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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Could you imagine this being like the time you're going
to Marty Graus and you're just like, ah, man, now
I'm gonna get rained on. It's kind of a bummer.
They apparently changed some of the some of the thing up,
some of the some of the day up. So right,
something like that, Hey, no, what I said? What if
I said fluffy and light? Yeah, it's got of snow. No,
(00:21):
No that that well that is gonna happen. But that's
not what it's nice.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What you mean, Well, so there's some day today is
fluffy and white, light light, fluffy and light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Light, fluffy and delicious.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh peeps, what is this Peep's day? I don't know
peep's day. I don't like peeps. Some people do a.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Lot of sugar and peeps, a lot of sugar and peeps.
If you got like even kind of the start of
a cavity going on, you don't want to have a peep.
Not that I would know from experience, but I could
just imagine. No, it's pancake day. It's International Pancake Day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay, sure, I like my pancakes with little bit of
crisp around the edges, A little crisp around the edges.
It's hard to do, but when they get it like that,
it's real good.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Maple syrup, Oh yeah, gotta get the real stuff. Oh,
maple syrup. Yeah, that's good anyway. Okay, So I have
a few different things on my mind. First of all,
Happy International Pancake Day to those who observe. Oh it's
a big day for I hop the International House of
(01:26):
Pancakes on International Pancake Day. Yeah, it's crazy. That's a
big day for them out there. Yeah, it's nice to
be able to live for something, you know. Yeah. Glad
that our friends that I hop are doing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, Yeah, it's good to see they they're having their moment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And this was not a paid advertisement. All right. So tariffs,
I say tariff, You say what.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's an interesting name for a child. I guess you
could call her Tara for short, terry terry yep.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Or riff, yeah you could. Or if if he or
or tear, he old tear t a r tear, not
tar but tear. I don't know. Uh. Anyway, we are
in we are in Uh we're in teriff Land now
tariff tariff quite contrariff. I like that. Yeah, I didn't
(02:27):
know where I was gonna go with that. It just, uh,
do you know what this is gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know, can you can you can you guesstimate six
months into the future on what this will do for
the American economy and the economies of the countries in
which we are tariffing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I you know, a lot of people say it's going
to wreck the old economy there, but you know that
economy has been through a lot over the years, and
it really has only been wrecked once. I mean, it's
been smacked around, but it's only really been wrecked.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We even came back after it got wrecked.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, So like ultimately, you know what, it might be
kinda it might not be good for a little bit,
which is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I don't know. We'll see how that goes. It's already
pretty bad. I'm asking Chatgibt a little. I told chadjybut
to forecast the next six months. I'll get to that
in a second. Okay, here here's my inclination. First of all,
this corresponds immediately with the day that Donald Trump is
supposed to talk to Congress tonight, and they are going
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to certainly have some sort of anti Trump response from
the opposition, whether it's them all addressing in nurse's outfits again,
or them all, you know, ripping up their sheets of
the itinerary or the bullet points of which he is
going to speak like Nancy did that one time, remember that,
very performative. I think, I think this is done so
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he can like address it head on before anything too
crazy happens. Claudia Shinbaum, you know, she's the President of Mexico.
She says there will be retaliatory tariffs on the US
and she will explain what that means in which products
they'll be looking at on Sunday in Mexico City. So
they're going to do like some big event rally around this.
(04:15):
They're going to teariff US.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, retaliatory now, retaliatory tariffs.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's kind of a fun way to say it. I
don't know if I don't know if it's like an
all out tariff or if it's just on certain products.
But alas, I'm not sure. Twenty five percent on Mexico,
twenty five percent on Canada, it's up to twenty percent.
It's in national ten percent, it was already ten percent
now it's ten more percent on China. So it's twenty
(04:41):
percent on China. Now, I asked Chad GBT preview the
next six months with the American consumer. Based on what
these tariffs look like. It says it is expected to
lead the higher prices for American consumers across various product categories.
Imports of vehicles and automotive components from Canada and mex
now face a twenty five percent tariff. That increase is
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projected to raise the cost of North American manufactured vehicles
by up to twelve thousand dollars. Consequently, consumers may see
higher prices for both new and used cars, as well
as increased cost for vehicle maintenance and repairs. Now, let's
say you're in the market for a new vehicle and
I just told you this, You'd be like, rats, I
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probably should have just gone and bought a car yesterday.
Ah rats, But what are you going to do here? Right?
I mean, do we know this for sure? We know
that certain parts from those places it might be difficult
to get based on the tariffs. Can we trust that
everything that's made in America is good to go and
we can generate enough parts for those If you have
(05:48):
a foreign make maybe it's a little bit hairer for
you and do we really need cars? Maybe we can
live without them. Chinese goods, particularly electronics, subject now to
a twenty percent tariff. Products good news products such smartphones, laptops,
gaming consoles, home appliances could likely see price hikes as
importers pass on the additional cost to consumers. Again, I
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have to say, though, is there an American company manufacturing
these things in America that is going to start cleaning
the floor because they're going to be able to offer
a lot less money because of this twenty five percent tariff.
Not only could this be penalizing our trade partners here
with these tariffs, but it could be promoting American business
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groceries and produce. Mexico supplies a significant portion of the
US's fresh produce, including vegetables, fruits, and avocados. A twenty
five percent tariff on these imports is expected to increase
grocery prices, affecting items like tomatoes, berries, and other staples.
This escalation could disproportionately impact lower income households do spend
(06:54):
a larger share of their income on food. Yeah, I
mean that, I can't. I mean Donald Trump was elected
with the idea that he was going to lower prices
in America that I think was number one. The southern
border was yeah, like there. But I think many people
voted Republican this time around, saying I don't like whatever
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Bidenomics is. Can somebody help me out? And I cannot,
under any circumstance think that he would do this deal
thinking that for very long this could pass a lot
of additional cost to the American consumer. I feel like
there's some pressure for the countries to our north or
south and then China to work toward figuring out what
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the United States want so they can maintain that business
and not have some of their manufacturers say how long
is this going to last? If this is going to
last long, then I'm picking my stuff and I'm going
to building a factory in Texas and we're going to
go there, right, And that's I think part of what
Donald Trump wants. I got some more impacts here that
are ally for me, that explain exactly what the story
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is on these tariffs. If you have some thoughts, feel
free to call in at four oh two five five
eight eleven ten four oh two five five eight eleven
ten on news radio eleven ton kfab Emri Sunger. Brian's
on the phone line. Brian, welcome to the show today.
What do you got on your mind about tariffs?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I good, Well, I was just thinking, you know that
this is not about, uh, you know, the tariff thing, right,
So if I'm selling products made in America, yeah, and
I'm not subject to this twenty five percent tariff, right,
I think this is I think this is a play
about giving industry in America a competitive advantage. I mean,
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so many businesses' margins are one percent or two percentage.
You do start with a twenty five percent, you know,
advantage over the price of your competition, you know. I
think that's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, And if that's yeah, if that's the case, I
mean I would just the only thing that I would
hope is that we are capable of producing the enough
supply for the demand of these things. If we're going
to have the ability, right, Like I mean, if you're
an American automaker, for instance, you'd be looking at this
(09:18):
and saying, hey, you know, it's a great opportunity for
us to you know, make make some more money and
to grow here. But just make sure that all of
the parts are available. Also in the United States, right,
because I don't want to have to get caught up
going to you know, having to pay twenty five percent
more for any parts or any maintenance on a car
that you know doesn't have the part available in the
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US something like that. But I agree, Brian, it's twofold.
It's not just to hurt our opposition or the other
countries that aren't doing what we want them to do.
It's also to I think, like you said, stimulate American business.
And I think it could do that.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Well, I think that. And then and then the other
thing is that, wow, there's a little feedback here happening
on my radio, the uh and I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
To do that. Yeah, got just turn it down, Just
turn it just turn it down, Bud. Are you there?
You go there? We go go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I am I am okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So the thought process is that you can have more
competitive things and then bring companies back who left America
to go make their products in these other countries because
they didn't have to deal with all of the all
of the regulations and stuff that we had. And now like, oh,
you get twenty five percent margin you know to deal with,
(10:41):
you might as well come back. Here and make those
products right here in America. Yeah, I think it's I
think it's also a longer term play, not just I
think he's just kicking stuff off, is what I think.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, and I appreciate the word call, Brian, thanks for
listening to us today.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So, Donald Trump on True Social also today said if
companies moved to the UA United States, there are no tariffs,
which echoes what Brian just said there. It's just, hey,
if you are willing to move here, tariff off, you know,
like you won't be subject to that because we'll consider
you an American company. I just you know, again, supply
and demand the delicate balance. Can American companies for the
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time being generate enough supply so we the consumer have
choices that are still manageable in price. That's all I'm saying,
He dos on the phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Hey zeus. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Hey, A couple of things, maybe three things. The reason
we if you go back in history about tariffs, we
used to be nothing but tariffs. We didn't even tax anybody.
Everything was off paid by tariffs. Back in nineteen seventeen,
and the reason we had tax was the paper war
back in World War One, and that you go back
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and do the history lepons on that. But the reason
that he is doing these tariffs, he explained it again
that because of all the fensanol that's coming in the
China based meetanol that's coming in through the Canadian border
and through the Mexican border and is killing Americans. And
he said, if you can stop that, he probably wouldn't
(12:19):
even have done the tariffs as much. Might have still
done little tariffs. But the reason why is because he's
trying to stop all of this setanol coming into our
country and killing our Americans.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, that's one of the things that he said, right.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, he has been quoted on that three or
four different times. And when he talks tonight, whether the
Democrats are there or not, it's going to be a
plus because remember we have the seventy plus million voter
mandate on doing the things that he's doing, and it's
going to take longer than five six weeks okay to
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get crisis down. I mean, I mean, remember that we
had all of these chickens killed, millions of chickens called out,
that's going to take the time to get these other
chickens back in so we can get as prices down,
you know, and fight it uced almost all of our
our gas reserves. If you don't, if you remember that,
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we got to get that build up as well, so
being energy independent, doing all of these things, getting money
created back into the United States, having companies come back.
Those are the things that we sent a mandate about
get companies back to be in USA and so and
then the other thing too, what people forgot about, you know,
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about Zolensky and all of that. When if you watch
the ambassador to Ukraine put her hand on her head
and Zolensky called and they and it's been and it
was he called curse at Vice President Vance. He called
them a bad name.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Okay, yeah, And so if you looked.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
At when that happened, and you're not going to do that.
And they just announced that they are going to con
they are going to go.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Through with the mineral deal.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, with the mineral deal. And the other thing too
about Taiwan. If we're in, if we're helping out the
Taiwanese build the electronics and all of that, and we
are helping there. We have American interest there and if
anybody tries to attack, they're going to be hurting Americans,
which will also be bad for the people that are
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attacking us.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's a really interesting stuff there, hey, zeus a lot
to unpack, but I appreciate you coming on the show
and talking about it with me today. Thanks for listener.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thank you so much for taking my call. I really
appreciate it. And just so you know, people driving west
it is very windy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, there we go, starting to get Yeah, no, I
appreciate yep. Thanks. Yeah, I had a hard time seeing
just coming to work just now over in Dundee cause
all the rains crazy. Now what it was real quick?
Let's take Dan Dan, thanks for calling in. What's going
on today?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thank you comment on the terrors.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yes, you know, for so many years there's been such
an imbalance as far as dollars and cents, imports, exports,
and that's basically what the president is trying to do.
Shrink that imbalance. And by shrinking the imbalance, that's creating
revenue actually because it'll be lowering the debt. So it's
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going to be painful a little bit. The countries are
going to have to come around too, because it's been
such an unfair playing field.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, that's all. I appreciate it. Dan, Thank you so
much for being a part of the show today. Thanks
for listening. Yeah, so it's a fascinating conversation and we
are going to chat about the Ukraine piece of this
because there is some more that's sitting here in kind
of you know, we're hearing a little bit about about
(15:59):
tonight and we'll get to that as well. And if
you would like to be a part of the conversation,
please call us at four oh two five five eight
eleven ten four oh two five five eight eleven ten,
News Radio eleven ten kfab em raise songer.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's coming down, man, just like the temperatures. Temperatures are
gonna drop.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh yeah, you just gotta love some of that. Tariffs.
Can we talk about more tariffs? You can't? Are you
cool with that? You cool with tariff talk? Tariff talk? Hey,
I don't see why not? All right, So, remember all
this stuff I was talking about that we were gonna
have problem with here, here's another one, energy and fuel.
And I'm not saying that this is going to be problematic.
I'm just saying that Chad GBT gave me like a
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bullet point list of the stuff that's like actually going
to be affected by this ten percent tariff on Canadian
energy imports, including crude oil, anticipated to raise gasoline prices
in the US, particularly in regions heavily relianed on Canadian oil,
such as the Midwest. I don't know if that's US.
I think our ethanol stuff actually kind of offset to that,
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but I don't know. Consumers in the areas that use
Canadian oil could see fuel prices increased by up to
fifty cents a gallon. How about clothing and footwear? Do
you buy Japanese shoes? We'll make our your shoes.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I do.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I own a lot of pairs of Japanese shoes, not
Japanese Chinese. Sorry, japan Is didn't have to worry about
any of this.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Ah, well, that puts me out of the running. I
wear Otaku, that's right. I wear Otaku, and it's one
of my favorite brand because I love technology.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm wearing Obos right now. They're a hiking shoe. They're
also a woodwind, I believe. Yeah, yeah, double double reed.
You got a double read Obo on your foot right now?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Double reed walk around like wah No, No, that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Makes a much more bitter sound that elbow does. It's
like a like a I mean it sounds like the
guy who does the snake charming, like it's what he's
got waring. It's hard. It's hard to make an obo
sounds double read. You know, it doesn't said the one
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read like the other woodwinds. It's got willis read all
in one. Yeah, double read tarror read you know, Reid.
Look out. Many apparel footward items imported from China subject
now to twenty percent tariff. Shoppers may experience higher prices
for clothing and shoes as retailers suggest to increased import costs. Now,
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these elbows, they were fairly expensive, but they're waterproof. I
don't know where you make obos, but I might enough
shoes to know it doesn't. Nike make a lot of
stuff here, now, I mean, don't they I don't know.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That was the whole kind of thing about them is
that they use sweatshops, but shops in China.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
With children that were not old enough to be doing
that kind of stuff. Yeah, but they don't have rules.
So like you, what are we you going to do?
Go in there and tell them not to do it.
I mean, what are we doing here? I could, but
they'd laugh me right out of there. They wouldn't even
know what you're saying, right. Also, alcoholic beverages, imports of
alcoholic beverages such as Mexican beer. Not not Corona for
those who are worried about losing your corona. That's bottles
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in the United States. How about Modela Modelo? Uh where
I think that's here too, because that's I tell you,
that's like on the cheaper end. A lot of people
really like Modelo. Uh yeah, Modello is brewed in Mexico.
Oh that's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So so so bud like Gilado's, people are going to
be buying those up. The same thing though. What about
the cat? The cat that's Baja California, Mexico. How about
those kiss that's a good one. Those at Kish.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That is made in the quah tomach Machtisuma Brewery. It's
it's it's actually a subsidiary of Heineken International, but it's
located in Mexico. So yeah, I guess those would be it.
And then, of course, if you're a fan of Canadian
whiskey like I am, big fan a Canadian whiskey over here,
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higher terrffs for them. Also, that could lead to increased
prices for those in US stores and restaurants. So get
back to the bourbon and the the American locally made
craft beers, if that's what you're into. So I asked
what the overall economic impact for all of this could
be for a family in the United States, and the
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AI said these tariffs expected to raise the annual expenses
of the average American household by approximately eight hundred dollars.
Eight hundred dollars you have eight hundred dollars lyne around.
I mean, I could come up with it. Sure, it
wouldn't feel good though, now I wouldn't feel good. The
increased cost of essential goods may reduce disposable income, potentially
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slowing consumer spending and broader economic growth. Over the next
six months. US consumer should prepare for noticeable price increases
across a range of products, from everyday groceries to big
ticket items as a direct consequence of these newly imposed tariffs.
Now again, if the teriffs don't last very long, or
if American made businesses are able to kind of instead
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of exporting their goods they can just keep them here.
Maybe we can offset that to a certain extent. But
time is just going to tell. I mean, we're not
going to know that. This is this is all you know,
like a simulation of the next six months. Douglas is
on a phone line of four oh two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Welcome in Douglas. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Not much? But what I see with the tariffs is
we're just doing what they've already done to us. Yeah, okay, sure,
but here's the thing. If people of our companies go
overseas to make stuff because it's cheaper to make it
over there, and still have to send them back to
the state because you think about all the stuff that
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comes into that. Do you have your Nike shoes made
in China? Yeah, okay, And once they get done, they
got to ship meet the United States are either coming
by boat or they're going to come by air. Right,
so you got to pay for all of that. And
where where is all that being invested in the United States?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's not Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
We might be making money. Yeah, the people in the
United States. If we built things, shit, if we made
things here that people want, or made clothes here, we
used to do all that stuff. Why are we not
doing it today?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's a good question there, Douglason. I got to be
honest with you, If all of a sudden this kind
of triggers a movement of businesses to manufacture here, I'd
be fascinating to see if we actually spend more money
in general, or it just actually stimulates our own economy. Economy,
I mean, it could actually just end up making our
economy a lot stronger at the end of it. It's
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a fascinating case study, and I guess we're going to
learn on the fly. I appreciate the call, Bud two
forty four if you want to call in four roh
two five five eight eleven ten four two five five
eight eleven ten. We got more on the way on
news radio eleven ten, Kfab Emery Sunger on news radio
eleven ten, Kfab. I got like a swollen trachea or
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something like. It's hard for me to project my voice.
Maybe it's just like a respiratory thing. But you want
to know what, I think laughing is good for the soul,
even if it kind of hurts. I've been laughing in
a lot of things lately. You know what I laughed
at last night. I was sitting there and I was
watching See Him Punk on WWE Raw on Netflix. Man,
(23:21):
he unloaded a can of verbal whooping on Dwayne Johnson,
John Cena, and Seth Rollins. I mean, I was just like,
dang Son, good, think you're not on network TV otherwise.
But it was awesome, and I was just like, Wow,
I can't believe this guy's going in like this. You
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know what it means to me means that you can
get entertained by all sorts of stuff, including guys just
want to, you know, thrash each other in the professional
wrestling ring. And I like that. I like the escapism.
You like what you like. I just love the escapism.
You know what else? I like tunes? Those yeah, those
crazy animals. I mean my thirties, but you know, I
(24:04):
like those Looney tunes. You know what else?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I like?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Sunnyside up eggs. I prefer sunnyside down myself.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But then I don't mind it. Don't they call it
over easy. I call it sunnyside down. I call it.
I call it sadness eggs. There's no sun in those eggs.
It's so depressing.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So it's just a cloud full of skies. That did
make sense. What I don't know, it's what it's a
cloud full of skies. I meant to say it's a
sky full of clouds, but a cloud full of skies
kind of sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Cloud full of skies, sky full of clouds. You know,
nobody's really gonna ever know. It sounds like a lyric
from like a Pink Floyd song or something. Yeah, I
don't know. I uh, Pink Floyd. That's funny. I uh.
I only mentioned all this because you're gonna be here
and probably a lot of people trying to tell you
(24:53):
how you should feel about these tariffs. Tonight. Donald Trump's
gonna be talking to the the point session of Congress.
You think a lot of people are gonna be just
happy about what he's got to say. You think people
are gonna be just super pleased to hear from him.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So is it Hakeem Jefferies is in the seat that
Nancy was last time?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah? Which no, no, and she ripped it up. No,
because it's Mike Johnson. Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So is there gonna be somebody up there on the
stage not a Democrat?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So we probably won't get the recreation of the of
the rip. Yeah, ra Keem wouldn't do that. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't think so either. That's what I was gonna ask, Like,
do we think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
No, But I mean there could be. Well, there's a
chance that the Democrats are talking about not even being there,
which there's gonna be something performative by them to protest
Donald Trump being the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And I think not being there, I would just say,
tread lightly on the history of the shadow of that's
going to cast throughout history. Just not showing up. Yeah,
that is your party, isn't it, Democrats? You just don't
show up for the people.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Do you wouldn't it be better just to like do
some sort of silent protest. Remember like I think it
was twenty eighteen or nineteen, and all of the Democrats
in like war like these white nurse outfits or something.
I just remember, like this is like they kept panning
to them and their stone face, like like Donald Trump
would say something and all the Republicans be clapping or
standing and clapping, and then the uh, they'd pan over
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to the Democrats or they didn't get a camera shot
of like AOC or something, and they just be sitting
there with RBF, just be sitting there stewing, resting Burt
Reynold's face something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not great. No,
but you know, I think that's better. I think that's better.
Don't you think that's better than not being there? If
(26:37):
you're gonna be performative, you kind of have to be
there to make it happen. We know you're gonna be
no matter what, You're gonna be told what to think
about this from every possible angle, and I'm just not
sure how much we're gonna learn tonight. But I'm also
more Is it bad that I'm more interested in the reaction?
I just like to be taken away, Just take me
(26:57):
away into a world of my own where I can
formulate my own opinions. This is why I'd rather listen
to it than watch it, because if you're listening to it,
you're going to be just hearing him speak in the
reaction in the room, which is going to be mostly
cheers you would think from Republicans cheering him on. But
we don't have to worry about all of the ringamarole
of the performance that the Democrats are going to likely do.
(27:21):
Does that make sense? Yeah, so I don't anticipate learning
a whole lot, but that's just me. Now, this minerals
deal thing seems like it actually is pretty close to
potentially happening, which is a bit of a bit of
a bit of a switch up here. In the last
hour and a half to two hours, it's being reported
(27:44):
by multiple international news sources that Zelensky is now willing
to come to the negotiating table and today or tonight,
Donald Trump is going to announce that they have this
done potentially. I'm not I'm not. I'm not trying to
spoil anything for you, but yeah, this hotly contested, big
(28:08):
time debate thing that we saw that was supposed to
be signed on Friday, and then we had you want
to talk about a performance, geez, a greatly performative thing
between Zelenski, Trump and Vance and even the press honestly
played a role in that, just making it a big circus.
Sounds like like talks have actually continued, and there's a
(28:30):
chance that the big information that we may be told
or confirmed tonight that Donald Trump will say that Ukraine
in the United States has come to a deal on
the rare earth minerals from the Ukraine for billions of dollars,
billions and billions of dollars, And according to some of
(28:51):
the sources, Donald Trump told his advisors he wants to
make the announcement tonight as part of this. And I
would imagine if we can get like truly concrete evidence,
this is absolutely going to happen before it will leak.
But I'm sure they're trying to keep some of it
close to the vessel. People will be like, yay when
he says it tonight. If you're a Democrat, what was
(29:12):
your reaction to that? What? What? What? What's the reaction?
What's going on? What would be the reaction if Donald
Trump says we got this done with Ukraine, because that
would be the first step in like getting this Russia
Ukraine thing done. Is like, oh, the United States is
true steak in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You'd probably you'd want to stay skeptical and then find
a reason to dismiss it. That's probably their reaction to
find a reason it's actually a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll get a chance to see what
the reaction is. We're not on until the afternoons, but yeah,
it's it's kind of last hour, so it's kind of
been spreading in enough places to make me feel like
it's legitimate. So we will we will see it, and
we'll see if Donald Trump it's any credit for it whatsoever,
(30:02):
or jd Vance or anybody else, just because Zelensky's not
in the room with them. We'll see how exactly they are,
what people think of this, it'll be interesting. Three o'clock
hour coming up. Thanks for listening to our radio show
today on news Radio eleven ten kfab
Could you imagine this being like the time you're going
to Marty Graus and you're just like, ah, man, now
I'm gonna get rained on. It's kind of a bummer.
They apparently changed some of the some of the thing up,
some of the some of the day up. So right,
something like that, Hey, no, what I said? What if
I said fluffy and light? Yeah, it's got of snow. No,
(00:21):
No that that well that is gonna happen. But that's
not what it's nice.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What you mean, Well, so there's some day today is
fluffy and white, light light, fluffy and light.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Light, fluffy and delicious.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh peeps, what is this Peep's day? I don't know
peep's day. I don't like peeps. Some people do a.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Lot of sugar and peeps, a lot of sugar and peeps.
If you got like even kind of the start of
a cavity going on, you don't want to have a peep.
Not that I would know from experience, but I could
just imagine. No, it's pancake day. It's International Pancake Day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay, sure, I like my pancakes with little bit of
crisp around the edges, A little crisp around the edges.
It's hard to do, but when they get it like that,
it's real good.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Maple syrup, Oh yeah, gotta get the real stuff. Oh,
maple syrup. Yeah, that's good anyway. Okay, So I have
a few different things on my mind. First of all,
Happy International Pancake Day to those who observe. Oh it's
a big day for I hop the International House of
(01:26):
Pancakes on International Pancake Day. Yeah, it's crazy. That's a
big day for them out there. Yeah, it's nice to
be able to live for something, you know. Yeah. Glad
that our friends that I hop are doing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, Yeah, it's good to see they they're having their moment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And this was not a paid advertisement. All right. So tariffs,
I say tariff, You say what.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's an interesting name for a child. I guess you
could call her Tara for short, terry terry yep.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Or riff, yeah you could. Or if if he or
or tear, he old tear t a r tear, not
tar but tear. I don't know. Uh. Anyway, we are
in we are in Uh we're in teriff Land now
tariff tariff quite contrariff. I like that. Yeah, I didn't
(02:27):
know where I was gonna go with that. It just, uh,
do you know what this is gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know, can you can you can you guesstimate six
months into the future on what this will do for
the American economy and the economies of the countries in
which we are tariffing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I you know, a lot of people say it's going
to wreck the old economy there, but you know that
economy has been through a lot over the years, and
it really has only been wrecked once. I mean, it's
been smacked around, but it's only really been wrecked.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We even came back after it got wrecked.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, So like ultimately, you know what, it might be
kinda it might not be good for a little bit,
which is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I don't know. We'll see how that goes. It's already
pretty bad. I'm asking Chatgibt a little. I told chadjybut
to forecast the next six months. I'll get to that
in a second. Okay, here here's my inclination. First of all,
this corresponds immediately with the day that Donald Trump is
supposed to talk to Congress tonight, and they are going
(03:28):
to certainly have some sort of anti Trump response from
the opposition, whether it's them all addressing in nurse's outfits again,
or them all, you know, ripping up their sheets of
the itinerary or the bullet points of which he is
going to speak like Nancy did that one time, remember that,
very performative. I think, I think this is done so
(03:53):
he can like address it head on before anything too
crazy happens. Claudia Shinbaum, you know, she's the President of Mexico.
She says there will be retaliatory tariffs on the US
and she will explain what that means in which products
they'll be looking at on Sunday in Mexico City. So
they're going to do like some big event rally around this.
(04:15):
They're going to teariff US.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, retaliatory now, retaliatory tariffs.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's kind of a fun way to say it. I
don't know if I don't know if it's like an
all out tariff or if it's just on certain products.
But alas, I'm not sure. Twenty five percent on Mexico,
twenty five percent on Canada, it's up to twenty percent.
It's in national ten percent, it was already ten percent
now it's ten more percent on China. So it's twenty
(04:41):
percent on China. Now, I asked Chad GBT preview the
next six months with the American consumer. Based on what
these tariffs look like. It says it is expected to
lead the higher prices for American consumers across various product categories.
Imports of vehicles and automotive components from Canada and mex
now face a twenty five percent tariff. That increase is
(05:04):
projected to raise the cost of North American manufactured vehicles
by up to twelve thousand dollars. Consequently, consumers may see
higher prices for both new and used cars, as well
as increased cost for vehicle maintenance and repairs. Now, let's
say you're in the market for a new vehicle and
I just told you this, You'd be like, rats, I
(05:26):
probably should have just gone and bought a car yesterday.
Ah rats, But what are you going to do here? Right?
I mean, do we know this for sure? We know
that certain parts from those places it might be difficult
to get based on the tariffs. Can we trust that
everything that's made in America is good to go and
we can generate enough parts for those If you have
(05:48):
a foreign make maybe it's a little bit hairer for
you and do we really need cars? Maybe we can
live without them. Chinese goods, particularly electronics, subject now to
a twenty percent tariff. Products good news products such smartphones, laptops,
gaming consoles, home appliances could likely see price hikes as
importers pass on the additional cost to consumers. Again, I
(06:10):
have to say, though, is there an American company manufacturing
these things in America that is going to start cleaning
the floor because they're going to be able to offer
a lot less money because of this twenty five percent tariff.
Not only could this be penalizing our trade partners here
with these tariffs, but it could be promoting American business
(06:32):
groceries and produce. Mexico supplies a significant portion of the
US's fresh produce, including vegetables, fruits, and avocados. A twenty
five percent tariff on these imports is expected to increase
grocery prices, affecting items like tomatoes, berries, and other staples.
This escalation could disproportionately impact lower income households do spend
(06:54):
a larger share of their income on food. Yeah, I
mean that, I can't. I mean Donald Trump was elected
with the idea that he was going to lower prices
in America that I think was number one. The southern
border was yeah, like there. But I think many people
voted Republican this time around, saying I don't like whatever
(07:16):
Bidenomics is. Can somebody help me out? And I cannot,
under any circumstance think that he would do this deal
thinking that for very long this could pass a lot
of additional cost to the American consumer. I feel like
there's some pressure for the countries to our north or
south and then China to work toward figuring out what
(07:40):
the United States want so they can maintain that business
and not have some of their manufacturers say how long
is this going to last? If this is going to
last long, then I'm picking my stuff and I'm going
to building a factory in Texas and we're going to
go there, right, And that's I think part of what
Donald Trump wants. I got some more impacts here that
are ally for me, that explain exactly what the story
(08:04):
is on these tariffs. If you have some thoughts, feel
free to call in at four oh two five five
eight eleven ten four oh two five five eight eleven
ten on news radio eleven ton kfab Emri Sunger. Brian's
on the phone line. Brian, welcome to the show today.
What do you got on your mind about tariffs?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I good, Well, I was just thinking, you know that
this is not about, uh, you know, the tariff thing, right,
So if I'm selling products made in America, yeah, and
I'm not subject to this twenty five percent tariff, right,
I think this is I think this is a play
about giving industry in America a competitive advantage. I mean,
(08:44):
so many businesses' margins are one percent or two percentage.
You do start with a twenty five percent, you know,
advantage over the price of your competition, you know. I
think that's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, And if that's yeah, if that's the case, I
mean I would just the only thing that I would
hope is that we are capable of producing the enough
supply for the demand of these things. If we're going
to have the ability, right, Like I mean, if you're
an American automaker, for instance, you'd be looking at this
(09:18):
and saying, hey, you know, it's a great opportunity for
us to you know, make make some more money and
to grow here. But just make sure that all of
the parts are available. Also in the United States, right,
because I don't want to have to get caught up
going to you know, having to pay twenty five percent
more for any parts or any maintenance on a car
that you know doesn't have the part available in the
(09:39):
US something like that. But I agree, Brian, it's twofold.
It's not just to hurt our opposition or the other
countries that aren't doing what we want them to do.
It's also to I think, like you said, stimulate American business.
And I think it could do that.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Well, I think that. And then and then the other
thing is that, wow, there's a little feedback here happening
on my radio, the uh and I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
To do that. Yeah, got just turn it down, Just
turn it just turn it down, Bud. Are you there?
You go there? We go go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I am I am okay, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So the thought process is that you can have more
competitive things and then bring companies back who left America
to go make their products in these other countries because
they didn't have to deal with all of the all
of the regulations and stuff that we had. And now like, oh,
you get twenty five percent margin you know to deal with,
(10:41):
you might as well come back. Here and make those
products right here in America. Yeah, I think it's I
think it's also a longer term play, not just I
think he's just kicking stuff off, is what I think.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, and I appreciate the word call, Brian, thanks for
listening to us today.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So, Donald Trump on True Social also today said if
companies moved to the UA United States, there are no tariffs,
which echoes what Brian just said there. It's just, hey,
if you are willing to move here, tariff off, you know,
like you won't be subject to that because we'll consider
you an American company. I just you know, again, supply
and demand the delicate balance. Can American companies for the
(11:19):
time being generate enough supply so we the consumer have
choices that are still manageable in price. That's all I'm saying,
He dos on the phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Hey zeus. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Hey, A couple of things, maybe three things. The reason
we if you go back in history about tariffs, we
used to be nothing but tariffs. We didn't even tax anybody.
Everything was off paid by tariffs. Back in nineteen seventeen,
and the reason we had tax was the paper war
back in World War One, and that you go back
(11:57):
and do the history lepons on that. But the reason
that he is doing these tariffs, he explained it again
that because of all the fensanol that's coming in the
China based meetanol that's coming in through the Canadian border
and through the Mexican border and is killing Americans. And
he said, if you can stop that, he probably wouldn't
(12:19):
even have done the tariffs as much. Might have still
done little tariffs. But the reason why is because he's
trying to stop all of this setanol coming into our
country and killing our Americans.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, that's one of the things that he said, right.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, he has been quoted on that three or
four different times. And when he talks tonight, whether the
Democrats are there or not, it's going to be a
plus because remember we have the seventy plus million voter
mandate on doing the things that he's doing, and it's
going to take longer than five six weeks okay to
(12:56):
get crisis down. I mean, I mean, remember that we
had all of these chickens killed, millions of chickens called out,
that's going to take the time to get these other
chickens back in so we can get as prices down,
you know, and fight it uced almost all of our
our gas reserves. If you don't, if you remember that,
(13:18):
we got to get that build up as well, so
being energy independent, doing all of these things, getting money
created back into the United States, having companies come back.
Those are the things that we sent a mandate about
get companies back to be in USA and so and
then the other thing too, what people forgot about, you know,
(13:42):
about Zolensky and all of that. When if you watch
the ambassador to Ukraine put her hand on her head
and Zolensky called and they and it's been and it
was he called curse at Vice President Vance. He called
them a bad name.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Okay, yeah, And so if you looked.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
At when that happened, and you're not going to do that.
And they just announced that they are going to con
they are going to go.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Through with the mineral deal.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, with the mineral deal. And the other thing too
about Taiwan. If we're in, if we're helping out the
Taiwanese build the electronics and all of that, and we
are helping there. We have American interest there and if
anybody tries to attack, they're going to be hurting Americans,
which will also be bad for the people that are
(14:36):
attacking us.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's a really interesting stuff there, hey, zeus a lot
to unpack, but I appreciate you coming on the show
and talking about it with me today. Thanks for listener.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thank you so much for taking my call. I really
appreciate it. And just so you know, people driving west
it is very windy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, there we go, starting to get Yeah, no, I
appreciate yep. Thanks. Yeah, I had a hard time seeing
just coming to work just now over in Dundee cause
all the rains crazy. Now what it was real quick?
Let's take Dan Dan, thanks for calling in. What's going
on today?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thank you comment on the terrors.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yes, you know, for so many years there's been such
an imbalance as far as dollars and cents, imports, exports,
and that's basically what the president is trying to do.
Shrink that imbalance. And by shrinking the imbalance, that's creating
revenue actually because it'll be lowering the debt. So it's
(15:30):
going to be painful a little bit. The countries are
going to have to come around too, because it's been
such an unfair playing field.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, that's all. I appreciate it. Dan, Thank you so
much for being a part of the show today. Thanks
for listening. Yeah, so it's a fascinating conversation and we
are going to chat about the Ukraine piece of this
because there is some more that's sitting here in kind
of you know, we're hearing a little bit about about
(15:59):
tonight and we'll get to that as well. And if
you would like to be a part of the conversation,
please call us at four oh two five five eight
eleven ten four oh two five five eight eleven ten,
News Radio eleven ten kfab em raise songer.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's coming down, man, just like the temperatures. Temperatures are
gonna drop.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh yeah, you just gotta love some of that. Tariffs.
Can we talk about more tariffs? You can't? Are you
cool with that? You cool with tariff talk? Tariff talk? Hey,
I don't see why not? All right, So, remember all
this stuff I was talking about that we were gonna
have problem with here, here's another one, energy and fuel.
And I'm not saying that this is going to be problematic.
I'm just saying that Chad GBT gave me like a
(16:38):
bullet point list of the stuff that's like actually going
to be affected by this ten percent tariff on Canadian
energy imports, including crude oil, anticipated to raise gasoline prices
in the US, particularly in regions heavily relianed on Canadian oil,
such as the Midwest. I don't know if that's US.
I think our ethanol stuff actually kind of offset to that,
(16:59):
but I don't know. Consumers in the areas that use
Canadian oil could see fuel prices increased by up to
fifty cents a gallon. How about clothing and footwear? Do
you buy Japanese shoes? We'll make our your shoes.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I do.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I own a lot of pairs of Japanese shoes, not
Japanese Chinese. Sorry, japan Is didn't have to worry about
any of this.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Ah, well, that puts me out of the running. I
wear Otaku, that's right. I wear Otaku, and it's one
of my favorite brand because I love technology.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm wearing Obos right now. They're a hiking shoe. They're
also a woodwind, I believe. Yeah, yeah, double double reed.
You got a double read Obo on your foot right now?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Double reed walk around like wah No, No, that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Makes a much more bitter sound that elbow does. It's
like a like a I mean it sounds like the
guy who does the snake charming, like it's what he's
got waring. It's hard. It's hard to make an obo
sounds double read. You know, it doesn't said the one
(18:05):
read like the other woodwinds. It's got willis read all
in one. Yeah, double read tarror read you know, Reid.
Look out. Many apparel footward items imported from China subject
now to twenty percent tariff. Shoppers may experience higher prices
for clothing and shoes as retailers suggest to increased import costs. Now,
(18:26):
these elbows, they were fairly expensive, but they're waterproof. I
don't know where you make obos, but I might enough
shoes to know it doesn't. Nike make a lot of
stuff here, now, I mean, don't they I don't know.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That was the whole kind of thing about them is
that they use sweatshops, but shops in China.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
With children that were not old enough to be doing
that kind of stuff. Yeah, but they don't have rules.
So like you, what are we you going to do?
Go in there and tell them not to do it.
I mean, what are we doing here? I could, but
they'd laugh me right out of there. They wouldn't even
know what you're saying, right. Also, alcoholic beverages, imports of
alcoholic beverages such as Mexican beer. Not not Corona for
those who are worried about losing your corona. That's bottles
(19:05):
in the United States. How about Modela Modelo? Uh where
I think that's here too, because that's I tell you,
that's like on the cheaper end. A lot of people
really like Modelo. Uh yeah, Modello is brewed in Mexico.
Oh that's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So so so bud like Gilado's, people are going to
be buying those up. The same thing though. What about
the cat? The cat that's Baja California, Mexico. How about
those kiss that's a good one. Those at Kish.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That is made in the quah tomach Machtisuma Brewery. It's
it's it's actually a subsidiary of Heineken International, but it's
located in Mexico. So yeah, I guess those would be it.
And then, of course, if you're a fan of Canadian
whiskey like I am, big fan a Canadian whiskey over here,
(20:02):
higher terrffs for them. Also, that could lead to increased
prices for those in US stores and restaurants. So get
back to the bourbon and the the American locally made
craft beers, if that's what you're into. So I asked
what the overall economic impact for all of this could
be for a family in the United States, and the
(20:23):
AI said these tariffs expected to raise the annual expenses
of the average American household by approximately eight hundred dollars.
Eight hundred dollars you have eight hundred dollars lyne around.
I mean, I could come up with it. Sure, it
wouldn't feel good though, now I wouldn't feel good. The
increased cost of essential goods may reduce disposable income, potentially
(20:44):
slowing consumer spending and broader economic growth. Over the next
six months. US consumer should prepare for noticeable price increases
across a range of products, from everyday groceries to big
ticket items as a direct consequence of these newly imposed tariffs.
Now again, if the teriffs don't last very long, or
if American made businesses are able to kind of instead
(21:04):
of exporting their goods they can just keep them here.
Maybe we can offset that to a certain extent. But
time is just going to tell. I mean, we're not
going to know that. This is this is all you know,
like a simulation of the next six months. Douglas is
on a phone line of four oh two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Welcome in Douglas. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Not much? But what I see with the tariffs is
we're just doing what they've already done to us. Yeah, okay, sure,
but here's the thing. If people of our companies go
overseas to make stuff because it's cheaper to make it
over there, and still have to send them back to
the state because you think about all the stuff that
(21:45):
comes into that. Do you have your Nike shoes made
in China? Yeah, okay, And once they get done, they
got to ship meet the United States are either coming
by boat or they're going to come by air. Right,
so you got to pay for all of that. And
where where is all that being invested in the United States?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's not Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
We might be making money. Yeah, the people in the
United States. If we built things, shit, if we made
things here that people want, or made clothes here, we
used to do all that stuff. Why are we not
doing it today?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's a good question there, Douglason. I got to be
honest with you, If all of a sudden this kind
of triggers a movement of businesses to manufacture here, I'd
be fascinating to see if we actually spend more money
in general, or it just actually stimulates our own economy. Economy,
I mean, it could actually just end up making our
economy a lot stronger at the end of it. It's
(22:39):
a fascinating case study, and I guess we're going to
learn on the fly. I appreciate the call, Bud two
forty four if you want to call in four roh
two five five eight eleven ten four two five five
eight eleven ten. We got more on the way on
news radio eleven ten, Kfab Emery Sunger on news radio
eleven ten, Kfab. I got like a swollen trachea or
(22:59):
something like. It's hard for me to project my voice.
Maybe it's just like a respiratory thing. But you want
to know what, I think laughing is good for the soul,
even if it kind of hurts. I've been laughing in
a lot of things lately. You know what I laughed
at last night. I was sitting there and I was
watching See Him Punk on WWE Raw on Netflix. Man,
(23:21):
he unloaded a can of verbal whooping on Dwayne Johnson,
John Cena, and Seth Rollins. I mean, I was just like,
dang Son, good, think you're not on network TV otherwise.
But it was awesome, and I was just like, Wow,
I can't believe this guy's going in like this. You
(23:43):
know what it means to me means that you can
get entertained by all sorts of stuff, including guys just
want to, you know, thrash each other in the professional
wrestling ring. And I like that. I like the escapism.
You like what you like. I just love the escapism.
You know what else? I like tunes? Those yeah, those
crazy animals. I mean my thirties, but you know, I
(24:04):
like those Looney tunes. You know what else?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I like?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Sunnyside up eggs. I prefer sunnyside down myself.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But then I don't mind it. Don't they call it
over easy. I call it sunnyside down. I call it.
I call it sadness eggs. There's no sun in those eggs.
It's so depressing.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So it's just a cloud full of skies. That did
make sense. What I don't know, it's what it's a
cloud full of skies. I meant to say it's a
sky full of clouds, but a cloud full of skies
kind of sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Cloud full of skies, sky full of clouds. You know,
nobody's really gonna ever know. It sounds like a lyric
from like a Pink Floyd song or something. Yeah, I
don't know. I uh, Pink Floyd. That's funny. I uh.
I only mentioned all this because you're gonna be here
and probably a lot of people trying to tell you
(24:53):
how you should feel about these tariffs. Tonight. Donald Trump's
gonna be talking to the the point session of Congress.
You think a lot of people are gonna be just
happy about what he's got to say. You think people
are gonna be just super pleased to hear from him.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So is it Hakeem Jefferies is in the seat that
Nancy was last time?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah? Which no, no, and she ripped it up. No,
because it's Mike Johnson. Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So is there gonna be somebody up there on the
stage not a Democrat?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So we probably won't get the recreation of the of
the rip. Yeah, ra Keem wouldn't do that. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't think so either. That's what I was gonna ask, Like,
do we think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
No, But I mean there could be. Well, there's a
chance that the Democrats are talking about not even being there,
which there's gonna be something performative by them to protest
Donald Trump being the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And I think not being there, I would just say,
tread lightly on the history of the shadow of that's
going to cast throughout history. Just not showing up. Yeah,
that is your party, isn't it, Democrats? You just don't
show up for the people.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Do you wouldn't it be better just to like do
some sort of silent protest. Remember like I think it
was twenty eighteen or nineteen, and all of the Democrats
in like war like these white nurse outfits or something.
I just remember, like this is like they kept panning
to them and their stone face, like like Donald Trump
would say something and all the Republicans be clapping or
standing and clapping, and then the uh, they'd pan over
(26:16):
to the Democrats or they didn't get a camera shot
of like AOC or something, and they just be sitting
there with RBF, just be sitting there stewing, resting Burt
Reynold's face something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not great. No,
but you know, I think that's better. I think that's better.
Don't you think that's better than not being there? If
(26:37):
you're gonna be performative, you kind of have to be
there to make it happen. We know you're gonna be
no matter what, You're gonna be told what to think
about this from every possible angle, and I'm just not
sure how much we're gonna learn tonight. But I'm also
more Is it bad that I'm more interested in the reaction?
I just like to be taken away, Just take me
(26:57):
away into a world of my own where I can
formulate my own opinions. This is why I'd rather listen
to it than watch it, because if you're listening to it,
you're going to be just hearing him speak in the
reaction in the room, which is going to be mostly
cheers you would think from Republicans cheering him on. But
we don't have to worry about all of the ringamarole
of the performance that the Democrats are going to likely do.
(27:21):
Does that make sense? Yeah, so I don't anticipate learning
a whole lot, but that's just me. Now, this minerals
deal thing seems like it actually is pretty close to
potentially happening, which is a bit of a bit of
a bit of a switch up here. In the last
hour and a half to two hours, it's being reported
(27:44):
by multiple international news sources that Zelensky is now willing
to come to the negotiating table and today or tonight,
Donald Trump is going to announce that they have this
done potentially. I'm not I'm not. I'm not trying to
spoil anything for you, but yeah, this hotly contested, big
(28:08):
time debate thing that we saw that was supposed to
be signed on Friday, and then we had you want
to talk about a performance, geez, a greatly performative thing
between Zelenski, Trump and Vance and even the press honestly
played a role in that, just making it a big circus.
Sounds like like talks have actually continued, and there's a
(28:30):
chance that the big information that we may be told
or confirmed tonight that Donald Trump will say that Ukraine
in the United States has come to a deal on
the rare earth minerals from the Ukraine for billions of dollars,
billions and billions of dollars, And according to some of
(28:51):
the sources, Donald Trump told his advisors he wants to
make the announcement tonight as part of this. And I
would imagine if we can get like truly concrete evidence,
this is absolutely going to happen before it will leak.
But I'm sure they're trying to keep some of it
close to the vessel. People will be like, yay when
he says it tonight. If you're a Democrat, what was
(29:12):
your reaction to that? What? What? What? What's the reaction?
What's going on? What would be the reaction if Donald
Trump says we got this done with Ukraine, because that
would be the first step in like getting this Russia
Ukraine thing done. Is like, oh, the United States is
true steak in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You'd probably you'd want to stay skeptical and then find
a reason to dismiss it. That's probably their reaction to
find a reason it's actually a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll get a chance to see what
the reaction is. We're not on until the afternoons, but yeah,
it's it's kind of last hour, so it's kind of
been spreading in enough places to make me feel like
it's legitimate. So we will we will see it, and
we'll see if Donald Trump it's any credit for it whatsoever,
(30:02):
or jd Vance or anybody else, just because Zelensky's not
in the room with them. We'll see how exactly they are,
what people think of this, it'll be interesting. Three o'clock
hour coming up. Thanks for listening to our radio show
today on news Radio eleven ten kfab
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