July 13, 2025 • 8 mins
Mindy and Lad Dilgard unpack the Epstein Files, rising DOJ–FBI tensions, and the impact of tariffs!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's been a lot of somewhere got the booze guy.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're back out there a Sunday afternoon. I want to
say sunny. Sometimes the sun's out, sometimes it's not. But
we're here.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We're glad, we're so thankful that you're listening. Doubt Lad
dill Gard from Stand and Speak, which is just a
YouTube channel that you have on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Online news magazine on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's kind of exploding.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's going good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And so I'd like to ask Lad and YouTube Zach,
because you go, you both are so in the new
or in the in the know with the news and
everything that's going on about different topics that are like
the hot topics that people have been talking about this week.
This week, you look at Epstein was a big deal.
Immigration was a big deal. Kids working at a marijuana farm.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
In Texas was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
What what do you think is making the rounds that
most people here in Ohio are talking about and care
the most about right now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I think all of the above, for sure, but
also the economy. Keep going back to that. You know,
inflation's under control, the unemployment rates slightly down. We had
a budget surplus in June, which is very rare hasn't
happened since twenty seventeen, So.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
There was about twenty seven billion or something twenty seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Now, what does that mean for those of us who
really don't know a lot about the financial end of
the country. What does that mean for a surplus? I
know one thing.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It does look very good for the Trump administration. Correct Well, the.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
More the more budget surplus we have, the better. It's
not probably going to happen again anytime soon. There was
a little bit of a hiccup in how the calendar goes.
But if we can control spending, eventually we'll control interest
rates and that will put more money into everybody's pocket.
But right now, the only hurdle standing between us and
(01:49):
a really strong economy is the Federal Reserve not increasing
or not decreasing interest rates, which are among the highest
in the world. So we have to continue working to
to control spending and lower inflation and get those interest
rates down.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think, and this may be one of the biggest
problems right now with the economy because really the market
is on the rise, it's doing great prices that the
gas pumps are falling, egg prices are falling, prices at
the grocery store, for the most part.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Are falling right now. So why aren't interest rates changing?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you'd have to ask Jerome Powell in the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't think it gets along roll well with President
Trump either.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So we talked earlier about, you know, whether Trump would
or could fire Jerome Powell. He's probably not going to
do that. But there is an article out today about
the Federal Reserve spending two point five billion dollars to
build a complex in Washington, d C. And it's way
over budget. They've had to keep asking for money. It's
(02:49):
very mismanaged. That might be what sends Jerome Powell out
the door, and then we can get somebody in there
who's less politically motivated against Trump, in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because if I remember right, the interest rates did drop
right at the end of President Biden's term.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, a lot of people think that was trying to
pump up the economy a little bit there before the election,
because there's no explicable reason inflation hadn't decreased. It was
still up in the upper twos and threes, so he
just decided to drop it. That looks political to me.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
When you own your own business like a lot of
our listeners do, and Zach like you do. How much
are you affected by interest rates or the market the
economy right now?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I haven't really seen any fluctuation. I don't know if
it's because we're still like boutique small.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We are.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I mean, we we struggled, we are product problems in production,
we have. We have enough volume of calls coming in
and business demand that you know, we we overlap sometimes.
We're we're in the hiring process if you know anybody,
so interest rates are that we are? Yeah, we are
hiring for the right the right team member. I mean,
(04:03):
we we need somebody that is willing to get into
the you know, crazy small addicts or cross spaces and
and know that that's not going to be you know,
they're there forever position in the company. We'd like to
build from the bottom up. So we're building our a
team right now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
All right, good to know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're going to talk more about mold mentor a little
bit later in the hour. But the thing that has
just seemed to spark so much attention right now, and
it seems to be really a dividing line between the
f the FBI, and the DJ This.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Whole Epstein case.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It doesn't seem like it's ever going to go away,
even though some people want it to go away.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I know, it just is the gift that keeps on
giving to splitting, right. So, so you know, there's a
lot of people in MAGA world who are disappointed that
there wasn't a lot of things disclosed in this last
thing that was released by the FBI. But my take
on that is that we are going to move on
(05:05):
and to bigger and better things, and that there was
anything that was implicating Trump or anyone else in the
Republican world with Jeffrey Epstein would have been released by
the Biden.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Absolutely, because they had the files first and did nothing
with it. So yeah, if Trump was mentioned in there,
I'm sure that the prior administration would have put that
out first and foremost, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So why do you think that this list will never
be released? Doesn't sound like well.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
They say there's no list, and my question would be,
if there is a list, what is the list? Is
this the list of people who flew to this island,
you know, to be with young girls? Or I keep
hearing about a list, but nobody has defined the list
for me, so I don't know. I honestly think that
Bill Clinton took twenty six trips to this island, and
(05:56):
if they had incentive to cover up or shred any
of this information, that would be a big one to
shred it a long time ago because Bill Clinton was
wrapped up with Epstein and Trump was not. Trump said
he's a creep. Get them out of my club.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I did hear that as well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So the big question is does Pam Bondy keep her
job with the DOJ.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think she does because Trump has said she will.
And also, Republicans need to stop calling for firings of
our leaders whenever something doesn't turn out right. Democrats don't
do this. I mean, you look at the failures in
the Biden administration, from the supply chain, the FAA, Afghanistan
and so on. Nobody was fired. They wouldn't fire anybody
(06:39):
for anything, but Republicans. We have a circular firing squad
and it doesn't help anybody but the other side.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You agree with that, Zach, because I've felt that way
a lot with different issues in the country. Where Democrats
right or wrong, come together and they stick together, where
Republicans will splitter off and I think attack one another
more so than the democratic part.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Do you think so or now or lad? And I
just lose our mind.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, it's it's true. I mean they say we eat
our own. Yeah, and and I think I've caught some
heat from even conservative school board members.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But what do you mean, You probably can't do too much.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
But yeah, I mean they wanted to. It's I was censured.
It's no secret. But it's just a disagreement, a formal
disagreement by my school board for criticizing the superintendent essentially,
which is sort of I see that as a school
board member's job is to be critical when necessary and
question things. So yeah, I've heard that. People said, hey,
(07:39):
it's it's going to be hard to get you know,
conservative people, you know, fathers like yourself to run if
if as conservatives, we eat our own. So it was
a lesson learned. But I hold no grudge.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I had no idea you were censored. You should absolutely
have the right. Any school board member, any city council member,
should have the right to speak up or speak out
against either a mayor or a superintendent or anyone high
in office. We can't always agree on everything. I mean,
I look at my husband, being a head coach for
so many years, if an assistant of his spoke out
(08:13):
against him, Randy appreciated that, because you want to hear
other points of view, you want to hear a different
look on things, all right, So we need to take
a break. When we come back, though, we want your opinion,
your thoughts about Cleveland the baseball team. Should they stay
the Guardians because there's a little movement right now to
maybe bring the name the Indians back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Call us up, everybody at six one four eight two
one nine eight eight six sixty one four eight two
one nine eighty six.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cleveland Guardians or Cleveland Indians? Let us know, we'll be
right back.
It's been a lot of somewhere got the booze guy.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're back out there a Sunday afternoon. I want to
say sunny. Sometimes the sun's out, sometimes it's not. But
we're here.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We're glad, we're so thankful that you're listening. Doubt Lad
dill Gard from Stand and Speak, which is just a
YouTube channel that you have on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Online news magazine on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's kind of exploding.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's going good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And so I'd like to ask Lad and YouTube Zach,
because you go, you both are so in the new
or in the in the know with the news and
everything that's going on about different topics that are like
the hot topics that people have been talking about this week.
This week, you look at Epstein was a big deal.
Immigration was a big deal. Kids working at a marijuana farm.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
In Texas was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
What what do you think is making the rounds that
most people here in Ohio are talking about and care
the most about right now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I think all of the above, for sure, but
also the economy. Keep going back to that. You know,
inflation's under control, the unemployment rates slightly down. We had
a budget surplus in June, which is very rare hasn't
happened since twenty seventeen, So.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
There was about twenty seven billion or something twenty seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Now, what does that mean for those of us who
really don't know a lot about the financial end of
the country. What does that mean for a surplus? I
know one thing.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It does look very good for the Trump administration. Correct Well, the.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
More the more budget surplus we have, the better. It's
not probably going to happen again anytime soon. There was
a little bit of a hiccup in how the calendar goes.
But if we can control spending, eventually we'll control interest
rates and that will put more money into everybody's pocket.
But right now, the only hurdle standing between us and
(01:49):
a really strong economy is the Federal Reserve not increasing
or not decreasing interest rates, which are among the highest
in the world. So we have to continue working to
to control spending and lower inflation and get those interest
rates down.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think, and this may be one of the biggest
problems right now with the economy because really the market
is on the rise, it's doing great prices that the
gas pumps are falling, egg prices are falling, prices at
the grocery store, for the most part.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Are falling right now. So why aren't interest rates changing?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you'd have to ask Jerome Powell in the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't think it gets along roll well with President
Trump either.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So we talked earlier about, you know, whether Trump would
or could fire Jerome Powell. He's probably not going to
do that. But there is an article out today about
the Federal Reserve spending two point five billion dollars to
build a complex in Washington, d C. And it's way
over budget. They've had to keep asking for money. It's
(02:49):
very mismanaged. That might be what sends Jerome Powell out
the door, and then we can get somebody in there
who's less politically motivated against Trump, in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because if I remember right, the interest rates did drop
right at the end of President Biden's term.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, a lot of people think that was trying to
pump up the economy a little bit there before the election,
because there's no explicable reason inflation hadn't decreased. It was
still up in the upper twos and threes, so he
just decided to drop it. That looks political to me.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
When you own your own business like a lot of
our listeners do, and Zach like you do. How much
are you affected by interest rates or the market the
economy right now?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I haven't really seen any fluctuation. I don't know if
it's because we're still like boutique small.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We are.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I mean, we we struggled, we are product problems in production,
we have. We have enough volume of calls coming in
and business demand that you know, we we overlap sometimes.
We're we're in the hiring process if you know anybody,
so interest rates are that we are? Yeah, we are
hiring for the right the right team member. I mean,
(04:03):
we we need somebody that is willing to get into
the you know, crazy small addicts or cross spaces and
and know that that's not going to be you know,
they're there forever position in the company. We'd like to
build from the bottom up. So we're building our a
team right now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
All right, good to know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're going to talk more about mold mentor a little
bit later in the hour. But the thing that has
just seemed to spark so much attention right now, and
it seems to be really a dividing line between the
f the FBI, and the DJ This.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Whole Epstein case.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It doesn't seem like it's ever going to go away,
even though some people want it to go away.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I know, it just is the gift that keeps on
giving to splitting, right. So, so you know, there's a
lot of people in MAGA world who are disappointed that
there wasn't a lot of things disclosed in this last
thing that was released by the FBI. But my take
on that is that we are going to move on
(05:05):
and to bigger and better things, and that there was
anything that was implicating Trump or anyone else in the
Republican world with Jeffrey Epstein would have been released by
the Biden.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Absolutely, because they had the files first and did nothing
with it. So yeah, if Trump was mentioned in there,
I'm sure that the prior administration would have put that
out first and foremost, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So why do you think that this list will never
be released? Doesn't sound like well.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
They say there's no list, and my question would be,
if there is a list, what is the list? Is
this the list of people who flew to this island,
you know, to be with young girls? Or I keep
hearing about a list, but nobody has defined the list
for me, so I don't know. I honestly think that
Bill Clinton took twenty six trips to this island, and
(05:56):
if they had incentive to cover up or shred any
of this information, that would be a big one to
shred it a long time ago because Bill Clinton was
wrapped up with Epstein and Trump was not. Trump said
he's a creep. Get them out of my club.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I did hear that as well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So the big question is does Pam Bondy keep her
job with the DOJ.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think she does because Trump has said she will.
And also, Republicans need to stop calling for firings of
our leaders whenever something doesn't turn out right. Democrats don't
do this. I mean, you look at the failures in
the Biden administration, from the supply chain, the FAA, Afghanistan
and so on. Nobody was fired. They wouldn't fire anybody
(06:39):
for anything, but Republicans. We have a circular firing squad
and it doesn't help anybody but the other side.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You agree with that, Zach, because I've felt that way
a lot with different issues in the country. Where Democrats
right or wrong, come together and they stick together, where
Republicans will splitter off and I think attack one another
more so than the democratic part.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Do you think so or now or lad? And I
just lose our mind.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, it's it's true. I mean they say we eat
our own. Yeah, and and I think I've caught some
heat from even conservative school board members.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But what do you mean, You probably can't do too much.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
But yeah, I mean they wanted to. It's I was censured.
It's no secret. But it's just a disagreement, a formal
disagreement by my school board for criticizing the superintendent essentially,
which is sort of I see that as a school
board member's job is to be critical when necessary and
question things. So yeah, I've heard that. People said, hey,
(07:39):
it's it's going to be hard to get you know,
conservative people, you know, fathers like yourself to run if
if as conservatives, we eat our own. So it was
a lesson learned. But I hold no grudge.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I had no idea you were censored. You should absolutely
have the right. Any school board member, any city council member,
should have the right to speak up or speak out
against either a mayor or a superintendent or anyone high
in office. We can't always agree on everything. I mean,
I look at my husband, being a head coach for
so many years, if an assistant of his spoke out
(08:13):
against him, Randy appreciated that, because you want to hear
other points of view, you want to hear a different
look on things, all right, So we need to take
a break. When we come back, though, we want your opinion,
your thoughts about Cleveland the baseball team. Should they stay
the Guardians because there's a little movement right now to
maybe bring the name the Indians back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Call us up, everybody at six one four eight two
one nine eight eight six sixty one four eight two
one nine eighty six.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cleveland Guardians or Cleveland Indians? Let us know, we'll be
right back.
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