1 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arm Strong 3 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: and he. 4 00:00:52,560 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Dya from studio Ceez and youre a dimly 5 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: let room deep with them, the fowls of. 6 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Brand New Week. How 7 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: about this Prosset's sinco to myow, I wrote a borough 8 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 3: to work. I had to leave at three thirty in 9 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 3: the morning to get here. 10 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: Because Burrow, we appreciate your commitment. 11 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 3: By the day, you know, in honor of defeating the 12 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: French so that Emperor Maximilian would be booted out or something. 13 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 14 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 3: Oo, who zeus for maximillion? Nobody woo. Anyway, it's Monday, 15 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: Brand New Week. It's sinko to my own. Today we're 16 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: under the tutelage of our general manager ben Ya mean 17 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 3: neting Yahoo and Israel having just announced a plan to 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: occupy Gaza and control aid distribution themselves, bringing closer to fruition. 19 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 3: What I've been saying for quite some time, they're doing uh, 20 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 3: not living side by side with anybody. 21 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: They're taking it over. 22 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 3: So they had a vote overnight and they're gonna occupy Gaza. Yes, sir, 23 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: run the place. Okay, yes, sir. I don't think they 24 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: got any choice. Meanwhile, I'd like to discuss the Western 25 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 3: media's just utter loyal sycophancy with Amas. I heard amplify 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 3: their talking points and video messages slavishly. 27 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: I heard that on NPR this morning. 28 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: Critics say Hamas should be given a chance to something 29 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 3: or other or whatever. There's no talk of amass surrendering 30 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 3: or giving. 31 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: Back to the hostages or anything what not. Have you mentioned, yeah, exactly. 32 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 3: I may have heard that same report, and I heard 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 3: a similar one in which they described the suffering of 34 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 3: the Palestinian people, which I don't debate for a minute, 35 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 3: and then throw an offhand. You know, the monsters, the Israelis. 36 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: They say they'll ease up and there can be peace 37 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: if they give the hostages back. But anyway, in other news, 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 3: it's like, well, okay, so why don't they Why haven't they? No, 39 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 3: they never asked that question, and I was just I 40 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: was watching some of the coverage off again, the undeniable 41 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 3: suffering of some of the Palestinian people, including children, which 42 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 3: the the video of the four kids clamoring for food 43 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: was straight out of Hamas's video production facilities. 44 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: I mean they were like it was like watching Oliver Twist. 45 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: Please second, I have some awe. 46 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: I mean it was utterly designed to provoke sympathy and 47 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 3: outrage it whoever was putting the children in that the 48 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 3: poor children in that position, which. 49 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: Is a moss. 50 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 3: By the way, funny you had mentioned Oliver Twist, written 51 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: by Charles Dickens. Walsoll wrote Christmas Carol, which features sickly 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 3: little Tim. Because That's what I've been thinking about over 53 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: the last several days. I'm sickly. I am now a 54 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: sickly character, tiny Jack. I am like you know, I'm 55 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: like sickly or Week. I'm like Fredo and the Godfather. 56 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: I'm like the weak brother. I'm a sickly, weak human being. 57 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: And so I'm just trying to embrace that role now. 58 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 3: That is I can normally assume that you're going to 59 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 3: turn coat and then like turn us into the FCC 60 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 3: for something. 61 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but I am. I am sickly. 62 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: I'm sickly and weak, and I hope I don't know 63 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: if I don't know, if I could listen to a 64 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 3: radio show that has a. 65 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: Worse I'm worse now than I was last week. 66 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 3: Get yourself a little crutch and and say vaguely affirming 67 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 3: things like God, bless us everyone. That's what I'm It's endearing. 68 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 3: I started a prednizone on Friday, a pretty high dose 69 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: which amps you up. And uh, I didn't sleep one 70 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 3: minute Friday night, not a single minute. I don't know 71 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 3: if I've ever done that in my wife, like he's 72 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 3: in partying. I don't know if I've ever gone a 73 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 3: whole night without one minute of sleep, without at least 74 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 3: like a five minute catnap or something. 75 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: I said the entire night it was crazy. Should we 76 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: just shut. 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: The whole thing down for a week and lets you 78 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: try to rest or something? And I don't get to 79 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: be on the air the last week of my life 80 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 3: because I'm probably dying. Wow, that's that's the point being 81 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: that's not a static reality. Perhaps we could affect that. 82 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 3: That would be my point. Anyway, that was crazy. I 83 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 3: had another point. Oh, and the best news story of 84 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 3: the last eighteen hours is obviously Trump reopening Alcatraz. 85 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: That's about story out there. How great is that? How 86 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: do you define best exactly? I don't know. Catches your 87 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: eye and makes you want to know more. That caught 88 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: my eye and maybe you want to know no more. Wow. 89 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 3: He is the all time king troller, get people talking 90 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 3: guy of all time. You know he very well. This 91 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 3: just bopped into my head, now, my adult, sickly head. 92 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: He might have timed this. 93 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 3: With nothing Yahoo. He might have thought, oh boy, I'm 94 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 3: gonna have to answer this question all day. What would 95 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 3: be open Alcatraz? Because that's what's leading everywhere. He might 96 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 3: have just covered up the whole Israel is going to 97 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 3: take over Gaza. Yes, you know, gosh, dang it, you're right. 98 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 3: I mean the freneta. I was gonna make the points. 99 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: That's a frenetic pace of this just it tends to 100 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 3: wear people out over time. But yeah, if you were 101 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: going to dodge talking about that, yes, all right, what 102 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: is so completely crazy? All right, say you're not sure 103 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 3: if due process applies or if you have to uphold 104 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: the constitution, and then say we ought to reopen Alcatraz 105 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 3: and use it as a prison for the the evilist, 106 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: most violent people. 107 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was singing. 108 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 3: If it was an old timy radio, we would call 109 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 3: Alcatraz like roughly, now call him up and say, hey, 110 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: have you heard about because it's a big tourist destination. 111 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 3: So I was just in San Francisco a week before 112 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 3: last with my son. I said, I can't believe I've 113 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: never taken Alcatraz, which I can't believe I haven't. And 114 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 3: when I heard the news yes day, I thought, oh, 115 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 3: did I miss my window. I'd like to call him 116 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 3: up and say, have you heard word one about this? 117 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: Has anybody who works at Alcatraz ever heard in the 118 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 3: ink even the slightest inkling of opening it back up 119 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 3: as a prison? 120 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: Ever? 121 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 3: Anybody in the entire US Park surface, which is run 122 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 3: Alcatraz for like, well not sixty years, has been closed 123 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: as a prison for sixty years, but it's been run 124 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 3: by the Ark Service for decades and decades. Here's what's 125 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 3: interesting and just typical of the whole Trump thing. So 126 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: every news outlet taking it completely seriously, except for Fox, 127 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 3: who dismissed it very quickly as obviously he's not going 128 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 3: to open Alcatraz, but he's making the point that we've 129 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 3: got to lock these people up. I mean, they just 130 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: threw it aside as obviously not going to happen. It's 131 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 3: not even worth discussing immediately. Yeah, but on every other 132 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 3: channel they're taking breathless. How could he be so crazy? 133 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 3: It would cause we have an architect here to describe 134 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: how expensive it would be to you know, the whole thing. 135 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, and both sides get what they want 136 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: out of the story. You know, it's it's a beautiful, confusing, 137 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: idiotic symbiosis. 138 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: But I'll bet that's it. 139 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 3: It bumped Israel invading Gaza and taking it over off 140 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 3: the front page, which was a was, you know, a 141 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: no go as an option for mainstream media not too 142 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: long ago and probably still is. But declaring a war 143 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 3: on Disney. Mickey Mouse is an actual mouse, and he's 144 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 3: plotting the overthrow of the country. 145 00:07:58,560 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: We are going to. 146 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: Hunt down Mickey or Michael Mouse if it takes everything 147 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 3: we've got and then pushes everything off the front page. Antavirus. 148 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: Gene Ackman's wife would still be alive if it weren't 149 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 3: for Mickey Mouse, the great Gene Hackman, the late great Gina. 150 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: Out there he goes again. 151 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, so okay, that's funny, absolutely Hilarious's going to reopen Alcatraz. 152 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: Worked as a story. 153 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 3: Let's start the show officially, then get us into a 154 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 3: different conversation. 155 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: Give me a chance to call for a while. I'm 156 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong. 157 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this it is Sinko Demayo, both 158 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: wearing sombrero's big giant Sombreros twenty twenty five. 159 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program, 160 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: Viva Mexico. All right, let's begin the show officially now. 161 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: According to the FCC rules regulation, the show starts at Mark. 162 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 4: I've also signed and forty seven executive orders, everything from 163 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 4: banning paper straws to defunding PBS. I understand Elmo has 164 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 4: now been apprehended by ice, brought to you by the 165 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 4: letter L for El Salvador. 166 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: He's not coming back. 167 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 3: I tell you what, that whole bit was really funny, 168 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 3: all the executive orders Trump was signing, it was just good, 169 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: funny political human He's not coming back. 170 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: You know what I list for else? Alphador? 171 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: Oh my, Not to get off on comedy because it's 172 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 3: not that important, I suppose, but I hate that there's 173 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 3: a number of political like round up newsletters I read 174 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 3: every day, and the one I read it on Sunday. 175 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: Here are your Trump jokes from Saturday Night. 176 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 3: Live and just I just hate that the rest of 177 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 3: the show, the of the ninety minutes, the other eighty 178 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 3: six minutes are really good, often of just sketch comedy. 179 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 3: I hate that it's been distilled down for so much 180 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 3: of America as to what were the Trump jokes? 181 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: All right, whatever, Yeah, it's. 182 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 3: We've talked about this one once and I think it's 183 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 3: pretty self evident to a lot of people. But the 184 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 3: extent to which politics, you know, our versus d Trump 185 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: versus not Trump, whatever, has become people's identity and their 186 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 3: hobby and their passion and their talking point. It's the 187 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 3: modern It looks like a clear day, Jim. You see 188 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 3: what Trump did. Jim. I've got the best example, which 189 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk more about later, from uh going to 190 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 3: the movies on Friday night. So I went to see Thunderbolts, 191 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 3: the latest Marvel movie, and I had unfortunately seen a 192 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 3: piece or two, including the one in the National Review 193 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 3: about how Thunderbolts a disgusting attack on Trump and America 194 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 3: through and through transparent the way it treats its audience. 195 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: And I was like, what really, I. 196 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 3: Went, You're insane if you watch that movie and you're 197 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 3: thinking that it's taking shots at Trump and America, and 198 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 3: that's what gets into your head. You're crazy. This is 199 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 3: the whole wolf Right thing that's taken over. You're nuts. 200 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: I remember the same thing with the movie up Oh 201 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: a transparent defending of climate and I didn't get that 202 00:10:58,880 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 3: at all. 203 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: Don't look up, don't look up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I 204 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: didn't get. 205 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 3: That at all. So everybody's gone nuts with this stuff 206 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 3: where it's just it's it's your It's like you were 207 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 3: just saying, it's your identity, it's your life. You see 208 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 3: every single thing through the through the lens of is 209 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 3: this supporting Trump or not? Or my point of view 210 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: or not? Every single tiny thing now it's it's it's 211 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 3: a psychosis of some sort. Yeah, it's partly a psychosis. 212 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: I think there's a hell of a lot of pop 213 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: culture that is also joined in that fray, and so no, 214 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 3: it's not completely crazy to see that fray represented in 215 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 3: pop culture. 216 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: I must disagree with you. 217 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 3: On the other hand, you're a specific example. I get Yeah, 218 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 3: but this I. 219 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: Read this long article, I mean where it was. 220 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 3: It was pages long in Oh yeah, this guy is 221 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 3: a I know, the guy who does that stuff for 222 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 3: and are He is a sophisticate, a brilliant man, a wordsmith. Yeah, 223 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 3: I just think it's crazy. So we used to laugh 224 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 3: at the left when they talk about cowboy movies. Of 225 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 3: course the bad guys have black hats. A good have 226 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 3: white hats because black people are bad. So the way 227 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 3: you read into this crap we used to all call crazy. 228 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: Now the right does it exactly as stupidly, by the way, 229 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 3: as egregiously stupidly. In my opinion, Wow, folks, it's the steroids. 230 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 3: He's got the roid rage going. He doesn't know what 231 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: he's saying. He's out of control. Now, if you if 232 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: you go to a movie like that and you see politics, 233 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 3: there's something wrong with your brain. You haven't seen You've 234 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 3: you've got you, You've lost your ability to like live 235 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 3: a normal life. 236 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 1: And I think that's happening a lot. I don't know 237 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: what we do about it. I don't know if there's 238 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: any getting out of it. 239 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, I haven't seen him dead, so it's impossible 240 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 3: to judge. Well, we'll play his greatest well, milk, his 241 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 3: greatest hits greatest rants for I don't know, a few 242 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 3: days coming backs, yes, yeah, just Hanson and I are 243 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 3: planning on the air. 244 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: It's probably gonna do you know, new co host. So 245 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: we don't have Katie here today, she's off. 246 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 3: We don't have Michaelangelo here today, so it's just Joe 247 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 3: and I are some in our sombreros and Hansen in there, 248 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 3: who also. 249 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: Wrote a burrow to work in honor of Sinco Tomaio. 250 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: And you're sick as can be and don't drink. So 251 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 3: I'm swinging down Marguerite's on my own drag. 252 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got more news for you coming up. 253 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 3: We're probably not going to reopen Alcatraze, but Israel probably 254 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 3: is going to take over Gaza and that's gonna be 255 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 3: quite the mess. And a bunch of other stuff that 256 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: happened over the weekend, including uh, some more tariff stuff 257 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 3: that Trump talked about. You're needing less pencils. You can 258 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 3: live with a terrass on movies whatever that means. Your 259 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 3: kids are gonna have less dolls. You're gonna have less pencils. 260 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 3: That's the world you're gonna live in. 261 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: Shoot, I gotta start saving my pencils and dolls. 262 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 3: A lot of stuff on the way. I hope you 263 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 3: can stay here for the first time in four years 264 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 3: you gotta make your college student loan payment. If you're behind, 265 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,319 Speaker 3: get caught up, or you're gonna be in real trouble 266 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 3: that starts today. According to it's all presented from a 267 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 3: sympathetic that's horrible for you point of view from everything 268 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 3: that is mainstream media as opposed to, of course you 269 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 3: have to start paying for it. It was bizarre that 270 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 3: you ever didn't right and turned out to be illegal, 271 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 3: and the extension of the original COVID plan was utterly 272 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 3: without excuse or explanation. Yeah, at the same time, you know, 273 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 3: I've got to admit I've got so much raging hostility 274 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 3: against the college scam and those who perpetrated it and 275 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: those who profit so mightily from it. 276 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: Today. 277 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 3: You know, I could almost believe that Joe Biden was 278 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 3: relieving the student debt or trying to because he was 279 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: so guilt stricken, if he had a conscience over how 280 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 3: how badly screwed so amara so many American young people 281 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: are by that whole fraud. You've got to go to 282 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 3: college to have a decent life where we will, oh, 283 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 3: all of culture will look down on you and call 284 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 3: you names and think less of you. Oh, by the way, 285 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 3: you're not going to get an education. It's wildly artificially 286 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: inflated in price because it's such a scam and a 287 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: profit center for the left. And I just and that's 288 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: supposed to ease my guilt by making the guy who 289 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 3: decided I'm not going to college it's a waste of 290 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 3: time pay for it. No, I'm just saying, there's there's. 291 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 3: It's not as it's not a simple moral question. It's well, 292 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 3: you know, you walk down the garden path of evil, 293 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 3: you end up surrounded by evil, the old g Poe 294 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: all right, and the old and the just. There is 295 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 3: a very few simple, clear solutions. I would say, sorry, 296 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 3: you got scammed. You know, you gotta pay your your loan. Yeah, 297 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 3: so a few headlines because Katie's not here, but we'll 298 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 3: go ahead and do something at least somewhat similar. You 299 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: got your uh Irani impact, hoothy revels, revels. It's so 300 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 3: essentially Iran lobbing a big, old ballistic missile into Israel. 301 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 3: They they caught three of them. The fourth got through 302 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 3: because it was right by the airport. Yeah, lots of 303 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 3: a videos. Man, you're in that airport and you hear 304 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 3: the raid sirens going off, and then all of a sudden, 305 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 3: a big kabluey right outside the terminal. 306 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: Holy crap. Yeah. 307 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 3: According to the Israeli military, they knocked out about ninety 308 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 3: five percent of the missiles launched at them by the 309 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 3: Houthis but occasionally get through. It stopped air traffic there 310 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 3: at the biggest airport for like an hour. 311 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: I think a little more than that. 312 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 3: Heck, we got a rainstorm in Kentucky's right right, the 313 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 3: entire country for a week. 314 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: It rains in Kentucky. You're not flying out lax today. 315 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, what Israeli armies started calling up tens of thousands 316 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 3: of reservists in preparation for an expanded operation in the 317 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 3: Gaza Strip. You got a judge knocking down one of 318 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 3: Trump's executive orders targeting law firms that had gone up 319 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 3: against them. That one was obvious. Sorry, it was silly, 320 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: it was dumb. Will it's over. We'll get into the 321 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: details in some of these big stories. But here's my 322 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 3: favorite headline that I came across today. Surgeons attempt to 323 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 3: medical first removing a spinal tumor through the patient's eye. 324 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 3: I'm no expert on anatomy, but it seems to me, 325 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 3: isn't that? Like, I don't know going to speaking of Kentucky, 326 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Lexington, Kentucky through Olympia, Washington. Why, 327 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 3: surely there's a better route. More news of the day, 328 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 3: and we'll get you up to speed on a bunch 329 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 3: of these stories that. 330 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: Are real, that's for sure. Armstrong and Getty. What's vax? 331 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: All right, sir? 332 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 4: This order would reduce the number of interracial couples in 333 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 4: TV commercial. 334 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: It's just too many. 335 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 3: Right. 336 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 4: You see him in the kitchen together making. 337 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: Meal from HelloFresh. 338 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 4: He's wearing loafersh she's got tight braids. 339 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: You're like, where did they meet? You know, why did 340 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: they even talk about? It's insane, sir. I thought that 341 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: was pretty funny. What do they even talk about? 342 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 3: You know, it's a cartoon version of you know, the 343 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 3: culture war? 344 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,719 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. That's fine, We're all fine. Oh that's funny. 345 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 3: It's brought to you by HelloFresh. Where did they meet? Okay, 346 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 3: So that's the fake Trump on Saturday Night Live. You 347 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 3: got the real Trump, who's done his third interview. 348 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: With Christian Walker Meet the Press in one hundred days. 349 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 3: The overtly hostile, relentlessly negative. 350 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: Unfair, brutal, one sided. Kristen Welker. 351 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 3: Democrats get away with not doing very many interviews period, 352 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 3: and then when they do do them, they give them 353 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 3: to mainstream media outlets. 354 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: There are all on their side. 355 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 3: Trump goes into hostile territory like every day answering questions. 356 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 3: Let's review Joe Biden's last interview. Sir, your wonderfulness is 357 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 3: a wonder to us all. How are you so wonderful? 358 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 3: But so last week a lot of tension was made 359 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 3: talking about the tariff war and what it'll do, and 360 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 3: Trump's saying, you know, kids can get by fewer dolls. 361 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 3: And I thought it meant under the tree. You thought 362 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 3: it meant on the shelves. Well, it was a little ambiguous, 363 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 3: that's what I thought. Still trying to figure out where 364 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 3: that all is. So Christian Walker brought that up with 365 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 3: him on Meet the Press yesterday, And I. 366 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 5: Want to ask you about something you said this week 367 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 5: got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting. 368 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 5: You said, quote, going to quote what you said, maybe 369 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 5: the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dollars. Yeah, 370 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 5: and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of 371 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 5: bucks more than they would normally. Are you saying that 372 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 5: your tariffs will cause some prices to go up. 373 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 6: No, I think the tariff's are going to be great 374 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 6: for us because it's going to make us rich. 375 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 5: You said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't 376 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 5: that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up. 377 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 6: I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs at eleven 378 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 6: years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they 379 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 6: can have three dollars or four dollars. Because what we 380 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 6: were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a 381 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 6: trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China. 382 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 5: When you say they could have three dollars instead of 383 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,959 Speaker 5: thirty dollars, are you saying you say Americans could see 384 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 5: empty store shelves. 385 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 6: No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they 386 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 6: don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three. 387 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 6: They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils, 388 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 6: they can have five. 389 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 5: You're basically saying there could be some supply. 390 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 6: Because they can't waste money on a trade deficit with 391 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 6: China for things we don't need, for junk that we 392 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 6: don't need. 393 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: Now. 394 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 3: Ian Bremer called that the most anti American thing I've 395 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: ever heard of. 396 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: US President say, it's a bit strong. 397 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 3: I agree, it's a bit strong, but it sure sounds 398 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 3: like he means under the tree, like you just your 399 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 3: kids can do deal with less toys. And you've got 400 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 3: too many pencils, by the way, what a weird example. 401 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: And they're going to cost more. Yeah, listen, you don't 402 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: need three hundred and fifty pencils. Good lord. 403 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 3: I would hope at this point we have earned a 404 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 3: reputation for fairness that you can trust us. 405 00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: We calls them as we see them. 406 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,479 Speaker 3: I found that to be, as political pitches go, one 407 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 3: of the more amazing ones. There's going to be less 408 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 3: to choose from, and it will cost more, but it 409 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 3: will protect our industry and our manufacturing jobs, and we 410 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 3: will all be better off for it. 411 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: Was his the second half of the sentence that he 412 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: never really spoke. 413 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so here we are as usual as people 414 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 3: often are, trying to fill in the stuff he doesn't say. 415 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: A native English speaker, Yes. 416 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 3: Because the argument that it's going to be painful for 417 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 3: a while that's the way terif wars work, but it's 418 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 3: going to turn out in our favor. 419 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not, but at 420 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: least you can make that argument. It's a theory. 421 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: The whole you have too much stuff, I'll determine how 422 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 3: much stuff you need to be happy is not something 423 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 3: people are going to enjoy. No, that is Frankly, that's 424 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 3: awful political messaging. If one is just going to be 425 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 3: completely cynical about it, it's not good. 426 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: Your kids have too many toys. I'm just telling you, no, No, 427 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 1: my kids will have as many toys as I think 428 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: they ought. Nobody wants anybody to tell them. 429 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I don't need that sort of value judgment. 430 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 3: If it was coming from a Democrat, folks, friends, and 431 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 3: no kidding, be honest with your you would be going nuts. 432 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 3: If Obama or Biden had said your kids don't need 433 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 3: that many dolls for Christmas, Yeah, you'd be going crazy 434 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 3: over that. Interestingly enough, Scott Bessens, who is the cool 435 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 3: head I think in the administration when it comes to 436 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 3: trade and tariffs and that sort of thing, has a 437 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 3: piece in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday. I guess 438 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 3: it was Trump's three steps to economic growth, and he 439 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 3: doesn't state it explicitly, but it seems really clear that, yeah, 440 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 3: the tariffs are a means of negotiating better trade deals. 441 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: Don't worry, we won't have high tariffs going forward. But 442 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: then Trump goes on the kristin Welker's awful show, and 443 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 3: it implies otherwise, because that is necessary for the negotiations. 444 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 3: I guess that we're going to be, you know, dollless 445 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 3: and have few pencils pencils. 446 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: I think he was just. 447 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 3: Trying to pick a kind of an anonymous, you know, 448 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 3: generic good. 449 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: You know, I feel amply penciled myself. You don't need 450 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pencils. 451 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 3: A couple of pencils is plenty, right, all right, you 452 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: got me on that one. Yeah, we mostly use the 453 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: mechanical ones around my house, so I think, you know, 454 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 3: last lifetime anyway, So that was just odd his mystifying 455 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 3: strategic chaos or strategic ambiguity in negotiations. That was at Lutnik. 456 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 3: One of his guys was talking about, hey, now he 457 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 3: does it. 458 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, we know. 459 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 3: Nobody knows where this is going. That's the point. Okay, 460 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I love that, but I think I 461 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 3: understand it. 462 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: What do you use a pencil for? What are you 463 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: writing in pencil for? I have a second grade paper due. 464 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 3: Oh no, don't. I don't use them much, honestly. Uh, 465 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 3: you'd have to ask my wife if maybe you're doing 466 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 3: math or things you need to erase. 467 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, use a pencil. We do a lot 468 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: of drafting in our house, busy drafting. 469 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: I feel like I use a pencil maybe to mark 470 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 3: the kid's height up against the wall. Yeah, but the 471 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 3: only thing I can think of off the top of my head, 472 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 3: you know, if you want the honest truth, And it's 473 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: a probing question, I appreciated I only use a pencil 474 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 3: because I picked it up thinking it was because we 475 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 3: use mechanical pencils around my house. Yeah, okay, I admit it. 476 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 3: So that got a fair amount of attention. And honestly, 477 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 3: I think it's silly and indefensible and an odd thing 478 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 3: to say. I get the idea of instead of a 479 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 3: society of wildly cheap, astonishing abundance that is good for 480 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 3: corporations but bad for the American worker, We're going to 481 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 3: go back to a little more traditional American economic system. 482 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. My problem with that. 483 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 3: It's defensible, you know, in some ways I get it, 484 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 3: but I despise central planning, right, It's a horror. 485 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: It's a horror. 486 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 3: I could go on and on without pausing for breath 487 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 3: for two and a half hours if you would like 488 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 3: me to about how incredibly stupid and flawed central planning 489 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 3: is and how it is a miserable failure every single 490 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 3: time it's tried, and the smacks of central planning except 491 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,239 Speaker 3: that I just think it's a means to the end 492 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 3: of the trade negotiations. 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First of all, we got 519 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 3: this stuff about him, ask whether or not he's going 520 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 3: to follow the constitution? 521 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: You want to get that next hour, when we got 522 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: time to really flesh them out. 523 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 3: I was I was all ready to go right now, 524 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 3: right now do you understand the whole movie tariff thing 525 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 3: that has just been announced on fortunal. That's that's why 526 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 3: I wanted to do the constitution stuff now, because I 527 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 3: don't honestly, well, I would like to point out where 528 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 3: I think Trump is being criticized unjustifiedly on a big one, 529 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 3: the constitutional stuff. 530 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm here to defend him on that. Okay, believe it 531 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: or not. Cool, that's a good one. That's a hot one. Pencils, 532 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: I don't care, I don't know. 533 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 3: We can do it now or do it. Let's kick 534 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 3: off next hour with it. I will give you the 535 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 3: very very short version. I did not love his answer, 536 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 3: But I've said since Trump was running in twenty fifteen 537 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: twenty sixteen that his his grasp of and his love 538 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 3: for the Constitution is less than I would like. On 539 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 3: the other hand, the constant abuse of the Constitution by 540 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 3: you know, your Biden's and Obama's and company or are 541 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 3: certainly more. 542 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: Than I would like. 543 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 3: But having said that, he was obviously in an environment 544 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 3: with a person who is trying desperately to trap him 545 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 3: to get the big juicy news quote. And there is 546 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 3: subtlety and complexity to anything but the very very simplest 547 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 3: answer to those questions. Now, he could have given the 548 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 3: very very simplest answer, but he knew she was trying 549 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 3: to trap him, and so he. 550 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: Was engaging in ambivalence. I get it, and we'll play 551 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: you the clips. 552 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: So I think it's amazing that the Trump people are 553 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 3: willing to troll to the level they troll. I mean 554 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 3: two things. One thing she asked about I meet the 555 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 3: press yesterday. You sell Trump twenty twenty eight hats. I mean, 556 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 3: so that's some serious patrolling. They actually sell Trump twenty 557 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 3: twenty eight hats. Yes, And they put out on their 558 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 3: own one of their own feeds over the weekend, put 559 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 3: out the picture of him as pope and also so 560 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 3: him as a roided up muscle freak action hero guy 561 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 3: good lord an with a machine gunner. 562 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: So I can't remember. 563 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 3: So I want to talk about two movies I saw 564 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 3: every the weekend. Since I'm sick, I saw more movies 565 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: than usual. I saw the new Marvel Comics movie, which 566 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 3: had a really interesting message I thought, and my son 567 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 3: thought was the best deprayal deep portrayal of depression he's 568 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: ever seen in any TV or movie ever. Oh really, yeah, 569 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 3: which I find interesting. The very adult movie wasn't like 570 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 3: any other Marvel movie I've ever seen by far. 571 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: I actually people clapped at the end, including me. It 572 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: was really something. 573 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 3: You know, many including me have kicked Marvel absolutely four foisting, 574 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 3: increasingly dopey, idiotic. Oh these these idiots will watch anything, 575 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 3: no movies for the longest time, so you know they're 576 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 3: smart people. 577 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: They got it. And then oh the other movie I watched. 578 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 3: I watched so where I the eighty year anniversary of 579 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 3: the Fall of Berlin, And I watched a movie I'd 580 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 3: never seen before with Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, The Bunker. 581 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that? I'd never even heard of it. 582 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 3: It's the best Hitler movie I've ever seen. I didn't 583 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 3: never even heard of it. 584 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: I feel like I have. 585 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was good. But I want to 586 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 3: talk about that later and some things around that, among 587 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: other stuff. We got mail bag on the way. I 588 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 3: hope you can stick around. 589 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: Well. 590 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 3: The tryouts for Jack's replacements start before or after I die. 591 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 3: Asking for a friend, will there be a hot link 592 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 3: for risumni sub submissions? You know, as a man who's 593 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 3: played in a number of rock and roll bands through 594 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 3: the years, sometimes there's a week link and you need 595 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 3: to get rid of them, and you don't. You just say, yeah, 596 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 3: we can't practice this Tuesday. But everybody knows, but that 597 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 3: person you are practicing on Tuesday. But with the drummer, 598 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 3: you're auditioning. So that's what we've been doing. Anyway, Hanson 599 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 3: and I get together and do a show on Saturdays 600 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 3: with Billy Young Billy who's the new co host. Anyway, 601 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 3: here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Got a 602 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 3: great one for a Thursday, by the way, Jackie brought 603 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 3: up v E Day in World War Two. Got a 604 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 3: wonderful V Day related quote. But today's from Ben Franklin. 605 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 3: I love this because of its brevity. Here comes the 606 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 3: orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. Man, 607 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: how many political speeches have you heard that are a 608 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 3: flood of words and a drop of reason? 609 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: I like it? Or Ben piffy mail bag? 610 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 3: Did you go from basically late Great Ben Franklin, Late 611 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 3: Great Ben Franklin. 612 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: That's right. 613 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,959 Speaker 3: You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong 614 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 3: and getty dot com. Let's start light and move, you know, 615 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: towards the more pithy or more important Jay team Livermore 616 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: on the topic of weighing obese people, guys, you don't 617 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 3: need to take them to the zoo. Well, I would agree. 618 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 3: There are a couple of cases of people needing to 619 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 3: be weighed and they didn't have the proper scale at 620 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 3: any medical facility for them because of their their heavy heavyweights. 621 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: They take them to weigh. 622 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 3: Hippopotamusis exactly which is hurtful all around. Anyway, He says, 623 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 3: you only need two traditional bathroom scales with a board 624 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 3: between them, and assuming the scales are accurate to two 625 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty pounds, the two scales can weigh individuals 626 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 3: up to five hundred pounds. 627 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 1: That's what we did. 628 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 3: We did that on the Armstrong and Getty Show. We 629 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 3: figured that out years ago. We used to give away 630 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 3: tickets to heavy people. Sacramento Kings were in the playoffs 631 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 3: and we gave away tickets to the biggest Kings fan 632 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 3: by weight, and we didn't have a five hundred pound scales. 633 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 3: We had two regular scales. They would put one foot 634 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 3: on each and it worked fine. That was in earlier 635 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 3: and more idiotic days on the show. We've moved beyond 636 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 3: that sort of foolishness. 637 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: What weighing giant people and giving them price. 638 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 3: Then he says, you don't need a super executive, expensive 639 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 3: elephant scale for your doctor's office. The scales can be 640 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 3: put away in a cabinet when weighing traditional patient. No. 641 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: JT. 642 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 3: No, it's much simpler to just have the big scale. 643 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 3: Uh oh, better bring out another. No, two more. 644 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: Scales, come on? Anyway? You are right. 645 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 3: Did you watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday? I did, and, 646 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 3: fueled by what do you make jin out of rice 647 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 3: juniper berries? Fueled by whatever's in gin, I threw down 648 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 3: a couple of ill advised dollars on various nags which 649 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 3: failed to cross the finished money fashion. 650 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: You didn't choose the winner? I did not? 651 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,479 Speaker 3: Well, I never I never go with favorites. I mean, 652 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 3: what's the point anyway? Let's see, this is from Kevin. 653 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 3: It seems appropriate that a horse named sovereignty should defeat 654 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 3: a horse named journalism in this Saturday's Kentucky Derby during 655 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 3: a time that our country is taking back sovereignty. It's 656 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 3: a southern border and exposing fake journalism. Finding more meaning 657 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 3: from the horse names than I did, Kevin, But you're right, 658 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 3: that is kind of funny. 659 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: Let's see. 660 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 3: How about Ryan reacting to the President on Meet the 661 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 3: Press with his you don't need two hundred pencils or 662 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 3: whatever he said, Dear Big Freedom and cyber Jack. 663 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: Was President Trump telling me I should do with less. 664 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 3: The man who drapes everything in gold, builds luxury resorts 665 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 3: and hotels that I can't afford to google much less 666 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 3: to go to and at the cost of tax payer dollars, 667 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 3: shows up to whatever sports of any wants. 668 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: It's telling me to do more or do with less. 669 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 3: Please, elected officials, don't tell me I could do with 670 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 3: less when you have grown fat and rich off the 671 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,240 Speaker 3: American people. Let's Ryan from Houston. It was a solid 672 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 3: conservative lad. 673 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. 674 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's very good political messaging anyway. 675 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 3: Moving along totally different topic, JT writes one thing to 676 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 3: look ahead when you lower the federal He wrote a 677 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 3: multipoint email about GDP measurements, which were much in the 678 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 3: news at the end of the last week, and he 679 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 3: said one more thing, when you lower the federal budget, 680 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 3: that too causes a reduction in the GDP calculation. That's right, 681 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 3: because it's consumer spending plus investment plus government spending minus imports, 682 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 3: blah blah blah, which is just an accounting reality. It's 683 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 3: not that imports hurt the GDP. You just don't want 684 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 3: to double count that money. 685 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: Anyway. 686 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 3: When you borrow money for the federal budget, that borrowed 687 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 3: money increases the GDP. Paying down the debt doesn't help 688 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 3: the GDP at all. It won't so if Trump and 689 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 3: dogs were actually able to find a trillion dollars to 690 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 3: cut from the federal budget, the GDP of the country 691 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 3: would go down by a trillion dollars, all other things 692 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 3: being equal. Well, in three months when the quarterly report 693 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 3: comes out, if it's down again, I'm taking that week 694 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,319 Speaker 3: off while you all argue about whether or not this 695 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,399 Speaker 3: is a recession. I can't wait. It'll be fascinating. Jt 696 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 3: rolls on though, and I think this is great. Here's 697 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 3: another example of how screwed up the GDP calculation is. 698 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 3: And I would add how silly it is to spend 699 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 3: a lot of time beating our over it. To Jack's point, 700 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 3: if Biden borrows two trillion dollars for his green energy 701 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 3: schemes and then Trump comes in and balances the budget, 702 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 3: the GDP will take a two trillion dollar hit year 703 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 3: over year from that act of financial sanity. This has 704 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 3: been one of my many many ghods that is so 705 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 3: esoteric nobody cares about. But I believe we really need 706 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 3: a new GDP like metric, that GDP like metric that 707 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 3: better measures the health of the economy. Yeah, that'll be 708 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 3: a fun argument. Is this a recession? Two down quarters 709 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 3: in a row? Blah blah, everybody will switch sides from 710 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 3: the last time I argued about it. 711 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: Now it'll be good times, you know. 712 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 3: I'll just read passages from my favorite Dickens novels. 713 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: Have you missed a segment get the podcast Armstrong and 714 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:45,840 Speaker 1: Getty