Affordability in our Country, BOOMERS call out younger Generations, & the LIGHTNING ROUND

Like, I like a lot of these people that I'm going back and forth with them in texts. Like, I've been texting with Sandra and I've been texting with Pat. And it's like, I'm not, I'm not saying life needs to be easy or that kids don't need to work hard. But I'm just saying when it comes to affordability to ignore the fact of the absolute data in front of you, that's crazy. You're not going to win these kids over. You're just not. Like, the renting market is insane. Used car prices are insane. Buying a home, the cost is insane. Like, I'm blessed, man. Like, I've worked hard. And I've had those days where I've eaten stale taco shells and salsa because that's the only thing that's in the fridge. But I also know a lot of non-snowflake, not lazy, younger Gen Z Americans who are working two and three jobs and scraping by. And to just yell bootstraps at these kids, like that's where this disconnect is coming from. In the 1970s, it cost you two and a half times the median income for a home. Today it's seven times the median income for a home. Yeah, I'll be going to job number two after this. And Mason's full time here. And works his freaking tail off. That's what I'm saying. And it's like, are there lazy people in the younger generations? Absolutely. Are there lazy people in the older generations? Absolutely. Yes. And you know them by their fruit. You do. But to be like, A trip to the grocery store to get nacho stuff and hamburger stuff should cost you $150. And that's fine. You're missing the point. It is so hard for these young kids out here. And again, just yelling bootstraps at them and calling them lazy. you're just spitting in the face of the data. Listen, I'm pulling on my bootstraps. Just taking a while. I mean, has anybody done the Walmart thing where you go back and you look at the Walmart order, the same order a year and you go repeat this order and look at the price change? It's nuts. Like, everything's going up. Beef is going up. Chicken's going up. And I like President Trump. Like, that's not a knock. It's not a ding. Like, he was handed a crap economy from Joe Biden where a lot of this stuff exploded. But if we don't focus in on the affordability in this country, you're going to lose these younger voters to a candidate that's promising universal basic income and free stuff. We saw it happen in New York City. But, you know, listen, it is what it is. There's a lot of older Americans that are saying bootstraps. Okay. I don't know I don't know what to tell you and like we want to we want to encourage people to have families and lots of kids and raise more conservative Americans and it's like they're not the only people that are having more and more kids are the ones that are taking advantage of the welfare and they're going to they're going to grow up sucking on that government teat they're not going to be able to wean off of it so I'm just saying man

I got a text here, Chris, what type of jobs are they working? Just my observation. Many are unwilling to do hard jobs that get their hands dirty and sweat. I have friends that are working in all sorts of fields. I have friends that are getting bombs thrown out them by Muslims, and they're scraping by. I have friends that are working in programming at radio stations, and it's tough for them to get by. Well, and if you don't think that working as a server or a bartender isn't hard work, you get behind that bar. Exactly. And work it. You work a long shift on a Sunday. And sometimes get no tip. But it's just, I just think it's, you're, you're missing it if you don't think that things are more expensive and you're just gonna, you're gonna chalk it up as these kids are lazy and they're not working hard enough. And the big excuse I see as well for those bar jobs or like server jobs, like, well, just go get a real job. It's like sometimes you can't. Sometimes the late night job working at a restaurant is the only job available because you're trying to go through four years of school and stuff like that. Or you're trying to make ends meet on other things. And it just you don't have time to go work a full-time job and do all the other things that you're doing. And again, it's like you said, Brother Chris, this isn't a knock on the Trump administration. This is just what is happening. Yeah. And, I mean, people will be like, well, you got to read Dave Ramsey. It's like, okay, I've done it. And Dave's advice is like, get yourself a pressure washer and start pressure washing driveways and learn how to code. It's like, hey, spoiler alert, the coding jobs are going to be gone. You know that. They are disappearing. Like, they're gone. They're either going. And this is the other thing that they don't understand. The coding jobs are right now. They're either going to computers or they're going to H-1B visa holders. So, like, and I don't know, like, maybe, maybe I'm jaded, but I'm like, I'm a white male and I saw myself get passed over for jobs and I was more than qualified for people with less qualifications than I had. So this younger generation, they're not just dealing with the influx of people that are coming into the country that will work for less than them. They're not just dealing with the rise in prices. They're also dealing with discrimination. and the thumb being placed on them. And then everything's falling down and around, falling apart around us. Yeah, I mean, my cousin works in coding. And he's worried about his job lasting two more years because of where AI is pushing right now. He's like, they could easily automate my job. It'll be a crappy job that's done by the AI, but they could easily replace me. Yep. And that's a terrifying thought. I mean, it's just, it's, it's very easy to yell bootstraps.

when you did pretty good for yourself. And I'm not like even besmirching you for doing good for yourself. Like that's awesome. Like that's a blessing. Like that's the American dream. Like you should be proud of where you're at and happy that you're doing good. Like I worked my tail off to be able to have a home that we're proud of and, you know, some nice cars that aren't going to break down on us on the side of the road. And you know what I mean? Like I trust me. I'm not saying feel guilty because he won the game of life. I'm just saying, like, don't look at this kid who's 22 and has a serious girlfriend that he would love to propose to, but he can't afford a ring, you know, who wants to have a family, but he can't afford to buy a house. He can barely afford rent. Like, that stuff is, it's, it's not fair, man. And it is, it feels like it's, less and less about how hard you're working because as soon as you get to that next plateau, the prices have gone up again. So, I don't know. I mean, this is where we're at. You can yell at the younger generation. You can have these arguments, but, you know, it is what it is. I got a text here, 2308. Chris, knock off the crying. Comparing your TPSA buddies to people that actually work is lame. How much government assistance are you getting? You seem to roll pretty big for a radio show hack. I get no government assistance, actually. Zero. And my TPSA friends do do do real work. Mason does do real work. I have friends that aren't in media or in reporting or investigative journalism that do real work as well. They're in the trades, and it's still not great. I think that there needs to be a renewed focus on making home prices affordable in this country. Give these kids a stake in the game, some ownership. Something worth fighting for. I mean, seriously. But, yeah, I mean, it is what it is. So, hey, best of luck to you out there. Because at the end of the day, the reality is no one's coming to save you. Nobody is. You're going to have to figure that out on your own. That's the reality. So I'm sorry. I wish it was better for the younger generations, but it's not, nobody's coming to save you. What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers? You could take 36% more vacation. Another pinacolada? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout, up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at Shopify.com slash listen and get a $1 trial. Shopify.com. slash listen. Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. Check engine, ABS or maintenance light on. Take the guesswork out of your warning lights with O'Reilly Veriscan. The service is free and provides a report with solutions verified by ASE certified master technicians. And if you need help, we could recommend a shop for you. Ask for O'Reilly Veriscan today. Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly.

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Jeremiah said, so with Biden, it was his fault. But with Trump, it's not his fault. I think, I mean, I think Trump needs to have a renewed focus on this. And I think that Trump is definitely at fault when it comes to the rising gas prices. And that ripples through the economy. And I think that's a fair, that's a fair ding. I don't think it's the same thing as 9% inflation that we had under Joe Biden at all. I don't, I don't think these two things are the same at all. I got a text here 2237. 30 hours a week at McDonald's, 30 hours a week at Walmart, 60 hours a week to make more money. And neither of those jobs will hire you full-time because I don't want to pay you health insurance. So it's tough, man. It is. It's hard out there. Nobody's making it easy for anyone. 0692 said, you're a socialist. Okay. I just think that you need to acknowledge what these kids are dealing with. Especially if you want to keep the country, our country. If you want to save America, we need to empower the younger kids. Give them a piece of the American dream. The American dream, it's still attainable. But to say it's not harder to reach, you're missing the point. You just are. And so. Let's see. The texts are coming in. We got some calls online, too. Somebody said, let's just take your money and give it to someone to pay their mortgage. Okay. Child care for two kids will completely eat up one person's salary in a household. It's ridiculous. Agreed. I don't know how you make that better, though. I think about it like a sports league. The rules are different now than they were just 10 or 20 years ago. Every generation played by slightly different rules. Absolutely right. Let's go to Joe in Shelbyville. What's up, Joe? How's going, man? Good. How are you? Not too bad. Look, I did a roofing for 15, 16 years and retired out maybe 10 years ago. But when I was a kid, 17, 18 years old, getting the guild trades doing just general contracting building. framing, roofing, whatnot. I was getting paid like $18 to $20 an hour then. And nowadays, you know, the same skill trades 30 years later are still getting paid the same wages they were 30 years ago. And people go, why? Why can't you find American workers to do it? Because they're having to compete with all these Hispanic, low-grade workers that come in and do it a lot cheaper. And you can't compete as a roofing contractor with these guys that are coming in, like I remember we worked in Brentwood area. And they were paying us somewhere around $18 a square to put roofing on homes that we usually charge $70, $80 a square to do. And then these guys are coming and doing it for $18, $20 a square. It's impossible to compete with them. And then they wonder why we have no Americans going into those labor trades because you can't compete against them. It's plain and simple. Yeah, yeah. You're absolutely right, Joe. It's crazy. I appreciate the call. Let's go to Ray in Nashville. What's up, Ray? Hey, Chris, we're supposed to the side of road here. Hey, Chris, we'll take it a quick story. Hey, Chris, I got two kids. I'm not proud about it, but I had an affair about that a few years ago. I got a 10-year-old son. And all of a sudden, his mom decided she didn't want to be a mother's sister to jump in that truck and rode down and rode with truck drop. So, bottom line is that, so I want to get food stamps for my son.

And this little girl that I got actually went from his mom left, she left her abandon her two-year-old granddaughter. So I took them both home and taken care of both of them. And so I went to apply for third steps. And I couldn't get them because I make over the threshold for the money. I make about $3,000 in retirement. So when I went to talk to the people about it, so I have custody, court-order custody of both of them. And so when I was telling the guy that they live with me and their mom is getting food stamps for them. And so the guy said, did the judge say that he gets practicing time? I said, yeah, he's supposed to let him be at his mom's overnight every other weekend. But his mom didn't have any way to stay, so I don't let him go and stay with his mom overnight. And so that guy told me, he said, well, if the judge says that he can spend overnight and you don't let him spend overnight, well, I can't cut a food stamps off just because you're not doing what the judge says. I told the guy, it's not safe for me to let the shop go. Stay with him when I don't know where he's standing. And the guy told me, he said, well, if you violated the court order, I can't cut a focus on that job. That's the reason this country is in the secretary of that much. Yeah, and not only that, you're also competing with illegal aliens who are milking the system dry, and then average Americans can't get the help that they need. Let's go to Michelle and Christiana. What's up, Michelle? Hey, Chris. How's you? Good. How are you doing? Good. I was just going to weigh in on this economy. We moved here. from Kansas in 2007. At the time we had one child, I was pregnant with our second, and we made the choice that I would stay home, take care of our kids, and my husband would work. And, you know, 19 years later, I have a job interview this afternoon, you know, and it's not because my husband hasn't worked hard. He has. He's in the trades. He has his own business. But it seems like lately... The harder we work, the farther behind we get. And it's not because we spend foolishly. We've, you know, paid off our house. We've paid off our vehicles, but everything is just so much more expensive. And, you know, my husband fills a lot of strain. We have a 22-year-old son who's been working full-time. He can't afford to get out on his own. And it just stinks for everybody. You just feel like you're... stuck in a rut and just spinning your tires and get nowhere. Yeah, and then you're racking up debt in the meantime trying to make ends meet. And then that doesn't make anything simpler. It's tough. And to say it's not harder now than it was a few decades ago, you're missing the plot. Right, right. Yeah, I mean, I wish I had better answers for you, Michelle. I just don't. It's just, but to yell bootstraps, that's not, you're missing the point also. Matt and Goodlet'sville, what's up?

Hi, yeah, I just listened to your talk here today. And one thing I'm not hearing and I never hear in this discussion is this could all be put on the feet of like Marsha Blackburn, Hakee Hakeem Jeffries, you know, the Senate and the House people. They're the ones who are voting for this budget. They're the ones who are devaluing the dollar day by day. Every time they vote to approve more spending on something, that's why we're poor. Yeah, Trump has something to do it with going to war. Yeah, Joe Biden had something to do with it. But the thing that never gets brought up are these people that are running for re-election right now. They're the ones who've devalued the currency in America. They're the ones that your house costs, how much it ever costs, your health care, because of their regulations. It should be put at their feet, and it should get brought up every time there's a discussion about this. that they are the ones to blame they should be held accountable instead of paying them to be in hospice care or some hospital in Kentucky and not showing up to vote. I mean, something has to be done about them. No, it's a great point. You know. And when you have Marsha on next time, if that ever happened, which it probably won't, no offense to you. But, I mean, you need to ask her, you know, what is she doing besides voting with party lines? What is she done? Or what is Tim Burchett done? I mean, I know he's done some stuff. But, you know, any of the people that come on air, I mean, they're not doing their job, man. And yeah, Trump and Biden had something to do with it. But they're not the real reason. We're still spinning at COVID levels. You know, why? Yeah. Why isn't anybody asking why? It's a great, great point, Matt, and I appreciate the call. Let's go to Tony in Nashville. What's up, Tony? Hey, man. How are you doing today? Good. How about yourself? I'm doing good, plus my wife likes me again today. Perfect. Tony, it's been a minute since we talk to you, man. I always enjoy talking to you. Yeah. See you some things that we are leaving out of this equation. Number one is, people say, well, I look at gas prices, but they look at it from a different point of view because they just see the prices from there, is that by average, gas is the cheapest in this country that it's ever been. And I mean that by saying, I'm sitting there for. When I first started driving, gas was 25 cents a gallon. People said, well, it was 25 cents a gallon, but you wouldn't make them a 50 cents an hour. So when you look at what people are making now and opposed to how things progress over the years, we and you see, no, it's not that bad. People just trying to buy more. See, I would push back on that a little bit. I mean, in 2020, gas was under $2 a gallon. Well, I understand that. Like, it took, it gradually went up from the 25 cents there. The spike that we've seen was, it felt like overnight. Oh man, when gas went up, 50-6 gallon people was hollering and hooping and jumping up and down and turned and flips. We didn't mean to, but we stumbled into the affordability conversation. I'm here for it. We're having a good conversation with Tony. And I got a text from 2308. It said, Tony starts laying some logic on you and you put him on hold. You're a joke.

I literally said to Tony, I want to give you time to say what you're saying. So hang on the line. And Tony did just that. I would never, I would never hang up on Tony just because he's hitting me with logic. What's up, Tony? Welcome back. Well, you know, that's the way human nature is. Right. Well, and another thing is, is that these kids, the reason why they don't. realize or can accomplish the American dream. Because when they went to college, they parted their way through college. They took up, they majored in things that you couldn't get a job being and make a decent living at. And a lot of them started families before they had a career. And when our kids went to college, the first thing told them, look, we don't want no career students. We need you to get in now. We need you to get in there, do what you got to do, and get out. He said, because we told them that if you do what you're supposed to do now, you can do what you want to do later. I said, when you get in now, we don't want you to join no games. They ain't got no games in college yesterday, they have called sororities. Yeah, I mean, I'm not a huge fan of college, right? But if you look at it, right, a public four-year college in the early 80s was 800 to 2,000 and change a year. Right. A public college today is $10,000 to $24,000 a year. So the kids are coming out saddled with debt. And then they're working, then they're working a job at a coffee shop because, like you said, they got a useless degree, which is that's their fault. Absolutely. I'm not going to take any blame for them. But if you look at the minimum wage in the early 80s, it's what, three bucks? The minimum wage today is, what, seven and change? So if you game that out for inflation, you can say that you're making more minimum wage than we were in the early 80s. But if you adjusted it for inflation, you would need to be making $12 an hour. Like, there's still a difference there. There's still a margin that's not being kept up with. But yeah, hey, that's understandable. I agree with you on that. But see, the thing about it is, is that our kids, like I said, when they went to college, another thing, we stretched it in. Don't go take up something that you can't get no job, that you definitely can't get a job there, and you know it don't party your way through. And all of our kids are doing great in life right now, even under this economy. But see, you got these kids out of here, man, that the parents just didn't guide them through life. You know, but it's just like me and my wife. I definitely think, I definitely think that some of that can be attributed to that. And I'm not, I'm not ruling that out completely. But I don't think that you can attribute all of that to that. No, not all of them. There's a lot of kids up there that are working hard and grinding, two and three jobs, and they can't afford a home. Right. Oh, you can afford a home if you prepare yourself for life. Got out of high school.

My wife passed the state cosmetology board and got her a cosmetology license. I was a German carpenter. When we got out of college, we were ready to go. When we got out of high school, we were ready to go to work. But you weren't competing with a ton of illegal aliens coming in that would do the carpentry work for less money than you were charging. Well, let me touch that subject a little bit. I'm a contractor. Yes, sir. And I'm out here. And these guys, like that guy got on the phone, a few phone calls back talking about how he was a roofer, all right? I go out here, man, I build a house, and I get prices from these people that's going to charge me $100 a square. That is ludicrous. See, these people try to make money off of one job. See? And then these people out here, and believe me, they're competitive prices out here, but they don't want to make no money. These guys, for instance, these guys that come out of here, how do you figure these guys make money? If they're undercutting prices, how are they making money, how are they surviving? If it's that bad. But if an illegal alien is going to take $5 less an hour? No, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to, I'm not putting the illegal aliens now. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not it at all. But what I'm saying is, is that we have to take some responsibility of this stuff, some ourselves, for what we are doing, our sales, and to our children, for instance. For years, the NAACP and everybody always preach to black folks that the only way to get out of privacy is through education. So they put blindfolders on us and only told us the education that was profitable to us was to go to college. Everybody is not college material. It's true. So a guy, so me and this guy, we used to do room additions together and do remodeling and stuff together after we got off work. So one day we went over to his house for Lund. And his daughter was sitting down, was doing her mother's hat. And you can almost instantly look at somebody and the way they move and how they're doing stuff that you know that they are just born with that talent. And I looked at the young lady. I said, wow, I say, you are good at that. I said, one of these days you're going to have you some beauty parlors. And her mother looked at me. I mean, she was angry. No, my daughter's going to college. You know where her daughter's at now? Beauty parlors? No. She messed all that up. She's got three babies by three different men and no husband. Oh, no. All she had to do as a parent is lean into what her daughter was great at.

Yeah, I hear you. I just still, I still think that, you know, we can, we could both cite different examples, right? And it's all anecdotal. Oh, yeah, yeah. But I understand. Don't get me wrong. I'm not disagreeing with you on these things. But I have. But there are other, there are other moving parts in this American dream. Absolutely. People think, absolutely. Well, just because I go to college, man, boy, money just going to fall out of trees. No. No, no, no, no, I don't think that's the case at all. But I do know some guys that are grinding and they want to buy a house and it's, you know, five times the median income now, whereas back in the early 80s it was two times the median income. Oh, yeah. But see, every time I have a chance to talk to graduates, and I tell them these two things. Number one is, is that a certificate, a diploma, and a degree. All three of those documents have two things in common. One is that all of them certified that you have met all the state requirements, whatever you add. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake Toll. Anywhere in the country. Your home for talking sports. The United States hockey team has four teeth left. What is LeBron James Legacy? Leonel Mess. 906 career goals is stupid. All of it. The Knicks. The Los Angeles Lakers. Aaron Rogers. Georgia football players. The Dolphins. The Mets. As it happened, when it happened. We'll talk all of it. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. to obtain these documents. And then I said the second one is really important. I said the second one, neither one of those documents say you know what you're doing. That's right. Because they can't put that down there because they would be responsible for it. So these young people don't understand that when you get a degree from college. That just tells people out here in the corporate world that you are trainable. Yep. Because once they hire you, they're going to educate you on what they want you to do. But see, these young people, they'll put in the mindset just because I got a college degree, man, I deserve all of this. Now, it's more to it than that. Yeah, I mean, to a certain extent, I think there's more to it than the affordability crisis, but I think that, you know, we're going to disagree a little bit here, but I still love you. I appreciate to call Tony. Oh, yeah, you know that. Oh, man, that's not right. Absolutely. Tony, calling anytime, all right? All right, man. Have a great day. You too. God bless. That's Tony and Nashville. Great guy. Like, seriously. Great guy. Time for the lightning round. Oh, wrong one. It's the lightning round with Chris Hand. With Chris Hand. What do you do there? You got a little trigger happy. And you hit the wrong button again.

I was ready. Or you were ready? But I wasn't. Just so everybody knows, as Tony was wrapping up his final thought, I literally, I hit the, so you can turn your mic off and there's a little intercom button so I can just say some of the Mason. And I said, I said, all right, we're going to jump to the lighting rack. And then Tony, Tony wrapped of his thought for another 45 seconds. So there was ample time for you to locate the correct button. Well, I had it lined up, and then as I jumped over to press it, I shifted it again. You're doing great. So good. It's a good, it's a good day. This is why you can't afford a home. Sorry. Sorry. All right. No, that's true. Sorry. First story in the lightning round. An Arkansas football player, he practiced for an entire hour. Okay. There's nothing for him. Nothing news and noteworthy there, except for the fact that he did it. With a two-foot-long cotton-mouth snake living inside his helmet. Oh. How about snake in the helmet? A two-foot-long, highly venomous cotton-mouth snake somehow slithered its way into an Arkansas high school football player's headpiece. You can see it here hiding behind the inner padding. But guys, the player practiced for an hour with it stuck up there before he started noticing the horrifying feeling around his head. I feel like I would notice that sooner. I just, right? Don't you feel like a two foot long cotton mouth snake? How loose is your helmet? Right? That, but also snakes are pretty prevalent in that area, if I'm remembering, right? It's looked up. Arkansas has a robust and active snake population featuring nearly 40 different species in the area. How venomous is highly venomous? Cotton mouths are bad. Like, is it like one bite and like you got a couple minutes? You know what I mean? Or is there, you know, does it take a little time? Are you screwed up? Are you down and out for a while if you get bit by that thing? And I would imagine getting bit in the head would be one of the worst places that you get bit. Right? It says Cottonmouth Bite can kill you because it's venom destroys tissue and stops blood from clotting properly. However, deaths are very rare if people get fast medical help. Okay. So it can't be stopped. There is an antidote. But you've got to be quick with it. Yeah. This is a closer look. Apparently, one of the coaches spotted it when he brought in his helmet for an inspection during that practice. My helmet feels a little scaly. So a little bit more slithery than usual. Eventually, school staff secured it in a tote bag until animal services came to take it away. It's like, don't worry. I've seen 1980s wrestling. Jake the snake used to just put him in a bag. That's fine.

It's fine. It does me that gets the Jake the Snake reference. It's good. It's good. All right. Got another server here and light around. Sorry, I'm staying out deep. Storms off in the distance. It's getting closer. Okay. I mean, we might be running out of time. So do I go Hillary Clinton? Or do I go a surprising male story? One of them is Hillary Clinton. One of them is heartwarming. Surprising mail is in like M-I-L. M-A-I-L. Like our guy Todd that listens who delivers the mail. Yeah. So not a surprising male. That's why I wanted to make sure. It's not a dude that's just surprising people. It's surprising male. Yeah, because that could be a case. Which way do you want me to go? I don't know. Heartwarming always feels better to me over Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, it is. Say no more, fam. Hillary Clinton, she was on the Kara Swisher podcast. It's the Pivot podcast. That's the same one where she was on with Rosie O'Donnell, and they were like, lesbian should raise all the kids. So there's like, you kind of know what you're getting into when you watch the Kara Swisher podcast. Unfortunately. Don't like and subscribe. Don't give her any of that. Also, like, are you going to let us be beat by Kara Swisher? Find us on YouTube and hit like and subscribe. Please. So Hillary Clinton's on there, and she found a new way to roast Donald Trump, and it was to compare him to Saddam Hussein. I think they'll have to be. We probably have to take down the arch, which he is determined to put up, which I think is just a terrible idea. I think we'll have to worry about. the reflecting pool because it's not going to be fixed by the time he leaves, assuming he leaves. So there's going to be a long list. I'm making a list. Are you going to de-gold the horses? The horses take down. Have you seen them up close? Yeah. It's crazy. It feels like Saddam Hussein. I mean, seriously. You know what? That's a very, you know, when I was in Baghdad after the fall of, Saddam Hussein, I had meetings. I was then a senator. I had meetings in some of his palaces and they were quite reminiscent of what we are seeing in our own White House. Yeah. I've been feeling like this for a while. Trump is just like Saddam Hussein. You know what I mean? Identical. It's like it's a corporate's looking at the same picture. You're the audacity to get the homeless off the streets to beautify D.C. To leave the White House in better shape than you got it. This is clearly Saddam Hussein stuff. Identical. It's the same picture. You're either crooked or you're stupid. It's just.

insane. Is that hard for you to watch? It's sad. You know what? It's sad to me. It's sad that it's so tackied up and it is a reflection of, you know, his narcissistic personality and his need to feel important, including sticking gold embellishments all over the walls of the oval office. Yeah. That narcissist. You know, it's like, are we going to let him get away with this? I hope not. Is she going to run for president again? Probably. She's like making a list and checking it twice. Doesn't she only run on even years? Is that what it is? Maybe, I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. Aren't they all even years? They are. I mean, she runs a lot. Well, not real running. Yeah. But she runs for president a lot. It's her turn. I don't know. I hope she does. Be interesting. Do you think that she could beat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? JD Vance Marco Rubio versus Clinton Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ugh. Yuck. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. These players are battered and exhausted, but you don't hurt like this if you don't care about this team, about this country, about this game. You can feel the intensity, the goals, the energy that, wow, look at us. Here in the U.S., I have got some news for you. There's so much more to come. My name is Megan Klingberg, and we're just getting started. The U.S. Soccer Podcast, presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Storm.