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Tariffs, Taxes, and Thick Latinas
Brian "Rosco” Alburger joins the show for an unfiltered conversation about politics, work, and life on top of a roof.
• Concerns about Trump's tariff plans and how they'll ultimately increase prices for consumers
• Discussion of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk and skepticism about its actual benefits
• Reflections on the tax burden facing Americans: "We pay tax on everything we consume, the money we make, our homes"
• Insights into the physically demanding life of a union roofer, including 4am wake-ups and exposure to harmful chemicals
• Personal philosophy on staying grateful during tough times and finding purpose through fatherhood
• Code-switching observations showing how people adapt their speech and mannerisms in different social contexts
• Brief commentary on NBA injuries including Kyrie Irving's ACL tear and its impact on the Mavericks.
Join us Wednesday’s at 9am for conversations from Daily American’s
A 501C3 to combat the mental health struggles which come with service to the United States
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For the Daily American. I got on the line Roscoe himself, brian Allberger. No, he's not Jewish, brian, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Why are you recording me dog?
Speaker 1:Yo, so we were just talking. I said, let me click record real quick. That's why.
Speaker 2:Why do you do this?
Speaker 1:You asked a good question. Hit me with it. I said how are the tariffs gonna work? All right, so this is how they work dog tariffs. So right now the us is taxed heavily for exporting goods anything manufactured in the us we sell it.
Speaker 2:I get that whole, I get how I get how that whole process works, but isn't it just gonna come back?
Speaker 1:we're gonna end up paying more as a consumer of course, bro, of course, and that's the thing, that's what I'm saying. Like, I voted for trump, both terms, but I'm already having buyer's remorse to a certain extent because he doesn't. These people are right, bro, like, and these tax breaks? He's talking back to the tariffs. Exactly, the tariffs are going to trickle.
Speaker 2:It's a trickle down effect, cuz but I mean, it's not like they didn't do anything in the past four years to help it either no, they certainly did it.
Speaker 1:They made it just as bad, if not worse. They don't give a fuck. The politicians don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2:This is the thing I mean yeah I know they're saying this bunker bird flu, but I'm I'm paying 20 bucks for a rack of fucking 30 eggs. I mean that's astronomical. I I used to cop them, jones for five hours a pop. I mean it's, it's out of pocket for five hours a pop. I mean it's out of pocket.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you tried a local farm? I mean not that you live close to a farm, but Actually there's a bull at the gym.
Speaker 2:I walked in the gym the other day. There was a joint on the desk. It said a dozen eggs, five dollars. I said who's this? The bull said it's me. It's my homie. I said, oh really, you me. I said oh really, you got you got chickens. He said yeah. I said oh yeah, can I cop them? He said, yeah, I'll put you on the waiting list. I said the waiting list. I eat six of them, jones, a day. How am I gonna do that? Oh well, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Then yeah, you can't be trying to. You can't fucking be a salesman and not have to supply. I mean, come on, you should have took them eggs and just suck, fucking, cracked them right over the table and just swallowed them back, dog rocky, rocky, balboa style, style yo. So here's how it works, bull, basically all right. So 25 percent are, like the, the going rate for these tariffs. So if a country taxes us 25 for something, we're to bang them over the head with 25%. Now the thing is we export like, I think over 50% of, like, if not more of all the goods sold in America. So that number is obviously going to raise the cost of goods for us, the consumers. And then he's talking about these tax breaks, bro. But these tax breaks, brother, for small business owners, and they're for the rich, bro, they're for the rich and even small business owners.
Speaker 2:They're in the upper to middle class they were talking the other day at work. There's this thing uh, a possibility of a some type of Doge check or something, where they found all this bread. They were still paying like social security to like dead people for like 30 years, and that's why Elon got him to fire all them people, because they found all this bread that was missing, and now we're supposed to all get a kickback or something.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah. So here's the scoop on it real quick. Doge Department of Government Efficiency supposed to all get a kickback or something? All right, yeah. So here here's the, the scoop on it real quick. Doge department of government efficiency elon musk obviously he was trump's biggest financial supporter. Trump said all right, start this department, this agency, and get all the corruption out and get and find all the money. Where's all the money going now for the ssa, the social security administration? That in itself, yeah, there's going to be all these people. Basically, if they don't have a deceased date on there, then yeah, there was one person on there, 360 years old, still in the system. But all those people he went through his speech last night all those people are still in the system. Some of them I don't have numbers, but some of them are still getting benefits. I don't know where the money's going exactly, but they're still getting it. But most of them.
Speaker 2:They made it sound like they was just like checks uncast or something.
Speaker 1:Oh well, then now again, that's not a problem then this is again I'm.
Speaker 2:My source is a bunker roofer. You know I mean. So like you can't you can't take it with a grain. You know what I mean. I don't know how legit it is if it's coming from a fucking retard roofer.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? No, I mean, that's the people I love getting my new sources from. To tell you the truth, you're typical people, bro. You're typical people that you know happen to be be. They said they were just like checks, checks that were uncashed yeah.
Speaker 1:So, bro, then that's not a big deal. But they, but they run with that story right and to make it seem like the ssa was like completely out of pocket, this, that. And the third, the bottom line is they're cutting all sorts of jobs. So there's a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand rs jobs getting sliced in half, like this month. So there there's another 50,000 in jobs. Now, some of these people, the IRS, I don't mind, right, like they shouldn't be the IRS, but they're there to tax us, to take more from us. I just can't believe. We pay tax on everything, bro. So we pay tax on fucking what we consume. We pay tax on the money we make. We pay tax on fucking homes. You never really own your home. Own your home, you pay taxes on it. I mean, it's just how free are we, you know? And again, a lot freer than most people in the world.
Speaker 2:So so let's be you know what the problem is with this bull go ahead you're. You change up the way you're talking because you're filming, you're recording yourself. That's the problem.
Speaker 1:Well, no, this is basically this voice right here. This voice right here is how I would speak to people that I'm doing business with Right, but we're not doing business right now.
Speaker 1:If I'm going to talk to your fucking bunker ass and a little bit of fucking, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Here's the thing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Here's the thing. I know, but we're talking about serious topics. I'm sitting there talking with a douche nozzle or a country accent Delaware County cat residing in Delaware County ain't from Philly, but kind of around the corner from Philly.
Speaker 2:I'm not in Delaware County dog, I'm talking about me.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about me. Fuck that, yeah, but nah, that's how I talk to people in business. Is I talk like that, like as if I'm more convincing with what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like you're not a fucking scumbag, I get it. It's a front, I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's a front. I know, yeah, yeah, it's a front. Yo, this dude just kills me, right? Why you got to kill me on air though, bro, come on man. Anyway, do you want to hear yo, do you want to hear my um, my tone when I'm, when I'm talking to, uh, uh, my son's mother's parents? It's probably just like the one you were just talking in, I got different tones for everything when I'm talking to my son's mother's parents.
Speaker 2:You know what that is right.
Speaker 1:I call it a chameleon, you call it a fucking scumbag. I don't know what is it. Yeah, chameleon's pretty good. Yeah, you ready, you ready. Hey, how's it going? Kevin, good good. Yeah, it wasn't a bad day. Yeah, I hit some accounts, you know ah it's supposed to rain later I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Thanks for letting me know, kevin. Yeah, thanks for having me in your, in your house. I really appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, sure, not a problem. You want me to take the trash out? Done, take the reef off the roof, not a problem. Bull, yeah, I lost you. That was a bunker, all right, so, anyway, back to the Doge thing. So, doge, do you know how Doge started?
Speaker 1:I thought it was a coin, a fucking uh, um, yeah, you know a little bit about everything too. Cryptocurrency. Yeah, exactly, it was a cryptocurrency. Um, it's probably in the low, like single digits, like fucking a dollar or something, two dollars, I don't know. Off the top of my head. The bottom line is that was elon's coin. He was twittering left and right about, you know, purchase, purchase, purchase. This is the next bitcoin.
Speaker 2:Blah, blah, blah so then when it?
Speaker 1:crashed right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah or well, it never even. No, I don't even know if it crashed, it never even got off the ground. All crazy, I don't think. But don't quote me on that. The bottom line is I mean, elon seems like an all right enough guy. You know, he's got like 12, 13 kids and all different baby moms, yeah.
Speaker 2:My one homie. He called me after, I guess, the inauguration speech. I guess. Elon did the Hitler salute, or something.
Speaker 1:Did he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, something like that. I don't know. My one homie called me all bent out of shape about it. He was like this dude, he's a nut job, but he was so bent out of shape. The country's going down the shitter, blah, blah, blah this, and that I said, all right, well, what the fuck can you control about it, right, I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you say that. But if you get enough people behind you you can make some waves. You know, probably end up dead or in jail. That's usually how enough people want.
Speaker 2:The bull goes to his bunker job and then he goes home and sits in his hole for the rest of his time yeah, yeah, that's not gonna fucking. He's a slobber and he's depressed. I said you, you want to come to the gym with me? Nah, I don't want to do that, I just want to sit in my hole. I said, well, you ain't gonna get, you ain't gonna get nowhere like that.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, what are you doing this weekend? I don't have anything planned. What are you doing? Just sitting in your hole? Yeah, I mean, you're so bad out of shape about the fucking the state of the fucking country, but all you do is sit in your fucking hole. What do you care?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, you got a point with that. Yeah, people will. You know people will find something to complain about, no matter what. I try to catch myself when I'm bitching. I've been at like the lowest points of my life lately and I'm trying to remain positive and just keep pushing on and and keep like. You know, now I got something, I got a purpose with having my son and shit, so like my financial situation isn't the end all be all and I'm gonna dig myself out of it like I always do. But you're certainly not gonna catch me complaining and bitching about everything. You know you gotta be grateful, man, grateful especially for the tough times. But maybe he's got some sort of mental depression, cuz I mean, cut the dude a break, grab him, go go cop him his anti-bar, slide that john into his coffee, let that bull dip out into a box of donuts I just need like a thick latina joint I can clap her cheeks or something like that's yeah, I was on a call.
Speaker 2:Just buy her a pair of shoes and she'll be straight.
Speaker 1:I just clap cheeks yeah, some, some, some girls are easy to bro. The latina girls are like I mean, for, based off of my experience I used to live in el paso bro they're they're ride or dies too, like they'll'll stick by you for the most part, like I don't see them stepping out often or anything like that, like they're loyal. They're gorgeous. They got that dark skin tone, I mean.
Speaker 2:What's that beeping? It's letting you know you're still recording.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I guess it does that. Yeah, A thick Latino, John Latina. Alright, so what else do you want? I thought you liked the black chicks bro.
Speaker 2:Nah, fall back, dog, that's your bid. That's your bid. Like you smash one black joint and like all of a sudden it's my type, like I prefer, like like fucking pale beanstalks. You know what I mean. Like I just smashed one black joint Like fall back, dog, the fuck Pale beanstalks.
Speaker 1:Yo, I do got a thing for fucking. They're not pale, though. I don't know where you get this pale shit from. I just my child's mom's a beanstalk. Take it easy. Oh, she's gorgeous, it's just like you know what a fable is?
Speaker 2:yeah, story cuz. So I just add that on because it sounds better. It's like it's just it's a fabricated story and I just throw in there and it enhances my bid. It's like a PED for my bid. You know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying Well, you should probably go find your GED, because you got an eighth-grader's education level.
Speaker 2:Did you make it to?
Speaker 1:10th grade. I'm cool with that, though. Nah, I'm just fucking with you, yo. If you could change one thing about, about, um, like I don't know what's. One piece of advice you got for people, that's it. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:I mean, I see it a little bit lately, like for example my cousin this is another bit I got running so he graduated college a semester early, right?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So he came home for Christmas break his senior year, and never went back. I said pfft.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a break.
Speaker 2:His senior year never went back, I said pfft, Wait a minute, wait a minute wait a minute, his senior year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like he came home for Christmas, I think he had to go back and take finals, but that was it. Like he didn't go back for his second semester and I said I said what, I would go back and take a couple classes or something Like what. He was like nah, I'm gonna stay home. I got an internship, I'm gonna get to work, I said. I said, don't grow up too fast, bull. I mean that work ain't going nowhere. I would have went back and kicked back for another semester and just chilled out. I mean, yeah, everybody, the, the, the groundhog grinding ain't all that.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean nah, I was saying that, like bro, that's and that's the system that we're, we live in, all even paying the taxes. Right, like the taxes. But we also I I said freedom earlier. Like bro, how free of a society like again, not compared to like fucking. You know, I don't know where there's dictators china and north korea we're somewhat.
Speaker 2:I mean I, I can go and do whatever I want right now. Right, I want to go drive wherever you know. I mean I can hit a wish and like, uh, we're pretty free in that extent.
Speaker 1:But you got to work, though that's what I was talking about.
Speaker 2:I was when I was off those couple of weeks for uh, uh for with the weather and the snow and shit I was, I was hitting a couple of licks. I said, uh, I wonder if I can make this my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I mean if you can figure out a system that's like your return on your investments are going to fucking sustain you. But I think if you've been million dollars.
Speaker 2:And then I hit a cold streak and I was in shambles for like two weeks. I couldn't hit fucking nothing. I said, damn, I better get my ass back above this fucking roof.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like we got to work, we got to work to survive, like that's what I'm talking about, about the freedom, and I'm like I get it, I was chilling though I was sleeping till 10.
Speaker 2:I, I was sleeping till 10. I'd wake up, I'd look at the games, I'd hit the gym and then I would go watch the games, see what I could do for the night.
Speaker 1:I was living the good life yeah, see, that good life gets me in trouble, though, bro. If there's no structure with that for my, for myself I get in trouble now my alarm's gonna go off at four o'clock tomorrow morning oh shit, you're back up on the roof tomorrow yeah, I've been back damn, damn. Yeah, how hard is it of work. I mean, I've seen you a couple days facetiming and your face is just covered in soot.
Speaker 2:The jawn we're on right now is fucked up actually, like the roof that we're taking off. It's like an old, outdated system. Yo, literally like. I'm covered from head to toe Like you got like like a sock over your head. I got ski goggles on because if the dust gets on you once the sun comes out and it hits you, you start to get burned because it's the yeah, because it's the fucking.
Speaker 1:It's like tanning oil, like if you put shit into your skin that's a dark color.
Speaker 2:Um, it's gonna like fucking no, like there's chemicals in the, in the stuff that they put down back in the day.
Speaker 1:They don't use it no more because it's it's been outlawed oh shit, so you're telling me so, so, so, so this is the shit for the roofs. Like that, you spray on the roof, or what no, it's basically.
Speaker 2:It's like basically comes out like almost like a hot asphalt. You ever see them bulls putting hot asphalt on the street?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's comparable to that. But then, once it cools, it dries, and then it breaks when we're taking it off and there's dust everywhere and it gets on you and then the sun the sun hits it, it starts activating it and then you get, you get burned, so you got to get covered up all that ain't good bro.
Speaker 1:Uh, do you breathe that shit?
Speaker 2:in. I got him. I got a sock over my head. Call it like a painter's sock. What?
Speaker 1:the fuck is that?
Speaker 2:like a kid's. The kids call it a shysty. You ever see them, bulls they wear the mask.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah you rock.
Speaker 2:You rock one of them and you got goggles on, so nothing can be exposed I see, but what about?
Speaker 1:um? How can you see out of the shiesty? Clearly, you cut holes in it because there's a little.
Speaker 2:There's a little slice over the eyes. Yeah, the eyes are open, but then you put the goggles on damn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what would you rank if you were to like or I was gonna google this shit but if you were to rank like toughest jobs in our nation? I mean they say, like oil drillers are tough, I don't know, I don't, I'm just guessing like I would assume that they're tough, fucking like that's a really tough job. Steel mills, um, would be tough. I was in one the other day. I mean, there's robot, there was a robot running one of the the aisles, but they're welding and shit all day and it's tough work. Um, the underwater welders, I know that's dangerous and tough. I don't know what do you think? I mean roofing's probably tough, dog, but like I know you're still in a union because you don't fucking work.
Speaker 2:That was a bid, but okay, I don't work.
Speaker 1:I mean unions. That's the reputation. They don't work dog.
Speaker 2:That's not true.
Speaker 1:I know, but that's just All right. So I've seen you underneath shit and like fucking how much during the day. Let me ask you something when do you start your shifts? You wake up at 4 am. Walk me through your day.
Speaker 2:Right now we're starting at 7 because of the light, but once daylight savings kicks in it will probably start 6, 6.30. We'll start early.
Speaker 1:And now that?
Speaker 2:means like up on the roof, like ready to rock and roll six o'clock, if not before that.
Speaker 1:OK, but right now it's seven.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, when you're still drooling on your pillow at like five, forty five, yeah, I'm up on a roof about to get it. Yeah, put it that way.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I'm at the gym first thing in the morning, but real quick, you wake up at four am. Right now, you start, you walk me through. I need to. I need to play by play. So you make your whole morning. Yeah, you, you make your bunker. Uh, folgers. Nah, maxwell, don't be dumb coffee's already waiting for me.
Speaker 2:I guzzled down two cups. Just to get me right. It's my get. I scramble up six eggs. I'll take a smash hop in the shower out the door.
Speaker 1:I mean, what do we got on the stereo? What?
Speaker 2:do? We got on the stereo when we're riding for a commute? Well no, so I meet my boss because he's got a company truck so I don't have to pay for gas or parking down the city or nothing. So I usually I catch a nod.
Speaker 1:I'll nod out on the window for about a half hour 20 minutes and then we show up to the job site. All right, and then you get to the job site. How much throughout the day are you actually physically working?
Speaker 2:All day. So from 7 o'clock to say 10, 30, 11, we'll take a half hour lunch and we get back to work all day. That fucking union don't work nonsense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dog, all day grinding. It's a grind. What time are you out of there?
Speaker 2:It depends. We didn't get off the roof till after three o'clock the other day, all day grinding. Meanwhile you got fucking bulls riding around and they're fucking Tesla, just fucking chilling. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm certainly not physically grinding, but it's mentally taxing doing what I do oh no, that wasn't a shot at you, boy.
Speaker 2:I was just making a broad statement. This fool's so fucking egocentric and self-centered he thinks everything's about him. That was two bingers. You don't even have a Tesla, no more. You got a fucking strong arm for it.
Speaker 1:That's right. I gave my mother's child, or my child's mother, the Tesla. I pay for everything else. I'm paying for her credit card debt.
Speaker 2:There he goes. There goes his ego again. This bull's ego has always got to come out. Yeah, I mean I might as well just mother of the Tesla. I pay for everything else, like I'm paying for a credit card debt. There he goes. There goes his ego again. This bull's ego has always got to come out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I might as well just give her the Tesla, too at this point, and take the fucking 2015 Volkswagen, john. I'm thankful for it. I'm thankful for it, bro. Plus, it's safer for my son. She's got my that shit's coming over. Next question, though, bro 18 months, if we don't work things out, 50-50 time to start teaching the young man some things. God willing, you got anything excited planned for what I don't know. Maybe next three, four months, something like that nah nah, that's just gonna be lit.
Speaker 1:Dude, we're going on a cruise. Dude, we're going on a cruise to bermuda. But're going on a cruise to Bermuda. But who knows, bro, one of us could be dead and gone by then. So we just got to take it day by day and thank God.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, did you see the other night Kai re-tore his ACL?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I didn't see it, but I saw it.
Speaker 2:This bull. He tears his ACL right, he hobbles to the free throw line Because remember when Kobe ruptured his Achilles and then he shot the free throws.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, he missed the free throws.
Speaker 2:No, he made the free throws, but he goes to the line and, you see, at the line he mouths. Thank you God. I I was just like what the fuck is that? Like I don't get it. I don't either, I don't know. But basically the mavs were my fucking finals dark horse, but now they're in shambles and they're gonna miss the playoffs.
Speaker 1:So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why did we get? Did we get anything like? I'm confused like why? Why would he say that? Do we know the context? Did anybody ask him that? You know how he is, what reporters look?
Speaker 1:I kind of like kairi he's a shot out bull I mean, maybe he was thanking god you know you're supposed to thank god for and they really say that, bro, it says it in the bible You're supposed to thank God for they really say that, bro, it says it in the Bible too. You're supposed to thank God for the struggles, like actually thank him for everything bad that happens, not just the good stuff, because, bro, the only time we learn and get better and stronger and more wisdom and whatever more know-how is when we fuck up, is when we make mistakes, is when we struggle. That's when you actually learn, not when things are going great. I know. When things are going good for me, that's when I just head downhill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, the bull's going into the last year of his contract. I mean, what does that mean? That was just my, because if he would have had a good rest of the year, they could have gave him an extension. Now are you going to give a 33-year-old coming off ACL surgery an extension?
Speaker 1:Not unless you're the Philadelphia 76ers. Those guys are known for making dumb business decisions in regards to basketball players. What happened to Embiid?
Speaker 2:He's done for the year. They shut him down.
Speaker 1:Crazy.
Speaker 2:They're talking about tanking for this year. They shut him down, crazy. They're talking about tanking for this bull. I don't even know if the bull Cooper flag's any good. I don't even know.
Speaker 1:Where's he at? Duke White Black.
Speaker 2:He's white.
Speaker 1:That doesn't matter In basketball. That doesn't matter in basketball. In the NBA, it's very hard to be that really good as a white guy, especially if you're not European. Alright, bull, I'll let you go. Thanks for joining the Daily American brother and go get some shut eye because you got to be up in like 4am. I'll be drooling on my pillow for joining the Daily American brother and go get some shut-eye because you've got to be up in like 4 am. I'll be drilling on my pillow, don't worry. All right one.