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WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, >> WBSM [music] presents the Vary Richard Show streaming live on WBSM.com and the [music] WBSM app. Call 508996500. Text us using app chat on the [music] WBSM app. Now, the Barry Richard Show. [music] >> All right, welcome back. Go to the program 7 minutes after 1:00 on a Thursday afternoon. you know, uh during the break, I'm looking out the window here and I'm seeing the um the clouds just rolling in dark dark looking clouds and I'm thinking, gee, is there going to rain at all? And um so I took a look at the WPRI TV channel 12 live color radar and um no no rain around here. Maybe a sprinkle out toward the Cape right now. Uh, but I'm looking at it here and in um southern Vermont, southern and central Vermont and um eastern New York State up into northern or northeastern New York State. They're getting a little bit of snow right now. So yeah, not a lot, but I mean snow showers occurring uh in those areas and um so I mean yeah, we're getting toward that time of year and um nothing to worry about here. They've already had snow up on top of Mount Washington, but uh uh whatever precipitation is out there uh throughout the region is it's going to dry up and dissipate fairly soon. And it's going to get cold tonight though. You just heard TJ say what 25 to 30°. you ready for that yet? Um, I'm not I'm not not ready at all. Not not sure I'm ever ready for that. By the way, I mentioned about the 40 airports that are seeing a reduction in service by about 10% uh while the U Chuck Schumer Jeff government shutdown continues. And I mentioned that Logan Airport is one of the uh the 40 and I said I didn't know whether TF Green and Rhode Island was among the list of 40. It is not. It is not. I checked it out. So if you have a flight out of Green, you should be okay. Um but you might run into some problems if you're flying out of Logan. I'm flying out of Logan in February. So let's everybody get to work. I I don't normally fly out of Logan, but it's it's um Logan has become a little bit more affordable, it seems, for some of the flights, at least the ones that I take anyway. So, um Marjorie Taylor Green said to be looking at a bid for the White House. What do you think? I love Marjorie Taylor Green. And you know, Marjorie Taylor Green says it the way it is. And she made it clear this week when she was on the the View. I didn't watch the view, but I did read a transcript of uh her appearance. And um she said, you know, look, a lot of people, everybody was looking for me to come here and fight with you people, and I'm not going to do that. And you know, we need to find some common ground. And and they actually did on a couple of things, not a lot of things. The girl the the ladies of the view tried to convince her to become a Democrat, which she's never going to do. She said, "I love President Trump." Um, but she was talking about a lot of the same things I was talking about yesterday. They got so many of you angry with me. I can tell through your email and your your text messages. Um, that the Republicans need to start addressing the MAGA issues. Uh, make America great again. Now, we are watching as the Trump administration is doing that. Again, just a actually was the lead story on ABC just a few minutes ago about another deal between the Trump administration and Bobby Kennedy. Look at Bobby Kennedy go and Dr. Oz, right? Uh striking these deals to bring down the cost of medications uh here at home for Americans. So, um they are working on a lot of these things, but they are not communicating well with the public. When the public turns on the news at night, they hear ice raids with masked men uh disappearing people off the streets and they hear Trump sending in the military and blowing up uh innocent innocent people in boats, fishermen uh down in the Caribbean, and you know, this is the kind of stuff they see. You know, making people starve without food stamps and uh uh all of this kind of stuff. So, you're never going to get a fair shake in the media. You know that. But the Republican party needs to get out there and they need to start talking about how they are addressing a lot of these issues and they got to pick up some steam. And I think one way of doing that is to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate because if you go you got a year you've essentially got a year before the U before the midterms and you've got to get you've got to get inflation under control. Inflation is down a little bit. It's not where it should be, but it's down a bit. Uh some prices are are down. I was at Walmart. Um, I buy an over over-the-c counter drug that I need and I was at Walmart yesterday and I saw there was there was a price roll back on it and some prices are coming down but some are not and things are very expensive still and um I know people are freaking out about the heating season coming up between electric and and gas rates um you know medical and um you know I happen to belong to the uh the group out there in Dartmouth for my medical and they've been taken over by um by Brown University and I got to tell you it's a it's so far it's been a crap show. I'm not totally impressed with the way they're running things out there, but this is our health system and it is like through the roof. Premiums for a lot of people are going up. uh not because of the big beautiful bill, but because of the um the Biden um administration doing government um tax credits to or subsidies to help you afford to pay for your medical care. Now, if you live in a society where the government needs to pay for your medical care, that's socialism, right? That's socialism. government shouldn't be paying for your medical care, but the the government should make care make make um sure that medical care is affordable and available to people and the Affordable Care Act didn't do that. As a matter of fact, it drove up prices for people to the point where the government is subsidizing. So a lot of people that have this misnomer that somehow or another the big beautiful bill is right raising their rates and their premiums and that's not true. But the Republicans need to get out there and they got to communicate that so people understand. Um when we talk about these subsidies you know we're talking we're talking billions and billions if not trillions of dollars in subsidies that the taxpayers are are shelling out to subsidize the health care of a lot of people in this country and and including illegal immigrants. That's what the one of the big beefs is on the um on the shutdown here. The Republicans don't want to subsidize health care for um illegal immigrants and and they don't believe that there should be government subsidies anyway. There shouldn't be any need to. They need to rewrite um healthc care legislation that makes healthc care affordable to everybody that needs it. You know the problem, we spoke about this last week. When you when you mandate something, when you say everybody's got to have this immediately, the price is going to go up. Everybody has to buy this whether you want to or not, like healthcare, everybody has to have this. So the prices go up immediately and you know the so the premiums are high for people and they're not getting I mean the the health care system in our country right now has turned into what you might expect healthcare to be like in a socialist country and it's collapsing under its own weight. How many of you remember, if you're as old as me, maybe you remember uh doctors doing house calls? Can you remember being young, a kid, and having the doctor coming to your house with his doctor bag and uh and and visit your house? Now, that may not be practical today because of um the number of people that that are in this country. Uh you know, we have a lot more people here than we did in the early 60s. But one of my good friends who lives in Vermont, her dad was a doctor down in um in Philadelphia. before he died a couple of years ago. He still did still did house calls right up until the end. So I guess it is doable. But that's how personal healthc care was. And you would have a doctor, right? You'd have a family doctor that you saw that your parents saw before you. Probably your grandparents saw before them. And it was the family doctor. I mean, there were there were, you know, the baby doctor, the the the general practitioner that had an office in town and you'd go and you'd see that. Now, again, that might be this might not be practical today with the number of people that we have, but um I don't know, maybe if we made the medical profession uh a little less expensive and and and stressful uh to be in, maybe we'd have more doctors. But family doctors, family practices, remember that you go see a doctor. I don't I can remember Dr. Stimson. I can remember Dr. Mler. I can remember Dr. uh my god, who were some of the other Saunders? Um you know, so many of the other doctors that my family was involved with seeing over the course of the years. Um I remember Dr. Woodcock took out my tonsils when I was a kid and you'd go to their office. You'd actually go to their office. You didn't go to a big medical people warehouse out in Dartmouth or or some place like that and you become a number and and uh you know just another appointment on the ledger and uh you know you speak to some woman um and then she whacks your ATM card and and there you go you're all set. You go sit over there and wait for the doctor to call you. It wasn't like that. But we made a big monstrosity out of our health care system and we made it mandatory where everybody's gonna have healthcare and it drove up the prices and but I mean you know with lawsuits and uh and um malpractice and all these other different kind of things and and and so much government interference we made it impossible for doctors to stay in business and have private practices. Even a lot of the doctors that um are involved in these uh you know places like Hawthorne and and some of these others have gotten out of the business because it's just too became too too much too much of a burden. You got to see a million patients a day um in order to uh in order to you know cover your expenses or to make some money and you should be able to make money as a doctor. You should be able to make money. It's I mean that's a that's something you spend your entire life Right. You go to how many years do you spend in college and then your entire life you're constantly learning and and um it's it's a it's a big commitment. Right. So I think you know doctors should make a lot of money. You know it's unfortunate. I haven't seen my physician in I can't remember how long I see the nurse practitioner. And to be be perfectly honest with you, I'd prefer it anyway. Um because my doctor has to see so many people that when I go in to see him, he's standing there with his hand on the door knob looking at his watch. The nurse practitioner has more time to spend with me. So, um and I've seen her for so many years, I'm just so used to it. When she said, you know, the doctor would like to come in to see you. I'm like, you know what? Let's just keep it the way it is. I like this arrangement better. Um I don't know how the hell we got on healthcare, but um Marjgery Tilly Green anyway is um can reportedly this this reportedly um not us.org. There was a piece about it uh not us.org and um number of sources reporting that she's thinking about her run for the presidency in 28. And if you listen to what she's been saying and and Marjorie Taylor Green has been true to her message from day one that the American people didn't vote for MAGA um you know to to be doing um wars or to be you know doing foreign policy and everything. MAGA make America great again. America first. And I mentioned this yesterday. I can't believe I got so much push back on on social media, uh, email, um, text message from people who felt I'm I'm abandoning MAGA or I'm abandoning the administration. The administration's done so much. I agree. The administration's done a lot. But here's the reality of it. This is the reality of it. I'm not lying to you. This is the truth. People who vote today, with the exception of the older folks, right? old people, middle-aged people who have been voting, you know, the same party forever, they will stay true more times than not. But the younger people that are coming up, I don't even know what the hell we're talking now. generation X, Z, Y, Q. I'm not I'm not even quite sure where we're at at this point, but um the younger ones in particular, and you probably have some of these in your family, or maybe you're you're in these groups yourself, young 30s, late 20s. They work work work work around the clock and they cannot get ahead. They're just about making it. Just about making it. They can't afford to buy a house. $650,000 for the average house, single family home in Massachusetts right now. That was the the figure for u I believe it was for September. I haven't seen the October number yet. Uh should be out any day, but the average price in in September, $650,000. Now, think about that. By the time you you um you know pay lawyers fees and closing costs and home inspectors and all the different things that you got to pay plus interest on that loan, you have just taken on a million dollar in debt. Now, who at 29, 30 years old wants to take on a million dollars in debt? I certainly would not. And when you think about the the down payment that you got to come up with to pay that. So, here's what I'm saying. my advice to the administration. And it's funny after I said this yesterday, so I saw so many videos of I saw conversation with Bill O'Reilly and Dick Shown yesterday uh when I got home last night and they were talking about the same thing. Um that Trump, and it's not even Trump, it's the Republican party in general. The Republican party risks losing the midterms next year unless they can accomplish and let people know that they're making progress on the important issues facing them. Energy, food prices, gas prices, housing. And if they don't make progress on those issues by November of next year, they're going to lose the midterms because again, the younger people are not committed to party like our generation and the generation before us and so on and so forth. They vote for the people who were going to they're going to get the best deal from and that's the way it should be. But you've got a very short shelf life if you don't deliver. They'll jump to the next party if you are not delivering. So by this time next year with the cost of inflation, the cost of food, the cost of energy, uh the cost of gas, Trump keeps saying gas is going to drop below two two bucks a gallon. Well, okay, let's see it. You got to deliver. But, you know, it's nice to be doing the ICE raids. I support them. It's nice to be doing the National Guard. I support that. Nice to be, you know, negotiating peace deals around the world. I agree with all of that. But that has to be happening um kind of in the background while we are doing everything possible to get legislation passed to take care of these economic issues. Now, it's going to be difficult and you may have to get rid of the filibuster in order to get this legislation done because the Democrats are not going to do any of that. You've see now they're denying people food stamps, right? So why are they going to want to lower the price of gas? Uh, we got to get more drilling done. We got to get more gas in the market. I heard last week we had we're talking about what, $58 a barrel for oil. Well, why are we still paying three bucks a gallon for gas? I don't know what the average price is today. It was $299 yesterday in Massachusetts. That's only down 6 cents or or 5 cents from a year ago at the same time. That's not a significant decrease. So, if by this time next year, the Republican party has not delivered on its promise to put America first and deliver on these economic issues, they're going to they're going to lose the midterms and they may lose the White House in 28. Um, all right. 5089960500 is their number. Let me grab a break. We're coming right back for your calls on the other. >> Back to Barry [music] Richard on WBSM. Call 508996500. [music] I was working part time in a five and D. My boss was Mr. McGee. [music] He told me several times that he did not kind cuz I was a bit too lazy. [music] You see that I was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before. [music] That's when I saw her. I saw her. She walked into the outdoor outdoor. [music] >> All right. 1:30 on a Thursday afternoon. 5089960500 is our phone number. And boy, I'll tell you, watching people walk through the parking lot, they're being blown around out there. The at least where I'm sitting anyway, the the big dark clouds seem to be moving out and the sun is coming back. But it is windy and it is cool. And um the latest weather forecast they just heard at the top of the hour uh from the WPR. Oh yeah, I'm looking right now. It's 52 degrees out with a feels like of uh what it feels like of uh with it feels like of 47. Okay. And um and it's breezy and at least right here where I'm sitting on the neck, you've got winds right now about 18 miles an hour. And so that makes it feel cool. And the let me just since I got into this now, I may as well finish it. Uh the um WPRI TV channel 12 weather center says it is going to drop down to 25 to 30 degrees tonight in our area. So that's that's pretty chilly. And then 60s on Saturday. 62 on Saturday. Can't beat that with a stick, right? That's not too bad, right? Friday 55. Saturday 62. Uh but then get ready because next week it's going to be cold. Only temperatures in the 40s northern highlands. [sighs] All right. Um Thanksgiving is coming up what, three weeks from today, as I mentioned. A lot of folks are worried about um a lot of things, a lot of things to worry about these days. You notice that? A lot of stress for people. Uh whether you can afford your utility bills. Um anybody holding off on putting the heat on right now? We we've been fortunate. We haven't had to put the heat on uh yet. And we're not freezing either because I don't freeze. You know me, I like warm weather. So, if it's cool in the apartment, the um the heat goes on. But I haven't had to put it on yet. And we are south facing um and we get a lot of sunshine during the day. So, as long as the sun's out, the apartment stays nice and warm and it it captures the heat and it stays in there. So, that's that's pretty good so far. But I know a lot of folks uh particularly if you've maybe faced north or east or if you have a drafty house to begin with, you've probably had the heat on a few times now. And um have you debated putting it on? Got a friend who owns a house out in South Dartmouth and she said on social media the other day, "It's cold out, but I'm not putting the heat on till November 1st." I remember those days owning the house, right? And then, you know, you put sweaters on and you dress in sweatpants and everything else to stay warm rather than put the heat on until finally you have to, right? Finally, you got to put it on for the first time. Um, but I mean, anybody resisting the heat, telling the kids, uh, put on a scarf, put on some gloves because you're afraid once you get started, right? Once it goes on, it stays on. It doesn't go off until spring. And um you know, I know folks that had huge utility bills last winter and you're hearing about the rate increases for this winter coming up are probably um probably freaking out about what it's going to cost you. So, we've got that kind of stress and we got the stress about, you know, three weeks from now is uh um Thanksgiving. Good news, though, on the the food front. The price of turkeys expected to be lower. and uh the food associated with them with putting on a Thanksgiving dinner expected to be lower uh this year than last year. Um so that's good. I've seen a lot of food out already in the supermarkets. Um you know, they they put the stuffing out and the cans of cranberry sauce and all that kind of stuff. They get it all out there and um you know, people t tend to stock up. I know when we used to do Thanksgiving at my house, we did it for 25 years at at our house and you know, you do shopping and you stock up on stuff a little bit at a time in advance. It was not such a a huge sticker shock all at once when you when you got to go out and and uh and get the stuff for your meal. We used to feed half the city right on Thanksgiving Day at my house. But um um so people are stressing about that and stressing about the cost of Christmas gifts coming up or you know how much money you give to people or how much you put on gift cards. By the way, I wrote a piece I think it was up yesterday on WBS.com about the five most popular gift cards for the holidays in Massachusetts. Uh the ones that everybody's buying. So, if you're wondering what to get somebody and you're thinking maybe a gift card would be nice, you can go take a look right up there on wbsm.com and you can see what the the the five most desired gift cards are for Christmas shopping. Christmas shopping has gotten a lot easier than back in the old days. you know, talking about medical medical care and and um you know, how things have gotten more complicated in that regard, but Christmas shopping has gotten easier. You know, I still you drive by the mall on Christmas Eve, 6:00, and the parking lot's still full. Everybody's out there shopping, running around, buying stuff. Almost everybody I know does not do Christmas shopping that way anymore. It's um either cash, gift cards, uh you know, or you send away for something through Amazon or or you know, one of the um just about everybody has a website you can order online. Even the locals now, you can you can find a local business, which you should do. Try to support as many local businesses as possible and you can get uh you can either get a gift card or you can uh you know, get something delivered. But, uh, you know, I, uh, I can't remember the last time I did Christmas shopping at a store, unless it's a, you know, again, a local store, specialty store, and you want to stop in and get this because it's the only place you're ever going to find anything like that, right? It's unique uh, to that shop. Um, niche, a niche business, right? There there are a number of places in New Bedford where you can get uh uh you know wonderful New Bedford gifts, right, that you're not going to find on online. So you can go go check those places out. But to to roam the box stores or roam the malls, uh I haven't done that in years. And um so gift cards are the thing. Uh gift cards were huge last year. Um, most people pulled in the story I wrote there. There's a there was a poll about um, uh, people said thoughts about receiving gift cards and everybody's down for it. They like the gift cards because you can go and buy what you want to buy. I mean, how many times did you spend uh hours crawling through the mall, trolling through the mall, buying something, and you give it to somebody and they didn't like it or it didn't fit or whatever, and you had to bring it back. I mean, that totally sucked, right? Um, gift card, buy what you want. Go and get what you want and you can pick it out yourself. you let you be the one that goes through the mall, not me. So, um, yeah, that's up there if you want to check that out. Um, but holiday shopping is in full gear. You go to the mall, you see people poking around at things they normally wouldn't be looking at, so you know they're looking for. Um, uh, I I was at the Dartmouth Mall over the weekend. I don't remember why I had to be there, but I had to run into the mall for something. And uh Santa's little area was already uh almost complete. So I would imagine Santa's going to be there fairly soon. Christmas time is here, right? 5089960500. You are next on WBSM. Good afternoon. >> Good afternoon, Barry. >> Hi. >> How are you doing? >> I'm doing well. How are you? >> I'm okay. I'm really excited about stuff. Um, one thing I want to bring up, well, two things I just want to say real quick. Did you see Donald Trump interview yesterday? Um, it it it was kind of sad. Um, okay. It was the breakfast. It was before the breakfast dinner. Um, breakfast dinner. >> Oh, the uh the business uh the business round table. >> Right. Right. Right. Have breakfast. And so he allowed the media to come in. Now, I don't know if you know this or or maybe you do or didn't listen. A lot of people didn't really listen correctly. Donald Trump said, "I thought this was going to be a sitdown interview, but that's okay. You guys want me to have the podium." And he goes and he says, "This is working out fine." Anyways, when he's done with the interview, Barry, he could barely walk. He was holding on to the podium and he went to take a step. Now, this is why and I want everybody in America understand when you're flying as much as him, you are going to get all the inflammation. You are going to get edemia. You're going to get swelling in your legs, swelling of your arms. Okay? I mean, after all, he's of he is of a certain age. You can't keep flying like that without it messing with your vascular um being a at any age frankly. >> And and God bless him because he is doing all of this for us us. >> We're Americans. He's doing it for us y'all. And as he was walking down, it went to black and I'm glad it did. Uh, and then there was just a little bit of screenshot where you saw that one leg where he was coming down. Now for him, you know, I love him. And he said to those uh news media, certain, you know, people that were there, he says, and I know a lot of you in this room right now will join me because from there, Barry, he was going to Miami. And he said, and I know some of you are going to join me on the plane. Now, here he goes again. So I just want America to know this is a president that goes nonstop full force 247 I don't know any president that would would just continually do this Barry at all. And so with that being said the next thing um that I really want to talk well I really want to talk about Trump but we can't do that all day. I want to talk to you about um Holly. Um, I know you get a lot of weekly. I know I think this past week you didn't get that engagement with her on air. Um, I was wondering, um, I was talking with Chris this morning. The casinos make a gazillion b Well, I can't say gazillions, right? But they they make a lot of money, Barry. Each one in this state of Massachusetts. There's a lot of them now. And I would like to know where where did that money go last year? I know um how much they made and I'm assuming it went to the im immigrants, the illegal aliens. Um you know, her new program, the two-year thing, uh two years of having housing, rent paid, this this and that, they're all going to get rich because if you can work with two and god knows how many are living with them, nobody's going to ask them, right? because they're not Medicare, Medicaid age. So they can go to the bank if there's two, three people living there. They're going to the bank, Barry. They're working. They're in two years without paying rent. They're putting all that money in the bank. They're going to buy a house. They're going to have a down payment before any of us. >> And you're talking about the illegal immigrants, right? >> Yes. Absolutely. Well, here here's the here's the downside for them um and for us is that most of these people that were led in have no educational skills and they have no work skills. That's why you see um most of these folks who do come out of the shadows to some extent and and work are working in uh gardening and lawn care and uh you know that kind of there was a there was a bust up in Boston yesterday and a bunch of people picked up >> one today in New Beard. >> Yeah. And car wash at a car wash. Yeah. And so they're doing those kind of kind of jobs. So, I don't know if they have the ability to make the money to buy a house even with the state assistance. They require state assistance. >> I beg to differ with you because listen, if you've got two years worth of no cell phone charges, no electric, no heat cost because that's all going to be forgiven for them. and the two years worth of rent and and I'm sure one no I I'm sure once they get in there is it is it their mother is it the wife and husband only um yeah no I highly doubt that and yeah they don't have any bills to worry about Barry this is what my hilly set up for them it's a sweet spot for two years they've got a sweet spot and they can make as much money as they want and um put it in the bank and just keep it occurring, occurring, occurring. Um, yeah. So, I I don't know on that that aspect. I h I have to uh disagree with you. >> Yeah. I I see I I and I disagree with you, too. I don't I I don't think that I mean, if there are some folks I see I I go out and I see folks um in restaurants and I see folks in uh in in Market Basket and other places and you know, obviously that the these folks are immigrants, right? and um recent immigrants or fairly recent immigrants and um and they and they're well-dressed and they have their kids with them. The kids are well dressed and well behaved and so on and so forth. These are folks that came here with some sense of education or some uh ability to work and um and came here legally. And I think those folks um in some communities are doing okay and are doing well and they will progress and their children will do even better than they do and they will own houses. Maybe some of these people will own houses as well. But I think when we're looking at the the scourge of illegals that came in, I'm not sure it's going to be um maybe another generation before before they start to actually make some money um and and be able to have home ownership. In the meantime, you know, I had read a figure fairly recently that 70, I think it was 73% of immigrants, recent immigrants are on some form of welfare benefit. Okay? Some form of welfare benefit. And uh that's not to say that they're not working. Now this this my guess would be crosses the the whole spectrum from illegal to legally present to uh uh folks waiting for uh amnesty or you know whatever uh even some of those who are here legally. Um so the that is a a huge dependency. I think some will get off of that quicker than others. Those who get an education uh those who get their kids into school and they get an education. Um I think it's only a matter of time. We get frustrated when we go into the markets and we hear folks gathered in little groups and they they don't speak English and they've got the EBT cards and so on and so forth. They are raising children and while their parents may not be assimilating, those children are going to assimilate. They're coming up through the school system. They want to assimilate. They want to they don't want to be outcasts. They want to assimilate. So that generation will assimilate. And this is when, you know, to JD in advance when he was talking about how we need to um, you know, roll back um on on old immigration for a while to allow people to assimilate. This is what he's talking about. We got to we got to get everybody, you know, uh, into that big melting pot. I've got to hold you, my friend. I got to get a break in. We're going to do that next right now. Thanks for your call as always. And we're coming right back up. >> October brings it all. 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Uh, you know, that is only a slight exaggeration. When I came into the studio today and sat down and I opened the uh the live news feed from the White House, from the Oval Office, Trump was giving a um doing a press conference and announcing the um the roll back in prices on on uh weight loss drugs. Still there doing that now. That's two hours ago and they're still there. Um his entire cabinet, all the members in the cabinet that are involved in this with the negotiations and the drug company executives, they're still there too. They're all standing up behind Trump. Trump's sitting down at the desk and uh so this is still going on. Um two hours and it's still happening more than two hours now. And uh so it is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. Um all right, I've got to get the last break and then we're going to come back and wrap for this hour. One more hour after the news for your calls right here on WBSM 5089960500. And uh we're back in just a lot taking questions uh in the uh Oval Office from the press. Uh, last I I looked over here, they were talking about the um um Supreme Court hearing on tariffs and whether or not the Supreme Court will interfere with the tariffs that the president has been uh assessing. There's an interesting story on the Associated Press wire this morning about how um even if the Supreme Court does interfere. Uh Trump's got plenty of authority from other uh laws to be able to continue to assess tariffs. Uh so this really shouldn't have too much of an impact on on what the administration's been doing. And if I get chance, I'll take a look at that a little bit for you coming up in the next hour. We got a bunch of other stuff to talk about, too. Right now, we've got to pause for the news.