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heading out to sea. So hopefully all we're going to be getting is a little bit of storm surge and not a direct hit on America or you know, the continent of America.

American Values and Traditions. Proudly supports Americans values and traditions. The post went viral, garnering six point four million views and nearly two hundred thousand likes as of Monday. But I'm sure even more then, according to Elon Musk, he posted on X I'm ordering from there tomorrow. Steak and Shake,

based in Indiana, employees more than ten thousand people. According to LinkedIn, As of August, there were three hundred and sixty three hundred and ninety seven Steak and Shake restaurants across twenty four state territories in the United States, according

to an August twentieth report by data company Scrape. Hero Stake and Shake announced and came as after Donald President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August the twenty fifth directing Eternal Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute people caught burning the flag or desecrating it in other ways. According to his post in his order, our great American Flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America and as and of American freedom, identity,

and strength. Over nearly two and a half centuries, many thousands of American patriots have fought, bled, and died to keep the stars and strike waving proudly.

that became prevalent during the Vietnam War. Subsequently, the Flag Protection Act of nineteen sixty eight was passed, which banned burning and defiling the flag. The Supreme Court overturned the law in nineteen eighty nine, but nineteen years later No twenty one years later declaring the desecration of the American Flag is protected under the First Amendment, and in August twenty fifth statement, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression FIRE,

named the acronym FIRE, opposed the executive order. Now, the purpose of this and talking about this possibly inciting riot would be justification for putting this into effect. Now, again, First Amendment people, you know, they expressing their you know, First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, burning the American flag and all that sort of stuff. But you know what they'll say is that, hey, it's just a piece of cloth. You know, it's it's just a representation of America. It

is not America, and all this sort of stuff. And my answer to that is, well, if it's so insignificant, why do you burn it in the first place, Because you're trying to make a point, and the point is stupid, and if it incites a riot, and you know, you know, if you aggravate people, they're going to react. And so the fact that this is being put in place, I applaud this, the fact that Steak and Shake is saying,

you know what, we are a proud company. We are a proud American company, and we're going to stand by that as much as possible, and installing as large a flag as will be allowed by these individual communities show the positive patriotic spirit of that company towards America. And like I said, all I need is one more reason to go out and buy more hammers and eat more Hamburgers. Next thing you know, they'll be putting up flags at different pizza chains too, and so there goes my diet.

why I keep mentioning. One of the ways to solve that problem is the very easy way, Trump said, and an apparent reference to his suggestion that Canada should become the fifty first state, an idea that was widely opposed by Canadians.

in April, I didn't know his background. Mark Carney's second visit to the White House since becoming Prime Minister earlier this year, with a trading relationship worth nine hundred billion dollars on the line, the former central banker one election in April, so he is approaching this from a banking standpoint. He understands economics, and he understands what Donald Trump is trying to do. And the fact that Donald Trump needles

him is he gets it. He gets the joke and he gets the idea and to the point where the two get along. I got to tell you, watching that press conference, I was very encouraged by the talks and how these two interacted to the point where they understood each other. They know where each other is coming from, and both want to have a deal that's good for their own countries.

Of course, they want both of their countries to do well, and they want to come to a mutual agreement.

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how you approach a particular discussion. I go back to a movie and a play that I just absolutely love, and I watch it as often as I can it's called seventeen seventy six.

John Adams was kind of a They describe him during the play and in a particular song as being obnoxious and disliked because he's one of these and history points out that he was kind of a very confrontational type of an individual. He was one of these people that would just go for it with full gusto. Ben Franklin,

on the other hand, was the diplomat. He would try to work behind the scenes to get things done with the bombast of John Adams getting the ball moving that Ben frankl would come behind and try to smooth things over. I experienced that with a group that we formed here in well, in my home city or in my home county in northern Kentucky, Campbell County, when we formed a group group called the Independent Business Association of Northern Kentucky.

We were trying to get certain things done, and get certain things done as far as the various county commissioners, trying to lower tax rates, trying to get certain things accomplished, trying to eliminate or actually eliminate the talk of having tolls in the Brent Spnz Bridge, and some other things that were going on.

the ignorance of these people are going. One of the members of the organization people kept referring to them as Switzerland because he would come in and try to make phone calls, go have lunch with the people, kind of smooth things over, and then try to arrange some sort

of you know, off the books type of discussions. But the combination of the two of us we got an awful lot accomplished and got some things changed in all the counties in northern Kentucky as and you know, not only in Campbell County, with Kenton County and Boone County

as well. And so it's kind of this contract. Donald Trump's more of a is more of a John Adams type of an individual where he will kind of, you know, kind of shock people at first with some of the stuff that he does, but then as a result in the negotiation, getting the negotiation started, and then as a result of looking at those negotiations, adapt and adjust where he's coming from in order to get something accomplished. And this is what I saw between the two of them

when they were discussing this in the Oval Office. US tariffs on steel, auto lumber or battering key Canadian industries and UGUS. First, Trump raised levies on goods that don't comply with the US Mexico Canadian agreement to thirty five and thirty and twenty from twenty five percent. The trade war has caused losses and put a chill on business investment, pushing Canada's economy to contract in the second quarter.

to be done. Now, I guess you could have done something more in the way of at Ben Franklin type of thing, a behind the scenes kind of soft negotiations and that type of thing, but a lot of times that takes more time. And by Trump coming in on Liberation Day and slapping these tariffs on pending the negotiation. Now remember when he did this, he was talking about the fentanyl increase, the drugs coming up from Mexico, and drugs coming in from Canada and kind of a penalty

on that. They started clamping down in Canada, they started clamping down in Mexico. To comply with that, he rolled back and adjusted some of the terriffs and then kept some of the tariffs in place, trying to get more

of a fair trade as opposed to free trade. You can have all the free trade you want, but if your products can be sold in these other countries because of the import duties and the trade negotiations and the problems with their import situation as well as tariffs, all the free trade in the world isn't going to do

anything because you can't sell your products there. So by negotiating these tariffs and again it's more of a bombastic way of doing it bought up to this point has been effective, and especially with Canada the way carneye being a central banker, coming from a business background and understanding economics, realized this and said, Okay, you know.

steel and aluminum. This is the way stuff gets done between adults. You make your point, then you negotiate, you come back, and you make some sort of an agreement. We're working on formulas, according to Trump. He said, we're working on formulas, and I think we'll get there. Carney's top negotiators include Cabinet Minister responsible for US Trade Dominic LeBlanc, and Canada's ambassador in US, Kristin Hillman, and still pushing for a near term deal that would see some sectoral

tariffs lowered or dropped. Dropped tariffs being dropped, big surprise, something that I don't think would be done by the soft approach and negotiating these things behind the scenes and trying to work here, trying to work there, but you get it out in front of everybody. Till everybody understands the unfairness, and then that puts them on the spot to negotiate and if their economy is suffering or which a lot of people are saying that these foreign countries,

their economies are suffering because of the tariffs. Again, as I've been saying in the past, you guys are the ones that are in control.

sure as hell has been effective. And what was funny also during this Oval Office press conference, Donald Trump was saying to the Prime Minister, he said, you know, our ambassador there was a comment, and the ambassador to Canada spoke up, and Trump paused in a moment while the guy was asking the question or making the comment, he goes, he goes, is he doing a pretty good job, because

if he isn't, Mark, I'll fire him right now. And the two of them just laughed like it was like a couple of guys the way things normally are.

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and then adjusted accordingly. When you start seeing some movement as far as the tariff's discussion and import discussions, then you start adjusting that and again. So he postponed this until November, the first before these tariffs would go into effect, to get more time to get some of these negotiations going.

President Trump said the twenty five percent duties on medium and the heavy duty trucks would begin November one, the latest expansion of his tariff regime aimed at protecting domestic industry. I have a note here because this story was done by Bloomberg News. They are more than a bubble or

two left of center. So they're one of the folks in the spoon feder regurgitators in the mainstream media that are always criticizing the Trump administration, criticizing his economic policies, and really the news agency itself along with the rest of the spoon federalcgurgitators.

going on in the economy. But everything that we're seeing in terms of spending, retail sales, car sales, used truck sales and stuff, all these things are surprisingly unexpectedly better than expected.

Detroit's legacy automakers. Trump originally said last month that the heavy duty truck levies would start October the first, but that timeline slipped as officials heard appeals from companies concerned about the impact. Again, you adjust what you're doing based on the new information, data and progress of the talks.

It's kind of almost like a football game. You go in with a particular game plan, you say that this is how we're going to go, and this is what the plays we're going to run in the first quarter. This is the defense that we're going to be using against what we anticipate the other team to do. But once you get on the field and things happen, you don't keep with the game plan if it ain't working, so you make adjustments. That's why you have during the halftime.

You see sometimes in some of these games where the momentum is going in one way and because of adjustments done during halftime, the momentum switches the other way. So it's you know, like I said, it's like a football game. You adjust to what is going on. If they're doing certain things that you don't have a defense, you adjust

your defense to maybe counterbalance that. If things aren't working as far as your offense is concerned, if your running game isn't doing well, then you switch to maybe a run pass the offense, play action passes, staying not staying in the pocket, rolling out, doing different things counterplace. All these kinds of things that you put into place in order to adjust your game plan to make a success.

And this again is what's going on here. Beginning November one, twenty twenty five, all medium and heavy duty trucks coming into the United States from other countries will be tariffed at the rate of twenty five percent, the president posted October the sixth, without offering further details. Trump's announcement is tied to a probe launched in April by the Commerce Department into heavy truck imports. That investigation conducted under Section

two thirty two of the Trade Expansion Act. The imposition of import taxes on goods deemed critical to national security. Our automobile manufacturers, our truck manufacturers, our American jobs are a matter of national security. And the stronger our businesses are, the better that we will be able to have commerce within this country and be able to have a strong economy. So it is a national emergency the fact that you

put these in place. And again, if they don't want the tariffs on their products, then reduce your tariffs on stuff coming into your country so that we can balance out this trade and come to a mutual understanding. So again the ball is in their court. If they don't want twenty five percent increases on their trucks coming into the United States, then they can lower their prices and

lower their tariffs. Trump's announcement, let's see tried the probe focused on medium and heavy duty trucks weighing more than ten thousand pounds, as well as parts, with Commerce stating that the smaller number of foreign suppliers made up the bulk of US imports due to predatory trade practices. One of the things, again Donald Trump pulling back the curtain and talking about certain things which had been going on

for years. All of a sudden, you see how many companies or how much business has gone overseas, the manufacturing and stuff that we need here in the United States. How our Congress, Senate and presidents at the time allowed all these jobs to go overseas at at the cost of our businesses, our manufacturing businesses here in the United States.

So trying to pull that back now, mind you, this is something remember when Trump first became president, or around the time that Trump was running in twenty sixteen and Obama was out.

this country. The duties threatening an industry already reeling impacts from terriffs on steel, aluminum as well as tighter environmental regulations. Now again they have to throw this in on environmental regulations.

A lot of these regulations that have been rolled back and stuff were not a matter of reality, and the fact that our businesses were suffering and our companies were being fined because of these unrealistic expectations was a drain on these companies and for no really benefit as far as the environment is concerned, because some of these regulations were ridiculous. And I point out the fact that again you take you know, when you're talking about environmental and

talking about pollution, look at a truck. It takes sixty trucks today to equal the emissions of one truck back in nineteen eighty eight. That's how far we've come in terms of pollution control, pollution improvement, and eliminating of pollutants going into the air. Tailpipe emissions on cars are about ninety something around the range of ninety nine percent cleaner than what they were back in the beginning of the

nineteen nineties. So we have come a long way, and there's still room to go, but we're heading in the right direction. Trump's planning terraff on import heavy duty trucks are a huge win for American auto workers and US manufacturing, according to Nick Aya Cavello, the Coalition for Prosperous Prosperous America. Now, of course they have to throw in here again, this

is a bloomberg artic, a protectionist group. Well, if you are an American company, and if you are an American president, don't you want your company country to do well, and shouldn't you be doing things that protect the workers, protect your industries, protect your manufacturing. How was that? That's pro American? That's not protectionists. Pick this up in a little bit more. We've got some other mischief. Get into I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck in Network seven hundred WLW.

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to an end. Spot Chicken prices in the US have fallen eighteen percent since the summer barbecue season peak. At key production indicators suggest supply is finally catching up with booming consumer demand. Some of the largest global meat producers, including JBS, Tyson.

a radio talk show host. Went to my Facebook page and a couple of the back came up to me said, are you really that conservative? Yeah, and probably not as much as I put forth on Facebook. I can be a little bit more than that. Why and started talking about they wanted to talk about inflation. They said, oh, you know, we're paying all kinds of money for beef, and I said, well, you know there's alternatives to that.

You can do certain other things, and it ain't a result of And of course they were saying, well, you know, beef prices are up because of tariffs. I said, no, if you look at our cattle, if you go dig into the numbers as I have done, you see that our cattle herds are at the levels of where they were back in the fifties and sixties, and so with the increase in population, they're not producing enough a cattle

and they're not producing enough beef. This is starting to change a little bit, but again we are still doing some imports from other countries. But again this is a matter of the shortage in the United States has nothing to do with terriffs. It has more to do with not having the proper supply for the demand. And here it is showing this out the worst US cattle shortage in decades. A turn in chickens, futures or fortunes could leave companies more exposed to the prolonged beef slump, which

isn't expected to improve significantly before twenty twenty eight. Well, I would suggest then to those countries companies rather that if they're having these problems, hey, you know, get.

So again you have higher meat supply, the chicken, higher supplies, the demand is there, prices start coming down. According to Banco Bradesco BBI analysts Enrique were Stolen and Pedro Fontana said in a note, we are seeing signs that the cycle could be heading down to a supply bottlenecks appearing to have increasingly solved. Meat suppliers shares have been under pressure too. JBS, the world's largest meat producer, has lost eighteen percent over the past month and falling to the

lowess since July twenty twenty three. Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, which is controlled by JBS Tyson andrig Mar Frigg Global Foods Essay have also seen clients. So when you start adjusting your supply, and you start increasing your supply and the demand is there, then the prices start coming down. And as we've seen, people have adjusted if meat prices, if stake prices, if beef prices are.

That is a eighteen percent decrease. Brent crude currently at sixty six thirty nine is down thirteen dollars and fifty one cents, or a seventeen percent decline in refiner or

in oil prices. And I keep talking about the fact that I would like to see gas prices adjust accordingly, because again, if you've got oil going into the refinery at a cheaper price the refining process, Now there are certain increases in chemicals and stuff that they do at the refining process in order to produce gas, heating oil, and diesel. Those cost factors go into place, but they have been offset by the input in terms of oil prices.

And I would like to see and we should be seeing or should have seen, about a ten percent or so decrease in my opinion as far as gas and diesel is concerned. And we're starting to see a little bit of break in that because current national average of gasoline had been riding around three. Now this is across the board writing around three dollars and fourteen cents and above on average per gallon throughout the United States. We are seeing that coming down. It's now down around three

dollars and eleven cents thereabouts. Now, this is kind of that number is a little bit inaccurate, if you will, because when you look at the gasoline prices in California, when you look at gasoline prices in California averaging across the board California at four dollars and sixty six cents a gallon, that is going to throw off the national average because if you look at a state like Oklahoma, their average gasoline prices in that state are two dollars

and sixty cents. California compared to Oklahoma is two dollars and six cents higher per gallon. We're talking about gasoline, and because of the restrictions, because of the stupidity of California with all the they basically have their own market over there where they require certain additives to the individual gasoline in order for pollution control, and this is driving up the prices there. Plus any of the this requires special refining, which some of these refiners in California are

shutting down because of the environmental restrictions from California. So the supply that they have, they're putting the restrictions and additives on the gasoline. And this movement over there that they want to eliminate gas internal combustion engines by twenty thirty five is putting pressure on the prices over there.

And then with all this environmental stuff that they've done over the last twenty thirty years or so, the wildfires in twenty twenty reduced all of their advancement as far as clean air, eliminated everything they did done up until twenty twenty. Then when you throw on top of that the fires and the pollution were caused back in January in Los Angeles.