03-06-25 FULL SHOW - We've Got Ask The Lawyer Today, Plus Steve Moore On Tariffs

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Can the Nicety three by Donald Keeping Your Sad Bab. Welcome Local, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show. I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell is my name, and today I am joined by one mister Grant Smith in for the vacationing Anthony Rodriguez. Good to see you on Bolo Tie Thursday. Grant, Yeah, got chucks on today?

Oh nice?

Nice?

That was actually his dad's.

Yeah, so Grandpa Jack, Grandpa Jack's bowlow tie on today, and I'm thrilled that that that thing is getting as much use as it is.

You know what, guys, let me just say this.

If you have something interesting like a bolo tie that you never wear, but then a strapping young man starts wearing bolo ties on Thursday at work, and you think to yourself, you know what, We're going to give him that bowlow tie. And that's why Grant is wearing my late father in law's bolow tie right now.

And those are my favorites are the ones that have a story to him, you know, those are the ones that stick out.

Do you remember where things came from?

This is almost always.

This is one of the things that makes me wonder if my brain is normal, because I have a lasagna pan that was a gift for my first wedding, and I can tell you exactly you gave it to me. I can't remember his wife's name, but I can tell you exactly what they gave me for a wedding gift for you know, and that was in you know, twenty six years ago.

Yep, we have a candy bowl that we would never own.

But one of my mom's friends, her mom passed away, and said, I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with all this stuff. So Gwenn, my mom's friend, her mother's candy bowl now lives on in Olivia and I's house.

The worst part about this stuff is that all of your things, and this goes true to pretty much everything, unless you're like, you know, one of those families is like great great great Grandpa built this in seventeen eighty five or something. I know, most people are a little more mobile at this point and have gotten rid of

By the way, not that your theme song is crap, but I was not a fan of it when it first started.

Thrown on you, hasn't it.

I sing along to it every you know what? And it makes you happy, doesn't It doesn't. It's a mocker song. I love the happy song. And it was made by a guy named Ty Shade and he is just a listener to the show and just got a wild hair and use some AI music programs and lyrics City Road it is.

That that's where it came from.

Mandy. Just as your listeners enjoy weekly whether Wednesday, I'd like to see a money market Monday guy or gal to recap previous week and current week on the stock market. As you can see, ever since the party you elected to represent America has caused severe losses in the market.

Weekly updates would.

Be nice, guys. I've said it before. I actually think we're gonna end up in a bit of a recession before it's all said and done, but after the recession if all of these policies go into effect, tariffs being an outlier. Today, we're going to talk to Steve Moore at about two thirty about tariffs. He is on the Trump Economic advisory team, and he is a staunch free market guy. I mean, I know this about Steve. I've interviewed Steve for ten years now. He is as free

So don't get excited.

That being said, if you change the way the government is funded from the backs of the people who work and produce here to people who want to sell things into the country, which is how it was funded for a very long time.

It sounds great, but will it work.

No, because that's where you're going to run up against intractable government. And even if it were the best idea ever, it would have to be ratified by two thirds of the state legislatures, and there are legislatures in this country that would never give Donald Trump a win of that size. Never, because that's the official position currently at the Democrats is just whatever he's not. And you know, I said it

That story is just.

Grant.

There's an old curse. May you live in interesting times. We, my friend, are living in interesting times. You should all go read the blog. Find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three six twenty five blog We've got asked the lawyer today plus Steve Moore on tariffs and now click on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

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A man and boy talk about life, and a girl and a woman talk about life. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now, while there's a lot more stuff on the blog than I realized till I lost my breath, there got a couple of videos.

Few videos at the bottom.

One the glucos Goddess on which way to burn and exercise most effectively what you do to eat before and after.

It's really interesting. I listened to it on the way to work today.

Then if you're feeling sad, slap on a big old fake smile and hold it there. Studies show it will actually elevate your mood. And then two videos back to back. This is so cute. I'm going to do it with my grandsons this weekend because I'm going to see him this weekend. A boy and a man talk about life. They sit and ask each other questions about life, and it's the cutest thing. And then they have a girl and a woman and it's adorable. It's very, very cute.

Come in.

And if you have a question about personal injury, and I actually have two questions to ask them, one hypothetical one real life when it comes to medical malpractice, and get those questions ready, because they're going to be at one o'clock to do that now. Gavin Newsom and I have this on Today's blog, has launched a podcast, The Media Product no one was asking for, Grant the Gavin Newsom Show, or this is Gavin Newsom, This is Gavin Newsom.

I'm already sick of this guy. Like this an end to it.

I think I'm actually going to go listen to it, because here's what's happening. You know how, I like to give our governor, Governor Jared Polis high marks for his ability to be a political animal. He's better at politics than pretty much anybody in the game right now, period. And he's already running for president, not officially, but he's running for president. You look at every decision he makes, everything he posts on social media is designed with his presidential run in mind.

Okay, he's laying the breadcrumbs.

Of Look how we've lowered costs in Colorado, which is just a blatant lie, a blatant lie, Grant, how much of your costs gone down in Colorado in the last few years.

The only change in cost I've seen has been up.

Yes for everything, yes, yes, and not all of this is Jared Polos's fault.

Let's be clear.

I mean, there's been a pandemic, and there's been all kinds of stuff, and inflation has been out of control, but Colorado's inflation has been worse than the rest of the nation.

I have that on the blog today.

So enter.

This is Gavin Newsome his new podcast.

He's pledged to sit down with people from across the aisle. This guy's blazing through the Democratic primary. He's already working on the general election by talking to people from across the aisle.

Let's find those areas of commonality.

And guess what. A guy who has been a full throated champion of children keeping their gender transition to them away from their parents has now come out and said that he thinks men should not be able to compete in women's sports. And he said, I think that it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that it is an issue of fairness. It's deeply unfair. I'm not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree

And how mad is he that.

Gavin Newsom already took kind of a cool name. This is Gavin Newsom, like, not all that stuff you've seen in the media before. Not the guy who kind of oversaw the decline of California even more, not that guy. This is Gavin Newsom, the reasonable guy. He talks to people across the aisle. Heck, he's practically a libertarian. When Gavin Newsom comes out with his first I'm a Libertarian commercial, I'm gonna fall on the floor and die of laughter. You guys will have to revive me. You'll have to

Run for Congress.

So what did he do? He spent the most money ever spent to get into Congress, and after he served in Congress for a little bit, he then decid he was going to run for governor. So he then spent the most money ever spent in a governor's race to win the governorship, and then spent an obscene amount of money that, by his standards prior to the money spent that he spent prior, would have been an insane amount of money to keep an office that he was already

I mean, that is it.

He has had a very clear view of what he has wanted to do, and maybe the timeline isn't exactly what he thought it would be, you know, maybe it really depends on who wins the race and what party holds the seat and all that stuff. So there were variables beyond his control. But he has had a mission since he ran for Board of Education, and we are seeing the beginning of his presidential run now. And y'all don't sell the man short. He is the best politician

He's good.

There's a very good chance that he could be president, depending on how the next four years goes. Because here's what I'm counting on. I'm counting on after the first six months of chaos that is sure to happen in the beginning of this Trump administration.

We're seeing it now.

And by the way, when I say chaos, let me be clear, I'm not opposed to all the chaos. It's just a lot.

Some of it I love.

Some of it is really disruptive in a way that I don't think people who voted for Trump to do these things thought they were going to be directly affected. I mean, that's the kind of chaos that we're seeing here. I do think we're going to see a recession, but I also think when the economy adjusts and all of that money that was going to the government starts going into the private economy again.

Then you see explosive of economic growth.

I hope I'm right. And even if you hate Donald Trump, I think you probably hope I'm right.

Even when I didn't like Joe.

Biden had wanted him out of office, I didn't want America to suffer to make that happen. I always want to see us, the United States people succeed, which is why I'm a small government, free market person. That being said, we're watching this, we're gonna see it. Do not sell the man short. He could very well be the next president or the president after that, of the United States of America. He's a savvy dude. He's got a lot of money.

He's done his.

Bidding for the Democratic Party.

He did that stupid bit where he ripped pages out of twenty twenty five at the DNC, although he's been known to do stupid bits before, so maybe they didn't have to twist his arm for that one. But he's a man on a mission, Mandy. When I served on the school board, Jared Polus in a box of chocolates every Christmas to all school board members in the state. Must have cost a chunk of change. Mandy Jared Polis isn't good looking enough to run for president.

But Jared Polis is gay. He's openly gay.

And guess what we haven't had We haven't had an openly gay president in the White House. Nope. So he checks an identity box that until now has been very important to the Democratic Party. Although the conversations that I've seen from people inside the Democratic Party are not necessarily party leaders, but people who are Democrats. They are ready to throw all of this kind of social causes under the bus. They're done with the whole transgender sports issue.

They are done with all of it. So it's going to be very interesting to see.

How it works. Mandy. If Jared Polis is going to run for president, he should probably get on the gop one treatment.

Now.

He kind of has that slash fun You look to himself. What I got That didn't make any sense, Mandy. He might be that good, But there won't be a gay guy's president anytime soon. That is a lot of money wasted. You know what, I would have believed you twenty years ago.

Oh?

Yeah, I have an update. I saw it today and I was like, oh, finally an update. We'll do that next.

January of last year.

There were three dudes in Kansas City that went over to their buddy's house to watch the game, and he said he went upstairs and went to bed, and then a couple days later they found the dudes frozen in the guy's backyard. Now we have more information because two arrests have been made, and I know that I isn't it awful grant that now when I see anyone who's young who dies, I immediately go damn drugs. Yeah, unless they say car accident or something. You know, that's my first thought is.

Oh, it was drugs, and in this case it was drugs.

Yeah, and that seems to be you know, you're not wrong for making that assumption because the numbers.

I know, but I just I hate it that that's where we are. It's like a reflex, you know, and God forbids someone just die. Oh It's like immediately you're you're disparaging their character, you know, assuming, But it's sad. Well, these guys currently bought uh, some cocaine from a guy and two guys, Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson. They've now been charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two

And then the dudes froze to death.

And I'm just like, oh uh, and everybody was casting dispersions on the guy who owned the house without knowing anything.

What a terrible story. You know, I gotta tell you this is.

Gonna sound like a horrible thing to say, so prepare your angry emails now. I'm glad I was young when I was, when a vast majority of the time, if you went out and you partied with your friends, you weren't gonna die. And now it seems like with the spread of fentanyl, it's and I'm not recommending going out buying illegal drugs. Please don't take it that way. But you know, we just had to worry about AIDS and herpies. We didn't have to worry about somebody giving our kid a pill at a party.

That will instantly kill them.

Back in the good days, when cocaine was just cocaine.

Yeah, exactly, you know, when the water was clean but their minds were dirty or something.

My late mother in law used to say.

It's just sad. And before everybody gets sends the sanctimonious I can't believe you're defending people who use illegal drugs. Then I want to follow up and tell me that you've never made an enclossally stupid decision in your life, because if you haven't, you've had a boring, unchallenged life. I mean Honestly, I've learned the most from the colossally stupid decisions that I've made in my life. Some of them I would not want to do again, except for the fact that they were so instructive.

But none of them killed me. I guess I have that going for me. Anyway.

Mandy wasn't one of the home wasn't one of the ones arrested homeowner. I do not believe that it was Wait a minute, nope, Oh no, you're right. Oh no, I misread that entire article.

It was the homeowner. He was one of them.

Oh, thank you, Texter. I was feeling sorry for that guy. Now I know he's part of the problem. He's a big part of the problem. Half of it, to be exact. Thank you, Texter. I completely misread that article this morning. When I was reading it, I was in a hurry this morning. I have so much stuff on the blog it's not even funny. Including I went around and did some digging this morning. Oh on the blog today, Mike

Don't want to keep playing it over and over again.

But on the blog today you can go see the video of the mayor's opening statement, so you can get the vibe he was going for. And then Representative Gabe Evans, and then Representative Lauren Bobert, and then Representative Jim Jordan, who obviously is not local, but he absolutely really came after Mike Johnston. It was pretty intense. And then Representative Jeff Craik. I have some of his I can't find his entire questioning online, so I could not do that.

There's a website I think it's called American Maid. That's not where I went.

I went somewhere else and it took me to these trucks that I put on the blog today. I was kind of surprised to find out that the cars that are I would say the most American made, meaning they are assembled in the United States and an overwhelming majority of their parts and components are also made in the United States. What brand do you think Grant would be the most American made cars? Not necessarily all the lines, but you know, Chevy, you would be totally wrong.

It would be Honda.

Really not even Japanese company, correct.

So Chuck's Chuck Drisa Tundra. I love that truck.

By the way, if you're looking for a truck, a toy Potochondra is amazing, especially the crew cab, super comfortable.

For my whole family, we all have long legs.

This is not a sponsored ad, but he has a Tundra and it's one of the most American built trucks is the Toyota Candra because it's built in Alabama, and most of the components are in the United States. But Honda makes Accura and Honda, and they have plants in Mary's Bill, East Liberty, and they have Mary's Miville in East Liberty, Ohio. And then they have Honda Manufacturing of

They have a lot of assembly plants here.

They have them in Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio. And the highest number of US made components is forty seven percent in the Lincoln Coursair. That's the Oh no, I'm sorry, the Mustang. Sixty percent of the Mustang's parts are made in the United States. The rest of them are probably, i'd say average thirty percent.

That's mind blowing to me.

Well, now they still make the parts right, Ford still makes the parts at a Ford factory in Canada, Mexico, or China. So they're going to get killed on that tariff bringing their parts in. Even though they an American company make them, they make them.

Somewhere else, which is why they reached out to Trump and got a delay on these tariffs.

Now General Motors is a little bit better. They're their percentages are kind of all over the place, the highest being the Cadillac Lyric Sixty two percent of those parts are made here, but they're in the high thirties forties that you know area. But Stilantis, which is Dodge Cheap and Ram, even though it's headquartered in the Netherlands, a lot of their cars are made in the United States as well, but not as high as Honda. Honda has

Those cars all source parts from all over the world.

So it's it's that kind of manufacturing that I think Trump is trying to restart. I think one of the interesting points that he made in that speech the other night was when he talked about the fact that we don't have the underlying manufacturing capacity for steel and for aluminum and for these things to do the kinds of things in our defense like build ships.

And I think he's right about that.

I mean, if we if we are entirely reliant on Chinese steel and then we go to war with China, what does that do. And it's not like you can, you know, just flip the switch on a steel mill and just crank it back up. So I think there's things that we need to be concerned about. I mean, think about what we went through in COVID in terms of being able to get medications, remember the generic medication shortage, because all of those.

Pills are made in China.

So it's.

A valid concern. I'm hoping it works out. It may or may not. We'll see, we'll all see together.

All the way. All of these charts, by the way, are invented on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. If you want to see it, you can check it out there. I want to talk about the EU for just a moment. If nothing else. Trump has their attention and they seem to be springing into action.

We'll do that next.

Let's talk about what's happening in Europe right now. Today's going to be a fast and furious day. We've got Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock coming up.

At one o'clock.

We're playing an hour of aff the Personal Injury Attorneys. Because I love hearing other people's problems. Mostly I love hearing solutions to them, but I love hearing about other people's problems. So that's coming up at one. In the meantime, though, Grant, I have a question for you. Has there ever been a more pretentious name than European Commissioned President Ersla vonder Layan Ivondo Layan. Hey, I'm Ursla?

Oh does she?

And what do you?

How do you introduce yourself?

Vonder Layanursla vonder Layan.

That doctor you had and yesterday should have a name like that.

There you ac exactly.

I could listen to him talk about anything.

Why do you think I had him on the topic. Interesting, But you can get an Irish guy on the show whenever I can. Just a thing, So back to something serious. The EU right now, today, right this minute, well maybe not right this minute, maybe happened earlier today, European Union leaders met and had a closed door meeting, and according to the AP, European Union leaders have failed to reach consensus on a common stance in defense of Ukraine at

They never do that. So right now, what's happening in the European Union is this.

They're all freak it out because they realize that all of a sudden they are vulnerable because we have a president who's like, hey, you know what, why don't you guys follow up to your commitments and spend the amount of money that you're supposed to be spending on your own defense, which you haven't done for like sixty years. And Europe for the first time is like, oh crap, I think they mean it.

This is for real.

He's not kidding.

So now there's this glory of activity and all of these commitments to essentially allow Europe to go into deficit debt itself, because to be a part of the European Union, you're supposed to not be able to run deficits beyond a certain limit and for a certain period of time. They're very strict because they already had to bail out Greece,

To pay to protect them.

And it sounds heartless and horrible, but that's the reality of what's been going on. We've been subsidizing Europe and their lifestyles since World War Two, and we finally have a president that's like, you know, I don't think we're gonna do that anymore because you guys are not following through with a little bit that we asked you to do. So now they're doing it because they have no choice.

Era is upon us.

Some of our fundamental assumptions are being undermined to their very core. Now I think what she means is that the assumption that the United States would always have their back because we are, you know, great partners and great allies. But what she really means is the fundamental assumption that someone else was going to do the heavy lifting when it came to keeping bad actors in check. Yeah, that

And frankly, I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it.

When we get back, we've got Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock. We're playing an hour of Ask the Lawyer, because I want to hear your personal injury questions.

I have too.

I'm going to ask them if I consume.

My neighbors if they don't clear their sidewalk and I fall invest my butt, and then I have a medical malpractice question as well. It's gonna be a great hour, super interesting. I love this stuff, so we're gonna do that when we get back. Keep it right here on KOA.

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Welcome to the second hour of the show. And you may be confused when you hear these next two voices. You might think to yourself, Wait, those gentlemen are on Saturday morning when I'm running errands. That's what I listen to the Bell and Pollock Personal Injury Show, and I say it all the time.

Every time I.

Listen, I learn something new and it makes me feel a little dumber but then a little smarter by the end of the show. Joining me in the studio now from Bell and Pollock, I've got Bell and Brad Pollock.

Hello, Mandy, how you.

Doing, Hello Manday's time to do legal rock and roll. Let's get going here.

Well, I told you, guys, I love hearing other people's problems. I know that sounds weird, but I find it fascinating the things that happen in society on a regular basis that you don't necessarily think about.

You guys have been doing this for how long we've been doing the show twenty five thirty years now, So do you know the.

Weirdest case you've ever had. Do you have one that springs forth when you go, wow, that was a doozy?

Yeah, we have several. But you know, speaking of that, we had a great call on our show a while back, and the guy says, I am so mad at my neighbor. He lived in eastern Colorado out on the plains. I'm so mad at my neighbor because so what's the problem. Well, he put a beehive on the fins next to my property. Well it's on his property, and so can you guys do anything about it? And what are the rights? So that was pretty wild and what I mean?

But what happens then? Do you have the right to tell somebody to move their beehive?

Yeah, that's great because I know that you're you are a big proper the owner person. So yeah, so are we Okay, So you can use your property, you just can't create a nuisance, okay. And so then but and then the argument is, well, that's my property. I can do what I want, but you can't create a nuisance. Like if you had water overflowing or or something like that would be anisance. The other thing was that on this case he had plenty of places to put it down the fence away from the guys.

He was just mena Jersey.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, I want to open the phone lines to anyone who has any kind of situation where they have been wronged, they have been harmed by the negligence of someone else. If you if you've been in that situation and you have a question, and I will tell you guys that in the past, when I have done these on various shows, various markets, it's a lot of people who call and say, should I have called an attorney?

Right?

Should I have called? I think, why don't people just pick up the phone and ask the questions? Let me get the phone over out three O three seven one three eighty five eighty five.

That's seven.

Let me try that again, three O three seven to one three eighty five eighty five, and Grant.

Will screen your call in just a second.

I mean, how often do you think people just don't make the call or they don't investigate, and they end up getting shorted.

That's the problem. A lot of times people don't call when they should call. The call is free, there's no reason not to call. Get some initial advice, figure out what you want to do, and you get people that don't make the call when they should. And I'd say fifty percent of the calls I get that are late is just because somebody was afraid to pick up the phone and.

Talk to their lawyer.

As a daughter of an attorney, I mean from the time I was five years old, I think I knew in any situation, even if everything is perfectly fine and everything's going your way, you better have somebody there because you don't know what they know you know in any situation. So I have a couple questions for you guys that I want to get answered to, and one of them is this. So I know I am not alone in

There?

What do they have to be responsible for?

Okay, I'm gonna ask for a part of and then you're gonna catch the common law part of it. Listen, you live in Douglas County. There's an ordnance in Douglas County called the Snow and Ice Ordinance Number zero zero seven zero zero three. Okay, what does it say? It says property owners are directly respond for clearing sidewalks bordering their property. They can hire it out, but they're ultimately responsible.

Okay.

It also says, what's the time frame? When do you have to do this? Right when it s nos? The ordinance says snow and ice both must be removed within twenty four hours after the snow stops falling. Okay, that's the time frame, and then should should they shovel the snow on the street. No, the order says you got to put it on your lawn.

Well, that makes sense. It also waters your line.

Exactly, so, so that's the ordinance part. That's what we call lawyers call the statutory part. Brad's going to explain to you what the property liability common law statute is for the duty and responsibility if you don't comply.

Well, it's pretty simple.

If you've not exercised reasonable care and taken care of your property, you're going to be responsible for injuries that are caused by your failure to exercise that reasonable care. One of the things you have to do in reasonable care is remove the snow and ice from your sidewalks. Probably should be careful because you probably want to remove it from the driveway.

Also, that was a follow up question.

I got to this. A delivery driver said, I'm delivering huge boxes. Are people responsible if I fall and you wipe out in their driveway that has not shoveled.

Right, Well, if they've had twenty four hours it has been snowing. Under law and even under the common law, especially if they're ordering those packages, they're having people come to their property.

You've got to make your property safe for people.

And the bottom line is is get the snow shoveled, get the ice melt out, take care of your sidewalk, take care of your driveway, and avoid the problem.

Okay, so I'm just gonna leave a little note. I'm gonna start leaving little post it notes on people's doors. There's a tiny handful of people that does this, right, but boy, it makes it awful and dangerous and not fun to be out there. And some of us we got it.

I gotta walk my dog.

You just said the keyword in the statue, dangerous, dangerous condition. That's what it causes. But boy, would I love to cross exam in one of those neighbors that doesn't do this. That would be so easy to do. Okay, Suppose this neighbor didn't clean his driveway and he says, well, the Organs doesn't say driveway, it says sidebark, mister Bell, right, Well, I would find out immediately how many packages you've had delivered in the last year through your driveway, and then then I had on you.

Okay, So I'm glad I asked this question. I am now armed to the teeth with the information that I need.

Thank you.

Very much.

But I have callers on the line who want to join the party.

So let me go to Jeff.

You are on with Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock.

Hi.

I have a question pertaining to a dog.

A dog fight, a dog fight?

Oh bite? Okay?

Yeah.

So if somebody has a dog that's on a path and they let that dog bite you, what are the recall or what are the actions that can be taken for that?

All right, I'm going to give you the first part. Brad, I'll give you the second part. Thanks for the question. Uh, the laws change in Colorado. It used to be this old adage of every dog gets his first bite. That was the old adage. That's kind of comical, sometimes not so comical. But that change and they passed the statute eight nine ten years ago that says their strict liability

Sure that statue to CRS thirteen twenty four, and it's it's very simple.

The dog owner is automatically liable.

Whether or not the owner is negligent and caring for the dog, or whether or not the dog he has ever shown signs of aggression, They're going to be liable, period. They got the responsibility. Now that liability under the statute is for the expense of taking care of the dog bite. Obviously there's times when you have more than the expense of taking care of the dog bites.

The emotional problems this can cause.

If it's a young child, it can cause a whole lot of emotional problems for the child.

Then they start looking into a little bit more.

Did you know the dog had dangers to propensities were you're not properly taking care of the dog, or where you're not properly kenneling the dog when you had people over, did you get any any kind of training for the dog. Did you get any kind of disciplinary actions with the dog so that you could control the dog? And that's when you start getting into even greater damages that you're going to be responsible for as the owner or as the person on the property who you're responsible for that dog.

I'm so sorry. One more point. So medical bills are strict liability. You get them, you should get them, and they pay the rest of your damages. You have to prove and you have to go out of see in the ordinary way. Gotcha?

All right, Jeff? Does that help?

Thank you very much?

Thank you.

Let me go to John.

You're on with Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock.

Hey, guys, thank you so much for letting to say that. I had the opportunity to have the gentlemen as lawyers, but I got dropped from them because I refused to do a needle test. I was definitely afraid of needles, and which was the test was going to be done during surgery anyway, so.

I eventually had to test out, but they dropped me as a client.

Because John, I'm going to say this, I would prefer you take this up with them at their office because I can't verify anything that you're saying right now, and they're both sitting here looking at me and shaking their heads.

Everybody know. Just letting everybody know how that would be.

You know, guys, Sometimes and this is my responsibility here, people will call up that are not necessarily engaged with the with the people on the show and try to say something that's negative and we don't have any way of verifying that. And I hope he does call with you guys and follows it up with you guys. Anyway, glad to take the car? Yeah, three oh three seven one, three eighty five eighty five Bill you're on with Gary Brad from Bell and Pollock.

Hey, guys, Mandy's honor. I have a I bought a twenty two ionics five from Handey and the car broke down and it was in the shop total for almost a year, like literally eleven and a half months. I'm a ten ninety nine client, I'm a taxi driver and I bought the.

Car to be an owner operator.

During that time, I lost over thirty thousand dollars. And all had I told you was we gave you a honor. They wouldn't honor the meeting lemonhav business business.

Wait, is that accurate?

So lemon law?

Lemon laws don't apply to businesses when they buy a vehicle.

It's usually to consumers who buy a new vehicle where the lemon law applies. They will fight you to say that they're not responsible under the lemon law for a business operation or a business endeavor where you're losing money. However, there are other ways to go after him. And the other ways to go after him are to hold them

And did they know that?

Bill?

I did mention it to the guy when I was buying.

It to the salesman.

I don't know if you mentioned it to the finance guide, but I did mention it to the salesman.

Okay, Well for my take. You know a lot of people talk about the lemon law. We got the lemon law.

Wow.

Sometimes you don't want to be subject to the lemon law because you got to take it back a number of times. You have to give them a fair opportunity to repair and I've seen that not work out more than i've seen it work out. But back to your issue, So if the limit law doesn't apply, what you know,

Maybe follow up with them in their office.

That's other plan that other lawyers tell me it's a winnable case, but it takes too long.

Well what do they mean by it takes too long?

I mean you know a lot of things about but lawyers wanting to get cases done fast. Sometimes getting case done fast isn't what you need. Sometimes you need to make sure you do the right job and you approach it correctly.

So I don't know why they say it takes too long.

I think I think you got to sit down with some lawyers who have the willingness to stick it out for you.

I would love a consultation.

All right, give me a call there, Thank you very much. Okay Roberts, you're a McGerry and Brad from Dell and Pollock.

What's your question?

Yes, a underage driver that lives down the street took his mom's suburban and hit three of my vehicles, and I recently got a judgment or approximately seventeen thousand dollars. The question is, and the owner of the car was the mother's boyfriend. So I'm wondering the fifteen year old. I don't think he's going to have a job forever.

Uh what do I do?

Is there any legal recourse? Do I have to get a lawyer to sue the parents or the owner of the vehicle? I guess that's basically it.

Let me ask you a couple of questions and then Brad can start flying over here. Legally. Uh, you said you got a judgment? You use that word. Did you go to court and get a judgment? Yes, against the minor?

Yes, you're the only one charged.

In state court, in criminal court?

Carry oh, I was always in. It was a bit.

It was restitution that you got, wasn't it right?

Yes?

Okay, don't you haven't sued in civil court anybody?

No?

Okay, Well, if you did, we'll be glad to consult with you. But if you did what you have to do and you avoid a bunch of the legal mumble John Jumbill called race ju da kata and collateral stopp well, all that means this, you have to bring all your claims that you're ever going to bring. I guess everybody you're ever going to bring them. And so if you sued the minor but you didn't sue the parents, assuming the parents meet the test, which is another conversation, then

Sue a kid, Well, it's probably not going to do any good.

Can you even do that? We can't hold you know, miners responsible for contracts, so can they be sued?

They can be found liable in that case.

Absolutely.

In this case, yes, you have a judgment against the kid for restitution. That doesn't include a number of other elements of damages that you're entitled to. That's probably just the amount necessary to fix the vehicle or your cars.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

And it probably doesn't compensate you for the time without the cars, and for any rental cars you're gonna have, and other expenses you're gonna have.

That takes going to court.

This will be a county court action, and to be an action that you should be able to get a lawyer. Give us a call at our office. We'll talk to you about it.

It's something you can do to go against the parents.

You start looking at who had the responsibility to watch over that vehicle, who had the responsibility to make sure it was safely tucked away in the driveway or in the garage or along the curb. And you weren't going to have an agurus driver drive it.

Maybe mother's boyfriends should come into the picture. HEROD, let's get it going on that.

But I'm sure he was thrilled that his vehicle was used, really really thrill or.

But let me tell you one thing. You might already have the most powerful remedy because you've got restitution. What does that mean if you stood in civil courts, you have to go through a trial, all that stuff, you got to get a judgment, but you've got an order of court granting you restitution. So if anybody violates the order, then they're in contempt of court. So you can wait, and I guess you can wait, but you can wait till a little bit longer, till you get your job, okay,

Right, Is there any way to hold anybody else responsible for that restitution order? But it's court orders to the kid? I mean, because let's be real, kid's fifteen years old. He's right this kid's not going to have a job that pays well for I mean a decade if that, right, So that seems like a silly, silly thing.

I guess there's no other way to do it, though, is there.

Look, look, you haven't done a civil action yet, so you can make a claim against the boyfriend's insurance company and they're going to say, well, we're not responsible.

What Yeah, he was uninsured unsure.

Get my vehicles.

All of my vehicles had liability Insuran. It's really high liability insurants. They're all paid for.

And yeah, well listen, I think there's some hope left on the on the horise in here. We we did a lot of legal shows called finding Insurance, okay, and and the the grapham on the bottom line for you right now is the kid didn't have any insurance, But and the and the boyfriend didn't have any insurance. But there's anybody in the household that lives there that might be related as a resident relative that has insurance? Or are we just talking about nobody has insurance?

I I don't know, but I don't believe any of them had.

Are you sure that's no insurance? You sure there's no insurance?

Well, sure, I mean he there was he when the boyfriend walked up the street with the mom, they had no proof of insurance. And then I think they found a card, but it was expired.

No, no, you haven't heard directly from the insurance company yet. We could help you do this for free. You you need to make them on the insurance. No, you make demand on the insurance company. We got to find out who it is and let them tell you. And when we get that answer, a lot they say I'm sorry, sorry, there's no insurance.

Prove it.

Well, here's how you're going to prove it.

Do you have uninsured and insured motors covered?

Yeah?

He said he was.

He was covered up to the limits.

So yeah, you have uninsured motors coverage included on your policy.

Right.

I think he said they only had liability of coverage.

That's what I'm trying to find out.

It was just yeah, just liability.

Yeah, yeah, no, you I.

Am okay, all right.

You know this is one where some pressure asked me applied against the the boyfriend, against mom exactly. Somebody negligently supervised that child and didn't take care of what he was supposed to be doing. Another question is do you know if the if the fifteen year old had started driving yet.

No, okay, so he wasn't on a permitted and.

Yeah, nothing okay the police. I asked the police about the insurance from the boyfriend, and the police said, well, there's no insurance. Uh, so I have no idea how to find out.

Yeah, you know, okay, but I have no record. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but take that with a grain of salt, because what they usually in police usually means is they didn't have any proof of insurance and a lot of accidents people I don't know what main Schorge card is. Just because they don't have proof doesn't mean they have They don't have insurance and needs to be pushed, pressed, investigated.

Come see us, give them a call at their office. Three oh three seven nine five fifty nine hundred. We're going to take a quick time out. We're with Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock. Gets your injury questions ready now three O three seven one three eighty five eighty five back after this. I have some follow up questions from our icy sidewalk via the text line. If we can do those real quick and then we'll get

So probably, the answer is probably, and we've done it before. Yes, and so homeowners need to get the best coverage you can. But since a strict liability for the medical bills, as we said, it's gonna pay, there's somebody's gonna pay. It might as well be the insurance company, all right.

I have multiple follow ups about the icy driveway. One of them is I live on two acres in Parker and my driveway is really long. I shovel the walkway from the driveway to my house about fifteen feet.

However, I rarely shovel the driveway. Do I have liability?

Okay, Ron, I'm gonna, you know, mean something like that. The idea is, if you have.

A common house in a common neighborhood where people are going to be going up and down, and you're gonna have deliveries into your driveway, or you're gonna have people that might be using your driveway.

If you're talking about where you're living.

The most I would worry about there is shoveling a path that somebody can walk up your driveway in a safe and reasonable manner without falling or slipping on ice or snow, not drive not part, not shoveling the entire driveway.

So they could file to take that path from their front door and just zip it out.

They can.

But my answer goes, that's a private, private driveway, but is it used for public like the public sidewalk. So for example that when we used earlier Mandy was if you got deliveries, and you might have deliveries, and you know deliveries are going to come there, then you got a duty and responsibility. Okay, but if nobody's ever going to use your driveway up the driveway sure on private property, you know, probably no requirement whatsoever.

But if you order from Amazon, shovel the side a path for the.

Amazon driver will thank you. All right, Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, his mom was involved in a car accident. Jeff, you're on with Carry and Brad from Bell and Pollock.

Hi, my question is dealing with the insurance companies and the actual police report that happened for this accident. My mother che boned a fella who was in a truck trying to back a trailer across the country road, couldn't see any lights or anything, and the other person got

Okay, a couple of questions, and I'll jump all over for you.

When did this happen back in October? Last October? Okay, last year.

We're losing the war against time, okay, and we'll be glad to talk to you, glad to meet with you, there's no charge anything. Here's the deal. This is what lawyers they never tell you TV or otherwise. But this is what lawyers call a fact driven machine, a fact driven circumstances. So what does that mean? That means what

What? What does this?

Backing up a trailer? You can't back up a trailer. So what are the facts? You understand what I'm saying. The actual facts have to be investigated. And I'm not just talking about a casual, you know, cup of coffee conversation. I'm talking about in detail.

Brad, you're taking, well, the guy was backing a trailer rope across a public road. The cause acid in a crash stop? It just tell the insurance company. We don't want to hear it. They need to pay. That's my add Now, you know, maybe they've got something your mom was speeding or she should have seen it or whatever. You know that that's where you need to have an advocate for you that says that you're not going to buy that. Of course, the insurance company's going to say they don't.

Want to pay.

Of course, they ain't never want to pay anybody. That's just the way insurance companies work.

So I'm going to tell you what we tell our listeners a lot, okay, and our Saturday morning show us seven o'clock on kay how and otherwise, sometimes you don't need a lawyer, and they're kind of surprised when you say that, but in this case, you need a lawyer period period.

Jeff, give them a call tomorrow at the office.

All right, thank you, very all right, thank you, Jeff.

I want to get in one more before we have to take a break here in about two and a half minutes.

Andrea, you're on McGary and Brad.

Hello, Hello, Hi.

My son took a trip down to Cancun, Mexico in December of twenty three, and I talked to a couple of people about it, and they told me it wasn't worth pursuing, but I thought I'd just call by. He was visibly ill on the flight, and after the flight I noticed because a woman took his phone from him while I was talking to him and said he had thrown up a couple of times. He had passed out about twice before he actually got out of the terminal. He had no recollection of being sick or what had happened.

They sure should be doing something.

It's crucial to inform the flight attendants or make sure they know and they can provide some assistance based on symptoms.

Can I speak as a former flight attendant on the one let me just say this, and I'm not trying to disparage yourself, but a flight out of cancuon a young man vomiting on that flight is not unusual because there was probably a lot of alcohol consumed. I'm not again, I don't know what your son, but that is not

And that's where they have to assess the symptoms and decide whether or not they think those are something out of the ordinary or if it's something they see every day, based on what's going on, who the person is, and what's been happening.

Right, and makes it as to that he has a VP shunt in his head. And I am sure that it was a malfunction because it was an early morning flight to Philly and then from Philly to Cancoon. This kid does not drink when he's traveling, so he was just arriving there to meet something.

Oh, he was arriving in Cancun.

I apologize he was a riving and he kills me.

He has zero memory of getting on the flight in Philadelphia and zero wreck colection of Actually, there's nothing between getting off the flight and talking to me in the hospital in Cancuns. And the flight of tenant recognized him the next day in the terminal when he was with his father, who flew down that night at midnight to bring him home, and said, man, are you okay? You were really bad? And so why didn't think I was on the phone with the people at the Kancun airport,

Get the answer. I have to let you go only because I have to take a break. We'll get the answer on the other side. All right, we will be right back for our prior caller who was looking for some maybe some recourse from an airline because she felt like the flight attendants were not responsive enough he were a son who was ill.

Sure, the first steps I'd take is I would go get in touch with the doctor who put the shunt in or was managing the shunt, and sit down with the doctor, talk about what happened to the sun, talk about the symptoms the sun had, talk about what might be his problem is see if the doctor believes that this is the result of something that the airlines did wrong or that the flight attendant did wrong. It doesn't sound like the flight attendant did anything wrong. So the

Well, the other thing I say is, you know, everybody should have personal responsibility, and in this situation, the young man should have personal responsibility if he or the mother knows about a condition that reacts to pressure reacts to flying, then they should disclose that or not are not fly. That's not necessarily automatically the airlines flight fault, and I don't really see it. Look, airlines fly people from point A to point B. They're not emergency rooms. They're not hospitals.

And what does that mean?

In legal mumble jumbal it means did what's the airline do or not do? Or what happened on the flight? Did it cause anything that wasn't gonna happen anyway? Did it cause something different? And remember, they almost have no duty in this situation. That being said, I know flight attendants that are very professional. They tell the pilots. Sometimes pilots radio ahead right, they get instructions, They do the

Ma'am, all right, we are going to talk to Tom. This is probably our last one. We only have a few minutes left. Tom, quickly, you're on with Bell and Pollock.

What happened?

Sure, good gentlemen.

On January twenty first, I was picking up a passenger at the height on Fourteenth Place in Denver. Gentlemen happened to be using a wheelchair. When I picked him up, I let him into the help him get into the backseat, and I was putting his wheelchair in the back of my hatch. When doing so, his wheelchair kind of slid out and nailed me hard in the thumb. I had not yet on the apps started the fair itself, but I was in the process of picking up the gentleman

Amend.

I'm the writer on there in case.

That something wants to happen.

So real quick, because we're out of time, Tom, I'm just gonna ask does who does he go after?

Here?

Guys, which insurance company?

Okay, so you make the claim. I don't think they're going to cover it, be honest with you, unless you prove there was some defect in the wheelchair. I it was a normal operating wheelchair. I don't think they're going to cover it. They have to look for somebody's negligence or breach of a duty. And if the guy that owns the wheelchair doesn't have a defective wheelchair, I just don't think they're I don't think they're going to cover it.

You need to call me. We can talk about a claim.

Uber.

Quite often these instances will send it to mandatory arbitration and give you a chance at proving your case and arbitration. Uh, it's longer than what we have a chance to talk to you today about. But call the office, talk to me, and we'll see what we can do to get you set up to get access to making a queen.

All right, guys, Tom, I hope that helps. I have five and or more questions on the text line. I have three people hanging online right now. All of these things. This is the kind of stuff you talk about on both shows. When is your show on k hell?

What time is that?

It's so seven o'clock every Saturday morning, one.

Hour o'clock at one hour. You could do a half hour here on on KOA at ten o'clock, one hour, one hour on I'm sorry, I don't know why I said half an hour. As I said, this is my driving around doing errands. You guys keep me company on Saturday morning. You can also call if you have an issue and you just want to know. This is what they do in their office too, right. I mean you can call you talk to someone, you have these same kind of conversations and find out if you actually need

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I've got Grant Smith in here today for the vacationing Anthony Rodriguez.

He'll be back on Monday.

I'm just hanging on. I'm gonna send a text really quick, Hay, Steve, just reminding you of our interview in thirty minutes period.

We'll call you exclamation point.

You ever know anybody who's kind of like the nutty professor, kind of the absent minded, distracted, that's Steve Moore. Dude is brilliant, but struggles to do basic things like remember where he's supposed to be and pick up the phone where we call him.

In half an hour.

We're gonna talk to him. He's part of the Trump Economic Advisory team, but he is also a super super super free market guys. So we're gonna have a conversation about tariffs and what those tariffs might look like on the blog today.

Have I went down a tariff rabbit hole and just found out did some.

Investigating into three American car brands because three companies actually that own all of the big American car brands were given a special dispensation by Donald Trump when it comes to the tariffs on parts from China, Mexico and Canada. And I did a little digging about what percentage of cars and their parts are made in the United States of America.

Super interesting.

I put all those graphs on the blog today and so you should check that out at mandy'sblog dot com.

It's always good and then sometimes it's even better.

I also have all the video on the blog today of Mayor Mike Johnston's appearance on Capitol Hill yesterday. I have his opening statement that will give you what his whole vibe was. We also have Representative Gabe Evans questioning Denver Mayor's and it was good.

It was a scorcher.

And by the way, Representative Gabe Evans joining us tomorrow afternoon on the show at two thirty. And then we have Representative Lauren bobert Uh and then we have Representative Jim Jordan, and then we have part of Representative Jeff Crank talking.

To the mayor.

So that is all on the blog today as well. So this story, did you hear this story about the boy that was kidnapped seven years ago? Grant and just a chance like series of events, Yes, So they what happened was this guy's selling a house in the ranch and he saw somebody on his security cameras and then realized they walked into his house.

So he called cops.

Cops show up, and they realized that this couple, who had two kids in the car with them, were actually holding a child that had been kidnapped seven years ago by the non custodial mother. His name is Abdullah Ziz Khan, and he was kidnapped from the Atlanta area, Oh wait, Louisiana in twenty seventeen. And I saw this story and I got to tell you, I'm so conflicted, because, first of all, I'm overjoyed for the father who has been

With his son. But on the flip side, this.

This poor boy, his life was ripped apart seven years ago. But he was only seven years old. So for the last seven years, God knows what this woman told him.

About his dad.

Did she tell him his dad was dead or that his dad didn't.

Want him anymore?

Or what what do you tell a kid that you that you take when they're seven years old and you're running away, What are you saying about the dad? By the way, she was about to lose a custody dispute in twenty seventeen. So now the father's been reunited with his son, but it is going to be a bumpy road. For this kid, and you know, say a little prayer for this family. All of these terrible, awful, horrific decisions by the mother have now been visited upon the sun.

This story is like it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, Just a.

Tough situation all the way around by a mom who just did something that was absolutely horrible. So on occasion, if you don't follow me on Twitter, you probably should because on occasion I see things on Twitter and then I lose my mind.

And that happened yesterday.

And I'm just gonna read the tweet that I saw from Governor Jared Poulis. It's a whole picture is He's standing at a podium looking very official, and a series of headlines, and the headlines say Colorado among states that could be hardest hit by Trump tariffs on Canadian oil new stealing aluminum tariffs imposed by Trump could impact Colorado's craft brewers, Colorado agriculture producers, brice for tariff impacts. I'm

This is what made me lose my mind.

It says, and there's no like just in case you were warning, there's no laughing face emoji, there's no winky face emoji. It just says, in Colorado, we worked a lower cost, not raise them, and I will continue to fight for the Colorados and Americans affected by Trump's reckless tariffs. He put that on the internet where people could see it, where people's property taxes have gone up forty and fifty percent because they repealed.

An amendment and they didn't fix it.

They just let it kick in so they could then dole out a minuscule property tax decrease and claim victory. This is the same guy who has overseen growth of the regulatory state that has slowed our economy dramatically. This is the guy that's overseen increases in the minimum wage. He's overseen the growing number of regulations. He's hired what was it, seventeen thousand new government employees for sixteen different departments.

He has overseen the growth.

Of government in Colorado at a level I don't think has been seen in a very long time, and he's going to say with a straight face.

In Colorado, we work to lower costs, not raise them.

Who among us right now, who in my listening audience has seen their cost of living go down? I will sit here patiently through the break. I will be looking for your hands in the air. I bet I've seen Naria one. We'll be right back. I have a chart on the blog today that I want to share with you. Inflation in the United States from twenty twenty one to

Where are we.

If you guessed at the very top with a whopping thirteen hundred dollars in twenty nine excuse me, thirteen twenty nine, thirteen hundred and twenty nine dollars per month. The Colorados are paying more now, thank god, they're making it affordable. Can you only imagine we made twenty five hundred bucks a month if the Democrats weren't working so dang hard to make everything so gang affordable. By the way, at the other end of the spectrum, Arkansas seven hundred and

I think I've only been to Little Rock on you've ever been to Arkansas?

Grant?

I waited till Grant started eating never, and then I brought him into the show. I've been to Little Rock once. Are there other cities in Arkansas that we should know about?

Arkansas?

Little Rock?

Eh?

What I mean?

There are other cities in Arkansas?

Right?

I mean there are, Uh, there's Hot Springs. That's that's in Arkansas. Arkansas cities. Hang on, I'm gonna pull them up right now. Top of major city. You got Little Rock, you got Fort Smith, you got Fayetteville, you got Springdale, Pine Blood, Benonville that's for.

Walmarts is headquartered the glorious owners of the Broncos where they make it.

Yeah, and also the location of Dave and Jenny mars On. Fix a Rupper, No, they're not fixed a Rupper. Wait, I'm trying to remember what HGTV show they are. Hometown is Ben and Aaron, Joanne and Ship texa Rupper. Wait a minute, what are they? Are they fixed?

Right?

No, they're I can't remember what they are now what?

In any case, they're my three favorite shows, along with Mary to Real Estate with Egypt and her husband whose name just.

Went right out of my head, gets your ship black? Ready?

Now, I'm not a fan of shiplap. I'm ready for shiplap to not be a thing. But that's fine. Okay, So now I don't even know why we were looking to see why there are cities in Arkansas. Oh, by the way, they are fixed your upper fix the Repper.

Okay, good.

I love David Jenny in Bentonville moving everybody to the Walmart.

Mandy, I'm from Cabot. I will just Mandy. I hate to say it because I've actually considered moving there, but Bentonville, Arkansas is pretty cool and it has an amazing art gallery that is funded by Walmart. See I'm telling you, and David Jenny lived there. If I moved to Bentonville, I would immediately call up and be like, I want David Jenny to do my house. Take some piece of crap. Here's one hundred grand, make it beautiful, two hundred grand. Whatever,

When you think about it, the ripple effect of that too, with the property tax increases my rent? What was this previous year because the property tax went up for the owners?

Yeah, because in all honesty, if you own a rental property, you're not gonna you're not gonna come out of pocket every month for your rental property.

So if your hard costs go up, then rent is going up as well.

Although rent seemed to have stabilized quite a bit in Denver, they're definitely not, you know, raging upward upward like they were for so many years. They're still ridiculously high, crazy, crazy high fixed sort of fabulous. Thank you Texters, you guys rock yeah chi fix Yeah. Fixer of Fabulous is David Jenny and I love their show again there're no been an aera. No, I'm just kidding. I know a little too much about HTTV. Can I just hear this

But this is what small town life is like.

You know, the former mayor dies, doesn't have any family, and somebody's like, well, we can't let Tom go out like that.

We're going to take care of it. By the way, I just looked at there go fund me.

They were trying to raise seventeen hundred dollars to pay for the cremation in a basic earned and now they've raised twenty one hundred.

So I just I thought that story was sweet.

That's the stuff that warms your heart exactly, and the.

Best parts about living in a small town right there in one story. We'll be right back with Steve Moore, assuming when.

We call him he picks up the phone. On tariffs coming up next.

One of my favorite eggheads, my favorite nerd, and well, Steve Moore, economic advisor to the Trump administration. But I have to ask this this way, Steve, because you and I we go way back. We go way back. I know you're a free market guy. What are your thoughts about these tariffs?

And Maddy, how are you?

I'm good, I'm jumping right in. I got stuff to talk about.

I want to make sure you get it all in.

You waste one minute, no pleasantry anyway, It's great to be to you. It's been a while, so listen. I you've known me a long time. I'm a free trade guy. I don't like tariffs, but Trump, you know here all sorts of different trumps terroriffs out there. I do believe we should get tough with China because China is not in the United States and they are a threat to the United States and they don't play by the RULD. So I think we should get very tough with China.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you know, like Canada and Mexico are two most important allies in the world, no question about it. And I've always been a believer that we should have a unified kind of Canada, United States Mexico free trade zone that would make North America the dominant continent, which we are well on the world to becoming. So that's it. Look, I think the markets are very frazzled by what Trump

Well, Libia, this because I've sort of maintained this and one thing I have learned. I mean, Steve I told somebody this the other day. I've had my own show since two thousand and five. Right, So I've lived through multiple administrations. I have never in my career had to try and consume, digest, sort out, and then communicate about so much as I have in the first six weeks of the Trump administration.

Yeah, it's no, I feel the same way. You're right, it's just he the man does not slow down, and his every day it's like five or six new major initiatives. He wants to make his place in history, thinking about his legacy, and you know, he understands that he only has four years and actually probably realistically two years and two years from now many will be talking about the next election.

Yeah.

So so he's he's secretariat out of the gate, and I think most of the stuff he's doing is very positive.

I love Doge, I love the you know, yeah, I.

Hate the idea of you know, men playing women's sports and that kind of thing. So he's hitting all the right buttons. But I think the tariff thing is hurting him right now, man, because the market is worried, you know, the latest report on the GVH in the case, we're going to be of a negative quarter, you know, which is worrisome. So let's be totally attentive of growing the economy and getting a platient under control.

Well, let me ask you this, going back to the whole thing I just said about this, it's just coming out so fast and curious.

I have speculated on the.

Show that Donald Trump's view of tariffs is using it as leverage, right, using it as a sledgehammer in order to force people to the table to have negotiations. Do you think that he'd used it as a tool or it ends in and of itself.

Well, I think a little bit of both. I mean, you're clearly right that he does use tariffs as a negotiating tool, and he's very effectively. I mean, that's what got the NATO companies in Europe to pay their NATO does That's why did you remember when Columbia said, well, we're not going to take back these refuge and sure enough a week later they said, okay, we'll take them. Can't even Mexico has started to get help for some of the you know, drug warlords that are importing this

Right. So now we see that that there are special dispensations being carved out for car makers. I heard today we're talking about special dispensations for certain agriculture products. So in my mind, that says he doesn't believe that this is an ends unto itself, right, because if you believe that tariffs were the way to actually fund the government, as he's kind of indicated in the past, then you

Yes, there's no doubt about that. We're the low tariff country in the world. We have the lowest terrorists and a better way. We're advantaged by that because you know, it means that when we buy things from Mexico or coffee from Brazil or whatever it is, we won't pay a huge price for it. But it would be ideal if Trump could force these other countries, which I think he will do, to lower their terrorists because that way

Is there any way to do it when it won't have that effect? Because I gotta tell you, Steve, if I look back to the Reagan administration, and I was just a kid, okay, during the first Reagan administration, and I know that the actions that were taken by the Fed to contract the amount of money in the economy, we took a hit. And you to your point, we're looking at maybe having a negative quarter. I think we're going to see a recession. I not a huge one,

Perhaps that what that's what happened.

But I do believe a lot of the steps are taking will unleash the economy on the other side in the same way that it did in the nineteen eighties.

Yeah, I agree with that.

And I think if we go back to nineteen eighty one eighty two, you know, when Reagan came in, you know, the economy was really in the tank back then. I mean we had eleven percent inflation, and you know, the mortgage interest rate went up to eighteen percent. And remember that it was a disaster and Trump, I mean, Reagan had to it was shock therapy, right, it's chemote therapy that we had to apply to the economy because it was in such lousy shape and it was so danger

Well, I do think it's going to be really hard. And then the temptation comes for politicians in office to want to quote do something, you know, inevitably, Padfuyres.

That's when you want to run for the fire escape when they say do something. Yeah. Yeah, most of the time what they do is wrong. But the tax cut has got to get done. I know I want Johnny one note on that, but we cannot We cannot afford the failure is not an option on this. And if it doesn't get done quickly, I think that there's gonna be more panic on Wall Street that this isn't going

Are they against Doge Dose.

Is telling us where the waste and inefficiency and the duplication in fraudo. If you're a good government person, you should want to see that happen.

Well, I got to tell you, I said this the other day. I believe that Trump two point zero, which is why where I'm calling this, you know, uh a term. Trump two point zero has broken the Democratic Party, Steve, And it was evidenced in the fact that they sat there the other night during that speech and could not even get up to clap for a little boy with brain cancer who's made an honorary member of the Secret Service.

And he has broken the party.

He has broken them in such a way that they have positioned themselves as anti whatever he says. Right, So to your point, it's like, of course, everybody should be for a more efficient government, but Trump likes it, so they are anti and it's just put him in a really untenable situation I think going forward.

Yeah, and it makes them look I mean when I first arrived in Washington thirty years ago, we used to work work with Democrats all the time, you know, And I'm not a row Republican. I mean, Republicans can be as bad as Democrats. And yet now you know, excuse me, I agree with you. I think the performance of those Democrats was just a disaster for their party and it was embarrassing. Frankly that you know, it's basically become the

I want.

I want a vibrant Democratic party where we can have real debates about issues, not just left wing tripe that comes out of the Democrats today. And so I mean, look, Bill Clint was a Democrat. We pardon one. Bill Clint was president, remember that.

Oh yeah, those were the helcy on days of balanced budgets.

You know.

Trump did have one passing line about balance budget and I got a little tingle. I was all excited. But I'll believe it when I see it. Let me ask that, right, Let me ask you your perception, because you were also on the economic advisory team for the first Trump one point zero and now you are working with this on Trump two point zero. How is Trump different between those two terms?

Oh?

That's a great question. So, by the way, I'll just tell you one quick story. You know, I have a book out right now with us a laugher called the Trump Economic Miracle, and the uh we went to see Trump about eight months ago or so to show them the book and show them the graphs and stuff in there. And he loves to look at pictures. You don't like to read, but anyway, so we uh we show them all bunch of the graphs showing how well that's better of the account has darned when he was president than

So I too much.

So but here's where I think he's different, and I get asked that question a lot. First of all, he's much more confident, he's he's under he knows where the men's room. In other words, when you're first elected, it takes six months just to figure out, you know, how everything operates.

And he was under attacked from he was under attacked from the moment he got elected.

And that's the other thing that I think is so interesting because there's a new pollout. He has a fifty four percent approval rating now and that's gigantic for Trump. In the first term, he never hasd anywhere near fifty percent, and now he's fifty four thirty four, which is you know, plus twenty and so I found it to be really interesting. When Trump one in twenty sixteen, I think the country was fearful. Yeah, they were afraid of what he was going to do. And I have nieces who wouldn't even

Well, I said this to.

Someone the other day.

It's like the people who are assuming that they're dealing with the same Donald Trump. Because I do think in the first term. To your point about that learning curve, it felt much more like he was just kind of throwing stuff against the wall in some respects and seeing if it sticks.

Right.

But I from the moment he has taken office, I like it it too. The first, you know, series of plays in any NFL game have already been written by the coach before the game starts on offense. Right, you have that first set of plays. He's got the first set of plays, and he has I think it feels

Yeah, well he's going to I mean, if you look at the big four issues, tax policy, Obviously he's got that picture, right. You know, I like the idea. He not only wants to make the tax cuts from the first term permanent, but he also wants to go to a fifteen percent rate for companies that invest in the United States. Yeah, he wants no tax on tips, you know in the other Well, I mean.

That's I mean, Steve, he's only doing that, no tax on tips for his billionaire friends. I mean, obviously, obviously it's so clear.

Right, Yeah, Well, you know, my first job, I don't know if I ever told you this was parking towers when I was seventeen and eighteen years old, and I made all my money on tips. And I'm going to tell you a little secret because I know this TV this radio show is off the record. But I didn't claim tip money my taxes.

You know what, here's my shock face see more.

Yeah, here's my Why do you think when I pay with a credit card in a restaurant, I tip in cash? Why do you think I do that? So more?

That's so interesting. You know that you're about the third person who's told me that in the last few weeks that if you if you, if you tip in cash, then yeah, because that's the thing.

You know.

I would walk away.

Sometimes some nice with like forty bucks in my pocket and tips. Yeah, and that was back when forty dollars was a lot of money.

Yeah, that's cute. Now now I'm talking about forty dollars tips had I.

Had a big cookie jar, you know, with all sort you know. My mom was like, what are you gonna do with all that money?

There you go.

You just looked at her and said, you know what I'm not doing, mom, I'm not paying taxes on it. That's what I'm talked Steve Moore, We're at a time. I know, I know it flies. I gotta get you.

I say this every time, but you are hard to pin down. Mister.

You're a busy person. All right, we'll talk to you again. You now you're just blowing smoke up my tazoo. Yes, right again, all right, Steve, I'll talk to you.

Suvee my friend, I have a good one.

That's Steve Moore, part of Trump's economic team and honestly.

One of my favorite people.

As fastic as he is on the radio, he's like twice as fastic as that on real life. He's just all over the place, all the time, much like our own Rob Dawson convention. Yeah, for like a hot minute we got we got interviews dangled in front of us, and then nothing came of it. That was so aggravating. Anyway, Rob Dawson is in here, and that means it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio, on its guide in the world.

Of the day. All right, anyway we are doing what are we doing? First, We've got dad.

Joke of the day. I have an idea. I forgot to tell you guys this. You would probably do it, for sure. I bet you went to Rob Dawson when I at some point today, I have like fifty things that I have to take care of this afternoon. But wouldn't it be fun if we all recorded ourselves telling a joke video and then put it on our Facebook page or our social media and just started an entire movement of people recording themselves telling a joke and just posting on social media.

Y yeah, good yaps on social media.

So I'm going to do that this afternoon, and I'll challenge I'll let's do the same. This is what I have going on my life.

The day just makes me laughing.

He's the only one that goes down meat. Yes, you know the change like if or was playing out of the day.

There you go.

What is our dad joke?

Please?

Dad joke of the day? Breaking news.

A man was admitted to the hospital today with twenty five plastic horses inserted in his rectum. What doctors have described his condition as stable?

Oh yeah, wow, wow, I'm just gonna pretend that never happened. What's the word.

Of the day.

You don't want me to repeat that, jo job, I have the day today. Career, but not the career you're thinking of a verb, career spelled the same way career cr is to fly off, you know, like you're heading in the right direction.

Career A career is and it's a verb. You said a verb.

I'm going to say it's a slip, slide out of control, a similar swerve out of the way.

Yeah.

Uh, maybe a half point for both of you.

To career is to go at top speed, especially in a headlong manner.

Okay, in a headlong manner, not just you know, top just willy Billy, just put it out there, okay. Today's trivia question. The Stacks Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee houses a twenty four carrot plated gold Cadillac. To which musician did this cadillac once belong? I feel like maybe it's like a James Brown situation.

Like a Bbking or something.

No, but it makes perfect sense. I already read the answer.

I am wrong.

I mean Memphis, Tennessee.

Yeah, it is the the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, and that matters not Elvis. Nope, then I'm blanking Isaac Hayes. You're a songwriter and record producer, Isaac Cayse who.

Used to cruise the streets of.

Memphis in his flashy Cadillac, and that is on brand right there? All right?

Rob Dawson, Mandy Connell.

What's our category category for today? Crossword clues? P okay.

Every answer will start with the letter p oky do. First one ferocious fish many correct?

Rob, just laughing because it happened so fast. Next one silent performance man.

What is pantomime?

Yes?

Correct?

All right?

Third one police hangout? Police hangout starts with a P.

I mean I don't want to go down?

What is police station?

Incorrect? Day it.

Saying anything strategy wise, past precinct. God, we are so stupid.

One zero right, yeah, one zero, next one luggage carrier Mandy what a porter?

Correct? And the final one Bryce Region.

Rice Region.

Robes Patty Gore two to one. You still love you came back? Straw made Oh, I was just there because we're both too dumb to remember precinct.

I know, not our finest part, like the out at the pub or something.

No.

No, So tomorrow two thirty we're going to talk to Representative Gabe Evans. I put his testimony with Mayor Mike Johnston on the blog today. If you want to check it out, it is worth your time.

And uh.

In the meantime, keep it right here. We got koa Sports coming up next to keep you company through the afternoon until tomorrow. My friends and family, because I really do consider you part of my giant dysfunctional family, all of you, I'll see you tomorrow