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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | How Long Will The Strait Of Hormuz Blockade Last?

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This morning we delve into the U.S. Navy blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a briefing this morning that consisted of his usual tactics to frame the war in positive terms while ignoring reality. Will we be sending more troops to Iran? Is this blockade working? Join Don for Hot Topics. 🍋 This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMON and use LEMON at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. This episode is sponsored by Lean. Get started with 20% off and free rush shipping so you can add LEAN to you healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit https://takelean.com enter LEMON for your discount. This episode is brought to you by Helix. Go to https://helixsleep.com/DON for 20% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! This episode is sponsored by Shopify. See less carts go abandoned and more sales go with Shopify and their Shop Pay button.Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon. This episode is brought to you by Sundays. Make the switch to Sundays. Go right now to https://sundaysfordogs.com/DON50 and get 50% off your first order. Or, you can use code DON50 at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rise and shine, Rise and shine, Lemon Nation. Good morning. How are you guys? Lemonheads, elimination. Um, don't okay. I feel a little better. Uh, can you hear my voice sounds a little bit better? But the thing is, is that people said they like my raspy voice, so I still have a little bit of it. So I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's permanent. We'll see. Uh, what Don is early. I'm not early. This is not early. How are you guys? Like and thumbs up, please. Did you do it? Did you do it? Like and thumbs up because it does affect the algorithm. More people become aware of our channel. And we appreciate you all for that. And we want our channel to grow and want people to hear this conversation. Now, oh, thank you. Glad you guys liked the green.

0:55.1

Let me know where you are.

0:56.1

I see Maryland is in the house.

0:59.4

Where else is in the house?

1:02.0

DC's in the house.

1:03.8

New Jersey's in the house.

1:06.6

A lot of folks in the house this morning.

1:08.6

So yeah, I see.

1:09.6

I said New Jersey, Canada is in the house, Florida, Seattle, Chicago.

1:13.9

Wow.

1:16.5

Minneapolis in the house, Dublin, Ireland.

1:19.3

Hey, if you guys didn't check Louisville, Kentucky, if you didn't see, and Houston, and

1:24.2

oh my gosh, California, and everywhere, Nebraska, Michigan.

1:27.4

If you didn't see Sherry

1:29.5

Sherry Shepard show yesterday go check it out it was so much fun I didn't realize like

1:36.1

Sherry and I had such great chemistry together so it's really really really fun it's so weird

1:40.4

that sheep it's so well wait a minute put lemon sign on. Didn't have the lemon sign on. So there you go. Your voice sounds much better. Thank you. I kind of like a little bit of the raspyness, but I also like that, you know, I can't hit the high notes like this. Did I tell you guys I hit the high note? I did the, I can't do it.

2:01.4

And I will always love you.

2:02.7

I did that on the show.

2:04.4

Do you have the ring?

2:05.1

No.

2:05.4

It's on the, it's on the lamp, on the side of the lamp.

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