Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jet and Key Arms get Why from studio see Senior. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a Columbus day off, so it's already Wednesday. We've
Speaker 1: got pamelon studio, which is disgusting but kind of a
Speaker 1: cool little gumma. Who else has the kamelon studio? Right? Nobody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show today, where you're
Speaker 1: under the tutelage of our general manager. Tempted to go
Speaker 1: with season ping because of the trade tensions. He got
Speaker 1: a strong nominee. Is that some Chinese guy? Bad Chinese guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he runs the place. Oh, I know what's on my
Speaker 1: mind is who's we? The word we? Who's we? Who
Speaker 1: is we? Maybe we as our general manager? Who define
Speaker 1: we for me? Wow? Help me out with this. President
Speaker 1: of the United States said, hamas will disarm or we
Speaker 1: will disarm them? Who's we? Who is we? Violently? Violently
Speaker 1: if necessary? He said, who do you think we is? Well?
Speaker 1: And they're not. They are one not going to disarm
Speaker 1: as their recent actions have proven. Who's that rough shod
Speaker 1: through we? Got some We've got some serious pronoun problems.
Speaker 1: My pronoun is he he he him. But uh, we
Speaker 1: got going to take a while if we have to
Speaker 1: break down the grammar of every sentence. Well, who's they
Speaker 1: I mean, do you mean like every single last dead
Speaker 1: ender or do you mean like just the bulk of
Speaker 1: the organization? Yeah, disarmed? The bulk of the organization's not
Speaker 1: going to disarm, right, Yeah, the military the part that matters.
Speaker 1: The fat rich guys and cutter don't matter. But the
Speaker 1: fighters on the ground, they absolutely will not disarm. They
Speaker 1: are trying to consolidate power as quickly as they can
Speaker 1: and show they are still in charge. They're rounding people up,
Speaker 1: executing them. It's fights in the streets. Well do you
Speaker 1: are for you to be satisfied, and it's all about
Speaker 1: whether or not Joe getting satisfied with right peace deal
Speaker 1: for you to be satisfied, does every dead ender have
Speaker 1: to be disarmed? Because I've just been thinking, well, you know,
Speaker 1: the bulk of them, like the you know, any organized
Speaker 1: group of them, Like I keep using the example of
Speaker 1: the Civil War. If you got random Confederates out there
Speaker 1: in the woods who still want to fight on, that's
Speaker 1: not the same as like organized militias led by a
Speaker 1: general somewhere. Right. Yeah, it's there's kind of a spectrum of, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, how well armed are they, how well organized
Speaker 1: are they, how ambitious are they? And once you get
Speaker 1: past a certain point in the spectrum, it's no longer
Speaker 1: a military problem. It's a policing problem. They're more like
Speaker 1: a violent gang. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly at that point, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have a functioning society. Okay, so I just
Speaker 1: you've defined they, Then who's we? What sentence are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Oh? Back to your who's way? The coalition
Speaker 1: of the welling? Well, does that include the United States? Well? See,
Speaker 1: that's the tricky part, and that's why the Trump Plan,
Speaker 1: while a great breakthrough, has got a rocky road ahead.
Speaker 1: Initially it's got to be Israel. Well, I think guys
Speaker 1: have been whooping ass already because there's no multi country
Speaker 1: Commission of Peace in place yet. I was just reading
Speaker 1: from the newsletter I read from every day from Mark
Speaker 1: Alpern and the wide world of news. Is there going
Speaker 1: to be a genuine peacekeeping force or not, which you
Speaker 1: just mentioned, Who will be in it? Under what authority
Speaker 1: and under what terms of engagement hard but essential questions.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, and they best realize whoever's in
Speaker 1: that force, they're there to fight. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be like, you know, the passive, stupid, useless un observers
Speaker 1: who has below is building armaments one hundred yards from
Speaker 1: their lookout towers. No, they're going to be there to
Speaker 1: fight because Hamas again, by the one hundred thousands, I
Speaker 1: don't know, they're not going to give up their arms.
Speaker 1: They're going to fight until they're dead. I just feel
Speaker 1: like if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had said we
Speaker 1: will disarm them, the part of the Fox crowd would
Speaker 1: be up at arms. If you'll pardon the expression over
Speaker 1: oh so more soldiers in the Middle East fighting other
Speaker 1: people's wars and you said we right right, Well, it
Speaker 1: absolutely deserves clarification. Your point is well taken, and we
Speaker 1: will disarm them, perhaps violently if necessary. Okay, well that's
Speaker 1: a heck of a thing. Perhaps Trump is speaking French,
Speaker 1: we is, and yes, yes, will disarm them. They probably not.
Speaker 1: They've still got twenty one bodies or twenty two. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of the bodies that Hamas turned over turned out
Speaker 1: to not be one of the hostages. My guess would
Speaker 1: be Hamas doesn't have It's not like they've got a
Speaker 1: careful cataloging of bodies system. One, they don't care. Two
Speaker 1: they've been getting the but Jesus bombed out of them
Speaker 1: for two years and moving from hole to hole. Right,
Speaker 1: they didn't care in the first place. So they got
Speaker 1: all kinds of bodies of Palestinians and Israelis from this
Speaker 1: time around and anybody else they've snatched over the many decades.
Speaker 1: They got all kinds of body parts, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would agree. So Egypt's going to go in there. Egypt
Speaker 1: just offered to go in there and help them find bodies.
Speaker 1: What's that process going to be like twenty two those
Speaker 1: twenty two What percentage of those twenty two are ever
Speaker 1: going to be found and identified and brought back? I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised if it's half Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if five are, I would be pleasantly surprised. Yeah crazy, yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So why were you why were you considering making Jijing
Speaker 1: ping the general man? The trade war preposturing, the pregaming
Speaker 1: is getting really intense, with Trump announcing one hundred percent
Speaker 1: tariff chesion being saying you can't have any rare earth minerals,
Speaker 1: and the threats are going back and forth, hot and heavy.
Speaker 1: There's you mentioned yesterday how weird this is to have
Speaker 1: an enemy that you're so economically tied into, Like we
Speaker 1: weren't economically tied into the Soviet Union or them us.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, not a bit. But with China, as
Speaker 1: we all know, we're very tied in to the fact that,
Speaker 1: like at the time COVID hit, we got all of
Speaker 1: our drugs from there, and all our rare earth minerals
Speaker 1: and all every piece of thing you buy at the
Speaker 1: store or order on Amazon comes from China. That's not
Speaker 1: the way it was when we were at war with
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union. To that point, there is an interesting
Speaker 1: story in the Financial Times today a couple of Brits
Speaker 1: got caught spying for China.
Speaker 2: Mm.
Speaker 1: They're are British dudes with British names. It got caught
Speaker 1: spine for China, and that got dismayed because the government
Speaker 1: was unwilling to say that they were spying on behalf
Speaker 1: of an enemy. They didn't want to call China an
Speaker 1: enemy right of Great Britain. And you know that that's
Speaker 1: to the point you were talking about yesterday. They don't
Speaker 1: want to call China an enemy or the enemy because
Speaker 1: of all our economic tize. Yeah, a labor the Labor
Speaker 1: secretary sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing
Speaker 1: to brand China an enemy. The Telegraph was reporting about
Speaker 1: a week ago they were accused of passing information about
Speaker 1: the government's foreign policy to a high ranking member of
Speaker 1: the Chinese government, and Keers Starmer's spokesman said it was
Speaker 1: extremely disappointing and gravely concerning that they wouldn't face trial.
Speaker 1: But then it turns out the government with drew as
Speaker 1: star witness who had been tasked with testifying the China
Speaker 1: was an enemy of the UK, said no, we're not
Speaker 1: going to We don't want to say that out loud.
Speaker 1: If major Western the spy go free. Yeah, if major
Speaker 1: were stern powers aren't willing to call China an enemy
Speaker 1: but enemy early, that's a problem. That's something right, And
Speaker 1: the fact that they couldn't come up with a way
Speaker 1: to verbally tap dance around say well, we are friends
Speaker 1: and work with China in many different ways, but yes,
Speaker 1: by the strict definition of foreign policy, you know, Section
Speaker 1: one thirty three point eight. Yes, China is in this
Speaker 1: instance an enemy, perhaps an unfortunate word. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could fall all over yourself bowing and scraping, but still
Speaker 1: prosecuting spies. But they are so afraid of China they didn't.
Speaker 1: How shocking is that much different topic. My dishwasher, it's
Speaker 1: not really mine, I live in a rental, doesn't do anything,
Speaker 1: you know. And Trump's always complaining about modern shower heads
Speaker 1: and dishwashers and washing machines because of the green regulations.
Speaker 1: The dishwasher doesn't do anything unless you wash the dishes
Speaker 1: by hand almost completely. You haven't accomplished anything. A dishwasher
Speaker 1: that washes no dishes is not a dishwak. I appear
Speaker 1: to be the dishwasher. Yes, it is a box. It
Speaker 1: is a dirty dish storage box. It runs for like
Speaker 1: an hour to try to save energy somehow, and that
Speaker 1: doesn't really do anything.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating. Got some great stuff on the whole
Speaker 1: climate change Datebockle, and how phony it is, and how
Speaker 1: the entire world, the Western world anyway, is backtracking. Even
Speaker 1: China is from electric vehicles because it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: But so did Trump roll back regulations on that can
Speaker 1: maytag now make a dishwasher like they used to make them, like,
Speaker 1: blast the crap out of them, Blast the crap out
Speaker 1: of your dishes, boiling hot water, powerful chemicals. Right, don't
Speaker 1: you open it up? Your dish has been completely dissolved
Speaker 1: to gear it back a little bit. I don't know that,
Speaker 1: I hope so Greta's unhappy about our disch. You washed
Speaker 1: your own dishes, Greta, but I want a dishwasher and
Speaker 1: wash your dishes. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start the show officially. I'm Rom, I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this and how did they already
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Speaker 1: comes the show. We start at Mark today.
Speaker 2: We're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty,
Speaker 2: beloved leader who galvanized the next generation, like nobody I've
Speaker 2: ever seen before, entering his name forever into the eternal
Speaker 2: roster of true American heroes.
Speaker 1: He's a true American hero, an amazing person, way way
Speaker 1: beyond his years. Chode's listening to Fox as a Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk was given posthumously the American Medal of Freedom, Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor, Medal of Honor. I get the mixed Metal
Speaker 1: of Freedom, right yeah, uh yeah, Medal of Honor is
Speaker 1: what you're like your warriors get right in a battle.
Speaker 1: Metal of Freedom and uh, it was a nice ceremony
Speaker 1: and everything like that. And as listening to Fox, and
Speaker 1: I've seen a variety of stats that church attendance is
Speaker 1: up quite a bit, particularly among the young, Baptisms are
Speaker 1: way up, people getting baptized, and there's more Christian music
Speaker 1: making it on to the charts than previously that I
Speaker 1: don't I can't verify any of those things, but I've
Speaker 1: seen various stats pointing that direction. Hmm. Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: that denied in the liberal media. But I didn't find
Speaker 1: the case they made very convincing. They're citing statistics that
Speaker 1: kind of didn't apply. It's funny that they would go
Speaker 1: to the trouble to deny that because the why does
Speaker 1: that bother you? Yeah, it's what if it's not true?
Speaker 1: So what why don't you report on actual news? Yeah? Exactly,
Speaker 1: report on actual news, which Katie has the headlines of
Speaker 1: coming up in a little bit. And then we got
Speaker 1: more news of the day that we want to get to.
Speaker 1: The ongoing crisis that is Alec Baldwin crashing his Range Rover.
Speaker 1: The video came out yesterday. Please. I think he's an
Speaker 1: old fat man ran into a tree, just driving too fast,
Speaker 1: looking at his phone to open new tree and story. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, we got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1: New Zealand wine company selling non alcoholic wine for dogs
Speaker 1: and cats for your pets. Who took a twist there
Speaker 1: at the end. Have all the details on that coming
Speaker 1: up if your dog wants to catch a buzz huh.
Speaker 1: All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Katie Green and Katie all right, starting Katie,
Speaker 1: I do have this question for you. Okay, what the
Speaker 1: ducks say when he bought chapstick? Just put it on
Speaker 1: my bill. I'm loving this new feature.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, all right, it's more fun than anything.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say here, NBC.
Speaker 3: Body that Hamas returned to Israel is not one of
Speaker 3: the hostages according to the idea.
Speaker 1: Now, like I said, the idea that Hamas was carefully
Speaker 1: cataloging each deceased body and saving it with the name
Speaker 1: and knows exactly where it is and it's in the
Speaker 1: you know, climate controlled vault. I mean that's crazy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: as they're being routed out of the tunnels and bombed
Speaker 1: and shot and rest of it. I will never say
Speaker 1: anything that sounds anything like defending Hamas. But in this case,
Speaker 1: if they say, yeah, we don't know where they are,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably true.
Speaker 3: From CBS News, Supreme Court turns away parental rights dispute
Speaker 3: brought on by Colorado families.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about this coming up maybe next segment.
Speaker 1: What's going on there? Joe will tell us because Joe
Speaker 1: almost went to law school. That's right, very close. From
Speaker 1: Breitbart dot Com.
Speaker 3: Democrat led Oregon on track to spend five hundred million
Speaker 3: dollars more for healthcare program that includes illegals than for
Speaker 3: state police.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, the Pacific Northwest is just crumbling. We've got
Speaker 1: a couple of stories on that. Yeah, keep keep doubling
Speaker 1: down on your progressive policies. It'll work out soon.
Speaker 3: From The Wall Street Journal, China betting it can win
Speaker 3: a trade war, is playing hardball with Trump.
Speaker 1: God dang it, this couldn't get dicey. Yeah, we've got
Speaker 1: some details coming up on that.
Speaker 3: From Fox News, Katie Porter says she regrets viral outbursts
Speaker 3: at reporters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to get into her apology video that
Speaker 1: she put out yesterday. What people when they're a holes,
Speaker 1: they like to go with I don't suffer fools, you
Speaker 1: know that whole thing. Yeah, whatever, Yeah, she's just a
Speaker 1: horrible person. Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, Horrifying images show how flesh
Speaker 3: eating quote zombie drug mammifies addicts and causes their limbs
Speaker 3: to auto amputate.
Speaker 1: Whoa wow, whoa wow wow. Whoas a hell of a sentence. God,
Speaker 1: I'd say, every every time I thought the horror was complete,
Speaker 1: you laid on another lager. Oh you gotta try this
Speaker 1: new drug. It gives you a heck of a buzz
Speaker 1: and your limbs will auto amputate. It's that it's that
Speaker 1: shrank stuff. Oh my god, So your arms legs say
Speaker 1: I want out of here. I'm out of here. Bye bye,
Speaker 1: oh wow.
Speaker 3: From the Hill Altman says Chat GPT will soon allow
Speaker 3: erotica for adults.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I noticed that. So I was going to
Speaker 1: talk about GROC and some of the fun we are
Speaker 1: happening with Groc yesterday, making videos and some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that it wouldn't do, but Chat and GPT is
Speaker 1: saying it will do it soon. Okay.
Speaker 3: From the Independent, Tech prankster sends fifty Waymo driverless taxis
Speaker 3: to dead end street in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, And then what do you do when you're
Speaker 1: in the waimo? You just sit there at the dead
Speaker 1: end street and some point get out. Wi twas a
Speaker 1: cluster f Yeah.
Speaker 3: From study fines, nearly a third of American adults.
Speaker 1: Are still afraid of the dark. Oh I got a
Speaker 1: better one than that about riding bikes for you so
Speaker 1: that we'll fit in. We're all children. Then that fits
Speaker 1: in with that stat perfectly, all right.
Speaker 3: And from the Babylon Bee, Trump retaliates for Peace Prize
Speaker 3: snub with picture of the No Belt Committee wearing sombreros.
Speaker 1: Uh, that's why he's gonna do everybody. Now, if he's
Speaker 1: angry that he puts you in a sombrero in a muscle,
Speaker 1: here's a sombrero. The whole trade war between China and
Speaker 1: the United States is not getting near the attention that
Speaker 1: it should. The two biggest economies in the world are
Speaker 1: going at it, and because of the Middle East stuff
Speaker 1: and everything like that, it's been ignored. But we'll get
Speaker 1: into that among other things on the ways to stay here.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Also attending the event Argentina's President Javier Milai, who was
Speaker 4: at the White House today to talk tariffs and a
Speaker 4: twenty billion dollar currency swap to help stabilize the cash
Speaker 4: strapped country's volatile financial markets ahead of critical elections.
Speaker 2: If he loses, we are not going to be generous
Speaker 2: with Argentina.
Speaker 1: Uh, that is not the clip I wanted. Okay, they're mislabeled,
Speaker 1: I guess because we're gonna talk about China, China trying
Speaker 1: to drive a wedge with soybeans and other things with
Speaker 1: this whole trade war thing that we got going on.
Speaker 1: And I came across this other headline that just landed
Speaker 1: from the Washington Times, China's new export export controls on
Speaker 1: rare earth minerals that they announced last week and products
Speaker 1: made from them reflect a bid to dominate world markets
Speaker 1: for the strategic material since the nineteen nineties, and they're
Speaker 1: using it in their trade war. And then the story
Speaker 1: that we did not hear China trying to drive a
Speaker 1: wedge over soy beans, which is an economic hostile act.
Speaker 1: Also Trump announcing after the Rare Earth deal, okay, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent tariff on everything from China starting November first.
Speaker 1: And that's where we are today. Yeah, shij In Ping's
Speaker 1: betting we can't take a long trade war with them,
Speaker 1: according to people close to Beijing's decision making who apparently
Speaker 1: are talking to the American media or something. Right, that's interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are people close to Jijing being talking to the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal? But go on. China's holding a firm line,
Speaker 1: according to the journal, because of its conviction that an
Speaker 1: escalating trade war will tank US market as it did
Speaker 1: in April after Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, and
Speaker 1: China expects the prospect of another market meltdown ultimately will
Speaker 1: force Trump to negotiate and an expected summit with she
Speaker 1: late this month. That's not a bad theory from China
Speaker 1: that we are not just Trump, but the whole country.
Speaker 1: We are so day by day short term thinkers with
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is terrible or oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is great. That if the market's tank, uh, there'll
Speaker 1: be all kinds of political pressure to do something different.
Speaker 1: Whereas obviously in a dictatorship, Shiji Pink can hold the
Speaker 1: line on anything as long as he wants right, yeah,
Speaker 1: orrow whatever, wait for whatever to deprive the people of
Speaker 1: whatever does. So that's a pretty good plan. China restricts
Speaker 1: a bunch of things, burn soybeans, rare earth metals. We
Speaker 1: try to retaliate the market's tank. We chicken out, and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't just be taco Trump always chickens out. It'd
Speaker 1: be the whole country would chicken out, and China would
Speaker 1: hold firm. That's not a bad theory, no, as they
Speaker 1: continue to make progress toward being the superpower they long
Speaker 1: to be and keep us on the line as the
Speaker 1: weirdest frenemy in the history of really international relations. On
Speaker 1: his Truth social platform, Trump said the US is considering
Speaker 1: terminating business with China on cooking, oil, and other elements
Speaker 1: of trade because of China's refusal to buy US soybeans
Speaker 1: a decision. Beijing has said his retaliation for Trump's own tariffs,
Speaker 1: We're gonna deny them. They're cooking oil. What'll they do now? Bake?
Speaker 1: It's often funny to me when I read these stories
Speaker 1: and they throw in terms like soybeans or cooking oil
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I, like you and everybody else, you
Speaker 1: have no concept of how big a deal that is,
Speaker 1: you know, none. You just have to assume that it is.
Speaker 1: And this is the way trade wars go. I guess
Speaker 1: one side does something, then the other side does something back,
Speaker 1: and it's just back and forth, tip for tatt till
Speaker 1: you things get crazy. Is that the way it always works?
Speaker 1: I guess so yeah. Frequently, yeah, and then they get
Speaker 1: together and talk and wind things down a little bit.
Speaker 1: But why it has to go through the initial phase,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the showing that we're really, really
Speaker 1: serious phase. I guess yeah. On the other hand, while
Speaker 1: Shiji and Ping doesn't have to worry about the daily
Speaker 1: stock market and cable news bad mouthing him or whatever,
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal says China's own economy has been
Speaker 1: in a protracted downturn, weighed down by a collapsed property market,
Speaker 1: which we've talked about a lot. There are millions and
Speaker 1: millions of empty high rises around China. Ever, rising debts
Speaker 1: and weakening consumer confidence. However, she is far less beholding
Speaker 1: the market swoons, as I just said, even though the
Speaker 1: Chinese economy faces pure a precarious outlook. Yeah, but he
Speaker 1: is beholden to other high ranking members of the Communist
Speaker 1: Party that wouldn't mind if he got a bullet in
Speaker 1: his head if the economy went down too much, because
Speaker 1: that's the way dictatorships work, right, right, One more bit
Speaker 1: of information. According to the people close to Beishing's decision making,
Speaker 1: She's hardline strategy is based on the belief Trump will
Speaker 1: ultimately fold and off for concessions rather than deployee Washington's
Speaker 1: own significant leverage. The confidence was fueled by a US
Speaker 1: China trade truce stuck in May. Trump had imposed tariffs
Speaker 1: of more than one hundred percent on Chinese products, but
Speaker 1: relented after Beijing used its leverage. Is the world's most
Speaker 1: important exporter of rare earth magnets. I think you mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: did you not that we actually are sitting on lots
Speaker 1: and lots of the rare earth materials we've just not
Speaker 1: been willing to mine them because of environmental concerns and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. This is not something that I know,
Speaker 1: as I'm not an expert in this area, but I
Speaker 1: was looking at a tweet from John Stossel, which I
Speaker 1: will try to find for you right now. China recently
Speaker 1: made it harder to import rare earth minerals, metals needed
Speaker 1: to make phones, electric vehicles, all kinds of defense tech,
Speaker 1: fighter planes and stuff like that, a lot of our
Speaker 1: AI stuff. This shouldn't be a problem. America is full
Speaker 1: of those minerals. It's only a problem because our government
Speaker 1: makes mining almost impossible in this country. According to John Stotswell,
Speaker 1: who's usually right about this sort of thing, right, that
Speaker 1: one surprise me. No, no, not at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: for christ A Loud, we import oil, but we could
Speaker 1: easily dig for ourselves. So yeah, that's especially phony because
Speaker 1: we're the cleanest, most careful oil extractors on the planet,
Speaker 1: and we go ahead and to have our hands clean
Speaker 1: and our starched white shirts untouched by the dirt that
Speaker 1: would result from mining or drilling. We have these awful
Speaker 1: countries that don't give a damn about polluting and human
Speaker 1: rights and the rest of US dig or drill for
Speaker 1: our oil forests. It's it's one of the most ridiculous, hypocritical,
Speaker 1: limousine liberal things we do. But am I I'm economics
Speaker 1: is not my area. I'm not interested enough into it
Speaker 1: or to read a lot about it, and I never
Speaker 1: have in my life. But it just seems to me
Speaker 1: that a one tariff on everything from China landing November first,
Speaker 1: during Christmas shopping season would be a crazy development for
Speaker 1: the economy. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I don't think
Speaker 1: we have the will as a people there are I mean,
Speaker 1: the polls are actually kind of encouraging, showing that most
Speaker 1: Americans understand China as a serious, serious rival. But I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we're willing to go full austerity, you know,
Speaker 1: world War two, butter rationing stamps, well, that makes the
Speaker 1: price of everything that comes out of China. We saw
Speaker 1: them the iPhone thing originally when they were talking tariffs
Speaker 1: on how you know it's it's not just a straight
Speaker 1: line you can draw from one on the current price
Speaker 1: to figure out what it is. Sometimes it's multiples more
Speaker 1: and on, you know, whether it's iPhone or cheap plastic
Speaker 1: piece of crap toy you're going to buy your kid
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, it's going to be two, three,
Speaker 1: five times as expensive. No way we're gonna put up
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, you know, I was going to say,
Speaker 1: we need a national prog of the toys your kids
Speaker 1: sick of. Let's just have a big swap of thon.
Speaker 1: No kidding, God, because thrift stores are Yeah, but somebody
Speaker 1: should or eBay. It's like, my son's really into these
Speaker 1: high end whether you called a consignment clothing store or whatever,
Speaker 1: used clothes and they're really hot right now. Like my
Speaker 1: college town has got like three that have started in
Speaker 1: the last year and they do really, really well. And
Speaker 1: it's basically what you're just talking about. It's like I
Speaker 1: bought these really expensive jeans. I'm not going to give
Speaker 1: them a good will. I mean they were really expensive.
Speaker 1: I'll sell them for you know, a third what I
Speaker 1: paid for them. I'll easily pay you a third for
Speaker 1: what those expensive jeens. And that has become a market
Speaker 1: we should surely there's got to be a way to
Speaker 1: do that for toys and all kinds of gadgets. Like
Speaker 1: I got this for my kids. This thing costs three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. They played with it for two weeks. I'd
Speaker 1: like it for my kids. I'll give you one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty. Yeah, it's got it. Just eBay. I think
Speaker 1: for some reason that doesn't work that way. We need
Speaker 1: like a some something's missing there to make that work
Speaker 1: the right way. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's a good idea. It's a well,
Speaker 1: you know what the problem is. You're your own consignment shop,
Speaker 1: and you have to deal with the you know, the
Speaker 1: logistics and the shipping and and the payment and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. Yeah. Yeah, like these does help. Like
Speaker 1: these high end uh consignment clothes or used clothes or
Speaker 1: whatever they are. The people that run them have a
Speaker 1: real sense of what's popular and everything like that. It's
Speaker 1: and and and and have that stuff in stock and
Speaker 1: have it laid out in such a way that you
Speaker 1: can find it easily and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what you need with kids, crap, whatever's hot, you
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of them. I know where to
Speaker 1: find it. That could work. That's a that's a gazillion
Speaker 1: dollar idea. If you could just come up with the
Speaker 1: infrastructure toy consignment shop. Yeah, I don't know. Why you
Speaker 1: would call it needs a name, like my kid got
Speaker 1: sick of this in a week? Is the name of
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Speaker 1: no longer play with, just stuff you don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice if you could get somebody to break
Speaker 1: in your house and only steal the stuff you'd be
Speaker 1: happy to have gone. Wouldn't that be handy Because I
Speaker 1: got lots of stuff in my house that it really
Speaker 1: wouldn't be awful if it just disappeared. So if you could,
Speaker 1: if you could break into my house and take everything
Speaker 1: in that room, I wouldn't even miss it. So what
Speaker 1: you're calling for in your really futuristic, not at all
Speaker 1: idiotic idea is a thief with a specific shopping list
Speaker 1: exactly well, because the one Mary Kids there was a
Speaker 1: break in, yeah, and the One More Thing podcast we
Speaker 1: were talking about this. Yesterday. I was out at the
Speaker 1: farm and still gathering up stuff from getting divorced, that
Speaker 1: stuff in boxes that I've been taking around the country
Speaker 1: for years, and then it's just it's why am I
Speaker 1: hanging onto it? And it should have some value to somebody.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, But if you're the sort of
Speaker 1: person that gets rid of crap, old crap that you
Speaker 1: don't use, whether it's clothes or electronics or I don't know,
Speaker 1: just everything that accumulates. Too many bulls, plates and spoons.
Speaker 1: Why am I hanging onto these? I don't use these anymore?
Speaker 1: Do I think the current ones are gonna break at
Speaker 1: some point? And I don't even know what I'm doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just something deep in our caveman brain, and everybody
Speaker 1: has it to varying degrees that if something is still usable,
Speaker 1: it's valuable, maybe not very valuable, but has some value,
Speaker 1: it's hard for us to trash it. Yeah, man, oh man,
Speaker 1: do I struggle with that. I got to get better
Speaker 1: at it. I know that's the What was that woman
Speaker 1: that came up with that theory? The way you need
Speaker 1: to go through your house and see if things bring
Speaker 1: you joy? Yeah, what's her face? Get rid of all
Speaker 1: the stuff that doesn't bring you joy? Hey? My final
Speaker 1: final note back to the question of China and all,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll get to this later, but Jamie Diamond,
Speaker 1: head guy at JP Morgan Chase, just announced a ten year,
Speaker 1: one and a half trillion dollar effort to facilitate finance
Speaker 1: and invest in industries crucial to national security and what
Speaker 1: he calls economic resilience to make us less dependent on China.
Speaker 1: So that's an interesting development. We'll look at it in
Speaker 1: a little while. Yeah, and then in light of that
Speaker 1: Great Britain story where they're not even allowed to call
Speaker 1: China an enemy, which they clearly are. I mean, you
Speaker 1: heard us talking about the sixty minute story yesterday where
Speaker 1: China is hacking into I'm sure they're doing in Great
Speaker 1: Britain the same thing they're doing here, hacking into every
Speaker 1: part of Great Britain's infrastructure. You know who does that?
Speaker 1: An enemy? An enemy to your countries? Who does that?
Speaker 1: But they're an enemy that has so much leverage over
Speaker 1: us we won't say the word. And a bunch of
Speaker 1: cheap plastic crap that we want to buy in including
Speaker 1: other stuff to important stuff. We got mail bag on
Speaker 1: the way. Lots to talk about today. I hope you
Speaker 1: can stay here. The Department of Justice made the world's
Speaker 1: largest ever crypto seizure. We'll have to read about that later.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how does a seizure of crypto work.
Speaker 1: I guess you just hack into a computer or something. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Trump just threatened to take the world cup away from
Speaker 1: Boston if they don't get their policing under control. I
Speaker 1: have no idea if he's got the power to do
Speaker 1: that or not, But anyway, we'll have that story later too.
Speaker 1: The whole narrative that he's trying to institute some sort
Speaker 1: of dictatorship, martial law, blah blah blas. It's silly, but
Speaker 1: at some point, when you got federal troops or National
Speaker 1: Guard in like ten cities, it's starting to look a
Speaker 1: little weird. Right Yeah. Yeah, Your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 1: today you'll have to wait till tomorrow because my internet
Speaker 1: just died and I had a great quote from Jason
Speaker 1: Riley of the Wall Street Journal ready to go about
Speaker 1: how we need to stop any sort of racial jerrymandering.
Speaker 1: It's not nineteen sixty five anymore, and to rearrange voters
Speaker 1: by race is a racist and be unproductive, and I
Speaker 1: agree completely. He said it more pithily, but we'll let
Speaker 1: have that. That's our freedom loving idea of the day.
Speaker 1: Mailbag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Giddy dot com. Yesterday, you might recall that Brian sent
Speaker 1: along a story that he said it would be cheerful
Speaker 1: and help get us away from being the most depressing
Speaker 1: radio show on Earth, and I found a depressing angle
Speaker 1: to it and put him in his place. Today Brian plucky.
Speaker 1: Brian has come back with a Dare to be Joyous
Speaker 1: Part two story awesome, no downside to this one. It's
Speaker 1: great and we'll get to it next hour. Go really encouraging.
Speaker 1: Well done, Brian, Right moving along, Come on here. Two
Speaker 1: emails in a row with precisely the same title, Change
Speaker 1: the Law. Ran in Houston writes, Dear Big Freedom, the
Speaker 1: cold Warrior and old simple Jack. So Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: doesn't like what Ice is doing. Has to suck that
Speaker 1: you can't do anything about it? If only they're there
Speaker 1: was a branch of the government to make and pass laws,
Speaker 1: some sort of legislative branch to be coequal to our
Speaker 1: God Emperor. Has any country tried that? Ah boy, very good,
Speaker 1: pithy and delightful. And then second change the Law email.
Speaker 1: This is from Evan and beautiful Raleigh, California, right down
Speaker 1: the road from my brother. Been a loyal listener since
Speaker 1: I was a freshman in high school. Now thirty seven
Speaker 1: with my second son on the way. Sorry for making
Speaker 1: us all feel old. I wanted to follow up on
Speaker 1: your discussion about illegal immigration. Sound like you were saying
Speaker 1: it might technically be the law that someone here illegally
Speaker 1: should be deported, but that it's not necessarily right. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was more or less my argument. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are nuances to it, but he says I get that,
Speaker 1: and I think most people understand why many come here
Speaker 1: for opportunity and are not heartless toward those who built
Speaker 1: lives here. But as Jack often says, if we don't
Speaker 1: like it, change the law. Someone who drove drunk ten
Speaker 1: years ago but was never caught still broke the law.
Speaker 1: Same logic applies here. Compassion matters. But as you've said,
Speaker 1: order without compassion is authority arianism, I usually say brutality
Speaker 1: and compassion without order is chaos. Change the law. I
Speaker 1: still stand by that. I guess anytime anybody comments on anything,
Speaker 1: I should comment, I should say, am I talking politics
Speaker 1: or am I talking the law? I think politically, Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green might have a ton of people on her side,
Speaker 1: including people of mega people. Yep, yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: context for us, we were talking about how much support
Speaker 1: there would be for you know what's going on. But
Speaker 1: he does make one more interesting point. MTG isn't a
Speaker 1: true believer. She's protecting her political interests in the cheap
Speaker 1: labor status quo, which is equally despicable. Talks about our district.
Speaker 1: They they've been here in work hard argument just keeps
Speaker 1: that cycle going, the roiling of the political parties and
Speaker 1: what they are, you know, the working class moving to
Speaker 1: the Republican Party under Trump. And now you've got this
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor green Crow. How big that is? I don't know.
Speaker 1: That says, you know, there's a whole bunch of illegals
Speaker 1: here working in my district and they probably ought to stay.
Speaker 1: And she's saying, my kids are on the Obamacare and
Speaker 1: their healthcare is gonna double. So what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: She wants to extend the Obamacare subsidies. So is she
Speaker 1: carving out like a different thing or is that gonna
Speaker 1: work itself out between the two parties. I don't know.
Speaker 1: MSNBC offered her a show. Maybe I don't know, and
Speaker 1: then Evan signs off. Thanks for decades of entertainment, level
Speaker 1: headed commentary. You've been calling balls and strikes long before
Speaker 1: it was popular to do so. Evan, it's much more
Speaker 1: popular to chuck bombs and conspiracy theories and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. We're stupid for doing what we do, but
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Oh, we're stupid. What see Oh?
Speaker 1: And then JT and livermore with a note about Barry Weiss,
Speaker 1: who I want to talk about a little bit more,
Speaker 1: saying that if Barry just changes the political news formula
Speaker 1: from Republicans pounced to something more even handed, it will
Speaker 1: have a huge impact on how news is perceived. That
Speaker 1: and the daily more balanced approach to news stories could
Speaker 1: have a monumental impact on the nation's politics. That's a
Speaker 1: good point. You see when the Duck bought chapstick and said,
Speaker 1: just put it on my bill, it's his lips are
Speaker 1: too complicated. And I don't know if it's that complicated.
Speaker 1: I think you understand ducks don't have lips. The Supreme
Speaker 1: Court and whether or not they're going to take up
Speaker 1: that Colorado trans case is an interesting one, among things
Speaker 1: other things. An Hour two Armstrong and Getty