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Factually! with Adam Conover

The tariffs are just so stupid.

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:05.4

With new McValue or McDonald's, you get more than you expect.

0:09.0

So after a long day, buy a double cheeseburger and add a McChicken for a dollar.

0:13.7

Because saving with deals is always on the menu.

0:16.6

With new McValue.

0:18.2

Prices and participation may vary.

0:19.4

Ballot for item of equal or lesser value.

0:20.6

So ever since Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcement, the global account with new McValue. Prices and participation may vary. Ballot for item of equal or lesser value.

0:24.0

So ever since Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcement,

0:27.5

the global economy has been on a roller coaster ride of stupid.

0:32.5

First, the stock market crashed in one of the worst sell-offs since World War II.

0:35.3

And people have been scrambling to buy iPhones and olive oil before the tariffs jacked up their prices higher than eggs.

0:38.0

Of course, I got all three, so I'm all ready to make the world's worst, crunchiest sandwich.

0:42.0

Nintendo even delayed pre-orders for the Switch, too.

0:45.6

Oh yeah, now Trump is really f***ed up.

0:48.1

Sure, we're mad at you for sending innocent people to Salvadoran megaprisons,

0:51.7

disappearing college students off the street and firing the

0:54.2

scientists who are curing cancer. But delaying the release date of Metroid Prime 4, now you're done

0:59.4

f***ed up, Donkey Kong old Trump. Donkey, Donkey, don't, Donald E Kong. Donald E. Kong each,

1:07.1

Donkey Donald Trump is probably, these tariffs were so destructive that just an internet

1:12.2

rumor that Trump might pause them sent the market up trillions momentarily before it suddenly

1:17.5

plummeted again. I mean, the tariffs are so dumb, so insane, and so self-destructive that even

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