Safeguarding Your Savings & George Bush Joins the Show!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Any examples used are for illustrative purposes only and do not take into account your particular investment objectives, financial situation or needs and may not be suitable for all investors. It is not intended to predict the performance of any specific investment and is not a solicitation or recommendation of any investment strategy. This is another money show. Get set for another hour of the latest financial information and economic news affecting your bottom line. J.R. and Anthony are committed to helping more Americans like you optimize their inc. Reduce their tax risk and reach financial freedom. So let's start the show. Here are your hosts, Anthony Correjo and JR Rochford. [00:00:42] Speaker B: Here we are, your hosts, Anthony Correo and JR Rochford taking a break from our day to day as financial advisors with Rochford and Associates, a fully independent fourth generation family office right here in the greater Phoenix area. To bring the information unit may not find on those other financial shows. The last thing you need is another money show. But we appreciate you being here and see how bad that was, Sam, because you didn't read it. It could have been so much better. [00:01:09] Speaker A: It wasn't good. Sam, if you would have bailed us out and done Anthony's introduction, I think it would have been more smooth. I think it would have been more upbeat. So maybe next week maybe we can do a little pressure on the one and only Sam Davis and ask him to get more involved in the show. So this, this will be my last week on the show, by the way. It'll be Anthony and Sam. I have a lot to get to. I know I say that every week, so. But we got to jump in. I've got a bunch of shout outs. [00:01:34] Speaker B: I never heard that before. [00:01:36] Speaker A: I know, I'm a creature of habit. I don't like change. But anyway, we have a lot of shout outs. I want to start out with our West Valley networking. We met at Throne. Throne does a great job. Kudos to Kyle no matter how many people we have. And this was a very well attended month. Kyle does an amazing job. You know, he doesn't take names. He numbers everybody. He's really good at it. So Kyle, shout out to you. We, it was crowded. I mean, Alex, Anthony's neighbor, was there. I love catching up with him. We usually sit afterwards and talk about how to solve all the world's problems. This week was no, no exception. We had some, I don't, I don't want to give names but we had some dealers from Desert Diamond Casino. We've been, every month we get, you know, at least one or two dealers from the casino. So that's kind of cool. Love seeing you people outside of your uniform. Who else? We. We had a listener that we actually met with, I don't know, years ago. I'm not good with time or space or anything. Guy named Joe. So. Joe. I won't say his last name, but Joe came in. He's been listening to the show. I guess he's. He's a longtime listener, so it's great to see you. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Nice to see him again. Yeah. [00:02:44] Speaker A: And he did lose his phone. So if anybody found a phone and you're not sure who it is, reach out to us, because that would be Joe's phone. He actually came back later that night. Alex and I were still there a couple hours later, but he came back with his wife, so we got to meet Joe's wife, too. So, anyway, if you found a phone, we might know whose it is. JD we missed JD the last few months, we've had a radio show listener named JD And I finally took your advice to try to make myself more healthful. And I brought Tahibo tea to. I believe I'm on day five of drinking this tea. So, J.D. i was all proud of myself. I was going to talk to you about what to expect. And, you know, I've already noticed some effects of this to Hebo Tea. So we're not here to promote other people's products, but sooner or later, I might reach out to them as a sponsor if I keep taking it. So we did miss you, J.D. i. A couple other things we had. We have a couple of different things coming up next week because the conversation is. Is. Is coming up all the time. We. We had a loyal listener named Art reach out to us this week. Actually, he reached out to us last week, too, and he wants to talk about water. I. I know. I mean, it's a big problem. I'm reading all the articles about Lake Mead. I actually have one. If I have time, I'll get to it today. I mean, it's very scary. So we're going to have Mark Burr back on next week. I don't know if we're going to, you know, give him 15 minutes or half an hour. I'll have him start. So maybe the whole hour. I don't know. We're going to play it by ear. I'll have other stuff ready, but we're going to have Mark back on next week. So, Art, hang in there. And we're going to talk more about water. We had another. We had a guy who lives on the East Valley. I Won't say his name. But we have a listener, I believe. Well, I don't want to say the city, but he has been a loyal listener, clearly, because he's reached out to us. And he brought up flock cameras, obviously, today. I mean, if you want to get into that, I'm always ready. He is in favor of the flock cameras. Apparently, he was a victim of a crime. So to him, the flock cameras helped solve the crime. I'm, like, super happy to hear that. I know that there's positive with the flock cameras. I know that they do good. I'm just more worried about the bad. Everything we talk about. AI, flock cameras, robotics, you know, data centers. In the right hands, these could be very good things. These could be positive for our future. In the wrong hands, not so much. So now we're up to what Tempe is getting rid of their flock cameras. Chandler, is it Casa Grande or one of those cities? [00:05:15] Speaker B: Who you want to get rid of down there? Adam? [00:05:17] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, Somebody in that area is getting rid of them. Now, yesterday's surprise is getting rid of theirs. So I dig into that a little bit. Like, why? Why, you know, you put them up, why are you getting rid of them? The abuse. It's already rampant. So to our listener on these, value. I get it. I mean, I want the right hands to be monitoring those so they can be used beneficially without the people stalking their ex wives. Apparently. Nationwide, there's more than 200 documented, you know, cases where police officers or officials are using them nefariously. So there's good and bad. I understand your situation. And for you, I'm happy with the cameras in general. I'm still concerned. I still worry about a surveillance state. So, I don't know. I did get something from Alex, your neighbor. I'm going to read this real quick. Those flock cameras, I don't know if this is true. I mean, he forwarded this that he got, so I can't vouch for this, but this is what he sent. Those flock cameras. I can access them at work. I work in insurance. We use them routinely. Now they have me pulling images of your car to see if you lied about damage. Just last week, they had me check multiple cameras on someone's vehicle to see if the damage they claimed had existed or if it was truly new. In about 30 seconds, I had over 150 images of this vehicle all over their hometown. Wow. These are not crime fighting tools. These are being used to actually. Ooh, there's a bad word here. Actually, something to you. We do it through an ISO search. And all we need is your name and address or a VIN or a license plate number. So there's. That's a shaky ground. My insurance company is going to be tracking me to see if I'm lying, so. And you shouldn't lie to your insurance company. So maybe. Maybe that's another policy positive. Here's another thing. I just saw this online. This is from the. The Facebook page. D. Flock America. This is the Flock CEO said this. I say apparently allegedly it's true. I find it on Facebook, so I assume it's true. So a quote from our buddy. We've talked about him a few episodes. Garrett Langley and I did find this in a couple other sources, so I presume it's true. This is from the. The Flock CEO. Transparency is terrorism. All warrants are just unnecessary paperwork. Everyone is a suspect. Just some haven't committed the crime yet. You call it mass surveillance. We call it recurring revenue. Well, there's refreshing honesty. And yes, we stole our business model from Orwell's 1984. Holy crap, if he really said that, which I think he did. Come on. So I don't know. So flat. Cameras. I. We can go on forever about them. [00:08:10] Speaker B: But I like that thing about we're already criminals. Just haven't been caught yet. Because that's how I feel about any event you go to. I mean, going to school events and metal detectors and security guards and emptying your pockets. Are you kidding me? You have to have clear bags everywhere you go. You thought about that? That's treating every single person as a terrorist. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Wow, Anthony, good call. And all that came out of 9 11. All that came out of the Patriot act, all of that came out of trading our freedom for security. And we're going to have neither. They're not going to catch the real bad guys. They're just going to catch you with your 2 inch long pocket knife that you forgot to leave in the vehicle. So our. I've done that before. [00:08:50] Speaker B: I hid a knife in the bushes and I don't remember it. Still probably in there. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Let's try to find it later. Let's go on an Easter egg hunt for a knife. Your mom took a little multi tool with a pocket knife on it to Utah when you were living there. And she. She. It was in her purse. She made it to Utah with a knife. Then they flagged it on her way home and they made her throw it away. So a great job, tsa. At least in my own family. You let one slip going to Utah. She could have killed all kinds of people in Utah. We got a. [00:09:23] Speaker B: With you, though. [00:09:24] Speaker A: Well, probably. So we got another thing here. Over 200 officers or staff have been fired nationwide over misuse. These are just the ones made public. Not to mention the large number of lawsuits over. Flock has settled with NDAs out of court. Okay, that's from KTAR in Phoenix, so I presume that was verified. Okay, I'll get off the Flock thing now, but I just. To our listener, and he did say that there's a website. I think I brought this up a couple weeks ago. I am aware of this website. There's. What's the name of it? I think it's called. Oh, have I. [00:09:58] Speaker B: There's a website where you could track everything. And then he. I think he said there was a website or you track the cameras. The deflock one. And then this one will show how much of your information is out there. [00:10:10] Speaker A: I think it's called have I been flocked dot com. So. And if you reach out to us, I have it written down. I have an article on it. So if you reach out to us, if that's not the right name, I'll get it for you. But it's interesting. You just give them a little information. They'll see how much they've got on you. So thank you for the call. We always appreciate it. And you know what? People are human. So these police officers, you know, the 200 or whatever, officially, you know, in trouble, they're human. And if you're wondering if your wife's cheating on you, if you're just curious where she's going or he's going. I mean, I get it. I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm going to tell you a quick story. When I was in the military, my first job in the hospital was none too exciting. I worked in medical records. I'm not sure that I should be saying this. This was a long time ago. Hopefully the statute of limitations has since run out. And I will tell you, I was not alone. This was a group effort. We used to Xerox and file the doctor's notes and put in medical records. It was the most mundane. I wanted to jump out of a window job I've ever had. But anyway, if one of our buddies who worked in the flight line or security police or whatever was starting to date somebody, they would ask us if we can check out the old medical records. This was before the big push on HIPAA. This was in the 80s. So, you know, don't. Don't sue me, bro. Don't Tase me, bro. But I just. If somebody was curious if they're dating somebody, if they had any, you know, any illnesses or diseases they should be aware of, and we. No problem. They just come to the window, we'd pull the record and look at it with them. Like, how wrong is that? Because we're human. So did I do it myself? Of course not. Because I'm a perfect angel. My. My sister used to call me mom can be trusted. That's exactly why. But I have since reformed. If I worked in medical records, right now, I would never, ever violate HIPAA protections and laws and look up. If I was starting to date somebody, I would never look up their medical stuff. Now, if I had access to a Flock camera right now, the information, I'd be stalking everybody, Anthony. I'd know right where you are and when. All right, we got to move on. We have to move on from the Flock cameras. I didn't even mean to bring that up. But when we have listeners that reach out to us, that's valuable to us. That is gold. So thank you so much. Oh, one last shout out to a loyal listener. Anthony, you haven't met him yet. I've met him in person a couple times. He was at one of the happy hours at Throne, conveniently located on 67th Avenue just north of Bell. But you were out of town, that one. His name is Mike. That's all I give you. Mike shares with me stuff every single week. Mike. Literally. I get texts several times a week from Mike. So I. I love that you do that, Mike. I appreciate it. It's. I'm always, you know, I. I keep it hush, hush. I don't share information you give me. But I will tell you something. What you sent me this past weekend, it. Man, is it beautiful. It just talks about what I. If you wanted to sum up our radio show for four and a half years now, it talks about the direction of our country, and it basically says the modern day bread and circuses. And I'm paraphrasing. As long as your Netflix is on, it doesn't go out. And as long as there are Doritos on the shelf, you're fine. You don't give a crap about data centers, AI Flat, cameras. You know, DSA Al said none of this stuff matters to you. Iran, you know, boy, there was a big munitions plan in Italy that blew up this morning. How ironic. So a couple munition plans around the world the last few days have been mysteriously blown up. So that's weird. You know what? I and Anthony Cover your ears. I don't need to hear it right now. I want to tell you, Mike, something over the years that I try to bring up regularly. Just hard to do it with Anthony around. There's a reason that people care about Netflix and Doritos and they don't care about what's going on around them. There's something they just, it's, it's less stressful one thing to watch the masked singer dancing with a star than it is to do what I do. So there's a psychological phenomenon. There's a psychological term that I love and Anthony hates and he's already brought up to me that there's an opposite one, which I don't, I don't. But Anthony, hear me out real quick. There's some people that haven't heard this yet. For me, there is something I want you to look up as a listener called normalcy bias. And I think it is huge. I think this is huge. And yes, Sam put some TSA agent took Sandy's pocket knife home. That's probably very true. My ADD is showing. Let's move on here. Normalcy bias. This is just the quick Wikipedia version of it. Normalcy bias is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster when it might affect them its potential adverse effects. The normalcy bias causes many people to not adequately prepare for natural disasters, market crashes and calamities caused by human error. Are you looking around you? The ring of fire, you know, Tokyo, Japan, tsunami, the earthquakes, Colombia, Venezuela, California, Mexico. I mean the natural disasters, boy, they're heating up. Locusts, Literally locusts in Russia. One of our friends, clients, slash neighbor thinks that the modern biblical locusts are going to be drones. Brought that up last week. Market crashes, man. They have manipulated these financial markets to the point where when the next 2008 gets here, it's going to be a doozy. So hang in there. We on this show, which is not an hour long infomercial, we are a show on current events and how they're likely to affect your future. We want you to be prepared and not scared. We want you to be proactive and not reactive. Now, right now is an outstanding time to set up an appointment. Sit down with us. Sit down with Anthony. If you want a more traditional financial advisor approach, sit down with me. If you want an end of the world approach. So. But now is a good time. You have an old 401k, you've got a big brokerage account and it's heavy in securities and you're not sure if this party is going to go forever. It's already gone for over 17 years. You're not sure if the end is near. You know, I mean, B of A says it is. Jamie Dimon says it is. There's a lot of people that say it is. I don't. I say this. I think something's going to poke through like a black swan event. So. Oh, speaking of securities and, and me ranting and raving, I am going to be on Joe's show on Monday. So if you can put it into your BlackBerry, if you can put it into your flip phone or into your calendar or calendar or whatever you have, I'll be on Monday the 17th. I'll be on Joe's show. So that's nine o' clock Arizona time. Next Monday on 10:10am A Sister Salem station. That's the 17th of August. I think I'm done with the shout outs. Let's start jumping into stuff. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to bang out. Thank you, Anthony, for not letting me be interrupted by you on the normalcy bias. What was the opposite one? [00:17:15] Speaker B: I don't remember what the opposite one was, but now my favorite counter to that is the Dunning Kruger effect. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Freddy Krueger. [00:17:24] Speaker B: The Freddy Krueger effect. Dunning Krueger effect. I'll let you look that one up and then we can talk about it next week. [00:17:30] Speaker A: Okay. Don Krueger. I have to write myself a note because I. All right, moving on. Because it's not good radio to see me stop and find a post it. Why don't we bang out the Festivus report since we didn't do it last week and I promised I'd get to it this week. Let's do that. If you're new with us, we have been reading line items of your government's wasteful spending. Your government, the representatives, the officials that represent you. Here's part of how they're using your tax dollars. You know, what was it? 182 billion to Ukraine or whatever. Ukraine and the United States just had a training exercise, a military training exercise, and Ukraine beat us. Look that one up. It was. They beat us with drones. So they took a bunch of our money and now they can kick our own. You know what? In war Anyway, amount wasted. $7.5 billion at the behest. I like that word. At the behest of the Biden administration, Congress set aside $7.5 billion in, in 2021 to blanket America with electric vehicle chargers. Biden promised 500,000 of them. But by April of 2025, the federal push had yielded only 384. Like 500,000, like a half million. We're at 384 public ports at 68 stations in 16 states. A network so faint you could miss it with your eyes open. Gao's recent review didn't just flag the anemic rollout. It blasted the Department of Transportation's lack of measurable performance goals for their program, making success indistinguishable from a ribbon cutting photo op. President Trump rightfully attempted to freeze the frivolous funding and redirect the funds to other infrastructure projects. But a federal judge forced the funding to be dispersed to this boondoggle. We brought that up, Anthony. Remember that? We did a story on that. All the electric postal vehicles and the chargers. This is why I introduced the End Taxpayer Subsidies for Electric Vehicles act, to stop this kind of a spending spree, ending costly federal giveaways that distort markets and leave taxpayers holding the bill. This would let the EV industry stand on its own four wheels instead of relying on Washington's endless extension cord. Very nice, Rand Paul. Very nice. Very, very. That's pretty catchy at the end there too. So it's just another example of why when you pay your taxes, you ought to be angry. You ought to be angry about it. If they used our taxes to bring down the national debt. By the way, we're on the US debtclock.org watch. I'm sure. Sam, you know about this. The usdebtclock.org is a wonderful site. We're at $39,850,000,000,000 debt. Within the next days, weeks or whatever, we're going to tip into 40 trillion in debt. Will it matter? I don't know. As long as I have Netflix or Doritos, I don't care. Are you apathetic or ignorant? I don't know and I don't care. It's going to affect you sooner or later. We told you last week or the week before about Enbridge. You know the brick nations in the unit. They're not slowing down. They're replacing the Swift system. Oh, shoot. Sam, just from before the show recording. I just checked it this morning. We are now at 39,906,466, 823. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So we were going to tip 40 trillion. Will it matter? I don't know. I just know that the powers to be the overlords the people that are building bunkers under the cities, the people, the people that are afraid of our future, they're all getting ready. We suggest you do, too. We think you should come in and sit down with us. Conveniently located on bell Road and 98th Avenue. Oh, man, we're getting close. All right. I wanted to get to a little bit of financial stuff today. So let's do this. Let's bang out the Desert Storm trading card and then let's do just a few articles and then let's end the show today with some financial stuff. So if you're new with us, like the Festivus Report, we have an ongoing thing here where we open a pack of Desert Storm trading cards. These are from the 1990s. I had them well preserved. This was Sam. This was the one and only Sam Davis's idea that we open these on air and we try to find, oh, I see a French flag. We try to find Saddam Hussein. I have since requested. We also. I'll call it a victory if we can also find George Bush senior. So. And I have asked Anthony and Sam to both enlist in the military. If we don't find them, get some new cards for us. What do we have today? We have a Tomahawk cruise missile. It's orange. That's kind of. That. That's kind of scary. We have a military skill. We. Latitude and longitude. So I guess if you can find your way out of a war zone, that's good. We have amphibious assault. This is under the intelligence file. Amphibious assault. Oh, we got a leader. General Alfred M. Gray. So, Al, if you're listening, I appreciate your service. Thank you for serving as people say. But you are no Saddam Hussein or George Bush for our purposes. So I'll put you aside and look later. We have Argentina. We have the country of Argentina. I'll have to read these all have a little reason why they're tied to the Gulf War. I'll have to read why Argentina is important. I got to go back and find Finland because we made fun of it. We have another military asset. We have the C5 Galaxy. So that's quite a cool looking plane. We have another military skill. We have heroes don't do drugs. That I'm not making this up. Heroes don't do drugs. They do now. How do you stay out of the military? It used to be all you do is say you smoke pot. Now it's like, oh, my gosh. [00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought we were in Iran to get drugs to bring here poppies and stuff. [00:23:40] Speaker A: I hope so. We Have a leader? [00:23:43] Speaker B: I thought we were the military was specifically is funded. [00:23:47] Speaker A: Stop talking. I got to tell you something. I am more excited than I ever been. Let me read two more. And then I got to tell you something. We have Zach Shamir, a leader. I don't even care about him. We have France, we have geography. And I moved a car to the back because. Sam, get ready. This is probably going to be our last show because I am too excited to come back next week. We have George Herbert Walker Bush. This was my commander in chief when I was in the military. We have 50% of our goal. I am so excited. Do you want me to read anything about George Bush or. I'm just so excited. George Herbert Walker Bush. So I'll just read the end here. I'm going to read this. I don't care what time it is. Sam. We don't need commercials, do we? We don't have to pay for the show. George Herbert Walker Bush President USA after graduating Phi Beta Kappa in three years. Oh, smart dude, huh? From Yale University. Bush. The Bush family. Yeah, Skull and cross. I'm sorry? From Yale University, Bush became an oil executive in Texas. He was elected to the U.S. house of Representatives in 1966. Wow. And was U.S. representative to the United Nations, 1970. Head Liaison Officer to China, 1974. Director of the CIA 1976. Is he still alive? I need to call him and ask about MK Ultra. And Vice President 1980. Before becoming President in 1988 for Operation Desert Storm, he was leader of the coalition. Damn, I'm so happy. So guess what by. Who's this guy? King Hussein? George, you are now our new mascot. Sam said put a new card for your place of honor. George, welcome to the show. We're keeping you up here unless or until we have what? Four more packs? We're down to five today. So we have four more chances to find Saddam Hussein the grand prize. So this is good news with Bush because now only one of you needs to enlist in the military and find the packet. Dammit, Sam, you only have one more minute. All right, I pick Anthony. I need Anthony out of my hair. [00:26:03] Speaker B: Sam, we have to go to the tape. I don't know whose nose goes first, but I think I beat him. [00:26:09] Speaker A: So the new co host, Sam wants George Herbert Walker Bush to be the new co host. I agree. Who are we replacing? Me or Anthony? Though Sam doesn't clarify. So we need to do this. Let's take a break, then we're gonna come back, do a quick article or two and then we'll do some financial thanks for being with us, especially on this glorious day of George Bushedness. Thank you for being here. We appreciate it. If we can offer you a second opinion on your finances, we as Anthony says, there's no quotas, no pressure, no minimums. We just want to help you. So we're at 623-523-0444 or you can email us teamothermoneyshow.com don't forget Monday, I'll be on Joe's show at 9 in the morning. I'd love for you to listen to it. I'd love to turn people on a Joe's Show. I think we are very, very we. We complement each other's show nicely. So we need to have Joe back on too. It's been a while. With that said, we'll take a break and we'll be right back. To schedule your free, no obligation consultation with J R and Anthony, call 623-523-0444 or visit anothermoney show.com. Has Listening to the news got you down? Are you unsure how politics borders health care and our shaky financial ground is going to affect your Retirement? I am JR Rachford, host of another Money Show. Tune in every Saturday at noon on 960 the Patriot to learn how current events can affect your finances and more importantly, learn what you can do about about him. Stop investing according to the old outdated rules and start investing for the world around you. This one's for your future self, the one with less debt and more digits. This is another Money Show. Welcome back to Another Money Show. Thank you so much for being with us. We greatly appreciate it. You are today with Sam, the one and only Sam Davis, Anthony Correo Jr. Rochford and George Herbert Walker Bush. So, Sam, you had one of the best ideas I've ever heard of in my life to do these cards. You know, what is it? Save them. Leave them to my kids. They're gonna put them in the dumpster right away. We're having a good time with this. I'm gonna have to see what Georgie boy is worth on ebay before I made any decisions. But I'll probably leave all this stuff to Jay. Anthony will toss everything I have in the trash immediately. So a couple things for you. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Trash. Can I toss you in though? That way you can be together with all your stuff. [00:28:47] Speaker A: You're not even going to put me on like a staff and light me on fire like the Eskimos and push me down, push me down a river or something. You're just going to throw me in the trash. Wow. [00:28:56] Speaker B: Okay, now that you're giving me sweet ideas. [00:28:58] Speaker A: So just don't put me in the overhead bin of the airlines. One of the things I wanted to talk about, but it's not important to dig into. Some smaller airlines are starting to charge for overhead bin space. So you know how we put up with paying for suitcase airlines? Your only job was to get me to my destination along with my suitcase because I need clean underwear when we get there. And then all of a sudden you started charging. And then Southwest came out and said, first bank flies free. I don't even know if that's a thing anymore. Anyway, I'm super upset about hearing this because I know next is going to be Delta and all the other ones. So if they start charging you for your carry on, that goes in the overhead bin. You heard it here first. So that's going to piss me off. Anthony. Sam. Do either of you know who Hassan Piker is? That name ring a bell? Your homework for today? [00:29:45] Speaker B: Yeah. He works with Bill Oberlin. [00:29:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:29:48] Speaker B: And Danny Zuko. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Okay. I'm pretty sure you're right. So your homework today? A couple weeks ago, I brought up. Do you know who else is today after the show, if you remember, I want you to look up Hassan Piker. Oh, my gosh. That story is growing legs. And this guy, this guy's scary as all get out. He was born. Born. Anthony, I think he's younger than you. Let me see what year this guy was born. I don't know. There's so many things that are so scary to me right now. He was born. Born to be alive. He's 35. He was born July 25, 1991. Anthony, this is the future you and Sam are going to deal with. So make sure you're familiar. Why don't we do this? Man, I have so much. The Scottsdale mayor. The mayor of Scottsdale who didn't open her door when she was served process papers. And she, she. She had a $334 speeding ticket. And they tried to serve her. Like the third time they tried to serve her. They want her throwing it out. So if one of us gets the speeding ticket, can we do that? So if you're listening, Mayor Lisa Borowski, I've got this from Channel 12 News, AZ Central. I made sure it's not, you know, fake news. [00:30:52] Speaker B: I can give her that traffic school that I went to. And then they take your first ticket off. [00:30:57] Speaker A: Nice. Well, you don't have to because apparently if you're a Scottsdale mayor. They're going to dismiss your ticket. Okay, we only have 24 minutes left. I got to start jamming here. Let's do this. Let's get to a couple of quick articles and then I want to talk about some finances. I guess Anthony has something he wants to talk about too, but let's put that dead last. So here's one and some of this. I just we got to bring this up because I don't think you're finding this elsewhere and you'd have to do a lot of research to find all of the things we bring up every week and cram them into one hour. United Wholesale Mortgage plunges 35% after suspending dividend and raising capital this is from CNBC on the 6th of August. I forgot to say, by the way, today as we record is the 13th, that's lucky of August 2026. So today's Thursday the 13th. I'm only going to read one or two lines of this, but it is important because this is a large lender. Shares in UWM holdings, parent of United wholesale mortgage, plunged 35% on Thursday after the biggest U.S. mortgage lender suspended its dividend and raised fresh capital. UWM announced a $2.05 billion equity investment from Oaktree Capital. We've talked about them a few months ago. Capital Management and S FS Group Capital llc, a newly formed investment vehicle owned by the family of CEO Matt Ishbia. The family is also the majority owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns. Pontiac, Michigan based UWM also said it suspended its quarterly dividend to preserve capital. So if you're a stockholder and you don't have a mortgage that's tied to them that you're going to get your dividends yanked. But if you have a mortgage tied them, let's see how it plays out. There's a bigger picture on, on hand here though. We, we only talk about private credit once in a while, but they just talked about oak tree. So it's all tied together and none of it's going the right way. UWM shares have now collapsed about 83% from their 52 week high in September of 2025. Moving on. [00:33:11] Speaker B: But if you bottom at the bottom, they're up 30% in five days. [00:33:16] Speaker A: That's fantastic. So you need to be a day trader and you need to get lucky and find all these things in advance. You know, I mean unless you, you watch oil prices, all you have to do is as soon as there's a tweet saying, you know, the straits open, you'll make a hundred million dollars and then the next day hunker down because the straits closed and then you lose it. Bombshell leak I want to read this just because, you know, we don't do enough end of the world stuff. Palm Shell leak claims America is preparing for nuclear war with Russia and China. This is from the End time headlines on the 5th of August that was also Anthony's birthday. According to a report from Express.co.uk the United States is developing a new nuclear weapons strategy designed to prepare for a potential conflict with Russia or China. The plans, overseen by the Defense Department policy chief Eldridge Colby, mark a significant shift from long standing guidelines and place greater emphasis on the possible use of shorter range tactical nuclear weapons in a regional war. Five people familiar with the discussions told NBC News that the strategy aims to update the nuclear response options to presented to the US President during a crisis. Colby is expected to visit the US Strategic Command in Nebraska on Wednesday, the command responsible for the nation's nuclear forces, including land based missiles, strategic bombers and submarines, where he is likely to discuss the emerging approach privately. That's good. Privately is good. The revised strategy seeks to stop a conventional conflict from escalating into a full nuclear exchange. How you stop a nuclear Armageddon with nukes. What the. I don't know. [00:35:08] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:35:09] Speaker A: The need to know. Maybe. Maybe if you guys do keep this under wraps and keep it quiet, that'd be good. Like the fact that on July 8, I believe it was Kevin and I. Kevin, our favorite Kevin. So Kevin and I discussed the need to know basis last week. I'm sorry, Tuesday, because why do we know that our president Donald J. Trump was moved from Air Force One to another plane because there was a terrorist threat from Iran in Turkey during the NATO summit to blow up his plane, by the way, they snuck him out the back door, put him into a food truck and the food truck to another plane, but they left the staff on the plane. So if you thought the plane was going to be bombed out of the sky, is there any reason you saved the commander in chief but you left all the minions to die. Just thinking if I was one of your press secretaries or oh, she's leaving by the way. How sad. If I was one of your press pool on that plane, I'd be like, really? So save your own. You know what cya, but let me die. Let's see here. Anthropic is reportedly destroying millions of rare books to train AI. I gotta do this quickly I gotta watch time. According to a report from Yahoo Finance, AI company Anthropic has drawn intense scrutiny for allegedly purchasing and destroying millions of physical books as part of an effort to train its large language models, a practice now fueling a wave of mysterious bulk orders among booksellers worldwide. Court documents unsealed in a lawsuit against the company revealed an internal initiative known as Project Panama, described in planning materials as an effort to destructively scan all books in the world. The project involved acquiring vast quantities of of print volumes, slicing off their spines with industrial equipment, scanning the pages at high speed and discarding the remains. Holy crap. We're going to burn books now. Anthropic favored physical books because they offered carefully written prose free of the low quality Internet speak that saturates online content. The revelation sparked fierce criticism. Some have compared the practice to the burning of the Library of Alexandria or they book Bonfires of Fahrenheit 451. A Dutch bookseller labeled it as a kind of barbarism. An editorial in Scotland's Herald warned the irreversible loss. Once a final non digitized copy of a book is shredded, it's gone forever. And the version that is digitized by Google becomes at the mercy of AI interpretation rather than straight accurate representation of the work. Dealers specializing in rare and out of print works describe orders arriving with little pattern beyond the presence of ISBN, raising alarms that remaining physical copies of scarce texts may be vanishing into the training pipelines of AI systems. And this Fahrenheit. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Copies of the pages first and then scan the copies. [00:38:17] Speaker A: That's what Elon Musk wanted these people to do. He wanted them to preserve the books by the scanning but not ripping the spines out. So Elon Musk is trying to stop this. Apparently other people are not. But Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell's 1984. You're not seeing it. The direction we're going to. I mean, I'm sorry, I want flock cameras to help solve crimes. I also don't want the direction I think we're going. So we're on a balancing act there. I'm not going to dig into this one. I'll save it for next week. This was Lake Mead. Nation's largest reservoir. Reaches lowest water level on record. So it's got some statistics and numbers, but it's not for today. Very last article. I'm trying to be aware of time. Very last article. This one is very important. So I'm going to have to read this one. This is from the end time headlines on the 5th of August also Anthony's birthday. Florida Steakhouse offers nude dining experience. So this is important. I wanted to save this article for last. A Hollywood Florida steakhouse has launched a clothing optional fine dining experience that promises elegance without the usual wardrobe requirements. According to a report from Outkick published on Fox News, Class Soiree Steakhouse now hosts nude dining events on the first Monday of every month, marketing the nights as a classy alternative free of any inappropriate behavior. That's a shame. Owner and chef Murad Ali developed a concept to draw fresh customers to his establishment on the first Monday of August. The restaurant anticipated roughly 20 guests for the inaugural evening of the month. Tickets are priced at 250 for men and 150 for women and 300 for couples. That's sexist and wrong. Ali stressed the professional standards maintained throughout the evening. I'm the chef and owner. My crew, we are all professionals, he said, describing the gatherings as a five star experience defined by class and elegance. Sorry to hear that, Ali. A nude hostess helps establish the atmosphere from the moment the guests arrive. Tasha Hart explained her role. Once you walk to the door, I'll most likely be nude, no clothes on, so when you come in you feel more comfortable. The restaurant has made clear the events remain strictly about dining. Organizers emphasize there is no allowance for touchy feely stuff with any other activities expected to taste take place elsewhere. Sorry to hear that. City officials have confirmed the legality of the arrangement. Joanne Hussey, a spokesperson for the city of Hollywood, stated, yes, it's legal. It's legal because the staff members working are clothed. Sorry to hear that. Well, the hostess isn't apparently. Apparently Tasha's be j. She'll be jaybirding it so. And I only bring up the story because I give you all this end of the world stuff. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. There is positive news in this country. We just have to make this go national. Hollywood, Florida. Good on you. New dining? Hell yes. I'll be in there going, yeah, it's cold in here, but I'm just excited for this. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Never been to a strip club buffet. It's been around for a long time. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Strip club buffet? How do you know about this? Anthony. Anthony. Never married, no kids. Anthony, you know what? I think these, if this starts to be a trend, put flock cameras in there. Now I'm interested. So Anthony, why don't you open up one in Phoenix maybe not Sun City. Do it in Phoenix. Glendale, not Sun City. So I don't know, I'm just Kind of excited. You know what? I do. I do have to tell you one more thing. And then we have to jump into Anthony's question and then. And then financial stuff. So I got a. We've got a longtime listener named Leon Anthony. You know who that is? Leon sent me something. I'm just going to read the highlights of it. Leon sends me about every two weeks. I get something from Leon. So thank you so much for sending stuff. A new national. Pardon me. A new national initiative has launched to encourage Muslim Americans to vote ahead of the November 3rd midterm elections. Well, okay, that's. That's okay. The Council on American Islamic Relations, the old C Air, the largest Muslim civil rights and Afghan agency organization in the US Launched Muslims Vote, a nonpartisan civic engagement campaign to equip American Muslims with the tools and resources to vote. Muslims in America already have the power to shape elections, especially in key swing states. But millions more eligible Muslim voters must register, show up, and make their voices count. Care argues when we show up, our voices are heard, our votes matter, and our communities help build a more just future. I only bring this up because Leon. Leon sees it. Leon is not stuck in normalcy bias like Anthony. I think the wave of the future is the dsa. I think the wave of the future is CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood. I think you better know who Hasan Piker is. I think that when the pendulum swings like it did from Obama over to. To Trump and then from Trump to. To Biden back to Trump, I think the next swing is going to be life changing. So, Anthony, Sam, I just want to make sure you're aware of this stuff because it's important. I'm going to stop looking at my notes. Anthony, you had a question to do. Want to tell me still or did you forget it in all my raving and ranting? [00:44:00] Speaker B: Well, no, it wasn't that big deal. You said that you wanted to talk about finances. I was curious if anybody reached out about last week's show because I thought it was boring. I talked to our longtime friend and client Barney, and he said he enjoyed it. He said. And he said he enjoyed that. So I was just curious because that's not that what I was expecting, but [00:44:21] Speaker A: I didn't even know that Barney listened to the show. I did. I had my usual text thread with Kevin and it. A lot of it was on like, you know, I said I was gonna talk about finance last week and then the first half of the show was nothing on finances. So he was like, get to it already. But then he Seemed pleased with the second half. So, I mean, I don't. We want to do whatever people want on the show. We're never going to make it. Yeah, we do. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Oh, you want to be a show by committee or you want to just do what you want to do? [00:44:49] Speaker A: I'm not a dictator. I'm not a king. I mean, George, are you listening to what he's saying right now? All I'm saying, we've been on for four and a half years. Our show is on current events and how they're likely to affect your future, your finances, your kids, your grandkids. I love that. I don't think that the other shows are worth much. If you want boring financial talk, come in and sit with Anthony. If you want to know that your world's changing around you and you better make sure you protect and grow your assets. You better make sure you do whatever's best for your personal situation. One person, one couple, one family at a time. Make sure that you're awake. Make sure that your life isn't just revolving around no Netflix and Doritos. And we can help, but in the office, we do financial advising. On the radio, we rant, rave. So, no, you're right, I don't want to hear. But we did get more feedback on Water and on the End of the World than we did on the financial part. So I'll take it in consideration. A couple things about finances. Anthony, you've worked with me for over eight years right now, which I know has been the best eight plus years of your life. I understand that. And can you imagine? It's like Anthony, if he never made a dime in this job, the pleasure indicator would be so high. So I worked with my dad. You know what? Let me, let me. This is financial because I'm talking about my dad. My dad went pre Christian. He was that. My dad passed away in 2013. I kind of wish you came in before 2018 so you could have worked with him because he was like everybody's grandfather. He, you know, gray hair, built in credibility. You know, I mean, and I don't mean to slam him like this, but he was a natural born salesperson. You know, what are some of the. You could sell ice to an Eskimo. You could sell poop to a cow. He was that kind of guy. So he was good at the sales. He was good at explaining things in general concepts like, I'm in the middle of you and him. I used to have to research all the fund managers. You know, we did securities mostly with mutual funds. I used to be the one that. That looked at the PE ratios on things, so. But I've never been as good as you. I never back tested people's funds to me back to 2000 like you've done in 2008. But my father was funny. And it was, it was kind of refreshing that we weren't the stuffy blue shirt, you know, blue suit, white shirt, red tie, highly polished shoes. We weren't that office. We never have been. And some of the stories that I was thinking about recently with him. One was his password. My father was horrible. You think I'm bad, Anthony? My father was horrible at the thought of having a password for anything. So one day I took care of all his passport. I had a little notebook, cheat sheet. And I made his password A S, W, I, P, E. So his password was. I won't say it. You can read it. And he. Over my shoulder one day, he saw it. I mean, he never cared about the passwords. So I'm the only one that saw it. But one day he saw it and he was like, what is that? Why is that my password? I said, what? It's a suipe. I said, a suipe. It's like a term the kids are using now. And he was like, oh, okay, aasuipe. What's his password? And there were others, but they were more crude and vulgar. So I won't get into that. Yeah. So it was funny when caller ID was a big thing, when we were early in our practice and caller ID was huge, it would show up. The name of our office is still, but it was Rochford and Associates llc. Well, caller ID only had so many characters, so it condensed it to Rochford and Ass. And one day my father's over my desk and he sees the caller ID from the office manager back to where I was, and it comes up Rochford and ass. And he looked at it and he looked at me and started to laugh. And I said, guess which one you are. Sorry. Memories of my dad. One, one thing serious about time with my father in the late 90s, early 2000, I was concerned that our job was going to be taken away because of the Internet. And he had to calm me down and say that the reason I'll always have a job is, is because the Internet gives information, we give advice. Those are two starkly different things. And he said they were always going to need your advice. People do more harm than good if they have too much information and not enough advice. I am thinking the same thing again with AI I'M thinking we're not going to have a job in five years because of AI. And then I have to slow myself down and think, you know what, maybe we will because we still can offer advice, not just information, a little bit of, little bit of financial stuff. I said I would give annuities one on one. I want to just give you a broad view. I get so tired of hearing how annuities are bad, but I only hear that from people that don't sell or offer annuities. But I'm so tired of hearing that. Because you know what, things can be good or bad depending on how they're used. Kind of like flock cameras. The two general forms of annuity are variable and fixed. We have not sold, in our practice, we, we have not sold variable annuities in about 20 years. Now we don't agree with them, the cost, the fees, the way they're difficult to understand. So we don't represent those. So we knock that out to begin with. Pardon me again, I have a scratchy throat today. So on the fixed side we can do like an alternative to CDs. There's something called a myga. It's a multi year guaranteed annuity. But, but unlike your bank that has 1.43% coverage on your annuity, these insurance companies to operate must keep 100% in reserves on your money. So we can show you how to do a CD ladder using fixed annuities. So the MYGA is important. We can show you Anthony's passion, which is a income annuity. If you run out of money in your stock portfolio, your bitcoin crypto wallet, you know, whatever you have, you run out of money, you're out of money. Then you have to rely on Social Security, you have to have alternate plans with insurance companies. It's the only product I'm aware of that can offer you lifetime annuity. [00:50:57] Speaker B: Lifetime ran one for a client in his late 40s with a, a guaranteed rollup rate of 10%. Right now that goes for, it looks like 20 years. [00:51:09] Speaker A: Well, and let's say the client does this and he gets to be 86 from 4:40 and his money intersects to a zero and he runs out of money. But instead of dying at 86, he lives to 106. He keeps getting that monthly money. Tell me another product can do that. So you know what the people that slam annuities, I love to debate you. I didn't care if you're Ken Fisher. Come on, Ken. I mean, we also understand you were a big holder in insurance companies. Even though you hate annuities. So I'm tired of it. You know what the right thing to do is on your finances? Let's find out what's appropriate for you. Maybe moderation and diversification. Maybe it's right for you to have cryptocurrencies or gold and silver stocks and bonds, fixed annuities, whatever. Maybe it's a combination of all the above. We'll figure that out with you. So yeah, we actually like annuities as long as they're done appropriately. One more there's called a fixed index annuity, which can give you greater returns than, you know, say just a fixed annuity, but it takes the downside risk away. So the potential growth is there without the risk. We love to explain those to people as part of their laddering strategy, their portfolio. One last thing, because it was asked last week of me, how do we get paid? Let's say we do a CD alternative for you. Let's say we do a one year or five year, whatever, just you got some money parked there and you want a better interest rate, it's guaranteed. The company pays us to find you. Yes. We get paid. Yes. If you're doing stocks and bonds with somebody, if you're doing mutual funds, if you're doing ETFs, if you're doing annuities, whatever it is, we all have to make money. We have gas, food, mortgages, all that. So the company pays us to find you. So we, we need, if you sit down with us, we're going to clarify some things about annuities for you because it is important, especially after a 17 year run up in the market and there's some potential pitfalls. So I'm going to make a note to myself next week I'm going to hit at least something up each week coming up here. I'm going to, I'm going to hit up asset based long term care next week, going to hit up how to leverage your money to two times its value or three times its value. So I do want to go financial. It's just hard for me because I have so much more that I'm passionate about to get to on this. One hour a week, Sam, please get a six hours a week of a show. Sam's like, I do that 5 of that. [00:53:20] Speaker B: Talking about how he's going to say something, say anything. You'd make an excellent politician. Sam, we only have a minute left. Read us out. You got that text. Since you didn't bring us our intro, you can read us out. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Heavy sigh. Sam's like I want to help this I was wondering what you sent me. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Now we're just going to find out. Sam can't read. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Oh boy. Send pictures. Well, that's it for today's show. If you like what you heard, have questions about any of the topics today, or if you want to sit down with Junior and Anthony to review your personal financial situation, you can reach them at team another money show.com find them on the web anothermoney show.com no minimums, no cost for appointments, Nothing to lose by getting a second opinion on your financial situation. We'll see you again next Saturday at noon and 5am right here on 9 60. The the patriot that was beautiful. Sam's got a radio voice unlike your childlike voice and I thank you so much for being with us. We'll see you next week. Thanks for listening to another Money Show. You deserve to work with a private wealth management firm that will strategically work to protect your hard earned assets. 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