November 24, 2025 • 25 mins
(November 24,2025)
How Marjorie Taylor Greene went from Trump ally to quitting Congress. Nursing is not a ‘professional degree’ amidst student loan changes. California air taxi companies Archer and Joby are vying for dominance. The biggest reason America is turning on Target and switching to Walmart.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty. We don't handle here.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Monday morning, November twenty four. Boy, what an interesting weekend.
Marjorie Taylor, Green Georgia congresswoman has gone from completely totally howling, barking, mad,
insane to actually kind of a reasonable, albeit very conservative
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member of Congress. Now let me tell you how nuts
she was as just a very firm advocate. Matter of fact,
I would say, an advocate of Donald Trump much like
a dog heels you know it, you know, comes to
you when you call it, when you say, hey, come
on over, and that is she came into Congress and
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she well, let me put some of the stuff that
she talked about, I mean openly openly, one of them being,
of course, the fact that the election was stolen. Huge
advocate of that. Now you know that's not realistic. The
election was not stolen. But if you are a supporter
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of Donald Trump to the point where you're willing to
put yourself in front of a bullet for him, then
you're going to argue that the election was stolen. By
the way, that started with Donald Trump saying the election
was stolen, no one had said anything about the election
being stolen until he started it, all right, so now,
fair enough, elections stolen, I disagree. But then we went
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into QAnon that the shootings in US schools were staged.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
None of those shootings were real.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They have hired actors and kids to enact the fact
that they that they were shot. Also alleging that the
Democratic Party was secretly run by a group of powerful pedophiles. Okay,
now that crosses the line in terms of nuts, isn't it.
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And then one of my favorites is the wildfire in
California's in the forests of California were actually created by
or set off by laser beams that came in from satellites.
That the Rothschild's family one of the premieer wealthiest families
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in the world. I mean, they're a European family. They
used to loan money to governments. I mean, that's how
wealthy they are. That the rothstyle family, which I don't
understand what has to do with California, no idea. But
the fires were set by them somehow grabbing the laser
beams from satellites. Okay, that's pretty nuts, isn't it. And
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then she started going the other way and had some
real problems. And keep in mind, when anybody goes against
the president in the Republican Party on anything, that person
is immediately a traitor and is in violation of adhering
to the Constitution of the United States. Donald Trump is
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the Constitution. The Constitution is Donald Trump. And here's what
she said. She was upset about his emphasis on foreign
policy at the expense of addressing economic and affordability concerns.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Affordability.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That language has just come up in the last couple
of weeks with Trump administration. Prior to that, it was
prices are down, prices have lowered. Memory came into office
saying I'm going to lower prices, going to be half
of what they were day one. Okay, well that's obviously hyperbole,
that's obviously a political claim. But he kept on looking
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the American people in the eye and saying, prices are down.
You are not paying as much for prices. You simply aren't.
Wait a sec I've just gone to the grocery store
and I'm paying more than I did a week ago.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, you're not. Prices are down. Well, that is gone now.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now the issue the language is affordability. That is now
the new mantra of the president and read the Republican
Party who works in lockstep with the president. That's just
the way it goes. You know, the president completely owns
the Republican Party. I've never seen it like this, and
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so she was not very happy with that. Probably two
of the biggest issues was the Epstein file. Trump ran
on release the Epstein file, release the Epstein file.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We have to see the Epstein file.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And then he becomes president and all of a sudden
is don't release the Epstein file. We can't release the
Epstein file. It's already being investigated by Congress. That's Mike
Johnson saying how the Epstein file should not be released
by the Department of Justice. Pam Bondi, vociferous defender of
Donald Trump when the Epstein files were in the hands
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of the Biden administration, got to release. You gotta release,
you gotta release. She now says, Well, I have him
on my desk and I'm going to look at him. Well,
how about releasing them. Well, I have him on my
desk and I'm looking. I'm looking at them, and we'll
release them at some later date. And then the vote
went berserk. I mean the President just lost. You cannot
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argue to hide those Epstein files, and he had to.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He had to cave.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He had to come down and say, Okay, we'll release
because the argument is going to be if he kept
on saying I'm not going to release or getting in
the way of releasing, and his Republicans voted for or
backed up his position not to release the Epstein files.
Now you have Democrats running against those congressmen and senators
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saying you are supporting pedophiles, you are covering up information
about pedophiles trafficking minor children. So all of a sudden,
guess what, Oh, we're going to release accept except Pam
Bondi has opened up an investigation into Democratic han shows
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like Larry Summers and Bill Clinton, which means that you
don't have to release anything that's under investigation. We'll see
what happens. Now, we don't know when they're going to
be released. We don't know how many are going to release.
That's up in the air. So she Marjorie Taylor Green
At a real problem with that. She also had a
real problem with the expansion of Obamacare, the subsidies to
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keep Obamacare subsidy, the policy to keep the Obamacare subsidies
in place that are those retire those end at the
end of this year, and you have the Democrats saying
we have to extend them, matter of fact, permanently in
many cases, and the Trump administration basically said nope. And
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the shutdown was over that issue. The Republicans said, you
can give us the government keep on going, and we'll
talk about those extensions at a later time. Can't tell
you when, but we'll talk about it at a later time.
And the Democrats caved, and she got really really upset
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about that because she has family members that are on
Obamacare that were going to lose their insurance. And we're
talking about in the twenty million people range that are
going to be priced out of insurance. In some cases
a premiums will double double at least. And so the Republicans,
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under the tutelage of Donald Trump, basically said the opening
the government is more important than anything else, which is
an argument.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'll buy that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But there was no negotiation whatsoever, and the Democrats caved
after a thirty eight day or thirty nine day or
was it a forty day shutdown, which has never happened
in the history of the United States. And so you
put all of this together, and all of a sudden
you have a supporter of the president that says, wait
a minute, you know that's not good and came out
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against them, and of course that means she's a trader.
And she resigned because she was going to lose because
the president would have primaried her out, because the president
decides who is going to lose and who is going
to win in the Republican party, and that's exactly what happens.
So she resigned because she didn't want to get into
that battle. She was probably gonna lose, by the way,
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because if you're a Republican, you go go against this president,
you're done. And then the issue that came up with
the those five Congress people saying to armed forces, you
don't have to follow illegal rules, and in one case,
you cannot follow illegal rules of engagement. And the president
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of course ripped into them, wants the death penalty, treason,
all of it. And here's where we are with this administration.
When a member of the military or a member of
Congress is sworn into Congress, you swear loyalty to the president,
not to the Constitution. We've done that a few times
this last century where you swear fealty and loyalty to
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a person and not to the laws of the land.
And it kills me that the Republicans are on the line. Yeah, yep,
Donald Trump is the Constitution. The Constitution is Donald Trump.
So Marjorie Taylor Green is out and well.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We'll see you. Yeah, she's still gonna be a big voice.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right, real quickly, there's a story out of USA
today that tells us or is effectively saying that nursing
is not a professional degree, or at least is for
a student, is not a professional degree. This has to
do with not definition of nursing. Of course, that's not
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only a degree, that's a license. However, according to the
federal definitions, and this is in regard to loans, according
to loans that you borrow from the government or their
government subsidized federal loans, nursing is not part of those
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license procedures that they'll back up. It's not a professional degree.
But wait a minute, how can it not be a
professional degree? Well, that's the list, hey, right there, that's
the list. There's a nineteen sixty five federal law that
defines a professional degree and by the way it exactly
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defines exactly what a professional degree is.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No one's going to argue that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Nursing is excluded from that list, saying, no, we don't
think that that is a degree. That is you know,
that is part of what we allow on federal funding. Now,
there are a list pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, shocker, medicine, optometry,
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goes on and on, and nursing is.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Not part of that list.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, in a letter from the Office of post Secondary
Education and the American Council Education saying we've got to
change that definition.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We have to add more programs that are defined as
professionally licensed professional degrees so these people who are in
school can borrow money, because there's a huge difference as
to the amount of money that a student can borrow
in a license program or one that is recognized by
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the government.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And one that is not.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And right now the nursing program is not considered a
what is called a professional degree. Now you still to
be a nurse, you still have to be an RN,
you still have to be licensed, you still have to
take exams. It's come on, guys, how can nursing not
be one of these degrees. Well, it fell through the cracks,
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and right now there are all kinds of discussions in
these student loan caps. Under the Big Beautiful Bill is
with drastically reduces the amount of money students can borrow.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's going down, not up. And of course you've.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Got these professional organizations. Nursing is socia students who are
borrowing money and can't borrow anywhere near the amount of
money that one can borrow for medical school, which of
course is insane law school, which I tell people, what
are you doing in law school? You really want to
be a lawyer? You're out of your mind? All it's
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these are real license de grease. But so is nursing. Well,
and you know, am I blaming the Trump administration for
doing this purposely? No? I think this fell in the cracks,
fell through the cracks, and under the Big Beautiful Bill
it still fell through the cracks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And do I imagine they won't straighten this out?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It can't be okay, Now air taxis are here, right,
we knew it was happening. Days of the Jetsons are here.
As a matter of fact, As a kid, I remember
somehow we were going to view what the future was
going to be. Like, everybody's going to work a thirty
hour week, and we were going to all have hobbies
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and make fortunes, and everybody great homes and air taxis
and we'd all be running around in flying cars. Well,
the money and the work hours and all that that
didn't happen. But air taxis, Yeah, yeah, we're literally right
on the hub. A couple of companies are already really
at the head of the crowd here. Archer Aviation just
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bought Hawthorn Airport for one hundred and twenty six million dollars.
It's going to be a hub for electric air taxis
and testing, and it's a couple of other companies are
right there too, trying to move ahead. Now, a word
or two about air taxis. Are they a wave of
the future, Of.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Course they are. Are we really close technologically?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We may be, but as far as just getting the
permitting process and going through the bureaucracy. Have you noticed
here in southern California you don't see helicopters buzzing from
place to place. There are some very highly placed executives
and some very wealthy people that would like to go
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from a to b and they can't take helicopters, so
they're stuck in the same traffic that we are stuck.
And they would love to take helicopters, would love it,
certainly have the money, and local ordinance don't allow it now.
That's because there's too much traffic up there, and there's
a safety issue, and there's a noise issue.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well with air taxis.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How many air taxies you think are going to be
up in the air when this thing starts moving and
the noise people complained about the noise.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This is electric. There's not gonna be any noise.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
These are electric powered air taxi because battery technology has
gotten to that point. And this is one area where
California is really ahead of the game, you know, technologically.
We've been saying this one of the upsides of living
in California is the techno world, the aerospace world, and
that's certainly the case when it comes to these air taxis,
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these EVTL taxis Electric Vertical takeoff then landing or OH
landing anyway, they're basically helicopters, but they're not. They have
that They look like drones. They look like giant drones
is what they look like. And they're very easy to drive,
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to fly, and they can be programmed. Now, when we
start moving into the world of air taxis, the world
is going to be a lot easier to live in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Going from A to B will be a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
As a matter of fact, if you're on the freeway,
which of course is gridlock, gridlock, gridlock, that's going to
all disappear when it's autonomous cars, when it's self driving cars,
because the technology today allows the car to be two
feet behind another car at sixty five miles an hour
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and there won't be any breaking. The whole computers system
that runs that will run this transit system be able
to figure out cars going in and out of lanes
and it'll be flawless. Well, the same things that happen
with our taxi is accept you're sort of in the
air and for some reason, well we know the reason
is that when you're on an airplane you feel out
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of control. I mean, how many people think of going down?
I think of an airplane crashing? And do you ever
think of the plane going down when you're flying? No? Oh,
you're comfortable flying, amy, do you ever think of the
plane going down all the time? See cono absolutely, okay.
Will do you ever think of a plane going down
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from flying a lot in the past, Yes, yeah, okay.
And I think of the plane going down too. As
a matter of fact, George Norri, who of course does
the overnights and talks to talks to ghosts, etc. He
and I have been on the same flight a few
times from La to Las Vegas. We just happened to
be on the same flight and we sat next to
each other and we were both discussing who gets higher
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billing when the plane goes down? Who gets first billing?
Is it George Norri and me? Or is it me
and George Norri or is it George Norri and an
unidentified talk show host.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The point is, we think about it now.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
How many times going on the freeway sixty five miles
an hour do you think of getting into a car
crash and dying? You don't, No one does, because we're
so used to it. Well, that's going to happen in
the world of air taxis eventually, but air taxis are
here now. They're pretending that some air taxis will be
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up and flying during the Olympic Games. That will never
happen because we're way, way decades.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Away from actually having it happen.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I'm not even talking about the technology of it,
because when you look at drone technologies, just expand that
by one hundred times or eighty times. And the technologies
I said with bad I mean there are some issues
because they have to fly around and you can't plug
in a battery for six hours and they have it
fly for half an hour. I mean, there's some there's
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some issues that have to be overcome, but certainly in
my lifetime. And if you listen to the show and
you're under one hundred, which is not too many people
in your lifetime, you will see air taxis up there. Yep,
the jetsons have arrived and yeah, and when they do crash,
oh man, that'll make go. The first few will be
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above the fold front of the news broadcasts.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
After that, eh, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, how many times do we mention people dying
in car accidents? Amy literally unless they are spectacular car accidents.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And there were some people today, Okay, you have mentioned them,
have you no? Because they they kind of happen all
the time. There you go, there, you go above the fold.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
If you go down in a plane crash, do you
think they'll even mention your name, Amy.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
No, they would mention yours first bill.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That is correct, that would be the newsperson for an
unidentified talk show on an unidentified radio station here in
an unidentified city in southern California. Okay, Target and Walmart.
You remember when Target used to be the end all
be all. Management was terrific. Target was growing like crazy,
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and Walmart Walmart was Walmart. Let me tell you it
has turned around. Walmart is growing like crazy. Target is
going into the toilet.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Why is that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, there's a couple of reasons. Target hasn't really changed
the way it does business. Walmart has. Walmart has figured
out that value is everything that customers want, less expensive items.
The cost of living is really high and getting higher,
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and people were in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I mean, you know a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Aren't eating the way they did, especially when you look
at the government shutdown and the food stamps, for example,
stopped for all of those weeks. It was it was,
it was terrible, and this was just an ongoing concern.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Walmart US sales increased four and a half percent last quarter.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's enormous.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Target dropped two point seven percent enormous.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So what is going on?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, here's a poll that was published by Fox News
this week. Seventy six percent of Americans have a negative
view of the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
In July it was sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I mean it's gone up eleven points of the concern
of the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Walmart has always offered low prices and it is sort
of the king of the everyday low price concept EDLP,
which means that it consistently offers low prices instead of
frequent sales. You don't see any sales at Walmart. What
you see is low prices every day, and you know
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people buy it because it happens to be true. It
also has made strategic investments improve its brand reputation quality,
so quality has gone up. Prices still remain down or
low relative to other stores. Walmart was always known for
the sheep as prices, no question about it. However, it
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was always known for the quality of its products being
sort of the bottom of the barrel. Well, they're moving up.
Target hasn't changed. Target is behind the times. Walmart is
remodeling stores like crazy. Target didn't do that. And the
other thing that Walmart is doing is strengthening the brands itself,
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picking up higher priced brands and still selling them for
less money than is out there on the market. Target
I have had a reputation for selling cheap, chic home goods, clothing,
discretionary merchandise.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But you had a worse seeing appearance of.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
The stores higher prices, and the slide started. And when
they start going downhill, it is hard to stop that
snowball rolling downhill. So it's you know, people gonna shop
at Walmart. And I never have shopped at Walmart because
there is no a Walmart near me. But the few
times that I have gone into Walmart, I have to
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tell you, I remember I had I needed an extension court,
you know, a little crappy little extension cord six feet
eight feet, And figure.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Out right, I'm gonna go in there and go to
a hardware starre.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm gonna pay four or five bucks, and then I
go into a Walmart because they happened to be there
and pick one up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It was a dollar eighty nine. It's the same product.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
By the way, I go, WHOA Does that mean I
now shop at Walmart?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
No, it still too far away from me. They don't
have enough of them. They're not on every corner in
which they should be. All right, coming up, More Americans
are taking out riskier adjustable rate bank loans. Man, I've
had a thing about adjustable rate loans.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
What.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
No, what am I doing here? Oh no, eight o'clock right, yeah,
that's what I see. Tell me what's going on? And
we are going to talk about Postathon. No, I was
just about to say, but first we're gonna talk about Pastathon.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh sorry, I thought you had laps. No, I did not,
I did not. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
More Americans are taking out adjustable rate home loans. I've
always had a thing about adjustable rate loans that I
want to share with you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But first we're.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Going to talk about Postathon.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Just ask an.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
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Monday morning, November twenty four. Boy, what an interesting weekend.
Marjorie Taylor, Green Georgia congresswoman has gone from completely totally howling, barking, mad,
insane to actually kind of a reasonable, albeit very conservative
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member of Congress. Now let me tell you how nuts
she was as just a very firm advocate. Matter of fact,
I would say, an advocate of Donald Trump much like
a dog heels you know it, you know, comes to
you when you call it, when you say, hey, come
on over, and that is she came into Congress and
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she well, let me put some of the stuff that
she talked about, I mean openly openly, one of them being,
of course, the fact that the election was stolen. Huge
advocate of that. Now you know that's not realistic. The
election was not stolen. But if you are a supporter
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of Donald Trump to the point where you're willing to
put yourself in front of a bullet for him, then
you're going to argue that the election was stolen. By
the way, that started with Donald Trump saying the election
was stolen, no one had said anything about the election
being stolen until he started it, all right, so now,
fair enough, elections stolen, I disagree. But then we went
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into QAnon that the shootings in US schools were staged.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
None of those shootings were real.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They have hired actors and kids to enact the fact
that they that they were shot. Also alleging that the
Democratic Party was secretly run by a group of powerful pedophiles. Okay,
now that crosses the line in terms of nuts, isn't it.
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And then one of my favorites is the wildfire in
California's in the forests of California were actually created by
or set off by laser beams that came in from satellites.
That the Rothschild's family one of the premieer wealthiest families
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in the world. I mean, they're a European family. They
used to loan money to governments. I mean, that's how
wealthy they are. That the rothstyle family, which I don't
understand what has to do with California, no idea. But
the fires were set by them somehow grabbing the laser
beams from satellites. Okay, that's pretty nuts, isn't it. And
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then she started going the other way and had some
real problems. And keep in mind, when anybody goes against
the president in the Republican Party on anything, that person
is immediately a traitor and is in violation of adhering
to the Constitution of the United States. Donald Trump is
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the Constitution. The Constitution is Donald Trump. And here's what
she said. She was upset about his emphasis on foreign
policy at the expense of addressing economic and affordability concerns.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Affordability.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That language has just come up in the last couple
of weeks with Trump administration. Prior to that, it was
prices are down, prices have lowered. Memory came into office
saying I'm going to lower prices, going to be half
of what they were day one. Okay, well that's obviously hyperbole,
that's obviously a political claim. But he kept on looking
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the American people in the eye and saying, prices are down.
You are not paying as much for prices. You simply aren't.
Wait a sec I've just gone to the grocery store
and I'm paying more than I did a week ago.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, you're not. Prices are down. Well, that is gone now.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now the issue the language is affordability. That is now
the new mantra of the president and read the Republican
Party who works in lockstep with the president. That's just
the way it goes. You know, the president completely owns
the Republican Party. I've never seen it like this, and
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so she was not very happy with that. Probably two
of the biggest issues was the Epstein file. Trump ran
on release the Epstein file, release the Epstein file.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We have to see the Epstein file.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And then he becomes president and all of a sudden
is don't release the Epstein file. We can't release the
Epstein file. It's already being investigated by Congress. That's Mike
Johnson saying how the Epstein file should not be released
by the Department of Justice. Pam Bondi, vociferous defender of
Donald Trump when the Epstein files were in the hands
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of the Biden administration, got to release. You gotta release,
you gotta release. She now says, Well, I have him
on my desk and I'm going to look at him. Well,
how about releasing them. Well, I have him on my
desk and I'm looking. I'm looking at them, and we'll
release them at some later date. And then the vote
went berserk. I mean the President just lost. You cannot
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argue to hide those Epstein files, and he had to.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He had to cave.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He had to come down and say, Okay, we'll release
because the argument is going to be if he kept
on saying I'm not going to release or getting in
the way of releasing, and his Republicans voted for or
backed up his position not to release the Epstein files.
Now you have Democrats running against those congressmen and senators
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saying you are supporting pedophiles, you are covering up information
about pedophiles trafficking minor children. So all of a sudden,
guess what, Oh, we're going to release accept except Pam
Bondi has opened up an investigation into Democratic han shows
(06:41):
like Larry Summers and Bill Clinton, which means that you
don't have to release anything that's under investigation. We'll see
what happens. Now, we don't know when they're going to
be released. We don't know how many are going to release.
That's up in the air. So she Marjorie Taylor Green
At a real problem with that. She also had a
real problem with the expansion of Obamacare, the subsidies to
(07:05):
keep Obamacare subsidy, the policy to keep the Obamacare subsidies
in place that are those retire those end at the
end of this year, and you have the Democrats saying
we have to extend them, matter of fact, permanently in
many cases, and the Trump administration basically said nope. And
(07:26):
the shutdown was over that issue. The Republicans said, you
can give us the government keep on going, and we'll
talk about those extensions at a later time. Can't tell
you when, but we'll talk about it at a later time.
And the Democrats caved, and she got really really upset
(07:46):
about that because she has family members that are on
Obamacare that were going to lose their insurance. And we're
talking about in the twenty million people range that are
going to be priced out of insurance. In some cases
a premiums will double double at least. And so the Republicans,
(08:07):
under the tutelage of Donald Trump, basically said the opening
the government is more important than anything else, which is
an argument.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'll buy that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But there was no negotiation whatsoever, and the Democrats caved
after a thirty eight day or thirty nine day or
was it a forty day shutdown, which has never happened
in the history of the United States. And so you
put all of this together, and all of a sudden
you have a supporter of the president that says, wait
a minute, you know that's not good and came out
(08:35):
against them, and of course that means she's a trader.
And she resigned because she was going to lose because
the president would have primaried her out, because the president
decides who is going to lose and who is going
to win in the Republican party, and that's exactly what happens.
So she resigned because she didn't want to get into
that battle. She was probably gonna lose, by the way,
(08:57):
because if you're a Republican, you go go against this president,
you're done. And then the issue that came up with
the those five Congress people saying to armed forces, you
don't have to follow illegal rules, and in one case,
you cannot follow illegal rules of engagement. And the president
(09:19):
of course ripped into them, wants the death penalty, treason,
all of it. And here's where we are with this administration.
When a member of the military or a member of
Congress is sworn into Congress, you swear loyalty to the president,
not to the Constitution. We've done that a few times
this last century where you swear fealty and loyalty to
(09:42):
a person and not to the laws of the land.
And it kills me that the Republicans are on the line. Yeah, yep,
Donald Trump is the Constitution. The Constitution is Donald Trump.
So Marjorie Taylor Green is out and well.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We'll see you. Yeah, she's still gonna be a big voice.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right, real quickly, there's a story out of USA
today that tells us or is effectively saying that nursing
is not a professional degree, or at least is for
a student, is not a professional degree. This has to
do with not definition of nursing. Of course, that's not
(10:22):
only a degree, that's a license. However, according to the
federal definitions, and this is in regard to loans, according
to loans that you borrow from the government or their
government subsidized federal loans, nursing is not part of those
(10:43):
license procedures that they'll back up. It's not a professional degree.
But wait a minute, how can it not be a
professional degree? Well, that's the list, hey, right there, that's
the list. There's a nineteen sixty five federal law that
defines a professional degree and by the way it exactly
(11:04):
defines exactly what a professional degree is.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No one's going to argue that.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Nursing is excluded from that list, saying, no, we don't
think that that is a degree. That is you know,
that is part of what we allow on federal funding. Now,
there are a list pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, shocker, medicine, optometry,
(11:34):
goes on and on, and nursing is.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Not part of that list.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, in a letter from the Office of post Secondary
Education and the American Council Education saying we've got to
change that definition.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We have to add more programs that are defined as
professionally licensed professional degrees so these people who are in
school can borrow money, because there's a huge difference as
to the amount of money that a student can borrow
in a license program or one that is recognized by
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the government.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And one that is not.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And right now the nursing program is not considered a
what is called a professional degree. Now you still to
be a nurse, you still have to be an RN,
you still have to be licensed, you still have to
take exams. It's come on, guys, how can nursing not
be one of these degrees. Well, it fell through the cracks,
(12:36):
and right now there are all kinds of discussions in
these student loan caps. Under the Big Beautiful Bill is
with drastically reduces the amount of money students can borrow.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's going down, not up. And of course you've.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Got these professional organizations. Nursing is socia students who are
borrowing money and can't borrow anywhere near the amount of
money that one can borrow for medical school, which of
course is insane law school, which I tell people, what
are you doing in law school? You really want to
be a lawyer? You're out of your mind? All it's
(13:18):
these are real license de grease. But so is nursing. Well,
and you know, am I blaming the Trump administration for
doing this purposely? No? I think this fell in the cracks,
fell through the cracks, and under the Big Beautiful Bill
it still fell through the cracks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And do I imagine they won't straighten this out?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It can't be okay, Now air taxis are here, right,
we knew it was happening. Days of the Jetsons are here.
As a matter of fact, As a kid, I remember
somehow we were going to view what the future was
going to be. Like, everybody's going to work a thirty
hour week, and we were going to all have hobbies
(13:58):
and make fortunes, and everybody great homes and air taxis
and we'd all be running around in flying cars. Well,
the money and the work hours and all that that
didn't happen. But air taxis, Yeah, yeah, we're literally right
on the hub. A couple of companies are already really
at the head of the crowd here. Archer Aviation just
(14:22):
bought Hawthorn Airport for one hundred and twenty six million dollars.
It's going to be a hub for electric air taxis
and testing, and it's a couple of other companies are
right there too, trying to move ahead. Now, a word
or two about air taxis. Are they a wave of
the future, Of.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Course they are. Are we really close technologically?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We may be, but as far as just getting the
permitting process and going through the bureaucracy. Have you noticed
here in southern California you don't see helicopters buzzing from
place to place. There are some very highly placed executives
and some very wealthy people that would like to go
(15:05):
from a to b and they can't take helicopters, so
they're stuck in the same traffic that we are stuck.
And they would love to take helicopters, would love it,
certainly have the money, and local ordinance don't allow it now.
That's because there's too much traffic up there, and there's
a safety issue, and there's a noise issue.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well with air taxis.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How many air taxies you think are going to be
up in the air when this thing starts moving and
the noise people complained about the noise.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This is electric. There's not gonna be any noise.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
These are electric powered air taxi because battery technology has
gotten to that point. And this is one area where
California is really ahead of the game, you know, technologically.
We've been saying this one of the upsides of living
in California is the techno world, the aerospace world, and
that's certainly the case when it comes to these air taxis,
(16:01):
these EVTL taxis Electric Vertical takeoff then landing or OH
landing anyway, they're basically helicopters, but they're not. They have
that They look like drones. They look like giant drones
is what they look like. And they're very easy to drive,
(16:22):
to fly, and they can be programmed. Now, when we
start moving into the world of air taxis, the world
is going to be a lot easier to live in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Going from A to B will be a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
As a matter of fact, if you're on the freeway,
which of course is gridlock, gridlock, gridlock, that's going to
all disappear when it's autonomous cars, when it's self driving cars,
because the technology today allows the car to be two
feet behind another car at sixty five miles an hour
(16:57):
and there won't be any breaking. The whole computers system
that runs that will run this transit system be able
to figure out cars going in and out of lanes
and it'll be flawless. Well, the same things that happen
with our taxi is accept you're sort of in the
air and for some reason, well we know the reason
is that when you're on an airplane you feel out
(17:19):
of control. I mean, how many people think of going down?
I think of an airplane crashing? And do you ever
think of the plane going down when you're flying? No? Oh,
you're comfortable flying, amy, do you ever think of the
plane going down all the time? See cono absolutely, okay.
Will do you ever think of a plane going down
(17:41):
from flying a lot in the past, Yes, yeah, okay.
And I think of the plane going down too. As
a matter of fact, George Norri, who of course does
the overnights and talks to talks to ghosts, etc. He
and I have been on the same flight a few
times from La to Las Vegas. We just happened to
be on the same flight and we sat next to
each other and we were both discussing who gets higher
(18:03):
billing when the plane goes down? Who gets first billing?
Is it George Norri and me? Or is it me
and George Norri or is it George Norri and an
unidentified talk show host.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The point is, we think about it now.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
How many times going on the freeway sixty five miles
an hour do you think of getting into a car
crash and dying? You don't, No one does, because we're
so used to it. Well, that's going to happen in
the world of air taxis eventually, but air taxis are
here now. They're pretending that some air taxis will be
(18:40):
up and flying during the Olympic Games. That will never
happen because we're way, way decades.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Away from actually having it happen.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I'm not even talking about the technology of it,
because when you look at drone technologies, just expand that
by one hundred times or eighty times. And the technologies
I said with bad I mean there are some issues
because they have to fly around and you can't plug
in a battery for six hours and they have it
fly for half an hour. I mean, there's some there's
(19:10):
some issues that have to be overcome, but certainly in
my lifetime. And if you listen to the show and
you're under one hundred, which is not too many people
in your lifetime, you will see air taxis up there. Yep,
the jetsons have arrived and yeah, and when they do crash,
oh man, that'll make go. The first few will be
(19:34):
above the fold front of the news broadcasts.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
After that, eh, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, how many times do we mention people dying
in car accidents? Amy literally unless they are spectacular car accidents.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And there were some people today, Okay, you have mentioned them,
have you no? Because they they kind of happen all
the time. There you go, there, you go above the fold.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
If you go down in a plane crash, do you
think they'll even mention your name, Amy.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
No, they would mention yours first bill.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That is correct, that would be the newsperson for an
unidentified talk show on an unidentified radio station here in
an unidentified city in southern California. Okay, Target and Walmart.
You remember when Target used to be the end all
be all. Management was terrific. Target was growing like crazy,
(20:29):
and Walmart Walmart was Walmart. Let me tell you it
has turned around. Walmart is growing like crazy. Target is
going into the toilet.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Why is that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, there's a couple of reasons. Target hasn't really changed
the way it does business. Walmart has. Walmart has figured
out that value is everything that customers want, less expensive items.
The cost of living is really high and getting higher,
(21:04):
and people were in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I mean, you know a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Aren't eating the way they did, especially when you look
at the government shutdown and the food stamps, for example,
stopped for all of those weeks. It was it was,
it was terrible, and this was just an ongoing concern.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Walmart US sales increased four and a half percent last quarter.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's enormous.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Target dropped two point seven percent enormous.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So what is going on?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, here's a poll that was published by Fox News
this week. Seventy six percent of Americans have a negative
view of the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
In July it was sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I mean it's gone up eleven points of the concern
of the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Walmart has always offered low prices and it is sort
of the king of the everyday low price concept EDLP,
which means that it consistently offers low prices instead of
frequent sales. You don't see any sales at Walmart. What
you see is low prices every day, and you know
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people buy it because it happens to be true. It
also has made strategic investments improve its brand reputation quality,
so quality has gone up. Prices still remain down or
low relative to other stores. Walmart was always known for
the sheep as prices, no question about it. However, it
(22:36):
was always known for the quality of its products being
sort of the bottom of the barrel. Well, they're moving up.
Target hasn't changed. Target is behind the times. Walmart is
remodeling stores like crazy. Target didn't do that. And the
other thing that Walmart is doing is strengthening the brands itself,
(22:59):
picking up higher priced brands and still selling them for
less money than is out there on the market. Target
I have had a reputation for selling cheap, chic home goods, clothing,
discretionary merchandise.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But you had a worse seeing appearance of.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
The stores higher prices, and the slide started. And when
they start going downhill, it is hard to stop that
snowball rolling downhill. So it's you know, people gonna shop
at Walmart. And I never have shopped at Walmart because
there is no a Walmart near me. But the few
times that I have gone into Walmart, I have to
(23:40):
tell you, I remember I had I needed an extension court,
you know, a little crappy little extension cord six feet
eight feet, And figure.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Out right, I'm gonna go in there and go to
a hardware starre.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'm gonna pay four or five bucks, and then I
go into a Walmart because they happened to be there
and pick one up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It was a dollar eighty nine. It's the same product.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
By the way, I go, WHOA Does that mean I
now shop at Walmart?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
No, it still too far away from me. They don't
have enough of them. They're not on every corner in
which they should be. All right, coming up, More Americans
are taking out riskier adjustable rate bank loans. Man, I've
had a thing about adjustable rate loans.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
What.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
No, what am I doing here? Oh no, eight o'clock right, yeah,
that's what I see. Tell me what's going on? And
we are going to talk about Postathon. No, I was
just about to say, but first we're gonna talk about Pastathon.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh sorry, I thought you had laps. No, I did not,
I did not. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
More Americans are taking out adjustable rate home loans. I've
always had a thing about adjustable rate loans that I
want to share with you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But first we're.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Going to talk about Postathon.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Just ask an.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
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