Podcast #1:

This is our very first 30 minute pocast folks, so welcome. My name is Russ Andrews. I have a B.E.M.E. from SUNY Maritime College, I am a financial adviser, and I have a lot of outdoor hobbies such as golf, skiing, hunting and hiking. This and every podcast will be an extension of my weekly radio shows, which will allow us to dig deeper into topics that are germain to your financial portfolio, and that include how politics and legislation affects your finances, your taxes, and your liberty and your freedoms. My partner in this endeavor is my long time friend and local radio personality PJ Jaycox. Why don’t you tell our very first audience a little about yourself PJ.

Today happens to be election day, 2020. I want to briefly discuss Form vs Function. This is important insight that really exemplifies how modern politics work; how people think!

As an engineer, I have been trained to judge stuff based on whether and how it works; whether it is efficient and safe and does the job it was built to tackle. 

How things look, sound and make me feel are at best secondary and tertiary concerns for me. 

So when president Donald J Trump tweets out some nasty message impugning those who disagree with him on, lets say, reducing taxes, I couldn’t care less how it sounds to me. 

I DO care whether it will put more money in my pocket and accelerate economic growth (which tax cuts always do BTW). 

And, I am a conservative. We conservatives value “FUNCTION” over “FORM”.  REPEAT. And we rapscallions who actually think for ourselves vote for people like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

On the other side of the coin are people who value words. They value what people SAY, HOW they say it, and how that makes them feel, regardless of whether or not those words are of any use; regardless of whatever policy proposal being spoken about actually works. 

I give you the welfare state, Obamacare, Red Energy, socialism, BLM, inc, ANTIFA, and the Global Warming Hoax; all stuff that makes neo-liberals feel warm and fuzzy all over but are of little use in the real world. 

People that value how things look and sound over whether or not they actually work typically suck at math and logic. 

Many of them have been indoctrinated at America’s so-called “most prestigious universities” where they were taught WHAT to think vs HOW to think, which prohibits them from organizing and analyzing facts in any way that would allow them to draw substantive conclusions.

These people call themselves “liberals” which is a UUUUGE misnomer. The word liberal was first used to describe people like PJ and me; we advocate for low taxes, freedom and liberty, property rights and a light gov’t regulatory touch. 

NEW or NEO liberals are opposed to everything we stand for; they want us (but not them) to pay higher taxes, they usurp our freedoms and liberties by packing courts with judges that believe it is their right to legislate from the bench, they try to commandeer our income and property rights, and they payback their supporters in the legal profession with a massive regulatory state.

These self-described compassionate folks vote for charlatans like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.

Anyway, I digress.

In this week’s show we are going to discuss the economic fallout from the Covid 19 lockdowns, we will delve deeper into what Covid 19 is, who it harms physically, where it came from, and the economic and personal damage caused by the lockdowns. So fasten your seatbelts:

The Covid story is vast, and we can only touch on some aspects of it in this 30 minute podcast. First and foremost, you need to understand this: the Covid 19 pandemic will be relegated to history’s dust bin when the presidential election and recounts are