He knows politics, and he knows that this is bad politics, especially if gas prices go up and stay up.

But Trump really doesn't care about Newt Gingrich.

He doesn't care about the Republican Party.

I know they're all concerned because they know one day Trump will be gone.

And they'll all be left with the wreckage, especially politically.

The Republican Party may never recover.

But just like on everything else, Trump doesn't give a shit.

Welcome. Welcome to Independent Americans.

Welcome to episode 462.

Man, we're at 462 already.

I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Wednesday, March 11th. Happy hump day.

And maybe we're going to have to start calling it wartime Wednesday, probably every Wednesday until further notice.

But I'm coming to you from New York City, USA, where the weather is still warm and sunny. It's shocking. It hit 80 degrees yesterday here in New York.

The earliest in the year it has ever hit 80 degrees, which was nice, but not normal and a bit

alarming. But it's an alarming time. And I'm going to help you weave through the alarms and the sirens happening across our world.

And today's artists, I give you an artist every day for the new folks, is Jesse Wells.

Yes, Jesse Wells.

If you don't know, he's had four albums out this year.

He was nominated for four Grammys.

You might have seen him recently on the Colbert Report. I actually told Stephen he should check him out. I'm probably one of a couple folks that did. But Jesse Wells is a sensation. He is brilliant. And he may have been my artist of the day before, but he just keeps bringing it. And his song, Join Ice, I think, should be Song of the year. But he's added again, because he releases

songs like daily, and they're all amazing. Another one today, follow him on Instagram, where you'll

get new songs almost daily. And he has a song today that's just called song, where he has a line,

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