07-23-26 YMS HR3 What to stop worrying about and start worrying about in our economy, sounds of the day and AI gone wild!

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Southeast Louisiana and Texas. And the Secret Service is warning. It's had to launch more than 10,000 investigations. We're only a little over halfway through the year due to the increase in threats. A reminder for all of us to continue to pray for the president's safety and security. You know, I was thinking just the other day about the difference between take a caring son, staring at a heart monitor in a hospital. And the view of the heart monitor. And you hang on every little line and you're wondering, well, that doesn't look normal or that looks normal. And how different the view must be for a trained cardiologist. And I think that's what drew me to David Guy Benson. Now, I didn't understand it at the time. I just knew I'm going to need to walk very closely with someone who is really smart, really wise. really accessible to help me understand things for a coming season. I knew very difficult economic times are coming. Now that I'm in it more, it's far more narrative than reality. But last week, our economist David Guy Benson in his dividend cafe did the five things he's most worried about and the five things he's least worried about. It really confirmed why I knew we would need him and also impacted the things I'm now worried about. Usually, I love that David is able to explain these things in a way we can understand. That doesn't make us dumb. It just means we have different areas of expertise. And we're all exposed to things that we anecdotally are feeling or things that we're hearing from people that we trust who maybe have different wheelhouses than the economy as well. So it's nice to kind of discern these things together. Now, some of them, because he's a very smart person. are way over my head. And it's like when you're with a doctor, I need you to kind of speak English. There was some of that in this, but I want to break down big picture and in a way we can understand the five things that really have our economist and money was worried and the five things that don't. And watch how different it is from narrative and maybe what you're worried about. David, good morning. Well, good morning, Michael. Good to be with you. Well, you can see I consumed it as best I could understand it. And I hope the setup gives you my heart for it. Start, and I just would say, because some of it was very, very heady. I was not an economics major by any stretch. And most of what I've learned, I've learned from you and from some other great economic minds. And I don't necessarily get it. I try to keep up and get it. But when you were laying out your five things you're most worried about and five things you're least worried about, what did you see as the biggest difference compared to narrative or what most people think they should be worried about? Well, first of all, I just want to tell you that you don't need to worry that you didn't major in economics. Had you studied economics in college, it would have made everything much, much worse. Harder.

Oh, you're just going to end with the joke? I mean, but yeah, that's true. The same would be true for communications and journalism. I could go on and on. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm joking at all, but I'll leave it there. Look, what I was writing about was from an investor standpoint, there are narratives out there. And I wanted the ones that I believe are not concerning to be highlighted and the ones that are. But the problem is some of the ones in my list are not necessarily prevalent narratives. And so it's not ever. a purposeful contrarian approach or iconoclastic approach. It's never that I'm trying to go be against the grain. It's just that where there is truth telling to be done, it sometimes may be against the grain. And I think that when you look at some of those issues I brought up last week, there a lot of the narratives we see formed right now, Michael, and you and I talk about this a lot, is that they're formed for political purpose. And that's the beauty of investing is that I have been professionally managing money through the entirety of the George W. Bush two terms, the Barack Obama two terms, and then we've been trading off one terms between Trump and Biden. And I have never, for the vantage point of what I think is best for clients, changed my view. on investment or wisdom so that it could align with who's in office or a partisan leaning or something to that effect. You just can't do that. It's career suicide. It's a violation if I do sherry duty. You're going to make less money. Just a lot of bad things will happen. What I'm getting at, Michael, is that I don't have to be a partisan hack when I manage money. And I think a lot of people right now, their narratives in the economy are rooted to partisanship. I'd like to think that what I tried to do last week was devoid of such political blindness. Yeah, and it's, again, the dividend cafe, you go, by the way, you can go to it, it's still up and read it, the five things that he's most worried and least worried about. And I encourage you to do that. You break it all down in great detail. Broad picture, knowing or guessing what our listeners are most worried about, that you're least worried about. What would you identify? Well, I think a lot of people are worried about jobs in the AI moment. And my argument is that right now, jobs are not hurting from the AI moment. And that when they do, I think it is going to be specific to certain areas, but not macro. In other words, I don't buy the narrative that 25% of our country is going to lose its job and never get another one. And I think a lot of that fear-mongering is not only economically naive. It's political, but it's politically motive. Absolutely, absolutely. And counterintuitively, some of that fearmongering is being done by the AI companies themselves.

And so I think that there's a lot of positioning being done to try to create a sort of too big to fail apparatus around the AI companies. The other issue is the inflation stuff. And that's when you and I have already spent so much time talking about week by week where I just can't stand. You know, I'm on Fox a lot. And I get to talk about it for three minutes or five minutes. And it's a topic that sometimes takes more time. It just does. Of course. But I think housing and I think food prices and I think energy prices versus the overall inflation level, these are kind of different conversations. And I try to unpack that better in Dividing Cafe. David Guy Benson is joining us, our economist and MoneyWiz. All right, for those average people listening right now, what are they not worried about that you're most worried about? Well, I'm not sure that people necessarily appreciate how singular economic growth is right now. And what I mean by that is that we really do not have a lot going on other than AI build out, compute. cloud infrastructure, data center, all those things are connected to the same theme. And that is not to say that there's this big thing going on where all these companies are using AI and changing goods and services. That stuff should be coming later. I fully expect it will, but that's not even on the table yet. What's on the table now is just everyone preparing for it and believing that there's a shortage of power, a shortage of compute capacity, a need to build out for it. And all of a sudden, companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Other companies that don't have any money are committing hundreds of billions. an AI, trillions of dollars. And every single thing seems to be interconnected to this singular theme. And I believe the last year, the economy basically would have had zero percent economic growth if it weren't for data center. So I'm not suggesting neighborhoods that are anti-data center become pro data center for the sake of the whole economy. No, but it's just the vulnerability of not being diversified, right? That's right. That's exactly right. You hit it on the head. We're not diversified. And so here's my criticism of the left. All of their Luddite anti-economic growth narratives are doing great damage. And here's my criticism, not of the right, but of the Trump right. The tariffs have absolutely done damage to American importers and the other elements of the economy that are non-AI. I mean, data's clear as could be. I want to see a policy portfolio that embraces economic growth, not just in AI, but across the spectrum. One quick one, because I anecdotally, I told the story I was golfing with three engineers, which, as you know, I have nothing in common with. One was a electrical engineer. The other was a mechanical engineer. And so, you know, I was learning a lot. Because the conversation began with when I was in college, everybody was majoring in engineering. I mean, my roommate was.

a mechanical engineer major. He ended up being a pastor. The other friend was an electron. I said, I remember everybody like three out of four were in some form of engineering major. And I said, I remember thinking at that time, and I'm only 17 years old, yeah, I hope there's enough job for all these people. They all seem to be majoring in the same thing. And that's when they launched in to how the AI data centers has just been taking. an overcrowded and you know there's not a lot of building going on outside of that and now it's become like a boom so it was anecdotal but you know part of me just kind of on the outside seeing bits and pieces of things how is AI different from when the dot com was going and going strong and everybody was jumping on in other words is there a bubble developing that could burst Very much so. And there's a lot of similarities. And I want to caution people that will say, oh, no, no, no, this AI thing's different. These hyper-scaler companies, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, meta, they make hundreds of billions of dollars where dot com was all about pets.com and these other joke companies. No, no, no. The dot-com moment, yes, you had pets.com. It didn't even go public until late 99 or early 2000. The biggest carnage in the dot-com moment was the build-out of fiber optics, the build-out of infrastructure, the pick and shovel companies necessary. They got over-invested in, and then they down 99%, 95%. Because, again, we rightly identified a new opportunity, rightly identified. identified a new need, over-invested, wrongly invested, and then had to purge out the malinvestment. I have no doubt in my mind it's going to happen again, but I don't know exactly when, what, where, the particulars. But you cannot have this kind of mania and craze and not end up in a bubble. It just is outside of human nature. dividend cafe it's a must read every week the five things last week the five things that have david the most worried and least worried and how it will awaken what you worry about and how you understand and how you invest it's very powerful what's coming up this week I will be writing the Dividend Cafe for tomorrow the second you and I hang up the phone. And it is going to dive, dive into this question about is AI deflationary or inflationary? What can we expect for the impact of AI on that particular element of the economy? The dividend cafe at the dividendcafe.com and also on YouTube as always. I'm so grateful for God that he led you to me and I knew why we were going to walk together. And now that I'm doing it, I'm appreciating it as we're doing it. Thank you so much, David.

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Listen to this. 21st century own party approval rating about at this point in the second term, we got Trump, we got Obama, we got Bush. Look, they're all fairly popular, but the one who is the most popular, and we have seen this time in and time out no matter when you look, is Donald John Trump. He's the only one who's over 80%, 83% of Republicans still approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing as president. He still has that magic touch. We'll see if it carries over to South Carolina, but we've seen it in primaries this year. Senate primaries, and that's because he is still a very popular man. So how do the Democrats get a presidential nominee that is not a socialist? You either got to rig it the way you did the three previous times or you've got to kill socialism between now and then. And if you go into that presidential election divided and you haven't killed off socialism, then all Donald Trump has to do is a clean handoff of Trumpism. And look at everybody he endorses, whether it's a congressional race, a Senate race, a gubernatorial race, because of that 83% approval rating. Trumpism can't be absorbed by the Republican Party. It's more powerful than the Republican Party. This is going to be a big problem for Ron DeSantis or. for Ted Cruz or any other establishment Republican, and I know I'm saying establishment Republican, because Ted Cruz is a proven conservative, but he's establishment compared to Trumpism. So they're going to have one of two players, JD Vance or Marco Rubio, or worse, a two-headed monster and both together. That's a problem for the Democrats. So what's their strategy? They're going to identify socialism finally as the parasite it always has been that they allowed in. Now it's something that must be killed. Oh, but so should Trumpism be killed as well. Watch, every time they'll bring up socialism as something negative, whoever it is, they'll say it's no better than what Trump's done to the Republican Party. And America will have a proclivity to buy this. and not see what they're really doing is returning power to the establishment Democrat Republican Party two-party strangle system that does nothing but divide and conquer America. That's why I kept pushing that analogy yesterday. If 70% of the American people want term limits for all members of Congress, why don't we have it? They're representatives. You think because it's an hour, it's okay. Most ours are the same as a D. Now, both will be equally divided. Because if you end up with somebody that isn't endorsed by President Trump, you've got a divided Republican party going into the 2028 presidential election. And if they don't kill off socialism, they're definitely going to be a divided party. And I don't think these socialists that they have ginned up and gotten so violent are going to settle for being bait and switched to fourth time. Two things I always cut to the chase and tell you, you know, we just did that segment with David Guy Benson. The five things an economist is worried about. The five things he's not worried about. And they tend to be opposites of the narratives and the news. There's two things I'm worried about.

The security and the protection of the President of the United States. Three times someone has tried to kill him. And today's headline is the Secret Service is seeing a 40% jump in cases that they're having to investigate. America's more violent than ever, the threats are more, and they're spread more thin. The protection of this president to have the ability to finish his term is my number one priority. And my number two priority is that the American people will start seeing these games that are being played. I would tend to ignore. I mean, everybody want to make a big deal out of, are you coming to the Atlantic is calling it a parasite just like you have? No, go beyond that. The show is not about me, it's about you. Go beyond that. Why is the Atlantic that really controls the intelligentsia and the legacy media and the party leaders? Why are they introducing this concept? Because it must be killed. And why are they conflating it with Trumpism? Because the bigger goal is to kill that moving forward. At least go into the 2028 presidential election with both parties divided.

Best case scenario, both parties going forward in their establishment form. They don't need. First of all, Van Jay Jones is the one outing it. Van Jay Jones was the right-hand man to Barack Obama. The chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, and John Podesta, well, he's really run for the last five presidencies. Frankly, I don't know how you don't see it, but I hope I'm helping you see it. I don't want you to listen to this show because I called it a parasite before the Atlantic. I want you to listen to this show because you're figuring out what's going to happen next before the Atlantic does it too late in a headline. All right, everybody. Lock on low. Look, you've just got to try harder, not to suck. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. You're a fashion. Perhaps you'd like to be alone with the rapidly deteriorating mental condition. When it comes to politics, you don't know as much. You're all right. Always Revealing, often entertaining. It's time for your sounds of the day. The president went to Georgia. He had a very emotional time during the dignified transfer and over of four service members who lost their life. And then he spent time with their family. I think the president was very emotionally spent. And that caused him to be in very rare form by the time he got to Georgia. This was a good old-fashioned Trump rally. This was a Friday with 47 on a Wednesday. Listen. This country will never be a socialist country, remember? And I was right. They skipped socialism. They went right to communism. George is a state that believes in common sense, and yet your terrible senator, Jon Ossoff, he's terrible. And the Democrats in Congress are voting with the communists every single time. They're afraid of the communists. You look at it. Now, I fought ourselves before, as you know, and we won. We had a great success against this guy. He reminds me of Pinky Herman. Do you ever see Pinky Herman? Jon Ossoff and the Congressional Democrats voted against securing our border. They voted against our massive tax cuts that you have. They voted against the Trump accounts for your children. They want to raise your taxes by a lot, not lower them. We lowered your taxes. We gave you the greatest tax cut in the history of our country twice now.

And they want to raise your taxes substantially. You know, I've been watching politics. I've been involved in politics and the other side. You know, for a long time, I've always found it interesting, fascinating, important. But I've never seen people say ever. It's always politicians. I've watched great politicians. We will lower your taxes. They always say, we will lower, even if they didn't mean it, they'd say, we will lower your taxes. These people say, we're going to raise your taxes. I've never heard it before. It's a new phenomenon. By the way, the one clip I want to play the most, the president uses a bad word. And then he tells the story about how the first lady tells him not to curse, how Franklin Graham has called him and said, hey, great speech, but you got to stop cursing. But, you know, I can't play it because of the word that he uses. I mean, he was in absolute rare form. It sounded like Friday with 47. It's a classic day yesterday. Yesterday was a very inconvenient truth for the left who's been telling you over and over again that there are no examples of voter fraud. When we all know throughout American history, there's always voter fraud. Where is it happening? How much of it's happening and how much of it could have been prevented and should be prevented before the next time. But kind of like what the president was just saying. It used to be everybody lied. Nobody wanted to say, yeah, we need more debt. We need more taxes. Now they come right out and say it. And people are still voting for it. It's insanity. Now they suddenly claim there's never been another. And then, of course, here comes New Jersey. And the governor tries to make it all about, I'm not like Donald Trump. I don't create conspiracy theories. We find irregularities. We investigate him. We find voter fraud. And then we prosecuted. Of course, nobody's been arrested yet. But what about the media that's been lying? It doesn't matter, of course, in the Matrix because one half will never hear it. But here's how CNN handles it. I love this little montage. There's no evidence of voter fraud. Okay, there's some voter fraud, but it's not widespread. And the illegals who did do it were just confused. Listen. He's been in office for a full year now. They have not come up with any of this purported evidence of voter fraud. You guys are in search of something that there's been no evidence exists. New Jersey is double checking its voter rolls tonight. After a software error added 6,600 non-citizens to the voter rolls, the suggestion that this is fraud suggests that these people were trying to vote. Sometimes what happens is that when state systems are incorrect, people receive information and they are confused. Where some people who are ineligible to vote are not aware that they're ineligible to vote. I do think it's whether it is widespread or not. I do think that the numbers actually matter. I mean, they're just, they're shameless. Now, ultimately, you can blame the media, you can blame the politicians, you can blame. All the narratives, sooner or later, you've got to blame the American people. Whatever you're seeing in Washington is a reflection of yourself, you're putting them there. It used to be in the age of journalism that if you were as bad as CNN, and you tell everybody over and over again, there's no such thing as voter fraud, no such thing, okay, now we found it, but they were just confused. You would lose all credibility, you'd get fired, you'd lose ratings.

That was it. And that's what kept people in check. But now you can lie and get away with it. And nobody seems to care. Neither of these parties are working for you. And you keep being partisan. None of this media is accurate or fair or truthful or having high journalistic standards. And every day that you're online or on social media talking to the same people, repeating the same narratives, believing the same way, it really doesn't matter. I mean, Gavin Newsom's a great thing. This is Gavin Newsom. When you think of the poster child for how to create wildfires and destroy. neighborhoods you would think of California. No, not Gavin Newsom. He says they're a model for the globe on fire management. I can say this with absolute conviction. We don't imitate. We're a model for others. We have people coming from all over the United States and around the globe to look at what California is doing in orbit, in the air, and on the ground. I mean bigger than a giraffe. I want to do it. I'm waiting on the consequences. The best way to get back on your feet is to get up off your ass. I've been living rent-free in that guy's head for years, and that's just a boat. You call that chicken ain't out? They're just blowing off steam. That's your sounds of the day for this Thursday, July the 23rd. Well, what's happening right now in Iran, and I might add Saudi Arabia, and I might add Ukraine and Russia, these aren't just typical headlines. These can and may have and can affect your wallet. And why? Well, take the Middle East. Conflict breaks out. Oil moves. Everything follows. Gas prices rise, shipping costs spike. Suddenly your dollar doesn't go as far. We've seen it before. And now banks are forecasting even higher gold and silver prices. So are you positioned for what's happening, let alone what's coming next? And if you're considering gold or silver as an investment, who you work with really matters. That's why I trust Lear Capital. helping Americans protect their savings for nearly 30 years. Over $3 billion in trusted transactions. I love that their education first. No pressure to buy. They have a 24-hour satisfaction guarantee policy and an A-plus rating by the BBB. You got questions, get answers, and no one's going to try to pressure you to buy. Call their capital today. 800 880 2424. Get your free precious metals investors kit. Lear Capital 1,800 880 2424. That's 1,800 880 2424 for Lear Capital today. It's your morning show with Michael Deljourno. The U.S. Secret Service Director, Sean Curran, says the agency has launched more than 10,000 investigations this year into threats against its protectees. It's got them spread thin. Some protectees aren't being as protected as solidly as they need to because they're spread so thin. The U.S. has reached a nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, another 12th consecutive night of air strikes on Iran. Meanwhile, the Saudis, well, actually the Houthis are claiming that they hit two ships.

in the Red Sea. And now we wonder if John Decker, our White House correspondent, made it pretty crystal clear the president's working with Saudi Arabia. There will be a response for this. And forecasters expecting birth to maintain tropical storm strength. It's now more moved into southwest Louisiana, Texas. In fact, by the end of the day, it'll make its way to San Antonio. Well, the cyber world of AI intelligence resembles the Wild West following a report that AI's computers hacked into another company's server. This is getting to become Hal, and he's doing whatever he wants. Was the intrusion an accident, or did the computer know what it was doing? Our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, wouldn't it have been great if your name was Hal today? Rory O'Neill is here with the story. Good morning, Rory. Yeah, open the Pod Bay doors. So essentially, OpenAI has a couple of different programs, GPT 5.6 Seoul and this other more capable system. And they put the two of them together in what's known as a digital sandbox. Essentially, let the two computer programs do what they do. We'll give them a problem to solve. And they're in the sandbox so they can't do any harm. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Turns out these two programs outsmarted the sandbox, got out. and then got on the internet and made an attack on a company called Hugging Face thinking its servers had the answer to its problem. So hugging face turned into the Chinese actually to find some support to try to push back this online assault. And OpenAI is still trying to figure out exactly how this thing got out of the sandbox. So what's the lesson here that it's thinking on its own? Pretty much. And it's also not doing what it's told. So there is a little bit of that hal in there. You can't speak with such a... When you do Hal, you do it very good, but you can't have that much emotion. It's got to be, sorry, Dave. Very casual. All right, so how alarming is this and how do we keep this from happening again? It's probably going to happen again. I think the message is when they say, oh, don't worry, it's in a sandbox. Worry about the sandbox because apparently they're not doing their jobs anymore. You know, as these AI programs mature, you can say they're getting into the terrible twos and maybe putting it in the sandbox is one thing. But a three-year-old is something very different. Oh, Rory, great reporting as always. Thank you. We'll talk again tomorrow. Birthday's today, Harry Potter himself. Daniel John Ratcliffe is 36. Guns and Roses, guitarist, Slash, is 60. And actor Woody Harrelson is 64. If it's your birthday, happy birthday. We're so glad you're borns. Thanks for spending part of your big day with us. All right. One chance to live this Thursday, July the 23rd, 2026. It'll never happen again. That makes it special. Go make a difference in someone's life. Make sure you cherish your own. And we'll see again tomorrow morning for the next your morning show. Have a great day. We're all in this together. This is your morning show with Michael Del Jornow.

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