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US economy beats expectations: April jobs report shows surprising strength · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host Jimmy Hinton.
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  Well, a new jobs report came out.
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  And it's surprised people.
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  Surprise, surprise.
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  Shouldn't be surprising to us, but it is good news.
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  The private sector added 109,000 new jobs in April, which was above expectations, according to the ADP.
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  The ADP releases their 20, 26 April private sector jobs data.
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  And this is really good news.
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  And I've been saying this for a very long time that our economy is very resilient.
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  And I know that uh President Trump rightly has gotten a lot of criticism because of the war and what it has done to gas prices.
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  Uh it's it's putting a lot of pain on a lot of people.
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  There's no question about that.
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  Uh it has really hurt the transportation industry.
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  No question about that.
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  And uh it's it's just tough.
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  But a lot of people translate that to everyday jobs, and they're like, well, because we're feeling we're feeling uh this squeeze, we're feeling the squeeze at the pump, we're feeling uh our our our pocketbooks are being emptied because at the gas pump we're spending a hundred plus dollars to fill up our tank of gas every week, and it is it's it's a lot of money, and uh especially for big trucks and big commercial vehicles and airplanes and all of that stuff.
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  It's incredibly expensive, but when we look at the jobs numbers, they're actually doing really good.
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  It's it is a really resilient economy, and a lot of people were predicting that the stock market was going to crash, they're still saying it.
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  Stock market's gonna crash, it's it's it's in free fall, and yet we keep hitting higher highs and higher lows.
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  It just keeps going up and up and up.
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  I've been staying this for months.
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  You can go back and listen to it.
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  I said with the war has always come, even during uh a US-led war or a US involved war, even during that war, the stock market, it takes an initial little bit of a dive, and then it begins to climb.
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  And history repeats itself over and over again, and what happens is the market responds to the end of the war, and then it just takes off like crazy.
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  And I think we've not even seen the beginning of how the market is going to take off.
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  Now, that doesn't mean that we're not going to see a correction.
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  I think that we are very long overdue for a correction, or at least another correction.
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  We had one that the market dropped about what, 20%.
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  It reacted to President Trump becoming the president, and then it just took off and it's never looked back.
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  So we are probably due for another kind of a correction, but overall, the market keeps climbing and climbing.
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  And I said during the war, when the war first first started, I said, I wish I had a mountain of money to just buy a whole bunch of stocks and ETFs, because I'd be doing it right now.
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  And lo and behold, uh the retirement accounts are looking pretty good.
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  And uh I think they're gonna continue to boom.
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  I'm actually looking right now, the Dow Jones up, Nasdaq up, SP 500 futures up.
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  Uh it just keeps climbing, keeps climbing and climbing.
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  Well, why is that?
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  Why does the stock market do well?
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  Why are people investing?
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  Are they gambling?
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  Or do people believe in the American businesses?
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  And I happen to believe that people believe in the American businesses, and there's just a lot of opportunity.
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  We keep seeing this over and over again.
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  Uh there's an article here, Fox Business uh article, private sector added 109,000 jobs in April, above expectations, and there's an interview with the I forget what she is with uh with Indeed.
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  She's uh maybe the CEO or whatever of Indeed, and she's like, we just keep seeing tons and tons and tons of people uh getting hired at jobs all over the place in the private sector.
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  She's like, it hasn't slowed down.
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  Hiring hasn't slowed down one bit.
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  It's doing quite well.
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  People are getting jobs, and it's not being reported that way.
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  And it's really unfortunate.
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  It's unfortunate because people keep that narrative up that oh, Trump is wrecking the economy.
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  Uh the economy's doing really bad.
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  We're we're in a big slump.
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  We're we're in the the great recession.
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  And yet the economy keeps booming.
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  People keep getting hired.
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  In fact, in the uh the the um trying to think in the name of the field, uh, I don't know what it's what the field's called.
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  The word is slipping my mind right now, but uh in the next two years, we would need, and I uh this isn't suggested, we would need desperately need 500,000 new electricians.
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  I mean, really, we need we need them right now, but the estimates are within the next two years, we're absolutely at a crossroads.
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  We need 500,000 new electricians added to what we already have, and that's just in one field.
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  And those are high-paying jobs, those are very good jobs.
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  Now, the question is not um whether those jobs are gonna go away, they're not.
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  The question is, are we actually gonna be able to find enough people to fill those positions?
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  That's the question.
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  And that's really a good problem to have.
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  I mean, isn't that better than people standing in the bread lines?
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  Like you, you know, you you compare this to New York City.
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  We we have what's going on in New York City.
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  And LA, it's another example.
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  But you have people in line for blocks and blocks and blocks to get their free food.
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  Ma'am Domini opened up these, like he's bragging about them, these uh free grocery stores.
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  Like he's bragging about them, these uh free grocery stores.
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  Well, that was a complete failure.
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  Well, that was a complete failure.
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  I mean, at least from what I can tell, it flopped.
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  I mean, at least from what I can tell, it flopped.
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  Because people are waiting in line.
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  Because people are waiting in line.
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  They were promised that they were gonna get free food, and then come to find out uh the the the first in the first hour, the store gets completely wiped clean.
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  They were promised that they were gonna get free food, and then come to find out uh the the the first in the first hour, the store gets completely wiped clean.
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  And what do you?
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  And what do you think is gonna happen?
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  When you when you give people free food, and you don't put limits on that, and you say, well, you can get as much food as you want, you can fill as many grocery carts as you want, and we're gonna do a lottery ticket system where whoever gets the right number, those are the people who are gonna get to get the free groceries.
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  Well, that creates chaos, animosity, uh insanity.
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  It's it's not a good system.
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  And so people focus on that, and they're like, see, we're we have all these people who are struggling to get food.
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  And yeah, that's true.
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  But at the same time, look at what the economy's doing.
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  Look at the bigger picture, look at the stock market.
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  Look at look at how the companies are growing.
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  So the economist estimates were that we were gonna have a gain of 99,000 jobs.
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  Well, we actually added 109,000.
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  The month's prior payrolls number was revised lower to a gain of 61,000 from an initially reported gain of 62,000.
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  So not a big deal.
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  It's a thousand, a thousand off.
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  They just revised it a little bit lower for whatever reason.
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  The numbers were not entirely accurate, but they revised the numbers, and we have almost doubled that.
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  Uh we've almost doubled from March to April.
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  I think that's pretty incredible.
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  It just shows that people are being hired.
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  People are are getting jobs, they're getting employed.
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  Companies are growing.
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  Education and health services added 61,000 positions in April.
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  That led the job creation in the month of April.
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  Uh, trade transportation and utilities added 25,000.
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  Construction gained 10,000, and financial activities added 9,000.
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  So again, I've been saying this for a very long time.
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  Education and health services, right now, that field is wide open.
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  But the both of those fields, wide open.
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  They're desperate for people to enter into those fields.
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  Healthcare, especially, you look at health services, and part of that is that we have an aging population in this nation.
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  And I was looking here in Pennsylvania.
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  Uh, I do searches every now and then because I I think about my kids.
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  I'm like, if my kids wanted to start their own business, what field would be a field where it's just the door is wide open.
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  And the number one thing that keeps coming up is anything that has to do with health services or uh just helping elderly people in general, because we have an aging population in my county.
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  Now, this is nationwide, but in my county especially, we have an aging population, and so it's things like taking people's trash out, taking their trash to the curb.
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  You you can create a business and you can charge money for that.
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  Uh fixing people's driveways.
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  I just got a call yesterday.
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  I kid you not, I got a call yesterday asking if I would volunteer and fix somebody's gravel driveway who they're um they are disabled, so they can't get out there and do it themselves.
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  And I got a phone call.
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  Would you and your sons like to go over and pick up sticks and fix up this gravel driveway that's that's kind of still a wreck from winter time?
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  I'm telling you that need is huge.
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  There are job opportunities available.
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  Now, if I wanted to start a business, I could literally do it yesterday.
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  And it's not me.
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  This is not not about me being able to create a business.
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  It's just that the opportunity is there.
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  Anybody could do it.
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  Literally anybody could do it.
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  Anyone could go out and buy a rake, one of those metal rakes, buy a shovel.
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  And if you don't have a pickup truck, you can buy for cheap, you can buy small bags of gravel.
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  And you can go around and make a business fixing people's driveways.
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  And that's anywhere in the United States.
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  That's literally anywhere.
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  People will pay money to patch potholes and to fix their driveways.
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  We just fixed ours.
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  It was a big issue.
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  Our driveway has taken a beating in the last few years, and we just neglected it.
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  And I got a load of gravel delivered, and my wife and I fixed a driveway.
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  And it's beautiful now.
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  And it costs a couple hundred dollars.
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  But people will pay.
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  That was just for the gravel.
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  Uh, and we use the gravel for something else.
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  If I actually only got gravel for the driveway, I'd be looking at around a hundred dollars.
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  Well, people would pay money for that.
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  They would pay money to have somebody fix their driveway.
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  But you look at the construction jobs, you look at the education, the health services field.
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  These jobs are wide open.
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  These fields are absolutely wide open.
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  And nobody's talking about this.
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  Instead, it's it's oh, that's Trump, his administration, they're wrecking the economy, they're ruining the economy.
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  You know, we have an estimated, I think it's something like 10 trillion dollars that's estimated to come into, I believe it's just the energy field in the next 10 years.
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  There's just so much money to be made and uh for jobs to be created, it's here.
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  Artificial intelligence, a lot of people resist it, and they're like, oh, it's it's gonna ruin, it's gonna ruin our nation, it's gonna ruin everything about us.
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  Our nation, it's gonna ruin everything about us.
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  But if you actually look for opportunity, it's there.
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  But if you actually look for opportunity, it's there.
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  It's knocking on the door.
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  It's knocking on the door.
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  Construction.
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  Construction, you're gonna see a huge surge in the need for construction workers.
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  You're gonna see a huge surge in the need for construction workers.
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  It's alright here.
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  It's alright here.
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  And this is another issue.
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  And this is another issue.
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  I just had one of our church members tell me just on on Sunday.
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  I just had one of our church members tell me just on Sunday, I kid you not.
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  I kid you not.
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  He's been trying for months to get a plumber.
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  He's been trying for months to get a plumber.
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  To get a local plumber just to put a valve on.
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  He bought a valve for over at the church building.
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  He bought a valve.
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  It's like a main water cutoff.
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  Because we we have a holding tank instead of a septic tank.
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  And there's a there's a risk of that if water gets left on, which may or may not have happened recently.
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  Um but if that water gets left on, somebody forgets to turn a sink off or a toilet sticks or whatever, and the water continues to run, it fills up that holding tank, and then it backs up into the building.
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  So he wants this valve that he already bought.
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  He bought the valve a couple months ago.
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  He's been trying to get a plumber to put this valve on.
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  He can't get any plumber.
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  He only got one to return a phone call.
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  Only one out of a whole bunch of plumbers that he called.
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  He got one call back.
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  This plumber showed up, said, Oh yeah, that's a super easy job.
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  I can do that.
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  That's it's take me an hour to do.
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  That's literally an hour job.
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  That was weeks ago.
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  He cannot get in touch with that plumber again.
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  He's called, he's called, he's left messages.
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  And finally he said, I'm I'm just gonna have to learn how to do it myself.
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  I mean, this is this is what's happening all across America.
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  This can be replicated all over, and you guys know what I'm talking about.
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  When it comes to electricians, when it comes to plumbers, uh appliance repairmen, you can't find anybody.
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  Nobody's available.
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  Well, there's a very important reason for that.
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  That reason is we have not enough people working in those fields.
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  The demand is through the roof, and that's why they're able to charge top dollar.
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  My wife, her place of employment, she's the one in charge of calling the uh the HVAC servicemen.
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  And they charge $350 every single time, literally just to show up.
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  $350, that's before they even do anything, before they diagnose anything.
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  $350 just to show up.
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  These jobs are wide open.
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  Wide open.
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  The United States, the private sector, added more jobs than what was expected in April.
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  109,000 to be exact, which was well above expectations, according to the ADP.
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  Now, this is really good for us.
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  This is really important for us because a lot of people are just giving up because they accept a narrative, a narrative that everything's fallen apart, that the economy's crap, that there are no jobs out there.
• 19:58
  And what they'll do is they'll put like one or two, one or two resumes out there, you know, to a couple different people.
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  They get rejected for whatever reason, and then they throw their hands up and they're like, see, I tried.
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  I I tried the uh the economy sucks.
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  There are no jobs, no avail, no, no available jobs, and so I'm just gonna have to default on everything.
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  They max out the credit cards and they just give up.
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  I don't think that's the right approach at all.
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  I think that if people open their eyes and you look around, and maybe it's not a job that you expect, maybe it's not a job that you really wanted to do in the first place, but there are jobs out there.
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  It may not be in your field.
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  I was just talking to somebody the other day, and they said, I I went to college for four years, spent all this money, and I have a job that has nothing to do with my degree.
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  And I said, Are you lamenting that?
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  Are you complaining about that?
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  Like, I'm just curious.
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  Like I'm just curious.
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  I'm I'm just like you brought it up.
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  I'm I'm just like you brought it up.
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  I'm just kind of curious about that.
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  I'm just kind of curious about that.
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  And he said, no, not at all.
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  And he said, No, not at all.
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  It's uh I think it's wonderful.
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  That's I think is wonderful.
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  I think it's great that there are jobs out there, that I was able to find a job.
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  I think it's great that there are jobs out there that I was able to find a job, and you know, I went to college thinking that this is what I wanted to do, but ended up going in a totally different direction, and I have zero regrets.
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  And you know, I went to college thinking that this is what I wanted to do, but ended up going in a totally different direction, and I have zero regrets.
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  I was like, you know, it's kind of interesting.
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  This is something that people don't talk about enough that.
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  That it's it's okay to get a job outside of your area of expertise.
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  Or your area of training.
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  It's okay to learn new trades.
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  It's okay to learn new things.
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  There's absolutely nothing in the world wrong with that.
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  And a lot of people, they feel jaded if they go to college and they can't find a job in their particular field with their particular degree.
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  And my my response is so what?
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  Look for opportunity.
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  And that doesn't mean that you can't circle back and use your degree later on.
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  But you don't give up.
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  You don't throw your hands up and talk about how the system is rigged and how there are no jobs out there.
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  You apply that to the entire economy because you can't find jobs in your particular field.
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  Well, everything ebbs and flows.
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  Everything ebbs and flows.
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  And these fields that are booming right now in 10 years, they could they could be retracting.
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  They could be losing momentum.
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  And then another field that is dead right now might be just booming like crazy in 10 years.
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  You just never know.
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  Like it ebbs and flows all the time.
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  So you have to be willing to look at the bigger picture and look for opportunity.
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  And when you do that, you realize, wow, our economy actually, overall, our economy is very resilient.
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  And a lot of people talk about how, well, you know, like these were talking points from the Republicans.
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  Biden ruined the economy.
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  Look how bad the economy was under Biden.
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  Actually, the economy did pretty good.
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  The economy did, like, if you look at the economy under President Biden's term, it did quite well.
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  And that's just a fact.
• 23:32
  And so a lot of people want to attach these emotional pools to certain presidents.
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  Be like, look, Biden wrecked the economy.
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  Look, Trump is wrecking the economy.
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  Look, uh, and you have to separate fact from fiction.
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  Right.
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  We have to separate fact from fiction.
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  And right now, the economy, and things can change.
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  I understand that.
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  I get that.
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  Fully, fully, fully get that.
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  Things can change at the drop of a hat.
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  But right now, the economy is doing quite well.
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  It's very resilient.
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  And the numbers prove it.
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  So we'll look at some of these numbers here.
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  Um, the figure above is above the economist estimates of a gain of 99,000 jobs.
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  The prior month's payrolls number was revised lower to a gain of 61,000 from initially reported gain of 62,000.
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  As I mentioned, education and health services are the number one pick right now.
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  They added 61,000 positions, leading job creation in April.
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  Trade, transportation, and utilities added 25,000.
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  Construction gained 10,000.
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  Financial activities gained 9,000.
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  Leisure and hospitality and information each added 4,000 jobs.
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  While natural resources and mining gained 3,000 jobs.
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  Manufacturing added 2,000 jobs.
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  And then on the negative side, professional and business services lost 8,000 jobs, and other services lost 1,000 positions.
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  Large businesses, those with 500 or more employees gained 42,000 jobs in April.
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  Businesses with 50 to 499 employees gained 2,000 workers.
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  And establishments with fewer than 50 employees gained 65,000 jobs.
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  Now that's that's pretty incredible to me.
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  That the small businesses far outpaced everybody, even though even the large employers.
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  The ones with 500 or more employees, they gained less jobs in April than establishments with fewer than 50 employees.
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  It's those small jobs.
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  And that's why it's really important to support your local businesses.
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  I mean, all of us should be supporting our local businesses.
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  Why?
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  Well, because look how many people they employ.
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  Small jobs, small businesses, they ought to be protected at all costs.
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  And that's why I like when people talk about small businesses and they talk about protecting them.
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  Incentivizing small businesses.
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  That's really, really important.
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  And this is just further proof of that.
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  When we protect small businesses, when we support small businesses, they can employ more people.
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  65,000 jobs, it's the biggest number out of out of any size business.
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  It's the small businesses that are adding the most jobs.
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  And I I happily do so.
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  And that's the thing.
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  And that's the thing.
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  Like, you know, the robots, Amazon, they they have a massive amount of robots.
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  Like, you know, the robots, Amazon, they they have a massive amount of robots.
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  Like they're replacing people left and right.
• 28:06
  Like they're replacing people left and right.
• 28:10
  For example, uh, as of June 2025, now this is a year ago, Amazon deployed more than one million robots across its global operations network.
• 28:10
  For example, as of June 2025, now this is a year ago, Amazon deployed more than one million robots across its global operations network.
• 28:24
  So the robotic workforce uh is is really.
• 28:24
  So the robotic workforce is really starting to outpace human employees for these big huge companies.
• 28:34
  And that's another reason why I'm all for supporting small businesses.
• 28:41
  Because what we see this kind of growth in efficiency.
• 28:49
  Big companies that they they're not obviously not going to hire a million people.
• 28:54
  If they can get robots to do it a lot more efficiently, work round the clock 24-7 and replace humans.
• 29:10
  And uh, so this is really important.
• 29:12
  But this is another thing that's added to the to the AI push.
• 29:16
  Because artificial intelligence is built into these robotics, and that's part of why this industry is taken off like crazy.
• 29:25
  So we really got to be aware of this and realize like there's certain jobs that AI can't replace.
• 29:34
  Uh, tons of jobs that AI can't replace.
• 29:36
  I think there's this big fear that AI is going to take over everybody's jobs and that they're, you know, they're uh they're gonna be out of work because of AI, and so they they they fear something that they don't know, and people give up even trying.
• 29:51
  So say that they lose a job for whatever reason, uh, or their job becomes stagnant, their pay becomes stagnant.
• 30:02
  People fear looking for other jobs, and they remain trapped because they're under the misconception that artificial intelligence is going to take all of our jobs.
• 30:12
  That's simply not true.
• 30:14
  There are many jobs that artificial intelligence will never be able to replace.
• 30:20
  So we have to look at where those jobs are.
• 30:24
  We have to do our homework, we have to do our research.
• 30:27
  And if we're not willing to do that, we can't be surprised whenever we're having a hard time finding jobs.
• 30:35
  So you have to look for opportunity, and also, I mean, if if employers are not out there that that you feel are a good fit, or the hours don't fit, or things just don't, it just doesn't add up, and whatever it is, for whatever reason, these jobs just aren't gonna work.
• 30:55
  Start a business.
• 30:58
  And I know I make that sound really easy.
• 31:01
  It's not as easy as it sounds.
• 31:04
  Believe me.
• 31:06
  Uh my daughter is finding that out.
• 31:08
  Starting a business is not as easy as clicking your heels.
• 31:13
  It's hard work.
• 31:15
  It's really, really hard work.
• 31:18
  However, it can be done.
• 31:20
  And there's ample opportunity for people.
• 31:23
  And that's this is the point that I'm trying to make here.
• 31:26
  There's ample opportunity for people.
• 31:29
  Again, 500,000 new electricians will be needed in the next two years.
• 31:36
  This is right now, they're looking for them.
• 31:40
  500,000 new electricians.
• 31:44
  Uh it makes me want to go out and learn this trade.
• 31:49
  I mean, honestly, it's such a high-paying job, such a good job.
• 31:56
  And it's it's not something that it's beyond reach, and nobody can learn these jobs.
• 32:04
  It's not a job where if you're in your 50s, you're like, well, I just I can't learn a new trade.
• 32:10
  Yes, you can.
• 32:12
  You absolutely can learn a new trade.
• 32:15
  100%.
• 32:18
  And a lot of people just give up.
• 32:20
  And I really don't want Americans to give up.
• 32:25
  When there's this much opportunity looking us right in the literal eye.
• 32:30
  I don't want Americans to give up.
• 32:32
  I don't want them to buy into that narrative that the economy is crashing, that the stock market's crashing, that everything's doomed, that all of our jobs are susceptible to artificial intelligence.
• 32:43
  I don't want us to buy into those lies.
• 32:47
  Now, again, I I would I would urge caution because there are some jobs where people naively think, oh, well, these jobs will be around forever.
• 32:58
  And then they come to find out that artificial intelligence does take those jobs.
• 33:03
  So you need to have an awareness.
• 33:07
  And I would say to young people going into college, know what jobs are vulnerable to our artificial intelligence.
• 33:17
  You have to know that going in.
• 33:19
  And here's the dirty little secret.
• 33:23
  Your college isn't going to tell you.
• 33:26
  They're not going to try to talk you out of getting a degree.
• 33:29
  It's their job to talk you into getting any degree that they offer, especially one that they might see in the near future is a particular particular degree that's doomed.
• 33:44
  They're going to try to get as many people as possible to get into these degrees to milk as much money out of college students as possible before they have to lay off those professors and stop that degree.
• 33:58
  So don't ask your college, oh, what jobs are susceptible to artificial intelligence.
• 34:05
  No, do your own homework.
• 34:07
  Do your own homework and find out.
• 34:11
  Because I promise you, there are jobs that are susceptible.
• 34:15
  I mean, it's we're seeing that.
• 34:17
  Look at Amazon.
• 34:18
  We're seeing it in real time.
• 34:22
  So it's up to us to be educated.
• 34:24
  It's up to us to do our own homework.
• 34:27
  But uh, here we go.
• 34:30
  Education and health services, as I mentioned, those jobs wide open.
• 34:35
  Uh electricians, wide open, plumbers, wide open, construction workers, wide open.
• 34:42
  I'm actually listening to beeping in the background.
• 34:45
  You probably can't hear it here.
• 34:46
  I hope you can't hear it.
• 34:48
  But there's beeping on the background.
• 34:50
  My road is closed right now because there's major construction going on.
• 34:56
  There are tons and tons and tons of workers that are just swarming the neighborhood.
• 35:00
  Just swarming the neighborhood.
• 35:03
  And this is happening all over America.
• 35:03
  And this is happening all over America.
• 35:07
  That's a good thing.
• 35:07
  That's a good thing.
• 35:08
  It's great.
• 35:08
  It's great.
• 35:09
  They're putting in storm storm drains, by the way.
• 35:09
  They're putting in storm storm drains, by the way.
• 35:13
  Uh, okay, how about wage growth?
• 35:14
  Okay, how about wage growth?
• 35:15
  Wage growth in April slowed slightly from last month.
• 35:15
  Wage growth in April slowed slightly from last month.
• 35:20
  People staying in their roles saw their pay climb 4.4% from the prior year.
• 35:20
  People staying in their roles saw their pay climb 4.4% from the prior year.
• 35:26
  Man, I wish my pay climbed 4.4%.
• 35:26
  Man, I wish my pay climbed 4.4%.
• 35:29
  Uh well.
• 35:29
  Uh, while pay gains for those changing their jobs remain steady at 6.6%.
• 35:36
  So people who change their jobs averaged a 6.6% increase in pay.
• 35:44
  So here, I guess is another another more of the story is it pays to switch jobs.
• 35:53
  Uh, if you see better opportunity, don't stay stuck.
• 36:00
  And I talk about this very often.
• 36:04
  Uh my pay is not that great.
• 36:09
  Trust me when I say people in ministry, especially at small churches, it's not that great a pay.
• 36:16
  That's not a complaint, that's a reality.
• 36:20
  Uh, I know people who stay because they feel obligated to stay.
• 36:25
  I happen to stay because I like my job.
• 36:28
  I like my church, I like the people.
• 36:30
  I I like everything about it.
• 36:34
  And so for me, that was a personal decision.
• 36:36
  But I know people who they stay, they're miserable, they hate their job, they they they don't like the people or the the place of business or their employers or whatever it is, and they stay stuck for years.
• 36:51
  Don't do that.
• 36:53
  There is plenty of opportunity out there.
• 36:56
  This is all good news.
• 36:57
  I I hope you find this encouraging.
• 36:59
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• 38:46
  Jobs, jobs, jobs.
• 38:47
  Jobs are being added all over the place.
• 38:50
  And the jobs report was really good for the month of April.
• 38:55
  April was a booming month for the U.S.
• 38:59
  economy.
• 38:59
  And that's good news.
• 39:00
  That's great news.
• 39:01
  That's fantastic news.
• 39:03
  This is news that we all need to hear.
• 39:07
  Because quite frankly, we hear a lot of negative news.
• 39:12
  I think that we get so accustomed to hearing bad news that we often forget that there's actually good things that happen out there.
• 39:23
  Right?
• 39:23
  We hear bad news all the time.
• 39:25
  It's the the economy's bad, stock market's bad, your retirement accounts are screwed.
• 39:31
  On and on and on it goes.
• 39:32
  We hear this bad news constantly.
• 39:34
  There is a constant barrage of bad news that's coming from a whole lot of different sources.
• 39:44
  And so we need to take a step back and we need to look at reality.
• 39:48
  Take a look at what's actually happening.
• 39:50
  Well, according to the ADP, um, we have incredible job growth.
• 39:57
  And the future looks really bright.
• 40:02
  This from Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union says the U.S.
• 40:10
  labor market appears to be stabilizing.
• 40:13
  That's the first step in a recovery.
• 40:16
  Job gains in April were the strongest since January 2025, according to ADP.
• 40:24
  Even smaller firms that were hit hard by tariffs last year are finally hiring again.
• 40:30
  Healthcare is still responsible for the majority of hiring.
• 40:34
  But a few other industries are starting to add head count as well.
• 40:39
  The official April jobs report on Friday is likely to show solid job gains and potentially a drop in the unemployment rate.
• 40:49
  So this uh actually uh what is it today?
• 40:54
  The um farm payroll comes out.
• 41:00
  I haven't looked, I haven't looked to see what the non farm payroll is, but that's always a big number that people watch for too.
• 41:08
  But these are positive directions for the United States, even when the non-form payroll number is down, um typically from month to month, it it fluctuates, and so I don't get too concerned when I see the non farm payroll be a little bit negative.
• 41:26
  Because overall, looking at the big picture, looking at a whole bunch of different areas, the U.S.
• 41:32
  economy is absolutely banging.
• 41:34
  It is doing really good, and that, my friends, is good news for America.
• 41:39
  That's good news for all of us.
• 41:40
  That's good news for people looking for jobs.
• 41:43
  That's good news for people who feel stuck at their jobs and they're looking for better opportunity.
• 41:49
  That's good news for young people who are going into and choosing a career path.
• 41:54
  That's good news for people who want to move to another state just for the heck of moving to another state.
• 42:00
  Another state.
• 42:01
  I mean, this is all around good news.
• 42:01
  I mean, this is all around good news.
• 42:03
  There are ample jobs available.
• 42:03
  There are ample jobs available.
• 42:07
  And again, we keep hearing this lie that there are no jobs, no jobs available, life is tough, life sucks.
• 42:07
  And again, we keep hearing this lie that there are no jobs, no jobs available, life is tough, life sucks, life is life is miserable.
• 42:14
  Life is life is miserable.
• 42:16
  Trump is making it terrible for everybody.
• 42:16
  Trump is making it terrible for everybody.
• 42:18
  And we have to look at the bigger picture.
• 42:18
  And we have to look at the bigger picture, and I know this is really hard to do whenever we feel current pressure.
• 42:20
  And I know this is really hard to do whenever we feel current pressure.
• 42:27
  We feel the current pressure with.
• 42:27
  We feel the current pressure with uh I'll be very open and honest about it, but our utilities.
• 42:37
  Right?
• 42:37
  The utilities are squeezing Americans.
• 42:42
  The gas pump, squeezing Americans.
• 42:46
  The cost of vehicles.
• 42:49
  Insanely stupidly high.
• 42:53
  The cost of housing.
• 42:56
  That's up.
• 42:58
  So we've got to look at that too and kind of weigh all these different things and say, well, all right, uh, everything's going up, but it's not any different than in any time in America's history, right?
• 43:12
  There's we have it so much better right now than stay during the Great Depression.
• 43:19
  And believe me, I'm not saying like we're just a little notch above the Great Depression because I think we are way, way, way, way, way better off.
• 43:28
  Way better.
• 43:29
  We're not anywhere close to what it was like during the Great Depression.
• 43:34
  So we've got to look at the big picture.
• 43:38
  And the big picture is that things are actually really good here in America, that job job growth is steady, that there are ample jobs available, that career fields are wide open, that we're doing quite well on the economic stage.
• 44:01
  Uh everything is good.
• 44:04
  Most everything is good.
• 44:06
  But it's really hard to see that.
• 44:08
  It's really hard to see that when there's a combination of two things.
• 44:11
  One, a negative narrative that gives an outlook based on emotion.
• 44:17
  And we've got to be very careful not to be emotional about these things, but to look at the actual numbers.
• 44:24
  I like numbers because numbers don't lie.
• 44:27
  That's why math is really important.
• 44:30
  Looking at the job numbers, the actual job numbers, it's really important.
• 44:37
  So we've got to look at those numbers, and we've got to we've got to get the bigger picture for the American economy.
• 44:44
  And that number is it's it's all the numbers point in a really positive direction.
• 44:51
  So I never encourage us to listen to politicians who are painting a different narrative.
• 44:59
  Right?
• 45:00
  We've got to look at the actual jobs numbers.
• 45:05
  And we when we look at that, when we look at the big picture, America is probably in the past the best position worldwide.
• 45:19
  And that's really good news.
• 45:20
  Again, it goes back to this idea well, people want to leave the country.
• 45:23
  Well, for what?
• 45:24
  Where are you going to go?
• 45:27
  Europe's economy isn't anywhere near what our economy's like.
• 45:33
  Uh now the Supreme Court dropped the tariffs.
• 45:38
  And since then, things have been doing pretty good.
• 45:42
  They've been doing quite well.
• 45:45
  Even during the tariffs, the economy was still doing pretty well.
• 45:49
  But now that those tariffs have dropped, I think a lot of a lot of questions.
• 45:54
  There was a lot of uncertainty, and that was certainly hitting the markets.
• 45:58
  I mean, Trump flip-flopped so many times.
• 46:03
  He was constantly flip-flopping, and it caused a lot of instability within the market.
• 46:10
  But now the tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled.
• 46:14
  The tariffs were not constitutional, whether you agree with that or not.
• 46:18
  That's that was the Supreme Court's decision, and so it is what it is.
• 46:24
  But ever since then, um job opportunities abound.
• 46:31
  They really, really abound.
• 46:34
  And I think that's really incredible good news.
• 46:38
  And we need to take advantage of that.
• 46:41
  Young people take heed.
• 46:43
  Take advantage of the job opportunities that are out there.
• 46:49
  Uh, I was looking at just recently, I was talking, I was talking to somebody uh locally here, and they were talking about their teenage kid, and and she's not really sure what she wants to do for work, and uh he didn't really want her to settle, and I was like, well, you know, we have the resorts here.
• 47:12
  They start no matter what position you take.
• 47:15
  No, it doesn't matter.
• 47:17
  You can be a waitress, no matter what position you take, you can wash dishes, whatever position you take, the absolute bare minimum starting pay is $20 an hour with benefits.
• 47:37
  That's on the low end.
• 47:40
  And I said, I would encourage your kid, and they're always hiring, they're always looking for work.
• 47:44
  I look at their website just because I I like know what's out there.
• 47:50
  We have a lot of people who we help locally who are struggling financially, and I'm shocked at how many people never know that these jobs are available.
• 47:58
  I'm like, have you looked at have you looked at uh Vail Resorts?
• 48:03
  Have you looked at what's available?
• 48:05
  And like, no, we didn't even know that they were hiring.
• 48:08
  I'm like, they're always hiring.
• 48:12
  So a lot of people don't even know that these jobs are out there, and they're really good paying jobs.
• 48:18
  And it just blows my mind because people buy into this narrative that we're doomed, that we're doing really bad, that the economy is bad, there are no jobs, there are never any jobs available.
• 48:27
  I I I've lost count of the amount of people who've told me with confidence there are no jobs out there.
• 48:34
  I've talked to homeless people who are fully able and supposedly willing to work.
• 48:41
  And I said, have you have you applied here, here, and here?
• 48:45
  Oh no, they're not hiring.
• 48:47
  I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 48:51
  Literally, when you drive by or walk by or ride a bicycle by, they have a big honking sign that says, now hiring.
• 49:00
  Now hiring.
• 49:03
  It's like people buy this narrative that oh, nobody's hiring, or nobody would hire me.
• 49:03
  It's like people buy this narrative that, oh, nobody's hiring, or nobody would hire me.
• 49:11
  Says who are you even trying?
• 49:11
  Says who are you even trying?
• 49:18
  Did you even try in the least bit?
• 49:18
  Did you even try in the least bit?
• 49:22
  There are jobs available.
• 49:22
  There are jobs available, and the trades, I I still go back to this the idea of the trades.
• 49:24
  And the trades, I still go back to this, the idea of the trades.
• 49:29
  That I think we are failing our young people miserably in the schools by teaching them that college is the only answer.
• 49:38
  I love the schools.
• 49:40
  And in fact, next week, maybe I'll highlight a couple more, a couple more schools that are doing this.
• 49:46
  But there are schools in the United States that are taking a shift away from indoctrinating kids to say that the only way you're ever going to make it in life is to go to college.
• 49:56
  And they're actually doing trainings at the school.
• 50:01
  They're training kids for the trades.
• 50:05
  They're teaching them to be welders.
• 50:14
  Instead of shipping them off to a separate vote.
• 50:19
  They build this into the school.
• 50:23
  And they take employers, owners of companies who actually do some of the training, and then they recruit these kids before they even graduate high school.
• 50:35
  They're recruiting these kids, and they're starting off making 30, 40 bucks an hour with benefits at 18 years old.
• 50:45
  I'm like, my goodness.
• 50:46
  And then eventually, like these kids can go on to start their own business.
• 50:53
  What an incredible gift to give the great kids of this nation.
• 50:59
  What an incredible gift.
• 51:01
  What an incredible opportunity.
• 51:04
  So when I say that we're the land of opportunity, I'm not saying that because I'm like hopelessly or helplessly optimistic.
• 51:14
  I'm saying that because I see the numbers.
• 51:18
  I'm saying that because I see what jobs are available.
• 51:20
  I'm saying that because I keep I keep reading the jobs reports.
• 51:25
  I know what's available.
• 51:28
  I know it's out there.
• 51:29
  I listen to Mike Rowe.
• 51:32
  Mike Rowe, out of anybody ought to know what the heck is available.
• 51:38
  There are very, very, very good lucrative jobs that are available.
• 51:44
  And I'm not talking a couple jobs.
• 51:46
  I'm talking millions of jobs.
• 51:49
  There are millions of vacancies right now.
• 51:53
  Jobs that are just waiting for people to step into those roles.
• 51:58
  And so we need to be talking about this.
• 52:00
  We need to have open, real conversations about this.
• 52:05
  We need to be talking to our kids about this.
• 52:09
  And we need to stop buying this narrative.
• 52:14
  That America is somehow doomed because of whoever we have in office.
• 52:18
  I really could care less who we have as president of the United States.
• 52:25
  Sometimes we we succeed in spite of whoever's in office.
• 52:32
  But here's the point.
• 52:34
  America always has and always will succeed.
• 52:40
  That's who we are.
• 52:42
  That's our identity.
• 52:45
  We are a nation of hard working succeeders.
• 52:51
  Not sus eaters.
• 52:54
  Succeeders.
• 52:55
  We succeed.
• 52:58
  We grind.
• 53:00
  We uh we we grit our teeth.
• 53:05
  We put our heads down, we move forward, we figure it out.
• 53:09
  The American spirit of figure outism is incredible.
• 53:15
  People figure it out.
• 53:18
  They figure out how to move forward.
• 53:20
  We figure out how to build bridges, we figure out how to build skyscrapers and how to how to fix a broken health system, how to cure diseases.
• 53:30
  We're figuring out how to cure diseases right now.
• 53:35
  Like at unprecedented rates, like nothing we've never seen before.
• 53:41
  It's absolutely incredible.
• 53:45
  And I think it's an inspiring time for us to live, to be alive, to partake of the fruits of a growing economy.
• 53:59
  It is absolutely a blessing to be an American.
• 54:04
  We have the song, right?
• 54:05
  I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
• 54:11
  Maybe we should have a little bit more pride.
• 54:15
  Maybe we should ignore the people who get angry when people actually have a little bit of pride in their nation.
• 54:22
  I remember a time when people weren't like, oh, these nationalists.
• 54:29
  How dare they be proud of our nation?
• 54:31
  I remember a time when Democrats, Republicans, independence, green party, everybody was proud to be an American.
• 54:38
  We're all proud.
• 54:42
  And I long for those days.
• 54:44
  I think they can come back.
• 54:46
  I really do think that we're on the brink of something really incredible here in this nation.
• 54:54
  As I mentioned with Corey Brooks, Pastor Corey Brooks, uh, just a couple of days ago.
• 55:02
  He sees it.
• 55:04
  He feels it.
• 55:05
  He witnesses it.
• 55:08
  Everywhere he goes in America, everywhere that he walks, people are incredible.
• 55:12
  They're good people.
• 55:13
  They're hardworking people.
• 55:14
  They're taking steps forward.
• 55:16
  They're taking steps forward to better themselves in their professional field.
• 55:20
  They're taking steps forward to better their family dynamics.
• 55:24
  They're taking steps forward to increase their faith.
• 55:29
  This is who we are as a nation.
• 55:32
  We're very united.
• 55:34
  And uh, ma'am, what an exciting time to be alive.
• 55:37
  So anyway, that's my hidden lightness.
• 55:40
  That's the hidden lightness.
• 55:42
  It is a great time to be alive, and nobody is going to convince me otherwise.
• 55:47
  No matter the struggles that we face, and there are plenty.
• 55:51
  There are plenty of struggles.
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  No matter what we face in this life, remember that we are blessed by God, our creator.
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  Creator.
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  We're blessed.
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  We're blessed.
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  We're blessed to be here.
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  We're blessed to be here.
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  We're blessed to be alive.
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  We're blessed to be alive.
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  We're blessed to live in a nation where we have freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
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  We're blessed to live in a nation where we have freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
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  And it's just a great, great time to be alive.
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  And it's just a great, great time to be alive.
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  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
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  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
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  You can find more out about my show and get all the latest podcasts if you go to the Mendy Navigation Bar at AmericaOut Loud.news under our shows were scheduled.
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  You'll be in the know.
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  You'll be in the know.
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  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
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  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
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  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people.
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  Join me in being a light.