Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Brand New Week. How
Speaker 3: about this Prosset's sinco to myow, I wrote a borough
Speaker 3: to work. I had to leave at three thirty in
Speaker 3: the morning to get here.
Speaker 1: Because Burrow, we appreciate your commitment.
Speaker 3: By the day, you know, in honor of defeating the
Speaker 3: French so that Emperor Maximilian would be booted out or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oo, who zeus for maximillion? Nobody woo. Anyway, it's Monday,
Speaker 3: Brand New Week. It's sinko to my own. Today we're
Speaker 3: under the tutelage of our general manager ben Ya mean
Speaker 3: neting Yahoo and Israel having just announced a plan to
Speaker 3: occupy Gaza and control aid distribution themselves, bringing closer to fruition.
Speaker 3: What I've been saying for quite some time, they're doing uh,
Speaker 3: not living side by side with anybody.
Speaker 1: They're taking it over.
Speaker 3: So they had a vote overnight and they're gonna occupy Gaza. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: run the place. Okay, yes, sir. I don't think they
Speaker 3: got any choice. Meanwhile, I'd like to discuss the Western
Speaker 3: media's just utter loyal sycophancy with Amas. I heard amplify
Speaker 3: their talking points and video messages slavishly.
Speaker 1: I heard that on NPR this morning.
Speaker 3: Critics say Hamas should be given a chance to something
Speaker 3: or other or whatever. There's no talk of amass surrendering
Speaker 3: or giving.
Speaker 1: Back to the hostages or anything what not. Have you mentioned, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I may have heard that same report, and I heard
Speaker 3: a similar one in which they described the suffering of
Speaker 3: the Palestinian people, which I don't debate for a minute,
Speaker 3: and then throw an offhand. You know, the monsters, the Israelis.
Speaker 3: They say they'll ease up and there can be peace
Speaker 3: if they give the hostages back. But anyway, in other news,
Speaker 3: it's like, well, okay, so why don't they Why haven't they? No,
Speaker 3: they never asked that question, and I was just I
Speaker 3: was watching some of the coverage off again, the undeniable
Speaker 3: suffering of some of the Palestinian people, including children, which
Speaker 3: the the video of the four kids clamoring for food
Speaker 3: was straight out of Hamas's video production facilities.
Speaker 1: I mean they were like it was like watching Oliver Twist.
Speaker 1: Please second, I have some awe.
Speaker 3: I mean it was utterly designed to provoke sympathy and
Speaker 3: outrage it whoever was putting the children in that the
Speaker 3: poor children in that position, which.
Speaker 1: Is a moss.
Speaker 3: By the way, funny you had mentioned Oliver Twist, written
Speaker 3: by Charles Dickens. Walsoll wrote Christmas Carol, which features sickly
Speaker 3: little Tim. Because That's what I've been thinking about over
Speaker 3: the last several days. I'm sickly. I am now a
Speaker 3: sickly character, tiny Jack. I am like you know, I'm
Speaker 3: like sickly or Week. I'm like Fredo and the Godfather.
Speaker 3: I'm like the weak brother. I'm a sickly, weak human being.
Speaker 3: And so I'm just trying to embrace that role now.
Speaker 3: That is I can normally assume that you're going to
Speaker 3: turn coat and then like turn us into the FCC
Speaker 3: for something.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but I am. I am sickly.
Speaker 3: I'm sickly and weak, and I hope I don't know
Speaker 3: if I don't know, if I could listen to a
Speaker 3: radio show that has a.
Speaker 1: Worse I'm worse now than I was last week.
Speaker 3: Get yourself a little crutch and and say vaguely affirming
Speaker 3: things like God, bless us everyone. That's what I'm It's endearing.
Speaker 3: I started a prednizone on Friday, a pretty high dose
Speaker 3: which amps you up. And uh, I didn't sleep one
Speaker 3: minute Friday night, not a single minute. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I've ever done that in my wife, like he's
Speaker 3: in partying. I don't know if I've ever gone a
Speaker 3: whole night without one minute of sleep, without at least
Speaker 3: like a five minute catnap or something.
Speaker 1: I said the entire night it was crazy. Should we
Speaker 1: just shut.
Speaker 3: The whole thing down for a week and lets you
Speaker 3: try to rest or something? And I don't get to
Speaker 3: be on the air the last week of my life
Speaker 3: because I'm probably dying. Wow, that's that's the point being
Speaker 3: that's not a static reality. Perhaps we could affect that.
Speaker 3: That would be my point. Anyway, that was crazy. I
Speaker 3: had another point. Oh, and the best news story of
Speaker 3: the last eighteen hours is obviously Trump reopening Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: That's about story out there. How great is that? How
Speaker 1: do you define best exactly? I don't know. Catches your
Speaker 1: eye and makes you want to know more. That caught
Speaker 1: my eye and maybe you want to know no more. Wow.
Speaker 3: He is the all time king troller, get people talking
Speaker 3: guy of all time. You know he very well. This
Speaker 3: just bopped into my head, now, my adult, sickly head.
Speaker 1: He might have timed this.
Speaker 3: With nothing Yahoo. He might have thought, oh boy, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to answer this question all day. What would
Speaker 3: be open Alcatraz? Because that's what's leading everywhere. He might
Speaker 3: have just covered up the whole Israel is going to
Speaker 3: take over Gaza. Yes, you know, gosh, dang it, you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean the freneta. I was gonna make the points.
Speaker 3: That's a frenetic pace of this just it tends to
Speaker 3: wear people out over time. But yeah, if you were
Speaker 3: going to dodge talking about that, yes, all right, what
Speaker 3: is so completely crazy? All right, say you're not sure
Speaker 3: if due process applies or if you have to uphold
Speaker 3: the constitution, and then say we ought to reopen Alcatraz
Speaker 3: and use it as a prison for the the evilist,
Speaker 3: most violent people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was singing.
Speaker 3: If it was an old timy radio, we would call
Speaker 3: Alcatraz like roughly, now call him up and say, hey,
Speaker 3: have you heard about because it's a big tourist destination.
Speaker 3: So I was just in San Francisco a week before
Speaker 3: last with my son. I said, I can't believe I've
Speaker 3: never taken Alcatraz, which I can't believe I haven't. And
Speaker 3: when I heard the news yes day, I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: did I miss my window. I'd like to call him
Speaker 3: up and say, have you heard word one about this?
Speaker 3: Has anybody who works at Alcatraz ever heard in the
Speaker 3: ink even the slightest inkling of opening it back up
Speaker 3: as a prison?
Speaker 1: Ever?
Speaker 3: Anybody in the entire US Park surface, which is run
Speaker 3: Alcatraz for like, well not sixty years, has been closed
Speaker 3: as a prison for sixty years, but it's been run
Speaker 3: by the Ark Service for decades and decades. Here's what's
Speaker 3: interesting and just typical of the whole Trump thing. So
Speaker 3: every news outlet taking it completely seriously, except for Fox,
Speaker 3: who dismissed it very quickly as obviously he's not going
Speaker 3: to open Alcatraz, but he's making the point that we've
Speaker 3: got to lock these people up. I mean, they just
Speaker 3: threw it aside as obviously not going to happen. It's
Speaker 3: not even worth discussing immediately. Yeah, but on every other
Speaker 3: channel they're taking breathless. How could he be so crazy?
Speaker 3: It would cause we have an architect here to describe
Speaker 3: how expensive it would be to you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, and both sides get what they want
Speaker 3: out of the story. You know, it's it's a beautiful, confusing,
Speaker 3: idiotic symbiosis.
Speaker 1: But I'll bet that's it.
Speaker 3: It bumped Israel invading Gaza and taking it over off
Speaker 3: the front page, which was a was, you know, a
Speaker 3: no go as an option for mainstream media not too
Speaker 3: long ago and probably still is. But declaring a war
Speaker 3: on Disney. Mickey Mouse is an actual mouse, and he's
Speaker 3: plotting the overthrow of the country.
Speaker 1: We are going to.
Speaker 3: Hunt down Mickey or Michael Mouse if it takes everything
Speaker 3: we've got and then pushes everything off the front page. Antavirus.
Speaker 3: Gene Ackman's wife would still be alive if it weren't
Speaker 3: for Mickey Mouse, the great Gene Hackman, the late great Gina.
Speaker 1: Out there he goes again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so okay, that's funny, absolutely Hilarious's going to reopen Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: Worked as a story.
Speaker 3: Let's start the show officially, then get us into a
Speaker 3: different conversation.
Speaker 1: Give me a chance to call for a while. I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this it is Sinko Demayo, both
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Speaker 4: I've also signed and forty seven executive orders, everything from
Speaker 4: banning paper straws to defunding PBS. I understand Elmo has
Speaker 4: now been apprehended by ice, brought to you by the
Speaker 4: letter L for El Salvador.
Speaker 1: He's not coming back.
Speaker 3: I tell you what, that whole bit was really funny,
Speaker 3: all the executive orders Trump was signing, it was just good,
Speaker 3: funny political human He's not coming back.
Speaker 1: You know what I list for else? Alphador?
Speaker 3: Oh my, Not to get off on comedy because it's
Speaker 3: not that important, I suppose, but I hate that there's
Speaker 3: a number of political like round up newsletters I read
Speaker 3: every day, and the one I read it on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Here are your Trump jokes from Saturday Night.
Speaker 3: Live and just I just hate that the rest of
Speaker 3: the show, the of the ninety minutes, the other eighty
Speaker 3: six minutes are really good, often of just sketch comedy.
Speaker 3: I hate that it's been distilled down for so much
Speaker 3: of America as to what were the Trump jokes?
Speaker 1: All right, whatever, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this one once and I think it's
Speaker 3: pretty self evident to a lot of people. But the
Speaker 3: extent to which politics, you know, our versus d Trump
Speaker 3: versus not Trump, whatever, has become people's identity and their
Speaker 3: hobby and their passion and their talking point. It's the
Speaker 3: modern It looks like a clear day, Jim. You see
Speaker 3: what Trump did. Jim. I've got the best example, which
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk more about later, from uh going to
Speaker 3: the movies on Friday night. So I went to see Thunderbolts,
Speaker 3: the latest Marvel movie, and I had unfortunately seen a
Speaker 3: piece or two, including the one in the National Review
Speaker 3: about how Thunderbolts a disgusting attack on Trump and America
Speaker 3: through and through transparent the way it treats its audience.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what really, I.
Speaker 3: Went, You're insane if you watch that movie and you're
Speaker 3: thinking that it's taking shots at Trump and America, and
Speaker 3: that's what gets into your head. You're crazy. This is
Speaker 3: the whole wolf Right thing that's taken over. You're nuts.
Speaker 3: I remember the same thing with the movie up Oh
Speaker 3: a transparent defending of climate and I didn't get that
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Don't look up, don't look up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't get.
Speaker 3: That at all. So everybody's gone nuts with this stuff
Speaker 3: where it's just it's it's your It's like you were
Speaker 3: just saying, it's your identity, it's your life. You see
Speaker 3: every single thing through the through the lens of is
Speaker 3: this supporting Trump or not? Or my point of view
Speaker 3: or not? Every single tiny thing now it's it's it's
Speaker 3: a psychosis of some sort. Yeah, it's partly a psychosis.
Speaker 3: I think there's a hell of a lot of pop
Speaker 3: culture that is also joined in that fray, and so no,
Speaker 3: it's not completely crazy to see that fray represented in
Speaker 3: pop culture.
Speaker 1: I must disagree with you.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you're a specific example. I get Yeah,
Speaker 3: but this I.
Speaker 1: Read this long article, I mean where it was.
Speaker 3: It was pages long in Oh yeah, this guy is
Speaker 3: a I know, the guy who does that stuff for
Speaker 3: and are He is a sophisticate, a brilliant man, a wordsmith. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just think it's crazy. So we used to laugh
Speaker 3: at the left when they talk about cowboy movies. Of
Speaker 3: course the bad guys have black hats. A good have
Speaker 3: white hats because black people are bad. So the way
Speaker 3: you read into this crap we used to all call crazy.
Speaker 3: Now the right does it exactly as stupidly, by the way,
Speaker 3: as egregiously stupidly. In my opinion, Wow, folks, it's the steroids.
Speaker 3: He's got the roid rage going. He doesn't know what
Speaker 3: he's saying. He's out of control. Now, if you if
Speaker 3: you go to a movie like that and you see politics,
Speaker 3: there's something wrong with your brain. You haven't seen You've
Speaker 3: you've got you, You've lost your ability to like live
Speaker 3: a normal life.
Speaker 1: And I think that's happening a lot. I don't know
Speaker 1: what we do about it. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: any getting out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, I haven't seen him dead, so it's impossible
Speaker 3: to judge. Well, we'll play his greatest well, milk, his
Speaker 3: greatest hits greatest rants for I don't know, a few
Speaker 3: days coming backs, yes, yeah, just Hanson and I are
Speaker 3: planning on the air.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna do you know, new co host. So
Speaker 1: we don't have Katie here today, she's off.
Speaker 3: We don't have Michaelangelo here today, so it's just Joe
Speaker 3: and I are some in our sombreros and Hansen in there,
Speaker 3: who also.
Speaker 1: Wrote a burrow to work in honor of Sinco Tomaio.
Speaker 3: And you're sick as can be and don't drink. So
Speaker 3: I'm swinging down Marguerite's on my own drag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got more news for you coming up.
Speaker 3: We're probably not going to reopen Alcatraze, but Israel probably
Speaker 3: is going to take over Gaza and that's gonna be
Speaker 3: quite the mess. And a bunch of other stuff that
Speaker 3: happened over the weekend, including uh, some more tariff stuff
Speaker 3: that Trump talked about. You're needing less pencils. You can
Speaker 3: live with a terrass on movies whatever that means. Your
Speaker 3: kids are gonna have less dolls. You're gonna have less pencils.
Speaker 3: That's the world you're gonna live in.
Speaker 1: Shoot, I gotta start saving my pencils and dolls.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff on the way. I hope you
Speaker 3: can stay here for the first time in four years
Speaker 3: you gotta make your college student loan payment. If you're behind,
Speaker 3: get caught up, or you're gonna be in real trouble
Speaker 3: that starts today. According to it's all presented from a
Speaker 3: sympathetic that's horrible for you point of view from everything
Speaker 3: that is mainstream media as opposed to, of course you
Speaker 3: have to start paying for it. It was bizarre that
Speaker 3: you ever didn't right and turned out to be illegal,
Speaker 3: and the extension of the original COVID plan was utterly
Speaker 3: without excuse or explanation. Yeah, at the same time, you know,
Speaker 3: I've got to admit I've got so much raging hostility
Speaker 3: against the college scam and those who perpetrated it and
Speaker 3: those who profit so mightily from it.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: You know, I could almost believe that Joe Biden was
Speaker 3: relieving the student debt or trying to because he was
Speaker 3: so guilt stricken, if he had a conscience over how
Speaker 3: how badly screwed so amara so many American young people
Speaker 3: are by that whole fraud. You've got to go to
Speaker 3: college to have a decent life where we will, oh,
Speaker 3: all of culture will look down on you and call
Speaker 3: you names and think less of you. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get an education. It's wildly artificially
Speaker 3: inflated in price because it's such a scam and a
Speaker 3: profit center for the left. And I just and that's
Speaker 3: supposed to ease my guilt by making the guy who
Speaker 3: decided I'm not going to college it's a waste of
Speaker 3: time pay for it. No, I'm just saying, there's there's.
Speaker 3: It's not as it's not a simple moral question. It's well,
Speaker 3: you know, you walk down the garden path of evil,
Speaker 3: you end up surrounded by evil, the old g Poe
Speaker 3: all right, and the old and the just. There is
Speaker 3: a very few simple, clear solutions. I would say, sorry,
Speaker 3: you got scammed. You know, you gotta pay your your loan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so a few headlines because Katie's not here, but we'll
Speaker 3: go ahead and do something at least somewhat similar. You
Speaker 3: got your uh Irani impact, hoothy revels, revels. It's so
Speaker 3: essentially Iran lobbing a big, old ballistic missile into Israel.
Speaker 3: They they caught three of them. The fourth got through
Speaker 3: because it was right by the airport. Yeah, lots of
Speaker 3: a videos. Man, you're in that airport and you hear
Speaker 3: the raid sirens going off, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: a big kabluey right outside the terminal.
Speaker 1: Holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 3: According to the Israeli military, they knocked out about ninety
Speaker 3: five percent of the missiles launched at them by the
Speaker 3: Houthis but occasionally get through. It stopped air traffic there
Speaker 3: at the biggest airport for like an hour.
Speaker 1: I think a little more than that.
Speaker 3: Heck, we got a rainstorm in Kentucky's right right, the
Speaker 3: entire country for a week.
Speaker 1: It rains in Kentucky. You're not flying out lax today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what Israeli armies started calling up tens of thousands
Speaker 3: of reservists in preparation for an expanded operation in the
Speaker 3: Gaza Strip. You got a judge knocking down one of
Speaker 3: Trump's executive orders targeting law firms that had gone up
Speaker 3: against them. That one was obvious. Sorry, it was silly,
Speaker 3: it was dumb. Will it's over. We'll get into the
Speaker 3: details in some of these big stories. But here's my
Speaker 3: favorite headline that I came across today. Surgeons attempt to
Speaker 3: medical first removing a spinal tumor through the patient's eye.
Speaker 3: I'm no expert on anatomy, but it seems to me,
Speaker 3: isn't that? Like, I don't know going to speaking of Kentucky,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Lexington, Kentucky through Olympia, Washington. Why,
Speaker 3: surely there's a better route. More news of the day,
Speaker 3: and we'll get you up to speed on a bunch
Speaker 3: of these stories that.
Speaker 1: Are real, that's for sure. Armstrong and Getty. What's vax?
Speaker 1: All right, sir?
Speaker 4: This order would reduce the number of interracial couples in
Speaker 4: TV commercial.
Speaker 1: It's just too many.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: You see him in the kitchen together making.
Speaker 1: Meal from HelloFresh.
Speaker 4: He's wearing loafersh she's got tight braids.
Speaker 1: You're like, where did they meet? You know, why did
Speaker 1: they even talk about? It's insane, sir. I thought that
Speaker 1: was pretty funny. What do they even talk about?
Speaker 3: You know, it's a cartoon version of you know, the
Speaker 3: culture war?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. That's fine, We're all fine. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: It's brought to you by HelloFresh. Where did they meet? Okay,
Speaker 3: So that's the fake Trump on Saturday Night Live. You
Speaker 3: got the real Trump, who's done his third interview.
Speaker 1: With Christian Walker Meet the Press in one hundred days.
Speaker 3: The overtly hostile, relentlessly negative.
Speaker 1: Unfair, brutal, one sided. Kristen Welker.
Speaker 3: Democrats get away with not doing very many interviews period,
Speaker 3: and then when they do do them, they give them
Speaker 3: to mainstream media outlets.
Speaker 1: There are all on their side.
Speaker 3: Trump goes into hostile territory like every day answering questions.
Speaker 3: Let's review Joe Biden's last interview. Sir, your wonderfulness is
Speaker 3: a wonder to us all. How are you so wonderful?
Speaker 3: But so last week a lot of tension was made
Speaker 3: talking about the tariff war and what it'll do, and
Speaker 3: Trump's saying, you know, kids can get by fewer dolls.
Speaker 3: And I thought it meant under the tree. You thought
Speaker 3: it meant on the shelves. Well, it was a little ambiguous,
Speaker 3: that's what I thought. Still trying to figure out where
Speaker 3: that all is. So Christian Walker brought that up with
Speaker 3: him on Meet the Press yesterday, And I.
Speaker 5: Want to ask you about something you said this week
Speaker 5: got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting.
Speaker 5: You said, quote, going to quote what you said, maybe
Speaker 5: the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of
Speaker 5: bucks more than they would normally. Are you saying that
Speaker 5: your tariffs will cause some prices to go up.
Speaker 6: No, I think the tariff's are going to be great
Speaker 6: for us because it's going to make us rich.
Speaker 5: You said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't
Speaker 5: that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up.
Speaker 6: I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs at eleven
Speaker 6: years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they
Speaker 6: can have three dollars or four dollars. Because what we
Speaker 6: were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a
Speaker 6: trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Speaker 5: When you say they could have three dollars instead of
Speaker 5: thirty dollars, are you saying you say Americans could see
Speaker 5: empty store shelves.
Speaker 6: No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
Speaker 6: don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three.
Speaker 6: They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils,
Speaker 6: they can have five.
Speaker 5: You're basically saying there could be some supply.
Speaker 6: Because they can't waste money on a trade deficit with
Speaker 6: China for things we don't need, for junk that we
Speaker 6: don't need.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Ian Bremer called that the most anti American thing I've
Speaker 3: ever heard of.
Speaker 1: US President say, it's a bit strong.
Speaker 3: I agree, it's a bit strong, but it sure sounds
Speaker 3: like he means under the tree, like you just your
Speaker 3: kids can do deal with less toys. And you've got
Speaker 3: too many pencils, by the way, what a weird example.
Speaker 1: And they're going to cost more. Yeah, listen, you don't
Speaker 1: need three hundred and fifty pencils. Good lord.
Speaker 3: I would hope at this point we have earned a
Speaker 3: reputation for fairness that you can trust us.
Speaker 1: We calls them as we see them.
Speaker 3: I found that to be, as political pitches go, one
Speaker 3: of the more amazing ones. There's going to be less
Speaker 3: to choose from, and it will cost more, but it
Speaker 3: will protect our industry and our manufacturing jobs, and we
Speaker 3: will all be better off for it.
Speaker 1: Was his the second half of the sentence that he
Speaker 1: never really spoke.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so here we are as usual as people
Speaker 3: often are, trying to fill in the stuff he doesn't say.
Speaker 1: A native English speaker, Yes.
Speaker 3: Because the argument that it's going to be painful for
Speaker 3: a while that's the way terif wars work, but it's
Speaker 3: going to turn out in our favor.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not, but at
Speaker 1: least you can make that argument. It's a theory.
Speaker 3: The whole you have too much stuff, I'll determine how
Speaker 3: much stuff you need to be happy is not something
Speaker 3: people are going to enjoy. No, that is Frankly, that's
Speaker 3: awful political messaging. If one is just going to be
Speaker 3: completely cynical about it, it's not good.
Speaker 1: Your kids have too many toys. I'm just telling you, no, No,
Speaker 1: my kids will have as many toys as I think
Speaker 1: they ought. Nobody wants anybody to tell them.
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I don't need that sort of value judgment.
Speaker 3: If it was coming from a Democrat, folks, friends, and
Speaker 3: no kidding, be honest with your you would be going nuts.
Speaker 3: If Obama or Biden had said your kids don't need
Speaker 3: that many dolls for Christmas, Yeah, you'd be going crazy
Speaker 3: over that. Interestingly enough, Scott Bessens, who is the cool
Speaker 3: head I think in the administration when it comes to
Speaker 3: trade and tariffs and that sort of thing, has a
Speaker 3: piece in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday. I guess
Speaker 3: it was Trump's three steps to economic growth, and he
Speaker 3: doesn't state it explicitly, but it seems really clear that, yeah,
Speaker 3: the tariffs are a means of negotiating better trade deals.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, we won't have high tariffs going forward. But
Speaker 3: then Trump goes on the kristin Welker's awful show, and
Speaker 3: it implies otherwise, because that is necessary for the negotiations.
Speaker 3: I guess that we're going to be, you know, dollless
Speaker 3: and have few pencils pencils.
Speaker 1: I think he was just.
Speaker 3: Trying to pick a kind of an anonymous, you know,
Speaker 3: generic good.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel amply penciled myself. You don't need
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pencils.
Speaker 3: A couple of pencils is plenty, right, all right, you
Speaker 3: got me on that one. Yeah, we mostly use the
Speaker 3: mechanical ones around my house, so I think, you know,
Speaker 3: last lifetime anyway, So that was just odd his mystifying
Speaker 3: strategic chaos or strategic ambiguity in negotiations. That was at Lutnik.
Speaker 3: One of his guys was talking about, hey, now he
Speaker 3: does it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know.
Speaker 3: Nobody knows where this is going. That's the point. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I love that, but I think I
Speaker 3: understand it.
Speaker 1: What do you use a pencil for? What are you
Speaker 1: writing in pencil for? I have a second grade paper due.
Speaker 3: Oh no, don't. I don't use them much, honestly. Uh,
Speaker 3: you'd have to ask my wife if maybe you're doing
Speaker 3: math or things you need to erase.
Speaker 1: I don't know, use a pencil. We do a lot
Speaker 1: of drafting in our house, busy drafting.
Speaker 3: I feel like I use a pencil maybe to mark
Speaker 3: the kid's height up against the wall. Yeah, but the
Speaker 3: only thing I can think of off the top of my head,
Speaker 3: you know, if you want the honest truth, And it's
Speaker 3: a probing question, I appreciated I only use a pencil
Speaker 3: because I picked it up thinking it was because we
Speaker 3: use mechanical pencils around my house. Yeah, okay, I admit it.
Speaker 3: So that got a fair amount of attention. And honestly,
Speaker 3: I think it's silly and indefensible and an odd thing
Speaker 3: to say. I get the idea of instead of a
Speaker 3: society of wildly cheap, astonishing abundance that is good for
Speaker 3: corporations but bad for the American worker, We're going to
Speaker 3: go back to a little more traditional American economic system.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. My problem with that.
Speaker 3: It's defensible, you know, in some ways I get it,
Speaker 3: but I despise central planning, right, It's a horror.
Speaker 1: It's a horror.
Speaker 3: I could go on and on without pausing for breath
Speaker 3: for two and a half hours if you would like
Speaker 3: me to about how incredibly stupid and flawed central planning
Speaker 3: is and how it is a miserable failure every single
Speaker 3: time it's tried, and the smacks of central planning except
Speaker 3: that I just think it's a means to the end
Speaker 3: of the trade negotiations. Yeah, I have a thought on that.
Speaker 3: Right after this, I watched the Warriors game last night.
Speaker 3: I'm a Warriors fan, like to see them go as
Speaker 3: far as they can. They won Game seven and gets Houston. Mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you were thinking was gonna happen
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Speaker 3: run your game, do you? First of all, we got
Speaker 3: this stuff about him, ask whether or not he's going
Speaker 3: to follow the constitution?
Speaker 1: You want to get that next hour, when we got
Speaker 1: time to really flesh them out.
Speaker 3: I was I was all ready to go right now,
Speaker 3: right now do you understand the whole movie tariff thing
Speaker 3: that has just been announced on fortunal. That's that's why
Speaker 3: I wanted to do the constitution stuff now, because I
Speaker 3: don't honestly, well, I would like to point out where
Speaker 3: I think Trump is being criticized unjustifiedly on a big one,
Speaker 3: the constitutional stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm here to defend him on that. Okay, believe it
Speaker 1: or not. Cool, that's a good one. That's a hot one. Pencils,
Speaker 1: I don't care, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We can do it now or do it. Let's kick
Speaker 3: off next hour with it. I will give you the
Speaker 3: very very short version. I did not love his answer,
Speaker 3: But I've said since Trump was running in twenty fifteen
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen that his his grasp of and his love
Speaker 3: for the Constitution is less than I would like. On
Speaker 3: the other hand, the constant abuse of the Constitution by
Speaker 3: you know, your Biden's and Obama's and company or are
Speaker 3: certainly more.
Speaker 1: Than I would like.
Speaker 3: But having said that, he was obviously in an environment
Speaker 3: with a person who is trying desperately to trap him
Speaker 3: to get the big juicy news quote. And there is
Speaker 3: subtlety and complexity to anything but the very very simplest
Speaker 3: answer to those questions. Now, he could have given the
Speaker 3: very very simplest answer, but he knew she was trying
Speaker 3: to trap him, and so he.
Speaker 1: Was engaging in ambivalence. I get it, and we'll play
Speaker 1: you the clips.
Speaker 3: So I think it's amazing that the Trump people are
Speaker 3: willing to troll to the level they troll. I mean
Speaker 3: two things. One thing she asked about I meet the
Speaker 3: press yesterday. You sell Trump twenty twenty eight hats. I mean,
Speaker 3: so that's some serious patrolling. They actually sell Trump twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight hats. Yes, And they put out on their
Speaker 3: own one of their own feeds over the weekend, put
Speaker 3: out the picture of him as pope and also so
Speaker 3: him as a roided up muscle freak action hero guy
Speaker 3: good lord an with a machine gunner.
Speaker 1: So I can't remember.
Speaker 3: So I want to talk about two movies I saw
Speaker 3: every the weekend. Since I'm sick, I saw more movies
Speaker 3: than usual. I saw the new Marvel Comics movie, which
Speaker 3: had a really interesting message I thought, and my son
Speaker 3: thought was the best deprayal deep portrayal of depression he's
Speaker 3: ever seen in any TV or movie ever. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 3: which I find interesting. The very adult movie wasn't like
Speaker 3: any other Marvel movie I've ever seen by far.
Speaker 1: I actually people clapped at the end, including me. It
Speaker 1: was really something.
Speaker 3: You know, many including me have kicked Marvel absolutely four foisting,
Speaker 3: increasingly dopey, idiotic. Oh these these idiots will watch anything,
Speaker 3: no movies for the longest time, so you know they're
Speaker 3: smart people.
Speaker 1: They got it. And then oh the other movie I watched.
Speaker 3: I watched so where I the eighty year anniversary of
Speaker 3: the Fall of Berlin, And I watched a movie I'd
Speaker 3: never seen before with Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, The Bunker.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that? I'd never even heard of it.
Speaker 3: It's the best Hitler movie I've ever seen. I didn't
Speaker 3: never even heard of it.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was good. But I want to
Speaker 3: talk about that later and some things around that, among
Speaker 3: other stuff. We got mail bag on the way. I
Speaker 3: hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: The tryouts for Jack's replacements start before or after I die.
Speaker 3: Asking for a friend, will there be a hot link
Speaker 3: for risumni sub submissions? You know, as a man who's
Speaker 3: played in a number of rock and roll bands through
Speaker 3: the years, sometimes there's a week link and you need
Speaker 3: to get rid of them, and you don't. You just say, yeah,
Speaker 3: we can't practice this Tuesday. But everybody knows, but that
Speaker 3: person you are practicing on Tuesday. But with the drummer,
Speaker 3: you're auditioning. So that's what we've been doing. Anyway, Hanson
Speaker 3: and I get together and do a show on Saturdays
Speaker 3: with Billy Young Billy who's the new co host. Anyway,
Speaker 3: here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Got a
Speaker 3: great one for a Thursday, by the way, Jackie brought
Speaker 3: up v E Day in World War Two. Got a
Speaker 3: wonderful V Day related quote. But today's from Ben Franklin.
Speaker 3: I love this because of its brevity. Here comes the
Speaker 3: orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. Man,
Speaker 3: how many political speeches have you heard that are a
Speaker 3: flood of words and a drop of reason?
Speaker 1: I like it? Or Ben piffy mail bag?
Speaker 3: Did you go from basically late Great Ben Franklin, Late
Speaker 3: Great Ben Franklin.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 3: and getty dot com. Let's start light and move, you know,
Speaker 3: towards the more pithy or more important Jay team Livermore
Speaker 3: on the topic of weighing obese people, guys, you don't
Speaker 3: need to take them to the zoo. Well, I would agree.
Speaker 3: There are a couple of cases of people needing to
Speaker 3: be weighed and they didn't have the proper scale at
Speaker 3: any medical facility for them because of their their heavy heavyweights.
Speaker 1: They take them to weigh.
Speaker 3: Hippopotamusis exactly which is hurtful all around. Anyway, He says,
Speaker 3: you only need two traditional bathroom scales with a board
Speaker 3: between them, and assuming the scales are accurate to two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty pounds, the two scales can weigh individuals
Speaker 3: up to five hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: That's what we did.
Speaker 3: We did that on the Armstrong and Getty Show. We
Speaker 3: figured that out years ago. We used to give away
Speaker 3: tickets to heavy people. Sacramento Kings were in the playoffs
Speaker 3: and we gave away tickets to the biggest Kings fan
Speaker 3: by weight, and we didn't have a five hundred pound scales.
Speaker 3: We had two regular scales. They would put one foot
Speaker 3: on each and it worked fine. That was in earlier
Speaker 3: and more idiotic days on the show. We've moved beyond
Speaker 3: that sort of foolishness.
Speaker 1: What weighing giant people and giving them price.
Speaker 3: Then he says, you don't need a super executive, expensive
Speaker 3: elephant scale for your doctor's office. The scales can be
Speaker 3: put away in a cabinet when weighing traditional patient. No.
Speaker 1: JT.
Speaker 3: No, it's much simpler to just have the big scale.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, better bring out another. No, two more.
Speaker 1: Scales, come on? Anyway? You are right.
Speaker 3: Did you watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday? I did, and,
Speaker 3: fueled by what do you make jin out of rice
Speaker 3: juniper berries? Fueled by whatever's in gin, I threw down
Speaker 3: a couple of ill advised dollars on various nags which
Speaker 3: failed to cross the finished money fashion.
Speaker 1: You didn't choose the winner? I did not?
Speaker 3: Well, I never I never go with favorites. I mean,
Speaker 3: what's the point anyway? Let's see, this is from Kevin.
Speaker 3: It seems appropriate that a horse named sovereignty should defeat
Speaker 3: a horse named journalism in this Saturday's Kentucky Derby during
Speaker 3: a time that our country is taking back sovereignty. It's
Speaker 3: a southern border and exposing fake journalism. Finding more meaning
Speaker 3: from the horse names than I did, Kevin, But you're right,
Speaker 3: that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: How about Ryan reacting to the President on Meet the
Speaker 3: Press with his you don't need two hundred pencils or
Speaker 3: whatever he said, Dear Big Freedom and cyber Jack.
Speaker 1: Was President Trump telling me I should do with less.
Speaker 3: The man who drapes everything in gold, builds luxury resorts
Speaker 3: and hotels that I can't afford to google much less
Speaker 3: to go to and at the cost of tax payer dollars,
Speaker 3: shows up to whatever sports of any wants.
Speaker 1: It's telling me to do more or do with less.
Speaker 3: Please, elected officials, don't tell me I could do with
Speaker 3: less when you have grown fat and rich off the
Speaker 3: American people. Let's Ryan from Houston. It was a solid
Speaker 3: conservative lad.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's very good political messaging anyway.
Speaker 3: Moving along totally different topic, JT writes one thing to
Speaker 3: look ahead when you lower the federal He wrote a
Speaker 3: multipoint email about GDP measurements, which were much in the
Speaker 3: news at the end of the last week, and he
Speaker 3: said one more thing, when you lower the federal budget,
Speaker 3: that too causes a reduction in the GDP calculation. That's right,
Speaker 3: because it's consumer spending plus investment plus government spending minus imports,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, which is just an accounting reality. It's
Speaker 3: not that imports hurt the GDP. You just don't want
Speaker 3: to double count that money.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: When you borrow money for the federal budget, that borrowed
Speaker 3: money increases the GDP. Paying down the debt doesn't help
Speaker 3: the GDP at all. It won't so if Trump and
Speaker 3: dogs were actually able to find a trillion dollars to
Speaker 3: cut from the federal budget, the GDP of the country
Speaker 3: would go down by a trillion dollars, all other things
Speaker 3: being equal. Well, in three months when the quarterly report
Speaker 3: comes out, if it's down again, I'm taking that week
Speaker 3: off while you all argue about whether or not this
Speaker 3: is a recession. I can't wait. It'll be fascinating. Jt
Speaker 3: rolls on though, and I think this is great. Here's
Speaker 3: another example of how screwed up the GDP calculation is.
Speaker 3: And I would add how silly it is to spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time beating our over it. To Jack's point,
Speaker 3: if Biden borrows two trillion dollars for his green energy
Speaker 3: schemes and then Trump comes in and balances the budget,
Speaker 3: the GDP will take a two trillion dollar hit year
Speaker 3: over year from that act of financial sanity. This has
Speaker 3: been one of my many many ghods that is so
Speaker 3: esoteric nobody cares about. But I believe we really need
Speaker 3: a new GDP like metric, that GDP like metric that
Speaker 3: better measures the health of the economy. Yeah, that'll be
Speaker 3: a fun argument. Is this a recession? Two down quarters
Speaker 3: in a row? Blah blah, everybody will switch sides from
Speaker 3: the last time I argued about it.
Speaker 1: Now it'll be good times, you know.
Speaker 3: I'll just read passages from my favorite Dickens novels.
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