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News Talk 820, WBAP. And now, new on FM at 933. Among our top stories, a road rage incident yesterday on I-20, our news partners, WFAA, Channel 8, have the story. Traffic came to a standstill in the middle of rush hour Thursday morning on Interstate 20 at Trail Lake Drive in Fort Worth. South Division officers were dispatched to a shooting call. Police say a woman was found shot and killed in her car in the eastbound lanes around 6.30 this morning. Investigators believe it was the result of a road rage shooting. This has been pulled up to the victim. some shots and struck to meet them. The suspect took off before police arrived, leaving commuters like Carl Crutchfield concerned. Man, I hope they catch him. I hope they catch him. A spokesperson with Everman ISD says the woman was a teacher's assistant and believed to be on her way to work this morning. Man, it's super unfortunate. You know, I would pay for someone to lose their lives over something like that. Police have not said what the drivers were doing that led to the shooting. But Daniel Armbruster with AAA Texas says aggressive driving incidents are on the rise. It's certainly a growing problem and one that's very concerning for us here in the traffic safety community. Using crash data, he says the Foundation for Traffic Safety published this report last year, showing road rage related crashes are up. He says research found 96% of drivers admitted to some form of aggressive driving. Number one, don't engage. Avoid eye contact, gestures, yelling, honking, and anger. Crutchfield says he's praying for the family now facing an unimaginable loss. We don't want anybody to, you know, to lose their lives. tragic story that took place on i20 yesterday morning can you imagine you're just heading to work and something like this happens and you know you never know what's going to trigger somebody they think that you're in there saying i'm going to show that guy oh yeah and you're just driving not even aware that there's a problem right I'm not going to say I never honk at people if they, like, if they're about to hit my vehicle, I'll honk at someone for that. If someone cuts me off, I've gotten to the point where I just let it go. Yeah, I don't worry about that either. It's not worth it, man. I mean, think about it. She ended up dead. He's going to end up going to prison. And why? Because he was in a hurry you get to work? Because he's an idiot. You ain't going to work now, are you? That's a good answer. Yeah, no, he's going to prison because he's an idiot. Yeah, exactly. Very true. Road rage, you know, I...

Everybody gets mad when I say this, but we have built, our lives in the U.S. are stressful. We have built stressful existence. Yes. You know, everything is stressful. Getting something done takes an act of Congress, it seems like. Everything is tough to get done. So naturally, people get on the road. They're worried about. Can I afford this? You know, the kids, are they screwing up in school? Are they teaching them nonsense? You've got all these stresses all over you, and then you get on the road and somebody cuts you off, and that's what brings on the explosion. Yeah, that's the straw. I've had enough. I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. I just, I think that life is stressful, but I think it's as stressful as you allow it to be. I don't allow it to get to get me to the breaking point. Yeah. I just don't. And you can control that whether you think you can or not. There's an entire generation that I think have been raised on the idea that nobody... Nobody touches me. Nobody talks to me that way. I think you saw that in the Carmelo Anthony case. Yeah, 100%. You know, he's, you got to get out of our tent. And the first thing he goes to is, I'm going to stab this kid to death because nobody tells me what to do. It's like Francis from... from stripes. Oh, exactly. I don't like, anyone touching my stuff. Yeah. Anyone touches my stuff? I'll kill you. Yeah. I mean, and that's just not the way. Great character. That's not the way the world works. Well, it does seem to be the way the world's working now. You can do it like, I turn it into entertainment. Well, that's what I'm saying. You have to. I turn it into, and I just, I love to follow stupid people. You know. And the political ads, I love, I don't like them, but they're fun to follow because most people don't realize that, realize that those ads are designed to get votes. They're not designed to tell you what they're going to do for office, but it's just one of those things that. So all the things that make you mad, try to turn them into entertainment. That's all you can do. I always see those ads, and I'm just like, half of that crap isn't even true. Exactly. And it's fabricated. And then I just, like, out loud, I'll just say, he, you know, insert candidate here. He eats puppies. Yeah, you know, just make fun of it. I mean, he's all you can do. The latest James Talarico, Ed, you'd think him and his grandfather actually walked on water at one time. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So the Save Dallas Hall, City Hall Coalition has filed a petition against the city of Dallas and their top elected administrative officials. They've asked a judge to compel inspections, repairs, and historic preservation were at the IMPA design city hall. So what they're doing is they're trying to save it. They said this place couldn't be as big a dump as you're telling us it is.

It could not be as bad as you're telling you. It could not need $300 billion worth of repairs. This is silly, isn't it? And they walked in and went, okay, maybe you're right. Yeah. The landmark commission of Dallas unanimously initiated the historic designation process for City Hall last year. The vote placed the property under a predesignation moratorium that absent other terminating events expires next year. In other words, unless they can say otherwise, this is going to be. this is going to be a landmark. So if they want to tear it down or they want to do something, they've got to do it now. But now you have the Save Dallas City Hall Coalition saying, we don't want you to tear it down. It's a historic building, which it is not. Right. It's not a historic building. It is not. Just because I am paid designed it. Right. I think, you know, I honestly, this was not one of his better gigs. No. You know what they could do? What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers? You could take 36% more vacation. Another Pinacolada? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout, up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at Shopify.com slash listen and get a $1.5.com. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake Seatoll. Now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Drake Toll show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake's E. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Turned into a Chinese restaurant, call it IMP. Hayway. Sorry. I go home now. There you. No reason to comment after that? I have no issue with that. I don't like that. Your genius. It's awesome. But you know what the other thing that makes me laugh about all this is, is they seem to be amazed that the city of Dallas would let something go into disrepair the way they have. Yeah. That's shocking. It's not at all to me. Have you ever driven the roads in this city before? I mean. Go figure. They didn't take care of something. Really? Can't imagine. How about the roads in this very area? Exactly. This was supposed to be the Dallas Times Square. Yeah. I mean, is it, is it? It was, but circa 1975. Is it structurally that? bad off? I don't think it's... Is it dangerous for people to go in? I don't think it's... I don't think it's as bad as they're telling us it is. I think they want to move and they've got to justify it somehow. It's going to cost $300 million to fix the building. Give me a break. The building is 50 years old. There are skyscrapers in downtown that are that old that don't have $300 million worth of repairs needed. Okay. Do this. Get some paint. Screw down the toilets where they don't go back and forth. That's true. You know, get a food truck out in the area there. It's not a bad. You know what? They could get a margarita machine. And some tables and chairs and spruce it up. Right.

Yeah. Get this over. I don't think it's falling over, even though it does look like it's falling over. A couple of throw pillows. A couple of throw pillows, yeah, but yeah. Fresh coat of paint. Take all the stuff out of there, move them to someplace else, and then turn that into a museum like I've always been saying. Build the Robocop Cafe or something. I love that. Put it on the first floor and everybody can eat and drink and get fun. The Transgender Hall of Fame. There you go. I like that. Come on. Yeah. Put a casino in there. Oh, there you go. Not a bad. idea. All right, there you go. Our national correspondent is Rory O'Neill. He covers all the big stories. We don't send people to ourselves. But there's one going on in New York that's possibly going to be a trendsetter for Luigi Mangione. This is a guy accused of killing the United Health Care CEO on the streets of New York just a couple of years ago. Rory had the latest. Well, it's going to happen in the federal courthouse and we're not exactly sure what the deal is just yet. And we're just speculating that a plea deal could happen. But his trial. Kyle is expected to happen on the federal charges in just a matter of weeks. And that's why we expect some sort of a plea deal perhaps happening in today's hearing. Now, he is facing federal charges that relate to interstate stalking resulting in death. And actually, he faces a harsher penalty on those federal charges, essentially a sentence that would not life without parole, than he would in the state charges where he's facing murder and weapons charges. What's the sense in pleading rather than going to trial if he's facing such terrible charges on two levels? State of New York doesn't have the death penalty, so statewide that's off the table. And the judge had thrown out the potential of a federal death penalty earlier this year. So that's why we're curious to see what kind of a deal could be reached. Also, it's interesting that there are double jeopardy laws in New York that are pretty aggressive, meaning you can't be tried for the same thing repeatedly. Some have argued that, well, look, if you're charging him federally with interstate stalking resulting in death, isn't that the same thing as murder? So we'll have to see what kind of a deal could be agreed to today, what it might cover. And one of the interesting things is that in a plea deal in federal court, you don't believe the same way we've all seen on law and order. You don't say, well, all right, we'll agree to 15 years or whatever it may be. Instead, it's... fully at the discretion of the judge. But it does give a defendant an opportunity to plead their case at that sentencing hearing, something that he wouldn't be able to do at a federal trial. So that could be a factor in this, essentially trying to gin up a good story just before you're sentencing here. So are they hoping for a lesser sentence then if they go and they play ahead of time? Right, because the plea deal in the federal court isn't agreed to with the same kind of sentence that we're used to seeing in state court. Instead, it's at the discretion of the judge. Okay. All right. So he goes, he pleased guilty or whatever. He gets a sentence in the federal court. Doesn't that hurt his chances of being acquitted in the state court? It may. It's going to depend on exactly on what charges are being brought here. And there could also be a plea deal on the state side of things as well. So that could also happen. So there's a whole lot of speculation going into this hearing. The state charges are expected to start in January with that trial. So there's a lot going on in the next few months in this case. Remember, this is all about the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson who was shot and killed in the streets of New York, what, back in 2024. I know it seems like a lot.

long time ago, but by court standards, this case is moving rather quickly. It sounds like either way, he's going to prison somewhere. Right. It's doubtful he's ever going to walk free again. According to either of these deals, heck, there's even a Pennsylvania charge that he could get drummed up on. Prosecutors in New York and Pennsylvania, where he was actually arrested after that five-day manhunt, certainly to guarantee that he won't be set free. Rory O'Neill, national correspondent. We'll keep our eye on that. Thank you so much. Thanks, Ernie. Coming up at 737, or seven, yeah, is that right? 737? Yeah, all right. So is somebody actually revealing important secret service type secrets? Hmm. News Talk 820, WBAP. And now, new on FM at 933. Well, about a month ago when President Trump was in Turkey on the way back, they did a little switcheroo, took him off of Air Force One through a catering truck and put him on another plane to get him out of there because they had what they thought was actionable intelligence of an Iranian plot to hit Air Force One with a missile. Yeah. Something that has been done before many times with many other presidents, Buzz Patterson, is the former, he was the former military aide to President Clinton. He was a guy who carried the football, the suitcase with all the nuclear codes and such. He said, this was actually quite common. And he said, I cannot figure out for the life of me why people are making such a big deal out of this. I was the military aid, the Air Force military aid for President Bill Clinton for two years, and I was intimately involved in these programs. It's alarming to me that... when people like my ex boss, Bill Clinton did it, and we did it a few times for exactly the same reasons. There was no outrage. And then when President Trump does it, for all the right reasons, there's outrage. So yeah, a lot of what is being spouted on social media and in our mainstream media is factually incorrect. And it's actually troubling because it's going to endanger not only President Trump, but future presidents to come. I hope that they prosecute this to the fullest because whoever leaked that, in my opinion, and having been involved in this, was highly placed in that process. There's only a few people who actually know exactly what's going down, and that's by design. So if somebody leaked it, it was somebody involved in the process, and that scares the hell out of me. That's very disturbing to hear that if it's somebody high up and they're putting that information out there, you have to ask the reasons why. Why would you tell anybody that? Why would you break security just to get a story to the press? Well, he said just now that very few people would know that plan. Yeah. So that narrows it down to who could leak it. Yeah, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who did. The Washington Post broke the story. Yeah.

So somebody's friends with a reporter and said, hey, let me tell you what's going on here. Yeah. But you can't tell anybody. Well, it's, yeah, you can. It's Trump. Yeah, exactly. You can. It's Trump. That's why it's a big deal. Yeah, because the outrage of the American people, most of them, especially on the West Coast, won't care. No. They will not. They're setting really dangerous standards, and that's really troubling to me right now. After Trump is out of office, all of this will be gone. You think so? Oh, yeah. I think most of it will be gone. Because the Democrats, they hate him. I should I say the communist. They hate him. That's what's driving. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you're making it through. 1%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah. I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. thing they're doing that's what's yeah that's what they're not even taking stances on positions really anymore they're just well it's not something that don't trump's doing or it's not something that don't trump wants they just and it if you know people that You know, vote Democrat or lean left or whatever you want to call it. And you try talking to them about any of this stuff. Man, they get so angry about it. They just can. They're not standing. They're ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. That's why their violence is coming from the left. All right. Now, this, I want to play this clip for you, too. This is, Trump was actually down in Memphis not too long ago and decided to take the Graceland tour. Now, how you've been to Graceland many times? When Elvis lived there, Elvis invited you to Graceland. Yes. Well, yes. Okay. Well, I did maybe. How's best friends with Elvis? No, I don't say that. He's been to the boom boom room. Not bad. He has been to the boom boom. I went to the boom room, but not the boom boom boom. Okay. This is President Trump taking the Elvis tour at Graceland. of Elvis that was done when he was in basic training in Fort Hood, Texas. And it shows you Elvis's natural hair color of blonde. Really? Blonde hair, blue eyes. He dyed his hair black because he thought it brought his facial features better out on film. And so he started to do that after his first baby, Love Me Tender. This is actually the oldest guitar in our collection. It's a 1956 Gibson J-200s. Elvis used it in the movies Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, and King Creole, and then used it in Vegas and 69 and 70s. And then at the top of the stairs, we have the outfit that Elvis wears at the end of the 68 comeback special when he sang the song, If I Can Dream, which was especially written for the show. After the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elvis felt like he needed to make a statement of how America could be. And so that's what If I Can Dream represents. And he ended the show wearing that outfit right there. So he loved this place, right? He did.

See, if they were going to do the Ernie tour. Yeah. At Stately Brown Manor tour, it would really be a short thing. Over here is the Barco Loungeer where Ernie planted his butt every single day. And there's an empty pudding cup. Yeah, there it is. Let's open the refrigerator. You'll see that he ate out all the time. If you look over to the left, you'll see Ernie's closet. You'll see an endless supply of jeans, all the same color, and hoodies exactly the same. And all the salad dressing you could ever want. There's a gallon jug of Pizza Hut, Italian. in creamy dressing that went bad, but he didn't want to get rid of it for sentimental purposes. He'd pull up to that gate of grace, the gate people, the worldwide know the gate. It's had the musical instruments on and all this there. And Vestell, his uncle, he was the gatekeeper. He was always at the gate. You'd pull up at that gate. If they're expecting, you go, yeah, he's, he's not feeling too good day. Y'all come on in. He'll come on. Pull around back. Pull around back. But Vesta was always there at the gate. Did you ever show up when he wasn't feeling well? Yes. Really? Yeah, he was going to come down one time. We're in the back. You know that story. We're in the back, and he was going to come down and visit, but that was one of the days he wasn't feeling well. Oh, that's too bad. Yeah. He got some bad drugs that day? You never knew. Yeah. He was always in the hospital with the flu, but nah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff going on in his life. A lot of flu in that. Lots of, lots of flu. Yeah. Yes. You know, the one thing I remember about Graceland, it's not as big a house as I thought it was. No, it's not. It's compared to today's millionaires and superstars. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a very small house. It's a regular house. Yeah. A nice piece of land. A nice piece of land. Yeah. Okay. There was a story that came up the other day. Brad mentioned it to us, and I did a little research on this. Other places, other cities, smaller cities especially, are taking their 911 systems and they're turning them over to AI. So you get a voice that sounds like a real person and you start talking and... They'll kind of follow the conversation, but if it gets too quick or too fast or maybe you're too emotional, it's not going to be able to keep up and that people are worried about that. But there are other cities who are using AI to direct your call. Right. Because they're getting a large volume of calls and that kind of thing. And I was just imagining what is talking to AI going to do if you call 911? It's an emergency, isn't it? I can't do that. It's often not an emergency. And the reason New Orleans started to do this is because, bunch of people, when there's an accident at an intersection, something like that, excuse me, lots of people report it, you know. Everybody said, well, I need to call 911. And so they just avalanche calls about this same accident. So if it's about an accident, you can put the location in there. Pardon me. Well, we found, we actually got some audio from the New Orleans system if you called 911, the AI. So I thought you might want to hear it. Yeah.

Hello and welcome to the police department rescue phone. If you know the name of the felony being committed, press one. To choose from a list of felonies, press two. If you are being murdered or are calling from a rotary phone, please stay on the line. You have selected regicide. If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press one. Seems like it's going pretty well. Yeah, I think it's going all right. But why is that any different than if you call 911 and you talk to a machine? You talk to AI. Good question. I mean, if you're, you know, if you're upside down in the car that's on fire, you don't want to talk to AI. No, I want to talk to a person. What is your condition now? I'm upside down and a caller. What's your position? And they switch you to a regular... human operating as soon as they realize as soon as it's basically for multiple recordings of the same accident yeah but for anything else you know crime or robbery or anything like that which they got plenty of in new Orleans yeah then they shifted over to a real human dispatcher all right unless that human dispatcher is being robbed at the time which could be a problem you call for that yeah Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you make it through. 1%. That's all I need, Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.