10-10-24 Your Morning Show Hour 2

Polls show closeness, but is something even more decisive brewing beyond the numbers

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This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell john Ville.

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And as the sun rises in Florida, we're getting a
look at the damage from Hurricane Milton.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Downgraded now to a Category.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
One storm but continues to bring devastating rain and winds
to parts of Florida. Flash flood emergency continues for portions
of West central Florida. Nearly three million homes and businesses
across the state without power. Waking up this morning at
landfall at is it Cat three could have been worse?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
We were a Cat five than we were four, then
we were five again three when it made landfall. Most
of the fatalities and officials in St. Lucy County are
reporting fatalities. They are related to the tornadoes associated with Milton.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
In the outer bands.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
But we'll get you up to speed and have a
check in with roy O'Neil in mere minutes from now.
If you're just waking up at seven minutes after the
hour on the air and on your iHeartRadio app, this
is your morning show. IM Michael del Journal Jeffrey Lyon
in the studio serving.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Me, I serve you, and to help serve me and
you is.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
David Sanati, the CEO of the American Policy Roundtable, in
the host of the public Square. As we said before,
we were so rudely interrupted by a sunset and sunrise.
The race is so close, and I know what you're thinking, Ah,
how close we're gonna go through? How close it is
in the Swing States in a minute. But this race
is so close. So here comes Joe Biden, who I

(01:53):
think has been kind of and I've been sensing undercutting
Kamala Harris. I'm not so certain. I think he hates
Donald Trump more than he hates Kamala Harris, but not
by much. Does bringing Joe after her gaff you try
to separate yourself from this incumbency really help her?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hurt?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think Obama can help more than hurt Kamala. What
about Elon Musk? Can Telsey gabberd? And not so much?
Rfk Junior? Anymore help Trump? Translation? Can these surrogates play
a decisive difference in a race this close? Everybody says no,
But it almost has to, doesn't it. If somebody's looking

(02:30):
for a tiebreaker, Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Looking for a tiebreaker? What a great way to start.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Let me just ask another question. It kind of really
is underneath the questions we're talking about. Is anybody sick
of all this yet?

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean yet months ago? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm truly ready for it to be done. And the
irony of this is that is that the Democrats made
a very bold strategy move. I don't think it's ever
been tried before. They tried to play the game on
a short field switch out there Nominee puts somebody else
in to run for president of the United States, and
that person has yet to even hold a press conference

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with the national media and voting's already begun, and in
a few days it'll be going on everywhere in the country.
And so you ask yourself, this just seems like it's
been going on forever.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
And the next one and the next one will start
shortly after inauguration.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, the day after so so yeah, So the question
we've got to ask ourselves is where is the people
that are going to be voting. I mean, I was
running the numbers last night, Michael. In twenty twenty, Joe
Biden got eighty one million votes. That's a big number.
Donald Trump got seventy four million votes. That's a big number.

(03:49):
You're talking in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty
million people voting again, and that's out of two hundred
and eighty million people who could. So it's even above
fifty percent participation, somewhere in the sixty percent zone. So
a lot of people are going to vote. My question
is if they just voted today, would it make any
difference whatsoever? And if they voted a month ago. I mean,

(04:10):
I'm looking at the polls yesterday morning and the polls
last night, and I tend not to do that too
often because here's what you find out Yesterday morning, the
composite of the polls on Real Politics had Donald Trump
winning three important battleground states. Last night, the polls accumulated

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had him winning one.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
How does that work well?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
For one, these leads are so tight and so narrow,
the margin of ever alone will cause it to fluctuate,
and if you're trying to read into that, plus you
have events. I would think it never got lower for
the Democrats than after the debate with Biden and Trump.
That was as low as it went. Then they did
the bait and switch with Kamala. As high as it's
been for them was her performance at the Hollywood created

(04:58):
convention show.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
For the Republicans, you know, you can't get lower than
you know, a near assassination, But that created their greatest high.
I don't particularly think that they had a monumental I
think they did some effective things to target the convention
towards the undecided voter, but they have such passion within

(05:22):
their base. They left united and united behind Trump. They
did what they had to do, but there was no
real big bump. Now I wonder for a completely full
circle where nobody's really that at a height of being
impressed with either of them, is the terms.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think you're exactly right. I think this campaign is
flat as a pin.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
And the way they're using the making politics out of hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
That I think that's the new low. That's the surprise,
how low they'll go.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, And I think if yeh, that's a subtle artistic
reality of how the media has shaped the hurricane conversation.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Do you think we're so divided as a nation and
thanks to social media and thanks to what's left of
mainstream media mainly cable television, that we're just always wanting
to fight And it's just a lot more interesting to
fight about two people at the top of the ticket
then just fight with each other directly, and that's why

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it never ends.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's an excellent perception what we've got, and is something
that Mitt Romney said and got him in a boatload
of trouble. Some people say lost the election because of
this very statement. Lisio Magazine believes that when he talked
about the fact that there's forty seven percent of the
people in this country, regardless of political party affiliation or not,
who are very dependent in their own mindset on the

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size and distribution of benefits of the federal government. They
don't want smaller government. They don't want conservative policies. They
want what they want and they want it now.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Entitlement culture meets.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
If you start with forty seven percent, well.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, you got half the country's tax payers, half the
country's tax receivers. I mean the notion that Kamala Harris
can look a camera in the eye and say, well, how.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Are you gonna pay for all this? Well, the rich,
the rich.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are gonna pay their fair share when they're already paying
they're what twenty six percent of the one percent, and
they're paying forty eight percent of the tab they're already
paying more than their fair share. And then there's half
the country paying nothing. And you can look at the
eye and say, oh the God. And by the way,
you could tax the rich one hundred percent and guess what,
they'd be fine.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
You won't be.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
They'll close their businesses and they'll live forever comfortably with
their family, and you will starve to death. But even
if you tax them one hundred percent, it's kind of
like the global warming argument. If you did everything the
crazy left wants to do, if you forget Agenda twenty
one and what the real endgame is all about in
population control, and you did everything, you wouldn't impact the
temperature by more than one tenth of one degree. If

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you tax the rich one hundred percent, you wouldn't touch
the deficit. You couldn't cover it by a mile. It's
all nonsense. So why do they get away with nonsense.
Somebody's playing a game that seems to be more important
to play than understanding common sense and their own well
being in reality.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Our regis statement the other day last night by Saint
John Paul the Second, Pope John Paul the Second, out
of the beloved Saint John Pope, John Paul the Second,
and he basically said, the question of original sin is
the question of defining reality. In other words, we all
fall down. There is no perfect system, there is no
perfect government. You have to decide what principles and values

(08:33):
you are going to base your life work on. And
there are forty seven percent of the people in this country,
that's what Romney said. Maybe it's forty, maybe it's thirty eight,
maybe it's fifty, we don't know, but it's a big
number of people who have decided that they want what
they want from government, and they want it right now.
That doesn't matter whether it's a Republican or a Democrat.
Whichever candidate offers them the most goodies is going to.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Maybe that's why we don't ever ask the question out loud,
what is the proper size role of the federal government?
What is the role in the responsibility of the self governed?
We probably really hate that answer. David Zanadi is the
CEO of the American Policy Roundtable. Their crown jewel is
the Public Square. Heard on two hundred stations. He's a
senior contributor to your Morning Shore. You're talking about those numbers. Arizona,
Trump leads forty nine to forty seven point six. So

(09:17):
that's well within the margin of error and could still
go either way, but leaning Trump. Nevada, Trump is trailing
forty eight point six to forty seven and a half.
It's leaning Kamala Wisconsin forty eight point seven to Trump's
forty eight point two. It's within a half a share.
Never mind how Trump under poles, never mind margin of error.

(09:39):
Michigan forty eight for Kamala, forty eight and a half
for Trump.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
He leads by a half in Michigan. I told the story.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Pennsylvania, by the way, is forty eight point three for Trump,
forty eight point one for Kamala.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
These are crazy numbers.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
North Carolina forty nine point one for Trump, forty eight
point six for Kamala. Georgia is forty nine for Trump,
forty eight percent for kamalareers. I mean pretty much none
of them are separated by even two points. I told
the story of Gary Shore, which was our meteorologist in Tulsa,
Very he was very dear friend, a very dear brother,
but he's since passed. He would we'd have a big

(10:16):
storm coming, and he was our weather guy that from
Channel two, and then I'd use him on the air
and I said, well, Gary, what are you expecting? Michael,
We're expecting anything from a dusting to two feet of snow.
And I thought, well, Gary, you're bound to be right.
I mean, this could go Kamala wins to Trump wins
in a landslide.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Who could tell? Who could possibly know? Right now?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
When you've got an election that's flat as a pancake,
what's going to turn momentum at the end. The danger
for Harris is the fact that the more she campaigns,
the more she exposes.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So early voting becomes important, mail in voting becomes important,
you get those votes cast in the bank before she
gaffs again.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
And the problem for Trump is the more that he talks,
the more trouble he gets into.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Donald Trump was at his best what tied up in
court with surrogates doing the talking for him and him
talking very little.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
And you said it for years now, you said, we've
been at this conversation four years, that the idea of
Donald Trump is better than the execution.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, I have to defend myself that I coined that
phrase for Ted Cruz and I stand by that to
my death.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
But it doesn't kind of apply to Trump to and again.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
And that's not to criticize the personality of Donald Trump
or his campaign or as supporters. But what it speaks
is that there's two frames of mind in the American electorate.
One that wants government to take care of them, and
the other is people will say, I'll pay my share,
but leave me alone. I will help my neighbor, I
will pay my fair ship, but then let me live

(11:44):
my life. Please get off my lawn. And we're divided
as a country, right, and that's where we're divided.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I choose to it's not necessary, it's not called upon,
it's probably not even wise, but I don't let my
listeners wonder. I'm definitely voting for Donald Trump, and you
have every right to vote how you're going to vote,
and I don't impede on that. I'll give you some
things to think about, but I'm voting for Donald Trump.
But I will say it this way, and I think
it summarizes everything we've been talking about. I'm not any
more energized or excited about my Donald Trump vote than

(12:15):
I was a year ago. So how much has he
done effectively that I feel just the same And it
Please don't hold me under a bright light and waterboard me, because.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't know how much of it is a vote.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
It's a vote for Trump's policies as much as it
is a vote against Kamala Harris. I mean, she's incompetent,
and even if she was, and if she was competent her,
I believe her policies would continue us in the wrong
direction right off a cliff. But I would ask fairly
if there was somebody here that I knew was voting

(12:52):
for Kamala Harris, how are you feeling? Because I feel
like they've been holding their nose all along, and I
think they're holding it tighter than ever. So I'm going
to give an edge to Donald Trump in all of
this because the under poles, the polls are this close.
She's gaffing. There's nobody that believes that this is turning
a page in a new direction. The direction of the
country and the low approval ratings and the economy and

(13:14):
the border and the wars. Change is coming and she's
not changed. They tried to fake it, but she's not.
And that's why I think Trump prevails, But it could
go either way.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Well, there's one thing about this that does trouble me
as an American. We get the politics, forget political cards.
I'm a registered independent, but like you, I have plenty
of opinions and I share them probably too often. What
troubles me the most is that there isn't an outcry
on behalf of all Americans for how we have a
president that is not physically, medically, intellectually capable of doing

(13:47):
the job right now, and we've been whistling past the
graveyard hoping nothing terrible happens. And that's all a part
of how this campaign's been conducted. And I think that
the vice president of the United States exists for moments
like that, and Kamala Harris has nothing to say about
how long Joe Biden's been hidden in the basement, and

(14:08):
I think that's problematic.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
And these are the things that aren't polled, that could
be in the back of people's minds when they get
to the polling booth. David Sinata, you can hear his
great work at the Public Square dot com. Encourage everybody
to get the facts about abortion in America. They can
find the link to that at the Public Square dot
com too, but there's a direct link what is it.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Sure Life dot AP, roundtable dot org and that book.
Michael's making a big difference. It's cutting the politics and
getting to the facts. The other side is depending on
abortion being their secret weapon in the mindset of voters.
I'd say, get rid of the politics, get the facts
at Life dot AP, Roundtable dot org.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Thank you, David. We'll talk again soon.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del chuone from Miami.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Rory O'Neil joining us with Milton the morning after. Tornadoes
were a big part of this, Like Katrina had a
lot of tornadoes too. Not all hurricanes do this one
did what was it over one hundred mornings yesterday.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, and I think more than two dozen confirmations. But
I was also struck by the intensity of these tornadoes.
Typically that the hurricane associated tornado is pretty weak. They
just last for a moment or two, you know, knocked
down a tree or a mailbox or something like that.
These were full on, welcome to Oklahoma kind of tornadoes

(15:26):
that we saw, at least from our standpoint, and caused
an awful lot of damage in places like Fort Pierce
and Port Saint Luci.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Those would be areas that.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
Really weren't in the impact zone, the predicted impact zone,
So I think a lot of people may have been
caught off guard by these twisters.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Officials in Saint Lucy County, Florida reporting multiple fatalities associated
with these tornadoes. Any other fatalities being reported.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Not yet, although I think perhaps in the Sarasota area
they have been some. But yeah, a lot of people
took heed of those evacuation orders. I think we're still
waiting to see now that the sun's coming up, exactly
what happened overnight. You know. The first response now is
we're not into recovery yet. We're first into search and rescue.
So that's what's being deployed right now to try to

(16:12):
account for everyone, and that's what the teams are trying
to do. We'll get the utility crews out fast enough.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
So power outages, I've seen reports of two million. Latest
I saw was three million homes and businesses together out
of power throughout the state.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Do we have any updates?

Speaker 6 (16:28):
I think we were up to three point two ish
between friends. I just got a note about my house
being out, So yeah, it's and it's mostly in that
central Florida swath. If you're familiar with Florida, and I
think we've talked about it in terms of presidential politics,
there's a thing called the I four Corridor. It's Interstate
four that goes from Tampa through Orlando and up to

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Daytona Beach. It's a critical part of presidential campaigning way
back when Florida was a swing state, and that's essentially
that same area is really feeling the worst of this.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, back in those days, the Panhandle was red, in
southern Florida was solid blue, and that corridor was the
deciding factor. All right, so flooding this could have been
a lot worse, or so it appears. I mean, there's
still a flash flood emergency because there's still so much
rain coming.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
But how do we think we're faring on the flooding front.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah, as we speak, this thing is still hammering the
Daytona Beach area, Daytona, New Smyrna, Cocoa Beach, Cape, Canaveral.
They're still all getting hit pretty hard right now. But
it looks like this kept that southerly track, so it
spared Tampa Bay the worst of the storm surge. What's
interesting is that it actually because of the track, it
actually sucked water out of Tampa Bay, drying up Tampa Bay.

(17:44):
It is shallow and so the fact that it sucked
all this water out as it passed to the south
is pretty remarkable.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
But it shows you the difference.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
Had this thing tracked about twenty miles more to the
north would have been a very different scenario.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Roy O'Neill is joining us from Miami.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
It is the morning after Mill made landfall as a
Category three, still listed as a Cat one or has
it been downgraded again?

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Nope, still a Count one as we speak, might get
downgraded in the next twenty minutes or so when we
get the next upgrade from the National Hurricane Center.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
But again, most of it is now offshore.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
Maybe I think it'll be all over in another hour
or two and then that's it for the storm. It's
expected to dissipate out over the Atlantic. Shouldn't be a problem.
It's not going to reform and hit the Carolinas or something.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
No.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
No, the trajectory's taking it away. Plus the waters get
cooler out in the Atlantic, all right, anything else or
that we're keeping an eye on. I know the rest
of it becomes just disgusting making politics out of it,
quite frankly, both sides are somewhat guilty of that, but
it does seem to be if you put all politics
aside as though, there was a lot more preper I

(18:48):
would say there's more people on the ground from the
government ahead of time. I don't know if that points
to lessons that have been learned, but there's a lot
of FEMA and National Guard in the air. There is,
so for when the sun comes up, whatever we're facing,
we're a lot more prepared this time.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Well yeah, And I'm trying to find the way to
say it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
It's something so politicized, right, Well, Florida's emergency response is
a well oiled machine. I think this is the third
major hurricane to hit the state, or the third hurricane
this year, and I think the third major hurricane in
two years.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
So you know, we're used to this drill by.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Now, great reporting, where we'll talk again in the third hour,
all right, it is forty minutes after the hour, all
non related stories, well kind of non related, because I
was just mentioning making politics of hurricanes. I think both
sides are guilty, but Brian Shook as our stormy road
to the White House.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Road to the White House twenty twenty four. Politics are
becoming a part of the recent hurricanes. At a rally
in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Trump went after Kamala
Harris and FEMA's efforts post Hurricane Helene. She's just led
the word first rescue operation and history in North Carolina. Meanwhile,

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President Biden is placing blame on what he calls disinformation
about hurricanes and relief efforts on Trump. Trump has criticized
FEMA's response to Helene, suggesting that victims will only get
seven hundred and fifty dollars payments and also claiming that
disaster dollars have been diverted to illegal immigrants in Washington.

(20:27):
I'm Brian Schuck.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
State Department says more than eleven hundred Americans have fled
Lebanon as battles between Israel and has Bela escalate.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Mark Mayfield has that report.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
The State Department sent on Wednesday that the US is
organizing flights out of Lebanon for citizens. Hundreds of thousands
of people have fled southern Lebanon, where Israel has launched
more than a thousand airstrikes and some ground operations against Hensbolah.
The group fired and estimated ninety missiles in Israel on Wednesday,
with most of them intercepted by air defenses.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Former President Donald Trump, he may think New York's play,
whether it is or isn't, stop spreading the news. The
campaign is coming to Manhattan. Natalie mcgleori has more.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
The Republican will host a rally at Madison Square Garden
on October twenty seventh, kicking off an arena tour so
the former president can stop in battleground states as a
final push before election day. Trump hass said he believes
he can turn New York red.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
You know overwhelmed, majority is blue.

Speaker 10 (21:24):
I will say there are some supporters, but you certainly
come across people who are.

Speaker 9 (21:30):
It's just surprised when you hear it in Manhattan.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
He's not gonna win New York by I think he'll
do better than Keyston in the past.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
Trump is expecting a fill msg to its nineteen five
hundred person capacity and the event will be first come,
first serve.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
I'm Natalie mcleori. You know there was the news radio
New York.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
There was a time where there was a Walgreens on
every corner. I mean, you know how we use these
words like what would you like something to drink? Yeah,
give me a coke. It's a brand name. Give me
a band aid, it's a brand name. I gotta get
some joys.

Speaker 11 (21:59):
I got to.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Not so now everything gets delivered to us. Now the
most wonderful site is that smile in the front yard
and a package is being delivered by Amazon. But they're
expanding their national pharmacy network too. Tammy Trihilo has more.

Speaker 12 (22:15):
The retail giant said Wednesday, is using its vast logistics
network to improve access to affordable medications. That includes adding
twenty new pharmacies to the network in twenty twenty five.
The company said that by the end of next year,
nearly half of Amazon customers will be eligible for same
day delivery of their prescription medications. The pharmacies won't be

(22:35):
locations where customers can walk in. Instead, they'll be attached
to the company's same day delivery sites. Amazon confirmed a
few of the new cities that will see the expansion,
including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego. I'm Tammy Trichillo.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
We are having a conversation that's happening a lot lately
that the off air is becoming more interesting, like when
I saying the Laverne and Shirley theme is Neil Diamond. Yeah,
it could be the most compelling thing I've done to day.
And it was off the air, but Aaron Real and
I were talking about fashion because fashion is returning, yes,
and so that you know, was missus Cleaber's name in
Liba de Bieber June tune. Yeah, the kind of very

(23:14):
conservative dress, pearl necklace, June Cleaver look is back at
uh in fashion And I said, oh, bring back the
leisure suit. Not even Frank Sinatra could make the leisure
suit look good. Well that she was telling me that
at the met Gala, that was all the fashion rollout.
So and speaking of the met Gala, the theme and

(23:35):
co chairs for next year have been announced. Lisa Taylor's
here with that story.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
Vogue said the theme for the fashion event will be
super Fine Tailoring, Black Style. It's set to take place
on May fifth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on
Fifth Avenue. Co chairs of the evening include music stars
for Rall Williams and Asap Rocky. Also actor Coleman Domingo,
race card Brber Lewis Hamilton and Vogue editor in chief
and a winterur Los Angeles Laker star Lebron James will

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serve as an honorary chair. I'misa Taylor.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Unlike the stereotype of a typical Italian American, I don't
wear necklaces and bracelets. I will say I had a
bit of a watch fetish for many years.

Speaker 9 (24:18):
It means you don't unbutton your shirt down to your navel.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
No show.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
I did like nice watches boulov O, you know, in
different types. I haven't worn a watch in six years, really,
so I have all these watches I should be selling
them on eBay.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
But who's wearing watches?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Because you see the time every time you pick your
phone up, right, my alarm clock. That's my phone too.
So I don't get this market at all. But Nintendo
is revealing a new piece of hardware and its lineup
that they're expecting to be a big hit.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
And it's an alarm clock. Matt Mattinson explains.

Speaker 13 (24:57):
Mario the video game Giant recently an alarm clock. The
so called Alarmo is motion activated and feature sounds and
music from Nintendo games. It can also play more relaxing
sounds to help folks doze off, and even features sleep
tracking technology. The new product goes for around one hundred
bucks and drops early next year. However, Nintendo Switch online

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members can buy it now. I'm at Mattinson. We should
make that our question of the day. Who still has
an alarm clock?

Speaker 9 (25:23):
Dear Santa Hey Christmas?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
And who wants a mody you have to wake you up?

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Wood? That'd be great.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
This is Deba Morris from our little town of Franklin, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
My morning show is your Morning Show with Michael Deltoria.
I'm Michael del Chorno.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
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Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's a little microphone.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
If you press it, you can ask a question, make
a comment on the things we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Maybe still have alarm clock off the topic.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I can't imagine Nintendo is going to make a big
buck this Christmas selling alarm clocks with Mario.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
I mean, everybody, my phone is my alarm clock. It's
my clock.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
To have one, just to have it there on the counter,
on the night stand beside the bed.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I would live.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I know what to get you for Christmas. If you're
just waking up. It's Florida, the morning after Hurricane Milton.
Officials in Saint Lucy County, Florida are reporting multiple fatalities
related to Hurricane Milton. Associated with the tornadoes in the
outer bands. Milton has since been downgraded to a Category one.
It's headed out. It's over pounding Daytona right now, and
then it'll be heading out into the Atlantic where it'll dissolve.

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It has brought a lot of devastating rain and wind damage.
There's about three point two million homes and businesses without power.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Waking up this morning.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
John Decker is our White House correspondent and safe and
sound far away from Florida, but keeping an eye on
the federal government's response to Hurricane Milton.

Speaker 11 (26:54):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning Michael. How are you
doing today.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
So I have been.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I had to struggle with Rory a few minutes ago.
I find the playing of politics on both sides, by
the way I think both sides have been guilty of
it just disgusting. So I don't know how to word
this other than to say Florida always gets hurricanes, has
its act together, the governor's been on top of it,
but the federal government far more out ahead of this storm.

(27:22):
Perhaps that's a way of learning from North Carolina. But
there's a lot of resources on the ground as the
sun comes up this morning.

Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yeah, that's right. As President Biden said yesterday, an unprecedented
amount of resources, twenty million meals, water generators, medicine, personnel
of course, all pre positioned. Also military search and rescue
teams prepositioned in Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton making landfall. Presidents, governors,

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they're judged by how they deal with natural disasters. And
you know, I can give you the list because I've
covered these presidents. I can give you the list. George W.
Bush after math of Katrina not good. Donald Trump after
math of Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico not good. And
so I think you learn from what didn't work if

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you're in these leadership positions. And you know, I think
that President Biden FEMA in particular, has been praised by
the Republican governors of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee in
terms of providing what these states need in the aftermath
of these powerful hurricanes.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah, I think, and at some point too, this is
just to balance the discussion. It falls on governors too,
and it falls on municipalities and county officials too, communicating
with their governors and governors communicating with the federal government.
I've seen some presidential responses better because of governors who
are better at coordinating and asking too. So it's any different.

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But I want to go back to the main point,
which is this political culture that we're in. You can't
admit it is a mistake. Ever, and therefore, how do
you learn from them and do better next time? Everything's
either just you know, gas lit or you know, swept
under a rug. Look, we're all human. We make mistakes.
We should learn from those mistakes and do a better job.

(29:21):
I mean, at some point two weeks later, you ought
to be more prepared in Florida than you just were.
I also think what happened in Carolina was a little
bit more unique, even though we were predicting it ahead
of time. The flooding and what could happen, you know,
just this whole notion that you can't learn from it.
But I would imagine there are some people looking at
the radio right now as you're describing everything that was

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done in Florida and saying, well, that didn't that isn't
how it looked in Western Carolina.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
How would they be feeling waking up this morning.

Speaker 11 (29:51):
Yeah, I mean, look, no community is back to the
way those communities were before these powerful weather occurrences, and
it's going to take some time. It's going to take
a lot of time to recover. As we speak today,
I think there are millions without power in the state
of Florida. So that will take time, just in terms
of that aspect of the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, and

(30:15):
then you know all the damage associated. We're talking about
billions of dollars worth of damage, so there's a long
recovery time. And you know, I think that our federal
government should work with date and local leaders to make
certain that all of these communities you mentioned Western Calier
at Carolina, ash Hilariat are put back in a place

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where they were before these natural disasters occurred.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
So John Decker, closing moments, if we're living in the matrix,
the right is saying we don't have money for Americans,
tax paying Americans because that money is all going to
Ukraine or Lebanon or Israel or YadA YadA.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Well, time will tell on that.

Speaker 11 (30:56):
You know, if yah, I disagree with that, you know,
in the sense that I guarantee you, I guarantee you
if more money is needed, more money will be provided
by Congress, guarantee it one hundred percent. You know, we're
talking about the states that have a lot of power
in Congress, each and everyone that was impacted by both

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Hurricane Seline and Hurricane Milton. So if FEMA needs more money,
they're going to get more money. If there's more emergency
assistance that's needed, that will be passed by Congress, guarantee
it one hundred.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'm just so sick of everything being made political. I
mean just so sick of it.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Joano.