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Dom Chirado on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, happy Friday. We made it. Woo-hoo. I'm Mary Walter. Sitting in for Dom. How you doing? I'm exhausted. I'm super tired, but that's okay. It's Friday. And we're going to get through this. And when we're done here, what time is it? It's new when we're done here at 3. we can all then just go take a nap. I mean, if you need a nap, we can go take a nap. All right, coming up here in 10 minutes, Dan Kowalski, he is the director of the Grover M. Herman Center for the Federal Budget. So he's at the Heritage Foundation. That's a fancy way you're saying. He's a smart economist at the Heritage Foundation. Also, then we have Christine Flowers. Yeah, you know her, friend of the show. She's here's friend of the station. She's here all the time. Christine will be joining us to talk about Trump's immigration wins and news of the day. I have some fun stories to go through with her as well. So there is a lot going on. All right, let's do some breaking news, shall we? We need breaking news sounders. But there's some new news of breaking news. This is apparently breaking news that John Bolton is pleading guilty to one of 18 counts. 18 counts. And it gets to plead guilty to one. Can you imagine that? You get 18 traffic tickets and then you'll have to say, all right, I'll cut to this one. And then the other 17 go away. Can imagine that? That'd be pretty cool. Yeah, it'd be pretty cool. Well, you know, Your Honor, I know that I illegally parked 124 times, but I'll plead guilty to one. That's how that's going to go. Mm-hmm. He pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of an 18-count indictment, but will not be sentenced until the fall. During the hearing in Maryland, he pleaded guilty to the 12th count alleging he had unauthorized possession of a document related to national defense. So he gets a pick and choose which one. Where's that music that I'm hearing in the background? It's the breaking news sounders. Oh, that's the breaking news sounder? Yes. At least for this show. Right. Oh. I'm like, what, is there a, I'm like, is there a video playing on my computer somewhere? No, you need the old teletype machine. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That would have been CBS. Yes. I didn't realize. Okay, you can get rid of that. I was just like, what heck is that? Oh, that's sad. All right, we've got to work on that, all right? All right, but how cool is that? Yeah, he got to pick. He decided to plead guilty. I'm going to plead guilty to the 12th count because that one, all right, unauthorized possession of a document, of a document related to national defense. We know it was more than that. Now, that one typically has a maximum penalty of 10 years behind bars, but both sides agree that five will be the most that can be imposed. It's good to be somebody in D.C. It really, truly is.

U.S. Attorney Kelly Hayes outside of the courtroom said that no one is above the law and then decline to take questions because I would have a lot of them like, what the hell? You pick the one you want to plead guilty to and then just plead guilty to one of them. He's not going to get five years. He's not going to get any time whatsoever. John Bolton's not going to see the inside of a jail period. It's not going to happen. Those things, even though he has an R after his name where he used to, he's anti-Trump. So he is a darling. And so they're going to love him. And he's not going anywhere. He's not going behind bars, period. We all know it. So, which I have to say, I kind of say, and I'm not saying this. Like, I'm not name-dropping, but I really like John Bolton. I have to fix my camera. Hold up. Is that better? Oh. Okay. Oh. Oh. Hang on. See if that's better. How's that better? Oh, that's much better. Yeah. Okay, thank you. So I'm not name-dropping, but I, when I was in D.C., I got to know John Bolton when I was at Fox. And really nice guy, really, really nice guy. And he was funny, and I really liked him. And he was sane. And then during Trump 45, when I was in Washington, D.C., he lived in the neighborhood of the radio station was and where I was living. So you'd see him around. Nice guy. My co-host hit him with his car, but it was an accident, and it really wasn't like a big hit. Well, it wasn't like a hit hit, you know. It was like an oops sorry type thing. You know, it didn't really hit him, kind of like grazed him, but it was an accident. It didn't become a thing, you know? And he came in and he's like, hey, guess what I just hit with my car? I'm like, oh, he's like John Baldwin, get the hell out of here. But like I said, it didn't become a thing. I'm so sad to see these people who were seen before, you know, and now they're not. So, I don't know. It's sad to see him go down this road. A prosecutor told the judge that John Bolton also faces a fine of $2.5 million, half of which should be paid within five days, a required debris for the U.S. Intel Committee, three years of supervised release, and up to 100 hours of community service. The national defense information at issue in this case was classified at the highest classification levels. It contained human intel using sensitive sources and methods and it discussed a covert action program. Mr. John Bolton admitted he shared more than a thousand pages. One count. One count was I shared more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the national security advisor. It always comes back to bite them in the butt. They're always accusing Trump of stuff that they're doing.

John Bolton agreed that he would not get an annuity or retirement from his federal service. So there you go. He can't get his benefits. When the judge asked him if he was pleading guilty after having heard the summary of facts in the case, he said, I am your honor and I'm sorry for it. Sentencing, October 28th. That's my anniversary. The government plans to dismiss the remaining counts at the hearing. By pleading guilty, he waived his right to appeal the sentence and conviction. The judge said he will be allowed to withdraw his guilty pleas before sentencing. That window will close once the sentencing phase concludes. So you can do it up until sentencing, but then once you get your sentence, if you don't like your sentence, well, too bad. You can't. You can't change. Go, oh, wait a second. I don't want to play guilty now. Now I want to try. No, that's not how it works. He was indicted this in October after his home was raided in August. He was originally charged with both transmission and retention of classified documents. According to the indictment, the documents John Bolton illegally kept had intel about future attacks by an adversarial group in another country. And this was all to write a book. That's what this was about. This was about writing a book. Like... I just, I don't know if it's like the TDS does something to your brain. Many of the documents were labeled top secret, according to prosecutors. From on or about April 9th of 2018 through at least, or on about August 22nd of 2025, John Bolton abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than 1,000 pages of information about his day-to-day activities as a national security advisor. You can write a book about your time in an administration and your time working in the government, but there are guidelines and there's things that you can't do. But yet, They think that the laws just don't apply to them. And I'm telling you right now, I don't want to see him go to jail because, like, I kind of have a soft spot for him. He's a nice guy who's always nice to me. I kind of like them. But by the same token, if I, I would be in jail, you would be in jail. And we'd be going for like 10 years. We wouldn't have gotten to pick which one you want to plead guilty to. And then we'll do that one. And also we'll plea it down. And you're not going to go to jail. Like, we wouldn't get that. John Bolton shared this information with two family members through his personal email account, according to the prosecutors. He was keeping this information in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland, right over the border from D.C. The email account per court records was hacked by someone believed to be associated with Iran after John Bolton left the office. So he had the sensitive information on his computer, which was then believed to be hacked by someone from Iran.

And he won't serve a day in jail. It's just ridiculous. I don't know. Anyway. All right. Coming up, we're going to talk about Social Security, and I'm going to take your calls on it because we're going to talk about, you know, do you think you're going to get any? And we'll find out maybe Dan will have some surprises for us. I don't know if he will or not. Also, there's other, let me just get to this other news. Now, this is kind of good. Trump approvals index is up. Yeah, his approval index is up. He's up to 44% total approval, 46%. Total disapproval still. 53% but according to the daily tracking poll Donald Trump's number is up to some of the highest in the last couple of months and I don't know is that the gas prices because we're very picky about our gas prices especially people who drive those urban assault vehicles I'm very picky about the gas prices so maybe that's what's happening here I don't know. All right, quick break. And then we're going to come back with Dan Kowalski to talk about Social Security and you and whether you're going to get any or are you part of that group that I'm pretty sure I'm part of that is going to get told. Yeah, so you know that money? We spent it. I'm really sorry. But good luck. We'll find out. That's coming up next on 1210, WPHT. Tom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, welcome back. Let's find out. It's a Friday, and we're going to do some later stuff, especially with Christine coming up. But, you know, we do have to talk about some of the sadder things in life. And one of them I personally happen to think is going to be for a lot of us is Social Security, which I don't know. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, yeah, not going to be there for us. But let's find out. Dan Kowalski, director of the Grover and Herman Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation. Sir, thank you for joining us this Friday. And please try not to depress us too much going into the weekend, okay? Oh, I won't depress you too much. Thank you for having me, Mary. I mean, I wouldn't say that Social Security isn't going to be there for us. I'm going to say that Social Security isn't going to be able to pay you what they promised you. And that's really what's going on here. The trust fund will no longer be able to pay full benefits. But Social Security is the government works on a cash flow basis, right? It's money in, it's money out. In 2032, the cash flow coming into Social Security is projected to be only 78% of what they need in order to pay benefits. So that implies a 22% reduction. But the trust fund...

Words you can live by. Don't put no trust in a government trust fund, okay? The trust fund kind of doesn't really matter for Social Security. They can change the definition and shift general revenues in, like we have been doing for highway taxes for a year, so the gas tax doesn't cover the highway program. So we put general revenues into the highway trust fund so you can build roads and bridges. You can do the same thing for Social Security. Long term, there's a problem. You can't continually spend, you know, trillions more than you're taking in. But the Social Security program itself is not going away. No, but they're going to find ways to cut it back. And this is what I've always been told. You know, my father started telling me this when I was, you know, first out of college, all right, you're going to have to pay into Social Security because we went through my paycheck and all the stuff they take out. And I was like, this is totally not fair. And he said, welcome to the Republican Party. And it's, that's a chance of God true story. And, um, I, he said, you know, you're going to pay into this, but you're not going to get it. It's going to be bankrupt by the time you're old enough to get the money out of this. It's not going to be here for you and you need to save as if it's not going to be here for you. And our financial advisor has said the same thing all the way along. And I. I fear and I think what's going to happen is that people like myself and my husband and other friends of ours who are responsible and who live below our means and put money away and put it into investments and IRAs and things like that, the government's going to look at us and go, you know what, you were super responsible in life. So you're not going to get anything. We're going to give your money to the people over there who were irresponsible. And that they're going to means test it and we're going to get screwed. I think you are correct on that. Of course. Ultimately, the insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund is going to be the first step towards making Social Security an entitlement program, a welfare program, rather than a retirement program. And that's why when you look at things like, you know, the warrant proposal to increase the, or to put the... remove the cap on social security taxes that's that's perfect for the left right Oh, of course. They'll take more money out of people's accounts. And then those people have to leave even further below their means because they're responsible and they're working. And you're going to have people who live from the day they're born to the day they die with all of everything being met, all of their needs being met, everything being paid for by the poor suckers who are working. And I look at that and I'm like, that's a perfect, that's a perfect.

flow through to socialism and then communism, right? Because everybody's equally poor. Everybody's equally miserable. And the people who are working super hard are going to go screw this. I'm not working super hard anymore. I'm going to do the bare minimum I have to. And that's it because we're disincentivizing. We're disincentivizing any kind of work or achievement or anything like that. Do the right thing. Work hard. You know, I'm doing six hours of radio today. TV hit. You know, next week I'm doing seven hours of radio and TV hits and I'm doing this. I've got two and a half hours of sleep last night. Why should I do this? If the government's going to look at me at the end of the day and go, you know how hard you worked and all that money we took out of your paychecks of your hard. earn money in those nights where you got like no sleep or two hours of sleep, whatever. Yeah, we're going to give it to a person who's been sitting on a cow eating Doritos for the last 48 years, 50 years, and they're going to get your money. So what's the incentive then when people know that to work hard, right? Aren't you, you're telling people don't work hard? No, it absolutely destroys the incentive to work. And now at least Social Security's, it's It's a reasonably fair bet. If you, you'll get some, everybody gets something back, right? You may get less back and some people may get a little more because they earned less. But, you know. A rich person can get Social Security, right? You get $5,000 a month or so if you paid in the maximum for your entire career. You did very well. You're a surgeon or something like that. But, you know, this coming insolvency, this trust fund event, is going to cause them to do things potentially that really turn it more into just a tax and spend program, which we have to resist, obviously. Yeah, well, if Democrats getting, you know, oh, wait, resist we much. Remember L. Sharpton, resist we much. We're going to become the party of resistance then at that point. You know, define rich for me, can you? No, I mean, you know, I would say, I would say rich may be people in the top 5% of the income or something like that. But it's very hard, right? How do you do that? Right. Right. Rich varies depend on where, depending on where you live. If you live in Wyoming, right, what you make or you have in Pennsylvania and what your monthly bills are in Pennsylvania, out in Wyoming, you're rich. And in Pennsylvania, you're doing okay. You're hanging in there, but you're not rich by Pennsylvania standards. But in Wyoming, you're going to live like a king, right? There's definitely that difference, unless you're in Jackson, eh? Well, yeah, that's that small little area that they're going to ruin, too. All the Californians are going to ruin that. But I guess this is the problem I have with all of this, and they give them means, they say, okay, well, if you've saved, you know, if you're worth $2 million, you're worth $5 million, because you saved during your lifetime, you made some great investments, your house, you know, you bought a good house, you did the right thing. You're worth $5 million when you retire.

Which I don't think for a lot of people is totally out of the picture. I know for a lot of people it is. But I think there are quite a few people who retire with that amount of money. And they're not, you wouldn't look at them and go, oh, they're super wealthy. They're not eating caviar and traveling on yachts, right? Exactly. But they're going to get punished because they're quote unquote rich. It's like the income tax. The income tax is only for the rich, right? And within one generation. It is nowadays. That's right. Well, it's supposed to be it's only the rich, but within one generation, we're all rich, right? The income tax, that's only going to be for the rich. That's it. We're not going to tax anybody else. It's only the wealthy that are going to get taxed. And all of a sudden, you find out, you know, one generation later, oh, my gosh, we're all wealthy because we're all paying the income tax. How did that happen? Same thing with alternative minimum tax, right? Because what we take out of your check isn't enough, so we're going to do what? We're going to make you pay more. That number hasn't been adjusted since, what, like 1964 when they put it in? Oh, I think we actually fixed that in the TCJA. The AMT doesn't affect as many people as it used to. No, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. But I guess my point is that we're getting more and more despite us not wanting to move towards socialism slash communism. We're rapidly on the way to being there. I believe the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. And yeah, we do. And so we tax and we disincentivize wealth and doing the right thing. Zohran Mamdani in New York, look at this. You can't raise your rents for two years. Costs are going to go up for electricity because we're managing that poorly. Costs are going to go up for heating and cooling because we're managing that poorly. The older buildings take a lot of work, but the costs for that aren't going down. But you can't raise the rent to recoup your losses. And insurance costs are going up. So what does that do? And your living standard is going to go down. The place you're going to live in is going to become a dump, and we're all going to be a living. Yeah. We're all going to become poor by... by bad decisions on incentives, absolutely. Yeah, except for the wealthy at the top. Zohran Mamdani is very, very wealthy. This Chevalier chick, you know, the one who says, you know, I wipe with the American flag her, that little gem. she's she's a truly a gift her father she's the one who who is going you know talks about landlords etc her father is a landlord and rents his condo in miami for 1750 a month notice it's not in new york it's in florida Right. Where they don't have an income tax. Right. And she wants the government to seize all properties from landlords. So this is the game that's being played. And I know we're kind of a little away from Social Security, but I think it all plays in together when you see where things are going. We've demonized the wealthy. And if I have more than you, I'm automatically wealthy and therefore it should be taken away from me. Right. That's where we are. Right.

Now, Bill Cassidy has a plan that, and even though he has been primaryed out, so he's not a huge fan of Donald Trump, he said that he wants to do whatever he can to make an impact before he leaves. So he has a proposal. And instead of, you know... tax hikes and, you know, raising the retirement age to 80 and all that kind of stuff. He wants to invest $1.5 trillion in money in funds separate from the Social Security Trust Fund, which never really was a trust fund. We trusted them. Look what happened. So, and he wants to put it in in five years. Oh, and then over 65 to 70 years, that money would be invested in the stock market. It would grow 60 to 65% of Social Security's unfunded accrued liability. They said, while the $1.5 trillion would be borrowed, it wouldn't increase the debt because the government is holding it in an escrow account. So it stays in the government's possession. And he's modeling it on the federal railroad retirement system under George Bush, which is how they rescued their pension plan from insolvency. What do you think about that? Well, I think the example of the federal retirement, the federal railroad retirement system is a bad example. Not many people are really involved. The railroads aren't what they used to be. Mary, how's that? Okay. There are a whole lot of people included in that pension plan. And, you know, ultimately, Yeah, in theory, you can make more money by investing in the stock market. But do you really want the federal government investing in the stock market for you? Do you want them to be running a leveraged buyout fund? Well, hold on, hold on a second. If Nancy Pelosi's running it, hell yeah.

Yeah, okay. Okay. But she won't be investing the same way in the public account as she did for her private account, I have a feeling, right? Well, I'm just saying, you know. In her public account, she's going to be saying ESG, right? We need to be concerned about governance and we'll use our federal investment as a way to get DEI back. And those kinds of things. So I don't know that it's a good idea to have the federal government much more involved in ownership of private stock. Now, what you should do is instead of the government going out there and borrowing a trillion and a half dollars in order to basically get arbitrage, that's really what it is, right? You should be able to let you and I take a portion of our Social Security tax and invest it ourselves. Thank you. When we have ownership of that stock rather than the government having ownership of that stock, that's what we should be doing. Listen, I said all along, if they had allowed me to opt out, I would have taken the chance because my father always told me. And he did very well for himself. I mean, we did, when I was young, rough times. But my father started his own business, and he worked super hard, and he came out on top and good for him, and he put a lot of work into it. So I always used to listen to what he said. He said to me, he goes, if you take the money that they're going to take from you for Social Security and Medicare and you put it under your mattress, you're going to have more money when you retire than what you're going to have if you give it to the government. That is true. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But really, you know, the federal government, it's a math exercise. I would say what Bill Cassidy is proposing is a math exercise. And, you know, as a math exercise it works, but as a way of increasing private wealth, not clear that it does anything, right? Okay, one quick question. And then they're going to yell at me to go. Okay. Okay, Susie Ormond put up he, where she was interviewed about this, and people are panicking over this, you know, that it's going to go, it's going to go bankrupt. People are panicking. So people are taking it at 62, even though you're eligible to take, you can't really take it till 67, but you can take it early at 62. And she says, it permanently locks in lower monthly benefits, so you shouldn't do that. What say you? Well, If you're going to take it early, what you really should do is invest a portion of it for the future. And if you can afford to do that, you'll be better off, right? If you end up spending it all, you know, you should probably wait a little longer. But, you know, the... We're all probably going to... We're all probably going to take a bit of a haircut in the future on Social Security. If you take it early to try and avoid that haircut and you don't do anything with that money, you're going to probably experience a bigger haircut. If you took that money and invested it on your own, you'll probably be better off. Interesting. Because she says...

that you should hold off as long as you can. She said, a woman in average health who reaches the age of 65 has a life expectancy of 88. That means a 50% probability of still being alive at 88, but you're still paying bills and everything. Even if she reaches her break-even age of 79, there's a very real chance. She has at least another decade or more ahead of her, and every month past that break-even point, the person who waited is collecting... meaning meaningfully more amount. So she says whoever's making the most money if you're married, have the higher earner wait as long as possible, hopefully until 70. The surviving spouse receives the larger of the two benefits if that person one of you waits till 70. Yeah, that's pretty standard retirement advice. Right. Yeah. Okay. I don't disagree with that. You hear people talking about it all the time. You know, you've got to get in the system now. You've got to get into the system now. And I'm looking at this and I'm not there yet, but I'm just like, oh, right? What do? That's why I said it the way I did. If you take it and invest it, you'll do better than the government would, you know, right? Right. But if you take it and spend it, yeah, you're going to be better off by delaying because you're just delaying your gratification, right? Right, but you also are going to get- Which is something your father respectively taught you, right? Right, but of course. But you're going to get, you're going to be making less if you take it now, it's 30% less. Then if you take it at 62, then if you take it at 67, it's 30% less, right? And that's forever 30% less, correct? Yes, correct. Correct. Right. And then if they could have... If you can afford to invest it, you might do better off. That's all. Right. But if you can't, then if they, let's say they... Wait. Right. Right. Exactly. Because if they take 20%, now you're down 50%. Yeah, understood. Yeah, still the initial third. Listen, math and I are not friends, so, you know, feel free to be, math and I, we have a very, very contentious relationship. So feel free if I'm, for decades. Feel free to correct me when I say something totally, totally wrong. All right, Dan, thank you so much for joining me. I really appreciate the conversation because there's so many people are telling you this and that. And, of course, everybody on X now is a Social Security expert. I'm not hiring any of those people, but you just see everything. So I just thought it was a conversation that we needed to have because the panic is starting and the government's actually starting to say, wow, we were wrong. And departing senators are saying, we have to fix it before I go. Right. Well, you know what, though? They're willing to touch the third rail because they don't care about getting reelected. Yeah.

Sure, but, you know, maybe it's too little, too late. Anyway, I appreciate your spending the extra time with me. It was a wonderful conversation. It was great to have a wonderful weekend, and thank you so much. All right, your call's coming up, 855, 839, 12, 10. What do you think? I mean, where are you on all of this? You're looking at this. I mean, are you like us? You know, my husband and I were both raised by the same type of parents. Our parents are friends. And we always live below our means. That's the way our parents live. That's the way we were taught to live. And, you know, that's just who we are. We live a lot below our means. And we sock away everything we possibly can. And we invest. We do invest. And we've done fairly well for ourselves with the investing. On paper, haven't sold anything, but on paper we're doing great. Which that can all change. And I understand that that can all change. So are you looking at this? You think you're going to get anything? I seriously fear that they're going to means test it. And people who are responsible are going to get punished, like everything else in this country that if you're responsible, you're going to get punished. 855, 839, 12, 10 is the number. If you would like, you can... tag me in a post on X. Just use Mary Walter Radio. There's no asses just Mary Walter Radio. You could tag me in a post on X. And I'll get to your comments coming up next on 1210, WPHD. Tom to your Dono on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right. So there's some weird stuff happening in news, and I'm going to share it with you, and you make of it what you will, all right? So Kirk here just told me that he goes, yeah, I just saw the story on the hill. Got to check it out. And he looked around, and we can't find it anywhere, but the Hill, Reuters, it's almost a day old news. CNN didn't report it, MSNBC, Fox News, it's not being reported anywhere, but I'll give it to you, you decide, all right? According to Reuters, a federal judge ordered Elon Musk to testify under oath in two proposed class action lawsuits. They're accusing him of defrauding voters in swing states before the 2024 election because he did that million dollar a day giveaway. So yesterday, the magistrate in Austin, Texas, Austin, because it's super liberal, so they judge shop. That's what they do. The race has got to start catching on to this stuff. Also recommended that Elon Musk and his Political Action Committee, America PAC, face a claim in one of the lawsuits that they tricked voters. into providing personal identifying information as part of the giveaway. Doesn't that happen with every giveaway? Like they want your cell phone and they want this? I mean, how many times have you gone online to enter a survey or this or that to, you know, possibly win a gift card? You see that all the time. They're doing it because they want your email address and now everybody wants your cell phone number.

Everybody wants your cell phone number, which I told my husband, I swear I'm getting a burner phone. I'm getting another phone and that's the number I'm giving out to everybody for all this junk stuff. That happens all the time. I don't understand how that's criminal. They tricked me into giving them my personal information. Okay, well, what did they do with it? I mean, that happens constantly. You have to give away your personal information. I got my shoes are at the cobbler. and because we do have a cobbler and he's really good. And my shoes are there and I got to go pick him up today. But I had to give him my phone number. First of all, you have to pay in advance, which I find hilarious because he got my shoes. But I got to pay in advance. I guess people just don't come and pick up their shoes. And I had to give him my phone number so he can text me to let me know my shoes are done, which he has not done. But I'm going to pick him up today anyway, whether they're... whether they're ready or not. So anyway, so she said a related breach of contract claims should be dismissed. The lawyer, his lawyers do not immediately respond for comments. Now, the respective plaintiffs are Joy Harvick and Jacqueline McRiv. They're both from Arizona, and they said that Elon Musk and America PAC misled voters in seven swing states into signing his petition to support the U.S. Constitution by promising that the $1 million recipients would be chosen randomly as in a lottery. They said voters had no real chance of winning. Well, of course, because if a gazillion people go in, you know, you're not going to win. And they're quoting a Elon Musk lawyer. They said that the 18 winners were chosen because they might be good spokespeople for America PACs. That's how they chose them. I don't know how this was run. But I filled out plenty of those little forms for like, you know, the church raffle. And I got to give my phone number and my name and your name and your national cell phone number. Or you buy a raffle from like the vets outside of the supermarket. You got to fill the thing out. Do they think they put a star next to someone's thing? Oh, this person would be a really good spokesperson? Maybe they did. I don't know. Elon Musk founded America Pact to support Trump's presidential run, right? And he announced the giveaway at a Pennsylvania town hall. He also, um, He is in recommending that McAfrity McAfrity's fraud claim continue, the judge called it an open question whether Elon Musk acted recklessly when he said payouts would be made randomly. The judge quoted America PAC director testifying in a February 26 deposition that he was surprised at Elon Musk's choice of words. It was not the way that we had with legal counsel and consultation discussed the program and how it would run. What did these two women lose? How are these two women damaged? Don't you have to show that you've been damaged? How are you damaged? You didn't win. They didn't think you were a good spokesperson. They told you'd be random. You wouldn't have signed up to vote if you didn't know it was going to be random. I don't understand how they were damaged. I wish I was a lawyer.

Because I would know the answer to these things. How are these people damaged? It's just that he's the richest man in the world and they see a payday and that's the great American dream. So I don't know. I don't know how they were damaged. But I guess the judge can handle that. She is far smarter than I. All right. Do I have to take a break here or take my break? Yeah, we need to take another. Oh, we need to take another break. That's what I thought. Okay. All right. So we've got to take another break. And then we'll come back and we'll get to some more news. And we've got all next hour. I do have some like later fun stuff that we never have got, not gotten to like all week. So it is Friday and. Darn it, we're getting to it. So we'll do that coming up here. 85583839, 1210. If you want to jump in, you're listening to 1210 WPHT. Tom Chirdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Happy Friday. Yeah, we're almost there. It's funny because, like I said, I did an early show from 6 to 9 a.m. And I didn't get to bed until, like I said, two and a half hour, sleep less night, doing prep. A lot of stuff. Anyway, so I was, you ever have one of those days? So I was prepping for the show and I was doing like the guest she and that kind of thing. And I'm looking at it and I'm like, coming out of 1215, what time is it? Because I thought it was like 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm like, oh, no, it's only 1130. One of those days. Hey, look who's here from the, this is a wonderful man who participates in the podcast with so many WPHT listeners. You guys are fantastic. David, South Carolina. Hi, Dave. Hey, Mary, how are you doing? I'm doing good. This is the same Dave in South Carolina, right? Yes, it is. Sadly, it is. Okay. Yay. Well, I'm glad it is. Thank you for calling. Yeah, you know, earlier you were talking about the Social Security thing, and I've got a good story about that. Now, my mother, born in Easton, lived in Easton all her life until she got married, and then we came down here in South Carolina in the mid-70s. I never really knew her politics until my dad died, and I don't know if they were, if they changed then or they just became evident. But I do know she's kind of misled, as I say, by her best friend that lives up in Bath, up in the Lehigh Valley, where that friend has made my mom just ultra-liberal, just, you know, very Democrat, left-leaning. And this is a person, she receives my, she never really worked since she got married. So she gets my dad's state of South Carolina pension, and she gets my dad's Social Security. And she's like another Warren Buffett. She owns 10 shares of Bank of America stock. She's such a wheeler and dealer. So I say that to say she's very stable. Like she's not a, she's very stable. Nothing varies a whole lot, right? So her friends on the left, like her friend up there in Bath.

Try to tell her, oh, Trump's going to take away your Social Security. She even had my mom convinced that Trump was going to take away the pension check that she gets from the great state of South Carolina. I mean, just crazy stuff, right? But what I like about that is that's a line in the sand that we can see true or false. So every month went by, I said, Mom, did you get your Social Security? Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm just saying, you know. So that has not happened. So I'm hoping at some point the light comes on and she says, well, gosh, my son has told me one thing. My friend tells me something else. But everything my son tells me is true. Now, with a big, beautiful bill, what that did for her, again, very stable. She doesn't change anything. You there? Last year, she paid. Yes. No, no, no. Last year she paid around. Okay, where did you leave me at? She's very stable, and then you were gone. Okay. Go ahead. Right. So she's very stable. Nothing changes a whole lot with her income. So last year, because I take her tax forms to my buddy from high school and does her taxes every year. And he always gives like a three year running like last three years, right? So the last two years, she paid around $2,700 in federal income tax. Again, she changes nothing. Let's keep that in mind. This year, she paid $1,0.75. I could not wait. I was like, I cannot wait to get her taxes done because she's going to see it, right? So I took her her paperwork. I said nothing. I just gave it to her. And she said, is this right? I said, what do you mean? Is what right? I know what she's asking. Right. She goes, is this what I owe? I said, sure is. And one thing I would say is when she was mad about what she paid the past years, I said, well, mom, This is where you get to pay off for all the free things. You get to pay for that stuff because it's not free. But she saw the difference this year. And so I think the light's coming on a little bit because, again, she sees what I tell her as being true and what her friend up in Bath is telling her is not true. But I don't know if we'll ever get her there. But like here locally, her state editor. You know what, Dave? I don't mean to rude to you. I'm so sorry, but I've got to go because we have to take a break. It's the top of the hour, so we've got to go to news. So you can either hang on and we can finish this conversation on the other side, or I can just tell you to have a wonderful weekend, your choice. I'll have a wonderful weekend. You do too. Thank you so much. Thank you. I really appreciate you talking. It's great to get to talk to you instead of just seeing him typing. On the computer, have a good one. All right, more coming up on the other side here on 1210, WPHT. Dom Gierdano, weekdays, noon till 3, from Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Tom Gierdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Oh, we're that much closer to 5 o'clock, people. I'm Mary Walter. I'll be back with you. Am I back with you? No. I'm in on, uh, what am I in? You're doing way too much radio to keep track of when you're back, honestly. Oh, three to six tomorrow. On Monday, rather. Three to six. Three to six Monday. That's it. Wow. I couldn't remember. You go. Wow. Thank you.

I said to my husband, I said, I think it's early onset Alzheimer's. And he said to me, it's not early onset, honey. I was like, thank you. I love you too, honey. All right, so we were just talking to David in South Carolina, who, by the way, is part of the wonderful group from WPHT. You got Joe, and we've got Sal and Suez, of course, and Mangalmush, and Doddy, and so many more. I know I'm forgetting a lot of people, and I apologize for that. Can't name everybody. But great group that always join us on the live cast. And there will not be one this coming Tuesday, because I have to. to take New Jersey Transit, which now has this provides a smell. It's not only just like, it's not just like a sensation for, it's for like your ears and your body as you move and all the motion. It is now also smellable. So it's going to be awful, but I have to go into Manhattan and I have to take the train. And so I will not be home in time to be able to do it. I will be commuting back on New Jersey Transit preparing for two shows the next day. Anyway, so don't. Not there, but in the meantime, you can go to YouTube, you can go to Getter, Rumble. Apple Podcast, Spotify, Spreaker, and you can go back and watch or listen to an older episode. And this Tuesday, this past Tuesday's guest, Doug Burns, former federal prosecutor, he did a great job. Dr. Carroll, the terrorist therapist, big hit, talking about TDS, and if it is a diagnosable disease, should it be a diagnosable mental illness? So talking about that, got a lot of blowback. We were on, by the way. Cover on Mediite. Front page of Mediite. Boom, made it. They were mocking me, but I don't care. There you go. We must be hitting a nerve talking about TDS being a diagnosable mental illness if you make a... the left's if you're on the left's radar so so we were just talking to david from south carolina and he was saying you know my mom has his friend and she always listens to her her one friend and her one friend is always telling her you know that this is going to happen and that's going to happen because her friend is a never trump or is lefty and uh so my mom always listens to her but slowly but surely like i think i'm making some some headway with my mom you know oh look you got Look at your taxes. Taxes were less. And did Donald Trump take your Social Security yet? No. Did he come and take the? No. So the things that they say and they try to scare old people with doesn't haven't happened, right? He said slowly but surely, I think I'm making some headway. And I thought that was interesting. And I just want to throw it out there for conversation if you want to jump in 855, 839, 1210. But I'm curious if you ever made headway with someone who,

was, you know, super far left, TDS, suffer, whichever maybe just like mild or severe, or someone with COVID. Have you ever made any inroads? My COVID nemesis, my nemesi, my nemesi, nemesis? I don't know. What's more than one nemesis? I mean, it's a problem, but what, nemesi? Nemesis? Yeah, that's your question. Yeah, what? Neither sounds good, honestly. No. One's right. It's got to be nemesuses. Nemesicists. Kirk, look that up, please. Um, um, um, Anyway, but I have several of the COVID nemesises and no apology whatsoever. And have they seen the light? If they've had, they're hiding it. And I think there's a lot of people who maybe have seen the light about COVID or about Trump, but they're so dug in and they're so prideful, they can't admit that they were wrong, right? So I'm just curious if anybody has made progress with someone. Now, when I was living in D.C. and my neighbor, Mark Rutte, I don't know if I told you about my neighbor Mark Rutte. So Mark Rutte now is going to be, she's going to be 94 in August. I got to check, 94 or 95 in August. And so this is a while ago, Mark Rutte was in her 80s and late 80s. And she was my bestie. She lived next door to me, and Mark Rutte was just my bestie. And total, I mean. Democrat, she's Jewish, so of course she's Democrat by birth and she lives right outside of Washington, D.C., got the Washington Post delivered every day, you know, one of those. And which is fine. I loved her anyway, and we just never talked to politics. But when I was on the radio down there, she would every now and then tune in, and she's like, oh, I heard you today. And I was like, oh, look at you. And she kind of softened up a little bit as far as Trump during 45 when I was down there. And, but she's gone right back because her son is very far left and her granddaughter, et cetera. And, you know, she's surrounded by people who just echo that back to her. And when you don't consume any other media that challenges you, you fall prey to groupthink, which is why I always say, left or right, you really should consume media on the other side. And I, you know, told you what I do. I watch them all. When I get up in the morning, I even torture myself with Morning Joe. I kind of look at it as my mother used to say, it's another star in your crown, sweetheart. And I'd be like, I don't want another star in my crown. I was another star in your crown when I was a kid. I'm like, that's the last thing a kid needs wants to hear. But it's something that pretty much every Catholic kid heard when something went wrong. All right, let's go to Michael from Wilmington talking about Social Security, Michael. Hey, welcome to the show on Happy Friday. Hi, Mary. It's an honor to speak with you. Thank you so much for taking my phone call. Always wanted to have the opportunity to chat with you just for a few moments. So thank you so much for taking my call this afternoon. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I just wanted to add, yeah, I never relied on Social Security. I mean, I've worked my whole life like you, like everyone for the most part. And, you know, I always remember, you know.

contributing it to it and seeing it out of my paycheck and, you know, every year getting that statement, oh, here's what you're proposed to get if you retire. But I've never really relied on it. I mean, it's always been something my parents have said, hey, Michael, most likely that's not going to be available for you. That's not something you're going to be able to rely on. You're going to have to do other things. You're going to have to take on other endeavors. And like some of your guests and the guests you had on in the first hour, like you're going to have to either be invests in the stock market. You're going to have to be interested in real estate. You're going to have to. start your own entrepreneur endeavor or business because that's not going to sustain you. And they're like, that's been here for your parents, but they're like, most likely you're not going to have that. I always question like, well, I'm like, well, dad, why am I always paying that? He's like, well, son, because that's the system. And then as I got older, Mary, I would, you know, I would hear when I got really started to get more involved in politics and local news. that a lot of our presidents kind of plundered the Social Security. Yep. Oh, God, I can't think of the word. It's supposed to be the trust fund, the Social Security trust fund. But this is what happens when you trust government. They decided that they would put the money back. We're just going to borrow it and we're going to put the money back. And they just put a letter in there. And when you broke open the piggy bank because you need it now, there's just this little piece of paper that says I owe you. And that's it. Yeah, and I mean, it's a really nice thing. I mean, I think I also, as I'm getting older, I hear a lot of people, my parent age, you say, hey, I know you, hey, I'm on a fixed income. And that's all I get. And then I wonder like, gosh, you know. No IRA, no other investments, no real estate, no passive income. Like that's a very tough road to, you know, to pedal with just that. And I can see how it's very easy when Democrats or other politicians, you know, go on fear and control. And they say, hey, we're going to cut this because they're like, oh, my, I have nothing else coming in. So it's a very easy skitter tactic. You know, you see it all the time. Oh, they're going to cut this. Oh, you're not going to have anything. Right. But let me just jump in for one hot second about some things that you said. First of all, Social Security was always meant to be a supplement. It was never meant to be your sole source of income in retirement. And that's a mistake that a lot of people make, that they think it's supposed to pay all my bills when I get older. That's number one. It was never meant for that. So people who didn't invest or do anything else, that's on them. because you sat there and thought that you were going to get a check from the government and that was going to be everything you needed to live on. No, that's not what it was. So that's the first thing. And the second thing, when someone says, I'm on a fixed income, I want to scream.

I just want to scream because you know what, so am I. At least on Social Security, you get your cola. They sometimes give a 2% cola cost of living advance for money that we don't have, right? They get a cola. And that's great. That's fantastic. But when my taxes go up, I don't get a raise. So how am I not on a fixed income? That's what I don't understand. Yeah. I would agree. I mean, I think sometimes that is used as a crutch for some people, it really is, for sure. They're so quick to use that term, oh, I'm on a fixed income. Hey, I get it. Yeah, we all are. Welcome to the family. You're not dead either. You know, you're not dead either. So, I mean, you can definitely try to do something else besides always going to the, I'm on a fixed income. I get it. Hey, Mary, one last point I just want to bring up to you. I know you've talked about this this week on some of your other programs. It seems like this Iran deal. It's about to go sour pretty quick. I just want to get your quick thoughts. I mean, I know we signed this peace deal just recently today. You know, Iran's bomb in a cargo ship. Now they violated the agreement. It just seems like this was bound to happen. Not trying to put out any negative, but it just seems like this was bound to happen. Well, yeah. Okay, so very quickly, because we got other callers. We want to get in here, Michael, but thank you so much. So I'm going to let you go and just listen. But thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend, your sweetheart. So here's the thing. I was going to talk about it, but it's really there's nothing in the news right now about it. I just think that there are so many mixed messages Iran's putting out statements. We control the straight. We control the straight. And I just think there are so many different groups right now in Iran that are claiming to. be the ones who are in charge that That's got to sort itself out. And I just also think that Donald Trump is not the guy who's going to sit there and play with these people. You've got 60 days to figure it out. If you guys are not serious and you're not coming to the table in 60 days, I honestly think that Trump's going to go in, that's it. And he'll bomb Carg Island. He doesn't want to bomb Carg Island, but he will bomb Carg Island. And then, you know what? They're going to have to figure out the infrastructure again. And he will, if they force his hand, they want the body count because they know that the liberals will say, Oh my gosh, Donald Trump killed 10,000 civilians with his bombs. Well, how many do you think we're killed in Germany? How many do you think we're killed in Japan? Right? Like, it's war. That's what this is. And I still like to call it a conflict because I don't want to see any of those things happen. But, you know, maybe that's what we have to do. because everyone is saying, it should stop. I want this war to stop. I want this. We, of course, we all do. But do you want this to stop for the next 15 years and you live peacefully and Iran's quiet while they're just putting everything back together and building a nuke? And then your grandchildren die. Is that what you want? Really? Because that's what's going to happen.

And to say otherwise, well, you don't know. True, but you don't know that it's not going to happen. You want to take that back because these people are crazy. So that's my thought there. All right. Let's go to John in Huntington Valley. John, you're on 1210 W. Ph.T. Happy Friday, Mayor. You know, I heard what you're saying about your friend or something who, and you're getting your mom a little more on board with Trump. You know, just a couple things on the big beautiful deal with taxes. the additional $6,000 deduction for seniors. You know, all those... All those additional good things, you know, they sunset after 2028. But the corporate tax cuts and all that do not. There are forever. But anything for us sunsets after 2022. And, you know, there were no taxes on Social Security until Reagan. He gave a big tax cut. And then he started taxing up to 85% of Social Security depending on your income. Wait. Who sponsored the bill to tax Social Security? I don't know. Mr. Biden? Yes, sir. One Senator Joe Biden sponsored that bill to tax Social Security. Believe me, believe me, I am partisan, but you got to leave. I agree with you, by the way. I watch everything. But please, you know, I really wish, I wish on all sides, you know, all the positives that can go on with what Trump is up. To also talk about the negative, I mean, just to show everything in the place that people are better educated. But here's the thing. All we do is hear the negatives. Trump gets something like 95% negative coverage. CNN, Scott Jennings just called out CNN because they stopped running their gasoline ticker, their gas price ticker across the bottom of the screen. They didn't run it at all under Biden. They only ran it under Trump. And now that gas is going down, it's dropping and it's below $4. It's suddenly disappeared. So Trump doesn't really need anyone to highlight the bad things because the media even makes stuff up. They won't cover anything good. And wait, can I just say one other thing about the $6,000 sunsetting? I'm just going to take your word for it because I don't know that, but I'll take your word for it. You know what? Democrats, I'm looking at my dad. Okay, but I believe you. I believe you. But here's the thing. Democrats didn't want you to get that $6,000 deduction at all. They voted against it. So when 2028, when it sunsets, if Democrats are in charge as they want to be, they can bring it back. Well, can I ask you a question? Yeah. When we talk about subsidies and socialism, you say, I look at corporate socialism, and you know what, the money that we bid, our government gives to big business of all the facets of industries. And you must got to be a trillionaire because we subsidize our taxpayer dollars. I don't think we should be. I don't agree in subsidizing someone's business. I just don't. You know, I know why some people do it like for space exploration because that could help the country and if someone needs to. I understand where in some instances it may be necessary, but in general, I don't like the government picking winners and losers on either side. And both sides do it and I don't like it.

Well, I agree with you. I agree with you. Our government taking a piece of businesses when we help them out. And also I love to know how Trump's kids with their drone company, how well they're making out selling it to the Gulf states. They're making money on the whole thing. It really is. But, Mary, I really like you. Hold on. That's fine. Here's the thing. We can complain about that. Absolutely can complain about that. I still don't know what Hunter Biden did in order to get paid for what he got. The millions of millions of dollars he got paid, I have no idea what he brought to the table. It's three million compared to the two billion, Mayor. Don't care. Let's not compare. Just tell me what he provided. Just tell me the service Hunter Biden provided. Entertainment. Let me just say one more thing before I go. I really like you a lot and your ilk, but I'll be honest with you. At some point, the Heritage Foundation will end, Trump will end. And I just have one word. I have just two words for you. Please be careful. Nuremberg trials, my friend. Oh, 100%. Democrats are vindictive. They're vicious. They are out for blood. They are dangerous. They are very unhinged. I think in that respect, they are very mentally ill. And they will tear it all down just to gain power. and they accuse Trump and the right of doing absolutely everything that they're going to do. And when they tell you who they are, you need to believe them. 100%. I'm so glad that you said that because that's 100% too. John, thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend. Yeah. When the Democrats tell you all the things that they're going to do and they want to tear it down, they're going to do it. and believe them. I'm telling you right now, if Donald Trump, just like they said, if Republicans lose the midterms, Democrats are going to come in and all the things that they said Trump was going to do, you watch them do. You watch the lawfare. They've already said, we're going to take down anyone who ever worked with the Trump administration. We're going to use lawfare. They even said it. But they complain that Trump's targeting us through the law, Gavin Newsom. It's lawfare. This is illegal. He's targeting his political enemies. Gavin Newsom's complaining about that. And then on the other hand, you got Hakeem Jeffries saying, we're going to destroy you with the law. We're going to go after Trump. We're going to go after every member of his family. We're going to take them down and we're going to ruin their lives. And we're going to put them all in jail. And then they've got Gavin Newsom complaining about lawfare. So believe them when they tell you who they are. And that's a problem on the right. A lot of people on the right just expect the good and people go, oh, they're never going to do that. Yeah, they will. As soon as they get in, if they took over in the midterms, they are going to impeach Trump. It's going to be nothing but impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach. It's going to be war crimes that they're going to bring them up on.

They are going to destroy lives, just like they destroyed Michael Flynn, Michael Caputo, who was involved in that whole thing, like they do with Roger Stone, like they did with so many others illegally, and none of them go to jail. But every single person on the right, they'll change the laws. They will do everything they have to do. Illegally, they'll do what they have to do, the law be damned, to ruin anyone they possibly can who dares disagree with them because they're authoritarian. and they're fascists. They are actually the definition of fascism. So believe, when they call you fascist, when they call you Nazi, it's because who they are. I firmly believe it. They're running a guy with a Nazi tattoo. What more do we need? So I'm really glad he said that because he's absolutely right. All right. Got to take a break. I'm running over here. Am I running? I ran way over, right? I went way past. I did. I went way past. I'm so sorry. We were out of roll, though, and that was a really good call. Oh, yeah, no. You know, yeah. So, I'm going to get some grace here. Yeah, so, all right, quick break. And then we'll come back a little bit. And then we're going to take another quick break. And then we'll come back. Oh, my gosh. It's almost 2 o'clock. Christine Flowers is coming up on the other side. Maybe we can have some fun conversation with her. All right. More coming up on 1210, WPHD. Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. We're back. on this Friday. This show is flying. You guys are the best. Thank you. 855, 839, 12, 10 is my number. By the way, I'm Mary Walter, and next week on Monday up in noon to 3. I got to check. I'll check. One of these times. I'll check, but it's like all week. Anyway, all over, but I'll be back whether you like it or not. So let's go to Dan from Havertown. Dan, happy Friday. Welcome. How are you? Well, I'm okay. I only had a few people to say the problem, the main problem with the Social Security is that the many fewer people are contributing to it, and they have to raise the age up to get Social Security because older people vote, and I'm 807 and all the people in this place here, they all vote, and all they have to do is. somebody mentioned Social Security and their ears perked up because they will not vote for anybody who wants to take it away. Well, I don't think anyone wants to take it away. I think they want to save it in some way, shape, or form. However, you know, listen, Joe Biden, Senator Biden was the one who decided to tax the Social Security and people kept voting for him. So it didn't hurt him at all. So, you know, they said, oh, those people were working. Those people were working. But I thought older people, but you said older people vote and they didn't vote. Well, the biggest problem now is if they take that 20% away from people that are just making it on Social Security, that's not going to stand. Well, they're not going to take it away from anyone who's already collecting. But remember, it's a supplemental income. It's not meant to live on. And too many people, even to this day, think that I'm just going to live on Social Security. You're not. It was never meant to live on. It was to supplement your retirement funds when you got older. And that's a problem.

That's what the most people. My problem was that I worked so many hours overtime for 43 years that I had 70, 80 hour weeks, many years. And I get more now, you know, I'll never spend like I give them now because I'm just about the maximum. And most of my friends, they aren't. Right, because you were responsible and they weren't, right? Well, I've worked the Hover time, you know. Right. Right. You were responsible. Yeah, but I didn't have a choice because I was in the printing and the truth, and none of the younger people wanted to come in and work and put their hands dirty. Right. Right, but you know what, you made the money and hopefully you invested well. Hopefully you didn't just put it in a sock in a drawer, although you would have had more money if you'd done that. Well, not you, but the people after you, the ones who, the generation that's, like Gen X, as Gen X is coming up, they're the ones who are going to get screwed over. They're the ones who, if they had just kept the money and put it under their mattress, they would have more money than they're going to get back from Social Security. Up until now, everybody, most people are getting back. more than they put in. And that's untenable. That's not a sustainable model, obviously. So the people coming up, Gen X, that's going to be the leading generation that's going to get screwed. That's a generation that's going to be told you supported the generation ahead of you, but we don't have any money for you now. And that's what's going to happen. So you're fine. You're going to keep getting yours and you'll keep getting your colas and you'll keep getting your increases. It's people like me and people in my generation who aren't going to get anything. Or if we do get anything, it's going to be means tested. And if you worked really hard or invested, well, you're not going to get anything or you're going to get very little. So you don't have anything to worry about. What they talk about now is cutting back on what people will get in their checks. They can get rid of all of that just by raising the age up and raising the tax rate up a little. Well, the retirement age, the retirement age for me is 67. You want me to work until I'm 70? I did because I was still working. Yeah, but who's going to, I got news for you. In a printing industry, there's a lot of industries where even if you're in your 50s, you can't find a job. You know, you've got young people saying boomers need to quit because there's no jobs for us. They're staying in these jobs and they're staying longer in the jobs. So when you're 60, you know, 50, 60 years old, if you're an automotive mechanic in your 60s, you can't work until you're in your 70s. That's a very physical job. I stayed in printing and, uh, Two years ago, at 85, I had to leave the company because their insurance company didn't cover anybody over 85. Well, I think, I think, you know, God bless you, Dan. I think you are the exception to the rule, and you could serve as a wonderful model for some younger people who need a little bit more of a work ethic. Thank you so much for sharing your story, and you have a wonderful blessed weekend, my friend. Thank you so much for joining me. And you too. And you too. Thank you.

Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Yeah. So there's no easy answer. And he said, you know, well, the older people vote. You know what? The older people didn't vote in New York. Those socialists were put in in New York because all the young people voted. And I got news for you. Those young people are fired up. They want change. And they're fired up. And you may not see. young people sit at home and not vote, especially when it comes to something like Social Security. You may not see that. They may be like, screw these people, because they already have that attitude. They already, they're like, oh, you're old. Get out of the job. They have no problem. There's a lot of animosity. And I blame Obama for this. And I know I'm off on a tangent, but I'm going. I blame Obama because he was the one who stoked the division. And, you know, he's a school of the whole clower. He's a student of the Columbia. And, you know, Clowered and Piven were Columbia professors. And, you know, you collapse the economy. by making everybody dependent on the government was their thing. But what the key element of it is is you stoke division. So black against white, rich against poor, men against women, LGBTQIA plus furries, whatever. You get everybody fighting amongst themselves. No one pays attention to what the government's doing. And that's what happened. And I think Obama was the one who really divided us. He's the one who tipped that domino. We were getting along fine, but when Obama came and suddenly everything was racist, and I'm like, didn't like a whole bunch of white people vote for him to put him in office? None of that mattered. Now everything is race, race, race, race, race, race, race, right? It's all racist. And people are flat out racist to white people calling them names, racist names, etc. Totally fine. Totally fine. Totally cool. If you're beating up a white person or an Asian person, we're down with it. We're just going to look the other way. No big deal. So... that that's where I think you, if you're betting on the elderly to keep voting for things the way they are for the status quo, I may not see it. And honestly, I have news for you. When I get there, if I find out that they're screwing me over, I may just vote to screw everybody over at that point. You know what? Boom. I can play this game too. Right? Like, that's what they're driving us towards, in my humble opinion. All right. So, um, Henry. You went to the Philly, the FIFA Fest, right? Correct. Yeah, I was at the FIFA Fan Fest last night. FIFA Fan Fest. And you know what he said to me? He goes, it was like a, it was like a festival. Yeah, that was bad. Poor choice of words. That's because it was a, it's called a fest, which is short for a festival. And I was like, wow, that's amazing. So tell us about it. I want to hear about it. Yeah. So it's up on a Lemon Hill, which for listeners of the Dom Gierdano show, we. been wondering, where is Lemon Hill? Yes. You know, what is Lemon Hill? No one ever says, like, oh, I'm up on Lemon Hill or anything. It's next to Strawberry Fields. Right, yeah, exactly. So, no, Lemon Hill's the hill up behind the Art Museum in that area. Okay. And up there, they do have a big fan fest. And it's, yeah, it's like walking into, like, a giant, like, music festival almost, but just for soccer. Like, there were just all these things. You go through the gate.

You know, immediately there's games and giveaways, you know, on your right. Go up the hill. You can grab some beverages, whether that's water, soda, beer, whatever, what have you. And there's just a lot of things to do. And then the centerpiece of the whole thing is that there's this big stage, big stage for performances, DJs, whoever might be there. I heard the All-American Rejects are going to be there on Monday the 13th of July, which would be awesome. And then on top of the stage is this. ginormous, you know, flat screen jumbo-tron. So you can watch some of the games on, and that's what it was happening last night, is the U.S. played at 10 last night versus Turkey-A. Not Turkey, Turkey, Turkey. When did they change this feeling of Turkey? Within the last few years, they were just like, we're sick of being the world's punching bag when it comes to country names. That's how they spell it. Like, you know, in other parts of the world, they call the United States the Estados Unitos. We don't demand that they spell it United States. Right. Yeah. Right. So, whatever. It is a weird one to me, why they just are like, no, we're Turkey A now. We're no longer the bird. But, uh, it was cool. Because there's so many birds. So there's so many turkeys in Turkey. I don't even think they're there. Probably not. Yeah. So let me, my question, here's my question for you. I have a question when I hear about this. 10 o'clock and now you're there watching the game, right? Correct. Okay. Were you worried because like you get these groups of people together like, I don't know, on a cruise ship or waiting in line to get on an airplane flight somewhere. And all of a sudden, people, fists start flying. People are fighting because somebody agrees and then it's like two people disagree. And it just becomes this huge thing. Weren't you afraid of that? Like I would be really afraid for my safety. You know, the one thing I've noticed about like living in the city during this World Cup and all the different like people and like backgrounds that have come here. It's like everyone just wants to get along and live in harmony. It is something, there's something in the air where it's just like no one's fighting, no one's getting upset with each other, like no one's pushing, no one's shoving, there's no disagreements. And then on top of that, if there is, I felt pretty safe because there's a pretty, you know, good police presence there. You know, you'd see an armored officer walking through, just, you know, checking things out, making sure everything's okay. So, yeah, I thought, it did come to my mind a little bit. I was like, this is a big open area, but like, I felt right at home. I didn't feel any danger. Good, good. So you watch the game. Yeah. And what if you don't really like soccer and you really don't care about the game? But it was America playing. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, I could sit through a soccer game if America's playing. And that's fine. But it's a low-scoring game, which is kind of boring. What was there to do besides that? So, yeah, I grabbed a couple beverages with my friends. I mean, it's like a... I don't want to say like a driving theater, but that's kind of what it is where you have just all these people standing around, you know, looking at the screen and you're just hanging around, you know, talking with the people around you, having a beverage, you know, at halftime he went to the pro shop. I bought myself a t-shirt and just...

Looked around. How much was a t-shirt? Wait, how much was a t-shirt? It was, 55. Wow. Wow. And what kind of t-shirt was it? Does it make coffee for you in the morning? Wow. Holy cow. No, it was just a FIFA World Cup t-shirt. But it was something like, you know, once I put my eyes on, like I would wear, I'd wear that until it's, you know, and tatters. It's just something I could see myself wearing. And I don't see that in a lot of clothes that I'd, you know, go out and look for. So I had to get it. I got a nice 10% discount because I was using a visa card. So that's nice. Still. Yeah. That just goes to show you how marked up it is. Oh, yeah. Like my friend bought a jersey for like 120. And he was like, it doesn't even fit me. And I'm like, that's your problem. At least got something to fit me. Wow. That's crazy. Wow. So does this happen? How long does this go on for? So it's going to be up until the World Cup's over in the middle of July, I believe. And the All-American Rejects will come in that Monday and kind of be like the like goodbye concert, the last hurrah, if you were, of the whole fan test. Okay. Because teams are going home. I saw that the Scots, like, so we all saw the Scots, right, at the Tartan Army. And then the Danes had like the big orange bus that they put on a plane. How much money do these people have? I've been thinking that because the ticket prices too are outrageous. And they've got, they've got signs when they were leaving, I think, Miami. Like, it was there some sign written in Gaelic or whatever, Scottish, or whatever the heck they speak. Like, there was this sign, like, across the roadway. And they brought instruments. And they brought an inordinate number of orange traffic cones. Or they bought them here. And they've got. Did they come over on a cargo ship because there's just so much stuff? And I'm like, how much money do these people have? They're driving around. They're renting cars and taking a couple of weeks. And I'm like, we're going to go drive to Oklahoma. And off they go. Yeah. That's wild. I mean, there are people down here from like Boston. It's like, why in Boston? It's like, oh, we stopped here before we're going to hit the next city they're in and say if they make it to the knockout stage will go there. And it's like, how? How are you doing this? What do you do that you can just step away and just be like, oh, I'm going to gallivan across the United States for a few weeks? Right. Who's got that kind of job? And it's, that's so funny because I love seeing them here experiencing all the American stuff. I think we all love that because it's someone who's not, you know, it's, we don't have to, we have to listen to half the country. tell us how horrible we are on a daily basis and how awful America is and on a daily basis because they're just miserable. Seeing joyous people just makes you feel good, right? These people are full of joy and they're just so happy to be here. And to me, I love it. I just, it's exactly what we needed to drown out all the miserable sots on the other side. Right? But.

But at the same time, you think about it and you're like, oh my gosh, Americans just work so stinking hard and don't get the vacation time these people get. And that's what I see with all of this, that we could never do this. just couldn't do it if it were if this was being held in you know oh in europe in three different countries or whatever americans just can't take off you know a month to go trot around europe and have fun and dance in the street and you know put traffic cones on statue's heads like we don't have that freedom it's weird like that because you feel like you'd be able to at some point right right like are you really that important to your job you can't step away They can't get away from it all for a few weeks. It does seem kind of outrageous when you think about it. Well, to be fair, Zioly could do it. He's never working. I love you, Rich. All right. So speaking about soccer, I have to just share this. So today, in Seattle, is the infamous Pride match because it's the end of a Pride month. which I didn't even know we were still doing this Pride Monthing. I'm like, are we still doing this? Anyway, because they're big on Pride out in Seattle. They have been planning for this since they found out that they were getting some of the games, right? So it turns out that the Pride match day, which is today, it just so happens that the two teams that are going to be playing today just worked out that it's Iran and Egypt. Two very gay-friendly teams, countries. which is hilarious, right? You know, the irony just drips, and it's going to be super fun to see if Seattle chooses Muslims or the LGBT, the alphabet community when it comes to who they're going to make happy, which always happens. They always have this clash because they've got the victimhood pyramid, right? And I think the Muslims go on the top, and I think the alphabet people kind of get kicked down towards the bottom a little bit on this one. What do you think? I don't know, on the Pacific Northwest. Seattle? Yeah, I might lean the other way. I might disagree with you here. Really? Yeah. I don't think so. I don't think so. So the committee's website, this for Seattle, FWC 26, has a page dedicated to the Pride match day. They held a Pride match day press briefing yesterday. And the Soccer Association, FIFA, told the athletic, which is a publication or web page on Wednesday that they're permitting rainbow flags at all of its World Cup matches this summer. However, the Iran national team has had none of it.

They said, our position is that no ceremonies or promotional activities associated with this movement should be present inside the stadium or as part of the match environment. This position has been communicated to FIFA through the appropriate channels. And they said both countries share this viewpoint because neither one of those countries are where you want to go live if you're gay, right? And in Iran, you probably wouldn't make it far anyway. So what they're saying is apparently that rainbow flags and other flags representing sexual orientation and gender identity, because apparently there are several of them. Like there's like a whole coalition of flags to fly to let everyone know your sexual preferences, which in and of itself is a weird concept, in my humble opinion. They are all permitted under the FIFA Stadium Code of Conduct. The local host committees do not have the power, though, to impose initiatives inside tournament venues because World Cup programming is led by FIFA. So the Seattle host committee has to be outside the stadium perimeter, which is not under FIFA's jurisdiction. But inside the stadium, because FIFA allows flags of all genders and every sexual weird proclivity you got going on, you can fly your freak flag proudly. It's going to be so interesting to see what happens inside the stadium because you know that people are going to be flying that pride flag just to shove it in their faces. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens. And I am so here for it.

I just think that that's, well, in a post on the Egyptian Football Association's X account, a statement on its website, it said it would refuse the holding of any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the game. So if they start, if they start flying those flags, you know, you got some guys showing up in booty shorts and, you know, leather chaps or whatever in the stands, it's going to be interesting to see if they just don't play the game. I kind of love this. I kind of love watching the left's favorite groups like clash up against each other and then sit back and see who wins in the end. I just don't think it's going to, part of me doesn't think it's going to be the gays because, you know, I think the football players could kind of take them on. The soccer players probably hardier than the guy in leather chaps or the guy in the furry costume in the stands, but that's just me. So, all right, we got more coming up. If you want to jump in here, you know you're always welcome 855, 839, 12, 10. And I'll even go check on X and see if anybody has tagged me in a post over there. You are welcome to do so to make your comments. And if suitable for air, I will share them. I'm Mary Walter, and you're listening to 1210 WPHT. Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, welcome back. So we've got Christine Flowers coming up after the top of the hour. We'll talk to her about some of the immigration wins for the president. She is an immigration attorney. So I was right up her alley. And I have some other things that I want to talk to her about a little bit, a little bit more fun. But so I would just want to go to Stephen Miller who cracks me up. Stephen Miller just is so, he's like so many people in the Trump administration this time around who don't care. They don't. Don't care if you don't like what they have to say. They don't care. They're going to say it, and they're just going to put it out there, and they are not going to wrap it in cotton for you. It's just coming. So here he was outside, and he was being asked by reporters yesterday after the rulings came down from the Supreme Court. And so he was asked about, especially the temporary protected status, because I think it's Haitians and Syrians. And now Haitians have been here since 2010. The Syrians have been here, I think, since 2012. And the Haitians had a earthquake or hurricane, hurricane in 2010. Remember the Clinton Foundation was going to take care of all that? Remember that? Yeah. So 2010. And they're still here. It's 2026. I'm pretty sure if they should have gotten it together between then and now because it is temporary protected status. So Stephen Miller asked about the TPS deportations. Cut one. Let's start with cut one. You expect the administration to deport anyone who loses TPS status as a result of this ruling? Of course. If you no longer have status in this country, then you're supposed to be deported. And in particular in the case of the Haitians, the Biden administration flew over vast numbers. It's hard to know the exact number. but they're probably more than a million illegal immigrants from Haiti. That's not accounting the border crossings, into the United States. These are people who have only been here for a few months who are receiving welfare, whose all their ties, all their social connections, all their family is back in their home country of Haiti. And of course, that's where they should get. Yeah, so there's two groups because he's right. Springfield, Ohio, remember Springfield, Ohio? I think Springfield, Ohio, who got, who got, like, like, like,

more Haitians dropped in their city than there were Americans and there were residents. And it totally changed everything overnight. And they ran out of money for the schools and money for all these social programs and they were having a big problem with it. And that's where, you know, they're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. That whole thing. It came from because that was Biden who just was importing the third world to this country, you know, because Haiti and best post I've seen on X. all day is, and I want to give this person credit. Where did it go? Did I lose it? I think, oh, no. Eve Canaan, Canadian? This is it. Trump, quote, Haiti is a blank whole country. Democrats. That's racist. Trump. We're sending the Hades back to Haiti. Democrats. No, you can. Haiti is a blank whole country. Yeah, remember? They're like, no, it's great. How dare Donald Trump say that about Haiti? But then. Biden flew a whole bunch of them in here. And those especially have only been here for a couple of months. So it's easy. And the other ones who have been here since 2010, they have been collecting food stamps and welfare and free health care and everything else. And it's temporary. And the left is losing their minds over the term. Temporary actually meaning temporary. Cut two. This is also Stephen Miller with another reporter coming back talking about how dare you send these people back to their home country. Here we go. Does this nation consider Haiti a safe country? For Haitians, absolutely. For Haitians? Yes. I mean, yes, Haitians live in Haiti. It's not our position that Haitians should leave Haiti. I mean, it would be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn't live in Haiti. It's their country. Of course, Haitians should live in Haiti. There's no viable asylum, or use a technical term here, cat. claim or withholding claim for any Haitian seeking relief from going back to Haiti to their homeland. The fact that there might be pockets of Haiti with higher crime rates, guess what? There's pockets of Chicago with crime rates just as high, right? There's pockets of cities like St. Louis with crime just as high. Pockets of Los Angeles crime just as high. It has never been the case that having communities that have high crime rates is a basis for asylum. It never has been, never will be. There you go. I just love what he said that. Do you think Haiti is a safe country? For Haitians, absolutely, Haitians live in Haiti.

He just cracks me up sometimes. He just says it flat out there, and he just doesn't even try to get to couch it, which is why I just think it's just so funny. All right, we're going to go. We've got Christine coming up at the top of the hour on the other side. Joining us here on the Dom Giordano show on 1210, WPH. 1210 WPHT. Welcome back. Happy Friday to you. I'm Mary Walter. You're listening to the Dom G. Ordano show here on 1210 WPHT. And joining us now a friend of the show, a friend of the station to hear all the time. Christine Flowers, she's an attorney, a columnist, and a commentator. She does it all. And she's always riding the train. Always on the train. You can find her on except. Flower Lady 61. Christine, my friend, how are you? Great, honey, bunny. Yeah, I'm going to make up my new motto. She rides the train. I have to go in. Yeah, I'm always moving from place to place. Yeah, I don't know how you do it, because I used to ride New Jersey Transit all the time into Manhattan, and it was fine. And I had to ride it probably, gosh, I don't know. It was, I don't know what it was recently. Anyway, a couple months ago I had to get on, and they've added a smell now to it. So, so. It's a full sense experience. It's all your senses are tickled. And because it's not a pleasant smell. It's an odd smell. And I'm not quite sure. It's, you know what it is? It's a disinfectant smell. It's a very strong disinfectant that they use, I guess, because I get on in the beginning of the first stop, you know, when it comes out of the yard. So, and I was like, what is that smell? And it's like some weird cheap, you know, it's cheap disinfectant that never really cleans anything. It just attempts to mask. the weird mass transit odor? Well, you know, and I get that, and I understand because there's some very bizarre disinfectant smells, but I would, and I haven't smelled the one that you're talking about, but I think I would prefer that to most of the perfumes that emanate from the bowels of the Philadelphia underground system, septa. The other day, though, I actually did a little video of it, and while I was walking. I actually, I was taken by awe by it. I was in the shock of it. I went downstairs, and I'm like, oh, my God, it was clean. It smelled really nice. It smelled like Mr. Clean or Spick and Span or whatever it was. Am I allowed to say Spick and Span? They sell it in the dollar store now. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, they have this other one. It's blue. It's Spanish. I don't remember what it is, but it's very cheap, and, you know, I get that. No, it smelled really nice, and I realized, I realized the reason was because there are foreigners in our city, just as there are foreigners in New Jersey and New York right now for the World Cup. They wanted to put on a good face, and I have a feeling that the minute those people leave, it's going to revert back to, you know, the smells of the bowels of the earth, you know, lose hope, all ye who enter here. Yeah, I've smelled that smell in the bells of Philadelphia. So I've been there, been there, done that. That's a very scary place, by the way. But anyway, I have to do it next Tuesday. I have to ride the rails in because I can't take the ferry to this where I have to go. So, yeah, it's going to be, I know. So, all right, so let's talk a little bit. We were playing Stephen Miller talking about the temporary protected status of Haitians and Syrians. No one's talk about the poor Syrians. He only talking about the Haitians. And he was asked, you know, you know,

Does the administration consider Haiti a safe country? He said for Haitians, absolutely. Haitians live in Haiti. It'd be crazy for us to say that Haitians can't live in Haiti. It's their country. And he was talking not only about the people who came here in 2010 under temporary protected status and are still here, but the ones that Joe Biden brought in because for amnesty or seeking sanctuary or whatever and just flew into the country. And he's like, yeah, it's all temporary. time for everybody to go. So I know you are an immigration lawyer and I know you're a little bit softer on this than I. What are your feelings on temporary protected status actually being temporary? Okay. Well, I'm not just... soft on this i cannot stand Stephen Miller so let's let's get that i find him to be hilarious come on you don't find the hilariousness in him i no not at all i the only hilarious part about him is his face he looks like squidward he is the human embodiment of squidward but in any event moving beyond that um I agree on one point that temporary protected status is temporary. It is built into the statute. It is not supposed to be a permanent status where someone comes here and then 30 years later, they're still here under TPS and they think, you know, why are you kicking me out? There have been legitimate situations where TPS has been terminated. For example, for Liberians, they came over in the early 90s. because of a gruesome civil war that was going on. And it lasted for a fairly long time, but ultimately, Liberian TPS was terminated justifiably. Then you have Hondurans who came over, and I think some Salvadorans as well, excuse me, who came over after Hurricane Mitch. And that was, I mean, it literally devastated large swaths of Central America. That was in, I believe, the mid-90s, and they got, you know, they got TPS. And it took a long time for the countries to sort of get back to a situation where they believe that people could live there. And then that TPS was terminated. But there is still a certain – it's very complicated, and I'm not going to be able to get into all the details right now. But it really depends on when the TPS was announced. if you were physically present on a certain date because you're not eligible for TPS unless you are physically present at the time that it is designated by, excuse me, by the... the Department of Justice by the White House, by the executive, let's say. Now, so I have no problem whatsoever with ending TPS on a legitimate basis. What makes me, I do find Stephen Miller hilarious in his comment that Haiti is safe. Haiti is safe for Haitians. They, I'm, you know, I don't know how many Haitians Stephen has spoken to recently. I have a bunch that I know, including people who are green card holders and some citizens.

And they have family members who were murdered, macheted to death. Their heads chopped off. They are still reeling from an earthquake, I think, eight years ago. There have been floods. So, I mean, if you're going to pick one country to say, let's end TPS because the conditions have gotten back to normal, Haiti ain't the one you're going to go for. I understand. the principle that people will say, well, you know, we can't keep people here forever. And that's true. But Haitians haven't been here forever. I agree with you about Joe Biden. The humanitarian parole programs that were put in place are a complete mess. But for him to sit there and say that Haiti's conditions are conducive to life for Haitians, I mean, you're right. He's hilarious. That's great stand-up comedy. You know, he did make the point. Someone said something to kind of like what you're saying, well, it's, you know, there's still crime there and there's this and that. He goes, go to Chicago. There's pockets of Chicago where you're not safe at all. There's pockets in- You're not going to get your head cut off with a machete in Chicago. Okay, so you're going to be shot to death instead. So, you know, there's places in every country, including this one. You know, where do the people, the mothers in Chicago who don't want their kids murdered walking to the bus stop, where do they go for sanctuary or some kind of safe haven? The problem is this, Mayor, we are, you're mixing apples, not you, but people are mixing apples and oranges. TPS is a legitimate form of humanitarian relief. If we don't want to have TPS, get rid of it. Get rid of it. Take it off the books, but don't play games like Stephen is playing and saying things are better in that country over there. So we're going to end it now. No. and the whole process, because they're making a mockery of it if they say that Haiti is okay. And, yeah, you could be shot walking out on the street in South Philadelphia, where I'm looking out on Broad Street right now. But on a U.S. citizen, we're talking about two different things. One is humanitarian relief for people who are not legally entitled to live in the United States. And one is, how do we keep the city safe for U.S. citizens? And we have a... I mean, we could even go into another topic with our district attorney here, who was an absolute joke, loser, complete loss. But that's a separate issue. So, I mean, I disagree completely with Stephen. Well, and I figured you would, which is why I brought it up, and we played it before you came on the air, because I figured you would disagree. I just don't think that we can take everyone from every country that can't get their crap together and rebuild. I agree. I agree. Dominican is nice, and they're on the same island as Haiti, and they got it together. Haiti's got poor government, so that doesn't mean you get to come here, and a lot of these people are on receiving benefits, and we can't support everyone who wants to come here. But I'm with you. Get rid of it all together, because it's not temporary, and people, it's like, I've won the lottery, because I get to go to America and live there forever. But the problem is with Haiti also, a lot of the people who came.

drained their economy because they were professionals, they were doctors, they were nurses, they were police officers, and it was not the very, very poor people, teachers, crippled a lot of their economy by a lot of those people leaving and coming to the United States, especially by Biden. But those were also the people, with all due respect, those were also the people that were being terrorized. They weren't terrorizing poor people in Haiti. They were going after the professionals who had money. They were killing them. They were kidnapping them. Those people had legitimate reasons to come. Now, for me, applying for TPS was a mistake. I think that they should have applied for asylum. They would have at least under, probably under Bush, probably under Trump one, probably under Obama, probably under Trump one, definitely under Biden. They would have qualified for asylum and waiting for TPS. I think we agree on the fundamental principle that you cannot come over here with the idea that you're going to stay forever when you don't do anything to establish the roots that allow you to stay forever. We also don't have that much of a system that allows that to happen. But you can't use TPS. That's not the right vehicle for it. But by the same token, I'm simply saying if you're going to have that, you're going to have temporary protected status, don't make a mockery of it and play games with it and take... the worst country in the world right now that's in the western hemisphere and say things are hunky dory things are fine and the way that christie gnome did it christineome you know how she you know how she determined that heady was great right now stephen didn't talk about this she did no research she didn't do any investigation she sent an email one email to the department of state to Marco Rubio who i adore i adore Marco Rubio She sent it to some functionary at the Department of State, and somebody wrote back and said, yeah, I think Katie's okay. And she took that one email and used that as the basis for terminating TPS. That was what was in front of the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court looked at the statute, and they basically said, well, the statute says it's entirely within the purview of the White House, which is true. unfortunately, you also have to factor in due process. You have to factor in randomness. How do you make these decisions? So, you know, I don't want to go into the whole scholarly discussion of it. But I just think, I think we agree that TPS should, it needs to go away. It's a mess. It's a mess. It's a mess. It needs to go away. But to be fair, and I'll just say this one last thing, and then we're going to take a quick break, because I want to do some fun stuff with you, okay? Cool. But I will say, My favorite post on X, I read it earlier, was basically Trump said, what did he say? Trump said Haiti is a blank whole country. And the Democrats are like, that's racist. You can't say that. There's nothing wrong with Haiti. So Trump goes, oh, we're sending the Haitians back to Haiti. And now everybody's like, no, you can't send, you can't do that. Haiti's a blank whole country. So it depends on, you know, Democrats told us. Haiti was fine. Why would you call it that? Why would you insult the Haitians like that? That's racist. How could you say that about Haiti? And now that he wants to send the Haitians back, all of a sudden, it's he was right the first time. I think bringing race into it is wrong. I think, and I, that's why I hate the left, because it constantly, it's all about race, race, race, look, they're going after the black people. They're going after the Latinos. No.

It's not about that. It's about looking at the facts on the ground. I'd say the same thing about Syria. I'd say the same thing, not so much about Venezuela. Well, now Venezuela with the earthquake. Absolutely, there's a reason for TBS. But I have a strong feeling that this administration isn't going to look at two 7.5 earthquakes and say, yeah, there are maybe some problems in those countries. But I don't think it's race at all. I think it's process. No, I agree. My point was about the hypocrisy of whether it's a great country to live in or it's not. No, no, I agree. I agree. And the left is always hypocritical about those things. They always play games with race, and I hate it. And that's why, even though people out there listening are saying, oh, my God, she's like a communist socialist that, Christine. I'm not. And I never was, and I will never be a Democrat ever again. because of the games that they play with race and identity and all of this stuff. But that's not what we're talking about with TPS, and it never should have been. And the left muddied the waters by doing that. Yeah, no, absolutely. All right. We need to do something right now because it is time for...

All right, Mary, it is that time of day where we play Dom's Money Melody. Today's prize winner will get another copy of Scott Jennings' book, A Revolution of Common Sense, how Donald Trump stormed Washington and fought for Western civilization. Yes. It was on this day in 1977 that Elvis Presley made his last ever live stage appearance when he appeared at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, and he would pass away a little less than two months later. So I'm going to play you one of his songs today. Jailhouse Rock, only, of course, he's not going to be singing it. It's going to be a cover band. I want to know the cover band covering Elvis today. Some notes about this band. Never really a band to end up in the jailhouse, but they were definitely not short on controversy, having some relationship issues within the band, we'll say. So I'm going to leave it that. I want to know this wildly popular band covering Elvis who had some relationship issues within the band. Let's take a listen. A band full of couples. I want to know who this is covering Elvis here. I got nothing. Yesterday, I knew yesterday's. I knew yesterday's. Today I got nothing. I will say this does not sound like their music at all. It really doesn't. I was shocked that this band was singing this way. Me too. So it's not the Partridge family? No. No. Okay. All right. All right. We'll see if anyone can get it over the break. Yeah, I want to know this band with relationship issues. Oh. I don't say it. No, don't say it. Okay, I have a guess. Okay, all right. We'll get to it in the break. And I'll be honest whether I was right or not. If you know the answer, 855, 839, 1210, we'll be waiting for your call. Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. It's Dom, Money Melody. Where has all the money gone? Show me to my... That is right. All right. We want to know who this is covering Elvis right here. All right. It's a band with a lot of relationship issues. Carl and Washington Township. Carl, who's covering Elvis here? I believe that's the Blues Brothers. No, not quite. Not quite, Carl. Sorry, no. Let's head over to Lou and Mount Laurel. Lou, who's covering Elvis here? Is that Sweetwood Mac? Here we go. Yes. The clues give it away, Lou? Does I give too much? Yeah. I figured I did, but I wanted someone to win. All right, congratulations. You're today's winner. We'll get you squared away with that prize. Congratulations, Lou. You know, you know that you've given too many clues when I get it right. Is that the litmus test? It is because I'm terrible and stuff like this. I'm terrible. And as soon as you said relationship issues and I was like, Christine, bring Christine because she had a guest too. Christine, who is your guest? Christine Flowers here with us.

I was wrong. I thought Bon Jovi. Wow. When you were saying relationship issues, I thought, wow. I mean, every band has relationship issues, but Fleetwood Mac had a lot of, like, a lot of, like, marriage, relationships sleeping with the other people. Like, they had a whole boatload of stuff gone on. Never ended up in the jailhouse, but, you know, not good stuff, either way. No, no, that was, that was, that was good. So, anyway, all right, well, thank you so much, and congratulations, Lou. Yay! See, I should be able to win because I would have won two days in a row. That's all I'm saying. They told me that I could win that in lieu of getting paid. No, they need to pay you. They need to pay you. Come on. All right, let's have some fun. Let's have a little bit of fun. It's kind of play off of that. You guys want to hear from all of you. Rain Wilson, you know, he played Dwight Shrewd on The Office. And he told Fox News Digital, he was doing an interview, and he said that partisan hypocrisy on both sides of the political aisle is fueling Americans' divisions, which is interesting because he's left, you know, that's in L.A. And he argued that cancel culture has stifled modern day comedy. You're starting to see some of these people who are in Hollywood saying, wait a minute. this cancel culture that we were so far behind, you know, we were all cheering, it eventually comes and bites you in the butt. It always does. It always comes for you eventually. And he said, I don't feel like you could make the office today. I think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as we were on the show. I kind of miss that. And he said, despite that both his character and Steve Carell's role as Michael Scott were purposely portrayed as lacking self-awareness in a boob, the humor would not fly or be viewed as socially acceptable in today's society. We milked that for a lot of great comedy, really inappropriate stuff. But even with the fact that painting that character is just an idiot, I don't think it could get away with that today. And I have to tell you, the office is one of my absolute favorite shows of all time. Hilarious. It'll run like on a back channel on a Saturday afternoon when I'm cleaning or something or folding laundry or whatever. And I'll put it on. I'll put it on. And I just sit there and I listen and I just laugh, even though I know exactly how it's going to go, how it ends. It's just so funny. So Christine is there. And anybody who wants to join in, 855, 839, 12, 10, can you think of like a tell. television show or a series or a movie that could not be made today. Because I think there are so many of them. What you got? Oh, Lord, pretty much every single one of them, I think. I mean, cheers because you have a guy who is a, you know, you had Sam who was, I mean, he was adorable and he was handsome, but he was like, you know, predatory, but they made fun of it. It was sort of like, oh, you know, he loved all these women and he was just in that. And I mean, it would be like, oh, my God, this is a Me Too moment.

I don't think that they could do, let me see, Mary Tyler Moore, I mean, because Mary Tyler Moore was very, even though she was very smart, she was deferential to Mr. Grant, and they would like, you just can't do that. Women can't be seen as being deferential in any way, shape, or form. We couldn't have any of the, you know, the sweet old family shows like... leave it to beaver or gobble with the other ones, Dennis the Menace, the Ozzie and Harriet, where the mother stayed in the home. I mean, she would be ridiculed because she chose to be a mother. I don't think there's really anything today that we would be able to... Let me see. Oh, any show where a minority was a regular character, but not a major part of the show, because then it would be like, well, it's tokenism over here. All in the family was amazing, and all in the family didn't take itself seriously, but it was quite a serious... commentary, I think, on race relations. We couldn't do that today because there's no more freaking nuance anymore. Everybody is so freaking literal. You have to be careful. Like, for example, real quick, on my Facebook page, I put up these photos of these two really strange-looking men who have kind of been, you know, like social media stalkers. They've just been like, you know, constantly posting things on my page. commenting i have no idea who these people are so what i did was i took screenshots of their faces and then i posted them and i said gosh i wish my stalkers were better looking than this and i said oh and they have pronouns do you believe it that i got a whole bunch of people telling me everybody has pronouns christine Everybody uses pronouns. I don't know why you're making fun of people who use pronouns. And I'm thinking, oh, my God, people don't even have the irony gene anymore. They don't understand sarcasm. Everything, to me, we've ruined ourselves. And there is no truly good... um television fair unless some of the streaming programs some of the things that you know the networks are impossible so yeah i mean honestly back off the top of my head that's what i think i don't think there's really anything that we could do today that we would be able to kind of put out there and not worry about how it's going to be seen you know All of the different networks now. I mean, now CBS is worried about putting out certain things there from the other end. I mean, we've got the pendulum swinging now in the other direction with conservatives who are looking very, very closely at things that they don't like, they don't want to hear. And I'm just like, can't we just let people be themselves, be authentic, and not worry about having to say the right thing or present ourselves in a certain way? It's just, whatever. It's frustrating.

It is. Well, thank you for kicking it off with me. I'm going to open up the phones, and I just wanted to start just something fun with you because I knew we were going to talk about something serious, and I wanted to start something fun with you. So thank you so much. Have a great weekend, my friend. You too, sweetie, and good luck on that train. Yeah, well, I'm going with a friend. I'm going to bring Vicks to put under my nose. Oh, yeah, Vicks Vaporov. That's great. Well, good luck. I'll be thinking of you. You too. Thank you. All right. Coming up, your calls, 855, 839, 12, 10, or tag me in a post on X at Mary Walter Radio. What is a show or a movie or something that they could not have around today, could not make today? I bet you there's even music that you could not. Remember when they went after Christmas carols? And I want to know if you have ever just really purposely exposed your kids, grandchildren, a niece's nephews. to some of these shows just to kind of desensitize them a little bit or say, hey, this is what we used to watch and it's funny because sometimes watching their reactions is sad but funny and entertaining at the same time. And I will talk to Henry and Kirk and get their things, their list of things. All right, so 855, 839, 1210. It's all coming up on the Dom Giordano show. Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, happy Friday. Just having some fun here before we start the weekend. And Rain Wilson, who starred as Dwight shoot on the office. He said, you know, we couldn't even make the office today. We couldn't even have that as a TV show today because this... It was too much, like the, a lot of the, um, it would be too politically incorrect with a lot of the stuff that we, that we did. And he said, the political right is all up in arms about, oh, he's a racist, see? And when they. which I find hilarious because the only time the right points out racism now because the left pointed out racism and everything, but I digress. But they won't look at their own side when people show racist tendencies or say racist things, and it's the same on the left. They're willing to overlook the platinum Nazi tattoo. But if it was someone from the other side that had a tattoo that was questionable, they would be all over MSNBC about it. It's the hypocrisy that gets me the most. I agree. It is the hypocrisy. So I think he's absolutely right. And who was a male... Oh, gosh. The guy who made all the really funny movies. Mel Brooks. He years ago said, I could never make my movies today, ever. I would be run out of Hollywood today if I tried to make any of those movies. All right, guys, so what show or movie could not be made today? Well, it's funny you said that because I was absolutely going to lead off with the low-hanging fruit in this category, and there has to be Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles. Of course. Of course. I love it. just on TCM about a month ago uncensored and I recorded it. They showed it at like 1 a.m. but I saw it was coming up and I'm like, boom, I recorded it because I think that's one that my nieces and nephews need to see. Yeah, absolutely. I think I've wanted to give it. Just to watch their heads try to process it.

Well, for me, I'm sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say, marry with children because that was like, that was like sex appeal like throughout, like from the beginning of the episode to the end of the episode. So that and also it was a lot of racial. Well, Al Bundy in the shoe stores. Exactly right. Right. And not fly anywhere. And then Marcy across the street, though, was gay and all the gay jokes, remember? Oh, I was going to say that too. Right? You could never say that today because, oh, my gosh, how could you say that? Have you guys ever seen 16 candles? Yes. It's been a while, but yeah. Right? The Donger? Oh, gosh, yeah. luck dot what was it luck luck luck duck duck dong am i right on that don't ask me where i left my keys but i can remember luck duck dong right and it was they kept on the chinese boy right yeah the chinese boys in the train It was hilarious. John Hughes's movies you can never make today because they were just so real. You can't make real realistic movies anymore. They have to be sanitized. Oh, PC up to, yeah, PCLA. No more Yankee my wanky, remember? He's learning English. Remember he's learning English? Longwood needs food. The bohunk, the oily bohunk. Remember she's marrying the oily bohunk? Remember she's marrying the oily bohunk? But it's hilarious, and we laugh at it. Now, my nieces, each one for their 16th birthday, they came with their mom, they came over, we did pizza, and we watched 16 candles. So growing up in our family with my, you know, with my brothers, my nieces have been well. have been well desensitized to being any kind of sensitive at all towards anything because we give zero like we subjected them to it from the time they were young like they knew what they were getting So we did that. Yeah. So it's 855, 839, 12, 10, if anybody wants to jump in. Because I don't want to take them all. There are so many good ones. I didn't even get to my TV show one. Oh, go, go do your TV show. Are you an entourage fan at all? No, I never saw it. Oh, well, if you ever watch it, I mean, like, from even the first episode on, you'd know, uh,

The main character, Vince, he's a bit of a womanizer, you know, he gets with a lot of girls. That might not fly today. Maybe it would, who knows. But what absolutely wouldn't fly is his agent Ari Gold, who's very foul-mouthed. And the kind of racist, sexist, misogynistic comments he makes just on a daily basis. I mean, even in the show, it cost him bringing an NFL team to Los Angeles. And that was in 2010. So I can't imagine what he would be like in 2026. And the things, you know, he would not be able to say, you know, in a corporate office being a high-powered Hollywood agent. Yeah, like, I don't know if that could be remade. I know they're going to try, but, you know what's interesting? Do you remember when they tried to cancel friends? Yeah, the reruns, the reruns of friends because the millennials or whichever generation it was was offended because there was no black, there was no black person on it. It was six white people there. That's Dawn's Cryptonite. There were no black people on and they tried to cancel it. And then people pointed out, well, Ross did date a black woman later. Yes, but the main characters were all white. And you can't, all of this just goes to show that we got to stop judging history through today's standards because everything changes and it's changing very, very, very rapidly and less and less and less is acceptable. And I... I kind of think some of the tide is turning when you look at some of the comedians that you see online that are making the rounds. And some of them are really, like really edgy. And they don't care. And there's people who are going to see though because people want to laugh again. Like Jerry Seinfeld said, I think you play an ad or you play something on here, right? Isn't there like something that's played? And he said, yeah, you could be that way, but you're never going to laugh again. And people want to laugh. All right. 855, 839, 12, 10, Joe in Columbus. Happy Friday, Joe. Barry, happy weekend, Eve. Thank you. Thank you. So what could we not ever make or see today? Well, first of all, I want to speak on behalf of everybody. We'd love your Tuesday night show. You have a great guest, and it's great exchange. It really is. Great interaction. put it that. I'm so glad that you join us. Thank you. There is not one this coming Tuesday, though, just so everybody knows. Because I know, like, Sal is going to be looking for it, and he's going to be posted on X. Where's the show? So we're not doing a Tuesday because I'm going to be on New Jersey Transit because Sal gets a little confused of time sometimes. Yeah, well, there's always someone who fails to pay attention, I'm sure. Mary, I don't know how, I don't, I just, I would love to see the conundrum. of what would happen if they wanted to recreate that show of all, mostly African-Americans who lampooned African-American gays, African-American gangbangers in living color. That was in Living Color was the Wayan Brothers, right? In Living Color? That was, that was, right? That was, that was, right? It was priceless. It was hilarious.

That's where, um, Carrie got it, not carry. Um, oh, the tall skinny guy who, yeah, what was his name? Jim Carrey got his start. Yes. Yes. He was, he was fireman Bill or fireman Bob, remember? Oh, my God. It was great. You know, men's on film. You know, the gay guys. The two gay guys on Phil. Only they could get away with that. It was priceless. You know? And then you had, who was a homie de clown? Yeah. Beating people with a sock full of oranges. Oh my gosh, that was such a great show. And it was so funny. And it launched a lot of careers. David Allen Greer, who's on St. Dennis. Now, he's always on a bunch of different shows. And the Wayans brothers. And wasn't Paula Abdul, one of the backup dancers for that, remember? Yes. Yes. She was responsible for the dancing troupe, I believe, in there. Yeah. She was a choreographer. Okay. You know, that's the hypocrisy. You know, black people could do that. White people would have been torn apart if they even thought of having that idea. Yeah, no, you're right. But that was just such a funny show, but that was the beginning of the political correctness where white people can't do it, but black people can do it. And you know what else? Right. The same thing, but the Jeffersons, I loved, the great thing that was great about all in the family when they brought the Jeffersons in because he was just as racist as Archie. But he was black. And do you remember the scene where they're in the Jefferson's apartment, which is much nicer than Archie's home, right, than the bunker's home? They're in the apartment and they're meeting Lionel's girlfriend for the first time of her parents. And her mother was black and her father was white. And Archie gets to meet them and he's like she, you know, Lionel introduces him and he goes, oh yeah, you know, have you met? You know, he goes, no, I'm going to go take him over to meet my dad. And he goes, Haven't met your dad yet? Edith, hold my drink. This I gotta see, because he watches and he just stands there and just waits for Mr. Jefferson, what was his first name, I forget. Just wait for him and the reaction on his face when he sees that his future father-in-law is white, you know, just to see the whole thing. But it was perfect because it made fun of everybody. Yeah, yeah, it was equal opportunity. It really was. Yeah. I remember Archie Biden at his time, but then I thought he started poking at Jefferson. What do you make it at, Jefferson? Well, like...

You know, let me say, what goes around, comes around. Exactly, exactly. All right, Joe, we got to run. Thank you so much. It's always a pleasure. It's such so nice to be able to talk to you instead of just seeing notes. Thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Have a great weekend. All right, quick break. Then we got Chris and Greg and Charlie, and we'll go quickly through them. I promise, I promise, I promise. All right, that's coming up next on 1210 WPHT. Tom Giardano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right. We're going to wrap it up here to get everybody and we've got to be quick, okay? All right. And just talking about movies or television shows that could not be made today or even music that could not be made today because everyone is just so stinking sensitive. Chris in Breuer Town, your first. Go. Welcome to the show. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me on. First of all, the Chinese guy's name was Long Duck Dong. Yeah, 16 candles. Yeah, okay. And also, Dean Martin and the Celebrity Roast. If you ever saw them with Don Rickles. Yeah, I kind of like have a memory of them, but I don't, I never watched them, to be honest with you. I never watched them a little bit, I think I'm a little bit older than you guys, but if you're on YouTube, look at them on YouTube, your jaw will drop. I guarantee you. Thank you for. Have a great weekend, guys. Thank you. Oh, now I have some, I know what we're all doing this weekend. Exactly right. By the way, I am on on Monday from 3 to 7. I'm going to do the job of two people. One woman can always do the job of two people. Nice. Uh, Greg from Wilmington. Go ahead. You're on the Dom Deer. Dom, I crap, the Dom show. You know what I'm talking about. I cannot say that man's name together. I cannot say it. Hi, Greg. How are you? Good. Go ahead. The movie that they could absolutely not make right now is the bad news bears, the original bad news bears. Oh, with Walter Mathau. Yeah, let me give you a little, and I'm going to use very PG-13. Tanner Boyle was their hot-headed shortstop, and he said, all we got on this team are a bunch of J's derogatory word for Spanish person, the N-word. You know, like, it just went on and on. And the last one was a booger-eaten moron. You could not have a movie today. I remember the booger-eating moron. You're 100%. Right. That was a very, very funny movie. That was a hilarious movie.

Because back then... It's an all-timer. Yeah, well, hearing a kid talk like that was funny and we laughed at it. You know, and if it was your kid, you would never put up with it, obviously. But the drunk coach, the whole bit, have you guys seen that? Yeah. Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah. The other thing was Kelly Leak was, you know, 11 years old or whatever, smoking a cigarette. Like, that was the other thing. Like, you couldn't have a kid. Smoking a dart these days, right? Smoking a dart. That's very true. You also couldn't have a coach drunk and drinking beer while coaching the kids on the field either. I actually had one, and we actually won the championship baseball coach, and we won... because he was drunk and did no coaching for us. Nice. That's the way we are. There you go. Sometimes it works, Greg. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. And lastly, I want to get Charlie from filling in here. Charlie, we got about a minute. Hi, welcome. I think Seinfeld was a very funny show, and I don't think they could make it today. I mean, George being steeped in gayness and the ugly baby and George would shrinkage. And my favorite was the old one. The one with E. Lane, she was going out with the sax player, and it wouldn't go south of the border. And he finally did, and then he was playing in the club, and his record executives were to hear him play, and he started going, well, he couldn't play. He couldn't play the sax, I guess, because he went down on it. I don't know. But she goes sneaking out the back door with the last scene. That was hysterical. I don't think they could do that today. Yeah, I don't think that some of that stuff can even be said. But I'm not in charge of that. I'm not in charge of that. But, yeah, Seinfeld, there are all those shows, had a lot of stuff. It was made for adults, and we knew it, and we had fun with it. Heck, you probably can't show half of those cartoons that we used to watch with the Roadrunner and the coyote because they hit them with an anvil. So, all right, we're out. Have a great weekend, everybody. Thank you so much for joining me. you on Monday. Bye. Dom Jiodano, weekdays, noon till 3, from Talk Radio 1210, WPHD.