September 18, 2024 • 33 mins
Forget 1968, this feels a lot more like 1850!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Three, starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding because we're in this toget.
This is your morning show with Michael bill jone in
the slammer.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Fifty days less than fifty days until the election, but
everybody's talking about assassination attempts and why all this sudden?
The security issues are the assassination attempts to reflection of
mental illness unaddressed in our culture, the extreme political discord
in our country. Is it the social media dysfunction or
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more specifically, more of the dehumanization of candidates by campaigns
as a strategy. Well, Howard Stern, Howard Sternsheim's in among
many yesterday to show you what I mean about discord.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This whole idea.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
If you like me, you're good, and if you don't,
you're bad.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, I've been the victim of this. I don't
hate the guy. I hate the people who vote for him.
I think they're stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'll be honest with you. I have no respect for you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So David s and not he's joining us from the
American Policy Roundtable where he's CEO, host of the public Square.
That's the high road for the credible Howard Stern. Let's
disregard about three decades of what he's done as he
notices the speck and other's eye. That's the bottom line.
He doesn't hate Donald Trump. He just hates anybody that
votes for him. And there's no respect. Now we're dehumanizing voters.
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How is this different than deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
That's a really profound question. I think it might be hetorical.
Perhaps there is no difference. But the point, Michael, here
is the conflation or the inflation or the hyper inflation
of viewing people through the eyes of a binary choice
for a political office that lasts for forty eight months.
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Thearin is the absurdity for anyone to enter into that realm,
to put on that set of goggles and look at
the world and look at people through their choice of
voting is without a doubt, one of the most absurd
things that we could do as human beings. We're looking
at voting for someone who's going to work at a
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specific job for forty eight months. Now, I understand it's
a very powerful job. I get it. It's not the
most powerful job in the world. The most powerful job
in the world it comes through the mothers and fathers
who put their children to bed at night and feed
them at a dining room table. Parenthood is the most
powerful job in the world. Faithfulness is the most powerful
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job in the world. Loyalty is the most powerful job
in the world. Doing your job is the most powerful
job in the world. Because but now we're in a
situation on top of all that, where we are forced
by our own negligence, we the people, our lack of
responsibility for civil government, where we have permitted this thing
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to ascend. The idea that what really matters and how
our nation will be governed and move forward comes down
to one branch of the civil government and one desk
behind a chair that in and of itself is absurd.
Congress is far more powerful than the president.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Is our obsession with the presidency.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yes, well, and it's our obsession with the look for
a savior since we've rejected the one that actually came.
That's the problem we have. We're looking for someone to
rescue us, and we're looking in all the wrong places
for people in the civil government is in the mirror.
It comes from our individual responsibility. The whole purpose for
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the American form of government being created was to give
us the right to self government, not the responsibility to
worship whoever's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
At the top of the heap.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, this is I feel bad for Howard's turn
because if indeed this isn't a shtick, if he actually
means what he says, this is sad. This is terribly sad.
And it's sad for people who are on the Trump
side of things who say, I hate anyone that's got
a Biden art side, I mean in their yard.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hate look at people, or he hates Taylor Swift after
being shot at. Well, doesn't hate people to mean hatylor Swift.
So here's the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Donald Trump's word about hating Taylor Swift is deeply troubling
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, here's the bottom line. When when Franklin comes out
of Constitutional Hall, the Secretary, I mean, well, everybody was
probably standing at the door. What do you have for us?
What do you have for us? I mean, they've been
locked in this door. Here's this brand new experiment. What
are we going to be a We're going to be
a monarchy. We're going to be a dictatorship? Are we
going to be at He goes for you, Madam Secretary.
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We have a republic if you can keep it. Rights
are only rights as we keep them. The more we
turn a blind ear to this stuff and allow this stuff,
the closer we're coming to losing it. This is a
serious business.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It is very serious business. And it's not just because
we have really lost, well, how much we've lost, and
how many people out there now who are willing to
forfeit their lives to to act outrage that that that
in and of itself is a whole other, deeply, deeply
troubling subject. But putting that aside, if there was never
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a shooting, the words and the attitudes of the heart
alone are destroying us before the bullets even start to fly.
How can we get to that place and there's there's
a deep sickness in our souls here that leads us
to this. And I would tell you that, you know,
I don't particularly care for Taylor Swift's music or her career,
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but what I really don't like about Taylor Swift is
how she has permitted herself to be used by the
industry to be that singular pop star that arises every
ten to fifteen years, who for a brief period of
time is all the way is made in music city
and across the networks and in Hollywood and New York
and LA to make certain that this person is the person.
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We've all seen this where there's words for it we
don't use on radio. Okay, we know what this is.
I feel sorry for her that she's in that mode
because very shortly, Hollywood and all the rest are going
to find out that she's too old and they'll find another.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Okay, so we know that, right.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But by the way, we should.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
State for everybody listening, Casey weren't listening yesterday and it
didn't work. Twice as many people said they're now more
likely to vote for Trump because of her endorsement, but
the overwhelming number eighty one percent said have played no
role whatsoever, So it doesn't even work, and she's being
used this upon and she'll be discarded in time. I
thought this was a pretty memorable moment. This is on CNN,
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this show. This is just one issue. We could pick several,
but this is how they the media pounds blood bath
and then the candidates bring up blood baths in debates.
So they're all complicit because they're at the cabal table.
And of course that's not even what Donald Trump was
talking about. So do they have a role in what
they're inciting? One Republican on the set of CNN against
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five leftists, and here's how the exchange went.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
And it is said by every Democrat working for or
around her campaign every.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Day on this network and every other one. The blood
that thing is stated every single day.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Okay, let me put my point here, Dictator, blood that
eliminate constitution on what.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you mind just up fare this up?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I think you're referring to Trump's the use of the
word blood bath when he was too What was he
talking about. I'm going to explain it to people because
I think there's confusion about this, the use of the
word blood bath when he was talking about, you know,
vehicle manufacturing jobs in the United States, Vice President Harris
improperly and unfairly mischaracterized that as him saying there would
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be a blood bath if he were elected. However, she
did not say that if Trump were elected there would
be a blood bath.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
She did not seek Well, the joke of this is
for those that are in the know, and I've had
like two listeners ask for this link. I hope the
rest of you are just searching it and finding it
on your own. The truth of the matter is the
Shadow Campaign to Save the Democracy is a manifesto piece
Time Magazine, February fifteenth of twenty and twenty one. It's
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basically explaining how they won the twenty twenty election, how
they hid Biden in a basement, weaponized COVID, changed election laws,
how they controlled the narrative of the media and silenced
any opposing views with technocracy, and if that didn't work,
they planned an insurrection that they had been conditioning you
with with Black Lives Matter and Antifa. In other words,
David's for those of us in the know, we know
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if switching to Kamala doesn't work, they may have insurrection
on their mind and they love debate and get the
stream right to fire the first shot. But I mean
listen to that. She interrupts him and then acts like
he's interrupting her, and then basically says, yeah, Kamala was wrong.
That's not what he was saying. He was talking about
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auto jobs, but she never said bloodbathsoid with Trump, I
mean talk about a part of the problem. And nobody's
honest looking in the mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Well, this campaign, Michael, is frustrating people beyond imagination because
if you're trying to be honest and follow it and
give everyone their their due and respect and their hearing,
you come up with two very poor choices for the
White House. I'm sorry, we have to admit this. These
are not great choices. Now they're not the worst America's
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ever seen, but they're not great choices. But people still
have to make a decision because they're the only choices
that they have, and responsibility requires that we pick what
we believe is the best, even if it's only per
or even fractionally better for our country. That's what person.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But my concern is the pattern we're in. Once Trump's
off the stage, once once Biden, Obama and then eventually
Camlos will never get good choices. This is what they'll do,
this is what they'll create until the American people have
had enough. I woke up yesterday. I posted this at
ten am. It's a political cartoon and it shows Kamal
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and Biden saying there is no place in America for
political violence. Nexcel says that being said Trump is an
evil dictator, will destroy America and must be stopped in
order to save our democracy. All right, that's ten o'clock
in the morning. And then I watched the day play out,
and I mean, no sooner did that happen. Here's the
White House spokesperson at the White House during the daily
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news conference. Just to clarify.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
So you're saying that the president and Vice president believe
that former President Donald Trump should be toning.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Down his rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So I'll say this, President Biden has been clear eyed
about the threat that the former president represents to our democracy.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
These people sound like they're upset that they failed again
in a second attempt, and they're just saying the insight.
This is Hillary Clinton. She really, I mean just doubles down.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
A day after the second assassination.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Attempt on Donald Trump being a threat. Listen, cult for.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
The press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous
Trump is. You know, the late great journalist Harry Evans,
you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should,
you know, really try to achieve objectivity, And by that
he said, I mean they.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Should cover the object.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery,
his danger to our country and the world, and stick
with it. You know, they were merciless about what they
saw as President Biden's problems in the debate.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I mean the ones that you hit and then you
threw them out of office. Not the Republicans being ruthless.
I mean, it says, if they're not going to stop
until someone succeeds and assassinying after the first assassination should
attempt everybody played nice at least for a couple of days.
Not this time. I mean, what do you make of
all this, Well.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
The voting has already begun, and the desperation to maintain
control of the top of the administrated state and all
that that means for the left is serious business. This
is life and death for them. Politics is life and
death for the left because they don't have any other answer.
They live in a flatter earth a worldview, and the
best that they've got is to elevate themselves with their
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godlike powers into politics. And so this is life and
death for them. For the rest of us, we're making
a living trying to pay the abilities people create force.
So it's not surprising at all. The only question is
will people grow tired of it or will they be
captured by it? And of course the media is very
culpable here in trying to figure out how to package
this in a way that it incites people to vote
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based upon their hurt, their injury, their grievances, and their fears.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, it's intended to steer their voting. It's steering violence.
Closing moments with David Zanati. All right, so we began
this year and I said, be careful, this feels like
nineteen sixty eight all over again, right to the switching
of the candidate, right to the assassination attempt. About we
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had violence in the streets, but it did not spill
over into the DNC convention. But we talked about nineteen
sixty eight. Is America nineteen sixty eight or is America
eighteen fifty And as somebody who hosts eighteen fifty Main
Street a podcast, that's you're the right person to ask.
We are somewhere between the chaos and division of nineteen
sixty eight that must be healed, or we're closer to
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eighteen fifty and headed for a civil war.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
There's no question this is not nineteen sixty eight. This
is a much more difficult scenario. And I would say
we are given the sort of rhetoric that is coming
forth from leadership and is being summarily rebounded and endlessly
in an echo chamber of the media. There's a lot
of people who are in trouble. They're lost in this process,
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and they're liable to act out in any number of ways.
And so this is a dangerous place to be and
it's the height of irresponsibility on the part of people
in national leadership. I would submit to you that Donald
Trump can say he hates Taylor Swift all he wants
walking around in his bedroom, but to put it out
on social media in such a way is a mistake.
That doesn't help. It's wrong. It's just so. We have
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people that are doing wrong things everywhere we turn, and Michael,
we're in trouble here's the difference.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But here's the difference, David. In eighteen fifty, there was
no social media. In eighteen fifty, there was no AI
artificial intelligence. Can you imagine how things go in eighteen
fifty a lot faster than they went in eighteen fifty
with this, I can't. This may be why, you know,
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God is calling us, you know, to be a new
show and a new voice. But this is beyond just discord.
This is a republic if you can keep it at stake.
And I think America, unlike nineteen sixty eight, doesn't seem
to have a silent center, or the silent center is
out there and doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, we've only got two choices, and the responsible thing
is to make the best choice among the two, but
then to recognize that there are far better choices down
ballot and to re engage our minds on how our
government works. And until we do that, we're going to
be manipulated by these folks at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Senior contributor of your morning show and CEO of the
American Policy Roundtable. I think they're crown jewel. Is the
Public Square heard on two inunder stations nationwide or on
demand at the public Square dot com. David SONADI is
always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is your morning show with Michael del Tuna. This
is your morning show. I'm Michael. That's Jeffrey Lyons at
the Controls And if you're just waking up, under fifty
days until election day. And while the campaigns are spread
out across the country, mainly the Midwest, most are focused
on that second assassination attempt. P Diddy in jail and
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stuck there without bail, and teen accounts are being rolled
out on Instagram. It's part of an overhaul to protect
teens and other young users. I wish it was this easy,
but Aaron Rayal is here to try to explain this story.
So we got teens, We have proven loneliness, proven depression,
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proven self harm, low self esteem, on and on and on.
So calling it a teen account, how does that make
them safer?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I know, I know, right listen. They say that they're
doing this for business decisions, also regulatory pressure. Australia is
about to outright ban it for anyone under eighteen. And
I have to be honest, while I don't agree with
a lot of what Australia does, I'm like, yeah, that's
not a bad idea. We ban a lot of things
for under eighteen year old, but worldwide, over one hundred
million accounts will be impacted. Essentially, what this does, beginning
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this week in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, teams are
automatically going to be placed under accounts that have protective settings.
What does that mean? If you're under eighteen, you're going
to need a government issued ide or facial scan to
verify your account, and that's when they're going to then
put stricter messaging settings and then automatically make your account
private so not anyone can look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You have to in order.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
To see the account, the owner of the account has
to allow the follower request to come in. And then
the same for messaging. They're going to filter offensive words
and phrases. They're also going to automatically place these accounts
in more restrictive content settings, so that means that it's
going to limit what they see of accounts they don't follow,
and then they can only be tagged or mentioned by
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people that follow them. And finally, sleep mode that's going
to kick in between ten pm and seven am, and
it basically stops the phone from receiving notifications at night.
I mean, it's a good first step. The Instagram head
Adam Musi, said that the changes were a business decision
because he says he thinks in the long run, it's
in the interest of the business to earn the trust
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of parents. The data is in, the science is out.
This is terrible for children, horrible, So walk me through.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I guess I'm not really familiar with Instagram. I don't
use it, so up until this there were ways for
people to follow you without you knowing or see things.
Didn't have the same kind of not that people understand
it and set these securities properly like on Facebook. But
up until then there were ways for people to because
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I think we're trying to keep people from the sleep
mode is the easiest we know lack of sleep and
the effect it's having on young minds. All right, So
sleep mode, and if it's a mandatory sleep mode, that's
a real solution. These other ones, I'm just wondering they
really get to use their management and the users haven't
been managing themselves well. And if they could manage themselves,
we wouldn't be having this problem.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
They can't.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
And listen, I use Instagram, and I will be the
first to say, like, oh, I feel how addicted this is?
And if I start the day and I got on
it throughout the day, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I should check it.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I should check it like a junkie, like truly, like
it's I see how addicting this can be. And then
you know, I make workarounds for myself. You hide it
deep in your phone, all right. I'll go like a
week's without using it, and then all of a sudden,
I'll be on it three days straight and you're like,
what is this? What is that's doing to my brain?
So clearly, if they can do this to an adult woman,
it can do it to children. So the idea that
they can't anyone can follow them. They can see who
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follows them, but anyone can I'm like.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
There's a lot of creeps out there.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
You can follow kids, willy nilly. The fact that this
never existed is shocking, Like you said, but now you're
going to have to accept everyone that follows you, and
then you'll you'll know, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
This is mandatory. There's no way for the team user
to get around these.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
There are always ways, There are always workarounds, and the
idea that like this is full proof.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It isn't.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
It isn't a perfect system, and it's a huge step forward.
They say they need the device makers like the Apples
and the Googles to provide birthdays in a privacy safe
way two apps if they really want to have a
force multiplier on safety. And until that is there, it's
going to be very hard. They say they're not, you know,
passing blame, they're taking responsibility. But at the same time
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they say that would be helpful.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
All right, Air Rael joining us with this latest on
the Instagram. Here's the bottom line. There's an old expression,
and you're doing this when you could have been doing
what That's the distraction that we're all facing. This was
all designed by the designers, and the algorithms are all
designed just like radio was designed to get you to
tune in and get you to tune in more frequently,
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and to get you to listen to longer. The problem
is the algorithms never stop, and they've got a very
addictive product, and a product far more addictive than radio
has ever been. So bottom line is you're busy projecting
a life rather than living a life. You're busy distracted
and consuming that. There's also long term stuff like attention
to detail. I have noticed, and I've talked about this
with you. By the way, do we have a minute
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or so or you.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Need to go Oh no, I can charge that with you.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So we talked about this, like with Virgin River. Then
there's the Three Magnolias is another example of it. I'm
noticing these shows that are starting to do scenes just
It's like a fifty minute show is like fifty five
scenes of twenty seconds with these music transitions, And I'm like, Okay,
this is the reels, this is the Instagram, this is
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the TikTok influence. Our attention span is so limited that
even shows are being created in literally thirty five forty
second increments. So these things are changing the way our
brains develop, changing the way we have an attention span.
It's certainly taking our I am away from parenting. The
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laughable part of all of this is while the parents
are busy on Facebook trying to get narcissistic likes, nobody's
watching the kids. And now we're expecting the government and
the very creators of these addictive products to help protect
our kids. I mean, somewhere, pardon me, I've lost a
little bit of a little bit of trust and assurance.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Listen, you're right, and I say this in the most
loving way. And you're a parent, You've done this, you
have great kids. I turn to you for guidance here.
I mean this, like again, in a loving way. But
kids are second class citizens in the sense that you
can say no no. I said, so you're under eighteen.
We outlaw plenty of things under eighteen. We say it's
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bad for you, so you can't do it. Yet, that's an.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Can't smoke, can't vote, can't drive.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yep, yep. The list goes on. And you want to
know why, because we said so, you're going to be
eighteen real soon. It's going to happen in the blink
of an eye and you can do all the stuff.
Try and enjoy not having to do all this stuff
for a minute.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and then there's the truth of it all. When
kids are young, you can hand them this stuff and
you get some peace, you get some time off. Yeah,
it's hard, not just like dropping kids off a daycare
and having a job. I'm sorry, I'm not knocking people
that work. I'm just saying these stay at home moms
and everybody frowns on they're the ones, they're the ones
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to look up to.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I mean frowns on them. Those people have the hardest
gig on the planet.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Culture. Yeah, but I mean it's the hardest, you know.
And so I think at some point we all have
to see this for what it is. I know we
have to end the segment, but I would say, if
you haven't seen The Social Dilemma, it's on Netflix. It's
a documentary. These are the very creators of Facebook, the
very creators of Google, the very people who created the
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algorithms and the AI that never stops learning. And it
is a clear and present danger, not only you know, collectively,
but individually. And I have saw what it to one
of my teen daughters, and thank god she is so
far above it now for having gone through it, but
we nearly lost her. So this is life and death,
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serious stuff for our time and for all time, because
a lot of this dysfunction is going to be carried
into the next generation. And this one looked really lame
to me. But it's a start. I guess, right, I
shouldn't be. At least somebody is doing something. Now, what
about TikTok? What about Facebook? What about the rest of them.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, no, listen, it's a start, and I don't know.
I think we're going to look back on this social
media age in the early days of it and be like, oh,
my goodness, we're going to focut it like remember when
you used to be able to smoke on an airplane?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Like it's going to look so goofy, or it's just
going to seem.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Well, let's hope we are, because something tells me AI
is about to take it into a whole new hyper
speed level that we may not have a chance to ponder.
We may be onto the one plus one doesn't equal
to it equals something far worse. Aaron, great reporting. We'll
talk again tomorrow. Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thanks Michael, You've got it. Fifty four after.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
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In his first public appearance since what is being called
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he had a nice conversation with President Biden about the
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These militants had not been wounded in air strikes or
any obvious kind of military attack, and it then emerged,
according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, that their pagers
had all exploded, apparently simultaneously, the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Kind of thing you see in movie theaters.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
It feels like something out of an espionage movie, but
that apparently is the case. At this stage, we do
not understand what caused these pagers to explode. One theory
that you're seeing circulating is maybe somehow the batteries were
caused to overheat and that caused them to blow up.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
A lot of courtroom drama for Sean Diddy Combs. It
ended with him back in jail and denied bail. Lisa
Taylor has more.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Hip hop mogul appeared in federal court in Lower Manhattan
with his lawyers Tuesday afternoon, looking dazed and without handcuffs.
According to CNN, the judge went, I'll decide whether he'll
be detained until he faces trial, which is what prosecutors
are calling for. Comb's attorneys are proposing he be released
on fifty million dollars bail using his Miami mansion it's collateral.
The indictment, unsealed today, accuses Combs of sexually, abusing and
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exploiting women for more than a decade. US Attorney for
the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, said Combs
used his business empire to carry out criminal activity.
Speaker 14 (27:22):
The indictment alleges that between at least two thousand and
eight and the president, Comb's abuse threatened and coerce victims
to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal
his conduct.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm Lise Tailor. More on that with Roory O'Neal in
a moment. A big celebration is planned for Jimmy Carter.
Michael Kassner has the details.
Speaker 13 (27:45):
The former president's one hundredth birthday tribute is coming a
bit early. Carter's birthday isn't until October first, but he's
already the longest living president in the country's history. Festivities
are taking place in Atlanta's Fox Theater. Performers include George's
B fifty two, Phoebe Winan's, Maren Morris, and the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, and over a dozen others. Carter has been
in hospice care since February of last year. I'm Michael Cassner.
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Thousands are hoping to.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Get a table at a suburban Denver Casa Bonita. Why
it recently reopened by South Park creators Trey Parker and
Matt Stone. Mark Mayfield fills us in.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Goo guys, good guys, I have awesome news this Saturday.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
For my birthday, my mom says she's taken me to
Casa Bonita in.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Denver, and I can invite three friends.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Cassubanita, whoa wo.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The reservational list opened Monday with forty thousand members of
the so called Founders Club and a virtual queue, followed
by nearly thirty thousand people in a general queue that afternoon.
The restaurant closed because of the pandemic in twenty twenty one.
It was then bought by Parker and Stone, who chronicled
their restaurant adventure in the documentary Casa Bonita.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Mia Moore, I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
This is Shannon Gregory, and my morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael de Orgona.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm Michael, And as I always say, you don't fully
understand what's really going on until we do the final
story with Rory, your Morning Show National correspondent Rory O'Neil.
We've got the FED and the interest rate cuts. We've
got p Diddy behind bars, got the looming government shut down.
We even got pages blowing up like a James Bond movie.
Take your pick. Let's start with p Diddy. Not a
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good day for him in court yesterday after noon.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
The magistrate yesterday decided to hold him without bond. His
lawyer's got an appeal for that for the judge who
will hear the case this afternoon. But the allegations in
this indictment are pretty disturbing. Essentially for the past fifteen years,
they say that Diddy's been running this operation to host
these sex parties really all across the country, flying in
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prostitutes from everywhere, men and women for events that are recorded.
So there's an awful lot of video evidence to prove
some of these allegations about drug use, violence, even extortion,
threatening people in these tapes with the release of the
videos unless they do as Diddy says.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This is Jeffrey Epstein's stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, pretty close to it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So I guess we could expect all the people who
have ever been affiliated with P Diddy that'll be the
next you know, big thing.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Well, I would say the asterisk would be so far
no allegations of underage activity.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, yeah, that would be a big difference. Sorry, So
this not speedy justice, right, fifteen years in the making,
and the judge at.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Least that's the minimum.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
You know, Diddy's fifty four these days, and it's going
to be a couple of years before this goes to trial.
And the bad news for Diddy is no one else
has been arrested this week. That means they likely are
all cooperating with prosecutors and will likely end up on
the witness stand testifying against Diddy.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
That is a great.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Point, fed with thinking a quarter, maybe a half, we
don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Yeah, I'm less and less likely on the half. Although
I think that's what they're going to decide. I don't
think that's what they should do, but I think that's
what they'll decide this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You said something very smart earlier.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Someone did someone tape that. I hope they take.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm always complimenting you. They can't stand me. No, but
you had said probably more so. It's going to be
a quarter, But more so than the quarter, it's what
they say, you know about the next quarter and the
next half that could be down the road and the years. Right, Yeah,
how they sell it right?
Speaker 10 (31:22):
And of course now with the political flare attached to everything,
I mean, that's where the politics comes into it. I
think is more so in the news conference that follows.
So two o'clock Eastern time is the announcement. The press
conference is a half hour later. It can be dry
as toast other times, though, It can get really interesting
as you watch them walk the tightrope.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And not say too much, but still try to answer the.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Question, how hard is it for you to cover this
story because a lot of people listening cost of living, Yeah,
you know, cost of living versus inflation. Yeah, yeahah, we
get that. But you know, interest rates. Really, America is
really concerned about mortgage rates. But this of course plays
a role in that one.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Feeds the other, right, yeah, yeah, it's not a direct
correlation because the rates have been coming down. The mortgage
rates have been coming down expecting this cut in interest rates,
so that's a part of it. I think that would
really boost them along if it is that half point
rate cut instead. Because this real estate market is absolutely
frozen solid. We just got to report in from the
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folks that were redfinn.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
A short time ago.
Speaker 10 (32:23):
Existing home sales, pending sales fall to the lowest level
since pandemic, as house hunters wait for mortgage rates to
drop further, and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Then we get to the looming government shutdown. Well, you
know they're going to settle this, and when they do,
we're going to be more in debt and we get
to pay for it. But the politics of it is
probably going to play out, don't do They want to
stretch it out a week or so.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
A lot of well this is a yeah, we've got
next week to figure this out.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
But a lot of criticism of the way Speaker Johnson
has been handling this.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
A lot of Republicans not happy. Well, yeah, I think
what was it? Mitch McConnell yesterday said, I mean, how
stupid would we be to have a shut down right
before an election when you know we're holding the bag?
And then finally, what did you make We only get
ten second, fifteen seconds? It was a kind of a movie.
All of a sudden, those pages will start blowing up.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
Yeah, we might talk more about it more tomorrow, but yeah,
the pager's story is just absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Let's see what has Bulla does today.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, Rory and Neil with the story. We'll talk
again tomorrow. We're all in this together. This is your
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Fifty days less than fifty days until the election, but
everybody's talking about assassination attempts and why all this sudden?
The security issues are the assassination attempts to reflection of
mental illness unaddressed in our culture, the extreme political discord
in our country. Is it the social media dysfunction or
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more specifically, more of the dehumanization of candidates by campaigns
as a strategy. Well, Howard Stern, Howard Sternsheim's in among
many yesterday to show you what I mean about discord.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This whole idea.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
If you like me, you're good, and if you don't,
you're bad.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, I've been the victim of this. I don't
hate the guy. I hate the people who vote for him.
I think they're stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'll be honest with you. I have no respect for you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So David s and not he's joining us from the
American Policy Roundtable where he's CEO, host of the public Square.
That's the high road for the credible Howard Stern. Let's
disregard about three decades of what he's done as he
notices the speck and other's eye. That's the bottom line.
He doesn't hate Donald Trump. He just hates anybody that
votes for him. And there's no respect. Now we're dehumanizing voters.
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How is this different than deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
That's a really profound question. I think it might be hetorical.
Perhaps there is no difference. But the point, Michael, here
is the conflation or the inflation or the hyper inflation
of viewing people through the eyes of a binary choice
for a political office that lasts for forty eight months.
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Thearin is the absurdity for anyone to enter into that realm,
to put on that set of goggles and look at
the world and look at people through their choice of
voting is without a doubt, one of the most absurd
things that we could do as human beings. We're looking
at voting for someone who's going to work at a
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specific job for forty eight months. Now, I understand it's
a very powerful job. I get it. It's not the
most powerful job in the world. The most powerful job
in the world it comes through the mothers and fathers
who put their children to bed at night and feed
them at a dining room table. Parenthood is the most
powerful job in the world. Faithfulness is the most powerful
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job in the world. Loyalty is the most powerful job
in the world. Doing your job is the most powerful
job in the world. Because but now we're in a
situation on top of all that, where we are forced
by our own negligence, we the people, our lack of
responsibility for civil government, where we have permitted this thing
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to ascend. The idea that what really matters and how
our nation will be governed and move forward comes down
to one branch of the civil government and one desk
behind a chair that in and of itself is absurd.
Congress is far more powerful than the president.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Is our obsession with the presidency.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yes, well, and it's our obsession with the look for
a savior since we've rejected the one that actually came.
That's the problem we have. We're looking for someone to
rescue us, and we're looking in all the wrong places
for people in the civil government is in the mirror.
It comes from our individual responsibility. The whole purpose for
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the American form of government being created was to give
us the right to self government, not the responsibility to
worship whoever's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
At the top of the heap.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, this is I feel bad for Howard's turn
because if indeed this isn't a shtick, if he actually
means what he says, this is sad. This is terribly sad.
And it's sad for people who are on the Trump
side of things who say, I hate anyone that's got
a Biden art side, I mean in their yard.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hate look at people, or he hates Taylor Swift after
being shot at. Well, doesn't hate people to mean hatylor Swift.
So here's the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Donald Trump's word about hating Taylor Swift is deeply troubling
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, here's the bottom line. When when Franklin comes out
of Constitutional Hall, the Secretary, I mean, well, everybody was
probably standing at the door. What do you have for us?
What do you have for us? I mean, they've been
locked in this door. Here's this brand new experiment. What
are we going to be a We're going to be
a monarchy. We're going to be a dictatorship? Are we
going to be at He goes for you, Madam Secretary.
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We have a republic if you can keep it. Rights
are only rights as we keep them. The more we
turn a blind ear to this stuff and allow this stuff,
the closer we're coming to losing it. This is a
serious business.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It is very serious business. And it's not just because
we have really lost, well, how much we've lost, and
how many people out there now who are willing to
forfeit their lives to to act outrage that that that
in and of itself is a whole other, deeply, deeply
troubling subject. But putting that aside, if there was never
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a shooting, the words and the attitudes of the heart
alone are destroying us before the bullets even start to fly.
How can we get to that place and there's there's
a deep sickness in our souls here that leads us
to this. And I would tell you that, you know,
I don't particularly care for Taylor Swift's music or her career,
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but what I really don't like about Taylor Swift is
how she has permitted herself to be used by the
industry to be that singular pop star that arises every
ten to fifteen years, who for a brief period of
time is all the way is made in music city
and across the networks and in Hollywood and New York
and LA to make certain that this person is the person.
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We've all seen this where there's words for it we
don't use on radio. Okay, we know what this is.
I feel sorry for her that she's in that mode
because very shortly, Hollywood and all the rest are going
to find out that she's too old and they'll find another.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Okay, so we know that, right.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But by the way, we should.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
State for everybody listening, Casey weren't listening yesterday and it
didn't work. Twice as many people said they're now more
likely to vote for Trump because of her endorsement, but
the overwhelming number eighty one percent said have played no
role whatsoever, So it doesn't even work, and she's being
used this upon and she'll be discarded in time. I
thought this was a pretty memorable moment. This is on CNN,
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this show. This is just one issue. We could pick several,
but this is how they the media pounds blood bath
and then the candidates bring up blood baths in debates.
So they're all complicit because they're at the cabal table.
And of course that's not even what Donald Trump was
talking about. So do they have a role in what
they're inciting? One Republican on the set of CNN against
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five leftists, and here's how the exchange went.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
And it is said by every Democrat working for or
around her campaign every.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Day on this network and every other one. The blood
that thing is stated every single day.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Okay, let me put my point here, Dictator, blood that
eliminate constitution on what.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you mind just up fare this up?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I think you're referring to Trump's the use of the
word blood bath when he was too What was he
talking about. I'm going to explain it to people because
I think there's confusion about this, the use of the
word blood bath when he was talking about, you know,
vehicle manufacturing jobs in the United States, Vice President Harris
improperly and unfairly mischaracterized that as him saying there would
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be a blood bath if he were elected. However, she
did not say that if Trump were elected there would
be a blood bath.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
She did not seek Well, the joke of this is
for those that are in the know, and I've had
like two listeners ask for this link. I hope the
rest of you are just searching it and finding it
on your own. The truth of the matter is the
Shadow Campaign to Save the Democracy is a manifesto piece
Time Magazine, February fifteenth of twenty and twenty one. It's
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basically explaining how they won the twenty twenty election, how
they hid Biden in a basement, weaponized COVID, changed election laws,
how they controlled the narrative of the media and silenced
any opposing views with technocracy, and if that didn't work,
they planned an insurrection that they had been conditioning you
with with Black Lives Matter and Antifa. In other words,
David's for those of us in the know, we know
(08:52):
if switching to Kamala doesn't work, they may have insurrection
on their mind and they love debate and get the
stream right to fire the first shot. But I mean
listen to that. She interrupts him and then acts like
he's interrupting her, and then basically says, yeah, Kamala was wrong.
That's not what he was saying. He was talking about
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auto jobs, but she never said bloodbathsoid with Trump, I
mean talk about a part of the problem. And nobody's
honest looking in the mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Well, this campaign, Michael, is frustrating people beyond imagination because
if you're trying to be honest and follow it and
give everyone their their due and respect and their hearing,
you come up with two very poor choices for the
White House. I'm sorry, we have to admit this. These
are not great choices. Now they're not the worst America's
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ever seen, but they're not great choices. But people still
have to make a decision because they're the only choices
that they have, and responsibility requires that we pick what
we believe is the best, even if it's only per
or even fractionally better for our country. That's what person.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But my concern is the pattern we're in. Once Trump's
off the stage, once once Biden, Obama and then eventually
Camlos will never get good choices. This is what they'll do,
this is what they'll create until the American people have
had enough. I woke up yesterday. I posted this at
ten am. It's a political cartoon and it shows Kamal
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and Biden saying there is no place in America for
political violence. Nexcel says that being said Trump is an
evil dictator, will destroy America and must be stopped in
order to save our democracy. All right, that's ten o'clock
in the morning. And then I watched the day play out,
and I mean, no sooner did that happen. Here's the
White House spokesperson at the White House during the daily
(10:45):
news conference. Just to clarify.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
So you're saying that the president and Vice president believe
that former President Donald Trump should be toning.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Down his rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So I'll say this, President Biden has been clear eyed
about the threat that the former president represents to our democracy.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
These people sound like they're upset that they failed again
in a second attempt, and they're just saying the insight.
This is Hillary Clinton. She really, I mean just doubles down.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
A day after the second assassination.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Attempt on Donald Trump being a threat. Listen, cult for.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
The press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous
Trump is. You know, the late great journalist Harry Evans,
you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should,
you know, really try to achieve objectivity, And by that
he said, I mean they.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Should cover the object.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery,
his danger to our country and the world, and stick
with it. You know, they were merciless about what they
saw as President Biden's problems in the debate.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I mean the ones that you hit and then you
threw them out of office. Not the Republicans being ruthless.
I mean, it says, if they're not going to stop
until someone succeeds and assassinying after the first assassination should
attempt everybody played nice at least for a couple of days.
Not this time. I mean, what do you make of
all this, Well.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
The voting has already begun, and the desperation to maintain
control of the top of the administrated state and all
that that means for the left is serious business. This
is life and death for them. Politics is life and
death for the left because they don't have any other answer.
They live in a flatter earth a worldview, and the
best that they've got is to elevate themselves with their
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godlike powers into politics. And so this is life and
death for them. For the rest of us, we're making
a living trying to pay the abilities people create force.
So it's not surprising at all. The only question is
will people grow tired of it or will they be
captured by it? And of course the media is very
culpable here in trying to figure out how to package
this in a way that it incites people to vote
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based upon their hurt, their injury, their grievances, and their fears.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, it's intended to steer their voting. It's steering violence.
Closing moments with David Zanati. All right, so we began
this year and I said, be careful, this feels like
nineteen sixty eight all over again, right to the switching
of the candidate, right to the assassination attempt. About we
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had violence in the streets, but it did not spill
over into the DNC convention. But we talked about nineteen
sixty eight. Is America nineteen sixty eight or is America
eighteen fifty And as somebody who hosts eighteen fifty Main
Street a podcast, that's you're the right person to ask.
We are somewhere between the chaos and division of nineteen
sixty eight that must be healed, or we're closer to
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eighteen fifty and headed for a civil war.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
There's no question this is not nineteen sixty eight. This
is a much more difficult scenario. And I would say
we are given the sort of rhetoric that is coming
forth from leadership and is being summarily rebounded and endlessly
in an echo chamber of the media. There's a lot
of people who are in trouble. They're lost in this process,
(14:23):
and they're liable to act out in any number of ways.
And so this is a dangerous place to be and
it's the height of irresponsibility on the part of people
in national leadership. I would submit to you that Donald
Trump can say he hates Taylor Swift all he wants
walking around in his bedroom, but to put it out
on social media in such a way is a mistake.
That doesn't help. It's wrong. It's just so. We have
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people that are doing wrong things everywhere we turn, and Michael,
we're in trouble here's the difference.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But here's the difference, David. In eighteen fifty, there was
no social media. In eighteen fifty, there was no AI
artificial intelligence. Can you imagine how things go in eighteen
fifty a lot faster than they went in eighteen fifty
with this, I can't. This may be why, you know,
(15:14):
God is calling us, you know, to be a new
show and a new voice. But this is beyond just discord.
This is a republic if you can keep it at stake.
And I think America, unlike nineteen sixty eight, doesn't seem
to have a silent center, or the silent center is
out there and doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, we've only got two choices, and the responsible thing
is to make the best choice among the two, but
then to recognize that there are far better choices down
ballot and to re engage our minds on how our
government works. And until we do that, we're going to
be manipulated by these folks at the top.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Senior contributor of your morning show and CEO of the
American Policy Roundtable. I think they're crown jewel. Is the
Public Square heard on two inunder stations nationwide or on
demand at the public Square dot com. David SONADI is
always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is your morning show with Michael del Tuna. This
is your morning show. I'm Michael. That's Jeffrey Lyons at
the Controls And if you're just waking up, under fifty
days until election day. And while the campaigns are spread
out across the country, mainly the Midwest, most are focused
on that second assassination attempt. P Diddy in jail and
(16:25):
stuck there without bail, and teen accounts are being rolled
out on Instagram. It's part of an overhaul to protect
teens and other young users. I wish it was this easy,
but Aaron Rayal is here to try to explain this story.
So we got teens, We have proven loneliness, proven depression,
(16:48):
proven self harm, low self esteem, on and on and on.
So calling it a teen account, how does that make
them safer?
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I know, I know, right listen. They say that they're
doing this for business decisions, also regulatory pressure. Australia is
about to outright ban it for anyone under eighteen. And
I have to be honest, while I don't agree with
a lot of what Australia does, I'm like, yeah, that's
not a bad idea. We ban a lot of things
for under eighteen year old, but worldwide, over one hundred
million accounts will be impacted. Essentially, what this does, beginning
(17:20):
this week in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, teams are
automatically going to be placed under accounts that have protective settings.
What does that mean? If you're under eighteen, you're going
to need a government issued ide or facial scan to
verify your account, and that's when they're going to then
put stricter messaging settings and then automatically make your account
private so not anyone can look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You have to in order.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
To see the account, the owner of the account has
to allow the follower request to come in. And then
the same for messaging. They're going to filter offensive words
and phrases. They're also going to automatically place these accounts
in more restrictive content settings, so that means that it's
going to limit what they see of accounts they don't follow,
and then they can only be tagged or mentioned by
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people that follow them. And finally, sleep mode that's going
to kick in between ten pm and seven am, and
it basically stops the phone from receiving notifications at night.
I mean, it's a good first step. The Instagram head
Adam Musi, said that the changes were a business decision
because he says he thinks in the long run, it's
in the interest of the business to earn the trust
(18:24):
of parents. The data is in, the science is out.
This is terrible for children, horrible, So walk me through.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I guess I'm not really familiar with Instagram. I don't
use it, so up until this there were ways for
people to follow you without you knowing or see things.
Didn't have the same kind of not that people understand
it and set these securities properly like on Facebook. But
up until then there were ways for people to because
(18:53):
I think we're trying to keep people from the sleep
mode is the easiest we know lack of sleep and
the effect it's having on young minds. All right, So
sleep mode, and if it's a mandatory sleep mode, that's
a real solution. These other ones, I'm just wondering they
really get to use their management and the users haven't
been managing themselves well. And if they could manage themselves,
we wouldn't be having this problem.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
They can't.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
And listen, I use Instagram, and I will be the
first to say, like, oh, I feel how addicted this is?
And if I start the day and I got on
it throughout the day, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I should check it.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I should check it like a junkie, like truly, like
it's I see how addicting this can be. And then
you know, I make workarounds for myself. You hide it
deep in your phone, all right. I'll go like a
week's without using it, and then all of a sudden,
I'll be on it three days straight and you're like,
what is this? What is that's doing to my brain?
So clearly, if they can do this to an adult woman,
it can do it to children. So the idea that
they can't anyone can follow them. They can see who
(19:45):
follows them, but anyone can I'm like.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
There's a lot of creeps out there.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
You can follow kids, willy nilly. The fact that this
never existed is shocking, Like you said, but now you're
going to have to accept everyone that follows you, and
then you'll you'll know, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
This is mandatory. There's no way for the team user
to get around these.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
There are always ways, There are always workarounds, and the
idea that like this is full proof.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It isn't.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
It isn't a perfect system, and it's a huge step forward.
They say they need the device makers like the Apples
and the Googles to provide birthdays in a privacy safe
way two apps if they really want to have a
force multiplier on safety. And until that is there, it's
going to be very hard. They say they're not, you know,
passing blame, they're taking responsibility. But at the same time
(20:32):
they say that would be helpful.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
All right, Air Rael joining us with this latest on
the Instagram. Here's the bottom line. There's an old expression,
and you're doing this when you could have been doing
what That's the distraction that we're all facing. This was
all designed by the designers, and the algorithms are all
designed just like radio was designed to get you to
tune in and get you to tune in more frequently,
(20:54):
and to get you to listen to longer. The problem
is the algorithms never stop, and they've got a very
addictive product, and a product far more addictive than radio
has ever been. So bottom line is you're busy projecting
a life rather than living a life. You're busy distracted
and consuming that. There's also long term stuff like attention
to detail. I have noticed, and I've talked about this
with you. By the way, do we have a minute
(21:16):
or so or you.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Need to go Oh no, I can charge that with you.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So we talked about this, like with Virgin River. Then
there's the Three Magnolias is another example of it. I'm
noticing these shows that are starting to do scenes just
It's like a fifty minute show is like fifty five
scenes of twenty seconds with these music transitions, And I'm like, Okay,
this is the reels, this is the Instagram, this is
(21:40):
the TikTok influence. Our attention span is so limited that
even shows are being created in literally thirty five forty
second increments. So these things are changing the way our
brains develop, changing the way we have an attention span.
It's certainly taking our I am away from parenting. The
(22:02):
laughable part of all of this is while the parents
are busy on Facebook trying to get narcissistic likes, nobody's
watching the kids. And now we're expecting the government and
the very creators of these addictive products to help protect
our kids. I mean, somewhere, pardon me, I've lost a
little bit of a little bit of trust and assurance.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Listen, you're right, and I say this in the most
loving way. And you're a parent, You've done this, you
have great kids. I turn to you for guidance here.
I mean this, like again, in a loving way. But
kids are second class citizens in the sense that you
can say no no. I said, so you're under eighteen.
We outlaw plenty of things under eighteen. We say it's
(22:44):
bad for you, so you can't do it. Yet, that's an.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Can't smoke, can't vote, can't drive.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yep, yep. The list goes on. And you want to
know why, because we said so, you're going to be
eighteen real soon. It's going to happen in the blink
of an eye and you can do all the stuff.
Try and enjoy not having to do all this stuff
for a minute.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and then there's the truth of it all. When
kids are young, you can hand them this stuff and
you get some peace, you get some time off. Yeah,
it's hard, not just like dropping kids off a daycare
and having a job. I'm sorry, I'm not knocking people
that work. I'm just saying these stay at home moms
and everybody frowns on they're the ones, they're the ones
(23:23):
to look up to.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I mean frowns on them. Those people have the hardest
gig on the planet.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Culture. Yeah, but I mean it's the hardest, you know.
And so I think at some point we all have
to see this for what it is. I know we
have to end the segment, but I would say, if
you haven't seen The Social Dilemma, it's on Netflix. It's
a documentary. These are the very creators of Facebook, the
very creators of Google, the very people who created the
(23:48):
algorithms and the AI that never stops learning. And it
is a clear and present danger, not only you know, collectively,
but individually. And I have saw what it to one
of my teen daughters, and thank god she is so
far above it now for having gone through it, but
we nearly lost her. So this is life and death,
(24:09):
serious stuff for our time and for all time, because
a lot of this dysfunction is going to be carried
into the next generation. And this one looked really lame
to me. But it's a start. I guess, right, I
shouldn't be. At least somebody is doing something. Now, what
about TikTok? What about Facebook? What about the rest of them.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, no, listen, it's a start, and I don't know.
I think we're going to look back on this social
media age in the early days of it and be like, oh,
my goodness, we're going to focut it like remember when
you used to be able to smoke on an airplane?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Like it's going to look so goofy, or it's just
going to seem.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Well, let's hope we are, because something tells me AI
is about to take it into a whole new hyper
speed level that we may not have a chance to ponder.
We may be onto the one plus one doesn't equal
to it equals something far worse. Aaron, great reporting. We'll
talk again tomorrow. Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thanks Michael, You've got it. Fifty four after.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
The hour for just waking up. Here's the top five
stories of the day. Trump's alive and well he was
in Flint, Michigan. Brian Shook has Our Road to the
White Road to the.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
White House twenty twenty four. Former President Trump says his
presidency was consequential.
Speaker 13 (25:17):
Only consequential presidents get shot at Bud.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
What can you do? You have to do? You have
to do? What you have to do right. You have
to we have to be brave.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
In his first public appearance since what is being called
the second attempted assassination of him, Trump took part in
a town hall event in Michigan moderated by Arkansas governor
and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump
went on to say that it is a dangerous business
running for president. Also at the event, Trump said that
(25:49):
he had a nice conversation with President Biden about the
incident in Washington. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Hundreds were injured, several killed in Lebanon an attack using
pagers of Hesbelah members. Israeli military declined any comment of
the incident. In NBC News's rof Sanchez said, the circumstances
were very unusual.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
These militants had not been wounded in air strikes or
any obvious kind of military attack, and it then emerged,
according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, that their pagers
had all exploded, apparently simultaneously, the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Kind of thing you see in movie theaters.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
It feels like something out of an espionage movie, but
that apparently is the case. At this stage, we do
not understand what caused these pagers to explode. One theory
that you're seeing circulating is maybe somehow the batteries were
caused to overheat and that caused them to blow up.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
A lot of courtroom drama for Sean Diddy Combs. It
ended with him back in jail and denied bail. Lisa
Taylor has more.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Hip hop mogul appeared in federal court in Lower Manhattan
with his lawyers Tuesday afternoon, looking dazed and without handcuffs.
According to CNN, the judge went, I'll decide whether he'll
be detained until he faces trial, which is what prosecutors
are calling for. Comb's attorneys are proposing he be released
on fifty million dollars bail using his Miami mansion it's collateral.
The indictment, unsealed today, accuses Combs of sexually, abusing and
(27:13):
exploiting women for more than a decade. US Attorney for
the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, said Combs
used his business empire to carry out criminal activity.
Speaker 14 (27:22):
The indictment alleges that between at least two thousand and
eight and the president, Comb's abuse threatened and coerce victims
to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal
his conduct.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm Lise Tailor. More on that with Roory O'Neal in
a moment. A big celebration is planned for Jimmy Carter.
Michael Kassner has the details.
Speaker 13 (27:45):
The former president's one hundredth birthday tribute is coming a
bit early. Carter's birthday isn't until October first, but he's
already the longest living president in the country's history. Festivities
are taking place in Atlanta's Fox Theater. Performers include George's
B fifty two, Phoebe Winan's, Maren Morris, and the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, and over a dozen others. Carter has been
in hospice care since February of last year. I'm Michael Cassner.
(28:09):
Thousands are hoping to.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Get a table at a suburban Denver Casa Bonita. Why
it recently reopened by South Park creators Trey Parker and
Matt Stone. Mark Mayfield fills us in.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Goo guys, good guys, I have awesome news this Saturday.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
For my birthday, my mom says she's taken me to
Casa Bonita in.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Denver, and I can invite three friends.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Cassubanita, whoa wo.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The reservational list opened Monday with forty thousand members of
the so called Founders Club and a virtual queue, followed
by nearly thirty thousand people in a general queue that afternoon.
The restaurant closed because of the pandemic in twenty twenty one.
It was then bought by Parker and Stone, who chronicled
their restaurant adventure in the documentary Casa Bonita.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Mia Moore, I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
This is Shannon Gregory, and my morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael de Orgona.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm Michael, And as I always say, you don't fully
understand what's really going on until we do the final
story with Rory, your Morning Show National correspondent Rory O'Neil.
We've got the FED and the interest rate cuts. We've
got p Diddy behind bars, got the looming government shut down.
We even got pages blowing up like a James Bond movie.
Take your pick. Let's start with p Diddy. Not a
(29:20):
good day for him in court yesterday after noon.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
The magistrate yesterday decided to hold him without bond. His
lawyer's got an appeal for that for the judge who
will hear the case this afternoon. But the allegations in
this indictment are pretty disturbing. Essentially for the past fifteen years,
they say that Diddy's been running this operation to host
these sex parties really all across the country, flying in
(29:46):
prostitutes from everywhere, men and women for events that are recorded.
So there's an awful lot of video evidence to prove
some of these allegations about drug use, violence, even extortion,
threatening people in these tapes with the release of the
videos unless they do as Diddy says.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This is Jeffrey Epstein's stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, pretty close to it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So I guess we could expect all the people who
have ever been affiliated with P Diddy that'll be the
next you know, big thing.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Well, I would say the asterisk would be so far
no allegations of underage activity.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, yeah, that would be a big difference. Sorry, So
this not speedy justice, right, fifteen years in the making,
and the judge at.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Least that's the minimum.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
You know, Diddy's fifty four these days, and it's going
to be a couple of years before this goes to trial.
And the bad news for Diddy is no one else
has been arrested this week. That means they likely are
all cooperating with prosecutors and will likely end up on
the witness stand testifying against Diddy.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
That is a great.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Point, fed with thinking a quarter, maybe a half, we
don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Yeah, I'm less and less likely on the half. Although
I think that's what they're going to decide. I don't
think that's what they should do, but I think that's
what they'll decide this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You said something very smart earlier.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Someone did someone tape that. I hope they take.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm always complimenting you. They can't stand me. No, but
you had said probably more so. It's going to be
a quarter, But more so than the quarter, it's what
they say, you know about the next quarter and the
next half that could be down the road and the years. Right, Yeah,
how they sell it right?
Speaker 10 (31:22):
And of course now with the political flare attached to everything,
I mean, that's where the politics comes into it. I
think is more so in the news conference that follows.
So two o'clock Eastern time is the announcement. The press
conference is a half hour later. It can be dry
as toast other times, though, It can get really interesting
as you watch them walk the tightrope.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And not say too much, but still try to answer the.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Question, how hard is it for you to cover this
story because a lot of people listening cost of living, Yeah,
you know, cost of living versus inflation. Yeah, yeahah, we
get that. But you know, interest rates. Really, America is
really concerned about mortgage rates. But this of course plays
a role in that one.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Feeds the other, right, yeah, yeah, it's not a direct
correlation because the rates have been coming down. The mortgage
rates have been coming down expecting this cut in interest rates,
so that's a part of it. I think that would
really boost them along if it is that half point
rate cut instead. Because this real estate market is absolutely
frozen solid. We just got to report in from the
(32:21):
folks that were redfinn.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
A short time ago.
Speaker 10 (32:23):
Existing home sales, pending sales fall to the lowest level
since pandemic, as house hunters wait for mortgage rates to
drop further, and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Then we get to the looming government shutdown. Well, you
know they're going to settle this, and when they do,
we're going to be more in debt and we get
to pay for it. But the politics of it is
probably going to play out, don't do They want to
stretch it out a week or so.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
A lot of well this is a yeah, we've got
next week to figure this out.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
But a lot of criticism of the way Speaker Johnson
has been handling this.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
A lot of Republicans not happy. Well, yeah, I think
what was it? Mitch McConnell yesterday said, I mean, how
stupid would we be to have a shut down right
before an election when you know we're holding the bag?
And then finally, what did you make We only get
ten second, fifteen seconds? It was a kind of a movie.
All of a sudden, those pages will start blowing up.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
Yeah, we might talk more about it more tomorrow, but yeah,
the pager's story is just absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Let's see what has Bulla does today.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, Rory and Neil with the story. We'll talk
again tomorrow. We're all in this together. This is your
Morning Show with Michael Till Join up.
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