Which country swears the most per tweet? Today is National Taco Day! They don’t celebrate it in Mexico. Tax credits of $7,500 for EVs expired at the end of September and automakers are now bracing for plunging sales. President Trump says he’s not going to backpay furloughed federal workers during the government shutdown, even though the government is legally required to. And what about the rest of us? We might be receiving stimulus checks, which could be around $2,000
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to k if I Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
May Chris Merril kf I am six forty more stimulating talk.
Remember you even listen to anytime on demand the iHeart
radio app. Oh who's uh? Who's routing the table today?
At Mark Rudner present and accounted for Sam ur tech director. Yes,
the most educated tech director I've ever worked with. In fact, Mark,
(00:28):
what's what's the what degree do you have? I got
like three of them? Who's counting you do? I don't know,
You don't know. It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do you have degree like in like writing or something? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Some of that stuff, some of the stuff I quit
in the middle of a PhD while I already had
three other degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No kidding, All right, Well I take that back, Sam,
you're the second smartest person.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I don't know, Sam's competitive education and intelligence are two
different things. What happens when you educate idiots?
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Mickey comes from the land of.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
One on the team? Is that what you're implying?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Because I too, have dropped out of some of the
finest mid and low level institutions in the country.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
I didn't say I dropped out, but we might agree
that I'm mid.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Outstanding.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well, you know, you know some really first class classes
slang which I found out before we went on the
air that I.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Can't say on it. We'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, you could only say it once. You can do anything.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Once, right, I can't say it is.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That New Zealand slang? Is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I can teach you some key we slang, but specialize
in Aussie slang.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, they know nobody knows how to swear better than
the office.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It's true, convicts.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Hang on, I wonder, hold on, I've been trying to
dabble with with AI lately.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Let me just ask which countries swear the what do
you say.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
The most of the best, the most and the best
and the best.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, that's got to be the German because everything they
say sounds like swear words, angry, markschnell.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I can swear in German as well. That's my dad's
first language.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, Well, based on tweets, okay, swears per tweets?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Oh, can I guess? Actually?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, go ahead. Scotland is not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's a good guess though. I lived there for a
year and they're they're a horrible race of people.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're beautiful redheads.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, oh yeah, never trusted Ginger. I kind of like
this as a whip around. Let's do let's keep going
on this, all right, Let's say, Sam, what country according
to uh A survey from World Tips, which country swears
the most per tweet?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I would say, just me, the United States of Sam?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All right, Sam, sale when it comes all right?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Ronert, well, I guess Germany, and I guess Scotland. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
My third guest was let's go with an outlier and
say Somalia.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know what, no, but good guess.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, we're gonna find out why here in just a moment, Nikk,
you want to take a second stab at this.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Well, I'm going to just go with the home team, Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, very good. So Australia comes in at number three,
number three, were number three, that's very good, that's very good.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not Somalia. But Sue Dan actually is in the top ten.
Mark I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, how about that? And number one? And I don't know,
we might have to go to the judges on this one.
Number one with forty one point six swears per one
thousand tweets, is.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The United States, the United States. Are we going to
give back to thing that's a float? Are we gonna
give it to Sam or not? He said it was yeah,
let's give it all right, We're gonna give it to Sam.
Very good, very good. I'm so proud, very good. I
like that. I'm so profane. I didn't. I was surprised
that Scotland was not on that list.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I agree. I can swear in Scottish as well.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
New Zealand is at number four.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Oh the very gentle down there. I'm actually a key
We citizen as well.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, that's what I thought. What's what's your original nation?
Is it Australian or is it New Zealand?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Born in Australia, raised by a Kiwi.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They're now living here, living here?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So I used to live in England too.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Are you on the lamb?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I've never been caught for anything?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, okay, but that's what I'm wondering. I know that's
why you keep bouncing around.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I'm just blissed.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okayword is caught exactly. I got caught.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I got that too. Yeah all right, today's National Taco Day, so.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Celebrate as you see fit. I will be uh I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
If Taco National Taco Day is always on a Tuesday,
you would think National Taco Day is always going to
be on a Taco Tuesday, but perhaps not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's my understanding that it was on a different day,
but Taco Bell lobbied to have it changed.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I mean, if anybody has.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The the you know, the poll to do that, do
you think it would be Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, you don't stand up against Big Taco.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Is there a na all Taco Day in Mexico?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Every day is national? I was gonna say, I think
it's just Tuesday, right, Yeah? Is this an international thing? Like?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Can I go to Hong Kong and celebrate Internet like
Taco Day?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
No, that's Tuesday over that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't. I think it's only in the United States.
Is national? Now?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I have to be careful to too, because my AI
has been hallucinating and.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Wait, it's national that it's a Mexican dish. Why are
we celebrating it? Have you met us? I know, but
it's a I get it. They appropriation. They're lovely.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I love tacos more than just about any food out there,
but why are we calling it National Taco Day?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Don't question tacos are wonderful. That's how we steal things.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This is this is not new Mexico does not officially
celebrate National Taco Day.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Okay, well somebody has to, so well I'm okay, we
could take it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Let's take um.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
There is an informal celebration known as Dia del Taco
on March thirty first.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So there you go. So they got that going for him.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I happen to hear Conway talking about buying a Tesla
charger even though he doesn't have a Tesla, and I thought,
that's the most Conway thing I've ever heard. That is
that is that is truly Tim through and through. And
then what was he gonna do? He was gonna try
to flip it. So if you miss that, you'll be
able to grab his podcast later. So Tim's telling a
story about trying to flip a Tesla charger that he
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saw on a on a discount rack at Low's and
and I I was just thinking, Tim, there is no
way that Tim needed the whatever he was after two hundred,
two hundred fifty bucks, but he just saw an opportunity,
And I thought, that is so Tim, He's gonna do
this because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He doesn't need the money. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And if he had been able to flip that for
a couple hundred bucks, which by the way, I had
not to spoil his story. If he missed it, he
lost ten dollars. On the whole thing was it was
a wonderful story, as Tim is wont to do. Who
tells great stories? What do you think Tim would have
done with that two hundred bucks? And which horse would
it have gone?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
On? The dutches the track? It would have straight to
the track.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, I didn't know about sports.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't know about horse racing. The track involves horses.
That's that's all you need.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
My favorite thing is the names that they give the horses.
I'm a little nugget. That just cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They give some of these horses some pretty undignified names.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I have some that you can't say on the air,
but I think would be great you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Off the air.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I feel like if you as long as it's not
a seven dirty word, I feel like you can say
it on the air. Uh Like, if I had a
horse that was right, if I was breeding, or if
I if I owned part of a race horse, I
would name that horse.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Smack me harder, right, but see.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Because it's also you gotta got a little kink action
going right right, Smack me harder, That's what I would
have called it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I think i'd name mine Elmers, just to kind of
keep it on its toes.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's good. I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Elers on the down stretch, filin closely by violin bow,
violin bow, Elmers.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Headed toward the final stretch. I love that. It's very good.
All right, enough shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm gonna tell you why Tim may have been onto
something when he tried to buy that Tesla charger. That's
why I brought his story back up again. And we
also call that vertical recycling in the business where I
tease somebody else's show that's also on during the day.
See you see how that works. You learn something today,
didn't you? So we're gonna do. We'll talk a little
bit about why he may have been onto something and
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should not have sold that charger, as well as a
few other EV manufacturers that are scrambling right now.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You'll find out why that is. Next.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm Chris merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio wob Chris Merril kfi AMC is forty
more stimulating talk. If you are an EV enthusiasts, let
me say that there are a number of people who
are very concerned that EV sales are going to drop
(09:10):
off as well. You should be concerned because that not
a stimulus. What was it the rebate tax credit? Right,
wasn't it something like seventy five dollars? Yes, so I've
got hold on. Actually, I've got another story that accompanies
this one. So that expired at the end of September.
So tax credit expires, government shuts down. Those are the
(09:34):
two things that happened right at the stroke of midnight.
Nothing else happened.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That was completely no other news to report. Automakers bracing
for EV sales plunge after tax credit expires, Automakers scrambling
to unload the lingering evs on dealer lots around the country.
Now that seventy five hundred dollars tax credit that juiced
EV sales for years has expired. So if you were
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looking for an EV, you might be thinking it's too late.
I have a friend who bought an electric vehicle last week.
He had to make sure he was like, I need
to get this by the end of the month because
I want to make sure I get that that tax credit.
As far as he was concerned, he was getting the
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tax credit. But if he didn't do it, then it
was like the price went up seventy five hundred dollars
even though the sticker price didn't change the way that
affected him. Boom, it goes up seventy five hundred, seventy
five hundred dollars. Now, the electric vehicle manufacturers, so not
just Tesla, but you've got Hyundai and GM.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And Ford, even BMW.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They're all trying to figure out how we're going to
get people back on our lot buying these cars. They
had a banger of a month in September and it
looks like it's going to be horrible for October, which
is why they're rolling out some incentives or even rolling
out new cars. Tesla's doing that. This is from the
Schwab network. You know that the Schwab company had a network.
(11:03):
I thought it was all drug stores. No, this is
the Charles Schwab. Okay, yeah, did you think they had
a network of drug stores?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Isn't that where Starlet's go to get discovered?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know what I love about your mind. I have
no idea how it works. I don't either, no clues.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It's fun. I just love it. You always keep me
on my tails.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
All right here it is from the Schwab Network, from
the investors who decided to start their own YouTube channel.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I guess stay in your lane. Schwab breaking news.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
On Tesla Model three Model Why under forty thousand. I
have all the details here as this is breaking. Today,
Tesla announced thirty seven, nine hundred and ninety thousand version
of the Model Why. That's fifteen percent below the base model.
Why this moves comes after US tax credits for evs
expired at the end of September. It has a long
(11:53):
range of three hundred and twenty one miles. That's an
estimated range. And now we're ready to discuss this. Ben Rose,
resident and analysts at battle World Research, and Noah Hammond,
CEO of Advisor Shares, And it's great to see you both.
Thank you for being Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I don't really want to hear from them, do you
all right? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know what I will never forget. Mark just sent
me the info on the Schwab pharmacy. I do not
know that and I will never forget it. Go park
yourself on a stool there. You might get discovered at sunset, right, yeah,
hang out from movie actors through the nineteen.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Fifty I do need a second job, so thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It still exists. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, Nikki, it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
If you break yourself on a stool there, you may
be waiting for a lot longer than yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, okay, good tonight. You never know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You might have some weirdos combine and try to pay
you five dollars to take your picture of them.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, there's always that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
That sounds like oh Thursday night for me.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Why do I not doubt that? Yeah, I think it's
entirely possible.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
There's a there's a word for me. When I lived
in England, they used to call me a dirty stop out?
What dirty stop out aways?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Say?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're close on the dump button? Right, because sometimes when
Nicky speaks about where she's going with it.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Do you want to know what a dirty stopout is?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Please God?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes, it's someone who normally comes say. It's somebody that
goes out after work and gets home in the morning
and time to go back to work.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, Oh, I'm using that. I like, what does the
what does the dirty stop out do during that time?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
We stay out one night and party and wind up
party party, Oh can we wind up in the gutter?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I like your American accent. That is wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I've been told it's really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's very guttural. Wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's always funny to hear people from other countries make
fun of American accents. And when I lived in Scotland
and I heard them try to do a Yankee accent,
they go out of their way to make a sound
even dumber than we already did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I love that hers went almost to the south and
that she was.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Like party, party, party, party, a party. I can't, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like when Charlie Unham tries to do an American accident.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He can do as he plays.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You can do whatever. Have you seen?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Have you seen him in that ed Geen show on
Netflix trying to sound like a guy from Wisconsin? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Really is it bad? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
See, because I'm fascinated by the Edgen story. I saw
some hype on it, but I guess I didn't read
any reviews. I did see like a teaser for it,
and I thought that feels a little over the top.
His voice is quite notable.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He's from Newcastle. He's a Jeordey so he's from way
up north. So he doesn't even have like the typical
London accent.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Sometimes I don't understand what Mark says. But I definitely
don't understand anything you just said.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
That's because you're ignorant.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well I'm starting to like her. I mean, if she
judges is wrong, can you stay please? Okay? In an
American accent, that's ignorant.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Just so you know, Uh, didn't ever see the video
of the It's like a it went viral. A Middle
Eastern guy trying to do his American accent but not
knowing any English at all. No, here, I have the
audio from this.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's you do you got a handy? Yeah? I got
it right here. Oh yeah, yeah, play this. This is gonna
be great. Oh he's Bank of Strom Paton.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Here we have try the honering of Donald Strow near
HALFGANI bought around.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We have to.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
They're working luncher of Rowing all turning the people thirty
five launch to bulking.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean that's pretty good. I feel like he's trying
to sell me a car. Yeah, was he had an auctioning.
It was like, oh, that's very good.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It sounded like a mix between an auction and a
nineteen forty uh sports.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Announcer and possibly it be heading always it, it's always there.
You don't know that, it's not. I love that all right,
No back pay for you.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
If you are a furloughed federal worker who thought that
you were going to get you're paid vacation, you may
be sorely mistaken.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Nah, you still are. We'll tell you how it's gonna
shake out. That's next.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
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Oh still to come here? Sounds like you you still
have a chance of getting a stimmy. Who doesn't love
a good stimmy? Huh you might see that stimmy. And
who's going to pay for your stimmy? It's all these
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furloughed workers. Yeah, the President says, those furloaed workers, who's
greedy sons of guns. They do not need any sort
of back pay just for taking their involuntary time off.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's day seven of a federal government shutdown. It's from ABC.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Democrats and Republicans still at odds over passing a spending bill.
Here's a live look from the Senate floor in Washington,
DC right now.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, I can't see it.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
It's Thredio a leaked draft of a White House membo
suggesting that furloughed workers are not entitled to back pay.
That would be a reversal of a long standing policy
for seven hundred and fifty thousand employees. The memo says
it's up to Congress to provide the funds, which has
widely been seen as a negotiating tactic.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
For the most part, we're going to take care of
our people.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
There are some people that really don't deserve to be
taken care of, and we'll take care of them in
a different way.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Okay, why do.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You say some federal workers should not get.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
So we're going to take care of them in a
different way. Okay, Well you're going to have to figure
that out.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, ask ask the Democrats that question.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
The law is clear, every single furloughed federal employee is
entitled to back pay period, full stop.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The law is clear. Okay, where did that law come from?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That sounds like some sort of a Democrat scheme to
just try to make sure.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
That people keep voting for them. So what is that law?
Does anybody know? Oh? Hang on, I found it here.
It is.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of twenty nineteen.
Uh huh, so there you go. Biden signed that one
in twenty nineteen. Probably use an auto pen when he
was the president, So that means that this president doesn't
have to follow that law because it happened in twenty
nineteen when he wasn't the president, so doesn't apply to
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him normally. Somebody jumps in here and tells me that
President Trump was the president in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did anybody want to have the record on that or
anybody the wind on that? Yeah? I was waiting to
see what you were going to do. No, I was
waiting on you guys to help me out.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I'm not a citizen. So that's Mike's here.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay, Well you're forbidding to speak on this. I don't
know you saw that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The uh, the citizenship test is getting longer and harder,
is what they say.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Stop more difficult and we'll take more time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, So the president says, no, we're not going to
pay them, even though he's.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
The one that signed the law that says.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Government employees will get paid during a furlough after the
end of a furlough. So it's a little bizarre.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, wasn't he just complaining and saying he didn't know
anything about a judge that he appointed this week?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
As well? I think it's consistent the behavior.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I will you know what, I'm going to give him
a little bit of credit on that because I wonder
how many presidents actually know anything about the judges that
they nominate and they're relying on their team, aren't they
to bring them a judge because they're like, not anything
about this judge. What do you think they go through
there and read all the different rulings that the judges
put out there.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, I think it's the federalist society in this case
A lot of the times.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think you're right. Yeah, I think you're right. So
it's true he does know who they are. There you
go said, uh, anyway, there's backlash, and you've got Republicans
and Democrats that are other saying oh no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
No no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Let me see union officials, former government officials, Democrats, and
lawyers who are experts an administrative lassa.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The administration is.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Legally required to provide back pay because of the law
that President Trump signed during term one.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Some Republicans agree.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Senator Tom tillis Republican North Carolina, telling reporters that threatening
not to pay back workers is bad strategy, probably not
a good message to send right now to people who
are not being paid. I'll tell you what my concern,
honestly is that even even if it's completely illegal, which
you know based on the law, is if he still
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is somehow able to withhold those funds, or even if
people believe that he's going to somehow.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Be able to withhold those funds.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you're if you're someone that's furlough, why aren't you
looking for another gig right now? I mean in the past,
you'd get for let's say you're a government lawyer, right Like.
I got a buddy who's got a family member's a
government lawyer, and I said, is he concerned about the shutdown?
This was in September, and he said no, he's planning
on taking a trip he'll he'll stay.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He lives in Virginia, and he'll uh.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
He says he's gonna stay with it about a days
where the travel just in case the shutdown ends and
he has to go back to work.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
So it's not like he's going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But he says no, no, he's planning on using this
as vacation time because he's gonna get paid for it
when he gets back. This is like free, paid vacation.
And I think there's a lot of federal workers that
look at it that way, And I can see why
that's frustrating for the president because we're shut down.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Why why are we Why are we paying people to
not work? Effectively, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
When you get back back, you're being paid for the
work you didn't do. I also am frustrated with that
because I find that to be fiscally irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's it's like if you it's like if you're paying.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Landscapers and it rains, and the landscapers go, look, we
can't work when it's raining. We can't we can't go
out there and cut uh, you know, wet grass, And
you're going, yeah, I get that, And then they say, well,
we'll be back next week.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But then they bill you for the week that they
didn't work. You go, wait a minute, I'm not paying
you for the week that you didn't cut my grass. Right,
doesn't make any sense. You sure that's the take you
want to go with?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeacause in this case, I think Trump would be the
one holding the hose spraying the lawn.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm not opposed to at some dimensions to it. Yeah,
I mean that that's fine. However, that is the law.
And I also think that it's going to burn him
in the mid terms. Normally, the government shut down this
far ahead of a midterm election isn't going to have
much effect.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Our memories are short. But if you lose your job.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Or if someone you know or someone that you're close
to loses their job or doesn't get that back pay
and they are suffering from a financial hardship for a
month to three four months into the future, now you
have people that are going to hold on to that resentment.
They're just like the landscaping company. I would fire them
if they tried to bill me for a week that
they didn't work. I would say, you're not my landscaping
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company anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Is it? I would never forget it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Is it possible some of these people who have been furloughed,
that's their career and they don't regard it as a
disposable job, and they they had planned to spend their
lives doing it and until it's done to I.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Think so, then I absolutely mark one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Sounds like they're well paid to begin with, so they
can afford a holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Not all.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Like my buddy's lawyer, My buddy's lawyer brother, he's pretty
well paid.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, he's a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Right, But not everybody is getting I mean, you've got
people that are non essential employees that are what like
park rangers that are making sixty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You're not telling me that they're They're like, oh good.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Now, I'm just going to dip into my vast savings
so I can go tour the country.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's not happening. The lawyer guy is who the park
rangers not? Who was?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It said something a few years ago what they should
be told now, learn to code?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh yeah, well I suppose why would you learn to code?
AI is going to do it all? No, it's what
if you train for a job that won't be here
in another five years.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's not a good idea. You are Were you ever
a career counselor me? Yeah? No, I can't see her
in HR. Based on our conversation.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Before we went on the air, I am HR's biggest
night I've I've had fight not in this company. I've
had fights with HR and the I called them the
lustasia to their faith.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I keep annoying all the HR people. I hate HR people.
If I if I went to a bar and I
sat next to a person and I said, what do
you do for a living and they said HR, I
would probably kick out their stool from beneath it.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You wouldn't even just get up and walk away, you.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Just it'd spit in the beer.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I hate H people. Wow, except for the H people
who work at this company.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They're beautiful. They're really wonderful, lovely. They are probably import
to add that.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yes, intelligence, caring, gorgeous, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, I'll tell you what there might be some good
news if if we don't pay the furloughed employees, maybe
you get a cut.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I'll tell you how that's gonna happen. Next.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Chris Merril kfi AM six forty live everywhere in the
iHeart Radio app by there Chris Merrill KFI AM six
forty more stimulating talk. Remember you can listen to anytime
on demand in the iHeart for Radio app.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh, the President says that he's going to look at
trying not to offer back pay to furload federal employees,
and that obviously is going over like a like a
bag of rocks. But can I twist your arm a
little bit? What if follow me here, what if by
not paying federal employees back pay for being furloughed, what
(25:58):
if the president.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Gave you that money?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Heck, yeah, the depths of your empathy never ceased to
amaze me.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I think that's fair to see. It was pretty fast too,
That is very fast.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Remember everyone got furloughed five years ago. So now how
does it taste government workers?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Wow? The compassion just drips off you. You think they weren't. Okay, No,
that's great.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
No, I love this a lot to work from home,
and they still work from home.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Listen. Just PSA.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
If you're a little old lady and you happen to
see an angry Australian woman walk up behind you, and
you're going to the ATM just run.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Is that a reference to us being a convicts?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Just you? Just me?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, just you? I mean you're you were heck yeah.
Let that little old lady believe in the street. As
long as I can have her withdrawal.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Can I step over her?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah? Oh yeah, you have to sweet, It's great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
President Trump said he's looking at sending stimmies worth anywhere
from a thousand to two thousand dollars. He said, now listen,
that's the uh, the tariff stimulus. Chuck, So that's the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He says.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
We're gonna we're gonna do something. We're looking at something.
Number one, we're paying down debt because people have allowed
the debt to go crazy. We also might make a
distribution to the people, almost like a dividend.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
To the people of America. We're thinking maybe one thousand
to two thousand. It'd be great. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can I just respectfully disagree with the economic math
on this.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I just don't think it would be great. It does
raise questions, well, yeah, like why'd you raise the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
If if you could send two thousand dollars to every American,
why don't you use that to pay the debt off?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Faster.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Right, this is kind of like this is kind of
like having twenty grand in credit card debt and you
got five bucks in your pocket. You go, I'm gonna
play the lottery, and then you decide you're gonna buy
a five dollars scratcher and you scratch it off and
lo and behold, scratcher just hit for five grand. And
you're like, whoo five grand? Should you put that five
(28:06):
thousand towards your twenty thousand in debt? And you're like, yeah,
what if I put like a thousand toward my debt
and then I took the four thousand. I mean, after all,
it's a windfall. I should be able to spend that
how I want. No, no, no, you already spent things how
you want it. That's that's why you're here in the
first place. Right, Instead, wanted to take like one hundred
bucks and buy yourself a nice dinner and then put
the rest towards your your credit cards, which, by the way,
(28:28):
did happen to me once not the it wasn't a
scratcher ticket, but I bought a piece of furniture or
a yard sale. Six years later, I was moving it
and my buddy's helping me. It was this big desk.
My buddy's helping me move it, and he was pulling
the drawers out so we could move this desk.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
And as we pull the drawers out, all of a sudden,
money starts falling out.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I'd moved this house twice or this desk twice already,
never even knew it was in there.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And he starts, he goes, oh my gosh, there's money
in here.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And he reaches back and he's just starts slapping bills
on the table on the on the top of the desk.
He's like, look at this wamns in the one bamn,
look at this bam keeps dropping these wands of cash.
Fifty eight hundred dollars. You know what we did, we
took well. First of all, I gave him a finder's fee.
He got a hundred bucks. Another budd a hundred Yeah,
(29:14):
I mean it was my It was my money. I
I stole it fair and square from the yard sale.
So that was generous for you. Then, well, I thought,
so okay, and he was happy to have extra hundred bucks.
I give my other buddy fifty for helping us move
the desk, and then my wife and I we took
five thousand, we put it toward debt, and then we
took you know, the remainder whatever that works out to
six hundred and fifty dollars and uh, and then we
I think we I think we bought. We got a
(29:35):
little party with those guys that were helping me move
the desk as well. But you pay your debt off first,
is my point. The other question, of course, is Mark
pointed out, it does raise some questions not only why
are you not paying the debt off, but why why
do you think we need that money?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Why are you stimulating the economy?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, I'm not mister Spock when it comes to being
a perfect embodiment of logic, but I do have to
ask if the tariffs are successful, why do people need
a relief from them?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, exactly, so why would we need a stimulus?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And didn't we find that by overstimulating an already stimulated
economy you end up creating all kinds of havoc with inflation.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Well, like farmers are one example where farmers are screwed.
We're reading a lot of reports in the news about
farmers who are going out of business because of the
tariffs and are about to get a bailout the taxpayers
will pay for. And I don't know if that all
adds up completely to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, this is one of those you're you're borrowing from
Peter to pay Paul.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, So let's increase the tariffs so that the idea is,
of course that other countries will pay more for our goods.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
They just go to Argentina instead, who we just bailed
out their farmers by using an American text twenty billion dollars.
So I'm trying to identify the part of that that's
the winning It's all.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What's the matter with you? Mark? Why do you? Why
do you hate America?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I love America, and I understand I wish you love
our farmers as much as you hate this president. Mark, Well,
I don't know why you do that. Terrible I'm basically
quoting Pat Bondi, Pambondi. I don't know if you heard
Mark's news story earlier. He had the quote from Pam
Bondi that was like, I wish you loved Chicago as
much as you hate. She had that one in the
holster ready to go when she showed up. I think
(31:30):
absolutely I think there were some prepared lines. I think
you think, yeah, they've got like a zinger crew, and
they're not the best zingers either.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I think they probably had like chat GPT write.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Them, probably because all the other employees have been furloughed,
but just the same. Yeah, that was definitely in the holster,
that was ready to go, which kind of makes you think,
who wins when you're being a petty on Capitol Hill?
In fact, I want to dive into that, and there's
one former Rep. Puplicing presidential nominee that says, wait it,
(32:03):
you're gonna find out who that is next time. Chris
Merril k if I AM six forty live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (32:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Remember you even listen to anytime on demand the iHeart
radio app. Oh who's uh? Who's routing the table today?
At Mark Rudner present and accounted for Sam ur tech director. Yes,
the most educated tech director I've ever worked with. In fact, Mark,
(00:28):
what's what's the what degree do you have? I got
like three of them? Who's counting you do? I don't know,
You don't know. It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do you have degree like in like writing or something? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Some of that stuff, some of the stuff I quit
in the middle of a PhD while I already had
three other degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No kidding, All right, Well I take that back, Sam,
you're the second smartest person.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I don't know, Sam's competitive education and intelligence are two
different things. What happens when you educate idiots?
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Mickey comes from the land of.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
One on the team? Is that what you're implying?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Because I too, have dropped out of some of the
finest mid and low level institutions in the country.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
I didn't say I dropped out, but we might agree
that I'm mid.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Outstanding.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well, you know, you know some really first class classes
slang which I found out before we went on the
air that I.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Can't say on it. We'll get to that.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, you could only say it once. You can do anything.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Once, right, I can't say it is.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That New Zealand slang? Is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I can teach you some key we slang, but specialize
in Aussie slang.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, they know nobody knows how to swear better than
the office.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It's true, convicts.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Hang on, I wonder, hold on, I've been trying to
dabble with with AI lately.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Let me just ask which countries swear the what do
you say.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
The most of the best, the most and the best
and the best.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, that's got to be the German because everything they
say sounds like swear words, angry, markschnell.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I can swear in German as well. That's my dad's
first language.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, Well, based on tweets, okay, swears per tweets?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Oh, can I guess? Actually?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, go ahead. Scotland is not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's a good guess though. I lived there for a
year and they're they're a horrible race of people.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're beautiful redheads.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, oh yeah, never trusted Ginger. I kind of like
this as a whip around. Let's do let's keep going
on this, all right, Let's say, Sam, what country according
to uh A survey from World Tips, which country swears
the most per tweet?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I would say, just me, the United States of Sam?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All right, Sam, sale when it comes all right?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Ronert, well, I guess Germany, and I guess Scotland. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
My third guest was let's go with an outlier and
say Somalia.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know what, no, but good guess.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, we're gonna find out why here in just a moment, Nikk,
you want to take a second stab at this.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Well, I'm going to just go with the home team, Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, very good. So Australia comes in at number three,
number three, were number three, that's very good, that's very good.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not Somalia. But Sue Dan actually is in the top ten.
Mark I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, how about that? And number one? And I don't know,
we might have to go to the judges on this one.
Number one with forty one point six swears per one
thousand tweets, is.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The United States, the United States. Are we going to
give back to thing that's a float? Are we gonna
give it to Sam or not? He said it was yeah,
let's give it all right, We're gonna give it to Sam.
Very good, very good. I'm so proud, very good. I
like that. I'm so profane. I didn't. I was surprised
that Scotland was not on that list.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I agree. I can swear in Scottish as well.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
New Zealand is at number four.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Oh the very gentle down there. I'm actually a key
We citizen as well.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, that's what I thought. What's what's your original nation?
Is it Australian or is it New Zealand?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Born in Australia, raised by a Kiwi.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They're now living here, living here?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So I used to live in England too.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Are you on the lamb?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I've never been caught for anything?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, okay, but that's what I'm wondering. I know that's
why you keep bouncing around.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I'm just blissed.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okayword is caught exactly. I got caught.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I got that too. Yeah all right, today's National Taco Day, so.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Celebrate as you see fit. I will be uh I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
If Taco National Taco Day is always on a Tuesday,
you would think National Taco Day is always going to
be on a Taco Tuesday, but perhaps not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's my understanding that it was on a different day,
but Taco Bell lobbied to have it changed.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I mean, if anybody has.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The the you know, the poll to do that, do
you think it would be Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, you don't stand up against Big Taco.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Is there a na all Taco Day in Mexico?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Every day is national? I was gonna say, I think
it's just Tuesday, right, Yeah? Is this an international thing? Like?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Can I go to Hong Kong and celebrate Internet like
Taco Day?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
No, that's Tuesday over that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't. I think it's only in the United States.
Is national? Now?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I have to be careful to too, because my AI
has been hallucinating and.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Wait, it's national that it's a Mexican dish. Why are
we celebrating it? Have you met us? I know, but
it's a I get it. They appropriation. They're lovely.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I love tacos more than just about any food out there,
but why are we calling it National Taco Day?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Don't question tacos are wonderful. That's how we steal things.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This is this is not new Mexico does not officially
celebrate National Taco Day.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Okay, well somebody has to, so well I'm okay, we
could take it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Let's take um.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
There is an informal celebration known as Dia del Taco
on March thirty first.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So there you go. So they got that going for him.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I happen to hear Conway talking about buying a Tesla
charger even though he doesn't have a Tesla, and I thought,
that's the most Conway thing I've ever heard. That is
that is that is truly Tim through and through. And
then what was he gonna do? He was gonna try
to flip it. So if you miss that, you'll be
able to grab his podcast later. So Tim's telling a
story about trying to flip a Tesla charger that he
(06:25):
saw on a on a discount rack at Low's and
and I I was just thinking, Tim, there is no
way that Tim needed the whatever he was after two hundred,
two hundred fifty bucks, but he just saw an opportunity,
And I thought, that is so Tim, He's gonna do
this because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He doesn't need the money. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And if he had been able to flip that for
a couple hundred bucks, which by the way, I had
not to spoil his story. If he missed it, he
lost ten dollars. On the whole thing was it was
a wonderful story, as Tim is wont to do. Who
tells great stories? What do you think Tim would have
done with that two hundred bucks? And which horse would
it have gone?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
On? The dutches the track? It would have straight to
the track.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, I didn't know about sports.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't know about horse racing. The track involves horses.
That's that's all you need.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
My favorite thing is the names that they give the horses.
I'm a little nugget. That just cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They give some of these horses some pretty undignified names.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I have some that you can't say on the air,
but I think would be great you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Off the air.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I feel like if you as long as it's not
a seven dirty word, I feel like you can say
it on the air. Uh Like, if I had a
horse that was right, if I was breeding, or if
I if I owned part of a race horse, I
would name that horse.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Smack me harder, right, but see.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Because it's also you gotta got a little kink action
going right right, Smack me harder, That's what I would
have called it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I think i'd name mine Elmers, just to kind of
keep it on its toes.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's good. I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Elers on the down stretch, filin closely by violin bow,
violin bow, Elmers.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Headed toward the final stretch. I love that. It's very good.
All right, enough shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm gonna tell you why Tim may have been onto
something when he tried to buy that Tesla charger. That's
why I brought his story back up again. And we
also call that vertical recycling in the business where I
tease somebody else's show that's also on during the day.
See you see how that works. You learn something today,
didn't you? So we're gonna do. We'll talk a little
bit about why he may have been onto something and
(08:41):
should not have sold that charger, as well as a
few other EV manufacturers that are scrambling right now.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You'll find out why that is. Next.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm Chris merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio wob Chris Merril kfi AMC is forty
more stimulating talk. If you are an EV enthusiasts, let
me say that there are a number of people who
are very concerned that EV sales are going to drop
(09:10):
off as well. You should be concerned because that not
a stimulus. What was it the rebate tax credit? Right,
wasn't it something like seventy five dollars? Yes, so I've
got hold on. Actually, I've got another story that accompanies
this one. So that expired at the end of September.
So tax credit expires, government shuts down. Those are the
(09:34):
two things that happened right at the stroke of midnight.
Nothing else happened.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That was completely no other news to report. Automakers bracing
for EV sales plunge after tax credit expires, Automakers scrambling
to unload the lingering evs on dealer lots around the country.
Now that seventy five hundred dollars tax credit that juiced
EV sales for years has expired. So if you were
(09:58):
looking for an EV, you might be thinking it's too late.
I have a friend who bought an electric vehicle last week.
He had to make sure he was like, I need
to get this by the end of the month because
I want to make sure I get that that tax credit.
As far as he was concerned, he was getting the
(10:19):
tax credit. But if he didn't do it, then it
was like the price went up seventy five hundred dollars
even though the sticker price didn't change the way that
affected him. Boom, it goes up seventy five hundred, seventy
five hundred dollars. Now, the electric vehicle manufacturers, so not
just Tesla, but you've got Hyundai and GM.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And Ford, even BMW.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They're all trying to figure out how we're going to
get people back on our lot buying these cars. They
had a banger of a month in September and it
looks like it's going to be horrible for October, which
is why they're rolling out some incentives or even rolling
out new cars. Tesla's doing that. This is from the
Schwab network. You know that the Schwab company had a network.
(11:03):
I thought it was all drug stores. No, this is
the Charles Schwab. Okay, yeah, did you think they had
a network of drug stores?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Isn't that where Starlet's go to get discovered?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know what I love about your mind. I have
no idea how it works. I don't either, no clues.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It's fun. I just love it. You always keep me
on my tails.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
All right here it is from the Schwab Network, from
the investors who decided to start their own YouTube channel.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I guess stay in your lane. Schwab breaking news.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
On Tesla Model three Model Why under forty thousand. I
have all the details here as this is breaking. Today,
Tesla announced thirty seven, nine hundred and ninety thousand version
of the Model Why. That's fifteen percent below the base model.
Why this moves comes after US tax credits for evs
expired at the end of September. It has a long
(11:53):
range of three hundred and twenty one miles. That's an
estimated range. And now we're ready to discuss this. Ben Rose,
resident and analysts at battle World Research, and Noah Hammond,
CEO of Advisor Shares, And it's great to see you both.
Thank you for being Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I don't really want to hear from them, do you
all right? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know what I will never forget. Mark just sent
me the info on the Schwab pharmacy. I do not
know that and I will never forget it. Go park
yourself on a stool there. You might get discovered at sunset, right, yeah,
hang out from movie actors through the nineteen.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Fifty I do need a second job, so thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It still exists. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, Nikki, it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
If you break yourself on a stool there, you may
be waiting for a lot longer than yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, okay, good tonight. You never know.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You might have some weirdos combine and try to pay
you five dollars to take your picture of them.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, there's always that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
That sounds like oh Thursday night for me.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Why do I not doubt that? Yeah, I think it's
entirely possible.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
There's a there's a word for me. When I lived
in England, they used to call me a dirty stop out?
What dirty stop out aways?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Say?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're close on the dump button? Right, because sometimes when
Nicky speaks about where she's going with it.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Do you want to know what a dirty stopout is?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Please God?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes, it's someone who normally comes say. It's somebody that
goes out after work and gets home in the morning
and time to go back to work.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, Oh, I'm using that. I like, what does the
what does the dirty stop out do during that time?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
We stay out one night and party and wind up
party party, Oh can we wind up in the gutter?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I like your American accent. That is wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I've been told it's really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's very guttural. Wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's always funny to hear people from other countries make
fun of American accents. And when I lived in Scotland
and I heard them try to do a Yankee accent,
they go out of their way to make a sound
even dumber than we already did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I love that hers went almost to the south and
that she was.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Like party, party, party, party, a party. I can't, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like when Charlie Unham tries to do an American accident.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He can do as he plays.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You can do whatever. Have you seen?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Have you seen him in that ed Geen show on
Netflix trying to sound like a guy from Wisconsin? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Really is it bad? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
See, because I'm fascinated by the Edgen story. I saw
some hype on it, but I guess I didn't read
any reviews. I did see like a teaser for it,
and I thought that feels a little over the top.
His voice is quite notable.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He's from Newcastle. He's a Jeordey so he's from way
up north. So he doesn't even have like the typical
London accent.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Sometimes I don't understand what Mark says. But I definitely
don't understand anything you just said.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
That's because you're ignorant.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well I'm starting to like her. I mean, if she
judges is wrong, can you stay please? Okay? In an
American accent, that's ignorant.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Just so you know, Uh, didn't ever see the video
of the It's like a it went viral. A Middle
Eastern guy trying to do his American accent but not
knowing any English at all. No, here, I have the
audio from this.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's you do you got a handy? Yeah? I got
it right here. Oh yeah, yeah, play this. This is gonna
be great. Oh he's Bank of Strom Paton.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Here we have try the honering of Donald Strow near
HALFGANI bought around.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We have to.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
They're working luncher of Rowing all turning the people thirty
five launch to bulking.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean that's pretty good. I feel like he's trying
to sell me a car. Yeah, was he had an auctioning.
It was like, oh, that's very good.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It sounded like a mix between an auction and a
nineteen forty uh sports.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Announcer and possibly it be heading always it, it's always there.
You don't know that, it's not. I love that all right,
No back pay for you.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
If you are a furloughed federal worker who thought that
you were going to get you're paid vacation, you may
be sorely mistaken.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Nah, you still are. We'll tell you how it's gonna
shake out. That's next.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I'm Chris Merril, I AM six forty. Relive everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Good evening on Chris Merril k I AM six forty.
Remember you've been listen anytime on demand the iHeartRadio app.
Oh still to come here? Sounds like you you still
have a chance of getting a stimmy. Who doesn't love
a good stimmy? Huh you might see that stimmy. And
who's going to pay for your stimmy? It's all these
(16:37):
furloughed workers. Yeah, the President says, those furloaed workers, who's
greedy sons of guns. They do not need any sort
of back pay just for taking their involuntary time off.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's day seven of a federal government shutdown. It's from ABC.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Democrats and Republicans still at odds over passing a spending bill.
Here's a live look from the Senate floor in Washington,
DC right now.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, I can't see it.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
It's Thredio a leaked draft of a White House membo
suggesting that furloughed workers are not entitled to back pay.
That would be a reversal of a long standing policy
for seven hundred and fifty thousand employees. The memo says
it's up to Congress to provide the funds, which has
widely been seen as a negotiating tactic.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
For the most part, we're going to take care of
our people.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
There are some people that really don't deserve to be
taken care of, and we'll take care of them in
a different way.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Okay, why do.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You say some federal workers should not get.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
So we're going to take care of them in a
different way. Okay, Well you're going to have to figure
that out.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, ask ask the Democrats that question.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
The law is clear, every single furloughed federal employee is
entitled to back pay period, full stop.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The law is clear. Okay, where did that law come from?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That sounds like some sort of a Democrat scheme to
just try to make sure.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
That people keep voting for them. So what is that law?
Does anybody know? Oh? Hang on, I found it here.
It is.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of twenty nineteen.
Uh huh, so there you go. Biden signed that one
in twenty nineteen. Probably use an auto pen when he
was the president, So that means that this president doesn't
have to follow that law because it happened in twenty
nineteen when he wasn't the president, so doesn't apply to
(18:40):
him normally. Somebody jumps in here and tells me that
President Trump was the president in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did anybody want to have the record on that or
anybody the wind on that? Yeah? I was waiting to
see what you were going to do. No, I was
waiting on you guys to help me out.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I'm not a citizen. So that's Mike's here.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay, Well you're forbidding to speak on this. I don't
know you saw that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The uh, the citizenship test is getting longer and harder,
is what they say.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Stop more difficult and we'll take more time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, So the president says, no, we're not going to
pay them, even though he's.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
The one that signed the law that says.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Government employees will get paid during a furlough after the
end of a furlough. So it's a little bizarre.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, wasn't he just complaining and saying he didn't know
anything about a judge that he appointed this week?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
As well? I think it's consistent the behavior.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I will you know what, I'm going to give him
a little bit of credit on that because I wonder
how many presidents actually know anything about the judges that
they nominate and they're relying on their team, aren't they
to bring them a judge because they're like, not anything
about this judge. What do you think they go through
there and read all the different rulings that the judges
put out there.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, I think it's the federalist society in this case
A lot of the times.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think you're right. Yeah, I think you're right. So
it's true he does know who they are. There you
go said, uh, anyway, there's backlash, and you've got Republicans
and Democrats that are other saying oh no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
No no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Let me see union officials, former government officials, Democrats, and
lawyers who are experts an administrative lassa.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The administration is.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Legally required to provide back pay because of the law
that President Trump signed during term one.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Some Republicans agree.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Senator Tom tillis Republican North Carolina, telling reporters that threatening
not to pay back workers is bad strategy, probably not
a good message to send right now to people who
are not being paid. I'll tell you what my concern,
honestly is that even even if it's completely illegal, which
you know based on the law, is if he still
(20:48):
is somehow able to withhold those funds, or even if
people believe that he's going to somehow.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Be able to withhold those funds.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you're if you're someone that's furlough, why aren't you
looking for another gig right now? I mean in the past,
you'd get for let's say you're a government lawyer, right Like.
I got a buddy who's got a family member's a
government lawyer, and I said, is he concerned about the shutdown?
This was in September, and he said no, he's planning
on taking a trip he'll he'll stay.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He lives in Virginia, and he'll uh.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
He says he's gonna stay with it about a days
where the travel just in case the shutdown ends and
he has to go back to work.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
So it's not like he's going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But he says no, no, he's planning on using this
as vacation time because he's gonna get paid for it
when he gets back. This is like free, paid vacation.
And I think there's a lot of federal workers that
look at it that way, And I can see why
that's frustrating for the president because we're shut down.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Why why are we Why are we paying people to
not work? Effectively, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
When you get back back, you're being paid for the
work you didn't do. I also am frustrated with that
because I find that to be fiscally irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's it's like if you it's like if you're paying.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Landscapers and it rains, and the landscapers go, look, we
can't work when it's raining. We can't we can't go
out there and cut uh, you know, wet grass, And
you're going, yeah, I get that, And then they say, well,
we'll be back next week.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But then they bill you for the week that they
didn't work. You go, wait a minute, I'm not paying
you for the week that you didn't cut my grass. Right,
doesn't make any sense. You sure that's the take you
want to go with?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeacause in this case, I think Trump would be the
one holding the hose spraying the lawn.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm not opposed to at some dimensions to it. Yeah,
I mean that that's fine. However, that is the law.
And I also think that it's going to burn him
in the mid terms. Normally, the government shut down this
far ahead of a midterm election isn't going to have
much effect.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Our memories are short. But if you lose your job.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Or if someone you know or someone that you're close
to loses their job or doesn't get that back pay
and they are suffering from a financial hardship for a
month to three four months into the future, now you
have people that are going to hold on to that resentment.
They're just like the landscaping company. I would fire them
if they tried to bill me for a week that
they didn't work. I would say, you're not my landscaping
(23:11):
company anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Is it? I would never forget it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Is it possible some of these people who have been furloughed,
that's their career and they don't regard it as a
disposable job, and they they had planned to spend their
lives doing it and until it's done to I.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Think so, then I absolutely mark one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Sounds like they're well paid to begin with, so they
can afford a holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Not all.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Like my buddy's lawyer, My buddy's lawyer brother, he's pretty
well paid.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, he's a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Right, But not everybody is getting I mean, you've got
people that are non essential employees that are what like
park rangers that are making sixty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You're not telling me that they're They're like, oh good.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Now, I'm just going to dip into my vast savings
so I can go tour the country.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's not happening. The lawyer guy is who the park
rangers not? Who was?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It said something a few years ago what they should
be told now, learn to code?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh yeah, well I suppose why would you learn to code?
AI is going to do it all? No, it's what
if you train for a job that won't be here
in another five years.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's not a good idea. You are Were you ever
a career counselor me? Yeah? No, I can't see her
in HR. Based on our conversation.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Before we went on the air, I am HR's biggest
night I've I've had fight not in this company. I've
had fights with HR and the I called them the
lustasia to their faith.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I keep annoying all the HR people. I hate HR people.
If I if I went to a bar and I
sat next to a person and I said, what do
you do for a living and they said HR, I
would probably kick out their stool from beneath it.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You wouldn't even just get up and walk away, you.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Just it'd spit in the beer.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I hate H people. Wow, except for the H people
who work at this company.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They're beautiful. They're really wonderful, lovely. They are probably import
to add that.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yes, intelligence, caring, gorgeous, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, I'll tell you what there might be some good
news if if we don't pay the furloughed employees, maybe
you get a cut.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I'll tell you how that's gonna happen. Next.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Chris Merril kfi AM six forty live everywhere in the
iHeart Radio app by there Chris Merrill KFI AM six
forty more stimulating talk. Remember you can listen to anytime
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Speaker 3 (25:34):
So.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh, the President says that he's going to look at
trying not to offer back pay to furload federal employees,
and that obviously is going over like a like a
bag of rocks. But can I twist your arm a
little bit? What if follow me here, what if by
not paying federal employees back pay for being furloughed, what
(25:58):
if the president.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Gave you that money?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Heck, yeah, the depths of your empathy never ceased to
amaze me.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I think that's fair to see. It was pretty fast too,
That is very fast.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Remember everyone got furloughed five years ago. So now how
does it taste government workers?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Wow? The compassion just drips off you. You think they weren't. Okay, No,
that's great.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
No, I love this a lot to work from home,
and they still work from home.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Listen. Just PSA.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
If you're a little old lady and you happen to
see an angry Australian woman walk up behind you, and
you're going to the ATM just run.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Is that a reference to us being a convicts?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Just you? Just me?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, just you? I mean you're you were heck yeah.
Let that little old lady believe in the street. As
long as I can have her withdrawal.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Can I step over her?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah? Oh yeah, you have to sweet, It's great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
President Trump said he's looking at sending stimmies worth anywhere
from a thousand to two thousand dollars. He said, now listen,
that's the uh, the tariff stimulus. Chuck, So that's the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He says.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
We're gonna we're gonna do something. We're looking at something.
Number one, we're paying down debt because people have allowed
the debt to go crazy. We also might make a
distribution to the people, almost like a dividend.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
To the people of America. We're thinking maybe one thousand
to two thousand. It'd be great. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can I just respectfully disagree with the economic math
on this.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I just don't think it would be great. It does
raise questions, well, yeah, like why'd you raise the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
If if you could send two thousand dollars to every American,
why don't you use that to pay the debt off?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Faster.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Right, this is kind of like this is kind of
like having twenty grand in credit card debt and you
got five bucks in your pocket. You go, I'm gonna
play the lottery, and then you decide you're gonna buy
a five dollars scratcher and you scratch it off and
lo and behold, scratcher just hit for five grand. And
you're like, whoo five grand? Should you put that five
(28:06):
thousand towards your twenty thousand in debt? And you're like, yeah,
what if I put like a thousand toward my debt
and then I took the four thousand. I mean, after all,
it's a windfall. I should be able to spend that
how I want. No, no, no, you already spent things how
you want it. That's that's why you're here in the
first place. Right, Instead, wanted to take like one hundred
bucks and buy yourself a nice dinner and then put
the rest towards your your credit cards, which, by the way,
(28:28):
did happen to me once not the it wasn't a
scratcher ticket, but I bought a piece of furniture or
a yard sale. Six years later, I was moving it
and my buddy's helping me. It was this big desk.
My buddy's helping me move it, and he was pulling
the drawers out so we could move this desk.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
And as we pull the drawers out, all of a sudden,
money starts falling out.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I'd moved this house twice or this desk twice already,
never even knew it was in there.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And he starts, he goes, oh my gosh, there's money
in here.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And he reaches back and he's just starts slapping bills
on the table on the on the top of the desk.
He's like, look at this wamns in the one bamn,
look at this bam keeps dropping these wands of cash.
Fifty eight hundred dollars. You know what we did, we
took well. First of all, I gave him a finder's fee.
He got a hundred bucks. Another budd a hundred Yeah,
(29:14):
I mean it was my It was my money. I
I stole it fair and square from the yard sale.
So that was generous for you. Then, well, I thought,
so okay, and he was happy to have extra hundred bucks.
I give my other buddy fifty for helping us move
the desk, and then my wife and I we took
five thousand, we put it toward debt, and then we
took you know, the remainder whatever that works out to
six hundred and fifty dollars and uh, and then we
I think we I think we bought. We got a
(29:35):
little party with those guys that were helping me move
the desk as well. But you pay your debt off first,
is my point. The other question, of course, is Mark
pointed out, it does raise some questions not only why
are you not paying the debt off, but why why
do you think we need that money?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Why are you stimulating the economy?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, I'm not mister Spock when it comes to being
a perfect embodiment of logic, but I do have to
ask if the tariffs are successful, why do people need
a relief from them?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, exactly, so why would we need a stimulus?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And didn't we find that by overstimulating an already stimulated
economy you end up creating all kinds of havoc with inflation.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Well, like farmers are one example where farmers are screwed.
We're reading a lot of reports in the news about
farmers who are going out of business because of the
tariffs and are about to get a bailout the taxpayers
will pay for. And I don't know if that all
adds up completely to me. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, this is one of those you're you're borrowing from
Peter to pay Paul.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, So let's increase the tariffs so that the idea is,
of course that other countries will pay more for our goods.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
They just go to Argentina instead, who we just bailed
out their farmers by using an American text twenty billion dollars.
So I'm trying to identify the part of that that's
the winning It's all.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
What's the matter with you? Mark? Why do you? Why
do you hate America?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I love America, and I understand I wish you love
our farmers as much as you hate this president. Mark, Well,
I don't know why you do that. Terrible I'm basically
quoting Pat Bondi, Pambondi. I don't know if you heard
Mark's news story earlier. He had the quote from Pam
Bondi that was like, I wish you loved Chicago as
much as you hate. She had that one in the
holster ready to go when she showed up. I think
(31:30):
absolutely I think there were some prepared lines. I think
you think, yeah, they've got like a zinger crew, and
they're not the best zingers either.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I think they probably had like chat GPT write.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Them, probably because all the other employees have been furloughed,
but just the same. Yeah, that was definitely in the holster,
that was ready to go, which kind of makes you think,
who wins when you're being a petty on Capitol Hill?
In fact, I want to dive into that, and there's
one former Rep. Puplicing presidential nominee that says, wait it,
(32:03):
you're gonna find out who that is next time. Chris
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