September 18, 2024 • 32 mins
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Good morning, Welcome to Wednesday, September the eighteenth, Seven minutes
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after the hour, This is your morning show. I'm Michael
del Journal Jeffrey Lyons at the control Now. You know,
we often tend to take the bait, the narrative bait
that inflation is just some kind of presidential debate and
blame game. No, it's it's a real thing and there's
a real number behind it. You see, policies matter and
(01:22):
policies have consequence. Now, we used to have an honest
middle man, the media that would explain these things in
real time, but they're not honest anymore. In fact, journalism
is dead. They're in the back pocket, they're at the
cabal table. They're creating the very narratives that one side
hides behind and one side looks rabid for attacking. But
(01:44):
what's the truth of what the Biden and Harris policies
are costing you? Wouldn't it be nice to go beyond
the debate and get an actual number. You know what
your car is costing you, you know what your home
is costing you. You get a seat when you're at
the grocery store or the gas station. But in general,
(02:05):
what is inflation costing you? Well, you can thank the
Heritage Foundation, with the largest thing tanks in the world,
for the creation of myflation dot com and Parker Shepherd
is the Heritage director of Data Analysis, and he joins
us this morning. Good morning, Parker. This is brilliant not
to make Democrats look bad, but for me to find
out really how much these policies are costing me.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, the good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think that is an excellent framing that people that
are just trying to get by on day to day
leather are they're looking for journalists, for people that are
trying to explain what's going on, and they've completely lost
that trust in the media to do with the job
of explaining what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, by the way, it's not just I was just
gonna say, Parker, it's not just trust, right. I mean,
they are blatantly still doing it. If they started trying
to do it right, like if CNN started doing its job,
I don't know how long would take to get our
trust back. They're blatantly Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I remember years ago when people would talk about, like
major newspapers like the New York Times are have a
liberal bias, and people would think that you're crazy, And
now it's it's it's why out in the open.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, lost is the truth to talk to us about
how the So we go to myflation dot com. Tell
us how you came up with it and how it
works when we get there.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, it's it's my inflation dot Com. If you go
to it, you will get access to the underlying data
and you'll be able to check and verify against your
own budget just how much the cost of living is
going on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's because I was just gonna say, because it's different, right,
depending on where you're living.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But does it depending on what you're buying.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You can customize your results. You can get the US
national average, you can break it down by region, a subregion,
or by city, and then we've got different categories like groceries, restaurants,
your rent, electricity, car gas insurance. You put in what
you're spending in each of those categories. And if you
don't spend exactly the same way that the Bureau of
(04:14):
Labor Statistics calculates the average index, the headline inflation that
they're recording is not necessarily going to match your cost
of living. And I've seen that with a lot of people.
They say no, no. The government says that it was
two and a half percent increase in prices.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Over the past year, but I look at.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What I'm spending, and it seems like things are going
up much much more than that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's been fascinating. I said from the very beginning, about
a year ago, I don't know who the nominees are
going to be. I presume it's going to be Biden
and Trump, but I mean, you know, it ended up
not being Biden. But I don't know what commercials you
could strategize. I don't know how much money you could
raise and commercials you could run. I guess pay back
all these people that are at your Cabald table in
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the media ever be as powerful as every time we
go to a restaurant, every time we go to the
grocery store, every time we go to the gas station,
every time we pay our rent or mortgage the first
of the month. Of all of them, that I think
is the surprise, and it shouldn't have been. Its common sense.
And this is another one that would be impacted by
where they live when they're entering their information, because not
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all cities are the same. But insurance, home insurance, automobile insurance,
it's unrecognizable.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think you have two things there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
One is that if you just look at you know,
changes between times. You know, the last time you went
out to eat, you come back, it's a little bit
more expensive. It doesn't seem that bad because that bad
because it's chipping away bit by bit. And the really
sneaky thing about inflation is that unless you're tracking it
consistently over time and catching the accumulative, the exponential growth
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and prices, it's really going to sneak up on you.
People have put in their budgets and they've gotten their
inlation number come back, and they're shocked at how much
the total cost of living has gone up over the
course of several years, how much more they're spending every
month just to get the same goods.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And services back.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And that insurance stuff is also tricky because, like one
of the biggest price increases was on.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Repairing used cars when.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The supply chain got constrained, and that drove up used
car prices. That insurance companies took a big loss on
getting those repaired. And the things like the insurance are
going to continue to increase as insurance companies are trying
to make back all of the cost increases that they've
already suffered. They're going to get passed back onto their
customers over the time.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Remember, in principle, insurance was for the things that could
happen you can't afford. Now you can't afford the insurance premium.
All right, we're talking with Parker Shepherd, who is the
Heritage Foundation Director of Data Analysis. They have a new
tool for you to use to see never Mind, you
know most of what you hear from politicians and from
the media is to try to impact your behavior get
(07:03):
you to vote for them. This is unmassaged. This is
real information to show you how much these policies and
inflation is costing you specifically. So this is a tool
designed for your understanding and usage, not manipulation to vote.
What do you think is going to surprise them the
most when they get to my inflation dot com and
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start entering their information.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think it's just the dollar time, because when they
talk about inflation, eye talks about it going up two
and a half percent. At its peak it was around
nine percent. But a percent is abstract. You can picture
the dollars coming out of your wallet every time you
have to go by and if you think a typical
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result is somewhere around one thousand dollars a month, if
you were to have one thousand dollars sitting on in
front of you in your table. It's about the same
size as a can of soap. And that is how
much you have to spend every month just to get
the same goods and services.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Translation, you better be making. Wages need to be rising
about what fifteen to eighteen hundred a month to keep
up with that thousand, and they're not.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, and I mean the census fear.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I just came out with median income data last week
that showed that the.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Most recent median so the median.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Income is fifty percent make more, fifty percent make less,
is still for twenty twenty three was lower than four
years prime. So wages have not kept up with the
cost of living.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I sat at I'll give me shameless blood Costco yesterday.
The bill was six hundred and eighty nine dollars. I
remember when my mortgage payment was six hundred and eighty
nine dollars. And that's a costco that I'm paying for
a membership to get great savings. Can you imagine if
I was at a leading grocery store. It's just crazy,
and people are making crazy debates about it to get
(09:03):
you to vote a certain way. Let's start with reality.
What is inflation actually costing you? Where you live, where
you spend, what you spend on Now you can finally
know my inflation dot com Parker. Anything else you want
to say in closing, any tips for how to use
the site, anything that people problematically having that we can
(09:24):
answer before they even start.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
No, I think it's really cool. So we have two
different versions of it. You can do the standard version
that has just a couple of inputs, But if you
really want to geek out, kind of like I do,
we've got a detailed version where you can really break
down a lot of exactly what you're spending on each category.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Definitely do the detailed You need a detailed understanding of
how these policies are consequential to your lives and your
children's future. It might make you a much more educated
voter too. In the end, my inflation dot com. That's
my inflation dot com. Parker Shepherd from Heritage Foundation, Thank
you so much for your time, sir.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You got it seventeen minutes after the hour press we
got from These are are your top five stories of
the day, Barb. President Trump was in Flint, Michigan, alive
and well and testifying Mark Mayfield as the latest.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
In his first public appearance since what's being called the
second attempted assassination of him, Trump took part in a
town Hollyvand in Michigan, moderated by Arkansas governor and his
former one House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Only consequential presidents get shot at. But 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 5 (10:44):
He went on to say that it is a very
dangerous business running for president. Also at the event, Trump
went on to say he had a nice conversation with
President Biden and received a very very nice phone call
from Vice President Harris following the incident.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
On Sunday, I'm Mark mayfewd how Speaker Mike Johnson is
planning a vote when's day on the spending bill to
keep the government opening open and from shutting down, especially
prior to an election. Brian Shook has.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
More this combs after he was forced to pull it
from the floor facing opposition from his own party. Last week,
over a dozen Republicans withdrew their support for the proposed
legislation that's tied to voter id laws. If a stopgap
funding plan is not passed, the government will shut down
on October first. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Did he in the slammer, and he'll remain there being
held without bail. Kristen Marx reports.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Comb's attorney Mark Agnafilo, speaking outside Federal Court in Manhattan
Tuesday after the judge rendered his decision.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
We're killing the decision to hold him without bail.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
A grand jury had indicted the hip hop and business mogul,
who's accused of forcing women and others to participate and
drug induced sexual performances called freak cops.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
As alleged when Combs didn't get his way, he was violent,
and he subjected victims of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
US District Attorney Damian Williams. Prosecutors had argued Cones as
a flight risk and a danger to the public, while
Combes had offered a posed fifteen million dollars bail. Kristen
Marks NBC News Radio New York.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The FBI and the US Postal Service are investigating mail
containing a white powder sent to election offices in at
least seventeen states. ABC News reports none of the mail
turned out to be hazardous, but some offices were evacuated
because of the scare. In one instance, the substance ended
up being flower, a law enforcement of course, could be
a trial run right. Law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
(12:35):
At this point, none of the packages were believed to
be hazardous. Election officials that received suspicious packages were New York, Tennessee, Wyoming, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Massachusetts,
and Colorado. Speaking of the post Office, the chief of
the US Postal Service says he's fully committed to ensuring
the timely delivery of ballots for this year's election. Michael
(12:57):
Casner reports.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
US Postmaster General Lewis to Joy responded Monday to concerns
raised last week by about three dozen election officials from
the National Association of State Election Directors. The group questioned
the USPS's ability to deliver millions of ballots, citing concerns
about processing facility operations and frontline training deficiencies. To Joy
(13:19):
said he plans to hold a call with the state
officials to speak to their concerns. USPS said its currently
delivering mail in just over two and a half days,
but is urging voters to mail their ballots at least
one week before their state's deadline. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Claim maxwell sex trafficking conviction is being upheld by the
US Appeals Court. Lisa G.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Reports, sixty two year old Maxwell and associate to Jeffrey Epstein,
was trying to get her sex trafficking conviction and sentencing overturned.
She was given twenty years behind bars in twenty twenty
one for helping to recruit and groom underage girls whom
Epstein sexually abused. The billionaire Epstein, who was once Maxwell's boyfriend,
died by suicide in twenty nine in a Manhattan jail
(14:01):
after being charged with sex trafficking. Maxwell was trying to
persuade the court that she was given immunity through federal
prosecutors in Florida back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Lisa G NBC News Radio, New York. Yes, thousands are
hoping to get a table at a suburban Denver Casa
Benita restaurant, recently reopened by South Park creators Trey Parker
and Matt Stone. Mark Mayfield's back to fill us in Good.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Guy, Good Guy, I have awesome news this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For my birthday.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
My mom says she's taken me to Casa Bonita in
Denver and I can invite three friends.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Casabanita.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
The reservational list opened Monday with forty thousand members of
the so called Founders Club and a virtual que, followed
by nearly thirty thousand people in a general que 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 Casabanita. Mia Moore, I'm
(14:57):
Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chno. Thanks
for waking up with your morning show. I'm Michael del journal.
Jeffrey Lyon has the controls in joining us. Is your
Morning show. National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Rory, we are expecting
the Fed to announce an interest rate cut today. I'm
gonna go out on a limb like everybody else on television,
say well, I'm about a quarter right, Yeah, that seems
(15:22):
to be where we're at. You know.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
Still some argue we could use a fifty point cut
because the job market is really softening quickly, and a
cut that significant could do go a long way to
help the real estate industry as well.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Have you ever Well, yeah, because you know, remember that
there's the prime rate, you know, and then the mortgagey
is something completely different. We had a fascinating conversation me
and Aaron Rayale, and I wanted to run it by you.
You know, we all wonder what is this number that
gets things moving? That's not the game that's being played,
but just what we're really living and feeling. And I
(16:00):
think for interest rates, it was about this time last
year they were talking about late this year we would
be getting into the fours, closer to the threes, and
settle in twenty twenty five around three. Again, nobody sees
that happening. Yeah, I mean, we're gonna be lucky if
if we ever get to five on the mortgage rate
front long term, and that's going to be the new
normal for which we then live five and a half. Yeah,
(16:22):
But what gets it all moving again? Is five and
a half enough for a baby boomer who's got a
home that is doubled in value or more and he
wants to free up his inventory and get a similar
house with a similar interest rate. What is that number
and this number? What do we make of this number?
I know where they're trying to get ultimately, but this
is a slow step towards it.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
If it's a quarter, right, you know, But if it
is at half, it also gets money going for home
builders to put money out to start building on spec
is the other thing. When you start lowering the rates,
that can bring down costs on the other side, in
addition to hopefully then lowering the mortgage rate for the
end buyer. I think you need that psychological five number
(17:05):
in the front, you know, the back half of that number,
five seven five five two five. I don't think it
matters as much as it just saying five, and I
think that's that's the mental jump.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know. You asked about the baby boomer.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Well, the boomer should have the house paid off by now, right,
you know, or be looking at a very small mortgage
at this point after twenty five to thirty years of
living in it, so you know, hopefully they can make
their jump and it doesn't cost them as much if
they're downsizing, which is a more likely scenario.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, we don't want to. Well, but that's another trend
we're seeing. We don't know the answer to that definitively.
Let yet this gets into a lot of other issues,
but a lot of people are not downsizing. They are
keeping the home. They got more older kids and their
families living with them. That can be a portion of it,
but for by and large, what we see is not
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a lot of baby boomers have that house paid off,
and if they want to make any kind of a move, well,
home values their way up, so that's going to suck
up all their equity, and then the interest rate that
they're going to be at is going to be in
some cases twice as high as what they're paying. And
that's why they're hanging around to it. That along with
immigrants that are taking up some of the houses, These
are all part of a very complex issue. But I
(18:17):
wanted to just stick to the point of what do
we think the number is that it'll get things moving?
Because I don't I think it's a big nothing burger.
If it's a quarter today, I don't think that does anything.
I don't even know what. I don't even know what
people think that will affect.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Well.
Speaker 12 (18:30):
The press conference after the announcement I think is more
important than whether it's a quarter or a half, because
if it is a half, then it's going to say, Okay,
we're starting strong, but we're going to slow down. So yeah, again,
we have to go by the press conference that follows
thirty minutes after the announcement.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think for are you a bit more priority?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
But I would say anything with a five in front
when it comes to mortgage rates is certainly gonna help.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's going to help a lot.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
The fact that your credit card balances those from twenty
one point seventy five twenty one point five, well.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's got it where I was had and I didn't
want to use that analogy. Do we have at least
a minute? Yeah? Okay. What I was just gonna say
is that's let's take a look.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Okay, yeah, we'll make that sorry grant rapids where till
forty five?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's what happens. Hey, I hope I have a little
bit of cloud. So the bottom line is after the
first assassination attempt, you know, we had the whole you know,
there's no place for violence and politics, and everybody kind
of stuck to it for like two days, three days.
This time, there doesn't ok yeah, they did kind of
for two days this time none at all. In fact, shockingly,
(19:37):
the audio from the White House to Hillary Clinton, uh,
to Kamala Harris in her interview, I mean, out of
one side of the mouth, there's no place for violence.
Out the other side of the mouth, the guy's a dictator.
Democracy's at stake, and he must be stopped. I mean,
there's just like, what do you make of this? Trump
last night was no Yeah, right, only people with significance
(19:59):
get shot at. Yeah. I love that line. And then
somebody reminded him Darryl Ford.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And J d Vance you know Stern the pot as well. Yeah,
I mean J d Vance called his running the America
America's hitler. So look, it's again terrible language on both sides.
And I think this is the this is the social
media impact more than anything.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And again with thank you, by the way, thank you.
Don't jump to conclusions that this is political. The Reagan
assassination was all about Jodie Foster.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
Let's not necessarily assume that this is a red blue, liberal,
conservative dem Republican kind of a.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Thing going on. Well, I know, but I want to
say thank you for this. Listen, it's a perfect storm.
But you know, we have gotten more about being divided
than even focused on and debating what divides us, and
we were able to process this. There was a time
we could disagree with people and still have dinner with them.
That's all impossible, and I think that's that dynamic of
(20:56):
social media. But there's a group out there that's sick
of this on both sides, and they don't have any
other way to vote this time.
Speaker 12 (21:03):
Well, social media mostly X we're talking about it's become
a snark contest, right, you know, who can be the
snark you?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh, I don't know that. I don't know the Instagram
and Facebook or any better. But yeah, I give what
you mean. But I think it's easier to avoid on
Instagram and Facebook. Yeah, you can't avoid X is. That's
all it is. That's all it is.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
So it's and it's just one person is being snarkier
than the other and it's just tiring, and some people
take it too seriously and it's exhausting, which is why
everyone's turning off X and why ad revenues are in
the toilet, and why.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
This is turning out to be a terrible investment. Well
needs to turn off all of it. But I mean
on Facebook. It's mostly people narcissistically trying to get likes,
and the same is happening on x only with I
muted so many people I don't even know.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
I think it's I think I'm talking to a mirror
on Facebook because I've muted everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You muted me, Rory, Come on, sure, I did. Absolutely.
I'm not sure we're friends at all, but yeah, that
I might. I mean, when do we our lesson on this?
When do we confess, repent and turn and go back
to a different I mean, or is it? How does
it get any worse than this? I mean, this is
(22:10):
the drum beat that could lead to civil war type stuff.
I mean, people are just out of control. And I'm
telling it. It starts at the networks, it starts at
the heads of these campaigns and certainly these candidates and
loss in all this is nobody cares about us. They're
just they're out there trying to win their fight for us.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Although I'm a big fan of the fact that, you know,
with Kamala Harris getting on the ticket, but in July,
I'm a big fan of we only have follow the
England's lead. Let's only have elections from July to November
and be done with it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You can't advertise before. Well, that's that's the whole bait
and switch, right. I mean, this kind of nonsense that
we're all living right now has been going out in
Washington forever, which is why it was it a cesspool
we all wanted to avoid. Now we've made political constant
fighting the constant mode of every day, and it's just
led to the divided States of America under no God
(23:02):
hatred for all. I mean Howard Stern's comment, Oh, I
don't hate Donald Trump, but I hate anybody that votes
for Now, all I can think of is Karen Carpenter
in the back of my mind. We've only just begun
towards what Yeah, well.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the old line used to
be that politics was show business for ugly people, right,
but then you add nerds. Yeah, well, then you add
twenty four hour cable news into it, and the problem
is you got rid of the ugly people part, and.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Which is why we say turn it all off and
only listen to your morning show. Great content. We're all
beautiful fresh appreciate you calling it today.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
He's gonna be back next Now we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Me, Didny. He's still in the slammer without mail. I
have been so mature all morning long, holding back any comments.
He's right where he belongs. Donald Trump's alive and well
and in Flint, Michigan. Brian Shook as our road to
the White House. Road to the White House twenty twenty four.
(24:01):
Former President Trump says his presidency was consequential.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Only consequential presidents get shot at.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But what can you do? You have to do.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You have to do what you have to do right.
You have to we have to be brave.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
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
(24:37):
he had a nice conversation with President Biden about the
incident in Washington. I'm Brian Schuck.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Hunters are injured in Lebanon and an attack targeting pagers
of Hesbelah members. He is Reeli military denied and decline
any comment on the incident. NBC News is rof Sanchez
said the circumstances were very unusual.
Speaker 13 (24:57):
These militans 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.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Like something in a movie theater.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
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 (25:32):
Diddy's bleeding not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges,
but it gets no bail. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 14 (25:39):
The 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 now 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 as collateral.
The indictment, unsealed today, accuses Combs of actually abusing and
(26:00):
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 9 (26:09):
The indictment alleges between at least two thousand and eight
and the present Comb's abuse threatened and coerced victims to
fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And conceal his conduct. I'm Lisea Taylor. Not a good
week for rock and rollers. We had after fifty five
years something was the final straw for Ario Speedway. You've
been around each other fifty five years. Now you want
to your elderly and Jane's addiction before that, did you
see that. I'm glad you brought that up. That fight
broke out on stage. Michael Kasner reports.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Friday's concert came to an abrupt end after singer Perry
Farrell threw a poncheck guitarist Dave Navarro. Farrell was restrained
by crew members and ushered off stage. Over the weekend,
the band posted that it wants to extend a heartfelt
apology for the events on Pulled It Now. The group
says they've made the difficult decision to take some time away.
The tour was scheduled to wrap in Los Angeles on
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October sixteenth. I'm Michael Cassen.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It reminds me of the time we were doing that
interview and then you and I got in a fight
and I punched in the jaw and you tried to
kick me, and those are good times again. Sports. I mean,
there's like a bad it's a bad bio rhythm for whatever.
Man the bad vibe going on on stage. If you're
in a rock and roll band, be prepared. Something's gonna happen.
This week Cardinals two shoutouts in a row over the
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Pirates Way to Go. They're celebrating under the Arch in
Saint Louis for Zip. Last night, Guardians won forty three
over the Twins, Dbacks, Nts, Lost, Rays, Mariners and Rangers
Off Breton, Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
My morning show is your Morning show with Michael del
john O.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm Michael. You're you. Eight people dead, thousands injured, and
a targeting pagers in Lebanon attack, Israel silentbi in US
Postal Service investigating mail containing white powder turned out to
be nothing, and p Diddy back in jail with no bail.
And if you're just waking up, a government shutdown is
(28:10):
looming once again at the end of the month. What's
the likelihood of it happening. I'm gonna go out on
a limb, John Decker, our White House correspondents here, somehow, someway,
they'll settle it, and I'll be more in debt for it.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning to you. Let's explain
to everybody why we're talking once again this time of
year about the possibility of a government shutdown. It's because
the federal government fiscal year it ends September thirtieth. In
a few weeks, the new fiscal year begins October the
first and May, meaning Congress need to pass funding to
(28:45):
fund every department, every agency of the government for the
new fiscal year. Well, they haven't done that yet. And
what they typically do You know this, Michael, They passed
these continuing resolutions. They kicked the can down the road.
That's what there's going to be a vote on today.
But it's not a done deal. And the reason being
is because there is an amendment attached to this bill.
The amendment was insisted upon by former President Donald Trump,
(29:09):
and the House Speaker is listening to the former president.
The amendment is meant to crack down on non citizen voting,
even though there's already a law on the books that
would do just that. So it seems superfluous to have
this amendment attached to it, and with a very narrow
majority that exists in the House, the votes do not
appear to be there to pass this sixth month continuing resolution.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This failure they're trying to address is not a failure
of the law, it's a failure in the upholding of
the law. So you are right to point that out.
That seems to be one of this any other sticking
points in this other than trying to make this two
weeks suspenseful and painful or at advantageous for one side
(29:54):
over the other.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
In short, politics, Well, it's politics. And why Mitch McConnell,
who on the other side of the capital, the leader
for Republicans in the Senate, says, look, let's just pass
the clean cr Let's not you know, worry the American
people about whether the government's going to be funded. This
shouldn't be a political issue. The reason why he's concerned
(30:17):
is because he believes that if there is a government
shut down, Republicans who control the House would be blamed
for it. And you're probably probably right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, he's probably right. You probably remember the quote. It
was something to the effect of how stupid would we
be right before an election to do this? They would
clearly point to us. What's lost in all of this
is if you had a zero based prioritize balanced budget
like we have in our homes, like we have in
our businesses, you wouldn't run in deficits and debts, and
(30:47):
then you wouldn't every time they do this this This
is the analogy I always use John. Imagine if you
came home and your house was filled the sewage backed up,
and it was filled with sewage all the way up
the first floor, all the way up the stairs, all
the way up to the roof of the second floor
into the attic, and there's just two inches that isn't
covered at the peak of the attic. And you ask
(31:08):
the guy, well, what do you think we ought to do?
I think we should raise the root six inches. You know,
you take God, but that's what we do. It's the
definition of insanity. And of course it's a political opportunity.
So I come back full circle. My guess is, whatever
games are played, whatever attention we give it one way
or another, they're all going to work it out in
about a week, week and a half. They may even
(31:28):
take it to the final moments, but they're going to
work it out, and we're all gonna be more in
debt for it.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Well, it's a good prediction, it's a good forecast because
that's what happens literally every eye. It goes for the
same thing every year, Michael, and it's pretty remarkable. Regardless
of who controls the House or who controls the Senate.
We see this as a problematic thing for lawmakers in
terms of just simply funding the government before the fiscal
(31:54):
year ends. They can't do that. They have these continuing
reservras end year.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
We see this happen when we turn the page on
that great reporting, John, we'll talk again tomorrow. We're all
in this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Oh. P.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Diddy's still in the slammer, being held without bail. Fifty
days until election day, less than candidates sprawled across, but
most of the attention on the second assassination attempt to
the FBI and US Postal Service investigating mail containing white
powders sent to election offices in at least seventeen states.
Good morning, Welcome to Wednesday, September the eighteenth, Seven minutes
(01:00):
after the hour, This is your morning show. I'm Michael
del Journal Jeffrey Lyons at the control Now. You know,
we often tend to take the bait, the narrative bait
that inflation is just some kind of presidential debate and
blame game. No, it's it's a real thing and there's
a real number behind it. You see, policies matter and
(01:22):
policies have consequence. Now, we used to have an honest
middle man, the media that would explain these things in
real time, but they're not honest anymore. In fact, journalism
is dead. They're in the back pocket, they're at the
cabal table. They're creating the very narratives that one side
hides behind and one side looks rabid for attacking. But
(01:44):
what's the truth of what the Biden and Harris policies
are costing you? Wouldn't it be nice to go beyond
the debate and get an actual number. You know what
your car is costing you, you know what your home
is costing you. You get a seat when you're at
the grocery store or the gas station. But in general,
(02:05):
what is inflation costing you? Well, you can thank the
Heritage Foundation, with the largest thing tanks in the world,
for the creation of myflation dot com and Parker Shepherd
is the Heritage director of Data Analysis, and he joins
us this morning. Good morning, Parker. This is brilliant not
to make Democrats look bad, but for me to find
out really how much these policies are costing me.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, the good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think that is an excellent framing that people that
are just trying to get by on day to day
leather are they're looking for journalists, for people that are
trying to explain what's going on, and they've completely lost
that trust in the media to do with the job
of explaining what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, by the way, it's not just I was just
gonna say, Parker, it's not just trust, right. I mean,
they are blatantly still doing it. If they started trying
to do it right, like if CNN started doing its job,
I don't know how long would take to get our
trust back. They're blatantly Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I remember years ago when people would talk about, like
major newspapers like the New York Times are have a
liberal bias, and people would think that you're crazy, And
now it's it's it's why out in the open.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, lost is the truth to talk to us about
how the So we go to myflation dot com. Tell
us how you came up with it and how it
works when we get there.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, it's it's my inflation dot Com. If you go
to it, you will get access to the underlying data
and you'll be able to check and verify against your
own budget just how much the cost of living is
going on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's because I was just gonna say, because it's different, right,
depending on where you're living.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But does it depending on what you're buying.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You can customize your results. You can get the US
national average, you can break it down by region, a subregion,
or by city, and then we've got different categories like groceries, restaurants,
your rent, electricity, car gas insurance. You put in what
you're spending in each of those categories. And if you
don't spend exactly the same way that the Bureau of
(04:14):
Labor Statistics calculates the average index, the headline inflation that
they're recording is not necessarily going to match your cost
of living. And I've seen that with a lot of people.
They say no, no. The government says that it was
two and a half percent increase in prices.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Over the past year, but I look at.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What I'm spending, and it seems like things are going
up much much more than that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's been fascinating. I said from the very beginning, about
a year ago, I don't know who the nominees are
going to be. I presume it's going to be Biden
and Trump, but I mean, you know, it ended up
not being Biden. But I don't know what commercials you
could strategize. I don't know how much money you could
raise and commercials you could run. I guess pay back
all these people that are at your Cabald table in
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the media ever be as powerful as every time we
go to a restaurant, every time we go to the
grocery store, every time we go to the gas station,
every time we pay our rent or mortgage the first
of the month. Of all of them, that I think
is the surprise, and it shouldn't have been. Its common sense.
And this is another one that would be impacted by
where they live when they're entering their information, because not
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all cities are the same. But insurance, home insurance, automobile insurance,
it's unrecognizable.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think you have two things there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
One is that if you just look at you know,
changes between times. You know, the last time you went
out to eat, you come back, it's a little bit
more expensive. It doesn't seem that bad because that bad
because it's chipping away bit by bit. And the really
sneaky thing about inflation is that unless you're tracking it
consistently over time and catching the accumulative, the exponential growth
(05:54):
and prices, it's really going to sneak up on you.
People have put in their budgets and they've gotten their
inlation number come back, and they're shocked at how much
the total cost of living has gone up over the
course of several years, how much more they're spending every
month just to get the same goods.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And services back.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And that insurance stuff is also tricky because, like one
of the biggest price increases was on.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Repairing used cars when.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The supply chain got constrained, and that drove up used
car prices. That insurance companies took a big loss on
getting those repaired. And the things like the insurance are
going to continue to increase as insurance companies are trying
to make back all of the cost increases that they've
already suffered. They're going to get passed back onto their
customers over the time.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Remember, in principle, insurance was for the things that could
happen you can't afford. Now you can't afford the insurance premium.
All right, we're talking with Parker Shepherd, who is the
Heritage Foundation Director of Data Analysis. They have a new
tool for you to use to see never Mind, you
know most of what you hear from politicians and from
the media is to try to impact your behavior get
(07:03):
you to vote for them. This is unmassaged. This is
real information to show you how much these policies and
inflation is costing you specifically. So this is a tool
designed for your understanding and usage, not manipulation to vote.
What do you think is going to surprise them the
most when they get to my inflation dot com and
(07:24):
start entering their information.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think it's just the dollar time, because when they
talk about inflation, eye talks about it going up two
and a half percent. At its peak it was around
nine percent. But a percent is abstract. You can picture
the dollars coming out of your wallet every time you
have to go by and if you think a typical
(07:48):
result is somewhere around one thousand dollars a month, if
you were to have one thousand dollars sitting on in
front of you in your table. It's about the same
size as a can of soap. And that is how
much you have to spend every month just to get
the same goods and services.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Translation, you better be making. Wages need to be rising
about what fifteen to eighteen hundred a month to keep
up with that thousand, and they're not.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, and I mean the census fear.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I just came out with median income data last week
that showed that the.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Most recent median so the median.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Income is fifty percent make more, fifty percent make less,
is still for twenty twenty three was lower than four
years prime. So wages have not kept up with the
cost of living.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I sat at I'll give me shameless blood Costco yesterday.
The bill was six hundred and eighty nine dollars. I
remember when my mortgage payment was six hundred and eighty
nine dollars. And that's a costco that I'm paying for
a membership to get great savings. Can you imagine if
I was at a leading grocery store. It's just crazy,
and people are making crazy debates about it to get
(09:03):
you to vote a certain way. Let's start with reality.
What is inflation actually costing you? Where you live, where
you spend, what you spend on Now you can finally
know my inflation dot com Parker. Anything else you want
to say in closing, any tips for how to use
the site, anything that people problematically having that we can
(09:24):
answer before they even start.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
No, I think it's really cool. So we have two
different versions of it. You can do the standard version
that has just a couple of inputs, But if you
really want to geek out, kind of like I do,
we've got a detailed version where you can really break
down a lot of exactly what you're spending on each category.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Definitely do the detailed You need a detailed understanding of
how these policies are consequential to your lives and your
children's future. It might make you a much more educated
voter too. In the end, my inflation dot com. That's
my inflation dot com. Parker Shepherd from Heritage Foundation, Thank
you so much for your time, sir.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You got it seventeen minutes after the hour press we
got from These are are your top five stories of
the day, Barb. President Trump was in Flint, Michigan, alive
and well and testifying Mark Mayfield as the latest.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
In his first public appearance since what's being called the
second attempted assassination of him, Trump took part in a
town Hollyvand in Michigan, moderated by Arkansas governor and his
former one House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Only consequential presidents get shot at. But 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 5 (10:44):
He went on to say that it is a very
dangerous business running for president. Also at the event, Trump
went on to say he had a nice conversation with
President Biden and received a very very nice phone call
from Vice President Harris following the incident.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
On Sunday, I'm Mark mayfewd how Speaker Mike Johnson is
planning a vote when's day on the spending bill to
keep the government opening open and from shutting down, especially
prior to an election. Brian Shook has.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
More this combs after he was forced to pull it
from the floor facing opposition from his own party. Last week,
over a dozen Republicans withdrew their support for the proposed
legislation that's tied to voter id laws. If a stopgap
funding plan is not passed, the government will shut down
on October first. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Did he in the slammer, and he'll remain there being
held without bail. Kristen Marx reports.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Comb's attorney Mark Agnafilo, speaking outside Federal Court in Manhattan
Tuesday after the judge rendered his decision.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
We're killing the decision to hold him without bail.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
A grand jury had indicted the hip hop and business mogul,
who's accused of forcing women and others to participate and
drug induced sexual performances called freak cops.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
As alleged when Combs didn't get his way, he was violent,
and he subjected victims of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
US District Attorney Damian Williams. Prosecutors had argued Cones as
a flight risk and a danger to the public, while
Combes had offered a posed fifteen million dollars bail. Kristen
Marks NBC News Radio New York.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The FBI and the US Postal Service are investigating mail
containing a white powder sent to election offices in at
least seventeen states. ABC News reports none of the mail
turned out to be hazardous, but some offices were evacuated
because of the scare. In one instance, the substance ended
up being flower, a law enforcement of course, could be
a trial run right. Law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
(12:35):
At this point, none of the packages were believed to
be hazardous. Election officials that received suspicious packages were New York, Tennessee, Wyoming, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Massachusetts,
and Colorado. Speaking of the post Office, the chief of
the US Postal Service says he's fully committed to ensuring
the timely delivery of ballots for this year's election. Michael
(12:57):
Casner reports.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
US Postmaster General Lewis to Joy responded Monday to concerns
raised last week by about three dozen election officials from
the National Association of State Election Directors. The group questioned
the USPS's ability to deliver millions of ballots, citing concerns
about processing facility operations and frontline training deficiencies. To Joy
(13:19):
said he plans to hold a call with the state
officials to speak to their concerns. USPS said its currently
delivering mail in just over two and a half days,
but is urging voters to mail their ballots at least
one week before their state's deadline. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Claim maxwell sex trafficking conviction is being upheld by the
US Appeals Court. Lisa G.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Reports, sixty two year old Maxwell and associate to Jeffrey Epstein,
was trying to get her sex trafficking conviction and sentencing overturned.
She was given twenty years behind bars in twenty twenty
one for helping to recruit and groom underage girls whom
Epstein sexually abused. The billionaire Epstein, who was once Maxwell's boyfriend,
died by suicide in twenty nine in a Manhattan jail
(14:01):
after being charged with sex trafficking. Maxwell was trying to
persuade the court that she was given immunity through federal
prosecutors in Florida back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Lisa G NBC News Radio, New York. Yes, thousands are
hoping to get a table at a suburban Denver Casa
Benita restaurant, recently reopened by South Park creators Trey Parker
and Matt Stone. Mark Mayfield's back to fill us in Good.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Guy, Good Guy, I have awesome news this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For my birthday.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
My mom says she's taken me to Casa Bonita in
Denver and I can invite three friends.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Casabanita.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
The reservational list opened Monday with forty thousand members of
the so called Founders Club and a virtual que, followed
by nearly thirty thousand people in a general que 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 Casabanita. Mia Moore, I'm
(14:57):
Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chno. Thanks
for waking up with your morning show. I'm Michael del journal.
Jeffrey Lyon has the controls in joining us. Is your
Morning show. National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Rory, we are expecting
the Fed to announce an interest rate cut today. I'm
gonna go out on a limb like everybody else on television,
say well, I'm about a quarter right, Yeah, that seems
(15:22):
to be where we're at. You know.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
Still some argue we could use a fifty point cut
because the job market is really softening quickly, and a
cut that significant could do go a long way to
help the real estate industry as well.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Have you ever Well, yeah, because you know, remember that
there's the prime rate, you know, and then the mortgagey
is something completely different. We had a fascinating conversation me
and Aaron Rayale, and I wanted to run it by you.
You know, we all wonder what is this number that
gets things moving? That's not the game that's being played,
but just what we're really living and feeling. And I
(16:00):
think for interest rates, it was about this time last
year they were talking about late this year we would
be getting into the fours, closer to the threes, and
settle in twenty twenty five around three. Again, nobody sees
that happening. Yeah, I mean, we're gonna be lucky if
if we ever get to five on the mortgage rate
front long term, and that's going to be the new
normal for which we then live five and a half. Yeah,
(16:22):
But what gets it all moving again? Is five and
a half enough for a baby boomer who's got a
home that is doubled in value or more and he
wants to free up his inventory and get a similar
house with a similar interest rate. What is that number
and this number? What do we make of this number?
I know where they're trying to get ultimately, but this
is a slow step towards it.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
If it's a quarter, right, you know, But if it
is at half, it also gets money going for home
builders to put money out to start building on spec
is the other thing. When you start lowering the rates,
that can bring down costs on the other side, in
addition to hopefully then lowering the mortgage rate for the
end buyer. I think you need that psychological five number
(17:05):
in the front, you know, the back half of that number,
five seven five five two five. I don't think it
matters as much as it just saying five, and I
think that's that's the mental jump.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know. You asked about the baby boomer.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Well, the boomer should have the house paid off by now, right,
you know, or be looking at a very small mortgage
at this point after twenty five to thirty years of
living in it, so you know, hopefully they can make
their jump and it doesn't cost them as much if
they're downsizing, which is a more likely scenario.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, we don't want to. Well, but that's another trend
we're seeing. We don't know the answer to that definitively.
Let yet this gets into a lot of other issues,
but a lot of people are not downsizing. They are
keeping the home. They got more older kids and their
families living with them. That can be a portion of it,
but for by and large, what we see is not
(17:55):
a lot of baby boomers have that house paid off,
and if they want to make any kind of a move, well,
home values their way up, so that's going to suck
up all their equity, and then the interest rate that
they're going to be at is going to be in
some cases twice as high as what they're paying. And
that's why they're hanging around to it. That along with
immigrants that are taking up some of the houses, These
are all part of a very complex issue. But I
(18:17):
wanted to just stick to the point of what do
we think the number is that it'll get things moving?
Because I don't I think it's a big nothing burger.
If it's a quarter today, I don't think that does anything.
I don't even know what. I don't even know what
people think that will affect.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Well.
Speaker 12 (18:30):
The press conference after the announcement I think is more
important than whether it's a quarter or a half, because
if it is a half, then it's going to say, Okay,
we're starting strong, but we're going to slow down. So yeah, again,
we have to go by the press conference that follows
thirty minutes after the announcement.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think for are you a bit more priority?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
But I would say anything with a five in front
when it comes to mortgage rates is certainly gonna help.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's going to help a lot.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
The fact that your credit card balances those from twenty
one point seventy five twenty one point five, well.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's got it where I was had and I didn't
want to use that analogy. Do we have at least
a minute? Yeah? Okay. What I was just gonna say
is that's let's take a look.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Okay, yeah, we'll make that sorry grant rapids where till
forty five?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's what happens. Hey, I hope I have a little
bit of cloud. So the bottom line is after the
first assassination attempt, you know, we had the whole you know,
there's no place for violence and politics, and everybody kind
of stuck to it for like two days, three days.
This time, there doesn't ok yeah, they did kind of
for two days this time none at all. In fact, shockingly,
(19:37):
the audio from the White House to Hillary Clinton, uh,
to Kamala Harris in her interview, I mean, out of
one side of the mouth, there's no place for violence.
Out the other side of the mouth, the guy's a dictator.
Democracy's at stake, and he must be stopped. I mean,
there's just like, what do you make of this? Trump
last night was no Yeah, right, only people with significance
(19:59):
get shot at. Yeah. I love that line. And then
somebody reminded him Darryl Ford.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And J d Vance you know Stern the pot as well. Yeah,
I mean J d Vance called his running the America
America's hitler. So look, it's again terrible language on both sides.
And I think this is the this is the social
media impact more than anything.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And again with thank you, by the way, thank you.
Don't jump to conclusions that this is political. The Reagan
assassination was all about Jodie Foster.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
Let's not necessarily assume that this is a red blue, liberal,
conservative dem Republican kind of a.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Thing going on. Well, I know, but I want to
say thank you for this. Listen, it's a perfect storm.
But you know, we have gotten more about being divided
than even focused on and debating what divides us, and
we were able to process this. There was a time
we could disagree with people and still have dinner with them.
That's all impossible, and I think that's that dynamic of
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social media. But there's a group out there that's sick
of this on both sides, and they don't have any
other way to vote this time.
Speaker 12 (21:03):
Well, social media mostly X we're talking about it's become
a snark contest, right, you know, who can be the
snark you?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh, I don't know that. I don't know the Instagram
and Facebook or any better. But yeah, I give what
you mean. But I think it's easier to avoid on
Instagram and Facebook. Yeah, you can't avoid X is. That's
all it is. That's all it is.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
So it's and it's just one person is being snarkier
than the other and it's just tiring, and some people
take it too seriously and it's exhausting, which is why
everyone's turning off X and why ad revenues are in
the toilet, and why.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
This is turning out to be a terrible investment. Well
needs to turn off all of it. But I mean
on Facebook. It's mostly people narcissistically trying to get likes,
and the same is happening on x only with I
muted so many people I don't even know.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
I think it's I think I'm talking to a mirror
on Facebook because I've muted everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You muted me, Rory, Come on, sure, I did. Absolutely.
I'm not sure we're friends at all, but yeah, that
I might. I mean, when do we our lesson on this?
When do we confess, repent and turn and go back
to a different I mean, or is it? How does
it get any worse than this? I mean, this is
(22:10):
the drum beat that could lead to civil war type stuff.
I mean, people are just out of control. And I'm
telling it. It starts at the networks, it starts at
the heads of these campaigns and certainly these candidates and
loss in all this is nobody cares about us. They're
just they're out there trying to win their fight for us.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
Although I'm a big fan of the fact that, you know,
with Kamala Harris getting on the ticket, but in July,
I'm a big fan of we only have follow the
England's lead. Let's only have elections from July to November
and be done with it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You can't advertise before. Well, that's that's the whole bait
and switch, right. I mean, this kind of nonsense that
we're all living right now has been going out in
Washington forever, which is why it was it a cesspool
we all wanted to avoid. Now we've made political constant
fighting the constant mode of every day, and it's just
led to the divided States of America under no God
(23:02):
hatred for all. I mean Howard Stern's comment, Oh, I
don't hate Donald Trump, but I hate anybody that votes
for Now, all I can think of is Karen Carpenter
in the back of my mind. We've only just begun
towards what Yeah, well.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the old line used to
be that politics was show business for ugly people, right,
but then you add nerds. Yeah, well, then you add
twenty four hour cable news into it, and the problem
is you got rid of the ugly people part, and.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Which is why we say turn it all off and
only listen to your morning show. Great content. We're all
beautiful fresh appreciate you calling it today.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
He's gonna be back next Now we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Me, Didny. He's still in the slammer without mail. I
have been so mature all morning long, holding back any comments.
He's right where he belongs. Donald Trump's alive and well
and in Flint, Michigan. Brian Shook as our road to
the White House. Road to the White House twenty twenty four.
(24:01):
Former President Trump says his presidency was consequential.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Only consequential presidents get shot at.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But what can you do? You have to do.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You have to do what you have to do right.
You have to we have to be brave.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
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
(24:37):
he had a nice conversation with President Biden about the
incident in Washington. I'm Brian Schuck.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Hunters are injured in Lebanon and an attack targeting pagers
of Hesbelah members. He is Reeli military denied and decline
any comment on the incident. NBC News is rof Sanchez
said the circumstances were very unusual.
Speaker 13 (24:57):
These militans 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.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Like something in a movie theater.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
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 (25:32):
Diddy's bleeding not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges,
but it gets no bail. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 14 (25:39):
The 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 now 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 as collateral.
The indictment, unsealed today, accuses Combs of actually abusing and
(26:00):
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 9 (26:09):
The indictment alleges between at least two thousand and eight
and the present Comb's abuse threatened and coerced victims to
fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And conceal his conduct. I'm Lisea Taylor. Not a good
week for rock and rollers. We had after fifty five
years something was the final straw for Ario Speedway. You've
been around each other fifty five years. Now you want
to your elderly and Jane's addiction before that, did you
see that. I'm glad you brought that up. That fight
broke out on stage. Michael Kasner reports.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Friday's concert came to an abrupt end after singer Perry
Farrell threw a poncheck guitarist Dave Navarro. Farrell was restrained
by crew members and ushered off stage. Over the weekend,
the band posted that it wants to extend a heartfelt
apology for the events on Pulled It Now. The group
says they've made the difficult decision to take some time away.
The tour was scheduled to wrap in Los Angeles on
(27:07):
October sixteenth. I'm Michael Cassen.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It reminds me of the time we were doing that
interview and then you and I got in a fight
and I punched in the jaw and you tried to
kick me, and those are good times again. Sports. I mean,
there's like a bad it's a bad bio rhythm for whatever.
Man the bad vibe going on on stage. If you're
in a rock and roll band, be prepared. Something's gonna happen.
This week Cardinals two shoutouts in a row over the
(27:31):
Pirates Way to Go. They're celebrating under the Arch in
Saint Louis for Zip. Last night, Guardians won forty three
over the Twins, Dbacks, Nts, Lost, Rays, Mariners and Rangers
Off Breton, Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
My morning show is your Morning show with Michael del
john O.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm Michael. You're you. Eight people dead, thousands injured, and
a targeting pagers in Lebanon attack, Israel silentbi in US
Postal Service investigating mail containing white powder turned out to
be nothing, and p Diddy back in jail with no bail.
And if you're just waking up, a government shutdown is
(28:10):
looming once again at the end of the month. What's
the likelihood of it happening. I'm gonna go out on
a limb, John Decker, our White House correspondents here, somehow, someway,
they'll settle it, and I'll be more in debt for it.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning to you. Let's explain
to everybody why we're talking once again this time of
year about the possibility of a government shutdown. It's because
the federal government fiscal year it ends September thirtieth. In
a few weeks, the new fiscal year begins October the
first and May, meaning Congress need to pass funding to
(28:45):
fund every department, every agency of the government for the
new fiscal year. Well, they haven't done that yet. And
what they typically do You know this, Michael, They passed
these continuing resolutions. They kicked the can down the road.
That's what there's going to be a vote on today.
But it's not a done deal. And the reason being
is because there is an amendment attached to this bill.
The amendment was insisted upon by former President Donald Trump,
(29:09):
and the House Speaker is listening to the former president.
The amendment is meant to crack down on non citizen voting,
even though there's already a law on the books that
would do just that. So it seems superfluous to have
this amendment attached to it, and with a very narrow
majority that exists in the House, the votes do not
appear to be there to pass this sixth month continuing resolution.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This failure they're trying to address is not a failure
of the law, it's a failure in the upholding of
the law. So you are right to point that out.
That seems to be one of this any other sticking
points in this other than trying to make this two
weeks suspenseful and painful or at advantageous for one side
(29:54):
over the other.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
In short, politics, Well, it's politics. And why Mitch McConnell,
who on the other side of the capital, the leader
for Republicans in the Senate, says, look, let's just pass
the clean cr Let's not you know, worry the American
people about whether the government's going to be funded. This
shouldn't be a political issue. The reason why he's concerned
(30:17):
is because he believes that if there is a government
shut down, Republicans who control the House would be blamed
for it. And you're probably probably right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, he's probably right. You probably remember the quote. It
was something to the effect of how stupid would we
be right before an election to do this? They would
clearly point to us. What's lost in all of this
is if you had a zero based prioritize balanced budget
like we have in our homes, like we have in
our businesses, you wouldn't run in deficits and debts, and
(30:47):
then you wouldn't every time they do this this This
is the analogy I always use John. Imagine if you
came home and your house was filled the sewage backed up,
and it was filled with sewage all the way up
the first floor, all the way up the stairs, all
the way up to the roof of the second floor
into the attic, and there's just two inches that isn't
covered at the peak of the attic. And you ask
(31:08):
the guy, well, what do you think we ought to do?
I think we should raise the root six inches. You know,
you take God, but that's what we do. It's the
definition of insanity. And of course it's a political opportunity.
So I come back full circle. My guess is, whatever
games are played, whatever attention we give it one way
or another, they're all going to work it out in
about a week, week and a half. They may even
(31:28):
take it to the final moments, but they're going to
work it out, and we're all gonna be more in
debt for it.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Well, it's a good prediction, it's a good forecast because
that's what happens literally every eye. It goes for the
same thing every year, Michael, and it's pretty remarkable. Regardless
of who controls the House or who controls the Senate.
We see this as a problematic thing for lawmakers in
terms of just simply funding the government before the fiscal
(31:54):
year ends. They can't do that. They have these continuing
reservras end year.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
We see this happen when we turn the page on
that great reporting, John, we'll talk again tomorrow. We're all
in this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael
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