Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast.
It is Monday. Today is the thirtieth day of June,
Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. My name is
Tom Sullivan. So there's a lot to go over today.
There's news of the day and all of that. But
there are some things that I've been collecting over the
last few days that I wanted to talk to you about.
And they're just they're just odd things from the news
over the weekend that maybe people missed. Where do we
start here, Oh, let's let's start with Warren Buffett. Warren
Buffett announced that he is donating six billion dollars to
five Foundations. I've talked about this before and it's nice,
and I have no bone to pick with Warren Buffett whatsoever,
but everybody talks about, you know, what a wonderful man
he is, and how generous and everything else. You Oh,
he donated six billion dollars worth of his company's stock
to five Foundations, And I want to emphasize if you're
reading the story, it goes by rather quickly, but he
did not donate six billion dollars. No, he donated six
billion dollars of his company stock Berkshire Hathaway. The reason
why the reason why he donated company's stock is because
I'm sure that the original cost of that stock was
some small number when he first got the stock many
many years ago when he started the company. So today
there is a giant tax on the sale of that stock.
If you were to sell that stock, you would pay
an enormous tax on that. But he's not stupid, and
he certainly has good tax advisors. If you donate the stock,
here's what happens. You don't have to pay the tax
on the appreciation and the value of the stock from
whatever it was that he first got the stock, So
no tax on that. Secondly, is whoever he donated it
to gets to turn around and sell it tomorrow, and
they would not have any game because they will pick
it up at whatever the value was on the date
that they received the stock, which would be today, and
they sell it tomorrow, they're probably no gain, no tax,
so they avoid huge amounts of tax. And the code
of gras out of all of this is Warren Buffett
gets a six billion dollar deduction on his tax return. Yeah, well,
you donate to charity, that's a deductible item. And he
donated to Wink Wink charities, which we'll get into here
in just a second. But he's been doing this for years.
He actually started back in two thousand and six. I'm
sure his financial advisor said, you need to start a
process of handing off some of the huge ownership that
you have. A bricure Hathaway, Oh he still has. This
is nothing. Six billion is nothing. So it will be
the stock with delivered today. They own you know, Geico,
they own Dairy Queen, they own all kinds of businesses.
And the largest part is going to Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. Okay, then another part we'll go to the
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. That's Buffett must be is that
his daughter? I'm not sure. The next group that will
get a big chunk is the Howard Buffett Foundation, which
is awesome. It's just I know that's his son. And
then there's another group of Novo Foundation. They receive us
the smallest portion, but what they're do. What you do
is you start a foundation and you donate money to
your foundation. Now your foundation has your money and you're
in charge, or your daughter's in charge, or your son's
in charge, and they're obviously going to manage the money
the way that you would like them to do so,
and you get a deduction for donating the money to
your children. You don't have to pay tax on the
huge appreciation, so it's appreciated a bazillion percent, I'm sure.
And instead he doesn't have to pay a penny and
he gets the deduction for the full value of the
stock that. I just wanted to pass that all because it's,
like I said, I don't have a bone to pick
with Howard. I'm sorry that's the sun with Warren Buffett,
but I just want you to know that these things
are not as generous as you might think. There's a
lot of personal wealth management involved, especially when you have
that kind of money. I got another story out of California,
and this one headline is California closes twelve billion dollar
deficit by cutting back immigrants access to healthcare. I know
that people are coming out of their shoes about the
Republicans and the fact that they're cutting back. They're cutting people,
They're cutting all the poor people. I've heard twelve million,
I've heard twenty million people that are going to lose
their health care benefits because the Republicans and the big
beautiful bill will cut them out and screaming about it.
But nobody, nobody is saying a peep about a Democrat governor.
This guy, the California governor. They're going to they got
a problem, they got a twelve billion dollar deficit. They
have to solve it. And so this is the third
year in the row that they have been forced to
slash funding or stop some of the programs that have
to do with some healthcare expansion. This is for low
income adult immigrants without legal status. In other words, they're illegals.
And California was beating their chest about how proud they
were of the fact that they were going to go out.
We're going to help them out. I'll tell you, we
welcome these illegals to our state. After all, we're a
sanctuary state, they say. So they offered them free medical
all they get a whole bunch of water marias that
come across the border and they go to California. Hey,
we're going to get free medical and they get there
and this is the third year in the row that
they've bringnegged on that. So they promised it, but they well,
I agree with them. I don't think the illegals should
get taxpayer benefited healthcare. Taxpayers have a hard enough time
paying taxes. But I just thought you should know that
they're in the process and for the third year in
a row, cutting healthcare for illegals. Yes, this isn't the
only thing. Hold on here, let me find there's another article.
This one came out of cal Matters, and I got
to tell you, I don't know if a lot of
people know about cal Matters, but I think the world
of it. Dan Walters, who I have just enormous respect for,
is I'm not sure if he's the senior guy there,
but he writes for cal Matters. It's cal Matters calmatters
dot org. So what he talks about is that California
is cooking the books to hide their twenty one billion
dollar deficit. They have adopted to hide the pe approach
to budgeting, relying on reserves and loans and payments to
conceal the fact that they've got a twenty one billion
dollar deficit going. This is a Dan Walters column at
cal Matters, and he writes legislative leaders would have his
believe that the budget agreement they forged with the governor
is noteworthy, even heroic, responding to problems caused by Donald Trump.
Of course they're blaming Trump for their overspending in California anyway.
Summary of the three hundred and twenty one billion dollar
agreement declares, through the work of the legislature and the governor,
the budget was once again stabilized. So it goes on
to pat themselves on the back and everything else. But
there's a problem with all of this. It's fictional. They
conjured up to mask the fact that Newsome and the
legislators have been overspending revenues for three years, ever since
the governor erroneously declared that the state had an almost
one hundred billion dollar surplus. And this was long before
the fires at LA and long before Donald Trump was
even inaugurated. So they are using tricks to try to
make you think they're doing a good job. So what
they've done is they've used direct and indirect loans to
the general fund from special funds that set aside for
specific purposes. The accounting Democrat takes several forms. They've delayed
a two billion dollar support for community colleges and for schools. Yeah,
we don't need the money for schools and education, and
one to their states doing so poorly in education, so
they've shifted that from one fiscal gear to another. They
also have other maneuvers called solutions. They don't solve anything.
They basically just stave off a day of reckoning when
they run out of tricks. So, as Dan Walters writes,
the state has adopted the same hide the pee approach
to budgeting that the federal government employees, one that has
resulted in multi trillion dollar national debt. But this is
what the state cannot do that they don't have a
printing press. They have to balance their books, and they're
using tricks to do so, and they're cutting off schools,
and they're cutting off the promise to illegals for medical care.
Just whether you agree or disagree, I just thought, I
just thought you should know. That's all. What else do
we have on our overall list here today? Randy Winingarten
the head of the what union is that that the
National Teach American Federation of Teachers president. She's been the
president there for a long long time. I've known about her.
I know that the teachers' unions support candidates that then
get elected and then when they go to negotiate for
teacher salaries. It's all a quid pro quo. But I
did not know that Randy Weingarten was on the board
of the Democrat National Committee twenty three years, so her
departure is apparently quite a shock. Winegarden has wielded influence
as an at large member of the DNC, stepping aside
on June fifth. In a resignation letter, she said, I
appear to be out of step with the leadership you
are forging. That's to the new head, Ken Martin. The
new head of the DNC. She endorsed David Hogg's effort
to primary Democrats who were too old or not sufficiently progressive,
so she was on board with him, but the rest
of the he threw him out. So Randy Whitgarden, I
had no idea she was on the board of the
Democrat National Committee. I mean, I'm not surprised, but it's startling.
Still the same, it just is. Oh and speaking of Washington,
ran across this over the weekend article by Politico Dead
members of Congress can't stop posting. Yep, the guy who's
the new apparent victor in the Democrat primary in New
York City zoron ma'am Donnie. So he gets. He wins
the Democrat primary last Tuesday, and lo and behold. On Instagram,
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee liked the post congratulating him on
his win. Only problem is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee died
a year ago. I don't know, I don't Yes, she's
not the only deceased lawmaker who is still working. Congressman's
Sylvester Turner, a Democrat who filled Sheila Jackson Lee's Texas
seat for two months and then he died. So he
appears if you go to his to his congressional site,
it's his photo is still there. He looks like he's
still working. Let's see who else do we have? Oh yeah,
Jerry Connolly, the Virginia Democrat. He died in May. He
also apparently continues to make waves beyond the grave. His
political social media account is working every day. He endorsed
the former chief of staff for his position because he
was stepping down because he knew he was terminally ill.
So he's endorsed him now after he died. He also
has a mailing list and apparently, if you're on Congressman
Connolly's mailing list. You're still receiving emails from the congressman
even though he passed away in May. It goes on.
They're just so this makes you wonder people we talk
about Joe Biden and whether Joe Biden was cognizant or not,
was he doing his job or not. We have dead
members of Congress that are communicating with their constituents as
if they're alive, and people in Washington apparently don't seem
to have a problem with any of this. It's just
did the Bizarro column that I've got today, just a
lot of this kind of thing going on. I don't
know what else we got. We got a lot of
news of the day we need to get to as well,
and we have some of your phone calls we'll play
as we go through the podcast today. So let's see
where do you want to start. Well, let's start with
the New York City mayor. The marriage race has now
come down to over the weekend, Andrew Cuomo, the former
governor who resigned in disgrace. He was beaten by this man, Donna.
I don't even know how to pronounce it. Mam Dana,
Mam Dana, ma'am Danny. That's it, zoron Mam Danny. So
he won and he beat Andrew Cuomo. So Andrew Cuomo
over the weekend said no, actually, I'm not stepping aside.
I'm going to run as an independent. So he's in
the race. Eric Adams, well he was a Democrat but
he wants to get re elected, so now he's running
as an independent. So there's two independents and it's this
guy's name, Zoran ma'am Danny is the Democrat and the
head of the Guardian Angels has been the Republican mayoral
candidate for I don't remember how long, probably twenty years.
So he's yeah, he loses every time. So there's going
to be at least four major candidates for mayor and
that election isn't until November. But in the meantime, Iran
man Damny is getting all kinds of publicity out there.
Doug Hay, who is a Republican strategist, was on CNN
early this morning. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Republicans feel that there's a real opportunity
with this statement and obviously other things that Mumdani has said.
The Republican Governors Association is going to is this in
the New Jersey governor's race. That's the same media market.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is going to use this
in targeted races throughout the country. They look at what
happened in New York City as an opportunity for them
to highlight how far left the Democratic Party has gone.
Speaker 1: What he's talking about is that Zaron Mandammy was on
Meet the Press yesterday and instead, I don't think we
should have billionaires. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3: Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?
Speaker 4: I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly,
it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,
and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across
our city and across our state and across our country.
And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires,
to make a city that is fairer.
Speaker 5: For all of them.
Speaker 1: Then he went on to talk about the fact that
he supports his statement that he's made before about globalizing
the DAFADA. Listen to what he has to say about that.
Speaker 3: Why not just condemn it. My concern is.
Speaker 6: To start to walk down the line of language and
making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible,
takes me into a place similar to that of the president,
who is looking to do those very kinds of things,
putting people in jail for writing an op ed, putting
them in jail for protesting. Ultimately, it's not language that
I use. It's language I understand there are concerns about
and what I will do is showcase my vision for
the city through my words and my action.
Speaker 1: So the question about the phrase global into fada, it
is a pro Palestinian slogan calls for a worldwide support
for Palestinian resistance against Israel. The term tafada is Arabic
means uprising or shaking off, and it refers to Palestinian
uprisings against Israel. The call to globalize it suggests extending
these uprisings beyond the Palestinian territories. This slogan has sparked controversy,
with some viewing it as a call for violence and
anti Semitism, while others see it as a call for
solidarity and nonviolent resistance. So he acknowledges that it is sensitive.
Speaker 3: By the way, there.
Speaker 1: Are more Jewish people living in New York City than
any other place in the world other than Israel, and
Jewish groups have criticized the slogan for inciting violence and
anti Semitism. So take your guests exactly. Wow, how this
guy actually feels about supporting the term and he won't
deny it about the fact that he supports the term
globalized the Intifada. Ricky Richie Torres is a Democrat congressman
represents the Bronx. And did I say he's a Democrat
New York City Democrat And this was his reaction to
what is now the Democrat nominee for the race for mayor.
Speaker 5: I strongly disagree. No one's advocating for imprisonment. I mean,
every elected official has an obligation to condemn hatred, whether
it's anti Semitism or is lomophobia. You know, the second
into Fada refers to a wave of terror attacks, suicide
bombings and slashings and stabbings that left more than a
thousand Israelis and Jews dead. And so when one uses
the word into fada, it causes profound pain and trauma
to the Jewish community. It is deeply offensive. Every elected official,
without exception, should condemn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mentioned that that was a Democrat congressman from
New York City. He represents the Bronx Richie Torres. Then
another congressman from New York City happens to be the
minority leader of the House of Representatives, Jakim Jeffries. This
was his reaction.
Speaker 7: We don't really know each other well, our districts don't overlap.
I have never had a substantive conversation with him. Globalizing
the Antifada by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing.
He's going to have to clarify his position on that
as he moves forward.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help laughing because I if it's right out
of a Donald Trump playbook. When there's somebody that you
don't want to be associated with. I don't know the guy,
never met him. Do you believe Hakeem Jeffries has never
talked to zoron Mam Danny. He's a state assemblyman with
his district is in Queens. Hakim jeffries congressional district is
in Brooklyn. You don't need to know the geography of
New York City to know Queens is next to Brooklyn.
So of course you know they know each other. You
know they've talked and well, maybe not, because it doesn't
sound like Hawkeem Jeffries is just like Ritchie Torris doesn't
want anything to do with this guy. So those are
two New York City representatives that from the Democrat side
of the aisle that looked like they are trying to
distance themselves from this guy. But man, he had he
won easily in his race. So the people, well, it
wasn't a big turnout, so a very small group of
people were the ones responsible for giving Zoran man Danny
the win in the Democrat primary. Switching subjects, you want
to I don't want to dwell on this because we
beat it to death last week. But they're still they're
still going around about whether or not Iron's no clear
facilities were damaged or not. CNN is still saying, well, well,
they looked like maybe they're they're really they're spending a
lot of time back pedaling. We we reported what we
were right, We were right another word. Jack Team has
the very latest observation about this debate.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I rely primarily on Israeli intelligence and the
United States intelligence and providing us you know what their
assessment is. There's lots of opinions out there, but not
all of them are fact based, and I think we're
somewhere between what has happened in Aron's total nuclear program
severely damaged to completely destroyed and depending on what site
we're dealing with and what that means. In the CIA's
conclusion and also in the Israeli's Intelligence service conclusion that
the program is set back a number of years now.
New information will be gathered as we go forward here,
but I think one of the things we absolutely have
to conclude here is the Iranians, remember, never were serious
about negotiations because they always thought they could survive an airstrike,
recover and rebuild, regardless of whether we're completely destroyed, civility damage,
or somewhere in between. I am absolutely convinced that the
Iranians have not given up the idea of having a
nuclear weapon. And why is that. It's because it preserves
their regime. It's the number one reason why they have it.
The other thing is to use it to destroy Israel.
So if that's the case, then they're going to assess,
and I think that assessment is going on now. They
have to get under the ground to see what truly
has happened, and they'll begin to recover and it will
begin to rebuild. And when we see that happening, we
should hit them again and don't let it get to
enriched uranium close to weaponization.
Speaker 3: Get it right, get them down right from the start.
Speaker 1: And that aligns with what the Washington Post was reporting
that they believe that the Iranian leaders have been talking
and they've been picking them up on signal surveillance, and
the Iranian leaders are talking about downplaying the damage and
the fact that they want to get stopped started again
and they'll never stop enriching. That's exactly what Jack Keen
was just talking about. They're still wanting to regain their power.
But will it take two weeks? I doubt it, two months,
I doubt it a couple of years. They're going to
keep crying. And did you hear what Jack Keene said.
He says, if they do, you got to stop them
right away. Then there was talk about Israel and Hamas
and there may be a breakthrough in some sort of
peace agreement there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think there's two things there.
Speaker 8: He's also talking about regional possibilities in terms of Abraham Accords,
so he didn't mention it in terms of normalization of
relationship with Israel by the Arab states in the region.
But the temporary ceasefire is most likely sixty days is
what we're talking about in terms of ceasefire, about half
of the alive hostages ten or twelve being released of
the twenty and obviously some of the ones who are deceased,
and a prisoner exchange coming out of Israeli's detention centers.
But the second deal, which is not being discussed publicly,
is the end of the war deal. And this is
something that the Israelis in the past really never put
on a table seriously, but they are now talking about
it and it does have some momentum. The first deal
I just discussed is the most likely to take place,
but this other one has some legs to it for
the first time.
Speaker 3: And what is it.
Speaker 8: It means Israelis would move to the periphery of Gaza,
eliminate all of their outposts, at least to part those
house posts, all the corridors we've talked about in the past.
They are on the periphery Hamas the leadership goes into exile.
In other words, they lead hamases demilitarized. That'd be tough
one to keep track up and then the fourth thing
is there's a consortium of Arabs states who would put
together this consortium and they would be the governing body
in Gaza. And obviously all hostages would be released alive
and deceased in exchange for some kind of prisoners that
is being discussed. It has obstacles, to be sure, but
the fact that the Israelis are serious about that in
discussions I think as newsworthy, and I think probably one
of the reasons for that is the enormous success of
their campaign against Iran supported by the United States, and
Iran is certainly on its knees and really taken off
the board here as a major player, and that gives
them opportunities also obviously a deal with a much weakened
proxy in Hamas and a decapitated proxy in Hesbal as well.
Speaker 1: And then there's this, It's the tragic story out of Courtlaine, Idaho.
And for those of you who don't know about Quartlaine,
it is way up in the Panhandle, very top of Idaho.
It is gorgeous, it is beautiful country. There is a
big lake, Cordelaine Lake or Lake Cordelaine, however they pronounce it.
There it is absolutely beautiful. But I remember going back
decades going over to that area. It was then all
of a sudden, became the world headquarters for all these
alt groups, skinheads, you name it, that, big anti government groups.
And I'm not talking about somebody. I mean, I criticized
the government, but I'm talking about no serious organizations. And
they were headquartered in Cordelaine. They picked this beautiful area.
And so are there anti government people there? There always
has been. They've just id'd the guy. This was shooting
over the weekend where it was suspected that this shooter
stet of fire fire department was called and he was
waiting to ambush them. Killed two firefighters, uh seriously injured
a third who is in stable condition after surgery. Today
they've identified the guy as a twenty year old yew.
The guy was I don't even want to give his
name out because I don't want to give him the
public' So a twenty year old guy who was found
dead after a multi agency manhunt in the area. SWAT
officers and others came in and found this one guy. Why,
we don't know. Here's a little bit of the recording
from Broadcastify with some of the first responders finding the
firefighters already shot.
Speaker 9: Right now, doesn't let the shoot her.
Speaker 10: Don't down.
Speaker 9: BC runs down everybody's spot ut here out here we
left him wont responsor, but and she's gun traveled, multiple gunshots.
She called nine five five it down. We'd run for
figuring it up here with your prodcast. So we get
to the two enged out. I'm him down behind Battalion
Willings rig. It's clear to me that this pile was
sending him.
Speaker 1: Charles Rams, a former Philadelphia and Washington d C. Police commissioner,
had these observations.
Speaker 11: Well, obviously they've got to identify the suspect.
Speaker 3: They probably already have.
Speaker 11: That'll lead to search warrants being conducted at a home,
in a vehicle, interviewing family friends, finding his social media footprint,
doing everything they can to try to find out the motive.
You know, why did he do this? I mentioned earlier
that they were able to trace him through his cell phone.
That's one of the technologies that obviously they would have
to use, hopefully to be able to pinpoint his location
early on before he can do a more DAMA. So
there are a lot of things going on right now
trying to really pinpoint the reason why best they can
and also determine his cause of depth that he commits suicide.
Was he killed by police? It definitely was a deadly
forced situation. So either way, at least he's not in
a position to be able to hurt anyone else. Well,
I mean, it's a little unusual for it to happen
to firefighters like that. You've had several instances where police
gets set up that way and ambushed and so forth.
It's something that you think about and you have to
be very cautious whenever you approach a scene. But for firefighters,
an actual brush fire, I'm sure the last thing they
thought was that they would come under fire, So it
certainly is something that's unusual in my opinion. Sometimes you
hear firefighters having rocks and bricks thrown at him, as
usually in urban areas if there's some kind of issue
going on or something like that, but rarely actually get
shots fired at them. So again, once they find a motive,
get more information on this guy. Did you have an
existing beef with the fireman? I mean, who knows, But
in any event, all that'll come out during the course
of the investigation. Well, again, you know, I don't know why,
and that's one of the things they're going to have
to look into, because again, you know, I've seen or
police get set up with ambushes and so forth, but
it's rare that firefighters do. In fact, I can't personally
think of a situation like what we just saw yesterday,
but it happened, and so this is an area of
the country where you have a lot of anti government
groups that exist. I'm not saying he was part of that.
I don't know, But they'll have to look at a
variety of different issues and ways in which they can
try to zero in on whether or not they're still
an existing threat toward firefighters or whether this was just
the one person situation and he's no longer there.
Speaker 1: Here's the Idaho County sheriff. So you said there would
the gun fail weapon? Cris correct?
Speaker 3: What kind was that?
Speaker 12: We're not releasing that right now, just because we had
to scoop everything up so quickly, we could not preserve
the scene like traditionally we would like to. So we
believe that there's a likelihood that when we are able
to enter the scene again tomorrow without the threat of fire,
that we'll find other weapons that were placed.
Speaker 1: And there's Paul Morrow, former NYPDE detective.
Speaker 13: So pure speculation sounds like he committed suicide that argues
a handgun. We know that he was shooting with a
long range rifle according to the initial reports, and because
of the distance and the circumstances involved. I'm also interested
in the fact that the way the sheriff characterization when
we can enter this scene, so it sounds to me
like he was in some sort of a redoubt. He's
somehow rather was situated in something a barricaded situation that
they couldn't get into.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's got a home there, et cetera.
Speaker 13: So it sounds like they got to get in there,
they got to see what weapons he has, and they
have to see if the weapons that are found there
matched to the weapons that fired. I know this is
sort of a far from possibility, but if they don't
match this somebody else running around out there now, they
don't seem to be concerned about that. They gave a
very confident all clear quite quickly, so it sounds to
me like they feel satisfied that this thing is over.
Speaker 3: What about motivation, I haven't heard much about that yet.
Speaker 13: You know, again, i'd have to enter the realm of speculation,
so I want to heavyat it with that. But one
of these is that we are being told he started
to fire, okay, which I was backing off of that
even last night in commentary on the air, just because
if I looked at the weather cord a Lane has
had a series of days of very hot, dry weather
and they were under a heat advisory. I thought a
possibility might have been you had a brush fire and
they somebody who's anti government has a compound up there
or something, because something in hills and these the firemen
showed up and they didn't realize they were on his property,
something crazy like that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't sound like that, So now what you get.
Speaker 13: You get somebody who started a fire to fire on
first responders. And I say that cognizantly not just firemen
first responders, because.
Speaker 3: Again, this sounds like a statement.
Speaker 13: It feels like a statement, and it feels like an
anti government statement, and that would would capture not just
the fireman God bless them rest in peace, but the
cops as well, because very unusual the target fireman cops.
Hear you get that, right, We've all seen that kind
of a scenario. Fireman is very unusual that argues somebody
who's just completely broken with reality or has some kind
of an anti government animus. I'm gonna be honest with you,
it doesn't really enter your mind. At least it didn't
hint the mind. I mean, I listen, every cop has
these kinds of stories. They ran as something or heard shots,
et cetera. Then they thought later like, wow, that could
have been really really bad.
Speaker 3: Every guy.
Speaker 13: We had one one time on Eighth Avenue, a guy
was up in a building. He wasn't shooting at me specifically,
but he was shooting at the street. Then he started
shooting at the police cars. And it wasn't until later
that I said to myself when we all ran in there, wow,
you know, thank god? That ment Okay, you know so,
but this was like the guy's got a long range rifle.
It there's a fire going on, there's smoke. So I
think that in this instance, you know, these guys acted
very very bravely because talk about a chaotic scene. If
you've heard the nine one one, you can need a
firefighter who's up there to fight the fire. He gives
a very cogent and clear message to nine to one
one and we're taking incoming.
Speaker 3: We have wounded here. He gave his location.
Speaker 13: God bless that fireman because he gave them a really
clear picture of what they were running into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very common.
Speaker 13: We're talking about this last night when we were trying
to figure out how they're going to get him. We said,
you know, you got the FBI on the scene, you
got all these different agencies, Idaho State Police, and we're
gonna have a lot of these kinds of resources. So
one of the things we were speculating on is that
they're going to be bringing a lot of electronic means.
We talk about the fleer, the heat sensor, and drones.
The problem is it was all that smoke and the
fire is burning, that's very hot. That's going to throw
the fleer off. So one of the things we came
down to is, you know what, I bet you they're
going to go up with some kind of geofencing. You're
going to be looking for phones and looking for a
phone that's in the area. They not the shots that
are coming from that doesn't track to where the houses are.
Speaker 3: Sounds like that's what they did.
Speaker 1: Fascinating. So they basically put up a geofence and said
what phones are in this area and they're out in
the woods. That Juter was the only guy with the phone.
That's how they were able to track where he was.
In trade talk today, a couple of things popped up.
First of all, Canada bolded on a digital tax that
they had assessed on US companies that anybody who used
Google or Microsoft, you know, all kinds of different US
tech companies on their computers in Canada, that the companies
had to pay Canada. And it turned out where this
was retroactive two years and going oh yeah, you've got
to go back two years and pay tax on anybody
who used your services. It added up to a couple
of two or three billion dollars and Canada Today today
was the day with the deadline for the companies to pay.
Canada today said never mind. They backed off of it,
and as a result, the Trump administration said, great, now
we will rezone trade negotiations with Canada because they had
stopped them old last week. And then another comment by
the President this afternoon about a temporary pass for migrants
working on US farms, and that goes back We've had
that process in the past where a lot of agricultural
ranchers and farmers. Growers have had regular seasonal workers come from,
mostly Mexico, but other countries as well. It brings up
the problem I have with it is it brings up
the fact that the government is giving a benefit to
the agricultural industry, But what about the manufacturing industry, or
the retail industry or any other industry. So that's all
we heard was the headline on it. We'll find details
probably later tonight. So let's get some phone calls in
from some of you. The phone number here is eight
five to five two nine five sixty six hundred. I'd
love to hear from you. Call leave it it's voice failing.
Call and leave a message, and uh we'll squirt and
sort through them. These are from last week. Uh, but
let's start off with somebody we all know and love.
Benny from Oklahoma City gave us a call.
Speaker 10: Thank Tom. You know, I'm just thinking and wondering, Well,
the people that are innocent across this country are the
ones that are so seemed to be so vilified. And
you talk about false accusations seem not you know, I mean,
just turn the news zone or pick up a paper,
or turn the radio one or whatever, you know, whatever,
and you know it seems like it's you know, edward ware,
you know, just false accusing and false acusations. Whatever you
want to say, how do you want to put it?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 10: You know to me, like you know, as we know,
you know, the elderly population, you know, are just regular people,
A lot of them, they don't. The population out here
is not rich. It's not the mag of millions or
the megabillions. It's just hard working, common everyday people. And
to me, I think before anybody says anything about anybody
offending anybody, they should think about how hard those people
work and how long that they may have had to say,
to take a trip for a vacation, and then other
people and all the planning and working you know that
they planned out and things they planned out, hoping to
have a nice vacation or a good prip and then
other people along the way ruining it without a foult.
They are more offensive than those people than anybody could
say anything. Words can be, you know, I mean to me, words,
but action, as I say, say, speaks a whole lot.
Speaker 4: Lower than more.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: There's Betty always good to hear from her. Jim in Wichita, Kansas,
he's up next. Oh, and he loves the socialist that
was elected a Democrat to the Democrat primary mayor's race
in New York.
Speaker 14: Congratulations Tom, or a Democratic Socialist winning the Democratic primary
or mayor in your city. I am a totally ecstatic
about it. Being a fellow Democratic socialist myself, I think
you know who I am.
Speaker 15: Take care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know you, Jim.
Speaker 1: Always good to hear from you too, Although at the
beginning of the podcast today I played some prominent Democrats
that are not happy about this particular guy. So we'll
see how that all turns out. Let's see who else
do we have. Craig made a phone call to us.
Here's Craig.
Speaker 15: All right, Tom, this is Craig, one of your old
comment line callers. I just wanted to say this. Former
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev flames countries are lining up to
give Iran their news. I find that hard to believe.
That would be like blowning a friend my ar fifteen
to do whatever he wants with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other thing about where was Russia and China
helping to run when they needed help? Now afterwards they
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll lend you some nukes. And
then finally we've got a couple of calls from the
comment line.
Speaker 16: Lady, here's Laurie, a conservative California legislator, was interrupted three
times by the liberal Speaker pro tem of the California
Assembly for some very important announcements. Members had to be
wished a happy birthday. Of course, the speaker had to
do this because nobody else cares that they were born.
Speaker 1: Yeah, California is run by some incompetence, but that's another
whole show. And last, but not least, another one from
the comment line, Lady, here she is Laurie.
Speaker 16: California's governor took offense to remarks made by Vice President Vance.
Governor Newsom has challenged Vice President Vance to a debate.
Vice President Vance hasn't responded yet, and that's probably because
the Vice President is actually doing his job while the
California governor is not.
Speaker 1: Well, said Laurie. And a couple more things about Gavin Newsom.
You see where he sued Fox for seven hundred and
eighty seven million dollars. That is how old is Governor Newsom?
Speaker 3: Is he two?
Speaker 1: He had his second birthday? Yet I'm childish? Seven hundred
eighty seven million was the amount that Fox paid to
Dominion for admitting that they made up stuff about the
Dominion voting machines. That's one thing, But another thing is
he's trying to do something that I would think any
first grade political consultant would say, that's not a good idea.
He's trying to do a Trump And I'm sorry everybody
that tries to do pull a Trump stunt. Donald Trump. Yeah,
he drives me crazy with some of his stunts. Others
I kind of laugh at. But Donald Trump sues everybody
for everything. And so this is Gavin Newsom thinking, oh, oh,
it gets him publicity, he gets his name in the
in the in the media. I know what I'll do.
I'll sue him. He doesn't have a prayer on this,
so he's got bad legal advice and he looks childish.
You want him to be the leader of the free world.
I don't think so. And then one more about California politicians.
You see where a Senator Padilla it is all upset
because jd Vance did not remember he called him Jose.
I gotta tell you something, I have no idea whose
stor what Senator Padia's first name is. I don't think
it's Jose, but I don't think it's because I think
jd Vance is probably the same boat that a lot
of us are. Do you know his first name? For
those of you in California, I would hope you do.
He's your senator, one of them, the only two to
pick from. But I truly do not know what. I
could look it up, but I did not look it up,
and I'm telling you, I know it's not Jose, but
I don't know what it is. Senator Padia thinks that
he is a star, that he's somehow a big celebrity.
That's when he marched in on on the DHS news conference.
I mean, he don't you know who I am? He
pulled one of those, and I hate to say it, Senator,
but even with that stunt, we still don't know who
you are, and we certainly don't know your first name.
All Right, that's it for today. Let's check the markets,
and it turned out to be a very good day
on Wall Street. The Dow up two hundred and seventy
five points forty four thousand and ninety four. It's not
at a record high, but it is about a thousand
points below forty five thousand. That hit back in December.
SMP new record up thirty one, NASDAQ new record up
ninety six, price of gold up thirty three dollars to
thirty three twenty. The only thing with a red arrow
was oil, down fifty cents to sixty just under sixty
five dollars for a barrel of oil. So thank you
for coming by today, appreciate you the the patronage, and
we will try this again tomorrow. Hope to see you
then