Bye

Later this hour we're going to talk to Neil Irwin of the New York Times.

He's got this article, Recession Isn't Inavitable, the case for economic optimism.

And Sean Super into investing and you spend a lot of time reading on this and you told

me, uh, yeah, the small handful of people that they they are talking similarly where the

retail numbers are good.

There's a lot of indicators that go against the the one indicator of a recession, which

is that inverted yield curve.

So the people that are really into talking about finances really living at every single day,

they're not talking recession.

The kind of general media that barely knows what it's talking about is talking about recession,

which is really not that surprising.

Uh, I've got somebody backing me up on the fact that I always ordered the same thing when

I go to a Chinese restaurant, but we'll get to that in a little bit.

First, we've not addressed sharpie gate yet.

And this story has been around for several days.

It's the sort of thing that has happened since the beginning of the Trump administration.

These things usually have like a one day lifespan.

This one because he continued to engage had like a three day lifespan, but Howard Kurtz,

who I knew forever with the Washington Post as a media critic now works for Fox.

And he took on the story and explains it vastly.

The question, how did a black squiggle on a map become a category five controversy for

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