Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: To the markets today, and would you be open to
Speaker 3: a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiation. Well, we're
Speaker 3: not look at that. We have many many countries that
Speaker 3: are coming to negotiate deals with US, and they're going
Speaker 3: to be fair deals, and in certain cases they're going
Speaker 3: to be be paying substantial tariffs. They'll be fair deals.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Politico and others are reporting that. On the phone with
Speaker 5: various countries yesterday, Trump was saying, yeah, a pause is
Speaker 5: coming sooner rather than later, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: And that's the reason the markets are up today. Trump
Speaker 5: of course can't say out loud that you know, this
Speaker 5: tariff thing is winding or you know, you lose all
Speaker 5: your leverage. But anyway, that's that's kind of the zeitgeist today.
Speaker 1: The markets are leaping upward like a gazelle.
Speaker 4: Funny.
Speaker 1: And the other unspoken thing that is remaining unspoken is that, Okay, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not driving towards some sort of isolationism. I just
Speaker 1: want much lower tariffs for US goods, that post World
Speaker 1: War two period is over. Let's get to something sane,
Speaker 1: which is really what I was hoping he was driving at.
Speaker 4: And I hope it works.
Speaker 5: So I've got some polling around tariffs, but I'm not
Speaker 5: sure they matter anymore, like as of an hour ago.
Speaker 5: But anyway, Uh, first, this high school level gossip and
Speaker 5: snark that we should be above.
Speaker 4: And you know it good gossips.
Speaker 5: What is the whole thing about? You know, successful people,
Speaker 5: low level people talk about each other.
Speaker 4: What is that whole thing? Essentially, the.
Speaker 1: Weak minds speak of people, Mediocre minds discuss events, great
Speaker 1: minds discuss ideas.
Speaker 4: Okay, well I'm going to speak of people. So it
Speaker 4: probably fits in with where my mind is.
Speaker 5: So over the weekend, Elon got into it with Peter Navarro.
Speaker 5: Peter Navarro is the trade advisor to Donald Trump, and
Speaker 5: you know, and on all the TV shows tauton the
Speaker 5: tariffs and why they're going to work and everything like that.
Speaker 5: I mentioned the tweet yesterday where Elon Musk said having
Speaker 5: a PhD in economics from Harvard is a bad thing,
Speaker 5: not a good thing. He was speaking of Peter Navarro.
Speaker 5: He said specifically, In that tweet, Peter Navarro ain't built
Speaker 5: s in his life, and having a PhD from Harvard
Speaker 5: is a bad thing.
Speaker 4: Musk I'm reading here from the Daily Beast.
Speaker 5: Musk who's openly expressed disdain for Ivy League institutions, commented
Speaker 5: yup under a quote from USA economist Thomas Sowel that read,
Speaker 5: in every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to
Speaker 5: be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.
Speaker 5: First of all, that's a fantastic quote. Secondly, it's fantastic
Speaker 5: that Elon retweeted that and attached it to Peter Navarro.
Speaker 4: It continues on U with a variety of things.
Speaker 5: Now Peter Navarro has shot back, and then there's a
Speaker 5: response from Elon after this.
Speaker 4: But let's hear the Peter Navarro thing first. Commenting on Elon.
Speaker 6: When it comes to tariffs and trade, we all understand
Speaker 6: in the White House and the American people understand that
Speaker 6: Elon's a car manufacturer, but he's not a car manufacturer.
Speaker 4: He's a car assembler.
Speaker 6: In many cases. If you go to his Texas plan,
Speaker 6: A good part of the engines that he gets, which
Speaker 6: in the EV case is the batteries come from Japan
Speaker 6: and come from China. The electronics come from Taiwan, the
Speaker 6: tires come what we want. The difference is in our
Speaker 6: thinking and elons On this is that we want the
Speaker 6: tires made in Akron, we want the transmissions made in Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: We want the engines made in Flint and Saginaw, and
Speaker 6: we want the cars manufactured here. It's like this business
Speaker 6: model where BMW and Mercedes come in to Spartansburg, South
Speaker 6: Carolina and have us assemble German engines and Austrian transmissions.
Speaker 4: That doesn't work for America.
Speaker 6: It's bad for our economics, it's bad for our national security.
Speaker 6: We want them to come here with the Elon It's fine.
Speaker 6: He's a carbman. If he's a car person, that's what
Speaker 6: he does. And he wants the cheap foreign parts, and
Speaker 6: we understand that. But we want him home. We want
Speaker 6: them home. National security, economic sure, and everything's good with Elon.
Speaker 5: So him calling Elon a car assembler, I guess, is
Speaker 5: seen by some as a shot. Elon responded to that,
Speaker 5: and this is like fifteen minutes ago. Navarro is truly
Speaker 5: a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false. So
Speaker 5: now He's just flat out called Peter Navarro, somebody that
Speaker 5: he has I'm sure been in the Oval Office with
Speaker 5: on multiple occasions over the last couple of months, as
Speaker 5: two of the top advisors of the president. Truly a moron.
Speaker 5: I don't know what Navarro was talking about there. I
Speaker 5: don't know about the other stuff. I know I've bought
Speaker 5: a lot of tires for Tesla's and they've all been
Speaker 5: American tires. But so I don't know what he's talking
Speaker 5: about there.
Speaker 1: But how about this follow up tweet from elon Tesla
Speaker 1: has the most American made cars. Navarro is dumber than
Speaker 1: a sack of bricks. I love this sort of thing,
Speaker 1: the ag Hamilton account on Twitter, which is one of
Speaker 1: my favorites. Navarro has no idea what he's talking about
Speaker 1: and doing substantial harm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know about the computers and various things
Speaker 5: he mentioned there, but I know for fact the tires
Speaker 5: that I've purchased for my Tesla or American made tires
Speaker 5: from an American company I think actually an acron.
Speaker 4: Which he just said.
Speaker 1: So speaking of gossip, it was so good and I
Speaker 1: don't know what.
Speaker 4: I did with it.
Speaker 1: The barrow was truly a moron, dumber than a sack
Speaker 1: of bricks. There was a great Twitter thread from one
Speaker 1: of Elon's baby mamas calling him out as well his
Speaker 1: family life is at the outer one percent of crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the separate topic.
Speaker 5: I do not dig his view on a parenthood at all,
Speaker 5: as I'm saying many times, no, or a reproduction or
Speaker 5: marriage or whatever.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, it's not.
Speaker 5: While I enjoy snark and that sort of thing, it's
Speaker 5: not insignificant that.
Speaker 4: And I can't believe.
Speaker 5: I'm the guy saying this, but the world's richest man
Speaker 5: is jumping into this and calling like the brains of
Speaker 5: the whole tariff structure a moron and dumb as a
Speaker 5: sack of bricks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to hear Donald Jay actually describe
Speaker 1: his relationship with Peter Navarro and how he utilizes his skills.
Speaker 1: I'm going to, you know, put that charitably. I think
Speaker 1: Navarro may be the crazed attack dog straining at the
Speaker 1: leash that Trump will put back in the kennel the
Speaker 1: minute that.
Speaker 4: He's not useful.
Speaker 1: But he he is acting out the pretense that yes,
Speaker 1: I am going to put up enormous trade barriers around
Speaker 1: the United States from now till the end of time,
Speaker 1: putting aside that that's impossible given our system where you
Speaker 1: get elected every four years, blah blah blah. But and
Speaker 1: Navarro is his attack dog, straining at the leash. But
Speaker 1: it's becoming more and more clear that no, Trump just
Speaker 1: wants sane levels of tariffs against the United States finally,
Speaker 1: which is admirable in a good goal.
Speaker 4: How popular are these right now?
Speaker 5: This polling was yesterday before stock market rebound, and all
Speaker 5: these rumors are going around that Trump is telling people
Speaker 5: on the phone no, no, no, no, you know, will negotiate
Speaker 5: and not sounding quite as an absolutist on this stuff.
Speaker 5: This is interesting to us, Joe and I. And you know,
Speaker 5: how much should we talk about this? How much have
Speaker 5: you been hearing about or paying attention to the tariff stuff?
Speaker 5: A lot? Fifty six percent, A lot. I don't know
Speaker 5: how many stories. Fifty six percent of people pay a
Speaker 5: lot of attention to ever, right, and then some was
Speaker 5: twenty five percent, So between a lot and some that's
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 1: Well, And I would suggest to you that in the
Speaker 1: universe of humans, who might be inclined to listen to
Speaker 1: the armstrong and Getty show that number is substantially higher
Speaker 1: because that's a random sample of humans.
Speaker 4: That's fifty six percent.
Speaker 5: If someone a lot adds up to you know, eighty
Speaker 5: percent would need my twe hundred there. Then when you
Speaker 5: get to support or oppose among that crowd, oppose fifty
Speaker 5: five support thirty seven, oppose fifty five support thirty seven.
Speaker 5: You break it down by party, it's somewhat predictable. For Democrats,
Speaker 5: ninety percent oppose independence, fifty two percent oppose. Republicans only
Speaker 5: twenty percent oppose hanging in there. So here's a question
Speaker 5: for you, unless you had more to get through. The
Speaker 5: only interesting thing Democrats are paying a lot of attention
Speaker 5: at higher numbers than Republicans for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: The resistance We're back. That was a joke.
Speaker 1: So is this all a giant art of the deal
Speaker 1: style negotiation? A important element of which and this is
Speaker 1: what always gets me with Trump, don't I don't like it,
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong. That's fine, I've been wrong before.
Speaker 1: But a significant element of Trump's Art of the deal
Speaker 1: thing is to so con fusion and chaos, which he
Speaker 1: believes leads people to be more enthusiastic about making a deal.
Speaker 1: Because not only do they want to reach the best
Speaker 1: negotiated settlement they can in classic negotiation theory, but there's
Speaker 1: also a feeling of this is craziness and I'm getting
Speaker 1: a little freaked out here. He might be a nut.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go ahead and cut a deal. Does it
Speaker 1: feel like that to you? I mean, because, for instance,
Speaker 1: the formula, here's what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 4: I should have said this out loud.
Speaker 1: The formula that they used for assigning the quote unquote
Speaker 1: reciprocal tariffs was a mess. I mean, just utterly indefensible,
Speaker 1: silly in a couple of different ways, and analysts all
Speaker 1: over the world were saying, this doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: mathematically speaking.
Speaker 4: Is that part of the sowing chaos?
Speaker 1: Was that he just said throw a formula together with
Speaker 1: high tariffs against people or.
Speaker 4: Or was that actual sloppiness. I don't know. I think it's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I suppose you could call it sloppiness, but
Speaker 5: I think it would be he would say, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter what the how I came to the numbers.
Speaker 1: That's not the point, right right, Let's sew a little
Speaker 1: chaos in the air. Everybody's going to come a run
Speaker 1: and negotiate sane, actually reciprocal tariff levels that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen since World War Two.
Speaker 5: Well, a combination of so chaos and convince people that
Speaker 5: I'm serious about this exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why Peter Navarro is still straining at
Speaker 1: the leash, you know, barking at Elon Musk saying, no,
Speaker 1: We're going to have maximum millist tariffs for the rest
Speaker 1: of the history of mankind.
Speaker 4: It's dumb as what a sack of bricks. Sack of bricks.
Speaker 4: He is truly a moron, according to Elon mask And
Speaker 4: that's so well. Quote. Oh, that's great, love that. Let
Speaker 4: me get that again, because that is that is that
Speaker 4: is too darn good. I'd never heard that before.
Speaker 5: And every disaster throughout American history there always seems to
Speaker 5: be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, That's hilarious. Yeah, and probably true.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you take the combination of I'm one of
Speaker 1: the nation's leading intellectuals. Therefore I espouse ideas that the
Speaker 1: average working person would find idiotic, which is true. Secondly,
Speaker 1: look at my status. I have graduated from the most
Speaker 1: elite of the elite institutions. Thou shalt listen to me, right,
Speaker 1: you take those two things in concert, please between economic
Speaker 1: ideas or you know Vietnam and Iraq, which had a
Speaker 1: lot of Ivy League people behind it, And yeah, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of examples of that. There are plenty of people
Speaker 1: coming out of community colleges in Indiana who would listen
Speaker 1: to the grand theories of Harvard types and say that's stupid, and.
Speaker 4: They'd be right dumb as a sack of bricks.
Speaker 5: Okay, we got a lot to get to, including de
Speaker 5: extinction this Hourie. Mainstream media does such a bad job
Speaker 5: of covering stories like the de extinction of the dire
Speaker 5: wolf with only.
Speaker 4: Isn't this cute? Look at these white.
Speaker 5: Puppies and know of the any interesting intellectual discussion about
Speaker 5: bringing back extinct spink species from ten thousand years ago?
Speaker 4: So that will get to that coming up.
Speaker 1: Gigantic wolves send ten footed shoulder with the teeth like
Speaker 1: steak knives, no problem. Uh, so we'll have that for
Speaker 1: you in just a couple of minutes. Brace yourselves in
Speaker 1: listening to this clip. It is awful, but I have
Speaker 1: a particular reason for asking for it. Go ahead, Michael,
Speaker 1: I would like to.
Speaker 7: See all Republican women or a new woman who vote
Speaker 7: voted for Republicans or Trump to be gang raped on
Speaker 7: national television. I think that would be just very cathartic
Speaker 7: for us normal humans to see these. I guess humans
Speaker 7: just absolutely destroyed on national television. New mind for me.
Speaker 1: He appeared to be in his mid twenties something like that,
Speaker 1: And that's just not nutpicking to illustrate that progressives or monsters,
Speaker 1: although some are a couple of things leap to mind.
Speaker 1: First of all, disturbing new report reveals that violent political
Speaker 1: rhetoric online, including calls for the murder of public figures
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other things, is becoming
Speaker 1: increasingly normalized, particularly on the left.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say, specifically, what is the justification the
Speaker 8: justif is their justification for the murder of Elon Musk
Speaker 8: and Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: All respondents, Let's see some at least partially justified. Is
Speaker 1: thirty one percent? Well for Elon Musk first, left of center,
Speaker 1: it's forty nine percent.
Speaker 4: A lot of it is what I have been talking about.
Speaker 5: It's the coin of the realm of you have to
Speaker 5: be just so over the top, you have to be
Speaker 5: so over the top online to feel like you cut
Speaker 5: through this just the way everybody talks. I mean we
Speaker 5: were talking about this the other day, with the stuff
Speaker 5: we get. I mean just just ridiculously, you know, angry,
Speaker 5: just beyond anything that makes sense at a radio show,
Speaker 5: because that's.
Speaker 4: The way people talk online.
Speaker 1: And then there's one hundred percent ratio of you write
Speaker 1: them back and say you seem really upset, here's what's
Speaker 1: going on. They're like, hey, I'm so sorry. I flew
Speaker 1: off the handle. I was out of line, So yeah,
Speaker 1: you were, You act like an idiot. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of these.
Speaker 5: People who want to gang repe Republican voters or kill
Speaker 5: Elon Musk would be the same way.
Speaker 4: But you can't normalize that kind of talk. You just can't.
Speaker 1: Left of center Folk says the murder of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: at least partially justified fifty five percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How about to destroying Tesla dealerships is at least partially
Speaker 1: acceptable fifty eight percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 5: Most of them, Like I said, most of them don't
Speaker 5: mean it at all. But you can't. You can't pretend
Speaker 5: like that because there are enough crazies that will do
Speaker 5: this stuff. Yeah, the whole maniacs or people with terrible,
Speaker 5: terrible ideas getting in reinforcement online. Because if your idea
Speaker 5: is so effing stupid, only one person out of seventy
Speaker 5: five thousand would.
Speaker 4: Agree with you.
Speaker 1: You could find hundreds or thousands of people who agree
Speaker 1: with you online, but that's still a dumb effing idea.
Speaker 1: How do we deal with this as a society? Can
Speaker 1: we the reinforcement of lunatics online and lunatic movements and ideologies?
Speaker 5: Will it never not be the way we talk online
Speaker 5: to just be like incredibly over the top, I don't know.
Speaker 5: You have to be a major cultural change where to
Speaker 5: be said on this, and I'm sure we will. Bringing
Speaker 5: back to life ancient species? Is that a good idea?
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9: Visit the.
Speaker 4: Running So I.
Speaker 5: Never watched Game of Thrones, so I didn't know the
Speaker 5: dire wolf was a.
Speaker 4: Thing on Game of Thrones.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure I'd never even thought about a dire
Speaker 5: wolf for a second in my life till yesterday.
Speaker 1: One of the many extinct beasts that used to roll
Speaker 1: the countryside.
Speaker 4: Jack, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason, this had never crossed my uh transom
Speaker 5: or whatever I was unaware of the dire wolf. But
Speaker 5: so I watched the news last night.
Speaker 4: It's funny. We're just we're just a dumb people.
Speaker 5: We're just so comfortable and happy in our news gives
Speaker 5: us dumb news, so we can float through the day and.
Speaker 1: Another killer storm raging across the country every damn night.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why we're all treated like idiots.
Speaker 4: Maybe because we act like idiots.
Speaker 5: But so look at the headlines from today dot Com.
Speaker 5: Extinct dire wolf seen on Game of Thrones has been
Speaker 5: revived on ABC News, which we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Well, let's play the ABC News clip. That was not
Speaker 4: the dire fol clip.
Speaker 5: That was chicken jockey from the Minecraft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Minecraft, where's our dire wolves? ABC News? This is
Speaker 4: going well? Is not going well.
Speaker 9: In a first for science biotech company Colossal Bioscience, it
Speaker 9: says it brought the extinct dire wolf back to life,
Speaker 9: species that hasn't walked the earth since the Stone Age.
Speaker 10: We've taken a gray wolf genome, which is already genetically
Speaker 10: ninety nine point five percent identical to dire wolves, and
Speaker 10: we've edited those cells at multiple places in its DNA
Speaker 10: sequence to contain the dire wolf version of the DNA.
Speaker 9: The company tells us they're not stopping there. They plan
Speaker 9: to have wooly mammoths roaming the earth again by twenty
Speaker 9: twenty eight, but critics argue that this de extinction could
Speaker 9: harm fragile ecosystems.
Speaker 5: Back to you, So I played this for my son
Speaker 5: last night, and he's super into evolution and all this.
Speaker 5: I mean, he spends so much time like watching YouTube
Speaker 5: videos and reading about this. He's really into this for
Speaker 5: one thing, so I knew he would like this. So
Speaker 5: I play him this new story and he puts his
Speaker 5: hands on the side of his head and he starts.
Speaker 4: Walking around the room like this said, I have so
Speaker 4: many problems with this. There's so many problems.
Speaker 5: First of all, dire wolves are not wolves, so this
Speaker 5: doesn't make any sense. And the then he went to
Speaker 5: his computer and was googling things and everything like that.
Speaker 4: Stright.
Speaker 5: So, as I pointed out, our domestic news coverage is all.
Speaker 5: They've brought back the dire wolf for the first time
Speaker 5: in thirteen fast and five hundred years, but an a
Speaker 5: real news source, Unfortunately, like Al Jazeera, their headline has
Speaker 5: the dire Wolf come back? No, it hasn't, or you know,
Speaker 5: other other news outlets that are like real news point
Speaker 5: out that that scientist you just heard from there, she
Speaker 5: works for a company that is somehow trying to profit
Speaker 5: off of pretending to bring back extinct animals.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't know is exactly correct. That is what
Speaker 4: they're doing.
Speaker 1: Do you remember a few weeks ago we brought you
Speaker 1: the story they're trying to revive the wooly mammoths. No,
Speaker 1: they're trying to make hairy elephants. Well, right, they tweetd
Speaker 1: the jeans of elephants to make them harry.
Speaker 4: That's what they did here.
Speaker 5: They they made a white, slightly bigger gray wolf. Now
Speaker 5: her saying dire wolves and wolves share ninety nine percent
Speaker 5: of the genetics or whatever what they developed it. Well,
Speaker 5: you've probably heard before. We're ninety nine percent the same
Speaker 5: as a chimpanzee. But that don't mean we're the same thing.
Speaker 5: So they did not make it on a date one
Speaker 5: doesn't mean that their little direwolf puppy is a dire
Speaker 5: wolf just because they got ninety nine percent of the way,
Speaker 5: you know, see the example of humans and chimpanzees.
Speaker 1: But ABC reports it breathlessly with a smile, and the
Speaker 1: little puppies, and then one sentence about critics say it
Speaker 1: could harm fragile ecosystems. Yeah, good report. May you dumb?
Speaker 1: You should be ashamed of yourselves. You can't call it news,
Speaker 1: well right, not news. It's eye candy for dopes. Eye
Speaker 1: candy for dopes.
Speaker 5: So they used crisper technology, which has been around for
Speaker 5: quite a few years now and is interesting and highly
Speaker 5: troubling in the way that you can get there in
Speaker 5: their genetically modified genes, and for animals or people, they
Speaker 5: transferred the genetic material from a from a gray wolf
Speaker 5: to a domestic dog. What they really wanted was white wolves,
Speaker 5: white gray wolves.
Speaker 4: That was their main thing, and and and got where
Speaker 4: they wanted to be.
Speaker 5: These three genetically engineered wolves may resemble the extinct dire wolf,
Speaker 5: but they are just flat not according to actual scientists
Speaker 5: who aren't trying to profit from us. They're going to
Speaker 5: be pretty big. So what is their game here? Though,
Speaker 5: this company, Colossus, I think it's called what is their game?
Speaker 5: Are they going to have a I'll use Jurassic Park
Speaker 5: but sort of park and charge a bunch of money
Speaker 5: for people to go in and watch look at dire wolves?
Speaker 4: Wooly mammoths whatever else they claim they brought back. Is
Speaker 4: that the deal. It's got to be a for profit
Speaker 4: thing or sell them to people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I suspect it's one of those two things.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Huh.
Speaker 1: So I said that the dire wolf stood ten feet
Speaker 1: at the shoulder and had teeth length of steak knives.
Speaker 1: Turns out no, it's about one hundred and thirty two
Speaker 1: pounds one hundred and fifty pounds maybe, but significantly big
Speaker 1: eyes of the largest modern gray wolves. Yeah, your average
Speaker 1: male is bigger than the average male wolves that exist
Speaker 1: on Earth currently.
Speaker 5: And their biting power is like greater than a lion
Speaker 5: or anything like that. So that's what they're really amazing at.
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: The skull of the thing is really impressive. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: my son told me this.
Speaker 5: We went to the If you've never been to the
Speaker 5: Libre of Tarpits in La oh my gosh, you should
Speaker 5: do that sometime.
Speaker 4: So fascinating.
Speaker 5: I'd wanted to go there my whole life, and my
Speaker 5: thirteen year old and I went there last summer. But
Speaker 5: they have an entire wall of wolf skulls. There, thousands
Speaker 5: of wolf skulls. Wow, from you know, fifteen thousand years
Speaker 5: ago whenever it was. And my son pointed out last night,
Speaker 5: those are all dire wolf skulls, that's what those all are.
Speaker 5: And they would they would get stuck in the tar
Speaker 5: pits trying to get other animals that were stuck there
Speaker 5: and think, oh, cool of free meal.
Speaker 4: Then they'd get stuck in the dark bit and then
Speaker 4: eventually die.
Speaker 5: And there's so many direwolf skulls there and they're quite large.
Speaker 5: But the main point being, well, I guess my main
Speaker 5: point is a journalism. Why do we live in a
Speaker 5: world where ABC and Today want to say, look, they
Speaker 5: brought back the dire wolf from extinction with no caveats
Speaker 5: or any deeper thought that. Why why are we.
Speaker 1: Like this David Muir with his serious face and serious
Speaker 1: voice and big giant weightlifting arms bringing you the news
Speaker 1: every evening, not even bothering to verify.
Speaker 4: The simplest of facts.
Speaker 5: And I'm not trying to just be like a cynic
Speaker 5: poo pooing things.
Speaker 4: You just told me something that's not true, is the thing?
Speaker 1: Well, right, we pretending like it was, and you know
Speaker 1: it's not. That's what bothers me, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: they care enough to know it's not. If you scratch
Speaker 1: the surface, you know that it's not exactly true.
Speaker 4: So why why do we do this? And who cares
Speaker 4: about the dire wolf? But it factors in with all
Speaker 4: our other.
Speaker 5: Stuff, our economic re porting, in our political stories and
Speaker 5: all the other stuff.
Speaker 4: Why do they treat us like we're morons?
Speaker 5: It's their business plan. Why does it work? I guess
Speaker 5: although it's not working there as well.
Speaker 1: As it used to No, indeed, well it's not nearly
Speaker 1: as good as it used to be. I would like
Speaker 1: to know. To get inside the head of the media
Speaker 1: elite would be very difficult because they are, as we've
Speaker 1: said a thousand times, a very very small and very
Speaker 1: strange subculture. They live lives totally foreign to the vast
Speaker 1: majority of Americans. They have attitudes that are just bizarre
Speaker 1: to the vast majority of Americans. They believe things that
Speaker 1: practically nobody believes out in the country, and yet they
Speaker 1: are our source of so much information. It's unhealthy, and
Speaker 1: people are sensing that and unplugging, which I think is good.
Speaker 5: Mit Technology Review, which sounds like a you know, more
Speaker 5: serious publication.
Speaker 4: Game of Clones.
Speaker 5: Colossals New Wolves are cute, but are they dire and
Speaker 5: then they explain how they're not dire wolves. But like
Speaker 5: I said, Today dot Com, which is NBC, the extinct
Speaker 5: dire wolf is back, as seen on Game of Throne.
Speaker 5: So I mean, that's just for the dumbest befo. Same
Speaker 5: company that runs Today dot Com though, is NBC, and
Speaker 5: their headline was a much more reasonable scientists genetically engineered
Speaker 5: wolves with white hair like the extinct dire wolf, so
Speaker 5: making no claim whatsoever other than we changed the.
Speaker 4: Air color of gray wolves.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because what they did is they altered gray wolves
Speaker 5: to make their hair white. That's almost the end of
Speaker 5: the story.
Speaker 1: Well, let's akin to the Chinese zoos shaving a show
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Speaker 5: My son, in a really weird way, is stumping around
Speaker 5: the bedroom, his hands on his head. The dire wolf
Speaker 5: is more related to a Hyaena. It split with the
Speaker 5: dog a million years ago. It's not even all this
Speaker 5: sort of stuff. But then he said, but ultimately, why
Speaker 5: why are we doing this? And I thought that is
Speaker 5: a really good question. Why are we doing this? Why
Speaker 5: is everybody screaming this direction to where we at some point,
Speaker 5: I would imagine we'll have the technological ability to actually
Speaker 5: bring back a William mammoth or a Drewil for whatever it's,
Speaker 5: or a dinosaur like you know, Jurassic Park. Why would
Speaker 5: mankind do that just because hey, that'd be cool. Doesn't
Speaker 5: seem like a good enough reason with all the possible downsides.
Speaker 1: Oh right, Yeah, well, I think the current state of
Speaker 1: things is you have well meaning people who think these
Speaker 1: species are extinct. That's very sad. Let's make them unextinct,
Speaker 1: which is fine, And then you've got the people who
Speaker 1: could actually do it, and they're just at this point
Speaker 1: based on profiting from halfwitz I think.
Speaker 4: But that's a weird view of the world.
Speaker 5: If you're concerned about species going extinct today because you know,
Speaker 5: they turned a big chunk of the rainforest into a
Speaker 5: mall and you lost a beast, I.
Speaker 4: Can understand being sad about that, But.
Speaker 5: Things that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago,
Speaker 5: that sounds like that was nature's plan to me.
Speaker 4: So you're sad. What if they're.
Speaker 1: Hunted to extinction by man, for instance? Is that a
Speaker 1: different case?
Speaker 5: That seems like a weird anti man bias for some reason.
Speaker 5: I mean, thirty five thousand years ago, you don't think
Speaker 5: that that that's Are we not part of nature?
Speaker 4: Mankind?
Speaker 1: That's great question. Yeah, yeah, I was not arguing a point.
Speaker 1: I was just curious to know you're a point.
Speaker 4: I don't know where you cut it off.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty if animals are big, slow, lumbering, and delicious,
Speaker 1: I are not going to last and delicious, right, And
Speaker 1: there are plenty of beasts that went extinct without mankind
Speaker 1: being involved at all.
Speaker 5: All your dinosaurs. You're sad about that, and they need
Speaker 5: to be brought back. I just I don't even understand
Speaker 5: the theory on that anyway.
Speaker 1: The three great threats facing the United States of America,
Speaker 1: I have identified them for you begin fighting them in
Speaker 1: a moment.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, on the way DARPA. Do you think DARPA's
Speaker 5: behind bringing back the dire Wolf? Like we're gonna release
Speaker 5: it on the Chinese or something?
Speaker 4: Oh maybe maybe?
Speaker 1: A certain commentator texted me privately, never mind the dire Wolf,
Speaker 1: bring back free market Republicans.
Speaker 4: And make them wooly. I said, why not make them wooly?
Speaker 1: Uh? So, oh, these are odd times, speaking of which,
Speaker 1: so we could easily have done an hour or two
Speaker 1: or three on what I'm going to hit you with.
Speaker 1: But we're up against a heartbreak, So it's going to
Speaker 1: be very brief, and we can elaborate through the hours
Speaker 1: and days and weeks ahead. But I'm scanning all of
Speaker 1: the news stories have assembled in various groups to talk
Speaker 1: about today or later on in the week, and they
Speaker 1: really fall into three distinct threats to the United States
Speaker 1: Western civilization. Number one is our own bloat and decade,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about the labor participation rate among working personal.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was talking about you.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be too hurtful, but yes, no, no,
Speaker 1: As a society, we are very, very soft.
Speaker 4: Decadent is the right word.
Speaker 1: We are so comfortable and wealthy that we have lost
Speaker 1: the ability to fend for ourselves. And how that works
Speaker 1: itself out is anybody's guests, the you know, the unbreakable
Speaker 1: cycle of civilizations that hard times make for tough people,
Speaker 1: Tough people make for good times, good times make for
Speaker 1: soft people.
Speaker 4: Saw people make for hard times, don't. I don't know
Speaker 4: how you get out of that.
Speaker 1: But the number two threat is call it the neo Marxists,
Speaker 1: the woke, the postmodernists that want to tear down Western civilization.
Speaker 1: And the thing I want to say about that, and
Speaker 1: this one I could bring you all sorts of details,
Speaker 1: is that there's a feeling even I get it now
Speaker 1: that partly because of what's Trump's doing, Rain and in
Speaker 1: the universities and corporations like hitting reverse on the DEI
Speaker 1: programs in a liminating those offices. It feels like progress
Speaker 1: is being made. I can bring you ten great examples
Speaker 1: of how the DEI neo Marxist thing is forging ahead
Speaker 1: and growing, especially in education in the United States and
Speaker 1: Britain too. But our educational system is perhaps and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be hyperbolic here because I try to
Speaker 1: avoid that, I think our education system k through graduate
Speaker 1: school is the threat to the United States that could
Speaker 1: bring us down.
Speaker 4: I agree with Lincoln. No external threat could bring us down.
Speaker 1: China's getting fearsome enough that it could be a serious problem.
Speaker 1: But the internal threat Lincoln spoke of is our educational systems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 5: I remember when Jordan Peterson said our university system is
Speaker 5: now a net negative for the country, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 5: that's a pretty strong statement.
Speaker 4: But right, yeah, I agree with them.
Speaker 1: And then the third fund of mental threat I think
Speaker 1: to our beloved Republic is Islamism, fundamentalist Islam, Shariasm, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, which is on the march
Speaker 1: all over the world. We talk about it among the
Speaker 1: Palestinians and Hamas and how they're willing to see as
Speaker 1: many of their own children slaughter to bring the glory
Speaker 1: of Allah to the earth. Islamism is fundamentally and flamingly
Speaker 1: incompatible with Western civilization and our constitution, in particular, Sharia
Speaker 1: Lah cannot be laid over or around our constitution.
Speaker 4: It's impossible. And Iran's trying to get the bomb, which
Speaker 4: would not be good. Yeah, And.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of millions of people around the world, certainly not
Speaker 1: all Muslims, but many, many of them, their fondest goal,
Speaker 1: their most beautiful dream, is that Islam conquers the world
Speaker 1: and we all live under Sharia law. And post post
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, I think a lot of us in
Speaker 1: the West thought, well that's over.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden is gone, and you know we've battered
Speaker 1: Hamas and Hezblas. Oh, okay, we're done. We're done. We're
Speaker 1: not within a thousand years of being done.
Speaker 5: Well, they certainly don't think so. In Europe, No, Germany, France,
Speaker 5: Great Britain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where they bought the argument that multiculturalism is wonderful
Speaker 1: and that these people just want to assimilate and love
Speaker 1: Germany and we can all.
Speaker 4: Live side by side. No, you can't have people with fundamentally.
Speaker 1: Incompatible cultural beliefs, political beliefs, leturgous beliefs mixing Happily, it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I mean, it could conceivably happen in certain
Speaker 1: settings that are strictly controlled, but it's a dangerous thing anyway,
Speaker 1: more on all those things to come.
Speaker 5: We are so lucky that Joe almost went to life school,
Speaker 5: law school, and life school, that Joe almost went to
Speaker 5: law school, so he can tell us what the Supreme
Speaker 5: Court ruling meant yesterday around the whole immigration thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've read like three books about the law too,
Speaker 1: So I'm ready to go cool.
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