August 29, 2024 • 33 mins
Before we assign a price tag…are we dreaming the right American dreams
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
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Kathy writes, will the interview be aired unedited? Seems like
they could cut out any parts where she looks bad? Well,
well never know, will we? All we know is who
waited thirty eight days? It's finally going to happen on CNN.
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It's being pre taped and she's bringing her veep emotional
support candidate with her either way. Kamala finally does her interview,
still hasn't done a news conference is one of our
top stories. We're also getting feedback on our iHeartRadio app
talkback button. So if you're listening on the IHEARTRADIOPP, you
see a microphone, you click it, you can record a message,
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and we're asking you if you were Dana Bosh, what
are the questions you would ask of Kamala Harris tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We've got some great ones.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm a chameleon.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Balanced budget or continuing resolution. I hope Dana ask about
yellow school busses, and then I really need to be
unheartened by what is being.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hi, Michael, happy birthday to you. My name's Michael two
and it's also my birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh my god, Michael's listening on talk radio ninety eight
point three and fifteen ten WLAC.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
What Michael means godly one.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Happy birthday to us, Michael, Happy birthday too.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Something tells me I wish I was your agent, not mine.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Happy birthday to us, My final day in my fifties,
So let me say hello to somebody else who's younger
and more successful than me. Our money was David Bonson, David,
we got the USA Today story the average cost of
the American Dream. That's a whole lot of the conversation, right,
what is the American dream is forty eight thousand dollars
more expensive than it was a decade ago. It's now
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one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. Now that exceeds
the average income in the United States by over one
hundred and forty thousand dollars. So if it's unaffordable, now,
what does the text the next ten years bring out
of reach for our children? I wanted to start there
with you, but I guess we would start because I
also know you're a theologian and wrote a great book
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called Full Time. We might wanted to find what American
dream is first good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well that's a good point. I mean, I suppose that
for my worldview, the truncated definition of the American dream
to some form of material achievement would be inadequate. Yet
I do believe that there is out of our economic
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liberty that is core to the founding of the country.
There is a sense in which certain degrees of material prosperity,
or the opportunity for such you know, life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness and what type of life someone
wants to have. The whole point is that it's unique
and independent to each individual. The point being in an
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opportunity society, that people should have the opportunity to get ahead.
I just don't really believe the notion that individuals don't
have the ability to get ahead. I recognize that a
lot of people have not, and that things cost more
and economic growth has slowed. I think all those things
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are negatives. But I've never defined the American dream or
our ability to go pursue the kind of life we
want to have, something that I'm waiting around for a
certain government statistic I would like to think. I would
like to think we all have a little bit more
initiative than that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, you can get to a full time book.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Dot com is where you can find David's book that
will help you with that. Yeah, because you know, the
American dream is my freedom of speech, my freedom of
faith and religion, and to practice it, my right of assembly.
There's a lot of things to go into the American dream.
They play games with this. Sometimes a house, a three bedroom,
two bath house with a two car garage and everybody
has cable and everybody has smartphones, are still considered poor.
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I would say that might be the American dream in
and of itself. So yeah, it's it's a folly game
to play. And I remember when Barack Obama was telling
us for eight years how we can't be the you
know anything we want to be as he's president because
we're racist. These kind of become narrativized weapons more than realities. However,
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if you're going to use some kind of a matrix
to determine what it would cost to keep up with
the Jones as if you will, it certainly is problematic
on paper. One hundred and forty thousand dollars, is you know,
the difference between what it takes to afford the American
dream on average that isn't California, New York or other places,
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which is about one hundred and forty or eighty percent
short of the median income. So there is something causing something.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, again, the median income though, is a very tricky statement.
I mean, at the end of the day, the point
would be prices have gone up and that is making
it more unattainable except for wages who've gone up, and
there was a period where wages had not gone up
as much as prices has now covered that gap. Even
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when it was off, it was off one to two percent.
So I don't like the idea of prices going to
higher and wages going higher because I want price stability.
But if we're what the point we're trying to make
is is that people are getting left behind, you have
to cover both the top line and bottom line of
the p and l if costs are going up but
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incomes going up, in theory, it's the same deal. The
problem is that we're talking about a median, like you said,
and when we have a median, there's people above the
median and people who are below it, and so we're
really talking about people below the median, and there's a
lot of factors that go into that. And that's where
I'm as a person who believes in each individual made
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with dignity by God, made in the image and likeness
of God, it's so hard for me as a macroeconomist
to talk about people in groupings because I think everybody
has in divisional value and dignity. But if we're being
very honest economically, and you know this so well, Michael
that there are within when you get to a median
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there's people who are not reaching up to the American
dream because they don't work, don't want to work, have
bad habits, have bad moral decisions. And there are people
who work really hard and are frustrated because they're not
getting the opportunity they need, or because they overpaid for
a bad education, or because they've gotten, you know, a
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bad deal somewhere, and so you know, there's all sorts
of circumstances that go into it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And the only thing I've.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Ever seen that works in dealing with these things, whether
there's macro or micro conditions and life that hold us back,
is an individual determination that, well, I'm not going to
let those things hold me back. Yes it's unfair, I've
lost my job in this place, Yes it's unfair my
taxes are up so much, or you know, whatever the
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case may be. There's all kinds of things that may happen.
But trying to individually work to overcome that is I
think the only recipe. The fact that there are people
who are not keeping up with the American dream, and it's
their fault, not the government's fault, not the Wall Street's fault,
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not the media's fault. That makes the statistics very hard
because I don't think that we should expect to have
everybody at the median. By the way, the median would
then have to change everybody was at it. But you know,
we really have to focus on individual responsibility. And then
along the way the policy front, there are things like
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price stability, things like low in fair taxes, things like
a less regulated state. You know, there's all sorts of
things that need to be done, but the culture has
to drive the political change. Politics is not going to
drive cultural change.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
One of the promises I made in this show in
its name or morning show, as it belongs to the listeners,
not to me, not to the radio station, not to
the city it's in, or anything else.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It belongs to them.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
One of my great privileges is to bring in a
sea of voices, the right voices, and boy, yours is
one of the most unique. You don't bump into too
many people that are a theologian and an economist at
the same time. But that makes it perfect for this
conversation in that how much of this is identity issues?
Are we a land of opportunity or are we a
land of entitlement. We don't seem to have that right.
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What is the proper size and role of government? What
is the role and responsibility of the individual? What is
a dream? What is the promised dream? What is the
intent of this nation and this government of people? Identity
is what's been constantly reshaped by culture and error, and
then we want to use statistics like this to write
our course. It really is laughable.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Well, and it also is something that I'm a little
bit increasingly concerned to be seeing from the right. I
think identity politics, I think critical theory. I think that
framework of that is very Marxian and its orientation that
views the world as something divided by the oppressed and
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the oppressor. I think that that's been very part of
the course in progressive left wing perspective for a long time.
And it is Rusaian, it is Marxian, it is absolutely
add one.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Can I add one?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's also insanity based on what the founding fathers handed you.
If you are oppressing, you're being oppressed by yourself. You
have elected and voted all these things, So you've made
an enemy of yourself, haven't you?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
To some degree?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, there's no question, and it has to do with
the biblical anthropology. You've you've made a mockery of human nature,
what we understand about the human person. And I think
that what I refer to about being concerned with the
right is that while the right is not adopting critical theory,
in this Marxian oppressed oppressor dichotomy, there's increasingly a victimhood mentality,
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a victimhood complex that I think is seeping in on
the right now. I want to resist that every chance
I get. It may come from a slightly different place
at times, but you know, I don't believe that the man,
that rich white men, that corporate America is out trying
to ruin opportunity for minorities, or for the middle class,
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or for you know, oppressed groups. But I also don't
believe that all of us are merely victims of whatever
the government's going to do or the media is going
to do. We tend to change around our boogeyman based
on who are our point of view may be, and
I'm uncomfortable with that. I really believe that we have,
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as you point out, this individual responsibility, and that we
oppress ourselves when we act like we're a constantly oppressed person.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, let me be less subtle. You lose God, you
lose Man. You certainly lose your way, because He is
the Way, the truth, and the life. If you lose,
all things work together. If you lose, greater is he
that is in me than he that is in the world.
If God before you, who can be against you, I
shall provide all your needs according to my riches in glory.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You don't make these mistakes.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
There is a spiritual value and north star that our
founding fathers have that it's people today don't. And it's
necessary for a republic to work, including an economy.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I agree one hundred percent. We have the formula and
the only thing that people can hold on to is
the fact that it isn't work. But as Thomas Soul
taught us, that's because we have a constrained vision, those
of us who believe in the doctrine of original sin.
So this is what the theological part of me comes out.
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But see, this was embedded in the Founding fathers. The
Federalist papers make this very clear. One of the reasons
we have the divided government, we have separation of powers
and so forth, is because we recognize the fallibility of mankind.
So while there are things that won't go right even
when you think you're doing everything right, that's because on
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this side of glory, the world's not perfectible, and all
horrible events in human history, especially in the twentieth century,
came from a utopian vision for society.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We want to measure it by dollar and cents, and
it's really about worldview sense.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Isn't it more than we think?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, it is. And you know, human flourishing is the
term I use all the time. What do you study
economics for? I believe in human flourishing. What are you
trying to accomplish? I want, because of what I believe
in Genesis want about mankind. You want a greater opportunity
for mankind to live the good life, to obtain shalom
human flourishing. Human flourishing is much like the incarnate nature
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of Jesus, who is fully God holy Man, who is
spiritual and material the world that God himself made. We
have souls that can never die, but we are embodied people.
Human flourishing is physical and spiritual. I care about the
soul and well being and happiness of people, and that
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also involves their material and physical conditions, and I am
so tired of people putting a dichotomy between those two things.
I view it as both and because God views it
is both.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And can you do me a favorite? Help me remember
next week?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You know the whole story of Nvidia and how every
time we have a major breakthrough, you come out with Apple,
you come out with Google, and now it looks like
we're going to come out in AI with Nvidia. Why
is it when we go through industrial revolution, we you know,
we dealt with monopolies, we go through the technological revolution,
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we're dealing with monopolies and we're already creating the next
one with AI.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I want to do that next week.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But oh gosh, I may have enjoyed this last ten
minutes more than I've enjoyed ten minutes this entire year
of your morning show. Thank you so much for who
you are and what you do, and for joining us
every week. You want to read his book Full Time,
go to full time dot com. Get that book and
we'll talk next week or sooner, Conditions warrant. Thank you
so much, David Bonson, Thanks too much, Michael.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrona.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's interesting. John Decker brought it out. You know, you
bring Tim along on this first one. Fine, I'll give
you a pass. But you continue to bring Tim along
everywhere and continue to not do interviews and continue to
news conferences. Well that's pretty revealing. But you know the
fact that it's pre taped, is it going to be edited? Well,
that's nothing compared to the questions asked, the questions not asked,
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follow up questions that happen or don't happen, the ones
Tim answers versus the one Kamala answer, and how many
of the questions that really need to be asked will
be asked. We'll all watch CNN tonight and then we'll
talk about it tomorrow or better yet, if you can't
watch it tonight, tune in the morning and we'll have
all the highlights, low lights and perspectives, but we won't
tell you how to think. I think everybody before this
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even happens has the most impactful perspective. Why do we
have to wait thirty eight days for this? Why is
Tim there? And why is it pre taped? And why
have you still not done a news conference? I don't
know what could possibly happen in the performance of Kamala
or Dana Bosh.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That can.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Change what that reveals, the hiding in plain sight as
they once hid in a basement. And probably the best
question our listeners have come up with, what role did
you play in hiding the cognitive impairment of Joe Biden?
Why didn't you say beak up sooner? I don't think
they'll ask that one. Well, it's labor Day. We were
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made to work. We shouldn't be defined by what we do,
but we should be enriched and others should be enriched
by what we do. As Labor Day approaches, a vast
majority of Americans believe their hard work is being erased
by inflation.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Aaron Rayal is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Taking a look at how the current economic situation is
impact impacting all of our perspective about hard work. And
I don't have to tell you wharin work ethic is
one of the great issues we need to address in America.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We don't need stinking thinking to go along with it.
Good morning, Aaron.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I couldn't agree with you more. Yes, and listen, we
are hard workers. Very few of us take vacations, certainly
not enough. But seventy four percent of people think that
inflation is erasing their hard work. This is according to
wallet hub going into the Labor Day weekend. And again,
we're not like the we don't slack off. On average.
The the workday for Americans is eight hours if you're
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in the office, five point one if you're out of
the office. I would argue it's more if you're out
of the office because you kind of like never get
to stop working. But the idea being that we are really,
really in a tough place right now. Sixty seven percent
of Americans believe that they're working harder this year than last.
But at the same time, sixty seven percent the same
exact amount feel that they're doing better financially.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So what does that tell us that there has.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Been a little bit of reprieve but not enough.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, we just had a long conversation with David Bonson,
who's kind of our money with and he's also a theologian.
Can you imagine a theologian and an economist in one
But yeah, but so much of.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It is focused in perspective.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know, we did the story yesterday with Rory on
the American dream and what is the American dream? I
think it's freedom of speech. I think it's land of opportunity.
I think it's freedom of religion and right of assembly.
And if my focus is on God, really the burdens
on God to provide all of my needs, not once,
according to his riches and glory. I'm not looking for
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government to do that. But you know, it's just so funny.
All these stories really are only stories if you're looking
at victimhood or someone else to solve your problems, or
all the wrong scoreboards for what is winning in a
game of life?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't know what to make of this one. In particular.
It's not on my mind heading into Labor Day, I
can tell you that. And I'm very aware of inflation,
I'm very aware of taxation, and I'm very aware of
uncertainty with an election looming.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But it's not no.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I love what I do, I love who I do
it with, I love who I do it for, And
as far as how much money I make, that's up
to God. Last time I looked, I got a wife,
three healthy kids, and we're eating and I have a house.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm fine.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
But you're rich.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
You're rich in so many ways, Michael, Like I think
you said it right that like the it's the idea
of like victimhood. Do I deserve this and should someone
give it to me? Or you know, is it the
mindset that no one me anything and anything I have
like I worked hard for and I you know, it's
kind of like what how many more handouts do you want?
And listen, I'm not saying either way, like if you
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want handouts, okay, cool, that's fine too, but that's not
necessarily like the fabric from which.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's funny you would bring up handouts. You do know,
tomorrow's my birthday.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Oh happy birthday?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh no, no, I want more than that. That's what
I gave you. I want something tangible.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's coming, it's coming, it's in the mail. As they say, Wait,
I do want to I want to end on a
happy you know, with this on, because like this actually
blew my mind and made me be like, what is
this right?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Sixty nine percent of Americans say that Labor Day is
their favorite holiday.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Is that not weird to you?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's really weird to me.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Maybe because it's the end of summer.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, football season's coming, or the weather's still good, but
you can do one last boat outing.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't know what's happened for me. Hands down, it's Christmas,
Christmas Eve. To be exact. I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
My wife fates it because it feels like, you know, yeah,
you sit there and eat, you know, and unbuckle your
your button and watch football all day.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I have to cook and clean.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't know that I would put Labor Day. I mean,
that's a three day weekend, but I know that would even.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Register with me.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
I could.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
I'm like, I'm on this name bed Room'm like no, no,
I like Labor Day, like they could. I appreciate the
day off, but I'm like, I don't think if someone
asked me, like, knee jerk, what's your favorite holiday, that
Labor Day would even register in my brain as like
a holiday.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, think of family food. If we'd done it on
family food, name.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The five favorite holidays?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You know you go labor Day.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Right, yeah, some of you exactly. I just thought that
was and I agree. Actually I love Thanksgiving like I
love it. But I think it's because like I kind
of enjoy the cooking, and I make a rule that
I'm not cleaning this crap up someone else house jasa,
I end.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Up having a great time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I love labor that's why you always invite those that
don't have anywhere to go, because then they obligated to clean.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Maybe that's there you go.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah, the Motley Crew of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
As much as someone who was serving out a six
month non competed unemployed last labor day. I'm excited about
this labor day because I'm actually taking a break from labor.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And not waiting and worrying. Aaron Rayel, thank you so much.
We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Bye, my friend.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, when if you're just waking up, here's what
you need to know. These are the top five stories
of the day. We've talked at morety long about the
elephant in the room, thirty eight days as an elephant
in the room, CNN's an elephant in the room, Dana
Bosh of All People's an elephant in the room, Kamala
Harris and why we had to wait for thirty eight
days for our first interview as an elephant in the room,
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and the fact that we she brought Timmy with her.
I mean, that's that's hard to not notice. Brian Shook
as our road to the White House.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Road to the White House, twenty twenty four, Kamala Harris
is under Republican scrutiny for including her VP pick in
her first interview. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims Democrats
think Hair can't handle a one on one interview.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
It's clear that her own team and her own party
thinks she needs a babysitter, and that's why they're putting
her vice presidential nominee on the stage with her.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Republicans also question why the interview needs to be pre taped.
Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls are set to sit
with CNN in an interview to air at nine pm
Eastern tonight. The interview is expected to take place while
Harris and Walls are on a bus tour through Georgia.
In Washington, I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Officials from the US and China are agreeing for a
call to take place between President Biden, Yeah, Joe's still
president and the Chinese president. She Mark Mayfield has the
details of this story.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Nicoll will be part of efforts to smoother relationship between
the two countries. The agreement comes from a meeting held
Wednesday in Beijing between National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in
a top Chinese official, Biden and she agreed in November
to have increased communications between.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The two sides.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I'm mark Neeview.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Confirms it launched a large scale operation in the occupied
West Bank. Lisa Taylor has.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
More Israeli military carried out airstrikes and raids. Early Wednesday,
Daniel Hamamjen reports from Jerusalem on what the Israeli military
is trying to accomplish.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
In the words of the Israeli Foreign Minister, He said
this today that Iran is working to set up a
terrorists front against Israel in the West Bank, following the
model of Gaza and Lebanon, also calling this a full
fledged war.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said ten people were killed
and nearly two dozen injured in the military operation. I'm
Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Companies are being flooded with job applications from North Korea,
Michael Kassner reports.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Startup Sender says it suspects as many as four in
five applicants from some job websites were part of a
remote work scheme aimed to help fund the North Korean state.
According to Forbes, a cybersecurity expert told the news outlet
it saw one email account automated to apply to three
hundred different jobs, usually in IT. Once hired, they use
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AI to do the work for them and can make
as much as three hundred thousand dollars a year. I'm
Michael Kassner.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yelp is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Tammy Trihila reports earlier this month, a federal judge ruled
that Google violated US anti trust laws and had monopolized
the search market. Now Yelp has filed a lawsuit in
San Francisco. A legend Google used that monopoly to dominate
advertising markets and manipulate search results.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In an online.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Statement, He'll called Google the largest information gatekeeper in existence
and said the company keeps users within Google's owned ecosystem
and prevents them from going to rival sites.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm Tammy Triheo.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Robert Kennedy Junior dropped out of the race and took
his name off the ballots in swing states, and with
all the focus on Michigan in Wisconsin being the two
states that may decide this election, here's something that's kind
of interesting. Election officials in those states cite legal technicalities
and Robert Kennedy Junior's name will remain on the ballots.
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The ruling comes despite Kennedy ending his campaign and despite
removing his name from the ballots. Now by technicality, they
will remain. Kennedy said he wanted to remove his name
from the ballots in these key battleground states to hopefully
help Donald Trunk win the election. Is the technicality to
help Kamala Harris win the election. And politics is often
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seeming like theater, so I guess it's only fitting that
some Broadway shows are planning to go dark on election Day.
Sarah Lee Kessler reports.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
The Broadway community wants you to vote, so many of
the plays and musicals will be staged on Monday, November fourth,
their usual day office Monday, instead of Tuesday, November fifth,
election Day. Broadway did the same thing during the twenty
sixteen presidential race. But in case you need distraction, that
Tuesday night, you can catch Harry Potter and The Cursed
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Child and The yet to Open Left on tenth The Outsiders.
Sarah Lee Tessler, NBC News Radio, New York.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, the challenge is it to get people to want
to watch sports. It's getting them to figure out where
it's at. And that's going to be a real challenge
for NFL football fans. ESPN is launching a new feature
on its app showing fans where they can tune in
to watch games because they're going to be that are defined.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The company said.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Where to Watch is its effort to meet the needs
of fans with new features. To improve the discoverability of
live sports. Users can search for specific events. I do
this a lot for the for you, the audience, and
I'm telling you it's not easy. Like I still can't
figure out where Thursday Night Football Ravens and Chiefs are
going to be.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Is it going to be on Prime? I don't know
it is.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I need to go to the ESPN app. Birthdays today.
I told you he's great in The Lincoln Lawyer. He
was great in Ocean's eleven. He was great in Love
American Style. Elliott Gould eighty six years old today. I
really like one direction. Liam Payne thirty one years old today.
An Entourage Spin City actress Carla Gudjean is fifty three
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years old today. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
So glad you were born. And thanks for waking up
with your morning show.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Hey, this is John Watson.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
My morning show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I'll make this transition quick.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Things you need to know after thirty eight days, Kamala
Harris is finally going to do an interview pre taped
on CNN, and Tim's coming along. Kennedy will remain on
the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
They're calling it a legal technicality.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And I guess they're all wanting us to focus on
Arlington Cemetery and careful of the stories you read, because
buried in all of them is that Donald Trump was
invited by parents of fallen soldiers three years ago in Afghanistan.
But I think they're trying to whip up some kind
of a political narrative and controversy there. And then we've
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been asking you, and thank you so much from emails
to to talkbacks, what questions would you ask if you're
Dana Bosh. The one from Vincent on freedom of speech
was huge, and then the one from Rick on why
did you hide Biden's cognitive disability from the public or
did you keep in mind If you're even listening on
the podcast right now, it's not too late to use
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that talkback button and leave us a talkback message. We
just wanted to compare the questions you think should be
asked versus which we'll be asked. But we'll all be
watching tonight and put it into perspective tomorrow morning. Roy
O'Neil's here with the obvious truth being a parent is hazard.
Just to your help, Well, it is certainly the greatest
joy of my life.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And the greatest stress of my life. So how much
is it killing us?
Speaker 15 (29:41):
That's exactly what the Surgeon General said as well, that
it is also the greatest joy of his life. But
he's realizing that parents today are facing unparalleled stresses and
especially with more single family, single parent households who are
stretched tight by rising inflation, that parents need a break
and need some attention and are actually feeling more isolated
(30:04):
than ever before.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Ironic in this height of social media.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, well, social media is a big culprit in it.
The world is a lot more dangerous, and it's right
in their hand and right up in their room with them,
and we don't know what's going on. It's interesting, you know.
The breakdown of the family is something we used to
talk about decades ago, and it really really got washed
out because of worldview. There's God's biblical plan for the
family and then there's the cultural acceptance of single parenting.
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But let's face it, parenting wasn't designed to be done alone.
I am most grateful that I have a wife who's
a mother and doing it with me. But anybody that's
had their kids go through a really rough time. I
mean rory when I tell you I went white, not gray,
white on both sides of my head in two months.
(30:52):
Those that you love the most have the ability to
scare you the most. So what about you know, hazardous
to your hell? I mean, statistically, was he trying to lay.
Speaker 15 (31:02):
Out, Well, essentially that there are mental health consequences, but
those stresses can turn into physical health consequences as well,
and then that obviously is seen by the kids, right
who then have to deal with a stressed out mom
or dad or both, So there can be essentially chain
reaction responses here. He also did point to social media
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and the pressure that's out there.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
How many of us have seen photos.
Speaker 15 (31:26):
This week of little Sally holding that chalkboard science satting first.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Day of grade three.
Speaker 15 (31:31):
Well, you know, you better have a good looking sign,
and the handwriting better be good on it, and the
wreath better be on the door in the background and
it's got to have corn stalks, and and it's got
to be a brand new outfit, and it's got to
be better than salad. All that stuff that is also
self imposed is something that he's talking about as well.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I think of the impact on bullying and influence. You know,
peer pressure. You're known by who you hang out with.
That's generational in every generation. But now we just don't
know who they're hanging out with through the Internet, and
then bullying things that people said. Things I said in
third grade. I've never forgot I tease this one big,
(32:09):
heavy set janitor and I called them be Oh. I
wish I could find that guy to apologize. Now it's
on the Internet and it's there forever, and so is
the bullying. I just can't imagine. I think it's the
toughest generation to be a kid, and it's certainly the
toughest generation to be a parent.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
And it doesn't end when you get home from school.
Speaker 15 (32:27):
It was the problem, and so the kids aren't getting
a break, and now mom's worried about the son who's
getting bullied at school, and you know, it goes again.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
It is this cycle that's out there.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (32:36):
Forty eight percent of parents say that most days their
stress is completely overwhelming. And by the way, when we
say parents, we meet parents of kids under eighteen living
at home.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, because I can tell you they're still living in
a home.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Baftery, that's a whole other deadly situation.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Rory with the final story.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
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you to email us at Michael di at iHeartMedia dot com.
Kathy writes, will the interview be aired unedited? Seems like
they could cut out any parts where she looks bad? Well,
well never know, will we? All we know is who
waited thirty eight days? It's finally going to happen on CNN.
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It's being pre taped and she's bringing her veep emotional
support candidate with her either way. Kamala finally does her interview,
still hasn't done a news conference is one of our
top stories. We're also getting feedback on our iHeartRadio app
talkback button. So if you're listening on the IHEARTRADIOPP, you
see a microphone, you click it, you can record a message,
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and we're asking you if you were Dana Bosh, what
are the questions you would ask of Kamala Harris tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We've got some great ones.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm a chameleon.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Balanced budget or continuing resolution. I hope Dana ask about
yellow school busses, and then I really need to be
unheartened by what is being.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hi, Michael, happy birthday to you. My name's Michael two
and it's also my birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
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point three and fifteen ten WLAC.
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What Michael means godly one.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Happy birthday to us, Michael, Happy birthday too.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Something tells me I wish I was your agent, not mine.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Happy birthday to us, My final day in my fifties,
So let me say hello to somebody else who's younger
and more successful than me. Our money was David Bonson, David,
we got the USA Today story the average cost of
the American Dream. That's a whole lot of the conversation, right,
what is the American dream is forty eight thousand dollars
more expensive than it was a decade ago. It's now
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one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars. Now that exceeds
the average income in the United States by over one
hundred and forty thousand dollars. So if it's unaffordable, now,
what does the text the next ten years bring out
of reach for our children? I wanted to start there
with you, but I guess we would start because I
also know you're a theologian and wrote a great book
(02:54):
called Full Time. We might wanted to find what American
dream is first good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well that's a good point. I mean, I suppose that
for my worldview, the truncated definition of the American dream
to some form of material achievement would be inadequate. Yet
I do believe that there is out of our economic
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liberty that is core to the founding of the country.
There is a sense in which certain degrees of material prosperity,
or the opportunity for such you know, life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness and what type of life someone
wants to have. The whole point is that it's unique
and independent to each individual. The point being in an
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opportunity society, that people should have the opportunity to get ahead.
I just don't really believe the notion that individuals don't
have the ability to get ahead. I recognize that a
lot of people have not, and that things cost more
and economic growth has slowed. I think all those things
(04:06):
are negatives. But I've never defined the American dream or
our ability to go pursue the kind of life we
want to have, something that I'm waiting around for a
certain government statistic I would like to think. I would
like to think we all have a little bit more
initiative than that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, you can get to a full time book.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Dot com is where you can find David's book that
will help you with that. Yeah, because you know, the
American dream is my freedom of speech, my freedom of
faith and religion, and to practice it, my right of assembly.
There's a lot of things to go into the American dream.
They play games with this. Sometimes a house, a three bedroom,
two bath house with a two car garage and everybody
has cable and everybody has smartphones, are still considered poor.
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I would say that might be the American dream in
and of itself. So yeah, it's it's a folly game
to play. And I remember when Barack Obama was telling
us for eight years how we can't be the you
know anything we want to be as he's president because
we're racist. These kind of become narrativized weapons more than realities. However,
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if you're going to use some kind of a matrix
to determine what it would cost to keep up with
the Jones as if you will, it certainly is problematic
on paper. One hundred and forty thousand dollars, is you know,
the difference between what it takes to afford the American
dream on average that isn't California, New York or other places,
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which is about one hundred and forty or eighty percent
short of the median income. So there is something causing something.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, again, the median income though, is a very tricky statement.
I mean, at the end of the day, the point
would be prices have gone up and that is making
it more unattainable except for wages who've gone up, and
there was a period where wages had not gone up
as much as prices has now covered that gap. Even
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when it was off, it was off one to two percent.
So I don't like the idea of prices going to
higher and wages going higher because I want price stability.
But if we're what the point we're trying to make
is is that people are getting left behind, you have
to cover both the top line and bottom line of
the p and l if costs are going up but
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incomes going up, in theory, it's the same deal. The
problem is that we're talking about a median, like you said,
and when we have a median, there's people above the
median and people who are below it, and so we're
really talking about people below the median, and there's a
lot of factors that go into that. And that's where
I'm as a person who believes in each individual made
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with dignity by God, made in the image and likeness
of God, it's so hard for me as a macroeconomist
to talk about people in groupings because I think everybody
has in divisional value and dignity. But if we're being
very honest economically, and you know this so well, Michael
that there are within when you get to a median
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there's people who are not reaching up to the American
dream because they don't work, don't want to work, have
bad habits, have bad moral decisions. And there are people
who work really hard and are frustrated because they're not
getting the opportunity they need, or because they overpaid for
a bad education, or because they've gotten, you know, a
(07:30):
bad deal somewhere, and so you know, there's all sorts
of circumstances that go into it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And the only thing I've.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Ever seen that works in dealing with these things, whether
there's macro or micro conditions and life that hold us back,
is an individual determination that, well, I'm not going to
let those things hold me back. Yes it's unfair, I've
lost my job in this place, Yes it's unfair my
taxes are up so much, or you know, whatever the
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case may be. There's all kinds of things that may happen.
But trying to individually work to overcome that is I
think the only recipe. The fact that there are people
who are not keeping up with the American dream, and it's
their fault, not the government's fault, not the Wall Street's fault,
(08:18):
not the media's fault. That makes the statistics very hard
because I don't think that we should expect to have
everybody at the median. By the way, the median would
then have to change everybody was at it. But you know,
we really have to focus on individual responsibility. And then
along the way the policy front, there are things like
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price stability, things like low in fair taxes, things like
a less regulated state. You know, there's all sorts of
things that need to be done, but the culture has
to drive the political change. Politics is not going to
drive cultural change.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
One of the promises I made in this show in
its name or morning show, as it belongs to the listeners,
not to me, not to the radio station, not to
the city it's in, or anything else.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It belongs to them.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
One of my great privileges is to bring in a
sea of voices, the right voices, and boy, yours is
one of the most unique. You don't bump into too
many people that are a theologian and an economist at
the same time. But that makes it perfect for this
conversation in that how much of this is identity issues?
Are we a land of opportunity or are we a
land of entitlement. We don't seem to have that right.
(09:28):
What is the proper size and role of government? What
is the role and responsibility of the individual? What is
a dream? What is the promised dream? What is the
intent of this nation and this government of people? Identity
is what's been constantly reshaped by culture and error, and
then we want to use statistics like this to write
our course. It really is laughable.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Well, and it also is something that I'm a little
bit increasingly concerned to be seeing from the right. I
think identity politics, I think critical theory. I think that
framework of that is very Marxian and its orientation that
views the world as something divided by the oppressed and
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the oppressor. I think that that's been very part of
the course in progressive left wing perspective for a long time.
And it is Rusaian, it is Marxian, it is absolutely
add one.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Can I add one?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's also insanity based on what the founding fathers handed you.
If you are oppressing, you're being oppressed by yourself. You
have elected and voted all these things, So you've made
an enemy of yourself, haven't you?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
To some degree?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, there's no question, and it has to do with
the biblical anthropology. You've you've made a mockery of human nature,
what we understand about the human person. And I think
that what I refer to about being concerned with the
right is that while the right is not adopting critical theory,
in this Marxian oppressed oppressor dichotomy, there's increasingly a victimhood mentality,
(11:10):
a victimhood complex that I think is seeping in on
the right now. I want to resist that every chance
I get. It may come from a slightly different place
at times, but you know, I don't believe that the man,
that rich white men, that corporate America is out trying
to ruin opportunity for minorities, or for the middle class,
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or for you know, oppressed groups. But I also don't
believe that all of us are merely victims of whatever
the government's going to do or the media is going
to do. We tend to change around our boogeyman based
on who are our point of view may be, and
I'm uncomfortable with that. I really believe that we have,
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as you point out, this individual responsibility, and that we
oppress ourselves when we act like we're a constantly oppressed person.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, let me be less subtle. You lose God, you
lose Man. You certainly lose your way, because He is
the Way, the truth, and the life. If you lose,
all things work together. If you lose, greater is he
that is in me than he that is in the world.
If God before you, who can be against you, I
shall provide all your needs according to my riches in glory.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You don't make these mistakes.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
There is a spiritual value and north star that our
founding fathers have that it's people today don't. And it's
necessary for a republic to work, including an economy.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I agree one hundred percent. We have the formula and
the only thing that people can hold on to is
the fact that it isn't work. But as Thomas Soul
taught us, that's because we have a constrained vision, those
of us who believe in the doctrine of original sin.
So this is what the theological part of me comes out.
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But see, this was embedded in the Founding fathers. The
Federalist papers make this very clear. One of the reasons
we have the divided government, we have separation of powers
and so forth, is because we recognize the fallibility of mankind.
So while there are things that won't go right even
when you think you're doing everything right, that's because on
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this side of glory, the world's not perfectible, and all
horrible events in human history, especially in the twentieth century,
came from a utopian vision for society.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We want to measure it by dollar and cents, and
it's really about worldview sense.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Isn't it more than we think?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, it is. And you know, human flourishing is the
term I use all the time. What do you study
economics for? I believe in human flourishing. What are you
trying to accomplish? I want, because of what I believe
in Genesis want about mankind. You want a greater opportunity
for mankind to live the good life, to obtain shalom
human flourishing. Human flourishing is much like the incarnate nature
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of Jesus, who is fully God holy Man, who is
spiritual and material the world that God himself made. We
have souls that can never die, but we are embodied people.
Human flourishing is physical and spiritual. I care about the
soul and well being and happiness of people, and that
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also involves their material and physical conditions, and I am
so tired of people putting a dichotomy between those two things.
I view it as both and because God views it
is both.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And can you do me a favorite? Help me remember
next week?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You know the whole story of Nvidia and how every
time we have a major breakthrough, you come out with Apple,
you come out with Google, and now it looks like
we're going to come out in AI with Nvidia. Why
is it when we go through industrial revolution, we you know,
we dealt with monopolies, we go through the technological revolution,
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we're dealing with monopolies and we're already creating the next
one with AI.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I want to do that next week.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
But oh gosh, I may have enjoyed this last ten
minutes more than I've enjoyed ten minutes this entire year
of your morning show. Thank you so much for who
you are and what you do, and for joining us
every week. You want to read his book Full Time,
go to full time dot com. Get that book and
we'll talk next week or sooner, Conditions warrant. Thank you
so much, David Bonson, Thanks too much, Michael.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrona.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's interesting. John Decker brought it out. You know, you
bring Tim along on this first one. Fine, I'll give
you a pass. But you continue to bring Tim along
everywhere and continue to not do interviews and continue to
news conferences. Well that's pretty revealing. But you know the
fact that it's pre taped, is it going to be edited? Well,
that's nothing compared to the questions asked, the questions not asked,
(16:04):
follow up questions that happen or don't happen, the ones
Tim answers versus the one Kamala answer, and how many
of the questions that really need to be asked will
be asked. We'll all watch CNN tonight and then we'll
talk about it tomorrow or better yet, if you can't
watch it tonight, tune in the morning and we'll have
all the highlights, low lights and perspectives, but we won't
tell you how to think. I think everybody before this
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even happens has the most impactful perspective. Why do we
have to wait thirty eight days for this? Why is
Tim there? And why is it pre taped? And why
have you still not done a news conference? I don't
know what could possibly happen in the performance of Kamala
or Dana Bosh.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That can.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Change what that reveals, the hiding in plain sight as
they once hid in a basement. And probably the best
question our listeners have come up with, what role did
you play in hiding the cognitive impairment of Joe Biden?
Why didn't you say beak up sooner? I don't think
they'll ask that one. Well, it's labor Day. We were
(17:07):
made to work. We shouldn't be defined by what we do,
but we should be enriched and others should be enriched
by what we do. As Labor Day approaches, a vast
majority of Americans believe their hard work is being erased
by inflation.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Aaron Rayal is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Taking a look at how the current economic situation is
impact impacting all of our perspective about hard work. And
I don't have to tell you wharin work ethic is
one of the great issues we need to address in America.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We don't need stinking thinking to go along with it.
Good morning, Aaron.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I couldn't agree with you more. Yes, and listen, we
are hard workers. Very few of us take vacations, certainly
not enough. But seventy four percent of people think that
inflation is erasing their hard work. This is according to
wallet hub going into the Labor Day weekend. And again,
we're not like the we don't slack off. On average.
The the workday for Americans is eight hours if you're
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in the office, five point one if you're out of
the office. I would argue it's more if you're out
of the office because you kind of like never get
to stop working. But the idea being that we are really,
really in a tough place right now. Sixty seven percent
of Americans believe that they're working harder this year than last.
But at the same time, sixty seven percent the same
exact amount feel that they're doing better financially.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So what does that tell us that there has.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Been a little bit of reprieve but not enough.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, we just had a long conversation with David Bonson,
who's kind of our money with and he's also a theologian.
Can you imagine a theologian and an economist in one
But yeah, but so much of.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It is focused in perspective.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know, we did the story yesterday with Rory on
the American dream and what is the American dream? I
think it's freedom of speech. I think it's land of opportunity.
I think it's freedom of religion and right of assembly.
And if my focus is on God, really the burdens
on God to provide all of my needs, not once,
according to his riches and glory. I'm not looking for
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government to do that. But you know, it's just so funny.
All these stories really are only stories if you're looking
at victimhood or someone else to solve your problems, or
all the wrong scoreboards for what is winning in a
game of life?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't know what to make of this one. In particular.
It's not on my mind heading into Labor Day, I
can tell you that. And I'm very aware of inflation,
I'm very aware of taxation, and I'm very aware of
uncertainty with an election looming.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But it's not no.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I love what I do, I love who I do
it with, I love who I do it for, And
as far as how much money I make, that's up
to God. Last time I looked, I got a wife,
three healthy kids, and we're eating and I have a house.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm fine.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
But you're rich.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
You're rich in so many ways, Michael, Like I think
you said it right that like the it's the idea
of like victimhood. Do I deserve this and should someone
give it to me? Or you know, is it the
mindset that no one me anything and anything I have
like I worked hard for and I you know, it's
kind of like what how many more handouts do you want?
And listen, I'm not saying either way, like if you
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want handouts, okay, cool, that's fine too, but that's not
necessarily like the fabric from which.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's funny you would bring up handouts. You do know,
tomorrow's my birthday.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Oh happy birthday?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh no, no, I want more than that. That's what
I gave you. I want something tangible.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's coming, it's coming, it's in the mail. As they say, Wait,
I do want to I want to end on a
happy you know, with this on, because like this actually
blew my mind and made me be like, what is
this right?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Sixty nine percent of Americans say that Labor Day is
their favorite holiday.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Is that not weird to you?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's really weird to me.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Maybe because it's the end of summer.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, football season's coming, or the weather's still good, but
you can do one last boat outing.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't know what's happened for me. Hands down, it's Christmas,
Christmas Eve. To be exact. I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
My wife fates it because it feels like, you know, yeah,
you sit there and eat, you know, and unbuckle your
your button and watch football all day.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I have to cook and clean.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't know that I would put Labor Day. I mean,
that's a three day weekend, but I know that would even.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Register with me.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
I could.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
I'm like, I'm on this name bed Room'm like no, no,
I like Labor Day, like they could. I appreciate the
day off, but I'm like, I don't think if someone
asked me, like, knee jerk, what's your favorite holiday, that
Labor Day would even register in my brain as like
a holiday.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, think of family food. If we'd done it on
family food, name.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The five favorite holidays?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You know you go labor Day.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Right, yeah, some of you exactly. I just thought that
was and I agree. Actually I love Thanksgiving like I
love it. But I think it's because like I kind
of enjoy the cooking, and I make a rule that
I'm not cleaning this crap up someone else house jasa,
I end.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Up having a great time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I love labor that's why you always invite those that
don't have anywhere to go, because then they obligated to clean.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Maybe that's there you go.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah, the Motley Crew of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
As much as someone who was serving out a six
month non competed unemployed last labor day. I'm excited about
this labor day because I'm actually taking a break from labor.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And not waiting and worrying. Aaron Rayel, thank you so much.
We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Bye, my friend.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, when if you're just waking up, here's what
you need to know. These are the top five stories
of the day. We've talked at morety long about the
elephant in the room, thirty eight days as an elephant
in the room, CNN's an elephant in the room, Dana
Bosh of All People's an elephant in the room, Kamala
Harris and why we had to wait for thirty eight
days for our first interview as an elephant in the room,
(22:39):
and the fact that we she brought Timmy with her.
I mean, that's that's hard to not notice. Brian Shook
as our road to the White House.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Road to the White House, twenty twenty four, Kamala Harris
is under Republican scrutiny for including her VP pick in
her first interview. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims Democrats
think Hair can't handle a one on one interview.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
It's clear that her own team and her own party
thinks she needs a babysitter, and that's why they're putting
her vice presidential nominee on the stage with her.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Republicans also question why the interview needs to be pre taped.
Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls are set to sit
with CNN in an interview to air at nine pm
Eastern tonight. The interview is expected to take place while
Harris and Walls are on a bus tour through Georgia.
In Washington, I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Officials from the US and China are agreeing for a
call to take place between President Biden, Yeah, Joe's still
president and the Chinese president. She Mark Mayfield has the
details of this story.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Nicoll will be part of efforts to smoother relationship between
the two countries. The agreement comes from a meeting held
Wednesday in Beijing between National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in
a top Chinese official, Biden and she agreed in November
to have increased communications between.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The two sides.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I'm mark Neeview.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Confirms it launched a large scale operation in the occupied
West Bank. Lisa Taylor has.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
More Israeli military carried out airstrikes and raids. Early Wednesday,
Daniel Hamamjen reports from Jerusalem on what the Israeli military
is trying to accomplish.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
In the words of the Israeli Foreign Minister, He said
this today that Iran is working to set up a
terrorists front against Israel in the West Bank, following the
model of Gaza and Lebanon, also calling this a full
fledged war.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said ten people were killed
and nearly two dozen injured in the military operation. I'm
Lisa Taylor.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Companies are being flooded with job applications from North Korea,
Michael Kassner reports.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Startup Sender says it suspects as many as four in
five applicants from some job websites were part of a
remote work scheme aimed to help fund the North Korean state.
According to Forbes, a cybersecurity expert told the news outlet
it saw one email account automated to apply to three
hundred different jobs, usually in IT. Once hired, they use
(25:01):
AI to do the work for them and can make
as much as three hundred thousand dollars a year. I'm
Michael Kassner.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yelp is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Tammy Trihila reports earlier this month, a federal judge ruled
that Google violated US anti trust laws and had monopolized
the search market. Now Yelp has filed a lawsuit in
San Francisco. A legend Google used that monopoly to dominate
advertising markets and manipulate search results.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In an online.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Statement, He'll called Google the largest information gatekeeper in existence
and said the company keeps users within Google's owned ecosystem
and prevents them from going to rival sites.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm Tammy Triheo.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Robert Kennedy Junior dropped out of the race and took
his name off the ballots in swing states, and with
all the focus on Michigan in Wisconsin being the two
states that may decide this election, here's something that's kind
of interesting. Election officials in those states cite legal technicalities
and Robert Kennedy Junior's name will remain on the ballots.
(26:03):
The ruling comes despite Kennedy ending his campaign and despite
removing his name from the ballots. Now by technicality, they
will remain. Kennedy said he wanted to remove his name
from the ballots in these key battleground states to hopefully
help Donald Trunk win the election. Is the technicality to
help Kamala Harris win the election. And politics is often
(26:25):
seeming like theater, so I guess it's only fitting that
some Broadway shows are planning to go dark on election Day.
Sarah Lee Kessler reports.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
The Broadway community wants you to vote, so many of
the plays and musicals will be staged on Monday, November fourth,
their usual day office Monday, instead of Tuesday, November fifth,
election Day. Broadway did the same thing during the twenty
sixteen presidential race. But in case you need distraction, that
Tuesday night, you can catch Harry Potter and The Cursed
(26:57):
Child and The yet to Open Left on tenth The Outsiders.
Sarah Lee Tessler, NBC News Radio, New York.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, the challenge is it to get people to want
to watch sports. It's getting them to figure out where
it's at. And that's going to be a real challenge
for NFL football fans. ESPN is launching a new feature
on its app showing fans where they can tune in
to watch games because they're going to be that are defined.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The company said.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Where to Watch is its effort to meet the needs
of fans with new features. To improve the discoverability of
live sports. Users can search for specific events. I do
this a lot for the for you, the audience, and
I'm telling you it's not easy. Like I still can't
figure out where Thursday Night Football Ravens and Chiefs are
going to be.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Is it going to be on Prime? I don't know
it is.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I need to go to the ESPN app. Birthdays today.
I told you he's great in The Lincoln Lawyer. He
was great in Ocean's eleven. He was great in Love
American Style. Elliott Gould eighty six years old today. I
really like one direction. Liam Payne thirty one years old today.
An Entourage Spin City actress Carla Gudjean is fifty three
(28:05):
years old today. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
So glad you were born. And thanks for waking up
with your morning show.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Hey, this is John Watson.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
My morning show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I'll make this transition quick.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Things you need to know after thirty eight days, Kamala
Harris is finally going to do an interview pre taped
on CNN, and Tim's coming along. Kennedy will remain on
the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
They're calling it a legal technicality.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And I guess they're all wanting us to focus on
Arlington Cemetery and careful of the stories you read, because
buried in all of them is that Donald Trump was
invited by parents of fallen soldiers three years ago in Afghanistan.
But I think they're trying to whip up some kind
of a political narrative and controversy there. And then we've
(28:56):
been asking you, and thank you so much from emails
to to talkbacks, what questions would you ask if you're
Dana Bosh. The one from Vincent on freedom of speech
was huge, and then the one from Rick on why
did you hide Biden's cognitive disability from the public or
did you keep in mind If you're even listening on
the podcast right now, it's not too late to use
(29:18):
that talkback button and leave us a talkback message. We
just wanted to compare the questions you think should be
asked versus which we'll be asked. But we'll all be
watching tonight and put it into perspective tomorrow morning. Roy
O'Neil's here with the obvious truth being a parent is hazard.
Just to your help, Well, it is certainly the greatest
joy of my life.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And the greatest stress of my life. So how much
is it killing us?
Speaker 15 (29:41):
That's exactly what the Surgeon General said as well, that
it is also the greatest joy of his life. But
he's realizing that parents today are facing unparalleled stresses and
especially with more single family, single parent households who are
stretched tight by rising inflation, that parents need a break
and need some attention and are actually feeling more isolated
(30:04):
than ever before.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Ironic in this height of social media.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, well, social media is a big culprit in it.
The world is a lot more dangerous, and it's right
in their hand and right up in their room with them,
and we don't know what's going on. It's interesting, you know.
The breakdown of the family is something we used to
talk about decades ago, and it really really got washed
out because of worldview. There's God's biblical plan for the
family and then there's the cultural acceptance of single parenting.
(30:30):
But let's face it, parenting wasn't designed to be done alone.
I am most grateful that I have a wife who's
a mother and doing it with me. But anybody that's
had their kids go through a really rough time. I
mean rory when I tell you I went white, not gray,
white on both sides of my head in two months.
(30:52):
Those that you love the most have the ability to
scare you the most. So what about you know, hazardous
to your hell? I mean, statistically, was he trying to lay.
Speaker 15 (31:02):
Out, Well, essentially that there are mental health consequences, but
those stresses can turn into physical health consequences as well,
and then that obviously is seen by the kids, right
who then have to deal with a stressed out mom
or dad or both, So there can be essentially chain
reaction responses here. He also did point to social media
(31:23):
and the pressure that's out there.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
How many of us have seen photos.
Speaker 15 (31:26):
This week of little Sally holding that chalkboard science satting first.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Day of grade three.
Speaker 15 (31:31):
Well, you know, you better have a good looking sign,
and the handwriting better be good on it, and the
wreath better be on the door in the background and
it's got to have corn stalks, and and it's got
to be a brand new outfit, and it's got to
be better than salad. All that stuff that is also
self imposed is something that he's talking about as well.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I think of the impact on bullying and influence. You know,
peer pressure. You're known by who you hang out with.
That's generational in every generation. But now we just don't
know who they're hanging out with through the Internet, and
then bullying things that people said. Things I said in
third grade. I've never forgot I tease this one big,
(32:09):
heavy set janitor and I called them be Oh. I
wish I could find that guy to apologize. Now it's
on the Internet and it's there forever, and so is
the bullying. I just can't imagine. I think it's the
toughest generation to be a kid, and it's certainly the
toughest generation to be a parent.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
And it doesn't end when you get home from school.
Speaker 15 (32:27):
It was the problem, and so the kids aren't getting
a break, and now mom's worried about the son who's
getting bullied at school, and you know, it goes again.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
It is this cycle that's out there.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (32:36):
Forty eight percent of parents say that most days their
stress is completely overwhelming. And by the way, when we
say parents, we meet parents of kids under eighteen living
at home.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, because I can tell you they're still living in
a home.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Baftery, that's a whole other deadly situation.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Rory with the final story.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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