Kendall & Casey Hour 2, 12-23-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, looks like the US economy grew a little bit more.
The GDP report came in and it was.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Strong, yeah, stronger, stronger than expected, So this is some
breaking news.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Just came out.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The GDP in the third quarter rose by four point
three percent. It was expected to rise by three point
two percent, so pretty significantly beating expectations. This report should
have come out at the end of October, but it
was delayed because of the government shutdown, so we're getting
this data a little bit later right now. A most
of the increase in the GDP for the third quarter

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was driven by consumer spending, which also came in significantly
higher than expected. Now, some financial experts are talking about, how,
oh this is good news?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is bad news?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Maybe the Federal Reserve has been lowering interest rates and
its forecasted they would continue to lower interest rates. But
a super strong GDP report like this and four point
three percent is a huge number. A lot of people
are saying that, no, okay, the Federal Reserve may now
rethink whether or not they'll continue lowering interest rates going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Speaking of spending for Christmas twenty twenty five, let's see
consumers projected to spend a significant amount, averaging about eight
hundred and ninety dollars per person. People are spending, but
they're a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Selective spending eight hundred. So they'll spend eight hundred dollars
per person, eight.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hundred and ninety dollars per person.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Not spending eight hundred on each person.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Okay, so is a total total? Okay, that was shocking
different as a total.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Somebody will give eight hundred dollars worth of gifts, not
an average of eight hundred dollars worth of gifts to
every person that they're gifting.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Okay, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Parents are expected to spend about five hundred dollars per
child on average. This is an average across the country. Clearly,
it's going to vary based on location.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I think we've traditionally brought that average down. I don't
know that we've ever spent five seems like a lot,
it seems like to us. And again this is you know,
there's going to be plenty elon Musk and what he
spends on Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
You're going to bring the average out, totally busting the
curve for the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
But I don't think there's ever been a Christmas where
we spent five hundred dollars on our child.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
And you know, you see reports all the time about
all the malls are empty and there's nobody there. It
is a gen Z that is turning holiday shopping into experience. Now,
we just like to go online and do boo boo
boo boo and it gets delivered to us. But it's
gen Z saying that they actually like to go to

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the store and have an experience. They want to be
inspired by the things that they can touch and see
and feel.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I actually bought a Christmas gift in a store this
year and it was weird, Like it was, it was
weird doing it.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Really.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, over the weekend, I bought a Christmas gift. I
was at the store and I bought a Christmas gift
there and the whole process seemed unnatural and weird for
me to buy a Christmas gift that wasn't purchased.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
On one for the weekend, talking about five days before Christmas?
Is that cutting into close?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Is that within the acceptable range? By the way, totally,
I'm realizing what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Totally on me.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
The only reason I went to the store, by it,
is because I couldn't get a shipped here by Christmas Day,
so that was that was the only reason that I
went to the store, because I have delayed and didn't
have my act together.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You know, we know when Christmas is coming.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Don't make it sound like you're like the perfect Christmas
gift giver.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh, I do.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
All of my.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Christmas shopping is done by Thanksgiving every year.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh you're still shopping. I was done by Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
True, No, I'm not like that. By the way, gen Z,
eighty two percent like to pick up secondhand gifts. They
like to thrift for their gifts, and that tracks.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Our daughter is regularly and her friends regularly spend time
at Thrie.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
They they do like to go thrifting, don't they.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
So, we have a new president for the Indianapolis City
County Council Leadership update. Counselor Maggie Smith, who who is
currently the majority leader, has been named as the new president.
Vop Ossley is out. He's out after eight years in
the role. He's going to remain on the council though.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
So, Maggie Lewis actually is the former president of the
City County Council and is now president.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So she's actually she.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Was there between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes, you could equate this and make an analogy. She's
Donald Trump and vop Osley is Joe Biden. Oh, because
she was president and then Ostley was president and now
she'll be president again. She was also the first female
president of the Indianapolis City County Council. Was removed as
president in twenty seventeen. No scandal that I could find.

(04:46):
It just looks like it was all political and had
a bunch of Democrats and even some Republicans in twenty
seventeen voted to remove her as president. But now eight
years later, she's back in the chair.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Her goal is to focus on public safety, health and
also quality of life and encouraging community participation in the
council and also the community the committee meetings. She's going
to launch a launch a monthly newsletter.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh, I'll go be sure to sign right up for that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Sign up for that. So you've got Donald Trump making
the announcement that he wants to build Trump class warships
for a Golden Fleet.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, this is I mean, this is just total. This
is everything Trump right here for starters. He wants to
start building battleships. Again, battleships have been out of service
in navies in this country for since the early nineties.
Last time I think we had battleships actually in service
was the First Gulf War in nineteen ninety one. They've

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just kind of become obsolete with aircraft carriers and destroyers.
So not sure why Trump wants to bring them back.
And again, these aren't going to be in This isn't
an individual vidual ship that's going to be named.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Let's not going to be tire fleet.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, it's not the USS Trump, it's a class of
battleships that he wants to build. So, for example, the
US Navy has Virginia class submarines. There's a ton of
Virginia class submarines, all with each individual names. But Donald
Trump bringing back battleships, this just seems a lot of
talk and not a lot of substance. And I don't
think anybody from the Navy was sitting around going, man,

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you know what we need need to bring back them battleships.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
So he made the announcement at mar A Lago. You
have the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth was there and
also the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Navy's
secretary was there as well, claim that the ships are
going to be the fastest, the biggest, and one hundred
times more powerful than any battleship ever built.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
As Commander in.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Chief, it is my great honor to announce that I
have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the
construction of two brand new, very large, largest we've ever
built ships. You know, you used to build the Iowa,
the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
We had big battleships. These are bigger, but they will
have one hundred times.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
There will be one hundred times the force, the power, and.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
There's never been anything like these ships. These have been under.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Design consideration for a long time, and it started with
me in my first term because they said, why aren't
we doing battleships like we used to? And the these
are the best in the world. There will be the fastest,
the biggest, and by far one hundred times more powerful
than any battleship ever built. So if you look at

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the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama, and others, but they
were similar in size, some a little bit bigger than
the others. But if you take the biggest one, it's
one hundred times are powerful.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
They're longer by a little bit, but a little bigger.
They get hold much more.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Trump getting real specific there, they're longer by a little bit.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
A little bit. You gotta wonder what they're going to
be named. Are they going to be the Baron the
Don Junior?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, traditionally, Eric battleships have always been named after states.
When he just went through a bunch of them, and
this is part. I mean, battleships have always been kind
of romanticized, and there's always been a mythology around them,
just because they've got such a long history in this country.
But they have really been phased out because they're just
not technologically what the Navy needs anymore. But it's interesting,

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and he never answered his question, he said in that
quote there, he's like, I asked them why we're not
building battleships anymore? And then he went out to his
NXT thought. But I mean, battleships have really been an
important part of American naval history. You know, my dad
was in the Navy for twenty one years. And it
was funny. I was talking to a couple of guys
that are about my age who just recently tired from

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the army.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
And I was like, yeah, okay, yeah, that's great. And
my dad was in the Navy, and they were like, okay, cool,
what ships did he serve on?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
And I started rattling some of them off and I
was like, oh, and he served on the battleship New Jersey.
And it was like a record scratch happened. They were like, oh, really,
that is for people that have been in the military.
The battleship New Jersey, which first went into service in
World War Two, my dad served on it during Vietnam,
is the most decorated battleship in American naval history. In fact,
so much so that after they retired it, they recommissioned

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it and brought it back for the First Gulf War
in nineteen ninety one.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
So Donald Trump, you know, he's already deployed destroyers and
the Marines in the Caribbean imp that imposed that blockade
on Venezuela. But he emphasized sea power, and he's been
really critical of the appearance of the existing ships.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sometimes more powerful than any battleship ever built. So if
you look at the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama and others,
but they were similar in size, some a little bit
bigger than the others. But if you take the biggest one,
it's one hundred times more powerful.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
There longer by by a little little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
No, that's the same thing we just heard. But I
wanted to play this from Senator Todd Young. You know,
he introduced the Ships Act, and he says that building
these ships is all about national security.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
The objective is to not only train a bunch of people,
but to build two hundred and fifty ocean going vessels
in the next ten years, which is pretty ambitious.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
In the very beginning of this video, Senator Young called
this a national security bill.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Here's a bit more context.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
It's also built by economic security and economic opportunity and
making sure that we're independent of other countries for you know,
essential services like shipping. But more than anything else, this
is a national security bill.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Okay, so you've got Trump who's going to meet with
defense contractors about production schedules.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Todd Young, More than anything else, this is about another
opportunity for me to spend all of your tax money.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
More than anything and interesting.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
So Todd Young was a big supporter, and I may
have even been part of the bill for the Chips Act,
you remember that, and he was also a big proponent
and part of the bill for.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
The Ships Act.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
What I'm waiting for is Todd Young to introduce the
DIPS Act, where we could have a delicious spinach and
artichoke tip. That's probably the first bill that Todd Young
would support that I would get behind.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
When can we have the DIPS Act?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
So another thing that Donald Trump announces the appointment of
a special Envoy to Greenland, and this is the Louisiana Governor,
Jeff Landry. So what is the role of a special envoy. Well,
they serve as a high level presidential representative and this
person will focus exclusively on Greenland. And this is above

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and beyond the usual ambassadorial scope, so they do just
a little bit more. Greenland, of course, contains about thirty
critical minerals, including graphite, copper, nickels, zinc, and lithium. But
it's the location. It lies along the shortest route between

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Europe and North America, and so that does make it
a really prime location for ballistic missile defense and Arctic security.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
And it's overseen by Denmark, owned by Denmark, and it's
been a few months. I kind of forgot about Trump's
obsession with Greenland.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
He was talking about red, White and Blueland.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, exactly, kid, But can you imagine being in the
government in Denmark. He was back in March when Donald
Trump was talking about Greenland, and then all of a
sudden nothing happened. They were probably like, all right, he's
distracted by something else. He's not talking about it. All
of a sudden this comes out there, like dear, he's
back at us again.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Ye, and here is Donald Trump announcing the new special envoy.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
We'll have to work it all out.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
But he.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Felt very strongly we needed financials.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
We need Greenland for national security, not for minerals.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
We have so many sites for minerals and oil and everything.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
We have more oil than any other country in the world.
We need Greenland for national security. And if you take
a look at Greenland, you look up and down the coast,
you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
We need it for national security. We have to have it.
And he wanted to lead the charge.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
So we're making him Marco today Special Envoy to Greenland.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Greenland's a big.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Deal, Okay, So the US has had interest in that
area for a long time. This isn't just a Trump thing.
This dates back to eighteen sixty seven with past proposals
to buy it or annex the island.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Look, I'm all for it. The Dutch who oversea Greenland,
so much for it. So Trump's got a tough road
to climb here.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Their economy depends on fishing and also Danish subsidies. We're
going to take delicious.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh not the Danish subsidies, meaning the country of Denmark,
not the delicious sconelike breakfast and sweet treat.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay, got it.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Differently, that would have been weird if totally like one
of their economy is riding on Danish like cheese and
cherry Danish.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
No, no different Okay, Yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is the Kendall and Casey Show. It's ninety three WIBC.
One of my favorite things at the end of the
year is the look.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Back love the year in review for any topic.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
And we'll do a little bit more of this. There's
a couple of things we can focus on right now,
things that happen in pop culture, and also these sports
look back of twenty twenty five. So let's walk down
memory lane. Yeah you you might remember the music performance
from Kendrick Lamar he delivered the Super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Actually, I don't remember that one.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
You didn't watch that one?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, I mean, I could not have told you. If
you had told me who sang at the Super Bowl
halftime show last year, I could not have told you
it was.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
It was Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Do you remember when Morgan wallan country artist, made headlines
when he abruptly left SNL and he posted online, get
me to God's Country, which became a viral meme.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I do remember that. Was this also the year that
he threw a chair off a rooftop bar and got arrested?
Or was that twenty twenty four?

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Last?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yes, twenty last year Morgan Wallen getting arrested for throwing
her chair off a rooftop bar. Today this year it
was walking off of AESENL. What do you think he's
going to do in twenty twenty six? He's got to
ratchet it up a notch. Every year it gets more extreme.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't know if I want to know. Actually, okay,
So you also had the late night TV turmoil with
The Late Show being canceled, Jimmy Kimmel being temporarily suspended
and also Stephen Colbert's future kind of uncertain. You also
had South Park heavily targeting Donald Trump and his administration

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throughout the entire year. Some celebrity news, Oh, Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey they gotten gaged bay, Okay, do you
remember this is a ridiculous one. Katie Perry and Gail
King they went on the Blue Margin.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Spacefly forgotten about that one as well, and acted like
they were the first ones ever to be in space.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Where they really in space.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
They were making space for space space.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
For Katy Perry was saying that we're making space. And
she also started her romantic partnership with Justin Trudeau Canadian.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Primary So I did I forgot about.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
I believe they're still together. Okay. Also in celebrity news
this year, Wow, how about this story scandal Sean Colmes convicted.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, the Diddy trial, which was a big one for
this year, and rightly so, I mean that was I
mean from the awful videotapes, the horrible allegations and the
palettes of baby oil. Oh, there was a lot to
talk about during the Diddy trial.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So in film, you had a new Superman movie became
the top grossing superhero film of twenty five. You had
the k Pop Demon Hunters, a Minecraft movie. Oh and
I know you remember this one what the Sydney Sweeney
American Eagle jeans ad?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Everybody remembers that one.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, okay, what do you have in sports for a
well back? So?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
The year started off with the Kansas City Chiefs trying
to win the Super Bowl and go for the first
ever three peat and it ended up getting spanked by
the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. We had a
lot of big things in sports, Rory McElroy winning his
first ever Masters. We had the Indiana Fever where Caitlin
Clark was out for most of the year, yet despite that,

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the Indiana Fever made it all the way to the quarterfinals.
We had that incredible run by the Pacers to the finals.
And maybe the image of the year for me is
when Tyrese Halliburton hits that ridiculous shot against New York
that bounces up off the back of the rim like
twenty feet in and goes in and then he flashes
that choke symbol right there on the floor in Madison

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Square Garden, just like Reggie Miller did all those years ago.
Also in the NBA massive trade, Luka Doncik was traded
from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers so
he could play with Lebron.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
It was just it was a big, big year.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers winning back to back World Series titles.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Great sports here, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
And then to cap it all off, you had the
Chicago Bears with the greatest win in forty years of
that franchise just on Saturday night, beating the Green Bay
Packers in overtime. Caleb Williams, the Iceman, is what they
call him.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
This is the Kendall and Casey Show. It's ninety three WYBC.
All right, we've got some breaking news regards to the
Epstein files, and we haven't dug through it all completely,
but there are some shocking things that are coming out
right now, even more shocking than what you're already aware of.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, and this is literally just coming out. A new
dump of Epstein files have come out. News organizations are
combing through them, but this one is particularly disturbing out
of all of them. So I'm going to set this
up a little bit and then it'll make a little
bit more sense when I tell you about it. So
this is a document that came out that Jeffrey Epstein

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wrote a postcard in twenty nineteen. Keep in mind president
was Donald Trump in twenty nineteen, so this is right
before Epstein committed suicide. He wrote a postcard to Larry Nasser.
Now you may remember Larry Nasser. He was the one
used to being a gymnastics physician for USA Gymnastics at

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Michigan State University. One hundred and fifty six women came
forward to say that they were abused by Larry Nasser.
All of the Larry Nasser scandal was exposed by the
Indie Star, probably the best piece of investigative journalism in
Indie Star's history.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
They exposed all of it.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
So this is Epstein writing a postcard to Larry Nasser
in twenty nineteen that says, among other things, but quote
our president loves newbile young girls. So just an example
of more documents that are coming out from the Epstein
files that it literally just happening in the last twenty
or thirty minutes here. So if we see anything else

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that we think is newsworthy, will also relay that. But
we're just kind of combing through everything along with everybody
else right now.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, and you're saying that who had that story was?
Were you getting that from Daily Mail, Daily Mail.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
The Guardian, CNN?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I mean, all the major news organizations are picking it
up right now.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Okay. And just yesterday Bill Clinton was calling on Trump
to release the full Epstein files, including all the documents
mentioning both of them. He said that refusal to do
so will confirm the widespread suspicion the DOJ's actions to
date are not about t consparency but about insinuation. And

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Donald Trump had a lot to say about the Epstein
files yesterday when he was talking about the ships that
he wants to build. Let's speak about Donald Trump and
his job approval rating right now, and this is according
to American Research Group. They say that his overall approval
rating sits at thirty five percent approval, sixty two percent disapprove,

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with three percent undecided. It's always the undecideds that get me.
How do you not have an opinion one way or
the other. You know what they're they're like it or
you don't.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
You'd be shocked at how many people in this country
are just living their lives blissfully unaware of anything going on,
and I think they may be the smart ones.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, Actually, the three percent of the ones have got
it going on. Okay. So by party, this breaks down
with Republicans seventy four percent approving, twenty two percent disapproving,
with Democrats only one percent approving, ninety eight disapproving. And
his approval rating has gradually declined from forty five percent

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back in March to thirty thirty five percent here in December,
and obviously eight percent saying the economy is getting better,
seventeen percent saying it's staying the same. Seventy one percent
are saying that it's getting worse. And that is the
top concern of everybody. Cost of living. Most Americans field

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basics like food and housing difficult to afford, especially housing
and healthcare.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
You talked about it earlier.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
You gave the Democrats a free one, a little bit
of free consulting advice. Quit talking about girls playing in
boys sports and base playing girl sports and boys and
women's restrooms, and quit talking about abortion on demand right
until live birth, and talk about the affordability crisis in
this country. Stop talking about all the things that makes
your party look like an insane group of people to

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the average everyday voter and talk about things that they
care about, and that's about bringing down the cost of living.
Just like we saw we had this story earlier about
the Democrats recommending that we cut the sales tax on
utility bills here in the state of Indiana. That's the
sort of thing that if the Democrats can just get
out of their own way and focus on that, they'll
have a much better.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Chance that will be normal. But then you have just
be normal, and then you have the Speaker of the
House in Indiana, Houston, saying that no, we can't cut
that sales tax on your utility bill because local governments
need that money.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, So fewer than one in five Americans felt Trump's
policies made them financially better off in twenty five, But
then we got that report about the GDP being better.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well, keep in mind, you know, so, I mean, this
has been a mixed economy. Look, and we've seen that
while the GDP, which came out this morning was way
above expectations, seeing jobs numbers come in way below expectations,
while the economy is functioning and goods are being created
and wealth is being created. There are fewer jobs out there,

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and the job market is tightening up a bit, and
we know that we still have an affordability crisis in
this country. Even if the current rate of inflation is
within range of what we want it to be, it
doesn't discount the last five or six years that we've
seen of inflation that we're still dealing with.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you've got public skepticism. A lot of Americans think
that Trump exaggerates on how well the economy is doing,
and all you have to do is look at your
own bills and then look at your own paycheck and
determine how well you're doing. And there's also a perception
of favoritism. Two thirds of Americans say that Trump favors
the wealthy over the middle class, and that perception has

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increased since spring of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Part of that is, and this isn't necessarily a wealthy
versus the middle class issue, but Trump has certainly been
picking winners and losers. He's been saying no tax on tip,
no tax on overtime. Oka great huge percentage of the
population don't encur tips in overtime, So he has definitely
been picking winners and losers, and I'm sure that's part
of that perception.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
So there are some key economic issues to look forward
to in twenty six, number one being artificial intelligence the
technology sector. Their optimism is very high, clearly, but majority
of Americans believe the AI will decrease jobs, not increase them.
And most Americans favorite government restrictions on AI rather than promotion.

(25:31):
And it doesn't break it up about a national AI
regulation or restriction or states, but I think most people
would favor states having their own restrictions on AI. Let
the states be sovereign and their decisions on that. Other
key economic issues to look forward to immigration deportation, also healthcare,

(25:54):
and international policy. So a lot of Americans continuing to
see the economy as challenging, and many people want to
hold Donald Trump accountable for that, although in many of
his speeches he is blaming it on the past administration.
Any wobbles that you're seeing, you can only.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Get away with that for so long, and in fact,
he's probably out of the honeymoon period where you can
sit here and keep blaming everything on the Democrats in Biden,
because the Republicans control the House, they control the Senate,
they control the presidency and they have certainly an ideological
control on the Supreme Court. So I get that Biden
didn't do great things for four years, but you've been
in office for almost a year now. This idea of

(26:35):
blaming it on the other guys just isn't get to
cut it anymore.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Well, you had JD. Fance at the Amarafest Turning Point
USA gathering in Phoenix saying, yes, we hear you. We
know we're working on it, but Americans like things done quickly,
and patience is going to run out very soon.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Well, what did Trump spend all his political capalon from
a legislative standpoint this year? The one Big Beautiful bill,
a big bullcrap bill, and what did that do? It
retained Biden level spending and did virtually nothing to bring
down the cost of affordability. Trump he shot his whole
wad for the whole year on the Big Beautiful Bill
and it didn't do anything for affordability.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
So hundreds of people lined up over the weekend for
free lobster rolls at Slapfish. They have a new location
in Carmel, and they gave.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Out free lobster roles.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
They did.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
How did we missed him?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
We missed it. We've been to the one in downtown Indy.
It's it's where.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's on Mass Half. It's on Mass alf just just
right there in downtown. It is good and I'm kind
of a foodie guy, and Slatfish has always been on
those lists of foody places you got to go to
in town, and it had been on my list of
places I wanted to go for a long time. And
finally it was about a month ago, two months ago
we made it to the one on Mass Avenue.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
And you'd been talking about then I was finally like, fuck,
let's go.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And then you absolutely loved it and it was awesome, Kyline.
You have to go there.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Have you ever been there? I have.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
I went for their Devour Indie menu.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Oh, now do you recommend.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
That as first?

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Do you remember what you got?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I don't remember.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
It was a special item specifically for Devour. I'm not
sure what it was, but a regular menu.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
It's so good.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I felt I had to get the lobster roll and
that's what I got, and it slapped and you ended
up getting what are called klobster cakes, which are crab
and lobster lobster care and they were fantastic, So slapfish.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
And that's saying something because we get those a lot
on the East Coast when we're visiting our daughter, and
that's plucked right out of.

Speaker 8 (28:31):
Atlanta, our daughter who lives in Baltimore. The entire city's
per Soul Bay. The identity is built around crab cakes.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
And so we get crab cakes at the birthplace of
crab cakes on the regular. And you decided to get
them here in Indianapolis, and you said they held up.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
They did, they held up. So yeah, they gave away
one hundred free lobster rolls to the first guests there
the restaurant. Now you've heard farmed table of course. Yeah,
there's is boat to plate.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh that's fun, a little twist.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's their mission to highlight fresh, high quality seams.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
The next item on the slatfish menu that I am
targeting then I'll be getting next time we go there,
lobster deviled eggs. Oh, I love a devil, n fan
of the devil. I love a deviled egg. You're gonna
be a big old honk of lobster lump meat right on.
That's that's next, coming up next, Lobster deviled eggs A.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Lot of people love the deviled eggs. They'll just eat
an entire plate in one sitting.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I do feel like it's kind of a holiday thing,
Like I can't eat deviled eggs twelve months a year.
I mean it's just a lot because I don't eat
just one. You eat like a dozen, and it can
be a lot. So I tend to save the devil
eggs for the holidays.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, you might have some younger people around you this Christmas,
and we're going to decipher some new Gen Alpha slang. No, no, yep,
we're going to get your prepared that way you can
understand them.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Okay, after the summer of six seven, I can't do
any more young I was flaying.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay, more coming up. It is the Kendall and Casey Show.
It's ninety three WYBC. They're expected to be the largest
generation in history and also highly influential in consumer trends.
We're talking about Gen Alpha Generation Alpha. These are generally
people that are born between the years twenty ten and

(30:23):
twenty twenty four. So you're talking about a fifteen year old.
Fourteen year old, yeah old. The oldest Gen Alpha is
now a freshman.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Probably a sophomore. Yeah, sophomore in high school.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
So these are the people that are just learning to drive,
asking mom and dad for a cell phone. And they're
the first generation to never know a world without smartphones, tablets,
or social media. These things have been a part of
their entire lives.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
That shouldn't change anything, should it?

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Those aren't major cultural disruptions.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Oh jeez? What as?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
These are mostly children of millennials, by the way, Okay,
and they have their entire own language, just like every
generation generation says things. Right, So we're gonna review jen
alpha slang because if you're around some younger people for
the holidays, you need to know what they're saying, and

(31:23):
we are here to help you.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Okay, let's see if I know any of these.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Obviously, you know the six seven six seven, you gotta
do the gesture with it. But what about these words?
I'm gonna ask you, Jim, and then we'll test Kylon
to see who can come up with the correct answer.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
You ready, I'm happy I know what sixty seven was.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, this first one is unk.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
That's short for uncle, and it means like like an
old dude.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
You're very good at this, did you know that.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
As well? Somebody call me ann not too long ago.
It's not a joke business that I run.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I had some one of my customers that was jokingly
and being a you know, kind of funny was a
younger guy and he was like, all right, unk, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I was like, oh.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Wow, Okay, So if you're called an unk, that it's
just age ranging from somebody between the ages of thirty
six and seventy five. An example is you have a
flip phone. That's true unk status. Okay, here's the next word. Chopped.
What is chopped?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'm my best guys like a bad haircut.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Kylon I is this close to cooked, you know, like.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You're done, Like I'm cooked, I'm over, I'm done.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
I don't think i've heard chopped yet.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
If something is chopped, it means it's unattractor or undesirable.
You know the tracks Ohio that selfish, That selfie is chopped.
Take another one. It doesn't look good, got it? Okay?
What about huzz h u z z.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah? Wait, I do know this one.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's it's it's similar to Riz, which the kids also love.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
It is it is.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
It has to do like attractive female or having, you know,
trying to hit on girls.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Or something like that, Kylin, what.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Do you think?

Speaker 7 (33:15):
Yeah, it's referring to I feel like a group of girls,
and they sometimes say gyacht with that.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, refers to a group of attractive women. Huzz Now
there are variations as well. Bruz is a group of bros,
or gruzz is a group of elderly people. Okay, here's
the last one. Wabi sabi.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Uh, wabi sabi. All I can think of is with sabi,
So it's is. I assume it's not food related, especially
not sushi related.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
No, it's not food related.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
I don't I don't think I've heard wabi sabi. I've
heard skivity way too many times.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Skimbity toilets. Yeah again, another thing that means nothing, similar
to six seven What what is it again?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Wabi so obby.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Sabby celebrating beauty in imperfections. It was adopted on social
media to highlight enduring flaws. For example, my bangs are
a little crooked, but that's okay, they're wobby sabby.

Speaker 7 (34:13):
I think this one's fascinating because it doesn't come from
like just meaningless words like skibbity. Bobby saby comes from
the Japanese aesthetic about imperfection.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
So it's actual like cultural global influence.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah. So when I referred it to what sabbi, I
wasn't that far off because again something Japanese.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Right, that's it exactly.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
You ate that up, Jim, I thank you. I totally did.
On the only.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
The uh, I think the one the only one I
could even remotely adopt here is unk. I think that's
the only one. And I'm gonna have to find a
pretty old dude to use it on.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Well, when referring to Kylin and I, you could say
that we're huzz I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
I have very a certain level of respect for women.
Then don't want to use any sort of things that
might be considered derogatory.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I don't know, it's not derogatory. You're just saying that
we're attractive, we're pretty.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
I feel like some jen alpha could use.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
That as derogatory. Right, If it's not derogatory.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
If it's not derogatory today, it'll be derogatory tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah. Okay, So we've got a new award. It's Fradilay.
Indiana won something according to the Washington Post, and we'll
get into that coming up. It is the Kendelly Case Show.
It's ninety three w IBC