Your Freedom Costs $6 A Year

The government's pitch for Flock cameras is stolen cars and missing kids. So I priced it out. The share of your insurance premium that exists because of car theft comes to about six dollars a year — that's the entire upside you're buying with a permanent record of where you drive. And Amber Alert recoveries have sat flat at roughly 45 a year since before Flock existed, because most missing-kid cases are runaways and family abductions, not a stranger pulling a kid into a car. Also this week: Bessent insists there's nothing magical about $40 trillion and the administration has a plan too discreet to share. Trump lifts the ground beef tariffs and the trust-the-plan crowd has to explain why this is the exact Trump-approved price of a steak. Fauci gets a legal defense fund while the rest of us pay our own way. Jon Ossoff walks through the April 8th stock buys, the "great time to buy" post, and the tariff reversal three hours and forty-one minutes later. And the Supreme Court's mail-in voting ruling shows a system where whoever exceeds their authority first gets the win and eats no penalty for it. Plus the debut of Tales From The Flock — a KCPD officer charged with running the Flock system 2,300 times to stalk his ex. Sponsored by Sheath — sheath.com, promo code RYM for 20% off. And Yo Kratom — yokratom.com, home of the $6 kilo. More at robbernsteincomedy.com ($5/month) and robbernsteinmerch.com. New episodes every Wednesday.