1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong. 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: And Jetty and he arms Range. I'm gonna drink all 4 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: the coffee today. I'm drinking all of it. Alert peru 5 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: ye into it. 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: If you want a cup of coffee, you better get 7 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: it down because I'm breaking all the coffee. I'll put 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: the crop to the donkeys. 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 2: I'm gonna be back in the er. 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: Coffee related live from Studio C see sign. You're a 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: dimly lit room deeper than the bowels the Armstrong and 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today Friday, we're heading into 13 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: a Friday weekend. We're under the tutelage of our general manager. 14 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: She's back, ten, rested and ready. Kamala Harris, Honorary Honorary 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: General manager Radioactive. WASPS stayed with us, and of course 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: Trump dropped what sixty eight tariffs last night before we 17 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: everybody went to bed. That's very exciting news with August 18 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: first statement, all that sort of stuff, is it? Is 19 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: it exciting news? Well, it's a big deal in terms 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: of like rejiggering the way the world does business in 21 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: a way that's completely different than what it's been our 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: whole lives. 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: So we'll see how this all turns out. 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, there are several aspects to that story that 25 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to talking about, believe it or not, 26 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,839 Speaker 1: and they're interesting. For instance, the big appeals court hearing 27 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: the other day or yesterday, Eh, doesn't look great for 28 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: the administration. These tariffs might come and go like it 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: danced Christ Well, but so when are they gonna make 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: that ruling? It seems like any minute now. It seems 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: like if the courts think, dude, you can't do this. 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: I mean, there's been a lot of wasted blabber and inkspilled. 33 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: Talking about this. 34 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: If the courts say he can't do that, oh okay, 35 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: well never mind, we go back to the way things 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: were before. 37 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 2: What the hell? 38 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: Right right? Let's see, is there timing for a decision? 39 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: Do it? I hear? You know you're your point is 40 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: well taken. You know I don't. I don't have that information. 41 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: Interesting oral arguments were yesterday. I'll tell you all about them. 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: I Mean, if there's ever been a case for like 43 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: expediting a decision, this would be it. I would agree. 44 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: We hit he hit Canada with a thirty five percent 45 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: tariff that starts today. I say, you sent a Celine Dion, 46 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: this is fair. Wow. Whatever it takes to even out 47 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: that atrocity. Wow. 48 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: But that that's that's a pretty big deal. 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: Thirty five percent tariff on everything coming out of Canada, 50 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: and everybody up there's man and people don't like us anymore, 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. It's horrible and it's horrible and 52 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: it's dumb and it needs to stop. There you go. 53 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: I said it, Joe Giddy addressed your emails to me. 54 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: It's horrible and it's dumb, and it needs to stop. 55 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna crush American car makers, who, because of the 56 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: trade deal Trump made in the first term, source a 57 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,279 Speaker 1: lot of their parts from Canada and Mexico. So American 58 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: cardialers like Ford is going to get hammered by the tariffs. 59 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: BMW not so much. Explain that to me, Well, I 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: didn't want Camela to win, so I have a different 61 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: opinion than you. Oh okay, And I also don't like Celene, 62 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: and I also don't like Celine Dion. I thought it 63 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: was interesting that clear Trump had to because of this 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: court ruling you're talking about. Because he's leaning on his 65 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: emergency powers. He had to double down on the whole 66 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: they haven't done enough around fentanyl thing yesterday to try 67 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: to make the argument that this is about fentanyl, even 68 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: though he said earlier in the day, or had truthed 69 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: out earlier in the day that he was very angry 70 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: about them recognizing Palestine as a state that and they 71 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: tied that to the tariff decision. So I think that's 72 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: what had the beat that was in his bonnet, Palestine, 73 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: not fentanyl. But he can't say that because he can't 74 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: claim there's an emergency around They don't have the same 75 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: foreign policy as US, although he slammed Brazil with big 76 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: tariffs because he doesn't like the way they're treating old Bullscenaro, 77 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: the ex president. But he mean, it's just here's a 78 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: conservative publication's first two sentences about the arguments before the 79 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: Federal circuit yesterday. Well, that was painful for the Trump 80 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: administration's lawyer. 81 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 2: That is, well, you never know how courts are going 82 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: to rule, but they. 83 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: Can need to get sometimes, you do know, sometimes you 84 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: know they need to get to it would be my point. 85 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: Employers added only seventy three thousand jobs in July, falling 86 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: quite a bit short of what experts were predicted. And 87 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: as we all know, what experts for predicting is the 88 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: whole ball of axe. For some reason, I have no 89 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: idea why, even though experts are regularly wrong, it's like 90 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: the Bible to me. By those experts hit me with 91 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: a prediction, I just take it hard. But does this 92 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: have anything to do with tariffs or not? I don't 93 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: flip and know neither does anybody did not reach expectations. 94 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 2: I gotta go. 95 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: We're your expectation. We got a good clip. Maybe we'll 96 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: get to bottom of the hour. Segment from MSNBC last night. 97 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: I was watching their late night show before I went 98 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: to bed, and the host hit their guest with us, 99 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: so this is another taco huh, trying to set up 100 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: for a good Trump bashing from her economic expert, and 101 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: they went completely the other direction. And it's pretty interesting 102 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: to hear about. No, No, this is real. This is 103 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: a really big deal. Whether or not it's going to 104 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: turn out good or not, who knows. It'll take time 105 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: to find out. But this is a big deal. We 106 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: have changed the way the world does business for better 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: or worse. That whole taco narrative is so stupid. How 108 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: can an adult not see the stupidity of it? Well, 109 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: I don't negotiated well, right right, Like I said the 110 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: other day, I have you never sold a used car 111 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: you didn't like, have a price that you were planning 112 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: to back off on, or to taco for you always 113 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: back out? Or was your plan all along to list 114 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: it for sixty five and sold for six? Right? Right? 115 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: You know? And I mean this point quite seriously, and 116 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: this underlies many of the biggest problems we have with 117 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: the left in American politics. People of the left, generally speaking, 118 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm going you know, just you know, a large percentage 119 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: of them do not understand the very fundamentals of business 120 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,799 Speaker 1: and economics. They look at it through an emotional lens 121 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: or a justice lens, and they have no idea how 122 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: goods and services are bought and sold and traded. But 123 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't understand why Democrats aren't leaning well, Democrats have 124 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: kind of been proteriffs though my life, so I suppose 125 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: maybe that put him an uncomfortable position. Like you know, 126 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: Bernie Biden didn't roll back any of the tariffs that 127 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: Trump had from his first term. No, so no, there 128 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: you go. You could have done that the same day 129 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: he released all the Epstein files that are so obsessed 130 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: with all of a sudden, it's all so funny. 131 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: Yeah it is. Let's start the show officially. 132 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: We don't want the FCC breathing down her necks and 133 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: we get thrown into that l Salvador prison. I'm armstrong, 134 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Oh my god, 135 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: it's a brand new month. It's Friday, August the first. 136 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: The rent is due. The rent it's too damn year, 137 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We're armstrong and getting and we approve 138 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: of this program. You know that clip. Do we have 139 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: any idea how old that clip is? The rent is 140 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: too damn high. 141 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: It's very old. 142 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: But back when the guy first said that, it was 143 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: like true where he lived, but not really true generally. 144 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: Now it's so very true everywhere. He was a less 145 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: slick mum Dami back in the day running for mayor 146 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: in New York. You know oka rent is too damn 147 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: high party, Yes, yeah, two thousand and nine. Yeah, And 148 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: I remember at the time it is like it is 149 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: just kind of funny. But now it's like every month 150 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know mine is it's two damn 151 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: I it's ridiculous. Yeah, brutal, brutal. All right, let's begin 152 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: the show officially now. According to FCC rules of regulations, 153 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: here we go at Mark. If we don't put a 154 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: stake into the heart of this administration, there may not 155 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: be an election at twenty twenty eight. Oh my god, 156 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: I'll see Gavy. Cute little Gavy didn't get the memo 157 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,119 Speaker 1: that whole apocalyptic Hitler there won't be any more elections thing. Yeah, 158 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: everybody's kind of laughing at that now. So and again, 159 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: you're part of a one party state. You don't ever 160 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: have to like compete, so your game is very very soft, 161 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: GAF very soft to. 162 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 2: The rent being two damn high. 163 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: I was listening to a podcast the other day about 164 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: housing prices, and this isn't new. We've had this conversation before, 165 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: but the whole housing market nationwide is still stuck and 166 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: nobody knows how it's going to get out of it, 167 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: which is why rents are two ti am I've got 168 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: if you're if you're an a loan in a house, 169 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: that's like two point eighty five percent, like we got 170 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: on our farm. Or you know, some really low rate. 171 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: You are not going to move. I mean unless you 172 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: somebody dies or you get real I mean some major 173 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 1: life event. But you just you can't move. 174 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: I mean, even if you're. 175 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: Planning to downsize, why would I go to half the 176 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: house and end up with the same payment. 177 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: So, I mean, it's just there's no math that works 178 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 2: on it, and. 179 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: So and so people aren't leaving or I don't know 180 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 1: how we ever get unstuck from this. Well, and even 181 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: if you own your house free and clear, and you're 182 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: saying oldster and you want to downsize, it's just galling right. 183 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: Just you know, maybe you're selling a forty five hundred 184 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: square foot house for a two thousand square foot house 185 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: that's the same price you just sold your old place for. 186 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: There's nothing for your kids and ground kids or whatever, 187 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: and you're thinking, well, the hell just happened. Yeah, it's 188 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: hard to come up with a well an economic reason 189 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: that you would that houses would start moving. I don't 190 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: know how that ever breaks free and and and we 191 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: all have stuck in our heads those old interest rates 192 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: that are never going to come back in our lifetimes. Now, 193 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: you're not going to be buying a house at you know, 194 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: under three percent interest. Ever, again, as I've said many times, 195 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: and there is no better metaphor than this, go to 196 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: your spouse and say, honey, you remember on our honeymoon 197 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: when we had sex fourteen times that week. I've noticed 198 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: that we're not anymore. That those those interest rates are 199 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: every bit as unrealistic as your honeymoon loving not coming back. Wow, 200 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: that's an interesting comparison. Well, I think it rings true. 201 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: So we've got Katie's headlines on the way, we got 202 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: clips of the week, we got mail bag, we got 203 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: some other news we need to get to and it's 204 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: and it's just going to be a party. 205 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 2: It's going to be a Friday party. 206 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: It's going to be an August first Friday party. That's 207 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: what it's going to beat. 208 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: See Kamala agrees. 209 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: Thanks Tommy. So we got a lot on the way. 210 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: Here's our text line FOURC. So on Fridays I drive 211 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: to work listening to music instead of news because I 212 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: can't take it anymore. This week I went with Stgil 213 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: Simpson's album Meta Modern Sounds in Country Music that won 214 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: so many Grammys and critical acclaim from ten years ago. 215 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: God dang it, that's a good album. If you're a 216 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: country like a real country music fan like outlock country, 217 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: and you haven't listened to that album, God put that 218 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: on your list this weekend. Holy crap, excellent tip. I 219 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: was elbow deep in tariff policy. Well, Jack is gallivanting 220 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: barf all right, jamming that music the windows down, driving 221 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: to work, thinking what do I have? What tariffs? Good 222 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: for you? Were you smoking a Jay as well? People 223 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: called them judge, judge as you people called them. That's 224 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: funny that time. Half that song is about smoking Jay's 225 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: expect This is much all right, Let's figure out who's 226 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: reporting what. For goodness sakes, it's the lead story with 227 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: Katie Dame Katie. Well, for goodness sakes, let's start with ABC. 228 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 3: Russia launches sixty four hundred drones and missiles into Ukraine 229 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 3: in record breaking months. 230 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: Sixty four hundred for the month. 231 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is one of the reasons that 232 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: Trump has soured on Putin because that is no indication. 233 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 2: So, like I said the other day, I. 234 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: Guess his plan is to somehow one day overwhelm their systems, right, oh, 235 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: clearly absolutely deplete their their supplies. Yea. 236 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 2: Mostly here's here's a question for you. 237 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: Never mind what I want or what would be good, 238 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: I just find it interesting. Putin and Medjedgev's a name 239 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: that is impossible for most people to say their open 240 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: disdain and mockery of Trump. 241 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 2: How is that going. 242 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: To be useful? Just strategically speaking, I don't get it. 243 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: And normally, even as I recognize Putin's evil, I understand 244 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: why he's doing what he's doing, But is just is 245 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: he trying? Is he trying to bait NATO and being 246 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: into war with NATO? Last night, We're gonna use up 247 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: all Katie's headlinestimet. Last night, Lavrov put out a big 248 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: statement about how all the European countries are part of 249 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: the Fourth Reich returning and nazis trying to boost Ukraine, 250 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: and that sounded like they're egging on a war with NATO. 251 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: From NBC, Epstein abuse survivor wanted the files released before 252 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,479 Speaker 3: her suicide. 253 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 2: Wow, wonder what she thinks is in the files? 254 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: Her family has a lot to say. 255 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: Okay, I want to. 256 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: Hear them all. Let's hear them. Yeah. From the New 257 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: York Times. 258 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 3: With a new forty percent tariff, Trump takes aim at 259 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 3: US dependence on China's factories. 260 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: Yeah kind of. Boy, it's complicated, all right. 261 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 3: From Popular Science Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight 262 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 3: invasive pythons. 263 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: I like it. Plays. 264 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 2: There's a lot there, robot bunnies taking on pythons. 265 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, straight out of money Python, the Holy Grail, by 266 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: the way, innocent looking bunny just flashes its steely teeth 267 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: and just kick some python. But I think I've had 268 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: the right amount of coffee. My heart is palpitating. Keep 269 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: an eye on me, Michael, got it, Jack. 270 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 3: Turn your heart rate monitor on on your iPhone or 271 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 3: your Apple Watch. 272 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: That's a good idea. 273 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 3: New York Post drunk wyoming traveler steals golf cart and 274 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: goes on destructive ride at Buffalo International Airport. 275 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: Boy, that's a good way to get you shared life goals. 276 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: Come on, do that well? Sure it sounds fun, yes, 277 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: but they don't. They don't play around with the whole 278 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: security thing at airports, you know, Michael ms try to 279 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: get four ounces of toothpaste through the line, you'll find 280 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: out f a fo baby, Michael, i'mso sorry. How much 281 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: time do I have? It depends on how many days 282 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: you go to the gym. I go. I go four 283 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: to five days a week, and you probably you probably 284 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: got thirty years. Thirty years. 285 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: I'm gonna lived a sixty six. 286 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: I realized how young you were after I said that 287 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: so much. 288 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 3: Uh Okay, I've got two Babylon B headlines for you 289 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: because I couldn't decide between one. So the first one 290 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 3: is investigation concludes that Trump is the only one who 291 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 3: didn't collude with Russia. 292 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. Boy, there's some new stuff on that that came 293 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: out yesterday. It has a lot of attention from the 294 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: Trump side of the aisle, right right, And it's so 295 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: stupid that that's the way we are as a people, 296 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: But it is. I was struck in reading about that. 297 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: The number of stories that are really really important and 298 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: they affect our lives and they matter to the republic, 299 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: but they take a little bit of explaining. You can't 300 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: do them in thirty seconds. Therefore they are utterly absent 301 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: from the national discussion. And a lot of so called 302 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: journalism too. If it takes more than a thirty seconds, 303 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: they think, no, it's kind of boring. People won't listen 304 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: to this. 305 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 3: So I picked this second Babylon BEE headline to start 306 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 3: a fight. 307 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I'm hear. Daing man man with. 308 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 3: Strong urge to eat a wicker basket settles for truskets instead. 309 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, now, Dari, I know, I know, I know. 310 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: It's delicious and frenchy cracker about delicious. It's a good 311 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: it's a good platform for something else. 312 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: But it is chewing on. 313 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: Hey, you could. You could dismantle a wicker basket and 314 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: accomplished the same thing the soft soft generation Z or 315 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: whatever you are. You are you wrote the olive oil 316 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: and rosemary trisk it for the sophisticated non child palette. 317 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: It is absolutely delicious. It is crap. 318 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 3: If you have to dress it up that much, well, go. 319 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: Eat an oreo system shred are strong and getty. A 320 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: jobs report just out that will challenge the Fed to 321 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: want to cut rates, which is what Trump wanted all along. Anyway, 322 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: we can get it into some of the analysis of 323 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: these new jobs numbers in just a moment. Ah. Yes. 324 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: One of the great aspects of Friday, assigned from the 325 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: fact that we don't have to do this thinking job tomorrow, 326 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: is that it's uh Friday tradition. Time to take a 327 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: fond look back at the week that was it's cow 328 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: clips of the week. Here's so much quote that the 329 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: Fed won't cut what the oh my, oh my. 330 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 3: God, yeah, I no one's picked the objects up yet. 331 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: You got to go my gosh, okay, oh no, oh no, 332 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: oh no, she don't go ahead to the back. 333 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 2: Did you get to see my driver in the first hall? 334 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: You get it straight pretty long? 335 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 2: That stowed Joe Biden. 336 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: I thought was a flipplant, flippant flippery Wow what now? 337 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 3: I came out of that book of Vietnam that in 338 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 3: age ten years of two hundred pages. 339 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 2: I terrifying you drug trying to sweeping our streets. 340 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: It's called seven hydroxy, but someone calling it gastation. Heroin 341 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: footed showing people attacking a man who has shoved to 342 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: the ground and kicked several times. There's too much going 343 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: on in this country. That's people's do process rights and 344 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: freed him. The speech rights and. 345 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 2: Secret police are running around this country. 346 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: You've show people that work for me. I said, don't 347 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: ever do that again. He did it again, and I 348 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: threw him out of the place. I think you worked 349 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: at the spot. I think so cash. 350 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 3: Burned eye Russian gay materials and. 351 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 2: He said, what burd Bank? So you said, appointed a 352 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 2: nnamed burden Bank. 353 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: The President shrinking his fifty day deadline for Putin to 354 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: reach a ceasefire. I'm going to make a new deadline 355 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: of about ten, ten or twelve days. 356 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 2: I should be working right now. Instead, I'm putting mine 357 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 2: at gym. 358 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: I wonder if this will help me win back Fainkking, 359 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: because that's actually more believable. Sometimes the fight takes a while. 360 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble 361 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: for getting uncomfortably close, seeming to sniff her. What are 362 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: you doing? Chans are passed on from parents to offspring, 363 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: often determining traits, car color, personality, and even eye color. 364 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney has great genes. The coun good cheans activates 365 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: a troubling historical associations. 366 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 3: You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue 367 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 3: eyes and great genes while zooming in on somebody that 368 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 3: could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster. 369 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: These ma Caque monkeys. You can't say that on the air. 370 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,239 Speaker 1: I think I can. I'm cringing it. I know, I 371 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: love the Caqus. 372 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 2: SIPs operatic. That's what that is? 373 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: AI guy can really hold a note? Huh. So the 374 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: Dow Jones industrial averages down about five hundred points currently. 375 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: Is it on the tariff news of last night? Is 376 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: it on the jobs numbers that just came out? 377 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: Who knows? 378 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: The headline is that the labor market is worse than 379 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: previously thought because they downgraded the last two months. So 380 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: you had a week number come out today and then 381 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: the two months before that they downgraded those numbers, say 382 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: we were wrong. They were lower than we thought. So 383 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: that means the labor market being worse than previously thought. 384 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,239 Speaker 1: Showing the United States created about one hundred and six 385 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: thousand total jobs in the past three months. That's the 386 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: weakest pace of growth since the twenty twenty pandemics started, 387 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: which is not necessarily good. And then the Wall Street 388 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: Journal analysis of that is it is going to test 389 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: the Fed's reluctant to cut rates, that it's actually a 390 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: slow enough number that the Fed might want. 391 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 2: To cut interest rates. So we'll see what that does. 392 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: Just on the tariff front, the Wall Street Journal says 393 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: Apple is expecting a one point one bill billion dollar 394 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: teriffit just next quarter. Now, if as we're being told 395 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: mostly the company is going to pass that along to you, 396 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: the consumer. Meet the consumer. What does that mean? One 397 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: point one billion dollar terrafit in one quarter for Apple? Yeah. 398 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: I just this is doing so much damage in so 399 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: many different directions than it's just begun. And look, there 400 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: are probably some of you are thinking, no, no, no, 401 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: you got to let it play out. He knows what 402 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: he's doing. It's not all the dust hasn't settled yet. 403 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: Have faith. And I tell you what, if it all 404 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: works out, great, I will say it as loud and 405 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: proud as anybody. I really will. But meantime, I'm reading 406 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: about Ford getting screwed while the European car companies pay 407 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: lower tariffs than Ford does for its own parts, that 408 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: because of the trade agreement of just a few years ago, 409 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: it has made some of them in Mexico or Canada 410 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: or whatever. And then these American manufacturers who have stubbornly 411 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: patriotically clung to manufacturing in the United States, creating jobs 412 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: in the US, they get some of their inputs from overseas, 413 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: and now the tariffs have driven them to say, no, 414 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: I got to manufacture overseas. Now I can't import the 415 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: steel I need. I can't import the little widgets I 416 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: get from China or wherever anymore. That's it. I give up. 417 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: I can't with you, they are saying. That's what they're saying. 418 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 2: So different topic. 419 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: There's a new pull out on America's views of what 420 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: Israel's doing there in Gaza. You know, that's been a 421 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: hot topic all week long. I was listening to the 422 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: commentary magazine podcast yesterday, had some magazine that's been around 423 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: for many, many, many decades, written by Jewish folks standing 424 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: up for Jews around the world, and they made a 425 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: couple of obvious but interesting points on this whole so 426 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: called famine. But before we get to that, Americans overall 427 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: view of Israel's military action in Gaza is its lowest approval. 428 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: Less than a third of Americans approve of what Israel. 429 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 2: Is doing now in Gaza. 430 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: That is a poll low from Gallop down to thirty 431 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: two percent. It had been forty two percent as recently 432 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,719 Speaker 1: as last summer started, when this whole thing started at 433 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: about fifty percent approval, So it only started at half. 434 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: You got half the country that didn't think that they 435 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: should go into Gaza. After October seventh, What the hell 436 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: were you going to do. But this is not new information. 437 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: We've talked about this, but they were beside themselves in 438 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: the overt commentary magazine over the almost universal acceptance that 439 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: this is one a famine and two on purpose from 440 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: Israel and making the point that we've made many times 441 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: but worth reminding people of. 442 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 2: One. 443 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: Give me one other example in world history where you're 444 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: attacked by a country, an entity of people or whatever, 445 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: and then you're on the hook for feeding. 446 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: Them as you try to defeat them. 447 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: Give me the one other example that's ever happened in 448 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: world history. Right, pretty good later when it's done, but 449 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: in the midst of the fighting, Oh yeah, we fed 450 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: Germans and Japanese once they laid down their arms, But 451 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,360 Speaker 1: until they did, we were killing as many people as 452 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: we possibly could, until you finally surrendered because you attacked 453 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: us in the case of Japan, and you are continuing 454 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: to kill our people in fighting and we're showing no 455 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: signs of being willing to surrender, which is what Hamas 456 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: is doing. They're showing no signs of being willing to surrender. 457 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: So pretty good trick that the Hamas pulled. Puss pulled her, 458 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: the mainstream media pulled of making it seem like, well, 459 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: obviously Israel's on the hook for feeding these people. What 460 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: what when does that ever ever happened? Yeah? And then 461 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: and then to the obvious point that gets left out 462 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: all the time, Joe always mentions this. Hamas could end 463 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: this any day, absolutely any moment. Hamas could end this 464 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: by saying we no longer desire to eliminate Israel from 465 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: the planet, and here are your hostages back right. But 466 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: they won't. And I'm reading the book, this book, another, 467 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: yet another book about the end of world because, by 468 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: the way, just to make this crystal clear, because their 469 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: goal is not to quote unquote have a Palestinian state 470 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: and look peacefully side by side. Their goal is to 471 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: wipe out the Jews, remove any Jews from Muslim lands, 472 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: quote unquote, and to establish a worldwide caliphate. That is 473 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: their goal. Ask them, they will tell you. But this 474 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: sort of thing is common. And I'm reading Downfall, which 475 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: is one of the best books ever written about the 476 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: very end of World War II in the Pacific, in 477 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: Japan and everything like that, and he makes the point 478 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: regularly that the whole discussion of whether or not we 479 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: should have dropped the bomb and whether it was moral 480 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah and end ignorton thing like people 481 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: always leave out. It wasn't up to Truman only to 482 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: decide how to end the war. Japan had a role 483 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 1: in this too. They could have at any point said 484 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: they could have surrendered at any point up until like 485 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: the day before, and we're gonna drop this giant and 486 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: tomming bomba on you if you don't surrender. But they didn't. 487 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: And it's exactly the same thing's going on with Israel. 488 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: He gets left out all the time. The bad guys 489 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: could quit, but they won't. And then I would love 490 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: to ask, and well, I'll finish the question and then 491 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: get to my main point. I would love to ask 492 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: the people who disapprove, et cetera. All right, if Hamas 493 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: did that, lay down their arms, return the hostages, et cetera, 494 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: and peace was restored to Gaza. In what way would 495 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: that make life worse for the Palestinians than prior to 496 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: October seventh? In what way would that be a bad move? 497 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: For an unsupportable move unless you believe that the evil 498 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: Jews would sweep across Gaza, strip and eat the babies 499 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: and the rest of it. It would be bring peace 500 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: back in the ability to rebuild and make a living 501 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: and the rest of it. There's no downside to surrendering. 502 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: It's not like Israel is some sort of marauding force. No, 503 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: Hamas is the marauding force, so there is there would 504 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: be no downside to the good people for Samas to 505 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: Hamas surrendering to these So how are you how what 506 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: are you picturing? Exactly? People just And that's one of 507 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: the reasons I'm not uncomfortable on a practical political level, 508 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable with the fact that it supports down to 509 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: thirty two percent. On a moral logical level, though, I'm 510 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 1: not because I understand a lot of people just look 511 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: for who's being mean and who's the victim of people 512 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: being mean, and they're on the side of the people 513 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: who are the victims and against the people who are 514 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: being mean. And they have been fed such a steady 515 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: diet of one sided coverage and misinformation, of course they 516 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: have a misperception of it. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty 517 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: good rhetorical trick that has been pulled to convince everybody 518 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: that obviously Israel is responsible for feeding these people. Now, 519 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: some of you might have this because I see the 520 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,719 Speaker 1: text the argument that it's not the Palestinian's fault. They 521 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,479 Speaker 1: don't like Amas either, Okay, correct? I, well, is that correct? 522 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 2: I don't know. 523 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: We don't know how many Palestinians support Hamas. There are 524 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: more indications that lots of them do than there are 525 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: indications that lots of them don't. Based on that parading 526 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: of dead and wounded Jews through the streets of Gaza 527 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: right after October seventh, sure seemed like a lot of 528 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: people that thought that. 529 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 2: Was really cool. 530 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just argue that that is irrelevant absent 531 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: an armed force. Yeah, they have some Hahamas sympathies, a lot. 532 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: You're absolutely, I do not disagree with a single thing 533 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: you said. Oh I was gonna make a point, but 534 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: it just again, if a mass lays down their arms, 535 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: all that can be worked out. And unfortunately, one of 536 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: the effects of this bitter battle is even if you 537 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: didn't like Amas, particularly as a Palestinian, you're gonna root 538 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: for your side. You're gonna think, you know what, they're 539 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: a holes, but there are a holes and you know, 540 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: I'm against it Israel, and it's hardening feelings. But just 541 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: the idea you know what the one thing Israel ought 542 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: to do is get a little better at making the 543 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: point that Hamas is not the army of the quote 544 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: unquote Palestinian people in the way that Westerners perceive. In 545 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: spite of what you said about sympathy, they are not 546 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: fighting to make their country safe and prosperous for their people. 547 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: They're fighting to establish a worldwide caliphate and wipe the 548 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: Jews off the map. That's their purpose. I have another 549 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: good correlation between the end of World War two and 550 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: what's going on with gods and the end Israel, but 551 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: we can get to that much much later. We got 552 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: Joe's mailbag on the way next day here. So Kamala 553 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: Harris has a book out. It's what every presidential candidate 554 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: does so they have a reason to go on shows 555 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: and talk about their being president. But anyway, Mark Halpern 556 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: wrote a fake opening paragraphs of the book that is 557 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: really dang funny. 558 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: We'll have to get to that an now or two. 559 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:00,959 Speaker 2: Love that idea. 560 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, Continuing our 561 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: series from Avire Milai, who has turned around the economy 562 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: in the world of the people of Argentina with liberty 563 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: and free markets and that sort of thing. Oh, we 564 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday that he said socialism is always in everywhere 565 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: an impoverishing phenomenon, and it has failed in all countries 566 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally, 567 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: and murdered over one hundred million human beings. By contrast, 568 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: and here's today's quote, free enterprise capitalism is not just 569 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: the only possible system to end world poverty, but also 570 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: the only morally desirable system to achieve this. The idea 571 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: that the free marketer capitalism is driven by greed, therefore 572 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: it is immoral, is exactly wrong. He should get some 573 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: sort of Nobel prize, but weren't for the fact that 574 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: most Nobel Prize voters are socialists. You know what, we 575 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: ought to start the sol Prize after Thomas. So for 576 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: people who argue in favor of freedom mailbag, drop us 577 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: a note mail bag a armstrong Yeddy dot com Eric 578 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: on the topic of the thieving Indonesian monkey gangs. Once 579 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: in Pouquette, I got out of the back of a car. 580 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: Before I could close the door, a monkey jumped in, 581 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: grabbing a small paper bag and went up a tree. 582 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: The look on his face as he slowly opened the 583 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: bag to look inside. It was like it was his Christmas. 584 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: He had made off with my snack's eyes, pack of 585 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: oreos and the famous Amos cookies. Angry fist, I cussed 586 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: him out the sob I didn't feel like working today, 587 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: and on the way in my car, I almost said 588 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: pouquette and turned around. Went home. By the way, Eric, 589 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: you had both oreos and famous Amos. The monkey was 590 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: doing you a favor, good lord, factory cookies much. Let's 591 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: see Jable globally to exotic places and eat oreos. 592 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 2: Okay, I know it's disgusting. 593 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: Uh. The fabulous JT and livermore with a couple of 594 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: socks today, including this one. Kamala thinks she did not 595 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: do enough interviews. Kamala think you and she needs to 596 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: do more interviews like Biden thinking needs to do more debates. Well, 597 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: she didn't do enough hard interviews, but she can't is 598 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: the problem. 599 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 2: So trying to do more is not gonna go well. 600 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: Easy Softbally stuff she can do pretty well, Marina and 601 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: San Diego. Let's see she says some absolutely lovely things. Lastly, 602 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: on the Sydney Sweeney ad for blue jeans. Guttfeldt uses 603 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: the term poke the woke companies, maybe trying to get 604 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: the woke fired up about a nonsense ad and their 605 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: brand goes up like American Eagles did. Opposite of Budweiser perhaps. 606 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: And then this note Ryan from the Homeless Shelter. 607 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 608 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: I don't know fran is actually a homeless shelter, but 609 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: dear the greatest of all time. Well, that's a little much. 610 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: The people complaining about Nazis and the Sydney Sweeney ads 611 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: seem like they dipped into the PETA principle. PETA has 612 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: no power unless they declare ratings wings at Super Bowl 613 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: is the chicken Holocaust or Thanksgiving is a Turkey Holocaust. 614 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: Nobody looks twice at them unless they declare something in 615 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: animal holocaust. Same with the jeans ad. They declare it 616 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: mildly problematic, they don't get noticed. They declare Adolph Sweeny 617 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 1: soft hits, and the hass soft heads in the media 618 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: take notice. Alast wee are doomed. Well you're right about that, brother, 619 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 1: Thanks for the note. Wow, this one will leave you sad. 620 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't end the hour on I ordered some of 621 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: those Nazi gens. I'll be wearing them next week. Excellent 622 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: rich rights. I used Suno to create I used Suno 623 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: to create three songs this week. That's the AI song 624 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: making thing, and it triggered an unexpected existential crisis. As 625 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: a hobbyist, I write silly songs about work to entertain 626 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: entertain my coworkers. Here's what happened number one work song. 627 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: After months of crafting lyrics and music, I ran the 628 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,760 Speaker 1: lyrics through Suno on a whim and it produced a banger. 629 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,240 Speaker 1: My friends loved it. I laughed too, but something felled 630 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: off too band ran I drunkenly ranted about my inactive 631 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: band and fed it to Suno. It turned into another 632 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,799 Speaker 1: great song, one my band now wants to play again. 633 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,280 Speaker 1: It felt strange. Three anniversary song. Yeah, they got no lyrics. 634 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: They gave groc a rough outline of a coworker's love story. 635 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 1: Minutes later I had a touching song that made them 636 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,800 Speaker 1: laugh and cry. Each song impressed the others, but these 637 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: a creation left me feeling empty. Of course, yeah, you 638 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: get none of the artists. I created something satisfaction, which 639 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: is why you produce art. That's why everybody produces art. 640 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: It's not so there's art. We don't need more songs. 641 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,239 Speaker 1: There are enough of them. It's the act of producing 642 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: it that is the joy. Armstrong and Getty