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We're in this together. This is your morning show with Michael Deltron. Hey, Mikey, this is Joey. Happy Tuesday. Have got a cup of coffee. I got a cup of coffee. I got a cup of coffee in a Danish, Joey. Seven minutes after the hour, the Senate went without a vote. We head into our fourth week of government shutdown. President Trump signing an agreement with Japan to speed up cooperation. on the process of critical minerals, gave a fiery speech on board the USS George Washington to the troops. Amazon laying off 30,000 corporate workers. We're expecting the Fed to cut interest rates again this week. And we are expecting Hurricane Melissa to make landfall this morning. First stop, Jamaica. Our first stop, your morning show, national correspondent, Hurricane expert, Rory O'Neill. Good morning. Michael, good morning. You know, the wind speeds from Hurricane Melissa have only intensified, 175 mile per hour, sustained winds on top of that wind gust topping 215 miles per hour. Some reports that one of the surveillance planes captured a gust or measured a gust of 241 miles per hour. Luckily, this is, the storm is big in terms of the total wind field, but the actual hurricane force winds. It's relatively small. It's only about 60 miles across, but this thing is going to be like a buzzsaw as it moves across Jamaica very slowly. The only good news is that the forward speed of the storm has moved up a little bit. It's now moving at five miles an hour, not three miles an hour. So hopefully relief will come a little bit sooner for Jamaica. Yeah, and we were keeping an eye on this. I mean, the winds, you know. That adds to the storm surge. But what is the storm surge looking like projection-wise for first Jamaica and then more importantly, Cuba? Well, right. And remember, it's going to be a one-two punch for storm surge. So from the south, as Melissa moves ashore, these storms move in a counter-clockwise motion. So sound like Popeye winding up a punch, right? So imagine that, it's going to come up. And on that, if you're imagining it as a clock between 12 and 3 is the toughest area of these storms. And as it comes ashore, that 3 o'clock... part is really what has the biggest storm surge that could be about 18 feet high. Now, as the storm moves across Jamaica, on the other side, the counterclockwise movement is continuing. So now between 9 and 12 is the hard part, and that's going to be coming down on the island. And that could, again, impart another 8-foot storm surge, roughly the same as what Cuba could be getting in the worst-case scenario there for our folks in Guantanamo Bay. I'm remembering, you know, growing up in New Orleans and you living in Florida, we've lived through many hurricanes. And I remember the first part of the hurricane coming through and it being crazy. And then all of a sudden the sun came out and we played football on the golf course. And then all of a sudden the back end of the storm came and with it, the flooding. So you just never know what these things will do. Now the trajectory wise in terms of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, our interest there. How's that looking?

Yeah, that's on the friendlier side of the storm for Guantanamo Bay, but still, it may be a cat three or a cat four hurricane as a passes over. So they have been doing evacuations of non-essential personnel in advance, getting the bases ready as they can. And a lot of these areas have dealt with storms before. They know the drill. But to see something with 175 mile-per-hour winds, that's something different. And especially Jamaica, they're looking at mudslides, washed out roads, washed out bridges. There go the utility, the electric, the water. This is going to likely take a full rebuild for a lot of the island. Yeah, and we've talked about this yesterday. It is definitely within the hurricane season, but a cat five with this level of wind and rain, that's usually warmer waters earlier in the hurricane season. It is rare to have one this powerful this late. But have it we do, and it hits Jamaica this morning, and that'll be a double slap from morning to evening, and then on to Cuba. Rory, appreciate it. We're going to have more with Rory in the third hour. We'll talk a little bit about this new study that is out on American attitudes, about things like the NFL extending the season, even Bad Bunny that were all divided over, and that seemed to fall on partisan lines in our latest survey of the day. We'll have that for you coming up in just a little bit, and we'll be back in the third hour. Talkbacks. Can't have your morning show without your voice. Kelly in Columbus, Georgia. In reference to the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clip you just played, why is she using biblical language? The Book of Esther tells us. for such a time as this, and Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. That's funny. I didn't peg Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a regular Sunday school attender. Have a great day. Yeah, she's taunting Riley Gaines, telling her to get a job when she's a mother, and taunting her over losing swim meets to men. Yeah, you know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but again, if you weren't listening, it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fiery speech, which first and foremost, Why is the Democrat Party making this New York City mayor's race a referendum for their party? Now, that only works for the socialist, Islamist, communist side of the party. We saw the governor. She's in the worst position. Kathy Hochul has promised not to raise taxes. So for Zohran Mamdani to go beyond pandering. and actually deliver on any of these promises, he's going to have to raise taxes, individual tax rates as he's promising, and corporate tax rates. If he raised the corporate tax rates too high, the exodus continues out of New York. And then there's no business, jobs, minimum wage, or any wage for anybody. And it simply wouldn't happen. But he cannot raise personal income tax to pay for free transit or... convenience stores or child care without the governor's approval. And she has pledged not to raise taxes. So she is in the most awkward. And then she shows up and delivers the speech and tries to nuance it on child care only. But I mean, this is extremely dangerous. And so what I laid out to you was I believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to be the frontrunner for the presidential nomination. And I think she gave what she wants to launch this as her platform for her run.

in 2028. Now, I don't know how it plays out. I don't know if there are D&C strategists that are allowing the far left, like a parasite, to just kill itself off. But don't forget, if the parasite should accidentally win, it kills the hosts and then itself. my prediction of one or both parties being gone by the end of the decade. This is really coming to a head in a storm. But what you see is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Zohran Mamdani rally laying out the new Democrat Party platform, which is Islamist, anti-Israel, and they'll get some help from the far right on that, more on that later, probably tomorrow with David Sinati, but also communistic and socialistic. It's either the end of the Democrat Party. or the end of this civil war within its party, or as they've effectively taken America to the left with it, could be the end of our republic as we know it. So keep a good eye on that, Kelly. To St. Louis now. I think my favorite part about the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance, who blah, is that no one can really force me to watch anything, and no one can force anyone else to watch anything. And if I don't want to watch the halftime show, hey, if I don't want to watch the Super Bowl, just because the halftime performance irks me, that's my complete and legal right. And no one can take that away from me. Have a good morning, Michael. Thank you so much for listening and being a part of the show. Listen, I'll be the adult in the room. America, you got much, much bigger problems than Bad Bunny. Personally, I'd like to just get rid of these halftime shows. Keep the halftime a normal length. Pull like a Lenny Dawson. Go off the field, go to the locker room, make some adjustments, have a beer, smoke a cigarette, and let's keep the focus on football, but that's just me. All right, I bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now remember, this, I don't know what you want to call them anymore. We used to call it the socialist arm of the party. It's actually the social justice is the name, but it's kind of morph now, or does Zohran Mamdani and some of the squad represent a new forming Islamist? I don't think the socialists and the Islamists are going to have a hard time getting along and combining. And combined, what are they? And I've never been able to really put my finger on it. I think if you combine them, it might be 36% of the party, which should scream at you because remember how races work. You have to have unity. And you have to have energy. And whether the energy is on a personality, a candidate, or on a key issue in a cycle. If you've got unity and you've got energy, you've got turnout, and you usually win. Especially Democrats, because there used to be more Democrats than Republicans. Now, the 36 percent, and I don't know if it's 32, but just for the sake of conversation.

The 36% of the Democrat Party that would respond to Zohran Mamdani, respond to Elizabeth Warren, respond to Bernie Sanders, and yes, respond to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That 36% is very passionate, very unified, and very energized. That's why you have so many people in the shutdown, afraid of them. I got to find this clip because I tried to find it earlier and I got lost, but I want you to hear it. And I don't remember where I put it. Oh, here it is. This is, I have time. This is Speaker Johnson laying it out in different words as it relates to the shutdown. Listen, that they have to appease the Marxist base, that they're so concerned that they'll lose their jobs. if they don't appease the far left in their party and they sat in a back room and they made the calculation that they would rather shut their government down and impose all this pain on the american people because they believe the marxists the far left in the base are more active than hard-working americans people who go vote and so they made the calculation that it's worth it to them every day gets better for us we'll use the pain as leverage for what to prove to the far left base that they won't give in, that they'll fight Trump and fight the Republicans. What are they fighting? It's a clean CR. It's the same level of funding that they have voted for as recently as earlier this year. So if they would do all this with the budget, what will they do with the primary process? What will they do with their messaging and narrative in a midterm? Because I would suggest this, 36% is enough to win a primary. I don't know if it's enough to win a general. That much of the future is uncertain. But what is certain, unified, passionate, energized, bingo. And that's why I believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the front runner early on as Bernie was. And he has passed the torch to her. By the way, we do have a new poll out just to give you a quick little glimpse before the music starts playing. Pete Buttigieg, believe it or not, leads the 2028 field right now at 19% in New Hampshire. Now this is New Hampshire alone and New Hampshire is not a great snapshot. I'll remind you, Joe Biden came in seventh in New Hampshire and he went on to be president. Gavin Newsom is close behind at 15%, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is at 14%. So she is tied for second. But this is what I'm getting at. The Gavin Newsom's, the Pete Buttigieg's, they won't have that early energy and turnout that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will. She'll get off to a huge lead, just like Bernie did. The DNC will scramble and give you somebody like Rom Emanuel. This is your morning show with Michael Del Chono.

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Yeah, that speech happened just within the past few hours. The president is now attending a dinner in his honor in Tokyo, Japan, that is hosted by the new Japanese prime minister. The U.S. and Japan have already reached a trade deal that was several months ago. Japan pays a tariff rate of 15% for all of the goods from Japan coming into our country. And the president, as you know, earlier in his trip of Malaysia. reach trade deals or frameworks for trade deals with four Southeast Asian countries. The president wrapping up his trip with his dinner this evening, and then tomorrow he'll travel to South Korea for the APEC summit. All right. So in that summit, we think, or at least it has been signaled that everything's in line to finalize the TikTok sale. That's huge. As well as finalize this. trade deal with China, perhaps the biggest piece of this whole puzzle. And that would say a lot about how much ground has been gained on fentanyl as well as some of the trade disparities. But we think we got a deal. That's exactly right. And I think that America's farmers are very much interested in this trade deal because according to Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who met with his Chinese counterpart just a few days ago in Malaysia, China has agreed to resume. its purchases of large amounts, large volumes of American soybeans. And they have essentially boycotted those purchases for the full year that President Trump has been in office. Now those purchases will resume. So that's good news for those farmers. And it really is shaping up to be a very successful Asia trip for President Trump. So when John goes to LSU and they get blown out by Texas A&M, Coach gets fired. John stays up and watches 18 innings of the Blue Jays finally losing. Does that get the Blue Jays manager fired? Time will tell. You can learn more about what John's covering. The White House briefing room is his podcast. It'll be up by 9 Eastern later this morning. The White House briefing room with John Decker. Find that podcast on your iHeart app and then lock it in. Make it a preset that way. It's a button away every morning. Thanks, John, for joining us. All right, 40 minutes after the hour, you might remember Obamacare. And really preceding that, we go to Hillary Clinton. She was going to set up a single-payer system, a government-run health care. As First Lady commissioned to do that, it failed. And it didn't help that Newt Gingrich came along and the Republicans got control of Congress two years into the presidency. Dashes all their dreams. Then Obama comes along, same apparatus, same pedesta. They set up Obamacare. Remember, you got to vote for it before you read it. We'll find out what's in it after we vote. Some have concluded Obamacare was designed to fail, and fail it did, starting with its website. And then inevitably, it did not insure everyone. In fact, very few more than were uninsured to create Obamacare. And premiums didn't go down. They actually went up. And the quality of care didn't go up. It went down. And then it all got supersized during COVID. What's really going on here? Well, what you have are massive subsidies going to the insurance companies and massive amount of lobbying dollars to ensure that money continues to flow. Why? That's how you hide the premiums. Remember, everything got shuffled from checkout to premiums.

Because everybody wasn't paying for health care. You achieved nothing. It was broke, designed to break. So then you would have to go to a single payer system. But in the process, we have the shell game being played. You got a lot of people getting health care, getting subsidized by taxpayers. It's a big, massive subsidy scheme. And that may have a lot to do with why the government is still shut down and the Democrats won't budge. Hans von Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation. Senior Fellow is here. Hans, I saw this story and I thought right up your wheelhouse. You and David Zanadi, this is so up your wheelhouse. Connect the dots for everybody because I think this makes sense in terms of the government shutdown. And where did the failed Obamacare go? And why haven't we talked about it for a decade? Because they've been hiding it. Well, they have, but the amount of money out of the federal budget is like half a trillion dollars. I mean, it's a huge amount. And what it's been doing is subsidizing not people who are poor. That's not the situation at all. In fact, it is subsidizing insurance. for lots and lots of enrollees who are way over. In fact, there's one study shows 400% above the federal poverty level. So this whole program, this whole program was designed to subsidize government health care and eventually lead to it being the entire health care system. So Obamacare, a huge failure by design, propped up until it falls with these subsidies, and then you have the middleman, the massive lobbying dollars to paid and bought career politicians. How do you break the shell game? Well, you know, what's interesting about this is that, remember, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are refusing to fund the government over these subsidies. Why are they ending? Well, they were extended during COVID, and Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats voted for them to end in December. So they're trying to reverse their prior vote, which said, well, we're only going to have these subsidies during this period of time. Well, COVID's long over. But they are in bed with not just the insurance companies, but the fact that, look, secretly, all of this is to lead down the path to government health care, the kind that England has, the kind that Canada has, eventually. I mean, that's what they want to have happened. And look, Michael, I'm sure you saw this. This is such an extreme position. that they just lost the support of the public unions. Yeah.

The federal employees union just flipped on the Democrats. Although wouldn't Chuckie, if Chuckie were honest and we hooked a lie detector up to him, he would say, well, of course, I was being reasonable. That was a supersized subsidy to prop up the insurance companies during COVID, and COVID was over. So of course I voted for that. But since then, the crazy left in my party wants us to just fight, fight, fight, no matter what, and just, you know. be a complete dysfunctional opposition to Trump. So that's the inconsistency. But you know where this is headed. If that crazy left portion of their party can control them to hurt their own constituents by extending this shutdown, well, they're going to control the narrative heading into the midterm and certainly beyond that in 2028. I think we got a glimpse of that with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's speech for Zohran Mamdani, that they are going to go full socialist. That means... Government health care. That means free food, free housing. They're all rights of every human being. So I don't think there's a future for Chuck Schumer, but I think this is the future. But, you know, most people in talk radio are just talking about, well, they want to give free health care to illegals. No, it's a way worse game than that. Well, you're right about that. And let me tell you, anyone who thinks that's a good idea? I look at one point in my past, I actually worked for the U.S. division of a Canadian company. All the Canadians there were so happy to be in the U.S. You know why? So healthcare. Yeah, under the Canadian system, if they wanted to see a doctor, it could take them six months. Eight months, a year before they could get in. They could not get the kind of procedures they needed. Whereas here, they made a phone call and they could go see their doctor next week. Well, you know, we- They were so happy to be out of that. I don't know how, I don't know if you have kids or how old they are, Hans, but, you know, I looked at my daughter and I said, look, you know, you're talking about everything but why wouldn't you become a dermatologist in America today? It is so hard to get into a dermatologist. And you may have something that's suspicious. It looks like it could be skin cancer. And then you'll call and set the appointment. It'll be like next April. I mean, it's insane. I mean, we need more dermatologists. But when it's cancer and you can't get in to get an MRI, get a diagnosis, let alone early radiation, that's life or death. So yeah, there are problems with the single payer system. These are not lessons we need to learn. We just need to look right across the border. to see them. All right. So they have propped up the failure of Obamacare. It kind of got off the radar of all Americans. And the way it's been able to maintain itself is this shell game with subsidies. And now it leads to this shutdown. So what's the bottom line on this? What can my listeners understand that listeners to other shows can and what must come of this? Well, we're about to reach a historical record in the longest shutdown ever. I don't think Chuck Schumer and his people are going to back down for quite a while. This could go through potentially the end of the year because they have, they have.

put their political ambitions in and they're unwilling to use common sense. I think what's going to have to happen is even more unions are going to have to break away from their support and start pressuring them. If that happens, then finally they may agree to a clean continuing resolution and this may come to an end. Yeah, not to mention we head into November and December and then you've got holiday travel. And that's not going to vie well for them either. But yeah, I think what you're seeing is the setup. But look, we've said for the longest time the left doesn't have a messenger or a message. Well, the messengers are starting to come forward. It's going to be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It's going to be Zohran Mamdani. Bernie has handed the torch to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So just as Bernie led in the primaries in 2016 and 2020, she'll get the early lead. The DNC will scramble, try to give you Rahm Emanuel with somebody like Josh Shapiro or. or the governor of Maryland. But they're going to run on the parasite. They're going to run on full-blown socialism. And I think that's going to be their demanded message in the midterm and in the presidential. Oh, interesting times are ahead. But thanks for connecting the dots on this shell game to keep Obamacare propped up so that it can fail, so that we can get a failed government health care system. Hans von Spokoski. You can read his great work at Heritage.org. Thanks for finding time for us this morning, Hans. This is your morning show with Michael Del Chorno.

A Minnesota man is facing federal charges for allegedly offering $45,000. Oh, those crazy leftists. They're not playing well with others in the sand. This time, $45 grand to kill the Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Tyler Avalos was arrested October the 16th after being accused of posting the threat on TikTok. It featured a photo of Pam Bondi with a sniper scope red dot on her forehead, along with the text, Wanted Pam Bondi, reward $45,000, dead or alive, preferably dead. The post was reported to the FBI on October 9th. Avalos has a criminal history that includes a 2022 felony stalking conviction and a 2016 misdemeanor domestic assault conviction. He made an initial court appearance in Minneapolis earlier this month. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump keeps racking up the victories on this Asian trip and the biggest are still to come in South Korea. with President Xi Jinping of China. But the week-long visit continues, and Tammy Trio has the update. Earlier, today he spoke to American troops aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Japan, where he touted record military spending. We've never spent so much, and we've never spent it more wisely, because now we watch it. We spend it properly. I'm also supporting it across the board pay raise for every sailor and service member in the United States. Trump is coming off talks with Japan's first female prime minister focusing on security trade and defense spending. It's the latest stop for the president on a multi-day trip to Asia that includes a high-stake sit-down with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea later this week. I'm Tammy Trujillo. Demi Lovato will head out on tour for the first time since 2022 next year. The singer announced her It's Not That Deep Tour. It'll kick off on April 8th in Charlotte, North Carolina. 23-day tour will also take her to cities like Nashville, Tennessee, Boston, New York, Los Angeles. It wraps up on May 25th in Houston. Tickets pre-sale go on sale October 30th and general online sales Halloween, October 31st. Well, today is quite possibly the greatest day of the year for at least... Nine out of ten of us. Today is National Chocolate Day. It's okay to greet that with the cheer. Chocolate's the best. It's been a part of human life since 1,100 BC. Its roots are Aztec, but Germany's the country that produces the most for consumption. Eating it is known to trigger a chemical reaction that makes you feel good, and who doesn't want that? For the 1% of the population who don't like chocolate, more for us. Celebrating today is easy. Get some chocolate and eat it. I'm Bree Tennis. In addition to the Dodger win late night, last night, Monday night football was all Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes, 299 yards, three touchdowns, Chiefs 28 to 7 over the commanders. Birthdays today, billionaire Bill Gates is 70. Actress Julia John Roberts is 58. Country star Brad Paisley, 53, and actor Joaquin Phoenix is 51. If it's your birthday, happy birthday. So glad you were born, and thanks for making your morning show a part. of your morning. All right, we got sounds of the day, the latest on Hurricane Melissa and the bad bunny controversy in the NFL. And Colonel Stephen Bucci joins us next to talk about that Cambodia, Thailand peace deal. We're all in this together. This is your morning show with Michael Del Jorno.

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