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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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SOO six Secret Service agents have been suspended without pay,
that is ten.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
To forty two days.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And as all goes back to the Trump assassination plot
in Butler, they see an adequate performance during that time period,
and of course the suspension's coming after that downing Senate
and DHS review finding critical security failures including poor communications,
unclear roles in manufacturing equipment, all involved.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You thought you may see some head rail, some heads rolled.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Now just just a few slaps on the old wrist.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
There is what it sounds like.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Number two, President Trump issuing another series of tariff letters
as he's busy hard at work there at the White House.
New import duties effective August first lots of different pieces.
Thirty percent for Sri Lanka, twenty five percent for Bruneia
(02:56):
and Moldova, the Philippines twenty percent, but a big steep
fifty percent tariff on copper imports in goods from Brazil
in administration now you're sending those tariff letters out, you know,
latterly urging trade partners to strike deals or face those
escalating duties. No word on how the market is set
(03:18):
to react this morning, but I'm sure we'll see a
little movement and a little later on as things open up.
Will get you the latest coming up in just moments
right here, I'll recording here. Michigan Republican Tutor Dixon made
the big announcement yesterday. It's big, folks for twenty twenty six.
(03:40):
She will not run for either governor or for that
open Senate seat in twenty twenty six. Instead, she says
she's going to focus on doing what's right here in Michigan,
helping President Trump advance his agenda quote protecting and advancing
(04:02):
President Trump's America First agenda, prioritizing border security, job creation,
and tax cuts, while campaigning for other conservative candidates across Michigan.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'll note this.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
There may be some other offices out there that she
may consider running for and in the future.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
A little conversation with Tudor is a it's a friend
of the program. At some point, I'm sure have that
full discussion and where things are headed. In the meantime,
other big stories we're looking at today. Major deal in
the works to see Kellogg's and the iconic zero brands
like frosted Flakes and fruit loops sold to a foreign company.
(04:46):
That's the Italian Ferrero, the candy maker. If approved, it
would make the major shift for the Battle Creek, Michigan
based company that's been a staple of American breast's tables
for over a century.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
We'll get that story more.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And the people online already asking this morning, well, Wetmer
thinks again, what else are we gonna lose next? Meyer Fago,
what what? What's what's happening? I wouldn't I wouldn't blame
Wetmer for this one, but it is. It is interesting
news at a time when you see a lot of
these things possibly uh, well, the chickens coming home to roost.
(05:23):
It's just tougher to do business in the state of Michigan.
We've talked about that. That's why it's gonna be key.
They get things back on track in twenty six and
beyond back with you, and of course you get a
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Speaker 1 (05:34):
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Speaker 4 (05:48):
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off feature. It's pretty simple. You can ramp and rave
talking speaking about ranting and raving. Well, he was obvious
frustrated the other day in the cabinet meeting. We finally
have the video for you here. But reporter asking President Trump,
are you still talking about President Epstein? Trump says, yes,
(06:13):
we are, in fact, and I know, folks that listener
this program, you're probably thinking the same thing. Although he
makes some really interesting points in this it's one worth sharing.
And that's first up the town Trump's.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But I just end up.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein. This guy's been
talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we
have this, we have all of the things, and are
people still talking about this guy, this creep that is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Do you want to waste the time? And do you
feel like answering?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't mind answering.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question at
Epstein at a time like this where we're having some
of the greatest success and also trying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With what happened in Texas.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It just seems like a desecration.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
But you go ahead, hang on, let me let me
break it down here. So look, I've got to be
because I always am. I call it like it is.
It'll be some that accused me of not but that's
just not the case. So I can tell you two things.
I do think he is a bit upset or bothered.
(07:25):
And I'll tell you why this was a big mistake,
this story coming out outside.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Either they didn't anticipate.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
This or uh they thought maybe it would be hiding
under underneath all the other news of the day.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It unfortunately did not. That's not what happened for these folks.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He got the one, big bill, big big middle of
a bill out there. He's I think, would rather be
talking about that type of accomplishment. I think he'd rather
be talking about the economy. I think he'd rather be
talking about tariffs. I think he'd rather be talking about
all kinds of things. And then he mentions and I
think it's it's it's it's understandable. But this is a
(08:14):
bit of a swerve this next part. We got all
this stuff happening down in Texas. And he's right, I
mean this this you look at through it through his eyes.
There are so many things, and they're laser focused and
they're trying.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
To get certain things.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I think you get a bit of a tunnel vision
when you get in the office because you're dealing with
so much. However, the way to handle this, in the
way that it really needs to be handled, is to
be focused on that. And President Trump also needs to
be focused on what the people who who elected him
(08:50):
elected him for. In other words, he he wants he
wants you to say, look, why don't we just talk
about all of the great things that are happening right now?
And you say, that's fine and good and everything, but
we still need answers and the way this has played out,
(09:11):
I think has left so many people with a sort
of am you know, just sort of a bad taste
of bad impression, and that that has to be walked.
I think that line has to be walked. It's a
tough one. It's a line that has to be walked
out here. And it's not about Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, this
(09:33):
is something that's much bigger. In fact, it is so
that guy's a creep, and he's right about that, but
it is about the whole system, the system that is protected,
not just Epstein, but all of the clients, all of
the people that were involved in whatever they were involved in.
First there was a client list, and there wasn't a
(09:53):
client list, and then you know, there's no Eventually it's
gonna be there was no Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, I
think we're getting to that point. But there are also
other options here, and I've heard other people talk about this,
and one of the things might be that that he
can't release everything because there's too much information about the
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people that may cause issues with everything from the economies
of the world crashing because of all these people that
are involved, power sort of upending in places that he's
trying to settle into right now and fix all these issues,
and then there might be issues with the intelligence, the
(10:42):
intelligence communities, and I don't think he's ever This guy
is not a guy that wants to protect them. But
at the same time, as some of these stories come out,
I heard one person put it the other way like
this the other day, and it was, you know, if
you could choose whether or not you would release this
or you have peace in the middle, which one would
it be? And I thought, you know, it's an interesting
(11:05):
it's an interesting thought process. I mean, I do trust
his decisions and his instinct and I think we all should.
And in some especially if you voted for the guy,
you got, you know, he those things we don't. So
you've got to make sure that you're you know, putting
putting that aside. But also I get the demand people
(11:26):
want the answers, So that is that is all part
of this. Now I'm also going to play there, says.
Another piece of this that I think is important too
is what Bondi says, because she does answer, and what
Bondi says I thought was just as interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So you got to hear that coming up. I'll give
you a chance to do just that.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So this is just a part from the cabinet meeting
that took place. What the other day and he was
asked and he responded, what are you still talking?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, the answers.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yes, people want answers, and I don't think they should
be made to feel bad that they do want answers.
So well, it's just it's just something that at the
same time we can't chew bubblegum right and walk. At
the same time, we can want answers here and we
can also think he's doing a fantastic job in other
areas as well.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So that's the nuance.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
More of it coming up as we break down some
of the biggest stories.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Next Informative in Gigee. It's West Michigan Live with Justin
Barklay on News Radio wood Throteen hundred and one oh
six nine half.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
As curier headlines from the Midwestern Or This Thursday, July tenth,
I'm Robin Poffman, it's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
It's a no go for Tudor Dixon. The Republican says
she will not be running for governor here in Michigan,
nor will she run for the open Senate seat, Dixon
putting out a written statement saying she'll be traveling the
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state supporting candidates who back President Trump's America First policies.
Dixon also writing in her statement that Democrat Governor Whitmer
has been a disaster for our state. She adds that
Secretary of State Democrat Jocelyn Benson, who's running to replace Whitmer,
is a conniving career, far left agitator who will be
dangerous and infinitely worse. Dixon writes, it's another Midwesterner Dot
(13:22):
News original story. Ford insists the company we'll get those
ev tax credits that House Republicans wanted to eliminate Ford's
blue Oval battery plant, and Marshall is connected to Chinese companies.
And it's taken almost a year, but six Secret Service
agents involving failures in Butler, Pennsylvania have been suspended. The
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six being held responsible for failures connected to the assassination
attempt on then candidate Donald Trump. For these stories and more,
visit The Midwesterner at the Midwesterner dot News.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
All right, we got more to this video.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
There was the Trump part where he said, what we
are we still talking about this? The cabinet meeting yesterday.
You could tell he would like to talk about the
other big issues. I think we can do both at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But this is.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That's gonna bring some context. Pam BONDI here setting the
record straight. She's asked about some of these things.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sure, first to back up on that. In February, I
did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
question about the client list and my response was it's
sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file
along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I actually believe this is correct. There was a lot
of but they are responsible for some of this. You
remember they came out with the binders and the influencers
that came up and got binders of all this stuff.
And you can't blame me influence either, because they don't
know what they're getting into. I mean, I could have
fallen into that. They said, hey, come to the White House,
we got something for you. Can you imagine and you
(15:08):
walk out you got a big bind and then you're
part of this photo op and then there's nothing. It's like,
wait a minute, this is all the old information. So uh,
that to me, there's a bit of a deception in there.
So that's that's part of this. I just you got
to watch that. But I do believe what she is
saying is like, now, the whole thing was on my desk.
I'm looking at the whole thing. I'm not you know,
(15:30):
there wasn't like specific. But she did go on and
say that she'd seen some videos. Now she'll talk about
those here in a second.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's what I meant by that. Also, to the tens
of thousands of video they turned out to be child
porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein, childhorn is what
they were never going to be released, never going to
see the lighted day. To him being an agent, I
have no knowledge about that. We can get back to
you on that. And the minute missing from the video.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
She's not going to get back to us on him
being any sort of intelligence agent. That's not gonna happen.
If it's the case, they're never gonna tell us that.
You just they're just not. But here she's making the
point about the minute missing from the security tapes at
the jail, which is something that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
People noticed the other day.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Why would you release these tapes and then have like
minute missing at it?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And it was a weird angle.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Glenn did a whole thing on this the other day
and they talked about this. This one camera that was
working out of all them. It really didn't show the
cell very well. The cells that we see up close
on the video aren't really his cell. It's his cell
is somewhere else, like around the corner. So this whole
thing is really strange. She's gonna mention the videotape and
(16:46):
the minute missing.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
We released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive,
but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I'd see this is I don't all about all that.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And what was on that There was a minute that
was off the counter. And what we learned from euro
of Prisons was every year, every night they redo that
video as old from like nineteen ninety nine, So every
night the video is reset and every night should have
the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video
to release that as well, showing that a minute is
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missing every night.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
This is not what you want to have said or
talked about when you are trying to wipe this light
clean and tell everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Look, no, we've done everything we've We've I've.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Been as as transparent and clear as possible, just not now.
At the same time, I don't think this is the
biggest story of the day. I don't think this is
the biggest story that that needs to occupy all over time.
I do share, However, I do share your concern. I
do want this information more than anything else. I don't
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with the information. I want justice. Now the question about
whether that's ever really going to be possible on this
side of you know, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I share your concern folks, And at the same time,
I think they're doing a great job. Now, you got
to be able to walk and chew gum at the
same time. That goes through what they're doing, and essentially
it goes for what we're doing as well.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
We got to be.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Able to criticize and hold these folks accountable if we
don't like the way something's working. But we also got
to be able to say, look, it's so many great
things happening. Fact market's that right to open. We'll watch
the reaction from Tariff's coming up here and just a
little bit we'll have the latest on that as we
have that copper move fifty percent tariff in Brazil expected
(18:50):
by August first, will they will they jump or will
it all be baked in? Find out next don't go anywhere.
It's West Michigan live. Markets really little changed this morning
(19:10):
right now.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
We'll keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Those numbers as they've opened questions about trade deals, particularly
that fifty percent on the copper and what not coming
from Brazil and the trade letters going out deadline coming
up August first, Trump in true Trump fashion, art of
the deal making those moves, and the markets seem to
(19:33):
have it all baked in. Anyway, We'll let you know
anything changes this morning, so stick with us. Meanwhile, here
in Michigan, it's a story we're taking a bite out
of serial maker WK Kellogg selling to Ferrero, the Italian
candy maker three point one billion dollars sales and shares
(19:58):
rather jumping thirty percent on this deal. And I don't
know if it's a horrible, you know, it's it's sad
to see tradition, you see, I know, it just kind
of goes into the I guess maybe the idea and
the narrative of Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
We're gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
We're gonna lose another one, another big Michigan company.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm want to start making a cereal somewhere else. Is
that gonna impact jobs?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And that does tie in, as I just mentioned, how
serious twenty twenty six is and where things are headed
are Good friend, James Dixon joins us now don I
seventy five over on ex in the Michigan Enjoyer podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I appreciate you being here with us today.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
James, justin good to hear your voice.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You know, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
And as as important as twenty twenty four was for
the nation, and I believe it was, I think twenty
twenty six is just as important here in Michigan because
I'm watching all this money come back into the country.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't want to see us miss out as a state.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
The same time, we've got this story here about Kellogg,
and I don't know whether they stay, whether they go,
or what happens, but I can tell you that we've
seen this story before, We've seen the impact, and in fact,
they got another one here. Brian Postumus posting this yesterday
The Michigan has a population problem.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's now secret. He says.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
People want to live in places they can afford, in
places where they can make their best living. Unfortunately, this
is no longer the place. It's got a graphic up here.
Top five destination places Michigan residents are moving from or
two Chicago, Phoenix, Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Just kind of crazy to think about.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Fort Myers, Florida, and Tampa all in that list. And
I actually, you know, I know some folks that have
moved to a few of those places. I'm just afraid
that we're going to miss out on the manufacturing things.
Like it's just not an environment that's built to make
things here in Michigan. Again, energy costs, et cetera. And
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then the brain drain. I hate to see it. But
that's why I believe twenty twenty six is so important.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Absolutely, and this thing was Kellows. Here's why it matters.
I mean, you know, we used to have Ceial City
in Michigan. And you know when I was on when
I was a little kid living in Inkster, there was
a company, Adres Appliances, who made our keyball shirt, you know,
for the key ball team, and they did it for
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you know, decades before me and decades after me, and
so every kid in that community has an affinity for
that local business. And you think about the Fords, the Gms,
the Kelloggs, how many livelihoods in Michigan are tied into that,
how many people make such a good living from that
that they're able to donate to the key ball team,
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that they're able to do these things for the community.
And so when you take away these pillars of the community,
a community gets weaker. And so this is the danger,
is that they weigh a dollar amount in your face
and you know the deal's too good to pass on.
You can't ignore it. You have to take it. They
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made them an offer too good to refuse. Now, what
shocks me about Kelloggs three billion dollars that's it. Yeah,
after all this time, after one hundred and nineteen years,
you sell out for just three billion dollars. I mean
NBA teams are selling for three times that amount. Now,
it just sounds low, and it doesn't sound like the
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kind of deal where there's going to be a buy
in from the new buyer into our community.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
It sounds more like they want to extract the value
from the name. My guess is if they're a big
enough company to buy Kellogg, they probably have some substancial
manufacturing already going. So what's going to happen Michigan. And
it's sad because if you're offered the biggest dollar amount
you've ever seen, it's easy for me, as someone who
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has not offered that money, to say, don't think it.
Hold out for more. But if you don't want to
be in the serial business anymore, your family just wants
to move on with life. But this is what happens.
It weekends the fabric. I think about the nineteen fifties,
you know, Ndergrand Publishing and Grand Rapids. It fed into
the Christian ethos of that community, and so you had
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one of the best publishing houses in America, a Christian
publishing house that was in your own backyard. When those
things go away and when they're bought up by foreign entities,
those do take cracks from the foundation of your community.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
James Dixon with us right now down I seventy five
over on X and the Enjoyer Podcast, I'm the conversation
of the day. It is something that I think quite
a bit about. Obviously, with twenty twenty six, so much
is on the line. Folks, it's it's it's just it's
something that I think is impossible to overstate. And speaking
(25:08):
of twenty twenty six, James, we got a big announcement
yesterday on a candidate. Tudor Dixon has made the announcement
former gubernatorial Republican goodbinatorial candidate in twenty two that she
will not run for governor or senate that open Senate seat.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Kind of an interesting announcer. She said.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
She instead intends to help back Trump and of course
protecting and advancing his America First agenda here in a
state prioritizing border security, job creation, tax cuts, and campaigning
for other conservative candidates across Michigan. And she didn't roll
out running maybe in some other capacity for something else.
(25:51):
But I thought it was interesting because we're already starting
to see sort of a crowded field out there for governor.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Yeah, I think shooter is admitted. In reality, you know,
no one was waiting around like what two addition going
to do in twenty twenty six. This whole storyline was
created by her. I mean, what kind of a candidate
as I might run for governor, which is a chief
executive role in Lansing or I might run to be
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one hundred, one of one hundred senators in Washington. When
you're so it's like saying I might go to Michigan
and I might go to Ohio state. I feel like
you kind of know which one you're leaning toward, right,
and so you know that was kind of the swords
of the books, right, you go for both and you
end up with Steves. So I think it's could have
(26:43):
some era of statewide you know, to see you know,
if you want to run for senate, you want to
be immediate personality who amplified people who are running in
twenty twenty six and helps maybe prevent what happened to
Tutor or she got designed very early on through an
interview she did, and maybe she can coach people so
(27:06):
the back doesn't have it again, I'm all right, But
the idea that this person was going to be, you know,
the answer to our pressors, there was no reason to
think that. So it's nice to have clarity on the field.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. I got to ask you though, I mean, what
do you see out there?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Is it too early to tell based on who's announced
for let's say governor.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Hmm. Honestly, look at it. You can't go wrong, especially
those first three candidates who got in. You got Mike Cox,
two time statewide winner. This guy was an attorney general
in the past, and now he comes back rebranded as
more of a moss Man successful lawyer. He has some
(27:51):
Rick Snyder to him the senator with where if I
can born in the side of the current governor people
might be the action that higher rolland Lansing. And you
have John James who is theirs right now, and John
(28:12):
James is so far ahead the O they're using to
discredit John James is not also joking that he doesn't
want James from Michigan, but he wants him to stay
in Congress. This is the best stop over that close.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Hey, James, lose it.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You're breaking up here just a little bit better, can
you hear me go a little bit? Betters?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah, so yeah, So John James, you know, in Washington,
doing very well there. He's trying the Jim Blanchard move.
It is highly unusual for someone to go from Washington
to Lancing, but Jim Blanchard when he did that in
the eighties, he was trying to oppose Ronald Reagan, the
Republican president. John James is trying to work in concert
(29:02):
with Donald Trump, the president. We imagine if we had
somebody in Lansing who was aligned with Washington, and I
think in either of those cases you would have that.
Then you have Tom Leonard. It's got a former House
speaker in Michigan. But he also lost the twenty eighteen
AG race to Dana Nussele. So how do you go
(29:23):
from losing to Knustle to winning the governor's race. I
think that's going to be a tough one for people
to imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
What are you working on over at the Enjoyer. I
know you've got a couple of things in the fire there.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh absolutely, you know, with the TSA announcing after nineteen
years the end of the shoes off policy, my podcast
Friday is going to be about the end of security theater.
Oh yeah, And what's mask and jazz and shoes off
at the airport have in common? None of them have
anything to do with keeping you safe.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Well, we had this shoebomber right in Paris and then
I remember it, I said, I can I even remember
this because I know a guy that was on this
plane that helps stop it. Back in two thousand and nine,
they're at DTW the underwear bomber, and luckily we didn't
have to change that when.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We walked through.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But I know a guy that was part of that,
part of that whole thing, and he actually, you know,
was able to help stop the situation.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I don't remember the full story on it, but
you know what, it is interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I do the TSA pre check and so I haven't
taken my shoes off at an airport in years.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
You know, I last time I flew. I don't travel
very often. The last time I did. You know, you
go through the process and they've gotten handsier over the years. Boy,
and perhaps sensing my discomfort, they told me, hey, if
you give us eighty dollars, I won't grab your junk.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I considered it, and I don't fly enough to make
it worth my while. But man if I did and
I could get on the NOE grab junk lift, i'd
like today. And that's the thing they have. They have
made it so you can't even feel secure in your person.
You might get pat down, felt up an X ray
(31:16):
just trying to get from point A to point B.
It is did you ever vote for this?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
It is wild to watch this too, that it's finally
coming around, as folks like to call the most enduring term,
I believe tsa thousands standing around, but it is.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It is nice to know.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It is nice to know that it's finally going. And
so your podcast will be about that this weekend. We'll
be looking forward to it. James Dixon always a pleasure
in the meantime down at I seventy five over on acts.
Make sure you look him up and find what are
I one of my favorite places to do, so right there,
Always a pleasure, my friend.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Thank you, justin I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You got it, you too.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I'll just tell you, I just just to say that
I mean the TSA pre check you fight once. I
think it's worth it not to have to go through
all it. Stand in the lines and all that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That's just me. That's just me though.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm just not I'm not a lying guy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I don't like lines for much of anything. Really.
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Michigan's Tutor Dixon taking a pass this election cycle on
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Here Dixon in a written statement saying she will instead
be traveling all across Michigan supporting candidates who backed President
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has been a disaster for Michigan and that Secretary of
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better for our state. In fact, Dixon writing that Benson
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Speaker 4 (34:51):
He well, the markets little changed earlier was the story
now Nasdaq not just fresh record as traders try to
shake off trade developments. Na's DAK touching a fresh record yesterday,
traders trying to shake off the tariff tumult. But if
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you look at those numbers today and in fact we
just we just did. I think we're actually in the
green now.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
On the Dow.
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The Dow's up thirty, Nazek down about fifty s, and
p down six. But it's there's not a lot of
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It's the latest letters coming out President Trump announcing those
over on truth Social and again, like I said, it's
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To forty two days.
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Now just just a few slaps on the old wrist.
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There is what it sounds like.
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in administration now you're sending those tariff letters out, you know,
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Will get you the latest coming up in just moments
right here, I'll recording here. Michigan Republican Tutor Dixon made
the big announcement yesterday. It's big, folks for twenty twenty six.
(03:40):
She will not run for either governor or for that
open Senate seat in twenty twenty six. Instead, she says
she's going to focus on doing what's right here in Michigan,
helping President Trump advance his agenda quote protecting and advancing
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President Trump's America First agenda, prioritizing border security, job creation,
and tax cuts, while campaigning for other conservative candidates across Michigan.
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I'll note this.
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There may be some other offices out there that she
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Who knows.
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off feature. It's pretty simple. You can ramp and rave
talking speaking about ranting and raving. Well, he was obvious
frustrated the other day in the cabinet meeting. We finally
have the video for you here. But reporter asking President Trump,
are you still talking about President Epstein? Trump says, yes,
(06:13):
we are, in fact, and I know, folks that listener
this program, you're probably thinking the same thing. Although he
makes some really interesting points in this it's one worth sharing.
And that's first up the town Trump's.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But I just end up.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein. This guy's been
talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we
have this, we have all of the things, and are
people still talking about this guy, this creep that is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Do you want to waste the time? And do you
feel like answering?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't mind answering.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question at
Epstein at a time like this where we're having some
of the greatest success and also trying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With what happened in Texas.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It just seems like a desecration.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
But you go ahead, hang on, let me let me
break it down here. So look, I've got to be
because I always am. I call it like it is.
It'll be some that accused me of not but that's
just not the case. So I can tell you two things.
I do think he is a bit upset or bothered.
(07:25):
And I'll tell you why this was a big mistake,
this story coming out outside.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Either they didn't anticipate.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
This or uh they thought maybe it would be hiding
under underneath all the other news of the day.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It unfortunately did not. That's not what happened for these folks.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He got the one, big bill, big big middle of
a bill out there. He's I think, would rather be
talking about that type of accomplishment. I think he'd rather
be talking about the economy. I think he'd rather be
talking about tariffs. I think he'd rather be talking about
all kinds of things. And then he mentions and I
think it's it's it's it's understandable. But this is a
(08:14):
bit of a swerve this next part. We got all
this stuff happening down in Texas. And he's right, I
mean this this you look at through it through his eyes.
There are so many things, and they're laser focused and
they're trying.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
To get certain things.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I think you get a bit of a tunnel vision
when you get in the office because you're dealing with
so much. However, the way to handle this, in the
way that it really needs to be handled, is to
be focused on that. And President Trump also needs to
be focused on what the people who who elected him
(08:50):
elected him for. In other words, he he wants he
wants you to say, look, why don't we just talk
about all of the great things that are happening right now?
And you say, that's fine and good and everything, but
we still need answers and the way this has played out,
(09:11):
I think has left so many people with a sort
of am you know, just sort of a bad taste
of bad impression, and that that has to be walked.
I think that line has to be walked. It's a
tough one. It's a line that has to be walked
out here. And it's not about Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, this
(09:33):
is something that's much bigger. In fact, it is so
that guy's a creep, and he's right about that, but
it is about the whole system, the system that is protected,
not just Epstein, but all of the clients, all of
the people that were involved in whatever they were involved in.
First there was a client list, and there wasn't a
(09:53):
client list, and then you know, there's no Eventually it's
gonna be there was no Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, I
think we're getting to that point. But there are also
other options here, and I've heard other people talk about this,
and one of the things might be that that he
can't release everything because there's too much information about the
(10:18):
people that may cause issues with everything from the economies
of the world crashing because of all these people that
are involved, power sort of upending in places that he's
trying to settle into right now and fix all these issues,
and then there might be issues with the intelligence, the
(10:42):
intelligence communities, and I don't think he's ever This guy
is not a guy that wants to protect them. But
at the same time, as some of these stories come out,
I heard one person put it the other way like
this the other day, and it was, you know, if
you could choose whether or not you would release this
or you have peace in the middle, which one would
it be? And I thought, you know, it's an interesting
(11:05):
it's an interesting thought process. I mean, I do trust
his decisions and his instinct and I think we all should.
And in some especially if you voted for the guy,
you got, you know, he those things we don't. So
you've got to make sure that you're you know, putting
putting that aside. But also I get the demand people
(11:26):
want the answers, So that is that is all part
of this. Now I'm also going to play there, says.
Another piece of this that I think is important too
is what Bondi says, because she does answer, and what
Bondi says I thought was just as interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So you got to hear that coming up. I'll give
you a chance to do just that.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So this is just a part from the cabinet meeting
that took place. What the other day and he was
asked and he responded, what are you still talking?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, the answers.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yes, people want answers, and I don't think they should
be made to feel bad that they do want answers.
So well, it's just it's just something that at the
same time we can't chew bubblegum right and walk. At
the same time, we can want answers here and we
can also think he's doing a fantastic job in other
areas as well.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So that's the nuance.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
More of it coming up as we break down some
of the biggest stories.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
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As curier headlines from the Midwestern Or This Thursday, July tenth,
I'm Robin Poffman, it's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
It's a no go for Tudor Dixon. The Republican says
she will not be running for governor here in Michigan,
nor will she run for the open Senate seat, Dixon
putting out a written statement saying she'll be traveling the
(12:57):
state supporting candidates who back President Trump's America First policies.
Dixon also writing in her statement that Democrat Governor Whitmer
has been a disaster for our state. She adds that
Secretary of State Democrat Jocelyn Benson, who's running to replace Whitmer,
is a conniving career, far left agitator who will be
dangerous and infinitely worse. Dixon writes, it's another Midwesterner Dot
(13:22):
News original story. Ford insists the company we'll get those
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And it's taken almost a year, but six Secret Service
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
All right, we got more to this video.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
There was the Trump part where he said, what we
are we still talking about this? The cabinet meeting yesterday.
You could tell he would like to talk about the
other big issues. I think we can do both at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But this is.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That's gonna bring some context. Pam BONDI here setting the
record straight. She's asked about some of these things.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sure, first to back up on that. In February, I
did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
question about the client list and my response was it's
sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file
along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I actually believe this is correct. There was a lot
of but they are responsible for some of this. You
remember they came out with the binders and the influencers
that came up and got binders of all this stuff.
And you can't blame me influence either, because they don't
know what they're getting into. I mean, I could have
fallen into that. They said, hey, come to the White House,
we got something for you. Can you imagine and you
(15:08):
walk out you got a big bind and then you're
part of this photo op and then there's nothing. It's like,
wait a minute, this is all the old information. So uh,
that to me, there's a bit of a deception in there.
So that's that's part of this. I just you got
to watch that. But I do believe what she is
saying is like, now, the whole thing was on my desk.
I'm looking at the whole thing. I'm not you know,
(15:30):
there wasn't like specific. But she did go on and
say that she'd seen some videos. Now she'll talk about
those here in a second.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's what I meant by that. Also, to the tens
of thousands of video they turned out to be child
porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein, childhorn is what
they were never going to be released, never going to
see the lighted day. To him being an agent, I
have no knowledge about that. We can get back to
you on that. And the minute missing from the video.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
She's not going to get back to us on him
being any sort of intelligence agent. That's not gonna happen.
If it's the case, they're never gonna tell us that.
You just they're just not. But here she's making the
point about the minute missing from the security tapes at
the jail, which is something that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
People noticed the other day.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Why would you release these tapes and then have like
minute missing at it?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And it was a weird angle.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Glenn did a whole thing on this the other day
and they talked about this. This one camera that was
working out of all them. It really didn't show the
cell very well. The cells that we see up close
on the video aren't really his cell. It's his cell
is somewhere else, like around the corner. So this whole
thing is really strange. She's gonna mention the videotape and
(16:46):
the minute missing.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
We released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive,
but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I'd see this is I don't all about all that.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And what was on that There was a minute that
was off the counter. And what we learned from euro
of Prisons was every year, every night they redo that
video as old from like nineteen ninety nine, So every
night the video is reset and every night should have
the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video
to release that as well, showing that a minute is
(17:24):
missing every night.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
This is not what you want to have said or
talked about when you are trying to wipe this light
clean and tell everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Look, no, we've done everything we've We've I've.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Been as as transparent and clear as possible, just not now.
At the same time, I don't think this is the
biggest story of the day. I don't think this is
the biggest story that that needs to occupy all over time.
I do share, However, I do share your concern. I
do want this information more than anything else. I don't
(18:00):
with the information. I want justice. Now the question about
whether that's ever really going to be possible on this
side of you know, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I share your concern folks, And at the same time,
I think they're doing a great job. Now, you got
to be able to walk and chew gum at the
same time. That goes through what they're doing, and essentially
it goes for what we're doing as well.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
We got to be.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Able to criticize and hold these folks accountable if we
don't like the way something's working. But we also got
to be able to say, look, it's so many great
things happening. Fact market's that right to open. We'll watch
the reaction from Tariff's coming up here and just a
little bit we'll have the latest on that as we
have that copper move fifty percent tariff in Brazil expected
(18:50):
by August first, will they will they jump or will
it all be baked in? Find out next don't go anywhere.
It's West Michigan live. Markets really little changed this morning
(19:10):
right now.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
We'll keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Those numbers as they've opened questions about trade deals, particularly
that fifty percent on the copper and what not coming
from Brazil and the trade letters going out deadline coming
up August first, Trump in true Trump fashion, art of
the deal making those moves, and the markets seem to
(19:33):
have it all baked in. Anyway, We'll let you know
anything changes this morning, so stick with us. Meanwhile, here
in Michigan, it's a story we're taking a bite out
of serial maker WK Kellogg selling to Ferrero, the Italian
candy maker three point one billion dollars sales and shares
(19:58):
rather jumping thirty percent on this deal. And I don't
know if it's a horrible, you know, it's it's sad
to see tradition, you see, I know, it just kind
of goes into the I guess maybe the idea and
the narrative of Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
We're gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
We're gonna lose another one, another big Michigan company.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm want to start making a cereal somewhere else. Is
that gonna impact jobs?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And that does tie in, as I just mentioned, how
serious twenty twenty six is and where things are headed
are Good friend, James Dixon joins us now don I
seventy five over on ex in the Michigan Enjoyer podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I appreciate you being here with us today.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
James, justin good to hear your voice.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You know, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
And as as important as twenty twenty four was for
the nation, and I believe it was, I think twenty
twenty six is just as important here in Michigan because
I'm watching all this money come back into the country.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't want to see us miss out as a state.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
The same time, we've got this story here about Kellogg,
and I don't know whether they stay, whether they go,
or what happens, but I can tell you that we've
seen this story before, We've seen the impact, and in fact,
they got another one here. Brian Postumus posting this yesterday
The Michigan has a population problem.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's now secret. He says.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
People want to live in places they can afford, in
places where they can make their best living. Unfortunately, this
is no longer the place. It's got a graphic up here.
Top five destination places Michigan residents are moving from or
two Chicago, Phoenix, Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Just kind of crazy to think about.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Fort Myers, Florida, and Tampa all in that list. And
I actually, you know, I know some folks that have
moved to a few of those places. I'm just afraid
that we're going to miss out on the manufacturing things.
Like it's just not an environment that's built to make
things here in Michigan. Again, energy costs, et cetera. And
(22:00):
then the brain drain. I hate to see it. But
that's why I believe twenty twenty six is so important.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Absolutely, and this thing was Kellows. Here's why it matters.
I mean, you know, we used to have Ceial City
in Michigan. And you know when I was on when
I was a little kid living in Inkster, there was
a company, Adres Appliances, who made our keyball shirt, you know,
for the key ball team, and they did it for
(22:26):
you know, decades before me and decades after me, and
so every kid in that community has an affinity for
that local business. And you think about the Fords, the Gms,
the Kelloggs, how many livelihoods in Michigan are tied into that,
how many people make such a good living from that
that they're able to donate to the key ball team,
(22:48):
that they're able to do these things for the community.
And so when you take away these pillars of the community,
a community gets weaker. And so this is the danger,
is that they weigh a dollar amount in your face
and you know the deal's too good to pass on.
You can't ignore it. You have to take it. They
(23:10):
made them an offer too good to refuse. Now, what
shocks me about Kelloggs three billion dollars that's it. Yeah,
after all this time, after one hundred and nineteen years,
you sell out for just three billion dollars. I mean
NBA teams are selling for three times that amount. Now,
it just sounds low, and it doesn't sound like the
(23:34):
kind of deal where there's going to be a buy
in from the new buyer into our community.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
It sounds more like they want to extract the value
from the name. My guess is if they're a big
enough company to buy Kellogg, they probably have some substancial
manufacturing already going. So what's going to happen Michigan. And
it's sad because if you're offered the biggest dollar amount
you've ever seen, it's easy for me, as someone who
(24:05):
has not offered that money, to say, don't think it.
Hold out for more. But if you don't want to
be in the serial business anymore, your family just wants
to move on with life. But this is what happens.
It weekends the fabric. I think about the nineteen fifties,
you know, Ndergrand Publishing and Grand Rapids. It fed into
the Christian ethos of that community, and so you had
(24:28):
one of the best publishing houses in America, a Christian
publishing house that was in your own backyard. When those
things go away and when they're bought up by foreign entities,
those do take cracks from the foundation of your community.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
James Dixon with us right now down I seventy five
over on X and the Enjoyer Podcast, I'm the conversation
of the day. It is something that I think quite
a bit about. Obviously, with twenty twenty six, so much
is on the line. Folks, it's it's it's just it's
something that I think is impossible to overstate. And speaking
(25:08):
of twenty twenty six, James, we got a big announcement
yesterday on a candidate. Tudor Dixon has made the announcement
former gubernatorial Republican goodbinatorial candidate in twenty two that she
will not run for governor or senate that open Senate seat.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Kind of an interesting announcer. She said.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
She instead intends to help back Trump and of course
protecting and advancing his America First agenda here in a
state prioritizing border security, job creation, tax cuts, and campaigning
for other conservative candidates across Michigan. And she didn't roll
out running maybe in some other capacity for something else.
(25:51):
But I thought it was interesting because we're already starting
to see sort of a crowded field out there for governor.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Yeah, I think shooter is admitted. In reality, you know,
no one was waiting around like what two addition going
to do in twenty twenty six. This whole storyline was
created by her. I mean, what kind of a candidate
as I might run for governor, which is a chief
executive role in Lansing or I might run to be
(26:22):
one hundred, one of one hundred senators in Washington. When
you're so it's like saying I might go to Michigan
and I might go to Ohio state. I feel like
you kind of know which one you're leaning toward, right,
and so you know that was kind of the swords
of the books, right, you go for both and you
end up with Steves. So I think it's could have
(26:43):
some era of statewide you know, to see you know,
if you want to run for senate, you want to
be immediate personality who amplified people who are running in
twenty twenty six and helps maybe prevent what happened to
Tutor or she got designed very early on through an
interview she did, and maybe she can coach people so
(27:06):
the back doesn't have it again, I'm all right, But
the idea that this person was going to be, you know,
the answer to our pressors, there was no reason to
think that. So it's nice to have clarity on the field.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. I got to ask you though, I mean, what
do you see out there?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Is it too early to tell based on who's announced
for let's say governor.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Hmm. Honestly, look at it. You can't go wrong, especially
those first three candidates who got in. You got Mike Cox,
two time statewide winner. This guy was an attorney general
in the past, and now he comes back rebranded as
more of a moss Man successful lawyer. He has some
(27:51):
Rick Snyder to him the senator with where if I
can born in the side of the current governor people
might be the action that higher rolland Lansing. And you
have John James who is theirs right now, and John
(28:12):
James is so far ahead the O they're using to
discredit John James is not also joking that he doesn't
want James from Michigan, but he wants him to stay
in Congress. This is the best stop over that close.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Hey, James, lose it.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You're breaking up here just a little bit better, can
you hear me go a little bit? Betters?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah, so yeah, So John James, you know, in Washington,
doing very well there. He's trying the Jim Blanchard move.
It is highly unusual for someone to go from Washington
to Lancing, but Jim Blanchard when he did that in
the eighties, he was trying to oppose Ronald Reagan, the
Republican president. John James is trying to work in concert
(29:02):
with Donald Trump, the president. We imagine if we had
somebody in Lansing who was aligned with Washington, and I
think in either of those cases you would have that.
Then you have Tom Leonard. It's got a former House
speaker in Michigan. But he also lost the twenty eighteen
AG race to Dana Nussele. So how do you go
(29:23):
from losing to Knustle to winning the governor's race. I
think that's going to be a tough one for people
to imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
What are you working on over at the Enjoyer. I
know you've got a couple of things in the fire there.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh absolutely, you know, with the TSA announcing after nineteen
years the end of the shoes off policy, my podcast
Friday is going to be about the end of security theater.
Oh yeah, And what's mask and jazz and shoes off
at the airport have in common? None of them have
anything to do with keeping you safe.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Well, we had this shoebomber right in Paris and then
I remember it, I said, I can I even remember
this because I know a guy that was on this
plane that helps stop it. Back in two thousand and nine,
they're at DTW the underwear bomber, and luckily we didn't
have to change that when.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We walked through.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But I know a guy that was part of that,
part of that whole thing, and he actually, you know,
was able to help stop the situation.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I don't remember the full story on it, but
you know what, it is interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I do the TSA pre check and so I haven't
taken my shoes off at an airport in years.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
You know, I last time I flew. I don't travel
very often. The last time I did. You know, you
go through the process and they've gotten handsier over the years. Boy,
and perhaps sensing my discomfort, they told me, hey, if
you give us eighty dollars, I won't grab your junk.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I considered it, and I don't fly enough to make
it worth my while. But man if I did and
I could get on the NOE grab junk lift, i'd
like today. And that's the thing they have. They have
made it so you can't even feel secure in your person.
You might get pat down, felt up an X ray
(31:16):
just trying to get from point A to point B.
It is did you ever vote for this?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
It is wild to watch this too, that it's finally
coming around, as folks like to call the most enduring term,
I believe tsa thousands standing around, but it is.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It is nice to know.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
It is nice to know that it's finally going. And
so your podcast will be about that this weekend. We'll
be looking forward to it. James Dixon always a pleasure
in the meantime down at I seventy five over on acts.
Make sure you look him up and find what are
I one of my favorite places to do, so right there,
Always a pleasure, my friend.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Thank you, justin I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You got it, you too.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I'll just tell you, I just just to say that
I mean the TSA pre check you fight once. I
think it's worth it not to have to go through
all it. Stand in the lines and all that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That's just me. That's just me though.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm just not I'm not a lying guy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I don't like lines for much of anything. Really.
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Hey, quick break, We're back with more in just moments
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E Caurier Headlines from the Midwestern Or This Thursday, July tenth,
I'm Robert Hoffman, It's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story
Michigan's Tutor Dixon taking a pass this election cycle on
running for governor or running to fill the open Senate seat.
Here Dixon in a written statement saying she will instead
be traveling all across Michigan supporting candidates who backed President
(33:47):
Trump's America First policies, Dixon saying that Governor Gretchen Whitmer
has been a disaster for Michigan and that Secretary of
State Democrat Jocelyn Benson, who's running, will not be any
better for our state. In fact, Dixon writing that Benson
is a conniving, career far left agitator who will be
dangerous and infinitely worse. It's another Midwesterner Dot News original
(34:10):
story the Trump administration looking to ban Chinese ownership of
farmland here in the US. The announcement comes amid continued
concerns regarding the goshen Ev battery plant in Michigan, where
the company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party purchased
farmland less than one hundred miles from the largest National
Guard training facility here in our country, and Joe Biden's doctor,
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Kevin O'Connor refusing to answer any questions on Capitol Hill.
He took the fifth and would not comment on what
he knew about the former president's declining health while he
was in office. For these stories and more, visit the
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Speaker 4 (34:51):
He well, the markets little changed earlier was the story
now Nasdaq not just fresh record as traders try to
shake off trade developments. Na's DAK touching a fresh record yesterday,
traders trying to shake off the tariff tumult. But if
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you look at those numbers today and in fact we
just we just did. I think we're actually in the
green now.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
On the Dow.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
The Dow's up thirty, Nazek down about fifty s, and
p down six. But it's there's not a lot of
movement there. This is again essentially after the big announced.
It's the latest letters coming out President Trump announcing those
over on truth Social and again, like I said, it's
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