Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask all of you, is your life
Speaker 1: better under Trump? Yes? Or no? I mean mostly obviously
Speaker 1: economically financially, are you feeling better? Are you are cost
Speaker 1: going down prices, going down food groceries when you go
Speaker 1: out to eat your bills? Just overall, do you find
Speaker 1: now that life is getting better for you, easier for you,
Speaker 1: that you have more money in your pocket? Six one
Speaker 1: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 1: Just I want to one quick point off of the
Speaker 1: previous call. I try to take my kids when I
Speaker 1: do I do the grocery for the most part, I
Speaker 1: do the grocery shopping at our home, and I can't
Speaker 1: get them every time I go, but I try to
Speaker 1: always bring either Ashen or Ava with me. Why A,
Speaker 1: It's spent time with my children, obviously, but to teach
Speaker 1: them how to save money. He's completely right, really completely right.
Speaker 1: The value of money. John was right. And so you
Speaker 1: know I will go down the cereal aisle, for example,
Speaker 1: and say, I don't know special k just as an example,
Speaker 1: you know, buy one, get one free, and I'll explain
Speaker 1: either to av or Ashton. Yeah, I get two of those,
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, why Dad, why don't we get
Speaker 1: the multi grain cherios. I'm like, take a look, son,
Speaker 1: buy one, get one free. You've got to learn to
Speaker 1: save money. And so and the kids catch on and
Speaker 1: they they look at prices, they do, you know, they
Speaker 1: start looking compare and contrast. And the other thing is
Speaker 1: when you go to the checkout. When I go to
Speaker 1: the checkout and say it's two hundred or two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars for a week, you know, weeks groceries,
Speaker 1: and you know, they'll go, wow, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: And Daddy works very hard for it. I always tell
Speaker 1: them that I work very hard, so you better appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You know, Look, did daddy gets you meat? Did daddy
Speaker 1: gets you all the fruits and vegetables? Did Dad? You know?
Speaker 1: Ashton loves milk. He's a milkoholic, Ashton, and he's a
Speaker 1: lactose intolerant. So I always get him to the special milk,
Speaker 1: you know, lactate milk, and I get him like two
Speaker 1: jugs because he'll go through that like in three days, Ashton.
Speaker 1: Look it's seven bucks a bottle, Ashton. That's fourteen dollars
Speaker 1: for two jugs of milk. That's for you son, don't
Speaker 1: ever forget it. And you know, my father would do
Speaker 1: this to me all the time, and Americans used to
Speaker 1: do this as well. Remind their children not just how
Speaker 1: much things cost, but how hard the parents work to
Speaker 1: give the children the basics of life. Don't let them
Speaker 1: assume it, take it for granted, as if they're somehowing
Speaker 1: title to it.
Speaker 2: Let them know.
Speaker 1: No, just came off the sweat of my brow. Mommy
Speaker 1: and daddy work really, really hard, so you better be grateful.
Speaker 1: It's okay. They're not going to die. Remind them and
Speaker 1: remind them and remind them and remind them, and then
Speaker 1: it'll it'll get through. Eventually, it'll get through. Six one
Speaker 1: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree
Speaker 1: Lisa in Belmont. Thanks for holding Lisa, and welcome.
Speaker 3: I have to agree with Grace on this. I think
Speaker 3: everything not. I went to my high school reunion last month.
Speaker 3: One of the people in my class said, Lisa, would
Speaker 3: you like a drink? He said, yeah, I have a
Speaker 3: white Russian. I'm like Ashton, I love milk, milk, colure
Speaker 3: and vodka.
Speaker 4: It goes to the bar.
Speaker 3: It's twenty dollars for a drink and the bartender wants
Speaker 3: a five dollar tip. You had to come back and
Speaker 3: get more money out of her pocketbook. I mean a
Speaker 3: drink you go with your husband. That's fifty bucks for
Speaker 3: two drinks. On the way home. I'm coming home. My neighbor,
Speaker 3: said Lisa. There's a house for sale around the corner
Speaker 3: the two point seven million. Get this, Jeff, there was
Speaker 3: a bidding war. It's sold for three million. I mean,
Speaker 3: is this crazier? What supply and demand? Okay, Belmont good
Speaker 3: school system, near the hospital's good location. They don't want
Speaker 3: to live in Tornado country. You can buy a house
Speaker 3: sheep down there. But it's nuts. I don't see anything
Speaker 3: going down maybe eggs and gas. Well, hello, everything else
Speaker 3: is crazy.
Speaker 1: What's the you Jeff's I mean, Lisa, I don't drink alcohol,
Speaker 1: so you have me on that, you know, so I
Speaker 1: don't know how much things cost. If you know, if
Speaker 1: you buy a drink at a I mean, grace will
Speaker 1: lord the occasional glass of wine here or there, but
Speaker 1: you know that's about it. So, but that's that's outrageous.
Speaker 1: I mean that's gouging. Really, come on, twenty bucks for
Speaker 1: a cocktail plus oh so Mike. Okay, Mike will go
Speaker 1: to the bar, you know, sports bar or whatever. He's
Speaker 1: in my ear saying, Jeff, it's pretty much everywhere. Now,
Speaker 1: these are the kinds of prices you're paying. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not rageous. But Lisa, I've got to ask you.
Speaker 1: Is this more of a Massachusetts like northeast thing, or
Speaker 1: is it around the country, you know, like New York
Speaker 1: is insanely expensive, you know whatever, New Jersey, Massachusetts. You know,
Speaker 1: we have such high taxes, regulations, you know whatever. Everything
Speaker 1: in this in this part of the country is so expensive.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if this is around the whole country,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, you think in Phoenix, Arizona, they're
Speaker 1: paying twenty bucks for a drink. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, or Florida. We have a lot of people
Speaker 1: in Florida who listen whatever, Tampa Bay, Palm Beach, you know, Daytona, wherever.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of you know from you know that area.
Speaker 1: Are you paying twenty bucks for a drink when you
Speaker 1: go out, let's say, with your spouse or a friend.
Speaker 1: But that's that's outrageous and the house prices, Lisa, I
Speaker 1: don't get that. My house is not worth a million.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Wow, Okay, I'm getting an education today.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. Maybe my wife is right,
Speaker 1: Maybe Grace is right. So talking to Mike first, talking
Speaker 1: to Mike, and you know, Mike likes to go with
Speaker 1: his friends, you know, once or twice a week whatever,
Speaker 1: to a sports bar. He's into sports. And he says, Jeff, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a cocktail guy or whatever. You know, I
Speaker 1: like to drink beer when I go out with my buddies.
Speaker 1: He said, a Cores light or something, a bud light,
Speaker 1: maybe five or six bucks. You can get away with that.
Speaker 1: But he goes the more upscale beers. And there's something
Speaker 1: called an ipa. Mike, what is that an Indian? What
Speaker 1: is that called Indian? Okay, he's not totally positive it's
Speaker 1: but it's called an ipa, right, Mike. All right, So
Speaker 1: it's one of these, you know, like more upscale beers.
Speaker 1: Mike says, you're looking at thirteen fourteen, fifteen bucks. I
Speaker 1: go for a bottle of beer. He goes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: uh geez, you know, look, you know that's the one
Speaker 1: thing when you drink soda like I do. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a diet coke. That's you know, my kids
Speaker 1: have soda. I have soda. Well, actually they don't have soda.
Speaker 1: Grace is cracking down on them. They drink water or juice. Okay,
Speaker 1: but anyway, I have the soda. You know, it's two
Speaker 1: fifty and it's unlimited refills. You know, if they're really
Speaker 1: gouging you, it's three bucks. But it's all the you know,
Speaker 1: unlimited refills. So you know, I I don't feel it
Speaker 1: what I call out to eat, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I feel the meal, but I
Speaker 1: don't feel in terms of price. But I don't feel that,
Speaker 1: you know, the drinks Grayceel, maybe you know, have a
Speaker 1: glass of wine once in a while. Now, Sandy is
Speaker 1: weighing in, saying number one that she thinks Lisa is
Speaker 1: underestimating that her friend may have wanted to be a
Speaker 1: big tipper, because she says, no bartender is going to
Speaker 1: demand a twenty five percent tip per drink, and then
Speaker 1: she goes Jeff. A reunion is a supply and demand
Speaker 1: situation where the venue is getting a percentage of the
Speaker 1: bar bill, so the prices are inflated. But then because
Speaker 1: I asked her. I said, well, Sandy, you know, when
Speaker 1: you and your husband go out, like, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, you like a nice cocktail once in a while,
Speaker 1: or a glass of wine or whatever. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you paying fifteen twenty bucks? Here's here's what she tells me.
Speaker 1: Cocktails when she goes out are fifteen to thirty bucks. Sandy,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you drinking? Man?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: So, what kind of a super cocktail? Oh, it's India
Speaker 1: pale ale. Ah, that's what an ipa is, India pale ale.
Speaker 1: Mike says, it's extremely good. Mike says, it's all the
Speaker 1: rage right now. But anyway, I mean, what kind of
Speaker 1: a super cocktail?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Is Sandy ordering? Anyway? Fifteen to thirty bucks? Wow? Sandy says,
Speaker 1: beer and wine. You're looking at eight to twelve bucks? Easy?
Speaker 1: She says, Look, the high end cocktails are an exception.
Speaker 1: But she said, you know, look, most cocktails are about
Speaker 1: sixteen to eighteen bucks. Holy SHAMOLEI you know, really, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do people do it? Seriously? How do you do it? Especially?
Speaker 1: You bring a couple of bambinos, You throw in a
Speaker 1: few appetizers, you know, you have the main course. Everybody
Speaker 1: know you know you have a cocktail, your spouse has
Speaker 1: a cocktail, and if you go for the desserts, you're
Speaker 1: looking at three four hundred dollars. Who can afford this?
Speaker 1: Or This is from Maryanne and it was very interesting.
Speaker 1: She lives in Florida, between Tampa Bay and Orlando. So
Speaker 1: here's what she wrote, Jeff, It's a good thing I
Speaker 1: don't drink much because I do like a good bloody Mary.
Speaker 1: And I'm paying anywhere, wow, between fifteen and twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars for a bloody Mary. I paid fifteen at the
Speaker 1: local Mexican restaurant a mile from my house. And it's
Speaker 1: not a fancy restaurant. It's a mom and pop restaurant.
Speaker 1: She goes on to say, and as far as the
Speaker 1: grocery prices, I'm with Grace. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: you seem to be with Grace today. I'm with Grace. Yes,
Speaker 1: eggs have come down. Gas is down at TAD, but
Speaker 1: overall groceries are high. And you must allow for shrink
Speaker 1: inflation that I've noticed. When I buy a bag of chips,
Speaker 1: you know, a family sized bag of chips, that's like
Speaker 1: a regular bag of chips. Now it's two thirds air
Speaker 1: one third chips, Like I open it up, I'm like, hello, hello, hello,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you know, are there any chips down there? Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello Hello? Anyway, so she goes on to say it's
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. So, no, I'm not seeing much in the
Speaker 1: line of lower prices. Interesting, Okay, So she says, I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing much of a change at all. And she said,
Speaker 1: you when you buy stuff, things are getting smaller all
Speaker 1: the time that I've noticed. Even you know, we had
Speaker 1: McDonald's last week. You know, the kids wanted McDonald's, so
Speaker 1: we had McDonald's last week. They should rename the big
Speaker 1: Mac the small Mac.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Ashton got me two big Macs, like I always have
Speaker 1: large French fry and a die large die Coke because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching my waistline, right, so I gotta
Speaker 1: have the die Coke. I went through those two big
Speaker 1: Macs like they were nothing. I mean, I'm like, look
Speaker 1: like they're getting short, they're getting smaller, and it's like
Speaker 1: the shrinking big Mac. It's a small Mac. Soon it's
Speaker 1: gonna be no Mac. You know what that old Wendy's commercial,
Speaker 1: where's the beef? Where's the beef? Like soon it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like the buns. And okay, I see the pickles,
Speaker 1: I see the lettuce, I see the cheese and the
Speaker 1: big Max sauce. Where's the patty? Where's the beef? It's gone?
Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing gas go down? Groceries go down? Am
Speaker 1: I the only one that's seeing this go down? And
Speaker 1: are you paying twenty bucks now for a drink at
Speaker 1: a restaurant like a cocktail or a good glass of wine?
Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Mark in Medford, Thanks for holding Mark, and welcome. Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you, my.
Speaker 1: Friend, Happy Friday to you, Mark.
Speaker 2: Jeff, I just want to say one thing before I
Speaker 2: get to my comments. I'm gonna say something that's probably
Speaker 2: gonna make liberal moonbat's heads explode right now. You know
Speaker 2: how they have no kings?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? What Mark?
Speaker 2: The no kings rally? Yes, okay, well Trump is a king,
Speaker 2: but you know what, he's not the king that they
Speaker 2: think we think he is. He's minas, Jeff, because everything
Speaker 2: is turning to freaking gold. Okay, yes to me. Just
Speaker 2: yesterday we were saying how his uh, his his base.
Speaker 2: He's gonna lose some votes in his base today it
Speaker 2: comes out that he's getting even more popular. Can this
Speaker 2: guy do anything freaking wrong? Jeff, The answer is no,
Speaker 2: absolutely not. And what I want to say about the
Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill and the economy right now, I do
Speaker 2: have a question before I get into my comments. In
Speaker 2: the Big Beautiful Bill, Jeff, I don't know this, so
Speaker 2: I'm asking you. Did he put in there that anyone
Speaker 2: making under one hundred and fifty grand a year doesn't
Speaker 2: have to pay income tax federal incompact? Is that in there?
Speaker 1: It was in there and it was taken out?
Speaker 2: Of course it was okay, Yeah, No, I mean to be.
Speaker 1: Fair to Trump, he got Mike, I think somebody crunched
Speaker 1: the like they actually looked at the bill compared it
Speaker 1: to his campaignses. He got nearly eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: his campaign promises in the bill. He wanted to have
Speaker 1: no federal income tax for those making under one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty and the swamp took it out. And there
Speaker 1: were other things as well. You know, they always weakened
Speaker 1: the bill. Six one seven two sex six sixty eight,
Speaker 1: sixty eight is the number Okay, just before we go
Speaker 1: back to Mark in Medford. Yes, it is the IPA
Speaker 1: that you order at at a restaurant or a bar whatever.
Speaker 1: Is an India pale ale, and it is considered a
Speaker 1: more high end, you know price heer, kind of an
Speaker 1: elite beer and apparently the reason why according to many
Speaker 1: of you, and you all seem to be experts on this,
Speaker 1: so I take your word for it. It's got lots
Speaker 1: of hops. Very happy is the way many of you
Speaker 1: describe it. And it tends to have a higher alcohol content,
Speaker 1: and all of you seem to be vouching that it's
Speaker 1: phenomenal beer. And it's about fourteen to fifteen bucks a
Speaker 1: bottle when you go out to a you know, a
Speaker 1: restaurant or a bar. It's not cheap, it's not, but like,
Speaker 1: let's put it that way, fourteen fifteen bucks for a
Speaker 1: bottle of beer. A yea, yai man geez six one seven.
Speaker 1: I mean Biden really screwed us. I really, he really
Speaker 1: screwed us, because you know, it's hard to get prices down.
Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: Mark in Medford, Mark, buddy, let me ask you, how
Speaker 1: do you think the economy is doing overall, and are
Speaker 1: you feeling it, my friend?
Speaker 2: Well, I am feeling it, Jeff. And I'll tell you
Speaker 2: where I'd like to buy, Like certain things at the supermarket.
Speaker 2: I go to Stop and Shop, or I go to
Speaker 2: mockt Basket, sometimes mostly Stop and Shop because it's closer
Speaker 2: to my house. So I find like I like Romain lettuce. Now,
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, Romain lettuce was like almost five
Speaker 2: dollars for three heads in a bag. Now it's not
Speaker 2: the three ninety nine certain cereals that I like to
Speaker 2: buy brand name cereals. They were five six dollars a box.
Speaker 2: Now I'm getting two for five. The same exact brand watermelons, Jeff.
Speaker 2: Two weeks ago, watermelons were eight dollars apiece. I just
Speaker 2: paid three dollars and eighty eight cents for the same
Speaker 2: size watermelons the other day. So yes, I am seeing
Speaker 2: things come down. But Jeff, you know, once the drill,
Speaker 2: baby drill goes into full swing, let me tell you something, Jeff,
Speaker 2: it's it's game on. It's it's game over for the Democrats,
Speaker 2: because there's no way they're gonna say that prices haven't
Speaker 2: come down, and I'm gonna tell you right now, when
Speaker 2: gas comes down to about two dollars and fifty cents, Jeff,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go online and I'm gonna go viral, and
Speaker 2: you're not gonna believe what you're gonna see me say
Speaker 2: on social media. They're gonna put it on the freaking news.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now. So when you see people
Speaker 2: like Maria Baromo come out on TV just two days
Speaker 2: ago and say tariffs are working, and the only reason
Speaker 2: why the interest rate is up is because j Powell
Speaker 2: is handcuffing Donald Trump. But like you said, soon he'll
Speaker 2: be gone and Trump will get somebody to do the
Speaker 2: job the right way.
Speaker 1: You know, Mark, It's funny, but I do go to
Speaker 1: other places to shop. There's a big y that I
Speaker 1: like good quality meats, and I like their fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 1: But just like you, there's a stopping shop near our home,
Speaker 1: so it's closer, it's more convenient. The kids like it,
Speaker 1: so we'll go. And you laid it out really well.
Speaker 1: Cereals that were like five six seven bucks, I'm buying
Speaker 1: two for five. You know you mentioned Romaine Lettuce. Kids
Speaker 1: love you know what, Grace and the kids love realm.
Speaker 1: I ain't lettuce. I'm noticing romaine. Lettuce has gone down. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's down a buck. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna die on a dollar. But that's what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm noticing it here there. It's not just eggs. I'm
Speaker 1: noticing it. Peanut butters coming down a little bit, meats
Speaker 1: coming down a little bit, fruits coming, bananas coming down
Speaker 1: a little bit, blueberries. I'm like, it's not bad now.
Speaker 1: It was more like five ninety nine, even six ninety
Speaker 1: nine under Biden. I'm seeing it now four ninety nine,
Speaker 1: you know, for a quarter of blueberries. So it's a
Speaker 1: dollar here, it's seventy five cents here. It's but it
Speaker 1: adds up. I mean it really. You know, my grocery bill,
Speaker 1: which often would be three hundred, is now two twenty
Speaker 1: five to forty five, two fifty, so, you know, fifty here,
Speaker 1: sixty dollars there. I'm saving about twenty five dollars on
Speaker 1: GA every week, and a little here, a little there,
Speaker 1: and before you know it, it's hundreds of dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and that's thousands of dollars a year. I mean, Mike agreed, disagree.
Speaker 2: But Jeff, like I said, when like you said that,
Speaker 2: when you have people like Maria Bartiromo on Fox saying that,
Speaker 2: and even financial experts on this is CNN saying the
Speaker 2: same thing, Trump is doing something right.
Speaker 1: I agree, And I think a lot of it is drill, baby, drill,
Speaker 1: and it's and you're gonna get more of that in
Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill. And so as gas continues, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna hit two dollars a gallon. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Mike, Mark, forgive me, uh Mark. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna hit two dollars a gallon, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: really drive down prices. Mark is always thank you very
Speaker 1: much for that call. Six one seven two six six
Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Let me just
Speaker 1: ask all of you, okay, very quickly, because I'm getting
Speaker 1: chastised by Sandy and by Mike, which is nothing new.
Speaker 1: By the way, Why when I go out to eat,
Speaker 1: let's say, you know, grace myself, the bambinos they go like,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, you don't have to get an appetizer,
Speaker 1: you don't have to get a dessert. You're the one
Speaker 1: that's piling on the bill. No, let me be I
Speaker 1: don't have an appetizer. Grace maybe occasionally or a dessert.
Speaker 1: I don't have a dessert. I'm diabetic. I'm Type two diabetic.
Speaker 1: I avoid desserts like the blade again, Grace, if she
Speaker 1: feels like it. It's my kids. Whenever we go to
Speaker 1: Applebee's or Chili's or you know wherever, my kids insist
Speaker 1: on the chicken wings. If I don't get them the
Speaker 1: chicken wings, it's like a revolt at the table. And
Speaker 1: then they're getting a tad more health conscious, so they
Speaker 1: like to have a salad, but they still have that
Speaker 1: main course. I don't know how it fits in their stomachs,
Speaker 1: but it does. And then they got to go for
Speaker 1: the hole enchilada because we're quote unquote going out, So
Speaker 1: they insist on a dessert, and yet they eat it all.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they eat it all, but they
Speaker 1: eat it all. I've got a fifteen year old teenage
Speaker 1: son and thirteen she's gonna be thirteen teenage daughter, and
Speaker 1: she's really getting into sports and athletics. They're eating me
Speaker 1: out of house and home. So yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm the only one, but like, I
Speaker 1: don't want a revolution at the dinner table, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: they order the appetizers, they order the desserts, and before
Speaker 1: you know it, the bill keeps going up and up
Speaker 1: and up, and all I do is sit my diet coke.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all I do and eat the main course.
Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Speaker 1: George in New Hampshire. Thanks for holding George, and welcome.
Speaker 4: Thanks for taking the call. I've been almost of my
Speaker 4: thirtieth year for being a business. I'm in the homer
Speaker 4: modeling and cabinet making business. So this is what I'm
Speaker 4: seeing for my end. I think we're still in the
Speaker 4: COVID thing. It's it's like you win, you win the war,
Speaker 4: but there's there's aftermath after a war. And what I'm
Speaker 4: trying to say is COVID's still not over. We're dealing
Speaker 4: with the aftermath of COVID. So people are what I'm
Speaker 4: seeing is people are locked into their houses at crazy
Speaker 4: low light rates, you know, hundred to three percent, and
Speaker 4: until you can get inventory under the real estate market,
Speaker 4: you can't get a price correction. And that's what has
Speaker 4: to happen for the housing market. There needs to be
Speaker 4: a price correction because your scenario is similar to my
Speaker 4: scenario in terms of ownership of a home. I'm you know,
Speaker 4: my value of a home is outside bounds. I would
Speaker 4: never pay that for that home. So by lowering rates,
Speaker 4: that will entice people under three percent a list their
Speaker 4: house to buy a new house. And you know, with
Speaker 4: more inventory, we'll see the market have a price correction,
Speaker 4: and that's really what needs to happen. So I mean,
Speaker 4: it's like, you know, everybody's like, oh, it's old, his
Speaker 4: it's old ancient history. COVID is over. It's not really over.
Speaker 4: We're still dealing with COVID besides our federal budget and
Speaker 4: all the other issues that are associated with that. But
Speaker 4: you know, and I just in people in socioeconomic areas
Speaker 4: where you know, I wouldn't consider really viable for business
Speaker 4: are now viable because people are moved to those those areas,
Speaker 4: those communities, and they think that the home is two
Speaker 4: times what I would pay for it, or someone from
Speaker 4: the area would pay for it, and they're putting money
Speaker 4: into it, which is great because it's rebuilding the community
Speaker 4: in those areas are a little more run down, But
Speaker 4: I that's the fog of the COVID thing. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's what I can ask throw you right, No, you're right.
Speaker 1: I think it's a really good point. Look, I've said
Speaker 1: this before, and it maybe a tad of a stretch
Speaker 1: for dramatic effect, but pretty much, I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's an accurate assessment. COVID in many
Speaker 1: ways reminds me of World War One. It took an
Speaker 1: entire generation to recover from all of the damage, not
Speaker 1: just the loss of life and those who were maimed
Speaker 1: and wounded, but the economic damage, the social damage, the
Speaker 1: cultural damage, the political damage. It really scarred an entire generation.
Speaker 1: And I think COVID has done the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Those law downs were unbelievably destructive, unbelievably destructive, and the
Speaker 1: after shocks were still living with that. So I think
Speaker 1: you're completely right. And look you're Look here, I'm locked
Speaker 1: in at a lower interest rate, Okay, which is good.
Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. But say I sell my home just
Speaker 1: for the sake of argument. Well, okay, I made a
Speaker 1: nice profit off of it because the value's you know,
Speaker 1: gone way up. But now I'm going to be paying
Speaker 1: the same thing for the same type of home. So
Speaker 1: where's my incentive to sell my home? There is no
Speaker 1: incentive unless I move to a part of the country
Speaker 1: where you know, housing costs are much lower. But if
Speaker 1: I just want to do a move, say within Massachusetts
Speaker 1: or within the Northeast, I'm like, well, okay, I made
Speaker 1: a lot of money on the house, but now I
Speaker 1: got to shell out the same amount of money to
Speaker 1: get the equivalent kind of house. So you're right, we
Speaker 1: need more inventory, we need more supply. Ultimately, that's what's
Speaker 1: going to settle this thing. George, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for that call. Really good call. Six one seven two
Speaker 1: six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay.
Speaker 1: I want to ask all of you Kooner country, how
Speaker 1: are you doing in your everyday finances, your quality of life,
Speaker 1: your standard of living? Are you seeing your bills go down,
Speaker 1: your costs of going out or groceries or food or gas,
Speaker 1: your car payments, whatever it may be. Are you starting
Speaker 1: to see your situation improve or are you break your
Speaker 1: take home pay? Apparently now wages are starting to go up.
Speaker 1: Are you starting to see more money in your pocket?
Speaker 1: And is that enabling you to buy more and to
Speaker 1: not be so stressed or feel so squeezed? Is your
Speaker 1: personal situation? Is your life better under Trump right now?
Speaker 1: The same or worse than under Biden? Six one seven
Speaker 1: two six six sixty eight sixty eight eight o'clock. You
Speaker 1: know what that means? Cooner's call Log, Caller of the week.
Speaker 5: It's time for Cooner's call Log, where we showcase our
Speaker 5: favorite color from the week.
Speaker 1: I can hear you? Can you hear me? Thanks for
Speaker 1: holding Muriel.
Speaker 6: I really believe the Democrats they had plenty of time
Speaker 6: to make their own phony list of people that went
Speaker 6: to Epstein Island because they were afraid of Trump got elected.
Speaker 6: You know, that's the way they always operate. They have
Speaker 6: fake dossier's, they have these JA six committees. They're always
Speaker 6: after them. And I think Pam Bondi spoke too soon.
Speaker 6: She thought she had the real list, and I feel
Speaker 6: like the real evidence could be listed under the way
Speaker 6: James homies to operate was just change a letter and
Speaker 6: then it would be filed somewhere else.
Speaker 2: And I have a.
Speaker 6: Feeling the Democrats wanted to cover their rear ends. They
Speaker 6: had their own thing, and that's why the Democrats are
Speaker 6: screaming so loud to release the lists, and the problem
Speaker 6: is all of the people on our side now they're
Speaker 6: mad at Trump. And I think he's so frustrated because
Speaker 6: he knows they won that battle, and he's probably wanted
Speaker 6: to release the list, and now we can't because there's
Speaker 6: people on there that never went.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: The weird thing is it's like none of us know
Speaker 6: what's really going on behind closed doors. So something happened
Speaker 6: that we don't know about. And that's why I don't
Speaker 6: want to jump all over him.
Speaker 5: He say, be here every weekday on the Cooner Report
Speaker 5: between six and ten am, and next week it could
Speaker 5: be you on Cooner's call log.
Speaker 1: Please don't be a stranger call again. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a heavy Epstein week, a lot of Epstein this week.
Speaker 1: I've never in all my years on talk radio on
Speaker 1: the air, had such a response I had. You know,
Speaker 1: There's been stories in the past where I got a
Speaker 1: massive response, but the texts, the emails, the messages, it
Speaker 1: was just I've never seen anything like it. Many of
Speaker 1: you felt very very strongly and passionately about Epstein and
Speaker 1: the Trump's decisions regarding Epstein. So anyway, today we're not
Speaker 1: talking Epstein. We're talking the economy six one, seven two
Speaker 1: six six, sixty eight, sixty eight. Trump racks up another
Speaker 1: big victory. Literally just hours ago, the House of Representatives
Speaker 1: passed a bill that had already been passed in the
Speaker 1: Senate the day before, which now cuts nine billion dollars
Speaker 1: pure cut or recision as they call it, which has
Speaker 1: not been done in Washington in twenty five years. And
Speaker 1: it cuts all the money off to USAID, which was
Speaker 1: the Democrats' slush fund, so a lot of these foreign
Speaker 1: eight programs have now been eliminated. And of course it
Speaker 1: cuts taxpayer funding completely for NPR and PBS, and Trump
Speaker 1: is going to sign it today. Again, nine billion in
Speaker 1: a seven trillion dollar budget is not you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's small potatoes, but it's still a very significant victory.
Speaker 1: And again Trump is showing he's muscling legislation through Congress,
Speaker 1: and the economy now is starting to pick up, at
Speaker 1: least according to the polls. Agree, disagree, Caroline in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Thanks for holding Caroline, and.
Speaker 7: Welcome call, Jeff. Thank you for taking my call. Okay,
Speaker 7: but first of all, in terms of President Trump, with Epstein,
Speaker 7: just you're going to be surprised by my answer, But
Speaker 7: I think that there's like he said, but I would
Speaker 7: love to see that man in jail. He was so
Speaker 7: involved with so many things, and nobody ever talks about
Speaker 7: the mansion in New York City, but he was actually
Speaker 7: in Caroline.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't meant to cut you off, Carolyn.
Speaker 1: Can you do me a favor? Can you just hang on.
Speaker 1: There's just a little bit of an emergency here. We're
Speaker 1: going to have to take care of it. I promise
Speaker 1: we're going to come right back. Yes, Mike, Can we
Speaker 1: just take a quick break? Thank you, Michae