1 00:00:01,399 --> 00:00:43,719 It's a great storm and I don't know it. Welcome everybody, here we 2 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:48,280 go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live 3 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,240 from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious 4 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,799 downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, 5 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,560 and hello to all of our online listeners across an age and around the 6 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,399 globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of 7 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:06,799 your live streaming options, social media links, contact in folk show archives, 8 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:11,599 etc. Etc. Today is Tuesday, May sixteen, two thousand twenty three. 9 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,120 We have an exciting show for you today coming up in a just a 10 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,640 few minutes. Hopefully it works out. The last time we had an international 11 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:25,159 guest, there was a little bit of a technical kerfuffle, but it did 12 00:01:25,159 --> 00:01:29,879 get figured out using Skype, so we hope for the best. But we 13 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,359 have another European who's gonna be skyping in, our new friend, Yuri from 14 00:01:34,359 --> 00:01:38,040 the band oberdon Or. I'm sorry, Oberon. I keep wanting to put 15 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:41,920 a d in there that's not there. It's Oberon. He's gonna be skyping 16 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,120 in at four or fifteen from Italy, and we'll talk with him for a 17 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:49,040 bit. Really like his music. We played a couple of his songs yesterday. 18 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,640 In fact, yesterday I opened the show with a song called Time to 19 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,959 Sleep Part one, and the one that you just heard was Time to Sleep 20 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,680 Part two. I feared that would be an appropriate opener for today, and 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 we'll play something else of his later as well. So he's gonna be joining 22 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:07,080 us again. Good Lord William and the creek sn't rise. That's an expression 23 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:13,639 I've heard, So that'll be uh coming up at four fifteen. And then 24 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:16,800 in the second hour today, we're going to be joined in studio by Steve 25 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:24,759 Laughey, who is a a Republican presidential candidate, one you might not have 26 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,960 heard of. You know, we hear about you know, we hear about 27 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,560 Donald Trump, and we hear about Ron DeSantis and some others. But Steve 28 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:38,840 Laughey, he's a former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, and he's gonna 29 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:42,479 be joining us in studio today and we'll talk with him. He also used 30 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:45,879 to host a radio show, so I'm interested in asking him about that as 31 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:51,919 well. But so busy show today, lots lots to do, but I 32 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,800 also want to mention too. Jenny is in the chat room and says shalom 33 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:59,280 peeps from Washington, d C. Yes, Jenny is in Washington, d 34 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,319 C. Right now. She landed there safely, and we'll be testifying later 35 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,960 today. I think it's gonna she said. It's supposed to stream on the 36 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:15,800 official Senator Bernie Sanders facebook page. She's gonna testify in the for the or 37 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,080 give her a presentation or speech, which she did rehearse and I think it's 38 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,280 excellent. So I think I know she's gonna do great and I can't wait 39 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,680 to see the video. But that will be happening this evening and then so 40 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,120 she'll be flying back tomorrow. She's gonna stay in Washington, DC overnight. 41 00:03:29,479 --> 00:03:31,879 So very proud of her. She's doing a great job, great work that 42 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:37,560 she's doing. So I can't wait to hear all about her trip, that's 43 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:40,159 for sure. So great weather for it, at least it is here, 44 00:03:40,159 --> 00:03:45,120 although here it looks like it could there could be thunderstorms. I don't know, 45 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:47,199 but so far the weather has been nice, little humid, but I 46 00:03:47,199 --> 00:03:51,039 don't mind it. I don't mind it at all. So anyway, so 47 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,280 we have a couple of great guests coming up today on the program. Let's 48 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:58,479 go ahead and say hello everybody quickly. In the Facebook live chat, Jenny, 49 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,199 I did mention, is in there. Also our friend Melanie Liberty from 50 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:06,199 the great state of Vermont joins us. Also Jay Fed, also from Vermont 51 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:12,719 joins us. And Ronda Favero all the way from California says greetings, Hello 52 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,720 Ronda. Melanie says good luck Jenny, and Jay Fed says great job. 53 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:24,800 Jen Coffee. Yes, absolutely absolutely we should mention today too. So their 54 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:30,879 meeting again today for a debt limit discussion, and it looks like Biden is 55 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:36,519 going to be cutting his trip a little bit short overseas. We'll know more, 56 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,600 I mean, honestly, we'll probably know before the show is over today. 57 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,879 You know, if you remember the last time that they met, it 58 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,759 was a relatively brief meeting. I think it was over before the end of 59 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:54,680 the show, and I'm concerned that today might be similar. I would really 60 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,399 like to see them get this done. I did see this pop up on 61 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:06,839 Political Centrist Democrats are plotting to a save McCarthy strategy for the debt limit if 62 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:12,120 the Speaker cuts a deal that alienates conservatives, some Democrats are willing to help 63 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,079 save his gavel. Now this is interesting. It says here, Kevin McCarthy 64 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:19,000 faces a clear challenge as he tries to strike a debt limit deal, and 65 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:25,639 he compromise he makes with President Joe Biden risks sparking a conservative rebellion aimed at 66 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,759 ending his speakership. Remember part of what uh you know, the deal that 67 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,160 McCarthy had to make. So finally, on the I think the fifteenth attempt 68 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,600 he could get enough votes to make him speaker. He had to really give 69 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:45,920 away quite a bit. And I think it only takes uh did it get 70 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,319 down to one in the final deal? I think it only takes one Republican 71 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:59,160 congressman to call for a vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. So 72 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:01,399 it says here some Democrats have a plan to spare him. And why would 73 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:04,079 they do that? Of course, well to get the debt limit raised. 74 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,319 You know, if you can get I mean this is this would be kind 75 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,160 of an end run around the you know, they used to be the Tea 76 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:15,519 Partiers. Now we call them the House Freedom Caucus. The Republican members of 77 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,480 Congress who either want very deep cuts in the budget before they'll agree to a 78 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:26,600 debt limit raising, or they would rather just say a default, you know, 79 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:30,560 which apparently is a former President Trump's position, as he discussed in the 80 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,759 CNN town hall, might as well default, which I think is insane. 81 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:41,600 So it says you're a small group of moderate Democratic lawmakers have quietly reassured its 82 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,720 House GOP counterparts that it can help protect McCarthy's gavel if his right flank revolts 83 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,959 over a debt agreement. According to two people familiar with the discussions, if 84 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,560 Conservatives responded to a McCarthy Biden deal by forcing a full House vote on ousting, 85 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,160 the California Republican Democrats say they have enough members to help block it, 86 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,920 keeping him in power quote will protect him if he does the right thing, 87 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:13,079 said one of the House Democrats involved in the talks, who requested anonymity because 88 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,680 of the ongoing debt negotiations. That democrat added that McCarthy himself has been briefed 89 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,399 on the discussions. It's a polarizing strategy for those centrists to entertain and private 90 00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:29,279 with other Democrats, let alone admit to planning to deploy and senior Republicans dismiss 91 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,319 the likelihood the gambit would come to pass. That's because it's not clear that 92 00:07:32,399 --> 00:07:35,920 Conservatives would try to depose a speaker even if he edges away from the position 93 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,120 he's staked out on the debt limit, and should they try to. Republicans 94 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:47,480 from McCarthy's camp on down insist there can be no Democratic bailout. Well, 95 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,600 ultimately, he'll do what he has to do to hang on to his disposition 96 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:58,519 as Speaker. McCarthy's spokesperson Mark Bednar said in a statement, quote, the 97 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,839 Speaker has never heard of this garbage, has zero interests in it, and 98 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:05,480 thinks Democrats would be better off focusing on doing the jobs they were elected to 99 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,199 do. Unquote. Well, of course he has to say that, because 100 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:11,959 even if, even if there have been discussions, even if even if there 101 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:18,800 have been discussions directly with McCarthy himself, he can't admit that right when some 102 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:26,000 Democrats floated a similar offer to then Speaker John Bayner in twenty thirteen, similar 103 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:30,839 during a similar fiscal fight with the GOP. Within the GOP, he later 104 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:35,519 decided to resign rather than lean on his opponents to keep the gavel. However, 105 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,799 its potential insurance for McCarthy and a sign of the growing sense of desperation 106 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,799 on the Hill as the White House and congressional leaders raced toward a debt I'm 107 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,000 sorry, I race toward a deal to avert an an economy rattling debt crisis 108 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,159 in the coming weeks. Those who revealed the conversations on condition of anonymity declined 109 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,559 to name who's leading them, But chatter about the protect McCarthy idea is growing 110 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:09,399 across the Democratic Caucus, and it's perhaps the loudest in the bipartisan problem Solvers 111 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:18,519 Caucus. Well, that absolutely makes sense, and it's okay, so Democrats 112 00:09:18,519 --> 00:09:22,639 in the problem solvers And if you don't know the Problem Solvers Caucus is a 113 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:28,519 bipartisan well I guess actually, well, I guess it's it's actually House members. 114 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:33,399 I'm sorry. You know, uh, Whenever, whenever Republicans and Democrats 115 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,360 do work together in a bipartisan fashion and some sort of official or quasi official 116 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,360 capacity, it has to have a name. Very often it's referred to as 117 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,639 a gang of something like there was the Gang of six, the Gang of 118 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,519 eight, the Problem Solvers Caucus. I think it's a good thing. You 119 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,080 know, you want to have you want to have people working together to solve 120 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,720 problems. Imagine that Democrats in the Problem Solvers Caucus, which has a reputation 121 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,120 for attempting to back channel during high level talks, are specifically looking to counterbalance 122 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:07,960 the influence of the roughly forty ultraconservative Republicans in the Freedom Caucus with their own 123 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,440 members forty of them by the way, forty ultraconservative Republicans and the Freedom Caucus. 124 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,240 So that's a lot of people who either think we should go ahead and 125 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:20,080 default, and that is the stated position of some of them, hopefully not 126 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,799 many of them, but who either think we should default or we need deep, 127 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:31,679 deep cuts in the budget. The group includes thirty two Democrats. Not 128 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:35,720 all of them are involved in the talks about backing McCarthy on a so called 129 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:41,039 motion to vacate the speakership, but their numbers are nearly enough to neuter the 130 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,960 threat from the right. Members of the Problem Solvers have privately discussed the idea 131 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,159 for months, though conversations have become less theoretical as debt talks advanced in recent 132 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:56,039 days, according to both people involved in the conversations, Even outside of that 133 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:03,039 moderate group, however, senior Democrats have also been floated the protect McCarthy idea, 134 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:07,559 even raising it for party leaders, according to three other people familiar with 135 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,320 those conversations, and they said some Democrats have suggested the House Minority Leader Hakim 136 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:18,000 Jeffries that he used it as leverage over the speaker in the debt negotiations. 137 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:22,039 Jeffries insisted that any game planning for a potential GOP move to topple McCarthy should 138 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:26,639 play no part in the debt debate. Quote. No, I don't think 139 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:28,919 that the two are connected at all, unquote he said in a brief interview. 140 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:33,440 Well again, though, even if he knows about it and he thinks 141 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,399 it's a good idea, he can't say that. No one can say anything 142 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:39,000 out loud about this until it happens, or the whole thing will blow up. 143 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:43,600 Hello to DJ Steve, who joins us in the Facebook live chat. 144 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:50,759 And Melanie made a comment that I can't read on the air, but let's 145 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:56,759 just say she sounds like she thinks Kevin McCarthy is in a big heap of 146 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:03,080 trouble. I think the young people say that heap of trouble. It says 147 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:07,039 here, and Republicans are already rejecting the notion of a Democratic salvage mission for 148 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:13,679 McCarthy. Should he and Biden an ink pact that alienates conservatives. Representative Chip 149 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,240 Roy, Republican of Texas, who, by the way, was one of 150 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:22,240 the early early members of early Republicans in Congress to come out and endorse Ron 151 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,960 de Santis to over Trump. He got out, He got out there early 152 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,360 and did that. He's an interesting guy, Chip Roy. He said, 153 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,000 quote, we're not talking about all that stuff. Republicans remain united. We're 154 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:41,960 not going to negotiate against ourselves. Unquote. Melanie in the chat room says, 155 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,720 thanks, Matt. I thought big heap of trouble would be inappropriate to 156 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:48,960 say in the chat I hate to be inappropriate in here, I know, 157 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,279 Melanie. Yes, you can say big heap of trouble, big heap of 158 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:56,799 trouble. Just don't as long as you don't say it in an aggressive tone, 159 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,320 because then people get nervous. They're like, oh, when you say 160 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,879 big heap of trouble, is that directed at me? I'm gonna have a 161 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:07,440 big heap of trouble. Nobody wants a big heap of trouble. Whether it's 162 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,600 a big heap of small heap of heaping helping. Nobody wants trouble, Uri, 163 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:16,320 is that you? Sorry? Yeah, of course, oh but there 164 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:20,559 is I think that there isn't the video for you. Yeah, there's no 165 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:26,240 video. We're strictly audio with this. Okay, sorry, okay, Yeah, 166 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,320 no worries. Hey, I'm just glad we were able to connect. 167 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:31,799 Sometimes, uh, when it's uh, when we're crossing continents with Skype, 168 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,679 it doesn't always work on the first try. We had a band uh skype 169 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,919 in from Germany a couple of weeks ago, and uh it took a few 170 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,639 times to get it to work. So that happens. But uh, yeah, 171 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:48,120 but I'm happy. I'm happy to talk to you. We featured some 172 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,759 of your music. Yes, yes, much for the interview and for giving 173 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:58,519 me the opportunity to to be there, So thank you so much. Oh, 174 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:01,919 happy to do it. How do you announced your last name? Christians 175 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:09,600 you But don't worries, Yuri is fine, You're good, okay, very 176 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:15,559 good, very good. Yeah, sorry for my English because I'm yeah, 177 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,120 you know, I'm Italian. So yeah, no worries, no worries. 178 00:14:18,519 --> 00:14:22,320 Can I can I understand you? Can? I can understand you? Fine? 179 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:28,480 Okay, okay, absolutely so. Um so, we've been playing some 180 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:31,879 of your music. We played some yesterday and it got a really got a 181 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:35,879 really great response from the audience. And I opened with one of your songs 182 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:41,320 today too, the tracks from Oberon. Am I saying that correctly you're your 183 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,039 band? Yeah? Yeah, this is correct. Yeah, it's correct. 184 00:14:43,159 --> 00:14:48,440 Yeah. Now in in Oberon? Is that do you do everything or do 185 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:52,279 you have other musicians who you work with? Well, it's a it's a 186 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,440 project of mine. So it's basically I compose all the music and uh and 187 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:05,440 then with other musicians we can uh yeah. We we played in the studio 188 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:11,639 and uh yeah. But basically I compose all the music and then I share 189 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:18,519 it with with other musicians and uh yeah that's it basically. Um So, 190 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:26,840 Well, in that album the Sleep Producers Monsters, I played guitar and then 191 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:37,120 other people played bass, guitar, drums and organs. But I I I 192 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:43,679 composed all the music. So yeah, okay, uh do you has it 193 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:48,039 been that way from the beginning with that that project? You you write everything 194 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:52,159 yourself? Or are there any co writers at any point? Or is it 195 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,240 all you? Yeah? No, No, I write I read everything by 196 00:15:54,279 --> 00:15:58,960 by myself. So yeah, it's it's my project, and then I share 197 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,840 the music with with other musicians and then uh yeah, we we record them, 198 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:11,480 we record the music and then uh uh yeah. Basically that that it's 199 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:17,679 a mind it's a project of mind. So it's a like a solo solo 200 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:25,519 project, but with occasional musicians that play the past for me that I can't 201 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:32,320 play maybe or something like that. So it's um yeah, it's it's a 202 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:40,559 solo project, but with other musicians involved. So yeah, okay, um, 203 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:47,039 Now, everything that I've listened to so far of that project is instrumental. 204 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,000 Are are there any tracks with vocals or do you strictly do instrumental? 205 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,240 Well, we we recorded two albums at the moment, and the first the 206 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:03,359 first one is with a uh um yeah, with a singer, a female 207 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,720 singer, and the second one is instrumental. So the Sleep Producers mosters is 208 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:17,599 the instrumental is an instrumental album. And yeah, during this year, I've 209 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:26,039 recorded another album and in which I will I will sing. So I am 210 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:32,880 the new I hope so and the new the new singer of the of the 211 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:38,839 project. Oh so very good, very good. Yeah. Yeah basically that 212 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:47,799 so it's a it's an evolving project and uh yeah, I like to, 213 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:53,200 you know, to to evolve myself and to evolve my my music into and 214 00:17:53,240 --> 00:18:00,279 try different things, you know, so from instrumental music and the next album 215 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:08,839 is more like Pink Floyd but more more jazz and more a little bit more 216 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:17,359 problems. So it's a you know, trying different stuff and uh, um 217 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,680 yeah. Basically that it's it's an evolving project. So it's like the progressive 218 00:18:22,799 --> 00:18:33,559 rock. H the I don't know how to say, sorry, it's like 219 00:18:33,599 --> 00:18:44,920 the you know that. Um it. It can be a challenge to describe 220 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,079 your own us. Yeah, well yeah it is, it is, actually 221 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:53,359 it is. It is a challenge. So I try to to evolve myself 222 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:59,839 and to to try to try different things and uh and go on with this 223 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,799 with this kind of of thinking, of of of way of thinking, so 224 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:14,839 like like his progressive rock, so to to go to go further and further. 225 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:21,160 So yeah, basically do you I I have I have to ask you, 226 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,880 uh this. Um so we've been playing these tracks from from the newest 227 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:32,200 release, The Sleep Produces Monsters, which obviously is a reference to Nightmares. 228 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,119 Is that something or I assume is that something that you've had a problem with 229 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:41,200 do you do you have a lot of nightmares? Do you have difficulties sleeping? 230 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,920 What? What? What? What was it that inspired this? Yeah, 231 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,839 well it was inspired by the by a lot of things, I think, 232 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:57,200 because the way of right a concept album is more is a personal way. 233 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:03,799 So there are a lot of things in but yeah, there are there 234 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:06,759 are a lot of point of view, I think, so, uh, 235 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,519 you know, and I don't want to to give an answer to that question 236 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:19,000 because I think that in art there are no answers. So I think that 237 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:27,039 you know, um, every people has to to give an answer to uh, 238 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,720 to what he sees, to what he's listening to. So but yeah, 239 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:37,839 it's like, yeah, it was a troubled period for me, and 240 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:52,359 I wrote this, uh this album to you know, like, um, 241 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:59,920 you know, to like a way of of of escapism from from the reality 242 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:07,440 see and yeah, to me, it's a very personal album. So um, 243 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:11,000 yeah, you know, it's a different it's it's a different questions so 244 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:18,240 sure, and yeah, it's it's a way of of escapism from from a 245 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:23,599 difficult period and yeah, in my life, so yeah, okay, it's 246 00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:30,880 it's not so related to nightmare to nightmares but I think it's related to nightmares 247 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:37,720 in real life. Uh yeah, you know, I think that you can 248 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:44,440 hear it from the from the tunes with especially with guitars, because it's very 249 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:51,680 guitar, a guitar driven album, so you know, so that this kind 250 00:21:51,680 --> 00:22:00,559 of guitar, fuzzy guitar, it's very impactful. I think. So yeah, 251 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:04,559 I think you can hear it on the on the records. I hope 252 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:11,799 so, yes, yes, um. And I noticed in your bio that 253 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,759 you sent us you said something about you you don't like to necessarily put limits 254 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,599 on what you're doing musically. You you keep it. Uh so does that 255 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:27,880 mean when when you approach these songs, do you not necessarily say okay, 256 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,640 I want it to sound like this. Is it more kind of an exploratory 257 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,480 thing where you're just seeing where it leads you when you start writing. Yeah, 258 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:42,319 for sure, definitely like this. I think that, Yeah, I 259 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:47,759 don't have limits, and I don't I don't want limits, and it's a 260 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,720 it's another thing that and I I love music and I love to work like 261 00:22:53,839 --> 00:23:02,240 that, and I also love I think you're you read it in my bio. 262 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:08,160 I love the I love the fact that I'm starting composing music for films, 263 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:18,079 and and yeah, it's it's another territory, it's another um, you 264 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:26,319 know, a place to experiment in any ways, so I think it's great 265 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:32,359 because you don't have any limits. And and also in my personal music, 266 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:38,240 I don't want any limits, you know, like a verse you know two 267 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:52,039 verse chorus obviously, and you know the bridge and other chorus and other verse, 268 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:56,680 you know, something like, I want to be free and without limits 269 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:06,519 in that um when I'm compusing music. So yeah, it's like that with 270 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:12,039 composing for a soundtrack? Is that a big adjustment in the in the sense 271 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:18,079 that it's not just your vision that you have to be concerned with, but 272 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,799 also what the film is is that is it difficult to kind of change your 273 00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:26,920 approach or or maybe your approach doesn't change very much. I don't know, 274 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:33,799 but it is the process much different. Well it's not that different, but 275 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:40,480 but at the same time it is. So it depends on your on your 276 00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:48,079 on your sensibility, I think, and you know, oh yeah, I 277 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,960 think it depends on your sensibility because composing music for I love I love composing 278 00:24:53,039 --> 00:25:00,079 music for films, and I love that the way the music work with with 279 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:10,400 images, and yeah, I think it's it's easier for me also because when 280 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:15,279 I compose music for my for my project, for my albums, I start 281 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:21,200 visualizing some some images and then trying and then trying to compose music for that 282 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,039 for that specific situation or something like that. So it always starts in my 283 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:33,359 mind with, yeah, with a sort of a film or or a short 284 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:40,599 images or or something like that. But um, you know we are we 285 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:48,279 are always looking for um, yeah, for for for this spiration. I 286 00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:53,759 think that you can find it on the on the feelings on the or on 287 00:25:53,839 --> 00:26:00,200 our images. But yeah, I think it's easier for me. Also. 288 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:07,920 Okay, okay, how many how many films have you have you written for 289 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:15,319 and recorded for so far? Well, I've done a future film and about 290 00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:22,319 I think six or seven short films. So yeah, so you're not bad. 291 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,119 Yeah, So it sounds like you're you're doing more of that than than 292 00:26:26,839 --> 00:26:33,920 writing your own years. Yeah, and the last few years I'm doing so 293 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:47,119 much more U soundtracks instead of playing or composing for my project. But because 294 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:53,920 I'm recording my my next album for the Oberall project, I'm yeah, it's 295 00:26:53,960 --> 00:27:00,920 like three years I'm recording it due to the COVID situation or other problems. 296 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:10,119 But I've just finished it and maybe the next year will come out, so 297 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:17,200 I hope so and uh yeah, but yeah, it takes time. Yeah, 298 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:22,759 fortunately, it takes time. Yeah, but I'm happy with the results. 299 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:26,720 So hope. Oh yeah, I think that the next year will come 300 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:33,880 out another album for for the Oberon project. So yeah. And do you 301 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,799 have any um plans to tour with Oberon or have you been touring well at 302 00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:45,559 the moment, No, because uh, basically I'm I'm a solo artist with 303 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:56,960 friends that helped me when I have to to record music. And uh but 304 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:03,200 maybe, you know, I don't know, in the future, sure, 305 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:11,599 maybe the next album will will be uh, I don't know, will be 306 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:17,640 better or could give me the possibility to to tour or to to do some 307 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:25,599 you know, some some events or some festivals or I don't know. But 308 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:33,400 you know, I'm I think I'm more an oriented, a studio oriented person. 309 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:42,599 So at the moment, I'm I'm constructing myself to compose music and to 310 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:51,440 to produce new albums. But maybe I I think that there's a possibility and 311 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,880 we will see the next year maybe, So yeah, I hope, So 312 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:03,519 yeah, obviously. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, um Uri, thank you, 313 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,799 thank you so much for for skyping in in with us. It's it's wonderful 314 00:29:07,839 --> 00:29:11,759 to uh talk with you. And um, I want to ask you too, 315 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,880 do you have new um, do you have a new obviously you know 316 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,480 you're always working on soundtrack music, but yeah, um, any idea when 317 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:25,519 your next Oberon release will be or is that well is that half away is 318 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:32,960 a bit? I'm working on releasing some new singles on the next few months, 319 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:42,559 so uh, I think that maybe maybe on the alpha of the next 320 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:48,359 year, a new album will come out okay Lee and yeah, and two 321 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:56,519 more albums for my projects for my soundtrack projects. So yeah, I'm working 322 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:03,480 on a lot of things and U I can't wait to share with to share 323 00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:11,680 them to to the people that can listen to to my music too, because 324 00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:18,279 I would love to to start working on something new again. So you know, 325 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:26,480 it's a yeah, I I would love to. I always love to 326 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:33,079 to produce new music. So I can't wait to uh yeah, to release 327 00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:37,319 to release it, and I hope to do so in the next few few 328 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:44,960 months or maybe at the beginning of the next year. Sure great, well, 329 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,839 whenever you do, we'd love to have you back. Like I said, 330 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:51,160 we've we've been playing thank you so much. We've yeah, we've been 331 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,599 playing you on the show and and to great response. And uh, in 332 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,480 fact, in a moment, I'm gonna work, I'm gonna go. When 333 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,839 we finish our conversation, I'm gonna go back in time a little and play 334 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,599 something from the Mountain of Fate. Uh oh, thank you. Yeah, 335 00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:08,720 that'll that that'll be fun to listen to. UM, listen to how it 336 00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:14,880 all started, this track, sailing Oblivion. Okay, thank you so much. 337 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,400 Really, it's a it's a really great thing for me. And thank 338 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:25,640 you for so much for your support. Absolutely, Urie. Before you go, 339 00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:30,599 what should what should listeners know about where to find you online to keep 340 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,559 up with your music and everything that you're doing where they can. They can 341 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:41,119 reach me out on Instagram for sure, okay, or Facebook at you know, 342 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:48,400 the the Auberon page or uriqus that is my personal uh Instagram okay, 343 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:56,880 and also on Spotify for for the for listening to the trucks that at the 344 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,599 least, and yeah x excellent and of course you're on band camp as well, 345 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:07,759 and yeah, yeah for sure, camp every everywhere, everywhere, Um, 346 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,920 very good, very good. Well, Uri again, thank you so 347 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,640 much for skyping in today all the way from Italy. This has been wonderful. 348 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:20,720 We will definitely, absolutely, we will definitely talk with you again when 349 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,160 you have some some new music and I look forward to hearing it and I 350 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:29,839 wish you continued success. Thank you so much, thank you so much so 351 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,279 for the for the opportunity. Absolutely absolutely our pleasure. All right, Yuri, 352 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:37,240 thank you, take care, Thank you so much, take care, 353 00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:42,400 you got it, bye bye bye. All right, wonderful. That was 354 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,880 our new friend, Yuri, all the way from Italy, and I'm glad 355 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,440 that worked out with Skype. I'll tell you when it's when it when it's 356 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:52,599 a call coming in from Europe. It never works, It never works the 357 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:58,359 first time. But we got there. We gotta figured out outstanding. So 358 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:05,279 we will finish off the segment with um this track from the first Oberon album, 359 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:07,880 Uh, Mountain of Fate, and this is what the singer that he 360 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:13,079 was talking about that he had on this um Uh. This is called Sailing 361 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,759 Oblivion. And then we'll come back and I think uh actually shortly our guests 362 00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:23,319 are our number two Numero doos guests should be arriving. But we'll see, 363 00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:27,519 so after the song we might have him here, or it might be a 364 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:30,200 few minutes and we'll we'll get into some other stuff in the interim show, 365 00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:34,200 some left to our sponsors and so forth. But but here it is. 366 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:40,160 This is sailing oblivion from Oberon. Here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. Check this 367 00:33:40,200 --> 00:34:27,440 out. I really like what this guy's doing. Welcome back, everybody. 368 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:32,639 This is Matt Connerton Unleashed as we enter our number two numrods live from the 369 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:38,239 studios of Wmnheve point three FM, inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, although 370 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,639 it looks like it's gonna rain. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in 371 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,760 Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around 372 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,559 the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all 373 00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:52,599 of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, 374 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:59,079 etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday May sixteen, two thousand twenty three, 375 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,639 and I am not alone. We have at the news desk. He 376 00:35:01,679 --> 00:35:05,880 looks like an actual new he looks like a news anchor. I'm ready. 377 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:13,519 Steve Laughy is here. Presidential candidate and businessman and uh and former radio hosts. 378 00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:15,239 From what I read, so, I was delighted to see that that 379 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:21,039 you are a brother in broadcast. I love it. Yeah, it's yeah. 380 00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:22,599 Well, I do want to ask you about that. Um. I 381 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,280 was I was reading up on you, and obviously you know, we'll talk 382 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,159 about your presidential campaign and all that. But UM, a couple of things 383 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,000 as I was reading about you that I said I definitely have to ask him 384 00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:37,199 about this. One is is um when you were on the air in Providence 385 00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:40,320 and um, and the other is and I. So I have not read 386 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,840 Uh, you're also an author. We should mention, UM, I have 387 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,320 not read the book that you've written yet, but it is I'm going to 388 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:52,920 put it on my reading list. About your your center, well, uh, 389 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,679 the title really got my attention, and UM, I love that kind 390 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,000 of stuff, and you know I'm a political junkie, so UM, so 391 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:05,000 I want to ask you about that too. And Elizabeth Dole got involved apparently 392 00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:07,480 all that from what I was reading online. But I do want to read 393 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:09,000 the book and then you know, hopefully you'll come back in the future and 394 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,800 we can have a deeper discussion about that after after I've had a chance to 395 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:15,519 read it. But I do want to ask you a little bit about that 396 00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:20,599 today. But if you have any questions or anything at all for our guest, 397 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,360 the Republican, he's a Republican candidate for the presidency in twenty twenty four, 398 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,280 give us a call. The studio line is open six zero three two 399 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,199 five O six zoo seven six zo three two five ozho six zero seven. 400 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,800 You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven 401 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,880 six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can interact end opine 402 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,840 in the Facebook live chat uh, and of course you can email me Matt 403 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,119 at matt Connerton dot com. But the best thing to do so that we 404 00:36:46,119 --> 00:36:51,199 can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is give us a call at six three 405 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,440 two five oz six o seven. Our friend Melanie la Liberty from the Great 406 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,079 State of Vermont in the chat room says, he looks super serious. I'm 407 00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:05,360 kind of scared. Well, well, he has a presidential candidate now and 408 00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:08,159 now are you? Um? Are you going to be on the ballot in 409 00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:13,719 New Hampshire? Is that I was the first person to take on Donald Trump 410 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:19,960 February first I announced, and uh, listen, the nation just refuses to 411 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,440 directly confront these problems, giant problems. I mean, if I get one 412 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,639 more email from another Republican, tell me all Democrats a Marxis send the money, 413 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,039 I'm gonna throw up. We need serious people, and the time is 414 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:37,079 right for a financial expert, me who has my unique background we can get 415 00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:39,920 into. Yeah, yeah, to fix these problems. I don't really do 416 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,880 anything but fixed problems. I mean fix, like really fix and make people 417 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,960 vote my way. That's what I do. Do you feel that Donald Trump 418 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,840 is un serious? Yes, and I think it's been even well what happened 419 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,320 last Wednesday. We don't have to get into all his stuff, but yeah, 420 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,280 you know, it's just it's not serious stuff. Yeah, you're you're 421 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,440 afraid of the town hall? I mean really, people laughing when he's talking 422 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,920 about it of a women who I don't know anything about. I don't know, 423 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,280 really, I don't pay much attention to it. But you know, 424 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,039 Pete, what's the what's who? They're not my fellow Republicans in the order. 425 00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:14,880 Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean we haven't been a serious 426 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,159 country for many, many years, but certainly not on the bush Obama, 427 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,920 Trump or Biden. We've spun out of control. And I hate to say, 428 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,159 we'd love to have Bill Clinton backs. We can get some kind of 429 00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:30,639 a balanced budget, but but the debt, the debt now is simply too 430 00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:34,320 big. And so my background is just we get into a by background is 431 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,360 unique. I wanted to mention you mentioned Bill Clinton, and do you know 432 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:43,559 Greg Moore from the New Hampshire's Chapter of Americans for Prosperity. No, I 433 00:38:43,599 --> 00:38:46,039 don't, I haven't. He's um. You'll probably meet him at some point. 434 00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:50,039 Uh, he's been on the show. He hasn't been on in a 435 00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:51,800 long time. I haven't seen him in a long time. But I remember 436 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,320 him saying something once about Uh. He said that Bill Clinton was actually the 437 00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:00,480 last fiscally conservative president that we ever had, you know, because he did 438 00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:05,079 leave us with a balance budget and a surplus actually um and uh, you 439 00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:09,280 know, and then of course w came in and we went to war and 440 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:15,559 didn't win everything with you know Bush in the second Bushes. We went to 441 00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:19,719 war, but we didn't win immediately like it went on for years. It 442 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,639 was the first, by the way, in my US Senate race, and 443 00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:24,760 No. Six, I was the first Republican to call for Don Rumsfeld's resignation. 444 00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:28,880 Kidd, and I got all this national attention, but I didn't realize 445 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,000 that was the first one. I mean, I must say, now that 446 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:34,079 I look back at some of these things, how was I the first one 447 00:39:34,119 --> 00:39:36,360 to do this? Like it was a It was a terrible job. Right. 448 00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:39,239 It's the same thing with the Federal Reserve today. We need their resignations, 449 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,280 Like Matt, if you're in a business and you're off by a factor 450 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:50,119 of four or outside three standard deviations of normalcy, like they want inflation at 451 00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:52,280 two, but it ran at eight for a year and a half. I 452 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,480 mean, in June of twenty twenty one, the head of the Fed says 453 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,239 it's going to run it three and a half. By the end of the 454 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,880 year it's seven point four. These are like, and you don't have to 455 00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:04,599 we don't have to fire you. You need to come in with your residence. 456 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,000 And they don't. There's no apology. The middle class people out walking 457 00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:12,360 the streets I see today. You know, spent four thousand dollars more on 458 00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:15,119 energy course last years. And by the way, just so people know, 459 00:40:15,199 --> 00:40:19,840 when inflation finally ends, whatever that is, whenever the Paul Voker shows up 460 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,559 again. Um, they don't. They don't send you the money back they 461 00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:27,119 took. They took it. It's gone true. Anyway, Well let me 462 00:40:27,119 --> 00:40:30,760 ask you. I do have questions about your background and um so, uh 463 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,719 yeah, tell me about you hosted a show and it was in Providence, 464 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,920 correct, Yeah, radio show, weekly show. So when you time my 465 00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:44,559 quickly my just my real background. I'm a relatively poor kid from Cranston, 466 00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:46,719 Rhode Island, who at eighteen went to went to Bowden College up in Maine. 467 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,719 I'm from Rhode Island, so pretty you know. I've been in New 468 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,599 Hampshire hundreds of times. Yeah, yeah, I've been at ruggles minds with 469 00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:55,440 kids. I've been there when I was a kid. Right. So I 470 00:40:55,519 --> 00:40:58,880 ended up at Howard Business School at the age of twenty two. Okay, 471 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,639 I was a directed man. I graduate. I spent most of my career, 472 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,199 almost all my career, in the financial field. This is the key. 473 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:07,079 I helped run a financial firm, the largest one in the South. 474 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,039 I was the president, the chief operating officer. I started and ran the 475 00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:13,719 venture capital operation. All this was successful. We sold the firm for seven 476 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,159 hun eighty five million dollars when Alan Morgan, wonderful man, the CEO, 477 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,079 my power of convention. We convinced him in an hour. I did to 478 00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:24,639 sell a firm he was never going to sell because it was best for the 479 00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:29,199 shareholders. It was best for him, but it wasn't best for me in 480 00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:31,159 a sense. I left. I went to Stovermont. I was going to 481 00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:34,920 start a hedge fund. Should have maybe went to Loon Mount, but I 482 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,199 went to Stovermont and so and so. I just had this vision I should 483 00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:40,519 go to Cranston. My wife who was with me today, and some of 484 00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:45,039 our kids we went the next day. Yeah, and Cranston went bankrupt. 485 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:51,280 Cranston around effectively didn't declare bankruston because I became the mayor, but it was 486 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,599 borrowing three month money at fifteen percent, the worst bond rating in the United 487 00:41:54,599 --> 00:41:58,519 States of America. The day before I was elected, nobody knew who I 488 00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:00,599 was. When I came home, I hadn't been home in twenty years, 489 00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:04,679 eighteen to thirty eight. And we fixed it in the most rapid financial turnaround. 490 00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:07,760 And while I was doing that, I taught the top finance course at 491 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,320 the University of Rhode Island. Heard the word finance like I know money. 492 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,840 This is what I do, and that's why the time is right Like this. 493 00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:16,719 In the seventies, the time was right for Jimmy Carter to become president. 494 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,920 He was mister clean. He was a really good guy. I mean, 495 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,480 things overcame him as presidency and so forth. But but after Watergate, 496 00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:28,679 but in November seventy five, people didn't know who he was, right, 497 00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:34,679 and so I decided, this is my time, we should we should mention 498 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,360 two. You won reelection in Cranston right with the widest margin in Cranston's history. 499 00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:44,199 Fairly conservative, populace, Republican and the most democratic state. You know, 500 00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:46,760 maybe you're not Vermont, but hardcore, you know, stay hard to 501 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,559 get elected as a Republican. No statewide elected officers have been elected since I 502 00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:54,000 left. So after I laughed, you know, and I ran for the 503 00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:57,559 US Senate in oh six and it was the biggest race in the country. 504 00:42:57,599 --> 00:43:00,599 That's why I have a big book deal with Pegwood Books, and my book 505 00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:02,719 Primary Mistake is still read by many people, especially when they get ready to 506 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,519 run. Yeah. I get calls from people over the country or friends, 507 00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:08,360 Hey, this guy's running for government, this guy's running for House of Representatives. 508 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,960 Just read your book. Is it really liked it? I'm like, 509 00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:15,360 yeah, really it really was like that. So the NAT I am the 510 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:21,840 only elected Republican to be attacked when running for higher office. According to Craig 511 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,239 Shirley, Reagan's biographer, he wrote an article about No. Six. Yeah, 512 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,599 to be attacked by the National Republican Party, that's me, Steve laughing. 513 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,119 Okay, they preferred a person who was far to the left of Nancy 514 00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:35,679 Pelosi in a Republican primary. If you're in a Democratic primary, like looks 515 00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:37,519 good in Rude Island. But Lincoln chaffing. Yeah, they attacked being with 516 00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:42,480 millions of dollars us. He's an odd guy. And yeah, he's a 517 00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:44,840 very very odd guy. By the way, he couldn't be a nice guy. 518 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,280 If you talk about horses. I know, I've heard, I've heard. 519 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,599 I've never met him. I'ford he is very nice, but just I 520 00:43:49,679 --> 00:43:52,159 just, uh, he seems odd. Yeah, stop talking to him about 521 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,199 Listen, he ran for president. He wanted to do the metric system. 522 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,840 I'm running for presidents to fix social security. Remember, so it's a vast 523 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:01,840 different you know, I have these five things that have to be done to 524 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,719 fix the country. We can talk about yeah, but no seven and after 525 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,280 I lost, I wrote a book and it's that's what happened. And in 526 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,840 twenty ten I told the people of Rhode Island, really, and I say 527 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,320 this very seriously, you really only want me Rhode Island, where I'm from, 528 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,880 if you have a financial problem and you want to fix it. Christon 529 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,000 did Rhode Island doesn't. I'm on my way. I moved to four Collins, 530 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,719 Colorado, and I raised I have six children, by the way, 531 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,599 Yeah, and so I have a unique background in education where I've homeschooled my 532 00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:35,400 own children and healthcare. I homeschooled them because my daughter came down with stage 533 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,559 four cancer. That's the way. For eight or nine yeads. You haven't 534 00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:39,679 heard from me. Okay, my beautiful wife here. She went to the 535 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:44,920 hospital for two hundred nights a year at the Child's hospital, and she's alive. 536 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,039 By daughter. She's graduating from bu grad school a week, no, 537 00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:52,639 not a week in five days on Saturday. She's still let's cancer. If 538 00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:55,480 you just go to Steve Laughey dot com and you read some of my substacks, 539 00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,239 the person who corrects that is Sarah Grace laughing. He's alive. She's 540 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,840 twenty six, She's going to get married, but she still has cancer. 541 00:45:02,079 --> 00:45:07,880 The brave person. So I've seen five to seven million dollars of healthcare cross 542 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,719 crossed my desk, which I didn't have to pay, but a lot of 543 00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:14,880 people do. Yes. So with my kids, I personally have homeschooled there. 544 00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:19,559 The last three are all sophomores at Kiro State University. One is fifteen 545 00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:23,199 years old. He's the youngest admitting in the school's history because I homeschooled them. 546 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:27,320 So I know education. I know what goes on into public schools. 547 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,400 I've dealt with antagonistic school committees. All these things we can talk about. 548 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,880 But my background is unique to be able to help the country at this point 549 00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,760 and if all I really do is change the direction of the Republican Party, 550 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:42,800 So someone takes this seriously rather than a joke or try to be the mini 551 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,000 Trump and not have answers for people like you when you come on. But 552 00:45:46,199 --> 00:45:52,320 yes, to be directly about two thousand and five, WPR Row the powerhouse 553 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,159 stationed down there, you know, wanted me to always have a show. 554 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,280 Yeah, and they thought I would lose my Republican primary for mayor. But 555 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,599 I didn't so the very good people, yea. And I love doing I 556 00:46:01,679 --> 00:46:04,960 did lots of radio. I've hosted for lots of people. I filled in 557 00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:07,360 for people like you all over country. Yeah. I just walking with do 558 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:15,440 shows. Yeah yeah. So I did the Steve Laughy Show because mister Cass, 559 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,000 who had the biggest show, you know, the most popular guy, 560 00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:21,440 he didn't want he was older, he didn't want to come in on Friday, 561 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,599 and so I came in. So the Steve Laughy Show was started. 562 00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:29,360 Now, the big story about it, why it was a national story, 563 00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:32,760 was that the Democrats, who kind of run the board of Elections, decided 564 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,079 that I could not have a show. Think about it. I can be 565 00:46:37,119 --> 00:46:39,360 the mayor, I can brush my teeth right at the same time, I 566 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,159 can have a radio show. I can write an op ed piece. It's 567 00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:45,159 called free speech. Yeah. But they were so crazed by what I was 568 00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:49,360 talking about in the radio, which was widely popular. The lines are full 569 00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:52,440 people that either hated me loving me, you know. Yeah. And if 570 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,280 they'd only asked, like Steve, when are you gonna get off? I 571 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,639 would have said, when I announced for the US Senate, that's my employe, 572 00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:00,719 I would have told them. Okay. So they sued me, yeah, 573 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,559 to stop me from having a radio show. And the federal judge in 574 00:47:04,639 --> 00:47:07,280 Rhode Island, Judge Leasy, who didn't wasn't who said she wasn't really up 575 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,760 on the second, you know, the first Amendment. I don't know how 576 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,039 she get to be a judge, but she she agreed with them. So 577 00:47:13,079 --> 00:47:15,960 I went to the first Court of Appeals, one step away from the Supreme 578 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:22,320 Court in two weeks, and in that ruling, three judges heard the case 579 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:27,400 yeah, and literally said something like to the other side, Hey, listen, 580 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,280 it's Thursday. It's twelve noon. By Monday morning, laugh, he's 581 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:34,159 on the radio. Wow, Okay, we don't want to hear another word 582 00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:36,760 about this. Really, Okay. They basically there's the dumbest thing they ever 583 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,000 heard, and you need to deal with your murky rules down there. Well, 584 00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:42,679 what was what was the grounds under which they sued he that I'm not 585 00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,079 clear on that. I was that I was actually elected official. Now, 586 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,159 oh, it made no sense. There were a lot of elected officials, 587 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,199 by the way, Rudy Giuliani had had a radio show. Yeah, he 588 00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:57,519 was mayor. Lots of people around the country did yeah, and ran many 589 00:47:57,519 --> 00:48:00,000 of the elected officials couldn't talk that well, so I guess they didn't. 590 00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:02,360 But it wasn't unusual in the country, right right, So that was the 591 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,320 case that went to It was all big national story. But is there an 592 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,440 actual law on the books that they know? They just made it up. 593 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,480 That's why they slapped them around so hard. Okay, and just said it 594 00:48:12,559 --> 00:48:15,239 so we don't even want to write a ruling just he goes back on the 595 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,639 year. If he's not on by Monday morning, we're gonna have to take 596 00:48:17,679 --> 00:48:22,119 another action. Yeah, and so that and then I got off after a 597 00:48:22,159 --> 00:48:24,360 couple more weeks because I ran for the US edit. So that was your 598 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:29,760 So you were intending to when you announced your sun that was my implicit agreement. 599 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,519 I didn't have to legally get off then yeah. Yeah. Being the 600 00:48:31,559 --> 00:48:36,480 only US Senate candidate, what would be a big time race, right right. 601 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,159 Wpr Row and I we just sort implicitly said, I said, listen, 602 00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:40,440 if I go run for higher office, which they knew I was going 603 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,239 to, Yeah, then I'll get off the week before and I did. 604 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,239 Yeah. Yeah, So that's my radio that's my radio show. But you 605 00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:52,159 know, the country today needs a financial expert not a real state developer. 606 00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:55,159 We need these. If you're listening to this show and you're like forty year 607 00:48:55,239 --> 00:49:00,159 under, it must be quite the thing to get your security fighter thing. 608 00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:04,480 And no, you're not getting it. Like let's say someone out there's making 609 00:49:04,559 --> 00:49:07,480 fifty grands, say they make it a hundred grands. Whatever they make it, 610 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,199 they make it a hundred grand, and they're forty. They're getting twelve 611 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,239 grand taken out and they're not gonna get it. But at Steve Laughy dot 612 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,480 com, we have a complete plan to fix it, not to like just 613 00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:21,440 say we're going to raise the retirement age like Nicky Haley and she doesn't know 614 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,639 how. She doesn't know anything about it. Does she set up Yeah? 615 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,360 Okay, but she doesn't know what to raise it too because she doesn't spend 616 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,280 any time on it. Yeah, or Donald Trump say I'm not going to 617 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,079 touch it. That just immoral, financially immoral. The governor of Florida not 618 00:49:32,119 --> 00:49:35,559 going to touch it now. When he was a congressman, he wanted to. 619 00:49:35,679 --> 00:49:37,320 He wanted to hack it. But we don't need to do either. 620 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,800 We need to modernize its, strengthen it, especially for the twenty year old 621 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:45,000 entending the work system they need to get. By the way, I wrote 622 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,280 a paper about this in economics in nineteen eighty three. Oh I know about 623 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,079 this like that. The returns have been terrible for people getting it. So 624 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,239 just remember, if you go to Steve Laughy dot com, what we're gonna 625 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,559 do. We're gonna take the twenty year olds and put up in a new 626 00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:01,280 system. Everybody's sixty two, it's gonna get we promised them, and the 627 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,000 people in between are gonna get, are gonna get a hybrid some of the 628 00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:07,800 old, some of the new. But if you're twenty, you're gonna get 629 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,559 five to six, seven times eight times more. And if we don't do 630 00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:15,559 this, sixty one trillion dollars unfunded liability. Like this is how we fix 631 00:50:15,639 --> 00:50:20,599 it. If we don't do it, you're gonna get a check one day, 632 00:50:20,599 --> 00:50:22,679 but it's just gonna be the eighteen hundred dollars they promised you, and 633 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:27,159 that letter they sent you, it'll be eighteen hundred dollars ten years from now, 634 00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,360 twenty years from now, it'll just be three hundred dollars. Is this 635 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,480 um as inflation is what you're proposing. And by the way, I'm bad 636 00:50:34,519 --> 00:50:36,960 at math. So if you throw a number. I mean, you can 637 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,159 throw numbers at me. I might miss a lot, but the audience is 638 00:50:38,199 --> 00:50:42,599 I have a smart audience. Whatever I don't get that, they'll they'll be 639 00:50:42,639 --> 00:50:46,519 able to figure out. But um, are this sounds like tell me if 640 00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:52,679 I'm right? Is this um? Because during the w administration it was briefly 641 00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:55,360 talked about, but the idea didn't really go anywhere at the time. Privatizing 642 00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,199 social security? Is that what you're suggesting, I'm gonna want to privatize it 643 00:50:59,199 --> 00:51:01,480 at all. So let's just take the twenty year old. We're gonna take 644 00:51:01,679 --> 00:51:06,320 ten percent of his pay. We're gonna put it in a mixture of stocks, 645 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,679 bonds, real estate, everything. But but isn't that privatization? No, 646 00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:12,559 Okay, he doesn't know, he doesn't get it. It doesn't go 647 00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:15,239 to Charles Shwa. That's that's what Bush wanted to do. He wanted to 648 00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:17,960 privatize it. It lasted six days. Yeah, he only lasted six days, 649 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,679 and he gave us that's because that's because he didn't have he didn't have 650 00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,039 a real progum. He never really thought it through. So if you take 651 00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:28,039 any forty forty five year period, so let's say your twenty. Here's what 652 00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:30,639 happened. Let's stop with a twenty year old. He gets to be thirty, 653 00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,880 gets married. The sexist nature. What goes on SoC soci security today. 654 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,679 Listen to this, ladies, when it was designed, If you're not 655 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,199 married for long enough, you don't get some of your husband's social security. 656 00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,679 Does everybody realize this? If you're married to someone for five years, yeah, 657 00:51:45,679 --> 00:51:49,679 and he makes a million or the max and you're staying home raising children, 658 00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,559 yeah, you don't get it. Really, Yeah, you're gonna be 659 00:51:52,559 --> 00:51:57,119 married for a certain amount of time, Okay to grab your husband. Now, 660 00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,639 it could be the other way around these days, it could be I'm 661 00:51:59,679 --> 00:52:00,960 talking the nineteen fifties. Now, it could be a woman's work and the 662 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,920 father whatever. But implicitly it was. It's unfair. So let's say now 663 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,880 you get married at thirty and divorced at forty. You're both exactly thirty. 664 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:14,079 To make it simple, you split what you're putting in. Yeah, and 665 00:52:14,119 --> 00:52:16,760 when you're divorced, you split it again. You just don't worry about it. 666 00:52:17,039 --> 00:52:22,760 Right now. You die at forty. Unfortunately, your ears get it 667 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,800 doesn't go to the federal government. But you get to be sixty two. 668 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,639 Now we stop buying annuities with ten percent of it per year or fifteen percent 669 00:52:30,679 --> 00:52:35,360 per year. So when you turn seventy, everybody who's left it's got a 670 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,960 really large check. It's not privatized. It's in one computer child Schwab, 671 00:52:40,599 --> 00:52:45,760 JP, especially JP Morgan. They never get a hold of it because what 672 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,440 happens in four or one cape lands with people who are twenty three twenty six 673 00:52:49,639 --> 00:52:52,119 they switched. You know that was designed when people stayed at IBM for forty 674 00:52:52,159 --> 00:52:55,000 straight years and got a golden watch. Oh yeah, those days are gone, 675 00:52:55,079 --> 00:52:59,559 and now people are switching jobs and cashing out right right, and so 676 00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:01,920 what's going to happen. We're gonna have a giant problem in twenty five thirty 677 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:07,280 years. So here's the problem or the problem people could call in about. 678 00:53:07,519 --> 00:53:13,039 Can anybody get less mister Laughey maya laughy, Steve laughy. Yes, the 679 00:53:13,079 --> 00:53:16,400 guy who's fifty three who goes into this system the day we do it. 680 00:53:16,639 --> 00:53:19,800 Yeah, yeah. And by the way, the difference between me is I'm 681 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,360 actually gonna do this. So at the end of this thing you might say, 682 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,960 what's the first thing you're gonna do? Steve laughy. I'm gonna do 683 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:28,039 this, Like people say, I just talked about it for an hour, 684 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,119 but I'm gonna do this to save our children, because we sixty year olds 685 00:53:31,119 --> 00:53:35,760 have taken way too much from our kids. So you're fifty three, you 686 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,480 go into the new system, but you're still getting the old system. Whatever 687 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,639 it said, you're gonna get it. Fifty three, you're gonna get that. 688 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,440 Okay, But you have seven, ten years, nine years to go 689 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,199 to the new system. Could you get less? Yes, we could have 690 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:51,679 nine bad years. Biblically, we could have seven straight bad Well, I 691 00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,559 was gonna say, is there not an element of risk to this? There's 692 00:53:54,599 --> 00:54:00,519 not really any real By the way, let's compare the risk to stay doing 693 00:54:00,519 --> 00:54:02,480 what we're doing when they cut your check by your third in twenty thirty. 694 00:54:05,039 --> 00:54:07,239 Okay, so right, so let's take the risk that's really there. There's 695 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:14,719 sixty one trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities double our national debt. So what that 696 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:20,239 means for anybody is that the sixty one trillion means discounting from to the today. 697 00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:23,599 I'm from the future, what we're taxing and what we say we're gonna 698 00:54:23,639 --> 00:54:27,960 pay out. Yeah, the difference is sixty one trillion. So it's so 699 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,559 it's gonna it's it's imploding in front of our face, like it's it's over, 700 00:54:32,039 --> 00:54:36,559 Like you're not gonna get it, or they're gonna run inflation so high 701 00:54:36,599 --> 00:54:37,760 that, like I say, when you get it, it won't be worth 702 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,440 anything. So why don't we just fix it? Well part of the problem 703 00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,199 too, if I find it. And again I'm far from an expert on 704 00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:51,719 this, but um, we have an aging population and obviously and birthrates are 705 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,239 plummeting. Yes, so there's gonna be just I mean, it's just common 706 00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,960 sense. There's going to be more and more people. And so the reason 707 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:04,159 that we just can't have the future people getting it from the present people today. 708 00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,119 What happens today is that when we started Social Security nineteen thirty three, 709 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:13,559 a temporary program by Roosevelt right, never meant to be all your retirement, 710 00:55:13,679 --> 00:55:15,599 but say it is, whatever we're living into today, we're not living in 711 00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:20,039 eighteen eighty. I'm talking to my fellow conservatives now who want to end it. 712 00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:22,119 We're not doing that. We're gonna fix it, we're gonna modernize it, 713 00:55:22,159 --> 00:55:27,239 we're gonna make it okay. But what happens is now there's three workers, 714 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,519 but those three workers are sending the money directly to Social Security recipients today. 715 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:35,760 So what's going to happen is that forty years from now when they erect 716 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:37,960 a statue in my name because everybody's got a great, great job, you 717 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,960 know, and social Security is working out. Really what I'm joking, Okay, 718 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,559 what's going to happen is that the people who are sixty two today are 719 00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:49,320 going to be dead. But the people today just have their system. We 720 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,199 don't even talk about it anymore. If they've owned some New Zealand bond, 721 00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,800 some real estate, not in Russia probably, but they own some real estate 722 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,760 in Europe, they own some stocks, they own they own some votes wagon, 723 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:04,679 they own some all these things together bonds, they're going to do better 724 00:56:04,679 --> 00:56:08,079 than anybody's ever done. They have unless the world ends, And if the 725 00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:10,440 world ends, we're not going to talk about it. Right. The world 726 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,079 has ended, right, So there's no forty year period where this wouldn't have 727 00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,519 massively outperformed. Again, I wrote a paper about eighty three. The numbers 728 00:56:17,519 --> 00:56:21,679 I came up with then are still the numbers today. So that course, 729 00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,239 that's not the only thing we have to do. You know, this inflation. 730 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:29,599 Stuff has to stop. We've got a situation where the Feder reserve and 731 00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:31,199 for people who don't know this, and again I'm not saying people and everybody 732 00:56:31,199 --> 00:56:35,519 spends their time like I do without it, but there's nobody running for president 733 00:56:35,519 --> 00:56:37,960 who wants to fix the Feder Reserve. Some people want to end it, 734 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,079 but we're not going to end I hear in libertarian circles. I I often 735 00:56:43,119 --> 00:56:49,039 hear about audit the phrase we should all that stuff. Rand Paul talk about 736 00:56:49,039 --> 00:56:52,159 it, and Rand Paul is correct, and I would prefer a gold standard. 737 00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:55,360 But the first step to get back to some sense of normalcy is for 738 00:56:55,400 --> 00:57:00,320 the FED to only concentrate on inflation and keep it at zero one goal. 739 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:04,119 Right now, they have what we call a dual mandate. It's really one 740 00:57:04,199 --> 00:57:07,599 long paragraph, but people refer to it as a dual bandit because the FED, 741 00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:13,360 starting in the late sixties seventies, used to just do inflation, but 742 00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,920 then they put in that they should try to keep employment high or unemployment low. 743 00:57:17,599 --> 00:57:22,519 They call full employment. Yeah, well, folks, they have like 744 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,159 not to get into algebra two and bore people. But if you can remember 745 00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:30,079 back to algebra one, they were like these three unknowns and two equations, 746 00:57:30,079 --> 00:57:35,559 and you couldn't solve They can't solve that problem. And so what's been happening. 747 00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,679 We've had way worse situations because the FED has been worried about employment and 748 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:45,800 inflation. The people worried about unemployment have to be the people in Congress. 749 00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,440 What they've done is handed their power to the FED, and that's why they've 750 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,920 never called for their resignations. They've handed the power of fiscal power to the 751 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:59,320 FED Reserve. So if the Fed Reserve is only worried about inflation and the 752 00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,239 job was to keep it at zero, and I can get seventeen people from 753 00:58:01,239 --> 00:58:05,239 my high school buddies to do this, yeah, it's not Listen, it's 754 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,639 not that hard. Are there are? I don't want to quote the Taylor 755 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:13,239 rule from John Tanuel at Stanford. There's lots of ways that we know about 756 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,079 money supply to keep inflation at zero. But when you also worried about employment, 757 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:21,920 you let inflation run too hard. That's what happened in twenty twenty. 758 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,960 They were worried about a collapse. They should not have been. They should 759 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,840 have been keeping inflation at zero. Well, but in twenty twenty, I 760 00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,480 mean that was such a I mean, you know, the pandemic just I 761 00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:31,960 like to say it. You know, it took the puzzle and just threw 762 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,360 all the pieces in the air we were in. It should have been the 763 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,920 FETs problem to overreact about employment. It should have been the Senators and House 764 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,559 of Representatives people if they wanted to do something, if they wanted to backstop 765 00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:47,880 unemployment, which is all they really had to do, they didn't. They 766 00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:52,239 did much more. The PPP program is full of nothing but fraud. There 767 00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:58,199 are law firms in New England who each partner got fifty six thousand dollars oh 768 00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,880 yeah, yeah, and so they did that. And Donald Trump signed that, 769 00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:05,559 and I was against all of that. But the governor of Florida was 770 00:59:05,599 --> 00:59:07,960 for it. Nikki Haley was for it. The President was for it. 771 00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:12,880 Vice President Pence was for it, like Pompeia was for They were all for 772 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,320 it because a very quick and easy thing to get their friends money. Really 773 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:20,400 rich people took advantage of it. Really more people got a check for fourteen 774 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,440 hundred right, yeah, yeah, and their inflation was four thousand dollars more 775 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:27,159 p year for two years. A few of the rich people did give back 776 00:59:27,159 --> 00:59:30,880 the money but that's just because they got caught. That's true. It's true. 777 00:59:31,159 --> 00:59:35,400 So this is the serious nature of running for president that we're having. 778 00:59:35,559 --> 00:59:38,199 Yeah, that other people I'm having. Can I ask you though about inflation? 779 00:59:38,519 --> 00:59:43,559 And again I'm far from an expert, but isn't a big part of 780 00:59:43,559 --> 00:59:47,079 the problem there's all this price gauging going on and and and by the way, 781 00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:50,159 I have no idea what you do about that, but but it isn't 782 00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:52,880 that a big part of what's going on? Because I feel like, this 783 00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,599 is my perception, there's a lot of price gouging. The mainstream media doesn't 784 00:59:57,639 --> 01:00:00,199 talk about it because you know, they're part of of this, uh, 785 01:00:00,239 --> 01:00:06,480 this corporate ecosystem, because the only way I learned about it is through alternative 786 01:00:06,559 --> 01:00:09,159 alternative media, you know, and these these numbers, and again a lot 787 01:00:09,159 --> 01:00:13,199 of it's over my head. But um, but it seems to me like 788 01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:19,719 so prices have been artificially raised to some degree. The media for the most 789 01:00:19,719 --> 01:00:22,840 part ignores it because like I said, they're they're part of this, this 790 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:29,360 whole corporate apparatus. And then we're just sort of fed this thing um that 791 01:00:29,599 --> 01:00:31,679 uh, you know, and and by the way, I understand, you 792 01:00:31,719 --> 01:00:35,599 know, there's other factors. Suit Like I said, the pandemic really just 793 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:37,800 threw everything up in the air. But but it isn't that isn't that part 794 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,559 of it? The price gouging. No, price gouging is one of the 795 01:00:40,599 --> 01:00:44,960 things that you know, people talk about, but it's really a very small 796 01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:50,880 problem. I mean, for example, look at Tyson Foods recently the President 797 01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,960 Biden said they were price gouging a year ago. The profits are falling off, 798 01:00:54,039 --> 01:00:59,199 the going down, the price is going down. They're not price gouging 799 01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:05,239 now. I gouging among chief executive officers of Lodge corporations. Price gouging the 800 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,480 shareholders been going on for thirty years. They make way too much money. 801 01:01:09,159 --> 01:01:14,440 They and by operating out of China and taking jobs out of Manchester, right 802 01:01:14,519 --> 01:01:16,079 for thirty years. For thirty years, this has been going on. Yeah, 803 01:01:16,159 --> 01:01:21,880 they've been gouging the CEOs and that's been okayed by Republicans and Democrats. 804 01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,559 But price gouging. Listen, the truth is if the price of butter went 805 01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:28,199 up, you'd buy margarine. There's a lot of substitutes for a lot of 806 01:01:28,199 --> 01:01:32,559 things. But what happened is that the money supplied for twenty ten to twenty 807 01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:37,079 twenty, money supply went up at about five percent. What we call the 808 01:01:37,159 --> 01:01:38,599 velocity of money, how many times it turns over, Like if you're in 809 01:01:38,679 --> 01:01:44,280 Venezuela right now, or in Argentina. Argentina inflation one hundred percent. If 810 01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,679 we wake up in Argentina and some of you hand me some Argentina whatever lara 811 01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,199 or whatever they call it, I spend it as quickly as possible because by 812 01:01:52,199 --> 01:01:55,480 the end of the day it's gonna lose ten percent of its value. I'm 813 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:59,519 gonna buy an apple. I'm gonna go We're gonna do it in America. 814 01:01:59,599 --> 01:02:01,960 That's not what's going on. The velocity went down five percent per year. 815 01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,280 Not to get again, I don't want to get two technical, but I 816 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,159 know this stuff. The feder Reserve didn't let the velocity go up because it 817 01:02:08,239 --> 01:02:14,320 paid banks not to lend. So the economy grew slowly, not didn't grow, 818 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,639 it grew slower one of the reasons. But in twenty twenty, money 819 01:02:17,679 --> 01:02:23,440 supply went up twenty percent very quickly. Now just pictures a scene where we 820 01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:29,000 all wake up tomorrow morning. It happens overnight. Everybody's got twenty percent more 821 01:02:29,039 --> 01:02:31,039 money in every bank account. Overnight. Well, the guy who figures it 822 01:02:31,079 --> 01:02:35,800 out first makes out like a Bandit buys that house in Florida. You and 823 01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,039 I show up a month later, like too bad. Prices up, some 824 01:02:39,079 --> 01:02:44,079 prices, some things didn't go up. Then you do have the supply change 825 01:02:44,119 --> 01:02:46,159 problem, right, you have the problem of what's happening out of China. 826 01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:51,639 They closed their economy. We depend way too much on prescription drugs, on 827 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:53,519 things from China. I fight about this. By the way, my movie 828 01:02:53,599 --> 01:02:58,519 is I travel the country this movie. And if you watch Fixing America, 829 01:02:58,639 --> 01:03:01,679 my movie at Amazon, I can for our Facebook viewers. In fact, 830 01:03:01,719 --> 01:03:05,159 I can put the camera on me for a moment and hold it up. 831 01:03:05,199 --> 01:03:07,719 Yeah, you brought me this dvd. Fix in America. This is um 832 01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,519 and this is currently available on Amazon. Correct, sure, Amazon, you 833 01:03:10,519 --> 01:03:13,920 can stream it. It's an old movie. But if if, if, 834 01:03:14,079 --> 01:03:16,239 if you don't show the debt clock to somebody in the movie, you wouldn't 835 01:03:16,239 --> 01:03:20,320 know. I didn't make it yesterday. It's me traveling the United States of 836 01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:25,280 America talking to regular folks like here in Manchester, about China, about the 837 01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:30,159 debt. Yeah, about energy that by the way, that's something I think 838 01:03:30,159 --> 01:03:32,880 everybody can agree on. Uh, you know that we need to rely a 839 01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:39,280 lot less on China for things like prescription drugs and and but here's the problem. 840 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,840 I've been talking about this since two thousand and five public he made a 841 01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:46,519 movie about it. Yeah, my Republican Party is finally sort of coming around 842 01:03:46,519 --> 01:03:51,440 to understand this, right, And the reason it takes so long is that 843 01:03:51,599 --> 01:03:58,280 daring company, Big giant Walmart. They made their CEO so much money in 844 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,920 the backs of workers here in America losing their jobs. But that's how they 845 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,519 did it. Now, it's unusual for Republican to say this, but but 846 01:04:05,599 --> 01:04:09,719 it happens to be the truth. Yeah, And I've been wanting to stop 847 01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,039 this for a long time. And by the way, it's starting to stop 848 01:04:12,039 --> 01:04:15,880 anyway. China became a one person rule company. One person runs that company's 849 01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,960 a dictatorship. Now it's not even a communist party, right, So we're 850 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:26,039 going to be bringing stuff home anyway. This supply chain stuff's stopping like it's 851 01:04:26,079 --> 01:04:29,000 not going to be come from China. So we need to be the leader 852 01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:32,280 in logistics and bring this stuff back to America, Canada, Mexico. Some 853 01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:36,000 stuff is better to be in one of the country's neras but it's better for 854 01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:40,920 Americans because the one thing that's true about manufacturing jobs, and my father was 855 01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:44,360 a toolmaker. I watched him lose his job, lose part of his work 856 01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,159 during the Japanese thing in the seventies, you know, the japan Dam was 857 01:04:47,199 --> 01:04:51,159 taken over the auto manufacturers. Yeah, and so I mean Amber's chain where 858 01:04:51,199 --> 01:04:56,360 he worked. Harry Mbers kept everybody working, but maybe twenty hours a week. 859 01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,360 Sometimes maybe they closed for seven. He wanted to keep everybody there. 860 01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,000 My father was the shop stewart. So I lived this growing up about you 861 01:05:02,039 --> 01:05:04,679 know, I lived it was tight financially, all these kind of things. 862 01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:10,119 Yeah, so, but it never stopped happening because China took over. So. 863 01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:14,920 But but a manufacturing job coming back to America, it's four jobs. 864 01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,039 What do I mean by that? You open up a manufacturing concern over here 865 01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:21,039 to make bicycles, swin bicycle comes back and starts making them over there. 866 01:05:21,039 --> 01:05:26,559 Whatever, Well, someone shows up and serves coffee, right, they need 867 01:05:26,559 --> 01:05:30,719 they need some parts of handles there, some guy up in Littleton, I 868 01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:33,280 don't know where right or or over in bath made or something right. So 869 01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:38,360 a manufacturing job is the biggest job creator and we need them to come back. 870 01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,000 Now. Will they all come back now? I mean, can China 871 01:05:41,039 --> 01:05:43,400 still make T shirts? Great if they want to make T shirts, but 872 01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,920 a lot of high tech stuff has to come back to America. Yeah, 873 01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:49,000 And I'm a guy who buys. By the way, everything you can look 874 01:05:49,039 --> 01:05:51,599 at here is made in America. And I didn't do it for the show. 875 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,320 This This tie was made by bow tizing Vermont. I do think too. 876 01:05:56,519 --> 01:06:00,519 I mean, I would say, you know, obviously you're a Republican, 877 01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:02,519 but I think you can probably reach a lot of Democrats with that message 878 01:06:02,519 --> 01:06:06,159 too, because I do think there's a lot of unanimity on the idea that 879 01:06:06,199 --> 01:06:11,960 we just have to stop depending on China, especially with I hope it doesn't 880 01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,679 come to this ever, but you know, the possibility of war in the 881 01:06:14,719 --> 01:06:17,119 future and so forth, or or if they decide to move on Taiwan and 882 01:06:17,159 --> 01:06:21,719 then we're involved, and which these are nightmare scenarios that I don't like. 883 01:06:23,719 --> 01:06:25,960 As a leader. We have to try to avoid these things, but we 884 01:06:26,039 --> 01:06:30,760 have to. We have to know that missus Jones out here and she needs 885 01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:35,159 tilital or she needs liperto. I don't know what she needs, but we 886 01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:40,159 know that ninety percent of it, the active ingredients and stuff is still made 887 01:06:40,199 --> 01:06:44,920 in China today. Yeah. No, in twenty twenty again the talking politicians, 888 01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,119 the Tom Cotton from the Republican Party, probably a great guy. He 889 01:06:47,199 --> 01:06:50,280 talked and talked and talked about it, and do anything about it. Right. 890 01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,639 So in this country, by the way, and now we're facing medication 891 01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:59,159 shortages. Yes, and that's and that's. This is the kind of stuff 892 01:06:59,199 --> 01:07:01,880 that I know how to. Yeah, that this is what we're talking serious 893 01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:08,039 stuff. So far we're not talking about dastardly democrat. I mean it's gotten 894 01:07:08,079 --> 01:07:12,960 to the point now where there's so many disconnected people they don't think it can 895 01:07:13,079 --> 01:07:16,840 change. It goes to our campaign finance laws. For example, when I 896 01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,280 was making the movie in two thousand and eleven, this is what my conservative 897 01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:23,840 friends always disagree with you about, right Yeah, And I'm a pretty conservative 898 01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,800 guy, by the way, but because I think that's what works. But 899 01:07:27,679 --> 01:07:30,320 when I talk to them about campaign finals laws, and I say, listen, 900 01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,199 I'm going through Youngstown, Ohio. I could have been in nashviewa New 901 01:07:33,199 --> 01:07:36,400 Hampshire. But people generally have, like I don't know, a couple hundred 902 01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,519 bucks they want to put into a campaign over a year if they want to 903 01:07:39,519 --> 01:07:43,239 help somebody. But then they read George Soros on the left has sixty million 904 01:07:43,519 --> 01:07:47,000 for a race and the Koch Brothers on the right have seventy million for a 905 01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:50,679 race, and they're like, what is my fifty bucks going to do? 906 01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:55,800 So that needs to change. That needs to be that, that needs to 907 01:07:55,840 --> 01:08:01,559 stop. It can't be that special interest unknown people five or one C fours 908 01:08:01,639 --> 01:08:05,480 and no one knows who they are. They can't be funding dark money. 909 01:08:05,559 --> 01:08:09,119 Yeah, we just gotta stop it. And maybe it's gonna have to be 910 01:08:09,159 --> 01:08:12,000 something. There's gonna be some limit we got to put on it, you 911 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,480 don't you know what I always say though too about this, and this is 912 01:08:14,519 --> 01:08:18,560 an unpopular opinion. I think that as much as we all complain about it, 913 01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:21,399 um, you know, we talk about it a lot on the show, 914 01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:26,399 I also think though that the American people, we need to take more 915 01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,359 the onus ourselves of actually just doing the research, because it's not hard to 916 01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:32,920 do. I always say, if you go to a like a great website, 917 01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,199 Open Secret Stock or great website, you go to a website like that 918 01:08:36,319 --> 01:08:41,600 and you look up a candidate or someone who's currently in office, and you 919 01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,039 can find out who who Actually it is public information except for the dark money 920 01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:48,600 that you know, the shadowy packs. That's got to go. But but 921 01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:55,000 as far as companies, organizations, law firms that are actively donating to these 922 01:08:55,039 --> 01:08:59,600 campaigns, lobbyists, you can find that out. And I always tell people, 923 01:09:00,119 --> 01:09:03,720 once you know who's donating to these candidates or the people who are currently 924 01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:09,439 in office, once you know that, then you know exactly who they actually 925 01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,279 work for, because they damn sure it don't work for us, that's right. 926 01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:14,439 You know they have it for a long long time, right, I 927 01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,279 mean, you're you're gonna hit the nail on the head. This has to 928 01:09:16,359 --> 01:09:19,359 change. This is about the corruption that goes on. And it's not the 929 01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:24,479 corruption when people get arrested. It's the PPP program, the paypack, it's 930 01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:30,479 that. It's The Wall Street Journal wrote four giant articles starting five months ago 931 01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,640 to like three months ago. They wrote four articles about not even about elected 932 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:38,319 officials, front running trades. Yeah, they wrote about the agency people, 933 01:09:38,359 --> 01:09:41,880 the guys who work at the Department of Energy who meet with Chevron coming in 934 01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,760 and they're gonna allow some drilling or whatever. Twenty six hundred of them front 935 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:50,119 running people who have to show up in front of them publicly traded companies. 936 01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:54,720 So my policy is vastly different, and you won't hear any about to say 937 01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,119 this. Yeah, but we want to align the president, the vice president, 938 01:09:58,159 --> 01:10:01,119 the Congress, the senators, whatever, with the American people. If 939 01:10:01,159 --> 01:10:06,079 all of them couldn't do blind trust, blind trust, really, come on, 940 01:10:06,159 --> 01:10:11,119 if someone they're not blind, it's a joke. Right when Mitt Romney 941 01:10:11,159 --> 01:10:15,880 was running, we heard we suddenly heard that phrase quite a bit, the 942 01:10:15,039 --> 01:10:20,479 silly what if they all had to keep their money at banks like most people 943 01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:24,960 do in the US dollars? Let me ask everybody a question. You think 944 01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,880 they would have paid you zero on your interest from two thousand and nine to 945 01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,439 two thousand and twenty one, or would they paid you three or four percent, 946 01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:36,079 three or four percent like it used to be? The powers that be 947 01:10:36,199 --> 01:10:42,119 by keeping rates too low, took a trillion dollars out of the people listening 948 01:10:42,119 --> 01:10:45,199 to this show over twelve years. The guy who's like, hey, I 949 01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:46,840 got I make sixty grand, but I say forty grand. I want to 950 01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,479 buy a home. I used to you know, that guy used to get 951 01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:53,720 twelve hundred dollars at zero. So the twelve hundred dollars. The missing twelve 952 01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:57,479 hundred dollars didn't allow him to have enough lobbying power to go down to what 953 01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,680 would take him twelve hundred dollars to get a hotel room for two nights to 954 01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,279 go see his congressman. Right, So he didn't do it. But the 955 01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,760 really really rich guy I was like, well, it's the grace thing. 956 01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,960 Ever. Yeah, I own these stocks. They're gonna go up because the 957 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:14,920 alternative investment is zero. He used to be five percent. I own I 958 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,760 owned gold, I owned silver, whatever. They're gonna make a lot of 959 01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:21,199 money. They did. Yeah, but the average American got hosed. So 960 01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:25,720 we stop it. That's what I want to do. These are serious, 961 01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,399 serious things that if we could align. And by the way, I have 962 01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,520 a gift for this. This is what I'm good at. If you would 963 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,119 call people in Rhode Island, say they'll say I didn't like Laughy. You 964 01:11:33,119 --> 01:11:35,359 know, I didn't like him, blah blah blah. They won't say I 965 01:11:35,399 --> 01:11:39,399 was wrong. There's no article that you looked up that some guy said, 966 01:11:39,399 --> 01:11:42,039 you know what, financially he did the wrong thing. There's not an article 967 01:11:42,079 --> 01:11:45,960 that's true. I didn't find one that's true. There was a palace coup, 968 01:11:46,039 --> 01:11:49,119 there was this. There was no article saying, wow, that guy, 969 01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:53,680 he made a bad decision running that trade. There's no there's no article. 970 01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,800 I have a gift for this. I don't have again. I can't 971 01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,840 change a lightbulb. I fell off a lot of I had to finally sell 972 01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,840 my tractor. I could barely drive it. I stink at a lot of 973 01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:09,319 things. But this stuff put in the right person in the right position to 974 01:12:09,399 --> 01:12:13,319 do the best job. That's my gift. Yeah, getting to the heart 975 01:12:13,359 --> 01:12:16,520 of a matter and forcing other people to vote my way, that's my gift. 976 01:12:17,119 --> 01:12:19,239 UM, I want to look at the I don't know if this. 977 01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:23,720 UM. I thought I saw a question for you in the chat room. 978 01:12:24,279 --> 01:12:26,720 Well, you know what I wanted to ask you while I look for that 979 01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,000 is Oh, yeah, it was about um. Someone had asked a question 980 01:12:30,079 --> 01:12:33,800 in here. It's hard to find this a busy chat room today. But 981 01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:41,399 somebody had asked about schools, and you had mentioned home schooling, and I 982 01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:45,319 had read you were talking about it. Is it true? Is it still 983 01:12:45,359 --> 01:12:48,720 your position you want to actually eliminate public schools? Ultimately not tomorrow morning, 984 01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:51,439 But yes, I think that that that let me go let me go through 985 01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:56,079 this with people, because oftentimes, even in New Hampshire, which is by 986 01:12:56,119 --> 01:12:58,840 the way, there are many good schools, I mean, yes, relatively 987 01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,319 good schools, right so yeah, yeah, so, but for the nation 988 01:13:01,359 --> 01:13:03,800 as a whole, by the way, the local people want to keep this 989 01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:08,600 schools go ahead. It's just that the state and the Feds, what are 990 01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:11,840 they really doing? How have they improved things? So think about it. 991 01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:15,520 From nineteen sixty two one, our test scores have gone down. Last week, 992 01:13:16,039 --> 01:13:21,159 our history scores for eighth graders found that thirteen percent, not thirty three. 993 01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:26,920 Thirteen percent of eighth grades in the United States America were proficient in history 994 01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:31,119 knowing who George Washington was. Twenty percent were proficient in civics. Do we 995 01:13:31,159 --> 01:13:34,720 have a democracy? Do we have a monarchy? They didn't know. Now 996 01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:40,960 people listening today may be listening to a school somewhere in New Hampshire were sixty 997 01:13:41,039 --> 01:13:43,359 or sixty five percent of the kids are proficient, which is still, by 998 01:13:43,359 --> 01:13:47,600 the way, terrible, It's terrible. But that means in Denver, Memphis, 999 01:13:48,199 --> 01:13:54,000 Detroit, Jacksonville, we got numbers near zero. Because they get the 1000 01:13:54,079 --> 01:13:58,840 thirteen percent. You've got to have some places like in Los Angeles. In 1001 01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,800 Los Angeles in the pandemic, they didn't know what happened to twenty five percent 1002 01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:09,439 of the kids. So public schools in a totality have failed. Many people 1003 01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:11,800 listening might say, well, what are you talking about? I just saw 1004 01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,079 that episode of Little House in the Prairies and like that. No, or 1005 01:14:15,119 --> 01:14:18,960 they might say to themselves, yeah, what happened to those PTA meetings? 1006 01:14:19,119 --> 01:14:23,359 They don't exist, folks. When I was a kid in the sixties and 1007 01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,399 square dancing in first grade, you know, and the parents were yelling, 1008 01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:30,439 I want little Johnny to blah blah blah, mister Hayes the principal. So 1009 01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,279 you haven't lost my facility yet. I know. I know all my teachers, 1010 01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:36,880 so I'm not too old. So so that that doesn't exist. What 1011 01:14:38,079 --> 01:14:42,880 exists our teachers unions that are way too powerful, right, Sure, some 1012 01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,399 teachers on the paid to some overpaid. I don't want to get into that. 1013 01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:46,560 What I want to tell you is I think a lot of them are 1014 01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:49,600 underpaid. They could very well be, of course they have the summers off 1015 01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:55,319 and blah blah anyway, whatever, But the parents need to get a check 1016 01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:00,880 and we need competition, and especially at the federal level. If you if 1017 01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:04,359 you're someone listening to this and you don't have kids, especially your property taxes 1018 01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:11,600 wherever you live. The largest input is probably schools, but they're averaging twenty 1019 01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:16,359 to twenty three thousand dollars a kid. I homeschooled my kids and put them 1020 01:15:16,359 --> 01:15:19,880 in this and that for four thousand. Catholic schools are doing it for eight. 1021 01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:26,800 I mean the margins of getting a better education and cheaper we can do 1022 01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:30,479 that now at the federal level. Let's all as think about one thing. 1023 01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,720 How do you know that the federal government couldn't kill us? Do you think 1024 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:38,119 they do? Right now? There's something called the internet came around the late 1025 01:15:38,199 --> 01:15:45,359 nineties, and right now today the best algebra one teacher could be for free, 1026 01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:50,880 free on that federal website doing videos talking about why equals MX plus B, 1027 01:15:51,119 --> 01:15:55,640 what the slope is boop. They could do all that for free. 1028 01:15:55,640 --> 01:16:00,800 So when little Johnny or little Isabelle miss got sick or had a pandemic, 1029 01:16:00,199 --> 01:16:04,319 the moms could say, let's just watch this tonight. It doesn't exist, 1030 01:16:05,119 --> 01:16:09,840 they don't have it up there. They'd be bold into the National Teacher Union, 1031 01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,920 who would never allow it. A lot of this could be done for 1032 01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,479 free. Now, am I trying to do away with school sports? I'm 1033 01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:18,600 not listen. This is one of these things that will take years. But 1034 01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:21,359 well, this is a This is a tough sell because a lot of people 1035 01:16:21,399 --> 01:16:26,720 really love their public school system. I. Um, there was a moment 1036 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,720 on the show. This was a few months ago, but it was kind 1037 01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,239 of funny. Rob as a veto who hosts a show here. He came 1038 01:16:32,279 --> 01:16:35,600 in early for his show and he sat and we were talking, and my 1039 01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:40,960 dad called, and my dad's very conservative, he'll he'll probably he'll, he'll 1040 01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,840 probably be very approving of a lot of what you're saying. But he got 1041 01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:47,159 into it was a pretty pretty big moment. Actually, he had into a 1042 01:16:47,159 --> 01:16:51,960 bit of an argument, like a yelling argument with Rob, because you know, 1043 01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:55,960 my dad was talking about the failure of public schools and Rob was saying 1044 01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,680 that his kids have had a great experience in public school and um, and 1045 01:17:01,279 --> 01:17:03,880 I believe that, you know, they've they've done very well and they're going 1046 01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:08,680 off to college and so forth. And I think that, Um, part 1047 01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:14,399 of the problem you run into with this idea is I think that, yes, 1048 01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,840 there obviously there are schools, school systems around the country that are are 1049 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,920 very doing a very poor job. And and that is evidenced by when you 1050 01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:29,920 contrast our numbers of learning proficiency with that of other countries, other modern industrialized 1051 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,359 nations. It's it's it's pretty bad. Um. But there are also school 1052 01:17:34,359 --> 01:17:38,680 systems where where they do a great job. And I'm not sure how you 1053 01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:44,960 how you sell this to parents in school districts who are doing a great job. 1054 01:17:45,159 --> 01:17:47,680 They don't have to. Yeah, if somebody out there in some rural 1055 01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,600 community says we want to keep it and blah blah blah blah blah, but 1056 01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,960 just don't depend on the state for money. While you're depending on the state 1057 01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:58,840 for your kids, you can't. The more things we keep local and not 1058 01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:01,439 federal state, the best off we are. We have a call and my 1059 01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:06,439 dad must have been listening because he's on the line. Hello, Hey, 1060 01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:11,159 Maddie, I love your guests. Your guest is presenting such a I knew 1061 01:18:11,159 --> 01:18:15,239 you wrote information, and uh, I just this is between us. But 1062 01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:19,239 I'm gonna be brief because I want to your guest to have the the opportunity 1063 01:18:19,239 --> 01:18:20,800 to continue. And I know we're right out of the time. I just 1064 01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:28,119 gotta have a meeting, But do you remember, um a debate I had 1065 01:18:28,199 --> 01:18:32,920 with you a little bit, but more with a guest about the perils of 1066 01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,680 public education. Do you remember that one? Well, I just I just 1067 01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,359 referenced it. I assumed that's why you were calling. Yeah, I was 1068 01:18:40,399 --> 01:18:45,159 just telling Steve about that the argument. Uh, And it did become quite 1069 01:18:45,199 --> 01:18:47,279 the argument that you had with Rob as a veto on the show. Yes, 1070 01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,239 Rob, I love and I Rob. I love Rob as of Vito, 1071 01:18:50,279 --> 01:18:54,920 and I didn't know that it was he. I would have taken a 1072 01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:58,119 different tack. But my point is that you've got books out there, like 1073 01:18:58,399 --> 01:19:01,600 uh, your guests probably read them or aware them. Like I just mentioned 1074 01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:08,159 too, Waiting for Superman is a great book by Ton. And then there's 1075 01:19:08,199 --> 01:19:13,520 Golden Book, which I love. It's called Savage Inequality and it goes to 1076 01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:18,359 the issues your guest is talking about public education. In New Hampshire. We're 1077 01:19:18,399 --> 01:19:25,159 doing reasonably well, but not nationwide at all, and that's a disgrace. 1078 01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:30,079 And it's you know, just parenthetically. And this is not to pin roses 1079 01:19:30,119 --> 01:19:33,680 on me or to try to hurt anyone's feelings, but I grew up in 1080 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:40,159 a different world and all of my life experience not perfect by any means, 1081 01:19:40,159 --> 01:19:45,239 of course. But from grammar school to high school to college and graduate schools, 1082 01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,560 I had great mentors and great opportunity for training and education even in the 1083 01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,880 military. You know, I was very, very fortunate. That was a 1084 01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:57,399 grace of God in my judgment. I know we're not a religious program, 1085 01:19:57,399 --> 01:20:00,199 so I'm not gonna go too far. That was. But but we need 1086 01:20:00,239 --> 01:20:09,000 to challenge the issue of public education, which has become more indoctrination and propaganda. 1087 01:20:09,079 --> 01:20:12,279 And these kids can't think. They can't they don't know how to problem 1088 01:20:12,319 --> 01:20:15,479 them solve. They don't know how to ask for help. They don't know 1089 01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:18,520 they're mathematics. You know. I still practice my algebra. Not because I'm 1090 01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:23,800 great at math, guys, but because it's a challenge to help me think 1091 01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:28,680 critically and logically. It's a discipline for me. I don't advise that necessarily 1092 01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,000 for other people, but for me, it works. You know, I 1093 01:20:30,039 --> 01:20:35,079 don't want to. But this goes to elite capture, and there are two 1094 01:20:35,119 --> 01:20:39,000 parts of elite capture. I just want to throw that out for your guests 1095 01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:44,479 too. It's it's more an oblique reference, but it's important and it's related. 1096 01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:48,159 It's germane and that is that you have elite capture A and b A 1097 01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:56,239 is easy to see. It's when a corporation or organization or teachers unions are 1098 01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:02,159 Chinese Communist governments, even Romainian governments. Apparently we still need to know more 1099 01:21:02,319 --> 01:21:08,600 delineate that more foid with Biden. But they try to influence pedal and they 1100 01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:13,039 do. You know, they capture people's behavior and policies through big money. 1101 01:21:13,239 --> 01:21:15,359 But then there are I'm not going to go into the mall but today because 1102 01:21:15,359 --> 01:21:21,039 of time, but there are four other aspects of persuasion and buying, control 1103 01:21:21,399 --> 01:21:28,199 and propaganda. So I'll just mention one of them, and that is the 1104 01:21:28,359 --> 01:21:35,720 separation, purposeful separation of families from the government, particularly the federal government. 1105 01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:44,279 But that includes school boards when people are not included and people don't get involved. 1106 01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,880 You know, two sides of the same a similar coin there. And 1107 01:21:47,239 --> 01:21:55,199 as a result of that, secrets are kept, issues of personal values are 1108 01:21:55,279 --> 01:22:00,560 kept, and education is undermined. So that's elite. Sure, that's a 1109 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:04,840 structure that's not only problematic, but it is pernicious. And you see this 1110 01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:10,279 with that thirteen percent your guests just mentioned. I'm so appalled by that and 1111 01:22:10,359 --> 01:22:14,119 discouraged by that, but I'm not surprised at all. And the twenty percent 1112 01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,319 we need to do so much better. You know, some of these kids. 1113 01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:19,239 When I was in eighth grade, and again it's not meaning by my 1114 01:22:19,319 --> 01:22:24,359 other students too, we had teachers that taught these things. We were interested. 1115 01:22:24,399 --> 01:22:28,720 Our parents reinforced that and demanded that and had a discipline with that. 1116 01:22:29,239 --> 01:22:32,920 We knew who the senators were, We knew how how many states were in 1117 01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:38,359 the union. We knew the three branches of government and we could talk about 1118 01:22:38,399 --> 01:22:43,079 it. We know who wrote the Constitution and why it was important. These 1119 01:22:43,159 --> 01:22:47,000 kids don't know today. So I'm a little bit vindicated on that issue. 1120 01:22:47,039 --> 01:22:51,760 But there are many things we could do, I believe, to improve the 1121 01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:56,840 situation, but we have to have the will and the value system to do 1122 01:22:56,880 --> 01:23:00,159 that. Finally, I just wanted to say, God bless Jenny. We 1123 01:23:00,159 --> 01:23:03,399 don't always agree on some major issues, and I don't call to debate her, 1124 01:23:03,399 --> 01:23:06,920 are you or anything like that, but I am with you guys, 1125 01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:12,319 one hundred percent. I never thought I'd be with Bernie Sanders on anything, 1126 01:23:12,399 --> 01:23:16,840 frankly, but we need to have one a system in this country where everyone 1127 01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:21,000 gets medical care. Uh, these insurance companies have abused it. I've been 1128 01:23:21,039 --> 01:23:25,439 slow to come to this conclusion, but I'm there now with you, guys, 1129 01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:28,960 So kudos to you. I'll stop there, guys. Great show, 1130 01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,560 matt I love the way you take a balanced position on these issues is very 1131 01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,520 sophisticated. I'm very proud of you. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that. 1132 01:23:36,119 --> 01:23:39,079 I assume you were talking to me, or did you mean Steve? 1133 01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,680 Actually, actually I was talking to you. You're my son, Mattie, 1134 01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:46,720 and I think Steve is a distant relative. I think I may be a 1135 01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:53,520 great uncle or something. The work you're doing, well, we're gonna we're 1136 01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:57,520 gonna get this across to America. And your dad's a very wise man. 1137 01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:00,560 You mean, one you learn over time. And the bottom line for education 1138 01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:03,640 is simply this, with these kind of test scores that keep going lower, 1139 01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:09,880 what does everybody else want to do? That's the same time, I mean, 1140 01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:13,479 we have Republican governors who want to take the wokeness out of schools. 1141 01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:16,359 God God bless him. That'll six That'll fix three percent of the problem. 1142 01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:20,560 The problem is right now your dad talking, is that there's a guy like 1143 01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:24,399 your dad. I don't know what he did the kids named Steve Lampy. 1144 01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:28,039 He's sitting in Detroit right now, he's sitting in Memphis, he's sitting somewhere 1145 01:24:28,039 --> 01:24:31,359 in Manchester. And he's either really smart and get ahead, but no one's 1146 01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:35,439 letting him get ahead. By the way, the three kids I homeschool because 1147 01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:40,880 of the cancer in my family. One of them is the youngest Admitia cars 1148 01:24:41,079 --> 01:24:43,680 State University in the history of the university, at the age of twelve, 1149 01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,479 so he wasn't held back the other one by one. He was only two 1150 01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:54,319 years older there. So listen, we can we have to change this thing 1151 01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,800 radically. We can't wake up. We're gonna wake up next year and I'm 1152 01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,840 gonna be on the show and you I'm gonna tell you about the new math 1153 01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:03,159 scores that are lower. And someone's gonna call in and say, oh, 1154 01:25:03,199 --> 01:25:05,760 we can't do that. Our schools are pretty good. We'll keep ump. 1155 01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:11,159 But I want to check for every mom and dad so they can make the 1156 01:25:11,239 --> 01:25:13,720 choice. And here's the math that the unions always do. Oh, you're 1157 01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:16,840 gonna take our best students. Do the math? Folks, if at seven 1158 01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:21,840 thousand dollars a kid out of a hundred kids in one school and ninety leave 1159 01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:27,479 and there's ten left. Heck, you can give him all forty grand and 1160 01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:32,800 save money for taxpayers and get better education for all. We're so d Dad. 1161 01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:34,880 We gotta let you go in a second. Just a quick question though, 1162 01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:40,359 before you go. Are you are you prepared now publicly to dump Trump 1163 01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:45,159 and endorse Steve Laughy. I just want to hear you saying yeah, yes, 1164 01:25:45,279 --> 01:25:51,840 I am, yes, yeah, send me some material, you know. 1165 01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:57,199 I gotta say, just very critically quickly. I do like uh Vivic 1166 01:25:57,279 --> 01:26:00,159 Lamaswami. Have you guys listened to him at all? Ye, yes, 1167 01:26:00,239 --> 01:26:03,319 I have to get into it. But he's a very smart guy. But 1168 01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:06,880 lots of stuff he comes up with doesn't solve the problem, like having the 1169 01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:11,960 FED look at commodities, but we're not gonna look at commodities. We're gonna 1170 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,239 keep it at zero. But the importance, but the important thing is Dad, 1171 01:26:15,319 --> 01:26:18,560 you have you have said you are willing to dump Trump and Okay, 1172 01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:28,000 well we gotta go. Purpose that's right. I know it's all right Dad. 1173 01:26:28,039 --> 01:26:30,119 Well we do have to go, though, But thank you for the 1174 01:26:30,159 --> 01:26:32,760 call. I appreciate it, my pleasure or not. Thank you for your 1175 01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:36,560 guests. Wonderful presentation. All right, love you all right, by bye? 1176 01:26:38,119 --> 01:26:41,159 All right. That was my dad, Martin Connerton. I do want 1177 01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:45,239 to get this in Steve just quickly because a few people brought it up in 1178 01:26:45,239 --> 01:26:48,800 the chat room concern about um in terms of education kids with disabilities, if 1179 01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:54,760 we go to a primarily a homeschool model, they're probably listening and that kind 1180 01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:58,479 of that kind of model, we're gonna have to listen. As an eighteen 1181 01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:02,279 year old kid, I was president Student Council Ranston East. Joe Ventetula walks 1182 01:27:02,319 --> 01:27:06,279 in and we're integrating special needs students. We had different names for it back 1183 01:27:06,279 --> 01:27:10,840 then, and he's like, you know what, you're the president student council. 1184 01:27:11,159 --> 01:27:14,760 No one makes fun of these kids down syndrome and so forth. Yeah. 1185 01:27:15,039 --> 01:27:15,520 So, by the way, we had a great year. We did, 1186 01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,640 and I got all the clicks together, the greed what we would call 1187 01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,520 greasers and you know, hockey players, and we just made sure we had 1188 01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:25,039 a great ear kids with doing stuff. Yeah. Listen, in the end, 1189 01:27:25,119 --> 01:27:29,840 we're always gonna be left with people that really really need our help, 1190 01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:32,239 and we'll got to spend the money to help them. Yeah, and that's 1191 01:27:32,239 --> 01:27:35,680 going to be a special situation. But here's the problem with what the federal 1192 01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:40,720 government does. They go like this with the PPP program. My arms are 1193 01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:43,800 as wide as I can. Instead of saying, you know what with a 1194 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:45,960 rifle, what do we really need to do? I figured, of rifle, 1195 01:27:46,239 --> 01:27:48,720 what do we need to do to help? So we're always going to 1196 01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:53,279 help the special needs kids, the kids who have down syndrome, we're gonna 1197 01:27:53,319 --> 01:27:56,520 put We're not gonna put them away so we don't see them. They're gonna 1198 01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,880 be out in front, and we'll have extra money to spend on them so 1199 01:28:00,119 --> 01:28:01,680 they have the fullest life. And by the way, I grew up with 1200 01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:05,279 families that had these situations. Now I had different situations. I had schizophrenia 1201 01:28:05,279 --> 01:28:08,479 in my family. I had a lot of different things going to my family. 1202 01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:13,000 Right. Yeah, my brother tried to burn down the Institutentmental Health in 1203 01:28:13,079 --> 01:28:15,920 Cranston, Rhode Island while I was the mayor. Wow, you got locked 1204 01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:20,000 up in a psychiotic ward for criminally in saying oh howny many years wow. 1205 01:28:20,239 --> 01:28:25,039 So I know this stuff, right, It's not like I'm trying to ignore 1206 01:28:25,079 --> 01:28:27,079 it, but when it comes to that kind of stuff, we are. 1207 01:28:27,279 --> 01:28:30,680 But let's have the extra money to target on special needs, not wasting it 1208 01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:34,000 left and right. And by the way, these eighth grade kids should be 1209 01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:36,800 deciding like they do in Germany in many respects. Hey, you know what, 1210 01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:41,680 I don't want to do algebra two. I'm gonna fix cars. Why 1211 01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:45,640 not? Right, what we do is we keep taking the square peg and 1212 01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:48,600 we kind of keep jamming these round holes. Right, the square peg can't 1213 01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:53,760 go into these round holes. Let's find a better situation for the kids. 1214 01:28:57,199 --> 01:28:59,439 We're Yeah, we are about out of time. I feel like we just 1215 01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:02,520 barely at the surface. So well, if we'll have to have you on 1216 01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:06,680 again soon. Are you in New Hampshire, I'm Steve Laughy. I'm in 1217 01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,960 New Hampshire. I've been here since off and on since February twenty fifth. 1218 01:29:11,079 --> 01:29:14,319 Yeah, I don't have any intention of leaving. We're gonna make it on 1219 01:29:14,359 --> 01:29:16,960 the ballot and we're gonna make our We're gonna make our breakthrough the way Herman 1220 01:29:17,039 --> 01:29:19,760 Kaine did in Florida in twenty eleven, who became a friend of mine. 1221 01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:24,680 Which is why I have the nine tax plane at Steve Laughey dot com and 1222 01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:28,840 um because we need a simple system that people can understand it. It works 1223 01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:30,760 and we collect a lot more money. But I'm gonna be in New Hampshire. 1224 01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:33,479 I'm here, I'm just here. Yeah, I'd love to have at 1225 01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,560 it again. I'd love to have an in depth conversation with you about healthcare. 1226 01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,199 Um. You know, Jenny is uh, you know, as as 1227 01:29:40,239 --> 01:29:42,720 my dad referred to and as I mentioned earlier in the show, Jenny is 1228 01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:45,560 in Washington, DC right now. We probably disagree on that, but you 1229 01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:49,199 know we support she and I and my dad too at this point, support 1230 01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:54,399 socialized medicine. But I know you have a lot of ideas about healthcare. 1231 01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:58,000 Um, so i'd love to talk to you about that and renewable energy and 1232 01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,920 some other things. So yeah, well we'll do the again. We'll do 1233 01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,039 this again soon. And um and you got my dad to say that he'll 1234 01:30:04,119 --> 01:30:09,680 dump dump Trump, so that's good. I'm not I don't know how you 1235 01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:13,199 feel about I'm not a fan. No, while you're running against him, 1236 01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:15,800 so I'm running against him, and I think I think a lot of it 1237 01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,520 is marketing. And listen, as a conservati there were some good things that 1238 01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:23,960 happened if you're a conservative person like myself, But it's but running. But 1239 01:30:24,079 --> 01:30:27,840 listen to everybody listening who hasn't yet dumped Trump. President Trump, I try 1240 01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:32,119 to be respectful. We if you're listening in your conservative we were totally against 1241 01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:38,880 Barack Obama's eight trillion dollar deficits over eight years, and many of them not 1242 01:30:39,039 --> 01:30:43,720 me. I was always against him, never voted for Donald Trump. We 1243 01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:48,439 were okay with eight trillion dollars deficits in four years, and now we're not 1244 01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:53,199 okay with Biden's less than that in four years. But we're not okay with 1245 01:30:53,239 --> 01:30:55,640 any of it. We want to shut down the Government's not that, that's 1246 01:30:55,640 --> 01:31:00,760 it. We we have no credibility Republicans. Listen, Let's get back to 1247 01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:06,319 the basics, and that means stuff. I'm talking about, real solutions and 1248 01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:11,600 acknowledge that some people won't like it. Well, I always say Republicans only 1249 01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:15,199 care about the debt and deficits when there's a Democrat in office. You got 1250 01:31:15,239 --> 01:31:17,760 it. I care about it every day because I am no I have no 1251 01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:23,159 debt. I don't have any debt. I always run surpluses. Yeah, 1252 01:31:23,159 --> 01:31:25,279 I know, you got to end the show, but yeah, it's Steve 1253 01:31:25,359 --> 01:31:29,000 Laughy dot com. By the way, I'm the only website with this hundreds 1254 01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:30,920 of hours of stuff you want to hear about me and Ariel Sharone. I 1255 01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:33,720 got an hour on that. I don't know why anybody would, but I 1256 01:31:34,399 --> 01:31:39,319 didn't take anything down. What I've said for a long time, I still 1257 01:31:39,319 --> 01:31:43,479 say it. Well all right, well yeah, so we will. We 1258 01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:46,159 will have you back, and thank you for coming in. Wonderful to meet 1259 01:31:46,159 --> 01:31:48,640 you. I actually have I actually have a song. I'm gonna close. 1260 01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:53,399 I picked a special song for you. This is a little weird, but 1261 01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:56,560 there was a hip hop group called d Foelle and they had a song called 1262 01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:00,680 Laffy Taffy. And I was reading about you online and I saw that when 1263 01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:05,600 you were running for mayor, you gave out laughy taffy at a campaign event. 1264 01:32:05,880 --> 01:32:09,680 At a campaign event, I bought a crate of it, did you. 1265 01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:12,399 Yeah, it's too long to tell you. Yeah, yeah, but 1266 01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:16,359 lay became. So let's just put it this way. In Cranston walking behind 1267 01:32:16,399 --> 01:32:20,199 some kids with my kids, and one kid in front says, hey, 1268 01:32:20,359 --> 01:32:25,119 what's with this laughy taffy? This year? Why that was the yard won 1269 01:32:25,159 --> 01:32:28,239 the election? There you go. That might have been around when the song 1270 01:32:28,319 --> 01:32:31,439 came out. Actually it's a terrible song, but I just I thought I 1271 01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:33,800 thought it was funny, so yeah, let's go with it. Well, 1272 01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,520 we'll end with this, but thank you, thank you again, Steve, 1273 01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:42,359 thank you very much for having me absolutely Republican candidate for the presidency Steve Laughy. 1274 01:32:42,399 --> 01:32:46,840 And thank you again to a Yuri from from the band uh. Let 1275 01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:50,880 make sure I get the name right this time from the band Oberon who skyped 1276 01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:54,800 in all the way from Italy. During the first hour. If you miss 1277 01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:56,760 any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit of 1278 01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:00,880 WMH radio dot org and in my website Matt Connorton dot com. And tomorrow 1279 01:33:01,079 --> 01:33:06,800 is Wednesday, which means in the first hour will be joined by Eric Pilcher 1280 01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:12,920 as he's doing a new segment with us on Wednesdays where we talk about media. 1281 01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:16,119 And then in the second hour we have a musical guest, Horsefly Gulch. 1282 01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:20,760 We'll be joining us and they are coming in live in studio. So 1283 01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:24,239 that's going to do it for us for now. Oh and if you're listening 1284 01:33:24,279 --> 01:33:28,199 live on Tuesday, coming up next immediately after this show is through the Stage 1285 01:33:28,199 --> 01:33:31,039 Store hosted by Rob Dyon, and then at seven pm, a replay of 1286 01:33:31,079 --> 01:33:36,359 Friday Night's retro Spectrum Radio with Pauli c and Steve Laughy. Thank you again 1287 01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:40,119 and here's a little bit of Laughy taffy for you.