1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: I heard a critique this morning of Republican messaging on 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: the New York City Merrill Race and referred to it 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: as a boomer commie fear slop. I just want to 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: commend Michael Brown for articulating the most intelligent boomer commy 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: fear slop in the nation. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 2: Keep it up, Boomer Cammie fear slop, Boomer Cammie realism. Well, oh, 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 2: by the way, before before we get into this, there's 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: a text message twenty four oh two that you're disappointed 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: that k how is not advertising. It says what I 10 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: find sad, not sad, but sad hilarious is that the 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 2: k howse store is losing a product off its shelf 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: and it's happily advertising that you can go to the 13 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: KOA store to buy the pro and never informing you 14 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: what new and exciting thing is going to be on 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 2: their shelf from six to eleven, well actually six to ten, 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: because I don't do to eleven. Six to eleven. They're 17 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: not advertising what's going to be uh when when this 18 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: product goes over there. They're not advertising what's going to 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: be over here because they don't know it will be. 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: You said, there's a revolving of four or five people. Correct. 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll have your your your Caldera guy. Uh, you 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 3: also have that that Connie guy, and then some checks 23 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 3: you don't want to mention. 24 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: But I like to make fun of them. 25 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: But I don't remember her actual name at this given moment, 26 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: so I'm gonna give me one second. 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: Oh oh, I don't know. That is Debra Flora. Oh 28 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: oh oh okay, oh, Debrah. 29 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 3: Flora Caldera uh and Leland Conway. 30 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: Okay. 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 3: I think even at at one point our Brian Schustring 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 3: will be filling in as well. Yeah, okay, Jimmy, oh, cheeseburger, 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 3: He'll be filling in cheeburg. 34 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 2: All right. 35 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 3: It's just a rotating cast. It's kind of think of 36 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 3: it as auditions. So if you really like whomever is 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 3: hosting that day, let them know. 38 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: Let them know. Yeah. Yeah, and by the way, I 39 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: don't I've already closed it out. Uh. What's the text 40 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: line for here? Our five nine? That's the key how 41 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: text line? Yeah, mine three three one zero three will 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: follow me, So we we'll keep that because we're keeping 43 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: that in the nationally syndicated text line the same, So 44 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: that will be the text line starting Monday, it will 45 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 2: continue three three one zero three keyword micro Michael. So 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: that's why you you haven't heard, because it's a rotating 47 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: thing until until somebody decides that they got the toilets fixed, 48 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: they got the light bulbs fixed, they got the shelves fixed, 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 2: they got the computers fixed. Once they get all that fixed, 50 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 2: then they'll make a decision to let you know. I'll 51 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: be dead or retired or both by that time. When 52 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: I think about everything I told you in the last 53 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: hour about the shifting demographics, who's movings, who's going elsewhere, 54 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 2: and who's left in the urban areas, you think about 55 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: it in Denver. I think Denver is a good example 56 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 2: of it, just as New York is. When you think 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 2: about you know, they try to be cool, like you know, 58 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 2: they want to have their Hell's Kitchen, they want to 59 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: have their Soho, they want to have their little Italy, 60 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: their little China town. They want to have all of 61 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 2: that in Denver too. So you've got Low Dough, low 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: High Highlands, you got all of those. What's that predominantly 63 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: made of it's the young professional class. Well, what does 64 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: the young professional class in Gotham really have? One of 65 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: the big beefs about high rents. Just like in Denver, 66 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 2: Gotham takes the highest share of income for housing of 67 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: any US big city, any US metropolitan area. So Mam 68 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: Donnie's programs, freeze rents, free buses, eviction restrictions, all of 69 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: that is designed to allow the urbanites without the means 70 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: to remain in the city rather than join those moving 71 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: to less costly cities or to rural areas to fulfill 72 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: their dreams. I know not everyone can work remotely, but 73 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: if you can work for a big multinational corporation and 74 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 2: they've got a location that is in a mid sized city, 75 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: depending on what your preferences are, you may go to 76 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: that mid sized city where you can buy. You could 77 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 2: buy a house even with today's interest rates, in today's 78 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: inflated housing prices, you could still buy a house. Not know, 79 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: in some places you still can't. But I'm just saying 80 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: that it's more likely that you could. But not everybody can. 81 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: Not everybody can do that. 82 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: So this. 83 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 2: Is his program. His socialism is designed to allow those 84 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: urbanites without the means to stay in the city rather 85 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: than move, and so they become concentrated, They become denser 86 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 2: in terms of that mentality of what they're voting for. 87 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: And it's a great time for us to step back 88 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: and say, let's look at that cohort. Who is that 89 00:05:53,960 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: cohort that voted for them. It's people who are indoctrinated 90 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: by government schools, end up going to elitist schools, and 91 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 2: then they go to work for the big firms, and 92 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 2: even though they're making a boatload of money, they can't 93 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 2: really afford to live in the big Apple. They can't 94 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: lived to afford to live and got them, they can't 95 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 2: afford to live in New York City. And when they 96 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: get the offer, because remember they're uneducated. When they they're 97 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: highly educated, but they're stupid. They're not well educated. Highly 98 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 2: educated and well educated to different things. So the highly 99 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 2: educated here, oh, rent freezes free buses, they're going to 100 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: restrict my evictions. Of course they're going to vote for him. Now, 101 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:54,559 Speaker 2: the leftists see this class based approach, that's their path 102 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: to power, and even as the better substitute for the 103 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: idea entity based politics that have dominated progressivism as it 104 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: has followed, this is it's not conspiratorial, it's the realism 105 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: of how these operatives work. You gotta remember there are 106 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: so many people behind the scenes that influence how the 107 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: Democrat Party operates. Do you think that AOC just popped 108 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: up out of nowhere, that she was just, Oh, I'm 109 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: a bartender one day and I'm a congressman the next day. 110 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: You think that just happens naturally. No, it is cultivated 111 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: between Act Blue and all of the deep seated behind 112 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 2: the scenes shakers and movers that make up both parties, 113 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: but in particular the Democrat Party because they are progressives. 114 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: Where we go wrong is all of our people behind 115 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 2: the scenes are all fighting among themselves. They can't decide 116 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: who's on first, They all want to be in charge. 117 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: They can't operate as a team. It drives me backcrap crazy. 118 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: But on the other side, the Democrats, it's a well 119 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 2: oiled machine and they know precisely, okay, let's use identity politics. 120 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: And then comes along something like the George Floyd murder 121 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: combined with COVID, and now let's shift. And when they shift, 122 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 2: they shift away from identity based politics that dominated how 123 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: they move things, say, a decade ago, and now they 124 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: see because of their own party, they see all the 125 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 2: high prices, the inflation, the unaffordability, everything, and now they've 126 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 2: shifted to that. So high prices mean that all of 127 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: these metro cities on the coastal areas that have left 128 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: Coast and the East Coast now suffer the lowest adjusted incomes, 129 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 2: even as incomes in the less cost the middle of 130 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 2: the country remain above the national average. So the thinking 131 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 2: goes that by running on quote affordability for this group 132 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: of uneducated cohorts, Democrats can regain their electoral footing because 133 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: this is how they're going to operate after the thrashing 134 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 2: they got last year. Here's where Republicans have got to 135 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 2: wise up. They've got to wise up that the Democrats 136 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: have shifted and now they're going full for It's like, 137 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 2: as I've explained, starting with Woodrow Wilson, progressive progressivism, whose 138 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 2: ultimate goal is communism, moves slowly but methodically, inch by inch. 139 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 2: Don't overreach, don't go too far, wait and see what 140 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 2: the circumstances are, Wait and see until there are events 141 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 2: that you can take advantage of and take a larger 142 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 2: step up. And they've done that. COVID George Floyd all 143 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: gave him the opportunity to take big steps. And then 144 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: I think without realizing it, but it was to their advantage. 145 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 2: Biden comes along and they think that Biden is the 146 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 2: guy that can well, I'm not really sure they thought 147 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: that Biden was the guy that could beat Trump. But 148 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: I think once the Congressman from South Carolina, James Cliburn, 149 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 2: once he stepped in and Cliburn put his full weight 150 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,319 Speaker 2: behind Biden, that gave Biden the push he needed to 151 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 2: get the nomination. So now they've got him, and Obama 152 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,479 Speaker 2: is fine with that because that means he can manipulate 153 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 2: and use him to continue that fundamental transformation. I think 154 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: what they did not expect was the consequences of their incredible, 155 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 2: outrageous spending because they've always wanted to do that. They've 156 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 2: always wanted to spend on big government, the war on poverty, 157 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 2: the war on drugs, the you know, civil rights, everything. 158 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: Spend all of this money. What they didn't realize was 159 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: it was going to create inflation, that was going to 160 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 2: create the unaffordability or the affordability crisis. Trump took advantage 161 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 2: of that. Trump wins. Trump took advantage of that, and 162 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: the open borders he wins. He takes advantage of all 163 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 2: of the issues that they've pushed and he wins, and 164 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 2: now he starts pushing back against those trying to resolve 165 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: those issues. But affordability actually turned out to be in 166 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 2: favor of the Democrats, and that's what allowed them to 167 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 2: regain their footing in these races, which ought to be 168 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 2: a clear signal to the rep Republicans. Keep working on immigration, 169 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 2: keep the border secured. But it's time for Trump to 170 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 2: come home. He's done all these wonderful things overseas, but 171 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 2: he has got to for the next year. I would say, 172 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: starting today, he has got to focus as all the 173 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: energy he has, he's got to focus ninety percent of 174 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 2: that or more on the affordability crisis. Now, there are 175 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 2: other economic pressures that are radicalizing the hipsters. A job 176 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 2: market that's getting tougher. Do you look, Barely half of 177 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 2: workers under thirties under thirty years of age have full 178 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 2: time jobs, even for those that have all the expensive 179 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 2: advanced degrees from the hoity toity schools. Their jobs are 180 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: now increasingly threatened by the rise of artificial intelligence, particularly 181 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 2: in finance, business services, and even some creative professions that 182 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: have historically clustered in the cities. Now cities, of course 183 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: can fight back against those trends by developing policies that 184 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 2: encourage urban economic growth, something that you will not find 185 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: in the Democrats, Socialists of America, Agenda, or any other 186 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 2: leftist organization. But through reasonable taxation, which means significantly lowering taxation, 187 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 2: less regulation, the nurturing of local high wage industries, everything 188 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 2: from light manufacturing to video production for example. An early 189 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 2: generation of practically minded urbanness could help restore order and growth. 190 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,119 Speaker 2: Some cities have shown how they can come back. Rudy Giuliani, 191 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: Michael Bloomberg, Bill White Houston. He was a good example. 192 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 2: Edrendell in Philadelphia, Steve Goldsmith in Indianapolis. They are all 193 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: examples of how you can help your city come back 194 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: by adopting, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, the idea 195 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 2: of lower taxes, fewer regulations, and really letting the free 196 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 2: market flourish. But right now, the urban politics, at least 197 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 2: right now, make such a revival I think unlikely. Brandon 198 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: Johnson couldn't think of his name earlier. The mayor of Chicago. 199 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 2: He's been in office for two years now. He was 200 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 2: elected by a very mom Donnie like coalition of poor minorities. 201 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 2: Public sector employees and all the hipster white people. So 202 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 2: now under Johnson's misrule, schools deteriorate, even as he pushes 203 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 2: through big raises for teachers, big raises for public employees. 204 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: And now he's got the city with an extremely high 205 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: pension debt. So even where the reformers have triumphed in 206 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: the past decade, as in San Francisco and Seattle, all 207 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 2: the radical forces appear to be once again ascended. Long 208 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: a favored destination for college educated migrants. For example, Seattle 209 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: during the twenty twenty riots shut down for weeks, spawned 210 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: that miny havana that no goes on the chad zone 211 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: near its downtown. And now Seattle suffers from stubbornly high 212 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: office vacancy rates, large numbers of empty stores. Business is 213 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 2: flying out. Chicago is the same thing. Now crime might 214 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 2: be down, and you're gonna hear that, oh crime. You know, 215 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 2: I read a story yesterday about if crime is down, 216 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: but it's not back to its pre twenty twenty levels. 217 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 2: It's like saying, oh, inflation is down. No, the rate 218 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 2: of inflation has slowed down. Remember that during the Biden era. Oh, 219 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 2: they claimed that, oh, look, inflation's down. No, it's not down, 220 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 2: it's just the rate of increase has slowed down. The 221 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 2: same is true with crime in Portland. Go to Portland 222 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 2: for a minute. It's still really from twenty twenty. And 223 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: they're the socialists, just like in New York, Just like 224 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: in Chicago, they're ascending. They've displaced Republicans as the essential 225 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: second party in that city, and they've got all the 226 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 2: momentum right now. And again, like in Seattle, all the 227 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: local Marxists seem reluctant to police even violence prone groups 228 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 2: like Antifa. It still goes on. It's just moved from 229 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 2: You've got to follow someone like Andy No to understand 230 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 2: that Antifa is still alive and well, still actively engaged 231 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 2: in the criminal activity. It's just that the cabal has 232 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: moved on because two reasons. One it's an old story, 233 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: and two they don't want you to know about it now. 234 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 2: The New York Times has dismissed all the Trump assertions 235 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 2: about Portland as a crime cursed dystopia. But of course 236 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 2: not everybody in those cities loves those helmeted kids in 237 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 2: black with the mask on who suffer from their attacks, 238 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: including like the police union in Seattle. Same things taking 239 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 2: place in Minneapolis, which suffered massive disorder during the mostly 240 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: peaceful Summer of Love. Their their mayor, Jacob Frey, after 241 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 2: eight years, has now turned deeply unpopular and clues out 242 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 2: to guess who his socialist Marxist challenger, Omar Fatah, who 243 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 2: act a Somalian, who campaigns speaking Somalia, who campaigns waving 244 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: a Somalian flag. I haven't checked to see how it 245 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 2: turned out. At least as of last night, it was 246 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 2: too close to call. I'll check and see in a 247 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 2: minute now it turned out. But it's another example of 248 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 2: how they're taking advantage of everything that they've laid bare 249 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 2: over the past five years, actually up for the past 250 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 2: five decades truthfully. So it's a radical realignment of so 251 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: and the Republicans had got to recognize it unfolded and 252 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 2: it is now free markets versus communist. Hey, let's go 253 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: to Joshua with the retirement planning stre on the rocket. 254 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 2: Josh How you doing? 255 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 4: I'm doing real well, Michael, how about yourself? 256 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: Good? 257 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 3: So? 258 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: I have a very simple question today, So when someone 259 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 2: takes my advice and calls you guys, and what kind 260 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 2: of experience can they expect working with you? 261 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 4: That's a great question, Michael, one that comes up constantly, 262 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 4: one that quite honestly hinders folks from even picking up 263 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 4: the phone or checking out the website. But the journey 264 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,479 Speaker 4: with us really starts with a question, what would your 265 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 4: life look like if money wasn't your biggest concern? And 266 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 4: that's what we really help people uncover. And you talk 267 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 4: about it all the time, but we guide our clients 268 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 4: through our proprietary process, which is the Summit Retirement Guide, 269 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 4: and that Summit Retirement Guide focuses on five key areas 270 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 4: we call the five Peaks, which are income, investments, taxes, 271 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 4: health care, and legacy. Now, most people, Michael, they come 272 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 4: to us feeling really overwhelmed, really uncertain, are often afraid 273 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 4: to spend what they've saved. And Michael, that's whether they 274 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 4: have half a million dollars or five million dollars, it's 275 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 4: all the same. But what they leave with is clarity, confidence, 276 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 4: and ultimately a plan. 277 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 2: And you do that in a completely non judgmental. 278 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 4: Manner, without question. I mean, I would venture to say 279 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 4: seventy five to eighty percent of folks that come into 280 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 4: us they don't have a clear plan. Most of them 281 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 4: are worried, about outliving their money. They're oftentimes and I 282 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 4: would say even higher percentage over exposed to market risk. 283 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 4: And they're not alone in those feelings. And so from 284 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 4: the first meeting on, they'll get a sense that this 285 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 4: is really a different process that we take them through. 286 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 4: It's not a transaction, it's a relationship. And we don't 287 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 4: start with products at all. Heck, we don't even talk 288 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 4: about until they become clients. We start with their why. 289 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 4: That's what's important to us. 290 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 2: So for the people that are concerned about you know, 291 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 2: you're going to be judgmental, or you're going to be 292 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 2: embarrassed or anything else. No, you accept them as they 293 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 2: are because you're there to get them to the point 294 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 2: where they tell you they would like to. 295 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 4: Be absolutely and Michael. After that, the whole process transpires 296 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 4: and they become clients and they're working with us, they'll 297 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 4: have a plan, which is what most folks desire. We'll 298 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 4: take them through what we call our peak to peak 299 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 4: retirement experience. This is the ongoing relationship and partnership. We're 300 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 4: always in their corner through every single life change, through 301 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 4: every market swing, because there will be plenty of those, 302 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 4: and we're seeing it right before our eyes all the 303 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 4: tax law changes. We're going to be there for that too. 304 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 4: Retirements not a one time event, Michael. It is an 305 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 4: absolute journey for the folks. 306 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 2: And I think you're right describing his relationship as that's 307 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 2: what it is. So that's why I would encourage all 308 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 2: of you that if you have those concerns, like everybody does, 309 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 2: then Josh and his team that's the place to call 310 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,160 Speaker 2: because it's non judgmental. It is here's where you are, 311 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: here's where you'd like to be, and we're going to 312 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: try to get you there. So pick up the phone, 313 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 2: give them a call, and you tell them that Michael 314 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 2: Brown sent you nine seven zero six sixty three thirty 315 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 2: two eleven. Nine seven zero six six three thirty two eleven. 316 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: Or don't even be afraid to go check the website. 317 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 2: Just go do that if you can. Rpcenter dot com. 318 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: Back to this radical realignment that I've talked about is 319 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 2: taking place. I just during the break was looking at 320 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 2: the Drug Report and there's a headline. This comes to 321 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: us from I don't know, it's some outfit called MPa 322 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: Mag mpamag dot com. The Mamdani Effect. Now this is 323 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: from a couple of days ago, so it was This 324 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 2: is from November three, so this is raw, this is Monday. 325 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 2: It says the Mamdani Effect New York City's millionaire's flee 326 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 2: as socialist surge spark suburban bidding wars. And you go 327 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: through the story and you come here. Across Westchester County, 328 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 2: Northern New Jersey, Fairfield County, Connecticut, agents report that affluent 329 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 2: city dwellers are acting fast, locking in properties before potential 330 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 2: policy changes take effect. They're already planning to move out. 331 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 2: What does that mean that I was gonna sit Yeah, 332 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: I was gonna use the term exacerbates, but that's not 333 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 2: the right term to use. It strengthens the Mamdani effect 334 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,479 Speaker 2: because that means that that base of those highly but 335 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 2: not well educated hipsters, white young women, white young men 336 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 2: all now get clustered even further. And because they're not 337 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: educated well in economics or a constitutional republic, they glom 338 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 2: onto the free stuff. They see the McDonald's handing out 339 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 2: the free Hamburgers and they vote for that. It's like, 340 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 2: you know, this is true, like some stupid student council 341 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 2: election where that you know, we're gonna have pizza every Friday. 342 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the school board and 343 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get pizza, free pizza every Friday, and we're 344 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 2: gonna limit homework, you know. Blah blah blah blah. Well, yeah, 345 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 2: of course they go vote for that guy. Of course 346 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 2: they do. 347 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: That. 348 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: Radical realignment is occurring in all of these cities, including 349 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: right here in Denver. Now Trump deserves some blame for 350 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 2: the socialist tide because he may well have saved, for example, 351 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: the career of La Mayor Karen Bass, who impressed very 352 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 2: few during last year's fires and continues to disappoint as 353 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 2: they don't rebuild at all. Its economy is largely just 354 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 2: flat losing companies at a rapid clip. But her attack 355 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: on the ICE agents helped her galvanize all the progressive support. Now, 356 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 2: I don't know what Trump's answer to that is, because 357 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 2: that's what we ask Trump to do. What we have 358 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 2: to do is to make certain that when ICE does 359 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 2: the raids, when they do the deportations, that they do 360 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 2: them the right way. And I know there's an internal 361 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 2: fight going on between DHS and the White House about 362 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 2: how to do that. I understand that mesotypical inside the 363 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 2: Beltwave fight that goes on. I still want the deportations 364 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 2: to occur, but we don't have to be you know, 365 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 2: like take the stupid ads off television. Do that, And 366 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 2: that's part of Trump coming back home. I want Trump 367 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 2: to come home. And by that I mean, Okay, I 368 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen in Gaza, but you 369 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: got it, Salt. You have a ceasefire, a very timid 370 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 2: ceasefire right now, but you at least have a ceasefire. 371 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 2: Quit talking about all the wars that you've settled. We 372 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 2: got it, we understand it. You've met with Shijen Ping, 373 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 2: we got it. Ukraine is still in the back burner 374 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 2: and Ukraine's going to remain on the back burner for 375 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 2: a while because we're getting into the winter season and 376 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 2: neither side's going to be able to make much advance 377 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 2: in terms of boots on the ground. Now, the Ukrainians 378 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 2: might be able to make some advances because of advanced 379 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 2: drones in advanced missiles. They may be able to make 380 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: some advancement there, but that's going to be kind of 381 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: stuck in the mud, literally stuck in the mud during 382 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: the winter. So use this time to come home and 383 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 2: address these domestic issues because these domestic issues again most 384 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 2: importantly affordability. Now, well, I may be critical of Trump 385 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 2: not addressing them, I do believe that he has addressed them. 386 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 2: So let me explain the nuance. Oil production is up. 387 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 2: We've got deals with Argentina, we've got well, we don't 388 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 2: have a deal yet with Venezuela, but we may have 389 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 2: some deal with Venezuela pretty soon. We've told the European 390 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 2: Union you got to quit buy in Russian oil. That 391 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: is going to start lowering the price of oil as 392 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 2: production increases and we're able to sell it on our 393 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 2: oil on the international market as energy prices decline, that's 394 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 2: going to eventually lower the cost of other things. If 395 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: it doesn't, he needs to step in and have those 396 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 2: same really harsh talks with manufacturers with distributors about holding 397 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 2: down prices because affordability, marked my words, is going to 398 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 2: be the next thing. And that includes pounding on Jerome 399 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: Powell in the Federal Reserve. Okay, so they drop twenty 400 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 2: five basis points. But in a rambling, if you go 401 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: back and you listen to Jerome Powell's press conference after 402 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 2: he made the announcement, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Yeah, 403 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 2: he talks about employment, which is one of their vanguards 404 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: that they have to look at. But so is inflation. 405 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 2: And while inflation is down, it's gone back from two percent, 406 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 2: it's creep back up to about three percent. But the 407 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 2: problem with that is Powell looks at that and he 408 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 2: fears we're gonna get back to five, six or seven percent. 409 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 2: I don't think so. Cut rates again. Cut rates again, 410 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 2: and let's bring costs down again. Let's get the housing 411 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 2: market moving a little bit. Come on lower taxes. You've 412 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 2: gotta start pushing domestic policies to make things more affordable. 413 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,239 Speaker 2: This is the lasting effect of the Biden inflation. And 414 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 2: it's not done because you got elected. You close the border, 415 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: you're doing the deportations, You've you've got the big beautiful 416 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 2: bill through which is going to help to come next 417 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 2: tax season. But that's not enough. We've got to do more. 418 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 2: Lower taxes even further. Start. You know, if you're lower 419 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 2: taxes on tips, you're gonna do that temporarily, find something 420 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: else the lower taxes on, and do it now while 421 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 2: you've got Republicans in charge and before the midterms. Hit affordability. 422 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 2: I GUARANDAMN to you will be the number one issue 423 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 2: in the midterm elections. And right now we're not in 424 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 2: front of that issue. Right now, we're actually ignoring that issue. 425 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 2: I know, tariffs, trying to get things into the country cheaper, block, 426 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 2: I get all of that. That what he's trying to do. 427 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 2: But come home and address it directly. Come home and 428 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 2: explain as best Trump can do. Come home and explain 429 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: what your policies mean for the average middle class America, 430 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: because that's where the affordability crisis resides. 431 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 5: Hey, Mike, it's real rich of the Democrats to complain 432 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 5: and about affordability and keep bringing up affordability. That's their 433 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 5: new buzzword after sleepy inflation. Joe changed all the baselines. 434 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 5: Everything's more expensive. Even though inflation is down. All the 435 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 5: baselines of how much everything costs is different now thanks 436 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 5: to the Democrats. 437 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: Yes, you're correct to wish. My response is and and 438 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 2: what now we have to address that. We understand the cause. 439 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 2: The cause is obvious. I mean I think in their 440 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: in their little client smoke filled cigar rooms or whatever 441 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: they're doing back in the world, little tiny rooms in DC, 442 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 2: they know what the cause is. You and I know 443 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,959 Speaker 2: what the cause is now we have to come up 444 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 2: with how do we now reverse that, and whether it's 445 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: a buzzword or not. Again, living in the real world, 446 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: that's what people are upset about is affordability. And granted 447 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: we had probably unreasonable expectations because I'm in front of me. 448 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: I didn't plan to start it yet, but I'm in 449 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 2: front of me. A list of things that Trump has 450 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: done to start delivering immediate cost relief on that so 451 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 2: called basket of goods that is used to measure the 452 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 2: consumer price index. Deregulation, increasing the housing supply, targeted actions 453 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: on healthcare, food, energy, and while some of those measures 454 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,479 Speaker 2: have short term impacts, most of the levers for changing 455 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 2: overall CPI quickly are actually limited in what they can do. 456 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 2: But there are very specific things that over time can 457 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 2: start bringing down prices. Not only do you have to 458 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 2: do those things, but you have to lead about those things. 459 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 2: You can just announce, for example, that the EPA has 460 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 2: launched a major deregulatory action and we're rolling back multiple 461 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: Biden and Obama era regulations that affect power plants, building 462 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,959 Speaker 2: gas industry limits, mercury and air toxins standards for those 463 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 2: greenhouse gas reporting wastewater rules. You know they started rolling 464 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 2: back regulations on all of those. Well, those rollbacks are 465 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 2: all intended to reduce fuel and electric costs for consumers 466 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 2: because it decreases the compliance costs that are put on 467 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: the energy producers. But that doesn't mean that your luxury 468 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: bills are going to go down tomorrow. It means that 469 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 2: as it as those regulations got implemented, starting back five 470 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 2: years ago or even longer for some of them, those 471 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 2: costs are now embedded. And if you relax those requirements 472 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: so that they can start as a you know, revamp, refurbished, rebuild, whatever, 473 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 2: their power plants, their wastewater plants, whatever, those costs only 474 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 2: go down. They don't just drop off the cliff. They 475 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 2: start to slowly go down, slowly making things more affordable. 476 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 2: I know we're an on demand nation. We expect immediate results. 477 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 2: We're not going to get immediate results, which is why 478 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: you have to lead. You have to make sure that 479 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: every single day that your messaging is on point. Here's 480 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 2: what we're doing, here's what it's going to lead to. 481 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 2: Here's why. Ultimately it will take some time to do this, 482 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 2: but we've started that path. Keep us in control. Keep 483 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: us in power so that you know, one, two, three, 484 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 2: four years from now, instead of it going up where 485 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 2: it would go up in fact, do it. Compare and 486 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 2: contrast without these, here's where your electric prices are going. 487 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 2: Without these, Here's where your housing prices are going. With these, 488 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 2: here's where your housing prices are going. Show the upward 489 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 2: trend with no change, Show the downward trend with the 490 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 2: trains change, and then pound pound pound that home. And 491 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 2: he's got a good cabinet to do that. He's got 492 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 2: a really good cabinet to do that, and he can 493 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: do it himself. I think he's shown the discipline in 494 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: this second term that he can do that, which brings 495 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 2: me to the final point. This election ought to be 496 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 2: a wake up call. And I know you're gonna have 497 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 2: one hundred people say that, but okay, quick up to 498 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 2: what then? Do what