11-14-25 - 10am - Mini Mamdani and Media Misinformation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eyes down, ladies, here we go be fourteen that's b
as and back in my day we walked the school
a mile in the snow uphill both ways.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Excuse me, gladdies, but the news stories are backing up
worse than my faber. I need Michael Brown on the
street now this miss.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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bingo morning. If you want to know who's cheating, who's lying,
and who left the church thermostat at eighty two degrees again,
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(00:41):
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red microphone button like it stole your.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Last words.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
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me till I call the next number.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Glad is my hearing ain't?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
What if I miss a juicy story? Lord nos Michael's
got the juiciest sense love, Gertrude. Just go to the website,
Michael says, go here dot com. I swear you're working
my last nerves.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Now let me get back to Bingo or I'm hiding
your reading glasses to Eastern.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's been twenty years since I worked in that building.
When it opened, it was the epitome of advanced radio broadcasting.
It is so sad to hear that the building has
come under such hard times.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
It's a tenement, it's now a tenement.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
So I miss, I made this mistake this morning, like,
you know, hitting the restroom before I come on air,
and somebody's in the little urinal, right, and so I
immediately just not only the only working urinal, but I
forget that because you just assumed, oh there's a divider,
so there's a yurinal over there. So you walk over
and you, oh, I can't do that. So then you

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have you got broken. It just says, do not use broken.
And how long has that been? Now we've only got
them fixed and that's.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Been thirteen weeks for the remodel of our fourth floorsoms.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Yeah, so coming up in an hour, we got taxpayer
relief shots and because somebody went to the trouble to
put some rules of engagement or a I guess it's
really maybe a description of the taxpayer relief shots. It's
too long, but it's pretty clever, and they went to
some work to do it.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
I'm going to play it now, or I'm not going
to do it because I don't have to do that.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Dragon's gonna do that just so we can give him
credit for having done it.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
What the hell are you talking about the rules of
engagement we just played?

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Is that the one you were talking to? Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:03):
I thought she said there was one specifically for tuxplayer reliefship.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
No, oh, oh, I'm sorry. I don't understood.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, don't you pay attention around here?

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Not to you? True, not to you.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't okay, So all right, that's what I was
trying to tell you off air, that that rules of
engagement that somebody sent to us through four separate talkbacks,
so it can be done done except for the fact
that it's almost two minutes long, twice as long as
we really.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Wanting to see sound effects two different voices. Very good,
if you could take that and cram it down into
sixty seconds, give her take a few seconds.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I had to give her. I had to give her
airtime because she worked on it, multiple voices, sound effects.
It was brilliant. I love it. Yes, it's too darn long, yep, but.

Speaker 7 (03:48):
We do appreciate the effort. So you get an A
for effort and you get a C plus B minus four.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Quality no quality presentation, presentation.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
Yeah, maybe that's just you know, your time limit was
sixty some seconds. We give to take a few seconds
either way, and you just didn't follow the rules.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, there are rules to the rules that I gave them.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
There are rules to the rules of the rules. We're tyrants.
We're tyrants, just like democrats. So let's go back to
Little Wilson over in Seattle, because when you tie this
back to what I said about the midterms elections and
whether or not the midterm elections are a harbinger of
things to come, we need to pay attention to wait.

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And I get that it's Seattle, and I get that
it's New York. But nonetheless, the useful idiots that live
in those cities are going They're no longer hiding in.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
The shadows all of the fellow travelers.

Speaker 7 (04:46):
They're coming out they're coming out and just blatantly saying
this is what we stand for. So go back to
a little bit of her bio. So she you know,
she goes to Oxford. We should tell you anything. No,
right there. She goes to Oxford to study philosophy, basically
to be indoctrinated by the Fabian socialists that occupy Oxford.

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If you don't get that one, go look it up.
Fabian socialist Oxford. To make ins meet. She comes back,
she paints boats, she works construction, and she played her
guitar around pipe Place market for spare change. She was
a bockster. She was out trying to make a little
spare change. She then started the group called Now she
was a non driver, but she didn't drive for the

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equivalent of our RTD. But she started a group called
the Seattle Transit Writers Union in an effort to improve
services lower fares on public transportation. And through this organization,
she paid herself seventy three thousand dollars a year to
keep the show on the road. Man, you talk about

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a grift, that is a grift. But they didn't stop there.
Then she started a campaigning for a payroll tax in
order to subsidize low income housing. Speaking of which, this
is a footnote if if you haven't heard me give
a footnote before. This is where we pause for a
moment to add something that's a little kind of a

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local interest. So she wanted to have a payroll tax
to subsidize low income housing. That's one of many initiatives
that for some reason face the electra in Seattle year
after year after year. Do you know that in Colorado
RTD wants to do the same thing. Now, they don't

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want to, they don't want to do a payroll tax.
But RTD is a major real estateholder. When you think
about all of the light rail train stations, when you
think about all the easements that you have, when you
think about all the parking that they have, they are
now considering that what we ought to do is look
at all the parking space we have and whether it's

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too much or not enough, I can tell you it's
probably in most areas it's too much. Because your ridership
continues to plummet. They want to take that real estate
and they want to become developers, and they want to
develop low income housing so that as you try to
get off the train to go to work. You're going
to walk through the equivalent of Cabrini Green in old

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Chicago trying to get to work. I mean, that's how
stupid these people are. And there's nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiasses is absolutely right, there's nothing new whatsoever. But it's
truly strange thing about the homelessness issue, not just in
Seattle but everywhere, because the more that these politicians show
our money it's the problem, the worse it gets. If

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you drive from any blue collar suburb to downtown, it's
as if you leave a Norman Rockwell painting in your
abruptly enter a horenerous bosh. It's really weird. There's an
authentic touch of Dunkirk about the final stretch of the journey.
You're passing by but draggles looking campers hunched together around

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you know, braziers or strutched that on army surplus cots.
It's really a dreadful prospect on a number of levels,
and once heart you actually you feel sorry for them,
except then you realize that a lot of the homeless
are homeless one by choice, two because of addictionary mental problems,
not because they lost a job, although that occurs that's

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not necessarily the majority of the problem. Well back to her,
So she of course is an advocate for homelessness because
she already knows how to do the grift you when
you try to. When you put together a writers' union
and you pay yourself seventy three thousand dollars a year,

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and you're a busker and you paint boats and do
everything else you're putting together. You know, a little bit
of money, a little bit of scratch, so you can,
you know, go about and do whatever you.

Speaker 8 (08:52):
Want to do.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Homelessness is a dreadful prospect on any number of levels.
And I know your heart goes out tohomelessness, but it's
an industry. It's truly an industry. Well quote, in this town,
we believe black lives matter, women's rights or human rights.
No human is illegal. And you know, like the new mayor,

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we just got to continue to spend more and more
on community outreach services that don't really have any effect whatsoever.
We're always told that the outcome to each election is
of existential significance. But maybe Katie Wilson did have an
opportunity for change during her recent campaign. She could have argued,

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for example, that devoting more taxpayer money to Seattle's destitution
crisis is a snake oil remedy and it shows no
signs of actually solving the problem. But think about this,
and I mean this varies. If this irritates you, call
somebody that cares when they tell you that devote more

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of your hard earned money to solve a systemic problem
like homelessness or drug abuse or crime or anything else.
What they're doing is they're buying into filling the blank industry,
the homelessness industry, the crime industry, the drug industry, whatever
it might be. It's an industry because those NGOs. I

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read a story yesterday about somebody starting a new yeah,
I forget what they were gonna do, but a new
NNGO in Colorado. And it was some press release I
got in an email this morning. They're gonna start a
new NGO.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Oh I know.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
It was the Everytown Group, the Gun Group. They're going
to start a anti gang group. Well again, I'm not
I'm not going to deny that that new NGO might
have some deminimous effect on gang problems in Colorado. But
what is it really? It's an industry. It's a business

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because now that they've got their five oh one C
three or their five O one C four or whatever
they've got their nonprofit, they're gonna go out and they're
going to beg for tax payer money and they'll find
a kindred soul somewhere in the Colorado Paul Up Bureau
that will give them a grant of some sort. And
you hear the word grant and you think, oh.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well done.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Everything to do with me? Yes, it does, because grants
are tax money. So they get the tax money, they
pay themselves a nice salary, and they go out and
they hire people to try to stop crime by breaking
down gangs in Colorado. Well, if they actually succeed, they
put themselves out of business. So, like any good organization,

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they want to stay in business. So they keep the
crime going, they keep the homelessness going, they keep the
drug addiction going. Also they can continue the grift. And
the same is true in Seattle. Do you know the Seattle,
for example, right now, boasts a polent crime rate of
seven hundred seventy five per one hundred thousand, which is
more than double the national average of three hundred and

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fifty nine per one hundred thousand residents. And that one
possible solution to that sordid state of affair might be
all enhanced the local police department. But instead she's loudly
proposed and is still proposing, defunding the cops. This is

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the insanity that's going on in the world around us,
and we don't even recognize it. And that's why the
midterms are going to be so dang important. Here she is,
here's the Seattle mayor over on Ower's right on CNN.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Thanks this already. So I want to ask you.

Speaker 9 (12:33):
One other things, Cause you sit here as a mayor,
you're in your early forties. You've accomplished so much at
such a young age.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
What what?

Speaker 9 (12:45):
And in that context, you have been open about the
fact that you have done that with your parents' help,
that your parents, who live across the country have sent
you checks to help pay for your toddler's childcare.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Right with all the things that.

Speaker 9 (12:56):
You've accomplished, when it comes to affordability, that you still need.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
To that now, fick.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
So the Marxist parents, the Marxist professors who you know
Atlas Hugged or whatever the stupid book was called, and
then the other book about housing and stuff. So they're
clearly left wing professors taking care of their little forty
year old daughter, because well, she's just a buckster, you know,

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and she's painting boats and singing and putting together her
own little grift box.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
News and the New York Post frame that in a
negative way. They have said, Maric that you are quote
unquote living off your parents' money.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
I'm curious how.

Speaker 9 (13:37):
You see it, because this is something you've been very
open about. Do you think that people in Seattle see
this as a negative or as a positive? That people
can relate to.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
A forty year old person who went to Oxford, whose
parents are higher education professionals and she's still living off
her parents.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
When when did you move out of your parents' host
their Michael.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Graduated from high school and moved out and went to
college that summer.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
So roughly eighteen. Yeah you were taking okay, yeah yeah, Samye,
I was seventeen when I moved out and got my
own place. Yeah yeah yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
No plans to move back.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
And I'm not sure my mom would have me back.

Speaker 10 (14:29):
True.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
Though I'm sure she would save it to my mom
when I go to visit her, I don't stay at
the house. I stay in a hotel that really that
really irritates her. And I tried to explain, Mom, have
you looked in my old bedroom? What do you want
me to do? Sleep on the in the dog bed
on the floor. Is that because you got so much
crampiled up in there there's no room for me?

Speaker 10 (14:53):
Well, I'll say that my opponent's campaign and the corporate
pack that tried to stop my election, certainly they cast
it as a negative thing.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Pay the corporate pack.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
But you know Act Blue and her getting money from
all the Democrat packs, Well that's okay.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
But if you get money from a corporate pack, that's
bad money.

Speaker 7 (15:13):
But money from the unions money elsewhere, that's good money.
I thought money is fungible, and I thought that if
unions have the right to free speech, and if unions
have the right to contribute to political campaigns, then why
shouldn't corporations have that same right. That's why we have
the United case.

Speaker 10 (15:32):
But you know, campaigning for offices stressful. Seattle's one of
the most expensive cities in the country. Our childcare is
off the charts expensive, and honestly, let's just have.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
The government pay for it. Let's just have the government
pay for childcare. Maybe, I mean, maybe we get Colorado's
to come up with the idea of I don't know,
pre K and and just you know, from birth to whenever,
cradle to grave coverage.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Let's be them free lunch too.

Speaker 7 (15:57):
And free lunch, free lunch, and let's and let's put
that program in place normally that they're just coming to
fail because you won't have enough money. Then you can
go to the taxpayers and ask the taxpayers to give
you more money because the program failed, because you knew,
because it was designed that way to fail.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
I think that a lot of people of my generation
and younger and older found it very relatable that during
this stressful campaign. You know, my my parents chipped in
to help to pay for the cost of their granddaughter's daycare.
And I think, you know, families help each other out.
And I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in
a position where my parents were able to do that.
Not all families have that privilege. And you know, that's

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why I'm going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable
housing for every family in this city.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
I do like sorry, so I do very much enjoy
you caught that didn't how she spun that my grandparents
are chipping in for why.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
I hate to say that. This is why I like you.
That was good, good, That was good. That was very good,
wasn't it?

Speaker 10 (16:56):
That was I think, you know, families help each other out,
and I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in
a position where.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
My well you okay, I thought you're right.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I'll say, yeah, it was a lot of crap, but
it was good.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Okay, all right, May I finish it now? Fine? Thank you.

Speaker 10 (17:13):
Families have that privilege, and you know, that's why I'm
going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable housing for
every family in this city.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Because I appreciate you, because you were able to do it.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
I'm going to enforce and at the point of a gun.
Because how do you think taxes get collected?

Speaker 10 (17:30):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (17:31):
I know, vo taxes are voluntarily voluntarily paid. Really, try
to voluntarily not pay your taxes sometimes. Let me know
how that goes. So here we are. She's she's so
blessed because her family was able to help her. So
what does she want to do? She was to make
sure that everybody else is forced to do what her

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parents did. Wow, that's the mind of a Marxist. That's
the mind that was so that's the mind of a communist,
and quite frankly, that's the mind of an idiot. An
idiot that says, Oh, I want everybody to have what
I had, but I don't want to have anybody to,

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you know, voluntarily do it. I want everybody to have
to do it, and I'll force them to do it.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
Hey guys, congratulations on your first week. Uh there's one
thing I would like to say. I really enjoy the
cars for kids commercials here at kzer Away. We didn't
really get those at the six thirty house, but they're
really good.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Really enjoy them, So keep it going.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
If you if you work really, really hard, you'll soon
be able to sing right along with those kids.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
It'll be glorious.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
And then if you're really good, you'll either do one
or two things. You'll you'll you'll learn to get into
a zen moment where your brain goes to a really
nice place and you'll know when to come back from
that really nice place and the kids will be done.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Or you can reach over.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
To the volume control and you'll know exactly like you
know over time in radio. So long as you pretty
much learn what thirty seconds is, sixty seconds or you know,
maybe there are other ways to measure three seconds. Yeah,
every day.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Do that for three hours every day.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
Going back to the to the beginning of the program
about the midterm elections and tying all of this stuff
together we talked about so far. One of the things
that we that is being fed to you, and I
question the veracity of it, and that is whether or
not there is actually a breakup going on, a divorce.

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Is President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement
headed for a divorce court. Now, if you pay attention
to the cabal and you just are a headline reader, Yeah, hello, hello,
and you're just a headline reader, you might think that
that's the case. New York Times America First. Some Trump

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supporters worry that's no longer the case, or the Washington Compost.
Trump faces heat from Magabase on America First Agenda in
Epstein or NBC Nightly News, Trump defends his MAGA bona fide.
He's amid backlash from his base. ABC World News Tonight,

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Where's My President? Some MAGA supporters in uproar over Trump's
hrue Bvisa comments. Now there's yes, did everybody agree with
everything that Ronald Reagan did? Or do you think I
agreed with everything that George H. George W.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Bush did? No, not at all.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Did I agree with everything that Donald Trump did or
has done? Nope, not at all. Doesn't mean I'm out
for divorce. Doesn't mean I'm going to go to the
dark side. Here's how The New York Times leads off
its article President Trump has been dining with Wall Street
big whigs.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
They should know, The New.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
York Times should know, because well, it's the New York Times.
He has embarked on an opulent revamp of the White
House at a time when Americans are struggling to pay
their bills. He has expressed support for granted visas to
skilled workers to take jobs in the United States. He
approved a twenty billion dollar bailout for Argentina, helping a
foreign government and wealthy investors at a moment when the

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US government was shut down. For a presidential return to office,
promising to avoid foreign entanglements, make life more affordable, and
sure that available jobs go to American citizens. It has
been a significant departure from the expectations of his loyal base,
and it is starting to open a rift with his
supporters who are counting on a more regressively popular agenda.

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The divisions within mister Trump's movements spawned by his own
actions have been only amplified by the latest developments on
the story that has been doing his best that he
has been doing his best to quash his relationship with
the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The other stories all
sort out with a similar litany of Trump's alleged divergence

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from MAGA priorities, but Trump doesn't buy it. Quote don't
forget Mago is my idea, he told Laura Ingram this week.
I know what MAGO wants better than anybody else. That's
certainly true, but it's also true that sometimes Trump is often.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
His own worst enemy.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
In the first term, he would routinely achieve some great
conservative policy success only than to say something wild and crazy,
and that would divert all the media attention over to
that rather than focusing on the victory. In the second term,
Trump two point zero, he's been far less conservative in

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his governance, prioritizing executive power and often leaning into overreach
with a strong dose of vengeance, and both have caused
his early term support to slide significantly. But is this
a MAGA crisis or is it just media hype to
distract from the Democrat's colossal failure on that shutdown.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
My answer is yes and no.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
First to no, it's not merely the media misdirection, or
it's not merely media misdirection to say that Trump has
not really upheld his albeit rash promised to lower prices
in the word of the day now to focus on affordability.
He was gonna do that on day one, remember, and

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inflation is stubbornly persistent. But is it about three percent?
That's fifty percent higher than the Federal reserves targeted rate
of two percent. The wait a minute, a little perspective, please,
Cumulative inflation since Biden and his crew, I actually should

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say the crew that was doing the playing the role
of Biden rescued America is all. Cumulative inflation since then
is almost twenty five percent. And we're simply tired of
everything feeling unaffordable. Prices are coming down, but when you

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look at where prices the new baseline established during the
Biden years, we're not going to feel it until it
gets back to the baseline it started before Biden threw
all the money into the economy and created all the inflation.
That's going to take time, and as Scott Descend said,
either yesterday or day before the fourth quarter that we're

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in now, and probably the first quarter is when you'll
see all those things really start to take effect. Trump
offered tariff rebates and fifty year mortgages in what would
some perceive as a tacit admission of affordability is a problem,
but he also seems to have settled on the same

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strategy that might have cost Biden and Harris dearly in
twenty twenty four, namely, the inflation isn't a problem anymore,
and even that grocery prices are way down the overall.
That may be true, But was it true when Biden
repeatedly insisted that inflation was down. No, though I don't

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recall quite such eager fact checking from the likes of
the New York Times. I gave you the receipts earlier
this year about how prices are down, but they're not
down enough. Let's go to the ballroom for a moment.
We may haven't talked about the ballroom since I've been
over here. That's just the cabal's chart. The primary ones

(25:55):
hysterically sobbing about that are actually a bunch of people
on the left who need psychiatric counseling for Trump arrangement syndrome.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think the rest of us know.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
It's a useful addition that's being paid for via private funds.
It's an MBG, it's an MBD. No big deal.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Now.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
The Epstein saga, I think is actually both Trump's Justice
Department spectacularly failed earlier this year, and it's supposedly explosively released.
But so just the Democrats with their dene of a
distraction earlier this week, and some mega folks are indeed
getting impatient with Trump over the release of the material.

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But if that's what actually divides anyone from Trump, then
perhaps they were allies not worth having in the first place.
I'm four moving on with the Epstein stuff. Get it
released and just let it go fly out the window.
Let's see what happens.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Big nothing Burger, Michael, Happy belated birthday. It's been a
rough week. I order a pile of coke and hookers
for your birthday to send to you, but they sent
it to my billing address. I guess I missed the
wrong checkbox. Uh do is Amazon stupound of ceiling asking
for a friend?

Speaker 6 (27:14):
They do.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm a little surprised you answered that that quickly that
you knew. Well, now they've got the Amazon pharmacy, but
I don't know what the individual medications they would sell there.
But apparently Michael knows.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
I know penicellin, baby penicillin. Hey, you always need pennacillar.
Remember at the beginning of the week, we talked about
door Dash's State of Local Commerce report that found that
prices on everyday essentials are stabilizing or falling, local restaurants
remaining resilient, and weekday downtown lunch demands being these rebound

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in over half of US city's That gives us that
street level view that nuances these broad national indicators that
everybody see seems to be complaining and griping about. I look,
I'm not happy, but I'm not so pissed off about
prices that I don't understand why we're still suffering from

(28:13):
these outrageous prices. When you have a cumulative inflationary effect
of twenty five percent, and so that accumulates over time,
so you're eating out your groceries, your gas whatever it is.
By the way, I fill up with gas this morning
premium unleaded at Sam's with three dollars nineteen cents a gallon,
So it's still about where it was when I filled

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up last week. Now, a week before it was down
below three dollars a gallon for premium unleaded. So all
the factors about refining capacity and the I think crude oil.
I forget what WTI was yesterday, about fifty eight or
fifty five dollars a barrel, whatever it was. All of
the different factors that go into calculating that price are

(28:54):
going to continue to fluctuate as long as I see
it downward trend line.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
And I do we.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
See downward trend line in terms of just and here's
how I measure it. Because I don't go to the
grocery store that often.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Tamar prefers.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
She doesn't like for me to go to the grocery
store because well, usually then the bill's double. But when
she goes, she's pretty picky about what she gets, and
she plans the meals, and she's very good at doing
all of that. And so I noticed that what she
pays using you know, the credit card, that what she
pays every time she goes, and it does seem to
be dipping. Now has it been cut in half?

Speaker 4 (29:31):
No?

Speaker 7 (29:32):
But if you so, we have such short term memory
loss that too much weed. I think such short term
memory loss that we don't realize that we started back
in you know, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty COVID hits, we
shut down an economy, prices begin to skyrocket, and then
Biden gets installed as president and then.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
He just starts throwing money into the economy.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
The or inappropriately named Inflation Reduction Act just threw trillions
into the economy. And part of the problem is we
still have not gotten back down to a baseline of
government spending, and in fact, the Continuing Resolution kept the
spending at Biden levels of spending until January. Then we'll

(30:21):
probably face another government shut down, which will screw up
the national GDP again. We just have to get better.
And it's not a messaging problem, I truly don't. It's
an education issue. Too many people don't understand economics. Too

(30:43):
many people don't understand price elasticity. Oh, I'm just not
buying this anymore because the price hit that point. Whatever
that point is for you, It's different from everybody to
buy that widget. It went from fifty cents of widget
to fifty five cents of widget, and I thought, okay,
well I can do that. I'll keep doing I'll keep
buying widgets at fifty five. But then they jump to

(31:04):
sixty five and like with buying widgets, so the demand
for widgets drops, but there are still people buying it
at sixty five.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
Cents of widget, so the price doesn't drop.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
The price begins to stabilize or even increase because inflation
continues to stay stuck around three percent. When people don't
understand how, for example, the price of gas. Now I
understand that diesel is still high, and maybe one of

(31:35):
you truckers gonna let me know I haven't looked at
the price of diesel. But when that price starts to
go down, when the fuel that fuels everything that we consume,
everything that we buy is affected by the price of energy,
when that starts to go down, it will eventually make
its way to the price we pay at the point

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of sale. Until then, you have to understand look at
a trend line