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Clay Travis
Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton show. Our man Clay on a much deserved vacation and college tour with his with his oldest boy. So he'll be back with us on Monday. He's taking the week to do the family stuff and enjoy himself. We hope him, Laura and the kids are having a great time. We have a lot of news to dive into today and things are heating up. I think you could say that the initial honeymoon period with the media, not that they wanted to give us one, but they were so shocked that they couldn't even figure out a way to oppose Trump effectively in public. That is starting to fade as they scream recession, recession and authoritarianism. So we shall discuss where all this is coming from. We got Congress right now wrangling over the continuing resolution. There's government shutdown talk. Oh boy. Up on Capitol Hill. We will discuss this. Trump announcing new tariffs on Canada. So he's going to impose 50% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. We'll discuss this. This is a retaliatory tariff. There's a lot of back and forth over the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, an anti American, pro Hamas, pro Palestinian activist on a student visa. I think that's a discussion we should get into in a little bit. You've also got the aftermath of Dylan Mulvaney on the View. It turns out the ladies of the View are as disconnected from reality and cognitively limited as we had always assumed here on the show or we had always discussed. And we shall get into all of that and more. Also, take a bunch of your calls, 800-282-2882. And I'll just say this, my friends, it is important to note that this was all what we should have expected. When you try to change the system, when you take it upon yourself to challenge the way things are done in the biggest, most expensive government in the history of the world, which I think is fair to say no one else is spending the trillions that we have spent or we have gotten used to spending. No one else has ever gotten US$36 trillion or the equivalent. I don't know, maybe we could go back to ancient Rome or something, but nobody else has, has run this up the way that we have in the modern era. We've got some real problems to fix. Right? The initial flurry of executive orders from Trump was fantastic. It was, it was time for us all to high five, do backflips. And like I said, if you remember, you were listening to us at the time, I said, enjoy this, go out this weekend, crack a beer or a Chardonnay or whatever it is you like to, you know, in my case, some stevia sweetened water. Go, go. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy the victory that Trump had over all the forces trying to stop him. Enjoy the victory the Republicans had in. Because things are going to get messy and we're entering the messy phase now. It's not going to be what they're telling you it is, which is that somehow this is all going to fall apart and the economy is so bad and it's all Trump's fault. That is to be expected from an anti Trump media that has lied to you about absolutely everything. I've seen that. Even with the Heritage Foundation, I think it's the accountability project. They have, they've looked at the signatures, the auto pen signatures of Biden on a bunch of his. Well, a bunch of things that he officially signed and some of them don't match up. And this under a normal president, under a cognitively functioning president, you might say, well, you know, people use auto pens. Did Biden even know all the things he was signing? And if he didn't know all the things he was signing, it's not really law, is it, if some adviser just effectively forged his signature. Right. It's one thing for a president to have an auto pen signature. Yes. My hand is tired. Auto. That has happened before. We know this. Oh, I'm not discounting that reality. But if a president isn't even aware of what is being signed in his name, is that a thing that we don't pay attention to? Does that not have consequences? I think it clearly should. But I bring it up because we have entered a new era now where we have a president who is very much engaged and advisers who are on a mission. This is not the business as usual presidency. This is not even the Trump as we got to know him presidency, as in Trump 1.0. This is clearly Trump 2.0. This is something elevated and beyond the first go round. There was A lot of on the job learning. There were personnel decisions and mistakes. Let's just be honest about this. Trump is honest about it. He fired a bunch of people. He has had people turn against him who owe their careers to him. Now in the media, but then in government. So there was a learning curve and there was, I think, from the Trump team also the surprise of having to deal with not just the media going all out against him, but, but we remember the Russia collusion hoax and the media Democrat intelligence community complex, the apparatus all going at Trump with everything that they had and it slowed things down. This time around, they have thrown everything at him and they have been shown incapable of stopping him from getting to his second term. A magnificent thing, an incredible comeback. That's why I told you, enjoy it. Don't just look at the fight ahead. You know, when you win the big game before you go to the state championship, you still go out and celebrate. The election victory was huge. Now we get to fixing the country. And fixing the country isn't going to be something that just happens overnight or even in the first quarter or two of Trump's term. Remember, he hasn't even been in office two months and they're saying, oh, look at the price of eggs. Look at the stock market. Look at noise. This is noise. And there's also an important perception management that has to go on here, where if you're going to contract government and if we have become, for GDP purposes, reliant on government's expansion, as in too much spending. The government just creates, creates the perception of additional value. It's just numbers on a screen or it's paying bureaucrats who do nothing. I mentioned you yesterday, 25% of new jobs under Biden. Government jobs. The government is putting out 25% of the new jobs that are being created over the course of an entire 2023, I think, and 2024 is close to it, if not the same. That's not making any of us better off. That is just expanding the scope and price tag of the government itself. To deal with that, though, it's a little bit like going on a diet, something I know about, because you're going to be hungry. And if we have to be hungry here, when it comes to government spending a little bit, this is the thing. It's all about proportion. It's all about balance. Trump is trying to restore balance. Elon doge. They're trying to restore sanity in the way that the government spends, in the way that the government takes your money in your name and puts it to use, in many cases, very bad use, in some cases, just effectively lighting money on fire to stop that process from happening. There's going to be fierce opposition, which we have already seen, Right. Especially when you start to touch these NGOs. I think it was Elon who said, and it's so right. How is it a non government organization if the government is entirely responsible for funding it? That's just a cutout. That's what we would call it in intelligence circles. Right. That's a carve out, it's a proxy. So something was very wrong with that whole situation and now many of us are far more aware of it than we ever had been in the past. So that's an important win. And now we're looking at the beginning of stopping the spending juggernaut from just rampaging forward toward $40 trillion of debt. It's not going to be easy and it is not going to be without a little bit of rumbling along the way. There's going to be some moments where things are going to look a little bit tougher than they might have been if we just continued spending, but we can't continue the spending. And this is why Trump has come out and said that he wants to put the country on a firmer economic footing. He wants to do what he can so that this isn't just about what the stock market looks like now. It's how far is your paycheck going in a year, in two years, in five years. This is about turning around a massive part of the economic engine here so that it is. And really redoing parts of it so that it can function more efficiently for everyone. Because we've seen what the inflation has done to your ability to pay your rent. We've seen if you, if you are asset light in this economy, meaning if you don't own a lot of stuff that is productive, stocks, real estate, things like that, if you don't know, then that all gets inflated along with the inflation. And so what it does is it squeezes those who are working for paychecks for a living, which is the vast majority of the American people, those who are doing work and trying to get ahead and just trying to pay their bills and do it the right way. They have a tougher time and it is effectively a tax on them to continue to spend at the levels we have currently seen. This has to be addressed. This has to be changed. And this is also why you will see Democrats are, you'll notice there's no spending that they really want to cut. They like the control that this gives them. There's a tremendous amount of social engineering that is possible. When you're spending so much money that nobody even knows what you're spending it on or who's getting is such a shield. It is such a shroud for corruption because if you don't, if no one really knows where the money's going, the numbers are so big and there's so many things, how can you ever get a handle on this? This is where Trump and Elon and Doge come in and the fight over the government shutdown. I have a tough time getting all that energized about this one way or the other. We've been through this before. It's a lot of brinksmanship and blame game stuff. And eventually the government will be funded if, if they allow it to be defunded temporarily or the funding to run short. I believe Trump then is in a position to just decide what is considered essential and what keeps running. So there's that. But here is Speaker Johnson who is trying to wrangle all of this and he's saying that it's Democrats who are taking this to the point where there could be a shutdown. Play one.
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Buck Sexton
They're planning to vote down this simple bill. They are going to try to shut the government down. Every House Democrat will participate in this. It looks like that would be a shame if it's true. I hope some of them will have a moment of clarity themselves and do the right thing. But it looks like they're going to try to shut down the government. It's a striking new posture for Democrats who have always said they've just been apoplectic about the prospect of government shutdowns. Democrats have been insisting they're fighting for federal workers. You're about to see again on Victoria, vivid display, very clear the contrast. You will see one team that is working to fund the government and make sure we do the responsible thing. And you're going to see another posing a CR because they've now exposed the truth. They're not for federal workers. They're not for anyone. All the people they've said in the past that are going to be harmed would be by their votes.
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Clay Travis
This is one of the challenges of opposing Democrats, is that they stand for whatever they need to stand for in the moment. They change their mind on everything. They change their principles as if they have any. They change what they believe in. It doesn't. It's about power. And when you're talking about the government and how it spends money, there might be no more clear abuse of power that Democrats can engage in than what we, what we see, which is spending us all into oblivion. Tackling this is a critical, a critical issue. I've said it from the very beginning. Our borders and the government cutting it down to size, cutting the spending down, cutting the bureaucracy down. The two most important missions of the Trump administration. We've seen excellent work at the border so far. Thank you, Tom Holman and team. And credit to DHS Secretary Noem, credit to the people that are doing what is necessary to secure our border so that it's 95% down for illegal crossings. Interior enforcement is the harder problem. I will always be honest with you. That is even more challenging, and that will require more political will and more infrastructure. And it's millions, it's tens of millions of people that you're talking about who are at least possible deportees. And then you have tackling the government beast. You see, the Democrats had created a system where they win no matter what, even when they lose elections. They win because the spending is automatic, because the bureaucracy is huge, because there's no accountability in D.C. and it's just one free for all. With your money, you go to work. You, you spend your life and your time trying to be productive and provide for your family. And the shenanigans in D.C. means that you're a hamster on a treadmill that keeps going faster and faster and faster. And how are you supposed to keep up? That's not good. And Trump recognizes that his team sees what's going on and they are taking steps to make this better. It's not going to be perfect, it's not going to be quick, and, and it's not going to be that easy. There's going to be a little bit of disruption. The markets may be in some tumult here for a few months. Of course, of course, when you're correcting a problem, there tends to be right and every, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When you stop overspending, it's going to feel like things are a little lean sometimes. But for a vast majority of people, I truly believe, as vast majority of Americans, this is clearly the way it has to be done, and it has to be done now. By the midterms, we're back to business as usual. By the midterms, we're just arguing over how to move the deck chairs on our fiscal Titanic. It's not good. It's a horrible feeling when you discover your personal information is in the hands of a cyber hacker. These criminals Work silently and in the background to break into databases, including your confidential information. You usually don't find out about it till after the damage is done, leaving you with a mess to deal with. Closing accounts and canceling credit cards that have been compromised. Lots of places can accidentally expose your personal information, giving these cyber hackers a head start. That's why having LifeLocks online identity theft protection is a huge help. LifeLock detects and alerts you to potential identity threats you may not spot on your own, like loans taken out on your name. If you do become a victim of identity theft, a dedicated US based restoration specialist will fix it, guaranteed or your money back terms apply. It's easy to help protect yourself with LifeLock. Join now and save 40% off your first year with my name Buck as your promo code, call-1800-LIFELOCK. That's 1-800-LIFELOCK. Or go online to lifelock.com and use promo code BUCK for 40% off saving America. One thought at a time. Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We're going to talk tariffs coming up in just a moment. It's pretty funny to see some people haven't learned the lesson when it comes to dealing with Trump. You never want to come at Trump with I'm going to bully you. It's just, it just will. It won't work. It won't work. And I think Canada pushing on this too forcefully. The approach with that they should take with Trump, specifically our Canadian brothers and sisters. The approach that Trump, that they should take with Trump is, you know what, you're right. Why do we have a 250% tariff on dairy? We should adjust that. We love America. You're such a great neighbor. You provide us effectively total and complete security from foreign countries invading us or beating us up or There's a whole range of things and a tremendous Asset to our economy and your people. And our people really like each other and get along super well. So that's the. You don't say, oh, yeah, you're going to do this. Well, I'm going to do that. I'm going to. We're going to put a big tariff on you, sir. Not good for the Canadian leadership to take, to take that approach. Trump loves this. He loves it when they decide that they're going to play tough guy. And as Trump has said to another tough guy, Zelensky, you don't have the cards. You don't have the cards. Canada. We'll talk about some of the specifics here and also why tariffs. Why tariffs? Let's really dive into that in a moment. Are you in the market for a new cell phone? Is your current one cracked or the battery constantly draining and way too fast? Well, get a new iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy for $0 from PureTalk. PureTalk will give you the same quality of cell phone service as at, at and T, Verizon or T Mobile. That's because PureTalk uses the same cell towers and network. You'll be getting the best 5G nationwide service, but at a fraction of the cost. 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And let me just give you the news on this and then we'll do a little bit of deep, deep dive into the analysis. Donald Trump from Truth Social. I'm quoting now, based on Ontario, Canada placing a 25% tariff on electricity coming into the United States. I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an additional 25% tariff to 50% tariff on all steel and aluminum coming into the United States from Canada, one of the highest tariffing nations anywhere in the world. Okay, so he says this will go into effect tomorrow morning, March 12th. He says Canada must drop their anti American farmer tariff of 250% on various US dairy products. I'll declare a national emergency on electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the US to do what needs to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. Okay, come couple things here. First of all, as we've already established, because this is so important, I understand the economic consensus such as it exists among, among economists is, is that tariffs are almost like a. It's like a sales tax or it's just, it's a tax that consumers pay and it lessens aggregate demand. And so they just say that's bad. They just view tariffs bad. They want total free trade. That's the least theoretically the problem with this, and this is why I gave economists a little rough stuff yesterday. The problem with this is that there are a lot of tariffs and a lot of protectionist policies in place all over the world already, including with our neighbors Mexico and Canada. So we're not starting from a place of everything is level. Why are you making it not level with your tariff? This is where we get to reciprocal tariff. Right in the word reciprocal. They're doing this to us and so we do something in response. If my neighbor Clay hates leaf blowers, and by the way, he is spot on, leaf blowers drive me insane too. If my neighbor is using a leaf blower super loudly and they won't stop at, you know, 7:00 at night, 8:00 at night, because as we know, this is leaf blower should be a 9 to 5 thing. You shouldn't wake anybody up. You shouldn't keep anybody from going to sleep. Anyway, some of you are going to take issue with that, but you're wrong. If I then start playing loud music, if I start blasting Beethoven over the fence so that they get the hint I'm not the noise polluter, I'm engaged in a reciprocal act of noise making so that they will stop. Although maybe they'll just love the Beethoven. This is a total digress. You know what, I'll come to this later. I actually experienced something in Nashville when it comes to classical music that I thought was fascinating. But I'll tell you about that in a moment. I don't want to, I don't I don't want to weave too much. I don't want to weave too much. Trump weaves. I weave without clay here. My weave can sometimes spin off into. So I'm going to get back onto tariffs. Reciprocal tariffs, meaning they are doing this to us. Why would a country, why would Canada have a 250% tariff on our dairy going across the border unless there were some benefit to them? Of course there is some benefit to your domestic producers and domestic industry. And so that's why other countries do this to us. Right? I mean we're just, we're just looking at this logically put aside, you know, whether somebody is, I mean, Paul Krugman is an economist who got a Nobel prize. The guy's a moron. So, you know, it's not like we have to just sit there and say, oh, whatever you say economists now you look at individual tariffs on individual, on an individual basis and you realize they are a tool. It is a tool. Just like for example, sanctions, Sanctions, now that's a more, that's more aggressive. But you know, sanctions are a tool. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Tariffs, sometimes good, sometimes bad. It depends. It is case dependent. And this is what gets lost in so much of the discussion about this because people just say they have this, this automatic wave of the hand. Will all the economists say, And I'm like, you know, what do all the economists really know? You know, you gotta ask that question. What do they, what have they gotten right about the economy recently? Not a whole lot. Uh, now there are obviously exceptions to this. We have some great economists and we've had Art Laffer on the show and Steve Bohr on the show and there are brilliant guys out there. But I, I mean the, it's like the same thing with the foreign policy consensus. If you listen to the D.C. based Foreign Policy consensus, there's not a war we shouldn't fight, there's not an invasion we shouldn't do. You know, America is the global police. And they've been very wrong and we've paid a heavy price for this with, with the so called economic consensus. We have been the, on the receiving end of tariffs and what you could say are trade war acts for a long time and we don't do anything in response. This is where Trump was right on the issue of China in his first term. And the DC Consensus was. So remember I say DC Consensus because a lot of Republicans, it's not just Democrats oppose Trump, period. Democrats, you know, Trump says, hey, it's a nice day. They're like It's a terrible day. 75 degrees and breezy is terrible. They don't care. But there are Republicans that go along with this as well. There are Republicans that decide, oh, I disagree with Trump on this issue, and they were proven wrong in the first term on China, in my opinion, and I think in everyone's opinion, because even Biden kept a lot of the Trump China policies in place on trade. We want to get them to stop doing what they're doing. So we are then creating the threat of tariffs creates an even. A more even playing ground for our producers and our consumers. Why should we have less access to their market than they have to ours? Ah. And this is, again, where it's a tool. Now we have the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, here talking tough about tariff fights with, with Trump. Play this one.
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Unknown
Let me be clear. I will not hesitate to increase this charge if necessary. If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely. Believe me when I say I do not want to do this. I feel terrible for the American people, because it's not the American people who started this trade war. It's one person who's responsible. That's President Trump. I'd rather be working together. I want to sell the US More energy, more electricity, more critical minerals. I want to make Canada and the United States the richest, most successful, safest.
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Clay Travis
Okay, yeah, we get it. We get it. Anyway, point is he's. He's throwing down with Trump now. They're saying they're going to make our electricity costs more specifically to Minnesota, Michigan and New York, which get electricity across, across the border from. From Canada. So they're going to drive up energy prices on us. Trump is saying, don't worry, we're going to handle this. Here's the way to handle it. We want also things that aren't necessarily purely economic as well, which is where more so with Mexico, but also with Canada. We want border cooperation. So see people again, tariffs are a tool. Okay. Will something be. Will something be more expensive as a result of tariff, particularly over a relatively short period of time? Yes, but are there more important things than the cost of goods in that one sector for that period of time? This is a decision to be made. Right. What is more important that we keep, I don't know, the cost of, of textiles brought in from Mexico. I think those are even brought in mostly from, like, Southeast Asia now. But whatever the cost of avocados, that's what we always. Oh, my gosh, if we do anything with Mexico and trade your Your avocado toast is going to be. And that's always a cheap shot. They take it us Millennials and Gen Z with the avocado. Avocado toast is delicious. But they say your avocado is going to be so expensive. All right. If a 50% increase in the cost of avocados is something that we're willing to bear in order to get a 50% reduction in, I don't know, fentanyl seizures at the border, is that worth it? Again, it is a tool. It's something that Trump is using. Did Trump blow up the economy? And this is the other part of this I get to as well. Did Trump blow up the economy in the first administration when he was doing these different maneuvers on trade, when he negotiated the U.S. canada, Mexico agreement? What is the record of Trump on the economy? Phenomenally strong. Right? Who knows more than Trump, who has been in a position of leadership, who's been a president in recent memory? No one. No one is better on the economy than Trump. I would say, as president in my lifetime. Better than Bush, better than Obama, better, obviously better than Biden. I mean, you can go back to Reagan, but there's some things that I would, I would quibble with when it comes to some of, well, really on immigration with Reagan, that's where we have a departure more so than on the economy. Nonetheless, I think that Trump has earned the leeway to pursue these paths without people freaking out. At least on our side, the Democrats are going to freak out no matter what. But on our side of things, it's going to be, it's going to be a little bit of time and there's going to be a little bit of disruption. Because to be a disruptor to the system requires some disruption. This is very straightforward. You're not going to fix this stuff without there being a little bit of whoa, ok? And there's going to be kicking and screaming from bureaucrats and the deep state and the Democrats and the anti Trump media that's looking for anything to say that is negative for Trump. So when we talk about tariffs, I just think it's important to put it in the context of one, it's a negotiating tool. Some of these tariffs won't even go into effect. Two, they're reciprocal tariffs. They are in response to, in a lot of cases, tariffs that already exist with other countries. We're saying, hey, knock that off and we'll knock this off. What's wrong with that? I don't understand why, why should we say that other countries can punish our access to their markets and punish our producers, but we can't do the same. And then three, sometimes there are things that are more important than, than an increase in the cost in a certain industry at a certain time. This is really where I get into the agreement on Mexico with Mexico on border issues. That's a critical US national security and sovereignty interest. It's not just about the price of avocados. So with that in mind, I understand. We don't want things to get crazy. We don't want prices to skyrocket. The Trump administration is sensitive to it. But just remember, the same people who are criticizing this with the most fervor in the media and in a commentary, it were the ones who were telling you that Joe Biden was sharp as attack. Why would you believe them now? Why? Why do they have credibility now on this issue? So we give it some time. We let this play out. We let Trump do what he does. Ok? He's got Elon Musk. You got people running around, Democrats. Elon Musk is dumb. Anybody who tells you Elon Musk is dumb shouldn't be listened to on anything. And I don't know how they can even tie their own shoes. They shouldn't be listened to on a single issue, period. Full stop. All right? We've got very smart people. I do not have concerns, especially on the, you know, the economic and budget cutting side of this administration. You have an all star team that has been assembled. Look at the people who are criticizing it. They, I mean, when I say, look, it's okay to say I disagree with this tariff or that tariff, that's fine. I mean, the ones who are saying recession, it's going to be terrible. They're trying to induce fear in people to turn them against what Trump is trying to do. This is the moment where we have to sort of steal our spines and say, all right, let's go. We wanted this ride. We said, we said, Trump, I'm tall enough for the roller coaster. Let's get on the roller coaster. It's going to be fun. It's going to be great. But there are going to be some times where it's a little, whoa, we're going pretty fast. I'm just saying. Now, look, a lot of people have go bags in the event of an emergency. What about having a stay bag to protect your home if the threat is at your doorstep? 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I had to check to make sure this is right. Bob in Moscow, Russia. Like. Like that Moscow? Are you really in Moscow? Are you pulling our leg?
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Unknown
I'm really in Moscow that I've been here for eight years.
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Clay Travis
How is that?
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Unknown
It's actually a fairly safe place to live except for the drones. Like last night that went very close to where I live. But that's a normal thing since everything broke out.
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Clay Travis
How. How are they toward you as an American? Are they. Are people pretty friendly to you over there or how does that go?
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Unknown
Yeah, there's. You still have the few that aren't but you'd be surprised at the number of expats that are here. Basketball players, hockey players from Canada, America, England, South America. Because the family values here are so much nicer than what they are in America at the moment.
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Clay Travis
Wow. Okay. Interesting. Well, you want to talk about tariffs? Tell me about tariffs.
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Unknown
Yeah, we pay tariffs every place. I would love in Europe or other places, be able to get Wisconsin cheese, a Wisconsin steak. Steak. And it's impossible to get because, one, the tariffs are so high, or two, they're just not allowed to be imported. So our businessmen, our farmers in America, their milk products, their dairy products. I come from Wisconsin. They're all being excluded by tariffs of other countries.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, well, see that. Thank you, Bob. Thank you. By the way, stay safe in Moscow. Appreciate you calling in Moscow. I've never been to Russia. Be interesting. I would just say this on, you know, because I'm also seeing some of the people who are writing in or calling in and saying, you know, they disagree and central planning. And what about Milton Friedman and all this stuff? Guys, there are tariffs already in place against the United States from certain countries. What are we supposed. Is that. Is that cool, or are we supposed to say, yeah, that's good, Keep that tariff against our producer producers, especially for a country that's right next door. So why is that? Okay, you know, if you are assuming that we're in a state of true free trade and there weren't barriers put in by countries, I would say yes. Why would we do that? Everything's working out great. It's all free and fair. It's not. Don't get fooled into utopianism. What works on the blackboard in a classroom somewhere is not necessarily what works in reality, as we all know. We'll dive into more of this coming up, team. Stay with me.
- [37:50]
Unknown
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