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I'm Tobin Heath and I'm Kristen Press. We're World Cup champions, Olympians, and the host of the recap show. Week in and week out, we sit down with sports legends, cultural icons, and global change makers to talk everything from clutch games to causes that matter. This is about creating the future of women's sports, a future that's honest, inclusive, and real. Join us for our reimagined journey. Follow and listen to the recap show wherever you get your podcasts. Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. All right, welcome in, everyone. Moments away from talking with John Yoo formally all the way back to George W. Bush administration. Remember, Gitmo, Philadelphia native, brilliant guy, one of the most in demand people out there about all these cases that have developed. I might ask him about the judge, too. saying, no, no, no, you can't put this guy in solitary confinement, the alleged shooter, the White House correspondence dinner. I'm looking that girls flag football is now a sanctioned sport in New Jersey. That's good. So it recognizes that maybe you're not going to see female football teams, but they have their own version of it. But our friends over at, is it NJ Da who put this up here on Twitter? Was it Mike? Was it the Jersey guy? Making the point, how long before we're going to see somebody masquerading as a female running amok playing flag football? I would predict, give it a couple months, and that's exactly what you're going to see. But that's a good example of a sanctioned sport so that females. can play football in their own leagues, have a smattering of some aspects of the sport. It's not the same thing, et cetera. Female wrestling, though, has taken off tremendously. I'm not sure in Jersey, but in some states, it's unbelievable. Versus all the nonsense that we see playing out. The candidate for the lieutenant governor on the Republican side made the point of Josh Shapiro on this whole trans thing. Now, I know what Josh Shapiro will do when they start running ads about this and what he's saying. He will say, don't we have bigger problems in this? You know, the constant, well, then solve it. Just don't let males playing female sports. And we'll stop talking about it. All right, the war effort, as we predicted yesterday, I was taking a new turn now. How long does this go on as long as the Strait of Heromuz is open? before President Trump pivots again. I'm sure he's looking for an off ramp in this. So the Iranians are attacking the UAE oil refinery today, which is a key thing. That's what they're going to do around this. All right. John Yoo is one of our best guests without a doubt. A lot of things have piled up here that we need his. expertise. He's also a big Philadelphia sports fan and a native Philadelphian. John is the Emmanuel S. Hauer, professor of law at UC Berkeley, joins us here again in Philadelphia. All right, John, welcome in. Good time for sports here in Philadelphia, right? You're following all this? I know. The Phillies, the Sixers, the Flyers. This is great.

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It's almost like when I grew up in the late 70s, early 80s, when we were in the World Series, like of every sport in the same year. Yeah, early 80s, big time. City of Champions, although we didn't win all those, but we were right there, no doubt. Oh, gosh, I thought we did win them all simultaneously. That's what I remember. That's good. So, John, just you're our guy to talk about things like Supreme Court decisions. I don't know if you've noticed with Connie Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, and somewhat with Thomas now, particularly in this case we're going to talk about the Louisiana case, which has multitude of big-time outcomes. They push back on Ketanji Brown Jackson, particularly Samuel Alito this time. And it's not so much that they're just saying, all right, we don't agree with your dissent. They're questioning, I would put the word competency in here. This has happened several times. I think that they are attacking the very way that she thinks about constitutional law. And it really comes out in cases that involve race because it seems clear that Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks. that there should just be certain racial outcomes, that there should be a certain percentage of this race or that race in schools or percentage of this race or that race in Congress. But the Constitution doesn't have any principle in it that demands that. And so I think that you're right. They're questioning. It's not necessarily competence. It's questioning the very way she thinks, very role she thinks that laws should play in our lives. So it's some kind of like mathematical bean counter rather than treating us all as individuals who are free to make our own decisions. And life just results from those choices. This case, was it as predictable as it turned out to be six to three, the manner they went about it, the assurances. They didn't fully take away parts of the Voting Rights Act. But I think the takeaway was even broader, though, that you can't defeat racism by racist policies. Is that too superficial? What do you think the court was doing here? No, no, I think you've got it right. If you want to boil it down to the one... lesson. It's that this is another example where the Supreme Court is saying the government should not consider us on the basis of our skin color. And that's now true of getting contracts from the government, getting grants from the government, being considered for admission to colleges, universities by the government. And now. when the government draws voting districts or makes decisions about election procedures. So you're exactly right, Don, that's the basic rule. The way they got at it, though, is not, I think, that...

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Voting rights are gutted, that the sky's falling, that will there no longer be any minorities in Congress? I think those kinds of chicken little claims that are made in the dissent by people like Ketanji Brown Jackson are just wrong. In fact, the Supreme Court made a similar decision to this one about 10 years ago. There used to be another part of the Voting Rights Act. which said anytime a certain state wants to change its voting procedures or change districts that had to get the approval of the Justice Department. The Supreme Court struck that down. And you had the exact same dissents, the same claims that the sky was falling, that racism would return and so on. But as Samuel Alito points out, and other opinions have pointed out, in the last 10 years. It looks like, particularly in the South, oftentimes blacks get registered and vote at higher rates than whites. And if the Democrats should go on to win the midterms, we will have the first African-American speaker of the House in American history. This is not the return of racism. Instead, what it is is the return of the principle that the Constitution is colorblind, and our government must be colorblind, too. And again, to your point about Ketanji Brown Jackson, but even more importantly, political, the only answer on the political side is they see a different America, John. They say what we're talking about is a pipe dream. Essentially, you can't trust Americans, but I thought the court is saying, yes, it's trust but verify that there are parts of this that would stop states from going back to Bull Connor. Oh, yes. The main point of the Voting Rights Act is still intact. The main point in the 15th Amendment is still intact, which is states can't try to prevent people from voting based on race. They can't have these literacy tests where they would, you know, these southern officials would make, try to quiz black voters on, you know, constitution and facts, which they did not ask of white voters. And so in that, all of that is still there and intact. And the, but the thing that the court has struck down here was, I think, this pernicious idea, practice, which sometimes the lower courts were ordering on these states that these states had to draw voting districts to ensure that a certain number of minorities were elected to Congress. And that was based on this, I think, racist idea. that if we put enough blacks or Asians or in Hispanics in a certain voting district, well, they'll just vote for people who have the same skin colors them. And I think that's an offensive idea because it suggests that people just think about their skin color when they vote rather than assuming people vote on their interests, whether they like the representative, where they vote their represent their interests, whether they do a good job. Whether they're the same political party is, I think, and I think, of course, that is over, this idea that you have to maximize a number of minorities in Congress by packing minorities into voting districts. That's done. We're talking about John, you here on Talk Radio 1210. John, the case that interests me, because I understand it's a little bit kind. You got competing interests. Samuel Alito pushed it back now until the Supreme Court considers.

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Lower court saying no to disseminating the so-called abortion pill. How do you see them going back and forth on this case? And I don't know that we're going to see a 63 or anything like that on this ultimately. And this is a really hard one to tell. And what you're seeing right now, these early skirmishes, they don't really tell us how the justices are going to vote. Right now you're seeing these, what they're called, emergency stays as just whether the court is going to say before the government stops. allowing the mailing of Mepestepristone. I can never pronounce it. I just called the abortion pill, John. You know what? Just say abortion pill. Avoid it. Yeah. So before the Trump administration stops allowing the mailing of it, right? The courts want to make a decision, want to react. And so this is not unusual for the court. In fact, this is something that the New York Times and the left was just attacking the justices for doing to help conservatives. In this case, it's being done to help liberals, which is just keep the status quo intact until we have time to decide how the court's going to come out on it. This is a very, this case has come up before, this issue has come up before the court. It kind of sidestepped that before, but whether. This is a drug that should have been approved by the FDA, whether the new administration can't withdraw that approval. We really can't tell. We're so early in the litigation in the fight over this. I think it's not safe to try to draw any inferences from what the justices to have done to what they're going to do next. Do you have any crystal ball now with the court? I don't see Samuel Alito retiring. I love Samuel Alito. And, you know, when I think of who we could have had versus him, and I've had them on, John. And I don't see Clarence Thomas retiring anytime soon, but the argument is politically, you know, in case the election goes the wrong way on the other side, you want them to announce now so that you would have that battle and get somebody in that Trump would want. Do you see them thinking that way? Don, I think everyone's aware of Justice Ginsburg staying on the court too long. and ending up retiring under President Trump. That's one. Another fact is I think justices do like the idea of being replaced. by someone who's going to be similar in thinking to them. So if you're a Samuel Alito or Clarence Thomas who are over 70, then you might think, well, this might be the last time where you have a Republican president and a Senate that will confirm his nominees easily. I can tell you, Clarence Thomas, I'm spending this semester at University of Texas at Austin and Clarence Thomas Kane.

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and gave a major address. You might have seen it in the papers or on TV two weeks ago. And I saw absolutely no sign that he's going to retire. In fact, he was so energized and energy. You can see he had a lovely Q&A with the audience right after his speech. And he was energized he was. I would be shocked if he's not going to serve 10 more years. So it seems to me it would only be Samuel Alito. But, you know, he's... from our area. He's from the Philly area. He's a stubborn Italian from Philly. No one's going to push him out. You know, but since he's actually from New Jersey, rather than Philly, he's probably going to make the wrong decision. Well, I would tell you this. He's the only one. So maybe that's where my bias comes in. I just marvel at his brilliance. And as you said, it doesn't matter if he's the only vote on a particular issue. He's going to go down that path. He is... married to it, there is no just capitulating with Samuel Alito. And I just thank God we got him. George Bush had to be pushed toward it. He has been, I mean, look at the big decisions. Just look at some of the biggest things. He's the one that's driving it. And he's the author of Dobbs, which overturned Roe. I think that will be considered his most important opinion and sort of the crowning achievement of his judicial career. So if it were he, if it were Samuel Alito who were going to retire, I think he could do it satisfied with his judicial career. That's not to mean he's going to retire off in the sunset. Maybe they'll make him ambassador to Italy or something. Gotcha. So when are you coming to town, John, anytime soon? Oh, yeah. I'm hoping to be around for July 4th. And I still remember as a kid being around for the 200th Declaration anniversary parades. I think I'm going to try to make the 250th one. Well, you want us. We want to take you to lunch, have you on the show and everything else. You're our guide. Native makes good. Like I said, only if we have cheese steaks. And I want cheese with, I don't want all this fake fancy cheese I've been reading about that people are using. And these seated rolls, what is up with that? No seated rolls, no fake fancy cheese. It's got to be cheese with and a soft Italian roll on my cheesecake. All right. Well, you got it. Just come to town and you got it. All right. That'll be great. Thank you very much. Thanks as always. Thank you. John, you here on Talk Radio 12, 10. All right, Henry, mark that down on the long term. It sounds like he wants to come to Mulligan, so we'll have to arrange that. Yeah, there you go. The court will be in session. I will tag him in as my debate partner against Linda Kearns and Elvis Presley. All right, 855, 839, 12, 10. You get in. Hit us somebody, something associated with Mexico. With all the weighty stuff, the war moving back, you can tell we're in a big moment here with the Strait of Hormuz this morning with Pete Hegseth. This maple shade story is just a perfect example of where we are. And which town and where and what are, you see what Wildwood is doing. I told you what Ocean City is doing. It might be harder in Maple Shade.

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And they might be figuring, look, you know, we lose a little bit here for this football team, this nonprofit, but nobody's going to care. People get it. It's mob rule in Jersey. And if people want to come there and disrupt this event, well, let's not hold the event. That's what people in the town want. Are there towns out there to say, hell no, we want the police and the mayor and everyone else to do something. Now, let me give you another quick town. DJ sent me this one. What is Southerton a place where there would be a lot of people that are there illegally? The mayor is speaking out, disturbed that he says that ICE is targeting, apparently, Southerton. And he makes a comment that in Southerton, your immigration status, it would be discriminatory on the level if you cared about a discrimination status. as it would be if you cared about a person's race or gender or whatever. Really? Those things are not illegal, Mayor. Your immigration status is. That's much different, is it not? 855, 839, 12, 10. I don't know why ICE would be going to Saturday. Is it an agriculture center? Is there some other industry? Is there something there? that would drive that. But apparently that's where we are. All right. This, the Met, every year people dress up. I mean, the rock is in a skirt last night with a tuxedo top and saying, well, Polynesian men wear skirts. Yeah, we get a rock when they're in Polynesia, maybe. But not this type of thing. And taking attractive women. and making them unattractive with fashion seems to be what they do here. But this Sarah Paulson woman protesting at an event awash in money elitism and people with too much money to do goofy things by having dollar bills kind of held to her hair blocking at her eyes. I think it's several dollar bills and she's got plastic around it because of the dirt. Remember how dirty money is. So she's got somebody leading her around. She says this is to protest all this elitism and all this money that's being thrown around. It's not right. According to several reports, variety and others I read today, she's worth $12 million. And it costs $100,000 to parade around and be in this. Henry, do you know the music of Sam Smith? I mean, look, I realize Hollywood, you know, you got to put on the show and all. But this guy with the platform shoes and the... the headgear back from the 30s that women would wear and people are having to walk him around because of the ungainly aspect of this. I have to see this. Yeah, who does that appeal to? Yeah, who does that appeal to? Who is that that you're driving in your audience goes, wow, I love that fashion. Yeah, he kind of looks like, I don't know, like a black peacock or something. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I just don't get the uptick on it.

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Look, fashion that may not be my taste, but it's... It's Hunger Games-esque. Like, these are the people I feel would be like, you know, at the reaping or whatever, like celebrating the new, you know, tributes coming in. You're like, yes, fight to the death, please. I'm wearing a giant black peacock outfit. I'm dressed as a statue. I have money over my eyes. Maybe they're getting from that. I wrote down Hunger Games on here. And Bad Bunny shows up and makes himself 50 years older in appearance, walking with a cane and all. For some reason, you know, he's gray. He's got all this stuff on. Yeah. And that's his approach. Why? I don't. Yeah. But what it is, is it's just to be seen. And again, the burden on the other side, when we ever get into this income in a quiet, Dwighter Jeff Bezos and the wife, now they sicken me. But look, they made the money, basically legally. So what? You know, I'm not going to spend other people's money. The question you have to ask these people in the inequality thing is, you know they're not stopping at a billion. All right, a billionaire. They're not stopping at that. How much is Nancy Pelosi and the husband were, for example, guesstimate 200 million plus? What's the number where you can still make these arguments? This woman shows up with dollar bills taped across her eyes having to be let around. And the message is we're too greedy. We've gone too far. All right. She paid 100 grand to do that. And she's worth 12 million. Pretty simple. How in the world can you be this wealthy and yet attacking wealth? We see this thing constantly. All right. 855, 839, 12, 10. AT&T and Verizon Wireless, all we need you to do is just push pound 1210. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did at least, she wore a dress. I think it was tax the rich, not eat the rich, but taxed rich. Oh, good. She changed it up this year. Yeah. Well, not this time. I mean, was it eat the rich before? Oh, I thought it was eat the rich, yeah. I thought it was tax the rich. Maybe she did do eat the rich. But the dress was fine. It wasn't outlandish, you know. It was taxed rich. It was taxed rich. Yeah. She's reasonably if you can be participating in this. What is it that makes people believe, is there an audience for this out there? Do people laugh this up? Not just women, but in general. I mean, is there just this? Oh, that's fashion. I love to see this. I had to... That's fashion dressing up as a statue. I got to tell you, I had to do a fashion thing for the station. This is way back when it was in South Jersey. Just the walking back and forth with people looking, I think I was only wearing suits, Henry. You know, there was no swimwear contest or whatever. It was brutal. I just could not wait to get out of this. And you're going to put yourself through this, this outlandishness. Toward what? Well, it's out there, everybody's seeing it, so it's good. I don't see it that way, but they know better. They're celebrities. The money over the eyes, though. God, what an inspiration. It's an American horror story money. Yeah, exactly. Real good. Yeah, exactly.

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855839, 12, 10. But does the, let's talk about this. There's what I want to talk about. Does the inequality argument work? I'd say it's one of the best arguments Democrats have. Even though it's fallacious, it gets them in the game. It gets enough people. Remember when Obama made it. Remember when he stood there with that mob of losers. It was in Roanoke, Virginia, second time around. And he said, you didn't build that. The station held a contest for small business people telling their story. We had people calling more passionately than we ever had. That's it. My blood, sweat and tears, and you're telling me, you didn't build that. We all build it. We gave you the educated students. Oh, yeah, really, Philadelphia. How about the roads you're traveling on? Yeah, well, we already pay taxes for that. What are you talking about? Does that argument work? People want to play it a lot, even if they're worth $100 million. They want to say income inequality. And they want to dress up with platform shoes with someone walking them around. Yeah, you saw the Sam Smith guy. I mean, that was voted about the most outlandish of the whole thing. He's literally got like feathers coming out of his head. Yeah, that's right. He's got a feather, yeah. 855, 839, 12, 10, jump on board. Hey y'all, I'm Maddie. And I'm Poodle. And together, we host the podcast Reality Gays. We are two ridiculous homosexuals who love nothing more than talking about reality television and tearing in a new one. So whether it's 90-day fiancé, love is blind, love after lockup, or any other trash TV show about lonely hearts looking for love. Your gay besties got you covered, y'all. New shows every week. Follow and listen to Reality Gays wherever you get your podcast. It's reality gays. Let's love.

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Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, Mexico, side question today. You can hit us with that. By the way, we had a great police officer on from Phoenixville, and I think maybe they're doing the sobriety testing. Remember, you sign up the next time around? Yeah. I'm going to bring that up. I'm going to take a call or two after the next guest, because the Inquirer reporting that the man accused of killing the Johnny Jereau. the brothers in the drunk driving accident had a blood alcohol level that was below the legal limit, his attorney's claim. This gets to the point that you and I talked about, how they attack the mechanism. That's why police doing the sobriety walk and all that stuff is so critical. That's a point to the cop made, yeah. I think, I can't believe it based upon what we were told, that actually it was below the limit. Yeah. And these guys might just say anything. Yeah, I mean, this is the tactic. I mean, I've told the impugned the whole testing system to try to drive that reasonable doubt versus I'm sure they must have done a surprise, you know, film. Yeah, they had to have. Yeah, exactly. Let's go to Lance in South Philly on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Lance, thanks for the week. Go right ahead. How you know? How are you doing? Good. Hello, Dom, I'm going to this straight, too, but I got something else on the Straser Hamuz. Yes. For me, it's the bull fighting, and I've actually been to two of them. I got to tell you, Lance, that is a great one from Mexico, but I'm rooting for the bull. If they just took the bull on, but those picadors, you know, wearing the bull down, that's a little brutal. And listen, you know, the bull gets killed. They drug it out with a tractor. Oh, God. Wow. You know, that's why, yeah, that's why Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, they got the song, The Lonely Bull. Yeah. They still do bullfighting in Mexico, huh? Yeah, they do. Yeah, to death. To the death. Yeah. And the other thing is with the 309 corridor, you know, I exterminate all of that. Telford, Franconia, Salford. You know, there's a lot of factory work up there. A lot of factory work, and a lot of people take the van. They take the van from Philadelphia. You know, the van service up there. They pay about $35 a week. They leave at 5 in the morning. Then, you know, the van picks them up at 4 o'clock in the evening like that. But for my little bonus for you, Dom. You know, the Greeks got the, I give it to the Italians and the Greeks. Y'all got the hair. But the Mexicans got the hair. Listen, hold on. Listen, I give it to the Greeks in the Italian. You got the hair, Dom. You got the hair. But the Mexican said, you can't beat the mustache. You can't beat it. Oh. So you're going with the bullfighting of the mustache I like better. Yeah. How are you going to be the Mexican mustache, Don? Great. Thank you very much. Lance is like undercover all over the place with the exterminating.

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I mean, you know, he's seen more than anybody. Oh, yeah, exactly. So he's in there. Hey, they don't care. They're letting you're in the house. They need exterminating. You just do it. I don't care what you see. Yep. But the way he goes after that Sonoco station over there is unbelievable. The mustache show. That is true. Poncho Villa on down is very, very good. Yeah. So 855, 839, 12, 10, you get on board. This whole thing with this case, I can't pull it up, Henry. Maybe you can pull it up, and it's on the inquire the latest. We had on the cop from Phoenixville, and the reason they train their police there and have people get drunk under controlled circumstances is they're aware of exactly what defense attorneys do. Now, this case has been so publicized. Can you imagine if this guy gets off? I mean, haven't they done national anthems in honor of these two guys at hockey and... Did everything, yeah. Exactly. How did his jersey at the Olympics? Yeah. When they won the gold medal, they're skating around the ice. Yeah. So after our guest, I want to see this article. My point is, can you imagine if in a technicality, they say the guy wasn't drunk? Technically. All right? Because skilled attorneys... go after the whole blood alcohol thing and the breathalyzer and all. I wouldn't say the breathalyzer is treated quite like the polygraph, but they go after it in that kind of manner, I think. So they probably filmed him, too. You know, remember, I'm not sure if this is a jury or judge. All right, back with us. It's National Prayer Day coming up. I guess Thursday. I think it's always on Thursdays. It seems that way to me. Gabrielle Bruno is with us again to break that down if there ever was a time for prayer. We are seeing in Henry's generation and right around there all kinds of ages, people returning to religion big time. Millennials, not so much. They bypass that. It goes down lower for some reason. We'll see with Gabrielle. You know, why are people going to that year after year? What's the theme this year? And we'll take your calls. And I'll give you this drunk driving update thing. Hey, are you sick? A price is constantly rising, especially in some of your basic health essentials. You're not alone. And rescue is doing something about it. This Memorial Month, Rescue Natural Supplements, is featuring huge rollback prices on all of their products from cholesterol and metabolic support to the best-selling high-intensity omega-3s. What's more? You can actually stack your savings. When you buy two or more bottles, you've got bonus bottles for free. Go to RES-Q.com to shop those deals. Stock up your favorites or try something new to fit your health goals. Rescue products are meticulously crafted, rigorously tested, and rooted in the belief that wellness should be personal, effective, and grounded in science. So what are you waiting for? Stack up those savings with major rollback prices on top of Memorial Month deals sitewide. Shop today at RES-Q.com or call a product consultant at 8262-5483. Now is the best time to put your health first and start feeling better.

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Go to R-E-S-Q.com. History That Doesn't Suck is a legit, hard-hitting American History Podcasts fold through entertaining stories. History That Doesn't Suck, an Odyssey podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. Tom Cheerado on Talk Radio 1210, WPHPHT. Okay, it is time for years. We've talked about the National Day of Prayers, and I think it was with Gabriella Bruno's mom, and Gabriella was doing it also with her. It's this week again, and based upon, who knows what, everybody theorizing about this, we've seen people coming back, Catholic faith, big uptick, for example. and they're much, much younger that are engaged. Let's go to Gabrielle Bruno here on Talk Radio 1210. Gabrielle, welcome back. When is the day of prayer this year and where? Hello, Dom. Thank you for having me, as always, this Thursday, May 7th, 2026 is the National Day of Prayer. It is celebrated by law. You were correct. It's always a Thursday. It is always the first Thursday of May. So starting in 1952, President Truman recognized that we would have an annual National Day of Prayer, one day a year. And then in 1988, President Ronald Reagan established it would always be the first Thursday of May. And that's really cool because Truman was a Democrat. Reagan was Republican. This is a totally nonpartisan, beautiful day of unity of coming together to pray. And the beautiful thing with America is that prayer is part of our national tapestry. inner workings of our nation before we were even a nation. Before America was America, prayer was so critical. Prayer, national days of prayer, predate our nation. They go back to the First Continental Congress. When they were creating the Declaration of Independence, they called for days of prayer and fasting. And so throughout our history, we have always had days of prayer called for by the ones all the way at the top. Our leaders say prayer is important. And so now for 75 years, this is a milestone anniversary. This is the 75th year that we have had an annual National Day of Prayer, not just in a tragedy, not just in a pandemic, but every year we have by law, National Day of Prayer, the first Thursday of May. So it's this Thursday, May 7th, 2026. And in Delaware County, we have observed this day as a community for 33 consecutive years. We have never missed a day.

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We meet in Rose Tree Park, right in media, Pennsylvania, right in the center of Delaware County. We have the whole park. It's beautiful. We have tents. We have chairs. We have a pizza truck that comes to give free pizza. We have an ice cream truck that comes. And the first 125 people get free ice cream. We have free pretzels. And we have a lot of free resources, books, and prayers, and different ministries come to share what they do in the community. And of course, the central reason for gathering, we pray. We have about a four-hour program. We have live worship music. We have a dance troupe that is going to perform a liturgical dance piece. Beautiful. They are coming actually from out of town to bless us here in Delaware County. We have... about 15 different people that will pray throughout the day over our businesses and our media and our churches and schools and government and military, our families. We cover it all. We pray for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem. So number one, everybody's invited. It's this Thursday, May 7th, 2026. Here in Delaware County, it starts at 11.30 a.m. The program begins, but you could come early to get all the free resources and the free food, and it will go until about 3 p.m. So it'll go be a few hours. Come when you can. Please stay as long as you can because prayer is really important, and you can leave when you must. And I have a great praise report. Because a few days ago, the weather forecast for Thursday was not looking great. And we enlisted an entire team of prayer warriors all around the nation to pray for Delaware County and media. And I'm happy to report there is no rain in the forecast for Thursday. It's going to be a beautiful day. Wear some layers. Come out and meet your community. And I have to ask you, Dom. You are very important to allow me to share here because we have had great, wonderful attendance for years and years. And you were talking about this revival, the revival of Gen Z. And I'm really excited to see what God is doing. A few years ago, there was something called the Asbury Revival. And it was actually a massive revival. It lasted three weeks around the clock. Oh, I remember it. Oh, unbelievable. It was huge. And that went on. I was in school at the time, and I came to my campus. I was at Virginia Beach for law school. And that level of faith is still rising today, and it's really important because, unfortunately, we're noticing that in our local governments, we're not getting the same support that we used to get. And I want to share this because... We put, we do everything we can, Dom, to get the word out about the National Day of Prayer. We believe in it from the bottom of our heart. We put yard signs and posters. We try to tell all the churches about it to invite everybody to come. And this year.

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I actually started attending my own local municipality meetings. And I noticed, I observed that we no longer opened the meeting with prayer. Now, this has gone to the- Wait a minute. Where is that? What's your local township? Newtown township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. And they don't start with a prayer. No, they start with a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance. And so I asked, and I said, could we please consider adding a routine agenda item of an invocation of prayer? And I was told by the township supervisor chairman, the board of supervisors chairman, Leonard Altieri, no, if the system is not broke, don't fix it. And so This guy's going to be president. Wait, but this guy, Terry, you're going to be president someday, buddy. Are you kidding me? So I really am. I just think it's really important. I believe in prayer with my whole heart. That's why I volunteer. That's why I do this. You're right. My mom, Patty, did it for years and years, and she still oversees it, and I help the best I can. Prayer is our relationship with God. Prayer is saying, hey, we're not in control. We're not in charge. There is a creator of the universe much more important than us, and he's the one in control. We steward it. And so when I was rejected to have prayer in our local meetings, I was really disheartened, but it's not over because God is on the throne. And so I want to invite, if you're listening in any township, if you're in Newtown, township, join me here. But wherever you are, look at your local municipality government. Are they praying in their meetings? It is constitutionally protected that you can pray in those meetings. So go and use the public comment and ask to have an invocation in the meeting. And I'll take it one step further. We now are facing, as we're doing the National Day of Prayer, we go to different businesses and residents and churches and ask them to put yard signs on their private property to help publicize the National Day of Prayer. The yard signs are innocuous. They say the National Day of Prayer. They're very unifying. They're beautiful. It's the National Day of Prayer, First Thursday in May, Rose Tree Park, 1130 a.m., May 7th. That's it. And we put them around town. And just today, as a matter of fact, I got notification from a business owner in Marple Township that one of the township commissioners in Marple Township in Delaware County, I don't know who, actually confronted the business owner and forced him to remove the signs from his private property. And he was adamant and very upset. set that he had those signs on his property. From everything I know, that's illegal. Yeah, it is. Let us know about that because we'd like to, it definitely is illegal and the guy shouldn't do it. But Gabrielle, thank you, as always. And again, this Thursday, starting at 1130, thank you. Thanks for the work that you're doing. And keep us updated on these places that don't get the Constitution out there. We'll follow up on it.

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Thank you, Dom. God bless you. We hope to see everybody Thursday, May 7th, this Thursday, Rose Tree Park in Media, Pennsylvania, 1130 a.m. for the National Day of Prayer. And you can find more on the website, National Day of Prayer Delco, DELCO, DELCO for Delaware County.com. That's National Day of Prayer Delco.com. And keep your faith because God is in control. He's watching and he gets the victory. Thank you, Gabrielle. All right. You wouldn't want to have Gabrielle at that town hall in Newtown, particularly it's constitutionally protected. You know what? My first thought, Kirk, I was looking over for you. Your head was down a little bit. Maybe we could put a bug in the air of our buddy. Alante bringing that up with City Council because he's speaking on the National Day of Prayer. Yep. Oh, my. Would the crowd boo him if he said, hey, how about if we start with a prayer today, Kenyatta Johnson? How about them booing her? That would be nuts. Oh, no, Michael Fody handles this side, the religious side. He might want to bring it. Alante more effective maybe in some ways here. But, yeah, what would Philadelphia City Council? And look, they can have an imam to do it. They have rabbis there. I know they have imams. They're going to have a rabbi. They can have anybody they want. They've got to be all at once doing the National Day of Prayer. Wouldn't you think that would be something even politically that's in your favor to do that? All right, we heard that from Newtown Square. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Wisdom here. What's not broken? We're praying. We're at war, among other things. Mr. Altieri, with all due respect, we love to have you come on and tell us, what do you object to? The Constitution, it's not broken. What do you object to? How about just a little prayer? Whatever you want to say, non-denominational. You don't even have to mention God. You're praying to something in Newtown. Henry, I told you, I think that's your first experience really wound up today, though. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't want to interrupt. No, when you get to the flow, you just don't want to. Yeah, just throw the ball there. There we go. She's passionate. I was talking with her yesterday, and she did the driving. I was like, okay. I got you. I can imagine. All right, we're coming to more calls. The, uh. You know what? People have been waiting so long. Let's put on hold the progressive woman. I want to have this prayer thing, too, when you call in. Well, we'll use her tomorrow, the Welsh woman. The latest on that. And Alante, if you're listening. How about bringing up prayer, even 10 seconds, sneak in a quick prayer. Pray for city council that they have wisdom. Is our lady a victory? Pray for us. Henry, you said, you said you had to pray that, right? Yep. I'm glad that continued, you know. Let us smite St. Gabriel's when we were King of Peace.

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You know, I'm sure the other team in the huddle is going to our lady of victory, too, and I don't know which way that was going to go. Well, you got a seven-foot-lower. Yeah, exactly. What? Yeah, that's right. I think all schools that I remember said our lady of victory pray for us. There were a few that were suspect. King of Peace always did. All right, 855, 839, 1210. You get on board. Tom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Ah, yes, here we go. Unbelievable stuff today. All things Mexican. And your response to this, how many local of these towns, I remember White Marsh, Henry, Stan Cassio, Stan, if you're listening, brought to my attention. They used to have signs, a great white Marsh or White Marsh Township, whatever, whatever. They said a great place to live, work, and worship. Guess which one they took out of that? Worship. You can't worship here in White Marsh Township. You can live here. You can work here. Well, as I seem to remember, they were right around the proximity of where they weren't going to do a July 4th event last year until there was a lot of pressure. Michael in Wellington, Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Michael, welcome in. Hey, Dom. I'm going to talk with you again. Thank you for taking my phone call. Just wanted to say a few things you're listening to... Secretary Hegsuff just again going back to this straight. You know, he's a smart guy, but does he not forget, even though he said today, hey, we don't really need the straight. I mean, oil is priced, you know, worldwide. And as much as he says, we don't need it, we are still being very heavily affected by what's going on in that straight. So. Sometimes I, you know, I would like it if he would just be more transparent and straight up with everybody for people that know that, you know, oil is a global commodity. And that's straight. With there being that quagmire there, that's affecting us mightily, even though we are supposedly having all these ships coming to the Gulf to get our oil. It's not driving down any prices. So. Hopefully that's all being, yeah, that's all being corrected as quickly as possible. No, I agree. I mean, it's mystery. We obviously are much better in producing so much more of our own energy. And yet the pricing is dependent globally. And that's where our difficulty comes in. Yeah. It is. And I just want to make one last comment before my side question. I really enjoyed the guest that you just had on. I think. what she's doing out there in media and the passion she has, I think that's going to resonate with a lot of people. I hope that really starts to carry a lot more weight in other communities, and it'd be so great if Alain Macaulay. On National Prayer Day, Kirk, can you ask him, remind him, it's National Prayer Day. He might devote 10 seconds in the beginning, never off to the races. God knows what city council would do. I can pass that long. Absolutely. Yeah, it would be great if he started praying, and they said, hey, no hate speech here, no hate speech. Right. And Michael Fody will tag in part two to the guy from America. Yeah. Oh, man, that would be, that would be something spectacle. So getting to my side question, Dom, every time I hear this, it's just so reminiscent, Emilia, Mexico, I've heard this.

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most of my life in so many movies, restaurants, elevators, different states, is that song La Cucaracha. Whenever I hear that song La Cucaracha, I immediately hear. When I play it on a horn on cars. Yeah, on cars. That's a good one. Thank you, Michael, very much. By the way, on the tech circle, Zenos with the meaning of Cinco Tamayo was some kind of Greek food. falafel or whatever involved in it, we'll find out. Greeks invented. Yeah, Greeks invented. Cinco de Mayo was stolen from them. Oh, boy. Also, I got Scott Presler. I'll tell you the story I just saw that's really, really rich. And we had Dom's Money Melody. Scott Presler is in Alaska. We hope to connect with him. It's 85 here. God knows what it is in Alaska. Big 2 o'clock hour straight ahead. Dom Jiodano, weekdays, noon till 3. From Talk Radio 1210, WPHD.