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The Rich Zeoli Show

Elf on the Shelf: Santa’s Spy?

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Two Iowa National Guard soldiers—Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar—were killed by an ISIS gunman in Syria. President Trump has vowed retaliation for the attack. 4:10pm- Will the U.S. Senate do away with the “blue slip” rule? The courtesy allows home-state senators significant influence over federal judicial nominations, especially district court judges. 4:20pm- Turning Point USA president Erika Kirk has agreed to meet with podcast host Candice Owens. Owens has been promoting unsubstantiated theories about Charlie Kirk’s murder. Erika has publicly asked her to stop. 4:30pm- Legendary film director Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. Their son, Nick, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder. 4:45pm- Elf on a Shelf: Is the elf just a holiday spy?

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0:00.0

The Rich Seoli Show on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD.

0:05.3

So we're getting some more details in the shooting at Brown University and also Syria as well.

0:13.2

And the other thing is that the new governor of New Jersey, Democrat Mikey Cheryl, and oh, I i hate to say that has appointed an attorney general

0:21.5

who used to work and works for p s en g so how's i going to go when it has to come to her defending

0:27.5

the governor's attempts to freeze electricity rates we'll talk about that welcome to the show

0:32.6

glad you're here today 855 839 1210 on x at rich zioli. I appreciate you being here today. Thank you very much. We got a lot going on. It's a busy Monday and I'm fighting something so I'm not on camera today because I just don't want to have my nose running, but hopefully just a 24-hour bug. When you have little kids, you find you get a lot of 24-hour bugs they kind of come and go but you know hey I'm

0:54.7

here and that's what counts that's what counts all right that's the key that's the key with everything

0:59.0

you just show up for work when I do and today's one of those days so um yeah you know I I didn't mention

1:07.4

the other bad news I was again there's like there's a lot of bad news in the news today.

1:11.8

But the Army has identified two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed in Syria,

1:17.3

Sergeant William Howard and Sergeant Edgar Torres Tovar, who died on Saturday.

1:23.3

They were killed in Palmyra, Syria.

1:26.6

They were killed.

1:27.7

They were part of, well, Torres, Tovar, and Howard were assigned the first squadron,

1:33.2

113th Cavalry Regiment, second infantry brigade combat team, and the 34th Infantry

1:38.7

Division of the Iowa National Guard.

1:42.6

And that's And that happened.

1:44.5

The Chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnel said Saturday that the two army soldiers

1:49.6

and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed and three were wounded during the attack.

1:53.8

The service members have been conducting a key leader engagement with local parties

1:57.1

in support of ongoing counter ISIS operations.

1:59.6

President, a short time ago ago said it was ISIS.

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