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July 31, 2025 34 mins

 Is it possible the sharp decline in birth rates could be tied to changes in the housing market? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will connect the dots. 

The key to political victory is in the handfuls, not the millions.  Senior Contributor David Zanotti walks us through a journey of discovery on what the polls and the analysts are missing…the vision of the handfuls.

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And is it possible the sharp decline in birth rates
could be tied to changes in the housing market.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So let me see.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have global warming, we have can of ford kids,
which is as old as time. Now we'll add housing market.
National correspondent Roy o'neils here to connect the dots. Good
morning Rory, Yeah, Good morning Michael. And then it comes
back to the Canada Forded argument. The fact that housing prices,
either owning or renting have never been higher, have led

(01:54):
a lot of couples to decide not.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
To have any children, or any more children anyway. You've
also seen that as you look at a map, the
cities that have seen the biggest spike in housing prices
or housing costs have also seen the steepest declines in
their birth rates. So it is another one of the
issues out there that really emphasizes the need to get
this housing market righted.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think you're going to see a real trend in
more young people maybe getting married and living still in
one of the family homes is something we saw early
in the turn of the previous century where grandparents lived
in the home with their children or children come back,

(02:38):
my mom grew up. I'm telling you, Makamuso, there were
like four families in that house. But when it comes
to birth rate, we agree far and away maybe the
greatest threat is life. When is it wanted, That's when
it's birth. When it's not, it's aborted. So abortion, all
the scares of global warming, I mean, when we've done

(02:59):
these research before, they were always the top reasons. Where
are we going to put housing on that list as
far as rank well right?

Speaker 5 (03:08):
And the cost of childcare is also in the mix.
That's often more than a mortgage payment, especially now, is
in most couples both of them work. You know, a
few are able to raise a family on just one income.
So that's been another challenge out there. So it's a
lot of different pieces to this puzzle, but housing it
may be a growing part of the issue.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Why's birth rate's so important, Rory, because otherwise, who's going
to pay for my retirement? Well, you cut to the
chase quick. Rory's going to be back in the third hour.
Feds held interest rates right where they're at. What about that?
What indicators show and what they should have responded with

(03:52):
or why it makes sense that they didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Rory, be back in the third hour with that. Thank you, Rory, David.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Birth Rate's something that David's not is the CEO of
the American Policy Roundtable. He's the host of The Public
Square on two hundred stations on demand anytime at.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
The Public Square dot com.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
He's a dear friend, and he's a senior contributor for
your morning show, Good Morning.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Got that all out the way? You've talked about birth
rate forever.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, our entire system, I mean, Rory made it into
a joke, but our entire system collapses if the birth
rate doesn't keep up. There are some on the left
that have used open borders to address this, but biblically, culturally, economically,
it's a big deal, and we continue to ignore it.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, we do continue to ignore it because it's too
scary to look at and it's complicated. The math premise
gets a little interesting when you really start studying it.
I mean, one of the things that we found out
in regards to some of the countries that have ignored
the birth rate is now they're admitting out loud that
they're collapsing. China acknowledges that within seventy years their culture

(04:59):
is is basically going to be a third the size
that it is right now. Russia is in the same situation.
Europe is facing the same situation as well. The United
Nations has made it clear that even after ducking the
issue for years and trying to work around the numbers,
that the whole idea of the population bomb bomb it's

(05:21):
just not true. And what's basically happened is there's an
anti human reality of consequence that's going on across cultures.
People are losing hope for the future. They're unable to
look at the future and laugh and say bring it on.
There's not confidence. And in economic situations, when people can't

(05:42):
get homes, they can't see a way of the picket fence.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
They can't see a way of the beautiful.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Home or whether it's the urban apartment, it doesn't really
matter what the lodging is. They don't see a way forward.
But most significantly, we're alienated from each other, and people
are having a very difficult time developing the kinds of
relationships that they believe are forever loved or trapped in selfishness,
right an alienation?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, let me throw it to you in a completely
different way so that the listeners can really get their
arms around this.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
How different are you if you never have children?

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, my wife and I consider that when we talk
to each other, we say, remember when we were single,
And what we're really talking about is before we had kids.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
There is something I can tell you that I and
I really and you know this, I really love my wife.
So even from a human being standpoint, this is as
good as a human can be, because I really do
put her before me and everything.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But nothing like when I had children.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean the level of selfishness prior to children to
self listeness after children. I mean, let alone all the
ways I see odd that I didn't see him before,
because now I know how I feel towards my children,
and how much more does he love me than I
love my children. We miss something as human beings without

(07:11):
this experience. Never mind, I mean, listen, Planned parenthood was
all about terminating babies.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was about population control.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
The UN and Agenda twenty one was all about not
having babies and population control. And they're going to get
around to dealing with older people that are taking up
space and using up a lot of resources. So there
is a there's actually an anti human element to this,
but the result. But I'm going to the heart of
man and woman, you just aren't. I mean, I know

(07:38):
there's some people that can't and they have to adopt
or can't and chows not to.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I get that.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm not speaking to you, but we're missing something too
in this beyond economics and culture.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah, and we and we always want to be careful
for people who aren't able to have children and wish
that they would. We're not suggesting that not having children's
makes anyone less than human, or less than valuable, or
even less than complete. We're just acknowledging the fact that
in the divine order of things of design and whether
you believe in God, or not. Just look at nature.

(08:08):
There's a difference. And anyone that's experienced what it means
to be a parent knows that when someone has handed
that child for the first time in their arms, everything changes.
Now for a woman, it's much much sooner than that.
It's much sooner than that, the entire experience of motherhood.
And I would say it to you, Michael, that motherhood

(08:29):
is the greatest asset of any society. If you study history,
the question of motherhood precedes all other issues of both
prosperity and problem that, without a doubt, the hand that
rocks the creator rules the world. I know it sounds
trite and cliche.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
It just happens to be true, Yeah, versus that takes
a village narrative. Yeah, I thought I loved my wife
a lot. Then that doesn't even compare to high lover
one seeing her mother. I mean, it's all that. But
it took us five years. So I know all those
people out there who can't, and we were coming to grips.
We didn't think we could, and we view it as
a mere that we are. But yeah, these are big issues.
And then economically, look, this is a threat to everything, workforce,

(09:09):
it's a threat to entitlement programs. This whole thing comes
down if this birth rate isn't or it gets filled
in another way through open borders, or I can tell
you political Islam loves to target countries like this. They come,
they populate, they infiltrate, they agitate, they wage war, they
take over. So these are all vulnerabilities on all levels cultural, economic,

(09:31):
and national security. All right, I wanted to get to
our topic today, which I think is brilliant, and I
want you to walk us through this journey. We got
about four minutes to get started and we'll wrap it
up after a quick break. But everybody's looking at polling
by the millions, everybody's looking at the gross numbers by
the millions, when the secret is really found in the handfuls.

(09:53):
So our journey of discovery today is what poles are
missing and analysts are missing the vision of handfuls, which
I can actually show you in a piece of research
today on how the Democrats can't find anybody that can
identify a masculine political figure other than Barack Obama, believe
it or not. So you talk about gender gaps in

(10:15):
the past, they're having a problem. Young men eighteen to
twenty nine. They don't see any leadership in the Democrat Party.
And guess what they see in Donald Trump a leader.
But it's the handfuls in these different voting blocks. It's
the handfuls in these different states. Talk to us about
the lesson of the handfuls that you see as the future.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
First, we have to understand that when people say we're
a divided country, that's quite true, and it depends on
how you look at the maps. You can look at
the maps in regards to the electoral college or a
presidential election. You can look at it by counties, by precincts,
no matter how you come away with the circumstance when
it comes to a national election. The last several elections

(10:55):
have come down to give or take a million votes.
Trump won by two million, but remember if you take
that by a half, that means a million votes are one.
The other way changes the popular vote. I recognize that
we vote by the electoral college. That only further buttresses
this argument because we are divided country based upon a
generational question. America is shifting in generations because of education.

(11:20):
That those generations are people who've been educated differently. We
are divided because we don't think the same way any longer,
and a country that doesn't think the same way isn't
a country very long Now. I'm not suggesting that we
have to agree on everything, but the basic self evident
truths that brought us here either are still true truths
or they're not, and we're having that conflict.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
So we are a divided country.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
What that means is elections are going to have lots
of participation, but a national election is going to be
determined by about a million votes, divided up around five states,
five to seven states, and really it's going to be
a race that's based upon a handful of counties for
the next twenty years. The people who control, or influence

(12:03):
or have a significant impact in those counties will win
the races. It will be won by handfuls, not by
giant mass polls.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
David Sinati are a senior contributor joining us Journey Discovery
on handfuls versus millions.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Either.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm not into either party, you know that, But in
a two party stronghold that we still kind of are in,
looks like one's dying. One may be morphing. Either side
doing a better job at recognizing this because I don't
see either of them really getting that.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
It's an interesting question, Michael, because of the vast conspiracy comparisons,
comparisons look at some of those key counties. How different
is Minnesota from Miami, both those communities, those core counties.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
He decided how the handful key folds to success, right,
And so the question is who has.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
The ability to see into that and then to ask
themselves how do we market into those specific arenas different
tasks than America's face before.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Let me take a guess.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Arizona, some pretty important pockets, Ohio, some pretty important pockets.
You brought up Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
And we're kind of a last presidential election trend in
one I think you see continuing.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
And then you can also take it to the next
level in regards to the control of the United States Senate,
which is, without a doubt, the single most important reality
in our American political system. It's not the presidency, it's
who controls the Senate. Now, the President gets all the headlines,
but the Senate makes them. Okay, That's what it really
comes down to. So how important is Montana, South Dakota,

(13:42):
North Dakota, hates to have a Senate.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Race can turn on one hundred thousand votes.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
And don't forget how different things look when Trump isn't
on the ballot. So you got there's two ways to
look at handfuls. Handfuls mean as bad as everything is
in mass for the Democrats, there's still just a handful
or two away here and there.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Keep that in mind.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
The other side is we did a great The Republicans
can say we did a great job getting the handfuls
and the key places. We were focused on the right
things in the right places. But that was with the
Trump on the ticket. Well, they do it again in
twenty twenty eight. Stop everything, clear your mind. When we
come back, I want David to address what handfuls.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Mean to you and to me.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Is it what David Sanadi, our senior contributor, on the
lesson of the handfuls? Well, we've always had close elections.
This isn't new that we're divided as a nation. It's
not new that we're targeting swing states. But swing states
can change. How is it different now?

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, first off, all of the media coverage always covers
the gross, not the nuts, and I sometimes I wonder
if political analysts even know what the vote counts are
and what the margin of change numbers are and where
those numbers actually are. It's no one wants to speak
about the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And
part of the reason is because so much of the

(15:05):
money that flows through campaigns flows through on the big numbers,
not on the small. But the people who know how
to win elections know it's about handfuls. It's about it
comes down to street addresses in some cases.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, but it's not just knocking on doors.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's not just you know, constant things in the mailbox
are running television campaigns. You know these cutthroat ones that
they produce for nationally in these targeted areas.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
You got to get word of mouth.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's the handfuls that influence the handfuls, not the big
picture of DC people who find.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Out I have pictures Michael on my phone. All the
Obama people got this from the start. I have pictures
on my phone of a car from with Washington d
C plates. Was, interestingly enough, a beautiful Cooper Mini pulled
in front of my house years ago when my daughter
was still living. Is she was in college, she was
still living here at the home, and they sent someone
from Washington, d C. To walk up the front door,

(16:01):
smartly dressed with a lapp with a iPad in her hand,
specifically to ask to talk to my daughter because they
thought there was the possibility, based upon their data mining,
that she might vote for Barack Obama.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Can you believe that? On the second Obama election?

Speaker 4 (16:17):
They said, not only did they know where the handfuls were,
they probably knew every one of them by now and
what bedroom they were in. This is PB from White
House and your morning show is My Morning Show with
Michael Oldel Giorno.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Hi, I'm Michael.

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you're here now, enjoyed the podcast, Thanks for bringing us
along with you. It's a pleasure to serve you. I'm
Michael and this is your morning show. David Sanati is
our senior contributor. He's the CEO of the American Policy
Roundtable and host of The Public Square. And we were
kind of talking about this concept of handfuls, and you know,
it's not about the campaigns identifying where these handfuls are.

(17:21):
It's about us understanding it's a game of handfuls and
we have way more influence than an ad or waiting
on which party's going to get it and do a
better job this time than they did last time. What
does the handful's concept mean to me and to the listeners?
What should we take away from that?

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, you can look at this from a historical perspective,
from a biblical perspective, from an academic perspective, or political
I mean, if the Obama campaign, which was the master
in transitioning modern campaigns and merging it with modern media
and technology, they discovered that all of their targeting, all

(18:02):
of their advertising, everything came down to the simple reality
that one person talking to another person about who they're
going to vote for is the single most important transmission
in any election. So all of this money that's spent
is spent to get people to talk to people. Well,
that's kind of what we do every morning and what
people do every day. So for people who minimize their impact,

(18:25):
we're missing the point altogether. They want us to think
that it's algorithms that are going to determine the election,
but it's not. It's conversations that determine the election. And
someone who knows who's running for office, who's able to
communicate effectively why they think one person would be better
than another, is the most powerful force in the electoral process,

(18:45):
particularly if they live in about one of seven or
eight states and in certain counties and regions.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Think of how many commercials you've seen and then you
went and bought the product versus a trusted friend or
an acquaintance. Oh man, that looks great, what is that?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know what I mean? Word of mouth is still
the most powerful.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
All elections, no matter what ebbs and flows were going through,
come down to energy and enthusiasm, come down to unity,
come down to turnout. You can look ahead and you
can say, well, the Democrats have built themselves a pretty
big problem that they need to pivot, and they don't
seem willing to pivot in the right direction. And now

(19:27):
they're splintering into three different groups. And for the Republican Party,
they've morphed into something different. And how do they do
the handoff from Donald Trump to the next generation and
then down to the handfuls? That's really what twenty eight
is coming down to it.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
And I think if.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
People keep their eye on those things, will Republican voters
get out to vote for JD. Vance the way they
did Donald Trump or Marco Rubio the way they did
Donald Trump? Well the parties stay unified. When Donald Trump
is no longer in the equation, Can the Democrats stop
warring with themselves, return to some common sense and pivot

(20:06):
back towards the American people?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Time will tell, But.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
I think to some degree, knowing that the scoreboard comes
down to handfuls, I can't assure you that a there's
not going to be some big scandal on one side
that could influence this. That energy may diminish on one side,
could take a surge on another.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Unity it can be a fragile things at times.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
I mean, when you really start breaking this down, it's
really you really can't make any broad statements about twenty
twenty eight. Twenty twenty eight is a lot further off
than you think when you look at it from that perspective.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
That's very well stated, Michael, because the last election really
came down to a question of trust.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
That was it.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
The title wave of that election was a shift in trust.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think that'll be that that will still prevail in
the midterms, but not the twenty twenty eighth.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, exactly, because it's a whole different situation with an
open seat election. Now, a major national election comes out
will come down to trust for quite some time, and
that's why scandal is so dangerous in that regard. But
if you're talking about who controls the House of the Senate,
nine times out of ten, we're talking about awareness, not trust.
People don't even know who their member of Congress is

(21:18):
or anything about them. The commercial just came on in
the state of Ohio last week where John Houston, who
was appointed for to J. D. Vance's Senate seat, who
is the former Lieutenant governor, Speaker of the House, someone
we've had the privilege of working with for many years inside.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
The Beltway of Columbus.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
His picture comes up and everybody knows who is I'm
watching people watching television and up comes this commercial and
here he is as a US center starting his campaign.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Who is that?

Speaker 4 (21:46):
They don't even know who he is? He's right there
on television. This is their speaker of the house that
they don't know. Awareness is what it comes down to
everywhere else.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Gosh, that sounds like I'm promoting myself. I an honest
discussion with the audience in the Platinum our first hour,
and I don't know. You know, right now we've got
people being questioned about a fake presidency or how long
was he was Biden in decline and everybody was hiding
it and not being honest about it. Are we ever

(22:17):
going to get to the truth about COVID? Are we
ever going to get to the truth about the shadow
campaign of twenty twenty? Are we ever going to get
back to when we were starting to dust out Russia?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Russia? Russia?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
But how about January sixth? And to make a long
story short, it's one thing to sense these things, kind
of know these things.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Careful what you ask for?

Speaker 1 (22:38):
If we do, I mean, people start going secret Service
was involved, FBI was involved. There's just something different about
knowing it. And then we had this whole conversation about
trust has gained a drop at a time, but it's
lost in buckets. And we've lost so many buckets of
trust that even if we start to rebuild to drop

(23:00):
at a time, how long before Americans trust government, trust
these agencies. I don't think I'll ever trust the CDC again.
I don't think I'll ever trust doctors again. But you'll
lose trust in buckets, gain it and drops.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh, I think trust is going to be run for
a long time. Well, I've got history. Look at Nixon.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Nixon was all you had to do is use his name,
and every Republican shuddered. It was the name that could
not be mentioned because he did what no one else
had ever done.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
He had broke up.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
He did is nothing compared to what we're not even
probing yet exactly.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
And so it took from Nixon the whole way to
Reagan for America to recover from that and say, okay,
let's try to trust these people again. And they only
did that because they had a totally failed flatline presidency
with Jimmy Carter and they realized this isn't going anywhere.
We've got bigger problems than this guy can handle. Now,
you go from that flat. I mean, Jimmy Carter looks

(23:53):
like an Olympic hero compared to Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
And so the question is how long will the name
Biden in and of itself and the fake presidency of
Joe Biden remain in people's crawl. You add COVID and Biden,
the Democrats have got a big problem.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You had COVID Biden January sixth, they got an even
bigger problem.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, So the question is how long now you can't
beat something with nothing? And the most powerful scandal is
usually the one that's in the paper today when it
comes to elections. But it is a situation where it
will come down to trust. People say it's the lesser
of two evils, and I hate when they say that, Well,
you don't have to say that anymore. What you're really

(24:34):
saying when you say that is who do you trust
more to hurt you less?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
As Billy Joe would say, it's just a matter of trust.
I will remind people historically too, not to Kakaki. After
eight years of Ronald Reagan, which erased Watergate, post Carter,
we went to four years of HW and into the
Clinton era. So these handoffs even if they even if

(24:59):
they they take the handoff, doesn't mean they stick either.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
And Michael Leski is a shelf life And what's happened
is the shelf life is accelerated. Now I should say
the shelf life for a politicians declined because exposure to
politicians is much much higher wall to wall media coverage.
We wear our candidates out faster. Trump was blessed in
ways that are hard to imagine by having a four
year off season where he came back because he had

(25:24):
two fresh presidencies.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Handoffs are very risky. That's why people who think that JD.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Vans is in the power curve and it's a completed deal, Boy,
we don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
That for sure, solid matter of trust. Everybody's looking at
the gross when it's about the net. We all know
it comes down to handfuls and handfuls of precincts and
handfuls of swing states. How to handfuls impact how we
should live between now and twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty eight. And I think it's not wearing either R
or D but as a's Americans right and influence people

(25:57):
on the issues.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Then the shameless plug on my part is simply stay
tuned because we'll be talking about this every day.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh yeah, no kidding all right.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
By the way, David's available anytime on demand at the
Public Square dot com.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Thanks for the two visits this week, David gut bless
you well. The Fed kept the interest rate right where
it's at.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
We're going to do more on that with Bonsen and
our money was coming up next hour. But first things first,
they held the rate. And Mark Mayfield has the story.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
It comes as President Trump has publicly pressured fedcher Powell
to lower rates. Shortly before the Fed announced its decision,
Trump said he heard Powell will cut interest rates at
their next meeting.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I hear they're going to do it in September, not today.
For what reason, Uh, nobody knows.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
He also again said Powell's decision to not cut rates
is costing the economy hundreds of billions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Powell's term is up in nine months.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
It's the fifth straight time that the Central Bank has
kept rates steady.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm Mark Neefield.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Former Vice president Kamala Harris is ruling out a run
for governor. Does that mean she's ruling in a run
for president? Well, one thing at a time. Tammi Trihello
has more.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
In a statement, Harris says she gave serious thought to
making a run, but ultimately decided to not enter the race.
Harrah said for now, her leadership in public service will
not be an elected office. The former Vice president says
she's looking forward to helping elect Democrats across the country.
Harra said she'll share more details about her plans in.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
The next few months. This comes as.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Speculation remains regarding the former presidential candidate possibly running for
the White House again in twenty twenty eight. I'm Tammy
Trihio so.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Zoran Mamdani running for president, but as an assembly person
who was he anti NYPD, called them racist, called the
Mantai Gay said it's not enough. They must be defunded now. Suddenly,
while he's off getting married, a police officer gets killed
in the line of duty, gets off the plane, and

(27:48):
suddenly he's no longer defund the police.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Kristin Mark says more.

Speaker 8 (27:52):
Mom Donnie, who was in his native Uganda when the
shooting happened, says he stepped off the plane at JFK
and immediately went to the Bronx to see the family
of fallen NYPD officer did rule Islam. He said he
got a warm welcome from the fellow Muslim immigrants and
that his past anti police opinions never came up.

Speaker 9 (28:10):
They thanked me for coming to their home, and Officer
Hassan invited me to the funeral tomorrow, an invitation that
I will take him up on.

Speaker 8 (28:18):
He was also joined at a press conference by the
brother of slain security guard alannd atn Mom. Donnie said
he's not running to defund the police and that he's
grown since his controversial tweets in twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Kristen Marx NBC News Radio, he's grown.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
The Colorado dentist accused of slowly poisoning his wife to
death has been found guilty.

Speaker 10 (28:36):
It took the jury less than twenty four hours to
decide the fate of James Craig, who was arrested in
twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
He injured unanimously and you have a reasonable doubt I'm
the defendant. James Craig guilty of.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Murder in the nursery.

Speaker 10 (28:51):
Investigators in Arora say Craig killed his wife, Angela by
poisoning her protein shakes with the deadly mixture of cyanide
and other drugs.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
So I mentioned in full transparency that I wasn't an
Ozzy Osbourne music fan. I mean didn't listen to him
at all. I did watch the reality show. So when
everybody was mourning Ozzy, Prince of Darkness, his lifelong music
and relationship with his fans, I'm thinking of the husband,

(29:23):
I'm thinking of the father. And it was almost too
painful to watch some of the clips yesterday because I
know how close this family was, and to watch them
following the casket and the funeral procession in his hometown
very emotional, very tough to watch. Jennifer Pulsen has more Welcome.

Speaker 11 (29:45):
Them metal icon Ozzy Osbourne being remembered in his hometown
of Birmingham, England. A funeral procession traveled through the center
of the city and over the Black Sabbath Bridge, where
thousands of fans left tributes the late singer. Ozzie's wife Sharon,
with her children Kelly and Jack, got out on the
bridge to view the messages left by fans before acknowledging

(30:07):
the crowd. The procession followed by a private funeral event.
Osborne died last week at the age of seventy six.
I'm Jennifer Pulsonia.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, we learned this in the Social Dilemma documentary on Netflix.
In a new study claims children who get smartphones before
the age of thirteen do have a higher risk of suicide.

Speaker 9 (30:27):
Researchers in Virginia tracked over one hundred thousand smartphone users
ages eighteen to twenty four and found those who had
smartphones before the age of thirteen showed much higher rates
of suicidal thoughts and emotional issues. It found girls were
especially affected, with forty eight percent of those who got
phones at an early age reporting suicidal thoughts. It also
showed the impact of early smartphone use was worldwide, but

(30:50):
that English speaking countries reported the most severe effects. If
you or anyone you love is in need of help,
the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline can be reached twenty
five four seven by calling or texting nine to eight eight.
I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
By the way, if you have children that don't have
smartphones yet they're still at a very very young age,
please watch the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma before you
make that decision. I wish die had Hey, have you
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I'm here with my two favorite people, Red and Jeffrey.
I'm doing the show that I love to do. I've
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Still to come Sounds in the day is still the
something feels missing, and.

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I think I know what it is. Not enough of you.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
We got a ton of talkbacks Jeffrey while we're in
the news.

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Let's get them lined up. I want to hear from
the listeners.

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We're going to visit with David Bonson, Roy O'Neil has
the latest on the FED as well, and we're gonna
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You hit the button, it count you down three to one.
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