August 19, 2024 • 34 mins
What the left will do to protect their convention that they won’t do to protect our border!
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your morning show. Good morning, I'm Michael del Jorno. If
you are just waking up, Well, the curtain is rising
on the DNC in Chicago. President Biden will be the
headline on the first night. He will cover the legacy
of his presidency. They're ready to put this guy in
mault Rushmore. That's what I hear. Well, that's you know,
when you don't remember reality, you could just create whatever
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you want. I like to think of myself as one
of the legends of radio. I'll be giving a keynote
addressed tonight. Cannot the greatness of me, I cannot argue
with that. But yeah, we've got let's see Joe Biden
is tonight. They're gonna be, you know, wheeling everybody out,
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Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Barack Obama will be Tuesday night,
Bill Clinton Wednesday night. It's Bill Clinton's birthday today, by
the way, probably why he didn't want to go Opening Night.
I'll be all late. Other big name speakers, Hillary Clinton.
So you have Hillary, Bill, Barack Biden. It's a Podesta Convention.
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They're gonna call it the P and C. They're getting
the band, getting the band back, and then someone I
think a lot of people wanted to be president, Jell
Obama will be speaking this week as well from the DNC.
And then, of course, all eyes are on security, although
the mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois is saying
the main god the bego drunk riots in our streets,
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but the National Guard is standing by. Meanwhile, Ernesto is
once again a hurricane, churning towards Canada and over seventeen
thousand AT and T workers across the Southeast aro on
strike for accusing company management of unfair labor practices during
recent contract negotiations. So far, my mobile phone is working.
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that uses direct TV and then whatever apps you have
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the switch to AT and T. And now they go
on strike. Hopefully they're they'll be okay, get that settled
before I haven't. Hello, Hello, see did you think it
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was stuck again? I did strike? Uh? Joe Biden? Yeah,
Well here's the latest, and I'll give you my perspective
after so, Joe, take it easy, nothing, nothing's gonna come
of it. Hold on, we're gonna kind of break down.
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Biden committed impeachable conduct to fraud of the United States
to enrich his family. Yeah, that old chestnut. So we
all know that the investigation into Hunter Biden has been ongoing.
So here is the Republican conclusions from this, and the
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conclusions are just what the headline said, Biden engage in
impeachable conduct. House Republicans found in their months long impeachment inquiry,
declaring in their highly anticipated report they abused his office
and defraud of the United States to enrich his family.
Fox News Digital obtained a copy of the two hundred
and ninety two page report prepared by the Whole House
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Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Ways and Means Committee.
Remember there's three branches of government. To be your legislative branch.
Concerning the executive branch, I can't tell you how many
times I have seen things worse than Watergate, and it
goes nowhere. It led to Nixon waving and getting on
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a helicopter. What's the difference, Well, the two parties have
certainly changed. They don't work together at all. They are
the front lines of the divided States of America, and
people have taken sides in the divided states x formerly
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Twitter is now on the side of Republicans, the rest
of social media is on the side of Democrats, the
mainstream media is on the side of democrats, Fox to
some degree on the side of the Republicans, and nothing
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comes of anything. I mean, I would There's a great
movie called The Campaign. I think it's The Campaign, right
zach Alifhanachus and Will Ferrell, and it explores this notion
what would someone have to do to be unelectable? Punch
a baby, punch a dog, get caught on videotapes, sleeping
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with his opponent's wife, drunk and driving and running from
the police. By the way, Will Ferrell's character does all
of that and gets elected, because that's really the state
in which we live in. And it works both ways.
Although I have to kind of be a referee here
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and say, in the two impeachments of Donald Trump, there
really was anything there, But what about in this one
where there is, or even if there was in the
first one, does anybody ever will anybody ever get impeached again?
Or will it just appear as political opposition tactic. How
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many people will even do this story? Today? A two
hundred and ninety two page report prepared by the House
Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, Ways and Means Committee, investigating for
months and months and months, here's the findings. President Biden
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engaged in impeachable conduct. I'll play talk radio for a second.
Maybe this not cognitive impairment, was the reason they shuffled
them off the stage. Both. I don't know what's frightening
is how nothing will ever come of it? And I wonder,
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no matter what a Republican does, Democrats will impeach, the
Republicans will say it's politics, America won't pay attention, and
nothing happens. It probably doesn't get more dysfunctionally fascinating than that.
This morning, meanwhile, we headed to the DNC conveyed and
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where does everything stand? Vice President Kamala Harris holds a
narrow lead over former President Donald Trump in the presidential election,
a notable improvement for Democrats in a contest that a
little more than a month ago showed Joe Biden and
Trump in a dead heat. As Democrats gathered this week
in Chicago for their upcoming convention Harris stands at forty
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nine percent, Trump forty five percent among registered voters, and
a head to head lead matchup. Again, what about when
you had third parties? Again, who cares about any of that?
What about the swing states? That's, after all, what's going
to decide things unless there's some surprises. States we thought
were solid blue or solid red and they're not. When
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third party candidates are included in the survey, now you
figure out why they're so anti Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
When third party candidates included in the survey, Harris is
at forty seven percent, Trump is at forty four percent,
So it ends up costing her to Trump one two
to one. Third party hurts Democrats over Republicans. Keep an
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eye on that, because once we get past the Democrats
big night under the big Top, then we get into
a general election, and if things go the way they
went over the weekend, I mean I actually heard Donald
Trump at a rally say yeah, then they bring up
this Kamala Harris, I never heard of her. I'm scratching, man, thinking,
are you really trying to tell the people in Wilkespare,
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Pennsylvania that you had no idea who the Vice President
of the United States was who was in charge of
the border, which, if you're sticking to the issues, is
one of the key failures of theirs you're supposed to
be highlighting. Then you had Kamala Harris calling President Trump
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a coward. So if Harris and Trump and there's all this,
I'll reach an Axios article. They've been really trying to
sell this that the Republicans are divided over Donald Trump. Donald,
you got the issues. Stick to the issues. Stop with
the name, colleagues, stop with the game plane. If you
stick to the issues, you'll win. They care about the border,
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in the economy. You fixed it, they broke it. You
can fix it again, which they're right to say that.
And then he's spending this weekend vamping over fire. It
brought up this Kamala Harris. Who is she? I don't
know any Kamala Harris. And then she starts launching into
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how he's a coward. Why do I bring that up?
Keep an eye on all that nonsense, because as America
is watching, and if these two start looking goofy, you're
gonna see RFK Junior rise and rise and rise and rise.
And as he rises and rises and rises. It's a
two to one advantage. By the way, my favorite story
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of the day hand well two, it's a tie one.
The Trump camp brought in Telsea Gabber to help him
prepare for debates. What about that she is the comalist layer,
you know. Absolutely too bad he didn't call her in
to be on the ticket. That might have really helped it.
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But this is my favorite story, and I don't know
how to say it more succinct than this. This is
absolutely priceless. So the headline is, this is ABC Channel
seven Chicago, DNC. Security restrictions at the United Center McCormick
Place start at midnight. Car screening sued I'm gonna you know,
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I'm gonna save it and go through just a few
of them for you. A security footprint around the United
Center and McCormick Place goes into effect at midnight three
days prior to the convention. The security footprint area encompasses
a fifteen foot buffer around the perimeter of the McCormick
Place and the United Center. It includes By the way,
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they deny any comparisons to nineteen sixty eight for a
wall is being erected in chicaw Girl, Baby Girl, don't
even play. Now within this area, you cannot push, pull,
or transport any vehicle, car to, or float or throw
any item. You are also not allowed to possess any
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item deemed a potential safety risk, including large bags, suitcases,
as well as laptop sealed packages, drones, animals or other
service guide dogs, bicycle scooters. Will I could go on
and on a fireworks, firearms. This is in prepare preparation
for protesters, and they don't want them anywhere because what
happened in nineteen sixty eight, Blood on the streets and
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then it's spilled over into the convention hall for all
to see on television, for even their mainstream media partners
to be roughed up a little bit. It goes on
and on and on. But how priceless is this again?
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This is the theater of politics, the reality of politics
for us all is a porous border that human traffickers,
drugs that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans by
way of China, human traffickers, illegal immigrants. They're just flooding
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into this country, registering and voting too. In many cases
documented from the Party against building a border wall, against
securing the border, against the protection of the sovereignty of
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our republic at the border comes a fifteen foot buffer
on the DNC at an eight foot tall fence in
barricades to protect the sovereignty of their DNC, their party.
Can you make you can't make that up. I don't
want to be chalk radio guy for seen the body,
but even I gotta point that out. You have the
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phone number. Can you believe this? She won't protect your
borderment to protect the convention hall. This is your morning
show with Michael del Chno. This is your morning show.
Work well. The curtain rises on the DNC today in Chicago.
Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
President Biden spent the weekend at Camp David working on
his keynote address with top aids. Biden is expected to
make his case for Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeed him,
when he speaks to delegates and a nationwide television audience
Monday night. Day one of the convention will include a
series of tributes to Biden and what Democratic officials are
calling a passing of the torch moment, with Harris joining
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him on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I'm Mark Neefield. You know, Jeffrey, this is really odd,
but I have the live line Yeah, to the convention stage. Okay,
And I think Joe Biden's already there, warming up and
practicing his speak.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Ye, anybody there, Yeah, he's already busy.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Protesters are already hitting the streets in Chicago at the
Democratic National Convention this week. A large crowd of demonstrators
march downtown last night, demonstrating and demanding abortion and LGBTQ rights.
Of course, the real protesters they're concerned about are those
that are wanting an end to the Israeli humas war.
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I don't know exactly how they're going to get along
with the LGPTQ protesters. Time will tell. Meanwhile, Governor Pritzker
says they'll be the drunking riots in his street. He's
ready for the pro Palestinadian protests at the DNA.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
We're going to protect the protesters, but also protect all
the people visiting, fifty thousand people coming to Chicago and
the residents of Chicago. So the plan's been in place
for a year and a quarter now already we're going
to execute on that plan the next four days.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And part of that plan, of course, is the Illinois
National Guard.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Nobody expects that we'll have to use them for anything
very serious. But we also want to make sure that
we have additional law enforcement type.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Folks who are in uniform and who are trained to
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Oh really, so you got to do that this weekend too,
h Yeah, And we know it came with good news
and bad news. The good news was they have the
team of Resident whatever they are, is that in exchange
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for free room and board, they move everybody in. So
you just pull your trucks and cars up with all
your stuff and then you just they load it all
up and they bring it to the room. Then you
go settle the room. The problem is they use the elevators,
so then you have to use the stairs. Oh boy,
and Ana was on the ninth floor. And that's when
I realized I'm too old for this blank right, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And you know what is was worse these parents that
are becoming empty nesters.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you need to be aware of this.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
When you become an empty nester for the first forty
eight to seventy two hours, you're going to be a
mess and there's nothing you can know about it.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I felt that way last year. This year Andrew made
the observation. It was like, you know, last year, it
was like, oh my gosh, Yeah, they were just in
my arms, and now I'm it just seems like yesterday
was driving Remember that that moment when you leave the hospital.
You're like, I can't believe they let us leave with them, right,
and you're driving twenty miles an hour, paranoid thinking they're
gonna break, telling other people to slow down. We started
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with twins. Then we had Nick and I was like,
put him on the luggage track, let's get out of here.
He's all good. Yeah. Last year we were moving the
girls in. Then we left. Couldn't say goodbye. You know
about times see here we go yesterday bye and I
gone you. I don't even know where this whole move
in became a parent tradition anyway. Nobody moved me in
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at LSU. I moved me in right now. The parents
are all there, dads are lifting everything, and the kids
are just sitting there watching it all happen.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
My parents said, call when you get settled, don't call collect.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm just going over this polling information. And again, it's
all a part of the We should probably get Stick's
grand illusion out because that's kind of what is happening.
I'm a talk radio host, so when people meet me,
you know, they all want to know how the election's
gonna go. Like I've got a crystal ball, and what
they're looking for is is so sense of confidence, some
sense of affirmation, some sense of their fears being alieved
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because that my magic wand that's your magic wand looking
into your crystal ball because there's this big media grand illusion.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
The ship was sinking, the captain was demented, and then
all of the sudden, the first officer took the helm
and now it's soaring through the ocean all as well.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's the grand illusion. And I'm reading the Washington Post
this morning, and they're going over this particular piece of
polling that they've chosen to highlight, and then they've chosen
to figure out how to narrativize. It's a Washington Post
ABC News poll and as Democrats got it this weekend
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in Chicago for their upcoming convention, Harris dands at forty
nine Drump's forty four percent. That's right with the margin
of air. She went from time to leading by four
domb dum, dumb dom. And then you add in Robert Kennedy, Well,
he still leads, not necessarily within the margin of air,
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but she still leads. She has forty seven. Trump has
forty four. Our of Cajunior himself at five percent, that
I see only growth in his future. And if this
poll is accurate, as he grows two to one, it
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hurts Kamala Harris. Then there's this narrative paragraph. Given the
margin of error in this poll, which tests only national support,
Harris's lead among registered voters is not considered statistically significant.
There's your disaglaiment. First, of all the it will not
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be a nationally decided race. It will be decided by
swing states. They define the swing states as Michigan, I agree, Pennsylvania,
I agree, Wisconsin, I agree. They just to serve with
North Carolina and Georgia gratuitously, and then Arizona, Nevada, which
I agree. One sign of how the shift from Biden
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to Harris has affected voters' attitudes is on the question
of how satisfied people are with the choice of Harris
versus Trump. In July, when the contest was still Biden
and Trump, twenty eight percent of the overall said they
were satisfied with the choice. Now it's forty four percent.
So you're seeing some satisfaction and you just want to
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call time out. This is one poll with a nearly
five point margin of error that someone at the Washington
Post of their ABC poll. They in ABC has decided
to narrative ize, and it's supposed to play into this
whole narrativized momentum. And it's fine, it's their week's convention.
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But then you go to real clear politics just to
see what the standings really look like where they really matter.
Swing states. Now I'm not going to blow smoke up
your skirt. It's tightened. But the reality is in Wisconsin,
Harris leads by one. Now Trump led by as much
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as five, I believe, So that's a significant momentum shift. Pennsylvania,
Trump leads by point one percent. That has always been
no higher than really a half a percentage point. Michigan,
Harris now leads by two. That's significant because Trump, I
think led it at one point by five or seven. Arizona,
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Trump leads by point two. Nevada one point three. And
again we haven't even started yet. So it went from
versus Biden ichabod they are dead meat, todaw. You got
yourself a RaSE, and now you got yourself a convention,
and now you head into a general cycle. Here's some
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problems moving forward that haven't changed. The approval rating for
Joe Biden is still forty percent as president. His disapproval
rating is fifty six percent. And he's going to give
a legacy speech tonight. He's going to position himself on
Mount Rushmore tonight. He's not talking to the right America.
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Here's another problem. Right direction, wrong direction. Only twenty five
percent of America thinks we're heading in the right direction.
Sixty four point nine percent think we're heading in the
wrong direction. Now you get the where it a proof
will be into pudding. This is why you hear me
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and John Decker and others talk about what's Kamala going
to do? Is she going to distance herself from Joe?
That's why I made a big deal out of this Friday.
Joe said, Oh, she's not distancing herself from me. Well,
if she doesn't, she's on the sixty four point nine
percent wrong track. And if she does distance herself, you're
going to have to believe that a vice president had
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a different viewpoint all along from a president. And one
thing we know is he put her in charge of
the border, so she failed at the border. Debates will
bring all this out. Interviews could bring all this out,
if she would ever do them. I mean, that's just laughable.
This weekend. She was positioning Donald Trump as a coward
this weekend. This from the woman who won't do an interview.
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And we're now twenty six days since she's been coordinated
as yet to sit down with a member of the
media for an interview. Into the month, nothing but a
teleprompter so far, So has the race tightened up, no question.
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Has it tightened up in the Swing States, no question.
Is she some runaway victor? No, not by far. Is
she better than Biden? Yes? Does she stand for anything
different than Biden? I mean, when I went through the
Washington Post pole, I'm sitting there thinking to myself, look
at these massive turnarounds and how and why? When you
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go deep digging into the poll, you find an enthusiast
sixty two percent, the majority of Harris voters say they
support her strongly. That's compared to thirty four percent that
supported Biden strongly. So it's not quite there, but roughly
it doubles in passion and confidence and strength. And for
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what is it policy driven? Well? He was a guy,
she's a girl. Ah. She's black, an Indian, he's white. Ah,
he's COGNITALIVI I paired, she's a giggler. I mean, what
is it based on? I mean one of the most
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fun questions to be if you're a Democrat waking up
this morning looking in the mirror, Why all I said,
is it happy days are here again? Not over your
interest rate? I don't think, not over the border, not
over fentanyl death. What's it over? We think we can win.
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Isn't that the problem? I mean we always tay about
the two party system problem. What about the two party
supporter problem? That you think you've won something when there's
more RS than d's, or they think they've won something
when there's more d ours. Look at your check book,
look at your past ub look at crime, look at
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the border, look at your schools. The heck do you
think you won? And while you're busy hating your brothers
and sisters, they're enjoying another cycle of power at your expense.
It's all rather breathtaking and sickening to me. But if
you're wondering what the polls are, they've tightened. But that's
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okay because there's a long way to go. And the
biggest problem they have is if you can cut through
all the massaging, the manipulating, and the narrativizing, the one
thing America does agree on three to one, we're heading
in the wrong direction. That's the biggest challenge for this
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convention for the Democrats. They can carry out the grand illusion,
but can they convince them ura that there's something beyond
Joe's gone on this ticket and something good coming for them?
Not the party time will.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Tell I'm Daniel Colsey and Tampa and my morning show
is your Morning Show with Michael Bill Jornam.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
President Biden will headline the first night he will lay
out the legacy of his great presidency. Palestinian authorities say
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed nineteen. That
on't to froth up the protesters in Chicago. Meanwhile, the
mayor says he's confident security plans in place. We'll keep
everything safe. Ernesto is once again a hurricane churning towards
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oh Canadop and over seventeen thousand AT and T workers
across the southeaster on strike, accusing the company management of
unfair labor practices during recent negotiations. Meanwhile, Aaron Rayal is
threatening to go on strike because AT and T has
a bad signal in Connecticut. Good morning, Aaron, it's actually
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not ATMT. We should blame probably somebody else.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah, we should blame somebody else. How was your weekend, Michael.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, it's college move in. I don't know about when
you went to college, but when I went to college,
nobody moved me in. And then suddenly my kids go
to college and me and my wife get to do
all the work and I'm too old for this.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Fun? How fun? Actually my parents moved me in, but
I remember being like, this feels weird. That was like
a general I was like, I kind of would prefer
to be doing this alone.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh really, Well, yeah, I'm ready to blame your generation
because I don't know. Somewhere between my generation and your generation,
it became the parents job.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Yes, yes, and now you have to go to their
job interview with them.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
So okay, well is that coming too?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Apparently that's happening.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It's harder and harder to become an empty nester, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
As discount airlines battle for the budget traveler, some are
offering poor man's first class. Oh I can't wait to
hear this story.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yup, poor man's first US apparently on Frontier or Spirit.
That is a seat with no one next to you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's first class.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Seriously, an empty middle seat with you also get wait wait,
hold on a free drink Wi Fi and a checked bag.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
That is poor man's first class.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Wait a minute, now you're making fun.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'm not. That's not bad. You're almost The Southwest Airlines exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I'm actually like, listen, this doesn't sound terrible. And I
flew Spirit Airlines less than a year ago, and I
have to be honest, the experience was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Not terrible, not terrible at all.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
But this is funny because these airlines, like the budget ones,
they they haven't been doing well like at all. Actually,
Spirit they haven't posted net quarterly profits since covid. Frontier
only reported a net quarterly profit for the first time
in a year last quarter, so they're in trouble. And
really unlike the Delta, the United the American which had
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these huge planes so they can outfit some of those
back seats for a low cost customer and then also
have premium seats and premium economy and business and whatever
in the front. But since the core customer of a
budget airline is seeking value and lower costs, they have
a really tough time raising fares if they want to
cover an expensive labor contract or fluctuating fuel prices. So
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you're going to love this, Michael, I love this. I
think they should do it. Spirit actually considered making its
light attendants wear a bud light ad on their uniform
in order to offset costs. I'm like, yeah, I like that.
Let's do that, and I get to check my bags
for free.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You know, I really just want to smile on some
peanuts and I can't get either, all right, So I
am a terrible person to have this conversation with. I
am a very loyal Southwest customer, and let me express
my loyalty. If Southwest doesn't fly there, I don't go.
The longest time, Southwest didn't fly to Syracuse, so I
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would fly into Rochester, get a car, and drive the
hour to Syracuse. That's how loyal I am. So I
really don't. I can tell you from the outside. My
brother flew Spirit. He got to his destination and bought
a different ticket to get home. He had that that
bad of experience, based on the way everyone was behaving,
based on the plane, the size, every you know, everything.
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It was just a nightmare. So all I know of
Spirit is his really bad review. And then from what
I hear from other people, because you know, all I
really know is Southwest is Delta kind of seems to
have pulled away from everyone. That that's, you know, But
I don't know if that's true. But it seems to
me that Delta has found a way to be the
(32:47):
if you're going to pay the shot Southwest, if you're
going to be you know, I wouldn't call it economy,
but more of a of a symbol. Although they're moving
away from the boarding that they made famous and going
to assigned seats at Southwest, so you know, I made vulnerable.
I could become disgruntled, but I don't think I'm headed
towards spirit or front deer. I don't care what's but
in their uniform.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I know, right, or or that? How nice that middle
empty seat is?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Listen, I think I get it.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
It's it's hard, like prices are high and there's a
lot of competition, but it's it's hard to elicit a
tremendous ment of sympathy when I'm flying. And that's why
I'm like, I think you have to seriously manage expectations
when flying, being like there's more than fifty percent chances
will be delayed or canceled or something will happen, So
bring some reading material, charge up your iPad, and like
(33:32):
hope for the best and.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Enjoying the least experienced pilots in the air. Exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, right, And I'm like people who go in and
are like it's delayed. I'm like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
My dad was working in Chicago. We were still living
in New Orleans, and so my friend and I wanted
to go out and spend two weeks with him, go
to Cubs game, so on and so forth. So he
sets us up on Republic Airlines from New Orleans. We
stopped in Baton, Rouge, Alexandria, Shreveport, Saint Louis, and then Chicago. Boy,
he must have got a really cheap fare. But I
remember on Republic airlines they didn't even have doors on
(34:05):
the cockpit. The pilot just turn around and go all right,
close the door, ready to go. You'd watch wakes for
you to eat. Yeah, we're all in this together. This
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your morning show. Good morning, I'm Michael del Jorno. If
you are just waking up, Well, the curtain is rising
on the DNC in Chicago. President Biden will be the
headline on the first night. He will cover the legacy
of his presidency. They're ready to put this guy in
mault Rushmore. That's what I hear. Well, that's you know,
when you don't remember reality, you could just create whatever
(01:11):
you want. I like to think of myself as one
of the legends of radio. I'll be giving a keynote
addressed tonight. Cannot the greatness of me, I cannot argue
with that. But yeah, we've got let's see Joe Biden
is tonight. They're gonna be, you know, wheeling everybody out,
(01:31):
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Barack Obama will be Tuesday night,
Bill Clinton Wednesday night. It's Bill Clinton's birthday today, by
the way, probably why he didn't want to go Opening Night.
I'll be all late. Other big name speakers, Hillary Clinton.
So you have Hillary, Bill, Barack Biden. It's a Podesta Convention.
(01:51):
They're gonna call it the P and C. They're getting
the band, getting the band back, and then someone I
think a lot of people wanted to be president, Jell
Obama will be speaking this week as well from the DNC.
And then, of course, all eyes are on security, although
the mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois is saying
the main god the bego drunk riots in our streets,
(02:15):
but the National Guard is standing by. Meanwhile, Ernesto is
once again a hurricane, churning towards Canada and over seventeen
thousand AT and T workers across the Southeast aro on
strike for accusing company management of unfair labor practices during
recent contract negotiations. So far, my mobile phone is working.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Right, I mean, how much is enough? I mean, there's
guys listen. They get paid really well from what I
understand AT and T. Yeah, are you kidding? They get
all the overtime they want.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, I made the switch. I hope there's no I
was was Sprint from the bag phone really, I mean
just all and then last year it really wasn't even
Sprint's fault. It was Comcast's fault. I wanted to get
away from cables, so I went to AT and T
(03:10):
that uses direct TV and then whatever apps you have
cover and then it was just easier to bundle everything
and even more affordable. Plus I had to get a
backup line for for the studio here. So I made
the switch to AT and T. And now they go
on strike. Hopefully they're they'll be okay, get that settled
before I haven't. Hello, Hello, see did you think it
(03:31):
was stuck again? I did strike? Uh? Joe Biden? Yeah,
Well here's the latest, and I'll give you my perspective
after so, Joe, take it easy, nothing, nothing's gonna come
of it. Hold on, we're gonna kind of break down.
(03:55):
Biden committed impeachable conduct to fraud of the United States
to enrich his family. Yeah, that old chestnut. So we
all know that the investigation into Hunter Biden has been ongoing.
So here is the Republican conclusions from this, and the
(04:19):
conclusions are just what the headline said, Biden engage in
impeachable conduct. House Republicans found in their months long impeachment inquiry,
declaring in their highly anticipated report they abused his office
and defraud of the United States to enrich his family.
Fox News Digital obtained a copy of the two hundred
and ninety two page report prepared by the Whole House
(04:42):
Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Ways and Means Committee.
Remember there's three branches of government. To be your legislative branch.
Concerning the executive branch, I can't tell you how many
times I have seen things worse than Watergate, and it
goes nowhere. It led to Nixon waving and getting on
(05:05):
a helicopter. What's the difference, Well, the two parties have
certainly changed. They don't work together at all. They are
the front lines of the divided States of America, and
people have taken sides in the divided states x formerly
(05:25):
Twitter is now on the side of Republicans, the rest
of social media is on the side of Democrats, the
mainstream media is on the side of democrats, Fox to
some degree on the side of the Republicans, and nothing
(05:47):
comes of anything. I mean, I would There's a great
movie called The Campaign. I think it's The Campaign, right
zach Alifhanachus and Will Ferrell, and it explores this notion
what would someone have to do to be unelectable? Punch
a baby, punch a dog, get caught on videotapes, sleeping
(06:09):
with his opponent's wife, drunk and driving and running from
the police. By the way, Will Ferrell's character does all
of that and gets elected, because that's really the state
in which we live in. And it works both ways.
Although I have to kind of be a referee here
(06:30):
and say, in the two impeachments of Donald Trump, there
really was anything there, But what about in this one
where there is, or even if there was in the
first one, does anybody ever will anybody ever get impeached again?
Or will it just appear as political opposition tactic. How
(06:52):
many people will even do this story? Today? A two
hundred and ninety two page report prepared by the House
Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, Ways and Means Committee, investigating for
months and months and months, here's the findings. President Biden
(07:15):
engaged in impeachable conduct. I'll play talk radio for a second.
Maybe this not cognitive impairment, was the reason they shuffled
them off the stage. Both. I don't know what's frightening
is how nothing will ever come of it? And I wonder,
(07:37):
no matter what a Republican does, Democrats will impeach, the
Republicans will say it's politics, America won't pay attention, and
nothing happens. It probably doesn't get more dysfunctionally fascinating than that.
This morning, meanwhile, we headed to the DNC conveyed and
(08:00):
where does everything stand? Vice President Kamala Harris holds a
narrow lead over former President Donald Trump in the presidential election,
a notable improvement for Democrats in a contest that a
little more than a month ago showed Joe Biden and
Trump in a dead heat. As Democrats gathered this week
in Chicago for their upcoming convention Harris stands at forty
(08:22):
nine percent, Trump forty five percent among registered voters, and
a head to head lead matchup. Again, what about when
you had third parties? Again, who cares about any of that?
What about the swing states? That's, after all, what's going
to decide things unless there's some surprises. States we thought
were solid blue or solid red and they're not. When
(08:44):
third party candidates are included in the survey, now you
figure out why they're so anti Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
When third party candidates included in the survey, Harris is
at forty seven percent, Trump is at forty four percent,
So it ends up costing her to Trump one two
to one. Third party hurts Democrats over Republicans. Keep an
(09:08):
eye on that, because once we get past the Democrats
big night under the big Top, then we get into
a general election, and if things go the way they
went over the weekend, I mean I actually heard Donald
Trump at a rally say yeah, then they bring up
this Kamala Harris, I never heard of her. I'm scratching, man, thinking,
are you really trying to tell the people in Wilkespare,
(09:30):
Pennsylvania that you had no idea who the Vice President
of the United States was who was in charge of
the border, which, if you're sticking to the issues, is
one of the key failures of theirs you're supposed to
be highlighting. Then you had Kamala Harris calling President Trump
(09:52):
a coward. So if Harris and Trump and there's all this,
I'll reach an Axios article. They've been really trying to
sell this that the Republicans are divided over Donald Trump. Donald,
you got the issues. Stick to the issues. Stop with
the name, colleagues, stop with the game plane. If you
stick to the issues, you'll win. They care about the border,
(10:14):
in the economy. You fixed it, they broke it. You
can fix it again, which they're right to say that.
And then he's spending this weekend vamping over fire. It
brought up this Kamala Harris. Who is she? I don't
know any Kamala Harris. And then she starts launching into
(10:34):
how he's a coward. Why do I bring that up?
Keep an eye on all that nonsense, because as America
is watching, and if these two start looking goofy, you're
gonna see RFK Junior rise and rise and rise and rise.
And as he rises and rises and rises. It's a
two to one advantage. By the way, my favorite story
(10:56):
of the day hand well two, it's a tie one.
The Trump camp brought in Telsea Gabber to help him
prepare for debates. What about that she is the comalist layer,
you know. Absolutely too bad he didn't call her in
to be on the ticket. That might have really helped it.
(11:17):
But this is my favorite story, and I don't know
how to say it more succinct than this. This is
absolutely priceless. So the headline is, this is ABC Channel
seven Chicago, DNC. Security restrictions at the United Center McCormick
Place start at midnight. Car screening sued I'm gonna you know,
(11:40):
I'm gonna save it and go through just a few
of them for you. A security footprint around the United
Center and McCormick Place goes into effect at midnight three
days prior to the convention. The security footprint area encompasses
a fifteen foot buffer around the perimeter of the McCormick
Place and the United Center. It includes By the way,
(12:03):
they deny any comparisons to nineteen sixty eight for a
wall is being erected in chicaw Girl, Baby Girl, don't
even play. Now within this area, you cannot push, pull,
or transport any vehicle, car to, or float or throw
any item. You are also not allowed to possess any
(12:24):
item deemed a potential safety risk, including large bags, suitcases,
as well as laptop sealed packages, drones, animals or other
service guide dogs, bicycle scooters. Will I could go on
and on a fireworks, firearms. This is in prepare preparation
for protesters, and they don't want them anywhere because what
happened in nineteen sixty eight, Blood on the streets and
(12:48):
then it's spilled over into the convention hall for all
to see on television, for even their mainstream media partners
to be roughed up a little bit. It goes on
and on and on. But how priceless is this again?
(13:09):
This is the theater of politics, the reality of politics
for us all is a porous border that human traffickers,
drugs that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans by
way of China, human traffickers, illegal immigrants. They're just flooding
(13:33):
into this country, registering and voting too. In many cases
documented from the Party against building a border wall, against
securing the border, against the protection of the sovereignty of
(13:56):
our republic at the border comes a fifteen foot buffer
on the DNC at an eight foot tall fence in
barricades to protect the sovereignty of their DNC, their party.
Can you make you can't make that up. I don't
want to be chalk radio guy for seen the body,
but even I gotta point that out. You have the
(14:17):
phone number. Can you believe this? She won't protect your
borderment to protect the convention hall. This is your morning
show with Michael del Chno. This is your morning show.
Work well. The curtain rises on the DNC today in Chicago.
Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
President Biden spent the weekend at Camp David working on
his keynote address with top aids. Biden is expected to
make his case for Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeed him,
when he speaks to delegates and a nationwide television audience
Monday night. Day one of the convention will include a
series of tributes to Biden and what Democratic officials are
calling a passing of the torch moment, with Harris joining
(14:59):
him on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I'm Mark Neefield. You know, Jeffrey, this is really odd,
but I have the live line Yeah, to the convention stage. Okay,
And I think Joe Biden's already there, warming up and
practicing his speak.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Ye, anybody there, Yeah, he's already busy.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Protesters are already hitting the streets in Chicago at the
Democratic National Convention this week. A large crowd of demonstrators
march downtown last night, demonstrating and demanding abortion and LGBTQ rights.
Of course, the real protesters they're concerned about are those
that are wanting an end to the Israeli humas war.
(15:44):
I don't know exactly how they're going to get along
with the LGPTQ protesters. Time will tell. Meanwhile, Governor Pritzker
says they'll be the drunking riots in his street. He's
ready for the pro Palestinadian protests at the DNA.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
We're going to protect the protesters, but also protect all
the people visiting, fifty thousand people coming to Chicago and
the residents of Chicago. So the plan's been in place
for a year and a quarter now already we're going
to execute on that plan the next four days.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And part of that plan, of course, is the Illinois
National Guard.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Nobody expects that we'll have to use them for anything
very serious. But we also want to make sure that
we have additional law enforcement type.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Folks who are in uniform and who are trained to
be police. Hey, it's me and Michael. You can listen
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Oh really, so you got to do that this weekend too,
h Yeah, And we know it came with good news
and bad news. The good news was they have the
team of Resident whatever they are, is that in exchange
(17:11):
for free room and board, they move everybody in. So
you just pull your trucks and cars up with all
your stuff and then you just they load it all
up and they bring it to the room. Then you
go settle the room. The problem is they use the elevators,
so then you have to use the stairs. Oh boy,
and Ana was on the ninth floor. And that's when
I realized I'm too old for this blank right, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And you know what is was worse these parents that
are becoming empty nesters.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you need to be aware of this.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
When you become an empty nester for the first forty
eight to seventy two hours, you're going to be a
mess and there's nothing you can know about it.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I felt that way last year. This year Andrew made
the observation. It was like, you know, last year, it
was like, oh my gosh, Yeah, they were just in
my arms, and now I'm it just seems like yesterday
was driving Remember that that moment when you leave the hospital.
You're like, I can't believe they let us leave with them, right,
and you're driving twenty miles an hour, paranoid thinking they're
gonna break, telling other people to slow down. We started
(18:09):
with twins. Then we had Nick and I was like,
put him on the luggage track, let's get out of here.
He's all good. Yeah. Last year we were moving the
girls in. Then we left. Couldn't say goodbye. You know
about times see here we go yesterday bye and I
gone you. I don't even know where this whole move
in became a parent tradition anyway. Nobody moved me in
(18:29):
at LSU. I moved me in right now. The parents
are all there, dads are lifting everything, and the kids
are just sitting there watching it all happen.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
My parents said, call when you get settled, don't call collect.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm just going over this polling information. And again, it's
all a part of the We should probably get Stick's
grand illusion out because that's kind of what is happening.
I'm a talk radio host, so when people meet me,
you know, they all want to know how the election's
gonna go. Like I've got a crystal ball, and what
they're looking for is is so sense of confidence, some
sense of affirmation, some sense of their fears being alieved
(19:06):
because that my magic wand that's your magic wand looking
into your crystal ball because there's this big media grand illusion.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
The ship was sinking, the captain was demented, and then
all of the sudden, the first officer took the helm
and now it's soaring through the ocean all as well.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's the grand illusion. And I'm reading the Washington Post
this morning, and they're going over this particular piece of
polling that they've chosen to highlight, and then they've chosen
to figure out how to narrativize. It's a Washington Post
ABC News poll and as Democrats got it this weekend
(19:54):
in Chicago for their upcoming convention, Harris dands at forty
nine Drump's forty four percent. That's right with the margin
of air. She went from time to leading by four
domb dum, dumb dom. And then you add in Robert Kennedy, Well,
he still leads, not necessarily within the margin of air,
(20:15):
but she still leads. She has forty seven. Trump has
forty four. Our of Cajunior himself at five percent, that
I see only growth in his future. And if this
poll is accurate, as he grows two to one, it
(20:35):
hurts Kamala Harris. Then there's this narrative paragraph. Given the
margin of error in this poll, which tests only national support,
Harris's lead among registered voters is not considered statistically significant.
There's your disaglaiment. First, of all the it will not
(20:57):
be a nationally decided race. It will be decided by
swing states. They define the swing states as Michigan, I agree, Pennsylvania,
I agree, Wisconsin, I agree. They just to serve with
North Carolina and Georgia gratuitously, and then Arizona, Nevada, which
I agree. One sign of how the shift from Biden
(21:20):
to Harris has affected voters' attitudes is on the question
of how satisfied people are with the choice of Harris
versus Trump. In July, when the contest was still Biden
and Trump, twenty eight percent of the overall said they
were satisfied with the choice. Now it's forty four percent.
So you're seeing some satisfaction and you just want to
(21:41):
call time out. This is one poll with a nearly
five point margin of error that someone at the Washington
Post of their ABC poll. They in ABC has decided
to narrative ize, and it's supposed to play into this
whole narrativized momentum. And it's fine, it's their week's convention.
(22:08):
But then you go to real clear politics just to
see what the standings really look like where they really matter.
Swing states. Now I'm not going to blow smoke up
your skirt. It's tightened. But the reality is in Wisconsin,
Harris leads by one. Now Trump led by as much
(22:28):
as five, I believe, So that's a significant momentum shift. Pennsylvania,
Trump leads by point one percent. That has always been
no higher than really a half a percentage point. Michigan,
Harris now leads by two. That's significant because Trump, I
think led it at one point by five or seven. Arizona,
(22:52):
Trump leads by point two. Nevada one point three. And
again we haven't even started yet. So it went from
versus Biden ichabod they are dead meat, todaw. You got
yourself a RaSE, and now you got yourself a convention,
and now you head into a general cycle. Here's some
(23:16):
problems moving forward that haven't changed. The approval rating for
Joe Biden is still forty percent as president. His disapproval
rating is fifty six percent. And he's going to give
a legacy speech tonight. He's going to position himself on
Mount Rushmore tonight. He's not talking to the right America.
(23:40):
Here's another problem. Right direction, wrong direction. Only twenty five
percent of America thinks we're heading in the right direction.
Sixty four point nine percent think we're heading in the
wrong direction. Now you get the where it a proof
will be into pudding. This is why you hear me
(24:02):
and John Decker and others talk about what's Kamala going
to do? Is she going to distance herself from Joe?
That's why I made a big deal out of this Friday.
Joe said, Oh, she's not distancing herself from me. Well,
if she doesn't, she's on the sixty four point nine
percent wrong track. And if she does distance herself, you're
going to have to believe that a vice president had
(24:24):
a different viewpoint all along from a president. And one
thing we know is he put her in charge of
the border, so she failed at the border. Debates will
bring all this out. Interviews could bring all this out,
if she would ever do them. I mean, that's just laughable.
This weekend. She was positioning Donald Trump as a coward
this weekend. This from the woman who won't do an interview.
(24:48):
And we're now twenty six days since she's been coordinated
as yet to sit down with a member of the
media for an interview. Into the month, nothing but a
teleprompter so far, So has the race tightened up, no question.
(25:11):
Has it tightened up in the Swing States, no question.
Is she some runaway victor? No, not by far. Is
she better than Biden? Yes? Does she stand for anything
different than Biden? I mean, when I went through the
Washington Post pole, I'm sitting there thinking to myself, look
at these massive turnarounds and how and why? When you
(25:35):
go deep digging into the poll, you find an enthusiast
sixty two percent, the majority of Harris voters say they
support her strongly. That's compared to thirty four percent that
supported Biden strongly. So it's not quite there, but roughly
it doubles in passion and confidence and strength. And for
(25:58):
what is it policy driven? Well? He was a guy,
she's a girl. Ah. She's black, an Indian, he's white. Ah,
he's COGNITALIVI I paired, she's a giggler. I mean, what
is it based on? I mean one of the most
(26:22):
fun questions to be if you're a Democrat waking up
this morning looking in the mirror, Why all I said,
is it happy days are here again? Not over your
interest rate? I don't think, not over the border, not
over fentanyl death. What's it over? We think we can win.
(26:45):
Isn't that the problem? I mean we always tay about
the two party system problem. What about the two party
supporter problem? That you think you've won something when there's
more RS than d's, or they think they've won something
when there's more d ours. Look at your check book,
look at your past ub look at crime, look at
(27:07):
the border, look at your schools. The heck do you
think you won? And while you're busy hating your brothers
and sisters, they're enjoying another cycle of power at your expense.
It's all rather breathtaking and sickening to me. But if
you're wondering what the polls are, they've tightened. But that's
(27:30):
okay because there's a long way to go. And the
biggest problem they have is if you can cut through
all the massaging, the manipulating, and the narrativizing, the one
thing America does agree on three to one, we're heading
in the wrong direction. That's the biggest challenge for this
(27:53):
convention for the Democrats. They can carry out the grand illusion,
but can they convince them ura that there's something beyond
Joe's gone on this ticket and something good coming for them?
Not the party time will.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Tell I'm Daniel Colsey and Tampa and my morning show
is your Morning Show with Michael Bill Jornam.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
President Biden will headline the first night he will lay
out the legacy of his great presidency. Palestinian authorities say
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed nineteen. That
on't to froth up the protesters in Chicago. Meanwhile, the
mayor says he's confident security plans in place. We'll keep
everything safe. Ernesto is once again a hurricane churning towards
(28:40):
oh Canadop and over seventeen thousand AT and T workers
across the southeaster on strike, accusing the company management of
unfair labor practices during recent negotiations. Meanwhile, Aaron Rayal is
threatening to go on strike because AT and T has
a bad signal in Connecticut. Good morning, Aaron, it's actually
(29:01):
not ATMT. We should blame probably somebody else.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah, we should blame somebody else. How was your weekend, Michael.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, it's college move in. I don't know about when
you went to college, but when I went to college,
nobody moved me in. And then suddenly my kids go
to college and me and my wife get to do
all the work and I'm too old for this.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Fun? How fun? Actually my parents moved me in, but
I remember being like, this feels weird. That was like
a general I was like, I kind of would prefer
to be doing this alone.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh really, Well, yeah, I'm ready to blame your generation
because I don't know. Somewhere between my generation and your generation,
it became the parents job.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Yes, yes, and now you have to go to their
job interview with them.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
So okay, well is that coming too?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Apparently that's happening.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It's harder and harder to become an empty nester, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
As discount airlines battle for the budget traveler, some are
offering poor man's first class. Oh I can't wait to
hear this story.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yup, poor man's first US apparently on Frontier or Spirit.
That is a seat with no one next to you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's first class.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Seriously, an empty middle seat with you also get wait wait,
hold on a free drink Wi Fi and a checked bag.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
That is poor man's first class.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Wait a minute, now you're making fun.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'm not. That's not bad. You're almost The Southwest Airlines exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I'm actually like, listen, this doesn't sound terrible. And I
flew Spirit Airlines less than a year ago, and I
have to be honest, the experience was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Not terrible, not terrible at all.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
But this is funny because these airlines, like the budget ones,
they they haven't been doing well like at all. Actually,
Spirit they haven't posted net quarterly profits since covid. Frontier
only reported a net quarterly profit for the first time
in a year last quarter, so they're in trouble. And
really unlike the Delta, the United the American which had
(31:03):
these huge planes so they can outfit some of those
back seats for a low cost customer and then also
have premium seats and premium economy and business and whatever
in the front. But since the core customer of a
budget airline is seeking value and lower costs, they have
a really tough time raising fares if they want to
cover an expensive labor contract or fluctuating fuel prices. So
(31:26):
you're going to love this, Michael, I love this. I
think they should do it. Spirit actually considered making its
light attendants wear a bud light ad on their uniform
in order to offset costs. I'm like, yeah, I like that.
Let's do that, and I get to check my bags
for free.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You know, I really just want to smile on some
peanuts and I can't get either, all right, So I
am a terrible person to have this conversation with. I
am a very loyal Southwest customer, and let me express
my loyalty. If Southwest doesn't fly there, I don't go.
The longest time, Southwest didn't fly to Syracuse, so I
(32:03):
would fly into Rochester, get a car, and drive the
hour to Syracuse. That's how loyal I am. So I
really don't. I can tell you from the outside. My
brother flew Spirit. He got to his destination and bought
a different ticket to get home. He had that that
bad of experience, based on the way everyone was behaving,
based on the plane, the size, every you know, everything.
(32:25):
It was just a nightmare. So all I know of
Spirit is his really bad review. And then from what
I hear from other people, because you know, all I
really know is Southwest is Delta kind of seems to
have pulled away from everyone. That that's, you know, But
I don't know if that's true. But it seems to
me that Delta has found a way to be the
(32:47):
if you're going to pay the shot Southwest, if you're
going to be you know, I wouldn't call it economy,
but more of a of a symbol. Although they're moving
away from the boarding that they made famous and going
to assigned seats at Southwest, so you know, I made vulnerable.
I could become disgruntled, but I don't think I'm headed
towards spirit or front deer. I don't care what's but
in their uniform.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I know, right, or or that? How nice that middle
empty seat is?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Listen, I think I get it.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
It's it's hard, like prices are high and there's a
lot of competition, but it's it's hard to elicit a
tremendous ment of sympathy when I'm flying. And that's why
I'm like, I think you have to seriously manage expectations
when flying, being like there's more than fifty percent chances
will be delayed or canceled or something will happen, So
bring some reading material, charge up your iPad, and like
(33:32):
hope for the best and.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Enjoying the least experienced pilots in the air. Exactly.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, right, And I'm like people who go in and
are like it's delayed. I'm like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
My dad was working in Chicago. We were still living
in New Orleans, and so my friend and I wanted
to go out and spend two weeks with him, go
to Cubs game, so on and so forth. So he
sets us up on Republic Airlines from New Orleans. We
stopped in Baton, Rouge, Alexandria, Shreveport, Saint Louis, and then Chicago. Boy,
he must have got a really cheap fare. But I
remember on Republic airlines they didn't even have doors on
(34:05):
the cockpit. The pilot just turn around and go all right,
close the door, ready to go. You'd watch wakes for
you to eat. Yeah, we're all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael Enhild, journo
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