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This week the 3WHH lives up to its name, as two of us were half in the bag—maybe more than half in the bag in Steve's case—when we recorded late in the evening because difficult travel schedules, but after Steve and Lucretia had completed consumption of twice the USDA's recommended daily allowance of adult beverages. The always sober-minded John Yoo is the host for this week, and we'll leave it to listeners to tell us whether this episode is bouncier than usual.
How could not be since we open with discussion of what is clearly the most important news story of the week: Sidney Sweeney's American Eagle "good jeans" ad campaign that has the left losing its mind. No—seriously, this is more than a mere tempest in a D cup: it's the clearest sign yet that our culture has fully turned the corner away from wokery, while leaving enough space for the left to beclown itself further.
Speaking of beclowning, Kamala Harris isn't going to run for governor of California, but is going to punish us anyway with a book, out late next month. We can hardly wait.
While this is an ad-free episode, it is not a tariff-free zone, and we ponder the evidence about whether Trump is succeeding with his tariff brinksmanship. Cheers!
John Yoo
'Lucretia'
Steve Hayward
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Full marks for today's episode title.
With respect to Sydney Sweeney, I find it interesting that the left has completed it's transformation into what it hates. That is, the town elders from Footloose. Much has been made of the fact that the Democrats have utterly abandoned what used to be their favorite demographic; the white working class. With this ad they're ceding any claim to be cool. Imagine a kid in '69. He's got to decide if he wants to be the regimented Nixonian in the button down shirt and all the rules of propriety to follow, or one of the cool kids with the rock 'n roll music, easy-going attitude, and free love chicks. Which one do you think he's going for?
Take a kid today. He can either go leftist with an endless series of concerns over what's problematic, continuous verbal consent if he wants to go on a date, and good luck if he wants to look at a pretty girl, or towards the right where you've got people willing to make jokes, girls who aren't a bundle of neuroses (uh, within reason), and the bare modicum of honesty to say that a good-lookin' girl looks good. I'd like to see someone make a movie that's essentially Footloose, only the teenagers are rebelling against microaggression standards.
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If y'all decide to go to The Big Texan in Amarillo, do let us know ahead of time. I'm about 330 miles southeast of there, but for a Three Whisky Happy Hour event, I would make the trip. I have visited The Big Texan, but not eaten there. The only times I have stopped there (it's on the path to our grandchildren), the wait for a table was longer than I was willing to wait.
I'm still (at 5:30) recovering from a 1/4 pound hamburger with a mountain of French fries I ate at 1:30 at our local best hamburger joint. The 1/4 pound hamburger is the "mini," as a 1/2 pound burger is the "standard." I'm getting old (I'll be 70 next year) and just can't eat that much anymore. A couple of weeks ago I even had to take home a substantial portion of a 20 oz Porterhouse I had at a local steakhouse.
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I just turned 79 and until this American Eagle ad I had no idea I was a latent NAZI! God bless Ms Sweeney!
However, it was in the 60s when I was in college that I recall seeing the oh-not-so-subtle shaving cream ad with the knockout blond teasing us 20 somethings with "Take it off...take it ALL off"...and somehow the Republic survived.
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John is out of his depth talking about tariffs. The buyer and seller both pay part of it. John thinks the buyer (US purchaser) pays all of it. Take the example of a company selling 1,000 widgets for $1,000 each and making a $200 profit on each for a total profit of $200,000. A 10% tariff would raise the $1,000 to $1,100 if the company does not reduce its profit margin. The # sold depends on the supply/demand curve. Let’s assume they sell 400 for an $80,000 total profit. If they keep the price at $1,000 the profit would be 100 x $1000 = $100,000. If they reduce the profit by $50 they might sell 700 units at $150 profit = $105,000. What is clear is that the buyer pays part of the tariff and the seller also pays part of it by reducing its profit margin.
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Federal government current tax receipts, Customs duties.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Release: Gross Domestic Product
Hey John, just wait until those tariffs that haven’t started yet kick in.
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