June 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Elon Musk's criticism of the congressional spending bill, the state of the economy and inflation, the national debt and entitlement programs. Elon Musk pointed out that Big Government was going to happen no matter what party is in office. DOGE limitations. WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt with some positive economic news. The arrest of the family of the Boulder terrorist. Buck's personal health and fitness journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour, Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks
for being here with us, everybody, and I got some
breaking news for you. This was a question that was
just asked before. I think it was actually well as
a talkback question from one of our esteemed listeners. What
about the family of the Boulder terror terrorists. Where's their
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immigration status or what's going on with them? And ICE
agents have arrested the wife and taken into custody of
the children. I don't know their ages of the Boulder
terrorists as well. I would assume that we'll find out
more here on. Are they also in the country illegally?
This would be so interesting, wouldn't it. You'd have somebody
who comes here overstays his visa, maybe the family overstayed
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the visa as well, the same game, and then and
then he applies for asylum, and then if he gets asylum,
he manages to keep the rest of his family here
as well. Perhaps he has a child while he's waiting
for his waiting for his asylum case to be heard.
So think about this. Even if your asylum case as
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something like eighty or ninety percent of the ones that
have been heard are dismissed and then there's a then
there's a detainer order put out or rather, then there's
a a what do you call it, an expulsion hearing,
A deportation sorry, deportation hearing, not a detainer, a deportation hearing.
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That's separate from this. So they have all these chances
to stay in the country. But if you're in the
country for a few years and if your wife meets
you here, or you know, you just meet some lady,
I mean, you know this, this is these things happen, right,
you have a kid here. Well, now you're separating families.
Now now you can't be sent home, right because now
you're sent you're breaking up a family. The whole system
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was not set up to deal with the systematic h
violation that we saw under Biden, and honestly before that
it occurred as well. Trump was cleaning it up. Trump
inherited a terrible border from Obama, and then there was
this exploitation of the asylum loophole, and then Trump tries
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to clean that up and starts locking that down. Then
we hit COVID and then COVID crew does create actually
a lockdown on the border for a while, and then
Biden just kicks the whole thing wide open, and we
are still very much dealing with the consequences of that
to this day. So that's something that we are going
(02:39):
to continue to talk about here. But also just the
ICE agents arresting that Boulder terror suspect. That's breaking news
right now as I talk to you. They've taken that
family into custody, and we'll see. I'd be curious to
know more details that really the wife didn't know the
guy was building a homemade flamethrower. No idea maybe, but
(03:02):
no idea. Hmm. Now something else. We've got those Caroline
Levitt White House Press briefing soundbites for you. We'll get
to that here in just in just a moment. But
something that has come up on the radar two and
that is this is from Elon. I'm just gonna say,
(03:25):
I'm making sure it's two hundred and twenty million subscribers,
a lot of fake Elon accounts out there. Elon is
saying this about the big beautiful bill. I am quoting
to you now from the founder of doge himself and
the owner of the x platform, which is where I
am right reading this from. I'm sorry, but I just
(03:45):
can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional
spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who
voted for it. You know you did wrong, you know it. Yikes.
(04:05):
Elon continues it will massively increase the already gigantic budget
deficit to two point five trillion and burden American citizens
with crushingly unsustainable debt. That's from Elon Musk everybody. That's
the dog guy. So I think we know where he
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stands on the big beautiful bill. And I think we
also know that all along there was a there was
a time limit, yes, by custom and law. I think
for a temporary government employee, there was a time limit
on what could be what could be accomplished, what could
be done here by Elon. But also I had worried
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all along that somebody who has operated in a private sector,
where you have the ability to do the things you
want to do, would quickly become incredibly frustrated by a
government sector where there is it is deeply entrenched that
there is no accountability and that the system is perpetuated.
(05:12):
That is the whole thing, the giant self licking ice
cream cone in DC, That is the whole thing. It
just keeps doing what it does. It doesn't need anything else,
It just keeps pushing along. So Elon making it very
clear that he thinks that this bill is not at
all what it should be, that it does not take
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into account. And look, he doesn't care. Right, he's no
longer he's no longer running doughs. He's back to his companies.
He told us what was going on. He told us
about the spending problems. And this is the spending problems
are not getting better. We're still spending too much money. Everybody,
I did, you know, I sit here and does anyone
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to hear it? Does anyone care we're going to do
anything about this? And the truth is we're spending too
much money, and we're spending too much money because we
can't afford to pay for everybody's health care for the
last thirty years of their life more or less, even
though I know we're told we pay into it. But
if you won't touch entitlements, we're spending ourselves into oblivion.
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That's just the truth, that's just the math. And that's
why it's unpopular. If we could fix the debt by
cutting back on windmills, spending or something a green New
deal scam. If we could fix the debt, not help
it a tiny, tiny, tiny bit, we could fix it.
Of course we would do that. The reason our Congress
does not address the problem of our increasingly unsustainable, mathematically
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unsustainable debt is that we don't want it to. So
I don't know how energized or exercise I can get
about this because I can tell you what the numbers are.
You know, if I sat down, if we were doing
a household budget, and I sat down with you, and
I said, look, here's the problem. Where we have one
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thousand dollars a month that we can spend on food,
and we're spending two thousand dollars a month on food.
And all we have to do is we have to
get rid of you know, sorry, we can't eat red
meat anymore. We cut back on the red meat, you know,
we can actually hit our budget. And you say, well, no,
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we can't do that. I need my red meat. You go, okay,
but then we're spending too much money. So just understand
that there's a push pull here. There's no if we
don't reform entitlements, we don't change this. And that's just it.
And I don't want to argue with anybody about it.
That's just reality, that's math. And I know that people
be told or they've been told, oh but I paid
for this. You actually end up taking out the average
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person over two times which you pay into, for example,
Medicare over the course of the program. So you know
you can't and Trump won't touch Medicare, and no one's
going to touch those security or Medicare. Medicaid is just
this massive slush and nationally that has vertal accountability mechanisms
in place. The big beautiful Bill actually tries to do
some of that, but we're just gonna keep spending too
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much money. It's tough for It's a little bit like
the debt ceiling fight for me. Now, how am I
supposed to go through history onics and tell you that
this is going to become a bigger and bigger problem.
It will become a problem that is so big that
by the time everyone agrees it's a problem that must
be fixed, it will be too late to fix the
problem without tremendous pain financially and as a society. But
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smoke him if you got him, because it's not changing.
And you know, for Elon to come out and say this.
I wonder, I wonder is Trump or Anyone's gonna it's
gonna have harsh words to say about I mean, Elon,
he saw all the books. He knows. Elon knows that
if the United States government was a company, the company
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is headed to bankruptcy. He knows that. And we know that.
And this is what the numbers are telling us. And
this is what Elon is telling us. But now we're told, oh,
we will handle this, but not yet. There's a bit
of a procrastination explanation here. We will tackle this national debt,
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but we will do it in the future at some
other point. Guys, I told you I've lost now, I'd
say forty pounds. Really, I mean when I got sick
last week, it got down to like another ten pounds,
because you don't want to lose weight that way. But
I'm down at least forty pounds, and you know what
I end up. It's funny. I remember my guy, my
online training coach, Dan Anderson. He's a great guy and
(09:43):
just he lives this stuff and he's a really unique
character and just lives fitness and health and everything. And
I remember he kind of gave me my first meal planned,
and there was just a lot of like lean protein.
Now I love protein, but like a lot of you
I'm sure you know what kind of lean pro rather?
You know what kind of protein?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I like?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Hamburger meat, ribbi New York strip, that's a bacon. That's
the protein that I like. You know what lean protein is, eh,
ninety nine percent lean ground turkey, you know, whitefish, you
know things like things like that. You know it's like, oh,
(10:23):
that's not as exciting. But I remember we put on there.
I had to eat ground now eat ground turkey pretty
much every day. I've really developed a taste for it.
I season it. I Is it as exciting as cutting
into a delicious piece of short rib? Definitely not. But
what I'm saying is initially it was, well, I'll do this,
but I don't really want to start eating like, come on,
(10:44):
ninety nine percent lean turkey, ground turkey. That sounds that
sounds not fun. It's never gonna be fun. But I
had reached a point where I was like, Okay, time
to do it. The nation needs to go on a diet.
We don't want to do it. We don't want to
eat ground turkey. We want bacon. Cheeseburgers, and I get it,
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But don't tell me that you want to eat bacon
cheeseburgers every day and you want to lose weight. Don't
tell me that you want to tackle the debt. But
we can't touch in title. But like I said, I'm
not going to fight with anybody over it because it's
not worth it. Because people feel so passionately about this,
but that is the truth. That is the problem. We
have set up a system that is financially unsustainable, and
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we've made promises to people that are based in things
that are unfortunately mathematically not true, Like you're paying in
more than you're getting out. That's not true. It's a
little bit like a palmsy scheme. And this is where
we are, and I don't think anybody wants to handle it,
so it's not going to get handled. Elon saying this,
I think that the Trump economy is going to be
is going to be booming, and it's going to be fantastic.
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I still believe that. I think there's stuff in this big,
beautiful bill that is awesome, and I'm very excited about it.
But we shouldn't kill ourselves. We're not tackling the problem
of the debt. We are not dealing with debt. So
now's probably a good time to tell you about gold,
because you know what, they can't print gold. Gold has
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been a store of value for as long as there's
been human civilization. You know, you think about this, Gold
has a lot of value.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Today.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You got some gold coins in your hand. Gold coins
go back to like ancient Babylon. Would anyone laugh at
you if you're like, hey, all I've got are these
measly gold coins? Hmmm, that's thousands of years ago gold,
My friends, it makes sense. Gold was two thousand dollars
anounced back in twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. Today it's
hovering around thirty four hundred dollars. I've owned gold for
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over a decade. Like I said, this Trump economy is
gonna kick ass. But where is your where your saving
is gonna be in ten years? Trump's not gonna be
president in ten years. Why don't you put yourself on
a pathway now to store value for the long term
and hedge against the inflation that is inevitable. We're not
touching the debt. It is going to happen. Elon's saying it.
(12:57):
He's the best CEO on the planet. He's telling you
this debt is going to get worse, which means they're
going to inflate away some portion of that debt with
money printing. This is where gold comes in and why
gold continues to hold and grow in value. It doesn't
all it grows in value. Look at gold over the
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to note, I do think that the big beautiful bill
is going to be great for the economy. Right, There's
two different things to handle here. There's what this will
do this year and for perhaps the rest of the administration.
This is the footing it will put. And then there's
the debt that we have been piling up for particularly
(15:06):
the last call it, you know, thirty years or so,
and what that is. Right, So that's that's a very
long term structural problem that is going to stay with
us post Trump administration no matter what Trump does. And
I have no illusions. There's no world in which Trump
can just be like, all right, thirty trillion dollars, it's
all good, We've paid it all. You know, that's not
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going to happen. But to begin to pay it down
would be the best that we could hope for. And
if we could say we're going to pay a trillion
dollars toward the debt next year, so the number actually
meaningfully goes down, or maybe even if we could just
have a balance budget for the year, even take a
step back from that, that would show what is possible,
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and it would show us that we can do this.
And that's not what's going on right now with this bill.
But I do think the short term impact on the
economy is going to be particularly strong. And here is
Caroline Levitt who is just telling everybody and doing it
based on the numbers. This has cut twenty five. Look,
inflation is down. The economy's good play twenty five.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Positive economic reports continue to flood. In Inflation dropped to
two point one percent in April. Personal income increased point
eight percent in April, So inflation is down and wages
are up. That's almost triple the expectations and against the
doubts of nearly everyone in this room. And we also
saw the largest monthly decline in the trade deficit on
record as a result of President Chump's very powerful tariffs. Lastly,
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the price of eggs has dropped more than sixty one
percent since President Trump took office in January. I remember
my very first briefing. I was asked about the cost
of eggs. The reporter tried to insinuate it was this
administration's a fault, even though he had only been here
for a few days or weeks. It was a result
of the previous administration's terrible policies. And in record time,
this president has fixed that problem that he inherited from
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Joe Biden. And now egg prices have dropped sixty one
percent since this president took office.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, so I was right with the egg prices. Guys.
Remember yesterday I said egg price is down sixty percent.
She just said sixty one percent. So what was this
twenty percent yesterday? Yeah, making me look like I'm buying
the most expensive eggs anywhere. You know, the egg price
is way down. All these prices way down. None of
this should be surprising at all, though, because the adults,
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when it comes to the economy and actually comes to everything,
it is everything. Now there's nothing, there's no area where
you go. Oh, the Democrats have some good points. No,
they're insane. The adults are in charge, and that is
being reflected in the business climate and what's happening across
the economic sphirit in really important ways. Great week for
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sports fans. You know what's coming tomorrow. The NHL's Florida Panthers,
my favorite, my beloved Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers
face off in a repeat of last year's Stanley Cup Final.
I've been waiting for this one for so long, right, sure.
But also you've got Oklahoma City Thunder against the Indiana
Pacers that I am going to be watching, and you
(18:07):
know I'm gonna have to make a pick here, you
know what, guys, Oh no, that's Thursday. That tomorrow. I'll
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Got a ton of calls. I knew that last segment
would get some of you fired up, so you know,
sometimes I gotta poke you a little bit. Sometimes the
Buckster just has to be like, you know what, we're
getting a little too chummy around here. I want to fight.
That's what happens with Ginger. Sometimes she's so cute. I
miss her. She's with She's at a doggy camp today
because we're traveling, but it's a lovely camp. She's like
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playing with golden retrievers and pugs. It's very nice. She
has a good time. When we go to pick her up,
she's like, I don't even know who you are anymore.
But she comes over and she gets all like nice
and snugly, and then she kind of looks at me
and I'm like, oh, oh, it's on. And then she
wants to go and she wants to like jump all
over me and like that. So sometimes you know, you
get a little chummy. You got to throw it down
a little bit. So some of your are a little
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frustrated over the comments on how to fix the debt.
I'm just I'm just telling you the numbers. I don't
even have a munch of a dog in this fight,
so to speak. Well, I do because America and I
don't want it to collapse. But it's going to be
a while before I'm getting Medicare or Social Security. And
I know we're gonna have to go over some of
these things. Like, No, it doesn't mean people don't get
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Medicare who are in Medicare now. No, it doesn't mean
that if you're supposed to get Social Security, you know,
starting in five years that all of a sudden you're
going to get like a fraction of it means that,
you know, if you're a prime working age now, we
could start to set up different programs, and we could
start to prepare people for means testing and you know,
and change, Like, there are ways to fix this thing
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that don't hurt people who were promised and paid in
good faith and are on it or about to be
on it. But if you're twenty five, it's not going
to work for you to say, oh, well, from age
sixty five to one hundred, because that's how long people
are going to start to live by the way. I'm
just going to get paid this or I'm going to
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have everything paid by the card. It's going to have
to change at some point. So I just I want
to be clear. You know, my dad's you know, he
gets social Security, right I he deserves it. No one's
touching anyone's Social Security that's getting it now. No one's
touching anyone's Medicare is getting it now. The change would
come over a ten year horizon, a budget set in
place now that makes some of the switches necessary to
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allow us to be on a sound fiscal foot, or
just don't we just let's just you know, Thelmon Louise baby,
let's hit the accelerator and let's just take this guy
off a cliff. Let's just go you know what I mean.
We'll hold each other's hands, we'll look at each other,
and we'll just take this thing off the cliff together.
It was fun while it lasted America, Jay, and Ohio,
here we go, six months from turning sixty five. What's
(21:29):
going on? Jay?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, you don't have to poke meny of the governments
doing that? Well enough already. Yes, I'm months away from
being forced onto Medicare and I don't want to. I
want to take care of it myself, but I am
not allowed. If I don't, you know, a role for Medicare,
they'll penalize me anyway. What kind of a perverse system
is that? So you know, mister President, mister Vice president,
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if you're listening, this grow our way out of out
of the debt isn't going to happen. It's about force.
And the other thing is the insurance industry. And I'm
wired about this. The insurance industry loves the concept of
Medicare because they can offload all the old schmucks like me,
and the government will take care of us quote unquote.
It's all about force. I don't have any freedom. I
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want the freedom to not enroll in Medicare and I
don't have that at this point, and it's infuriating.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Jay, you're spot on in an excellent call, and you're
seeing this with clear eyes, full hearts. Can't lose, and
thank you for thank you for the call, Thanks for
being Look, it's a mess, everybody, it's a mess. Elon
knows it's a mess. All he does is look at
balance sheets and look at you know, projections based on
numbers into the future and figure out how to fix things.
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And he told us we got to fix this, and
we're not fixing it. And he just said that, and
he said, the people that are voting for this should
be ashamed. Ashamed on the Republican side. This is what
Elon's saying. So he's a smart guy. I think that's
putting it mildly. Michael in Osway we go, New York.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
What's going on, Mike, I about second time.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Caller apparently found the first time. So that's good news.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I sure did.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I listened to you guys every day.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Anyway, I was calling to jump back to the segment
about income taxes, and I told the guy that I
first talked to. I said, you know, well, anyway, my
mother and father were both teachers, you know, high school
and junior high. So I mean when I needed help
(23:34):
with my homework and that. You know, my mother was
a specialist in history. She's still after she retired, so
I got a lot of that. But to my memory,
didn't FDR institute income taxes at the time that World
War two with the US was imminent or we had
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already gone into the war, and they and to get
more money to hire people and build the bombs and
all that and the planes, and it was never supposed
to be a permanent thing. Now that's what I remember
reading in history. Now I don't know if that's true.
I mean, you're making that.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, the first income tax was actually back in It
was the Revenue Act of eighteen sixty one to fund
the Civil War. So it is wars. So if you're
thinking about it in this context, it was wars that
got us to or a major war that got us
to a tax in the first place. But the federal
income tax then kind of disappeared. It comes back in
eighteen ninety four with the Wilson Tariff Act two percent
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tax on incomes over four thousand dollars. But the modern
federal income tax is the sixteenth Amendment nineteen thirteen. So
the history of taxation, I mean, I think what you're
raising here is interesting, Michael, thank you for calling in.
The history of taxation is one of fits and starts,
or you know, two steps forward, one step back. But
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once they got with the sixteenth Amendment, then that was rough.
That was rough. That was when the bad things started.
That was when the bad stuff with the taxes started
to happen. I mean, you know, it bums me out.
I'll tell you this. Now that I live in a
zero state income tax place, it's just unthinkable to go
back to one of these super high tax states like
New York or California, because you're just you're paying so
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much more of the money you work for and getting
nothing additional, You're you're getting nothing. In fact, I would
argue that the services that I get in South Florida
from you know, on a whole range of things, is
better than what I was getting in New York City.
And so with that, you say, well, why am I
paying more just because Democrats have bad ideas and they're
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in charge, and so they just take more of your money.
I wish that wei the notion that we have all
these states where you have state income tax, some of
which tax you by the day. I always have this
thing where I tell people this. I think Utah's one
of them. Utah, What is going on with you? Utah?
A lot of great stuff about Utah, beautiful state, lovely people.
(26:06):
But I think you get taxed by the day you
work there because I think I had to pay, like,
you know, fifty dollars to the state of Utah once
and I had to have like a little you guys,
would we have a huge auditing in the Salt Lake City,
you know what I'm talking about. I think that definitely
New York per day you are taxed in New York
City if you work, right, if you're there with your
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family over a week and on vacation, of course you
don't know. But if you're there and you know, you
flying to New York and you do work out of
your New York office or something, they can tax you
for that day and every day that you're there. So
you just feel like, all right, well that's pretty annoying.
You don't want more of that. Jack in Ohio wants
away and what's going on?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Jack? Hey, happy anniversary A week ahead of time? Real quick?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Just want to talk about like what them you mean
to Clay and buck anniversary, right, because like the carry
and Bucket anniversary of getting married was back in February.
Just making sure, I'm like, I have to get my
wife a gift.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Oh no, not again, if you want to stay in
good graces. Yeah, my major concern okay, And Carolyn Lovett
just even announced it, you know, on a clip that
you just played where she was talking about what Trump
inherited okay from the Biden Harris regime. Okay. My point
(27:25):
is Biden and Harris and Majorca okay, who caused a
great problem with the immigration okay, are not running for office. Yes,
we need to hang this on them. Okay. However, there
are two hundred and sixty Democrats okay in Congress right now,
and I can't remember hearing any one of them, maybe
except Federman talking about the problem okay, immigration. And I'm
(27:51):
looking at the midterms, okay, that's right around the corner,
and I would like to hear the media talk about
all of the Democrats who've been sitting on their hands
and they're going to be up for reelection, and let's
not forget them. Biden and Herris they're not running again.
So and you even have the down ticket, okay, which
(28:11):
goes to state and local. So I would like to
hear more about all the Democrats. We have somebody here
in our office, okay, in Ohio or she's been in
office forty years as a congresswoman and she votes ninety
five percent of the time right along with the ticket.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay. A few things, thank you, Jack, Thank you Jack,
and Ohio. A couple of things on what you're saying.
One is you'll be a lot more talk about this
as we get closer to the midterm. So this is
you're right now calling in at the absolute low point
I think of political midterm conversation. June after a presidential
election is when you're going to hear probably the least well,
(28:55):
I mean, right after an election maybe, but I'm just
there's so much talk about politics in general that'll be
going on, and all the thinking about the last election.
But as we get into certainly the beginning of next
year and then into next summer, you're going to have
a lot of talk about all and we're going to
be talking about them on this show. So that's part one.
Part two is the reason the Biden revelations matter is
(29:17):
that it goes to one the fact that more more
people than ever should wake up to the fact that
the media is the corporate Democrat media lies and has
no integrity whatsoever. That CNN as an entity has no integrity.
The people who call themselves journalists are not journalists. They
(29:38):
are propagandists. And I know that you all know that,
but we need not fifty one percent, but fifty four
percent of the country to know that, and maybe fifty
seven percent of the country now you know this is
This is why I think it does matter. Because they've
relied on a media industrial complex for a long time
(29:59):
to do their heavy lift for them as Democrats, and
we want to make that harder. And they all lied
about Biden and we caught them and we know and
now they're trying to wriggle out of any kind of accountability.
So I don't think it's just a kind of like
a parlor game here that we on the right are playing.
I think there is real meaning to it, and also
just shows you that how ruthless the Democrats are. You
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should all know every day there was there was a
right choice in a wrong choice in this last election.
And if you voted for Trump. You made the right choice.
That's it. That's it. You know, there's no there's no
other way around it. You know, I view that as
as clear as day. Let's take here we go. Gg
Day from North Carolina listens on WPTI play it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Please well, but Day from North Carolina, retired Navy on
tournament seventy limited income. You guys get rid.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Of Medicare, Social Security thing.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
That I have to support me from my last ten years.
What the hell am I supposed to do if you
change the system? No money has an answer?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well, well, Dave, the way the answer is you don't
change it for people who are on it right now.
That would be wrong, that would be unfair. You made
your plans, and you paid your taxes, and you did
your planning with the belief that it would be there
for you. That is a covenant that the state, so
(31:28):
to the big s state right that the government has
made with you. You're not gonna you know, that's not
what anybody who talks about reforming the system in a
serious way. But see what they hope, and this is
what democrats will do, is that they want they want
the reaction from Dave Oh they're gonna take away your
Social Security. Oh, they're gonna take away your Medicare. Now
vote in the communists, you know. No, it's not about
(31:53):
taking it away from people who have it now. It's
about looking back, with the numbers in front of you,
where can we begin to create changes here in off
ramps so that people have plenty of time and plenty
of notice for their financial future. That you know, there's
going to be means testing for Medicare. If you're you know,
(32:14):
a very wealthy person, you're not going to get Medicare,
or you'll get some you know, different level of Medicare.
There's going to be a raise in the retirement age.
That's not fair if you're sixty four. But if you're
my age and you're told, you know what you're gonna
You're not gonna retire sixty five, We're gonna retire sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You know, that's something that's something that I think my
generation should just say, you know what, We're going to
live longer than the generation before us on average, So
I think it's fair that we actually start a little
later in retirement, you know, a year or two. These
are the things that we're talking about but see it
upsets people and they don't want to hear it, and
they get told the fear mongering, And so all right,
(32:52):
look we go full thumb on, Louise. We're into convertible.
Let's take it off the cliff. Let's spend ourselves into
a big five fire ball at the bottom, you know,
and let aoc and Bernie Sanders stare at us over
the cliff. Look, now we're in charge. What are you
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It's like the it's like the talk radio Avengers. You know,
we're all getting together ultron style. Or isn't that one
of those movies. I never really saw those things. I know,
(35:04):
it's like the big, multi billion dollar Avengers franchise. I
think I saw one of those movies. I still have
to work on my idea of writing a screenplay and
trying to help make cool content that's just about traditional,
traditional human values and not the constant propaganda. I tried
to watch The Last of Us, yeah, because I played
(35:26):
the video game during the pandemic. I gave up video
games for all my sort of post college life, and
then the pandemic I started playing them again a little bit,
and I kind of like video games. I'm not gonna lie.
Sometimes they're fun, nice way to distress your mind. But
Last of Us video game was great. And then I
tried to watch the show on HBO, and I just
so much wokeness, you know, and it's like not even
(35:46):
there wasn't even much zombie content. I'm like, I want
to see these fungus zombies getting all crazy and you know,
people running around with shotguns and chainsaws, and no. Instead,
it's woke non sense, so disappointing. But I'm gonna do
something about that. And I'm gonna do something about the
show tomorrow. I'll be a here Solo plays on vacation
(36:07):
with the family. Like I've been telling you so, just
be me, but send a bunch of talkbacks. Let's start
the show tomorrow. What do you want me to talk
about tomorrow? That's a talkback request that you could put
on the talkback machine anytime between now and tomorrow show.
What's a topic you want more of or you want
me to hit that I haven't hit. I'll take talkback
(36:28):
suggestions for for tomorrow's show. Till then, Shields High talk
to you soon.
Third hour, Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks
for being here with us, everybody, and I got some
breaking news for you. This was a question that was
just asked before. I think it was actually well as
a talkback question from one of our esteemed listeners. What
about the family of the Boulder terror terrorists. Where's their
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immigration status or what's going on with them? And ICE
agents have arrested the wife and taken into custody of
the children. I don't know their ages of the Boulder
terrorists as well. I would assume that we'll find out
more here on. Are they also in the country illegally?
This would be so interesting, wouldn't it. You'd have somebody
who comes here overstays his visa, maybe the family overstayed
(00:48):
the visa as well, the same game, and then and
then he applies for asylum, and then if he gets asylum,
he manages to keep the rest of his family here
as well. Perhaps he has a child while he's waiting
for his waiting for his asylum case to be heard.
So think about this. Even if your asylum case as
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something like eighty or ninety percent of the ones that
have been heard are dismissed and then there's a then
there's a detainer order put out or rather, then there's
a a what do you call it, an expulsion hearing,
A deportation sorry, deportation hearing, not a detainer, a deportation hearing.
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That's separate from this. So they have all these chances
to stay in the country. But if you're in the
country for a few years and if your wife meets
you here, or you know, you just meet some lady,
I mean, you know this, this is these things happen, right,
you have a kid here. Well, now you're separating families.
Now now you can't be sent home, right because now
you're sent you're breaking up a family. The whole system
(01:54):
was not set up to deal with the systematic h
violation that we saw under Biden, and honestly before that
it occurred as well. Trump was cleaning it up. Trump
inherited a terrible border from Obama, and then there was
this exploitation of the asylum loophole, and then Trump tries
(02:17):
to clean that up and starts locking that down. Then
we hit COVID and then COVID crew does create actually
a lockdown on the border for a while, and then
Biden just kicks the whole thing wide open, and we
are still very much dealing with the consequences of that
to this day. So that's something that we are going
(02:39):
to continue to talk about here. But also just the
ICE agents arresting that Boulder terror suspect. That's breaking news
right now as I talk to you. They've taken that
family into custody, and we'll see. I'd be curious to
know more details that really the wife didn't know the
guy was building a homemade flamethrower. No idea maybe, but
(03:02):
no idea. Hmm. Now something else. We've got those Caroline
Levitt White House Press briefing soundbites for you. We'll get
to that here in just in just a moment. But
something that has come up on the radar two and
that is this is from Elon. I'm just gonna say,
(03:25):
I'm making sure it's two hundred and twenty million subscribers,
a lot of fake Elon accounts out there. Elon is
saying this about the big beautiful bill. I am quoting
to you now from the founder of doge himself and
the owner of the x platform, which is where I
am right reading this from. I'm sorry, but I just
(03:45):
can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional
spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who
voted for it. You know you did wrong, you know it. Yikes.
(04:05):
Elon continues it will massively increase the already gigantic budget
deficit to two point five trillion and burden American citizens
with crushingly unsustainable debt. That's from Elon Musk everybody. That's
the dog guy. So I think we know where he
(04:26):
stands on the big beautiful bill. And I think we
also know that all along there was a there was
a time limit, yes, by custom and law. I think
for a temporary government employee, there was a time limit
on what could be what could be accomplished, what could
be done here by Elon. But also I had worried
(04:48):
all along that somebody who has operated in a private sector,
where you have the ability to do the things you
want to do, would quickly become incredibly frustrated by a
government sector where there is it is deeply entrenched that
there is no accountability and that the system is perpetuated.
(05:12):
That is the whole thing, the giant self licking ice
cream cone in DC, That is the whole thing. It
just keeps doing what it does. It doesn't need anything else,
It just keeps pushing along. So Elon making it very
clear that he thinks that this bill is not at
all what it should be, that it does not take
(05:34):
into account. And look, he doesn't care. Right, he's no
longer he's no longer running doughs. He's back to his companies.
He told us what was going on. He told us
about the spending problems. And this is the spending problems
are not getting better. We're still spending too much money. Everybody,
I did, you know, I sit here and does anyone
(05:56):
to hear it? Does anyone care we're going to do
anything about this? And the truth is we're spending too
much money, and we're spending too much money because we
can't afford to pay for everybody's health care for the
last thirty years of their life more or less, even
though I know we're told we pay into it. But
if you won't touch entitlements, we're spending ourselves into oblivion.
(06:17):
That's just the truth, that's just the math. And that's
why it's unpopular. If we could fix the debt by
cutting back on windmills, spending or something a green New
deal scam. If we could fix the debt, not help
it a tiny, tiny, tiny bit, we could fix it.
Of course we would do that. The reason our Congress
does not address the problem of our increasingly unsustainable, mathematically
(06:42):
unsustainable debt is that we don't want it to. So
I don't know how energized or exercise I can get
about this because I can tell you what the numbers are.
You know, if I sat down, if we were doing
a household budget, and I sat down with you, and
I said, look, here's the problem. Where we have one
(07:03):
thousand dollars a month that we can spend on food,
and we're spending two thousand dollars a month on food.
And all we have to do is we have to
get rid of you know, sorry, we can't eat red
meat anymore. We cut back on the red meat, you know,
we can actually hit our budget. And you say, well, no,
(07:25):
we can't do that. I need my red meat. You go, okay,
but then we're spending too much money. So just understand
that there's a push pull here. There's no if we
don't reform entitlements, we don't change this. And that's just it.
And I don't want to argue with anybody about it.
That's just reality, that's math. And I know that people
be told or they've been told, oh but I paid
for this. You actually end up taking out the average
(07:46):
person over two times which you pay into, for example,
Medicare over the course of the program. So you know
you can't and Trump won't touch Medicare, and no one's
going to touch those security or Medicare. Medicaid is just
this massive slush and nationally that has vertal accountability mechanisms
in place. The big beautiful Bill actually tries to do
some of that, but we're just gonna keep spending too
(08:09):
much money. It's tough for It's a little bit like
the debt ceiling fight for me. Now, how am I
supposed to go through history onics and tell you that
this is going to become a bigger and bigger problem.
It will become a problem that is so big that
by the time everyone agrees it's a problem that must
be fixed, it will be too late to fix the
problem without tremendous pain financially and as a society. But
(08:33):
smoke him if you got him, because it's not changing.
And you know, for Elon to come out and say this.
I wonder, I wonder is Trump or Anyone's gonna it's
gonna have harsh words to say about I mean, Elon,
he saw all the books. He knows. Elon knows that
if the United States government was a company, the company
(08:54):
is headed to bankruptcy. He knows that. And we know that.
And this is what the numbers are telling us. And
this is what Elon is telling us. But now we're told, oh,
we will handle this, but not yet. There's a bit
of a procrastination explanation here. We will tackle this national debt,
(09:17):
but we will do it in the future at some
other point. Guys, I told you I've lost now, I'd
say forty pounds. Really, I mean when I got sick
last week, it got down to like another ten pounds,
because you don't want to lose weight that way. But
I'm down at least forty pounds, and you know what
I end up. It's funny. I remember my guy, my
online training coach, Dan Anderson. He's a great guy and
(09:43):
just he lives this stuff and he's a really unique
character and just lives fitness and health and everything. And
I remember he kind of gave me my first meal planned,
and there was just a lot of like lean protein.
Now I love protein, but like a lot of you
I'm sure you know what kind of lean pro rather?
You know what kind of protein?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I like?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Hamburger meat, ribbi New York strip, that's a bacon. That's
the protein that I like. You know what lean protein is, eh,
ninety nine percent lean ground turkey, you know, whitefish, you
know things like things like that. You know it's like, oh,
(10:23):
that's not as exciting. But I remember we put on there.
I had to eat ground now eat ground turkey pretty
much every day. I've really developed a taste for it.
I season it. I Is it as exciting as cutting
into a delicious piece of short rib? Definitely not. But
what I'm saying is initially it was, well, I'll do this,
but I don't really want to start eating like, come on,
(10:44):
ninety nine percent lean turkey, ground turkey. That sounds that
sounds not fun. It's never gonna be fun. But I
had reached a point where I was like, Okay, time
to do it. The nation needs to go on a diet.
We don't want to do it. We don't want to
eat ground turkey. We want bacon. Cheeseburgers, and I get it,
(11:06):
But don't tell me that you want to eat bacon
cheeseburgers every day and you want to lose weight. Don't
tell me that you want to tackle the debt. But
we can't touch in title. But like I said, I'm
not going to fight with anybody over it because it's
not worth it. Because people feel so passionately about this,
but that is the truth. That is the problem. We
have set up a system that is financially unsustainable, and
(11:27):
we've made promises to people that are based in things
that are unfortunately mathematically not true, Like you're paying in
more than you're getting out. That's not true. It's a
little bit like a palmsy scheme. And this is where
we are, and I don't think anybody wants to handle it,
so it's not going to get handled. Elon saying this,
I think that the Trump economy is going to be
is going to be booming, and it's going to be fantastic.
(11:48):
I still believe that. I think there's stuff in this big,
beautiful bill that is awesome, and I'm very excited about it.
But we shouldn't kill ourselves. We're not tackling the problem
of the debt. We are not dealing with debt. So
now's probably a good time to tell you about gold,
because you know what, they can't print gold. Gold has
(12:09):
been a store of value for as long as there's
been human civilization. You know, you think about this, Gold
has a lot of value.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Today.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You got some gold coins in your hand. Gold coins
go back to like ancient Babylon. Would anyone laugh at
you if you're like, hey, all I've got are these
measly gold coins? Hmmm, that's thousands of years ago gold,
My friends, it makes sense. Gold was two thousand dollars
anounced back in twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. Today it's
hovering around thirty four hundred dollars. I've owned gold for
(12:37):
over a decade. Like I said, this Trump economy is
gonna kick ass. But where is your where your saving
is gonna be in ten years? Trump's not gonna be
president in ten years. Why don't you put yourself on
a pathway now to store value for the long term
and hedge against the inflation that is inevitable. We're not
touching the debt. It is going to happen. Elon's saying it.
(12:57):
He's the best CEO on the planet. He's telling you
this debt is going to get worse, which means they're
going to inflate away some portion of that debt with
money printing. This is where gold comes in and why
gold continues to hold and grow in value. It doesn't
all it grows in value. Look at gold over the
(13:19):
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to note, I do think that the big beautiful bill
is going to be great for the economy. Right, There's
two different things to handle here. There's what this will
do this year and for perhaps the rest of the administration.
This is the footing it will put. And then there's
the debt that we have been piling up for particularly
(15:06):
the last call it, you know, thirty years or so,
and what that is. Right, So that's that's a very
long term structural problem that is going to stay with
us post Trump administration no matter what Trump does. And
I have no illusions. There's no world in which Trump
can just be like, all right, thirty trillion dollars, it's
all good, We've paid it all. You know, that's not
(15:27):
going to happen. But to begin to pay it down
would be the best that we could hope for. And
if we could say we're going to pay a trillion
dollars toward the debt next year, so the number actually
meaningfully goes down, or maybe even if we could just
have a balance budget for the year, even take a
step back from that, that would show what is possible,
(15:49):
and it would show us that we can do this.
And that's not what's going on right now with this bill.
But I do think the short term impact on the
economy is going to be particularly strong. And here is
Caroline Levitt who is just telling everybody and doing it
based on the numbers. This has cut twenty five. Look,
inflation is down. The economy's good play twenty five.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Positive economic reports continue to flood. In Inflation dropped to
two point one percent in April. Personal income increased point
eight percent in April, So inflation is down and wages
are up. That's almost triple the expectations and against the
doubts of nearly everyone in this room. And we also
saw the largest monthly decline in the trade deficit on
record as a result of President Chump's very powerful tariffs. Lastly,
(16:34):
the price of eggs has dropped more than sixty one
percent since President Trump took office in January. I remember
my very first briefing. I was asked about the cost
of eggs. The reporter tried to insinuate it was this
administration's a fault, even though he had only been here
for a few days or weeks. It was a result
of the previous administration's terrible policies. And in record time,
this president has fixed that problem that he inherited from
(16:56):
Joe Biden. And now egg prices have dropped sixty one
percent since this president took office.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, so I was right with the egg prices. Guys.
Remember yesterday I said egg price is down sixty percent.
She just said sixty one percent. So what was this
twenty percent yesterday? Yeah, making me look like I'm buying
the most expensive eggs anywhere. You know, the egg price
is way down. All these prices way down. None of
this should be surprising at all, though, because the adults,
(17:27):
when it comes to the economy and actually comes to everything,
it is everything. Now there's nothing, there's no area where
you go. Oh, the Democrats have some good points. No,
they're insane. The adults are in charge, and that is
being reflected in the business climate and what's happening across
the economic sphirit in really important ways. Great week for
(17:47):
sports fans. You know what's coming tomorrow. The NHL's Florida Panthers,
my favorite, my beloved Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers
face off in a repeat of last year's Stanley Cup Final.
I've been waiting for this one for so long, right, sure.
But also you've got Oklahoma City Thunder against the Indiana
Pacers that I am going to be watching, and you
(18:07):
know I'm gonna have to make a pick here, you
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Got a ton of calls. I knew that last segment
would get some of you fired up, so you know,
sometimes I gotta poke you a little bit. Sometimes the
Buckster just has to be like, you know what, we're
getting a little too chummy around here. I want to fight.
That's what happens with Ginger. Sometimes she's so cute. I
miss her. She's with She's at a doggy camp today
because we're traveling, but it's a lovely camp. She's like
(19:16):
playing with golden retrievers and pugs. It's very nice. She
has a good time. When we go to pick her up,
she's like, I don't even know who you are anymore.
But she comes over and she gets all like nice
and snugly, and then she kind of looks at me
and I'm like, oh, oh, it's on. And then she
wants to go and she wants to like jump all
over me and like that. So sometimes you know, you
get a little chummy. You got to throw it down
a little bit. So some of your are a little
(19:38):
frustrated over the comments on how to fix the debt.
I'm just I'm just telling you the numbers. I don't
even have a munch of a dog in this fight,
so to speak. Well, I do because America and I
don't want it to collapse. But it's going to be
a while before I'm getting Medicare or Social Security. And
I know we're gonna have to go over some of
these things. Like, No, it doesn't mean people don't get
(19:58):
Medicare who are in Medicare now. No, it doesn't mean
that if you're supposed to get Social Security, you know,
starting in five years that all of a sudden you're
going to get like a fraction of it means that,
you know, if you're a prime working age now, we
could start to set up different programs, and we could
start to prepare people for means testing and you know,
and change, Like, there are ways to fix this thing
(20:22):
that don't hurt people who were promised and paid in
good faith and are on it or about to be
on it. But if you're twenty five, it's not going
to work for you to say, oh, well, from age
sixty five to one hundred, because that's how long people
are going to start to live by the way. I'm
just going to get paid this or I'm going to
(20:42):
have everything paid by the card. It's going to have
to change at some point. So I just I want
to be clear. You know, my dad's you know, he
gets social Security, right I he deserves it. No one's
touching anyone's Social Security that's getting it now. No one's
touching anyone's Medicare is getting it now. The change would
come over a ten year horizon, a budget set in
place now that makes some of the switches necessary to
(21:08):
allow us to be on a sound fiscal foot, or
just don't we just let's just you know, Thelmon Louise baby,
let's hit the accelerator and let's just take this guy
off a cliff. Let's just go you know what I mean.
We'll hold each other's hands, we'll look at each other,
and we'll just take this thing off the cliff together.
It was fun while it lasted America, Jay, and Ohio,
here we go, six months from turning sixty five. What's
(21:29):
going on? Jay?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, you don't have to poke meny of the governments
doing that? Well enough already. Yes, I'm months away from
being forced onto Medicare and I don't want to. I
want to take care of it myself, but I am
not allowed. If I don't, you know, a role for Medicare,
they'll penalize me anyway. What kind of a perverse system
is that? So you know, mister President, mister Vice president,
(21:54):
if you're listening, this grow our way out of out
of the debt isn't going to happen. It's about force.
And the other thing is the insurance industry. And I'm
wired about this. The insurance industry loves the concept of
Medicare because they can offload all the old schmucks like me,
and the government will take care of us quote unquote.
It's all about force. I don't have any freedom. I
(22:16):
want the freedom to not enroll in Medicare and I
don't have that at this point, and it's infuriating.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Jay, you're spot on in an excellent call, and you're
seeing this with clear eyes, full hearts. Can't lose, and
thank you for thank you for the call, Thanks for
being Look, it's a mess, everybody, it's a mess. Elon
knows it's a mess. All he does is look at
balance sheets and look at you know, projections based on
numbers into the future and figure out how to fix things.
(22:42):
And he told us we got to fix this, and
we're not fixing it. And he just said that, and
he said, the people that are voting for this should
be ashamed. Ashamed on the Republican side. This is what
Elon's saying. So he's a smart guy. I think that's
putting it mildly. Michael in Osway we go, New York.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
What's going on, Mike, I about second time.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Caller apparently found the first time. So that's good news.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I sure did.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I listened to you guys every day.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Anyway, I was calling to jump back to the segment
about income taxes, and I told the guy that I
first talked to. I said, you know, well, anyway, my
mother and father were both teachers, you know, high school
and junior high. So I mean when I needed help
(23:34):
with my homework and that. You know, my mother was
a specialist in history. She's still after she retired, so
I got a lot of that. But to my memory,
didn't FDR institute income taxes at the time that World
War two with the US was imminent or we had
(23:56):
already gone into the war, and they and to get
more money to hire people and build the bombs and
all that and the planes, and it was never supposed
to be a permanent thing. Now that's what I remember
reading in history. Now I don't know if that's true.
I mean, you're making that.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, the first income tax was actually back in It
was the Revenue Act of eighteen sixty one to fund
the Civil War. So it is wars. So if you're
thinking about it in this context, it was wars that
got us to or a major war that got us
to a tax in the first place. But the federal
income tax then kind of disappeared. It comes back in
eighteen ninety four with the Wilson Tariff Act two percent
(24:37):
tax on incomes over four thousand dollars. But the modern
federal income tax is the sixteenth Amendment nineteen thirteen. So
the history of taxation, I mean, I think what you're
raising here is interesting, Michael, thank you for calling in.
The history of taxation is one of fits and starts,
or you know, two steps forward, one step back. But
(24:59):
once they got with the sixteenth Amendment, then that was rough.
That was rough. That was when the bad things started.
That was when the bad stuff with the taxes started
to happen. I mean, you know, it bums me out.
I'll tell you this. Now that I live in a
zero state income tax place, it's just unthinkable to go
back to one of these super high tax states like
New York or California, because you're just you're paying so
(25:23):
much more of the money you work for and getting
nothing additional, You're you're getting nothing. In fact, I would
argue that the services that I get in South Florida
from you know, on a whole range of things, is
better than what I was getting in New York City.
And so with that, you say, well, why am I
paying more just because Democrats have bad ideas and they're
(25:44):
in charge, and so they just take more of your money.
I wish that wei the notion that we have all
these states where you have state income tax, some of
which tax you by the day. I always have this
thing where I tell people this. I think Utah's one
of them. Utah, What is going on with you? Utah?
A lot of great stuff about Utah, beautiful state, lovely people.
(26:06):
But I think you get taxed by the day you
work there because I think I had to pay, like,
you know, fifty dollars to the state of Utah once
and I had to have like a little you guys,
would we have a huge auditing in the Salt Lake City,
you know what I'm talking about. I think that definitely
New York per day you are taxed in New York
City if you work, right, if you're there with your
(26:28):
family over a week and on vacation, of course you
don't know. But if you're there and you know, you
flying to New York and you do work out of
your New York office or something, they can tax you
for that day and every day that you're there. So
you just feel like, all right, well that's pretty annoying.
You don't want more of that. Jack in Ohio wants
away and what's going on?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Jack? Hey, happy anniversary A week ahead of time? Real quick?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Just want to talk about like what them you mean
to Clay and buck anniversary, right, because like the carry
and Bucket anniversary of getting married was back in February.
Just making sure, I'm like, I have to get my
wife a gift.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Oh no, not again, if you want to stay in
good graces. Yeah, my major concern okay, And Carolyn Lovett
just even announced it, you know, on a clip that
you just played where she was talking about what Trump
inherited okay from the Biden Harris regime. Okay. My point
(27:25):
is Biden and Harris and Majorca okay, who caused a
great problem with the immigration okay, are not running for office. Yes,
we need to hang this on them. Okay. However, there
are two hundred and sixty Democrats okay in Congress right now,
and I can't remember hearing any one of them, maybe
except Federman talking about the problem okay, immigration. And I'm
(27:51):
looking at the midterms, okay, that's right around the corner,
and I would like to hear the media talk about
all of the Democrats who've been sitting on their hands
and they're going to be up for reelection, and let's
not forget them. Biden and Herris they're not running again.
So and you even have the down ticket, okay, which
(28:11):
goes to state and local. So I would like to
hear more about all the Democrats. We have somebody here
in our office, okay, in Ohio or she's been in
office forty years as a congresswoman and she votes ninety
five percent of the time right along with the ticket.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay. A few things, thank you, Jack, Thank you Jack,
and Ohio. A couple of things on what you're saying.
One is you'll be a lot more talk about this
as we get closer to the midterm. So this is
you're right now calling in at the absolute low point
I think of political midterm conversation. June after a presidential
election is when you're going to hear probably the least well,
(28:55):
I mean, right after an election maybe, but I'm just
there's so much talk about politics in general that'll be
going on, and all the thinking about the last election.
But as we get into certainly the beginning of next
year and then into next summer, you're going to have
a lot of talk about all and we're going to
be talking about them on this show. So that's part one.
Part two is the reason the Biden revelations matter is
(29:17):
that it goes to one the fact that more more
people than ever should wake up to the fact that
the media is the corporate Democrat media lies and has
no integrity whatsoever. That CNN as an entity has no integrity.
The people who call themselves journalists are not journalists. They
(29:38):
are propagandists. And I know that you all know that,
but we need not fifty one percent, but fifty four
percent of the country to know that, and maybe fifty
seven percent of the country now you know this is
This is why I think it does matter. Because they've
relied on a media industrial complex for a long time
(29:59):
to do their heavy lift for them as Democrats, and
we want to make that harder. And they all lied
about Biden and we caught them and we know and
now they're trying to wriggle out of any kind of accountability.
So I don't think it's just a kind of like
a parlor game here that we on the right are playing.
I think there is real meaning to it, and also
just shows you that how ruthless the Democrats are. You
(30:20):
should all know every day there was there was a
right choice in a wrong choice in this last election.
And if you voted for Trump. You made the right choice.
That's it. That's it. You know, there's no there's no
other way around it. You know, I view that as
as clear as day. Let's take here we go. Gg
Day from North Carolina listens on WPTI play it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Please well, but Day from North Carolina, retired Navy on
tournament seventy limited income. You guys get rid.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Of Medicare, Social Security thing.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
That I have to support me from my last ten years.
What the hell am I supposed to do if you
change the system? No money has an answer?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well, well, Dave, the way the answer is you don't
change it for people who are on it right now.
That would be wrong, that would be unfair. You made
your plans, and you paid your taxes, and you did
your planning with the belief that it would be there
for you. That is a covenant that the state, so
(31:28):
to the big s state right that the government has
made with you. You're not gonna you know, that's not
what anybody who talks about reforming the system in a
serious way. But see what they hope, and this is
what democrats will do, is that they want they want
the reaction from Dave Oh they're gonna take away your
Social Security. Oh, they're gonna take away your Medicare. Now
vote in the communists, you know. No, it's not about
(31:53):
taking it away from people who have it now. It's
about looking back, with the numbers in front of you,
where can we begin to create changes here in off
ramps so that people have plenty of time and plenty
of notice for their financial future. That you know, there's
going to be means testing for Medicare. If you're you know,
(32:14):
a very wealthy person, you're not going to get Medicare,
or you'll get some you know, different level of Medicare.
There's going to be a raise in the retirement age.
That's not fair if you're sixty four. But if you're
my age and you're told, you know what you're gonna
You're not gonna retire sixty five, We're gonna retire sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You know, that's something that's something that I think my
generation should just say, you know what, We're going to
live longer than the generation before us on average, So
I think it's fair that we actually start a little
later in retirement, you know, a year or two. These
are the things that we're talking about but see it
upsets people and they don't want to hear it, and
they get told the fear mongering, And so all right,
(32:52):
look we go full thumb on, Louise. We're into convertible.
Let's take it off the cliff. Let's spend ourselves into
a big five fire ball at the bottom, you know,
and let aoc and Bernie Sanders stare at us over
the cliff. Look, now we're in charge. What are you
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(34:42):
a lot of rain, but looking forward to seeing some
of my friends later on over here. We'll be seeing
our buddies Clay, Jesse, Kelly, Glenn Beck and others. We're
all gathering, so it'll be fun to see the crew.
It's like the it's like the talk radio Avengers. You know,
we're all getting together ultron style. Or isn't that one
of those movies. I never really saw those things. I know,
(35:04):
it's like the big, multi billion dollar Avengers franchise. I
think I saw one of those movies. I still have
to work on my idea of writing a screenplay and
trying to help make cool content that's just about traditional,
traditional human values and not the constant propaganda. I tried
to watch The Last of Us, yeah, because I played
(35:26):
the video game during the pandemic. I gave up video
games for all my sort of post college life, and
then the pandemic I started playing them again a little bit,
and I kind of like video games. I'm not gonna lie.
Sometimes they're fun, nice way to distress your mind. But
Last of Us video game was great. And then I
tried to watch the show on HBO, and I just
so much wokeness, you know, and it's like not even
(35:46):
there wasn't even much zombie content. I'm like, I want
to see these fungus zombies getting all crazy and you know,
people running around with shotguns and chainsaws, and no. Instead,
it's woke non sense, so disappointing. But I'm gonna do
something about that. And I'm gonna do something about the
show tomorrow. I'll be a here Solo plays on vacation
(36:07):
with the family. Like I've been telling you so, just
be me, but send a bunch of talkbacks. Let's start
the show tomorrow. What do you want me to talk
about tomorrow? That's a talkback request that you could put
on the talkback machine anytime between now and tomorrow show.
What's a topic you want more of or you want
me to hit that I haven't hit. I'll take talkback
(36:28):
suggestions for for tomorrow's show. Till then, Shields High talk
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