Speaker 1: And Hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast
on this Friday. Today's the twenty ninth day of May,
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is
Tom Sullivan, last business day of the month. So we
peeled this one off pretty quickly. I know it just
they're going by faster in any case. So we were
watching the world and let me see my list here.
I've got the latest on Iran. I've got a bunch
of people still reacting to doctor Jill Blue Origin. Oops.
They were testing an end and the whole rocket ship
blew up. We'll get into that. The spelling the cracks
me up. I have I think they're making these words up.
I've never heard of some of these words, and the
kids are spelling them like they like it's how the
fell cat or something. They're they're amazing. Got Pam Bondi
showed up today in Washington. She was asked to come
and testify. She has a bandage on her throat because
she just had surgery a week or two ago. She
has thyroid cancer. So we wish her well on that.
But let's start with the war and Iran and the
President has been meeting in the situation room with his
people most of the day. I mean, he's been there
for hours and he's trying to make a decision. And
I I've got to tell you, I mean there's a
lot of there's a lot of reaction to this that
I I'm curious what the President's going to do. Will get
to a barakravied in just a minute. He works for Axios,
but it was yeah, it was Axios. He was the
guy who broke the news yesterday about the fact that
there was a deal. And yet The Hill, the big
Washington DC newspaper, said Trump faces heavy lift on selling
the Iran deal. And that's one of the things Barakravig
gets into is the fact that he's meeting with his
people and he's waiting to see what the reaction is.
He's looking for everybody else's opinion, and that's I no, no, no, no, no,
Make a decision, mister president. Don't look at your left
and right, don't look at the people that are your critics,
don't look at the people that are your fans. Do
what's right. And I think he is facing a heavy
lift on selling this deal because I'm looking at it
and I'm thinking, this doesn't put this doesn't change. I mean,
we went to war for next to nothing, so I'm
not going to prejudge the president. We'll see what he says.
But since Barack Revid was the guy who reported the
fact that the deal had been semi reached yesterday, let's
find out what he says today. Here's revied.
Speaker 2: So I think that at least as of yesterday, the
President was leaning towards signing off on this memorandum of understanding.
I think there are two main reasons that President Trump
is still waiting. The first reason is that he wants
to make sure. He wants to see that the Iranians
are not backing away from what has been agreed upon,
because the Iranians, through the mediators, told the US on
Wednesday already that they're ready to sign, and I think
President Trump wants to see that they're not walking back.
And at least now, there's been no official and public
statement by any Iranian official that walks away from what
has been published over the last twenty four hours. And
I think this is something we haven't seen so far
because in previous rounds, Iranian formulists are Rakji or his
spokesman or other Ranian officials came out publicly, openly and
officially and said this is not true. We do not
see it this time.
Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Another thing that I think President Trump is doing, according
to what I hear from US officials, he wants to
see how this is playing out in domestic in the
domestic political debate in the US, and I think we
should look at for example, and the editorial board of
the Wall Street Journal published yesterday and apped about the
deal that had some criticism, but it was very, very mild,
and I think it says a lot about where the
hawks Iran hawks are at the moment. They're not attacking
this deal with everything they got. They do criticize parts
of it. And I think this is exactly what President
Trump wanted to see, and I think there is a
chance that in the next day or two he could
make a determination.
Speaker 1: Well, he mentioned the Wall Street Journal editorial board and
they wrote another op ed on it again today and
they said, like it or not, US military threat becomes
less credible the longer the talks drag on. Yeah, I agree.
Nobody thinks the President's going to go back to military
strength or military attacks at this point. And I'm sure
that The Iranians are betting that Trump won't use the
military again. That's what they're betting on. Wall Street Journal
says ending the dual block kids would help. A good
deal would remove the remains of Iran's nuclear program. The
problem I have with all this is you have to
change the regime. Could you imagine leaving Adolf Hitler in
charge of Germany if we defeat them, said, okay, Adolf,
if you get to stay, is the head of Germany. No,
that's where we are. Where we're leaving the evil leaders
of Iran in place. You have to change the regime,
in my humble opinion, because everybody that ever knows anything
about them, they lie, they cheat, they steal so they
can promise oh no, no, no, we'll not we won't
do nukes. No no, no, we won't. And you know
they're going to be working triple time trying to put
one of those back together again. Alex Plitus, he is
a national security guy. Let's listen to him.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, to Brock's point, nothing's officially been released.
We haven't heard comments from the audience. We've got some
leaks in, some comments from US officials. But at the
end of the day. I think if we're going to
talk about this, what does good look like?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: So that for the president that includes a that they're
not going to have a nuclear weapon at the end
of this. So what does that actually mean. There's four
hundred and forty kilograms of highly enriched uranium. The discussion
has been either about diluting that or taking out of
the country, which is the US preference. There's been a
discussion about enrichment and whether or not that's going to
be a permanent moratorium twenty years, ten years, some sort
of negotiation. Separate from that, there has been a severe
degradation of the missiles the drones on the industrial base,
at least according to Central Command. There's a bit of
debate in the IC, but I was at Central Command
headquarters last week and they affirmed that animal to Cooper's testimony,
is in fact based at least on Sentcom's battle damage assessment.
So for the President, if he were to grant economic
relief to the Iranians and the Straits open up and
we don't get anything else in return, it's effectively returning
the Straits to a pre wark condition and giving the
Iranians money for doing so. In order for this to
be a holistic deal, it's beneficial to the United States,
and for him to achieve the goals he set out,
it would also have to address the nuclear program in
a substanti way. So are we actually going to see
that get a commitment from the Iranians on both those
issues for Richmond and removing the highly enriched uranium. There
really hasn't been much that's been publicly disgusted about what
that means for the drones and the missiles going forward.
And then lastly, what happens with the proxy forces in
the region, because if there's going to be a ceasefire
in Lebanon, Israel is not one tonly attacking Lebanon as
a country or the Lebanese on forces. This is you know,
mainly going after Hesblo and Hesbela infrastructure inside the country.
There's a little bit of debate commentary about that. But
short of that, we also have the militias in Iraq.
We still who these that haven't been addressed. And then lastly,
up to you know, up to maybe thirty thousand protesters
or more may have been killed in Iran and we
still have seen nothing about that in terms of justice
for them or in terms of freedom for the Iranian
people on the back end of this. So at a minimum,
the nuclear program has to be addressed, and then we'd
hopefully like to see something about the drones and the
missiles as well. But until we see texts, you know,
we're basically speculating on what's been leaked out.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it just doesn't sound very promising to me. Like
you said that they'll open the straight and we'll give
them a lot of money for doing so, and it
puts us right back to where we were before the
war started. All right, let's get Jen Moteine in here.
See what he says.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's first of all, I think when you
look at it, we've got to remind ourselves, you know,
who are the Iranians here? And certainly the administration is
very clear right in who they are. In fact, I
spoke to one of the negotiators earlier this week from
a lengthy conversation, and there's no doubt in my mind
that he's very clear ride of what we're dealing with here.
What did we see after the twelve day war last June.
The thing that got our attention and alarm does is
how they recommitted to all of their original goals, recovered
nuclear program, ballistic missile acceleration, continued support for the proxies.
All that was going on, and the degree that it
was going on, particularly with ballistic missiles precipitated and was
the basic reason for why we had this combined operation
against the Iranians this year, beginning back in February, and
we've got further evidence. So my point is it's unlikely
they're going to change no matter what deal we put together.
At the end of it, they're going to want to
recover everything that they're losing and go back to their
original goal. So in the deal and our negotiators understand this,
we've got to have the provisions in there to prevent
as much of that as possible from happening. The second
thing is we know they're going to cheat. Look at
this right now. What's taking place just this week alone
with the violation of the ceasefire and the straits of
a moves. Who's doing that? The Iranians are doing that,
and we had to react to it. Look what they've
done in Lebanon. The ceasefire began on April the eighth,
and since April the eighth, less than two months, they
have fired rockets and missiles into northern Israel over nine
hundred times. One two hundred plus drones have been fired
into northern Israel all since April the eighth, and that
is under the guise of a ceasefire. And the Israelis
are in a defensive crouch because they're abiding by the
terms of the deal, which is they can only conduct
defensive operations. I point this out because it reminds us
who we really are dealing with here. They are likely
to want to cheat. Now we've got good leverage points here.
Number one, to blockade ourselves. That'll get us the straits
of moves open. And I'm assuming the President is looking
at the text and seeing what's in there, and I'll
get back to that in a second. And the other
leverage point is the money. We have the money their
frozen access that we have sanctions, so we can meter
that out based on how their behavior is changing and
what their level of commitment is. And then the thing
that you mentioned and the President mentioned also last night,
in any interview, we can go back to military operations
where the Iranians are they want to stress season negotiations
out as long as possible, because then they think in
their minds it's less likely the president go back into
military operations. But they have miscalculated about this president before
and that's dangerous on this part, and they would likely
do that again here when it gets to the straits
that you're talking about here, I think there's some issues
that are likely we want to see in the text,
and that may be what's the land And I don't know,
we can I don't want to speculate about the text,
but I think what we know the issues are, Iran
has to d mind and that probably is going to
take a few weeks to do that. Why because they
don't know where all the minds are that they put down,
so that has to happen. But the southern lane is
open because we open it, and traffic will begin to
flow right through there. So it'll be some relief immediately,
but it'll take some time before it's all relieved. Number two,
and you mentioned it, there can be no fees. They're
not going to be any tolls, fees or whatever you
want to describe it, none whatsoever. And the third thing,
I think the administration is starting very much aware of this.
We cannot leave or around with the implication that they're control
of it. And what do I mean by that, Well,
because they're organizing when and who is going to move
through the straits, that's control. That's got to be off
the books. They have their hands off of it. This
is international waters, freedom of navigation. They don't have a
say in any of it. Then there's the nuclear enrichment.
We want all of it out of there, regardless of
the percentage. That's the fact, and that's got to happen,
and that's the President's main objective for sure, and that's
the reality of it. And certainly there are other things
that are going to take place here. And the money
is going to be an issue for sure. Horon's going
to want money up front because the good will, and
we're going to say no, we want to see what
your behavior is like, and we're going to meet the
money to you. I suspect those are the issues that
we're dealing with and trying to get an agreement on
this draft document.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like the General is going to be
surprised if this deal actually gets signed. There was an
OpEd in the Washington Post today. The headline is has
devastated Iran's regime, don't give it a lifeline now. A
decimated leadership is weakened, vulnerable, and on the mat. So
I know the president feels pressured politically, but I'm thinking,
if you're going to be a wartime president, you can't
worry about the politics, good, bad, or indifferent. You have
to take care of the national security issues that are
in front of you. Michael Allen, who was on the
national security team for George W. Bush, this is what
his thoughts are.
Speaker 6: I think we're beginning to take smaller steps instead of
trying to negotiate an entire agreement within a limited framework.
It feels as if we're going for what some have
described as the narrow deal, where we're just going to
try and rescind our blockaded Iranian ports in exchange for
the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. The part I
like about the apparent agreement is is that it doesn't
have to be declared to open immediately. It seems like
each side could use baby steps, take intermediate steps along
the way, and eventually get to a place where it's
fully open. So what I want the most out of
this is for the President to retain a maximum degree
of leverage over this situation because what he can't ever
agree to, and he has said as much, is letting
Iran have a veto over the world's economy by holding
up this very important international waterway.
Speaker 1: All right, but again, I want to play a clip
from what you just heard from from General Keen. This
is the essence of what he's saying.
Speaker 5: It's unlikely they're going to change no matter what deal
we put together. At the end of it, they're going
to want to recover everything that they're losing.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter what we put in front of them.
The President can sign it and I'll sign it. They're
not going to change. You have to change them. You
have to take them out of being the leaders of
that country.
Speaker 6: It's going to be really hard, and of course General
Keen was referring to that as well. At the end
of the day, for them to totally quit funding terrorists
and standing down on a nuclear program and helping their people,
they're gonna it's gonna have to be regime change. I
don't think we can force it from the air. Obviously,
the Iranian people were upset enough earlier in the year
to take to the streets. Eventually, it's going to be
their job to do. But I think the General's right
we have to, but we're in a different world where
short of regime change, we're trying to do the best
we can with the leverage that we have to be
able to limit them as much as possible.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's did short of regime change, we have to
do what we can. No, just do the regime change
and don't stop until you have finished. Finish the job,
is my proclamation. Let's see what Kareem said. You're poor
from Carnegie says.
Speaker 7: Well, for context, the Obama nuclear deal was a deal
that took around two years to negotiate, so two months
is probably quite ambitious.
Speaker 8: The other issue, Kate, is.
Speaker 7: It you know, this has been a forty seven year
ideological war between America and Iran, and you have a
regime which doesn't really prioritize their country's national interests. So
on our end, we're prepared to Iran offer Iran pretty
significant sanctions, relief and economic incentives to conduct itself differently.
But it's a regime that doesn't want to conduct itself differently,
and it's thinking about its own regime survival, not the
well being of its people, and that its nuclear material
is a key part of its survival instincts.
Speaker 1: So they don't want to give up their new material,
so you're going to have to take them out. I
keep repeating myself. All right, Yesterday I played a clip
from Doctor Jill. She's been interviewed. It's going to air
Sunday morning. She was being interviewed by CBS for the
Sunday Morning Show and read A brave was the correspondent,
and it raised a lot of hackles from Democrats and
Republicans because she said that she never saw Joe like
he was on the debate stage when he melted down,
never saw him like that before or since. And she
just got to go, are you kidding me? And the
Democrats are mad because they're going, can we please move
on from twenty twenty four? Can we please put that
behind us? So here's Ari Fleischer. He was asked about
it today and I thought his comments were pertinent.
Speaker 5: None of this is credible.
Speaker 9: Everything she is saying is because she and the rest
of the top Biden team still haven't come to grips
with the fact that their man was in decline, and
of course they should have been. The first one is
to see that decline, but she still kept bring herself
to admit it and the reason and that she won't
admit it. It's too big an admission to make everything
would collapse. People really indicated we didn't think that he
was healthy.
Speaker 1: If you missed her comments from yesterday, He'll let me
just play a little clip of it again today.
Speaker 10: I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
like that before or since, never since yes, or.
Speaker 11: Why you haven't, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10: I mean when I as I watched it, I thought,
oh my god, he's having a stroke, and it scared
me to death.
Speaker 1: All of us who are married or have a close relationship,
you know how your partner's doing. But not Jill, right,
she did, are you okay?
Speaker 9: Are you is everything all right?
Speaker 12: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you healthy?
Speaker 3: Did you have a stroke?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: She really have to die.
Speaker 9: And then she took him out on parade and took
him to the waffle house and did the event where
she's chanting four more years. This is all complete and
total cover up, just as it has been, just as
it was for all the years of Obiden's to.
Speaker 1: Climb Melissa DeRosa, she was Andrew Cuomo's right hand age.
She's a big Democrat. She's questioning this as well.
Speaker 13: A few days after the debate, she graced the cover
of Vogue magazine with a blurb that said, we will
decide our future. She was leading the charge to keep
him in that race. So a lot of Democrats privately
are saying, you know what, Lady macbeth, exit stage right,
and we don't want to hear it anymre like that.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are not happy with her at all. And
somebody commented, well, he's got plenty of money, and the
response was no, he's not getting you know, used making
former presidents get big speaking fees that run around the
country giving speeches for a lot of money. And apparently
that's not happening for Joe, So they are not bringing
in money. Maybe she's a little panicked. Speaking of a
little panic, you see what happened to Cape Canaveral last
night Blue Origin, who's rocket company, Blue Origin was testing
a rocket engine. There's the rocket sitting on top of
the engines and they needed to test the rocket engines
and the whole thing went kaplow. It blew up. It
not only blew up and destroyed the rocket, but it
also destroyed the launchpad at Cape Canaveral. Walter Isaacson, who
is very close to elon Musk and rocketry and everything else,
had this to say.
Speaker 8: Well, it is a big deal for Blue Origin because
they launched that launch pad and it was the only
launch pad that can launch New Glen. So that's going
to set them back quite a few months as they
try to rebuild a launch pad. It's not great for
NASA's mission to the Moon because you have both Blue
Origin and Space Acts. We're both building the human landing system.
Obviously space AX is now more likely to get it
built first. Space is a very difficult thing. THATSI administrator
Jared Isaacman said it after the blow up of the
Blue Origin launch pad. He said, space is difficult, as
you say, landing space boosters. This is something Bezos has
been doing and SpaceX has been doing for a long time.
I mean, I'm sitting here on the banks of the
Mississippi River at Blaine Kerns Marty Gorol World, and this
is where some of those barges are built at the
ball In Shipyard. Were totally amazingly. They land rockets upright,
but every now and then you have something like happened yesterday. Yeah,
but they are now. One of the things that I
was down in South Texas at the SpaceX launch facility
for the latest Starship launch just last Thursday or Friday,
and that's the biggest rocket ever made. It's the counterpart
to the new Glen rocket that Blue Origin is doing.
And it got all the way up and all the
way around. A few glitches, but it was enormously successful.
It will be able to launch huge amounts of satellite
and the cargo. You need to have a landing system
ready for a moon landing and a moon base. So
we're seeing this is that launch last week was very
good for SpaceX and it puts them way ahead in
the race of doing communications satellites in low Earth orbit,
which is what Blue Origin is trying to do. But
SpaceX is way ahead, and the loss of this launchpad
doing this task means that it's going to be harder
for Blue Origin to catch up in the next two
or three years with low Earth orbit communications out.
Speaker 1: So big set back for Jet Bezos in Blue Origin.
But Bezos is driven, he's very competitive, so I'm sure
he's not going to go away. He's just going to
have to recoup they got to rebuild the launching pad,
which is apparently a big expensive item. So the spelling
Bee was held last night. Had quite a competition. There
was nine rounds to get to the winner. And one
of the kids was an East Coaster, one was a
West coaster, and so they had this. They had a
kind of like a high speed round where they had
to come up with the answers. Let me play just
a clip. This is the winner. His name is Shri Perakf.
He's fourteen years old from Rancho Cucamonga in California, and
he correctly spelled thirty two words in ninety seconds to
beat Ishaan Gupta who's twelve from a Jersey City in
New Jersey. So once again this gets into the cultural thing.
Both of these kids American kids, but they're from parent
from other from East, from India, that area of the
of the world, and they just have a culture about
spelling and they practice all the time. Apparently it's unbelievable.
Here's here's the finals where Shri Parkoff won the spelling Bee.
Speaker 14: Melancat Emili g k e t Tera, Glenn r h
Ion Homelan h y e oy N chicken, gun I,
k u n g n y A, bromo, cryptine, brea
almost c r I p T, I need kushaw c
u s c h A dung.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, and I did pretty well
as spelling, but I don't think I recognized one of
those words, let alone how to spell it. Some of
those words I think they ever made. I think they
were made up words. They had to be real because
the kids spelled them. Anyway, It's always fascinating to watch.
All right, let's get some some emails in here. Dan
Lithgow sent me an email and he said comments for
this week. Always enjoy listening to your show. Thank you
for continuing to do it in podcast format. I was
struck by a few things I heard this week, the
doctor questioning President Trump's bruises on his hands and falling asleep.
Where was this guy when Biden was president? Oh, And
speaking of Biden, it was nice of you to have
former First Lady Joe Biden comments on your show totally
blatantly lying about her husband, President Joe Biden's health during
the campaign and debate. Just after finishing the discussion of
the perjury of Egen Carol Laws case. Then there's our
next Senate candidate from Texas, Ken Paxton and his checkered past.
You are correct in questioning character, just not in our politics,
but also the reporting. Glad you're still keeping things honest.
Dan Lithgow from Houston. Yeah, for all of you in Texas.
I think Ken Paxson is going to win, and I
think he's going to win handily because Taller Rico so far,
the way that they're doing the campaign against Pacton is
they're going up and down. His checker passed, but all
the things that they can accuse him of being bad, this, bad, that,
But that's what That's what Cornyan did and Paxton. Even
though all the accusations it's all out there, people still
overwhelmingly voted for Ken Paxson over John Cornyn. So I
don't think Taal Rico unless they change their their campaign strategy,
I don't. I don't see Taller Rico having a prayer.
All right. I got an email from a truck and
curmudgeon and he is always interesting. He said, as predicted,
the market is improving back to the Trump numbers of
four years ago. You will probably find overall economic numbers
will be improving as the freight we are moving now
will show up in stats later. So he sends me
a market update from a research company that keeps track
of truckers and they said the overall market conditions continue
to improve. Some sectors still struggling, creating some uncertainty, especially
in terms of fuel costs. But they're talking about the
trucking market. Recovery is driven by capacity and there's a
graph included here that brings it right back to where
it was back in twenty twenty. So good, that's absolutely
good news to hear trucking. And Art Chung sends me
an email about Texas primary. He says, if the Democrats
can vote for Republicans in the primary, then perhaps they
voted for Paxton. Yeah, I look that up, Art, and
they have a funny thing in Texas. Your registration, if
you're registered as a Democrat, Republican, independent, it expires at
the end of every year, and all you have to
do is just go in and vote in the primary
that you want and proclaim that you are in this case,
proclaim that you're a Republican and you vote, and then
your your registration ends at the end of the year.
So maybe there was some of that funny business going
on some of the phone calls this week. In the
phone number if you need a reminder eight five five
two nine five sixty six hundred. That is the comment
line stame number. It's been for years. Eight five five
two nine five sixty six hundred. Lawrence from the Bay
Area chimes in.
Speaker 4: Hey, Tom, Lawrence Lember, I've listened to your show every day,
and I once again Trump has, you know, backed off.
I was talking to the gentleman from the Vets again
and as he say, and I agree, he's losing all
confidence or power in the world. Everybody knows. He says,
I'm gonna blow him down you nowhere, and then two
days later he backs off. He just did again today
and then I read tonight he's going to give him
a big message. But anyway, he, in my opinion and
these other Vets opinion and my friends that are very
very mega, he's losing all face in the world. And
maybe put that out there and maybe his people pay attention,
but I'm sure he's getting the wrath of hell from everybody.
But anyway, I just want to put it out there
in great show, keep it up, and I'm listening every
day take care of.
Speaker 1: That was from a few days ago, so there's no
big address tonight. But the president, it does seem like
he's not willing to finish the job. He stopped the
military campaign before it was finished. Things like that. There's
a lot of I'm a hockeys kind of guy. I'm
not pro war, but if you're going to do a war,
do it right, do it the whole way, don't stop
in the middle of it. And that, I think is
what Lawrence is kind of referring to. Eric weighs in.
Let's see what Eric has to say.
Speaker 12: Here my last ten cents I got for the Joe
Biden and doctor Biden or Gill about Kim's having the well,
he has stroke at the stage when he was debating Trump. Really,
why didn't she call the ambulance. He's the president of
the United States. He has all access to the cat scans.
They should have scanned his brain. Maybe he has to
lose Desslin brain. Maybe that of course, Oh his crazy
stuff he was doing. Get the cat skin of the brain,
doctor Gill, Now your husband is dying from the stroke.
Speaker 1: Run instead, she brought him to a waffle house where
they had a big rally. And then sent him on
the road after that, So I don't think she her
accusation she thought he might have a stroke. Obviously that
thought didn't stay long. Oh here's Q. We haven't talked
to Q for a while.
Speaker 15: Hi Tom, This is Q from California. Just want to
touch base with you to see how you don't. Just
want to see if you got your Travis Kelsey and
his wife's future wife's wedding anniversary or not anniversary, but
there wedding invitation because I know you top on the list,
so I know you should be. But it gives you
an invite if pretty soon. Also, I want to tell
you it's good to see that you're almost one year
in with your podcast. Is rolling good right now? Maybe
you can tell me some statistics on it, you know
how many people you got coming on your.
Speaker 11: Podcast.
Speaker 15: So anyway, just want to say hi, let you know
I'm still alive and I'll get back with you soon.
Talk to you later.
Speaker 1: Bye, bye, Thank you, Q. And no, I haven't received
an invitation of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift wedding. No,
but yes. In fact, today is one year to the
day of the last day of my radio show and
I started a podcast on the first business day of June,
which brings up which I don't want to give away
the statistics because it's very competitive out there in the world.
But I am well, well north way north of a
million people that listen to this podcast, So thank you.
It's going. It's going very very well as far as
my podcast goes. I also, I don't want to make
this an announcement per se, but I want to pitch
it out there. I've been asked many, many times about
doing more like I used to do years ago. On
my radio show. I had an hour where I would
set aside for Financial Friday, and people would call and
ask questions from, what do you think about investing in bonds?
What do you think about I'm saving money for my
children's college education. I'm I'm saving money for down payment
for a house. My father has a house that is
he doesn't know if he should sell it to the
kids before he dies or should they inherit it when
he dies, stuff like that. So I mean all kinds
of questions, and they were all great. What about no
interest rate loans? Zero interest rate loans? So I love
doing those, and so I would like to start a
separate podcast that I'll do once a week, probably on Fridays.
But I need you to call with your financial questions
and the phone number again eight five five two nine
five sixty six hundred. If you have some financial situations
in your family and you're wondering about what to do what,
I'm more than happy to give you my opinion. Eight
five five two nine five sixty six hundred. I did.
I ran a financial firm for it was thirty thirty
five years. I think it was. So it's it's not rusty.
It's like getting back on a bike to answer those
kinds of questions. And then finally, we always like to
finish with the comment line. Lady, let's see what she
has to say.
Speaker 11: Doctor Jill Biden, doctor of education, took her husband to
waffle house when she thought he was having a stroke.
I'm really surprised she wasn't named surgeon General during her
husband's presidency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so everybody's taken by the by the doctor Jill stuff. Yeah,
I don't think it. I don't think most doctors would
advise if you're having symptoms of a stroke, what you
need to do is go to a waffle house. I
don't think that's I don't think that's going to be
the advice that most most medical professionals would give you.
But again, investment questions, money questions, investing questions, mutual funds,
open ended, closed ended, ETF's, all those things. I'm more
than happy to tackle any of those. So call me
with your questions. You can remain anonymous. The phone number
is eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred
eighty five five two nine five sixty six hundred. So
we're going to try and fire that up in a week,
So I look forward to your calls. In the meantime,
let's check Wall Street today, and I know this sounds
like a broken record, but once again, another record day.
The Dow Jones industrials up three hundred and sixty three
for the first time above fifty one thousand, fifty one
thousand and thirty two, SMP up sixty new record, NAZDAC
up fifty five, gold up forty five dollars to four
thousand and five seventy eight, and oil down a dollar
to close it eighty se just under eighty eight dollars
now for one barrel of oil. So that's it for today. Again,
I look forward to your questions, your comments, your observations
about money, investing, saving banks, mutual funds, insurance. You name it,
we'll tackle it. Phone numbers eight, five, five, two, nine,
five sixty six hundred. Thank you for listening today and
we'll be back on Monday. I hope to see you then,