It seems like everybody is expecting a tip these days – and fewer of your friends and family are expecting “gifts” this Christmas. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will take a look at who IS getting tips, and why some people say they have gift fatigue.
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It is seven minutes after the hour and it is Thursday, already,
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
If you're just getting up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The Israeli officials say a body of a hostage returned
by Hamas on Wednesday turned out to be a man
from Thailand. President Trump is rolling back fuel economy standards
for American auto producers. And I don't know how this happens.
It's got to be illegal in some states. We actually
have a good football game tonight for Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
After winning three in a row.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Dak and the Cowboys are coming to Detroit to take
down our Lions. Thursday Night Football tonight, the Cowboys and
the Lions. And it seems like everybody's yesterday. I don't
know what was more shocking that two cheeseburgers, two fries.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We didn't get soft drinks. We got waters.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Four ninety nine for the water, by the way, forty
four dollars for two burgers, father and son. I don't
think my dad was paying that a McDonald's when I
was a kid. And then it had the nerd to
ask for a tip. Everybody's expecting a tip these days.
Families are expecting gifts this Christmas. Roy O'Neil here to
take a look at who's getting tips and why some
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people say they have what is both tip and gift fatigue.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
So we saw a couple of different reports come out
this week, bank Rate saying fewer Americans are likely to
tip this year. It's a pretty small drop in percentages,
but look, the demands are there, the housekeeper, the childcare provider,
the guy that does the lawn, the school teacher. And
then all right, let me ask do you tip your
mail carrier or garbage man, garbage person.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It's not I know, is the answer. Because I forget.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I don't know how and I'm not standing outside when
they come.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I don't know how to do.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
That's another thing, right, yeah, logically I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
He's supposed to do that.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But right about only about twenty one percent of Americans
actually tip the trash and recycling person. About twenty seven
percent actually tip the mail carrier about twenty bucks a year,
by the way, is what that number is. But there
is this gift fatigue out there. And Empower survey did
find that about a third of Americans are now adopting
a no gifts policy this year.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Michael, don't get me anything. I won't get you anything.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Other how about towards me?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
In the new year lowered.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I've told this story a lot. I know we get
new cities all the time, so they haven't heard it.
But there was one year in particular, we were broke
and coming off of a stint of unemployment and my
mom had to my mom had to move out of
the house because she's part of why I was broke.
And so it was Christmas. We were in New Orleans.
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We were moving here into this condo that we bought
very cheap but needed a lot of work, and I
spent all Christmas painting that condo and getting it ready.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
For mom to move in.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Anyway, make a long story short, No, we didn't have
any money where it wasn't even a choice. So I
came up with the idea we had three boxes. We'd
each give each other three gifts. One was what they
mean to you, one is something you'll do for them
next year, and one was something you wish for them.
I got to tell you, though, out of all the
the exception of the Gremlins Christmas with the kids when
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they were little, it's the memorable, meaningful Christmas of my life.
I don't know why we don't do it more, but
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
How that goes right, and then you putting the limits
on things who you're supposed to be getting a gift for,
like everyone in the office, how many people?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Just the secretary?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And if I get one for her, do I have
to get them for everybody else? And yeah, that's why
there's sort of this movement to say, let's move away
from the stuff and you know, find other ways to
mark the event of the.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, now, Jeffrey his wife, you know they paid for
new windows, all right, you know, their salaries in there,
the materials in there, mean it's paid for. But she
insisted on giving them a hundred dollars tip each. Jeffrey,
I was like, what are you doing? Yeah, now, I'll
do that with movers and stuff, like you know, furniture
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people like if they if they come and you know, hey,
while you're here, could you move this up upstairs? You
know that I'll do it, But just to bring in
what they bring in?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
There's probably some big thick book of etiquette that I
have failed my entire life. But yeah, everybody seems to
have their handout for a tip. That's for sure. Your
pressure too, oh yeah, because you feel like, you know,
you know, are the gonna are they gonna spin your
burger if you don't tip them. I mean, I don't
know what the deal is. Rory's gonna be back in
the third hour. Immigration rates are coming to more cities.
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New Orleans is the big operation that began yesterday. Royal
had the very latest one that when we come back,
there were probably six to ten really important teachable things
to learn from Yet the special election on Tuesday. I
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don't know if you can boil them all down into
this where you had national narratives with bogus polling to
create national narrative versus what ended up being serious polling,
reality and actual results.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How does that happen? I mean, in the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Old days, that would never happen because you would look
like an idiot, and then nobody wants to get information
from idiots. But that doesn't I'm telling you, I don't
know what disqualifies anyone anymore. David's not even to take
a look at probably one of the most pathetic of
the perpetrators, which was of all people, the Wall Street Journal.
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Remember when that that name and that crisp copy was
just pure credibility and they were the worst perpetrator.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Weren't they well, good morning, Michael.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I hope this isn't one of those situations like the
hot potato game where I got left holding the hot
potato and I blew up in my hands, because this
was a very aggravating experience watching the pseudo coverage of
this race in Tennessee, because it points to the bigger
question and that we've been watching from a perspective of
ivoters dot Com and just watching elections for forty five years,
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and that's the distance between the political parties and the ground,
the media and the ground, the megadonos and the ground.
And when it comes to a day when you have
just out of five hundred and thirty five members of
the United States Congress, House and Senate, you have one
person or one race open, so you can like, here's
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here's the test case, and then we try to pack
in all reality into this one moment. And the people
that the Wall Street Journal assigned to cover the story
is a woman they've just hired this fall, who was
an intern for them this summer, who lives in New
York and Washington, d C. And I don't think she's
ever spent a day in Middle Tennessee. And she's covering
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this singular race and top loading it with all kinds
of flops.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh wait, wait, wit can I add one layer that'll
make your mind explode? And probably using AI to research,
which is going to give you all the bogus narratives
and bogus polls as a reality, which I am thoroughly
convinced on that. David, Oh god, I didn't mean interrupt.
We have a delay, and I stepped on you. But
what I was gonna say is just that this notion
that it's almost like so they feel like they got
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their money's worth, and when you talk about the grass
tops and the money people, all right, we'll do these
fake poles, we'll do these fake narratives, and they'll think
they were in it right up until the end, and
it's like it's justifying the cycle of the money. This
was never a race statistically probably capable of being one.
You had one of the worst candidates, worst turnouts, but
you know, filling an open seat in an open election
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right after Thanksgiving, I mean we can go down the
whole laundry list and you know, she still loses by
nine points, But but nobody goes back and goes, where'd
all this?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
It?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Could go either way or it's down to one point.
There were people I knew that were even panicing, and
I'm like, listen, I know people will do real polls.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And it's eight to ten and it ended up nine.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, there's two critical factors that no one's talking about
that you would think that you have some reporters, you've
only got one congressional race to handle. Why not put
your best freaking pro con it if you have to,
instead of putting an intern that just got hired from
the National from the end, she's an international desk writers.
(09:15):
How far can you get from Tennessee? So, and this
is the Wall Street Journal, and this is Rupert Murdoch's empire.
This is the people that asks us to trust them
on a constant basis every day where there's the Wall
Street Journal of Fox News, and you just.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Got to be aware of how they're doing. Let me
try it this way. Fox was playing it up like
it's going to be surprisingly close, and why and what
does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
They held their call.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Past the obvious moment We would have called that race
an hour before they did.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, but all right, so they're just trying to keep
you watching, right, keep you titilated and so on.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Where's the Wall Street journal in this? What's their motive?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well, Wall Street journalist Fox the credibility to say the false.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
They all answer to the same people. It's the Murdoch Empire.
So I don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
All I know is they had I'm telling you, all
you've got to do is go to the article and
then look up the writer and get the history on
the writer. Have an issue about this particular woman that
wrote the article except the fact that she's probably never
gotten a paper cut in American politics on the ground,
(10:24):
and she's never spent a day in Middle Tennessee. Other
than that, I think she's iminentely qualified to write the story.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
How about you.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I mean, I could write an article today on thermal dynamics,
but it's going to go Just go to.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
AI because I'll play you two things. A I probably
wouldn't have missed, and that's the fact that this particular
district was rewritten designed to make it a closer race.
And by the way, this is not an apologetic for
the Republicans. I'm just telling you the facts.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
On the they still did a lot of big mistakes
that they should learn from well. But the point is,
if you'll do this when you have one race and
everybody looking at one race, what does that tell you
about what next.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Year is going to be?
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Well, and here's again, let's go back to the redistricting.
The Republicans rewrote this district. They relined it to make
it a tighter race because they can afford to make
it a tighter race. They stretched it over fourteen counties,
thirteen of which will counter the segment of Nashville that
they drained into the district that's going to always vote Republican.
This was strategic and they did that because Tennessee's got
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another House seat based on the last census, and they
wanted to keep Nashville from getting that extra seat. It
was strategic. Secondly, Mark Green left in scandal. Now you
don't leave Middle Tennessee in a marital scale where your
wife is in the headline saying Satan has rewritten our
marriage quote unquote, and expect people to be enthusiastically supporting
(11:42):
a no name who's taking your seat afterwards. Now doesn't
mean Van EPs is a bad person. It's just a
tough run. So what did you expect A thirty point
slam dunk. I mean, and none of this is in.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The bar or.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The most shameless is to expect the twenty point differential
when Donald Trump is on the ticket after a year
of being legally assaulted and shot at. Yeah, you can't.
I get all that. I got to do this real
quick before we take the break. This comes from Meredith.
You know, Look, I remind us of this all the time.
We're in the truth telling business, not the results of business.
(12:16):
Whether people hear that truth, thirst for that truth, you know,
live by that truth. I'm not in the results business.
I just speak the truth, and I know you do,
and sometimes it gets frustrating. You wonder if anybody's hearing
to a point you made yesterday. Hey, Michael, I honestly
didn't hear any commercials on the radio or TV about
this election. TV you should have. They're still using old
(12:38):
marketing models and they're buying you know, Fox, and you
know these these talking head shows on cable, like people
are still watching them and they're not Are they smart
enough to buy podcasts? Are they smart enough to show
up at Christmas in America and shake hands with everybody?
You know, that's where they need to get I only
(12:58):
knew about it from social media. Yeah, I didn't even
know when early voting was. I had to look it
up on the government websites. Also, I was out of
town during part of the early voting for Thanksgiving. I
think all of these reasons may have been why turnout
was low when we come back. Why right, But how
they're using media and how they're trying to reach potential voters,
(13:22):
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Speaker 3 (14:40):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Good morning, Michael, this is Julie Clarksville. I'm not sure
what station Meredith was watching, but I can assure you
that at least on the streaming platforms that I was watching,
it was inundated with as for both bad and van
X to the point that it was annoying.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Michael.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Before I became a truck driver and joined the Navy,
I used to assemble missiles of accurate destruction. I've been
a soldier, sailor a tanker and a spy and I
work precincts.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
This is the worst selection we've had.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm not sure which one to comment on. I can
tell you that that makes things difficult these days. You
can be watching Fox News on what you call an
old vernacular. I'm watching Fox News on cable and there's
people listening to me right now. And if you're listening
over an FM signal or an AM signal, or the
(15:46):
radio station website or the iHeartRadio app, you're all getting
different ads. And you could be listening to the same thing,
same platform, but live in different places and you're hearing
different ads. So the old days of saying cable buys
doesn't tell you anything anymore, because if you're getting it through,
I don't know all the names. I don't know why
(16:07):
I can't remember the one that's on mine? Who boo
not whoboo? The heck am? I? Why can I never
remember that? It drives me nuts. I'm a Roku, So
a guy watching Fox News on Roku is getting a
different commercial than a guy watching Fox News on YouTube
(16:29):
versus a guy on fire stick. In other words, David
explained to them, you can't It's not like, oh, everybody
that watched mash saw that ad yesterday. It depends we
don't know what Meredith was watching on. I mean it
would change everything. It's hard to reach people, Jeffrey. We
went from Huboo to Roku. That was excellent. That was
a great mind capture on that one.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I can never remember the stupid No, Michael, this goes
back to the Obama campaign of twenty twelve where they
started in two thousand and eight. They started to actually
buy the box top information from the cable systems, and
then Taylor adds into your box and by the time
they get to their second reelext situation, they were dominating
and knowing what commercials you were watching all times. And
(17:11):
now it's only gotten worse with the streaming. So yes,
it's selective.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I mean texting is going to eventually you can't get
people to answer the phone not knowing who it is.
Texting maybe the only way you can get to constituents.
But we want to go to the grasstops and the money,
not just how it was spent and what it reveals
in this special election moving forward will continue and go
into overtime if you will, whether Senior contributor Davidsonati and
(17:34):
then kind of tease you on an article we're probably
going to talk a lot about in terms of what's next,
what does the Republican Party look like after Trump.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's a piece in the New York Times. We'll share
that with you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And I want to thank you Red for depressing me
by sending me the McDonald's prices from nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I paid four ninety eight for a bottled water yesterday.
It's thirty minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
This is Andy Hickson, formerly of Nashville, now living in Detroit, Michigan.
My morning show is your morning show.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
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I'm Michael, that's Jeffrey. Red's got the content, Diz's got more.
We're going to talk about what is the Republican Party
post Donald Trump? A piece in the New York Times,
and John Decker's going to check in a minute, we're
all add over here. Red made the mistake of sending
(18:58):
us a picture of the nineteen seventy six price and
menu board of McDonald's. One thing that stuck out to
me was they didn't do the Sundays back then. Remember
it was the swirl cones of ice cream. I remember that.
I don't ever see root beer or orange. But anyway,
I did some quick map. A cheeseburger was thirty three cents,
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a quarter pounder was seventy cents, A large fry was
twenty no A large fry was forty six cents. Regular
fries was twenty six cents. I remember if I went
with my mom, I got a quarter pounder with cheese,
a large fry, and a large coke. If I went
with my dad, he'd get you a little cheeseburger, a
small fry, and a small coke. And I remember thinking
what a cheap skaty was. And now I can see
(19:45):
he was doing it to save forty cents. But we're
all just getting nostalgic. But I did the map, just
you guys, to make an impact. The two waters I
purchased yesterday at Shakeshack to eat with my over priced
burger and fries, I could have bought twenty seven cheeseburgers
at McDonald's in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Just an interesting way of looking at inflation.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, The Navy admiral responsible for the attacks on
boats off the coast of Venezuela will be testifying behind
closed doors today. Our White House correspondent John Decker's here
with the story. John, good morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
That's right, we're talking about Admiral Frank Bradley. He will
be testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, classified briefing,
so no television cameras behind closed doors. Don't know if
we'll get any kind of redoubt, but what I am
told is that he plans to tell those senators who
are very concerned about that strike on September two, on
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that alleged drug vote, that he got the green light
from Department lawyer to take that second strike on those
two survivors of the first.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Strike on that alleged drug vote, isn't it, Admiral Frank
Mitch Bradley.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I don't know. Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I guess I should say that because ABC has kind
of broke everything, you know, with the detail.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Now again, what do we have?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
First a Washington Post with an anonymous source saying it
was kids clinging to the boat and they took them
out with the second shot or whatever that original story was.
Then the Washington Post with four the New York Times
with four anonymous sources debunked it. And now ABC breaks
the real details, which is they were in communication, they
were trying to save the drugs, and they were climbing
(21:31):
back into the boat. They were continuing their operation. Therefore,
the taking out operation continued. So well, I guess my
question is when does this nothing burger go away?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, here's the thing about first of all, you calling
it a nothing burger, you know, you always have to
think what would happen? What would be the US reaction
if this happened to our troops, to our troops at
sea in a similar type of situation, if they're clinging
to a boat, we would not want an enemy to do.
(22:03):
What it is that's alleged to have happened in this
particular situation. You know, say you say climbing back into
a boat to continue in the operation. I don't think
there was a boat left. I think it was completely decimated.
It was destroyed. They're hanging on to literally the shards
of the remains of a boat. There's nothing they could do.
And you know, think about it, They're out in the
(22:24):
middle of the ocean, international waters. There is no threat
that those two individuals that just suffered us strike from
the American military could possibly do at that point to
endanger America or our territory in any way.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, the problem with that is is we're not looking
at the exact same footage. So one saying describing something
that the boat isn't completely decimated, but that they were
in communication and they were trying to salvage the drugs,
all right, that mayor may not be true. What you're
describing mayor may not be true. So how do we
get to the bottom of this, whether they call it
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a nothing burger or not, How does this ever go away?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I'll tell you how. I'll tell you how we get
to the bottom of it. And what Senators want to see.
They want to see the video. They need to see
the video. They need to determine what it is that
actually happened. They need to see what happened with that
second strike. They need to know who is in the
room when that second strike occurred. They need to know
all of those questions. And that's the reason why Admiral
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Bradley will be able to provide some context in terms
of what happened on that particular day.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right, so how important is how important is today's testimony?
And again, I don't know how this would play out.
You know, all of a sudden, senators will come out
and say, okay, we're now satisfied. That would tell the
American people we can't show you what we saw, but
everything looked legit, or we're very troubled by what we saw.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
That's where this goes, right, it does.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
And you know I've said this before and I'll say
it again. As for Pete hegsett the person that leaves
the Pentagon, he only has an audience of one that
he needs to please, and that audio of one is
President Donald J.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
As long as Donald J. Trump likes the job, that
Pete hegg Seth is doing. He is good to go
in terms of leading the Pentagon and leading our vast military.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
If he loses his support.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
And I see nothing to indicate that President Trump is
in any way dissatisfied with Pete Hexat. But if he
loses President Trump's support, then of course he's done. But
the thing of it is with President Trump, he likes loyalty.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He likes Pete Hagg Sat.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
He's known him for years, and I see no indication
that he's in any danger of losing his job.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Usually the president not only likes loyalty, he's usually very loyal.
There are some exceptions, and so that seems to be
a glue that's holding it together. Kind of see if
our recollection is right looking back, I would say I
don't know. Would I would probably make the general statement.
Out of everybody the Democrats wanted to block, it was
either heg Seth or RFK. Is that a pretty decent recollection?
(24:57):
I mean, so I don't think we should forget.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
You've got a good recollection.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
But the only one that required the vote of jd
vance to break a tie in the Senate was Pete
haig Sett.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
And then jd Vance, the vice President, broke the tie,
and that's the reason why Pete Hegsett today is the
head of the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And that's the reason potentially why someone is trying to
either break the model of securing the border and stopping
the flow of drugs in the War on drugs and
take out somebody they tried to take out from the
beginning as well.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
So you've got conflicting narratives here.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You're right, though, the footage would and I love how
TV shows footage of other strikes while they're talking about
this strike. I mean, it's very it's all very misleading.
John Decker Grant reporting is always you're right, You're right,
You're right about that, Michael.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That is misleading.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
You know, we still no one has seen the other video.
But you know, you look at something on television, you
think that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're seeing what.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
Happened on September second. That is not the video that
has been released.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, they're doing an alive Fraser fright and showing
you clips from the form.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's insane. I love that.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
It's a good analogy.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
That's good. Steal it. You can use it in other markets.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
White House Briefing Row is the podcast by John Decker.
It'll be up at eight Central, nine Eastern this morning,
and he'll get in a lot more detailed there. John, great,
as always, thanks for joining us. All right, let's get
back to David Zonati. David, here's a piece from the
New York Times asking a question. I don't know how
many times we've asked on this show. I don't know
that anybody can look you in the eye on Thursday,
(26:25):
December fourth, twenty twenty five and definitively say this is
the future of the Republican Party once Donald Trump is gone.
So at that point, you know, it's a discussion, it's opinions,
it's perspectives, or it's speculation. Nobody could have the answer.
What about this article grabs your attention?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Well, Michael, we've been talking for years about the Soros
network and John Podesta and all the money that's been
lined up on the billionaire's network on the left. Evidently
in the well over the last say, from two thousand
nineteen forward, jd Vance, even before he got his Senate
seat or was involved with Peter tele and a group
(27:07):
of Peter Teal and a group of other very successful people.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Who deal has links to the origins of Facebook going
public ahead.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Right, and another billionaire who spoke at the Republican convention
in sixteen, all the way back to sixteen. I believe
he spoke at the convention. Well, there is a Republican
Billionaire's Club now, and there is a Republican Investment Strategy group.
And there are names that are named in the Washington
This is a New York Time Times article. The New
York Times article pulls back the curtain on who these
(27:36):
people are and who they're lining up with, names like
Mercer and Peter Teel and others. These are substantive names.
They're connected to people like Charlie Kirk, They're connected to
people like Tucker Carlson. They're connected to lots and lots
of people. Now, the connections may be loose, they may
be only referential. I'm not alleging anything, and there's nothing
it's involved here of criminal activity. The point that this
(27:57):
article is making in the New York Times is where
will the Republicans go after Trump? Well, they'll go where
the billionaires tell them to go. That's the theory, because
that's the way it works on the left, and it
appears that there's a number of very wealthy people, including
people like Leonard Leo from the Greater Chicago area who's
got one point six billion dollars in his nonprofit contributed
(28:19):
to him, that are coalescing to pick the players.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The assumption is, if people want to keep trump Ism alive,
you just hand it to the vice president. People at
one time thought you want to keep the peace and
the simplicity and the prosperity and the innocence of the
fifties alive. Say goodbye to Ike and say hello to
Richard Nixon. It doesn't always work out that way. Marco
(28:47):
Ruvey will be a very strong player and has had
a very strong Secretary of State presence in a much
more successful term for Donald Trump. But what you're saying
is the only person that wasn't subject to the Billionaire's
Club or the Grasstops money being the influence was Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Once you remove him.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Because you know, it's not fair to say the money
drives the Republican the Democrat candidates. It's driven Republican candidates
as well.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Fair, we've got to call balls and strikes here. They're
lined up now, and so where might they be leaning exactly.
And what's unfortunate is that the conservative thought leaders tend
to follow what the liberals do. Okay, And I'm not
even sure these are conservative thought leaders. Honestly, I'm not
even sure that they're conservatives. All we know is that
they're lining up opposed to the leftist agenda. So I mean,
(29:36):
that's that's a smarter place to be in my opinion
in REGARDSS of the survival.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The socialism side. But will they will they feel the
same way. But I can see some of these guys
given to Romie Manuel and whoever.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
The anointed Republicans just.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Don't know how they're going to play the game. But
the curtain is being drawn back in this article, and
the research is worthwhile to unveil it, and we have
to if we're going to call balls and strikes fair
that we have to do that. But here's the back
to our first segment. Are these people connected to what's
going on on the ground? I mean, how insulated is
the billionaires club from the reality of what's happening. Where
(30:10):
were the billionaires in that special election in Tennessee. That's
just one example. When we figure out what are they
eight actually competitive house races in twenty twenty six, where
will the billionaires people. Let's even go back farther than that.
Let's go all the way back to Trump one oh one,
to the first election, and then let's go back to
the second shot with Trump. Remember when it was it
(30:32):
was Rubio and Cruz, and remember how Trump then came
up that middle lane and took it away from them.
Then remember how Ted Cruz kept hanging around and hanging
around and hanging around that other election. If you've got
a billionaire in your back pocket.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hanging around a long time engine, yes, who would it be?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Well, that's what we got to figure out.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, I don't know is.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
The fact that Cruise is out there announcing the Trump
accounts and announcing his good friend mister Dell was a
Dell that was in his back pocket.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Who do we know?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
But the key is when all these people are fronting
looking like they care so much of the country and
on something that they do. But the bottom line is
who's the billionaire in their pocket? You got an elf
on the shelf this year, think about who's the billionaire
in the politician's pop pocket. That's important.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, this is just the appetizer we're going to move
on to the main course on this story. In fact,
next year we'll go through the midterms, and the minute
the midterms are over, this now becomes decision time. And
so the things we're talking about now are important to
get because they're going to get here quicker than you
think next year. David is great.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Your audience is the smartest audience in America.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
We got to keep them ahead, got to keep them
out of the curve. And you always do that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Senior contributor David's and Notddy from the American Policy Roundtable,
host of The Public Square, also co host of Christmas
in America, which our friends up in Ohio will get
a chance to watch live as we did in Nashville
this week.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
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over the country.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I think they're going to have a little bit
better experience. They're going to have snow to walk or
on their way into a Christmas special. There's always surprises,
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Speaker 3 (33:40):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
Nineteen seventy six. Big John work and shake some fries
in the statn all the wall. We did one thousand
dollars one hour. The CEO of McDonald's was there on
your break. You can make any sandwich you want. So
I've made a triple cheese and he asked me, what
is that? I go So that's my version. It's a
triple cheeseburger. Than that shear was on the menu. They
stole it from Big John.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Now you know the results of this story. Big Job
created the big men all this time. It should have
been the Big John, not the big mech go figure.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We did some funny and it just shows you how
distracted we are today, right, we care more about this comparison.
Red sent. Then I went to Shakeshack. It was forty
four dollars for me and Nick to have a burger,
fry and a water. I thought that was ridiculous, and
they wanted a tip. That led to him setting the
McDonald's menu and prices from nineteen seventy six. And we're
(34:35):
looking at it, and I'm thinking I could get twenty
to twenty seven cheeseburgers from McDonald's in nineteen seventy six
for what I paid for two waters. Red did something
even better. He took the sixty five cent quarter pounder
with cheese in nineteen seventy six. If you applied the
rate of inflation, and this is bad. It should be
three dollars and seventy cents, but it's not. It's six
(34:58):
dollars and seventy two cents. So somebody doubled even the
rate of inflation. Now you know it's certain items. You know,
if there was a beef shortage or something, maybe, but
for competitive price.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Those burgers will last up to thirty years.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now, Now our wages don't just simply double over rate
of inflation. They don't even keep up with the rate
of inflation. This is why we can't afford anything. It
really is kind of fascinating, almost as fascinating as you know.
And it's not a new idea. And I don't like
when presidents put their name on it. Obamacare, for example.
(35:33):
You know, I never really like that, even when it
was a failure and it might hurt a president, I'd
like to say, go, I still didn't like the name
on it. Affordable Care wasn't the right name either, because
it was anything but affordable. But this is not a
new notion to start children off. This is a story
of compound interest. Is what it is, and what it
will reveal in the long run. That I think is
(35:56):
what a failure social Security has been. And how different
because now it's twenty five years later from when we
were talking lock boxes and modernizing Social Security and open
it up for investment for individuals starting at birth, what
might their portfolios look like. I guarantee you twenty five
years later, it would have probably been five times what
(36:18):
their Social Security account is worth. It'll be fascinating to
talk about this with an actual and economist. And by
the way, what has been done for so long is
so immoral, it's probably good that he's a theologian as well.
I mean this mandatory tax that is nothing but increased
from the amount of the tax to how much you
(36:41):
pay your employer pays, to how much of your annual.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Income is taxed. I'm taxed more in one.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Year right now for Social Security that my father paid
in his entire life. People that bring up things like
Ponzi scheme, I don't know pick a way of describing it.
I know I offended John Decker with nothing Berger, but
this canna be a fascinating conversation. We'll do that with
(37:07):
David bonson our Economist and Money was next. Stay with us,
all right, fifty eight minutes after the hour, Welcome to Thursday, December,
the fourth ye of Our Lord. Even got your top
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Thank you, Michael McCann.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is seven minutes after the hour and it is Thursday, already,
December fourth. You have our Lord twenty twenty five on
the air, streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. This is
your morning show. I'm Michael del Journal, honored to serve
you and thanks for making us a part of your
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on the content. We got our senior contributor, David Sinnati
swinging a bat in the on deck circle.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
If you're just getting up.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The Israeli officials say a body of a hostage returned
by Hamas on Wednesday turned out to be a man
from Thailand. President Trump is rolling back fuel economy standards
for American auto producers. And I don't know how this happens.
It's got to be illegal in some states. We actually
have a good football game tonight for Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
After winning three in a row.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Dak and the Cowboys are coming to Detroit to take
down our Lions. Thursday Night Football tonight, the Cowboys and
the Lions. And it seems like everybody's yesterday. I don't
know what was more shocking that two cheeseburgers, two fries.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We didn't get soft drinks. We got waters.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Four ninety nine for the water, by the way, forty
four dollars for two burgers, father and son. I don't
think my dad was paying that a McDonald's when I
was a kid. And then it had the nerd to
ask for a tip. Everybody's expecting a tip these days.
Families are expecting gifts this Christmas. Roy O'Neil here to
take a look at who's getting tips and why some
(02:01):
people say they have what is both tip and gift fatigue.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
So we saw a couple of different reports come out
this week, bank Rate saying fewer Americans are likely to
tip this year. It's a pretty small drop in percentages,
but look, the demands are there, the housekeeper, the childcare provider,
the guy that does the lawn, the school teacher. And
then all right, let me ask do you tip your
mail carrier or garbage man, garbage person.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It's not I know, is the answer. Because I forget.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I don't know how and I'm not standing outside when
they come.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I don't know how to do.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
That's another thing, right, yeah, logically I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
He's supposed to do that.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But right about only about twenty one percent of Americans
actually tip the trash and recycling person. About twenty seven
percent actually tip the mail carrier about twenty bucks a year,
by the way, is what that number is. But there
is this gift fatigue out there. And Empower survey did
find that about a third of Americans are now adopting
a no gifts policy this year.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Michael, don't get me anything. I won't get you anything.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Other how about towards me?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
In the new year lowered.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I've told this story a lot. I know we get
new cities all the time, so they haven't heard it.
But there was one year in particular, we were broke
and coming off of a stint of unemployment and my
mom had to my mom had to move out of
the house because she's part of why I was broke.
And so it was Christmas. We were in New Orleans.
(03:37):
We were moving here into this condo that we bought
very cheap but needed a lot of work, and I
spent all Christmas painting that condo and getting it ready.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
For mom to move in.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Anyway, make a long story short, No, we didn't have
any money where it wasn't even a choice. So I
came up with the idea we had three boxes. We'd
each give each other three gifts. One was what they
mean to you, one is something you'll do for them
next year, and one was something you wish for them.
I got to tell you, though, out of all the
the exception of the Gremlins Christmas with the kids when
(04:07):
they were little, it's the memorable, meaningful Christmas of my life.
I don't know why we don't do it more, but
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
How that goes right, and then you putting the limits
on things who you're supposed to be getting a gift for,
like everyone in the office, how many people?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Just the secretary?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And if I get one for her, do I have
to get them for everybody else? And yeah, that's why
there's sort of this movement to say, let's move away
from the stuff and you know, find other ways to
mark the event of the.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, now, Jeffrey his wife, you know they paid for
new windows, all right, you know, their salaries in there,
the materials in there, mean it's paid for. But she
insisted on giving them a hundred dollars tip each. Jeffrey,
I was like, what are you doing? Yeah, now, I'll
do that with movers and stuff, like you know, furniture
(04:55):
people like if they if they come and you know, hey,
while you're here, could you move this up upstairs? You
know that I'll do it, But just to bring in
what they bring in?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
There's probably some big thick book of etiquette that I
have failed my entire life. But yeah, everybody seems to
have their handout for a tip. That's for sure. Your
pressure too, oh yeah, because you feel like, you know,
you know, are the gonna are they gonna spin your
burger if you don't tip them. I mean, I don't
know what the deal is. Rory's gonna be back in
the third hour. Immigration rates are coming to more cities.
(05:25):
New Orleans is the big operation that began yesterday. Royal
had the very latest one that when we come back,
there were probably six to ten really important teachable things
to learn from Yet the special election on Tuesday. I
(05:49):
don't know if you can boil them all down into
this where you had national narratives with bogus polling to
create national narrative versus what ended up being serious polling,
reality and actual results.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How does that happen? I mean, in the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Old days, that would never happen because you would look
like an idiot, and then nobody wants to get information
from idiots. But that doesn't I'm telling you, I don't
know what disqualifies anyone anymore. David's not even to take
a look at probably one of the most pathetic of
the perpetrators, which was of all people, the Wall Street Journal.
(06:30):
Remember when that that name and that crisp copy was
just pure credibility and they were the worst perpetrator.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Weren't they well, good morning, Michael.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I hope this isn't one of those situations like the
hot potato game where I got left holding the hot
potato and I blew up in my hands, because this
was a very aggravating experience watching the pseudo coverage of
this race in Tennessee, because it points to the bigger
question and that we've been watching from a perspective of
ivoters dot Com and just watching elections for forty five years,
(07:06):
and that's the distance between the political parties and the ground,
the media and the ground, the megadonos and the ground.
And when it comes to a day when you have
just out of five hundred and thirty five members of
the United States Congress, House and Senate, you have one
person or one race open, so you can like, here's
(07:28):
here's the test case, and then we try to pack
in all reality into this one moment. And the people
that the Wall Street Journal assigned to cover the story
is a woman they've just hired this fall, who was
an intern for them this summer, who lives in New
York and Washington, d C. And I don't think she's
ever spent a day in Middle Tennessee. And she's covering
(07:48):
this singular race and top loading it with all kinds
of flops.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh wait, wait, wit can I add one layer that'll
make your mind explode? And probably using AI to research,
which is going to give you all the bogus narratives
and bogus polls as a reality, which I am thoroughly
convinced on that. David, Oh god, I didn't mean interrupt.
We have a delay, and I stepped on you. But
what I was gonna say is just that this notion
that it's almost like so they feel like they got
(08:14):
their money's worth, and when you talk about the grass
tops and the money people, all right, we'll do these
fake poles, we'll do these fake narratives, and they'll think
they were in it right up until the end, and
it's like it's justifying the cycle of the money. This
was never a race statistically probably capable of being one.
You had one of the worst candidates, worst turnouts, but
you know, filling an open seat in an open election
(08:37):
right after Thanksgiving, I mean we can go down the
whole laundry list and you know, she still loses by
nine points, But but nobody goes back and goes, where'd
all this?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
It?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Could go either way or it's down to one point.
There were people I knew that were even panicing, and
I'm like, listen, I know people will do real polls.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And it's eight to ten and it ended up nine.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, there's two critical factors that no one's talking about
that you would think that you have some reporters, you've
only got one congressional race to handle. Why not put
your best freaking pro con it if you have to,
instead of putting an intern that just got hired from
the National from the end, she's an international desk writers.
(09:15):
How far can you get from Tennessee? So, and this
is the Wall Street Journal, and this is Rupert Murdoch's empire.
This is the people that asks us to trust them
on a constant basis every day where there's the Wall
Street Journal of Fox News, and you just.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Got to be aware of how they're doing. Let me
try it this way. Fox was playing it up like
it's going to be surprisingly close, and why and what
does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
They held their call.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Past the obvious moment We would have called that race
an hour before they did.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, but all right, so they're just trying to keep
you watching, right, keep you titilated and so on.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Where's the Wall Street journal in this? What's their motive?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well, Wall Street journalist Fox the credibility to say the false.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
They all answer to the same people. It's the Murdoch Empire.
So I don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
All I know is they had I'm telling you, all
you've got to do is go to the article and
then look up the writer and get the history on
the writer. Have an issue about this particular woman that
wrote the article except the fact that she's probably never
gotten a paper cut in American politics on the ground,
(10:24):
and she's never spent a day in Middle Tennessee. Other
than that, I think she's iminentely qualified to write the story.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
How about you.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I mean, I could write an article today on thermal dynamics,
but it's going to go Just go to.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
AI because I'll play you two things. A I probably
wouldn't have missed, and that's the fact that this particular
district was rewritten designed to make it a closer race.
And by the way, this is not an apologetic for
the Republicans. I'm just telling you the facts.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
On the they still did a lot of big mistakes
that they should learn from well. But the point is,
if you'll do this when you have one race and
everybody looking at one race, what does that tell you
about what next.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Year is going to be?
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Well, and here's again, let's go back to the redistricting.
The Republicans rewrote this district. They relined it to make
it a tighter race because they can afford to make
it a tighter race. They stretched it over fourteen counties,
thirteen of which will counter the segment of Nashville that
they drained into the district that's going to always vote Republican.
This was strategic and they did that because Tennessee's got
(11:20):
another House seat based on the last census, and they
wanted to keep Nashville from getting that extra seat. It
was strategic. Secondly, Mark Green left in scandal. Now you
don't leave Middle Tennessee in a marital scale where your
wife is in the headline saying Satan has rewritten our
marriage quote unquote, and expect people to be enthusiastically supporting
(11:42):
a no name who's taking your seat afterwards. Now doesn't
mean Van EPs is a bad person. It's just a
tough run. So what did you expect A thirty point
slam dunk. I mean, and none of this is in.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The bar or.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The most shameless is to expect the twenty point differential
when Donald Trump is on the ticket after a year
of being legally assaulted and shot at. Yeah, you can't.
I get all that. I got to do this real
quick before we take the break. This comes from Meredith.
You know, Look, I remind us of this all the time.
We're in the truth telling business, not the results of business.
(12:16):
Whether people hear that truth, thirst for that truth, you know,
live by that truth. I'm not in the results business.
I just speak the truth, and I know you do,
and sometimes it gets frustrating. You wonder if anybody's hearing
to a point you made yesterday. Hey, Michael, I honestly
didn't hear any commercials on the radio or TV about
this election. TV you should have. They're still using old
(12:38):
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know these these talking head shows on cable, like people
are still watching them and they're not Are they smart
enough to buy podcasts? Are they smart enough to show
up at Christmas in America and shake hands with everybody?
You know, that's where they need to get I only
(12:58):
knew about it from social media. Yeah, I didn't even
know when early voting was. I had to look it
up on the government websites. Also, I was out of
town during part of the early voting for Thanksgiving. I
think all of these reasons may have been why turnout
was low when we come back. Why right, But how
they're using media and how they're trying to reach potential voters,
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This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Good morning, Michael, this is Julie Clarksville. I'm not sure
what station Meredith was watching, but I can assure you
that at least on the streaming platforms that I was watching,
it was inundated with as for both bad and van
X to the point that it was annoying.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Michael.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Before I became a truck driver and joined the Navy,
I used to assemble missiles of accurate destruction. I've been
a soldier, sailor a tanker and a spy and I
work precincts.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
This is the worst selection we've had.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm not sure which one to comment on. I can
tell you that that makes things difficult these days. You
can be watching Fox News on what you call an
old vernacular. I'm watching Fox News on cable and there's
people listening to me right now. And if you're listening
over an FM signal or an AM signal, or the
(15:46):
radio station website or the iHeartRadio app, you're all getting
different ads. And you could be listening to the same thing,
same platform, but live in different places and you're hearing
different ads. So the old days of saying cable buys
doesn't tell you anything anymore, because if you're getting it through,
I don't know all the names. I don't know why
(16:07):
I can't remember the one that's on mine? Who boo
not whoboo? The heck am? I? Why can I never
remember that? It drives me nuts. I'm a Roku, So
a guy watching Fox News on Roku is getting a
different commercial than a guy watching Fox News on YouTube
(16:29):
versus a guy on fire stick. In other words, David
explained to them, you can't It's not like, oh, everybody
that watched mash saw that ad yesterday. It depends we
don't know what Meredith was watching on. I mean it
would change everything. It's hard to reach people, Jeffrey. We
went from Huboo to Roku. That was excellent. That was
a great mind capture on that one.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I can never remember the stupid No, Michael, this goes
back to the Obama campaign of twenty twelve where they
started in two thousand and eight. They started to actually
buy the box top information from the cable systems, and
then Taylor adds into your box and by the time
they get to their second reelext situation, they were dominating
and knowing what commercials you were watching all times. And
(17:11):
now it's only gotten worse with the streaming. So yes,
it's selective.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I mean texting is going to eventually you can't get
people to answer the phone not knowing who it is.
Texting maybe the only way you can get to constituents.
But we want to go to the grasstops and the money,
not just how it was spent and what it reveals
in this special election moving forward will continue and go
into overtime if you will, whether Senior contributor Davidsonati and
(17:34):
then kind of tease you on an article we're probably
going to talk a lot about in terms of what's next,
what does the Republican Party look like after Trump.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's a piece in the New York Times. We'll share
that with you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And I want to thank you Red for depressing me
by sending me the McDonald's prices from nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I paid four ninety eight for a bottled water yesterday.
It's thirty minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
This is Andy Hickson, formerly of Nashville, now living in Detroit, Michigan.
My morning show is your morning show.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
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I'm Michael, that's Jeffrey. Red's got the content, Diz's got more.
We're going to talk about what is the Republican Party
post Donald Trump? A piece in the New York Times,
and John Decker's going to check in a minute, we're
all add over here. Red made the mistake of sending
(18:58):
us a picture of the nineteen seventy six price and
menu board of McDonald's. One thing that stuck out to
me was they didn't do the Sundays back then. Remember
it was the swirl cones of ice cream. I remember that.
I don't ever see root beer or orange. But anyway,
I did some quick map. A cheeseburger was thirty three cents,
(19:22):
a quarter pounder was seventy cents, A large fry was
twenty no A large fry was forty six cents. Regular
fries was twenty six cents. I remember if I went
with my mom, I got a quarter pounder with cheese,
a large fry, and a large coke. If I went
with my dad, he'd get you a little cheeseburger, a
small fry, and a small coke. And I remember thinking
what a cheap skaty was. And now I can see
(19:45):
he was doing it to save forty cents. But we're
all just getting nostalgic. But I did the map, just
you guys, to make an impact. The two waters I
purchased yesterday at Shakeshack to eat with my over priced
burger and fries, I could have bought twenty seven cheeseburgers
at McDonald's in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Just an interesting way of looking at inflation.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, The Navy admiral responsible for the attacks on
boats off the coast of Venezuela will be testifying behind
closed doors today. Our White House correspondent John Decker's here
with the story. John, good morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
That's right, we're talking about Admiral Frank Bradley. He will
be testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, classified briefing,
so no television cameras behind closed doors. Don't know if
we'll get any kind of redoubt, but what I am
told is that he plans to tell those senators who
are very concerned about that strike on September two, on
(20:42):
that alleged drug vote, that he got the green light
from Department lawyer to take that second strike on those
two survivors of the first.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Strike on that alleged drug vote, isn't it, Admiral Frank
Mitch Bradley.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I don't know. Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I guess I should say that because ABC has kind
of broke everything, you know, with the detail.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Now again, what do we have?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
First a Washington Post with an anonymous source saying it
was kids clinging to the boat and they took them
out with the second shot or whatever that original story was.
Then the Washington Post with four the New York Times
with four anonymous sources debunked it. And now ABC breaks
the real details, which is they were in communication, they
were trying to save the drugs, and they were climbing
(21:31):
back into the boat. They were continuing their operation. Therefore,
the taking out operation continued. So well, I guess my
question is when does this nothing burger go away?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, here's the thing about first of all, you calling
it a nothing burger, you know, you always have to
think what would happen? What would be the US reaction
if this happened to our troops, to our troops at
sea in a similar type of situation, if they're clinging
to a boat, we would not want an enemy to do.
(22:03):
What it is that's alleged to have happened in this
particular situation. You know, say you say climbing back into
a boat to continue in the operation. I don't think
there was a boat left. I think it was completely decimated.
It was destroyed. They're hanging on to literally the shards
of the remains of a boat. There's nothing they could do.
And you know, think about it, They're out in the
(22:24):
middle of the ocean, international waters. There is no threat
that those two individuals that just suffered us strike from
the American military could possibly do at that point to
endanger America or our territory in any way.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, the problem with that is is we're not looking
at the exact same footage. So one saying describing something
that the boat isn't completely decimated, but that they were
in communication and they were trying to salvage the drugs,
all right, that mayor may not be true. What you're
describing mayor may not be true. So how do we
get to the bottom of this, whether they call it
(23:00):
a nothing burger or not, How does this ever go away?
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I'll tell you how. I'll tell you how we get
to the bottom of it. And what Senators want to see.
They want to see the video. They need to see
the video. They need to determine what it is that
actually happened. They need to see what happened with that
second strike. They need to know who is in the
room when that second strike occurred. They need to know
all of those questions. And that's the reason why Admiral
(23:25):
Bradley will be able to provide some context in terms
of what happened on that particular day.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right, so how important is how important is today's testimony?
And again, I don't know how this would play out.
You know, all of a sudden, senators will come out
and say, okay, we're now satisfied. That would tell the
American people we can't show you what we saw, but
everything looked legit, or we're very troubled by what we saw.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
That's where this goes, right, it does.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
And you know I've said this before and I'll say
it again. As for Pete hegsett the person that leaves
the Pentagon, he only has an audience of one that
he needs to please, and that audio of one is
President Donald J.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Trump.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
As long as Donald J. Trump likes the job, that
Pete hegg Seth is doing. He is good to go
in terms of leading the Pentagon and leading our vast military.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
If he loses his support.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
And I see nothing to indicate that President Trump is
in any way dissatisfied with Pete Hexat. But if he
loses President Trump's support, then of course he's done. But
the thing of it is with President Trump, he likes loyalty.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He likes Pete Hagg Sat.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
He's known him for years, and I see no indication
that he's in any danger of losing his job.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Usually the president not only likes loyalty, he's usually very loyal.
There are some exceptions, and so that seems to be
a glue that's holding it together. Kind of see if
our recollection is right looking back, I would say I
don't know. Would I would probably make the general statement.
Out of everybody the Democrats wanted to block, it was
either heg Seth or RFK. Is that a pretty decent recollection?
(24:57):
I mean, so I don't think we should forget.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
You've got a good recollection.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
But the only one that required the vote of jd
vance to break a tie in the Senate was Pete
haig Sett.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
And then jd Vance, the vice President, broke the tie,
and that's the reason why Pete Hegsett today is the
head of the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And that's the reason potentially why someone is trying to
either break the model of securing the border and stopping
the flow of drugs in the War on drugs and
take out somebody they tried to take out from the
beginning as well.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
So you've got conflicting narratives here.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You're right, though, the footage would and I love how
TV shows footage of other strikes while they're talking about
this strike. I mean, it's very it's all very misleading.
John Decker Grant reporting is always you're right, You're right,
You're right about that, Michael.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That is misleading.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
You know, we still no one has seen the other video.
But you know, you look at something on television, you
think that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're seeing what.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
Happened on September second. That is not the video that
has been released.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, they're doing an alive Fraser fright and showing
you clips from the form.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's insane. I love that.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
It's a good analogy.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
That's good. Steal it. You can use it in other markets.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
White House Briefing Row is the podcast by John Decker.
It'll be up at eight Central, nine Eastern this morning,
and he'll get in a lot more detailed there. John, great,
as always, thanks for joining us. All right, let's get
back to David Zonati. David, here's a piece from the
New York Times asking a question. I don't know how
many times we've asked on this show. I don't know
that anybody can look you in the eye on Thursday,
(26:25):
December fourth, twenty twenty five and definitively say this is
the future of the Republican Party once Donald Trump is gone.
So at that point, you know, it's a discussion, it's opinions,
it's perspectives, or it's speculation. Nobody could have the answer.
What about this article grabs your attention?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Well, Michael, we've been talking for years about the Soros
network and John Podesta and all the money that's been
lined up on the billionaire's network on the left. Evidently
in the well over the last say, from two thousand
nineteen forward, jd Vance, even before he got his Senate
seat or was involved with Peter tele and a group
(27:07):
of Peter Teal and a group of other very successful people.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Who deal has links to the origins of Facebook going
public ahead.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Right, and another billionaire who spoke at the Republican convention
in sixteen, all the way back to sixteen. I believe
he spoke at the convention. Well, there is a Republican
Billionaire's Club now, and there is a Republican Investment Strategy group.
And there are names that are named in the Washington
This is a New York Time Times article. The New
York Times article pulls back the curtain on who these
(27:36):
people are and who they're lining up with, names like
Mercer and Peter Teel and others. These are substantive names.
They're connected to people like Charlie Kirk, They're connected to
people like Tucker Carlson. They're connected to lots and lots
of people. Now, the connections may be loose, they may
be only referential. I'm not alleging anything, and there's nothing
it's involved here of criminal activity. The point that this
(27:57):
article is making in the New York Times is where
will the Republicans go after Trump? Well, they'll go where
the billionaires tell them to go. That's the theory, because
that's the way it works on the left, and it
appears that there's a number of very wealthy people, including
people like Leonard Leo from the Greater Chicago area who's
got one point six billion dollars in his nonprofit contributed
(28:19):
to him, that are coalescing to pick the players.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The assumption is, if people want to keep trump Ism alive,
you just hand it to the vice president. People at
one time thought you want to keep the peace and
the simplicity and the prosperity and the innocence of the
fifties alive. Say goodbye to Ike and say hello to
Richard Nixon. It doesn't always work out that way. Marco
(28:47):
Ruvey will be a very strong player and has had
a very strong Secretary of State presence in a much
more successful term for Donald Trump. But what you're saying
is the only person that wasn't subject to the Billionaire's
Club or the Grasstops money being the influence was Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Once you remove him.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Because you know, it's not fair to say the money
drives the Republican the Democrat candidates. It's driven Republican candidates
as well.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Fair, we've got to call balls and strikes here. They're
lined up now, and so where might they be leaning exactly.
And what's unfortunate is that the conservative thought leaders tend
to follow what the liberals do. Okay, And I'm not
even sure these are conservative thought leaders. Honestly, I'm not
even sure that they're conservatives. All we know is that
they're lining up opposed to the leftist agenda. So I mean,
(29:36):
that's that's a smarter place to be in my opinion
in REGARDSS of the survival.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The socialism side. But will they will they feel the
same way. But I can see some of these guys
given to Romie Manuel and whoever.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
The anointed Republicans just.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Don't know how they're going to play the game. But
the curtain is being drawn back in this article, and
the research is worthwhile to unveil it, and we have
to if we're going to call balls and strikes fair
that we have to do that. But here's the back
to our first segment. Are these people connected to what's
going on on the ground? I mean, how insulated is
the billionaires club from the reality of what's happening. Where
(30:10):
were the billionaires in that special election in Tennessee. That's
just one example. When we figure out what are they
eight actually competitive house races in twenty twenty six, where
will the billionaires people. Let's even go back farther than that.
Let's go all the way back to Trump one oh one,
to the first election, and then let's go back to
the second shot with Trump. Remember when it was it
(30:32):
was Rubio and Cruz, and remember how Trump then came
up that middle lane and took it away from them.
Then remember how Ted Cruz kept hanging around and hanging
around and hanging around that other election. If you've got
a billionaire in your back pocket.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hanging around a long time engine, yes, who would it be?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Well, that's what we got to figure out.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, I don't know is.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
The fact that Cruise is out there announcing the Trump
accounts and announcing his good friend mister Dell was a
Dell that was in his back pocket.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Who do we know?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
But the key is when all these people are fronting
looking like they care so much of the country and
on something that they do. But the bottom line is
who's the billionaire in their pocket? You got an elf
on the shelf this year, think about who's the billionaire
in the politician's pop pocket. That's important.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, this is just the appetizer we're going to move
on to the main course on this story. In fact,
next year we'll go through the midterms, and the minute
the midterms are over, this now becomes decision time. And
so the things we're talking about now are important to
get because they're going to get here quicker than you
think next year. David is great.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Your audience is the smartest audience in America.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
We got to keep them ahead, got to keep them
out of the curve. And you always do that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Senior contributor David's and Notddy from the American Policy Roundtable,
host of The Public Square, also co host of Christmas
in America, which our friends up in Ohio will get
a chance to watch live as we did in Nashville
this week.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Live show coming up and then on the radio all
over the country.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I think they're going to have a little bit
better experience. They're going to have snow to walk or
on their way into a Christmas special. There's always surprises,
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It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
Nineteen seventy six. Big John work and shake some fries
in the statn all the wall. We did one thousand
dollars one hour. The CEO of McDonald's was there on
your break. You can make any sandwich you want. So
I've made a triple cheese and he asked me, what
is that? I go So that's my version. It's a
triple cheeseburger. Than that shear was on the menu. They
stole it from Big John.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Now you know the results of this story. Big Job
created the big men all this time. It should have
been the Big John, not the big mech go figure.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We did some funny and it just shows you how
distracted we are today, right, we care more about this comparison.
Red sent. Then I went to Shakeshack. It was forty
four dollars for me and Nick to have a burger,
fry and a water. I thought that was ridiculous, and
they wanted a tip. That led to him setting the
McDonald's menu and prices from nineteen seventy six. And we're
(34:35):
looking at it, and I'm thinking I could get twenty
to twenty seven cheeseburgers from McDonald's in nineteen seventy six
for what I paid for two waters. Red did something
even better. He took the sixty five cent quarter pounder
with cheese in nineteen seventy six. If you applied the
rate of inflation, and this is bad. It should be
three dollars and seventy cents, but it's not. It's six
(34:58):
dollars and seventy two cents. So somebody doubled even the
rate of inflation. Now you know it's certain items. You know,
if there was a beef shortage or something, maybe, but
for competitive price.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Those burgers will last up to thirty years.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now, Now our wages don't just simply double over rate
of inflation. They don't even keep up with the rate
of inflation. This is why we can't afford anything. It
really is kind of fascinating, almost as fascinating as you know.
And it's not a new idea. And I don't like
when presidents put their name on it. Obamacare, for example.
(35:33):
You know, I never really like that, even when it
was a failure and it might hurt a president, I'd
like to say, go, I still didn't like the name
on it. Affordable Care wasn't the right name either, because
it was anything but affordable. But this is not a
new notion to start children off. This is a story
of compound interest. Is what it is, and what it
will reveal in the long run. That I think is
(35:56):
what a failure social Security has been. And how different
because now it's twenty five years later from when we
were talking lock boxes and modernizing Social Security and open
it up for investment for individuals starting at birth, what
might their portfolios look like. I guarantee you twenty five
years later, it would have probably been five times what
(36:18):
their Social Security account is worth. It'll be fascinating to
talk about this with an actual and economist. And by
the way, what has been done for so long is
so immoral, it's probably good that he's a theologian as well.
I mean this mandatory tax that is nothing but increased
from the amount of the tax to how much you
(36:41):
pay your employer pays, to how much of your annual.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Income is taxed. I'm taxed more in one.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Year right now for Social Security that my father paid
in his entire life. People that bring up things like
Ponzi scheme, I don't know pick a way of describing it.
I know I offended John Decker with nothing Berger, but
this canna be a fascinating conversation. We'll do that with
(37:07):
David bonson our Economist and Money was next. Stay with us,
all right, fifty eight minutes after the hour, Welcome to Thursday, December,
the fourth ye of Our Lord. Even got your top
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