July 13, 2025 • 38 mins
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs earlier this year set off alarm among economists about a risk that just about every U.S. shopper fears: major price hikes. Instead, inflation has cooled, defying doomsday predictions and helping to propel sturdy economic performance. Side hustling is seemingly American as apple pie, with over one in four (27 percent) American adults taking on side jobs in addition to their full-time occupation, according to Bankrate’s most recent Side Hustle Survey. In a time when nearly half of Gen Z lies on their job applications — it’s no surprise that they’re also fibbing on their resume to land a job.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
May can't even think on Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Is KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk? We're talking
about Epstein and I always love your your talkbacks too,
love those talkbacks. Well, I'm hearing what you guys have
to say mostly just like hearing you on the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Vince Foster, No Epstein, Obama's Cook, no Epstein, Epstein.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's just it's a solid coincidence.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Who would have thought that Epstein would have killed himself
and the cameras were off, the guards were on break Yeah,
for like one minute. It's pretty amazing. That's how that's
a coincidence. It's just coincidence, total coincidence. Yeah, So why
is it not being released then?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean, and I heard a great I heard a
great point somebody made. They went, look, if if this
were damaging to Trump, don't you think that the bidy
minus would have released the information in order to damage Trump?
And the thinking is, okay, well, it's not damaging to
Trump then, or is it damaging to the Biden administration
(01:12):
as well? Was Hunter Biden on the client list for Epstein?
And so releasing that list would have been mutually assured destruction. Right, Okay,
is that still the reason? So, because if it's Biden's,
if Biden or Biden cronies are on the client list,
don't you think Trump would release that and further drive
(01:34):
home the point that it's the the Biden crime family.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, I would have thought so. I don't know,
And it is weird.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They go, oh, well, you know, the cameras always go
off for a minute every days.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's when the cameras reset. Oh well, that was really nice.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Of Jeffrey Epstein to hang himself in that one minute
that the cameras were off.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's really great. Wow, what a coincidence that he did that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm with you, man, huh, how about that shady stuff
going on?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Question, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, just to
hit that talkback button and then answer me this. Have
you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So tariffs on, tariffs off? What's happening with the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The latest tariff letters have gone out to a number
of countries, placing twenty five percent levees on even some
of our top allies, as well as the number of
smaller countries just announced here what yesterday I think we
had more tariffs that were now dropped on Mexico.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
President Trump announcing today the US will place new thirty
percent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods from
Mexico and the European Union starting August first.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What, oh, that's right, it's great. Britain was the UK
that we signed the deal with. There's been two deals.
Remember's supposed to have ninety deals and ninety days, and
we've got two, and UK was one of them.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
The president and now seeing the tariffs via letter on
social media, Trump saying, the US has been taken advantage
of when it comes to trade partnerships all across the world,
and these new letters impact the relationship between America and
two of its biggest international trade partners.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know, we keep hearing that they've been taking advantage
of us. Is very unfair. There is a terrible thing
all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
But then we paused the tariffs, and then what we're
going to let them take advantage of us longer?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or is it all part of the deal. There you go.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
The country's responding to the tariff threat. The EU president
responding with the threat of her own warning of possible
counter terraffs. European leaders calling the thirty percent tariff quote unjustified.
Mexico also not happy with the move, saying despite the announcement,
they've been working on a trade deal with the.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
US, So.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's interesting. Mexico says, we are working on a trade
deal Canada. It was announced Canada is going to face
a thirty five percent tariff starting August first. Thirty five
percent tariffs on Canada are going to be separate from
some of the other tariffs. That would include the fifty
percent of stealing aluminum imports, twenty five percent on autos,
and potential fifty percent levy on comper shipment starting on
(04:09):
August first, and then thirty five percent on everything else.
The letter on Thursday to Canada announcing the thirty five
percent tariffs that comes after the two countries agreed to
resume trade talks at the end of June and to
work on hammering out a deal by July twenty first.
That according from to the Department of Finance Canada. So
(04:32):
Canada is working on a deal. Trump says, hire tariffs
for you. Mexico says, we're working on a deal. Trump says,
hire tariffs for you. So this is this is part
of his dealmaking strategy. He's creating a sense of urgency.
And so long as Canada capitulates to whatever he demands,
(04:57):
and they do so before you want, and I start
to feel an impact, he.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Wins the negotiation.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And Canada doesn't want to screw around because they don't
want to push their own economy into a recession.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So it's kind of a game of chicken.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And he says in the middle of the deal, he says,
now I'm gonna punch you in the face, and they
go he don't punch this in the face. He goes, well,
then you better make this deal faster. So it creates
this sense of urgency. And it's kind of a gamble
because as you heard, some members of the EU are
considering counter tariffs, which he says, don't do that, because
(05:33):
if you if you try to counter the tariffs, I'm
gonna add whatever you counter plus the thirty percent. So
if you're gonna hit me with twenty percent, I'm gonna
hit you with my thirty percent plus another twenty on
top of that. Right, and the only way, the only
way that you can keep fighting with me is if
you destroy your own economy. And of course those politicians
(05:55):
don't want to destroy their own economy, so they are
they gonna are they gonna lose in this game of chicken.
One of the things that continues to give our president
some power here is if you'll remember, back in April,
when he announced the first wave of tariffs, he called
it Liberation Day, the stock market crapped out, just took
(06:17):
a total dump. I mean it was Outhouse City. And
then it continued to kind of drop and drop and drop,
and then bond rates started to come back up. And
so then Trump went, well, all right, pause the tariffs.
We're gonna work out deals, ninety deals, ninety days. Again,
we've got two And in the meantime, Wall Street went
(06:40):
right back up, didn't just go back up to where
it was before, and went above it. So even though
we still have ten percent tariffs crossboard, you, we still
have all these other things, the stock market is doing better.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, So.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Then we hear, okay, well we're gonna get into this
little trade war with China, right, tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
On China one hundred and forty five percent stock market.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We're gonna drop a little bit and then uh, and
then all of a sudden, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna
figure out a deal with China.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Stock market is up higher than it was before.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So every time he does this on again, off again,
his meter stick stock market does better and it enables
him to continue to do this tariff on off, on off.
And in the meantime, we have companies that are stockpiling.
So he says tariffs are gonna start. Look out, tariffs
(07:33):
are gonna start in one month, and they go, oh crap,
tariffs are gonna start. Let stockpile and start ordering, ordering, ordering,
They start upping their supply, they start to packing warehouses.
Tariffs go into effect, so then they're selling what's in
the warehouses. So they're selling what's in the warehouses without
a tariff's surcharge, prices don't have to go up. Then
(07:56):
he calls the tariffs off and they go, okay, whoa,
tariffs are off again. Now we can go back to
our regular supply chain and we don't have to feel
the impact so much, and that means we don't have
to raise the prices. And then he goes up, tariffs
are coming back, and he go, wow, tariffs coming back. Stockpile, stockpile, stockpile.
So you and I aren't seeing prices fluctuate so much.
(08:17):
We're not seeing the supply fluctuate so much. The wholesalers
might be, the importers might be, they're kind of riding
a roller coaster, but by the time it gets to
us on the entire commerce chain, things have sort of
leveled off because they're able to sell off what they
have in stock.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There is some pricing data, though, that shows things are
not necessarily super duper. Researchers finding out that prices on
imported goods in their study increased by roughly three percent
between the first wave of tariffs in early March and
then the end of June, and then at the same time,
categories of domestic goods that compete with imports saw price
increases of around two percent. So even if it's being
(09:02):
manufactured domestically, they're still raising prices because if their competitors'
prices are going up three percent, they can go up
two percent, make more profit, and still come in below
what their competitors are selling it, which is exactly what
was predicted. Domestic producers are raising prices because they can
(09:24):
it is interesting to hear and you will in a
moment some of the big wigs on Wall Street who
are saying, I mean, Trump is playing this really well.
This pattern is something that is predictable and people are
figuring it out right now. But how long can you
play this game? You're gonna find out just how long
(09:45):
you can play. And I want to hear more of whether
or not you've seen any of the tariffs or maybe
surcharges on your bills. When you hit that talkback button
on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on that app.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty, on to.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Chris Merril, KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app. It's always a pleasure
spending some time with you. The question that we asked
on our talk back tonight, have you noticed anything getting
more expensive in light of the tariffs? So I worked
with somebody during my real job, and I was asking
(10:22):
this question this week and she said she orders a
lot of like at leisure where and the stuff that
she's ordering, she is she's seeing like a tariff surcharge,
Like is showing up on the receipt itself.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I said, I haven't seen that. I haven't seen.
I haven't seen any actual like tariff charges.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Although I did Prime Day this week, Prime Days four
days now love. It spent way too much and it
didn't feel like I was getting those huge sales like
in the past. But also the dirty little secret with
Prime Days is that the sales kind of suck in general.
You know, you have to find the good sales because
they throw a lot of like old stuff at you
(11:00):
and then they're like, oh, I saved seventeen percent, and
then you realize if you look at the price history,
that's been the price for a long time, so it's
not really much of a sale, you know, so you
have to be a little bit careful with that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Anyway, that's the question.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Have you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of
the tariffs?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Hi, my name's William Rowan plan or talking to hear
from Richland, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hey, Cayla, you're from New Jersey. You know this guy
that's my friend? Oh, very good.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I haven't noticed any prices going up that I could
directly say, hey, that's terriff related. But I have noticed
prices go up yeah, thank you, take care.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Appreciate it. Yeah, that's uh. I think all of us have.
I think that's what's gonna end up happening. With the tariffs.
We're going to notice inflation, but the data hasn't shown
inflation really really ticking up at all. We're all still
feeling hangover from the inflation from the pandemic. And if
you want to blame Biden for that, that's fine. He's
not there anymore, that's fine. But we were still feeling
(11:59):
those effect and we thought, didn't we, I mean, were
kind of told on the campaign trail that Trump was
gonna bring those prices down. We're not really coming down,
but they're also not skyrocketing with this with the tariff stuff.
And there was one hundred billion dollars that went into
the general coffers in June alone because of tariffs. But
where the one hundred billion dollars come from. M came
(12:23):
out of somebody's pocket.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Love your show, I love you.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
I saw a big difference. Last week.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Pete coffee was only eight ninety nine.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
For a bag, okay, yay, So I bought three, and
then today I went in and it was.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Fourteen ninety nine a bag.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow, but Starbucks is back down to eight ninety nine.
What's up with that?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Curious?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm curious too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Also, you went to Pete's coffee price was eight ninety
nine a bag, You bought three bags and then you
had to go back to buy more bags this week.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
How much coffee do you drink? Good night?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You get the feeling if you have coffee with this
woman that it's just nothing but sludge in the bottom
of a a coffee cup. Like, how thick is that
coffee that she's making. She's going through three bags in
a week. Put a little hair on your chest, No kidding,
I have the shakes. Meanwhile, what is Wall Street thinking
(13:21):
about the tariffs? So the US equity strategist Mike Wilson
that's a made up term from Morgan Stanley says that
the markets are figuring out a little bit of this
pattern tariffs on, stockpile, tariff's off. Sell your stockpile because
the tariffs are going to come back on again. And
(13:41):
then you know, you know what I mean, Like he
announces the tariffs are going to start in thirty days,
which is kind of a wink wink. Fill your warehouses.
So everybody starts stockpiling, and then the tariffs are on
and then they sell the stockpiles, and then he goes okay,
now tariffs are off, and they go okay, now I
can buy stuff from overseasing it. So here's where the market. Oh,
(14:02):
here we go. All right, this is let me see.
Nathan Hager on Bloomberg's Daybreak was talking with his equity strategies.
It's starting to wake up to what could be coming
when it comes to trade.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Good morning, Nathan. Well, I would say.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
These guys sound a little bit down, feel like they
need to talk to that lady with the coffee.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Here we go again, you know, like we we kind
of know the pattern now. I mean this is President
Trump's style. He'll he goes hard and then he you know,
he doesn't come back off completely, but it's a it's
a back and forth. And that's his negotiating style.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
It's the old bat now where you put your stake
in the ground and aggressively and then you try to
negotiate something. And so the market has figured this out though,
and I think President Trump has figured it out too.
But what I've found interesting is that he'll come out
and do something. You know, it's perceived quite negatively, like overnight,
the market will go down a person and then he'll
(15:01):
you know, something will change and then the market will
go up two percent, you know. So it's like one
step back, two steps forward. Now, that's not going to
work forever. Eventually we have to get to some deals.
So yeah, you know, we're getting closer. I think, you know,
he's just trying to exert as much pressure as he
can to try and get some deals done before these deadlines.
These deadlines get pushed back, and that's that's a classic
(15:22):
negotiating style. So we'll see if it's successful.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But but what if it's not right because he does
this and then at some point the other countries start
to catch on and go, okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Play the game.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
You know, as you mentioned, the market seems to be
okay with it for now, and that you know, I
think as you're there's an article you mentioned, I think
it does embolden him to continue to go down this path.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Give it where the future's action is going this morning? Yeah,
the marketers here, what the president market? Now? Nobodys okay?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So fifty seven percent of companies say they're already experiencing
a tariff driven decline in their margins. As of May,
three quarters said the companies are considering price increases of
at least five percent in the next six months. So
if all of a sudden we have inflation that starts
jumping at five percent, Americans are not gonna like that,
not gonna be crazy about that, they say. Some accelerated
(16:16):
price increases could take hold as companies sell through warehouse
products and additional tariff proposals emerge, And some prices have
shown signs of possible tariff impact, like major appliances which
we get from Jane. Those are gone up four percent
from April to May. Bananas those are up three percent. Now,
you might not notice a three percent increase on your bananas.
(16:39):
Who's noticing an extra nickel? But all of a sudden,
when it's coffee and you're buying three bags a day
like this woman that we were talking to, you're gonna
start noticing when those things start jumping up a couple
bucks at a time. Now, is that gonna hold off
until this fall? Are we gonna have a marry Christmas?
(17:00):
Is everything gonna be fine come Christmas? Or are we
gonna start to feel it before then, because I gotta
tell you, if all of a sudden, your ratty kids
are not getting the little dollies that they want, famili
is not gonna be happy and they're gonna start demanding answers.
And that's when things are gonna get a little bit
uncomfortable in the Oval office. And if you're having trouble
buying all the greatest I don't know what's the hot toy,
(17:24):
no transformers, garbage pill kids, whatever they are, maybe you
ought to consider a little side hustle action. If you do,
you're not alone. In fact, you might be surprised just
how many people are working the side hustle. That is
next Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Chris
Merril KFI.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Undemanded anytime iHeartRadio app. YadA, YadA, YadA. So it's so funny.
We're just talking about prices and are we seeing prices
increase because of tariffs? And I just got an email
from Amazon. I have the subscribe and save you know
which is you know, so like my coffee comes every month,
the deodorant comes every couple of months, vitamins, that kind
of thing. And I just see, yep, my coffee just
(18:08):
went up a dollar. For my I just buy the
CA cups. It's like a pack of I don't know,
thirty or forty K cups. I just went up a dollar.
My deodorant just went up thirty cents. Yeah, just little
increases here and there. Are you feeling any increases in
light of all the different tariff announcements and generally most
(18:29):
of you were saying, haven't really seen anything specific to tariffs.
I wonder if there's going to come a time because
remember there was that rumor that Bezos was going to
start putting that on your Amazon receipt that you know,
this is your price, but this is your price now
with the tariff's surcharge. And then Trump got rumor of that,
and he flipped out, and then Bezos was like.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, no, no, no, I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Please.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So then he went and kissed the ring and everything
was fine. But at some point, do you think that
we're gonna start seeing that.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think we are.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I do I think there's gonna be companies there's gonna
be so much backlash. We're going, wait, why is my
coffee so expense? Why is my one a day vitamin
so expensive? And these companies are gonna go ain't us, man?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's not us?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I think at some point it is, but it's it's
viewed as being a political statement when you say, here's
your tariff charge. If you say here's the taxes, like
here's your bill and then here's your taxes, which the
United States is a little bit unique in that other
countries they just say here's your here's you know, price
on the shelf is the price to pay at the
register because the tax already figured into that.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But here it's like, you know, whatever your thing.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Is that you're buying is is ninety ninety nine and
then you get your your whatever it is eight nine
percent on top of that, once you get to the
cash register and it's broken down in your receipt, here's
your total. You know, here's your subtotal taxes, here's your
grand total.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But we're not doing that with the tariffs on things
that we order. A little bizarre.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You'd think that they would start saying, here's the price
of the goods, here's your taxes. Here's tariff, which is
another tax. But no, we're not gonna do that because
it's considered a political statement. All right, So are you
saying anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs.
If you are on the iheartradiop just click on that
talkback button and let us know.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I haven't really noticed the increase and price is prices
as far as like groceries, because I buy the almost
the same things every week from Amazon Fresh. Okay, and
prices have been pretty much the same, except for egg
prices that have seen to have gone down. But everything
else that I buy every week is just about the same.
So okay, nothing's gone up yet. I'm just worried about
(20:33):
tariffs from Mexico because that's where oreos come from. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh so true, Oh my gosh, nobody's giving up those oreos. Well, well,
i'll tell you unpopular opinion here. I think I like
the Hyde rocks better. Sorry, So what's getting more expensive
after the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah? Everything? Oh they will, although that was before the tariffs.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Welcome to California.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah it's not just California, man, that's everywhere. Like we
were talking earlier about home prices, I've actually gone up
higher in other metros. Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami actually saw
higher increases, and we did in southern California, and even
higher than what they saw.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
As far as increases in the Bayer.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
It's not so much the price of goods that's been
going up. That's been fairly well controlled so far. It's
what this policy has done to the value of the dollar. Oh,
go take a look at what your dollars buying overseas.
It's a serious situation and it could change the monetary
(21:40):
standard to another currency.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But in the meantime, there's this thought that if the
value of the dollar drops, that means that our debt
isn't as bad as we thought, right, because we owe
thirty four trillion dollars, But now thirty four trillion dollars
is a little bit less compared to like the euro. YadA, YadA, YadA.
So let's just dance the macroeconomics people play.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Well, I just love Carrits.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh huh, calkeylor is this Donald Trump? Did we get
a talk back from President Trump?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I think we're that popular. It sounds about right. This
is him? Yeah, right. We think this is President Trump
leaving us a talk back here.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Okay, well I just loved carrits. Wow, and I want
to see more carrots. This is the president, but forget
about that. Okay, I'm talking to Dana and us he
and the White House.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Baby and oh yeah, UFC guy.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
What did July two thousand and six, twenty six?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, that's okay, Wow, that was President Trump he called us.
I mean he is friends with Ken or is Ita
White though? Whoever's on in the daytime?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh? John? Yeah, doesn't he call there all the time? Yeah? Probably,
Well he was on there once, but yeah, well that's
all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Fun, that's probably that's him. That's wow, that's crazy. That's awesome.
Although he did start to sound a little like Milton
from Office Space in the middle there. Maybe he has
a cold right here? Listen again, does this sound.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Like I'm talking to Dana and us he and the
White House baby?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And that's my stapler?
Speaker 10 (23:19):
What did god Eye two thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Bring the space down? Yeah, that's Shane Gillis right there.
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Meanwhile, if things do start getting more expensive, are you
cutting back or are you increasing your workload? Forget work
life balance. It's a job job balance. One in four
American adults have a side hustle. Wow, one and four
of a side hustle. I was thinking about this when
it comes to a side hustle, and I started asking
people around my my real job about side hustles, and
(23:55):
I was surprised so many people had a side hustle.
Then I realized, this show is my side hustle. In fact, Raoul,
this show is your side hustle.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes, it is, Kayla. I don't even know what Kayla does. Uh,
for a lot of us.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Is And I thought, you know, for some people, we
think of a side hustle as like the gig economy.
We think of like driving uber or you know, doing
door dash or something like that. But I think for
a lot of us, a side hustle is like a
hobby that we've monetized. So I started asking around my
office about side hustles, and one of the people I
(24:33):
work with says, well, yeah, I got a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I do that.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She does a craft shows on the weekend, so she
has like she makes her own crafts and things like that. Right,
she goes to all those different art fairs and stuff
like that. That's her side hustle. Buddy of mine sells
sports cards, so he buys them cheap when he can
find him. The price goes up and he speculates it
which ones are gonna be better or worse, and then
he sells him online. That's a side hustle. Doesn't make
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a ton of money on it, but he does a
little bit. And I realized, Man, a lot of us
have a side hustle. We don't even think of as
being a side hustle, but we we'd really kind of
do that. In many cases, it's a it's a hobby
that we've turned into, you know, into a job. And
I think that's the key to a side hustle. The
key is minimum effort, maximum returns. Right, So what am
(25:19):
I doing anyway? And can I make money at it?
Or what is something that I can do for a
little bit of time and make.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
A ton of money? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
In Raoul's case, he's doing it backwards. You're spending a
lot of time and making a little money.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, why it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Hurts, right, truth hurts, man. But really, when you think
about this is just a good life philosophy. Minimum effort,
maximum returns. That's how I approach marriage. What's the least
amount I can do and keep my wife happy?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's really how This is really how you should approach life.
And this is how you should approach.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Your regular job.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What's the least amount of work I can do and
still get a raise when it comes to employee review time?
Think about this. Think about your exercise routine. Can't let
you exercise all the time. I know you're a gym rat.
You don't do a bunch of exercises that are just
a waste of energy. You want to have the best
results from your workout, right. That means you want to
(26:14):
have good form. You want to have the best results,
the most efficient exercises, minimum effort, maximum results. And if
you're putting in maximum effort, it better be super maximum results.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You're not just gonna waste your time at a bunch of
exercises that don't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Exactly, Up and be safe while you're doing them. Safe.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
That's how we should be approaching any gig economy stuff
or any side hustle stuff too. That's how you should
do it when it comes to getting that job. Though,
I will give gen Z credit because gen Z tends
to take credit for finding hacks that have been around,
and then they're like, oh, we found this hack.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh it's called quiet quitting.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Now it's called mailing it in minimum effort, maximum results.
It's not quiet quitting. It's just what we do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'm quiet quitting now, and I'm not going to give
this company my all shut up.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But they did figure out this other hack that I've
been preaching for a very long time. Come to find
out I was just ahead of my time. I will
tell you what the key is to getting that job
that you have been looking for. Next, Chris Merrill. KFI
AM six forty were live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You know, Tim doesn't talk.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He always asks me when when when I'm doing, like
the show after him or the show before him? Right,
we have to talk. But I just loved him. I
love his show. I've always loved this show and I
think Tim is great. And I thought I thought I
saw him out I was out and about and I
thought I saw him, and I went, oh, my gosh,
is that Tim?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What do I say?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And obviously the answer is obviously ding dong But then
I thought, would he just avoid me like he does
all the.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Other times that I'm ever around? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Probably, Kayla. How come you haven't gotten me Tim's phone number?
Did he tell you not to give me his phone
number so I can text him? Am I on the
do not call Tim Conway Junior list killer.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Keller. Your silence is deafening. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Let you know the answer.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Do you know the answer? All right? The question?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Have you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of
the tariffs? If you are on the iHeart radio app,
just shit that talkback button and let us know the answer.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Have you seen anything going up in price?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
His tariff can be a problem. However, nobody seems to
yell and scream about all the taxes the fees of California,
puts one of us.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, we don't.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Have you guys noticed anybody yelling and screaming about California
prices or taxes anybody. No, nobody's complaining about that. Huh
h all right, interesting, But.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
God forbid you do a tariff that can have great
benefits in the future.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yell and scream because it is political.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And the ones who are yelling and screaming are people
who have you know Trump de arrangement syndrome. Oh but
nobody kicks and screams or yells about.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Uh about Oh yeah, is that thirty second time? Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I hate to disappoint you, but lots of people yelling
and screaming and kicking.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But also I'd like to just point.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Out these terrifs can be a problem.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That was your first thing.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
But then you said the only people complaining are the
people with Trump the arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So do you have it?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Why is it that you would complain about the taxes
California puts on you, but you wouldn't complain about the
taxes that the president puts on you. You see where
this is turning into like, no, no, no, they're the ones
that are the problem.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What if I'm gonna throw this out.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Here's the way I look at it. I don't like
paying more taxes anytime. I don't care if it's California
raising taxes for dumb crap like a bullet training nowhere,
or if it's a president raising taxes in order to
punish Brazil for uh punishing their.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Creepy former president. I don't want to pay more.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Can we all just agree that we don't want to
pay more, whether it comes from Trump or Newsome?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Can we do that?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Am I just speaking the nonsense? I'm sorry, sorry, all right,
gotta pick a side. Sorry, because I have tax derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
All right. Next up.
Speaker 11 (30:29):
The thing that's a bigger problem than the tariffs right
now is this whole thing on tips.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
This guy sounds familiar too, doesn't he. Yeah, listen, all right,
he says. The thing on tips is a bigger problem.
This guy sounds familiar.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
Tax on tips are really just tips in general.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Now there's something to this guy. Does he sound familiar?
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Yeah, but I'm not sure from where.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Let me see if I can figure this out. All right,
start it over here. Let's say, if we can just
listen again, see what we can figure out what this guy is.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
The thing that's a bigger problem than the tariffs right
now is just holding on tips. Tots on tips. They're
really just tips in general. Tipping someone for giving you
a cup of copy gs. You gotta tip the person
did if they're bringing you your beers, oh yeah, and
your other fancy food stuff like beef. Damn, I don't know.
(31:29):
I just want to be served.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
But yeah, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
So we had a we had a cult to night
from President Trump and from Sam Elliott.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So it's been a good night, pretty good night. What
are you having for dinner? Beef? What're having for dinner? Huh?
I'm having beef, very good. Uh. Credit to oo gen Z,
(32:02):
oh Man.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I hate to give them credit, but I'm gonna have
to the reason I and I'm not somebody that just
dogs on gen Z for the sake of dogging on
gen Z.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Every generation is different.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was like watching how some generations change, how they adapt,
the different languages, the difference.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know, it's all and that fascinates me.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But one thing that does irritate me about gen Z
is that they will take things that have been around
forever and then they will claim that they've discovered something new.
Quiet quitting or micro retirements is the latest thing. I
was in from Okelly this week and I brought this up.
The new gen Z Fast Company was reporting on gen
Z and their micro retirements where they work it out
(32:41):
so they take a week or two every twelve to
eighteen months and they don't work And I went, Wow,
what a brilliant idea. How come nobody else thought of that.
Oh yeah, it's called vacation. But gen Z they figured
out what vacations are. They called the micro retirements and
now they've changed the world. It's amazing gen Z has
(33:02):
saved us all.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But I will give gen Z credit for this.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
U survey data from career io career services platform revealing
that one in four job applications have lied or provided
inaccurate information when applying for job. Nearly half of gen
Z lies on their job applications. They also fib on
their resumes in order to land that job. Yes, yes, yes,
(33:33):
gen Z, thank you. I've been saying this all along. Lie,
what are you gonna do? Not hire you for the
job you don't have? Oh yeah, but what if they
do lie and then they fire me later? That would suck?
But then what then you got no job same place
you were when you.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Took the job in the first place.
Speaker 12 (33:52):
Have you have you seen the guy that's like, okay,
so here's what you do. You say you were the
president of best Buy and who is going to verify it?
You can't verify that. No, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's it.
Speaker 12 (34:04):
But the whole TikTok was about doing that and how
you do it and like it was real. It was
like a real suggestion.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Okay, I wouldn't do that. I did hear.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
There was a TikTok from a Farah chargie. She's a
job coach and she was talking about resuming lives. Here's
what she said. I wouldn't lie about being the president
of a major multinational corporation. But she did talk about
one little innocent white lie.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
You're asked about a gap in your resume, just tell
let me signed an nda. I'm kidding. Please don't do
that unless it's true.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Shut up, Okay, get to the real point.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Here's what you can do instead.
Speaker 13 (34:35):
Okay, First you need to realize that you don't have
to worry about the gap on your resume because that
resume got you an interview in front of that interviewer.
All right, here's how you can talk about it, and
I promise it's super easy.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (34:46):
If you had a gap because you went back to school,
got training, volunteered, or took a leave of absence to
learn and enricher knowledge, and talk about that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (34:55):
If you were laid off, tell them it's because the
company had mass layoffs. I'd be laid off three times
and yes, companies will understand that it's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
They love firing people.
Speaker 13 (35:05):
They get it for anything else, Tell them it was
for personal reasons. In the US, employers can't ask about
your marital or family status, and honestly, it's none of
their business.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
There you go, lie I got fired. No, don't tell
them I got fired. Tell them it was personal reasons.
Here are some things you can lie about. Why are
you looking for the job You're expected to lie? What
brings you to ARCA? What makes you think you'd be
a good fit here because you pay more. That's the truth.
Not out of ten times we're leaving one job, we're
(35:35):
doing it because the salary is a major factor. Now,
maybe you want to work somewhere else, maybe you don't
like the job you're at, whatever, But let's face it,
you're you're not taking the new job because it's gonna
pay you less and your life is gonna suck. So
you give them some other crap answer like I needed
a challenge, I want to be closer to my dying
child some other bs.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Right, that's what we say. You have to lie, But
also I don't know why people aren't doing this. Always
lie about your references always lie.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Employers check your references, and they always say, put out
a reference of someone that you've known for more than
two years. Well, who's double checking it out that you've
known somebody for two years? So one just go find
somebody that will, you know, spin a good yarn or
even better.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yet, they don't check.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I mean, they will check your references, but they don't
check on your references. So I worked with a guy
who was an actor, right, I think it's some minor
roles in some a few films and a couple of
national commercials. And for a lot of you that have
your head shots, you probably do the same thing. You've
got your one sheet whatever, right, and then on the
back of your you know, the back of your headshot,
he just had a bunch of directors that he made up.
He just claimed you worked with all these different directors.
(36:40):
He's just made up names. Nobody ever checked on that stuff.
Here's padding, no harm, no foul. Consider this. What if
you are your own reference, you just make up the
name and then give them your phone number, even if
you have to have like a spoof phone number that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That forwards to your phone.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
You see something coming in from you know, strange number
your company and you just go.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Hi, Hi, this is Kayla. Oh Chris, Oh he's the
great guy. I really think you should hire him.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Done, be your own, be your own reference. How come
an nobody else does this? Also, I have been known
to make up awards another like awards and accomplishments. I've
made these up before, so like on my resume at
(37:29):
one point I said that I was a Davis Award
winner for Radio Show.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Of the Year. What's a Davis Award? There is no
Davis Award, completely made up. What are they gonna do.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
They're like, oh, Davis Award high I'm not familiar with that.
Oh it's a little known publication that's not in business anymore.
And they're like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now if I lie and I say I'm in the
Radio Hall of Fame, well somebody can double check on that.
That's easy to verify. Right, You don't do that, but
you go, oh, you want the Davis Award. That sounds cool,
sounds legit. It's not what you do, all right, the
news from Tinseltown of beyond. There's no business like show business.
Next Chris merril KF I am six forty were live
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everywhere in the iHeartRadio KFI
Speaker 1 (38:11):
AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
May can't even think on Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Is KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk? We're talking
about Epstein and I always love your your talkbacks too,
love those talkbacks. Well, I'm hearing what you guys have
to say mostly just like hearing you on the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Vince Foster, No Epstein, Obama's Cook, no Epstein, Epstein.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's just it's a solid coincidence.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Who would have thought that Epstein would have killed himself
and the cameras were off, the guards were on break Yeah,
for like one minute. It's pretty amazing. That's how that's
a coincidence. It's just coincidence, total coincidence. Yeah, So why
is it not being released then?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean, and I heard a great I heard a
great point somebody made. They went, look, if if this
were damaging to Trump, don't you think that the bidy
minus would have released the information in order to damage Trump?
And the thinking is, okay, well, it's not damaging to
Trump then, or is it damaging to the Biden administration
(01:12):
as well? Was Hunter Biden on the client list for Epstein?
And so releasing that list would have been mutually assured destruction. Right, Okay,
is that still the reason? So, because if it's Biden's,
if Biden or Biden cronies are on the client list,
don't you think Trump would release that and further drive
(01:34):
home the point that it's the the Biden crime family.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, I would have thought so. I don't know,
And it is weird.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They go, oh, well, you know, the cameras always go
off for a minute every days.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's when the cameras reset. Oh well, that was really nice.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Of Jeffrey Epstein to hang himself in that one minute
that the cameras were off.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's really great. Wow, what a coincidence that he did that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm with you, man, huh, how about that shady stuff
going on?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Question, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, just to
hit that talkback button and then answer me this. Have
you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So tariffs on, tariffs off? What's happening with the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The latest tariff letters have gone out to a number
of countries, placing twenty five percent levees on even some
of our top allies, as well as the number of
smaller countries just announced here what yesterday I think we
had more tariffs that were now dropped on Mexico.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
President Trump announcing today the US will place new thirty
percent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods from
Mexico and the European Union starting August first.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What, oh, that's right, it's great. Britain was the UK
that we signed the deal with. There's been two deals.
Remember's supposed to have ninety deals and ninety days, and
we've got two, and UK was one of them.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
The president and now seeing the tariffs via letter on
social media, Trump saying, the US has been taken advantage
of when it comes to trade partnerships all across the world,
and these new letters impact the relationship between America and
two of its biggest international trade partners.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know, we keep hearing that they've been taking advantage
of us. Is very unfair. There is a terrible thing
all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
But then we paused the tariffs, and then what we're
going to let them take advantage of us longer?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or is it all part of the deal. There you go.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
The country's responding to the tariff threat. The EU president
responding with the threat of her own warning of possible
counter terraffs. European leaders calling the thirty percent tariff quote unjustified.
Mexico also not happy with the move, saying despite the announcement,
they've been working on a trade deal with the.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
US, So.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's interesting. Mexico says, we are working on a trade
deal Canada. It was announced Canada is going to face
a thirty five percent tariff starting August first. Thirty five
percent tariffs on Canada are going to be separate from
some of the other tariffs. That would include the fifty
percent of stealing aluminum imports, twenty five percent on autos,
and potential fifty percent levy on comper shipment starting on
(04:09):
August first, and then thirty five percent on everything else.
The letter on Thursday to Canada announcing the thirty five
percent tariffs that comes after the two countries agreed to
resume trade talks at the end of June and to
work on hammering out a deal by July twenty first.
That according from to the Department of Finance Canada. So
(04:32):
Canada is working on a deal. Trump says, hire tariffs
for you. Mexico says, we're working on a deal. Trump says,
hire tariffs for you. So this is this is part
of his dealmaking strategy. He's creating a sense of urgency.
And so long as Canada capitulates to whatever he demands,
(04:57):
and they do so before you want, and I start
to feel an impact, he.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Wins the negotiation.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And Canada doesn't want to screw around because they don't
want to push their own economy into a recession.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So it's kind of a game of chicken.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And he says in the middle of the deal, he says,
now I'm gonna punch you in the face, and they
go he don't punch this in the face. He goes, well,
then you better make this deal faster. So it creates
this sense of urgency. And it's kind of a gamble
because as you heard, some members of the EU are
considering counter tariffs, which he says, don't do that, because
(05:33):
if you if you try to counter the tariffs, I'm
gonna add whatever you counter plus the thirty percent. So
if you're gonna hit me with twenty percent, I'm gonna
hit you with my thirty percent plus another twenty on
top of that. Right, and the only way, the only
way that you can keep fighting with me is if
you destroy your own economy. And of course those politicians
(05:55):
don't want to destroy their own economy, so they are
they gonna are they gonna lose in this game of chicken.
One of the things that continues to give our president
some power here is if you'll remember, back in April,
when he announced the first wave of tariffs, he called
it Liberation Day, the stock market crapped out, just took
(06:17):
a total dump. I mean it was Outhouse City. And
then it continued to kind of drop and drop and drop,
and then bond rates started to come back up. And
so then Trump went, well, all right, pause the tariffs.
We're gonna work out deals, ninety deals, ninety days. Again,
we've got two And in the meantime, Wall Street went
(06:40):
right back up, didn't just go back up to where
it was before, and went above it. So even though
we still have ten percent tariffs crossboard, you, we still
have all these other things, the stock market is doing better.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, So.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Then we hear, okay, well we're gonna get into this
little trade war with China, right, tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
On China one hundred and forty five percent stock market.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We're gonna drop a little bit and then uh, and
then all of a sudden, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna
figure out a deal with China.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Stock market is up higher than it was before.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So every time he does this on again, off again,
his meter stick stock market does better and it enables
him to continue to do this tariff on off, on off.
And in the meantime, we have companies that are stockpiling.
So he says tariffs are gonna start. Look out, tariffs
(07:33):
are gonna start in one month, and they go, oh crap,
tariffs are gonna start. Let stockpile and start ordering, ordering, ordering,
They start upping their supply, they start to packing warehouses.
Tariffs go into effect, so then they're selling what's in
the warehouses. So they're selling what's in the warehouses without
a tariff's surcharge, prices don't have to go up. Then
(07:56):
he calls the tariffs off and they go, okay, whoa,
tariffs are off again. Now we can go back to
our regular supply chain and we don't have to feel
the impact so much, and that means we don't have
to raise the prices. And then he goes up, tariffs
are coming back, and he go, wow, tariffs coming back. Stockpile, stockpile, stockpile.
So you and I aren't seeing prices fluctuate so much.
(08:17):
We're not seeing the supply fluctuate so much. The wholesalers
might be, the importers might be, they're kind of riding
a roller coaster, but by the time it gets to
us on the entire commerce chain, things have sort of
leveled off because they're able to sell off what they
have in stock.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There is some pricing data, though, that shows things are
not necessarily super duper. Researchers finding out that prices on
imported goods in their study increased by roughly three percent
between the first wave of tariffs in early March and
then the end of June, and then at the same time,
categories of domestic goods that compete with imports saw price
increases of around two percent. So even if it's being
(09:02):
manufactured domestically, they're still raising prices because if their competitors'
prices are going up three percent, they can go up
two percent, make more profit, and still come in below
what their competitors are selling it, which is exactly what
was predicted. Domestic producers are raising prices because they can
(09:24):
it is interesting to hear and you will in a
moment some of the big wigs on Wall Street who
are saying, I mean, Trump is playing this really well.
This pattern is something that is predictable and people are
figuring it out right now. But how long can you
play this game? You're gonna find out just how long
(09:45):
you can play. And I want to hear more of whether
or not you've seen any of the tariffs or maybe
surcharges on your bills. When you hit that talkback button
on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on that app.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty, on to.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Chris Merril, KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app. It's always a pleasure
spending some time with you. The question that we asked
on our talk back tonight, have you noticed anything getting
more expensive in light of the tariffs? So I worked
with somebody during my real job, and I was asking
(10:22):
this question this week and she said she orders a
lot of like at leisure where and the stuff that
she's ordering, she is she's seeing like a tariff surcharge,
Like is showing up on the receipt itself.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I said, I haven't seen that. I haven't seen.
I haven't seen any actual like tariff charges.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Although I did Prime Day this week, Prime Days four
days now love. It spent way too much and it
didn't feel like I was getting those huge sales like
in the past. But also the dirty little secret with
Prime Days is that the sales kind of suck in general.
You know, you have to find the good sales because
they throw a lot of like old stuff at you
(11:00):
and then they're like, oh, I saved seventeen percent, and
then you realize if you look at the price history,
that's been the price for a long time, so it's
not really much of a sale, you know, so you
have to be a little bit careful with that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Anyway, that's the question.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Have you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of
the tariffs?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Hi, my name's William Rowan plan or talking to hear
from Richland, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hey, Cayla, you're from New Jersey. You know this guy
that's my friend? Oh, very good.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I haven't noticed any prices going up that I could
directly say, hey, that's terriff related. But I have noticed
prices go up yeah, thank you, take care.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Appreciate it. Yeah, that's uh. I think all of us have.
I think that's what's gonna end up happening. With the tariffs.
We're going to notice inflation, but the data hasn't shown
inflation really really ticking up at all. We're all still
feeling hangover from the inflation from the pandemic. And if
you want to blame Biden for that, that's fine. He's
not there anymore, that's fine. But we were still feeling
(11:59):
those effect and we thought, didn't we, I mean, were
kind of told on the campaign trail that Trump was
gonna bring those prices down. We're not really coming down,
but they're also not skyrocketing with this with the tariff stuff.
And there was one hundred billion dollars that went into
the general coffers in June alone because of tariffs. But
where the one hundred billion dollars come from. M came
(12:23):
out of somebody's pocket.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Love your show, I love you.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
I saw a big difference. Last week.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Pete coffee was only eight ninety nine.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
For a bag, okay, yay, So I bought three, and
then today I went in and it was.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Fourteen ninety nine a bag.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow, but Starbucks is back down to eight ninety nine.
What's up with that?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Curious?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm curious too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Also, you went to Pete's coffee price was eight ninety
nine a bag, You bought three bags and then you
had to go back to buy more bags this week.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
How much coffee do you drink? Good night?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You get the feeling if you have coffee with this
woman that it's just nothing but sludge in the bottom
of a a coffee cup. Like, how thick is that
coffee that she's making. She's going through three bags in
a week. Put a little hair on your chest, No kidding,
I have the shakes. Meanwhile, what is Wall Street thinking
(13:21):
about the tariffs? So the US equity strategist Mike Wilson
that's a made up term from Morgan Stanley says that
the markets are figuring out a little bit of this
pattern tariffs on, stockpile, tariff's off. Sell your stockpile because
the tariffs are going to come back on again. And
(13:41):
then you know, you know what I mean, Like he
announces the tariffs are going to start in thirty days,
which is kind of a wink wink. Fill your warehouses.
So everybody starts stockpiling, and then the tariffs are on
and then they sell the stockpiles, and then he goes okay,
now tariffs are off, and they go okay, now I
can buy stuff from overseasing it. So here's where the market. Oh,
(14:02):
here we go. All right, this is let me see.
Nathan Hager on Bloomberg's Daybreak was talking with his equity strategies.
It's starting to wake up to what could be coming
when it comes to trade.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Good morning, Nathan. Well, I would say.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
These guys sound a little bit down, feel like they
need to talk to that lady with the coffee.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Here we go again, you know, like we we kind
of know the pattern now. I mean this is President
Trump's style. He'll he goes hard and then he you know,
he doesn't come back off completely, but it's a it's
a back and forth. And that's his negotiating style.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
It's the old bat now where you put your stake
in the ground and aggressively and then you try to
negotiate something. And so the market has figured this out though,
and I think President Trump has figured it out too.
But what I've found interesting is that he'll come out
and do something. You know, it's perceived quite negatively, like overnight,
the market will go down a person and then he'll
(15:01):
you know, something will change and then the market will
go up two percent, you know. So it's like one
step back, two steps forward. Now, that's not going to
work forever. Eventually we have to get to some deals.
So yeah, you know, we're getting closer. I think, you know,
he's just trying to exert as much pressure as he
can to try and get some deals done before these deadlines.
These deadlines get pushed back, and that's that's a classic
(15:22):
negotiating style. So we'll see if it's successful.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But but what if it's not right because he does
this and then at some point the other countries start
to catch on and go, okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Play the game.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
You know, as you mentioned, the market seems to be
okay with it for now, and that you know, I
think as you're there's an article you mentioned, I think
it does embolden him to continue to go down this path.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Give it where the future's action is going this morning? Yeah,
the marketers here, what the president market? Now? Nobodys okay?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So fifty seven percent of companies say they're already experiencing
a tariff driven decline in their margins. As of May,
three quarters said the companies are considering price increases of
at least five percent in the next six months. So
if all of a sudden we have inflation that starts
jumping at five percent, Americans are not gonna like that,
not gonna be crazy about that, they say. Some accelerated
(16:16):
price increases could take hold as companies sell through warehouse
products and additional tariff proposals emerge, And some prices have
shown signs of possible tariff impact, like major appliances which
we get from Jane. Those are gone up four percent
from April to May. Bananas those are up three percent. Now,
you might not notice a three percent increase on your bananas.
(16:39):
Who's noticing an extra nickel? But all of a sudden,
when it's coffee and you're buying three bags a day
like this woman that we were talking to, you're gonna
start noticing when those things start jumping up a couple
bucks at a time. Now, is that gonna hold off
until this fall? Are we gonna have a marry Christmas?
(17:00):
Is everything gonna be fine come Christmas? Or are we
gonna start to feel it before then, because I gotta
tell you, if all of a sudden, your ratty kids
are not getting the little dollies that they want, famili
is not gonna be happy and they're gonna start demanding answers.
And that's when things are gonna get a little bit
uncomfortable in the Oval office. And if you're having trouble
buying all the greatest I don't know what's the hot toy,
(17:24):
no transformers, garbage pill kids, whatever they are, maybe you
ought to consider a little side hustle action. If you do,
you're not alone. In fact, you might be surprised just
how many people are working the side hustle. That is
next Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Chris
Merril KFI.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Undemanded anytime iHeartRadio app. YadA, YadA, YadA. So it's so funny.
We're just talking about prices and are we seeing prices
increase because of tariffs? And I just got an email
from Amazon. I have the subscribe and save you know
which is you know, so like my coffee comes every month,
the deodorant comes every couple of months, vitamins, that kind
of thing. And I just see, yep, my coffee just
(18:08):
went up a dollar. For my I just buy the
CA cups. It's like a pack of I don't know,
thirty or forty K cups. I just went up a dollar.
My deodorant just went up thirty cents. Yeah, just little
increases here and there. Are you feeling any increases in
light of all the different tariff announcements and generally most
(18:29):
of you were saying, haven't really seen anything specific to tariffs.
I wonder if there's going to come a time because
remember there was that rumor that Bezos was going to
start putting that on your Amazon receipt that you know,
this is your price, but this is your price now
with the tariff's surcharge. And then Trump got rumor of that,
and he flipped out, and then Bezos was like.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, no, no, no, I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Please.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So then he went and kissed the ring and everything
was fine. But at some point, do you think that
we're gonna start seeing that.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think we are.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I do I think there's gonna be companies there's gonna
be so much backlash. We're going, wait, why is my
coffee so expense? Why is my one a day vitamin
so expensive? And these companies are gonna go ain't us, man?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's not us?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I think at some point it is, but it's it's
viewed as being a political statement when you say, here's
your tariff charge. If you say here's the taxes, like
here's your bill and then here's your taxes, which the
United States is a little bit unique in that other
countries they just say here's your here's you know, price
on the shelf is the price to pay at the
register because the tax already figured into that.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But here it's like, you know, whatever your thing.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Is that you're buying is is ninety ninety nine and
then you get your your whatever it is eight nine
percent on top of that, once you get to the
cash register and it's broken down in your receipt, here's
your total. You know, here's your subtotal taxes, here's your
grand total.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But we're not doing that with the tariffs on things
that we order. A little bizarre.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You'd think that they would start saying, here's the price
of the goods, here's your taxes. Here's tariff, which is
another tax. But no, we're not gonna do that because
it's considered a political statement. All right, So are you
saying anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs.
If you are on the iheartradiop just click on that
talkback button and let us know.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I haven't really noticed the increase and price is prices
as far as like groceries, because I buy the almost
the same things every week from Amazon Fresh. Okay, and
prices have been pretty much the same, except for egg
prices that have seen to have gone down. But everything
else that I buy every week is just about the same.
So okay, nothing's gone up yet. I'm just worried about
(20:33):
tariffs from Mexico because that's where oreos come from. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh so true, Oh my gosh, nobody's giving up those oreos. Well, well,
i'll tell you unpopular opinion here. I think I like
the Hyde rocks better. Sorry, So what's getting more expensive
after the tariffs?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah? Everything? Oh they will, although that was before the tariffs.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Welcome to California.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah it's not just California, man, that's everywhere. Like we
were talking earlier about home prices, I've actually gone up
higher in other metros. Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami actually saw
higher increases, and we did in southern California, and even
higher than what they saw.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
As far as increases in the Bayer.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
It's not so much the price of goods that's been
going up. That's been fairly well controlled so far. It's
what this policy has done to the value of the dollar. Oh,
go take a look at what your dollars buying overseas.
It's a serious situation and it could change the monetary
(21:40):
standard to another currency.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But in the meantime, there's this thought that if the
value of the dollar drops, that means that our debt
isn't as bad as we thought, right, because we owe
thirty four trillion dollars, But now thirty four trillion dollars
is a little bit less compared to like the euro. YadA, YadA, YadA.
So let's just dance the macroeconomics people play.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Well, I just love Carrits.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh huh, calkeylor is this Donald Trump? Did we get
a talk back from President Trump?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I think we're that popular. It sounds about right. This
is him? Yeah, right. We think this is President Trump
leaving us a talk back here.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Okay, well I just loved carrits. Wow, and I want
to see more carrots. This is the president, but forget
about that. Okay, I'm talking to Dana and us he
and the White House.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Baby and oh yeah, UFC guy.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
What did July two thousand and six, twenty six?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, that's okay, Wow, that was President Trump he called us.
I mean he is friends with Ken or is Ita
White though? Whoever's on in the daytime?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh? John? Yeah, doesn't he call there all the time? Yeah? Probably,
Well he was on there once, but yeah, well that's
all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Fun, that's probably that's him. That's wow, that's crazy. That's awesome.
Although he did start to sound a little like Milton
from Office Space in the middle there. Maybe he has
a cold right here? Listen again, does this sound.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Like I'm talking to Dana and us he and the
White House baby?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And that's my stapler?
Speaker 10 (23:19):
What did god Eye two thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Bring the space down? Yeah, that's Shane Gillis right there.
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Meanwhile, if things do start getting more expensive, are you
cutting back or are you increasing your workload? Forget work
life balance. It's a job job balance. One in four
American adults have a side hustle. Wow, one and four
of a side hustle. I was thinking about this when
it comes to a side hustle, and I started asking
people around my my real job about side hustles, and
(23:55):
I was surprised so many people had a side hustle.
Then I realized, this show is my side hustle. In fact, Raoul,
this show is your side hustle.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes, it is, Kayla. I don't even know what Kayla does. Uh,
for a lot of us.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Is And I thought, you know, for some people, we
think of a side hustle as like the gig economy.
We think of like driving uber or you know, doing
door dash or something like that. But I think for
a lot of us, a side hustle is like a
hobby that we've monetized. So I started asking around my
office about side hustles, and one of the people I
(24:33):
work with says, well, yeah, I got a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I do that.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She does a craft shows on the weekend, so she
has like she makes her own crafts and things like that. Right,
she goes to all those different art fairs and stuff
like that. That's her side hustle. Buddy of mine sells
sports cards, so he buys them cheap when he can
find him. The price goes up and he speculates it
which ones are gonna be better or worse, and then
he sells him online. That's a side hustle. Doesn't make
(24:58):
a ton of money on it, but he does a
little bit. And I realized, Man, a lot of us
have a side hustle. We don't even think of as
being a side hustle, but we we'd really kind of
do that. In many cases, it's a it's a hobby
that we've turned into, you know, into a job. And
I think that's the key to a side hustle. The
key is minimum effort, maximum returns. Right, So what am
(25:19):
I doing anyway? And can I make money at it?
Or what is something that I can do for a
little bit of time and make.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
A ton of money? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
In Raoul's case, he's doing it backwards. You're spending a
lot of time and making a little money.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, why it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Hurts, right, truth hurts, man. But really, when you think
about this is just a good life philosophy. Minimum effort,
maximum returns. That's how I approach marriage. What's the least
amount I can do and keep my wife happy?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's really how This is really how you should approach life.
And this is how you should approach.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Your regular job.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What's the least amount of work I can do and
still get a raise when it comes to employee review time?
Think about this. Think about your exercise routine. Can't let
you exercise all the time. I know you're a gym rat.
You don't do a bunch of exercises that are just
a waste of energy. You want to have the best
results from your workout, right. That means you want to
(26:14):
have good form. You want to have the best results,
the most efficient exercises, minimum effort, maximum results. And if
you're putting in maximum effort, it better be super maximum results.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You're not just gonna waste your time at a bunch of
exercises that don't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Exactly, Up and be safe while you're doing them. Safe.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
That's how we should be approaching any gig economy stuff
or any side hustle stuff too. That's how you should
do it when it comes to getting that job. Though,
I will give gen Z credit because gen Z tends
to take credit for finding hacks that have been around,
and then they're like, oh, we found this hack.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh it's called quiet quitting.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Now it's called mailing it in minimum effort, maximum results.
It's not quiet quitting. It's just what we do.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'm quiet quitting now, and I'm not going to give
this company my all shut up.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But they did figure out this other hack that I've
been preaching for a very long time. Come to find
out I was just ahead of my time. I will
tell you what the key is to getting that job
that you have been looking for. Next, Chris Merrill. KFI
AM six forty were live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You know, Tim doesn't talk.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He always asks me when when when I'm doing, like
the show after him or the show before him? Right,
we have to talk. But I just loved him. I
love his show. I've always loved this show and I
think Tim is great. And I thought I thought I
saw him out I was out and about and I
thought I saw him, and I went, oh, my gosh,
is that Tim?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What do I say?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And obviously the answer is obviously ding dong But then
I thought, would he just avoid me like he does
all the.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Other times that I'm ever around? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Probably, Kayla. How come you haven't gotten me Tim's phone number?
Did he tell you not to give me his phone
number so I can text him? Am I on the
do not call Tim Conway Junior list killer.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Keller. Your silence is deafening. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Let you know the answer.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Do you know the answer? All right? The question?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Have you noticed anything getting more expensive in light of
the tariffs? If you are on the iHeart radio app,
just shit that talkback button and let us know the answer.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Have you seen anything going up in price?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
His tariff can be a problem. However, nobody seems to
yell and scream about all the taxes the fees of California,
puts one of us.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, we don't.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Have you guys noticed anybody yelling and screaming about California
prices or taxes anybody. No, nobody's complaining about that. Huh
h all right, interesting, But.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
God forbid you do a tariff that can have great
benefits in the future.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yell and scream because it is political.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And the ones who are yelling and screaming are people
who have you know Trump de arrangement syndrome. Oh but
nobody kicks and screams or yells about.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Uh about Oh yeah, is that thirty second time? Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I hate to disappoint you, but lots of people yelling
and screaming and kicking.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But also I'd like to just point.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Out these terrifs can be a problem.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That was your first thing.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
But then you said the only people complaining are the
people with Trump the arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So do you have it?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Why is it that you would complain about the taxes
California puts on you, but you wouldn't complain about the
taxes that the president puts on you. You see where
this is turning into like, no, no, no, they're the ones
that are the problem.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What if I'm gonna throw this out.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Here's the way I look at it. I don't like
paying more taxes anytime. I don't care if it's California
raising taxes for dumb crap like a bullet training nowhere,
or if it's a president raising taxes in order to
punish Brazil for uh punishing their.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Creepy former president. I don't want to pay more.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Can we all just agree that we don't want to
pay more, whether it comes from Trump or Newsome?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Can we do that?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Am I just speaking the nonsense? I'm sorry, sorry, all right,
gotta pick a side. Sorry, because I have tax derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
All right. Next up.
Speaker 11 (30:29):
The thing that's a bigger problem than the tariffs right
now is this whole thing on tips.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
This guy sounds familiar too, doesn't he. Yeah, listen, all right,
he says. The thing on tips is a bigger problem.
This guy sounds familiar.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
Tax on tips are really just tips in general.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Now there's something to this guy. Does he sound familiar?
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Yeah, but I'm not sure from where.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Let me see if I can figure this out. All right,
start it over here. Let's say, if we can just
listen again, see what we can figure out what this guy is.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
The thing that's a bigger problem than the tariffs right
now is just holding on tips. Tots on tips. They're
really just tips in general. Tipping someone for giving you
a cup of copy gs. You gotta tip the person
did if they're bringing you your beers, oh yeah, and
your other fancy food stuff like beef. Damn, I don't know.
(31:29):
I just want to be served.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
But yeah, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
So we had a we had a cult to night
from President Trump and from Sam Elliott.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So it's been a good night, pretty good night. What
are you having for dinner? Beef? What're having for dinner? Huh?
I'm having beef, very good. Uh. Credit to oo gen Z,
(32:02):
oh Man.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I hate to give them credit, but I'm gonna have
to the reason I and I'm not somebody that just
dogs on gen Z for the sake of dogging on
gen Z.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Every generation is different.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was like watching how some generations change, how they adapt,
the different languages, the difference.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know, it's all and that fascinates me.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But one thing that does irritate me about gen Z
is that they will take things that have been around
forever and then they will claim that they've discovered something new.
Quiet quitting or micro retirements is the latest thing. I
was in from Okelly this week and I brought this up.
The new gen Z Fast Company was reporting on gen
Z and their micro retirements where they work it out
(32:41):
so they take a week or two every twelve to
eighteen months and they don't work And I went, Wow,
what a brilliant idea. How come nobody else thought of that.
Oh yeah, it's called vacation. But gen Z they figured
out what vacations are. They called the micro retirements and
now they've changed the world. It's amazing gen Z has
(33:02):
saved us all.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But I will give gen Z credit for this.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
U survey data from career io career services platform revealing
that one in four job applications have lied or provided
inaccurate information when applying for job. Nearly half of gen
Z lies on their job applications. They also fib on
their resumes in order to land that job. Yes, yes, yes,
(33:33):
gen Z, thank you. I've been saying this all along. Lie,
what are you gonna do? Not hire you for the
job you don't have? Oh yeah, but what if they
do lie and then they fire me later? That would suck?
But then what then you got no job same place
you were when you.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Took the job in the first place.
Speaker 12 (33:52):
Have you have you seen the guy that's like, okay,
so here's what you do. You say you were the
president of best Buy and who is going to verify it?
You can't verify that. No, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's it.
Speaker 12 (34:04):
But the whole TikTok was about doing that and how
you do it and like it was real. It was
like a real suggestion.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Okay, I wouldn't do that. I did hear.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
There was a TikTok from a Farah chargie. She's a
job coach and she was talking about resuming lives. Here's
what she said. I wouldn't lie about being the president
of a major multinational corporation. But she did talk about
one little innocent white lie.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
You're asked about a gap in your resume, just tell
let me signed an nda. I'm kidding. Please don't do
that unless it's true.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Shut up, Okay, get to the real point.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Here's what you can do instead.
Speaker 13 (34:35):
Okay, First you need to realize that you don't have
to worry about the gap on your resume because that
resume got you an interview in front of that interviewer.
All right, here's how you can talk about it, and
I promise it's super easy.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (34:46):
If you had a gap because you went back to school,
got training, volunteered, or took a leave of absence to
learn and enricher knowledge, and talk about that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (34:55):
If you were laid off, tell them it's because the
company had mass layoffs. I'd be laid off three times
and yes, companies will understand that it's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
They love firing people.
Speaker 13 (35:05):
They get it for anything else, Tell them it was
for personal reasons. In the US, employers can't ask about
your marital or family status, and honestly, it's none of
their business.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
There you go, lie I got fired. No, don't tell
them I got fired. Tell them it was personal reasons.
Here are some things you can lie about. Why are
you looking for the job You're expected to lie? What
brings you to ARCA? What makes you think you'd be
a good fit here because you pay more. That's the truth.
Not out of ten times we're leaving one job, we're
(35:35):
doing it because the salary is a major factor. Now,
maybe you want to work somewhere else, maybe you don't
like the job you're at, whatever, But let's face it,
you're you're not taking the new job because it's gonna
pay you less and your life is gonna suck. So
you give them some other crap answer like I needed
a challenge, I want to be closer to my dying
child some other bs.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Right, that's what we say. You have to lie, But
also I don't know why people aren't doing this. Always
lie about your references always lie.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Employers check your references, and they always say, put out
a reference of someone that you've known for more than
two years. Well, who's double checking it out that you've
known somebody for two years? So one just go find
somebody that will, you know, spin a good yarn or
even better.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yet, they don't check.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I mean, they will check your references, but they don't
check on your references. So I worked with a guy
who was an actor, right, I think it's some minor
roles in some a few films and a couple of
national commercials. And for a lot of you that have
your head shots, you probably do the same thing. You've
got your one sheet whatever, right, and then on the
back of your you know, the back of your headshot,
he just had a bunch of directors that he made up.
He just claimed you worked with all these different directors.
(36:40):
He's just made up names. Nobody ever checked on that stuff.
Here's padding, no harm, no foul. Consider this. What if
you are your own reference, you just make up the
name and then give them your phone number, even if
you have to have like a spoof phone number that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That forwards to your phone.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
You see something coming in from you know, strange number
your company and you just go.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Hi, Hi, this is Kayla. Oh Chris, Oh he's the
great guy. I really think you should hire him.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Done, be your own, be your own reference. How come
an nobody else does this? Also, I have been known
to make up awards another like awards and accomplishments. I've
made these up before, so like on my resume at
(37:29):
one point I said that I was a Davis Award
winner for Radio Show.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Of the Year. What's a Davis Award? There is no
Davis Award, completely made up. What are they gonna do.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
They're like, oh, Davis Award high I'm not familiar with that.
Oh it's a little known publication that's not in business anymore.
And they're like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now if I lie and I say I'm in the
Radio Hall of Fame, well somebody can double check on that.
That's easy to verify. Right, You don't do that, but
you go, oh, you want the Davis Award. That sounds cool,
sounds legit. It's not what you do, all right, the
news from Tinseltown of beyond. There's no business like show business.
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