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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is your Morning Show with Michael O'Dell Jordan. One
week to go till Election Day?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Where do we stand and why is everyone afraid of
feeling anything or predicting anything? Welcome to Tuesday October, the
twenty ninth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four on
the air and streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. This
is your Morning show and I'm Michael del journal Jeffrey
Lyon has the controls. All the momentum, in numbers and

(00:56):
in feeling belongs to Donald Trump, the stunted McDonald's two
weekends ago. This weekend, sixty million people at least reached
on The Joe Rogan Show, then from Madison Square Garden
to the tens of thousands outside of it a rally
that felt more like a convention. Now it's Kamala's turn
to give her closing argument. She will do so from

(01:18):
the ellipse in our nation's capital. They're expecting twenty thousand
people to be right where Donald Trump was on January
sixth of twenty twenty one, and I guess a homage
to turn the page and moving forward, they will look
back at the boogieman. It will be scripted. I'm sure
it'll be a teleprompter. Will she perform as she did

(01:38):
at the convention? And will that makeup for how she's
performed on talk shows since?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Lots to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
David Zanati is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable,
host of The Public Square, and a senior contributor to
Your morning show, David one week ago. In all indications,
from polling numbers to feeling, is the mimmentum belongs to
Donald Trump?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Can she take it back today?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Good morning, Michael? Can she take it back to that
great question? The problem with Trump's momentum is that it
accelerates the anxiety and the flailing about mercilessly of the
mainstream media. So every time Trump moves forward, it kicks
in a serious response. So the question will be how

(02:22):
much coverage does she get on this meeting at the Ellipse,
And I think you're quite discerning on the idea of
So she's going right there to re enact January sixth
and to say, see, if I had been here, this
would have ended up a wonderful, inspiring turn of the
page moment. But because he was here, all hell broke loose.
And that's what's going to happen to you in just

(02:43):
a few weeks.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
You do a show. You do a show once a year.
That is one of my favorite things to do.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Every year.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's called Christmas in America. We go back in time
and look at periods of time and find the manger. Then,
in an attempt to see the relevance of the manger today,
can you imagine if you were to do everything the
way you do it in terms of writing, have the
best musicians because we live in Nashville, put together the
best musical experience, and then just watch the stage every year.

(03:10):
The reason I say that is just by standing at
the Ellipse, just the setting of where she is makes
the speech almost impossible to be successful. America is not
still looking back at twenty twenty one, or they're not
even playing the Boogeyman game. They're playing the economy, the

(03:30):
border wars, rumors of wars. I think just by her
choosing the ellipse is a big mistake. Now, she may
prove me wrong and deliver a great speech, but it'd
be just like Christmas in America, doing the right message,
the right music from the wrong stage.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And God forbid we should ever do that night. You
just reenacted all my nightmares.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
No you're not.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
We're doing nineteen seventy three this year and for people
my age, it's going to be one for the record books.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Michael, we did on show and I'll answer your questions
just a second. But since you brought this up, we
did one show where we pulled into the university where
we were doing for setup and loaded and get everything started.
And we got in, loaded everything in, turned on the power,
and in thirty seconds the power blue for the whole
university campus. So there we were hours before a show

(04:22):
with no power. I mean, we've had some of the
craziest things happen, and in a way it's kind of
an illustration because she started at her high point as
the joyful candidate. If she goes back to that darkness
and adopts Joe Biden's the darkness of the future. If
you don't do what I tell you, it's going to

(04:43):
be a complete contradiction and everything that she's done to
this point in time. And it's one of those mixed
messages that very likely will fall on top of itself.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
David Sinai, it's our senior contributor from the American Policy Roundtable.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You may have brought up the most important point media.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Of course, I just did the study negative when it
comes to Donald Trump seventy eight percent positive when it
comes to Kamala Harris. Journalism is dead. It has no credibility.
It's now a propaganda arm of a specific party. But
in there lies the problem because no one's watching and
no one's influence. So when you bring up it depends

(05:18):
on how much coverage. No matter what it is, it
can't match what Donald Trump perceived sitting down with Joe Rogan,
something she's yet to do and refusing.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
A very very powerful moment. And I think that you know,
you and I have talked.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
About this for over two years.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
We talked about it before we knew whether or not
Donald Trump would actually be the nominee when there was
actually a contest going on, and we said, it all
depends on whether or not he's able to convince Americans
that his experience as being president of the United States
has enriched his understanding of what needs to be done
for America for everybody else. And by and large, his

(05:55):
speeches have been difficult at best, they're just difficult. But
when he sat down with Joe Rogan, we had the
first time I can ever remember the conversation I wish
we would have had for the last two years, which is,
I've been there, Here's what I've discovered, Here's what it
means going forward. Rogan asked a lot of really smart questions.

(06:17):
He stayed with him in an honest, inquisitive way. There
was a tremendous amount of mutual respect going back and forth.
I don't know which point it got into pandering, but
the point is it was a frank conversation and I
learned something about Donald Trump's experience.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
That makes him relatable.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
And look, he went through this thing for three hours
without a blinkoln was ready to still go, and they
dragged him off and he wasn't getting less interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
He was getting more interested.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, he told Frank's stories about when he met with
Obama getting ready for the transfer of power, and Obama said, well,
about to go to war with North Korea and all
this stuff. Yeah, I was like, I don't know about that.
And then he met with this but he told a
lot of very something so specific. I was uncomfortab but
with him revealing. But he was very frank. He was
very honest, not generic, not outrageous, very calm. I sensed

(07:08):
in that interview. And we can talk about the interview
versus whatever she does today with a teleprompter, because I
don't think America is going to respond to speeches like
they used to anymore. They want to have a conversation, yes,
and they don't trust it unless it's a conversation. That's
what makes it three hours uninterrupted where sixty million people
are not where one hundred thousand hour on cable television.
I mean, there's a lot of reasons that made this powerful,

(07:28):
but the most powerful part about it is how Donald
Trump looked, spoke and behaved and David he's different. And
I don't know if it's he found his two point
zero or he almost got shot and killed, and he
became it. But this is a much different guy heading
into this selection, and I can't put my finger on it.
I don't know if it's because he doesn't care anymore

(07:50):
whether he wins or loses, or because he knows he's
going to win. And it tells me he's going to
be a different, a different governing Donald Trump if he
does win.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Do you sense that watching.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well a heckeple people should check us out, check this out,
go ahead and make up your own mind. Which is
the whole theme of where Rogan's going from is he's curious.
He's an inquisitive person and he just wants to talk
to people and let people make up their own minds.
Trump held himself better than I would have ever anticipated,
most effectively. It wasn't campaign energy, it was genuine interest.

(08:22):
And the other thing is that you saw a depth
of consistency in the way that he looks at people
and looks at circumstances and looks at problem solving. Now,
I know this is going to sound from people like
I'm trying to throw an endorsement. No, I'm being an
objective analyst in policy, in media. This was a substantive
conversation and would to god we had more of them.

(08:42):
Rogan made the comedy said, he said, let's go back
to old school debates. Let's just put two candidates in
a room with no moderators, two microphones on, and say
you got an hour, go talk to each other.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
We're watching.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Will one minute before break, tell them the kind of
debate you did one time, because if we've done that,
if we do that debate for the rest of man kind,
we won't have any of the nightmares we've had.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yes, well, you take a guy like Rogan and you'd
have him bring Trump in and we called them non
debate debate and he asked Trump questions about you know,
one question, one, two, three, Trump answers. Trump leaves the room,
and then Harris comes in and does exactly the same thing,
so that people get to watch in a non hostile environment.
And if the one candidate at text the other one
in the time period, he loses his time, you hit

(09:23):
the buzzer and the next guy comes in. It's called
the non debate debate. It's a conversational format and it
works brilliantly. We've done it multiple times.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because if they can't do you know, it's like, why
do we have attack ads? That's all they can do, right,
And that's that's what they've turned debates in. You know,
we talked a long time ago about politics, the nature
of inside the beltwigh. Politics has become our social media
and has become our media, and I found myself seeing

(09:53):
talk radio getting sucked into this game as well. Rather
than being the last bastion of truth, it was becoming
a part of the problem. And we said, no, no, it's
time for this all to return to a conversation and
a civil conversation. And I think America is there already,
And that's why I think, no matter what she does today,
if it's all teleprompter, it's not going to have the

(10:14):
same result as the McDonald's stunt, let alone, the Rogan interview,
let alone, what looked more like a convention than a
rally in the heart of blue Madison Square Garden. And
I think it has nothing to do with the candidates
and how they performed, although that was a big part
of it.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
And she still needs to like Donald Trump did.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's where America's at and I don't know that they're
going to respond to You're trying to have this Obama
MLK moment looking back compared to three hours.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Just sit down with Joe Rogan, let me overhear.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
That's what they really want and that's where I think
that And based on set alone, she's lost before she
started today, but she might shock me. I mean, she
could deliver a good speech. CNN's already praising it. Apparently
they've either helped write it or see it. This is
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(11:18):
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(11:50):
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(12:11):
with a win. They won again last night, four to two.
They're up three games to nothing. And the Steelers won
if you fell asleep, twenty six to eighteen in a
really crummy game.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Steelers in the Giants.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
All right, Aaron Rayal is here and we're talking about
the election being one week away and how close the
election is. With David Zanati, we came to this conclusion.
You can't really see the break in the polls like
we used to in the past because you can't get
good polling information because people don't have home phones and
there is a certain side of the electric that will

(12:42):
not answer the phone. They don't trust the people that
are calling. So you can't see clear breaks. You almost
got to feel them. And at the end of the day,
it's obviously much different than it was four years ago
or eight years ago, but it's uncertain and you know
what uncertainty causes anxiety and stress because we're We're never
going to know until we know just how stressed out

(13:02):
is America over this election.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Very very very very stressed out is the answer. Listen,
we are not well. You look at this like pitched partisanship,
the political violence, the barrage of ads. What's fascinating is
that more than a third of the almost two thousand
marriage and family therapists surveyed in September, they describe election
related stress as more severe than generalized anxiety disorder, which

(13:28):
is actually the most common mental health diagnosis in the US.
Thirty two percent of Americans eighteen to thirty four report
feeling nervous and scared about the upcoming election.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
And then listen to this, Michael, This one blew my mind.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Kaiser Permanente found that hospitalizations from heart attack, stroke, and
heart failure up almost seventeen percent higher in the five
days following twenty twenty than the five days two weeks prior.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
We're on track for a similar number this year. It's
hard to go.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
So let me put into perspective for you.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
So if I woke up tomorrow and I will not
and suddenly it has been proven there is no God,
I am a much different human being with a much
different stress level.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I can't even imagine what life would be like.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
America has lost this identity of God, family, and country.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
But you never This started with my mother at a
very young age.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
A man never leaves his wife unless he's got somebody.
Trust me, he'll just cheat. So you never leave something
without replacing it. Have we replaced God with our divisions
and our party? Just like have we replaced God with
the Supreme Court?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
You know?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
And we have made this our identity in life? And
then if your identity can be stripped away, well it
is the ultimate stress. I mean, I have seen people
bump into old guys from high school they haven't talked
to in forty years, and they bump into him on
Facebook and they're like, oh.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
It's so great to see it again.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Man, remember this, remember that on And then you know,
after about four or five posts, they're fighting. And after
about four or five fights, they're unfriended. And we're seeing
this happening with marriages now.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Thank god.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I you know, my wife and I share the same worldview,
so we arrive usually at the same candidate like you.
Sometimes on a few issues, she goes a little too
far to the left, for me. But but you know,
you wonder how this is affecting every aspect of life,
and I say it goes straight to identity. If your
God is the same yesterday in forever and he's lord
of your life, there's nothing about this election that affects
you ultimately, not to cause that kind of.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Anxiety, but yeah, the biggest one of all what are
we doing here? But you're right in the sense that
not just because of all the noise, but because of
the way that it shapes social interactions, politics, and also,
like you said, you know, it's your individual identity. It
really so like it does come down in morality, like
you mentioned your wife and how like you agree on

(15:48):
most things, probably the big things. And then there's some
pur theory if you where you're on different sides, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
We have a couple that we're friends with that are
atheists and I think they've been waiting for over a
decade now for us to shove Jesus down their throat,
and we have them.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
We have them.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
We just loved them for the way they were. We
have another couple that's very far left. They have an
individual in that couple that is behaving very poorly.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm not going to take the bait and I'm just
going to ignore it till after the election. But this
is stuff that's really going on, and it's real, and
for some that aren't able to rise above it, it'll
tear down a relationship, it'll tear apart a country. It'll
tear apart families, and it'll tear apart relationships, and it'll
tear apart your joy and peace. And we're seeing it
and that's why we're so mentally ill in this country.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
And I think it's from what you just said.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
You know, campaigns, they shape your shared experience, so it
draws like minded people together. But then that also foment's
conflict with the people who aren't like minded, and that's
why you have this deep stress underlying.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
You know, if every election cycle eron, somebody's a winner
and somebody's half the country's a loser, and half the
country's a winner, and the loser just starts fighting the
one who won. When do we ever unite? When do
we ever progress? When do we ever grow? When do
we ever prosper? It's just it's just an endless It's
the definition of an insanity that we continue in.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
This processing over and over again is literally the definition
of insanity.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
I listen, you can't.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
We're also a country that you know has we are
as a secular country. There's a division of religion and state,
and you know, for good reason, we don't go fight
holy wars. But at the same time, you bring up God,
and it's like, I think, like the god of your
understanding or the idea like like having you know, some
sort of peace that is brought to you by this,
regardless to which one you what you're looking at in

(17:34):
that format, it creates it creates a shared experience.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
You know that there's not.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Like it doesn't really matter, like it's just the idea
of that I think is an important part of like
the morality of the country.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
And and yes, you might see an erosion of that.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
And I'm not a pining whether or not that's bad
or good, but it might be adding to the mental
health effects.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, and I don't and you know what would be
interesting to do in that study, but they didn't. It
was compared the anxiety leveled this time to four years ago.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
To eight years and yes, it's worse this year.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, And what do you think it's going to be
in four years, and what do you think it's going
to be in eight years if we continue on this track.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
But there is an awakening.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Remember there's two things that have to happen further to
be really measurable, remarkable change, and that is a cultural
awakening and a spiritual renewal and or revival.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
And I sense an awakening.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I sense it in this younger generation that you always
talk about, which, by the way, I think their stress
level is very high. I'm seeing that my daughter, Yes,
and I'm having to give speeches like I just gave. Look,
elections matter, and America matters, and I want you to care,
and I want you to do research, and I want
you to cast your vote and all of that. But
as long as that tomb's empty, we're not without hope,
no matter what the result is. But there is a

(18:51):
high level of stress and it's growing. But there is
also an awakening movement that is starting to see through
all the death of journalism, all the of journalism, all
the fruits of hate and division, and how they resolve this,
I think is or is not our future.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
But right now it's high, high.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Anxiety, high anxiety. And I have to say, like in
spite of being a journalist.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
And like you know, you're always the cynic when you're
exposed to But I'm always hopeful for the future. I
am like, there's dark times, but it ultimately always gets better.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
See.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
And I was always I always like to claim I
was a realist, but I think technically I was always
preparing for the worst kind of a thing. And then
I went and saw Paul Harvey deliver a speech for
the Salvation Army, and this is about thirty years ago,
and the premise and the thesis of his speech was
tomorrow is always better than today, something I didn't buy,
something that really hasn't been our reality for about twenty

(19:46):
five years, quite frankly. But that kind of optimism and
hope is necessary. And I don't think the uniting factor
or the fixing and correcting of course factor, is going
to be an individual or a political leader.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I think it's going to be an awakening of the
people and us.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
And taking their country back. And and like you, this
is where I wanted to end, where we agree. I
have optimism. There's optimism in this gen z. There's something
we have birthed. I don't know what the heck we're
going to face. You know, the last time God gave
us a generation like this was the generation that came
out of the Depression to liberate the world. But there's
something unique about these young kids twenty and under right now,

(20:27):
look out, they're world changers. I'm telling you, they don't
even know it yet, and they are.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
And I agree with you completely.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, and for that I have optimism.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Yeah, I yes, spot on, spot on. We'll leave it there.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
We'll leave it right there till tomorrow. Take care, all right,
air Real appreciate your recording. America is more stressed out
than ever. Well, it's closing time. Brian Schuck's here with
our Road to the White House.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Road to the White House twenty twenty four. Kamala Harris
and Donald Trump are giving their closing arguments. With just
a week until election day, Vice President Harris was in
Michigan making three stops in that battleground state yesterday.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
My opponent spends full time talking about just kind of
diminishing who we are as America and talking.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Down at people.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Former President Trump was in the battleground state of Georgia. Today,
Harris will deliver what her campaign is billing as a
closing argument a major speech on the National Mall in
DC at the Ellipse, Trump will make two stops in Pennsylvania.
National polls have Trump and Harris in a dead heat,
and both are expected to focus on the swing states

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in the final days. In Washington, I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I mean, you gotta love that right. Vote for us
or democracy dies. A vote for them is the end
of our democracy as we know it. But we're not dividing,
We're not demeaning. Amazon founder in Washington Post owner Jeff
Bezos is defending his newspaper's decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Mark Mayfield has the details.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Sings and Swine's got an article on the Post's website
that presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of
an election. He says, what they actually do is create
a perception of bias and non independence. The billionaire's comments
came three days after Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis
announced that the paper would not endorse any presidential candidate
in this election or any in the future. INPR reports,

(22:17):
the Post has lost more than two hundred thousand digital
subscribers since Lewis made the announcement last Friday.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm Mark Mayfield. I know it's on everybody's mind. Really,
why is it safety?

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Have a quarter partter with cheese, with fries and a
cooch and McDonald's again after this E coli breakout, Michael
Kasner reports.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
The CDC reported there have been seventy five E coli
cases confirmed in thirteen states. The USDA said the likely
source of the outbreak was slivered onions or beef patties
on the quarter pounders, but federal health officials have not
confirmed a specific ingredient being the source. On Sunday, McDonald
said it feels confident any contaminated product has been removed

(22:56):
from its supply chain. McDonald's and other fast food like KFC,
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell removed onions from their menus
out of an abundance of caution. I'm Michael Casna.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
My earliest childhood memory could have been two, was my
mom washing my face with a wet rag from the
sink and not liking the way it smelled. My second
earliest memory, and I had to be four or under,
was painting the curb with mud. You remember the days
when we actually didn't have phones and we played. You

(23:31):
know that playing in the mud and dirt it was
good for us. That helped build our immune system. Ark
Mayfield has.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
More data on the connection between playing in the dirt
and the probability of getting allergies and autoimmune diseases. Found
that mud and dirt exposes children to micro organisms, which
help with immune training. Researchers say an exposure to an
array of microbes teaches a child's immune system to differentiate
from destructive microbes.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Versus mild ones.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Children not exposed to immune training could have over sensitive
immune systems, which can lead to allergies or a higher
risk of viral sicknesses. Playing in the dirt also helps
brain development because it is sensory play that triggers multiple
senses such as touch and smell. I'm Mark Neefield.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
My dad used to always say, turn that television off.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's going to rot your brain. Put that phone down
and go play in the mud. It's good for your future.
Steelers twenty six eighteen in a boring Monday night football game,
but the Giants fall. The two and six Steelers now
six and two and the Dodgers four to two last
night take a three zero lead in the World Series,
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del Jorno.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
If you research survey reports, the majority of Americas believe
as close as this raise is, we're going to have
a clear winner. And the Yankees face being swept by
the Dodgers. Tonight, down three games to nothing, Game four
at eight oh eight Eastern.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Roy O'Neil is joining.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Us with a week to go, too close to call.
Some billionaires in Sea the eos are hedging their bets.
Why Rory, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
You know where is Mark Zuckerberg.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
This time around? He was so much more out front
the past eight years, but not this time. Warren Buffett
hasn't been heard from too much. Yes, there are plenty
of billionaires who are still writing big checks. And Elon
Musk is out there campaigning hard for Donald Trump and
Michael Bloomberg not maybe out in front, but certainly backing

(25:27):
things financially. Bezos is in the news, not in the
way he'd like to be but not in the way
because he's also trying to back off right. He's told
the Washington Post, no endorsements this time around. The same
messaging came from the owners of the La Times, no
endorsements this time around. Maybe they're finding it just isn't
good for business to get involved in some of these

(25:48):
political positions, and especially with social media as it sort
of echoes after that, people will complain about endorsements rather
than praise them. And for the most part, you know,
had the Post endorsed Harris, I think it would have
been a I wouldn't even say a one day story
and a morning drive story then that's it. But now
we're into day two, day three of the Post not

(26:10):
having any endorsement.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
But if you're gonna have a long term future, look,
there's no question that the Washington Post has the perception
of being far left, and maybe that's all that's left
reading it. And so now they lose two hundred thousand
subscribers because you didn't go left enough. But it's a
pain you're going to have to live through if you
ever want to try to regain any credibility objectivity. I

(26:33):
understand what he's doing, but the way you framed it
is the smartest way to frame it. The big billionaires
who in the past have gotten caught in all of this,
they're not willing to bet on her and get caught
in it again. And they've gotten away with being low
profile and getting away with it. Bezos hasn't, and it's
costing them.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
Yeah, especially as this race looks like a toss up
next week. You know, everyone's predicting or has contradictory predictions anyway,
so who knows what's going to happen. And I think
a lot of these people are when it comes to
having the high profile and depending on lots of customers,
they're saying, you know what, let's just stay out of it.
It's not like an oil ty coon who can just

(27:10):
sit behind the scenes and make a fortune on oil or.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Iron or whatever it may be.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
These guys need actual customers or they need the government
to buy their products and get those contracts as well.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Well.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
With only twenty seconds, there's not enough time to really
dust out maybe the best angle, which is when you
look at bezos customer space, it's not over these newspapers,
it's over other products.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
And maybe that's why they should have known these products.
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