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Oh, welcome back again, DGS on KMOX.

Happy gloomy Monday out there.

Couple of my guys are outraches, not feeling well,

so she should be back in tomorrow.

Wheeler is on a plane in route from Chicago.

He will be back tomorrow.

Brad Young was sitting in with us for a while.

Now we have both Hancock and Kelly,

and not only are you guys getting closer and closer together

on your political views,

but you're now dressing exactly alike.

You're both wearing baby blue quarterships.

You look like half the wiggles.

It looked good though.

You did it both look good.

You might like to hands them in.

I'd like to make a defense for us though,

because I don't know that it is our political views

are getting alike.

I think we both still stand for the same thing.

We're just in a world that's gone nuts.

You're just on the team like me that's on the outs.

Yes.

You know, if you bring Brad Young back in here,

we can open up a burger joint.

Five white guys.

Andrew, are you okay, Biggest?

I'm good.

Said like, only someone in a baby blue quarters is a good thing.

So go ahead, go ahead.

Made you choose a baby blue quarters at today.

It was there.

Really?

Yeah.

That's another tough one.

There was.

I looked up up in the same thing to say about Everest.

There is not much thought that goes behind this wardrobe.

I don't know if you were here the day,

but my good pal, he showed up one day wearing pants

that were his sons and they looked like he was wearing

a pre pants.

Uh huh.

What were they were like?

High waters up to about your ankle.

They were a boat way beyond that.

Your calf.

Five, six inches short.

I got, I got dressed in a dark when my wife's to sleep.

So yeah, you don't disturb her pants.

There they are.

Come on and warm got in the car.

Came down here, sat down and Amy said,

what the heck is going on with those pants?

So we're I, uh, years and years and years ago,

when we were at Union Station, I was wearing super tight jeans.

I don't know why and I were walking over to lunch

and I saw Jimmy the cat haze.

Oh yeah.

And I had a tennis ball and I threw it to him

and he threw it back and he short hopped me.

So I bent down to catch it and when I did,

my pants just exploded, just exploded.

So we're going to hula hands,

going to sit outside on the little, uh, uh, you know,

ride iron furniture and I called pig pin my producer at the time

and I said, hey, go to my car.

I got a pair of shorts in there.

Just grab them and bring them over to me.

He's like, yeah, man, no problem.

So I didn't realize that Maureen also had a pair of shorts.

So he brought me hers.

Oh, and they were like, you know, shorty short boy shorts.

And so I pulled my shirt down as far as I could,

which made me look completely insane

because now it looks like I'm wearing no pants at all in hula hands.

I blew out my pants one time in grade school.

I went to a Catholic school.

We had to wear a uniform and, um, I,

so I go down to the, you know,

after on in the playground, I blew them out

and I went down and they made me tie like a jacket

around my waist the rest of the day.

I thought, well, they oughta send me home right now.

Yeah.

I had to walk around like I had a little, you know, skirt on.

That's all right.

It's all the rage now.

Yeah.

Well, when you have five sisters,

it's kind of your hammerdowns too.

Yeah.

So we got, uh, Michael's take on, uh, the Iranian war.

I guess we can call it that now.

How about, how about you?

Well, I, you know, um, it's a malign regime,

um, murderous, evil, exporter of terrorism.

And so on one hand, you love to see him go away

if they do go away.

I'm not sure that objective is going to be meatable, uh,

and, you know, this is not the first time the Iranian regime

has been perceived as weak in its now almost 50 year history

since the revolution.

It's true.

They were weak in the early 80s and the fellow next door,

Saddam Hussein thought that that would be easy pickings

to go in there into a random country of 94 million people.

And they thought they could overtake the government

in weeks, if not days.

And that war lasted eight years.

And, uh, so anybody that thinks it's going to be that regime

change is going to be swift or even attainable,

I think is probably deluding themselves.

And the other thing we know from modern war history

is that you've never seen regime change

affected by simply air power.

So that tells you that, you know, if the US is serious

about this, you're going to see boots on the ground

at some point.

So let's talk purely politically.

What does Donald Trump need to win?

And what would cause him to lose this?

Well, I think a win at this point would be to get the heck

out of there.

Declare victory, you know, declare that all of our

objectives have been met.

Communities gone.

Of course, he was 86 years old with cancer.

I mean, he hurt him up a little bit.

Yeah.

And get out of there because the longer this goes on,

as we've learned from every conflict of the 20th

and 21st centuries, the worst it's going to be politically.

So, you know, I think if he could end this thing

in a couple of days, does it look like that's what they're doing?

And Declare's victory, I think he could,

he'll get a bump from that.

If the straight of hormones is shut down

and the oil futures markets this morning are not good.

And if you start to see a spike in oil prices,

which is inflationary, not just because of the oil,

because of the shipping, because of the transportation

that is involved in everything that we buy.

And if you see an inflationary spike coming out of this

and in American casualties coming out of this

in serious numbers, then it's not going to go so well for him.

And if Lindsey Graham is to be believed,

they're already teeing up Cuba.

Yeah, you know, I don't get it.

I don't get it.

I don't really fully understand what the American,

you know, incentive is here to be bombing in Iran

and deploying our military assets

and vast amounts of artillery.

I don't know what the vital U.S. interest is

in what we're doing.

And I don't think the president has effectively articulated it

at this point.

Do you think the days of going to Congress

for them to declare war are pretty much over for the time being?

Probably, you know, I do think this is a clear violation

of the War Powers Act.

I don't think there's any question about that.

But so you violate the War Powers Act.

So what, you know, is it going to make an appreciable difference

in terms of what's happening over there now?

So there's no, the president's been a stab.

And Donald Trump's not the first president

to throw the War Powers Act out the window for certain.

Yeah.

So yeah, I think it probably is.

Yeah.

Hard ride turn.

I'm gonna get weird.

But it's still sort of about politics.

I was watching something last night and Star Trek was on it

and Spock was on it.

And, you know, Spock comes from Vulcan

and it's all about logic and there's no emotion

because there was a time in the history of their planet

where they were all emotion and they were brutal and all the stuff.

I was thinking, we could use a dose of that.

It's so emotional these days.

Like even, gosh, I remember John

I first met you 20 plus years ago.

It was different on an elemental level.

It was a different thing.

Oh, for sure.

It was like, oh, I played football as a kid.

Oh, now they play with basketball.

Oh, that's different, right?

I mean, it's that big of difference to me.

Yeah, well, that's the introduction of the forward pass.

The same effect in football is what we're living out politically.

Well, we witnessed it too.

I mean, it's hard to believe that the state of the union was less than a week ago.

But we witnessed it with the state of the union too

that that used to be more of a ceremony

and that turned into somewhat of a political rally on both sides.

Emotion and maybe it's these phones

that are driving it inside our brains that are causing us to do it.

I lamented my frustration with Pete Hegseth this morning

starting off with his briefing.

This is the first time the administration is going to explain

what they're doing in Iran.

And as an American, I want to unite behind what my country's doing

regardless of who the leader is.

And he started by poking him us in the eye, telling us,

you know, the liberal media is going to say this

and it's just it's just so unnecessary.

And I don't get what it accomplishes

injecting politics and emotion into what should be a fact-based conversation.

I agree.

And even as a lowly radio show host,

everyone who listens to the show knows my basic politics.

They know I'm not a fan of Donald Trump or his administration,

but I feel an extra responsibility to pull back

not to not give my opinions, you know,

our opinions are all important.

They matter, especially during a time of war,

but I try to temper, you know,

I don't want to just be going off half-cock against the president.

Yeah.

And in this president, I mean, he leads with that.

And maybe that's what drives his support

because I'm mind-blown every night when I watch the news.

And I see what's going on at it.

It is the exact opposite of the fever

that I felt from the people who were supportive of Donald Trump

just 12 months ago, who were not wanting wars,

who were wanting to see prices come down.

Let's give up our world role, et cetera.

And here I am 12 months later in the exact opposite

of what was promised.

And I don't know.

You just sometimes you feel like am I on candy camera?

Is somebody playing a joke on us?

Yeah.

And what is fundamentally different in this event

is the fact that the president did not lay down

for the American people, the vital American interests

that are forcing us to engage militarily

in another country.

I mean, that has been a prerequisite from time immemorial.

And it just hasn't happened here.

And maybe there's time for it to happen.

I don't think so, but that's different this time.

And you know, you talk about the state of the news, sorry.

There was a day where the president

would try to unite the country.

And uniting the country and building consensus

in a country is hard to do, very hard to do.

Stimulating a group of core base supporters

is relatively easy to do.

And that has become now that easy approach,

not just with Donald Trump, it's become that way

across the spectrum politically.

There's nobody to name an American leader right now

who's trying to build consensus in unity.

I can't.

John, you and I, and maybe we could tell Dave a little bit

about it, you and I are in the midst of trying

to help others recognize what's happening.

And then that is that there's a process

that almost incentivizes extremism

that we're living in right now.

When John and I first started in politics,

his name was mud to me.

I mean, I didn't much care for John Hancock.

And he and I literally ran campaigns against each other.

We have none.

There are no campaigns.

Every campaign I'm working on with the exception of one

is against another Democrat.

And so there's an incentive of Democrats

to push it further and further left

and the same is happening on the right.

That's where the voters are.

And as a result, it's almost like we're incentivizing

for people to go out there and get far right and far left.

And what we're trying to explain to people

is vote in the primaries.

You have to participate in the primaries.

If you were in St. Charles and you're a Democrat,

you're foolish to be voting in the Democratic primary

because it does not matter who wins.

So go pick the best Republican

rather than allowing the most extremist to win.

Vice versa in St. Louis County.

If you're a Republican in St. Louis County

and you're voting in the Republican primary,

you're not gonna decide who's gonna be running your county.

You could actually affect it if you went and voted

in the Democratic primary

because you might be able to get the more moderate

or more normal Democrat.

Very interesting.

Hancock and Kelly with us until 4 p.m. wheels.

I think just landed.

He just texted me.

So I think he just landed.

He's back in town.

Rates is under the weather.

She'll be back tomorrow.

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It's called Hello Therapy.

The thought is that kids need more salt,

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So people have started to make giant sandboxes out of salt

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Rolling in the salt, huh?

That sounds like the people who aren't using vaccines anymore.

That seems weird to me.

I saw one of these salt people

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Wow.

So was your water warm?

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It's chilly because you're floating on top of the water.

So you get wet when you get in.

And then, you know, you're splashing yourself.

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Did you guys see the ball player?

I think his last name's Clark.

He's a big prospect and hasn't been out of AA yet.

And he's playing in spring training games

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And then two balls in a row were hit to him

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I don't understand why an athlete

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I'm the same.

But he used to wear those little magnets around the neck.

Remember that?

Yeah.

That was a thing 15 years ago.

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Welcome back on GHS and Camel X.

Happy Monday to you.

So, Rachel's out.

She's under the weather.

Wheeler is on a plane coming back from Chicago.

Both of them should be back tomorrow.

Brad, young, hang out with me for a little bit.

Right now, we have Hancock and Kelly.

Michael's gonna hang out till five.

Johnny, you might wanna hang out in the four o'clock hour

because we're doing the sweet 16 of sandwiches.

Oh, well, there you go.

And then I'm gonna have to have your head.

Something I know something about.

Give me our expert.

Unfortunately, I got a scoot.

Dave Murray joins us.

Brought to you by the Seligah Heating and Cooling Weather

in Azkila, Dave.

I thought he was awfully quiet.

I did too.

Well, with the forecast he has,

who would wanna speak up?

Right.

Hitting buttons, hitting buttons.

Hey, let me just try and track him down.

He's just out there for some reason.

Cloudy, gloomy, rainy.

For the whole week, it seems like.

That's a shame.

Why is that, John?

Cause I'm not gonna be here.

You leaving tomorrow?

Yes.

And tomorrow's your birthday, right?

Yes.

Happy birthday.

Thank you, Dave.

I am now older than you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How does it feel?

It's fine, you know.

I didn't like 61.

Really?

60 was fine.

I think 62 is gonna be fine too.

Yeah.

Because you're kind of giving help.

But like 61 somehow is like someone really digging it in

on you.

Now, I don't, you know, ages, I've always looked

and felt older than I was in every stage of my life.

Oh, so when I ran for the legislature

when I was 23 years old, I looked like I was 30 something.

Yeah.

And we have Dave Murray.

Oh, hello, hello, Dave.

Hi, how's that?

Is that better?

Yeah, that's much better.

We can actually hear you.

I have no idea.

What happened there?

I know that was the weirdest thing about Jeff but John.

It was like, yeah, we're talking.

I was even talking to Rachel.

Like Rachel's not feeling well.

She's still answering me.

Dave, we're talking about John Hancock turned 62 tomorrow.

Oh, baby.

You have a pup.

You have a pup.

What?

What age got to you if any Dave?

Nothing yet.

Nothing yet.

Good.

But you know, you kind of see, you start to see the light

at the end of the tunnel kind of thing.

And that's not a good thing.

No.

You're talking about that.

You're talking about that bright light at the end of the tunnel.

The one with your mom and dad in it.

Yeah.

That's right.

Well, what is your age, Dave?

I'm 72.

How old were you when you started on Good Morning America?

Like 12?

I think I was seven.

Yeah.

No, I was in my 30s.

Wow.

I'm watching you most of my life.

Yep.

There you go.

George Angle in the King.

They just may be an unfair question.

That'll be my 38,000 unfair question to you.

But when you look at your body of work in St. Louis

and your body of work nationally,

do you sort of equate them

or is one way dear than the other in your mind?

Oh, St. Louis by far, just because of severe weather.

Okay.

Yeah, I love severe weather.

I love covering severe weather.

And it's just, it's something really special

that you get to do that.

Very cool.

So we've been talking about how gloomy it is

and how it looks like it's going to be here for a while.

So line us out.

Okay, yeah, it's with us all week.

However, temperatures go up.

So today the coldest day of the week.

In fact, we're like 39, 40 degrees right now.

We're not going to change much at all tonight.

Rain will start to move in certainly after midnight.

It may be even after two or three o'clock in the morning.

Then periods of rain,

some thunderstorms around non-severe tomorrow, up to 59.

That continues into the evening on Tuesday

then a little bit of a break.

Wednesday periods of rain, some storms up to 67.

Same story on Thursday periods of rain,

some storm 71 I think will be close to 80 degrees,

maybe higher on Friday,

depending on how much sun we get.

Kind of the rule of thumb here is we have,

think about once it starts raining,

should be around for about six hours or so

and then have 10 to 12 hours off

before the next wave starts to move in.

Full moon is on Tuesday.

It's known as the warm moon.

We won't see it because it'll be cloudy.

And time change weekend coming up, spring ahead.

That means sunset on Sunday will be seven, oh one.

What are chances of seeing the sun at all

between now and the end of the week?

I think Friday we have a real good shot of seeing some sun.

And that would be my biggest concern Friday

if some thunderstorms can get going

that we might have a couple of strong ones

depending on how much sun we see.

The, if we see sun, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

look at it as bonus sun.

Okay.

It won't be around very long.

So right after the weather every day,

Rachel does headlines.

And when she's out, Andrew steps up and fills that void.

So headlines Andrew.

Yes. Wait a minute.

Fills? Fills?

Is that the right word to use?

Yeah.

Yeah. Lines.

Doing the headlines.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

I remembered this was happening.

So I got them all here.

He's killing it as usual.

I remember he was doing this.

They call this drawing it out a little.

Yeah. No, he's doing it.

I remember.

We got him right here.

Did you, were you guys aware of the show a few years ago

before he had a part on the show, right?

And he was terrified of being on my air at least.

I mean, he had been on the air a bunch

like in Lewis and Clark and stuff.

And I used to make him do two minutes with Taliban

because I was my name for him back then.

And we would all leave the studio and leave him for two minutes.

And he could do anything he wanted,

but he had to fill the time.

Wow.

How did it go?

You know, it's, it's funny.

Well, it went horribly.

And it's funny, the like cause and effect

in Dave's memory because Dave's like he was really afraid.

So we all leave the room and make him do it by himself.

And I'm like, no, I was afraid because

that every time I go in the studio,

you'd be like, okay, we're all going to leave.

You got to do two minutes by yourself now.

I'll tell you what. That's why I was afraid.

This show is made much richer for having Andrew's

participation.

Absolutely.

What do you say?

Yeah.

I was just going to say I was so scared

because I'm like, now that we're bringing it up,

we're going to try it.

I so towards the end of it because we did it,

I don't know, five times, six times maybe.

And towards the end of it,

I kind of figured out the secret,

which is that I got it.

I used to get in my own head so much.

And then I realized, no, you just start talking.

You just, you, you just wheeler it.

You just start talking and you have no idea what you're

going to say next.

Yeah.

No shade to rage or wheeler.

They're both great at what they do.

Yeah.

But I think I get the most thrown off when Andrew's gone.

Because Andrew is the quintessential safety valve.

I'm dying.

I can't throw the ball long.

There's Andrew.

He'll say something funny.

And then he takes the ball and goes.

Yeah.

No pressure, big guy.

Headlines.

Yeah.

Well, that's actually making me think

of my first story here.

Kuwait mistakenly down three US fighter jets.

I don't get this one.

Like, I didn't think Kuwait could take down

over fighter jets if we let him.

I've read some things that that may not be what actually happened.

OK.

But I, you know, what are the story that I have here?

No one was hurt.

All three of the six total crew members

on these jets all ejected in totally stable condition.

They're completely fine.

But there was an apparent friendly fire incident.

Yeah.

Are you thinking that maybe it wasn't Kuwait?

Yeah, I don't know.

Because this story is from earlier today.

So it's possible you have more up to date.

So when I go look at information and it's some random source,

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That's right, the blood moon.

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Well, no, it's yeah, yeah, it's okay that we won't see it

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But it's stop giving these moons all kinds of,

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Dave is writing on the hurricane,

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Oh, that's a tough one.

It was, you know, I still,

I go back to the flood of 93.

I think that's the coolest weather event ever.

As far as I'm concerned, right?

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Flying in a jet into a thunderstorm is cool.

You know, that, that's all cool stuff.

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How many solar eclipses have we been in?

Well, we've had, I think we've had two in St. Louis, right?

One that I can, that I got to experience and it changed me.

So that was just such a weird feeling, you know, it is, it is weird.

It's what, when I found the on one in particular, it was,

oh, it was that it was the first.

There was like 10 seconds before it really happened.

Yeah.

Is that it?

Was it August 23rd of 2018 when we had?

Sure. Why not?

Yeah, I was, I had my place at Innsbruck at that time.

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And that was really something to see.

Yeah, we had talked about that.

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Notice the birds singing their night song.

Yeah, they're evening song.

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Yeah, yeah, very cool.

All right, thank you, Dave. We appreciate it.

You got it.

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Yeah, great.

So something happened on the...

So the eclipse, you know, was in back in 2018.

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Right.

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Yeah, my son's getting married next year.

I know.

It's a good practice run.

Yeah.

I'm not formally responsible, but, you know,

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So kind of.

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Yeah.

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