WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:01.280 It's nice eyes. 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:06.040 I'm going Boston's news radio. 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:10.439 Dan, Thank you so much, my friend, my favorite guest 4 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.480 in the world. It is Sam Metler. It is that 5 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:21.160 reaction area. Is that right wing nut from California? 6 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:23.120 You started? 7 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:28.440 Nice a, Sam? What's going on, buddy? With all those 8 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:30.399 liberals out there? How's everything going? 9 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.679 Wait? Wait, First of all, I'm not a right wing 10 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.240 nut or reactionary. I am a moderate independent, which. 11 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:41.439 In Los Angeles is the same thing. 12 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.280 Oh sure, yeah, okay, that's where I'm going. 13 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:47.799 First of all, give me the lowdown on the house. 14 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:48.520 You're back home. 15 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:58.439 I'm home and listen. It's just awfully sad, and it's 16 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.000 it's kind of eerie and weird because people have lost 17 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.319 everything and you know, you just go to work and 18 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.560 you do what you do. But there are people that 19 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:19.480 are in desperate, desperate need, and it's it's really awful. 20 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.640 I have a cousin who lost everything and it just 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:31.280 kills me. We you know, we have to continue going 22 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.920 through life as to the people that have lost everything. 23 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.239 But it's just it's it's sad and it's surreal. 24 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.959 Will will anything come out of this? And kell I 25 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.640 don't want to talk about this is my only question 26 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:45.879 about this, but it's just popped into my head, which 27 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:52.280 is always dangerous. Would this catastrophe, well, anything come out 28 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.400 of this so it doesn't happen to this. 29 00:01:54.439 --> 00:02:01.599 Level Again, Well, I don't know the answer to that 30 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.840 is I don't know. You know, this is a one 31 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:15.360 party state, which I hate because then you can't get 32 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:23.879 any uh there's no one to curb excess or to 33 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:30.800 curb a bad legislation or no legislation from taking place. 34 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.039 It's just whatever one side wants, they get, and so 35 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:43.360 that's very, very tough. It's you know, I thought, of course, 36 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:49.800 when Trump came here after the fires and he really 37 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:55.879 called out our mayor to her face, she deserved worse 38 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.800 than what he gave her. Actually and back from Europe. 39 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.960 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah she she. I mean, listened, who 40 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:10.479 who doesn't want to go to Ghana for inauguration Day? 41 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:11.840 Sorry Africa? 42 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.680 Yeah? So yes she Uh so he gave her hell. 43 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.840 He gave hell to Brad Sherman and he said, your 44 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:26.039 side is basically screwed up. And they have and I 45 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:31.680 think we talked about it last show. I mean, with 46 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:37.560 with all of the mess and horror that Trump is 47 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:44.400 in the first few weeks of his administration, you know, 48 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.400 you would have said, oh, there are going to be 49 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.520 more people voting for Democrat, I mean, excuse me for 50 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:58.080 Republican right after this fire, and he manages to take 51 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.840 good will and urinate on it, if I can. 52 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:08.919 Use that, Well, didn't he didn't he give the water back? 53 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.759 Did he did take care of that? Did he say that, 54 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:13.639 well I'm going to fill up the lakes again or 55 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.319 the reservoirs. 56 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.560 Or yeah, he says yes, I mean listen, I mean 57 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:21.040 it's it's it's so obvious what should have happened here. 58 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.879 But like I said, preparedness is not sexy for the 59 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.879 ultra left out here. You know. It is who can 60 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.639 I help and who can I look good for? And 61 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.720 who you know, you know, who will vote for me? 62 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.279 You know this is I said this this week. Is 63 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:51.240 the left used to be for the little guy? Well, 64 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:58.319 the little yeah, well the little guy was the union guy, 65 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.040 right you, the little guy? 66 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.920 He was my dad. He was my dad. He worked 67 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:09.360 in the paper mill. He was a union guy, and 68 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:11.560 he wanted to send his kids to college because he 69 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.279 never went. And he'd work over time to get Christmas 70 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.360 gives and all that stuff. 71 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.199 I know, it I lived here. Yeah, And now those 72 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.560 days a guy with him. Little guy was people who 73 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:32.560 lived through Jim Crow. Little guy was immigrants who came 74 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.839 here wanting to build and came here you know, legally, 75 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.160 and you know, Jews who had been murdered all over 76 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:46.879 the world. And there's a new little guy. And because 77 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.639 this country not that they were perfect, We're far from it, right, 78 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.560 but we've improved a lot. And so with that, the 79 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.480 left has tried to, you know, in order to stay 80 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.800 it is finding new the new little guys, right, and 81 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:14.720 they are not. It's not well thought out, it's not mainstream. 82 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.519 It's it doesn't I mean, certainly it doesn't help any 83 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:20.879 And so this is why you have someone like Donald 84 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:27.480 Trump screaming DEI when there is none right for you know, 85 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:33.279 for for the helicopter crash, right, you know. And and 86 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:39.399 it works because everyone was so sick of you know, 87 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.680 the the the different priorities. 88 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.800 You've said it before, Sam, I mean Trump came in 89 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.199 and he appealed to a segment, a large segment, much 90 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:55.480 larger than we thought, across ration lines that felt unloved 91 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:56.079 and unheard. 92 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.959 I mean, yeah, the people that used to be the 93 00:06:59.000 --> 00:06:59.680 little guy. 94 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.319 Right, they felt unloved and unheard, and instead, you know, 95 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:07.680 they're paying Oprah millions of dollars to hold an interview. 96 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:13.199 Yeah, well you know, he he, So he came out here. 97 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:18.519 I thought, okay that you know, maybe maybe this state 98 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.439 will start to move more towards the center because they'll 99 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:29.680 see that we need more, more of an equal representation 100 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.279 or just even you know, more folks that will pay 101 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:43.199 attention to proactive, you know, measures to keep us safe. 102 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.480 Geare you know what the insurance company's left here? You 103 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.639 know what? The insurance companies can't And I don't blame 104 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.399 them one bit for canceling their policies. Because if the 105 00:07:52.480 --> 00:08:01.000 government won't take won't take the necessary precautions to save 106 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:07.120 an entire you know, town from losing their properties, why 107 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.279 the hell are the insurance companies gonna, you know, going 108 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:16.040 to insure them. I mean, if you told an insurance company, 109 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.160 if you told an insurance company, you know what I 110 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.600 we have know we live in a stack of hay, 111 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:29.279 right and and I produce matches. The fire department is 112 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:33.440 three hours away. They're not going to ensure you, right? 113 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.639 So what Just to be clear so people understand, you're 114 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:40.799 not talking about not paying on insurance benefits. You're talking 115 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.120 about not underwriting a policy in the first place, exactly right. 116 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.840 They cut fire insurance here. They cut fire insurance here 117 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.480 by a tone and this is before the fires happened, 118 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.159 and it was like, well, what can we do. We'll 119 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.000 go out of business or we'll charge you crazy premium, 120 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:04.279 which they're not allowed to do. I mean, yeah, I 121 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.320 mean it's it's it makes so much sense. But you 122 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.559 get the people here that didn't have hot fire hydrants 123 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.679 that turned on, that didn't have the preparedness with the 124 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:19.000 brush cut back, and they're yelling at the insurance companies 125 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:23.080 for not paying out on the properties that they, you know, 126 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.200 didn't defend and protect. 127 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.399 Well, but they're being inaccurate because what you're telling me 128 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.919 is they didn't have a fire policy. 129 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:38.360 I mean, let's put it this way. The excuse that 130 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:45.480 the system couldn't take the water coming in, like, what 131 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:50.120 the hell's that? Yeah, I mean, like the system should 132 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.279 be able to take that, right, That's that's not an excuse. 133 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.919 It's an emergency. Well yeah, I mean your fire hyergens 134 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:03.360 are supposed to work in emergencies, and it's just ridiculous. 135 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.720 Yeah, And it's very sad. And I don't know how 136 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.159 people are going to rebuild. They're not gonna have the money. 137 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.679 I mean, the Palisades has a a lot of uh, 138 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.720 you know, big money, but there are people that that 139 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:22.759 don't have big money. 140 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.120 In the Palisades. It's not Beverly Hill. 141 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:33.519 Yes, and and and uh certainly Alda Dina is a 142 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:39.720 lot of working class families there. What's what's uh interesting 143 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.000 is you know back in Boston, you know, you get 144 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.320 your house reassessed, right every few years, new taxes go up. 145 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:50.600 Yep, oh, yes, I'm well aware. 146 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:58.600 Yes. Do you know in California your house never gets reassessed? 147 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:06.440 Why so? Why because they're idiots. I mean they tax 148 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:10.919 the hell out of you in other ways, right, But yeah, 149 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.159 So there are people that live in Beverly Hills in 150 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:18.519 you know, ten million dollar homes. They bought them for 151 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.159 you know, forty grand you know, sixty years ago, seventy 152 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:28.360 years ago. It's and that's I mean, it's unbelievable how 153 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:34.679 that hasn't been raised. I mean, it's so it's so silly. 154 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:36.759 It's they tax the hell out of everything else, and 155 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:40.120 they tax the hell out of businesses. You know it. 156 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.840 People should be paying the right amount of taxes and 157 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:45.360 they won't. 158 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:45.799 You know. 159 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.399 You know what they also do is you know we 160 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:57.399 pay for we have freeways and I put that in quotations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 161 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.799 we don't. We just get paid. We just our car 162 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.200 to re up our car. What the heck is the 163 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.960 car insurance? But the registration, yeah, registration, it's hundreds and 164 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:14.320 hundreds right, Yeah. So there's no speed pass here because 165 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.320 we don't have tolls. So you're not paying for the usage. 166 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.039 You're just they're just dinging you at to get a 167 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:23.440 sticker every every year. 168 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.200 Well and maybe if you charge, you know, maybe if 169 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.559 you if you did raise the property taxes, you could 170 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:32.039 afford to fill the fire hudrants. Sam, We are going 171 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.480 to turn it to mister Trump. We have to take 172 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:39.600 a break. We will talk tariffs. Tariffs coming up, Sam Butler, 173 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.039 he used the tax man. Coming up next on WBZ. 174 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.279 Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World 175 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.879 Life Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio. 176 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.679 Hey, welcome back, every tank. Wee for Dan tonight, Sam Mendler, 177 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:55.519 George us from the West Coast here as we're talking 178 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.120 about everything under the sun with my guy Sam. Okay, 179 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:03.759 So Trump I'll ask you which which of these points 180 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:08.279 are true. I'm watching CNN and it says Trump backs 181 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:13.360 off tariff stands. Then I watched Fox News and it 182 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:20.679 says Canada and Mexico crumbles to Trump. So it's somewhere 183 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.320 in the middle. Of course, it is. Everything is in 184 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.799 the middle. That's the problem with this country. Everything should 185 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.360 be in the middle. But you know, so just if 186 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.320 people don't know. So, Mexico is saying they're gonna send 187 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:37.919 ten thousand armed personnel to the border to stop drugs, 188 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.840 which I still don't think is gonna work. And then 189 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:44.559 Trudeau from Canada is going to talk to Trump and 190 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.720 they're supposed to work something out. So what do you 191 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:51.759 make of already? Oh what happened? I missed it? 192 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.360 Just it just happened. 193 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:56.519 That. 194 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.879 Yeah. Uh, they worked out some sort of deal with 195 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:09.120 averting a trade war by boosting up the border, reinforcing 196 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:17.720 the border with their people, and increased resources to stop 197 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:25.080 the flow of fentnel coming into the country. Nearly ten 198 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.039 thousand frontline personnel will be working the border. Will it 199 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.480 work better than nothing? Yeah? 200 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.559 I'm just when it comes to the drug wars, I 201 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.519 just am so you know, you well, you know Sam 202 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:44.080 better than anybody. My god, addiction. I mean, that's the 203 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.000 root of it. You can put as many people on 204 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.879 the border as you want. I suppose, Yes, it's better 205 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.080 than nothing, it's better than nothing. 206 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:56.200 But yeah, I mean it's you got to do it. 207 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:01.559 And sure less drugs will come over because you know, 208 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.120 they don't have to work out something else. You know, 209 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.399 if if they've got certain routes they take, and if 210 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:16.320 they've you know, are used to business a certain way, 211 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:26.120 I've got to imagine that anything will will make it better. Well, 212 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.000 you know how much better. I don't know. 213 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.480 Well that what worries me is like I don't know 214 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.600 about Canada. I don't know if the fentanyl drug lords, 215 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.519 you know, have Trudeau in their back pocket. I assume not. 216 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.600 But it seems to me that cartels are in Mexico. 217 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:44.600 They do, Yeah, they do. 218 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.799 And you know, I got to tell you, I mean, 219 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.519 and I don't like him, but he is right about 220 00:15:52.639 --> 00:16:01.159 one thing. And the other countries in the world they 221 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:08.360 tend to take advantage of our I'll say generosity, even 222 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:12.320 though some people don't believe that we are. You know, 223 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:16.919 there there are countries that simply don't have military because 224 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.279 we are there as part as part of as part 225 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:26.080 of NATO. Right, and Mexico has done nothing to prevent 226 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.799 people from coming to the border. It's all us, right, 227 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.679 because they don't care, God bless take them. We can't 228 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.759 do anything with them. Take them. And so it's you know, 229 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.399 I don't like his tactics, right, I don't like tariffs. 230 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:46.039 I mean, if he if people think he's going to 231 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:50.320 drive down prices with tariffs, I mean they're wrong. 232 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.480 I don't know why anybody would believe that. 233 00:16:54.240 --> 00:17:00.000 I mean, it's just tariffs are not a conservative views, 234 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.720 Sam free market, free market, free market. 235 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:07.880 I agree with you one hundred percent. Because the company 236 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.000 it's just going to be passing along with the consumer. 237 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:12.079 I mean that's common sense. 238 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:14.920 Yeah, of course, you know. I mean, so, I don't know. 239 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.680 Why anybody would think that tariffs are going to help 240 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.319 the economy or lower prices. I suppose there's one thought 241 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.200 that it's going to create American jobs because we'll have 242 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.519 more manufacturing within the country. 243 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.039 But the prices will be raised that way too. 244 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.680 Well, it doesn't happen overnight, you know. 245 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:38.960 I mean, well, well, well, what we will have is 246 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:47.240 we will have a another inventory problem that we have 247 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:52.759 with COVID because now with tariffs, these folks won't be 248 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.720 shipping the stuff over right, so you know, there'll be 249 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.400 a problem getting every day goods that we get for cheap. 250 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.279 And you know why we get them for cheap, Gary, 251 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:10.880 it is because they use slave labor. And it gets me. 252 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:16.000 It gets me kind of angry because there are so 253 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:21.920 many folks who think it is racist to call China 254 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:29.359 out on uh, it's ills China. China is a pretty 255 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.119 bad country. I mean, I don't know if you've heard, 256 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.000 I mean of concentration camps, but they got them. You know, 257 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.799 they do not treat their citizenry well. They are I mean, 258 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:46.880 is a dictatorship. This there's you know, bad stuff that 259 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:51.279 goes on over there, and they're they're you know, there's 260 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:55.400 certainly not a working power for world peace in the world, right, 261 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.279 And so yeah, the tariff thing is silly. I mean, 262 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.440 it's interesting that he uses it, and then you know, 263 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:11.759 I I think it's sort of a nuclear move to 264 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:18.039 get countries to you know, put up more money, put 265 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:23.440 up more border security, et cetera. You know, so that 266 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:28.400 you know that's something I just I just don't like 267 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:32.400 dealing like that. I think it's it's sort of like 268 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:39.720 it's it's it's thuggish question, you know, And and that's him. 269 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:47.599 You know, he's sure, but they, you know, wait until 270 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:53.079 they see how much things cost, and that they cost higher. 271 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:59.960 I don't know what he'll say two get out of it, right, 272 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:02.279 Like what kind of excuse he's going to make. 273 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:04.880 Well, I mean, but the big if it was twenty 274 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.319 five for Canada, twenty five for Mexico, and if they 275 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.000 comply to his demands and they don't have the tariff, 276 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.640 that's not a problem ten percent from China. People will 277 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.400 still pay for the goods. 278 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:24.119 It adds up. It adds up in things like auto parts, sure, right, 279 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:32.240 you know, so it cuts into a lot of profit. 280 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.319 And so you know, I don't when you say people 281 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:39.759 will pay for it. Yeah, if you're talking about a 282 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:44.599 gizmo that's you know, a direct to consumer sale, that's 283 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.960 one thing. But if you're talking about computer parts, et cetera. 284 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.680 I think it's going to be very difficult for an 285 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:58.960 American company too, you know, stomach paying god knows how many. 286 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.839 More and maybe you pass it along to the consumer. 287 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:03.799 Because one of the things I feel about our consumer 288 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:05.839 base is people buy stuff even if they put it 289 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.240 on a credit for card and don't know how to 290 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:07.799 pay for it. 291 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:14.519 Yeah, yeah, that is that is true. I I just 292 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:24.400 think that they'll find they'll find other They'll find other, 293 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:30.240 uh maybe lesser products or what happened. 294 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:31.400 At the end of the day. Do you think that? 295 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:35.599 Do you think during this term Trump can create more 296 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:41.039 jobs in America? Yeah? 297 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:43.519 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Well. 298 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:49.119 Pitch right, make your products here, American made, so forth 299 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.319 and so on. That's always the pitch. But yet these 300 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:57.799 companies that are from America would rather pay the slave 301 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:59.359 labor overseas than bring it in. 302 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.920 Well, the the the issue is he could, right if 303 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:10.480 he and this is a big this is a would 304 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.359 be a big stick in the crawl of the left. 305 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.319 Is tax breaks? Right? 306 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:19.960 Uh? 307 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:25.240 The left hate tax breaks for the supposed rich. Right, 308 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:33.319 you have someone like AOC who managed to help Amazon 309 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:41.440 lose out or move a factory from her district elsewhere 310 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:45.880 because she was so stupid. It's like she didn't understand 311 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.440 that the tax breaks, you know, go hand in hand 312 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:54.759 with more jobs. You know, it's it's got to be. 313 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.000 I mean, to me, that's the only sensible way of 314 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:05.240 making things, getting more. 315 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:09.640 Jobs, not really yeah, I mean, Sam, Look, it's mathematics. 316 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:12.559 Is that if you can go to a foreign country 317 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.839 and if you can pay five cents to make a 318 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:20.119 widget whatever, right as opposed to paying twenty five cents 319 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:23.319 in America, get you got to give the company the 320 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.960 money back somewhere because you may be heavily unionized in America. 321 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.920 And that's fine, I'm a union guy. But these companies 322 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.599 go to ununionized labor in other parts of the world 323 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:39.799 and it's dirt cheap. So it's capitalism. And a lot 324 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:42.640 of these companies are based here in America going elsewhere. 325 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:45.440 So that's where I laugh at it, you know, that's 326 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:49.519 where I laugh with American companies. Apple, for God's sakes, 327 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:54.359 right that everybody is so dependent upon Apple. I mean 328 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:56.759 we all are. I got my phone, I got my laptop, 329 00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:59.559 I got this and that, and they're made it's made 330 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:03.200 in China or it's made in in countries where I 331 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.279 don't have to pay as much. So yeah, we have 332 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:06.640 to make it. 333 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:12.759 Will people will not shoot here film here in California 334 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:13.839 because of the taxes. 335 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:16.200 Well, okay that too, So I. 336 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:19.319 Mean that's it's it's it's it's just an example of 337 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:20.119 what we're talking about. 338 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:22.640 Well, it's no doubt, I mean, and I don't understand 339 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:25.880 that either, Sam, because I mean Hollywood, that's it's a 340 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.799 factory town. That part I don't get. 341 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:31.160 I get it. They charged him it's tech. 342 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:34.599 I don't know why they haven't lowered the taxes. 343 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:43.000 It's because they don't understand. They don't understand mass. They 344 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:48.079 don't understand that. You know, if they actually tax less, 345 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:53.359 there'll be more productivity, prices will go down. I mean it. 346 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:57.599 They just don't get it. They don't get it. They 347 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:02.160 also think that the uh, the economy is a finite 348 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:07.039 piece of pie, that if someone else is making a 349 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:10.880 certain amount, then that must be because they stole it 350 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:19.960 from someone from someone else. You know, there's an unlimited capital, uh. 351 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.279 And they just don't they don't get that. I don't. 352 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:26.839 I don't understand it either, Sam. I've heard that there's 353 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.720 talk that they're trying to give tax breaks now in 354 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:32.680 Hollywood it's the it's the entertainment capital of the world, 355 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.279 but everything's made in British Columbia and Atlanta. It's it's 356 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.720 nuts and even New Jersey now because they want to 357 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:42.640 bring the work there. I understand that's that's that is 358 00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.160 the way you stimulate it. But in the big picture, 359 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:49.359 when people talk about we need to manufacture here in America, 360 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:53.680 unless you entice the companies to do it, they're not 361 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:56.960 going to do it. I don't care what breaks, and 362 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:59.119 that's it. That's what you got to do. So like 363 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:01.559 when people bitch of a tax breaks, they don't understand 364 00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:04.480 the method. That's that's that's right for the rich. They're 365 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:06.880 for the rich. It's like, well, it is, but you 366 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:08.920 have to understand. I get it, I understand what it is, 367 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:12.119 but it isn't but that that's the only way you're 368 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.960 going to have the jobs here. And that's why Trump 369 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.839 got elected because people think that he's going to deliver jobs. 370 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:20.519 Sam Methler, my friend from the West Coast More coming 371 00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:21.119 up after this. 372 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:29.200 It's Night Side Boston's news radio. 373 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:35.559 So Sam Medler's with us on the West coast. Gary Tagway, 374 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:44.920 So have you been hanging out with elone? Okay, let's 375 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.319 let's let's take a look at this. If you said 376 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:53.880 ten years ago that the president was going to appoint 377 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:58.200 some billionaire to just come in and clean things up, 378 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.880 you would have said that's insane. That would never know, 379 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:02.480 I wouldn't have. 380 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.839 No, no, no, actually wouldn't have. I actually wouldn't have. 381 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.960 I didn't know who Elon Musk was. Then maybe i'd 382 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.119 say it's insane. But I mean for someone to go 383 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:20.599 through the government's spending and look at it from a 384 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.759 non political lens, to try to cut some of the 385 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:29.680 enormous fat that we've got in the budget, I say, 386 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:37.000 God bless. I just don't know. I mean, he's he's uh, 387 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:46.759 he's got problems, you know, A he's uh got he 388 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:51.079 is on the spectrum right right, so he says and 389 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:56.599 does a lot of things that uh don't appear to 390 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:06.920 be you know, very diplomatic. Yeah, well, you know, I 391 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:13.599 I would not recommend anyone try a Nazi salute, you know, 392 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:19.559 at a at a rally. You know that's me. But yeah, 393 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:23.359 I mean that's was he trying to make a Nazi salute? 394 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:28.240 I don't think so. I think he's a spaz, you know, 395 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:32.839 in terms of I mean what he's doing in Germany 396 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.759 with the far right, I mean, God, Garry, it scares 397 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:40.880 the hell out of me. I mean, meanwhile, I feel 398 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:50.839 a little you know, to to in total, what the 399 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:53.319 hell do you call it? When you when you tell 400 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:57.119 people that you've got a conflict of interest. I'm I'm 401 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:02.480