Hi there. It's Wednesday, May 12th, and I'm very happy that you are here today. Thanks so much for listening to the show, especially if you listen to it daily and enjoy the headlines and clips. I'm going to put out a survey to see what people like, see if I might make some changes with the format. A few of you have made some suggestions, and I really appreciate it. Stand up with pete at gmail.com. Look for that survey very soon. Do you listen to the news? Do you listen to the interviews? What kinds of interviews do you like the most? Would you like me to do something different with the show? Any of it, any ideas, all of it. I welcome it in all of the ways. How do we build the community, the hangouts, and more. All right. Well, today I've got Andrew Spar joining me. He is a good friend of mine. He's the president of the biggest teachers union in Florida, Florida Education Association, one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever met, been around.

I'm very proud to call him a friend.

We had a great conversation, and if you want to jump to it, it begins at 27 minutes.

But first, I've got your headlines and the clip show.

Let's get started with reporting from the New York Times and other places, but I read it from the New York Times, where they say U.S. inflation is jumped as the Iran war drives up energy costs daily life in America,

getting more expensive, according to the latest inflation report from the Labor Department.

Consumer prices rose 3.8% last month from a year earlier, their fastest rate in nearly three years.

Outpaced in U.S. wage growth. Productivity is rising at a brisk pace,

but the share of national income that goes to workers has sunk to its lowest point on record.

The price increases were driven largely by energy costs, which have shot up sharply since the U.S.

went to war with Iran. Airline fares are also up significantly, and the price of tomatoes even surged nearly 40% over the last year because of bad weather, high tariffs, and climbing transportation costs, which is why I'm going to grow as many tomatoes as I can this year. I've decided that's one of the things I think I'm going to want to do, and I'm going to can some tomatoes. At least I'm going to try. I've always tried to grown tomatoes. some years I've done better than others. But this year, to save money and maybe save some for the winter,

maybe some sauce, huh? Well, the commander and thief said today that he doesn't worry about the

economic hardship. Americans feel as a result of war and did not factor even a little bit into

his negotiations with Iran.

I don't think about Americans financial situation, Trump said. I think about one thing,

we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. So that is the inflation report and the reason

overwhelmingly is this war of choice stepping on our own dicks because Donald Trump and his friends

and his supporters do not care about America or they don't realize that he is selling it all as

fast as he can. I mean, he literally said, I don't care about Americans' financial situation.

Are they going to put that?

Shouldn't everybody here and see him say that?

What a dumb, dumb shit.

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