November 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Senior Contributor David Zanotti walks us through why the democrats want to use rank choice voting during next years primaries. It’s more than just a tactic to get a bunch of Mamdani’s; it’s the ultimate threat to democracy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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show with Michael O'Dell Jordan.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well, Thanksgiving is all about football.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You're gonna have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Lions are always the Thanksgiving tradition, but how good they
are and how good the Packers are makes that noon
very special Thanksgiving Day at noon, Lions hosting the Packers.
After that, Chiefs and Cowboys. Can the Cowboys beat the Jeeves?
Everybody else is taking a turn? And Bengals and Ravens
later at night seven twenty which the Bengals aren't so
bad with flaccos, so that could be closer than you think.
(01:02):
Maybe the best game of them all is the day
after Thanksgiving on Friday with the Bears and the Eagles,
and some pretty important college matchups this week holiday weekend,
not the least of which Ohio State and Michigan Thanksgiving
travel rush is on millions and millions by air, tens
of millions by car. The US envoy is off to
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Moscow on Tuesday of next week. We may have what
looks like a real blueprint for peace with Russia and Ukraine,
and that would give us a lot to be thankful for.
And the cost of the Thanksgiving dinner has declined once again,
Turkey's being the biggest culprit, down sixteen percent, but the
average feast for ten is a little over five bucks
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a person and at fifty five dollars and eighteen cents.
To give your perspective, it was sixty four dollars and
five cents and twenty twelve. And one of the big
stories we talked about yesterday is it appears as though
the Democrats behind the scenes are crafting a plan to
use rank choice voting during next year's primaries. And there's
(02:07):
a reason why I came to conclusion the Democrats will
do anything to.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Silence the voice of their own voters.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They did it with Bernie in twenty sixteen, They did
it with Bernie in twenty twenty, and they did it
with Bernie in twenty twenty four by keeping Joe in
until he secured all the electoral votes and then handed
it to Kamala. Now they want to use the rank
choice voting that got them Mom Donnie in New York
to get them what perhaps twenty thirty Mom Donnie's next
(02:35):
year in the midterm election. What is ranked choice voting?
How American is it? Is it the ultimate threat to democracy?
Our senior contributor David Snati's here, Good morning and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Good morning, gentlemen, and a happy Thanksgiving to you. You're
asking me the question, how did I get the luck
of the draw the day before Thanksgiving to talk about
rank choice voting.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, the news kind.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of on cryptocurrency words are but the news kind of
shafted you with that. Not me, No, I'm very well
aware of that. But stories you choose, stories you don't.
I mean, I protest, I have I mean things I
protest too much.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I mean, come on ranked choice voting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Actually, you are one of the few experts who have
been speaking on ranked choice voting for years. I suspect
much of our audience doesn't even know what it is.
I suspect ninety nine percent of America doesn't know what
it was. I suspect ninety percent of America.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Doesn't even know. That's how we got mom. Donnie.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, when it comes to ranked choice voting, just think
of things like root canal homoscopy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I've never had one. I am going to have one
of those, and as.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A few other or I just pout novakaing shots in
the dentist office when you were a kid. Then add
to it a healthy mix of just playing stupid.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's a really dumb idea.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think it's for people that don't know how to
Gordon Bowling Alley, so they just make it up as
they go along. I mean, it's it's just plain stupid.
It's the best way to describe it. Is a playground
fight among middle schoolers over who gets to keep the
guy's hat there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It is because well, it depends on how you look
at it, though, David, it's not really stupid when look
if Mondani Mandanni wouldn't even be a household name, nobody
even know who he was right now, he would have
been in a run up with como he would.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm not talking about whether or not it's effective to
accomplish the political purposes gained. It's just really stupid as
a human practice because it's just ganging up on something.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it doesn't resolve anything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And here's the hidden story about raine choice voting that
nobody really wants to talk about. It's designed by people
who want to get rid of voting altogether. And what
they're doing is they're breaking the trust of the tradition
of majority rule. It is the most anti democrat process
you could participate in, because it's just gang.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Warfare coming from the people who think democracy has a
soul and the democracy is at stake. They present you
rank choice voting so they can what destroy the democracy?
Take it over, walk theme through you got it, well,
walk them through technically how it works.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, it's simple.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
If if we're having an argument about what food we're
going to eat. It's Thanksgiving and the question is turkey pie,
pumpkin pie, apple pie, minspeed pie, I don't know, pick
your brownies, put your dessert choices up there, and we've
got to hit So when we take a vote and
there's ten people at the table and only four of them, Like,
there's four of them want one thing, and everybody else
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is split all over the ballot.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, so for one apple pie and that's the majority.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well we're not having apple pie though, but we're not
going to have apple pie. So what we do is
we add up all of the people who voted for
everything else and apply it. And so if there's only
four votes for apple pie, but second choice.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Votes there were more votes.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
For brownies, then what ends up happening is we take
the brownie votes and the second choice brownie votes, we
add them together, and we're eating brownies.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
What how you get, mom, don But it's almost to
pick a card, any card, right, because this is their
way of controlling, not the people they control who ultimately
will win or they have that control.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The first objective is to destroy the concept of majority rule.
That's why I oppose. Sorry, I'm just one opinion. Let
me make it a little bit broader. Why the organization
I serve for forty five years in public policy opposes
eliminating supermajority the concept of supermajorities.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
The concept of supermajorities is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
In other words, the filibuster is dangerous because fifty nine
percent of the Senate can want to do something duly
elected people, and those folks are disenfranchised by the forty
one percent. Our country is presumed to operate a less
exempted by exception and rule on a simple majority. Once
you start to create alternate mechanisms or instead of voting
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again because somebody didn't get fifty percent, each.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
One makes we the people weaker and our voice weaker,
which is the opposite of intention more confusing, and we
believe less than our vote council.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ultimately, we can get rid of voting altogether.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So this David snadis our senior Contributori is also the
CEO of American Policy renadti w's host of the Public Square.
He presides over voters, and he will also co host
this year's Christmas in America that will be heard at
the Public Square dot com and recorded live starting in
Nashville this Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I need oxygen, all right, So.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You understand why I say beyond the mom donnies, it
would create unnoticed by America in next year's primary. The
ultimate impact of demise is when America that are how
long it takes eventually wakes up to this scam and
then loses more trust in government. Yeah, which leads to ver'
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the all. It's a lose lose proposition. Or for those
that are trying to destroy our republic, it's a win win.
They'll get their mom Donnie's next year. And then like
our new study, we have a study four and five
voters believe the federal government is corrupt. It'll be four
and a half out of five about five years down
the road when you wake up to the scam of
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rank choice voting, and that's ultimately where they win.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, and you take it back to history.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Woodrow Wilson advocated for the administrative state that was in
the nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He wanted to move our country off of the concept
of personal responsibility and conscience and move our country to
the place where we were being governed as an administrative state.
Because they're really smart. People should be in control. And
once they're in control, we should just go live live
our lives and let them make the rules. And we'll
be to you, not exactly live your life. You have
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your life. They'll take half your money.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You live your life with the half they leave you,
and they'll take the collective half of everybody, and they'll
become millionaires.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Come on, don't please, do not delegitimize the fantasy with
reality man's And this reminds me of this is such
a classic, David.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So I'm listening to the statement released by John Podesta.
Now I already know John Podesta is a three term president,
No two four, five term president. Anyway, make a long
story short after. This is right before then, inauguration day
of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, he releases the statement
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congratulating and welcoming the new administrative state headed by Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris. And I went, oh, we don't
have a branch of government, a presidency, an administration. This
is an administrative state headed by these two. Meanwhile, David
had already done the research on who wrote the speech
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and how it tied to Podesta.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Was people think we're crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
No, this is it's all happening in plain sight, and
they will do ranked choice voting in plain sight.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The good news is this really stupid idea which is
designed to destroy voter trust and then to create a
gang warfare mentality when it comes to elections, and then
to pay for the person who has the cleverest strategy
to get the most people to gang up on the
other guy. This is really a stupid, deconstructive methodology altogether.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's really dumb.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Good news is there are seventeen states that ban it
and only I think seven that permitted at any level,
and only two do it statewide right now? Guess which too?
This is hilarious. Red already knows Maine and Alaska. In
other words, you couldn't get more fringe geographically, politically, and
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everything else. Maine in Alaska are the only ones to
do it in statewide races, and it's how Sarah Palin
lost her congressional bid.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
She lost it based on ring choice voting.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What's interesting, though, is because there's nobody covering this axios
to the story, but kind of goes back to the
analogy I gave. Even if they could get it done,
it wouldn't be the mandans it would produced. It would
be the lack of trust in government that would result
when you finally realize how un American this is when
you are paying attention. But there is that sprinkling of
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just saying it and saying it without anybody understanding it,
which explains how stupid it is, how undemocratic it is,
how Unamerican it is, and how it's outlawed in seventeen states.
But just getting you used to it, there's something dangerous
about that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's all about destroying trust in our constitution and destroying
our declaration.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
The stuff that goes on in my year, the thing
I must put up with. So it starts with red
outrage that young people think mac and cheese is a
suitable side item on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Get off the lawn.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Then David chimes in with hot plates, which, by the way,
gets my mind going. Do you remember what a pain
popcorn used to be. There's a lot of you listening
to me that don't have any idea of what I'm
talking about. Now, you put it in. There's even a
setting on the microwave popcorn. You can't mess it up.
But it's three and a half minutes and boom, you
got your popcorn. I remember when Jiffy pop came out
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and everybody thought that was a big deal because you
just put it right on the stove and watch it grow.
And then you just open the tinfoil and there's your
popcorn scalding your hand. I remember Joe Verdi was the
first to have a microwave, and we went to his house.
Now again, I didn't trust it. It was like an
alien being. I don't trust anything that can make something
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in two minutes. What is that there's there's some kind
of what kind of crazy science is going on when
that door is closed? And of all things, he put
a steak in. Don't ever microwave of steak. It comes
out looking like human flesh. It's like a grave.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It was gross. So it's kind of like anti microwave.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But then you guys are going into you know, college
and how you prepare things. Next, you know, Red telling
a story about they had to take his microwave apart.
It wasn't even digital. Every time that they would start it,
the TV starts flat. I mean, this is the stuff
that goes on in my ear, and I'm supposed to
be preparing for a segment. Anybody want to chime in
with the summary of your visit.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I believe we have been righteously rebuked.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, no, no, I loved it there it is no
but you know, to Red's point, though, look, if the
young people want macaroni and cheese instead of sweet potatoes.
Who cares as long as you're eating and you're thankful. Right,
Like one year we did steak and asparagus. It's one
of my favorite Thanksgivings. We had filets and not being rebuked.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now we're being this guy is he's got he's burying
us right now. Now he's going to Christian charity about
give the kids mac and cheese if that's what they want. Well,
we're talking about I'm going to be Thanksgiving with.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
My ultimate question is if things were so difficult to
make like they were back in the day, would maybe
the obesity be down a little. It used to be
a chore to make popcorn. It actually was. Well you
have to put in the oil in the pan and
put it on the right.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, when I think of Thanksgiving, I remember my grandmother.
Like my favorite was the butternut squash. Squash is a
nightmare trying to peel a squash, and that's if you
don't lose fingers in the process. And I always say, Nanny,
let me do it. Let me do it, Nanni, And
then I'd be like Nanny, Nanny, you do it. I
can't do it, but you know it used to be
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a lot of work to do all of this stuff,
and you know, and we the men are sitting watching
football with it, you know. And then the meal is done,
we get up, we say the prayer, we eat, then
we have our pants, go back to football. Then the
wife start doing all the Christmas decorating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's a great holiday for men.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Try making chestnuts, stuffing and cutting the thing and not
losing a thumb out.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Of all the things that I never liked growing up,
it was stuffing and now it's maybe my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know, they say your taste do you talk about? Nick?
And the chestnuts? Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
After you boil them and you got to get this
chick stuff out of it, so you got to cut them.
And sometimes and let's just say.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Do you see what I go through? This is what
I go through every broad What if I'm trying to
get my thoughts together? All right, unless you're trying to
force overtime. We have one minute left and we haven't
even gotten to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But the question on the table was is anybody eating
a roasted chestnut?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I have never heard chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
One of the most vaga popular Christmas tugs, but I
have never actually had one of you, of course, really, yes,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Tastes like they're delicious. They're kind of hard to get.
The things called nicking the chestnut. You have to cut
into the chestnut or nick the corner so that it
doesn't explode in the oven so the steam can come out.
And if you don't nick it, then you can't peel it.
But if you do that, then you can pop them
and peel them. They're delicious.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Speaking of nick nick at the dinner table last night,
Remember my horrifying experience the first time me and my
brother Vick made lobster and they started screaming and tapping
at the top of the boiler. I found out they
weren't screaming. That's just the air releasing.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh that's what they always say, So that's what they
always I cried for nothing. Yes, this is the equivalent
of getting your mathematics teacher.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Can we have a real segment after the break, and
can I have some silence?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Twenty eight after the owl? Hi, my name is Burn
Aaron and my morning show is your Morning Show with
Michael Del Jorno.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
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Speaker 3 (17:23):
Enjoy.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Michael Didrono and everyone in your crew have a very
blessed and happy Thanksgiving day and weekend.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Jeffrey, Michael win Read and all the listeners on to
wish you happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Turkey is trash meet, We need to ditch it. Cook
yourself a nice spake. A lobster death is a cruel death.
I sent you a text.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, thanks a lot. By the way, Happy Thanksgiving to
all of you as well. Thirty six minutes after the hour,
you got about twenty four minutes to be to work
bit o'clock.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
If anybody's going to work on.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
This Wednesday before Thanksgiving in the Central time zone, yes,
it's this update. The cruelest death of all. The lobster
literally implodes on itself from the pain it experiences when
boiled alive. Once submerged in boiling water, their organs completely
disintegrate from the extreme heat, but their exoskeleton doesn't give
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in and continues to cling to its solidity, prolonging the
animal's agony. Their brains are conscious enough to allow them
to suffer, but since they're not equipped with vocal cords,
they don't emit any sound from the suffering. The dull
sound like a scream. By the way, is anybody ever
boiled a lobster before?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
In this crew? Why? What? Why am I doing this?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Because I remember my brother Vick was twenty two and
I was like nineteen, and we got the big idea
we were going to have lobster.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Me and him, we're cooking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
So we did like the crab boil with the lobster,
and I remember we purged them in the sink and
I was very emotional watching them get sick.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And then when we put them in, I was hearing
screaming and they were banging on the top of the pot.
It was it was you'd have to somebody had put
it in a movie scene. I mean I was crying.
My brother Vic was very disturbed. We didn't eat them,
and I've never eaten a lot like when you go
to red lobster. I never use the live ones and
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pick it. I pick one that's already frozen because it
is a very traumatic thing. No lobster on the Thanksgiving
table today.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
There we go. I got it, read dude. Moral of
the story is no lobster. But seriously, this is why
I have not I do not eat you know live.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I'm from New England. We eat lobster like we eat well.
You're vicious, Jeffrey Dahmers, what do you want from me?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
We did a State of the Thanksgiving address early in
the Platinum Hour. You can go listen to it on
the podcast. Ultimately, what a thankful heart does as it
ensures you don't live and fear anxiety, bitterness and contention.
It's also a pathway for peace to enter your heart.
It is actually God's will is one scripture explored, and
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it gets you to focus on the fingerprints of God
and your life, and even gets you all the way
to two Timothy two thirteen, which is He's faithful, even
more faithless, which.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Is the story of my life.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I get fired only to get a better job, not
because I'm something great. Because God is so true to
his nature and his promises.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
There's thankful people, there's ungrateful people. But I can tell
you you're not doing yourself any favors not being thankful.
And Red blew me away this morning, David with this
is in the heart of the Civil War, and Abraham
Lincoln pens a letter on Thanksgiving of what he's thankful for.
It's really not tied to circumstances. It's so important. It's
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a big deal.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, what's wonderful about this time of the year, coming
into Thanksgiving and extending through Christmas and New Year's is
that these holidays give us the theme of understanding.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That we are not alone in the universe.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That's the most dangerous position for humans to be in,
is to actually believe that we are alone in the universe.
I'm not talking about UFOs or whatever we call them today.
I'm talking about the person, the Creator. There is a
transcendent somebody up there, and we are not alone. Now,
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the journey of life is to figure out who that
somebody is. And there is a contest over that. I
recognize that reality. There have always been competing faith claims
throughout the world. But for those who've come to settle
that that the biblical revelation that the creator, God of
our declaration mentioned four times in that document did in
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fact speak that he exists and he is not silent,
but he's come to earth in the living Word, in
the person of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's a whole different worldview, Michael.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And that's what makes America so unique is that the
people who came together to start a country came together
in the context of that worldview, and they let that
worldview flow through them into our Declaration, into our Constitution,
but most significantly, into their living.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They knew they weren't alone.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
That's how they could endure such suffering, because the suffering
had meaning, because it added up and it made sense,
and that's the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean, they.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Understood the difference between never eating chestnuts and eating chestnuts.
They understood the difference that there was something more in life,
and that it wasn't just an experiment, it wasn't just
a guest. And Thanksgiving reminds us of that in some
of the most difficult times. I mean, people think about
the thanksgivings and programs. They forget that the first year
they got here in the Plymouth Colony, in the year
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between the first year and the second year half of
them died and they were still thankful. And they didn't
get back on a boat and go back to England.
They were here for a reason. And the reason is
what we're talking about right now, personal conscience, religious liberty,
and the right to live out life in what you believe.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And so that's a big deal, and it's it is
a big deal.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And it's worth understanding and remembering and thinking about.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's more than football, more than justice. Yeah, no officers
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And it recognizes him as the source, which, by the way,
is a good medication too. It keeps us from worshiping
false sources, whether it's sold for government or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Billy Graham has not passed the test. He's considered his
statues in the floor of the American Congress. People understand
that the guy was credible. He earned the right to
be heard. And he said worldwide travels for decades, the
single greatest human malady that he experienced was loneliness. Think
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about that, the fear of being all alone in the universe.
It's a scary place. Yeah, but we're not alone, and
that's why we're thankful.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That's where we start.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah, And I would say the opposite of that might
be the most shocking study of the day.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You and I have been on this for years. We
were both.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Real, really alarmed by the documentary The Social Dilemma, because
these are the very people that created the social media
the algorithms that were designed to get you to go on,
stay on longer and longer, and how they created a
monster they can't tame now. And they basically at the end,
you know, make two things very clear. If you're on
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a social media site, it's free. You're the product that's
number one. Number two. There's no way to stop it now,
so just stay off it. And none of them, the
people that helped create Facebook, Google, none of them let
their kids have phones until they're older than sixteen years old.
But we have a new study out just one week
(24:54):
off social media showed significant reduction and mental health symptoms
in young else just one week.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow, if we could just get one meal, I mean,
whoever's doing the cooking in whatever house you're in, just
make a rule for the Thanksgiving meal, the phones stay
in the other room, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No phone's at the table for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
But we all know the root of that is. You
think you're in touch with so many people, but you're
really alone. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts. That's what
social media produces, and we all know it, and we're
all doing it and know we need to stop doing it,
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and don't seem to have the power to do it.
This study was fascinating because you know, it walks people
through what they went through, the withdrawal. You know, for
some of you, I'll never forget. Somebody was having a
conversation with one time who I knew was an alcoholic.
They refused to admit they were an alcoholic, and I said, well, great,
(25:59):
if you're not an alcohol it won't be a problem.
Let's not drink for a week. And then the answer
came rather quickly. So we all know that social media
is dangerous, so let's all not do it for a week.
It won't be a fun week, but you'll love the
result a week later. Whereas thankfulness puts us in the
presence of God, in his will, filled with peace and
(26:22):
living the abundant life, and ultimately you can't help but
have a happy Thanksgiving. I just I kind of almost
resent the fact it's my favorite holiday, but I resent
that it's once a year.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It should be every morning before your feet at the ground.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Quite frankly, it's a pretty important holiday that nobody ever
talks about.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you're getting a lot better than that, and you're
reminding us of it too, So I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That, and I'm thankful for you, and I'm very thankful
for Christmas in America. We're going to do eighteen thirty seven.
This is a fun one because what the heck is
what happened in eighteen thirty seven? Van Buren was president?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Right, here's the crazy thing, Michael. We've introduced the oddest
year you could imagine. Yeah, and the show's sold out
faster than ever before.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I have no idea why. What makes Christmas in America special?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's a live presentation, so old fashion radio recorded live
with the studio audience. Number one, it's storytelling. Number two.
It goes into the past to find the major because
you'll find it in every year, and you better find
it in twenty twenty five. And then finally, you know proximity.
I guess we have the greatest musicians. In fact, I
(27:30):
was watching a documentary who is it on? And Rodriguez
was in it? Yeah, Yeah, Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Oh my god, he's so talented. But anyway, don't get
me started.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
But I love years like this because we know what
songs were hits, but we don't necessarily have music. Sometimes,
we have words sometimes, and then these musicians will bring
it all back to life. It's just a magical journey.
And it will happen in Franklin Sunday after Thanksgiving, and
then it will happen again in Ohio, and then you
will all be able to hear it the public Square
(28:00):
dot com and on two hundred stations nationwide.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm really it's it's a family tradition. Did come up
from one member?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Why are we always in the second row behind Darryl
Waltrip And why can't we be in the front row
and sit with him? One disgruntled family member. For me,
I'd be happy in the back row. It's just an
absolute treasure. So I pray that you. I love sitting
behind Daryl.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I like to list it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'm so tempted to start that story, but I won't.
Jeffrey read, we are holding tickets. Yeah, you guys coming
or not, so you know, just so you know we've
got your tea.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know Jeffrey's committed, but Red looks like he's
gonna step.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
How do we get our tickets? We just show up
at this It's going to be in the break. It'll
be in the break. He'll tell you how to get Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
But no, I'm still looking forward to eighteen thirty seven
because it can only be filled with surprises for me.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Other than Van Buren, I know nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Uh so I'm looking forward to that and people will
be able to hear it at the Public Square dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Thankful for you and your family. God bless you. Happy
Thanksgiving and we'll see you in December.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thank you guys, Happy thanks you got all.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
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Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I'm just having a little back and forth with Denzel,
who wrote me, I believe Denzel is Denzel Washington, not
the Denzel no different Denzil.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I don't I think he's listening. I'm not sure where
he's listening.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Maybe he didn't say we're talking about MLK Junior, one
of the most eye opening things I ever. You know,
there's no question was great speaker, and there's no question
he was human, just like we are. And he was
certainly flawed as a human being. But when I studied
his jail letters, that's where I formed my opinion on
(30:47):
Martin Luther King Junior. But that wasn't the point we
were making earlier. Anyway, we're going back and forth. I'm
just encouraging him to read those jail letters. It's pretty
easy to attack Martin Luther King Jr. And Bill O'Reilly
does in a book. And you know, and at the
end of the day, you know you're sitting none. We're
all human, all of sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God. We all fail, and two failures, five
(31:08):
failures shouldn't discredit your entire life, unless they're unrepented and
unconfessed or what have you. So all right, we got
an envoy headed to Moscow next week. There's reason for
great hope that we may get an end of this
Russian Ukraine war, and Donald Trump will be the one
who is orchestrated at all. We have the Centers for
(31:31):
Medicare and Medicaid Services announcing some fifteen prescription drugs covered
by Medicare now, and the Thanksgiving travel rushes on tens
and tens of millions on the road today. Millions and
millions in the air today, So obviously a busy day
and a busy week of travel Thanksgiving, and it's also
a big shopping time, the Black Friday sales.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
But how do customers feel about money?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
National corresponding Roy O'Neil is here with the very latest,
not only the forecast of Thanksgiving travel, but what is.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Ahead for Black Friday. Good morning, Rory, Yeah, Good morning, Michaels.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
The National Retail Federation is predicting that this will be
the first trillion dollar holiday shopping season. Now they measure
a sixty day shopping season. Some say that doesn't cut
it because Amazon Prime days happening in October. You really
need to back up the clock and include those because
a lot of smart shoppers take advantage of sales starting then.
(32:25):
But still, it seems that the consumer spending is going
to continue, even though confidence in the economy is slipping,
especially when it comes to employment. The Consumer Confidence survey
out yesterday noted specifically how many Americans think, boy, it
really is tough to get a good job these days.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And as Rory mentioned earlier, you know, it's easier to
get into Harvard than it is to get a job
right now. So and the outlook of AI which is
blocking not only by taking over the job applications, it's
blocking your jobs and taking your jobs.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's depressing.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Much of today's story will lead to a story I
don't know in April or May about how Americans are
more in debt.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well, we're obviously using credit right.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
If it goes along with this for all the holidays spending.
We are seeing though that a trend to more practical
presence this year. Maybe you know, they're just increasing when
they'll spend, advancing when they'll spend this money. So look
for more socks and underwear under the tree this year
that rather than stupid stuff that may have been tariffed
crazily in the past six months. So yeah, so we're
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looking for a more practical.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Christmas this year. It's beginning it looked like a practically No.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
But we always talk about how America's spending is America's
spending or America debting.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Is government spending or government debting? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You know, well that's a big deal. The way we
caught we talked about, Oh, America is willing to spend more. No,
America is willing to debt more. Is what America is
willing to do. By way, nobody would have anything to
open at our home. Right, go ahead, I'm sorry we
got to delay that.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Yeah, that consumer spending has been holding up the economy
for the better part of a decade.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You to go back to COVID.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
When we thought that the consumer would stop spending, they
did just the opposite. So a lot of these predictions
are always turned upside down. I want to end with this,
and that is it's gonna sound crazy to you. I
actually miss not traveling on holidays and it was always
a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I'm mean, I can think of memorable ones trying to
come home from DC and getting stuck in of all places,
Salt Lake City that's where I saw or no, it
was in Minneapolis, and that's where I saw the woman
carry two full kegs, one under each arm. And that's
why I have a new respect for Minnesota women. But
there was just something about it, even the chaos was
(34:44):
kind of enchanting. And then the finally getting there and
then kind of speaks to the Kenny Loggins song Celebrate
Me Home, and then getting there and everybody waiting for
you at the airport. I don't know it was always
kind of worth it to me, but.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Nod experiences the of it all.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah, but there's a lot of people warning you be patient.
You can't have millions traveling and not have some problems. Hey, Rory,
We're so grateful for you every day. Great reporting is always.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and we'll talk to
you in December. Happy Thanksgiving, talk to you then, thank you.
I want to end the show with one of my
favorite contributors to the show, pre Tennis. You know there
(35:23):
are rules for what food you can bring on an airplane.
She covered that earlier, but this, this is something before.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The meal preparation even begins.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
You need to know, Samonella in the stuffing under cook turkey,
overcooked turkey, thanks forgotten in the oven, catching on fire,
cut hands, cooking the burden without removing the giblets or
the outer wrapping. Food experts say it happens. Also visits
to the er on Thanksgiving go up due to burns
and sports injuries from that pre dinner game. They say redirections,
(35:55):
put down the alcohol, but still have fun. I'm pre tennis,
pree tennis.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
With everything that could go wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I think again, we pray none of it happens, and
you think I'm bad for reading with the lobster ghoster. Hey,
listen from all of us to all of you, and
yours have a thankful heart. Make it so, be very
thankful this Thanksgiving and we'll see you after the holiday.
And keep making a difference in people's life and cherishing
your role.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
We'll see you then. We're all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael Vendheld, journo
Hey, it's Michael. Your morning show can be heard live
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Would love to be a part of your morning routine.
But so glad you're here now. Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well two three starting your morning off right.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
because we're in this STI Giving. This is your morning
show with Michael O'Dell Jordan.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well, Thanksgiving is all about football.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You're gonna have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Lions are always the Thanksgiving tradition, but how good they
are and how good the Packers are makes that noon
very special Thanksgiving Day at noon, Lions hosting the Packers.
After that, Chiefs and Cowboys. Can the Cowboys beat the Jeeves?
Everybody else is taking a turn? And Bengals and Ravens
later at night seven twenty which the Bengals aren't so
bad with flaccos, so that could be closer than you think.
(01:02):
Maybe the best game of them all is the day
after Thanksgiving on Friday with the Bears and the Eagles,
and some pretty important college matchups this week holiday weekend,
not the least of which Ohio State and Michigan Thanksgiving
travel rush is on millions and millions by air, tens
of millions by car. The US envoy is off to
(01:23):
Moscow on Tuesday of next week. We may have what
looks like a real blueprint for peace with Russia and Ukraine,
and that would give us a lot to be thankful for.
And the cost of the Thanksgiving dinner has declined once again,
Turkey's being the biggest culprit, down sixteen percent, but the
average feast for ten is a little over five bucks
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a person and at fifty five dollars and eighteen cents.
To give your perspective, it was sixty four dollars and
five cents and twenty twelve. And one of the big
stories we talked about yesterday is it appears as though
the Democrats behind the scenes are crafting a plan to
use rank choice voting during next year's primaries. And there's
(02:07):
a reason why I came to conclusion the Democrats will
do anything to.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Silence the voice of their own voters.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They did it with Bernie in twenty sixteen, They did
it with Bernie in twenty twenty, and they did it
with Bernie in twenty twenty four by keeping Joe in
until he secured all the electoral votes and then handed
it to Kamala. Now they want to use the rank
choice voting that got them Mom Donnie in New York
to get them what perhaps twenty thirty Mom Donnie's next
(02:35):
year in the midterm election. What is ranked choice voting?
How American is it? Is it the ultimate threat to democracy?
Our senior contributor David Snati's here, Good morning and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Good morning, gentlemen, and a happy Thanksgiving to you. You're
asking me the question, how did I get the luck
of the draw the day before Thanksgiving to talk about
rank choice voting.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, the news kind.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of on cryptocurrency words are but the news kind of
shafted you with that. Not me, No, I'm very well
aware of that. But stories you choose, stories you don't.
I mean, I protest, I have I mean things I
protest too much.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I mean, come on ranked choice voting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Actually, you are one of the few experts who have
been speaking on ranked choice voting for years. I suspect
much of our audience doesn't even know what it is.
I suspect ninety nine percent of America doesn't know what
it was. I suspect ninety percent of America.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Doesn't even know. That's how we got mom. Donnie.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, when it comes to ranked choice voting, just think
of things like root canal homoscopy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I've never had one. I am going to have one
of those, and as.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A few other or I just pout novakaing shots in
the dentist office when you were a kid. Then add
to it a healthy mix of just playing stupid.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's a really dumb idea.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think it's for people that don't know how to
Gordon Bowling Alley, so they just make it up as
they go along. I mean, it's it's just plain stupid.
It's the best way to describe it. Is a playground
fight among middle schoolers over who gets to keep the
guy's hat there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It is because well, it depends on how you look
at it, though, David, it's not really stupid when look
if Mondani Mandanni wouldn't even be a household name, nobody
even know who he was right now, he would have
been in a run up with como he would.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm not talking about whether or not it's effective to
accomplish the political purposes gained. It's just really stupid as
a human practice because it's just ganging up on something.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, it doesn't resolve anything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And here's the hidden story about raine choice voting that
nobody really wants to talk about. It's designed by people
who want to get rid of voting altogether. And what
they're doing is they're breaking the trust of the tradition
of majority rule. It is the most anti democrat process
you could participate in, because it's just gang.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Warfare coming from the people who think democracy has a
soul and the democracy is at stake. They present you
rank choice voting so they can what destroy the democracy?
Take it over, walk theme through you got it, well,
walk them through technically how it works.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, it's simple.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
If if we're having an argument about what food we're
going to eat. It's Thanksgiving and the question is turkey pie,
pumpkin pie, apple pie, minspeed pie, I don't know, pick
your brownies, put your dessert choices up there, and we've
got to hit So when we take a vote and
there's ten people at the table and only four of them, Like,
there's four of them want one thing, and everybody else
(05:43):
is split all over the ballot.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, so for one apple pie and that's the majority.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well we're not having apple pie though, but we're not
going to have apple pie. So what we do is
we add up all of the people who voted for
everything else and apply it. And so if there's only
four votes for apple pie, but second choice.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Votes there were more votes.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
For brownies, then what ends up happening is we take
the brownie votes and the second choice brownie votes, we
add them together, and we're eating brownies.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
What how you get, mom, don But it's almost to
pick a card, any card, right, because this is their
way of controlling, not the people they control who ultimately
will win or they have that control.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The first objective is to destroy the concept of majority rule.
That's why I oppose. Sorry, I'm just one opinion. Let
me make it a little bit broader. Why the organization
I serve for forty five years in public policy opposes
eliminating supermajority the concept of supermajorities.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
The concept of supermajorities is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
In other words, the filibuster is dangerous because fifty nine
percent of the Senate can want to do something duly
elected people, and those folks are disenfranchised by the forty
one percent. Our country is presumed to operate a less
exempted by exception and rule on a simple majority. Once
you start to create alternate mechanisms or instead of voting
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again because somebody didn't get fifty percent, each.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
One makes we the people weaker and our voice weaker,
which is the opposite of intention more confusing, and we
believe less than our vote council.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ultimately, we can get rid of voting altogether.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So this David snadis our senior Contributori is also the
CEO of American Policy renadti w's host of the Public Square.
He presides over voters, and he will also co host
this year's Christmas in America that will be heard at
the Public Square dot com and recorded live starting in
Nashville this Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I need oxygen, all right, So.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You understand why I say beyond the mom donnies, it
would create unnoticed by America in next year's primary. The
ultimate impact of demise is when America that are how
long it takes eventually wakes up to this scam and
then loses more trust in government. Yeah, which leads to ver'
(08:08):
the all. It's a lose lose proposition. Or for those
that are trying to destroy our republic, it's a win win.
They'll get their mom Donnie's next year. And then like
our new study, we have a study four and five
voters believe the federal government is corrupt. It'll be four
and a half out of five about five years down
the road when you wake up to the scam of
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rank choice voting, and that's ultimately where they win.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, and you take it back to history.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Woodrow Wilson advocated for the administrative state that was in
the nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He wanted to move our country off of the concept
of personal responsibility and conscience and move our country to
the place where we were being governed as an administrative state.
Because they're really smart. People should be in control. And
once they're in control, we should just go live live
our lives and let them make the rules. And we'll
be to you, not exactly live your life. You have
(09:02):
your life. They'll take half your money.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You live your life with the half they leave you,
and they'll take the collective half of everybody, and they'll
become millionaires.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Come on, don't please, do not delegitimize the fantasy with
reality man's And this reminds me of this is such
a classic, David.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So I'm listening to the statement released by John Podesta.
Now I already know John Podesta is a three term president,
No two four, five term president. Anyway, make a long
story short after. This is right before then, inauguration day
of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, he releases the statement
(09:44):
congratulating and welcoming the new administrative state headed by Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris. And I went, oh, we don't
have a branch of government, a presidency, an administration. This
is an administrative state headed by these two. Meanwhile, David
had already done the research on who wrote the speech
(10:04):
and how it tied to Podesta.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Was people think we're crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
No, this is it's all happening in plain sight, and
they will do ranked choice voting in plain sight.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The good news is this really stupid idea which is
designed to destroy voter trust and then to create a
gang warfare mentality when it comes to elections, and then
to pay for the person who has the cleverest strategy
to get the most people to gang up on the
other guy. This is really a stupid, deconstructive methodology altogether.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's really dumb.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Good news is there are seventeen states that ban it
and only I think seven that permitted at any level,
and only two do it statewide right now? Guess which too?
This is hilarious. Red already knows Maine and Alaska. In
other words, you couldn't get more fringe geographically, politically, and
(10:57):
everything else. Maine in Alaska are the only ones to
do it in statewide races, and it's how Sarah Palin
lost her congressional bid.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
She lost it based on ring choice voting.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What's interesting, though, is because there's nobody covering this axios
to the story, but kind of goes back to the
analogy I gave. Even if they could get it done,
it wouldn't be the mandans it would produced. It would
be the lack of trust in government that would result
when you finally realize how un American this is when
you are paying attention. But there is that sprinkling of
(11:29):
just saying it and saying it without anybody understanding it,
which explains how stupid it is, how undemocratic it is,
how Unamerican it is, and how it's outlawed in seventeen states.
But just getting you used to it, there's something dangerous
about that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's all about destroying trust in our constitution and destroying
our declaration.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
The stuff that goes on in my year, the thing
I must put up with. So it starts with red
outrage that young people think mac and cheese is a
suitable side item on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Get off the lawn.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Then David chimes in with hot plates, which, by the way,
gets my mind going. Do you remember what a pain
popcorn used to be. There's a lot of you listening
to me that don't have any idea of what I'm
talking about. Now, you put it in. There's even a
setting on the microwave popcorn. You can't mess it up.
But it's three and a half minutes and boom, you
got your popcorn. I remember when Jiffy pop came out
(12:36):
and everybody thought that was a big deal because you
just put it right on the stove and watch it grow.
And then you just open the tinfoil and there's your
popcorn scalding your hand. I remember Joe Verdi was the
first to have a microwave, and we went to his house.
Now again, I didn't trust it. It was like an
alien being. I don't trust anything that can make something
(12:58):
in two minutes. What is that there's there's some kind
of what kind of crazy science is going on when
that door is closed? And of all things, he put
a steak in. Don't ever microwave of steak. It comes
out looking like human flesh. It's like a grave.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It was gross. So it's kind of like anti microwave.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But then you guys are going into you know, college
and how you prepare things. Next, you know, Red telling
a story about they had to take his microwave apart.
It wasn't even digital. Every time that they would start it,
the TV starts flat. I mean, this is the stuff
that goes on in my ear, and I'm supposed to
be preparing for a segment. Anybody want to chime in
with the summary of your visit.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I believe we have been righteously rebuked.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, no, no, I loved it there it is no
but you know, to Red's point, though, look, if the
young people want macaroni and cheese instead of sweet potatoes.
Who cares as long as you're eating and you're thankful. Right,
Like one year we did steak and asparagus. It's one
of my favorite Thanksgivings. We had filets and not being rebuked.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now we're being this guy is he's got he's burying
us right now. Now he's going to Christian charity about
give the kids mac and cheese if that's what they want. Well,
we're talking about I'm going to be Thanksgiving with.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
My ultimate question is if things were so difficult to
make like they were back in the day, would maybe
the obesity be down a little. It used to be
a chore to make popcorn. It actually was. Well you
have to put in the oil in the pan and
put it on the right.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, when I think of Thanksgiving, I remember my grandmother.
Like my favorite was the butternut squash. Squash is a
nightmare trying to peel a squash, and that's if you
don't lose fingers in the process. And I always say, Nanny,
let me do it. Let me do it, Nanni, And
then I'd be like Nanny, Nanny, you do it. I
can't do it, but you know it used to be
(14:50):
a lot of work to do all of this stuff,
and you know, and we the men are sitting watching
football with it, you know. And then the meal is done,
we get up, we say the prayer, we eat, then
we have our pants, go back to football. Then the
wife start doing all the Christmas decorating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's a great holiday for men.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Try making chestnuts, stuffing and cutting the thing and not
losing a thumb out.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Of all the things that I never liked growing up,
it was stuffing and now it's maybe my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know, they say your taste do you talk about? Nick?
And the chestnuts? Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
After you boil them and you got to get this
chick stuff out of it, so you got to cut them.
And sometimes and let's just say.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Do you see what I go through? This is what
I go through every broad What if I'm trying to
get my thoughts together? All right, unless you're trying to
force overtime. We have one minute left and we haven't
even gotten to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But the question on the table was is anybody eating
a roasted chestnut?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I have never heard chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
One of the most vaga popular Christmas tugs, but I
have never actually had one of you, of course, really, yes,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Tastes like they're delicious. They're kind of hard to get.
The things called nicking the chestnut. You have to cut
into the chestnut or nick the corner so that it
doesn't explode in the oven so the steam can come out.
And if you don't nick it, then you can't peel it.
But if you do that, then you can pop them
and peel them. They're delicious.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Speaking of nick nick at the dinner table last night,
Remember my horrifying experience the first time me and my
brother Vick made lobster and they started screaming and tapping
at the top of the boiler. I found out they
weren't screaming. That's just the air releasing.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh that's what they always say, So that's what they
always I cried for nothing. Yes, this is the equivalent
of getting your mathematics teacher.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Can we have a real segment after the break, and
can I have some silence?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Twenty eight after the owl? Hi, my name is Burn
Aaron and my morning show is your Morning Show with
Michael Del Jorno.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Hey, gang, it's Michael your morning show. Can be heard
live each weekday morning on great radio stations like k
EIB in Los Angeles, WFDF nine ten AM Detroit, Michigan,
the Superstation, and the Rock of Talk sixteen hundred AM
KIVA and Albuquerque, New Mexico. We'd love to have you
listen live every morning, but glad you're here now for
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Enjoy.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Michael Didrono and everyone in your crew have a very
blessed and happy Thanksgiving day and weekend.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Jeffrey, Michael win Read and all the listeners on to
wish you happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Turkey is trash meet, We need to ditch it. Cook
yourself a nice spake. A lobster death is a cruel death.
I sent you a text.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, thanks a lot. By the way, Happy Thanksgiving to
all of you as well. Thirty six minutes after the hour,
you got about twenty four minutes to be to work
bit o'clock.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
If anybody's going to work on.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
This Wednesday before Thanksgiving in the Central time zone, yes,
it's this update. The cruelest death of all. The lobster
literally implodes on itself from the pain it experiences when
boiled alive. Once submerged in boiling water, their organs completely
disintegrate from the extreme heat, but their exoskeleton doesn't give
(18:17):
in and continues to cling to its solidity, prolonging the
animal's agony. Their brains are conscious enough to allow them
to suffer, but since they're not equipped with vocal cords,
they don't emit any sound from the suffering. The dull
sound like a scream. By the way, is anybody ever
boiled a lobster before?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
In this crew? Why? What? Why am I doing this?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Because I remember my brother Vick was twenty two and
I was like nineteen, and we got the big idea
we were going to have lobster.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Me and him, we're cooking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
So we did like the crab boil with the lobster,
and I remember we purged them in the sink and
I was very emotional watching them get sick.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And then when we put them in, I was hearing
screaming and they were banging on the top of the pot.
It was it was you'd have to somebody had put
it in a movie scene. I mean I was crying.
My brother Vic was very disturbed. We didn't eat them,
and I've never eaten a lot like when you go
to red lobster. I never use the live ones and
(19:25):
pick it. I pick one that's already frozen because it
is a very traumatic thing. No lobster on the Thanksgiving
table today.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
There we go. I got it, read dude. Moral of
the story is no lobster. But seriously, this is why
I have not I do not eat you know live.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I'm from New England. We eat lobster like we eat well.
You're vicious, Jeffrey Dahmers, what do you want from me?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
We did a State of the Thanksgiving address early in
the Platinum Hour. You can go listen to it on
the podcast. Ultimately, what a thankful heart does as it
ensures you don't live and fear anxiety, bitterness and contention.
It's also a pathway for peace to enter your heart.
It is actually God's will is one scripture explored, and
(20:10):
it gets you to focus on the fingerprints of God
and your life, and even gets you all the way
to two Timothy two thirteen, which is He's faithful, even
more faithless, which.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Is the story of my life.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I get fired only to get a better job, not
because I'm something great. Because God is so true to
his nature and his promises.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
There's thankful people, there's ungrateful people. But I can tell
you you're not doing yourself any favors not being thankful.
And Red blew me away this morning, David with this
is in the heart of the Civil War, and Abraham
Lincoln pens a letter on Thanksgiving of what he's thankful for.
It's really not tied to circumstances. It's so important. It's
(20:53):
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, what's wonderful about this time of the year, coming
into Thanksgiving and extending through Christmas and New Year's is
that these holidays give us the theme of understanding.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That we are not alone in the universe.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That's the most dangerous position for humans to be in,
is to actually believe that we are alone in the universe.
I'm not talking about UFOs or whatever we call them today.
I'm talking about the person, the Creator. There is a
transcendent somebody up there, and we are not alone. Now,
(21:31):
the journey of life is to figure out who that
somebody is. And there is a contest over that. I
recognize that reality. There have always been competing faith claims
throughout the world. But for those who've come to settle
that that the biblical revelation that the creator, God of
our declaration mentioned four times in that document did in
(21:51):
fact speak that he exists and he is not silent,
but he's come to earth in the living Word, in
the person of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's a whole different worldview, Michael.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And that's what makes America so unique is that the
people who came together to start a country came together
in the context of that worldview, and they let that
worldview flow through them into our Declaration, into our Constitution,
but most significantly, into their living.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They knew they weren't alone.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
That's how they could endure such suffering, because the suffering
had meaning, because it added up and it made sense,
and that's the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean, they.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Understood the difference between never eating chestnuts and eating chestnuts.
They understood the difference that there was something more in life,
and that it wasn't just an experiment, it wasn't just
a guest. And Thanksgiving reminds us of that in some
of the most difficult times. I mean, people think about
the thanksgivings and programs. They forget that the first year
they got here in the Plymouth Colony, in the year
(22:51):
between the first year and the second year half of
them died and they were still thankful. And they didn't
get back on a boat and go back to England.
They were here for a reason. And the reason is
what we're talking about right now, personal conscience, religious liberty,
and the right to live out life in what you believe.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And so that's a big deal, and it's it is
a big deal.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And it's worth understanding and remembering and thinking about.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's more than football, more than justice. Yeah, no officers
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And it recognizes him as the source, which, by the way,
is a good medication too. It keeps us from worshiping
false sources, whether it's sold for government or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Billy Graham has not passed the test. He's considered his
statues in the floor of the American Congress. People understand
that the guy was credible. He earned the right to
be heard. And he said worldwide travels for decades, the
single greatest human malady that he experienced was loneliness. Think
(23:52):
about that, the fear of being all alone in the universe.
It's a scary place. Yeah, but we're not alone, and
that's why we're thankful.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That's where we start.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah, And I would say the opposite of that might
be the most shocking study of the day.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You and I have been on this for years. We
were both.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Real, really alarmed by the documentary The Social Dilemma, because
these are the very people that created the social media
the algorithms that were designed to get you to go on,
stay on longer and longer, and how they created a
monster they can't tame now. And they basically at the end,
you know, make two things very clear. If you're on
(24:32):
a social media site, it's free. You're the product that's
number one. Number two. There's no way to stop it now,
so just stay off it. And none of them, the
people that helped create Facebook, Google, none of them let
their kids have phones until they're older than sixteen years old.
But we have a new study out just one week
(24:54):
off social media showed significant reduction and mental health symptoms
in young else just one week.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow, if we could just get one meal, I mean,
whoever's doing the cooking in whatever house you're in, just
make a rule for the Thanksgiving meal, the phones stay
in the other room, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No phone's at the table for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
But we all know the root of that is. You
think you're in touch with so many people, but you're
really alone. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts. That's what
social media produces, and we all know it, and we're
all doing it and know we need to stop doing it,
(25:38):
and don't seem to have the power to do it.
This study was fascinating because you know, it walks people
through what they went through, the withdrawal. You know, for
some of you, I'll never forget. Somebody was having a
conversation with one time who I knew was an alcoholic.
They refused to admit they were an alcoholic, and I said, well, great,
(25:59):
if you're not an alcohol it won't be a problem.
Let's not drink for a week. And then the answer
came rather quickly. So we all know that social media
is dangerous, so let's all not do it for a week.
It won't be a fun week, but you'll love the
result a week later. Whereas thankfulness puts us in the
presence of God, in his will, filled with peace and
(26:22):
living the abundant life, and ultimately you can't help but
have a happy Thanksgiving. I just I kind of almost
resent the fact it's my favorite holiday, but I resent
that it's once a year.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It should be every morning before your feet at the ground.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Quite frankly, it's a pretty important holiday that nobody ever
talks about.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you're getting a lot better than that, and you're
reminding us of it too, So I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That, and I'm thankful for you, and I'm very thankful
for Christmas in America. We're going to do eighteen thirty seven.
This is a fun one because what the heck is
what happened in eighteen thirty seven? Van Buren was president?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Right, here's the crazy thing, Michael. We've introduced the oddest
year you could imagine. Yeah, and the show's sold out
faster than ever before.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I have no idea why. What makes Christmas in America special?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
It's a live presentation, so old fashion radio recorded live
with the studio audience. Number one, it's storytelling. Number two.
It goes into the past to find the major because
you'll find it in every year, and you better find
it in twenty twenty five. And then finally, you know proximity.
I guess we have the greatest musicians. In fact, I
(27:30):
was watching a documentary who is it on? And Rodriguez
was in it? Yeah, Yeah, Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Oh my god, he's so talented. But anyway, don't get
me started.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
But I love years like this because we know what
songs were hits, but we don't necessarily have music. Sometimes,
we have words sometimes, and then these musicians will bring
it all back to life. It's just a magical journey.
And it will happen in Franklin Sunday after Thanksgiving, and
then it will happen again in Ohio, and then you
will all be able to hear it the public Square
(28:00):
dot com and on two hundred stations nationwide.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'm really it's it's a family tradition. Did come up
from one member?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Why are we always in the second row behind Darryl
Waltrip And why can't we be in the front row
and sit with him? One disgruntled family member. For me,
I'd be happy in the back row. It's just an
absolute treasure. So I pray that you. I love sitting
behind Daryl.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I like to list it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'm so tempted to start that story, but I won't.
Jeffrey read, we are holding tickets. Yeah, you guys coming
or not, so you know, just so you know we've
got your tea.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know Jeffrey's committed, but Red looks like he's
gonna step.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
How do we get our tickets? We just show up
at this It's going to be in the break. It'll
be in the break. He'll tell you how to get Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
But no, I'm still looking forward to eighteen thirty seven
because it can only be filled with surprises for me.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Other than Van Buren, I know nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Uh so I'm looking forward to that and people will
be able to hear it at the Public Square dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Thankful for you and your family. God bless you. Happy
Thanksgiving and we'll see you in December.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thank you guys, Happy thanks you got all.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
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Brickhouse Nutrition do. They just announced their Black Friday thirty
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Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I'm just having a little back and forth with Denzel,
who wrote me, I believe Denzel is Denzel Washington, not
the Denzel no different Denzil.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I don't I think he's listening. I'm not sure where
he's listening.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Maybe he didn't say we're talking about MLK Junior, one
of the most eye opening things I ever. You know,
there's no question was great speaker, and there's no question
he was human, just like we are. And he was
certainly flawed as a human being. But when I studied
his jail letters, that's where I formed my opinion on
(30:47):
Martin Luther King Junior. But that wasn't the point we
were making earlier. Anyway, we're going back and forth. I'm
just encouraging him to read those jail letters. It's pretty
easy to attack Martin Luther King Jr. And Bill O'Reilly
does in a book. And you know, and at the
end of the day, you know you're sitting none. We're
all human, all of sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God. We all fail, and two failures, five
(31:08):
failures shouldn't discredit your entire life, unless they're unrepented and
unconfessed or what have you. So all right, we got
an envoy headed to Moscow next week. There's reason for
great hope that we may get an end of this
Russian Ukraine war, and Donald Trump will be the one
who is orchestrated at all. We have the Centers for
(31:31):
Medicare and Medicaid Services announcing some fifteen prescription drugs covered
by Medicare now, and the Thanksgiving travel rushes on tens
and tens of millions on the road today. Millions and
millions in the air today, So obviously a busy day
and a busy week of travel Thanksgiving, and it's also
a big shopping time, the Black Friday sales.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
But how do customers feel about money?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
National corresponding Roy O'Neil is here with the very latest,
not only the forecast of Thanksgiving travel, but what is.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Ahead for Black Friday. Good morning, Rory, Yeah, Good morning, Michaels.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
The National Retail Federation is predicting that this will be
the first trillion dollar holiday shopping season. Now they measure
a sixty day shopping season. Some say that doesn't cut
it because Amazon Prime days happening in October. You really
need to back up the clock and include those because
a lot of smart shoppers take advantage of sales starting then.
(32:25):
But still, it seems that the consumer spending is going
to continue, even though confidence in the economy is slipping,
especially when it comes to employment. The Consumer Confidence survey
out yesterday noted specifically how many Americans think, boy, it
really is tough to get a good job these days.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And as Rory mentioned earlier, you know, it's easier to
get into Harvard than it is to get a job
right now. So and the outlook of AI which is
blocking not only by taking over the job applications, it's
blocking your jobs and taking your jobs.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's depressing.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Much of today's story will lead to a story I
don't know in April or May about how Americans are
more in debt.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well, we're obviously using credit right.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
If it goes along with this for all the holidays spending.
We are seeing though that a trend to more practical
presence this year. Maybe you know, they're just increasing when
they'll spend, advancing when they'll spend this money. So look
for more socks and underwear under the tree this year
that rather than stupid stuff that may have been tariffed
crazily in the past six months. So yeah, so we're
(33:30):
looking for a more practical.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Christmas this year. It's beginning it looked like a practically No.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
But we always talk about how America's spending is America's
spending or America debting.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Is government spending or government debting? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You know, well that's a big deal. The way we
caught we talked about, Oh, America is willing to spend more. No,
America is willing to debt more. Is what America is
willing to do. By way, nobody would have anything to
open at our home. Right, go ahead, I'm sorry we
got to delay that.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Yeah, that consumer spending has been holding up the economy
for the better part of a decade.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You to go back to COVID.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
When we thought that the consumer would stop spending, they
did just the opposite. So a lot of these predictions
are always turned upside down. I want to end with this,
and that is it's gonna sound crazy to you. I
actually miss not traveling on holidays and it was always
a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I'm mean, I can think of memorable ones trying to
come home from DC and getting stuck in of all places,
Salt Lake City that's where I saw or no, it
was in Minneapolis, and that's where I saw the woman
carry two full kegs, one under each arm. And that's
why I have a new respect for Minnesota women. But
there was just something about it, even the chaos was
(34:44):
kind of enchanting. And then the finally getting there and
then kind of speaks to the Kenny Loggins song Celebrate
Me Home, and then getting there and everybody waiting for
you at the airport. I don't know it was always
kind of worth it to me, but.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Nod experiences the of it all.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah, but there's a lot of people warning you be patient.
You can't have millions traveling and not have some problems. Hey, Rory,
We're so grateful for you every day. Great reporting is always.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and we'll talk to
you in December. Happy Thanksgiving, talk to you then, thank you.
I want to end the show with one of my
favorite contributors to the show, pre Tennis. You know there
(35:23):
are rules for what food you can bring on an airplane.
She covered that earlier, but this, this is something before.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The meal preparation even begins.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
You need to know, Samonella in the stuffing under cook turkey,
overcooked turkey, thanks forgotten in the oven, catching on fire,
cut hands, cooking the burden without removing the giblets or
the outer wrapping. Food experts say it happens. Also visits
to the er on Thanksgiving go up due to burns
and sports injuries from that pre dinner game. They say redirections,
(35:55):
put down the alcohol, but still have fun. I'm pre tennis,
pree tennis.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
With everything that could go wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I think again, we pray none of it happens, and
you think I'm bad for reading with the lobster ghoster. Hey,
listen from all of us to all of you, and
yours have a thankful heart. Make it so, be very
thankful this Thanksgiving and we'll see you after the holiday.
And keep making a difference in people's life and cherishing
your role.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
We'll see you then. We're all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael Vendheld, journo
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