1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,559 Speaker 1: Eyes down, ladies, here we go be fourteen that's b 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: as and back in my day we walked the school 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: a mile in the snow uphill both ways. Excuse me, gladdies, 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: but the news stories are backing up worse than my faber. 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 2: I need Michael Brown on the street now is miss. 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: Hold your horses and your hemorrhoid cushions around, crash my 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: bingo morning. If you want to know who's cheating, who's lying, 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: and who left the church thermostat at eighty two degrees again, 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: listen to Michael every weekday from nine to noon on 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: eight point fifty k oh a radio. Ladies, what if 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: I need to give you my opinion for crying out loud? 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Gertrude texts three three one zero three with the keyword 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: Mike or Michael and tell him exactly what you. 14 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 3: Think or my right on over to that I heart radio. 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: App and leave it talk back by smashing the big 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: red microphone button like it stole your last words. 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: In thirty three. 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: That's in as in, nobody better interrupt me till I 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: call the next number. 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: Glad is my hearing ain't? 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 4: So? 22 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: What if I miss a juicy story? 23 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: Lord nos Michael's. 24 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: Got the juiciest six love Gertrude. Just go to the website, 25 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: Michael says, go here dot com. I swear you're working 26 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: my last nerve. Now let me get back to Bingo 27 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: or I'm hiding your reading glasses till easter. 28 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 5: It's been twenty years since I worked in that building. 29 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 5: When it opened, it was the epitome of advanced radio broadcasting. 30 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 5: It is so sad to hear that the building has 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 5: come under such hard times. 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 2: It's a tenement, it's now a tenement. 33 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 6: So I miss, I made this mistake this morning, like, 34 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 6: you know, hitting the restroom before I come on air, 35 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 6: and somebody's in the little urinal, right, and so I 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 6: immediately just not only the only working urinal, but I 37 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 6: forget that because you just assumed, oh there's a divider, 38 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 6: so there's a yurnal over there. 39 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: So you walk over and you. 40 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 6: Oh, I can't do that. So then you have paper 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 6: you got broken. It just says, do not use broken. 42 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 6: And how long has that been now we've only got 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 6: them fixed, but. 44 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 7: That's been broken now thirteen weeks for the remodel of 45 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 7: our fourth floors. 46 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, so coming up in an hour, we got taxpayer 47 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 6: relief shots, and because somebody went to the trouble to 48 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 6: put some rules of engagement or a I guess it's 49 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 6: really maybe a description of the taxpayer relief shots. It's 50 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 6: too long, but it's pretty clever. They went to some 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 6: work to do it. I'm going to play it now, 52 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 6: or I'm not going to do it because I don't 53 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 6: have to do that. Dragon's going to do that just 54 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 6: so we can give him credit for having done it. 55 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 7: What the hell are you talking about? The rules of 56 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 7: engagement that we just played? Is that the one you 57 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 7: were talking to? 58 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: Oh? 59 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 6: I thought she said there was one specifically for textplayer reliefship. 60 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: No oh, oh, I'm sorry, I don't understand. Yeh. 61 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 3: Don't you pay attention around here? 62 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 2: Not to you? True, not to you? 63 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 7: I don't okay, So right, that's what I was trying 64 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 7: to tell you off air, that that rules of engagement 65 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 7: that somebody sent to us through four separate talkbacks, so 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 7: it can be done done except for the fact that 67 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 7: it's almost two minutes long, twice as long as we 68 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 7: really wanting to see. 69 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 6: Sound effects two different voices. Very good if you could 70 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 6: take that and cram it down into sixty seconds. Give 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 6: her to take a few seconds. 72 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: I had to give her. 73 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 7: I had to give her airtime because she worked on it, 74 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 7: multiple voices, sound effects. 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: It was brilliant. I love it, Yes too darn long yep, but. 76 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 6: We do appreciate the effort. So you get an A 77 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 6: for effort and you get a C plus B minus four. 78 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: Quality no quality presentation, presentation. 79 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe that's just you know, your time limit was 80 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 6: sixty some seconds. We give to take a few seconds 81 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 6: either way, and you just didn't follow the rules. 82 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, there are rules to the rules that a gain. 83 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 6: There are rules for the rules of the rules. We're tyrants. 84 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 6: Were tyrants, just like Democrats. So let's go back to 85 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 6: Little Wilson over in Seattle, because when you tie this 86 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 6: back to what I said about the midterms elections and 87 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 6: whether or not the midterm elections are a harbinger of 88 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 6: things to come, we need to pay attention to wait. 89 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 6: And I get that it's Seattle, and I get that 90 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 6: it's New York. But nonetheless, the useful idiots that live 91 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 6: in those cities are going They're no longer hiding in 92 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 6: the shadows all of the fellow travelers. 93 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: They're coming out. 94 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 6: They're coming out and just blatantly saying this is what 95 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 6: we stand for. So go back to a little bit 96 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 6: of her bio. So she you know, she goes to Oxford. 97 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 6: We should tell you anything. 98 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 2: No, right there. 99 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 6: She goes to Oxford to study philosophy, basically to be 100 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 6: indoctrinated by the Fabian socialists that occupy Oxford. If you 101 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 6: don't get that one, go look it up. Fabian socialist Oxford. 102 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 6: To make ends meet, she comes back. She paints boats, 103 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 6: she works construction, and she played her guitar around pipe 104 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 6: Place market for spare change. 105 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: She was a bockster. 106 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 6: She was out trying to make a little spare change. 107 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 6: She then started the group called Now she was a 108 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 6: non driver, but she she didn't drive for the equivalent 109 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 6: of our RTD. But she started a group called the 110 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 6: Seattle Transit Writers Union in an effort to improve services, 111 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 6: lower fares on public transportation. And through this organization, she 112 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 6: paid herself seventy three thousand dollars a year to keep 113 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 6: the show on the road. Man, you talk about a grift, 114 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 6: that is a grift. But they didn't stop there. Then 115 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 6: she started campaign for a payroll tax in order to 116 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 6: subsidize low income housing, speaking of which this is a 117 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 6: footnote if if you haven't heard me give a footnote before. 118 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 6: This is where we pause for a moment to add 119 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 6: something that's a little kind of a local interest. So 120 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 6: she wanted to have a payroll tax to subsidize low 121 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 6: income housing. That's one of many initiatives that, for some 122 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 6: reason face the electra in Seattle year after year after year. 123 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 6: Do you know that in Colorado RTD wants to do 124 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 6: the same thing. Now, they don't want to do a 125 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 6: payroll tax, But RTD is a major real estateholder. When 126 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 6: you think about all of the light rail train stations, 127 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 6: when you think about all the easements that you have, 128 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 6: when you think about all the parking that they have, 129 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 6: they are now considering that what we ought to do 130 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 6: is look at all the parking space we have and 131 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 6: whether it's too much or not enough, I can tell 132 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 6: you it's probably in most areas it's too much. Because 133 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 6: your ridership continues to plummet. They want to take that 134 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 6: real estate and they want to become developers, and they 135 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 6: want to develop low income housing so that as you 136 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 6: try to get off the train to go to work, 137 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 6: you're going to walk through the equivalent of Cabrini Green 138 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 6: and Old Chicago trying to get to work. I mean, 139 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 6: that's how stupid these people are. And there's nothing new 140 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 6: under the sun. Ecclesiasses is absolutely right, there's nothing new whatsoever. 141 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 6: But it's truly strange thing about the homelessness issue, not 142 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 6: just in Seattle but everywhere, because the more that these 143 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 6: politicians show our money at the problem, the worse it gets. 144 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 6: If you drive from any blue collar suburb to downtown, 145 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 6: it's as if you leave a Norman Rockwell painting and 146 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 6: you abruptly enter a horenerous bosh. It's really weird. There's 147 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 6: an authentic touch of Dunkirk about the final stretch of 148 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 6: the journey. You're passing by, but draggles looking campers hunched 149 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 6: together around you know, braziers or stretched out on army 150 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 6: surplus cots. It's really a dreadful prospect on a number 151 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 6: of levels, and once heart you actually you feel sorry 152 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 6: for them, except then you realize that a lot of 153 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 6: the homeless are homeless one by choice, two because of 154 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 6: addictionary mental problems, not because they lost a job. Although 155 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 6: that occurs, that's not necessarily the majority of the problem. Well, 156 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 6: back to her, so she, of course, is an advocate 157 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 6: for homelessness because she already knows how to do the 158 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,479 Speaker 6: drift when you try to. When you put together a 159 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 6: writer's union and you pay yourself seventy three thousand dollars 160 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 6: a year, and you're a busker and you paint boats 161 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 6: and do everything else you're putting together, you know, a 162 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 6: little bit of money, a little bit of scratch, so 163 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 6: you can, you know, go about. 164 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 2: And do whatever you want to do. 165 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 6: Homelessness is a dreadful prospect on any number of levels. 166 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 6: And I know your heart those out tohollessness, but it's 167 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 6: an industry. It's truly an industry. Well quote, in this town, 168 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 6: we believe black lives matter, women's rights or human rights. 169 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 6: No human is illegal. And you know, like the new mayor, 170 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 6: we just got to continue to spend more and more 171 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 6: on community outreach services that don't really have any effect whatsoever. 172 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 6: We're always told that the outcome to each election is 173 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 6: of existential significance. But maybe Katie Wilson did have an 174 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 6: opportunity for change during her recent campaign. She could have argued, 175 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 6: for example, that devoting more taxpayer money to Seattle's destitution 176 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 6: crisis is a snake oil remedy, and it shows no 177 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 6: signs of actually solving the problem. But think about this, 178 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 6: and I mean this varies. If this irritates you, call 179 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 6: somebody that cares when they tell you that devote more 180 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 6: of your hard earned money to solve a systemic problem 181 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 6: like homelessness or drug abuse or crime or anything else. 182 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 6: What they're doing is they're buying into filling the blank industry, 183 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 6: the homelessness industry, the crime industry, the drug industry, whatever 184 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 6: it might be. It's an industry because those NGOs. I 185 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 6: read a story yesterday about somebody starting a new Yeah, 186 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 6: I forget what they were gonna do, but a new 187 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 6: NGO in Colorado. And it was some press release I 188 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 6: got in an email this morning. They're gonna start a 189 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 6: new NGO. Oh I know it was the Everytown Group, 190 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 6: the Gun Group. They're going to start a anti gang group. 191 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 6: Well again, I'm not I'm not going to deny that 192 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 6: that new NGO might have some deminimous effect on gang 193 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 6: problems in Colorado. 194 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,479 Speaker 2: But what is it really, It's an industry. 195 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 6: It's a business because now that they've got their five 196 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 6: oh one C three or their five O one C 197 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 6: four or whatever they've got their nonprofit, they're gonna go 198 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 6: out and they're gonna pay for tax payer money, and 199 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 6: they'll find a kindred soul somewhere in the Colorado pull 200 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 6: up Bureau that will give them a grant of some sort. 201 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 6: And you hear the word grant and you think, oh, 202 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 6: well done. Everything to do with me? Yes, it does. 203 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 6: Is grants are tax money. So they get the tax money, 204 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 6: they pay themselves a nice salary, and they go out 205 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 6: and they hire people to try to stop crime by 206 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 6: breaking down gangs in Colorado. Well, if they actually succeed, 207 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 6: they put themselves out of business. 208 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: So, like any good organization, they want to stay in business. 209 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 6: So they keep the crime going, they keep the homelessness going, 210 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 6: they keep the drug addiction going. Also they can continue 211 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 6: the grift. And the same is true in Seattle. Do 212 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 6: you know the Seattle, for example, right now, boasts a 213 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 6: violent crime rate of seven hundred seventy five per one 214 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 6: hundred thousand, which is more than double the national average 215 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 6: of three hundred and fifty nine per one hundred thousand residents. 216 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 6: And that one possible solution to that sordid state of 217 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 6: affair might be all enhanced the local police department. But 218 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 6: instead she's loudly proposed and is still proposing, defunding the cops. 219 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 6: This is the insanity that's going on in the world 220 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 6: around us, and we don't even recognize it. And that's 221 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 6: why the midterms are going to be so dang important. 222 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 6: Here she is, here's the Seattle mayor over on Ower's 223 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 6: right on CNN. 224 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: Thanks this already. 225 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 8: So I want to ask you one other thing, cause 226 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 8: you sit here as a mayor, you're in your early forties. 227 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 8: You've accomplished so much at such a young age. What 228 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 8: what And in that context, you have been open about 229 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 8: the fact that you have done that with your parents help, 230 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 8: that your parents who live across the country have sent 231 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 8: you checks to help pay for your toddler's childcare, right 232 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 8: with all the things that you've accomplished when it comes 233 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 8: to affordability, that you still. 234 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 2: Need that now, Fox, So the Marxist parents, the Marxist 235 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: professors who you know Atlas Hugged or whatever the stupid 236 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: book was called, and then the other book about housing 237 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 2: and stuff. So they're clearly left wing professors taking care 238 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 2: of their little forty year old daughter because well, she's 239 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 2: just a buster, you know. And she's painting boats and 240 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: singing and putting together her own little grift box. 241 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 8: News and the New York Post frame that in a 242 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 8: negative way. They have said, Maric that you are quote 243 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 8: unquote living off your parents' money. I'm curious how you 244 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 8: see it, because this is something you've been very open about. 245 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 8: Do you think that people in Seattle see this as 246 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 8: a negative or as a positive? That people can relate to. 247 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 6: A forty year old person who went to Oxford whose 248 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 6: parents are higher education professionals and she's still living off 249 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 6: her parents. 250 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 3: When when did you move out of your parents' house? 251 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: Sir Michael. 252 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 6: Graduated from high school and moved out and went to 253 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 6: college that summer. 254 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 3: So roughly eighteen. 255 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 7: Yeah you're taking okay, yeah yeah, Samye, I was seventeen 256 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 7: when I moved out and got my own place. Yeah yeah, 257 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 7: yeah yeah, and. 258 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: No plans to move back. 259 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: Correct. 260 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: And I'm not sure my mom would have me back. True. 261 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 6: I thought I'm sure she would save it to my 262 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 6: mom when I go to visit her, I don't stay 263 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 6: at the house. I stay in a hotel. That really 264 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 6: that really irritates her. And I tried to explain, Mom, 265 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 6: have you looked in my old bedroom. What do you 266 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 6: want me to do? Sleep on the in the dog 267 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 6: bed on the floor. Is that because you got so 268 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 6: much cramppiled up in there, there's no room for me. 269 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 4: Well, I'll say that my opponent's campaign and the corporate 270 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 4: pack that tried to stop my election, certainly they cast 271 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 4: it as a negative thing. 272 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: Pay the corporate pack. 273 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 6: But you know Act Blue and her getting money from 274 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 6: all the Democrat packs, Well that's okay. But if you 275 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 6: get money from a corporate pack, that's bad money. But 276 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 6: money from the unions money elsewhere, that's good money. I 277 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 6: thought money is fungible, and I thought that if unions 278 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 6: have the right to free speech, and if unions have 279 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 6: the right to contribute to political campaigns, then why shouldn't 280 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 6: corporations have that same right. That's why we have the 281 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 6: United case. 282 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 4: But you know, campaigning for offices stressful. Seattle is one 283 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 4: of the most expensive cities in the country. Our childcare 284 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 4: is off the charts expensive, and honestly, let's just have. 285 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 6: The government pay for it. Let's just have the government 286 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 6: pay for childcare. Maybe, I mean, maybe we get Colorado's 287 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 6: to come up with the idea of I don't know, 288 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 6: pre K and just you know, from birth to whenever, 289 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 6: cradle to grave coverage. 290 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 3: Let's be them free lunch too, and. 291 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 6: Free lunch, free lunch, and let's let's put that program 292 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 6: in place, knowing that they're just coming to fail because 293 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 6: you won't have enough money. Then you can go to 294 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 6: the taxpayers and ask the taxpayers to give you more 295 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 6: money because the program failed, because you knew, because it 296 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 6: was designed that way to fail. 297 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 4: I think that a lot of people of my generation 298 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 4: and younger and older found it very relatable that during 299 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 4: this stressful campaign. You know, my my parents chipped in 300 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 4: to help to pay for the cost of their granddaughter's daycare. 301 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 4: And I think, you know, families help each other out. 302 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 4: And I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in 303 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 4: a position where my parents were able to do that. 304 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 4: Not all families have that privilege. And you know, that's 305 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 4: why I'm going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable 306 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 4: housing for every family in this city. 307 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 7: I do like sorry, so I do very much enjoy 308 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 7: you caught that didn't how she spun that my grandparents 309 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 7: are chipping in for why? 310 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 2: I hate to say that, this is why I like you. 311 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: That was good. Good. 312 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 3: That was good. 313 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: That was very good, wasn't it? 314 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 4: That was I think, you know, families help each other out, 315 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 4: and I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in 316 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 4: a position where my. 317 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 3: Well that was just you. 318 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 7: Okay, I thought you were I'll say, yeah, we said 319 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 7: a lot of crap, but it was good. 320 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, May I finish it now? Fine? Thank you. 321 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 4: Families have that privilege, and you know that's why I'm 322 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 4: going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable housing for 323 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 4: every family in this city. 324 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: Because I appreciate you, because you were able to do it. 325 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 6: I'm going to enforce and at the point of a gun, 326 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 6: because how do you think taxes get collected? 327 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: Oh? 328 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 2: I know? 329 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 6: Vo taxes are voluntarily voluntarily paid. Really, try to voluntarily 330 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 6: not pay your taxes sometimes. Let me know how that goes. 331 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 6: So here we are. She's she's so blessed because her 332 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 6: family was able to help her. 333 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 2: So what does she want to do? 334 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 6: She was to make sure that everybody else is forced 335 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 6: to do what her parents did. Wow, that's the mind 336 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 6: of a Marxist. That's the mind that was So that's 337 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 6: the mind of a communist, and quite Frankly, that's the mind. 338 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: Of an idiot. 339 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 6: An idiot that says, Oh, I want everybody to have 340 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 6: what I had, but I don't want to have anybody to, 341 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 6: you know, voluntarily do it. I want everybody to have 342 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 6: to do it, and I'll force them to do it. 343 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 6: Unbelievable pay guys, congratulations on your first week. 344 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 2: Uh there's one thing I would like to say. 345 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 7: I really enjoy the cars for kids commercials here at 346 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 7: kzer Away. 347 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 6: We didn't really get those at the six thirty house, 348 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 6: but they're really good. 349 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 2: Really enjoy them, so we keep it going. 350 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 6: If you if you work really, really hard, you'll soon 351 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 6: be able to sing right along with those kids. 352 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: It'll be glorious. 353 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 6: And then if you're really good, you'll either do one 354 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 6: or two things. You'll you'll you'll learn to get into 355 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 6: a zen moment where your brain goes to a really 356 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 6: nice place and you'll know when to come back from 357 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 6: that really nice place and the kids will be done. 358 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 2: Or you can reach over. 359 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 6: To the volume control and you'll know exactly like you 360 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 6: know over time in radio. So long as you pretty 361 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 6: much learn what thirty seconds is, sixty seconds. 362 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 2: Or you know, maybe there are other ways to measure 363 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: three seconds. 364 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 7: Yeah, every day, do that for three hours every day. 365 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 6: Going back to the to the beginning of the program 366 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 6: about the midterm elections and tying all of this stuff 367 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 6: together we talked about so far. One of the things 368 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 6: that we that is being fed to you, and I 369 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 6: question the veracity of it, and that is whether or 370 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 6: not there is actually a breakup going on, a divorce. 371 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,719 Speaker 6: Is President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement 372 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 6: headed for a divorce court? 373 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 4: Yeah? 374 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 6: If you pay attention to the cabal and you just 375 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 6: are a headline reader, Yeah, hello, hello, and you're just 376 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 6: a headline reader, you might think that that's the case. 377 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 6: New York Times America First. Some Trump supporters worry that's 378 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 6: no longer the case, or the Washington Compost. Trump faces 379 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 6: heat from Magabase on America First, Agenda and Epstein or 380 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 6: NBC Nightly News. Trump defends his MAGA bona fide. He's 381 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 6: amid backlash from his base. ABC World News Tonight, Where's 382 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 6: My President? Some MAGA supporters in uproar over Trump's H 383 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 6: one B visa comments. Now there's yes. Did everybody agree 384 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 6: with everything that Ronald Reagan did? Or do you think 385 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 6: I agreed with everything that George H. George W. 386 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 2: Bush did. No, not at all. 387 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 6: Did I agree with everything that Donald Trump did or 388 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 6: has done? 389 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 2: Nope, not at all. Doesn't mean I'm out for divorce. 390 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 2: Doesn't mean I'm going to go to the dark side. 391 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 6: Here's how The New York Times leads off its article, 392 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 6: President Trump has been dining with Wall Street big wigs. 393 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,160 Speaker 2: They should know what The New. 394 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 6: York Times should know, because well the New York Times. 395 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 6: He has embarked on an opulent revamp of the White 396 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 6: House at a time when Americans are struggling to pay 397 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 6: their bills. He has expressed support for granted visits to 398 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 6: skilled workers to take jobs in the United States. He 399 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 6: approved a twenty billion dollar bailout for Argentina, helping a 400 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 6: foreign government and wealthy investors at a moment when the 401 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 6: US government was shut down. For a presidential return to office, 402 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 6: promising to avoid foreign entanglements, make life more affordable, and 403 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 6: sure that available jobs go to American citizens. It has 404 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 6: been a significant departure from the expectations of his loyal base, 405 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 6: and it is starting to open a rift with his supporters, 406 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 6: who are counting on a more restively populars agenda. The 407 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 6: divisions within mister Trump's movements spawned by his own actions 408 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 6: have been only amplified by the latest developments on the 409 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 6: story that has been doing his best, that he has 410 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 6: been doing his best to quash his relationship with the 411 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 6: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The other stories all sort 412 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 6: out with a similar litany of Trump's alleged divergence from 413 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 6: MAGA priorities. But Trump doesn't buy it. Quote don't forget 414 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 6: MAGO is my idea, he told Laura Ingram this week. 415 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 6: I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else. That's 416 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 6: certainly true, but it's also true that sometimes Trump is 417 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 6: often his own worst enemy. In the first term, he 418 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 6: would routinely achieve some great conservative policy success, only then 419 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 6: to say something wild and crazy, and that would divert 420 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 6: all the media attention over to that rather than focusing 421 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 6: on the victory. In the second term, Trump two point zero, 422 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 6: he's been far less conservative in his governance, prioritizing executive 423 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 6: power and often leaning into overreach with a strong dose 424 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 6: of vengeance, and both have caused his early term support 425 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 6: to slide significantly. But is this a MAGA crisis or 426 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 6: is it just media hype to distract from the Democrat's 427 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 6: colossal failure on that shutdown. 428 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 2: My answer is yes and no. 429 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 6: First to no, it's not merely the media misdirection, or 430 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 6: it's not merely media misdirection to say that Trump has 431 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 6: not really upheld his albeit rash promised to lower prices 432 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 6: in the word of the day now to focus on affordability. 433 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 6: He was gonna do that on day one. Remember, and 434 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 6: inflation is stubbornly persistent. But is it about three percent? 435 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 6: That's fifty percent higher than the Federal reserves targeted rate 436 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 6: of two percent. The wait a minute, a little perspective, please, 437 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 6: cumulative inflation since Biden and his crew actually should to say, 438 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 6: the crew that was doing the playing the role of 439 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 6: Biden rescued America is all. Cumulative inflation since then is 440 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 6: almost twenty five percent. And we're simply tired of everything 441 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 6: feeling unaffordable. Prices are coming down, but when you look 442 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 6: at where prices the new baseline established during the Biden years, 443 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 6: we're not going to feel it until it gets back 444 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 6: to the baseline that started before Biden threw all the 445 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 6: money into the economy and created all the inflation. That's 446 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 6: going to take time, and as Scott Descend said, either 447 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 6: yesterday or day before, the fourth quarter that we're in now, 448 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,719 Speaker 6: and probably the first quarter is when you'll see all 449 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 6: those things really start to take effect. Trump offered tariff 450 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 6: rebates and fifty year mortgages in what would some perceive 451 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 6: as a tacit admission of affordability is a problem. But 452 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 6: he also seems to have settled on the same strategy 453 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 6: that might have cost Biden and Harris dearly in twenty 454 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 6: twenty four, namely, the inflation isn't a problem anymore, and 455 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 6: even that grocery prices are way. 456 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 2: Down the overall. 457 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 6: That may be true, but was it true and Biden 458 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 6: repeatedly insisted that inflation must down. No, though I don't 459 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 6: recall quite such eager fact checking from the likes of 460 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 6: the New York Times. I gave you the receipts earlier 461 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 6: this year about how prices are down, but they're not 462 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 6: down enough. Let's go to the ballroom for a moment. 463 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 6: We haven't talked about the ballroom since I've been over here. 464 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 6: That's just the cabal's chart. The primary ones hysterically sobbing 465 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 6: about that are actually of people on the left who 466 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 6: need psychiatric counseling for Trump arrangement syndrome. I think the 467 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 6: rest of us know. It's a useful addition that's being 468 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 6: paid for via private funds. It's an MBG, it's an MBD. 469 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 6: No big deal. 470 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 2: Now. 471 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 6: The Epstein saga, I think is actually both Trump's Justice 472 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 6: Department spectacularly failed earlier this year, and it's supposedly explosively released. 473 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 6: But so did the Democrats with their done of a 474 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 6: distraction earlier this week. And some mega folks are indeed 475 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 6: getting impatient with Trump over the release of the material. 476 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 6: But if that's what actually divides anyone from Trump, then 477 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 6: perhaps they were allies not worth having in the first place. 478 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 6: I'm for moving on with the Epstein stuff. Get it released, 479 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 6: and just let it go fly out the window. Let's 480 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 6: see what happens. 481 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 1: Big nothing burger, Michael, Happy belated birthday. 482 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 2: It's been a rough week. 483 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 5: I order a pile of coke and hookers for your 484 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 5: birthday to send to you, but they sent it to 485 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 5: my billing address. 486 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 3: I guess I missed the wrong checkbox. Uh does Amazon 487 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 3: stefpound of ceiling asking for a friend? 488 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 2: They do? 489 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 7: I'm a little surprised you answered, that that quickly that 490 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 7: you knew, well, they've got the Amazon pharmacy. But I 491 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 7: don't know what the individual medications they would sell there. 492 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 3: But apparently Michael knows. 493 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 6: I know, penicellin, baby penicillin. You always need penicillar. Remember, 494 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 6: at the beginning of the week, we talked about door 495 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 6: Dasher's State of Local Commerce report that found that prices 496 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 6: on every day essentials are stabilizing or falling, local restaurants 497 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 6: remaining resilient, and weekday downtown lunch demands begin these rebound 498 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 6: in over half of US city's That gives us that 499 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 6: street level view that nuances these broad national indicators that 500 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 6: everybody seems to be complaining and griping about. I look, 501 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 6: I'm not happy, but I'm not so pissed off about 502 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 6: prices that I don't understand why we're still suffering from 503 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,479 Speaker 6: these outrageous prices when you have a cumulative inflationary effect 504 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 6: of twenty five percent, and so that accumulates over time, 505 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 6: so you're eating out your groceries, your gas whatever it is. 506 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 6: By the way, I fill up with gas this morning. 507 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 6: Premium unleaded at Sam's three dollars nineteen cents a gallon. 508 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 6: So it's still about where it was when I filled 509 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 6: up last week. Now, a week before it was down 510 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 6: below three dollars a gallon for premium unleaded. So all 511 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 6: the factors about refining capacity and the I think crude oil. 512 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 6: I forget what WTI was yesterday, about fifty eight or 513 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 6: fifty five dollars a barrel, whatever it was. All of 514 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 6: the different factors that go into calculating that price are 515 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 6: going to continue to fluctuate as long as I see 516 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 6: a downward trend line. 517 00:28:59,520 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: And I do. 518 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 6: We see downward trend line in terms of just and 519 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 6: here's how I measure it. Because I don't go to 520 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 6: the grocery store that often. 521 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 2: Tamar prefers. 522 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 6: She doesn't like for me to go to the grocery 523 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 6: store because well, usually then the bill's double. But when 524 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 6: she goes, she's pretty picky about what she gets, and 525 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 6: she plans the meals, and she's very good at doing 526 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 6: all of that. And so I noticed that what she 527 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 6: pays using you know, the credit card, that what she 528 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 6: pays every time she goes, and it does seem to 529 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 6: be dipping. Now has it been cut in half? 530 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 2: No? 531 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 6: But if you so, we have such short term memory 532 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 6: loss that too much weed. I think such short term 533 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 6: memory loss that we don't realize that we started back 534 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 6: in you know, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty COVID hits, we 535 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 6: shut down an economy, prices begin to skyrocket, and then 536 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 6: Biden gets installed as president, and then he. 537 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: Just starts throwing money into the economy. 538 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 6: The or inappropriately named Inflation Reduction Act just threw trillions 539 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 6: into the economy. And part of the problem is we 540 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 6: still have not gotten back down to a baseline of 541 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 6: government spending, and in fact, the Continuing Resolution kept the 542 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 6: spending at Biden levels of spending until January. Then we'll 543 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 6: probably face another government shut down, which will screw up 544 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 6: the national GDP again. We just have to get better. 545 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 6: And it's not a messaging problem, I truly don't. It's 546 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 6: an education issue. Too many people don't understand economics. Too 547 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 6: many people don't understand price elasticity. Oh I'm just not 548 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 6: buying this anymore because the price hit that point, whatever 549 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 6: that point is for you, it's different from everybody to 550 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 6: buy that widget. It went from fifty cents of widget 551 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,479 Speaker 6: to fifty five cents of widget, and I thought, okay, well, 552 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 6: I can do that, I'll keep doing I'll keep buying 553 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 6: widgets at fifty five, but then they jump to sixty five, 554 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 6: like with buying widgets, so the demand for widgets drops, 555 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 6: but there are still people buying it at sixty five. 556 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: Cents of widget, so the price doesn't drop. 557 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 6: The price begins to stabilize or even increase because inflation 558 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 6: continues to stay stuck around three percent. When people don't 559 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 6: understand how, for example, the price of gas. Now, I 560 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 6: understand that diesel is still high, and maybe one of 561 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 6: you truckers can let me know. I haven't looked at 562 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 6: the price of diesel. But when that price starts to 563 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 6: go down, when the fuel that. 564 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 2: Fuels everything that we consume, everything that we buy is 565 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 2: affected by the price of energy. 566 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 6: When that starts to go down, it will eventually make 567 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 6: its way to the price we pay at the point 568 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 6: of sale. Until then, you have to understand look at 569 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 6: a trend line