Speaker 1: And hello, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 2: How you doing? It's Thursday, the last day of the month.
It's the thirty first day of July. Year of all
over twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. So
to start today with Russia Gate and when Tulsa Gabbard
first started releasing all these basically declassifying documents that have
been in the file cabinets at the government, and that's
the beauty of our system. Administration's change. And another group
comes along and says, let's take a look at these
old files here. And so as the Director of National Intelligence,
she's going through and the classifying documents after documents, there
were more unclassified documents classified documents she unclassified today. So
this is growing as it goes along. And I refer
back to a tweet that came out from Matt Walsh
that I saw that said I'll be I'll be concerned
about this when they actually file charges. So she has
done a criminal referral on I'm not sure who, but
I presume it's Clapper and Brennan and that crowd that
was the Obama crowd. And we'll see if the if
the DOJ is going to file any charges. But if
nothing else. They're basically doing a payback. That's the minimum
about what went on when Donald Trump was accused of
being in cahoots with the Russians, or the Russians in
cahoots with him, whichever way you want to play it.
And we're finding out that the more this comes along,
what I'm reading from all these releases is that the
Russians truly, of course they were meddling in our elections.
They always have, they always will. But what they were
doing wasn't to be in favor of Donald Trump. Vladimir
Putin and his henchmen did not like Hillary Clinton, but
it was clear that they thought, as the world did,
that Hillary was going to be the successful candidate in
twenty sixteen. Everybody was surprised, i think, including Donald Trump himself,
that he won the election. So what they were trying
to do was basically make her look bad, go after her,
do a lot of different things. But then she turned
around and went to Russian documents and Russian basically the
Steele dossier, to use Russian sources to say Donald Trump
did this and did that, and it was all bad,
and she was the one that was meddling with the Russians.
But the Russians also had more material apparently that they
were going to spring after Hillary got elected to make
her a week president. So it wasn't so much that
they wanted Donald Trump. They just wanted to rough up
Hillary Clinton before and then after she got elected. Trump
turned out to be the beneficiary of that. So basically,
this is uncovering a lot of the mystery behind what
was going on. Senator James Langford from Oklahoma, I've always
thought this guy was a great shooter, and let him
explain what it is because he was on the Centate
Intelligence Committee, what it is that he's getting out of
these documents.
Speaker 3: I want them to know the facts and the information
as it really happened on. This is something I've talked
about for years. The Russia collusion that was happening during
the twenty sixteen campaign was not with President Trump. It
was with Hillary Clinton. Her campaign was the one that
was actually working with Russian services. Her campaign was the
one that was creating all of this. They were pushing
it into the administration. The administration's time, Barack Obama's administration
and all the levers of government were immediately assuming all
this is true, We're going to run with investigation and
we're going to try to prove it wrong rather than
what they should have done.
Speaker 1: And what CIA.
Speaker 3: Career folks were saying at the time, and that was, hey,
we have no evidence for this, this doesn't smell right.
But they were pushing it forward to be able to
drive this line that somehow the president was colluding with
Russia when it was literally exactly the opposite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it seemed to be that it was an
org frustrated event created by the people that were leading
government agencies, starting with the President, Barack Obama and then
the people that were the head of various agencies, and
they were using the big boot of government to try
to prevent Trump from being elected. And they hate him
so much and they still do to this day that
they were going to do anything and everything. I can
imagine they probably thought, if they were not directly told,
do whatever you have to do to get this guy stopped.
And you know that they've been doing that for a
long long time. I mean even the Republicans were trying
to stop Donald Trump from being the nominee back in
twenty sixteen. So there's been widespread effort to stop this
guy all the way along, and I think it's becoming
clearer and clearer that they were using all the tools
of government to try to stop a candidate, which which
is wrong on so many levers they talk about they're
the protectors of democracy, just the opposite in this case.
So with this good old Chuck Grassley ninety some years old,
he's been around for so long and he's past the
age of playing political games with this stuff. This is
what Grassley had to say, that.
Speaker 4: It was all effort of total distraction and to make
it look like Russia was playing a very major role
in helping Trump to be elected. And now we know
none of that was true. And now with this Durham
Report annex out, it finally proves that the FBI was
covering up.
Speaker 2: The FBI was covering up. Like I said, there were
orders from the Oval Office to the various leaders of
these government agencies. James call me the head of the FBI,
Brendan Clapper. The list goes on to you use and
do whatever they could to stop this guy, Donald Trump.
Back to senat der Langford.
Speaker 3: So the interesting thing is most of the people that
have been involved in this have all been fired already.
They're already out of the administration that was long ago.
Trumpet fired them during the first administration, so that it's
a matter of just following up to be able to
see what needs to be done or what needs to
happen from here. So there's a lot of decisions need
to be made. Let's get all the information on and
figure out what steps need to be done. But house
has been cleaned on this already within the FBI, within
the CIA. If there are additional folks that are still
a part of that, that this report continues to be
able to find when need to follow through and they
do exactly the same thing to be able to make
sure allding to be able to account. The tools of
government should never be used for political purposes. You try
to accomplish this, and certainly not to be able to
undercut an election.
Speaker 2: I mean, amen, the tools of government should not be
used for political purposes. The thing is the people that
are in big time politics, national politics. It is major
league hardball, and they play tough and they play rough.
As Mike Kakabe told me many times, for people who
said they wanted to get into politics, he said, you know,
it's a blood sport, right It truly is. But in
this case, they did not stop at the line of
using the tools of government to impact a political event.
They used all the tools of government. So John Brennan
reacted to all of this earlier today.
Speaker 5: All the legitimate reviews that were done of the assessment
subsequent to it, including the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence,
bipartisan multi year review, endorsed and said that those conclusions
and those findings were accurate. They were based on intelligence,
and so there was no dispute about it, except when
there are partisans who come out in support of Donald Trump.
Right now, I think his reputation is pretty well intact.
Talk about partisans, John Brennan is as deeply partisan as
you can imagine, a deep, deep Democrat. That's fine, but
don't use the tools of government to push your political agenda.
But he said, if you had just heard what he said,
he said, well, all the legitimate reviews, said the legitimate reviews, No,
that's not all the reviews, And then he went on
to talk about the Senate Intelligence Committee signed off essentially,
and the Senate Intelligence Committee never read all of the material,
So all the legitimate reviews said that everything was fine.
What are you talking about that's what he's couching in.
But he did carefully say he's very good. He carefully
said all the legitimate reviews said everything was.
Speaker 1: Up and up.
Speaker 2: What about the other reviews. The only reason you don't
call him legitimate is because of the fact they're calling
you out. Back to one more from James Langford.
Speaker 1: None of the law.
Speaker 3: This should be consistent. I have every confidence in an
Apartment of Justice and Pam Bondy and what will happen
as they walk through this process to say, let's get
the facts and the information out so finally the American
people can know. I would tell you people that I
know in Oklahoma have said for years this doesn't smell right.
This continues to be able to come public to them
to be able to say that's what I thought, and
they're getting a chance to be able to get the
facts behind it.
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing. I have to tell you.
Speaker 3: Just as a person of faith, I always say, what
is whispered in the secret place will one day be
shouted from the housetops. It's a good thing for all
this information to be able to come out and let
people see it in the daylight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is good for all of this
to come out. Again. I don't have a lot of Sorry,
I don't have a lot of hope that anything's going
to happen. But what it does tell us is all
of us, as citizens of this country, regardless of your
political stripes, that you've got to be on guard about
the government using the tools of government to put their
thumb on the scale regarding who is elected and who
is not. So as we wrap up the month of July,
that means we've got some new things happening tomorrow. We
can start with student loans. Student loans have been on hiatus.
There was a year ago during the Biden administration they
were trying to get rid of student loans and did
not have the authority. Supreme Court told President Biden, you
can't do that, So he did reduce loans wherever he
could according to the programs that that was what they
should have been doing, because certain programs were offered to
people that went into public service, first responders, police fire
that sort of thing. But there were a bunch of
other loans out there as well, and he was trying
to get rid of those. Well, starting tomorrow, those loans
will start accruing interest. Again, there has been a forbearance.
There has been no interest due the balance whatever it
was a year ago, hasn't increased and unless the students
made pays then it's still the same as it was
a year ago. Starting tomorrow, those loans will go up
by the amount of the balance of the loan, will
go up by the interest on the loan unless the
student makes the payments on the loan, not only interest,
but also principal interest or principal payments. So eight million
loans are in play. There's a woman by the name
of Bronti Remsick. She is an interesting case because she
has gone through medical school. She is now aid, she's
in her residency, and as all of us know, I
think we do people that want to become medical doctors.
It is a long slog through a lot of schooling,
and then when you graduate with your degree, your medical degree,
then you've got to go do an internship, and then
after the internship, then you've got to go do a residency,
and then after the residency, finally you get to go
out and actually work as a doctor making money. So
doctor Bronti Remsick, she has her medical degree, she's done
her internship and listened to what she talked about because
she's facing the fact that these loans are going to
start a crowing interest tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I've spent my entire twenties in school and so now
in my thirties and as a young professional, I would
love to have a life. I would love to be
able to, you know, go on vacation and to eat
dinner out and to live a normal human life in
the very limited free time that I have. And now,
you know, the financial walls just feel like they're crushing
down around me. When I thought graduating medical school was
the big win, well.
Speaker 2: Graduating medical school is a big win. And I don't
know how much she looked around to try to find
ways to pay for medical school. There are lots of
programs out there. I don't know if she qualified or
did not qualified, if she even looked. So I did
something that maybe I was prying a little bit, but
I went to Instagram and I pulled up her Instagram account.
And she's a lovely young lady and we need doctors,
so God bless her. But she's he acted like she
wants to live a life. I don't know. I think
she yeah, here's a photo of her wedding she got married.
She and her boyfriend slash husband, looked like they have
traveled all over the world. They have been, I mean,
some beautiful resorts and some you know, things on the
ocean and outsailing, and it looks like they're in down
in you know, ad moab Utah. The big rocks down
there looks I don't know, all beaches look the same
to me, but there's a lot of beaches. There are
a lot of mountains, a lot of skiing vacations, a
lot of boating vacations. I don't think we need to
deny her the fact that we all would like to
go out and do all those things. But when push
comes to shove, she talks about the fact that she
needs to she'd like to have a life. And it
seems to me like she's had a pretty good life
and that she spent a lot of money on having
a good time. And again, good for her, But did
she ever stop to think about, oh my, I may
have to pay back those loans. So how much she
owes well, medical schools a long slog. Like I said,
she owes three hundred thousand dollars, and she sounds like
she doesn't want to take responsibility for the fact that
somebody paid for her medical education. So she just wants
of many out there, they're going to face the music
starting tomorrow. I personally know a handful of doctors. The
way they did it is they went into the military. Yeah,
they were military docs. And the way it works is
you do so many years as a military doc, usually
four I think it is, and they will pay your
medical school. So I mean, there are Like I said,
there are options. That doesn't sound like maybe she's got
them all figured out. I could be judging her completely wrong.
I'm not trying to judge her. All I'm saying is
that she owed three hundred thousand dollars, and if I
owed three hundred thousand dollars, I think I would be
working on trying to figure out how to maybe put
off some of my vacations and pay the debt down first.
And speaking of the medical the White House today came
out with a fact sheet President Trump announces actions to
get Americans the best prices in the world for prescription drugs.
And in this letter let me read it, kind of
skip over a little bit of it here, but it
says the President sent letters to leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, outlining
the steps they must take to bring down the price
of prescription drugs in the United States to match the
lowest price offered in other developed nations, known as most
Favored Nation price. The steps include calling on manufacturers to
produce most Favored Nation prices to every single medicaid patient.
Requiring manufacturers to stipulate that they will not offer other
developed nations better prices for new drugs than prices offered
in the United States, Providing manufacturers with an avenue to
cut out middlemen and sell medicines directly to patients, provided
they do so at a price no higher than the
best price available in developed nations. Use trade policy to
support manufacturers in raising prices internationally, provided that increased revenues
abroad are reinvested directly into lowering prices for American patients
and taxpayers. The letter basically informed the manufacturers to if
they refuse to step up, the federal government quote will
deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families
from continued abusive drug pricing practices. So this went to
all the big ones. Adv amjen Astrodenica, Bristol Meyer, Squib Eli, Lilly,
Genen Tech, Johnson and Johnson, Mert, No, Varda, I mean
the whole list. They're all there. So now we wait
and see what happens. The letter goes on to say, hey,
back on May twelfth, presidents signed an executive order about
all of this, and it looks like they have done
nothing about it. So this is where he's cracking the
whip on the pharmaceutical company. So stand by to see
what happens with this effort by the president to get
prescription prices lower here in the US. I you know,
Biden did get the price of what was it for
diabetics insulin down to like thirty five dollars a month
or something like that. That was nice, but it doesn't
apply to that many people. This is huge. This is
across the board with all the pharmaceutical managers that are
out there, and he brought that up the middleman. Those
are the ones that really drive up the price. And
so the question will be wherever if you get your
insurance from your employer, the employer has to deal with
a middleman, pharmaceutical benefit managers what they're called, and they
will say to the employer, here are the rugs that
you can look that you can include in your insurance
policy for your employees, and these are the prices and
the employer goes through and picks out what they will
cover and what they won't. So that's another step along
the medical world there.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: Jack Keene is talking today more about more along the
line to what I was. I played for you yesterday.
Michael orm is the former ambassador from Israel to the
United States, and Hamas has done a superb effort of
making this all look like Israel is the bad guy.
Israel was minding their own business on October seventh when
Hamas invaded Israel and killed what was the twelve or
fourteen hundred citizens in their homes, and they were able
to turn it around because Israel responded with everything they
got and get the world against Israel because how there
they retaliate against little old Hamas and the starvation in
Gaza that has been blamed on Israel. Yesterday, Michael orm
made it very clear that what's happening is the trucks
that are distributing the aid. A lot of the Hamas
soldiers have stopped the distribution of that of those foods
and in fact killed some of the drivers of the trucks,
So there's always another side to the story. So Jack
Keane General Jack Keen kind of picks up on that here.
Speaker 7: Today including the Nations recognize a Palestinian state, which obviously
doesn't exist, and under the current conditions, it's unlikely it
would even the Arabs are there on that situation, to
be frank, But that's for another discussion. But yeah, the
momentum is certainly on Homas's side here and there's strengthening
their resolved not to make a deal, I mean, and
the reality is Hamas for weeks now has held up
this deal and the release of the hostages and attempting
to get a sixty day cease fire. And I don't
see anything in the future here that's going to get
us there, at least in a near term. Certainly, Prime
Minister Nantill has a number of options to consider here
and what he could put on the table, it may
be a better path. So if he's willing to have
serious negotiations over the end of war strategy, os as
opposed to the temporary sixty day cease fire, because the
reality is as we get down to the end here,
Hamas wants to hold those hostages for one reason, their
own survival and the Israelis and where they're located. The
Israelis have a pretty good feel where they are located,
and that's where the concentration of the remaining Hamas fighters are.
So Israel's not conducting operations aggressive operations in those areas
because we need to protect the hostages. It may be
another option open discussions for end of war strategy in
terms of who is going to govern Gaza going forward
and release all the hostages, et cetera. Nonetheless, this is tough.
We knew this was coming when it got down to
a much smaller number of hostages, and that really is
the undercurrent here.
Speaker 1: Harmas wants to survive.
Speaker 7: I know the president wants them to surrender, SODA's Prime
Minister Netnew.
Speaker 1: I think that's unlikely.
Speaker 7: I know for a fact that Israel has offered them
exile and freedom, the leaders to leave, and they promised
not to hunt them down after they did. But that's
not in the cards. These guys don't want that. We're
at a tough inflection point.
Speaker 2: General Team makes excellent points about the fact that Hamas
doesn't want to get rid of the hostages. They don't
want a peace agreement. What will they do? They are
basically playing survival for themselves. So at this point, countries
are being asked to support a Palestinian state. Canada, which
has caused problems now with negotiating on a trade agreement
with Canada, but Canada came out yesterday and said that
they will recognize Palestinian state if Israel doesn't, I don't know,
bring in more aid, stop the starvation, that sort of thing.
So here's Marco Rubio about the idea of where a
Palestinian state would play in all of this.
Speaker 8: It's irrelevant. I mean, it's annoying to some, but it's irrelevant.
It doesn't mean anything. First of all, none of these
countries have the ability to create a Palestinian state. There
can beino Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to it. Number two,
they can't even tell you where the Palestinian state is.
They can't tell you who will govern it. And I
think number three, it's counter productive.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty frustrating watching the political charades
that go on here. They're receiving some internal pressure in
those countries from some of their population base, largely Muslims
of people from the region who have some understandable empathy
for the suffering that's taken place there. But you would
expect national leaders that, particularly these countries that are involved,
have a little bit more spine than that in dealing
with the issue here. I mean, we all know it
is Hamas who started this war. It's Homas who who
continues this war, who Tamas who continues to hold the hostages,
and it's Hamas whose barbarism has been on the line
here from the very beginning. And for the life of me,
why we don't pin the rows where it should be
pinned right on them with a finger pointing at them
is where this belongs, and certainly not on is And
even dealing with the so called famine issue, two things
can be right at the same time, and that is, yes,
there are some issues there and food distribution and some starvation,
but also Israel is correct, there's a significant amount of
exaggeration and also misinformation associated with it as well, and
these leaders have that information and they should step up
and also recognize what the real problem here is.
Speaker 1: It's not Israel, it's Amaas.
Speaker 2: So just keep this in mind. There's always two sides
of the story, and Hamas has done a very good
job of blaming Israel, and Israel is that they don't
know what, they're not very good at basically pushing back
on the pr Put it that way, I want to
talk a little economy today. We got a bunch of
things out about inflation and about what you're what income
you have, and what you're spending your money on. The
core personal consumption expenditure, in other words, what we buy.
It went up. The prices went up not a lot,
from two point seven estimate up to two point eight
percent year over year. So that's what the things you're buying.
Prices have gone up two point eight percent. They're not
going down. They're going up, They're just not going up
very fast. Personal income was up up three tenths of
a percent for the month. That's slightly better than expected.
Consumer spending was down three tenths of a percent versus
four tenths which was estimated, So I'm sorry. Spending was
up three tenths it was estimated to be up four tenths. So,
in other words, personal income was up slightly better than expected.
Consumer spending was up slightly less than what was expected.
There's more and more signs that consumer spending is starting
to slow down here. The bottom line is, for the
last couple of years, a lot of economists have been
waiting for the recession. We're going to have a recession. Oh,
the recession is going to come. I'm telling you it's
on this way anytime now. And we haven't had a recession.
So now we're waiting to see about Oh, inflation is
going to be coming from the tariffs. I mean, tariffs
generally do cause inflation, but we haven't. I mean, and
the economic media is looking trying to stretch as hard
as they can to say, oh, look at look at
the inflation from the from the tariffs. If it's there,
I'm having a hard time seeing. You've got to use
a magnifying glass. So prices are up a little bit,
in comes up a little bit, spending's down a little bit,
but it's still I don't know if these We've got
to wait further to find out what these terroriffs are
actually going to do. And speaking of tariffs, guess what
happened tomorrow? Yep, the tariffs go into effect and that
is so far as of yesterday. According to the Budget
lab at Yale University, the average effective tarift rate tariff
rate imposed on goods that you and I buy stands
at eighteen point two percent. That is the highest tariff
rate since nineteen thirty four. So before Donald Trump took office,
the tariff rate was two point four. Now it's eighteen
point two. So what does that mean? Has anything shown
up in prices? Well, the president's bragging about all the
billions that have come in. I think he said one
hundred and fifty billion have come in. Where did it
come in from? Somebody is paying those tariffs. Generally it
is the company that picks up the product at the dock.
And so are they going to pass those prices on
or not. Some companies have come out and said yes.
Others have come out and said we're not going to
do it. We're not going to pass those prices on.
General Motors was one that said that. They said it
cost them one point one billion in just the last
three months to eat those tariffs and not pass them on.
And I think all of us can figure out that's
not going to last forever. General Motors is doing that
right now. It's more of an advertising pr campaign. See
what a good company we are. We're not passing on
these costs. But they're not going to be able to
do this forever, and they're going to gradually but surely
pass those costs on. You know they're going to. So
this is our imports have dropped the way off. Our
exports have actually dropped off a little bit. China is
exporting less to a man America to come down thirty
percent the impact of the trade problems with China. Our
imports have come down from China thirty percent. China, however,
said fine, we'll do business with other people in the world.
China has increased their exports to India, to Asiana, to
the UK, to the European Union. The only major geographic
area where they've reduced their shipments out of China to
the other country is US. The US, So there's a
noticeable decrease coming here from China. China's soybean imports there.
Guess what used to come from US? Not anymore. They're
coming from Brazil. We'll still send some, but not a lot.
So they're going to Brazil to get their soybeans. See
what else we have this list? Anyway, Tomorrow is the
deadline and we'll see what this whether things change again
or not. So here we are at the end of
the month. Let's get some emails in here. Penny sends
me a lengthy email. Let me open this up, says
unsolicited comment the plate tectonic action yesterday off the Russian coast.
I'm not a geologist, but I find it interesting. If
I understood anything regarding the dynamic Earth, is that yesterday's
action will pass through the Earth in the next few years.
What is the Hague up to with regards to wars
in Ukraine which was attacked by Russia and the attack
of civilians in Israel? These are war crimes? Is the
Hague another outdated, inert bureaucracy old boys club eating up
money from the USA? She's writes the podcast is good, direct,
dot committed and interesting. The news itself is not too good,
often confusing or frequently drawn out from start to end.
In years of stead of days, I'm enjoying the new
format like the old time newsman. And she says, We'll
see how the continuing tariffs hit it. So it goes on.
Nice email from Penny. Tim says, why is it that
all of Trump's tariff's deals so far are starting to
rest at fifteen percent, which is a huge increase from
two percent? Or five percent rates Europe, Japan, now South Korea,
I believe UK as well. Then he says he wants
to give some of it to the American people who
he taxed to get it. Yeah, I don't think that's
going to happen. If somebody asked him the other day,
what about a rebate for the citizens, and he, of
course is a politician, Oh yeah, that's a great idea.
Maybe we should use the money to pay down the debt.
And that was a much better answer. Eaglestorm's checking in
about Kamala Harris announced she won't run as governor. Yeah,
I don't know what you think about that. I thought
it was smarter her not to do that. Backfire on
Richard Nixon when he lost to John Kennedy in nineteen
sixty ran for California governor and lost and made them
look even worse, but didn't hurt him. He went on
to become president. Oh, Captain S, and I'll read this
to you. Captain S is not happy, and Captain S,
I mean it sounds like you're angry. But I appreciate
the criticism. He said Tom too much in New York
Local News boring for the rest of the country. This
country is so much more than New York City. Get
out of your bubble. I'm so tired of the media
mafia talking the same old subjects every day. Brent in Nevada, Brent,
I hear you loud and clear, and I can't if
you only knew how many times I have New York
centric stories and I don't do them because I lived
most of my life on the West Coast, and I
irritated me was the media capital of the country is
in New York City, so if a bird flies overhead,
it becomes national news. The shooting over at the building
on Park Avenue, I used. I did do the information
on that, but I also talked about the information about
the shooting at the casino in Reno, Nevada. And I
because it's not the media capital, it didn't get the
in depth reaction report that and everything else that the
story did here in New York. So yesterday I did
the story not from a shooting story, but from the CTE.
The fact that the shooter wrote the fact that he
thinks he had CTE the brain problem from too many,
too many hits. That's a football player when he was
in high school. I think that's not a New York story,
not at all. I think about Junior Seau, who played
for San Diego Chargers. He was the first one. I'm
sure there were others before him, but that really it
was clear that that's why he committed suicide. He shot
himself in the head. So the CTE part of the
New York story was really what my focus was on.
But I hear you, Brent, I do, and I'll bring
you New York stories. I'll bring you La stories the
two media capitals. But I mix in. I try to
mix in much much more than that as well. Well,
we got here. Oh as far as phone calls go,
some of you are leaving phone calls that are four
or five six minutes long. That doesn't work. But let
me play some phone calls here while we while we're
talking about here's one from our old friend Eric, who
originally lived in Russia, and this is what he had
to say about about the big earthquake and then subsequent tsunamis.
Speaker 9: But the earthquakes and tsunami, the main thing is not
the strength of this earthquake. It's the direction of the earthquake.
If it's a vertigo, you get a beat tsunami. If
it's a horizontal shakes, you don't get much tsunami. So
apparently in Tramchatcha. What's nice was eight point nine was
sixty six years ago when there was the same earthquake
in that area and it was horizontal shake, it was
not much tsunami. If it was vertigo, it would be
a different story today for four great show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, yeah, no, thank you so well out of
the side of that shake. I mean it was an
eight point eight eight point nine something. It was huge,
and yet the tsunami waves weren't all that big. So
maybe he's he's right about vertical versus horizontal movement of
the earth. What else do we have here? Here's a
phone call from Ron. See what he has to say.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is a r what a CALLI about the
homeless situation. I worked in a homeless area on my life.
Speaker 9: And I got some points I think, would you good
to say about the whole homeless population? Thank you?
Speaker 10: Oh boy?
Speaker 2: Okay, So we need to figure out the ground rules
on some of this. First of all, Ron, thanks for
the call. Thank you for working with the homeless population.
And you have some points you want to make about it.
You gotta make it as you on the call, whatever
your points are, and then you started to give out
your phone number. Two things one is I don't want
to play your phone number on the air. And secondly
is I can't call back people that call on the
comment line. I'd be here twenty four to seven making
phone calls, so that isn't going to happen. I got
another one from a guy David, I think a Hawai
David or something like that. He went on for four
or five minutes. That's way too long. And there's another
one I got from a guy called three times and
wants me to call him back. I'm sorry, I have
hundreds of these. I can't sorry, I just can't do it.
So just trying to lay down some of the ground rules.
Let's see Lorie the comment line lady, she's always had
had the ground rules down. Let's see she wants to
talk about redistricting.
Speaker 11: Texas wants to redistrict to protect the Republicans. Now California
wants to redistrict to protect the Democrats. I hear mel
Brooks's voice in my head saying, we've got to protect
our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mel Brooks classic line did I see that he's
ninety nine years old. Now, oh, and here's a lady
who called and it's one we've done in the past,
but I'll play it again. About the fact that the
way the podcast work, they just insert commercials right into
the middle of mid sentence and it's driving people crazy,
including me. Here she is, Oh, hi, this.
Speaker 10: Is a message for the Tom Sullivan podcast, and I
just wanted to get some feedback on the podcast. I
see that you do it on spreaker, which I don't
download it from speaker, but I download it from another downcast,
is what it's called. Anyhow, just SYI the editing on
it is pretty bad and it cuts you off mid
sentence and they'll break to a commercial. So I'm not
sure if you're aware or if that might just be
some issue with the downcast at but it's a little
It's not so great as a listener because you'll be
like mid sentence, mid thought, and then boom it cuts
off and goes to commercials. So anyhow, it's just FYI
still love listening to you, Thanks buddy.
Speaker 2: And thank you. Unfortunately I am aware of it, but
I'm not aware. But when we do the recording for
the podcast. There are no commercials. It's commercial free. They
when we upload it to them and then they insert
those ads and I'm trying to figure out how we
can solve that somehow, but I know it's irritating, and
I appreciate your indulgence until we get that corrected. But
I know it drives me crazy too. And then finally
one more from Laurie the comment Longe Lady. She's talking
about Kamala Harris.
Speaker 11: The race for the California governorship will be starting soon.
There's a lot of Democrats who want to run, but
they won't declare until Kamala Harris makes her intentions known.
Speaker 10: She says she'll do.
Speaker 11: That by Labor Day, Madame Vice President, defecate or relinquish
the crockery.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a very polite way of changing the old statement.
And now we know that she has made her announcement.
She made it yesterday afternoon, and she's not running for
California governor, which I think is I think is smart
because I just don't think she would have won. But
she's going to try. I'll bet you a large lunch
of the drive up window that she's going to try
to run for president again. And I think it's preordained that,
just like the last time she ran for president, off
to a great start and was the first one out
of the race. It was first one out of the
race of all the Democrats. So Wall Street, let's get there. Today.
Dow Jones Industrials, Oh, down again. It's been going up, up, up,
so down today, three hundred and thirty points, the Dow
at forty four thousand and one thirty, the SMP down
twenty three, the Nasdaq down seven, price of gold down
nine dollars to thirty three forty three, and the price
of oil after going up to seventy yesterday, down most
of a buck, down the sixty nine dollars and some change.
So thank you for coming by today. Tomorrow morning we
get the July jobs report, which is always going to
be important, and I'm sure we'll have more than that
as well. Hope to see you tomorrow. Thanks for coming
by today.