"I Don't Recognize My Country Anymore"

We go through a series of stories under that headline: Some serious; some not.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have been struggling with how exactly to say this.
I can't euphemistically put this. I don't feel comfortable doing it,
but I have to say something about it, because number one,
most media isn't And number two, my first thought when

(00:20):
I heard the story that there was a singer who
performed at one of these Bernie Sanders rallies the other
day who sang something that was mocking Christianity, I admit
one of my first thoughts was, well, what was said?
Because there are some people who can be really sensitive

(00:43):
about that kind of thing, and that's fine. There are
others who say, all right, there's some dark sarcasm here,
but it hasn't ruined my faith and anything. And you know,
it's really up to I mean, I am not easily
offended when it comes to this kind of thing. So
I'm like, let's find out what the song was. And wow, wow.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I think I know what you're talking about. And I
couldn't listen to it anymore anymore than I would want
to be standing next to this person.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Here's what happened this past Friday. You know, a couple
of weeks ago, Senator Bernie Sanders kicked off his Bernie
tour of America. Here in Omaha, we were either the
first or one of the first stops. I think we
were with first stop, and this particular performer was not,
to my knowledge, one of those scheduled for our stop

(01:40):
here in Omaha. It would be this past Friday in Kenosha,
Wisconsin when they had the stop Oligarchy rally, the anti
Trump rally, which is absolutely ridiculous. President Trump was duly
elected constitutionally, so but Bernie Sanders says, this is an oligarchy.

(02:04):
This is someone who has been in government his entire
life and is very, very wealthy. So Senator Bernie Sanders,
and I don't think that he's the one who sets
up the performers at these rallies. He they just did
point him where to go, and he goes up there
and he thanked this performer. I don't have any idea

(02:27):
Bernie Sanders heard what this performer said or not. Don't know.
Performer is a drag singer, a guy who goes by
the name of Laura Jane and fronts a punk band.
Sang a song that had incredibly vulgar and distasteful lyrics

(02:51):
that went on for a very long time. So it
wasn't like a we're throwing this out there and moving on.
This was a long is like a two and a
half three minute song around the refrain ah, I I can't,
I don't know that I can do this to try

(03:16):
and put it and it's it's so, it is so crass.
The refrain of the song is questioning, does your God
little help, oh.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Size size of something?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah? Is your God well endowed? Because it feels like
he's violating me? And that's as it's incredibly crass, much
more so than what I just said, very vulgar, and

(04:01):
just continue to mock God and Jesus and Christians with
pornographic references to the body and various sexual acts.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I guess by her singing this or him what, okay,
I guess by this person singing this song, they are
letting us know that there are no democrats that believe
in God or liberals are independents. Is that what I'm
to understand? Because if you believe in God, you cannot

(04:33):
possibly find this to be acceptable.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
There are certainly liberal democrats who believe.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh there are okay, absolutely, okay, I thought from this song.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, absolutely there are. I don't know how many of
them walked out or thought that was disgusting, or thought, well,
I wonder if our favorite Bernie Sanders here is going
to say something against this. So far no. Senator Sanders
came up, thanked the perform for the performance, and then
began to trash Trump. Now, immediately when I saw this

(05:08):
story yesterday, I immediately thought, there are all the media
that came out and went after that performer, who was
one of like eight hours worth of different speakers and
singers and comics at the Madison Square Garden rally in
New York City leading up to last November's election. There

(05:29):
was a performer, a comic named Tony Hinchcliffe I think
his name was, and he made that joke about you know,
there's literally a giant pile of trash out there floating
in the ocean. I think it's called Puerto Rico, and
people are like, oh my gosh, this is so And
there was all the media had stories about is this

(05:50):
going to change how Hispanic people might vote for Trump
in the election. They thought that perhaps he was getting
more support. But you've got this performer by Trump to
go out there and say this stuff. Trump said, I
don't know this guy is we had eight hours of
people out there doing stuff. He did this joke at
like ten o'clock in the morning. I spoke at seven
o'clock that night. I don't have any idea this guy is.

(06:13):
And the media is constantly like this guy taking a
shot at Puerto Rico at this Trump rally, and I thought,
how amazing all the media had some story about that.
I typed in Bernie Sanders into the news feed today,
which has a variety of different stories from different organizations

(06:35):
that have something to say about Bernie Sanders, and there
was the last one I saw, of like sixteen stories,
was from a Christian website that said Bernie Sanders facing
backlash for platforming a transgender identifying punk rock musician who
sang a pornographic song mocking God at his anti Trump

(06:59):
rally in Kenosha, Wasisconsin last Friday. And then I saw
another news story later this morning where that guy who
did the Puerto Rico joke at the Trump rally last
year is back in the news this morning on a
platform that didn't have anything to say about the Bernie
Sanders deal. They said, oh, he's got a show on

(07:19):
Netflix now, he's gotten more popular among the Maga crowds
since he trashed Puerto Rico. I still I don't know
who that guy is. I don't care. I don't care.
When you've got a United States Senator and a bunch
of people at some rally and this guy is up
there singing a three minute song. Just absolutely, I mean,

(07:42):
blaspheme alone. It's just disgusting. I even if the song
was about Trump or about I don't know Robert Guillome,
it doesn't. I mean, the fact that it's about God
is to me is a Christian even worse. But just
the phrasing and the depravity in the song, I mean,

(08:05):
I wouldn't expect that at a political rally featuring a
city United States senator. I might expect it if I'm
going to see two live crew, but I wouldn't expect
it at something like this. And for Bernie Sanders still,
it's been five days now and nothing about all this.
As there are a number of people like a guy

(08:28):
named Robbie Starbuck who's very popular on social media. He
posted the video of this and said this is who
the Democrats are now, pure evil. These people are insane,
and then Anne Colter also referenced the Puerto Rico thing
and said as long as there was no joke about
Puerto Rico. So this is as we look at the

(08:52):
various outrages this morning in the news and responses to them,
including some by me on some of these that maybe
aren't so serious, this is probably the only time all
day you will hear this unless Clay and Buck get
on it. And maybe they talked about it yesterday. I
didn't catch it.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, you have to understand that you already said, this
is a guy that hads a punk rock band. Punk
rock is out there simply to be as shocking as
you can possibly be. That's what punk rock is.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And if I bought a ticket to that show, that
is fully what I would expect, right the people who
go to hear some political message from a longtime United
States senator, I can't imagine that they were thinking they
were going to hear something like that and then what
to have no outrage.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, no, I'm not giving this this band, this guy
an excuse. I'm saying, this is what you should have expected.
So whoever hired him to perform should have expected this
and should not be shocked, and maybe they're not. Maybe
that's why they're not saying much about it. But if
you are going to if you're going to say that
that Trump is responsible for the comedian's comments, even though

(10:04):
we know he wasn't, then Bernie Sanders is responsible for
this singer's comments, even though we probably know he probably wasn't.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, I don't think Bernie Sanders had anything to do
with this. I don't know how you're backstage and don't
hear the constant, loud yelled refrain that is incredibly grotesque.
Then to come out and say, hey, thank you to
the singer for doing this song, and even if it
was brought to your attention later and you go, oh

(10:34):
my goodness, I had no idea, then say that you
know they brought it to Trump's attention later, said this
guy made a joke about Puerto Rico. Trump said, I
don't know this guy and didn't booked this guy. He
spoke several hours before me, and I don't agree with
what he said about Puerto Rico, you know, so, I mean,
and none of that was good enough.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, you also have to understand the people that were
in the audience that maybe didn't leave. It's unlikely that
they didn't kind of get it after a few lines
of this. But there is the possibility if they're in
a concert, and sometimes that can be distorted, and there
is the possibility that they did not really fully understand,

(11:12):
really grasp what was being said.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Right, And like I said, I do not offend easily.
I really struggled. There is a very famous Broadway production.
It's won several awards and has performed here, I think
for one run in Omaha, and it's called the Book
of Mormon, and it's done from the guys who do
the TV cartoon series South Park, which I think is

(11:40):
brilliantly funny. So they do this live action stage musical
called The Book of Mormon, and one of the first
rousing numbers in it is darkly, profanely satirical, and I
mean just the phrasing in that song ast God. It

(12:01):
was something that I was so disgusted by and I
really had to filter it through a different different levels
to say, all right, I don't like how it's being phrased,
but on some level I get it, because the point
is supposed to be there are these people live in
third world countries, and there have been a number of

(12:22):
people that show up and say we want to tell
you about Jesus. And they're like, that's great. We need
food and medicine and fresh water. If we could get
some of that, then I'd love to hear about your Jesus.
And this was what they were trying to go for,
and the way they did it was incredibly disgusting. But
I didn't get up and walk out of the show.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well maybe he should have.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Maybe I don't know, maybe I should, But.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Don't misunderstand me. I don't put the blame on this
song for anybody other than that singer, right, because he
knew what he was doing right, and probably he really
if he can say something like that, then he knows
who God is. He knows what God is, and he
knows he's God wants everybody to be sure.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, And I knew what I was getting myself into
going to see a show from the guys who do
South Park. Yeah, but you stay right and there and even.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I've done it right, And even.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
The show South Park, which I have loved over its wow,
twenty some years that it's been around here, probably about
twenty five years. I've loved that show longer than twenty
five years. Actually, I started in like nineteen ninety seven
or eighty. Anyway, you have that many seasons of a
show that tries to be in your face. And there

(13:45):
have been times I've been offended by stuff that's on there.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Sure, and you got to figure out where's your line,
and I mean sometimes that line will change and sometimes
it Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right, I've been I've been offended by things I've said
that I've heard to come out of my mouth like,
don't do that. So the reason I bring all this
up is the media is saying, well, I can't believe
that the guy who made the Puerto Rico joke what

(14:20):
five months ago at a Trump rally is back in
the news today because he has a deal with Netflix,
and no one's saying anything about the Bernie Sanders thing
from just a few days ago. Lauren Bobert is in
the news this morning and people are offended by something
she said. So we'll get to that here next. Scott
borhes where you're going in the Zonker's custom was inbox.

(14:40):
Katie emails and says, yes, thank you very much Katie
for reminding me of this, this horrible song that was
performed at a Bernie Sanders rally profanely mocking God and
Christianity in incredibly vulgar ways. Also had one other feature
that I noted when watching a moment of this video.

(15:03):
I watched a little bit of the video, like, all right,
so what exactly was this song? How bad was it?
And then I, who I don't offend easily, was like,
oh my goodness, this is so bad. And then I
wanted to see how long it was, so I skipped
ahead in the video and this person's still up there
yelling this profane stuff. And that's when I noticed something

(15:25):
else with the video, and Katie points it out. First
of all, she says, according to Fox, this guy, this
performer has performed for Bernie Sanders Rallies before. Yes, that's true.
I don't think that this performer did that song or
anything close to it, but has performed before. But then
Katie says, you should watch the video and the poor

(15:48):
sign language person trying to sign for this yes, on
the side of the stage. From the perspective of the video,
I saw you see the woman doing sign language, and
I'm looking at this woman doing this going she looks
like a really nice lady. I wonder if she knew

(16:10):
what she was getting herself. Into what was she thinking
while doing this? And of course then I had to
watch a little bit longer to say and how is
she going to sign this? Looks like she was spelling
most of it up. You really kept fling yes, just
to watch the sign language. Person one. So here's the

(16:31):
latest thing that we're offended by. Not the Bernie Sanders
rally with the disgusting anti Christian song. Apparently people are
very upset and want to censure another member of the
House of Representatives. Not just Congressman Al Green who stood
up there and yelled at the President during the speech
last Tuesday night until he was escorted out of the

(16:53):
House chamber. They also want to censure Lauren Bobert. Oh
what now, I'll censure her? Wait? Did I say that
out aloud? Still anyway, she who's now with a different
district in Colorado because she wasn't gonna get reelected in
her current district. She carpetbags over someplace else, and the
people of Colorado that district were like, yeah, she's still

(17:15):
hot no matter what district she's in. We like her.
She poses with guns, she's kind of fun. And so
she's back in the House of Representatives and the other day.
She said it was for him Al Green to go
and quote shake his pimp cane at President Trump was
absolutely abhorrent. She said, huh so people are like that

(17:39):
is racist. Well, as I noted, he didn't use the
cane to have to walk out of the House chamber.
He was escorted out by security, but they weren't, you know,
having him limp out of there. So we were questioning,
why does he have this cane. It doesn't appear that
he really needs it for walking or standing. He was

(18:02):
just shaking the cane at the president. And Lauren Bobert
in her assessment, it was a quote pimp cane unquote.
I don't know that Al Green is a pimp. A
lot of pimps, though, do have a cane for fashion
accessory purposes. I will also say this, if I were

(18:23):
a pimp, I would have a cane.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You mean like a rubber bandman. Like rubber band man
or call me down my walking cane?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Did the pimp and I'm going to get you, sucker.
Did he have a cane or I think he did.
You got to have a really nice fedora, and you've
got to have the high rise shoes with the aquarium
inside of them. He had the pimp from I'm Going
to Get You Suka had shoes that were such high

(18:51):
platform shoes that the bottom of them had goldfish, live
goldfish in his shoes. I think seeing that, and Al
Green was wearing the exact same thing, he wasn't thought
he was all right, so this, you know, So Lauren
Bobert's in the news today like, that's disgusting for her

(19:14):
to say that. But the guy who sang the story
about God and again, I can't even go back into it.
Not a big deal. No, that's fine. We're not gonna
censure Bernie Sanders or make him do any of this.
Everything is Trump's fault. And there are some people looking

(19:34):
at this and I I'm looking at it too. This
is an interesting one. And people are saying, see, we
told you if we gave him this kind of power
he would use it in ways like this. And some
people are looking at it, going good, good start. Some
people are looking at it going, hi, I don't, I
don't know. We'll take a look at it. After a

(19:56):
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Speaker 1 (20:03):
Or awaiting a House vote today on a continuing Resolution
bill to avert a government shutdown, and is is always
the case when you've got flip flopping political persuasions. The
people who were in favor of a government shutdown before
are not in favor of it now, and vice versa.

(20:24):
Liars and thieves as I called them last week. As
President Trump is up there going and I did this,
and I did that, and the last president said you
couldn't do this, and I did it. And then all
these members of Congress up there going yay, yay, or
sitting there going me, you know, and they're all a
bunch of cowards. They don't do anything. You guys want

(20:48):
to balance the budget. Nope, you guys want to have
you considered doing anything that Doge has done in the
fifty years you've been in Congress. Elon Musk steps in there.
He's in there for three weeks. I just saved you
guys billions of dollars. Thanks, Elon. A bunch of cowards. Well,

(21:12):
President Trump has done something here that does well. It
steps out. A little bit has to do with Columbia University.
First things. First, the fact that Colombia, in a statement
talks about the protests that erupted not just on their campus,

(21:34):
but Columbia in New York City was kind of the
epicenter of the pro Palestinian movement, which also could, I believe,
in many instances be accurately described as the anti Israeli movement.
You can also say that there are definitely some people
involved with that who are just downright anti Semitic. And

(21:57):
when we have the story here that says protests across
college campuses erupted in response to the Israel Hamas War,
in which thousands of Palestinians have been killed since it
began in twenty twenty three. That's a line from a
news story ignoring the twelve hundred plus Israelis who were

(22:20):
killed when Hamas attacked them for committing the crime of
going to a music festival or riding a bus, or
being kids at a school, or playing outside, or being Jewish.
They were murdered because they were Jewish. That is not
included here. Erupted in response to the Israel Hamas War,

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in which thousands of Palestinians have been killed since that
war began in twenty twenty three. Ignored October seventh, also
ignored that Hamas is in power because the Palestinians there
is no such thing as Palestinians, but what would be
Palestinians have put them in power. So these are some

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of the things that were going on across the country
college campuses, and Colombia was a really, really bad one.
There were Israeli students or people American students of the
Jewish faith who were fleeing campus, chased off of campus,
threatened off of campus. There were threats to kill Jewish

(23:25):
students because of what was happening on the other side
of the world. The ringleader of this Columbia University graduate
student named Makhmud Khalil was a UH one of those
who was heard on the campus of Columbia University speaking

(23:49):
out against US policies supporting Israel our ally in their
war against the people who attacked them. This guy is
a is a pro Hamas student. But there are a
couple of other things that play here. This guy is

(24:11):
a permanent resident with a green card, and here in
America with this status, does he not enjoy freedom of speech? Now,
however disgusting that freedom of speech is. We started off

(24:33):
this hour of the program talking about the incredibly disgusting,
vulgar freedom of speech of a performer at a Bernie
Sanders rally in Wisconsin the other night who was profanely
mocking God and Christians. And at no point in my
diatribe about that did I say and this person ought

(24:53):
to be locked up. It's not how it works. You
hear something like that and you decide whether you want
to be a part of it or go the other way.
This one's a little different. Yes, you're in the country

(25:13):
as a permanent residence with a green card. This person
is this individual married or have a girlfriend who is pregnant.
I don't know. I don't know that that makes a difference.
But you're in basically if you're on a green card.
It's conditional. But I don't know that any of those

(25:34):
conditions have to do at the First Amendment. Here's what happened.
President Trump announced that he's not only pulling four hundred
million dollars in funding from Columbia University, citing its failure
to rid the campus of anti Semitic attacks and threats
against Jewish students, but specifically, this former Columbia University grad student,

(25:59):
the ringly leader of the pro Hamas rallies on that campus,
was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, they said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said they'll be revoking his
green card, as well as any other held by Hamas sympathizers,
so they can be deported from our country. On social media,

(26:23):
President Trump issued a statement yesterday saying, following my previously
signed executive orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Machmud Khalil,
a radical foreign pro Hamas student on the campus of
Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come.

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We know there are more students at Columbia and other
universities across the country who have engaged in pro terrorist,
anti Semitic, and anti American activity, and the Trump administration
will not tolerate it. This is the first arrest of
many to come. We will find, apprehend and deport these

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terrorist sympathizers from our country, never to return again. If
you support terrorizing or terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women,
and children, your presence is contrary to our national and
foreign policy interest, and you are not welcome here. Knee

(27:26):
jerk reaction. I don't care about this guy. See good
luck to you and you have a wonderful time. More
thoughtful reaction. This is freedom of speech. And if you
are here, I don't know what the restrictions are if

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you have a green card. I don't know what restrictions
in his green I presume if he was a student,
he was probably here on some sort of student visa, right,
But it doesn't say student visa. He's no longer a student.
It says green card. It says he's a permanent resident

(28:12):
with a green card. Those I mean for President Trump
to direct immigration and Customs enforcement to get this guy
and boot him out of the country. It does give
some credibility to those anti Trumpers out there saying Trump

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is going to start rounding up his political opponents and
throwing them out if he's not otherwise in violation of
whatever the constraints of the green card are. I think
that they need to have much more on him other
than he was yelling into a megaphone on a college

(28:58):
campus and whipping up a bunch of unwashed college students
into a frenzy. Did he attack anyone? Did he supply
money and weapons to a terrorist organization? Because if you're saying, well, no,
he provides sympathy to an organization that is labeled by
the United States government as a terrorist organization hamas there

(29:20):
are members of Congress you could say that about. So
are we going to boot out ilhan Omar or Rashida
Talib Again, knee jerk reaction. Okay, take care of y'all,
but that's we can't do that. Columbia released a statement

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said there have been reports of ice in the streets
around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law.
We're committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting
our student body and campus community. Were also committed to
the legal rights of our students and urge all members
of the community to be respectful of those rights, which

(30:06):
you didn't do as Jewish students were fleeing for their
lives based on threats. If we can tie any specific
threats to this guy, all right, well, you don't get
to threaten people, You're gone. I guess I need a
little more information because right now I don't know. I

(30:33):
don't know that you can do this permanent resident with
a green card. Hmm, again, knee jerk reaction. I'm not
gonna lose any sleep over this guy. But this is
a this is an interesting one. I think I'd love

(30:54):
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Speaker 1 (31:03):
Just looking over the apprehension and a parent forthcoming deportation
of a permanent resident with a Green card who was
a student grad student at Columbia University and led the
efforts against Columbia. They wanted Columbia University to divest from

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all organizations that might have something to do with Israel
and the rest of this stuff. There are people who
had that same position at colleges across the country, including
protests we saw here at Creighton University and at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln. So is this I mean

(31:48):
Trump says this is the first arrest of many to come,
But a lot of the students who did all this
stuff are not people who are on green cards. Maybe
that makes him an easy one to boot. As a
permanent resident with a green card, you can be deported,
you can have your green card revoked for issues related

(32:08):
to terroristic activities. But asking your university to divest from Israel?
Is that a terroristic activity? Because again, we're going to
be kicking out a lot of people, including American citizens
for this, And is this not protected freedom of speech.

(32:31):
I guess I would have to know more about what
this particular guy has been accused of, because being this hairy,
unwashed idiot here amidst a bunch of protesters at Columbia
yelling through a megaphone and probably going to the bathroom
in a coffee can, so you can't be kicked out

(32:52):
of the quad. I don't know if that's a terroristic activity.
It could be the President Trump may know a few
more things about this than we do, because the media
is not going to tell us this stuff. The best
I can find is this guy admitting that even Columbia
University they had an office that was looking at him

(33:19):
with about a dozen allegations related to harassment and discrimination,
and he said, oh no, this is about some social
media posts that have nothing to do with me. Well
that's all. That's all the further than media has dug.
Now there's lots of stories about freedom of speech is
dead based on what Trump is doing. If he can

(33:39):
do this to this guy, he can do this to you.
You put a blue dot sign in your yard. Trump's like,
that's it, pal, you're out of here. I don't know
that we're gonna get the full picture from the media.
Talked over the last hour about a variety of things
that some people look at and say, I don't even
recognize my country anymore, and some of this has to
do with free speech. We started off with the lack

(34:02):
of any kind of response from Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders,
who had a rally in Wisconsin this past Friday and
thanked a performer who had just done about a three
minute tirade including very profane and vulgar references to God
and Christianity, and Bernie was like, thank you so much

(34:23):
for the song. You know, he got up there and
did his thing, and it was absolutely discussing. I said,
I don't offend easily, but this was horrible. I was
having a hard time finding a euphemistic way to phrase
what the song said. We talked about that there are
those who want to censure Lauren Bobert, member of Congress

(34:45):
from Colorado, because she referred to the Caine that the
congressman who was booted out of the President's speech to
Congress last week was a pimp. Caine, They're like, that's racist.
Pimps were like, why do all pimps have to be black? Uh? So,
I mean there we had talked to something about some

(35:07):
of that, and then the detention as a national security
threat from a college student. He was here in the
country as a permanent resident with a green card, and
he was one of those who led the protests at
Columbia University. And it you can argue what he had

(35:28):
to do with and for what reason. But based on
everything I've seen, this guy was you can say, like
he's supporting Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization, Well did is? Is?
He is? He like? Threatening? Is? Do we have anything
where he's threatening Jewish students? Because there were certainly some

(35:50):
people there threatening Jewish students. Was he one of them?
Because what he was doing was leading this protest saying well, no,
we don't we don't like Hamas, but we do support
a free Palestine in Israel, they're the occupiers and we
need to blah blah blah, Columbia needs to divest from
any thing where blah blah blah. I mean, he was

(36:10):
doing some of that. He's not the only one. College
students across the country we're doing that, including Creighton and UNL.
But this guy is here on a green card and
they say, all right, well, we're revoking him because he's
a radical foreign pro hamas student at Columbia University. Well,
now there's protests at Columbia. This guy isn't even a

(36:33):
student there anymore. And I just saw video of protesters
clashing with police officers at Columbia. This is an esteemed
university where right now there are people watching their TV
looking at this footage of what happened yesterday, saying I
thought about sending my high school graduate here this spring

(36:56):
in the fall, to Columbia University in New York City?
Is this what I'm going to be paying for? How
is anyone still going there? And speaking of which, I
get this email here from Stephanie says, as a parent,
I had to sit through college visits and we were

(37:19):
endlessly reminded that there needed to be safe spaces, everyone
needed to feel included. Pronouns were discussed and all this stuff.
But at campus is if a right wing Christian student
had shouted out a Bible verse at gay students, he
would have been out of there. But this was tolerated
against Jewish students. Encampments against LGBTQ students wouldn't have lasted

(37:44):
a day. But the encampments espousing a free Palestine or
supporting whatever happened against Israel, because well, they're the occupiers
and all the rest of this stuff. Free speech is
only for one kind of hate. That's from Stephanie. One
hundred percent agree. But it doesn't mean, well, they wouldn't

(38:05):
allow this free speech, so we're not gonna allow their
free speech. It's not pretty all the time, and I
don't know whether the Trump administration is able to do this.
They say you can revoke a green card if you're

(38:26):
involved in terrorism. I'm gonna need a bit more than
you know. This Chay Guavera type wanna bee standing up there,
all unwashed and sweaty on a college campus talking about
how the border regions of Columbia or whatever they have
their need to divest from Israel because that's all I

(38:47):
have seen that he's done. I also don't believe that
the media would tell me all the things he'd done,
so right now again, knee jerk reaction. This guy's a jerk,
and I would need him in the groin as Ice
took him out of the country. I don't care. I'm
not going to lose sleep, but we either have freedom

(39:09):
of speech or we don't. Freedom of speech is not
threatening Jewish students. If you have evidence he did that,
tell me. But as I mentioned, there are a number
of things going on in this country that people look
at and go, I don't even recognize this nation anymore.
Some of them serious points of discussion. We've talked about

(39:30):
some of this. Others others have to fatness.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
What you look at pictures of the United States back
in the seventies, just random crowd pictures, and you look
at us, and I put us in there. I'm saying us.
You're seeing we are larger.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
We don't recognize the country because we're fat. No well,
I suppose, no, Well, I was trying. I was going
to I suppose I'll start with this based on your
comment there, Wendy's Frosty is getting another makeover fatness, we llep.
I decided to go that route since you said, yelled fatness,

(40:12):
they're doing another Wendy's Frosty makeover. The last one is
one of my favorite moments in the history of this program.
That's when we had Bernie Chambers, not Ernie, but Bernie
Chambers on the program. When Wendy's announced almost twenty years ago,
that they were going to do with Vanilla Frosty and
Bernie Chambers, who sounded a lot like Nebraska State Senator.

(40:33):
Bernie Chambers came on here and said, I don't want
the honky Frosty, I want the chocolate Frosty. And that
was the first of several appearances by Bernie Chambers on
the program Classic. Yeah, that was good. Bernie later would
come on here and he was always at the corner
of black and proud. That's where you found him. My
favorite thing that Bernie Chambers ever did on the program

(40:56):
was he said why because we talked to him about
being at the intersection of black and proud, and we said,
are you ever going to leave the intersection? He goes,
I can't cross. Why not because the symbol that tells
you to cross is a white person. You got the
black background of the led screen and like, if it's

(41:18):
time to stop, it's a big red hand. When it's
time to go, it's a white person looking like it's walking.
He said, I'm not going to cross until it's a
black person. And I said, well, but if if it
was a black person, you wouldn't see it against the
black background. And Bernie said exactly.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
How do I not recall that was I out that day?
Was I sick that day? Was I ignoring you that day?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Because you were you never listened to this program, so
Bernie Chamber, that was those are the days? But now
he was first on here a reply to Wendy's doing
the honky of Frosty, I don't want the honky Frosty. Well,
now they've got Wendy's saying that they're going to do

(42:06):
and Bernie's not gonna like this chocolate and vanilla swirls,
the frosty swirls. You can also do mix ins with
frosty fusions. All of this sounds delicious.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
It doesn't sound delicious, but they say it's.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Also we're gonna have a new cup of new lid
and a blue spoon. You're not going to get the
beige Wendy's spoon. So for me, I probably just continue
to do the chocolate sausty.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
It's a democratic spoon.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yes it's a it's a blue spoon. Yeah, Jim Pillin's
not gonna like that, So we can now do You
can do a chocolate, you can do the honky frosty,
or you can do the frosty swirl uh combination. And
some people are like, I don't even recognize this country anymore.

(42:56):
Another business, though, has made a big decision and this
is one that I'm sure a lot of us are like,
but oh no, really, I'll tell you who did what next.
Scott Voice, Scott at kfab dot com. Zonker's custom was inbox.
Matt remembers Bernie Chambers, a former frequent guest on the program.

(43:20):
Matt says, my favorite Bernie Chambers moment was when Bernie
said black ice was racist and referred to snow as
cracker dust. I remember the black ice comment. I don't
remember snow being cracker dust. And some people, I'm sure
they'll email and go, yeah, I remember that character Bernie

(43:40):
Chambers on your show. Whatever happened to him was? I've
said every Bernie Chambers bit on this program was more
and more ridiculous, to make Ernie Chambers more and more
of a cartoon. And then Ernie Chambers sued God, and
I came on the radio and said he won. He

(44:04):
was much more ridiculous than we could have ever made
him out to be. He wins, and we retired the character. Also,
I was running out of ideas now, on the guy
with the the green card Columbia University grad student who
was right there front and center all those student protests.

(44:27):
Maybe this one I got some people saying, yeah, yeah,
but he was trespassing on that college campus. They were told,
they told all those students, you all need to go,
and he didn't go. So what about trespassing. Well, I
don't know if trespassing is one of the things that

(44:50):
you can boot someone out of the country for. Green
card holders can be deported if they commit crimes, and
this says fraud, theft, violence, drug offense, firearms offenses, trespassing,
I don't violate immigration status, Like if you leave the

(45:11):
country for too long, national security risk, Well that's it,
that's it all right. Well, then there are a lot
of students at Columbia and other places that all need
to be jailed or whatever as posing a national security risk. Yeah,
but those students weren't on green cards. Like I said,
I don't I'm not going to lose any sleep over

(45:32):
this guy, but it is interesting. I don't like giving
the anti Trump crowd ammunition. Lord knows, they don't really
need it. There was a story here, and don't worry,
I haven't forgotten about this business doing something that some
people are like, but wait, what is the I'm working
my way back there. There was a protest across the

(45:57):
country this past Saturday on International Women's Day, including right
here in Omaha, and KMTV went and talked to a
couple of these young women, and one of them said
that she was compelled to be a part of this
protest because, quote, the thing that's driving me is I
don't want to see people oppressed like we are. We're

(46:20):
supposed to be the land of the free, and I
don't see that anywhere I look, said this young woman
standing up and protesting against your government on the streets
of this country. We're supposed to be the land of
the free, and I don't see that anywhere I look. Now,

(46:43):
I would like statements like that to be met with
a spotlight of truth, to say, young lady, you're an idiot.
How in the world can you say that we're oppressed
in the country. You just stood up and spoke out

(47:04):
against our ola, gar our king, our dictator, whether that's
Elon or Trump or whoever it is that they're mad
at this week, and no one came after you. No one,
because this isn't Russia, this isn't Saudi Arabia. This is America.
We are the land of the free. And you can

(47:24):
stand out there and you can have your protest and
people like me can look at it and go, oh, well,
here am moron. Here's another young woman that says, well,
as a white woman, I have the privilege that other
people don't have, and I recognize that, and I'm using
my voice as what I can do to make a difference.

(47:46):
This is These are the individuals I don't want to
give any credibility to because they think Trump is just
out there just rounding people up he doesn't like and
deporting them. And when you got a guy who was
telling Columbia University to divest from Israel because he feels

(48:07):
that they're occupiers. But I don't have anything tying him
to specific threats or even support for Hamas. It's got
to be a little more specific than what I'm seeing here.
Then I think it gives these morons some some measure credibility.

(48:28):
I'd rather they didn't have or felt like they had
anyway talking about some of this this morning, but maybe
this is the most important thing happening in our nation today,
when I say, Lucy, when I say bags fly free,

(48:48):
who do you think of?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
You said bags fly free?

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Bags fly free?

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I'm going to say, really not very happy? Be good people.
Huh bags? You said bags? Yeah, you like dirt bags, dbs.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Not talking about those bags, bags, luggage, luggage. All right,
there's one airline that has been promoting for a long time,
bags fly free.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
I like my version better, but okay, that.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Would be Lucy doesn't like to fly. Fatness South Fatness
flies free. Fatness flies sometimes sometimes fatness has to buy
two seats. But bags fly free is coming to an end,
as Southwest Airlines just announced, and what CNBC reports is

(49:46):
a stunning reversal that bags will no longer fly free.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
The can we not bring bags anymore?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
You can bring them, you can't pay for them?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Will this cost you?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
They and people are like, why are they doing this? Well,
because they're losing money, that's what they say. Under pressure
to boost revenue, Southwest Airlines will now start chat charging
passengers for check bags.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
All of them. Don't you get one for free? Here's
what they say, This is why I don't fly.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Here's what they say. Most passengers who purchase a ticket
on or after May twenty eighth will need to pay
to check bags. The exceptions are for passengers who pay
the most premium fare. I guess that's what first class special. Yeah.
Southwest credit card holders will get one free check bag.

(50:45):
So if you got the does anyone really sign up
for that? Are you that bored? Like? Do you want
to sign up for a credit card? Oh? Tell me more?
I don't guess.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
It depends on what you Yeah, I get.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I mean the gifts are some people play the credit
card game. I don't. They're always like transferring balances. I'm
getting points and I don't pay for anything. They say,
Southwest cutit. Card holders will get one free check bag.
Frequent flyers with a List status will also get one
free checked bag, and frequent flyers with a List Preferred

(51:16):
status will get two free check bags.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Oh wait a minute, how many bags do you get
if you paid premium price for your seat? Just one?

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
So you just have to be a super nice person
to get to I don't know.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
You gotta pay the you gotta be a list preferred status.
They say that we've come to realize we need more
revenue to cover our costs, which is I mean they're
now right in line with what every other carrier. Some
carriers you're like, wow, this is a really cheap flight

(51:55):
from here to Orlando, and then you realize, like, you're
not gonna have any bags and don't have anything in
your pockets. Basically, this is this is super discount. You're
flying on the wing of the plane. This is very
very You're gonna be fine for put on this diving helmet. So,

(52:17):
I mean a lot of I always liked Southwest as
someone who sometimes when I travel, I have golf clubs
with me and that counts. That's a checked bag. Other
carries would charge you over one hundred dollars for that.
Southwest is like, give us your clubs here you go, thanks,
And that was that was a nice perk. But why

(52:38):
would I.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Just rent them when you get there at that cost?

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Because I want my own clubs.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
That's dumb.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Well, rental costs can be more than that. I know.
There's lots of different ways that you can do it.
You can rent the clubs there. If you're playing a
lot of different golf courses, it's cheaper to bring your
own clubs. You can use one of the places that
will you can mail your clubs to the clubhouse and
they'll be there for you when you get there. You
can drive. I mean there's all sorts of but whatever.

(53:09):
So Southwest says no more bags fly free, and that
was two bags fly free. Now it's apparently checked bags.
Now you can still I'm guessing your carry on. You
still get a free carry on, and then you get
a personal item that go under the seat. Those are
still free, as I understand it. But if you check

(53:31):
something and your golf clubs are and your skis are
not going to fit in the overhead compartment, those no
longer fly free, and people are outraged, hence the phrase
I don't even recognize my country anymore. Lucy, what year
is it?

Speaker 2 (53:49):
What? Right now?

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Twenty five it is.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Oh, it's the year twenty five, twenty five.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
I just like the song, just like the song Thanks
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
I thought it was nineteen fifty five. We're arguing over
whether or not there should be fluoride in the water.
This is one of the weirdest I don't know if
this is what gave us the fairness doctrine, which is
often argued and applied incorrectly as it relates to media.

(54:21):
Just because someone comes on media and says I like Trump,
and like, well, I need equal time to say I
don't like him. You know, that's not how the fairness
doctrine works. But one of the really odd examples was
there was a kid on some like public access television
show back when they used to do that kind of thing,

(54:43):
and the kid was talking to you know, just babbling
kid stuff, and he said I like to brush my
teeth every day with fluoride. And there was some anti
fluoride group that came out, like, we demand equal time,
and so they had to have these people on this
kid's TV show, which wasn't even devoted to fluoride, to

(55:04):
have them say for a second, no, no, fluoride might
not be as good and it could be health issues.
All right, thanks a lot for stopping by. It was
just kind of I mean, this is stuff that we
argue about years ago. Our FK. Junior described here as
a known skeptic on the topic of water fluoridation, and

(55:27):
this is why perhaps the state of Utah is now
going to be the first state to ban the addition
of fluoride in public water systems, saying I guess I
don't care too much about it. Governor Spencer Cox of
Utah said he'll sign the bill that bans the addition

(55:51):
of fluoride in public water systems. This will be the
first state to ban the mineral fluoride, which health organizations
stay say strengthens teeth, prevents tooth decay in community water.
So what if you want fluoride you have to do?

(56:14):
You have a group to come out there and add
fluoridation to your water in your home.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
All of your toothpaste has fluorides. Oh you can, yeah,
brush your teeth. Hey, there's a concept brush your teeth.
But if this is what I know, all right, it's new.
If this is all based on the government making sure
that our teeth look great and that they're healthy and strong,
then we first of all, we shouldn't have any teeth

(56:38):
that are bad right in this country any place, because
there's fluoride in every bit of water. So we should
all have wonderful teeth.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
I don't I can. I'm the last person's going to
sit here one side or the other and say yes
or no. I will say that every individual is unique,
and you'll have some people for whom fluoride might help
them a little bit more than others who might have
family history, or they go to bed every night with
a mouth fullpop skittles in their mouth. Okay, only brush

(57:07):
once a week, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Okay, then if you cannot accept that argument, how about this.
We know that vitamin C is great for us, right,
Vitamin C is perfect. It's a great thing for all
of us.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
You don't think so.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
I do think so.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I thought we were getting a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
No, But if it's such a great thing and it's
going to help, going to help so many aspects of
our health life, why isn't that in the water?

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory?

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Oh I haven't heard that in a while. That brand new.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
You haven't heard that at all. That's it. Just I
get you saying that reminded me, like, oh yeah, I thought.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
You played something like it before.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Anyway, I like that, that's a new one.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I don't know that it's a conspiracy theory so much
as it's just dumb. It's just dumb to have florid
in the water, I think is dumb. He don't need it.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Who can argue with such robust debate as that?

Speaker 2 (58:06):
What is the real reason? I know you can't answer
that one.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
No, because because RFKG I presume it's because RFK Junior
is among those who say fluoride in the drinking water
is tied to a range of health problems, including cognitive issues.
Now I drink a lot of water, and our water
around here is fluoridated, right, and RFK Junior says that

(58:30):
fluoride is tied to a range of health problems, including
cognitive issues. Also, just as recently as November, RFK Junior
tweeted that fluoride is tied to a range of health problems,
including cognitive issues.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Think how much smarter you'd be?

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Who said that?

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (58:50):
So, I don't know there, I just saw a story here.
I think it was KMTV three. This did a story
about some students at the medicine are doing this big
protest to say, you know, we got to stand up
for science and science is real and we love science
and you know, so all this stuff. But yet as

(59:11):
soon as RFK Junior says we have concerns about certain
vaccines or fluoride in the drinking water, people are like,
not that science, not anything that that crazy person might say.
I don't know, I don't mind though, if we take
a fresh look on things that maybe haven't been studied
much in the last five to seven decades, things like

(59:34):
fluoride in the water, or there is also a new
study that's going to be done here by CDC about
some vaccine links that they think that some people think
might have a link to autism. Are there? And look,
I don't think it's crazy town to come out and say,

(59:56):
are there some people, just like we saw with COVID.
All saw this with COVID. There were some people who
got COVID. We thought, well, they're dead, and they shook
it off like it was no big deal. And then
there were other people who were otherwise young and healthy
and they got COVID and they either died or they
still have long term effects from COVID. Everyone is unique.

(01:00:21):
Like I said a moment ago, and talking to Lucy
about cavities and so forth, You'll have some people that
sit there and they just chew on nothing but sugar
all day and their teeth are great. You got other
people that get within half a mile of Hershey, Pennsylvania,
and all their teeth fallout. Floridated water or not.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
So it seems like floridated water really isn't doing much.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
No I'm not saying that. I am saying that you
have individual people who have certain links. There were, like
going back to COVID, there were some issues related to
some like mental issues that had more of a link
to COVID than when they first thought like, oh, if

(01:01:07):
you have any any like breathing problems, you get COVID,
you're as good as dead. Well that didn't end up
being true. It ended up being some other stuff. So
is it possible that there are some people who might
have a predisposition to certain vaccines providing a link to
autism in a child? Is it worth it to look

(01:01:29):
at this without being like, oh, conspiracy theories, you're gonna
keep people from getting vaccines for their kids and we're
all gonna die of the mumps. You know, Is it
worth it to look at some of this stuff or
are we just gonna say no, we believe in science,
and the science on this is clear, like are there
two genders? Well, not that science. We don't believe in

(01:01:52):
that science. So we've got the CDC launching a study
to look for any potential link to autism between some
or from some vaccines, and the Governor of Utah signing
a bill passed by the legislature to ban the addition
of fluoride to public water. Well, if you like, if
you say I want my fluoride, then brush your teeth

(01:02:14):
with fluoride. You got fluoride in the toothpaste. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I don't get a fluoride rinse. If that's what the
fluoride is there for in your water, it's for your teeth,
then guests just get a fluoride rinse and you're getting
just your teeth.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
The person who sponsored the legislation said people should be
able to get fluoride on their own if they choose
to do so. Quote, I don't dispute that there can
be positive benefits from fluoride, which is why the bill
also includes a deregulation of the prescription. This isn't anti
fluoride legislation. It's pro informed consent and individual choice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Unquote, Oh, tell them to do chemtrails next.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
I would not warmed. Yeah, it would not be surprised
informed people out there going I don't want that mind
altering fluoride in my water.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
I do not consent.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
I like this one. We're adding it, we're adding it
to the buttons.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Scott Bodies where you're going news radio elevenfab stock market
people are kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
It's some of these guys make it seem like, oh,
one little thing was a half of a quarter of
an eighth of a percentage off. It's it's all crashing now,
like it's sell everything there. It is. If you have

(01:03:45):
any money tied up in the stock market, it will
find you where you sleep, kill your dead. This is
absolutely terrible. And then the next day they're like, what
a tremendous buying opportunity. And I don't know, I seem
to be one of these people that if you have
if you have stocks in the market four oh one

(01:04:06):
k individual stocks, investment plans, that kind of thing. And
there are people who seem to be the ones responsible
for saying and doing the things that makes the stock
market go up. And they know historically if we say
and do these things, the stock market will go up.

(01:04:26):
Why don't they just say and do those things? Like
it's their money too, right, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
You could just control it with your thoughts if you
said the thoughts. No, it's just we got these we
have to say the thoughts.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Certain people that whether they're like at the Federal Reserve
or the President or various world leaders or congress or
business types. It seems like when I say or do this,
the markets like it. Let's just do that. I mean,
it's kind of a dumb guy way of looking at it,
But I'm kind of a dumb guy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Now, can you save that?

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
No, I can't save that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
I should have the ability to save things too.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Yeah, I'll get your own button bars.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
I got I got this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
I'm hungry and this old one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Have heard that me? I know, it's not we haven't
heard that in a while. Some commercial I liked WU
so the stock market, it says here Wall Street started
the new trading week in a foul mood on Monday.
There Wall Street is not an entity that can be

(01:05:40):
in a mood. I can be in a fact, I
started the week in a foul mood last week.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
And on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Yeah, I know, well yesterday I should say I I'm
not in a foul mood today. I'm I'm working. I'm
trying to work my way out of my foul mood.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
It's working.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
It's uh, it comes and goes. But when it says
like you know, the Dow tumbles about five hundred points,
and the S and P is down more than two percent. Yeah,
if the Dow suddenly goes down five hundred points, and now, jeez,
since I started talking about this, in the last couple
of minutes, it's gone down an extra one hundred and

(01:06:21):
forty points or so. Currently down three hundred and forty
points the Dow, but that's less than one percent. The
Nasdaq's actually up about a third of a percent plus
fifty four points. S and P is essentially flat.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
You know, here's the thing. I don't follow it, and
so maybe this is perfectly normal to be down less
than yah mean.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Yes, I mean it's it's what's amazing is not that
this is happening. It's the reporting of some of these
economic conditions. There were several days during the Obama and
Biden administrations where the stock markets plunged, and then what happened.
It rebounded Because there are some who play the stock

(01:07:11):
markets and say, oh, so the Dow is going to
be down a thousand points in one day. This is
going to present some buying opportunities, and over the next
few days it actually claws its way back. And generally
we have continued gains, not all the time. And I'm
not suggesting if you buy this today, will you can

(01:07:33):
retire on Thursday. It's all going to be great. I'm
not that guy, but I do know the media and now,
anytime the stock market does so much as sneeze or
have a slight correction, it's going to be a referendum
on Trump's policies. Wall Street doesn't like Trump doing this,
doesn't like the tariffs, doesn't doing that, concerned about issues

(01:07:53):
with China. It was amazing they're even talking about a
recession now tied to Trump, even though we were in
a recession during the Biden administration and they never called
it a recession.