December 19, 2024 • 31 mins
Murder ok if Insurance is expensive…the younger say yes!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Two three, starting your morning off right, A new way
of talk, a new way of honorstaste because we're in
this together. This is your morning show with Michael, Bill Jordan.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Thank you, Mike mccannon.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Welcome one and all to Thursday, December the nineteenth, Theoval,
twenty twenty four. This is your morning show. I am
Michael del Jorno and running things.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What idiot is running the show? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That would be Jeffrey Lyons at her, Charles Red and
I were just talking off the air along with Jeffrey.
We tried to play along as best we could with
Jack on the dangerous Christmas Gifts but really kind of
hard to relate to. After our childhoods. I mean we
got rifles, swig shots, chemistry sets, how about a buck knife?
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I mean that these things are never a problem. Now
we can't even give them. You know, sand that can
make popsicles and icicles and so sad. This will this
will probably frighten you a lot more than any of
the dangerous Christmas gift list axios Covering the poll where
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forty one percent of young voters say the United Healthcare
CEOs assassination was acceptable, just take a moment and let
that set in. I used to warn people when we
had conversations about abortion. Careful, you lose God, you lose man.
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Remember he's a way, a truth, and a life. You
lose life, good luck with life, liberty in a pursuit
of happiness. If you don't get things right about life
at birth, you won't get them right at death. What
is scary? Let me cut to the chase right up front,
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so you don't miss the point. We're a very divided country,
perhaps not this divided since the Civil War, and more
dangerously over more issues than one. And what you've been
living for the past decade is if you don't play
along with a narrative, if you don't play along with
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the cool kids, you get canceled.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Step it up to you disagree with something, it's okay
to kill somebody. That's a dangerous shift. It's not a
shift I think think they're going to be successful with.
But it is very concerning, and in particular among younger voters.
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Why do young people justify and find it more acceptable
to kill the United Healthcare CEO than older individuals? And
by half? Is this social media on the morning where
we find out the fifteen year old girl who shot
and killed a teacher, a student, and six others was
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in cahoots with the guy arrested in California. Apparently we're
talking on the internet. He had a big mass shooting
he was going to carry out instead of suicide her
and his what's going on in this social dilemma? What's
going on online? I think your problems are bigger than
TikTok in China. According to the Emerson poll, sixty eight
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percent think the actions of the killer against Thompson were unacceptable,
but seventeen percent found them acceptable and sixteen percent were unsure.
Imagine being unsure about this question, whether it's a slap
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or a door, come on.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Us.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Voters between the age of eighteen and twenty nine were
more likely than their elders to accept the recent killing
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In New York City.
Forty one percent of eighteen to twenty nine year olds
are like, yeah, insurances, I let's kill him. I'm afraid
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to do the analogy in case somebody eighteen to twenty
nine is listening. But I think cars are pretty ridiculous.
I thought they were ridiculous at fifty grand. Now those
fifty grand cars are one hundred and twenty one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars for a car that depreciates in
half in two years. Should we s shoot a salesman,
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shoot a leader of an automobile organization? Doritos eight dollars
a bag? I shoot somebody, Well, surely it gets better
after thirty right. Twenty three percent of thirty to thirty
nine year old said, yeah, that was a justified shooting.
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I think that's a little scarier than you know ice
cream cones made of sand. In research, you got to
break it down and what you really want to look
at is completely unacceptable compared to completely acceptable the in between,
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and by the way, on this one, this may be
the exception. There should be no in between. But even
if you do that, the view isn't good. Eighteen to
twenty nine year olds, thirty three percent find it completely unacceptable.
A husband, a father, a head of insurance company is
assassinated and you can't figure out which was the bad
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guy and which was the good guy. And there's three
and a half out of ten to think it was
completely unacceptable. That's it, three and a half out of
ten eighteen to twenty nine, and half of that seventy
percent said oh, completely acceptable. Then you go to thirty
to thirty nine. Well, then it gets a little smarter,
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but not much. Forty three percent completely unacceptable, but ten
percent still acceptable completely.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I don't know where this comes from. You go
to seventy plus. Now you're getting dangerously.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Closed the heart of the baby boomers and the greatest generation.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And it's still only.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Seven out of ten that think it's completely unacceptable. And
there's six percent that said it was completely acceptable to
kill this man. And all I can think of is, boy,
you don't get questions about when life begins, right. You
don't get questions about when life ends right, either do
you if you lose sight of a sacred, holy Almighty
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God who created us in his image, He's sacred, His
creation is sacred. This kind of nonsense can to happen.
It's the scariest poll I've seen all day, a lot
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scarier than any of the list of dangerous toys on
that list. Earlier, Amazon did go on strike. After all,
this is probably going to affect New York and New
Jersey primarily, So for everybody that's ordered Christmas presents on Amazon,
don't panic.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
This is more of a regional impact.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But they went on strike at the FAD lowered interest
rates for a third time this year, but the market
went down a thousand. White House is criticizing President elect
Trump for seeking By the way, Jeffrey, you are keeping
an eye out for John.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm watching the phone drug.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The White House is criticizing the White House Assisted Living
House is criticizing President elect Trump for sinking a bipartisan
funding bill. This is a fascinating topic that we broke
down earlier in the show in that Donald Trump elon
Musk that ake Ramaswami doge means business and this isn't
just a second one hundred day term coming for the president.
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It's a second one hundred and sixty day term because
this president elect and his people are already running the country.
And buried in that bill was one of the most
despicable things Congress trying to sneak in while we're broke,
no money for Christmas, just trying to afford car insurance,
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gas and groceries. They tried to sneak in a raise
of one hundred and seventy four thousand to two hundred
and forty three thousand dollars a year for members of Congress.
The members of Congress to suspend you this much in debt,
we're going to slip themselves a forty percent pay increase.
Did you get a forty percent pay increase to pay
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for all the cost of living increases that they've helped create.
And yesterday I was on the air bashing this continuing Resolution,
this notion that you can debt your way out of
a debt problem, spend your way out of a spending problem.
But it's business as usual, and Republicans are just as
at fault. Oh, they speak against the debt at home
all the time, but then they go vote for these
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continuing Resolutions. Donald Trump had a message for them. You
ought to be primaried out. Elon Musk and Vive Ramasami
had a message for all of them. Here's some highlights
from the fifteen hundred and forty seven pages of this
continuing resolution. And a forty percent pay increase for members
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of Congress is unacceptable. This bill should not pass. Doge
means business. Another big story. The Supreme Court will hear
the case on the TikTok ban. John Decker is not
only a White House correspondent, not only living a better
life than me. Text after text, he proves that every
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day he is also a Supreme Court bar attorney.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
This becomes Michael, before we start, Michael, before we start.
Do you believe everything that Elon Musk puts out there
on his ex Do you believe everything he says?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You'd have to go one at a time and be specific.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Okay, let me let me go with what you just said.
Let me just go with what you just said. He
talks about it pay raiser. That is incorrect, That is
false information. Do you know how much the pay raise
will be?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
It's sixty six.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Hundred dollars, It's a three and a half percent cost
of living adjustment. I mean, if you're going.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To argue against it, then you have to be accurate.
And that's just not accurate information.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I have to double check that, make sure your record.
So you're saying that's not in there, double.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Check all you want.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I'm telling you what the cost of living adjustment is.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I've read the legislation.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And Elon Musk is putting a lot of false information
out there on X.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, Well, double check that. We'll correct it if it's wrong.
Not that I'm for it, wouldn't change my view of
continuing resolutions, but that's the one that they pointed out.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
But that's the one that you're pointing out about a
forty percent. That sounds pretty outraging, and I would agree
with you.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
It is not a forty percent cost of living adjustment.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Red get on that, double check it all right. On
the TikTok, this is a First Amendment issue, right.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Well, it depends. I mean, it's a national security issue.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
If you ask the members of Congress that voted for
this legend I'm talking about, for the other national security
agencies have said that TikTok, owned by byte Dan, owned
by the Chinese Communist Party, the CCT.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Is a national security risk to the US and.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
That's the reason why they supported.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
This legislation and TikTok.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Users of TikTok say it's a First Amendment issue.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
And now the Supreme Court will.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Weigh in on this.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
They will hear oral arguments on January the tenth. This
is a hail mary pass that's been caught by the
Supreme Court. It's their last lifeline TikTok to remain a
business in the US because the legislation calls for TikTok
to either sell itself or it will be banned in
the US on January the nineteenth. So January tenth is
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a very important date in the future of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
All right, So, by the way, what do you make
of that, because that's different than normal for the Supreme
Court to get a case on January tenth, just days before.
I mean, normally we have the hearing, we try to
glean what we think the justices are leaning towards by
the questions they asked. I mean, this thing's got to
be heard, argued, discussed, and then ruled almost immediately, right, And.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
The Supreme Court did that earlier this year. They did
that earlier this year with the Colorado Supreme Court decision
to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. They heard oral
arguments on in February. A week later they came back
with their decision to say that was unconstitutional. So the
Supreme Court is capable of a quick turnaround in terms
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of having an oral argument and then coming back with
a decision in a very short amount of time. And
they need to do that because the clock is kicking
based upon the deadline.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Set by this legislation.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So if we have three branches of government, they all
have distinct duties. A national security threat issue and determination
that's not necessarily a Supreme Court constitutional issue. First Amendment
is So I want to get back to my first question.
As judges, how are they going to be viewing this
as a national security threat or a First Amendment issue?
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What will they be ruling on or both?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, if the Supreme this is my view on it,
and I have to read the briefs which have not
been followed yet, and I'll be in the Supreme Court
on January tenth for oral arguments.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
But my view is if the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Overturns a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
They would essentially be.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Saying, we know better, We know better than the FBI,
we know better, we know better than other intelligent other
intelligence agencies that have determined that Byte Dance, the parent
company of TikTok, is a national security threat.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
To the United States, and so we'll have to see.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals said that the legislation
was written in a narrowly tailored way to because of
these national security concerns. And we'll see if the Supreme
Court ultimately agrees with that opinion written by the DC
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I know what your aanswer is going to be. How
could I possibly know? But for everybody listening, they're probably wondering,
is TikTok going to get banned? And now that the
Supreme Court is going to make a decision, what role
does that play? I mean, should we anticipate this happening
in the new year or not? Which way does it
feel like it's leaning towards? And you're what I'm hearing
from you is you feel like it's leaning towards. The
Supreme Court is not going to intervene and it's going
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to head towards being banned.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I look, I never weigh in in terms of what
the Supreme Court may or may not do until I've
read the briefs, and those briefs have.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Not been filed yet, because they just put it on
the docket, you know, on.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
January the tenth, yesterday.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
So let me read through those which will be filed
in the coming weeks. And of course we'll talk before
and after that oral argument at the Supreme Court.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I'll be into the court for that.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
And it's I think, really when you figure, when you
factor in, Michael, tens of millions of Americans use TikTok
every day. This has real consequences for them, and they
may have to, you know, resort to other social media apps.
TikTok is band in the US.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We'll be tackling that right to start the new year.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I think we'll probably visit one more time tomorrow, just
in case that's get it happened. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
but I hope it's tomorrow. We'll get to the bottom
of your fact check as well.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Michael.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
First, of all, whenever you phrase a question, do you
believe everything so and so says as a way of
discrediting it, I don't play that game. First of all,
I don't believe anything anybody says. I verify everything, including
John Decker. But to his point, if you do the
fact check, it's both right and wrong. Translation. I'm glad
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he seasoned the conversation with this, but he wasn't right either.
So Congress has the right to set its own salaries.
It's a unilateral right that they have. In this continuing resolution,
there's a long section that discusses if they had gotten
cost of living pay increases, and that's where three point
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eight percent comes in, and they have been getting them
since they were canceled, they would have got maybe at
two hundred and forty something thousand dollars, but there's nothing
to prevent them from raising it that high.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So the fact check is neither a right.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
This is Rebecca in spring Hill, Tennessee, and my morning
show is your Morning Show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Hi, It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Your Morning show can be heard on great radio stations
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Speaker 3 (17:38):
We invite you to listen.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Live while you're getting ready in the morning to take
us along for the drive to work. But as we
always say, better late than never. Thanks for joining us
for the podcast eight percent increase. In their long argument
for their three point eight percent increase, they talk about
increases that have not been enacted and if they were
retroly acted, would go to two hundred and forty three thousand.
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So one, that's where the two hundred and forty three
thousand comes in.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Two.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Elon Must did not say it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Elon Must retweeted that section and set it's unacceptable. Now,
the question is, and I could not know, John Decker
could not know, you could not know? Is their intent
in this continuing resolution to give themselves that increase and
then retoractively give the latter. Otherwise, why did you spend
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so much time and a thirty page bill to turn
fifteen hundred pages discussing the figure of two hundred and
forty three So the answer is, if you wanted to
have a fight before Christmas. Are they wanting to go
from one seventy four to two forty three or just
increase three point eight percent? I think there's reasons to
be suspicious in the added pages and the argument of
two hundred and forty three that maybe that's their ultimate
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goal and it would be within their power to retroactively
add that later. So nobody's really right, nobody's really wrong.
And this is why I like to focus more on
Christmas this time of the year. So we've been counting
down our top ten Christmas stories and songs. At number
ten was Johnny Mathis Need a Little Christmas. Number nine
are ode to Christmas movies and love Actually God only
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knows by the Beach Boys. Number eight ore Olde to
Christmas Travelers, Kenny Loggins and celebrate me home. Harry Connick Junior,
would please come home from Christmas? My little tribute to
New Orleans Christmases. Carpenters were at number six today with
the ode to the Empty Chair and Merry Christmas, Darling
our old to Mary and Joseph for their faith and courage.
Number five was Clay Aikin Mary, did you Know? And
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then we head at number four Whitney Houston. Do you
hear what die here? That brings us to number three,
the least fun stop on our top ten list. It's
our oad to those who are gone. I have so
many friends spending their first Christmas after the death of
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a family member. Personally, I'm thinking of Scott and Gwen
Oates fall they lost their teenage son and a drowning tragedy.
I mean, let's be honest, Merry Christmas, no way. And
oftentimes fellow believers, with the best of intentions can sometimes
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be the worst when it comes to comforting those that
are broken hearted. We say things like, oh, they're in
a better place. Meanwhile, their heart is crying on No,
they're not here with me, that's not better. Or how
about the worst Christmas song ever? Mommy's with Jesus for Christmas.
I'll bet that really comforted that little toddler after his
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mother's death.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
No, a merry Christmas probably not in the cards. But
what is I get back to that?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You see, we all battle with loss this time of year.
It's just a matter of how long ago it happened.
When I think of my childhood Christmases, my brother's laying
on the floor in front of the console TV watching
a Bowl game, Me lying under the table with Sinatra
in the background, my mom and Dad, Poppy, Grammy, and
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Nannie all playing peanockle, my parents not fighting, my grandfather
chomping on nuts, my dad saying who smelt this mess?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
To no Trump?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh, Mom and Dad are divorced. I don't speak to
one of my brothers. Nanni died first, then Poppy, then Grammy.
They're all gone. And what I wouldn't give for any
one of them to know my amazing wife or to
meet my beautiful twin daughters. And oh they have gotten
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to kick out a neck. Now, the Bible says, we mourn,
we hurt, we miss, we grieve, just not like those
without hope, but we grieve and depending how fresh. There
are no words, just permission, permission to not have a
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merry Christmas, but perhaps a merry little Christmas. This is
actually a World War II song written from the perspective
of uncertainty of whether you will live or never get home,
and it uses the words if the faiths allow, But
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because of the child, we celebrate his later suffering, his
victory over hell and death, and his kingdom that he
now resides over. We do have hope, we have faith
certainty that we will all be reunited. It's faith and
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it's fate. Fate and faith that it'll be so. In
the meantime, I've always loved this song. I want to
share it with you. I want you to know that
I love you, I'm sorry for your loss, and I
have one simple wish that you have yourself a merried
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little Christmas. At number three on our Top ten Christmas
Stories and Songs, Frank Sinatra, if you were listening live,
this is where the song would play after such an
emotional story, but we don't have licensing for the podcast,
but feel free to look it up and listen to
it online, share it on them on Dude He's gone too,
Frank Sinatra, have yourself a merry little Christmas, number three
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on our list of top ten Christmas Stories and songs.
Kind of our ode to those who have passed and
Christmas is passed. It's a very difficult time for those
who have lost a loved one. Just know that our
thoughts and prayers and our hearts are with you, and
do the best you can. Maybe not have a merry Christmas,
but a merry little Christmas.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
This is your morning Show with Michael Del Trono. These
are your top stories waking up. The United States Supreme
Court will hear arguments over a law that would ban TikTok,
Sally Patterson reports.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
Lawyers for byte Dance, its parent company, argue batting the
app would restrict those users free speech. They're asking the
Supreme Court to intervene before new legislation comes in next month,
which would prevent TikTok being used in the US over
national security concerns and alleged links to the Chinese government.
The new lawsed you to come in on January nineteenth,
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that's just one day before Donald Trump's inauguration. The President's
elect met TikTok CEO on Monday. It is Mara Lago,
a state of Florida. Trump opposes the ban, Sally Patterson,
New York.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, don't forget what Donald Trum upset about the Continuing Resolution.
The Republicans try to pass the clean Continuing Resolution. All
they're going to do is throw a bunch of debt
into my administration from the Biden administration, and they ought
to be primaried. So it's not really just Elon Musk.
Even President elect Trump is providing loud, critical noise to
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this spending bill.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Mark Mayfield reports.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
The tech billionaire posted on x more than one hundred
times Wednesday to rail against the bill, repeatedly calling it criminal.
Musk also posted a warning saying that any member of
the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending
bill deserves to be voted out in two years. Mosca
and Vivic Ramaswami were picked by President Elect Trump to
head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. Trump also
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voiced his opposition to the bill that would have funded
the government until March fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm Mark Meefield.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I don't know that we're ever going to find out
what all those drones are, and I don't think we're
ever going to find out.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What Matt Gates did.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
But he did admit he engaged in embarrassing, but not criminal,
past behavior. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
The Florida Republicans spoke out after reports that the House
Ethics Committee will release a report which puts him in
a bad light. Gates says in his single days, he
sent funds to women he dated for some time. Ryan
Nobles from Capitol Hill on when that report could be released.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We think it could come out as soon as the
House gets set to leave for the holiday break, so
it could happen as soon as tomorrow, maybe Friday the
weekend at the latest. And we do know that there
was quite a bit of deliberation between Republicans and Democrats
on this panel. They were weighing whether or not it
was appropriate for the committee to release the report despite
the fact that Gates was no longer a member of
Congress and they didn't officially have jurisdiction over him as
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a private citizen.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Finally, se Tailor, Today we celebrate Buddy the Elf from
the Christmas film Elf Bree Tennis with.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Everything you don't know but should if you're a fan
Buddy the Elf. What's your favorite color today?
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Is answer the phone like Buddy the Elf day And
there's so much you don't know about him. First, he
wasn't supposed to be played by Will Ferrell at all.
Jim Carrey was first pick, followed by Chris Farlow and
no sequel. Farrell turned down twenty nine million dollars to
be in ELF two. As for your personal celebration, honor
Buddy the Elf and so the phone like him and
enjoy some Elf pasta. That's spaghetti with candy top with
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maple syrup. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Usually you say I can't imagine that movie with anybody
but that person playing it. But I gotta tell you,
I would have loved to have seen Elf with Chris Farley.
Or can you imagine Jim Chris Farley?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yes, Jim Carrey. Not so much.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
College football. It's the New Orleans Bowl, Georgia Southern against
Sam Houston at six, but pretty good Thursday night football matchup.
Sean Payton's red hot Broncos are in LA. It's so
far to take on the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday
night football. The Short Term Spending Bill, it's being considered
by Congress at the same time the Senate is looking
at changing some Social Security rules. Keeping an eye on
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all of it for US is Jack Crumley. Good morning Jack, Hey,
good morning, Yah. Trying to there's a lot to keep
track of it. This all right, I'm packing for US.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
So the government spending bill, this is something that's been
negotiated for months under House Speaker Mike Johnson. But when
the text of the bill was released Tuesday night, you
mentioned this in your top five stories. It was sort
of roundly rejected by folks that aren't in charge of
the government yet, but I mean certainly will be taking
power soon. Elon Musk and President Elect Trump most notably,
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along with a number of more hardline fiscal conservatives in
the House. This is a big bill again, They've been
working on it for a while, and then that means
that there's a lot that gets put in it to
get enough people on board for it. Money for childcare access,
money to protect the homes of Supreme Court justices, money
for farmers, along with raises for members of Congress, which
is always sort of a difficult thing to sell to
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the public. There was also money to speed up the
repair and the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
in Baltimore that got destroyed earlier this year, and one
hundred billion dollars for disaster relief coming off of those
two storms, the hurricanes the really damaged parts of the US.
Once people started voicing their opposition to it, word now
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is that the bill is all but dead. Jd Vance
and Steve Scalise were meeting with the House Speaker last
night late in the evening to try and negotiate something
as we are coming up on a deadline of Friday
night at midnight, where government funding will run out.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
What the country needs is a balanced budget. We don't
have it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We spend, then we overspend, then we hit that critical ceiling,
and instead of you know, stopping, we just raise the
ceiling with these continuing resolutions. So sometimes Jack, what it
boils down to, it's the sins of the past or
the sins of how they do business catches up with
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the more than that specific bill. But America heading into
a new administration with those taking a strong heart, look,
what are the odds this can get resolved and avoid
a government shut down before we all break for holidays.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
You know.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
Obviously the clock is ticking now that this spending bill
is all but dead. There's been a lot of talk
that they're in a negoti she ate some sort of
clean continuing resolution. President elect Trump calling for a stopgap measure,
and you mentioned the debt ceiling there. He also wants
the debt ceiling to be raised. Now that's something that
was not a part of any of these negotiations. Since
the debt ceiling deadline isn't until June and usually it's
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difficult to get lawmakers to act on that until another
deadline is breathing down their necks. He releasing a statement
saying that Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for
disaster relief, and set our country up for success in
twenty twenty five. The only way to do that is
with a temporary funding bill, what he says, without Democrat giveaways,
It's unclear precisely what would happen to disasterate and help
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to farmers if it is a clean continuing resolution. Again,
the deadline is Friday night at midnight.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We only got about twenty seconds. But what's up with
the thos security rules? So this is a bill that
already passed in the House. The Social Security Fairness Act
would expand payments for people that work, like teachers and
firefighters and police officers. It would repeal specific policies that
limit Social Security payments or exclude them in some cases
for retirees who are also collecting public pensions.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Jack has always stellar reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Joano
Hey, gang, it's me Michael. You can listen to your
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Two three, starting your morning off right, A new way
of talk, a new way of honorstaste because we're in
this together. This is your morning show with Michael, Bill Jordan.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Thank you, Mike mccannon.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Welcome one and all to Thursday, December the nineteenth, Theoval,
twenty twenty four. This is your morning show. I am
Michael del Jorno and running things.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What idiot is running the show? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That would be Jeffrey Lyons at her, Charles Red and
I were just talking off the air along with Jeffrey.
We tried to play along as best we could with
Jack on the dangerous Christmas Gifts but really kind of
hard to relate to. After our childhoods. I mean we
got rifles, swig shots, chemistry sets, how about a buck knife?
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I mean that these things are never a problem. Now
we can't even give them. You know, sand that can
make popsicles and icicles and so sad. This will this
will probably frighten you a lot more than any of
the dangerous Christmas gift list axios Covering the poll where
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forty one percent of young voters say the United Healthcare
CEOs assassination was acceptable, just take a moment and let
that set in. I used to warn people when we
had conversations about abortion. Careful, you lose God, you lose man.
(02:02):
Remember he's a way, a truth, and a life. You
lose life, good luck with life, liberty in a pursuit
of happiness. If you don't get things right about life
at birth, you won't get them right at death. What
is scary? Let me cut to the chase right up front,
(02:22):
so you don't miss the point. We're a very divided country,
perhaps not this divided since the Civil War, and more
dangerously over more issues than one. And what you've been
living for the past decade is if you don't play
along with a narrative, if you don't play along with
(02:43):
the cool kids, you get canceled.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Step it up to you disagree with something, it's okay
to kill somebody. That's a dangerous shift. It's not a
shift I think think they're going to be successful with.
But it is very concerning, and in particular among younger voters.
(03:10):
Why do young people justify and find it more acceptable
to kill the United Healthcare CEO than older individuals? And
by half? Is this social media on the morning where
we find out the fifteen year old girl who shot
and killed a teacher, a student, and six others was
(03:32):
in cahoots with the guy arrested in California. Apparently we're
talking on the internet. He had a big mass shooting
he was going to carry out instead of suicide her
and his what's going on in this social dilemma? What's
going on online? I think your problems are bigger than
TikTok in China. According to the Emerson poll, sixty eight
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percent think the actions of the killer against Thompson were unacceptable,
but seventeen percent found them acceptable and sixteen percent were unsure.
Imagine being unsure about this question, whether it's a slap
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or a door, come on.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Us.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Voters between the age of eighteen and twenty nine were
more likely than their elders to accept the recent killing
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In New York City.
Forty one percent of eighteen to twenty nine year olds
are like, yeah, insurances, I let's kill him. I'm afraid
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to do the analogy in case somebody eighteen to twenty
nine is listening. But I think cars are pretty ridiculous.
I thought they were ridiculous at fifty grand. Now those
fifty grand cars are one hundred and twenty one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars for a car that depreciates in
half in two years. Should we s shoot a salesman,
(05:05):
shoot a leader of an automobile organization? Doritos eight dollars
a bag? I shoot somebody, Well, surely it gets better
after thirty right. Twenty three percent of thirty to thirty
nine year old said, yeah, that was a justified shooting.
(05:28):
I think that's a little scarier than you know ice
cream cones made of sand. In research, you got to
break it down and what you really want to look
at is completely unacceptable compared to completely acceptable the in between,
(05:51):
and by the way, on this one, this may be
the exception. There should be no in between. But even
if you do that, the view isn't good. Eighteen to
twenty nine year olds, thirty three percent find it completely unacceptable.
A husband, a father, a head of insurance company is
assassinated and you can't figure out which was the bad
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guy and which was the good guy. And there's three
and a half out of ten to think it was
completely unacceptable. That's it, three and a half out of
ten eighteen to twenty nine, and half of that seventy
percent said oh, completely acceptable. Then you go to thirty
to thirty nine. Well, then it gets a little smarter,
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but not much. Forty three percent completely unacceptable, but ten
percent still acceptable completely.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I don't know where this comes from. You go
to seventy plus. Now you're getting dangerously.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Closed the heart of the baby boomers and the greatest generation.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And it's still only.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Seven out of ten that think it's completely unacceptable. And
there's six percent that said it was completely acceptable to
kill this man. And all I can think of is, boy,
you don't get questions about when life begins, right. You
don't get questions about when life ends right, either do
you if you lose sight of a sacred, holy Almighty
(07:20):
God who created us in his image, He's sacred, His
creation is sacred. This kind of nonsense can to happen.
It's the scariest poll I've seen all day, a lot
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scarier than any of the list of dangerous toys on
that list. Earlier, Amazon did go on strike. After all,
this is probably going to affect New York and New
Jersey primarily, So for everybody that's ordered Christmas presents on Amazon,
don't panic.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
This is more of a regional impact.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But they went on strike at the FAD lowered interest
rates for a third time this year, but the market
went down a thousand. White House is criticizing President elect
Trump for seeking By the way, Jeffrey, you are keeping
an eye out for John.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm watching the phone drug.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The White House is criticizing the White House Assisted Living
House is criticizing President elect Trump for sinking a bipartisan
funding bill. This is a fascinating topic that we broke
down earlier in the show in that Donald Trump elon
Musk that ake Ramaswami doge means business and this isn't
just a second one hundred day term coming for the president.
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It's a second one hundred and sixty day term because
this president elect and his people are already running the country.
And buried in that bill was one of the most
despicable things Congress trying to sneak in while we're broke,
no money for Christmas, just trying to afford car insurance,
(09:05):
gas and groceries. They tried to sneak in a raise
of one hundred and seventy four thousand to two hundred
and forty three thousand dollars a year for members of Congress.
The members of Congress to suspend you this much in debt,
we're going to slip themselves a forty percent pay increase.
Did you get a forty percent pay increase to pay
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for all the cost of living increases that they've helped create.
And yesterday I was on the air bashing this continuing Resolution,
this notion that you can debt your way out of
a debt problem, spend your way out of a spending problem.
But it's business as usual, and Republicans are just as
at fault. Oh, they speak against the debt at home
all the time, but then they go vote for these
(09:47):
continuing Resolutions. Donald Trump had a message for them. You
ought to be primaried out. Elon Musk and Vive Ramasami
had a message for all of them. Here's some highlights
from the fifteen hundred and forty seven pages of this
continuing resolution. And a forty percent pay increase for members
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of Congress is unacceptable. This bill should not pass. Doge
means business. Another big story. The Supreme Court will hear
the case on the TikTok ban. John Decker is not
only a White House correspondent, not only living a better
life than me. Text after text, he proves that every
(10:27):
day he is also a Supreme Court bar attorney.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
This becomes Michael, before we start, Michael, before we start.
Do you believe everything that Elon Musk puts out there
on his ex Do you believe everything he says?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You'd have to go one at a time and be specific.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Okay, let me let me go with what you just said.
Let me just go with what you just said. He
talks about it pay raiser. That is incorrect, That is
false information. Do you know how much the pay raise
will be?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
It's sixty six.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Hundred dollars, It's a three and a half percent cost
of living adjustment. I mean, if you're going.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To argue against it, then you have to be accurate.
And that's just not accurate information.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I have to double check that, make sure your record.
So you're saying that's not in there, double.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Check all you want.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I'm telling you what the cost of living adjustment is.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I've read the legislation.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And Elon Musk is putting a lot of false information
out there on X.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, Well, double check that. We'll correct it if it's wrong.
Not that I'm for it, wouldn't change my view of
continuing resolutions, but that's the one that they pointed out.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
But that's the one that you're pointing out about a
forty percent. That sounds pretty outraging, and I would agree
with you.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
It is not a forty percent cost of living adjustment.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Red get on that, double check it all right. On
the TikTok, this is a First Amendment issue, right.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Well, it depends. I mean, it's a national security issue.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
If you ask the members of Congress that voted for
this legend I'm talking about, for the other national security
agencies have said that TikTok, owned by byte Dan, owned
by the Chinese Communist Party, the CCT.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Is a national security risk to the US and.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
That's the reason why they supported.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
This legislation and TikTok.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Users of TikTok say it's a First Amendment issue.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
And now the Supreme Court will.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Weigh in on this.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
They will hear oral arguments on January the tenth. This
is a hail mary pass that's been caught by the
Supreme Court. It's their last lifeline TikTok to remain a
business in the US because the legislation calls for TikTok
to either sell itself or it will be banned in
the US on January the nineteenth. So January tenth is
(12:38):
a very important date in the future of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
All right, So, by the way, what do you make
of that, because that's different than normal for the Supreme
Court to get a case on January tenth, just days before.
I mean, normally we have the hearing, we try to
glean what we think the justices are leaning towards by
the questions they asked. I mean, this thing's got to
be heard, argued, discussed, and then ruled almost immediately, right, And.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
The Supreme Court did that earlier this year. They did
that earlier this year with the Colorado Supreme Court decision
to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. They heard oral
arguments on in February. A week later they came back
with their decision to say that was unconstitutional. So the
Supreme Court is capable of a quick turnaround in terms
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of having an oral argument and then coming back with
a decision in a very short amount of time. And
they need to do that because the clock is kicking
based upon the deadline.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Set by this legislation.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So if we have three branches of government, they all
have distinct duties. A national security threat issue and determination
that's not necessarily a Supreme Court constitutional issue. First Amendment
is So I want to get back to my first question.
As judges, how are they going to be viewing this
as a national security threat or a First Amendment issue?
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What will they be ruling on or both?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, if the Supreme this is my view on it,
and I have to read the briefs which have not
been followed yet, and I'll be in the Supreme Court
on January tenth for oral arguments.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
But my view is if the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Overturns a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
They would essentially be.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Saying, we know better, We know better than the FBI,
we know better, we know better than other intelligent other
intelligence agencies that have determined that Byte Dance, the parent
company of TikTok, is a national security threat.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
To the United States, and so we'll have to see.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals said that the legislation
was written in a narrowly tailored way to because of
these national security concerns. And we'll see if the Supreme
Court ultimately agrees with that opinion written by the DC
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I know what your aanswer is going to be. How
could I possibly know? But for everybody listening, they're probably wondering,
is TikTok going to get banned? And now that the
Supreme Court is going to make a decision, what role
does that play? I mean, should we anticipate this happening
in the new year or not? Which way does it
feel like it's leaning towards? And you're what I'm hearing
from you is you feel like it's leaning towards. The
Supreme Court is not going to intervene and it's going
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to head towards being banned.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I look, I never weigh in in terms of what
the Supreme Court may or may not do until I've
read the briefs, and those briefs have.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Not been filed yet, because they just put it on
the docket, you know, on.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
January the tenth, yesterday.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
So let me read through those which will be filed
in the coming weeks. And of course we'll talk before
and after that oral argument at the Supreme Court.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I'll be into the court for that.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
And it's I think, really when you figure, when you
factor in, Michael, tens of millions of Americans use TikTok
every day. This has real consequences for them, and they
may have to, you know, resort to other social media apps.
TikTok is band in the US.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We'll be tackling that right to start the new year.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I think we'll probably visit one more time tomorrow, just
in case that's get it happened. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
but I hope it's tomorrow. We'll get to the bottom
of your fact check as well.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Michael.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
First, of all, whenever you phrase a question, do you
believe everything so and so says as a way of
discrediting it, I don't play that game. First of all,
I don't believe anything anybody says. I verify everything, including
John Decker. But to his point, if you do the
fact check, it's both right and wrong. Translation. I'm glad
(16:37):
he seasoned the conversation with this, but he wasn't right either.
So Congress has the right to set its own salaries.
It's a unilateral right that they have. In this continuing resolution,
there's a long section that discusses if they had gotten
cost of living pay increases, and that's where three point
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eight percent comes in, and they have been getting them
since they were canceled, they would have got maybe at
two hundred and forty something thousand dollars, but there's nothing
to prevent them from raising it that high.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So the fact check is neither a right.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
This is Rebecca in spring Hill, Tennessee, and my morning
show is your Morning Show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Hi, It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Your Morning show can be heard on great radio stations
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Speaker 3 (17:38):
We invite you to listen.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Live while you're getting ready in the morning to take
us along for the drive to work. But as we
always say, better late than never. Thanks for joining us
for the podcast eight percent increase. In their long argument
for their three point eight percent increase, they talk about
increases that have not been enacted and if they were
retroly acted, would go to two hundred and forty three thousand.
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So one, that's where the two hundred and forty three
thousand comes in.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Two.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Elon Must did not say it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Elon Must retweeted that section and set it's unacceptable. Now,
the question is, and I could not know, John Decker
could not know, you could not know? Is their intent
in this continuing resolution to give themselves that increase and
then retoractively give the latter. Otherwise, why did you spend
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so much time and a thirty page bill to turn
fifteen hundred pages discussing the figure of two hundred and
forty three So the answer is, if you wanted to
have a fight before Christmas. Are they wanting to go
from one seventy four to two forty three or just
increase three point eight percent? I think there's reasons to
be suspicious in the added pages and the argument of
two hundred and forty three that maybe that's their ultimate
(18:52):
goal and it would be within their power to retroactively
add that later. So nobody's really right, nobody's really wrong.
And this is why I like to focus more on
Christmas this time of the year. So we've been counting
down our top ten Christmas stories and songs. At number
ten was Johnny Mathis Need a Little Christmas. Number nine
are ode to Christmas movies and love Actually God only
(19:12):
knows by the Beach Boys. Number eight ore Olde to
Christmas Travelers, Kenny Loggins and celebrate me home. Harry Connick Junior,
would please come home from Christmas? My little tribute to
New Orleans Christmases. Carpenters were at number six today with
the ode to the Empty Chair and Merry Christmas, Darling
our old to Mary and Joseph for their faith and courage.
Number five was Clay Aikin Mary, did you Know? And
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then we head at number four Whitney Houston. Do you
hear what die here? That brings us to number three,
the least fun stop on our top ten list. It's
our oad to those who are gone. I have so
many friends spending their first Christmas after the death of
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a family member. Personally, I'm thinking of Scott and Gwen
Oates fall they lost their teenage son and a drowning tragedy.
I mean, let's be honest, Merry Christmas, no way. And
oftentimes fellow believers, with the best of intentions can sometimes
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be the worst when it comes to comforting those that
are broken hearted. We say things like, oh, they're in
a better place. Meanwhile, their heart is crying on No,
they're not here with me, that's not better. Or how
about the worst Christmas song ever? Mommy's with Jesus for Christmas.
I'll bet that really comforted that little toddler after his
(20:43):
mother's death.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
No, a merry Christmas probably not in the cards. But
what is I get back to that?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You see, we all battle with loss this time of year.
It's just a matter of how long ago it happened.
When I think of my childhood Christmases, my brother's laying
on the floor in front of the console TV watching
a Bowl game, Me lying under the table with Sinatra
in the background, my mom and Dad, Poppy, Grammy, and
(21:17):
Nannie all playing peanockle, my parents not fighting, my grandfather
chomping on nuts, my dad saying who smelt this mess?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
To no Trump?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh, Mom and Dad are divorced. I don't speak to
one of my brothers. Nanni died first, then Poppy, then Grammy.
They're all gone. And what I wouldn't give for any
one of them to know my amazing wife or to
meet my beautiful twin daughters. And oh they have gotten
(21:54):
to kick out a neck. Now, the Bible says, we mourn,
we hurt, we miss, we grieve, just not like those
without hope, but we grieve and depending how fresh. There
are no words, just permission, permission to not have a
(22:17):
merry Christmas, but perhaps a merry little Christmas. This is
actually a World War II song written from the perspective
of uncertainty of whether you will live or never get home,
and it uses the words if the faiths allow, But
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because of the child, we celebrate his later suffering, his
victory over hell and death, and his kingdom that he
now resides over. We do have hope, we have faith
certainty that we will all be reunited. It's faith and
(23:04):
it's fate. Fate and faith that it'll be so. In
the meantime, I've always loved this song. I want to
share it with you. I want you to know that
I love you, I'm sorry for your loss, and I
have one simple wish that you have yourself a merried
(23:27):
little Christmas. At number three on our Top ten Christmas
Stories and Songs, Frank Sinatra, if you were listening live,
this is where the song would play after such an
emotional story, but we don't have licensing for the podcast,
but feel free to look it up and listen to
it online, share it on them on Dude He's gone too,
Frank Sinatra, have yourself a merry little Christmas, number three
(23:50):
on our list of top ten Christmas Stories and songs.
Kind of our ode to those who have passed and
Christmas is passed. It's a very difficult time for those
who have lost a loved one. Just know that our
thoughts and prayers and our hearts are with you, and
do the best you can. Maybe not have a merry Christmas,
but a merry little Christmas.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
This is your morning Show with Michael Del Trono. These
are your top stories waking up. The United States Supreme
Court will hear arguments over a law that would ban TikTok,
Sally Patterson reports.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
Lawyers for byte Dance, its parent company, argue batting the
app would restrict those users free speech. They're asking the
Supreme Court to intervene before new legislation comes in next month,
which would prevent TikTok being used in the US over
national security concerns and alleged links to the Chinese government.
The new lawsed you to come in on January nineteenth,
(24:46):
that's just one day before Donald Trump's inauguration. The President's
elect met TikTok CEO on Monday. It is Mara Lago,
a state of Florida. Trump opposes the ban, Sally Patterson,
New York.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, don't forget what Donald Trum upset about the Continuing Resolution.
The Republicans try to pass the clean Continuing Resolution. All
they're going to do is throw a bunch of debt
into my administration from the Biden administration, and they ought
to be primaried. So it's not really just Elon Musk.
Even President elect Trump is providing loud, critical noise to
(25:20):
this spending bill.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Mark Mayfield reports.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
The tech billionaire posted on x more than one hundred
times Wednesday to rail against the bill, repeatedly calling it criminal.
Musk also posted a warning saying that any member of
the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending
bill deserves to be voted out in two years. Mosca
and Vivic Ramaswami were picked by President Elect Trump to
head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. Trump also
(25:45):
voiced his opposition to the bill that would have funded
the government until March fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm Mark Meefield.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I don't know that we're ever going to find out
what all those drones are, and I don't think we're
ever going to find out.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What Matt Gates did.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
But he did admit he engaged in embarrassing, but not criminal,
past behavior. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
The Florida Republicans spoke out after reports that the House
Ethics Committee will release a report which puts him in
a bad light. Gates says in his single days, he
sent funds to women he dated for some time. Ryan
Nobles from Capitol Hill on when that report could be released.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We think it could come out as soon as the
House gets set to leave for the holiday break, so
it could happen as soon as tomorrow, maybe Friday the
weekend at the latest. And we do know that there
was quite a bit of deliberation between Republicans and Democrats
on this panel. They were weighing whether or not it
was appropriate for the committee to release the report despite
the fact that Gates was no longer a member of
Congress and they didn't officially have jurisdiction over him as
(26:37):
a private citizen.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Finally, se Tailor, Today we celebrate Buddy the Elf from
the Christmas film Elf Bree Tennis with.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Everything you don't know but should if you're a fan
Buddy the Elf. What's your favorite color today?
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Is answer the phone like Buddy the Elf day And
there's so much you don't know about him. First, he
wasn't supposed to be played by Will Ferrell at all.
Jim Carrey was first pick, followed by Chris Farlow and
no sequel. Farrell turned down twenty nine million dollars to
be in ELF two. As for your personal celebration, honor
Buddy the Elf and so the phone like him and
enjoy some Elf pasta. That's spaghetti with candy top with
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maple syrup. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Usually you say I can't imagine that movie with anybody
but that person playing it. But I gotta tell you,
I would have loved to have seen Elf with Chris Farley.
Or can you imagine Jim Chris Farley?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yes, Jim Carrey. Not so much.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
College football. It's the New Orleans Bowl, Georgia Southern against
Sam Houston at six, but pretty good Thursday night football matchup.
Sean Payton's red hot Broncos are in LA. It's so
far to take on the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday
night football. The Short Term Spending Bill, it's being considered
by Congress at the same time the Senate is looking
at changing some Social Security rules. Keeping an eye on
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all of it for US is Jack Crumley. Good morning Jack, Hey,
good morning, Yah. Trying to there's a lot to keep
track of it. This all right, I'm packing for US.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
So the government spending bill, this is something that's been
negotiated for months under House Speaker Mike Johnson. But when
the text of the bill was released Tuesday night, you
mentioned this in your top five stories. It was sort
of roundly rejected by folks that aren't in charge of
the government yet, but I mean certainly will be taking
power soon. Elon Musk and President Elect Trump most notably,
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along with a number of more hardline fiscal conservatives in
the House. This is a big bill again, They've been
working on it for a while, and then that means
that there's a lot that gets put in it to
get enough people on board for it. Money for childcare access,
money to protect the homes of Supreme Court justices, money
for farmers, along with raises for members of Congress, which
is always sort of a difficult thing to sell to
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the public. There was also money to speed up the
repair and the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
in Baltimore that got destroyed earlier this year, and one
hundred billion dollars for disaster relief coming off of those
two storms, the hurricanes the really damaged parts of the US.
Once people started voicing their opposition to it, word now
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is that the bill is all but dead. Jd Vance
and Steve Scalise were meeting with the House Speaker last
night late in the evening to try and negotiate something
as we are coming up on a deadline of Friday
night at midnight, where government funding will run out.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
What the country needs is a balanced budget. We don't
have it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We spend, then we overspend, then we hit that critical ceiling,
and instead of you know, stopping, we just raise the
ceiling with these continuing resolutions. So sometimes Jack, what it
boils down to, it's the sins of the past or
the sins of how they do business catches up with
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the more than that specific bill. But America heading into
a new administration with those taking a strong heart, look,
what are the odds this can get resolved and avoid
a government shut down before we all break for holidays.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
You know.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
Obviously the clock is ticking now that this spending bill
is all but dead. There's been a lot of talk
that they're in a negoti she ate some sort of
clean continuing resolution. President elect Trump calling for a stopgap measure,
and you mentioned the debt ceiling there. He also wants
the debt ceiling to be raised. Now that's something that
was not a part of any of these negotiations. Since
the debt ceiling deadline isn't until June and usually it's
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difficult to get lawmakers to act on that until another
deadline is breathing down their necks. He releasing a statement
saying that Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for
disaster relief, and set our country up for success in
twenty twenty five. The only way to do that is
with a temporary funding bill, what he says, without Democrat giveaways,
It's unclear precisely what would happen to disasterate and help
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to farmers if it is a clean continuing resolution. Again,
the deadline is Friday night at midnight.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We only got about twenty seconds. But what's up with
the thos security rules? So this is a bill that
already passed in the House. The Social Security Fairness Act
would expand payments for people that work, like teachers and
firefighters and police officers. It would repeal specific policies that
limit Social Security payments or exclude them in some cases
for retirees who are also collecting public pensions.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Jack has always stellar reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
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