I think we've dropped bombs on seven different countries at this point.

That's not no more foreign wars.

Not only that, we've started alienating our partners, long-term partners that want to work with us.

That doesn't make us safer.

In terms of economics, I think there's a place for tariffs, absolutely, for national security,

making sure that we're exporting workers' rights,

environmental rights, and holding companies accountable. Let's do it. Doing it on a whim with no

rhyme or reason isn't helping any farmer in the 6th District. Like, it actually seems

specially designed to hurt farmers in my area.

Thank you. in my area.

Welcome to Independent Americans.

Welcome to episode 446. I am your host, Paul Reikoff, and I am coming to you again

from beautiful Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, where the weather is still great. 82, a bit cloudy,

but again, hooray, it's better than the 41 degrees and rainy back home as I continue to power

through winter break with my wife and kids.

It is Friday, February 20th.

And since football season is over, there's no more football Friday on this show.

So at least for today, we're going to be replacing it with Firefighter Friday.

More on that in a second.

As I told you, I will pick a different artist every day to introduce my boys to.

Today's artist is the great country legend George Strait because he's got two songs that are sort of related to our guests coming up.

Number one is the fireman from 1984. It's one of his most famous hits. It's kind of a playful metaphor rather than an actual tribute to firefighting because he wants to cool down women who've been in fights with their partners who are smoldering hot after a breakup. But our guest is going to try to do that to Congress. And of course, we've got the weight of the badge. Another tribute to first responders from the great George Strait. If you don't know, he was in the U.S. Army from 71 to 74 as a corporal in the 25th ID. He's one of the highest selling recording artists of all time, over 70 million records, and did a lot of work for veterans and troops especially. We're going to need someone who brings it like that. And I'm going to bring you the five eyes to end this interesting week in February, independence, integrity, information,

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