12-24-25 YMS HR2 Chris Krok filling in for Michael DelGiorno

Chris Krok filling in for Michael DelGiorno

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Enjoy 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 dell Chorn.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
This is your morning show. Chris Cross filing it for
Michael del Chorno. Mary Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's fun to be on on the holidays, honestly a
lot of times, as will nobody in the villay.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Just you and you go nuts. You have fun. So
we have a news story.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I saw this last night Leyesterday afternoon, I was working
out reading the story took lot.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
That was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I was so happy because when people don't pay their
student loans, they still get to say they are a
graduate of X school. They get to be enriched for
having that degree, but yet their bums and they don't
pay what they owed when they signed on to do it.
That really angers me. It also angers me with the
whole Joe Biden thing was trying to make us pay
for student's tuition. So let's talk to Rory O'Neill, our

(01:26):
national correspondent, because the new story just came out saying
that millions of Americans who defaulted on federal student loans
are about to feel it in their paychecks. Federal government
starts restarts wage garnishment. Rory, tell me about what's going
on the breadth of this and the scope of this.
I'm excited about the truthfully, because you know, people agree
to do it the payments and they're not paying right.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
And it's gonna start very soon.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
There are about five million bar wers who are currently
in default. They're not just delinquent, they are in default
on student loans. And they're gonna start off small, but
this is going to snowball. So starting January seventh, about
one thousand people who are in default on their student
loans will actually see their wages garnished by the federal government.

(02:10):
To start calling that money back. You know, I think
there's some bizarre formula that they can take back everything,
but they have to leave you with at least thirty
hours of minimum wage pay, so that's got to be left.
But otherwise they could take up to fifteen percent of
that paycheck in order to earn back that money. As
you said, that was loans of them to help them

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get their degrees.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Rory.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I know there's got to be blowback on this, and
there's got to be some people or some you know,
you might I would tend to think you might have
more left leaning politicians attacking this. How dare you in
this economy? Are that people are trying to get by?
But to me, this is literally, you know, being doing
a bum, you know, not paying your bills. So what

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have we had? Do we have any opposition? Is there
anything to report on that yet? Has anybody you know
lashed out of the serve coriss as it?

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, yeah, it's the holidays in DC, so there are
and there's you know, look, Epstein files are going to
eclipse everything right when you own that. I mean, you
know you've got a sex story with pictures. What I
think TV is going to run for so that's how
that happens. But yeah, I think that maybe we'll start
to hear some of this later when some sob story emerges,

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perhaps in a couple of weeks time.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
But look, to.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Your point, there's a lot of people who've been saying, Look,
I chose not to go to college because I couldn't
afford it, or why am I paying for student loans
for somebody who defaulted or made dumb decisions to get
their degree in poetry and can't make money at it.
And you know the list of reasons, or my favorite
one that I hear, Look, I went to a state

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college pay for myself, little help for my parents at
the time. But you know, back then, one hundred years ago,
it only costs me. I think it was like twenty
four hundred dollars for a year of tuition, So you
could make that in your summer job. But these other
people I talked with the same, Look, I had thirty
forty fifty eighty thousand dollars in the student debt and
I worked my butt off to pay it back. So
they are a people are offended by the Biden policy

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that they're paying off some.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Of the yeas, yes, so Okay, so this is wonderful.
When's the last do you know, in the last time
this was done? Because obviously we used to do this
garnishing wages for people who I would call trying to
be nice, but to call them a bum for not
paying their bill that they agreed to sign to sign
up to do. When was the last time this was done?
And what was the enforcement like compared to what we're
seeing now.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I think we haven't seen this since the COVID days.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Essentially it essentially stopped under COVID, and then I hadn't
so we're really resuming. I guess it was done then
during the first probably in the first year or two
of the Trump administration, they would do this because I
have had a history of doing this before. But everything
was put on hold because you know, using the COVID excuse,
and you know, and its impact on the economy for

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delay after delay, and then with President Biden trying to
forgive so much of this debt as well. So again
I think that this is something that serves a lot
of passions because a lot of people who either didn't
go to college or work so hard to pay up
the debt they incurred are really offended when they see
these kinds of handouts. So there's going to be I

(05:15):
think a lot of people are feeling pretty good about
going after those who did not who are in default.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
By the way, if you are in default, you can
still try to make good you know, contact the.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
Lender to see if you can get their good graces,
maybe set up a better payment plan that you can afford.
Otherwise Uncle Sam is going to reach directly into your
paycheck and start getting those payments from you.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
One question for you, National Correspondent Roy O'Neill, the previous
enforcement of garnishing wages for not paying your student loans,
was that, historically, from your nowl to your knowledge, bipartisan
In other words, you know, both Democratic and Republican presidents
in the past garnished wages for not paying your risk
and loans.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I think probably yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
I'd say in standard economic times, maybe during the Great
Recession there was some calls for a pause in that,
you know, around the two thousand and eight time. But again,
these are people who are delinked, these people in default.
I mean, so this is really awesome when it comes
to you know, it's not just like oh I missed
last month, like no, these people in default, and they've
all been notified that they're in default, and you know

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also they've been warned that this could be coming. And
now the administration says that they're going to start this
process on January seventh, starting early with about one thousand people,
but then ramping up quickly because as I said, there
are about five million borrowers in default. And fun fact,
only about thirty eight percent of borrowers are current on

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their student loans.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
National Correspondent Roy and Neill, thank you for your time,
and Merry Christmas to you, sir.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Thanks Chris, we'll talk to you in a couple of hours.
You got to talk to you then, so we'll talk
about the ft and files with them. Now.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
That is going to be rich and fun. We talked
about that in the previous hour. World could hit it
back with Rory at eight thirty four Eastern, seven fifty central.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Okay, now.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Let's talk about the default thing real fast, because yeah,
it's egregious to me, absolutely egregious to me that you
would have a degree a piece of paper. And I
don't even know nowadays, but I'll tell you this. I
remember the nineties statistic that will never leave me, never has,

(07:29):
and it was it said that the average person who
has a college degree will earn two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars more in their lifetime just for the college degree.
The average person who has a secondary degree. I think
it was about five hundred thousand. I think it was
a million though, if you have like a juris doctor,

(07:51):
you know, a law degree or a medical degree. But
the point being is that degree gets you more income.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Period.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
There are so many jobs that people even today, which
many of us would agree that shouldn't have to be mandatory,
you know, college education, But there's so many jobs that
say that you still have to have mandatory college education.
So you sign on the DOTTA line, nobody courses you.
And if you say I didn't understand when I signed,
well that you were eighteen years of age and you
were competent. Do you want us to say your non
compassmentis and take away your your ability to sign contracts?

(08:19):
Then should we take away your ability to you know,
sign a mortgage because you are already in default on
something because you say you were you didn't know what
you signed.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean literally, if you.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
If you can say, if you say I didn't realize
where I was signing, I didn't realize what I was
getting up to getting myself into. I didn't realize the
depth of the debt, well, then certainly you shouldn't be
allowed to sign a mortgage fair enough or car payments
the car loan. I want to hear from you on this.
How do you feel about the Trump administration and re

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enacting and you know, starting this program up of garnishing
wages if first people who are in default, who have
not paid the student loan for god knows how long.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think this is fantastic.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
It's one of the I was like a fist pump
and a year because it makes me so angry. Do
you remember that guy in Iowa when Pocahontas when she
was running Elizabeth Warren, Yeah, you want to have a beer,
Let's have a beer. And she was in Iowa and
a guy came up to her and he says, well
what about He says, My friend and I were talking

(09:20):
and you know, he worked hard and he got an
extra job and he paid his tuition off and actually said, no,
I worked hard, I paid my tuition off. I sacrificed
I didn't go on vacations and my friends were able
to when I couldn't because I was paying off my debt.
And she says, and you're gonna ask me to pay
for somebody else's college who didn't pay off their debt.

(09:42):
And she said yeah, And he's like, are you are
you serious? You literally want me to pay for somebody
else's debt when I sacrificed and didn't date vacations.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
So she literally was just yeah, yeah, that's absolutely what's
your problem? As if to say college should be free,
which is also the same mindset to say.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Healthcare should be free free. Healthcare is a right. No,
it's not. Healthcare is not a right.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's not show me in the Constitution where it says
healthcare is a right, it's not a right.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Healthcare is not a right period.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
And in America, you can choose to work for an
employer that has great health care for you. In America,
you have choices, but you don't have a right to
have healthcare, just like you don't have a right to
have a license a license or a right to drive
a car. Hit that talkback button, Love, I think this
is a great one to hear from you on go
to the iHeart app, click the microphone icon and just
go to town on that. And I'll also ask you this,

(10:34):
do you mind paying for people's education if they default
on their loans or do you want them being garnished.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
In the same vein.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
And I've got some more tidbits that Rory and I
were talking about that that are in this story from
CNBC yesterday saying student loan bowers at risk of wage garnishment.
In January, more than five million currently default.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
They could swell.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
They're roughly ten million bowers soon. Education Department expects a
thousand student loan default or to receive notices, which I
wrote next to that my notes reading to is thank you,
thank you for doing this because it's offensive to me
to not pay your bills. The government can seize bower's
federal tax wages. Excuse me, federal tax refunds.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
How about that? And the great take away your refund?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Get all excited and you don't have it because you're
a bumming didn't pay for your tuition wages. They can
garnish social Security, retirement and disability benefits up to fifteen
percent of a student loanholders after tax income. You know, Also,
if your after tax income is we'll just make up
a number one hundred grand per year, they can seize
fifteen grand a year.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I think it's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
More than forty two million Americans hold student loans outstanding
that on that is one point six trillion. Why should
we bankrupt our country for people who are bumbs?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Second all, what is.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Also tremendously egregious to me are people that sign loans
and have they graduate with a Humanity's degree in ninety
grand in debt and or one hundred grand in debt.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
And we're supposed to be they're supposed to be a victim.
Why would you go to here's what you do.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Why would you go to a private school and spend
fifty to eighty grand a year for four years? What's
wrong with you go to the community college for your
first two years? That's I mean, my daughter and son
went to a community college. We were home school homeschooled
them and they got dual credit and it's free in
the county that we're in, and so the only that
they have is for the last two years of college,

(12:21):
you know, And also we worked hard with them. They
get really good grades and they get scholarships, and you
know what you tell your kid, you say, you know
you will literally be earning between fifty and two hundred
dollars an hour for your efforts at scholarships, assuming your
grades are decent, you know what I mean. So you're
literally it's like you're working and getting paid huge wages

(12:42):
compared to what you would get as a college student
if you apply for scholarships and you get you know,
one tenth of them or you know, I mean one
quarter of them. The more you do, right, So anyway,
the other thing I wanted to add on this with irresponsibility,
I put these two articles together to talk about today
this form the Walls Street Journal yesterday afternoon. Car payments

(13:05):
are now average, now average more than seven hundred and
fifty dollars a month. What in God's name is wrong
with people who would say, oh, I want to be
seven hundred fifty dollars a month for a car, just
like you being foolish and going to a school for
four years and having massive debt instead of going to
community college because of your pride. Why can't you buy

(13:29):
a used car if you can't afford a new car?
What's wrong with you? What are you buying a new car,
buy a used car, buy something that is you have
to spend ten grand to get a car that's going
to be decent nowadays, which is unbel it's horrible. That's
my mechanic telling me something that will run and that
breakdown and will you know, last for several years.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
You'll have to repair it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Maybe it's got ten grand, Maybe it's got eight thousand
miles or one hundred thousand miles on you know what
I mean, or something like that, seventy thousand miles and
it's five six years old.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Why would you buy a new car?

Speaker 4 (13:57):
And then when you're spending seven hundred and fifty dollars
a month that loan, These loans are going up to
one hundred months. We're talking five, six, seven, eight years.
Do you understand if you're paying seven hundred fifty dollars
a month for eight years that at some point you're
gonna be paying the normal amount of repairs that are

(14:19):
you know, two, three grand, four or five grand a
year in addition to paying seven hundred and fifty a month.
Are you what do you are people that financially illiterate?
Are they that much of fools, and they would sign
this that they would agree to do a seven hundred
and fifty dollars a month payment on a one hundred
month car loan on a brand new car that the
average one is now fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
What is wrong with books? Hey? By the way, if
you can afford it, God bless you. You know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
If you paying seven to fifty a month is equivalent
to average folks paying two fifty to three hundred a month,
then go do it.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
You know what I mean. It's not about that.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
It's about hurting yourself because you want a new car,
hurting yourself financially, and then perhaps the like with the
student loans. And by the way, so you're gonna after
three four years, you're gonna be spending lots of money
in repairs, which is normal.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
This is your morning show with Michael Del Chrono.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
We're going like a dog this weekend, next week, and
even last week too. I was working a lot. And
you know it's funny. My wife says you work more
now that you work from home as your full time job,
and it's true.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
But what I need.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
To do just is that our voice guys just said
there that you know, you can take those moments and
stop and treasure them.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
And just walking by my two kids last night, the
sun who just graduated college this past week and my
daughter who's almost exactly in the middle of for college,
both sitting on the couch and hanging out, and just
it's I love seeing my whole family, especially with everybody
going all over the place with their young adult lives.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Now, you know, all.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Right sixty minutes Daily Email said this another CBSA well
opted to the rest of its I'm sorry, but we
have too much fun in between. I'll hit that real quick.
Then two cats Karen at the airport unleashing. You have
to hear this story. And Santa Claus two way two male,
they're decolonizing Santa Claus all that.

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Jeffrey, I don't know if you have with your fingertips
the David boy Bing Crosby drummer boy. I that it
came up again and something so on Twitter and it
just put goosebumps.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
That is the most beautiful duot ever.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
We you know, we don't use that here because Michael
doesn't like that version.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Do you believe that you kid? You're kidding me? I
was kidding me. I wish I was. I could never
kid you about something serious. It is so beautiful. It
is so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
This is your morning show with Michael del Janno, Chris
Kroc filling in.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
There's the there's the whole video where they time yes,
do anything?

Speaker 4 (17:30):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
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Speaker 6 (17:32):
No?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
No, jump ahead to the song. Just pop in somewhere
in the middle of the song. We'll play it for
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Speaker 3 (17:38):
This one this is my son. Can it now swell?

Speaker 5 (17:53):
See?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's crazy, absolutely beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
They've been Boie never got credit for the vocalist. He
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Speaker 7 (18:03):
Keep going, He's beautiful like that.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Don't you absolutely goosebumps again.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I was sitting because that song has not been in
my mind or on might tip of my tongue of
her fingertips for a year or two or three, I
don't know, And all of a sudden last night, I'm
hustling and bustling getting ready for this morning show, and
I'm going I can't sing for to save my life.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
But he's on it. God, I can't sing. Michael's never
gonna happy feeling again.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
This is horrible. By the way, this is your morning show,
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if I have a third I or some other appendage
going on in my forehead or if from it, or
if I'm I'm as handsome as I sound. Yes, okay,
real quick, to finish off the sixty minutes piece and
why uh the reporter has uh has had had to
absolutely rigged the piece. Sharon Alfonsi, a CBS insider who's

(19:26):
sympathetic to Barry Weiss, the executive editor who said we're
not airing this yet because it's not balanced, was the
insider who's sympathetic to Vice a Q sixteen Minutes correspondent
Sharon al Fonzi of fumbling the l Savador prison story
and then grand standing after it was spiked.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
The simple fix is to go.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
To the White House, this insider says, go to the
briefing at the White House and ask a question, or
have another CBS News reporter ask a question. That's the
investigative journalism one. One also CBS insider critical of Alfonsi
also said the email was written that she wrote attacking
her boss, which is nbelievable, was written to be leaked.

(20:02):
Whild suggests that Alfonsi wants to go out like form
sixty Minutes executive bruser Bill Owens like a martyr. Bill
Owens resigned at April and that after he resigned, remember
that where CBS sixty Minutes presenter Scott Pelley praised Owens
live on the air and rebuked his owners on their
own show. These are like little punks, you know what
I mean? But what happened to you at your job?

(20:23):
If you lashed out at your boss in an email
that you sent a four or five year colleagues publicly
doing it? Basically, what would happen if you got that
leaked out publicly and you still attack your boss?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Listen to this continuing on we got this.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Weiss's supporters from the Day of Mail have pushed back,
saying that she is bringing much needed balance back to
the network and was right to this weekend to pull
the program.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
I held this story because it wasn't ready, said Weiss
on Monday, adding the story has already been reported by
places like The New York Times. The public knows that
Venezuelan's have been subject to treatment in this pon that
people might not like, so to run a story on
this subject two months later, we simply need to do more.
The Sixty Minutes editor, who was present in the meeting.
The editorial meeting on Monday, told The Daily Mail that

(21:11):
Weiss's reasoning was bulls full word. She knows what she
knows that we know what, everyone with the brain knows
that she is protecting conservatives. That's the deep, deep rooted bias,
and that's why so many of us don't trust the
media period. And then, lastly, one little paragraph from the
Wall Street Journal yesterday afternoon on this too headline inside
CBS News editor Barry Weiss's decision to pull a sixty

(21:32):
minutes segment CBS News had sought and received from the
Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and the State Department.
According to people familiar with the matter, they had sought
and received responses. The segment, which was available to some
viewers in Canada and even seen by the Wall Street Journal,
did not include the fresh comments those agency provided. She

(21:52):
literally got new comments on the story she did and
refused to share them with the White House, the State Department,
and Homeland Security.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
And what they're defense was or what their comments were.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Completely total hit piece, rigged, absolutely filthy, disgusting. They should
fire her. They should fire her. They really should. And
I'm not just saying that because I'm I lean to
the right. Okay, let's go to Christmas, because after all,
it's Christmas Eve and we only get to talk about Christmas.

(22:22):
Sea stuff, but once a year, and it's precious to
me like it is to most of us. And if
you're a BA humbugger and BA, a humbug to you,
sa and a good day to you, good day saw
to cat Karen. To cat Karen, she screams in an airport,

(22:44):
I'll be filling in this afternoon or no tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
I don't even know what they have.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'm doing a show that they're going to be hearing
the day after Christmas.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
You know what it is. You know what it is.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I'm pre recording, which is not normal. It's live, but
because of the holiday and stuff that they have to
pre record the show. So I'm in the kind of
halfway through pre recording that. But it's it's in Portland, Oregon.
It's a big station there, and Portland, organ of all places.
Whenever I say that, people are like, oh Portland, Oh,

(23:19):
but this woman says, I've got to get back down
from Portland, to which everybody from Portland cringes at two
Cat Karen. Why do they call her two cat Karen?
She shows up at the airport with two cats and
one you know, one carry on for you know, pet
carry on. The cats are full size, the guy says you,

(23:39):
each cat in there has to have enough room to
turn all around and have space to go wherever they
want to go as far as you know, left, right, up, down,
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
They can't be crammed in there.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
And he said if you had, if you had, if
there were kittens that size, would be fine.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Those cats are not supposed to be in that one.
They're supposed to be two.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
And then so instead of just saying what you and
I if we're in the right mindset, I know we
can all mess up. But instead of saying the right
mindset would be help me, What can I do? How
can I make this work? What can I do? How
can please give me some advice here? Like you know,
you gratiate yourself and say help me, what can I do?

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And instead she yelled, screened, attacked, and whined for like
four minutes, and then she said, my mom booked this,
and there's this one's like in her thirties or forties.
Your mom's booking your flip and flight. I mean, hello, woman, child?
Is she wepping your rum still? And then secondarily, what

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are you doing? What in God's name are you doing?
Flying for Christmas? To your relative's house across the country
and bringing your flipping cats, let alone two cats who
brings their cats throw some.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Food to their mom's house. I mean, what litter in
their box and then let's go.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
You know what I said in my podcast exclusive podcat Tonight.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I said last night.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Actually, but I said, why wouldn't you just pay somebody
like we do. Could be a neighbor, kid, could be
a neighbor, or a cowork or anybody, somebody from church,
what have you. Why wouldn't you pay somebody to come
by once in the morning to add food to the bowl,
and once in the evening to food and water and
you know, somewhere in the middle of the week changed

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the little box.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
What what?

Speaker 4 (25:34):
It's a massive red flag for anybody in my book,
to be traveling anywhere for you know, to visit relatives
with a flipping cat.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
I want to be my cat to me Dawson's defense,
uh cat for somebody one time and their cat was
was not the friendliest cat in the world. And it
actually cornered me when I stop and would not let me,
would not let me move around the house without following me,

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and just I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Flight, it was fight or flight I can, I can,
I can envision this. Yeah, And you're like, it's just
what was it?

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Do you know that cat stuff where they're just like,
come get some nobody.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
That's the talking right now. I know it's just some funny.
It's like pet cemetery. It's horrible.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
You know how isn't it funny that we're terrified of
these things that couldn't harm us much?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I mean, they can swat you, and.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
You know me, the sound coming from this cat was
letting me.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Know, I will test out. I hate you. My owner
will will pet cemetery you. I will.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
I will jump up on you and swipe at your
jugular and take you out. And then I will do
like in the horror movies and crawl in your mouth
and eat you alive from the inside out.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
It was the most horrible experience of my life, sitting
cat sitting for somebody.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
That's so funny.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
But anyways, but I mean, it's a red flag if
you're traveling with a cat to go visit a relative. Two,
it's a massive red flag, Like there's a reason why
no offense here, but there's offense. I guess there's a
reason why she's traveling alone in her thirties and forties.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
I don't see I don't see a man there. The
reason why she has two cats.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
That's exactly right. Maybe because the men, the men that
she's kryptonite. Maybe to them, I don't know, but the
fact that she's too cat Karen screaming at some guy
at the airport for Last Airlines is all you need
to know. And all she had to do, the airline
guy was saying, I between her screaming at him, all

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she had to do was and you know how in
the airport you can buy almost anything. You're gonna get
super ripped off. You know that, none of that right,
Like you'll pay double. But if you want those two cats.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Like.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I gotta go back to Partland my cats.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Go to this store somewhere in the area in that
airport and get ripped off and buy a second carrier
for your second cat. And by the way, since you
have two carriers, you have to get another seat to
put the other cat under, is what they said. You
know what you want these things? You want to be
ridiculous and travel for Christmas to a relatives house across
the country with two flipping cats.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
Well, then you're gonna pay for it if these cats
mean this much to you, Yes, what we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
By the way, I've always I've never liked cats. I've
said over the years. I hate them. I don't want
to harm them, any of the states. Hate them because
they're so they're too smart. They don't need your help.
You know what, You're too smart.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
You don't even help. Great, go oh and get out
of here.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Cats look like they're always conniving and scheming against you.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yes, absolutely, And they are the only animal. I heard
this years ago that the only they will eat you
if you die, they will start to get us. Yeah,
I was told that, and reportedly the dogs do not
do that.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Now, I've had people refute that.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
I am not an expert, but I am on the radio,
which is brain surgery. What we do is brain surgery.
So I do think that absolutely qualifies me. Pass me
this couple. By the way, Jeff, So coming up next,
we'll do a little more Christmas we have and Merry
Christmas to you.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Who is this steely Dan?

Speaker 9 (29:30):
Now?

Speaker 4 (29:30):
This is not this is somebody else, same same period.
Oh my gosh, there is a song. There is a
song that I have to send to you. Gotta play
It's the funniest, funk crazy, a little bit risky song
from a funk master.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Guy in the seventies.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'll be your Santa Claus, baby man coming down at
Chimney with lots of joy.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
The old Bob Rivers twisted Christmas. No, no, he goes.
What I got for you behave?

Speaker 8 (30:00):
It isn't just a guitar, it's somebody you have to we
every year my producer I with my show and Dallas
would play it's the most hysterical.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
And some up somewhat risky song is hysterical. I'll send
that to you, will pop it off coming to us.
We have to This is your morning show. Merry Christmas,
Chris Cocking for Michael Jornal.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
It's your morning show with Michael del Jorno.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Let's play this song that I mentioned. It's rufus Thomas.
I'll be your Santa Baby. This is absolutely the most incredible.
You will never ever want to play anything else with this.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Every Christmas, here we go. So what did you find?
My old producer played it for some bumper.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
What is this?

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I got Queen Mama, ain't touch the time? Who you
can pay with the baby? I feel stand what winter
the youth is over. I showed you what to do.
What minuter ule ties over? I'll show you what to do.

(31:21):
Whoa whoa deare block?

Speaker 5 (31:23):
What happened to just I?

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I saw him saying, a kissing mama.

Speaker 9 (31:26):
What happened just that little right there?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
For you so much? John? I'll see that's right up
my alley right there.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, I'll say, baby, I'll deal baby to day.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
What the time with your baby? Wait? Won't be the
saint last.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
He said.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
I think he wants your fan have a nice lady
there said just laugh the next for some pigs, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Rufus was on.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
The old Stax label out of Memphis. I mean, this
is RUP's real, real funk right here.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
This is incredible. I mean, I never bo It's like,
you don't just think about this music machine he's going.
The people played their instruments live.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
This is done with no computers, right is done with
any of the sequencers that they use today.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
These guys played this stuff for real.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I mean, this is this is incredible, awesome music. I
love the adela Angla to its slightly risk, but it's
coded in there.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
You know, it's just so freaking funny.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
You know this will never leave my repertoire of Christmas songs.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
You see naughty Santa Claus coming down to chimney for
your mama.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
You're you know, you're like.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
Hey, get off and get out of here, Get out
of here, Santa Claus. It's like some Santa Claus, some
Griswold's Christmafication.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Or something that get on to my playlist right now.
Step back. Yeah, absolutely, Rufus Thomas. I'll be your Santa Baby.
This is probably what in the late seventies. Nineteen seventy
three is what it says here. Oh my gosh, that's
the year I was born. What's up with that? What's
up with that?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I'll be your Santa Baby? Okay, two white, two male.
The Woke Museum issues a guide to Decolonizing Father Christmas.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
The Sun in England, reports to the Brighton and Hub
Museums in the UK, published a blog post on its
website suggesting Santa should work alongside his elves. He should
work with the elves, alongside them on the Presidents production
line to show they are equals.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Diversity, equity inclusion for Santa Claus, hard pass for me
on that right, Gas Buddy is saying this Christmas Day
prices falling to the lowest level since twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
So here we go.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Average on the national average Christmas Day two seventy nine
per gallon last year under Biden three three dollars.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
We got up to five bucks under Biden.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
It's what a great time from nineteen in my area too,
are you kidding?

Speaker 4 (34:14):
To nineteen and you're in that Nashville all right, Merry Christmas.
This is Chris Rocket for Michael de joh know, this
is your morning show.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael nheld Joe Now