Join Rodney and Travis as they delve into the realities of creating financial independence in today’s world. With new economic policies breathing fresh life into American industries, there is both opportunity and uncertainty. This episode provides a critical look at how these changes are perceived and the actual implications for everyday investors, while also discussing the media’s role in shaping public opinion. Through stories of resilience and strategic insight, the hosts offer guidance on navigating these turbulent times.
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to the Wealth Break Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let’s be honest, building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone.
SPEAKER 01 :
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that.
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And we’re not stopping at success stories.
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What happens when it doesn’t go right?
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My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Waiting for a long time. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. Going to make it wealthy, good and wealthy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Like good and plenty? Yeah. I don’t like those candies. No? No, because they’re like licorice. It’s weird. I’m not a fan of it. But I am a fan of good and wealthy. I love the good and wealthy. Are we going to have that? I’m a little nervous. I’m not going to lie. We’re going to walk through some of this today because it’s the day after Liberation Day. And there’s a lot of stuff happening. I’m trying to disregard. It’s so frustrating. When I was looking at headlines last night, I’m like, dear heavens, I can’t send these people, these sweet subscribers, these headlines, like the ones that I kept seeing that we’re all going to die. We’re going to collapse into a pit of debt. And it was just… I mean, the the overwhelming I mean, just I don’t want to tell you to go Google anything, but you know what I mean? It’s just it’s overwhelming, like negativity. And I think that there’s fine. You can dislike approaches, but I think it’s really, really disingenuous, misleading to the American public to act like this is somehow. what’s the word I’m looking for, that it’s acceptable to do this to people, to get them to freak out and make them think that they’re going to go broke and they’re not going to have anything for retirement because a tariff strategy. Now, you know, we’ll see how it plays out in the long term. But right now, I mean, I was expecting, I was told that everything would crash and it hasn’t. And it still hasn’t, Cain. Has anything crashed? Do you still have money in the bank?
SPEAKER 09 :
I do.
SPEAKER 14 :
Did you put anything in your mattress?
SPEAKER 09 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
I typically don’t.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re not a big mattress person? Put her in her?
SPEAKER 09 :
No.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, all I know is the weeping and gnashing of the teeth and the insistence that all hell was going to break loose is, I mean, we’re not seeing that. And I think time is going to tell how effective this is. And I think part of the part of what goes into that, too, is the response of other nations. The way that, you know, how are other nations going to respond to this? Now, we know that Canada was thinking about retooling some things and there have been some other. I mean, we I mean, Japan elsewhere. But we’re going to see we’re going to see just how serious all you know how what the responses are going to be. And that, I think, is going to give us a better, because it’s like at this point, what, 3% here, 0.5% here. Audio Soundbite 6. Oh, no, not 6. That’s not what I’m looking for. I’m looking for the, okay, tariffs. Audio Soundbite 4, where he said he’s been talking about them for forever. And then he also said he was handsome in his old speeches. Watch.
SPEAKER 15 :
But I tell you what, when it looked like I was going to win, I announced that I was going to be doing exactly what we’re talking about today. Great consistency, actually, because I’ve been talking about it for 40 years, because I saw what was happening 40 years ago. If you look at my old speeches when I was young, very handsome. My old speeches, and people would say, I’d be on a television show, I’d be talking about how we were being ripped off by these countries. I mean, nothing changes very much. The only thing that changed were the countries, but nothing really changes. But, you know, it’s why it’s such an honor. It’s such an honor to be finally able to do this.
SPEAKER 14 :
So the and he has been talking about them quite a bit. And we’re going to dive into all we’re going to dive into this at depth here. We’re also going to get into some of the latest with Doge. So I’m confused here. I remember when Doge first kicked off and they announced how it was going to run. They announced how long they expected Doge to last. meaning that he wanted to be, what was it, April of 26. So, you know, give or take a year. They thought that, you know, it’d be a good year before they would be completely finished with everything. They kind of had a timeline. Am I crazy in thinking that Musk had already announced that he would probably be leaving Doge, that he wouldn’t leave in May of this year? Like he was going to stay on to make sure that it got off the ground, et cetera, et cetera. So why then… If we all know that, right, Kane? I’m not crazy that that was that was a real thing.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s a real thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Why is the media acting like, oh, my gosh, this is the final straw. Trump and Musk, they’ve had it. Oh, and he’s leaving like that. He’s leaving prematurely.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think we know why. I mean, the media loves to highlight and even exaggerate division in the Republican Party, and especially with these characters.
SPEAKER 14 :
But even with him having gone out and said that I’d like to leave in May already? I mean, he was public with it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Truth be damned. That is our media. Truth be damned.
SPEAKER 14 :
So really then the only way to undermine the media is just like read the stuff. Read like the actual news that comes out or watch the sound bites for yourself.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, watch the events that they’re reporting on.
SPEAKER 14 :
I knew that I was not nuts. And I’m like, I’m pretty sure that this is he came out and said, yeah, we’re going to be we’re going to be leaving. I’ll be leaving in May is how he put it. And after we get everything set up and it’s running, etc. And then that’s what’s happening because the way that they’re putting it, oh, my gosh, that it’s just – there really is – they’ve been trying to divide, push division between these two for the longest time. And this – I mean this is right after they had another, what, Social Security list thing. all of the all of the just the drainage of our taxpayer dollars craziness so all of this is happening and then you got the fights in the house etc etc you got all these different fights that are happening so it’s like a weird golly i’m so glad i’m not in congress i see these headlines like i’m so glad all right so with the tariffs you guys seen all of them the the the full list the our friend carol roth is not a fan uh it’s not a fan king carol’s not a fan no no And I get the hesitancy. Are you nervous at all? Because you’re a big proponent of this.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, no, I enjoy the leveling of the playing field and seeing these countries react in exactly the way Trump intended for them to react. And that’s literally it.
SPEAKER 14 :
How long do you think that they’ll last?
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s what nobody knows. What do you mean they will?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I mean, if we have because now if we have these these tariffs kicking into play, I mean, because this one of the things I put this in the prep last night. So the 10 percent tariffs on all countries.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Kicks in. April 5th, the more pointed higher tariffs, those kick in at midnight on April 9th. And I’m assuming the difference between the 9th and the 5th is to give all of these countries that still haven’t come to the table to negotiate, to give them maybe a couple of days to do so. That’s what it seems like.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it’ll take as long as these other countries decide to play ball. I mean, think about it. We have cut seven, I think. Trump kind of lays out a few of these just to give people an idea. It isn’t like 100% reciprocal. It’s only 50% reciprocal. If you want to go and play seven so we can see all of it from Trump himself.
SPEAKER 15 :
So… If you look at that, China, first row, China, 67%. That’s tariffs charged to the USA, including currency manipulation and trade barriers. So 67%, I think you can, for the most part, see it. Those with good eyes, with bad eyes. We didn’t want to bring… It’s very windy out here. We didn’t want to bring out the big charts because it had no chance of standing. Fortunately, we came armed with a little smaller chart.
SPEAKER 14 :
And… And they listed it all out yesterday on social media. Now, I think one of the things kind of driving this is it’s not – again, not every tariff is a good tariff. Not every tariff is a bad tariff. And markets react to uncertainty. And I think it’s the uncertainty that’s making – everybody feel anxious right now it’s that uncertainty it’s the uncertainty also that’s making the markets a little volatile and i’m saying a little i don’t even think volatile is the right word i just don’t have another one at the moment yeah i mean that’s accurate yeah i mean because the markets are reacting to the uncertainty that’s what’s
SPEAKER 09 :
And a lot of the uncertainty is generated by the media.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what I mean? So it’s kind of like this vortex of, you know, the president is doing something that will end up an incredible positive for the United States. But the media, of course, always being anti-Trump, are driving all of this negative news about it. So now, of course, markets are uncertain and we’re seeing the volatility.
SPEAKER 14 :
My big criticism is that he did not put a pointed high enough tariff on high-waisted pleat front pants that all the women are wearing this season. Because it makes you look like you have a front butt. And it’s horrible. And it needs to stop.
SPEAKER 09 :
Where are his priorities?
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m saying, you know, Mr. President. Please just hear us out. Now, see, I think that tariffs to control. I’m all for that. You’re like, Dana, you sound like a authoritarian. Yes, I am. I am because I don’t like to see ugly people in ugly clothes. So, I mean, that’s that’s that’s, you know, that’s what I’m seeing. And I’m watching the video, too, of him putting the hold in that. But he’s got like eight of those placards. Hold up. Let me pull this up. They have like, actually, I think more than them, but it lists all of the tariffs applied to each nation out to the 10% tariff. And then on April 9th at midnight, that’s when the big ones, the more pointed ones kick in. And we’ll see if we’re able, if we’re able to, now I’m just theorizing here. If we are able, just think about it, to get rid of income taxes because we have a healthy tariff strategy, Kane, suddenly I’m loving tariffs. I mean, because think about it. That is how we raised revenue initially before the Democrats had perpetual taxation. It’s a true thing. That’s, you know, that makes a lot of sense. Makes a lot of sense. So that’s, you know, I just think that if we’re able to do that and we’re able to have that transition, and it’s going to be a bumpy transition, I think a lot of people would then say, holy cow, it was worth it. I do think that you have to do something incredibly drastic. If you’re going to do it, you got to just do it. But I’m also super nervous for this transition without tax cuts. Without tax cuts, we just gave ourselves the biggest tax hike ever. That’s a real thing. And it’s stupid to not admit it. I don’t care who’s in power. So if we’re following up with relief for average everyday Americans, now it falls on Congress, then this could be You know, really, you know, everyone likes to say 4-D chess and I roll my eyes and almost choke to death because it’s such an overused, cliched, trite phrase and in some instances just crazy. But if we’re able to do something like that, audio soundbite too, this is what Trump was talking about yesterday. Listen.
SPEAKER 15 :
And now we’re going to pass the largest tax cuts in American history and that’s where we’re relying on Mike and John Thune. And we will not cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits. And the Democrats will because if they got in, the entire economy would collapse. This country is heading for a collapse.
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Well, so you need to I mean, economically, we’re on the edge of a cliff. I get it. So we’re going to follow this and we’re also going to talk about some of the other economic headlines that have popped up in the wake of Liberation Day. We’ve got the media. We’re also going to get into the Doge stuff. Like I said, we’ve got a bunch of stuff to touch on. Two stories come out of California and Georgia. Both of them are insane. All of this and a lot more. Our partners that will bring you the program are friends over at Tax Network USA, the government theft agency. They want their money. They say you owe it. You don’t really owe it, but that’s what they claim. You don’t want to deal with the IRS by yourself. This is where your good friends over at Tax Network USA step into the picture. They have entered the chat officially. Getting ahead of anything. If you have back taxes, unfiled returns, whatever, get ahead of it, but don’t contact them alone. Turn it over to the team at Tax Network USA. Not all tax resolution companies are the same. For instance, not everybody else is out there saving billions of dollars for their clients like Tax Network USA has. They’ve resolved over a billion dollars in tax debt. They have risk free solutions. They know how to navigate the system. They know which agents to call and which ones to avoid. And they have strategies for anything. If you owe $10,000, if you owe $10 million, their strategies are designed to settle your tax issues in your favor and reduce or eliminate your debt. So talk with one of their strategists today. It’s free. Stop the anxiety. Stop the threatening letters. Schedule your complimentary consultation today by calling 1-800-958-1000 or visit TNUSA.com slash Dana. Don’t let the IRS’s aggressive tactics control your future. TNUSA.com slash Dana.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Cain sent this to me because it’s supposed to be like he doesn’t like him and he’s making fun of him. The shoulder pad is back. This is according to Financial Times. By the way, I love shoulder pads. I should have come up into the age in the 80s. I should have come to age in the 80s, not the 90s. That’s my decade. Should have been my decade. Because that’s when the fashion, everything was crazy and it was awesome. I am so happy with structured silhouettes. So I guess you’re not a fan of the shoulder pad, Cain. No, not really. Well, I think they’re amazing.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s more false things on women.
SPEAKER 14 :
I like it. It makes a nice defined shoulder. I like it. Not on men, though. I think if it’s on men, it’s weird. I’ve played a couple years of football.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s how I think shoulder pads.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, well, I mean, in jackets and stuff. I mean, there’s not everything, but it looks good in a lot of stuff. Apparently, it’s back. I think a lot of the 80s stuff, if we go through a period of economic prosperity, the fashion will reflect it. And I swear we’re going to go into another 80s. I think we will. That’s actually very encouraging. Let’s see there. Oh, my gosh. 17 shoplifters arrested all in one day at the same store. Linwood police in Washington, they arrested 17 shoplifters all in one day. They said that there were people confidently shopping, loading up their carts and walking right out the door. And they arrested them. They said, please do not come here and steal from our community. Now, in February, at that exact same store, what is happening? They arrested 14 people in a six hour period. That’s I’ve never heard anything like that. That’s wild. There was there was a man arrested in Provo after he entered a restaurant just naked as the day he was born and, quote, flexed his muscles aggressively. Oh, and he had a gun. I feel like that should be in the headline, too. That wasn’t in the headline, but it should be. It does at least come up in the lead. A man’s facing charges after he allegedly walked into a restaurant naked and armed with a gun. And his name is Ralph Laurent. I am not kidding you. Ralph Laurent is his name. 24 years old. I mean, it’s literally Ralph Lauren, but with a T. A T is doing some heavy lifting in the story. The man told police that he was flexing his muscles aggressively. Or one person told police the man was flexing his muscles aggressively and following people. Another person said he had a gun. Now, I don’t know why all of them are not saying that he had a gun. Being that he was naked, I have no idea where you’re going to put it if. It’s not like you can conceal it. It’s the same. Let’s see. Just doing one week of cold plunges could slow down your aging at a cellular level. It’s a good thing I don’t care about slowing down my aging at a cellular level because there’s no way I’m doing a cold plunge. We invented heating water. As people, right? And like the house and electricity. Why are we doing this stuff? We got a lot more to hit as we move. Just back in just a few. Stick with us. Goldman Sachs Research, they raised their gold price forecast to over $3,000 by the end of this year, underpinned by higher than expected demand from central banks. So if you’re going to buy, now’s the time. It’s an easy and transparent to do with GoldCo. They are a very strong supporter of this program and they know metals inside and out. Experience matters when it comes to protecting your wealth. They have helped thousands of people secure their financial futures with gold and silver. And like I said, they’ve been with this program since the beginning that you can secure your future and trust gold code with over $3 billion secured. They have an A plus better business bureau rating over 6000 five star reviews. They’re the number one gold company in the nation. You can act now and request GoldCo’s free 2025 gold and silver kit and learn how to diversify and safeguard your savings today. Diversify your money with time-tested safe haven assets of physical gold and silver. Visit danalikesgold.com and join the thousands of people who have called GoldCo the number one rated gold company and get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit. You could also qualify for up to 10% in bonus silver. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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SPEAKER 07 :
I think the mindset is, let’s just see where we are, and then we’ll see how President Trump feels about all this.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so it’s essentially up to President Trump if he’s in the mood to negotiate with some of these countries.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I mean, it’s not the mood. It’s how… How are we seeing things? I think the real thing is going to be, and that he’s going to gauge the tariff level by, it won’t be necessarily the calls from the leaders, it’s going to be the calls from industry saying, okay, how can we get these off? And he’s going to say, you can get it off, bring your factory to the U.S.
SPEAKER 14 :
And that was – I had a headline here where Stellantis – let me pull this up. I was actually looking for this. I thought I had it up here. But Stellantis, they’ve already – there’s been some movement on expansion from other countries. I think it was Stellantis was the one. But that’s – actually, I have it up here. Forgive me. I’m going through – there’s a lot. There’s a lot to go through. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Yeah, there are a couple of companies already that have paused any kind of expansion. And I think this, one of those, let’s see. Yeah, it was Stellantis paused Mexico Canadian production. They’ve temporarily laid off 900 U.S. workers because of tariffs. Temporarily is what they said. And that was reported just about maybe a couple of hours ago, just earlier this morning. And they they’re again, this is uncertainty. They’re looking. I mean, they even said that they want to assess the medium and long term effects. And they and they they wanted to pause production to sort of see how things level out. And I get that. It’s that comes with it. That’s part of that uncertainty. The I will say one of the things with the tariffs that I did think was funny came. Because he had the big list of all of the countries. Right. All of the countries that have the tariffs on them. And one of them, actually two of them really, is one entity. The Head Island and the, or sorry, Heard Island and McDonald. And it’s way down there, kind of like in between the Indian and Southern Ocean. And there’s no people there. The only things that live there are penguins. Or as Benedict Cumberbump would say, penglings. Penguins. The I don’t know what I just think is funny because the meme was going around last night like blink them birds, you know, just. OK, boys, I don’t know what they make down there. The penguins on the island. It is funny. It’s funny. I mean. I don’t dislike penguins. They’re fancy. You know, they’re fancy birds. They’re in tuxes. But they said that that was one of the, I don’t know why. It’s inhabited. They usually use, I mean, it’s basically just scientific research is all it’s used for. So I do think that that was kind of interesting. that they were listed on there. You guys, most everybody I think has seen the full list of tariffs at this point. So there’s probably, I don’t think it’d be, I’m not going to go down the full list. I have it up at my sub stack. Yeah, but Stellantis, they had paused. The maker of Ram Trucks, Jeeps, 900 workers, and I don’t I think that’s the only company that so far has announced that they’re pausing any kind of expansion. It’s just it’s an assembly plant in Ontario. And that’s going to be done for two weeks. So that’s kind of so very everything, you know, just so that they can assess so they can assess and kind of see what’s, you know, how how long is this going to go? Are other countries going to respond? Now, can I share with you a really stupid story from California? San Francisco Chronicle. You’re going to like this. California is about to spend, you know, California has a major multi-billion dollar deficit right now. They are about to spend $239 million to turn San Quentin into a Scandinavian style rehab center. They are planning for sweeping changes, says the Chronicle, for San Quentin State Prison. They’re remaking it, Cain. It’s going to be a Scandinavian-style heaven, complete with a rehabilitation center and a farmer’s market, a podcast production studio, and a self-service grocery store. It sounds like a bougie apartment in D.C.
SPEAKER 09 :
Are you telling me this is a prison?
SPEAKER 14 :
Uh-huh. Yeah. It’s a prison. $239 million. $239 million. Destruction was on track to finish in January of 26. It’s in California, really. You think that’s going to actually happen? They’ve been plotting the same track of train for 10 years. The first, now this is, I love how they say this. You could just say prisoners, but they say incarcerated people. Like they’re people who just accidentally got incarcerated. Oh. How can we get like ex-carcerated? It was on track to finish in January 26. And now they said that they’ve begun using the revamped facility within months of completion early next year. So it is a little behind. And that’s not surprising considering… I mean, it’s California. How long… It wasn’t even a mile, right? That track that they built for the train that was supposed to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, they didn’t even finish that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean… They say in 26, but we all know it’s not true. But I’m trying to understand what is this going to do? Newsom called it California’s most notorious prison. And that he had declared a moratorium on executions. He began dismantling death row, per the San Francisco Chronicle. He ordered state officials to start the process of transferring the prisoners to other state facilities, and he announced plans to turn the whole prison into this Nordic-style center so they can reenter life outside prison. He’s hired Kane, the Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lawson, to help reimagine the maximum security prison. I’m not joking. That’s actually in the piece. I’m reading from it directly.
SPEAKER 09 :
But the point of prison was, you know, you don’t get to do stuff that you do when you’re not in prison.
SPEAKER 14 :
But podcast studio? It was a self-service grocery store.
SPEAKER 11 :
What?
SPEAKER 14 :
The influences they’re taking from the Scandinavian incarceration system. Where prisoners live in detention centers designed to approximate life outside of prison. Yes, because that’s the problem. Sure. Good grief. So they say that they’ve successfully reduced prison populations and recidivism by focusing jail time on preparing people for their release back in society. Let’s look at some other jobs you can do besides killing people and selling them drugs. Let’s just… So they said they want the prisoners to have access to so-called normalizing spaces like the self-service grocery store, a cafe, food trucks, staffed by other incarcerated people. I don’t know about this. They’re spending $239 million on it. Is it all going to be like Ikea? Now what Juan is showing you is like a mock-up. Is it like family all visiting incarcerated dad? And that looks like corrugated metal on the side of the buildings. I’m sorry. That just looks so trashy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Assisted living facility.
SPEAKER 14 :
Why does it look so junky? It’s like weedy and overgrown. It’s nature. No, it looks trashy. Who decided to do it? Look at those stupid, squaddly little trees over there. They don’t even look healthy and properly trimmed. I mean, you just think, you know, if you’re doing a mock-up, you know, maybe sell it. It’s $239 million. Sorry, we spent all our millions. We couldn’t render any better trees than this. Sorry.
SPEAKER 09 :
The vegetation’s in prison, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m amazed at this. So they’ve got this very expensive Danish architecture. They’re going to solve all the problems with the jails, Cain. $239 million. I’m going to have an Ikea inside.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re going to have people committing crimes so they can have this life. That’s what’s going to happen.
SPEAKER 14 :
Can I just say, I hate the… And I don’t say this as an insult. It’s just not my style. I loathe the Scandinavian modern stuff. I can’t stand it. I cannot stand it. My version of hell is literally what this is describing. You don’t have to threaten me with prison. Just threaten to send me to Ikea. Right? Just let me go there. And I scared straight, taking her to Ikea. The holistic initiative leverages the best practices to improve the well-being of those who work and live as a prison’s king. I don’t, they said that they wanted to make, in California, now here’s the kicker as we wrap this, they want to make prison life less punitive.
SPEAKER 1 :
What?
SPEAKER 14 :
I am not making it up. That’s literally a quote. It is literally a quote. This is literally a quote. It’s San Francisco Chronicle. They’ve dubbed the effort the California model with the aim of making prison life less punitive.
SPEAKER 11 :
The point of prison is to be punitive.
SPEAKER 14 :
So mean, Kane. Why don’t you like our Nordic jails? This is Hans. He’s going to get you checked in. Bend over.
SPEAKER 09 :
I can’t. Where’s the nearest bottle of scotch?
SPEAKER 14 :
So basically, you had some California moron go up and convince Newsom, like jail, but like less jailier. So, we’re going to put the prisoners in jail, but it’s going to be like way less jailier. Like, hear me out, right? We’re going to have the landscaping and a podcast station because they can do podcasts. Self-service grocery store. This is so dumb. This is California. We’re California. I know. Now, I will say you could because Ikea is like a big thing here. It’s a very big, I know a lot of people have Ikea furniture. I don’t like to put things together because I like to disregard tools. I look at the instructions, they see them and I’m like, nope. And I try to do it. My husband says it’s like I’m doing women’s math. And it is true. Do you know? That women can measure the size of something with their hands on either side of something. And then they can keep their arms totally still like a robot and then go to a different part of the room and put their hands down. And that’s perfect measurements.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
I did not know that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. It’s truly amazing. Or when a woman says, I can eyeball it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just totally believe her.
SPEAKER 14 :
Just totally believe her. My favorite thing to do when I want something done in the house is to ask my husband… I’m like, where’s the hammer? I’m not even allowed to have that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Evil reverse psychology that you do.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I want to go hang something. And he I’m just like, use a Hercules hook for everything. Right. Sorry, Hercules. The Ozarks coming out Hercules. I’m like, just Hercules it. Get a Hercules. My younger son’s like, there’s a you in there. You know that. And you just put it in there. And my husband’s appalled. He’s like that. He says it’s trash. And that I’m doing it. I’m being trashy by doing that. And he’s like, no, you got it. And then he gives me a thing where it’s a nail. And then the thing, like all these things for the nail. And you got to just what? Use a hook. What’s so wrong? And it just kills his soul. Kills his soul. I don’t even know where the tools are. If I have to hammer something, I got to get a flashlight and beat the thing with it. Because I’m not allowed to have the hammer.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that’s the deterrent that you offer your husband. And that’s what a prison should be. It should be a deterrent. But it’s not a deterrent if you’re podcasting.
SPEAKER 14 :
Cue Creed’s My Own Prison.
SPEAKER 11 :
Podcasting from prison.
SPEAKER 14 :
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 02 :
Say because you’ve been gracious. is this. When I first became a public defender, I had no criminal defense experience. And I walked in and I told my boss, Charlie. I said, listen, you should hire me. He said, why? I said, because I’m black. Charlie looked at me like I was crazy.
SPEAKER 14 :
So she admits she was a DEI hire then. Yeah, that’s what it is. I mean, yeah, she’s admitting that she’s a DEI hire.
SPEAKER 11 :
She admitted she had no qualifications.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I have no other qualifications but black. That’s… sounds horrible. That sounds so horrible. I she think that’s a flex to admit this. And the manner that she did. That’s not a flex girl. That is not a flex. That’s dei on parade. That’s exactly what it is. Welcome back to the program. So we coming up in our second hour. We’ve got I have an update about that story about the dad who left. I saw this this morning. The dad who we talked about it yesterday left his kids at McDonald’s to reportedly go for a job interview. OK, it’s not quite milkshake duck, but it’s getting to milkshake duck territory. So I got to update you about that. We’ll dive into that. Also, I told you I had two stupid stories. One was California with the Scandinavian jail. They’re going to Scandinavianize San Quentin to make it, you know, a totally happy feeling. We also have Georgia House Democrats yesterday that walked out of the chamber in protest because of a Republican bill that sought to block taxpayer funds that are being used to pay for gender surgeries for prisoners, for state prisoners. inmates taxpayer funded like mutilation for state inmates so we’re gonna have that i mean they walked out like all like in unison so we’re gonna have that conversation that’s your money that’s taxpayer money It’s just I didn’t realize that they were so rich in Georgia that they could just use people’s tax dollars to just go pay for experimental surgery. Wow. Wow. And I don’t know, too, if you saw this new book that’s coming out where the ex-White House chief of staff now believes it’s totally fine to spill the tea on Biden. These people, however much you love them, is not enough. So there’s a basically it’s a full on. I mean, they’re selling everything in this book. We’re going to talk about this because it’s Ron Klain, his book out. And boy, oh, boy, this is bad. So we got all of that as well coming up, including Florida and the latest with the terror fight. We have all the updates as well. Is anybody coming to the table yet? We’ll see. We’ll discuss all of it. Stick with us. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money? A bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you’re ready to take on the day. If pain is affecting your life, see how Relief Factor can help change that. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, Relief Factor supports your body’s response to inflammation. And it doesn’t just mask pain for a short time. It helps to reduce or even eliminate it, and it’s safe to take daily. In fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective it is. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel better every day, and you’ll live better every day. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for only $19.95. That’s less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com.
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to the Wealth Break Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let’s be honest, building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone.
SPEAKER 01 :
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that.
SPEAKER 18 :
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Every single day, the media said, Trump is running on tariffs.
SPEAKER 04 :
And people said, we know that. Trump is running on bringing back manufacturing. People said, we know that. And they went and pulled the lever for him. This is mind-boggling to me that the media is focused on pain, pain, pain. Listen to me. I heard someone earlier today on another network say that countries send us wine, cheese, and Mercedes, and we give them a piece of paper. as if like we’re getting the better end of the bargain people sweat they work hard they sacrifice families families are broken up people commit crimes for this piece of paper it represents an investment our life our energy it represents a lot so we send it over there we get all this plastic crap on this table you know how that money comes back to this country they buy this building they buy our farms this system is unsustainable it’s
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s unsustainable. He’s not wrong. He’s not wrong. That’s Charles Payne, our friend Charles Payne. I have to say, too, I used a question I was thinking about. There are good tariffs and bad tariffs, but if tariffs are all, all of them so entirely bad, why do other countries use them against the United States? No one’s talked about that on like the CNBCs. I haven’t seen. In fact, it’s part of my prep. I asked Grok and Grok’s like, what? Nobody’s talked about that. What? As part of prep, I was trying to see when getting ready for the show today, if there was, you know, any, if there’s all so incredibly bad, then. Why do so many other countries use them against the U.S.? And I looked at Financial Times. I looked at Forbes. I looked at Real Clear Politics. There wasn’t and there hasn’t been an explanation of that from all of the people who are trying to tell you that America’s done and it’s recession day, not liberation day, and all this other stuff. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this second hour. I Just nobody’s been able to answer that question. And what Charles, how Charles put it out is exactly right. The method by which we are going about all of this is just entirely unsustainable, entirely unsustainable. And I like what he had said, too. He’s like, I heard some say the rest of the world sends us wine, cheese and Mercedes. We send them paper. People make enormous sacrifices to get that paper. And that paper returns to America to buy farms and businesses long after the cheese and wine are gone. He’s right. Speaking of which, please, dear heavens. OK, so I wish Trump would have put a tariff on any foreign made high waisted women’s pant with pleats. And also, please take off all the tariffs on Italian wines. Because I don’t mean to sound like a snob, but I only drink Italian wines. I don’t drink any of the trash where they put in the preservatives and all the other stupid chemicals. I just want the fermented grapes, okay? I don’t want all the other stupid chemicals in it. So, as of late. So, can we just please take those off? Then I’m cool, right? I’m okay. I may have another request later, but right now I’m okay, right? Just saying. So I think this is exactly right with all of this. I’m just telling you, it might be the messaging. You can’t tell people what’s going to get really tough and then it’s going to get better again. I will say you can’t tell people that. I think Trump has figured out how to talk about Tariffs. And he had I think he’s discovered in the past couple of weeks and messaging on this the sweet spot to hit to make people feel not better about it, but more informed. Does that make sense? I think a lot of the hesitancy comes down. from there’s a lot of bad information out there. And people know tariffs, but unless you’re an economist, that’s not something that you’re in and you’re seeing the mechanics of day in and day out. I think some of the other people in the administration are not helping. I think that their messaging has not been great. Like, for instance, Scott Besant, when he was talking about how we have to detox, I get what he’s saying, but that’s not the way to say it. And at this point, you guys need to realize if you’re trying to get more people to go along with you, you do need to be careful about your messaging. It’s not an issue of rejecting the premise. It’s an issue of making the premise palatable to people who don’t understand because they’re busy in their day-to-day lives. So he was saying, let me pull this up. I think this is a Washington Examiner piece. And it was getting into some of this to you can’t say I think to talk about it like it’s a detox from stuff is not the best way. He said that that people will, quote, likely experience a detox period after Trump implements. these tariffs. And this was a piece from the Washington Examiner. Quote, the market and the economy have just become hooked and we’ve become addicted to this government spending and there has to be a detox period. Yes, that’s true. But then he was also talking about detoxing from affordable, an abundance of like, you know, goods, affordable goods, I think. And I get that. A friend of mine wrote this, quote, what are we detoxing from exactly? From an abundance of affordable goods, this is David Harsanyi, and the world’s highest living standards, from consistent economic growth, from leading the world in nearly every possible innovation and quantifiable economic measurement, from being an evolving manufacturing powerhouse, whatever. I got to feel like that has a caveat there from enjoying an unprecedented per capita GDP or the one of a low unemployment rates. And I like David. David’s a friend. He’s been on the show frequently. He is one of those. He’s not. He doesn’t. He doesn’t hate Trump. He is one of those people who’s so logical he can barely function. He’s super smart, dude. I think he’s he’s very dry. Very smart guy. And I respect his opinion. Although I don’t necessarily agree with all of the premises in this statement. Because I think that we haven’t been a manufacturing powerhouse. With certain things, yes. With certain like big ticket things, yes. But a lot of the other stuff, no. Antibiotics, no. Chips, no. That’s the stuff that you’re really going to see get super expensive. You know, computers. And here I am like, oh, I wonder if it’s time to upgrade my laptop. Nope, not going to do that now. Everybody, everybody holds, kind of holds their wallets a little bit. The unprecedented per capita GDP, low unemployment rates. We haven’t had low unemployment rates. Now, my disagreement with what he’s saying here, and I think that we’re both arguing, I’m kind of taking issue with some of the points that he’s making, and I feel like His he’s he’s begging the question of low unemployment rates by assuming that it’s tied to tariffs, when in fact it’s been tied to poor Democrat and in some cases Republican fiscal policy. There are a lot of other things that play into that, I think. And the unemployment rates, you guys remember when we broke down. When they were the unemployment rates, when they were trying to say that, oh, no, unemployment rates are super low. Look at all the jobs that were created. We’ll show us the jobs. Yeah, just trust us. There’s some jobs created. Well, then you look at the jobs and it was NGOs and federal workers, literally like federal employees, government employees and NGOs. That’s what the bulk of the hiring was. And then we found out that, oh, well, we just, how many jobs did we just like miss? It was like a million. Something crazy.
SPEAKER 09 :
When we reported it was over 800, so it was between 800,000 and a million jobs that they said we actually added and did not.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. So that’s where I take exception with the, like, what do you mean low unemployment rates? In order to argue that, you’re having to assume that the information that the Biden administration gave you is true and that’s not accurate. Right. uh manufacturing powerhouse we’ve been declining in manufacturing not again for some things for quite some time and that’s because we’ve created a hostile business environment under under obama and under biden we had super high uh corporate tax rates uh and people were saying oh well that’s big no that’s actually making it to where they can function business-wise and hire people and etc etc so i think my My critique of Besant discussing detoxing, especially as it relates to affordable products, this is where it’s going to start getting really uncomfortable for people. And I’m not saying this to be mean, but I’m just pointing out in the United States, and I’m going to give an example of a friend of mine who worked in, had her own Athleta Leisure store. business and i’m not going to get into any names or anything and she was giving me the example of men bear with me a price of a pair of leggings or leggings as my family would say to buy them if they’re made in southeast asia you know you could get a pair for what nineteen dollars to buy usa made you’re looking at like eighty dollars And that’s a significant increase in price. And then when you break down as to, well, what goes into it? Well, it’s labor and production. And then if you’re really trying to source U.S. stuff, then that is also an added expense. That’s an issue. So then if you… You kind of got to look at it. Depending on how much things are going to be marked up over tariffs over U.S. made, people are going to just default to U.S. made if there’s not going to be that much of a price difference. But my point in bringing that out is one of the reasons that we’ve had this issue with manufacturing is we’ve got to talk about labor costs. And we have to talk about demands and market and all of that stuff. That’s a very uncomfortable conversation that Republicans have been running away from for 10 years now. But the… overabundance of affordable stuff i do think people buy too much to expect however a people to change their consumption habits entirely through government directive seems that’s where my libertarian flag goes up a little bit how is that different from like a syntax and now i’m just looking at the bare bones necessity i’m not i understand tara i understand all that This is where I can understand some of these people’s. I get it. I don’t know if I necessarily disagree with it, but I’m trying to illustrate to you all of the different factions of agreement and disagreement with us. This is what makes this a really complicated issue. And especially when you have people like really smart people that presuppose. What do you mean? Like a detox from low unemployment? Who said we had low unemployment? What in the world? So it’s, I get it. It’s a, this is, there’s going to be certain things that we’re going to get hit on. What about the avocados cane though? What about the tequila cane?
SPEAKER 09 :
We’ve been through that already.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, we haven’t. How much is it going to be? I’m joking. How much is it going to be? Oh my gosh. But I do think like the chips, the phones, the laptops.
SPEAKER 09 :
The antibiotics. I think we should be less dependent on every other country completely. I just think that this is a level playing field now. We’ve been upside down as it relates to trade with other countries. They’ve been incredibly overpriced on the tariffs, and all we’re doing now is leveling the playing field. And now we’re engaging with these countries, and they’re going to have to make their decision. Are they going to lower the tariffs, or are they going to have to endure the same tariffs that they’ve been imposing on us?
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to The Wealth Break. Let’s be honest. Building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone. It’s not just about saving. It’s about investing. It’s about navigating systems that weren’t built for you, embracing your hustle, and relying on your community to create something bigger. And that’s exactly why we created The Wealth Break. We made something different, something more human. It’s not just another financial podcast. It’s a conversation about real life, real struggles, and real wins. We’re here to talk about the journey. You’re hearing from people who’ve broken barriers, found creative ways to succeed, and learned to build wealth on their terms. Whether it’s the first time homeowner, a gig worker, or someone turning a side hustle into a six-figure business, we’re bringing you their stories. And we’re not stopping at success stories. We’re breaking down the realities, like what it means to take risk, how to navigate failure, and why resilience matters. Because wealth isn’t about money. It’s about creating a life where you can thrive and help others to do the same. So if you’re ready for a podcast as much as about people as it is about money, you’re in the right place. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
SPEAKER 09 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 14 :
So apparently now we’re told that Easter eggs are so expensive that everybody’s dying potatoes for Easter this year. That’s so sad. Or, I don’t know, hear me out, plastic eggs. I haven’t done real eggs. I haven’t died real eggs in forever.
SPEAKER 10 :
But egg prices are down now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Huh?
SPEAKER 10 :
Egg prices are down now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Even when egg prices were down, I didn’t die. I never died eggs with my… I did it one time, so I could say they did it. But I’m like, this is such a waste, because I’m not eating all these hard-boiled eggs. None of the kids are going to eat them. Kids don’t eat them. If yours do, then they’re aliens. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 09 :
Deviled eggs are the best. Huh? Deviled eggs? You’ve never had deviled eggs? Oh, I like deviled eggs, yeah.
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But only one of my kids would eat deviled eggs, and the other one was like… So it just is a problem for me, right? This is a big thing. I don’t know if I believe that people are dying potatoes. That’s so stupid. And no, we’re just not. I’m not playing this game. This sounds like a Ghostbusters skit. Atmospheric river is going to trigger central U.S. flooding. Remember, it was that atmospheric river under Manhattan. Vigo, remember? They said up to four months worth of rain may fall in less than a week across part of the central U.S. from an atmospheric river. That’s from AccuWeather. We’ve been getting rain all day today. It’s ugly in Texas today. The weather’s ugly. A biblical disaster. Flooding hits atop Greek holiday islands. Roads have been turning into raging rivers. Cars are swept away after an extreme rainstorm. Haven’t these people been dealing with earthquakes nonstop? I think if everything’s going to kick off, if it’s going to kick off, it’s going to kick off there. These Greek islands. Two of their most popular tourist destinations, including Mykonos. They’ve been submerged in murky waters after what is being described as a biblical disaster. Rainfall went through the islands on Monday. Dark skies overhead, etc. Just crazy amounts of rain. So maybe if that’s… Maybe don’t go there. If that’s on your list of vacation, you might not… Who was it that had the volcanoes too? I know that they were having earthquakes and then now they’re having the flooding. Bear with me. I’m pulling this back up because it decided, first off, safari is the worst browser that’s ever existed on God’s green earth. Let’s just establish this right now. Also, let’s see. The U.S. government bans personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens. It’s the Swalwell rule. No, it is. Stick with us. We got more in store. the folks who will make the program possible. It’s our friends over at Super Beats. Super Beats, you know the Super Beats chews. and you also now are aware of the berberine the super bering so super bering is all about supporting metabolic health and healthy blood sugar levels and they do it with fewer pills to swallow it’s doctor formulated plant-based unique form of berberine and italian olive fruit extract and the berberine is clinically studied to deliver 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine and that means you know again fewer pills to swallow you’re getting the metabolism the healthy blood sugar support benefits in just one capsule a day. And if you’re concerned about GI stress, don’t be, because the Super Boreen unique formula with the grapeseed extract improves tolerability. And you can get both the new Super Boreen and the number one best-selling Super Beats Heart Shoes at Sam’s Club. Visit Sam’s Club to get the Super Beats Heart Shoes for heart health support and the Super Boreen for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support.
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to The Wealth Break. Let’s be honest. Building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone. It’s not just about saving. It’s about investing. It’s about navigating systems that weren’t built for you, embracing your hustle, and relying on your community to create something bigger. And that’s exactly why we created The Wealth Break. We made something different, something more human. It’s not just another financial podcast. It’s a conversation about real life, real struggles, and real wins. We’re here to talk about the journey. You’re hearing from people who’ve broken barriers, found creative ways to succeed, and learned to build wealth on their terms. Whether it’s the first-time homeowner, a gig worker, or someone turning a side hustle into a six-figure business, we’re bringing you their stories. And we’re not stopping at success stories. We’re breaking down the realities, like what it means to take risk, how to navigate failure, and why resilience matters. Because wealth isn’t about money. It’s about creating a life where you can thrive and help others to do the same. So if you’re ready for a podcast as much as about people as it is about money, you’re in the right place. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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Foreign nations will finally be asked to pay for the privilege of access to our market, the biggest market in the world. We’re right now the biggest market in the world. We had a great country four years ago in terms of the economics. We were doubling up on China. We were doing so well. Nobody was going to catch us, but so much of it slipped away over the last four years under Biden. I campaigned on this policy throughout last year and today. That promise was made, and it was also a promise, as you know, that was kept. Promises made, promises kept.
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So welcome back to the program. That’s POTUS discussing the tariff, saying that foreign nations will be asked finally to pay to access our market. And we’ll see how this works. One of the things we discussed was Scott Besant and his quote on affordable abundance, right, in terms of cheap products. And cheap consumption. I’m all for – I think Americans do buy too much and I think our consumer society is overwhelming. And it’s not just in the United States. It’s everywhere. I was reading this story about the – to one section that’s going to spell the end of cheap fast fashion and they’re saying it will further devastate malls and i just want to stop have to stop at that because i think malls have already been pretty much destroyed by online shopping let me break this down for a moment i hate shopping i hate having to physically go into a store and there’s a million things there And I will totally get distracted. If I need one thing, I turn into my grandmother and I have to look at all the things. And then I just waste time. I want to get out of there. I don’t want to go and I just want one thing and I want to leave. The things like, for instance, when you go towards a cash register, especially at a craft store and they’ve got all the candy and snacks, I kid you not, I’ll spend 30 minutes in that looking at the little candy. Because I’m like, what is that? Anyway. I just I don’t like going and destroy. I want to be able to go online. You can literally just type it in and boom, you purchase it. You’re done. You don’t have to wait in line. You have to drive there. It’s easy. That has just destroyed the malls. The mall also was its own ethos. It was. It’s. A relic from a previous generation. When I was growing up, people were already starting, in the 90s, already starting to be at the malls less and less. Whereas in the 80s, I feel like that’s where all of the teenagers and young adults were. I remember as a little kid, in the late 80s and my cousins would go to the mall and I always wanted to be like my cousins who were super cool and hung out at the mall but I was too young and they didn’t want to babysit me there so I didn’t go but then when I in the 90s I would go with my friends now and my kids never did they never went out and it’s so weird to us they never went out like hung out with their friends at the mall they do other things like the most they would go to coffee shops like at least the coffee shop and they would play cards or something and drink coffee that’s it Nobody goes to the mall. And my youngest son once said, well, why would I go there? There’s nothing I need to get. Why am I going to go hang out around a bunch of stores? And, you know, it’s trying telling that generation it’s more than that. So I think it’s my whole point in relaying this to you is that I think. Saying that all of this is somehow, you know, it’s going to hurt malls more. Malls have already been destroyed by online shopping and generational changes, different preferences amongst the generations. Now, I will say one of the pull this up. in his policy with the reciprocal tariffs, there’s going to be a lot of costs that are going to now affect things made in a ton of other countries as it pertains to cheap and fast clothing. Remember the Forever 21 stuff, right? Forever 21, it’s cheap, fast fashion. Trendy stuff that’s cheap, that’s like throwaway fashion. There was a piece in the New York Times a few years ago that discussed what happens to all the clothes that you throw out or that are thrown out if you donate them and how they end up in his like landfills in africa it’s crazy but the factories that turn out the low-cost goods those tariffs are going to go as high as 46 percent there are five asian nations where clothing brands rely on these factories and the so that means your adidas sambas oh my gosh the lululemon Those are going to go sky high. And Lululemon stuff, by the way, can I just say, Lululemon is overpriced, poorly made garbage. I do not understand why people flock to Lululemon. The stitching, the quality of fabric is absolute feces. It is some of the poorest made product I’ve ever seen in my life. And I cannot stand. It’s everywhere. It’s so ubiquitous. And it’s just absolute garbage. Don’t feel bad if you think Lululemon is too expensive. It’s overpriced garbage. Their stuff falls apart when you look at it. It’s sloppy seam work. The cuts are sloppy. The fabric is garbage. It’s all I hate Lululemon with the burning passion of a thousand suns because it’s a way to trick bored ass housewives into buying overpriced leggings. That’s what it is. I’m not saying it to be mean, but I’m saying it to be honest. I see men in Lululemon. I see men in Lululemon. I had a cousin, a man who was wearing Lululemon. And then he was like, well, the crotch and my shorts fell apart because of Lululemon. They don’t know how to sew anything. You spent $90 on a pair of shorts. They’re going to fall apart when you look at them. It’s garbage. All right. So H&M, Zara, Nike, Jordans, all of that. So for instance, if you buy like a $40 sweater that could go up by 20 bucks. Cheap, fast fashion is what it is. And this is a lot of the manufacturing coming out of Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia products where they’re going to have these. I think what anywhere from 32 to 46 percent is how it leveled out. So I’m actually not against that because there is too much. But is that this is where you get into that weird area and you start to see the differences between Republicans and conservatives and libertarians and all this stuff, because you’re if you look at it as a national security issue, then you can justify government involvement in trade and in prices. But that’s not how libertarians look at it. They think it’s something you’re having the government treat essentially – it’s like quasi-syntaxing it in order to change consumption and behavior even down to corporate behavior. So you see where all these little factions – that makes sense, right? You see where all these little factions are and which one’s correct. I mean we don’t know. Nobody knows anything. Maybe it tells you that they know anything. They’re lying to you. We’re all just – everyone’s an expert on X, which is, Cain, where I go to get expertise on tariffs. Of course. You know, that’s where I go. By the way, I’m not saying like housewives as a negative because I was one. So if I get mail from anyone, don’t send me hate mail because I’ll make you famous. I just have no tolerance. My whole point in saying this is that everybody, good people are being conned into buying that cheap, poorly made stuff that’s super expensive. And I, so that I’m actually, I’m not against. But they’re looking at, now here’s $26 billion in duties for apparel alone. That’s just apparel from those hubs, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, China, and Indonesia. Now then, They write companies are going to have to decide if they want to pass that on to consumers or stop selling in the U.S. You also have retail markup, too. So don’t act like it’s entirely just the companies that are doing it. The one analyst said that the tariffs seem purpose built to hobble the apparel industry. Clothing production in the U.S. is pretty minuscule. There are some things that are made in the U.S. They’re very expensive. Stuff that’s made in the U.S. is ridiculously, exorbitantly expensive. It is. Some of it is labor costs. A lot of stuff goes into it. Last year, in America, for textile cutting, sewing machine operators, full-time sewing machine operators, there were 26,230 in the U.S., full-time. And this is all from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 1,460 textile cutting machine operators, full-time American jobs. You’re looking at roughly over 340 million Americans. That’s a lot to make. That’s a lot to make. And even before then, we had already been losing a lot of retail. I think we’re going to be all right on that, though. My biggest worry isn’t the apparel. It’s tech and chips and… computers, cell phones, things like that. That’s, I think, the biggest thing. Antibiotics. Cain, how much do you think medicines are going to increase?
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Well, like I said, I don’t know. It depends on how long these countries decide to keep those tariffs in place. Hopefully not a very long time at all. But we do need to move that manufacturing here. So it’s a pain that is necessary, unfortunately.
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So this, a couple of things here I want to pull up for you. I told you how there’s that book coming out, right? From the former White House chief of staff under Biden. Now it’s okay to talk about all this stuff now. If you had mentioned it prior, you were a conspiracy theorist. So the revelation, so all these books are coming out. The biggest one is Ron Klain’s book. But there are several other books coming out. I can only imagine what the feeding frenzy was like with publishers when when Biden left the White House and you have all these staffers. I can only imagine. So in one of the books and pulling this up, he apparently had fluorescent tape on the floor to guide him at all times. Huh? Yeah. Fluorescent tape. Like if he couldn’t have someone there to guide him because it looked too obvious, then they would put fluorescent tape on the ground. He at some times, especially when he was preparing for his debate with Trump, he kept referring to himself as the president of NATO rather than the United States. And apparently that isn’t… That’s in like a couple of different books from a couple of different staffers. And they… I mean, we kind of knew… That I mean, we knew that they were hiding all this stuff. But the extent to which they went, I think, might even surprise some of you. So they Ron Klain has his book is one. Then there’s another one. You have Chris Whipple’s one of those who’s just spent time at Camp David trying to get Biden into shape for his only debate with Trump. Klain said he, quote, became very enraptured with being the head of NATO. And he wondered half seriously if Biden thought he was president of NATO instead of the U.S. and he would make references to it. And they were trying to get him focused, like during the debate prep. They said that. Biden, on foreign trips, they said that he needed a teleprompter even to speak to a small group of people on the patio. And they would have to hurry up and get things set up when he was on foreign trips, when he was stateside. Even if it was a small gathering, they had to get a prompter set up because he just – even during a small group. Like think of like a small, more intimate dinner where they do some of these sometimes where per plate it’s super expensive. And he would even – they would have to set up a teleprompter at – like these little dinners, these little events, because he couldn’t talk to people. He couldn’t stand, he would wander, he wouldn’t know what to say. He would just kind of go off, float off. They had another reporter who said in another book that they were had private concerns about Biden’s health throughout his presidency. He didn’t just make multiple verbal gaffes. He he admitted to having trouble walking after he fractured his foot during the 2020 campaign, but he didn’t wear his boot like he was supposed to. And I mean, they got into all of this stuff. The In the aftermath of the debate, Biden aides said that he had a cold, and this is per one of these books, which resulted in a bad night. Multiple aides complained that he was overcoached, tired, confused. Someone said he was overpracticed, which I’m sorry, that’s not true. And that I think the cold thing was just a dodge. I do probably think there were a million cooks in that kitchen and he was overwhelmed, especially if he’s already having cognitive issues, right? They knew about this the whole time. You all were horrible, awful people for even noticing it. You were supposed to pretend that you did not see what you saw or heard what you heard. And he was obsessed with foreign leaders. He told Klain at one point, this guy says I’m doing a great job as president, so I must be a great president. Your faces. Yeah. And the family had a lot of private concerns. You think? There’s a lot there. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. I’ve partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They’re a huge supporter of this show and they’re the best at what they do. And right now you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It’s a really great deal. So don’t miss out. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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Pastor Alan Jackson encourages Christians to get tough and fight.
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The military had been turned into a social experiment. Apparently, they’ve been looting the coffers in Washington for a long time of hundreds of billions of dollars, terminating the lives of our children. I mean, we all know the litany of things that are happening. It feels like it’s going to take a determination from the people of faith if we’re going to see this walked back to the place it needs to be for the sake of our children.
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It’s time for Florida Man.
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So I got to share with you. This story about a Florida man clad only in his britches who destroyed a merchandise kiosk at Disney. He was in his underwears and he busted up a sales kiosk at Disney World. Sean Patrick McHugh. He’s 24. He’s a port orange. He was arrested on multiple charges in the early morning hours. He pled not guilty just recently. He was arrested on New Year’s Day. But his court, this is how long it takes for stuff to go through the system. Only now. It’s just going only now. So he was accused of endangering… He was intoxicated. They said he endangered the safety of another person’s property, caused a public disturbance. They only just now released the arrest report. And so that’s why all this stuff, along with the court action, is now why it’s making headlines. But he was… Disney security noticed he was trying to relieve himself into the bushes on the walkway between Epcot and Hollywood Studios. And then he stripped down to his britches and broke the one thousand dollar sales kiosk. And then he was told to leave and not come back. And he refused. It was third degree felony mischief, two misdemeanors for drunken, drunken disorderly and then trespass. So, yeah, apparently that’s not the first time. There were two people, two, remember, just like months prior, New Jersey sisters who were fighting and then ended up tearing each other’s clothes. It was ridiculous. This is also silly. A man accused of a DUI falls asleep in a Taco Bell drive-thru before he woke up and then hit a parked car. Yeah. Brooksville, Florida. Hernando County. A man was arrested. Deputies say that they believe he was under the influence of a controlled substance when he fell asleep in the drive-thru of a Taco Bell, crashed into a parked car when he woke up. Someone, a concerned citizen, called 911. He was taken into custody. Failed the sobriety test. Third hour coming up.
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to the Wealth Break Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let’s be honest, building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone.
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I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that.
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And we’re not stopping at success stories.
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What happens when it doesn’t go right?
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour. It’s been, we’re in tariff hell. Make sure you guys go to social media where all the tariff experts are. It’s so great. They are all there, right? Just like with the whole Harambee thing, all the gorilla experts were on social media. And, you know, it’s just the way it is, you guys. You know, that’s just how. Or remember when those kids were stuck in that cave in Thailand and then you had all the, like, spelunking experts that came out of nowhere? Yeah. All on social media. So welcome back. The chat’s at Rumble. We also have Substack, Chapter and Verse. Good stuff up there. I had a piece out last night that I sent out kind of wrapping up this insanity that was happening in the House with the proxy voting. And you should definitely go read it. I think this was one that was for everybody. I wanted to point out that there was no other Republican woman that had voted for that. The proxy voting thing. No other woman. Maybe because they remember Kay Granger. Yeah, we talked about Kay Granger yesterday. So the one quick thing on it, you can’t have proxy voting. It’s not constitutional. Article 1, Section 5 details the requirements for a quorum and the whole process for that. You need to show up. You miss the collaborative effort of showing up to the floor and hammering out ideas when you – when you uh ignore that and and that used to be a position that republicans held by and large i mean do you remember back when they were fighting against democrats and pelosi and this was just um not that long ago over proxy voting or uh this is back in 2020 or when we were trying to stop proxy voting for you know during covid that was just for everybody else there’s no there’s no conservative argument for proxy voting to accommodate birth This was that whole fight with the new… And it was more than just new moms. In fact, the view they were talking about, well, why can’t we just give people 12 weeks for stuff? Just let people take off for whatever. And they can proxy, but we have the technology. It was never about new parents. It was always ever about how can they stretch it and abuse it in order to finagle things into existence that otherwise would fall to defeat if we were observing the constitutional procedures. And there’s… There’s, it’s weird because serving in Congress is not a job that you take to pay your bills. You know, it’s pretty, you know, well off people. Usually it’s people who are pretty well off that can afford the race because they have to get, most of them start with their own capital to begin with. It’s just not something that you take when you need a job to pay the bills working in Congress. And And this is all I’m going to say, the rest I’m going to say about this issue. But smart women plan their families around professional interests. And congressional mothers should, if they require child care or fathers, do what mothers in the private sector do, and that’s get a babysitter. $12 million taxpayer-funded, state-of-the-art daycare facility for members of Congress. And unlike mothers in the private sector, congressional mothers don’t have an issue in paying for it. So I keep seeing that false equivalency come up. Nobody’s stopping women from a career or from being a mother. But the consequence of poor planning does not oblige voters to make up for the shortfall of a lawmaker’s timing. That’s you got to make smart choices and you got to prioritize those choices and realize that oftentimes life does not give you perfect choices. So when you choose to run for public office, voters become your priority. So if you can’t demand if you can’t take care of your family without demanding that everybody else pitch in or assume some of the burden, maybe rethink whether or not serving in elected office is for you. Right. If that’s one of those smart choices. This is so this is can read it over at Substack. I have all the latest as well as the fullest of tariffs over there. And also POTUS is preparing an executive order to increase pull this up weapons exports. Sources say from Reuters they thought they they expected the order would be similar to legislation posted by Mike Waltz when he was in the House of Representatives. So selling things, you know, from defense contractors. So it’s, you know, arms because you have to go. Everything goes by U.S. Arms Export Control Act. Looking at basically defensive sales like defense contracts, things like that. So one of the other things that POTUS I’m looking on my list, there’s because there’s a lot. There’s a lot here. And I’m sure also. This one more thing to pull up. Bear with me. This right here. So the Labor Department and this is with Doge. We had this story earlier about Elon Musk announcing that he was. Well, he didn’t announce he said he was going to be leaving in May. He always said that he was only going to stay on for a couple of months and that in total Doge was going to be closing down. in what 2026 like may april may 26 so they’re looking at a billion dollars in unused covid era funding uh The labor secretary to send that back to the taxpayer. That’s what they’re that’s a press release that came out yesterday from the Department of Labor. One point four billion dollars of unspent covid funding is going to be returned to the taxpayers to the people who paid it in because I don’t think the people people who paid into who didn’t pay into the system should get a damn dime. And then the Democrats are going to say that’s tax cuts for the wealthy. It’s not. It’s not giving people other people’s money that they didn’t earn or pay into the system. You realize that getting money back means you overpaid. Right. We have such the weird system. Guess how much money you owe. And if you get it wrong, you’re going to go to jail. We’re not going to tell you either. We know, but we’re not going to tell you. Actually, I don’t think they know. So they’re trying to get the remaining tune at almost $3 billion. It was supposed to be used for temporary unemployment insurance. And states continued spending millions despite the fact that the people were no longer meeting the requirements. That was an audit that came out in 23. You know, you just know that there are going to be people getting checks that didn’t pay taxes. Because that’s how it was with a lot of this stuff. So that’s something definitely to keep an eye on. I have an update about a story that we had yesterday that has to do with the, you guys remember the dad who left his kids in McDonald’s and he went, the way that everybody said it, he went for a job interview. You guys remember? He went for a job interview. Well, there’s more. So let me lay it out. The police say the guy lied about being at a job interview next door. The New York Post covered the story and they had a follow up on this, along with not the B. Georgia police find inconsistencies in job seeking dad’s whereabouts. Remember, he left the kids at McDonald’s and then a 10 year old. The youngest was one. There were three kids, 10, 10, six and one. He left them alone at the restaurant and told police that he went to a job interview. Right. And he was looking for work at the time. That’s what happened. The mom showed up and a concerned customer saw what happened and called police. And he said he had filled out an application at the West Bank Inn next door and he was just waiting for a call back. And he was doing that. They noticed as they were questioning the dad that there were holes in his alibi. So they went to the inn where they spoke with an employee. And they confirmed that he had filled out a job application about 1.30, but he was not expecting a return call for an interview. They weren’t, but apparently they weren’t going to call him. And then there was security footage showing him walking around the hotel at 1.30 p.m., but not 4.30 p.m. That’s when he allegedly left his kids at McDonald’s. Customers saw the three kids inside the restaurant at 4.30 as he was talking to someone on the phone. They heard him say that he needed to drop something off. He left the store. The kids were there by themselves for about 90 minutes. And that’s apparently when they called police. Now, the daughter, who’s 10, said she and her family had walked to McDonald’s from the apartment complex that they live in less than a mile down the road. And apparently the girl said that, yeah, dad leaves us alone frequently when he’s watching us. Like he leaves them alone. That’s according to the kids. The kids told police that he leaves them alone all the time. The 10-year-old girl said, told police that our dad had a backpack, was supposed to give it to their mom. They contacted the mom or the daughter contacted the mom, told her to go to McDonald’s. Police were here. Come meet us. And apparently the dad said that he was at the apartments looking for the mom, but he couldn’t deliver this bag that he was supposed to deliver to her. And then while he was there, he just happened to lose his ID and all this stuff, Cain. So the sheriff’s office is standing by the arrest. They’re like, he was not at a job interview when this happened. And they said there’s tons of camera footage, witness statements. And they said they determined it was a misdemeanor charge of deprivation of a minor and that the intervention was appropriate to ensure welfare. Right. OK. And you got former NFL player Antonio Brown. He set up a GoFundMe forum, all this stuff. Oh, wait, there’s more, though. There’s a lot more. Oh, I know. Because now we’ve got the Augusta Press that came out and said, oh, there’s even more details now about this. It just gets more. Because people were defending him. And we talked about him on the show. If he’s… Going to a job interview, and he left his kids at McDonald’s so he could go to a job interview, and someone called the police, that’s really crummy, right? You know, maybe help somebody out. That’s the position that we all had. But it sounds like, first off, the timeline is different. Every article I read, the timeline’s different. The amount of time that he left the kids there changes every single time they talk to him. Whether or not he was hunting for a job or dropping something off, that also changes, right? I just think that if you’re just doing one thing, why is your story changing? If you went to go fill out a job application and you left and you were doing an interview and you left your kids at Play Place at McDonald’s, then why is your story changing and the time changing dramatically as you’re telling the story? That doesn’t make sense. And they’re saying that there’s a lot of inconsistencies about his whereabouts. And they can’t even place his whereabouts during certain times. So… What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like he was doing more than a job interview at this point. I mean, they did admit that he went next door and filled out. But if you’re just going next door to fill out an application, how long does that take? I mean, it doesn’t take 90 minutes.
SPEAKER 09 :
You can actually grab it and take it back to the McDonald’s and fill it out there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. I mean, he didn’t sit down for an interview there and he wasn’t going to get a call back. So how long does that take you if you’re just, you know, getting an application? It doesn’t take 90 minutes. And then that was just at one point when he left him, he left him again. So apparently he came back and left and came back and left. So that’s changed from what was initially being reported. You know, when cops get a call, About unattended kids, they have to follow up and you can’t I don’t I’m not angry at the police. My initial question yesterday was who calls the police if you see a dad that needs help and he’s just going, you know, that was my whole thinking. But if he’s there and one of the witnesses says that he like went and came back like two different times. OK, then there’s something else that’s happening here. What is happening here? And I don’t like it when good people who need help don’t get it because it’s overshadowed by bad people who do stuff or maybe people who do bad things or who are doing questionable things that call into question everybody. That’s not fair. So what’s the truth of it? What do you think he was doing? Was he selling drugs? I don’t know. They don’t actually tell you what’s the backpack.
SPEAKER 09 :
I saw some other witness testimony talk about how this wasn’t the first time that he’s actually done this at that McDonald’s. So when he gets visitation.
SPEAKER 14 :
He drops his kids off at Playplace.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
And they just think, and the dad thinks that, well, with the chaos of Playplace, nobody’s going to know that these kids are unattended. Well, there are some customers who did. So this is because the left has been trying to turn this into a class warfare thing. But I don’t really think it’s a class warfare thing. This doesn’t sound like a plugged in dad. Right? And also be careful about jumping on GoFundMe’s like that. You never know. So we need, we need, I still have questions.
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SPEAKER 18 :
I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to the Wealth Break Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let’s be honest, building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone.
SPEAKER 01 :
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that.
SPEAKER 18 :
And we’re not stopping at success stories.
SPEAKER 01 :
What happens when it doesn’t go right?
SPEAKER 18 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 14 :
I just saw a headline where we’re missing another SMOD. And I couldn’t be angrier because it’s going to the moon instead. It’s called a city killer asteroid, and it’s going to miss Earth because nothing good ever happens to us. And it’s, like, going to go to the moon, but it’s, like, but the Earth is going to likely dodge a direct hit. I hope that, like, I’m totally fine if an asteroid comes and hits us. I’m actually okay with it. Even better if Jesus is riding it. Like, you didn’t think I was coming back like this, did you? Like, on the asteroid, like, it’s, you know, he’s… With a lasso, I’m just saying. But, yeah, it’s a bummer. I know you’re really depressed about that. I am. It’s very sad. So, let’s see. This is a full mouth of a headline. A machete-wielding cinnamon bun bandit caught mid-snack. Okay, first off, he’s a white dude with dreadlocks. Wow. And that never, those don’t, especially his don’t, it doesn’t look good on him. You can tell he’s got like really fine hair and it just looks horrible. This is in Asheville, North Carolina, where a guy was charged. He committed robbery with a machete at a grocery store and he stole, Cain, a cinnamon bun and incense. And then he displayed a machete. So he took it, the cinnamon bun and the incense, displayed a machete and ran off. They found him. Jeffrey DeWayne, of course, Bradburn. They took him into custody and he got charged with lots of things. Robbery, dangerous weapons, shoplifting, concealed goods, possession of drugs, $50,000 bond. So he’s going to be there for a while. Just like what a thing. What a thing. And a influencer sued a plastic surgeon claiming that her breast implants were too big. She sounds like a real rocket scientist. Stick with us.
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I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to The Wealth Break. Let’s be honest. Building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone. It’s not just about saving. It’s about investing. It’s about navigating systems that weren’t built for you, embracing your hustle, and relying on your community to create something bigger. And that’s exactly why we created The Wealth Break. We made something different, something more human. It’s not just another financial podcast. It’s a conversation about real life, real struggles, and real wins. We’re here to talk about the journey. You’ll hear from people who’ve broken barriers, found creative ways to succeed, and learned to build wealth on their terms. Whether it’s the first time homeowner, a gig worker, or someone turning a side hustle into a six figure business, we’re bringing you their stories. And we’re not stopping at success stories. We’re breaking down the realities, like what it means to take risk, how to navigate failure, and why resilience matters. Because wealth isn’t about money. It’s about creating a life where you can thrive and help others to do the same. So if you’re ready for a podcast as much as about people as it is about money, you’re in the right place. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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SPEAKER 13 :
But on the tariffs in particular, on the idea of trade, trade is proportional to wealth. The last 70 years of international trade has been an exponential curve upwards, and the last 70 years of prosperity has been upwards also. We are richer because of trade with Canada, and so is Canada. Whenever you trade with somebody, when an individual buys somebody else’s product, it’s mutually beneficial or you wouldn’t buy it. If the trade is voluntary, it’s always beneficial. There is no Canada versus the U.S. The consumer wins when the price is the lowest price.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s true. The consumer wins when the price is the lowest price. Welcome back to the program. That’s Rand Paul. The media storm of this. Just know, I mean, I’ve just read so many things that have been dumb about all the tariff speculation. All I know is that if we are able to get rid of the income tax, I’m fine with it. If we just have tariffs funding government the way it’s supposed to instead of having taxpayers overtaxed and overburdened. OK, yeah, that’s all right. Let’s do that. I’m down with it. But let’s let’s we don’t know yet. We don’t have the realization. We also have to get tax cuts. And if we don’t have that, this isn’t going to work. This is going to be this will be a disaster of epic proportions if we don’t have tax cuts. Consumers have got to have relief. And those in the House and those in the Senate better be paying attention to this. Democrats aren’t going to want to let tax cuts happen because they want you all to burn. They don’t care just because they just because of who’s in the White House. I mean, it’s sad. You know, you think Democrats would be like, yeah, we help bring you those tax cuts. Why don’t you try us for a change? But no, no, no, no, no. That’s not how they look at any of this. Not how they look. Speaking of Democrats, I do somebody 21 Georgia House Democrats walked out of the chamber yesterday. en masse in protest of a Republican bill to block taxpayer funds from being used to mutilate the genitals of prison inmates in the state. Listen. They’re leaving. They want to be able to spend their taxpayer dollars on cosmetic surgery for state inmates. I mean, screw you veterans. You guys don’t get nothing.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s very important.
SPEAKER 14 :
If you need to flay the male copulatory organ and turn it into a frankenginer with these taxpayer funds, then they want it done. You’re a veteran who needs medicine. Nah, too bad for you. It’s easier to commit a crime and then claim that you need it after to get it instead of not. It’s just so goofy. So performative. All these people walking out, refusing to do their jobs. Man, you got some dumpy ones. Sorry. This is true, though. I just can’t believe that anybody would make that, especially right now. Especially right now. The case of of with the way that everybody’s feeling the pinch, the economy, everything else. They’re so angry. They said it was they don’t want to outlaw spending on what they call gender affirming care. Well, if you if it’s affirming something that implies that it’s already in existence, why do you need surgery? That doesn’t make any sense. So they walked out. They couldn’t get out of it. They had no third option, so they walked out. The bill is Senate Bill 185. It would ban state prisons from spending taxpayer dollars on literal sex reassignment surgeries, hormone replacement therapy, or anything else. You know, if you do a crime so serious that you have to serve your time, in a state penitentiary, the consequence of doing that crime is you don’t get taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgery. You don’t see female inmates in there getting breast implants and Botox and all this other stuff. Why do you get gender reassignment surgery? Why is that? Why are you accommodated? That doesn’t, yeah, walking out, and Steve notes, walking out for an issue that affects less than 1% of the population. It was a one hundred to two vote. It passed anyway. But Democrats, they just wanted they just wanted to pull stunts. We just I’m telling you, all this stuff makes me want to become ungovernable. Can I tell you about this mini Dotson? Can I just have a palate cleanser? I love Datsuns. I’ve never owned one. And I don’t really want to get like a designer dog. We ended up getting French Bulldogs a while ago. It was weird how it happened. Long story short, we always had dogs. My youngest son had a very bad experience with a dog, a family member’s dog. And he was terrified of dogs and he threatened to pack up and move to Nana’s if we ever got a dog. And so my father-in-law had suggested French Bulldogs if we’re trying to. He’s like, they’re goofy. They’re great family dogs. They’re not going to. And he has experience with Staffordshire Terriers. They did like AKC stuff in that. So we had like the best everything that you could have wrong with a French Bulldog we had. And I will never have that breed again. And I know Dotsons have their own issue, but my guys, guys, their faces, they look so sweet and they’re hysterical. Anyway, so I was thinking of this. When I read this story at the New York Post, it’s hysterical. So a miniature, what’s the difference between a Dotson and a miniature Dotson? They’re all tiny. It doesn’t make sense. Well, the miniature one you can put in your pocket. So this miniature Dotson that is named Valerie has spent a year and a half lost on a remote island in southern Australia. In Australia, where spiders are as big as your face, and all the meanest animals live there. This little miniature Datsun has spent a year and a half lost on a remote island and has been evading capture. rescuers are closing in but but they keep taking pictures of her in the wild they said we’ve seen her we got cameras in place she looks real healthy we’re just trying to get her you know she’s they but her owners this is what gets me her owners are like but she’s not a survivalist uh the Her owner, Georgia Gardner, 24, such a Gen X, Gen Z-er. She says, it’s just unbelievable. She’s survived a year and a half out here in the wild. She’s not a survivalist. She’s a princess. She rides in a car seat and wears only the color pink. She totally does not like being away from me at all. I’m reading this. She doesn’t like being away from me at all. It’s just crazy to think she’s been out there this long, surviving off instincts and probably eating roadkill and drinking water from dams. That’s what she said. I am dead. I am dead. I’m seeing pictures of this little dog and the owners are like, no, she can’t survive. She loves us too much. She wears clothes and she had her favorite colors. Pink. This dog is out there like, get me suckers. I’ve got to get away from these people. This dog as keynote is living her best life out in the wild. She don’t got to wear no pink. She don’t have to be, she’s not a princess. She’s like, I’m a killer. She’s out there in the wild a year and a half. This miniature Dotson probably could outlast her owners in the wild. Just saying. It is hysterical that she was camping with her owners and that’s when she went missing. And she’s adorable. But they said she’s, you know, the owners were like, oh, she doesn’t like being left alone. It kind of sounds like she does. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of sounds like, can I just, I love dogs, but I don’t know. Really, look how adorable she is. Her owner said, we left her in the pen with her bed and her water and a snuffle mat. She’s got a snuffle mat and it’s filled with treats. And she has dog toys. So we shoot a big day because she’s at the beach and she was swimming. And so we thought she’d be real tired. She’s a dog. All right. Dogs do dog stuff. Dogs don’t need snuffle mats. I love dogs. Yes, my dog has his own sofa. But like literally it’s a miniature one. But this is ridiculous. I got to say, I think that dog ran away on purpose. Here’s just hear me out. I think that this dog ran away on purpose. They said that when they were out camping, the dog went missing, that good Samaritans were camping in the same area, and they were concerned that she was going to get run over. I’m like, are you not protecting your dog? So they went to try to catch her, but they ended up chasing her into the bushland is what they said. She’s out there with snakes and dingoes and all this other stuff, and this dog is surviving. I can’t. The owners tried to put out roast chicken for the dog and they didn’t happen. That dog knows all your tricks. That dog’s like, smells like a gourmet meal. That’s them trying to get me. And as staying out in the wild, that dog would prefer to eat rotten dead animals than have your roast chicken. This dog, this story is everything. And the photos of this dog in the wild are cracking me up because you can barely see it. It’s a little bitty tiny. It’s a little bitty tiny dog out there in the wild just living her best life. I am just dying at this story. And the owners are like, she’s going to die. She can’t survive without us. I do think some people take their dog ownership a little too seriously.
SPEAKER 09 :
You say a little bit seriously, but I say mentally.
SPEAKER 14 :
They’re not kids. I understand if you like to have… And as a woman, I can say this. Women like to have things to nurture and be busy over and with. Does that make sense? Women… need to have little, they need to have something to be busy with. They need a little thing to take care of. They need, I get that. And I think for some people, this fills that need and there’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s just cracks me up that these people had zero confidence in this dog. They, this dog that they claim to know so well, let’s sit. That’s in the wild. A camera took that photo. I’m just looking at it. This is so funny. Dog is so tiny. And they treated her like she was completely incapable of existing without them. And now this dog’s out there running around in the wild. This is an epitaph of society at large. This is what this says. There’s nothing wrong with this dog. There’s something wrong with the people that own the dog. They brought out gear for the dog like you would a baby. They did another interview with the woman who owns it, and she was saying, oh, yeah, well, she had her little playpen, and she had a couple different toys, her snuffle mat, and then she had this, and then she had her two. Oh, my gosh. It’s a dog. It’s not a baby. I love dogs, but come on. This dog hates you. It sounds like this dog hates them. This dog hates that woman and ran away. That dog ran straight away like, save me, save me. That dog probably would rather be eaten by a dingo than have these people come and put more tutus on it. And I just can’t. I can’t. It’s just cracking me up.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to the Wealth Break Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let’s be honest, building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone.
SPEAKER 01 :
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that.
SPEAKER 18 :
And we’re not stopping at success stories.
SPEAKER 01 :
What happens when it doesn’t go right?
SPEAKER 18 :
How do you cope with it? Because wealth isn’t just about money. It’s about creating a life where you thrive and help others do the same. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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SPEAKER 20 :
Exactly right. For the next couple of months, we’re going to offer our customers the same deal that our employees get. And as you say, that’s worth thousands of dollars. You come into our store, you get employee pricing. This is kind of to call a little bit of a timeout. We’ve heard some uncertainty from our customers, and we want them to be assured. Ford, the most American auto company, is going to do right by them as our dealers. We make the most cars here. We employ the most. We export the most. And so we here at Ford, we’re in a good position to address customers’ concern and give them a really great deal on a great vehicle.
SPEAKER 14 :
So they’re anticipating that. Ford announcing in this audio soundbite there, that’s their chief policy officer, that they’re going to offer employee pricing to all U.S. shoppers. Well, that little probably maybe would make people think of maybe a Ford first before they’re going to purchase another car. Made in America. Yeah, if it’s all made in America. We were having this conversation a little earlier about the – Some of the things to consider as it relates to the tariffs and everything else, because one of the questions I mean, this is I mean, it’s a it’s a real thing. You know, how are you going to compete when the global labor cost is so much lower than that of the U.S.? And how do you avoid that? How do you avoid having this affect the wages of factory workers and people in manufacturing and all of that? Because to make everything in-house, that’s going to be a big labor force shift. We don’t have a lot of people in manufacturing anyway. You know, I was just giving you, for example, seamstresses, which is a skill, but you have maybe what a little over 2000 if you’re bringing all clothing manufacturing back. And I realize I’m just talking about like the discretionary stuff right now. But, you know, for instance, like chip manufacturing and really important stuff that, you know, we rely on Taiwan for that. And I actually think that’s a. It’s a good relationship, but also if anything were to ever happen to Taiwan and we have a weak administration that’s not going to stand up for it in terms of not saying militarily, but further sanctions or whatever, we don’t have the ability to do that here yet, to manufacture those things that we need, that Taiwan’s the world’s hub for it. here in the US and it’s going to take some time to get to that point to be able to manufacture that rely on your own, what you’re able to create yourself. That’s an issue. So there’s, I have some, and I asked like everybody that I’ve asked, I have a friend who teaches economics actually at a very big university in St. Louis. I don’t want to say the name of it, but He is different from another friend of mine who works in investment, and she’s completely different from what he is. Nobody’s coming at this from the same perspective. And that’s the uncertainty that’s confusing a lot of Americans. And I think it’s just because so much of it, and Kane attested this, because you know this, like our friend Carol thinks very differently than Charles Payne. And they’re both super smart, and they’ve got tons of experience. But that uncertainty, that’s what’s, I think, fueling a lot of nervousness for people. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Without a doubt, and not only that, but also the market. The market is experiencing uncertainty, so you’re seeing a little… Not a lot, though.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s only like maybe a half a point here and there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think it’s pretty relative, but I think they’re going to try and be cash-heavy as they see, and they know the correction in the market has to happen, so when prices do come down and they end up being cash-heavy, they’re going to be able to buy in on a lower market. This is going to be the ebb and flow of the market, but we need to be our own sustainable…
SPEAKER 14 :
country uh we we we need to stop with the important things how we lean on other countries for those important things let’s just make sure we get those back here we gotta have tax cuts none of this is going to work without it and that’s what i’m really nervous about you can think of you can come at this six different ways but the bottom line is no matter where you fall on tariffs if we do not affect permanency of tax cuts this is going to be a disaster All eyes are on Congress now. Now you see why I get so worked up over the congressional races. We’ll have more of that this week. We’re going to watch and bring you updates. Today in stupidity came for Robbie.
SPEAKER 09 :
Juan, this is cut 19. This is Representative Jasmine Crockett. Listen to this. Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 02 :
Say because you’ve been gracious. is this. When I first became a public defender, I had no criminal defense experience. And I walked in and I told my boss, Charlie, I said, listen, you should hire me. He said, why? I said, because I’m black. Charlie looked at me like I was crazy.
SPEAKER 14 :
TEI hire. There you go. You heard it from her first, man. She said it. She said it. That does it for us today, folks. Sign up at Substack, chapter and verse. Lots of good stuff that comes out. I’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m Rodney Williams. And I’m Travis Holloway. Welcome to The Wealth Break. Let’s be honest. Building wealth doesn’t look the same for everyone. It’s not just about saving. It’s about investing. It’s about navigating systems that weren’t built for you, embracing your hustle, and relying on your community to create something bigger. And that’s exactly why we created The Wealth Break. We made something different, something more human. It’s not just another financial podcast. It’s a conversation about real life, real struggles, and real wins. We’re here to talk about the journey. You’re hearing from people who’ve broken barriers, found creative ways to succeed, and learned to build wealth on their terms. Whether it’s the first time homeowner, a gig worker, or someone turning a side hustle into a six-figure business, we’re bringing you their stories. And we’re not stopping at success stories. We’re breaking down the realities, like what it means to take risk, how to navigate failure, and why resilience matters. Because wealth isn’t about money. It’s about creating a life where you can thrive and help others to do the same. So if you’re ready for a podcast as much as about people as it is about money, you’re in the right place. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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