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Michael.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Just want to wish you a happy birthday. I'm about
five years older than you, and I want to tell
you that the sixties start getting better, but they don't.
We just get tacked every day until we're gone. But
have a great week off. Good morning, Michael Bill from Tampa.
I just want to say I wish you were very
happy birthday, and I am so glad you were born.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
May God bless you and keep you. Good morning, Michael.
This is Todd from Franklin, Tennessee. Just wishing you a
happy birthday. I hope you have a great one.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Really appreciate listening to you in the morning, especially Fridays
with forty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Keep it up. It's coming, Yeah, it's coming. You know.
That reminds me of an interaction I had Jeffrey.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't remember life without Jeffrey, even though two years
ago he emails me out of the blue, and when
he does, he goes, man, you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Unity help putting it together this new show.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And you know it was at that point I knew
he was the It must have been so weird to
be you and get that response. Yeah, actually, I'm looking
for a producer and I think it's you. And then
we didn't even met yet, and I'm talking on the phone.
I'm going I'm telling you, God says you're the producer,
and we have had the most amazing friendship. And then
Red and I go back over a decade. So we
never fight. We've never even had so much as a disagreement.
(01:56):
We get along great every now and then. For stick
on the air, I'll playfully act like discrental talk shows.
But so somebody was asking me, you know that's just
joking when you do that, right, I mean you guys
really do get along. And I was like yeah, and
he goes, what about Rory, And I said, oh, no,
Rory really.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Does hate Menie minutes after the.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I don't know why, but Rory will not wish me
a happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We talked about this, I thought last week and again
some of this is now right because whatever is happening
now is going to impact Christmas items for at least
the next sixty days. And that puts you right on
top of Christmas. So unless you're like me and chopping
on Christmas Eve, how will tariff effects our effect our
Christmas lift list and the impact?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, right, you and I have talked about this before.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's not so much five fifteen percent, thirty five, whatever
the number. It's the uncertainty around this that really has
caused a lot of these retailers, these im quarters to
just hold back or if they they've got a budget
to spend, if they've got one hundred thousand dollars to
buy inventory, say it's some you know main street shop.
You know, a fifteen to twenty percent tariff means they're
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going to buy that much less, but they're just still
going to pay the same dollar amount overall.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So this Wells.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Fargo report that came out this week says the advice is,
if you see it on the store shelves, now get
it now, because it's not going to be there when
guys do most of their shopping on December twenty third.
So it looks like we'll have tighter inventories, a bit
less selection out there.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The prices may not be crazy high as.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
A result of some of this, but it really is
more about how companies have been preparing for this and
the ordering that they've been cutting back on.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, so I think that's worth emphasizing because the other
thing is, look, if it doesn't happen, you know, and
you can buy early. That'll be wise either way, because
if the uncertainty maintains, it could either be a shortage
of product or arising in prices.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you know, at no.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Penn Ex texts oh go ahead, yeah, yeah, then expect
fewer deals and fewer promotions because there isn't that much
inventory in the shelf, so there won't be big markdowns.
We don't think until December twenty sixth, and then you know,
Apparel and where.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Are probably going to be the two most effected instance.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
We really import all that electronics as well, But there's
such a broad range of options when it comes to apparel,
you might not really notice that someone's going to sell
you a blue sweater.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Might not you know?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There are plenty of them out there in some form.
That'll be interesting to see. Our first clipse will be
black Friday, right and right? And what do they call
the cyber Monday? Is it cyber Monday? Whatever they're Monday?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And right, of course Black Friday isn't what it used
to be small small business Saturday, I because they started
to have a shine a black Friday. Because now we
do so much, so much more of our shopping online.
And then the deminimus import tariff thing that is happening today,
that's also going to limit some of the inventory and
things that we buy that are brought in from overseas.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And it's been a busy week because of shooting and
other things. But where are we at with peace and
Russia and Ukraine? Rory? You'll be back in the third hour.
Did you notice Rory never corrected me and said I
don't hate you no. Did you notice that I'm going
to do that? He just giggles and moves on. That
guy really doesn't like me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Why we like Rory.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Why didn't he say happy birthdays, so glad you were born?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Not things coming back?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
He's probably love My listeners in Memphis w r C Radio,
Daniel your first.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Good Morning, Michael. Everybody talks about New Orleans during Katrina.
I lived Katrina. I lived in Long Beach, Mississippi. The
ie hit just a little bit south of Long Beach
and everything was devastating.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, I lost half my house.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Everything from my house down to the coast.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Was completely washed away. Another one my dad, of course,
had a home in Bay Saint Louis. And it's not that,
you know, when you lose everything, that's easy to look
and go, well, yeah, I please, you're It's still tough
losing everything. I mean when I was going through the
family albums and they were just ruined, and so much
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had mold. It had to be it was a health hazard.
Everything had to be just gone. And there's some things
that can't be replaced that were your mother's, your grandmother's,
your great grandmother. So it's devastating, but I kind of
experienced it. I don't think my dad ever brings up.
I can't think of one time he has brought up
the home that was lost, other than to say they
(06:31):
found some of their china miles and miles away. The
picture my dad sent me of his base Saint Louis
home looked like they had just laid the slab, you know,
like when a house is getting ready to be framed
and the slab is perfectly clean, with a couple of
pipes sticking out that eventually are going to be connected.
(06:52):
It's exactly a little like it never even happened. That
was just gone, but no one was there. What happened
in New Orleans wasn't the storm. Everybody thought, hey man,
we made it. That wasn't that bad. It was all
the failure in planning that took over a thousand lives.
Have you seen That's what makes that story different. Have
(07:14):
you seen that documentary of I can't remember as Hulu, Netflix,
the new one on Katrina? Yeah, not Netflix, it was
you know, it was three parts. To me, there was
nothing really new in that. In fact, a lot of
the people doing the talking are in other documentaries that
I found.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
A lot of the footage is present.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
If I had to give people one thing and again,
sometimes it's best to tell a story like you can't
just do a movie on the Titanic just fast forward
right to the iceberg, I guess. And what made Titanic
the movie so effective is well, you've got to experience
it in a human, real way. So let's give you
(07:56):
this fake love story that never happened. Let's let's get
you for an hour and a half attached to all
these people and all of these lives and know all
of their characters and personalities, and then let you watch
them die. And that's why I go back to Five
Days at Memorial, Vira formigas in that, because that really
(08:17):
lets that really makes you the victim.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And see everything.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only thing that they didn't really portray in Five
Days at Memorial was they chose to do it through
rumors in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The media's role, the free past.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The media gets for how poorly they missed coverage of
Katrina in real time a because of where they were
reporting from, where the suffering was, they weren't. They made
it a story of thugs and looters when it was
people left abandoned and trying to just survive. But it
(09:01):
was so predictable before it happened, and it's still just
as predictable today those walls were never going to withstand
a hurricane of that magnitude and that trajectory, and they didn't,
and it was the flooding after once the walls breached,
and even the billions spent since are obsolete. But the
(09:26):
failure of the Bush administration, the failure of FEMA, the
failure of the governor, the failure of the mayor, All
of government, municipal, parish, state, and federal failed those people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The media failed them.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And you go back and listen to my five o'clock segment,
like Katrina, like COVID, like the fake presidency and the
shadow campaign that paved the way.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We never go back and learn these lessons, how dare we?
We can't for what they'll really reveal. And you want
government to be in charge of all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Every leftist that walks up to you wanting more government,
you ought to point them to Katrina.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That worked for you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
One general from Alabama came and started saving lives and
telling soldiers to put their guns down and get their
you know what and gear. But I'm not being insensitive
to the other portions of the Gulf Coast. But most
of them weren't failed by their government. They were evacuated.
They lost everything, which is very painful. I can relate
(10:29):
to that. Had many family members lose everything, but not
their life. They weren't drowning in an attic or standing
on top of a roof watching helicopters or even Air
Force one do flybys when they were starving and daughters
were slipping off the roof and drowning. But yeah, it
(10:51):
was horrific for everyone. Daniel appreciate that. Notice you're in
Memphis and not back in New Orleans. Leslie's in Nashville.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The whole thing with the gun laws, there should be
a questionnaire on what medications you're taking and or your
health conditions, because at least with some health conditions, you know,
you could be taking certain medications that can actually cause
rage or psychotic break. We should be able to ask
those questions when you buy a gun.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean you're gonna get into hippo, you know,
stuff like that. But listen, that's the point of the
Federalist article. I was talking about it yesterday. I didn't
get one nasty email, by the way, which I'm surprised
I thought I would. But a significant piece of understanding
this puzzle is knowing the LGBTQ movement got to the
(11:39):
psychiatric community and pressured them to make gender identity disorder
from a mental illness to a dysphoria. It went from
being a mental illness to being something affirmed and celebrated. Well,
now you have a third mass shooting, and this guy
leaves no doubt. That's another headline today, boy to, It's
(12:03):
one of the last things he said. I regret being
a trans I don't know why I brainwashed myself or
did culture. But the point of the Federalist story and
the headline is, we don't need gun control. We need
to classify gender dysphoria as a mental illness.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Again.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now that is very volatile and provocative in the courtroom
of public opinion. But if you read the Federalist articles,
very responsible. Why because what was the one thing we
left this kid those writings, what he had all over
his guns and AMMO, possible demon possession, hatred for everything,
(12:41):
mainly God and his creation. He didn't show any signs,
of course he did. That's why the mother's clamming up.
She knows she might get charged. But the point of
the Federalist article was red flag laws.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They have them in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And if those psychiatric people hadn't caved, he wouldn't have
gotten a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That's the point. If transgenderism was still a mental illness,
the red flags would have worked. But it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He got the guns, he got the ammout And I
still can't explain how the parents are seeing Jesus's face
on shooting targets, all those weapons and bullets. But no
matter how you feel culturally about the debate, if it
(13:38):
was still a mental illness, the red flag laws would
have not allowed him to have a gun. So at
the end of the day, if somebody says, well, how
could we have kept this from happening, Well, there's one.
You just don't want to discuss it because it doesn't
fit your narrative because we don't ever solve the matrix.
They say repetition is a mother Vaul learning, But why
is nobody learning?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
This is your morning show with Michael del Trano.
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So this is a big John Wish and Michael d.
The happy is the birthdays. Enjoyed the weekend, my friend
to my big buddy d Happy birthday.
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This is getting embarrassing, like Facebook. Now, thank you for
all the birthday wishes.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I did a Heroes Week on my local show a
couple of years ago, and this is one I probably
should have done. But we talked about influences in how
you know people that have influenced us, they're with us
every day. There's a little Johnny Carson in me. There's
a little John Records Landecker in me. I hope there's
a lot of Gary Burbank in me. A lot of
people loved his characters, Earl Pitts and others. I loved
(14:48):
him when he was just being him. I think he's
one of the most talented people that was ever on
the radio. Gary Burbank from WLW and Cincinnati passed away yesterday.
Just wanted to now it's the old hero and our
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the entire family and rest and peace carry What a
great talent.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
All right, Top five stories today? How do I do
this in two minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, today's the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
It made landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August
twenty ninth, two thousand and five. Katrina remains one of
the most devastating natural disasters in US history, killing over
eighteen hundred people. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans,
particularly in low lying areas like the Lower ninth Ward.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
After the city's levy system failed.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Images of thousands of stranded residents living in squalor for
days waiting for basic supplies sunned the nation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The George W.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Bush administration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagen, and Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco were all blamed for the lack of preparedness
and slow response.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mark reinview.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Labor Day travel is set, you'll enjoy the lowest gas
prices since twenty twenty, and TSA is expecting to screen
some seventeen million flyers. Authorities say they've spoke to the
mother have not been able to speak to the mother
of the suspect in Wednesday's Catholic school shooting, probably for
fear of any legal entanglements that are on the horizon.
(16:09):
We have a lot of football for you this weekend.
Starting tonight, Illinois twelfth ranked against Western Illinois. Tomorrow, you
got one versus three Texas, Ohio State, the Qes, and
the Tennessee Balls oh you in Illinois State, LSU and Clemson, Sunday,
Notre Dame and Miami.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
This is Josh and Montgomery, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
My morning show is your morning show at Michael Dell Jorna.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Hi. I'm Michael, and your morning show is heard on
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Speaker 1 (16:58):
Enjoy born and Michael. Happy birthday, buddy, Hey, just for
you today and today only. I'm mowing your grass for
free morning. Michael. In the arth of the church, we
don't say happy birthday. We're seeing me.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
God grant you many years of health, happiness, and furthers
in all Godly things. And not only are we glad
you were born, we're glad you Read and Jeffrey were
born as well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Mike Ye, happy birthday you God.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Hey brother, I'm gonna miss you next week.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That means I can sleep in hope. You have a
great birthday and a great week off. God bless brother.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
No, you gotta listen to Chris Croc filling in well Reddan,
I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, you guys will be here. There's no rest for
the weary.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, we should ask Kevin SURREALI our future is how
many more years I have?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Thank you for all the birthday wishes. If you're just
waking up.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Thirty six minutes after the hour, Nolin's commemorating the twentieth
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with two wreaths being laid one
of the ninth one Labor Day travel set. Gas prices
will be the lowest since twenty twenty. That's good for
those of you driving, for those of us flying. Seventeen
million people will be passing through TSA. I hope you
(18:13):
have a wonderful Labor Day, three day weekend and then
got a lot of college football to celebrate, and not
like it used to be where good teams played crummy teams. No,
we've got some really good matchups, so one versus three
to kick off the college football season. All right, when
it comes to Labor Day, and just ahead of Labor Day,
not a bad topic to talk about Labor in the
(18:34):
present and the future, because return to office fights, that's
old news. The real story now is humans and machines
working together AI here and the next generation still to come.
You need a futurist to understand labor in America today.
Lucky for you we have one. Kevin's a really good morning.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Good morning, thank you for having me. I love what
you said about the return to office debate because here
we are, hopefully most folks are celebrating a three day
weekend and a four day work week next week. And
you know, in the era of post COVID where there's
this conversation in the workplace about should there be a
hybrid work model, return to office, return to office or whatnot,
(19:19):
There's actually been a study around the world that showed
that four day work weeks made workers eighteen percent happier,
cut stress by twenty six percent, and get this, boosted
company profits. So the reason I think the four day
work week is going to become more and more popular
(19:40):
in terms of louring talent to jobs is one, it
could say you've got to come back to the office,
but two, artificial intelligence has made humans more effective at
their jobs that they might be able to get all
their work done.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
In only four days. Well, you just beat me to
the punch, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
In all of this conversation of human machines, the early
conce and by the way, it just try me, Kevin
is odd that this revolution is upon us and nobody's
yet taking it upon themselves to understand it. You better
go catch up with AI because the next generation is
already in the works. And something tells me it's the beta,
(20:15):
not the VHS, but the early initial fears and they're
blind and not studied. Is and I think the one
that needs to be taken seriously is entry level positions,
because if you don't have the entry level, then you
never have the workforce later. But very little understanding about
how this is going to work. But the big picture
is if it does work and it does enhance our productivity,
(20:36):
the dream of the four day work day may be
made possible by AI and machines.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Right exactly. You know, a couple of years ago, probably
like four years ago now, I had the opportunity to
tour a semiconductor chip.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Plant in rural Arizona.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
That this is back remember in the first Trump administration
when the result of that investment in on shoring from
semiconductor chip manufacturing plants. And when I toured there and
it was a secure facility underground, had to put on
one of those you know sciance suits, the bunny suits
and whatnot, and I was absolutely fascinated. I felt like
(21:16):
I had stepped into Honey I Shrunk the kids that movie,
because all I could see were these robots building these
semiconductor chips. And I saw these engineers and these robot
managers all in their secure facility bunny suits and the
white lab suits manning these very secure facilities. And flash
(21:40):
forward to today and the Wall Street Journal had a
great write up on this last week. At Hyundi's plant,
seven billion dollar plant in Georgia, seven hundred and fifty robots.
Think about that, seven hundred and fifty robots are doing
all of the heavy lifting, but the humans are still there.
That's the point that I want to underscore. And the
mainstream media has really missed this. I would argue the
(22:02):
humans are still there to finesse the work that the
robots are doing. They have to oversee the robots. I
saw that in Arizona a couple of years ago, and
the journals are covering it this week with with these plants,
you're getting faster. Yeah, but you need the humans frumentium.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah. Now, but that's a tough follow up question, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Surreally, as our future is joining us, So we're talking
about labor in America today that's even obsolete. It's how
labor will be reshaped in the tomorrow. Today, I would say, now,
even today, with AI, you could take all of my
thoughts and use my voice and deliver this show.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I mean, you could do it, but it's not like it's.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Most likely going to just enhance and shorten my prep
and research time, so to speak. But but the difference
between AI and AGI, Now you might be getting closer
to being replaced.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
But see your point, though, people trust your voice. Your
listeners are showing up for you, and so if you
don't have that relationship and trust built up with the
audience already, then yeah, like AGI, I mean, there's platforms
out there right now that can duplicate your voice and whatnot.
And we've seen the National Security Heaven with.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Ada, Kevin. With AGI, I could die and keep on living.
It would have a AI version of my voice that
would sound just like me. It would keep up with
what's happening. It would know all of my morals, all
of my values, the rules for those values beliefs. It
would react to things that are happening the way I
would react if I was still alive. It's scary, but
(23:42):
it's possible, and you know it because you know we
can get to Mars.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Exactly. But that's also not life. And that's one of
the issues that we uncover and meet the future we
talk about all the time is just because you can
do it doesn't necessarily mean that that's life. And even
if you look at the Grammy, the Recording Academy gave
the Beatles a Grammy last year for for a song
that they used AI to make. I don't really agree
(24:07):
with that. To be blunt with you, that's not a
that's not a Beatles song, that's a I uh. And
to your point, super or a g I, which there's
a lot of debate with the C suite of Nvidia
and Tropic and I B M, Microsoft and whatnot about
when a g I is going to arrive. Sam Outman,
CEO of of of open Ai, which owns chat GPT,
(24:27):
he says, well, I actually think a g I has
already kind of started, and that's for those who are
who are wondering, what is a g I. A g
I is the super intelligence, the leap before quantum computing.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They're not there yet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, they're not there yet, but they're getting closer every day.
That's my AI kids, And oh, I was just gonna
say that, that's not why we got a delay. That's
why I always say I don't think AI is the
v h S or the d v D. It's just
the beta and it's going to be going quickly AHI.
But quantum computing, of course, is where it's really headed.
(25:02):
I will by a shuffled off this rooted plane by then.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
No, no quantum computing. There is just a study that
was released this year, I'm sorry this week rather this
quantum computing study that the quantum is the building blocks
for all of what we understand about physics and the
rules of the universe, and they just cracked a major
code this week that there's certain codes that in any dimension,
and we're living in the third dimension, but there in
(25:28):
any dimension are the same for building blocks. So I
mean the possibilities with quantum and being able to explore
not just our universe but other dimensions and the rules
of the other dimensions. It's truly fascinating. But for entry
level jobs, I do want to hit this point, especially
if you're a parent out there or you're a young
college grad. There's been a lot of doom and gloom
studies that I really don't believe, and I'm an optimist,
(25:50):
and that they're saying, oh, you can't get an entry
level job. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, the data
doesn't reflect that. The data reflects historically what we've seen
with the advent of GPS, personal computing, Internet, smartphones and whatnot,
which is that early adopters cash in. So the super
workers is the coin that has been termed for the
mid level employees who I don't like. People say, oh
(26:14):
AI is cheating. No, it's helping you be more efficient.
You've just got to learn how to use it. If
someone is accusing you of cheating with AI, you're using
AI wrong, you know what I mean. But for the
AI kids, the AI generation, for if you studied artificial intelligence,
these AI startups, the starting salaries for these entry level roles,
(26:35):
if they're an AI programmer two hundred thousand dollars a year.
I don't even know. That's an for an entry level
job that's insane, and the total compackages are starting to
approach a million dollars. So, if you're under thirty and
you're entering into the job market and you know how
to use and code and build artificial intelligence and understand
where the industry is headed, mid level managers and C
(26:57):
suite executives really want to be talking to you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I can tell you firsthand. Lawyers don't get out of
law school with that kind of an entry level salary.
They get that that amount of debt, but not salary.
All right, Labor days upon us, and labor's changing right
before our eyes. You know, there's so many voices in
this sea of voices from podcasts to radio to television,
and none of them have a futurist but us that
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every show should have a futurist, or you have no
idea what reality is. We're lucky to have one. Kevin
so really joining us as always, my boies. Not have
a nice labor day weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We'll talk to you soon, you too, Thank you, thank you.
By I got all choked up in that affirmation of Kevin.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, maybe fifty six minutes or forty six minutes after
the hour if you're just waking up. The head of
the CDC is out officially fired by the White House.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Winmalees.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt defended the decision.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re elected on
November fifth.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
This woman has never received a vote.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
In her life, and the president has the authority to
fire those who are not aligned with his mission.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
HHS announced that Susan Minaris, who was no longer the
agency's director on Wednesday, and at first she refused to
leave the post, and Larrior said it was due to
her being a person of integrity and devoted to science,
while also adding she was targeted after clashing with HHS
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior over vaccine policy. At least
four time health officials announced their resignations as a result.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mark meinfield.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
If you missed our journey of truth looking back at
Katrina twenty years later in the first hour, you can
catch it in the podcast in a couple of hours
when it's up. I should add to that list the
things that we don't look back at, wouldn't dare look
back at and learn the lessons to prevent it again
because they've been weaponized. But I would add COVID, fake presidency,
(28:43):
shadow campaign, and a whole lot of January sixth.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You'll get the picture of what I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
The Air Force giving full military funeral honors to Ashley
Babbitt Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
As the story.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
Babbitt was fatally shot by police as she stormed the
US capital during the January sixth riot four years ago.
The Capitol police officer who fired the fatal shot has
been cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department and Capitol Police.
Babbitt's estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the government
in twenty twenty four, which was later settled in a
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five million dollar deal after Trump won the White House.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The only death the insurrectionist, quote unquote, and while there
was no wrongdoing, apparently there was quite.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The settlement in a civil trial.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
TSA, it's going to screen about seventeen million people this
Labor Day. They'll be laboring more than ever while we're
celebrating Labor Day.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
The travel period runs through September fourth, with the peak
travel day expected to be Saturday, August thirtieth. The TSA
expects us to be the busiest Labor Day travel period
on record, as the agency anticipates passenger volumes to be
eight point five percent higher than last year. Air travel
volumes this summer or the highest the agency has seen
in its history.
Speaker 14 (29:59):
I'm tim.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall
in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Two decades later.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Hurricane Katrina remains one of the most devastating natural disasters
in American history, killing over eighteen hundred people. Most of
those debts were in New Orleans, particularly in low lying
areas like the Lower ninth Ward after the city's levee
system collapsed. All told, Katrina caused an estimated one hundred
and twenty five billion dollars in damage in two thousand
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and five dollars. The government's poor response led to a
shakeup at FEMA and agencies still under scrutiny today.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'm Rory O'Neil speaking of.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Today, we're celebrating a national day that may send us
all on a restaurant mission.
Speaker 14 (30:41):
It's safe to say no one would go into a
restaurant and order a plate of mixed up scraps, but
today you should, as its national chop. Suey day, and
that's the literal translation. It's a plate of meat and
veggies and a light sauce that once dominated American menus
in the twenties, but it's hard to find now and
you won't find it in China because the dish is American.
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So grab a fork, not chopsticks. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
My favorite was always Matt Sue, but that's just me.
The Pence tat knittne its Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We got college football a plenty starting tonight twelve Illinois
and Western Illinois tomorrow number one versus number three Longhorns
and Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
The arch Manning era begins Syracuse in Knoxville to take
on the ball. Z Ou has Illinois State, LSU and Clemson.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's a nine versus four. Michigan's got New Mexico. That
should be a nice tune up. And that Sunday, Notre
Dame and Miami Baseball d.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Back six y four over the Brook Crew.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Cardinals beat the Pirates four to one of the Mets
lost seven to four to the Marlins. Birthdays Ocean's Eleven's
Elliott Gould, among other things, that he's been in eighty
seven years old, born two years before me in the
same hospital in Flint, Michigan. Former Giant linebacker Carl Banks
is sixty three, Glee star Lea Michelle is thirty nine,
and former Chicago Bull Will Purdue is sixty years opden,
(32:03):
Have I ever told you my Chicago Bull story?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No? Kill the music? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So I'm in New York City and I'm wanting to
go see fanom of the opera and my friend Tom
Crimpsear says, you need to go over to the Marriott Marquee.
They have a same day turnaround. These are people that
had tickets but can't go. Something came up and then
you buy them. Oh wow, okay, and so sold out
shows aren't sold out. They might be available there. So
I have no idea where I'm going. But I get
(32:28):
to the Marriott Marque, which is like a city in
and of itself. I'm trying to find this thing, and
you know, I've got to go up just to get
to the lobby.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So I'm in the elevator all alone. Little music's playing
and you know, stops on the floor. The door opens
in walks bj Armstrong, Scottie Pippen and Will Purdue.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Your Shuck, Coco Boo. I mean, was everybody but Jordan
Paxson was there. They just all walk in. Now I'm
in the back of the elevator with virtually the entire
starting lineup of the Chicago Bulls, who were obviously staying
there because they were playing the Knicks. Sure, and I'm
like just looking at them, but I couldn't speak. You
(33:15):
know how I get around athletes. Yes, I can talk
to stars, I can't talk to athletes, and I'm just
in awe. And I mean they were just so big
and there's just Scottie Pippen. I mean, they're like a
like a totem pole. I wanted to climb, and I
just I wanted to say something. They're huge. And we
go up two more floors and the door opens and
they all walk out. And as they're leaving, the elevator
door starts to close, and I finally could speak, and
(33:38):
all I said was, I love you guys, and that's
all I got.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's all I got. That's all I got out. I
love you guys.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
And that was my brush with the Chicago Bulls and
that was the championship years.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Churno, Happy birthday
and also think.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
You was a metal score. Hi Michael, Happy birthday. For
your birthday, I have eight birthday joke.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, ready, what is the difference between Dubai and Abi Dhabi.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
The people from Dubai don't like the flintstones. The people
from Abi Dhabi do.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Happy birthday to you, Oh, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Every day of the year. May you fish weak. Jesus
near and the best.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
To you've ever had. Happy birthday. Take what you need,
leave the rest. That reminds me of a conference we
went to one time. And you know, you come from
big churches and you used to having a worship team.
You know, I'm so sick of the formulave. But the
five people across the front and the band and all that.
(34:48):
At this conference, one guy comes out. It's this old
guy in suspender. He just goes.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He starts leading us in Good morning Jesus, good morning Lord.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's nice to see. Wow. That might have been him
saying me happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All right, your morning show, Big Big Hour with forty
seven kicks us off.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Next.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael ntel Jo
Hi, It's Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
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and six hundred WREC in Memphis, Tennessee, or thirteen hundred
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We invite you to listen live while you're getting ready
in the morning, and to take us along for the
drive to work. But as we always say, better late
than never. Thanks for joining us for the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Were starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding because we're in this together.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is your morning show with Michael Bill.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Join this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Michael.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Just want to wish you a happy birthday. I'm about
five years older than you, and I want to tell
you that the sixties start getting better, but they don't.
We just get tacked every day until we're gone. But
have a great week off. Good morning, Michael Bill from Tampa.
I just want to say I wish you were very
happy birthday, and I am so glad you were born.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
May God bless you and keep you. Good morning, Michael.
This is Todd from Franklin, Tennessee. Just wishing you a
happy birthday. I hope you have a great one.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Really appreciate listening to you in the morning, especially Fridays
with forty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Keep it up. It's coming, Yeah, it's coming. You know.
That reminds me of an interaction I had Jeffrey.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't remember life without Jeffrey, even though two years
ago he emails me out of the blue, and when
he does, he goes, man, you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Unity help putting it together this new show.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And you know it was at that point I knew
he was the It must have been so weird to
be you and get that response. Yeah, actually, I'm looking
for a producer and I think it's you. And then
we didn't even met yet, and I'm talking on the phone.
I'm going I'm telling you, God says you're the producer,
and we have had the most amazing friendship. And then
Red and I go back over a decade. So we
never fight. We've never even had so much as a disagreement.
(01:56):
We get along great every now and then. For stick
on the air, I'll playfully act like discrental talk shows.
But so somebody was asking me, you know that's just
joking when you do that, right, I mean you guys
really do get along. And I was like yeah, and
he goes, what about Rory, And I said, oh, no,
Rory really.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Does hate Menie minutes after the.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I don't know why, but Rory will not wish me
a happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We talked about this, I thought last week and again
some of this is now right because whatever is happening
now is going to impact Christmas items for at least
the next sixty days. And that puts you right on
top of Christmas. So unless you're like me and chopping
on Christmas Eve, how will tariff effects our effect our
Christmas lift list and the impact?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, right, you and I have talked about this before.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's not so much five fifteen percent, thirty five, whatever
the number. It's the uncertainty around this that really has
caused a lot of these retailers, these im quarters to
just hold back or if they they've got a budget
to spend, if they've got one hundred thousand dollars to
buy inventory, say it's some you know main street shop.
You know, a fifteen to twenty percent tariff means they're
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going to buy that much less, but they're just still
going to pay the same dollar amount overall.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So this Wells.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Fargo report that came out this week says the advice is,
if you see it on the store shelves, now get
it now, because it's not going to be there when
guys do most of their shopping on December twenty third.
So it looks like we'll have tighter inventories, a bit
less selection out there.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The prices may not be crazy high as.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
A result of some of this, but it really is
more about how companies have been preparing for this and
the ordering that they've been cutting back on.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, so I think that's worth emphasizing because the other
thing is, look, if it doesn't happen, you know, and
you can buy early. That'll be wise either way, because
if the uncertainty maintains, it could either be a shortage
of product or arising in prices.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you know, at no.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Penn Ex texts oh go ahead, yeah, yeah, then expect
fewer deals and fewer promotions because there isn't that much
inventory in the shelf, so there won't be big markdowns.
We don't think until December twenty sixth, and then you know,
Apparel and where.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Are probably going to be the two most effected instance.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
We really import all that electronics as well, But there's
such a broad range of options when it comes to apparel,
you might not really notice that someone's going to sell
you a blue sweater.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Might not you know?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There are plenty of them out there in some form.
That'll be interesting to see. Our first clipse will be
black Friday, right and right? And what do they call
the cyber Monday? Is it cyber Monday? Whatever they're Monday?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And right, of course Black Friday isn't what it used
to be small small business Saturday, I because they started
to have a shine a black Friday. Because now we
do so much, so much more of our shopping online.
And then the deminimus import tariff thing that is happening today,
that's also going to limit some of the inventory and
things that we buy that are brought in from overseas.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And it's been a busy week because of shooting and
other things. But where are we at with peace and
Russia and Ukraine? Rory? You'll be back in the third hour.
Did you notice Rory never corrected me and said I
don't hate you no. Did you notice that I'm going
to do that? He just giggles and moves on. That
guy really doesn't like me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Why we like Rory.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Why didn't he say happy birthdays, so glad you were born?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Not things coming back?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
He's probably love My listeners in Memphis w r C Radio,
Daniel your first.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Good Morning, Michael. Everybody talks about New Orleans during Katrina.
I lived Katrina. I lived in Long Beach, Mississippi. The
ie hit just a little bit south of Long Beach
and everything was devastating.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, I lost half my house.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Everything from my house down to the coast.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Was completely washed away. Another one my dad, of course,
had a home in Bay Saint Louis. And it's not that,
you know, when you lose everything, that's easy to look
and go, well, yeah, I please, you're It's still tough
losing everything. I mean when I was going through the
family albums and they were just ruined, and so much
(06:09):
had mold. It had to be it was a health hazard.
Everything had to be just gone. And there's some things
that can't be replaced that were your mother's, your grandmother's,
your great grandmother. So it's devastating, but I kind of
experienced it. I don't think my dad ever brings up.
I can't think of one time he has brought up
the home that was lost, other than to say they
(06:31):
found some of their china miles and miles away. The
picture my dad sent me of his base Saint Louis
home looked like they had just laid the slab, you know,
like when a house is getting ready to be framed
and the slab is perfectly clean, with a couple of
pipes sticking out that eventually are going to be connected.
(06:52):
It's exactly a little like it never even happened. That
was just gone, but no one was there. What happened
in New Orleans wasn't the storm. Everybody thought, hey man,
we made it. That wasn't that bad. It was all
the failure in planning that took over a thousand lives.
Have you seen That's what makes that story different. Have
(07:14):
you seen that documentary of I can't remember as Hulu, Netflix,
the new one on Katrina? Yeah, not Netflix, it was
you know, it was three parts. To me, there was
nothing really new in that. In fact, a lot of
the people doing the talking are in other documentaries that
I found.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
A lot of the footage is present.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
If I had to give people one thing and again,
sometimes it's best to tell a story like you can't
just do a movie on the Titanic just fast forward
right to the iceberg, I guess. And what made Titanic
the movie so effective is well, you've got to experience
it in a human, real way. So let's give you
(07:56):
this fake love story that never happened. Let's let's get
you for an hour and a half attached to all
these people and all of these lives and know all
of their characters and personalities, and then let you watch
them die. And that's why I go back to Five
Days at Memorial, Vira formigas in that, because that really
(08:17):
lets that really makes you the victim.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And see everything.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only thing that they didn't really portray in Five
Days at Memorial was they chose to do it through
rumors in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The media's role, the free past.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The media gets for how poorly they missed coverage of
Katrina in real time a because of where they were
reporting from, where the suffering was, they weren't. They made
it a story of thugs and looters when it was
people left abandoned and trying to just survive. But it
(09:01):
was so predictable before it happened, and it's still just
as predictable today those walls were never going to withstand
a hurricane of that magnitude and that trajectory, and they didn't,
and it was the flooding after once the walls breached,
and even the billions spent since are obsolete. But the
(09:26):
failure of the Bush administration, the failure of FEMA, the
failure of the governor, the failure of the mayor, All
of government, municipal, parish, state, and federal failed those people.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The media failed them.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And you go back and listen to my five o'clock segment,
like Katrina, like COVID, like the fake presidency and the
shadow campaign that paved the way.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We never go back and learn these lessons, how dare we?
We can't for what they'll really reveal. And you want
government to be in charge of all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Every leftist that walks up to you wanting more government,
you ought to point them to Katrina.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That worked for you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
One general from Alabama came and started saving lives and
telling soldiers to put their guns down and get their
you know what and gear. But I'm not being insensitive
to the other portions of the Gulf Coast. But most
of them weren't failed by their government. They were evacuated.
They lost everything, which is very painful. I can relate
(10:29):
to that. Had many family members lose everything, but not
their life. They weren't drowning in an attic or standing
on top of a roof watching helicopters or even Air
Force one do flybys when they were starving and daughters
were slipping off the roof and drowning. But yeah, it
(10:51):
was horrific for everyone. Daniel appreciate that. Notice you're in
Memphis and not back in New Orleans. Leslie's in Nashville.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The whole thing with the gun laws, there should be
a questionnaire on what medications you're taking and or your
health conditions, because at least with some health conditions, you know,
you could be taking certain medications that can actually cause
rage or psychotic break. We should be able to ask
those questions when you buy a gun.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean you're gonna get into hippo, you know,
stuff like that. But listen, that's the point of the
Federalist article. I was talking about it yesterday. I didn't
get one nasty email, by the way, which I'm surprised
I thought I would. But a significant piece of understanding
this puzzle is knowing the LGBTQ movement got to the
(11:39):
psychiatric community and pressured them to make gender identity disorder
from a mental illness to a dysphoria. It went from
being a mental illness to being something affirmed and celebrated. Well,
now you have a third mass shooting, and this guy
leaves no doubt. That's another headline today, boy to, It's
(12:03):
one of the last things he said. I regret being
a trans I don't know why I brainwashed myself or
did culture. But the point of the Federalist story and
the headline is, we don't need gun control. We need
to classify gender dysphoria as a mental illness.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Again.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now that is very volatile and provocative in the courtroom
of public opinion. But if you read the Federalist articles,
very responsible. Why because what was the one thing we
left this kid those writings, what he had all over
his guns and AMMO, possible demon possession, hatred for everything,
(12:41):
mainly God and his creation. He didn't show any signs,
of course he did. That's why the mother's clamming up.
She knows she might get charged. But the point of
the Federalist article was red flag laws.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They have them in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And if those psychiatric people hadn't caved, he wouldn't have
gotten a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That's the point. If transgenderism was still a mental illness,
the red flags would have worked. But it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He got the guns, he got the ammout And I
still can't explain how the parents are seeing Jesus's face
on shooting targets, all those weapons and bullets. But no
matter how you feel culturally about the debate, if it
(13:38):
was still a mental illness, the red flag laws would
have not allowed him to have a gun. So at
the end of the day, if somebody says, well, how
could we have kept this from happening, Well, there's one.
You just don't want to discuss it because it doesn't
fit your narrative because we don't ever solve the matrix.
They say repetition is a mother Vaul learning, But why
is nobody learning?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
This is your morning show with Michael del Trano.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So this is a big John Wish and Michael d.
The happy is the birthdays. Enjoyed the weekend, my friend
to my big buddy d Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
And I also thanks for REFERENCINGWAH as much as you do.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
This is getting embarrassing, like Facebook. Now, thank you for
all the birthday wishes.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I did a Heroes Week on my local show a
couple of years ago, and this is one I probably
should have done. But we talked about influences in how
you know people that have influenced us, they're with us
every day. There's a little Johnny Carson in me. There's
a little John Records Landecker in me. I hope there's
a lot of Gary Burbank in me. A lot of
people loved his characters, Earl Pitts and others. I loved
(14:48):
him when he was just being him. I think he's
one of the most talented people that was ever on
the radio. Gary Burbank from WLW and Cincinnati passed away yesterday.
Just wanted to now it's the old hero and our
thoughts and prayers are with his wife, his kids, his grandkids,
the entire family and rest and peace carry What a
great talent.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
All right, Top five stories today? How do I do
this in two minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, today's the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
It made landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August
twenty ninth, two thousand and five. Katrina remains one of
the most devastating natural disasters in US history, killing over
eighteen hundred people. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans,
particularly in low lying areas like the Lower ninth Ward.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
After the city's levy system failed.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Images of thousands of stranded residents living in squalor for
days waiting for basic supplies sunned the nation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The George W.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Bush administration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagen, and Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco were all blamed for the lack of preparedness
and slow response.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mark reinview.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Labor Day travel is set, you'll enjoy the lowest gas
prices since twenty twenty, and TSA is expecting to screen
some seventeen million flyers. Authorities say they've spoke to the
mother have not been able to speak to the mother
of the suspect in Wednesday's Catholic school shooting, probably for
fear of any legal entanglements that are on the horizon.
(16:09):
We have a lot of football for you this weekend.
Starting tonight, Illinois twelfth ranked against Western Illinois. Tomorrow, you
got one versus three Texas, Ohio State, the Qes, and
the Tennessee Balls oh you in Illinois State, LSU and Clemson, Sunday,
Notre Dame and Miami.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
This is Josh and Montgomery, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
My morning show is your morning show at Michael Dell Jorna.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Hi. I'm Michael, and your morning show is heard on
great radio stations across the country like one oh five,
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thousand KTOK in Oklahoma City. Love to have you listen
to us live in the morning, and of course we're
so grateful you came for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Enjoy born and Michael. Happy birthday, buddy, Hey, just for
you today and today only. I'm mowing your grass for
free morning. Michael. In the arth of the church, we
don't say happy birthday. We're seeing me.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
God grant you many years of health, happiness, and furthers
in all Godly things. And not only are we glad
you were born, we're glad you Read and Jeffrey were
born as well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Mike Ye, happy birthday you God.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Hey brother, I'm gonna miss you next week.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That means I can sleep in hope. You have a
great birthday and a great week off. God bless brother.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
No, you gotta listen to Chris Croc filling in well Reddan,
I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, you guys will be here. There's no rest for
the weary.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, we should ask Kevin SURREALI our future is how
many more years I have?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Thank you for all the birthday wishes. If you're just
waking up.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Thirty six minutes after the hour, Nolin's commemorating the twentieth
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with two wreaths being laid one
of the ninth one Labor Day travel set. Gas prices
will be the lowest since twenty twenty. That's good for
those of you driving, for those of us flying. Seventeen
million people will be passing through TSA. I hope you
(18:13):
have a wonderful Labor Day, three day weekend and then
got a lot of college football to celebrate, and not
like it used to be where good teams played crummy teams. No,
we've got some really good matchups, so one versus three
to kick off the college football season. All right, when
it comes to Labor Day, and just ahead of Labor Day,
not a bad topic to talk about Labor in the
(18:34):
present and the future, because return to office fights, that's
old news. The real story now is humans and machines
working together AI here and the next generation still to come.
You need a futurist to understand labor in America today.
Lucky for you we have one. Kevin's a really good morning.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Good morning, thank you for having me. I love what
you said about the return to office debate because here
we are, hopefully most folks are celebrating a three day
weekend and a four day work week next week. And
you know, in the era of post COVID where there's
this conversation in the workplace about should there be a
hybrid work model, return to office, return to office or whatnot,
(19:19):
There's actually been a study around the world that showed
that four day work weeks made workers eighteen percent happier,
cut stress by twenty six percent, and get this, boosted
company profits. So the reason I think the four day
work week is going to become more and more popular
(19:40):
in terms of louring talent to jobs is one, it
could say you've got to come back to the office,
but two, artificial intelligence has made humans more effective at
their jobs that they might be able to get all
their work done.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
In only four days. Well, you just beat me to
the punch, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
In all of this conversation of human machines, the early
conce and by the way, it just try me, Kevin
is odd that this revolution is upon us and nobody's
yet taking it upon themselves to understand it. You better
go catch up with AI because the next generation is
already in the works. And something tells me it's the beta,
(20:15):
not the VHS, but the early initial fears and they're
blind and not studied. Is and I think the one
that needs to be taken seriously is entry level positions,
because if you don't have the entry level, then you
never have the workforce later. But very little understanding about
how this is going to work. But the big picture
is if it does work and it does enhance our productivity,
(20:36):
the dream of the four day work day may be
made possible by AI and machines.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Right exactly. You know, a couple of years ago, probably
like four years ago now, I had the opportunity to
tour a semiconductor chip.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Plant in rural Arizona.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
That this is back remember in the first Trump administration
when the result of that investment in on shoring from
semiconductor chip manufacturing plants. And when I toured there and
it was a secure facility underground, had to put on
one of those you know sciance suits, the bunny suits
and whatnot, and I was absolutely fascinated. I felt like
(21:16):
I had stepped into Honey I Shrunk the kids that movie,
because all I could see were these robots building these
semiconductor chips. And I saw these engineers and these robot
managers all in their secure facility bunny suits and the
white lab suits manning these very secure facilities. And flash
(21:40):
forward to today and the Wall Street Journal had a
great write up on this last week. At Hyundi's plant,
seven billion dollar plant in Georgia, seven hundred and fifty robots.
Think about that, seven hundred and fifty robots are doing
all of the heavy lifting, but the humans are still there.
That's the point that I want to underscore. And the
mainstream media has really missed this. I would argue the
(22:02):
humans are still there to finesse the work that the
robots are doing. They have to oversee the robots. I
saw that in Arizona a couple of years ago, and
the journals are covering it this week with with these plants,
you're getting faster. Yeah, but you need the humans frumentium.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah. Now, but that's a tough follow up question, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Surreally, as our future is joining us, So we're talking
about labor in America today that's even obsolete. It's how
labor will be reshaped in the tomorrow. Today, I would say, now,
even today, with AI, you could take all of my
thoughts and use my voice and deliver this show.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I mean, you could do it, but it's not like it's.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Most likely going to just enhance and shorten my prep
and research time, so to speak. But but the difference
between AI and AGI, Now you might be getting closer
to being replaced.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
But see your point, though, people trust your voice. Your
listeners are showing up for you, and so if you
don't have that relationship and trust built up with the
audience already, then yeah, like AGI, I mean, there's platforms
out there right now that can duplicate your voice and whatnot.
And we've seen the National Security Heaven with.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Ada, Kevin. With AGI, I could die and keep on living.
It would have a AI version of my voice that
would sound just like me. It would keep up with
what's happening. It would know all of my morals, all
of my values, the rules for those values beliefs. It
would react to things that are happening the way I
would react if I was still alive. It's scary, but
(23:42):
it's possible, and you know it because you know we
can get to Mars.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Exactly. But that's also not life. And that's one of
the issues that we uncover and meet the future we
talk about all the time is just because you can
do it doesn't necessarily mean that that's life. And even
if you look at the Grammy, the Recording Academy gave
the Beatles a Grammy last year for for a song
that they used AI to make. I don't really agree
(24:07):
with that. To be blunt with you, that's not a
that's not a Beatles song, that's a I uh. And
to your point, super or a g I, which there's
a lot of debate with the C suite of Nvidia
and Tropic and I B M, Microsoft and whatnot about
when a g I is going to arrive. Sam Outman,
CEO of of of open Ai, which owns chat GPT,
(24:27):
he says, well, I actually think a g I has
already kind of started, and that's for those who are
who are wondering, what is a g I. A g
I is the super intelligence, the leap before quantum computing.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They're not there yet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, they're not there yet, but they're getting closer every day.
That's my AI kids, And oh, I was just gonna
say that, that's not why we got a delay. That's
why I always say I don't think AI is the
v h S or the d v D. It's just
the beta and it's going to be going quickly AHI.
But quantum computing, of course, is where it's really headed.
(25:02):
I will by a shuffled off this rooted plane by then.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
No, no quantum computing. There is just a study that
was released this year, I'm sorry this week rather this
quantum computing study that the quantum is the building blocks
for all of what we understand about physics and the
rules of the universe, and they just cracked a major
code this week that there's certain codes that in any dimension,
and we're living in the third dimension, but there in
(25:28):
any dimension are the same for building blocks. So I
mean the possibilities with quantum and being able to explore
not just our universe but other dimensions and the rules
of the other dimensions. It's truly fascinating. But for entry
level jobs, I do want to hit this point, especially
if you're a parent out there or you're a young
college grad. There's been a lot of doom and gloom
studies that I really don't believe, and I'm an optimist,
(25:50):
and that they're saying, oh, you can't get an entry
level job. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, the data
doesn't reflect that. The data reflects historically what we've seen
with the advent of GPS, personal computing, Internet, smartphones and whatnot,
which is that early adopters cash in. So the super
workers is the coin that has been termed for the
mid level employees who I don't like. People say, oh
(26:14):
AI is cheating. No, it's helping you be more efficient.
You've just got to learn how to use it. If
someone is accusing you of cheating with AI, you're using
AI wrong, you know what I mean. But for the
AI kids, the AI generation, for if you studied artificial intelligence,
these AI startups, the starting salaries for these entry level roles,
(26:35):
if they're an AI programmer two hundred thousand dollars a year.
I don't even know. That's an for an entry level
job that's insane, and the total compackages are starting to
approach a million dollars. So, if you're under thirty and
you're entering into the job market and you know how
to use and code and build artificial intelligence and understand
where the industry is headed, mid level managers and C
(26:57):
suite executives really want to be talking to you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I can tell you firsthand. Lawyers don't get out of
law school with that kind of an entry level salary.
They get that that amount of debt, but not salary.
All right, Labor days upon us, and labor's changing right
before our eyes. You know, there's so many voices in
this sea of voices from podcasts to radio to television,
and none of them have a futurist but us that
(27:20):
every show should have a futurist, or you have no
idea what reality is. We're lucky to have one. Kevin
so really joining us as always, my boies. Not have
a nice labor day weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We'll talk to you soon, you too, Thank you, thank you.
By I got all choked up in that affirmation of Kevin.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, maybe fifty six minutes or forty six minutes after
the hour if you're just waking up. The head of
the CDC is out officially fired by the White House.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Winmalees.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt defended the decision.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly re elected on
November fifth.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
This woman has never received a vote.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
In her life, and the president has the authority to
fire those who are not aligned with his mission.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
HHS announced that Susan Minaris, who was no longer the
agency's director on Wednesday, and at first she refused to
leave the post, and Larrior said it was due to
her being a person of integrity and devoted to science,
while also adding she was targeted after clashing with HHS
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior over vaccine policy. At least
four time health officials announced their resignations as a result.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mark meinfield.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
If you missed our journey of truth looking back at
Katrina twenty years later in the first hour, you can
catch it in the podcast in a couple of hours
when it's up. I should add to that list the
things that we don't look back at, wouldn't dare look
back at and learn the lessons to prevent it again
because they've been weaponized. But I would add COVID, fake presidency,
(28:43):
shadow campaign, and a whole lot of January sixth.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You'll get the picture of what I mean.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
The Air Force giving full military funeral honors to Ashley
Babbitt Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
As the story.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
Babbitt was fatally shot by police as she stormed the
US capital during the January sixth riot four years ago.
The Capitol police officer who fired the fatal shot has
been cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department and Capitol Police.
Babbitt's estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the government
in twenty twenty four, which was later settled in a
(29:16):
five million dollar deal after Trump won the White House.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The only death the insurrectionist, quote unquote, and while there
was no wrongdoing, apparently there was quite.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The settlement in a civil trial.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
TSA, it's going to screen about seventeen million people this
Labor Day. They'll be laboring more than ever while we're
celebrating Labor Day.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
The travel period runs through September fourth, with the peak
travel day expected to be Saturday, August thirtieth. The TSA
expects us to be the busiest Labor Day travel period
on record, as the agency anticipates passenger volumes to be
eight point five percent higher than last year. Air travel
volumes this summer or the highest the agency has seen
in its history.
Speaker 14 (29:59):
I'm tim.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall
in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Two decades later.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Hurricane Katrina remains one of the most devastating natural disasters
in American history, killing over eighteen hundred people. Most of
those debts were in New Orleans, particularly in low lying
areas like the Lower ninth Ward after the city's levee
system collapsed. All told, Katrina caused an estimated one hundred
and twenty five billion dollars in damage in two thousand
(30:28):
and five dollars. The government's poor response led to a
shakeup at FEMA and agencies still under scrutiny today.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'm Rory O'Neil speaking of.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Today, we're celebrating a national day that may send us
all on a restaurant mission.
Speaker 14 (30:41):
It's safe to say no one would go into a
restaurant and order a plate of mixed up scraps, but
today you should, as its national chop. Suey day, and
that's the literal translation. It's a plate of meat and
veggies and a light sauce that once dominated American menus
in the twenties, but it's hard to find now and
you won't find it in China because the dish is American.
(31:02):
So grab a fork, not chopsticks. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
My favorite was always Matt Sue, but that's just me.
The Pence tat knittne its Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We got college football a plenty starting tonight twelve Illinois
and Western Illinois tomorrow number one versus number three Longhorns
and Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
The arch Manning era begins Syracuse in Knoxville to take
on the ball. Z Ou has Illinois State, LSU and Clemson.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's a nine versus four. Michigan's got New Mexico. That
should be a nice tune up. And that Sunday, Notre
Dame and Miami Baseball d.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Back six y four over the Brook Crew.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Cardinals beat the Pirates four to one of the Mets
lost seven to four to the Marlins. Birthdays Ocean's Eleven's
Elliott Gould, among other things, that he's been in eighty
seven years old, born two years before me in the
same hospital in Flint, Michigan. Former Giant linebacker Carl Banks
is sixty three, Glee star Lea Michelle is thirty nine,
and former Chicago Bull Will Purdue is sixty years opden,
(32:03):
Have I ever told you my Chicago Bull story?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No? Kill the music? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So I'm in New York City and I'm wanting to
go see fanom of the opera and my friend Tom
Crimpsear says, you need to go over to the Marriott Marquee.
They have a same day turnaround. These are people that
had tickets but can't go. Something came up and then
you buy them. Oh wow, okay, and so sold out
shows aren't sold out. They might be available there. So
I have no idea where I'm going. But I get
(32:28):
to the Marriott Marque, which is like a city in
and of itself. I'm trying to find this thing, and
you know, I've got to go up just to get
to the lobby.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So I'm in the elevator all alone. Little music's playing
and you know, stops on the floor. The door opens
in walks bj Armstrong, Scottie Pippen and Will Purdue.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Your Shuck, Coco Boo. I mean, was everybody but Jordan
Paxson was there. They just all walk in. Now I'm
in the back of the elevator with virtually the entire
starting lineup of the Chicago Bulls, who were obviously staying
there because they were playing the Knicks. Sure, and I'm
like just looking at them, but I couldn't speak. You
(33:15):
know how I get around athletes. Yes, I can talk
to stars, I can't talk to athletes, and I'm just
in awe. And I mean they were just so big
and there's just Scottie Pippen. I mean, they're like a
like a totem pole. I wanted to climb, and I
just I wanted to say something. They're huge. And we
go up two more floors and the door opens and
they all walk out. And as they're leaving, the elevator
door starts to close, and I finally could speak, and
(33:38):
all I said was, I love you guys, and that's
all I got.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's all I got. That's all I got out. I
love you guys.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
And that was my brush with the Chicago Bulls and
that was the championship years.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Churno, Happy birthday
and also think.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
You was a metal score. Hi Michael, Happy birthday. For
your birthday, I have eight birthday joke.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, ready, what is the difference between Dubai and Abi Dhabi.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
The people from Dubai don't like the flintstones. The people
from Abi Dhabi do.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Happy birthday to you, Oh, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Every day of the year. May you fish weak. Jesus
near and the best.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
To you've ever had. Happy birthday. Take what you need,
leave the rest. That reminds me of a conference we
went to one time. And you know, you come from
big churches and you used to having a worship team.
You know, I'm so sick of the formulave. But the
five people across the front and the band and all that.
(34:48):
At this conference, one guy comes out. It's this old
guy in suspender. He just goes.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He starts leading us in Good morning Jesus, good morning Lord.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's nice to see. Wow. That might have been him
saying me happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All right, your morning show, Big Big Hour with forty
seven kicks us off.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Next.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael ntel Jo
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