Jennings. You probably have seen him on the panel with Abby Phillips late on the week nights. And he went off on late night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel for crying on television over election results and not being funny, but rather being a political activist. Listen and watch this. Why is the only one who kind of came out of that? Mark gets it. The rest of it, I mean, there's these people become pathetic. I mean, they stop being comedians and they started becoming political activists. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel out here crying. I mean, it's pathetic. And so my question is if you're gonna have a late night comedy show, at some point, people might expect it to be funny and not just a constant political screed against one party. And I don't know that this activism for four more years is sustainable. If you're gonna market something as comedy, but the actual product is nothing more than sort of lowbrow political activists. - This is what the television elitists don't understand. They're not funny. They are also so left wing and biased that it's a major turn off and a major tune out for many Americans in this country. And some of four lays it out perfectly with the headline, "A Tale of Two Jets." The old media grapples with its new limits. They write Trump's victory isn't a result of a failure by news outlets to sufficiently hold him accountable. The real answer is one that is a lot more uncomfortable to grapple with. The national news media is more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era. Bingo, they absolutely nail it. Hence columns like this from Politico headline. What Democrats don't understand about Joe Rogan, the future of American political engagement is barely political at all. And nothing illustrated this better during the stretch run of election season than Donald Trump doing podcasts like Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn while Kamala Harris was paying huge amounts of money to Oprah and Eminem. They completely misread the media landscape. Trump at 78 realized it was 2024. Kamala at 60 thought it was 2004 and therein lies the sweeping differences in the two campaigns and its alternative media that is thriving today. And the Washington Post of all place writing about it. They write, "The 2024 election results make clear how much alternative forms of news have changed the game." You know, talk radio, 1210, WPHT may be, you know, terrestrial radio, traditional radio on the surface, but we are a hot format right now. We've gone to streaming on an app, to broadcasting live on YouTube, to give a visual component to our presentation. And we offer alternative opinions that are miles apart from the legacy media. Conservatism on the rise, not just in America, but globally. Look at some other nation's elections in the last calendar year. And it's popular with young voters and Gen Z today. Did you see how well Trump did in Gen Z demographics? He got 44 to 49% of Gen Z in the swing states. Young men, especially so. And in many regards, we are the anti-establishment, the anti-authority outlet for rebellion, similar to how to, you know, Gen X rebelled from forced norms in the 1980s with parents and teachers. The media landscape isn't just shifting. It is a landslide to the right in politics and the power belongs to those who dare to speak up and dare to speak out and do it in an entertaining and relatable way. That is the secret to the sauce. And that's the big take. The big take on killing company. All right, big take this morning brought to you by Wawa. You may have heard by now that Wawa has pizza, but did you know that Wawa has pizza at a really great price? That's right. Right now, get a personal size 14 or 16-inch Wawa pizza for just $6, $8 or $10 because you've got to have a Wawa. 855, 839, 1210, if you want to jump in on social media at 1210WPHT and of course, let it rip in the YouTube chat. We'll get everybody's thoughts on the media collapse and the Trump administration continues to take shape. All of the positions and all of the people that have received those positions on the other side. But first, the word for my friends at DuckDuckGo because we're all tired of big tech, right? Just got done talking about it. We're sick of Google. We're sick of Yahoo or sick of Microsoft and Bing. And that's why we use DuckDuckGo. And that's why I'm so proud to partner with them for a second time because they are the best search engine going and they are local. And they're taking your online privacy and security to the next level, which is why I have subscribed and I hope you will as well to PrivacyPro from DuckDuckGo. This is a three-in-one privacy service that's going to give you a secure VPN anytime, anywhere. That's the beauty of it. Secondly, identity theft restoration. We're all putting our information out there on the internet and you don't want to have it stolen. 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[MUSIC PLAYING] It's Cale and Company on Demand from Tark Radio 1210 WPhD and the free Odyssey app. Come join me, Andrew Philponi. And me, Patrick Peterson, three-time NFL All Throw Cornerback on First and Pod for premier NFL coverage and conversations. Our motto on the podcast is every team every week. And we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with First and Pod. Follow and listen to First and Pod on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. [MUSIC PLAYING] 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10, we'll get to the Trump transition. All of these positions in his administration being filled, what does it signify, what does it mean, what do we like, what do we have questions about all of that coming up here in just a couple of minutes. But I really thought yesterday with this, before all these Trump administration moves started to come down in the evening hours, the media landscape is just fascinating right now. Because MSNBC is in crash and burn mode post-election. What it signifies, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what their ratings were like four years ago around Thanksgiving into the Christmas weeks and month or how it was in 2016. But those numbers can't be making executives happy. And then you have CNN that looks like they are just ready to completely purge and shed salaries. I can't believe that Anderson Cooper is making $20 million a year. It's just staggering to me. I would guess Caitlin Collins at $3 million a year. With her salary and her age, I would assume she's probably safe because she's young. And they'll flip her around, give her a different time slot, maybe keep her in the-- but I think Anderson Cooper is-- he might as well just start looking for his next endeavor because $20 million a year with almost no ratings. He's going to get zapped, in my opinion. Some of these numbers are bad for them, too. So the ratings for both CNN and MSNBC. MSNBC has seen a 23% decline year over year. And CNN is sitting at a 40% decline year over year. I remember-- and we talk about this. I don't know, maybe once a month on this show when these networks ratings come out. And I remember back in the summer, we were talking about CNN had hit maybe an all-time low. The lowest they had been since 1991 or 1992. But what I thought was interesting in Politico, the Washington Post, and a couple of the other sources that I cited in "The Big Take." Have you noticed the transition? I mean, think about the-- if this doesn't illustrate where the Republican Party is today versus what the Republican Party used to be years and years ago, it's the Democrats that read newspapers, that watch cable news. Republicans are going to alternative sources. I was told that Republicans were the old, funny-dud party. It's a totally different party under Trump. And I think media consumption illustrates that more than anything. Don, your takeaways from where the media is, the meltdowns, the collapses, and maybe the changing of the landscape, so to speak? Well, I think the media has-- even Fox News is down slightly. So I would say that the so-called mainstream media has proved that it is irrelevant. They are irrelevant. Look at the last election. And so what-- if you look at the influencers, they are the Joe Rogans. They are Elon Musk, but all of these different influencers. And you mentioned Anderson Cooper. I would submit to you that they have invested in him in promotion. He's still one of their most popular people and most recognizable people. A lot of people don't recognize many of the others. He's pretty much the face of CNN. And so as far as a long time person who people recognize and know, so I would disagree with you. I would think that they've invested a ton in him. But-- But 20 million a year and then got in ratings? No, they all have to. They all have-- all of them, all the networks. Nora from CBS, she's leaving in January. So they're going to have their own reset button because television news used to-- it's like a bear-- you look at the pie and you look at how it's being caught up. And so television news used to be able to charge more because they were the only-- at one point, you have the big three. Well, now you have 57 plus. Are they fast-tracked? And you would know better than me. Television news, is it on the same fast track that newspaper has been on where the newspapers-- I mean, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, they've lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Is it that level of panic within the industry, do you think, as far as people going to trust them for their news and information? Or is it not that point? And I know the salary is-- and look, see it in, honestly, God. You could put people in there making $1 million a year. And that's an incredible life to live, making a seven-figure salary. I just feel like the days of these people, like Jake Tapper, commanding a raise, really? Like, dude, you're so out of touch with reality. It's not even funny. Well, that's just it. So the big newspapers, I would say, they started dying because less and less people were buying those subscriptions. Then they saved themselves by-- a lot of them would align themselves with other media outlets, with a broadcast entity, or, well, for the Inquirer, they went nonprofit, the Lenfest Foundation. So they went nonprofit. That's how they saved the Inquirer. But I think part of the problem is, other than maybe the arts, and gardening, and cooking, and some of those hobby things, and now they have-- if you look at the Fill-Off Inquirer, a lot of those people with the niche-type interests, they have their own podcast. They have a spinoff that they do. They're probably on Odyssey. So I think it's a realignment, and that's how you have to view it. And then, also, think about corporations. Corporations bought up media. So we no longer have local newspapers or local television stations or really local radio stations because everything is corporate. So NBC, who are they owned by? So then you saw-- I think the tip-off was when you saw, what was it, Fox News. They sold-- and they obviously had the Murdochs. They loved impastance news. They want to get rid of it. It's expensive. Yeah. So it used to be, if you study this stuff-- and I do, because I worked in television for a long time. And so the bottom line is, it used to be that corporations, if they own TV stations, they viewed that as their public service. You know how, like, our Odyssey group will go out and clean up the park and plant trees. So there, they really viewed that that was like-- it was a throwaway. And people back in the day did not make a ton of money. It wasn't like that. It was you were becoming a journalist because you believed that this was an altruistic thing, like becoming a school teacher, that you were serving society. Yep. I also saw a story yesterday from Fox Business. And I don't know if this is true or if this is just one competitor trying to stick it to the other, that Comcast is exploring selling off MSNBC, which I find fascinating. And to bring it to Trump and to politics with the media cycle and the news, I'm really wondering how much of this. And I get it, Trump's one of one. So maybe it's not apples to apples. But think about after Trump left the White House, he was taken off of Facebook. He was taken off of Twitter. So what does he do to get his message out? He creates truth social, right? And in a way, Trump has circumvented the news media. He has told them they're fake, they're awful. I don't need you. You need me more than I need you. And I'll go around you to get my message out. And in that, in the last eight or nine years, he has basically said what a lot of us had speculated or thought or believed that the media is the enemy of the people, bought and paid for propaganda. They're meant to just tell you what the establishment wants you to hear. And then along the way, these other platforms come out, and then Trump returns the social media, then Elon Musk buys X. And it takes a select billionaire or two, right? It takes a Donald Trump. It takes an Elon Musk. But really, like they have taken a flamethrower to the way it's always been done. Newspaper, television, radio, like the traditional formats. And with the advancement of technology and the curiosity of Americans, and the skepticism in doubt in our politicians and our agencies and these institutions that we have been told, like the whole thing is just going in a different direction right now. And that's really why I think, there's many reasons why Kamala lost. There are many reasons why Trump won. But misreading the room on media is fascinating to me. I mentioned that in the big take. Trump's doing Theo Vaughn. He's doing Joe Rogan. He's calling Zioli on election night. And here's Kamala Harris with entertainers that even the younger entertainers that she was with, I know Megan the Stallion or the Stallion is new, but Eminem, he's 20 years remover. I mean, I listen to Eminem in high school. I'm 40 now. I know Eminem's like an all-time legend in the hip hop game and I know Beyonce is great, but they're not the peak performers of the industry today. And it feels like she was stuck in 2005 and Trump was the one that adapted to 2024. And she's 20 years younger than Trump. But keep in mind the couple of things. Keep in mind that you mentioned Comcast locally, right, and a mega, mega company owning NBC Universal, MSNBC, CNBC. That announcement that they made to shareholders, that was, I think, two weeks ago. So that has little to do with the election as far as what's happening as they look at, because it's all about how they can make money. And so obviously everything with it changing and evolving, that's what we're seeing here. They're going toward streaming on Peacock, people unplugging. So if they dump MSNBC, CNBC, some of those, I believe that they're saying they would still keep the traditional, let's say, NBC News network, today show all of that, and then the local stations, because those still are profitable, believe it or not. But they're going to, you know, do the streaming, that's the profitable, you know, margin that they're looking at. Yeah, and CNN's trying to take that in a different direction. They basically, it seems like they're almost punting on broadcast and going digital. Meanwhile, a station like us, we're putting up record ratings and doing streaming well and doing YouTube well. And we're bringing in people on this station that aren't necessarily lifelong conservatives or staunch Republicans. And just, I really think right now our format talk radio, and I know we're the number one talk station within the Odyssey Company for talk radio, I think our format is hot right now is hot. I mean, we're being sports stations. But Nick, part of the reason is, think about what you're talking about, oranges and apples, and that's what they're looking at. So we don't have a huge overhead. You know what I mean? When they do a little thing called the Olympics, those sets, the on-air talent, the union, you know, these are union crews putting together sets. It's incredible. So their overhead is something that, you know, we can't even imagine. So that's what they're looking at. They're saying Joe Rogan with a set that looks like is in his like garage or his basement. Oh, that works. That's better. I like our set up better than Rogan's. I'd like to have some weed, not some weed, but some alcohol in here, that's great. But I'm just saying that they're looking at that thing, look at how, it's because it's part of the authenticity of it, right? But Joe Rogan with a very simple setup and a microphone and no hair and makeup, literally, is raking in all these ratings, raking in all this money. And they look at this and say, we're paying all this on-air talent, talent in air quotes, and we have to pay a ton of staffers, and we still can't match the profit or the ratings that some of these people are getting. If you look at it, I know it's orders and apples, but that's the kind of thing. If you're a business person, then you have all the drama going on, come on. I mean, they're looking at this going, wow, what are we doing wrong? Yeah, 855-839-1210. Let's get to Trump's administration on the other side. We'll start that conversation to wrap up the six o'clock hour, and then we'll go deeper into the seven o'clock hour after Dawn's news. What are some of these selections signify? Which ones do you like? Which ones kind of came out of left field? We'll get to that as we continue. It's Cowan Company on this Wednesday morning on talk radio 1210-WPH2. The NBA's back in Fandall, in partnership with Valley Force to see no America's anymore. 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The reports were coming out that according to four sources, and I believe this is not official yet. This is not confirmed or verified. But Elena Haba, one of Trump's attorneys from some of the high-profile cases he had in New York, is going to be the White House press secretary that is not official yet, but that is the speculation and chatter. But what is official is Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami heading up the Department of Government Efficiency. And Pete Hegseth. And Hegseth, that was the news prior to Elon and Vivek, if we're looking at it in sequential order. He is now the Defense Secretary, combat veteran, decorated vet in this country, who was a Fox and Friends weekend television host. For anybody that happens to watch, it's Hegseth, it's Rachel Campost Duffy, and our buddy, Will Kane, who we had on the show a couple of weeks ago. And now, all of a sudden, Pete Hegseth goes from television host to Defense Secretary, John Radcliffe is back as Director of the CIA. This is on top of Tom Holman, as your borders are, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zelden, Kristi No, Marco Rubio. And it tells me a couple of things. Number one on the Pete Hegseth front for the Defense Secretary position. The vision to me is very clear here. There's going to be no nonsense. We have to build up our military, make our military strong again, hit our recruiting goals. I was watching some of the military pundits last night on television that if we actually got into a war with China today, that we would run out of defense industry protection against being attacked, as well as certain missiles, very quickly in a escalation or a full-blown war with China. That's scary to think about that. We are that depleted and that vulnerable. And I think with Pete Hegseth, a guy that's not one of these guys that's just going to look at it from a bureaucratic standpoint, but as a guy that actually risked his life, we're going to end these pointless wars. You know, Russia, Ukraine, I think that thing is over in three to six months once Trump takes office. But then on top of it, just looking at all of them, it tells me that Trump knew he was going to win. He had his mind made up on who he trusts, who he likes, and where he's going to put certain people. And he has also allowed, I would argue, very minimal leaks. I mean, other than the hobby story. And, you know, it's interesting, the Rubio thing, I don't know, has that officially been confirmed? I haven't seen one of the Trump Vance letterheads that I'm holding up if you're seeing on YouTube that come out from Trump Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. I don't know that that's official, but for the most part, these have been released by the Trump campaign. So I would argue that probably 80 to 90% of these have been relatively tight-lipped before they became official. But I really do think that he is ready to hit the ground running. And it wouldn't surprise me if he's got this entire thing buttoned up before Thanksgiving. Don, your thoughts just generally on what you like, what you don't like, what you're seeing so far? - I think he's moving quickly. You know, I think that he's announced maybe six or seven, but he still has in the cabinet, you know, you're looking at what, 18 open positions. What I've noticed with the way he's doing this, is that he has, this is interesting to me. He is also naming some individuals a czar, such as Tom, such as Tom Homan, who we talked about yesterday. So the reason that that's different is that then, then, if you are a czar, you're not a cabinet member. So you don't have to do what? You don't have to be confirmed. There's an end, there's no oversight either. But remember when Republicans lost their minds 'cause Van Jones was the climate czar and they're like, nobody's gonna be able to do, he said no checks and balances. I guess now we're cool with it. - That's right, no, yeah. - No, Greg's right. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So the reason that they're doing that with, because do you think-- - Because technically the Department of Homeland, so Myorkus is out. It's not Tom, by the way, so it's just-- - Why do everybody's out? It's a whole new cabinet. - Well, I know, but just so everybody realizes, I think people think that Tom Homan is replacing Myorkus. - No. - Christy Gnome is Department of Homeland Security, right? So she will have the-- - She has to be confirmed. - Once she's confirmed. But she'll be the new Myorkus. Homan will just have, you know, the borders are a label that Kamala Harris had. - But, you know, we played the, we've been playing the clips of Homan in the past. Do you think Homan might have a little difficulty getting confirmed, looking for the Congress? - I don't know, he's verbally spanked. - I don't think he could get through honestly security in 2400 market. - So I think that, you know, what they're looking at is putting people in these positions that they think, like Christy Gnome, which seemed very nice, at least Stefanik. So all of those individuals must be confirmed before Congress. All the others to, you know, as Greg is saying, yeah, there's no real oversight, but the important piece of this, the others, they can get right to work. Because you're creating these positions. Also, he's putting in people who are policy people who can write the policy and others who can, I'd say the policy and then the pit bull, you know. - Yes, and people that are going to carry out his agenda. He wants peace, he wants prosperity. You know, on this war front, one of our cut sheet contributors, Harry, just sent me the tweet from Liz Warren. Liz Warren already raising a stink about this on Twitter. She tweeted from her @SenatorWarren account, a Fox and Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel, all three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our service members. Donald Trump's pick will make us less safe and must be rejected, to which I would counter. So yeah, how do you feel about Lloyd Austin, folks? All right, Lloyd Austin, wasn't Lloyd Austin the cat that just disappeared for a while? Nobody could find him. He was in the hospital. We got all these wars going on, Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan could go off at any moment. I feel like I've been saying that for two and a half years now. We've got Iran, we got North Korea. I don't need some of these legacy Washington, elitist bureaucrats that are just lurking around for 40 years, stealing paycheck after paycheck. I look at Pete Hegset's combat history and look, do I know all of the specifics and the nuances as to what goes into being Secretary of Defense? No, I'm not gonna sit here and lie and pretend that I do. But looking at his resume as a combat veteran, I feel good about having an outsider. And that's what I think all of these people hate. They hate the fact that there's outsiders coming in. Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami. How have the insiders been doing for 50 years in this country? - I think the Pete Hegseth pick tells me that every time we've heard Trump talk about any major development, who made the decisions? Trump. So choosing somebody like, you know, and Pete Hegseth is, you know, a bright guy by all accounts and yes, served our military. - Great hair. - But yeah, incredible TV hair. But I will say this that I think for Trump, this is an area where he has said he trusts his generals. He is a hands-on commander in chief. And so the department head, the cabinet level department head, he just wants that person to be loyal. That's what that tells me. He still, and remember he said that he would, as far as the generals that he worked with, that he liked, they will be, you know, activated again. Not the ones that, you know, Biden is listening to. And that was something that Trump has said repeatedly. So I just think a lot of this is that he's a hands-on, he's not a hands-off guy. You know, he's not sitting on a beach in Rojoba, or wherever in Delaware. - Yeah, you're not going to have a president that's out to lunch, physically and or mentally. You're going to have a guy that, for better or worse, wants to shape it the way he wants to shape it with his vision. And we'll see how it pans out. - Yeah, but watch out, because he's somebody, if any of these people goof up or are embarrassing, you're fired. - You can totally see, you can totally see turnover. - Should have been Tulsa Gabbard. Like, that's a bad pick. - You like Gabbard overheads him. - Somebody like that, yeah. Somebody with some sort of, I don't know. - Political chops? - I know, I know the common, every, it's a great pick, it's a great pick. - Is it? - Well, I'm not saying it's a great pick. I like something different. I'm tired of the warmonger-ers, the guys that just cuts. - There's gonna be long four years, guys. It's gonna be long four years. If everything this guy does is like, "Oh, that's great, it's wonderful." - I didn't say everything was great. I don't like Marco Rubio, and I don't like the-- - Hell, yeah. - Well-- - I don't like Marco Rubio or Kristi Noem. - I mean, I will say that, there's a-- - I can see Kristi Noem being the first one gone. Keep in mind, remember the first time around Don, that he had people that were in and out for, what, 12 months, 16 months, this person came in for the second 18 months. I mean, the notion that all these people will be there for four years is probably-- - There's no shot. - Yeah, there's no shot. - Right. - There's no shot. - Yeah, I would say with, I mean, I'm surprised that you choose Kristi Noem. I mean, she's a governor. She's also, remember, she's somebody who her dad died when she was like 20. And-- - Did she shoot him too? - And I met her during one of the Women for Trump events. And so she ran the family huge ranch and realized that when dad died, they were supposed to pay tax, inheritance tax. That's when she started learning about all this, but she was running a business and rose to becoming the governor of her state. So don't, I would say don't rule her out. She is somebody who, by all accounts, she's a very hard worker. She is very smart. And I mean, look at where she is right now. I mean, but she's for her background as somebody who was, you could say she was never a privileged person, nothing like that. And how she has risen to becoming a national name. She's, she, when you meet her, she's an impressive individual. And I would say somebody, the key here, these are individuals who succeeded mostly in the private sector in big ways, went on then to the public sector. - 855, 839, 1210, news to kick off the seven o'clock hour. - Which we're in. - Which, oh my God. - Oh my God, sorry. - I got to learn to shut up. - FEMA follow up as well, because apparently it was standard operating. (upbeat music) - Come join me, Andrew Philiponi. - And me, Patrick Peterson. Three time NFL all throw corner back on First and Pod for premier NFL coverage and conversations. - Armato on the podcast is every team every week. And we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with First and Pod. Follow and listen to First and Pod on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - Procedure. - Start your day with Kale & Company. Week day morning, six till 10. On talk radio, 1210, WPHT and the free Odyssey app. - Come join me, Andrew Philiponi. - And me, Patrick Peterson. Three time NFL all throw corner back on First and Pod for premier NFL coverage and conversations. - Armato on the podcast is every team every week and we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with First and Pod. Follow and listen to First and Pod on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - Oh no, I think we're at the point where you could actually have a guy in the Oval Office wearing a hooded sweatshirt and it wouldn't matter. - It's funny, he gave a little insight on 'cause you know he did Rogan right before the, everybody did Rogan but Kamala the election. And he said, he said how important it is to talk to that audience. And they weren't even supposed to do it. And he told his like, he told his campaign like, or the campaign like, I know I have to be in a certain place later on that night. Fly me out there, I'm doing that trail. - Yeah, yeah. I'm convinced right now we could get Federman on quicker, quicker than we can get somebody that's a Republican. If I wanted to have a politician on right now, could I get Marco Rubio or Federman? I think from an easier standpoint to book, I think Federman would probably be available. - Yep. - Federman probably would come on the show. - I'd love to chat with Federman about all sorts of stuff, not just politics by the way. Just have a conversation, just bring him in for an hour and you know, both of us sitting here with our bald heads and our sweatshirts. - He says. (both laughing) - The audience really cares about it, I don't care what we're saying. (both laughing) What we've learned in the media, what we've learned in the last four years, it's a very interesting time for politics. I'm ecstatic to be doing this because it's not the way, and I keep saying it, it's just not the way it used to be and I think we saw that with the way certain people handle campaigns, it's just times are changing, man. - The thing you said that stuck out to me the motion, the big take, by the way, if you haven't, go back to the, on the Odyssey Rewind and you can hit it, 6.15 this morning. Was that Kamal Harris running the campaign from 2004 and Donald Trump running a campaign in 2024? - Yep. - I think definitely, definitely, definitely sums up what just went on for the last six months. - I mean, he's 18, 19 years older than she is. He's supposedly a part of the Republican party, so he's deemed to be the older party. I don't know, you look at the last six months of a campaign and Donald Trump was very modernized and the Democrats were stuck in 20 years ago, so. But that's that. Let's get to the news, round number two at 709, the great Don Stensland. - Yeah, we're looking at, in the news this morning, Kaylen Company News Live, we are sponsored by American Heritage Credit Union 34 degrees as the sun is up on a chilly day that we're not used to this chilly weather. I shouldn't be complaining, it's seasonable weather or mid-November for crying out loud on this November 13th Wednesday. But I'll tell you, when the warm up, we will get another warm up, and that's in the forecast this morning. We're talking about all these different fires that, and we have some firefighters, police officers, injured, we have that large fire force in the evacuation of a center city apartment complex. Firefighters called to that scene, smoked, just pouring out of the Adelphi House apartments on Chestnut Street. We know that at least one resident had to be rushed to the hospital, suffering with smoke inhalation, but we're told that that resident is in serious, but stable condition this morning. Red Cross assisting that fire. The crews are still there checking for any structural damage and investigating the cause of that one. And then the massive fire that destroyed an apartment building, that's in Pine Hill, New Jersey. That one started last night, and the flames, you know, the time firefighters were called in, flames streaming from that building. These are the Manchin Apartments 200 block of West Branch Avenue, Camden County. Dozens displaced by that one. And sadly, five police officers in all, as well as a firefighter, were rushed to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. In that kind of a situation, because you had an apartment building, those officers and the firefighter brave individuals who were trying to rescue people you could hear by all accounts, residents screaming for help trapped on upper floors. And so it seems from all the eyewitness accounts that this was an heroic effort by these police officers who were first on the scene, as well as a firefighter who were saving, because no residents were injured. None. - It's unbelievable. - It's a real, the story of heroism. - Yes, yes, it really is to rush into there. I mean, and oh, by the way, too. You know, I would, I actually had this conversation with a buddy of mine that he was a firefighter for about 13 years, straight out of high school until he was about 31 or 32. And we were talking about a month ago, and he said, man, and he's not super political, but he knows what police officers are dealing with now. He said, you know, being a firefighter in theory with what you encounter on a more frequent basis is far more dangerous, but he said he would rather do that than be a police officer in this day and age with what the cops have to deal with, especially post defund the police. So think about that. People would rather run into a building on fire than be a cop. - Isn't that, that's a sad commentary, isn't it? - Isn't it, really? - Yeah. - And I would say, you know, the issue too, as far as that New Jersey fire, those five police officers, if you think about it, firefighters, when they come to the scene, the scene, they have the proper apparatus, but with those fire, the police officers rushing into help people, they don't have any of that. And so you're breathing in, God knows what. And that's why in some of these jobs, you see health, the health impact. I had an uncle come from a family of firefighters, he died of lung cancer, never smoked a day in his life, but he's a firefighter. - Is that right? - So it's, you know, it's important that they all have the, but I believe that's with these officers, they just rushed in, so I hope that they're okay and we'll continue to update you on that one. And then we have, as well, we have five people injured after this hazmat incident. That was in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This is in the suburbs, North Wales rescue crews, those first responders called into the unit block of Amy Court, they're in North Wales PA for reports of people becoming, you know, suddenly becoming violently ill. So the first responders, the fire officials say that there was then a strong chemical odor detected, they were able to identify it as ammonia. And this was some kind of a cleaning solution that was intended to, you know, for power washing. And this was in a huge tank and this had spilled. So that's a big cleanup, four residents, a firefighter involved in that one are, you know, they suffered injuries, but they're expected. These are not life threatening injuries. That's what they've said. - And I thank God. - Again, we, here's a firefighter. - Yeah. - It's helping to rescue people. So the theme you see is one of heroism. - Yeah, not too far from me either in North Wales. - Yeah, that's right. - Yep, yep. So it may, I don't know if, how much traffic, if it should be cleaned up by the time, by the time you head home, lunch time, you know. We've been talking a lot and we'll talk more about of course what's going on in D.C. with Donald J. Trump leaving, Marilago, leaving Florida, heading to D.C. He's expected to meet with Republicans prior to his planned meeting with President Joe Biden as they begin this transition. We've talked a lot this morning about the transitions picks and the cabinet picks so far. But I'll take you to two stories. First of all, Pennsylvania Republican Senator elect Dave McCormick was after all invited to the U.S. Senate freshman orientation day. And this was by Chuck Schumer. So the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat New York obviously. So they made a deal because he said, okay, as long as Democrat Representative Ruben Gaiago who won Arizona over Kerry Lake, as long as he can go, then Dave can go. So it's like kindergarten. - Yeah, it is, right? Here's your name tag, here's your packet, here's your folder. We'll do lunch a week. We're gonna have two sessions before lunch and two sessions after lunch. God, I used to hate orientation days. They were painful in any walk of life, whether it's onboarding at a new job or for school, just awful. - So Casey still has not officially conceded, correct? - Nope. - And by the way, so when we talk about these 100,000 votes or whatever the number is out there that they want to count with all the people that they have counting, I mean, does it really take, I don't know, I've never actually counted anything that was 100,000 deep, but should it take 12 hours to do? Should it take multiple days to do? I mean, seriously. - Part of it is, so McCormick is well over from the latest that I've seen well over 40,000 ahead. - His number keeps going back up. - And keeps going up. But part of the provisionals, first of all, what they, part of the delay was that there were deadlines to say if you had a, they were literally reaching out to people to question their signature or something wasn't quite right, or they were waiting to maybe shore up those provisional ballots. And so the funny piece of it was people were getting messages that just call us back, you can leave us a voicemail, let us know if this was you. And so it is, it's labor intensive, but they said they're gonna count everyone, okay. - Okay, his lead was 31,000, now it's 40,000, okay. - So we have that going on, but McCormick, Pennsylvania's McCormick will be there. And heads up, and this is Kudos to Republican state treasurer, Stacey Garrity, re-elected, and I know that she didn't get as many votes as Trump, he holds his own record, but our state treasurer, Stacey Garrity, now she has garnered the largest vote total ever recorded by any candidate for statewide office in Pennsylvania, which beats the record of our governor, Josh Shapiro. - Wow. - So congratulations. - Yes, well deserved. - So Garrity, she's an interesting person, she'll never talk about whether she aspires to future office, and we wanna wish her condolences. The day after the election, she lost her dad, her dad passed away. And so that's why we've been trying to have her on, but obviously our hearts are with her. But she is described as angel of the desert, a nickname she got while serving in Iraq and the US Army Reserve in 2004. - Okay. - And so, Feisty Redhead, who's making a big name in Pennsylvania politics. - Nothing wrong with a Feisty Redhead. You need one of those from time to time. - See, normally Greg would play Springsteen's Redheaded Woman song, but you know. - Speaking of Feisty Redheads, anybody check down on Kathy Griffin lately? I know we played her on the cut sheet yesterday, but you know, 20 hours has gone by. - But for Trump, I'm trying to look up it, Trump holds the record as far as on a national level. I believe he holds the record in Pennsylvania for an election, as far as receiving the most Pennsylvania votes in any national election. - Okay. - Top of the ticket. So I need you guys like those numbers. 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Killing Company News Live. - All right, Dawn, thank you very much. 855-839-1210, cut sheet in just about 25 minutes, which will include a update with that FEMA worker that was accused of telling staff to skip the hurricane-ravaged areas that had Trump signs in the front yard. Well, it's not just an isolated incident. We'll give you those details and you'll hear from the lady who got fired. That's coming up at around 745. But before we get there, a couple of orders of business to hit on. We have an update to the Michael Strahan National Anthem story. If you were not with us yesterday, it was on Sunday. So Michael Strahan, former Giant Defense event during the McNab days, is he's got dual roles. He's on ABC's Good Morning America, but he's also on Fox NFL Sunday, their pre-game show with four or five other panelists before the 1PM games kick off here on Channel 29 locally. So they were out, I think it was on the West Coast and there was a beautiful rendition leading into the one o'clock games of the National Anthem, obviously the day before Veterans Day, and Strahan came under fire for not putting his hand over his heart for the National Anthem. We played that video for you yesterday and now we have a follow-up. I'll give you the follow-up in a moment, but Phil, I believe you told me, you do have the original Strahan video with the National Anthem. So if you could, let's play this first again. Just a refresher. All right, so there's Gronk, Jimmy Johnson, and Strahan, his arms are crossed right around his waist. So I said yesterday that I didn't know the quote unquote protocol for this. I have seen people, you always take your hat off, you always stand as long as you're physically able to. And then most people put their hand over their chest. I usually put my hand over my chest. I know there's been times in the past at a football game where I keep my hands kind of wrapped behind my back or I have them across like Strahan. But I think for the most part, you put it across your chest. It was interesting because I said yesterday, I'll defer to the vets on this one. And we did have some vets in the YouTube chat that said no issue with what Strahan is doing there. Some people have made this to be an issue. If you wanna make it an issue, I get it. I'm not saying you're wrong. I think there are bigger fish to fry, so to speak. But I actually have a bigger issue with the follow-up of what transpired when a Daily Mail reporter apparently tracked down Michael Strahan to get comment on this because as we know, he did not release a public statement on television or through social media. I believe Fox had said they're not gonna comment. There will be no disciplinary action. So the Daily Mail took it to a different level. And we've seen this before, right? It's kind of the TMZ thing. You try to get a quick comment. And this was apparently outside of Strahan's residence. Phil, if we could, let's listen and watch this. - Come to my house. - Do you have any comment? - No, no, no. - Come to my house. - All right, so there you go. Now it's in slow motion again. Don't come to my house. It gives the finger and then the stiff arm with the hand. It sounds like it looks like from, if you're watching on YouTube, I know it's very brief, that he kind of knocks the phone out of the guy's hand. It's not Jason Kelsey lashing out and slamming somebody's cell phone like he did two weeks ago in Happy Valley at the Penn State game on a Saturday for the Ohio State game. But again, this is the same. I try to be consistent with my analysis. Jason Kelsey, you can't break somebody's cell phone. Okay, I get it. They called your brother the F word. The same thing with Joe LMB'd. You know, Marcus Hayes writing what he did, out of lines, out of bounds, I get it. But physically, according to allegations, physically putting your hands, that's breaking the law. You can't do it. So to me, the same thing applies with Strahan. I don't like media showing up at people's house, whether they're broadcast or sports people or politicians. Like, I don't like the fact that people would go to Joe Biden's house or Donald Trump's house or anything like that or Brett Kavanaugh, any of these types of stuff. To me, you can't destroy somebody's property. And I know it was kind of like a half-hearted shove. Maybe the phone didn't even break. But you don't have the right to physically touch other people's belongings or their body. So to me, that's the bigger issue than Strahan not putting his hand over his heart. Don, I know you were a little bit more of the belief, I believe, yesterday of he should have put his hand over his heart. What do you make of the follow-up here? - I don't, I mean, to be really honest in the scheme of life and everything. - It feels like it's overblown, right? - Yeah, I mean, you know, people are talking, yeah. I mean, we have crime and we have budget issues and more numbers coming out and inflation. You know what I mean? On the scheme of things, I think maybe we love to talk about these things because it's a little bit of an escape and, you know, that sort of thing. But I don't think he meant any disrespect. I don't think he's-- - I don't like that. - I don't think he's a disrespectful person. As far as a phone, did you show video of it? - Yes, yes. Phil, do you want to-- - I have a delay on my things. I'm gonna look at Craig's. But, you know, my whole thing about this is, if somebody, you know, whether it's Jason Kelsey or you or me or Michael Strahan, if somebody shoves something in my face. Because technically, you know, there is personal space. If somebody shoves something, I don't know, is that Mace, what are they doing? If they're shoving something in my face, get out of my face. - I mean, I could see-- - 'Cause I don't know what that is. Like, you don't have a right just because you're a news reporter-- - Right. - To shove something in somebody's face. And by the way, if you did that to somebody like Trump, Secret Service would probably smack your hand because you're not allowed to do that. So in this day and age of like crazy people, like Craig, I had in our old building, I had these two women chase me into the building running after me. - Are you serious? - Yes, they were waiting for me and they ran. So in this crazy, crazy day right now, Michael Strahan is thinking, who is this crazy person? And they're shoving something. Don't shove something in my face. - See, I don't have a right to do that. - I can understand if they're impeding your progress to go into your house, right? Like if they're blocking you off, but if they're walking alongside by side with you or just kind of standing there where you could just, you know, you could just walk around them or, excuse me. Now, if they keep blocking you off for comment, then I understand why you resort to what you did. It's like the Oprah video from yesterday. Like, I don't like what that guy did to Oprah, but he wasn't impeding her progress to get back to her beautiful Range Rover. It's not like he didn't allow her to get into her car. Now, if somebody tries to, you know, stop your progress to get to from point A to point B, I get it, but, you know, the knocking of the phone, like, you know, the guy's just doing his job, right? So this is kind of where, even though I don't like it, I want to defend the daily mail. Like he was sent out there, I'm assuming, but I want to just-- - He's being aggressive. Nick, you can, you, your phone can zoom in. You don't have to be right up in somebody's face. And so as a news reporter, you know that. And so, you know, I hope it's, I can't believe his phone was broken. - So you don't like the whole TMZ style? - You don't like ambushed journalism? - No, I mean, you know, I know. I don't, paparazzi chasing people. - Yeah. - Like, no, you can-- - I don't, I don't deal with it every day in the garage leaving. There's paparazzi everywhere. I just want to get in my truck and get on this Google. No comment. - They're like, "Can I touch your Piazza?" - Unbelievable. - Excuse me, can I touch your Piazza? - It's just the stuff we give. We get riled up about in this world. Like, really? - Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know if they have a, if they knew each other. I don't know what the deal is with him, but I would say, if you're a news reporter, and I've been in that situation, I've been shoved back. I've been, you know what I mean? Like, you have to be a professional. You shove yourself in somebody's space, or you shove a device in their face. And this is, you know, a big guy, so, right? I don't think that he's a violent guy. - Yes, the most pushback the Giants have had in 12 years. (laughing) - Eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. Cut sheets coming up at 7.45. We'll get to one other story, because now the left is melting down. We've heard about sex strikes. How about filing for divorce? Because your husband voted for Donald Trump. An epic story, plus conspiracy elections. We've got the left coming out saying a big wig, stole the election for Trump. And it's somebody we're all very, very familiar with. We'll give you those details on the other side. But first of all, from our friends at the Piazza Auto Group, and we are talking today about the Honda Pro Log. And I have driven this vehicle, and this thing is impressive. First of all, it's Honda's first all electric SUV, with a range of almost 300 miles on a single charge, and a fast charge time. You can cruise the roads worry-free. 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Maureen Callahan for the Daily Mail wrote a great article about just how crazy the left has gotten with their lunatic sex bans and self care snow flakery. Maureen Callahan says the Trump win meltdown proves that liberals are more delusional than ever. She writes the following, and some of these, we gave you these stories and some of these are new to me. So this is fascinating. Supporters wept outside of Howard University as Kamala Harris conceded, Columbia, Harvard, and New York's exclusive Fieldston School offered students days off to grieve, hold space as they love to stay for what might have been. Georgetown University opened self care suites where students and faculty could color, play with Legos, and have milk and cookies in recognition of these stressful times. Northwestern and Princeton did the same. These are our future leaders. The Guardian offered its employees free counseling, ostensibly hardened reporters traumatized by a peaceful, fair, and free election that needs safe spaces and psychotherapy. Vogue noted that New Yorkers dressed in head to toe black last Wednesday, expressing heartbreak and profound disappointment in those who voted against our best interest. She writes, the left never gets it. They didn't get it after Hillary lost in 2016 and they sure don't get it now. And apparently this husband has to deal with the fallout. This story from The Mirror over in the UK, the headline shocked husband speechless as wife files for divorce after he voted for Donald Trump. I mean, we have seen some crazy things in this lifetime. And I was actually a little surprised. I had some tweets when we were talking late last week about spouses and who the spouse votes for does your wife or husband tell you. And we got tweets from people that listen, that I know that have tweeted me before that are consistent listeners of the show that have said, I've been, and I'm paraphrasing, I've been married to my wife for 35 years, never once have we told each other who we voted for. I didn't even know that that was really a thing. Like I imagine husband and wife either on the same page or opposite, but they share it. I figured my wife saying, I'm not gonna tell you who I voted for was her way of either not getting me bothered over the fact that she went calm or making my head get bigger than I swayed her to vote for Trump. But people can be married for three or four decades and never have the conversation with the person they sleep next to. I think that's fast. I didn't know that that was really a thing. - No, maybe that's how they keep it going. - I get. - Who'd you vote for? - Look, there's a curtain on that booth for a reason, right? - Yeah, you're right, in theory, you're correct. It's nobody's business, but yours, you go in there, you do your thing, this comes off of the clip that we had with Joy Reid. - Here's the interesting thing, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, if there were Tinder or whatever the apps are these days where you swipe right and you can hook up, you would have never in a million years asked somebody what political party they're affiliated with. - Great point. - Or who they voted for. - How quickly do you think that comes up now? - That never came up, I can almost guarantee you that in the first half hour of a conversation, it is brought up about, if they voted for Trump, if they didn't vote for Trump, what side of the aisle are on. And also, I'm sure that you can go on these apps and put in your political party. - Oh, I'm sure there's a spot for it. There's no question, there has to be. I'm just wondering how quickly you go down the list of, okay, I'm into sports, I'm into cooking, I'm into camping, and I'm a conservative or I'm a liberal or I'm moderate or I'm apolitical or whatever. It's fascinating, I got this story here. So they write, a man said that he can't believe his wife was ready to throw away, quote, our entire life after filing for divorce over the fact that he voted for Donald Trump. The distraught husband wrote on social media that he has been left without words, that the marriage could fall apart over politics and that the divorce papers could be served so quickly. He writes, I voted for Trump, my wife sent me divorce papers. What do I do? I call a lawyer, sir. I didn't even know it was possible to be served divorce papers this quickly. I don't even know what to say, I'm shocked. I married somebody willing to throw away our entire life over politics. Last week we were happy, today we're getting divorced. She won't have a discussion. - They weren't happy. - That's what I'm thinking, right? Like you had to have been doing something wrong or you had to have known something was up. She goes, she won't have the discussion says nothing will change her mind, insists she is going to report my parents because they live off of disability. But my dad does some cash work, auto repair on the side. So now I'm worried for my whole family. Either that or his wife just went completely off the deep end. - I think they don't like to Carl on our YouTube chat to Carl's point. I just think some people are not communicating. - Well, right. - You know what I mean? So they're just keeping things going. They're not talking. - Sure. - You know who you're a significant other, especially if you've been married for more than a year, you should know them and know what they're thinking about with policy and that sort of thing. So the fact that somebody could be together for years and not know, then you don't know that person. - Yeah. And I totally think that you can have a conservative spouse and a liberal spouse and live a happy life and have your conversations about it and still get along. To me, the only way I could see it not working is if it was really, really super hyper-political people. Like, let's take the most extreme cases, right? Let's take somebody, whoever you think of is the most far right individual that you know, publicly or personally or privately, and then taking the most insane left-wing person, let's say somebody that we play from TikTok on the cut sheet. Like a marriage like that would never work. - Well, so I'm just trying to think this through, but in a serious way, usually when you get married, you go to some kind of counseling with your church, with your synagogue, you sit down and you talk, not about politics, but about your beliefs and your values. So generally speaking, some of those values might come out and that might point you in the direction of what political party, and to that point out, I think of like, we've talked about Tulsi Gabbard and where she'll land in the Trump administration. So somebody like Tulsi, longtime Democrat. And so for some people, the only thing I could see is some people maybe feel that they're party, that they were a longtime Democrat, or raised in that party, or union member. Maybe the party left them, and maybe that would raise some questions in a relationship, you know? But from what you're talking about, these are couples who just don't communicate. - So you're telling me that you don't think that it is possible for a uber-liberal to be married to an uber-conservative? - Of course, Mary Matt Madeline. - Yeah, James Carvel. - I mean, that's the most famous example, but is there, do you think, do you like that? - Could I see Alex Jones marrying Joy Reid? No. (laughing) And again, I'm not talking specifically about their physical characteristics, but based on what comes out of their mouth, what they say politically, I don't know how that could ever work. I guess maybe Carville and whoever you're mentioning is the exception? - Alex, after all of his nonsense and nonsense-- - He might need lawsuits. - He might need Joy's money. - He's a sugar mama. (laughing) - You guys can't agree with your spouse on every political issue. - Oh, hell no. No, absolutely not. I don't mean my wife don't even agree that today's Wednesday. (laughing) - But I mean, so I guess I'm coming to add this from a different angle. You can only be with somebody if they align with you politically. Like I just think that's sad. - No, I think, yeah. - Don't talk politics. - To your extent, I agree. I think it is sad that you couldn't be with someone. I mean, that's why I mentioned the Joy Reid clip. Like, you're really not gonna go to somebody's house on Thanksgiving or invite him over because Trump won. Like, really? - But like, I'm really-- - But I know families like that. - Oh, I know. - We all do. - We all do. - But my dear friend Colleen, do you ever go to Naples or Fort Myers? So Colleen, she and Patrick have been together for decades since college. He runs fishing adventures in the Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples area. He is a mega Republican guy, always has been. She's a school teacher, she's a Democrat. They've been married forever, very happily married. - Oh, good for them. - But I will say, she's not political. - Okay, yeah. - You know what I mean? - Right. - Like, she's just-- - She's not consuming and she's not living and breathing it. - She's like, oh Patrick, you know what I mean? She's not a political, so that's why that works. - Okay. - If you had somebody who was really into politics-- - I can't stop talking about it or thinking about it. - And their partner is-- - Right. - Yeah, I think I could see where that would be. - Like, I'm thinking about, not even my parents, but like my grandparents. My grandparents were both lifelong blue collar Democrats. You know what I mean? Would probably be considered Republicans today. - Yep. - But I don't know, I don't remember. I don't know if my grandmother knew how my grandfather-- Like, I don't know, 'cause that stuff kind of wasn't discussed by then. - It's not as polarizing. It's way more polarizing today, right? - There used to be, you know, church and politics. Don't, you know, don't talk about religion and politics when you're in a space with other people. Like, we've kind of blown past that, haven't we? - I would think so, but I mean, we played you that clip of that girl that was having a meltdown because her dad voted for Trump, right? - I just think politics consumes too much of our lives. And look, we're different animals because of what we do for a living. But I think as a society, it just consumes too much of our lives. - Do you think, but I, you know, I'll push back on it. I think beyond the fact that what we do for a living and the people that are listening to this show, a majority of America, I don't know what the percentage is, 75%, 90%, they don't consume this every day. So maybe that's why you can have a Democrat and a Republican in a marriage. And they talk about it once every two to four years, right? - Sure. - Like during election time, 'cause you're tied up, you've got kids, you've got your job, you've got your extracurricular activities, you're not spending your time on social media. Did you see what Liz Warren said? Oh, I can't believe Elon Musk tweeted that. I mean, most people aren't living that lifestyle. - But like, Nick, you're really into sports. Do you and your wife sit around talking about sports? - No. - Exactly, so like there are things that you are interested in that your spouse is not interested in. That you guys just don't talk about, right? That's right. - But, okay, that's a great example, because I think there's, if you're significant other love sports, then for me personally, I think that you at least owe that relationship to know something about that, if that's their passion. - She invests in football. She'll watch the Eagles and she'll watch Alabama with me, but she don't give a damn about baseball, basketball, hockey, like the golf. She may, when I'm watching a golf event on a Sunday in May, she wants to legitimately decapitate me and boil my head in Hollywood. - Wait, wait, wait, wait. So you're saying, Don, that if you're really into something, your spouse should invest time into learning about it, just because you're into it? - I totally agree with Don. - Or at least be curious about it. - I invest in one, I give my wife one show every year, one show that you like, I'll invest in. I invest obviously in the dance thing, 'cause it's my girls, but I try to understand where the dance mom's coming from. So I agree with Don. You got a show interest in something that your significant mother is, you know. - I get that, but my wife hates sports. I'm not gonna sit there and make her watch. I mean, she's been to baseball games with me. She's been to football games with me, but she doesn't enjoy it. Why would I make her enjoy something? - No, you don't have to make, you know, but does she-- - That's why you would make her do it? - I love stickin' people. (laughing) - That's why you would do it. - And she's also not a political person, so like, why are we, you know what I mean? We have other things in common, so why does it matter? I don't know, I just feel like it's-- - So she doesn't listen to you, my stroke of the cut sheet? - She listens to nothing of the show, not a single second of the show, which I-- - Which I would probably better all four. - Exactly, which I appreciate, you know. - Is your mom or-- - Nope, my mom listens to no, my father is a huge, my father and stepmother are huge listeners. They're probably up right now listening, but-- - Beautiful, but-- - They're very proud of you. - But yeah, no, I don't know, I just don't feel like it's something that, if you're not into, why do it? Like, why force somebody like, well, it's because it's my son or it's because of my husband. Like, I don't know, you have your own things. I don't know, I just, I don't know why you need to-- - Yeah, I never force my wife to watch the Eagles or Alabama, it's just something she's, and she was always an Eagles fan, but she kind of adopted Alabama once she met me, so. - Mango Mush says, "I'm not interested in cross stitching, "but my wife is, Greg is right on this one." (laughs) - Can I ask what exactly cross stitching means? - Can you stop reading it out with what you're looking? - Let me read the comments, you're very-- - That is, is rolled on-- - You're very sensitive when people, you know, make fun of us, so let me read it, and I'll go throughout the good. - He was supporting you. - Yeah, he's coming to your rescue stalker, would you rather have him be in your throat? Get him done, be into him. - I read a supportive one. - EK's thesis, Greg's family would rather listen to Sean's. (laughs) - That is a great, A plus, A plus, you win, you win, you two. That is fantastic, speaking of cut sheet. - Yeah, speaking of cut sheet, like I said, it was gonna be in 11 minutes or 17 minutes, it's gonna be in 17 minutes. We'll get to the cut sheet, that's coming up next, Kayleigh Company, talk radio 1210WPhD. - When it comes to your home, trust is everything. For 45 years, kitchen magic has built a reputation for transforming kitchens with such precision and care, from custom cabinets to those countertops, back splashes, to the all important storage solutions. Kitchen magic gets the job done and fast in just a few days. Your dream kitchen becomes a reality without the hassle. You can trust the name your neighbors have been relying on for decades, kitchen magic. Get your free in-home consultation, go to kitchenmagic.com, put this on the calendar, and let's cook up something extraordinary. 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Right, use all applicable rebates. - Ding. - It's not applicable. - I prefer applicable. - Okay, we're gonna do this again already. - Yeah, he's a grown-on today. - Yup. - C store for details, really should just really do matter. Sorry, the tongue tied there. Relations really do matter at Cherry Hill. What would check the matter with 70 Cherry Hill? Cherry Hill Volvo Wear relationships matter. Cute of Cut-A-Fill. We talked earlier about the new border czar, Tom Holman. The daily caller did a side-by-side of the old border czar versus the new border czar. By the way, string live on YouTube, YouTube.com/talktendvphd if you wanna get over there, watch some of these videos. We always have the videos that accompany the cuts, so you can see it, you can play along at home. You can play along at home. Go, Phil. (crowd chanting) - I got a message to the men's of illegal areas that Joe Biden's releasing our country in violation of federal law. You better start packing now. (crowd cheering) - We are going to the border. We've been to the border. So this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. We've been to the border. - You haven't been to the border. - And I haven't been to Europe. I don't understand the point that you're making. - I hear a lot of people say, the talk of a mass deportation, it's racist. It's threatening to the immigrant community. It's not threatening to the immigrant community. They should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. - Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families? - Courcers. Families can be deported together. It is not an emergency. - We are not facing a crisis. - We have a press in the United States who has created a fiction about a crisis at the border and he has held up the United States government and its workers around his vanity project called a law. - To the criminal cartels in Mexico. You smoked enough fentanyl across this country to kill 148,000 young Americans. You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined. And that's when President Trump gets back in office. He's going to designate you a terrorist organization. He's going to wipe you off the face of the earth. - Yeah. - You're done. - You're done. - Get out. - This is the idea that he is trying to say that we have people that are trying to invade our country to commit mass crime is a crisis of his own making. - Yeah, I specialize in transnational criminal organizing. - Yeah. - That war ain't going to stop them. - No. (audience applauds) - No! (audience laughs) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) - There's a 600% increase in sex trafficking on women and children. Border chose to arrest the more terrorists coming across the border in one month than Trump had in four years. This is the biggest natural security vulnerability this country's ever had. Donald Trump would be the president. I'll be in the middle of running the biggest deportation operation this country's ever seen. (audience applauds) - I am not for a long, you don't need to kill him. (audience laughs) This is the crisis of his own making. - This is amazing. - He has a vanity project that he doesn't want to give up. It's the president's vanity project. This issue is about a vanity project for this president. - The president's vanity project? - Let me be very clear. I'm not gonna vote for a wall under any circumstances. - It will not end with a wall. It will not end with a wall. - Will it end with a wall? - No, it won't end with a wall. (laughs) - On that note, boy, I tell you what, the clown show side circus administration is coming to a close. It looks like the grownups are gonna be returning to power and getting back in charge. Boy, what a stark contrast. Hard to believe that that's a controversial opinion to have. - Well, Nick, they're gonna separate the parents from the children. - Did you hear the numbers? 148,000 people have been killed from fentanyl. So that eclipses all of the entire death count of every terrorist organization combined on the planet. It's not talked about enough. The fentanyl crisis in this country is staggering and it gets almost no run except in our format on our side of the aisle. And I've gotta worry about, well, we're gonna separate parents. You're here illegally, I don't care, too bad. - By the way, another good reason to listen on the app or listen on YouTube is because that doesn't get dumped. It only gets dumped on the radio because the FCC. - I gotta get Tom Holman on the show. You know, that's a guy I'd like to talk to. - My God, we haven't forbid somebody hears the S word. We might get fined. - Yeah, I actually think you need to go and have a meeting with the FCC. - I would love to. - Make your case as to why it's ridiculous, we can't curse. - I agree, thank you. - I don't. You think the ratings are good now? You get me fully uncensored with no restriction like curse words. - I agree. - I might take out every station in this building. - We're a radio station for adults, okay? - I know. - Nobody under the age of 18 listens to this program. - So stop with this. - Yes. - Stop. - And when I give him my yearly speech on the Easter Bunny, don't tell me that, oh, good, get to the car. It's just for adults. - Well. - We'll get to the Easter Bunny again. - He's coming up, no we're not. - Just have good taste, all right, Kayle? - It got sick. - What's gonna happen in New York and New York, Mayor Adams spoke on the deportation situation. Doin' a, doin' a-- - He'd better be careful. - He'd better be careful, he might investigate him again. - Hey, this is Tanville, go. - The voters communicated loudly and clearly. We have a broken immigration system, it needs to be fixed. That's the only conversation I want. It's broken, it needs to be fixed. And New York City was devastated by that broken system. 220,000 migrants in asylum seekers have made their way here. No financial existence from the administration. I think it was about 200 or something, million dollars with billions of dollars we had to pay for. I don't want to see that happen again. I don't want what's taking place in Chicago or in Denver, Los Angeles, Houston. I don't want to see it take place again. Let's fix our immigration system. Anything other than that, I'm not interested in that conversation. We have a broken system. I talked about this in 2022, just as I talked about violence in 2021, and voters made this the top of their list. The top of their list. When I was talking about it, everyone was just being dismissive of me, and voters saying this-- - Shame on SNL for not bringing Tracy Morgan back to do a parody bit on Eric Adams, 'cause I swear if you just close your eyes, Eric Adams sounds identical to Tracy Morgan, who's absolutely hysterical. Here's an idea that I've had. So with all of this nonsense coming to an end, and Eric Adams realizing just how bad it is now, so all of this money was allocated for illegal immigrants, right? These prepaid debit cards, $500 in night hotels. I'm imagining with some of these programs coming to an end that there's still money that was set aside and allocated for this. So why don't we take those leftover funds, assuming that they are still available, and give them to veterans across the country in cities where, and I know there's one veteran, speaking of veterans because it's Veterans Week, and we had Veterans Day on Monday, and we're chatting with some of these great Americans of the last great generation, that one individual in New York who was a homeless veteran, who was forced out of wherever he was living, you know, I don't know if it was a shelter, or what they would call it, for an illegal immigrant. I mean, that's the way we treat our veterans in this country, that they go back on the street for somebody here that hasn't gone about the process in the proper way. Well, that's despicable. - I think that's one issue that Americans in polling are united on, and that's why I was surprised with the Pete Hegsef appointment that we talked about earlier this morning to Trump's cabinet. I would have thought he would have been well-suited because he's talked a lot about veterans affairs issues. So I'm curious as to who will have that cabinet position, but I think in this one, I think most Americans agree that it is ridiculous, that in New York, they had that one-year program that we've talked about, which they did not renew the contract, but they were, so a family of four was receiving $350 per week in the form of that so-called gift card, $350 per week for non-citizens, for illegals, and that infuriated people across the nation programs like that because we don't have those kinds of programs for veterans, for those who've served in our military. As far as New York Mayor Adams, he has a trial date on his corruption trial. - I don't think he's gonna be careful. - You know what I mean? So he's going to trial. - Yep, he's trying to curry favor. I was just gonna say he's trying to curry favor with the- - Yeah. - You think he'll be in the Trump administration? - No, but I think he'll seek maybe a pardon or something of that nature. - Uh-huh, yeah. By the way, I just got an email while we were you two were yapping it up about the politics and pints for tonight. Apparently, we are releasing 30 more tickets. So, if you have not done so yet and you can make it tonight, it's tonight, we have released 30 more tickets, politics and pints go to 1210WPHG.com right now. There's an icon you can click on, you can get 'em. But if you're not doing it in the media theater tonight, 730, we've just released 30 new tickets, so if you haven't bought them yet, do it now. - Yeah, you can meet your new nighttime host. - 1210WPHG.com, Richard Jolie, Jimmy Phala. - It burns his old drooping nuts. - Exactly, it should be a good time. Politics and pints, 30 more tickets, yeah, I'll have to act quickly. - It's so much fun. - Do it now. So, apparently, remember when Elon Musk hosted SNL? Apparently, one of the cast members, Chloe Feynman. - Doesn't mean to go. - She is a new cast member. Apparently, she pitched him a sketch that he didn't like, and it made her cry. And I have to think, like, this is disturbing to me in many ways because her job as a comedy writer, I mean, she's a performer too, but her job as a comedy writer, it's like, you sit around in a room. - Float out ideas. - Float out ideas, and they may be terrible. - Right. - But you try. - Right, and then you tell 'em to Elon, and Elon probably said, - Go. (beep) - Oh, her recounting of this story is hysterical. - Okay. - Go, go. - Okay, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like, but heard about SNL and his impression, and I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna come out and say at long last that I'm the cast member that he made cry, and he's the host that made someone cry. You made I, Chloe Feynman burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing this sketch. I was so excited. I came in, I asked if you had any questions, and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla, and we're like, it's not funny. Then you started flying through my script, like flipping each page being like, I didn't laugh, I didn't laugh once, not one time. - Oh my God, two things, one, she's incredibly soft, explains why SNL is unwatchable, and I have no idea who she is, but I could totally see Elon Musk doing that. He's a billionaire, he's probably an a-hole, and I have no problem, so I love the fact that he brought back X and free speech, I love the fact he's gonna whittle away these jobs, but if that's true, am I surprised? No, a lot of these guys like Elon Musk, they're never told no, right? - It is, first of all, the fact that she's a comedy writer and goes on Twitter or whatever this was to say that she burst into tears because somebody didn't like her. - It's awful. - Her sketch. - She probably had a mental health day after Trump winning last week. - Oh, God, now by the way, she deleted that, and Elon Musk responded. - Good. - Saying frankly, it was only on Thursday, it was on the Thursday before the Saturday that any of the sketches generated last, he says, I was worried, I was like, dang, my SNL appearance is gonna be so unfunny that it'll make a crack head sober, but then it worked out in the end. So he, you know, he did respond. - Howard, two things I wanna say on this, Howard Stern in the 90s was asked to host SNL many times, and he said, he said, point blank, he goes, I will do it if I can bring my own writers in, I don't want your writers writing because I can't be in a sketch that's unfunny, it will hurt my brand. So they said no, so he never hosted SNL in his whole popularity in the 90s because he was like, I can't take the risk of being at something unfunny. - Yes. - 'Cause it'll hurt my brand. Elon Musk, even though it's not, you know, he doesn't, why would you wanna be in something that's unfunny? - I agree, why would you wanna be on SNL period in 2024? It hasn't been funny in 20 years. - Also, if you have not watched the movie Saturday night, it's streaming right now on Apple, I think. It is fabulous. It's about the first show of SNL. - Oh, this is in my wheelhouse. - 1975, it is like the 90 minutes leading up to the first live show and all the disaster that is. You talk about a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s, a bunch of renegades who were just like the standards and practices came in and they were crossing out words, they couldn't say on TV. The writers literally took the standards of practicing, burned it and threw it out the window. - Wow. - So like, you're talking about like a group of renegades that came out and be like, I don't care what you say, we're gonna go on and do this, whether you like it or not. And what is it evolving to with this woman crying because somebody didn't like her sketch. - You're right. Now let me answer this. - Business. - Exactly. - Oh, absolutely. I mean, could you, I mean, I've had, I've flowed out ideas for the show, for the station, all the time. Sometimes they're brilliant. Other times they don't even get responses, right? Like that's what happens. If you're a content creator, you always think. - I'll get back to you. - I'm not talking about anything specific, but it's just, you know, like you're gonna whiff. I mean, when you are in the content creation business, I mean, let's talk about Don for a second. Don, you do 30 hours of radio a week. I personally think all 30 hours are exhilarating, but, you know, when you judge yourself as a talent, you might sit there and say, man, you know what? That segment was not my best segment or, you know, that interview, I didn't think it was gonna go. I mean, when you're live and you're shooting 20, 30 hours a week, you know, you're gonna have swings and misses. It happens. - Yeah, so here's the problem. She's in for a great disappointment, especially when they fire her because she's, you know, seriously, because for me, when I do listen back to anything, I hate my work. - Me too, so why? - Oh, God, that was horrible. And that's, by the way, what makes you better because you are, we should all be our own worst critic, I think. - Yeah. - And for those people, I imagine she thinks, she was what, guarantee you, she was raised and everybody got a trophy and they said, "You're a cloner, you're so beautiful. "You're so fabulous." Right? - Yep, you're 100% right. - Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, you're right. Look, I'm, you know, I'm on the show and I, I'm the program director, theoretically. So, so like, nobody's gonna air check me. So I air check myself and I'm just like, "No, no, no." You know what I mean? Like, I have meetings, I'm waiting for you. - Yeah, I have meetings. - I'm gonna need to have a meeting. - I have meetings for myself. So I'm with you, I'm with you on the whole thing of, I hate listening back, but sometimes you have to, it makes you better. - Speaking of that SNL, first episode in '75, do you happen to remember who the host? - George Carlin. - Okay. - When the musical guests were two, it was Billy Preston and Janice Ian, I think. - Wow. - I only know that because I literally just watched it yesterday, but it was a completely different show. I mean, the cast was barely in the first episode. It was a bunch of sketches, it was stand-up comedy acts. - Oh yeah. - The hosts were really the main attraction that two musical guests, the Muppets were involved in it. Like, it was a completely different show. - I could, I could talk SNL all day, man. All the different eras and when it was good, when it was decent, when it was terrible. - I wanted to play this. I was, I didn't know how interesting this would be, but I think it will be. So this is on the Patrick, that David podcast yesterday. You know, Charlie Kirk, he went, he was part of the Trump transition, or not transition him, but he was part of that social media group that helped him. So he talked at length yesterday, and Chris Cuomo was in this too, which I think is interesting, about the blueprint for the Trump campaign 2024. We know a lot of this, but to hear it put this way, I think it's super interesting about how they, this is really what we've been talking about. This is what your big take was about today. This is what we've been talking about, about how they kind of just pushed aside legacy media and went in this new direction. And the way he talks about this, I think it's super interesting, Phil, if you wanna roll it. - Lee, however, I disagree. There were still some late breakers on undecided people. I do think that pool was less than 2%, though. I think, so Donald Trump is a lot, though. And Donald Trump's campaign strategy of which we helped execute on the ground in some of these states was like, guys, don't spend your time knocking on doors about a suburban soccer mom who's weighing her options. Instead, 'cause that takes nine contacts, but try to get her. Nine points of contact, on average. Conversations, discussions, and they could be 30 minutes on it. Instead, turning point, go spend your time in very Republican areas where there are non-registered or what we call disengaged voters. People that like Trump, like his worldview. For example, the bro vote, right? And so this is where we spent our time and we harvested, not ballot harvested, but we harvested in a very, very powerful way at Arizona State University, for example, we registered thousands of young men to vote in fraternities. And that was way easier than us going to try to win over swing voters. And we did a little bit of that, but generally, the Trump campaign was brilliant 'cause they threw the Republican consultant playbook out. The Republican consultant playbook was, spend all your time on the middle, on those like middle 15-percent swing voters and go all in. Trump campaign said, "Why don't we just make our base bigger? "Why don't we just make the people who love us the most?" And so what they looked at was demographics. And they realized, if we can make the electorate 3% more masculine, and by the way, they were so smart to do this. This is Susie, and this is Susie, and James Blair, and La Savita, and they were so smart, 'cause they said, "Wait a second. "What is more important than race, "whether or not you're a man or a woman "actually dictates your political affiliation "far more of a correlation than your race?" So they de-emphasized racial politics, and they emphasized more of a masculine machismo approach. And boy, did it work, and not only did it work, you're running up against a woman, so it's easier to kind of make that argument. And so, I don't mean to monopolize that time, but this is really interesting. - We keep going. - And so what the Trump campaign then did, the Republican consultant played by the Karl Rove basically authored was everything is about high propensity, there's two types of voters. High propensity and low propensity voters. A high propensity voter is typically college educated, lives in the suburbs, they watch Chris, they watch CNN, they have an income over $100,000 a year, they have two kids and a picket fence, and they go to soccer games, and they don't commit crimes. You know, that type of demo, right? High propensity voters is where the Republican party has always been focused, okay? But Trump came and he said, "No, no, no, no. "We're gonna focus on low propensity voters." The welder, the electrician, the carpenter, the police officer, or the person that's just not registered to vote, where I thought that Donald Trump was gonna win, and I wasn't as confident as anybody else, okay? Was when I started to see the voter registration surge across the country, in the summer before, this last summer, new people that were registering to vote were registering at a clip three to one versus Democrat, in Pennsylvania, for the first time ever. - Wow. - In Pennsylvania, for the first time ever, we had every county in Pennsylvania, we were out registering Democrats for the first time ever. Now mind you, what Josh Shapiro did as governor of Pennsylvania, is he put in a thing called motor voter, which means you automatically get registered to vote. They thought that was gonna help them. When you get your license, when you get your driver's license, it helped Republicans, because of lower, think about who's not registered to vote, it's typically lower propensity voters, and PVD, here's the kicker. Where do these people get their information? Lower propensity voters get information on TikTok. They're not watching CNN. They're not sitting, you know why? These folks are darn tired by the time they get home. They're not turning on cable news. They're watching NFL football games. They're the ones that are not gonna be able to quote to you, Marbury, they're not, by the way, it's also this. - Yeah, it's also the phone. So what Donald Trump campaign did, is they hacked the 2024 election, not in a way that people would think, where they said, wait a second, everyone has a supercomputer in the right hand pocket. Why are we worried about what CNN is saying, or MSNBC is saying, why don't we win the information war? And then finally, the kicker, they said, why don't we go on the most ambitious, over the top, low propensity voter communication strategy on Theovan, Joe Rogan, Milk Boys, Logan Paul, influencer strategies, right? And so what they said is, there's just hope, reservoir, and the final kicker, my man did at turning point was very simple. Charlie, turned Trump supporters. - And did Trump loyal assertion something? - There you go. So to me, it is super smart. Trump circumvented the legacy media, the mainstream media, he went right around them, making this little pivot if you're watching on YouTube. And he reached where the masses go now, and some of them are still up and coming, but super interesting there, because you have Chris Cuomo, then you have Charlie Kirk with Patrick Bette, David, kind of interesting to see that dynamic playing out there in that clip. But what I think is fascinating is, think about what Trump did throughout, and he mentions football there. Trump went to the Alabama Georgia game, right? Trump was involved, there was J.D. Vance, he'd go into the Penn State, Ohio State game, and engaging in activating the young men. And this is where Don talks about young men are tired of being told that masculinity is some bad thing, it's evil, you get toxic. And what are you seeing now? And I know it's social media, and it's a small segment, but you're seeing all these frat pros, right? And they're doing the Trump dance, right? Like, they found a way to modernize, and like, I didn't realize just how much time. So you're gonna spend nine different attempts to contact one suburban mom who's undecided. You're not making the most of your available time. If you can reach the masses quicker, as opposed to spending 45 minutes with one individual that might not pan out, I mean, what's the old adage? Don't work harder, work smarter. They work smarter, really what they did. By the way, Charlie Clark, a very, very bright guy. - So who will take the, so there's a lot of talk, this has got 12 on the Senate seats for Marco Rubio, right? And for... - Jay Dance. - Scott Janningo on CNN has a solution, or has a suggestion actually. - Oh boy. You're changing this one up. This is gonna be a doozy, I think. - Pat 12, go. - If Marco Rubio does in fact become Secretary of State, we're gonna need a new Senator from the State of Florida, and we need someone with Rubio's national security credentials. Now there's one Floridian who can do it. He stood up to the Russians, and the Iranians in the 1980s, when he defeated the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkal, two of America's most lethal foes. He is a real American. He fights for the rights of every man. He knows the courage is the thing that keeps us free. Ladies and gentlemen, I announce Rhonda Santis, get on it. Hulk Hogan for US Senate. - Oh, he's got the Hulkamania shirt. - When Hulkamania runs wild on you, brother. - All right, guys, we gotta leave it there. Everyone, thank you very much. Thank you for watching. - That would have been like a lead balloon in that room. - Yeah, it's hard to joke with people that don't have a sense of humor. Like, I don't think I've ever, I mean, even wonder why CNN's a mess. Like, Abby Phillip really is the best she got. She's lifeless, she makes Anderson Cooper look like the life of the party. Yeah, that's not gonna happen, but interesting because I think Jennings is probably, and I'm trying not to be a total partisan hack here, but can I tell you what, he's fearless. He gets in there, he butts heads. And then he tries to, like, and I think people take him on a serious level 'cause he was a part of the Bush administration for GW43. But then he works at a little bit of a comedy there. I played him earlier in the big take. He's taken swipes at Jimmy Kimmel. He's not just a nuts and bolts politics guy. He'll try to, you know, throw in a jab or two. I like it. - James Carvel goes off on DC-based Democrats for pushing identity, S-word. - Are we sure this is censored? - Well, I'm hoping. - Okay, 'cause I know you requested that last night. - I did, it was right at the top. I even, you should see our, you should see our show sheets and our cut sheets and stuff, and of course, Don, I'm talking to you. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. (laughs) But I have, I actually spelled out what words I wanted censored in this video, so I'm hoping. - Sometimes I use red font when I do it in my emails. Sometimes I highlight it in yellow. I might go, like, font 72 one day just to get a rise out of fill. Please edit this. Time's new Roman 72 font. - All right, James Carvel going off. Let's get it there and let's act like an opposition party. - Yeah, an opposition party. - We have no power. - By the way, let's stop. - Wait 'til our, is there a cat? Is that a baby? - Tell your great grandson to pipe down. - Yeah, he'll get his puffs and his binkie. - I actually think that's a cat. - Is that a cat? - I think so. - Well, at Carvel. - LSU fan and a cat guy. - Filkin, we started over, my friend, and go. - Let's get it there and let's act like an opposition party. - And yeah, an opposition party. We can't make power. You understand that? None, none. We have no legislative power, we have no executive power, we have no judicial-- - All right, wait, hang on, hang on, this is just, I can't. - I think it's a cat. - It is a hundred percent a cat. - He's cat sitting for three dollars for the government. - He's recording a podcast. - I know. - Just move the cat into another room. - I know. - No, what is, put the cat outside. - Why is the cat so upset? 'Cause the Democrats lost, it's a liberal feline. - Or maybe the cat loves Trump and wants him out. - Is that a maga kitty? Is he ill-tempered? - Oh, God, all right. - Very vocal. - It is a very vocal stack. - I like cats, but like, the ones that are annoying like that and yeah, yeah, all right, it's gone. - So did you out of power? You are an opposition party. And go and tell all of the people that are sending you and asking you for money. Justify what you did. Justify what you did wrong. And tell us what you're going to do different. Because what you've done ain't worth a (beep) all right? Get your head around that. In all of the Washington-based Democrats farting around and going to wine and cheese parties and talking about how massaging this, to get your ass out of Washington. And go work on a 2026 campaign and do pennants to make up for your (beep) damn arrogance and stupidity. - Yeah. - So, we're not gonna say, well, we're gonna say, we told you so. We told you this identity (beep) was disaster. We told you, you didn't get out in front of public safety. If it's just, you didn't, you didn't. We told you to have an open process and demonstrate the magnificent staggering and deep talent that exists in the modern democratic party you're getting. We told you to differentiate yourself and bind you didn't. I hate to be some (beep) know it all, but all of these things are part of the record. - Wow, man. Funny how they all abandon identity politics and the woke stuff and all the nonsense after the fact. Well, I knew that this would be our undoing. - Well, if everybody seemed to know the undoing was coming for the democrat party, why didn't you pivot? Why didn't you change the policy? Why didn't Joe abandon it by year three? Kamala in the final hundred days? You're a hundred percent, right? All these people are like, well, I told you about this. No, you didn't. You should have sounded the alarm eight months ago. - You know, the thing about it is, I can't even get beyond the cat. - Now, me neither. - I can't. - The truth is, you cannot, so what they did was, they contained the cat someplace, and the cat is vocal and is complaining. The cat, much like all of us conservatives, wants freedom. (laughs) You know what I mean? It is going, you losers, you don't even get it. - Get me out of this cage. - Freedom! - The carville cage. How about that look, by the way? He's got a red undershirt on. - Oh, that's his look, man. - Then the purple shirt. And then the yellow, green, and purple sweater. - Well, he's an LSU fan, dude. - Yeah, I know. - That's the LSU colors. - He's mad, man. - I had him a house them last week. - Yeah, it was big, loved it. (laughs) - Anybody who cages a cat, you know, or any animal like that, that cat is not happy. - Oh, Michael Palka says the cat is running from hungry Haitians. Oh, that's just not real. - Oh, how dare you? - They're eating the cat. - No, I guarantee you, they put it in some kind of a cage or whatever, and the cat is complaining. - But he's doing it, he's doing a podcast, doing it, take the cat somewhere else. - I know, my wife took on election night when I was hosting from the Kale Command Center. - Kale Command Center. - The wife took the dog upstairs. Was I getting about it? I can't have him yipping and barking. - Right, but you don't want to cage, you're not going to cage your dog, and your dog is like, "Oh, why are you doing those?" We catch with the cats? We catch like, "Wow, why are you doing this?" - Caging when we leave for the day. - You do? - Oh, absolutely, yeah. - Well, that kind of defeats the purpose of having the dog there to bite a burglar. - Yeah, well, they want to come in and take it, but take whatever you have, take whatever you want. I don't care. - You caged the dog? - When we go away for like an entire day, if like we're going for 10 or 12 hours. - 10 or 12 hours. - Yeah. Don't you have somebody who comes in and like walks in? - No. - I don't have friends. And I'll just get, "No, I don't." Now, most times he's good, and most times we don't, but he's had a couple of stretches as he's now approaching five years old and still doesn't want to listen to times. There's a few times where he'll get a little combative, and it's not that he won't he'll make a mess in the house. Like he won't poop or, you know, do the other business, but he'll occasionally try to jump up into the bread basket and he pulls off a rack of hot dog rolls or, yeah, he's a big carb guy. - Yeah, that's good. - I don't feel like coming home and seeing all my hamburger rolls destroyed. Those brioche buns are expensive. - Oh, God. - All right, let's break for Bruno. - All right. (laughing) - Bruno can critique your brioche buns for you. - Brioche buns for you, I mean, so that needs to be, we need to do 20 minutes on your brioche buns. - You can flip it if you'd like. (laughing) - From Carville to Bruno, we go. That'll be, by the way, I'd love to see a Carville Bruno show together. You imagine those two guys, those veterans chopping it up? - They would be great together. - Oh, cursing up the storm. - Yeah. - All right, we will continue with Tony Bruno on the other side, but first a word from our friends at DuckGo, because it's very simple these days. The internet, it's not a safe place. And that's the truth, you know, identity theft, stealing your personal information. And look, we're to blame for it, right? We purchased things from different retail outlets, you know, the convenience of online shopping, and then boom, next thing you know, people have your information. 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It was the only sporting event I've seen in person live other than the Super Bowl. (laughing) The energy in the building was great and me shop didn't play and then they bring him back and the flyers are playing better. You know, the Eagles obviously are the talk of the entire NFL. Now, Colin Calherd, who five weeks ago said they were a mess, now all of a sudden says they're a great team. So that's the difference between politics and sports guys. - Yeah. - Sports is a week to week gut wrenching experience, especially in Philly, right? 76ers, they've already been mathematically eliminated and now they played that. Did you watch any of that guy turn it off last night? - My NBA club with the blue court. - Oh, awful. - Let's make up a sport where there's a, make-believe trophy to just try to get people close enough to Christmas day when the NBA season actually starts, right? Maybe we should bring in-- - Maybe we should bring in Elon Musk and Vivek Ram is swarming to clean out the efficiency in the NBA. - Wow. And then you turn on the TV and it looks like they're playing in the bottom of a swimming pool. The floor's blue, everybody's blue. - I thought they were in-- - They should be red. - I thought they were in Dawn's hot tub. - It's not blue. - It's amazing. - It's amazing. (laughing) - Why is that a spring dance hot tub? - By the way, the, the, the, the, the, the dog comments are getting such a reaction on YouTube. Phil, can you put up a poll question? - Yeah. - Is Nick out of line caging his dog for 10 to 12 hours? - Yes. - I agree with you, Tony. I agree with you. I think Nick is out of line. - I wouldn't have to do it if he was about-- - Is Nick caging his dog or his cat? - No, I don't have a cat, Tony. I'm anti-cat. - I got two cats. They want, you know, they're, they're free range. They don't go outside though. They're indoor cats. - Okay. - But the cats do whatever the hell they want. They sleep on the bed. They can do everything. They poop in a litter box. You don't have to take them out for a walk. - Yeah. - They're the easy and they love you back. 'Cause our cats love us. I mean, they sleep with us, you know, because they're, they're ragdoll. So they're like the puppy cats. - Yeah. - You know, they're like little dogs. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. Is Nick out of line for caging his dog for 10 to 12 hours? I'm voting already. Yes. - One, yes. It's a hundred percent right now. Now it's only two percent of the vote in though. By the way, Buck's County is still trying to count the votes to see Bob Casey Roth. Can you believe that's happening, dog? It's still actually looking for balance in Buck's County. - It's amazing. - It really is amazing. - By the way, everybody get over to YouTube. YouTube.com/act1210 to be PhD. Vote on the poll question. Is Nick out of line for caging his dog 10 to 12 hours? It's the best thing we'll do all day today. - You're done right. - And just to clarify, just to defend myself for a split second, it only happens that at four to six times a year. Like if I go up to my sisters for the day in the Lehigh Valley and it's, you know, I don't drive 90 minutes each way to spend 90 minutes up there. You know, I'm just not gonna come home to, you know, property being destroyed. I can't tolerate it. - By the way, Nick, you should fix right then. You should do a show from a crate for four hours. That's gonna be a big crate. Put Nick in there. - I lived in a crate for two years before my family got up here. - By the way, my sources here, my sources right across Florida over on the East Coast at Mar-a-Lago are reporting that Rich Zioli is now in line to be the secretary of defense, undersecretary of defense, and the entire Zioli Army would be drafted to go fight in future wars. That's breaking news just handed me when my source is deep at Mar-a-Lago. - Oh, amazing. (laughing) - Let me start with this. Because you've been in the media for a long time. I mean, you've done it all, dude. You've done radio, you've done TV, you've done news, you've done sports. Where are we at right now? Because MSNBC's ratings have collapsed. CNN is getting ready to just gut everybody that's making a bloated salary. I mean, what is this just shifting dynamics? Is this Trump? I mean, what exactly do you make of this with where they're at? - I think the media has finally been exposed, and I've been saying this for years. This isn't just a new thing because of an election year. I've been saying, the Philadelphia Inquirer is the worst example. I mean, there's still publishing stuff that is laughable. I mean, they may as well just shut that thing down now. Seriously, they're trying to sell subscriptions for $1 for six months of coverage. What does that tell you? You can't even pay for Will Bunch's lunch for that. So the bottom line is the media has basically destroyed themselves. That we people saw through the media. We know politicians all lie. We know people who are running for office are going to promise you everything. That's the way it's always been. But the media in this country this year is D-O-A. I mean, you talk about MSNBC. They're still crying. They're still crying. Yet they're all going to lose their jobs. And I don't like seeing people lose their jobs. And the Doge people, by the way. I said, when I was doing Morning Talk at WCAU back in the 1990, I would have government waste people on all the time, not Trump and a trash truck. People talking about how much money our government spends on things that are just, you know, it should be $5 and they're $150. The amount of government waste that people are now reporting, why has my phone gone crazy? Anyway, the government of this is going to be the biggest thing ever. And I know they're going to go crazy. Oh, he won't most work for the government. He's got SpaceX. This is going to be an independent thing. And Musk actually said, he will post it transparently on all of the things we see. And it's so easy to find. You don't need to be a rocket scientist like Elon Musk is to point out where the government is wasting money. And I'm telling you, you work for the government. You better get your resumes ready. I hear they're hiring it. Well, you don't go to MSNBC or CNN. And by the way, speaking of CNN, Scott Jennings has single-handedly saved CNN. You realize that? Yeah. Because MSNBC steadfastly stuck to their just left-wing propagandist, all gone crazy. And their audience basically cratered. CNN brought this Scott Jennings guy in. And he's been the only reason to watch. The guy is funny. He's slim. He's smart. And he doesn't take any crap. And I heard, I saw you earlier, that the woman at night who shows he goes on. Yeah. Well, she's a Washington Post reporter who got a TV show at night. Yeah. So she's milk toast. She's just, you know, she's just there. Traffic cop. She's a de-eater. Oh, you cut out Tony. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, no, I'm sorry. OK. Bob, you're right. Bob Day is more trusted than the Enquirer in the Philadelphia Daily News. [LAUGHS] You know, you mentioned Elon and Vivek and the Department of Government Efficiency. But there's been a big Florida flavor to Trump's move so far. Marco Rubio, Waltz, and then, and not Tim Waltz, by the way. And Rick Scott, presumably, is the favorite to be the Senate majority leader. When you look at all these other moves, you know, you got Pete Hegzith. He's coming from television, but he's a combat veteran. Ivy League educated, Princeton and Harvard. I'm down on the Ivy League these days, but still smart dude and a military guy. It seems like Trump has really kind of-- and I don't love every move. I'm not saying I like Rubio. I don't really know about Kristi Noem in the role that she's been given. But for the most part, it seems like these have been moves that the Trump fan base out there almost universally likes. And the thing about Pete Hegzith, the fact that the media and even Elizabeth Warren, calling him a Fox News weekend host, is an insult. Your Secretary of Defense doesn't have to be a guy who wears a full face shield and disappears for a couple of weeks while there's wars going on. There's got to be somebody who can stand up and speak out on behalf. Now, all these left-wing sites, Aaron Rupar, who still somehow has a job, making fun of the fact that Hegzith, just last week, was saying that he doesn't think we should have women in combat roles in the military. And now, all of a sudden, that makes him a bad guy. I'm not saying there shouldn't be women in the military. They should be. But to say that you're going to put him on the front lines, that's what a guy who's been on the front line says. So if that's going to make him-- I mean, he's going to be the Defense Secretary, whether you like it or not. The guy is smart. He's got two bronze stars. And then Elizabeth Warren, of all the people. Oh, she's big man, yep. Of fake Indian who got into Harvard and got paid money for lying, she's got the gonads. Well, I don't know if she has gonads. She doesn't have anything. Massachusetts, by the way, is now officially the dumbest state in America. I thought it was California between Elizabeth Warren, the stupid governor, and the stupid mayor of Boston. They right now, to me, are at the top of the list of dumbest government officials in the entire country. You know, you have Gavin Newsom out there in California. I mean, he's a top the leader. He's on the Mount Rushmore of bad politicians. But Massachusetts, you give me a state that is more in that and is tired more and is elected more dumb people than the state of Massachusetts. Name one. It's just, it's amazing the backlash to the HEGSeth hire. Because, I mean, this is to me, and I'll make a sports analogy, and that'll actually take us to the next topic with that being Michael Strahan. That would be like the Giants hiring Michael Strahan. And somebody that disagrees with this thing, you're hiring a guy from Fox NFL Sunday on television. Yes, but he played the game. He was a great football player, which I think qualifies you to coach football. Pete HEGSeth, yes, was on TV, but he's a combat veteran. He's been on the front lines. He knows what that entails and what that's like. So I don't understand the outrage other than the fact that it's entry level, which gets me to Strahan. Your thoughts on the way people are, in my opinion, in overreaction for not putting his hand on his heart during the National Anthem, what's your take? Well, I mean, listen, I didn't go crazy. First of all, I don't watch the pregame shows. I turn the TV on right before a kickoff, when Scott Hanson comes on and says, seven hours of uninterrupted football starts right now. That's when I turn on the TV at one o'clock, because I pay a lot for YouTube TV and the NFL red zone. We don't have to do that because the Eagles are on prime video, unless you don't have prime video. But I guess they'll show it locally, right? You don't have prime. That game will be all on a Channel 6. Yeah, tomorrow night, yep. Right, and locally and Philly. So to me, I don't pay attention to that stuff. Now, I saw the clip of it that I go crazy. I know Michael Strahan. I work with him at Fox. Michael Strahan was a great player. He does a great job on Fox, and then he goes and now he's got a morning show, just like Nate Burleson. Nate Burleson was a football player, and now he's doing everything. He's on the CBS morning show. He does CBS NFL. So these guys are sharp guys who do a great job, and they move up the food chain. I don't have a problem personally with Michael Strahan. He's a great guy. But the guy confronting him, he should have addressed it. Because, you know, if you're on Good Morning America, you have to address that and say, I don't, I'm sure they didn't ask him, right? Monday morning, did they ask him? No, and to your point, at least Jason Kelsey addressed him smashing the cell phone on the Monday night countdown show after he blasted that guy at Penn State. That's because ESPN said to him, hey, Jason, you got to get ahead of this thing. Go on at the beginning of Monday night football. Everybody's watching, just say, hey, you know what? I lost my cool. But most people agree, Jason Kelsey was in the right, 'cause you can't have some Strapper come up to you. Strapper again, a word that has not been used. I believe Donald Trump should put Strapper back in the lexicon of everyday usages. - As I was saying. - It doesn't sound offensive. - Yes, it's not, you know, Strapper's a word that's not really offensive. It's not ophane, it's not offensive. - But it makes a point. - It's just something we can use. You know, it's just a good word. - Yeah, I agree. - I think Strapper, if I were Department of Doge, I would make sure Strapper gets into the everyday lexicon of everyday sports talk, news talk, fact traffic, weather talk, Don talk. Wherever you're talking. - Don talk, don talk, don talk. - Like Don coming up, 10 to noon, right? - Yeah, right. - 30 hours. - 30 hours. - Is there anybody else at the radio station that works 30 hours a week on air? - No, I mean, I go both ways. (laughing) - Nope. (laughing) - No, it's just on. - No, there's MVP, the backbone of the organization. - By the way, Don, we have a YouTube pull-up. Is Nick out of line for Cajing's dog for 10 to 12 hours? - Yep, let's see, I'll say, 88%. - Yes, 74% say yes, 26% say no. A lot of voting, a lot of voting. YouTube.com says that. - You ain't pressing can drop the dog off at my house. - Oh, God, they're my house. - They're my house. - I'm going to remain. - Don't cage the dog. - Bill, James, mark the tape, mark the tape, 'cause I'm taking a summer vacation in here. - Mark the tape, Beth says you're a horrible dog owner. Full stop, just a few times a year. - I think, we have to close the polls right now. I think the people who spoke in a landslide from the 1210WK on the company Morning Shop poll. We are closing the polls, no late ballots, and I'm going to blow votes later on in the coffee room. - Fox News has called it. (laughs) - Christian Elm is going to hire you as her assistant. (laughs) - That's right, even Christine Knoll is looking at you. Nick Galaxy, how dare you? - I agree, I'm a bad person. I don't know that. - Cray train, taking cray train? - We've tried, we've done it all, he's a wild, and he's a free spirit. He's just, you know, you're a bad dog, you dash. - Now we're still counting the, he's got the, Buck's County has now added the dog poll. - Oh. - We've tried to get Bob Casey over the newsline. - What is Bob Casey going? What is Bob Casey going to concede? - Yeah, what happens first? - Bob Casey concedes, or I cray train my dog. (laughs) - You should put Bob Casey in the cray train. - I agree. - Put him in the bathroom and leave him there. - Put him in the bathroom and leave him in there. (laughs) - Don, do we have any updates on Bob Casey, or is he still sifting through the papers? - Nope. - Still fighting a good fight? - He's, he's, he's not conceding. (laughs) - I can't, I can't-- - You're not Shapiro, say to the guy, hey, hey Bob, I'm gonna be the nominee. The Democrats are gonna put me up in 2028, 'cause I want nothing to do with Kamala and be her vice presidential pick. It was a smart move. Why are you doing this to me now? Just concede and stop looking like an election denier. When, you know, they were the party that called anybody who questioned 2020 election deniers, Bob Casey's an election denier, is he not? - Yes, at this point, yeah. - Yes he is. - Mike, Mike on the YouTube chat is blaming me. He says Nick needs a raise so he can afford a dog walker. - I'm not gonna object to anything that he just said. - So now it's my fault. - Oh, and copy and paste that one as well, Phil. - We should, we should continue this conversation. - We should. - Tony Bruno's gonna stick around for the nine o'clock hour, which will be brought up by the causal law. - That way, how about myself? - I'll keep the service, huh. - Oh yeah. - What are they? - I like that. - Eagles. - By the way, we're-- - We're on "Farement". - Yeah. - Eagles. - What number is that? What number is that? That's like Kevin Cobb, is it? - No, that's Antonio Brown. Actually, it was a Carson Wentz, but now Antonio, A.J. Brown. - A.J. Brown. - A.J. Brown. So I just take the Wentz off the back and put Brown on there, and it's still good as new. (laughing) - Look at this. - It's amazing. (laughing) - I'll take Antonio Brown as well if we can get him. We'll make Antonio Brown, I mean. - He might be in the Trump administration at this point. Who knows? (laughing) - He's gonna be the interior secretary for what he videotapes as some of his daligences. - Antonio Brown has been tabbed to the Trump social media coordinator for the next four years. (laughing) All right, killing company Bruno sticks around for the nine o'clock hour. I wanna get Tony's thoughts on marriages and politics. We'll talk to Tony about that as well as the Nick Bosa sack dance, the NFL finding him for the MAGA hat, as well as some Eagles and some Phillies. On the other side, it's killing company. - Sack dance? - Yeah, I remember the, he was doing the sack dance. - I know it was a sack dance. - It's apparently a sack dance. - Don't have, don't have your sack dance. - Don, have you ever, have you ever done the YMCA dance like Trump? You and Larry late at night dancing like that? - Oh yeah, that's us. 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And we will conclude this incredible tour on the Lakes region with Bellagio, Orta, and Isilabela. Join me next spring in Italy. I'll see you in Cinque Quaterre, conservativetours.com, tell Don St. Jude. - Start your day with Cale and Company, weekday morning, six till 10. I'll talk radio, 12, 10, WPHT, and the free Odyssey app. - FEMA workers, not going to properties and residences that were the homes and the land of Trump supporters. And now in the aftermath of this, this lady ends up being fired. The media tries to cover up the identity of the individual that was issuing these memos in writing. And then Tony, we find out that it's not an isolated thing to just Florida. I mean, this also happened in the Carolinas as well. FEMA, another one of these politically tainted and corrupt agencies. - The woman in charge of FEMA, she's got to go. I mean, there will be so many pink slips given out on January 20th. I'm going to start a pink slip factory right now. I'm going to come up with merch. By the way, you want to talk about great merch? - Yeah. - Elon Musk is talking about merch for the Doge, the government of, they'll be able to actually, if they put merch out that pass Doge on it. - Oh yeah. - To get rid of government waste. That'll, that'll, that'll reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars just with that merch. - Yeah. - I've seen the logo. - That is, speaking of dogs that don't go into cages, the logo that Elon and Vivek put out, there's a picture of like an animated dog with the Doge logo. Those things are going to sell like hotcakes around here. - Absolutely. How about that, man? We're solving all the world's problems just on this show alone. - That's correct. - We got kids in cages, we got dogs in cages, we got government, we got, we got Elon Musk triggering. We've got the Guardian getting off of X. All these people are getting off of X. Some of them should be on X so that they can actually feel better about their lives. These are losers and they all gotta go. - They gotta go. - They all gotta go bye bye. - That's right. - Bye bye. You know, one man that about a month ago, six weeks ago, everybody was saying, pack your bags, you maybe you need a pink slip as well. That was Nick Serriani. Ever since he shaved his head, the Eagles went from two and two to a, what, a five game, six game win streak now and they get the calendar tomorrow night. And by the way, how much joy did you take seeing the Eagles just put the Cowboys out to pasture for the rest of the year? - You know, the first half was a little entertaining because the Eagles were making mistakes and then, you know, the Cowboys actually had a chance to take the lead. But I actually tweeted during the game in the second half, I asked the question and I got a lot of responses on X at Tony Bruno Show. Would it be a violation if I felt a little bit bad or the Dallas Cowboys right about now? And the reaction was unbelievable. And, you know, because I'm a sensitive guy. I'm not like sensitive like the chick at Saturday Night Live who doesn't understand that when you write a comedy routine and it sucks, it's okay to be criticized. That chick should be writing for Jimmy Kimmel. She should write one, she should write one script and then all three of the nighttime guys can all use the same script. Jimmy Kimmel for Bear and the other guy who's not as dastardly Jimmy Fallon. I mean, he's milk toast, but he still has to get his shots in too. That chick should go right for the nighttime shows 'cause just to get one sheet, do the same jokes every night and then get paid $10 million and go home. - Definitely. - And pretend that you're like one of the real people of the world. - Can you imagine that? Can you imagine a comedy writer crying because somebody doesn't like their script. - Oh, I know. I mean, I gave Bruno ideas years ago in 2011 and 2012. He said they sucked. I agree, they were bad. I apologize, but I never cried. There's no crying. - There's no crying. - There's no crying except for Tom Hanks who's left the country. Now, are we following up on all these celebrities who are leaving the country? - Well, Kathy Griffin has said that. She never said that. Kathy Griffin is following up a fighting. I never once said that. - Yep. - By the way, back to the Eagles for it. - By the way, shout out to Joe Pakosi up there in the Northeast. - Yeah. - How about Joe Pakosi? - Did you know that Joe Pakosi? - No, Bob Pakosi who used to be the sports update guy at ESPN back in the day, Bob Pakosi. Joe Pakosi, young man. Have you seen this dude? He was on, I guess he was on Fox last night with Laura Ingram. - Yes, yep. - Shout out to the Northeast. - A lot of young guys are. - Yeah. - It was not endorsed by the Republican party. - Shoe string budget, beat the Democratic party. - We went door to door and said he knocked on like 70,000 doors. - Wow, yep. - Yeah, you gotta put the work in. There's no doubt. I mean, and you're seeing a lot of these guys whether they don't have the experience or are young. You go up to the Lehigh Valley. Susan Wilde was defeated by Ryan, not Ryan McKenzie, I always wanna call him Ryan McCormick. I got Dave McCormick on the brain. So you're seeing a big shift there. And you know, the other thing, speaking of the strategy, now, Tony, you just mentioned about the 70,000 doors, we played a clip on the cut sheet with Cuomo, Patrick, Bet, David, and Charlie Kirk. And Trump went the total different route of, hey, I'm not gonna spend nine different chances on trying to reach one single suburban mom. I'm gonna do all these podcasts. You look at where this industry is going. The amount of, and I said this in the big take this morning, Kamala tried to run a campaign like it was 2004. Trump's the older guy, the Republican, and he's running a campaign that screamed 2024. - Exactly. And then they're still wondering why, you know, she lost. And the crazy thing yesterday, you see when she went back to the White House and all the staffers came out and they were chanting MVP, MVP. I put it into sports analogy. I tweeted this out yesterday. That would be like the New York Jets going back to MetLife Stadium to play their next game. And the fans were shouting MVP to Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's equivalent. She's the MVP. She got slaughtered, right? And she's out there. And now that now the resistance, how can you still have a resistance? 'Cause they were resisting Trump, right? In the four years he was president. Then when he wasn't presidents, they still had the resistance. And now that Trump's back in, there's another resistance. Why can't they resist? What are they resisting? Seriously. What are they resisting? I can't resist temptation, but I still do it. You know what I'm saying? I hear you. I hear you. Speaking of resisting, Nick Bosa, this is the final one. This is great. I love this one. I love it. I love this one. The Trump shimmy, the Trump dance, when he does the thing with the arms to the YMCA, it's taking off frat bros, NFL players, college football. I've seen females doing it. Yeah. And then he gets fined. And apparently now the NFL knew they were gonna find him, but they wanted to wait until after the election to find him $11,000 for the MAGA hat. So this past Sunday, his retribution, so to speak, is to do the set, he gets a sack. And him and the 49ers are all doing it. It's the dance I think that's sweeping the nation, Tony Bernal. I actually think you should do it on social media. How about the fact that Bosa and his teammates on defense were on tape after they won that game against Tampa Bay? Yep. They're doing the ship. So they're gonna find all those 49ers guys to joke. Yeah. Yeah. And Adam Schefter, the league insider for ESPN, he tweeted out that it is indeed a rule violation. And he gave all the, you know, rule five, subset three, section two, paragraph one. So, okay, you're talking about political messaging. What I find to be the biggest hypocrisy is it's okay when the league is giving you the left wing messaging the end zone on the back of the helmets across the board. And I mean, I don't know. My guess, I know Jeffrey Lori is probably not a conservative. I think everybody was aware of that. But a lot of NFL owners are Republican. So this, this notion that the league tries to placate to the left when the owners are probably largely conservative. And there's probably a lot of Republican men in the NFL that are Trump voters, to me, is very hypocritical. Either we don't allow any of it or we allow both sides to share their political views. And there shouldn't be. I mean, we shouldn't have politics in sports. I found it. Now Gary, Gary Clark at ESPN, now he's bashing Trump. Even Stephen A Smith has come to the realization that the people have spoken and the fact that there are people out there like Gary Clark and all these other people who still are on their spouting about how they hate Trump. And I asked the question of all these people. Tell me what right has been removed from your life by Donald Trump. Tell me what he took away from you as an American citizen when he was president. What rights have been taken away? Can anybody name a single solitary right that has been taken away from them? Seriously, can you? - No, that's why I don't understand the breakdowns. - Right, right. - And by the way, I'm not having Thanksgiving or Christmas this year. So I'm gonna, it's not about family or about politics. No, I just, I'm broke. I gotta sit at home, I'm gonna be here in Florida. - Yeah. - My only joint, I'm gonna go to Target and see Merry Christmas signs and then I'll be happy. - Well, first of all, Greg Socker took away my rights, comment on the YouTube chat. - Yeah, stay off the chat. - Jesus. - What kind of democracy is this? - See, Greg Socker, I'm out of democracy. - He's like Denzel Washington in training day. - This is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship. - I need these three to keep their heads in the game. I can't have them distracted by Jim Doc Bix, Edward, tuna fang. That's my job to be him, Evan, yeah. Come on. - Shave. - By the way, what a fabulous-- - Donald Trump has just picked Kakeef Alberman as you ambassador. No, I can't say that. (laughing) - Did you see that post? - Yeah, probably. - Yeah, by the way, by the way, programming note, Tony Bruno and Miss Robin will be filling in for Kale & Company on Wednesday, October, November 27th and Friday, November 29th. - What's the day? (laughing) - Clearly, he's got his calendar on the wall. - I got, so that's the day before Thanksgiving, which is the biggest party day of the year. People don't realize that. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking and party day of the year. - It's a love back in the day. - Oh, so much fun. - So we'll be filling on on that, and then we'll be back on Friday on Black Friday. - Black Friday, yeah, I don't know if you can say that. - And why does it have to be Black Friday? I mean, that's racist, I think Al Sharpton is gonna ask for another half a million dollars so they can get rid of Black Friday, and then Kamala Harris will send him a half a million dollars and MSNBC won't have any problem with Al Sharpton doing an interview with her for a half a million dollar contribution. - It ain't her money. - By the way, Edward on the YouTube channel wants to know if I'm putting Dawn in a cage, why not like this? - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - I'm a cage. (laughing) - Un-caged on stuff right now. (laughing) - Yeah, I think we could just take this show from about 7.53 today to now and just running on the movie. (laughing) And nobody would have it, is you? (laughing) - Tony Bruno, always a pleasure. - Yeah. - So love the look with the jersey, and you want to make a production in Eagle. I think the Eagles are gonna steamroll the commander. I'll give my prediction now. Eagle's big time tomorrow night on Washington. - Nah. - You know what? I mean, the way they're playing them, it's been weak, everybody's been, oh, I don't know, you know, they haven't done this yet. And now, and yesterday I got all these messages. Oh, look who they've played. And I said, dude, this is in college football, where you get to pick a couple of Patsy's every year and then run up the score on them and then count that in the standings. You play who you get in the schedule. - Yep. - The Eagles could've beaten Atlanta. They could be eight and one right now, right? They could've lost a couple of those early games. - Yeah. - Exactly, so that's what it's great about football. It's a week-to-week thing. It's like the election, except we know the results every week. Although I think it'll be a... - The end of Eagle! - Eagle! - Oh my God. All right, man. I'll talk to you again. - Good night, everybody. - Good night, everybody. - There he is. - I love you. - There he is. Tell me we're gonna lie from Florida on his A-game today. Man, just bringing it. Just absolutely bringing it again. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back and get to our morning mystery movie clip, a big three, and of course, our veteran spotlight World War II edition is coming up nine o'clock hour, brought to you by McCausland Lock and Alarm. 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Piazza Premium Autos.com, P-I-A-Z-E-A, Piazza Premium Autos.com, don't say you. - This is the Kaylin Company podcast from talk radio 1210WPHD and on the free Odyssey app. - So any moment now, President-elect Donald J. Trump will be in the building, kind of an Elvis reference. You know, Elvis has left the building. Now Elvis is in the building. I don't know, you can play with that one, but Trump expected any moment now to enter the building. This is the first time that he's back in the Oval Office since he was president and the first time I believe that he's face-to-face with Biden since that awful debate that triggered Biden to, depending on what you believe, to leave the race and let his feet run for president. - Boy, what I wouldn't do to be the fly on the wall for that conversation, I would love to just be positioned in a little chair back in the corner and just observe. - Yeah, probably friendlier than people might imagine. - Oh, you think? I mean, you know, the Schumer was having, you know, cocktails with Hitler at the Al Smith dinner, so yeah, probably is gonna be much more cordless than you think. - You know what's not friendly? Did you guys see a Jill Biden and Kamala Harris? They didn't even look at one another. - Yeah, I saw it, but again, it's-- - Social media. - Social media, it's like a 13-second clip and it's, I don't know, maybe that's, that's, you know-- - Little bad blood, you don't think it is? - Well, I mean, I do think they all hate each other, actually, probably. I think there is resentment. The resentment that Joe was, quote, forced out. You know, the whole thing, but I don't know. Everybody started sharing it, it was like 18 seconds, and I'm like, I mean, they were probably sitting next to each other for 90 minutes. I mean, maybe there was a pleasant trip, we just didn't see it in that clip. - Look at you, look at you, Nick, now. - But I do, thank you, buddy. - But I do genuinely think that there's a resentment there. 'Cause I think Dr. Jill wanted to continue to ride, ride the free gravy train. There's no doubt. - I know you were gonna go there. - Well, those days are probably all right, but the gravy train is for all ages. - That's true, that's true, yeah. - Those days are never over. - Oh, wow, okay, look at you. - Let's look at Tony Bruno. - Look at you. - Let's talk about Christmas. Mission of Indictable Crimes and the Abuse of Power. - Thank you, Marjorie. - Marjorie. So US inflation, new numbers out, accelerating in October from the pace that it set a month earlier. So will the Federal Reserve, when it meets in mid-December, will they continue to cut interest rates before the end of the year with inflation accelerating? Consumer price index rose, and these are month-to-month numbers, so it rose 2.6% versus a year ago last month, right? - Well, you know, Kamala would have fixed all that, you know, with price gouging and communist solutions, like price caps, that would have, you know, would have been rolling in the money. - So with the new numbers, what about Christmas shopping, holiday shopping, Hanukkah shopping? - Oh, no. - We're coming up on, we're hearing about Black Friday, you know, to the shoppers. So a couple of things, the tree, our big tree, arrives here in Philadelphia, for they call it the holiday tree. They no longer say it's a Christmas tree. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause it's a tree, it's the tan and bomb for everybody. - Marjorie, can Trump issue an executive order on that? I mean, seriously. - Well, I hope that they still, 'cause we always have the, we did have the Christmas tree, and then we had the menorah, right over by Independence Hall. So I hope they're still gonna allow the menorah. So if you can allow the menorah, why not the Christmas tree, but they call it the holiday tree. So the big, and it's a real fur, always cut down in Pennsylvania, but it's arriving today 11 a.m. So a little traffic alert. - Yeah, I think we're gonna do real tree this year. We've done the fake one for a couple of years in a row, and it's kind of worn out, it's welcome, in my opinion. I'm going real this year. - Fake trees are low energy. - Yeah, real tree. - We had a really, really nice bushy fake one. It looked really good. - Yeah. (laughing) - And now I'm like, you know, I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do the whole bit. I don't actually want to cut my own tree down this year. - Nice. - I go out there with my saw, or I'll borrow Don's. - Will he take the dog with you, or will he create? - No, he'll be caged. (laughing) And if he tries to climb the tree, like he's an ornament, he'll go caged again. - Oh my God. - So my interpretation of that is that you're packing that U-Haul and Nashville, and you thought, I'm not taking this bushy fake tree. - I'll tell you what's out about that box. It was heavy as hell, Don. (laughing) - Heavy as hell. I'm like, buddy, I need a second guy here. Trust me, it's heavier than it looks. (laughing) - Well, for Philadelphia, 50 feet tall, that's the tree that'll be the centerpiece right outside city hall with the skating rink. And it'll, you know, they'll decorate it. We'll have the big ceremony, but it will be through January 1st, so that we have that going on. I was just looking at money numbers, as far as holiday spending. They're predicting that for holiday spending, it'll be flat this year at $1,700 per household on par with the national average. So not big spending, you know, that maybe the retailers hoped for. - $1,700, huh? - Carl, Carl says. (laughing) Nick hates mother nature trees and hates his doll. (laughing) - I'm really a pleasant individual, I swear. (laughing) But, you know, you're making fun of Black Friday, or Tony Bruno was. - Yeah, Tony. - 74% of Philadelphiaans polled say they are planning to shop during Black Friday week. - Okay. - That's up. That's up. So that's good. - Opposed to what, waiting for Cyber Monday? - Well, what I infer from this poll is that people believe that if they shop earlier, they're gonna get the better sales. - I think the polls are wrong again. (laughing) - It's always the last minute shopper, right? - There's Harry Eden. - Yeah, we're, let's break him down. - Looked at the aggregate data. - Yeah. - Is Alan Lickman gonna take some time off? (laughing) - And that's your big three? - All right, Don, thank you very much. We have John in Glenside, our movie winner this morning. - John. - John, what movie do we play for you? - Oh, wait, hang on, that's my fault. - Oh, no. John, hello. - Vacation. - Yes! (clapping) - Yes! - Something we're all looking forward to and Phil takes quite frequently. Vacation. - There you go, congratulations. The copy of Letters to Trump, the book is yours, sir. - Thank you. - You got it, John, there he is. Thank you for John for listening and for fun. - He was very excited. - Yeah, you know, he's like to get on the air, be the winner and get the prize. Get in, get out and get on your way. All right, let's get to whatever's-- - We have to break. - We're gonna get to our break. We're gonna take a break and then we'll come back, veteran spotlight next. - Yes, sir! - All right, we've got our next veteran from the greatest generation, the last great generation, World War II. What a pleasure it was, the details and the stories. 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Get all of this for $9.99 a month, and as my listener, if you just go to DuckDuckGo.com/1210, you're gonna get an exclusive, seven-day free trial on me. DuckDuckGo.com/1210, tell 'em to all and say to you. - It's Kale and Company on demand from TalkRadio 1210WPhD and the free Odyssey app. - Hank, how are we doing this morning and happy Veterans Day to you? Thank you for all you've done. - Thank you so much. - It's great to have you in. So let's talk a little bit about your great services to this country as you honorably served in World War II in the Navy, a combat air crew aviation machinist and achieved the rank of Seaman First Class. So tell us what led you down this path and what was your journey like once you embarked on this path? - Well, if you're rather interested in kind of a story, because I enlisted in the Navy in January of my senior year in high school. So it's funny because I never actually graduated per se from high school, but I had enough credits because of my curriculum to get my diploma. Let me put it that way. And I always used to take my grandchildren and I never graduated high school and they said, how did you become a principal? I said, I cheated, you know? So but nonetheless, and I enlisted early on and in naval aviation, but combat air crew was not a ranking kind of a thing, but we became aviation machinist. So my job was aviation machinist, but the back up was aerial gunner. - And you're still. - So you have a honorable discharge at the end of World War II. And then you pursue a career in education, not only going to Villanova, but also receiving a degree from Temple University. I am a Temple grad myself. So we have that in common for sure. What was it like going from being in the armed forces to academia? - I don't know, there was an adjustment period early on because I didn't know where to go academically and ultimately it ended up in special education. But my, it was just one of those things I needed time to straight myself out to find out really what I wanted to do. And I didn't know what I really wanted to do. We've been here for a graduate of college to be very candid. But the opportunity to teach, and here comes another story you wouldn't believe. - I love stories. - But nevertheless, when I graduated with my degree in education, I was a second and social studies teacher by certification. And when I applied to Philadelphia, my good buddy said, "Sign up for everything." So I did. And I was offered a position in teaching orthogenically backward children. Do you want to know what that's all about? - I would love to have an explanation. I have no idea, please enlighten me. - Well, the kids knew what it was, OB, orthogenic backwards and how the brains. - Oh. - They were special education students whose IQs were from 50 to 75 having trouble in their schools, but their academic learning. And it was my introduction to special education. - That's incredible. You end up becoming a principal at Widener Memorial School for over two decades. What was the difference? I can't imagine what it's like in today's society to be a principal and be in charge of hundreds, if not a couple of thousand students. What was it like for you? - You have to understand the multiple changes in the Philadelphia educational system. - Yeah. - When I started Widener, it's interesting because in my first graduate, by the way, it was kindergarten through high school. And in my first graduating class, I had the latest two post polio victims from Philadelphia, believe it or not. - Wow. - They were the final two kids diagnosed with post polio. And the bulk of the students then were different kinds of disabilities, cerebral pals who was one of the big ones. But working with those kids was just absolutely incredible. But the curriculum that had some major changes with the safety that I had, which was brilliant. We changed from a lot of the academic programs into activities for daily living. And I can go into that for quite a while. - Well, I tell you what, Mr. Blasic, I'm just so honored to chat with you because you've lived such a selfless life to help others. I mean, whether it's your military background or your education background, what a life well lived. And you've been in Roddamie, New Jersey for coming up on seven decades, your late wife, Mary, five children. I mean, at 97 years old, I mean, every day, just I would imagine when you look back on the life that you've lived, it's been quite the blessing, no? - Well, you know, it's interesting because some, as I review some of the things that have transpired in my life, I think I was ordained for what ended up, how I ended up, and I could go back to, you want to hear the goofy one. - Yeah. - The first world that I ever dated when I took her home, she had two kids and two web brothers and wheelchairs. - Oh, wow. - And I ultimately found out that both of them had cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy. - Okay. - And both of those two boys, this was my first really introduction to handicap. - Sure. - Both of those boys went to Widener way back when, and they both passed away before they were 14, 15 years old. And that was really my first introduction to a really special kid. - Incredible, loose. - Absolutely incredible. Hank, thank you so much for sharing your story. - Thank you for your service to this country and also into the education system, educating the youth of yesteryear. And God bless you. Hope to chat with you down the road again. Enjoy every day, sir. - I'm available as long as I can still speak and have my brains going. - Same here. That's a tough challenge for myself every day. I gotta be honest. Thank you so much, Mr. Blasechick. - Hey, you've got me, Hank. - All right, Hank. Take care, thank you. You got it. There he is, Hank Blasechick joining us here on Kale & Company for our 1210WPhD veteran spotlight as we honor World War II veterans, all brought to you by the great folks at Window Nation. - There you go, Hammer and Hank. How good was he? - Oh, 97 years old could run circles around me. - And me? - Yes. - It's like, oh my God. - Yep. - He was the most lucid 97 year old I've ever heard. - It's unbelievable. Amazing that these individuals still to this day, I mean, could probably, if they wanted to work, could probably do something right now. - I know. - It's true, it's true. And to hear these stories is just, that's why I'm so glad we're doing this, 'cause hearing these stories is just like, it's so important for the next generation to hear what these guys went through. And unfortunately, there's not a lot of them left. - No. - Thank God, there's guys like Hank that can tell their stories because they need, you know, they need to be heard 'cause unfortunately, a lot of the greatest generation has gone. - I agree. All right, on the other side, we'll come back, get to today in music history from Phil Palmquist, he's back, he's live, he's in studio, and then we'll find out what's on tap for The Dawn Show, which starts 16 minutes from right now. Kale & Company, back after this. - This is the Kale & Company podcast from Dark Radio 1210WPHD, and on the free Odyssey app. - Chris, hello, buddy. - All right, let's go. What do we have here on the other phone? It says, I've been watching for three hours and 40 minutes, so the whole show. - Here we go. - Oh, Chris. - We call that a P1, by the way, buddy. So you are able to attend Monday when Jimmy Matthews will run the stairs in a, it's what, a Kale & Company underwear? Is it 1210, or what do we do? - No, I think it's just regular underwear. - What are we doing now? - I think he's gonna run up the steps. I think he's gonna run up the steps in barks or shorts, carrying some sort of a flag, hopefully, if it's 1210 Kale & Company, I'm not sure. But he's gonna be some sort of promotion. - Yes, and Chris, you are gonna videotape this, right? And make a documentary on it. - Yes, that's, I wanted to call him to confirm. - Awesome. - 830 on Monday. - What, yeah, what's up with the flag, though? I want to bring, I want to bring that to Japan. - You're going to Japan? - What are you going to Japan? - April. - This year. - How you getting there? - The United Airlines. - Are you coming, are you coming back? - Boy. - Yeah. - All right. - Make sure you watch us on YouTube. - All right. - We'll get you a flag, we'll get you a flag. - Yeah, we'll get you a flask as well. It's Chris Forsythe, but I love Chris. Good guy. My kind of people. - Don't. - Don is very sad, right? - It's been a Friday with Chris. I bring Chris out tonight in all the town. - It's a good thing there's nothing else happening. - I agree. - I agree. - We got big things, we got big fish to fry, but before we fry the fish, there's a radio show, it's time to entertain. It's time for Ferrari Phil, fresh from his trip back from Arizona. What do we have? ♪ We're having fun this day in music history ♪ ♪ Music history ♪ ♪ Three and a killing company ♪ - Today, November 13th. We suffered the birthdays of Aldo Nova, who's 68, Bill Gibson from Huey Lewis, the News, who's 73, and Roger Steen from the tubes, who's now 75. We also lost Leon Russell on this day in 2016. Sings a clue, I want to know what love is by Fordner in '84. Bringin' on the heartbreak by Def Leppard here in the US in '81, downtown trained by Rod Stewart in '89, Little Red Rooster by the Stones in '64, and an old-fashioned love song by Three Dog Night in 1971. Alticoot stripped by the Stones in '95, slipped the tongue by Whitesnake in '89, then Crooked Vultures debut in 2009, and power up by AC/DC in 2020. Also in '82, business as usual by minute work was top the US album chart. In '76, a song from me just saying by Led Zeppelin is top the UK album chart. In 2000, Elton John performed in front of 90,000 people in Mexico City, and 68 The Beatles' yellow submarine film premiered in New York. But lastly, now I'll be the first to tell you that my football team thinks 'cause they currently do right now, but let's review a few things that I did this weekend that I can't do at MetLife Stadium, and we'll continue to visit cities around the country. But first, I can't take a Sedona Jeep tour at MetLife Stadium, can't do it. I also can't see the world's only museum of musical instruments 'cause it's based in Phoenix, not East Rutherford. I also can't see any mere craters around here, although maybe, you know, after all the Democrats have been complaining whatnot, maybe, you know, who knows. And I definitely can't stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, per the song, take it easy by the Eagles, for Kale Company. I have a lot of questions, head 'em back. - He's back, back and better than ever, and so is the Don Show five minutes from now? What do we have lined up top of the hour? - Yeah, so there is breaking news. Right now, we will bring you an update right off the top with, well, the latest on KCV McCormick. Will they do a recount? Are they close to that? Will KC concede? No, he's not conceding, but will there be a recount? What's going on with Pennsylvania and the counting and protectthevote.com? So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Trump in DC. That is all going on. Our friend, Jeff Bartos, he'll be back. Talk about the Pete Hagseth, you know, Fox News appointment, the cabinet pick, and what he thinks is going on with the transition team. We're also, we've also reached out to Alina Haba again. So hopefully she'll join me in the 11 o'clock hour. There is so much breaking and so much developing. I can't wait to talk about all of it. - All right, looking forward to that. I've been reaching out to Alina Haba too. She's sadly hasn't responded, but that's a different problem. - Your husband and kids will respond. - Yeah, Nancy Pelosi said on August 7th. My goal in life was that man would never step in the White House again. On November 13th, Donald Trump is about to step foot in the Oval Office again. So we'll leave you with that. Stay tuned. Dawn is up next and we are back tomorrow morning at six. If you're out of politics and pints tonight, enjoy Jimmy Fella and Rich Tioli. And on that note, we will see you tomorrow morning. - Why would you even cover that? - Start your day with Kaylin Company, week two morning, six till 10 on talk radio, 1210 WPHT and the free Odyssey app. - Come join me, Andrew Philiponi. - And me, Patrick Peterson, three time NFL off-road cornerback on First and Pod for permit NFL coverage and conversations. - Our motto on the podcast is every team every week. And we don't play favorites. 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