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Hey, good morning to you, Cardi.
How you doing, sir?
Man, I am happy that there is no snow on the ground in the walkway.
And I'm enjoying the atmosphere of it being Valentine's Day and it being Friday, too.
So it's the weekend, man.
How you feeling, Earl?
What day?
Valentine's Day.
Oh.
I guess I remember a recollect there being something that they called that.
Oh yes.
You know, and so by the way, if you don't know by now, that's my co-host Sandy Williams.
Good morning to you Sandy.
How
day it is, huh?
those like Cardi who still is young and participates in that day, you know, chocolates, man.
They said the price of chocolate is going through the roof.
So if you buy some candy, it might cost you more than the flowers themselves.
I
agree.
You check it out.
Yeah.
So the turtles actually cost way more.
I went to Walker CVS pharmacy the other day to go look at the flower prices and they were $20.
The chocolate was actually $27.
So I was like.
I'm just going to get these flowers real quick.
That's what she'll be getting for Valentine's Day.
Actually, this is a bit of a segue, but one of my sons was talking to him and he brought up something sort of ironic.
You know, it might be that an egg is worth more than a chicken.
You know, eggs are so expensive now.
And you can buy, you can buy already fried chicken, a whole, a whole fried chicken for six dollars.
Okay.
So what did that chicken cost to begin with?
Before all the things were done to it, to create the chicken that you could fry and sell for six dollars when eggs cost about a dollar a piece.
I think that everyone's going to stop these eggs from hatching and just hurry up and sell the eggs.
You know, um,
I don't, I haven't noticed, I really haven't bought any eggs.
You know, my wife probably has, there's some in the refrigerator, but I don't, you know, I don't know.
And really, you can't, it's hard to say, well, I'm not gonna eat many eggs because food that you prepare sometimes has, you gotta have some eggs.
well it's a prime example of for all of those people who say it
That Joe Biden and the Democrats were the reason that the food prices were so high You know and and now there's a new sheriff in town food prices are still high and actually have gone higher and then you know if I If I chose, you know Sandy Not to buy eggs
Part of the reason why egg prices are so high is the bird flu Well, I know
is the reason that is the reason they're
don't people aren't they don't you know, they don't
associate it with that Well, the mega Republicans to said it was Biden's fault until now and now it's the flu's fault You know it it was always the same reason
Uh, because this, this avian flu has been going on for, for a couple of years and the culling, the mass culling of the, uh, of the chickens out there has been going on for some time as well.
But it's interesting, uh, back in the, in the world of foul, where sauce for the goose is supposed to be sauce for the gander.
Uh, apparently that's not the case politically.
No.
Well, you know, so people need to know that's the reason.
and you know, you're not gonna be able to convince people of many things in these days and times.
I was talking with somebody the other day about it, and they said, well, it started under Joe Biden.
I said, well, man, listen, man, what are you talking about?
It started under Joe Biden.
Okay, bird flu didn't have a president or any individual's name is not attached or associated.
How do you associate bird flu?
with who the president of the united states is
well depends on who you are apparently uh you know that that that yeah that that's the whole craziness of laying everything at the feet of the incumbent president and and the the the callers we've have the conservative callers we have and kind of conservative politicians who've spent
four years laying everything that was going on that was negative at the feet of joe biden and and ignoring all the positive things that were going on will now do the flip side of that and will be uh blaming everyone else for anything bad that goes on including joe biden during the during this administration and will be only extolling things good that are going on now unfortunately
for the incoming incumbent, that list of good things that are going on is pretty short right now.
Pretty short.
Well, I got some good news, Sandy.
What is the guy's name?
J.D.
Vance, the vice president.
And what's that other Yahoo's name?
Pete Hedstead.
Yeah, they're going to be represented in the United States at the.
Munich Conference.
today and and I'm sure the rest of the those nations are going to be really excited to have those two wrecking balls sitting down and talking about something that these people who if you know Sandy have gotten grown accustomed to having you know meaningful conversations that here comes two guys are coming in with wrecking.
Vance and Hegseth represent yin and yang because a couple of days ago Hegseth was busily telling the world that we were that we had to be realistic about a settlement in Ukraine No, no involvement in NATO.
They needed to give up the property that was That has been seized by Russia over time etc etc And then JD Vance comes along to kind of clean that up by saying oh no no we might send troops into Ukraine and we've got everything on the
Well, you can't have it both ways, actually.
And so, you know, I think the problem we now have is that we've got terrifically mixed signals, and everything is in the hands of Donald Trump.
And we've got foreign figures who say we don't want to talk to anyone but Donald Trump because he clearly is the guy calling the shots.
So, you know, the ability for J.D.
Vance and Pete Hegseth.
to represent the United States at a conference when everyone at that conference says, well, we aren't interested in what you have to say.
We want to talk to the president.
Yeah.
And the real irony in all of this is both those guys, Hexthef and J.D.
Vance, Sandy, you know, you would think that they would have gotten.
conversations from those who president and others about how to handle conversations, what to talk about when they go to these things, yet they're left to talk about the things themselves.
It certainly doesn't appear as if they've sat down and had the conversations that normally take place before.
We go to conferences like that where there's a unified
Voice one voice speaking Trump hasn't yeah, he certainly hasn't prepared them or whoever it is and I wonder how long is going to be You know before we we just keep seeing And then somebody I forgot where it was.
They said well, this is just a freshman mistake Well, you can't make freshman mistakes on the world You know on the world scene
especially
people who've been in those positions Sandy, for decades and who understand the importance of protocol.
Well, if you have an organized White House, you've got a process, internal process for spokespeople to clear what they're saying to the public on matters of national interest.
That's just like...
Government 101 that's that's rudimentary.
So, you know, I think that one of the problems is that we've we got used to it from 2016 to 2020 and we better get used to again, which is chaos and disorganization and and a non process where process usually prevails and it's all kind of done willfully in order to make only one person important and only one voice important and that's that's Donald Trump that the president so
You know with that person who's the only person anyone can rely on better be smart better better actually Be in a position to understand all the issues and that's the worrisome thing.
No one can be that smart and I'm not at all sure that the incumbent even comes close to that point
so who generally would would would organize the chairs
and sit down and have these dialogues and conversations.
If it's not the president, who is the person who normally would be that person in government to be able to, and I guess a lot of it is these people are for the most part new, and they're dealing in areas
Well, the process would normally get led by the chief of staff in the White House, so that'd be wiles, but it's the extent that she's given a long enough leash to do this by the president.
And that person would organize the people internal to the government who have knowledge and input on the particular issues.
They'd meet, convene, talk, or organize thoughts.
develop position statements and clear the statements that are going to be given to the public about those issues.
And that's not necessarily a smooth process, but it's one that needs to be carried out in order not to have chaos and not to send mixed signals and not to confuse the rest of the world as well as the American public.
All right eight five five seven five two forty eight forty two It's Friday.
That means Friday's my co-host Sandy Williams and you We're gonna we got so much stuff to cover Sandy before we get into the conversations you and I are gonna be having Doge rips through education department cutting contracts staffs grants just a bull in a china shop and You know, you know, what next?
We'll talk about a little bit about this
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