Breastfeeding SS agent & price controls (08-15-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I am a masochist, I'm going to talk with Winston again. Hello, Winston.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Good afternoon. Hey, Trump, he's the ringmaster like in a circus. It's astonishing. I can't, like I said yesterday, I'm not voting for him. And I've actually dropped my price on the autographed yard sign. But anyway, I wanted to ask, did he put the, did he, he seems to be slurring a little bit. Did he put the polygrip in yesterday to lock those dentures down?

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I was not, I was not backstage with him prior to the event to monitor his, his oral hygiene.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: His health habits? Oh, okay.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. I don't know if he wears dentures. I don't believe he does actually, but.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you hear him the other night with Musk on the interview? He's slurring. Like maybe he had, he was hitting the, the Chivas Regal or whatever they drink down there, Mar-a-Lago.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He actually doesn't drink alcohol.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_02]: So that, we let down that, hey, you know, I did want to talk about RFK Jr. I read it.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is that what you called it? Okay.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_02]: The Atlantic Magazine. And I guess, no, it was a guardian. It was a guardian. And the editor was talking about RFK Jr. and this incident with the bear cub.

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, did you talk about the bear cub? The bear cub, I guess he was driving in the country and he came across a cub that was hit from a preceding car ahead of him.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So he would do the noble thing to do. He pulled over, picked up the cub. He said, well, the cub's dead now. I'll go ahead and utilize it.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll take it home and I'll, I'll save the skin and I'll go ahead and save the meat, put it in the freezer.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, they, they, they turned that into RFK Jr. He was driving around looking for roadkill to feed his family.

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, he may not have been, he may not have been driving around looking for roadkill, but if you happen upon some roadkill.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. Okay. Well, he was exposed. Well, evidently he put the cub in his car and went back into the city, into New York City.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He did not, right. And then he forgot it was in the trunk of his car. So then he couldn't very well carve up its, its carcass and feed his family.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He, he, he got, he had an engagement to go to the steakhouse and he, and things, one thing to another, and he had to go out of time.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_02]: He said, I got this bear in the car.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I just said.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: If I don't get it out of the car, my car's going to be nasty next week when I pick it up at the airport.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So he said, I'll go ahead and drop it off in Central Park and sit a bicycle next to it.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_02]: So he did the crime setup. So the next day, the cops get a call. There's a dead cub down in Central Park. What's going on here?

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess he kept it.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we circling a point? Are we like, are we getting close to like a point here?

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. I think, you know, maybe what do you think as far as him, him dropping? Do you think he should have dropped the bear?

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think he should have done with the cub in the first place? Should he never stop and pick the cub up? I'm going to ask you that.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, correct.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Just drive by.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, correct.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. Keep tooling down the highway.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. Right. Yeah. Whatever other way you want to say it. Yeah. You shouldn't be picking up roadkill and putting it in your car.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It was fresh roadkill.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter. Right. And it doesn't matter.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially if you have an engagement in the city. Right. Especially if you have an engagement in the city.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first thing. I would not have picked up the roadkill.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Second, then, is after you have taken it all the way into the city and then have it sit in your trunk for too long and now you can't use it.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you also should not stage some sort of bicycle hit and run thing.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But I will say it is pretty on brand for a Kennedy.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you something. Let me... Don't you think a prized pelt of a nice cubby bear laying in front of the fireplace on that cold December evening?

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_02]: He was thinking about that.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, that's the way a genius thinks.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, okay.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you are entitled to that opinion. I don't know how many people are going to share that.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But even so, I still don't think you stage a crime scene with the carcass.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I did see this news bleep last night on MSNBC about he contacted the Harris campaign talking about possibly a position.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it was disinformation or what, but he is on all the ballots.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't think that's accurate?

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, he was on the night before on Fox News with Sean Hannity, and he said if he gets in a debate, he's going to win.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. That's not answering my question.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that the story, you called it disinformation, so you think that that is not true, that he did not approach the Harris campaign to see about dropping out in order in exchange for a cabinet post?

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think he's throwing the hook at CFO bite.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so the story is true.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so what's the problem?

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think he's just playing strategy.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's a multidimensional chessboard, maybe four levels.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: What was Trump?

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump, I think Trump is cracking up.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, but Trump was always...

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump checkers. He's just straight up.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Was he always playing checkers, and you just thought maybe he was playing multidimensional chess?

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He never did.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He never did?

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You never thought that he was, like when you voted for him and got his signature on your yard sign, and you thought he was the bee's knees, the...

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I almost got into a fight down in Rock Hill, because when I went through the exit line, a woman started stepping on my foot to get in front of me.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_02]: She said, can I get in front of you?

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I said, no, I'm here first.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And she started, took her high heels and started jamming my toes.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how I could...

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_02]: I got mental, you know...

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, maybe I shouldn't sell the sign.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: No, we're...

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we kind of suspect it.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the call, Winston.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I think.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Doug.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Doug.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the program.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that Winston's something else, but after about five minutes of my life, I'll never get back.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk about...

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_03]: You there?

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I heard the other day that our national oil reserves are about wiped out.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Did I hear that right?

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's draining them again, trying to keep the prices down.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's my thing on inflation, because we got a war about to break out.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Who do we buy our oil from?

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Trump talked a little bit about this yesterday in Asheville, and I was not aware of this.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He said that we're getting tar from Venezuela, or as he says it, Venezuela.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're...

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a plant in Texas, I think he said, that converts it into gasoline.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like the only one in the world or the only one in America or whatever.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But, yeah, we are not energy independent, which is...

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and he made a mention of that, that we were...

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: By the time he was done, we were energy independent.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where...

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's where we need to get back to.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I completely agree, by the way.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: If Kamala Harris came out and said that that was part of her plan, too, I would support

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: that aspect of her plan as well.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you have to be energy independent precisely for the reason you just mentioned.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's what I don't understand why Joe shut the pipeline down as soon as he got in office.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_03]: But this is my point.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know why he shut it down, right?

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_03]: To raise the price.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't...

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a sharper stool in the shade and all the political, but this is my point right here.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_03]: If we don't have no oil and that war is about to break out, well, do you think our gas prices

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_03]: are going to stay like they are?

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_03]: No, they're going to go sky high.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_03]: And what follows gas prices?

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Inflation, because it costs more to get the goods to the stores.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything goes up.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The price of...

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: When energy prices go up, the price of all goods and services go up because of that exact

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: thing.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that you buy comes off a truck.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_03]: So if this war breaks out, we're looking at paying way more for gas.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And these people that want to vote for Kamala ought to realize this.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_03]: They've done this.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: No, they...

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's the same answer, though.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So to the question of why would he shut down the Keystone pipeline?

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It's for...

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Because the environmentalists oppose it.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Environmentalists, they want gas prices to go up.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They need the gas prices to go up so other sources become more price competitive.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the whole reason.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a...

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's an environmentalist play for part of his base.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So, Doug, I appreciate the call.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You're exactly right.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I did get a link to this post on the Twitter machine.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So thanks.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw it earlier.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Susan Crabtree, she is a reporter for Real Clear Politics, the national political correspondent.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And she has this exclusive story.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: She posted it up on Twitter.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: During a Donald Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: abandoned her post to breastfeed.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm just reading the report.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: She had no permission or warning to the event site agent, according to three sources in the

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Secret Service community.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Shortly before Trump's motorcade arrival, about five minutes beforehand, she is told, the site

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: agent was getting ready for the arrival.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The site agent is the person in charge of the entire event security.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breastfeeding

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: her child in a room that's supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe this classifies, right?

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this is a Secret Service official work.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the rules are at the Secret Service.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know if anybody does anymore.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, supposedly this room is supposed to be a potential, you know, for any kind of emergencies

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_00]: related to the former president.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: What kind of draconian rules are these?

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't bring kids with me when I'm going to fling myself in front of a bullet to protect

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: a president?

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00]: What?

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: What's with all the rules, man?

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The woman was out of the Atlanta field office.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The woman agent was in the room with two other family members.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so, okay.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So she brought other people too.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: She brought two family members and the baby.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The agent and her family members bypassed the uniform division checkpoint and were escorted

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Unpinned means they had not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: When contacted about the incident, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who is a liar,

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: said the incident did not have an impact on the event and it is under review.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, while there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of the incident

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: are being examined.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those stories, after all of the other stories, it makes me wonder how many

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: eyes does the Secret Service have to be blackened, right?

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: At some point, like, I think we're working at body blows now.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're working the body, right?

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: We've given them enough black eyes or they've given themselves enough black eyes.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's just a, like, you got to start moving off of the face here, people.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, let's get some kidney punches in, you know?

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're legal.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Good Lord.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Vice President Harris tomorrow is going to outline a series of economic policy proposals

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: as part of her presidential campaign, including a call for a federal ban on corporate price

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: gouging.

[00:13:37] Okay.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_00]: First off, there's no such thing.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: There is no such thing as price gouging.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: What I choose to charge for my product, you don't have to pay.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to pay.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're going to go after me for price fixing or something where I'm colluding with

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: other competitors in order to corrupt the market, right, that's a different thing.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not price gouging, right?

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_00]: For example, let's use the chainsaw example after a tornado or a hurricane, right?

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: If I am outside of the hurricane zone or even if I live there and prior to the hurricane

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: landing, I think, you know what?

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go buy a bunch of chainsaws and I'm going to have them at the ready so this

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: way I can sell them at a markup after the hurricane lands.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And people will be wanting to buy the chainsaws.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll pay more money for them because they're not going to be able to get to the store because

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: all the roads are closed because of all of the fallen trees.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So I go out and I buy a bunch of the chainsaws and then I mark them up by 100, 200, 500%,

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: whatever it is.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that price gouging?

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it is not.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I have made the investment up front and I'm taking all the risk because what happens

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: if the storm doesn't hit?

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: What happens if the storm doesn't knock down enough trees?

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: What happens if I charge too much money and people don't buy them?

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm stuck with a bunch of chainsaws.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That would then send the signal.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: People don't want the chainsaws or they don't need them.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And so therefore I would start what?

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Lowering the prices.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how the signals work.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the market.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: So now we're going to have price controls on food.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what the Democrat presidential candidate is talking about.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Price controls.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Like right out of the Soviet Union.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So the Hill dot com reporting on Kamala Harris's plan to call for a federal ban on corporate price gouging.

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_00]: In her remarks tomorrow that she plans to make in Raleigh.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to focus on lowering the cost of groceries.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This is how she's going to fight inflation.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: She's going to put price controls.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Rather than rather than reducing spending or cutting regulations.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's Magonomics.

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, it's going to be Kamala-nomics.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And she's going to put price controls in place.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: More government, which always reduces the price.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, nothing.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The vice president will say that soaring meat prices in particular have contributed to a spike in grocery bills.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And she will call out corporate consolidation in the market.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I believe that this pitch of Harris's will probably work because people are dumb.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's probably a good it's a good pitch.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: People are dumb.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember about the price of fertilizer going up about a year ago?

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that?

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, like, was it the.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the ingredients and stuff that's part of the the fertilizer, but also the feed.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Transportation costs went up.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And so all of that stuff takes a while to work its way through these industries because these are, you know, livestock.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And you got to you got to grow them fat and then you slaughter them.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And it takes a while for that sort of process to play out.

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And so people were talking about meat prices going through the roof.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to say it was like two years ago.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This like we're so we're seeing the results of the policies and the spending that Harris did.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: At the from the beginning of the administration.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The Harris campaign said that she will outline a plan for her first 100 days in office if elected that would lay out a federal ban on price gouging, making clear that large companies cannot exploit consumers to increase profits.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: By how much?

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: What is the allowable profit margin?

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And why is government?

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Allowed or what kind of expertise do these bureaucrats have to set the prices?

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what we're talking about.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You're when you say we are going to limit the profit margin, not the profit, but the profit margin.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what we're talking about when you can't just say profits.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You're talking about profit margin because it's got to be the difference between expenses that you have to pay out and the reinvestment for equipment and that sort of thing.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you've got your the margin between the expenses and the the revenue.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's your margin.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So what's the what's the acceptable number?

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a percentage?

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You're only allowed to make what three percent, two percent, five percent.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: What's gouging?

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_00]: What's the percentage number that's that takes you from not gouging to gouging?

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Because like I could look at a whole bunch of products that have huge profit margins.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You ever watch Shark Tank?

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of the big things they were always asking about.

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: What are your profit margins?

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And in some industries, the profit margin, like, do you know what the margins are?

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: On like soda.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Holy cow.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, especially if you're buying if you buy a.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Happy meal.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The price of that soda at a fast food joint.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's basically all cup.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like pennies.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Ten cents or something for the cost of that.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they charge you.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Two bucks, three bucks, whatever it is now.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't go to fast food joints anymore, but.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what is that markup gouging?

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, you're telling everybody how much are all these companies, how much they have to pay everybody to.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: At what point are you actually running the building?

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You fascist, because that's what fascism is.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: This is economic fascism where, OK, you can own the company, but we're going to dictate all of the all of the regulation through regulations.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to dictate how you operate your business.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So you have this sort of veneer of free market capitalism.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But behind the scenes, it's fascism.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's a command control economy.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're just we're just not going to be overt.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to seize the company and control it.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: No, we're going to let you run it.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But then you're going to have to abide by all of our rules to the point where how much money you make will be determined by us.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And us has no experience doing that work.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Like are these like so Kamala Harris, who has never worked in her professional life in the private sector ever.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And we are to believe that she knows what the profit margins should be in the meat industry.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, you want to talk about an industry that fluctuates like like.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It is it is bonkers, bonkers for this woman to think that she knows what is an acceptable profit margin for an industry that is like, for example, what happens when avian flu sweeps through the chicken population?

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: You got to slaughter the herds and stuff or the flocks, I guess.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: When it becomes too expensive to feed your herd and then you have to slaughter the herd.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And initially the prices go down because there's so much meat on the market.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But then they're not it's not getting replaced.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the prices go up, which is what we have had.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why meat is more expensive now.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the reasons.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, think about the economic.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Stupidity or illiteracy required to come up with this idea.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But we shouldn't be surprised because Democrats do this kind of garbage all the time with their price gouging laws.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Josh Stein running for governor.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He does it just like his predecessor.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: My good friend Ray Cooper did as attorney general.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking out for the people.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Because people hear price gouging and oh, that's wrong.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That's evil.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody can tell you what the number is.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like arguing about teacher pay, you know, or per pupil expenditures in the education sphere.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, OK, well, what's the what's the optimal per pupil expenditure?

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: What's the number?

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Give me a number that we have to spend to educate every kid every year in order for every kid to be at grade level.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: What's the number?

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And they never have a number.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always more.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Always more.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Price controls.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's only attractive to the economic illiterate and it's promoted by the stupid.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris is going to draw upon all of her expertise and knowledge that she acquired during her zero experience in the private sector in order to set prices for meat, in order to bring down the prices of groceries.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Because meat is in everything, apparently.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how much she knows about the meat industry and groceries in general.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill, welcome to the program.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Bill.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Pete.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: How are you?

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I'm good, man.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: What's up?

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Just listening to you talk about all the food prices and stuff.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I would hope everybody across the nation will point out how they are the ones that's driven up the cost of everything through, number one, fuel, which affects everything that's made and or shipped or transported.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, and the meat industry itself, right?

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, moving cattle around and stuff, the equipment necessary to make those ranches work.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's in everything.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, talking about fertilizer.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a big plant in Winston-Salem, what, two years ago, maybe three, burnt to the ground.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, massive producer of fertilizer.

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Big train in Canada derailed a couple years ago.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the only two I can think of right off the top of my head.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_01]: But then their attack on cattle, farmers planted, I think, two years ago, 23 million less acres of food than the year before because they couldn't afford to fertilize.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I believe it.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And I heard like two weeks ago from a friend who has cows that we are at the lowest number of head of cattle in this country than it's been in like 40 years.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it, too.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's I mean, everything they've done has caused this increase.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And talking about, you know, controlling prices, that's very much Venezuela.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Maduro setting price controls on what people could sell food for, which they couldn't even produce it for that amount.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So they just went out of business.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So there was less food, period.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the fatal conceit of the central planner.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That they think that if they just say it into existence, it will exist.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: People won't do it.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: People won't like people will not take risks when the potential profit is minimal, if any at all.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: If you can't make profit doing something, you're not going to do it.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they're going to lament.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we don't have any we don't have any meat.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, maybe that's the whole point.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they don't want there to be any more meat.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Cow farts, you know, destroying the planet and all.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe they want everybody to eat bugs.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, therefore, like this is part of the plan.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But like this is just this is like this is not even high.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: This is junior high kind of economic idea.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's just asinine.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think those kind of things need to be pointed out to the public as much as we can about fertilizer, farmers, food, you know, cost of shipping, fuel costs.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, fuel touches everything.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it's just I don't see an end in sight unless there's some massive changes.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I think was it Warren C.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Warren Harding, 1920, when he was elected president, he fired like 50 percent of the federal workers.

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: That I that I don't know.

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think there's a more current example.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Just look at what the guy Millay is doing down in Argentina.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, inflation has now been tamed down there.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And the his his economy is roaring because he did that very thing.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He came in and just started just deleting entire portions of the of the national government.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's what it's going to take at this point.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill, I do appreciate the call.

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to hear from you.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: A couple of messages here.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Bob said this is shades of Nixon from 73.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: How did that work out?

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Which was also before my time.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: So John follows that point, though, and says, if I'm not mistaken, didn't we have price controls early on under the Nixon administration?

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's when they started creating all these different types of cuts of beef.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And then eventually it was done away with.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's interesting.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah.

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And these companies are going to find ways to try to maintain profits.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, you're going to end up with smaller cuts or different cuts.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to end up with different kinds of fish products like for I've told this story before Chilean sea bass.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That's price gouging.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That thing is called the Patagonian toothfish.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the real name of that fish.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: The Patagonian toothfish.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But nobody wants to spend $30 or $40 on a toothfish.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It sounds gross.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So they just marketed it as the Chilean sea bass.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Because when you chop off its toothy face.

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it has tooth.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But when you chop it off and grill it up or whatever and you skin it, it looks just like any other piece of fish.

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So you just give it a different name and boom.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I think the same thing happened with tilapia.

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, nobody ate tilapia.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never heard of a tilapia.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_00]: All I heard of was fish sticks and trout.

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd heard of trout.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew says, her price gouging plan sounds like the book I'm reading.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Atlas shrugged.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I encourage everybody to read it or listen to it on the books, the audio books.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Atlas shrugged.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_00]: All this time, I thought it was a warning.

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, some people have been reading it as a blueprint.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris will say tomorrow in Raleigh that her administration would crack down on unfair mergers and acquisitions that further consolidate the market,

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_00]: giving a small number of corporations the ability to increase prices.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris's remarks in Raleigh will, in some ways, echo actions and rhetoric from President Biden early in his term when he sought to crack down on meat processing conglomerates responsible for higher prices.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_00]: This is, again, thehill.com.

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Friday's speech will mark the first time Harris will deliver a policy-focused speech since she launched her campaign after pulling off the coup against her boss.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_00]: She has faced criticism from the Trump campaign and other Republicans.

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_00]: for failing thus far to offer a substantive platform.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Note the framing of that.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_00]: She's faced criticism for not offering a substantive platform.

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_00]: All those evil Republicans, all those meanies noticing that she is vapid.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: She's got no platform.

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, I can't blame her.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_00]: If she doesn't have to, why should she?

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_00]: When you define, you divide.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So right now, she's going to ride the crest of glowing media coverage.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's working so far.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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