1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Okay, it looks like there is now an update from 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court on the tariffs, and that is that 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: they're not going to rule today. 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: Oh that's kind of disappointing. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: Was that surprises me a bit because you'd figure that 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: they would want to dump it today, So let the 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: news fly under the radar because nobody's going to be 8 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: covering that over Minnesota. So it's just interesting. It had 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: been widely speculating we began the show with it. In fact, 10 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: really I began the show with that because I was 11 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: stuck in that producer's booth with Kevin and have access 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: to all that audio I'd pulled, so I was just 13 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: I was buying time for the engineers to get the 14 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: studio back up. If you missed the first segment of 15 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: the program today, it was it was some just real 16 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: radio brilliance of me standing in the producer's booth with 17 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: Kevin because that was the only microphone that was working, 18 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: and so I just had to talk to myself unprompted 19 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: for you know, five or six minutes. 20 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: So you took charge like a storybook hero. You stormed 21 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 2: the bastions. 22 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: You marched out of the studio and headed into the 23 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: producer room because you knew since Carl had participated with 24 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: Tony katshow earlier that microphone was working. 25 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. 26 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Uh, anyway, we had speculated that or others 27 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: had speculated that that Supreme Court ruling was going to 28 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: come down today on tariffs, which would dramatically whatever way 29 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: they go, uh, shake up the US economy. And now 30 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: it has come out that they are not ruling today. 31 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: They only had one ruling that was released had nothing 32 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: to do with tariffs. So we will continue the watch 33 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: and wait on when the Supreme Court is going to 34 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: actually make a decision on Donald Trump's tariffs. That you 35 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: would think, Look, and these guys and girls can do 36 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: whatever they want, right, They're the nine most powerful people 37 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: in the country. They don't owe anybody an explanation on anything. 38 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: The Trump tariffs are still in place, right, I mean 39 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: like they have allowed them continue to go on pending 40 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: the ruling from the Supreme Court, even though other courts 41 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: had ruled against him. The tariffs are still in place 42 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: until the court rules. You would think, and again maybe 43 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: I'm just reading way too much into it. If you 44 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: were going to side with Trump, if you know, they 45 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: have to know what they're gonna do. If you're gonna 46 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: side with Trump, would you just go ahead and say it, 47 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: since that's the status quote that's already in place. I 48 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: don't see how they can side with Trump. I'm not 49 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: sure where Trump gets the taxing authority to institute these 50 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: tariffs when, as I understand it, the formation of the 51 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: basic form of the Constitution places. 52 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: Taxing responsibility in the Congress. 53 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: And again, especially because he's been flip flopping on it, 54 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: there's been so much instability that has surrounded and resulted 55 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: from the way that he's implemented tariffs. I mean, you 56 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: can say that maybe some marginally positive things have been accomplished, 57 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: but regardless of whether you think the outcome has been 58 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: positive or negative, structurally, I don't think the president has 59 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: that authority. And again, just to reset, because we have 60 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: the most knowledgeable, engaged audience in all the land. But 61 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: for those of you who are not aware what we're 62 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: talking about, President Trump has enacted tariffs on many many 63 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: countries in his first year in office, and he has 64 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: done them under this Emergency Powers Act that dates back 65 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: to the days of Richard Nixon. Several Democrat states, along 66 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 1: with some business groups have sued the Trump administration, saying, 67 00:02:58,960 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: if you want to. 68 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: Do terror, there is a way you do the tariffs. 69 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: This is not it. This does not. 70 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: Meet the guidelines of the set forth for the emergency 71 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: powers to be able to do this. And this has 72 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: made its way all the way to the Supreme Court. 73 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: Trump has lost at a couple of lower courts. Supreme 74 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: Court has allowed them to continue while they heard the case, 75 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: and the judges really strugg because look, it's going to 76 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: there's two things at play. One the actual impact it's 77 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: going to have on the US economy slash government because 78 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: a lot of this money, these tax increases, which are 79 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: what tariffs are that we're paying, are flowing into the 80 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: federal government. Now who knows what they're going to do 81 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: with the money. Ultimately they keep changing their story. But 82 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: it will also have a profound impact on these businesses 83 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: because it affects and this is part of why they're suing. 84 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: They're saying, we have to charge more to our customers. 85 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: Now we don't believe you have the ability to do this. 86 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: So not only will it affect the government, it's going 87 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: to affect an all likelihood and a variety of things. 88 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: What you pay at the store. 89 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: And the one thing that justice has appeared in your 90 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: right either, it appeared based on the oral arguments that 91 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: were heard. The justices were at the very least very 92 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: sympathetic to the plaintiffs, the people filing the lawsuit. However, 93 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: the one thing they were struggling with is if we 94 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: rule in your favor, this is going to cause complete 95 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: calamity in the government. How do we force them to 96 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: them to pay it back? And the plaintiffs, to their credit, said, look, judge, 97 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: we're not judges. We're not disputing what you're saying. That's 98 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: not our problem. It's also not your problem. Your job 99 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: is to enforce the law and the constitution, so you 100 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: can't worry about that. Well. Also, part of the issue 101 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: is these taxes that are being levied are taxes that 102 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: Americans are ultimately paying. It's not taxes that the foreign 103 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: countries are paying on the goods. It's passed on to 104 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: consumers in the force of in the form of increased prices. Yeah, 105 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: and you will pitch to deincentivize imports and then favor 106 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: America and exports and American productivity locally. Well, and it's 107 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: the same argument you always hearing. You will appreciate this 108 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: as a man who makes his living renting properties to people. 109 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: That's right, I always hear from the well renters don't 110 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: pay property tax ethan, have you ever ever ever, out 111 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: of the goodness of your heart, just eaten the property 112 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: taxes that you pay to the City of Indianapolis, or 113 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: have you passed that cost on to your tenants? Well, 114 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: logistically it, frankly, isn't possible for me to eat the 115 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: cost of the property taxes because the business has to 116 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: pay the cost of the property tax. 117 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: And if I'm losing money, I go bankrupt. 118 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: I'm not Scrooge McDuck sitting on this large vault of 119 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: gold coins that I'm swimming in in order to pay 120 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: the taxes. So and in fact, I'm going to have 121 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: to raise the rent on a couple of properties. 122 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 2: Because of the tax increases that I've had to shoulder. 123 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I mentioned all this because if anybody 124 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: ever tell when these school referendums come up, which they're 125 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: going to be coming up left and right this coming year, 126 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: don't kid yourself. These schools are not going to take 127 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: any sort of revenue reduction. They don't care about you, 128 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: so they believe your money is their money. They believe 129 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: your house is their house, and they are going to 130 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: do everything their power to get that money that you're 131 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: getting back in whatever Measley Property tax cut Bronze bill 132 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: ended up giving. And my point is, if you're a renter, 133 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: you are paying more in property tax than the people 134 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: who are own their homes because you're charged two percent 135 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: cap right versus homeowners residential homeowners who are one. So 136 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: if you're a renter, you, above all people should be 137 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: out voting knowing the school reperendums because you're gonna get screwed. 138 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: More than the homeowners are. 139 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, twice is screwed as a matter of fact, in 140 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: addition to all the other ways that you're getting screwed, 141 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: like the sales taxes, the extra special tax that we 142 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: hear in Marion County pay just for the privilege of 143 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: having Lucas Oil Stadium as well as still paying off 144 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: the Hoosier Dome, and then also the forum. Like you 145 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: mentioned in SB one, the added local income taxes that 146 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: many people are going to be seeing in their communities 147 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: across Indiana added in order to subsidize the meager cuts 148 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: that were in the bill. Yeah, I mean when your 149 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: bills start showing up. And this is the deception that 150 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: the Republicans pulled with this property tax bill. And you'll 151 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: need to remember this over time, because it's the frog 152 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: and the boiling pot of water thing where you're not 153 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: going to feel it because it's going to happen over 154 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: time and in a variety of different ways. But the 155 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: water in this case, the taxes will be higher than 156 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: ever because you're going to get a little bit of 157 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: a reduction most people this year in your property tax bill. 158 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: That will probably happen. I've never disputed that two hundred 159 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars something like that. 160 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: Now it'll be. 161 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: Offset by assessment increases in some cases because they did 162 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: nothing to address assessment increases. But some people will certainly 163 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: see lower property tax bills this year, Braun, and the 164 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: Republicans when those bills come out, will go see, we 165 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: told you. But what they're not factoring in is, as 166 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: you said, Ethan, won all the school referendums that are 167 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: going to take place because of this bill that otherwise 168 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: weren't going to take place. Some of them will pass, 169 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: so you'll pay higher taxes with that. As you said, Ethan, 170 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: beginning in twenty seven or twenty eight. Your local governments, 171 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: who your city's towns, who previously couldn't raise your income 172 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: tax now will have an ability to raise your income tax. 173 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: That's going to be a lot of money. And your 174 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: property taxes will continue to rise over time because they 175 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: did nothing to address the cause of the rising property taxes, 176 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: which is the rising assessments. I haven't seen what the 177 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: cost of property taxes this year will be. I just 178 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: got the estimates in and I was checking the other day, 179 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: and as far as I know, it's about the same 180 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: rate that I paid for the last twelve months, which 181 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: was about seventeen thousand dollars per every six months. That's 182 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: a wonderful that's for all your properties. You paid thirty 183 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: four grand a year in property tax, just in property tax. 184 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 2: Holy smokes. 185 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: And I'm getting ready to have to pay another seventeen 186 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: thousand or start paying on another seventeen thousand before property 187 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: taxes are due in May. That's fun times. And like 188 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: I said, we still haven't got the assessments mailed to us. 189 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: This is just an estimate, so I expect sometime before 190 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: May I will be getting a one to two to 191 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: possibly three percent increase on that total all right and 192 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: and right Brown and the Republicans look at you and go, 193 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: everything's fine, shut up and pay well. 194 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: Right. 195 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: They look at me like mister moneybags. They think I'm 196 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: Elon Musk over here. 197 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 2: That's right, all right. 198 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: Uh, let's uh, let's take a break when we come back. 199 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: Let's get to this Stephen A. Smith audio. He is 200 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: such a bizarre guy. I can't figure him out. He 201 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: is tearing into sanct sanctuary cities. He's tearing to these 202 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: people that are mad about baduro. Fascinating audio from Steven A. 203 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 2: Smith. When we come back ninety three w ibc oh, 204 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: is it is it my turn to go? All right 205 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 2: Kevin giving me the thumbs up? Yes, dumbass, it's your 206 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 2: time to talk. 207 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: Uh. 208 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 2: You've been at those twenty five years. You should know 209 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: by now. It's the kittle Casey Jean Robie than did 210 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 2: for Casey. keV is here. Let's get to the Stephen A. 211 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 2: Smith audio. 212 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: Of course, he's the longtime ESPN commentator, sports commentator, Who's 213 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: who now is? 214 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 3: You know? 215 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: One podcast? Et cetera, and and he has now immersed 216 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: himself the world of politics. A lot of people think 217 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: maybe he's gonna run for office. I don't know. The 218 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: guy's all over the map, though, and I find this 219 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: kind of intriguing. But you can never like pin him 220 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: down on where he's going to be on an issue 221 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: because a lot of things, like he hates Trump, he's 222 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: super liberal on a whole bunch of things. But then 223 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: he'll go on rants and you're like, well, that totally 224 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: makes sense. What did you do with Stephen A. 225 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 2: Smith? 226 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: And he got going on these sanctuary cities and basically 227 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: ice having to go in there and do their job, 228 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: and he's making allole bunch of sentence. 229 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: Listen to this. 230 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 4: I don't understand how sanctu every city he's honestly speaking, 231 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 4: I got to educate myself with it. I don't understand 232 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 4: how how sanctuary city is allowed in this country. 233 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: I really don't know. I don't get it. 234 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 4: If there's federal laws that mandate that that, you know what, 235 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 4: you can't cross the border illegally, there shouldn't be sank 236 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: to every city saying yes you can. It just shouldn't 237 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: be I mean one way another pick one either can 238 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 4: or you can't, but it shouldn't be federal government says no, 239 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 4: but you say yes, so you get to U sub 240 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 4: the udabitia, the federal government and was still calling ourself 241 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 4: the nation of lawss well which laws? 242 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 2: It makes no sense. 243 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: Hard to argue with any of that, right, Yeah, that's 244 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: very sensible. But you've been fired up about the Steven A. 245 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: Smith audio all morning long. You've mentioned it several times. 246 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: What is so fascinating about this character? 247 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 2: Do you? 248 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: Because other than that he's been a sports commentator, he 249 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: doesn't really enter into my orbit other than I know 250 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: who he is. Well, one, I'm intrigued by some person 251 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: who there's always just like these random things where you're like, 252 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: you're making so much sense on this what happened to you? 253 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 2: And everything else? 254 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: But two, it shows you the extremism of the left 255 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: when you have a liberal, of which Stephen A. Smith is, 256 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: where he's looking at this even easily of this going 257 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: this doesn't make any sense, Like why would you want 258 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: these people who are breaking the law in your country? 259 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: These people broke the law, Why would you want them 260 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: in your city? 261 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 2: Why would you want to have to support them, Why 262 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: would you want to have to pay for them? Why 263 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 2: would you want this? 264 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: And the answer is, and you know we've talked about 265 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: this for years on this program. The Democrats see these 266 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: people as an entire generation of future Democrat voters, people 267 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: who will be dependent upon government service, dependent upon the government. 268 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: Even if these people don't get to be citizens. If 269 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: they're here and they have children until the Supreme Court 270 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: rules otherwise, those people will be citizens of this country, 271 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: and those people will then be the next generation of 272 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: Democrat voters. That has to be what it's all about, 273 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: because there's no logicalories and whatsoever. You would want people 274 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: who are essentially wards of the state from the moment 275 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: they show up and are not doing things the law abiding, 276 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: rightful way to be in your city. So Democrats believe 277 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: in the mantra that Democrats are demographics, I should say, 278 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: our destiny, and they're trying to cultivate that for their 279 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: own benefit. All right, one other clip here, he's talking 280 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: about Maduro and he's making a lot of Stephen A. 281 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: Smith has made a lot of sense on this life 282 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: is crazy, right now, Ethan listen to this. 283 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 4: Got a bounty on his head and a Biden administration 284 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 4: had a bounty on his head, and then another fifty 285 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 4: million dollar bounty. Is that fifteen to twenty five of 286 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 4: fifty once your God has asked. That's not something to 287 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,239 Speaker 4: be complaining about because everybody was in on it. Everybody 288 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 4: was cool with it. If you're cool with the bounty, 289 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 4: you gotta be cool with the capture. And not an 290 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 4: American soldier died, not one. Not an American citizen got harmed? 291 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 2: Not what not? What? 292 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: Not one? 293 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 2: Come on, now, this is what. 294 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 4: I mean when I talk about us being fair. There's 295 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 4: a lot of things I don't like about what the 296 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 4: president's doing or how he might do it. I don't 297 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 4: like the style at all, But in the end, when 298 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 4: it's effective, it's effective, you gotta give credit where it 299 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 4: is due. That's how you legitimately grill them when you 300 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 4: diametrically oppose what he's doing, because it makes sense because 301 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 4: you're not engaging in partisanship. 302 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 2: You're consistent take away that it is his coffee. 303 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: Well, what I mean like, this is where and I 304 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: think I'm exactly where he is on this, because you 305 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: have expressed, as did I, the concern over, hey, what 306 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: happens next there because we don't have a great track 307 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: record in this country of what happens next? And I 308 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: think that's okay, and I don't think that makes you 309 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: a leftist. I don't think it makes you a liberal. 310 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: I don't think it makes you TDS. I think it's 311 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: a valid question for people to be asking. However, you 312 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: and I aren't running around screaming and crying that this 313 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: guy was apprehended and calling Trump some sort of war criminal, 314 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: because clearly, as Steven A. Smith is laying out, the 315 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: previous administration, which were run by Democrats, not only kept 316 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: this guy's bounty in place that was put in there 317 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: under Trump, they enhanced it. Well, how would you logically 318 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: expect the bounty to be captured? 319 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 2: Is it to be right? Capture the bounty? Yeah? Right, yeah, 320 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: unless you go capture him and bring it back to 321 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 2: this country. 322 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: What do you think somebody just go, He's just gonna 323 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: show up and go, I'm here to collect the bounty 324 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: on myself. Of course, they wanted somebody to capture this 325 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: guy and bring. 326 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 2: Him to this country. It's ridiculous. 327 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: It is fascinating that Trump ske keeps skating by relatively 328 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: unscathed these engagements. And I was concerned with how the 329 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: military action in Iran was going to ultimately turn out. 330 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: It remains yet to be seen how the military engagement 331 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: in Venezuela is going to turn out. Although by all appearances, 332 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: like Steven A. Smith said, no Americans were killed in 333 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: this incident and we haven't engaged further military resources in 334 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: Venezuela thus far. But that is a very valid concern, 335 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: and it's fascinating that Trump has been able to manage 336 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: and still, despite these repeated engagements, remain unscathed, although he's 337 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: rolling the dice on that in my opinion. Okay, let's 338 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. You may have 339 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: heard even they're getting rid of the penny. Yes, now 340 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: when he said getting rid of the penny, they've stopped 341 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: making the penny. The penny is still in circulation. They 342 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: did make a final run of pennies for the purposes 343 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: of collector's items. 344 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 2: They did, Yes, they did. 345 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: But eventually, over time, as things phase out, that we 346 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: will eventually be done with the penny. And our next 347 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: guest doctor Scott Strong. He's a college professor. He's a 348 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: number guy. That's what he does. He has crunched the 349 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: numbers in an interesting way to figure out how much 350 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: losing the penny could potentially cost you and how much 351 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: it might end up making for large corporations. We'll interview 352 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: will they interview next that you'll want to hear. It's 353 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: Kettle Casey Show, ninety three WIBC. So the Penny's going away, 354 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: and our next guest says it could have a profound 355 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: impact not only on your wallet, but the bottom line 356 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: of corporations. And he's done some math to back it up. 357 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: It's Kennlelly Casey Show. I'm Rob, joined in CEO by 358 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: my good friend. This guy knows numbers unlike anybody else. 359 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: His name is doctor Scott Strong. He's a learning leader. 360 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: Is that what they call you? A learning leader? Something 361 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: I will never be for a fortune one hundred company. 362 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: He's a he's a college professor, and he is a 363 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: dude that knows that a crunch number. Scott Strong, Hello, Hello, Okay, 364 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: So we've had you on many times over the years 365 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: as it relates to math and numbers and data and 366 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: this is what you do. You live in this world, 367 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: and I'm always fascinated that things in your very fertile 368 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: mind that are all that are popping up and you'd 369 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: begun to explore. Hey, the penny's going away, what might 370 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: that actually mean in terms of the amount of money 371 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: that comes out of the pockets of consumers, but also 372 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: to the bottom line of these corporations. 373 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: Tell us about it. 374 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, So what I found out is we all know 375 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 3: that the current administration did a way of penny because 376 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 3: it was more to produce the penny than it was 377 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 3: worth last year. And so I hadn't had been many 378 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 3: moons since I had been to white Castle, and I had. 379 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: No real quick the penny still exists, right, you can 380 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: still use a penny for those who don't never use cash. 381 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: It's just they're not making anywhere, so eventually, by war 382 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: of attrition it will go away. 383 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: Correct, So I. 384 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: Had so what we're trying to move to kind of 385 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 3: a cashless society? Right, So, but you'll probably have noticed 386 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 3: that there's a big thing about precious metals, yes, and 387 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 3: we're you know, Trump and the administration are all about 388 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 3: precious metals. China is trying to keep it away from us. 389 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: Silver and gold exploding. 390 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 3: Exactly so over hit like seventy five dollars yesterday and 391 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 3: all of this stuff. So how does that make a 392 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 3: difference to us? Why is a penny? How does all 393 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 3: this come into this? And so about a year ago 394 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 3: I started realizing you know, they started not producing you know, 395 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 3: some of those metals into our money. Yeah, we started 396 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 3: pulling it back. And so you probably heard some of 397 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 3: these stories of people finding rare coins that are worth 398 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 3: ten thousand, thousand dollars. 399 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: There was a story my mother in law examines every 400 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: quarter because some of them have a lot of stuff 401 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: in them. 402 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm fully aware of it. Yes, so I hear 403 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 2: about it all the time. 404 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 3: So it's kind of been one of these things where 405 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 3: people are keeping their change. Yeah, because you know, there's 406 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 3: this kid that found a Roosevelt dime in may or 407 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars. 408 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 2: I saw an app. 409 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: Now there's an app where you can literally scan your 410 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: phone over the coin and it will tell you if 411 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: it's a coin worth keeping. 412 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of us are like, well, let's 413 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 3: pay in cash and get the coins and check it right, sure, 414 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 3: because you never know it's you. It's like playing the 415 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: lottery every day, you know. So I went to I 416 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 3: went to White Castle, and I had many moons and 417 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 3: they gave me my change back. And I've been used 418 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 3: to people saying, hey, we don't have chan, we don't 419 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 3: have pennies, do you mind if we just not give 420 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 3: you your pennies or can you donate it? And so I 421 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 3: was there and they. 422 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: Don'tate it to who to the white Castle Corporation, Capitol Corporate, 423 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: they need a penny so or Kroger or whoever. 424 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: And they gave it back to me and they didn't ask, 425 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 3: they just kept it. 426 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 2: And I was like, hey, wait, we're moving along in 427 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 2: the in the system very quickly. 428 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I asked, I said, hey, did you guys 429 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 3: run out of pennies? Oh, it's corporate policy not to 430 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: give you pennies back. 431 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 2: Wait. 432 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: Wait, by the way, our guess is doctor Scott's strong. 433 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: We're talking about how the penny going away may hurt 434 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: you financially. Wait a second, So they just down on 435 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 1: their own the corporate This guy said, the corporate policy 436 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,479 Speaker 1: is we just short you some change. 437 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And I was like, oh, wait a minute. 438 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 3: I mean usually people ask before they steal my money, 439 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 3: you know, you guys just keep it. 440 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 2: And he's like, well, it's corporate policy. Now. 441 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 3: I said no, I said that you want to talk 442 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 3: to my manager? I said yes, because I'm like, you know, 443 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 3: I want to play the loundery here with my coins. 444 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 3: I want to see if I get a you know, 445 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars coins. 446 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 447 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like you're some guy in a 448 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 1: soup kitchen line. But it's the principle of it. That's 449 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: my money. You give it back to me. 450 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 451 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 3: So, you know, so they look shocked that I asked 452 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 3: for this. You know, they're shocked. And finally the manager 453 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 3: comes up and she says, what do you want? And 454 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 3: I said, oh, give me a. 455 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: Nickel, and they did. 456 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 3: They, yes, finally they gave me a nickel after. 457 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 2: We So you made a couple of pennies. I made 458 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: a couple of pennies. There you go. 459 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 3: So I went home and I thought about this, and 460 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 3: I thought, well, what is it? How much are they making. 461 00:20:58,920 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 2: Off of this? 462 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 3: Because so I look back for their twenty twenty four 463 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 3: data using helpful AI, and you know, there's three hundred 464 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 3: and forty five white castles across the US. They're doing 465 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 3: roughly twenty five, you know, twenty five percent of their transactions. 466 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 3: So they're doing roughly twenty three hundred transactions a day. 467 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: So when I started doing the math, that comes out 468 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 3: to eight hundred and thirty five thousand dollars a year 469 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 3: for just one cent per cash transaction a day that 470 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 3: they're not giving back. 471 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 1: Well, so if white So your math tells you that 472 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: if White Castle just one penny on their transactions a 473 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: day for the average consumer, right, they would get eight 474 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: hundred and forty five thousand dollars just free money. 475 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, your money. 476 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 3: If it's just one cent, Now mine was two cents, 477 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: so that'd be like one point six eight million. 478 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 2: That's a staggering amount of money. Yes, then that's just 479 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: white Castle. That's just three hundred and forty five. Think 480 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: about what the McDonald's would be. 481 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and so, and this is going on across the country, 482 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 3: so you're and so, you know, and I've been asked 483 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: several times, well, we don't have the pennies, and you know, 484 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 3: what are you supposed to say? Yeah, just keep it? 485 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 3: You know, I've got a lot of people do, and 486 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 3: a lot of people do. I started doing a little 487 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: bit of research. So I asked the local bank that 488 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 3: I went into yesterday, and I said, hey, they said 489 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 3: they don't even give pennies back. I said, how many businesses? 490 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 3: They said, we don't even we don't even make it 491 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: available to people anymore. Like the businesses, if somebody asked 492 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 3: for pennies, you don't even give them a roll of pennies. 493 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 2: No. 494 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 1: Wait, wait, you're saying, like if I got by the way, 495 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: doctor Scott Strong is our guess. We're talking about the 496 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: death of the penny and what it'll mean to you financially. 497 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: You're telling me that if in some banks, you go 498 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: to a bank right now and they're like, give me, 499 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: you know, give me five dollars in pennies, I'll just say. 500 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 2: No, we can't do that. That's correct. Holy smokes. I 501 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: didn't know it. 502 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: I went, I started asking yesterday and I was like, 503 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 3: they said, oh, we don't get pennies away anymore. I 504 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,959 Speaker 3: said no, if you have a check and it's like, 505 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 3: you know, three dollars and twenty three cents, we'll give 506 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 3: you the pennies for that. But if you come in 507 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 3: and ask for a roll of fifty cents, not all 508 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 3: banks will give you fifty cents anymore. They just don't 509 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 3: give it. And then as corporate policies, these companies are saying, 510 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 3: we don't give pennies. We round up in our favor, 511 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 3: so we take your pennies and we just keep them Okay. 512 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 2: Now do you did you do any math. 513 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: On what it'll cost the average person a year if 514 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: they lose the penny. 515 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 3: I did not do that, but I could probably do 516 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 3: We could probably do it in AI. But you're you're 517 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,479 Speaker 3: still looking at three to five percent of your cost 518 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 3: going up on every transaction. Well that if you're using cash, 519 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 3: that's which is what so you're looking. So when I 520 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 3: did the numbers in twenty twenty four, because nothing in 521 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is available yet because we just ended 522 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 3: the year, what people are paying about around fourteen percent 523 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 3: of all their transactions in cash. 524 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: So for so on average and fourteen percent of the 525 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: transactions are cash, and you're saying you could see a 526 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: three to five percent increase potentially on a transaction. 527 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 2: That's a lot of money. 528 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 3: That is millions, if not billions of dollars. So I 529 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 3: mean you start thinking about that number, that is huge. 530 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 3: So when you talk about inflation, well, inflation's coming down. 531 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 2: It's going through the roof. 532 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 3: Now there some places are being smart and saying, well, 533 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 3: we'll round up and we'll give you. 534 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 2: We'll give you a free coke, we'll give you a 535 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 2: two leaders. 536 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: Walmart did that to me. The other day, Walmer was 537 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: one of the ones that rounded up. I think my 538 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: pennies I was do back was three and they gave 539 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: me an extra nickelback, so they did round up. 540 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a few that are doing it, but most 541 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 3: of them. But I was amazed when they said, our 542 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: policy is not to give you your pennies back, and 543 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 3: I thought, well, my policy is. 544 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 2: To ask for it. 545 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: You should now real quick before we let you go. 546 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: I got just a couple of minutes left here with 547 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: doctor Scott Strong. 548 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 2: You're an AI expert. Yess what you do for your job. 549 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: You've been on with us talking about the You in 550 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: fact made jingles for our radio show that were entirely 551 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: done by AI. It's fastening the work you do. My 552 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 1: wife works in cybersecurity, so she deals with AI. She 553 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: has said, we're getting into a more concerning point because 554 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: the AI. AI is getting smarter. Five years ago, the 555 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: AI was stupid, she says. Now by the day, the 556 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: AI is getting smarter, the the videos look better. 557 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 2: Should we be afraid of AI. 558 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 3: Yes, we should in the aspect that we're gathering the 559 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 3: information from the people that are out here, so we're 560 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 3: we're literally harvesting the knowledge from the people that have it. 561 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 3: The problem is we're dumbing down the critical thinking skills 562 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: of the next generation. So it's two aspects. One the 563 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 3: next generation that if you retain your critical thinking skills, 564 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 3: it's a smarter spoort of opportunity for you if you 565 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 3: keep your skills up. 566 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 2: But guys are done. People radio, guys are done. It's over. 567 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 3: But it can be detrimental to people if you go 568 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 3: the route of over reliance on AI. 569 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 2: Scott's Strong. 570 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: Where can people find you if they want to learn 571 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: more about your fabulous math and AI and everything else 572 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: you do. 573 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 3: You can find me at my website ww Doctor Scottstrong 574 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 3: dot Comdr Scott Scottstrong dot com. 575 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: Doctor Scottstrong dot com. Thank you. It's Kindle Case Show 576 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 2: ninety three wibc oh Yeah, final segment of the week. 577 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: It's the Kendall and Casey Show. I'm Robbie the Natchers 578 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: in for Casey. Ethan. 579 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: You are a man who, at one point in your 580 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: life lost a sizable amount of weight. Yes, I lost 581 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: about a total of eighty pounds. I ended up ultimately 582 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 1: gaining about twenty pounds of that back, but I have 583 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: kept off the remaining sixty pounds, and I consider that 584 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: a job well done. That's like a sack of concrete 585 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: that I was carrying around every day that is now 586 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: off my shoulders. 587 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, and never. 588 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 1: It's interesting because I never thought of you some because 589 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: you're very tall. Yes, I never thought of you some 590 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,719 Speaker 1: morbidly obese human. But I was quite tubby. But then 591 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: you say their phones, you go, wow, you did. You 592 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: did have some weight to lose and you did it? 593 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: Now you did? Did you conscientiously make the choice to 594 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: put the extra twenty pounds back on after you lost 595 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: the first eighty? It was not conscientious. It's just I 596 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: modulated my calorie intake. That's what it all came down to. 597 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: It is calorie intake. And if you are taking in 598 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: far more calories than you need, then you will continue 599 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: to put on the weight. So I was not eating 600 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: as few calories as I used to, and consequently I 601 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: put on a few more pounds back. But I am 602 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: not eating as many as I once did. Yeah, I've 603 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: been as like I've been lifestyle. I've been as high 604 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: in my life as one point eighty. I've been as 605 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 1: low as one forty. Usually my physical fitness was related 606 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,959 Speaker 1: to what sort of interpersonal relationship I was attempting to 607 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,959 Speaker 1: engage in with a member of the opposite sex, and 608 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: then you would get your fitness level according to According 609 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: to that, I am right in the middle of that 610 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: right now, at my middle age, which is essentially my 611 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: driver's license weight from twenty five years ago or whatever 612 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: it was. And so I feel pretty proud about that. 613 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: I exercised now to stay alive, more so than to 614 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: a press anyone. 615 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 2: But I mentioned all. 616 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 1: Of this because the Daily Mail had a big expose 617 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: on the folks that take the shots to lose weight, 618 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: the Wagovi and the. 619 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 2: Munjaro ze Zembia. 620 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: I mean, there's all many different ones, and no disputing 621 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: a large amount of people have lost a large amount 622 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: of weight in relatively short times. Now, it's my understanding 623 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: what it's like an appetite suppressant, right like it? 624 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. 625 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean I've never taken it, but it helps crave. 626 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 1: It helps your hunger cravings or desire to eat food. 627 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. I don't know, Maybe 628 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: we could have somebody come on here who's done it, 629 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: but anyway, clearly very successful for many people. However, a 630 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: new study has come out that shows that if you're 631 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: a person who has done that to lose weight, you 632 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: are going to need to remain on that shot for 633 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: the remainder of your days, unless you're okay with putting 634 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: the pounds back on. Because according to the Daily Mail, 635 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: there was an organization that examined thirty seven studies involving 636 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: more than nine three hundred people, and what they found 637 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: was that for most of those people, when the jabs 638 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: were stopped, the weight loss not only return, but it 639 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: returned rapidly, no matter how much weight you had actually lost. 640 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: So in order to keep the weight off, you are 641 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: now essentially doomed to continue paying for what is a 642 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: very expensive medication for the rest of your life just 643 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: to keep the weight off. That's why they Ultimately the 644 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: best way to go about this is by embracing lifestyle change. 645 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: And I think any dietitian or any weight loss specialist 646 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: is going to tell you that the way to keep 647 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: off the weight life long term is through a lifestyle 648 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: change dietary. You know, alterations can't be just a temporary thing. 649 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: Ultimately you have to go for the long term. 650 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. 651 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: The diet is a huge part of any sort of 652 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: weight loss journey. Exercises a huge part of any sort 653 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: of weight loss journey. And you know, really it's not 654 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: just what you eat, but when you eat all of 655 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: that stuff. And so one of the things that i'd 656 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: talked about, you know, obviously these these weight loss shots, 657 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,959 Speaker 1: and everybody makes their own personal, you know, health choices, 658 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: and that's great. One of my concerns that I've said, 659 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: and I felt sort of the same way about the 660 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: COVID vaccine, which is kind of played out, which is, 661 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: we don't really know what that's going to look like 662 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: in five years. Very true, we don't really know what 663 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: it's going to look like in ten years. And while 664 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: many people are being helped with the weight loss, which 665 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: is great, the reality is it's going to be a 666 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: new frontier five or ten years from now where we're 667 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: seeing were there any you know, health side effects that 668 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: sustained or popped up as a result of now people 669 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: apparently having to use these for the remainder of their 670 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: days that they desire to keep the weight over Well, 671 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: we've already seen some deleterious side effects as a result 672 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: of the medication, like osteoporosis symptoms, it makes your bones 673 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: brittle and fragile like that of a baby bird's. That's 674 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: not good. Turned your bones into a baby bird brittle 675 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,239 Speaker 1: and fragile like a baby bird. So I'm saying, or 676 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: I didn't realize a little birds bones birds bones are hollow, 677 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: rob Did you not know that? 678 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 2: They didn't know this? 679 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's all. There's why they can fly. 680 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: Oh there's nothing in there. Well, or there's very little 681 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, it's not as weighty. Oh they're light, 682 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: that's why the birds can fly. 683 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: Why howdy, that's just happened. 684 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: And that's why when you, you know, you crush them, 685 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: the bones just snapped very brittle. 686 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 2: This should be from the well duh portion. 687 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: Of what we're doing here today, but it actually is 688 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: somewhat surprising that it is this way. A new study 689 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: kids come out that showed eighty two percent of Americans 690 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: are now concerned about the national debt. And again I'm like, well, 691 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: it's thirty eight trillion, so this should be a well 692 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: done thing. But I'm actually surprised that many people are 693 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: even aware of the national debt. 694 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 2: Well, that's a good point. 695 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: Usually people are incredibly disengaged from politics, but that still 696 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: seems like a incredibly non low number for what it 697 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: should be. Eighteen percent of the population is certainly not 698 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: paying attention. So Forbes, amongst others, has articles about this, 699 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: and the study that came out it was by the 700 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: non part Peter G. Peterson Foundation, that found that eighty 701 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: two percent of voters agree that lawmakers must spend time 702 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: addressing the national debt. Here's the problem with this, though, 703 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: every you cannot address the national debt without taking away 704 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: the freebies. You cannot address the national debt without taking 705 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: away the legalized vote buying. You cannot address the national 706 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: debt without taking away or dramatically altering the entitlement system 707 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: that we have in which at a certain age you 708 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: start getting stuff. 709 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 2: From the government. 710 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: And as people live longer, that number is only going 711 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: to continue to climb unless we're willing to do something 712 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: about it. And our government thus far has shown absolutely 713 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: no desire whatsoever to make the hard choices in order 714 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: to get this thing under control. Well, certainly when it 715 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: comes to social security reform or some of the core benefits, 716 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: Yeah that there's been minimum movement on that, But let's 717 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: give some credit where it's due for the Trump administration 718 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: now putting their finger on the pulse of that upwards 719 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: of potentially six hundred billion dollars worth of welfare fraud 720 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: across the United States, and Scott Bissant putting the stop 721 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: on the wealth transfers out of the country from people 722 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: who are receiving public assistance. Like, these are all moving 723 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: in the right direction, they're taking marginal steps. But the 724 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: DOGE was undone by the big beautiful bullcrap bill. 725 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: Yes, this is my point. The dog just was to 726 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 2: do this. 727 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: And what they find with DOGE that quote unquote money 728 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: saved you didn't go back to the taxpayers. It went 729 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: back to the agency to be spent on something else. 730 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: We never get We never address the issue, which is 731 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: we are addicted to taking other people's money. In this case, 732 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: it's really gross because other people's money is printed money 733 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: DApp deficits our future taxes that other people who don't 734 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: have a say in this, My daughter, her kids, they 735 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: are going to be the ones who're got to pay 736 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: this back. 737 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 2: And they didn't get any saying any of it, or 738 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: any benefit out of any of it. 739 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,239 Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's very true, unfortunately, but it is 740 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: also the world that we live. 741 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 2: In all right, let's end on a pot. We never 742 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 2: get a cut. 743 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: Let's end in a positive note. Ethan Hatcher, what are 744 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,959 Speaker 1: you doing this weekend? You are a fun guy. You 745 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: are mister excitement. What are you doing this weekend that's 746 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: gonna wow me in our audience. I am going to 747 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: be back at work for the first show of twenty 748 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: twenty six Saturday Night on the Circle, because yeah, I've 749 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: been gone. That's right, being gone in Pennsylvania. If you're 750 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: not on the Circle anymore, though, are you changing the 751 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: name of the show. We're gone from the Circle. This 752 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: is still the Circle City. I don't think you have 753 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,720 Speaker 1: to be physically on Monument Circle in order to retain 754 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 1: the title. I mean, if we ever transfer to another city, 755 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: then we can work on a rebranding, but not before. 756 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 2: Then, so gotta be doing that. And then. 757 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,720 Speaker 1: Also, I will be back here on Sunday afternoon putting 758 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: in a shift. Also be filling on the Tony kinneck 759 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,439 Speaker 1: cast tonight so you can tune in from seven to eight. 760 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 2: I got a busy weekend ahead of me. 761 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: Now, people may not know you're still technically like a 762 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: producer here on WIBC on the weekends. Yes, you still 763 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: come in behind the scenes and do stuff. Yes, so 764 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 1: I will be dealing with the technological issues that we 765 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: have been suffering. 766 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 2: All good luck. Yeah, and I'll be back at bat 767 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 2: on Sunday. 768 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: keV, are you doing anything that might get yourself incarcerated 769 00:34:59,040 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: over the weekend? 770 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,399 Speaker 2: It's always fifty to fifty with you. I think I'm 771 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 2: going to watch the IU game tonight with some friends. 772 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta go out, like hit the town, maybe 773 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: go out to a bar, maybe just watch it at 774 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: one of my buddy's houses. You ever get recognized like 775 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,879 Speaker 1: that's Kevin from the Kendall and Casey Show. 776 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 2: Do you ever get recognized when you're out and about? 777 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 2: You know, I keep a pretty low profile. I'm usually 778 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 2: incognito mode. Yeah, it's probably good for you. 779 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: I mean you'd have to beat the women off with 780 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: the stick and all of them throwing their underwear in 781 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: your general direction. I mean, you wouldn't want that for 782 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: anybody on your worst enemy. So it's pretty good that 783 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: you keep a low profile. I'm doing something crazy this weekend. 784 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: Ethan oh Hammer and I have talked about this a 785 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 1: little bit or any more signatures. No, I think I'm 786 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: gonna take the weekend off. It's the well the IU 787 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,359 Speaker 1: game tonight, and then of course the National Football League 788 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: playoffs start tomorrow and my beloved Chicago Bears are playing 789 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: their arch rival they hated Green Bay Packers. Saturday night. 790 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: Seven point thirty, I think is the game time. And 791 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,400 Speaker 1: nothing would make me happier than to have eight months 792 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: to be able to brag because we never beat the Packers, 793 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: to have flushed the Packers out of the playoffs, and 794 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: it would be such a disappointment if they didn't do it. 795 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 1: The only way that I could possibly assure myself of 796 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: some level of happiness is if I made a sizeable 797 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: bet on the Packers. So either I will win a 798 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: bevy of money or I will win great joy of 799 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,440 Speaker 1: having eight months to be able to note that for 800 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: the first time, we have finally brought about the end 801 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: of the Green Bay Packers. So I am throwing a 802 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 1: sizeable This is the equivalent of like five thousand dollars 803 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 1: for the average person. I am putting fifty dollars on 804 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers money line to beat the Chicago Bears. 805 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: So either I win a boatload of cash or I 806 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 1: win happiness. 807 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 2: Ethan I can't lose. 808 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: That's big spending for Rob Kendall and you already basically 809 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: answered my question do you have any superstitious rituals And 810 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: the answer is yes, you're betting against your own interests. 811 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: I always bet against the bears. That way, I can't lose. 812 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: You guys have a great, very happy and safe a weekend. 813 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 1: Ethan great job. 814 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 2: Same to you, Kevin, and most importantly you the audience. 815 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,839 Speaker 2: You're the best. Without you, there is no us. 816 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,240 Speaker 1: Tony Katz coming up next, Kennelly Casey Showndy Free WIBC 817 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 2: Spas