Speaker 1: Live from Vall Heartbyer and the Crossroads of America. It's
Speaker 1: Tony Katz Today.
Speaker 2: There's something about the political right in Mexican food that
Speaker 2: really my people, my people conservatives, well maybe it's Republicans.
Speaker 3: I'm a conservative. They are not a function.
Speaker 2: Because it was about Trump and well this was the
Speaker 2: left naming it taco. Trump always chickens out, which is
Speaker 2: not true at all.
Speaker 3: Or in any way.
Speaker 2: So there was the taco thing, and now it's about
Speaker 2: the burrito. And I cannot describe to you how wrong
Speaker 2: everyone is, or I should say many people are on
Speaker 2: the political right about this story. You're missing the point.
Speaker 2: You sound ridiculous, out of touch, lost, disconnected.
Speaker 3: If you want to lose elections.
Speaker 2: You keep talking the way you talk, or you can
Speaker 2: listen to me Tony Katz. Tony Katz Today, an absolute
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Speaker 2: with a post from Matt wallsho I've disagreed with on things.
Speaker 3: Over there at Daily Wire, and.
Speaker 2: He wrote that grocery prices are insane they're still rising.
Speaker 2: Addressing this problem should be the number one priority of
Speaker 2: every elected leader, and the stupid foreign wars and focus
Speaker 2: on this issue. It's one of the main reasons socialists
Speaker 2: are gaining power. Well, he's wrong. One of the main
Speaker 2: reasons socialists are gaining power is because we gave up
Speaker 2: control and observation of education for forty years, fifty years.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's speak clear about it. It's origins, Matt.
Speaker 2: Foreign wars and saying and stupid foreign wars is a
Speaker 2: talking point. Stopping the Iranian regime is smart, is conservative,
Speaker 2: is strong, is pro America, and is America first.
Speaker 3: No one who.
Speaker 2: Would allow RAND to remain as they were before was
Speaker 2: actually in any way ever America first. That includes Tucker
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, that includes Marjorie Taylor Green, that includes Thomas Massey.
Speaker 2: There is nothing that is America first about leaving a
Speaker 2: terrorist regime to do harm to the United States and
Speaker 2: United States interest just not real. But absolutely, grocery prices
Speaker 2: are too high. Yes, egg prices are down and other
Speaker 2: things have come down. Beef prices are down, but they're
Speaker 2: still too high. And what we're really talking about when
Speaker 2: people utilize the term affordability is the idea that the
Speaker 2: basic has become costly. We should note these things. We've
Speaker 2: discussed it here. In the terms of going out to eat,
Speaker 2: there was a moment that that fast food quick serve
Speaker 2: and the prices have gotten so high that people had
Speaker 2: moved to places like Texas Roadhouse. If I'm going to
Speaker 2: go to a Chipotle, never mind the salmonilla from the Halopanos,
Speaker 2: which they pulled the Holopanos, And I hope they come
Speaker 2: out of this, you know, I don't want them to
Speaker 2: get destroyed.
Speaker 3: By this issue.
Speaker 2: But if I get the family of four, everyone gets
Speaker 2: a burrito, speaking of burritos, and they get a drink,
Speaker 2: and we get some extra trips.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, the little one wants to guacamole.
Speaker 2: That bill could be sixty dollars, right, well, one, I'm
Speaker 2: at sixty dollars. Can I be at seventy three dollars
Speaker 2: and get myself an eight ounce steak, sit in a booth,
Speaker 2: get my refills where someone brings them to me. Oh,
Speaker 2: I get the rolls, and I get to feel like
Speaker 2: a person. When a family cannot go out to eat
Speaker 2: to the most basic of places, the Texas Roadhouse, the Applebee's.
Speaker 2: I'm not mocking these places. I'm discussing them as they are.
Speaker 2: People start asking themselves, what are we working so hard for?
Speaker 2: The going out to eat, the going to one of
Speaker 2: these places and being served is the way to feel normal.
Speaker 2: It's the way to feel like my work is worth it.
Speaker 2: I can afford to provide for my family this little luxury.
Speaker 2: In this way, the misses didn't have to cook being stereotypical.
Speaker 2: Everybody's out, it's a little relaxing. We'll actually look at
Speaker 2: each other. No, no, no, everybody off the phones. We're
Speaker 2: hanging out. Come on, you're in a restaurant. Don't be
Speaker 2: on your phone. Don't be see those people look ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 3: And it connects.
Speaker 2: That is good and that is where a sense of
Speaker 2: normalcy comes from. When people can't afford to do that,
Speaker 2: or feel that they can't afford to do that, they
Speaker 2: ask themselves, what am I working this hard for?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 2: What is this? You cannot cannot deny that, You should
Speaker 2: not deny that. Do not deny where people are, where
Speaker 2: they exist, and what it is that moves them. I
Speaker 2: would argue that there is a great amount of America
Speaker 2: that isn't looking for millions and billions. They're looking for happy,
Speaker 2: They're looking for you know what.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 2: And I have zero issue with that.
Speaker 3: To respond to.
Speaker 2: Matt Walsh, comes Andrew COVID. Andrew was, of course the
Speaker 2: producer and the right hand of the late Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: And I believe he still runs that show.
Speaker 2: He's still doing that show. It's on the same time.
Speaker 2: I am so I never listened. I've never met Andrew.
Speaker 2: And Andrew posted. And what Andrew posted was this right here.
Speaker 2: He posted that one of our TPUSA college students, meaning
Speaker 2: Turning Point USA, gave me his take on affordability. Quote
Speaker 2: A burrito shouldn't cost twenty dollars, he continues, Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of this is a hangover from COVID and Biden
Speaker 2: error inflation. But the lived experience is the same. It
Speaker 2: just feels like basic things cost too much.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 2: A very normal thing to say. That's very, very true.
Speaker 2: The idea that a burrito may not cost twenty dollars
Speaker 2: is not the story. It's that the experience the basics
Speaker 2: are just too high. It is it's the rent is
Speaker 2: too m high. It's that feeling. The responses to this
Speaker 2: have been ridiculous. One of those ridiculous responses was from
Speaker 2: Mark Theesson, who does a lot of writing Fox Washington Post.
Speaker 2: I follow some of his work. I like the guy,
Speaker 2: but he made a mistake and he wrote crimea River.
Speaker 2: The burritos in the college cafeteria are included in your
Speaker 2: meal plan.
Speaker 3: Oh, we really don't want to win elects.
Speaker 2: Doing the political right has no interest reading winning elections.
Speaker 2: They don't everything that said. Oh you're just complaining. Oh
Speaker 2: you're just ridiculous as opposed to listening to what's being said.
Speaker 2: Not only is this said by Mark Pierson, but Ben
Speaker 2: Shapiro jumps in and says that if young people were
Speaker 2: paying twenty dollars for a burrito, they are quote doing
Speaker 2: life wrong. I said earlier this week that when it
Speaker 2: came to Sophie Cunningham, Matt Walsh had a swing and
Speaker 2: a miss. This is a swing and a miss from
Speaker 2: Ben Shapiro.
Speaker 3: Jide. Now all I have is that quote.
Speaker 2: Producer land, and if you want to go find the
Speaker 2: post from Ben you can.
Speaker 3: That is a mistake.
Speaker 2: The argumentier is not that a turning point USA member
Speaker 2: should be should not be buying twenty dollars burritos. The
Speaker 2: argumentier is the idea of cost, the idea that the
Speaker 2: basics are high, and that is not solely represented by
Speaker 2: the college student. It's represented by anybody who buys groceries.
Speaker 2: It's represented by anybody who pays car insurance or any
Speaker 2: other shirts, homeowners inshurts. Can we discuss the rising costs
Speaker 2: here buying an airline ticket and you get less service,
Speaker 2: less care?
Speaker 3: And what do you do? You pay more and more
Speaker 3: and more.
Speaker 2: I was discussing yesterday that there is this budget airline
Speaker 2: out of Australia that now wants to charge you if
Speaker 2: you put your carry on in the overhead bin.
Speaker 3: If that holds, what happens.
Speaker 2: When they bring that to United and Delta and Jet Blue, etc.
Speaker 2: Now some people responded to these things with just ridiculousness.
Speaker 2: One of those people was the vice president. The vice
Speaker 2: president stated, I'm surprised talking about Mark Theesen, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: to hear Mark say this. If you've ever met him
Speaker 2: in person, it's quite obvious. The man who has never
Speaker 2: missed a burrito, that's just dumb. What are you doing? Congratulations,
Speaker 2: you got in the dig terrific, You're now an influencer
Speaker 2: on social media. You might as well just be a podcaster,
Speaker 2: not the vice president of the United States, unless, of course,
Speaker 2: this is all part of your economic nationalism.
Speaker 3: That you're just thrilled by.
Speaker 2: Can we discuss winning elections for half a second? Could
Speaker 2: you listen to what is being said. There is a
Speaker 2: cost issue, and it's real, and it has a great
Speaker 2: number of places that we can look to. And yes, absolutely,
Speaker 2: Biden level inflation is a part of it.
Speaker 3: Inflation is not down to where we need it to be.
Speaker 2: It isn't We had a whole conversation about two Fed
Speaker 2: governors talking about the need for rate hikes, increased interest
Speaker 2: rates to keep dollars from getting into the system. Inflation
Speaker 2: is too much cash, not enough stuff, and therefore you
Speaker 2: increase the interest rates. Let's cash into the system and
Speaker 2: inflation comes down. I saw somebody in the chat talk
Speaker 2: about deflation. Deflation can be a problem if it comes
Speaker 2: too quickly. Stagflation is super ugly. Just ask Japan over
Speaker 2: the last thirty plus years, and ask China as they
Speaker 2: are now slowly realizing they are in the grips of it.
Speaker 2: It is obvious to all of us that the daily
Speaker 2: costs have gotten into an obscenity. It simply is a problem.
Speaker 2: Why not address that problem from all of the angles
Speaker 2: of which it is a problem. Inflation is a part
Speaker 2: of the problem. If President Trump would remove a bunch
Speaker 2: of tariffs, you would see things get easier. My take
Speaker 2: if we took a look at the regulatory environment and
Speaker 2: talked about how less government is a clear place that
Speaker 2: we can engage to reduce cash in the system, to
Speaker 2: where President Trump is having great effect and result. We
Speaker 2: take a look at the jobs numbers that just came out,
Speaker 2: and I'll talk to doctor Matt Will economists at the
Speaker 2: University of Indianapolis coming up in a little bit. The
Speaker 2: jobs numbers. My gosh, you lost twenty three thousand jobs.
Speaker 2: This is terrible, But we actually had sectors that we
Speaker 2: gained private jobs. The private sector gained thirty thousand jobs
Speaker 2: in the month of July. Government lost fifty three thousand jobs.
Speaker 2: Losing government jobs is good. We don't need this big
Speaker 2: bloated government. But you lost more government than you picked
Speaker 2: up private sector. Thus the negative number. So the negative
Speaker 2: number top line tells a story of things still having
Speaker 2: an issue, but there are things within it that explain
Speaker 2: why it's happening, lowering government smart, getting what Kevin Walsh,
Speaker 2: the FED chair, is trying to do, getting things off
Speaker 2: the balance sheet, smart, changing the regulatory environments. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the very idea of costs smart, how about
Speaker 2: we discuss the idea of a twenty dollars burrito and
Speaker 2: those states that want to push twenty dollars an hour
Speaker 2: minimum wages, of course the cost of a burrito or
Speaker 2: anything else is going to go up. Do we not
Speaker 2: understand how this works? We have a thousand ways to
Speaker 2: address what's happening, and go and speak to gen Z
Speaker 2: and speak to all of America and say there is
Speaker 2: a path out of this, and it involves fiscal policy.
Speaker 2: We're the ones with the fiscal policy. Vote for us. Instead,
Speaker 2: I've got Mark Feeson and Ben Shapiro dismissing it with
Speaker 2: non with non intellectual commentary. This is baseline garbage that
Speaker 2: they just put out, and I've got the Vice president
Speaker 2: making fat jokes. This is why people drink bourbon, and
Speaker 2: this is why people hate politics and Republicans.
Speaker 3: This is why people hate you. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: You have an opportunity here? Why not take the damn opportunity?
Speaker 2: You can argue, well, you see, this is just a
Speaker 2: populist message and what the populast would do. America has
Speaker 2: to protect itself more and they have to implement this,
Speaker 2: and you can't be allowed.
Speaker 3: To charge that. No, that stuff is wrong.
Speaker 2: And Trump has some of those inclinations because he's not
Speaker 2: a conservative.
Speaker 3: I understand this, and that's not correct.
Speaker 2: It has to be a policy prescription that takes government
Speaker 2: out of these things, that puts an end to this
Speaker 2: maddening idea that it is on the back of the
Speaker 2: employer to pay what somebody who has never employed an
Speaker 2: anybody has decided as a living wage. We have to
Speaker 2: address these things honestly and clearly and show gen Z
Speaker 2: that they could be active participants in making things better.
Speaker 3: All they have to do.
Speaker 2: Is act, and instead listening to a real concern from
Speaker 2: Andrew Covid, it gets dismissed. It is the dumbest thing
Speaker 2: I have seen the political right do in a good
Speaker 2: long time. And that includes nominating Carrie Lake in Arizona
Speaker 2: when you knew she was gonna lose. Tired like you,
Speaker 2: exhausted of people just not being normal, when that's all
Speaker 2: it takes. I'm Tony Katz, This is Tony Katz today.
Speaker 2: So Presier Landon, as we were talking about the cost
Speaker 2: of burritos in this story about.
Speaker 3: Someone saying that.
Speaker 2: If they can't afford the basic things, it was Andrew
Speaker 2: Covit saying that people at Turning Point USA are like,
Speaker 2: you know, a burrito shouldn't cost twenty dollars, the point
Speaker 2: being that the costs of the everyday things are too high.
Speaker 2: And I'm not suggesting buying twenty dollars burritos Tony Katz
Speaker 2: Tony kats today, but to mock these people are supposed
Speaker 2: to recognize that there are increased costs and there are
Speaker 2: things we can do about this, and these are policy prescriptions,
Speaker 2: and why not go sell those and show people how
Speaker 2: they can be active participants in making things better in
Speaker 2: their own life. Instead they're getting mocked. And Ben Shapiro
Speaker 2: didn't and he was wrong. Mark Theson did it.
Speaker 3: He's wrong. They're just wrong.
Speaker 2: And producer Landen said, does this apply to door dash?
Speaker 2: Allow me, No, it does not. Door dash is about
Speaker 2: you being outrageously lazy. It's not about the cost of
Speaker 2: the item. You are now paying for an added luxury.
Speaker 2: And there are people who DoorDash four times a week
Speaker 2: producer land and true or false.
Speaker 3: That's true. Those people are insane.
Speaker 2: Those people need to have Dave Ramsey come hit them
Speaker 2: about the head with a stick.
Speaker 3: You can't afford door dash? What are you out of
Speaker 3: your mind?
Speaker 2: That is about being foolhardy with your economics. That's a
Speaker 2: different conversation than the cost of simple basic things.
Speaker 3: That's the difference.
Speaker 2: If you are somebody just starting out in life, or
Speaker 2: you're a college student and you're door dashing four days
Speaker 2: a week, you are indeed doing it wrong. If you're
Speaker 2: talking about wanting to go out and a burrito is
Speaker 2: really expensive Chipotle, what have you? Yeah, that is an issue,
Speaker 2: and that issue comes from a lot of other places.
Speaker 2: You deciding you need the luxury of someone driving it
Speaker 2: to you because you just won't get your ass off
Speaker 2: a couch.
Speaker 3: I don't feel anything for you now.
Speaker 2: In all of this, we should be clear. If you're
Speaker 2: just starting out, pack your lunch at home. It's better economics.
Speaker 2: If you have a kitchen, you need to cook, You
Speaker 2: need to handle your economic realities. Well, doesn't change the
Speaker 2: point that's being made about our economics as a nation.
Speaker 2: This is Tony Kats today three more things, Tony Kats
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Speaker 3: Three more things.
Speaker 2: These are stories that should be front page news, but
Speaker 2: because of all of the news on the front pages,
Speaker 2: and they get moved off the front pages. So I
Speaker 2: bring them too, as we said, live streaming smoking a
Speaker 2: Crux marble head as we do the show. It's turned
Speaker 2: out to be a lovely cigar and can work as
Speaker 2: a daily smoke, A nice piece Crux. Crux. They have
Speaker 2: a whole line of cigars. This is the marble head
Speaker 2: right here. Did I pay this ten eleven dollars a stick?
Speaker 3: Something like that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I get it, Tony.
Speaker 2: How can you talk about affordability when you're talking about
Speaker 2: spending eleven dollars on a cigar? Well, I can afford
Speaker 2: the eleven dollars cigar. I can afford the eleven dollars cigar.
Speaker 2: And I've set up my life to be able to
Speaker 2: do this every day.
Speaker 3: If you can't, and when I couldn't, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Right, this whole conversation about economics a never ever excludes
Speaker 2: the idea of being somebody who is aware of your
Speaker 2: economic situation and being focused on it. I was being
Speaker 2: asked in the chat room about a car issue I have,
Speaker 2: and it's a differential went never I've never never had
Speaker 2: a rear differential go And so I was like, well,
Speaker 2: do you fix it? Does that mean you should sell
Speaker 2: the car? What do you do?
Speaker 3: And in speaking to some people who know better than I,
Speaker 3: the answer.
Speaker 2: Was, oh, gosh, no, no, no, no, everything else about the
Speaker 2: car works. You're not going to sell anything.
Speaker 3: Used cars are unbelievably high. Why are used cars high?
Speaker 2: Because new car prices are criminally insane, criminally insane. The
Speaker 2: average car payment in America is seven hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: five dollars for a new car, and there are definitely
Speaker 2: people who are well over one thousand dollars in new
Speaker 2: car payment. That's crazed. Now, my issue there is certainly,
Speaker 2: if you can afford it, you do what you will.
Speaker 2: If you're like, oh, I gotta have a new car, no,
Speaker 2: you don't have to have a new car, grow up
Speaker 2: and handle yourself. There's a difference between being smart about
Speaker 2: your economics and the economics of things we have when
Speaker 2: it comes to new cars. A problem by which we
Speaker 2: loaded up with crap. Oh, this safety feature, that feature,
Speaker 2: the other feature. Nobody wants the features. Nobody cares about
Speaker 2: the features, and they all increase the cost of the vehicle.
Speaker 2: We're forced into these things. Somebody in the chat room wrote,
Speaker 2: that's the capitalism you guys wanted. Damn straight, it's the
Speaker 2: capitalism I want. You think, I want what the communists
Speaker 2: have to offer. No choices and breadlines, pooky, Nobody wants that.
Speaker 3: No one who's normal wants that.
Speaker 2: But the government interference that causes the price increases have
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Watch the prices come down.
Speaker 2: You can actually draw a direct line, in my view,
Speaker 2: between this and things like rent control. Of course.
Speaker 3: You have rent control.
Speaker 2: The rent's too high, and we have to stop these
Speaker 2: high prices of rent. If you have rent control, you're
Speaker 2: stopping the landlord from being able to charge a market rate.
Speaker 2: But the landlord still has to deal with the market
Speaker 2: rate for all the repairs. Then the landlord can't afford
Speaker 2: to make the repairs, and so what does the state
Speaker 2: come and do they take the property? Because somebody has
Speaker 2: to manage this, and you are being a slum lord.
Speaker 2: Rent control is the maneuver to the expropriation of property.
Speaker 2: Argentina had rent control for years. Javier Malay gets elected,
Speaker 2: the rent controls. End prices dropped immediately, and then apartments
Speaker 2: became available because landlords started renting again. But what do
Speaker 2: the communists want? They want to do away with rent.
Speaker 2: They hold symposiums, they write books about abolishing rent. How
Speaker 2: does that work? Well, it works when you don't believe
Speaker 2: in private property. So yeah, capitalism good. Communism sucks. But
Speaker 2: when we talk about cars, we're talking about all the
Speaker 2: things that are forced into it by a government. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize we would.
Speaker 3: Get on a whole thing here about the dollars.
Speaker 2: But I'm happy to do it this way, get rid
Speaker 2: of the things.
Speaker 3: That are you know, I don't want.
Speaker 2: I don't want my car, Ford, GM, Stilantis, whomever. Stop
Speaker 2: sending me a notification that I should look in the
Speaker 2: back seat to see if my kid is there. First,
Speaker 2: what about the people who can't have kids? Thanks for
Speaker 2: reminding them every day that they're unable to have children.
Speaker 2: I think that's rude and disgusting. Secondly, I do not
Speaker 2: want to spend extra for the reminder. I can put
Speaker 2: a post it note right there on the dash or
Speaker 2: I can remember that I have my kid in the car.
Speaker 2: Don't take away personal responsibility. Stop it with that stupid
Speaker 2: been dinging that happens when I don't put on my
Speaker 2: seat belt. I wear my seat belts. I think wearing
Speaker 2: a seat belt makes sense. But if someone doesn't want
Speaker 2: to wear seat belts, I don't want a law that
Speaker 2: says they have to wear a seat belt if they
Speaker 2: fly through the window in a car accident.
Speaker 3: They fly through the window, it's no skin off my nose.
Speaker 2: I mean it'll be skinned off their nose because they
Speaker 2: just flew through the window.
Speaker 3: But don't bother me about it, and I don't have
Speaker 3: to pay for it.
Speaker 2: So the new car prices are so dang high because
Speaker 2: of a lot of this nonsense. It's regulatory insanity. Therefore
Speaker 2: the used car prices go up and there would be
Speaker 2: no real replacing of this car. So get it fixed.
Speaker 2: It's just a reird differential. I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I now know. It is a crappy thing to have
Speaker 3: to replace.
Speaker 2: It is a crappy thing to have to replace if
Speaker 2: it can't be fixed. And yes, the auto shut off
Speaker 2: is nonsense, but the EPA under lee'sz Elton has moved
Speaker 2: to remove the auto shutoff and to that.
Speaker 3: Excellent work, absolutely terrific. I could not be more happy.
Speaker 2: But let me get to the three more things, and
Speaker 2: I will get to one more financial thing. This was
Speaker 2: Duke University, where the Justice Department says that Duke University's
Speaker 2: law school discriminates against white and Asian students.
Speaker 3: You can apply that anywhere, of course it does.
Speaker 2: I would say this about Duke, I would say this
Speaker 2: about universities, not even just law schools, medical schools, everything.
Speaker 3: Of course they do.
Speaker 2: The Department, meaning the Justice Department, says that they're utilizing
Speaker 2: racial references and admissions, violating civil rights laws. So that's
Speaker 2: number one. They give a preferential treatment to black and
Speaker 2: Hispanic applicants, right because they want to say, look how
Speaker 2: many of this group, but look how many of that group.
Speaker 3: This is what happened with Harvard.
Speaker 2: They absolutely were discriminating against Asian students.
Speaker 3: Why we've got enough of those? You've got enough of those?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the That is an absolutely horrifying thing
Speaker 2: to be said. That is pure, raw, unadulterated bigotry, complete bigotry.
Speaker 2: So they said that the black Livespanic students get a
Speaker 2: leg up in white and Asian applicants and the media.
Speaker 2: LSAT scores for white and Asian applicants who were rejected
Speaker 2: were higher than those of black students who were admitted.
Speaker 2: And this after the Supreme Court three years ago explicit
Speaker 2: said explicit racial preferences are illegal in college admissions. We've
Speaker 2: already seen that so many of these universities have done
Speaker 2: workarounds to try and continue this road because they all
Speaker 2: believe in the bigotry. They are are well wrapped into
Speaker 2: the idea that no, this one deserves it and this
Speaker 2: one doesn't. They don't believe in the very concept of merit. Oh,
Speaker 2: if you don't think, I'm not worried about my medical
Speaker 2: future and doctors and nurses and whether or not we
Speaker 2: brought in the best of the brightest. Tony, you're saying
Speaker 2: a black Rispanic nurse can't be the best of the brightest.
Speaker 2: Of course not. But everything has to be on merit
Speaker 2: and not based on this group and that group and
Speaker 2: a great number here and a good number here, and
Speaker 2: does it balance out? And how does it all look
Speaker 2: and the pie charts totally equal.
Speaker 3: That's not the way it works. That can't be the
Speaker 3: way it works.
Speaker 2: I don't want my doctor or my nurse getting into
Speaker 2: being a doctor or nurse because well, well we had
Speaker 2: to do that. I want the best of the best
Speaker 2: of the best of the best. That's what I want.
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine that there's somebody out there who
Speaker 2: wants anything else. Then there is President Trump denying a
Speaker 2: rift with Pete Hegseth regarding munitions. Right, this reporting that
Speaker 2: somehow we're low on weaponry, which is indeed a firing offense.
Speaker 2: I would take every general who was responsible over the
Speaker 2: last years and I would bust them down. I had
Speaker 2: said I would bust them down to corporal, and someone
Speaker 2: reminded me, you can only bust them down to second lieutenant.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me how to live. But I get your point.
Speaker 2: Get rid of pensions, you get nothing. Low on munitions.
Speaker 2: It's an insane idea. Now President Trump says we're not
Speaker 2: and I didn't believe the reporting. And look that you
Speaker 2: can argue in a whole series of ways that this
Speaker 2: a story that got leaked, and you know it's sun
Speaker 2: sou And when you're strong, make your enemy think you're weak.
Speaker 3: On all these kinds of things.
Speaker 2: You can argue it was done to make the administration
Speaker 2: look bad and put pressure on them to stop being
Speaker 2: engaged with Iran. It also could be true again the firings.
Speaker 2: But Trump's point is no, no, no, no, there's no issue
Speaker 2: at all with Hegseth. There are a lot of people
Speaker 2: on the left who want to say all the nasty
Speaker 2: things in the world about Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 3: They're more than welcome to.
Speaker 2: I think Pete hag Seth has done an incredibly good job.
Speaker 3: The recruitment rates are up.
Speaker 2: The focus of the military is clear that we are
Speaker 2: indeed about lethality in the military, and we are not
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Speaker 2: athletic director at Purdue University, Tommy McClelland, who's taking it
Speaker 2: on the chin, and he's handling it pretty well. He's
Speaker 2: been doing some interviews about.
Speaker 3: A really really.
Speaker 2: Really big foot in the mouth moment as he was
Speaker 2: making his announcement. Right, Hey, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get started for Purdue University. Tony Katz,
Speaker 2: Tony Katz today Big ten And of course you're talking
Speaker 2: about the rivalry with Indiana University, which just won the
Speaker 2: national championship. Coach Kurt Signetti going undefeated, Vananda Mendoza, the
Speaker 2: whole story. Everybody knows that, it's an amazing story.
Speaker 3: This is what he said.
Speaker 2: As he was being welcomed, as as he was introducing
Speaker 2: himself to the university into America.
Speaker 4: Every recruit and every current student athlete will hear this
Speaker 4: message repeatedly. We are here to win championships. If you
Speaker 4: don't want to win championships, go to Indiana.
Speaker 2: They are coming off the biggest national championship victory ever,
Speaker 2: why would you tell them to go to Indiana? Also,
Speaker 2: they have many more championships than Purdue. Not good.
Speaker 3: Now, he has been on.
Speaker 2: The circuit today a local stuff, national stuff on with
Speaker 2: Pat McAfee as well, and in my neck of the
Speaker 2: woods in Indianapolis, he was on with a great sports
Speaker 2: host by name of Jay Querry and he's like, He's like, look, yeah,
Speaker 2: I stuck my foot and I believe one of the
Speaker 2: lines he used is I play a lot of golf
Speaker 2: and I hit that one directly in the water. There's
Speaker 2: still a lot of holes left to play. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: there had to have been a conversation somewhere about whether
Speaker 2: or not you fire him. That's how insane that statement
Speaker 2: is insane. I don't think it's gonna happen, but it
Speaker 2: had to have been discussed.
Speaker 3: Just wow, I was a miss. This is Tony Katz today.