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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Grace just texted me saying she wanted me to
relate to everybody that when I was asking her, are
you America first or Canada first? For whatever reason, I
don't know if Mike was being mischievous or not, but
he cut off, he cut off her ability to talk
on the air, and she was answering America first, America first.
(00:25):
I'm not so sure. I don't know if I believe
her to be honest. I'm just judging her by your
reaction to the hockey game a couple weeks ago. It
seemed to me like she was rooting for Canada. But
let that go, all right, A lot of reaction to
Grace's hit. You can text us seven zero four seven zero.
(00:45):
This is from five oh eight, Jeff. I disagree with Grace.
She may not want a Tesla, but it's certainly not garbage,
as she mentioned. I've seen one up close and driven one.
It's a marvel of modern technology, not simply a quote
unquote electric car. I don't have a desire to buy one,
(01:07):
but it represents Elon's genius, and I like that his
social skills are a little wacky. It makes him look
so much more human when he's in the midst of
the slick politicians. Yeah, I gotta be honest with you.
You know, Grace keeps going on to me in private.
How you know he looks nerdy. Elon looks dorky. He's
(01:29):
socially awkward. He doesn't come across well. It's not good
for Trump or the administration in terms of the image
that's being conveyed. And I'm like, no, I think he
looks he looks a lot more authentic than those, you know,
sleazy politicians.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, this is from my sister, So
it's like it's like a family feud.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So this is Jen, my sister, Jennifer and Tucson Jeff.
I am currently in my Tesla and I'm sorry, but
I disagree with Grace. It's very rainy, cold morning here
in Tucson, Arizona. I am very warm and toasty in
my Tesla. I have had this particular model for four years,
(02:22):
going almost on five years. I have had no issues whatsoever,
and we have had three Teslas so far. I can't complain.
It's a great car. In fact, seriously, I'm thinking about
buying another Tesla, a red one and get somebody to
(02:43):
write MAGA on it. So my sister and her husband
and my nephews love Tesla. They vouch for Tesla. Steve
in Sturbridge, thanks for holding Steve, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hi Jeff, thanks for taking my cars. Yes, okay, uh
if fire was the optics, I think what Trump was
trying to do with this Tesla was to show to
the American you know, to GM Ford and Chrysler and
to the other ones that build the cars here, you know.
I think that was his option, was to show that
show the world that he's going to be America first.
(03:21):
He hasn't backed off on that. I think that's the
that's the thing behind it. I think people are missing it.
I think what he wanted to show is we are
We're going to build him here in America. We can
build an electric cop because don't we get China has
been always trying to say with Buffett that B y
D makes a better car and everything else. I think
he wants to show that, hey, we can do it.
We do it here, we can do it better. Second,
(03:44):
I think the only one that he has to worry
about because for his economic agenda and everything else is
Pam BONDI. I haven't seen anything coming out of her
outside of press, out of outside of the trips down
the Fox to to just slink a little bit of
talking point. Uh, the Epstein file, Where's that? What about
the FBI shredding the documents? Time to How come when
(04:08):
they go to Trump they come in full blast with guns.
They're ready to shoot up everybody. They go through milignias,
underwear and everything else, and yet paying Blondie hasn't done anything.
She going to be the porthouse Bill Barr of the
uh Our administration, Well.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Steve, you know, to be honest, that's the biggest complaint
now I'm getting from the audience, you know, from Kooner country,
and I hope Trump's people are listening.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Look, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes
at the Department of Justice. To be fair to her,
I don't know if she's getting her ducks in a row.
I don't know if she's getting everything ready for an
all out assault, a legal assault. But I get this
all the time. Now, you know, are we going to
have another you know steakhouse, porterhouse, you know porter steakhouse,
(04:53):
Bill Barr. Are we going to have another Jeff Sessions
where they all talk a big game and they don't much.
And so that's honestly, that's the one area I'm very
concerned about as well. Now, to be fair to her,
and I was going to talk about this today, but
this Tesla story is just it's big.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's just so huge.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That radical Palestinian graduate student Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia who
now has been detained and arrested by Ice. They revoked
his green card. Pam Bondi was instrumental in that, and
not only that, she's moved him to a detention center
(05:34):
in Louisiana. Now why is that important? Because a New
York judge is going to try to get this terrorist,
this pro terrorist, sent back to New York to get
his green card reinstated. Bondi made the move to send
him to Louisiana outside the jurisdiction of this liberal New
(05:55):
York judge. So what I'm saying is she is doing
some stuff. She's just sitting there twiddling her thumbs, and
she's helping Trump to deport this guy who I think
needs to be deported and have his you know, green
card rescinded. But you're right, Steve. I want to see arrests.
And I think you hit the nail on the head
(06:15):
when you said, hey, they rated Trump's home guns blazing,
they went through Malania's underwear, they had shoot the kill orders.
So when the Democrats move, they move. When we get
into power, not so much, Steve. Thank you for that call.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight Mike,
(06:40):
Maestro Mike, Judy in debt him. Thanks for holding Judy
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hi, thank you, Jeff. Glad to be on your show
here talking. I just want to say one thing about
your wife. I look forward to her every single Wednesday
to give her opinion, and I really appree she ate
what she said about the tariffs. The tariffs are so important,
but they need to be done the way she said.
(07:08):
I think that is a better solution for everything. And
I think she needs to write a letter to President Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well his people hurt her.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I guarantee you, Judy, you just get a sense of
what my evenings are like at the dinner table, and
just imagine my Ashton and my Ava and it's usually
three on one. Okay, A lot of reaction now, coming
in from both Graces hit and the call by Judy
(07:37):
just before the break.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This is from by the way, you can text a
seven zero four seven zero seven zero four seven zero.
This is from six one seven, and this relates to
member Senator Marcelly Arizona who tried to sabotage the peace
process in Ukraine between Ukraine and Russia and the United
States by going to visits Lensky over the weekend. Well,
(08:02):
apparently it came out that George Soros's son, Alex Soros,
who's really inheriting the Soros Empire and continuing his father's work,
financed the trip and has I mean just stuffed money
into Mark Kelly's campaign coffers. So this is from six
one seven, Jeff, President Trump bought a tesla and Alex
(08:25):
Soros bought Senator Mark Kelly.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A very good point, excellent point.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now Grace sent me a follow up text, and I
want to read it to all of you because she says, this,
will I clarify the debate now that's clearly developing among
many of you in this great Kooner Country audience, Jeff,
as I said on the air, and I want to
reiterate it. It's good to be you. You read, you
(08:57):
go to work, you talk, but you don't cut the checks.
You don't pay the bills I do. You're not dealing
with real estate as I am, which is on a
roller coaster right now. Confidence is shaken across the economy
because of the stock market plunge and because of Trump's tariffs.
(09:21):
So I want to ask all of you. Is Grace right?
Is Judy right? Do you think Trump made a mistake
with the tariffs? Maybe not so much in implementing them,
but in the sequencing that he went with the tariffs first,
instead of passing the tax cuts, doing the deregulation, passing
(09:44):
a good energy bill that really starts to get us
drilling and driving down the price of energy. And in particular,
do you feel that he's not focused enough, like a
laser beam, on the economy, on lowering inflation, on helping
working middle class Americans get much needed relief. I'm just
(10:09):
curious is he trying to do too much too fast?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Six one seven.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Two six six sixty eight sixty eight Bob in Waltham,
Thanks for holding Bob, and.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Welcome well good boy.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Please don't call me mister Kooner. You just heard me
with my wife fifteen minutes ago. I'm not that important,
believe me. Just call me Jeff Bob.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It was completely out of respect. I wrote down my thoughts.
I wrote down my thoughts. I wouldn't ramble, but I
wanted to say for a while. First of all, CONDOLESNS
on your father and philosophy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Bob.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Secondly, I would like to say that you, sir, are
in national treasure.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
The impact you have is so enormous. I tell you personally.
It's eight days into Lent. I had a choice of
giving off coffee, which I absolutely love, or listening to
your show. Well, we're eight days into Lent, and I'm
listening to your show. Well, your wife is brilliant. You're
(11:16):
You're so welcome. You deserve every possible positive thought and reaction.
Your wife is brilliant. The two of you are truly
the dynamic duo. I disagree with her this morning in
this sense that I believe it has to get worse
before it gets better. I believe that the tariffs and
everything else that Trump is doing now, the big, big
(11:39):
big things, are all tied towards really really taking care
of inflation, if we can just trust him and wait
for this correction to take place. That's my observation about that.
But I love your wife. She's brilliant, and I wait
for her because I learned so much from her. Ninety
nine times out of one hundred, I agree with her.
And regarding your this morning with Trump, I wrote these
(12:02):
downs whe I wouldn't take long. First of all, I
believe Trump. It is a reaction to what has happened
against Elon. Otherwise Trump would not have done it. Do
you agree?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I agree? No, I think there's no question.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And secondly, companies are not run by patriots anymore. They're
only concerned with money. That's their game. It's a game
to them. How much money can I make? How can
I do this? How can I be smarter than the
next person. They don't have the values or appreciation for
America that I'm assuming. Now you're a historian, you might
know better than me, But my father was an Ego Jima,
(12:40):
and I'm assuming that when the people came home and
saw what they had to sacrifice and fight for and
their loved ones that died for, they were patriots and
they conducted themselves in business I believe it had to
be more with an idea of patriotism infused in that
as opposed to just the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Correct, Bob, And I don't want to break your flow
because you're really on a roll.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Defending everything they did or every business practice. But what
I'm saying is, you know, look at Henry Ford or
JP Morgan or Rockefeller or you know, the great titans
right of American industry in the late nineteenth early twentieth century.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm just going to use them as an example.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, of course, they're there to make money, of course,
and they're there to sell products, of course, and to
make a profit, of course, a question. They're not running
a charity, they're running a business. But they were always
Americans first. Their loyalty was always to America, and in
the end, if it was between you know, money or patriotism,
(13:45):
they would always choose patriotism. You know, they wouldn't There
are many things they wouldn't do that would get them
a little bit richer, but they knew would hurt the
national security of the United States or betray the country,
either through national security or through economically. That's changed, I mean,
(14:05):
that's really changed. And that's what I mean when you
listen to these CEOs now give an interview like you
don't know a country. I mean, really, they could be
from Britain. I mean except for their accent, right. Are
they Canadians? Are they Americans? Are they British? Are they Australians?
Are they They're all the same because they don't have
(14:26):
a loyalty to their countries anymore. Trump is an American.
He's a great capitalist, he's a great entrepreneur, but he's
an American. And ironically Elon who's originally from South Africa,
but like me, a naturalized American. He's telling everybody, Yeah,
I want to make money, of course, but I'm an
American first, and that's all the difference. Bob, please keep going.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And oftentimes, Jeff, it's naturalized Americans like yourself, like Elon,
who in this day and age, really appreciate America for
what for what it is and what it has offered
people in the past. They understand more its foundations, what
started it, why this great experiment has become the greatest
country on earth, and they want to keep that going
(15:12):
and support it for their children, for their neighbors. And
I just want to make one last observation. The Tesla
is the state of the art right now, and by
buying it Tesla, it's not perfect, but I know he
made some incredible innovations, especially with the chassis where he
found a way to make it ultra light. But because
(15:33):
the battery is so heavy away of injection molding or
what have you, that it's all of a piece. Maybe
that's why it's expensive to repair it. But it's not perfect.
But it's the state of the art for electric vehicles
right now. And when you buy a Tesla, you're supporting
ongoing research and development to make it better. So it's
(15:53):
a win win all around. And just to close with
thank you for the time. Trump has long lost money
in this endeavor. He has had his life turned upside
down for what eight nine years now. Elon Musk the
same thing. Why are they doing it? They don't need
the money, They're losing money. Trump never took a salary.
Elon Musk has lost a couple of billion dollars. I know,
(16:17):
two trillion dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
One hundreds hundreds of billion. He's lost about two hundred
billion now. So no, Bob, look at your point is
dead on six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I want to read to you two diametrically opposed comments.
Both of them are staunch Trump supporters. But I think
it really shows you where the audience is on this issue,
or at least for many of you are on this issue.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
This is from Andy on messenger. Jeff, I voted for
Trump three times. He is awesome. I agree with him
ninety five percent of the time. How However, I am retired.
My retirement fund has tanked by three hundred thousand dollars
(17:09):
since he took office. Under Biden, it was growing. Donald
Trump is going too fast with the tariffs. It will
take years for me to get back on trap, to
get back on track. And that's being hopeful. And I
have a great financial firm, Kelly Financial. So Andy saying
(17:34):
that the beating in the stock market, a lot of
it triggered by the tariffs, is hurting him and his
retirement portfolio, and he says it may take him years
to bounce back. Then this is from seven.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To eight to one. Jeff.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
My advice to Grace, relax. Everything's going to be okay.
Trump's said there would be some difficult periods, but the
end result will be America's golden age, and I believe him.
Collete in Swampscott, thanks for holding Collette and welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Hi Jeff, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Nice to talk to you. Welcome collecte.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Thank you. Your caller maybe a half an hour ago,
inspired me to call. He was very negative about the
Tesla car. He hadn't had one himself, but said that
he had heard this, that and the other thing about
it was a piece of junk. During COVID, I got
a Tesla. So that's going on five years and it
(18:44):
has been a dream. It's anything that's wrong they fixed
For the first two years. I think they were efficient.
I just used the app say what's wrong. They may
an appointment, they give you a car, super helpful and then.
(19:06):
But there's hardly been anything wrong with a car. It's
so smooth and effortless and low maintenance. We don't use
it for traveling. We still do have a gas car
for long trips because we didn't find by the long
range one. But I come home from work, the car
(19:31):
needs to be charged. I can program it to only
charge during the lowest cost energy use while I'm sleeping
and I wake up and it's charged. And I can
also set it to be warm right before I'm going
to drive on the days that I drive into work,
so it warms up the battery and charges the battery.
(19:55):
But even when it's cold, it warms up so much
quicker than any gas car that I've ever Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Because collect one of the complaints I've been hearing from,
it's just maybe a handful of listeners. They've been texting
me throughout the show over the last hour, I would say,
is they say, Jeff, oh, the heating system is junk. Whatever,
it's bad in the Tesla. You're saying in the winter time,
even when it's cold outside, you don't have an issue
with heating your tesla?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Correct, No, But I also can right before I leave
from work, I can open my app and warm the
car up, you know, maybe for five minutes as I'm
walking out of the office. That's incredible, or walking out
of a restaurant that I can turn the seat heaters
on from the app.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
But even when it is cold, it warms up so
much faster than my husband's car, which I sit and
freeze all the way home. So it spurred me to
call you because I've had the complete opposite experience.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You know, that's what my sister said. I mean in
her text as well. She goes, I've had three. We're
thinking of getting another one. She goes, No, she does
live in Arizona, but she says, you know, really a
couple months of a year, it gets pretty cold. And
I've never she goes, I've never had a problem hitting
my tesla. So that's interesting. Call that. Thank you very
much for sharing that. I really appreciate it. And call that,
(21:22):
don't be a stranger. Call again.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Call it please.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gordon in Vermont, speaking of cold Gordon, thanks for holding
and welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I definite I have more than one thought, but it's
almost the end of the show, so I'll just say
I liked the idea of electric cars. I've driven electric vehicles,
but they were like forklifts, pallette jacks, golf carts that
all could be for short, short distances. It could be
parked overnight, because for long distances, you know, you have
to stop for a long time to charge the thing up.
(21:57):
But I think he should keep going. You know, I
think they just shaking things up. But I'm not afraid
of what Trump's doing. Just shake stuff up, see how
it plays out, and don't worry about carbon dioxide because
it's the food of life and we don't have lead
in gasoline anymore, so it's really not a problem. They're
going to be okay and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Gordon.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Would you ever think we got about a minute left, Gordon,
would you ever think of buying a Tesla?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Thanks? I drove one once though, from a friend's house
in Lexington. Her housemate had one and it was a
pretty nice car. I just drove it for him down
to the local charging station because he had to follow
me in another car, you know, leave it there. And
the time it takes to charge those batteries as of now,
I think for most purposes it's just not practical interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So you're saying, until they make more improvements, you're a
no interesting Gordon. Nice way to end the show,
Okay, Grace just texted me saying she wanted me to
relate to everybody that when I was asking her, are
you America first or Canada first? For whatever reason, I
don't know if Mike was being mischievous or not, but
he cut off, he cut off her ability to talk
on the air, and she was answering America first, America first.
(00:25):
I'm not so sure. I don't know if I believe
her to be honest. I'm just judging her by your
reaction to the hockey game a couple weeks ago. It
seemed to me like she was rooting for Canada. But
let that go, all right, A lot of reaction to
Grace's hit. You can text us seven zero four seven zero.
(00:45):
This is from five oh eight, Jeff. I disagree with Grace.
She may not want a Tesla, but it's certainly not garbage,
as she mentioned. I've seen one up close and driven one.
It's a marvel of modern technology, not simply a quote
unquote electric car. I don't have a desire to buy one,
(01:07):
but it represents Elon's genius, and I like that his
social skills are a little wacky. It makes him look
so much more human when he's in the midst of
the slick politicians. Yeah, I gotta be honest with you.
You know, Grace keeps going on to me in private.
How you know he looks nerdy. Elon looks dorky. He's
(01:29):
socially awkward. He doesn't come across well. It's not good
for Trump or the administration in terms of the image
that's being conveyed. And I'm like, no, I think he
looks he looks a lot more authentic than those, you know,
sleazy politicians.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, this is from my sister, So
it's like it's like a family feud.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So this is Jen, my sister, Jennifer and Tucson Jeff.
I am currently in my Tesla and I'm sorry, but
I disagree with Grace. It's very rainy, cold morning here
in Tucson, Arizona. I am very warm and toasty in
my Tesla. I have had this particular model for four years,
(02:22):
going almost on five years. I have had no issues whatsoever,
and we have had three Teslas so far. I can't complain.
It's a great car. In fact, seriously, I'm thinking about
buying another Tesla, a red one and get somebody to
(02:43):
write MAGA on it. So my sister and her husband
and my nephews love Tesla. They vouch for Tesla. Steve
in Sturbridge, thanks for holding Steve, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hi Jeff, thanks for taking my cars. Yes, okay, uh
if fire was the optics, I think what Trump was
trying to do with this Tesla was to show to
the American you know, to GM Ford and Chrysler and
to the other ones that build the cars here, you know.
I think that was his option, was to show that
show the world that he's going to be America first.
(03:21):
He hasn't backed off on that. I think that's the
that's the thing behind it. I think people are missing it.
I think what he wanted to show is we are
We're going to build him here in America. We can
build an electric cop because don't we get China has
been always trying to say with Buffett that B y
D makes a better car and everything else. I think
he wants to show that, hey, we can do it.
We do it here, we can do it better. Second,
(03:44):
I think the only one that he has to worry
about because for his economic agenda and everything else is
Pam BONDI. I haven't seen anything coming out of her
outside of press, out of outside of the trips down
the Fox to to just slink a little bit of
talking point. Uh, the Epstein file, Where's that? What about
the FBI shredding the documents? Time to How come when
(04:08):
they go to Trump they come in full blast with guns.
They're ready to shoot up everybody. They go through milignias,
underwear and everything else, and yet paying Blondie hasn't done anything.
She going to be the porthouse Bill Barr of the
uh Our administration, Well.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Steve, you know, to be honest, that's the biggest complaint
now I'm getting from the audience, you know, from Kooner country,
and I hope Trump's people are listening.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Look, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes
at the Department of Justice. To be fair to her,
I don't know if she's getting her ducks in a row.
I don't know if she's getting everything ready for an
all out assault, a legal assault. But I get this
all the time. Now, you know, are we going to
have another you know steakhouse, porterhouse, you know porter steakhouse,
(04:53):
Bill Barr. Are we going to have another Jeff Sessions
where they all talk a big game and they don't much.
And so that's honestly, that's the one area I'm very
concerned about as well. Now, to be fair to her,
and I was going to talk about this today, but
this Tesla story is just it's big.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's just so huge.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That radical Palestinian graduate student Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia who
now has been detained and arrested by Ice. They revoked
his green card. Pam Bondi was instrumental in that, and
not only that, she's moved him to a detention center
(05:34):
in Louisiana. Now why is that important? Because a New
York judge is going to try to get this terrorist,
this pro terrorist, sent back to New York to get
his green card reinstated. Bondi made the move to send
him to Louisiana outside the jurisdiction of this liberal New
(05:55):
York judge. So what I'm saying is she is doing
some stuff. She's just sitting there twiddling her thumbs, and
she's helping Trump to deport this guy who I think
needs to be deported and have his you know, green
card rescinded. But you're right, Steve. I want to see arrests.
And I think you hit the nail on the head
(06:15):
when you said, hey, they rated Trump's home guns blazing,
they went through Malania's underwear, they had shoot the kill orders.
So when the Democrats move, they move. When we get
into power, not so much, Steve. Thank you for that call.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight Mike,
(06:40):
Maestro Mike, Judy in debt him. Thanks for holding Judy
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hi, thank you, Jeff. Glad to be on your show
here talking. I just want to say one thing about
your wife. I look forward to her every single Wednesday
to give her opinion, and I really appree she ate
what she said about the tariffs. The tariffs are so important,
but they need to be done the way she said.
(07:08):
I think that is a better solution for everything. And
I think she needs to write a letter to President Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well his people hurt her.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I guarantee you, Judy, you just get a sense of
what my evenings are like at the dinner table, and
just imagine my Ashton and my Ava and it's usually
three on one. Okay, A lot of reaction now, coming
in from both Graces hit and the call by Judy
(07:37):
just before the break.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This is from by the way, you can text a
seven zero four seven zero seven zero four seven zero.
This is from six one seven, and this relates to
member Senator Marcelly Arizona who tried to sabotage the peace
process in Ukraine between Ukraine and Russia and the United
States by going to visits Lensky over the weekend. Well,
(08:02):
apparently it came out that George Soros's son, Alex Soros,
who's really inheriting the Soros Empire and continuing his father's work,
financed the trip and has I mean just stuffed money
into Mark Kelly's campaign coffers. So this is from six
one seven, Jeff, President Trump bought a tesla and Alex
(08:25):
Soros bought Senator Mark Kelly.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A very good point, excellent point.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now Grace sent me a follow up text, and I
want to read it to all of you because she says, this,
will I clarify the debate now that's clearly developing among
many of you in this great Kooner Country audience, Jeff,
as I said on the air, and I want to
reiterate it. It's good to be you. You read, you
(08:57):
go to work, you talk, but you don't cut the checks.
You don't pay the bills I do. You're not dealing
with real estate as I am, which is on a
roller coaster right now. Confidence is shaken across the economy
because of the stock market plunge and because of Trump's tariffs.
(09:21):
So I want to ask all of you. Is Grace right?
Is Judy right? Do you think Trump made a mistake
with the tariffs? Maybe not so much in implementing them,
but in the sequencing that he went with the tariffs first,
instead of passing the tax cuts, doing the deregulation, passing
(09:44):
a good energy bill that really starts to get us
drilling and driving down the price of energy. And in particular,
do you feel that he's not focused enough, like a
laser beam, on the economy, on lowering inflation, on helping
working middle class Americans get much needed relief. I'm just
(10:09):
curious is he trying to do too much too fast?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Six one seven.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Two six six sixty eight sixty eight Bob in Waltham,
Thanks for holding Bob, and.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Welcome well good boy.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Please don't call me mister Kooner. You just heard me
with my wife fifteen minutes ago. I'm not that important,
believe me. Just call me Jeff Bob.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It was completely out of respect. I wrote down my thoughts.
I wrote down my thoughts. I wouldn't ramble, but I
wanted to say for a while. First of all, CONDOLESNS
on your father and philosophy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Bob.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Secondly, I would like to say that you, sir, are
in national treasure.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
The impact you have is so enormous. I tell you personally.
It's eight days into Lent. I had a choice of
giving off coffee, which I absolutely love, or listening to
your show. Well, we're eight days into Lent, and I'm
listening to your show. Well, your wife is brilliant. You're
(11:16):
You're so welcome. You deserve every possible positive thought and reaction.
Your wife is brilliant. The two of you are truly
the dynamic duo. I disagree with her this morning in
this sense that I believe it has to get worse
before it gets better. I believe that the tariffs and
everything else that Trump is doing now, the big, big
(11:39):
big things, are all tied towards really really taking care
of inflation, if we can just trust him and wait
for this correction to take place. That's my observation about that.
But I love your wife. She's brilliant, and I wait
for her because I learned so much from her. Ninety
nine times out of one hundred, I agree with her.
And regarding your this morning with Trump, I wrote these
(12:02):
downs whe I wouldn't take long. First of all, I
believe Trump. It is a reaction to what has happened
against Elon. Otherwise Trump would not have done it. Do
you agree?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I agree? No, I think there's no question.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And secondly, companies are not run by patriots anymore. They're
only concerned with money. That's their game. It's a game
to them. How much money can I make? How can
I do this? How can I be smarter than the
next person. They don't have the values or appreciation for
America that I'm assuming. Now you're a historian, you might
know better than me, But my father was an Ego Jima,
(12:40):
and I'm assuming that when the people came home and
saw what they had to sacrifice and fight for and
their loved ones that died for, they were patriots and
they conducted themselves in business I believe it had to
be more with an idea of patriotism infused in that
as opposed to just the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Correct, Bob, And I don't want to break your flow
because you're really on a roll.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Defending everything they did or every business practice. But what
I'm saying is, you know, look at Henry Ford or
JP Morgan or Rockefeller or you know, the great titans
right of American industry in the late nineteenth early twentieth century.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm just going to use them as an example.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, of course, they're there to make money, of course,
and they're there to sell products, of course, and to
make a profit, of course, a question. They're not running
a charity, they're running a business. But they were always
Americans first. Their loyalty was always to America, and in
the end, if it was between you know, money or patriotism,
(13:45):
they would always choose patriotism. You know, they wouldn't There
are many things they wouldn't do that would get them
a little bit richer, but they knew would hurt the
national security of the United States or betray the country,
either through national security or through economically. That's changed, I mean,
(14:05):
that's really changed. And that's what I mean when you
listen to these CEOs now give an interview like you
don't know a country. I mean, really, they could be
from Britain. I mean except for their accent, right. Are
they Canadians? Are they Americans? Are they British? Are they Australians?
Are they They're all the same because they don't have
(14:26):
a loyalty to their countries anymore. Trump is an American.
He's a great capitalist, he's a great entrepreneur, but he's
an American. And ironically Elon who's originally from South Africa,
but like me, a naturalized American. He's telling everybody, Yeah,
I want to make money, of course, but I'm an
American first, and that's all the difference. Bob, please keep going.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And oftentimes, Jeff, it's naturalized Americans like yourself, like Elon,
who in this day and age, really appreciate America for
what for what it is and what it has offered
people in the past. They understand more its foundations, what
started it, why this great experiment has become the greatest
country on earth, and they want to keep that going
(15:12):
and support it for their children, for their neighbors. And
I just want to make one last observation. The Tesla
is the state of the art right now, and by
buying it Tesla, it's not perfect, but I know he
made some incredible innovations, especially with the chassis where he
found a way to make it ultra light. But because
(15:33):
the battery is so heavy away of injection molding or
what have you, that it's all of a piece. Maybe
that's why it's expensive to repair it. But it's not perfect.
But it's the state of the art for electric vehicles
right now. And when you buy a Tesla, you're supporting
ongoing research and development to make it better. So it's
(15:53):
a win win all around. And just to close with
thank you for the time. Trump has long lost money
in this endeavor. He has had his life turned upside
down for what eight nine years now. Elon Musk the
same thing. Why are they doing it? They don't need
the money, They're losing money. Trump never took a salary.
Elon Musk has lost a couple of billion dollars. I know,
(16:17):
two trillion dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
One hundreds hundreds of billion. He's lost about two hundred
billion now. So no, Bob, look at your point is
dead on six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I want to read to you two diametrically opposed comments.
Both of them are staunch Trump supporters. But I think
it really shows you where the audience is on this issue,
or at least for many of you are on this issue.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
This is from Andy on messenger. Jeff, I voted for
Trump three times. He is awesome. I agree with him
ninety five percent of the time. How However, I am retired.
My retirement fund has tanked by three hundred thousand dollars
(17:09):
since he took office. Under Biden, it was growing. Donald
Trump is going too fast with the tariffs. It will
take years for me to get back on trap, to
get back on track. And that's being hopeful. And I
have a great financial firm, Kelly Financial. So Andy saying
(17:34):
that the beating in the stock market, a lot of
it triggered by the tariffs, is hurting him and his
retirement portfolio, and he says it may take him years
to bounce back. Then this is from seven.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To eight to one. Jeff.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
My advice to Grace, relax. Everything's going to be okay.
Trump's said there would be some difficult periods, but the
end result will be America's golden age, and I believe him.
Collete in Swampscott, thanks for holding Collette and welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Hi Jeff, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Nice to talk to you. Welcome collecte.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Thank you. Your caller maybe a half an hour ago,
inspired me to call. He was very negative about the
Tesla car. He hadn't had one himself, but said that
he had heard this, that and the other thing about
it was a piece of junk. During COVID, I got
a Tesla. So that's going on five years and it
(18:44):
has been a dream. It's anything that's wrong they fixed
For the first two years. I think they were efficient.
I just used the app say what's wrong. They may
an appointment, they give you a car, super helpful and then.
(19:06):
But there's hardly been anything wrong with a car. It's
so smooth and effortless and low maintenance. We don't use
it for traveling. We still do have a gas car
for long trips because we didn't find by the long
range one. But I come home from work, the car
(19:31):
needs to be charged. I can program it to only
charge during the lowest cost energy use while I'm sleeping
and I wake up and it's charged. And I can
also set it to be warm right before I'm going
to drive on the days that I drive into work,
so it warms up the battery and charges the battery.
(19:55):
But even when it's cold, it warms up so much
quicker than any gas car that I've ever Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Because collect one of the complaints I've been hearing from,
it's just maybe a handful of listeners. They've been texting
me throughout the show over the last hour, I would say,
is they say, Jeff, oh, the heating system is junk. Whatever,
it's bad in the Tesla. You're saying in the winter time,
even when it's cold outside, you don't have an issue
with heating your tesla?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Correct, No, But I also can right before I leave
from work, I can open my app and warm the
car up, you know, maybe for five minutes as I'm
walking out of the office. That's incredible, or walking out
of a restaurant that I can turn the seat heaters
on from the app.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
But even when it is cold, it warms up so
much faster than my husband's car, which I sit and
freeze all the way home. So it spurred me to
call you because I've had the complete opposite experience.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You know, that's what my sister said. I mean in
her text as well. She goes, I've had three. We're
thinking of getting another one. She goes, No, she does
live in Arizona, but she says, you know, really a
couple months of a year, it gets pretty cold. And
I've never she goes, I've never had a problem hitting
my tesla. So that's interesting. Call that. Thank you very
much for sharing that. I really appreciate it. And call that,
(21:22):
don't be a stranger. Call again.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Call it please.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Gordon in Vermont, speaking of cold Gordon, thanks for holding
and welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I definite I have more than one thought, but it's
almost the end of the show, so I'll just say
I liked the idea of electric cars. I've driven electric vehicles,
but they were like forklifts, pallette jacks, golf carts that
all could be for short, short distances. It could be
parked overnight, because for long distances, you know, you have
to stop for a long time to charge the thing up.
(21:57):
But I think he should keep going. You know, I
think they just shaking things up. But I'm not afraid
of what Trump's doing. Just shake stuff up, see how
it plays out, and don't worry about carbon dioxide because
it's the food of life and we don't have lead
in gasoline anymore, so it's really not a problem. They're
going to be okay and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Gordon.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Would you ever think we got about a minute left, Gordon,
would you ever think of buying a Tesla?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Thanks? I drove one once though, from a friend's house
in Lexington. Her housemate had one and it was a
pretty nice car. I just drove it for him down
to the local charging station because he had to follow
me in another car, you know, leave it there. And
the time it takes to charge those batteries as of now,
I think for most purposes it's just not practical interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So you're saying, until they make more improvements, you're a
no interesting Gordon. Nice way to end the show,
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