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It's still an hour to go on that. Coming up,
we'll talk with Rory O'Neill, our national correspondent, later in
the hour. Because, again, I know you're in vacation mode,
whether you have official vacation or not. It's Labor Day weekend,
the unofficial last weekend of summer. And I'm based in California.
So here's a secret. if you're traveling like to San Diego, whatever,
it's not a Memorial Day to Labor Day thing in California.
(01:48):
The best weather in California traditionally is after Labor Day
when all the tourists go home. Am I right, Arizona
people listening here on the network?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Half of them come.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Over in the summer, then the other half, it's an
exchange program. But the best weather traditionally is in September
and October. It gets drier, it gets Santa Ana's in,
you know, fire danger that comes with the territory. But
Although this year, El Nino may throw everybody off. We
may be getting snorkels. So it's part of the joy
of living in a beautiful place run by lunatics in Sacramento.
(02:19):
Can I get a witness to our Sacramento listeners there
as well? We're talking about some of the travel misery
if you are going through the airports. And so far,
this list has been spot on. And the fact that
it's from the Washington Post is shocking enough that we're
in agreement with pretty much everything. Because they surveyed, they
wrote this article, about the airports you'd only give one
(02:42):
star out of five stars to these airports, and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Some of them deserve no stars.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
But so far, none of us have had, you know,
Red and Jeff, we haven't had any disagreements with the
Washington Post. That's never happened on this show, I don't think.
I don't believe so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's a first.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So here's another one. DFW, Dallas-Fort Worth International. um gate
change hop well they put the train in down there
too but that used to be before they expanded the
train stop you could if you were not in shape
it'd be a good place to go into cardiac arrest
and i in those days had to just bolt from
(03:18):
you come in there at gate a2 and your flight's
out of d49 just impossible but uh again what the
washington post did they looked at social media uh people
rating their experiences in airports. And these are the ones
that came up on top. DFW is in the top 10. Charlie,
who lives in Dallas, said, I guess the old adage,
(03:38):
if you dress up a pig, it's still a pig. First,
be prepared to mortgage the house if you want to
park on site and get prepared for the worst and
rudest TSA agents at TSA PreCheck. Put on your running
shoes as they'll change your gait at least three times.
Bring a set of binoculars if you want to read
the main gate monitors. It's in size four font. Good
(04:01):
luck hearing gate announcements as they all talk or reach out.
And that's a problem sometimes. I like flying southwest if
I just want to get there and have usually entertaining crews.
But where they've crammed in now where you've got about
eight gates within the same, and you're constantly hearing, and
you're like, I don't know what that was. So, and
(04:21):
fairly intelligent. How about Newark Liberty International?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We were talking during the break here.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
LaGuardia used to be on this list, but LaGuardia, New York,
has actually improved some things, which is saying something. JFK
was on the list that we mentioned before at the
top of the hour. But, yeah, Newark Liberty International in
New Jersey. And the headline is Flaming Jerk Bags. And
(04:51):
here's what John said on social media recently traveling through Newark.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'd love this.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Unless Jesus himself tells you directly, he's chartered a flight
for you from EWR, that's the airport, to heaven, and
then all caps, do not use this airport. The airport
has poor signage, not very easy to get around, very
few areas to sit, but most significantly, everyone we came
across at work there was a flaming jerk.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Bag for no reason. I said, John, that's not written
by the.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Airport promotional department in Newark.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh, Chicago O'Hare. Oh yeah. I grew up in that
part of the country out in Rockford, Illinois. O'Hare.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I remember as a kid that my grandparents would go
back to their, their original homeland in Sweden.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And it was long ago. It was, it was a
nice place. And then it just kept getting out of
control and got worse.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And the politicians got involved and now it's, Here's what
the comments are. Lou in Washington, D.C., traveling through O'Hare
earlier this year, his quote says, the ceiling looks like
a bad gay bar from the 1980s. The upholstery on
the seats is ripped and stained. Ew.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
There's seemingly nobody cleaning up the trash.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Bathrooms are dirty with soap dispensers all empty and water
all over the floors. Well, that's a good day at O'Hare.
He says his flight moved four or five times. So
many times I lost count. And of course, no announcements.
The airport is suffering under something bad, sad and mad. Now,
that's all. I've seen people there when there's delays there.
People sleep it all over. There's also homeless people who
(06:33):
camp out at O'Hare. That's another thing. Heather in Peoria, Arizona,
traveling through O'Hare said this. I would rather ride a
donkey across the country than fly through there. How about
Charlotte Douglas International? I haven't been to Charlotte much. Would
you concur with that, Red?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is that Jeff? I haven't been to Charlotte. It says
it's soul-crushing. It's that light string.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Let's hear from people in the Carolinas. Chris in Jacksonville,
Florida said, that's one airport so uniquely soul-crushing the devil
himself would say, no thanks, I'll walk. Let's see, Mary
Lou in Tallahassee, Florida, traveling through Charlotte said, even my
airport nemesis, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, oh yeah, doesn't
(07:26):
compare to this crime against humanity. I seriously do not
want to return all caps ever. The amount of people
I saw sprinting across this airport baffled me. And do
not get me started on the lack of a moving
train between the terminals. And then the next up, then
they go international, Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, staffed
by sloths. My wife and I were coming back from
(07:49):
somewhere in Europe, and we had to change planes there.
London's bad, too, for that. You're going back through customs.
We actually had to sprint to, like, whatever the other
terminal was. And we got to the airplane, and it's like,
did we die? We just had a workout, like lost
10 pounds. We get in there, and the flight attendants
were like, yeah, we know. Let's get you a drink.
And we were in coach. Like, let's sedate you now.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
They all knew.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This thing is designed by lunatics. Yes, in London, Heathrow
is on the list, too.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Sarah out of St.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Louis, expect 45-minute passport lines.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, that's a good day there.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Incomprehensible signage and a security process that treats a tube
of toothpaste like a national threat. Send in the redcoats.
If you're transferring terminals, pack a lunch and maybe your
will because you may not come out of it. um
oh and then patricia in honolulu said to add insult
to injury this airport didn't even carry the the cadbury
flake chocolate bar oh my we've gotten so cushy in
(08:52):
america right no any.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
To add to the list guys those are pretty accurate though.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah it's been a long time since i've flown commercially.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think the last time you fly private all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No, it's just I kind of stay close to home
or I use I use a car. So, yeah, I
think the last time when I was with Titans Radio,
the radio network, we were flying charter with the with
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh, yeah. The local Titans team here. So we were
very pampered at that time.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I didn't get to see all the bad things. La-di-da. So, Red,
do you fly UPS usually or FedEx? Yeah, I fly FedEx.
I fly Denver.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I fly Denver all the time, although Dulles is probably
my best ever. The tower got struck by lightning and
knocked out the entire communications for the Eastern Seaboard. Everyone
had to sprint off the planes and get to cars.
(10:00):
like 9-11 because there was no travel up and down
the Eastern Seaboard.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And you were there.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
What a beautiful travel memory that is.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I had a nun sitting across from me and I said,
can you please pray for us right now? we lightning
strikes were hitting the ground as we were on.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
The plane we're happy you survived one other random airport
thing because you talked about towers and all that i
was going to southeast asia with uh with the bible
league back then a fine organization we were actually smuggling
bibles in to the underground church in vietnam that was
something about 30 years ago and we were supposed to
(10:41):
go to um we went to Thailand, Vietnam, and then
we were supposed to go to Cambodia, but on our way,
like the first leg of the flight out of the
U S they said, well, we're, we.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Changed our plans.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We're not going to Cambodia because some, some thieves got
into the control tower overnight and stole all the copper wiring.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Plus there's still, there's still.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Big holes on the runways from the latest bombing or whatever.
It's like, well, glad we're not going there. So, And
in that great tradition, some American airports obviously are trying
to be the worst third-world airports possible now by spreading
the magic.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I have flown into Port-au-Prince and Haiti a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
So those are always a unique experience. Well, share your
travel with us because, you know, it's Labor Day weekend.
So most people are now going, I'll walk or I'll drive.
That'll be fine. Use that red TalkBack mic on the
iHeartRadio app. We'll get to that plus some top stories
of the day. And the younger Americans now say they
pay more attention to influencers. Does that make you encouraged
(11:48):
about the future? I'm not so sure. We'll get into
more of that coming up. It's your morning show after all.
Michael DelGiorno back next week. Mark Larson sitting in. Thanks
for joining us. Love to hear from you next.
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Special edition of the Dolly Parton tribute and continuing live
here on your morning show after Labor Day. Happy Labor
Day weekend to you. Mark Larson sitting in. For Michael
and obviously top five stories today, the Lindsay Clancy case.
Total deliberation, almost 37 hours they've been going through this.
(13:42):
The nine women and three men. And one of those
jurors has been the problem. And most likely going to
be a mistrial today. And then they're going to start
all over again. And she's not going to be wandering
free or freely, the grammar police. So that's in the mix.
A lot of talk about J.D. Vance taking over the
(14:06):
press gathering at the White House yesterday, first press briefing
in the press room from the White House since July.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And, you know, he's looking better.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
The big takeaway from that is he's lost a lot
of weight, and he says it's because he's on the
RFK Jr.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Diet.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Because there's a lot of fermented rory o'neill told us
it's a lot of the sauerkraut fermented stuff that is
the big recommendation apparently that's good for your gut not
necessarily good for people around you if you're on an
airplane um you could figure out what that means uh
and of course tied to that what's going on in
iran um.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Nothing great.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Just we're into the Groundhog Day, Deja Vu, whatever you
want to call it, where there's talking and then there's
not talking. And then we hit a mart and the
oil is flowing. Well, actually, some of the oil is
flowing now through that southern pipeline route. But I think
we all thought it'd be over by now, didn't we? Oh,
and NATO is on the brink of war, say some
of the headlines, because they're they're basically saying to Russia,
(15:09):
stop having accidental drones come into like Estonia. So the
world's got plenty of crazy going around for everybody there
in the top of the news. And, of course, still
a lot of chatter about, and scuttlebutt, about Maria Bartiromo suddenly.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Being out at Fox and didn't say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Part of the scuttlebutt rumor, et cetera, was that maybe
she's going to get the press gig, press secretary, which
would most likely be way below her pay grade. But
more likely it's because she allegedly was letting President Trump
know about some internal guidelines at Fox, especially with his
(15:51):
July speech about voter fraud. And there was some memo
saying that be careful about what you do in the
live coverage because they got sued many millions of dollars
for that topic with the Dominion voting machines.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Remember that one?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Be careful of releasing the Kraken again, huh?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah. I'm afraid just bringing it up because we don't
want to get sued either. You know what they say
in California every time they say that? Here's how they
phrase it. There is no widespread evidence of voter fraud.
That's because if you're really good at voter fraud, there's
not going to be a trail.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There's no.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I hear the defense when I'm here in San Diego.
Love California, just hate how it's being run. Bless their hearts.
But that's what they'll say. Well, there's been some fraud, but.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No widespread evidence.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And you can tell how much there's likely there just watching,
in this case, Gavin Newsom. huffing and puffing because of
any question about the wonderful mail-in ballots. Remember, we used
to have debates across America about mail-in voting, and then
COVID happened, and it became so convenient to go, well,
in an abundance of caution. That was back when they
(17:13):
told us to leave our Amazon package outside, let it
air out, and if you've been to the produce department,
scrub your zucchini and all that kind of stuff, and
then in an abundance of caution, let's just give everybody
a mail-in ballot. I'm Daniel Cosney in Tampa, and my
morning show is your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Hey, it's me, Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Your morning show can be heard live 5 to 8 a.m. Central,
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Speaker 4 (17:50):
And Mark Larson in for Michael. Honored to be here today.
Thanks for joining us on the edge of this Labor
Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dr.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Joe Gelati is going to join us here. Gelati will
be here in just seconds. I did want to mention
this because this may tie into what we're talking about.
If you think recreational marijuana is just fine or seems
like more people are doing it, yeah. How does it
affect you?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We'll get into that. But this is interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Younger Americans pay more attention to influencers because most Americans don't.
In fact, there's another story out today about influencer backlash
because too many people doing stunts just to be influencers.
but a new Rasmussen reports national phone and online survey
finds just 10% of American adults pay a lot of
attention to influencers.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
However, you get to the youngsters, it's off the chart.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So they're, they're now trusting influencers more than like, I
guess us, um, but to fix that, or maybe they're
just all smoking weed.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That could be part of it. I, that's, uh, That
may be. Dr.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Joe Galati is here. You can catch his podcast. That's
on his website, drjoegalati.com. Doctors, so it does seem like
everywhere there's that. Sometimes people say, gee, it smells like
a skunk out here. Well, that's usually recreational weed. I'm
in California, so certainly it's pervasive. I know that I
(19:22):
was going to a baseball game. recently, and I'm walking
a mile and a half from a parking area. And
along the way, it's like, I feel like I'm getting
a contact high. So this is a thing, isn't it?
And I'm sure a lot of influencers think it's cool.
It's got to be more commonplace. You see advertising for
it in many states everywhere. So what's it doing to us? Yeah,
(19:44):
you know, I think you hit it on the head
with the whole influencer. I mean, influencer telling us.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
What to eat, how to exercise, what to wear, how
to behave, how to have relationships, and the amount of pressure,
in a sense, to make smoking marijuana cool or the
thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And if you just look at the.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Numbers, and I think the numbers speak for themselves, where
the rate of substance use disorder, this is a real
true psychiatric problem, is up four times compared 2015 to 2024.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That is not just a habit.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
There has been a huge push to legitimize it, make
it commercially available, and make it legal. But I think
that we are turning an absolute blind eye on the
health and wellness consequences of this.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
And it depends. Who are you listening to?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The medical professionals, if you want to look at one end,
are you looking at the people that are on Instagram
and TikTok to say that this is something good? I
look at it to say where I think we went astray.
is for many years we had medical uses for medical marijuana.
It was typically going to be cancer patients going through chemotherapy,
(20:58):
people that had HIV, something called wasting syndrome, and then
a number of neurologic disorders where marijuana helped. Now, from there,
we've dumbed it down to think that you could go
into a doctor or a dispensary and say, I have
chronic low back pain. I have neck stiffness, I have
(21:20):
an upset stomach. Okay, sure, this is a medical indication
you get marijuana. And it just opens up the door
to availability. But I do think that the crux of
it is, number one, the compounds that are out there
now are far more concentrated and toxic. Number two, the
negative impact on the emotional state, especially of our young people,
(21:44):
creating a situation of anxiety, depression, psychosis, and an increased
risk of suicide.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
This is not a benign problem. Dr.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Joe Gulati with us here on Your Morning Show. Mark
Larson in for Michael. And Michael's back next week, Labor
Day and beyond. We were sold this, and you touched
on some of that, Doctor, but back in the day,
it's like, well, again, it's healthy for people who have
no other... And it does have use of cancer patients
(22:16):
and whatever. That's the one way to kill some pain.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
But then suddenly it became... oh, it's no problem, now
it's recreational, or we also had people who would get
written prescriptions that were bogus just to make it quote-unquote medical.
But over time, there's the gummies and everything else out there,
so it's not harmless.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And back in the day.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
A.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Few decades back, they said, well, it's a gateway drug.
Are we seeing that too?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Is it because it's like a new level of acceptability?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah. Where does that go next?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And so in my practice with liver disease, we deal
with a lot of alcohol use disorder and other addictive elements.
And so we're in constant touch with the addiction specialists.
And I will always ask them, what is the latest
on categorizing marijuana as a gateway drug?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I would say.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Universally, those professionals that are in the addiction rehabilitation are
going to say, yes, we still consider the gateway drug.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now, if you want to take it a little bit
more specific, I would.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
In individuals that have a predisposition to a myriad of
underlying emotional, psychiatric problems, adding marijuana on top of that
is going to fuel the depression, the anxiety, the social dis-adjustment,
(23:47):
work-related problems. And so until we could really figure out
who those people are that are sitting there with a predisposition,
If you just say, hey, just take it, it's fine,
there's probably 20%, 30% of the population that is going
to have an adverse event with negative outcomes. The other
(24:07):
thing is, which they don't, when I say they, I
don't know who they are out there, but there's a lot. 21%
of traffic fatalities, this is right from the government database, 21%
of traffic fatalities are marijuana is detected in those drivers.
And so to say that it is safe, that is
(24:29):
a horrifying report. But yet I think like so many
things in life, show me the money. There's a lot
of people making money here, influencers out there.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And we lose.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Ourselves in a sense, Mark, on where reality is versus
just you know, wallpapering this as it's okay, get over it.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Everybody's doing it. Don't be an old fogey. Everybody's doing it,
and it's the cool thing. Yeah. Dr.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Joe Galati with us here on your morning show. Mark
Larson in for Michael DelGiorno. And government's complicit on this addiction, too,
because a lot of this started, well, the premise was,
you know, a bunch of illegal drug trade, so let's
make it legal, and then we can tax it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And then they found out the.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Hard way in Colorado and now in California as well,
the revenues they projected aren't what they thought or promised
they were going to be. So now you've got even
more awareness to the point now, and you touched on
it here with people driving. You know, in California, there's
all these, they're called Amber Alert signs. But, you know,
that used to be there's a kid abducted.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Here's the stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Now you have things, especially since the COVID era, you
almost expect to see something like sit up, eat your
vegetables and brush your teeth. But more often than not,
it'll say driving high, get a DUI. So that shows
how pervasive it's gotten. It's gone from, you know, sometimes
I don't drink and drive.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
But I've seen more often than not things related to this,
the whole thing like prescription meds too, but especially driving high.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It's so commonplace. You got to put reminders up there now.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah. And again, I think this, Mark, is where we
have been, there is so much of an influence.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Alcohol. And we fall for it.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
You know, we're not doing our due diligence and parents
aren't doing their due diligence and teachers and coaches and everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I mean, there's a bunch of stoned people driving vehicles, trucks, you.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Know, my God.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
And so I think that what I think is happening
is that there are people taking a very close look
to say, we've been sold a bill of goods on
just opening the door to marijuana.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's safe.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And I think there's starting to be some pushback to say,
you know what?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We may have made a mistake here.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
So again, it's always going to come down to.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
In a sense, it's uncontrolled.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
You don't know the concentration of the different products you're getting,
be it a gummy, an edible, or something you're smoking.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And so.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I'm here to share with everybody just the alarm to
wake up and look and to think that the influencers,
as you started off with, we're getting advice from the
wrong people. You got to look at the experts that
are in addiction, the neurologists, the psychiatrists that really show
the data of.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
What's happening out there. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
And, you know, talk about the under the influence people
out there driving. There are a lot of people in
government jobs who are also under the influence of making policy,
which is a whole separate show. Hey, Doc, I appreciate
the telephonic house call.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Thank you much.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, Mark.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have a great weekend now.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Dr.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Joe Galati, you can find his podcast. That is the Dr.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Joe Galati podcast via his website as well, drjoegalati.com.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We were always told, oh, it's fine. It'll be safer.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But one of the things in there, Red and Jeff,
is that it's become more potent.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And he touched on that. But, you know, pick your drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're much more intense than they were like, you know, well,
back in the 60s, whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
You know, it's a whole different level.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
This is no dime bag from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But it's so commonplace with, you know, people just say, oh,
it's a thing. It's like, but it's amazing how governments,
if you find a way to tax it and start
making money off it, you look the other way. It's like,
you know, well, let's do that with prostitution. Pick your vice. Well,
some states have done that. But the whole thing about
(28:55):
this being some It's no big, big deal. What was
his percentage or 25%? If you have underlying issues that
magnifies it. So what we were told 50 years ago,
60 years ago, the gateway drug, all of that stuff
is still there.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
And that was so poopoo. It still is. Oh, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Really?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Really?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
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It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Michael's back on Monday. Mark Larson sitting in. Great to
be here today. And by the way, certified pro, according
to Marion Boise. Which shocked Red and Jeff. Out of
all the conversations we've had, that's my favorite. Yeah, we
don't have that much, very much around here. So I
should stop the professionalism? I'm not sure when I did that.
(31:18):
We're still working with you. Like I said, we'll dumb
you down. Yeah, it'll happen. Well, now that's how we're
bringing on the smarter guy now because Rory O'Neill's back
with us, our national correspondent, toiling over all the news. And,
of course, Rory, looking at the weekend and people traveling
and gas prices, of course, top of mind. But the
job numbers just came out, as you know, and we
(31:40):
teased that before the break.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
This seems like.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Deja vu every time because it's like, hey, beyond expectations.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And then they'll redo the expectations. They'll revise them quietly.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
A couple of months later, but apparently the experts thought
there'd be 55,000 jobs added. And because things declined unexpectedly
in July, but it looks like 162,000 jobs added. So
I'm sure the president's excited about it.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But is this reality? How do we know?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, I also laugh, too, because on the news, the
Dow futures fell. So, oh, great, unexpectedly good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You know what they say about that? They say they
priced it into the market. That's the way it is. Oh, sure. Well,
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, well, I think there are concerns about what happens
with interest rates as a result. But, yeah, no, it was, again,
surprising to the upside, as they like to say. But
unemployment overall holding steady at 4.1%, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Which is full employment, right? That's called full employment? Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Anything over 3.5% to 4.5% is sort of in that
full employment range. One of the issues is the labor
participation rate, which continues to sort of trend in the
wrong direction. Too many people just out of the workforce,
not trying to get into it, and haven't gotten back in. Look,
anyone looking for a job will tell you, it is
a bear to try to get hired these days through
(33:07):
all the.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You have to talk to in an application before you
actually get a human being to talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But yeah, trying to get more people off the sidelines
is now one of the big focuses, which is why
they've been trying to restrict some of the toll programs,
some of the support programs out there to get that
28-year-old out of mom and dad's basements.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, and that's a challenge for talking to some of
those 28-year-olds. The one just recently was like, yeah, I've
got to get on my own insurance now. I said, well,
you've been blessed pretty well to this point. I was
thinking about the full employment number because it's never at
zero unemployment. And people have only been listening to influencers.
(33:52):
They don't understand that. But I remember back when George W. Bush,
Bush 43, was– uh, it was like middle of somewhere, maybe, uh,
in between his, his two terms. But I remember Nancy
Pelosi and others out there, they, it was around the
same thing. It's about 4% or so, maybe 3.8. And
(34:13):
they were on the political side, just cheering for recession.
Why don't you admit it's a, we're on almost a depression.
Why it's, it was all political, but Such are the numbers, and,
you know, I guess people aren't learning that now. So
that's why you're here.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Well, yeah. Lies, damn lies, and statistics, and then politics, right?
That's right. Maybe add that to it as well.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well, let's look at fun numbers that come home to everybody,
and that is the price at the pump. Into the
weekend with Iran still unsettled, all of that. But as
we say, your mileage and your prices may vary across
the country. But, you know, I'm sitting in California where
I get a deal if I got $ 5. 48, you know,
and that's like, ooh, cheap. But other places, it's a
(34:55):
lot cheaper.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, the California average, I think, is $ 5. 80 a gallon,
according to AAA. But nationally, we're at $ 4. 14 a gallon.
And American drivers had never paid that much for gas
on a Labor Day weekend. Typically, it's when we start
to see gas prices come down. Because Labor Day ain't
what it used to be. Back in my day, you
wouldn't go to school until after Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nowadays, you start like August 10th in lots of parts
of the country. So Labor Day is a travel holiday.
It really is diminishing. But still, for some parts of
the country, it's that last gasp of summer. So they
do try to make the most of it. But yes,
so we are seeing still stubbornly high prices at the pump,
in large part because of what's going on with Iran.
But the high diesel prices, we talked about the record
(35:44):
for gas prices for Labor Day weekend. But it's an
overall record, highest ever for diesel at $ 5. 85 a gallon.
That's a real concern because diesel is so inflationary. Yeah,
it sure is.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
And you're right about the old tradition where school would
always start after Labor Day. There was always the Miss
America pageant. And we did go on vacation to Wisconsin
back in the day. And you just knew you'd be like, oh,
summer feels like it's over. But it's not Labor Day yet.
And then it all just dropped on you all at once.
And then winter would hit. But yeah, those were the days.
(36:21):
And it used to be so quaint. Now it's all
year round. Well, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
As for people traveling, apparently cruises are some of the
top activities for this weekend. We're still seeing a lot
of travel to Seattle and Vancouver, which is a lot
of Alaskan-bound cruises. Orlando is also in the mix there.
But New York City and internationally, Rome and Paris are
in the mix.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
All right. Well, have a happy, safe... and fruitful holiday weekend. Thanks, Rory.
Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Rory O'Neill, our national correspondent here on Your Morning Show.
Michael DelGiorno is back on Monday. Mark Larson here. You
can find me at marklarson.com. Thank you, Red and Jeff.
You've been a lovely couple. Thank you so much. And
back with Michael on Monday, so all is well. Happy weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
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By the way, we are certified guaranteed human. As evidenced
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it's so nice to know that according to Marion Boise,
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that was very nice of her.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You guys object? We don't object. Like I said, we'll
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Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's still an hour to go on that. Coming up,
we'll talk with Rory O'Neill, our national correspondent, later in
the hour. Because, again, I know you're in vacation mode,
whether you have official vacation or not. It's Labor Day weekend,
the unofficial last weekend of summer. And I'm based in California.
So here's a secret. if you're traveling like to San Diego, whatever,
it's not a Memorial Day to Labor Day thing in California.
(01:48):
The best weather in California traditionally is after Labor Day
when all the tourists go home. Am I right, Arizona
people listening here on the network?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Half of them come.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Over in the summer, then the other half, it's an
exchange program. But the best weather traditionally is in September
and October. It gets drier, it gets Santa Ana's in,
you know, fire danger that comes with the territory. But
Although this year, El Nino may throw everybody off. We
may be getting snorkels. So it's part of the joy
of living in a beautiful place run by lunatics in Sacramento.
(02:19):
Can I get a witness to our Sacramento listeners there
as well? We're talking about some of the travel misery
if you are going through the airports. And so far,
this list has been spot on. And the fact that
it's from the Washington Post is shocking enough that we're
in agreement with pretty much everything. Because they surveyed, they
wrote this article, about the airports you'd only give one
(02:42):
star out of five stars to these airports, and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Some of them deserve no stars.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
But so far, none of us have had, you know,
Red and Jeff, we haven't had any disagreements with the
Washington Post. That's never happened on this show, I don't think.
I don't believe so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's a first.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So here's another one. DFW, Dallas-Fort Worth International. um gate
change hop well they put the train in down there
too but that used to be before they expanded the
train stop you could if you were not in shape
it'd be a good place to go into cardiac arrest
and i in those days had to just bolt from
(03:18):
you come in there at gate a2 and your flight's
out of d49 just impossible but uh again what the
washington post did they looked at social media uh people
rating their experiences in airports. And these are the ones
that came up on top. DFW is in the top 10. Charlie,
who lives in Dallas, said, I guess the old adage,
(03:38):
if you dress up a pig, it's still a pig. First,
be prepared to mortgage the house if you want to
park on site and get prepared for the worst and
rudest TSA agents at TSA PreCheck. Put on your running
shoes as they'll change your gait at least three times.
Bring a set of binoculars if you want to read
the main gate monitors. It's in size four font. Good
(04:01):
luck hearing gate announcements as they all talk or reach out.
And that's a problem sometimes. I like flying southwest if
I just want to get there and have usually entertaining crews.
But where they've crammed in now where you've got about
eight gates within the same, and you're constantly hearing, and
you're like, I don't know what that was. So, and
(04:21):
fairly intelligent. How about Newark Liberty International?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We were talking during the break here.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
LaGuardia used to be on this list, but LaGuardia, New York,
has actually improved some things, which is saying something. JFK
was on the list that we mentioned before at the
top of the hour. But, yeah, Newark Liberty International in
New Jersey. And the headline is Flaming Jerk Bags. And
(04:51):
here's what John said on social media recently traveling through Newark.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'd love this.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Unless Jesus himself tells you directly, he's chartered a flight
for you from EWR, that's the airport, to heaven, and
then all caps, do not use this airport. The airport
has poor signage, not very easy to get around, very
few areas to sit, but most significantly, everyone we came
across at work there was a flaming jerk.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Bag for no reason. I said, John, that's not written
by the.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Airport promotional department in Newark.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh, Chicago O'Hare. Oh yeah. I grew up in that
part of the country out in Rockford, Illinois. O'Hare.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I remember as a kid that my grandparents would go
back to their, their original homeland in Sweden.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And it was long ago. It was, it was a
nice place. And then it just kept getting out of
control and got worse.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And the politicians got involved and now it's, Here's what
the comments are. Lou in Washington, D.C., traveling through O'Hare
earlier this year, his quote says, the ceiling looks like
a bad gay bar from the 1980s. The upholstery on
the seats is ripped and stained. Ew.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
There's seemingly nobody cleaning up the trash.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Bathrooms are dirty with soap dispensers all empty and water
all over the floors. Well, that's a good day at O'Hare.
He says his flight moved four or five times. So
many times I lost count. And of course, no announcements.
The airport is suffering under something bad, sad and mad. Now,
that's all. I've seen people there when there's delays there.
People sleep it all over. There's also homeless people who
(06:33):
camp out at O'Hare. That's another thing. Heather in Peoria, Arizona,
traveling through O'Hare said this. I would rather ride a
donkey across the country than fly through there. How about
Charlotte Douglas International? I haven't been to Charlotte much. Would
you concur with that, Red?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is that Jeff? I haven't been to Charlotte. It says
it's soul-crushing. It's that light string.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Let's hear from people in the Carolinas. Chris in Jacksonville,
Florida said, that's one airport so uniquely soul-crushing the devil
himself would say, no thanks, I'll walk. Let's see, Mary
Lou in Tallahassee, Florida, traveling through Charlotte said, even my
airport nemesis, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, oh yeah, doesn't
(07:26):
compare to this crime against humanity. I seriously do not
want to return all caps ever. The amount of people
I saw sprinting across this airport baffled me. And do
not get me started on the lack of a moving
train between the terminals. And then the next up, then
they go international, Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, staffed
by sloths. My wife and I were coming back from
(07:49):
somewhere in Europe, and we had to change planes there.
London's bad, too, for that. You're going back through customs.
We actually had to sprint to, like, whatever the other
terminal was. And we got to the airplane, and it's like,
did we die? We just had a workout, like lost
10 pounds. We get in there, and the flight attendants
were like, yeah, we know. Let's get you a drink.
And we were in coach. Like, let's sedate you now.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
They all knew.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This thing is designed by lunatics. Yes, in London, Heathrow
is on the list, too.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Sarah out of St.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Louis, expect 45-minute passport lines.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, that's a good day there.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Incomprehensible signage and a security process that treats a tube
of toothpaste like a national threat. Send in the redcoats.
If you're transferring terminals, pack a lunch and maybe your
will because you may not come out of it. um
oh and then patricia in honolulu said to add insult
to injury this airport didn't even carry the the cadbury
flake chocolate bar oh my we've gotten so cushy in
(08:52):
america right no any.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
To add to the list guys those are pretty accurate though.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah it's been a long time since i've flown commercially.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think the last time you fly private all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No, it's just I kind of stay close to home
or I use I use a car. So, yeah, I
think the last time when I was with Titans Radio,
the radio network, we were flying charter with the with
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh, yeah. The local Titans team here. So we were
very pampered at that time.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I didn't get to see all the bad things. La-di-da. So, Red,
do you fly UPS usually or FedEx? Yeah, I fly FedEx.
I fly Denver.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I fly Denver all the time, although Dulles is probably
my best ever. The tower got struck by lightning and
knocked out the entire communications for the Eastern Seaboard. Everyone
had to sprint off the planes and get to cars.
(10:00):
like 9-11 because there was no travel up and down
the Eastern Seaboard.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And you were there.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
What a beautiful travel memory that is.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I had a nun sitting across from me and I said,
can you please pray for us right now? we lightning
strikes were hitting the ground as we were on.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
The plane we're happy you survived one other random airport
thing because you talked about towers and all that i
was going to southeast asia with uh with the bible
league back then a fine organization we were actually smuggling
bibles in to the underground church in vietnam that was
something about 30 years ago and we were supposed to
(10:41):
go to um we went to Thailand, Vietnam, and then
we were supposed to go to Cambodia, but on our way,
like the first leg of the flight out of the
U S they said, well, we're, we.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Changed our plans.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We're not going to Cambodia because some, some thieves got
into the control tower overnight and stole all the copper wiring.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Plus there's still, there's still.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Big holes on the runways from the latest bombing or whatever.
It's like, well, glad we're not going there. So, And
in that great tradition, some American airports obviously are trying
to be the worst third-world airports possible now by spreading
the magic.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I have flown into Port-au-Prince and Haiti a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
So those are always a unique experience. Well, share your
travel with us because, you know, it's Labor Day weekend.
So most people are now going, I'll walk or I'll drive.
That'll be fine. Use that red TalkBack mic on the
iHeartRadio app. We'll get to that plus some top stories
of the day. And the younger Americans now say they
pay more attention to influencers. Does that make you encouraged
(11:48):
about the future? I'm not so sure. We'll get into
more of that coming up. It's your morning show after all.
Michael DelGiorno back next week. Mark Larson sitting in. Thanks
for joining us. Love to hear from you next.
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and obviously top five stories today, the Lindsay Clancy case.
Total deliberation, almost 37 hours they've been going through this.
(13:42):
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all over again. And she's not going to be wandering
free or freely, the grammar police. So that's in the mix.
A lot of talk about J.D. Vance taking over the
(14:06):
press gathering at the White House yesterday, first press briefing
in the press room from the White House since July.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And, you know, he's looking better.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
The big takeaway from that is he's lost a lot
of weight, and he says it's because he's on the
RFK Jr.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
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Because there's a lot of fermented rory o'neill told us
it's a lot of the sauerkraut fermented stuff that is
the big recommendation apparently that's good for your gut not
necessarily good for people around you if you're on an
airplane um you could figure out what that means uh
and of course tied to that what's going on in
iran um.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Nothing great.
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want to call it, where there's talking and then there's
not talking. And then we hit a mart and the
oil is flowing. Well, actually, some of the oil is
flowing now through that southern pipeline route. But I think
we all thought it'd be over by now, didn't we? Oh,
and NATO is on the brink of war, say some
of the headlines, because they're they're basically saying to Russia,
(15:09):
stop having accidental drones come into like Estonia. So the
world's got plenty of crazy going around for everybody there
in the top of the news. And, of course, still
a lot of chatter about, and scuttlebutt, about Maria Bartiromo suddenly.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Being out at Fox and didn't say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Part of the scuttlebutt rumor, et cetera, was that maybe
she's going to get the press gig, press secretary, which
would most likely be way below her pay grade. But
more likely it's because she allegedly was letting President Trump
know about some internal guidelines at Fox, especially with his
(15:51):
July speech about voter fraud. And there was some memo
saying that be careful about what you do in the
live coverage because they got sued many millions of dollars
for that topic with the Dominion voting machines.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Remember that one?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Be careful of releasing the Kraken again, huh?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah. I'm afraid just bringing it up because we don't
want to get sued either. You know what they say
in California every time they say that? Here's how they
phrase it. There is no widespread evidence of voter fraud.
That's because if you're really good at voter fraud, there's
not going to be a trail.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There's no.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I hear the defense when I'm here in San Diego.
Love California, just hate how it's being run. Bless their hearts.
But that's what they'll say. Well, there's been some fraud, but.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No widespread evidence.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And you can tell how much there's likely there just watching,
in this case, Gavin Newsom. huffing and puffing because of
any question about the wonderful mail-in ballots. Remember, we used
to have debates across America about mail-in voting, and then
COVID happened, and it became so convenient to go, well,
in an abundance of caution. That was back when they
(17:13):
told us to leave our Amazon package outside, let it
air out, and if you've been to the produce department,
scrub your zucchini and all that kind of stuff, and
then in an abundance of caution, let's just give everybody
a mail-in ballot. I'm Daniel Cosney in Tampa, and my
morning show is your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Hey, it's me, Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Your morning show can be heard live 5 to 8 a.m. Central,
6 to 9 Eastern in great cities like Jackson, Mississippi, Akron, Ohio,
or Columbus, Georgia. We'd love to be a part of
your morning routine, and we're grateful you're here now. Enjoy
the podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And Mark Larson in for Michael. Honored to be here today.
Thanks for joining us on the edge of this Labor
Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dr.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Joe Gelati is going to join us here. Gelati will
be here in just seconds. I did want to mention
this because this may tie into what we're talking about.
If you think recreational marijuana is just fine or seems
like more people are doing it, yeah. How does it
affect you?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We'll get into that. But this is interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Younger Americans pay more attention to influencers because most Americans don't.
In fact, there's another story out today about influencer backlash
because too many people doing stunts just to be influencers.
but a new Rasmussen reports national phone and online survey
finds just 10% of American adults pay a lot of
attention to influencers.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
However, you get to the youngsters, it's off the chart.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So they're, they're now trusting influencers more than like, I
guess us, um, but to fix that, or maybe they're
just all smoking weed.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That could be part of it. I, that's, uh, That
may be. Dr.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Joe Galati is here. You can catch his podcast. That's
on his website, drjoegalati.com. Doctors, so it does seem like
everywhere there's that. Sometimes people say, gee, it smells like
a skunk out here. Well, that's usually recreational weed. I'm
in California, so certainly it's pervasive. I know that I
(19:22):
was going to a baseball game. recently, and I'm walking
a mile and a half from a parking area. And
along the way, it's like, I feel like I'm getting
a contact high. So this is a thing, isn't it?
And I'm sure a lot of influencers think it's cool.
It's got to be more commonplace. You see advertising for
it in many states everywhere. So what's it doing to us? Yeah,
(19:44):
you know, I think you hit it on the head
with the whole influencer. I mean, influencer telling us.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
What to eat, how to exercise, what to wear, how
to behave, how to have relationships, and the amount of pressure,
in a sense, to make smoking marijuana cool or the
thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And if you just look at the.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Numbers, and I think the numbers speak for themselves, where
the rate of substance use disorder, this is a real
true psychiatric problem, is up four times compared 2015 to 2024.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That is not just a habit.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
There has been a huge push to legitimize it, make
it commercially available, and make it legal. But I think
that we are turning an absolute blind eye on the
health and wellness consequences of this.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
And it depends. Who are you listening to?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The medical professionals, if you want to look at one end,
are you looking at the people that are on Instagram
and TikTok to say that this is something good? I
look at it to say where I think we went astray.
is for many years we had medical uses for medical marijuana.
It was typically going to be cancer patients going through chemotherapy,
(20:58):
people that had HIV, something called wasting syndrome, and then
a number of neurologic disorders where marijuana helped. Now, from there,
we've dumbed it down to think that you could go
into a doctor or a dispensary and say, I have
chronic low back pain. I have neck stiffness, I have
(21:20):
an upset stomach. Okay, sure, this is a medical indication
you get marijuana. And it just opens up the door
to availability. But I do think that the crux of
it is, number one, the compounds that are out there
now are far more concentrated and toxic. Number two, the
negative impact on the emotional state, especially of our young people,
(21:44):
creating a situation of anxiety, depression, psychosis, and an increased
risk of suicide.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
This is not a benign problem. Dr.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Joe Gulati with us here on Your Morning Show. Mark
Larson in for Michael. And Michael's back next week, Labor
Day and beyond. We were sold this, and you touched
on some of that, Doctor, but back in the day,
it's like, well, again, it's healthy for people who have
no other... And it does have use of cancer patients
(22:16):
and whatever. That's the one way to kill some pain.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
But then suddenly it became... oh, it's no problem, now
it's recreational, or we also had people who would get
written prescriptions that were bogus just to make it quote-unquote medical.
But over time, there's the gummies and everything else out there,
so it's not harmless.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And back in the day.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
A.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Few decades back, they said, well, it's a gateway drug.
Are we seeing that too?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Is it because it's like a new level of acceptability?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah. Where does that go next?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And so in my practice with liver disease, we deal
with a lot of alcohol use disorder and other addictive elements.
And so we're in constant touch with the addiction specialists.
And I will always ask them, what is the latest
on categorizing marijuana as a gateway drug?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I would say.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Universally, those professionals that are in the addiction rehabilitation are
going to say, yes, we still consider the gateway drug.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now, if you want to take it a little bit
more specific, I would.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
In individuals that have a predisposition to a myriad of
underlying emotional, psychiatric problems, adding marijuana on top of that
is going to fuel the depression, the anxiety, the social dis-adjustment,
(23:47):
work-related problems. And so until we could really figure out
who those people are that are sitting there with a predisposition,
If you just say, hey, just take it, it's fine,
there's probably 20%, 30% of the population that is going
to have an adverse event with negative outcomes. The other
(24:07):
thing is, which they don't, when I say they, I
don't know who they are out there, but there's a lot. 21%
of traffic fatalities, this is right from the government database, 21%
of traffic fatalities are marijuana is detected in those drivers.
And so to say that it is safe, that is
(24:29):
a horrifying report. But yet I think like so many
things in life, show me the money. There's a lot
of people making money here, influencers out there.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And we lose.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Ourselves in a sense, Mark, on where reality is versus
just you know, wallpapering this as it's okay, get over it.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Everybody's doing it. Don't be an old fogey. Everybody's doing it,
and it's the cool thing. Yeah. Dr.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Joe Galati with us here on your morning show. Mark
Larson in for Michael DelGiorno. And government's complicit on this addiction, too,
because a lot of this started, well, the premise was,
you know, a bunch of illegal drug trade, so let's
make it legal, and then we can tax it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And then they found out the.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Hard way in Colorado and now in California as well,
the revenues they projected aren't what they thought or promised
they were going to be. So now you've got even
more awareness to the point now, and you touched on
it here with people driving. You know, in California, there's
all these, they're called Amber Alert signs. But, you know,
that used to be there's a kid abducted.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Here's the stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Now you have things, especially since the COVID era, you
almost expect to see something like sit up, eat your
vegetables and brush your teeth. But more often than not,
it'll say driving high, get a DUI. So that shows
how pervasive it's gotten. It's gone from, you know, sometimes
I don't drink and drive.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
But I've seen more often than not things related to this,
the whole thing like prescription meds too, but especially driving high.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It's so commonplace. You got to put reminders up there now.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah. And again, I think this, Mark, is where we
have been, there is so much of an influence.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Alcohol. And we fall for it.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
You know, we're not doing our due diligence and parents
aren't doing their due diligence and teachers and coaches and everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I mean, there's a bunch of stoned people driving vehicles, trucks, you.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Know, my God.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
And so I think that what I think is happening
is that there are people taking a very close look
to say, we've been sold a bill of goods on
just opening the door to marijuana.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's safe.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And I think there's starting to be some pushback to say,
you know what?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We may have made a mistake here.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
So again, it's always going to come down to.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
In a sense, it's uncontrolled.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
You don't know the concentration of the different products you're getting,
be it a gummy, an edible, or something you're smoking.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And so.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I'm here to share with everybody just the alarm to
wake up and look and to think that the influencers,
as you started off with, we're getting advice from the
wrong people. You got to look at the experts that
are in addiction, the neurologists, the psychiatrists that really show
the data of.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
What's happening out there. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
And, you know, talk about the under the influence people
out there driving. There are a lot of people in
government jobs who are also under the influence of making policy,
which is a whole separate show. Hey, Doc, I appreciate
the telephonic house call.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Thank you much.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, Mark.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have a great weekend now.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Dr.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Joe Galati, you can find his podcast. That is the Dr.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Joe Galati podcast via his website as well, drjoegalati.com.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We were always told, oh, it's fine. It'll be safer.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But one of the things in there, Red and Jeff,
is that it's become more potent.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And he touched on that. But, you know, pick your drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're much more intense than they were like, you know, well,
back in the 60s, whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
You know, it's a whole different level.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
This is no dime bag from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But it's so commonplace with, you know, people just say, oh,
it's a thing. It's like, but it's amazing how governments,
if you find a way to tax it and start
making money off it, you look the other way. It's like,
you know, well, let's do that with prostitution. Pick your vice. Well,
some states have done that. But the whole thing about
(28:55):
this being some It's no big, big deal. What was
his percentage or 25%? If you have underlying issues that
magnifies it. So what we were told 50 years ago,
60 years ago, the gateway drug, all of that stuff
is still there.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
And that was so poopoo. It still is. Oh, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Really?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Really?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Love your thoughts. It is your morning show. Michael DelGiorno
back on Monday. Mark Larson sitting in today. Of course,
you use that red talkback mic, and you can opine
anytime you like. Love to hear from you. Coming up,
get you ready for the holiday weekend. You're already vacationing
in your mind. Anyway, Rory O'Neill is going to have
latest on gas prices and by the way the the
employment numbers are out there they're good news going into
(29:44):
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It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Michael's back on Monday. Mark Larson sitting in. Great to
be here today. And by the way, certified pro, according
to Marion Boise. Which shocked Red and Jeff. Out of
all the conversations we've had, that's my favorite. Yeah, we
don't have that much, very much around here. So I
should stop the professionalism? I'm not sure when I did that.
(31:18):
We're still working with you. Like I said, we'll dumb
you down. Yeah, it'll happen. Well, now that's how we're
bringing on the smarter guy now because Rory O'Neill's back
with us, our national correspondent, toiling over all the news. And,
of course, Rory, looking at the weekend and people traveling
and gas prices, of course, top of mind. But the
job numbers just came out, as you know, and we
(31:40):
teased that before the break.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
This seems like.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Deja vu every time because it's like, hey, beyond expectations.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And then they'll redo the expectations. They'll revise them quietly.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
A couple of months later, but apparently the experts thought
there'd be 55,000 jobs added. And because things declined unexpectedly
in July, but it looks like 162,000 jobs added. So
I'm sure the president's excited about it.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But is this reality? How do we know?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, I also laugh, too, because on the news, the
Dow futures fell. So, oh, great, unexpectedly good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You know what they say about that? They say they
priced it into the market. That's the way it is. Oh, sure. Well,
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, well, I think there are concerns about what happens
with interest rates as a result. But, yeah, no, it was, again,
surprising to the upside, as they like to say. But
unemployment overall holding steady at 4.1%, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Which is full employment, right? That's called full employment? Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Anything over 3.5% to 4.5% is sort of in that
full employment range. One of the issues is the labor
participation rate, which continues to sort of trend in the
wrong direction. Too many people just out of the workforce,
not trying to get into it, and haven't gotten back in. Look,
anyone looking for a job will tell you, it is
a bear to try to get hired these days through
(33:07):
all the.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You have to talk to in an application before you
actually get a human being to talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But yeah, trying to get more people off the sidelines
is now one of the big focuses, which is why
they've been trying to restrict some of the toll programs,
some of the support programs out there to get that
28-year-old out of mom and dad's basements.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, and that's a challenge for talking to some of
those 28-year-olds. The one just recently was like, yeah, I've
got to get on my own insurance now. I said, well,
you've been blessed pretty well to this point. I was
thinking about the full employment number because it's never at
zero unemployment. And people have only been listening to influencers.
(33:52):
They don't understand that. But I remember back when George W. Bush,
Bush 43, was– uh, it was like middle of somewhere, maybe, uh,
in between his, his two terms. But I remember Nancy
Pelosi and others out there, they, it was around the
same thing. It's about 4% or so, maybe 3.8. And
(34:13):
they were on the political side, just cheering for recession.
Why don't you admit it's a, we're on almost a depression.
Why it's, it was all political, but Such are the numbers, and,
you know, I guess people aren't learning that now. So
that's why you're here.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Well, yeah. Lies, damn lies, and statistics, and then politics, right?
That's right. Maybe add that to it as well.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well, let's look at fun numbers that come home to everybody,
and that is the price at the pump. Into the
weekend with Iran still unsettled, all of that. But as
we say, your mileage and your prices may vary across
the country. But, you know, I'm sitting in California where
I get a deal if I got $ 5. 48, you know,
and that's like, ooh, cheap. But other places, it's a
(34:55):
lot cheaper.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, the California average, I think, is $ 5. 80 a gallon,
according to AAA. But nationally, we're at $ 4. 14 a gallon.
And American drivers had never paid that much for gas
on a Labor Day weekend. Typically, it's when we start
to see gas prices come down. Because Labor Day ain't
what it used to be. Back in my day, you
wouldn't go to school until after Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nowadays, you start like August 10th in lots of parts
of the country. So Labor Day is a travel holiday.
It really is diminishing. But still, for some parts of
the country, it's that last gasp of summer. So they
do try to make the most of it. But yes,
so we are seeing still stubbornly high prices at the pump,
in large part because of what's going on with Iran.
But the high diesel prices, we talked about the record
(35:44):
for gas prices for Labor Day weekend. But it's an
overall record, highest ever for diesel at $ 5. 85 a gallon.
That's a real concern because diesel is so inflationary. Yeah,
it sure is.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
And you're right about the old tradition where school would
always start after Labor Day. There was always the Miss
America pageant. And we did go on vacation to Wisconsin
back in the day. And you just knew you'd be like, oh,
summer feels like it's over. But it's not Labor Day yet.
And then it all just dropped on you all at once.
And then winter would hit. But yeah, those were the days.
(36:21):
And it used to be so quaint. Now it's all
year round. Well, have a good day.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
As for people traveling, apparently cruises are some of the
top activities for this weekend. We're still seeing a lot
of travel to Seattle and Vancouver, which is a lot
of Alaskan-bound cruises. Orlando is also in the mix there.
But New York City and internationally, Rome and Paris are
in the mix.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
All right. Well, have a happy, safe... and fruitful holiday weekend. Thanks, Rory.
Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Rory O'Neill, our national correspondent here on Your Morning Show.
Michael DelGiorno is back on Monday. Mark Larson here. You
can find me at marklarson.com. Thank you, Red and Jeff.
You've been a lovely couple. Thank you so much. And
back with Michael on Monday, so all is well. Happy weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Take care. We're all in this together. This is Your
Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno.
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