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Bill it was a horrendous day on Wall Street today I'm not sure the president was looking for it but Wall Street reacted to his tariffs on foreign products by just plummeting people lost thousands of dollars uh individually and Across the Nation trillions were lost and that means people's pensions their retirement money uh going out the door and as we know a lot of people are very afraid of the economy right now because there are layoffs and they're thinking they may not be spending money that could lead to a recession if this doesn't reverse and if it hits people's pocketbooks like it is right now for some lengthy period of time do you think Missouri will become a blue State no I mean if it's just the stock market I I don't think that like a lot of people have portfolios and are going to think oh my stock has gone down you know now if people start losing jobs sure I mean if if inflation gets worse sure but I think like the farmers that you know what the Trump did the last time he was in you just write him checks because the tariffs are costing him money but I I don't think that most of America really is concerned about the stock market I don't think you could flip the state I think you could flip a congressional district near to us and I think that's the plan coming up here in a couple of years they're targeting the districts that they feel as though Democrats feel as though they could win and this is f for that because that's where people live you I'm talking about the second congressional district and people have money in the stock market out there but there's also just kind of like with the mayor the the kind of drip drip drip now we're in the market for a car okay said car is going to get a little bit quicker here we're not going to wait until you know the summer because we better take care of that now and it starts hitting people individually in different ways and the reaction you know could lead to like some changes but not those don't forget let's say your car goes up $5,000 with sales tax that's another you get $5,000 plus your sales tax is up $500 and this thing has a ripple effect that means they'll have less money in their pocketbook less money they can spend down the street and and I think at the end of the day every election depends on the economy and how people are feeling about their lives absolutely and if you don't get your tags he's going to be knocking on your door I get myag I got if social media I'll this is quick if if social media is any indication the people who voted for him knew that it was going to be painful there's a whole lot of it's it's surprising there's a whole and of course I I do not I do not engage on social media but uh there's a whole lot of people saying just wait if fits any indication that's the key F any IND probably isn't and I gotta I gotta take exception to that it's like well if the economy keeps going down will we be in trouble well yes and if it starts to go back up we'll get out of trouble and if it keeps going higher and higher will we all have boats and retire to Aruba I mean it's the stock stock market and now we're going to say because it did this today will an entire State change its uh inground feelings about what government should be doing no I don't think one day let's look at it six months don't forget pensions teachers pensions Union pensions people's 529 plan so you're saying it's never going to go back up again it'll never go back up well as I said if it doesn't go back up this could be a blue State that's my theory now people don't can't even imagine does go way up could a bunch of blue States become red States yes as they have as they have so Massachusetts is going to swing if everybody in well Massachusetts is a little bit different I think we're trying to gauge a long-term project over saying here's what happened in one day if that never changes well okay when it gets up to4 degre temperature saying he saying like two years from now if it's not good now we're in the next presidential cycle and whoever's going to run for president and I don't think it's going to be president Trump but who knows uh whoever's going to run for president yeah whoever whoever's going to run for president they're going to have to deal with that I've got news for you if it's like this in two years we'll probably be looking to sleep in one of your garages well yeah and I don't mean to be terribly Petty but I remember like in 87 or 89 or something the stock market sort of crashed and I remember anything thinking too bad you know in kind of in a very Petty Way it depends I didn't have anything but 60 % of Americans have money in the stock market so um want to ask you Joe um the mayor's kind of having trouble catching a break these days and she had a press conference this week pointing out look uh homicides are at 23 for the first quarter that means we could have less than 100 which might be about a third of what they were in 2022 or so why isn't resonating if and it that's like an indisputable number when it comes to Crime figures the number of homicides 23 is very good for St Louis not that great for other you know areas last year St Charles had five total homicides I'm talking the county but 23 is good it's uh she and the chief are trying to get the message across but I'm not even sure the Press has picked up on it yet well we had on the front page that they reported that that the mayor and the chief reported these numbers I think people are tired of these numbers uh because what happens is is you one side talks about the numbers when they're up one side talks about the numbers when they're down they never talk about it per capita to actually give it any explanation so now you can say well there's 23 and 1/4 of the year so times it by four well this was in a very cold winter so there's a lot more to these numbers than what you can do in a 30 second blurb on television or even in a 20inch story in the newspaper there's a lot of science to it so we have less population so to me any homicide number that is not based on per capita I tend not to go with them one way or the other they go up or down and before excuse me before this they were excited about a 10 person reduction I I just don't think that's anything to get excited about unless you're one of the 10 who who didn't lose your life but I I agree with you in terms of per capita that's where that's we too had a story on the front page and it was just cut and dried you know like I say wasn't too no editorializing or anything like that I will say that it was 23 if it was 100 23 people would have a lot more to say about it in a quarter right you know and that's what I'm saying but but you're talking about per capita if if it was 46 that's twice as bad thus I'll take the 23 and I don't care how many people live in St Louis wish it was Zero but I'll take 23 before I'll take 46 or 100 so let's celebrate the fact that 100 people didn't it it's really odd though that homicides are down nationally I mean it's not just St Louis I mean you read you know Detroit lowest since like n you know in 50 years or something New York down I think even Chicago's down I have no idea what what's going on I think all and Boston had 24 all of last year but I find it odd that people are more concerned about reckless driving than they are about homicides for example I see Cara Spencer every chance she opens her mouth talking about reckless driving Bob Clark was on Sarah fensky podcast he brought that up and when you think about it people you know they probably talk more about the crazy driver they saw going through a red light in the city than a homicide they heard about your chances of your chances of being clipped by somebody driving recklessly are much greater than you in your mind of of being a victim of homicide I I remember as a night police repor if there was a shooting at a crack house the the readers don't oh my gosh they but if there's a shooting at a mall where people might be that's what I was going to say who's getting killed that's why I don't nobody care well I think I think people care because I go I think it goes back to Wendy's and I think that is the answer what we all are out on the streets in cars and we all see people run red lights I haven't this week seen anybody shoot a gun at anybody that's true but so it it's it's it is if five people got killed in St Louis Hills tomorrow okay it would be big time news more than if 25 people got killed in North St Louis and and and not under even strange circumstance or anything it would just be bigger news that's all it does come down to who gets killed and a bunch of you know gang member black kids up in the city killing each other that doesn't move the needle I mean that's just a reality Alvin we got a two-minute warning let's go to Kirkwood Kirkwood the town you love spent uh $30,000 on a snowplow no problem except the money came from the opioid settlement which was supposed to help people who are battling their opioid addictions is there any justification for that snowplow well I've never been on heroin nor driven a snow plow this is bad come on Kirkwood we can do better than that that that's now I kind of when I I winced when I read that but if the emergency vehicles are delivering Narcan in the snow they might need a snow plow well you talked about the per capita we could pretty much walk everywhere in Kirkwood if we had to I I'm not making light of any kind of addiction or anything but this was just a bad decision I I don't know is it possible okay uh this is going on in limb though Kirkwood got $71,000 out of the $154 million settlement that the state got and the money is supposed to go to alleviate the suffering uh of opioid addiction is it possible Kirkwood doesn't have $71,000 worth of opioid suffering well but I think you do like maybe you can you know when you're uh on Robert's Rules of Order where you could give your time to somebody else to speak maybe we give it to the city or give it to someplace else and say like you guys need this for Billboards billboards with with a fent all problem though the you know the likes that that we're seeing these days I I can't imagine that you couldn't stockpile or what have you I I think that this it it looks like there just was a something fell through the crack there wasn't a lot of oversight as there was as there should have been so Bill what would George Orwell say about this yeah well I think uh I I was going to say s but that's all this Huxley that was just all the CL clock strug Smith that's okay unfortunately that's all the time we have for this edition of Last Call thank you very much Happy reading and we'll see you next week