Hour 2: NFL Draft recap

NFL Draft recap.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. Thanks a lot for being
here on this Monday morning in the Big Three. Did
you watch any of it? Pope Francis has been laid
to rest after a funeral on Saturday, attended by President Trump,
First Lady Milania Trump, and just about every world leader,
dozens of world leaders. Cardinal Dolan, of course, was there.

(00:22):
He'll be part of the conclave, and right after the
funeral he had a message for New York Catholics.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
And I just want you to know that I bring
your sentiments and your attentions and your hearts with me
at the funeral this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
The conclave to choose the next pope should start in
ten to fifteen days. Former Congressman George Santos gets the
maximum of over seven years in prison, and now he's
looking for a pardon, commutation, pardon, whatever, clemency.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I don't know how this works, but yes, in premature terms.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, Santos must report to prison on his fraud conviction
on July twenty fifth, so he doesn't have a lot
of time to get that commutation or pardon or whatever.
Luigi Mangioni is now officially charged with federal charges including murder,
which carries with it the death penalty.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
The President's directive was very clear, we are to seek
the death penalty when possible, if there was ever a
death case.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
This is one Judges are now being arrested for harboring illegals.
One in New Mexico kept an illegal alien in his
home to live with his family, and a judge in
Wisconsin helped a criminal illegal evade ice by actually escorting
him to a private exit at the courthouse. For any

(01:50):
judge that's going to obstruct ice in their enforcement operations
or knowingly harboring gasilon alien, he's going to be prosecuted.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
This shouldn't be a surprise.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I've been saying this since January twentieth and New Jersey
Senator Cory Booker and Minority later from New York and
the House, Hakeem Jefferies had a small protest on the
steps of the Capitol against the Republican budget plan, but
it was covered by everybody in the media, and also
a protest against the state of the economy.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
My office, we have tears and circle up and talk
about it because my office starts broken hearted but then
gets shattered by the end of the week because coming
into our office. Are people with their American stories, people
who are losing their farm?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
With that, Let's get right to Mike Kelly, an award
winning columnists for North Jersey dot Com and The Record, Mike,
are farmers calling in to North Jersey dot Com to
say I'm at risk of losing my farm? Are there
people in tears in your newsroom?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
No? No, not yet, but there there are a lot
of worried folks out there. Let's be honest, both Republicans
and Democrats, that what they're seeing everything from the stock market,
to tariffs to god knows what, and it's reflected I
think in Donald Trump's poll ratings right now. But what

(03:17):
Booker is saying here is I think, you know, you
pick out Larry, I think smartly the vagueness of his message.
You know, the farmers are not clamoring at the office
of a New Jersey United States Senator from New Jersey,
or at least I don't believe they are. Maybe one
or two are. But I think Democrats are trying to

(03:37):
find the right the right message, or the right door
to walk into and engage Trump, and they just can't
find it.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I agree with you. The Democrats as low as
Donald Trump's ratings were after one hundred days. The Democrats
are almost half that. They're they're extremely low, and so
is the media.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
By the way, well, well to the club. I know
it's been that we got a big hold a dig
out of it. I'm not sure that'll ever happen, but
I mean, picture this scene yesterday. It's Sunday. It's a
beautiful Sunday, and at six o'clock on a Sunday morning,
Booker and Hakeem Jeffrey start a sit in on the

(04:19):
steps of the US Capitol and Larry this continues for
you wait this drum roll please twelve hours, oh my,
twelve hours, twelve hours, twelve hours of talking about you know,
housing assistance and education and that sort of all these
are important topics. Please don't get me wrong, but my goodness,

(04:44):
you know, it really reflects I think the Democrats are
using old methods to try to deal with a twenty
twenty first century political issue. I mean, sit ins worked
great in the nineteen sixties, but they're not working right now,
particularly on a Sunday morning. It just doesn't work. And

(05:06):
I think, you know, believe it or not, Bernie Sanders
has really I think defined the Democratic Party. He just
said they don't have a vision for the future. And
I think Sanders is right.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Sanders and AOC were so smart to a get out
of Washington and hold rallies. And by the way, Sanders
was brilliant to bring AOC with them, because I don't
think they were getting those crowds of twenty four to
thirty thousand without AOC being there as well. I know
he has a lot of excitement among a certain part
of the Democratic Party, but he expands that with AOC.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, I guess so. I think the Sanders AOC alliance
here is indicative of the fact I think that the
Democrats are really split. They have a tremendous number of
uber progressives I would call them. These are the folks
that you know, basically have university jobs and are all
into the you know, use of pronouns and that sort

(06:03):
of thing. And the Democrats can't can't ignore that segment
of their party, uh, because these people are big donors
and they they vote. The problem is it's not a
winning coalition. It's not the kind of coalition that's going
to win the White House, and the Democrats have to
figure out how to get back into Ohio and Pennsylvania

(06:26):
and the and the middle part of America and start
talking to working class folks, people who are struggling, you know,
sometimes with two incomes, sometimes with two and a half incomes,
because they're working extra jobs and there, and they're you know,
all they want to do is send their kids to
college or maybe take a week's vacation at the Jersey
Shore or something like that. These are this there's a

(06:49):
lot of hardship in the middle part of our country.
And I and I you know, as much as Bernie
Sanders will say he knows that, I'm not sure he does.
And I'm not sure you know that that that sit
in yesterday and Washington just told me that, you know,
Democrats really have a long, long, long way to go.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
They do, but it sounds like the message that they're
trying to put through is getting through a little bit,
mainly because the media buys it right into it. And
when we talk about the economy, you're right about the
poll numbers being low on the economy. They're ridiculously low,
especially when you consider the GDP numbers are strong right now.
Consumer spending is strong right now, the labor market is

(07:31):
strong right now, inflation remains a concern, but right now
it's low and it seems like it's heading towards two percent.
Everything is in the reporting of where the economy could
be going, not where it is.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, you're right on that. The numbers right now are
all over the place, quite frankly. But let's look at
one set of facts.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
Here.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
A group of CEOs from Target Home Depot Walmart show
up at the White House and they ask to have
a conversation with President Trump, and they say, look, we're
worried because our shelves are going to be bare in
just a matter of weeks. Now, that could be an exaggeration,

(08:14):
but I think we need to pay attention when these
guys show up, because these aren't exactly the uber progressives
of the Democratic Party. These are CEOs of big time
corporations and they're going to Donald Trump and they're saying, listen,
the chaos in the economy right now that you have
stirred up with your tariffs is not helping us. And
I think Trump, and I think he's trying to do this,

(08:37):
He's trying to do a reset on his strategy, but
I just don't think he knows how to do it.
Right now, because he has really staked out a position
and if he backs off that, as the Chinese have
been saying, you know, they're going to be saying Donald
Trump blinked.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right, and he's not going to back off of it.
And apparently all those world leaders that came to him
at the Vatican. We'll see, if there's some deals, we'll
see what happens. But before we were done, I did
want to talk about the Bob Menendez story so we
can look back at everything that happened and just talk
about what happened with Bob Menendez and his legacy and

(09:15):
what this means for New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, we talked about this before, Larry, and I think
I think the Menendez story is an enormous tragedy of
almost Shakespearean proportions. I mean, this is a guy who
really had the goods to do, you know, to do
a great job, to become a great senator. And he

(09:38):
was smart, he was articulate, he understood his positions well.
For example, yes, he embraced a number of the democratic
progressive positions, as he undoubtedly would as a Democratic senator,
but at the same time he called out Obama on
the Iranian deal, and called out Obama on the Cuban deal.

(10:02):
These were two decisions by Obama that I was harshly
critical of in my columns. And Menendez, to his credit,
took a risk and called out Obama. That did not
make him a big fan in the in the Obama
White House. And so he had the he had the brains,
he had the independence and that sort of thing to

(10:23):
really become I think, a really great senator. He also
had the power. He was the ranking Democratic member of
this Formulations Committee. Big time power there, Larry. And yet
look what happened. You know. It's like like the most
basic kind of corruption, you know, just you know, taking
money to to as bribes.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, and sell out the country. I see a book coming, Mike.
Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for North Jersey
dot Com.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
I'd read it.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Thanks a lot, Mike, Thanks so much, Larry. See, New
Jersey Bakery got sick of people with strong coll and
perfume ruining their wonderful bakery smell. So they did something
about it. We'll tell you what that something was next. Well,
if you want to get in on the conversation, you
can leave a talkback. Go the iHeartRadio app. Look for
seven to ten WR hit the talkback button, and then

(11:15):
you're on the air. We talked about a lot of
stuff today already. One of the things we talked about
were the tariffs and the economy. And this is a
really good question.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Isn't it bigger than tariffs? And shouldn't we be concerned
about who buys our debt and the devaluation of the
American dollar and what it can purchase with escalating utility
costs and grocery costs and car insurance and privarty taxes going.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Up all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thanks guys, great job.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. It's all tied up in
the same package, though, isn't it. I mean, unless we
cut the size of government, unless we cut the federal budget,
which Donald Trump is trying to do, unless we get
fairer tariffs, were all always going to be running at
a deficit. And if we're always running at a deficit,
that means we have debt and buying most of that

(12:08):
debt is China. Put two and two together. That means
that eventually we're going to fail. And so some president
with the guts to do it had to come in
and try to reset our economy. I know he's getting
a lot of blowback right now, but somebody had to
do it.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
Booker and Jeffries are so transparent.

Speaker 9 (12:31):
If there were any farmers.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Anywhere near them who were in trouble, they would have
had them there on the steps. Come on, they got
to stop lying.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, no, it was an absolute lie. And the fact
that people are crying in his office. They're crying in
his office about the economy, and the farmers are coming
and you know, dogs and cats sleeping together, it's a horrible, horrible,
biblical kind of stuff. Yeah, it's it was a joke.
The whole thing was a joke. And I'm sure they're

(13:01):
high fiving each other thinking we nailed that. But then again,
Corey Booker will run for president again and again. He's
going to get one percent, and he's going to try
to figure out why what do you.

Speaker 8 (13:10):
Think that George Santos does or did to actually deserve
a pardon after he duped all these people for Carl.
The politicians do that, But I think he needs has
really had a scare in him, a bigger scare than
what he has, and at least serve some of that

(13:31):
sentence to recognize what he caused.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, you're right, he's not going to serve the seven years,
but he's going to serve at least half of that.
And that's going to be quite a scare because we've
all seen George Santos. I don't think he's going to
do really well in prison unless they give him some
cozy federal prison. We'll see what happens to him. But
you can tell he's scared, and you can tell his

(13:56):
you know, the life he had is over. You know
what I love? Don't you love the smell of a bakery.
There's nothing like walking into a bakery, especially as they
just put their their goods out, to get a waff
of that sweet smell. It's it's it's beautiful. I mean
it really is. Sometimes you just want to walk into

(14:18):
a bakery to get that smell of them making all
the goods in the back, and when you come out
you smell like that.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Oh really, yeah, I don't I don't mind smelling like
a glazed donut.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Should be a perfume. We have to look that up. Well,
there's a place called the Sentry Baker Bakery. It's down
in South Jersey. It's been around forever. Actually it's pretty
well known. I've heard of the Century Bakery, and uh,
they are a little upset that people are wearing perfume

(14:52):
and coming in because everybody, as you just mentioned, as
you just mentioned, and you happen to even wear this,
you love of the smell of a bakery.

Speaker 10 (15:02):
It smells really, really good, and customers say all the
time that they wish we could make the smell when
you come through the door into a candle.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's Debbie Diaz who owns She is the general manager
of the Century Bakery. Well, the problem is that people
have been coming in with strong perfumes and just overpowering
that smell.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
You're not going to kick anybody out.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
We're not going to ban anybody for wearing coloonnes and perfume.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
But it's bad. And so they felt like they had
to do something, and they talked about banning people that
smelled like a certain point, but instead they posted a
sign that said, we kindly asked that if you wear
strong perfumes or colognes, please utilize our drive through service.
Several cashiers in our bakery suffer from asthma. How much

(15:53):
cologne are these people really that.

Speaker 9 (15:55):
You can overpower an entire bakery.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
And this time of year it could bearticularly challenging for
them due to the high pallen count. The addition of
strong favor of fragrances can make it more difficult for
them to breathe, Oh my goodness, as there is always
an irritant in the air that.

Speaker 10 (16:16):
Does overpower to where the staff in the back of
the house can smell it.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
So anyway, they says that you're just heard. They're not
going to kick anybody out, but they're asking everybody, and
you know who you are with the strong perfumes and
the strong colognes, still stay at the store? Can we
do that around here?

Speaker 9 (16:34):
People don't always realize they're that person.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't think those people ever realize they're that person.
But they're out there they are, and don't go into
the bakery. No, you get to go into the bakery
to try to escape. That's exactly why you go into
a bakery. Now, let's get the Jacqueline Carl with the
seven thirty News, Jacqueline.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
Good Morning. President Trump is again asking Vladimir Putin to
negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump told
reports Sunday he wants the Russian leader to quote stop shooting,
sit down, and sign a deal to end the fighting,
adding that he was disappointed missiles were flying. The MTA
is expected to unveil its latest revenue numbers tied to

(17:14):
Manhattan congestion pricing at committee meetings today.

Speaker 11 (17:18):
Numbers from January and February revealed that the MCA is
on track to meeting its goal of bringing in half
a billion dollars in the first year of congestion pricing,
and we'll get a look at March numbers today.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
Now.

Speaker 11 (17:28):
New York officials are in the middle of battling the
Trump administration in court after the FEDS ordered the tolling
program to be shut and threatened to withhold federal funding
if those congestion pricing cameras are not turned off by
May twenty first. Governor Hokal and the MTA insists the
tolling program is working. I'm Staff Pringle WRDWS, so.

Speaker 9 (17:47):
This is a kind of an off the wall story.
Lake Superior State University has a page on its official
website devoted to outlining the unicorn hunting regulations for everyone.
I hope they're paying careful attention coming from the Department
of a Nastural Unicorns. The page out lines the guidelines,

(18:08):
explains how you get a unicorn hunting license, and reminds
everyone that the bag limit on unicorns is one per month, because,
as we all know, they're very rare mythical creatures. Unicorn
Hunters were created in nineteen seventy one by a guy
named Bill rob who was known for PR stunts. The
Unicorn Hunters group grabbed national attention and is still handing

(18:29):
out licenses today through the university's website. Now, if I
learned anything from Harry Potter is that killing a unicorn
is just about the worst thing anyone could ever do.
I wouldn't even apply for a license to hunt one,
would you, Larry?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Absolutely not, although it might be fun to have one.
I'm sure that's why people buy them. It's very clever
that it is really clever in his part.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
I know it took a while for me to say, like,
how in the world is this happening? And then I realized,
and then it came to the PR stunt. I was like, oh,
thank god, because I don't know what else they're teaching
at this university, but I want to go.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
I wish I could attend it, Yeah, to show how
to dupe people. That's exactly what they learned there, mythical creatures.
Thank you very much, Jacqueline. Legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf breaks
down the NFL Draft and who makes the three stooges
this week, stay with us to find out. Let's get
right to legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf because it was a huge,

(19:23):
huge weekend, the weekend that hope springs eternal in the
NFL water. I used to love the NFL draft because
it was so life changing. But now they're all getting
paid in college, so they just get a raise. It's
not as life changing anymore.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
I try, Larry.

Speaker 12 (19:40):
It's almost like the words of Barney Poole, who played
about eight years of college ball.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
He said, why don't you? He said, I can't.

Speaker 12 (19:49):
Afford to turn pro. They're already making a million.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
They haven't done anything. Oh man, that's so silly.

Speaker 10 (20:00):
Oh.

Speaker 12 (20:00):
The week has to go to the twenty one year
old son of Falcons defensive coordinator who called Chadeur Sanders
and told him that the Saints he was the Saints
general manager and they would draft him in the first
round and then said Oh, wait a minute, you're gonna
have to hold the phone man.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
What a lousy trick.

Speaker 12 (20:20):
Sanders, who was supposed to go in the number five
in the draft, wasn't even picked until the one hundred
and forty fourth player taken by the Browns after they
had passed on him five times. You have to wonder, hey,
what's going on. Maybe, I mean, everybody has a theory,
but maybe nobody wanted Dion coming around and interfering with

(20:46):
the club.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Sun was right, Yeah, absolutely, although I guess it's been
leaked out by a lot of sources in the NFL
that he had horrible interviews, that he wasn't paying attention,
he was slouching, he was the way he was dressed.
I mean, if you present yourself like that on any
job interview, you're going to get passed over.

Speaker 12 (21:07):
And also didn't help him that he said, I don't
want to go to a team that wants to change
my culture. I want to change the culture of the team.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Does he think he is a man?

Speaker 12 (21:24):
Now, before you get too excited about the draft, especially quarterbacks,
it's strictly pot luck. Tom Brady was the one hundred
and ninety nine player taken forty nine ers. Brock Party
was dead last two hundred and sixty two. And the

(21:44):
fact is there are more quarterbacks drafted in the first
round that did not make it than did make it.
I can name a few DeMarcus Russell, Tim Chouch, Gino Torretta,
Chris Winky, Danny wo Troy Smith, about Johnny Manziel Zach Wilson.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
The list just goes on and on.

Speaker 12 (22:07):
They don't make it. Now, the Giants took Mississippi quarterback
Jason Dark Jackson Dark I should say this is an
insurance policy for the future when Russell, Wilson and Jameis
Winston are long gone. So that was a I think
that was a very good move. And the Jags traded

(22:29):
up to get Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, who plays
both ways defensive back and wide receiver. Now, as you know,
until the nineteen fifties, every player had to play both
ways offensive defense. And you, being from Philadelphia, maybe your
father or grandfather told you about the greatest two way

(22:52):
player of all time?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Can I guess?

Speaker 12 (22:55):
Eagles linebacker and sener Chuck bednarret Yep known as Concrete
Charlie in the nineteen sixty championship game against the Packers.
Bed Nerrick played fifty eight of the sixty minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yes, and he's one of the most famous photos of
all time when he leveled Frank Gifford.

Speaker 12 (23:17):
Yeah, and you know he always said and Differen said,
you know, he didn't do anything illegal. He was just saying,
this game is over. And that's what he was saying.
He wasn't saying, you know, I put you out or
that's it. By the way, you know bed Nerrick had
thirty bombing missions over Germany in World War Two.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, I didn't know that. That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (23:42):
Before Yes, and talk about how about a slow reaction
by Aaron Boom. He had this closer Devin Williams.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
So after Williams blew.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
The save Friday night, his ear run average is now
eleven point two five.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
That's that's a relief pitcher.

Speaker 12 (24:04):
He pitched ten games, eight innings, gave up twelve runs
until seven. Let's see ten hits and seven walks, and
Boom finally says.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
No longer see my closer.

Speaker 12 (24:18):
Duh, what took so long? Meanwhile, two Jewish guys are helping.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Carrying the Yankees. Max Freed. That's right.

Speaker 12 (24:30):
He allowed only one hit yesterday six innings. He's now
five and oh with a one point forty three ERA
and Yankee first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is hitting three sixty five.
Two Jewish guys, Wow, carrying the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
You've heard the old joke, right, the shortest book of
all time great Jewish athletes. Oh, they have to rewrite
it now, that's right.

Speaker 12 (24:57):
And how about Red Sox third base Alex Brigman hitting
three nineteen. Well again, you're from Philadelphia, and I'm sure
we here we have only two complete games all year.
Your father or grandfather, they must have told you about
Robin Roberts.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Oh, sure, there you go.

Speaker 12 (25:19):
The guy had three hundred and five complete games himself,
and in one year, from August fifty two to July
fifty three, he had twenty eight consecutive complete games.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Imagine that and almost overlooked.

Speaker 12 (25:38):
Last week Seattle's Brian Woo, he went six innings in
a three to two win over the Red Sox, said.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Woo after the game, Wooh, okay, here we goes okay.

Speaker 12 (25:53):
Stuge number one the Massive Peaqua School District Board of
New York, the band Massapeak was use of. There's mascot
and logos.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Name the word chiefs.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
Hey, Bozo's what about four time winning Super Bowl champion
Kansas City chiefs? Or hail to the chiefs or chiefs
of staff man. How about this, Larry, when somebody takes
over a situation, we said, hey, who made you chief?

Speaker 7 (26:25):
Now?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's so ridiculous. We had the board president on the
air talking about this too. I think they're going to
win this fight.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
You know.

Speaker 12 (26:34):
I suggest the school district leave the logos alone and
return to more important matters.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Like teaching students' history.

Speaker 12 (26:42):
Amen stooge number two Academy of Motion Pictures, who only
last week ruled that from now on, all the voters
for their Academy awards must watch all the nominated films
from start to finish in every category, and they'll be monitored.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
To make sure they do.

Speaker 12 (27:04):
I thought they are red.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
What is that?

Speaker 12 (27:09):
No wonder yet so many bombs get nominated for Best
Picture or Actor or actresses. And finally, stooge number three,
Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton, who said teams that pass
over Colorado quarterbacks should Dora Sanders should beware because Sanders

(27:31):
will use the snub as a motivation and have a
successful NFL career. Then why didn't you take him? What
a phony?

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Oh my gosh, all.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Right, Wanner, the great Warner. Well, thanks so much to
to you next.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
Week, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
The stock market might be all over the place, but
gold is soaring. National Correspondent Roy O'Neil will explain why
next and don't forget you can leave us a talk
back all morning long, go to seven to ten WR
on the iHeartRadio app. Well, the people are uncertain about
the future of the economy, and you look at the
stock market and the stock market is just all over

(28:13):
the place right now, So where do you invest your money?
Rory O'Neil, WR National correspondent says, more and more people
are trying out gold. They're putting their money into gold. Rory,
So how much are we talking about?

Speaker 7 (28:28):
How?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I guess the price is going up because more people
are buying it.

Speaker 7 (28:32):
Right.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
The price of a pure ounce of gold topped three thousand,
five hundred dollars and ounce last week. Now it has
since come off that high, but still we've seen a
big push toward gold. Is there more people saying I'm
not sure what's going to happen with this economy. What's
the deal with tariffs? Is there a recession coming up?
Will inflation come back if the tariffs stay? So all

(28:53):
those questions, all that uncertainty is leading more and more
people to buy gold, and that's why the price has
been going up. It's up more than sixty six oho
percent in the past year, so it's it's been a
very strong return for a commodity that normally doesn't swing
quite this quickly.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
The nice thing about gold is it might come down
a little bit, but it never comes down as much
as it is going up. It slowly just goes up
and up and up and up. And when I first
saw your story, I said to myself, well, that's not
good news. When people put money into gold, it's usually
because they have a bleak view of the future.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Well, right, and look, it may just be short term.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
And I don't want to sound like William Devane on
all those commercials, right, but it is what people do
when they're not sure what's going to be happening, so
they flee to gold and invest in gold is something
more stable. You know, if you think that inflation's going
to happen, then you don't want to sit on cash
because that cash is actually losing value. You know, if

(29:55):
you think the stock market's going to be all over
the place and you don't have the stomach for the ride,
or or maybe you're you know, you're in or close
to retirement, so you're looking for something more stable, and
that's where gold typically comes in as being part of
a portfolio. But this has been an incredible rush to gold,
and now it's got a lot of people finding you know,
where are those grandma's earrings I never liked or.

Speaker 7 (30:20):
I'd never wear again?

Speaker 4 (30:21):
And a lot of people are going through their jewelry
doores keeping pawn shops busy.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, and a lot of people are finding out those
gold earrings they thought where gold earrings are actually fake?
That's the problem in.

Speaker 7 (30:31):
The searching for all this or their ten carrot gold.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
And you know, you have visions of three five hundred
dollars and I'll give you fifty bucks.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Hey wait a minute, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Do you own any gold rory?

Speaker 7 (30:44):
I do not, do you?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, I don't. I've always been interested in it, but
now it's going up so high. I don't even know
how to do it. I guess you can buy I
guess there's people out there that buy shares in gold, right.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Well, yeah, you can buy shares. You can buy it
on paper. Costco was selling gold ingots. I remember they
were a big fad.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
For a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I was just trying to see if silver is something
on a radio budget that may be more affordable option
to try to invest in, if it's having some of
the same success that we've seen with gold. I haven't
found that answer yet, but yeah, I'm seeing what the
alternatives are.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
But because this could last for.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
A while, as we found out locally last year, if
you're going to bribe a congressman or a senator, gold
is always one of the best ways you could possibly
do it. And I as a matter of fact, I
think they got their gold bars at Costco if I'm
if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
There were larger bars, those of them.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
They sell the ingots at Costco, just sort of the
little ones that are one ounce typically. I think that
the senator had some much more sizable real pieces of gold.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
He he did.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
He had huge pieces of gold. I guess it just
came up at that time. That was the first time
I heard you could get him at Costco. So, uh yeah,
because for all of my investment decisions, I normally go
to Costco that's hey.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
Or you can go to Jersey.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Hey, Hey, hey, hey hey ury O'Neil w o R.
National correspondent, Natalie, do you own any gold gold bars?
I'm not telling you where I hold my find my
gold bars. I'm gonna come and steal them from French

(32:27):
trust me at all. That's uh. I've always wanted to,
I just never have. How about this, when we're talking
about the economy, Donald Trump is talking about a possible
tax hike on the wealthy. We'll tell you what he
wants to do with that money. Next with Daily Callers,
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese. That's coming up right after

(32:47):
the eight o'clock news