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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Seven minutes after the hour, Good morning and welcome to Wednesday,
the December third edition, twenty twenty five. One chance to
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David'll be with us here. Momentarily, lawmakers are set to
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in the US did meet, did talk for five hours.
There was no breakthrough, and it wasn't nearly close as
everybody's narrative tried to make it. In the end, Republican
Trump endorsed Matt Vanepps wins by nine percentage points in
the special election in Tennessee. I want to make something
really clear, well two things really clear. The first is,
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if you're listening outside of Tennessee, this isn't us making
you live our life. This is us using this one
special election that happened in America to see what we
can learn from it before next year's critical midterm election
that will decide who really controls the legislative branch of government.
(02:00):
That's one. Two. I wanted to reintroduce David to Jeffrey
Lyon and read because you probably don't know who they are.
They stiffed you and didn't come to Christmas in America.
That is so I didn't know that they high handed
you life was just too busy for them. They couldn't
make the performance. You know, I just want you to
(02:20):
know who's loyal who isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They had the courtesy you let me know, and that
was very polite.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Thank you, Oh see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
RSVP'd Yeah, I know, I bailed him out.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I know David. He's passive aggressive. He doesn't forgive you,
not unless you listen to it on the public square
dot com. He won't forgive you. And you missed out
on the free book. Now, let's talk about this election.
Let me get you up to speed on what we've
all been talking about. One. I see we're gonna talk
all about turnout because that's very relevant in this race.
We'll can talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It in the five o'clock hour. I know where you're
coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah no, I still see Republicans who like to vote
on election day. That could bite them if they're not
careful with it. They got to get over that. I
do think it was a special election turnout Thanksgiving after
a scandalous resignation. All right, so all that going DEM
still vague blue. My biggest takeaway is this socialist messaging
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doesn't work outside of large urban areas. And we saw
that in this vote. I mean, and by the way,
had she run for mayor, she'd be mayor.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, your comment to all the wonderful listeners around the
country is why are we platforming this particular race at
such a level? Well, first off, because it was massive
in regards to national media attention and spending.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But there's a much bigger moral of the story.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
This is the perfect test case, if you will, for
twenty twenty six. In this regard, you cannot get a
better home game for Republicans than District seven in Tennessee. Now, granted,
District seven has a segment of downtown Nashville that was
basically reconstructed and read districting legally to basically drain some
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of that radical leftist progressive votes into more rural counties
to balance that out.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's what redistriction. Redistricting is all about.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And it's been around since Gary mandering, all right, So
it's been around for a long long time, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And she did, by the way, she didn't win as
much as people. Why am I hearing that? Oh that's you.
She took fifty six percent of the vote in those
bluest of blue urban areas, which wasn't that impressive quite frankly,
but she got killed in Williamson County, got killed in
the rural areas, so that readrisk chicken was a big
part of it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, this is a good test case for the country.
And here's the question you have to walk away from.
And this is the question nobody's talking about. And the
Republicans don't have the courage ask out loud, that is,
is there anybody on the ground what is the Republican
ground game about?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And because a number of us live.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
In fact, a number of iHeart personalities live in Williamson County, Tennessee,
we can tell you honestly about yard signs. Can I
tell you in my neighborhood, she's the only one that
had yard signs up period.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now I see, I would take that as a sign
I need to move, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And the other part of the sign is there's a
lot of people that don't want to be provocative, that
learn to be polite, and yard signs have now become
a form of warfare. But the point is their base
is stronger than the Republican base number one in regards
to their motivation to show up. Now, they may not
be as big in that district as the Republicans. But
motivation is critical and an awful action.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Right brought this up earlier to David going really big picture.
They brought in the presidential candidate, Kamala Harris to campaign
for her. They brought in AOC. Now that's a two
edged sword because that motivated both sides. And then her
comments about Nashville mean, you couldn't have had a worse candidate,
and she still came with a nine points. That'll be
concerning one of the things that I bring up. They
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haven't learned their lesson Republicans. David Sinati, by the way,
is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable. He's the
host of the Public squarehead on two other stations. He
is the co host of Christmas in America that my
team didn't bother to show up for, and he's our
senior contributor here on the Morning Show. No, in addition
to Republicans still you know, like to vote on election
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day and not early vote, where she had a huge
lead in early voting. Now I completely forgot what I
was going to say.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's sor right, hang out. Let let me vam for
you for a second.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And our organization started in nineteen ninety eight one of
the first online voter information services called ivoters dot com.
And ivoters dot com does elections. So what we're talking
about right now, Michael's not speculation. We do these numb yes.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And so what I was going to say was, they
bring in Kamala, they bring in aoc of Coursette has
a two way sword. Her negative comments as a bad
candidate that motivated people, Oh you hate my city and
you want to represent it. That didn't play well for her.
So a worst case in when she still comes within
nine percent, Let's start with special election because people played
with this in the narrative game. I think this was
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mostly narrativized to create a victory out of an obvious defeat.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well, yes, it was a special election. And Tip one
was famous for saying all politics is local. Well, all
politics is local a lot, but it's not only local,
but it is starting local.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Money wasn't local exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And that's the lesson that the Republicans do not know
the thing that the Republicans. So, first off, it's an
off off, off, off off election. It's a special election
being held four days after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What do you think turnout's going to do. It's really horrible.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The point is on turnout is who turned out better
in a bad turnout? The Democrats, the percentage of their
base that's been out over the last several election years
in District District seven in Tennessee showed up by a
ten point larger margin than the Republicans. Now that's problematic.
For this reason, there is a strong trend for those
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that study the numbers like we do what I voters
that if Donald Trump's not on the ballot, his vote
doesn't come out.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You can make the case.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Here Red and I talked about this. It was Red said,
unless Donald Trump spends all next year on the campaign trail,
and I mean literally physically standing next to these candidates
and holding hands with the voters and walking them to
the polls, it looks problematic. And this is with a
terrible candidate, which speaks to those partisan blinders and the
(08:37):
matrix they'll vote blue. And I'll say this for the
red side too, because I'm neither. I'm a free agent.
I can I don't think the average person knows anything
about Matt Vann Epps other than he flew jets.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They don't know anything. He put on a vest with
an army logo on it. He's a helicopter pilot. He
stood there. I watched him.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I couldn't tell you anything else. I couldn't tell you how
many kids he has. I couldn't tell you. You know,
he did an interview on Will Cainan. It was an
effort to blink, let alone smile. And he's standing next
to the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It was a bunny hop and the board going, no, look,
this isn't making a bad guy. Sounds like a great
guy with a really solid resume. But here's the point, Michael.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Did he call you? Did they call me?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Now?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Granted we're both free agents, we're independence all the more reason,
right because so many of Trump voters are independents. And
I got to tell you, if I voted in that district,
I would have voted for the man. Okay, So, but
they don't have an honest ground game. Their ground game
is built on algorithms. They're going to get hammered in
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that way.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Are they still buying and reaching people the right way? No?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
No, everything they're doing well, I'd say everything. Most of
what they're doing is wrong, and they're late. My goodness.
The speaker of the House shows up in Franklin, Tennessee,
twenty four hours before the voting begins.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Where you been, Mike, I mean, what the heck? Yeah?
And I'd bring up the early voting because this has
been an ongoing trajectory. I always bring up. Donald Trump
griped about early voting. He griped about mail in voting,
and for good reason, but he never engaged in it,
and that's how he lost in twenty twenty came back
(10:12):
and engaged in it in twenty twenty four, and that's
why he won. They love to start with huge leads.
You got to have turnout problem is, oh my kid
got sick. I got to leave work and go bring
them home, and then you don't vote. So it's a
huge advantage to start with a huge early voting lead.
She had it, and then the Republicans showed up on
election day and erased it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But congressional seats are about passion, not about cotails. Donald
Trump not on the ballot means Donald Trump has no coattails.
If the Republicans think they are going to advance their
margins going forward, they better find a ground game because
the proof positive of what just happened in District seven
is they ain't got one. And remember, for a progressive
politics is their religion, their fundamental entrance sacrament is voting.
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They show up religiously to the polls and ticked off.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Republicans. You know, look, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
A republic I'm not a Democrat, but I understand Republicans
would rather live life. They like taking advantage of a
free market system. They just want to get on with
their lives and do things be productive. Not that they're angels,
but but Democrats it's different. This is a right of
passage for them, and for Republicans it's sort of an obligation.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One other thing, and I think this was narrativized, Oh
this is a close race, this is a close race.
Well it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And I had that tomorrow we don't have times. I
mean that that, I mean that was we got a
whole story.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, yeah, because the could the polls be that off
one percent and ended up being nine.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Plastic way to go on to nine points.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I talked to a very reliable person. So this wasn't
a noster del journal by any stretch. And I can
tell you over a week ago, everybody knew it was
between eight and.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Ten as they were lying to you and saying one
last night said it was inside one point.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, inside one point.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
What a joke?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
All right? Well, more with David Thanati, because we need
to analyze this in order to learn from it or
what they're not learning from and doing, because next year
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This is your morning show with Michael del Chronow.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
If you're just waking up twenty six minutes after the
hour doing some post analysis on the one special election
in America for Congress. Look, turnout was low and as
low as expected. Urban vote was not as blue as
was expected in the end, after ben only got fifty
six percent of the urban vote in Davidson County. That's
(14:08):
a problem, but she was a flawed candidate. Socialism doesn't
seem to play as well outside of big blue urban cities.
Republicans still like to vote on election day, so she
had a huge lead with early voting lost it on
election Day. That could be problematic for the Republicans down
the road. In the end, I think one of the
biggest takeaways is the narrative didn't match the polling. Because
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the polling they were talking about was narrative. I can
tell you Republicans were doing real polls and the real
polls showed an eight to ten victory, which is exactly
what happened. So real polls were accurate. Fake polls and
narrative ended up very inaccurate. Davids and not he's walking
us through the analysis. What do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, I think all that's correct, and I think there's
one other thing to look at. It's called the mov
that's what we call it. The margin of victory for Republicans.
If you take a look at that, Marjorie of victory,
if the question becomes how many votes, do you have
to flip the winning district? Now, let's presume that District
seven and Tennessee will just experience in this bizarre post
(15:12):
Thanksgiving special election is just a test case for the
Republican consulting class. Then I'll go to their billionaires and say, see,
we told you we could move the needle. If we
can move the needle x number of points in red
red red D seven Tennessee, what do you think we
can do in New York? What do you think we
can do in other places where all we've got to
do is pick off three or four seats to flip.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The balance of the House.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
They walk away proclaiming victory because they moved the needle,
and chances are they'll repeat this race in two years,
saying we can move it more and force our opponents
to spend more money. They don't expect to win District seven.
They expect to win six other races because of what
they've done in District seven.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, the margin victory was fifty I'm sorry, somebody else talking?
Why am I hearing that? What is that? Sorry? Just
in my year, the margin victory was fifteen thousand in
normal turnout that have been closer to seventy five eighty thousand.
That's a long way to go for the Democrats, but
that is with the high momentum of the socialist movement
from the election that just happened. That also is one
(16:16):
of the worst candidates you could possibly have with some
of the worst things she said coming to following.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A Republican scandal.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
The margin of victory, that's the sixteen But the flip
number is what follows. If the margin of victory sixteen thousand,
all I've got to do is flip eight thousand votes
and now the race is dead.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, but that's an especial election. That won't happen next time,
and she'll be going against an incumbent next time.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Let's go to I'm there. Let's go to twenty twenty
four margin of victory. That's the biggest turnout Green could
have had twenty twenty four with Trump on the ballot.
The margin of victory was seven thousand. That means you
move thirty five thousand votes in the congressional district. How
much money do you have to spend and move thirty
five thousand votes. The fact that they can quantify it
as under fifty in that red district tells them that
when they go to these other districts that are hanging
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on a margin to balance of ten fifteen thousand votes,
they're going to have boatloads of money.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I wouldn't be spending millions on this for me rematch, though,
would you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Oh no, No, they won't spend millions on this one.
They'll spend millions on otherwise. That's the point I'm may.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Can't wait to read the book and learn more about JQA.
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They had very good reason, well, Jeffrey had a very
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and get away with it. And thanks for the Tom Petty,
I like that one. Thirty six minutes after the hour
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in the Central time zone, you got twenty four minutes
to be to work by eight o'clock. Good morning, and
welcome to your Wednesday, December third, and your morning show.
Intense winter weather bringing heavy snow and icy roads to
the Midwest into the Northeast. Not as close as anybody
was trying to sell you it to be. Matt Van
Epps has headed to Washington, d C. And he wins
by nine percentage points, and people are downplaying this. Sure,
(18:43):
it's disappointing. We would have loved to have peace between
Russia and Ukraine and before the season of peace Christmas.
But look there is progress. Putin didn't meet. That's progress
for five hours. That's a lot of progress, just no
breakthrough yet. And then this came out. This goes back
to something I can't remember. I think you saw it first.
(19:03):
Did you see it first? Or me? See it first,
the Social Dilemma, I think it was me. Yeah, and
then I got you to watch it. We're at the
Circle and we were horrified. Yeah, And that's when we
started putting together with the movie The Circle and then
the Matrix. And there were two ways to watch it.
One to understand social media and how it was created
(19:26):
and the algorithms and how they work. That was fascinating.
If you're doing something and it's free, you're the product.
That was a game changing understanding. The third thing was
the addictiveness of it and how that affects us. And
the final thing was to watch it as a parent
(19:47):
knowing you've already given your kids smartphones are too young
of an age. And then the very people who created Google, Facebook,
I mean, you name it telling you they wouldn't give
their kids a smartphone until six teen or eighteen. It
was a game changer for If it's still I think
on Netflix, if you want to watch it the Social Dilemma. Well,
(20:08):
now we've got some new research and it begs the question,
because we like to make everything a question, why are
smartphones legal for children under sixteen or eighteen? I know
that sounds crazy, but alcohol isn't tobacco isn't and watch
this is just as dangerous. Preteens who own smartphones are
(20:31):
likely to have depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep compared to
other peers. As the University of Pennsylvania led study, roughly
half of American in kids own smartphones by eleven. So
what's the magic age? Watch out clothes. If the average
has a smartphone by eleven, that means some have it earlier,
(20:51):
and I think the severity gets worse. We see that
the younger, but it starts getting really bad at twelve.
Actric health groups have recommended appropriate screen time for use,
but there's no public health guidelines on appropriate age for
kids and smartphones. You ready for the numbers. Kids who
(21:12):
own smartphones at age twelve were found to be thirty
one percent more likely to suffer from depression, forty percent
more likely to be obese, sixty two percent to have
insufficient sleep. And that would open up the whole can
of worms of what insufficient sleep produces. And never mind
(21:32):
the bullying, never mind the perfection culture that leads to
eating disorders. David Zanati, Now we're starting to hone in
on the danger age, and it's so clear and so destructive.
I don't know how you would police it other than
parents need to be aware of this. Why isn't something
(21:53):
done like the side of a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Pack or a law firm constructed, which is actually one
of the is that we have as an organization is
to actually fund and build a law firm that will
prosecute big tech companies for their lack of responsibility and
liability for the outcomes in people's lives. Now the best
thing for parents to be as parents, And Michael, this,
(22:17):
if I'm not mistaken, This study came out of UC Berkeley,
which is kind of interesting. I had the opportunity to
meet the researchers who did this study several years ago
from Brigham Young University that showed that the average students
young person under the age of eighteen that had access
to screens was spending seventy hours a week on screen
(22:40):
time phones, tablets, not including school, and not including watching television.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh that's more hours a day than you should be sleeping.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yes, this, I mean, this is solid research. So whether
we're talking about UC Berkeley or Brigham Young, which is
kind of like the extremities of where you get left
and right, everybody's saying the same thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
About that is what came out of the Bringham Young
study was a suggestion that a kid should not have
a cell phone until they're old enough to get a
job to pay for it. That changes the dynamic. Now
there's a difference between a smartphone and a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh absolutely, for security reasons, you don't need a smartphone,
and then you can't control what they have. Back, I
love the one of the in the study. They came
to this conclusion. Smartphone ownership offers unique challenges. This we
should all agree on. It may grant you its unfettered
access to a world for which they may not be ready,
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without the discipline to effectively manage its use. You can't
say it any better than that. Now, if parents failed
to do it, could you hold parents accountable? That's the
same thing we're kicking around. If kids get guns right
and they have medical issues, you're so right to say,
(24:02):
By the way, a big part of it, just like kids, diet,
media consumption, and relationships, kids, smartphones require dedication and oversight,
you know, But it gets to this point where can
you use it a little and it be healthy. I
have two kids and two identical twin daughters. One got
sucked into social media, one did not. One had dramatically
(24:23):
different consequences than the one who did not. And that
gets to self image, eating disorders, bullying, things that will
take a lifetime if you're lucky to overcome this is
This is one of those that it's so obvious, it's
sitting right in front of us, and I don't think
(24:44):
we know what to do because the answer is don't smoke.
The answer is don't give them a phone until they're sixteen,
not a smartphone.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, when people hit twelve, we're talking about puberty. We're
talking about the beginning of the adult, the adult maturation
process in which people seek to establish their identity and
they do it based largely on peer relationships. That's a
lot of what falling in love is is when you
finally find somebody that gets you and appreciates you, and
you're shocked and stunned that somebody cares well.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
The Book of Proverbs speaks about this.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
King Solomon wisest man in the world noted for a
good period of time. Polls reveal King Solomon basically in
the first two chapters of Proverbs was very consistent in
saying let me tell you all about wisdom. Here's the
first thing. Don't hang around bad people. Don't let other
people define who you are, be defined by who God.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Says you are. Well, I got to tell you you're
not going to get much of that on cell phone.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Now, there are some excellent apps that help in that regard,
but we're talking about the cell phone. The smartphone being
the access into social media, which is one hundred percent
peer addiction. We tell kids all the time it's about
peer person, about properson. Then we had them a smartphone
and say here, just go spend the next eight hours
letting everybody else define you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's nuts and do the math on that. So and
that is compared to what one hour of youth group
a week, one church service a week, a fifteen minute
period of time when they're not looking at their phone
and they're communicating with you or look at the time,
compared to their teacher. And these algorithms are designed in algorithms,
(26:21):
they're so close to satan to me, they know your
weakness and they feed it and they tempt it moment
after moment and in the most effective ways. And it
goes by what you're looking at. So if you start
having eating disorder, you start getting all the triggers for
eating disorder. If you start having issues with lust, you
start getting all the triggers for love. I mean, it's
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just so destructive. I don't know where we go with this.
I would just say that today anyway, we know if
you have never seen the documentary The Social Dilemma, you
need to watch it as a parent, especially if your
kids are younger than twelve, so you don't make the
mistakes some of us made after that. I would say,
we now are starting to get a glimpse of when
it's safe, and it starts becoming very unsafe at twelve,
(27:07):
so you better start looking at fourteen or sixteen. Now,
the people that created all this at sixteen, they wouldn't
allow anybody to have a smartphone till sixteen. We'll see
see where it goes. That's your help, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You know we're dedicated at the American Policy Roundtable on
the public score of being full of human iHeart is
dedicated to avoiding being trapped into the Ai backwaters as well.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I know I don't work for I don't get a
paycheck from why I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
At I do when we're human guaranteed. That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The point is we need to become human again.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that's dangerous stuff. All right, tomorrow, if there's anybody
with real egg on their face coming out of this
narrativized one special election, it's the Wall Street Journal. Can
we cover that tomorrow in our special visit? Yea, let's
get to it, all right, just waking up. Here are
your top five stories up that day, David's and Notughty
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square dot com. All right. Number one. Republican Matt Van
Epps is the winner of the special election in Tennessee
and it wasn't as close as everybody was trying to
sell you.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Speaking Tuesday night, Van Apps credited the President for his victory.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
The President Donna J.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
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Speaker 7 (28:19):
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Speaker 5 (28:23):
He beat Democrat Afton Vain, dashing hopes of a larger
blue wave after major Democratic wins in November's elections. President
Trump won the state's congressional district by twenty two points
in the twenty twenty four election. And Republicans pumped millions
into the race, but recent polls showed a closer race
than originally expected. The result boosts the GOP majority in
the House to two hundred and twenty to two hundred
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and thirteen. The election comes after Democrats swept key races
in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York on November fourth.
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It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
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My favorite story of the year maybe was that raccoon.
You saw it. You start with the picture of the
liquor store, and I mean, it looks like kids just
came in there tipping bottles, making a mess. You know,
It's like, looks like pure vandalism. And then when they
get to the bathroom, they discover a raccoon drunk passed
out near the toilet. Now why he ended up near
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the toilet like most humans do, is beyond me, but
it reminded me of my best friend. His dad had
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(34:05):
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The other news is we finally had a meeting with
the Kremlin with Putin. It was a meeting. That's progress.
It was five hours. That's progress, but no breakthrough. And
Van EPP's not as close as anybody thought. Wins by
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(34:47):
how do we apply? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:49):
These Trump accounts will roll out July fourth of next year.
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(35:11):
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because parents can contribute to them up to twenty five
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I mean, I don't know how you feel. I think
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to Trump because you got half the country. They won't
(36:20):
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Seven minutes after the hour, Good morning and welcome to Wednesday,
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(01:17):
in the US did meet, did talk for five hours.
There was no breakthrough, and it wasn't nearly close as
everybody's narrative tried to make it. In the end, Republican
Trump endorsed Matt Vanepps wins by nine percentage points in
the special election in Tennessee. I want to make something
really clear, well two things really clear. The first is,
(01:38):
if you're listening outside of Tennessee, this isn't us making
you live our life. This is us using this one
special election that happened in America to see what we
can learn from it before next year's critical midterm election
that will decide who really controls the legislative branch of government.
(02:00):
That's one. Two. I wanted to reintroduce David to Jeffrey
Lyon and read because you probably don't know who they are.
They stiffed you and didn't come to Christmas in America.
That is so I didn't know that they high handed
you life was just too busy for them. They couldn't
make the performance. You know, I just want you to
(02:20):
know who's loyal who isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They had the courtesy you let me know, and that
was very polite.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Thank you, Oh see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
RSVP'd Yeah, I know, I bailed him out.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I know David. He's passive aggressive. He doesn't forgive you,
not unless you listen to it on the public square
dot com. He won't forgive you. And you missed out
on the free book. Now, let's talk about this election.
Let me get you up to speed on what we've
all been talking about. One. I see we're gonna talk
all about turnout because that's very relevant in this race.
We'll can talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It in the five o'clock hour. I know where you're
coming from.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah no, I still see Republicans who like to vote
on election day. That could bite them if they're not
careful with it. They got to get over that. I
do think it was a special election turnout Thanksgiving after
a scandalous resignation. All right, so all that going DEM
still vague blue. My biggest takeaway is this socialist messaging
(03:16):
doesn't work outside of large urban areas. And we saw
that in this vote. I mean, and by the way,
had she run for mayor, she'd be mayor.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, your comment to all the wonderful listeners around the
country is why are we platforming this particular race at
such a level? Well, first off, because it was massive
in regards to national media attention and spending.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But there's a much bigger moral of the story.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
This is the perfect test case, if you will, for
twenty twenty six. In this regard, you cannot get a
better home game for Republicans than District seven in Tennessee. Now, granted,
District seven has a segment of downtown Nashville that was
basically reconstructed and read districting legally to basically drain some
(04:03):
of that radical leftist progressive votes into more rural counties
to balance that out.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's what redistriction. Redistricting is all about.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And it's been around since Gary mandering, all right, So
it's been around for a long long time, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And she did, by the way, she didn't win as
much as people. Why am I hearing that? Oh that's you.
She took fifty six percent of the vote in those
bluest of blue urban areas, which wasn't that impressive quite frankly,
but she got killed in Williamson County, got killed in
the rural areas, so that readrisk chicken was a big
part of it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, this is a good test case for the country.
And here's the question you have to walk away from.
And this is the question nobody's talking about. And the
Republicans don't have the courage ask out loud, that is,
is there anybody on the ground what is the Republican
ground game about?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And because a number of us live.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
In fact, a number of iHeart personalities live in Williamson County, Tennessee,
we can tell you honestly about yard signs. Can I
tell you in my neighborhood, she's the only one that
had yard signs up period.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now I see, I would take that as a sign
I need to move, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And the other part of the sign is there's a
lot of people that don't want to be provocative, that
learn to be polite, and yard signs have now become
a form of warfare. But the point is their base
is stronger than the Republican base number one in regards
to their motivation to show up. Now, they may not
be as big in that district as the Republicans. But
motivation is critical and an awful action.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Right brought this up earlier to David going really big picture.
They brought in the presidential candidate, Kamala Harris to campaign
for her. They brought in AOC. Now that's a two
edged sword because that motivated both sides. And then her
comments about Nashville mean, you couldn't have had a worse candidate,
and she still came with a nine points. That'll be
concerning one of the things that I bring up. They
(05:59):
haven't learned their lesson Republicans. David Sinati, by the way,
is the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable. He's the
host of the Public squarehead on two other stations. He
is the co host of Christmas in America that my
team didn't bother to show up for, and he's our
senior contributor here on the Morning Show. No, in addition
to Republicans still you know, like to vote on election
(06:20):
day and not early vote, where she had a huge
lead in early voting. Now I completely forgot what I
was going to say.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's sor right, hang out. Let let me vam for
you for a second.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And our organization started in nineteen ninety eight one of
the first online voter information services called ivoters dot com.
And ivoters dot com does elections. So what we're talking
about right now, Michael's not speculation. We do these numb yes.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And so what I was going to say was, they
bring in Kamala, they bring in aoc of Coursette has
a two way sword. Her negative comments as a bad
candidate that motivated people, Oh you hate my city and
you want to represent it. That didn't play well for her.
So a worst case in when she still comes within
nine percent, Let's start with special election because people played
with this in the narrative game. I think this was
(07:06):
mostly narrativized to create a victory out of an obvious defeat.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well, yes, it was a special election. And Tip one
was famous for saying all politics is local. Well, all
politics is local a lot, but it's not only local,
but it is starting local.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Money wasn't local exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And that's the lesson that the Republicans do not know
the thing that the Republicans. So, first off, it's an
off off, off, off off election. It's a special election
being held four days after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What do you think turnout's going to do. It's really horrible.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The point is on turnout is who turned out better
in a bad turnout? The Democrats, the percentage of their
base that's been out over the last several election years
in District District seven in Tennessee showed up by a
ten point larger margin than the Republicans. Now that's problematic.
For this reason, there is a strong trend for those
(08:07):
that study the numbers like we do what I voters
that if Donald Trump's not on the ballot, his vote
doesn't come out.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You can make the case.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Here Red and I talked about this. It was Red said,
unless Donald Trump spends all next year on the campaign trail,
and I mean literally physically standing next to these candidates
and holding hands with the voters and walking them to
the polls, it looks problematic. And this is with a
terrible candidate, which speaks to those partisan blinders and the
(08:37):
matrix they'll vote blue. And I'll say this for the
red side too, because I'm neither. I'm a free agent.
I can I don't think the average person knows anything
about Matt Vann Epps other than he flew jets.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They don't know anything. He put on a vest with
an army logo on it. He's a helicopter pilot. He
stood there. I watched him.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I couldn't tell you anything else. I couldn't tell you how
many kids he has. I couldn't tell you. You know,
he did an interview on Will Cainan. It was an
effort to blink, let alone smile. And he's standing next
to the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It was a bunny hop and the board going, no, look,
this isn't making a bad guy. Sounds like a great
guy with a really solid resume. But here's the point, Michael.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Did he call you? Did they call me?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Now?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Granted we're both free agents, we're independence all the more reason,
right because so many of Trump voters are independents. And
I got to tell you, if I voted in that district,
I would have voted for the man. Okay, So, but
they don't have an honest ground game. Their ground game
is built on algorithms. They're going to get hammered in
(09:34):
that way.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Are they still buying and reaching people the right way? No?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
No, everything they're doing well, I'd say everything. Most of
what they're doing is wrong, and they're late. My goodness.
The speaker of the House shows up in Franklin, Tennessee,
twenty four hours before the voting begins.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Where you been, Mike, I mean, what the heck? Yeah?
And I'd bring up the early voting because this has
been an ongoing trajectory. I always bring up. Donald Trump
griped about early voting. He griped about mail in voting,
and for good reason, but he never engaged in it,
and that's how he lost in twenty twenty came back
(10:12):
and engaged in it in twenty twenty four, and that's
why he won. They love to start with huge leads.
You got to have turnout problem is, oh my kid
got sick. I got to leave work and go bring
them home, and then you don't vote. So it's a
huge advantage to start with a huge early voting lead.
She had it, and then the Republicans showed up on
election day and erased it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But congressional seats are about passion, not about cotails. Donald
Trump not on the ballot means Donald Trump has no coattails.
If the Republicans think they are going to advance their
margins going forward, they better find a ground game because
the proof positive of what just happened in District seven
is they ain't got one. And remember, for a progressive
politics is their religion, their fundamental entrance sacrament is voting.
(10:55):
They show up religiously to the polls and ticked off.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Republicans. You know, look, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
A republic I'm not a Democrat, but I understand Republicans
would rather live life. They like taking advantage of a
free market system. They just want to get on with
their lives and do things be productive. Not that they're angels,
but but Democrats it's different. This is a right of
passage for them, and for Republicans it's sort of an obligation.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One other thing, and I think this was narrativized, Oh
this is a close race, this is a close race.
Well it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And I had that tomorrow we don't have times. I
mean that that, I mean that was we got a
whole story.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, yeah, because the could the polls be that off
one percent and ended up being nine.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Plastic way to go on to nine points.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I talked to a very reliable person. So this wasn't
a noster del journal by any stretch. And I can
tell you over a week ago, everybody knew it was
between eight and.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Ten as they were lying to you and saying one
last night said it was inside one point.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, inside one point.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
What a joke?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
All right? Well, more with David Thanati, because we need
to analyze this in order to learn from it or
what they're not learning from and doing, because next year
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This is your morning show with Michael del Chronow.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
If you're just waking up twenty six minutes after the
hour doing some post analysis on the one special election
in America for Congress. Look, turnout was low and as
low as expected. Urban vote was not as blue as
was expected in the end, after ben only got fifty
six percent of the urban vote in Davidson County. That's
(14:08):
a problem, but she was a flawed candidate. Socialism doesn't
seem to play as well outside of big blue urban cities.
Republicans still like to vote on election day, so she
had a huge lead with early voting lost it on
election Day. That could be problematic for the Republicans down
the road. In the end, I think one of the
biggest takeaways is the narrative didn't match the polling. Because
(14:32):
the polling they were talking about was narrative. I can
tell you Republicans were doing real polls and the real
polls showed an eight to ten victory, which is exactly
what happened. So real polls were accurate. Fake polls and
narrative ended up very inaccurate. Davids and not he's walking
us through the analysis. What do you make of that?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, I think all that's correct, and I think there's
one other thing to look at. It's called the mov
that's what we call it. The margin of victory for Republicans.
If you take a look at that, Marjorie of victory,
if the question becomes how many votes, do you have
to flip the winning district? Now, let's presume that District
seven and Tennessee will just experience in this bizarre post
(15:12):
Thanksgiving special election is just a test case for the
Republican consulting class. Then I'll go to their billionaires and say, see,
we told you we could move the needle. If we
can move the needle x number of points in red
red red D seven Tennessee, what do you think we
can do in New York? What do you think we
can do in other places where all we've got to
do is pick off three or four seats to flip.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The balance of the House.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
They walk away proclaiming victory because they moved the needle,
and chances are they'll repeat this race in two years,
saying we can move it more and force our opponents
to spend more money. They don't expect to win District seven.
They expect to win six other races because of what
they've done in District seven.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, the margin victory was fifty I'm sorry, somebody else talking?
Why am I hearing that? What is that? Sorry? Just
in my year, the margin victory was fifteen thousand in
normal turnout that have been closer to seventy five eighty thousand.
That's a long way to go for the Democrats, but
that is with the high momentum of the socialist movement
from the election that just happened. That also is one
(16:16):
of the worst candidates you could possibly have with some
of the worst things she said coming to following.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A Republican scandal.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
The margin of victory, that's the sixteen But the flip
number is what follows. If the margin of victory sixteen thousand,
all I've got to do is flip eight thousand votes
and now the race is dead.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, but that's an especial election. That won't happen next time,
and she'll be going against an incumbent next time.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Let's go to I'm there. Let's go to twenty twenty
four margin of victory. That's the biggest turnout Green could
have had twenty twenty four with Trump on the ballot.
The margin of victory was seven thousand. That means you
move thirty five thousand votes in the congressional district. How
much money do you have to spend and move thirty
five thousand votes. The fact that they can quantify it
as under fifty in that red district tells them that
when they go to these other districts that are hanging
(16:59):
on a margin to balance of ten fifteen thousand votes,
they're going to have boatloads of money.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I wouldn't be spending millions on this for me rematch, though,
would you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Oh no, No, they won't spend millions on this one.
They'll spend millions on otherwise. That's the point I'm may.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
This is Steve the Wrestler, a refugee from the People's
Republic of Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
And my morning show is your Morning Show with Michael
del Jorno.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Hey, it's Michael. Your Morning show can be heard live
each weekday morning on great stations like thirteen sixty The
Patriot in San Diego, News Talk, one oh six point
three and AM eighteen eighty wm Q oh Claire, Wisconsin
and one oh four nine The Patriot and Saint Louis, Missouri.
Would love to be a part of your morning routine.
But so glad you're here now. Enjoy the podcast, Jeffrey
and read in the States Great at Christmas in America.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Can't wait to read the book and learn more about JQA.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Thanks a lot. Wait to kick my boys while they're down. Yeah, listen.
They had very good reason, well, Jeffrey had a very
life saving reason for missing Red pretty much just didn't
want to go. But please don't make fun of my
cast in such a way. Only I can do that
and get away with it. And thanks for the Tom Petty,
I like that one. Thirty six minutes after the hour
(18:20):
in the Central time zone, you got twenty four minutes
to be to work by eight o'clock. Good morning, and
welcome to your Wednesday, December third, and your morning show.
Intense winter weather bringing heavy snow and icy roads to
the Midwest into the Northeast. Not as close as anybody
was trying to sell you it to be. Matt Van
Epps has headed to Washington, d C. And he wins
by nine percentage points, and people are downplaying this. Sure,
(18:43):
it's disappointing. We would have loved to have peace between
Russia and Ukraine and before the season of peace Christmas.
But look there is progress. Putin didn't meet. That's progress
for five hours. That's a lot of progress, just no
breakthrough yet. And then this came out. This goes back
to something I can't remember. I think you saw it first.
(19:03):
Did you see it first? Or me? See it first,
the Social Dilemma, I think it was me. Yeah, and
then I got you to watch it. We're at the
Circle and we were horrified. Yeah, And that's when we
started putting together with the movie The Circle and then
the Matrix. And there were two ways to watch it.
One to understand social media and how it was created
(19:26):
and the algorithms and how they work. That was fascinating.
If you're doing something and it's free, you're the product.
That was a game changing understanding. The third thing was
the addictiveness of it and how that affects us. And
the final thing was to watch it as a parent
(19:47):
knowing you've already given your kids smartphones are too young
of an age. And then the very people who created Google, Facebook,
I mean, you name it telling you they wouldn't give
their kids a smartphone until six teen or eighteen. It
was a game changer for If it's still I think
on Netflix, if you want to watch it the Social Dilemma. Well,
(20:08):
now we've got some new research and it begs the question,
because we like to make everything a question, why are
smartphones legal for children under sixteen or eighteen? I know
that sounds crazy, but alcohol isn't tobacco isn't and watch
this is just as dangerous. Preteens who own smartphones are
(20:31):
likely to have depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep compared to
other peers. As the University of Pennsylvania led study, roughly
half of American in kids own smartphones by eleven. So
what's the magic age? Watch out clothes. If the average
has a smartphone by eleven, that means some have it earlier,
(20:51):
and I think the severity gets worse. We see that
the younger, but it starts getting really bad at twelve.
Actric health groups have recommended appropriate screen time for use,
but there's no public health guidelines on appropriate age for
kids and smartphones. You ready for the numbers. Kids who
(21:12):
own smartphones at age twelve were found to be thirty
one percent more likely to suffer from depression, forty percent
more likely to be obese, sixty two percent to have
insufficient sleep. And that would open up the whole can
of worms of what insufficient sleep produces. And never mind
(21:32):
the bullying, never mind the perfection culture that leads to
eating disorders. David Zanati, Now we're starting to hone in
on the danger age, and it's so clear and so destructive.
I don't know how you would police it other than
parents need to be aware of this. Why isn't something
(21:53):
done like the side of a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Pack or a law firm constructed, which is actually one
of the is that we have as an organization is
to actually fund and build a law firm that will
prosecute big tech companies for their lack of responsibility and
liability for the outcomes in people's lives. Now the best
thing for parents to be as parents, And Michael, this,
(22:17):
if I'm not mistaken, This study came out of UC Berkeley,
which is kind of interesting. I had the opportunity to
meet the researchers who did this study several years ago
from Brigham Young University that showed that the average students
young person under the age of eighteen that had access
to screens was spending seventy hours a week on screen
(22:40):
time phones, tablets, not including school, and not including watching television.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh that's more hours a day than you should be sleeping.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yes, this, I mean, this is solid research. So whether
we're talking about UC Berkeley or Brigham Young, which is
kind of like the extremities of where you get left
and right, everybody's saying the same thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
About that is what came out of the Bringham Young
study was a suggestion that a kid should not have
a cell phone until they're old enough to get a
job to pay for it. That changes the dynamic. Now
there's a difference between a smartphone and a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh absolutely, for security reasons, you don't need a smartphone,
and then you can't control what they have. Back, I
love the one of the in the study. They came
to this conclusion. Smartphone ownership offers unique challenges. This we
should all agree on. It may grant you its unfettered
access to a world for which they may not be ready,
(23:41):
without the discipline to effectively manage its use. You can't
say it any better than that. Now, if parents failed
to do it, could you hold parents accountable? That's the
same thing we're kicking around. If kids get guns right
and they have medical issues, you're so right to say,
(24:02):
By the way, a big part of it, just like kids, diet,
media consumption, and relationships, kids, smartphones require dedication and oversight,
you know, But it gets to this point where can
you use it a little and it be healthy. I
have two kids and two identical twin daughters. One got
sucked into social media, one did not. One had dramatically
(24:23):
different consequences than the one who did not. And that
gets to self image, eating disorders, bullying, things that will
take a lifetime if you're lucky to overcome this is
This is one of those that it's so obvious, it's
sitting right in front of us, and I don't think
(24:44):
we know what to do because the answer is don't smoke.
The answer is don't give them a phone until they're sixteen,
not a smartphone.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, when people hit twelve, we're talking about puberty. We're
talking about the beginning of the adult, the adult maturation
process in which people seek to establish their identity and
they do it based largely on peer relationships. That's a
lot of what falling in love is is when you
finally find somebody that gets you and appreciates you, and
you're shocked and stunned that somebody cares well.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
The Book of Proverbs speaks about this.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
King Solomon wisest man in the world noted for a
good period of time. Polls reveal King Solomon basically in
the first two chapters of Proverbs was very consistent in
saying let me tell you all about wisdom. Here's the
first thing. Don't hang around bad people. Don't let other
people define who you are, be defined by who God.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Says you are. Well, I got to tell you you're
not going to get much of that on cell phone.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Now, there are some excellent apps that help in that regard,
but we're talking about the cell phone. The smartphone being
the access into social media, which is one hundred percent
peer addiction. We tell kids all the time it's about
peer person, about properson. Then we had them a smartphone
and say here, just go spend the next eight hours
letting everybody else define you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's nuts and do the math on that. So and
that is compared to what one hour of youth group
a week, one church service a week, a fifteen minute
period of time when they're not looking at their phone
and they're communicating with you or look at the time,
compared to their teacher. And these algorithms are designed in algorithms,
(26:21):
they're so close to satan to me, they know your
weakness and they feed it and they tempt it moment
after moment and in the most effective ways. And it
goes by what you're looking at. So if you start
having eating disorder, you start getting all the triggers for
eating disorder. If you start having issues with lust, you
start getting all the triggers for love. I mean, it's
(26:43):
just so destructive. I don't know where we go with this.
I would just say that today anyway, we know if
you have never seen the documentary The Social Dilemma, you
need to watch it as a parent, especially if your
kids are younger than twelve, so you don't make the
mistakes some of us made after that. I would say,
we now are starting to get a glimpse of when
it's safe, and it starts becoming very unsafe at twelve,
(27:07):
so you better start looking at fourteen or sixteen. Now,
the people that created all this at sixteen, they wouldn't
allow anybody to have a smartphone till sixteen. We'll see
see where it goes. That's your help, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You know we're dedicated at the American Policy Roundtable on
the public score of being full of human iHeart is
dedicated to avoiding being trapped into the Ai backwaters as well.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I know I don't work for I don't get a
paycheck from why I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
At I do when we're human guaranteed. That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
The point is we need to become human again.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that's dangerous stuff. All right, tomorrow, if there's anybody
with real egg on their face coming out of this
narrativized one special election, it's the Wall Street Journal. Can
we cover that tomorrow in our special visit? Yea, let's
get to it, all right, just waking up. Here are
your top five stories up that day, David's and Notughty
(27:58):
by the way, in the public Squerre and Christmas in
American I'll be access to on demand at the public
square dot com. All right. Number one. Republican Matt Van
Epps is the winner of the special election in Tennessee
and it wasn't as close as everybody was trying to
sell you.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Speaking Tuesday night, Van Apps credited the President for his victory.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
The President Donna J.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Trump, thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Your endorsement made the difference and I will never forget it.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
He beat Democrat Afton Vain, dashing hopes of a larger
blue wave after major Democratic wins in November's elections. President
Trump won the state's congressional district by twenty two points
in the twenty twenty four election. And Republicans pumped millions
into the race, but recent polls showed a closer race
than originally expected. The result boosts the GOP majority in
the House to two hundred and twenty to two hundred
(28:43):
and thirteen. The election comes after Democrats swept key races
in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York on November fourth.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'm Marknefield, the governor of Louisiana, is getting exactly what
he asked the White House for, Jim Roup explains.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
President Trump says the National Guard is headed to New Orleans,
so he did not say how many would be deployed
or when. Although Governor Jeff Landry asked the Trump administration
for up to one thousand troops to combat crime back
in September, Landry went on to say Monday he expected
troops to arrive in New Orleans before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
A doctor who pleaded guilty for his role in Matthew
Perry's accidental overdose death in twenty twenty three, face is
sentencing today.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Doctor Salvador Placentsia admitted supplying Perry with ketamine in the
weeks leading up to his death. He's already issued a
statement accepting responsibility and said he is profoundly remorseful. Placentia
faces up to forty years in prison. I'm Tammy Trijeoh.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, we're just twenty eight days from the New Year,
and a New York tradition wants your wish to rain
down on all the revelers.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
The New Year's Eve Wishing Wall has been a thing
in New York since two thousand. Anyone can head to
crossroads of the World and place a wish on the wall.
Closer to New Year's Eve. All wishes will be collected, printed,
and shredded to become confetti that will be released in
Times Square on New Year's Eve. Millions of people, millions
of wishes, one is bound to come true. It's okay
(30:04):
if you can't make it to New York. You can
even submit your wish online at TSQ dot org. I'm
Bree Tennis.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I think it's a cool idea. I still don't want
to go there and had it fall on me though,
all right. Trail Blazer's lost by three in Toronto to
the Raptors. The grizz lost by seven in San Antonio
to the Spurs. So did the thunder loose to the Warriors,
Thunder Up Baby twenty one and one now one twenty
four one twelve over Golden State. On the ice, Red
Wings won five to four over the Bruins. Lightning lost
(30:32):
two to one to the Islanders. Creds are skating their
way out of the cellar five to one victory over
the Flames. Kings lost at home to the Caps three
to one. Birthdays Today, four time, indy five hundred, champ
Rick Mere's seventy four years old, The Wonderful actress Juliana
Moore sixty five percent, sixty five years old. Splash actress
(30:53):
Darryl Hannah is sixty five years old, and he's saying,
shut up and dance with me. Singer Andy Grammer forty two.
If it's your birth, a happy birthday. Were so glad
you were born, and thanks for sharing part of your
big day with us. Well, it's Christmas. We celebrate the
gift of life, and I'm giving you the opportunity to
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Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
My favorite story of the year maybe was that raccoon.
You saw it. You start with the picture of the
liquor store, and I mean, it looks like kids just
came in there tipping bottles, making a mess. You know,
It's like, looks like pure vandalism. And then when they
get to the bathroom, they discover a raccoon drunk passed
out near the toilet. Now why he ended up near
(33:19):
the toilet like most humans do, is beyond me, but
it reminded me of my best friend. His dad had
a fishing camp off a port Sulfur, and you had
to take the boat out to the buyu to get
to the actual camp and we dock and we walk
in the front door and it looks like someone completely
ransacked the place. And we thought for sure somebody had
vandalized the camp and they were in the kitchen and
(33:42):
starting to pick things up, and I go into the
front kind of closed in patio room, and there God
is my witness. I'm not exaggerating at all. For radio.
A squirrel whose stomach looked like nine months pregnant, and
he's sitting on his butt like a human, leaning up
against the wall, and he's asleep, and he's holding a
(34:05):
box of cereal. I'll never forget it as long as
I live. And then when Red sent me that yesterday,
I was like, I have lived that now a liquor
store and watching them be drunk, that's a whole other story.
The other news is we finally had a meeting with
the Kremlin with Putin. It was a meeting. That's progress.
It was five hours. That's progress, but no breakthrough. And
Van EPP's not as close as anybody thought. Wins by
(34:27):
nine points. He's headed to Congress in an intense winter
weather bringing heavy snow and ice to the Midwest and
the Northeast. Lookout for that for my your morning show.
Cities dealing with that weather. In the heat of Florida,
we find Rory O'Neil. Let's say we got checking accounts,
we got savings accounts for one a KA accounts. But
do our kids have Trump accounts? What are they and
(34:47):
how do we apply? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:49):
These Trump accounts will roll out July fourth of next year.
You can go to Trump Accounts dot gov. That's Trump
Accounts with an s dot gov dot com. They've got
an FAQ there to answer most of your questions. But essentially,
if a baby is born during the second Trump term,
they will qualify for a thousand dollars bit of seed
money to go into these accounts that they then can
(35:11):
tap in when they turn eighteen to pay for college,
a new house, to start a business. And then we
got news yesterday that the Dell family is adding six
billion dollars to this mechanism. That's going to be about
two hundred and fifty bucks for kids under ten. So
these accounts are not just for newborns. They are for
all kids. Again, all that information at Trump Accounts dot gov.
(35:33):
All right, So not just for newborns or just for newborns.
The thousand dollars is just for newborns that seed money,
But the accounts themselves anybody can open at any time. Yeah, right,
because parents can contribute to them up to twenty five
hundred dollars a year. Even your boss or your employer
is encouraged to give to these and then there may
(35:54):
be more philanthropists like the Dells who step forward and
want to make these contributions.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I mean, I don't know how you feel. I think
it's brilliant, and I think you know it's a game changer.
It can be a cycle breaker, it can be a
tremendous advantage. It can give people the ability to get
degrees and earn a great living and not have to
be paying off student loans. So I don't know why
it's taken this long. I don't know that i'd call
to Trump because you got half the country. They won't
(36:20):
do anything with Trump's name on it. And I think
every parent ought to explore this great reporting RORI as always,
we'll talk again tomorrow, all right. You know the clothes right,
and it's truth. One chance to live this Wednesday, December third,
twenty twenty five. It will never happen again for you
or any of us. And how we live matters make
a difference in someone's life. Today, cherish your own. We'll
(36:42):
see you right back here tomorrow morning. For the very next,
your morning show.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
We're all in this together. This is Your Morning Show
with Michael, vindheld Joo
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