HOT TOPICS | TDS: Trump Dementia Syndrome - October 9th, 2025
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What sponsor messages and show setup introduce today's themes?
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Actually had a couple of glasses of red wine, woke up the next morning and I still made this probiotic. 10 a.m. show. And that's how I knew it worked. Now, it is football season, tailgates, Sunday games, you name it. So make Z Biotics your first drink of the night and enjoy the next day, too. So go to Z Biotics dot com slash lemon and get 15 percent off of your first order with the code lemon. It's backed by 100 percent money back guarantee. That's Z Biotics dot com slash lemon and use the code lemon for 15 percent off. Good morning, everybody. Recy, wake up. Recy, and I know the Z Biotics works because I'm fresh as a daisy this morning. Good morning, Recy Colbert. How are you?
Hey, boo. Hey, I'm good. How are you? Looking good, Don. Looking refreshed. Thank you. I'm fresh as a daisy. After a fabulous night out.
I did have a fabulous night. But look, it's one of those, even though I feel like refreshed or whatever, you ever had those days where you're out of sorts? I'm having that day right now. So I get up. My phone, I was like, my phone wouldn't open. And then I tried to, I did some work on the phone and then I have a speaker in the shower and I had to fix that and I had to link it back up. And then I get downstairs and my iPad didn't work in my computer. And I'm like, I was ready to start on time. And as soon as I'm ready, I think you heard me on the phone going, wait a minute, it's saying I need to update or reinstall. So I'm having one of those days.
I need to get you some Samsungs, boo. You all in the Apple family. Come over here to the Android family. I'll be bougie.
It's not hard to link up to other stuff when you're on the Android?
No, it's not. I've been a long time Samsung girl. Maybe just mix it up a little bit.
We have to get you a mug so that when you come on in the morning, you can have your tea.
I know. I love it. Merch out today. Lemon Live. I need to get some of this though. Let me go to the site. What is it?
Go to DonLemon.com and click on Merch.
Okay, I'm getting it right now.
Can you show them how to do it, Andy, please? Just go to DonLemon.com and you click on merch and there it is right there. Is that a picture of you and your hubby behind you to the left?
Yes, a wedding picture.
Very nice. Gorge.
Thank you.
Gorgeous. So go to DonLemon.com and then you just go and you click on merch and you can get this sweatshirt. You can get this mug.
Old people be knowing.
Old people be knowing. That's my thing because it's... So what I do know is that I needed my Z-biotics last night. But what I did not know is that, so you know who Dan Abrams is, right? Yeah. Dan Abrams is the legal correspondent for ABC News. He's also the owner and the founder of Mediaite, which is a media website. And Dan Abrams was my office mate at NBC years ago.
Okay.
Yeah, back in the early 2000s.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so Dan opened a new restaurant last night and invited us and there were invited a bunch of media people. And so I get there and he tells me, I didn't tell you, but one of your favorite people is here.
How does Don Lemon describe his recent night out and industry reunion?
And I'm like, what?
And then I go and this guy is sitting in a booth in the corner and this is who it is. Put it up there. Oh, that's me. It's Brian Gumbel. That is my mentor, Brian Gumbel, who was the, I call him the original host of the Today Show.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What sponsor messages and show setup introduce today's themes?
0:14–4:07
2
How does Don Lemon describe his recent night out and industry reunion?
4:07–26:55
3
Why do hosts say 'joy is an act of resistance' amid political anxiety?
26:55–45:00
4
What evidence do hosts present that 'something is off at the top' of government?
45:00–1:02:28
5
How does the Israel‑Gaza ceasefire story unfold and what are the human costs?
1:02:28–1:12:12