December 23, 2025 • 35 mins
How do we protect children from social media like in Australia when Federal Judges block age appropriate laws. Since when do minors have total access to Freedom of Speech?
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
John and good morning. My name is Kelly Nash, filling
in for Michael bell Rono. This morning. It's yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Was a lot of fun today hopefully even more fun
as we lead into the Christmas holidays, and this is
a wonderful time of the year and a lot of
news to get to this morning. The big NFL playoff
picture changed kind of dramatically last night.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We'll get me into that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
A little bit later, but you know, I'd like to
start if we can, with something to unify the country.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But we can't.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The judges won't let us unify the country. As you've
probably heard last week down in Australia, they banned social
media for kids under the age of sixteen. And it's,
you know, based on some great science. The fact is
that kids are killing themselves. Yes, that's not just an
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American problem. That is a world problem that with social
media was introduced. As a matter of fact, I'm looking
here at what's going on in the United States. We
had suicide and murder rates amongst children under the age
of sixteen had been level since the seventies till two
thousand and seven, and every year since two thousand and seven,
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homicides and suicides have increased for children. What change in
two thousand and seven? Some would say social media? You know,
I would say that the science, the people who we
are supposed to trust with mental health issues, they uniformly
there is I have not found a psychologist or anybody
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who says social media is a benefit to a thirteen
fourteen year old person or an eight year old person.
Social media has not helped or benefited young people in
any way. It's argumentative whether or not it's helping adults
in the least. And I guess we can find some
good things, and we always hear these stories of you know,
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people lost something and they were found pets and jewelry
or whatever. And there's some great heartwarming stories that can
happen on social media. However, it seems that the bad
outweighs the good when it comes to social media, and
I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You can always let us know about it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
On the iHeart Radio app, we have a talkback feature.
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for the next thirty seconds, so you don't have to
wait to be on your morning show. But back to Australia,
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they not only instituted a ban, so if you're under
the age of sixteen in Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You can't have a social media account.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
If they find that a company is in violation of that,
that they've somehow allowed you to have access to the
social media account, they will be fined. Of course, there's
going to be Look, nothing is perfect. Are parents going
to sidestep this and let the kids use the social media? Possibly?
On their account. Sure, but that is not the majority
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of the people, and we recognize that there's going to
be problems with it. But here in America, the most
recent data comes out bipartisan approval for a ban on
social media for kids under the age of sixteen. How
often is it that you get the majority of Democrats,
the majority of Republicans, and the majority of Independents to
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say the same thing, we don't want it for our children.
We don't want it, we don't want it for our children.
And yet we've had two cases now in the last
two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
One was down in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
The other one is in Arkansas where they passed the law.
So they said, in our state, teenagers, you know, people
under the age of sixteen not going to have access
to the social media.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Federal judges blocking this.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
A federal judges ruled that the state cannot use their
power to restrict children from access to social media.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
This was the Secure.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act. They say that's
a violation of the First Amendment. It is so interesting
how these judges just want to block the will of
the American people.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Again, fifty I think it's fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Seven percent of Democrats, like sixty eight percent of Independence
and seventy percent of Republicans agree on this issue. Overall,
it's sixty four percent of Americans want social media taken
out of the hands of their children, and the law
says it's a violation of the I guess the child's
First Amendment rights? Does the child also have the right
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to the Second Amendment? Can the child bring the gun?
To bring the gun to school? Is that a possibility?
Do they have that option? Can they do that? I know,
by the way, in case you were wondering, yes, the
child can carry weapons. No, Currently that most laws prohibit
eight year olds from handling a weapon. So not all
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the rights that are afforded to people over the age
of eighteen are afforded to children under the age of eighteen.
In this instance, the will of the American people. We
are unified finally on something we want to benefit our children.
We were seeing the dangers. Now, we didn't know this
in two thousand and seven. How could you have known
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what it was. You didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
What it was. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's kind of like AI. We don't even really know
what AI is yet. We'll find that out in about
ten or fifteen years and then we can have a discussion.
Then how should we handle it for children? How should
we should there be more limitations on it? Get you
don't even know what it is. When MySpace popped on
the scene around what two thousand and five, two thousand
and six, nobody knew what that was. Nobody knew what
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it was going to do. Then he had Facebook, and
then here comes Instagram and TikTok, and it's just one
right after another. And what we find is that kids
struggle mightily, mightily. There's fighting this. They don't know what
to do with themselves. Their minds are a wash in comparison,
and online bullying and all kinds of other things. And
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yet the judges say, no, we cannot if it's a
violation of the First Amendment. Can Congress then write a
law or would that too be overturned by some sort
of federal judge somewhere with the Supreme Court rule. I
don't know if these cases are going to be appealed
to the Supreme Court, but it doesn't seem to me
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that if the majority of Americans don't want children having
access to this, that we can't stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean, we do it with alcohol.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We do it with cigarettes, we do it with tattoos,
We're now starting to do it with transgender surgeries. I
think we should be able to do this with social media,
and I think that America's future would be brighter. I
believe Australia's future is going to be brighter now that
they've passed this law and they're instituting it again against
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a lot of pushback from the social media companies who
have spent a ton of money trying to sing their benefits,
sing their praises. And we saw we saw that with
TikTok a couple of about the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wasn't it where all the online ads about my.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Business was built by TikTok, don't build, don't ban TikTok,
so on and so forth. When they want to invest
in you and let get you get your opinion manipulated.
They've got money to spend on that. And they're not
just going to do online ads. They're coming television, radio, print,
whatever they can. They can get it in billboards, they'll
put it anywhere and everywhere. So it didn't work in Australia.
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What about you? Do you want your child to have
access to this why is it a good thing? That's
an interesting question. What benefits have you seen of social
media for your teenager?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I mean maybe they started their business. I'd be interested
in hearing about how your child is benefited from having
access to TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or whatever. You
can again use the iHeart talkback feature boom right there
on the iHeartRadio app. We've got a big money morning
of fun lined up as you start your holiday travels.
(09:07):
Oh my gosh, so many things are happening this morning,
and uh, we'll get into all of that. And by
the way, billionaire Larry Ellison, I wish, I wish I
had him for a dad. Maybe we'll talk about what
he's doing for his son next. Are you what a
personal guarantee Larry Ellison is giving to his son?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
How does the judge ever even get to make a
ruling on a case like that? What idiot fights that
in court?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I guess that was James checking in from Nashville this
morning on the What we were just talking about to
start the show this morning, did a new survey show
is that the majority of Americans and it's and it's
broken up by party, so it's the majority of Democrats,
the majority of Republicans, and the majority of independents.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Would like to see some something similar to.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What's happening in Australia, where they made a law that
said people under the age of sixteen cannot get access
to social media, and they tried implementing it in several
states here, and in both of the cases it was
challenged in like Louisiana, the federal judge again ruled against
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them on the challenge. And so you're wondering who is
bringing this case up. So the people of Arkansas, the
people of Louisiana said we don't want the children to
have the access to the social media, and so it
was brought by something called the Net Choice Litigation Center.
And the Net Choice Litigation Center, in case you're wondering,
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is sponsored by guess who you want to think? I
guess I think you people probably already know who that it.
Meta is in on it, Googles in on it. They
have thirty companies who have founded this. eBay's in on it,
Amazon is in on it. They don't they're trying to
limit any restrictions on social media or the Internet in general.
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And so again you got thirty pretty powerful companies here.
Again I just mentioned Google, Meta, Amazon, and eBay, and
they are the ones that are suing these states that
pass laws I don't. And again they're hiding by I
say they're hiding, they're hiding behind the First Amendment. And
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you know, I was just talking to Red off the air,
and Red brings up a great point. You know that
children do not they're not entitled to hear or see everything.
That's why we have certain ratings on movies. That's why
there's this big fight about adult books or adult content
in school libraries. They're not supposed to have access to that.
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They're not supposed to be able to see it. And
if society has decided that we don't want children to
read social media, because we are seeing the net effects
of it. Again, if you missed it earlier, when we
look at both homicide and suicide rates amongst teenagers, it
was pretty level for thirty years or so, the seventies
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till about two thousand and seven, and then every year
since then it's increased. Obviously, we've heard a lot about
the mental health struggles of teenagers in this country, and
you know, we didn't grow up with that. If you're
you know, over the age of forty, you didn't deal
with what they're dealing with. And it's hard for us
to imagine what it's like to be a child in
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today's environment. We had to go out and play, we
had to interact with each other.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It's so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
My wife and I are friends with a young couple
at church, and the lady was confiding to us, and
again she's a lady now, she's like twenty seven, twenty
eight years old now, but she was confiding to us
that she has a very difficult time even speaking on
a telephone, and like her mother was forcing her ten
years ago, forcing her in order to pick up the
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phone and call, call somebody, talk to somebody, and she
just felt so socially distant that she was a struggle
for it. And I don't even understand that. I mean,
to make a phone call is a problem. Yes, for
a lot of today's younger people. That is a problem
brought on by their online obsessions.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We've gotten these children in a place.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That it's a bad way, and Americans, again, the majority
of us, want to change it. And the federal judges
are the ones stopping us. Now, even when states pass
you know, local law, state laws, they take them to
federal court. And again it's Meta, Amazon, eBay, Google, they're
the ones funding all this, and they're saying no, no
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limitations for anybody, because of course, if you want a
new consumer, you want to get them while they're young,
so it becomes a lifelong thing where you can then
market to them for the rest of their lives. It's
a lot harder to get somebody addicted to social media
when they started. You know, I'm not addicted to social
media because it didn't exist until I was in my thirties.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Ahead, and I guess we have another talk back. This
is from Tulsa, KAKC. This is Joe.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I feel that the federal government telling children what they
can't and can do is actually a violation of the
Tenth Amendment. Now, states can have these type of balls,
but it's actually a violate the federal government to have
these type of balls. I feel that parents need to
stop looking at the federal government as their saior and
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being their children's parents FS. Therefore, I am against this loan.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
All right, well, thank you Joe, and the tenth Amendment.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For those of you who don't like to we don't
have Casey casem counting down our top ten.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Rely out of number ten.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
The power is not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution or phibited by it to the states. Are
then reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
And so you're making the argument, and it's a strong
one that nowhere in our amendments does it talk about
the idea that we have children are protected in order
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to see certain things they can I mean, and by
the way, the federal judges giving children a lot more
power than my parents would have given me when I
was a kid. This was the rules of my house.
Children are to be seen and not heard. I can
only imagine if I had what if I had demanded
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a television be put into my bedroom so I could
watch my favorite sporting shows.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They would have gone ballistic on me.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You want to be raised by some institution, you go
ahead and you just keep pushing that there, youngster.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They didn't have to warn me.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I understood where my place was in the family, in
the pecking order as it were today's kids. And again,
there's a lot to blame with parenting. I understand that,
but in this instance, when we have parents who want
to do the right thing, the judges are making it
more difficult.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And how odd is it that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
We're finally unified on something and then the judges step
in and say, no, you can't do that. Well, I
hope that we keep pushing thisage issue because the kids
need it. We need to help the children, So we're
going to keep fighting that fight.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
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My name is Kelly Nash filling in Today and Last
Night Monday Night Football I mean, who's not pulling for
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Man do well. It's kind of like a flashback to
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Speaker 3 (17:25):
Old man's doing it. The old Man did it again.
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And Philip Rivers played a great game last night, a
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Here's a guy who's in his mid forties now, has
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That's like a movie. And I'd say two weeks in
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How could we be favorited in anything? With a two
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and thirteen record, you would think intentionally, we're going to
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behind the Panthers and the playoff hunt, Lions, Buccaneers are
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Parsons didn't work out like he'd hoped. The Vikings, Cowboys,
Falcon Saints, Commander's Cardinals, and the aforementioned Giants are out
of this year's NFL playoffs, So we'll probably still watch
them even if your team has been eliminated. You'll, you know,
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it's just the kind of an national pasttime now as
we head into the Christmas break.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
In New Year's break, we watched football together.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And one of the things that you watch it on
now is, I mean, everything is changing. It used to
just be the three networks, right, and really for a
while it's just two.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Networks where you would watch football.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But now there's so many other networks and we're seeing
hostile takeovers. We're seeing you know, Amazon, you got Paramount,
you got all these different networks.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And I mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Larry Ellison, his son is David Ellison, and David Ellison
has got a hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery,
and it seemed as if that deal was not going
to be accepted because they were going to sell to
Netflix for eighty three billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But the hostile takeover that David Ellison was offering is
a hunt undred and eight billion all cash, one hundred
and eight billion. They're going to reject it for the
eighty three billion dollar offer. Why would they do that? Well,
according to the sources, they didn't think that David Ellison
could come up with the money.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Who quote.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Warner Brothers directors dismissed the paramount funding as illusionary, citing
concerns that the capital is tied to a revocable family trust.
So Larry Ellison yesterday announced, guess what, it's not revocable.
I'm just guaranteeing right now. What does he need forty billion?
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I just gave it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What a dad?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Can you imagine if your dad just said I got
forty billion guaranteed for you, I don't know. I'd be
buying television networks with it. But that's what they're doing.
Forty billion dollars guaranteed extra into the deal to make
sure that this host takeover can take place. So now
they're going back. Warner Brothers said, Hang on a second.
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If Larry's telling us that David's money is good, we
might have to re examine it. And if you're a
stockholder there, of course you want to take a look
at that one. You're telling me that there's like an
extra twenty five thirty billion dollars just sitting there for us.
How much money is My share is going to go
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up if you sell out at that price, So they'll
be voting again on that one. Everybody, and the rich
keep getting richer, right, the rich keep getting richer. And
that's one of the things that we talk about in
America a lot, is why is it that when the
stock market goes up and everything, that the rich get
richer and the poor get poor. And this is one
of those things that I've heard people talking about lately,
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and it's one of, you know, this idea of financial literacy,
when you're talking about what are we teaching kids in
school and what have we been teaching kids in school,
And what did even I learn in school gen Xer
in the eighties, what did I get taught? I never
got taught legit financial literacy. They taught us how to
write a check, which I guess you don't need that anymore.
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Certainly don't need to count your pennies since we are
not making pennies anymore. By the way, did you see
they had a funeral over the weekend for the penny.
People are very upset about the loss of the penny.
And if you've got thoughts on the loss of the
penny or anything else. Always used the talkback feature so
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seconds to let us know what you think. But the yeah,
we're not counting pennies anymore. I write a check every
Sunday when I tied at church because I don't want
to make them pay the three percent service charge at
my church for running a credit card.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's the only reason I write a check.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Otherwise I don't know that I would have written a
check in the last ten years. So what is financial literacy.
It's the idea they need to teach children and now
a lot of adults, this idea of taking your money
and using it for an asset, not a liability. I
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remember my mother telling me a story back in the eighties,
maybe maybe he was in the nineties, and this individual
who worked in the warehouse at her office, she was
working at a liquor distributor, won the lottery and it
wasn't I mean, it was could be life changing money.
It was like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, not
enough to really make the newspaper or anything like that.
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But this individual, probably back I'm guessing back in those days,
was making like twenty five to thirty thousand dollars a year,
so tenex this salary and wanted to buy I think
it was a Ferrari like the one that Magnum p
I had, like thought that was going to be a
great use of the money, and it was. You know,
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even back then, it was like one hundred thousand dollars
for that car, and after the tax is on, the
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is taken out on
the lump sum and all that sort of stuff. I mean,
that's pretty much the entire it's all gone if you
buy the Ferrari. And somebody was trying to explain to
them that you're not even going to be able to
afford the upkeep on this vehicle moving forward. Oil changes
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are going to be like five hundred dollars, you know,
so on and so forth. That the insurance on this
and whatever, it's just going to be way too expensive,
and you should take this money and invest it so
that you can get a return on the money.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And this grown man.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Was saying, but it is an investment because Ferraris are
worth a lot of money. They're not as worth much
as much money a year later when you can't afford
it and you have to sell it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That isn't that is a liability.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Now, if you're saying you're buying, you know, a classic
car or a classic watch, perhaps that can be considered
an investment. But so many Americans don't understand how money
even works in the sense that if you take your
money and put it into an asset, it will pay
you in the long run as opposed to a liability,
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and liabilities are pretty much what Americans love to spend
our money on.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Those are the fun things.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
They're the trips, they're the boats, they're the jet skis,
they're the big pickup trucks, they're the whatever it is
that you like that's probably going to be a liability.
The asset, again, is something that's not sexy. Usually it's
not fun. It's just something that over time will pay
you money and not cost you money. There you go,
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there's your quick financial lesson that I wish we would
teach more kids in school today, because we have too
many people in this country currently who don't understand that,
just that basic financial principle, and then they're very frustrated
in shaking their fists every time they see that the
wealth gap has grown. And you're not going to be
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able to fix that until people start recognizing this idea
of how to make money, let your money make money
for you. I did see it a very interesting interview
recently with Arthur Laugher. If you remember Arthur Laugher, that
guy was fantastic in the Reagan administration and he's still fantastic.
I saw again, this guy's like eighty five years old.
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He's still doing great work on television. I'm trying to
remember who was interviewing him, but he was talking about
how he believes we're going to leave the dollar. I
got a lesson. I didn't even know this that until
nineteen thirteen, the money was all private in the United
States and then the federal government started introducing their own thing.
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But what they had done previously, when you say, well,
what does that mean, it was private money. The way
he explained it was that previously the United States government
said a dollar is worth x amount of gold or
x amount of silver, and then it was up to
private institutions, banks and the such to issue their dollars
and then the people would trade currency that way. He
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believes that moving into this cryptocurrency, thinks that's the way
for us as private citizens to get the federal government
out of the currency industry and reprivatize it, and that
will help slow inflation and other things.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Because as you was talking about inflation.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
You know, between like whatever eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred,
it was like almost I don't want to say zero percent,
but it was very slow compared to after the federal government.
Because again, when the federal government gets involved with anything,
it seems that it gets more expensive, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's why we were paying whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
We were paying like four cents to print a penny,
So I mean only we could print money and lose
money on printing money.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That's only the federal government could pull something like that off.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
So anyway, we are heading into the Christmas break and
lots of Christmas ideas and thoughts coming down the pike.
If you've got some I want to talk about. Maybe
I heard him talking on the Morning show just before
this show about worst Christmas songs. Do you have Christmas
songs that you hate? Perhaps we'll touch on that subject
(29:07):
and other Christmas, favorite Christmas holiday memories, what makes a
perfect Christmas for you?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Those things and more.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
This is Kelly Nash filling in for Michael Dell journal
having a blast on your morning show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Merry Christmas. This is Kelly Nash filling in for Michael
del jorno. And the Christmas season has some fantastic songs
like Nat King Cole that is a beautiful song. I love,
I love the Classics, I love Sinatra's jingle Bells, I
love you Know Bing Crosby.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
The list goes on and on of some.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Fantastic Christmas memories brought on by these songs, Andy Williams.
The list goes on and on, but then there's also
the list of worst Christmas songs. The worst Christmas song,
according to Parade Magazine is Grandma Got run Over by
a Reindeer. Now, the guy who wrote that is a
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fellow named Randy Brooks. And he said that he was tired.
I'm not familiar with Merle Haggard's song, but it was
Merle Haggard's Was the name of the song again, something
about the Christmas present, I guess was the name of
the album. Okay, And the name of the song was
Grandma's Christmas Card. And as he says, they set you
(30:27):
up about a relative who gets killed in the third verse,
and Merle Haggard implied that Grandma had passed away long ago.
So Brookes said, what if we put it up front?
If we off the relative early in the song, And
that's how he started writing Grandma Got run Over by
a Reindeer. And that's what came out in nineteen seventy eight,
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and it's probably been played at least on rock radio
stations just about every year since nineteen seventy eight. Because
I would think of was right around seventy eight to
seventy nine was the first time that I heard that song,
and as a kid, I laughed my butt off at
that record. I thought it was hysterical and the whole well.
(31:13):
I don't need to go through it all with you,
but that is voted the worst Christmas song by Parade magazine.
What is your worst Christmas song? You got some ideas
on that? Let us know on the talkback feature. I
understand from our previous segment we had Blaine checking in
from w KB and Jeff do we have Blaine ready
to give us his comment? Here he goes, I think
(31:35):
these charities are going to get hit hard because what
do people do with their pennies at the cash register?
Get throw them in that jar they're sitting on the counter.
M that is that's an interesting point, the idea of
take a penny, leave a penny that's gone. We're talking
(31:55):
about the fact that the federal government is no longer
going to print pennies. Yeah, charities had, I guess, probably
been big benefactors of that through the years, and so
there's another source of funding for the charities gone.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Look, I've often said that.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
If Christians we if just you amongst us who are Christians,
if we did our jobs, meaning we're not only ten
percent to the church, but we're also giving on top
of it, tithes and giving. If we were just supporting
some people in need in our own little neighborhoods, if
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every one of us was doing that, there would be
absolutely no need for the federal government to do anything.
And if you look about the country again, it wasn't perfect,
but if you look before the thirties, there was no
safety net. That's you know, getting back to the argument
on illegals, and when they come into this country, a
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lot of people say, well, they're just you know, like
you're insters who got here, you know, came through Ellis
Island or whatever. The big difference would be that when
you got here in the seventeen the eighteen or early
nineteen hundreds, it was well, congratulations, get your butt to work,
because there is no safety net. There is no money
for you from the federal government. We change that during
(33:19):
the depression, so now these people are entitled to federal
moneies and hospital visits and all of those types of things.
And so if we just wanted to revert back to
the way it was not even one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
If we went back to the you know.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Nineteen twenty nine rules for immigrants where you're not entitled
to a nickel of federal money. I don't think most
Americans would have that much of a problem. It would
certainly disincentivize a lot of people from coming here if
you knew that when you.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Got here, that was another reason not.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Only to assimilate, you had to assimilate in order to
get a job.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
That's been the biggest problem.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
You know, We've had this big lie that our diversity
is our strength. It's actually been our weakness because we
don't think the same way. We approach problems completely different
and that's how you have all these challenges in America,
because you have these pockets where people think completely different
than what a traditional native born American would think, and
(34:22):
so they're not looking out for the best interest of you.
I mean, point to ilhan Omar who's saying that her
job is to try to help Somalia. What as a
US congress person, that's your number one job is to
help Somalia. That is a hot take that I had
not anticipated a few years ago. I guess I should
be expecting it more and more from the Democrat Party
who continues to push that type of narrative that we're
(34:44):
here to help the entire world more than we already
here to help the Americans. But coming up next, we're
going to be talking to Roy O'Neil. He's got some
interesting updates for us out of Washington. We'll talk to him,
We'll talk to you used to talk Back feature. This
is your Morning Show, Kelly Nash In for Michael bell Jorna.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Well two three, starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in this together. This is your morning show with Michael, Bill.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
John and good morning. My name is Kelly Nash, filling
in for Michael bell Rono. This morning. It's yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Was a lot of fun today hopefully even more fun
as we lead into the Christmas holidays, and this is
a wonderful time of the year and a lot of
news to get to this morning. The big NFL playoff
picture changed kind of dramatically last night.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We'll get me into that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
A little bit later, but you know, I'd like to
start if we can, with something to unify the country.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But we can't.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The judges won't let us unify the country. As you've
probably heard last week down in Australia, they banned social
media for kids under the age of sixteen. And it's,
you know, based on some great science. The fact is
that kids are killing themselves. Yes, that's not just an
(01:32):
American problem. That is a world problem that with social
media was introduced. As a matter of fact, I'm looking
here at what's going on in the United States. We
had suicide and murder rates amongst children under the age
of sixteen had been level since the seventies till two
thousand and seven, and every year since two thousand and seven,
(01:55):
homicides and suicides have increased for children. What change in
two thousand and seven? Some would say social media? You know,
I would say that the science, the people who we
are supposed to trust with mental health issues, they uniformly
there is I have not found a psychologist or anybody
(02:18):
who says social media is a benefit to a thirteen
fourteen year old person or an eight year old person.
Social media has not helped or benefited young people in
any way. It's argumentative whether or not it's helping adults
in the least. And I guess we can find some
good things, and we always hear these stories of you know,
(02:38):
people lost something and they were found pets and jewelry
or whatever. And there's some great heartwarming stories that can
happen on social media. However, it seems that the bad
outweighs the good when it comes to social media, and
I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You can always let us know about it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
On the iHeart Radio app, we have a talkback feature.
If you haven't introduced yourself to that yet, it's so easy.
If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, there's a microphone
you push that gives you a little three two one
countdown and then you just go ahead and express yourself
for the next thirty seconds, so you don't have to
wait to be on your morning show. But back to Australia,
(03:19):
they not only instituted a ban, so if you're under
the age of sixteen in Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You can't have a social media account.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
If they find that a company is in violation of that,
that they've somehow allowed you to have access to the
social media account, they will be fined. Of course, there's
going to be Look, nothing is perfect. Are parents going
to sidestep this and let the kids use the social media? Possibly?
On their account. Sure, but that is not the majority
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of the people, and we recognize that there's going to
be problems with it. But here in America, the most
recent data comes out bipartisan approval for a ban on
social media for kids under the age of sixteen. How
often is it that you get the majority of Democrats,
the majority of Republicans, and the majority of Independents to
(04:10):
say the same thing, we don't want it for our children.
We don't want it, we don't want it for our children.
And yet we've had two cases now in the last
two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
One was down in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
The other one is in Arkansas where they passed the law.
So they said, in our state, teenagers, you know, people
under the age of sixteen not going to have access
to the social media.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Federal judges blocking this.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
A federal judges ruled that the state cannot use their
power to restrict children from access to social media.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
This was the Secure.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act. They say that's
a violation of the First Amendment. It is so interesting
how these judges just want to block the will of
the American people.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Again, fifty I think it's fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Seven percent of Democrats, like sixty eight percent of Independence
and seventy percent of Republicans agree on this issue. Overall,
it's sixty four percent of Americans want social media taken
out of the hands of their children, and the law
says it's a violation of the I guess the child's
First Amendment rights? Does the child also have the right
(05:26):
to the Second Amendment? Can the child bring the gun?
To bring the gun to school? Is that a possibility?
Do they have that option? Can they do that? I know,
by the way, in case you were wondering, yes, the
child can carry weapons. No, Currently that most laws prohibit
eight year olds from handling a weapon. So not all
(05:49):
the rights that are afforded to people over the age
of eighteen are afforded to children under the age of eighteen.
In this instance, the will of the American people. We
are unified finally on something we want to benefit our children.
We were seeing the dangers. Now, we didn't know this
in two thousand and seven. How could you have known
(06:11):
what it was. You didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
What it was. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's kind of like AI. We don't even really know
what AI is yet. We'll find that out in about
ten or fifteen years and then we can have a discussion.
Then how should we handle it for children? How should
we should there be more limitations on it? Get you
don't even know what it is. When MySpace popped on
the scene around what two thousand and five, two thousand
and six, nobody knew what that was. Nobody knew what
(06:35):
it was going to do. Then he had Facebook, and
then here comes Instagram and TikTok, and it's just one
right after another. And what we find is that kids
struggle mightily, mightily. There's fighting this. They don't know what
to do with themselves. Their minds are a wash in comparison,
and online bullying and all kinds of other things. And
(06:59):
yet the judges say, no, we cannot if it's a
violation of the First Amendment. Can Congress then write a
law or would that too be overturned by some sort
of federal judge somewhere with the Supreme Court rule. I
don't know if these cases are going to be appealed
to the Supreme Court, but it doesn't seem to me
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that if the majority of Americans don't want children having
access to this, that we can't stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean, we do it with alcohol.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We do it with cigarettes, we do it with tattoos,
We're now starting to do it with transgender surgeries. I
think we should be able to do this with social media,
and I think that America's future would be brighter. I
believe Australia's future is going to be brighter now that
they've passed this law and they're instituting it again against
(07:53):
a lot of pushback from the social media companies who
have spent a ton of money trying to sing their benefits,
sing their praises. And we saw we saw that with
TikTok a couple of about the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wasn't it where all the online ads about my.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Business was built by TikTok, don't build, don't ban TikTok,
so on and so forth. When they want to invest
in you and let get you get your opinion manipulated.
They've got money to spend on that. And they're not
just going to do online ads. They're coming television, radio, print,
whatever they can. They can get it in billboards, they'll
put it anywhere and everywhere. So it didn't work in Australia.
(08:34):
What about you? Do you want your child to have
access to this why is it a good thing? That's
an interesting question. What benefits have you seen of social
media for your teenager?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I mean maybe they started their business. I'd be interested
in hearing about how your child is benefited from having
access to TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or whatever. You
can again use the iHeart talkback feature boom right there
on the iHeartRadio app. We've got a big money morning
of fun lined up as you start your holiday travels.
(09:07):
Oh my gosh, so many things are happening this morning,
and uh, we'll get into all of that. And by
the way, billionaire Larry Ellison, I wish, I wish I
had him for a dad. Maybe we'll talk about what
he's doing for his son next. Are you what a
personal guarantee Larry Ellison is giving to his son?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
How does the judge ever even get to make a
ruling on a case like that? What idiot fights that
in court?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I guess that was James checking in from Nashville this
morning on the What we were just talking about to
start the show this morning, did a new survey show
is that the majority of Americans and it's and it's
broken up by party, so it's the majority of Democrats,
the majority of Republicans, and the majority of independents.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Would like to see some something similar to.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What's happening in Australia, where they made a law that
said people under the age of sixteen cannot get access
to social media, and they tried implementing it in several
states here, and in both of the cases it was
challenged in like Louisiana, the federal judge again ruled against
(10:24):
them on the challenge. And so you're wondering who is
bringing this case up. So the people of Arkansas, the
people of Louisiana said we don't want the children to
have the access to the social media, and so it
was brought by something called the Net Choice Litigation Center.
And the Net Choice Litigation Center, in case you're wondering,
(10:46):
is sponsored by guess who you want to think? I
guess I think you people probably already know who that it.
Meta is in on it, Googles in on it. They
have thirty companies who have founded this. eBay's in on it,
Amazon is in on it. They don't they're trying to
limit any restrictions on social media or the Internet in general.
(11:11):
And so again you got thirty pretty powerful companies here.
Again I just mentioned Google, Meta, Amazon, and eBay, and
they are the ones that are suing these states that
pass laws I don't. And again they're hiding by I
say they're hiding, they're hiding behind the First Amendment. And
(11:31):
you know, I was just talking to Red off the air,
and Red brings up a great point. You know that
children do not they're not entitled to hear or see everything.
That's why we have certain ratings on movies. That's why
there's this big fight about adult books or adult content
in school libraries. They're not supposed to have access to that.
(11:52):
They're not supposed to be able to see it. And
if society has decided that we don't want children to
read social media, because we are seeing the net effects
of it. Again, if you missed it earlier, when we
look at both homicide and suicide rates amongst teenagers, it
was pretty level for thirty years or so, the seventies
(12:14):
till about two thousand and seven, and then every year
since then it's increased. Obviously, we've heard a lot about
the mental health struggles of teenagers in this country, and
you know, we didn't grow up with that. If you're
you know, over the age of forty, you didn't deal
with what they're dealing with. And it's hard for us
to imagine what it's like to be a child in
(12:36):
today's environment. We had to go out and play, we
had to interact with each other.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It's so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
My wife and I are friends with a young couple
at church, and the lady was confiding to us, and
again she's a lady now, she's like twenty seven, twenty
eight years old now, but she was confiding to us
that she has a very difficult time even speaking on
a telephone, and like her mother was forcing her ten
years ago, forcing her in order to pick up the
(13:07):
phone and call, call somebody, talk to somebody, and she
just felt so socially distant that she was a struggle
for it. And I don't even understand that. I mean,
to make a phone call is a problem. Yes, for
a lot of today's younger people. That is a problem
brought on by their online obsessions.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We've gotten these children in a place.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That it's a bad way, and Americans, again, the majority
of us, want to change it. And the federal judges
are the ones stopping us. Now, even when states pass
you know, local law, state laws, they take them to
federal court. And again it's Meta, Amazon, eBay, Google, they're
the ones funding all this, and they're saying no, no
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limitations for anybody, because of course, if you want a
new consumer, you want to get them while they're young,
so it becomes a lifelong thing where you can then
market to them for the rest of their lives. It's
a lot harder to get somebody addicted to social media
when they started. You know, I'm not addicted to social
media because it didn't exist until I was in my thirties.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Ahead, and I guess we have another talk back. This
is from Tulsa, KAKC. This is Joe.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I feel that the federal government telling children what they
can't and can do is actually a violation of the
Tenth Amendment. Now, states can have these type of balls,
but it's actually a violate the federal government to have
these type of balls. I feel that parents need to
stop looking at the federal government as their saior and
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being their children's parents FS. Therefore, I am against this loan.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
All right, well, thank you Joe, and the tenth Amendment.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For those of you who don't like to we don't
have Casey casem counting down our top ten.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Rely out of number ten.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
The power is not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution or phibited by it to the states. Are
then reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
And so you're making the argument, and it's a strong
one that nowhere in our amendments does it talk about
the idea that we have children are protected in order
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to see certain things they can I mean, and by
the way, the federal judges giving children a lot more
power than my parents would have given me when I
was a kid. This was the rules of my house.
Children are to be seen and not heard. I can
only imagine if I had what if I had demanded
(15:42):
a television be put into my bedroom so I could
watch my favorite sporting shows.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They would have gone ballistic on me.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You want to be raised by some institution, you go
ahead and you just keep pushing that there, youngster.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They didn't have to warn me.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I understood where my place was in the family, in
the pecking order as it were today's kids. And again,
there's a lot to blame with parenting. I understand that,
but in this instance, when we have parents who want
to do the right thing, the judges are making it
more difficult.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And how odd is it that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
We're finally unified on something and then the judges step
in and say, no, you can't do that. Well, I
hope that we keep pushing thisage issue because the kids
need it. We need to help the children, So we're
going to keep fighting that fight.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Bretton Franklin, Tennessee. My morning show is your Morning Show
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Speaker 3 (17:04):
Michael del Jorno has the week off.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
My name is Kelly Nash filling in Today and Last
Night Monday Night Football I mean, who's not pulling for
Philip Rivers. Everybody wants to see this guy, the old
Man do well. It's kind of like a flashback to
when I was a child and my father was cheering
on George Blanda and he just kept screaming, the.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Old man's doing it. The old Man did it again.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And Philip Rivers played a great game last night, a
great game, put twenty seven points up for the Indianapolis Colts.
Here's a guy who's in his mid forties now, has
been retired for five years. You know, he's watching football
coaching like Pop Warner or something like that. Football and
gets called out of retirement to play for the Indianapolis Colts.
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That's like a movie. And I'd say two weeks in
a row he's played very well, and both times his
defense has let him down. Last night, the forty nine
ers just uns stoppable. Forty eight to twenty seven is
your final. And that makes your NFL picture a little
more clear, is the Jaguars have now secured a spot
into the playoffs. If you're looking, you got the Broncos, Patriots, Jags, Chargers,
(18:13):
and Bills on one side and now still in the hunt.
You got the Steelers, the Texans, and on the bubbles
here you go the Colts and the Ravens, and yes,
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. They're out, Dolphins out, Bengals out, Jets, Titans, Browns, Raiders,
and that you know, the Raiders and the Browns are
(18:33):
in competition on the other side of the aisle with
the Giants and the Cardinals. The Cardinals are three and twelve.
Giants are two and thirteen. By the way, as a
long suffering New York Giants fan, I am now pulling
for us to continue losing. We're favorited, I'm told this weekend.
How could we be favorited in anything? With a two
(18:54):
and thirteen record, you would think intentionally, we're going to
try to lose these games because you want to get
the first overall pick in the NFL draft. But if
you're looking at the big winners in the NFC, you
got the Seahawks, the Bears, the Eagles, the forty nine Ers,
who again looked great last night in the Rams. Congratulations
to all y'all, and the Panthers the NFC South. They're
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first in the NFC South, just above five hundred at
eight and seven and then the Packers are over there.
They're with a nine and five record, but they have
the misfortunate of playing in the NFC North, which is
a much tougher conference. They're nine to five, but they're
behind the Panthers and the playoff hunt, Lions, Buccaneers are
(19:38):
on the bubble. And then we've already eliminated. Oh, Jerry
must be crying a river. The big trade with Micah
Parsons didn't work out like he'd hoped. The Vikings, Cowboys,
Falcon Saints, Commander's Cardinals, and the aforementioned Giants are out
of this year's NFL playoffs, So we'll probably still watch
them even if your team has been eliminated. You'll, you know,
(19:59):
it's just the kind of an national pasttime now as
we head into the Christmas break.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
In New Year's break, we watched football together.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And one of the things that you watch it on
now is, I mean, everything is changing. It used to
just be the three networks, right, and really for a
while it's just two.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Networks where you would watch football.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But now there's so many other networks and we're seeing
hostile takeovers. We're seeing you know, Amazon, you got Paramount,
you got all these different networks.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And I mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Larry Ellison, his son is David Ellison, and David Ellison
has got a hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery,
and it seemed as if that deal was not going
to be accepted because they were going to sell to
Netflix for eighty three billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But the hostile takeover that David Ellison was offering is
a hunt undred and eight billion all cash, one hundred
and eight billion. They're going to reject it for the
eighty three billion dollar offer. Why would they do that? Well,
according to the sources, they didn't think that David Ellison
could come up with the money.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Who quote.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Warner Brothers directors dismissed the paramount funding as illusionary, citing
concerns that the capital is tied to a revocable family trust.
So Larry Ellison yesterday announced, guess what, it's not revocable.
I'm just guaranteeing right now. What does he need forty billion?
(21:39):
I just gave it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What a dad?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Can you imagine if your dad just said I got
forty billion guaranteed for you, I don't know. I'd be
buying television networks with it. But that's what they're doing.
Forty billion dollars guaranteed extra into the deal to make
sure that this host takeover can take place. So now
they're going back. Warner Brothers said, Hang on a second.
(22:05):
If Larry's telling us that David's money is good, we
might have to re examine it. And if you're a
stockholder there, of course you want to take a look
at that one. You're telling me that there's like an
extra twenty five thirty billion dollars just sitting there for us.
How much money is My share is going to go
(22:26):
up if you sell out at that price, So they'll
be voting again on that one. Everybody, and the rich
keep getting richer, right, the rich keep getting richer. And
that's one of the things that we talk about in
America a lot, is why is it that when the
stock market goes up and everything, that the rich get
richer and the poor get poor. And this is one
of those things that I've heard people talking about lately,
(22:48):
and it's one of, you know, this idea of financial literacy,
when you're talking about what are we teaching kids in
school and what have we been teaching kids in school,
And what did even I learn in school gen Xer
in the eighties, what did I get taught? I never
got taught legit financial literacy. They taught us how to
write a check, which I guess you don't need that anymore.
(23:09):
Certainly don't need to count your pennies since we are
not making pennies anymore. By the way, did you see
they had a funeral over the weekend for the penny.
People are very upset about the loss of the penny.
And if you've got thoughts on the loss of the
penny or anything else. Always used the talkback feature so
easy to jump into your morning show. Was just on
your iHeartRadio app. Hit that microphone. It gives you a
three to two to one countdown and you get thirty
(23:31):
seconds to let us know what you think. But the yeah,
we're not counting pennies anymore. I write a check every
Sunday when I tied at church because I don't want
to make them pay the three percent service charge at
my church for running a credit card.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's the only reason I write a check.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Otherwise I don't know that I would have written a
check in the last ten years. So what is financial literacy.
It's the idea they need to teach children and now
a lot of adults, this idea of taking your money
and using it for an asset, not a liability. I
(24:08):
remember my mother telling me a story back in the eighties,
maybe maybe he was in the nineties, and this individual
who worked in the warehouse at her office, she was
working at a liquor distributor, won the lottery and it
wasn't I mean, it was could be life changing money.
It was like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, not
enough to really make the newspaper or anything like that.
(24:30):
But this individual, probably back I'm guessing back in those days,
was making like twenty five to thirty thousand dollars a year,
so tenex this salary and wanted to buy I think
it was a Ferrari like the one that Magnum p
I had, like thought that was going to be a
great use of the money, and it was. You know,
(24:51):
even back then, it was like one hundred thousand dollars
for that car, and after the tax is on, the
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is taken out on
the lump sum and all that sort of stuff. I mean,
that's pretty much the entire it's all gone if you
buy the Ferrari. And somebody was trying to explain to
them that you're not even going to be able to
afford the upkeep on this vehicle moving forward. Oil changes
(25:13):
are going to be like five hundred dollars, you know,
so on and so forth. That the insurance on this
and whatever, it's just going to be way too expensive,
and you should take this money and invest it so
that you can get a return on the money.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And this grown man.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Was saying, but it is an investment because Ferraris are
worth a lot of money. They're not as worth much
as much money a year later when you can't afford
it and you have to sell it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That isn't that is a liability.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Now, if you're saying you're buying, you know, a classic
car or a classic watch, perhaps that can be considered
an investment. But so many Americans don't understand how money
even works in the sense that if you take your
money and put it into an asset, it will pay
you in the long run as opposed to a liability,
(26:02):
and liabilities are pretty much what Americans love to spend
our money on.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Those are the fun things.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
They're the trips, they're the boats, they're the jet skis,
they're the big pickup trucks, they're the whatever it is
that you like that's probably going to be a liability.
The asset, again, is something that's not sexy. Usually it's
not fun. It's just something that over time will pay
you money and not cost you money. There you go,
(26:29):
there's your quick financial lesson that I wish we would
teach more kids in school today, because we have too
many people in this country currently who don't understand that,
just that basic financial principle, and then they're very frustrated
in shaking their fists every time they see that the
wealth gap has grown. And you're not going to be
(26:50):
able to fix that until people start recognizing this idea
of how to make money, let your money make money
for you. I did see it a very interesting interview
recently with Arthur Laugher. If you remember Arthur Laugher, that
guy was fantastic in the Reagan administration and he's still fantastic.
I saw again, this guy's like eighty five years old.
(27:12):
He's still doing great work on television. I'm trying to
remember who was interviewing him, but he was talking about
how he believes we're going to leave the dollar. I
got a lesson. I didn't even know this that until
nineteen thirteen, the money was all private in the United
States and then the federal government started introducing their own thing.
(27:33):
But what they had done previously, when you say, well,
what does that mean, it was private money. The way
he explained it was that previously the United States government
said a dollar is worth x amount of gold or
x amount of silver, and then it was up to
private institutions, banks and the such to issue their dollars
and then the people would trade currency that way. He
(27:55):
believes that moving into this cryptocurrency, thinks that's the way
for us as private citizens to get the federal government
out of the currency industry and reprivatize it, and that
will help slow inflation and other things.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Because as you was talking about inflation.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
You know, between like whatever eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred,
it was like almost I don't want to say zero percent,
but it was very slow compared to after the federal government.
Because again, when the federal government gets involved with anything,
it seems that it gets more expensive, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's why we were paying whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
We were paying like four cents to print a penny,
So I mean only we could print money and lose
money on printing money.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That's only the federal government could pull something like that off.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
So anyway, we are heading into the Christmas break and
lots of Christmas ideas and thoughts coming down the pike.
If you've got some I want to talk about. Maybe
I heard him talking on the Morning show just before
this show about worst Christmas songs. Do you have Christmas
songs that you hate? Perhaps we'll touch on that subject
(29:07):
and other Christmas, favorite Christmas holiday memories, what makes a
perfect Christmas for you?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Those things and more.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
This is Kelly Nash filling in for Michael Dell journal
having a blast on your morning show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Merry Christmas. This is Kelly Nash filling in for Michael
del jorno. And the Christmas season has some fantastic songs
like Nat King Cole that is a beautiful song. I love,
I love the Classics, I love Sinatra's jingle Bells, I
love you Know Bing Crosby.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
The list goes on and on of some.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Fantastic Christmas memories brought on by these songs, Andy Williams.
The list goes on and on, but then there's also
the list of worst Christmas songs. The worst Christmas song,
according to Parade Magazine is Grandma Got run Over by
a Reindeer. Now, the guy who wrote that is a
(30:05):
fellow named Randy Brooks. And he said that he was tired.
I'm not familiar with Merle Haggard's song, but it was
Merle Haggard's Was the name of the song again, something
about the Christmas present, I guess was the name of
the album. Okay, And the name of the song was
Grandma's Christmas Card. And as he says, they set you
(30:27):
up about a relative who gets killed in the third verse,
and Merle Haggard implied that Grandma had passed away long ago.
So Brookes said, what if we put it up front?
If we off the relative early in the song, And
that's how he started writing Grandma Got run Over by
a Reindeer. And that's what came out in nineteen seventy eight,
(30:51):
and it's probably been played at least on rock radio
stations just about every year since nineteen seventy eight. Because
I would think of was right around seventy eight to
seventy nine was the first time that I heard that song,
and as a kid, I laughed my butt off at
that record. I thought it was hysterical and the whole well.
(31:13):
I don't need to go through it all with you,
but that is voted the worst Christmas song by Parade magazine.
What is your worst Christmas song? You got some ideas
on that? Let us know on the talkback feature. I
understand from our previous segment we had Blaine checking in
from w KB and Jeff do we have Blaine ready
to give us his comment? Here he goes, I think
(31:35):
these charities are going to get hit hard because what
do people do with their pennies at the cash register?
Get throw them in that jar they're sitting on the counter.
M that is that's an interesting point, the idea of
take a penny, leave a penny that's gone. We're talking
(31:55):
about the fact that the federal government is no longer
going to print pennies. Yeah, charities had, I guess, probably
been big benefactors of that through the years, and so
there's another source of funding for the charities gone.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Look, I've often said that.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
If Christians we if just you amongst us who are Christians,
if we did our jobs, meaning we're not only ten
percent to the church, but we're also giving on top
of it, tithes and giving. If we were just supporting
some people in need in our own little neighborhoods, if
(32:36):
every one of us was doing that, there would be
absolutely no need for the federal government to do anything.
And if you look about the country again, it wasn't perfect,
but if you look before the thirties, there was no
safety net. That's you know, getting back to the argument
on illegals, and when they come into this country, a
(32:57):
lot of people say, well, they're just you know, like
you're insters who got here, you know, came through Ellis
Island or whatever. The big difference would be that when
you got here in the seventeen the eighteen or early
nineteen hundreds, it was well, congratulations, get your butt to work,
because there is no safety net. There is no money
for you from the federal government. We change that during
(33:19):
the depression, so now these people are entitled to federal
moneies and hospital visits and all of those types of things.
And so if we just wanted to revert back to
the way it was not even one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
If we went back to the you know.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Nineteen twenty nine rules for immigrants where you're not entitled
to a nickel of federal money. I don't think most
Americans would have that much of a problem. It would
certainly disincentivize a lot of people from coming here if
you knew that when you.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Got here, that was another reason not.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Only to assimilate, you had to assimilate in order to
get a job.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
That's been the biggest problem.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
You know, We've had this big lie that our diversity
is our strength. It's actually been our weakness because we
don't think the same way. We approach problems completely different
and that's how you have all these challenges in America,
because you have these pockets where people think completely different
than what a traditional native born American would think, and
(34:22):
so they're not looking out for the best interest of you.
I mean, point to ilhan Omar who's saying that her
job is to try to help Somalia. What as a
US congress person, that's your number one job is to
help Somalia. That is a hot take that I had
not anticipated a few years ago. I guess I should
be expecting it more and more from the Democrat Party
who continues to push that type of narrative that we're
(34:44):
here to help the entire world more than we already
here to help the Americans. But coming up next, we're
going to be talking to Roy O'Neil. He's got some
interesting updates for us out of Washington. We'll talk to him,
We'll talk to you used to talk Back feature. This
is your Morning Show, Kelly Nash In for Michael bell Jorna.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Jorno
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