100924 Steve Laffey

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know why I find this funny walking to
the shover about it. Jimmy is my name? I looked
over the screen and Britta Merlin, I believe, is the
name of the meteorologist that reporting from Sarasota, Florida. I
think she was. And she's it looked like around the
kind of a hotel area and kind of a little
a small bay area. Waters will calm, real shadow. And

(00:20):
again she's standing right in the water. And there's no
reason to be standing in the water right now, but
all these reporters want to stand in the water. The
storm's not even there yet. The clouds are just starting
to show up on the Florida coast, but they're all
standing in the water. The one was in front of
a gas station in a water puddle, literally backed into
the water puddle then walked out of it. And this
lady's standing in perfectly calm water in front of a

(00:43):
hotel and just like here we are, I'm just standing
in the water and for no reason, just to talking
about how this is the water that's going to come
up and surge, and you're like, really, you don't need
to be in the water right now, All right, that's
just my opinion. I just watch out for the water shots.
They're all going to become. Everybody's going to have a
water everybody wants a photo in the water. Why get
in the water when you don't have to. I mean,

(01:04):
if you're out there reporting and the winds blowing, that's
one thing. But this is it's perfectly calm out there.
They're all just going to find water to stand in
because they want to be like a legitimate hurricane reporter.
I guess it's funny to watch from my humble vantage
point behind this microphone. All right, good to have you
here on the radio show every week at this time,

(01:24):
we're joined by a brother, Steve Laffey. He's a commentator
and author, run for president recently and obviously written a book,
I've made a film, and he's been on this program
with us for a long long time. Let's go to
Steve Laffey on the hotline his website Steve Laffy dot com. Steve,
Good morning to you, sir, Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Great to be with you. It's a great show. And yes,
a lot of things where the's hurricanes are Missus Harris,
there's a lot of things going on that it just
you watch people anyway, take it any what you want.
So many dumb people.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I got to start here though, used texting me because
yesterday was National fluffer Nutter Day and I didn't know
that what a fluffer nutter was. And you texted me
and said, it's a New England thing, and you actually said,
I love fluffer nutter. It has to be an an
old day, old wonderbread and you add the smucker's jelly
and it's a new So this is a real thing,
like you do that. It's that comfort food in New England.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, And I think Massachusetts tried to make it the
state sandwich back when I was a kid or something.
But fluff and utter, yeah, marshmallow fluff. It's not something
in Colorado. And my wife never heard about it in
the South until she lived in Rhode Island when we
moved there. But yeah, people eat lots of fluff and utters,
and it's just one of these marshmallow fluff is one
of the worst things you could eat in your life, right,

(02:41):
It's a pure sugar fluff thing. And but yes, growing
up that would be like a treat. In other words,
we didn't have a lot of money either, like it
sounds like you didn't. And the day there was a
day old bread store that had wonderbread, So my mother
would go there and get the stale bread and we'd
make fluff and utters. But if you added this smucker's

(03:01):
jelly whatever we had lying around, it was like a
triple sugar high, you know, at the age of nine.
But but yeah, and sluffing. That only has one other use, Jimmy,
and that's when I make something called a grass up
a pie. I'll make one for you. This is like
the least healthy thing you could ever eat. It's Aureo cookies.
Oh yeah, chop, you know, mashed up with butter, and
then you add fluff utter and then heavy cream you

(03:22):
whip up and then with your hands you mix that
in on top and you add like two ounces of
cream dement liquor for a whole pie. So it's a
little bit green. And that's the other use of fluff
and utter. There's no other use. But but but some
of these other sandwiches, like I looked up yours, the
Benegan thing, I wish that was around. You're right, the

(03:43):
Benegan Monte Carlo is a classic. Yeah, I wish I
had some of that, Okay.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I've never I've never found I've never found a money
crystal like the old Benigan's one. Maybe it because my
first one. I've tried some there's some local blazers drive
money crystal like, no, it's not the same. And but
that's a sandwich. I mean, anytime you fry something like
fry a sandwich, that's a that's a good day.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah. And you know, speaking of poor stories, just so
you know, my mother would make three sandwiches for me
to go off to school. At least one would be
a sandwich with day old white bread. And it was
ketch up in mayonnaise. That's it, Jimmy catch up on
one side. Now, I didn't realize that was simply French dressing.
And I went off eating that sandwich thinking it was
which it wasn't really a sandwich. But anyway, that's that's

(04:27):
my other sandwich from growing up, along with the fluff
and others. But fluffin Us were a treat.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I just had an idea, we should create an idea.
Let's figure how they fry the Monte crystal. Let's fly
fry the fluffer nutter and see if we what that
would taste. Like and a Monte Crystal crusted. I'm just
thinking that we could do that.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think it would be good.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, all right, let's get some more serious things besides
the fluffer nutter here. The big storm is about to
hit there, and and you sent me a story. Federal
deficit hits one point eight trillion dollars to twenty twenty four.
There's a lot of things that we should be talking
about an election cycle. And I know Milton's going to
be a big storm, but let's kind of talk about it.

(05:06):
What we should be talking about while we are talking
about Hurricane Milton. How do we balance all the fact
and to make sure that we're still talking about re
issues here.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, listen, it's important to realize that it's not just
the really a metaphor. There is a category ten storm
called the national debt, and it's literally heading at every
American in the United States of America. And in this
particularly year, the end in September, it's just reported that
the United States of America ran a one point eighty
three trillion dollar deficit, or a six percent of GDP deficit,

(05:41):
which has never been done again except under Trump and
under Biden, not not even under Obama. But these are
like wartime deficits. These are things when you're fighting World
War two, deficits that people have run in our country
and then paid them down. We have no intention from
any of the candidates running from president to discuss it,

(06:01):
to do anything about it. When you look at missus Harris,
you know, sucking down a brew as the storm's about
to hit. By the way, as I said last week,
the race is over. This is another signal that they
know the race is over. And Kamala Harris is just
doing stuff for POSTERI to do a TV show or
radio show, whatever she's going to do to make lots
of money after the race is over. You know, mister

(06:24):
Walls last week did a whole speech to try to
placate Muslims. He says the war in Gaza should be
over immediately. Well, again, he knows the race is over. Jimmy,
you wouldn't say that because everybody thinks, wait a second,
you're part of the team that didn't end the war.
Like it's been October seventh's been a year, right, Plus
there's only a million Muslims that vote, and if they're

(06:46):
really Orthodox Muslims, they're not really voting for you. They're
against lesbianism, they're against gay marriage. They they're not for
any of this stuff that they seem to think that
they are so and it doesn't involve any state, but
it helps him in Minnesota when he goes back. So
he's campaigning for himself. Kamila Harris is campaigning for herself

(07:06):
in the meantime. You know, their ideas for the future
of the country, I'm that much different than Donald Trump's.
And that you know, they're not going to touch anybody
making less than four hundred thousand dollars. Warning shots everybody,
you can't pay you off any of the national debt
unless you do touch some of the people making less
than four hundred thousand dollars, right, So they have no
intention of doing this. And in the meantime, these deficits

(07:28):
are now starting to really matter. And why several months
ago on your show, I said, when they cut rates,
and the said did cut a fifty point basis point
on short term rates, I said, you're going to be
surprised when ten yion bond yields don't go down. They
reeled them like three point eight at the time. Now
they're four point zero two and mortgage rates are actually
higher than they were when they begin to cut the

(07:50):
Federal Reserve started to cut rates. Why Jimmy, there's too
much debt, so so that this is what's going to
continue to happen. And then when you add up that
commodity price risen about ten percent of the last month,
you're going to see this in January CPI. You may
not see it in tomorrow, CPI, consume the price indets.
You're going to see it in januaries, in februaries, in March.
So inflation will take higher under any president. And then

(08:13):
you're going to see this nature of the authoritary nature
of people now panicing trying to control inflation. And you
may even see under any administration the wage and price
control blah blah blah. Look at unions getting what they
want around the country. Those are now in union contracts,
these effect these are all going to affect every American

(08:33):
citizen as far as what people get paid. So this
is all happening. And the last point is, even though
we're having this massive national debt, the money supply is
now going back up. Along with the quantity of money
is going up. The reason we didn't have much inflation
at all. Even though money supply went up from Obama
being elected through twenty twenty, the change of money, that

(08:57):
the quantity of money changing went down, and so we
didn't have much inflation. Now they're both going up. So
look at another year. Like I told you before, inflation here,
you're gonna have inflation. You're gonna have it again. Maybe
not eight, but certainly four and four destroys middle class people.
So here we are with the campaign with no time
to change any votes. Where nobody cares in the campaign,

(09:17):
nobody asking questions. Jimmy cares about the national death nobody
cares about the middle class. The only answer for both
Trump and Kamila Harris is to send checks to people,
which now they're going to find out in twenty twenty
five they won't be able to do. A whole category
ten storm hitting America, washing up its shores, not much
different than what's happened to Tampa, and people are literally

(09:38):
standing in the water, laughing and having a party about
to get run over. That's what's going on.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
What's amazing is you're talking about these real issues out there,
and how many people don't even know about the real issues.
They don't know what their candidate things are the re issues.
They don't know what the other guy things about the
real issue. They just know, Hey, they got the right jersey,
they have the right party affiliation. That's all they care about.
And rather than what about the real issue, We're social
security going to be when I retire? How about the
national debt? How's that going to leave for my grandkids?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
What?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Nothing is just about who's got the red jersey on,
who's got the blue jersey on? And that's who I
vote for or that's who I vote against. But there
are real series issues, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know. Just to talk to that point, I was
on a national TV show with Sebastian Gorker, who's a
well known Trump supporter, and I, since I don't watch
these shows, right, I listen to you and I do
a couple of other things, and I get raw dat.
As I've told everybody, I haven't seen this guy, but
I know who he is, like a Steve Bannon type character. Right.
His over the top comments were so strange for me

(10:38):
to hear because I don't hear these people. But his
total backing of Trump over anything anything, you know, the
old thing where the economy was so great, when Trump
was present, and I'm thinking two percent negative two percent
economic growth? Is that really a Reagan number? Is that
a Truman number? Is that a Jonnith Kennedy number? In
the economy grow at six percent? What is he talking about?

(10:59):
But that's the team he's on. And so when he
says to the host Armstrong Williams that Liberals not having
any children, of course they're very smart. Host is like,
that's not really true. But he'll just say these things.
And so he's on a team and it doesn't matter
the future of America doesn't matter to this guy. He's
probably a nice guy. He just joined the team and

(11:22):
now does a radio show to make money. And this
is what Kamila Harris is doing and what Tim Watz
is trying to do now now that they know that
they're losing. In my humble opinion, that's what they do.
They're on a team. I'm on a team that says,
let's fix America. That team only has like ten people
on it. I mean one day it might have millions,
but today it only has ten.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, yeah, I got these talks. Well on they're right
Often that we can we criticize, like the MSNBC State
they're propagandists. And yet you have people like that that
just simply carry the water and they're on the team
no matter what. Yeah, and they're the exact equivalent of
the MSNBC on the right. And it doesn't mean you
can't like your guy or just like the other person,
but you got to have a realistic expectation and say, hey,

(12:03):
this is where they're wrong, this is where they're right.
And maybe, as Reagan said, they're right eighty percent of
the time of the twenty percent, that doesn't mean they're
right enemy, but at least you don't have to drink
the kool aid. And a lot of guys on both
sides do drink the kool aid, and they do it
for paycheck.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, at least if and I'm not saying he hasn't
said this, but I bet he hasn't. At least if
Sebastian Gorker and other people have said. Listen, I like
I've said, I love Trump. When he put appoint those
judges he picked from the list, he kept his word.
It was I loved how he said he wasn't getting
out of back Dhanistan. But he never got out. And
I believe he was never getting out. Okay, Fine, he's
doing politics right, but he's not getting out in my

(12:39):
humble opinion, But to never point out the deficits on
the Trump even if you know him. How about just
saying I totally love Trump, I totally disagree in the
deficits he ran up, and I've talked to him about it,
and I've got to get him to understand that it's
really hurting the middle class and with destroy America, that's okay,
But they won't say that.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Jimmy, I got to find an interview, send you a
link if I get and find it. I heard Art Laugher,
you know, the famous Art Laugher, actually said don't worry
about the deficit because we still can grow out of
this thing. We can grow out of our problems. And
I was shocked to hear Laughers say that. But again,
you know somebody, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Whatever, Yeah, he just in the bag for the He
just in the bag for the whole thing. Now. He
was very famous for the Laugher curb on the Reagan
when when deficits were very small and Mogino pax rates
were seventy percent, and he was possibly right about increasing
revenue when you cut mojie rates down a twenty eight percent.
Get it, that's not that's not true today art do

(13:35):
some new research in your eighties.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, Steve Laughy, my friend, Steve Laffy. You were a
mayor and real quick in our final moments that you
dealt with the crisis, snowstorms, blizzards and the floods and
all the things that happened in cities at times. And
as you're kind of watching the evacuations and the things
in Florida, I'm sure maybe rings a bell. I mean
there's people actually that they were told yesterday get out

(13:57):
or die, and they say there's still people say nope,
I'm not going to get out. I'll just stay here.
Give me your thoughts. In the final few moments we.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Have together, it just you know, the mayor people don't
know this here, but the two major rivers meet in Cranston,
Rhode Island, and there was a two floods, one a
gigantic five hundred year flood, and just things that you
just can't believe what happened. You go to the school
people who hate me, and I said, listen, your busses
are going to get flooded. You've poked them in the
wrong place. Let's move them. I can't drive them, but

(14:26):
you got to move them. They don't move them. They
couldn't care less. You see people who don't care. The
buses get flooded. They let them dry out full of
formaldehide and dirty water, and the kids sit on them
for the next twenty years. You see things like this right.
Then you see things that are happening where it's like okay,
and this is There's two quick things. One one you
see people like driving like I'm block hating the road myself.

(14:48):
It's gonna it's flooding on the other side the way.
I'm in the Maya's car with the light side a
police car and a guy's trying to drive around me,
and I'm yelling at he stops. I said, where you going?
Because I'm going to work? I said, do you see
the cones? What do you think I'm doing it? Do
you know who I am? Yet? May allow for you?
Why am I way? You can't go that way? Your
car won't make it. Oh, always says he turns around, like, obviously,

(15:09):
if you look ahead, Jimmy, you would see that there's
a river of water on Pontiacap. Then you see a
lady who makes the mistake of driving into a place
she can't get out of. And I go in with
my big giant boots and I literally carry your kid
out and it's it's like four feet of water and
the car's going stops floating away, but we get her out.
We walk up. She's crying and crying and crying, and

(15:31):
I take her to the house. Her husband's there. The
car's going and I say, a total liear, must tell
you all, Joni, never what you couldn't tell, mister Smith,
whatever his name was, you couldn't tell. And she hugs
me and he's and she's her husband's not too mad
because but she could have told. She could have seen obviously,
So you're not to drive into this giant puddle puddle

(15:52):
lake that was formed on a street. And the last
point I'll make if we have time. The last point
is when you go to places that houses never should
have been bill part of Tampa we're going to. And
you see in Cranston and Island, there's two types of people.
I walked down the road. On the left hand side,
a guy is yelling to me, thanks Mayor, you sent
the fireman over to get their stuff out of my basement.

(16:12):
He's throwing stuff into a giant dumpster. I'll take care
of the rest. Great job, mayor. Lady. On the other side,
you go into the home that's totally flooded and she
looks at me and she says, who's going to buy
my home? And I said, what do you mean, well,
someone needs to buy my home. The government should buy
my home. It should have been built here. I said, Man,
nobody's gonna This is why I was kind of a

(16:33):
tough guy. And he says, man, nobody's going to buy
you home. No, it should have been here. But you
live here. We can help you with X, Y and
Z from the city standpoint, and that's all we can do.
But there's two types of people, the self sufficient guy,
one who's prepared for it, lady, and then there's the
person who's like, who's going to buy my home. I'll
never forget that within five minutes of seeing two people

(16:53):
who had two different views of the world, and we
see that today, two different views. Who's going to help me,
who's going to pay me, who's going to send me
a check? And the other person the Steve Laffey Junior
and the Jimmy Lakey guy, I'm getting off my butt today.
Here's what I gotta do to make a living.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Steve Laffy, Always the pleasure, Steve Laffy dot com. Right
on Q two, the music started to write as we finished.
That's a miraculous time, Steve Laffy, Go enjoy some fluffer nutder.
My friend Steve Laffy dot com big fan of the
fluffer nutterer he is. He sent me photos of what
this marshmallow fluff looks like.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I guess you do.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
They have any grocery stores here. I gotta go look
for it. Maybe, I know it sounds really bad for you.
I'll be back Lakey six hundred caseyl. I'll take a
Monte Cristo, please,