February 27, 2025 • 34 mins
Gene Hackman’s death and body of work
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Because grimness together. This is your morning show with Michael
O'Dell Choino.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Did you really start with buckleet?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I hope you're happy now, but that this was the
wrong day to do.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh oh wow? Was Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We got like three big deaths today, but he never
played Bucklee?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well no, But.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Am I the only one paying attention anymore?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You get us after the hour.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Good morning you nippy talk ups all the way until
till it was tough, and I need to be sure
I'm taking this one hard.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Gene Hackman is hand. You know, I don't know what
most people would say. Women would say Meryl Street, men
would say al Pacino, Robert de Niro No. My entire life,
Gene Hackman has been my favorite actor, and at ninety
five years old. You know what's strange about this is
not that Gene Hackman is gone at ninety five years old.
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What strange is the the circumstances in Santa Fe. Gene Hackman,
along with his wife and his dog were all found
dead and then the police say no foul play is suspected. Well,
that would suggest one of two things. You brought up
carbon monoxide. Sometimes what this means is we had an
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instant I try not to do it. I'll never forget.
The spokesperson for Franklin Police handled this so beautifully. They serve,
they protect, and then they and protect our souls. Just
an amazing police department we have. But anyway, it was
a sad, sad story. It was a child born in
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the most severe chronic pain, and this kid lived I
think it was like fifteen sixteen years screaming in pain,
and nobody could solve it, nobody could ease it. And finally,
you can only imagine there's no greater love on earth
than a mother and a son. And this mother came
to conclusion the only thing I can do to help
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ease his pain is to take his life. And so
she took his life and then her own and they
went to heaven together, was her note. And so you know,
when you do a news story, everybody wants they want
some answers, and so that influenced me. And how when
they do that. When you hear something like all three
were found it including the dog. The dog makes you
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think maybe carbon monoxide it really does or something else
they decided to all go together.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's a strange surrounding in the passing of Gene Hackman
after ninety five years, but there's nothing strange about recapping
I think one of the greatest careers in Hollywood. In fact,
Redd never does this. Red got interactive with the audience at.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
A show prep.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You know, I think it'd be a great question to
ask everybody using the talkback, what is your favorite Gene
Hackman movie?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
For me, you know, Bonning Clyde, you'd have to start with, right,
I mean French Connection. There are a lot the two
that he got the oscars for. I think most of
us pretty quickly get to Hoosiers, don't we Beside an
adventure He basically screamed through the entire movie. You want me, Lord,
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That's what I would do if I had to hang
on to a burning hot pipe, knowing I'm going to
follow to my death, I'd scream a little bit. But
I think you know the firm Hoosiers. I'm gonna say this,
and it's going to probably strike people very odd, but
I mean, I love this movie. I think this movie
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might be one of my favorite sports The Replacements that
was a classic, and he played the coach of the
Replacements and he was terrific.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But I mean that moment in Hoosiers. I love you, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I mean, so if you want to use the talk
back button and share what your favorite Gene Hackman movie is.
Roy o'neili is our national correspondent, and I know Ory
emailed me. We really don't know much. There is something strange.
I mean, it's not odd for a ninety five year
old to die. That's a long life and an amazing
fifty plus year career with two oscars. But finding out
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that he was found dead, his wife was found dead,
even the dog was found dead, makes you think carbon
monoxide or something else. But no, faul play is the
only thing they're really releasing, right right.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
That's all we know so far that you found the
bodies during a welfare check yesterday afternoon there in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, And as you said, they indicated that there
were no signs of foul play. But to find both
adults and the dog dead is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If it's not carbon monoxide, then it looks like they
decided to all go together or something. I don't know, right, Yeah,
it's been a lot of things, I guess, But did
you have a favorite? I mean I brought up replacements,
and that's an odd one to bring up. People bring
up the Firm, Posidon Adventure, Bonnie and Clyde, the French connection.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, Crimson Tide, Crimson Tide. He was great.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
It was bretting everything, right, I mean, in the firm,
he stole the firm from Tom Cruise and the bird Cage.
Bird Cage was great when he plays just a completely
out of There is a senator by the way, that
I was very close with. I won't mention the name,
and I swear he was portraying him.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
He brings up rush Limbaugh, Purple Mountains, Majesty.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Uh. Yeah, the bird Cage, I forgot about it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I mean, single handedly, most people would say de Niro,
al Pacino, I don't know what they would say. Hands
down for me, Gene Hackman was the favorite actor of
my life Lex Luthor, Lex Luthor, Superman. Yeah, I mean
we could go on and what a terrific actor, what
a tremendous loss today, all.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right, Amazon's guy for Low's for so long. That's true.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He was, and just you know, kind of I don't
know when he retired, it was about twenty maybe twenty
years ago, and then just kind of every now and
then he.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Had his last Yeah, IMDb had his last credit two
thousand and four for Welcome to Mooseport with Ray Romano.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, that wasn't a bad movie. But yeah, then he
just kind of went into obscurity and retirement. And then
every now and then you'd get pictures of him and
you're like, oh, wow, he's old. But all right, and
Gene Hackman is dead at the age of ninety five.
Sad sad day.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Amazon has unveiled a revamping of Alexa.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, it's got a lot more AI involved a. Alexa
Plus is the very clever name. Now here's the good news.
You don't have to buy a new device. Now there
are some devices that will work better on but you
don't need to buy anything new. However, to use the service,
it's twenty bucks a month. Unless you're an Amazon Prime member,
then it's already included. This thing can book your Uber,
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it can get your food delivered, it can make travel reservations,
even combine you know, read through and edit your emails
for you.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So that's an Alexa plus. If you don't have Amazon Prime,
she's a twenty dollars upgrade.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So I think it's the old Brady bunch.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Excuse me, but remember when the old Brady bunch they
had Alice, and then Alice they did they took her
for granted, Alice left and then they got k you
know it. Things seem like they should have given her
a new name. You know, well that was Alexa. I'm
now Josephine or something. But all right, so the but
we think it's more interactive and she can get more
done for you. Correct, I'll have to give her a
try or he's going to be back a little bit
(07:50):
later on. We're going to talk about the United States
less Christian than the past. Well, yeah, if you go
through the numbers, uh, Basically, there was a sixteen percent
fall from two thousand and seven to roughly when you
start getting to the twenty twenties, things have kind of
leveled off. Probably the bigger question is what's caused the
leveling off, But we'll go through that with Rory next hour.
(08:10):
Jeff Bezos is overhauling the op ed section of the
Washington Post. This is that continued movement, all right, and
I think it relates to the Christianity numbers too. I
think there is an awakening. There's a process of a
cultural awakening going on. If you go back to the
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Jesus Movement, you know, you're roughly looking at about fifty
years ago, so things happen in fifty year cycles. I
do think there's a cultural awakening, a cultural awakening. Did
in the Jesus movement lead to a spiritual revival? Will
this cultural awakening lead to a spiritual revival? Because what
you're really acknowledging is what we've been living isn't working.
(08:56):
So we know that we know that, we know that wokeness,
political correctness, new tolerance, all this stuff, it's nonsense. That
doesn't necessarily mean you know what the truth is. So
you know that one particular party only knows how to
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recklessly spend and recklessly abandon America first and security, and
ultimately it leads to lack of security and no prosperity.
So you get that, but you don't get what a
republic is versus a mob rual democracy, what a creator
at the centerpiece of a republic and liberty and freedom
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that you haven't connected those dots yet. I don't know
if Red felt this way going through all of these
Christianity numbers, and I do them every year, But that's
kind of the sense I got. The fall of Christianity
has stopped falling, and it is leveled off, and we
know where in some kind of a cultural awakening, which
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is often followed by a spiritual revival. Now that we
know what is false, what is true? I suspect it's
not a noster del jorno. It's a prayer. Actually, I
suspect these numbers. Now we'll start creeping back towards seventy percent,
but we're a long way from eighty six percent. There's
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no question this particular poll every year would show you
as a nation under God, indivisible, with liberty that comes
from God and justice that comes from God. You abandon God,
that all starts to fall. And it dropped precipitously. So
this was a country that abandoned God, his way, his
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truth in his life. And the numbers bearted out consistently
over twenty something years. Now we're seeing it stop. It's
leveling off. Now there's still because I bet he's dying
to open his mic and say this, there's still some
troubling numbers on the young end, and very troubling, as
Gene Hackman and eventually me and maybe then read and
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maybe then my.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Wife dies that generation.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Who knows what these numbers could be even at their
present level. So this was once a Christian nation abandoning
Christianity for pluralism, universalism, and moral relativism that hasn't quite
been dealt with yet. Speaking of not quite dealt with
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what's left of the matrix, my favorite poll today, Erasmussen poll.
Now you may have and I think it was roughly
in this survey twenty five percent, but you may have
twenty to thirty percent of America that is in panic mode.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They're trapped in the matrix.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They're only reading things that other people that think like
them read, watching things that other people that think like them,
watch and they have convinced themselves that either Don trumpere
Elon Musk is the Antichrist and Doge is the mark
of the Beast. They're frightened the fall of our democracy.
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The country's on fire. And then there's seventy percent who
are upset at what it's showing, the waste, the corruption.
So to some degree, what's left of the matrix is
the headline and what the rest of us are seeing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Are you kidding me? We've been wasting our money this long.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You're mad about who's revealing it and not the waste
it's been happening. We have one chance to live today, Thursday,
February twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Favorite Gene Hackman movie was The French.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Connection when he walked in the bar with all the
gangs and says.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Put your hands on the bar. Popey here, That's what
I was just going to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
CONFUSRS was his best, if not his best.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think Black Blue Door.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh that's the Home Office, of course, my wife would
do Superman. Come on, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
We've been all over this before. Their top player is boiled.
Number fifteen. The average is about.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Twenty points a game.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Buddy, you got to stick right with him. No inside penetration,
shut down those passing lanes, and you've got to play
tough off those boards and gain their height advantage.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Is time of day before.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I'll get agree you.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Okay, we'll went past big speech time. I want to
thank you for the last few months. It's been very
special for me. Anybody have anything they want to say.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Yeah, let's win.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Listen for.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
All the small schools never had a chance to get here. Okay,
I want to win for my dad. Let's win for
coach who got us here. Thank you. Find the way.
The prayer is classic with God of Heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is all one.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To deliver with a great.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Multitude or a small company, for the victory of battle standards,
not in the multitude of hosts. But strength cometh from heaven.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Then the other breacher just says this, and David put
his hand in the bag and took out a stone
and slung it. Instruck the Philistine on the head and
he fell to the ground.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Amen.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
Good for anybody that played sports. Here's the best line
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Gene Hackman gone at the age of ninety five. I think,
you know, I have one of the strangest things about Hoosiers.
I mean, there's all the different storylines that are going on,
and it is a David and Goliath story, but I
like that the movie begins with and ends.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
With the picture in the gym.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I went to Keio Academy and it was a gym
that looked just like that, and there were pictures just
like that. And unfortunately we're still wearing uniforms just like that,
even in the seventies. But remember that, that to me
was the take away way lesson from the movie Hoosiers.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Not anything as possible. Not We're stronger as a team
than an individual.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
It's that every picture you pass from the past are
real lives, real detailed lives, real champions, real victims, and
a lot of life and is still black and white.
Gene Hackman, Hoosiers. That's my favorite. What's yours? Use the
talkback button. Top five stories of the day, straight ahead
as your morning show continues.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
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Our Lord, twenty twenty five. If you're just waking up,
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Speaker 4 (17:12):
The Pentagon says transgendered service members will be separated from
the military unless they receive an exception. The head of
the National Transportation Safety Board is blaming the pilot. Apparently
red got to this guy. He's blaming the pilot of
the private jet for the near collision at midway. He
(17:32):
clearly did not speak English. Is that the politically correct
way I can say it?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
And didn't seem to understand English, wasn't responding, just started
crossing the runway.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We knew this was coming.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Supreme Court is temporarily pausing a court order that required
the Trump administration to release foreign aid funding by midnight,
and Hamas has released the remains of four final Israeli
hostages in exchange for prisoners. Can you imagine if Israel
just started killing all the prisoners and returning their bodies instead.
I mean, there should be extreme outrage for what we
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knew all along. Hamas simply didn't have the hostages to return.
That's just some of the top stories waking up. And
we always talk about deaths, they seem to happen in threes. Well,
guess what the three happened at once. So we had
first the news of Michelle Trakenberg, who I never saw
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any of these, so I'm like the worst person to
do it. I never saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've
never seen Gossip Girl. I know this registered with my kids.
I think she had a liver transplant. We believe this
is complications from the liver transplant. We'll have more on
that coming up. We talked about Gene Hackman and ninety
five years old is a long life, but it's the
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way in Santa Fe. They've found Gene Hackman, along with
his wife and the family dog all dead, but no
foul play.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Is being sensed.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Everybody is kind of well right now, Hoosiers is the
leading I think because I picked Hoosier's. Actually I said replacement,
but you can't. I mean, Hoosier's is the classic, but
Hoosier's replacement. We went through the list during the break.
It's just the more you do it. Birdcage was the
one Rory brought up. He's spectacular playing the US Senator
Cotton Scandal.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Superman is Lex Luthor, Superman, French Connection, Bone Clyde, nobody's
saying Bonnie and Clyde. But behind him an enemy line,
behind enemy lines was great, Enemy signed adventure, Enemy of
the State was a great one. And then what was
the one down in New Orleans where they were fixing
the Jury's with John Cusick, Oh, Runaway Jury, And he
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was great in that, but he's great in everything.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Gene Hackman was my favorite actor in my lifetime. I
think it was the greatest actor. I saw al Pacino's
not far behind, but Gene Hackman was just terrific. And
people are chiming in on what their favorite Gene Hackman
movie was using the talk back button.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But there is a.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Third Oh yeah, a third death today.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Would you like to do your song? Yeah? Yeah, I
would you ready.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Would most people would have started with the chorus. Robert
John topped the charts in October of nineteen seventy nine
with Sad Eyes, a single that tied a record by
taking twenty.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
It took twenty weeks to get to the top notch
bot of number one. It was a slow climb for
Robert John, and then he spent three big weeks at
number one in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Nine with Shad Eyes.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Chad Eyes, I had after seanduizand left me for the
guy she was working with at the movie. But enough
about me. In nineteen seventy nine, this was my favorite.
I don't you know. It's a remake, by the way,
which gives me.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
A gives me a chance to bring up deals to
that guy. There we go.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
But Robert John did the remake of the Tokens hit
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and he may have perfected I
always thinking that this stupid He's Ventura, where he's got
all the pets of the refrigerators.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Penguin comes up.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Robert John passed away at the age of seventy nine.
You've never heard his version, never heard that version? Well,
a lot of people know the Token's version. And then
a lot of people don't know this. Uh, Neil Saidaka
was an original member of the Tokens.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No kidding, hello everybody, it's he's a big fan of that.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
My morning show is your morning show with my little.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Michael Gno.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
All I can tell you is I was. I was
very very ill when I did that. Neil Sidaka and
the Tokens. There's the original version. I actually think I
think Robert John's better, the better goal, give that listen.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I mean, I didn't want to, you know, leave the
Tokens out.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I don't want to diminish well, mister John's life that
you lily had two hits and one was a remake.
But yeah, we had to not we have to wait
this time. We had three all at once. Gene Hackman
gone at the age of ninety five, Robert John at
seventy nine, and Michelle Trackenberger I believe was thirty nine
years old.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Paul passed away.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
All right, top stories are coming up in a minute,
one that I just kind of want to enhance a
little bit. Everything's kind of dying at once, right, and
nobody really knows what to do. There are some that
are fighting it or trying to make outrage out of it.
But you know, then there's MSNBC that's like, look, no
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one's watching. We gotta change. People got to be fired,
and I don't care what color they are. Now you
have Jeff Bezos, he's overalling the Washington Post, in particular
the op ed section, instead of just being propaganda of
an agenda, a worldview, or a critic of anyone of
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opposing worldview. No, we need to start focusing on liberties,
free markets, the issues themselves. I have been saying for
years the death of journalism because I spent twenty five
years talking about bias and teaching people about bias.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I wanted them to know, do.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Not believe any Even going back to Walter Kronkit Now,
I think Walter Cronkite did a good job of forcing
himself to be objective, making objectivity the goal, but he
was far left. Then somewhere in the mid seventies to
late seventies, it starts getting in on the air, and
then through the eighties through the nineties into the turn
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of the century, it just becomes common and out there
for everyone to see. But no one's acknowledging, and not
just the subtleties of well, wait a minute, I'm pro life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No you're not. Your anti abortion says who.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Not anti abortion, I'm pro life, and because I'm pro life,
for the voice and the life of the unborn. Yes,
but we are from the pro abortion side. But remember
they were never pro abortion. They were pro choice. But
you didn't get to be pro life, you had to
be anti abortion. I mean, there was the subtleties of bias.
And then something happened around twenty sixteen in the Hillary
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Clinton race, and I said, this is the moment, just
like a doctor calls it, call it twenty two oh
six time of death. That was the death of journalism. Really,
since twenty sixteen, you've been experiencing the decomposition of journalism,
the rot and now you're seeing people starting to take actions.
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Why because there's no one left that Johnny Mathis had
a great song. Too much, too little, too late. I
think that's the case for MSNBC. I think that's the
case for CNN, and I'm sorry that is the case
for The Washington Post of the New York Times. Because
everyone's just kind of moved on to digital and podcasting. Heck,
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even the governor of California. That's probably one of Read's
greatest war cries of the day.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Everybody hates Doze and Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They're busy and Donald Trump in this cabinet, they're busy
doing the government work. Meanwhile in California, where their state's
falling apart and has been for decades, he's starting a podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The dumbest thing Kamala Harris did was not going on
Joe Rogan. And now the dumbest thing that Gavin Newsom's
doing is he's trying to start and be the next
Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You can't make this stuff up. Waking up.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't care what anybody's doing.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
All right, top five stories of the day if you're
just waking up. President Trump touched on numerous topics during
his first cabinet meeting. I had this conversation with Read
off the year, and I want to do it for
you on the air. You can't do justice, and we're
going to try and Sounds of the Day, but it's
going to fail miserably.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We can't do justice to it.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I would have to play you an hour and Joe
Biden went a year without a cabinet meeting. Can you
imagine that, how dysfunctional was government? But there's a video
of one of his cabinet meetings and Joe's sitting there
reading from a notebook someone's prepared, probably Podesta, stumbling through that,
and then he turns the meeting immediately over to his wife.
The First Lady's at the head of the table. So
(26:46):
the internet was a buzz yesterday. Wait, let me get
this straight. Everybody's and by the way, I don't want
to do this, but I called it with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
He would not be sitting. He would be standing, which.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Is often the case for people that serve at the
pleasure of the president.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They don't have it. They're not a cabinet member, they
don't have a seat at the table.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Now, the First Lady, of course, had a seat at
the head of the table in Joe Biden's. But you
would have to listen to the entire hour of a
Joe Biden cabinet meeting and then listen to the entire
hour of yesterday to really soak it in the difference.
There's no way to grab a sound here or there.
Beginning in prayer with something the level of professionalism and
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laser focus, and level of achievement already and determination for
future achievement. It was breathtaking, but there were numerous topics
that came up. In the first cabinet meeting of the
second term of the president, he had the full complement
of his cabinet.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Mark Mayfield has details.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
On Wednesday, Trump said his administration is working towards an
end to the Russia Ukraine War and also mentioned tariffs
against China that will soon take effect. The President promised
any cuts to the federal government will not impact social
security or medicaid. He also praise the efforts of Elon Musk,
who was in attendance at the meeting, to cut government
fraud and waste.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Egg prices have predicted to increase by forty one percent
this year. That's according to a report Replete Replace the Lee.
That's according to a report released this week by the
Egg Department.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Brian Shook Me All Morning Long has more.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
That has some looking to start harvesting their own with
backyard chickens. Gary Joyner with the Texas Farm Bureau says
they're not cheap. You have to factor in the chicken feed,
the cost of the coop and all the time it
takes to both harvest the eggs and clean up the mess.
Put that all together, and he says it might be
cheaper to just tidy at the store.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Well, there's the cost of the coop and the scooping
of the poop.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, give me a dozen of Egglund's best.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
The nation's top health official weight in Wednesday on the
growing measles outbreak that has claimed the life of a child.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Tammy Tree Elo has more Health.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
And Human Service as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Set
of fish are following the measles upidemic every day, However,
he said, the number of cases, hospitalizations, and now even
a death aren't necessarily causes for a panic.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's not unusual if the beasils outrage every year.
Speaker 13 (29:11):
The death was confirmed in Texas, where an outbreak mainly
among the unvaccinated, has been in the news for weeks.
It was the first death attributed to the highly contagious
disease in the US since twenty fifteen. Seven other states
have reported measles cases so far this year, including Alaska, California, Georgia,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Island. I'm
Tammage RHEO.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Actress Michelle Tractenberger tracton Berg, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gossip Girl fame, has been found dead in New York City.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Lisa Taylor reports.
Speaker 14 (29:40):
The star was discovered Wednesday morning, unconscious inside her luxury
Columbus Circle apartment in Midtown Manhattan. A representative confirmed her
death and said her family is requesting privacy at this time.
Sources say her death does not appear suspicious, but a
cause of death has yet to be detailed. Tractenberg began
acting as a child, with a big role in the
nineteen nineties Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
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She later made her film debut in Harriet the Spy
and as an adult. Besides starring in the TV shows
Buffy and Gossip Girls, she made a slew of guest
star appearances on primetime series like Law and Order, Weeds,
Criminal Minds, and Six Feet Under, where she had a
recurring role of spoiled pop stars Celeste creepy.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Colin Ferrell just left me another creepy message.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Can't we do something about that?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
You know? Legally.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Trachtenberg had once said her favorite show was House and
asked one of the producers who was a friend of hers,
to be a guest star on an episode. Michelle Trachtenberg
was thirty nine.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Ainlesa Taylor Soffer not by Sneakers Onto thee an NBA
action of your morning show interest. The Pistons beat the
Celtics one seventeen ninety seven, Thunder upt the Nets one
twenty nine one, trail Blazers one over, the Whiz Clippers
beat the Bulls one twenty two, one seventeen, and the
Kings won by seventeen over the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Jazz only one on ice. The Kings lost in overtime
three two to the Canucks. Birthdays today, have to do
this for my sister in law. Singer Josh Grobin is
forty four years old. More on my sister in law's
obsession with Josh Grobin later in the show. NFL Hall
of Fame tight End Tony Gonzalez forty nine years old,
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one of the greatest jockeys of all time, Kent Desormo
fifty five years old today and Farmer Laker and he
was a great one.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
From North Carolina. James Worthy sixty four years old.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Today, this is your morning show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Is it possible for COVID to come back after four days? Yeah,
I mean it can linger on for a month or
two and like just out of the book, you can't
handle anything.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Lose your energy.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Well, yesterday, you know, everything was fine, and I'm getting
a lot of stuff done because I was down for
a week. I mean, I'm plowing through it to do list.
I met the Kia dealer getting Andrea's car service. That
I met the Mercedes dealer getting mine serviced. By the way,
my own car won't die. I so want that car
to die so I can get a nice, young, new
(32:02):
hot one. And she's just healthy as can be.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
You know how they do that one hundred and twenty
seven point diagnostic check And I'm like, come on, something
to be red, give me a reason to trade there.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
In everything was in the green. And so then I'm like,
you know, because how do you do that? You don't
want to know? You would never do this at your
wife's doctor, Hey, doc, just just a second alone if
we could any chance. She's going to die soon. But
that's kind of what I did with the service tech.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I said, what do you think of this thing? Could
something break any minute? This one?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
No, because I got my eye on a sweet, new
hot young you know, a little a little Cadillac suv
or a new Mercedes Suv. I had the same conversation
about televisions. I have a TV in my bonus room.
I just wanted to die and go away. I have
a refrigerator and it won't It won't die.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
It's red.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Red's probably want right now, use the talk back button.
What do you want to die in your house?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Give us a call.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
No, but I have a refrigerator that's like that. This
thing is twenty four years old. I thank god it
was stainless, deal in modern looking when we got it.
I mean, it doesn't look like an eye sore. It's
not like it's the Brady Bunch refrigerator still keeps the
cold things cool. But I mean I want the new
one where you could open one door. It's just your drinks, right.
Or it has a computer that can tell you. You know,
that's what Facebook marketplace is for. Sell that sucker. It
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won't die, and then you know, then every time I
do the same thing, I'll be at Low's or Home
Depot I'm trying to spread out my plugs. But and
I'll be like, you know, I got this refrigerator, it
just won't die.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Just keep it.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You see this one here and he points at this
five thousand dollars one that'd be.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Dead in a year.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, Oh they're great TVs, but you don't want that refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
And I'm like, okay, I'll keep it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
So yeah, I was at the Mercedes dealer and the
guy's just like, man, I don't see you having a
problem for another one hundred thousand miles. Really, I couldn't
find an excuse to get rid of this car. But yeah,
I know what is gravity like pushing up? You know
how that feels?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Why am I all of a sudden weak and I
can't walk? Sure? And then today I woke up all
I feel like last week well, and death is also
you don't.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Think it's gonna go Gene Hackman, Robert John, Michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And me by the end of this show, do you well?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
The first hour certainly died, and it died a slow,
awful death.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Did you really start with buckleet?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I hope you're happy now, but that this was the
wrong day to do.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh oh wow? Was Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We got like three big deaths today, but he never
played Bucklee?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well no, But.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Am I the only one paying attention anymore?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You get us after the hour.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Good morning you nippy talk ups all the way until
till it was tough, and I need to be sure
I'm taking this one hard.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Gene Hackman is hand. You know, I don't know what
most people would say. Women would say Meryl Street, men
would say al Pacino, Robert de Niro No. My entire life,
Gene Hackman has been my favorite actor, and at ninety
five years old. You know what's strange about this is
not that Gene Hackman is gone at ninety five years old.
(01:22):
What strange is the the circumstances in Santa Fe. Gene Hackman,
along with his wife and his dog were all found
dead and then the police say no foul play is suspected. Well,
that would suggest one of two things. You brought up
carbon monoxide. Sometimes what this means is we had an
(01:49):
instant I try not to do it. I'll never forget.
The spokesperson for Franklin Police handled this so beautifully. They serve,
they protect, and then they and protect our souls. Just
an amazing police department we have. But anyway, it was
a sad, sad story. It was a child born in
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the most severe chronic pain, and this kid lived I
think it was like fifteen sixteen years screaming in pain,
and nobody could solve it, nobody could ease it. And finally,
you can only imagine there's no greater love on earth
than a mother and a son. And this mother came
to conclusion the only thing I can do to help
(02:32):
ease his pain is to take his life. And so
she took his life and then her own and they
went to heaven together, was her note. And so you know,
when you do a news story, everybody wants they want
some answers, and so that influenced me. And how when
they do that. When you hear something like all three
were found it including the dog. The dog makes you
(02:54):
think maybe carbon monoxide it really does or something else
they decided to all go together.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's a strange surrounding in the passing of Gene Hackman
after ninety five years, but there's nothing strange about recapping
I think one of the greatest careers in Hollywood. In fact,
Redd never does this. Red got interactive with the audience at.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
A show prep.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You know, I think it'd be a great question to
ask everybody using the talkback, what is your favorite Gene
Hackman movie?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
For me, you know, Bonning Clyde, you'd have to start with, right,
I mean French Connection. There are a lot the two
that he got the oscars for. I think most of
us pretty quickly get to Hoosiers, don't we Beside an
adventure He basically screamed through the entire movie. You want me, Lord,
(03:45):
That's what I would do if I had to hang
on to a burning hot pipe, knowing I'm going to
follow to my death, I'd scream a little bit. But
I think you know the firm Hoosiers. I'm gonna say this,
and it's going to probably strike people very odd, but
I mean, I love this movie. I think this movie
(04:05):
might be one of my favorite sports The Replacements that
was a classic, and he played the coach of the
Replacements and he was terrific.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But I mean that moment in Hoosiers. I love you, guys.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I mean, so if you want to use the talk
back button and share what your favorite Gene Hackman movie is.
Roy o'neili is our national correspondent, and I know Ory
emailed me. We really don't know much. There is something strange.
I mean, it's not odd for a ninety five year
old to die. That's a long life and an amazing
fifty plus year career with two oscars. But finding out
(04:41):
that he was found dead, his wife was found dead,
even the dog was found dead, makes you think carbon
monoxide or something else. But no, faul play is the
only thing they're really releasing, right right.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
That's all we know so far that you found the
bodies during a welfare check yesterday afternoon there in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, And as you said, they indicated that there
were no signs of foul play. But to find both
adults and the dog dead is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If it's not carbon monoxide, then it looks like they
decided to all go together or something. I don't know, right, Yeah,
it's been a lot of things, I guess, But did
you have a favorite? I mean I brought up replacements,
and that's an odd one to bring up. People bring
up the Firm, Posidon Adventure, Bonnie and Clyde, the French connection.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, Crimson Tide, Crimson Tide. He was great.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
It was bretting everything, right, I mean, in the firm,
he stole the firm from Tom Cruise and the bird Cage.
Bird Cage was great when he plays just a completely
out of There is a senator by the way, that
I was very close with. I won't mention the name,
and I swear he was portraying him.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
He brings up rush Limbaugh, Purple Mountains, Majesty.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Uh. Yeah, the bird Cage, I forgot about it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I mean, single handedly, most people would say de Niro,
al Pacino, I don't know what they would say. Hands
down for me, Gene Hackman was the favorite actor of
my life Lex Luthor, Lex Luthor, Superman. Yeah, I mean
we could go on and what a terrific actor, what
a tremendous loss today, all.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right, Amazon's guy for Low's for so long. That's true.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He was, and just you know, kind of I don't
know when he retired, it was about twenty maybe twenty
years ago, and then just kind of every now and
then he.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Had his last Yeah, IMDb had his last credit two
thousand and four for Welcome to Mooseport with Ray Romano.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, that wasn't a bad movie. But yeah, then he
just kind of went into obscurity and retirement. And then
every now and then you'd get pictures of him and
you're like, oh, wow, he's old. But all right, and
Gene Hackman is dead at the age of ninety five.
Sad sad day.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Amazon has unveiled a revamping of Alexa.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, it's got a lot more AI involved a. Alexa
Plus is the very clever name. Now here's the good news.
You don't have to buy a new device. Now there
are some devices that will work better on but you
don't need to buy anything new. However, to use the service,
it's twenty bucks a month. Unless you're an Amazon Prime member,
then it's already included. This thing can book your Uber,
(07:13):
it can get your food delivered, it can make travel reservations,
even combine you know, read through and edit your emails
for you.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So that's an Alexa plus. If you don't have Amazon Prime,
she's a twenty dollars upgrade.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So I think it's the old Brady bunch.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Excuse me, but remember when the old Brady bunch they
had Alice, and then Alice they did they took her
for granted, Alice left and then they got k you
know it. Things seem like they should have given her
a new name. You know, well that was Alexa. I'm
now Josephine or something. But all right, so the but
we think it's more interactive and she can get more
done for you. Correct, I'll have to give her a
try or he's going to be back a little bit
(07:50):
later on. We're going to talk about the United States
less Christian than the past. Well, yeah, if you go
through the numbers, uh, Basically, there was a sixteen percent
fall from two thousand and seven to roughly when you
start getting to the twenty twenties, things have kind of
leveled off. Probably the bigger question is what's caused the
leveling off, But we'll go through that with Rory next hour.
(08:10):
Jeff Bezos is overhauling the op ed section of the
Washington Post. This is that continued movement, all right, and
I think it relates to the Christianity numbers too. I
think there is an awakening. There's a process of a
cultural awakening going on. If you go back to the
(08:31):
Jesus Movement, you know, you're roughly looking at about fifty
years ago, so things happen in fifty year cycles. I
do think there's a cultural awakening, a cultural awakening. Did
in the Jesus movement lead to a spiritual revival? Will
this cultural awakening lead to a spiritual revival? Because what
you're really acknowledging is what we've been living isn't working.
(08:56):
So we know that we know that, we know that wokeness,
political correctness, new tolerance, all this stuff, it's nonsense. That
doesn't necessarily mean you know what the truth is. So
you know that one particular party only knows how to
(09:16):
recklessly spend and recklessly abandon America first and security, and
ultimately it leads to lack of security and no prosperity.
So you get that, but you don't get what a
republic is versus a mob rual democracy, what a creator
at the centerpiece of a republic and liberty and freedom
(09:40):
that you haven't connected those dots yet. I don't know
if Red felt this way going through all of these
Christianity numbers, and I do them every year, But that's
kind of the sense I got. The fall of Christianity
has stopped falling, and it is leveled off, and we
know where in some kind of a cultural awakening, which
(10:02):
is often followed by a spiritual revival. Now that we
know what is false, what is true? I suspect it's
not a noster del jorno. It's a prayer. Actually, I
suspect these numbers. Now we'll start creeping back towards seventy percent,
but we're a long way from eighty six percent. There's
(10:23):
no question this particular poll every year would show you
as a nation under God, indivisible, with liberty that comes
from God and justice that comes from God. You abandon God,
that all starts to fall. And it dropped precipitously. So
this was a country that abandoned God, his way, his
(10:44):
truth in his life. And the numbers bearted out consistently
over twenty something years. Now we're seeing it stop. It's
leveling off. Now there's still because I bet he's dying
to open his mic and say this, there's still some
troubling numbers on the young end, and very troubling, as
Gene Hackman and eventually me and maybe then read and
(11:09):
maybe then my.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Wife dies that generation.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Who knows what these numbers could be even at their
present level. So this was once a Christian nation abandoning
Christianity for pluralism, universalism, and moral relativism that hasn't quite
been dealt with yet. Speaking of not quite dealt with
(11:32):
what's left of the matrix, my favorite poll today, Erasmussen poll.
Now you may have and I think it was roughly
in this survey twenty five percent, but you may have
twenty to thirty percent of America that is in panic mode.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They're trapped in the matrix.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They're only reading things that other people that think like
them read, watching things that other people that think like them,
watch and they have convinced themselves that either Don trumpere
Elon Musk is the Antichrist and Doge is the mark
of the Beast. They're frightened the fall of our democracy.
(12:11):
The country's on fire. And then there's seventy percent who
are upset at what it's showing, the waste, the corruption.
So to some degree, what's left of the matrix is
the headline and what the rest of us are seeing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Are you kidding me? We've been wasting our money this long.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You're mad about who's revealing it and not the waste
it's been happening. We have one chance to live today, Thursday,
February twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Favorite Gene Hackman movie was The French.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Connection when he walked in the bar with all the
gangs and says.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Put your hands on the bar. Popey here, That's what
I was just going to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
CONFUSRS was his best, if not his best.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think Black Blue Door.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh that's the Home Office, of course, my wife would
do Superman. Come on, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
We've been all over this before. Their top player is boiled.
Number fifteen. The average is about.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Twenty points a game.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Buddy, you got to stick right with him. No inside penetration,
shut down those passing lanes, and you've got to play
tough off those boards and gain their height advantage.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Is time of day before.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I'll get agree you.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Okay, we'll went past big speech time. I want to
thank you for the last few months. It's been very
special for me. Anybody have anything they want to say.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Yeah, let's win.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Listen for.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
All the small schools never had a chance to get here. Okay,
I want to win for my dad. Let's win for
coach who got us here. Thank you. Find the way.
The prayer is classic with God of Heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is all one.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To deliver with a great.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Multitude or a small company, for the victory of battle standards,
not in the multitude of hosts. But strength cometh from heaven.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Then the other breacher just says this, and David put
his hand in the bag and took out a stone
and slung it. Instruck the Philistine on the head and
he fell to the ground.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Amen.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
Good for anybody that played sports. Here's the best line
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Gene Hackman gone at the age of ninety five. I think,
you know, I have one of the strangest things about Hoosiers.
I mean, there's all the different storylines that are going on,
and it is a David and Goliath story, but I
like that the movie begins with and ends.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
With the picture in the gym.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I went to Keio Academy and it was a gym
that looked just like that, and there were pictures just
like that. And unfortunately we're still wearing uniforms just like that,
even in the seventies. But remember that, that to me
was the take away way lesson from the movie Hoosiers.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Not anything as possible. Not We're stronger as a team
than an individual.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
It's that every picture you pass from the past are
real lives, real detailed lives, real champions, real victims, and
a lot of life and is still black and white.
Gene Hackman, Hoosiers. That's my favorite. What's yours? Use the
talkback button. Top five stories of the day, straight ahead
as your morning show continues.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
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is your Morning show with Michael Del Giorno.
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(17:07):
Our Lord, twenty twenty five. If you're just waking up,
this is your morning show. I'm Michael del Jornim.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
The Pentagon says transgendered service members will be separated from
the military unless they receive an exception. The head of
the National Transportation Safety Board is blaming the pilot. Apparently
red got to this guy. He's blaming the pilot of
the private jet for the near collision at midway. He
(17:32):
clearly did not speak English. Is that the politically correct
way I can say it?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
And didn't seem to understand English, wasn't responding, just started
crossing the runway.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We knew this was coming.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Supreme Court is temporarily pausing a court order that required
the Trump administration to release foreign aid funding by midnight,
and Hamas has released the remains of four final Israeli
hostages in exchange for prisoners. Can you imagine if Israel
just started killing all the prisoners and returning their bodies instead.
I mean, there should be extreme outrage for what we
(18:09):
knew all along. Hamas simply didn't have the hostages to return.
That's just some of the top stories waking up. And
we always talk about deaths, they seem to happen in threes. Well,
guess what the three happened at once. So we had
first the news of Michelle Trakenberg, who I never saw
(18:30):
any of these, so I'm like the worst person to
do it. I never saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've
never seen Gossip Girl. I know this registered with my kids.
I think she had a liver transplant. We believe this
is complications from the liver transplant. We'll have more on
that coming up. We talked about Gene Hackman and ninety
five years old is a long life, but it's the
(18:50):
way in Santa Fe. They've found Gene Hackman, along with
his wife and the family dog all dead, but no
foul play.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Is being sensed.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Everybody is kind of well right now, Hoosiers is the
leading I think because I picked Hoosier's. Actually I said replacement,
but you can't. I mean, Hoosier's is the classic, but
Hoosier's replacement. We went through the list during the break.
It's just the more you do it. Birdcage was the
one Rory brought up. He's spectacular playing the US Senator
Cotton Scandal.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Superman is Lex Luthor, Superman, French Connection, Bone Clyde, nobody's
saying Bonnie and Clyde. But behind him an enemy line,
behind enemy lines was great, Enemy signed adventure, Enemy of
the State was a great one. And then what was
the one down in New Orleans where they were fixing
the Jury's with John Cusick, Oh, Runaway Jury, And he
(19:42):
was great in that, but he's great in everything.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Gene Hackman was my favorite actor in my lifetime. I
think it was the greatest actor. I saw al Pacino's
not far behind, but Gene Hackman was just terrific. And
people are chiming in on what their favorite Gene Hackman
movie was using the talk back button.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But there is a.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Third Oh yeah, a third death today.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Would you like to do your song? Yeah? Yeah, I
would you ready.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Would most people would have started with the chorus. Robert
John topped the charts in October of nineteen seventy nine
with Sad Eyes, a single that tied a record by
taking twenty.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
It took twenty weeks to get to the top notch
bot of number one. It was a slow climb for
Robert John, and then he spent three big weeks at
number one in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Nine with Shad Eyes.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Chad Eyes, I had after seanduizand left me for the
guy she was working with at the movie. But enough
about me. In nineteen seventy nine, this was my favorite.
I don't you know. It's a remake, by the way,
which gives me.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
A gives me a chance to bring up deals to
that guy. There we go.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
But Robert John did the remake of the Tokens hit
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and he may have perfected I
always thinking that this stupid He's Ventura, where he's got
all the pets of the refrigerators.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Penguin comes up.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Robert John passed away at the age of seventy nine.
You've never heard his version, never heard that version? Well,
a lot of people know the Token's version. And then
a lot of people don't know this. Uh, Neil Saidaka
was an original member of the Tokens.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No kidding, hello everybody, it's he's a big fan of that.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
My morning show is your morning show with my little.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Michael Gno.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
All I can tell you is I was. I was
very very ill when I did that. Neil Sidaka and
the Tokens. There's the original version. I actually think I
think Robert John's better, the better goal, give that listen.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I mean, I didn't want to, you know, leave the
Tokens out.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I don't want to diminish well, mister John's life that
you lily had two hits and one was a remake.
But yeah, we had to not we have to wait
this time. We had three all at once. Gene Hackman
gone at the age of ninety five, Robert John at
seventy nine, and Michelle Trackenberger I believe was thirty nine
years old.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Paul passed away.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
All right, top stories are coming up in a minute,
one that I just kind of want to enhance a
little bit. Everything's kind of dying at once, right, and
nobody really knows what to do. There are some that
are fighting it or trying to make outrage out of it.
But you know, then there's MSNBC that's like, look, no
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one's watching. We gotta change. People got to be fired,
and I don't care what color they are. Now you
have Jeff Bezos, he's overalling the Washington Post, in particular
the op ed section, instead of just being propaganda of
an agenda, a worldview, or a critic of anyone of
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opposing worldview. No, we need to start focusing on liberties,
free markets, the issues themselves. I have been saying for
years the death of journalism because I spent twenty five
years talking about bias and teaching people about bias.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I wanted them to know, do.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Not believe any Even going back to Walter Kronkit Now,
I think Walter Cronkite did a good job of forcing
himself to be objective, making objectivity the goal, but he
was far left. Then somewhere in the mid seventies to
late seventies, it starts getting in on the air, and
then through the eighties through the nineties into the turn
(23:53):
of the century, it just becomes common and out there
for everyone to see. But no one's acknowledging, and not
just the subtleties of well, wait a minute, I'm pro life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No you're not. Your anti abortion says who.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Not anti abortion, I'm pro life, and because I'm pro life,
for the voice and the life of the unborn. Yes,
but we are from the pro abortion side. But remember
they were never pro abortion. They were pro choice. But
you didn't get to be pro life, you had to
be anti abortion. I mean, there was the subtleties of bias.
And then something happened around twenty sixteen in the Hillary
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Clinton race, and I said, this is the moment, just
like a doctor calls it, call it twenty two oh
six time of death. That was the death of journalism. Really,
since twenty sixteen, you've been experiencing the decomposition of journalism,
the rot and now you're seeing people starting to take actions.
(24:57):
Why because there's no one left that Johnny Mathis had
a great song. Too much, too little, too late. I
think that's the case for MSNBC. I think that's the
case for CNN, and I'm sorry that is the case
for The Washington Post of the New York Times. Because
everyone's just kind of moved on to digital and podcasting. Heck,
(25:17):
even the governor of California. That's probably one of Read's
greatest war cries of the day.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Everybody hates Doze and Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They're busy and Donald Trump in this cabinet, they're busy
doing the government work. Meanwhile in California, where their state's
falling apart and has been for decades, he's starting a podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The dumbest thing Kamala Harris did was not going on
Joe Rogan. And now the dumbest thing that Gavin Newsom's
doing is he's trying to start and be the next
Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You can't make this stuff up. Waking up.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't care what anybody's doing.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
All right, top five stories of the day if you're
just waking up. President Trump touched on numerous topics during
his first cabinet meeting. I had this conversation with Read
off the year, and I want to do it for
you on the air. You can't do justice, and we're
going to try and Sounds of the Day, but it's
going to fail miserably.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We can't do justice to it.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I would have to play you an hour and Joe
Biden went a year without a cabinet meeting. Can you
imagine that, how dysfunctional was government? But there's a video
of one of his cabinet meetings and Joe's sitting there
reading from a notebook someone's prepared, probably Podesta, stumbling through that,
and then he turns the meeting immediately over to his wife.
The First Lady's at the head of the table. So
(26:46):
the internet was a buzz yesterday. Wait, let me get
this straight. Everybody's and by the way, I don't want
to do this, but I called it with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
He would not be sitting. He would be standing, which.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Is often the case for people that serve at the
pleasure of the president.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They don't have it. They're not a cabinet member, they
don't have a seat at the table.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Now, the First Lady, of course, had a seat at
the head of the table in Joe Biden's. But you
would have to listen to the entire hour of a
Joe Biden cabinet meeting and then listen to the entire
hour of yesterday to really soak it in the difference.
There's no way to grab a sound here or there.
Beginning in prayer with something the level of professionalism and
(27:28):
laser focus, and level of achievement already and determination for
future achievement. It was breathtaking, but there were numerous topics
that came up. In the first cabinet meeting of the
second term of the president, he had the full complement
of his cabinet.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Mark Mayfield has details.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
On Wednesday, Trump said his administration is working towards an
end to the Russia Ukraine War and also mentioned tariffs
against China that will soon take effect. The President promised
any cuts to the federal government will not impact social
security or medicaid. He also praise the efforts of Elon Musk,
who was in attendance at the meeting, to cut government
fraud and waste.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Egg prices have predicted to increase by forty one percent
this year. That's according to a report Replete Replace the Lee.
That's according to a report released this week by the
Egg Department.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Brian Shook Me All Morning Long has more.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
That has some looking to start harvesting their own with
backyard chickens. Gary Joyner with the Texas Farm Bureau says
they're not cheap. You have to factor in the chicken feed,
the cost of the coop and all the time it
takes to both harvest the eggs and clean up the mess.
Put that all together, and he says it might be
cheaper to just tidy at the store.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Well, there's the cost of the coop and the scooping
of the poop.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, give me a dozen of Egglund's best.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
The nation's top health official weight in Wednesday on the
growing measles outbreak that has claimed the life of a child.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Tammy Tree Elo has more Health.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
And Human Service as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Set
of fish are following the measles upidemic every day, However,
he said, the number of cases, hospitalizations, and now even
a death aren't necessarily causes for a panic.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's not unusual if the beasils outrage every year.
Speaker 13 (29:11):
The death was confirmed in Texas, where an outbreak mainly
among the unvaccinated, has been in the news for weeks.
It was the first death attributed to the highly contagious
disease in the US since twenty fifteen. Seven other states
have reported measles cases so far this year, including Alaska, California, Georgia,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Island. I'm
Tammage RHEO.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Actress Michelle Tractenberger tracton Berg, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gossip Girl fame, has been found dead in New York City.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Lisa Taylor reports.
Speaker 14 (29:40):
The star was discovered Wednesday morning, unconscious inside her luxury
Columbus Circle apartment in Midtown Manhattan. A representative confirmed her
death and said her family is requesting privacy at this time.
Sources say her death does not appear suspicious, but a
cause of death has yet to be detailed. Tractenberg began
acting as a child, with a big role in the
nineteen nineties Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
(30:01):
She later made her film debut in Harriet the Spy
and as an adult. Besides starring in the TV shows
Buffy and Gossip Girls, she made a slew of guest
star appearances on primetime series like Law and Order, Weeds,
Criminal Minds, and Six Feet Under, where she had a
recurring role of spoiled pop stars Celeste creepy.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Colin Ferrell just left me another creepy message.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Can't we do something about that?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
You know? Legally.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Trachtenberg had once said her favorite show was House and
asked one of the producers who was a friend of hers,
to be a guest star on an episode. Michelle Trachtenberg
was thirty nine.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Ainlesa Taylor Soffer not by Sneakers Onto thee an NBA
action of your morning show interest. The Pistons beat the
Celtics one seventeen ninety seven, Thunder upt the Nets one
twenty nine one, trail Blazers one over, the Whiz Clippers
beat the Bulls one twenty two, one seventeen, and the
Kings won by seventeen over the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Jazz only one on ice. The Kings lost in overtime
three two to the Canucks. Birthdays today, have to do
this for my sister in law. Singer Josh Grobin is
forty four years old. More on my sister in law's
obsession with Josh Grobin later in the show. NFL Hall
of Fame tight End Tony Gonzalez forty nine years old,
(31:13):
one of the greatest jockeys of all time, Kent Desormo
fifty five years old today and Farmer Laker and he
was a great one.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
From North Carolina. James Worthy sixty four years old.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Today, this is your morning show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Is it possible for COVID to come back after four days? Yeah,
I mean it can linger on for a month or
two and like just out of the book, you can't
handle anything.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Lose your energy.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Well, yesterday, you know, everything was fine, and I'm getting
a lot of stuff done because I was down for
a week. I mean, I'm plowing through it to do list.
I met the Kia dealer getting Andrea's car service. That
I met the Mercedes dealer getting mine serviced. By the way,
my own car won't die. I so want that car
to die so I can get a nice, young, new
(32:02):
hot one. And she's just healthy as can be.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
You know how they do that one hundred and twenty
seven point diagnostic check And I'm like, come on, something
to be red, give me a reason to trade there.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
In everything was in the green. And so then I'm like,
you know, because how do you do that? You don't
want to know? You would never do this at your
wife's doctor, Hey, doc, just just a second alone if
we could any chance. She's going to die soon. But
that's kind of what I did with the service tech.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I said, what do you think of this thing? Could
something break any minute? This one?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
No, because I got my eye on a sweet, new
hot young you know, a little a little Cadillac suv
or a new Mercedes Suv. I had the same conversation
about televisions. I have a TV in my bonus room.
I just wanted to die and go away. I have
a refrigerator and it won't It won't die.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
It's red.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Red's probably want right now, use the talk back button.
What do you want to die in your house?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Give us a call.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
No, but I have a refrigerator that's like that. This
thing is twenty four years old. I thank god it
was stainless, deal in modern looking when we got it.
I mean, it doesn't look like an eye sore. It's
not like it's the Brady Bunch refrigerator still keeps the
cold things cool. But I mean I want the new
one where you could open one door. It's just your drinks, right.
Or it has a computer that can tell you. You know,
that's what Facebook marketplace is for. Sell that sucker. It
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won't die, and then you know, then every time I
do the same thing, I'll be at Low's or Home
Depot I'm trying to spread out my plugs. But and
I'll be like, you know, I got this refrigerator, it
just won't die.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Just keep it.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You see this one here and he points at this
five thousand dollars one that'd be.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Dead in a year.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, Oh they're great TVs, but you don't want that refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
And I'm like, okay, I'll keep it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
So yeah, I was at the Mercedes dealer and the
guy's just like, man, I don't see you having a
problem for another one hundred thousand miles. Really, I couldn't
find an excuse to get rid of this car. But yeah,
I know what is gravity like pushing up? You know
how that feels?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Why am I all of a sudden weak and I
can't walk? Sure? And then today I woke up all
I feel like last week well, and death is also
you don't.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Think it's gonna go Gene Hackman, Robert John, Michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And me by the end of this show, do you well?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
The first hour certainly died, and it died a slow,
awful death.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael hild Joe Now
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