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The Return of Chicken Pox, 3-Day Weekends, and Woke or Joke | 3.14.24 - The Grace Curley Show Hour 2
Today's podcast is brought to you by Howie's new book Paperboy. To order today, go to HowieCarShow.com and click on store. Live from the Aviva Trattoria studio, it's The Grace Curly Show. We've got to bring in a new voice, a young voice, a rising voice, Grace Curly. You can read Grace's work in the Boston Herald and the spectator. Especially Grace, Grace Stand-up. Here's the millennial with the mic, Grace Curly. Hello everyone and welcome back to The Grace Curly Show. The State Department is going to have a briefing soon about Americans who are in a very dangerous situation. They're trapped in Haiti. This is from Fox. It says the U.S. Embassy remains open and limited operations continue, focused on assistance to U.S. citizens, and supporting Haitian-led efforts to secure a peaceful transition of power. But there's a lot of violence going on. There's a lot of unrest. And I think if you're an American and you're trapped in Haiti, you have to be terrified. Just looking at if history is any guide how the Biden administration operates. When we have Americans who are in these dangerous situations, it's not the way it used to be. The way it used to be was we'll do anything and everything to get somebody home. No American left behind. That has changed a lot in four years. And so my thoughts, my prayers are with everyone in Haiti and every American, especially in Haiti right now, who's trying to get home, because talk about terrifying. 844-542. And now a big issue is that a lot of these Haitian migrants are going to be trying to come to the United States, trying to escape this violence. And you have to have vetting in place because we saw this. We saw this with Afghanistan. You cannot just open up the floodgates and say everyone can come in. There are going to be people who are looking for safety. I understand that. I have compassion for those people, but there has to be a system in place. There has to be some procedures that we can follow. On another note here, speaking of immigration, and now we're switching to legal immigration in Massachusetts, there are stories out that it's going to cost a lot of money. In fact, Massachusetts has agreed to pay $245 million more for shelters. And this is both migrants and homeless. There's a CBS news story. How much is Massachusetts spending to shelter and feed migrants and homeless? Now, yesterday, I was on Fox. I was able to go on with Trace Gallagher. Very exciting. And he was asking me about what message this sends to illegal aliens when states like Massachusetts, and I always keep going to Melnea cast because unlike some of the other areas in the seaport, some of those areas are just nighttime shelters. Melnea cast from what I've heard, which used to be a recreation center for young kids who were, you know, track practice, swimming, all those things. This is like around the clock. It's laundry service. It's three males a day. It's, it's, uh, cots are set up the whole nine yards. And the message I think you're not just sending a message to other people around the world who might want to come here illegally, and the message you're sending them is, Hey, come here. You know, you'll get everything. You'll get credit cards. You'll get loans. You'll get laundry service. But you're also sending a message to the Americans. You're sending a message to those kids in Roxbury that no, you don't come. You're at the bottom of the list or at the bottom of the list and the people who are breaking the law are at the top of the list. And I think that that's really dangerous. And now you have this entire narrative being pushed by the left that we shouldn't let one tragedy, and they're referring to Lake and Riley. And I'm, I'm basically right now referring to Katie Porter, but there's been other Democrats who have echoed the sentiment that we shouldn't let one tragedy shape policy. That's a new one on me, Jared. That's a pivot. We didn't have that rule before. They've let individual stories and tragedies and murders shape policy, shape protests inform entire movements in this country. But now that it's Lake and Riley, and by the way, it's not just Lake and Riley. It's not a one off. So, so right there, you're already, you know, peddling a lie. But suddenly you're not supposed to look at someone's murder and say, this was avoidable. What can we do in the future to make sure this doesn't happen? Suddenly that's out of bounds. You know, that's taking advantage of a situation that's politicizing a situation according to the left. And it's, it's ridiculous. And whenever you hear them say, well, we shouldn't let one, one incident. It's not one. Kate Steinle, Molly Tibbetts. There was a 12 year old boy just the other day killed in the car accident by an illegal alien. This is happening all the time. Bill Mallugin said he puts a lot of this stuff on his Twitter. He said, I can't keep up at this point. There's just too many stories every single day. And if you're not aware of them, it's probably just because you're not paying attention. And I would suggest that you do because it's very important. The other thing I wanted to mention here on a lighter note. Did you see this story? It's getting a little bit of play on the networks today that Bernie Sanders is unveiling. I was wondering where Bernie had been. I was like, where is this dude? I haven't heard from Bernie in a while. See, writing another book. Is he checking out another home? He's like, you know what? We've had three homes for a while. It's time to upgrade to four. We're at that point now. I was just curious where he'd been. And apparently he's been working hard, Jared. He's been burning the midnight oil, trying to come up with a new bill that proposes a 32 hour work week, 32 hour work week. It says, Senator Bernie Sanders, this is from the Hill, introduced a bill to establish a standard four day work week in the United States without any reduction in pay. So you reduce the hours, but you don't reduce the pay. The bill over a four year period would lower the threshold required for overtime pay from 40 hours to 32. It would require overtime pay at a rate of 1.5 times a worker's regular salary for work days longer than eight hours. And it would require overtime pay at double a worker's regular salary for work days longer than 12 hours. Now, the other person who's brought this up a lot, I think is Andrew Yang, right? He was big on the four day work week idea, and we've discussed this at Langgird. I have a question for you, though. If you were given the option, you can either have a four day work week, or you can work from home. Work from home five days or have a four day work week, which one would you choose? That is a good one. That is a good one. I would probably work from home because nothing personal to take about it. I do. A lot of people's jobs, I mean, obviously, we're different. I mean, we have to fill hours of programming. But a lot of people, their job could probably be done in like three to four hours a day. Like, if you really think about it, if you really worked hard, I've had jobs like that. So I would like to work home because I could balance work and home from home. I would never problem with that. I love me a good three day weekend, though. I know. I would rather have a four day and come in and have that Friday off. The thing about this is, I mean, obviously, Bernie, you know, I mean, yeah, Bernie has a seven day weekend. Workers, yeah. Bernie's on the Joe Biden schedule. Their weekends start on Wednesday and end on Tuesday. Right. So this in my eyes is just to, especially with the overtime starting at 32 hours, because there are a lot of jobs that you cannot do in 30. I know I just said a bunch of work could be done in a few hours, but there are jobs where you just can't do the work like that. So they just want to collect overtime money taxes. That's what this is about. Are you talking about real jobs like people who build things and create products? Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, every job is a real job, but yeah, like construction projects, construction workers, some of the trades, you know, even, you know, people who, you know, the, the, who manage banking funds, you know, you can't have banks only open four days a week. So that, you know. But you know what I never, you know how they call it, banking hours, Jared, banking hours are wild. There's such a small window to get to the bank. If you actually want to go in and talk to someone, it's like nine to three. They're out of there pretty quick. Maybe it's, no, maybe I miss being maybe it's nine to four, but still it's, it's not too bad, not too shabby. The best shift that I ever had, I was working in ESPN in radio. It was the morning shift. It was five a.m. to one p.m. That is the golden shift. Well, what time do you have to get up for that? You have to get, you only have to get up at four. And there is like a, four is early, but it's not like three a.m. early. Like there's a huge difference. If you get up at four, you can get into work here out by one. It doesn't completely destroy your life. Yeah. Like, you know, like the morning shows that the other morning shows I've worked on, like, I, I didn't like it working on the morning show because like I had to be in bed by eight or nine. Or I was up, you're up at three and it's just, I, I just, I couldn't, it destroyed your life. Like you couldn't catch up on. I always wanted that. So five to one shift is great. I always wonder that about the people I watch every morning. I'm like, Newsmax, Cox, I'm like, what time are they getting up? The women especially, because you have to put on a full face of makeup. One other thing I wanted to mention, speaking of people who do tough jobs, did you see that the New York City fire department has decided to call off the hunt for the people who booed the tissue James? Yeah, that's the best. But, but this is what they do. They're like, okay, whoever booed LaTisha James, you're going to be in big trouble. And then word gets out that they're trying to hunt down the people who booed LaTisha James and they say, Oh, no, no, we're not going to do anything. If we find the people who booed LaTisha James, it's like, why do you all insist on making things more difficult for yourself? If you just left it alone and you let the firefighters boo her, which I think they have their, and you know what I tried to do, Jared, with this? I tried to think to myself, if you reverse this. If you reverse it and LaTisha James was a Republican and she went in and she spoke somewhere and she got booed. Would I feel as though it's appropriate to investigate those people? Only to give them a medal. But I really think I would hope that in an alternate universe where this was flipped and it was a Republican going to give a speech and got booed by firefighters or booed by policemen or booed by anybody, I would hope that I have a little bit of consistency here. I hope I would say that's their right to boo people. I think I've always been, you know, you can boo who you want to boo. You can, but you shouldn't be punished for billing. And if anyone can catch me on that, if there's been a time where I've been anti booed and I've, and I've thought the people should be punished for billing, let me know. But I just think this is insane. It says leaders in the New York City Fire Department have extinguished prospects for a hunt for rank and file members who jeered the Empire State's Attorney General LaTisha James, when she took the stage at a ceremony last week. So this is what the FDNY spokesperson told Fox. At no point has there been an investigation into members booing. I would hope not. I would hope there's bigger fish to fry than like who booed LaTisha James for 40 seconds at an event that otherwise nobody would have really heard about if it hadn't been for the booing. FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgins handed down a list of talking points last week, according to the New York Post, after some members booed James and chanted Trump Trump Trump as she took the stage. The behavior was unacceptable and members who appeared on video from the event would reportedly be investigated internally. BITS is investigating this so they will figure out who the members are. He warned in an email to high ranking FDNY officials. I recommend they come forward. I have been told by the commissioner it will be better for them if they come forward and we don't have to hunt them down. Good God, with the level of incompetence and corruption that we see around the clock in New York, it's just really should this really be top of the list is that a couple of firefighters booed LaTisha James. Like that's the only thing you can think of to occupy your time. And what I don't like about this Jared is then they come out and they tell Fox there's at no point had there been an investigation into members booing. Okay, well, maybe it doesn't, it shouldn't be classified as an investigation, but what would you call trying to hunt people down and find out what they did. And recommending they come forward so it will be easier for them. Like, sure, you can say it's not an investigation, but it doesn't sound good. New York has a brand. Weird, weird stuff. 844, 542, 42. And by the way, if I'm LaTisha James, I would say to the FDNY. Don't do anything. Don't do it because I'm already embarrassed. I got booed on stage. They started chanting Trump. Just let it has no one ever heard that expression. Let it die or take the L just take the L everybody gets booed sometimes. Okay. You don't have to punish the people. You don't have an investigation into it. What are they going to find out? Oh, these guys don't like you. Oh, and by the way, they're Trump supporters. Case closed. I'm glad we had an investigation. How much did that cost the taxpayers? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's what you're looking for, but I love being down there in the off season because you could really enjoy the beach. And whatever room you're in at the nasa beach and you are steps from the beach, you go outside your door. It is right there. My wife and I, we love walking along the beach. If you have a pet, it's great to take a pet down when the beach isn't crowded. Let them run along the beach, have some fun. Enjoy the sounds of the ocean. Fire pits are fantastic. We love sitting out by the fire pit drinking our morning coffee and just watching the sunrise. It's relaxing. It's close. It's tranquil. There are trails around there that you can take advantage of too. There's so much to do with the nasa beach in and it's the only, if I'm not mistaken, it's the only lodging inside the Cape Cod National Seashore. So if you want to stay in Cape Cod, this is a place to go. And at this rate, Jared, at these prices, you can't beat it. Right now, you can book your April state, the nasa beach in from two forty nine ninety nine a night. And this may rates from two fifty nine ninety nine a night. So don't delay these rooms go fast. To reserve your ocean view room, go to nasa beach in calm. That's nasa beach in calm. Remind me when we come back. I want to mention Hugh Hewitt in an article he wrote. He gives us a lot of mentions and he wrote something good in Fox. We'll talk about it on the other side. You're listening to The Grace Curly Show. This is The Grace Curly Show. Today's poll question is brought to you by Perfect Smiles. Don't be fooled by imposters with similar names. If you're unhappy with your smile, you need to visit Dr. Bruce Houghton in Nashua. Call one eight four four a perfect smile or visit perfect smiles.com. Jared, what is the poll question and what are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at gracecurlyshow.com is should misdemeanor marijuana convictions be pardoned. Yeah, this is from AP news. It says, if approved, the pardons will apply to all adult Massachusetts state court misdemeanor convictions before March 13, 2024 for possession of marijuana or class D substance. Most people will not need to take any action to have their criminal records updated. I'm going to say I have no issue with this. Yeah, it's fine. 60% of the audience says yes and 40% say no. Now, here's my request and I'm not asking this sarcastically for the people who say no, text and why so that I want to hear the other side of the argument so that I can come to a better conclusion here. I feel the same way about tick talk and because this bill passed the House and it's unclear what's going to happen in the Senate, we've been able to hear from people who otherwise might have stayed quiet on this. And when you when you're unsure of where to go with the topic, if you're not sure where you stand on something, it's great to have the experts there, like Nancy Pelosi, you know, to talk about the Chinese social media app. She said, tick, tak toe, done. And really that changed it for me, Jared. I thought, Oh, now that was the clarity I needed. That was the specificity that I was requiring on this topic. The other thing I wanted to mention here is that Hugh Hewitt, where big fans of Hugh Hewitt here at the Grace Curly show, he had a piece out today about why Donald Trump should tell us who he's going to choose as his VP. He made a good point, the contrast between whoever Trump picks as VP versus Kamala Harris would really be something else and it got me thinking because people will call in, they'll say, Grace, do you think we're going to see debates between Biden and Trump? And I say, no, I do not think we'll see debates. Biden's people don't want him anywhere near Trump. They know he can't handle a debate stage. They know Trump can push his buttons like really nobody else can, and they're not going to do that to him. And they have the other thing where they can say, well, Trump didn't debate the other GOP nominees, so now we're not going to debate him. So I've kind of resigned myself to that. I'm like, we're never going to see this VP. We're never going to see this presidential debate. But I forgot, Jared, that we also usually get VP debates. We had Mike Pence versus Kamala Harris, Paul Ryan versus Joe Biden. We've had some good moments in those debates. And I would love if Trump picks someone who could just wipe the floor with Kamala Harris. I mean, that's literally anyone. It wouldn't be hard. I mean, Mike Pence handled her pretty well. But Mike Pence was a little bit too nice. You know, he's just a tiny bit too nice for me. I would love like a Ted Cruz versus Kamala Harris. Can you imagine how bad that would be? But I don't think we'll get that either because I don't see them not doing a presidential debate and then saying, but we'll have the VPs, you know, get up there. We'll just give Aaron Rodgers a podium. Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, they're floating him. RFK Jr. Saying he's floating Aaron Rodgers for his VP pick. When we come back, we're going to do woke or joke on this Thursday afternoon. It's eight four four five hundred forty two forty two. Get on the line now and you can partake in everyone's favorite game. Woke or joke after the break. Live from the Aviva Trathria studio. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Grace Curley Show. The number if you want to join us for Woke or joke is eight four four five hundred forty two forty two again. That's eight four four five hundred forty two forty two. Get on the lines now and you could be entered to win a fifty dollar gift card from a Viva Trathria. Woke or joke is brought to you by a Viva Trathria. A gift card to a Viva Trathria is the perfect gift for any occasion. So pick one up at any of their locations to find the one nearest you go to evivatrathria.com. Jared, play it. Everything woke turns to shit. Okay. I started a joke. Take care, wokeers. The word woke means loser. All right. So here's how it works. Taylor Cormier, otherwise known as the Wizard of Woke, he's going to read you a headline. You have to decide is it woke or is it a joke. Taylor, thank you so much for joining us today. Oh, the pleasure is all mine. You know, we were just having a discussion because there's a chicken pox outbreak in Massachusetts right now and a lot of people are surmising that it's due to the illegal alien. Yeah, I was going to ask is it in any specific places in Massachusetts? Yes, yes. And the Healy administration is this is from the Boston Herald. Healy administration plays politics over public health concerns and chicken pox outbreak. It happened at a migrant shelter in Roxbury. That would be mainly a cast. We've talked a lot about that. And so then I asked you, I said, did you have, because we were right on the cusp, the vaccine was invented or was official in 1995. So people are age. You either had the chicken pox in real life or you got the vaccine. But if you had the chicken pox, then you know, your mom would call somebody and say, so and so is the chicken pox. Bring over your kids and won't all get the chicken pox together. And I said to you, did you have the chicken pox or did you? I did have the chicken pox. In real life. Yes, yes. I remember staying home. I remember being, I remember, I think I was about four or five years old and I remember seeing all these bumps on my arms and on my chest. And I said, mom, I'm all itchy. And she goes, Oh, you have the chicken pox. And she was happy. And I was like, why is this? I'm confused. I'm ill. And you're pleased. Yeah. And then whenever you'd scratch it, it was like, don't scratch that. You'll get a scar. Right. Spent, you know, the whole day, pretty much in bed, chicken soup, which seemed ironic to me at the time. And Jared, you obviously had the chicken pox because when you were a kid, it wasn't even cough in the group. TB. But kids are a little fever. Kids after us. Like Emma did not get the, they got the vaccine. So I said chicken pox is, is like our polio. How do you think? I don't know. I'll take the heat for this one, Grace. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if that's accurate. Chicken chicken pox is our polio. You heard it here first, according to Taylor. Okay, let's go to the head. Our polio. How is it already? It's how do you start it? It's Spanish for chicken. I understand. It's quite good, Jared. Peter, you are first up on Wilker joke. Are you ready for your headline, Peter? Ready. All right, Peter. Here is your headline. Daylight savings time not only makes no sense in the 21st century, it's rooted in racism. That sounds woke. I'm so sorry. It's a joke. By the way, that was a joke. That's not true. I hate it. Oh my God. Do we hate it? You know what? I really did assume you'd have an opinion on this. I didn't think you were going to be someone who's like, I don't care. I've always hated it. But as I get older, it gets tougher and tougher to adjust to. And now that we have kids, go ahead with the eye roll. But now that we have kids, they have to adjust to it. My wife, who's home with the kids, has to deal with them adjusting to it. I don't, I'm there in the morning and see you later. I don't see them until the next day. But the daylight aspect, how you like that? I don't care. I've got headlights. I've got electricity. I don't care. You're not like, you're not a sunshine guy. When I see the sun shine, when I feel it on my skin, it brings me back to life. The sunshine on your shoulders make you happy. It really does. It really does. And I think it, was it originally, we definitely have this conversation every year. It was for the farmers, right? Yeah, something like that. So they could see your, you know, who hates daylight savings time? How we car? How we car. I don't know. Does how we hate it? I don't know. Marco Rubio. I know he hates it every year. He goes on like a real, you know, rant. Let's just really experience time the way it was meant to be experienced. Yeah. No, I don't disagree with you there. Mark, you're up next on The Grace Curly Show. Are you ready for your headline, Mark? Hey, how are ya? Doing well, Mark. Are you ready for your headline? Yeah, let's do it. Here it is. Lesbian couple give birth to each other's baby in UK first. Don't have to go woke with that. It is indeed woke. I'm surprised. This is the first time. Not a joke. First time in the UK. Okay, got it. And this is thanks to IVF. So I guess these siblings, they're not full, so they're half siblings because they each had the same sperm donor, but different eggs, different mothers. Okay. I don't. I'm lost. This is Emily Patrick and Kerry Osborne. They've been together seven years. They were able to conceive their sons 11 day old Ezra and 10 week old Elvis through a process known as simultaneous reciprocal IVF. Elvis, that's a name. Was Elvis his real name? Elvis Aaron Presley? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Interesting. You don't hear that name a lot. Now it is Elvis. No, you don't. It was taken by a pretty famous guy. It's tough to live up to. I think a lot of people name their dog's Elvis though. It's a popular dog name. Ezra, who was conceived using Emily's fertilized egg, was carried by Kerry, while Elvis was carried by Emily using Kerry's egg. This sounds like, this sounds like one of those word problems. Yeah, questions you get. Their eggs were fertilized by a Dutch German sperm donor, solved for eggs. Okay. Very good. Tony, you're up there. That just seems like giving birth with extra stuff. Yeah. Fair. Like you could have had your own kid. I mean, they were both able to carry children. Yeah. Tony, you're up next. Like the world now. You're up next on the Grace Curly Show. You ready for your headline, Tony? I'm ready. Okay. Here we go. All right, Tony. Here's your headline. With more queer influencers than ever, Trans Tiktoker admits business is not booming. Whoa. It's a joke. I'm sorry. Sorry, Tony. By the way, that was a joke. That's not true. By the way, if you call in and you're not able to get on, keep trying because people fall off. It's 844-542. Again, that's 844-542. You still got plenty of time to play Wilker Joke with Taylor Cormier. Ed, you're up next on Wilker Joke. Are you ready for your headline, Ed? Yes, I am. Thank you. All right, Ed. Here is your headline. Dylan Mulvaney celebrates two years of girlhood with new song. Woke? It is woke. Not a joke. Not a joke. Ed, would you like to hear a few bars of Dylan Mulvaney's new song? Oh, of course. Oh, all right. Jared? It's all tuned much. Yeah, it's very bad. It's very auto-tuned. It's called Days of Girlhood. It still sounds like a man. It sounds like a man trying to sound like a woman, which it is. Sorry, Jared. I thought you were going to say something. No, I just... You hold the mic to your face. Yeah, so this, I think everything's a sign up. I am now convinced that this is a sign up and that Dylan Mulvaney doesn't actually want to be a singer songwriter because it's just... Well, no, it's a one-off. I don't think that he's... It's like a novelty song? I don't think he's looking for an actual recording career. I think there's people who make one song and it's not a sci-op. It's just like a money rep. Right, exactly, capitalizing and trying to reclaim their fame. I think you like to label things sci-op. But the song... It makes things more exciting. The song is extremely demeaning towards women because it references all the things that men typically think that women do throughout the week. The walk of shame, he references, he talks about going to bed with makeup on and retail therapy, a breakdown in a bath. It's... It's a very typical girl, women things. And the comments on YouTube are... He's being ratioed on YouTube. Oh, wow. Which is rare because YouTube is a pretty supportive community. Anytime I go to SNL and watch one of their videos and say to myself, "Wow, that was terrible and very liberal." I go down to like, "Bow and Yang is killing it." It's super fans that comment. But this was very anti-Dylan Mulvaney. Interesting. Dennis, your next stop on Wilker Joke. Are you ready for your headline, Dennis? I am ready. All right, Dennis. Here is your headline. Doritos terrifying new brand ambassador makes Dylan Mulvaney look like Sidney Sweeney. It's got to be a joke. It's not... Sorry. Not a joke. Not a joke. Sidney Sweeney is new to me. Somebody's got to explain Sidney Sweeney to me. You don't know who Sidney Sweeney is? No. Okay, so she was in euphoria? I saw her on SNL last week. I've never seen euphoria. She was in euphoria. She was in... She's been in a couple of things, a couple of TV shows. Yeah, she was an actress. I couldn't mention. I don't know what she's been in. Very good-looking young lady. But this new brand ambassador. She's every guy's crush right now. She's... If you say... If you say who's your Hollywood crush to a guy, there's a good chance they'll say Sidney Sweeney. I'm staying true to Scarlett Johansson. Okay. Yeah, that's... OG. All beautiful. You're not going to catch me saying anything negative. I'm a woman who supports other women. This Doritos Spain, the Spain brand, they... What's so funny about that? I don't know. I didn't know. They had a brand. They chose a transgender to be their brand representative, Samantha Hudson, who was born as Ivan Gonzalez Renato, a Spanish electronic music star. They employed him as their new brand ambassador, much like Bud Light, employed Dylan Mulvaney as a brand ambassador. However, people searched through Ivan Gonzalez Renato's tweet history, and he had some weird things to say about what he'd like to do to 12-year-old girls. And other weird things, so they finally canceled that contract. Why...? Okay. Well, there's so much wrong with that. But also, Kent, these brands, you said it's Doritos, right? Yep. Can you make a campaign about the food? Like, why are we bringing in all these people? And I kind of thought that during the Super Bowl, too. There were a lot of celebrities and influencers involved in these commercials where I thought, "You're not really... First of all, I don't believe you. You said product." And second of all, you're not convincing me to buy it anymore just because you're a celebrity. And you're wasting all your money on that. But subliminally, subconsciously, a lot of people do think that way. That's sad. It is very sad. Thank you, Taylor. Do you have anything else to add? I'm expecting people to vote that way with Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden. Taylor Swift is... I mark my words. She does not want to endorse him. She keeps telling people, "Oh, make sure you register, but she hasn't said anything about Joe Biden." He's... He is toxic at the box office. Nobody wants to go near him. Not even Taylor Swift. Yeah. That's all I have to say about that. Okay. And Jared, are we good to go? We're good. On that note, everyone, thank you for playing Walker Joke. We'll be right back with more. This is Grace Curly Show. Follow Grace on Twitter @g_curly. This is the Grace Curly Show. ♪♪ A lot of unexpected news lately. ♪♪ A lot of unexpected news lately. With the economy, with the electric vehicle, euphoria, that CNBC is saying is now dead. This is a CNBC segment right here. It's not sponsored or anything, but I want to play a cut from CNBC on inflation, Rick Zintelli. And then I want to actually read a little bit from a story about electric vehicles. First up, Jared, inflation news cut one. February PPI headline number expected to be up three tenths of a percent, zoom, zoom, zoom, up double. Up six tenths of a percent. That would be the hottest going back to, well, equals July of last year to find a higher number. You're going back to June of 22 when it was up nine tenths of a percent. You strip out food and energy, it's up three tenths, one tenth hotter. But in the rear view mirror, we had up half of one percent. You strip out food, energy and trade, it's up four tenths, it's up four tenths. That would be the hottest, obviously, since it was up six tenths last month. Yeah, so there's a lot of things that we weren't expecting. And it makes sense, though, why Joe Biden isn't really going out there as a big victory lap. He's focusing on other things right now. But on that same note, CNBC has an article that the EV euphoria is dead and automakers trumpet consumer choice in the US. I just want to read you a part of this. It says, for years, the automotive industry has been in a state of EV euphoria. Automakers trotted out optimistic sales forecasts for electric models. I'm going to, I'm actually going to push back on this already. This is what happens when I try to read an article. Is it that the automotive industry has been in a state of EV euphoria, or have they had a gun to their head from the Democrat party? Do you know what, do you get what I'm getting out of here? It's like, have they really thought this was such a great idea? If you actually talk to the CEO, I mean, sure, Tesla, I'm sure they were on board. I'm sure they were going, this is going to be great. But for a car company, and I won't name any, because I don't even know which one would come to mind, like maybe I guess Ford, if you said to them, if you talk to the guy who's running it, do you think we should shift all of our cars to become electric vehicles by, what's the magic date, Jared, 2035? Sometimes it's 2032, sometimes it's 2042. I wonder if you really sat down with that person if they would say yes. But sure, we can say that the automotive industry has been in a state of EV euphoria. Automakers trotted out optimistic sales, forecasts for electric models, Wall Street boosted valuations for legacy automakers and startup entrants alike, based in part on their visions for an EV future. Now the hype is dwindling, and companies are again cheering consumer choice. I've always see here, I've always-- A novel concept. I've always been a fan of, as a consumer, primarily a consumer, I've always been a fan of choice. I've never been a fan of this, like holding people, a gun to people's heads and saying, "You've got to produce all of these cars or else. We're going to tank your ESG score, and then nobody's going to want to work with you again." And really, the only company that I've heard, and I've talked to Bill Broussard about this that has been pushing back on this and been pretty vocal about it, is Toyota. But now a lot of other automakers are following suit, and they're realizing that they have to voice their concerns about electric vehicles and how they're not moving at the rate they thought they would, because their business depends on it. The New York Times has a story of today. Energy Department offers $2.3 billion loan to boost lithium production. $2.3 billion loan. They're pouring money into this. They poured money with that inflation reduction act into the chargers, which, by the way, have still yet to come to fruition. We've got a lot more to get to in the last hour, but here's your economy. That's the Biden boom for you. Your update on that today. We'll be right back with more. Don't go anywhere.