Sen. Dave McCormick Joins the Show!

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Sen. Dave McCormick—United States Senator from Pennsylvania—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Venezuelan tyrant Nicholas Maduro being removed from power, the synthetic drug crisis devastating Philadelphia, and nationwide immigration enforcement efforts. Sen. McCormick also reacts to Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s inflammatory rhetoric directed at ICE agents. 4:25pm- Donkey’s Place—which Anthony Bourdain famously declared the best cheesesteak in Philadelphia (despite being located in Camden, NJ)—had its beloved walrus penis stolen by a customer. Prior to the theft, it had been prominently displayed in the bar. 4:40pm- South Park weighs-in on the Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines. 4:45pm- While speaking with the press, Gov. Tim Walz denied having ever used “inflammatory terms” that would have encouraged Minnesotans to confront federal agents attempting to enforce immigration laws. However, less than two minutes later in the very same press briefing, Walz accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of being an “executioner.” 4:50pm- According to Polymarket, bettors see a 36% chance that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be removed from power in Iran by June 30, 2026.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
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0:16.7	Oil, big issue, obviously, with Venezuela and where we go from here.
0:21.3	And a man who's been at the forefront of energy innovation for America joins us in just a moment.
0:26.7	Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Glad you're here today, 855, 839, 12, 10 on X at Rich Zioly.
0:33.4	Pleasure to welcome back to the show.
0:34.8	United States Senator Dave McCccormick of course representing
0:37.8	the great commonwealth of pennsylvania in the u.s senate senator how are you today hey rich how are you
0:43.6	doing well just saw you on fox news with martha mccallum talking about venezuela and the oil
0:48.6	situation over there uh i didn't get to hear what you had to say because i was i was i was talking
0:53.2	but i did see through the captions.
0:54.8	You were saying that this is a...
0:56.3	I was just warming up. I was just warming up for the Richioli show.
1:00.3	Very nice. Well done. Well done. Well, you looked great. Yeah, you looked very, very
1:05.5	dappeteer on television. Very dapper. So, happy New Year and I hope you guys had a great holiday.
1:14.4	We're off to a crazy star for 2026 already, huh?
1:18.0	We sure are. I mean, this Venezuela thing was incredible. And just to put it in context, Rich, I was in the 82nd Airborne when the president, Bush 41, decided to invade
1:32.9	Panama and take Noriega, an indicted criminal, back to the United States for trial. It took 10
1:39.6	days, 25,000 troops, 23 Americans killed. And I compare that to this, where you had this incredible
1:47.4	military law enforcement intel operation that went into Caracas in the middle of a heavily
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