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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 Trattria 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 Standup. Here's the millennial with the mic, Grace Curly. Hello everyone and welcome back to The Grace Curly Show. I've got great news for you. We've got a Grace's goodies right now. This is a fan favorite. Aviva Trattria, everyone's favorite Italian restaurants. They have the classics. They're always putting new twists on the old classics that you guys love. Again, it's Italian food served in a comfortable and casual atmosphere. They have so many different restaurants, so many different locations. And there's probably one near you or one that you can at least take a drive to and check out. These restaurants are absolutely beautiful. The people there, the people that work at Aviva are all so kind and so passionate about what they do. And most importantly, when you're dealing with the restaurant, the food is on point. Joining us now to talk about just that is Chef Anthony. Chef Anthony, thank you so much for coming on the show. Let's first go over something that a lot of people are already putting on their calendar Mother's Day brunch. It's coming up soon. I know that I'm heading to Aviva in Hanover to celebrate my mom and to celebrate really my first Mother's Day. What are you guys whipping up for everyone? Wow, Grace, what an introduction that was. I'd be a little bit taken back, but we are so excited for Mother's Day. And more so for moms like you that are new moms that are hitting the restaurant scene, let's say, for a great Sunday Mother's Day brunch, which is probably in my world, in the culinary world, one of the most important days that I work for every year. So we've got this wonderful brunch that we just did for Easter. All the specialties from the vegetable frittata to short rib protein over roasted home fries. Obviously, food coming out of the hearth oven, the pizza oven. We've got so many things like that. But again, with Mother's Day, Grace, it's also one of my favorite times of the year. And it's one of the probably more favorite Italian words is "Preemavetta." "Preemavetta" is springtime, and everything changes in the spring. As you mentioned, we've got so many locations already. I keep going through the entire list. Newest to the addition is down in stone. I'm in the redstone shopping plaza. Handover crossing next to the movie theater. Rochester, New Hampshire, up in Marketplace Boulevard, which we're just going crazy. Next, we're going to be opening in Bedford, which would be open probably close to Mother's Day, which would be wonderful. Quincy and Nashua. Quincy Mass. Handover, Hancock Street in Quincy and the Nashua. All these restaurants, patios, everything's getting ready, but it's springtime. And food's going, fire pits are on, patios are opening, umbrellas are up, alfresco, dining, Grace. It's happening. It's springtime, and the weather's changing, so it's so exciting. But we have the menu changing. The girls are working on the new wine list. We've got some great wines from Joel Scott coming in at brand-new Pinot Noir, a great Sauvignon Blanc, an awesome AVC. For a psycho coming in from Martin Yeti, beverage, and then you and I love talking about cocktails, right? Yes, sir. You know it. That was going to be my next question. I'm going to save the food for after, but I have to get into. So the Vietnamese that is working on the cocktails have changed up the sangria for the summer. It's a tropical summer sangria featuring Thai laws, Corvus, grilled pineapple vodka. I don't know, there's just something about that that just sounds romantic and fun and enjoyable. Passion fruit, grape, ghost, I'm sorry, passion fruit, ghost margarita, a little bit on the spicy side. But it's our thing with ghost tequila, and there's just a great group of people to deal with. Blackberry mash, the menu is changing, Grace. We've got seafood all over the place. We've got chicken cat gittory. My great friends over at Fat Moon Farm Mushrooms are doing up so a bunch of local stuff for us for a new chicken cat gittory dish, a new villa salt and bokeh dish. Dino's pasta. If you've never gotten fresh pasta in Boston, take a trip over to Summerville. Stop out by Dino, say hi to holla indeed, and get yourself some of those fusili. They make the best fusili pasta that we're going to be serving on our menu along with some mushroom raviolis. There's so much happening. And along with that, you're here because the grease goodies. And I can't express more excitement for your guests to get these coupons, gift cards while they're available, because $25 for $50 work in almost all of all, soon to be 11 restaurants. Yeah, there's so many great locations. Again, if you go to gracecurlyshow.com and click on story, you'll get a $50 gift card for just $25. And just to get into a little bit of the details here for people, if you want to check out the Mother's Day brunch, what I love about a Viva is they do two weekends. So for a lot of people on Mother's Day, you know, you want to celebrate one side of the family and then the other side of the family might get left out. This way, you can go the weekend before and tackle it there, or you can go the weekend up. So you can join them for Mother's Day brunch Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th, or Saturday and Sunday, May 11th and 12th. I'm so excited. I'm going to check out the Hanover location with my mother. And I'm also going to celebrate myself because I'm a mom now too, so I get to have, you know, a little cocktail for myself and maybe I'll get the Belgian waffle and really just dive into all of it. It's from 10.30 to 2.30, but here's what I want to tell people. The one thing mom does not want, she does not want to show up to a restaurant and find out you didn't make a reservation and that you put that off. Have everything smooth and ready to go so mom can show up and she'll know that you put in the effort. Call a Viva, like we said, there's so many different locations. Get this gift card, so we'll make it a little bit easier on you. And go to gracecurlyshow.com, click on store and get this gift card. Thank you so much, Chef Anthony, for calling in. We really appreciate it. I cannot wait. Hopefully you'll be at the Hanover location when I'm there. But if not, I'm sure I'll see you at the Quincy location very soon when it opens. Thank you, Chef Anthony. And happy Mother's Day to everybody at a Viva. I will see you very soon. Thank you very much. We will be right back. We'll take your calls and don't forget to go to gracecurlyshow.com and hop on that Grace's goodies because those always go really fast. And you've got about an hour until... Not even an hour. We are currently barely in the double digits in inventory. Oh, okay. If you want it, hop on now. So you have about a minute. Hop on it now. Go to gracecurlyshow.com. And you guys are going to love it. I texted my parents today. I said, "How about an early Mother's Day at a Viva Tritrea in Hanover? And everybody's already online checking out the menu and telling me what they're going to get. It's a really, really fun place. And I think you guys are going to love it." The Nossa Beach Inn, speaking of places you're going to love. The Nossa Beach Inn is such a beautiful place, especially this time of year. Jared, tell people what they can expect when they go to this little hidden treasure. Oh, you can expect peace. You can expect ambiance. You can expect tranquility. Anything you want when you want to get away, you're going to get at the Nossa Beach Inn. Especially if you go in April or May when it's still kind of the off season and pre the big summer boom. That's the time you can really enjoy the cape. It's the time you can really enjoy Nossa Beach. You can walk along the beach. You have to worry about fighting crowds. It still gets a little chilly in the afternoon in the evening so you can really take advantage of the fire pits. At night to stay nice and warm. You know, you can watch the stars, watch the moon rise. My wife and I, when we were down there, we drank our morning coffee by the fact. Watch the sunrise. It was great. And if it gets a little too cold, which you can this time of year, you have to worry about that because every room has a fireplace. Nice big picture window so you can get all the coziness that you would get and all the ambiance that you would want to get down there. It's all available. I can't recommend the Nossa Beach Inn for getaway enough. Yeah, and you can stay there in April for $249.99 or in May for $259.99. So either way, it's a really great deal. If you go to nossadbeachin.com. Again, that's nossadbeachin.com. When we come back, I want to take your calls on this inflation report and also we have some sound cuts from Joe Biden taking questions from the press while doing a press conference with the Japanese prime minister. I think it was definitely less than 10 minutes Jared from the moment he took questions to when he wrapped. I have I were accounting for pauses because there was a pretty long one. Well, he shuffled for his list on the third question. I think I do count. You know what? The jury says, I think that does count because you know what? Here's what I'm going by. I'm going by national anthem rules. When you watch the Super Bowl and you bet on the national anthem and they say, okay, how longs Reba's rendition going to be. It starts when she says the first word in the mic. It doesn't matter if she has the long riff. The clock's running. So I would like to know in total how long this went for. Joe Biden though, he could not do a victory lap today about this inflation report because it's hot and not good hot. Now, sometimes they describe things as hot and it means like it's in fashion. I don't think anyone feels as though this inflation is in fashion. In fact, it was just supposed to be trending for a while. It was supposed to be trending. It was supposed to be here and then it was going to be transitory. It was going to leave. It was going to fall out of fashion. But it's very much here and it actually rose since last month and it's not looking good for cutting interest rates, which I do want to talk to Justin Manning about. Hopefully soon I'll try to get him on towards the end of the week. Eight, four, four, five hundred, forty two, forty two. We'll take your calls on that. And another story that broke yesterday that we didn't get a lot of time to talk about. I only was able to work it in the car crossover with Howie is this big story out of NPR where a veteran journalist from NPR, he's been there for 25 years, he went through it, read like a postmortem. He went through all of the issues at the NPR at National Public Radio and why they don't report the news. Now, we all know this. It's because they're left. They're slanted. They're extremely partisan. We all know that. But here's what I didn't know until today. I assumed that this writer spent there for 25 years. He wrote this for Barry Weiss who, by the way, did something similar when she left the New York Times. She said, you know, it's completely liberal. There's no other viewpoints. It's just one distilled worldview and you can't get in anything else. And so she left the New York Times and she's very successful with her own publication Free Press. It's not a, it's like an online thing. And it's very good. She puts on a lot of good writers like this, this man, Yuri, from NPR. But here's the weird part. I just assumed that when Berliner, that's his last name, when he wrote this, that it was because he's leaving NPR. Like if you write a devastating hit piece on a place, and I don't think he was lying. I don't think he's bitter. I think he's just being honest. He sees a problem. He clearly loved what NPR was at one point. He has fond memories of what it used to be. I can't relate to that. I'm 31. So I don't think in my lifetime it was ever anything that great. But this guy at one point really respected the place he works for. I just thought that he wrote this as his swan song. Like goodbye, you know, this is my farewell address. He still works there. Like he had to go in, Jared, today. This piece is everywhere. Everyone's reacting to it. He breaks down how they didn't talk about the Hunter Biden scandal. He breaks down their handling of COVID. He breaks down their handling of Russiagate. He breaks down how they're obsessed with Adam Schiff. He breaks down how they're a bunch of hack losers in a far more polite way than I just did. But he breaks all of that down. And then today he has to go back in. I don't even know if they probably work remotely at this point, right? Hey, what's up, guys? What are we talking about? Did you guys see the new Keurig pod that they have? I don't know. I don't usually go for the, I don't usually go for the the bold blend. It's so exotic, right? I might try it today. What's that? Oh, you read it. Oh, you did read it. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that, that does take what does Nancy May say? The Cajones. She doesn't say Cajones. I thought I'd get you on that. No, but yeah, it takes Cajones to write that and then show back up and show your face. I give this guy, I give this guy kudos. He's not saying it all goes. It's what I would call the Robert Her effect. It's not that anything you're writing surprises me, but it's that you had the Cajones to write it that impresses me. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Grace Curly Show. This is the Grace Curly Show. Welcome back, everyone to the Grace Curly Show 844-542. Again, talking about inflation, but before we get to that, I do spend a little bit of time on this NPR piece because PJ Media, they cut out. It was long. You know, Barry Weiss typically has people on her platform who write long form pieces. And, you know, if you have all morning to check it out, they are very interesting, but I appreciate the PJ Media kind of cut to the problems that NPR has, according to this veteran journalist, Yuri Berliner, and the ones that I'm the most interested in. And that would be Adam Schiff, the Mueller report, and COVID. So let me just read you a little bit here. Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff. The Schiff talking points became the drum beat of NPR news reports. Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR's guiding hand. It's ever-present use. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drum beat of NPR news reports. Now, keep in mind, Schiff was constantly, you know, holding a carrot in front of all the liberals saying, "You just wait. You just wait. I have evidence. Oh, you're going to love it." He was really good, though. He was very clickbaity, Adam Schiff. If he doesn't have a future as a senator, he might have a future at, like, TMZ, because he was very good at bringing people over to that next click. I'm like, "I can't tell you this time around, but you have me on for one more interview, and I might give you the big news. I might let you know how I know that you know that I know that Trump colluded with Russia. I can't tell you how I know, but I know, and soon you'll know." It was like Ryan Seacrest, you know, pushing off the results of American Idol until the very last minute. And so in a lot of ways, he was good at that. But it was only because NPR and other people never pushed back. They never asked for follow-up. They never required him to have any sort of evidence before making these ludicrous accusations of a sitting president. NPR colluded with Adam Schiff to smear Donald Trump. The Mueller report, but when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of Russia collusion, NPR's coverage was notably sparse. Russia gave quietly faded from our programming. It's bad to blow a big story. What's worse is to pretend it never happened. To move on with no mea culpa's, no self-reflection. They didn't have time for self-reflection. They were on to the next big thing. They were on to the next big story, which what was it after the Mueller report? Was it the phone call? Maybe that was the next one. I can't even remember. It's all a blur. But they didn't want to talk about the Mueller report. They hyped it up for months and months and months and years and years. Millions of dollars. And you just wait because at that time, NPR was fawning over Mueller. Like he was conservative. He was a Republican, you know, but he was one of the good ones. He was one of the ones that was going to take down Trump. You know, once he came out and said, "I got nothing." Then they just didn't care. They wanted everyone to move along. And let's not forget the Hunter Biden laptop because if my memory serves me correctly, NPR was the organization unless I'm confusing them with PBS. NPR sent out that like weird email story where they explain to their readers why they weren't covering Hunter Biden. Here's why we don't think it's worth covering. And they tried to make it seem like, oh, we only report on things that are important for our readers. So this is what the journalist writes. The laptop was newsworthy, but the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story was being squelched. That was the part of NPR and they weren't alone in this. That was the part of not covering the Hunter Biden story that amazed me the most. It wasn't like, I know they hate Trump. I get that. But I always thought that when push came to shove and you're a journalist and you've got a guy smoking crack in a bathtub, that that instinct that Yuri talks about would overpower your political biases, that the instinct to go, oh my God, he's wearing a jockstrap and a red scarf and he's taking photos of himself, go, go, go. But that doesn't exist anymore. We'll talk more about this because the DEI at NPR deserves a little bit of time as well. Don't go anywhere. Live from the Aviva Thratria studio. [Music] Jared, I just sent a clip of Joe Biden in this Univision interview. And I know there's several different things now that are popping up from this press conference he held with the Japanese Prime Minister. But can you look for this? I sent it to Howie. This Univision interview, any chance he can wear sunglasses, he will wear them. So I think they do a lot of stuff outside because they really have convinced themselves that the Raybam look is going to put him in the White House again. Maybe they think it makes him look casual or cool or whatever. But take a listen to what Joe Biden had to say. One of the things that's going over here, all kids aside, is the way we denigrate people. The way we talk about people. The way we talk about him, he's even making fun of me being an Irish cat. I mean, what tell us is, it's never been like this. Never been like this. It's going to stop. No, I have a question. Wasn't he the guy just a couple weeks ago who was calling anyone who didn't believe in his, you know, whatever his take on global warming is? Wasn't he calling those Republicans Neanderthals? Does any constantly blast half the country is mega extremists? And he wants to talk about denigrating. These are facts. Check them out. Didn't he once when he was asked, when he was asked, it wasn't, he called him any fat. He was like, okay, fat when he was getting questions. When he gets questions, he doesn't like, you're a fat one horse pony soldier. But he wants to talk about denigrating people. I don't think he has the best track record for talking about half the country. Half the country with a lot of respect. We're calling reporters dumb sons of bitches. Yeah. Well, on that one. On that one, I can't fully disagree. No, but he's just, this is not a guy who treats people well. He doesn't, as Larry David would say, he doesn't follow the golden rule. Okay. He likes half of the golden rule, which is treat me a certain way, but he doesn't want to treat others the way he wants to be treated. He wants to be treated with kid gloves. He wants to be treated like the man with the highest IQ. The man who cares, the man who cries, the man who drives a truck, the man who was the first man in a thousand generations to go to a college and his family. But he wants to treat other people like dirt and he does quite often. So no, Joe, I don't believe that you're clutching your pearls over Republicans denigrating you or Donald Trump denigrating you. Considering you don't clutch your pearls about your party's stance on abortion and your so-called the most like Catholic president ever, yeah, I'm going to have to call BS on this. I'm going to have to throw a flag. Challenge flag, please. Okay. Now back to NPR here because I do want to read all this. It says, so it talks about the Mueller report. It talks about the Hunter Biden laptop. And then Berliner writes about some of the more woke aspects of working at NPR. And this word is greatly overused at this point or well in, but there's just no other way to describe this kind of newspeak. It's so bizarre that this is happening in a newsroom. And again, I know you could say, hey, it's NPR. What did you expect? But even so, you are journalists. Like you do have to report. You do have to have some grasp of the facts just to get through the day, I would think just to put out a story. You kind of have to know what gender like what a woman is. Like these are just some basic things. So here's what Yuri Berliner wrote about NPR's take on DEI. Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace. Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity among other questions and had to enter it into a centralized tracking system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff ordered regular meetings imploring us to start talking about race. Because that's, you know what? I will say that is what the country needs more of. That is what these outlets need more of. They need to talk about race more. They don't focus on race enough as it is. Monthly dialogues were offered for women of color and men of color. Non-binary people of color were included too. I would hope so. I would hope so, or else I might have to unsubscribe to NPR. Transgenderism and a document called NPR Transgender Coverage Guidance. This is like when AP, remember AP had a guidance about don't call it a crisis when they were talking about the border. Don't call it a crisis. We know that the White House and other people don't like to call it illegal aliens illegal because they don't like that phrasing. They don't like that terminology. So NPR sends out a guidance, coverage guidance on transgender coverage. We're asked to avoid the term biological sex. A news organization. The mindset animates bizarre stories on how the Beatles and bird names are racially problematic and others that are alarmingly divisive. In other words, everything we say on Woker joke basically. A lot of that stuff comes from NPR. Bird names. Remember we read that one? Bird names are racist. I think that, I think that can test in that day lost Woker joke. Justifying looting with claims that fears about crime are racist and suggesting that Asian Americans who oppose affirmative action have been manipulated by white conservatives. Just some of the stuff that you'll find at NPR. And so this journalist who's still working at NPR is brave enough to write all this down to expose the environment that he's been in for the last 25 years. And as the New York Post described, he has to go back in today. He has to go back to work. And so the New York Post had a headline how long until he's shown the door. But I think that that's where he's kind of got them. I don't think because they're their editor in chief came out with a statement about this piece. And of course, they don't think it's accurate. Like, of course, they don't believe that they think, Oh, no, we have very diverse opinions. We have some people who hate Trump and we have some people who really hate Trump. That's the diversity of thought. But the woman who's running NPR right now, she comes out and explains how while it's okay that he feels this way, it's not reflective and there's no bias here. There's nothing to see here, folks. Please move along. Let me read you a little bit of her statement. Journalism is a collaborative process rigorous debate and self examination are necessary parts of our pursuit of the facts and exploring the diverse perspectives that drive world events. The whole bunch of nothing. So all I hear is what is Charlie Brown. But then at the end, she says, let's not forget that the reason we remain one of the most trusted news organizations in the country, according to you, is that we respect people's ability to form their own judgments. Is that why you told people, Oh, we don't report on the Hunter Biden laptop, because we respect your ability to form your own judgment. So we're not going to tell you anything about it. But here's where I think this writer has them. This journalist has them. He writes this whole piece explaining how. They're biased and they're so lost. They've sunk so far into their own bubble that they can't see anything else. They're like in this fog of their own opinions. And that other thoughts, other opinions are not valued there and he said all this and write it. And now they're saying that none of that is true. But if he shows back up today and then they say, pack your box. You know, you've got to leave, clear out your desk. They're proving his point. So it's a beautiful thing kind of because they kind of have to grin and bear it. They're going to hate him. They're going to be mad. You know, everyone at the coffee at the watering hole is going to be angry at him. But they can't really let him go. I don't think they could fire him anyway because he could probably sue them, sue the pants off them. I'll run a McDaniel. But it does put him in a very amusing situation where it's like, okay, I said you guys can't handle. I said you guys can't take the heat. You can't deal with other opinions. Now you're going to fire me over it? No, they can't do that. This is actually reminding me a lot of a story we talked about Jared last week where somebody was talking about, oh, oh, RFK Junior was on CNN. He was also on Howie Show, by the way. It was a big week for RFK Junior. He was on CNN with Aaron Burnett, and he was asked about Joe Biden, and he was asked about if Donald Trump is the biggest threat to democracy. And he said, no, I actually think Joe Biden censoring people is the biggest threat to democracy. And he brought up all the censorship that Joe Biden has promulgated since he's been in the White House. And the response from the left was how dare CNN allow him to be on. So here's a guy who's trying to explain why he thinks censorship is bad and the knee jerk reaction from the people who say he's wrong. The people who say there's no censorship happening. You're allowed to say whatever you want. You're overreacting. You're fear mongering. But by the way, shut him down. By the way, cut his feet because it's offensive that you're legitimizing this nutcase. It's like, you can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that NPR is this wonderful world of different opinions in civil discourse and then ostracize this guy who's been there for 25 years. You can't tell me that MSNBC welcomes all these different opinions. And then when Rona McDaniel is about to get a gig there, everyone melts down and then you don't even let her show up for one day at work. Not everything can be true. By the way, can I get the cut before I wrap it up here of Joe Biden explaining why we want him as president because of which century he's in? We'll find that. And then by the way, another thing I didn't realize about this whole NPR story, I never knew that Juan Williams used to be an NPR. I feel kind of stupid now because I guess it's what he was known for, but he was fired in 2010 and he was on with Laura Ingram yesterday, just ripping NPR and just explaining how why he doesn't like them and, you know, his whole situation. He was on the O'Reilly factor in 2010 and he said that he gets apprehensive when he sees Muslim garb in airports and that was enough for NPR to give him the boot. So let's play this cut here. This is Joe Biden today at his press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister. Elect me. I'm in the 20th century, 21st century. Elect me. I'm in the 20th century. To be fair, he's still talking to people from the 18th century. So, hey, he just resolved that Vietnam thing. Let's count some slides. Can we add, you know, one more, Jared, I'm feeling a little selfish right now. Let's play the Vietnam. Is it this one? God bless the Japanese and American people. Japanese. Yes, apparently in some category of people we're not familiar with. Those glasses. 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Silver Day will work with you directly. Contact him at localsilvermen.com. Jared, what's the poll question? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at gracecurlyshow.com, is does Trump's stance on abortion hurt him or help him? I'm going to say it helps him. 80% think it will help him. 20% think it will hurt him. All right, and today's car crossover is brought to you by ReadyWise with inflation, food and energy costs rising. Families are feeling the financial pinch as they struggle to make ends meet. Preparation is key. Our friends at ReadyWise have emergency food kits that will provide peace of mind. So go to ReadyWise.com and use code Howie20 at checkout to save 20% on your order. Now, Jared, yesterday we had a lot of fun with a cut, and I know how you did as well, a cut from Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, where she talked about how it's almost impossible to go near the sun and that the moon is more manageable because it's mostly made up of gases. Well, she's actually responded now to some of the, she's getting really made fun of on the Internet, as you could probably imagine. And this is her response. She said, "Obviously I misspoke and I meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters." What can I say though? Foolish thinkers lust for stupidity. Are you a foolish thinker, Howie? Yes, she also called the moon a planet. Isn't that something you'll learn in like the third grade astronomy class? The moon is not a planet. And if the moon is made up of gas, how did we get there in the first place? And by the way, you know, the scariest thing of all, somebody sent me this today, I had no idea where she went to college. And again, no one has any respect for higher ed. She's a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School, which is one of the top public law schools in the country. That's where like Senator John Kennedy went, for example. Yeah, but you know, we just had this conversation yesterday. It's the same as lawyers. You know, you can tell me anything nowadays and I go, "Sure, why not?" I mean, I don't know if you heard this, Howie, but Sonny Hostin enjoyed Behar today, said that Trump appointed Justice Alito. And they got that wrong, and nobody, there's no fact checkers at the view. But what I wanted to get your take on today, Howie, is the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in March, hotter than expected. And this is from Breitbart. It says, "Economists had forecasted a 0.3% increase in the month-to-month figure and a 3.4% rise over 12 months. The rise of inflation in February cast doubt on the idea that the pace of price increases will continue to decline." Your reaction, sir. They didn't expect that they were going to decline anyway. And the only ones who didn't expect this were the people at the New York Times and the Washington Post. They're the ones who are writing, "Unexpectedly." None of the rest of us are surprised. But if you go to the grocery store, if you go to a gas station, if you try to get a mortgage, everybody knows what's going on. Yeah, it's true. And you know what, Howie, this just actually made me think of something else, but we were talking about this NPR guy. And you and I talked about it yesterday, this 25-year vet from NPR, who was writing about how they've lost their way. And a lot of people this morning in PJ Media and in other places were saying, "Wow, and this guy has to go back into work. Like, he's got real cajones to point this out and then go back in." And one, I think it's probably all remote nowadays. But two, if he's anything like you, or if he's a real journalist, he'll probably get a kick out of it. Like seeing all these people, you know, freaking out when he walks down the hall. Right, like cockroaches when you turn on the light in the kitchen at night. Howie, you would have loved that. Like, if you wrote a scathing piece and then you had to show up for work the next day, you would have been dancing on your toes. Yeah, no, I like it. But these people are really bad. I mean, he's right about that. I tried to get into that. But, you know, again, though, you could turn on any NPR station in America now and you get the same radio, Moscow, Agitprop. You know? I mean, what's it? Why do you need? All you need is one. All you need is one app. And the rest of the stations can go away. They don't have any sort of eclectic or local programming. I mean, I wonder if the NPR station down in the bayou in Louisiana has some Cajun music. I rather doubt it. They probably just have some things considered. Well, if there's anyone out there who listens, let us know and they can answer that question. Howie Carr is coming up next. He's got a lot of Biden's sound to get to, so don't go anywhere. [MUSIC]