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Trump is promising an "economic D-Day" against Iran while trying to lower beef prices by temporarily removing a tariff. So tariffs don't raise prices... except when removing them lowers prices?

Nate and Charlie break down Trump's new economic pressure campaign against Iran, the oil-market reaction, and whether decades of sanctions give us any reason to expect a different result this time.

Then it's beef. Trump announced a 90-day plan allowing hundreds of thousands of metric tons of ground beef to enter without the out-of-quota tariff, while promising cheaper prices and more room for American cattle producers to grow. The guys dig into the incentives, Thomas Massie's response, and the obvious tariff contradiction.

Finally, the national debt has crossed $40 trillion. Did the Bush and Trump tax cuts create the debt problem, or does Washington simply spend every dollar it can get its hands on?

Plus: 91% tax rates, government roads, patents, AI data centers, and a viral claim about Gary, Indiana that sends the show completely off the rails.

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00:00 Ron Paul Was Right 02:30 Trump's "Economic D-Day" Against Iran 07:00 Why Did Oil Jump After Trump's Announcement? 12:45 Trump's 90-Day Plan to Lower Beef Prices 16:15 Thomas Massie Goes After the Beef Deal 26:30 Did Trump Just Admit Tariffs Raise Prices? 27:45 America Hits $40 Trillion in National Debt 31:30 Did Republican Tax Cuts Cause the Debt? 34:45 The 91% Tax Rate Myth 40:45 Government, Roads, Innovation, and Patents 44:45 Are Data Centers Destroying Your Town? 52:15 The Gary, Indiana Power Outage Fact-Check

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Republicans are furious about the national debt. So why do so many of them keep supporting the people spending the money? And if government-run grocery stores hurt private competitors, apparently government grants can fix the government-created problem.

This week's Dumb Bleep of the Week hits both sides. Nate and Charlie break down Mehdi Hasan's claim that America's far left is basically Scandinavian social democracy, Shane Gillis and Joe Rogan on Teddy Roosevelt and "free healthcare," Marco Rubio's argument against the War Powers Act, and Republicans suddenly rediscovering the national debt after it crosses $40 trillion.

They also get into a city-run grocery-store proposal, the limits of DOGE-style "waste and fraud" cuts, the growth of executive power, and why intentions matter a lot less than incentives and outcomes.

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00:00 Good Morning Liberty

03:15 Mehdi Hasan and the "far left"

15:45 The Lindsay Clancy supporter debate

26:30 The staged ice-throwing meltdown

33:30 Shane Gillis, Teddy Roosevelt, and executive power

37:45 Is "free healthcare" actually free?

39:15 Mamdani's government grocery-store problem

43:15 Marco Rubio and the War Powers Act

48:45 Republicans discover the $40 trillion debt

55:15 The Commie Block

1:03:30 Voting for Dumb Bleep of the Week

1:08:15 And the winner is...

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Shane Gillis and Joe Rogan see the problem: big corporations and government are deeply intertwined. But is giving the government even more power really the solution?

Nate and Charlie break down the call for another Teddy Roosevelt and argue that the very institutions designed to control powerful corporations helped create the incentives behind today's corporate-government relationship.

They dig into Roosevelt's view of executive power, railroad regulation that protected companies from competition, antitrust enforcement, the early framework that led toward the Federal Reserve, and the growth of federal control over drugs, food, and meat processing.

The recurring question is simple: if government becomes the gatekeeper to running a successful business, where are corporations going to spend their money and influence?

The guys also get into the absurdities of trucking regulations, government-created railroad monopolies, USDA meat-processing rules, and why another government agency probably isn't fixing government corruption.

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00:00 Good Morning Liberty + Charlie's Former Band

03:15 Shane Gillis and Joe Rogan Want Another Teddy Roosevelt

07:15 The Problem They Almost Get Right

10:30 Why More Government Creates More Corruption

13:15 Teddy Roosevelt's Theory of Presidential Power

15:30 How Railroad Regulation Protected the Railroads

19:15 When Regulation Spread From Railroads to Trucking

22:45 Monopoly, Antitrust, and the Free Market

28:15 The Government-Created Railroad Monopolies

33:00 Teddy Roosevelt and the Road Toward the Federal Reserve

36:30 The Origins of Federal Drug and Food Regulation

43:00 How Regulation Helps Consolidate Industries

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Medicare for All is gaining steam again, but what actually happens when "free healthcare" meets government reality?

Nate and Charlie break down five reasons they believe a single-payer system would make America's healthcare problems even worse.

JD Vance says Republicans won't stop socialism with free-market slogans. Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis argue that universal healthcare shouldn't be confused with communism. Bernie Sanders says healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right. So what should the libertarian answer actually be?

Nate and Charlie dig into the Medicare for All debate, including taxes replacing insurance premiums, projected government savings, hospital reimbursement rates, healthcare shortages, increased demand, political rationing, drug development, inflation, deficits, and the massive bureaucracy a national single-payer system could create.

Then they turn to the alternative: certificate-of-need reform, direct primary care, cash-pay healthcare, expanded HSAs, separating insurance from employment, and loosening licensing restrictions.

If government helped create the healthcare mess, should Americans really hand government even more control?

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00:00 Good Morning Liberty 02:00 JD Vance's Warning About Socialism 08:45 Was Obamacare Designed to Lead to Single Payer? 11:30 Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Medicare for All 22:15 Bernie Sanders Makes the Medicare for All Case 27:15 Five Reasons Medicare for All Is a Terrible Idea 28:15 #1: Free Healthcare Isn't Free 33:15 #2: The Projected Savings Won't Happen 41:45 #3: Healthcare Demand Would Surge 43:00 #4: Rationing Moves to Washington 46:00 #5: What Happens to New Drugs? 53:00 The Free Market Alternative to Medicare for All

"Woke One was crazy." Medicare for All supposedly saves a trillion dollars. And apparently Amazon subcontracting needs to be saved by making subcontracting illegal.

Welcome to Dumb Bleep of the Week.

Nate and Charlie break down nine of the dumbest political and economic stories of the week, including the WNBA's transgender eligibility debate, Zohran Mamdani's Delivery Protection Act, AOC's comments about the politics of the woke era, and Bernie Sanders' child poverty statistic.

Then we get into the Medicare for All math, the claim that billionaires can somehow pay for everything, and a healthcare study claiming universal Medicare could save more than 114,000 lives and roughly a trillion dollars per year. Plus, Republicans tell Americans to be patriotic about higher prices, Missouri lawmakers demand AI transparency while an AI-related surprise appears in their own document, and Ryan Grim gives us a perfect fixed-pie economics lesson.

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00:00 Dumb Bleep of the Week

03:00 The WNBA Can't Figure Out Eligibility Rules

16:00 Mamdani's Amazon Delivery Protection Plan

28:45 AOC: "Woke One Was Crazy"

34:45 Bernie Sanders' Child Poverty Statistic

39:45 Medicare for All and the Trillion-Dollar Claim

47:30 The Commie Block: Healthcare, Work, and Billionaires

58:15 WTF Republicans?

1:07:30 Missouri Lawmakers' AI Transparency Problem

1:10:45 Ryan Grim and the Fixed-Pie Fallacy

1:25:45 Voting for Dumb Bleep of the Week

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Can Medicare for All really save 114,000 lives and more than $1 trillion a year? Nate and Charlie dig into the assumptions behind that claim, from Medicare reimbursement rates to drug pricing, fraud, administrative costs, emergency room use, and higher healthcare utilization.

Bernie Sanders shared a study arguing that Medicare for All would dramatically reduce national healthcare spending while saving lives. In this audio-only episode, Nate and Charlie walk through the model and ask what happens when hospitals and clinicians are paid Medicare rates, drug prices are pushed toward international benchmarks, and projected savings depend on assumptions about fraud and emergency care.

Key beats:

• Where the "114,000 lives saved" estimate comes from
• Why Medicare reimbursement rates drive so much of the projected savings
• The tradeoffs around drug pricing, innovation, hospital finances, and wait times
• The trillion-dollar question: who actually pays?

The U.S. healthcare system is expensive and heavily distorted. The argument here is whether more government control fixes those problems or compounds them.

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00:00 Recording Chaos and Show Intro

02:30 Democratic Socialists and the Election Update

04:45 Setting Up the Medicare for All Debate

06:15 The Study and Its Rosy Assumptions

08:15 How the Study Gets to $1 Trillion

13:15 Where "114,000 Lives Saved" Comes From

21:30 The Emergency Care Savings Assumption

24:15 What Happens If Everyone Gets Medicare Rates?

28:45 Drug Pricing and Medical Innovation

33:15 Fraud and Administrative Cost Assumptions

38:30 What Happens When Care Is Free at the Point of Service?

40:30 Can Government Actually Make Healthcare Cheaper?

44:45 Who Pays for Medicare for All?

49:15 Homes for All, Cars for All, Netflix for All

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Tucker Carlson says he's socially conservative and economically liberal. That's where we think the trouble starts.

The $20 burrito may be real evidence that Americans are getting crushed by higher prices, but blaming investors, rich CEOs, and "free market capitalism" misses the actual argument.

Nate and Chuck break down Tucker Carlson's comments about affordability, capital gains taxes, the purpose of an economic system, and the massive CEO-to-worker pay ratios that make people furious. Then they pull out a calculator and ask a very simple question: if you took a CEO's entire compensation and gave it to the workers, how much would their lives actually change?

The conversation gets into libertarian economics, incentives, investment, government intervention, the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, and why politicians have such an easy time selling immediate solutions to complicated economic problems.

There's also a bigger political problem. If voters correctly recognize that the economy isn't working for them but incorrectly identify the cause, the "solution" can easily become more government power.

Finally, Nate and Chuck look at Argentina and Javier Milei as an example of a radically different approach: government doing less instead of promising to manage everything better.

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00:00 Opening and Back-to-School

02:15 The $20 Burrito Affordability Debate

05:15 What Should a President Actually Do?

07:45 Does an Economy Need a "Purpose"?

12:30 "Economically Liberal" and Socially Conservative

13:30 Capital Gains, Taxes, and Investment

18:30 Affordability and Blaming the Free Market

24:00 The CEO-to-Worker Pay Argument

29:45 We Run the CEO Pay Math

35:45 Blaming the Rich Misses the Real Source

40:15 Why Easy Economic Promises Sell

44:15 Argentina, Milei, and Government Doing Less

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Cancel Thanksgiving... then call it your favorite holiday. Dumb Bleep of the Week is finally back, and government has been busy.

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Nate and Charlie break down a Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate's Thanksgiving backtrack, Mamdani's proposed city-run grocery stores, New York's attempt to mandate self-checkout discounts, and the viral argument over whether a burrito should cost $20.

Then there's Dan Crenshaw telling people to stop whining about prices while making a free-market argument, Elizabeth Warren blaming private equity for soaring firetruck costs, and pro-China posts crediting communism for lifting millions out of poverty.

The episode finishes with an Instagram algorithm allegedly serving a Michigan Senate candidate OnlyFans models, a proposal to give young voters proxy votes for children, and the growing fight over Flock license plate cameras and Fourth Amendment concerns.

If government groceries, price controls, inflation, communism, surveillance, and political hypocrisy sound like a good Friday, you're in the right place.

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Chapters

00:00 Dumb Bleep of the Week Returns 09:00 Cancel Thanksgiving... Then Call It Your Favorite Holiday 19:45 Mamdani's Government Grocery Stores 27:00 The $20 Burrito Affordability Fight 34:15 Dan Crenshaw Says "Stop Whining" 38:45 New York's 10% Self-Checkout Discount 41:45 Elizabeth Warren and $2.5 Million Firetrucks 51:15 Communist China and the Market Incentive Problem 59:45 "Only Abdul" Blames the Instagram Algorithm 01:04:45 Proxy Votes for America's Children 01:07:30 Flock Cameras and Mass Surveillance 01:13:30 The Dumb Bleep Vote 01:16:45 Thanksgiving Hong Wins Dumb Bleep of the Week

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Flock cameras can help police solve crimes. The hosts argue that the same network can also build a searchable picture of ordinary people's movements. And the proposed "solution" of giving Washington more control may be even worse.

Nate and Chuck examine Flock Safety cameras, automated license plate readers, police surveillance, privacy rights, and government accountability. They discuss Thomas Massie's proposal to block federal funding for municipalities that use Flock cameras.

They also compare local accountability with federal surveillance programs, revisit the abuses revealed by Edward Snowden, and ask how this technology might have been used during COVID lockdowns.

The central question is simple: How much freedom should people surrender for another promise of safety?

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New York City wants to sell essential groceries at 30% below typical retail prices. Sounds great, until someone asks who pays the difference, how purchases get rationed, and what happens to every unsubsidized grocery store down the street.

Nate and Chuck break down Mamdani's government grocery plan and the bureaucratic monster required to keep it running. The proposal includes taxpayer-backed operating deficits, higher labor costs, purchase limits, restricted products, and a "library card-esque" system to prove shoppers are New Yorkers.

Also in this show:

• Why subsidized groceries could create resellers and black markets • How the plan accidentally exposes what government does to existing stores • Trump's latest "last chance" for Iran and the war nobody authorized • The spread of Flock cameras and automated surveillance

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00:00 A Somber Return to Good Morning Liberty

03:19 Mamdani's Government Grocery Store Plan

04:34 NYC's "Library Card-Esque" Grocery ID

06:17 Resellers, Delivery Apps, and Grocery Arbitrage

08:22 The Bureaucracy Behind Five City-Run Stores

11:23 Mamdani Promises Groceries at 30% Below Retail

15:12 The Bottomless Subsidy and Price Controls

18:27 Rationing, Administrative Costs, and Store Competition

25:31 The Grocery Store Press Gag

26:12 Government Ignores the Real Cost of Groceries

30:36 NYC Hires a Branding Consultant

32:52 The Plan Accidentally Confesses Government Is the Problem

37:14 Trump, Iran, and Another "Historic" Peace Deal

43:02 The Military Asks for Ideas to Punish Iran

47:13 The Constitutional Case Against the War

50:39 Socialists Will Seize the Affordability Crisis

52:17 Flock Cameras and Automated Surveillance

54:16 Final Thoughts and Sign-Off