Speaker 1: And here we are. How are you welcome to the
Big Podcast. It is Thursday. Today's the seventeenth day of July,
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is
Tom Sullivan. We've got a lot to go over today.
We've got well, the Senate has approved the spending cut
that basically tries to do something about the Big Spending Bill,
the Big Beautiful Bill. What it does is it takes
away the money for public broadcasting. I want to get
into that with you, and also some of the latest
surveys about how the Democrats in general are looking. Yeah,
the Epstein story, No, it's I think it's starting to
go away, but there are still some hangovers. For example,
the prosecutor in Julane Maxwell's case, and also before Epstein died,
the prosecutor was a woman by the name of Maureen Komy.
She's been fired. She's the daughter of James Comy. So
we'll dig into that. And vaccines. Always good to debate vaccines.
But I want to start with something that's quite different
than I usually do, not the news of the day.
It is kind of because it involves Scotty Scheffler and
Scotty Scheffler for those of you that don't know who
he is. Is the number one ranked golf in the
world and they are starting the British Open today. So
he sat down with the media before teen off today
and I mean, the guy has won everything. He's just
one of the most successful golfers ever. He just keeps winning.
And I thought it was interesting because it's, yes, he's
made a lot of money, Yes he's achieved all kinds
of golf titles. But he has an attitude. I don't
know how you take it, but it's like, eh, yeah,
so what. I'm not here to inspire anybody. I'm not
here to he just has an attitude, yes, so what?
And I'm not sure what the sow what attitude is
all about. The guy is very gifted and I guess
he's gotten used to just winning everything. But I wanted
to play this for you because what he does is
he puts his job. His job happens to be golf
down the list compared to other things in his life,
such as family. So here, listen to this. It's about
four minutes of Scottie Scheffer talking to the media over
in Europe as they start the British Open.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the
best player in the world, because what's the point? You know,
this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from
the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a
sense of like the deepest, you know, places of your heart.
You know, there's a lot of people that make it
to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life,
and then you get there, and all of a sudden
you get to number one in the world, and then they're like,
what's the point? And you know, I really do believe that,
because you know, what is the point? You're like, why
do I want to win this tournament so bad? That's
something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's
like showing up with the Masters every year. It's like,
why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly?
Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly?
I don't know, because if I win, it's gonna be
awesome for about two minutes, and then we're gonna get
to the next week and it's gonna be like, hey,
you want two majors this year? How important is it
for you to win the Fex Cup playoffs, and it's
just like we're back here again, you know, So we
really do. We work so hard for such little moments,
and you know, I'm kind of sick of I love
putting in the work, I love being able to practice,
I love getting out to live out my dreams. But
at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't
understand the point, you know, because I don't know if
I'm making any sense or not. But am I not.
It's just it's just one of those deals, you know.
I I love the challenge. I love being able to
play this game for a living. It's it's one of
the greatest joys of my life. But does it fill
the deepest you know, wants and desires of my heart.
Absolutely not. You know That's why I talk about families
being my priority, because it really is. You know, I'm
blessed to be able to come out here and play golf.
But if my golf ever started affecting my home life
or whatever affected the relationship I have with my wife
or with my son, you know, that's gonna be the
last day that I play out here for a living.
You know, this is not the be all end all,
This is not the most important thing in my life.
And that's why I wrestle with why is this so
important to me? Because you know, I would much rather
be a great father then I would be a great golfer.
You know that at the end of the day, that
that's what's more important to me. Yeah, I mean, I
could not care any less about being the favorite or
not being the favorite. We all started even par and
tournament starts on Thursday. It's pretty much all that matters.
And in terms of links golf, I love the style
of golf. I think it's a ton of fun. I
think you have to be creative, you have to hit
a lot of really good shots, and there's you know,
there's a challenge to it. But I think it's a
lot of fun. And you know, we'll see how the
weather turns out this week. Weather has a pretty dramatic
effect on how the golf course is going to play,
and so you know, you can play your practice shounds
and prepare, but ultimately, I think when you step on
the seat on Thursday, whatever the weather presents is going
to be probably the strongest part of the test. It
doesn't really change year by year, you know, I don't
I don't look at at wins and losses or stuff
like that.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't sit down at the beginning the year and
say I want to win X number of times, I
want to win this many majors, I want to win
this many tour events. That's that's not something that I do.
That's not something that works for me.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I have some dreams and aspirations that I'm always striving towards.
But at the end of the day, I try to
stay present. I try to practice hard each and every day,
and I feel like, for me, when I start looking
too far into the future, I think I'm a bit
of a procrastinator. That's how I always was in school.
And so if it's like if I wanted to look
at my career and say I want to win let's
say five majors, you know, I think sometimes when you're
a human, you just have that invincibility where you're like,
I'm just going to play professional golf my whole life,
like this stage is never going to end. But you know,
ultimately it's not, and I'm only gonna be doing this
for a finite amount of time. And so what works
best for me is just to stay present and continue
to put in the work, which I would argue is
probably the most fun part for me. I love being
able to practice and that's what I enjoy doing, and
you know, just trying to get the most out of
myself each day. Well, yeah, I think the rankings are
Being number one in the world is a great accomplishment
I think as a golfer, I think as a professional,
to be ranked as the best in the world, I
think is a huge career accomplishment. I don't think that
it should be taken lightly. But you don't become number
one in the world by thinking about rankings. You don't
stay number one in the world thinking about rankings. You know,
each tournament is its own challenge, and you know, it's funny.
It's like, look at this week, for example, what's the
best case scenario? Is I win this golf tournament and
then I'm going to show up in Memphis and it's like, okay, listen,
you know you won two majors this year. What are
you going to do this week? That that's the question
you're going to get asked. And if I come in
second this week or if I finished dead last, it's
no matter what happens. We're always on to the next week.
And so that's one of the beautiful things about golf,
and it's also one of the frustrating things because you
can have such great accomplishments, but you know, the show
goes on, and that's just how it is. You know,
it's it's great to win tournaments. It's a lot of fun.
Sometimes the feeling only lasts about two minutes. It seems like,
you know, when you're celebrated and then it's like, okay,
now you got to go do all this other stuff,
and which is great, but you know, sometimes the feeling
of winning only lasts a few seconds, and you know,
it's pretty exciting and fun, but it just doesn't last
that long.
Speaker 1: So that's what I was talking. What do you make
of him? What do you make of what he was
talking to the media. The media even started laughing at him,
the sports media, and he said, am I making any sense?
Apparently he started, well, he was rambling, and but I
mean it sounds like a guy who has an absolutely
poor work ethic. And yet obviously the guy is very
talented and he loves going out and practice practice, practice, practice,
so he does have a good work ethic, and that
leads to his success on the golf course. But it's
like he says, I don't care whatever. I'm not here
to inspire anybody. Yeah so I'm number one in the world,
and yeah, you know, but I got to go to
Memphis next week and they're going to ask me what
have you done lately? So I don't know if you
have the same attitude about your job, but I would
hope that you would have an attitude of striving to
be the best. I don't think he does. I think
he's just naturally gifted. He doesn't strive to be the best.
He is the best, but he doesn't think of his
efforts to try. He doesn't think of that as a
as a goal. He just wants to go out and
swing a club, hit a ball. I don't know what
you make of it, but I found it from a
highly successful professional athlete. I never heard anything like that before.
But I try to apply it to your job in
mind and go is that is that the guy with
the poor work ethic but just happens to be good
at what he does.
Speaker 4: Is that you?
Speaker 1: Or are you like most people where you're always trying
to be better but you're not the best In the world,
but you like to be I don't know, it's I'm
baffled by what I heard. I've heard a lot of
people say different things about ambition and careers and all
of that. And he did put in the odd g
part about you know, my family comes first. Of course,
your family comes first. Your family comes first. To the
guy push him the broom at night in the factory,
his family comes first too, but he has to push
the broom in order to bring home some bacon, to
take care of putting food on the table, to roof
over his family's head. This guy's making millions. Maybe it's easy.
It's easy to say when you've got millions of dollars
in the bank, and it's not that hard to win
golf tournaments. I don't know. Let me know your thoughts
on what you thought of Scotti Scheffler basically going, yeah, whatever,
I mean when you win the about two minutes of
happiness and then it's just a weird interview. Phone number
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the phone number and the link to the podcast. So
we got all of that. We also today got a
little bit of a surprise. There's been some reporting and
there's been some photographs of concern about President Trump's health.
And the photograph showed bruises on his hands that all
of a sudden there were bruises and puffiness and also
puffy ankles. Photographs of his ankles while he was sitting
at some conference somewhere and somebody took a photo of
his ankles because they thought they were they were large,
so long and behold. The president went to the doctor.
And the Press Secretary, Caroline Lovitt came out today and said, Okay,
the President's been to the doctor and he's been diagnosed
with chronic venous insufficiency. And she my sister's a nursed
and she sometimes she writes emails they're like in nurse ology.
He can't understand half of what she said. So here's
Caroline Levitt reading what is up with the President's health.
Speaker 5: The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies.
Bilateral lower extremity venus Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed
chronic venus insufficiency a B nine in common condition, particularly
in individuals over the age of seventy. Importantly, there was
no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. Laboratory
testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile,
D diimer B type natriotic peptide, and cardiac biomarkers. All
results were within normal limits. An echo cardiogram was also
performed and confirmed normal cardiac structure and function. No signs
of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified.
Speaker 1: What's interesting about this is that Joe Biden did everything
in his power to hide anything about his medical condition.
They had, they had a doctor's visiting, and they tried
to hide that. Doctor Mark Siegel was asked about his
interpretation of what this all meant.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I'm actually impressed with how open
it is and how detailed it is, because they actually
answered all the questions that I would have had. Maybe
contrast that from the previous administration, when everything was cloak
and dagger. Look, she has a lot of details that
reassure me. He doesn't have a deep vein thrombosis. He
doesn't have a deep vein there. They checked that. They
checked it with ultrasound, and they checked it with a
blood test called d diimer. They checked his heart. Why
his leg swelling, could it be back up from the heart. No,
his echo cardiogram is normal. So they ended up with
a diagnosis that it's venus disease, which is very common
in his age. And it simply means that the valves
in the veins don't do that. They're not as hearty
as they were before, so blood pools on its way
back to the heart. That's not serious. It's completely benign.
It's cosmetic, and it's expected from a man in his
late seventies who's.
Speaker 3: Standing on his feet all the time.
Speaker 6: And to your point about shaking hand, her point about
shaking hands, Calin Levitt says, Look, he's on an aspen.
He shakes a lot of hands. I've shaked the man's hand.
He gives a very vigorous handshake. They did something called
the coagulation tests. That doesn't look like there's any sign
of anything any problem with excess bleeding there. So I
accept that explanation that he does vigorous handshakes all day
long and he's on an aspirin, So I think they've
covered this.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's anything hidden there at all. Well.
Speaker 6: I spoke to Todd Berlin, who's our head of the
outpatient vascular at NYU land Going, just a couple of
minutes ago, and he said, this is extremely common.
Speaker 3: It's going to stay benign.
Speaker 6: You can elevate your legs by the way, which will
decrease the legs swell. And though I doubt the President's
going to do that, he certainly could do that. And
down the line he could have some very benign procedures
done to relieve the venus problems if he starts feeling discomfort,
But those would be elective and they don't show a
sign of anything serious going on. So yes, you could
have procedures as an outpatient done to make this better.
Venus stripping laser. Those are all possibilities, but they're not
anything that would seem to be pressing here.
Speaker 1: So somewhat surprising that this news popped up out of
nowhere and nobody knew that he was having all these tests,
but the minute they ran the test, they thought it
was the right thing to do was to disclose his
health condition. And as you heard from the doctor, it
doesn't sound like this is any big deal, and that
most men his age apparently are many of them not
surprising that he would have this condition, doesn't hurt and
not not a danger. So with that we move on
to where do you want to go next? How about
the Senate did approve at two o'clock this morning. I
don't know what's the matter with those people? Why are
they working? They're old people, talk about old men. There's
a bunch of old people there. They need to go
home and go to bed. In any case, they approved
nine billion dollars in spending cuts because Dosee had gone
in and found what was that? I forget the number
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty billion dollars worth
of waste that they got rid of, and they wanted
to get to two trillion. Then they finally say, well,
maybe we'll get to one trillion. The reason they wanted
to get to two trillion is because we spend about
two trillion dollars more than we in so that that
was the goal. Then they changed it to be more realistic.
They thought to one trillion, and they didn't come close
with one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty billion dollars
worth of cuts. So a bunch of Republicans said, we
need to cut more. And the best they could do
was to cut nine billion. So it's nowhere near the
two trillion or the one trillion or one hundred and
sixty billion. They cut nine billion dollars in this bill
that they passed this morning. It passed fifty one to
forty eight. This is the Senate. The two Democrats, sorry,
the two Republicans have voted against it, not a surprise,
Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and
they said no. So the vote was fifty one to
forty eight. They're cutting nine billion dollars in four and
AID and money for public broadcasting. There's about eight billion
cut in four and AID. This is USAID sort of stuff.
That's where they started. And then one point one billion
dollars they are cutting in public broadcasting. Now it goes
to the House, not right away, apparently it may take
a while to get to the House. The executives from
PBS and NPR are running around doing as much as
they can on the mainstream media, trying to cry about
all the money they're going to lose. I don't. I mean,
my position on this has been the same as forever.
They should compete. I understand when they were first started
by Congress, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they were funded
by the government, But they now should be on their own.
That was sixty years ago. Shouldn't they be able to
go out there on their own and compete, just like CBS,
at ABC, and NBC, Fox, CNN, all of them. They
don't know. They don't get money from the government, so
why should these people get money from the government. The
worst part behind the whole thing is the executives at
NPR and PBS come out and say we have we
just don't have. Show me any story we've done that
is biased to the left that the right keeps accusing
us of, and everybody on the right just absolutely bends
over in laughter. There's lots of documentation not only about
the stories, the angles they're they're very left. That's that's fine,
but why should taxpayers have to pay for that? If
they want to be one more leftist broadcaster, join the crowd,
go to MSNBC's doing just fine, and they're out on
the left and they get advertisers. So this is things
are not going well for the Democrats and so cutting
this off. I don't know when the effective day will be.
We have to wait for the House to do their
legislation on it. But I've been waiting for a long
time and the President, this is another president promise. President
almost delivered now on saying goodbye to funding public broadcasting.
And speaking of Democrats, they're really having troubles. One survey
out this morning, he says twenty eight percent of people
view Democrats favorably. That's it, twenty eight percent. As far
as Democrats in Congress, what do you think of them? Well,
sixty six percent disapprove according to a Fox poll, seventy
two percent disapprove of the Dems in Congress according to
a CNN poll, and fifty three percent this is the
best they did fifty three percent disapprove of Democrats in
Congress in a Quinnipiac poll. And when we talk about polls,
like to check in on Harry Inton over at CNN
on his take about Democrats and polling.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean look, I think this one surprised me
a bit because of all these complaints online going after
Trump and the Epstein files, you might think his approval
ratings were going down with Republicans. If anything, they're going
on Republicans who approve of Trump. Look at our CNN
pull the prior one to eighty six percent, the one
out this week eighty eight percent with Republicans. How about
Quinnipiac the prior poll eighty seven percent approved of Republicans,
this week out ninety percent with Republicans. If anything, Donald
Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein
saga started.
Speaker 3: He is at the apex.
Speaker 7: Or close there too, in terms of his popularity with
Republican voters. Epstein files complaints or not. I mean, on
X all you hear about is the Epstein files. But
how about out in the real public Republicans who said
the top issue was Epstein case, The answer is one
one and not one percent. One one responded, This is
a great little finding that Ariel Edwards Levy, who of
course is part of our polling unit, found just one
single Republican said that the nameation's top problem is in
fact the Epstein case, not much of a surprise that therefore,
Donald Trump's approval rating has not suffered with Republican because
of the Epstein case, because the bottom line, as most
Americans say, it's not up.
Speaker 8: High up on their priority list.
Speaker 3: Here's what's so important.
Speaker 7: You know, we talk about the potential of Republicans leaving
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: They're not leaving them.
Speaker 7: But what about congressional Democrats and problems with their own base? Democrats?
And that approval of congressional Democrats According to Quinnipiac University
in June of twenty twenty five, it was their second
worst ever at minus twelve points.
Speaker 3: It's not not low enough for you. How about we
go even lower?
Speaker 7: In July of twenty twenty five, minus thirteen points, their
worst net approval rating for congressional Democrats Among Democrats, ever,
Donald Trump is not the one who has problems with
this political base. It is Congressional Democrats are the ones
who have problems with their own political base.
Speaker 1: So that is somewhat surprising that all is Epstein fuss
and nobody cares. I don't know. I guess it's just
salacious humor. The people are following David the actual and
David Urban Actual Rod speaks for the Dems, and Urban
speaks for the Republicans. They weigh in on all this
sour news about Democrats. Let's start with with Axle Rod.
Speaker 9: I let's let's talk about the Democrats. I mean, may
be this Recision Package, by the way, that passed in
the middle of the night through Congress, where Congress sort
of gave their authority a way to the president that
was handed to them by the Constitution. But we'll set
that aside. That's a trivial matter when you're thinking about
Jeffrey Epstein and so on. But on the on the
issue of the Democratic Party, the reason those numbers are
so low are in part that Democrats themselves are disillusioned
because they don't think Democrats are doing enough to stop Trump.
And there's a limit to what they can do to
stop Trump when they have neither House of Congress nor
the White House. The real answer for them is to
win elections. So it's kind of paradoxical. But just as
Trump tries to rally his base by flaying Democrats, come
next year, this election is going to be very much
about Donald Trump and Democrats, as disillusioned as they are
with each other. I suspect will rally behind him, and
what he should worry about are where independents are relative
to him. The people who are going to decide this
election are much less, much less happy with him than
he should want them to be so.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So to talk about the other side, David urban Is,
spokesman for the Republican Well, that's.
Speaker 10: An incredibly great spin on what I just heard Harry
Enten say, which was a gloom and doom for the Democrats.
The lowest Kate, would you just recounted the lowest numbers
in the history of CNN polling. I mean, there's no
way to spin that and say that's good. You could
try to, And look, I agree with acts. The midterms
are going to be incredibly close. Midterms are never you know,
well I shouldn't say never. They're really not blowouts in
either direction, although as enjoyed that when he was when
his his former boss was in power. But this upcoming
midterm election is going to be incredibly, incredibly close. And
so I think the numbers that Harry was showing, he
had showed some numbers yesterday about what Democratic numbers, favorability
and numbers look like in the previous two midterm elections
and they were much much higher. So I think Democrats
that are a giant hole they need to dig out.
Trump's favorability is really really strong amongst the base, which
is incredibly important in midterms when you've got to have
your base show up.
Speaker 3: But action is right.
Speaker 10: It's all about where these independents kind of go.
Speaker 3: The people in the middle.
Speaker 10: A lot of those folks that the President got to
join his coalition Democrats who may have not traditionally voted
for Republican We need to keep those folks on the team.
Hispanic families, young men, African Americans. We need to keep
that coalition together if we stand a chance of keeping
the House and picking up even a couple more seats.
Speaker 9: Well, I just said, let me make a couple of points.
One is that enthusiasm really is important in these midterm
and sort of off year elections. And Democrats one of
their strengths is they are doing better among the most
engaged voters. That's why they do well in midterms and
special elections. And the question for Trump is can he
get his people out in a midterm election. That's an
open question. The second is history suggests that Democrats will
do well. In the midterm elections, Incumbent presidents rarely pick
up seats. The last time was two thousand and two
after nine to eleven George W. Bush, and the House
is very narrowly divided. This is why Trump is urging
Texas to remap their state, because he wants to pick
up more seats, because he doesn't have any confidence that
under the current circumstances they're going to do very So.
Speaker 1: What's the latest on Evsein. I can told you I
think the story is starting to die off. It won't ever, ever,
ever go away. It'll be like who shot Kennedy or
who shot Jr. But it seems to do a natural
death in the media. Last night, Shane Gillis, comedian, was
at the eSPI Awards, and I thought he had a
pretty good line about it.
Speaker 7: Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here,
but as it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
probably never existed.
Speaker 8: Actually, let's move on as a country and ignore that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure if we're ready to move on.
I think so. I think it seems like the Epstein
story is starting to die away. It'll never completely go away.
People will always ask was he murdered, did he commit suicide?
Who were the other purpose that were involved with him?
Even Josh Hawley, the conservative Republican from Missouri, he still
wants to know more on this.
Speaker 8: One of the most interesting dissenting voices are not the Democrats.
They are the Republicans who want more than what the
president is giving them. Well, I think it's Here's what
I think is maybe a little difficult to believe the
idea that DOJ and the FBI, who prosecuted cases relating
to this, don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were,
and that he had no record of it of the clients.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I spent that kind of hard to believe. I mean,
my view is make public everything you can make public.
That's what the President said yesterday.
Speaker 1: But now we add a new pink to this whole story.
The prosecutor who prosecuted Julane Maxwell and also was in
the middle of prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein before he died. She
her name is Maureen Comy, and she was fired yesterday
from the Department of Justice as a prosecutor. Been a
prosecutor there for many years, has a very good, successful
track record, Why did they fire her, Andy McCarthy, Well,
he brought listen her name again, Maureen Comy. She is
the daughter of James Comy. So Andy McCary, who who
also was a prosecutor for the DOJ, had this response.
Speaker 4: She got high profile cases in the premier federal prosecutor's
office in the United States, so it says that she
was a pretty good prosecutor, which is what the track
record bears out. I think what happened here is clearly retributive.
The Trump administration opened what I think is a baseless
criminal prosecution, criminal investigation at least against Jim Comy. Last week.
I wrote about this over the weekend. President doesn't like Comy.
He thinks with a lot of reason that Komy tried
to take his first administration down. He promised to be
the retribution president, and this is for the retribution. He's
got the constitutional authority to do it. But I think
it stinks. He could have, especially if he wants the
Jeffrey Epstein talk talk talk to go away. He could
have done nothing. She's just she's a line prosecutor in
the Southern District of New York. She's got nothing to
do with the president. She was evidently doing a fine job,
and she could have just gone about doing the public business,
which is what the two hundred or so prosecutors in
that office have always strived to do. He decided to
reach down and slaughter because she's the daughter of his
political nemesis. The constitution gives him the authority to do that.
I mean, to the extent this is legally interesting. It's
that the president is trying to show that he's got
the authority to fire executive branch subordinates even if they're
protected by Congress's civil service laws. That's the interesting legal
aspect of this. But as far as a story, it's
sheer vindictiveness. Very often the politics is more important than
the legal technicalities. But yes, technically, legally he's on solid ground.
There may be litigation over it because the progressive administrative state.
The theory of it is that you have these bureaucrats
who should be able to do their jobs without political
interference because they work for the public good. You know,
that's one way of looking at it, but it's not
the original constitutional way of looking at how our government
is set up. So I think the president has the
authority to do this I just wish he hadn't done it.
Speaker 1: And finally some economic news came out today. First of all,
retail sales were out and what a surprise this was.
Retail sales were down nine tenths of a percent in
May and people say, oh, that's it. People are zipping
up their wallets. Well they opened them back up again
in June. Retail sales up six tenths in June. Clothing
was up strongly, Electronics and appliances down slightly. Food and
drink establishments they did pretty well. So it was a
mixed bag as far as the kind of retail sales.
But retail sales it shows that people still have money
to spend and they're out there spending it. First time
jobless claims two hundred and twenty one thousand, down from
two hundred and twenty eight thousand the week before. It's
a little bit lower, which is good, but it's not
anything to write home about. Continuing jobless claims one point
nine to five million, that's been pretty steady. Also, when
it comes to prices, import prices, the things that we're
bringing in, remember they're all supposed to be somewhere in here.
They're going to be attacked with tariffs. Import prices were
up one tenth of one percent last month month of June.
That's it, up one tenth. Export prices, the things that
we are shipping out of here up a half percent
last month. Year over year, up two point eight percent.
So that was a surprise that export prices were up
two point eight percent. So a little bit of a
mixed bag on all of that Wall Street. Today, let's
see the markets up two hundred and twenty nine. So
all of this worry about tariffs, if you go back
to when the President first introduced tariffs back on Liberation Day,
April second, the markets got went straight down. They were
all worried about what the impact was going to be.
This time, we're waiting for August first for all these
new tariffs to take effect, and or continuing tariffs to
take effect. And Wall Street's just blowing it off, hitting
not a new record for the Dow, but a number
of new records recently on Wall Street. The Dow up
two hundred and twenty nine at forty four thousand and
four eighty four, the S and P up thirty three,
the Nasdaq up one hundred and fifty five. The price
of gold it fell thirteen dollars down to thirty three
forty five, and oil bouncing around in the sixties, up
a bucket a quarter today sixty seven dollars in some
change for one barrel of oil. That's it for today,
Thank you for coming by. Hey tomorrow's SHRODDI we'll look
forward to seeing into them