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The Chris Plante Show

1-5-26 Hour 1 - Trump Arrests Maduro

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chris returns from a well deserved vacation For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday  To join the conversation, check us out on Twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Merry New Year.

0:05.0

Happy.

0:06.0

In this country, we say happy.

0:09.0

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:12.0

Thank you for correcting my English with Steve.

0:16.0

Ha ha.

0:18.0

Ah, I didn't see that coming. That just popped up on me.

0:25.8

Well, indeed, happy New Year on this January 5th of 2026.

0:32.0

Well, we're almost one year into, almost, not quite, on the 20th of this month,

0:36.0

will be one year into the second presidential term of Donald Trump.

0:42.4

And Democrat heads explode every day, which is kind of fun.

0:45.2

What was that movie? It was called Scanners, right?

0:46.7

Scanners where the heads exploded.

0:51.6

Little did we know that that movie was foreshadowing.

0:56.2

The Democrat Party's trajectory.

1:03.0

A very good morning to you, and welcome. Welcome back.

1:07.3

I have some of you might have noticed. I've been gone.

1:10.0

I haven't been, that is I haven't been here on the radio, nor have I been on

1:11.7

newsmax on the television for the last two weeks, two weeks. That's nuts. I got to tell you,

1:18.5

getting up this morning, I was like, oh, oh, if those two weeks ended, there's no more of that.

1:23.7

I got to, I was going to say I got to shave, but I was running behind this morning, so I didn't shave either. I'll have to shave before I go do TV. You don't really, it's one of the things about radio. You don't have to, you don't have to wear a tie. You don't have to wear makeup in TV that they put makeup, even on men's faces. It's, it's pretty strange. But gosh, happy New Year. I hope you all had a...

1:47.8

I've been gone for a long time. Talking to my best girl about it this morning. I said this is the first time in more than 20 years that I've had two weeks off.

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