August 3, 2025 • 34 mins
Even Democrats admit Trump cant stop winning, the NFL is blamed for a mass shooting in New York City, and President Trump does his best Sean Connery impersonation! Its been a surreal week which you will hear in our "did they really just say that" cuts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Even Democrats admit Trump can't stop winning. The NFL is
blamed for a mass shooting in New York City, and
President Trump does his best Sean Connery impersonation. It's been
a surreal week, which you'll hear. And I did they
really just say that cuts?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
This is news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Our biggest promise. We have so much growth at the
FED won't cut?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What the Jesus? Oh my sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Everybody it okay.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
At six twenty eight pm, the nine one one call
center started receiving multiple nine one one calls for an
active shooter inside of three forty five Park Avenue at
fifty second Street in Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
With John Connery. And he let out a howl once
she said, let the bloody bloke building, damn golf courses
and let him put money into our country.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And Sean Connery?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Have you ever heard of president do an impersonation of
anybody before?
Speaker 7 (01:17):
No, anybody, or that was an impersonation.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That that was Trump's version of an impersonation of Sean
Connery helping him out, helping him out with the golf course.
Just to make sure that's the one in Aberdeen. I
think he just opened as a matter of fact, but so,
but the full he actually explains it. He was doing
Miranda Devine's podcast one when he broke in. That was
Sean Connery.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It was very tough zoning environmentally here to get that proved.
And when they approved it, they approved two courses. But
I had to start the second one within ten years
from the first, et cetera, et cetera. So I didn't
start it let's say two years ago, we would have
lost that right. You'd never get it back. But John Connery,
it was very hard getting the zoning because of the
environment minute and it was very highly protected.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And let's go a triple si.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
And he let out a howl once. He said, let
the bloody bloke build his damn golf courses and let
him put money into our country. What's wrong with you?
And as soon as he said that, the whole thing
got to prove like so fast it was crazy. Told him,
I said, thank you very much. I said, you have
great power. He's like the king. I go him, the
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King of Scotland. But so I got to know him
a little bit after that. He was great he was
a tough cookie, but you do a very good Scottish accent.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, but he did say that, he said, let the
bloody bloke build his bloody golf courses. And you know
what when he said that, it or just I got
it proved.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He is King of Coline, a terrible Scottish he does.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And he's Scott's his mother was Scottish, you know, so
it's like Scott. So yeah, but you know, he's just
I can't even picture another president even attempting to do
something like that.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Did you see the president cheat at golf this week?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I heard about it. I heard about the little arm
coming out. I just and I, to be honest with you,
I was kind of shocked by that.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I was. I was surprised that my golf buddies this
week hadn't seen that. So I re enacted the cheating episode.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Golf course and as their response.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
They they laughed and they said, uh, you know, and
the question, I said, of course he cheats. I mean everybody,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
To everybody cheat? Is that a confessional?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yeah, I mean I think so, I think so. But anyway,
I digress.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, I found it. He's an original, that's just it
just whether you like him or he is nobody like
himctly And you know, and this is this is the
president who told us, by the way, that we were
going to get tired of winning, you know, if he
were became president. And so my question is are we
tired of winning it? Because, to be honest with you,
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I don't think that was hyperbole given what's going on
in the economy right now.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He the man keeps winning, and it's and doing Scottish
impersonations of what's his space Connery. I know my mind
went blank all of a sudden aside. You know, he's
in Scotland for twenty four hours and basically announces a
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really big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So we have good news. We've reached a deal. It's
a good deal for everybody.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I believe, and it's I think you were saying, this
is probably the biggest deal ever reached in.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Any capacity, trade or beyond trade. It is. It's it's
a giant deal with lots of countries.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
We have a trade deal between the two largest economies
in the world, and it's a big deal. It's a
huge deal. It will bring stability, it will bring predictability
that's very important for our businesses on both sides of
the Atlantic. It's fifteen percent and tariffs across the board,
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all inclusive, inclusive. It's a huge deal. Was tough negotiations.
I knew it at the beginning, and it was indeed
very tough, but we came to good conclusions for both sides.
So again, congratulations and many things.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was the EU Commissioner Ursula as it pronounced vonder.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Land wonder I've heard both vonder lyon is probably more accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We're accurate. I never never.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
By the way, as of this, as of this morning
when we're recording this, it is not a done deal.
It is a preliminary deal.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Which is still you know, they I think they.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
They've reached consensus on what they want to do, but
I'm pretty sure that there are.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
More not signed.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
It's not signed, and there are more than a few
countries who are saying we can't meet the obligations of
the more than one trillion dollar investment that we that
you've promised to the United States. So you know, it's
it's going to be one of those She.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Got them kicking and screaming.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But the fact that he was able to to make
an agreement with the EU commission Commissioner, who the other
countries are in fact bound to. They have an economic
agreement that they will abide by what she says. So
and I don't think she made a point blank. I
think which you have has a lot of posturing because
people are ticked.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, I think so too, Which brings me to the
point that some of the wins, maybe a lot of
the wins by the president aren't quite wins yet. You know,
we're on the right track, sure, But I mean he's
even I mean even when you even while all this
is going on, the Epstein files lurk.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's not a win or a lose we're talking about
on the economic level.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I mean he's but yeah, that's a big loss.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
If he's Well, let me just put it to this way.
If you want to talk about Epstein, I don't, but
go ahead. Well you brought it up.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You brought it up. So President Biden and his minions
had controlled the Epstein files for four years. If Donald
Trump was in those files, don't you think they would
have released them by now? Especially so I think we
can pretty much say no, he's probably not in there.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Here's what I would say about the Democrats at that
point in time, that and this point in time, that
they don't know their anatomy from their ass to their elbow.
I think that's true, and so I'm not sure that
they would have thought that that was a decent thing
to do at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't think they cared what was decent, given what
we were discovering they were doing. Otherwise, the Steel dossier
was made up crap about golden showers and hookers. I
don't think they would have had a problem releasing Trump's
name in the Epstein files if they were there, given
what they did with the Steele dossier and making that up.
But if you're talking about winning, he has all these
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trade agreements that they're either actually signed or are in
the process of being finalized. And while he's doing that
near you, he turns around and basically settles a war
with Cambodia and Thailand, I mean through you know, trade,
by by forcing their hand on trade. He announced that
when he was there too.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
We were very happy we stopped the Cambodia war with
a very nice local rival that frankly, they have had
wars for many, many years, over five hundred years, and
we got it stopped, as you probably know, and that
just came out in the news right now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We worked on it yesterday, we got it sapped.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
At it and he basically said, you guys, keep fighting,
no trade deal with you and that strong army.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You bet. But if that's what stops the liten I agree.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I mean, if it's if you need to, if you
need to strong arm, you need to. You know, the
carrot and stick approach, yeah, certainly works. The heavyweight hitter works.
You know, all of this proves that the world cannot
survive now without the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think that's true.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
And while when you look at the fact that all
of the these deals are putting an increased burden on
American consumers on the surface, but have.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They really so far, well, I don't believe they.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Have not yet. But when you're dealing with percentages of
fifteen thirty percent on imports, at some point some of
those costs are going to be passed down to you
and make.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
If you're buying imports.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
But that's correct, you know it's correct.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You don't have to buy imports the whole.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well, in many cases you do because we don't make
the equivalents here. And if we do make the equivalents.
They come with parts that are from But at the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Same time that you have that, your point well made
about you know, raising prices, wages are going up, and
also at the same time inflation is going down. So
while on paper it may look like prices may go up,
that doesn't mean it's going to be felt by the consumer.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
You and I have talked about this in the past,
is that every every report, every economic report that the
country produces now is historical in nature. It doesn't look forward.
It's not a current snapshot a day like right now,
what does the economy look like right now, this very moment,
this instant, And I believe that at some point we're
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going to be able to take a look at that
where we are right now, and artificial intelligence will be
able to make an adjustment as to where that's so
rightly we're going to be, then we'll be able to So.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think that's a great with hypnosis.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Where we are right now is faced with increased costs,
whether you want to.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Look at it, but where we are right now is
also faced with decreasing inflation, which is something that we
didn't that most people said wouldn't happen.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And are.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
In fact, I want to play some.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Cuss of you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
This is to be honest with you. The anti Trump movement,
which are mostly Democrats, not all, but you know, mostly Democrats,
and not all Democrats are anti Trump, but there's a
good section of them are fit to be tied because
the doom and gloom that they said was coming with
the tariffs has not appeared. In fact, it's been the opposite.
Our debts going down, the prices are not being raised,
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inflation is going down, wages are up, so the economy
is looking really good. Not everybody is happy, and not
everybody is honest about what's going on in the economy.
This is a cut from Mike Nellis. He's a former
senior advisor for Kamala Harris, and he says inflation has
gone up. And this is Sandra Smith on Fox, who's
actually not the most pro Trump person at Fox to
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be by any stretch of the imagination, and she publicly
calls him on it.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
We need to get back to basics on how we're
going to deal with inflation and other issues and telling
it in a much more simple way, talking about our accomplishments.
But but look, it isn't going to get fixed overnight,
and right now the president of the United States is
Donald Trump. Republicans are in control of Congress. They're currently
in recess. Rather than do anything about inflation, Donald Trump
was in front of the White House today claiming that
he's crushed inflation, which is objectively false. If you were
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celebrating over the fourth of July, right now, you had
record beef price. Do you know what is Yeah, it's
like about three or four percent.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No, it's below three.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
It's been a long time since it's gotten there.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I mean you're looking at now.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Donald Trump promised to make grocery prices go down on
when I promised to make housing prices go down on
day one or six months in.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Down, I'll give you that.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I'll give you that they hadn't come down. Inflation is
still going up and it's rising according to the latest stats.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
That's not that's not the case.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Inflation has come down.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Inflation my nature is growth in prices.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But the growth is I.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Mean, he just won't admit that. Here they're putting out
this talking point and when you say, well, look at
the data next to you, well, no, no, can't see it,
can't see. It's like my cat with a spider. My
cat refuses to see a spider. She you know, why
do you think I have her? I have her to
kill spiders, basically, and if a spider calls by, she
looks up at the sky like, I don't see it.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
You know what you got to do? You got to
fire your cat.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I think that, Well you can't. Fortunately, fortunately for me,
I love my cat, so I'm not going to fire.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But here's Bill Maher on his podcast saying he was
really wrong about the tariffs.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tariffs.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Now, I remember, I, along with probably most people, were
saying at the beginning, oh, you know, by the fourth
of Jill life, somebody had to think how the country was.
The economy was going to be tanked by then, and
I was kind of like, well, that seems right to me.
But that didn't happen now, it could happen tomorrow. I'm
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just saying, that's reality. So let's work first from the reality,
or that not from I just hate Donald Trump because
that's boring and doesn't get us anywhere and lead you
to dishonesty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I completely agree with that. They may may do exactly
what you say tomorrow, but right now it isn't And
it's it's so good that you heard this in the open,
that Jim Kramer let an F bomb fly live on
the air because you couldn't believe how well the economy
was doing.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that
the Fed won't cut what Jesus, I'm so sorry everybody
in the moment. It's a cable with a cable with
a ticker.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That people doing live TV.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Jim, Though, to your point, Golden today the most notable change,
You're five, the most notable.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
I just feel like enough with the coms boom, let
Carl talk now.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So it's and you even have Chris Matthews, who hates
Donald Trump. Hates Donald Trump, and he basically has come
out and admitted essentially that everybody is feeling the winning
side of the Trump administration and he can't believe it.
Speaker 14 (14:40):
To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trumpy.
These polls that come out and show him not doing well,
I don't I don't buy that. I think strength, his
strength is still greater than the Democratic strength. He is
a stronger public figure than the Democratic people. I mean,
Obama's has tremendous charisma, but Trump has strengths, and I
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think that's what all the voters look for. But they
wanted president who was a strong figure. And he's got
it and he can. It's just there, and half the
country buys it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's because half the country. Half the country is doing well.
And even CNN says, listen, the data is that he
is freaking winning. He's winning on an economic level, and
he's winning on a hearts and mind level too, because
people actually see, I know what I used to pay
for eggs last winter. I know what I pay now,
and it's a few dollars, not fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's like a few dollars less.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
The Democratic Party and let's take a look at Dems
and let's look at their net favorable ratings.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Whoof woof?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I mean, my god.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
You know we mentioned CNN, we had that pole come
out a little while ago. On their net favor rating,
they were twenty six points underwater. You think that's low enough.
How about we go even lower. We'll go to this
side of the screen. I'm gonna walk over here. We
go to the Wall Street Journal minus third thirty points,
thirty points underwear. They're a lowest stern record these polls
have records going all the way back since the early
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nineteen hundred and nineties. And when it comes to the
Democratic Democratic parties net favoral rating in both the Wall
Street Journal pal and the CNN poll, the Democratic Party
is breaking records in the way Jessica Dean, you don't
want to break records.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Here's the question for you.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Is a Democratic Party killed itself by doing unreasonable responses
to positive things and dropping the ball on things that
they should be pushing forward on things that you know,
social issues that are not Trump's strong points, instead of
trying to fight him on the economic level, where which
is his strong point, go after what he's not winning on,
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not what he is winning on. And by doing that,
have they lost their credibility? And are they destroying themselves?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, all I can go by is what this
country has been through in the past and everything that
is happening today, we've been there, done that now. It'll take,
for example, to the Democratic Party. It was declared dead
when Ronald took six hundred electoral votes one year, and
you know, an administration later, they are back in power.
And you know, Democratic Democrats in the past used to
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be more conservative Republicans in the past used to be
a little bit more liberal, which gets me back to
my argument that at some point you have to realize
that somebody has got to galvanize the country and play
the middle ground because you can't keep playing polar opposites.
And I said to Ben last week on this program
that you know, its nature abhores a vacuum, and the
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vacuum right now is in the middle. So somebody needs
to needs to drive the bus back. And the problem
with the Democrats right now is that nobody wants to
admit that, you know, statements by Seth Molten regarding transgender
athletes is more of a middle position.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Everybody's like, whoa, you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The party's gone to left, that exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
And they don't realize that right now. And Republicans continue
to play their right wing hot hand, so there's no
need for them to come back into the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But if you have a force, whether it's a Democratic
Party or the America Party that drives that drives politics
down the middle of the road, which is where we
ultimately will be, there's no reason for the Republicans to
move off their base. But there's more than enough reason
for the Democrats to do it. The problem is they
don't have a message and they don't have a mouthpiece
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to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
They don't, and they've been taken over the the podium
has been taken over by the progressive left, and it's
causing problems because one their economic message people discovered was
bull crap. It was it was useless and drove inflation
up and there was you know, and and then they
lied about it, and so they destroyed their own credibility
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on top of bad economic policy. Now they have most people.
I did some research on this last year. I discover
most people, to be honest with you, are like me.
I can't speak for you, but I'm economically conservative but
socially liberal and which makes me somewhere near the middle
and so, and that's where most people are. And I'm
not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I was a
Democrat for many years then discover the Democratic Party had
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left me and now I'm unregistered.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm an independent.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Well, the way I look at it is it doesn't
I don't if you're going on a family vacation and
your family is all across the country and you're going
to have a reunion someplace. I don't care how you get.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There, but you get in the most get there. Yeah, yeah,
just get there.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Take a car, take a train, take a point. How
are you get there? Get there?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But you have to the problem that they have on
the on the left, and it breaks my heart because
I don't believe. I believe you need a healthy two
party system in order to I don't like super majorities,
never have. I don't like them in Massachusetts where we live, because.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Correct, you know, I prefer nothing gets.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Done, nothing gets done. I prefer a if you're going
to have one party take over the legislature, which we
have here at the I think any of the other
party in the corner office.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I like I would not mind if President Trump had
a Democrat Congress. I think that's as long as you're
going to work with each other. I think that forces
you to the middle, and I think that's where their
business is done. But the problem that we have with
the Democratic Party right now is they can't get out
of their own way.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
They don't have a leader.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
They don't have a leader, and the people that get
out there and grab the microphone say stupid asss stuff that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Absolutely freaks people out.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I want to give you an example of that. This
is a main legislator and I'm just looking to make
sure I have the name correctly. His name is Deca Dalak.
He's of Maine, and he went on ABC and or
she went on ABC and said her goal is to
help our country of Somalia. She's a Somalian immigrant and
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that's her goal as an elected immigrant, elected representative in Maine.
I'm sorry, but what the bleep policies?
Speaker 15 (20:58):
How come the politics in so it can be, you know,
resonate what we have here in the United States, the
democracy that we have. How can you help us, you know,
be a better country and build back what we used
to have back in a long time ago, so hopefully
we will be able to help our country, our former country, Somalia.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I'm sorry, but you're an elected representative of this country.
This is the problem. They think that whatever agenda they have,
if you're against it, you're some kind of Nazi conservative jackass,
whereas they're not putting this country first and things. And
I think that's one of the things that that President
Trump did right that resonate with people's like, let's fix
this problem. First, and then let's help everybody else we
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can help.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Well, In to simplify it, I think they don't put
as opposed to putting the nation's interest first. They try
to put their policies, which they're not even they're shaky
on their policies now, I mean, given the Molten comments,
and there have been several others, namely by Governor Gavin Newsom,
who wants to drive his state back towards somewhat of
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a more middle ground.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He makes that noise in his podcast that's what he
wants to do, but so far as policies have not
followed suit with that, There's been a couple movements I've
seen too.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
He wants to leave a legacy for California.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You know what he wants to do is run for president.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Well exactly, so in setting up for that, he's got
to start to come off the sideline.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Absolutely he does, and I think the podcast was a
good idea and to get more of his ideas that
might be more centrist out there, because his policies have
not supported that. And that may be not his fault
because he has a Democratic legislature that is driving the bus.
So maybe I don't know how hamstrung he is by that.
So it's good to hear what he thinks about things,
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but he needs to actually put that into action, because
if you can't see a physical, some kind of physical
response to what he's proposing, then he's toothless. And so
then he's it's not going to work for him. I mean,
he could be the next star of the Democratic Party
trying to get there, let's hope. So because they need
somebody you can carry it.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You need somebody who's willing to do it, and you
need the support of the party to do it. And
like I said, I think that person exists. They just
haven't figured out who it is yet.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, and it can't be something like Jasmine Crockett who
is just abusive to people who are against her. I
think you need somebody because that's what Trump did.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And by the way, you better be right to who
you're backing, Yeah, because you know it's a Republican game
right now. Yeah, and they've got all the cards.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So the big story this week, besides the politics and
Trump winning, of course, was the horrific, horrible massacre that
happened on a park app building in New York City
that housed, among other things the NFL, and we woke
up to here or if you were watching news live
in the evening, I wasn't because I go to bed
because I work, as you do, an want to shift,
you know. So I woke up to it, which is
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usually the case for me, and saw this.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is a New York Police commissioner.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
At six twenty eight pm, the nine one one call
center started receiving multiple nine one one calls for an
active shooter inside of three P forty five Park Avenue
at fifty second Street in Manhattan. What happened next is
under an active investigation and details are still coming in,
but here's what we know so far. Surveillance video shows
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a mail exit a double parked black BMW on Park
Avenue between fifty first and fifty second Streets, carrying an
M four rifle in his right hand. He walks towards
the building's entrance. That individual was seen exiting the BMW alone.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, and then all of the shooting began.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
The building security camera footage shows the shooter enter the lobby,
turn right, and immediately open fire on an NYPD officer.
He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a
pillar and proceeds through the lobby, spraying it with gunfire.
He makes his way to the elevator bank, where he
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shoots a security guard who is taking cover behind the
security desk. One additional male is shot in the lobby.
Per his own statement from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now he survived.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But the guy got up in the elevator, and from
what we understand, he was looking for the offices of
the NFL, but instead and it took the wrong elevator
and ended up in the management company for the high rise.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The shooter then calls the elevator, which opens in the lobby.
A female exits that elevator, and he allows her to
walk past him unharmed. He goes up to the thirty
third floor, which is Roodent management, and begins to walk
the floor, firing rounds as he traveled. One person was
struck and killed on that floor. He then proceeds down
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a hallway and shoots himself in the chest. In total,
we have five victims shot, our officer and four other
innocent civilians plus the shooter.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now they found in his pocket a letter blaming you know,
concussion injury for traumatic brain injury due to that, and
so people are jumping all over the NFL. This is
what the NFL has wrought and stuff with and so on.
I'll be honest with you, I don't buy it. I
think he believed it. I think that's what he thought
happened to him. But here's I looked him up. He
was a JV player in high school and people go,
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oh he was he was very talented. He had this
huge future ahead of him and he lost it because
of brain injury. I don't think he ever had a
future in front of him.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
He was a JV.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He wasn't even a varsity player, never played in college.
Never mind the NFL. I think he blamed that for
whatever problems that he had. And I think people are
jumping on the bandragon who don't like football, or who
think the NFL hasn't gone.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Far enough to protect players.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And while I do think they have a responsibility to
their players, I don't think this is the poster child.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, but that's I mean. The two things here is
that the guy obviously had a lengthy history of mental illness,
which is of a separate issue in and of itself.
There have been studies that show that that players, even
in pee wee football, can have repeated head injuries that
can cause problems later in life. You can't identify CT
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until you're dead, so you may think that you have
symptoms of it, and his guide or his blame may
have been misguided. But I think the I think the
whole issue gets back to what we've talked about before,
is that this country has abandoned in large part it's
focus on mental health treatment since the sixties, and since
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the Kennedy years, they started peeling it back and peeling
it back because three things that you always hear with
a mass shooting are thoughts and prayers, you know, mental illness,
and there are there's got to be moves to do
something about assault style weapons. The one thing that I
find astonishing in this whole episode in New York City
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is the man got out of his vehicle and won.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
With a rifle, with a high capacity rifle just hanging
by his side, and he was now, obviously, I'm not
going to approach this guy because he's got a high
capacity rifle and I don't but just walked in.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
There's some what did anybody do anything? I don't know.
I mean, they caught him on surveillance video. It's a
pretty clear shot.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I mean, I don't know how fast it took him.
I mean he double parked his BMW in front, walked in.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
With this we parked illegally. That's great.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's just par for the chorus in New York with
with dressed nicely, you know, and with a high powered
rifle hanging on it wasn't hidden hanging on the side,
and he walked in. I don't know how long that
took him. But if I see a guy, my first
thought is that can't be.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I can't just going to say that, I'll do a
double take, and I say can't. But maybe it is.
And you know, if you see something, say something world,
you got to raise a red via. The New York
Police say that there was nothing that anybody could have
done because the weapons were purchased legally.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You have across country with him.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Drove across country, which there's got to be some rules
that I think are maybe brilliant.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, there are.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You basically have to have If you have you can
have a fifty state license, which means you can.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Travel and travel anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
But if you don't have that license, you have to
stay within the boundaries of your state.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
This all diverts the focus from what needs to happen
is that we need to have some accountability for mental health,
because every one of these shootings has something to do
with a mentally troubled individual.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I agree with almost everyone of.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Them completely, and I think too often, as in this case,
something else escapegoaded. In this case it's the NFL, and
it's like, I don't buy that. I agree that he
could have suffered CT with that with cti's ct CTC,
but they keep saying, oh, we had this great future.
He never made it out of JV, so how do
you know? So I don't buy this he had this
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great future, So I think he may have suffered injuries
and he had mental illness and he had to put
the blame somewhere because it was too overwhelming for him,
and that's where he put it well, But NFL is
not to blame. Same thing I think when people say, oh,
they shot because of transgender aggression, maybe maybe not, I
don't know, but whoever that person was, whatever they're they
had an underlying mental health issue that needed help and
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they got overlooked.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I mean, I think the problem is is that you
don't buy it and a lot of other people don't
buy it, but the gunman did buy it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, and that's all that matters. That's rights case, That's exactly.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
And so you may have not thought that he had
a future, but maybe at some point he thought that
that's what he wanted to pursue, without a doubt, didn't
for whatever, maybe because of the I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Without a doubt he believed. I have no doubt mind
that he believed it. And that's what was the catast
that that doesn't mean that somebody else was responsible, but
he truly believed that somebody else was. You wouldn't have
this other course, So I think it's just it was.
It's just one of the saddest stories.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
It's a horrible story. And somebody again and again, Yeah,
until we did something with the same aft math of
mental health thoughts and prayers and and action on guns
or lack of action on them.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You know, I actually looked up the company we both
work for their mental health policy to see, you know,
if they put their money with their mouth as they do.
Did you know that if you went to counseling our company,
which is iHeart.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, I was curious.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
It's the company handbook.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well I was curious about that because for the same
reason you were talking about. And I was like, you know,
who is helping on the mental health level? And I'm wondering,
is it start with the employers, it's a start with
personal what is it? So I thought, just for the
hell of it, I looked up Iheart's policy and they
I was pleasantly surprised. I was like, oh my god,
not only do they help you find a therapist, but
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they cover it one hundred percent. And I thought, Okay,
iHeart has its issues, without a doubt, but that is
not one of them.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
No exactly, But God, bless this environment.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You do you do?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So we end each episode with the truth control and
this particular and ninety percent of the time they're President Trump,
because let's face it, he's a He's a world class troller.
That's kind of what he does to amuse himself. And
I think this week was no different. And you can
tell me whether you think he's basically screwing with the
Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Mayor of London.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I know how I feel about it.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
He was in London during the same I will I'm
not a fan of your mayor.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I think your man. I think he's done a terrible job,
the mayor of London, but a nasty person. I think
he's done. I think no, I think he's a friend
of mine. Russia. No, I think he's done a terrible job.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
But I would certainly visit London.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You Okay, So he's sitting next to the mayor is
one of the mayor's best friends actually, and he goes, yeah,
he's a horrible human being and just a bad, bad mayor.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And even that, the.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Primer is going, you know, he is a friend, he
is a friend of mine, could you know? And doesn't
stop him. Doesn't stop him. Now, was he just bleeping
with him? Does he really dislike the mayor then intensely?
Or was he just wanting to poke people because hey,
the British have not exactly been that supportive of President.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Che I don't know. I just think that there's always
the extra card to play with the president and that
this might be the opening salvo in whatever negotiation he
hasn't that's so's trolling, sure, I think, yeah, I mean
I think he is, because there's no reason for him.
He's not threatened by this mayor.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
No, he's not threatened by this Prime Minister either.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
For that matter, Minister, so you know it's all about
a game of chicken.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
With playing Chick. That's like the name of a seat
TV series, don't you think, you know?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Playing Chicken with.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Donald Trump a chicken taco if you will, it.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Could have been.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It could have taken the place of the Apprentice if
he had so thought. Thank you everybody for listening this week.
We upload a new episode every single Monday, so please
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and avoid Park Avenue, New York if you or at
least call nine one ie if you see a guy
with a gun. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
This is a news Bite
Even Democrats admit Trump can't stop winning. The NFL is
blamed for a mass shooting in New York City, and
President Trump does his best Sean Connery impersonation. It's been
a surreal week, which you'll hear. And I did they
really just say that cuts?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
This is news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Our biggest promise. We have so much growth at the
FED won't cut?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What the Jesus? Oh my sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Everybody it okay.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
At six twenty eight pm, the nine one one call
center started receiving multiple nine one one calls for an
active shooter inside of three forty five Park Avenue at
fifty second Street in Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
With John Connery. And he let out a howl once
she said, let the bloody bloke building, damn golf courses
and let him put money into our country.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And Sean Connery?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Have you ever heard of president do an impersonation of
anybody before?
Speaker 7 (01:17):
No, anybody, or that was an impersonation.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That that was Trump's version of an impersonation of Sean
Connery helping him out, helping him out with the golf course.
Just to make sure that's the one in Aberdeen. I
think he just opened as a matter of fact, but so,
but the full he actually explains it. He was doing
Miranda Devine's podcast one when he broke in. That was
Sean Connery.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It was very tough zoning environmentally here to get that proved.
And when they approved it, they approved two courses. But
I had to start the second one within ten years
from the first, et cetera, et cetera. So I didn't
start it let's say two years ago, we would have
lost that right. You'd never get it back. But John Connery,
it was very hard getting the zoning because of the
environment minute and it was very highly protected.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And let's go a triple si.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
And he let out a howl once. He said, let
the bloody bloke build his damn golf courses and let
him put money into our country. What's wrong with you?
And as soon as he said that, the whole thing
got to prove like so fast it was crazy. Told him,
I said, thank you very much. I said, you have
great power. He's like the king. I go him, the
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King of Scotland. But so I got to know him
a little bit after that. He was great he was
a tough cookie, but you do a very good Scottish accent.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, but he did say that, he said, let the
bloody bloke build his bloody golf courses. And you know
what when he said that, it or just I got
it proved.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He is King of Coline, a terrible Scottish he does.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And he's Scott's his mother was Scottish, you know, so
it's like Scott. So yeah, but you know, he's just
I can't even picture another president even attempting to do
something like that.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Did you see the president cheat at golf this week?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I heard about it. I heard about the little arm
coming out. I just and I, to be honest with you,
I was kind of shocked by that.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I was. I was surprised that my golf buddies this
week hadn't seen that. So I re enacted the cheating episode.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Golf course and as their response.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
They they laughed and they said, uh, you know, and
the question, I said, of course he cheats. I mean everybody,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
To everybody cheat? Is that a confessional?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yeah, I mean I think so, I think so. But anyway,
I digress.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, I found it. He's an original, that's just it
just whether you like him or he is nobody like
himctly And you know, and this is this is the
president who told us, by the way, that we were
going to get tired of winning, you know, if he
were became president. And so my question is are we
tired of winning it? Because, to be honest with you,
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I don't think that was hyperbole given what's going on
in the economy right now.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He the man keeps winning, and it's and doing Scottish
impersonations of what's his space Connery. I know my mind
went blank all of a sudden aside. You know, he's
in Scotland for twenty four hours and basically announces a
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really big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So we have good news. We've reached a deal. It's
a good deal for everybody.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I believe, and it's I think you were saying, this
is probably the biggest deal ever reached in.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Any capacity, trade or beyond trade. It is. It's it's
a giant deal with lots of countries.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
We have a trade deal between the two largest economies
in the world, and it's a big deal. It's a
huge deal. It will bring stability, it will bring predictability
that's very important for our businesses on both sides of
the Atlantic. It's fifteen percent and tariffs across the board,
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all inclusive, inclusive. It's a huge deal. Was tough negotiations.
I knew it at the beginning, and it was indeed
very tough, but we came to good conclusions for both sides.
So again, congratulations and many things.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was the EU Commissioner Ursula as it pronounced vonder.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Land wonder I've heard both vonder lyon is probably more accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We're accurate. I never never.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
By the way, as of this, as of this morning
when we're recording this, it is not a done deal.
It is a preliminary deal.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Which is still you know, they I think they.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
They've reached consensus on what they want to do, but
I'm pretty sure that there are.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
More not signed.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
It's not signed, and there are more than a few
countries who are saying we can't meet the obligations of
the more than one trillion dollar investment that we that
you've promised to the United States. So you know, it's
it's going to be one of those She.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Got them kicking and screaming.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But the fact that he was able to to make
an agreement with the EU commission Commissioner, who the other
countries are in fact bound to. They have an economic
agreement that they will abide by what she says. So
and I don't think she made a point blank. I
think which you have has a lot of posturing because
people are ticked.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, I think so too, Which brings me to the
point that some of the wins, maybe a lot of
the wins by the president aren't quite wins yet. You know,
we're on the right track, sure, But I mean he's
even I mean even when you even while all this
is going on, the Epstein files lurk.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's not a win or a lose we're talking about
on the economic level.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I mean he's but yeah, that's a big loss.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
If he's Well, let me just put it to this way.
If you want to talk about Epstein, I don't, but
go ahead. Well you brought it up.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You brought it up. So President Biden and his minions
had controlled the Epstein files for four years. If Donald
Trump was in those files, don't you think they would
have released them by now? Especially so I think we
can pretty much say no, he's probably not in there.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Here's what I would say about the Democrats at that
point in time, that and this point in time, that
they don't know their anatomy from their ass to their elbow.
I think that's true, and so I'm not sure that
they would have thought that that was a decent thing
to do at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't think they cared what was decent, given what
we were discovering they were doing. Otherwise, the Steel dossier
was made up crap about golden showers and hookers. I
don't think they would have had a problem releasing Trump's
name in the Epstein files if they were there, given
what they did with the Steele dossier and making that up.
But if you're talking about winning, he has all these
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trade agreements that they're either actually signed or are in
the process of being finalized. And while he's doing that
near you, he turns around and basically settles a war
with Cambodia and Thailand, I mean through you know, trade,
by by forcing their hand on trade. He announced that
when he was there too.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
We were very happy we stopped the Cambodia war with
a very nice local rival that frankly, they have had
wars for many, many years, over five hundred years, and
we got it stopped, as you probably know, and that
just came out in the news right now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We worked on it yesterday, we got it sapped.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
At it and he basically said, you guys, keep fighting,
no trade deal with you and that strong army.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You bet. But if that's what stops the liten I agree.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I mean, if it's if you need to, if you
need to strong arm, you need to. You know, the
carrot and stick approach, yeah, certainly works. The heavyweight hitter works.
You know, all of this proves that the world cannot
survive now without the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think that's true.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
And while when you look at the fact that all
of the these deals are putting an increased burden on
American consumers on the surface, but have.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They really so far, well, I don't believe they.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
Have not yet. But when you're dealing with percentages of
fifteen thirty percent on imports, at some point some of
those costs are going to be passed down to you
and make.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
If you're buying imports.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
But that's correct, you know it's correct.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You don't have to buy imports the whole.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well, in many cases you do because we don't make
the equivalents here. And if we do make the equivalents.
They come with parts that are from But at the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Same time that you have that, your point well made
about you know, raising prices, wages are going up, and
also at the same time inflation is going down. So
while on paper it may look like prices may go up,
that doesn't mean it's going to be felt by the consumer.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
You and I have talked about this in the past,
is that every every report, every economic report that the
country produces now is historical in nature. It doesn't look forward.
It's not a current snapshot a day like right now,
what does the economy look like right now, this very moment,
this instant, And I believe that at some point we're
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going to be able to take a look at that
where we are right now, and artificial intelligence will be
able to make an adjustment as to where that's so
rightly we're going to be, then we'll be able to So.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think that's a great with hypnosis.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Where we are right now is faced with increased costs,
whether you want to.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Look at it, but where we are right now is
also faced with decreasing inflation, which is something that we
didn't that most people said wouldn't happen.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And are.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
In fact, I want to play some.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Cuss of you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
This is to be honest with you. The anti Trump movement,
which are mostly Democrats, not all, but you know, mostly Democrats,
and not all Democrats are anti Trump, but there's a
good section of them are fit to be tied because
the doom and gloom that they said was coming with
the tariffs has not appeared. In fact, it's been the opposite.
Our debts going down, the prices are not being raised,
(10:55):
inflation is going down, wages are up, so the economy
is looking really good. Not everybody is happy, and not
everybody is honest about what's going on in the economy.
This is a cut from Mike Nellis. He's a former
senior advisor for Kamala Harris, and he says inflation has
gone up. And this is Sandra Smith on Fox, who's
actually not the most pro Trump person at Fox to
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be by any stretch of the imagination, and she publicly
calls him on it.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
We need to get back to basics on how we're
going to deal with inflation and other issues and telling
it in a much more simple way, talking about our accomplishments.
But but look, it isn't going to get fixed overnight,
and right now the president of the United States is
Donald Trump. Republicans are in control of Congress. They're currently
in recess. Rather than do anything about inflation, Donald Trump
was in front of the White House today claiming that
he's crushed inflation, which is objectively false. If you were
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celebrating over the fourth of July, right now, you had
record beef price. Do you know what is Yeah, it's
like about three or four percent.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No, it's below three.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
It's been a long time since it's gotten there.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I mean you're looking at now.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Donald Trump promised to make grocery prices go down on
when I promised to make housing prices go down on
day one or six months in.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Down, I'll give you that.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I'll give you that they hadn't come down. Inflation is
still going up and it's rising according to the latest stats.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
That's not that's not the case.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Inflation has come down.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Inflation my nature is growth in prices.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But the growth is I.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Mean, he just won't admit that. Here they're putting out
this talking point and when you say, well, look at
the data next to you, well, no, no, can't see it,
can't see. It's like my cat with a spider. My
cat refuses to see a spider. She you know, why
do you think I have her? I have her to
kill spiders, basically, and if a spider calls by, she
looks up at the sky like, I don't see it.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
You know what you got to do? You got to
fire your cat.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I think that, Well you can't. Fortunately, fortunately for me,
I love my cat, so I'm not going to fire.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But here's Bill Maher on his podcast saying he was
really wrong about the tariffs.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tariffs.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Now, I remember, I, along with probably most people, were
saying at the beginning, oh, you know, by the fourth
of Jill life, somebody had to think how the country was.
The economy was going to be tanked by then, and
I was kind of like, well, that seems right to me.
But that didn't happen now, it could happen tomorrow. I'm
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just saying, that's reality. So let's work first from the reality,
or that not from I just hate Donald Trump because
that's boring and doesn't get us anywhere and lead you
to dishonesty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I completely agree with that. They may may do exactly
what you say tomorrow, but right now it isn't And
it's it's so good that you heard this in the open,
that Jim Kramer let an F bomb fly live on
the air because you couldn't believe how well the economy
was doing.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that
the Fed won't cut what Jesus, I'm so sorry everybody
in the moment. It's a cable with a cable with
a ticker.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That people doing live TV.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Jim, Though, to your point, Golden today the most notable change,
You're five, the most notable.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
I just feel like enough with the coms boom, let
Carl talk now.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So it's and you even have Chris Matthews, who hates
Donald Trump. Hates Donald Trump, and he basically has come
out and admitted essentially that everybody is feeling the winning
side of the Trump administration and he can't believe it.
Speaker 14 (14:40):
To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trumpy.
These polls that come out and show him not doing well,
I don't I don't buy that. I think strength, his
strength is still greater than the Democratic strength. He is
a stronger public figure than the Democratic people. I mean,
Obama's has tremendous charisma, but Trump has strengths, and I
(15:03):
think that's what all the voters look for. But they
wanted president who was a strong figure. And he's got
it and he can. It's just there, and half the
country buys it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's because half the country. Half the country is doing well.
And even CNN says, listen, the data is that he
is freaking winning. He's winning on an economic level, and
he's winning on a hearts and mind level too, because
people actually see, I know what I used to pay
for eggs last winter. I know what I pay now,
and it's a few dollars, not fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's like a few dollars less.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
The Democratic Party and let's take a look at Dems
and let's look at their net favorable ratings.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Whoof woof?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I mean, my god.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
You know we mentioned CNN, we had that pole come
out a little while ago. On their net favor rating,
they were twenty six points underwater. You think that's low enough.
How about we go even lower. We'll go to this
side of the screen. I'm gonna walk over here. We
go to the Wall Street Journal minus third thirty points,
thirty points underwear. They're a lowest stern record these polls
have records going all the way back since the early
(16:06):
nineteen hundred and nineties. And when it comes to the
Democratic Democratic parties net favoral rating in both the Wall
Street Journal pal and the CNN poll, the Democratic Party
is breaking records in the way Jessica Dean, you don't
want to break records.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Here's the question for you.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Is a Democratic Party killed itself by doing unreasonable responses
to positive things and dropping the ball on things that
they should be pushing forward on things that you know,
social issues that are not Trump's strong points, instead of
trying to fight him on the economic level, where which
is his strong point, go after what he's not winning on,
(16:43):
not what he is winning on. And by doing that,
have they lost their credibility? And are they destroying themselves?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, all I can go by is what this
country has been through in the past and everything that
is happening today, we've been there, done that now. It'll take,
for example, to the Democratic Party. It was declared dead
when Ronald took six hundred electoral votes one year, and
you know, an administration later, they are back in power.
And you know, Democratic Democrats in the past used to
(17:12):
be more conservative Republicans in the past used to be
a little bit more liberal, which gets me back to
my argument that at some point you have to realize
that somebody has got to galvanize the country and play
the middle ground because you can't keep playing polar opposites.
And I said to Ben last week on this program
that you know, its nature abhores a vacuum, and the
(17:36):
vacuum right now is in the middle. So somebody needs
to needs to drive the bus back. And the problem
with the Democrats right now is that nobody wants to
admit that, you know, statements by Seth Molten regarding transgender
athletes is more of a middle position.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Everybody's like, whoa, you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The party's gone to left, that exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
And they don't realize that right now. And Republicans continue
to play their right wing hot hand, so there's no
need for them to come back into the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But if you have a force, whether it's a Democratic
Party or the America Party that drives that drives politics
down the middle of the road, which is where we
ultimately will be, there's no reason for the Republicans to
move off their base. But there's more than enough reason
for the Democrats to do it. The problem is they
don't have a message and they don't have a mouthpiece
(18:28):
to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
They don't, and they've been taken over the the podium
has been taken over by the progressive left, and it's
causing problems because one their economic message people discovered was
bull crap. It was it was useless and drove inflation
up and there was you know, and and then they
lied about it, and so they destroyed their own credibility
(18:53):
on top of bad economic policy. Now they have most people.
I did some research on this last year. I discover
most people, to be honest with you, are like me.
I can't speak for you, but I'm economically conservative but
socially liberal and which makes me somewhere near the middle
and so, and that's where most people are. And I'm
not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I was a
Democrat for many years then discover the Democratic Party had
(19:16):
left me and now I'm unregistered.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm an independent.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Well, the way I look at it is it doesn't
I don't if you're going on a family vacation and
your family is all across the country and you're going
to have a reunion someplace. I don't care how you get.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There, but you get in the most get there. Yeah, yeah,
just get there.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Take a car, take a train, take a point. How
are you get there? Get there?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But you have to the problem that they have on
the on the left, and it breaks my heart because
I don't believe. I believe you need a healthy two
party system in order to I don't like super majorities,
never have. I don't like them in Massachusetts where we live, because.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Correct, you know, I prefer nothing gets.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Done, nothing gets done. I prefer a if you're going
to have one party take over the legislature, which we
have here at the I think any of the other
party in the corner office.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I like I would not mind if President Trump had
a Democrat Congress. I think that's as long as you're
going to work with each other. I think that forces
you to the middle, and I think that's where their
business is done. But the problem that we have with
the Democratic Party right now is they can't get out
of their own way.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
They don't have a leader.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
They don't have a leader, and the people that get
out there and grab the microphone say stupid asss stuff that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Absolutely freaks people out.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I want to give you an example of that. This
is a main legislator and I'm just looking to make
sure I have the name correctly. His name is Deca Dalak.
He's of Maine, and he went on ABC and or
she went on ABC and said her goal is to
help our country of Somalia. She's a Somalian immigrant and
(20:49):
that's her goal as an elected immigrant, elected representative in Maine.
I'm sorry, but what the bleep policies?
Speaker 15 (20:58):
How come the politics in so it can be, you know,
resonate what we have here in the United States, the
democracy that we have. How can you help us, you know,
be a better country and build back what we used
to have back in a long time ago, so hopefully
we will be able to help our country, our former country, Somalia.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I'm sorry, but you're an elected representative of this country.
This is the problem. They think that whatever agenda they have,
if you're against it, you're some kind of Nazi conservative jackass,
whereas they're not putting this country first and things. And
I think that's one of the things that that President
Trump did right that resonate with people's like, let's fix
this problem. First, and then let's help everybody else we
(21:42):
can help.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Well, In to simplify it, I think they don't put
as opposed to putting the nation's interest first. They try
to put their policies, which they're not even they're shaky
on their policies now, I mean, given the Molten comments,
and there have been several others, namely by Governor Gavin Newsom,
who wants to drive his state back towards somewhat of
(22:04):
a more middle ground.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He makes that noise in his podcast that's what he
wants to do, but so far as policies have not
followed suit with that, There's been a couple movements I've
seen too.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
He wants to leave a legacy for California.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You know what he wants to do is run for president.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Well exactly, so in setting up for that, he's got
to start to come off the sideline.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Absolutely he does, and I think the podcast was a
good idea and to get more of his ideas that
might be more centrist out there, because his policies have
not supported that. And that may be not his fault
because he has a Democratic legislature that is driving the bus.
So maybe I don't know how hamstrung he is by that.
So it's good to hear what he thinks about things,
(22:46):
but he needs to actually put that into action, because
if you can't see a physical, some kind of physical
response to what he's proposing, then he's toothless. And so
then he's it's not going to work for him. I mean,
he could be the next star of the Democratic Party
trying to get there, let's hope. So because they need
somebody you can carry it.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You need somebody who's willing to do it, and you
need the support of the party to do it. And
like I said, I think that person exists. They just
haven't figured out who it is yet.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, and it can't be something like Jasmine Crockett who
is just abusive to people who are against her. I
think you need somebody because that's what Trump did.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And by the way, you better be right to who
you're backing, Yeah, because you know it's a Republican game
right now. Yeah, and they've got all the cards.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So the big story this week, besides the politics and
Trump winning, of course, was the horrific, horrible massacre that
happened on a park app building in New York City
that housed, among other things the NFL, and we woke
up to here or if you were watching news live
in the evening, I wasn't because I go to bed
because I work, as you do, an want to shift,
you know. So I woke up to it, which is
(23:53):
usually the case for me, and saw this.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is a New York Police commissioner.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
At six twenty eight pm, the nine one one call
center started receiving multiple nine one one calls for an
active shooter inside of three P forty five Park Avenue
at fifty second Street in Manhattan. What happened next is
under an active investigation and details are still coming in,
but here's what we know so far. Surveillance video shows
(24:21):
a mail exit a double parked black BMW on Park
Avenue between fifty first and fifty second Streets, carrying an
M four rifle in his right hand. He walks towards
the building's entrance. That individual was seen exiting the BMW alone.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, and then all of the shooting began.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
The building security camera footage shows the shooter enter the lobby,
turn right, and immediately open fire on an NYPD officer.
He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a
pillar and proceeds through the lobby, spraying it with gunfire.
He makes his way to the elevator bank, where he
(25:03):
shoots a security guard who is taking cover behind the
security desk. One additional male is shot in the lobby.
Per his own statement from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now he survived.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But the guy got up in the elevator, and from
what we understand, he was looking for the offices of
the NFL, but instead and it took the wrong elevator
and ended up in the management company for the high rise.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The shooter then calls the elevator, which opens in the lobby.
A female exits that elevator, and he allows her to
walk past him unharmed. He goes up to the thirty
third floor, which is Roodent management, and begins to walk
the floor, firing rounds as he traveled. One person was
struck and killed on that floor. He then proceeds down
(25:51):
a hallway and shoots himself in the chest. In total,
we have five victims shot, our officer and four other
innocent civilians plus the shooter.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now they found in his pocket a letter blaming you know,
concussion injury for traumatic brain injury due to that, and
so people are jumping all over the NFL. This is
what the NFL has wrought and stuff with and so on.
I'll be honest with you, I don't buy it. I
think he believed it. I think that's what he thought
happened to him. But here's I looked him up. He
was a JV player in high school and people go,
(26:25):
oh he was he was very talented. He had this
huge future ahead of him and he lost it because
of brain injury. I don't think he ever had a
future in front of him.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
He was a JV.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He wasn't even a varsity player, never played in college.
Never mind the NFL. I think he blamed that for
whatever problems that he had. And I think people are
jumping on the bandragon who don't like football, or who
think the NFL hasn't gone.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Far enough to protect players.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And while I do think they have a responsibility to
their players, I don't think this is the poster child.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, but that's I mean. The two things here is
that the guy obviously had a lengthy history of mental illness,
which is of a separate issue in and of itself.
There have been studies that show that that players, even
in pee wee football, can have repeated head injuries that
can cause problems later in life. You can't identify CT
(27:18):
until you're dead, so you may think that you have
symptoms of it, and his guide or his blame may
have been misguided. But I think the I think the
whole issue gets back to what we've talked about before,
is that this country has abandoned in large part it's
focus on mental health treatment since the sixties, and since
(27:40):
the Kennedy years, they started peeling it back and peeling
it back because three things that you always hear with
a mass shooting are thoughts and prayers, you know, mental illness,
and there are there's got to be moves to do
something about assault style weapons. The one thing that I
find astonishing in this whole episode in New York City
(28:02):
is the man got out of his vehicle and won.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
With a rifle, with a high capacity rifle just hanging
by his side, and he was now, obviously, I'm not
going to approach this guy because he's got a high
capacity rifle and I don't but just walked in.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
There's some what did anybody do anything? I don't know.
I mean, they caught him on surveillance video. It's a
pretty clear shot.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I mean, I don't know how fast it took him.
I mean he double parked his BMW in front, walked in.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
With this we parked illegally. That's great.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's just par for the chorus in New York with
with dressed nicely, you know, and with a high powered
rifle hanging on it wasn't hidden hanging on the side,
and he walked in. I don't know how long that
took him. But if I see a guy, my first
thought is that can't be.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I can't just going to say that, I'll do a
double take, and I say can't. But maybe it is.
And you know, if you see something, say something world,
you got to raise a red via. The New York
Police say that there was nothing that anybody could have
done because the weapons were purchased legally.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You have across country with him.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Drove across country, which there's got to be some rules
that I think are maybe brilliant.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, there are.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You basically have to have If you have you can
have a fifty state license, which means you can.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Travel and travel anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
But if you don't have that license, you have to
stay within the boundaries of your state.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
This all diverts the focus from what needs to happen
is that we need to have some accountability for mental health,
because every one of these shootings has something to do
with a mentally troubled individual.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I agree with almost everyone of.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Them completely, and I think too often, as in this case,
something else escapegoaded. In this case it's the NFL, and
it's like, I don't buy that. I agree that he
could have suffered CT with that with cti's ct CTC,
but they keep saying, oh, we had this great future.
He never made it out of JV, so how do
you know? So I don't buy this he had this
(29:58):
great future, So I think he may have suffered injuries
and he had mental illness and he had to put
the blame somewhere because it was too overwhelming for him,
and that's where he put it well, But NFL is
not to blame. Same thing I think when people say, oh,
they shot because of transgender aggression, maybe maybe not, I
don't know, but whoever that person was, whatever they're they
had an underlying mental health issue that needed help and
(30:20):
they got overlooked.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I mean, I think the problem is is that you
don't buy it and a lot of other people don't
buy it, but the gunman did buy it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, and that's all that matters. That's rights case, That's exactly.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
And so you may have not thought that he had
a future, but maybe at some point he thought that
that's what he wanted to pursue, without a doubt, didn't
for whatever, maybe because of the I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Without a doubt he believed. I have no doubt mind
that he believed it. And that's what was the catast
that that doesn't mean that somebody else was responsible, but
he truly believed that somebody else was. You wouldn't have
this other course, So I think it's just it was.
It's just one of the saddest stories.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
It's a horrible story. And somebody again and again, Yeah,
until we did something with the same aft math of
mental health thoughts and prayers and and action on guns
or lack of action on them.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You know, I actually looked up the company we both
work for their mental health policy to see, you know,
if they put their money with their mouth as they do.
Did you know that if you went to counseling our company,
which is iHeart.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, I was curious.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
It's the company handbook.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well I was curious about that because for the same
reason you were talking about. And I was like, you know,
who is helping on the mental health level? And I'm wondering,
is it start with the employers, it's a start with
personal what is it? So I thought, just for the
hell of it, I looked up Iheart's policy and they
I was pleasantly surprised. I was like, oh my god,
not only do they help you find a therapist, but
(31:44):
they cover it one hundred percent. And I thought, Okay,
iHeart has its issues, without a doubt, but that is
not one of them.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
No exactly, But God, bless this environment.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You do you do?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So we end each episode with the truth control and
this particular and ninety percent of the time they're President Trump,
because let's face it, he's a He's a world class troller.
That's kind of what he does to amuse himself. And
I think this week was no different. And you can
tell me whether you think he's basically screwing with the
Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Mayor of London.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I know how I feel about it.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
He was in London during the same I will I'm
not a fan of your mayor.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I think your man. I think he's done a terrible job,
the mayor of London, but a nasty person. I think
he's done. I think no, I think he's a friend
of mine. Russia. No, I think he's done a terrible job.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
But I would certainly visit London.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You Okay, So he's sitting next to the mayor is
one of the mayor's best friends actually, and he goes, yeah,
he's a horrible human being and just a bad, bad mayor.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And even that, the.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Primer is going, you know, he is a friend, he
is a friend of mine, could you know? And doesn't
stop him. Doesn't stop him. Now, was he just bleeping
with him? Does he really dislike the mayor then intensely?
Or was he just wanting to poke people because hey,
the British have not exactly been that supportive of President.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Che I don't know. I just think that there's always
the extra card to play with the president and that
this might be the opening salvo in whatever negotiation he
hasn't that's so's trolling, sure, I think, yeah, I mean
I think he is, because there's no reason for him.
He's not threatened by this mayor.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
No, he's not threatened by this Prime Minister either.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
For that matter, Minister, so you know it's all about
a game of chicken.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
With playing Chick. That's like the name of a seat
TV series, don't you think, you know?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Playing Chicken with.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Donald Trump a chicken taco if you will, it.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Could have been.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It could have taken the place of the Apprentice if
he had so thought. Thank you everybody for listening this week.
We upload a new episode every single Monday, so please
join back next Monday and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile,
you can you can contact me and Ben and Jeff
at on x at Newsbye three or on Facebook at
news bite. And until next week, stay safe and sound
(34:14):
and avoid Park Avenue, New York if you or at
least call nine one ie if you see a guy
with a gun. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
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