¶ Issues With Tough Chicken Breasts
You and I are told increasingly , we have to choose between a left or right . Well , I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right . There is only an up or down . This is the no Doubt About it podcast . No doubt about it Now your hosts Christy and Mark Runcate Wildfire you can't tell the sound ?
Why do you have raw chicken on our table right now ?
Because I'm going to make a point .
Okay , great . And then will you get it out of here after you make your point .
I will say , if you're trying to do a show or a podcast with a raw chicken breast next to you , yeah , it's a little disruptive . It is a little disruptive because it does have a breast next to you .
Yeah , it's a little disruptive .
It is a little disruptive because it does have a stank to it .
It stinks . And I'm like why did you bring the chicken up here ?
Because we were having a discussion which I'll let you get into in a second because I know it's one of your pet peeves and then you brought a chicken breast home , yeah , and I looked at it and I was like , oh my gosh , I mean , it really made your point . So I think we've been dealing with an issue and I think America has been dealing with it .
I know New Mexicans have . We have an epidemic right now .
Yeah , of chicken , issues with chicken .
Chicken and tough chicken breasts .
Yeah , they're all really tough . I don't know if anybody out there is noticing that , but I don't care where you buy it , from Any store . I've tried all the different stores . I've tried organic and I've tried regular . It doesn't matter , they're all so tough . Yeah , and to the point , this is kind of embarrassing , but you brought in Costco chicken once for me .
We got a . You know we were unloading the car and in the meantime he ran over and got a Sharpie and he wrote on the package tough chicken , t-u-f-f chicken across the package in Sharpie . And then you walked over to me I didn't see you do that .
And you walked over and you're like well , at least they're admitting now , at least they know that the chicken's tough . And I was like , did they really write that on there ?
Like I really , you totally got me , and then it even spelled tough , right .
Well , I thought somebody was mad .
I thought somebody was mad , actually , the customer was upset .
It was like , hey , FYI , this is tough chicken , but meanwhile it's you just trying to play a trick on me , no , it's everywhere you go .
So now what we've started to do is we've started to try to soften up the chicken .
Yeah , I have to brine , I have to brine everything .
Just brine an average chicken breast , which the problem with brining it is you go too long in the brine . It's a salt lick it's a salt chicken .
Yeah , oh my gosh I brine my turkeys before thanksgiving , and now I've started um brining the chicken breast just to see what I can do , to try , and I do brine like a whole chicken too . I've always brined those yeah but I I'm like now I have to brine . I'm like you can't .
No more days of me like whipping up some chicken breasts for dinner because I feel like they're leather yeah .
It's hard . I was shredding If we had tacos last night , a type of taco we did like a in in a in the nobody cares .
Yeah , you're right , nobody cares how we did it , but it was tough I just want you to know that
nobody cares .
They don't , but so no , and then you brought home some today and I , and I do have a bit of a of a of a of an issue .
It's a huge sensitivity to anything that is not even expired , but you think it might get expired by the time it gets in your belly .
Yeah .
And so then you're like it's gone , you throw stuff away .
I don't take any chances .
You throw stuff away . That I mean my whole family kind of makes a joke about you that you throw stuff away . Even when you go visit their house you'll say this , is this expired ? It's like lettuce .
I mean so cause I've had food poisoning a couple of times , which I find to be the worst thing ever . So so your willingness to roll the dice and be like maybe it's spoiled , maybe it's not , let's find out it's crazy because the price you pay if you get food poisoning is devastating .
You've never had food poisoning and so when you get it you realize I'm never taking a chance again .
I understand your sensitivity to it . I just also understand that food is very expensive and I think sometimes oh , I'm sorry .
Is there a certain price where you're like , yeah , it's a nice steak , so I got sick on it ? What is ?
this . No , I just think that sometimes you're a little more sensitive to it than I am , and I think sometimes those expiration dates , sometimes they're just a suggestion .
Yeah , agreed , but the one time they're not , I'm not going to be the guy that's going to pay the price .
So you've brought this disgusting chicken up here .
No , because you're right and so we can't have this . Let me just show you , I'll show everybody this .
They'll see , oh my gosh well , yeah , so I got chicken today , a fresh chicken , and I I know , knowing mark sensitivities I was like I better show him the chicken breast before I cook it . So it's half white and it was covered by the other chicken breast .
So I couldn't see that till I got home , and so it might be , it might be just fine , I don't know . But Mark's so nervous about it that apparently he's brought it up on the podcast table to , I guess , get a vote in to see is this chicken edible or is it ?
I put it outside .
Okay , all right .
Put it outside . Look , we can cook it up . I'm just saying that's pretty dicey and I'm not going to be the guy to eat it . So again , if you want to be the person to eat it and be like , hey , no , things went great , maybe they will , maybe they will , but when they don't , you're going to be like , why did you let me do that ? It's just the worst .
Okay , all right . Right , lots to talk about here , kind of a all different sorts of things in this show . And then we're going to have a mother's day show coming up on sunday and we have some great shows next week as well . So we've got all those lined up .
I don't want to say exactly what they're going to be , but they're going to be good , okay , so we have a great guest coming up . We've already shot that show , but I don't want to get into it , right this second , right , okay , secret , it's a secret I won't say anything about . Okay , what do we have for you ?
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I think it's going to be my elf name . Yeah , but anyway we appreciate you chiming in and writing into the show and just being a good supporter . We appreciate that . Okay , here's another one . It said I was so glad to hear Christy bring up the Jonathan Haight book . It's so worth a reader listening to Audible .
We cannot give up on our kids by saying that the technology horse has left the barn and this was us talking on the last show , or really about this .
I found this book and this guy's talked about how , you know , really , the technology of the smartphone is really as no shock to most of us , is really impacting kids' mental health issues and what can we do and how ? Is it too late ? And you know , can you guard your kids if they're 16 , 17 and have been on a smartphone for five years ?
What do you do in those situations ? That kind of conversation . So that's kind of what we had on another show . If you haven't , if you didn't get to watch that show , go back and watch that one , and I won't go on again .
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The other two podcasts I enjoy are Joe Rogan and Ruslan KD's . I'm quite selective about the podcasts I listen to , so being included in my top three is a significant sign . You're all doing something good .
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You know , honestly , I would love to sit here and take all the credit . I can't . You don't deserve actually any of the credit .
Oh , okay , I funnel stories to you all the time I just don't load the video and I don't stack the show .
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I send you stories all the time .
Oh , okay , yeah , yeah , and I wear bright green . You do , and in fact we're at the point now where that's almost offensive . I mean , it's it's . It's so bright You're watching this . I'm like it's not this green . I agree with you in person , but it looks like it is absolutely Seattle Seahawks green when you're wearing it now .
Wow Okay , it's very bright .
Okay .
Let's dive in on some stuff that people actually want to hear about .
Yes , so , uh , us news and world report is out with their best States in the country and worst States in the country for 2024 . And US News and World Report has done this since 2017 . They regularly rank the states . They often will rank cities and do things like that . They take a lot of different things into account here .
It's based on 71 different metrics and eight different categories , and again they started this in 2017 , but some of the things they base it on health care , which you would expect education , natural environment , opportunity , economy , crime and corrections , infrastructure and fiscal stability are the eight that they look
¶ State Rankings and Economic Opportunities
at . And so let's take a look at the 10 top states in the country here and a few things to notice . With this Number one , they're sort of spread out , which I thought was kind of interesting . Utah got number one . New England did very well . There were three states in New England in the top 10 .
Nebraska Minnesota , idaho , iowa , vermont , washington , florida and Massachusetts .
Yeah , and kind of a blend of red blue states too . You know really honestly when you're looking at those yeah , no , you're right , Absolutely , it was a blend .
I'm sure , I'm sure New Mexico is number 11 .
Well , so here's the thing , and so what I want to show you is the overall rankings , and then we'll get into the bottom 10 where this goes . But here's a map of the overall rankings here and a couple things that we watch .
Here You're right Pacific Northwest , down through Idaho , places like , again , if you're in blue here you did well , right , if you're in red , you did poorly . Basically , on all these things Okay . So if you look , washington State , idaho , you even go through Utah , which was number one , of course , over into Colorado , up into the upper Midwest .
Obviously , some good stuff there . Problems down in the southeast , florida did very well and New England did very well and obviously New Mexico was troublesome . So here are the bottom 10 rankings of the US News and World Report rankings here , and New Mexico ended up at 49 on this ranking here . So not exactly what we wanted we did finish ahead of Louisiana .
Okay .
So it felt good we beat Louisiana , which is nice . But I wanted to dive into a couple of maps on this just to kind of show , because you miss doing maps .
By the way , I do miss maps , I do miss maps , I do . Maybe we'll start making graphic maps for you , so you can get maps . I do miss maps , I do .
Uh , you know , maybe we'll start making graphic maps for you so you can get up and do like a wall yeah , a little meteorology action yeah , no , not even meteorology oh no we'll just have maps of like the content we're going to talk about then I could point them out you can do like this again and talk about the high pressure system that's coming out .
Yeah uh politically yeah and then over here there's like I don , are you done ? Are you almost done ? Okay , let's wrap it up . You work on that bit before we got to start the show .
Clearly I did it . It wasn't that fun , no , I enjoyed it .
I enjoyed it , but I had to . I got to put us back on track here , okay . So let's start with economic opportunity , Okay . And the reason I thought this was interesting is because and this is a case I've always made which is that the economy of an individual state , it's competitive . You are competitive with the states around you .
If you don't enable your small business owners to go out and attract new business and bring people in , you are hurting your state . And I guess one of the biggest issues we have here is that we don't realize that our economy and how many hurdles we put in front of our small businesses ends up causing huge problems .
And you look at the states around us and look at the map . If you look at the states around us , we're red . Look at every other state around us is blue , meaning they did very well in this category .
Arizona does well , utah does well , colorado and Texas they all hurt us because they draw resources out of New Mexico into these states , because there's a better business environment .
Yeah , I mean , and even we reported on this . This is kind of crazy , but we reported on a couple of shows ago that even like people crossing the border , they don't even want to stay here because they don't feel like there's any opportunity here for them .
And you know people are thinking you know , do we need to be better for the , for the people crossing illegally to stay in New Mexico , which is kind of a crazy conversation . But it goes back to the point that the people that are coming here to try to make money and are trying to , like , build an economy .
It's kind of a weird situation that , for whatever reason , we shoot small businesses in the feet I mean it's what it feels like and we have taxes that are incredibly crazy , I think , for based on how much money you don't make here .
Right , right you know , like I hate to say it like that , but it's true and when you have other factors that are impacting your lifestyle here as far as high crime and bad education and all the other things , right , you got to be more appealing to bring in the business owners to come in here , or those business owners that are here already .
You want them to stay and empower them , and not let them just shoot off , which was .
I know this is all part of the campaign , this is part of our campaign talk , but it's true and it hasn't gotten better .
So well and so , but . But here's the thing that was interesting . So I grabbed another map on this , and one of the things , one of the areas we did very well , was when you look at how the the government and fiscal stability goes of the government . So take a look right here , look at this map , and it's interesting .
It's fiscal stability right , and what helps our fiscal stability ? Oil and gas helps our fiscal stability right , so we're fine . And the reality is , when you look at these rankings here for fiscal stability and then you take into account realistically , this gets to government .
Our government is rich , we have a rich government and we have a population that is not rich , and so that's what's so frustrating about this .
So you look at the numbers on small businesses and you say everything's being put on their shoulders and we're making it hard on them , but yet we also have people , a lot of low-income families , that work very hard , a lot of middle-income families that work very hard as well , and we put a huge burden on them .
But yet , at the same time , our government is rich . It's rich beyond belief , and that's the problem , I think , is that all the power , all the money , is concentrated in the government when it should be concentrated in the people .
In the people and I really was shocked that we really didn't see any tax cut incentives at all or any rebates or anything for the folks here with such the surplus we have in the budget oh , massive surplus , absolutely .
And I just think you know I know that it was a real big part of your campaign talking about that but even regardless , like look at the budget and know that , you know you've got people out there that are still having a hard time making ends meet with things so expensive like white chicken breasts , that should be pink .
I mean you're spending a lot of money on these things and you need to get some . You know it'd be nice if they thought of us sometimes .
Well , and you're right , and that's the issue , right . And so then you go to a couple of these other things . Crime you can imagine that the crime was was a huge issue as well . We are Ruby red on this map , meaning 50th . Uh , basically 49 , 50 , 50th is where we end up falling . On crime , colorado actually has huge crime problems as well .
They have some of the same approach that we do on turning people right back out on the street , but yet if you go to states where they don't do that , then you do much , much better . And then up in New England , obviously they did very well as far as crime goes and a lack thereof , and that's been that way for a long , long time , and so that .
And then you go to education , and education is another one where it was a tough one for us . And then a lot of the states around us do very well . Uh , colorado does better , utah does very well , texas is not too bad .
Arizona isn't great right now , but they're taking steps to have more school choice for low-income families there , which I think is going to be super helpful .
Right . I mean we're maroon , so we're like worse than the bright red . I mean we're like deep down , it was a tough one . Yeah , no , absolutely
¶ Campus Protests, Middle East Chaos
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So I didn't . I don't want to bring this up just to be like , oh my gosh , it's terrible , but look , this stuff is fixable and we know what our problems are . But if you look more deeply into some of these numbers , you can see why , and so these things can be addressed .
So that's why it's important to talk to your legislators , talk to our leaders , and continue to push and be like look , we're not okay with this . It's not okay to be like this . We know why we're like this . We've got great people and great businesses that are willing to take the torch and push things forward .
I guarantee you we can get people to move into this state if we can make it a more business-friendly state , if we can make it a more friendly state toward people who are trying to climb up the economic ladder and a safer state absolutely no . No safer energy . No , you're right , that's all .
True major player in this situation , so okay we'll see if we actually take any steps .
All right , we're back more frat bro .
I'm loving this , I know this is the summer of the frat bro . I mean , I'm loving these guys . I really am , I . I I'll tell you . Well , not only because I was a frat bro , but I think this is an interesting thing that's starting to play out on these college campuses .
Because they're getting a lot of attention positive attention and I think they're sick and tired of what's going on with all these protests .
Yeah , I think they are , and it's funny to listen to Too bad UNM doesn't have frats right .
They do , they do , they do .
I don't think it's , as it's not as big as it was at Washington State , but it's not , it's , they are there .
Okay .
But so we may need to dust off some UNM frat bros .
I know , Get them out there . I'm like hey UNM , and say , look , let's do this .
Go out to the duck pond and let's start to do this , because that's still going . So what did fan ? Clearly having gone to Washington state ? But uh , but these guys were funny , they , they go out . There's an NT , a group of Antifa people there , and the frat bros go out and they're like listen , let's have a pushup contest , let's do this .
So so let's just watch these guys and see how they handle Antifa on their campus .
They're challenging Antifa to a pushup contest .
So Antifa , completely covered in black . You can't see their faces . The frat bros are just guys going to school . Yeah because these guys aren't even students . Antifa guy wants the frat bro to go first . Oh , now he wants to do pull-ups instead Do push-ups . Oh , now he wants to do pull-ups instead Push-ups . It's about strength , it's about ideas . I'm really good .
Oh gosh , see , antifa guys like . This is about ideas , not about push-ups .
Oh , right right . Whatever guys , it's ideas , it's your idea , it's not anybody else's ideas .
It's your idea , but look . So for those of you who are not watching this , you you have these Antifa guys that are covered . You can't see who they are .
Which is so frightening .
Right they're in all black , but then the students at the University of Washington all surrounding him kind of laughing at him like , give me a break , give me a break .
And this is the sort of thing that is showing off how inane and ridiculous this Antifa movement is right now on the University of Washington campus and a lot of these campuses across the country that are pro Hamas . I mean it's just you see it and you start to see more and more students say no , no , this is ridiculous and those , those optics .
I think most people look at that and go , yeah , I like it .
I have a weird question but why did they have umbrellas ? They look like chimney sweeps from like Mary Poppins days , all dressed up in black with little umbrellas .
Well , think about the fact that they won't show their faces . I know None of them will show their faces anymore . None of them will .
And I guess I think this is all . I'm still standing by the fact that most of these people don't even get involved with this particular protest . They protesters , they're professional protesters . Professional pro yeah , they're , they're . Let's spread the chaos yeah let's get all like fired up about this .
You might get some people that are there that obviously are really passionate about pro you know , taking care of the palestinians and all that and are pro-hamas well , no , if you know , but if you're , look , I get the and there's a distinction between people who want to take care of innocent palestinians and being pro-hamas .
But the problem is it's gone much more toward pro Hamas than it than it has taken care of Palestinians , and we'll get to that in a second . Yeah , but so the next one , next video . This one is classic . This is from Princeton and there's a couple of girls who stand up and are apparently on a hunger strike .
Oh good , and so what you find is just just listen to this Ridiculous . This is classic .
So , els , you may have to pull up the audio pretty high on this because she's a little hard to understand at the beginning , but there's a girl on the left is the one who's talking and she wants everyone to know how hard it is to be a protester who is in the middle of a hunger strike .
My peers and I . We are starving . We are physically exhausted . I'm quite literally shaking right now . As you can see , we are both cold and hot at the same time . We are all immunocompromised and based on these universities .
Meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team , they would love to continue physically weakening us because they can't stand to say no to unjust murder .
Cheers . Just I mean , I'm sorry . Should I point out the obvious ? Yeah , A couple of things . Nobody's forcing you to stay there and starve yourself . If you're trying to do that for attention , well okay , good for you then , but nobody's bringing you a sandwich . Lady two , there's such a thing as door dash .
I mean , you could door dash , you could get dominoes delivered , but you know you want to sit there and say I'm a menu . What are they saying ?
like I am shaking no , I'm hot and cold at the same time , which I thought was a which is hilarious I'm hot and cold at the same time too , so maybe I should start announcing that as well .
Like could you bring me some food ? I have bad chicken and I have hot and cold spells all the time , so if anybody feels like bringing me some food , but this is great because this is not about a cause , this is about them .
They're just like wait a minute , I'm hot and cold at the same time . I'm shaking . I going on around here . I mean this is so self-indulgent , it's so hard mark and it's how in the world you have no concern about whatever cause . You were there for now you're just sitting there complaining about what you're doing it . But it was . It's just classic .
It shows you what we're dealing with now and the longer this goes on , the more you see how ridiculous it is .
And I think people are getting that across the political spectrum if I found out that my kid was involved in any of these protests , on any level , they'd be cut off so fast . I'd be like good luck out there in your crazy land , talking to you , ella , don't think you're going to do this .
Okay , just so you know , understand , you don't get to go to Princeton and then complain that you're shivering and you're hot at the same time , because you haven't eaten for five hours Okay .
All right , thanks guys . Thanks a lot , appreciate that .
Okay , so what's actually going on in the Middle East ?
Well , they're opening up fire , as we talked about . They are going after the people that are trying to help them . Hamas is now firing open fire on the Gaza Pier .
Right . So President Biden set up a pier that basically they want to bring in supplies to people in Gaza that need it . They need food , they need medical supplies , everything else . We're going to put a pier together so that they can bring in ships , unload the supplies and take them right into people who need them .
Except for now , Hamas has decided they're going to bomb the pier with rockets .
I mean this is this is a perfect example of what we've been saying is that they don't care about anybody that's in their way . They don't care Like .
They want you to feel bad for the , for the folks that are in their arena , because they want to blame this all in Israeli and and and say that this is all because of their war Right , when in fact , they're using these guys as human shields . We've been talking about it . Now we have .
Now the US is stepping in and saying hey , we're going to get you some aid . No , sorry , we're not going to do that . We are going to bomb the bridge that's going to carry us some humanitarian help . We're going to just take that out too . So our people don't get that either .
If people don't wake up and realize how insane this is and how much they're out there making fools of themselves for a cause , all they're trying to do is wipe out everybody . I mean , really , at this point , I don't know who they're looking after anymore .
Well , no , I don't think they can be accused of looking after anybody , and that's why there is such a huge difference between looking out for people who are innocent and all of this , and people who are clearly not .
And so that's why there's been so much of a jump of the shark here , where , when these things go pro-Hamas and they start talking about Intifada and everything else , they just have no idea .
And so here is a quote from the story , and it says Israel's Channel 13 reported that in the morning and in the afternoon , missiles were launched toward the area where the Americans are currently building the seaport . And again , these are American soldiers who have gone over and their job . They are not on the front lines fighting .
We don't have anybody doing that , but what we do have is soldiers trying to build humanitarian ports to get help in , and then Hamas is bombing them . So just realize what we're talking about here , beyond going back to October 7th , when we could go over again and again how vicious and how vile it is what Hamas did .
So , as you look at all of this , and now you have the Biden administration now threatening to pull back more arms so that Israel can't finish the job in Rafah . That's going to cost more lives , it just is . It's going to extend this out , because Israel has no choice .
They cannot leave Hamas in Rafah , because then Hamas will stay in charge , they'll expand and then they will do this all over again . That's just what's going to happen .
And again , israel gave out warnings . They warned for I think it was over a hundred thousand innocent civilians . They said get out of here . Like you need to leave because we're coming in . Like I don't know a lot of countries that give out that warning . I don't think Russia is giving out some warnings hey , we're coming into certain areas in Ukraine .
If you , if you don't want to be taken down , you better leave . I don't know a lot of countries that are doing that . Like Israel has warned these people to try to leave . Anyway , it's Hamas that capture people and keep them there and want them to be impacted by this in a really negative way killed or starved to death or whatever .
Yeah , I'm used for PR purposes , which is devastating . And look , israel's not perfect . We're not perfect in war . There's no doubt . War is awful and that's why you don't initiate and try to get yourself into the middle of a war and be the be the side that goes and starts all this , because it's awful , right , it's vicious and it's terrible , there's no doubt .
But it has to be finished because ultimately , the end of the day , palestinians will be better off . They don't want to hear that .
I know , but they will be .
But it's like have a normal leadership group , that's overseeing you , because they deserve better than what they've got Right A lot better .
And you kind of have to look at this and say are they trapped ? Is that really what's happening ?
Yeah , I think right now they are trapped .
It seems like .
To me that they're trapped . Absolutely OK , we got to get into presidential politics , Of course we can't let this go now . So and we've talked a lot about the fact that we don't think there's going to Well , we're questioning whether Biden will be the nominee Still question that .
Right .
But beyond that , we're assuming if Biden is the nominee , there will never be presidential debates , and that could be wrong actually , yeah , I mean , is that true ? Like , are we really thinking ?
I mean , well , let's get this clip really fast , because apparently now he this is from morning , joe I know and this might happen right ? No , I don't know if it's a might , I mean so . So let's just we'll play the clip for you and then , and then we'll talk about what it may mean okay , here's the clip
¶ Debate Speculation, Economic Impact Analysis
. Morning joe , uh , this morning or yesterday morning , talking about the possibility of a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump .
Going after Trump on a regular basis to try and draw that contrast . Is that necessary ?
No , I think absolutely . It is Mika . And look , president Biden has made it very clear he will be debating Donald Trump .
OK , adrian Elrod said he's going to and she's not some fringe person on the edge of the campaign . She's legitimately in the center of the campaign . So I don't think she's saying that unless he's actually going to do it , we'll see . He may find a reason not to .
But here's my question yeah , does Joe Biden know that he's going to be debating Trump ?
Oh , I think he's has anybody told him that ? Oh , I think he's the let me at him guy . You know what I mean . Like Joe's the let me at him guy .
Yeah , he thinks he's still on a sharp game . Yes , Well , I will be . I mean , along with everybody else that I can even imagine that will be something that will be well worth watching .
Well , and I think we'll go live that night . Here's why I think he may , he may . He may view himself as having to do it because the latest polling information is brutal bad , and these ones are even coming out of ABC at this point now too .
So let's take a look at these . This clip , ella 16 or 15 . And it's not looking so good for Biden .
John , there is significant softness in the support for Joe Biden among core Democrats . In this poll he's carrying black voters by 61 points . Well , that sounds like a lot , but he carried them by 84 points back in 2020 . Latino voters a very slight Biden edge in this poll , but it was a 21 point advantage in the exit polls back in 2020 .
And among younger voters under 30 , we're actually seeing Trump with a slight edge . That was a big win for Biden last time around . It's particularly stark to see that difference among voters of color black voters under age 50 , far less likely in this poll to say they're supporting Joe Biden than older black voters .
OK , I would . I might disagree a little bit with him on that . I can understand some of the African-American support sliding , but the young voter I don't buy that number . If that number ends up happening and Trump ends up winning younger voters , it's going to be a blowout . I don't think that number seems a little far-fetched .
But what you look for in polling one individual number doesn't matter really , but what you're looking for in polling and when you're checking out the crosstabs and everything that we don't get to see on some of these other bigger polls is you're looking at a broader trend , and the broader trend is still very positive for Trump , and it's what we've talked about
before . Trump isn't out there doing much because he's in a courtroom and because of that it's actually redounding to his benefit , and so now he sits there and just kind of is like yeah , all right , I'll let this continue to slide in my direction .
Meanwhile you have this crazy stuff going on in the courtroom and then you start to see what I think is going to eventually be the biggest factor in this election . And I know the border's an issue and I know the campus protests are an issue , but the biggest thing is going to be the economy .
So Erin Burnett comes out and does an interview with Biden talking about the economy , and she hits him right between the eyes with a pretty tough question .
Mr President , that voters by a wide margin trust Trump more on the economy . They say that in polls and part of the reason for that may be the numbers , and you're aware of many of these . Of course . The cost of buying a home in the United States is double what it was .
When you look at your monthly costs from before the pandemic , real income , when you account for inflation , is actually down since you took office . Economic growth last week far short of expectations . Consumer confidence maybe you were surprised is near a two-year low .
With less than six months to go to Election Day , are you worried that you're running out of time to turn that around ? We've already turned it around . Look . Look at the Michigan survey . 65% of American people think they're in good shape economically . They think the nation's not in good shape , but they're personally in good shape .
The polling data has been wrong all along .
It's also true , there it is Okay . Listen to what he says there . First of all , he says we have already turned it around . No is Okay . Listen to what he says there ?
First of all , he says we have already turned it around . No , we haven't . You have turned it around and not in the right direction .
Yeah , you've turned it right around and drove it into a ditch . Yeah , but his point in all of this is , beyond the whatever he's talking about , the Michigan survey or whatever yeah , the point being in all of this is he says he says the polling's wrong .
Yeah , that's the most dangerous thing you can do as a candidate is to listen to your people that are in this little enclave who tell you stuff and tell you what you want to hear , and they tell you things like nah , polling's wrong , we're good . No , you're not , you're not good , you're not good at all and you've got a problem .
And instead of saying hey , this is actually what we're going to do you know we're seeing things that slip , you know they're sliding this direction , they've come this direction Instead of actually laying out any sort of plan like I don't know what he would possibly do in the next six months to , you know , really change the economy so much back in his favor , I
mean ?
Okay , and I agree with you . But you know what the plan is . The plan is to let the Trump tax cuts go away . Now I think this is an underreported part of this and that is that if you let the Trump tax cuts go away , you're going to hit every family in the country and people don't realize how much those tax cuts helped across the economic spectrum .
They were a huge help and if you don't know the numbers then you wouldn't realize it . Because , again , over a year right , if you save $2,000 , you don't see that in every paycheck like you would notice it , right , but but it does help you . It helps you in a huge way .
Okay , so Fox business did some numbers on if Biden gets what he wants and Biden's gone out and said this . He said look , I am going to let the Trump tax cuts expire and we're going to raise your taxes . He's saying it right . So what does it mean for each family ? Take a look at these numbers and what they said on Fox Business .
Those are not as hopeful as I thought they would be , the new data showing , actually , that the president's plan to let Trump era tax cuts expire would raise taxes on most Americans . So who , specifically , is going to see the tax increases under President Biden ? We are diving into the real math here .
Here are some examples of three middle class Americans and how much they make and if they have children or not . We're going to start with a single filer with two kids making $52,000 a year . Under Biden's tax plan , this taxpayer would see a one thousand four hundred seventy four dollar and 50 cent tax increase .
Now take a look at a single fire filer , no kids , making seventy five thousand dollars a year . They're going to see an increase of one thousand seven hundred and seven dollars 75 cents , and this one is the one that really gets me A married filer . So you've got a couple , three kids , making $200,000 a year .
This couple is going to see an increase of $7,449.56 .
Yeah , it's huge .
That's a huge number and it's really helpful when people actually can get that information and see the number . Unfortunately , I don't know how many people really know what's going on with that .
Well , I do think that's incumbent upon President Trump , and then it's incumbent upon the media to point this out and to point out exactly what this means .
But when Biden does this sort of thing , and then you look at the amount it costs just to go buy groceries now , and I think when you start breaking all that down , you look at him and you say you are just continually asking more and more of middle-class and low-income families all the time in what you won't stop spending , and I think it's a crazy economic
policy . It doesn't make any sense , but he's going to roll right off a cliff with it .
Well , and the question is will people actually notice that before the election ?
or they won't hit . it won't hit you until next year it can't hit you now , because the Republican Congress , well , the first of all , it doesn't . It has nothing to do with Congress . This is so . This has been passed right , so it's in effect . Now it's sunsets in 2025 . So that's when you're going to feel it .
So , if Trump were to win , he would , he would look to extend them , basically , right , and he probably would get the support even from Democrats in Congress enough Democrats in Congress to do it Like , because it is so , especially now , when you have such an economic problem right now .
But we have massive deficits , right , we're running these massive deficits and massive debt , and so he's trying to make up some of that ground , but he's going to crush families to do it . And so he's trying to make up some of that ground , but he's going to crush families to do it , right . And so he's boldly going out there and saying it .
I just think it's a terrible approach and I think it's going to hurt him , right , and so we'll see . But that's one of those things where he's gone right out and said we're going to get rid of this and the case he's going to make . Let me just tell you right now , the case is just going to hurt the rich . Yeah , it's not true .
You could see the numbers right there . It's not true . And in fact , when these were all passed and they went through , it was very clear what happened . On the lower income scales , they definitely got a boost out of this and that was
¶ Brain Worms and Political Drama
huge . So we'll see what happens , but I do want to tell you this next story . I know it's going to be a little emotional for you , okay .
Such a jerk .
RFK Jr has brain worms .
Unbelievable . It's a parasite .
Okay , well , we'll see . So let's get , as long as we're on the , as long as we're on the morning Joe train they were talking about show yes , and this morning Okay , this is this morning they broke the news . Well , they broke the news . Well , they didn't break it , Everybody kind of broke it . Uh , there were some .
There were some legal documents that came out from about 10 years ago that that were Robert , uh , Kennedy jr had to explain what happened here and apparently he had an issue with a brain worm .
Just posted under Suzanne Craig's byline . We know her . We know her well , operating off of a deposition given by Robert F Kennedy Jr some years ago , relaying how that in 2010 , robert F Kennedy Jr experienced memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that people thought he might be sick .
He went in for scans , they found a dark spot on the brain and the belief is Mr Kennedy says anyway that there's a dead parasite in his brain , meaning I quote from Robert F Kennedy here the abnormality quote was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died .
So Robert F Kennedy is suggesting that a worm ate some of his brain and then died . While there , we'll have more on this development , okay .
I mean , I know , this is like .
Does this change your opinion ? No , it's a parasite .
How many people don't know they have ? I mean , maybe other people have parasites , I don't know . I'm just saying like , of course I like the fact that he kind of took it lightly . He made a little joke about it on Twitter .
He came back out and he said well , I offered to eat five more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate . And then he says I feel confident of the result , even with a six worm handicap .
That is very good . It's good , good for him . That's a good , that's a great response .
Nobody's looking to get a worm in their brain .
I understand .
that , isn't that weird ? Have you heard of that ? Well , I've heard of parasites that crawl up your nose . That's why they always warn you about water and other countries and things of that nature . I don't know a ton about the parasite thing , but I do know it does happen . Yeah .
So there we go , and it did happen .
Okay , okay .
All right . So I just want to make sure you're still on board , you're still riding .
I'm not riding any train . I think he's a fascinating guy . I'd like to see him in a debate . I'd love to see just people have a conversation about some of the things that he has to say . That's it . I'm not on the Robert F Kennedy train . All right , all right I just think that he's an interesting guy and I would like to see him in a debate .
And that is all I've said and you just jump on , you just jump all over it .
Okay . I am also watching with particular glee at the implosion of Kristi Noem . Oh my gosh , the story won't go away . The Republican governor of South Dakota who's just blown her own political career to smithereens , right . So she puts out a book , by the way written by a ghost writer . She didn't write it .
She was busted for number one , shooting her dog in the head and killing it at the age of 14 months old , which was horrendous . Killed a goat as well , and and all sorts of stuff like that , trying to prove somehow she's tough because she can take out a dog , okay . And then also she reports in the book that she met with Kim Jong-un .
She said she met with him . She never met with him , right , and so all of this is just , it's crazy town . So then she goes on for an interview with Stuart Varney on Fox Business , and Stuart Varney is usually a really good interviewer , really a pretty friendly interviewer .
I think in most cases , if you're a , if you're a good Republican governor from a , from a red state , right , you would expect a pretty friendly response .
Well , it didn't go well , and so here's how it wrapped up the last minute or so of that interview I talked to President Trump all the time about the dog , about a lot of things , and right now I tell you what he is being persecuted in a political hunt witch hunt in this court case .
So I'm proud of him , about how tough he is and how well he is doing .
Did you bring up yes Enough ?
Stuart
¶ Controversial Topics in Politics and Immigration
With Trump , did you ? Get this interview is ridiculous , which you were doing right now . So you need to stop . It is . Okay , it is , let's talk about some real topics that Americans care about . I'm afraid we're out of time . Oh well , of course we are we do . Thank you for being with us . I know I pressed hard , but that's what people are talking about .
To this day Got to know . Thanks for joining us . We appreciate it .
Okay that I was a little frosty .
Oh , are you kidding me ? Like she doesn't know what to say . She can't win that one . And didn't we read that , like the publishing people ? In her first book she had this in there and they made her take it out because they said this is a terrible idea or her team did or something .
Yes .
Where are those same people ? This go around .
I don't know . And if you are the person who sat down with her and said no , no , no , we got to include the dog story . It's critical , I mean , but you see , you know , here's the thing about politics Ultimately , at the end of the day , in most cases people find out exactly who you are .
At a certain point you're exposed for who you are , and a lot of times that's good because you got some good people doing it . Other times it turns out like this , and for people who have been on the inside for a while have known this is something that could happen , and so it did .
And for for Kristi Noem to continue to try to defend meeting with Kim Jong-un who , by the way , she went on Fox news and tried to say I don't talk about those conversations , no , you never had that conversation . And then she didn't want to talk to Stuart Barney about the dog . Stuart's like did he ask about the dog referring to Trump ?
And it's like oh my gosh , this is such a grease fire . I mean career's over , I mean the career's absolutely over .
Well , and I just think , for being as smart as she is in certain areas . I just don't know how she missed this mark . Like I don't think anybody an English teacher could tell you this is not going to go well for you . Like you may want to rethink this because this is a sensitive topic for most Americans .
By the way , I don't care if you're a rancher and you feel like they're justified or whatever . The fact of the matter is is like I don't know how you win that and I don't know why you would add that in as any sort of like hey , look at me , I'm super strong girl and look what .
I'm Annie Oakley and I took this dog out , this little dog that was running around and you know , having a good time I shot it , so I will make a great leader for you . I do not understand how that rationale was in her head and it doesn't make any sense .
That's where you also have to have people around you who are honest with you and say this is terrible , Like you can't do this .
I think . What's unfortunate , though , is a lot of times you find out who your leaders really are and it's too late . They've already been elected , they've already been put in office .
They've already done stuff , and so when you're , when you're somebody that's been part of a campaign and you've watched and you know information about stuff , it's maddening to sit on the sidelines and be like are you kidding me ? Are you not going to wake up and realize who you ?
The character of the person that you're that you're potentially going to vote for , to come back in Like I just don't ? That , to me , has never made sense is is , yes , your character matters in a politician .
It absolutely matters in a leadership , because if they're a snake in the grass about something , they have no problem stabbing their constituents in the back and doing what's better for them than the people that vote for them .
And I I that has always blown my mind that people are not rising up and finding out more information about who they think they need to be voting for based on the Jersey color that they they've decided to wear .
But sometimes people do a good job of hiding exactly who they are and they can put it behind a slick looking are , and they can put it behind a slick looking campaign and they can put it behind a slick looking face , and then you don't totally realize who they are until you've already elected them . So it happens . No , you're right . You're right .
All right , we'll go to Denver , where they continue to have issues , with migrants overwhelming the city . So they're now setting up . Ella , we can go , we can show the video of this . It's 24 video 24 , and you can keep the sound down else if you want . But but what they've got now ?
Or they've got these encampments now that are basically under a bridge right and they're just . These are all people that came into the country illegally and they're and they're not . They're not even . You know , they're not even trying to trying to hide this now . So the city of Denver is like , well , what are we going to do about this ?
So the city of Denver goes to them and says , look you guys , we will put you in housing , right , At their cost , Right , this is all this kind of stuff that there's . This all flows downhill but they say , well , we'll put you , we'll put you in housing . You got to take housing , I mean .
And we can show you some of those demands , and it's unbelievable to see how this shakes out . So here it is and it says migrants will cook their own food with fresh .
Culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the city instead of pre-made meals rice , chicken , flour , oil , butter , tomatoes , onions , et cetera . And also , people will not be punished for bringing in and eating outside food .
Yeah , I mean they'll receive the same housing support that has been offered to others . They cannot kick people out after 30 days . Something stable has to be established . There needs to be a clear , just process before exiting someone for any reason , including verbal , written and final warnings .
They want to lay out exactly how things go Again and then you sweep over and you can see another . You know eight to 13 , as far as the rest of the requests go in all of this .
But it's unbelievable Like you start off your time in this country breaking our laws , coming in and then you're setting up a list and you're saying you're going to meet these requests from us really demands from us and if you don't like it , we don't care .
And to me this is just taking the moral fabric of the country and shredding it , because you have so many low-income families across this country that work hard every day and they look at this and go . What are we doing ?
Right . You kind of wonder well , if they don't meet those agreements , then what happens ? How long are these people going to stay in the tents ? Do they think that that's going to be a great thing ? Now , yeah , we're rolling into summer and in Denver that's not too bad right To sit in the tent for the whole summer .
But you can't sustain yourself and I my question on this , when I'm reading all these lists , is who made the list ? Did they unionize ? Did they get an attorney , like what ? What has happened ? That's what I don't understand , because it seems such a like , a formal , like here's our . It looks very unionized to me .
Right , and I think one other thing we can look at on this list . Just out of curiosity ,
¶ Airline Safety and Moose Encounter
look at number nine . Ella , can you just focus us in on that ? No more verbal or physical or mental abuse will be permitted from the staff , including no sheriff sleeping inside and monitoring 24-7 . We are not criminals and won't be treated as such .
Where is that even coming from ?
It's unbelievable , it really is , but this is the chaos that we're watching . We're watching things unravel and , because we're not willing to set barriers and standards , say this is what we're going to do as a country we're going to have a border , we're going to enforce our immigration laws and we're going to care for people that need care .
But you don't get to overrun the country , come in here and then start making demands on the people of this country .
Yeah , I would just say at this point , like , if you can't agree to the terms that the city's offering you , then you can go back to where you came from , like and I know that sounds really harsh , but it's , it's the truth at this point , like you , you can't do .
It's like going into somebody's home and saying , well , these are all the things I need you to do to prepare a meal for me , and blah , blah , blah , blah , blah . Well then you should just go home .
I mean at that point , Well , and this is what we're going to have to address , right Cause , cause there's , there's push . I mean , people from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump have said people need to be loaded back up on buses , and yeah , so it's just , it's amazing to watch . They do have advocates .
The woman you're looking at here is one of their advocates , you know , and having advocates is fine , but this is , but this is ridiculous .
I mean it's just out of control , A whole new out of control level .
So okay , a couple of quick things .
I know we all know how much of a gosh I'm the world's worst , I know .
So the the latest . Uh , I did joke that I was gonna get a flight attendant job . Oh my god , can you ? If that happened , here's how this would go the plane would take off and christy would immediately let everyone know we're going to crash , we're going down .
I think everybody's put their head down between yeah , you'd have them in the crash position .
honestly , you just you go through 10 000 feet , yeah , through 10 000 feet . You hit the little ding . You hit the little ding . You'll hear that You'll hit the ding and then you'll like get in the crash position , cause if we go down now we're all dying .
I mean , I'm not serving you any drinks , I'm not moving around , I'm sitting right here . Yeah , I'd be the worst , it'd be the smooth as a couple , and for me , hands down at being a flight attendant would be my idea of torture , and I would torture other people because of my fear of flying .
So so , yeah , not , not my job , but anyway , what do we got here now ?
So just a quick thing on this and LG . We can just go to the video on this . Uh , so there are three different categories . One was kind of uh , the cheap airlines , right , who's the budget flyers who ? Cheap airlines right , who's the budget flyers who ? Who does best ? And you can imagine southwest . Uh , southwest does well .
They , they did very well , even though over the past couple of years , there have been some major meltdowns from southwest , and all this and and really those meltdowns have been , you know , leaving people stranded . 2022 was really bad for southwest holiday time but they've made comebacks and , in overall , southwest did , did very .
Now , if you're going into business class or you're going into maybe the higher end , that was dominated by Delta , which makes sense . I mean , delta is largely regarded as the best airline in the country , right , and that's how that went down . So it made some sense . I think Southwest is starting to look at some changes .
They may not do the old cattle call situation anymore and they load everybody up at once and everything else . That went down . So it made some sense . I think Southwest is starting to look at some changes .
They may not do the old cattle call situation anymore and they load everybody up at once and everything else . But Delta definitely does very well . Listen , I stand by this . The most important thing on an airline or a flight is that the plane works properly and it has all its parts . They don't fall off before you land .
Poor FedEx plane over there , yeah true FedEx Just landing without their wheels . You're right , ella , look that up , fedex .
Just whatever , we don't need them anyway . So we're going to lose these mid-flight . I mean , holy smokes , I can't turn around . I mean we get comments that are like Christy , no , no , no . I'm sorry , but this has gotten ridiculous .
And if people aren't paying attention , people that are nervous flyers , we're paying attention , we're watching , when you know , and I love some comments . Somebody said to me once was that's not even an important part , and I'm like it's not an important part .
It fell off the plane . If it got sucked into the engine , that plane would go down , and the one you're talking about was fedex goes . They lose the front landing gear . All sudden the fedex flight has to land and bang .
Oh yeah , they're just scraping down the runway I mean thank god for good pilots there , but I , those guys have got to be sweating it .
I mean oh , and it's . You know that .
Well , that was tom hanks , clearly I was gonna say this is a tom hanks thing . Yeah , thank god they weren't over the ocean .
But think about all the stuff that's happened . You lose the front landing gear here and they have to scrape it down . You lose the door in the Alaska Airlines . All the bolts off the Boeing planes . This is going crazy .
Landing gear has fallen off and hit cars .
Yeah , that was recent too . This is the quality control situation . We should be scared and I never used to get scared about oh my God , what if that bolt doesn't hold ?
Yeah .
But now you should be scared .
Oh yeah , I get it , I definitely , I'm always worried about what kind of plane we're going to be on anyway , no .
I think you're . I understand your point . I totally get it . Okay , our last video . This is so . I saw this .
I had to bring it forward because I can imagine being in the position this guy was in , and what I'm bringing up here is what you'll notice is he gets charged by a moose , but he has so little time to react Right that the moose is on top of him in a heartbeat , okay , and his little dog is out there and everybody's fine . But this is amazing .
So you'll listen to this and how it all shakes down . It's a guy who goes out to his car early in the morning .
So the moose . Look how tight this is . He had no idea the moose was even there . And it comes running from his neighbors right at him . He then screams for his little dog . Yeah , tiny little dog , yeah tiny little dog who manages to look at this though he had no clue .
No , none , I mean that thing came in charge to at him .
And he just slid out of the way . I can't imagine what he was thinking .
And you're the guy that's always out there looking for the moose .
Right , I do love moose Right , I do love moose .
Yeah , You're like where's what you ? And we find him , and then he's like running out to try to catch it .
No , no , no , no , no , no . I don't go running out after to try to catch moose Like .
I catch moose , I video the moose .
Yeah , yeah , from a far , far distance . I mean Ella and I the last time we were , or anything like that Feed it .
Yeah .
Feed it .
Get a little snack for it , or whatever . So yeah , there you go . Okay , so now , now we are done .
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