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Dissent vs. Disloyalty Over Iran, Dr. Peter Morici Breaks Down Rising Oil Prices & Why Karoline Leavitt Is Calling out ABC News
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Conservative Political Commentator
Here welcome to the no Spin News from Washington D.C. monday, March 16, 2026. Stand up for your country. We are here all week. Lots of stuff going on. Going to the White House tomorrow for the St. Patrick's Day. I guess it's a celebration. I've never been. Usually the Irish, you know, they see me, they go, I don't know if it's worth it. It's not. It's not worth it. But we'll be there. We'll report on what happens on Wednesday and we're doing a lot of political stuff here with Iran as it comes in. We will report it to you. The problem with Washington D.C. is that the C stands for chaos. So you will not believe. And we had a lot of stuff booked. It all collapses because there's a monsoon. If it rains or it's windy in Washington, nobody comes outside. It's, you know, on and on and on. But we're here, we'll get it all done and hopefully it will be worthy. Now the talking points memo is an important one tonight. Dissent versus disloyalty. Okay, so we're seeing this with Iran, and my job is to report what's happening to you accurately, without any shade or spin. The no spin zone. You know that I've been making my living doing this for 30 years. National News analysis. I do not deceive. I support the Iranian action. But there are some gaps in what happened and I don't know yet. I will find out. But at this point, Iran is an evil country that has killed thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world through its funding of terrorism and gunning down its own citizens going on for almost 40 years now. And they simply won't stop developing the nuclear weapon, according to the United Nations. Okay, so I'm president, I got to evaluate all of that. Now let's get into disloyalty versus dissent. If you oppose the Iran action, you're a loyal American. That's dissent. You are absolutely within your rights to do that. But remember, it's got to be fact based. It can't be. I hate Trump, so I hate everything he does that's disloyal. He's the president. 77 million Americans voted for him. But saying maybe this isn't worth it because I have to pay a lot more money for gasoline and utilities and food. Okay, it's a valid point of discussion. Then there is satire. Yeah, satire is okay, and it's not disloyal. And it depends on who's delivering it, of course, because people like Stephen Colbert and I'll play you a soundbite in a moment. He hates Trump. So whatever Trump does, he's going to mock it. Whatever the Democrats and liberals do, he's going to ignore it. Roll the tape. This military mission has been dubbed Operation Epic Fury. Fun fact. No fun fact. Epic Fury is an anagram for Forget Epstein. Now right off the top, can we check that? Can we check, make sure that's the case? Fact check that. All right, so Colbert's gone come May 21st. See ya. Not gonna miss you. Okay, what about disloyalty? Then it gets into another zone. Okay, and here is a perfect example. Go.
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I don't think you should have illegally killed the leader, a foreign leader of a nation who's also, by the way,
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Conservative Political Commentator
a spiritual leader to millions of Shia
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Muslims around the world. He wasn't my spiritual leader, but he's a spiritual leader to many people. I know, and that's a reality.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Okay? So now the ayatollahs, murderers, killers, they're spiritual leaders. And he. Oh, don't.
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Economist Guest
You can.
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Conservative Political Commentator
No, no, it's you, Mike. I mean, come on. You know, Jim Jones was a spiritual leader. Remember him in South America poisoning all of his followers. Yeah, but, you know, no, no, you can't. Now, he's just loyal, that guy, in my opinion, my humble opinion, not a loyal American, doesn't like this country, doesn't look out for his country. Why people book him is just astounding. I had this conversation with Chris Cuomo because he was on a show that I was on, I don't know, about a year ago on News Nation. I said, I'm not going to appear with the guy anymore. He hates America. Why do I want to appear with somebody like that? And I won't. Oh, no, no. He's just a. No hates America again, in my opinion. Okay? Now NewsBusters, a conservative group that tracks the media, says that 94% of all the Iranian war related jokes poked fun at the United States. Not Iran or Spain or. No, it was all about us, okay? And it. And it's true. It's like Trump's an idiot. Trump's there, you heard the Colbert crowd, and they know nothing. Those people don't know anything. I mean, they're sitting there and they like the far left point of view. So that's why they're in the Ed Sullivan Theater. Okay, But I don't know anything. So 94%, that's a lot. And some of it is okay, as I mentioned, you know, go up to the line, but some of it is pandering to an audience. So Saturday Night Live is a very good example of this. Very rarely did it ever make fun of Joe Biden. And if there was ever a man you could make fun of, but they were really interested in mocking him once in a while, but not then. But every blanking week, they're on Trump. Go, guys. Me, Donald Trump, you might remember me from such campaign promises as lower gas prices and no more wars. Psych. We love to make promises, because a promise is just a lie that hasn't happened yet, but now it has. And gas costs like a million billion dollars a gallon. And as for the stock market, let me put it in a way that the Harry Styles fans in the crowd tonight will understand. You guys are gonna love this one. The stock market is going in one direction down. Okay, look. But it's the same every week. Pound them, pound them, pound them, pound them. And that seeps into the culture. So you got the news, corporate news, television industry, and the major urban newspapers. Trump's an idiot. Trump's this, Trump's that. And then you go over the entertainment industry. Trump's an idiot. Trump. These people who don't know anything, they absorb that it's unprotected under their constitution. They're not traitors like the other guy. Okay, they're not that, but they're not certainly not fair people, and they're certainly not looking out for you. Make fun of everybody. I mean, if you have trouble, call me. I'll write you some stuff. Snl. Final thing I want to show you is there is a deep culture, a liberal culture, and you know that in Hollywood. So the Academy Awards for last night. Conan o', Brien, the host, he's a good guy. I know him for a long time. He's not a crazy guy. But Conan has to virtue signal. What I mean by that is he has to tell Hollywood how noble Hollywood is if he wants to continue to work. Roll the tape. Every film we salute is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages, working hard to make something of beauty. We pay tribute tonight not just to film, but to the ideals of global artistry, collaboration, patience, resilience, and that rarest
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Conservative Political Commentator
Okay, so this is the inclusive stuff. Now, most good people believe in inclusion. You don't want to exclude somebody because of the coverage of their skin or their religion, and that's terrible. So we want to have diversity of opinion and a diversity of artistry. We don't want it forced. Conan, you went to Harvard. I went to Harvard. And we know what happened to that university. It wasn't how skilled you were as a high school student that granted you admission. It was what you looked like. Okay. And what your zip code was not anything other than that. It was. They were selective and forcing inclusion. And by that, they excluded people who should have been admitted to Harvard. Hollywood does that all day long. Let's face it. The US economy is under stress, national debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax Advantage Gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401. Tax and penalty free with billions in precious metals delivered thousands of five star reviews and an A from the Better Business Bureau. You can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998899. Again, that's 866-326-5576, or text BILL to 998-8999.
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They do that and Kona likes it. Okay, as long as it's not forced. And in Hollywood it is forced. So you can see this tremendous liberal wave coming at the country even in a situation as important and complicated as Iran. And I don't believe most people understand what's going on there. And it's my job to try to clear that up a little bit. And that's the memo. Okay, so oil is about $100 a barrel up from, what was it, $50 a barrel or something recently? I mean, it's getting pounded. So we all pay more. Yeah. Now I filled up over the weekend and I didn't like it. It's 50 cents a gallon more in my town than it was three weeks ago. But I wasn't whining about it. I understand it that you're going to disrupt the world oil markets, then you're going to have higher prices. What I don't understand is. I'll get to in a moment why we have so much oil in the usa. Why are our prices going up? We're not importing oil. Why are we, why are we getting hosed? We're going to deal with that now. Late today, President Trump issued this statement. This is all right, quote, this war was started by Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden. We've been fighting it for 47 years. I'm putting an end to it because I am the peace President, says Mr. Trump, this week I will be creating the Hormuz Peace Board where our so called coward NATO allies are not welcome. Many real allies have already expressed desire to join this once in a lifetime opportunity. Secure the Hormuz for peace. Thank you for your attention. All right, so Donald Trump's not backing away from anything. NATO doesn't like him. Okay, we all know that. But NATO isn't cooperating with the Iranian action, by and large. They're not. And that's kind of spooky because, boy, oh, boy, those people know. Every European country knows what forced migration has done to it and how dangerous Iran really is. They're not that. That far away. Okay, let's get into why we the people are involved with this in our wallets. Dr. Peter Morici is a economist and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, and he joins us now from Alexandria, Virginia, just a few miles from where I am. You know, I'd love to have you in a studio, but we don't have a studio in another chair here in D.C. only one chair.
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Economist Guest
It sounds like the first place I taught this little Lutheran college in Minneapolis, we couldn't afford chalk.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Right. I had to put you on a bird because it's not a chair. We can't get in a chair. And there's only one camera. It's just like, boom. All right, so look, doctor, we have plenty of oil in the United States, and they're releasing the reserves and they're doing everything. Why am I paying $50.50 more a gallon? Why?
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Economist Guest
Well, because we can export the oil, for one thing, and we also import refined products. We don't refine all the gasoline we need, so we're importing refined products which are made out of more expensive oil. But the US Price goes up and down with the Brent crude price. The Texas intermediate price goes up and down with Brent crude, and they've both gone up by about 50%.
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Conservative Political Commentator
But I don't understand that. So usually it's supply and demand, and the supply.
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Economist Guest
Well, that's what's going on.
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Conservative Political Commentator
And I get your point, that we need some ingredients that we have to bring in here, but that's not the big thing. The big thing is the world price of oil, which is now over $100. Okay, but we in the United States, we don't have to buy that oil. So why aren't we?
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Economist Guest
Well, we don't pump exactly the right kind of oil for our refineries. So what we tend to do is export some of it and import some refined product. The other thing you have to consider is anybody who's got oil to sell, they can sell it abroad. For a lot more money than they can here. And so that lifts the price.
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Conservative Political Commentator
But I think it's the US Companies that are doing this. They're lifting the price, and they don't have to lift the price. It's almost like a cabal. It's almost like a monopoly. Because all the same, Sinclair or Mobil or Exxon, they all do the same thing.
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Economist Guest
Well, they are making money, but they had to do. They tend to do the same thing under all circumstances because they were responding to market prices. I mean, two farmers that have beef cattle of the same quality, they sell at the same price because the market and supply and demand dictated or require it. You can't expect one farmer to sell cheaper than another.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Don't you think there's a collusion among American oil companies to get these prices up as high as they can get them?
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Economist Guest
I hate to tell you this, but you're starting to sound like Elizabeth Warren or AOC talking about the banks. I don't think they're conspiring at all. Now. They see what each other does, and that's a problem. But that's a problem in a lot of markets. But I don't think, you know, I don't buy this notion that America is a conglomeration of monopolists like the, you know, the grocery stores are conspiring and the oil companies are conspiring.
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Conservative Political Commentator
No, I'm not a conspiracy guy either, but I don't know any other product that has the same price in four gas stations. I don't know any. And when the President says, we're going to release all of these oil, all this oil from our reserves and the price doesn't go down, well, it takes
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Economist Guest
time to pump it out. Joe Biden, pumped out about the same amount of oil as Donald Trump, is now authorized. As the oil in the salt domes go down, there's less pressure and it comes out more slowly. And then you have to disperse it into the marketplace. These things do not happen instantaneously. This is not like tv where you, you and I can make TV and people can see it almost the same time. With oil, it takes time to do
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Conservative Political Commentator
this stuff, but it doesn't really help. So the President announces, oh, we're going to do all the oil release and it doesn't bring the prices down, so why bother doing it?
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Economist Guest
I'm a little skeptical of it myself. I don't think things should be bad enough that we need to release that oil because we do produce a lot of oil. The impact on the, you know, price of Gasoline is going up anyway. And the impact on the economy is not going to be as terrible as some people fear. Because while consumers are paying more for gasoline, they're not paying it to Saudi Arabia this time like the way they were in the 70s. They're paying it to Exxon. So Exxon's dividends will go up.
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Conservative Political Commentator
You know, they'll have more cash flows. Canada, the American companies, it's not going overseas, but it's still painful for the American worker who's operating at a very thin margin. And all of a sudden the oil and utility costs are double what they were. Now here's the question. President Trump had to know that would happen when he initiated the Iranian campaign, right?
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Economist Guest
I don't know. I mean, after all, he had advisors. Hold on a second.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Hold on, hold on.
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Economist Guest
You know, this administration didn't spend its draft choices, its top draft choices on economists. I mean, these are the same guys who told Besent and the president that tariffs would not raise prices. And tariffs have in some measure raised prices. Foreign producers haven't eaten the tariffs. They've mostly been eaten by American companies and American consumers. So it's not inconceivable to me that they deceived themselves at the White House and that he wasn't getting good information. But even if he was, so he knew we have to do something about Iran. And they are very close to having weapon grade nuclear material. The time has come that they never stopped. The Wall Street Journal, a very interesting article this morning. They never stopped trying to make a nuclear weapon, even during the period the treaty was enforced. Don't let the liberals tell you that Donald Trump disrupted that and that now they're the reason, you know, he's the reason they restarted their program. It was going on all along.
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Conservative Political Commentator
No,
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Economist Guest
I put these killers. The time has come to put these killers out of business.
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Conservative Political Commentator
I see it the way you see it as far as Iran being a danger to the world.
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Conservative Political Commentator
that they were cheating and that our strike last June knocked out most of their nuclear capacity, but not all of it. And I do believe that they actually told the United States we're not going to stop because I know that to be true in their last meeting in Geneva. But here's what I don't know. And this is why I can't go in with 100% certainty. The word imminent. And that's what the left is seized upon. What do you mean imminent?
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Economist Guest
That's a poor choice of words. That was a poor choice of words.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Yeah, because we don't have access to US Intel. We don't know what the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli Intel Service knows. And I think the President has got to be a little more specific in defining what they call the clear and present danger. Would I be wrong?
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Economist Guest
Well, we do know, but now we're looking at the notion of sending in the special services and whatnot in strativists. The former commander in chief of NATO and of the Southern Command, it says that about 10% of the Iranian they have. In a column he wrote yesterday or today is very close, very, very close to being weapons grade. So that could be uplifted. I mean, they need to be more specific to give us more information.
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Conservative Political Commentator
If he doesn't source it, then it's just his opinion. See, I.
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Economist Guest
No, no, but he's been pretty good. He's been pretty, he's been pretty good on the fact checking.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Okay. Then you get, you don't see him
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Economist Guest
having to walk backwards very often.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Okay. But doctor, then you get into. If that's true and this guy has a pipeline in and he should, absolutely should.
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Economist Guest
If anybody does on the outside, it'd be somebody like that.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Why are the NATO countries turning their back on the USA and giving us a hard time?
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Economist Guest
Well, I think it's because the NATO nations really just don't have spine and backbone anymore. You know, they really, honestly, they're vegetarians in a, in a world of carnivores.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Well, there's no doubt that the, the continent, they want to wish the problems away.
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Economist Guest
They don't, they don't want to deal with this I mean, let's put it this way. They tell us we're the essential country in the Ukraine. Not to bury the story, right. But if somebody's going to put, if we're going to finally deal with Russia, it's going to take some boots on the ground there because they're just not enough Ukrainians. When, when the president of France suggested that to the previous premier of Germany, he went apoplexic. I mean, they just don't want to fight over there. I mean the Poles do, but there aren't enough of them. But I don't know even that they would put troops in the Ukraine alone. But my feeling is, is that, that they want us to do their dirty work for them. And since we went out in without asking their permission, well, you know, they didn't want to even. Who's going to benefit from us escorting the boat, the ships through it's other countries? They're the ones who need to buy oil on the international market and Lord knows for next winter they need Qatar's natural gas. This thing has to be brought to a conclusion and they're not going to help us do this unless Donald Trump really twists their arm, which he did. Now we'll see if he gets a result.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Well, the relations are a low point between the USA and NATO right now. You could place the blame wherever you want. But I believe the continent, European nations are weak, particularly Germany. Germany, you know, Italy has actually stepped up. Spain I would expel, I just kick them right out by you.
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Economist Guest
Any argument for me on that one? Or at least they ought to be put in the penalty box for a year. You know, like the Russians can invade Spain if they want to for one year.
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Conservative Political Commentator
They're obnoxious, but they're a socialist country that's veering toward communism in Spain, people don't know that, but that's what's going on. All right, last word about this. I think we have gotten into now an area where we know that the American oil companies are making as much money as they possibly can all off this Iranian action. And a lot of us are going to be uncomfortable with that last word.
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Economist Guest
Oh, I think that's right. Americans are going to feel very uncomfortable and feel that it's very unfair that the oil companies profit so much and the oil companies would do well to use some of that money to benefit Americans so they might feel better about it.
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Conservative Political Commentator
Okay, doctor, we really appreciate it. Good discussion. I hope you'll come back. Thank you. All right. The President and Vice President spoke together about this fraud Task force that JD Vance was in charge of. Good, good. Okay. They. The Minnesota thing is so out of control and California is bad. Maine, tiny Maine. And that's just our money. That's our tax money. I mean, so I hope Vance can step up and I want to know the names. I want to know. So that's a good thing. Caroline Levitt, the White House spokesperson, I'll probably see her tomorrow. She has demanded that ABC News retract a story saying that Iran might attack California with drones. Now, when I heard this story reported by abc, and you know, I am. Let's have. I have severe questions about ABC News. And I worked there for two years and it was a great experience, but Jennings was in charge. It was all different thing. So when I heard Iran drones California, it's a long way. That's a long drone flight. I went as just another ridiculous story. So it turns out to be a ridiculous story. How do we know that? Newsom, the governor says this, quote, while we're not aware of any imminent threats at this time from Iran and drones, we remain prepared for any emergency in our state. So Newsom's going a bunch of crap now. ABC News. What is wrong with you people? You got to check this stuff out. It makes no sense. Okay, yeah, there are going to be terrorist incidents because of the open border and Biden let everybody in. So some terrorists came in. We're seeing that with drones in California. All right. U.S. embassy in Venezuela raises the flag, our flag, for the first time in seven years. Because Venezuela is a terrible country under Maduro. Now it's trying to get back to some semblance of fairness. So there is our flag in Caracas and that is a good thing. The Save America Act. Voter id, it's not going to pass. So if you want to spend your time watching ridiculous speculation on cable news programs, that's your choice. But there's no way the Democratic Party is going to support it. So it becomes an issue in November. All right, we should have voter ID here. Every European country has it. But we can't have it here because some far left kooks say, oh, look, the states are in charge of getting people IDs to vote.
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would compel the states to do it. Nobody's going to be denied. That would be a federal crime that they were denied. This is actually a good law. But Democrats don't want it because, you know, but the folks do. And then we have the Homeland Security chaos at the airport. So 300 at least, airport screeners, TSA agents have quit because they're not getting paid because the Democrats are holding up funding for Homeland Security. Not ice. ICE already funded. Okay. And the Trump administration has moved out. Nome. It moved out a few other people. It pulled out of Minneapolis in great numbers. It has taken steps to mitigate some of the problems. Democrats don't care. Okay? So they're holding it up. So when you go to the airport and you have to wait for two hours, there's some Republicans should be there with a sign, thank your local Democrat. These are big issues that are going to come in November. Smart life. So at its Height in the 1950s, about 45% of Americans smoke cigarettes. My mother was a chimney. My father once in a while would smoke a cigarette, but he wasn't a big smoker. But my mother and she gave it up. So did my father. But they got. They gave it up fairly early. But my mother was like, my sister and I are in a back seat of the secondhand car, usually a Nash Rambler. And it was like LA on an August, humid day. Smoke. I remember like it was yesterday. My mother. Anyway, 45% of American adults smoke back then. Now the number has dropped to 10%. Okay. And this is tobacco product use. It is a national health study. So if you go to Europe, they still smoking their butt off out there. Pardon the pun, but here we're down. And the goal is to own 6% of Americans smoking. Men smoke more than women. 24% of those who do smoke are men. 14% women. Trying to think if I know anybody. I do know one guy who smokes, and the guy's still alive. He should have been Dead a long time ago. He'd been smoking since he's 16. And you just look at this guy. How you doing this? I know one guy smokes. I don't know any man. Women smoke not. I know a lot of people. Oscars last night. Okay, I didn't watch it. I was watching the USA beat the Dominican Republic in baseball. And the reason was the Dominicans were all trying to hit home runs. If the Dominicans just tried to hit the ball rather than hit home runs, they had a better lineup than the USA. Okay, but USA won 2 to 1. That's what I was watching. I didn't watch the dopey Academy Awards because I didn't see any of the movies. The best movie of the year, one battle after another. Leonardo DiCaprio was in it. I know that. And Paul Thomas Anderson directed it. Movie ran almost three hours. That better be good. And I tried to watch it on cable. I couldn't get through it. Now it's my fault. It's my fault. I couldn't get through it. I got to give it another shot. Tried. Couldn't get through it. We'll be back with the final thought in a moment. Okay? Final thought of the day. One of the worst things that I encounter every year on St Patrick's Day is in New York City. They have the massive parade. Weather's supposed to be okay. Boston is a big parade, too. I was in it a few years back. But you see these kids, 15, 16, throwing up because they drank. Boy, oh, boy. Bothers me. Bothers me, Bothers me. So, look, the less booze you can consume on Tuesday, tomorrow the better. Sorry, I don't want to be the scold here, but don't do anybody any good. Have a good time. You know, hoist a couple. But let's keep it under control. You see some kid drinking, I don't know what you do these days. You know the kid's not going to listen to you. I never had that problem. My kids. And I was so adamantly against it. I think it seeped in. But, boy, that when I see that. Anyway, we will report from the White House on Wednesday about the big St. Patrick's Day celebration. I'll say hello to the President of Ireland. I'm going over there in May and Happy St. Patrick's Day.
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