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We're in this together. This is your morning show with Michael Del Turner. Did you just scoot over just a little bit? Make sure there's room for everything to sit down. We'd like to welcome Talk Radio 1320 and 99.1 FM WJAS in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Would you like me to do my two tickets to Pittsburgh, Joe? Sure. Go right ahead. You want to go on vacation, not unemployment. Careful. You can do it once. We're thrilled to be on in Pittsburgh. Also, news radio, WJPF in Marion, Carbondale, Illinois. That's actually two stations, same name. Welcome. Welcome to both of you, Carbondale, Illinois, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Can't have your morning show without your voice. It's not just named after you. It features you. So suffer not thy audience unto thee. Woody is in... He's in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to the gerrymandering scam for additional representation, the other big thing is the census and the inclusion of illegals in the census to gain representative seats in Congress. That needs to end. I really think Trump needs to focus on that and getting that ruled unconstitutional. Yeah, well, I brought that up in our conversation with David Sinati. Fred also joining us this morning. Good morning, Michael. Hey, regarding the Midami race, I feel like most rational people have been trying to warn New Yorkers of what they're flirting with. But at this point, however, I think we just go ahead and let them touch the stove. I don't think there's any other way to reach them. It's going to be a hard lesson learned. I hope it doesn't happen, but I'm afraid that's where we're headed. I love the expression, let him touch the stove. Well, I don't think we really have much of a say. We're watching, and the hand is getting very close to the stove. Real quickly, final one is for Big John. This question goes out to David Guy Benson. So the White House the last few days have been touting gas prices, how low they are. But oil per barrel is up $5 in the last two days. So what is happening there? That's a good question. Let's ask him. David Guy Benson is not only a theologian, he is an economist. He is also a market expert. I first saw him on Fox Business, and we're delighted to have him every Thursday. He is from the Guy Benson Financial Group, and he presides over the dividend cafe at dividendcafe.com. So what do you make of that? Oil, that's been a big conversation this morning. What do you make a big John's question? What's going on with oil? Oil prices aren't up. They're way down over the last month and six weeks and so forth. And that's the reason gas prices are down. So oil today is up five and a half percent because of the president's long overdue announcement of sanctions on Russia. But the reason gas prices are down primarily is because oil prices are down. They're down about...

$15 a barrel since the beginning of the year. And then the other piece that contributes to gasoline prices, besides the price of oil, is refiner margins and refiner prices have come in as well. So that's pushed gas prices lower. But remember, supply is one element, demand is another. fear of a softening economy, worsening employment. You know, it's been a very volatile year in the economy, and that's put a little bit of downward pressure on demand as well. So there's a couple reasons gas prices are lower. But the main one is the fact that oil fuel. Yeah, but it. No, no, not all some are good. Just remember, the lowest gas prices, anybody listening right now has seen since the early 1990s were in 2008. So if anybody thought that was a great thing, let me know. What was 2008's number, by the way? Well, gas prices hit something in the ones because oil prices had hit down, you know, into the 20s and 30s from over 100. But your point was all for bad reasons. I think right now we just did this last hour. In my business, Michael, you don't have to explain why 2008 was a bad thing. I just don't know. It's just kind of like intuitively there, you know, that 2008 was a pretty bad year. Yes, it was a pretty bad year for a lot of us. All right, so we did the numbers, and the highest we saw was 380, I believe, Red, and the lowest we saw was 260. And we kind of focus on gas because that's one of the things, you know, the president really ran on inflation and the economy. It's the economy, stupid. And of course, gas also affects... how the groceries get there, and so the cost of groceries, and there might be an opportunity for the president to address these things a little bit better, but he's been focused on other things this year. I've been using this analogy all week long day, but the president has proven once and for all. No president in the future can ever preside over a border crisis. If you do, everybody's going to look right at the White House, because Donald Trump has proven once and for all. You can secure the border. You can get one point, one and a half million people to self-deport. You can find and deport the other half million. You can have a secured border. You brought up something with oil that has never talked about, and that is the refinement capacity. Is that still an opportunity for America to invest in that could have a lasting effect at keeping these prices down? Well, remember, prices being down, this is so funny. The president's supporters in Texas and Oklahoma are not asking prices to come down. No, of course. Because they're getting got a business in the Permian Basin if they were to come down another $10 a barrel. You know, your Chevrons and Exxons can still profitably drill in the high 50s. The low 50s still for Chevron Exxon, it gets a lot tighter margins for many other producers. You get below 50, they're losing money. So prices have been quite low, you know, relative to that brief period in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine when they went above 100, and that didn't last too long. But Biden kind of cheated a little by depleting the emergency reserves.

Now, one thing I would want to ask, because a lot of Republicans were very critical of Biden for doing that, I was one of them. But I would like to ask this administration why they haven't filled and he haven't backed up. I think that we need to be doing that. The president is so good about allowing production. So what we have right now is an energy policy that is allowing LNG export terminals, liquefied natural gas to be built. We desperately need that. Biden has stopped it. We have a president right now who has eliminated a lot of the regulatory burdens for production. We desperately need that. The question is not refiner margins, which are not something the federal government's going to have a lot of say in, but the steel and aluminum tariffs that represent an input cost to producers. And it's only a matter of time until they have to turn the spigots down. We're not building a lot of new rigs. Production is not higher right now than it was in the Biden years. And so the reason is mostly market driven, though. It was regulatory. with the Biden years, and the president has eliminated that, but now it's market-driven. So what we're going to do is end up politicizing this in a way that is sort of justified because there can be really bad political things that influence energy policy negatively and good things that influence it positively. But that's not universal. There are other factors outside of politics like market forces, like China demand. You know, China's economic health is a lot. lot to do with global oil supplies. So there's just a lot of factors to go into this. I would really prefer, as someone who supports the president's energy policies, that we focus on what the president can control, which is deregulation. So refilling the reserve and having excess that we can export. That should probably be the focus more. Yeah, now refilling the reserves is probably going to make prices go up a little bit. And so, you know, people have to question if they're willing for that to happen. If Biden were president, they'd be saying yes. I know that is a fact. David Guy Benson is joining us. He presides over the dividend cafe more on that in a moment. Now my question. Give me one good reason why. And I could use myself as an example. I try to stay out of debt. By the way, there's good debt, bad debt, but bad debt. Stay out of bad debt. And right now I'm tipped at about 8,000. And I'm obsessed with it. It's got me so anxious and I'm so upset over it. And yet my country's $38 trillion in debt. And I'm not losing a wink of sleep over that. Give me one good reason why $38 trillion in debt is not something to be scared of death of. Well, for one thing, why would you be scared to death of something you have no control over?

In what biblical context would that be appropriate for you to lose sleep over something that you have no control over? So there's your get out of jail free card, my friend. Theologically, people are not supposed to be worried about things that they can't control. And as it turns out from scripture, there's a heck of a lot of things we can't control. Now, if you mean recognize it as a concern and believe it needs attention and so forth, I'm only responding specifically to losing sleep. I really want you. the rest you need, my friend. No, I'm not. But, you know, the fact of the matter is that revenue and assets matter as a numerator when thinking about debt as a denominator. And so, you know, Apple has a heck of a lot more debt than you do. And I think Apple is doing a lot better than you are. And the reason is because their assets and their revenues are so high. relative to the debt. The thing we should be worried about when we think about the country's debt is that our debt to GDP ratio is double what it is historically been and more than double what I would like it to be, especially in peacetime. So make more spend less, right? Well, I mean, the GDP is not government revenue. That's one of the reasons I will never stop arguing when the president talks about tariffs making us money. Because this is not what GDP is, is tax revenue. Tax revenue comes out of GDP. It is money that comes out of the private sector, which is where economic growth is born. And so I don't believe that we're talking about governmental revenue. We're talking about the economy. And of course, income and capital gain taxes. are going higher when the economy is doing better. There's more wage earners earning more money. So you actually grow the tax base when you grow the economic well-being and prosperity of the country. So that's what I would. Yeah, I was going to say, welcome to the mind of JFK in 1962 trying to explain the people that when you lower taxes or when you raise taxes, that's money out of the economy. In fact, the best way to fund government and grow the economy is the same. Less taxes. Trusting people morally to keep more of their money as they spend it. Businesses grow. As they grow, they hire. As they grow and hire, people spend more. And that's actually where taxation comes in and funds the government better. So we'd like to raise taxes to save government. What I meant was as an economy, create more things which create jobs. Or your government should be spending less, not more, but the two go hand in hand. The main question is, what should we be more concerned with the government shut down 23 days or that were $38 trillion in debt? Maybe that's the better way to ask it. Is the government still shut down? I didn't even know that.

Nobody cares. I mean, nobody cares. It's a total side show. It's total theatrical nonsense. I think that if Republicans blame the Democrats and Democrats blame the Republicans. And in this particular case, as a matter of fact, it's the Republicans who are right because the Democrats are who did shut down the government. But I'm not sitting here being partisan about that because the Republicans have done it four or five times. And I thought they were wrong every single time they did it. So this isn't a blame casting thing. It's just the government shut down and nobody cares. So, you know, at some point when the different political parties realize no one cares, I've already told you what I believe is going to happen is they're fighting over the subsidies out of the Obamacare legislation that were extended in the COVID moment that are set to go away at the end of the year. And I believe that the Republicans are going to give them an extension. But they just now don't want to look like they're doing it as part of this shutdown. So it's really gross. But that's what happens when you don't want to win an argument. Yep. Every week, I love reading the Dividend Cafe piece that you write. What's tomorrow on the dividendcafe.com? You know, there's a lot of talk about index funds and how popular indexing has become and whether or not it's created any new risks for investors. And so I do a really deep dive into the state of just simply buying the S&P 500. What does it look like? How is it different than our parents indexing, to use the expression? It's a really interesting Divacepa. I'm looking forward to people reading it. Dividendcafe.com, David Guy Benson. Notice I got slapped by the theologian and a little bit roughed up by the economist and money whiz. David, as always, thank you for your time every week. God bless you. All in love, my friend. All in love. You got it. This is your morning show with Michael Del Chon. Good morning, Michael. I found your conversation with David Zinnati about the economy interesting. Here in Youngstown, our gas prices can vary day-to-day week-to-week, anywhere from $2.50 a gallon to $3.50 a gallon. Really crazy. Although, of course, the... prices in the grocery store seem to be level. The products in this country travel on diesel fuel. Nobody ever talks about that. And that price for diesel has barely moved. Love hearing from you. Can't have your morning show without your voice. Use that talkback button on your iHeart radio app. Great to get your reaction and feedback. It was David Guy Benson. Although we did talk a little bit about the economy with David Zanadi as well. The head of NATO met with the president. What's it all about? The meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Ruto was announced after a possible summit between Trump and Vladimir Putin was canceled by Trump, who called it a waste of time. And we've had some very good discussions today, and things are going along pretty well as regarding Ukraine, Russia.

We thought it would be a little bit easier. That's turned out to be tougher than the Middle East. Trump continues to press Vladimir Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war and announce sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies on Wednesday. Mark Rutte said NATO is ready to help Trump bring an end to the war. I'm Mark Nefield. Sean Diddy Combs had a near-death experience in prison. A longtime friend of Diddy's tells the Daily Mail that an inmate armed with a Shiv snuck into Diddy's cell. with a hip-hop mogul waking up to a knife to his throat. Diddy's lawyer mentioned the incident during the sentencing hearing, saying a guard stopped anything from escalating. Combs was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after being convicted on two counts of violating the man act. I'm Jim Rup. I'm Jim Schultz in Tampa, and my morning show is your morning show with Michael Dilljourner. Picture this. You just got a romantic beachfront massage. The fun is flowing. The relaxation is real. And each drink tastes like a well-earned reward. This is when it hits you. That Myrtle moment. It's the second everything clicks. When you realize Myrtle Beach is more than a getaway, it's right where you belong. Don't just daydream about it. Find your own Myrtle Moment at Visit Myrtlebeach.com. This is Ashley Akenedy from the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast. Ben, I've been reflecting a lot lately on how many big life moments our listeners have experienced with us. Yeah, it's pretty wild. They've watched us go from dating shows to engagements, weddings, babies, buying homes. Every stage comes with new decisions. The milestones are the fun part. But the planning... is where things get real. That's why Klarna stands out. Klarna gives people smarter tools to help manage everyday money with flexible ways to pay, cashback that builds automatically, everything in one place, and support that makes everyday decisions feel less overwhelming. Since life moves so fast, the right tools can help you feel more confident. Download the Klarna app today or visit clarna.com to learn more. California resident loans made her arranged pursuant to a California finance law license and MLS number 13533190, Clara balance account required to be eligible for cashback points, limitations, terms, and conditions apply. I'm Glen Washington, host of Snap Judgment from KQED. Every week, Snap drops you inside someone's biggest decision. The kind of decision you can only make once. With everything on the line, what do you believe? What do you want? And what would you risk to get it? Find out. Snap Judgment. New episodes every Thursday, wherever you get your podcast. Amazon Health AI presents painful thoughts. I, um... I can't stop scratching my downtown. Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud. There's no question too embarrassing for Amazon Health AI. Chat your symptoms and get virtual care 24-7. Health care just got less painful.

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This one I'm in awe of. I mean, this makes Kamala Harris look polished. Abigail Spanberger, complaining that she has to take the time to answer questions about Jay Jones, a nutbag running for Attorney General who wants to put bullets in the speaker's head and watch his wife hold her dead children. And this guy should be so gone. And she doesn't want to take the time to answer any questions, but she still endorses him. If I'm being very honest, we are three weeks away from an election in Virginia. I have worked tirelessly for two years running for this office. I announced in November 2023. The fact that I, and I say this with all due respect because, you know, I think it's a fair thing for you to ask about, the fact that I have to spend even a moment's time. Talking about somebody else's text messages from years ago, rather than what I want to do as governor, is something that I am deeply unhappy about. She's deeply unhappy. And yet you endorse him. They wouldn't be asking this question if you didn't endorse him and maintain your endorsement. But she can't waste the time the seconds it takes to acknowledge that. But watch six minutes. First of all, Katie Kirk, it's so sad. She's sitting in her living room. She just can't handle retirement. She's still playing the character, Katie Kirk, doing these interviews. And she asks, Nothing Burger, a simple question. About transgenders in youth sports. Start the clock. On a real issue that has nothing to do with a text message and the six minute word salad. And you tell me if you hear an answer, let alone a leader, anywhere in this. In this race and in other races. And what are your thoughts on youth sports allowing trans athletes to participate? Well, I think that we see, and I mean, it's about $30 million worth of attack ads against me related to trans youth. have run so far. And there's more ad buys in the future, some of them about this, most of them about this. And I think the reason that we have seen that Republicans continue to use the issue of trans kids or trans kids in sports participation as an attack is, you know, there's multiple levels of it. One, I think that broadly speaking, every pundit after the 2024 election,

you know, at least in part attribute the Democratic loss to that one particular ad that spoke about, you know, the sort of infamous they, them, ad, if you will. And so I think the takeaway from the 24 election for some folks was that that was, you know, a really potent ad. And Certainly my opponent is trying to, and even copied some of the language, you know, notably the quote unquote, you know, is for. I can't waste any more of my show with this. She never answers the question. I mean, I don't know what's worse. That or the 18 seconds of smiling. With Zohran Mamdani in the debate. And boy, did that get fiery. The final New York City mayor's race debate last night, Como, Zohran Mamdani, and Curtis Sliwa. Let's start with Andrew Cuomo. Just by their sexual orientation, isn't that a basic violation of human rights? I think you get for questions.

My politics is consistent, and my politics is built on a belief in human rights for all people. And that extends to queer and trans New Yorkers, and it extends to queer and trans Ugandans. And had I known that the first deputy minister was the architect of that legislation, I would not have taken that photo. And yet I also know... That this constant attempt to smear and slander me is an attempt to also distract from the fact that unlike myself, you do not actually have a platform or a set of policies to protect those same New Yorkers here. All you have are the insults that you have at every single opportunity you have. That's it. This is that awkward smile moment. Zohran Mamdani tries to pull a Abigail Spanberger and not answer a question. And the other two candidates, including the moderators, awkwardly, tried to force him. But he just kept smiling. It was reference to the three housing-related charter amendment questions. I know Mr. Andrew Cuomo is on the record as saying he favors them. We just heard Mr. Curtis Sliwa say that he's against them. Where do you stand on those? I'm appreciative that those measures will be on the ballot and that New Yorkers will be able to cast their votes for them. I know that we desperately need to build more housing in this city. And I also know that the jobs we create in the building of that housing should be good jobs as well. What a political answer? What is your opinion, Zohran Mamdani? Come on. Yes or no? What is your opinion? Yes or no, Zohran Mamdani? politician. I got it. You know what answer? Just sits there and smile. Where was the debate at? Ph. H. Black? Two people appealing for the Republican Party's votes and myself. And that he finally, after 18 seconds, that's two people trying to appeal to Republican votes. Curtis Sliwa did get involved. This must have made Big John happy. Listen. I've heard the both of them again fighting like kids in their schoolyard. Zohran Mamdani, your resume could fit on a cocktail napkin. And Andrew, your failures could fill a public school library in New York City. And meanwhile, the question is, if Sleeva were to drop out, what would that do to the race? Does he need to drop out? Are the polls accurate? Are we about to have a socialist, communist, Islamist, mayor of our largest city? And what impact will that have on the midterm elections and the presidential election in two more years? Anything else you would like to do on microphone, Red? Perhaps vomit? I did that one time. Why is Nancy here? Shut up. I don't know. She just appears. This was another great moment. This is the one. They replaced the sign language girl, I guess, because probably was a different. This was Spectrum News.

And when they start fighting, she's making the mean faces and pointing each way. I was very distracted by that. But this was another heated exchange. Let me ask you a related question, Mr. Andrew Cuomo. Many New Yorkers have serious grievances with Israel and the way the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu has conducted the war in Gaza and expanded settlements in the West Bank. What would you say to and how would you handle New Yorkers who are in the streets, if you were mayor, protesting the actions of the Benjamin Netanyahu government? Fine. That's your right. Protest, demonstrate, disagree. God bless America. God bless New York City. And there is no doubt that there's two sides on what's going on, and the passions are very high. That doesn't justify anti-Semitic behavior in New York. It doesn't justify having a Jewish population that feels unprotected in New York. It doesn't justify leaders who stoke the flames of hatred against Jewish people, which is what Zohran Mamdani does in my opinion. All right, so this is where. It all is. I don't know. I can't fathom who's left living in New York City or what's driving, what issues are driving this. It's a pure attempted pandering. Shut up. Free buses, free convenience stores, you know, free child care. It's a pure pander. I don't know that if I was analyzing the debate itself, how much ground Curtis Sliwa gained. He clearly made a run at increasing his numbers, but the exchanges between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani to reach those Democrats if there was any discrediting maybe some leftist Jewish vote that might not feel as comfortable with him. One final heated exchange. Once again, the architect of raised the age, Andrew Cuomo, the apprentice to him, Johan. It's personal for me. My oldest son, Anthony, last October, was the victim of a vicious gang assault that could have killed him. And what happened to these juveniles? cut free because they went to family court, not criminal court. So how can both of you look at me? I almost lost my oldest son to gang violence, and the perpetrators went to family court and got a little pet on the wrist and was sent home to do it again and again. No, we need to start charging juveniles who commit violent crime in criminal court, and I'll appoint... Criminal court judges who follow the law and don't just release them because of no cash bail. I mean, I thought, you know, it's by far Slee was best performance. I could break into Johnny Mathis. Too much, too little, too late to ever. And by the way, just to aggravate one of my listeners, I can't go a show without a Stephen A. Smith moment.

This does not mean that Stephen A. Smith and I have the same biblical view, worldview, political view, policy views. It just means his view of someone like Jasmine Crockett or the dysfunctional. And I think it's a combination of dysfunctional over hyperpartisan politics and the matrix and the social dilemma that we're all living in. I just like how he sensibly looks at Jasmine Crockett's decision to maybe run for Senate after redistricting. A senator? And to do what? Listen, I thought it was worth being in sounds of the day. But how Jasmine Crockett chooses to express herself, I'm like, is that going to help your district in Texas? Aren't you there to find a way to get stuff done as opposed to just being an impediment to what Trump wants? How much work goes into that? I'm just going to go off about Trump, cuss them out every chance I get, say the most derogatory incendiary things imaginable, and that's my day's work. That ain't work. And now she wants to do it in the club of 100. Well, there's a reason she's not, she's looking at that Senate race. They've redrawn her district lines that she could never win with a reasonable district line. How she thinks that's going to translate at the state level. Good luck. And that's your sounds of the day. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? People who majored in online activism with a minor in puberty box. They're getting a little bit yippy. Many of you in the media clearly miss the art of the deal. Just because it's going to work out. A new survey says that the majority of Americans are planning to just live off Social Security. How's that going to work? Rory's got the final story next. Doctors call it weight cycling. You may call it yo-yoing. Half of Americans do it. And if you do it enough, you're at risk of diabetes, liver damage, heart attack, and stroke. Weight cycling is like when you lose 10 pounds and then you gain it back. Then you lose 10 again. Then you gain back 15, 20. Put you at risk of these diseases. It's very straining on your organs. Bottom line, we need help with weight cycling. And I got a great way. We all three take it. You're going to love it. Non-prescription lien, created by doctors. Lean is an oral supplement. It's not a GLP injectable, and the science is impressive. Targeted its weight loss in three powerful ways, lean will help you maintain healthy blood sugar levels. For those of you, they're on the line of being diabetic. Helps control appetite and cravings so you slowly lose weight that stays off. And it helps you burn fat by converting it to energy. That feels great and burning fat helps you keep weight off. So if you want to lose meaningful weight, at a healthy pace and keep it off, add lean to your diet and exercise lifestyle.

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