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with Michael Del Jr.: Welcome to Monday, June the 29th of our Lord, 26 on the air streaming live on your iHeart radio app. This is your morning show. This is live radio. I want to make sure we got everything set. Is Rory back from vacation? He didn't quit, right? Back in the saddle. All right, Rory's back. Mary's here. She's ready to sing. All right, let's go to Mary in Boise. Morning, Michael. So you have a theme song for Gulati and Migliori. How about one for our Irish friend Rory? So here goes. He's a big deal. He's Rory O'Neill. He talks about space and hurricanes. He gets the final story because he's Rory. Rory, Rory, Rory, Rory, O'Neill. Have a good day. Very nicely done, Mary. I think I like it better than this one. Didn't I write the original lyric? He's a big deal. He's Rory O'Neill. I think I did. She needs backup singers for that, just to make a couple. Earth, Wind, and Mary. Boy, I hope you had a good time. You know, the audience kind of fell in love with Natalie Migliore. Nice. You know what, take up? Yeah, isn't she a doll? We did. We missed you terribly. Did you go some more fun? She does all those mail-on-the-street interviews in New York, and she's the one that asks people all the time, oh, what do you think about XYZ? And, oh, that is the worst job in radio, I can tell you. The man on the street. Yeah, the man on the street. Or as we used to call it, AAA. All I know is you go on vacation and suddenly beer is gone in America. And they're blaming it on World Cup, but I don't know if it's you. No, no. All I do, I went to the dentist and I got new tires on the car and I changed my phone plan. Yeah, I just, yeah. But I think I would have been cheaper had I gone to Scotland and watch. I spent so much money and nothing. I know. But it goes by. slower when you do that. All right, drug enforcement agencies looking into whether marijuana should be reclassified and restrictions should be loosened nationwide. That's what we need more stupidity and more stoners. Well, right. And look, this has been something that's been moving through the process for years now. I think it started under Biden and President Trump has sort of said, let's clear the decks and sort of directed the Attorney General to try to make this happen. But reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug, sort of putting it on par with... Tylenol with codeine or ketamine or some steroids. So you'd still need a doctor's intervention, but nothing is criminal as say cocaine possession, which is where it's currently categorized. So this has to do with jail and imprisonment, ultimately.

Jail, prison. There's a lot of money involved, too, because if you make it a Schedule 3, it's going to legitimize a lot of the businesses that are in this space. They have a growing influence across the country as well, politically speaking, both the state capitals and in Washington. But all these marijuana businesses have to operate in cash and sort of a little bit behind the scenes because technically on the books, that marijuana is still illegal federally. So if this reclassification happens, could we see these types of products being sold at Walgreens, CBS? Well, that could make it more likely. But again, they'd be behind the counter. They wouldn't be, you know, in aisle number four next to the paper plates and the insect repellent. But so they could still be. I ain't looking for it anyway, Roy. You know it's to give me aisle direction. I used to work in the pharmacy. Anyway. And just like that, just like that, Jeffrey starts the bong. I didn't know. What'd you do at the pharmacy? Just sort of, yeah, clerk, I guess. Clerked at the pharmacy. Well, that was a bank teller, so we all had our jobs. I did that. That was actually in the same building. I would do the both. You did both? See how much we have in common? That's probably why you don't like me. You don't like yourself, Rory. Yes, because it scares me. It does. As the Supreme Court heads towards adjournment, several rulings are expected. As early as today, Rory has that story coming up the third hour. It is nice to have you back. Yeah, I don't, you know, I don't know that I've ever had anybody fill in. and get more love than Natalie Migliore. She fit right in. That's like I was watching, I don't know why I did this, an attempt to get sleepy. I noticed they had on the, is it the late shift or the late show? I think it's called the late shift. And it was the story of Letterman and Leno and pushing out Johnny Carson and probably one of the best performances of Kathy Bates. And we've interviewed both, the person who played Letterman. John Michael Higgins, as well as Daniel Roebuck, who played Jay Leno in that. It's just an absolutely masterpiece movie. So I couldn't stop watching that. And then I'm still wide awake, so I put on Game Changer, which is the story of Sarah Palin and John McCain as a ticket with Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris plays John McCain. It's just, you know, so I got no sleep last night. And then I did finally this weekend, I think it was Meredith, that could have been someone else. told me you've got to see the remarkable bright creature, remarkably bright creature. Creatures? Remarkably bright creatures. Boy, it really needs a new title because I'm telling you, this movie blew me away. It's one of those movies where you'll want to leave almost instantly. You're like, what is this? A Saturday morning show? And it needs a new title, maybe even a new beginning, but stick with it. It is one of the more remarkable movies I've seen in the last 25 years, and it sticks out like the notebook did. Just a beautiful story.

with meaning. You'll think about it the rest of your life kind of a thing. And that and a sea of what, sequels and remakes and no ideas. So remarkably bright creatures, I think, is what it's called, Sally Field Stars and that. So I bring that up to David before we get ready to go back on the air with Rory and you start crying. It really was a remarkable movie, wasn't it? After the weird reality that there's an octopus talking to you as the narrator, and I'm out. Fortunately, my son-in-law and daughter said, you can't leave the room. And 15 minutes later, we were all hooked. I can't tell you many times we clicked on it. We said, no, that can't be good. And finally stuck it out. I'm like, wow. movie, move me more than anything. Of course, that goes back to, I read the book Bridges of Madison County and cried. I think I haven't got my man card back since. All right, here comes America, 250. This is the week leading up to the birthday celebration. We had a lot of high hopes collectively for America. I don't think that's going to happen. It should still happen for each and every one of us listening. I've lived through the 200th bicentennial in 1976. Now here I am at the 250th. And it begs the question as we start this week-long focus on the countdown to 250. America 250 versus 200, let alone 1776. I think that's a pretty good way to start the conversation, David. Thanks, Michael. And thanks for taking the time to do this. You know, it's interesting. I've got a card, a note card I found here on my desk, and I'm carrying it with me this week because this was 18 months ago. And I was starting on some of the ideas and actually had some of the graphics. I was illicit writing out logos and stuff and ideas. We've been at this for a couple of years now because we knew this was going to be an opportunity that only comes by one more time in a lifetime. Sometimes, you know, the idea that you get two birthdays, two big birthdays for America, you've lived a pretty good life, but you don't get to see three. So we knew this was going to be our last chance to make a stand. And, of course, the organization that I've had the privilege to serve for a lifetime now is the American Policy Roundtable, which is founded on the first principles of the Declaration and the Constitution, those Judeo-Christian thoughts that have emerged out of human culture by the power of God's revelation that we have grasped onto and found our way home. And those principles have been long under attack, not that they're sick babies that we need to worry about those principles disappearing by our human adolescence. But the reality is you've got to figure out how to live down here. And 250 years ago, a group of people got in a room and got it right. And they launched what British historian Paul Johnson calls the greatest adventure of human experience. the founding of America. And that's what we're celebrating. It's interesting. I think, you know, the whole comparison.

I know I lived 19, and it might sound anecdotal. I lived 1976. I lived the bicentennial. That was a celebration. I mean, I remember collecting the bicentennial quarters. I remember the bicentennial minutes. I mean, the whole year was themed, red, white, and blue bicentennial. And that was a celebration. And I remember our neighborhoods and our community. at Rolling Meadows High School, let alone what was happening national. It was, I mean, from the front door to Main Street to the nation's capital, it was a celebration. It doesn't feel much like one at 250. No, we've lost our way. There's just no doubt about it. And I will tell you that it's not that we were more divided or less divided politically then. No. Not a good time. Post Watergate. I mean, America was absolutely miserable in 1976. And even our misery served as motivation to remember who we were called to be and to celebrate the ideas that brought America to where we are. There was almost a sense like we got to get off the mat because we were flat out after Watergate. It was a disaster. If you and I had been on the year in 1976, if I hadn't been a 12-year-old, We would have had the same hopes that we did this year, that America would return to that document, that declaration. In the midst of the gas lines, in the midst of recession, in the midst of high interest, in the midst of post-Watergate, in the midst of Jimmy Carter coming on the scene, we would have hoped they returned that document that we could unite. I brought up earlier the whole analogy of 1968. We had a lunar orbit this year. Didn't do what the lunar orbit and 68 did. The pilots had the same observation from the moon looking at the earth and seeing the only color. Yeah, I mean, but America didn't respond. And now the birthday comes, still no response. We were able to do it in 1976. We're not able to do it in 2026. Why? Well, because we're just that much more spiritually barren than we were. You just, you, you, you can't fight when there's no gas left in the tank. I think that we are just absolutely flat out of gas as a country. We have tried to do, we've mistaken independence and autonomy. That's a big difference. The idea of wanting to grow up and be independent means that you want to grow up and become all that the creator made you to be. You want to take personal responsibility for self-government. That's independence. We swap that out for autonomy, which is basically the two-year-old attitude, which says, I do it myself. And so we've tried to operate as if we're alone in the universe and that the actual God of the universe is our enemy when in fact the people who put this country together called him their dearest friend. We've moved from a nation of self-evident truth to self-evident absurdity. And now we're basically lost in our addictions. We're messed up.

We're sincerely messed up. We talked earlier about this poll and the juxtaposition. I mean, as you got people from all over the world coming to, for all things, the World Cup, I just never saw it coming. I don't know why. I never saw this coming. That the world would come here, because I don't follow soccer like the world does. The world comes to America for soccer and falls in love with America as America is in what? Self-loathing. embarrassment and hatred of itself. I mean, it reminds me of a teenage daughter who, and again, I go through this as a believer, and I don't want to make anybody uncomfortable and talk about spiritual things, but. As a believer, every day I fail this, but every day I seek this. I don't want to meet people and see them the way I see them. I want to meet people and see them through God's eyes. I want to love them through his heart. We don't always love people enough to take the time to do that. But if we did, it'd be a much different experience living every day. Oh, I was just going to say, and sure, there'd still be that one person in the minivan with the left turn signal on trying to get over to the right. I mean, that's still going to happen. But I mean, here's everybody coming to America. Falling in love with America and we have a survey that shows Democrats want to leave the country. The majority of Democrats no longer want to live inside America. Wow. Happy birthday. No wonder nobody's showing up for the party. Boy, there's bait for one second response. Oh, you could. That's about all the time we have. Yeah. Let's come back to that. More with David Sinati. America at 250. Compared to 200, 1976, let alone compared to 1776. Our week-long focus on the countdown to 250 with our senior contributor, David Sinati, continues in a moment. Well, gold and silver recently soared to record highs, I might add. Then, honestly, it did pull back a little bit. So are precious metals still a good buy? Question number one. Well, major banks think so. They're focusing and forecasting even higher prices ahead. And why? Well, we're still $40 trillion in debt. The dollar is still declining. And inflation keeps shrinking our savings. Even with corrections along the way, gold remains a historical hedge for wealth protection. That's why Morgan Stanley just ditch the 6040 stock to bond portfolio. They're now recommending up to 20% in precious metals. They've gotten educated. We should too. Call near capital today. 800, 880, 2424, 24. Get your free gold investment kit and learn while you're doing it how you could qualify for up to $20,000 in bonus gold. With over $3 billion in transactions, thousands of five-star reviews, and almost 30 years in the business, Lear Capital is my trusted precious metals source. You can trust them. Call Lear. 800-880-24-24-24. 1-800-880-24-24. That's 800-880-24 for Lear Capital today. This is your morning show with Michael Del Chorno. We're visiting with David Tanati about America 250.

And Red said off the year to you. I'm so glad you brought up that 1976 was not a good year. That was a terrible time for a birthday. We had the recession. We had come out of the late 60s in the early 70s, the civil rights fighting, the anti-war movement, the Vietnam War Watergate. And then along came Jimmy Carter. I know in one minute we can't do justice to this, but as people foreshadowed this birthday with the presidential election in two years. You might want to take a peek at that Jimmy Carter win because it wasn't by much. If you analyze the Carter win, 15,500 votes out of 80 million cast, if 15,500 votes had changed in three key states, Hawaii, Florida, excuse me, Hawaii, Vermont, and Ohio, Jimmy Carter would have lost. And now we're still maybe looking at what? Alaska, Maine? in Ohio, you know, could be coming up in the forest. We're going to talk more about that when we come back after a visit with John Decker. And we got a strange call from somebody. I don't really have 15 seconds that, you know, rejects it. We're saying the birthday, we're not saying our birthday sucks. I don't know what you're listening to. We're just being realistic about how America celebrated in 1976 versus 2026, let alone we should be. viewing America through the lens of 1776. This is Rob in Knoxville, Tennessee, and my morning show is your morning show with Jeffrey and Red. Oh, yeah, and Michael Deljornow. Amazon Health AI presents painful thoughts. I am. I can't stop scratching my downtown. Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud. There's no question too embarrassing for Amazon Health AI. Chat your symptoms and get virtual care 24-7. Health care just got less painful. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for MintMobil. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of Unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out... That's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Up-round payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for $12-1 plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. Bite into a stack sandwich made with hero bread or a fully loaded bagel. And the only thing you'll think is delicious. You won't think it's up to 19 grams of protein, but it is. You wouldn't believe it has 11 to 32 grams of fiber, but it does. Hero Bread makes loaves, buns, tortillas, bagels, and noodles hacked with taste, but without all the net carbs. We're talking 0 to 5 grams net carbs per serving. With Hero Bread, there are no compromises. Just flavor.

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If you want to hate America, listen to the news. If you want to love America, travel it. Somebody ought to make a bumper sticker out of that one. We've got a pair of Johns now. This John is in Marion, Ohio. Michael, the Bible says, I think like 365 times fear not. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to boldly go where no man has gone before. I think our best days are still ahead. Yeah, we're going to talk to Newt Gingrich on Wednesday. I caught Newt in an interview discussing the difference between did our founding fathers have courage or no fear? And then he went into the Bible. The Bible describes fear not. Don't fear. Didn't say anything about courage. Just lack of fear. We'll talk more about that with Newt as well. Also, Lou Diamond Phillips tomorrow. He's out with a new movie. We'll talk to him about that. The other John was John Decker, our White House correspondent, who spent the weekend covering the president. There's no rest for the weary around the White House. And the president certainly had a lot to say about socialism, communism, as a threat from within and more disruptions with Iran in this peace deal. John, good morning. Good morning. Yeah, that's right. You know, what we learned yesterday is that those peace talks are back on after we saw strikes being carried out by both the U.S. and Iran over the past few days, upsetting that peace process. Now we understand that there could be another round of peace talks happening in Doha, in Qatar, as early as tomorrow. So that's a good thing as it relates to the Strait of Formos. That was the focus of those strikes over the course of the past few days. So the long and the short was they struck a ship. We retaliated. They retaliated against allies. Now the talks are back on. Do we know who's going to attend the talks? No, we don't. We know that it's unlikely to be high-level U.S. officials. That being said, we know that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, has been meeting with some of our allies in the Arab world over the past few days. But as you know, he has not been involved in these direct talks. It has been the vice president. So perhaps a vice president could potentially be involved. But we know that the technical talks have been carried out by lower-level U.S. officials. Yeah, lost in all of this. I get bombarded with you. I even got an email from Zohran Mamdani over the weekend. But I get these emails, especially from the Atlantic. And they just in general portray this war as lost. And a president trying to pull the wool over the American people that we've won a war we've lost. And I know Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the weekend had a very colorful way to describe it. It's like a car missing two wheels with its chassis dragon. I mean, they're hanging by a...

They're certainly weakened. What's in this for Iran to keep this going? It's as if it's just about, you know, both are trying to play a midterm game, it seems like. But I can't imagine from Iran standpoint. And every day they just further alienate themselves with other Muslim and Arab nations, especially when they strike them. And then I don't know what they think they're going to come away with. They're never going to be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. the straight will be opened one way or another. So my question is twofold. What are they playing for? And how long can the president keep selling this as peace? Did that come up? Michael, you're asking. You're asking me to get inside the head of what I consider to be an irrational actor. And I can't do that. I don't know. You know, I think that any other rational actor, any other state would have come to the negotiating table and reached an agreement to bring an end to the fighting, to essentially cede the control of the Strait of Formuz to the international community. They're not controlling it, but that's not what Iran's doing. Iran perhaps is looking ahead to the November elections, and maybe they want to impact what happens here in America politically. I don't know, but we do know that this is going on for quite some time. The talks began way back on April the 11th in Pakistan, and they continue to this day. Well, the president seems to committed to keep the talks going. He also seems committed to keep threatening them that if they don't come to the table, what's going to happen? How long before they not come to the table that something happens? That ticks on his credibility watch as well. So we'll have to keep an eye on that. What else over the weekend? Any other highlights? I know he was pretty outspoken against socialism and the growing socialist movement within the Democrat Party. That pretty much wraps it up. I mean, this is the big week leading into 250. Well, it is the president on social media going after the person who is likely to be the new mayor of Washington, D.C. You may recall in the Oval Office, I asked the president about this individual. And he said, if she emerges victorious in the Democratic primary, it could potentially lead the president said to a federal takeover of the nation's capital. So that's the threat that's out there. The president said that he is certainly up to meeting. with Janice Lewis George. And no meeting is on the president's schedule just yet. But I hope I'm in the Oval Office for that meeting. It's going to be an interesting one to say the least. The White House briefing room is a daily podcast hosted by John Decker. It'll be coming up at 8th Central, 9 Eastern. What can they look for today, John? Well, we're going to be talking about this deal, reached between the U.S. and Iran, talking also about the president's social media post. You know, I was with the president yesterday. when he was viewing some of the work that intends to be done on a golf course that's owned by the National Park Service. The president looking at blueprints. This is another building project that the president would like to get involved with. And he said that the work could be completed by the fall. So another opportunity for the president to remake Washington, D.C. while he's here in his second term. White House briefing room with John Decker comes your way. Top of the hour.

8 o'clock central, 9 o'clock Eastern. Appreciate you so much, John. Take care. Thank you, Michael. All right. We were talking about, you know, 1976, not being far different from 2026 politically. You're coming out of not long before the civil rights movement and fighting and divisions in our country on all our... riot at the DNC convention in 68. Nixon talking to the silent center gets office. You had the anti-war movement. You had the hippie movement. Then you have Watergate and the end of Vietnam kind of all coming together. And Gerald Ford taking over a party in shambles and a governor, Jimmy Carter, out of nowhere, getting small gains and eventually winning the election by very small margins. 7,000 votes won Hawaii. That's a change factor of 3,500. In Ohio, he won by 11,000 votes. And Delaware, he won by 13,000 votes. I mean, you're talking about a vote per precinct in three very key states. It passed as prologue. America finds itself in a similar place at 250. Senior contributor David Zanati here, peaking ahead to not this November, the midterm so much as the 2020 presidential. What can we learn? Well, we can learn that you've been talking about 68 and the anti-war movement and the Christmas Eve rendering of the book of Genesis, the reading back to the world from the first time Americans ever look back at the earth from the moon, the moonscape picture, and the tremendous impact that had on the world. And it wasn't just that. There were many other things that were happening at the same time, but the fact that America turned toward a sense of order and toward a sense of repentance. And we've got to find a way out of this mess. We can't live like this. So we were going in that direction. And of course, that's kind of personal renewal, the family renewal, corporate renewal, the desire to go back and do things the right way. That's independent of politics, but then politics usually follows. So the personal repentance comes first, the political ideas comes second. Well, Richard Nixon and his people capitalized on that. As you rightly discern, they began to speak to a group of people that were trying to figure out how to do the right thing the right way. And they became law and order. They became let's put America back together again. And so people trusted Nixon and then Nixon betrayed them. Now, it wasn't that the stupid thing of Watergate, this ridiculous bungled burglary that was like a high school prank in the end of it was such a big deal, but they caught Nixon on tape intentionally covering it up. And the sense of betrayal was overwhelming at that point in time in regards to what we had experienced in the presidency. That sense of betrayal created a reaction that turned us from flat on our back to voting for Jimmy Carter and then it got worse. Because Jimmy Carter, in essence, because of his tremendous lack of understanding, opened the door to Khomeini, opened the door to the fight that we're still having in this very hour with radical Islam. Now, you're asking the question, why is Iran doing what they're doing? Simple. They remember Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. They know that if they can truly help Donald Trump.

step off the cliff on this, that it's good for Iran politically. Following the bouncing ball. All right. First of all, the Democrat parties at war with itself. The top story is the socialist communist movement within the party. And that's their goal to first take over the party. That did that email. That did not exist in 1976. The Republican Party, by the way. You know, the head of it, the leader of it, had a scandal, Nixon and 76. But right now, let's face it, most of the energy in the Republican Party is really not MAGA in terms of the definition of MAGA, but certainly orange victories, more than red victories. And so how they handle this handoff? The Republican Party will try to absorb Trumpism like it did. It absorbed the Tea Party. I don't know that. Trumpism will want to be absorbed like the Tea Party. So you could have an inner struggle there. So two parties within her struggle is a difference. But even following the bouncing ball, if we look for a governor, and I don't think it's Gavin Newsom, it's probably the Pennsylvania governor, though I don't know any, but if there's a chance for him to pull a Jimmy Carter because of the anti-Israel anti-Semitic movement within the Democrat Party.

Yeah, and that's what we're going to be talking about this week. And I do think at the end of the day, there's a great reason for hope. And that's because the self-evident truths that started this whole thing are still self-evident and they're still true. It's a week-long focus as we count down to 250. Believe it or not, America will have a birthday party on Saturday. Who all's coming and who all celebrating? We'll have more tomorrow with David. Thank you so much, David. Thanks, Michael. David is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable, host of the Public Square, heard on 200 stations and on-demand anytime at the public square.com. He's also our resident movie reviewer, and we're giving eight thumbs up to the octopus movie, remarkably bright creatures with Sally Fields. It really was remarkable. I didn't cry like you, but I was moved. We went and saw, what was the sci-fi movie, the Spielberg Disclosure? names aren't sticking with me. They name movies. So is it National Disclosure Day? I think it was Disclosure Day. Missed it. Yeah. And, you know, where America could go with this. I will tell you my discernment, so I can say it out loud so it's on the record. Remember how if you want to understand COVID, you might want to go back and watch the movie Contagion that came out before COVID. If you want to understand 9-11, you might want to go back and watch executive decision, the movie that came out before 9-11. And I got a sense that this movie in discernment might be something bigger coming, that America could be duped with its obsession into alien beings and looking for a new god. find one in an alien that cautions me but my son was like well was it good i don't know you didn't seem like you liked it hey for two hours uh it kept my attention will i ever think about it again no for an hour and a half to almost an hour and 45 minutes remarkably bright creatures will keep your attention and you will never forget seeing it and i hope you never view life the same after seeing it that's how good of a movie it is and because it involves an octopus we give it a thumbs up right That's it. Eight thumbs up and two tears down from David Zanati, our movie reviewer. All right, that recapped everything. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Those words weren't written in history books. They were written for you. Now that's hard to pursue when you're in pain. Relief factor was created to help people address inflammation. One of the most common causes of ongoing aches and pains, whether it's aging, over exertion, or daily living. It's 100% drug-free. Research-based formula. And it works through multiple metabolic pathways, and it supports comfort and mobility. There's no prescription, no masking symptoms, just real relief. Now, my relief factor story was made fun of Glenn Beck for years, never thought to take it. And when the pain got to my hands and really started impacting golf even beyond back pain, I gave it a try. Now, because it works over time, there was no immediate relief. I just kept doing it and doing it and doing it. And then one day I'm golfing and I'm like, oh, I haven't taken Advil. When was the last time I took Advil? What will be your relief factor story? America's getting ready to celebrate 250 years of independence. It's time to claim your independence from pain.

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