WEBVTT - 10-8-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.840 iHeartRadio app has everything you need to make it a 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.800 stream and good time like Halloween Radio. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.720 Where we ghost of the commercials trick or street radio 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.000 just for the kids. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:17.560 Plus explore curated Halloween playlists perfect for party fives and more. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.080 Just open the free iHeartRadio app such Halloween Man, Listen. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.600 Now he Radio. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.839 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:42.000 Well them aboard. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.400 Thanks for tuning in on this Thursday morning. Who says 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.519 nothing good happens after midnight, certainly not here on America's 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:51.320 struck in Network. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.160 We prove that wrong every day. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.960 By the way, we got a little bit of a 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:00.880 Weather News tropical Storm Jerry, actually Hurricane Jerry, topical storm 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.200 a little stronger, expected to pass very near the northern 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:09.080 Leeward Islands late later today and into tonight. So but 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.839 the trajectory of this I mentioned yesterday that it looked 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.560 like it was heading towards you know, Florida, and that 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.640 it was the path looked like it was going to 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.760 be heading north. But it is actually showing even more 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.760 heading north and then east, so it's going to be 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.840 heading out to sea. So hopefully all we're going to 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.840 be getting is a little bit of storm surge and 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.280 not a direct hit on America or you know, the 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.600 continent of America. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.240 So that's good news. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.680 As if I needed another reason to eat more hamburgers. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:44.399 This is unbelievable. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.720 Fast food chain Steak and Shake has started installing large 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.400 American flags at its outlets across the country. The company 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.000 said on October the fifth post on X they are 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.720 going to be installing the tallest and biggest American flags 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:05.400 at restaurants nationwide. The flag installations have begun at Steak 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.880 and Shake. The company said every Steak in Shake is 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.480 getting the tallest and biggest American flag that local governments 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.680 will allow. Stake and Shake proudly announced to supporters on 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.200 American Values and Traditions. Proudly supports Americans values and traditions. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:28.200 The post went viral, garnering six point four million views 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:34.280 and nearly two hundred thousand likes as of Monday. But 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.480 I'm sure even more then, according to Elon Musk, he 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.640 posted on X I'm ordering from there tomorrow. Steak and Shake, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.840 based in Indiana, employees more than ten thousand people. According 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.280 to LinkedIn, As of August, there were three hundred and 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.359 sixty three hundred and ninety seven Steak and Shake restaurants 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.800 across twenty four state territories in the United States, according 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:02.000 to an August twentieth report by data company Scrape. Hero 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.000 Stake and Shake announced and came as after Donald President 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.120 Donald Trump signed an executive order on August the twenty 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.760 fifth directing Eternal Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute people 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.320 caught burning the flag or desecrating it in other ways. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.240 According to his post in his order, our great American 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.200 Flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.320 United States of America and as and of American freedom, identity, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.840 and strength. Over nearly two and a half centuries, many 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.760 thousands of American patriots have fought, bled, and died to 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.680 keep the stars and strike waving proudly. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.200 The order said, burning the national flag. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.080 Is a statement of contempt, hostility, and violence against our nation, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.200 the clearest possible expression of opposition to the political union 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:55.040 that preserves our rights, liberty, and security. Burning this representation 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.840 of America may incite violence and riot. Now there's been 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.240 a lot of pushback on this. You know, they talk 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.240 about this being people burning the flag is a matter 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.600 of First Amendment rights, free speech and so on. Now, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.560 the burning the flag was a form of political protests 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.719 that became prevalent during the Vietnam War. Subsequently, the Flag 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.520 Protection Act of nineteen sixty eight was passed, which banned 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.720 burning and defiling the flag. The Supreme Court overturned the 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.080 law in nineteen eighty nine, but nineteen years later No 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.799 twenty one years later declaring the desecration of the American 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.280 Flag is protected under the First Amendment, and in August 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.679 twenty fifth statement, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression FIRE, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:50.720 named the acronym FIRE, opposed the executive order. Now, the 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.520 purpose of this and talking about this possibly inciting riot 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:00.480 would be justification for putting this into effect. Now, again, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.640 First Amendment people, you know, they expressing their you know, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.360 First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, burning the American flag 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.760 and all that sort of stuff. But you know what 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.000 they'll say is that, hey, it's just a piece of cloth. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.159 You know, it's it's just a representation of America. It 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.200 is not America, and all this sort of stuff. And 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.520 my answer to that is, well, if it's so insignificant, 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.840 why do you burn it in the first place, Because 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.279 you're trying to make a point, and the point is stupid, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.680 and if it incites a riot, and you know, you know, 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.320 if you aggravate people, they're going to react. And so 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.120 the fact that this is being put in place, I 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.760 applaud this, the fact that Steak and Shake is saying, 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.240 you know what, we are a proud company. We are 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.240 a proud American company, and we're going to stand by 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.880 that as much as possible, and installing as large a 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.920 flag as will be allowed by these individual communities show 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.839 the positive patriotic spirit of that company towards America. And 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.599 like I said, all I need is one more reason 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.360 to go out and buy more hammers and eat more Hamburgers. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.320 Next thing you know, they'll be putting up flags at 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.960 different pizza chains too, and so there goes my diet. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.320 But you know, I don't mind. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.880 Yesterday I mentioned that Donald Trump and Mark Carey, the 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.920 Prime Minister of Great Britain, we're meeting and they were 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.800 talking about the trade negotiations and so on, and there's 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.520 been other stories. There have been some additional stories as 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.760 a result of that. I'm going to follow up on that. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.640 President Donald Trump said he expects us and Canada can 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:44.880 get there on a resolution to their dispute over sectoral. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.120 Tariffs on steel, aluminum, and autos. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.919 Trump made his remarks in an Oval Office meeting with 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.080 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on August, well actually August 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.800 October the seventh, two days ago, where the presidents described 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:03.160 the disagreements between the countries as natural conflicts because they're 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.880 competing for the same businesses. Quoted by Donald Trump, That's 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.240 why I keep mentioning. One of the ways to solve 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.160 that problem is the very easy way, Trump said, and 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.840 an apparent reference to his suggestion that Canada should become 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.600 the fifty first state, an idea that was widely opposed 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:21.320 by Canadians. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:22.239 Well, I'm sure they would. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.280 But when he made that comment, watching the press conference, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.960 Carney smiled and kind of laughed a little bit, knowing 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.880 that this is kind of a trolling, if you will, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.960 or just kind of a little bit of a nudge 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:36.800 or something like it. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.000 And he gets the joke. And that's the important thing. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:40.640 You know. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.200 Initially, when he met with Trump back in what was 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.920 at April or May, it was confrontational and Trump was 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.200 kind of needling him and he said, you know, certain 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.520 things are not for sale, and you know as a 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.800 real estate developer that that's not possible and we're probably 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.320 not going to We're definitely not going to do that. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.200 What I didn't know, and I probably should have known 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.720 at the time, is that with Carney just being elected 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.520 in April, I didn't know his background. Mark Carney's second 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.920 visit to the White House since becoming Prime Minister earlier 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.480 this year, with a trading relationship worth nine hundred billion 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:22.040 dollars on the line, the former central banker one election 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.960 in April, so he is approaching this from a banking standpoint. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.200 He understands economics, and he understands what Donald Trump is 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.360 trying to do. And the fact that Donald Trump needles 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.720 him is he gets it. He gets the joke and 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.320 he gets the idea and to the point where the 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.280 two get along. I got to tell you, watching that 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:47.600 press conference, I was very encouraged by the talks and 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.719 how these two interacted to the point where they understood 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.559 each other. They know where each other is coming from, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.560 and both want to have a deal that's good for 0:08:59.000 --> 0:08:59.960 their own countries. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:01.920 And this is the whole point. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.720 When you are the representative of a particular country, if 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.640 you're the prime minister or if you're the president of 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.719 a particular country, you want your country to succeed. You 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.800 are not the president or the prime minister of Europe, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.600 You're not the Prime minister of France, You're not the 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.360 president of any other country. You are the president of 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.880 the United States. And he is the Prime Minister of Canada. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.679 Of course, they want both of their countries to do well, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.160 and they want to come to a mutual agreement. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.080 A lot of the stuff that they talked about. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.520 I just got the most comfortable feeling listening to these 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.920 two talks. Carneal told Trump that Canada is the US 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.079 largest foreign investor, suggested that the pace of investment may 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:52.280 accelerate probably one trillion in the next five years as 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.559 we get the agreement. There are areas where we compete, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.880 and those areas where we have to come to an 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.040 agreement that works, as Carney said, but there are some 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.520 areas where we are stronger together and that's what we're 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.520 focused on. Pick this up coming up, I'm Kevin Gordon, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.959 america'struck a Network seven hundred WLW DO. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.760 This is the Reething report on America's trucking network on 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.480 seven hundred WLW. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.720 There are reports that NASCAR is looking in to modify 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.760 its playoff system to crown a champion in the future. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.680 It's a playoff system for the past few years, but 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.360 for many years it was a points system. The King 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.000 Richard Petty, in his longtime Hall of Fame crew chief 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.800 Dale Enman, talks about this on the Petty Podcast. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.360 I still think to have a champion of NASCAR that 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.200 is a year long championship. It's not a one race championship. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.319 It's not a four race championship. It should be if 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.120 we were in thirty six races, who is the best 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.040 out of those thirty six they should be the champion. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.960 I'm with Richard on that first race start at thirty 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.440 six races, a in it and whoever's got the most 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.480 points as a champion. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.080 Also, Chip Canassi Racing has announced it's expanding against indie 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.040 NXT program to four cars for the twenty twenty six season. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.600 N HR officials have announced at Dodge and Direct Connection 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.480 have been named the title sponsor of the upcoming fall 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.439 race at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.000 Need This is the racing repard on America's Trucking Network 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.120 on seven hundred WLW, say Dennis at ATN. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.079 You've got a ton of equity in your home. You're 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.560 sitting on a gold mine. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.440 You can do so much with all that cash, like travel, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.560 invest it, or payoff debts, but you can't more. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.440 Yes, sir, But Mike, do you think people believe car 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.199 over me? Well, you are the phantom tire buyers exactly. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.880 You're one stop for advertising called eight four four eight 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:53.440 four four. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:54.080 iHeart. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.840 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck and Network seven hundred. WLW, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.760 continuing this discussion about Trump, says US Canada can get 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.640 there on a tariff deal again. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.479 I gotta emphasize watching. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.560 The two of these two guys, Mark Carney and Donald 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.960 Trump talking, it was just so refreshing to see. You know, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.560 you start off with that adversarial type of a situation 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.839 back in May when they first met, and then they 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.520 get over that and then get to the point where 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.720 they start negotiating. That's how adults do things. Now there 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.240 is this thought and there is this discussion as to 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.920 how you approach a particular discussion. I go back to 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.000 a movie and a play that I just absolutely love, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.040 and I watch it as often as I can it's 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.760 called seventeen seventy six. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:56.920 It's a musical. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.520 It's a musical play and was adapted into a in 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.360 nineteen seventy two about the signing of the Declaration of 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.080 Independence and the discussion back and forth all the people 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.360 and how they arrived at the decision. Very historically accurate 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.280 on a lot of the stuff that was discussed in there. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.480 Two of the main characters, John Adams and Ben Franklin. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.800 John Adams was kind of a They describe him during 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.320 the play and in a particular song as being obnoxious 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:32.120 and disliked because he's one of these and history points 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.360 out that he was kind of a very confrontational type 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.920 of an individual. He was one of these people that 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.079 would just go for it with full gusto. Ben Franklin, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.600 on the other hand, was the diplomat. He would try 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.280 to work behind the scenes to get things done with 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:54.840 the bombast of John Adams getting the ball moving that 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.320 Ben frankl would come behind and try to smooth things over. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.120 I experienced that with a group that we formed here 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.079 in well, in my home city or in my home 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.920 county in northern Kentucky, Campbell County, when we formed a 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.160 group group called the Independent Business Association of Northern Kentucky. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.200 We were trying to get certain things done, and get 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:21.640 certain things done as far as the various county commissioners, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.600 trying to lower tax rates, trying to get certain things accomplished, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.200 trying to eliminate or actually eliminate the talk of having 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.640 tolls in the Brent Spnz Bridge, and some other things 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:32.440 that were going on. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.080 And I don't want to go into. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.640 All the details, but I found during those negotiations of 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.880 dealing with the city commitssion or county commissioners and even 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.400 the cities themselves that I am kind of more of 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.040 the John John Adams type where I just want to 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.560 go for I want to, you know, kind of rattle 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.040 the things a little bit and point out to where 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.520 the ignorance of these people are going. One of the 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.280 members of the organization people kept referring to them as 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.960 Switzerland because he would come in and try to make 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.200 phone calls, go have lunch with the people, kind of 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.720 smooth things over, and then try to arrange some sort 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.120 of you know, off the books type of discussions. But 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.320 the combination of the two of us we got an 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.800 awful lot accomplished and got some things changed in all 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.600 the counties in northern Kentucky as and you know, not 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.200 only in Campbell County, with Kenton County and Boone County 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.040 as well. And so it's kind of this contract. Donald 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.360 Trump's more of a is more of a John Adams 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.840 type of an individual where he will kind of, you know, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.760 kind of shock people at first with some of the 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.240 stuff that he does, but then as a result in 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.400 the negotiation, getting the negotiation started, and then as a 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.440 result of looking at those negotiations, adapt and adjust where 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.640 he's coming from in order to get something accomplished. And 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.960 this is what I saw between the two of them 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.160 when they were discussing this in the Oval Office. US 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.280 tariffs on steel, auto lumber or battering key Canadian industries 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.080 and UGUS. First, Trump raised levies on goods that don't 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.440 comply with the US Mexico Canadian agreement to thirty five 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.400 and thirty and twenty from twenty five percent. The trade 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.600 war has caused losses and put a chill on business investment, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.600 pushing Canada's economy to contract in the second quarter. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:21.880 Again, when you look at the. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.160 Type of trade negotiations or what tariffs were in place, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.240 prior to April the second Liberation Day, when Donald Trump 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.400 started announcing these various tariffs. Looking at the chart on 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.400 some of the items that were charged, two hundred and 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:42.240 ninety nine percent tariff on our dairy goods going into Canada, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.400 and we hardly charge any tariffs on their stuff coming 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:46.400 into the United States. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:47.800 That's ridiculous. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.520 The fact that we don't sell much products over there 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.680 creates problems as far as our economy is concerned, job 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:59.120 losses or individual businesses not being able to expand as 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.840 much as they could. And the fact that this market 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.000 is just across the border should be a natural partner 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.359 for us. And the fact that this was a trade 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.119 in balance in the terraffs rout of whack. Something needed 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.760 to be done. Now, I guess you could have done 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.400 something more in the way of at Ben Franklin type 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.920 of thing, a behind the scenes kind of soft negotiations 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.480 and that type of thing, but a lot of times 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.119 that takes more time. And by Trump coming in on 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.600 Liberation Day and slapping these tariffs on pending the negotiation. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.840 Now remember when he did this, he was talking about 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.720 the fentanyl increase, the drugs coming up from Mexico, and 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.160 drugs coming in from Canada and kind of a penalty 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.000 on that. They started clamping down in Canada, they started 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.359 clamping down in Mexico. To comply with that, he rolled 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.920 back and adjusted some of the terriffs and then kept 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.440 some of the tariffs in place, trying to get more 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.720 of a fair trade as opposed to free trade. You 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.120 can have all the free trade you want, but if 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.400 your products can be sold in these other countries because 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.879 of the import duties and the trade negotiations and the 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:12.480 problems with their import situation as well as tariffs, all 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.159 the free trade in the world isn't going to do 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.960 anything because you can't sell your products there. So by 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.560 negotiating these tariffs and again it's more of a bombastic 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.920 way of doing it bought up to this point has 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.359 been effective, and especially with Canada the way carneye being 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:32.360 a central banker, coming from a business background and understanding economics, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.640 realized this and said, Okay, you know. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.919 You've made your point. Now let's discuss these things. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.480 And I'm just amazed at how this is going on. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.040 Carney offered an olive branch to Trump in August when 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.439 he announced lifting of most of Canada's retaliatory teriffs on 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:54.399 imports from the US. Carney's predecessor, Justin Trudeau, imposed counter 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.520 tariffs of about sixty billion dollars Canadian forty three billion 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:05.200 dollars American American dollars of US products. Canada new policy 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.520 on counter teriffs is to apply them to areas where 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.879 the UF tariffs US tariffs are in place, such as 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.879 steel and aluminum. This is the way stuff gets done 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:21.040 between adults. You make your point, then you negotiate, you 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.560 come back, and you make some sort of an agreement. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.560 We're working on formulas, according to Trump. He said, we're 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.160 working on formulas, and I think we'll get there. Carney's 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:37.320 top negotiators include Cabinet Minister responsible for US Trade Dominic LeBlanc, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:43.040 and Canada's ambassador in US, Kristin Hillman, and still pushing 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.360 for a near term deal that would see some sectoral 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:53.760 tariffs lowered or dropped. Dropped tariffs being dropped, big surprise, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.639 something that I don't think would be done by the 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.719 soft approach and negotiating these things behind the scenes and 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.240 trying to work here, trying to work there, but you 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.680 get it out in front of everybody. Till everybody understands 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.560 the unfairness, and then that puts them on the spot 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.480 to negotiate and if their economy is suffering or which 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.560 a lot of people are saying that these foreign countries, 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.560 their economies are suffering because of the tariffs. Again, as 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.199 I've been saying in the past, you guys are the 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:24.480 ones that are in control. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.879 You are the ones that have the higher terriffs. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.600 You're preventing us from selling our goods into your country, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.439 which affects American jobs, affects the amount of goods that 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.200 are transferred and trucked by our truckers. You out there 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.840 in the audience, and it boosts your ability to transport 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.800 more products for export purposes. And I probably the how 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.160 would you say, the most delicate way of doing things, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.080 Probably the most soft way of doing things. But it's 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.199 sure as hell has been effective. And what was funny 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.560 also during this Oval Office press conference, Donald Trump was 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.320 saying to the Prime Minister, he said, you know, our 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:10.440 ambassador there was a comment, and the ambassador to Canada 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.840 spoke up, and Trump paused in a moment while the 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.160 guy was asking the question or making the comment, he goes, 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.800 he goes, is he doing a pretty good job, because 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.320 if he isn't, Mark, I'll fire him right now. And 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.600 the two of them just laughed like it was like 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.920 a couple of guys the way things normally are. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:31.440 It's just amazing. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.399 I just can't talk about how great it was to 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.280 watch these two communicate and go back and forth. And 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.960 there will be a deal done. It'll be fair for 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:45.480 both countries. And because Mark Harney is concerned about his 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.120 country doing well and Donald Trump is concerned about our 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.480 company doing our country doing well. 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