The Dom Giordano Program (Full Show ) 2-25-26

Every week on the Moth podcast, real people tell their stories live on stage. I burst into tears. And I wasn't sure if I was crying because I hadn't been kissed in a really long time or if I had just never been kissed like that before. To hear fascinating, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious stories from astronauts, teachers, farmers, and people just like you, follow and listen to the Moth wherever you get your podcasts. It is Dom time. All right. The trap was put in and man, where they caught up in their trap, political malpractice, malfeasance. When you're asked about you stand with the American people first or illegal aliens and will play you that and then Trump's saying you ought to be ashamed of yourself, aren't you, A, ready for that? And B, if they were ready for that, Is that their answer? No, we're not going to stand up. Now, we have some Democrats, at least one I have, who gave a reason. This is their best argument why they couldn't stand up on that question. This is cut 18, Henry. Representative Janelle Byron, who I bet is from one of the safest districts in the world. Of course, she said if she had stood up, it would have been a racist move. Of course we agree with that, but it's the how. Here's her explanation. What did you think about that moment when the president was asking Democrats to stand up for American citizens during that part of speech when he was talking about immigration and immigration enforcement efforts? I think you can agree with the what, like standing up for American citizens, but I disagree with the how. And so it's always about how do we bring our country together, but not stand on the backs of others. There's thinly veiled racist language, anti-immigrant language in what he was asking. And that was that was uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. She's uncomfortable. Well, now. What is the net impact of this? Here's a little snippet. This will be 23. This is the upside. But I'm going to tell you straight, I'm not convinced yet on this that we're there. Because I know, as crazy as it is, did you see afterward? Did you see the Hunger Games woman from Virginia? She should have put the white coat on. She looks, when she has that cower up. Abigail Spanberger. Oh my God. This is a woman talking affordability wanting to tax outlawed gas blown leaf blowers and taxing dog walkers. They're going after dog walkers in Virginia. They found a group of people that offer a great service and they're cracking down on them. Dog walkers are not paying a high enough tax. And yet she can stand there and talk about affordability. That's our challenge. I know you can say, well, can't people see it? And I've explained they may not buy the Democrats or the champions of affordability, but it gives them something to talk about. And then what we know, Trump hatred will fuel people coming out to vote. I think they're right about that. Did Trump do enough last night?

to fuel the Republican side to come out and vote on the immigration issue as a burner, something that resonated in 2024. I'll explain why there's two prongs to this, and it might. But you heard the excuse. Well, that's racist. We know exactly what he's doing. He's pitting people against each other. Yeah, American citizens and their rights like that little girl. who would be able to walk normally, except she was hit by some maniac who's here illegally. Stacey Garrity is coming up. Josh Shapiro's administration has been one of the weakest in the country at issuing CDL licenses. Remember the Boris guy from Uzbekistan or Kakistan or one of those stands? As an example, without being able to speak English properly or at all. I'm going to ask her, isn't that an area to be prosecuting Josh Shapiro? All right, so here's the exchange, particularly the follow-up with President Trump and the question and these people should be ashamed. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. And that's a great thing to put them into a box. Of course, they're going to resist in Hoot and Hower, and you couldn't ask for a better faux up than Ilhan Omar and Talib. Wow, Rashida Tlaib, brutal, not exactly photogenic when she starts up. All right, so here's President Trump last night. I'm sorry. Do we still want 23 or? No, I'm sorry, Henry. Yeah, this is, I'll play the poll afterward. Let's go to the cut that's, let's see, it's cut seven. Yeah, 237, yeah. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

We'll get the Henry's count of standing ovations coming up. I didn't see 80, but I had 60. Now, this shouldn't count for five, I agree. Yeah, it's more than one standing ovation. Trump's waiting. Johnny Carson, like. Democrats saying, has it been an hour yet? Oh my God. That might count for seven standing ovations. Isn't that ashamed? You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country, they're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. I wish they appeared to Hakeem Jeffries. He was holding it in there. He's sitting there saying, how much longer can I do this? All right, a couple things with that. Now, can this issue revive the idea that I think we're going to see Republican voters, Trump voters, MAGA voters, conservative voters, independents that lean that way turn out to match the Democrats who are going to turn their people out. I would bet anything on it. Because I want to win. So I look at the enemy and I see what is their strength. And their strength is Trump hatred. They're going to turn out. They found a word. They're affordability. The Hunger Games woman from Virginia said it like 22 times in a five-minute speech. I know they're causing it. It doesn't matter. Just keep on saying it. It's a good strategy for them given they got nothing else. What's prong two then? Lighting the fire. Tom Homan has to be in charge. We can't have situations like we saw in Minnesota. Here's why. Right, wrong, or indifferent. The Minnesota back and forth stuff, even though both those people, particularly Ms. Good, put herself in a harm's way where the worst happened. If you see when Holman was in charge, what happened versus Kristi Noem and Bovino? A completely different situation. At home and take off the table, you might be picked up, even if you don't have another crime other than being here illegally. No, he did not. But there is a different vibe, a different calm, a different ability to do this. Get Christy no matter there. I don't care where you put her. Give him full authority. That's the other prong. In other words, the immigration thing is a winner.

Now, of all days to have her on, we have Stacey Garrity on to break down this speech, but she is preeminent, the treasurer in Pennsylvania doing programs like this. And I'm going to ask her, is she going to ask Josh Shapiro that question at some point? I would tell her to bring up the CDL license with these maniac truckers driving around that Josh Shapiro and his administration allowed to get a CDL license. There's gold there in Pennsylvania. All right, so 8, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10, watching this last night, were you happy with this? And you see the launch point here on immigration. The thing that needs to be done, though, is to do it more effectively and efficiently. And that's Tom Homan. It's not Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski and Bovino. I don't know where you, you know, I don't know the right moment. Trump doesn't like to do that. Maybe Holman is already in charge and she's a figurehead. That's what I'd like to see one way or the other. All right, side question, and we tweaked this and retweaked it and all the rest. I happen to see that we have an anniversary coming up of one of the all-time great show endings. 106 million people watch this. I think other than a Super Bowl at that time, because remember, that's back when you didn't have as many choices. There still have maybe three or four channels somewhat. The finale of mesh did draw wonderfully, 106 million people. So we're looking for either. It could be a film, a TV series. It could be a finale of anything. You know, the end, the last of this could be the goodbye of the president. Ronald Reagan's goodbye was pretty good. That's what we're looking for. I'm going to take off. Seinfeld, just in defense of it. I know they're critics. I thought that was a wonderful nuanced device indifference. That's what they were. You know, they're indifferent to it. And they played that law. They even had a Rolto in there. And then they brought back all the characters. The soup Nazi, by the way, didn't even know his name was Yev Qasem. I had him in studio. We almost had him for seven fishes. And he saw a trailer. He said, well, where are I going? You go right over there. Yes. You have Qasem. Oh, I thought I was the soup, Nazi. That guy, when he got into the mode, he did it on the air with me. Man, it was ferocious. Oh, the intensity in what he says. Oh, he just, his narrows. You want bread? Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I'm going to take off the Sopranos. Also, I thought a good ending. I thought the blackout was annoying at that one moment, but I think it worked perfectly in the end. Like what happens? Yeah. And one, I'm going to put on there because it illustrates somebody like Roe, I don't think Henry and not me so much, you can't have an unhappy ending. In the natural, in the book, he strikes out. Not here. Not only is he hit a home run. The lights explodes, and that explosion coming onto the field. My only thing is, after you have that end, swelling music, you don't go to him having a catch. I just don't see that. You're ending. You're done. How are you bombing onto that? You've got to see what happens with the kid is allegedly his son. Well, that's the natural, too. I could tell the kid doesn't have it. No, he's not a natural. There's not a natural. There you go. Right. All right. So those are mine. How about yours, Henry?

Yeah, so I'll take three different things off the board here. First thing I'm going to take off is the Battle of Thermopylae, which people may know as the Brave 300 Spartans that took on the Persian army in Xerxes. While Xerxes and the Persians ultimately did prevail, that battle was enough to rally the Greeks and deflate the Persians that in the next two battles the war had been... decided because, frankly, it had turned. If those 300 guys can do that, then our whole army can wipe these guys out. And then on the converse, the person was like, if 300 guys did that to us, how are we ever going to win this? I wonder if Sam Houston studied that with the Alamo. He might have, honestly, yeah. Very simple. Yeah. A movie I'm going to take off. How about the ending of the usual suspects when we finally figure out just who this Kaiser Soze is? If you haven't seen the movie, I suggest tuning out for the next few seconds. But yeah, did you ever see it? You ever think it to be Kevin Spacey with the gimp? I don't know. No. Or limp, I should say. Sorry, not gimp. Oh, man. Tune out on that. Yeah, yeah. Tune out. Let me get myself there. Yeah, I haven't had my coffee yet. I had nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it. Last one to take off here is Game 7 of the 2001 World Series where the Yankees were denied another World Series. And in their quest for a three-peat, when the Arizona Diamondbacks in their fourth year of their existence hit a walk-off single by Luis Gonzalez in the bottom of the ninth inning to secure their first World Series title. In the shortest time span, it took a... a professional sports team to win a title in just, like I said, their fourth season. That was against Mariana, right? Yeah, against the greatest closer of all time. Blooper after blooper. Oh, they were hit the ball. Yeah, they played the infield in. They really didn't want anyone to score. And they look back, and the scouting report says, Louise Gonzalez is going to hit a little blooper. You should put someone there, but they didn't. I mean, the guy just was dealing and he still has to lose. All right. Kirk, how about yours? All right, so real quick, a city union, federal and wore a suit. Oh, yes. And he shook Trump's hand, which was a shocker on both ones. And he looked a little taller than Dan, so I think Dan is only 6, 7, and 9 tenths, as I've always contended. John Fetterman, I've stood next to him as 6'8. Well, that's if I'm 6'1 and a quarter, but I don't know. I feel like you look bigger with the width of a guy like that. If you stood next to him, it's a motorcycle image, too. He's 6.8, I think. For my side question, you all took my answers. So I'm going to go with something. Outside the box, I guess. Dave Letterman's final show, May 20th, 2015. Okay. His late show, 22 seasons, and he decided to retire and go off from the sunset, which gave way to Stephen Colbert, which is a whole different story altogether. Well, I would choose Carson's, and you got Bet Midler leaning on a desk or sitting on the desk saying, you're the wind beneath my wings. It was pretty emotional. Okay. Johnny's thinking, oh, man, these guys are pathetic. They're going to be taking my spot. God, what a distance. All right. 855, 839, 12, 10, all great ones. That's what we're looking for, that all-time finale with MASH coming into play next week.

Henry, are you still on board? Are you more on board now? Because I tracked it. Zohran Mamdani did seem to say in that question. Yeah, I just couldn't find it yesterday. Okay. Yeah, he did. And Zohran Mamdani made it into the state of the union. I'm telling you, he's the gift that keeps on giving against Democrats. All right. Did this rally Trump supporters enough? Here's my caveat on that. They're rallied. They love what Trump said, immigration. They're hooting the Democrats and all, but they're going to get off the couch. You know, I'm quarterbacking the other side, and I know my team's going to show up. Trump hatred, they're going to come out of the woodwork. They'll be crazed. If you have doubts on that, what have you been watching? They'll be right now they want to vote around the clock. Can we match that somewhat? with people wanting to keep the country going versus the hatred of Trump on the other side. All right, 855, 839, 12, 10. That's how you get on board. AT&T and Verizon Wireless, all I need you to do is just push pound. Listeners, I want to tell you about a new podcast from Odyssey called Family Lore, where people tell interesting stories about their family history and then we investigate the truth behind them. Family lore is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. 1210. On Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, it is downtime. Ending of a show, anything, movie, film, book, person retiring, going off into the sunset. The MASH thing was an all-timer. 106 million people watched. Okay. Also, last night, the pivot point we played that for you. I'll play in a little bit. There was also the point about they're crazy when it came to, you know, if you had told me 15 years ago, we'd be dealing with this detransitioning and the trans issues. They're going to die on that hill too. They will not give it up on that hill, just like Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They're not going to give it up. Come on, Children's Hospital. Science. All these other people are not scientists. Only the scientists are over at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. You're going to see more of that. And it's right to pursue that. The issue to me still is, and there are two of them, one, all these things that we heard last night are great. Do they take enough impact by the time of the midterms? Are they baked in by then? And two, getting these reluctant Trump voters, they'll vote if it were Trump, they love the immigration thing and Democrats in short pants, but will they turn out on election date? The other side, I will guarantee you they will turn out. This hatred will only intensify. That's all that's fueling it. That's what happened in the last election, the Jack Ciattarelli, it wasn't, same thing in Virginia, it wasn't their phony affordability. The affordability helps, it gives them a veneer.

of that they're a reputable business. And really, the underneath the engine room is, we hate Trump. Who do we tear apart since we can't get him? How do we damage him by damaging these other people? That's all that it is, but it's effective. You got to know what you're in for here. I just think Trump at these rallies has to have a fire. You can even do a fireside talk if he wants. Telling these people, yo. I see that you still don't get it. You just have to vote. If you don't vote, how can we have anything to do with you with what's at stake? You're jumping up and down, applauding the fact that he showed they could not even say, yes, I stand with Americans over illegal aliens. They couldn't do it, almost to a person. And yet it all hangs in the balance because you won't vote. You're fired up about it. You have to vote. He's the only one that can do it. Nothing else is going to move the needle with those people. And if they're not going to vote because he's not on the thing, then my God, there goes the country. All right, Patty is in Washington Township. Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Pat, thanks for calling. Oh, thank you for taking my call. Two things. One, I always recall that when Trump was elected the first time, friends and I, we were going to a show in New York the next day, the very next day. And we were kind of leery about going. We were taking the train, you know, like what was going to, you know, be going on. But everything was fine. The train, the show, we went to a restaurant. We came out of the restaurant probably like at three in the afternoon. And the streets were packed like the boardwalk would be in Wildwood on July 4th, packed, blocking the streets, blocking the sidewalks with people with their signs already made, you know, not my president or whatever. And that was the first time I ever saw something like that. And I said, like, how did they mobilize so fast? And how did this happen? And yet it's still going on 10 years later. Yes, and my prediction is for the midterms, they will be even more enraged. So our mission is, can these people that vote if he's on the head line on the ballot, the Trump voters in 2016 was unbelievable. Will they do it? And if they can't make the transfer, he's the only one that I know of, Pat, that can get these people to do it. Yes, yes. And, you know, I talk it up to young people all the time about – they don't even know what a midterm election is. I mean, I don't mean to be rude, but – Yeah. Yeah, they – and I ask, like, what for what? Pat, what's your side today, Pat? What do you have on the side? I would say the finale of Nurse Jackie. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that because she was an addict throughout the whole show, a drug addict. And – The finale, she does die of a drug overdose. And I watched her on an interview saying, like, to make it real, she had to. Like, they didn't want her to. You know, they wanted you to leave it to your imagination and things like that. But no, she showed, you know, the real life and consequences of a drug addict. Thank you, Pat. Man, I can see what Row in that one, Dan. I'm going to have to calm her down. I mean, Henry, I'm going to have to calm her down.

Bro, sit down there, calm. It's her face. When the sauce gravy vote came down, she could have taken the loss, but it was 62 to like 22 or something. Her face was like, what the, you know, can't we cheat? All right. Can't we cheat? Coming up, Stacey Garrity, treasurer Stacey Garrity, perfect for breaking all this down, running against Josh Shapiro. She was there last night. She's next. Talk Radio 12-10. It is not hard to destroy a college. Last season, the podcast, Campus Files, brought you stories of fraternity drug rings, stolen body parts, campus cults, and more. And now, Campus Files is back for another season. There's a guy screaming into his phone. He's like, I just saw Charlie Kirk Kiss assassinated right in front of me. Every week is a new episode and a new story. It was so chaotic. It's almost like a university under siege. Listen to and follow campus files. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. On Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, it is Tom Time. One of our favorites, Treasurer Stacey Garrity was in the house last night and also running in one of the biggest races, if not the biggest, in the country. And the president introduced a lot of affordability things like this 401K plan that's right upper alley. Let's welcome back, candidate and treasurer, Stacey Garrity, on Talk Radio 1210. Stacey, welcome back. Thanks for joining today. Hey, Dom. Great to be with you, as always. So was that your first state of the union that you were in the room? It was. I mean, since I was a kid, I watched them every single year, no matter who the president was, by the way. But this is the first one where I was actually in the room. So what's the atmosphere like? I mean, the, you know, when we have a designated survivor, it tells you everything you need to know that everybody's there, right? Yes, yes. So it was incredibly patriotic. So I especially enjoy because, you know, I'm a veteran. I loved when they introduced the World War II veteran. He was a real hero. He was actually in the Vietnam more as well, and he got the national... uh defense medal and uh oh we know he got the congressional medal of honor but that was incredible royce williams so he flew through a blizzard he got ambushed by seven soviet fighter jets he took down four enemy jets he took 263 bullets a hundred years old so and you know that guy i heard some women saying you know that guy looked pretty good for pretty handsome for a hundred it was amazing

Democrats that did not even stand up for him. Yeah, it's hard to believe. And that was shameful. Yeah, very shameful. But I thought, you know, that was a great moment. The U.S. hockey team coming in. I mean, that was just fantastic. The energy there just exploded. And, you know, everybody was chanting USA, USA. And they were, you know, it's so nice to see an athletic team so patriotic. But again, very shameful that some Democrats didn't even stand up for them. Stacey, were you surprised when the president put that blunt question up? Are you with Americans, more with Americans and people, illegal aliens that are here illegally? They seemingly were not ready for it, you know, tactically, to realize you got to stand up for that, I think, even if you are not. And then afterward, you can try to explain yourself. But if they had stood up, Trump would have been the one that was caught off guard. We knew, though, or he had to know. No, they won't do it. They won't stand up even for something that pointed. Well. I thought that was incredible when he goes through, you know, so many of the tragic, tragic deaths from illegals. And, I mean, one from the CDL, one where her daughter was stabbed. I mean, it was just, you know, just heartbreaking. And how can you not stand up? You're right. That was a long prelude he set up, and they wouldn't stand up for the woman who survived Ukraine but was killed on that light train by a guy who had been in and out of jail 30 times. That should have been an easier one for them to stand up for too. Well, it should have been. And I thought it was incredible that that Staff Sergeant from West Virginia National Guard, Staff Sergeant Wolf, who was shot in the head and wasn't supposed to make it, that he was actually there. And he looked pretty good. I mean, I know he's still going through rehab, but he looked fantastic, and his mother was just such an inspiration. And some people didn't stand up for him. And I'm like, where is the patriotism? Also, when they showed the young woman who was kind of being persuaded, coaxed along to take the plunge on the trans issue, showed her, and the president said, can you imagine 15 years ago, if I were in the state of the union, talking about something like that, people would think you're crazy. He's absolutely right, 100%. I mean, it's just common sense, and he's brought it back. And I think it was great that he reminded everybody about where we were a year ago. I mean, our economy was on the brink of disaster, and, you know, middle-class Americans were really hit the hardest.

because all the spending, spending, spending, $7 trillion during COVID, and we had inflation that was the highest in 40 years. So I think it was great to remind everybody of all the successes that he has had. And, of course, we're still going to keep going. The best is yet to come. Well, one of the things of the big, beautiful bill, the tax on tips, that was illustrated well, the overtime, all that. But one that is out there that you are passionate about, and you know I do a podcast exclusively on this, there's a big headline at the Hill today, Stacey, an interesting way of putting this. And that is all these Democrat governors like Josh Shapiro who have not signed off on allowing their state to get a ton even more than I thought of money for kids to make a school choice. Here's the headline. Will Democrats allow a school choice wealth transfer? And the hill, which is kind of liberal, means that all these states, there's only one Democrat governor, Jared Polis of Colorado who signed off. And he made the point they're making. We will see billions of dollars a year transferred into red states because passionate donors can put their money in any nonprofit. It doesn't have to be in their own state. When we tell people in Pennsylvania about this, this is a big issue. Well, it is a big issue, and to me it's a no-brainer. Why wouldn't you take the money? It's crazy not to. It just helps our kids. And I just love that he's just doing, you know, he's not picking winners and losers. And I think that's what some of the blue states resent. They want this, you know, wealth transfer. Yeah, exactly. Right. So I think it's a no-brainer. And I love the retirement $1,000 that he's proposing as well. Yes. Especially for Pennsylvania because we have. two million Pennsylvanians that don't have enough money to retire. Yeah, this 401K through the federal government, if your employer doesn't do it, that was new last night. And you've done a lot of innovative stuff in the treasurer's department. He also talked, and you talk about this too, the Trump accounts for the child born and how that could accrue by the time they're the age of 18. Yes, and actually I'm advocating to allow Pennsylvania to run that program for our state itself, just because it doesn't make sense. We do all the savings programs. We do the college and career savings plan. We do the savings plan for people with disabilities, and we do Keystone Scholars. So I think it is perfectly complementary. So we'll see what happens there. We're talking with Republican candidate and treasurer Stacey Garrity. So on the campaign trail, where are we now vis-a-vis your race with Josh Shapiro? What is the issue that's starting to crystallize here in Pennsylvania between the two of you? You know, I think the issue is that I have a totally different vision for where our state should be.

that we have so many blessings. We're blessed with the best, hardest working people. I've told you this before, world-class industries, natural resources that are the envy of the world, and we're squandering them. And we should be leading the nation, and instead we're mediocre. And he really hates that when I say that under Josh Shapiro's leadership, we're mediocre. But, you know, the truth hurts. We're 38th in the economy. We rank 39th in education. 41st overall, we're spending $5 billion more a year than what we're bringing in. We have 3,000 deficient bridges. And, you know, you can go on and on and on, and it doesn't have to be that way. We could be leading the nation in all metrics. Well, I think you, yeah, Stacey, I think you and the people that are, you know, helping run your campaign, you've seized upon the word mediocre because I could tell you, I forget who we had on, every time you say that, because the great man is a national figure. You can't call him mediocre, but I would say he's got to be mediocre because he tries to be all things to all people, weaseling his way through, rather than doing what... he knows is the better path, I think. He won't do it because that gets in the way of the national aspirations. Oh, 100%. I mean, otherwise, why would you campaign on... basically allowing biological males to compete against girls in sports. That is such a losing argument, in my opinion. Why would you campaign on gender affirming care for trans little kids using our taxpayer dollars? What blows my mind is, three weeks ago he did his budget address. I went to it. So we right now are spending, as of the Commonwealth, $9 billion more than when he first took office. And he is really proud of that. He brags about how much money we're spending. And yet the independent fiscal office came out and said that he'll have to raise taxes in two years. So, you know, it's just fiscally unsustainable. And really, you know, we expect hardworking families to live within their means, and the state should be doing the same thing. Absolutely. So are you going to be in the southeast? Any place? We'll see you soon in the next couple weeks. I think I'm in the southeast next week, actually. Yeah. Of course, I was already scheduled to be in D.C. because I had the National Association of State Treasurer's Legislative Conference that was booked a year ago. So when Congressman G.T. Thompson, my dear friend, invited me to be his guest at State of the Union, the timing worked out just perfectly. And, again, I thought the president knocked it out of the park, and I think that's just the beginning of the conversation being changed. And I loved the way that he ended it.

He said our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before. And I thought that was the perfect way to close that. Absolutely. And well, Pennsylvania will be too. We will not be mediocre with you at the helm. So where do we go to help that dream in this campaign? Where do we go, Stacey? Stacey Garrity for PA. All righty. Well, thank you when you're in the area. Grant 304PA.com as well. Okay. When you're in the area, we'll let us know, though. Let Henry know and we'll catch up again. I will let you know, and maybe I can stop in the studio. Oh, there we go. All right. We're always going to do that. We'll have some special delegacies here. Thank you, Stacey. Stay well. Thanks for joining us. Okay. All right. Bye-bye. Stacey Garrity, the treasurer, military veteran, too, Colonel, I believe is the final rank, breaking this down from last night. Strategically, don't you think you should be ready for that, that Trump would say something like that? What should you do? Don't you have to stand up for that? The argument is, we pledged you the one moment. No, we're not standing for that. That's racist. To say we're standing with Americans, you're pitting people against people. Yes, we are. If you're an American citizen, that's a notch above someone who's in the country illegally. Did that fire people up last night to Trump base, sort of? Yes, I'd think so. But could that be momentary? Yes. Do they get out and vote? I, you know, if I were running for something, one of these Republican congressmen, I got to be talking to Trump constantly. It's not just about the Whitney of all these things that are good. You're not on the ballot. I just don't think they recognize this transfer to get these people to come out as if Trump were on the ballot. I know they're saying he is nationally, et cetera. It's got to be more around that. And last night showed the contrast beautifully. Do you want that country that we're seeing now? Because it's not going to be there if they take the house. And it's going to come down to a seat or two, maybe right through Pennsylvania, right through here. All right, 55, 839, 12, 10, a little bit of an update on the kiddos over in Quaker Town. And what happened yesterday, their day in court, 855, 839, 1210. Hey, it's the sports junkies. If anybody knows about die-hard sports fans, it's us. We get to live and breathe the excitement of the season all year long, right alongside the most passionate fans out there. For advertisers, that passion matters. It's exactly why sports radio performs for brands. That passion, that excitement and engagement, you don't get that kind of dialed in attention anywhere else. People who listen to sports on the radio via streaming or on sports podcasts are nearly three times more alike. to consider a brand that supports their favorite team. If you're interested in reaching sports fans, we have the playbook for you. Check out our comprehensive e-book, State of Audio, sports fandom. Learn where fans spend their time, why avid fans drive stronger brand results and how categories like beverage, grocery, and quick service restaurants are winning with sports fans on audio. If you want to reach the most valuable sports fans, check out stateofaudio.com.

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Yeah, don't listen to the replays, you know, so it'll throw you off there. Okay, I can talk to you. Yeah, just turn the radio off, yeah. Yeah, I was on in the other room. Yeah, Dom, I was just mystified. Like I said, that they didn't stand up for the country. They didn't stand up for the poor girl that was killed by that animal, you know, in North, you know, in South Carolina. They didn't stand up for the little girl. They barely stood up. They barely would stand up for, you know, the war heroes. And I'm just mystified. Dom, I don't, like I said, last week, I'm like, I can't believe that this is my country and the way they're acting. If I was Odysseus and this was I think I would have just kept going by. I would have left. Always back to Homer and the Iliad and Odysseus. It always works the way in there. You know what I mean? I've got to use my ancestors to get my point across. You are. The bolts of lightning are coming from Zenos. So Zinos, what's your side today? What's the ending for you? My side is the ending is the original fugitive with David Jansen. We were kids then, but I remember it. And to get off script is... I never liked MASH. And the ending of Seinfeld was terrible. Oh, man. Cross-Wired with his Zenos. That was the worst. All right. Thank you, Zinos. All right. Take Zenos off the Mulligan's list there. I had him at the head table. Put him on the side near the door. You know, Johnny Higgins table. Yeah, Zinos, go in the back room, helping them prepare a Baca Vla. Oh, man, he's taking all kinds of shots here today. All right. I still think Seinfeld was brilliantly tied together. And indifference was the deal. It really captured, too, Kramer with the plane jumping up and down. The whole scene there was beautifully done. It allowed you to bring all the characters back in for as many as they can put in. For one, a reunion episode, do that earlier in the season, not for the finale. But that was the whole thing to bit characters. I agree with most shows, but that show had, you know, characters that were indelible. Yeah, the famous big characters. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, all right. man all over the place i throw that one out but do i have any others here um that's the side today coming oh sopranos yeah i said that one already coming off um i think it's in a day or two the finale of mash 106 million people watched he's right about the original fugitive i don't know if they'd have more what the population was then but i remember the the teasing of it this is coming up the one-armed man Although I do like the remake a lot too. The remake's got a lot of elements in there. I don't know the Harrison Ford one was a remake. That's what I thought so. Well, the other was a TV series. Yeah, well, I mean, that has to happen a lot today. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it's, yeah, right. So I would call it a remake or the film version. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Coming up, they send out the Hunger Games woman, Abigail, from Virginia.

And so over Twitter, it was trending this morning. She had three big questions about President Trump. I'll give you what these questions are. And at least two of them are the ultimate that almost everybody, even those that don't like him, are going to agree, yes, he is doing that. One of them, all right, you can debate a little bit. So how effective was the rebuttal? Well, this woman was perfect. to be the face of what Democrats are trying to do. Masquerade as moderate. Continue to bother people, taxes on dog walkers the first day in in Virginia. Endless battles. And then to say, well, we're just moderates. A lot worse than Josh Shapiro. Probably worse than even Mikie Sherrill. All right, we'll have Dom's Money Melody a little bit later on. And we're going to talk with this guy that has an amazing story in Jersey. They broke down the race for the primary for the Democrat side in the last governor's race. And the guy who heads up the NJEA, not only how much they spent out of teachers and others' dues, but how they did it. If it's legal, it's remarkable, even for Jersey. All that unfolds 855-839, 1210. Let's talk about Dr. Benz, though, for a moment because February's American Heart Month, the time to focus on total heart health. Now, that includes exercise, heart healthy foods, and your dental health. Plaque buildup in the mouth can lead to bacteria growth. That bacteria may contribute to serious conditions, endocarditis, arterial sclerosis. Well, now's the perfect time to schedule that visit with my guy, my dentist, over 11 years, board certified prostodontist, Dr. Robert Bentz. At the Benz dental group, Dr. Bentz helps patients improve their smiles, confidence, and their overall health. Just like heart disease, dental challenges can happen at any age. If you want a great dentist, you want to get a handle on this, and by the way, I know they're very proud too. We've told you about this. Dr. Emily Bence is also a prostodontist. There is daughter. So it really helps with scheduling and your time. It's all there for you, the Benz difference. You can call them now to make that initial appointment, 610272, 6949, or visit Benz, P-E-N-T-Z Dental Group.com. Benz Dental Group, say it with a smile. Domjiudano, weekdays, noon till 3, from Talk Radio 1210, W-P-HD. Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. All right, it is Dom time. Welcome in, 85583, 9, 1210, Dom's Money Melody. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, what are there, like 12 or so, usually nominees that are on there. Pink is one of them. Luther Vandros, Phil Almehouse, Alpquist.

I don't know what he ruled on this. He'd be my go-to. There's some interesting nominees, I'm here, for sure. Who do we have? It's the Black Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Susan Collins, Melissa Etheridge, Lauren Hill, Billy Idol, In Excess, Iron Maiden, Joy Division, New Order, New Edition, Oasis, Pink, Sade, Shikira, Luther Vandros, and the Wu-Tang Clan. Well, I had it in the beginning that was definitely, say the first four or five again. The Black Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Susan Collins. Phil Susan Collins, definitely. Yeah, I think that's agreeable. Yeah, but I mean, how's Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Maybe they should have a pop music hall of fame or some other type of thing. Yeah, we just can't call it the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No. It's got to be just the Music Hall of Fame. Yeah, okay. They want to call the music. Throw Beethoven in there, like, just get everyone in. Yeah, now, possibly. Accepting for Beethoven tonight. I wonder who the worst member is of that ilk. I think in a baseball hall of fame, I used to say Phil Rizzuto was among the worst members. He just played on the Yankees. They called him the scooter. He was a broadcaster. When you, when you, and we're getting more and more into this, Hall of Fames are important or Halls of Fame are important in that, you know, there's going to be borderline people. And if you just say, oh, that's a Hall of Fame. It's the eye test. You know it. Like, I'm not putting Kyle Schwerber in the Hall of Fame someday. I don't care. I mean, it's just not happening. He was the best of his position. Yeah. If he hits 500 home runs, he's one of the best of his position. A fraudulent position, though, that was outside baseball. He's still the best of his position. Oh, see what I mean? The new thing. Well, you know, that bat boy was the best bat boy in the history of the game. Hall of Famer. Yeah, his time from the dugout to home was like no other. Yeah, right, yeah. Oh, my God. All right. Well, does pink belong in the Hall of Fame? Who else might be in condition? Well, Shakira is not rock and roll either. I mean, a lot of the people on that list are not. All right, enough of that for now. Mike Lilly is the president of a group that has a big charge over in Jersey. Didn't even know they existed. We want to put them on the radar screen for you. The president of the Sunlight Policy Center. And they just came out with a really interesting, you know, it was a while ago that we had the final gong here where Mikie Sherrill won. But we had the head of the NJEA, 225,000 strong in Jersey, spending how much to end up in fifth place just in the primary. And it was unusual how they did it, even in a place like Jersey. This appears to be pretty bad. Let me go to Mike Lilly, President Lilly of the...

Sunlight Policy Center. Hey, Mike, welcome to the show. Thanks for joining. Thanks very much for having me. You can call me, Mike. You don't have to say president. Okay, well, thank you, Mike. I taught in Jersey for a good bit of my career teaching before I got into this. So I know the NJEA and the stuff that goes on here. But first, Sunlight Policy Center, interesting title. What do you guys try to do? Yes, shine sunlight on the, I call it the special interest dominated status quo, but to put a political status quo, but to put a finer point on it, it really is focused at the NJEA because they are the biggest, right? They are the most powerful special interest by far. Honestly, they're really one of the most powerful political forces in the state. So my goal was, and the Sunlight Justice, Supreme Court Justice Brandeis said sunlight is the best disinfectant. So that's where sunlight comes from. But basically. You know, I was looking at New Jersey, the political system, the government. And, you know, it needs sunlight shine on it. There needs to be some exposure for what really goes on in New Jersey politics. And I think it's had negative consequences for the state. And so I wanted to shine a light on that. Well, great work. I'm glad to know of you guys. And we'll get the website and all for listeners at the end where we can find you. Mike, again, you know, my dues were taken out of my paycheck by statute. Never saw them, you know, the local district had nothing. Did they just have to send it to the NJEA? It's out of your paycheck, and that's it if you teach there. So they are the behemoth, as you said. How much did their president spend? I don't even know if we fully know the exactitude of that to come in, what, fifth in the governor's race primary? Yeah, so I do know with exactly what that is. But before I go into that, I just want to say you hit the nail on the head. The key to the NJEA is the automatic withholding of dues, which it is allowed by law and which you experience as a teacher. And teachers in the district are basically just pass-throughs for property tax dollars to flow directly to the NJEA. So they have about $130 million a year in withheld dues. And, you know, teachers never see the money. So a teacher never really has the opportunity to cut that check, right? And I'm sure you and I both belong to membership organizations where you've got to pay dues. And you write a check and you sort of evaluate whether you think it's worth it or not. Well, they never have that opportunity. That money comes out.

and flows directly to the NJEA. And so that is what makes them so powerful politically, particularly at the state level. Now, in terms of the spending, and really the issue ties into what we just discussed, is the NJEA spent... uh 44.9 million uh on spiller's run uh for just the primary and you are right that he finished fifth out of sixth he did so poorly, he only raised about $400,000 of his own money. So he never had any support from the public at large. He didn't qualify for matching funds, the only candidate who did not. He did not even qualify for the debate and the only candidate who did not. He didn't even have any paid staff on his personal campaign. So what happened is, and this is really the key of the whole issue, and that is that Teachers like you, their dues are with alpha paychecks and they go to the NJEA. But the NJEA does hold itself out as representing its members, right? And so the NJEA... should be expected to be looking out for the best interests of its own members. That's what you call their fiduciary duty. Exactly. But what, yes, but what the key issue here is that, and this is going to get a little complicated, so bear with me. But there's these things called PACs, right, political action committees, PACs, PACs. And you have your traditional PACs. And those are PACs that have existed for a long, long time, and they basically give directly to candidates and their campaigns. And there are a lot of limits on those. So, for example, you can only give a maximum of $5,800 as a traditional PAC or as an individual, for that matter. The NJEA has a traditional PAC, and it carries out most of the functions that you think of when you think of the NJEA being involved in politics, such as endorsing certain candidates, those sorts of things. But the NJEA's traditional pack is called NJEA PAC. And teachers, in order to contribute to that by Supreme Court law or precedent, they have to check a box and say, I want to give some dues. And you know this as a teacher. I want to give some of my money to NJ.E.A. PAC, so they can go out and do the things that NJ.E.A.P. Okay, Michael, let's move to the wrinkle here, though. That's the most important for listeners.

What is it they did in this race, though? Where did these, what's the different act that came in? Yeah. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So then the other kind of PAC was allowed starting in the 2013 because of this Supreme Court decision called, it was called Citizens United. Right. And that's it. You can have these super PACs. And super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money. So they're not limited the way a traditional PAC is. It's unlimited, but it has to be what they call independent expenditures. So they're not allowed to coordinate with the candidate or the campaign. But in the modern world, there's not a whole lot of difference. I mean, you as a voter are not going to know the difference between a pro-spill or mailer that comes from a super PAC or the one that comes from his campaign. And they're the ones that got the $45 million. Correct. So the way it works is NJEA has their own super PAC called Garden State Forward. Garden State Forward gets, it's funded by teachers' regular dues, right? Not the special PAC dues to check the box. Basically, NJEA leadership simply takes those dues. and spends them on politics the way they choose to do it. Gotcha. And so that's what happened here. Garden State Forward gave a total of $45 million. $5 million was to this super package, it's dark money super PAC, because they don't have to disclose where their donors come from. Five million to protecting our democracy, which was Spiller's platform before he announced for governor. But it was raising his profile. It was allowing him going out there and get his message out there to prepare the field for him to run. The second one was called Working, New Jersey. $40 million went to Working New Jersey. And Working, New Jersey was a super PAC run by former NJ.E.A. Executives. And they're the ones. They spent $40 million. Now, but what the key thing here, though, is that this is teachers' regular dues. And... leadership, including Spiller, hid the truth from teachers. So all during the campaign, sunlight is out there saying, hey, teachers' dues are being used for Spillers' run. In fact, $45 million, and we were being told all the time, online, everywhere, no, no, no. No, that's a lie. The only money that they can spend is via NJEA PAC. Regular dues, don't go. At the very end of the campaign, Spiller was... directly asked a question and was forced to admit it. But the NJEA has never communicated directly, yourself included, to any teachers.

that their regular dues are being spent on politics, and in particular, 45 million of them were wasted on Spiller's vanity run. Spiller was a failed mayor of Montclair. He couldn't even have run for re-election. He was such a lousy mayor, and he had no traction with the public. He could only raise $400,000 on his own, as Mayor Barack of Newark said. Still couldn't raise his own money, but he's got this $35 million piggy bank from the NGAEA, which in my view, and this is what my report says, is that's unprecedented, right? So a candidate doesn't have to go out and raise his own money, doesn't have to win the public's vote himself, doesn't even have to have his own staff, he can tap into a private entity. and run and spent unlimited amounts of money because he basically outsourced his campaign to working New Jersey. So that was teachers' dues being taken from them and spent on politics, wasted on Spiller, without their knowledge or consent. And to me, that's the big issue. Without a doubt, Mike. And then the second, Mike, sorry, go ahead, John. Yeah, I just want to tell people where they can find this and find Sunlight Policy Center. Where did people go, Mike? Yeah, so we are at, it's, it's, it's, uh, new, it's, uh, let me just get around. Sunlight Policy Center, NJ. So it's all one word, sunlight policy nj.org. All right. That's our website. Thank you, Mike. Thanks very much. Keep us in the loop coming up on that. Uh, that was, uh, I know it gets in the weeds a little bit, but $45 million. through this mechanism, even for Jersey. And again, we have Corey DeAngelis on. We have any number of people on. And they talk about this campaign, the teachers' unions. But here, is it the teachers and the teachers' unions? Well, there hasn't been a revolt that I know of. In other words, they haven't, yeah, they're mad about it seemingly, but $45 million just in a primary for governor coming in fifth. That is just shocking. But that's the biggest thing going on in education, the teachers unions, be at the NEA, be at the AFT, Randy Weingarten, up and down the line. And right here in Jersey, they're almost in the league of the national union. That's how strong they are. All right. Hall of Fame for music, Pink, Luther Vandros. There were a couple on that list that I could see. But maybe just call it the Hall of Music. It's not the end of the world, but it's just curious how this stuff starts out and they keep diluting it. Almost every Hall of Fame that I know of. Football is a really hard one. I mean, how many people really know an offensive line? You know, it's hard. Baseball has statistics, at least. Basketball sort of has statistics. But when you just throw anybody in. How special is it? I mean, how much, you know, the local team, the Eagles can have their own and all. That's why it's sentimental. But the national ones ought to be a little bit better. First, though.

It's time for our own Hall of Fame. It's time for... It's Dobbs Money Melody. All right, we're playing today for the belts and a copy of Scott Jennings book, A Revolution of Common Sense, how Donald Trump storm Washington and fought for Western civilization. Henry, what do you have? Yeah, Dom, so today we're talking about endings on the side question, an all-time ending, whether it's a movie, a show, something in real life, a sporting event, you name it, we want an ending. And it's only fitting that, you know, just over the past weekend, the Winter Olympics came to an end. And we said, goodbye to them. So I'm going to play you Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road. I'm going to play you a cover version, a song in a language from a country that dominated this past Winter Olympics. I want to know the name of the language or the country it hails from. Take a listen.

They dominated the Winter Olympics, Tom. All right. How about Virgin Forest? Anything on that? No, no. I'm not giving anything else away today. Oh, you think this is easy? No, yeah, I think this is an easier one. Oh, no. We'll see. Flood Kirk with the calls right now. Exactly. It's a relatively easy one. 855-839, 12-10. Jump in, be the first. Be a winner here. And get the great Scott Jennings book. More of your calls coming up, and we'll get a winner here on Talk Radio 1210. Life can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to go through it alone. On my podcast, From the Heart with Rachel Brathen, I share openly and vulnerably about everything life brings us and what we can learn by living with our hearts a little bit more open. Every Friday, a new episode brings you a new story with topics on self-care, motherhood, healing, and more. You are enough, just the way you are. This podcast is a reminder of that. Follow and listen to From the Heart with Rachel Brathen wherever you get your podcasts. Dom Chirado on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Be sure to follow Talk Radio 1210 WPHT on the free Odyssey app. Download it now. It's Dom. Money Melody. Where has all the money gone. Show me to my... All right, this might be a layup. We'll see. Henry's usually pretty specific on this. Listen to the clue in either the country or the language, right? That's what we're looking for. Correct. Let's try Paul out there in Tabernacle. Paul, language or country? Hey Dom, how about Finland? See, I told you. Oh, we sweat the Finns. I have been staying far away from Finland lately. There's too many. There's a few countries where there's just too many covers of songs. I'm like, I've got to stay away. The Finns are constantly feeling. Finns and the Dutch, I've been standing far away. You think of me the Chinese. Most of them sound Asian to me. That one doesn't, but usually there's the covers. Ralph and Broomall. We haven't heard from Ralph in a while. Hey, Ralph, how are you? What do you have today? Thanks. I would say Norway. There we go. You say that, like, it's easy. You can distinguish between the Nordic and the Finns, huh? Well, I speak a little bit, and I will say talk. Talk means thank you in Norwegian. Oh, well, thank you very much, Ralph. I hope so. Okay. I've just said that up here. I hope it means thank you. All right, believe that then. Yeah, yeah. Jeez, oh, man. All right. Yeah, well, make sure. Okay. You said it within context. Yeah, okay, yeah, but I'm still. All right, Ralph. We haven't heard from you in a while. Keep it, though. All right, you're the winner today, Ralph, and off you go. Now, I just saw this part, too, and we had a little back and forth that he really said this yesterday. He did. Zohran Mamdani is asked again today. Now, look, anybody in the beginning, his instincts, he's a commie. He doesn't want the police doing anything. We played you the footage. You've seen it, right?

of these cops, some of whom had lacerations. This guy took like a giant boulder of snow, a little bit of ice, and hit him with it. Just this crowd, impromptu, because cops were called in New York to Washington Square. Some disturbance or something. There's any five, six, seven, eight of them around. They're told, don't arrest anybody, and they're being pelted with all kinds of things. Snowballs, but maybe ice too. He's asked again about it, and he says he wants no charges on the mob pelting police labeling it a snowball fight. Okay? Answers questions again about the snowman building event with youngsters. They were building a snowman. This is what they do with cops. Again with this guy. The president referenced him last night on other matters. He's the gift that keeps on giving. Now, Jessica Tisch, that's the last name of the New York police chief, is on a manhunt, and rightfully so, putting detectives out there wanting to know why other people that were in command there didn't say arrest them. Well, part of the problem is, and I understand the difficulty, you have idiots saying, well, you can't take a little snow? Are you kidding me? Cops are not your playmate, like the kiddos over in Quaker Town. But if you go to arrest them, you know how difficult it is to handcuff, the whole thing that goes into this, and how do you do it? So it's going to be interesting. Does the police commission, this police commissioner, Paul Morrow is on for Dix, and I think he's right, if she lasts another six months with this guy. And again, at every level, this is what you get. I'm not going to be lectured to by Laura Coates and the others we've played you this week when people say he's a commie. Byron Donalds's did. No, he's not. He's an American socialist. He's a democratic socialist. He's something like that. Well, distinguish Laura specifically what he is. What's the full difference here? Let's hear it. What he is is a guy who doesn't like the police. And this is a major moment. All right, you have the new Zohran Mamdani cut, Henry. All right. So we want to be accurate on this stuff. And yesterday there was some question. This was in Manhattan, I think, Morningside Heights, in Manhattan. And he's asked the question again, because the new thing is the police commissioners intervened and gone after these people. And I bet you anything, particularly the guy with the giant block over his head, that guy's got a record. I would bet on it. You just don't imprompt to decide to run a bunch of police with a giant thing and throw it on them. All right, here's what he said. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight. It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand, but that's what it was. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to revise your statement regarding the snowball fight? Given that, this was not exactly a friendly back-and-forth snowball fight. The police that were there were not throwing any snowballs. They were getting pelted themselves. And number two, have you considered or would you consider banning these crowdsourcing events because they can and sometimes do get out of hand? So I'm not going to be.

banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights? Oh my God. This guy, imagine being a cop in New York. Now, in Philadelphia, the reason they have trouble getting cops, the police chief is fine. I think the mayor is fine with police. They're still not doing well in recruiting it. And the reason is Larry Krasner, you know, one move here and the mob in Philadelphia. This arrogant little punk, my God, we've all seen the footage. It's clear. They're told stand down, don't do anything, something got out of hand. The cops aren't playfully playing them in basketball. You know, let's have the community get together with the police and let's play basketball. Or they had football games. I don't think you can do that anymore. You play football in this type of situation. My God, you know, it's going to be like the longest yard or something. You just can't do it in the atmosphere that's being created. And, you know, I'm partial to the Philadelphia police, of course, and I'm partial to the Abington police. Shout out to Pat Malloy and the Ben Salem guy, the police chief there because of what I've seen over the years. But. You know what, Pat Boy is listening. Pat, you get a call in and break it down. How would you feel if the mayor of your city is calling this snowball fight and your cops are pelted with this? Should you tell them just retreat? They sort of didn't do that. They were told you got to take it, I think it looked like. And I think that was a smart move, everything considered other than saying arrest the hell out of them, drag everyone in the minute. You know, and I'm sure Frank Rizzo would have had some words of wisdom. Remember, when people were firing at cops to put out the fire, people refused to put out the fire with the move thing. The first one, I guess it was. No, the second one. He said, well, if you don't want to do your job there, maybe you should be a hairdresser. So the Rizzo approach would have been different. Robert and Ben Salem talk radio 12. Hey, Robert, welcome in. Hey, Dom Henry, it's good to talk to you guys today. And I was going to do an impersonation of another one of my favorite caller. But since he called in today, I'll let it go till next time. Okay. I was thinking about the Abigail Spanberger response last night to the State of the Union address. And aside from the fact that she just absolute lied about a trunk tax hike, it occurs to me, although you put stock in this, this whole affordability thing with the Democrats is kind of a joke, not just because they smashed affordability while Biden was president, but look back to the last time they used this word. The name of the Obamacare was the Affordable Care Act. Now, how did that turn out? These are the things we need to be talking about if we're going to rebut this affordability nonsense. I agree. The only point I'm making is they have nothing else. This gives them a shingle to put out of something they can prattle constantly, and the engine room is the hatred. But, yeah, I agree with you, and I wish that that would have been a good talking point for President Trump last night.

Well, you're right, and that we have to make sure that the people who ordinarily would not hear this, like most of his accomplishments, a lot of the Democrats who might have been watching wouldn't even be aware of because their media never reports it. And I think Jimmy's failing nailed it when he said the Democrats who attended were going to look like cats sitting in a bathtub, and a lot of them did. That's a good line. Robert, what's your side today? Now, my side question, and I'm nervous about this, when I heard the side, I just automatically assumed that massage powers were off the board. I'm going to go with, don't hate me, Dom. I'm going to go with the rescue of the soccer team in the Thai mine. They were stuck underground for 18 days in complete darkness. It took 10,000 people to rescue them. They had to anesthetize the kids to scuba dive them out of the rushing water in the tunnel. And they ended up getting all the kids out except, sadly, one retired Thai Navy SEAL, Sanam Gunam died in the process because he lost Aaron one of his tanks when he was coming out. But all the kids were rescued, and it's just amazing that they made it through darkness, sheer darkness, no food for 18 days. But it was a happy ending. Appreciate the time, Dom. You guys have a great day. Thank you very much. Robert Kraft would be the caller in the other, I guess. Okay, yeah, there you go. All right. Daniel Alvarez is back with us from the White House, RNC Senior Advisor. We'll get her take after the fire was lit last night. Where does it go next? First, though, your heart shows up for you every day through the stress, laughter, long hours. Cherishing people you love most right now, though, rescue natural supplements invites Tom listeners to start caring for their heart before something feels off. Just use that exclusive offer code. Omega 50 to buy any premium omega-3 and get one free. Omega-3 support healthy circulation, balanced blood pressure, lower triglycerides. They help fortify your health as you age while common chronic inflammation, everyday protection that your heart deserves. So as for decades, rescues ultra-purified third-party-based omega-3s have been trusted by generations of satisfied people. Join them with this limited time offer. Go to RES-Q.com. Use that code Omega-50 to buy one omega-gut-1-3. Or call their product consultants, 8262-4-83. Your heart will thank you. Shop online at RES-Q.com. Use that code Omega 50. I'm Jenna Fisher and I'm Angela Kinsey. And together we have the podcast Office Ladies. Just because we finished rewatching the office does not mean we're going anywhere. Every Wednesday we'll be sharing even more exclusive stories from the office and our friendship with brand new guests.

Plus, you can revisit all the Office Ladies rewatch episodes every Monday with new bonus tidbits before every episode. So follow and listen to Office Ladies on the free Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Dom Chir Dano's show, Big Issues, big guests, R&C Senior Advisor Danielle Alvarez, back with us here on the Dom show. Daniel, welcome back to Philadelphia. Thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. It's great to be on with you. Well, Danielle, of course, the line of the night last night and, you know, a bit of a gamble because any sane politician or person would have stood up with that question, are you for the American people or illegal aliens? What's the reaction today when you scan the media? Is it getting widely played? I'm sure you guys are disseminating that because I'm sure. Every ad in the world will have this. Which side are you on? You know, that was just such a simple question. And Democrats couldn't help themselves because their Trump arrangement syndrome couldn't allow them to stand up and agree that American citizens come first. I mean, what an embarrassing moment. It just shows that the Democrat Party has stooped. So low, but was it really that surprising for those of us who are paying attention? I don't think it was. And Danielle, I have to tell you the governor of Virginia for the rebuttal. Come on now. You guys had a mole in there. The three questions she came up with again and again and again. Even people that are a little tepid on Trump would say, yeah, this guy's working incredibly hard for the American people. Come on now, fess up. You put those questions out there. That was magical what you did. The problem with Abigail Spanberger's response to the state of the union is that she posed questions and absolutely zero solutions. And that is the important contrast that President Trump and Republicans have been drawing. Democrats were in power in full control for four years. They dug us into a hole. They created an affordability crisis. They created weakness on the global stage. They threw our borders wide open with criminals, gang members, and cartels really thriving, fentanyl pouring in. And in just one short year, we have seen great success. We've seen the great American comeback. We have seen, as the president said last night, America entering her golden age. Not only did he highlight all of the wins last night, by the way, that's why the speech was nearly two hours. But he laid out a vision for the future, for the next year, of what Republicans would continue to do, again, as we head into these critical midterms, and as we make the case that Republicans should maintain majorities of both chambers. But I have to say, my favorite moment of last night was President Trump as the storyteller, calling member in the gallery after member in the gallery, and really unifying the country to the point where...

Even Democrats had to stand up and applaud the U.S. men's hockey team, American greatness in this global Winter Olympic competition, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who will be celebrating his birthday on July 4th. Even Democrats had to stand up and applaud the president in those moments during his speech. Well, the new thing last night in addition to the Trump account and the no tax on tips was the 401K for those that don't work for an employer who does that, a wide swath of Americans, particularly here in Pennsylvania, Danielle. So how will that happen? Is that an act of Congress? Is it in the budget? Now, how does that work? There's several great announcements that the president made last night. Of course, he urged Congress to press his great health care plan to make sure that payments aren't going to big insurance companies, but that they're going directly to the American consumer. And by the way, that's really important because the president is focused on America first, on consumers first, on our citizens first. Of course, he is asking them to codify the most favored nation drug pricing that makes sure that Americans get to pay the lowest price for drugs. He really focused on a theme of transparency. We talked about that a lot last night. He permanently banned large Wall Street investment firms from buying up. Again, single family homes. That's the cornerstone of the American dream. If you are trying to live your American dream and purchase property, it has been unattainable. And he's now banned, again, those big companies from buying single family homes. And as you mentioned, He really focused on, again, the Delilah law, the commercial driver's licenses, not allowing illegal aliens to get those. So he had a lot of forward-looking vision for the country that he's going to work with Congress, but he's got to lean on Congress this next year because you know what? It's good governance that is going to help us maintain those majorities in the House and the Senate. Thank you, Danielle. As always, thanks for popping on today. We'll have you back, and as conditions weren't. Thank you, Danielle. Thanks for having me. Daniel Alvarez, RNC, senior advisor. One thing we didn't mention enough, and we'll wait to Monday with Scott Presler, that soon after last night has said he will bring up the Save Act. Once to bring that up, Democrats, they're going to have filibuster. They have to talk. You know, we can just take, I think Richie O'I and I could kill 24 hours pretty easily. You know, if I threw DJ in there, well, you haven't met him enough. I mean, we could kill days. I'm sure. Oh, just days back and put. Just get to talk radio hosts, you know, put us together up there. We'll kill it. Can Democrats do it? Cory Booker, I don't know if they're going to tag him in again. All right. So. One quick thing. Yeah, I think it's Pat Malloy telling me, Dom, come on now. If they were pelting us, there would have been arrest here. So what is the police commissioner going to do in this situation? I think she's going to continue doing what she's doing, trying to find particularly this one guy. And then we're going to see what happens here.

around Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani, I think, is saying publicly he's going to stick with his cockamamie snowball fight. Again, I think people in New York are thinking, hey, we'll outlast this guy. Stick with the NYPD if you're in there. Maybe. This is just two months in, though. He's got four years plus, and usually the mayor gets reelected. How much damage can he do? Well, he can do a lot of help for our side. And that's why President Trump referenced him last night and the nonsense he's doing. But this just appears to be an issue. Now, we haven't seen it's happened anywhere else. What makes people believe you can start to pelt cops with snowballs? Well, it's the attitude in New York. And this guy reeks of it. I mean, I know people, you know, the oldies but goodies, they get upset with this guy upsets me. Just the whole life, he and his parents, they are a horror. And he is a commie. And maybe someday he'll admit it. And he really does want to get rid of the police. He wants to send people out in sport coats on these things. And there will be more crime in New York. There will be more difficulty up and down the line. And yes, he's not for voter ID. The thing that got me last weekend with the shovelers is he wanted these small photos, too. He actually said that. I don't know how many people have small photos on hand right now that are going to be running out to shovel snow in this. God. And I did see the Philadelphia ambassadors. They were in the middle of Chestnut Street shoveling, Henry. I got to tell you, I've been doing a lot of shoveling the last couple of days. You can be in great shape. You can be whatever. Man, that is not an easy job. There's no let up in it. No. It's one of the hardest things imaginable, yeah. But this snow was a lot weaker than the last one. I agree. Oh, yeah. This was a good show, a snow to shovel. It's good. They get like a wide shovel and you can just kind of almost slide it out. Yeah, you can do it. Yeah, the other. Oh, brutal. All right. It is all things coming up now, the lightning round here. Hit us with an all-time finale to something in some way, shape, or form. That was a really good one from Robert, but we've had several good ones today, particularly. Well, the joke part, yeah, certainly played into it. But remember that. Imagine in, well, he said euthanize them. They wrote in a euthanize them. They drugged them, thank God, to get them out of there. And the guy in a scuba carrying a kid. What the heck? How did they get in that underground type of thing? Crazy. Yeah. Imagine being a, you know, we do this job. And there's some things that are difficult. Like, you know, sometimes hosts are kind of eccentric, quirky. I understand the producers.

Then there's a producer's lounge, which really doesn't exist. I just made that. Exactly right. Exactly. Yeah, we're Greg Stocker. Let's have the producer's lounge here. But imagine being underground still working as a coal miner today. Oh, my God. How in the world people do that? It's a way of life. You're going to grow up to do that. Got to be a better way, getting out of town than doing coal mining. Is that the most difficult job? Being a cop in Larry Krasner's Philadelphia is pretty difficult too. All right, eight five, yeah, with Zohran Mamdani. Can you imagine you're putting your life on the line potentially? New York is still violence, you know, big city. And Zohran Mamdani is your boss. How long for the police commissioner to stay? And will we put a socialist in his police commissioner? I bet there is one in the department or just an incompetent on some DEI thing. 855, 839, 1210. 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. Let's love! Tom Giardano on Talk Radio 1210, WPA. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us the lightning round. Oh, man, do I have a progressive woman gone wild for tomorrow's show? She and the testimony on watching there, Henry, apparently, says, yeah, if you have a six-foot-four male playing against your daughters under her questioning, they should learn how to box out better, get lower, do stuff like this. Oh, man, it's leverage. It's leverage. Making up you're like 5-5 and he's 6-4 testosterone-laden and just box him out better. Oh, my goodness. She can lead the drills, though. Yeah, that's, well, when you see the picture of this, oh, man, this is a good one for tomorrow, 145. And one o'clock tomorrow, he's the hero that Gotham City needs. This guy has just sprung out of nowhere. Alente, unusual name. McCauley will be in studio with this again after he testifies before City Council tomorrow. Over and under, do they cut his mic off after one minute, two minutes, or two and a half minutes? It's been about a minute 45 the last couple weeks. You need a betting line for that. Yeah, before they cut off his mic and we'll bring you that and him. What a character out there, even in the middle of snow, getting his petitions done. And that is one of my favorite lines from Batman. He's the hero we need, son. But they'll hunt him.

They'll chase, what is it? They'll hunt him, they'll chase him. Yeah. And is that when he says, that's the hero we need. Taking one for the team, that man. At the end of the dark night, yeah. If we do the side question at some point, taking one for the team, I came up with one designated drivers. Oh, totally. And somebody taking something for the team, yeah. Pete in Habertown, I wanted to go to, almost lost this because I couldn't watch this and be on the air. It's that moving to me. Pete in Habertown. Hey, Pete, what's your side today? Hey, before that, Dom, just very briefly, I love the way Donald Trump used illegal aliens instead of the Democratic Party's euphemism of undocumented immigrants. I thought that was very important. And guess what? Sonny Hosten this morning was outraged on that and saying that's an antiquated term. It must be supremacy. Yeah. That's right. That's awesome. Hey, Dom, this happened on May 12, 1962. It was his last time. at his beloved location. And it was General Douglas MacArthur, five-star general, Medal of Honor recipient, former superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and 1903 class graduate who was first in his class when he delivers his duty, honor country speech. Very famous one. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, and what you will be. Yeah, and what's the thing about old soldiers don't what? They never die. They just fade away, dumb. Oh, man, that guy. Now, he's a bit of a maniacal figure, I think, to be around him, too. But what the heck? He's a rascal. He used to like to tell people, yeah, Eisenhower worked for him when he was in the Philippines. Okay, thank you. He ran for president, and in the beginning it all went well. Then he testified before Congress. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was pretty difficult. He wasn't used to anybody. And the outfit. He's used to giving the orders. He was a diva. The outfit coming ashore in the Philippines, you know, the corn cop pipe and the hat and the whole thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, this guy certainly has his own repertoire. It probably has a beret on right now. Joe in Eckstein on Talk Radio 12, Dan. Hi, Joe. Yes, hello, Dom. Good afternoon. Thank you. World War II ends by Japan's defeat. In the following decades, Japan experiences a full and complete economic comeback by introducing a line of cars.

so mechanically sturdy that they outshines the American automobile industry. Yeah, that's, they did, Joe. Thank you very much. That's not a happy ending. No, they're beating us. I guess for them. We defeat them. They beat us with the cars. Yeah. What the heck's up with that? I like this one. This potential here, Michael in Wilmington. Michael, what's yours? Hey, Dom, my good sir. I appreciate you taking my call today and a very good show. How are you, sir? Very good, Michael. Excellent. I'll get right to it, Dom. So I thought a really apropos ending very much for the country, for the world, when our great president, Ronald Reagan, was president, was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That was just a, I was, you know, teenager then. But I'll never forget it. When that wall came down, it was definitely a huge end of the Cold War. And also that collapse of the Soviet Union, it was a tremendous end and a tremendous win. I'll never forget it. A little correction. It was Bush was president at that point. But Reagan did it. And it's the greatest accomplishment of the bringing down. No president, even Trump, I don't care what you say. I don't you know about George Washington. Bringing down the Soviet Union. My God. Hard to believe. Oh, who said that in it? Was that Henry? He defeated the world empire of Britain. That's pretty good, too. Oh, boy. Well, you know, they didn't have nuclear weapons pointed at us. And there was the vodka, right. That threw them off. Chef Dave, we have a little four. Wow, still some of it. I usually get away with that line. Chef Dave, quickly, what's yours, Dave? Oh, Tom. I'm going to change my answer. During the Korean War, Ted Williams' plane was all shot up, fearing that if he ejected, he would break his knees ending his baseball career, belly landed and slid 1,500 feet. I heard John Glenn say this over an interview. Wow. Yeah, Ted Williams, what a cat. Another maniac, though, I mean, you imagine this guy? Hey, Ted, you're 399.5. That's 400. Don't play tomorrow. I'm playing. I'm going to hit foul balls at sports writers. And I ended up batting what? Was it 406? I think so. I got six hits, something like that. All right, Kirk. This was a great question today. What's yours? I was going to go with Robert. However, I'm definitely going with Michael with the Berlin Wall. That was a great answer. Yeah, and just the synergy of how they started doing it, then it ended right there. Henry, how about yours? Yeah, I liked Robert's answer, both of them. Joan Columbus, the band is on the field, and Pete and Havittown with MacArthur's last speech at West Point. I'm torn between the ban on the field was a great one. I got to say, though, the call, Pete and Avertown. Yeah, maybe because I know it all. I got to say, though, that MacArthur speech, you just don't see stuff like duty on our country. Now, of course, Colonel Jessip.

said the same thing. You think that's a punchline. Curse the Marines. And it's still not the line you can't handle the truth. It's about ordering the code red. That's a lot. All right. Coming up the afternoon show from three until six, we are back tomorrow. Load it up. You don't want to miss it all here on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Dom Gierdano, weekdays, noon till three, from Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Dom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, it is Dom time. Welcome in, 85583, 9, 1210, Dom's Money Melody. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, what are there, like 12 or so, usually nominees that are on there? Pink is one of them. Luther Vandros, Phil Almehouse, Alpquist. I don't know what he ruled on this. He'd be my go-to. There's some interesting nominees, I'm sure. Who do we have? It's the Black Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Susan Collins, Melissa Etheridge, Lauren Hill, Billy Idol, In Excess, Iron Maiden, Joy Division, New Order, New Edition, Oasis, Pink, Sade, Shikira, Luther Vandros, and the Wu-Tang Clan. Well, I had it in the beginning that was definitely, say the first four or five again. The Black Crows, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Susan Collins. Phil Susan Collins, definitely. Yeah, I think that's agreeable. Yeah, but I mean, how's Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Maybe they should have a pop music Hall of Fame or some other type of thing. Yeah, we just can't call it the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No. It's got to be just the Music Hall of Fame. Yeah, okay. They want to call it the music. Throw Beethoven in there, like just get everyone in. Yeah, now Possibly, accepting for Beethoven tonight. I wonder who the worst member is of that ilk. I think in a baseball Hall of Fame, I used to say Phil Rosuto was among the worst members. He just played on the Yankees. They called him the scooter. He was a broadcaster. When you, when you, and we're getting more and more into this, Hall of Fames are important or Halls of Fame are important in that, you know, there's going to be borderline people. And if you just say, oh, that's a Hall of Fame. It's the eye test. You know it. Like, I'm not putting Kyle Schwerber in a Hall of Fame someday. I don't care. I mean, it's just not happening. He was the best of his position. Yeah. If he hits 500 home runs, he's won't the best of his position. A fraudulent position, though, that was outside baseball. He's still the best of his position. Oh, see what I mean? The new thing. Well, you know, that bat boy was the best bat boy in the history of the game. Hall of Famer. Yeah, his time from the dugout to home was like no other. Yeah, right, yeah. Oh, my God. All right. Well, does pink belong in the Hall of Fame? Who else might be in? Well, Shakira is not rock and roll either. I mean, a lot of the people on that list are not. All right, enough of that for now. Mike Lilly is the president of a group that has a big charge over in Jersey. Didn't even know they existed. We want to put them on the radar screen for you. The president of the Sunlight Policy Center.

And they just came out with a really interesting, you know, it was a while ago that we had the final gong here where Mikie Sherrill won. But we had the head of the NJEA, 225,000 strong in Jersey, spending how much to end up in fifth place just in the primary. And it was unusual how they did it, even in a place like Jersey. This appears to be pretty bad. Let me go to Mike Lilly, President Lilly of the... Sunlight Policy Center. Hey, Mike, welcome to the show. Thanks for joining. Thanks very much for having me. You can call me, Mike. You don't have to say president. Okay. Well, thank you, Mike. I taught in Jersey for a good bit of my career teaching before I got into this. So I know the NJEA and the stuff that goes on here. But first, Sunlight Policy Center, interesting title. What do you guys try to do? Yes, shine sunlight on the, I call it the special interest dominated status quo, but to put a political status quo, but to put a finer point on it, it really is focused at the NJEA because they are the biggest, right? They are the most powerful special interest by far. Honestly, they're really one of the most powerful political forces in the state. So my goal was, and the sunlight, Justice, Supreme Court Justice Brandeis said sunlight is the best disinfectant. So that's where sunlight comes from. But basically, you know, I was looking at New Jersey, the political system, the government. And, you know, it needs sunlight shine on it. There needs to be some exposure for what really goes on in New Jersey politics. And I think it's had negative consequences for the state. And so I wanted to shine a light on that. Well, great work. I'm glad to know of you guys. And we'll get the website and all for listeners at the end where we can find you. Mike, again, you know, my dues were taken out of my paycheck by statute. Never saw them, you know, the local district had nothing. Did they just have to send it to the NJEA? It's out of your paycheck, and that's it if you teach there. So they are the behemoth, as you said. How much did their president spend? I don't even know if we fully know the exactitude of that to come in, what, fifth in the governor's race primary?

Yeah, so I do know with exactly what that is. But before I go into that, I just want to say you hit the nail on the head. The key to the NJEA is the automatic withholding of dues, which it is allowed by law and which you experience as a teacher. And teachers in the district are basically just pass-throughs for property tax dollars to flow directly to the NJEA. So they have about $130 million a year in withheld dues. And, you know, teachers never see the money. So a teacher never really has the opportunity to cut that check, right? And I'm sure you and I both belong to membership organizations where you've got to pay dues. And you write a check and you sort of evaluate whether you think it's worth it or not. Well, they never have that opportunity. That money comes out. and flows directly to the NJEA. And so that is what makes them so powerful politically, particularly at the state level. Now, in terms of the spending, and really the issue ties into what we just discussed, is the NJEA spent... uh 44.9 million uh on spiller's run uh for just the primary and you are right that he finished fifth out of sixth he did so poorly, he only raised about $400,000 of his own money. So he never had any support from the public at large. He didn't qualify for matching funds, the only candidate who did not. He did not even qualify for the debate and the only candidate who did not. He didn't even have any paid staff on his personal campaign. So what happened is, and this is really the key of the whole issue, and that is that, Teachers like you, their dues are with alpha paychecks and they go to the NJEA. But the NJEA does hold itself out as representing its members, right? And so the NJEA... should be expected to be looking out for the best interests of its own members. That's what you call their fiduciary duty. Exactly. But what, yes, but what the key issue here is that, and this is going to get a little complicated, so bear with me, but there's these things called PACs, right, political action committees, PACs, PACs, and you have your traditional PACs. And those are PACs that have existed for a long, long time, and they basically give directly to candidates and their campaigns. And there are a lot of limits on those. So, for example, you can only give a maximum of $5,800 as a traditional PAC or as an individual, for that matter.

The NJEA has a traditional PAC, and it carries out most of the functions that you think of when you think of the NJEA being involved in politics, such as endorsing certain candidates, those sorts of things. But the NJEA's traditional pack is called NJEA PAC. And teachers, in order to contribute to that by Supreme Court law or precedent, they have to check a box and say, I want to give some dues. And you know this as a teacher. I want to give some of my money to NJ.E.A. PAC, so they can go out and do the things that NJ.E.A.P. Okay, Michael, let's move to the wrinkle here, though. That's the most important for listeners. What is it they did in this race, though? What's the different pact that came in? Yeah, exactly, exactly. So then the other kind of PAC was allowed starting in 2013 because of this Supreme Court decision called, it was called Citizens United. And that's it. You can have these super PACs. And super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money. So they're not limited the way a traditional PAC is. It's unlimited, but it has to be what they call independent expenditures. So they're not allowed to coordinate with the candidate or the campaign. But in the modern world, there's not a whole lot of difference. I mean, you as a voter are not going to know the difference between a pro-spill or mailer that comes from a super PAC or the one that comes from his campaign. And they're the ones that got the $45 million. Correct. So the way it works is NJEA has their own super PAC called Garden State Forward. Garden State Forward gets, it's funded by teachers' regular dues, right? Not the special PAC dues to check the box. Basically, NJEA leadership simply takes those dues. and spends them on politics the way they choose to do it. Gotcha. And so that's what happened here. Garden State Forward gave a total of $45 million. $5 million was to this super package, it's dark money super PAC, because they don't have to disclose where the donors come from. Five million to protecting our democracy, which was Spiller's platform before he announced for governor. But it was raising his profile. It was allowing him going out there and get his message out there to prepare the field for him to run. The second one was called Working, New Jersey. $40 million went to Working New Jersey. And Working, New Jersey was a super PAC run by former NJ.E.A. Executives. And they're the ones. They spent 40 million dollars. Now, but what the key thing here, though, is on is that this is teachers' regular dues. And leadership, including Spiller, hid the truth from teachers. So all during the campaign, sunlight is out there saying, hey.

Teachers' dues are being used for Spiller's run, in fact, $45 million, and we were being told all the time, online, everywhere, no, no, no. No, that's a lie. The only money that they can spend is via NJEA PAC. Regular dues don't go. At the very end of the campaign, Spiller was directly asked a question and was forced to admit it. But the NJEA has never communicated directly, yourself included, to any teachers. that their regular dues are being spent on politics, and in particular, 45 million of them were wasted on Spiller's vanity run. Spiller was a failed mayor of Montclair. He couldn't even have run for re-election. He was such a lousy mayor, and he had no traction with the public. He could only raise $400,000 on his own, as Mayor Barack of Newark said. Still couldn't raise his own money, but he's got this $35 million piggy bank from the NJAEA, which in my view, and this is what my report says, is that's unprecedented, right? So a candidate doesn't have to go out and raise his own money, doesn't have to win the public's vote himself, doesn't even have to have his own staff, he can tap into a private entity. and run and spent unlimited amounts of money because he basically outsourced his campaign to working New Jersey. So that was teachers' dues being taken from them and spent on politics, wasted on Spiller, without their knowledge or consent. And to me, that's the big issue. Without a doubt, Mike. And then the second, Mike, sorry, go ahead, John. Yeah, I just want to tell people where they can find this and find Sunlight Policy Center. Where did people go, Mike? Yeah, so we are at – it's – it's – it's – let me just get around. Sunlight Policy Center, NJ. So it's all one word, sunlight policy nj.org. That's our website. Thank you, Mike. Thanks very much. Keep us in the loop coming up on that. That was – I know it gets in the weeds a little bit, but $45 million. through this mechanism, even for Jersey. And again, we have Corey DeAngelis on. We have any number of people on. And they talk about this campaign, the teachers unions. But here is it the teachers and the teachers unions? Well, there hasn't been a revolt that I know of. In other words, they haven't, yeah, they're mad about it seemingly, but $45 million just in a primary for governor coming in fifth. That is just shocking. But that's the biggest thing going on in education, the teachers unions, be at the NEA, be at the AFT, Randy Weingardin, up and down the line. And right here in Jersey, they're almost in the league of the national union. That's how strong they are. All right. Hall of Fame for music. Pink, Luther Vandros. There were a couple on that list that I could see. But maybe just call it the Hall of Music. It's not the end of the world, but it's just curious how this stuff starts out and they keep diluting it. Almost every Hall of Fame that I know of footballs are really hard. I mean, how many people really know an offensive line? You know, it's hard. Baseball has statistics, at least. Basketball sort of has statistics. But when you just throw anybody in.

How special is it? I mean, how much, you know, the local team, the Eagles can have their own and all. That's why it's sentimental. But the national ones ought to be a little bit better. First of. It's time for our own Hall of Fame. It's time for... It's Dobbs Money Melody. All right, we're playing today for the belts and a copy of Scott Jennings book, A Revolution of Common Sense, how Donald Trump storm Washington and fought for Western civilization. Henry, what do you have? Yeah, Dom, so today we are talking about endings on the side question, an all-time ending, whether it's a movie, a show, something in real life, a sporting event, you name it, we want an ending. And it's only fitting that, you know, just over the past weekend, the Winter Olympics came to an end. And we said, goodbye to them. So I'm going to play you Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road. I'm going to play you a cover version, a song in a language from a country that dominated this past Winter Olympics. I want to know the name of the language or the country it hails from. Take a listen.

They dominated the Winter Olympics, Dom. All right. How about Virgin Forest? Anything on that? No, no. I'm not giving anything else away today. Oh, no. You think this is easy? No, yeah, I think this is an easier one yesterday. We'll see. We'll see. Flood Kirk with the calls right now. Exactly. It's a relatively easy one. 855, 839, 12, 10. Jump in, be the first. Be a winner here. And get the great Scott Jennings book. More of your calls coming up, and we'll get a winner here on Talk Radio 1210. Tom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Be sure to follow Talk Radio 1210 WPHT on the free Odyssey app. Download it now. It's da Money Melody. Where has all the money gone. Show me to money. All right, this might be a layup. We'll see. Henry's usually pretty specific on this. Listen to the clue in either the country or the language, right? That's what we're looking for. Correct. Let's try Paul out there in Tabernacle. Paul, language or country? Hey Dom, how about Finland? See, I told you. Oh, we split the Finns. I have been staying far away from Finland lately. There's too many. There's a few countries where there's just too many covers of songs. I'm like, I've got to stay away. The Finns are constantly feeling. Finns and the Dutch, I've been standing far away. You think of me the Chinese. Most of them sound Asian to me. That one doesn't, but usually there's the covers. Ralph and Broomall. We haven't heard from Ralph in a while. Hey, Ralph, how are you? What do you have today? Thanks. I would say Norway. There we go. You say that, like, it's easy. You can distinguish between the Nordic and the Finns, huh? Well, I speak a little bit, and I will say talk. Talk means thank you in Norwegian. Oh, well, thank you very much, Ralph, thank you. I hope so. Okay. I've just said that up here. I hope it means thank you. All right, believe that then. Yeah, yeah. Jeez, oh, man. All right, yeah, well, make sure. Okay. You said it within context. Yeah, okay, yeah, but I'm still. All right, Ralph. We haven't heard from you in a while. Keep it. You're the winner today, Ralph, and off you go. Now, I just saw this part, too, and we had a little back and forth that he really said this yesterday. He did. Zohran Mamdani is asked again today. Now, look, anybody in the beginning, his instincts, he's a commie. He doesn't want the police doing anything. We played you the footage. You've seen it, right? of these cops, some of whom had lacerations. This guy took like a giant boulder of snow, a little bit of ice, and hit him with it. Just this crowd, impromptu, because cops were called in New York to Washington Square. Some disturbance or something. There's any five, six, seven, eight of them around. They're told, don't arrest anybody, and they're being pelted with all kinds of things. Snowballs, but maybe ice too.

He's asked again about it, and he says he wants no charges on the mob pelting police labeling it a snowball fight. Okay? Answers questions again about the snowman building event with youngsters. They were building a snowman. This is what they do with cops. Again with this guy. The president referenced him last night on other matters. He's the gift that keeps on giving. Now, Jessica Tisch, that's the last name of the New York police chief, is on a manhunt, and rightfully so, putting detectives out there wanting to know why other people that were in command there didn't say arrest them. Well, part of the problem is, and I understand the difficulty, you have idiots saying, well, you can't take a little snow? Are you kidding me? Cops are not your playmate, like the kiddos over in Quaker Town. But if you go to arrest them, you know how difficult it is to handcuff, the whole thing that goes into this, and how do you do it? So it's going to be interesting. Does the police commission, this police commissioner, Paul Morrow is on for Dix, and I think he's right, if she lasts another six months with this guy. And again, at every level, this is what you get. I'm not going to be lectured to by Laura Coates and the others we've played you this week when people say he's a commie. Byron Donalds's did. No, he's not. He's an American socialist. He's a democratic socialist. He's something like that. Well, distinguish Laura specifically what he is. What's the full difference here? Let's hear it. What he is is a guy who doesn't like the police. And this is a major moment. All right, you have the new Zohran Mamdani cut, Henry. All right. So we want to be accurate on this stuff. And yesterday there was some question. This was in Manhattan, I think, Morningside Heights, in Manhattan. And he's asked the question again, because the new thing is the police commissioners intervened and gone after these people. And I bet you anything, particularly the guy with the giant block over his head, that guy's got a record. I would bet on it. You just don't impromptu decide to run a bunch of police with a giant thing and throw it on them. All right, here's what he said. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight. It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand, but that's what it was. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to revise your statement regarding the snowball fight? Given that, this was not exactly a friendly back-and-forth snowball fight. The police that were there were not throwing any snowballs. They were getting pelted themselves. And number two, have you considered or would you consider banning these crowdsourcing events because they can and sometimes do get out of hand? I'm not going to be. banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights. Oh my God. This guy, imagine being a cop in New York. Now, in Philadelphia, the reason they have trouble getting cops, the police chief is fine. I think the mayor is fine with police. They're still not doing well in recruiting it. And the reason is Larry Krasner, you know, one move here and the mob in Philadelphia.

This arrogant little punk, my God, we've all seen the footage. It's clear. They're told stand down, don't do anything, something got out of hand. The cops aren't playfully playing them in basketball. You know, let's have the community get together with the police and let's play basketball. Or they had football games. I don't think you can do that anymore. You play football in this type of situation. My God, you know, it's going to be like the longest yard or something. You just can't do it in the atmosphere that's being created. And, you know, I'm partial to the Philadelphia police, of course, and I'm partial to the Abington police. Shout out to Pat Malloy and the Ben Salem guy, the police chief there because of what I've seen over the years. But. You know what, Pat Boy is listening. Pat, you get a call in and break it down. How would you feel if the mayor of your city is calling this snowball fight and your cops are pelted with this? Should you tell them just retreat? They sort of didn't do that. They were told you got to take it, I think it looked like. And I think that was a smart move, everything considered other than saying arrest the hell out of them, drag everyone in the minute. You know, and I'm sure Frank Rizzo would have had some words of wisdom. Remember, when people were firing at cops to put out the fire, people refused to put out the fire with the move thing. The first one, I guess it was. No, the second one. He said, well, if you don't want to do your job there, maybe you should be a hairdresser. So the Rizzo approach would have been different. Robert and Ben Salem talk radio 12. Hey, Robert, welcome in. Hey, Dom Henry, it's good to talk to you guys today. And I was going to do an impersonation of another one of my favorite caller. But since he called in today, I'll let it go till next time. Okay. I was thinking about the Abigail Spanberger response last night to the State of the Union address. And aside from the fact that she just absolute lied about a trunk tax hike, it occurs to me, although you put stock in this, this whole affordability thing with the Democrats is kind of a joke, not just because they smashed affordability while Biden was president, but look back to the last time they used this word. The name of the Obamacare was the Affordable Care Act. Now, how did that turn out? These are the things we need to be talking about if we're going to rebut this affordability nonsense. I agree. The only point I'm making is they have nothing else. This gives them a shingle to put out of something they can prattle constantly, and the engine room is the hatred. But, yeah, I agree with you, and I wish that that would have been a good talking point for President Trump last night. Well, you're right, and that we have to make sure that the people who ordinarily would not hear this, like most of his accomplishments, a lot of the Democrats who might have been watching wouldn't even be aware of because their media never reports it. And I think Jimmy's failing nailed it when he said the Democrats who attended were going to look like cats sitting in a bathtub, and a lot of them did. That's a good line. Robert, what's your side today?

Now, my side question, and I'm nervous about this, when I heard the side, I just automatically assumed that massage powers were off the board. I'm going to go with, don't hate me, Dom. I'm going to go with the rescue of the soccer team in the Thai mine. They were stuck underground for 18 days in complete darkness. It took 10,000 people to rescue them. They had to anesthetize the kids to scuba dive them out of the rushing water in the tunnel. And they ended up getting all the kids out, except sadly one retired Thai Navy SEAL, Sanam Gunam died in the process because he lost Aaron one of his tanks when he was coming out. But all the kids were rescued, and it's just amazing that they made it through darkness, sheer darkness, no food for 18 days. But it was a happy ending. Appreciate the time, Dom. You guys have a great day. Thank you very much. Robert Kraft would be the caller in the other, I guess. Okay, yeah, there you go. All right. Daniel Alvarez is back with us from the White House, RNC Senior Advisor. We'll get her take after the fire was lit last night. Where does it go next? First, though, your heart shows up for you every day through the stress, laughter, long hours. Cherishing people you love most right now, though, rescue natural supplements invites Tom listeners to start caring for their heart before something feels off. Just use that exclusive offer code. Omega 50 to buy any premium omega-3 and get one free. Omega-3 support healthy circulation, balanced blood pressure, lower triglycerides. They help fortify your health as you age while common chronic inflammation, everyday protection that your heart deserves. So as for decades, rescues ultra-purified third-party-based omega-3s have been trusted by generations of satisfied people. Join them with this limited time offer. Go to RES-Q.com. Use that code Omega-50 to buy one omega-gut-1-3. Or call their product consultants, 8262-4-83. Your heart will thank you. Shop online at RES-Q.com. Use that code omega-50. Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, Dom Jir-Dano show, Big Issues, big guest, R&C Senior Advisor, Danielle Alvarez, back with us here on the Dom show. Daniel, welcome back to Philadelphia. Thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. It's great to be on with you. Well, Daniel, of course, the line of the night last night and, you know, a bit of a gamble because any sane politician or person would have stood up with that question, are you for the American people or illegal aliens? What's the reaction today when you scan the media? Is it getting widely played? I'm sure you guys are disseminating that because I'm sure.

Every ad in the world will have this. Which side are you on? You know, that was just such a simple question. And Democrats couldn't help themselves because their Trump arrangement syndrome couldn't allow them to stand up and agree that American citizens come first. I mean, what an embarrassing moment. It just shows that the Democrat Party has stooped so low. But was it really that surprising for those of us? who are paying attention. I don't think it was. And Danielle, I have to tell you the governor of Virginia for the rebuttal. Come on now. You guys had a mole in there. The three questions she came up with again and again and again. Even people that are a little tepid on Trump would say, yeah, this guy's working incredibly hard for the American people. Come on now, fess up. You put those questions out there. That was magical what you did. The problem with Abigail Spanberger's response to the state of the union is that she posed questions and absolutely zero solutions. And that is the important contrast that President Trump and Republicans have been drawing. Democrats were in power in full control. for four years. They dug us into a hole. They created an affordability crisis. They created weakness on the global stage. They threw our borders wide open with criminals, gang members, and cartels really thriving, fentanyl pouring in. And in just one short year, we have seen great success. We've seen the great American comeback. We have seen, as the president said last night, America entering her golden age. Not only did he highlight all of the wins last night, by the way, that's why the speech was nearly two hours, but he laid out a vision for the future, for the next year, of what Republicans would continue to do again as we head into these critical midterms, and as we make the case that Republicans should maintain majorities of both chambers. But I have to say... My favorite moment of last night was President Trump as the storyteller, calling member in the gallery after member in the gallery and really unifying the country to the point where even Democrats had to stand up and applaud the U.S. men's hockey team, American greatness in this global Winter Olympic competition, the 100-year-old World War II. veteran who will be celebrating his birthday on July 4th. Even Democrats had to stand up and applaud the president in those moments during his speech. Well, the new thing last night, in addition to the Trump account and the no tax on tips, was the 401K for those that don't work for an employer who does that, a wide swath of Americans, particularly here in Pennsylvania, Danielle. So.

How will that happen? Is that an act of Congress? Is it in the budget? How does that work? There's several great announcements that the president made last night. Of course, he urged Congress to press his great health care plan to make sure that payments aren't going to big insurance companies, but that they're going directly to the American consumer. And by the way, that's really important because the president is focused on America first, on consumers first, on our citizens first. Of course, he is asking them to codify the most favored nation drug pricing that makes sure that Americans get to pay the lowest price for drugs. He really focused on a theme of transparency. We talked about that a lot last night. He permanently banned large Wall Street investment firms from buying up. Again, single family homes. That's the cornerstone of the American dream. If you are trying to live your American dream and purchase property, it has been unattainable. And he's now banned, again, those big companies from buying single family homes. And as you mentioned, He really focused on, again, the Delilah law, the commercial driver's licenses, not allowing illegal aliens to get those. So he had a lot of forward-looking vision for the country that he's going to work with Congress, but he's got to lean on Congress this next year because you know what? It's good governance that is going to help us maintain those majorities in the House and the Senate. Thank you, Danielle. As always, thanks for popping on today. We'll have you back, and as conditions weren't. Thank you, Danielle. Thanks for having me. Daniel Alvarez, RNC, senior advisor. One thing we didn't mention enough, and we'll wait to Monday with Scott Presler, that soon after last night has said he will bring up the Save Act. Once to bring that up, Democrats, they're going to have filibuster. They have to talk. You know, we can just take, I think Richie O'I and I could kill 24 hours pretty easily. You know, if I threw DJ in there, well, you haven't met him enough to. I mean, we could kill days. I'm sure. Oh, just days back and put, just get to talk radio hosts, you know, put us together up there. We'll kill it. Can Democrats do it? Cory Booker, I don't know if they're going to tag him in again. All right. So. One quick thing. Yeah, I think it's Pat Malloy telling me, Dom, come on now. If they were pelting us, there would have been arrest here. So what is the police commissioner going to do in this situation? I think she's going to continue doing what she's doing, trying to find particularly this one guy. And then we're going to see what happens here. around Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani, I think, is saying publicly he's going to stick with his cockamamies snowball fight. Again, I think people in New York are thinking, hey, we'll outlast this guy. Stick with the NYPD if you're in there. Maybe. This is just two months in, though. He's got four years plus, and usually the mayor gets reelected.

How much damage can he do? Well, he can do a lot of help for our side. And that's why President Trump referenced him last night and the nonsense he's doing. But this just appears to be an issue. Now, we haven't seen it's happened anywhere else. What makes people believe you can start to pelt cops with snowballs? Well, it's the attitude in New York. And this guy reeks of it. I mean, I know people, you know, the oldies but goodies, they get upset with Dan. This guy upsets me. Just the whole life, he and his parents, they are a horror. And he is a commie. And maybe someday he'll admit it. And he really does want to get rid of the police. He wants to send people out in sport coats on these things. And there will be more crime in New York. There will be more difficulty up and down the line. And yes, he's not for voter ID. The thing that got me last weekend with the shovelers is he wanted these small photos, too. He actually said that. I don't know how many people have small photos on hand right now that are going to be running out to shovel snow in this. And I did see the Philadelphia ambassadors. They were in the middle of Chestnut Street shoveling, Henry. I got to tell you, I've been doing a lot of shoveling the last couple of days. You can be in great shape. You can be whatever. Man, that is not an easy job. There's no let up in it. No. It's one of the hardest things imaginable, yeah. But this snow was a lot weaker than the last one. I agree. Oh, yeah. This was a good show, a snow to shovel. It's good that you get like a wide shovel and you can just kind of almost slide it out. Yeah, you can do it. Yeah, the other. Oh, brutal. All right. It is all things coming up now, the lightning round here. Hit us with an all-time finale to something in some way, shape, or form. That was a really good one from Robert, but we've had several good ones today. Which particularly? Well, the joke part, yeah, certainly played into it. But remember that. Imagine in, well, he said euthanize them. They wrote in a euthanize them. They drugged them, thank God, to get them out of there. And the guy in the scuba carrying a kid. What the heck? How did they get in that underground type of thing? Crazy. Yeah. Imagine being a, you know, we do this job. And there's some things that are difficult. Like, you know, sometimes hosts are kind of eccentric, quirky. I understand the producers. Then there's a producer's lounge, which really doesn't exist. I just made that up. Exactly right. Exactly. Yeah, where's Greg Stocker? Let's have the producer's lounge here. But imagine being underground still working as a coal miner today. Oh, my God. How in the world people do that? It's a way of life. You're going to grow up to do that. Got to be a better way, getting out of town than doing coal mining.

Is that the most difficult job? Being a cop in Larry Krasner's Philadelphia is pretty difficult too. All right, eight five, yeah, with Zohran Mamdani. Can you imagine you're putting your life on the line potentially? New York is still violence, you know, big city. And Zohran Mamdani is your boss. How long for the police commissioner to stay? And will he put a socialist in his police commissioner? I bet there is one in the department or just an incompetent on some DEI thing. 855-839, 1210. Tom Chirado on Talk Radio 1210, WPHPHT. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us the lightning round. Oh, man, do I have a progressive woman gone wild for tomorrow's show? She and the testimony on watching there, Henry, apparently, says, yeah, if you have a six-foot-four male playing against your daughters under her questioning, they should learn how to box out better or get lower. Do stuff like this. Oh, man, it's leverage. It's leverage. Making up you're like 5-5 and he's 6-4 testosterone-laden and just box him out better. Oh, my goodness. She can lead the drills, though. Yeah, that's, well, when you see the picture of this, well, oh, man, this is a good one for tomorrow, one o'clock tomorrow. He's the hero that Gotham City needs. This guy has just sprung out of nowhere. Alente, unusual name. McCauley will be in studio with this again after he testifies before City Council tomorrow. Over and under, do they cut his mic off after one minute, two minutes, or two and a half minutes? It's been about a minute 45, the last couple weeks. You need a betting line for that. Yeah, before they cut off his mic and we'll bring you that and him. What a character out there, even in the middle of snow, getting his petitions done. And that is one of my favorite lines from Batman. He's the hero we need, son. But they'll hunt him. They'll chase, what is it? They'll hunt him, they'll chase him. Yeah. And is that when he says, that's the hero we need. Taking one for the team, that man. At the end of the dark night, yeah. If we do the side question at some point, taking one for the team, I came up with one designated drivers. Oh, totally. That's somebody taking something for the team, yeah. Pete in Habertown, I wanted to go to, almost lost this because I couldn't watch this and be on the air. It's that moving to me. Pete in Habertown. Hey, Pete, what's your side today?

Hey, before that, Dom, just very briefly, I love the way Donald Trump used illegal aliens instead of the Democratic Party's euphemism of undocumented immigrants. I thought that was very important. And guess what? Sonny Hosten this morning was outraged on that and saying that's an antiquated term. It must be supremacy. Yeah. That's right. That's awesome. Hey, Dom, this happened on May 12, 1962. It was his last time. at his beloved location. And it was General Douglas MacArthur, five-star general, Medal of Honor recipient, former superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and 1903 class graduate, who was first in his class when he delivers his duty, honor, country speech. Very famous one. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be. and what you will be. Yeah, and what's the thing about old soldiers don't? What? They never die. They just fade away, dumb. Oh, man, that guy. Now, he's a bit of a maniacal figure, I think, to be around him, too. What the heck? He's a rascal. He used to like to tell people. Yeah, Eisenhower worked for him when he was in the Philippines. Okay, thank you. He ran for president, and in the beginning it all went well. Then he testified before Congress. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was pretty difficult. He wasn't used to anybody. And the outfit. He's used to giving the orders, not. He was a diva. The outfit coming ashore in the Philippines, you know, the cornucre pipe and the hat and the whole thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, this guy certainly has his own repertoire. It probably has a beret on right now. Joe in Eckstein on Talk Radio 12, Dan. Hi, Joe. Yes, hello, Dom. Good afternoon. Thank you. World War II ends by Japan's defeat. And in the following decades, Japan experiences a full and complete economic comeback by introducing a line of cars so mechanically sturdy that they outshine the American automobile industry. Yeah, they did, Joe. Thank you very much. That's not a happy ending. No, they're beating us. I guess for them. We defeat them, and they beat us with the cars. Yeah. What the heck's up with that? I like this one. This potential here, Michael in Wilmington. Michael, what's yours? Hey, Dom. My good, sir. I appreciate you taking my call today and a very good show. How are you, sir? Very good, Michael. Excellent. I'll get right to it, Dom. So I thought a really apropos ending. very much for the country, for the world, when our great president, Ronald Reagan, was president, was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That was just a, I was, you know, teenager then. But I'll never forget it. When that wall came down, it was definitely a huge end of the Cold War. And also that collapse of the Soviet Union, it was a tremendous end and a tremendous win. I never forget it. A little correction. It was Bush was president at that point. But Reagan did it. And it's the greatest accomplishment of the bringing down. No president, even Trump, I don't care what you say. I don't know about George Washington. Bringing down the Soviet Union. My God.

Hard to believe. Oh, who said that in it? Was that Henry? He defeated the world empire of Britain. That's pretty good, too. Oh, boy. Well, you know, they didn't have nuclear weapons pointed at us. And there was the vodka, right. That threw them all. Chef Dave, we have a little four. Wow, still some of it. I usually get away with that line. Chef Dave, quickly, what's yours, Dave? Oh, Tom. I'm going to change my answer. During the Korean War, Ted Williams' plane was all shot up, fearing that if he ejected, he would break his knees ending his baseball career, belly landed and slid 1,500 feet. I heard John Glenn say this over an interview. Wow. Yeah, Ted Williams, what a cat. Another maniac, though, I mean, you imagine this guy? Hey, Ted, you're 399.5. That's 400. Don't play tomorrow. I'm playing. I'm going to hit foul balls at sports writers. And I ended up batting what? Was it 406? I think so. I got six hits, something like that. All right, Kirk. This was a great question today. What's yours? I was going to go with Robert. However, I'm definitely going with Michael with the Berlin Wall. That was a great answer. Yeah, and just the synergy of how they started doing it, then it ended right there. Henry, how about yours? Yeah, I liked Robert's answer, both of them. Joan Columbus, the band is on the field, and Pete and Havertown with MacArthur's last speech at West Point. I'm torn between the band on the field was a great one. I got to say, though, the call, Pete and Habbertown. Yeah, maybe because I know it all. I got to say, though, that MacArthur speech, you just don't see stuff like duty on our country. Now, of course, Colonel Jessip. said the same thing. You think that's a punchline. Curse the Marines. Nice. And it's still not the line you can't handle the truth. It's about ordering the code red. That's a lot. Good, I'm right. Exactly. All right. Coming up the afternoon show from three until six, we are back tomorrow. Load it up. You don't want to miss it all here on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Dom Giudano, weekdays noon till 3. From Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Sometimes it feels like the news is full of things that have never happened before. And that is not exactly true. In fact, it may have happened this very week, hundreds or thousands of years ago. I'm Sally Helm, host of the podcast History This Week from the History Channel. Trade embargoes, Thomas Jefferson tried them. Rent too high? We've been arguing about that for a while. Each episode is proof. The past isn't that far away.

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