Speaker 1: And welcome to everybody. Happy Wednesday to you. The day
is the twelfth day of November, Year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan and a
little different podcast today. I'm going to record early because
of the fact I've got an event I need to attend.
So I talked to as Salty the other day and
recorded that conversation. I'll play that for you here in
just a few minutes. But to start off the day,
one of the things that I've been scratching my head
on is I've been watching this whole issue ever since
the election last Tuesday a week ago, and the Democrats
had a good night and they came out and they said, well, affordability, affordability, affordability,
and then the President says, oh, that's not true. There's
making that up. The Democrats are lying and everything else,
and I'm going no, Actually, the economy, I've talked about
this a number of times about the economy is being
described as K economy, the letter K, where one arm
is going up and the other arm is going down.
And that's what we have in the country right now,
is there are a lot of people that are on
the up leg of the K but there's also a
lot of people on the down leg.
Speaker 2: There's statistics galore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bore you with all of them,
but I've told you also a number of times that
the top ten percent of income are the ones responsible
for fifty percent of retail sales. That means there's a
lot of people. That means the ninety percent, the bottom
ninety percent of incomes are not doing the kind of
spending of the top. The top ten percent is spending away,
and it's keeping the economy afloat. But that is that
is hiding the fact that there's a significant portion of
our economy where people are not doing well financially. So
when you get and this is it doesn't it plays anytime.
It doesn't have to have these kinds of economic situations.
There's always going to be people that are lagging behind economically,
And so to scoff at that seems like it's politically
not a good idea. You always want to say, I'll
bring the poorest to the poor, we'll fix that, We'll
get that. You're never going to fix poverty, But you
can't scoff at it. So what's happened obviously in the
administration is somebody got to somebody, and they sent Scott Bessant,
the Treasury Secretary, out this morning to visit with the
people at Fox and Friends and to basically go over
the whole business about affordability. Last night, I forget which
channel it was, but it was one of the left
wing channels, and they were playing a side by side
of President Biden talking about can't you see the economy
is doing great? Why it's just doing wonderful? And people
were hurting, but he said, other, the statistics show the
economy is doing great. And then they played a clip
of President Trump in the Oval Office almost were for
word the same exact thing, can't you see the economy's
doing great? But it does hide the fact that there
are people that are not doing well. So affordability is
a real word and it applies to real people, and
so Scott Besant tried to make his case. At least
I think this is just the start of it. Between
now and the midterms a year from now, I think
you're going to see a lot of Republicans trying to
dust off the affordability word and make sure that people
not just them saying, don't you worry it's affordable really
try through policies to get the cost of goods lower.
Speaker 2: Here's Scott Bessont.
Speaker 3: Well, it's tough to do a lot of specific things,
but I can tell you you're going to see some
substantial announcement over the next couple of days in terms
of things we don't grow here in the United States,
coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits, things like that,
so that will bring the prices down very quickly. We
inherited this affordability mess. It was the worst inflation forty
fifty years, one of the worst in the nation's history.
And affordability has two components, So there's the price level
and then there is income level. And what happened under
Biden was the cumulati inflation Stated inflation CPI was twenty
twenty three percent of what happened to working Americans. Their
basket of goods and services, food, insurance, auto payments was
up in the thirties, so they felt a real gigantic
differential there.
Speaker 2: And what we are.
Speaker 3: Going to do is by bringing back high paying manufacturing jobs.
President Trump is going to do what he did in
the first term, and that is for hourly workers and
working Americans to have real wage increases. So imagine two lines.
There is the inflation line we've got that under control,
is leveled out, that is going to start turning down.
Then there's the income line, which under Biden, because so
many of the jobs were government jobs, you can't get
real wage growth from a government job. Real wages are
going to increate, and I would expect in the first quarter,
second quarter of next year those two lines are going
to cross and the American people are going to start
feeling better. But look, this has been a tough period.
I say that you are going to feel it that.
I was just down in my hometown in Charleston, South Carolina,
on Friday, and this new boweling plant is opening up.
That's one thousand new jobs that the President has brought back.
There was a I went to a rarer earth plant
up in Sumter, South Carolina. Eight hundred construction jobs, three
hundred permanent jobs that they think could come three thousand
permanent jobs. And the great part of the story there
those were caterpillar workers who've been laid off. Thanks to
President Trump, a new factory has moved in. So as
we bring these trillions of dollars of investment into the US,
they're all starting to break ground now. And look, I
would have loved to be able to snap my fingers
have these facilities going. It takes time. We got the
tax bill passed on July fourth, which gives huge incentives
to come to the US, build your factory, expense it immediately,
and create American jobs. And I think twenty twenty six
is going to be a blockbuster year. So you can
see the effort is underway by the Treasury Secretary to
blunt this accusation about affordability, whether it's real or not real,
They've got to get their arms around it, and he
started that today. I think you'll see more of this
kind of interview going on. It also did not help
that during the shutdown you saw government workers standing in
food lines. I mean, that's the kind of thing that just,
you know, psychologically makes people think that things are really bad.
The economy is doing pretty well, but not everybody is participating.
Not everybody will ever participate. But President Trump did a
great job in trump one point zher of getting rid
of a lot of regulations that allowed businesses to be
more profitable, expand build more factories, hire more people. That
brought the unemployment rate way down from where it had
been prior to him, So we'll see if he has
that same magic in Trump two point zero.
Speaker 1: So today the House is going to reconvene at twelve
noon and they are well. They're saying that they expect
to vote on the continuing Resolution by around four pm,
but that usually means much later than that, so we'll see.
The airlines are still a mess, and this is getting
to be an interesting story so far. This is this morning,
Wednesday morning, eight hundred eighty four cancelations, twelve hundred and
sixty delays. Number one airport for problems is Chicago O'Hare,
followed by Denver, followed by Atlanta, followed by Houston, followed
by Seattle. So it's still a mess. And one of
the things that the airlines are being very careful about.
They don't want to complain too loudly, but they're saying
there was no reason to cut back on ten percent
of flights. It hasn't changed the safety margin at all.
We had a clip the other day of an air
traffic controller out of Denver who said, whether if I
talked to ninety planes a day or eighty five planes
a day, it won't make any difference to it's not
that big of a deal. So once the paychecks start
rolling in again, the air traffic controllers should be back
on the job. So, because I've got to make this
an abbreviated podcast today, I talked to Salty a couple
of days ago, and we haven't heard from him for
a while. So I picked up the phone called Salty
and he brought us up to date on how everything
in Salty world is going.
Speaker 4: Oh, Tom doing all right. You know. I had to
go through a surgery and I still got one to
do in December. But I've been busy in the one
legged man in a butt kicking contest, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it sounds like it's salty.
Speaker 4: But I took on a little side job to help
a buddy mine do a kitchen. But we had to
remove a wall and there was plumbing and electrical. It
was pretty uh pretty uh intense for this old boy.
But uh, I got it done before before my surgery,
uh part one, And uh I'm just taking a break
because I can't really do anything, uh you know for
a few weeks, and then I'll have about three weeks
to lift and stuff before my second surgeon and then
I'm gonna be down for four to six weeks. Uh,
so I'm gonna be stir crazy because it's gonna be
right around the Christmas holiday.
Speaker 1: Whoa, Uh four to six weeks, man, that's a long time.
And I can't imagine you being still that long. So
you're in construction obviously, I mean, yeah, you can't go
lifting things after Surely.
Speaker 4: I am enjoying the extra income, you know, uh with
depending on what you know, you see Joe Biden, he
took he took a little bit more than Donald Trump.
But uh, you know, I hate to make it political,
but uh, you know it is. It is good to
have the extra money. And I'm only need I'm on
need to break. Uh this extra side job really did
wear me out just a little bit. So it's it's
coming at a good time. And you know, like I
always say, Tom, I'm standing on some lambin at Florin
right now. It's always to be good on this side
of the lambin at Florin, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, yes, so yeah.
Speaker 1: And and having that whole extra paycheck at Christmas time,
I think most people think that's a pretty good idea.
I mean, I don't know. Of course, you got to
pay taxes on that though, salty. You got any you
got any travel plans? What are you gonna do? I mean,
if you're you're gonna be sitting around stir crazy. I mean,
I know travel right now is kind of hard. But
you're thinking about it.
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's a good thing. It's this uh current
situation with my surgery keeping me grounded in more ways
than one, do you know? I hate it for what's
that old boy's name, mayor, mister Duffy, the secretary of
the transportation. He's got his hands full, you know. And Tom,
you keep up with this stuff a lot better than
I do. But you know, we was already strained in
the system, was already strained because of the lack of
you know, the traffic control of people, you know, and
you know, somebody told me maybe you can straighten us out.
Did We never fully recovered from from when Reagan you know,
and I love Ronald Reagan when he let all men
and women go years ago now, but we never fully
got back where we needed to be.
Speaker 1: Well, that was eighty one or eighty two, something like that.
That was forty five years ago, and most of those
controllers that were the newbies that were hired, they did
a poll career and they're now pretty much retired.
Speaker 2: So they're.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're onto a whole new crew that they're training.
Speaker 4: Well that that does that doesn't make sense. It does
make sense, you know. I don't. Here's the thing, Tom,
I mean, holy cow, I'm not happy about what just
happened in Virginia. I don't live in New Jersey and
I really don't know nobody from New Jersey really, but
I feel bad for them. But I'm feeling a lot
worse for our own our own state. And uh, you know,
uh the politics. You know when people say, well politics
don't matter, well, you know what when we had the
first uh god forbid close call in the air, you know, uh,
I just don't want it to be too late, and
you know, the call this thing to shupers, shut down whatever.
All I know is government ain't working.
Speaker 2: No, and.
Speaker 1: It's shut down. Yeah, I mean, so it's really not working.
And so what about Virginia? What happened in Virginia? What
was the story there?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? You know, the funny thing is even when government's working,
it ain't working that great.
Speaker 1: No, it's not like they're all that productive most of
the time. But but yeah, and Virginia, you know how
it is. I mean its northern Virginia is very very
blue and that's where the population is. And so I
know you live down in the red part of Virginia,
but yeah, up in Fairfax County and down in Norfolk,
that's where the Democrats live and that's where the population is.
And that's why you got yourself a brand new Democrat government.
Speaker 4: They just released that, you know, the county by county
with the red and the blue colors on it. And yeah,
you can see as clear as day, you know, uh,
the north of US Charlottesville and working your way over
to the swamp, it's blue. And then you got the
blue out there. Uh you know when the over near Chesapeake,
Uh Norfolk. Uh, yeah, he is Tom Now, you know,
I'm not that long ago. I was traveling down through
southwest Virginia and I saw some Winsom Seers. And I'm
not talking about these because these are farms along the interstate.
I've seen some huge signs, you know, I've seen something
for Spangenberg. Uh, but the lot of them out there
for Winsome and I had the chance to see her
at an event. Uh she came up and uh this
was now Biden was still present, so we was thinking,
you know, uh, is Bidain gonna come to the microphone
ever again? And and and not tripping the stairs on
the getting into the Air Force one but the winsome
Seers he spoke at to volunteer organization cool Change in
their name after a number of years, and she was
there to speak and she went up there. She didn't
have a three by five card, Tom. She just spoke
right off the top of her head, in front of
her heart. And I thought, uh, you know, we didn't
know back as it is eighteen months to twenty four
months ago, whether she was gonna run or not. And
I heard somebody ask her she was running for governor
and she just smiled at that point. But you know,
I think I think she had a deep Well, now,
this other gal, I don't know a whole lot about.
You know, all the commercials I had to you know,
Salty likes to watch them a little TV at night
to relax. But I swear these commercials they was running
to win some seeres. They made her look angrier than Medea.
Oh yeah, angry black woman movies.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, yeah, no, that's what they do. The photo
editors are great at finding the very worst photo of you.
But that yeah, that's you know, you were down in
red part of Virginia and I looked at I looked
at the county by county in Virginia overall looked red.
Speaker 4: Right now that I had a question for you, and
I you know, yeah, Trump, And I think this makes
sense because I've talked to them on about it and
some other people and they nodded their head. You know, uh,
where we got all them big uh agencies. You see
all them buildings in d C in the in the
the the center of the universe for this country is
is you know, Washington, d C. And uh, why do
we have the Department Agriculture sitting in the middle of
that concrete palace And why not move it out to
the middle of the country to a red state and
move some of these agencies out of the out of
there and and tell them if they don't work in
the building, they're lose your jobs, and make them not
work from home, and uh move some of these agencies
out to get that lock uh that that that jammed
up lock up Washington, d C. And get them out
there where real people live and spread this thing out
and get some of that populations the heck out of
northern Virginia because Northern Virginia wags it and there's this
tail that wags in the whole state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I like your idea of why not
put the Department of Agriculture out in like the heartland
of America, you know, put them where the farmers are.
Maybe they would maybe they know something or two about farming.
But you know what the big project that that Department
of Agriculture. They're the ones who control the food stamp program.
They write the check.
Speaker 4: They didn't prove anything. Uh we It doesn't matter where
we are, you see uh and you get you get
in one of them there uh t one eleven lines
in the in your building, and it don't matter where
you are. You can be in the middle of Alaska
and run a department from there. So we don't have
to have all that concentration in DC because you know,
make make you know all them lobbyists that they just
you can tell me if this is true or not, Tom,
But I've heard that like when a bill comes to
the the to the floor like a big bill. Like
let's say, uh the the Uh this is a laughter,
uh the Affordable Care Act hardly but literally they literally
these special interest groups deliver the legislation to the legislators
and they put their stamp on it and improve it.
They don't even do their job.
Speaker 1: No, the the And there are many cases where the
lobbyists are a bunch of lawyers and their firms. They
write the legislation, they bring it over to Congressman whatever,
and and they're they just rubber stamp whatever the lobbyist wrote.
So but the USDA, I mean, they do their their
big job doesn't seem to be farms. It seems to
be food stamps. I mean that's what they do. And
the lobbyists are there. That's where the lobbyists are.
Speaker 4: Tom. Now this gonna make it made me laugh, Okay,
because I look at the Facebook. You see uh and
if and it's a shame, shame of self promotion. But
if you want to be friends with Sophie, you just
got to go to Solka Henderson. And you see that
name with the sun lasting with the big smile. That's me.
But I look through the faithbook, Tom the last twenty
four hours. And I swear, uh if they didn't put
that that fancy hat that the pope wears on top
of Nancy Pelosi's head with all the news story, yeah
did she's even where she's the first female pope. They've
done made it out like, oh, what a distinguished career.
She brought us Obambacare after the after the Special Interest
handed it to her, and she said her famous last words, well,
we won't know what's in it until we pass it,
because that was she couldn't.
Speaker 1: Create it, right, you're right, that's exactly that famous line
about you have to pass it to know what's in it.
That was when they passed Obamacare, excuse me, the Affordable
Care Act, which is not affordable. But Nancy Pelosi is
a saint to people on the left. She was powerful.
You got to give that to her. The lady controlled
Democrats in the House of Representatives like nobody else because
she was really good at raising money, and she doled
out the money to members of Congress, and therefore they
were indebted to her for their jobs, for their jobs.
So I don't know, we don't have anybody like that
on the Republican side.
Speaker 2: That's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not around. I mean Mike Johnson. I think he's
doing a great job, but he doesn't have that iron
fisted control over the Republicans at all. So yeah, well
she'll be she'll be going out the door. And uh,
the the Democrats are looking for leaders anyway her her.
Speaker 4: Do especially you know, you think about when she was
whipping them people into shape. She was in her seventies
and uh you know, you know, uh now she was
still whipping him, you know, when Trump was at the
end of his uh term, that first term that that
would call it trump one point oh or whatever that means.
But anyway, she she knew how to get her her
ducks in a row, and uh you know, Uh so
I got a respect her because she, you know, even
managed to get AOC. Now, AOC is kind of like
a caged uh tiger that's had red meat put out
all around the cage. Uh, because soon as Nancy's gone,
you know, they're gonna release the hounds and uh you know,
and I saw and you can straighten me out on this,
but uh, I've done seen already the two top people,
uh you know, because the body is still not quite
cold enough yet that she's leaving. But the two top
Democrats uh that probably gonna run for her seat. One
of them is uh worked for AOC and he is
a uh he's one of them socialist uh commies.
Speaker 2: Yeah and uh yes, uh and he's.
Speaker 4: Young, he's attractive and if he speaks half as good
as your new mayor, uh, he's probably gonna win.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm that's where the energy. That's where the energy is
for the Democrats. That's where the energy.
Speaker 4: I follow Nascar, Tom Okay, I follow Nascar. I think
I've said that on the show. And uh, you know,
uh when when somebody wins the champion, shit, I mean
they're thanking all the sponsors. I want to thank PEPSI,
I want to thank Todd Soap because they get all
the dirty, nasty grease stains out of my jersey. They
thank all the people you see. Uh. They don't get
out there and uh and slay the people that they beat,
or maybe even run off a track to win like
a Dale Earnhardt. You know he doesn't. He didn't say,
you know that awful Mark Martin got in my way,
so I just pushed him into the wall. And you know,
all the rest of them people they shouldn't even been
able to put gas in their cars when they went
to the pits. That's what rother Than Boswami or whatever
the heck his name is, h Mam Damie. Uh. You know,
he was angry as hell. What is that about? He
just won and he is angry, and I think he's
already lifted the curtain a little bit. Tom.
Speaker 1: I thought I heard David Axelrod, who's died in the
woold Democrats, talking about that victory speech that ma'am down
he gave. And even the ax Rod was going, oh boy,
that's not the way to do this. You can't go
out there like that, very angry and IM not gonna
win any friends with that your speech.
Speaker 4: And you know they're talking about the the rhetoric. Rhetoric.
Uh uh, you know we got tna we got to
tone it down, Tom. I mean, gosh, you know, we
ain't talk since we lost Charlie Kirk and all that mess.
But we got to turn it turn the volume. He said,
turn the volume up. I'll be dying if we better
not turn the volume down. And uh, he went after
the president. You thought Donald Trump uh was running against him,
and you know, if he ever has to drive by
any of Trump's buildings in New York City. You know,
it just got the anger of the daylights out of him.
Speaker 1: Well, uh, I'm not I'm not expecting much. I just
hope it's not terrible. I hope it's not a disaster.
That's that's where that's sadly where I am. I hope
it's not a disaster. I hope he doesn't try and
do all of the socialist, communist type thoughts. But that's
what he's talking about. So I mean, but and and people,
I don't think what they're worried about is being able
to afford things. And this whole affordability thing has come up.
And I know that there's two different there's people with
money and people without money. But people without money are
having a hard time making their ends, making the ends meet.
So I don't know if the Republicans have got to
focus on that. In my humble opinion, they need to
start looking at getting prices under control.
Speaker 4: If they can't tell you, Tom, I love my president
are right. And uh, you know it's he's had his
worldwide win, you know, whirldwind tour, saving the countries. Now
it's time to come home. And save here for the
next twelve months and help turn his country round. And uh,
you know, I mean, I know he's having more success
and he's been adored more in foreign land than he
is here. But and I'm not saying he's still not
doing other stuff. But you're right. I've sat I've sat
down with some friends of mine and uh, you know,
we're all hard working construction people, and uh we're building
houses or remodeling houses that will never ever be able. Uh.
Of course, at my age, I'm not gonna be able
to afford much. And I'm grateful for what I got,
Don't get me wrong, got a nice little ranch brick house.
But you know, these young people, all right, these young people,
they ain't I don't. I can't imagine what it would
be like to be starting out right now, knowing what,
knowing what. These people pin't even for a you know,
ninety thousand dollars remodel even ten years ago is about
a double that, or even a little bit more than
double because the materials have gone up so much. So
it's economy stupid. Who said that old serpent head, didn't
he the old James Carvill we call him surpent Head
around our house. But were you talking about an angry man?
You know, I think I think your new mayor, Rob
Mandammie has taken some cues from James Carvill and his
Angry podcast here lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Carvell is just he did the good old Boy and
and he's very skilled at figuring out how to get
people stirred up about a particular pop talk.
Speaker 4: And Donald Trump, you know he's out there. I don't know. Uh,
I don't know about you, but I ain't seeing no
two dollar gas. Hell, I ain't even seen two sixty
hardly know if he gets the gas down. He said
there's two dollars gas. I don't know where he's talking
about two dollar gas, but it was two dollars in
less than two dollars a gallon is by one five
when he left office. Yeah, and you know, I don't
know what he's got to do to get it back,
but if he wants to. And I love the idea
of them doing their own like uh uh convention for
the congressmen and women and the senators and such. I
think it's a good idea. Uh, but you better have
a message. You better have some things either in place
or they're so close to being in place that people
get can get some optimism because you know you steve
followed the markets for years. That's how I love you.
What in the show with the one man band uh
and all that stuff. But you know, uh, you got
to see, I don't have a four or one k
you see before. One case sounds like a race that
we just ran last week to benefits the veterans. Uh.
But I do know uh that you know, to make
ends meet. Yeah, I'm still out here working, you know, so. Uh.
Some's got changed, and I don't know how you change it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: In my mind, you government's got like Ronald Reagan. I
just seard the other day the nine most uh uh
treaded words uh in the English language. Or I'm from
the government and I'm here to help.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: No, And I know your new governor in Virginia, the
new governor in New Jersey. They also got elected, and
their victory speeches weren't angry, but they were promising that
they were going to get the prices down to do that.
I don't know how the government does that either.
Speaker 2: It's going to be.
Speaker 1: Very hard, but I really do believe that it's less
than one year now until the midterms, and I think
the Republicans, if they want to people always vote. Number
one issue is the economy.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: And they've got to try to work on getting these
prices under control because right now a lot of people
are having enough time.
Speaker 4: Last week, I don't remember who said it, one of
the Democrats said he spend more time, you know, talking
to Hamas and he has us. Maybe that was a
den bear Jefferies up there up in your part of
the woods there, Yeah, I can Jefferys, I think after
his name. Uh boy, I'm gonna tell you what, uh
you know? Uh oh shoot now my brain just had
a had a meltdown. Oh, I can't remember the Republican
uh leader of the House.
Speaker 2: Uh Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4: Well, no, DoD Johnson number of years ago. He's kind
of big and a little bit heavy set and wore the
glasses and you never heard nothing from him. Uh betwent tippy.
I heard. No.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, this goes back.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell was aggressive, this old boy. He was more
of a wonk what they call wonk where you you
die in the numbers and you get wonky. Uh this
this he was one of them, and uh, he barely
ever got out and said anything. I think he was
there during the Bush administration, you know, and it was
very like way back. Yeah, guy reminds me of him.
He's kind of not aggressive, although he has said some
mean things here lately, but he's just not cut out.
I'd almost rather see AOC be the leader of even
if it's in the minority, and he's gonna get a
few sparks. This guy, he tried to him and old Schumer,
you know, they say a couple of four letter words
to show their masculinity and it just makes them look foolish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of there's a lot of people to
agree with you that the Vakim, Jeffries and nah And
and Schumer just don't just don't seem to have leadership qualities.
But consumer confidence is what you got to get up.
And the latest report is consumer confidence is way down,
way down, I mean down to like twenty years ago down.
Speaker 2: So that's the focus.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, because the power bill, you know,
the things that make a difference, the gas pump when
you get your you killed his bill, and then you
go to the growth restored Tom Hey, I fign uh
great values, Uh peanut butter and and stuff like that.
Uh for years because to me, it chases the same.
But I ain't buying no Peter Pan, I ain't buying
no jiff. I can't afford it, you see. So I
figured out ways to make my dollar go further. And
people have, and God helped the people that have have
uh you know, cuddled up to their credit cards. Because
I keep hearing the the the numbers out there for
the people that are going into debt.
Speaker 2: He's not good, Tom, because.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ta to you this way, Tom. I think
I said this on your radio at one time. Uh
back at back at mine advice. Okay. Uh. They was
chasing a bunch of drug lords and it led them
to New York City and they somehow got a meeting
with this guy in this big tall building like a
Trump Tower, and this old guy, uh he said, and
I never forgot it. And this is from about nineteen
eighty four, and uh he he was holding his glass
of water, talking about how clean water was a commodity
and and uh Crockett got in patient. He says, you're
going somewhere with this old cow. And uh he said
when America sneezes. The world gets a cold. And I
never forgot that because I think that makes Tom. You
know when you when our economy sneezes, we all get
a cold and some some get it worse. They get
the flu, you see. And uh, that's how tied up
we are to prices. And Uh, I don't know what
government's will is. I really don't. All I know is
a regulation. Even in my industry in construction, Tom, when
I used to make countertops and stuff like that, Uh,
I'd walk away with a five gallon pail of compacts
and that. And every time i'd go, I'd have to
walk out with a twenty page datas sheet tell me
of the dangers of the of the prodigal just picked up.
Speaker 1: Oh, my.
Speaker 4: Regulation is there, and I we I think we can
do it safety because I use that word wonk again.
All in there walks up and all in their buildings
in d C. They're just looking for something to do,
and they're just riding regulations. That's so unreasonable. You know,
I can't even buy a true primer, true if I
like pat cars and stuff. And I hadn't done it
for a number of years. I went in to buy
some primer. And he just looked at me and I said,
I need a quarter lacker primer. He said, buddy, we
quit making that stuff fifteen years ago. I said, why
the government regulation. Yeah, so you true primer, but you
can't get it. It's like we got all this water
born stuff and all that and this, and then it's
regulation tom one last thing. Yeah, I think because I
got buddies paint stripes. He paints stripes on parking lots. Okay,
that what he does. And sometimes he do some stuff
from the state and you know, like on a country road.
And he was telling me over the last fifteen years
and I said to him, I said, you know, when
this striper road, I swear that doesn't seem like that
the stripes last as long as they used to. We said, Mark,
they don't. And I said, well, why is that? He says,
because the government regulated the chemicals we could use in
the paint. Uh, because they said when it's rains that
the rain breaks down that paint you see over time
and it goes into our little streams and it's killing
certain kinds of mosquitos and bugs and stuff. And so
now what used to last five sixty seven years. Depending
on the weather condition, you can get two years out
of but if you're lucky because of government. So tho's
just two little things that the government gets their claws
in on that. So that means you're gonna be paying
more taxes because you gotta pay somebody to come out
and stripe it every two years instead of every five
or six. So it only makes sense.
Speaker 1: The guy who i'm is the best deregulator. He did
a lot of that in his first term as Donald Trump.
And that's the area that I really want him to
focus on, is UH deregulation to help businesses, to help
people get jobs, to get prices down. I mean that
I think is is where the focus should be. And
I hope, I hope the message gets through to the
White House and the people get more confident on how
the economy is going. But we'll see.
Speaker 4: Well, and I'm just add to that. I just bought
a new driver and bought a Ge because that's no
I mean, that's GE's been brand And I had a
candy and I he said, so you were playing. I said, yeah,
Well the other one, I don't know when it's going
to go. He said to well, how old is it.
I said, it's twenty years old. He just laughed. He said, well,
you know, mister Henderson, you better be ready because this
new one's probably gonna You're probably gonna get five or
six years out of it if you're lucky. Oh boy,
new Tom, And this thing tis the cost of the
one I spent maybe maybe close three time from twenty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, costs more, but that's that's just yeah, costs more.
Speaker 4: But I'm still it's still the greatest land to be in.
I mean, I don't I don't begrudged being in America.
And I love this country and and I know you do,
and we just got to figure out better ways. And
and you know, I said something about it making sense. Well,
not a lot of things make sense up there in
the small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, you make your own economy,
and and you're doing that. You're a hard worker. You're
a hard worker.
Speaker 2: Salty.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's I'm not waiting for the government.
I'm going to create my own economy.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like I got to weight off my chest. Tom. Well,
thank you, and I do love you, buddy, and I'm
glad your show's doing good. And I can say this
because we we're close to saying, hey, I'm proud of you, buddy.
I'm proud of you for making this transition over to
a different way of doing what you did before and
it's been a success. So I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Salty, Thank you, and say hello to missus
Salty for us into Delmont and the whole family. Yeah,
all right, Salty, thank you for taking the time to
be with us today. I'm glad to hear you're doing well.
Love you too. Take care. So there's a lot to
unpack when you talk to Salty, But I mean that
is he's the voice of America. He is the voice
of so many people in this country's entertaining. But he's
got the thoughts that a lot of people have. And
it's always nice to cut through from interviewing some big
politicians somewhere, I'd rather interview Salty.
Speaker 2: So listen.
Speaker 1: So today we don't have market clothes because I'm recording
this early. But again we'll watch the House trying to
make some drama out of it by saying there may
be some problems with the House passing the continuing Resolution.
I don't think so. I think they'll get this thing done,
and then we'll put that to bed. So thank you
for coming by. I appreciate you stopping by early today,
and we will be back tomorrow and we'll hope to
see you then