Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty as you have to launch into it.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I'm gonna wait till after this
Speaker 3: video that President Zelensky just put out. I want to
Speaker 3: I want to discuss in a few minutes. It's something,
Speaker 3: it is something I realized.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Cardi B blasting Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: Cardi B the singer, Yes, what the hell is going on? No,
Speaker 1: Cardi B the architect, Yeah, Cardi B the singer.
Speaker 2: Carti be the architect.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of ways to make a living, you've inspired me.
Speaker 2: You and Katie.
Speaker 1: You're making fun of me for bringing misery, And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that the heck guy, I'm pretty good
Speaker 1: at that. I could picture myself like you have a
Speaker 1: holiday party and people are just not getting the hint
Speaker 1: and leaving, and I would work the room. Hey how
Speaker 1: about all that bloodshed in Ukraine? It's incredible. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine seeing your neighbors die in front of you? You know,
Speaker 1: I just make a couple of stuff. People be gone
Speaker 1: gone in ten minutes. Yea, A meeting's out of hand.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you know, they won't shut up
Speaker 1: and listen. I'd stand up and say, look, AI is
Speaker 1: going to take two thirds of your jobs. Look on
Speaker 1: your right and left, all those people are going to
Speaker 1: be gone. Now look in the mirror you are too,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna take long. Now it's all settled down.
Speaker 1: The boss would shake my hand. I'd walk out.
Speaker 3: I like you showing up to people's Christmas parties at
Speaker 3: the end, helping them get the last guests out of
Speaker 3: the house, as usually the last guest standing there in
Speaker 3: the kitchen, not taking the hint, drinking your booze. You're
Speaker 3: like Debbie Downer from the old Saturday Night Live thing?
Speaker 1: What like that?
Speaker 3: Have you heard about the rise in feline leukemia?
Speaker 1: Beautiful? All right, lots to squeeze in the final hour
Speaker 1: of the week, But first let's take a fun look
Speaker 1: back at the week it was. It's cow clips of
Speaker 1: the week. Your word is affordability. I wonder what grade
Speaker 1: you would give A plus A plus.
Speaker 4: A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 1: This deal, if it is allowed to move forward, will
Speaker 1: actually be the death of the theatrical movie business.
Speaker 2: In Hollywood. We're sitting here today trying to save it.
Speaker 1: We're the United States of America. That's who we are.
Speaker 2: Lucia has cos we're back into Europe and if you
Speaker 2: must be prepared for the skill of our grandparents and
Speaker 2: great grandparents and Georgia.
Speaker 1: The binary Justice Department called it the largest COVID fraud
Speaker 1: scheme in the country. This also has an impact on smallies.
Speaker 3: Do you think that the video should be released in
Speaker 3: full to the American public?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released. No problem.
Speaker 2: This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find it distressing
Speaker 2: or disturbing.
Speaker 1: It looks like any number of dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator,
Speaker 1: have you seen the video? I have seen the video.
Speaker 2: You have seen the classified video. No, I've not seen
Speaker 2: the actual video.
Speaker 1: Well, we keep it. I guess there have been cameras
Speaker 1: all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile,
Speaker 1: my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there.
Speaker 2: I would cause Eric will be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4: You know, it could screw up the proceeding and the
Speaker 4: results might not be what everybody thinks they should be.
Speaker 5: I think as long as uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset.
Speaker 2: Old women are annoying if you ever have sex.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not, Wow, says the god who's never got
Speaker 1: like Charon war Overnight basically being fired and then detained
Speaker 1: by police. Something about it excited me, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: kind of one of those deals. The door opens and
Speaker 1: you get to walk through it and find out if
Speaker 1: you can do it or run from it.
Speaker 5: A California woman recently gave birth in a self driving
Speaker 5: Waymo taxi. Then, to even things out, the waimo ran
Speaker 5: over a pedestrian.
Speaker 1: So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and text
Speaker 1: to me back he killed my dad. My god, if
Speaker 1: I had to say.
Speaker 4: Like, there's only one thing you can ever have for
Speaker 4: the rest of time, which admittedly would be a bit monotonous,
Speaker 4: but it would probably be a chooser there.
Speaker 1: It's clips of the week, So serious first or CARDI
Speaker 1: b first. Oh, let's get serious out of the way.
Speaker 3: So we were talking yesterday about the ridiculousness of various
Speaker 3: privileged crap. What am I supposed to do? What you
Speaker 3: want me to do? Feel bad all day long? And
Speaker 3: that teacher we had who walks up to kids and
Speaker 3: tells them they should feel bad. But anyway, as a
Speaker 3: legislator on the Education Committee who thinks state policy ought
Speaker 3: to be telling little white kids they should walk through
Speaker 3: their day feeling bad sick anyway, So in general, I
Speaker 3: don't believe in the whole privilege thing, one privileged thing
Speaker 3: that we should all we don't need to feel bad,
Speaker 3: but you should feel freaking fortunate every damn day of
Speaker 3: your life that you live in the biggest, most powerful
Speaker 3: country in the world. So you've gotten no threat, zero
Speaker 3: threat of some country coming in and shooting your kids,
Speaker 3: raping your wife. I mean, all of these horrible things
Speaker 3: that happen all over the world, including Ukraine, and I've
Speaker 3: always been it really gets to me really easy people
Speaker 3: who are literally fighting for their lives and their family lives. Anyway,
Speaker 3: President Zelensky just put out a video a couple hours ago,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure the reason he did it was the
Speaker 3: conversation that's being had between Trump and European leaders in
Speaker 3: which Trump says Ukraine's losing and they need to sign on.
Speaker 2: To this peace deal. And then there's a piece in
Speaker 2: the Wall Street.
Speaker 3: Journal they going back and forth about whether Ukraine's losing
Speaker 3: President Zelensky broadcast a video from the front a town
Speaker 3: that Russia had been claiming for weeks they took, and
Speaker 3: Zelensky's standing in the middle of that town saying, well,
Speaker 3: this is the town Russia says they took. They don't
Speaker 3: have it anymore. We have it, and then he ends
Speaker 3: it with keep fighting, lads, and I just oh wow,
Speaker 3: it's me like, whoa, I mean, those are people seriously
Speaker 3: laying it all on the line for their fans.
Speaker 1: Can we start calling the alleged piece plan a conditional
Speaker 1: surrender plan since that's a much more accurate description of
Speaker 1: what it is. And you can see the look on
Speaker 1: Zelensky's face when he says keep fighting lads, I.
Speaker 2: Mean you mean Neil, Yeah, mean it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? AnyWho? That's heavy.
Speaker 2: That is heavy.
Speaker 3: If we have a privilege in the United States, it's
Speaker 3: that we don't have to worry about that at all.
Speaker 1: Transition music, Michael, I wish.
Speaker 2: We had some Cardi B music.
Speaker 3: I don't know if she has any music that's not
Speaker 3: so filthy we couldn't play it.
Speaker 1: Is she the lady? She's the lady.
Speaker 2: When a time that she was home in the same
Speaker 2: then maybe get to.
Speaker 1: Come above time. I like this tells about.
Speaker 2: Isn't the same? What is that?
Speaker 1: If I recall correctly, this was the Italian pop star
Speaker 1: put out a single in fake English, making fun of
Speaker 1: the way Europeans single along to American pop songs, not
Speaker 1: having any idea what they're saying, so he just went
Speaker 1: with nonsense. It's really funny music, though it sounds like
Speaker 1: Joon Batist can time.
Speaker 2: Away.
Speaker 1: You're gonna make it stop now, Michael, it worked. I
Speaker 1: don't remember what we were talking about, which is the
Speaker 1: goal of transition music? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So uh.
Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj is blasting Gavvy Newsome for his being so
Speaker 1: hot to trot for kids to have sex changes.
Speaker 3: I get Cardi B and Nicki Minaj mixed up. They're
Speaker 3: different people.
Speaker 1: They may be which one said coronavirus and which one
Speaker 1: said it's which one sang the WAP song?
Speaker 2: That's this nick this one Nicki MINAJH.
Speaker 1: I don't know, are you?
Speaker 2: They're both Cardi B? What Nicki minaje do that?
Speaker 3: I should know anything somebody hits, she stays for something.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they've they've had a beef going on
Speaker 2: for a while. They're very similar she got a big booty.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, Okay. So rap Bengas star Nicki Minaj is
Speaker 1: blasting Gabby Newsom saying he wants to see trans kids.
Speaker 1: That's an episode. That's an interview he did with Ezra
Speaker 1: Kline in The New York Times in which he bragged
Speaker 1: about the fact that California is the first and the
Speaker 1: best and the biggest sanctuary state for confused adolescents who
Speaker 1: want to get their bodies mutilated. He's very, very proud
Speaker 1: of that. So she says she had a series of
Speaker 1: X posts saying, it's the end of the road for you, Oh,
Speaker 1: Gavy pooh, it only gets worse from here for you, buddy,
Speaker 1: It's the end of the road for you, my love.
Speaker 1: Get on the nearest jet ski and let that beautiful
Speaker 1: hair blow in the wind. It will make you happier
Speaker 1: than this race that you will not win. Enjoy life peace.
Speaker 1: In a follow up, she said Gavin is the cute
Speaker 1: boy who got everything handed to him because how cute
Speaker 1: and sexy and hot and spoking. He was, Oh, look
Speaker 1: at him sitting there in that suit with the sneakers on.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's Tom Cruise. Only difference is his mission
Speaker 1: is impossible. He shouldn't get another leading role. Let's see,
Speaker 1: imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids.
Speaker 1: Ha ha. Not even a trans adult would run on that.
Speaker 1: Normal adults wake up and think they want to see healthy, safe,
Speaker 1: happy kids, not gav The gav knots gave out sending
Speaker 1: the next guy, I'm bored, Wow, Cardi B. Like so
Speaker 1: many folks, is Black America, Nicki minaj Nicki minaj by
Speaker 1: Cardi B, I mean different. I'm just why the hell
Speaker 1: am I saying? I have no idea? Oh it's because
Speaker 1: the next I'm sorry, the next couple of sentences have
Speaker 1: to do with the Cardi B So Nicki.
Speaker 2: Minaje, I just asked. Grok is known as the Queen
Speaker 2: of Rap.
Speaker 3: She sold in the modern era one hundred million records worldwide.
Speaker 2: In the two thousands.
Speaker 1: She is a big deal Nicki Minaje Yeah so anyway,
Speaker 1: and has a large booty. Like so many Black Americans,
Speaker 1: she has no patience for the convincing kids their trans sickness.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, the California governor became the first
Speaker 1: sanctuary state for transgender identifying children who are seeking drugs
Speaker 1: and surgeries to alter themselves. Anyway, way to go, whichever
Speaker 1: rapper woman you are, because you're right on this one. Okay, huh.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance actually brought Cardi b into this conversation for
Speaker 1: reasons that I will not bother elaborating on because I
Speaker 1: don't care, and I'm sure you don't either. All Right,
Speaker 1: do you know if Kevin Hart and Michael Jordan actually
Speaker 1: hate each other?
Speaker 2: Have you heard about this story?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Have you watched the most recent Kevin Hart Netflix special
Speaker 3: that just got released? I think this week no very funny.
Speaker 3: I find Kevin Hart freaking hilarious. And he's forty five now,
Speaker 3: so he's got a lot of stuff about ag in there.
Speaker 2: That I think you might find relatable as an aging dead.
Speaker 3: But he claims, I don't know, maybe they're friends, and
Speaker 3: this is a joke that he and Michael Jordan hate
Speaker 3: each other, and it all goes way back to something
Speaker 3: many many years ago.
Speaker 1: He's got some seriously funny, really edgy smack about Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's Really yeah, I thought it was quite funny. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll try to figure out if that's real or not,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get the real news of some sort
Speaker 1: or commentary Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: A Norwegian metal detector enthusiasts recently discovered a gilded figuring
Speaker 5: of Jesus Christ that is believed to be nine hundred
Speaker 5: years old. He rushed home to tell his wife, but
Speaker 5: then he remembered he was a metal detector enthusiast.
Speaker 2: That's not nice, so I looked it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the feud between Kevin Hart the comedian and Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan the basketball player appears to be real, and the
Speaker 1: full ten minutes of his special that Kevin Hart spends
Speaker 1: making taking shots at Michael Jordan and quite a hilarious fashion.
Speaker 1: I'll go back goes back to a fewd many many
Speaker 1: years ago where Kevin Hart was the MC at a
Speaker 1: celebrity something or other and Jordan showed up late, and
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart didn't dig it, and then made some jokes
Speaker 1: about Jordan was dressed, his pants were up too high,
Speaker 1: and he dresses like a pregnant lesbian and very variety
Speaker 1: of things, and he said, and Jordan sat there, glum
Speaker 1: faced the whole time, never laughed anything, and then afterwards
Speaker 1: shook his hand and squeezed really hard. So he still
Speaker 1: makes big shots at Jordan being a loser of a
Speaker 1: dad and pitching a dud with his kids who have failed.
Speaker 1: And I mean it's.
Speaker 3: Pretty hard stuff, but it's also it's also hilarious. But
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's the sort of thing that would
Speaker 3: make a guy mad. Wow, I've gotten to that age
Speaker 3: where I got no EPs to give.
Speaker 2: I just don't care.
Speaker 1: Right, he's a funny guy. So a little bonus mail
Speaker 1: bag here. You can drop us note if you want
Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot
Speaker 1: of interesting stuff from this. Tony writs. The United States
Speaker 1: season that Venezuela and oil tanker Gavin Newsom was quoted
Speaker 1: as saying, my hair jails on that boat.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of oily looking. Let's see, got this one.
Speaker 2: My hair jails on that boat. That's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is Allnonymous says. I've heard Jack discussing these
Speaker 1: conversations with AI for some time now. I've also heard
Speaker 1: Jack talk about alcoholism. I'm an alcoholic, and I've admitted
Speaker 1: it in a completely new way that was not possible
Speaker 1: just a year ago. Yesterday, I started talking to Grok
Speaker 1: about why I drink and how I ended up drinking
Speaker 1: as much as I do, GROC has quite possibly given
Speaker 1: me the advice I need to quit drinking. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a long road, starting with some pill that
Speaker 1: should help. But I may just make it heard so
Speaker 1: much doom and gloom about AI while I have my
Speaker 1: luddite hesitations, Groc may just have saved my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Will tell wow. That's something.
Speaker 3: I was talking about doctor yesterday, and he said, I
Speaker 3: wonder if I'm going to be, you know, replaced by AI.
Speaker 3: And I said, I don't know about medical doctors. But
Speaker 3: and I said therapists. He was completely unaware of this.
Speaker 3: I said, therapists better find a new line of work,
Speaker 3: because the I is really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would detest. And then this from Drew
Speaker 1: The Millennial Guys Ulysses by James Joyce sucks. Jack has
Speaker 1: been discussing his slogging his way through that amazing classic
Speaker 1: of literature.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: You claim to, but you don't anyway, Drew writes, Let's
Speaker 1: see it sucks with four s's. I hate that stupid book.
Speaker 1: At a certain point, esoteric rhetorical creativity has no value.
Speaker 1: It's just silly. I remember the chapter he referred to today,
Speaker 1: nine months of gestation is an allegory for the development
Speaker 1: of human language. Ooh, and I'll write some rambling incomprehensible
Speaker 1: book about how the Creation of Christianity is a parable
Speaker 1: for the West Coast offense, just so people who pretend
Speaker 1: to understand it can prag to each other. It's a joke.
Speaker 1: It's Andy Warhol's soup camp. Anyway, love the show that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Hates the book, loves the Show's that's some
Speaker 1: good writing. The Creation of Christianity is a parable for
Speaker 1: the West Coast offense. I would say it, that's good.
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that I tried to read that
Speaker 3: book many times throughout my life and couldn't, and then
Speaker 3: after continuing to read very difficult stuff for the past
Speaker 3: twenty five years or however long, I got to the
Speaker 3: point where I could read it. So there's some like,
Speaker 3: there's some like ability to appreciate it that I gained
Speaker 3: by reading other difficult literature, Like I like I worked
Speaker 3: myself up to it, and that I classical music like
Speaker 3: in the way that I don't even understand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That description reminds me of
Speaker 1: some philosophy that I just can't get into. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are into it, and I would
Speaker 1: like to say that I am because it makes me
Speaker 1: look smart, But I just I get a certain depth
Speaker 1: into it. I think this is a complete waste of time.
Speaker 1: This is just ruminating about stuff that doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: need to go make a living. Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Joyce is actually the exact opposite of
Speaker 3: ruminating about something that doesn't matter. But maybe another time,
Speaker 3: we've got some more news of the day. We ought
Speaker 3: to get to some stuff.
Speaker 2: That just happened Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: What would it look like if China tries to invade Taiwan.
Speaker 2: Got some interesting stuff on that in just a second.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to get back to this briefly, and
Speaker 3: I promise it's brief.
Speaker 2: If you're rolling your eyes at this. The why.
Speaker 3: James Joyce's Ulysses is a big piece of art that
Speaker 3: has lasted as long as it has, but I really
Speaker 3: think is interesting. So it's the whole book is the day,
Speaker 3: one day in the life of three people. It's just
Speaker 3: it's one day, June sixteenth, nineteen oh four in Dublin Island.
Speaker 1: But the idea one page is long.
Speaker 3: It's like eight hundred pages long. But and it's it's
Speaker 3: kind of based on the Odyssey. But his point is
Speaker 3: all of literature up until that point, really and art
Speaker 3: was all about kings and queens and soldiers and conquerors
Speaker 3: and all these different sorts of things, and the Odyssey
Speaker 3: is that sort of thing. His point is that we all,
Speaker 3: as human beings with the most mundane of lives, live
Speaker 3: all of the fear, love, success, envy, hate, everything lust
Speaker 3: that mankind can have, that a human inspirations can have
Speaker 3: on a near daily basis as just regular people. It's
Speaker 3: not only something for kings, queens and people that have won.
Speaker 2: And conquered in battles or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's for every single individual to experience the full gamut
Speaker 1: of human emotions, just in regular life, just raising kids,
Speaker 1: dealing with your wife and coworkers and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: What supplemental material have you found most helpful in reading it.
Speaker 2: I've actually been using the chatbots a lot.
Speaker 3: There are all kinds of books out there, but it's
Speaker 3: faster for me to just go to the chatbot and
Speaker 3: ask a specific question.
Speaker 2: It gives me the answer.
Speaker 1: Give us some for instance, just to help me understand
Speaker 1: what that process looks.
Speaker 3: Like like the other day, I said, I am really
Speaker 3: slogging getting the run down and trying to read chapter twelve,
Speaker 3: which is called the Oxen's something or other, and I said,
Speaker 3: what can you do for me here? And which is
Speaker 3: one of the things I love about chatbots, as you
Speaker 3: can talk to them like that. It says, yeah, lots
Speaker 3: of people quit here, that's where most people quit. So
Speaker 3: try to fight your way through it. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 3: Here's a way to approach it. Don't get too caught
Speaker 3: up and trying to figure out what's actually occurring. Just
Speaker 3: keep moving forward. It'll have a payoff in the end.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, wow, that's great.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Now these chatbots are amazing for lots of
Speaker 3: different stuff. Anyway, back to this v This is according
Speaker 3: to an article on the Wall Street Journal, and they're writers,
Speaker 3: which I found really really interesting. The biggest geopolitical unknown
Speaker 3: facing the entire planet with everything that's going on is
Speaker 3: weather Beijing will try to conquer Taiwan in the near future.
Speaker 3: The close second to that question is will the U
Speaker 3: United States come to Taiwan's defense as a response. Those
Speaker 3: are some major questions. They lay it out in this
Speaker 3: very long article in the Wall Street Journal. If you're
Speaker 3: interested in this topic, I highly recommend trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how to read it. Wall Street Journal is pretty
Speaker 3: good at paywalling people making you pay for their content.
Speaker 3: Here's how it would start.
Speaker 1: Five miles off Taiwan's coast ZTD, five amphibious vehicles from
Speaker 1: China roll out of ships and zip over the water
Speaker 1: amid a halo artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have
Speaker 1: their orders seize the beach or die trying. Close by,
Speaker 1: China's airborne troops are taking losses. They arrived before dawn
Speaker 1: in low flying aircraft have to seize the airport. Taiwanese
Speaker 1: defenders down several planes of paratroopers that landed scattered, and
Speaker 1: race to assault the airfield before Taiwan wrecks it. This
Speaker 1: hypothetical battle scenario imagines a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Its militari's,
Speaker 1: policy makers and war gamers are doing all over the
Speaker 1: world to try to predict what would happen and when
Speaker 1: it might happen. An amphibious invasion would be one of
Speaker 1: the toughest military operations to execute, and an all out
Speaker 1: war would be extremely bloody, devastate the global economy, and
Speaker 1: change the course of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, worth noting speaking of literature and reading and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, the modern article and I have
Speaker 1: to have read that one where you like scroll and
Speaker 1: it gives you graphics and like moving maps and stuff
Speaker 1: is so cool. Yeah, I still want to unplug the Internet.
Speaker 1: I admit that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: It's roughly one hundred and ten miles from the Chinese
Speaker 3: mainland to Taiwan. The Taiwan Strait is a daunting obstacle.
Speaker 3: Tens of thousands of Chinese troops would need to cross
Speaker 3: it with tanks, trucks and more, while Taiwan's missiles and
Speaker 3: mines and possibly US bombers and submarines.
Speaker 2: Target the invading fleet. Man, that's the big wild guard.
Speaker 1: With Trump as president or Biden or whoever as president,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how any US president would react. The
Speaker 1: strait can be hostile without any of that, because the
Speaker 1: weather is really rough around there. As they point out,
Speaker 1: Taiwan is only like eight weeks a year where it's
Speaker 1: at all a good idea to cross it, which I
Speaker 1: found interesting, kind of handy is a defense to know
Speaker 1: that you probably have to attack during a specific window,
Speaker 1: so it makes it easier to know when it's coming.
Speaker 1: Taiwan is much bigger than Okinawa or Euajima, the nearby
Speaker 1: Japanese islands that US forces captured in World War Two battles,
Speaker 1: And if you're a fan of that, you know what
Speaker 1: an ugly.
Speaker 2: Struggle that was.
Speaker 1: The nineteen forty five Battle of Okinawa was the last
Speaker 1: time a very large scale amphibious operation has happened on
Speaker 1: planet Earth. And that was pretty simple compared to what
Speaker 1: an invasion.
Speaker 2: Of Taiwan would be.
Speaker 1: I remember, and this was a full year ago, probably
Speaker 1: when I was listening to the National Review podcast with
Speaker 1: all their writers on there, very republican magazine, conservative people,
Speaker 1: people that care about you know, they're not isolation as
Speaker 1: most of them.
Speaker 3: And they did a around the horn. Who thinks we
Speaker 3: would come to the defense of Taiwan if China attacked?
Speaker 2: Not a one of them thought we would. I think
Speaker 2: this is when Biden was president, but.
Speaker 3: And that's something I had been living with, this assumption
Speaker 3: that we are going to help defend Daiwan, but maybe
Speaker 3: not well.
Speaker 1: Every day, certainly every month, the math changes. How powerful
Speaker 1: are the Chinese. How intertwined are our economies? You know,
Speaker 1: what's what's the state of the readiness of our forces,
Speaker 1: what's the commander in chief's attitude. It's ever changing. I've
Speaker 1: come to believe they're not going to invade, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I believe it pretty firmly because I could certainly
Speaker 1: be wrong, but because the other option, from Xijin Ping's
Speaker 1: point of view, is to let to do it politically speaking,
Speaker 1: have a little more patience and let the wheels of
Speaker 1: politics in Taiwan turn. There's already a substantial pro China
Speaker 1: pro let's have happy relations with China part of their
Speaker 1: internal politics. I think they're legislators like anti China, but
Speaker 1: their executive branch is pro China. At this point, I
Speaker 1: might have it backwards. Forgive me, I'm not an expert,
Speaker 1: but there are definitely green shoots, as people like to
Speaker 1: say these say these days, for look, maybe we could
Speaker 1: get something going like Hong Kong was supposed to be
Speaker 1: two systems, one country. There are plenty of people within
Speaker 1: Taiwan who want that, and China's just going to keep
Speaker 1: working that angle as hard as they can with every
Speaker 1: tool they have.
Speaker 2: Well, that be the smart thing to do.
Speaker 3: My biggest agreement disagreement with people like Ian Bremer and
Speaker 3: other writers is they always assume people are going to
Speaker 3: do the smart thing. People regularly don't do the smart
Speaker 3: thing for all kinds of reasons. And the reading on
Speaker 3: Jijingping's personality and entire life is this is what he
Speaker 3: cares more about than practically anything in the world, is
Speaker 3: taking Taiwan, and he might do it just because he
Speaker 3: wants to, and he's the guy that makes the call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is it.
Speaker 2: Would it be a good idea? No, I absolutely don't
Speaker 2: think it would be a good idea for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see the US and you know, China's
Speaker 1: other allies, some of the them are kind of new
Speaker 1: to the scene. Japan, for instance, is like militantly pro Taiwan,
Speaker 1: not China's allies, Taiwan's sillies in a way that's surprising,
Speaker 1: give them the history. But I could see even if
Speaker 1: you know, we don't send our warships and all the
Speaker 1: engage in direct battles like a serious effort to finance
Speaker 1: and aid Taiwan's resistance. Anyway, we could because that article
Speaker 1: points out in great detail amphibious invasions, particularly of a
Speaker 1: place like Taiwan with their defenses and their topography would
Speaker 1: be horrifically costly.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a little more of this and then
Speaker 3: if you're interested, you can seek it out and read
Speaker 3: it yourself. Most of Taiwan's twenty three million people are
Speaker 3: concentrated along the coast that faces China, so they're closest
Speaker 3: to you know, where they actually have. Taiwan is increasingly
Speaker 3: preparing to bog down Chinese forces in deadly urban combat.
Speaker 3: According to people that you know work with the various
Speaker 3: think tanks and everything in Taiwan. Defenders know the cities
Speaker 3: can set up sniper positions and make it difficult for
Speaker 3: China identify strongholds nested in the concrete. Can you imagine
Speaker 3: living somewhere where this is a reality in your lifetime
Speaker 3: that you might be invaded by one of the biggest
Speaker 3: superpowers on the planet and be an urban combat Wow?
Speaker 1: Right, And Taiwan has money and incredible technology to make
Speaker 1: that extra lethal too, So it would be again just
Speaker 1: mind bogglingly cost.
Speaker 2: And maybe the most important ally on Earth. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But same time, to your point about She's and
Speaker 1: Ping being kind of fixated on this sort of thing. Remember,
Speaker 1: he's the sort of leader who would think nothing nothing
Speaker 1: of spending a million lives in the next six months.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't even miss lunch, never mind being awake at night.
Speaker 3: Which we can't wrap our heads around. Because if we
Speaker 3: lost nine hundred guys, it would be the biggest story
Speaker 3: in America by far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there would be giant memorials. Well, hope that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen in my lifetime. We will finish strong.
Speaker 4: Next, I noticed my wife had started eating, and she
Speaker 4: started choking and gasping, and after she had had a
Speaker 4: couple bites of food, she actually threw up, and I
Speaker 4: had to look at the bag and seeing that there
Speaker 4: was some kind of spray or something, the bag had
Speaker 4: been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera
Speaker 4: and seen that the lady that dropped the food off
Speaker 4: had actually tampered with it. We assume it's pepper spray.
Speaker 4: It's more than likely what it is. But now in
Speaker 4: this day age, it could have been anything. Could have
Speaker 4: been ratboism, could have been fentanel. We live in a
Speaker 4: terrible world right now. Horrific people are mean for no reason.
Speaker 4: There was no reason to do what she done.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's a pretty rough story. So you brought that
Speaker 3: to us the other day, Katie. So somebody, some weirdo,
Speaker 3: some door dash weirdo, pepper sprays the food. It's like
Speaker 3: a random act of meanness. But I assume, so I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, you're making an assumption. Maybe the person ordering
Speaker 1: it's send a note, hey, make sure there's pepper. Add
Speaker 1: some pep brings some pepper packets, and like was really
Speaker 1: bugging the guy. He thought, I'll give you some pepper.
Speaker 1: You don't know, you bastard.
Speaker 3: I assume somewhere in there he calls nine to one
Speaker 3: one or something. If the person I'm meeting with starts
Speaker 3: to sweat, cough, convulsian, then vomit, and I realize the
Speaker 3: food's been daffered with, I'm thinking, holy.
Speaker 1: Crap, somebody might die here. Sure, yeah, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3: So, like you said, it could have been rat poison
Speaker 3: or anything I don't know about the world is a
Speaker 3: mess and everyone's evil.
Speaker 2: Because of that one instance.
Speaker 1: I think that was the most revealing and interesting thing
Speaker 1: that was said, because it was funny. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this story and I thought, up until very very recently,
Speaker 1: I never would have heard that story, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: spend a single second of my life worrying about door
Speaker 1: dash drivers pepper sprang my food. And I wouldn't need
Speaker 1: to because it will never ever happen.
Speaker 2: I worry about the meat in my fries.
Speaker 1: Yes, now, wait, now we're talking.
Speaker 3: And I'm not even as worried about the Meeting of
Speaker 3: Christ because there's more fries. There's gonna be more fries
Speaker 3: in the bag than I need anyway. I just don't
Speaker 3: want your grubby, greasy fingers in there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't want your hands in my bag. Your pardon
Speaker 2: the expression, Oh no, well, yes I will.
Speaker 1: There's a dag and hands involved. It's fine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm distracted by French fries, which are deliciously evil,
Speaker 1: absolutely evil. Do you have an air fryer yet? Do
Speaker 1: you have a toaster oven that can do air frying?
Speaker 2: I have an air fryer. I'm not great at using it,
Speaker 2: but I have one.
Speaker 1: What I was just thinking, fries to go, fries left
Speaker 1: over and similar fair. They can be brought back to
Speaker 1: life and be damn near, if not as delicious as.
Speaker 3: They ever were. God dang it, I have so little
Speaker 3: self control. I'm having McDonald's fries today. Those are my
Speaker 3: favorite fries. I love McDonald's fries, but I also like
Speaker 3: a big, thick potatoy fry. It's like pub fry. Yes,
Speaker 3: like I know when this makes me a very pedestrian person,
Speaker 3: but I really like Red Robin's French fries.
Speaker 2: And it's bottomless.
Speaker 3: Just in case, one hundred French fries when they first
Speaker 3: bring you, Yeah they're good, aren't enough? They'll bring you
Speaker 3: another one hundred French fries. Those are some good French fries.
Speaker 3: Though got slabbered with ketchup. Give give me that right now.
Speaker 3: I need a big bowl of that bag of that
Speaker 3: box of it.
Speaker 1: Utah is relocating it's beavers. Do you want to hear
Speaker 1: about that? We were talking earlier about I I prefaced
Speaker 1: some critical of Trump' stuff with the fact that Trump
Speaker 1: does some stuff that I think is great, and he's
Speaker 1: the only guy to do it because he doesn't he
Speaker 1: gives zero s's. And I remember what story it was.
Speaker 1: We brought the story from the Free Beacon the other
Speaker 1: day about how there are a bunch of tech companies,
Speaker 1: many of them in California, that openly say no US
Speaker 1: citizens need apply. That's maddening, which is incredibly maddening. Trump
Speaker 1: Justice Department is going after it.
Speaker 3: Well, if my kids applied for a job when they're
Speaker 3: getting out there in the workplace and they can't get
Speaker 3: it because they're US citizens, Oh, that's maddening.
Speaker 1: Well right, right, But the again, Pam Bondi and crew
Speaker 1: got hold of this, they found out about it. Donald
Speaker 1: J probably saw it in the Free Beacon and they
Speaker 1: said this will not stand and they are going to
Speaker 1: unleash holy hell on companies that would dare say that,
Speaker 1: which is great.
Speaker 2: And that's why Utah is relocating their beavers.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, no, unrelated. As a matter of fact, their
Speaker 1: dams cause floods and that gets them in trouble with humans.
Speaker 1: But in the right place, more water can be a
Speaker 1: big help. So you don't need beavers, damn and stuff
Speaker 1: up over here. Damn it beavers. But instead of an
Speaker 1: expensive infrastructure project over there, you just relocate your beavers.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 1: Why do I know as much about beavers and dam
Speaker 1: building as I do from school?
Speaker 3: Why did they, at least in my schooling. I don't
Speaker 3: know my kids learned this. They seem to think it
Speaker 3: was really important that I knew a lot about beavers
Speaker 3: and what they do, and dams and the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I have never spent a second talking about, thinking about,
Speaker 1: or reading about beavers that I didn't enjoy. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's enjoyable. But I'm just surprising that somebody does about
Speaker 1: the flat tail, right, yeah, about that, right? My little
Speaker 1: tunnel's in the damn and everything like that. The way
Speaker 1: the build, it's pretty cool. Here's this lady who's a
Speaker 1: beaver specialist. She works with beavers and relocating him and studying.
Speaker 2: She's probably very happy.
Speaker 1: I'll bet she's happier than hell to go to work. Well,
Speaker 1: it's tough to tell the sex of a beaver. Do
Speaker 1: you know that?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 1: Not? Well know you do, and you enjoyed it. Like
Speaker 1: every moment I've ever spent contemplating beaver's He can't just
Speaker 1: for another fascinating revelation.
Speaker 3: He can't just flip a beaver over and say crank
Speaker 3: or no, it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: It's more complicated.
Speaker 1: Nope, Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty, Beaver's mate
Speaker 1: for life. By the way, that's right, We learned that
Speaker 1: the other day. Maybe that Michigan football coach ought to
Speaker 1: stop being such a wolverine be more of a beaver. Huh.
Speaker 1: And let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 1: crew to wrap up the show for the day in
Speaker 1: the week. Michael Aangelo ar Technical director, lead us off. Michael,
Speaker 1: all Right, our show has a problem.
Speaker 4: Yesterday we mentioned cheeseburgers on the area a cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: Today it's gonna be fries.
Speaker 1: It was mentioned on the air.
Speaker 2: If we keep this up, I know it doesn't on
Speaker 2: a stick.
Speaker 1: For everybody knows that doesn't.
Speaker 2: Happen with salad Russell sprouts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't work quite the same way, does it.
Speaker 1: Katie green or esteemed the Muse woman. As a final thought, Katie,
Speaker 1: I just want to thank Joe for ruining deck the
Speaker 1: Halls because I'll never unhear with the bowels. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: that was gratuitous. Jack, do you have a final thought
Speaker 1: you'd like to share?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna throw in this news item that
Speaker 3: fired Michigan football coach has been charged with three crimes,
Speaker 3: including home.
Speaker 2: Invasion and stalking. He could spend a long time in
Speaker 2: prison over this.
Speaker 1: Wow Wow, My final thought is slightly self serving. You
Speaker 1: gotta go to Armstrong and Getty dot com and or
Speaker 1: wherever you like to download podcasts. If you think you're
Speaker 1: in favor of cameras in the courtroom, listen to our
Speaker 1: conversation with Judge Larry Goodman, a retired Superior court judge,
Speaker 1: talking about how cameras are insidious in courtrooms and all
Speaker 1: the problems they cause. Super interesting. That was the best
Speaker 1: thing we did today, more interesting than Beaver's. Armstrong and
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Speaker 1: this weekend. I've got to I'm up against the wall.
Speaker 2: Time is running out, the pressure is on.
Speaker 3: See you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4: I'm strong and get you as.
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Speaker 2: And I want to chaseeburg It's too early for a Chaseburger.
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