Bad News Brian Calls on Tariffs

Trump Tariffs. Will they help the economy, or make stuff more expensive? Frequent contrarian caller Brian calls in to give his 2 cents.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You mentioned the unpopularity of tariffs, so I have a
preliminary I told you so. Trump ran on the claim
that Biden had made everything more expensive and Trump was
going to make everything cheaper. In fact, he said, quote
prices will come down, and they'll come down fast. Now
in an interview, he said, quote it's hard to bring

(00:21):
things down, lump, they're up. You know, it's very hard.
And as far as price is not going up, he said,
I can't guarantee anything. So there's a lot of make
grost trees, affordabull again t shirts that are going to
be very ironic very soon.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I mean again. I this is politics, one oh one,
And I'm not trying to, you know, like dowsfire on
what you're saying, Brian, because I understand what your point
is and I don't disagree that there isn't some level
of uncertainty that the American public are getting. But who

(00:58):
is feeding that information to be Because as much as
I do respect your opinion, Brian, even if we disagree
mostly on things that are happening in politics, at the
end of the day, it's the mainstream media that is
educating these people on this stuff that they've never heard
of before. They haven't thought about a tariff before. So
who's educating people in the general public about how these

(01:18):
tariffs will work? Social media, the mainstream media, and the
people down the street who are hearing from the same
sources and think that they're experts on this thing that
hasn't actually been implemented yet. I'm not saying that it's
not going to work, Brian. All I'm saying is I
kind of am interested to see how it works, because
there is still a chance that it goes the other
direction and it does eventually save Americans money in the
consumer realm.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, there's still the claim that he's going to cut
energy prices and have and that's true if the companies
could drill anywhere anyway they want, except for the fact
that the oil companies do all they can to keep
prices from dropping too far. I mentioned previously looking up
oil glut and how they're cutting back on production, and

(02:01):
John D. Rockefeller wasn't the last to buy a refineries
in order to shut them down. So I don't know
how much they'll actually let the price go down because
they like key production just a little bit behind demand.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and I mean these are this capitalism, economics. I
don't know how different it would be with anybody else
in charge. But again, the idea of something so radically
different than what we are used to based on what
we're hearing and trying to educate ourselves through the media
mostly that in and of itself is going to lend
to some level of uncertainty as well. There's still fifteen

(02:35):
percent of people somehow that's say, less income tax is
worse for my family. I don't know how we get
to that except you just want to be a contrarian.
But either way, Brian, as always, I appreciate your thoughts
and thank you for calling us. Sure, I'm not here
to fight with people, I think, especially in this time
frame that we have, which, by the way, can we
shorten this up somehow? We basically have two and a

(02:55):
half months between the election and when the guy takes office.
I'm a foreign adversary of the United States. Isn't now
the time that I start doing some crazy stuff knowing
that there's about to be like there's a Lane Duck
in office now, and there's about to be a complete
change of power with the political parties and a completely
new person in a new cabinet taking over that like
America is in a soft position every time this kind

(03:19):
of transition happens.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I think that's a big reason why the drone story
has had such.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Legs, cause, I mean, there's a lot of people out
there that are saying the Biden administration didn't care about it.
What do they have to care about it for? They're
going to be gone in a few weeks. It just
pardoned his sun. I mean, what does he really care
about at this point? I don't I don't to me,
what are we doing here? You know, like there's got
to be a way, and I don't want to buck
American tradition. But there was a time where I think

(03:44):
it wasn't until March where these guys are getting inaugurated.
That was well before that vent to technology. Okay, now
it's been January twentieth basically for the rest of I
don't know how long.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's been a long time. I'm surprised they didn't move
it back to June. That one president, you know, died
in pneumonia after he caught a cold, and that was
in March. The weather was that bad in March.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
It was William Henry Harrison, the moral of that story
is don't speak for an hour and a half. Nobody
wants to hear an inauguration speech that long. Washington's second
inauguration speech was like less than five minutes. I imagine
all the promises he made that night, and he couldn't
do anything.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
He did nothing. It's not funny, No, it's not. Who
was that laughing? That is very insensitive.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Come on, the ninth president the United States died after
a month and here you are laughing about old Tipic
cane come up there an hour and a half, making
all these promises and then promptly croaks.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's not funny at all. Who would laugh at that?
Come on, do better people.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
The ghost of William Henry Harrison is about to uh
haunt this radio shows.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Now that's a ghost that rattles chains. That's all I know.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
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Speaker 3 (04:57):
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