Speaker 1: Km I am sixty. You're listening to Later with Moke
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Speaker 2: I am fascinated by something that President Biden has said
Speaker 2: now so, according to reports, The Washington Posts, citing multiple
Speaker 2: anonymous sources, says that Joe Biden regrets dropping out of
Speaker 2: this year's presidential election and insists that he could have
Speaker 2: beaten President elect Trump if he wasn't pushed out of
Speaker 2: the race by his own party. Which seems like an
Speaker 2: odd thing to say, because I watched that debate.
Speaker 3: It was bad. I was there.
Speaker 2: We all had grave concerns. I mean genuinely grave concerns,
Speaker 2: not just for his political future. I wasn't even worried
Speaker 2: about that after the debate. I was worried about his health,
Speaker 2: he says, excuse me. The New York Post report says instead,
Speaker 2: the eighty two year old, buckled under pressure by Democratic
Speaker 2: Party elites, had dropped out of the race by July
Speaker 2: because of poor poll numbers and his rocky debate performance,
Speaker 2: which he gave in coherent answers and appeared to stumble
Speaker 2: over his words. Vice President Kamala Harris replacing Biden atop
Speaker 2: the ticket. She defeated by Trump, aids say the President
Speaker 2: has been careful not to place blame on Harris or
Speaker 2: her campaign. According to The Washington Post, the President all
Speaker 2: but admitted during a CBS News Sunday Morning interview in
Speaker 2: August that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the charge
Speaker 2: because the Dems in the House and Senate were worried
Speaker 2: that he dragged their chances. I dragged down their chances
Speaker 2: of being re elected. It was just his batt all
Speaker 2: the way around. Would he have fared better? I mean,
Speaker 2: we don't know, We don't. We can't tell you what
Speaker 2: would have happened because it didn't. But the idea that
Speaker 2: he was somehow more fit to run against Trump I
Speaker 2: think is I think is as delusional or as disconnected
Speaker 2: from reality as he appeared at that debate. And I
Speaker 2: like Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden is a little
Speaker 2: bit like Carter. I think history is going to judge
Speaker 2: him better than his approval ratings at the end of
Speaker 2: his term.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna look back and we're gonna go, wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had the crazy inflation that was better than
Speaker 2: everywhere else in the world. So if we take a
Speaker 2: look at you might say. I might say, oh, inflation
Speaker 2: was out of control. Inflation was bad. It was bad, right,
Speaker 2: but it could have been worse. The thing is, we
Speaker 2: don't think that way. We don't think when we're in pain.
Speaker 2: We don't think of how much worse the pain could be.
Speaker 2: Ask a woman who broke her leg if it hurts,
Speaker 2: she's going to say yeah, And then tell the woman, well,
Speaker 2: it could be worse. You could be in childbirth and
Speaker 2: see how she reacts. I don't think she's gonna say,
Speaker 2: you know what, You're right, this broken leg is so bad.
Speaker 2: But the truth is, if we compare our inflation to
Speaker 2: the rest of the world, you did better. We did,
Speaker 2: And so I think that history is going to be
Speaker 2: able to add context that we in an emotional state
Speaker 2: feeling PTSD from inflation and from COVID and everything else,
Speaker 2: are not going to be able to understand. The other
Speaker 2: thing is, for some reason, we tend to blame Biden
Speaker 2: for COVID. COVID came along during the last year of
Speaker 2: Trump's administration. The lockdowns happened during Trump's administration, but for
Speaker 2: some reason we blamed Biden. And in some cases that's
Speaker 2: because we had strict lockdowns in democratically run states like California.
Speaker 2: But let's remember they also had lockdowns in Florida. But
Speaker 2: we don't Ron Desanders did lockers. Ron DeSantis didn't have
Speaker 2: a mask mandate. That was all Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: But that's how people view things. They're going to remember
Speaker 2: the Afghanistan withdrawal, but history will be able to put
Speaker 2: that into context and go, that was a deal that
Speaker 2: was hammered out before Biden. He was honoring a deal, right,
Speaker 2: So I think there's going to be a lot that
Speaker 2: history is going to look back on and go, Biden
Speaker 2: wasn't so bad. I don't know how long it's going
Speaker 2: to be before we have that understanding. That said, look,
Speaker 2: I saw that debate. I don't think he could have
Speaker 2: won reelection. I do think that the zeitgeist to the
Speaker 2: moment is that Biden was not up to the job.
Speaker 2: I think that the majority of Americans felt like, I'm
Speaker 2: in pain right now, I don't care how much pain
Speaker 2: Europe is in, and so they looked to somebody to
Speaker 2: blame for that, and they're gonna blame Joe Biden, and
Speaker 2: they go, what, I wasn't having this sort of economic
Speaker 2: pain under Trump. Although you know, the only recession that
Speaker 2: we had during the pandemic was again during the Trump time.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. It's not how we look at things.
Speaker 2: So for Biden to say he could have beat Trump,
Speaker 2: I think is disconnected from reality.
Speaker 3: Totally disconnected from reality.
Speaker 2: Speaking of disconnection from reality, does Elon Musk know who
Speaker 2: he supported in this last campaign?
Speaker 3: I what I don't get with Elon Musk is the approach.
Speaker 2: I understand that Elon Musk is trying to give himself
Speaker 2: an advantage.
Speaker 3: I get that right.
Speaker 2: So Elon Musk this week has said that he's for
Speaker 2: the H one of the H one B versus all right,
Speaker 2: which is also the bird flu, But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: He's for the H one B versus.
Speaker 2: These are the worker VISs for people that are here
Speaker 2: and are are doing good work. So Musk liked the
Speaker 2: post that asserted that Americans are too our word to
Speaker 2: fill the country's tech workforce, and he supported the idea
Speaker 2: the top roles should be taken up by better educated
Speaker 2: people from overseas now not coincidentally, Elon Musk is from
Speaker 2: over seas, and a response to his perceived endorsement of
Speaker 2: the posts, and X user going by the name Steve
Speaker 2: Mackie reposted a video of Musk from twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: in which he spoke about SpaceX's plants for a fully
Speaker 2: reusable rocket, saying, everyone's base without knowing it. They've got
Speaker 2: a mental straight jacket on. They'll work on optimizing the
Speaker 2: thing that should simply not exist.
Speaker 3: So they applied his logic to the H one B.
Speaker 2: Mackie asserted that the visas could be something that shouldn't exist. Okay,
Speaker 2: so they take something, apply a different context and say,
Speaker 2: see you even said this, blah blah blah, what's interesting
Speaker 2: about this? And this is where I ask about Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: I'm not questioning his viewpoint on the H one B visa.
Speaker 2: That's fine. We're going to have conversations about immigration reform.
Speaker 2: There's going to be questions about who should be allowed
Speaker 2: into the country, who should not. There are some that
Speaker 2: most people are gonna go, yeah, okay, if you're running
Speaker 2: across the border, that's not cool. There will be others
Speaker 2: that say, if you weren't born here, you don't belong here.
Speaker 2: There are going to be others that say, if your
Speaker 2: parents weren't born here, you don't belong here. So there
Speaker 2: are going to be different degrees of crazy when it
Speaker 2: comes to the immigration conversations. That's fine, We're about to
Speaker 2: go through that. This is going to be an interesting
Speaker 2: few years, no doubt. But when you have people that
Speaker 2: are attacking Elon Musk and then he starts attacking them back,
Speaker 2: he starts attacking Maga.
Speaker 3: He told this dude, some rando on Twitter.
Speaker 2: He said, take a big step back and f yourself
Speaker 2: in the face. I will go to war on this issue,
Speaker 2: the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. So Steve Bannon,
Speaker 2: the guy sort of orchestrated Maga in the first place,
Speaker 2: jumped on that out versus an opportunity to try the
Speaker 2: tech leader writing on Getter, what is getter?
Speaker 3: Ron is Getter? That's the right wing.
Speaker 2: Probably okay, he said, someone please notify Child Protective Services
Speaker 2: need to do a wellness check on this toddler.
Speaker 3: So now you've got Steve Bannon, hard right, Maga.
Speaker 2: Architect who's attacking the world's richest man, who just attacked
Speaker 2: some rando and told him to go f yourself in
Speaker 2: the face, which, as we all know, we all tried
Speaker 2: when we were teenagers, and we all learned we can't.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what his point is. This is where
Speaker 2: I'm so lost by the pettiness. The world's richest man
Speaker 2: is engaging with some rando on his social media site.
Speaker 4: And there's something to be said about how why is
Speaker 4: it that they always react to a negative comment. But
Speaker 4: if you were to say, like, I like your products,
Speaker 4: Elon's thanks man, but but it's like, oh, you're a pos.
Speaker 3: Then there that's ego, right, I mean, that's insecurities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because one of the things that we learn in
Speaker 2: radio and fush you know this, you'll deal with the host.
Speaker 3: We're all very egotistical.
Speaker 2: The cutting comments, they hurt, they do, yeah, but we
Speaker 2: also learn to do not.
Speaker 3: Feed the trolls exactly.
Speaker 2: And so anytime someone pays you a compliment, you say
Speaker 2: thank you. Now, if someone sends me an email personally
Speaker 2: saying how much they hate me, I just go, wow,
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry about that.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe we can find some common ground.
Speaker 2: And oftentimes that person was like, oh, I didn't think
Speaker 2: you'd respond, thank you so much. They're just throwing things
Speaker 2: against the wall and then all of a sudden they
Speaker 2: kind of come around and realize that they were being
Speaker 2: tools right exactly. But I always say thank you to somebody,
Speaker 2: at least I try. I'm terrible at checking my Facebook,
Speaker 2: but I try to say thank you to everybody that
Speaker 2: pays me a compliment, because it really is.
Speaker 3: We need more of that in the world. You need
Speaker 3: to be thanked for doing something kind. How hard is it?
Speaker 4: And it's so true because when we do events and
Speaker 4: you know, people are like kind of shy to come
Speaker 4: up and take a picture, they ask for something, I'm like,
Speaker 4: if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have a job
Speaker 4: right now. Oh my gosh, Yes, of course we'll take
Speaker 4: a thousand pictures, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so hey, you know who is really good at that?
Speaker 3: Full credit.
Speaker 2: So I was at the Snoop Dogg Bowl on Saturday
Speaker 2: that was in Tucson, and Snoop went into the locker
Speaker 2: room before the game with both teams Colorado State in
Speaker 2: my Miami, Ohio.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you that the players.
Speaker 2: From those teams, I don't think anybody's going pro because
Speaker 2: they're very small schools that had middling records.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's going pro.
Speaker 2: There's a high probability nobody on that though either one
Speaker 2: of those teams will ever have a chance to meet
Speaker 2: Snoop again in their lives. And he took the time
Speaker 2: to go into the locker rooms before the game, and
Speaker 2: anybody that wanted a picture he did a picture with him.
Speaker 4: I mean, he spent a lot of time with those
Speaker 4: college kids. That's see, that's the cool, that's classy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what I mean. He stood us up in the
Speaker 4: broadcast booth at halftime. But I thought that the seeing
Speaker 4: the players is really classy. I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand why you've got this argument where
Speaker 2: you're arguing with random people.
Speaker 3: What's the point, What do you get out of it? What?
Speaker 2: How does that benefit anybody, including your own mental health?
Speaker 2: How it doesn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: Speaking of social media and mental health, it doesn't take
Speaker 2: long before you get brain rot from surfing TikTok, which
Speaker 2: you might not be able to do much longer unless
Speaker 2: uh President elect Trump has something to say about it.
Speaker 2: Trump forty five versus Trump forty seven, two very different
Speaker 2: takes on the same topic.
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Speaker 2: Snoop was hosting a bowl game in Tucson, the Snoop
Speaker 2: Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin and Juice, by Doctor
Speaker 2: Dray and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3: Was it really called Gin and Juice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, present, Yeah, it was the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl
Speaker 2: presented by Gin and Juice, by Doctor Dray and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3: That is fantastic. Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 2: And this was what was really cool, the winning team,
Speaker 2: which is Miami Ohio. It was an incredibly boring game
Speaker 2: in the first half. It was nine to three at halftime.
Speaker 2: I was working with in the broadcast booth with one
Speaker 2: of my dearest friends is was the play by play guy,
Speaker 2: and so he invited me to come and work in
Speaker 2: the broadcast booth with him. So we're there and the
Speaker 2: game was incredibly boring at halftime, and then it it
Speaker 2: like I said, nine to three, and then I think
Speaker 2: the final was I mean, all of a sudden, there
Speaker 2: was like a scoring.
Speaker 3: Mayhem. It was like forty to I don't know, ten
Speaker 3: or something. By the end.
Speaker 2: It was a lot I don't remember the final score,
Speaker 2: but it was, uh, there's a lot of scoring in
Speaker 2: the second halfen and all of a sudden came alive
Speaker 2: and so at the end, Miami Ohio wins and Snoop
Speaker 2: comes out in a low rider on the field and
Speaker 2: he takes the coach off the field in a low rider,
Speaker 2: is which is pretty great. The coach was covered in
Speaker 2: gatorade too. I would not have let him in my car,
Speaker 2: so I thought that was a neat way to end
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: He was in Snoops car. Yeah, he's in the Yeah,
Speaker 3: Snoops low ride.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it was a Snoops car unless they found
Speaker 2: some other random low rider.
Speaker 4: Not too hard to find him. Tucson probably just grabbed
Speaker 4: the impound bot. I see what you're saying that, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, whatever he has is not cheap. So no,
Speaker 4: so that was pretty great for him.
Speaker 3: That's good for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take that pop Tarts bowl, you know. Shout out
Speaker 2: to the lowrider, Shout out to Snoop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately he did not come into the broadcast with the halftime.
Speaker 2: We were kind of hoping it would happen. We thought
Speaker 2: it had been arranged, but then it didn't happen, which
Speaker 2: was too bad. So I had to take off. I
Speaker 2: had to get home because yesterday is my wife's birthday.
Speaker 2: So she said ship. Yeah, so I said, I said,
Speaker 2: I gotta go home, guys, I gotta I gotta scoot.
Speaker 3: I got a long drive ahead of me. I gotta
Speaker 3: get home. So I took off.
Speaker 2: Right after the game, they went down to the field
Speaker 2: and all the other guys in the broadcast team were
Speaker 2: hanging out with Snoop.
Speaker 3: I've got photos and not me. Fixer didn't happen, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's exactly wrong.
Speaker 2: I could lie to you and said it happened, but no,
Speaker 2: I don't have any pictures, but all my buddies do.
Speaker 3: So Yah, good job, guys. Good John.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Trump forty five TikTok bad. We're gonna ban it.
Speaker 2: As far as I'm concerned, it's banned. It's terrible. The
Speaker 2: Chinese are spying us through the tick attack. It's horrible.
Speaker 2: The worst thing you could imagine. He's the tick tack.
Speaker 2: The China is learning all of our dance moves.
Speaker 3: He Look, they're learning how I dance. Like this. It's
Speaker 3: two fists facing out and then you.
Speaker 2: Just pump Them's question left right left, right, left right,
Speaker 2: Look you're.
Speaker 3: Doing yoga or you're working out with Jane Fonda.
Speaker 2: Left right, left, right, My dance moves are unmatched.
Speaker 3: Can't you can be stealing this China?
Speaker 2: I can't steal my dance moves. So now Trump says
Speaker 2: that he does not want TikTok band, So why the
Speaker 2: flip flop? Well, Trump says he learned how he can
Speaker 2: make some money on it. Oh, well, you don't say
Speaker 2: that's no snoop.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that. But I hear Cash is
Speaker 3: very nice.
Speaker 4: I heard that too, especially with the with the uh yeah,
Speaker 4: with her the way she markets herself, she's kind of
Speaker 4: like trashy. But I heard she's like the nicest person.
Speaker 4: I have heard good things about her as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, but you're right, it's definitely the
Speaker 2: trashy thing going on. Uh So, Trump says he uh
Speaker 2: he TikTok needed to be banned. That was that was
Speaker 2: at the end of his last term. Now he says, no,
Speaker 2: it could be great. So TikTok's band is supposed to
Speaker 2: start on January nineteenth, That's when the deadline was. That is,
Speaker 2: the day before inauguration, which of course has got people
Speaker 2: on TikTok claiming that this is all a conspiracy, because
Speaker 2: why wouldn't you uh.
Speaker 3: Trump, however, says that.
Speaker 2: He wants the Supreme Court to delay that decision because
Speaker 2: he and only he can solve the problem with uh
Speaker 2: TikTok in uh.
Speaker 3: And how do you say?
Speaker 2: Is it amkas brief or is it amic I heard
Speaker 2: a lawyer say amikas brief. I always assumed it was
Speaker 2: amicus brief. Do you know what it is? Ronner, You're
Speaker 2: smarter than I am.
Speaker 4: I've heard it pronounce both ways, so I think you're good. Ah,
Speaker 4: that is a cop out, you chicken. No, No, it's true.
Speaker 4: I've looked at myself. Oh yeah, okay, I've had the
Speaker 4: same issue as you. All right, So in the I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say amicus. It just feels right.
Speaker 2: In the amicus brief, Trump said that he seeks the
Speaker 2: ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means
Speaker 2: once he takes office, and that he quote alone possesses
Speaker 2: the consummate deal making expertise, the electoral mandate, and the
Speaker 2: political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform. Again,
Speaker 2: the same guy who four years ago said, as far
Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, it's banned, those are his words.
Speaker 3: Far as I'm concerned it is banned.
Speaker 4: But now he says he learned how he can make
Speaker 4: money on it, and he doesn't want it banned any longer.
Speaker 4: I wonder, I wonder how his bff Elon Musk feels
Speaker 4: about that, who, of course doesn't like competition, and banning
Speaker 4: TikTok would be a really easy way to eliminate competition.
Speaker 4: I wonder if he's with Trump on this one or
Speaker 4: against him. I want to say against Hey, good news.
Speaker 2: You get to spend the rest of or you get
Speaker 2: to spend all of twenty twenty five paying off all
Speaker 2: the money you spent on Christmas twenty twenty four. But
Speaker 2: it'll be just in time for you to spend more
Speaker 2: money next year than you did this year.
Speaker 3: Did you learn your lesson yet? I'll tell you how
Speaker 3: many people did not.
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard the commercial that throws everybody off, but
Speaker 2: Marlo Teez was in yesterday afternoon and it got hurt
Speaker 2: and the tech director said, don't worry, it happens to everybody.
Speaker 2: Had got tim once too, so I thought, I'm going
Speaker 2: to let this run for a second.
Speaker 3: Just make sure that it's not there is that true?
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 4: But I mean Tim is so like adamant to just
Speaker 4: jump right on the mic. It'll h it'll sound like
Speaker 4: a normal bumper, but he'll think it's it's yeah, he
Speaker 4: doesn't realize what it is and then say, oh oh
Speaker 4: he stops.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the charm of his show though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you never know. I love that that all that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you get you get it raw. It's it's beautiful, there's
Speaker 2: it's unpolished, unvarnished.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like, no one can ever complain
Speaker 4: that he's written it ahead of time.
Speaker 3: It's clearly it's not. Yeah. No, but that's that's the
Speaker 3: that's the glory about his show. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm Chris Marrilyn Men from O Kelly listened any time
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Speaker 3: Like Tim, I obviously do no prep uh. So you're welcome.
Speaker 2: Holiday shoppers spending more money this time around, which is great.
Speaker 2: I guess in a capitalist society, who doesn't love that.
Speaker 2: We spent almost four percent more this year than we
Speaker 2: did last year, even though inflation was under three percent
Speaker 2: all year long, So that means that we spent more
Speaker 2: money period, not just dollar amounts. We spent more of
Speaker 2: the money that we earned proportionate to the You get
Speaker 2: the point. Okay, So all of that is good for
Speaker 2: the economy. I always wonder, however, how many people are
Speaker 2: being smart with their money. For instance, we are going
Speaker 2: to get a number in January. We don't know what
Speaker 2: it is now, but we'll get the number in January
Speaker 2: about how much people charged on their credit cards during
Speaker 2: this holiday spending spree.
Speaker 3: In fact, the place.
Speaker 2: Where we get the data that says that holiday sales
Speaker 2: from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve climbed three
Speaker 2: point eight percent comes from master Card, So they're obviously
Speaker 2: taking a look at what people are putting on their
Speaker 2: credit cards, which means I wonder, I wonder what it's
Speaker 2: going to look like when it comes to the accumulated debt,
Speaker 2: which was over a trillion dollars at one.
Speaker 3: Point this last year.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of shocking how every year people say
Speaker 4: how much they're in debt and don't have money yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you're describing right now, we've spent more
Speaker 3: than before. Yeah, it's going somewhere.
Speaker 2: How much pain are you willing to experience in order
Speaker 2: to get out of debt. Right, that's the quaestly Yeah,
Speaker 2: how much pain are you willing to experience?
Speaker 3: Because debt is easy.
Speaker 2: I was having a conversation with with a friend of
Speaker 2: mine who lives in Rancho Cucamonga, and she was talking
Speaker 2: about how she's really fiscally responsible and her daughters. She
Speaker 2: drives like a twenty fifteen Honda and a twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: super Route and.
Speaker 3: She says, the cars are fine. I'm not looking to
Speaker 3: replace the cars.
Speaker 2: And her daughter said, Mom, why don't you get a
Speaker 2: Corvette because something about the Corvette look nice? And she says, honey,
Speaker 2: I got the cash. I can buy a Corvette right now,
Speaker 2: but I don't need it. I can think of a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 3: Other things I'm want to do with that Corvette baller.
Speaker 3: Yeh right, that's kind of I could say that.
Speaker 2: Right like, oh, honey, I got We could go walk
Speaker 2: right down there right now with a suitcase in my
Speaker 2: pocket full of cash, wrap.
Speaker 3: It on the table.
Speaker 4: There was this friend of mine that well, friend of
Speaker 4: a friend, and he told him, hey, you know what
Speaker 4: you should get, or a friend of his told him, hey,
Speaker 4: you should get some you know, health insurance and he
Speaker 4: goes without missing a beat. He goes, I can exchange
Speaker 4: every single part of my family's like anatomy anatomy right
Speaker 4: without having to even spend itself.
Speaker 3: I'm okay, all right, Well that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Family doesn't get to do anything. It's a bite on
Speaker 2: a bullet while he does it.
Speaker 3: But that's great. Also, all of my tools are unsterible.
Speaker 3: But that's fine. Good.
Speaker 4: Uh So my point is with my and I love that.
Speaker 3: By the way, the the.
Speaker 2: Story that that goes with this person Rancho Coookamonga, I said,
Speaker 2: she says, it is it's heartbreaking to me. I dropped
Speaker 2: my daughter off at school and it's a bunch of
Speaker 2: kids in high school driving BMW's and Mercedes and Audi's
Speaker 2: and this sort of thing. And uh and I listen
Speaker 2: my daughter with to Torrey Pines in San Diego, and
Speaker 2: I had the exact same moment where I pulled into
Speaker 2: the parking lot and I'm seeing all these kids rolling
Speaker 2: in Mercedes Benz in BMW's. I went to they had
Speaker 2: a community wide like garage sale thing that benefited My
Speaker 2: daughter was in the water polo team and so it
Speaker 2: benefited the sports team. One of the parents comes up
Speaker 2: in a rolls Royce, like, what are you doing now?
Speaker 2: Maybe they just had stupid money, you know, maybe there's
Speaker 2: just a lot of foreign oil or probably contract killer money.
Speaker 3: But that's fine.
Speaker 2: What strikes me, though, is the number of people who
Speaker 2: are living who are living upper class lives on middle
Speaker 2: class wages. And I was talking to my friend there
Speaker 2: in our scene. I said, I have a feeling there's
Speaker 2: a lot of false economy going on where people are
Speaker 2: borrowing against their homes, which have increased in value so
Speaker 2: much in the last five ten years, and they're just
Speaker 2: refinancing their homes. They're buying whatever they want, they're refinancing
Speaker 2: their homes. And she said, you think, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that's what it is. So it worries me when
Speaker 2: I see it. People are spending a lot more money. Great,
Speaker 2: it's good from the economy that we continue to see this,
Speaker 2: this this upward growth. But it worries me because at
Speaker 2: some point you gotta you gotta pay the piper, right,
Speaker 2: it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: My wife and I got.
Speaker 2: Into some some bad credit card debt, and I'll take
Speaker 2: the blame on that because she hates when I include
Speaker 2: her in any sort of our debt conversation.
Speaker 3: So it's it was all my debt. It's all my fault. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I lost my job and we decided we
Speaker 2: can't do this because what happened was I lost my job.
Speaker 2: We already had credit card debt. I lost my job,
Speaker 2: and then I thought, oh, I'll have another job come
Speaker 2: along soon, No big deal, We'll just use a credit.
Speaker 3: Cards until then.
Speaker 2: Then it didn't happen, right, It was a while before
Speaker 2: I had something that was full time. So yeah, we
Speaker 2: moved into r V for two years. We lived in
Speaker 2: a in a fifth wheel trailer for two years. Bought
Speaker 2: that in cash. We had a little cash, but we
Speaker 2: bought the RV for nineteen grand in cash and we
Speaker 2: lived in that for two years on my parents' land,
Speaker 2: so we didn't have to pay rent or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So how much are you willing to do to get
Speaker 2: out of that debt? You know, let me give you
Speaker 2: some personal advice. Make your sacrifices before you really have
Speaker 2: to make your sacrifices. It's a whole lot easier now.
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, what are we looking for in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five? Are things going to get better?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I guess it all depends on some of the factors
Speaker 2: that you and I have no control over. Now that
Speaker 2: the election is done, are we going to see the
Speaker 2: economy take a hit from tariffs? According to the incoming president.
Speaker 2: He says, if we throw another ten percent of Chinese
Speaker 2: goods and twenty five percent of Mexico and Canada, that's
Speaker 2: just going to hurt their economies. They're going to have
Speaker 2: to lower prices, and it's going to benefit Americans. Most
Speaker 2: economists will say, no, tariffs just make everything more expensive,
Speaker 2: because that's basically a tax that's being built into the
Speaker 2: sticker price, and then you have taxes that you pay
Speaker 2: once they hit the shelves anyway, So tariffs, they say,
Speaker 2: could cost American households an average of three thousand.
Speaker 3: Dollars next year.
Speaker 2: And mind you, it's going to be more here because
Speaker 2: everything's more expensive in California. When it comes to the
Speaker 2: immigration policies, how heavy handed are going to be with
Speaker 2: enforcing immigration? Is this going to be all about finding
Speaker 2: people who have criminal records and getting rid of them.
Speaker 2: Is this is going to be all about everyone who
Speaker 2: wasn't born here and everyone whose parents weren't born here
Speaker 2: and needs to get out of the country. Because if
Speaker 2: that's the case, you thought grocery prices were expensive, now
Speaker 2: just wait until there aren't any groceries, because there is
Speaker 2: anybody to pick those those crops, right, they're going to
Speaker 2: pick the vegetables. So there are a number of other things,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that may affect inflation. If inflation
Speaker 2: goes up, what's that going to do the stock market?
Speaker 2: A lot of questions that we have for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: A lot of unanswered questions, a lot of open.
Speaker 3: Ended questions they suppose going into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: But one place where you've been able to save money
Speaker 2: in the past looked like it was a goner until
Speaker 2: the going out of business sale really caught somebody's attention.
Speaker 2: ABC seven had the story on Big Lots.
Speaker 6: When Big Lots announced that it was closing, lines of
Speaker 6: customers were eager for deeper discounts. This is video from
Speaker 6: the Big Lots and locking out of flint Ridge last
Speaker 6: Saturday where.
Speaker 3: The lot, Yeah, you can't see it because radio.
Speaker 6: I'e wrapped through store aisles.
Speaker 3: God, I would not go.
Speaker 2: Oh, but I was able to save so much money
Speaker 2: on my Big Lots crap. Oh, I was willing to
Speaker 2: stand in line.
Speaker 3: Not worth it? Yeah, Now a holiday miracle for Big Lots.
Speaker 3: The retail chain just found a new buyer.
Speaker 6: Big Lots will now be sold to a firm specializing
Speaker 6: in distressed companies. That same firm had been working with
Speaker 6: Big Lots to conduct going out of business sales at
Speaker 6: more than eight hundred stores. Now some two hundred to
Speaker 6: four hundred stores. We're going to be transferred to another
Speaker 6: company which plans to operate under the operate the stores
Speaker 6: under the Big Lots brand.
Speaker 2: All right, So it's the liquidator that said, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: gonna buy Big Lots. What do you suppose the odds
Speaker 2: are that this liquidator, and I'm discussing, I have no idea,
Speaker 2: but what are the odds that the liquidator saw Big
Speaker 2: Lots as an opportunity for them to take any sort
Speaker 2: of the liquidation products. Because the liquidator will go into
Speaker 2: a store and let's say you've got I don't know,
Speaker 2: three million dollars worth of stuff on the shelves. The
Speaker 2: liquidator will say, we'll cut your check right now for
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand or seven hundred and fifty thousand, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, and you take the check, you walk away.
Speaker 2: We take care of getting rid of everything, and the
Speaker 2: people will go, Okay, that's fine, you take care of it.
Speaker 2: I don't have to pay any employees. I don't have
Speaker 2: to do any of that stuff. And then the liquidator
Speaker 2: will sell all those products and then they start discounting.
Speaker 2: They start ten percent, then they go to twenty percent,
Speaker 2: fifty percent, seventy percent.
Speaker 3: Everything must go up to ninety percent off, and then.
Speaker 2: People will stand the line, they'll wrap, the lines will
Speaker 2: wrap through the aisles because they think they're getting a
Speaker 2: screaming deal.
Speaker 3: YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2: So what are the odds that a liquidator will come
Speaker 2: in and say going out of business sale, the big
Speaker 2: yellow signs closing the doors final time, twenty percent off,
Speaker 2: forty percent off, fifty percent off, and once they hit
Speaker 2: a certain threshold, they go, okay, whatever's left, we'll take
Speaker 2: to our liquidation centers, which were the Big Lots store.
Speaker 2: So how what's the likelihood that the Big Lots becomes
Speaker 2: basically a liquidation outlet center just under the Big Lots brand.
Speaker 3: That's my guess.
Speaker 2: I don't know for sure, but that's my guess, and
Speaker 2: it's something if it were my business, I would consider
Speaker 2: that about a twenty twenty four in review. For those
Speaker 2: who didn't have such a terrible year, you might want
Speaker 2: to hear this. For those that did have a terrible year,
Speaker 2: you're definitely gonna want to hear it. That's next, Chris Merrill.
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Speaker 2: Amber's the color of the amber is the color of
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Speaker 3: Are you O Kevin or anything for you from you
Speaker 3: in a while. I'm right here for you. I'm ready
Speaker 3: I say something upset you.
Speaker 2: I don't talk about Biden, and I was talking about
Speaker 2: Carter and I don't know if that major man.
Speaker 4: No, I'm on a hair trigger here. I'm ready to
Speaker 4: roll oh okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure.
Speaker 2: Uh, if you had to rate this year on a
Speaker 2: score one out of ten one a ten, where do
Speaker 2: you put twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Four personally or in general for everybody? Personally?
Speaker 4: Not a bad year from me. Job went well, had
Speaker 4: a video game come out that I worked on, sold
Speaker 4: a comic book story. I'm going to say, uh, seven good,
Speaker 4: solid seven.
Speaker 3: Foosh. You always come with a nice positive attitude.
Speaker 4: I normally do, but I think personally, yeah, I would
Speaker 4: have to say it was about a four four wow rough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that mo every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to deal with her all the time.
Speaker 4: How about you? Uh So, my I was telling somebody
Speaker 4: about this.
Speaker 2: My year started out great, it really went like Gangbusters,
Speaker 2: and then September hit and things once it crap fast.
Speaker 2: My daughter had some personal challenges that you know we're
Speaker 2: still working through right now.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then by my parents have lost two.
Speaker 2: They had one dog that they had to put down,
Speaker 2: got sick and died real fast. Then they got a
Speaker 2: replacement dog that died six weeks later.
Speaker 3: No, yes, they adopted this dog. They took it.
Speaker 2: Somebody else was getting rid of it and they took
Speaker 2: They took care of this dog which had not been
Speaker 2: to the vet in forever, and so they take it
Speaker 2: to the vet to go, Okay, this dog has been
Speaker 2: to the vet. Let's get some blood work and have
Speaker 2: a checked. Had kidney failure, and I think all the liver's
Speaker 2: not far behind.
Speaker 3: They had to put that one down right away. Yeah,
Speaker 3: bad deal.
Speaker 2: And then my dog just tore a racl So yeah,
Speaker 2: you're telling me, but I'm gonna tell you my spirits
Speaker 2: are actually pretty good. So I'm gonna give I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be with Mark. I'm gonna say it's a
Speaker 2: seven out of ten. Some personal challenges but and some stresses,
Speaker 2: but I think all in all, we're all still upright
Speaker 2: and ambulatory, except for my parents' dogs, which is too bad.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say seven. Seven
Speaker 3: out of ten.
Speaker 2: Americans generally went to six point one out of ten.
Speaker 2: That's the average for people being surveyed by Talker Research.
Speaker 2: Two thousand Americans surveyed on a scale of one to ten.
Speaker 2: Six point one out of ten, which is above a five, right,
Speaker 2: which is kind of above average. Now, Foush, I know
Speaker 2: you're trying to bring us all down here, and I'm
Speaker 2: sorry that you're going through some of those things.
Speaker 3: That sucks.
Speaker 4: But uh now it sounds like everyone else that was
Speaker 4: bringing up that's me. I've been around you long enough
Speaker 4: to know that you call it like it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So if you have a good year, you're
Speaker 2: gonna call it a good year, and if you have
Speaker 2: a bad year, you're gonna call it the bad year.
Speaker 2: I mean, for Peteza, yr year might might have been
Speaker 2: way worse than a four. Yeah, you know, you might be,
Speaker 2: uh you might be padding those numbers a little bit
Speaker 2: just for the sake of this bit. Well kind of
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 4: It started off strong and round February March just poop.
Speaker 4: Uh so yeah, just kind of picking myself up. But
Speaker 4: you know, like I said, we're talking off air. It's
Speaker 4: it's I'm fortunate to have a job like this where
Speaker 4: I get to kind of just put it on the
Speaker 4: back burner and hang out with you and Mark Ronner
Speaker 4: and Moe and Tim and everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I noticed that you didn't mention Tawala, But that's fine.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's cool. Uh that's interesting, but uh it's
Speaker 2: kind of a glaring omission.
Speaker 3: That's fine, But that's cool. That's great. Uh, do you
Speaker 3: do anything as far as New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 2: Do you say, Okay, this is my chance to reset,
Speaker 2: I'm really gonna focus and this is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: Do you do a vision board? Foush.
Speaker 4: No, I've heard of them. Yeah, I'm gonna be completely honest.
Speaker 4: The reason that I've never done it is because it
Speaker 4: just seems like too much work, dude.
Speaker 3: That's how I am with journaling.
Speaker 2: Everybody's like, you should journal, it's good for your mental health,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that just feels like an assignment to me.
Speaker 4: I just have it in my head, like, Okay, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be a B and C. That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 4: work on. I don't need to have the vision board.
Speaker 4: So I guess the vision board is so twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: It's like, so now going into twenty twenty five, you're
Speaker 4: supposed to use the twenty twenty five Bingo.
Speaker 3: Cards to achieve your goal. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You take a blank Bingo card, you know, five across,
Speaker 2: five down with a free spot in the middle, and
Speaker 2: then you fill out things you want to do for
Speaker 2: the coming year, and then and then those are that's
Speaker 2: supposed to be. Basically, it's like a vision board, but
Speaker 2: that's what you're supposed to. This gonna be your goals,
Speaker 2: like to eat healthier, exercise more whatever that is.
Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, it's like it's it's the new version
Speaker 3: of a vision Yeah, exactly. Okay.
Speaker 2: But the reason they do this is because how many
Speaker 2: times have we said this year something crazy will happen
Speaker 2: and we'll go ooh, did not have that on my
Speaker 2: bingo card?
Speaker 3: All right, that's become part of like the the pop
Speaker 3: culture lexicon.
Speaker 2: Whoa do not have Diddy being arrested for child molestation
Speaker 2: in my bingo card? Oh yeah, So now we're actually
Speaker 2: putting together your lung bingo cards. So that's what people
Speaker 2: are doing. I like the idea of the Bingo card.
Speaker 2: And here's why I like this. Not only is it
Speaker 2: action oriented, it motivates all that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 2: in my mind, as soon as I can get you know,
Speaker 2: as soon as I hit a bingo, I can stop.
Speaker 3: I've accomplished enough for the year. Good enough, right, And
Speaker 3: I would definitely.
Speaker 2: Line up the free spaces so I would put like,
Speaker 2: I would take like eat healthier, and I might put
Speaker 2: that at like, oh fifty six. You know, but if
Speaker 2: I want something like uh oh, commit to uh more
Speaker 2: sex this year, I'm definitely putting that in the end
Speaker 2: column because then I only have to have four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what I want those stuff though, Let's let's
Speaker 4: be realistic.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was on my wife's Bengo card.
Speaker 2: Get you, doesn't mean she asked to. It just means
Speaker 2: I have to. That consent is key here, so then
Speaker 2: hers is the opposite. And that's how you guys like,
Speaker 2: let's not do it, And I'm like, oh honey, you
Speaker 2: Bengo car got lost.
Speaker 3: It's weird. The strangest thing. Have sex with thumb and
Speaker 3: I'm attracted to this year. Try that. That's what keeps
Speaker 3: a spark right. That's all right. There's no business like
Speaker 3: show business.
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