06-18-24 Your Morning Show Hour 2

Sounds of the day, taking our vacations and splurging into more debt.

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or one of our listeners just sent this because I
was talking about One of the big things that's brewing

(01:32):
in social media is that it's not really Joe Biden.
It's somebody wearing a CIA mask and they'll do close
ups of the face and show you how it's not
the same face, and it does look different. There's the
famous one where he's scratching his neck and it kind
of the mask kind of wrinkles.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Really, and you don't know what's you know that this
is life, you know with AI, you don't know what's
real or what's not real. Now, for me, the one
thing because by the time you watch enough for these videos,
you'll be convinced it's not really him, which it's intended
to do. But if you were going to put a
mask on somebody, and if we're living Dave and the

(02:11):
real Joe Biden is underneath the White House right now
in a coma or on life support and somebody's wearing
the mask, all right, it makes a great Scooby Doo episode.
But why would you still be senile? So you're putting
a mask on somebody just to have them go pause,
you know, or water off. Let me see blow that up.
But the listener was like, oh, you're not the only

(02:33):
one that's catching on to this, and he sent me
this clip of a comedian. Oh you got to hear
just a clip of this.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
This to me, absolutely, you're human.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Considers the rocks like Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
My heart show anyone. This can't be huh.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
I just can't see you.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
When he read some.

Speaker 7 (03:27):
And he reads as four more years, Oh.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's hilarious. But yeah, so that that's the latest thing now.
But if you're gonna freak Joe Biden, why would you
have him still be you know, falling downstairs? Right? You
would make a two point zero well, speaking of what
you're seeing, don't believe your eyes. This is, by the way,
just a short glimpse of our future when there is

(03:57):
so much a I I read a story yesterday and
even Fox got bit by it. But you know, some
of these pictures there are sometimes Joe Biden just wanders
around because he ran for presidency at Life Expectancy, all right,
so you know, but obviously not all eighty one year

(04:17):
olds are the same. And you know, he looks a
lot like what you see wandering around in nursing homes.
But there was one video in particular where it looks
like he just wanders off because they cropped it and
you can't see that one of the skydivers had come
near him and he was talking to him. And so

(04:38):
you know, sometimes you could get fooled by an edit.
Sometimes when we start getting into the world of AI,
you're not going to know what's real anymore, don't and
you won't know what to trust and what not to trust.
And I didn't even know how you would vet. We
talk about the expression perception is reality. Every day it's

(05:01):
about to be the only reality. And in a world
of narratives over facts. Now you add artificial intelligence or
deep fake type editing in a immediate spread as fast
as you can social media environment where nobody vets, nobody

(05:23):
fact checks, Listen, the only reality is gonna be perception,
and a perception that can be shaped. I don't even
know if that's what's happening here, but our sound of
the day brings us to the White House where they
want to use that excuse because it's there. It's not
even and it's going to be widespread, and it's gonna

(05:45):
be paralyzing. But it's not yet. They're already alluding to it.
Watch question to Jean CARINPI. Answer, Your eyes are deceiving you.
It's all the deep fake, all a deep fake. There

(06:08):
seems to be a sort of a rash of videos
that have an exit to make the president of her
especially frail or thinly infused. I'm wondering if the White Houses,
especially worried about the fact of this secures to be
a patter.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
Another thing more fold.

Speaker 9 (06:23):
Yeah, and I think you all have called this the
cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are. They
are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad face
and in some of your news organization have been very clear,
have stressed that these right wing, the white wing critics
of the president have a credibility problem because of the

(06:43):
fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation, And
so we see this and this is something coming from
your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.
And I'll quote the Washington Post. They wrote about this
and they said how Republican use misleading videos to attack

(07:05):
Biden in a twenty four hour period, And to their credit,
we have a conservative Washington examiner did call them out
as well, calling out the New York Post. Ironically, several
recent hip fakes actually attack the president for thanking troops,
for thinking troops. That is what they're attacking the president for.

(07:25):
Both in Normandy this happened and again in Italy. And
I think that it tells you everything that we need
to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.
And instead of talking about the president's performance in office,
and what I mean by that is his legislative wins,
what he's been able to do for the American people

(07:47):
across the country, we're seeing these deep fakes.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
All right, So again, narrative, narrative narrative is big wins,
what the border, what inflation, what the economy? Some of
these videos have been doctored or have been framed in
such a way, But come on to pick one that

(08:18):
was framed as if the Washington Post, I mean the
way she conflates the Washington Post and the Examiner calling
it out as if the Washington Post isn't a friend
of this administration. Come on, they just got fooled. Listen.
It's gonna be hard to meet the demands and timing

(08:40):
of a news cycle when you've got to vet everything
and we haven't even gotten to the waves of real
fakes yet. But by and large, day in and day out,
this is the pre president who has fallen a lot,
stumbles a lot, wanders a yeah, a lot, has to
be guided from point A to point B a lot. Now,

(09:05):
to make this a narrative of desperate Republicans doing this
on purpose, that's a tough sell. Almost as tough as
where the audio goes later, where she says the president
wasn't frozen on stage at the fundraiser, that's just him
and a close friend, Barack Obama, walking up stade. Well,

(09:25):
clearly he's just standing there and Barack has to double back,
take him by the hand, turn him around, and then
walk with his arm on his shoulder the whole way
off the stage. But look, it's all as Rory always says,
it's baked into the cake. The perception is this president

(09:46):
is old and cognitively impaired. There's even a growing number
of people don't think he's even under that mask. All right,
so good luck with that. I want to play my
final piece of audio in our Sounds of the Day,
and I want you to imagine what we call an
Italian the paboch, the boogeyman card. Not about issues, not

(10:14):
about you, not about us and our children's future, not
about our intent as a republic, just pure personality politics
and boogeyman fear, fear, fear, vote, vote, vote listen. More

(10:35):
than a country, more than a shining city on a hill,
the idea of America lives in each and every one
of us. America lives.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
But a storm has gathered at our shores, a tempest
that seeks to tear.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Apart the fabric of our nation.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Seeks none less than the wanton destruction of this great
nation of men and women. It seeks to rip out
erase and supplant the very foundations of practicality and reason.
It seeks to erase us. We know this enemy.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
They have existed.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Throughout time, and now they have come for us, and they.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Have come for our children. In a world they're coming
to get your children? Now? Is this going to be
democracies at stake? Insurrectionists are threatening to take our country away.
We watched the clouds coalesce and gathered. We watched them

(11:50):
form for decades from the distance. As they approached our borders,
we heard the clap of thunder echo in our.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Minds and rattled down through the halls of our capitals.
We have most of us become complacent, unaware, and disengaged
while the darkness grew and unfolded around us, slowly, then
all at once.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
So is this going to point to the insurrection? Democracy's
at stake? You will luck Donald Trump, and America will
be over. This threat is real.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
What we face is a hurricane of deceit and moral
decay with a goal of absolute power. We face a
true battle of good versus evil. If we stand by
and do nothing, evil will triumph.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
But that is not our fate.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
We are great men, We are great men with a
great leader, a leader that loves this nation and what
it is given back to him.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
By the way, what you can't see is the portraits
of Donald Trump in front of the Statue of Liberty
Truth visiting with Abraham Lincoln as a Lincoln memorial for
Donald Trump. Now again, most of you would if you
had thought this was going to be something for Joe

(13:26):
Biden and if you elect Donald Trump, because we always
talk about it, they play the boogeyman with Donald Trump.
Elect Donald Trump, democracy dies. But is Donald Trump any
better when portrayed this way? Vote for me or your
country dies, your way of life dies. It's the same

(13:50):
wrong thing for a different candidate. Good versus evil. Well
that's out there, not necessarily in this presidential race through
the voice to the voice. But I mean, wow, not
smarter versus dumber, not right direction versus wrong direction, good

(14:16):
versus evil. I'm telling you we're gonna talk about this
more with Chris Walker in the third hour. What if
both of these guys in that studio with no audience,
both bomb and that debate. Where does it go from here?

(14:37):
This is where Donald Trump, not tied up in court,
may need defined his two point zero and this is
being shared all over social media with things like, oh,
it's sent chills down my back. I get chills down
my back reading the Declaration of Independence. I get chills
down my back reading the Constitution. This his personality Worship.

(15:02):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael Deltono. Here are
the top five stories of the day. The US Surgeon
General wants social media to have a warning label when
it comes to young users in their mental health. Natalie
mcgliori has more.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Doctor vvec Murphy used his New York Times essay to
call on Congress to require a tobacco style warning label
for social media platforms. He emitted a warning label alone
will not make social media safe for kids in their
mental health.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
New Yorkers agree.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I think he should. Mostly it's the parents that has
to monitor. Also, I think.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
The one I label lived in, but I don't think
it would work.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
It comes as recent studies showed teams spend your lea
five hours every day on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok,
and Instagram.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm Natalie mcgleiori.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Al Gracy News Radio got ourselves a heat wave. Tammy
Trehil reports.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Those include medicines for high blood pressure, allergies, and mental health. Diuretics,
which help the body produce more or urine, can lead
to dehydration and extreme heat. Beta blalkers can impede the
body's ability to regulate temperature. All certain antipsychotics can affect
the ability to produce sweat. I'm Tammage RHEO.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I was looking at the Washington Post and it says
extreme heat forecast for Chicago, Saint Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh,
New York, Boston and other locations. Find your city by
city forecast, so you know I care about my listeners
in the Loo. Someone looked up at Saint Louis, and
Saint Louis is high today is eighty nine, not even wow.

(16:34):
But when you look ahead over the next two weeks,
it does get into the nineties and like four days
over the weekend, and then next week you'll reach one hundred.
But watch what the Washington Post does. It's a zone
of high pressure called the heat dome. Hey, it's Michael
reminding you that your morning show can be heard live
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(16:55):
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but better late than ever. We're grateful you're here. Now,
enjoy the podcast. All right, it is a Tuesday National
Splurge Day, June the eighteenth. Roy O'Neil will explain what
that is coming up, but first Aaron Real is joining us.

(17:16):
A vast majority of Americans never take all their vacation
time that they accrue. I remember being a manager and
telling people, you're not a hero when you do that.
I need you to take your time off. I need
you to rest, I need you to be refreshed. I
need you to have a real life so you can
bring real passion to your job. And I think that's
the kind of push that's happening to get people to

(17:37):
take their personal time off. Erin, are you one of
those people that don't take all your vacation time?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Do you want to know what's interesting? I was until
I had kids.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (17:48):
Now that I have kids, I'm like, I'm taking vacation
days to go to the dentist's.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
It's not great.

Speaker 10 (17:55):
It is that we're not in a great place, or
I'm taking the kids to Legoland, which is wonderful, but
certainly not a beach with a book.

Speaker 8 (18:01):
And a.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Umbrella drink. So it's just different.

Speaker 10 (18:05):
But yes, this is an interesting one because only a
small number of employers today actually require that workers take
a minimum It's only eight point seven percent, and there
are no federal laws that say employers need to provide
paid time off. There are some state, local ones, and
then there are some businesses like pilots, air traffic controllers, trucking,

(18:27):
they have mandatory time off by law or industry best practice.
But it's interesting because the average worker, according to a
Harris poll, only took fifteen paid days off last year.
Yet at the same time they have more than that
and almost half of all American employees claim to feel burnout.
So the question becomes, how do you compel people to
take time off when they feel terrible but won't do it?

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, we went through a I go back to when
Barack Obama was president, we kind of went through a
really he would call it the greatest recessions, is a
great depression. But you know what that looked like around
offices at the time, and that was, you know, jobs
were lost, people went on furloughs, and so what happened

(19:10):
was we went from at the particular radio station I
was at, we went from like five news people down
to two one full time, and so everybody began to
do more and more things, and you were grateful that
you got to keep your job because you had some
colleagues who didn't. And so what I think happens is
we get in this multiple hat wearing and then people

(19:31):
are just trying to manage their to do lists. And
I really, you know, I'd rather if I took a
week off, I'd be so buried when I get back
it's not worth taking the time off. And so I
think in some cases employers are as responsible as the
people who aren't taking their time off, but it's best
for both of them if they do. People need to
be refreshed and recharged. It'll be better for the company

(19:54):
to be better for their life and their mental health,
as well as the quality of the work they do.
And we got to go beyond just worrying about whether
pilot's got enough sleep. But so I'm wondering if that's
part of what has fed this over the years. Aron,
you know, people doing multiple duties.

Speaker 10 (20:10):
Yeah, and then and then company culture is a big
part of it as well. And if if your company
has a manager that really isn't into this or really
doesn't encourage it. Also, and I believe this isn't talked
about enough. We are creatures of habit us. Humans oftentimes
just walking away from a habit feels unsafe, even if
that return is like, you know, again, a beach with

(20:31):
an umbrella, drink no it.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Some people just don't like to break the habit.

Speaker 10 (20:35):
And what employers have begun doing in some cases is
taking like mandatory blackout weeks, like let's say it's the
week around fourth of July or the week between Christmas
and New Year's they say, we're turning the lights off.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
No one is coming in, no one, And it tends.

Speaker 10 (20:49):
To provide a pretty big ROI for the company as
a result. And yes, you can't do this if you're
an accounting firm. The week before April fifteenth, and you
can't do yeah, if you're pediatricians office, not the week
before school starts. We get it, like you plan it
accordingly and if you have to stagger it so it's
like half the company here another half like not everyone
can do this all the time, Like if you're a

(21:12):
law enforcement you're not going to be able to do that.
There's other things, and so there's ways to get around it.
But apparently this is very important and it tends.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
To really have a boost in productivity.

Speaker 10 (21:22):
And then also that unlimited paid time off turns out
that one doesn't really work, that that.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Has not been super successful in how that work.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
Yes, so this was a carrot that was dangled by
many tech companies, literally unlimited paid time off, and it
turned out to be pretty binary because you either had
employees abuse the policy, but more often than not they
take way less vacation they than they did when they
had like a set number of days. Let's say you
have twenty days, they would take five. And that's because

(21:53):
it's so unclear. I always say, I'm like.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
We like guardrails. We like to know what's coming.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
Like we like to plan aqui news for if somebody
gave me unlimited time, this would this would become now
I'm from going blank on his name Gorman, Ryan then
become the Ryan Gorman Show because all right, I never
heard that.

Speaker 10 (22:14):
Listen, you're a worker and I know that, and like
we say that, but then at the same time, and
also like if you abuse it, you will get fired.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So it's like it's almost it's weird because it's like, eh, huh,
what's the sweet spot? Can you find it?

Speaker 10 (22:29):
If you don't, it's a risky thing, and it's like
that's not cool, Like how do we do this?

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, I hope that no part of these numbers are well,
I don't mean money to go anywhere anyway, so I
might as well work. No, let me tell you something,
there's nothing like even if you just took three days
off and stayed at home, just clear your mind and rest,
you come back recharged. I actually think, you know, everybody
benefits from it. But it's all balance, it's all management,
and it's you know, it's got to be handled by

(22:54):
the employer as well as the employee. All right, So
all this kicking tires and different things, what's actually going
to happen Probably more the same.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right, I would think more of the same. We are learning.
Obviously you have to.

Speaker 10 (23:08):
Look at your administrative responsibilities when setting certain time off parameters,
and that's important.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
But we all know that the company.

Speaker 10 (23:16):
Benefits and we live in a capitalist society, and if
the numbers work out, it's going to be employed.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's just the use of these blackout periods.

Speaker 10 (23:24):
If it can be done so the business can function properly,
it should be done. And that's something that more and
more companies are leaning on because we're also learning, like
you know, the three day worked week or the three
day hybrid, the output is way higher than five days
a week, so or like a four.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Day week, or you would you prefer you beat my
notes that you beat my notes? That's where I was headed.
Next you said, you know, we we'd like to have framework,
we like to have set times. Probably the solution to
this adds up to be another thing pointing at a
four day work week.

Speaker 10 (23:55):
Yes, exactly, And there's so many studies that say, like
in the four days, productivity actually doesn't decrease, it increases,
and you usually find workers giving ninety five percent for
four days. Then like coming in on a Friday cruising
at about a ten percent effort level, like that serves
no one.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, what happens is is you come in Monday slow
and then you check out early on Friday kind of
a thing, and what do you end up with. Anyway,
it's interesting to see how this plays out. I always
as a manager, I like people to use their time
off because I like them having a life. I think
people with a life and with happiness bring more to
the table. I think people rested and refreshed bring more

(24:34):
to the table. But we all seem to be just
staying at work longer and longer. We haven't really solved this.
Maybe the four day work is a solution.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
Happy employees are fun to be around, and it's helpful
outs to productivity for sure.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Great reporting today, Aaron, We'll talk again tomorrow. Thanks. If
you're just waking up, these are your top five stories
of the day. I don't know if it's going to
work any better than on the cigarette package. But the
Surgeon General wants social media to have warning labels, especially
when it comes to younger users in their mental health.
Natalie mcgleori has the details.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Doctor Vveck Murphy used his New York Times essay to
call on Congress to require a tobacco style warning label
for social media platforms. He admitted a warning label alone
will not make social media safe for kids in their
mental health.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
New Yorkers agree.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I think he should. Mostly it's the parents that has
some monitor Also, I think.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
The one I lifted, but I don't think it will work.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
It comes as recent studies show teams spend nearly five
hours every day on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok,
and Instagram.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm Natalie mcleori, NBC News Radio. I like it the tikatok.
I think I'll watch it too much. At Tikatak, I
fell here. There was an edit in there. There was
two voices. Yeah, it's two different voices, right, I'm sorry.
President Biden is reportedly prepping an executive order granting temporary
amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. So this
will go over great. Mark Field has more.

Speaker 11 (26:00):
Reports say the Whitehouse is set to launch a so
called parole in Place plan for illegal immigrants spouses of
US citizens. The plan protects them from deportation, grants them
a work permit, and could also provide a pathway to citizenship.
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Meanwhile, the White House is disputing the characterization of a
video the critics say show President Biden having to be
let off stage by former President Barack Obama. Chris Garagio
has details.

Speaker 12 (26:26):
Some commentators say the video taken at a fundraiser in
California over the weekend shows Biden freezing up before former
President Obama grabs his wrist and leads him off stage.
White House spokesperson Kareem John Pierre says all the video
shows is two good.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Friends walking off stage. That's all.

Speaker 12 (26:43):
She went on to say she believes videos showing Biden
in a bad light are deep fakes. I'm Chris Garagio,
do not trust your own eyes.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Cold Play will release a new album this fall. The
British rock band announced Finally Moonbus Him will be dropped
out in October the fourth. They previously announced the album's
first single, Feels Like I'm Falling in Love, will be
released on Friday. The band treated the audience in Budapest
concert Sunday night to the first live performance of the
new song. Their last previous release was twenty twenty one,

(27:16):
so Coldplay fans have been waiting a long time. As
summer approaches, we head to the water. Time to brush
up on your swimming skills if you have any pre
tennis reports.

Speaker 13 (27:27):
According to a Value Penguin survey, seventy two percent of
all Americans have access to a swimming pool, But that
study show seventeen percent of American adults don't know how
to swim. Baby boomers and gen Zers are the generations
most likely not able to swim. Gen X and millennials
are the most proficient in the water. The YMCA says

(27:48):
everyone should know basic water survival skills and they're happy
to teach you.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
I'm pre tennis.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, they it was sink or swim last night for
the Dallas Maverickson to my Talk Radio eleven ninety family,
I think you know how that turned out. Celtics won
one oh six to eighty eight, taking Game five and
winning and securing their eighteenth NBA Finals championship. Boston now
moves ahead of the Lakers with the most titles in
league history eighteen versus the Lakers at seventeen. And the NHL,

(28:17):
we could see the hoisting of the Stanley Cup tonight
Game five, Florida up three games to one at home
seven o'clock on ABC. Only two of our cities baseball
teams played. The Cardinals one beat the Marlin seven to six,
and the Rangers got beat up fourteen to two by
the Mets. And the NFL popular DOCU series Hard Knocks
in season, it's going to feature an entire Conference Division

(28:41):
rather the AFC North, so the cameras will follow the
Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers throughout
the season. This is Andy Hickson, formerly of Nashville, now
living in Detroit, Michigan, thanks to iHeartRadio. My morning show
is your morning show?

Speaker 12 (28:58):
All right?

Speaker 1 (28:58):
US Surgeon General is calling on social media to include
health warnings for kids. Hopefully it works better than it
on the cigarette pack. Challenges to the potential TikTok band
will be heard by a US appeals court later this summer.
I don't know if anything good could come from this,
but Russian Presidment Vladimir Putin is headed the North Korea,
first visit in two decades. He'll be sitting down with

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Kim Jong Oun. I can only imagine what those two
could come up with it together. And it's National Splurge Day, Rory.
This reminds me of when I'm enjoying my first bite
of steak and everybody starts holding hands and I realized
I started eating before Grace. I think I've already splurged.
But is that.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
This is a whole made up thing?

Speaker 7 (29:39):
To be clear, back it was thirty years ago this year, though,
that a woman by the name of Adrian Sue Cooper Smith,
a woman who describes herself as quote America's premiere wait
for it event ologist event ologist.

Speaker 6 (29:57):
Right, she made up the day.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
Some of the retail folks have since signed on and
now trying to make it a thing for National Splurge Day,
encouraging folks to treat.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
Themselves, saying, look, it's you know at the start.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
Of the summer, the kids are out of school, maybe
there's a bit of stress at home.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah, so just indulge.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Now, they're not necessarily if you've got the money, go
go to Tahiti.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
Got knock yourself out. But you know, don't go into
debt either.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Maybe it just means, you know, go out for ice
cream after dinner or something else like that.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, we're we're all willing to splurge. We're seeing that
Americans are spending money. We're also seeing there getting deeper
in debt doing it. So we know, by and large,
most people are just getting deeper and deeper into debt
and they need no encouragement. But these are mostly focused
on what big items though, right, They wanting you to

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go get yourself a TV. If you're gonna watch the
NBA Finals, watch it and watch them now.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Well, no need to watch them now, my Celtics, well done.
Yeah at it's not this year.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well team, By the way, that's eighteen that gives you
on more than.

Speaker 7 (30:59):
The exactly even Magic Johnson was tweeting about how sad
it is that they don't hold the record anymore. Bank
Rate Now says forty four of US adults expect to spend.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
More on at least one fun purchase this year.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
So okay, it's one thing that forty four percent of
spending more, but thirty eight percent say they're going to
go into debt for at least one of those purchases.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
And that's the issue.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
And going into debt is fine if you pay it
off at the end of the month. But with the
higher interest rates these days what credit cards are charging,
it is a bad idea to be adding.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
Debt right now.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, because that's that television starts costing a lot more
than what you paid for it did stop me? I
did it all right? So are you going to make
a big splurge?

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Nothing planned.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I have my fifteen dollars gift card to dairy Queen
I could always take it out.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
That's a lot of blizzards.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
I can treat you to a blizzard out a hot day.
And then, of course I have a new garage door
to by thanks to my son parking in the garage
door versus a driveway.

Speaker 6 (32:04):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
All right, So America going out and that was it.
I got a fifteen dollars gift card and a new
garage door to buy. It's a joy being a parent.
That was my big spurt. Right when Rory comes back
next hour, we're going to talk about the R and
C starts in a month. Who is Donald Trump considering
for a running mate? We have kicked this around for
a month. You know, at some point, can whoever he

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picks live up to it? You wait and wait and wait.
But that's the only missing piece to this puzzle, unless,
of course, there's a change at the top of the
ticket for the left. But so there's a lot of
anticipation on who Donald Trump will choose. We'll kick that
around with Rory next hour. Thanks for joining us, Rory.
All right, the debate rules are set. Biden and Trump
have both agreed to them. We're inside ten days quiet

(32:50):
television studio. We're going to hopefully not have any interruptions,
that any overstimulation. What if both end up doing bad
and send someone send me a message at Michael d
atiheartmedia dot com and suggested, you know, if all of

(33:11):
this quiet was created for Joe Biden, it could backfire
because Joe lacks energy, whether they give him something to
give him energy, he tends to just have two modes.
He's kind of like on twenty four what's his name Bauer,
Jack Bauer, he was either whispering or he was shoeing.

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And if Joe Biden starts getting that high energy yell
and mean tone about him, it could be accentuated without
a live studio audience, So this could all backfire. We're
all in this together. This is your morning show with
Michael Hild Joe or No