10-28-25 - 6am - Spam Email and Argentina Win

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Ceously there was only fifteen more seconds.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
He knows how to sell right there. Okay, I'm gone
for one day.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
And the way he leaves a talking.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
About apparently been twenty hours since this show ended, and
nobody left a single talkback for us.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
And you would think that, knowing that I was gone
yesterday taking care of my mom, that there would have
been some soul they were left to talk back. This said, gee, Michael,
we really we care. We thought about you. You know,
we're concerned. We hope everything's fine. You know we we
we missed you. You know there would have been something.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Dragon was out Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Did he get the hell? Yeah? Yeah? So so neither
one of us get any respect when you think about
everything that we do for them, how much we pay them,
the links that we go to to try to put
on a half ass quality product, and that we can't
get one single talkback.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I know, Well, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, I'm beginning to get nervous because I knew what
I wanted to start with. I want to start with
Argentina this morning, but instead there's no talkbacks. And since
I haven't looked at my email since last night, I
open up to this email to my personal email account,
not to iHeart, but to my personal subject is you

(02:05):
have an unread message? Oh and the first sentence is
now your is correct? You are contraction? You are You're
in your personal space. Okay, I appreciate that. I'm looking around, like,
which personal space are you talking about? Then we get
to the crunch about about I just want to do

(02:29):
this for betam because I'm really concerned that perhaps I've
been I've been hacked about few weeks ago, I gained
few weeks ago, about few weeks not about a few
weeks ago. About few weeks ago, I have gained a
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(02:54):
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Speaker 1 (03:08):
Is somebody from the hood. You know, there's some gangster's
paradise stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I think so. And then the next sentence show show
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started recording all Internet activities done by yo space you
so you it's you know you blow is the sequence

(03:34):
of events of how that happened? Colony. They got their
punctuations somewhat right. Yeah. Yeah. Earlier I purchased from hackers
unique access to dive risks eyed diversify email accounts parentheses
at the moment, it is really easy to do using them.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
By if is reallygure out, I can't.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Even know what it said. It is really easy to
do using intern space at using Internet closed prim period.
I like how they closed the parentheses and put the period.
I mean that that's the appropriate way to do it.
Very good.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
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(04:45):
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(05:09):
to download all your photos, p personal data, history of
web browsing and other info to my cervers with out
any problems. And it just goes on and on and

(05:29):
on during the process of your personal info. COEO Space
MPI Space l A t I o n called impation.
I can't. I could not help, but I'm tired of that.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
How much are they asking fifty?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I could not help, but notice that you're a huge
admirer and regular guest of websites with adult contact, adult content.
But don't worry. All I need to do is get
to the bottom. You need to carry out to where
I need to carry out. I need to carry out
a sixteen fifty US do lures transferred to my account

(06:11):
and bitcoins depth ending on exchange rates.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm trying since sixteen dollars and fifty cents?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
No, sixteen hundred and fifty okay? Yeah? Yeah, oh by
the way, and then he says, this is the sales pitch.
Here's this guy's must be an ae for iHeart because
this is a great bargain with a low price, I
assure you, because I've spent a lot of effort while
recording and tracking in all your activities and nerdy d's

(06:38):
during a long period of time.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But it's all you know, for sixteen hundred bucks. Yeah
it sounds like a steal.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
I know, but from now on, I only have forty
five hours and countdown has started once to open this
in al, here you need to trust me because there's
absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving the money.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh that's good, So what totally trust the thief? You
know exactly?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I was kind of hesitant until I saw the amount
sixteen fifty. Honestly, I probably could afford the sixteen fifty.
I might need to ask, but of course we have
no listeners apparently because we have no talkbacks. I was
going to ask for maybe fifty bucks in donations. I'd
covered the sixteen hundred, but I probably can't do the
sixteen fifty. That's bits deep. Yeah, so you know, maybe

(07:24):
you guys can contribute some. But then I thought, no, what,
no problem, because here you need to trust me because
there's absolutely no point to still bother you after receiving
the money. More, if you really wanted all those videos,
if you really wanted all those videos would be available
to public long time ago. I believe we can still
handle this situation on fair terms. So he starts out

(07:47):
at sixteen fifty, says it's a fair deal, but we
can still work out some fair terms.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
It tried to negotiate with him, say eleven hundred, but.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
For the fact I'm not going to reply to this.
I would so desperately, like if this came to me
on iHeart, don't tell, don't tell the IT department, but
I probably would respond and say, well, I've read and
I've considered your offer in sixteen fifties a little more
than I can do. Would you take ten fifty and
see if I can get a conversation going with this? Yeah,

(08:21):
or just cut in half, you know, eight something, Yeah,
eight twenty five or something. We'll do that. This is
my this is my morning. The cackle. I had to
see you. I was hoping that maybe you were still ill.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Jesse had come in and yeah, because.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Jo Jesse does a wonderful job. Jesse Jesse's Jesse reminds
me what like actual producing is like. And then I
go see my mom. And that was a that was
a little tough. It was a little tough, and I
made it home and record time last night thanks to
this is awful to say, but thanks to a tanker
truck that rolled over out in the middle of New

(08:55):
Mexico somewhere so every New Mexico State trooper was there.
Led me to be free to open up the beamer
and just see how well it would do. And well,
I'm telling you what, for car that's got eighty thousand
miles on it, it can haul out.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's a sports car. You need to rev them up
every now and yeah, that's exactly right. I didn't sport mode.
Let's just say the little Benjamin driving. My grandmother had
a Porsche and she drove like a little old lady.
But she loved her Porsche and she would take it
to the shop occasionally and she said, well, it's not

(09:31):
quite working the way I'd like it to work. And
they're like, ma'am, you need to go above forty miles
an hour in this thing every now and again. So
then she just hand it over to my uncle and.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Say, hey, take you that for a while. Yeah. I
just like the term grandmother and porscha in the same sense,
my grandmother and her porscha. That just says it all.
But you know what else that tells me, tells me
that we're getting old, because it doesn't surprise me that
I I have or know of a grandmother that would

(10:02):
have a portion.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well for me growing up, I had no idea. It's
like I have friends come over and like, your grandma
has a Porsche. It's like, yeah, it's just to me
it was a grandma car. It didn't seem like anything
in France is.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Like a grandmother car, Like it's a Porsche like it.
So anything that happened exciting, Rob was gone.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
No.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I I called cal Darre, you know, to fill in,
you know, and I thought rather than just like not
telling him, I explained to him, like why it was
last minute and everything, and he was really nice about it. Yeah,
he was really nice about it. So I didn't know
whether he.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Came in and was smarted off or he just Hey,
we talked the shutdown and work requirements for you know, welfare.
Oh really yeah yeah he forded against it. Oh he's
totally for it. I'm shockingly enough. I know this this
may floor a few people, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, all right, so let's get started. I'm just I'm
just off because I have no talkbacks by which to
either make fun of somebody or smart off to somebody.
I just I don't know what to do without my
morning smart ass statements.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I haven't refreshed the page, but it does give me
a little uh warning or a little indication. Yeah we've
gotten a few, Yeah, I just haven't listened to them.
Yet and it gives me really don't care. Right at
this point, you know, you've already been punished, so.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right, it's kind of interesting that now that you've been punished,
now you want to Now you're now you want to
like do something. We're on to you. You're you're a
bunch of lazy ass people. And but frankly, I think
it shows disrespect to dragon you make do you what
do you do? Make an assumption I would not be

(11:48):
here this morning? Probably? Is that what it is? I mean,
come on, so.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Still if it were John or Ryan or Jimmy, still
would have happened. So this is still on you.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
You had twenty hours. The show ended at ten am,
so you had eleven am, twelve am, one noon, one, two, three,
four or five. I mean, come on, come on. And
that was with the weather, so I had It's October
twenty eighth. What do you expect out there, old man?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, here's here's what Colorado. Okay, So here's what's here.
This is the gospel. I'm not exaggerating at all. So
coming through Oklahoma, out of the Oklahoma Panhandle, across that
eastern plains of New Mexico, by the time I got
to rattone, the windshield was so covered with bugs. I mean,

(12:45):
I had one. It was beautiful. It was a beautiful,
bright yellow just splattered right in my field of view,
field of you, thank you, field of vision. Just but
I mean, it just splattered in such a beautiful way.
It was just it was this golden yellow just everything.

(13:08):
But yes, but then I'm having to kind of lean
over on my shoulder to kind of see through the windshield.
And I think.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
God, with that amount of guts you turn on the
windshield wiper, it's just gonna make.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
It worse, make it worse, right, And so it just
keeps getting worse and worse and worse. So I stop
and Ratton and get some gas and think I'm just
gonna go through a quick car wash. So I paint
eight bucks to go through a car wash, and I think, okay, well,
let's see, you know, I got the car clean. And
then the bugs in Colorado? What's what's bugs in Colorado? Now?
And then I get to like Castle Rock and it's

(13:38):
raining just enough that I turn the wipers on, and
now the bugs are smeared everywhere. Life is just sometimes
life is just unbearable. It's it's the the tragedy of
First of all, I want to thank that bug for
giving us life, because I should have taken a picture,
because I could have been like a new Monett or
you know, a van Go or some or maybe the

(14:00):
Jackson Pollock I don't know, but some sort of painting
like that. So the bug gave up its life for
artistic beauty, and then I just washed it away. And
then God said, oh, you just paid eight bucks here,
let me just rain in your car and smear it
up again. So you know, you just were not like
you had enough to deal with over the weekend. Oh exact.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, no, it's fine. Just yet you were helping your mom. Yes,
you're helping your mom. Yes, yes, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Small town Americans like.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Everybody adores by the.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Way, well I've got let me just tell to.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Me very far away from the tree. Uh, everybody loves her.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
And then there's you, then there's me exactly. So the
first place, just because I'm just trying to there's no
logic to it. I'm only doing it based on the
hotel I stayed at, and then just kind of going
down the street to stop at different places. So the
first place I stopped to fix everything is at the
phone company, and I dread going in there because my

(15:04):
brother and I have always dreaded ever meeting this woman,
her name is Jezebel, that works at the phone company.
It's the equivalent of going into a Verizon or a
T Mobile place. Gotcha, it's it's they provide internet and
seales services. That's what they do. It's a little cooperative.
And my mom would go in to see Jezebel because

(15:29):
on her iPhone, maybe she accidentally deleted an app, or
she couldn't find or she couldn't get her solitary game
to work. So her solution wants to go to the
phone company because they'll fix that stuff. Can you imagine
me going into a T Mobile store and saying, hey,
I can't find a mapp on my phone. The guy
just take it. First of all, we take a number,

(15:49):
and then second I'll be like, you know, we don't
do that, and you know, or call call Apple or
call textaboard or whatever. No, Jezebel sits down and fixes everything.
That's beautiful. I walk in to where like the counters
are where you would pay and this is like at
eight thirty in the morning, Monday morning, and I said, uh,

(16:12):
is Jezebel in I need to see Jezebel. Well, I
don't realize she's sitting in a desk, you know, at
a cubicle behind me. And the woman says, yes, May
I tell her who's here? And I said, Michael Brown,
I'm here about my mom, and gave my mom's name,
and Jezebel stands up. She goes, well, she's right there.
She's ready for you, and she's afraid I'm there because

(16:35):
my mom's not. The worst has happened. Yeah, the worst
has happened. So I and she's She's really nice to
meet you. I've heard so much about you, But what's
going on? And I said, Oh, it dawned to me
at that moment. She's expecting the worst. I don't know.
I'm just here because I'm transferring everything over to my

(16:57):
name and blah blah, blah blah. She starts to tell
me all these years I've worried about my mom bugging her.
She starts telling me how much she adores my mother.
She would do anything for my mother, even to the
point that I was going to buy an iPad there
to get my mom a new iPad And so she's
showing me the iPads and they had only the iPads

(17:20):
that had both Cellier and Wi Fi. I'm like, she
doesn't need that, right, yeah, and go and your prices
are obviously jacked up a little bit. And before I
can say anything, she goes, here's what I would do.
Just go back to Colorado and go to the Apple
store and get the iPad that you need for her,
have it shipped, you know, ship it to me at
the store here, aw, and then I'll get her in here,

(17:44):
which will get her out of the house. I'll get
her in here, I'll set it up for her and
I'll you know, transfer her email. I'll put in temporary passwords,
and then I will email you what the temporary temporary
passwords are so that you can change it so that
you can secure it down. So you'll do that. Yeah.
So I slipped her some money and said, just as

(18:06):
for you and your hut, I can't do that. I said,
yes you can, because the person that runs this company,
her mother, is my wife's best friend. You will take
this money and you'll have dinner. Wow, that was one
hell of a thing to wake up to. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Dragon, Good morning, Michael and Dragon well is goober number twelve.
I certainly failed to you yesterday. I just really wanted
to spare Caldera the torture of having to hear my
boys said early in the morning, and also just figured
that Michael was out due to dragon itis and just
wanted a three day weekend. But glad you're back, have

(18:48):
a great week.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Good morn eh my.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh color as duh play cat cool.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
A gay?

Speaker 3 (19:16):
And well, how many total talking backs do we get
after that?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Enough that I could not listen to them all through
that entire spot block.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
So this audience is as passive aggressive as we are. Yep, yep,
that's that's comforting to know. Sometimes I worry that we're
a little too passive aggressive, But I don't think we're
passive aggressive enough for this group of ya who's this is.
This is a pretty serious topic, So hang on. Javey

(19:50):
malay that I've been fascinated by this since I started
reading about it on over the weekend. But he secured
a truly sweeping victory in the equivalent of our midterm
elections down in Argentina. He positioned his libertarian economic agenda
and has now got it on firmer ground. He's reshaping

(20:11):
both Argentine's Argentina's political landscape and their economic outlook, something
that they've been needing for literally decades, decades. And this
win that he secured is sant as a vital geopolitical
moment that reverberates everywhere from Buenos Aires all the way

(20:33):
to Washington, d C. Now Trump's already come out and
he's town to Malay's success as a validation of our strategy,
our new American strategy in the entire Western hemisphere. I
know that we've talked about and it's finally beginning to
come out that we're not really doing drug interdiction. That's

(20:55):
just to cover for what's really going on in terms
of blowing up submarine and ships they're coming out of Venezuela.
But there are a lot of economic parallels between pre
Malay Argentina and the United States, and I think this
election and what Malay's doing highlights both opportunities and some

(21:19):
obstacles for similarly transforming reforms north of the equator in
this country. So Malay's party, this Libertade Avonza, however you
pronounce it. They got over forty percent of vote that
marks a seismic shift from the legacy of Perne and interestingly,

(21:44):
particularly in Buenos Aires, he got a lot of unexpected
support from slum residents and working class neighborhoods that typically
go for the Perinistas that go for all the socialism.
They went the free stuff. They're the poor and so
they naturally want the free stuff. With this particular victory,

(22:06):
Malay has claimed a strength and majority in the Chamber
of Deputies, that's their lower house and the Senate, and
it empowers policies that listen to what I'm about to list,
because you know, we may need the same things here.
So it's again proof that it can be done with

(22:29):
the right person. And I think this is why I
think this is why Malay and Trump have such an
affection for one another. His policies include massive spending cuts,
labor market reform, deregulation, and stabilization of the Peso. Now,

(22:53):
the financial markets responded with absolute enthusiasm. Argentine bond stocks,
currency all rallied sharply, and that to me signals investor
confidence in what Malay's fiscal tightening and deregulation is being
perceived by the markets. So the people who put their

(23:14):
money where their mouth is. The people who actually put
money on the table are looking at what he's trying
to do and say, oh, we support this. The markets
speak and the markets indicate this was not baked in,
this was new. So here's what here's at least what
I think it means for the Argentina economy, and then
I want to kind of swarm swerve into what I

(23:37):
think it means for our economy. So they're long held
economic struggles, have been out of control inflation, negative foreign reserves,
persistent currency controls, they absolutely control the value of the
of the payes, and all of that has reduced growth.

(23:58):
It's fuel rep we eat a debt default. They've actually
defaulted on debt. So for people who look at our
debt and say, well, you know what we got to do, well,
why don't we just default, Well, okay, then if you
want hyperinflation, if you want the cost of goods to
just skyrocket, if you want interest rates to skyrocket, then
that's what a default would do. And we've seen that.

(24:20):
We again and yeah, this is all this is history,
but it's also current events. So now Argentine, Argentina benefits
from a substantial twenty billion dollars direct aid package from
you and I as taxpayers. And I know that ranchers
and other people are bitching about that, some economists are

(24:42):
bitching about it. But in the long run, that might
be a really good investment. I know it adds to
our deficit, but if you tack that onto what Trump's
trying to do in terms of trying to grow us
out of this problem through foreign investment, interest rate cuts, tariffs,

(25:03):
all that together, this might be a win win for everybody.
He also now Malay also got twelve billion dollars VIA
and I don't fully understand that. I truly don't understand it.
But an international monetary fund agreement. It's not quite alone,
but it is alone. I haven't quite figured out exactly
what it is. But the external financial lifeline is will

(25:27):
now give his government the time to shore up all
their reserves, maintain some stability, and also politically allow him
to push the economic and reforms forward. Now, the skeptics
warned that true reform is just beginning. I don't think
that's necessarily skepticism. I think that's realism. And there are

(25:51):
a lot of challenges that remain in dismantling the deep
rooted protectionism, removing labor market you know, all the rigidity
in the labor markets, and then fully liberalizing their foreign
exchange rates. They sought to do all of that, but
the early signs like surges and investment, falling appliance prices

(26:12):
for example because of import deregulation, lower costs for medicine,
lower vaccine costs for ranchers because cattle ranching is a
huge deal in Argentina. All I think together suggests that
they are having tangible effects. But how does this tie
into what I believe to be Trump's true Western Hemisphere strategy.

(26:37):
I've been doing a lot of studying and reading about
what Trump's four D chess is here. So Trump's out
there publicly celebrating Malay's victory. He frames it as a
validation of the whole piece through economic strength and closer
US ties between US and South America. In strategic terms,

(27:04):
I think supporting Malay is seen by White House Scott Descent,
Chief of Staff, National Security Team, the entire White House apparatus,
and I think a lot of analysts too, as part
of a broader effort to secure influence and stability in
the region. Provide an economic backstop steering Latin American nations

(27:27):
toward market oriented reform. And I would add to that,
steering them away from the Chinese Communist Party, which Americans
are woefully ignorant about how influential the Chinese Communist Party
is in South America. They're on our doorstep. I mean,
we've had communism, what thirty eight miles forty eight miles

(27:50):
what it is from Key West to Havana. But we've
always had communism on our back door, and we've had
communism in Venezuela and other countries, but it's really taking hold.
I mean, China understands through their brig and Road Initiative
or whatever it's called, that they can do the same
thing in South America and they can surround us, and

(28:13):
then if they want to invade Taiwan, we're spread to thin.
So Trump is trying to kind of kick them out
of China. They'll kick China out of South America, strengthen
our times with South America. And I don't necessarily want
to call it regime change, although I think that's the
ultimate goal. But if you can at least empower the revolutionaries,

(28:39):
empower those who actually won the elections, in Venezuela and
maybe get a color revolution going just by showing our
strength and our willingness to blow up the drug dealers.
And that you know, we've gone into South America for
Does anybody remember Panama Manuel or Tega? Does anybody remember
that or Noriega? Remember that? We're seeing a little bit

(29:04):
of a repeat of that, but on a grander scale.
And I think Trump's logic is explicit financial support from
malay In Bolden's a like minded ally. It secures American
investment in South America, It sets a precedent of US
engagement in Latin American elections, and then they're you know,

(29:24):
Trump's Trump's truly a transactional guy. I think all of
his relationships are transactional. That transactional approach. That as he said,
the market surge made a lot of money for American investors.
That intermingles economic and geopolitical interests. Now, I know, just

(29:45):
again trying to be objective, critics argue that it conflicts
with the American First Principles. I don't think that it does.
I think it strengthens the American First principles. You can
walk in chew gum at the same time, Now, there
are parallels, and I want to talk about the parallels
between the crisis in Argentina and fiscal policy in this country.

(30:09):
That's next.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Hey, Michael, my grandmother had a little blue VW bug
that would she would take over the some of the
milder jeep trails in Colorado.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
She loved that bug.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Hey Michael, you said you opened up the beamer. That's laughable.
I'm the guy who passed you in the old pickup
truck that said, Hey, how does it feel to drive
a parked car?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah? Did you see my middle.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Finger come standard on the VMW?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's right, Well, actually it comes with one. That's the
hood ornament on a beamer, because it's giving the finger
to the driver of the BMW.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's what Yeah, that's about.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's how that really works. So
let's draw some parallels between the crisis has been going
on in Argentina and the crisis that we face in
this country. Deficits, debt, everything else. So the the economic
rot in Argentina long before Malay chronic deficits see see

(31:20):
if this sounds familiar. Chronic deficits, runaway government spending, unsustainable
welfare costs, and the stifling bureaucracy. Oh Usa, we're looking
at you. That mirrors the concerns that are voiced about
our fiscal trajectory. Now, there are a lot of American analysts,

(31:42):
both intel analysts and economic analysts, that draw comparisons to
the consequences of unchecked spending, mounting debt, and politicized economic interventions.
Malay's radical reforms, strict, very strict spending cuts, comprehensive deregulation,
abolishing redundant agencies. Those reflect measures that most economists, whether

(32:10):
they should say most or not. Butclet's you say, economists,
that many economists recommend for this country if only Congress
was willing to break their old habits. But we know
that Congress is not going to break their old habits unless,
of course, at some point we reach a fiscal catastrophe
where we really do. I mean, this government shut down

(32:32):
is not catastrophic. Now. It may be if air traffic
controllers get so exhausted that they fall asleep on their
shift and planes go crashing into one another, you know,
particularly if they're flying IFR. But we're not to that
point quite yet. The point is that Malays victory ushers

(32:52):
in an era of radical economic policy support from our
own country, which signals a new direction in our regional strategy,
as well as I think a renewed hope for Argentina's
battered economy. Now, whether this country could or would mimic
the reforms going on in Argentina is going to depend

(33:14):
on building consensus for fiscal discipline and market oriented change,
and I think that's a huge challenge, particularly given the
entrenched interests that we have play here. But for now,
at least, Malay's success stands as I think, both a
warning and an example for any country, whether it's US
or any other Japan. I think Trump's in Japan right now.

(33:40):
It's a warning and an example for those countries confronting
the consequences of chronic fiscal mismanagement, something that we've been
dealing with for decades. Think about for a moment. The

(34:00):
There are key domestic US spending changes that mirror Argentina's
proposed and enacted cuts under Malay. Dramatic reduction and government size,
deep cuts to public sector jobs, elimination or merger of
federal agencies, subsidy reforms, suspension or even overhaul either one.

(34:23):
I'd take either one of public works programs, and if
we applied those in this country, those reforms would involve
downsizing the federal workforce check. Consolidation of cabinet level agencies
not check. I haven't seen that really happening yet, Removing
government subsidies in areas like energy utilities and potentially transportation

(34:45):
check some some check some nut check, and curtailing or
pausing federally funded infrastructure or welfare projects. Now that's going
to cause a lot of screaming, gnashing the teeth, you know,
ringing of hands, all of the you know, oh my god.
As we can do this, people are going to suffer.
Isn't it interesting that they're telling air traffic controllers, for example,

(35:06):
and in particular, that if you know, go to a
food bank. Well wait a minute, So you mean there
is an alternative to a snap program and we just
need to transition from publicly funded food benefits to perhaps
private sector funded charitable organizations. Oh, so it can be done.

(35:28):
Huh is being done in Argentina? Why not here