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head to teams to talk with mister Dan Perkins. Dan,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Good morning, sir. I'm fine, Thank you and yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Good good good. Hope you had a good weekend. I did.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I did did some work and fight some some games
and loss, but that's okay. Hey, my wife's spart than
I have, so she always be me, but it's fun
to be with her.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So what's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I have some numbers for you, and I think they're important.
We should spend a little time talking about it, but
you need a little bit of background. I did some
research on Twitter to try and find out what people
say about the impact of terraffs and how it's affecting
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the economy, and I just want to read you one
particular shorts, just a couple of lines. Yes, the TIFFs
have brought in billions of dollars, but it's small towns, farmers,
and local shops taking the hit. Over five thousand stores
have already closed lost seventy thousand jobs and families are
paying two to four thousand dollars more year. That money's
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not reaching the people feeling the pain. Until the fifty
to one hundred billion is promised infrastructure and twenty billion
for farm actually show up. The damage is just going
to get worse. Well, you know, so I went out.
I said, let me ask you a question. What's how much
of an impact is the price of tariffs had an
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impact on business owners having to decide to close their businesses?
And I found a whole bunch of whole bunch of
texts about that, and one of them said, ask business
owners why they're closing shop. The majority will say one
or all of the following electric bills are insane, can't
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afford the rent, can't afford to pay staff, and dealing
with lazy, entitled attitudes that it is a pain drop
off customers as people aren't spending like they used to.
That's one. Here's a here's a a I'm a poster
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that says two hundred and thirty four thousand, four hundred
all businesses have permanently closed and since the lockdown was
first introduced in COVID, I thought that was interesting so
there's common reasons business closures include poor location. I'm going
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to read these to you, but here's I'll give you
a setup for the question at the back end, how
many times did you hear terrors? Okay, poor location, lack
of experience, poor management, insufficient capital, unexpected growth, personal use
of funds, over investment in fixed statsets, poor credit arrangements,
rising costs, not well capitalized, not well managed, retirement, mental
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or physical health issues, external economic factors, shiny object syndrome,
lack of business plan for poor planning and conflicts besides
diminishing profitability or cash flow problems, poor location, insufficient operations
or outdoor, outdated technology, external market competition, and higher taxation costs.
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So didn't hear anything about yeah, tariffs. So then I
ran on a little farther, said, you know, I know
they have. We had a good jobs number. Last job's
number was one hundred and plus one hundred and forty
seven thousand jobs. At June, unemployment fell to four point
one and in the first six months of twenty twenty five,
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and Trump didn't take over till January twentieth, so he
didn't have the full six months. But in the first
six months of this year, seven hundred and eighty two
thousand new jobs were added to the economy and the
unemployed great unemployment rates fell. So these people who are
talking about inflation or excuse me, are about inflation, but
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there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming cry for what's happening.
Because of the terroriffs. It's expecting small businesses to make
it decision and so, but it isn't just small businesses
that are closing. Some of the small super chains are
closing big time because they had a business model that
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they just couldn't happen. One of the other things that's
really had a tremendous impact, and we just went through
it last week, is the power of e commerce and
the power of Amazon and online fellows. It's a lower cost,
they can offer better pricing, they can ship it and
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get it to you relatively quickly. And so that whole
model of non bricks and mortar which has been coming
on and on and on as more and more businesses
are going to I mean, there's a company you may
have heard of, had a lot of stores and we
shopped at them, not all of them, but some of
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them Bed Bath and Beyond. They went into bankruptcy. They
went out of business.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's been a while though hadn't, Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
They came back. They came back in in a pure
e commerce business. And so so e commerce is becoming
a bigger and bigger part of even bricks and mortar stores.
And when you see basic closed stores, Jac Penny's basically
going out of business, on and on and on. These
these stores are closing. The vacancy rates in the malls
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are accelerating and rents are falling because they can't get
anybody to take the space. But our model, our business
model of how we do business has changed, and we're
not going to get people going back to the malls
in the kind of numbers that we used to have.
They they've become very comfortable because of COVID of shopping
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from home and saw that they got they got reasonably
good service, and they got quality, and they got what
they wanted when they wanted it. And so our whole
shopping experience is changing dramatically. But it's not because of terrorists.
It's because of the evolution of technology. And when AI
gets really ramped up, you're going to see more and
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more of the big box stores closing because they can't compete. Now,
there are some that probably have a pretty good chance
of staying in business in bricks and mortar. That would
be your homee builder stores, lows and home depot. I mean,
you can order two by fours over the internet, but
you can't sort them out and out of the woodpile
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like you could at the store. So, but my point
is that we we we are not paying attention. And
the media, the media, the mainstream media, is feeding the
American people things that are not true, plan aren't true. Yeah,
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I mean, yes, what's I understand? But we forget I mean,
I mean, even though we know that all of the
major networks and many of the more liberal cable channels
are losing audience the three broadcasts networks, I guess you
could say NPR is one of the broadcast networks, but
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the three major networks are in fact dramatically losing audience share.
But they even though they're losing audience share, they still
control over forty percent of the communications marketplace cumulatively. Yeah,
and so so I mean they're they're if you, if
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you get a chance, you'll look at the evening news
you'll find on ABC, CBS and NBC. Uh, they may
not do it in the same order, but they're all
covering the same sort and ninety percent of the time
what they report is against Trump, of course, and and
and but what's happening is that people are beginning, some
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people bull wafflers as I call them wafflers, are beginning
to say, well, wait a minute, maybe the mainstream media
is correct, and maybe things aren't as great as they
seem to be, except that they are. And so mister
Trump still has a big battle to help people understand
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that the mainstream media is not their friend. And when
when they get ratings of ninety four percent have negative
things to say about Donald Donald Trump, or ninety four
percent of the time they have negative things to say
about Donald Trump or don't even cover him, they didn't learn.
And I think that that's a very important piece of
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information because if the mainstream media is going to continue
to do what they're doing, and mister Trump is still
holding a strong base plus fifty percent. I mean, I
saw the the polling guy on the CNN and he
was talking about how all the major polling organizations still
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have Donald Trump north of fifty percent from the highest
sixty one percent approval ratings so all of these bad
stories and all the things that are not true, they're
they're they're they're not eating away at his core support.
And I think his core support is probably stronger and
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bigger today than it was when he was elected in
November of last year.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, I would agree, and I think it's growing as well.
I mean, CNN just had their own poll about the
Democrat Party. They're going south of thirty percent approval. You've
got JP Morgan Jamie Diamonds out there destroying Democrat voters
last week, calling him idiots who don't understand how the
real world works and have little brains. So, I mean,
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and he's never been remotely considered a Republican or Mauga.
So you know, there's just there's still we discussed a
little bit last hour. There's just there's zero self reflection
on these people at all. They just keep maintaining the lie.
And I can understand why you got a lot of
people out there if all you watch is the mainstream news,
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you know, CNN and the Big Three, that's probably the
takeaway you're going to get, and that's what you're probably
going to believe, is it tariffs are killing small businesses.
When a lot of small businesses don't have any idea
how to run their small business. They have no marketing
plan whatsoever. They think they can just open the doors
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and people will show up. And a lot of them
go out of business like that within the first three years.
And as you said, a lot of these went out
of business during COVID.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
There are stores here in Fort Myers that closed this year.
And I had taught a chance to talk to one
gentleman who had had a business here for a number
of years, more than three I think it was like
ten or fifteen years, and he closed it because his
his his customer base that he had before COVID, and
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they closed things down never came back. And he tried
and he tried, and he tried to keep his place
open and and and pay his people, and he reached
the point where he just literally ran out of money
and he wasn't going to get any credit. Oh yeah.
But but but what I'm saying is that the patterns
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we talked about just a few moments ago, the e
commerce patterns are changing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
What was he selling of pardon, what was he selling?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
He had a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Uhh, yeah, those are tough.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Things that he said is that people people changed their
eating habits. So if you walk into a Kentucky Fried
Chicken and you walk into McDonald's or Burger King or
Arby's or Olive Garden or any of the change, they're
up by the register. There is there's a whole section
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in the store now for pickup drivers. So if you're
each there's a place where you go and it has
a shell for Uber eath and you pick up the
package and you go. So that I mean, I think
this is crazy. But when when we were in Boston
for the wedding a few weeks ago, we were taking
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Uber and I and I was talking to the driver
and I said, so, it was like, what was the
most unusual ride you've ever had? He said, I got
people that pay me to go to Starbucks and pick
up a coffee and bring it to their house.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Oh the coffee, except you pay like thirteen bucks for
a for a venti Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean so, but people have people. We were
still wrestling with the effects of what the Biden administration
did when they closed everything down and kept it closed
forever and ever and ever. And another thing we talked
last week about what was going on in the City
of Chicago schools if you remember that, And I just
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out of curiosity that I said, let's take a look
around and see if my logic works. That all the
major cities school systems are in trouble, just like Chicago.
And by the way, maybe even the Teacher's Union. Well,
New York City at one time in the when it
was at its peak before COVID, had one point one
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million students in the public schools. It was the largest
public school system in the world. It's now a point
eight hundred and ten thousand. So they've lost over two
hundred thousand students. They've got just like Chicago, they've got
buildings that are half empty and and sumber fol they've
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got they've they've closed something like one hundred buildings, closed
one hundred schools since COVID. The teachers Union's down about
about four hundred thousand members. And here's an interesting one
I thought. I thought last night, the woman who's in
charge of the National Education Association the union makes more
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money per year than the President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh yeah, she well norse to four hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh no, she's close to five. Now, yeah, five hundred
thousand and mister Trump gives us. If he didn't give
it all away, he cillinly makes about four hundred and
forty thousand dollars. I mean so and and by the way,
the teachers union president versus the teachers deployed, the ratio
of income to the premia two is almost seven and
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a half to one. It has the union at big
seven and a half times more money than the classroom teacher.
But my point is all these things are changing. You know,
we were talking about media when when Rachel Mada was
doing her first hundred days, she got X numbers of
rating points, but her deal with with MSNBC was after
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the first hundred days, I'm going to go back to
just Monday night and they brought in Jen Hockey to
take Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Well, now we've got
numbers and Jen Hockey is getting about forty percent of
what Rachel Meadow got once she was doing the whole week.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And let her go.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So But but the point is the media. How many
times have we seen changes in the on air personality?
I mean, how many people are still are saying, including
Bill Maher, We've got to get rid of the view.
Oh yes, Laurel o'donald CBS News on the Evening News,
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and they replaced her with a team of two people.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You're ready to stop because they're still delivering the same
line of bs just because you changed the personality. It's
the content, not the deliverer of the content.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I don't whether you saw the interview last week of
Mark Cuban and he basically he says Democrats are absolutely stupid. Yeah,
it's stop this hate.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Said the stupid Democrat.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Because it doesn't it doesn't help the Democrats want to
come back and vote for him because it doesn't tell
him anything other than they should hate Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, there's they offer they're not offering anything.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No, you're absolutely right, and and that's what that's what
people are saying is that's why the numbers are not
as much as the media would like to And it's trying.
It's hard as they can't influenced voters to change their direction.
They're not changing their direction, as you said earlier, and
I agree with you, they're they're picking up more and
the idea that again the media is now questioning whether
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or not the Republicans can retain control of a house
in the in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I think they're in the midterm, I think.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And my I'm say was, wait a minute, the Democrats
haven't figured out who they are and what they want
to be. How they're going to get voters to switch
back to them. If they have no idea what they
want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, we're still going to have to still got to
get the vote out. You're still you know, regardless of
how bad the Democrats are, there's still election fraud going on.
Nobody's really tamped down on that. So we're still going
to have to vote in mass to retain in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Right, But I think to have to have effective voter
fraud a terrible, terrible thing to say. You have to
have an effective leadership in the Republican Democratic Party driving
in I don't see that at the moment. I mean,
we have this this governor from Wisconsin who was the
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last week they were going through their appropriations bill. You
can imagine a state government had a thousand page appropriations
and budget bills, a thousand page for a state, and
he spent a significant amount of time trying to find
different ways in which he could take out the word
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mother that was ever in any place that was in
the document and che and and they were coming up
with all kinds of alternatives like, uh person, birthing person,
insemination person, you know, all these things. And but when
it came to men parent parent, the men were classified
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as parents, but the woman could never mother. Another wasn't.
So I don't I don't stand. And you still got
the states like California that want to put men in
girls' sports. See court Is says they'll take it up
in October this year. I don't see how that's helping
the Democrats with their message and to get people to
want to follow. Then we've got AOC opening her mouth
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last week saying that that the Stephanofolos quote that Donald
Trump was convicted of rape, which is not true, And
now they're talking about the possibility of yeah ensued.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I mean she basically said, she basically said the same
thing that won Trump sixteen million dollars in court. So
how is she going to be exempt from defamation.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The mistake that she made she didn't say it on
the floor of the house. Yeah, if she said it
on the floor in the house, she has immunity, But
she didn't she said it outside.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He should sue her and then.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Oh, yeah, I think he should. Then you've got the
the non for Democratic Party for beyor for New York.
They released some information on him his feelings about not
having police respond to certain kinds of calls and therefore
we can reduce the size of the police force and
add social workers to be for the first responders. Yeah,
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and I guess, I guess it's it's unbelievable, the adverse rerection.
There was a story where there are Democrats, wealthy democrats
in New York City who are raising money to defeat
this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Good. They need to. I mean, the guys do you
story out or earlier. He's already gotten thirty seven million
of sorrows money to try and get him elected. I
mean all everything that he advocates for. Whether you're Democrat
or not, you want to get the hell out of
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New York, particularly in the business sector.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Right, it's going to be. I mean, if you if
you're if you are successful currently, if you are successful,
and I don't mean that necessarily that you're successful in
New York, but you're living in New York and you
are successful in your businesses as generating income and it's
working for you. If you're in New York. You've got
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to be You've got to be asking yourself serious question,
how do I want to play this? Do I want
to do? I want to have an escape clause to
get out if he gets elected, because I could lose
my house if he gets in, I could have no
police support. Taxes are going to go through the work.
They're going to tax me because I'm white and I
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live in a white neighborhood if they before they take
my house. Those are various serious things. And when going
back to what you were saying with Jamie Diamond, understand
that he's a New York guy, and uh, and so
I I think that he's reacting to as other major
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players on Wall Street are beginning to react to, we
can't have this guy as well.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Sure you would think the entirety of Wall Street would
be going, how we can't have this guy.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Right where where we gonna And they've got they have
the backup system for the New York Stock Exchange and
the over the counter market are already in place in
Jersey City. I've seen the buildings, and so they could
they could throw the switch and make that the primary
source and just shut it down in New York and
that would that would create a it'd be all electronic,
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there would be very few people. There won't be a
trading floor like we have today. But the wealthy are
got to be thinking real hard about what they're going
to do because Carvel says that this guy should be
shut down. He's dangerous to the overall party because he's
if he gets elected, he's going to be the poster
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child for the midterm elections.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I think he already is.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, but I just think but because.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've got you've got the guy at the DNC saying, oh,
we're a big tent you know, big tent party. Of
course we welcome him. I mean that's a death sentence
right there.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, So the Democrats, So how do you come up
with a unified front if your party is split? And
I don't say it's split fifty to fifty, but it's split.
It may be worse than fifty to fifty. That this
guy and AJOC and Bertie Sanders are creating more serious
problems for us than we're letting on and it's going
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to be a very difficult thing to do. True.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, before we let you go, Dan, I'd be remiss
if we didn't all give a nice round of applause
to President Donald J. Trump, who won the Member Member
Champion Championship at his Bedminster golf course this past weekend,
absolutely on top of being the bee's knees at the
fief of World Cup. Yes, I mean it's winning.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
They say, I'm sorry, you go had to finish.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm just saying they try to drag him down, but
the guy, the guy keeps winning. Go ahead, quickly.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I got to tell you a good news story real quick.
There's a gentleman that has been on my show almost
from the very beginning. He's a constitutional lawyer out of
San Francisco, John O'Connor, and I, as the court was
doing with all these things, I tried to get a
hold of him, but he couldn't didn't return my calls,
and I finally hooked up with him last Friday. I said, Johnavan,
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trying to get a hold of you for a couple
of weeks. Well, Dann, sorry, I've been out of the
country really on vacation or business. He said, Well, I
was actually competing in basketball. Now he's seventy nine years old.
There's apparently an organization that has competitive basketball in Europe
for teams from all over the world in various age classes,
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and he because he was seventy nine almost eighty, he
came into the eighty class and his team won the
gold medal and he showed me the gold medal. It's
spectaculars and I was so proud of good friend. He
was so proud of him. So that was that was
a it was a wonderful experience that to see the
metal end to And so I really like John. He's
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a very smart, down to earth lawyer, but now he's
a cold medal winner.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
There you go. Awesome, good to hear. Folks. Check out
Dan Perkins at his website Dan Perkinsmedia dot org. Dan
Perkinsmedia dot Org. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk to
you again soon.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Thank you for for care.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Another simulation gone mad. Who the hell are you guys?
Maybe you're an extraterrestrial escape from a government facility Confirmation
code XV.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Two r d M. Yeah, I do believe that Oprah
has an alien baby.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
I grew up in the Eastern time zone. I now
live in the Pacific time zone, and what's weird living
out there. When anybody from the Eastern time zone leaves
a voice message, they always feel they have to compute
the time difference. I'm always getting messages, Hey, Brian, it's
four o'clock my time. That's one o'clock your time. Whoa,
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I know what time it is where I am. I
have a friend who does that all the time. He
recently left this message, Brian, do me if evor call
me back. I'm going to be out for about twenty
minutes my time.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
That's uh.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Uh, just call me back. When I was a kid,
it was weird learning about time zones, learning that there
were twenty four around the world. I looked at a
globe and saw all the lines met at the top,
and I thought, what time is.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It up there?
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Charlotte County speaks. Uh. This from Matt Vespa doesn't really
give you any more confidence in our Senate. The judge
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that shut down the ice raids in southern California on
the night of the eleventh, well, according to Fox News
Bill Melgwyn James, what the hell is this a judge, Mammy?
You see Mensa Frimpong who drafted a tentative decision which
(30:29):
sides with the ACLU that virtually shuts down the federal
agents doing their jobs across several counties in California. Last
night she made that opinion official. Total lunacy. So how
did how did this individual? How did what is it? Girl?
(30:52):
I'm assuming based on the name, we'll go with the lady.
How did the in regardless, it's a lefty, so we'll
go with a lady. How did this person get confirmed?
How about asking the twenty five twenty five Republican senators
who never bothered to show up for her confirmation vote.
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This isn't the first time that this happened, nor is
it going to be the last. Sadlete Judge Emir Ali,
who issued an injunction over Trump's ninety day freeze on
Feurign eight in February, got through because then outgoing Senator
Mike Braun, Republican from Indiana, didn't show up for work.
If he voted against confirmation, it would have failed on
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a fifty to fifty vote. Then Kamala Harris was on vacation,
so she couldn't have been around to break the tie.
It's insane. Twenty five unelected judges are hijacking President Trump's
agenda and insulting the will of the people. And you've
got twenty five Republican senators who didn't show up for this.
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Morons could have could have, could have shut down. They're
not the approval of Judge Mommy uc mensa frempong twenty
five Republican senators doesn't foster a lot of trust or
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respect for them. Does it initiate conversation? You have some
very very bad habits. Well, these people in my office
building are a drain on resources. It's a kind of
dieting boot camp.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh whis been in the next two hours telling you
to drop me, get me various numbers.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
This is humiliating. It's show business, baby, You got to
start somewhere.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
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And if you're wondering, Oh, by the way, apparently he's
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throw the TV on and there's old Jelly Roll climbing
in the ring on the WWE SmackDown getting smacked around
by Logan Paul. If you saw the confrontation, well, uh,
he's lost a lot of a lot of weight and
apparently the WWE thinks he's ready to rumble, so they're
going to be bringing him back in the ring against
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Logan Paul coming up at the Summer Slam next month.
Hopefully it will be choreographed in such a way that
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If you saw it, it was pretty good, It wasn't bad. Well,
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Long Island, Mississippi at three A tie between Florida. Is
it really a Florida accent there is? I remember when
I was a kid. Yeah, Greg Germaine. He's living down
in Fort Myers now, but I grew up with them
in Spokane. He worked at Mister Steak, and I could
tell he had an accent back then. But I really
can't tell a Florida accent anymore because we become too
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yeah to melting potted here, and that's coming in at
number four. Uh, they're saying that apparently we people from
the Northwest have an accent too, and it's a tide
with a Florida accent. Didn't know we had one Maine?
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head to teams to talk with mister Dan Perkins. Dan,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Good morning, sir. I'm fine, Thank you and yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Good good good. Hope you had a good weekend. I did.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I did did some work and fight some some games
and loss, but that's okay. Hey, my wife's spart than
I have, so she always be me, but it's fun
to be with her.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So what's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I have some numbers for you, and I think they're important.
We should spend a little time talking about it, but
you need a little bit of background. I did some
research on Twitter to try and find out what people
say about the impact of terraffs and how it's affecting
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the economy, and I just want to read you one
particular shorts, just a couple of lines. Yes, the TIFFs
have brought in billions of dollars, but it's small towns, farmers,
and local shops taking the hit. Over five thousand stores
have already closed lost seventy thousand jobs and families are
paying two to four thousand dollars more year. That money's
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not reaching the people feeling the pain. Until the fifty
to one hundred billion is promised infrastructure and twenty billion
for farm actually show up. The damage is just going
to get worse. Well, you know, so I went out.
I said, let me ask you a question. What's how much
of an impact is the price of tariffs had an
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impact on business owners having to decide to close their businesses?
And I found a whole bunch of whole bunch of
texts about that, and one of them said, ask business
owners why they're closing shop. The majority will say one
or all of the following electric bills are insane, can't
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afford the rent, can't afford to pay staff, and dealing
with lazy, entitled attitudes that it is a pain drop
off customers as people aren't spending like they used to.
That's one. Here's a here's a a I'm a poster
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that says two hundred and thirty four thousand, four hundred
all businesses have permanently closed and since the lockdown was
first introduced in COVID, I thought that was interesting so
there's common reasons business closures include poor location. I'm going
(04:20):
to read these to you, but here's I'll give you
a setup for the question at the back end, how
many times did you hear terrors? Okay, poor location, lack
of experience, poor management, insufficient capital, unexpected growth, personal use
of funds, over investment in fixed statsets, poor credit arrangements,
rising costs, not well capitalized, not well managed, retirement, mental
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or physical health issues, external economic factors, shiny object syndrome,
lack of business plan for poor planning and conflicts besides
diminishing profitability or cash flow problems, poor location, insufficient operations
or outdoor, outdated technology, external market competition, and higher taxation costs.
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So didn't hear anything about yeah, tariffs. So then I
ran on a little farther, said, you know, I know
they have. We had a good jobs number. Last job's
number was one hundred and plus one hundred and forty
seven thousand jobs. At June, unemployment fell to four point
one and in the first six months of twenty twenty five,
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and Trump didn't take over till January twentieth, so he
didn't have the full six months. But in the first
six months of this year, seven hundred and eighty two
thousand new jobs were added to the economy and the
unemployed great unemployment rates fell. So these people who are
talking about inflation or excuse me, are about inflation, but
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there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming cry for what's happening.
Because of the terroriffs. It's expecting small businesses to make
it decision and so, but it isn't just small businesses
that are closing. Some of the small super chains are
closing big time because they had a business model that
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they just couldn't happen. One of the other things that's
really had a tremendous impact, and we just went through
it last week, is the power of e commerce and
the power of Amazon and online fellows. It's a lower cost,
they can offer better pricing, they can ship it and
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get it to you relatively quickly. And so that whole
model of non bricks and mortar which has been coming
on and on and on as more and more businesses
are going to I mean, there's a company you may
have heard of, had a lot of stores and we
shopped at them, not all of them, but some of
(06:55):
them Bed Bath and Beyond. They went into bankruptcy. They
went out of business.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's been a while though hadn't, Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
They came back. They came back in in a pure
e commerce business. And so so e commerce is becoming
a bigger and bigger part of even bricks and mortar stores.
And when you see basic closed stores, Jac Penny's basically
going out of business, on and on and on. These
these stores are closing. The vacancy rates in the malls
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are accelerating and rents are falling because they can't get
anybody to take the space. But our model, our business
model of how we do business has changed, and we're
not going to get people going back to the malls
in the kind of numbers that we used to have.
They they've become very comfortable because of COVID of shopping
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from home and saw that they got they got reasonably
good service, and they got quality, and they got what
they wanted when they wanted it. And so our whole
shopping experience is changing dramatically. But it's not because of terrorists.
It's because of the evolution of technology. And when AI
gets really ramped up, you're going to see more and
(08:08):
more of the big box stores closing because they can't compete. Now,
there are some that probably have a pretty good chance
of staying in business in bricks and mortar. That would
be your homee builder stores, lows and home depot. I mean,
you can order two by fours over the internet, but
you can't sort them out and out of the woodpile
(08:29):
like you could at the store. So, but my point
is that we we we are not paying attention. And
the media, the media, the mainstream media, is feeding the
American people things that are not true, plan aren't true. Yeah,
(08:51):
I mean, yes, what's I understand? But we forget I mean,
I mean, even though we know that all of the
major networks and many of the more liberal cable channels
are losing audience the three broadcasts networks, I guess you
could say NPR is one of the broadcast networks, but
(09:14):
the three major networks are in fact dramatically losing audience share.
But they even though they're losing audience share, they still
control over forty percent of the communications marketplace cumulatively. Yeah,
and so so I mean they're they're if you, if
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you get a chance, you'll look at the evening news
you'll find on ABC, CBS and NBC. Uh, they may
not do it in the same order, but they're all
covering the same sort and ninety percent of the time
what they report is against Trump, of course, and and
and but what's happening is that people are beginning, some
(09:59):
people bull wafflers as I call them wafflers, are beginning
to say, well, wait a minute, maybe the mainstream media
is correct, and maybe things aren't as great as they
seem to be, except that they are. And so mister
Trump still has a big battle to help people understand
(10:26):
that the mainstream media is not their friend. And when
when they get ratings of ninety four percent have negative
things to say about Donald Donald Trump, or ninety four
percent of the time they have negative things to say
about Donald Trump or don't even cover him, they didn't learn.
And I think that that's a very important piece of
(10:46):
information because if the mainstream media is going to continue
to do what they're doing, and mister Trump is still
holding a strong base plus fifty percent. I mean, I
saw the the polling guy on the CNN and he
was talking about how all the major polling organizations still
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have Donald Trump north of fifty percent from the highest
sixty one percent approval ratings so all of these bad
stories and all the things that are not true, they're
they're they're they're not eating away at his core support.
And I think his core support is probably stronger and
(11:31):
bigger today than it was when he was elected in
November of last year.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, I would agree, and I think it's growing as well.
I mean, CNN just had their own poll about the
Democrat Party. They're going south of thirty percent approval. You've
got JP Morgan Jamie Diamonds out there destroying Democrat voters
last week, calling him idiots who don't understand how the
real world works and have little brains. So, I mean,
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and he's never been remotely considered a Republican or Mauga.
So you know, there's just there's still we discussed a
little bit last hour. There's just there's zero self reflection
on these people at all. They just keep maintaining the lie.
And I can understand why you got a lot of
people out there if all you watch is the mainstream news,
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you know, CNN and the Big Three, that's probably the
takeaway you're going to get, and that's what you're probably
going to believe, is it tariffs are killing small businesses.
When a lot of small businesses don't have any idea
how to run their small business. They have no marketing
plan whatsoever. They think they can just open the doors
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and people will show up. And a lot of them
go out of business like that within the first three years.
And as you said, a lot of these went out
of business during COVID.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
There are stores here in Fort Myers that closed this year.
And I had taught a chance to talk to one
gentleman who had had a business here for a number
of years, more than three I think it was like
ten or fifteen years, and he closed it because his
his his customer base that he had before COVID, and
(13:20):
they closed things down never came back. And he tried
and he tried, and he tried to keep his place
open and and and pay his people, and he reached
the point where he just literally ran out of money
and he wasn't going to get any credit. Oh yeah.
But but but what I'm saying is that the patterns
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we talked about just a few moments ago, the e
commerce patterns are changing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
What was he selling of pardon, what was he selling?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
He had a restaurant?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Uhh, yeah, those are tough.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Things that he said is that people people changed their
eating habits. So if you walk into a Kentucky Fried
Chicken and you walk into McDonald's or Burger King or
Arby's or Olive Garden or any of the change, they're
up by the register. There is there's a whole section
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in the store now for pickup drivers. So if you're
each there's a place where you go and it has
a shell for Uber eath and you pick up the
package and you go. So that I mean, I think
this is crazy. But when when we were in Boston
for the wedding a few weeks ago, we were taking
(14:38):
Uber and I and I was talking to the driver
and I said, so, it was like, what was the
most unusual ride you've ever had? He said, I got
people that pay me to go to Starbucks and pick
up a coffee and bring it to their house.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Oh the coffee, except you pay like thirteen bucks for
a for a venti Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean so, but people have people. We were
still wrestling with the effects of what the Biden administration
did when they closed everything down and kept it closed
forever and ever and ever. And another thing we talked
last week about what was going on in the City
of Chicago schools if you remember that, And I just
(15:26):
out of curiosity that I said, let's take a look
around and see if my logic works. That all the
major cities school systems are in trouble, just like Chicago.
And by the way, maybe even the Teacher's Union. Well,
New York City at one time in the when it
was at its peak before COVID, had one point one
(15:47):
million students in the public schools. It was the largest
public school system in the world. It's now a point
eight hundred and ten thousand. So they've lost over two
hundred thousand students. They've got just like Chicago, they've got
buildings that are half empty and and sumber fol they've
(16:10):
got they've they've closed something like one hundred buildings, closed
one hundred schools since COVID. The teachers Union's down about
about four hundred thousand members. And here's an interesting one
I thought. I thought last night, the woman who's in
charge of the National Education Association the union makes more
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money per year than the President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh yeah, she well norse to four hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh no, she's close to five. Now, yeah, five hundred
thousand and mister Trump gives us. If he didn't give
it all away, he cillinly makes about four hundred and
forty thousand dollars. I mean so and and by the way,
the teachers union president versus the teachers deployed, the ratio
of income to the premia two is almost seven and
(17:05):
a half to one. It has the union at big
seven and a half times more money than the classroom teacher.
But my point is all these things are changing. You know,
we were talking about media when when Rachel Mada was
doing her first hundred days, she got X numbers of
rating points, but her deal with with MSNBC was after
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the first hundred days, I'm going to go back to
just Monday night and they brought in Jen Hockey to
take Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Well, now we've got
numbers and Jen Hockey is getting about forty percent of
what Rachel Meadow got once she was doing the whole week.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And let her go.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So But but the point is the media. How many
times have we seen changes in the on air personality?
I mean, how many people are still are saying, including
Bill Maher, We've got to get rid of the view.
Oh yes, Laurel o'donald CBS News on the Evening News,
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and they replaced her with a team of two people.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You're ready to stop because they're still delivering the same
line of bs just because you changed the personality. It's
the content, not the deliverer of the content.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I don't whether you saw the interview last week of
Mark Cuban and he basically he says Democrats are absolutely stupid. Yeah,
it's stop this hate.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Said the stupid Democrat.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Because it doesn't it doesn't help the Democrats want to
come back and vote for him because it doesn't tell
him anything other than they should hate Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, there's they offer they're not offering anything.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No, you're absolutely right, and and that's what that's what
people are saying is that's why the numbers are not
as much as the media would like to And it's trying.
It's hard as they can't influenced voters to change their direction.
They're not changing their direction, as you said earlier, and
I agree with you, they're they're picking up more and
the idea that again the media is now questioning whether
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or not the Republicans can retain control of a house
in the in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I think they're in the midterm, I think.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
And my I'm say was, wait a minute, the Democrats
haven't figured out who they are and what they want
to be. How they're going to get voters to switch
back to them. If they have no idea what they
want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, we're still going to have to still got to
get the vote out. You're still you know, regardless of
how bad the Democrats are, there's still election fraud going on.
Nobody's really tamped down on that. So we're still going
to have to vote in mass to retain in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Right, But I think to have to have effective voter
fraud a terrible, terrible thing to say. You have to
have an effective leadership in the Republican Democratic Party driving
in I don't see that at the moment. I mean,
we have this this governor from Wisconsin who was the
(20:07):
last week they were going through their appropriations bill. You
can imagine a state government had a thousand page appropriations
and budget bills, a thousand page for a state, and
he spent a significant amount of time trying to find
different ways in which he could take out the word
(20:27):
mother that was ever in any place that was in
the document and che and and they were coming up
with all kinds of alternatives like, uh person, birthing person,
insemination person, you know, all these things. And but when
it came to men parent parent, the men were classified
(20:54):
as parents, but the woman could never mother. Another wasn't.
So I don't I don't stand. And you still got
the states like California that want to put men in
girls' sports. See court Is says they'll take it up
in October this year. I don't see how that's helping
the Democrats with their message and to get people to
want to follow. Then we've got AOC opening her mouth
(21:18):
last week saying that that the Stephanofolos quote that Donald
Trump was convicted of rape, which is not true, And
now they're talking about the possibility of yeah ensued.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I mean she basically said, she basically said the same
thing that won Trump sixteen million dollars in court. So
how is she going to be exempt from defamation.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The mistake that she made she didn't say it on
the floor of the house. Yeah, if she said it
on the floor in the house, she has immunity, But
she didn't she said it outside.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He should sue her and then.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Oh, yeah, I think he should. Then you've got the
the non for Democratic Party for beyor for New York.
They released some information on him his feelings about not
having police respond to certain kinds of calls and therefore
we can reduce the size of the police force and
add social workers to be for the first responders. Yeah,
(22:18):
and I guess, I guess it's it's unbelievable, the adverse rerection.
There was a story where there are Democrats, wealthy democrats
in New York City who are raising money to defeat
this guy.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Good. They need to. I mean, the guys do you
story out or earlier. He's already gotten thirty seven million
of sorrows money to try and get him elected. I
mean all everything that he advocates for. Whether you're Democrat
or not, you want to get the hell out of
(22:54):
New York, particularly in the business sector.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Right, it's going to be. I mean, if you if
you're if you are successful currently, if you are successful,
and I don't mean that necessarily that you're successful in
New York, but you're living in New York and you
are successful in your businesses as generating income and it's
working for you. If you're in New York. You've got
(23:19):
to be You've got to be asking yourself serious question,
how do I want to play this? Do I want
to do? I want to have an escape clause to
get out if he gets elected, because I could lose
my house if he gets in, I could have no
police support. Taxes are going to go through the work.
They're going to tax me because I'm white and I
(23:40):
live in a white neighborhood if they before they take
my house. Those are various serious things. And when going
back to what you were saying with Jamie Diamond, understand
that he's a New York guy, and uh, and so
I I think that he's reacting to as other major
(24:03):
players on Wall Street are beginning to react to, we
can't have this guy as well.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Sure you would think the entirety of Wall Street would
be going, how we can't have this guy.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Right where where we gonna And they've got they have
the backup system for the New York Stock Exchange and
the over the counter market are already in place in
Jersey City. I've seen the buildings, and so they could
they could throw the switch and make that the primary
source and just shut it down in New York and
that would that would create a it'd be all electronic,
(24:36):
there would be very few people. There won't be a
trading floor like we have today. But the wealthy are
got to be thinking real hard about what they're going
to do because Carvel says that this guy should be
shut down. He's dangerous to the overall party because he's
if he gets elected, he's going to be the poster
(24:56):
child for the midterm elections.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I think he already is.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, but I just think but because.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've got you've got the guy at the DNC saying, oh,
we're a big tent you know, big tent party. Of
course we welcome him. I mean that's a death sentence
right there.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, So the Democrats, So how do you come up
with a unified front if your party is split? And
I don't say it's split fifty to fifty, but it's split.
It may be worse than fifty to fifty. That this
guy and AJOC and Bertie Sanders are creating more serious
problems for us than we're letting on and it's going
(25:41):
to be a very difficult thing to do. True.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, before we let you go, Dan, I'd be remiss
if we didn't all give a nice round of applause
to President Donald J. Trump, who won the Member Member
Champion Championship at his Bedminster golf course this past weekend,
absolutely on top of being the bee's knees at the
fief of World Cup. Yes, I mean it's winning.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
They say, I'm sorry, you go had to finish.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm just saying they try to drag him down, but
the guy, the guy keeps winning. Go ahead, quickly.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I got to tell you a good news story real quick.
There's a gentleman that has been on my show almost
from the very beginning. He's a constitutional lawyer out of
San Francisco, John O'Connor, and I, as the court was
doing with all these things, I tried to get a
hold of him, but he couldn't didn't return my calls,
and I finally hooked up with him last Friday. I said, Johnavan,
(26:39):
trying to get a hold of you for a couple
of weeks. Well, Dann, sorry, I've been out of the
country really on vacation or business. He said, Well, I
was actually competing in basketball. Now he's seventy nine years old.
There's apparently an organization that has competitive basketball in Europe
for teams from all over the world in various age classes,
(27:00):
and he because he was seventy nine almost eighty, he
came into the eighty class and his team won the
gold medal and he showed me the gold medal. It's
spectaculars and I was so proud of good friend. He
was so proud of him. So that was that was
a it was a wonderful experience that to see the
metal end to And so I really like John. He's
(27:22):
a very smart, down to earth lawyer, but now he's
a cold medal winner.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
There you go. Awesome, good to hear. Folks. Check out
Dan Perkins at his website Dan Perkinsmedia dot org. Dan
Perkinsmedia dot Org. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk to
you again soon.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Thank you for for care.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Another simulation gone mad. Who the hell are you guys?
Maybe you're an extraterrestrial escape from a government facility Confirmation
code XV.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Two r d M. Yeah, I do believe that Oprah
has an alien baby.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
I grew up in the Eastern time zone. I now
live in the Pacific time zone, and what's weird living
out there. When anybody from the Eastern time zone leaves
a voice message, they always feel they have to compute
the time difference. I'm always getting messages, Hey, Brian, it's
four o'clock my time. That's one o'clock your time. Whoa,
(28:24):
I know what time it is where I am. I
have a friend who does that all the time. He
recently left this message, Brian, do me if evor call
me back. I'm going to be out for about twenty
minutes my time.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
That's uh.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Uh, just call me back. When I was a kid,
it was weird learning about time zones, learning that there
were twenty four around the world. I looked at a
globe and saw all the lines met at the top,
and I thought, what time is.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It up there?
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Could you put your hand on the pole and walk
around one o'clock, two o'clock? Here, cock cor cock five cock,
click the coock.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Chanttle, getting up static, getting up to the static, chat,
(29:36):
getting upstatic, getting out to a static scotta killing.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Oh it is news Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point
nine FM w c c F ten forty five Here
Charlotte County speaks. Uh. This from Matt Vespa doesn't really
give you any more confidence in our Senate. The judge
(30:08):
that shut down the ice raids in southern California on
the night of the eleventh, well, according to Fox News
Bill Melgwyn James, what the hell is this a judge, Mammy?
You see Mensa Frimpong who drafted a tentative decision which
(30:29):
sides with the ACLU that virtually shuts down the federal
agents doing their jobs across several counties in California. Last
night she made that opinion official. Total lunacy. So how
did how did this individual? How did what is it? Girl?
(30:52):
I'm assuming based on the name, we'll go with the lady.
How did the in regardless, it's a lefty, so we'll
go with a lady. How did this person get confirmed?
How about asking the twenty five twenty five Republican senators
who never bothered to show up for her confirmation vote.
(31:19):
This isn't the first time that this happened, nor is
it going to be the last. Sadlete Judge Emir Ali,
who issued an injunction over Trump's ninety day freeze on
Feurign eight in February, got through because then outgoing Senator
Mike Braun, Republican from Indiana, didn't show up for work.
If he voted against confirmation, it would have failed on
(31:40):
a fifty to fifty vote. Then Kamala Harris was on vacation,
so she couldn't have been around to break the tie.
It's insane. Twenty five unelected judges are hijacking President Trump's
agenda and insulting the will of the people. And you've
got twenty five Republican senators who didn't show up for this.
(32:05):
Morons could have could have, could have shut down. They're
not the approval of Judge Mommy uc mensa frempong twenty
five Republican senators doesn't foster a lot of trust or
(32:28):
respect for them. Does it initiate conversation? You have some
very very bad habits. Well, these people in my office
building are a drain on resources. It's a kind of
dieting boot camp.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh whis been in the next two hours telling you
to drop me, get me various numbers.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
This is humiliating. It's show business, baby, You got to
start somewhere.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
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bacchomp manatra manetra the.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
John.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay, get no news Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point
nine FM w c CF. Yet no satisfaction regarding regarding Epstein.
This from the Babylon b. There is no Epstein client list,
says Epstein's clients. And now it's time for five random,
(33:54):
random random facts. Okay, seo, we got here. Number one
of your five random facts, Alucard from Castlevania just came
(34:15):
from Dracula backwards. Okay, never heard of Castlevania, so I
don't know what the hell you're talking about, but there
you go. Number two. The record holder for the most
Grammys one Beyonce with thirty five. The runner up is
Sir George Salty. He's a Hungarian British conductor who conducted
(34:38):
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty two years and won
thirty one Grammys. Number three, an average of three hundred
and fifty slices of pizza are sold in the US
every second. Okay, Number four, If you drop silly putty
(35:02):
from a high place, it doesn't bounce, it shatters. Ooh,
give that a go.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Prove that.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And finally number five of your five random facts, the
baby Pebbles in the Flintstones was originally going to be
a boy until a toy company told the creators of
the show that baby girl dolls sold a lot better,
so they transd him. And there you go. There's your
five random facts, probably one of the first two six
(35:37):
fifteen eighty toll free eight eight eight four four one
fifteen eighty. Some good news, there's got to be some
out there. Yes, here we go. A game stop in
New York in the news last month, if you recall,
after a bunch of Nintendo Switch twos got ruined because
some idiot employee stapled receipts directly to the box and
(36:00):
some of the staples went through the box and into
the control screens, and the store replaced them all. And
now it's led to some unexpected good news. GameStop is
auctioning off the first Nintendo switch that got stapled, along
with the staple and the stapler that did it, and
giving all the money to charity. The auctions on eBay,
(36:23):
with the proceeds going to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals,
and last we checked, the high bid was two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, So the Children's Miracle Network is
going to make out. So that's good news. A team
at MIT came up with a new implantable device for
people with the diabetes. It stores spare amounts of the
(36:47):
hormone glucagon. If your blood sugar gets too low, it
releases enough to save your life. And they think the
same technology could also work with epinephrine to treat allergic
reactions as well for those with super bad allergies. I
guess that would be good considered good news. I Oh,
(37:09):
here we go Florida man. An eighty year old runner
from Florida, Bob Becker, just became the oldest person to
complete what's billed as the world's toughest foot race, the
Bad Water Ultra Marathon. Whoa one hundred and thirty five
mile run through Death Valley. You got forty eight hours
(37:32):
to do it, and he finished with three hours to spare.
That's awesome. See, you old farts can still do stuff.
Get off your buns and start doing it, all right.
And if you're wondering, Oh, by the way, apparently he's
going to be back. I just happened Friday night, I
(37:56):
throw the TV on and there's old Jelly Roll climbing
in the ring on the WWE SmackDown getting smacked around
by Logan Paul. If you saw the confrontation, well, uh,
he's lost a lot of a lot of weight and
apparently the WWE thinks he's ready to rumble, so they're
going to be bringing him back in the ring against
(38:18):
Logan Paul coming up at the Summer Slam next month.
Hopefully it will be choreographed in such a way that
we'll get to see the jelly Roll win. That'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
If you saw it, it was pretty good, It wasn't bad. Well,
we'll see how that goes. America, we got a lot
of accents out there. You get to New York from
New York, I'm of New yaw. But is it the
most favored accent in America? Well, new list of the
(38:59):
most regional accents across America and Southern Louisiana's Cajun accent, Well, no,
was numero Uno. Channing Tatum uses it for Gambit in
the Deadpool and Wolverine. Thirty two point seven percent have
a positive reaction to the Cajun coming in number two,
(39:21):
Long Island, Mississippi at three A tie between Florida. Is
it really a Florida accent there is? I remember when
I was a kid. Yeah, Greg Germaine. He's living down
in Fort Myers now, but I grew up with them
in Spokane. He worked at Mister Steak, and I could
tell he had an accent back then. But I really
can't tell a Florida accent anymore because we become too
(39:44):
yeah to melting potted here, and that's coming in at
number four. Uh, they're saying that apparently we people from
the Northwest have an accent too, and it's a tide
with a Florida accent. Didn't know we had one Maine?
Is it five? Appalachian six? A tie between Boston and
the High Tider whatever that is at seven, Louisiana and
(40:07):
New England at eight, Staten Island at nine Philadelphia. Nobody
likes you. You're ten. Have a great day, kids, Be safe.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope, nope? All right,
see you, folks.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
We're in news radio fifteen eighty AM, w CCF, Punda
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