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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, you man, a lot of noise right there. Seven
minutes after the hour. Welcome to Monday, single watch your persona.
I me what. I don't know how we got So
here's how it goes. Yeah, yesterday, for some reason, did
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some shopping and then it was like in between almost
dinner after being gone all day, nobody wanted to really cook,
and we end up at a Mexican restaurant. Now what
do we do for sinkle tomayo? Today? You gotta go back?
Can't go back? Isn't normally Monday? That's a no, no.
You can't eat the same thing two days in a row. Well,
(01:18):
then don't order the vehitas. Get some tacos. How'd you
know we had fijitas? Well, I'm just taking a wild guess. Well,
it was a very nice, nice guest of your today's
Sinkle Demayo May the fifth. Last time I looked, May
is the fifth month? Right, five five twenty five. Now,
back in two thousand and five, we'd have really been
onto something. Five five five pree tennis with more on
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why we celebrate Sinko to Mayo as the show goes on,
All right, eight minutes after the hour. Welcome to the
fifth of May twenty twenty five. I am Michael del
Journo on the Aaron streaming live on your iHeartRadio app.
We do have one lister, by the way, doing an experiment.
We don't know why. Oh. In the methodology that rates radio,
you have occurrences of listening, which is called your cume,
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total number of listeners, and then the time that they
spend listening. Oh. Roger, of course, probably in no way
has a diary, so I can say this has decided
for two weeks to live our life. This is a
dedicated listener. This this could be something beyond platinum. He
is a glutton for punishment as possible would say so.
(02:26):
And I got an email from him this morning and
he will not be doing any talkbacks this good morning.
Just wanted to drop you a note. This is the
beginning of week two. It's already off to a good start.
I woke up twenty minutes before my alarm clock. Yeah,
that'll begin to happen to you. Is that project or
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going on so over the weekend? I was like, listen,
our job is to be a blessing in your life,
not a burden. You're making this a burden. Yeah, I
don't even think Red got here twenty minutes before his alarm.
I'm tested to carry this worse. Roger want no sleep either,
he wants no sleep? Shall get Shall we tell Roger
(03:07):
what he's what he can look forward to? Yea death? Oh?
Can I? This is what you can look forward to, Roger.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
While you guys were texting on Saturday about the Kentucky Derby,
I'd already gone to bed because of what happens during
the week sometimes round.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Don't even get me started on mister Sandman's jockey, who
I don't know what he was doing or trying to
do or thinking about. Before the far turn, he had
an easy inside lane. He decides to go outside, than
another horse forces him further outside, and he drowns in
the in the mud in the stretch. But yes, by
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the way, this would be irony, right because it happened
metaphor would be more of a writing. Okay, comparison, right,
I think you would call this an irony. But anyway,
just viral on the internet over the weekend. The irony
that sovereignty beat journalism in twenty twenty five, very similar
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to the political landscape we live in. And being Baptist,
I say God has a sense of humor. Yeah, that
we would compare the sovereignty of God to the sovereignty
horse or Donald Trump. Here's outside. It is his name,
proven sovereignty. I I just start by saying, for journalism,
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what we didn't know was how he would respond to
an off track. What we did know is speed of
the race and stamina and ability to close. He's in
the perfect position. He's right out front by a half
a length, spinning around the turn, right in the inside
middle of the track. But sovereignty is flying on the outside,
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on the outside.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The two of them right by with the journalism sovereignty
to those down to the last sixteenth of a while,
sovereignty has taken the lead. Journalism has second four the
god Sun, but the ecles third.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But it will be sovereignty to rule. That got a
lot of people's attention. I don't know. I mean, you know,
listen as a as a prognosticata, I would have probably
felt like journalism has the best chance of winning a
triple crown. That can't happen now, obviously can sovereignty. This
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is a great horse. Preakness will probably be the bigger
I would think, challenge for sovereignty where speed can just
make a sprint at it, but we'll see two beautiful
horses coming down the stretch. I mean, you know, if
nothing else, because we don't we don't really do westerns anymore.
I mean, with the exception of the Yellowstone phenomenon, I
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know I shouldn't call it Yellowstone when they did three
different ones, but you know what starts have kind of
been gone and with it are you know, our constant
fascination with horses. So I love that the Triple Crown
rolls around once a year to remind us of what
an amazing animal horses. These two athletes coming down the
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stretch covered in mud. Oh, it's beautiful. And they know,
they know that's the part I love the most. They
know it's race days, you know what I mean. They
love to win. You know, sometimes you just don't know.
Does Donald Trump just get off a plane and in
the free thought, you know, or for all we know,
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you know, because he only sleeps three hours, you know,
maybe maybe one night Alcatraz Escape from Alcatraz with Clint
Eastwood was on or something. You just don't know with
Donald Trump, right, just all of a sudden on the blue,
We're gonna open Alcatraz. I've wandered the h you know.
And when you're the president, you can get on the
phone or the prison department vomit to reopen out Patraz.
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We're gonna make it a big, beautiful nexting. You know,
it's got like a casino on the rock. It's gonna
say Trump and big letters, big letters Trumpetraz, Trump Traz. Yeah,
they're huge. I gonna love a highly respected rock, highly
respected rock. You wonder where this comes from. I we're
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kind of what just to do this kind of very
very elementary. We're you know, We're on a roll of
just you know, securing the border, removing the threats, restoring
law and order. We have a way of doing it
with deportation and prisons abroad. Now all of a sudden,
up for that put them on the rock. Here comes
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out the treas, which I take personally because my first thought,
this makes me less of an American citizen. If there
is well I've been to obviously, I've been to Churchill
Downs didn't compare, although it stays, and you know where
Secretariat once stood, and or Admiral and some of the
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you know, great horses of all time. I mean, I
have to say, this is terrible. Well, the most moved
I have ever been was the Holocaust Museum in Washington,
d C. Just just blew me away. That was a
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life changing day and the two exhibits were extraordinary. That's
the most moved I've ever been. The first time this
is before they split it all up. The first time
I went to the Air and Space Museum was very memorable.
I did not like the Sears Tower observation deck, especially
when everybody wanted to take a picture. You know, they
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did a little plexiglass cut out area where you can
go stand and it looks like you're just suspended in
mid air. My hands are sweating right now just reliving that.
But no, I would have to say hands down, Yaga Zoo.
As a child at Universal in Los Angeles, especially coming
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out of Jaws and then seeing the mechanical shark, you know,
it's memorable thing. There was consint delas I'm gonna throw
that in there. You're on a bus and all of
a sudden it drives into the water and turns into
a boat. Okay, that's it. But nothing, I mean nothing
came close to being in San Francisco and going to Alcatraz.
It was it is by far. And I have one,
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you know, two dreams in my life. One was to
bring my son up the ramp at Wrigley Field, which
I did, and then the other was to take him
to Alcatraz. And that was our original plan for last
year and then again this year, was to go see
the Cubs and the Giants in San Francisco and go
to Alcatraz. And if he does this, I can't go
visit it again. It is I'm telling you, it's just
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assuming that he's I guess it's fifty to fifty, right
that he's serious. I think everybody's thinking he's serious. Right
about Alcatraz? What do you think we're in? What are
your thoughts? Are you upratt rogers? What are your thoughts? Well,
there's one way you can visit it, Michael, Well, I'm
not going to do that. Neither of you have been right.
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Anybody out there listening that's been to Alcatraz used to
talk back, probably been on the island. But I've been
around it, all right. Well, first, have you seen the
Grand Canyon? Yes, I've been to the Grand k oh
No Alcatraz. No, Alcatraz was better. Oh listen. First of all,
it's one of my favorite movies, Escape from Alcatraz with
Clint East to it. And by the way, the thought
of doing a remake and you could still have Clint
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direct it. I get somebody kind of like Clint to
play the role. But imagine, now, you know, Trump Patraz,
escape from trump Petraz, and you know, you got some
guy that goes to prison and there he is with
all these you know, bad ombres who have been stored
up on the rock and he's, you know, trying to escape.
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Maybe I'm no one who likes the idea of that movie.
But anyway, make a long story short. You you arrive
at the rock on boat, you get out, you're free
to roam around. You get get a thing of headsets,
which is this is what makes it. Yeah, I think
you have to have an appreciation for the movie because
it's like when I went to Notre Dame the first time,
I wasn't really thinking about Paul Horning. I wasn't really
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thinking about New Rockney. I was thinking about the movie Rudy.
I'm at the grod and I'm like, hey, this is
Rudy was lighting candles, you know what I mean. So
you're it's kind of a bizarre thing when you're more
into the movie version. So you're walking around Alcatraz with
these headsets. When you walk into the mess hall, you're
hearing all the you know, the steel glasses and plates
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and silverware moving, You're hearing the chatter of the prisoners.
It's like being transported, it really is. They put all
the sound effects in your head. Yeah, and you go
out in the yard experience. Yeah, got in the yard
where people used to get shanked, because you know, you're
not in a top. There's only two places you can
get shanked anymore. Down on the bay. You you can
get shanked at a bar, get down and cut off loosey,
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you can still get shanked. You can shank down here
on Broadway in Nashville. My brother had a friend who
got in Thibodeau, got shanked in the rear end while
he was at the urinal. But I mean, you know,
you go out in the yard, you go and then
they they the way they did Alcatraz. Uh, the outer block,
which is where capone was. You would lay in bed
at night and the sound was perfect, and it was
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designed in such a way that when it's quiet at night,
you're lying in your bed in the cell and you're
hearing like a couple on a date, oh, you know,
on the wharf area, eating and drinking and giggling and laughing.
And that was part of the torture of bringing back Alcatraz.
Donald Trump, could it mean? And then that movie wouldn't
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be terriffed because you you'd want to make it right
at Alcatraz? Oh yeah, of course. So out of the blue,
Donald Trump pits us with Alcatraz reopening at a tariff
on movies made overseas? Is he just kind of vamp
and out.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It works, so well, we're just gonna do them here,
we'll do them there, We'll do it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And if I should say anything bad, what kind of
a host? Do you? Caring only about your little tour
Once every decade we got bad operations on the streets.
If every wants to open up Alcatraz, you find a
new place to go on vacation. I'll get some hate
mail over that. Watch. So here comes Donald Trump out
of the blue, opening up Alcatraz and one hundred percent
tariffs on movies. You know, new little wrinkles, if you will.
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I always love to show family matters, and I think
it started with the name and then the notion of
a young Michael J. Fox, you know, in the Reagan years,
as a as a conservative teenager walking around in a
sport coade.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But I love it family matters or family ties? Oh,
family ties? And what was family matters? Family matters was
the cartoon with Peter And oh that ruins the analogy.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Then yeah, let's go with family ties. No, well, it's
the family matters that our journey of discoveries on family matters.
Married parents and strong families equal a students, A students
equal more opportunities broken families. You remember the for decades.
It's better for the kids too. No, it's not broken
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families equal. No, a's less opportunities. It equals stuck in
an economic cycle. You cannot lift America out of its
cycle of poverty without fixing the home that has reared
its head again and along with it, and you have
to resist the surge. If there are there are a lot.
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There are several bad teachers, Don't get me wrong, and
I had some of them. Most are really good. Most
really care about our kids, educating them, preparing them for
the next level of education, whether it's going on to
junior high school, going on to high school, going on
to higher education, for citizenry and for the workforce. And
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when you get a good teacher, oh make sure they
know it. And Andrew and I were really good about that.
We did. And when you get a bad one sometimes
they make national news. We got a main high school
teacher that just had a meltdown on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I want to thank James. I think it was Austin Austin. Yeah,
Austin Family Matters was the Oracle show. Yes, by the way,
hosts A Game Show down in the game show, Now
did I do that? That was family matters. But we'll
get to that in our journey of discovery real quickly.
This is James.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Morning, Michael. I have to agree with you. I've seen
both the Grand Canyon and Alcatraz. First time, Grand Canyon
thirty thousand feet. Second time I rented a plane because
that fly flew at fifteen hundred feet. But Alcatraz just
the concept was I'm blowing seeing it in person.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, in realizing what it was. I think Trump is
an absolute genius. Listen wor the yard Boy and my
morning show is your morning show with my buddy Michael
del Jorno. Hey, it's Michael. Your morning show can be
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Would love to be a part of your morning routine.
But so glad you're here now, enjoyed the podcast. The
real id deadline is this Wednesday. You've had twenty one years,
(16:45):
but you got till this Wednesday, Trump says that he
is directing the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand
the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, UH that has been closed
for sixty years. I imagine there'd be a little electrical plumbing,
structural touchups needed, bringing all the team from home and
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guards television to get it back to its pristine state.
One of those sALS with the mannequin in it would
have to be freshened up. I know for sure. Getting
back to what James was saying, it really is genius.
You want to play this court game with me on deportation?
All right, I'll open up Alcatraz. He just keeps playing poker,
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doesn't he. College of Cardinals will soon hold several meetings
at the Vatican to start the process of selecting a
new pope. Crazy story in Brazil where Brazilian police say
they stopped a bomb attack planned it Lady Gaga's weekend
concert on the cop Cabanda Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
(17:48):
The craziest part about the story there were two million fans.
Isn't that crazy? Yeah? I heard about that on the way.
How do you How do you go to a concert too? Million.
It was like I remember HBO did a special one
time with Simon and Garfunk at City Park and there
was like that City Park, Central Park, City Park is
New Orleans. Uh, and there was like two hundred thousand
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people and you all I could think of is standing
in the back. You're like a quarter of a mile away.
What does Simon and Garfunk look like? How do you
go to a conder? But where did two million people go?
And how far away are you? And but what a
nightmare that could have been thwarted? Uh? Two people taken
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into custody, jury selection and Pete is it Sean? Is
it Diddy? Is it P Diddy? Sean P Diddy? But
I mean I don't know what he goes by now.
I mean, by the way, usually when you're you're in
legal trouble, you get your first, middle and last name right.
And that's why John Wilkes Booth became so famous. Lee Harvey,
this guy's got morening is Sean Ditty Combs. I mean
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his name is his name, Sean Cobs, and Diddy is
his middle name. It's how they're referring to him anyway.
His trial starts today and heartbreak for all my friends
in the lou As I mentioned, there's only two things
I wanted the Saint Louis Blues. I wanted the Blues
to take on the Caps that I didn't care who
went on to win the NHL Stanley Cup. But it's
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not going to happen. The Jets rallied from behind, forced
in overtime and in double overtime, one three to two
last night, and they advanced. And the season is over
for the Saint Louis Blues. But oh, you gave us
a great ride, Blues. In nineteen sixty five, the late
Daniel Patrick moynihan wrote, the role of the family in
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shaping character and debility is so pervasive as to be
easily overlooked. Wow, isn't that the truth on a lot
of things in life? You know, there's a part of
our brain that you don't even think about, thank God for,
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or appreciate that handles the function of getting up and
walking across the room, opening the bathroom door, and going
to the bathroom. It's so shaping, so pervasive as to
be easily overlooked. Most of the profound things in life are.
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But what a great quote from Daniel Patrick moynan the
role of the family and shaping care. Could it be
the solution that we haven't found? I mean, has there
been a bigger failure in the history of government than
the War on poverty? Could it be because in the
midst of that, or mental health, because that role of family, crime,
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trying to stop crime, drugs and overdoses. Could it be
that the role of the family and shaping character and
the ability is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked.
The family is the basic social unit, he goes on,
of American life. It is the basic socializing unit. By
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and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.
So with a broken home, what are you going to have?
A broken neighborhood, a broken society, a broken culture. We
think we're so much smarter today, and whether it's ancient history,
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American history, or even Daniel Patrick moynihan, we're reminded of
just how much blinder we are today, not smarter. Sixty
years later, Moynihan's words still ring true as evidence in
a new report by Nicholas Zil of the Institute for
Family Studies, Zill examines the phenomenon of grade inflation. Oh
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you're going to love this story with more students in elementary, medical,
middle and secondary schools receiving A grades. And by the way,
may we say in many cases undeserved. Put an asterisk
by this. This is one of the neatest parts of
the story. I know it sounds like cheating, but it's not.
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In many cases, undeserved in order to keep parents and
administrators happy. Because you do Anna wrong, you do Alex wrong,
you do Nicholas wrong, you get to meet my better
half Andrea. That's why you get to get one of
her beautiful long letters. But that's a part of an
intech family too. Now I can't tell you how. And
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I'm the fun parent. I am the quiet, praying and
then outwardly fun parent. In other words, I don't sweat
every little small stuff, and I don't get involved in
a lot of the hormonal drama. But I can tell
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you that my kids would not have the grades they
have and would not be having the success now at
the university level that they're having if they didn't have
a mother that nagged every aspect of their life. And
because her husband kept her so secure and so happy,
she had the energy to focus on them and nag
Oh you can't hole No. But I was the product
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of the opposite of this, and left to my own weakness.
I'd watch Carson, I'd watch a baseball game, I'd go
kick field goals. I'd play a video game. I wouldn't prepare.
He also found that those students raised in intact married homes.
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This is, by the way, I shouldn't have to do this,
but I will. This whole study is not to isolate humans,
embarrass or criticize anyone who is divorced. If it's happened,
it's happened. Where do we go from there? But the
notion that it's okay or that it's in some way better. Statistically,
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on this subject, you might want to take another longer look.
I grew up in a dysfunctional marital family, and I
can tell you it was traumatizing as a child. Seeing
a father leave the home with a suitcase is traumatizing.
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And then comes along a culture that wants to make
everybody feel better about their mistakes and suddenly convinces an
entire generation, Oh, the kids will be better, They'll have
two moms and two dads and two homes. No, or
at least for the sake of this journey of discovery,
they won't have A'S, that's for sure. He also found
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this students raised in intact married homes we're more likely
to receive A'S than those raised in a single parent, stepparent, cohabitating,
or in some cases relative or non relative guardian homes.
You take a mother. I always say this to my kids,
and I hope they've heard it. You never know, right,
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but I've said this a million times. I can never
love my children more than loving their mother. If it's
too late and already divorced, I'm not beating up on you.
But if if you're struggling right now and you're trying
to weigh the pros and cons of maybe getting separated
or maybe getting divorced, and you've got kids involved, it's
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time to put yourself in the very back seat. If
you want to put your children first, you stay married. Instinctively,
there's nothing a child wants more instinctively, there's nothing more
influential and grade wise. Notice how you take that out
of the equation. Go to single parent, go to step Now.
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That doesn't mean there's not a single parent out there
listening with kids with as I get it, But by
and large, you take a happily married mother and father
and an intac family out of the picture. In most cases,
you take a's out of the picture. This is not surprising,
as moynihan pointed out so eloquently, because family structure is
perhaps the most important factor in a child's success or
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lack of success in life. Without such structure, children suffer.
But unfortunately, politicians, activists, social commentators, they leave out this
critical role that married parents and intact families play in
helping their children succeed. And the breakdown of the nuclear
family in America is in fact the primary reason that
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there's a gulf between the haves and the have nots.
Or certainly, can I say without any reservation, this is
certainly a missing piece of the puzzle, so paramount that
I guess it's easy to overlook. Robert Rector of the
Heritage Foundation pointed this out in twenty ten when he
wrote that the breakdown in marriage and the rise of
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out of wedlocked births resulted in society of casts. He
found that in the top half of society married college
educated couples raising children, while on the bottom half he
found children raised by single mothers with high school degrees
or less, and so they'll discover that the gap is
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continuing to widen, and did continue to widen. From nineteen
ninety six to twenty nineteen, the odds of a child
from an intac family doing better academically than one from
a fragmented family increased from one point four to five
to one point six y' eight, which is a statistically
significant change. Was sixty percent of children from married families
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receiving mostly A grades compared to just forty seven percent
from families not intact. I think red would agree. When
you look at the chart itself and you go from
nineteen ninety six to twenty nineteen and you see married
birth parent, I mean they just they go in a
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straight line, almost parallel to each other. It is so
intricately attached married family intact rise. Better grades result in
better opportunities, whether it's getting into college or a better college,
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or when you're looking for a job. On the other hand,
lower grades tend to continue the cycle of economic and
societal despair that negatively impact impacts so many young people.
Still found that students from non intact homes tend to
have more disciplinary issues than those from married homes. It
concludes family disintegration is the stubborn fact that severely limits
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the efficacy of even the best education policies. Married parents
tend to be more involved in their child's education and
overall lives. Well, they don't have all those other distractions. Right,
Whose day is it? Where we're meeting out? Children cannot
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benefit from their parents' involvement in their education if there's
no parent capable of being involved. Now again, I just
want to end where I started with. If you're already divorced, hey,
God moves on, Life moves on. But be aware of
this vulnerability. If you're on the brink, think of all
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the costs and think beyond yourself. And if you are
one of those couples, and you know how hard it
is to stay happy, stay married, stay intact as a family,
and keep up with these rotten little brats who won't
do the little few things they have to do. I
tell my kids every day, all you gotta do is
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pay your mother and father and get good grades. This
is as easy as life gets me. That's joking again, No,
that time I wasn't isn't it powerful? Though? And I'm
telling you know, on the wall of quotes that might
be one to hang on to. Huh, Patrick moynahan. Wow,
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the role of the family in shaping character and ability
is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked. That's a
quote of fame right there for you. That's your journey
of discovery. This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Canada's new elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney says they'll be
making a visit to the White House on Tuesday for
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a meeting with President Trump.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
A meeting comes in the wake of tariffs Trump has
imposed on Canada and the President's proposal for the nation
to merge with the US. During a news conference Friday,
Carney said he will fight for the best deal for
Canada and to only accept the best deal. The Prime
minister also noted he had a call with Trump on Wednesday,
which he described as very constructive and said it could
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bring about a potential trade deal. I'm Brian Shook. Real
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Speaker 7 (31:27):
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The new identification requirement also applies when visiting military bases
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and secure federal buildings like courthouses. A real idea is
a state issued driver's license or identification card that meets
federal security standards. Compliant IDs are typically marked with a
star in the uppright corner, though the specific design may
vary by state. If you missed a deadline, a US
passport will get you on a domestic flight.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I'm Lisa Carton. Federal officials say the government will begin
collecting defaulted student loan payments starting today.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
The collection efforts will be the first since the start
of the pandemic. The Trump administration said the debt will
be collected through a Treasury Department program that withholds payments
from tax refunds, wages, and government benefits. The US Education
Department has not collected loan payments since March of twenty twenty.
Official say in the last five year, student that has
risen to over one trillion dollars. I'm Tammy Truhio.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Millions of consumers will be spending money on this Sinko
de Maayo Jim Forbes with how much.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Market Researchers say about seventeen percent of US consumers will
spend at least twenty five dollars on supplies for Cinco
de Mayo, with some spending up to one hundred dollars.
The research shows most of the holiday spending will be
for food and alcohol, and the most popular alcohol purchase
on Cinco de Mayo will be Margarita's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'm Jim Forbes took a long way to what a
bunch of drunks. We're gonna pick a bunch of margaritas today.
That's what we're gonna do. Pacers take come game one
in the Eastern Conference Semifinal. Cavs lose at home, won
twenty one, one twelve to the Pacers. Warriors beat the
Rockets one ozh three to eighty nine. They advanced to
the semi finals. In hockey, it was a heartbreaker. Blues
fell and double overtime four to three to the Jets.
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Jets Stars Game one will be Wednesday. Baseball Cards took
two from the Mets, Tigers Big thirteen to one over
the Angels, and Anaheim Padres shut out the Pirates. Raise
beat the Yankees Guardians five four over the Blue Jays
A's are winning a lot of games, three to two
over the Marlins, d Backs outslugged the Phillies eleven to nine,
Brewers shut out the Cups for ZIP, and the Dodgers
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lost four to three in Atlanta to the Braves. And
Birthdays Today from the Office Clark Duke forty years old
Today singer Adele is thirty seven, and Family Ties actress
Teene They others. That must be why Family Ties was
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We're starting your morning off right, a new way of talk,
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, you man, a lot of noise right there. Seven
minutes after the hour. Welcome to Monday, single watch your persona.
I me what. I don't know how we got So
here's how it goes. Yeah, yesterday, for some reason, did
(00:57):
some shopping and then it was like in between almost
dinner after being gone all day, nobody wanted to really cook,
and we end up at a Mexican restaurant. Now what
do we do for sinkle tomayo? Today? You gotta go back?
Can't go back? Isn't normally Monday? That's a no, no.
You can't eat the same thing two days in a row. Well,
(01:18):
then don't order the vehitas. Get some tacos. How'd you
know we had fijitas? Well, I'm just taking a wild guess. Well,
it was a very nice, nice guest of your today's
Sinkle Demayo May the fifth. Last time I looked, May
is the fifth month? Right, five five twenty five. Now,
back in two thousand and five, we'd have really been
onto something. Five five five pree tennis with more on
(01:40):
why we celebrate Sinko to Mayo as the show goes on,
All right, eight minutes after the hour. Welcome to the
fifth of May twenty twenty five. I am Michael del
Journo on the Aaron streaming live on your iHeartRadio app.
We do have one lister, by the way, doing an experiment.
We don't know why. Oh. In the methodology that rates radio,
you have occurrences of listening, which is called your cume,
(02:03):
total number of listeners, and then the time that they
spend listening. Oh. Roger, of course, probably in no way
has a diary, so I can say this has decided
for two weeks to live our life. This is a
dedicated listener. This this could be something beyond platinum. He
is a glutton for punishment as possible would say so.
(02:26):
And I got an email from him this morning and
he will not be doing any talkbacks this good morning.
Just wanted to drop you a note. This is the
beginning of week two. It's already off to a good start.
I woke up twenty minutes before my alarm clock. Yeah,
that'll begin to happen to you. Is that project or
(02:47):
going on so over the weekend? I was like, listen,
our job is to be a blessing in your life,
not a burden. You're making this a burden. Yeah, I
don't even think Red got here twenty minutes before his alarm.
I'm tested to carry this worse. Roger want no sleep either,
he wants no sleep? Shall get Shall we tell Roger
(03:07):
what he's what he can look forward to? Yea death? Oh?
Can I? This is what you can look forward to, Roger.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
While you guys were texting on Saturday about the Kentucky Derby,
I'd already gone to bed because of what happens during
the week sometimes round.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Don't even get me started on mister Sandman's jockey, who
I don't know what he was doing or trying to
do or thinking about. Before the far turn, he had
an easy inside lane. He decides to go outside, than
another horse forces him further outside, and he drowns in
the in the mud in the stretch. But yes, by
(03:44):
the way, this would be irony, right because it happened
metaphor would be more of a writing. Okay, comparison, right,
I think you would call this an irony. But anyway,
just viral on the internet over the weekend. The irony
that sovereignty beat journalism in twenty twenty five, very similar
(04:07):
to the political landscape we live in. And being Baptist,
I say God has a sense of humor. Yeah, that
we would compare the sovereignty of God to the sovereignty
horse or Donald Trump. Here's outside. It is his name,
proven sovereignty. I I just start by saying, for journalism,
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what we didn't know was how he would respond to
an off track. What we did know is speed of
the race and stamina and ability to close. He's in
the perfect position. He's right out front by a half
a length, spinning around the turn, right in the inside
middle of the track. But sovereignty is flying on the outside,
(04:54):
on the outside.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The two of them right by with the journalism sovereignty
to those down to the last sixteenth of a while,
sovereignty has taken the lead. Journalism has second four the
god Sun, but the ecles third.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But it will be sovereignty to rule. That got a
lot of people's attention. I don't know. I mean, you know,
listen as a as a prognosticata, I would have probably
felt like journalism has the best chance of winning a
triple crown. That can't happen now, obviously can sovereignty. This
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is a great horse. Preakness will probably be the bigger
I would think, challenge for sovereignty where speed can just
make a sprint at it, but we'll see two beautiful
horses coming down the stretch. I mean, you know, if
nothing else, because we don't we don't really do westerns anymore.
I mean, with the exception of the Yellowstone phenomenon, I
(05:55):
know I shouldn't call it Yellowstone when they did three
different ones, but you know what starts have kind of
been gone and with it are you know, our constant
fascination with horses. So I love that the Triple Crown
rolls around once a year to remind us of what
an amazing animal horses. These two athletes coming down the
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stretch covered in mud. Oh, it's beautiful. And they know,
they know that's the part I love the most. They
know it's race days, you know what I mean. They
love to win. You know, sometimes you just don't know.
Does Donald Trump just get off a plane and in
the free thought, you know, or for all we know,
(06:39):
you know, because he only sleeps three hours, you know,
maybe maybe one night Alcatraz Escape from Alcatraz with Clint
Eastwood was on or something. You just don't know with
Donald Trump, right, just all of a sudden on the blue,
We're gonna open Alcatraz. I've wandered the h you know.
And when you're the president, you can get on the
phone or the prison department vomit to reopen out Patraz.
(07:01):
We're gonna make it a big, beautiful nexting. You know,
it's got like a casino on the rock. It's gonna
say Trump and big letters, big letters Trumpetraz, Trump Traz. Yeah,
they're huge. I gonna love a highly respected rock, highly
respected rock. You wonder where this comes from. I we're
(07:22):
kind of what just to do this kind of very
very elementary. We're you know, We're on a roll of
just you know, securing the border, removing the threats, restoring
law and order. We have a way of doing it
with deportation and prisons abroad. Now all of a sudden,
up for that put them on the rock. Here comes
(07:43):
out the treas, which I take personally because my first thought,
this makes me less of an American citizen. If there
is well I've been to obviously, I've been to Churchill
Downs didn't compare, although it stays, and you know where
Secretariat once stood, and or Admiral and some of the
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you know, great horses of all time. I mean, I
have to say, this is terrible. Well, the most moved
I have ever been was the Holocaust Museum in Washington,
d C. Just just blew me away. That was a
(08:26):
life changing day and the two exhibits were extraordinary. That's
the most moved I've ever been. The first time this
is before they split it all up. The first time
I went to the Air and Space Museum was very memorable.
I did not like the Sears Tower observation deck, especially
when everybody wanted to take a picture. You know, they
(08:46):
did a little plexiglass cut out area where you can
go stand and it looks like you're just suspended in
mid air. My hands are sweating right now just reliving that.
But no, I would have to say hands down, Yaga Zoo.
As a child at Universal in Los Angeles, especially coming
(09:07):
out of Jaws and then seeing the mechanical shark, you know,
it's memorable thing. There was consint delas I'm gonna throw
that in there. You're on a bus and all of
a sudden it drives into the water and turns into
a boat. Okay, that's it. But nothing, I mean nothing
came close to being in San Francisco and going to Alcatraz.
It was it is by far. And I have one,
(09:28):
you know, two dreams in my life. One was to
bring my son up the ramp at Wrigley Field, which
I did, and then the other was to take him
to Alcatraz. And that was our original plan for last
year and then again this year, was to go see
the Cubs and the Giants in San Francisco and go
to Alcatraz. And if he does this, I can't go
visit it again. It is I'm telling you, it's just
(09:50):
assuming that he's I guess it's fifty to fifty, right
that he's serious. I think everybody's thinking he's serious. Right
about Alcatraz? What do you think we're in? What are
your thoughts? Are you upratt rogers? What are your thoughts? Well,
there's one way you can visit it, Michael, Well, I'm
not going to do that. Neither of you have been right.
(10:11):
Anybody out there listening that's been to Alcatraz used to
talk back, probably been on the island. But I've been
around it, all right. Well, first, have you seen the
Grand Canyon? Yes, I've been to the Grand k oh
No Alcatraz. No, Alcatraz was better. Oh listen. First of all,
it's one of my favorite movies, Escape from Alcatraz with
Clint East to it. And by the way, the thought
of doing a remake and you could still have Clint
(10:33):
direct it. I get somebody kind of like Clint to
play the role. But imagine, now, you know, Trump Patraz,
escape from trump Petraz, and you know, you got some
guy that goes to prison and there he is with
all these you know, bad ombres who have been stored
up on the rock and he's, you know, trying to escape.
(10:55):
Maybe I'm no one who likes the idea of that movie.
But anyway, make a long story short. You you arrive
at the rock on boat, you get out, you're free
to roam around. You get get a thing of headsets,
which is this is what makes it. Yeah, I think
you have to have an appreciation for the movie because
it's like when I went to Notre Dame the first time,
I wasn't really thinking about Paul Horning. I wasn't really
(11:16):
thinking about New Rockney. I was thinking about the movie Rudy.
I'm at the grod and I'm like, hey, this is
Rudy was lighting candles, you know what I mean. So
you're it's kind of a bizarre thing when you're more
into the movie version. So you're walking around Alcatraz with
these headsets. When you walk into the mess hall, you're
hearing all the you know, the steel glasses and plates
(11:38):
and silverware moving, You're hearing the chatter of the prisoners.
It's like being transported, it really is. They put all
the sound effects in your head. Yeah, and you go
out in the yard experience. Yeah, got in the yard
where people used to get shanked, because you know, you're
not in a top. There's only two places you can
get shanked anymore. Down on the bay. You you can
get shanked at a bar, get down and cut off loosey,
(12:00):
you can still get shanked. You can shank down here
on Broadway in Nashville. My brother had a friend who
got in Thibodeau, got shanked in the rear end while
he was at the urinal. But I mean, you know,
you go out in the yard, you go and then
they they the way they did Alcatraz. Uh, the outer block,
which is where capone was. You would lay in bed
at night and the sound was perfect, and it was
(12:21):
designed in such a way that when it's quiet at night,
you're lying in your bed in the cell and you're
hearing like a couple on a date, oh, you know,
on the wharf area, eating and drinking and giggling and laughing.
And that was part of the torture of bringing back Alcatraz.
Donald Trump, could it mean? And then that movie wouldn't
(12:42):
be terriffed because you you'd want to make it right
at Alcatraz? Oh yeah, of course. So out of the blue,
Donald Trump pits us with Alcatraz reopening at a tariff
on movies made overseas? Is he just kind of vamp
and out.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It works, so well, we're just gonna do them here,
we'll do them there, We'll do it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And if I should say anything bad, what kind of
a host? Do you? Caring only about your little tour
Once every decade we got bad operations on the streets.
If every wants to open up Alcatraz, you find a
new place to go on vacation. I'll get some hate
mail over that. Watch. So here comes Donald Trump out
of the blue, opening up Alcatraz and one hundred percent
tariffs on movies. You know, new little wrinkles, if you will.
(13:30):
I always love to show family matters, and I think
it started with the name and then the notion of
a young Michael J. Fox, you know, in the Reagan years,
as a as a conservative teenager walking around in a
sport coade.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But I love it family matters or family ties? Oh,
family ties? And what was family matters? Family matters was
the cartoon with Peter And oh that ruins the analogy.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Then yeah, let's go with family ties. No, well, it's
the family matters that our journey of discoveries on family matters.
Married parents and strong families equal a students, A students
equal more opportunities broken families. You remember the for decades.
It's better for the kids too. No, it's not broken
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families equal. No, a's less opportunities. It equals stuck in
an economic cycle. You cannot lift America out of its
cycle of poverty without fixing the home that has reared
its head again and along with it, and you have
to resist the surge. If there are there are a lot.
(14:41):
There are several bad teachers, Don't get me wrong, and
I had some of them. Most are really good. Most
really care about our kids, educating them, preparing them for
the next level of education, whether it's going on to
junior high school, going on to high school, going on
to higher education, for citizenry and for the workforce. And
(15:06):
when you get a good teacher, oh make sure they
know it. And Andrew and I were really good about that.
We did. And when you get a bad one sometimes
they make national news. We got a main high school
teacher that just had a meltdown on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I want to thank James. I think it was Austin Austin. Yeah,
Austin Family Matters was the Oracle show. Yes, by the way,
hosts A Game Show down in the game show, Now
did I do that? That was family matters. But we'll
get to that in our journey of discovery real quickly.
This is James.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Morning, Michael. I have to agree with you. I've seen
both the Grand Canyon and Alcatraz. First time, Grand Canyon
thirty thousand feet. Second time I rented a plane because
that fly flew at fifteen hundred feet. But Alcatraz just
the concept was I'm blowing seeing it in person.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, in realizing what it was. I think Trump is
an absolute genius. Listen wor the yard Boy and my
morning show is your morning show with my buddy Michael
del Jorno. Hey, it's Michael. Your morning show can be
(16:23):
heard live each weekday morning on great stations like thirteen
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Wisconsin and one oh four nine The Patriot and Saint Louis, Missouri.
Would love to be a part of your morning routine.
But so glad you're here now, enjoyed the podcast. The
real id deadline is this Wednesday. You've had twenty one years,
(16:45):
but you got till this Wednesday, Trump says that he
is directing the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand
the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, UH that has been closed
for sixty years. I imagine there'd be a little electrical plumbing,
structural touchups needed, bringing all the team from home and
(17:05):
guards television to get it back to its pristine state.
One of those sALS with the mannequin in it would
have to be freshened up. I know for sure. Getting
back to what James was saying, it really is genius.
You want to play this court game with me on deportation?
All right, I'll open up Alcatraz. He just keeps playing poker,
(17:26):
doesn't he. College of Cardinals will soon hold several meetings
at the Vatican to start the process of selecting a
new pope. Crazy story in Brazil where Brazilian police say
they stopped a bomb attack planned it Lady Gaga's weekend
concert on the cop Cabanda Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
(17:48):
The craziest part about the story there were two million fans.
Isn't that crazy? Yeah? I heard about that on the way.
How do you How do you go to a concert too? Million.
It was like I remember HBO did a special one
time with Simon and Garfunk at City Park and there
was like that City Park, Central Park, City Park is
New Orleans. Uh, and there was like two hundred thousand
(18:08):
people and you all I could think of is standing
in the back. You're like a quarter of a mile away.
What does Simon and Garfunk look like? How do you
go to a conder? But where did two million people go?
And how far away are you? And but what a
nightmare that could have been thwarted? Uh? Two people taken
(18:28):
into custody, jury selection and Pete is it Sean? Is
it Diddy? Is it P Diddy? Sean P Diddy? But
I mean I don't know what he goes by now.
I mean, by the way, usually when you're you're in
legal trouble, you get your first, middle and last name right.
And that's why John Wilkes Booth became so famous. Lee Harvey,
this guy's got morening is Sean Ditty Combs. I mean
(18:51):
his name is his name, Sean Cobs, and Diddy is
his middle name. It's how they're referring to him anyway.
His trial starts today and heartbreak for all my friends
in the lou As I mentioned, there's only two things
I wanted the Saint Louis Blues. I wanted the Blues
to take on the Caps that I didn't care who
went on to win the NHL Stanley Cup. But it's
(19:14):
not going to happen. The Jets rallied from behind, forced
in overtime and in double overtime, one three to two
last night, and they advanced. And the season is over
for the Saint Louis Blues. But oh, you gave us
a great ride, Blues. In nineteen sixty five, the late
Daniel Patrick moynihan wrote, the role of the family in
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shaping character and debility is so pervasive as to be
easily overlooked. Wow, isn't that the truth on a lot
of things in life? You know, there's a part of
our brain that you don't even think about, thank God for,
(19:57):
or appreciate that handles the function of getting up and
walking across the room, opening the bathroom door, and going
to the bathroom. It's so shaping, so pervasive as to
be easily overlooked. Most of the profound things in life are.
(20:18):
But what a great quote from Daniel Patrick moynan the
role of the family and shaping care. Could it be
the solution that we haven't found? I mean, has there
been a bigger failure in the history of government than
the War on poverty? Could it be because in the
midst of that, or mental health, because that role of family, crime,
(20:43):
trying to stop crime, drugs and overdoses. Could it be
that the role of the family and shaping character and
the ability is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked.
The family is the basic social unit, he goes on,
of American life. It is the basic socializing unit. By
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and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.
So with a broken home, what are you going to have?
A broken neighborhood, a broken society, a broken culture. We
think we're so much smarter today, and whether it's ancient history,
(21:37):
American history, or even Daniel Patrick moynihan, we're reminded of
just how much blinder we are today, not smarter. Sixty
years later, Moynihan's words still ring true as evidence in
a new report by Nicholas Zil of the Institute for
Family Studies, Zill examines the phenomenon of grade inflation. Oh
(21:57):
you're going to love this story with more students in elementary, medical,
middle and secondary schools receiving A grades. And by the way,
may we say in many cases undeserved. Put an asterisk
by this. This is one of the neatest parts of
the story. I know it sounds like cheating, but it's not.
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In many cases, undeserved in order to keep parents and
administrators happy. Because you do Anna wrong, you do Alex wrong,
you do Nicholas wrong, you get to meet my better
half Andrea. That's why you get to get one of
her beautiful long letters. But that's a part of an
intech family too. Now I can't tell you how. And
(22:42):
I'm the fun parent. I am the quiet, praying and
then outwardly fun parent. In other words, I don't sweat
every little small stuff, and I don't get involved in
a lot of the hormonal drama. But I can tell
(23:03):
you that my kids would not have the grades they
have and would not be having the success now at
the university level that they're having if they didn't have
a mother that nagged every aspect of their life. And
because her husband kept her so secure and so happy,
she had the energy to focus on them and nag
Oh you can't hole No. But I was the product
(23:28):
of the opposite of this, and left to my own weakness.
I'd watch Carson, I'd watch a baseball game, I'd go
kick field goals. I'd play a video game. I wouldn't prepare.
He also found that those students raised in intact married homes.
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This is, by the way, I shouldn't have to do this,
but I will. This whole study is not to isolate humans,
embarrass or criticize anyone who is divorced. If it's happened,
it's happened. Where do we go from there? But the
notion that it's okay or that it's in some way better. Statistically,
(24:17):
on this subject, you might want to take another longer look.
I grew up in a dysfunctional marital family, and I
can tell you it was traumatizing as a child. Seeing
a father leave the home with a suitcase is traumatizing.
(24:37):
And then comes along a culture that wants to make
everybody feel better about their mistakes and suddenly convinces an
entire generation, Oh, the kids will be better, They'll have
two moms and two dads and two homes. No, or
at least for the sake of this journey of discovery,
they won't have A'S, that's for sure. He also found
(24:59):
this students raised in intact married homes we're more likely
to receive A'S than those raised in a single parent, stepparent, cohabitating,
or in some cases relative or non relative guardian homes.
You take a mother. I always say this to my kids,
and I hope they've heard it. You never know, right,
(25:23):
but I've said this a million times. I can never
love my children more than loving their mother. If it's
too late and already divorced, I'm not beating up on you.
But if if you're struggling right now and you're trying
to weigh the pros and cons of maybe getting separated
or maybe getting divorced, and you've got kids involved, it's
(25:45):
time to put yourself in the very back seat. If
you want to put your children first, you stay married. Instinctively,
there's nothing a child wants more instinctively, there's nothing more
influential and grade wise. Notice how you take that out
of the equation. Go to single parent, go to step Now.
(26:05):
That doesn't mean there's not a single parent out there
listening with kids with as I get it, But by
and large, you take a happily married mother and father
and an intac family out of the picture. In most cases,
you take a's out of the picture. This is not surprising,
as moynihan pointed out so eloquently, because family structure is
perhaps the most important factor in a child's success or
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lack of success in life. Without such structure, children suffer.
But unfortunately, politicians, activists, social commentators, they leave out this
critical role that married parents and intact families play in
helping their children succeed. And the breakdown of the nuclear
family in America is in fact the primary reason that
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there's a gulf between the haves and the have nots.
Or certainly, can I say without any reservation, this is
certainly a missing piece of the puzzle, so paramount that
I guess it's easy to overlook. Robert Rector of the
Heritage Foundation pointed this out in twenty ten when he
wrote that the breakdown in marriage and the rise of
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out of wedlocked births resulted in society of casts. He
found that in the top half of society married college
educated couples raising children, while on the bottom half he
found children raised by single mothers with high school degrees
or less, and so they'll discover that the gap is
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continuing to widen, and did continue to widen. From nineteen
ninety six to twenty nineteen, the odds of a child
from an intac family doing better academically than one from
a fragmented family increased from one point four to five
to one point six y' eight, which is a statistically
significant change. Was sixty percent of children from married families
(27:53):
receiving mostly A grades compared to just forty seven percent
from families not intact. I think red would agree. When
you look at the chart itself and you go from
nineteen ninety six to twenty nineteen and you see married
birth parent, I mean they just they go in a
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straight line, almost parallel to each other. It is so
intricately attached married family intact rise. Better grades result in
better opportunities, whether it's getting into college or a better college,
(28:37):
or when you're looking for a job. On the other hand,
lower grades tend to continue the cycle of economic and
societal despair that negatively impact impacts so many young people.
Still found that students from non intact homes tend to
have more disciplinary issues than those from married homes. It
concludes family disintegration is the stubborn fact that severely limits
(29:05):
the efficacy of even the best education policies. Married parents
tend to be more involved in their child's education and
overall lives. Well, they don't have all those other distractions. Right,
Whose day is it? Where we're meeting out? Children cannot
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benefit from their parents' involvement in their education if there's
no parent capable of being involved. Now again, I just
want to end where I started with. If you're already divorced, hey,
God moves on, Life moves on. But be aware of
this vulnerability. If you're on the brink, think of all
(29:49):
the costs and think beyond yourself. And if you are
one of those couples, and you know how hard it
is to stay happy, stay married, stay intact as a family,
and keep up with these rotten little brats who won't
do the little few things they have to do. I
tell my kids every day, all you gotta do is
(30:11):
pay your mother and father and get good grades. This
is as easy as life gets me. That's joking again, No,
that time I wasn't isn't it powerful? Though? And I'm
telling you know, on the wall of quotes that might
be one to hang on to. Huh, Patrick moynahan. Wow,
(30:36):
the role of the family in shaping character and ability
is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked. That's a
quote of fame right there for you. That's your journey
of discovery. This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chrono.
Canada's new elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney says they'll be
making a visit to the White House on Tuesday for
(30:58):
a meeting with President Trump.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
A meeting comes in the wake of tariffs Trump has
imposed on Canada and the President's proposal for the nation
to merge with the US. During a news conference Friday,
Carney said he will fight for the best deal for
Canada and to only accept the best deal. The Prime
minister also noted he had a call with Trump on Wednesday,
which he described as very constructive and said it could
(31:21):
bring about a potential trade deal. I'm Brian Shook. Real
ID deadline is Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Brace yourself if you're flying in the coming days and
weeks for long lines and delays at the airport. Why
does it matter? Because Wednesday, May seventh is the first
day a real ID compliant license or another acceptable document
is needed to board a commercial aircraft in the US.
The new identification requirement also applies when visiting military bases
(31:48):
and secure federal buildings like courthouses. A real idea is
a state issued driver's license or identification card that meets
federal security standards. Compliant IDs are typically marked with a
star in the uppright corner, though the specific design may
vary by state. If you missed a deadline, a US
passport will get you on a domestic flight.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I'm Lisa Carton. Federal officials say the government will begin
collecting defaulted student loan payments starting today.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
The collection efforts will be the first since the start
of the pandemic. The Trump administration said the debt will
be collected through a Treasury Department program that withholds payments
from tax refunds, wages, and government benefits. The US Education
Department has not collected loan payments since March of twenty twenty.
Official say in the last five year, student that has
risen to over one trillion dollars. I'm Tammy Truhio.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Millions of consumers will be spending money on this Sinko
de Maayo Jim Forbes with how much.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Market Researchers say about seventeen percent of US consumers will
spend at least twenty five dollars on supplies for Cinco
de Mayo, with some spending up to one hundred dollars.
The research shows most of the holiday spending will be
for food and alcohol, and the most popular alcohol purchase
on Cinco de Mayo will be Margarita's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'm Jim Forbes took a long way to what a
bunch of drunks. We're gonna pick a bunch of margaritas today.
That's what we're gonna do. Pacers take come game one
in the Eastern Conference Semifinal. Cavs lose at home, won
twenty one, one twelve to the Pacers. Warriors beat the
Rockets one ozh three to eighty nine. They advanced to
the semi finals. In hockey, it was a heartbreaker. Blues
fell and double overtime four to three to the Jets.
(33:27):
Jets Stars Game one will be Wednesday. Baseball Cards took
two from the Mets, Tigers Big thirteen to one over
the Angels, and Anaheim Padres shut out the Pirates. Raise
beat the Yankees Guardians five four over the Blue Jays
A's are winning a lot of games, three to two
over the Marlins, d Backs outslugged the Phillies eleven to nine,
Brewers shut out the Cups for ZIP, and the Dodgers
(33:49):
lost four to three in Atlanta to the Braves. And
Birthdays Today from the Office Clark Duke forty years old
Today singer Adele is thirty seven, and Family Ties actress
Teene They others. That must be why Family Ties was
on my mind. We're all in this together. This is
your morning show with Michael Ndel Choano
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