November 25, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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This is your morning show with Michael.
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Del john.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
And Michael del Joorno is taking a little time off
this week.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I'm Lodona Harvey.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
I'm coming to you live from Phoenix, Arizona, today and
all this week except for Thanksgiving Day, just.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Because he needed some time off.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
We all need some time off, and I'm thrilled and
so happy to be here with you. If you want
to get in touch with us, it's so easy to do.
All you have to do is call eight hundred and
six eight eight nine five two to two and if
you are on the iHeartRadio app hit that red talkback, Mike,
and you can get in touch with us at any time.
All Right, family caregivers are going to get a little
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bit of relief tax relief courtesy of former President Donald Trump.
This is one of those things that I think that
everybody can appreciate. I can appreciate it personally because I
am a caregiver. I take care of my father here
in Phoenix. I pay for my mom's home and pay
my mom's bills in San Diego. I have done so
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for a very long time due to reasons, and.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
But it's one of those things that I've never been
able to write that off on my taxes.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I have never been.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Able to say, well, you know, thousands of my dollars
go to take care of my parents. Because even before
we lost my stepmother and my dad his dementia, his
Alzheimer started getting worse. Even before then, I was flying
to Phoenix almost every week, and through the pandemic, I
flew almost every weekend to Phoenix to try to take
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some of the stress off of my stepmom and help
her out and also spend time with my dad.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And you know, you do the things that you have.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
To do and as a caregiver, and I would put,
you know, people who are trying to struggle with childcare
kind of in the same boat.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I just I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
But President soon to be President Trump is supporting a
tax credit for family caregivers to take care of a
parent or a loved one. That was at a rally
in Madison Square Garden in New York City, and he
says it's about time they were recognized. They add so
much to our country. They're never spoken of ever, ever, ever,
but they're going to be spoken of now. And that
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was prior to the election. Now, you know, there's prior
to the election, and there's after the election. There's the
there's the there are the promises, and then there's the
reality that sort of smacks everybody upside the head. But
I am not the only person in this boat, and
there are a lot of people who have done it,
and have done it. It sometimes is a thankless job,
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you know, It's you kind of giving up everything in
order to make sure that a loved one is safe
and cared for. In my case, I do not want
my mother or my father in a nursing home.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
If I can possibly avoid it. They took care of
me when I was a kid. It's my turn to
take care of them. And I don't mind it at all.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Would I welcome a tax break, Yes, yes I would.
I would welcome a tax break, and it would be
nice for all of the millions. And there are millions
of people who do this, the millions of people to
get some kind of something for.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Having to handle this.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
You know, you have to take time off, you have
to pay a caregiver to come in. I am so
fortunate because my dad saved a lot of money. Not
millions of dollars, not even a million dollars, but there
is enough money in my dad's accounts to take care
of him for the rest of.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
His life at home.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He does not need to live in a facility unless
something incredibly untoward happens. And I and as I said,
I plan on avoiding that.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
As hard as I can.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
For those of you who have a loved one in
a facility, I want you to understand I am not
in any way judgmental over it, not at all. You
have your reasons and they are valid, and you are
doing the best that you can. And I know that
you know I am in no way holier than now.
I'm holier than no one, I promise eight hundred and
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six eight eight nine five two to two. Would a
tax break or a tax credit help you in a
situation like that? On the iHeartRadio app, just hit that
red microphone button and make your comment and we will
play it back. Jeff has been wonderful about getting sound
from our listeners on your morning show, and it is
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your morning show now, kind of getting off of politics
for at least a couple of minutes because so many
of us, I mean, especially during the holidays, you hear
the usual stuff. You know, Oh, drink a lot of
water before you go to a holiday party.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Do this, do that?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Well, there are a lot of people out there who
are overweight and I am I am one of them.
I am not a skinny mini and overweight for you know,
various reasons, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
When you are fat, you take a lot of heat
from people. Oh you're lazy, You're just not trying hard enough.
You're not going to the gym. I see these TikTok videos.
You know people are going to go to the gym
work out. Why are you sitting down while I'm sitting
down because I'm tired, and I'm, you know, doing the
best that I can, and I try to eat right
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and sometimes it works and I can lose a little
weight and sometimes not. You go on diet plans and
you lose a lot of weight and it feels great
and you're so proud of yourself, and then boom it
comes back and you go, wow, why, Well, it turns
out that there's a gene expression in your body. Your
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fat cells remember being fat and they like it. It's
your fat cells are your enemy. Scientists have uncovered this,
you know, the yo yo effect. Our fat cells have
a very long memory, and being overweight leaves a lasting
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imprint on your fat cells. It's epigenetics, is what it's called,
the little chemical markers, and they act like switches controlling
which genes are turned off or on in your cells.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And they can stay around for years. Years.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
So you see your your fat aunt or your fat mom,
or maybe your fat self, my fat self go on
these diets and we do well and we lose the weight.
And I remember getting down to one eighty five. Now
I'm five foot nine. At least, I think I sell him.
Maybe I've shrunk a little bit. But if I have,
I'm not talking about it. Five foot nine, one eighty
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five is not a terrible weight for me. It's it's
I'm a big girl, and I'm going to be a
big girl, and that's fine. When I got very close
to three hundred pounds, which I did at one point,
I was mortified, mortified that this could happen to me.
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And I got down to that one eighty five man,
and I just I gritted my teeth and I did it.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And I swear.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Within a year I was another I was seventy five
pounds up and could not figure out how that happened.
I was working out, I was eating right, and it
just my body just did not want to let it go.
And so when these chemical markers, these little switches in
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your genes are turned on and they're going for years
and they are.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Like no, no, no, no, no, we need this fat back, We.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Need this fat back, they remember it and they want
it back, and they push you chemically to make that happen.
So how this research team came to this conclusion. They
examined fat cells from a little fat mice and those
that had successfully lost weight through dieting, and they found
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that obesity created some very distinctive stamps on the fat
cells that remained even after the weight were gone, and
when the mice were later given access to high fat foods,
they were gained the weight more quickly than the mice
that did not have those cellular memories. And we're living
in an era where our kids are overweight. You know,
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we're too sedentary, we sit too much, we eat too much,
or you don't eat too much, but you just sit
too much. You're not exercising, and it's happening to our kids.
They're gaming too much and tiktoking too much and doom
scrolling too much, and they're not out there like we
were when we were kids. I didn't get fat until
I was well into adulthood. I was always relatively smelt.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I was a.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Size nine through my twenties and into my early thirties
and then it just all went to pot. And these
findings have not been limited just to mice. So this
team that did these mice studies, because sometimes it just
doesn't translate right well it does, they analyze fat tissue
samples from formerly overweight people who had done weight loss surgery,
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and they looked at different cellular markers in the human samples,
and the results aligned with the mouse studies. So these
fat cells are long lived. They live for ten ten
years before our body replaces him. How come the skin
on my face is regenerated faster than my fat cells
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and even then I'm aging and I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chono.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
All right, let's talk about the top five stories of
the day. First of all, if you are traveling and
there are three million of you traveling on Thanksgiving holiday season,
the FAA sending out a warning of staffing shortages that
could cause travel delays. Now what's interesting is if weather
causes a travel delay or a computer meltdown causes a
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travel delay, airlines get fine. Who finds the FAA and says, hey,
you got to pay us. You're making all of our
people late. I have questions. The FAA says travel in
the northeast New York City in particular, could be affected
the most due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Travel experts expect Tuesday tomorrow to be the busiest day
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in the sky, with nearly three million people trying to
catch a plane. The Texas State Board of Education has
voted Friday to approve a curriculum for public schools leaning
heavily on stories from the Bible. Hey, Jeff, do we
have that beautiful Tony Waterman sound?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I do you only hear it?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Lessons will be incorporated starting in late twenty twenty five
and will be taught in kindergarten through fifth grade. The
material will include lessons from the Book of Genesis and Psalms.
Schools are not required to adopt the new curriculum, but
if they do, they will receive a big boost in funding,
up to sixty dollars per student. A Rice University study
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recently found that seventy three percent of Texas school districts
are underfunded. A similar effort was made in Oklahoma last year,
but is being challenged in the courts. Tony Waterman, Texas.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
We rely on Jeff to roll that beautiful beam footage
for us because you do not have the electronics available
to us. And by that, I'm using the royal we
here to do it ourselves, So I probably should have warned.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Him about that. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
A Democratic senator wants Democratic senator wants President elect Trump's
cabinet picks to go before the Senate for confirmation. On
CNN State of the Union, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth praised
Trump's nomination of Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary
of State. Duckworth, as an army veteran she served in
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a rock She, however, did condemn the nomination of Pete
Hegsath for Secretary of Defense. Now, the Menendez brothers back
in the news. You might remember their case from back
in nineteen eighty nine. It was one of those It
was one of those things that just kind of caught
everybody because it was such a sordid story. They ended
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up killing both of their parents, and Eric and Lyle
Menendez serving life sentences for those nineteen eighty nine murders.
They happened in Beverly Hills. That's the The other part
of it is that you know, oh, this sort of
thing doesn't happen here, Well, sure it does, and it did.
And Mark Garretgos, who you might have heard is the
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attorney for the brothers, on how they've been feeling going
into this hopeful reduction incentence.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The attitude is it's been a roller coaster of emotion
to borrow a cliche.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We have.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We've had all kinds of ups and downs.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
And this is not the first time that Netflix has
done a series, and this was a series called Monsters.
The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story. There's been renewed interest
in the case since Netflix released that true crime drama series.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Emphasis on the drama everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
A friend of mine who was a newscaster in LA
when it happened, said there was a lot in that
Netflix story that was absolutely not true. But it features
claims by the brothers that says they were the victims
of childhood sexual abuse by their father. They are challenging
the validity of their convictions. They want their sentences to
be changed. It's a move that right now has the
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support of the outgoing Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon.
There is a reason that George is outgoing, but that's
another story for another time. The brothers will be attending
today's hearing via video and that will happen later today.
So a lot going on in the world.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
But you know what we haven't done. We haven't done sports.
Shame on me. In the NFL, the Vikings beat the
Bears Detroit pommelled the Colts.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
The Cowboys beat the Commanders, the Packers pounded the forty
nine ers. I had to it was Seattle over the
Arizona Cardinals, and the Eagles beat the Rams. College basketball,
you had Wisconsin over Pittsburgh, Drake over Vanderbilt, and the Shriners'
Children's Charleston Classic. In the NBA it was the Clipper
Shearing the seventies. I know, one of these days I'm
just going to become a sportscaster because I could make
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stuff like this up one to ninety nine was that score?
The Heat beat the Mavericks, and the Cavaliers beat the Raptors.
And in the NHL it was the maple Leafs over Utah.
Just so you know, maple Leafs over Utah. I actually
have a maple leaf sweatshirt because I went to Canada
and because I'm from southern California and I don't own
a coat, I got cold, so I had to buy
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a sweatshirt.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
So that's really winding. Christina, this is my winter coat. Hi,
this is Jimmy Bourne.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
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us for the podcast.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I promise you if you stuff my stocking with a centipede,
we are going to have words and we are not
going to be friends anymore.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I am afraid that I'm going to have to cut
you off.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He's a twenty eight year old from South Korea and
for no good reason, decided to strap hundreds of tarantulas
and centipedes and ants to his own body.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
He was at the U.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima and officials noticed that
his stomach perhaps was a little swollen abnormally swollen, so
they asked him to lift his shirt. They found him
wearing two belts around his abdomen filled with ziplock bags
with the animals inside of them. There were thirty five
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adult tarantulas two hundred and eighty. I've juvenile tarantulas one hundred,
ten centipedes and nine ants. Nine bullet ants. Now, for
some reason, I think that if you're an ant and
you have a name like bullet ant, you're probably not
very nice. It's not, you know, anti jane ant, It's
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bullet ant. All of the animals were native to the
Amazon in Peru. This is according to a wildlife specialist
at surf War, which I guess is a wildlife specialty
kind of place. The tarantulas were an endangered species, all
of them taken illegally and part of the illegal wildlife
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trafficking that moves millions of dollars in the world.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
People give them as pets.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I don't know if you caught it the first time
I said it, so I'm just saying it again because
why who who wants a bullet ant for Christmas? Who
wants one in their stocking? How do you even keep
these animals alive if they're stuffed in plastic bags and
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strapped to somebody's body. The cruelty of it bothers me. Yes,
I know, we're talking about tarantulas and centipedes and ants.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Here but it just seems so cruel, the.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Same kind of cruelty that it takes to, you know,
smuggle a baby tiger across the Mexican border, which some
rapper did once. I think he was dating a Kardashian too,
So pick your favorite tiger, tiger either one. It's just
wildlife trafficking is baffling to me. I have two cats.
My dad has a dog named Gunner, Gunner the Wonder Dog.
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That's about as exotic as we're getting in my world.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
We're not doing can't we just keep it there? That's
what I'm saying. You know, you got a horse. I guess.
I don't know if is that a pet? Is it
like litock?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I'm not sure. You know, some people keep goats because
they're really cute. That I gets animals, keep them on
the barn was a goat. We had two goats when
I was a kid, best animals ever. And in the summer, really,
I didn't do much mowing at all.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Mean they're using goats for brush clearing in southern California
because they're so efficient at it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It is amazing. Yeah, great, great, great for the kids.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I don't well, I don't know if I want a
goat in my stocking either. I'm just you know, but
I'm just saying, let's leave the wildlife where the wildlife
is supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
People don't. I don't understand it. We were talking earlier.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I think it was off the air though, so any
anybody else wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
This is inside baseball. We can talk to each other.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
You were talking about iguanas and in Florida, how people
have had iguanas as pets and they've released so many
of them that they're actually iguana hunters.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yes, and there are huge channels set up so you
can watch these people hunt these iguanas at these at
these communities, like I guess places of a multi family.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Like apartments or something, yeah, or subdivisions around water. It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Well, so I didn't know about the iguanas. I mean,
I knew there were iguanas in Florida, but for some reason,
I thought they were native. I've only been to Florida twice,
and once was at disney World, and I don't think
that counts. It's I don't think it counts when you
go to just disney World and then you leave.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And once I went to Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
But I just assumed that iguanas were kind of native
to the area because it's you know, it's tropical, it's lizards.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
It makes sense. But apparently they're not.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And you know, much like the invasive what is it
python's that they have in Florida. Oh yeah, they're decimating
local species, which I did not know. I don't know
how I feel about hunting the iguanas. That kind of
makes me feel a little skeevy. And I'm not even
a vegetarian, so you know, don't start with me, or
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you can start with me.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's okay, eight hundred and six eight eight.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Nine, five two to two, and you can hit that
microphone button on your free iHeartRadio app and you could
talk back to your morning show because it's not your
morning show without you, and we appreciate your calls and
your thoughts. You can call it on any topic that
you like. But apparently wildlife trafficking season uptick this year
because people like to gift them for the holidays. So
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the South Korean guy tried to get out of Peru
with endangered tarantula's hundreds of them, more than one hundred
centipedes and something called a bullet ant. And I know
somebody sent me a picture and I'm going to try
to look up on the chat. I have to remember
how to do that though, to see what a what
is a bullet ant? And what does it look like? Oh?
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Does it have wings? And pictures fly? Looks like it
can fly right, So, commonly known as the bullet ant,
it's a species of ant known for its extremely painful sting. Well, yeah,
stick that in a zip block and tie it to
your belly. I hope he got bitten a lot, stung
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a lot. I hope it's really uncomfortable for him, just
for his travel, just for being a just for being
a jerk. It's very peopley out there, Jeff Red, did
I mention that it's very peoply? Yes, and they walk
among us, these people do these people wildlife smugglers Give
us a talkback. Just hit that red microphone symbol and
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you can ask us a question about anything that we
have talked about here. Some of our top stories this
morning includes your travel. It's not just mother Nature that's
going to put a damper on things this year. The
FAA is saying that your Thanksgiving Day travel at peak
travel times and that be tomorrow if your ticket says tomorrow.
Staffing issues are causing trouble. The Northeast is especially going
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to get hit. They have a shortage of air traffic
controllers in New York.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
That is going to be the bugebear if you're traveling, So.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Busiest travel day of the Thanksgiving holiday season, three million
people at our airports, and that happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I am particularly interested if you have received a scorpion
or a tarantula or a centipede in your Christmas gifts
and thought, yes, this is exactly what I was looking.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
For, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dancing at a
Taylor Swift concert amid a destructive protest or we would
normally call that a riot in Montreal drew.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Outrage over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Trudeau represents a district in Montreal and went to the
Taylor Swift concert in Toronto on Friday night, which you know,
if you're aware, Treal is all the way is where
New York is, right, so all the way over to
the right. Toronto is in the middle of the country
in Canada, spans our length.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Of country, So there you have it.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
He was very far away from where this from where
this riot was going on.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
A viral video posted.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
On x shows him dancing and singing along to You
Don't Own Me before Swift.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Took the stage.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The problem is that, of course, there was anti NATO demonstrations,
smoke bombs, marching through the streets of Montreal with Palestinian flags.
That's according to the Montreal Gazette. The rioters set cars
on fire, they clashed with police, and apparently Trudeau is
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not as popular as he once was. He may be
kind of running into the same problem that some liberals
have in the United States, in that, you know, he's
so forward thinking and so very liberal that taking care
of unrest really is not his gig. A guy named
Don Stewart tweeted that, you know, lawless protesters were running
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rough shot over Montreal and violent protests, the Prime Minister
was dancing, and he put videos up of both and
it's not a good look. And he says, this is
the Canada built by the liberal government. Bring back law
and order, safe streets and communities in the Canada we
once knew and loved. Now the protesters also through small
explosive devices and metal items at police officers. They burned
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an effigy of Benjamin net in Yahoo, because you know
we hate him. The image of Trudeau dancing while those
protests were going down sparked quite a bit of outrage,
and of course Nero was it Nero that fiddle twhile
Rome burned?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Well, that is in fact what happened.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Don Stewart, who is a Member of Parliament representing part
of Toronto, called out the Prime Minister in that post
and apparently he thinks, and people are agreeing with him,
that law and order needs to come back to the
streets of Canada. So Canada too sees the same kind
of unrest that we do. I wonder if their police
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officers are as hobbled as ours have been because that
I don't care. If you protest, I don't care. I
protest to your heart's content. Don't block me from getting
where I need to go. Protests on a sidewalk somewhere,
have your signs, do your marches. If you want a
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Palestinian flag, if you want to whatever flag, I don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I think that's a fundamental right of everybody in the
United States to protest and Canada as a kind of
a similar feel and vibe. There are nicer northern neighbors.
According to them, when unrest like this breaks out, are
their police officers as hobbled as ours are. It's kind
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of scary, you know, when you think about it, because
of the phenomenal amount of damage that we see happening
in these I air quote protests. Because a lot of
times you'll have a demonstration and it's fine, and then
some group of people, either part of the demonstration decides,
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you know what, We're going to run rough shot. We're
going to burn down a neighborhood. We're going to burn
down a bank. We're going to throw think, we're going
to destroy cars, we're going to block streets because, gosh
darn it, we're having a temper tantrum and you have
to listen to us. It says the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police were in communication with local police.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
But this MP, who seems to.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Be perhaps a potential rival to Trudeau, is saying that
this is not acceptable, and it's not acceptable here. It's
not acceptable when it happens in London. It's not acceptable
when it happens in Canada. You don't get to just
throw a temper tamper because stuff is happening that you
don't like. Stuff happens that we don't like every day,
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every day, and the majority of people do not riot
because of it. We try to figure out, Okay, is
there something that I can do about this? What do
I have to do to make a difference in this?
How can I make this better? How can I make
this work for me? How can I make a system
that I think has broken more fair? If you are
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pro or anti Israel, you have the same right to
talk about it. You don't have the right nobody does
to burn stuff down, stuff that doesn't belong to it's
not your stuff, and then not be held to account
by it. That I think is the part that you
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know normal people and I like to call most Americans
normal people. It's part that drives normal people crazy. It's like, stop,
you know, doing the stop oil thing where you're gluing
yourself to the road and getting in the way of people.
Stop lighting stuff on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails because
you don't like what's happening in another part of the world.
(29:22):
Feel free to demonstrate, man, it's fine. Don't feel free
to burn stuff down? What are your thoughts eight hundred
and six eight eight nine, five, two to two. It
would be interesting to see if a popular Conservative leader
can capitalize on Trudeau, who is kind of facing a
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revolt from within, and make a Conservative run for the top.
Justin Trudeau maybe his toughest challenge yet. He's been facing
calls for resignation. I mean, I saw a story from
back in October that said that the leader of the
opposition Conservative Party and his name is French, and so
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you will have to excuse me.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Pierre that part I've got poile verte, I believe, but
I'm not going to pretend that I speak French, because
I don't. He is the leader of the opposition Conservative
Party and if his party can win the next general election,
which is slated for October of next year, right now,
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he's holding a twenty point lead over Trudeau. So Trudeau
finding himself potentially in the same position as a Joe
Biden for similar but not all the same reasons. For
Joe Biden, I think it was it truly was age
and the fact that he could not keep his thoughts
straight that debate was the end for him.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
For Trudeau, I think it's policy.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
It's all policy, and this poilevre is appealing to both
traditional conservatives and some of the more populist elements of
society trying to, you know, say hey, we have social
and economic issues post pandemic, and we are going to
capitalize on it. Trudeau's been in power for a long time,
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since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
He wants a fourth term as Prime minister.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Now I'm with most people who think, you know what,
two terms for you at the top is enough. I
would like to see more limitations on how politicians and
how many times they can run and how long they
can stay.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Diane Feinstein, which is another story for another day.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
You want to talk about somebody who is in Congress
and basically being told in front of everybody, sign this, Diane,
and she did.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
So.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You know, we have our reasons for looking for change,
for wanting change, but I think ultimately that change was
necessary post pandemic, and just Americans need more of a break.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
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And Michael del Joorno is taking a little time off
this week.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
I'm Lodona Harvey.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
I'm coming to you live from Phoenix, Arizona, today and
all this week except for Thanksgiving Day, just.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Because he needed some time off.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
We all need some time off, and I'm thrilled and
so happy to be here with you. If you want
to get in touch with us, it's so easy to do.
All you have to do is call eight hundred and
six eight eight nine five two to two and if
you are on the iHeartRadio app hit that red talkback, Mike,
and you can get in touch with us at any time.
All Right, family caregivers are going to get a little
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bit of relief tax relief courtesy of former President Donald Trump.
This is one of those things that I think that
everybody can appreciate. I can appreciate it personally because I
am a caregiver. I take care of my father here
in Phoenix. I pay for my mom's home and pay
my mom's bills in San Diego. I have done so
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for a very long time due to reasons, and.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
But it's one of those things that I've never been
able to write that off on my taxes.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I have never been.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Able to say, well, you know, thousands of my dollars
go to take care of my parents. Because even before
we lost my stepmother and my dad his dementia, his
Alzheimer started getting worse. Even before then, I was flying
to Phoenix almost every week, and through the pandemic, I
flew almost every weekend to Phoenix to try to take
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some of the stress off of my stepmom and help
her out and also spend time with my dad.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And you know, you do the things that you have.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
To do and as a caregiver, and I would put,
you know, people who are trying to struggle with childcare
kind of in the same boat.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I just I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
But President soon to be President Trump is supporting a
tax credit for family caregivers to take care of a
parent or a loved one. That was at a rally
in Madison Square Garden in New York City, and he
says it's about time they were recognized. They add so
much to our country. They're never spoken of ever, ever, ever,
but they're going to be spoken of now. And that
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was prior to the election. Now, you know, there's prior
to the election, and there's after the election. There's the
there's the there are the promises, and then there's the
reality that sort of smacks everybody upside the head. But
I am not the only person in this boat, and
there are a lot of people who have done it,
and have done it. It sometimes is a thankless job,
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you know, It's you kind of giving up everything in
order to make sure that a loved one is safe
and cared for. In my case, I do not want
my mother or my father in a nursing home.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
If I can possibly avoid it. They took care of
me when I was a kid. It's my turn to
take care of them. And I don't mind it at all.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Would I welcome a tax break, Yes, yes I would.
I would welcome a tax break, and it would be
nice for all of the millions. And there are millions
of people who do this, the millions of people to
get some kind of something for.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Having to handle this.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
You know, you have to take time off, you have
to pay a caregiver to come in. I am so
fortunate because my dad saved a lot of money. Not
millions of dollars, not even a million dollars, but there
is enough money in my dad's accounts to take care
of him for the rest of.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
His life at home.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He does not need to live in a facility unless
something incredibly untoward happens. And I and as I said,
I plan on avoiding that.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
As hard as I can.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
For those of you who have a loved one in
a facility, I want you to understand I am not
in any way judgmental over it, not at all. You
have your reasons and they are valid, and you are
doing the best that you can. And I know that
you know I am in no way holier than now.
I'm holier than no one, I promise eight hundred and
(04:47):
six eight eight nine five two to two. Would a
tax break or a tax credit help you in a
situation like that? On the iHeartRadio app, just hit that
red microphone button and make your comment and we will
play it back. Jeff has been wonderful about getting sound
from our listeners on your morning show, and it is
(05:07):
your morning show now, kind of getting off of politics
for at least a couple of minutes because so many
of us, I mean, especially during the holidays, you hear
the usual stuff. You know, Oh, drink a lot of
water before you go to a holiday party.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Do this, do that?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Well, there are a lot of people out there who
are overweight and I am I am one of them.
I am not a skinny mini and overweight for you know,
various reasons, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
When you are fat, you take a lot of heat
from people. Oh you're lazy, You're just not trying hard enough.
You're not going to the gym. I see these TikTok videos.
You know people are going to go to the gym
work out. Why are you sitting down while I'm sitting
down because I'm tired, and I'm, you know, doing the
best that I can, and I try to eat right
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and sometimes it works and I can lose a little
weight and sometimes not. You go on diet plans and
you lose a lot of weight and it feels great
and you're so proud of yourself, and then boom it
comes back and you go, wow, why, Well, it turns
out that there's a gene expression in your body. Your
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fat cells remember being fat and they like it. It's
your fat cells are your enemy. Scientists have uncovered this,
you know, the yo yo effect. Our fat cells have
a very long memory, and being overweight leaves a lasting
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imprint on your fat cells. It's epigenetics, is what it's called,
the little chemical markers, and they act like switches controlling
which genes are turned off or on in your cells.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
And they can stay around for years. Years.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
So you see your your fat aunt or your fat mom,
or maybe your fat self, my fat self go on
these diets and we do well and we lose the weight.
And I remember getting down to one eighty five. Now
I'm five foot nine. At least, I think I sell him.
Maybe I've shrunk a little bit. But if I have,
I'm not talking about it. Five foot nine, one eighty
(07:22):
five is not a terrible weight for me. It's it's
I'm a big girl, and I'm going to be a
big girl, and that's fine. When I got very close
to three hundred pounds, which I did at one point,
I was mortified, mortified that this could happen to me.
(07:43):
And I got down to that one eighty five man,
and I just I gritted my teeth and I did it.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And I swear.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Within a year I was another I was seventy five
pounds up and could not figure out how that happened.
I was working out, I was eating right, and it
just my body just did not want to let it go.
And so when these chemical markers, these little switches in
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your genes are turned on and they're going for years
and they are.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Like no, no, no, no, no, we need this fat back, We.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Need this fat back, they remember it and they want
it back, and they push you chemically to make that happen.
So how this research team came to this conclusion. They
examined fat cells from a little fat mice and those
that had successfully lost weight through dieting, and they found
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that obesity created some very distinctive stamps on the fat
cells that remained even after the weight were gone, and
when the mice were later given access to high fat foods,
they were gained the weight more quickly than the mice
that did not have those cellular memories. And we're living
in an era where our kids are overweight. You know,
(09:00):
we're too sedentary, we sit too much, we eat too much,
or you don't eat too much, but you just sit
too much. You're not exercising, and it's happening to our kids.
They're gaming too much and tiktoking too much and doom
scrolling too much, and they're not out there like we
were when we were kids. I didn't get fat until
I was well into adulthood. I was always relatively smelt.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I was a.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Size nine through my twenties and into my early thirties
and then it just all went to pot. And these
findings have not been limited just to mice. So this
team that did these mice studies, because sometimes it just
doesn't translate right well it does, they analyze fat tissue
samples from formerly overweight people who had done weight loss surgery,
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and they looked at different cellular markers in the human samples,
and the results aligned with the mouse studies. So these
fat cells are long lived. They live for ten ten
years before our body replaces him. How come the skin
on my face is regenerated faster than my fat cells
(10:09):
and even then I'm aging and I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chono.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
All right, let's talk about the top five stories of
the day. First of all, if you are traveling and
there are three million of you traveling on Thanksgiving holiday season,
the FAA sending out a warning of staffing shortages that
could cause travel delays. Now what's interesting is if weather
causes a travel delay or a computer meltdown causes a
(10:38):
travel delay, airlines get fine. Who finds the FAA and says, hey,
you got to pay us. You're making all of our
people late. I have questions. The FAA says travel in
the northeast New York City in particular, could be affected
the most due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Travel experts expect Tuesday tomorrow to be the busiest day
(10:59):
in the sky, with nearly three million people trying to
catch a plane. The Texas State Board of Education has
voted Friday to approve a curriculum for public schools leaning
heavily on stories from the Bible. Hey, Jeff, do we
have that beautiful Tony Waterman sound?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I do you only hear it?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Lessons will be incorporated starting in late twenty twenty five
and will be taught in kindergarten through fifth grade. The
material will include lessons from the Book of Genesis and Psalms.
Schools are not required to adopt the new curriculum, but
if they do, they will receive a big boost in funding,
up to sixty dollars per student. A Rice University study
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recently found that seventy three percent of Texas school districts
are underfunded. A similar effort was made in Oklahoma last year,
but is being challenged in the courts. Tony Waterman, Texas.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
We rely on Jeff to roll that beautiful beam footage
for us because you do not have the electronics available
to us. And by that, I'm using the royal we
here to do it ourselves, So I probably should have warned.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Him about that. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
A Democratic senator wants Democratic senator wants President elect Trump's
cabinet picks to go before the Senate for confirmation. On
CNN State of the Union, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth praised
Trump's nomination of Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary
of State. Duckworth, as an army veteran she served in
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a rock She, however, did condemn the nomination of Pete
Hegsath for Secretary of Defense. Now, the Menendez brothers back
in the news. You might remember their case from back
in nineteen eighty nine. It was one of those It
was one of those things that just kind of caught
everybody because it was such a sordid story. They ended
(12:50):
up killing both of their parents, and Eric and Lyle
Menendez serving life sentences for those nineteen eighty nine murders.
They happened in Beverly Hills. That's the The other part
of it is that you know, oh, this sort of
thing doesn't happen here, Well, sure it does, and it did.
And Mark Garretgos, who you might have heard is the
(13:12):
attorney for the brothers, on how they've been feeling going
into this hopeful reduction incentence.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The attitude is it's been a roller coaster of emotion
to borrow a cliche.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We have.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We've had all kinds of ups and downs.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
And this is not the first time that Netflix has
done a series, and this was a series called Monsters.
The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story. There's been renewed interest
in the case since Netflix released that true crime drama series.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Emphasis on the drama everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
A friend of mine who was a newscaster in LA
when it happened, said there was a lot in that
Netflix story that was absolutely not true. But it features
claims by the brothers that says they were the victims
of childhood sexual abuse by their father. They are challenging
the validity of their convictions. They want their sentences to
be changed. It's a move that right now has the
(14:15):
support of the outgoing Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon.
There is a reason that George is outgoing, but that's
another story for another time. The brothers will be attending
today's hearing via video and that will happen later today.
So a lot going on in the world.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
But you know what we haven't done. We haven't done sports.
Shame on me. In the NFL, the Vikings beat the
Bears Detroit pommelled the Colts.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
The Cowboys beat the Commanders, the Packers pounded the forty
nine ers. I had to it was Seattle over the
Arizona Cardinals, and the Eagles beat the Rams. College basketball,
you had Wisconsin over Pittsburgh, Drake over Vanderbilt, and the Shriners'
Children's Charleston Classic. In the NBA it was the Clipper
Shearing the seventies. I know, one of these days I'm
just going to become a sportscaster because I could make
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stuff like this up one to ninety nine was that score?
The Heat beat the Mavericks, and the Cavaliers beat the Raptors.
And in the NHL it was the maple Leafs over Utah.
Just so you know, maple Leafs over Utah. I actually
have a maple leaf sweatshirt because I went to Canada
and because I'm from southern California and I don't own
a coat, I got cold, so I had to buy
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a sweatshirt.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
So that's really winding. Christina, this is my winter coat. Hi,
this is Jimmy Bourne.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
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us for the podcast.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I promise you if you stuff my stocking with a centipede,
we are going to have words and we are not
going to be friends anymore.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I am afraid that I'm going to have to cut
you off.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He's a twenty eight year old from South Korea and
for no good reason, decided to strap hundreds of tarantulas
and centipedes and ants to his own body.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
He was at the U.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima and officials noticed that
his stomach perhaps was a little swollen abnormally swollen, so
they asked him to lift his shirt. They found him
wearing two belts around his abdomen filled with ziplock bags
with the animals inside of them. There were thirty five
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adult tarantulas two hundred and eighty. I've juvenile tarantulas one hundred,
ten centipedes and nine ants. Nine bullet ants. Now, for
some reason, I think that if you're an ant and
you have a name like bullet ant, you're probably not
very nice. It's not, you know, anti jane ant, It's
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bullet ant. All of the animals were native to the
Amazon in Peru. This is according to a wildlife specialist
at surf War, which I guess is a wildlife specialty
kind of place. The tarantulas were an endangered species, all
of them taken illegally and part of the illegal wildlife
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trafficking that moves millions of dollars in the world.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
People give them as pets.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I don't know if you caught it the first time
I said it, so I'm just saying it again because
why who who wants a bullet ant for Christmas? Who
wants one in their stocking? How do you even keep
these animals alive if they're stuffed in plastic bags and
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strapped to somebody's body. The cruelty of it bothers me. Yes,
I know, we're talking about tarantulas and centipedes and ants.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Here but it just seems so cruel, the.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Same kind of cruelty that it takes to, you know,
smuggle a baby tiger across the Mexican border, which some
rapper did once. I think he was dating a Kardashian too,
So pick your favorite tiger, tiger either one. It's just
wildlife trafficking is baffling to me. I have two cats.
My dad has a dog named Gunner, Gunner the Wonder Dog.
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That's about as exotic as we're getting in my world.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
We're not doing can't we just keep it there? That's
what I'm saying. You know, you got a horse. I guess.
I don't know if is that a pet? Is it
like litock?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I'm not sure. You know, some people keep goats because
they're really cute. That I gets animals, keep them on
the barn was a goat. We had two goats when
I was a kid, best animals ever. And in the summer, really,
I didn't do much mowing at all.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Mean they're using goats for brush clearing in southern California
because they're so efficient at it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It is amazing. Yeah, great, great, great for the kids.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I don't well, I don't know if I want a
goat in my stocking either. I'm just you know, but
I'm just saying, let's leave the wildlife where the wildlife
is supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
People don't. I don't understand it. We were talking earlier.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I think it was off the air though, so any
anybody else wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
This is inside baseball. We can talk to each other.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
You were talking about iguanas and in Florida, how people
have had iguanas as pets and they've released so many
of them that they're actually iguana hunters.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yes, and there are huge channels set up so you
can watch these people hunt these iguanas at these at
these communities, like I guess places of a multi family.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Like apartments or something, yeah, or subdivisions around water. It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Well, so I didn't know about the iguanas. I mean,
I knew there were iguanas in Florida, but for some reason,
I thought they were native. I've only been to Florida twice,
and once was at disney World, and I don't think
that counts. It's I don't think it counts when you
go to just disney World and then you leave.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And once I went to Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
But I just assumed that iguanas were kind of native
to the area because it's you know, it's tropical, it's lizards.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
It makes sense. But apparently they're not.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And you know, much like the invasive what is it
python's that they have in Florida. Oh yeah, they're decimating
local species, which I did not know. I don't know
how I feel about hunting the iguanas. That kind of
makes me feel a little skeevy. And I'm not even
a vegetarian, so you know, don't start with me, or
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you can start with me.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's okay, eight hundred and six eight eight.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Nine, five two to two, and you can hit that
microphone button on your free iHeartRadio app and you could
talk back to your morning show because it's not your
morning show without you, and we appreciate your calls and
your thoughts. You can call it on any topic that
you like. But apparently wildlife trafficking season uptick this year
because people like to gift them for the holidays. So
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the South Korean guy tried to get out of Peru
with endangered tarantula's hundreds of them, more than one hundred
centipedes and something called a bullet ant. And I know
somebody sent me a picture and I'm going to try
to look up on the chat. I have to remember
how to do that though, to see what a what
is a bullet ant? And what does it look like? Oh?
(21:57):
Does it have wings? And pictures fly? Looks like it
can fly right, So, commonly known as the bullet ant,
it's a species of ant known for its extremely painful sting. Well, yeah,
stick that in a zip block and tie it to
your belly. I hope he got bitten a lot, stung
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a lot. I hope it's really uncomfortable for him, just
for his travel, just for being a just for being
a jerk. It's very peopley out there, Jeff Red, did
I mention that it's very peoply? Yes, and they walk
among us, these people do these people wildlife smugglers Give
us a talkback. Just hit that red microphone symbol and
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you can ask us a question about anything that we
have talked about here. Some of our top stories this
morning includes your travel. It's not just mother Nature that's
going to put a damper on things this year. The
FAA is saying that your Thanksgiving Day travel at peak
travel times and that be tomorrow if your ticket says tomorrow.
Staffing issues are causing trouble. The Northeast is especially going
(23:07):
to get hit. They have a shortage of air traffic
controllers in New York.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
That is going to be the bugebear if you're traveling, So.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Busiest travel day of the Thanksgiving holiday season, three million
people at our airports, and that happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I am particularly interested if you have received a scorpion
or a tarantula or a centipede in your Christmas gifts
and thought, yes, this is exactly what I was looking.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
For, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dancing at a
Taylor Swift concert amid a destructive protest or we would
normally call that a riot in Montreal drew.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Outrage over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Trudeau represents a district in Montreal and went to the
Taylor Swift concert in Toronto on Friday night, which you know,
if you're aware, Treal is all the way is where
New York is, right, so all the way over to
the right. Toronto is in the middle of the country
in Canada, spans our length.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Of country, So there you have it.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
He was very far away from where this from where
this riot was going on.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
A viral video posted.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
On x shows him dancing and singing along to You
Don't Own Me before Swift.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Took the stage.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The problem is that, of course, there was anti NATO demonstrations,
smoke bombs, marching through the streets of Montreal with Palestinian flags.
That's according to the Montreal Gazette. The rioters set cars
on fire, they clashed with police, and apparently Trudeau is
(24:47):
not as popular as he once was. He may be
kind of running into the same problem that some liberals
have in the United States, in that, you know, he's
so forward thinking and so very liberal that taking care
of unrest really is not his gig. A guy named
Don Stewart tweeted that, you know, lawless protesters were running
(25:10):
rough shot over Montreal and violent protests, the Prime Minister
was dancing, and he put videos up of both and
it's not a good look. And he says, this is
the Canada built by the liberal government. Bring back law
and order, safe streets and communities in the Canada we
once knew and loved. Now the protesters also through small
explosive devices and metal items at police officers. They burned
(25:33):
an effigy of Benjamin net in Yahoo, because you know
we hate him. The image of Trudeau dancing while those
protests were going down sparked quite a bit of outrage,
and of course Nero was it Nero that fiddle twhile
Rome burned?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Well, that is in fact what happened.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Don Stewart, who is a Member of Parliament representing part
of Toronto, called out the Prime Minister in that post
and apparently he thinks, and people are agreeing with him,
that law and order needs to come back to the
streets of Canada. So Canada too sees the same kind
of unrest that we do. I wonder if their police
(26:19):
officers are as hobbled as ours have been because that
I don't care. If you protest, I don't care. I
protest to your heart's content. Don't block me from getting
where I need to go. Protests on a sidewalk somewhere,
have your signs, do your marches. If you want a
(26:40):
Palestinian flag, if you want to whatever flag, I don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I think that's a fundamental right of everybody in the
United States to protest and Canada as a kind of
a similar feel and vibe. There are nicer northern neighbors.
According to them, when unrest like this breaks out, are
their police officers as hobbled as ours are. It's kind
(27:07):
of scary, you know, when you think about it, because
of the phenomenal amount of damage that we see happening
in these I air quote protests. Because a lot of
times you'll have a demonstration and it's fine, and then
some group of people, either part of the demonstration decides,
(27:28):
you know what, We're going to run rough shot. We're
going to burn down a neighborhood. We're going to burn
down a bank. We're going to throw think, we're going
to destroy cars, we're going to block streets because, gosh
darn it, we're having a temper tantrum and you have
to listen to us. It says the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police were in communication with local police.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
But this MP, who seems to.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Be perhaps a potential rival to Trudeau, is saying that
this is not acceptable, and it's not acceptable here. It's
not acceptable when it happens in London. It's not acceptable
when it happens in Canada. You don't get to just
throw a temper tamper because stuff is happening that you
don't like. Stuff happens that we don't like every day,
(28:15):
every day, and the majority of people do not riot
because of it. We try to figure out, Okay, is
there something that I can do about this? What do
I have to do to make a difference in this?
How can I make this better? How can I make
this work for me? How can I make a system
that I think has broken more fair? If you are
(28:40):
pro or anti Israel, you have the same right to
talk about it. You don't have the right nobody does
to burn stuff down, stuff that doesn't belong to it's
not your stuff, and then not be held to account
by it. That I think is the part that you
(29:01):
know normal people and I like to call most Americans
normal people. It's part that drives normal people crazy. It's like, stop,
you know, doing the stop oil thing where you're gluing
yourself to the road and getting in the way of people.
Stop lighting stuff on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails because
you don't like what's happening in another part of the world.
(29:22):
Feel free to demonstrate, man, it's fine. Don't feel free
to burn stuff down? What are your thoughts eight hundred
and six eight eight nine, five, two to two. It
would be interesting to see if a popular Conservative leader
can capitalize on Trudeau, who is kind of facing a
(29:43):
revolt from within, and make a Conservative run for the top.
Justin Trudeau maybe his toughest challenge yet. He's been facing
calls for resignation. I mean, I saw a story from
back in October that said that the leader of the
opposition Conservative Party and his name is French, and so
(30:07):
you will have to excuse me.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Pierre that part I've got poile verte, I believe, but
I'm not going to pretend that I speak French, because
I don't. He is the leader of the opposition Conservative
Party and if his party can win the next general election,
which is slated for October of next year, right now,
(30:30):
he's holding a twenty point lead over Trudeau. So Trudeau
finding himself potentially in the same position as a Joe
Biden for similar but not all the same reasons. For
Joe Biden, I think it was it truly was age
and the fact that he could not keep his thoughts
straight that debate was the end for him.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
For Trudeau, I think it's policy.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
It's all policy, and this poilevre is appealing to both
traditional conservatives and some of the more populist elements of
society trying to, you know, say hey, we have social
and economic issues post pandemic, and we are going to
capitalize on it. Trudeau's been in power for a long time,
(31:15):
since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
He wants a fourth term as Prime minister.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Now I'm with most people who think, you know what,
two terms for you at the top is enough. I
would like to see more limitations on how politicians and
how many times they can run and how long they
can stay.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Diane Feinstein, which is another story for another day.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
You want to talk about somebody who is in Congress
and basically being told in front of everybody, sign this, Diane,
and she did.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
So.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You know, we have our reasons for looking for change,
for wanting change, but I think ultimately that change was
necessary post pandemic, and just Americans need more of a break.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
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