November 25, 2024 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well two three starting your morning off right. A new
way of talk, a new way of understanding because we're
in this together. This is your morning show with Michael,
Bill charm.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And Hi there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
My name is Lodonna Harvey and I am thrilled to
be sitting in the hot seat today on your morning
show with Michael del Jorno. As you can yell, I'm
not Michael del Jorno. I'm coming to you today from Phoenix, Arizona.
All this week save Thanksgiving Day. I am cheap cook
and bottle washer on that day, So it's going to
start at about the same time, but I'll be slaving
over a hot stove instead of a hot mic so my.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Dad can have pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I hope the Butterball hotline is ready because I plan
to keep them busy and hopefully avoid poisoning anybody with
the food or whatever it is that birds can kill
you with.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Please keep me in your thoughts at this trying time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I wanted to start off with a new Pew poll
about Democrats and their pessimism about their party's future. Apparently
it's at its highest level in the Trump era. And
that's no surprise, is it. Are you surprised? I am
not surprised about this. You know, it was a disastrous
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twenty twenty four if.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You were a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Republicans got the presidency, they flipped the Senate, that retained
the House. Democrats not very happy with their party, and
I am I am of the thought that this started
with Joe Biden running for president in the first place,
running for reelection, I should say, in the first place,
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no matter who you were, Democrat Republican, you could tell
that things were not going well for Joe Biden. His
he was halting in his speeches, He would lose his
way when he was talking. It was not a comfortable
thing to watch, especially toward the end of his presidency.
(02:20):
And when he said he was running again, I thought, boy,
that's very strange. So I think that democrats, and if
you're a Democrat, I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Did you feel lied to?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
If you're listening to us on that free iHeartRadio app,
just hit that red microphone button and you can tell
us how you feel, because I think it started with
Joe Biden and with the Democratic Party and the people
in his administration covering for him, saying no nothing to
see her, people keep moving, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well it wasn't fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And no one in the American public thought that he
was fine. Nobody thought he was fine. To do you
as a Democrat, if you're a Democrat, feel that you
were lied to from the start. Do you feel like
nobody had the issues that you care about top of mind?
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I mean what I saw as somebody who is you know,
I'm central, right, I'm like a dead armadillo in the
middle of the road.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm nobody special. I'm you know.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I don't have any kind of you know, I don't
hew to any ideology because that just it's too much
work to be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I just kind of think my own way.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And in looking at the at the Kamala Harris campaign,
if I had been a registered Democrat. I would have
been furious. I would have been furious because Number One,
I didn't have a chance to vote in a primary.
Number Two, the Democratic Party and that includes Kamala Harris
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lied to us about how well Joe Biden was doing.
Oh no, no, no, he's he's everything is great, He's as
arp as he ever was. Everybody knew that that was
not true. So pessimism among Democrats is very high, especially
among the younger members of the party.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You have fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Five percent of Democratic aligned adults, younger voters taking a
negative view of the party's future.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And that's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's a it's a party right now that doesn't have
much of a vision, and the vision that it does
have is costing everybody so much money. Democrats less optimistic
about the party's future than they have been at any
point in the past eight years. And you know, you
have fifty one percent of Democrats and independents who lean
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toward the parties say they're optimistic.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Forty nine percent say they're pessimistic.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And as we look at more and more Americans these
days kind of going, you know what the Republicans, I
get some of what they're saying Democrats. I get some
of what they're saying, and I agree with a little
bit of each, but the more radical ideologies kind of
turned me off. And they're finding themselves saying that they
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are independent, even though they do tend to vote how
they voted whenever they were picking a party. It's no
wonder that American voters are feeling a little bit weird,
and especially if you're a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That pessimism it's up. It's up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Thirty eight percent twenty sixteen said they were feeling pessimistic
in the wake of Trump's first presidential victory. And now
you have forty nine percent. That's a pretty that's a
pretty big jump. It's a pretty big jump. And if
you're out there and you are a Democrat, how are
you feeling? Is this is Is this a party that
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you feel like really speaks to you? Are they talking
about the things that you want? Because in the election,
Kamala Harris was just kind of like, I'm the party.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Of feel good.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We didn't see a lot of policy when you had
more and more Americans Democrats and Republicans, yes, more Republicans
than Democrats were saying it, saying that immigration, illegal immigration
was a top issue for them, along with the economy.
It's always the economy, but illegal immigration was a top
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policy issue, and she was the borders are and she
and Joe Biden said everything was fine, but we knew
things weren't fine. And more and more people from big
cities started seeing that, didn't they, because you know, it
might have started out with Texas sending illegals to sanctuary cities,
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but Joe Biden sent them all across the country, sent
one to Georgia that's killed a nurse, and that I
think left a really bad taste in people's mouths. Economically,
we're feeling like, well, you know, you look at the
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larger economic picture and inflation is down, but you look
at the macro of it and you realize that, wait
a minute, but I'm still paying.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
More at the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm still paying more, at least up until the election,
for gasoline. I'm spending more and I'm not getting the
raises that will cover the inflation. So I'm still feeling it.
So those it's those macro economics. I think that got
the Democratic Party as well, the feeling that no matter
what Wall Street was telling you, and no matter what
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you know, the the larger economic picture was telling you
you were still feeling that pressure on your wallet and
heading into the holidays.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And the guy in the White House or the gallon
the White House, well, the buck stops with them, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The buck definitely stops there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
This is your morning Show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know what, we should check out the five top
stories of day, Jeff. That was a lovely pause there.
Thank you. Does this happen every day? Holiday? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'm going to be traveling for Christmas, so this does
not bode well for any of US. Federal Aviation Administration
staffing shortages could cause us some travel delays for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
The FAA says travel in the north east New York
City in particular, could be affected the most due to
a shortage of air traffic controllers again yay. Travel experts
expect Tuesday to be the busiest day in the skies.
So nearly three million people are hitting the airport with
you tomorrow, all of them hostile with their luggage and
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their kids and their emotional support turkeys or whatever it
is that they're using to pack their bird on the plane. Yeah, everybody' said,
you know what, all you got to do is just
breathe and maybe go for decaf that morning.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm just that's my advice. That's my advice.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I'm traveling for the for the Christmas holidays. I'm actually
flying to London. And until you've been to Heathrow on
a holiday, you truly have not lived. The first time
I went to Heathrow, I landed in something called storm Unice.
Now I was like, what is what is this storm unice?
Nonsense that I'm hearing about right here didn't seem to
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be a big deal because you know, British Airways was
flying well guess what my plane ended up on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Congratulations, we can't they And I'm pretty sure you could
hear me screaming as we were coming in for a landing.
The wind was so strong We're talking gale and hurricane
force winds. As we're landing the airplane. The plane went
a little bit sideways on the way down to the runway,
and you know, you kind of hit a point of
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no return, as I know now, did not know this.
Then you hit a point of no return where your
speed's slow enough that you you're gonna go wheels down.
Some like it and we like it or not. We
were going down, Jeff. And so right when we started
to hit that point of no return, suddenly I guess
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there was a big down draft or something, the right
wing dip down. And I'm sitting, of course in the
right and I'm looking outside thinking, oh, oh that is
that is like wing to the ground first before tire.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I don't I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And it was so bad that when they finally got
us off the ground, they couldn't even pull up to
a gate. They had to take us down on stairs,
take us to a bus. We go, and we're waiting
and waiting and waiting in luggage. This is Heathrow during
the holidays, so beware for enjoy your stay.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It was something like two hours later that they finally said,
we cannot get your luggage off the plane.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You're going to have to go without.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And I thought, well, there's me with all of my
underwear packed in that bag and my carry on.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I have duty free booze.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I drank a lot of that booze for the next
few days because I didn't have clean underwear. The Texas
State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve a
curriculum for public schools leaning heavily on stories from the Bible.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Tony Waterman has that story.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
The lessons will be incorporated starting in late twenty twenty
five and will be taught in kindergarten through fifth grade.
The material will include lessons from the Book of Genesis
and Psalms. Schools are not required to adopt the new curriculum,
but if they do, they will receive a big boost
in funding, up to sixty dollars per student. A Rice
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University study recently found that seventy three percent of Texas
school districts are underfunded. A similar effort was made in
Oklahoma last year, but is being challenged in the courts.
Tony Waterman, Texas. You know, it's so interesting. I went
to school in Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So I'm originally from this little town called Canyon, Texas.
It's about thirty miles south of Amarillo. And you know,
you blink and you've and you've passed it. So and
I and I say this as somebody who is I
am not religious, you know, do I call myself an atheist? No,
I'm not officially officially a religion hater. I'm not a
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religion hater. I don't, I don't care. I don't care
what anybody does. You know, you do you, I'll do me.
We'll all be happy. What's interesting about this is that
the so the separation of church and state.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And I know that's a phrase that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You know, it's not in the constitution, no, but it
really kind of was the idea behind the constitution. Don't
pick a don't pick a national religion, don't pick a
specific religion. Just let people do their own worshiping and
government will be in the business of governating. So the
Texas State Board of Education, in approving this curriculum, I
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think also opens the door to having to then bring
in other religions like Judaism, like Islam, I don't know whatever,
you know, whatever else, Buddhism, if you want that taught
in your schools, be ready for a lot of religions
to be taught. And I think there was a lot
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to learn from religion. By the way, I have no
problem with the Ten Commandments. I'm not going to steal
and I'm not going to smite. I have no energy
for smiting. I don't know anybody who has a lot
of energy for smiting.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But here we are.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
If you're going to do that, though, be prepared as
a parent and as a school to have to bring
other religions into the conversation. We're not as homogeneous as
we used to be, and you know, there are a
lot of people with a lot of different faiths. And
to say, hey, this is the faith we're going to
teach in schools, I think it's a little bit of
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a dangerous place to go. And you can agree or
disagree with me, and that's fine, and I'm more than
happy to talk to you about it. I realized that
most of the founding fathers were very religious. You can
call us eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. Most of our laws actually are based on
some of those biblical texts. I mean, we're not supposed
to steal, we're not supposed to kill, we're not supposed
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to do a whole lot of things. And I think
that's a good guide guide post for life. I'm totally
okay with all of that as a guide post for life.
Getting into schools, though, I think is a little bit problematic.
And I think that religion is something that you, as
a parent should handle it.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
If you believe.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
If you are a Southern Baptist, if you are a Protestant,
if you are Jewish, these religions are your religions, and
that's something that I think.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Your kids are best served with you.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
A Democratic senator wants President elect Trump's cabinet picks to
go before the Senate for confirmation. Senator Tammy Duckworth praising
Trump's nomination of Florida Republican Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.
She's an Army veteran served in I Rock. But she
condemned the nomination of Peter Hegxeth for Secretary of Defense.
We also have the Menendez brothers in the news court
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hearing scheduled for today in an effort to have their
senaces reduced. Eric and Lyle Menendez serving life sentences in
San Diego in the nineteen eighty nine murders of their
parents in Beverly Hills. I think we all sort of
watched that happen. And families paying rent twice because of
the cost of child care their childcare.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That is amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Plus millions of us headed home for Thanksgiving feest the
day before the holiday is a big deal too. We'll
talk more about that on the way, It's your morning show.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Bretton Franklin, Tennessee. In my Morning show is your morning
show with Michael del Jarno.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Hi, I'm Michael. We'd love to have you listen every
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Love to be a part of your morning routine. But
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Speaker 4 (16:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Preware on your iHeartRadio app that is free. All you
have to do to talk to us is hit that
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Speaker 4 (16:59):
Just send us a messag.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We'd love to have you on the show and we
can't have your morning show without you. You are the
most important part of this whole thing. Well, and Jeff,
because he's managed to get me on the air, and
we appreciate him more than he will ever know. A
new CBS News poll find that finds that Donald Trump
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is starting on a positive note. Most people approve of
his handling of the transition. Now here's my here's my
question for you if you are an independent. So my
best friend is a gay man. He is a gay
man who is who considers himself an independent. Now he
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leans Democrat, but he's in the middle. And Eileen right,
but I'm also in the middle. So it's always it's
always interesting for me to talk to him and kind
of get his feedback. And he said, you know, he said,
while he was very disappointed that Kamala Harris didn't win,
he didn't feel terrible about the Trump win. And I
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tried to dig into that a little bit. I said,
you know, okay, Daryl, why what's up with that? And
he said, well, you know, he seems to he seems
to have a good grasp on economics. Daryl's about to retire,
and so he would like to keep more of a
social Security. He really loves the no taxing social Security,
which I'm down with that program as well. And there
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are a few policies that he says, you know, I'm
feeling cautiously optimistic. I'm not walking into this like you know, oh,
it's the end of the world as we know it.
And it makes me wonder if most of the voices
that we hear.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
That are you know, this is the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm Ellen Degenerous and I'm moving to the Cotswalds because
I'm freaking out so hard over Donald Trump winning.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I mean, Ellen Degenerous.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Wait a minute, didn't you pretty much get run out
of Hollywood for being one of the meanest people who
ever walked? But yeah, go ahead, blame Donald Trump for
moving to the Cotswolds and you know, buying a farm,
which apparently is what all rich people do now, is
they move to England and they buy a farm, very
favorable tax stuff over there if you're a farmer, Just
so you know, at least for now, It's interesting to
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me that it's not an across the board sort of
reaction of it's all over. I think people, Americans in particular,
are very resilient and also, even though they may not
like Donald Trump, even though they may not love his
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cabinet picks or whatever, I think that people are also
very flexible in thinking, you know, maybe he'll do some
good stuff for me. And that weight and watch I
think is really healthy, A very healthy way of looking
at politics.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I did not look at the election of.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, Barack Obama or Joe Biden, as you know,
this is.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
The most important election you'll ever vote him. That's such pucky.
I mean, it really is. It's it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
They're all elections are important, but the most important elections
that all of us have are more local because those
are the things that really affect our day to day
lives in a very tangible way.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We can control what happens locally.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Once we get those people across the Potomac and off
into Washington, d C. We have completely lost control of
the plot. We are no longer in charge. Our job
was to get them there, and now we cross our
fingers and hope that all of them will do what
is good for all of us. So the honeymoon period,
are are you feeling it? I mean, we're heading into
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the holidays. People were feeling very, very despondent and a
little bit over politic to going into the holidays and
into the election. But now that we're here, do you
think that maybe we're going to be okay?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If you're a Democrat, I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Just click that talkback Mike on the iHeart Radio app.
We can't have your morning show without your voice. It's
really that simple. Eight hundred six eight eight nine five
two two eight hundred six eight eight nine five two
two or the iHeart Radio App.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
And you can let us know.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What you're feeling right now, because I'm feeling pretty positive.
I'm feeling like, you know, hey, I just quit my job,
a perfectly good job in San Diego to move to Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
To take care of my father.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
He has Alzheimer's and it was me or nobody or
you know, go into a home and this is my
dad and I don't want him in a home. So
I quit a perfectly good job for some reason. Michael
del Giorno said that I could sit here. But outside
of this, I mean, I really have. I have no
income right now, and yet I don't feel like this
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is the end of the world as we know it.
I actually feel fine. So, Jeff, if you wanted to
play some ram.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Great song, I'm just somebody should write We're In That
would be a great country song, Lodonna, Well.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Wouldn't it though, Wouldn't it though? I think you know?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Do it in a Nashville tuning even and see what happens.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I do have a I think if you I don't
mean to break up, break in but no, that's okay.
I've got some talkbacks. If you're interested, you let me
know and we'll play those for you.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Okay. Actually I'm very interested.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I want to hear what people have to say because
it's their it's their show.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Really, you're gonna love it's your show. This is our
morning show, Bookie. This is what we call him. This
is Big John. If I can get him to play
Big John Hello, well of course he's not. Well, of
course it's not gonna play when I wanted to do Lodonna, Well,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's computers and we get to have fun in the
you know, little funhouse, the electronic funhouse that is this studio.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I got him. Go John, Hey, Lodonna, this is Big John.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Want to welcome you aboard our morning show.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
What a great open looking forward to the rest of
the week.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
How nice and you know, such a nice Southern boy.
I'm guessing he's from Alabama. Is that is that where
we're from, Big John? No, it's that's wonderful. Thank you
so much. You know, I I was I was number one,
I was surprised because the call to fill in for
Michael came out of nowhere. I had no idea that
anybody even knew who I was. I mean, I've only
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been doing radio since I was seventeen. I've done you know,
morning shows for the last I don't know twenty years
of my life. But it's in San Diego. You know,
why in the heck would anybody know who I am?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So when I got that callie Dad, I mean, but
I'm saying this so well.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Place.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It is a beautiful place, but I don't know if
you've looked at real estate prices there. And I had
a choice, you know, I could I could move to
Phoenix and afford to take care of my dad and
myself and feed us. Or I could I could stay
in San Diego, move my dad there and not afford
to live there or feed us.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
So you know it was it was tough choice.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, but you know I'm super pale skinned in of
Scottish descent. Haven't worked on my tan in years. Phoenix, Fine,
it's fine. It's fine. It's hot during the summer, but
we have air conditioning. So that's how that choice is made.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I appreciate the call big John, thank you got anything
else for us?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Jeff, I've got John from w KB in good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
This is Johnson Againstown, Ohio. You know when they say
that Joe Biden was as sharp as he ever was,
he never was very sharp. So that's not very comforting.
I think I'm a Republican. I vote conservative, I had
my entire life. I just feel like just the entire
country was lying to, not just Democrats, but everyone was
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like to when they kept covering up and what kind.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Of condition he was in?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
No, and I and you know, here's the thing. I
don't disagree with you at all. I do not it that.
And that is why I think so many Democrats are
really kind of asking questions right now. It's funny because
you'll hear Democratic leaders saying, you know, oh, we lost
because of the Trump machine, or you know, the YadA
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YadA YadA. No, you shot yourself in the foot. You
shot yourself in the foot and then expected to run
a marathon. You can't do that. You have broken bones
down there, sir. Not.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You're not, you're not.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Your two little feet are just not moving the way
that they should. And that was that was the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
And you're right.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
The entire American public was lied to, But in particular,
I think I was focusing on Democrats. I believe I was,
you know, focusing on democrats because where do you go
from here?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You know, where, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Who is waiting in the wings that is going to
pick up that mantle and move forward? A party that
is in a bit of disarray right now with its
own base. It's in disarray. And that was the point
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of that conversation and where we were going. But you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael l Jorno.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
My name is Leadonna Harvey in for Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm here through Wednesday, taking Thanksgiving off, and then back
on Friday.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He was kind enough to make a call to some.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Girl who's living in Phoenix with no particular skills and say, hey,
why don't you come in and sit in for my show?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I went, sure, I'll do that. You guys aren't family.
In New sound like family.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Everybody thinks that we might be related, and we have
only met on the phone. We met on a video
phone call. He was in his car and I was
late because I left my phone in a radio studio
in Phoenix, So no, we did not know each other
before this. I swear swears e's eight hundred and six
eight eight nine five two to two is the number.
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Speaker 4 (27:10):
Not your morning show.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Now I started I have this, I have this thing
that I do now because it's the way that I
shop now Amazon. I have more things stuffed in my
Amazon cart right now, and I am waiting for prices
to go down. And it turns out that there's a
lot of holiday shopping that's already going on. The most
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recent raths Must Report says thirty nine percent of us
already started the holiday gift shopping. Fifty eight percent though
haven't started shopping yet, but there's still thirty nine percent
of us who are like, yeah, I'm getting on it.
Last year mid November, the number who started early was
down from forty five percent. So more people were doing
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this last year than are doing it now. And what
would cause those numbers to go down? I think a
lot of people are thinking, yeah, the later Black Friday
and Cyber Monday sales always seem better. They do. But
are you also feeling the economic crunch? Are you feeling
the pressure of those higher prices and higher interest rates
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on your credit cards? Because those have had me concerned
as well. I'm trying to kind of keep up with well,
you know, if I buy this on my Amazon card,
I get what is it, three percent back, but I'm
still paying, you know, fifteen percent on that card and
if I have.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
To take a while to pay it back.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I'm you know, thinking about all of those things,
which is why I have all that stuff in my
cart and I have not yet checked out. Now, if
you're looking for the best places to shop on Black Friday,
according to the latest numbers, JC, Penny Belk, and Macy's
are the best places to shop on Black Friday. Average
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discount is at least fifty seven percent, so that's nice.
About eighteen percent of items at major retailers are going
to be more expensive on Black Fridays than there are
current prices.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
On Amazon, so we have to watch that.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And apparently, if you are in the mood for jewels,
and I love a little sparkly shining, I do. I
may I may sound a little manish, but I'm ald girl.
And jewelry is offering the most value on Black Friday.
So if you are looking for the Lodona in your life,
might want to consider something in a gold or a
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platinum or a silver. I prefer silver. It's just my thing.
Black Friday twenty twenty four. That's relative to the current prices,
jewelry offering the most value. Computers and phones probably the
least rewarding deals, and here's why.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's because people want them.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Why would you give a discount on something that you
know somebody is going to buy? Because everybody wants iPads,
everybody wants iPhones, Everybody you know wants the latest. If
you're one of those people who uses a Samsung or
other such phone, I don't know anybody who actually does that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But if you're one of those people, and I do
mean those people.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Then you're not going to get a deal either, because
everybody wants the electronics for the holidays. About sixty eight
percent of people are saying that Santa is going to
be less generous this year, and that's due to inflation.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
But again inflation is down.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Wallet hub is doing it's twenty twenty four holiday shopping
Survey and saying, look, you know inflation is down, but
again it comes back to what is in your bank account,
what is in your wallet, and.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
How far can you make it stretch?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Because I think Americans are still feeling the pinch every
time they go to the grocery store, if they're trying
to buy a new car, if you're trying to buy
a house, God love you, and good luck, and may
the win and be at your back and the road
rise up to meet you. Because this is a terrible
time right now in America to buy a house because
of interest rates being so high and even you know,
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even those median prices. I was looking in Des Moines, Iowa,
because I was on the air in Iowa last week
and I was just I thought, you know, just for funzies,
I'll take a look at what the median home price
is in Iowa. And it's over two hundred thousand dollars
in Iowa. It's close to a million in San Diego.
The median home price. What about where you are if
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you are looking for a new home, are you able
to justify number one the expense and number two that
interest rate? Because it's still far higher than the interest
rate that we got used to, which were down in
the twos and the threes. Now, when I bought my
first house, I paid I think it was eleven percent
interest eleven and that was kind of the average interest rate.
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Now I look at paying eleven percent interest on a
home and I think.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh, I'm not doing that. Why would I do that?
Why would anybody do that? Why would you do that?
So lots of people feeling that pinch.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And we did that story earlier about child care costs
for your average families.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I am a cat lady. I do not have children,
although I have a father who sometimes is a little childish.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My dad again has Alzheimer's and I'm here in Phoenix
taking care of him, so I have many adventures with him.
But if you have child care, if you have two
working parents or just one working parent, and you're out
there paying your it's almost the same as what you're
paying for your housing. So tell me that Americans are
not feeling that childcare did not used to take that
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much of your salary. Meanwhile, your housing is taking more
of your salary. Do you remember when it was supposed
to be you know, no more than. I think it
was twenty percent or possibly thirty when I was younger.
I can't remember the exact number. It was between twenty
and thirty percent. Now, it is not unusual in some markets,
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in some more expensive markets, for people to pay half
of their income or more just for their housing. Generally,
that is a city thing, right, That's going to be
in your larger cities, your LA's, your San Diego's, or Seattle's, Chicago's,
New York's, etc. But if you wonder why people are
(33:31):
moving to your town from some of those cities, it's
because they looked at what they could get for a
house and they went, oh, yeah, I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
And Hi there.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
My name is Lodonna Harvey and I am thrilled to
be sitting in the hot seat today on your morning
show with Michael del Jorno. As you can yell, I'm
not Michael del Jorno. I'm coming to you today from Phoenix, Arizona.
All this week save Thanksgiving Day. I am cheap cook
and bottle washer on that day, So it's going to
start at about the same time, but I'll be slaving
over a hot stove instead of a hot mic so my.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Dad can have pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I hope the Butterball hotline is ready because I plan
to keep them busy and hopefully avoid poisoning anybody with
the food or whatever it is that birds can kill
you with.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Please keep me in your thoughts at this trying time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I wanted to start off with a new Pew poll
about Democrats and their pessimism about their party's future. Apparently
it's at its highest level in the Trump era. And
that's no surprise, is it. Are you surprised? I am
not surprised about this. You know, it was a disastrous
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twenty twenty four if.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You were a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Republicans got the presidency, they flipped the Senate, that retained
the House. Democrats not very happy with their party, and
I am I am of the thought that this started
with Joe Biden running for president in the first place,
running for reelection, I should say, in the first place,
(02:00):
no matter who you were, Democrat Republican, you could tell
that things were not going well for Joe Biden. His
he was halting in his speeches, He would lose his
way when he was talking. It was not a comfortable
thing to watch, especially toward the end of his presidency.
(02:20):
And when he said he was running again, I thought, boy,
that's very strange. So I think that democrats, and if
you're a Democrat, I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Did you feel lied to?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
If you're listening to us on that free iHeartRadio app,
just hit that red microphone button and you can tell
us how you feel, because I think it started with
Joe Biden and with the Democratic Party and the people
in his administration covering for him, saying no nothing to
see her, people keep moving, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Well it wasn't fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And no one in the American public thought that he
was fine. Nobody thought he was fine. To do you
as a Democrat, if you're a Democrat, feel that you
were lied to from the start. Do you feel like
nobody had the issues that you care about top of mind?
(03:13):
I mean what I saw as somebody who is you know,
I'm central, right, I'm like a dead armadillo in the
middle of the road.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm nobody special. I'm you know.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I don't have any kind of you know, I don't
hew to any ideology because that just it's too much
work to be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I just kind of think my own way.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And in looking at the at the Kamala Harris campaign,
if I had been a registered Democrat. I would have
been furious. I would have been furious because Number One,
I didn't have a chance to vote in a primary.
Number Two, the Democratic Party and that includes Kamala Harris
(03:53):
lied to us about how well Joe Biden was doing.
Oh no, no, no, he's he's everything is great, He's as
arp as he ever was. Everybody knew that that was
not true. So pessimism among Democrats is very high, especially
among the younger members of the party.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You have fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Five percent of Democratic aligned adults, younger voters taking a
negative view of the party's future.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And that's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's a it's a party right now that doesn't have
much of a vision, and the vision that it does
have is costing everybody so much money. Democrats less optimistic
about the party's future than they have been at any
point in the past eight years. And you know, you
have fifty one percent of Democrats and independents who lean
(04:43):
toward the parties say they're optimistic.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Forty nine percent say they're pessimistic.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And as we look at more and more Americans these
days kind of going, you know what the Republicans, I
get some of what they're saying Democrats. I get some
of what they're saying, and I agree with a little
bit of each, but the more radical ideologies kind of
turned me off. And they're finding themselves saying that they
(05:09):
are independent, even though they do tend to vote how
they voted whenever they were picking a party. It's no
wonder that American voters are feeling a little bit weird,
and especially if you're a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That pessimism it's up. It's up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Thirty eight percent twenty sixteen said they were feeling pessimistic
in the wake of Trump's first presidential victory. And now
you have forty nine percent. That's a pretty that's a
pretty big jump. It's a pretty big jump. And if
you're out there and you are a Democrat, how are
you feeling? Is this is Is this a party that
(05:52):
you feel like really speaks to you? Are they talking
about the things that you want? Because in the election,
Kamala Harris was just kind of like, I'm the party.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Of feel good.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We didn't see a lot of policy when you had
more and more Americans Democrats and Republicans, yes, more Republicans
than Democrats were saying it, saying that immigration, illegal immigration
was a top issue for them, along with the economy.
It's always the economy, but illegal immigration was a top
(06:28):
policy issue, and she was the borders are and she
and Joe Biden said everything was fine, but we knew
things weren't fine. And more and more people from big
cities started seeing that, didn't they, because you know, it
might have started out with Texas sending illegals to sanctuary cities,
(06:49):
but Joe Biden sent them all across the country, sent
one to Georgia that's killed a nurse, and that I
think left a really bad taste in people's mouths. Economically,
we're feeling like, well, you know, you look at the
(07:10):
larger economic picture and inflation is down, but you look
at the macro of it and you realize that, wait
a minute, but I'm still paying.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
More at the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm still paying more, at least up until the election,
for gasoline. I'm spending more and I'm not getting the
raises that will cover the inflation. So I'm still feeling it.
So those it's those macro economics. I think that got
the Democratic Party as well, the feeling that no matter
what Wall Street was telling you, and no matter what
(07:46):
you know, the the larger economic picture was telling you
you were still feeling that pressure on your wallet and
heading into the holidays.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And the guy in the White House or the gallon
the White House, well, the buck stops with them, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The buck definitely stops there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
This is your morning Show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know what, we should check out the five top
stories of day, Jeff. That was a lovely pause there.
Thank you. Does this happen every day? Holiday? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'm going to be traveling for Christmas, so this does
not bode well for any of US. Federal Aviation Administration
staffing shortages could cause us some travel delays for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
The FAA says travel in the north east New York
City in particular, could be affected the most due to
a shortage of air traffic controllers again yay. Travel experts
expect Tuesday to be the busiest day in the skies.
So nearly three million people are hitting the airport with
you tomorrow, all of them hostile with their luggage and
(09:10):
their kids and their emotional support turkeys or whatever it
is that they're using to pack their bird on the plane. Yeah, everybody' said,
you know what, all you got to do is just
breathe and maybe go for decaf that morning.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm just that's my advice. That's my advice.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I'm traveling for the for the Christmas holidays. I'm actually
flying to London. And until you've been to Heathrow on
a holiday, you truly have not lived. The first time
I went to Heathrow, I landed in something called storm Unice.
Now I was like, what is what is this storm unice?
Nonsense that I'm hearing about right here didn't seem to
(09:50):
be a big deal because you know, British Airways was
flying well guess what my plane ended up on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Congratulations, we can't they And I'm pretty sure you could
hear me screaming as we were coming in for a landing.
The wind was so strong We're talking gale and hurricane
force winds. As we're landing the airplane. The plane went
a little bit sideways on the way down to the runway,
and you know, you kind of hit a point of
(10:18):
no return, as I know now, did not know this.
Then you hit a point of no return where your
speed's slow enough that you you're gonna go wheels down.
Some like it and we like it or not. We
were going down, Jeff. And so right when we started
to hit that point of no return, suddenly I guess
(10:38):
there was a big down draft or something, the right
wing dip down. And I'm sitting, of course in the
right and I'm looking outside thinking, oh, oh that is
that is like wing to the ground first before tire.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I don't I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And it was so bad that when they finally got
us off the ground, they couldn't even pull up to
a gate. They had to take us down on stairs,
take us to a bus. We go, and we're waiting
and waiting and waiting in luggage. This is Heathrow during
the holidays, so beware for enjoy your stay.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It was something like two hours later that they finally said,
we cannot get your luggage off the plane.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You're going to have to go without.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And I thought, well, there's me with all of my
underwear packed in that bag and my carry on.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I have duty free booze.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I drank a lot of that booze for the next
few days because I didn't have clean underwear. The Texas
State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve a
curriculum for public schools leaning heavily on stories from the Bible.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Tony Waterman has that story.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
The lessons will be incorporated starting in late twenty twenty
five and will be taught in kindergarten through fifth grade.
The material will include lessons from the Book of Genesis
and Psalms. Schools are not required to adopt the new curriculum,
but if they do, they will receive a big boost
in funding, up to sixty dollars per student. A Rice
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University study recently found that seventy three percent of Texas
school districts are underfunded. A similar effort was made in
Oklahoma last year, but is being challenged in the courts.
Tony Waterman, Texas. You know, it's so interesting. I went
to school in Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So I'm originally from this little town called Canyon, Texas.
It's about thirty miles south of Amarillo. And you know,
you blink and you've and you've passed it. So and
I and I say this as somebody who is I
am not religious, you know, do I call myself an atheist? No,
I'm not officially officially a religion hater. I'm not a
(12:47):
religion hater. I don't, I don't care. I don't care
what anybody does. You know, you do you, I'll do me.
We'll all be happy. What's interesting about this is that
the so the separation of church and state.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And I know that's a phrase that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You know, it's not in the constitution, no, but it
really kind of was the idea behind the constitution. Don't
pick a don't pick a national religion, don't pick a
specific religion. Just let people do their own worshiping and
government will be in the business of governating. So the
Texas State Board of Education, in approving this curriculum, I
(13:24):
think also opens the door to having to then bring
in other religions like Judaism, like Islam, I don't know whatever,
you know, whatever else, Buddhism, if you want that taught
in your schools, be ready for a lot of religions
to be taught. And I think there was a lot
(13:45):
to learn from religion. By the way, I have no
problem with the Ten Commandments. I'm not going to steal
and I'm not going to smite. I have no energy
for smiting. I don't know anybody who has a lot
of energy for smiting.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But here we are.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
If you're going to do that, though, be prepared as
a parent and as a school to have to bring
other religions into the conversation. We're not as homogeneous as
we used to be, and you know, there are a
lot of people with a lot of different faiths. And
to say, hey, this is the faith we're going to
teach in schools, I think it's a little bit of
(14:21):
a dangerous place to go. And you can agree or
disagree with me, and that's fine, and I'm more than
happy to talk to you about it. I realized that
most of the founding fathers were very religious. You can
call us eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. Most of our laws actually are based on
some of those biblical texts. I mean, we're not supposed
to steal, we're not supposed to kill, we're not supposed
(14:44):
to do a whole lot of things. And I think
that's a good guide guide post for life. I'm totally
okay with all of that as a guide post for life.
Getting into schools, though, I think is a little bit problematic.
And I think that religion is something that you, as
a parent should handle it.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
If you believe.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
If you are a Southern Baptist, if you are a Protestant,
if you are Jewish, these religions are your religions, and
that's something that I think.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Your kids are best served with you.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
A Democratic senator wants President elect Trump's cabinet picks to
go before the Senate for confirmation. Senator Tammy Duckworth praising
Trump's nomination of Florida Republican Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.
She's an Army veteran served in I Rock. But she
condemned the nomination of Peter Hegxeth for Secretary of Defense.
We also have the Menendez brothers in the news court
(15:40):
hearing scheduled for today in an effort to have their
senaces reduced. Eric and Lyle Menendez serving life sentences in
San Diego in the nineteen eighty nine murders of their
parents in Beverly Hills. I think we all sort of
watched that happen. And families paying rent twice because of
the cost of child care their childcare.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That is amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Plus millions of us headed home for Thanksgiving feest the
day before the holiday is a big deal too. We'll
talk more about that on the way, It's your morning show.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Bretton Franklin, Tennessee. In my Morning show is your morning
show with Michael del Jarno.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
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Speaker 4 (16:48):
Now.
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We'd love to have you on the show and we
can't have your morning show without you. You are the
most important part of this whole thing. Well, and Jeff,
because he's managed to get me on the air, and
we appreciate him more than he will ever know. A
new CBS News poll find that finds that Donald Trump
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is starting on a positive note. Most people approve of
his handling of the transition. Now here's my here's my
question for you if you are an independent. So my
best friend is a gay man. He is a gay
man who is who considers himself an independent. Now he
(17:43):
leans Democrat, but he's in the middle. And Eileen right,
but I'm also in the middle. So it's always it's
always interesting for me to talk to him and kind
of get his feedback. And he said, you know, he said,
while he was very disappointed that Kamala Harris didn't win,
he didn't feel terrible about the Trump win. And I
(18:05):
tried to dig into that a little bit. I said,
you know, okay, Daryl, why what's up with that? And
he said, well, you know, he seems to he seems
to have a good grasp on economics. Daryl's about to retire,
and so he would like to keep more of a
social Security. He really loves the no taxing social Security,
which I'm down with that program as well. And there
(18:25):
are a few policies that he says, you know, I'm
feeling cautiously optimistic. I'm not walking into this like you know, oh,
it's the end of the world as we know it.
And it makes me wonder if most of the voices
that we hear.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
That are you know, this is the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm Ellen Degenerous and I'm moving to the Cotswalds because
I'm freaking out so hard over Donald Trump winning.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I mean, Ellen Degenerous.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Wait a minute, didn't you pretty much get run out
of Hollywood for being one of the meanest people who
ever walked? But yeah, go ahead, blame Donald Trump for
moving to the Cotswolds and you know, buying a farm,
which apparently is what all rich people do now, is
they move to England and they buy a farm, very
favorable tax stuff over there if you're a farmer, Just
so you know, at least for now, It's interesting to
(19:14):
me that it's not an across the board sort of
reaction of it's all over. I think people, Americans in particular,
are very resilient and also, even though they may not
like Donald Trump, even though they may not love his
(19:35):
cabinet picks or whatever, I think that people are also
very flexible in thinking, you know, maybe he'll do some
good stuff for me. And that weight and watch I
think is really healthy, A very healthy way of looking
at politics.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I did not look at the election of.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, Barack Obama or Joe Biden, as you know,
this is.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
The most important election you'll ever vote him. That's such pucky.
I mean, it really is. It's it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
They're all elections are important, but the most important elections
that all of us have are more local because those
are the things that really affect our day to day
lives in a very tangible way.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We can control what happens locally.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Once we get those people across the Potomac and off
into Washington, d C. We have completely lost control of
the plot. We are no longer in charge. Our job
was to get them there, and now we cross our
fingers and hope that all of them will do what
is good for all of us. So the honeymoon period,
are are you feeling it? I mean, we're heading into
(20:40):
the holidays. People were feeling very, very despondent and a
little bit over politic to going into the holidays and
into the election. But now that we're here, do you
think that maybe we're going to be okay?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If you're a Democrat, I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
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And you can let us know.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What you're feeling right now, because I'm feeling pretty positive.
I'm feeling like, you know, hey, I just quit my job,
a perfectly good job in San Diego to move to Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
To take care of my father.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
He has Alzheimer's and it was me or nobody or
you know, go into a home and this is my
dad and I don't want him in a home. So
I quit a perfectly good job for some reason. Michael
del Giorno said that I could sit here. But outside
of this, I mean, I really have. I have no
income right now, and yet I don't feel like this
(21:50):
is the end of the world as we know it.
I actually feel fine. So, Jeff, if you wanted to
play some ram.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Great song, I'm just somebody should write We're In That
would be a great country song, Lodonna, Well.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Wouldn't it though, Wouldn't it though? I think you know?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Do it in a Nashville tuning even and see what happens.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I do have a I think if you I don't
mean to break up, break in but no, that's okay.
I've got some talkbacks. If you're interested, you let me
know and we'll play those for you.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Okay. Actually I'm very interested.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I want to hear what people have to say because
it's their it's their show.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Really, you're gonna love it's your show. This is our
morning show, Bookie. This is what we call him. This
is Big John. If I can get him to play
Big John Hello, well of course he's not. Well, of
course it's not gonna play when I wanted to do Lodonna, Well,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's computers and we get to have fun in the
you know, little funhouse, the electronic funhouse that is this studio.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I got him. Go John, Hey, Lodonna, this is Big John.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Want to welcome you aboard our morning show.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
What a great open looking forward to the rest of
the week.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
How nice and you know, such a nice Southern boy.
I'm guessing he's from Alabama. Is that is that where
we're from, Big John? No, it's that's wonderful. Thank you
so much. You know, I I was I was number one,
I was surprised because the call to fill in for
Michael came out of nowhere. I had no idea that
anybody even knew who I was. I mean, I've only
(23:24):
been doing radio since I was seventeen. I've done you know,
morning shows for the last I don't know twenty years
of my life. But it's in San Diego. You know,
why in the heck would anybody know who I am?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So when I got that callie Dad, I mean, but
I'm saying this so well.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Place.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It is a beautiful place, but I don't know if
you've looked at real estate prices there. And I had
a choice, you know, I could I could move to
Phoenix and afford to take care of my dad and
myself and feed us. Or I could I could stay
in San Diego, move my dad there and not afford
to live there or feed us.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
So you know it was it was tough choice.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, but you know I'm super pale skinned in of
Scottish descent. Haven't worked on my tan in years. Phoenix, Fine,
it's fine. It's fine. It's hot during the summer, but
we have air conditioning. So that's how that choice is made.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I appreciate the call big John, thank you got anything
else for us?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Jeff, I've got John from w KB in good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
This is Johnson Againstown, Ohio. You know when they say
that Joe Biden was as sharp as he ever was,
he never was very sharp. So that's not very comforting.
I think I'm a Republican. I vote conservative, I had
my entire life. I just feel like just the entire
country was lying to, not just Democrats, but everyone was
(24:45):
like to when they kept covering up and what kind.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Of condition he was in?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
No, and I and you know, here's the thing. I
don't disagree with you at all. I do not it that.
And that is why I think so many Democrats are
really kind of asking questions right now. It's funny because
you'll hear Democratic leaders saying, you know, oh, we lost
because of the Trump machine, or you know, the YadA
(25:10):
YadA YadA. No, you shot yourself in the foot. You
shot yourself in the foot and then expected to run
a marathon. You can't do that. You have broken bones
down there, sir. Not.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You're not, you're not.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Your two little feet are just not moving the way
that they should. And that was that was the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
And you're right.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
The entire American public was lied to, But in particular,
I think I was focusing on Democrats. I believe I was,
you know, focusing on democrats because where do you go
from here?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You know, where, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Who is waiting in the wings that is going to
pick up that mantle and move forward? A party that
is in a bit of disarray right now with its
own base. It's in disarray. And that was the point
(26:06):
of that conversation and where we were going. But you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael l Jorno.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
My name is Leadonna Harvey in for Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm here through Wednesday, taking Thanksgiving off, and then back
on Friday.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He was kind enough to make a call to some.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Girl who's living in Phoenix with no particular skills and say, hey,
why don't you come in and sit in for my show?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I went, sure, I'll do that. You guys aren't family.
In New sound like family.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Everybody thinks that we might be related, and we have
only met on the phone. We met on a video
phone call. He was in his car and I was
late because I left my phone in a radio studio
in Phoenix, So no, we did not know each other
before this. I swear swears e's eight hundred and six
eight eight nine five two to two is the number.
(26:59):
And you can talk back to us on the iHeartRadio app.
Just hit that microphone symbol boom, make a comment, ask
a question. We would love to hear from you, because
obviously without you, it's.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Not your morning show.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Now I started I have this, I have this thing
that I do now because it's the way that I
shop now Amazon. I have more things stuffed in my
Amazon cart right now, and I am waiting for prices
to go down. And it turns out that there's a
lot of holiday shopping that's already going on. The most
(27:35):
recent raths Must Report says thirty nine percent of us
already started the holiday gift shopping. Fifty eight percent though
haven't started shopping yet, but there's still thirty nine percent
of us who are like, yeah, I'm getting on it.
Last year mid November, the number who started early was
down from forty five percent. So more people were doing
(27:57):
this last year than are doing it now. And what
would cause those numbers to go down? I think a
lot of people are thinking, yeah, the later Black Friday
and Cyber Monday sales always seem better. They do. But
are you also feeling the economic crunch? Are you feeling
the pressure of those higher prices and higher interest rates
(28:21):
on your credit cards? Because those have had me concerned
as well. I'm trying to kind of keep up with well,
you know, if I buy this on my Amazon card,
I get what is it, three percent back, but I'm
still paying, you know, fifteen percent on that card and
if I have.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
To take a while to pay it back.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I'm you know, thinking about all of those things,
which is why I have all that stuff in my
cart and I have not yet checked out. Now, if
you're looking for the best places to shop on Black Friday,
according to the latest numbers, JC, Penny Belk, and Macy's
are the best places to shop on Black Friday. Average
(29:00):
discount is at least fifty seven percent, so that's nice.
About eighteen percent of items at major retailers are going
to be more expensive on Black Fridays than there are
current prices.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
On Amazon, so we have to watch that.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And apparently, if you are in the mood for jewels,
and I love a little sparkly shining, I do. I
may I may sound a little manish, but I'm ald girl.
And jewelry is offering the most value on Black Friday.
So if you are looking for the Lodona in your life,
might want to consider something in a gold or a
(29:36):
platinum or a silver. I prefer silver. It's just my thing.
Black Friday twenty twenty four. That's relative to the current prices,
jewelry offering the most value. Computers and phones probably the
least rewarding deals, and here's why.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's because people want them.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Why would you give a discount on something that you
know somebody is going to buy? Because everybody wants iPads,
everybody wants iPhones, Everybody you know wants the latest. If
you're one of those people who uses a Samsung or
other such phone, I don't know anybody who actually does that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But if you're one of those people, and I do
mean those people.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Then you're not going to get a deal either, because
everybody wants the electronics for the holidays. About sixty eight
percent of people are saying that Santa is going to
be less generous this year, and that's due to inflation.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
But again inflation is down.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Wallet hub is doing it's twenty twenty four holiday shopping
Survey and saying, look, you know inflation is down, but
again it comes back to what is in your bank account,
what is in your wallet, and.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
How far can you make it stretch?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Because I think Americans are still feeling the pinch every
time they go to the grocery store, if they're trying
to buy a new car, if you're trying to buy
a house, God love you, and good luck, and may
the win and be at your back and the road
rise up to meet you. Because this is a terrible
time right now in America to buy a house because
of interest rates being so high and even you know,
(31:12):
even those median prices. I was looking in Des Moines, Iowa,
because I was on the air in Iowa last week
and I was just I thought, you know, just for funzies,
I'll take a look at what the median home price
is in Iowa. And it's over two hundred thousand dollars
in Iowa. It's close to a million in San Diego.
The median home price. What about where you are if
(31:34):
you are looking for a new home, are you able
to justify number one the expense and number two that
interest rate? Because it's still far higher than the interest
rate that we got used to, which were down in
the twos and the threes. Now, when I bought my
first house, I paid I think it was eleven percent
interest eleven and that was kind of the average interest rate.
(32:00):
Now I look at paying eleven percent interest on a
home and I think.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh, I'm not doing that. Why would I do that?
Why would anybody do that? Why would you do that?
So lots of people feeling that pinch.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And we did that story earlier about child care costs
for your average families.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I am a cat lady. I do not have children,
although I have a father who sometimes is a little childish.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My dad again has Alzheimer's and I'm here in Phoenix
taking care of him, so I have many adventures with him.
But if you have child care, if you have two
working parents or just one working parent, and you're out
there paying your it's almost the same as what you're
paying for your housing. So tell me that Americans are
not feeling that childcare did not used to take that
(32:48):
much of your salary. Meanwhile, your housing is taking more
of your salary. Do you remember when it was supposed
to be you know, no more than. I think it
was twenty percent or possibly thirty when I was younger.
I can't remember the exact number. It was between twenty
and thirty percent. Now, it is not unusual in some markets,
(33:10):
in some more expensive markets, for people to pay half
of their income or more just for their housing. Generally,
that is a city thing, right, That's going to be
in your larger cities, your LA's, your San Diego's, or Seattle's, Chicago's,
New York's, etc. But if you wonder why people are
(33:31):
moving to your town from some of those cities, it's
because they looked at what they could get for a
house and they went, oh, yeah, I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
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