09-12-24 Your Morning Show Hour 1

Debate over, now what??

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is your morning show with Michael del Johnny. What
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It's good to be back in the Death to Light Club.
Seven minutes after the hour. Good morning, Rise and shine,

(00:49):
and welcome to Thursday, September the twelfth, twenty twenty four.
This is your morning show. I'm Michael del Jona, Jeffrey
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iHeart trust Me. I worked for others. I was in
l I have died. I'm in radio heaven. We have
nothing but the smartest people. They give you everything you
need to succeed, including great people like Jeffrey and others
all around. Sorry, but stuff happens, right, Yes, So we
get up this morning and for some reason, the connection
between our studios was down. This was yesterday, yesterday, yeah,

(01:36):
and you know, what do you do? So my natural
instinct was, what's got to be on my end, right,
can't be the radio station normally it is. So I
start rebooting computers, rebooting the links between the studios I'm
reading to And now it's five minutes to the top
of the hour and the show's getting ready to start. Well,
it's clear we're not getting on the air, so I

(01:57):
have to hop in the car. But I got tell
you the funniest part of the story, so believe it
or not. I left the house at like, what was it,
five oh one? Yes, and I was at that garage
door in twenty five minutes. I don't know how that happened.
By the way, if you're listening in local law enforcement
in Tennessee, I don't know how that happened. Thank you.
We appreciate you. And unlike Tyreek Hill, I did have

(02:21):
my window down. That's an inside joke that onlybody following
the Tyreek Hill story notes. Oh boy, So I get
on the Interstate. I mean I'm cruising good because you
know there's no lights at tut that time in the morning. Sure,
it's just blinking. Yeah, you give me a good time.
So I get on the Interstate. Now, where I get
on the Interstate, it's probably a thing four lanes maybe five, Okay.

(02:43):
You know how you can see wide load trucks. Well, yeah,
and they're usually like the whole lane. Maybe they spill
over a little bit into another lane, so they call
it a wide load, and then they flank it with
some blinking cars. I actually saw for the first time
in my life, I saw a wide load that the
load itself was three lanes. No way, I never see

(03:05):
anything that wide me neither. I mean that was a
wide load. Is that it almost needed a different sign, right, like,
oh my god, look at what's in front of you load?
And I was like, what is this? And then they
flanked one lit car to the right and one of
the left. It took up five lanes. What were they?
What were they transport. I don't know what it was.

(03:26):
I don't know how any truck was strong enough to
carry it. I mean, it wasn't just wide. It looked
like just concrete or something. I don't know what it was.
And it was covered with tarp. So so I'm like, well,
now what do I do? And they're going they might
have even been going to speed limit. That was a
load of government lies. I'm telling you. It was like
Bruce Almighty the movie. I mean, everything that that Satan

(03:49):
could throw at us yesterday. So finally we get more
towards this does mean anybody. But when you get towards
Brentwood and Nashville, then it goes to six lanes just briefly.
That's when I got around it and I got to
you and we so, you know, we had an unfortunate
first thirty minutes yesterday. It's all been corrected. You know,
it happens. Stuff happens, and it was just a crazy

(04:09):
day for both of us. Boy, are you a pro though? Hey,
we had a good time. It was nice to have
you in the house. I hope you found things hospitable.
So it's the DNC convention. Yeah, and Bill Clinton walks
up to the microphone and the teleprompter goes out. Oh
was it the State of the Union. I think it

(04:30):
was the State of the Union, now that I think
of it, the State of the Union. Does he get
real story? Okay, gets up that the teleprompter goes out.
He does about forty minutes till he restore it. We
just forty minutes of his speech. Doesn't miss a beat.
Anybody else that would have happened to, you know, they'd
have been looking around, or they'd grabbed their paper and
read it. He just kept going. Yesterday, I arrived at

(04:53):
the studio at what was it five thirty? We ran
up the backstairs. Yeah, ran into the studio. By the way,
way do you see your new studios? That I'm bashing
your old ones?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
But way do you see your new one? This is
home right now? Yeah, well in about three weeks your
new home, yep is breathtaking. But anyway, so we get
it this year. I sit down now. I don't have
any of the newscasts that I've prepared, any of the sound.
This is the morning after the debate. It's the anniversary
of nine eleven. I don't have any of my notes.
I don't have any of my stories. I just have

(05:23):
a microphone. I that whole show was a Bill Clinton.
That was really it was really fun to watch through
the window, just you doing you. But you know what,
at the end of the day, was it aggravating? Yeah,
I'm glad everything's normal today. Yeah, But isn't that radio?
Isn't that beautiful? Can you do that anywhere else? You
know that we could just sit down together and talk

(05:46):
and it's still enough. Now today we've got the full
compliment of all of our information and sound. But I
don't know it. I guess what was meant to be.
You know, I didn't have any high aspirations. I wanted to, honestly,
just you know, for those that didn't watch the debate,
give them the moments so it would feel as if
they did, or they could have an opinion as if

(06:08):
they did. I'm not big on necessarily sharing my opinion.
I don't think under any stretch of the imagination would
I have been able to portray to you that Donald
Trump did well. But I guess I would have wanted
to portray how despicable ABC was. But I really wanted
to deliver that nine to eleven address, and we were
still able to do that. So, but what it proved

(06:31):
to me was as bad as everything was, it was
still radio at its best, intimate and great. It just
one on one and immediate, and it's all we need
is each other. That's why we called this show. You're
a morning show really does belong to you. Sometimes it's
just a little harder to serve you than others. Right.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
But I have never seen and we don't get an opportunity.
This show is always packed. We don't get an opportunity
to play all the talkbacks that we get, and we
get numerous talkbacks every day, but I have never seen
anything like we got yesterday about they come in pages
on a web on a website when you send us

(07:10):
a talk back, Yeah it is, it comes to a
website for me to hear.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I have never seen. We had three pages. Yeah, and
we need to keep that up. And we can't have
your morning show without your voice. That shouldn't be just
a morning after the debate, that should be every morning.
And I want to say something very complimentary to all
of you. There are some MVPs I can tell you
I'd be I'd be fine just working for KFYI in Phoenix,

(07:36):
or you know just one, O four nine, the Patriot
in Saint Louis. These are all dream jobs and I
get to do all of them at once. I was
the permanent fill in for Michael Savage, and then after
Michael's heart attack, I was like a Jay Leno. I
was like twice a week, and that's nationwide, and we
would take callers and they would be you know, they
were so so when I when I filled in a

(07:59):
KFI in Los Angeles, those were the smartest callers I
ever had. It was like having an ensemble cast, a
very smart, talented correspondence and now analysts and experts. I
think we have some of the smartest listeners I've ever had.

(08:20):
It's just such a joy when I hear from you.
You guys have all the I'll never forget that. Even
yesterday's email, that guy nailed it all. He said, I
mean he was busy, he had his girls soccer game,
and then you need to put his son to bed.
He only caught a little bit, but in his maybe
three five minutes of watching the debate, he nailed everything.
Never underestimate you're the best part of this show. You

(08:43):
out there waking up this morning. That's why it's called
your morning show, So take your ownership. You call one
eight hundred sixt eight eight ninety five twenty two, eight
hundred six eight eight ninety five to twenty two. Always
use that talkback button. It's on your iHeartRadio app, a
little microphone. You press it even counts you down like
a pro. Two one. Can we show him our best
person who ever called then? How he used it? The

(09:04):
example of how dude, the one you normally play in
my ear all the time as a joke. Yeah, you
want to hear? Are you there?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I've got that one. But my favorite of all time
has got to be this.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
The Morning Show. I'm listening to some guy from Akron.
I wouldn't up on the board operation. That's my favorite
part that he he knows it's a board operation. That
was our first day in was that Phoenix? No, I
think it was Sacramento. That was our first day on

(09:37):
the air in Sacramento. This guy calls them, yeah, but
this was my favorite. This guy hits the three two
one and says, oh, I'm looking. I just think it's
on another page. Michael, Oh, well the number.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
He's like, hello, can I just say on behalf of
the are you there on behalf of the listeners and
I was one for a long time. We just want
you to always remember.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Is that from the Yeah, yeah, the Help Oh just
kind of masterpiece that movie was, all right, So anyway, Yeah,
you can use the iHeartRadio app and the talkback button
and then of course I always go to fashion email
Michael di at iHeartMedia dot com or what does the
world have for us on the buffet table this morning
for this Thursday, September twelfth. Well, Hurricane Francine did make

(10:22):
landfall as a Category two. It's now just a tropical
storm and north of New Orleans and my brother, keep
them all in your thoughts in prayers. House speaker Mike
Johnson said he's pulling a government funding bill probably. I mean,
there's several things. They do this all the time. They'll
eventually settle their fight and push us all further into debt.
But the fight is over non Americans being blocked from voting,

(10:46):
and somehow the Democrats don't want to give in on that.
But that's one of the aspects. A man suspected of
starting a line in fire line in southern California is
in custody, and we always see these fires. It got
out of control. On you wonder what was this all
global warming? Or there are some people starting it? Well,
this one guy got caught trying to start one. The
Nielsen ratings are out now. Remember it was hosted by

(11:06):
ABC and on ABC network, but all networks are allowed
to carry it. So this was on all the major networks,
all the cable networks. Sixty seven million people watch the
debate on Tuesday night, and I think, and I'm going
by pure photographic memory, but I believe fifty one million
watched the one that knocked Joe Biden out of the race. Oh,

(11:27):
this is significantly more. And I know what your impression is. Oh,
sixty seven million finally watch, and that's when Trump decides
to have a bad performance. I got some good news
for you coming up in a little bit. You'll be
shocked at how. And it's just a random group of
ten or eleven in this one particular study, But in

(11:49):
one random sample that was released by Reuters today, six
of them thought Trump won. I don't even I don't
even know how you arrived there, other than I think
they and this would be me. I can't speak for
you. You could be for Kamala Harris, but I'm actually going
to vote for Donald Trump. I thought he did very poorly.

(12:11):
I thought ABC was disgraceful, But I still planned to
vote for Donald Trump even though he did poorly. And
I think because that's in the back of their mind,
I think the vote comes out that way. In other words,
if you think that bad performance in sixty seven million
people watching is the end of Donald Trump, think again.
He may not have lost a thing. In fact, I
would bet my life he didn't lose a thing. Question

(12:31):
is what did he gain? And then they both go
off and we start seeing their early strategies. Isn't it interesting?
By the way, I always respect Democrats when it comes
to They never have good candidates, and I don't believe
they're ever on the right side of worldview, policy view,
or agenda. But they know how to run a campaign
in a ground game. And they're off to North Carolina.

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I'm gonna pop up the two seventy to win and
show you why that's so important later in the show,
and the as I told you, could this entire election
come down to the United States Post Office? Oh now
I feel really safe. What have they done well? Election
officials across the country are very concerned though. The changes

(13:14):
at the postal service could cause tremendous delays of ballots
by the way you got the postmarking, and whether they
can be counted if they arrive late, what's done with them.
There's so much more going on behind the scenes. We've
got a great Thursday night football game tonight, Buffalo at Miami.
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuna, one

(13:36):
of my favorite listeners who listens on talk radio DOTT
eight point three and fifteen ten WLAC in Nashville, WA.
I want to go back to the old days of
b WLAC WYAC news time. She sent me there. The
Babylon be still does the funniest stuff. So they've got
this beautiful picture of Taylor Swift on stage kind of

(13:56):
looking over his shoulder and singing, and says, woman who
made a careering about her bad choices endorses.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Kamala right, just the perfect It's a great point.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Everyone she endorses. Take this as good news. Everyone here
in Tennessee we get this. She came out against one
of our senators. Everyone she endorses loses, So that could
be the best sign of the morning. Hey, if you're
just waking up, Jin don't jinx it. Why you like
my yard boy Corey. Everything goes bad in life and
it's my fault. It rain today, I can't make any money,

(14:28):
must be your fault. Hurricane Francine is just north of
New Orleans now and just a tropical storm. A man
suspected of starting a line of fires in southern California's
in custody. Nielsen reports sixty seven million people watch that
debate on Tuesday. Meanwhile, both candidates are fighting over whether
or not they lab a second and both are fighting
over who won. I can tell you who lost us. Meanwhile,

(14:52):
election officials across the country are concerned that changes with
the US Postal Service. Well, they basically just push around
junk across the country. Yes, let's have the entire election
decided by them. There's going to be some outrageous delays
apparently concerning the post Office is handling of mail in voting.
So maybe we won't know who won on election night.

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We may not. Anyway, here's two interesting stories that I
think you know that's the news cycle. This is what
I think really matters. This is a Fox story. Actually,
Vice President Kamala Harrison former President Donald Trump dueled it
out during their first presidential debate on Tuesday night, and
with a debate behind them, they're now traveling to different

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swing states where they get a chance to speak directly
with voters. So strategy, you know, it's kind of like
a president gives the State of the Union address, and
then where he goes to sell his State of the
Union address that somewhat national with the backdrop of important locations.
This is key. They're showing you what they think is
on the map and important Trump heads and I kind

(15:59):
of get this. I'm not bashing. He goes straight to Arizona.
He has got to win Nevada and Arizona, and it
looks good for him to win Nevada and Arizona. And
he has pretty much kept going there even as the
Harris camp has somewhat abandoned that. But notice where the

(16:20):
Harris team is going. I know what you're thinking. Michigan, right, No, No, Wisconsin, No, Oh, Pennsylvania. Oh,
she was in Pennsylvania. She's going to North Carolina, Charlotte
and Greensboro. Why because Arizona and North Carolina are a

(16:40):
big prize. Let's zoom in on the two seventy to
win map. So if you, and this is everybody that's
blue is blue, everybody is red is red. All very
very predictable. Kamala Harris leads two hundred and forty eight
to two hundred and twenty two. What's in question. What's
in question is Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada.

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I've even taken the liberty to give Kamala Harris Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Michigan and fully giving her Colorado in New Mexico
because I don't expect any surprise with that lean. So
we're really down to five. And often what is stated

(17:24):
it's all about Pennsylvania, but it's not. It is for
Kamala Harris, but it's not for both. Kamala Harris needs
Pennsylvania or it becomes very problematic. Watch what happens when
I tip take Pennsylvania and I make it red. Now
Donald Trump is at two forty one, she's at two
forty three. Give either Nevada. You give Nevada and Arizona

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to Trump. It's over. I'll do it real quick, just
so you can see. He goes two fifty eight, and
then it really comes down to, you know, for Kamala
Harris at that point, I don't know if I give
her both, if it matters, Yeah, she can't get there.

(18:14):
Two fifty nine is as high as she can get.
So make a long story. Sure, you could say Georgia
in North Carolina is everything. Now if I give her Pennsylvania,
which I think could happen, and I give her Georgia,

(18:34):
she's a two ninety four. Take away Georgia and give
it to Trump. And now she's at two seventy eight
and he's at two fifty five. That makes North Carolina everything.
So if I take North Carolina back, she's at two
sixty two, he's a two fifty five. See, it's all
how you fold it in. When we go back to

(18:55):
twenty sixteen an election night, the first thing we saw
was oh Trump ended up winning Georgia. Oh my gosh,
she just won North Carolina. They we were like, hey,
this is getting interesting. Then he won Pennsylvania. Whoa, he
wins Nevada and Arizona. He wins, He beats Hillary Clinton.

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And then we didn't even get there because he took
Michigan in Wisconsin. But even giving Kamala the sweep of
the Great Lakes, give her Minnesota, give her Wisconsin, give
her Michigan, even give her the rest of Belt Pennsylvania.
She still needs North Carolina. And they're clearly gonna concede.
In fact, it's not in the story, but I'm telling

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you based on the way they handled that debate, they're
headed back to Florida. They have it in their mind
and everybody gets in their tunnel vision in bubbles. That's
why both Canadas believe they both won, and they probably
really do because they only hear people tell tell him
what they want to hear. Now, I was watching. Didn't

(20:02):
change the way I voted, but I would have said,
Kamala one. Donald performed poorly. ABC was a disgrace. It
was three on one. They've done a fact check. I
can point out twenty five lies alone, which I'd rather
you not view them as sour grapes and twenty five lies.
But she based so much of the debate on You're

(20:23):
gonna hear a lot of lies from Donald Trump. But
that was twenty five lies that ABC didn't bother to
hold her in check. I can count on my hand
at least three or four times they tried to embarrass
the president and fact checked them immediately. Didn't do that
for Harris, but they based everything on abortion, and I

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think they really think they're onto something with abortion, and
I think they're not done in Florida. I think Florida's
solid red. I think Nevada solid red. I think Arizona's
solid red. I am not and I'm one of the
few people who's not. I am not convinced George is safe.
And so the way I have it right now, personally, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, and Georgia's all I'm looking at. And with

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all three of those neutral, it's two forty three Kamala
Harris to two thirty nine Donald Trump. It's a dead heat.
She's in North Carolina for good reason. North Carolina may
be the most powerful thing nobody is focusing on. And
you talk to anybody in the know, and they'll say
North Carolina is gonna be fine, and then they'll tell
you and George is looking better. I'm gonna say something

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out loud. I don't want to get in trouble for it.
But if there are any Shenanigans to be played, they're
always played in Philadelphia, and they're always played in Atlanta,
and they're always played in Milwaukee. And if I give
all three of those blue. Pennsylvania goes blue. Hang on,
I gotta click my click, my clicker off here. You

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got high score. Yet she's a two seventy eight wins,
so North Carolina is not enough. Donald Trump's path to
victory is North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. That's where he
should be living. I'll there's all scream at the radio

(22:13):
and say, don't give up on Pennsylvania. That's why you
got jd vance. He could win there. Well, if he does,
it's over for her. So I think you major. I mean,
I'm not a don't I'm not a paid strategist, but
you can't afford I would make I would make Georgia,
North Carolina a priority over Pennsylvania because you get that

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and you can't lose. You're a two ninety given it.
I'll give her the you're a two seventy one, you win,
even if she takes Pennsylvania. Be interesting to see. We'll
talk later maybe tomorrow with David Zanati. We're gonna talk
a little bit later on with Chris Walker. But my
eyes remember the old Frankie Valley Mysizogia. My eyes can't

(22:56):
get off North Carolina. And Georgia for Donald Trump and
minor in make Sure and about an Arizona come through. Hi.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I'm Andrea del Jorno and my husband and my morning
show is your Morning show with Michael del Jorno.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Here's what you need to know. Oh, they fought in
the debate. Now they're fighting over whether or not to
debate again. It's our road to the White House.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
A rematch between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is up
in the air. Shortly after Tuesday's debate, the Harris campaign
called for another, but as of late Wednesday, Trump was
still on the fence.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
We won the debate according to every poll, every single poll.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I think that though.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Are we going to do a rematch? I just don't know.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Nearly every poll indicated that Harris won the debate. Trump
says a fighter who loses always immediately asks for a rematch.
A swipe it for Harris campaign. There are several debates
on the table being offered by NBC, Fox and others.
An initial viewership numbers show ratings soared for the first
debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Nielsen
reports more than sixty seven million people watch the showdown

(23:58):
on Tuesday, across the four met networks and four cable
news channels. In comparison, just over fifty one million tune
in for the June debate between Trump and President Biden.
The final total for the Heris Trump debate is unlikely
to break records. However, the most watched debate ever was
the first between Trump and Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen,
which drew eighty four million viewers. That's politics. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
RFK Junior thinks independent support of Donald Trump will probably
drop following Tuesday's debate. In an interview with Fox News,
the former independent candidate said Trump had an airtight argument
for his presidency, wasn't able to make the case to
the American public. Kennedy said Trump got distracted during the
debate and will likely lose support from independent voters. He

(24:40):
added that he still supports Trump, but Harris clearly won
the debate in terms of delivery, polish organization, and prep. Well,
I think we all know who Taylor Swift thinks won
the debate. Jacqueline carl has more.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
We Got There.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
And a social media post just.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Minutes after Tuesday night's debate, the singer said she'll be
voting for Harris because she fights for the rising. Swift
went on to say the Vice President is a steady
handed and gifted leader and that we could accomplish so
much more in this country if we were led by
comm and on chaos. Swift appeers holding a cat in
the post and signed a Taylor Swift Childless cat Lady,

(25:21):
referencing JD Vance's recent claims about Democratic women owning cats
instead of having children. Jacquelin Carl NBC News Radio.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Just a quarter over a quarter of American homeowners say
they're not prepared financially in the case of an extreme
weather event. Brian Shook has more.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
That's according to a bank Rate survey, Midwesterners tended to
be the most prepared for a natural disaster, with less
than twenty percent saying they're unprepared. The most likely to
say they're unprepared are in the South at nearly thirty percent. Meanwhile,
fifteen percent said they would need to go into debt
to afford the deductible under their homeowner insurance policy if

(25:57):
their home was hit. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
A new survey says that there may be a little
less under the tree this Christmas. It was obviously a
survey of the Dell Journals of corresponded Aaron Reyale with
our Holiday reality. Good morning, Aaron.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, this is kind of brutal, but it not to
be you cheating.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
This is just an excuse. You're doing this story so
you can have an excuse not to give me a gift.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yes, yes, that is my reasoning. That is my reasoning
behind everything, Michael.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
There's so many things I want this year. But go ahead.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
So new bank grade data, thirty three percent of shoppers are.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Going to spend less.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
But know what that means. Sixty six percent are going
to spend the same or more so, like we do
these every year. And actually Deloitte is projecting a three
point three percent increase in retail sales. It's going to
come out of around like a trillion and a half dollars,
so that's a return to pre pandemic levels. What we're
basically seeing is that people intend to spend less. I
fall into this party doesn't mean I'm going to do it.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Well I was. You just tole my big contribution to
this segment, and that is we all start don't We
start off every year that way? It doesn't end that way.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yep, exactly, and I have a theory. I think starting early,
don't do it. Don't do it, you're going to end
up anymore. You have more time, and I know you
think you're getting the deals in, but there is something
to be said. And as someone who like really you know,
is deadline driven, I find, like the week before, Yes

(27:29):
it is stressful. Yes it can come out poorly in
some circumstances, but for the most part, it's a win.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's a win.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
There's big deals.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
These These are the moments in our conversation when Aaron
will go, oh, Michael's turning into daddy now and he's
so wise. I love these segments. Okay, so here here's
what I've learned in life. The more thoughtful you are,
the more affordable it'll be. You can make your bang
and thoughtfulness that is, and you can't fake that. You
watch somebody all year life. If somebody all year long,

(27:58):
here's you talking about something you know and it's not
even expensive, and you give them that for Christmas, it
has a big bang because it shows you really love them,
you're really listening, you're really watching it. Really, the less
you think and the less you plan, the more money
you have to spend to and press somebody. So get
thoughtful and you will save money. You're at that time
where it's fun. They're little and you can fill a

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tree with a million things. As kids get older, they
want more expensive things and they get used to one
or two things. But I can still tell you this,
and I know we talked about this over Christmas. My
greatest Christmas ever was circumstantially one of the worst moments
of my life. I was broke and lost my job,
lost my house, had nothing. My mom through divorce, got nothing,

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had nothing. We use what little she got to buy
a condo that was gutted. I spent the entire Christmas,
none of us had any money to give anybody anything.
Plus we spent it working, painting and calking, and you know,
getting this condo livable. And when it came time for
Christmas Day, we had we wrapped, and we'd literally wrap
them in boxes so it looked like presents, but when

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you opened it, it was a piece of paper, and
it was what you loved about them. It was the
difference they made in your life. And then it was
what you planned to do for them all year long. Aaron,
I will tell you, and I have given my wife
gifts that would have taken any woman's breadth away. I'm
still paying them off, but nothing compares to that greatest
Christmas of my life, and it was zero dollars. So

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I adore that story.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
I absolutely love it, and I listen. I agree with
you if they if you hear something along the way, yes,
pick it up. And I also think anyone over the
age of eighteen, if they aren't your own children, should
drop the expectation for gifts. This is for the kids, guys.
Let's all be cool to one another. But yes, I
agree with you completely, like if you hear it now.
My only rebuttal to that is my son really wanted

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a bike in the spring and he was ready to
ride a two wheeler, like ready, really ready, And I said, Dory,
wait till Christmas, like I don't know, there's a whole
summer ahead of us. And then what I got him
the bike in the spring. He has been riding a
NonStop literally ever since he was outside in the backyard
district literally riding all through this.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
And we need to end on that note, because hey,
we're out of time, m B. Because Christmas is all
about it, the birth of a child, we're all in
this together. This is your morning show with Michaeldenheld show
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