1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Gas prices are climbing again across the US. The national 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: average has jumped to three dollars and forty eight cents 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: a gallon. That's up nearly fifty cents in just a week. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The spike comes after the US Israeli war with i 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: Ran briefly pushed oil above one hundred dollars a barrel, 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: the highest level in two years. Drivers on the West 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: coast are feeling it the most. California is averaging five 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: dollars and twenty cents a gallon wow, and Washington State 9 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: sits at four dollars and sixty three cents a gallon. 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: The main issue is the straight of her Moves, a 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: critical shipping route now disrupted by the conflict. The White 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: House says it has a plan to stabilize energy markets, 13 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: and the President has called the spike the price spike 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: short term, short term, he says, short term, okay. Still, 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: analysts warn gas could stay higher through the summer, could 16 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: stay high through this. 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: But did you hear her talking to the oil tankers. 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 3: He was saying, you know, it's they they've been threatened 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 3: out to go through that, so they're not driving through. 20 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: President Trump said, show some guts him drivers just come 21 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 3: on through the straight and yeah, yeah, wow, man, this 22 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 3: dude right here, what. 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 2: The audacity to say that? Man? You drive through that right? 24 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: Wrong? 25 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: Is wrong with that? You might be a little bit 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: more risky if it was your oil. 27 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you was driving through and you was getting 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 3: all the money for the oil. 29 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: You just work on the ship though. 30 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, that ain't show all that ain't show business. 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: Unbelievable, unbelievable. 32 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not getting shot with my call. Let loan 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: your vote. 34 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, So short term, that's what we can hope for 35 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: right now. Short term it's been the drag out and 36 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: the whole foy. 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: But the rest of his term, trust me. Yeah, all right. 38 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: Switching gears so depressing just to talk about it. 39 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: Switching gears. 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: In entertainment news, Forbes has released its annual list of 41 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: the richest people in the world. Elon Musk No surprise, 42 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: there is number one, eight hundred and thirty nine million 43 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: billion dollars eight hundred and thirty nine. 44 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: He had a trillion suits. 45 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: But otherwise, but he was firing people that worked for 46 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: the United States government. 47 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: He wanted them to justify their jobs. And he's the richest. 48 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 3: Man in the world, which is why, which is why 49 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 3: we have a huge problem right now. See all these 50 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: doge cuts that he made, why he was there. It's 51 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 3: affected people all over America. Yeah yeah, and the majority 52 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 3: of the people that disaffected voted for Trump. 53 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. 54 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: Other people on the list. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, no surprise there. Wow, 55 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: he only has two hundred and twenty four billions. 56 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: Wow, I take it, broke. 57 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: You peasage, Yes, all right, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Annulton family 58 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: which oversee Louis Vatana and supporta. Rob Walton and his 59 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: family are on the list. From Walmart, of course, Bill Gates, Microsoft, 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: and from the music industry, there's Beyonce, jay Z, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: and now Doctor Dre is officially a billionaire. Doctor Dre 62 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: has been added to the list to his record label Aftermath, 63 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: and of course Beats by Dre headphone sales at Apple. 64 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: So congratulations to all of them. Congratulations. 65 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, get your paper up. Jeff Bezos can lead. They 66 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: missed my name and. 67 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: Steve, I was looking for you here. 68 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: I wasn't. The struggle is real me something. The goal 69 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: I'm going for here is so simple? What's the goal? 70 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: What? Oh? 71 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: I'm not going to over burden God with being on 72 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 3: that list and brus Let me tell you something, that 73 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: list they really that's not a real That list is accurate. 74 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 3: Then people over there, then people over there that first 75 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: is Saudi Uh, there's Qatar, there's the Ua, and then 76 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 3: they go down after that. Ain't nobody on that list 77 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: got their money? 78 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: So you're saying they have way more than eighty nine billion. 79 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: Girl, girl, So they're just not telling Forbes. 80 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 3: No, they don't report to Forbes and they don't even 81 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 3: know that's how much they They don't even understand why 82 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 3: you're reporting your income. 83 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: What is the thing about that? 84 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, they think that that's culturally not Why would you 85 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 3: brag about how much money you have and want to 86 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 3: be on the list. It's some people over there, way 87 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: in front of everybody on that list I'm talking about 88 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 3: Elon had to go somewhere sit down, wow, because Elon's 89 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 3: money is not in cash. 90 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: Elon's money is in stock and all like that. Like that. 91 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 2: It's still I mean, trust me, it's plenty. It's comfortable. 92 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 3: There's some people over there cash cash. 93 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 2: Shout out to doctor dre mate yet out Yeah, shut 94 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 2: out to Drake. Yeah, let me hold two hundred million. Well, 95 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 2: don't ask Jeff Bezos. 96 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: That because he only adds two hundred and twenty four billion. 97 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: I'd only asked him for fifty million. 98 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, you cut back. 99 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't ask him for two for it. I 100 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 3: just could ask him for fifty million. 101 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's a lot of money. Hey, when we 102 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: come back, i'd like to know. I would like to 103 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 2: ask a question. 104 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, coming up in twenty minutes 105 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: after Steve will have a question right after this. 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