Speaker 1: Lie from Ball, Heart Blind and the Crossroads of America.
Speaker 1: It's Tony Katz Today.
Speaker 2: There's something about the political right in Mexican food that.
Speaker 3: My people, my people conservatives, Well maybe it's republican Zamba conservative.
Speaker 2: They are not a function.
Speaker 3: Because it was about Trump, and well this was the
Speaker 3: left naming it taco. Trump always chickens out, which is
Speaker 3: not true at all or in any way. So there
Speaker 3: was the taco thing, and now it's about the burrito.
Speaker 3: And I cannot describe to you how wrong everyone is,
Speaker 3: or I should say many people are on the political
Speaker 3: right about this story.
Speaker 2: You're missing the point.
Speaker 3: You sound ridiculous, out of touch, lost, disconnected. If you
Speaker 3: want to lose elections, you keep talking the way you talk,
Speaker 3: or you can listen to me Tony Katz. Tony Katz Today,
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Speaker 3: It starts with a post from Matt Waalsh, who I've
Speaker 3: disagreed with on things over there at Daily Wire, and
Speaker 3: he wrote that grocery prices are insane. They're still rising
Speaker 3: addressing this problem should be the number one priority of
Speaker 3: every elected leader, and the stupid foreign wars and focus
Speaker 3: on this issue. It's one of the main reasons socialists
Speaker 3: are gaining power. Well, he's wrong. One of the main
Speaker 3: reasons socialist are gaining power is because we gave up
Speaker 3: control and observation of education for forty years, fifty years.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's speak clear about it. It's origins, matt.
Speaker 3: Foreign wars and saying and stupid foreign wars is a
Speaker 3: talking point. Stopping the Iranian regime is smart, is conservative,
Speaker 3: is strong, is pro America, and is America first.
Speaker 2: No one who would allow Iran to remain.
Speaker 3: As they were before was actually in any way ever
Speaker 3: America first. That includes Tucker Tucker Carlson, that includes Marjorie
Speaker 3: Taylor Green, that includes Thomas Massey. There is nothing that
Speaker 3: is America first about leaving a terrorist regime to do
Speaker 3: harm to the United States and the United States interest
Speaker 3: just not real. But absolutely, grocery prices are too high. Yes,
Speaker 3: egg prices are down and other things have come down.
Speaker 3: Beef prices are down, but they're still too high.
Speaker 2: And what we're really.
Speaker 3: Talking about when people utilize the term affordability is the
Speaker 3: idea that the basic has become costly. We should note
Speaker 3: these things. We've discussed it here. In the terms of
Speaker 3: going out to eat. There was a moment that that
Speaker 3: fast food quick serve and the prices have gotten so
Speaker 3: high that people had moved to places like Texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 2: If I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Go to a Chipotle, never mind the salmonilla from the Halapanos,
Speaker 3: which they've pulled the Halopanos, and I hope they come
Speaker 3: out of this, you know, I don't want them to
Speaker 3: get destroyed.
Speaker 2: By this issue.
Speaker 3: But if I get the family of four, everyone gets
Speaker 3: a burrito, speaking of burritos, and they get a drink,
Speaker 3: and we get some extra trips. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: the little one wants to guacamole. That bill could be
Speaker 3: sixty dollars, right, Well, once I'm at sixty dollars, can
Speaker 3: I be at seventy three dollars and get myself an
Speaker 3: eight ounce steak, sit in a booth, get my refills
Speaker 3: where someone brings them to me. Oh, I get the rolls,
Speaker 3: and I get to feel like a person. When a
Speaker 3: family cannot go out to eat to the most basic
Speaker 3: of places, the Texas Roadhouse, the Applebee's. I'm not mocking
Speaker 3: these places. I'm discussing them as they are. People start
Speaker 3: asking themselves, what are we working so hard for? The
Speaker 3: going out to eat, the going to one of these
Speaker 3: places and being served is the way to feel normal.
Speaker 3: It's the way to feel like my work is worth it.
Speaker 3: I can afford to provide for my family this little luxury.
Speaker 3: In this way, the misses didn't have to cook being stereotypical.
Speaker 3: Everybody's out, it's a little relaxing. We'll actually look at
Speaker 3: each other. No, no, no, everybody off the phones. We're hanging out.
Speaker 3: Come on, you're in a restaurant. Don't be on your phone.
Speaker 3: Don't be see those people look ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. And it connects.
Speaker 3: That is good and that is where a sense of
Speaker 3: normalcy comes from. When people can't afford to do that,
Speaker 3: or feel that they can't afford to do that, they
Speaker 3: ask themselves, what am I working this hard for?
Speaker 2: Is? What is this?
Speaker 3: You cannot cannot deny that, You should not deny that.
Speaker 3: Do not deny where people are, where they exist, and
Speaker 3: what it is that moves them. I would argue that
Speaker 3: there is a great amount of America that isn't looking
Speaker 3: for millions and billions. They're looking for happy, They're looking
Speaker 3: for you know what.
Speaker 2: This is good.
Speaker 3: And I have zero issue with that. To respond to
Speaker 3: Matt Walsh, comes Andrew COVID. Andrew was, of course the
Speaker 3: producer and the right hand of the late Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: And I believe he still runs that show. He's still
Speaker 3: doing that show. It's on the same time. I am
Speaker 3: so I never listened. I've never met Andrew. And Andrew posted.
Speaker 3: And what Andrew posted was this right here. He posted
Speaker 3: that one of our TPUSA college students, meaning Turning Point USA,
Speaker 3: gave me his take on affordability. Quote A burrito shouldn't
Speaker 3: cost twenty dollars, he continues, Yeah, a lot of this
Speaker 3: is a hangover from COVID and Biden error inflation. But
Speaker 3: the lived experience is the same. It just feels like
Speaker 3: basic things cost too much.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 3: A very normal thing to say. That's very, very true.
Speaker 3: The idea that a burrito may not cost twenty dollars
Speaker 3: is not the story. It's that the experience the basics
Speaker 3: are just too high. It is it's the rent is
Speaker 3: too m high. It's that feeling. The responses to this
Speaker 3: have been ridiculous. One of those ridiculous responses was from
Speaker 3: Mark Theesen, who does a lot of writing Fox Washington Post.
Speaker 3: I follow some of his work. I like the guy,
Speaker 3: but he made a mistake and he wrote crime a
Speaker 3: River the burritos in the college cafeteria are included in
Speaker 3: your meal plan.
Speaker 2: Oh, we really don't want to win elections doing.
Speaker 3: The political right has no interest reading winning elections. They
Speaker 3: don't everything that said. Oh you're just complaining. Oh you're
Speaker 3: just ridiculous as opposed to listening to what's being said.
Speaker 3: Not only is this said by Mark Theeerson, but Ben
Speaker 3: Shapiro jumps in and says that if young people were
Speaker 3: paying twenty dollars for burrito, they are quote doing life wrong.
Speaker 3: I said earlier this week that when it came to
Speaker 3: Sophie Cunningham, Matt Walsh had a swing and a miss.
Speaker 3: This is a swing and a miss from Ben SHAPIROI
Speaker 3: now all I have is that quote producer land and
Speaker 3: if you want to go find the post from Ben
Speaker 3: you can. That is a mistake. The art argumentier is
Speaker 3: not that a turning point USA member should be should
Speaker 3: not be buying twenty dollars burritos. The argumentier is the
Speaker 3: idea of cost, the idea that the basics are high,
Speaker 3: and that is not solely represented by the college student.
Speaker 3: It's represented by anybody who buys groceries. It's represented by
Speaker 3: anybody who pays car insurance or any other shirts, homeowners inshurts.
Speaker 3: Can we discuss the rising costs here buying an airline
Speaker 3: ticket and you get less service, less care, and what
Speaker 3: do you do? You pay more and more and more.
Speaker 3: I was discussing yesterday that there is this budget airline
Speaker 3: out of Australia that now wants to charge you if
Speaker 3: you put your carry on in the overhead bin.
Speaker 2: If that holds, what happens.
Speaker 3: When they bring that to United and Delta and Jet Blue, etc.
Speaker 3: Now some people responded to these things with just ridiculousness.
Speaker 3: One of those people was the vice president. The vice
Speaker 3: president stated, I'm surprised talking about Mark Theesen, I'm surprised
Speaker 3: to hear Mark say this. If you've ever met him
Speaker 3: in person, it's quite obvious. The man who has never
Speaker 3: missed a burrito, that's just dumb.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Congratulations you got in the dig terrific You're now an
Speaker 3: influencer on social media, you might as well just be
Speaker 3: a podcaster, not the vice president of the United States, unless,
Speaker 3: of course, this is all part of your economic nationalism
Speaker 3: that you're just thrilled by. Can we discuss winning elections
Speaker 3: for half second? Could you listen to what is being said.
Speaker 3: There is a cost issue, and it's real, and it
Speaker 3: has a great number of places that we can look to.
Speaker 3: And yes, absolutely, Biden level inflation is a part of it.
Speaker 2: Inflation is not down to where we need it to be.
Speaker 2: It isn't.
Speaker 3: We had a whole conversation about two Fed governors talking
Speaker 3: about the need for rate hikes, increase interest rates to
Speaker 3: keep dollars from getting into the system. Inflation is too
Speaker 3: much cash, not enough stuff, and therefore you increase the
Speaker 3: interest rates. Let's cash into the system and inflation comes down.
Speaker 3: I saw somebody in the chat talk about deflation. Deflation
Speaker 3: can be a problem if it comes too quickly. Stagflation
Speaker 3: is super ugly. Just ask Japan over the last thirty
Speaker 3: plus years, and ask China as they are now slowly
Speaker 3: realizing they are in the grips of it. It is
Speaker 3: obvious to all of us that the daily costs have
Speaker 3: gotten into an obscenity. It simply is a problem. Why
Speaker 3: not address that problem from all of the angles of
Speaker 3: which it is a problem. Inflation is a part of
Speaker 3: the problem. If President Trump would remove a bunch of tariffs,
Speaker 3: you would see things get easier. My take if we
Speaker 3: took a look at the regulatory environment and talked about
Speaker 3: how less government is a clear place that we can
Speaker 3: engage to reduce cash in the system, to where President
Speaker 3: Trump is having great effect and result. We take a
Speaker 3: look at the jobs numbers that just came out, and
Speaker 3: I'll talk to doctor Matt Will economists at the University
Speaker 3: of Indianapolis coming up in a little bit. The jobs numbers.
Speaker 3: My gosh, you lost twenty three thousand jobs. This is terrible,
Speaker 3: But we actually had sectors that we gained private jobs.
Speaker 3: The private sector gained thirty thousand jobs in the month
Speaker 3: of July. Government lost fifty three thousand jobs. Losing government
Speaker 3: jobs is good. We don't need this big bloated government.
Speaker 3: But you lost more government then you picked up private sector.
Speaker 3: Thus the negative number. So the negative number top line
Speaker 3: tells a story of things still having an issue, but
Speaker 3: there are things within it that explain why it's happening,
Speaker 3: lowering government smart, getting what Kevin Wassh, the FED chair,
Speaker 3: is trying to do, getting things off the balance sheet, smart,
Speaker 3: changing the regulatory environment. When it comes to the very
Speaker 3: idea of costs smart, how about we discussed the idea
Speaker 3: of a twenty dollars burrito and those states that want
Speaker 3: to push twenty dollars an hour minimum wages, of course
Speaker 3: the cost of a burrito or anything else is going
Speaker 3: to go up. Do we not understand how this works?
Speaker 3: We have a thousand ways to address what's happening, and
Speaker 3: go and speak to gen Z and speak to all
Speaker 3: of America and say there is a path out of this,
Speaker 3: and it involves fiscal policy. We're the ones with the
Speaker 3: fiscal policy. Vote for us. Instead, I've got Mark Theesen
Speaker 3: and Ben Shapiro dismissing it with non even with non
Speaker 3: intellectual commentary. This is baseline garbage that they just put out,
Speaker 3: and I've got the Vice president making fact jokes.
Speaker 2: This is why people drink bourbon.
Speaker 3: This is why people hate politics and Republicans.
Speaker 2: This is why people hate you. What are you doing?
Speaker 3: You have an opportunity here? Why not take the damn opportunity?
Speaker 3: You can argue, well, you see, this is just a
Speaker 3: populist message and what the populace would do. America has
Speaker 3: to protect itself more and they have to implement this,
Speaker 3: and you can't be allowed to charge that.
Speaker 2: No, that stuff is wrong.
Speaker 3: And Trump has some of those inclinations because he's not
Speaker 3: a conservative.
Speaker 2: I understand this, and that's not correct.
Speaker 3: It has to be a policy prescription that takes government
Speaker 3: out of these things, that puts an end to this
Speaker 3: maddening idea that it is on the back of the
Speaker 3: employer to pay what somebody who has never employed any
Speaker 3: anybody has decided as a living wage.
Speaker 2: We have to address these things honestly and clearly and.
Speaker 3: Show gen Z that they could be active participants in
Speaker 3: making things better. All they have to do is act,
Speaker 3: and instead listening to a real concern from Andrew Covid,
Speaker 3: it gets dismissed. It is the dumbest thing I have
Speaker 3: seen the political right do in a good long time.
Speaker 3: And that includes nominating Carrie Lake in Arizona when you
Speaker 3: knew she was gonna lose. Tired like you, exhausted of
Speaker 3: people just not being normal, when that's all it takes.
Speaker 3: I'm Tony Katz, This is Tony Katz today