WEBVTT - In Case The S Hits The F 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Armstrong and Jack Katie and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.320 The two positions are still pretty far apart. Actually, the 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.120 Ukrainians have essentially signed on to a thirty day ceasefire 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.400 without any preconditions, whereas the Russians are saying they want 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.400 all the root causes, as they put it, that caused 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.279 the conflict with Ukraine to be sorted out before the 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.680 weapons are silenced. Now, one of the things that the 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.879 Krelin scoffed at was the idea of any sort of 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.839 Western peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine to sort out 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.360 the fact and enforce any sort of cease fire, saying 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.239 that would create new root causes, as they put it. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.200 As CNN's version of the. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.960 Preview of the Trump Putin call, which is going on 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:06.800 as we speak right now, a bit of a messaging. Well, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.959 let me hear what Peter Doocey says here from Fox 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:09.920 on the same story. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.440 White House officials are disputing a report by Semaphore that 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.520 to seal a peace deal, President Trump could recognize CRIMEA 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.160 as Russian territory, and as E spokesman Brian Hughes tells Fox, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.720 we have made no such commitments and we will not 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.640 negotiate this deal through the media. However, President Trump is 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.680 openly speculating about Ukrainian concessions. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.959 Well, I think we'll we'll be talking about land. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.920 We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.640 Well, it's interesting that Fox positioned it that way, since 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.040 I read Ian Bremmer's tweet earlier, where Crimea is gone 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:46.959 and everybody knows it. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.200 Even Zolensky knows that. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.720 So positioning it as the White House pushing back on 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.840 stories that Trump might give up CRIMEA, Well, okay, Zelensky 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.840 knows he's going to give up CRIMEA. So don't act 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.880 like it's a big giveaway if Trump is on that. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.160 All I can come up with is Trump is dangling 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.840 it as he is. Something he knows Putin must have. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.960 Now it's just a question of terms of lad Let's 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.120 talk about how you get I'm fine with you get 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.560 in crime here, here's. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.080 What it'll cost you. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.320 Okay, that makes sense. There was a messaging problem yesterday, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.040 as the White House spokesman, who I haven't memorized her name. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:27.160 Yet Caroline Levett. Okay, a forceful young gal, isn't she. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.000 She said, we're on the ten yard line of a 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.440 piece deal between Ukraine and Russia. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.200 And then Marco. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.880 Rubio, the secret of State, was asked about that and 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.040 he said, we're not even close to a piece deal, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.320 so not on the same page. Whoops, ten yard line 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.720 and not even closer, not the same thing. And which 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.560 the other headline? We're on the other ten yard line 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.400 where yeah, we just received the kickoff and we were 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.400 starting in our own tan, fumble. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.520 It and had to go backward to pick it up. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.520 Yeah, somebody needs to specify which ten yard line? And here, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.480 at least in her defense, Caroline Levitt is able to 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.880 speak the English language, unlike her predecessor. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:07.400 And here's Trump talking about the phone call and what 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:08.360 they're trying to accomplish. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:13.040 We're speaking with President Putin of Russia to save some 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.519 soldiers who are in deep trouble. They're captured, essentially, they're 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.320 surrounded by Russian soldiers. But it's a bad situation in Russia, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.720 and it's a bad situation in Ukraine. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.639 What's happening in Ukraine is not. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.119 Good but we're going to see if we can work 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.640 to a peace agreement, to ceasefire and peace, and I 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:32.520 think we'll be able to do. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.760 Your response to that, good luck. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.760 If I'm putin, unless I have unless there's some internal 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.960 information where he's really struggling, and some people say that 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.920 the economy certainly is, he's lost a lot of soldiers. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:58.680 But other than that, I'm thinking I'm winning. I'm taking 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:04.160 back land. The United States is pressuring them, not me. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:06.640 I'm gonna keep going. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.240 Yeah, I could see Putin saying why are we having 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.360 a ceasefire? I'm gaining ground every day and I've got 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.560 plenty of North Korean machine gun fodder waiting to be 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.360 fed into the battle. The only thing I can come 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.240 up with, back to your what sort of pressure is 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.840 he on? Under point is how much heat is he 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.440 getting from the oligarchs who are seeing their wealth and 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.440 their financial slash commercial connections around the world being shut off? 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.640 And right, I don't know that it's mysterious. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.719 And is with any dictator, he has to worry about 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.919 the support of other powerful people who might at some 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.760 point decide to put a bullet in the back of 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.720 his head and have a different. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.880 Person in charge. Right, that's always on the table when 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.919 you're a dictator. Yeah. Absolutely. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:58.919 Your network of support is pretty small, so more easily turned. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.360 On the other hand, it's tough to get a coup 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.920 going against the dictator, as everybody knows. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.520 Anyway, brought you up to speed on that. We'll see 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.200 if any information leaks out from the phone call today. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.080 I think it's impossible to make a prediction about how 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.159 it might come out. Oh really is no Speaking of 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:22.520 military action, this one a lot more easily understood. Donald 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.359 Jay has brought a completely new attitude toward dealing with 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:32.080 the Hohothies who have been firing with near impunity on 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:37.160 commercial and naval vessels, including ours now for months. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.120 And months and months and months and months, and. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:45.919 Watching the process of dealing with them under the weakest, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.719 most pathetic senile US president history, Joe Biden. You'd have 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.640 thought that, well, there's nothing you could do. I mean, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.080 they're just a medicine blah blah blah. Well Trump has said, no, no, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.240 they're not much. As you know, the Biden administration said 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.719 the border is secure, as hundreds of thousands of people 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.360 were flowing in every month, and then it just stopped 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.680 under Trump. Trump is whooping the hell out of the 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.120 Hoothies and has promised them and their sponsors in Iran 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.760 that it's going to continue until they are subdued, unless 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.719 they subdue themselves willingly. And that's going to be interesting 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:25.320 to see unfold, said Marco Rubio. Willie essentially echoed what 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.239 Trump was saying, and he said that the strike should 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.560 be seen as the opening salvos of a sustained campaign. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:32.080 Quote. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.720 Some of the people involved in those missile launches are 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.320 no longer with us, and I can tell you that 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.920 some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.040 and that will continue. Instead of the idiotic Biden policy 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.120 of all right, missile launcher A launched a missile. It 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.680 almost hit our ship. We will take out missile launcher A. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.600 Trump and Ruby are saying, no, how about we take 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.880 out all of your missile launchers. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.839 Now, what are you going to do? Yeah? And the 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.480 interesting thing is on the two. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.960 Aggressive social media posts that Trump has put out in 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.800 the recent days, he starts talking about the Houthis, then 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.640 turns it to Iran a couple days ago. Then last 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.240 night he starts talking about Hamas and then turns it 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.520 toward to Iran. So on the Huthi one, he talks 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.360 about Houthis, you can't do this anymore overwhelming lethal force. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.240 But then he says, then he addressed the militants in Iran. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.360 Support for Huthi terrorists must end immediately, warning the government 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.880 in Tehran that America will hold you fully accountable and 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.440 we won't be. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.960 Nice about it. So he went from Huthi's to Iran, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.080 and then he did it again last night, every shot fired, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.760 blah blah blah blah blah, talking about uh Hamas and 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.480 the Houthis, and then he gets to Iran again. Let 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.680 me find this, got it right in front of me, right, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.880 at least I thought I did. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.360 Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.360 from this point ford as being a shot fired from 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.200 the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.640 held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:03.480 be dire. So it's all in the opposite way that 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.600 the Biden administration wanted to handle it, as you've been 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.000 playing out. They wanted to separate Iran and make it 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.040 just seem like a moss and hoothise and we're you 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.640 know how pinpricks here and there on those people. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:12.920 We don't want to war with you. Iran. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.760 Trump's going the other way, saying we'll go to war 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.280 with you if this doesn't stop. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.960 At one point Biden himself admitted that the strikes had 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.960 not deterred the Houthies, but said. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.800 We'll continue the same policy. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:29.160 Nonetheless, they didn't want to escalate, and some people believe 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.360 that hits on the Houthies would inflame regional tensions and 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:34.800 boost their recruitment. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:36.200 And then the. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.679 Second claim or the second argument against Trump right now is, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:46.719 and I'm quoting what the Walston the National Review called 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.800 the vulgar Marxian analysis provided by Glenn Greenwald, quote, the 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.240 strikes are only a means by which the DC war 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.080 machine and ensures that its coffers are always full and 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.199 its own authority is always increasing. And these so cult 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:05.000 restrainers and the Trump's pentagon might agree with this this critique. Meanwhile, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.680 global shipping has been held hostage by a bunch of scumbags, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.200 driving up costs and inflation and doubling shipping costs for 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.000 all sorts of goods around the world. And Glenn, what 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.240 are we supposed to do, send him a greeting card 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.199 and an apology and maybe some flowers. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:23.120 I don't know. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.000 It's going to be interesting to watch how the politics 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.520 of this plays out, because Israel is the best friend 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.280 Trump is the best friend Israel they've ever had in 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.440 a US president so far, and he's, you know, hey, Israel, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.440 do what you got to do, which could lead to 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.200 confrontation with Iran obviously. And then we mentioned what Tucker 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:45.040 Carlson tweeted out yesterday that don't let the propagandists lie 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.000 to you. A bombing campaign will bring us into war 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:55.880 with Iran, thousands of dead US soldiers, billions of dollars loss. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.960 So Tucker is really against getting into it with a 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.960 Iran and that's I think Trump pays a. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.679 Fair amount of attention to the Tucker crowd. So I 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:07.120 don't know how. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.640 I don't know how all those pieces are going to 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.120 fit together as this plays out. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.520 I wonder does he pay attention to them as in 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.240 is aware of them and wants to keep them at 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.080 least on his side politically, or is he like swayed 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:25.000 by them, really, I don't know. I don't know either. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.360 If you know, let us know mail bagging, armstrung he eddio. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.800 You don't know, so don't let him. Nobody knows. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.880 This will be the most interesting presidency in US history 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.320 in terms of the history books, because nobody knows except 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.680 for Donald Trump's brain, because it's not like he's writing 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.880 this stuff down or you know, reading policy papers or whatever. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.800 On a completely different note, in consumer news, countries that 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.480 had decided to go cash free have said, whoops, not 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:58.240 a good idea. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:58.840 Okay. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.240 And you got a guy eating a rat on the 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.400 street in the Bronx getting a fair amount of attention. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.800 You watch commitedio uber news and that he's consuming a rat. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.400 You watch the video. I want a full team coverage 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:17.600 of that boy. Do you carry cash around? Yeah? Yeah, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.559 some What do you think to write him out to 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.640 have for cash? Oh? It depends entirely on your financial state. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.679 I don't know, does it. How often do you run 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.920 into a situation where you need cash? Not often? 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.440 If I need to get out of a restaurant in 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.720 a hurry, for instance, you know, just saving that whole 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:40.520 credit card thing. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.079 Leaving cash. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.360 Plus, I'd like to leave cash tips because then, you know, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:45.880 let's keep the government out of. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.120 The tipping process. Okay, decline what you want to. I 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.320 don't do that. I kind of wish I did, but 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.680 I'm not organized enough for that, I guess. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.400 Yes, Michael, I was raised to carry one hundred dollars 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.640 if you can for an emergency. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.720 Yeah, well that that certainly was true to time. But 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.200 long as I have my watch on, I got all 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.839 the money I need. I pay for everything else. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.000 Fancy pants have to watch that you you can pay 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.480 with It sounded like you were going to pawn your watch. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.240 It's not very fancy pants. Yes, Katie, I have to 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:14.600 tell you. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 Since you told me that you can pay with your watch, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:18.320 I have never looked back. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:18.880 Oh I know. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.440 Oh that is the That is the easiest thing on 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.160 the planet. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.199 Yeah. I pay for my restaurant meals or whatever. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:30.080 They just gas station store everything anything with the tap option. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:30.840 The gas station. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.160 It's the best because you don't have to press the 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:36.319 million mess you don't have to press the million buttons. Yeah, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.920 huh interesting. Anyway, we got reports on all that on 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:39.120 the way. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:44.000 Stay here some more business news. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.480 Hasbro said that they're trying to get teenagers and adults 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:47.840 to buy more of their toys. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.040 Yeah, it's cool to do optimist prime transforms into a. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.400 Vaight pen trying to get in on the legos. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.600 Yeah, that's the first thing I thought they figured out 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.600 why Lego is making easy money off of in cell 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.800 thirty year old dudes spending way too much money on 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.840 freaking legos as an adult, and they're trying to get 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:09.319 in on that. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:12.160 Yeah. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.840 Yeah, I don't think there are any childhood toys that 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.800 I would like at this point in my life. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:18.600 But I'm not a. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.960 Thirty year old in cell either, So speaking of consumer news, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:27.400 I found this interesting and sobering and sickening. So it 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.920 wasn't long ago that in Sweden, and there are a 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.520 couple of other countries name check in the name checked 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.959 in this article I'm looking at. But in twenty eighteen, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.440 non official in Sweden predicted that by twenty twenty five 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:44.400 the country would be cashless probably and that is to 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.840 a large extent true. Just one in ten purchases in 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.120 Sweden are made with cash, and a credit card's most 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:56.720 common form of payment. But now the Swedish and Norwegian governments, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.560 which have the lowest amount of cash in circulation as 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.800 a percent of GDP in the world, are saying to 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.960 their peeps. Hey, y'all, remember that cash free thing. How 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.400 about your stockpile some cash because the world is so 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.280 vulnerable to cyber attacks wow from Russia and China. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.120 Wow. And if that hits your credit card is just 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.640 just a piece of plastic. Wow. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.760 Yeah, I could. I could at various times if the 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.160 electronics went down. Maybe not, I be scraping together nickels 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.880 and quarters from you know whatever that side pocket is 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.960 in your car door to come up with any cash. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.760 Yeah, yeah, And you know it's it's practically inevitable. And 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.800 I don't mean to freak anybody out. I'm freaked out 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.320 by this myself, but there will come a day and 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.160 it could last for a week or a month or 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:57.440 a year when the the poop hits the fan and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.640 we're at you know, damn near a hot war with China, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.960 and it's volleys of cyber attacks going on back and forth, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:11.000 and our entire banking system is paralyzed for x amount 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.400 of time, a couple of days easily, or like one 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.840 or two megabanks have all of their hard drives erased 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:18.360 or something. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:24.280 I hope that's not possible. I guarantee you it is, so. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.440 I wonder how much cash. Okay, now I'm back on 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:27.240 your side, Michael. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.680 I wonder how much cash a pushing should have not 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.000 in their pocket, but somewhere in their house case the hits. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.480 The f right. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.480 just be able to put gas in your car and uh. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.240 Of course I don't know. That'll probably shut down too. Okay, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.200 now I'm becoming a full prepper. The tanks will be 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.680 shut down. I can't get gas, so I need to 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.920 have big vats of gas in my garage and cash 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.600 and a bit of a fire hazard there. But you know, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:04.920 you probably a lot. I hogged the slaughter. You're gonna 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.680 get tired of pork. Ought to have a cow as well? Yeah, wow, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:10.520 holy cash? 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:10.880 You know. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.040 I just I feel like as a country, we. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.720 Like have the hope diamond in our living room, and 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.320 all we have is a screen door. In terms of security, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.560 we have a huge obvious target for those who would 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.280 do us wrong or extort us into doing what they want, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.480 and the security feels a little screen doorsh to me. Anyway, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.240 I just thought that was interesting and good reminder of 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:37.480 how fragile it all is. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.560 You know what, Yes, a person should probably have you know, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:46.240 five hundred bucks and twenties somewhere in their house. It's 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.080 not a bad idea. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:52.560 Apple has put off its AI advances and stock has suffered. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.360 Maybe we could talk about that a little bit later on. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.400 Didn't get to the guy eating a rat on the 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.480 street of the Bronx. On the streets to the Bronx. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.200 Well it's one street. I'm back to one street street 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:05.160 of the Bronx. Yes, Oh, it's a little tough to take. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.840 I don't encourage you to watch the video. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.760 Does it have greater significance than other than the video 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:10.320 went viral? 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.240 Of course it does. Yeah, it's a symbol of our 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.040 modern world. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.600 Okay, stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.159 Forever twenty one is going out of business. The fashion 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.080 company filed for bankruptcy for a second time Sunday. For 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.160 every twenty one stores will still remain open for now, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.280 but the company says it's starting a quote orderly wind 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.440 down and will have liquidation sales. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.000 I'm I'm a capitalist, and I just find it fascinating 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.520 how brands can become you know, stores, whatever, you know, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.280 a brand of any kind, it can become hot and 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.840 popular and successful and make money and then go away 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.800 over time for they just do. It's just part of 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.040 the whole thing. Yeah. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.720 Part of it is that China now is flooding the 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.679 US with these super cheap, quickly man manufactured, fast fashions 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.160 Shine and Tamu as a Tamo or TEAMO, I don't 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:09.240 actually care. And I wonder whether the on shoring of 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.000 manufacturing that Trump and JD. Vans are working on, which 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.359 we'll be talking about more at length tomorrow, are going 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.040 to bear some fruit in that direction. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:17.280 Interesting to see. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.840 Yeah, and I don't ever quite understand when big companies 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.560 go bankrupt what it actually means, because I saw an 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.679 open red lobster the other day. My son and I 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.159 were going to a different restaurant, but there was an 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.440 open red lobster. Which isn't how many times they've gone bankrupt. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.159 Yeah, yeah, obviously you can sell off assets or your 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.840 creditors get them, or they think, yeah, you can turn 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.520 this around. We'll give you a little more money, to 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.560 variety of outcomes. But speaking of the world, well, we'll 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.040 get to the world of business in a second. But 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.280 I thought this was interesting, and this gets no attention 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.920 unless you dig into you know, whether our show or 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:57.760 other alternative more conservative leaning media. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.879 who is a very serious guy and I think is 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.960 going to do a hell of a good job, announced 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.720 he would launch a full investigation in allegations that a 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.720 DEI activist offered air traffic candidates the chance to cheat 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.400 on an entry exam at the FAA. If it's true, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.200 swift accountability, you will come for these those responsible. We 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.480 need the best and brightest, not buzzword DEI hires, d 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.960 Duffy wrote. He announced his in career after a top 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.960 DEI activist was reportedly caught on voicemail offering minority air 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:32.240 traffic controller candidates the opportunity to cheat on an entry exam. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.480 Wow, if that's true, that is outrageous. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.080 I would say, can you think of anything more horrifying, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.040 meal like cheating on brain surgery exams in the name 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.440 of DEI or something like that. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.399 But let's see. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.560 Shelton Snow, an influential figure at the National Black Coalition 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:59.160 of Federal Aviation Employees, left a voicemail that said, quote allegedly, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.800 there are some valuable pieces of information that I have 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.119 taken a screenshot of and I'm going to send you 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.880 that via email. I am about ninety nine point nine 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.280 to nine percent sure that this is exactly how you 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.760 need to answer each question. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.760 Well, if you believe in the concept of disparate impact, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.040 which I don't, but the Supreme Court does that. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:19.399 If you don't have. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:26.000 Equal results of gender and race in the makeup of anything, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.360 then by definition your hiring standards are racist or sexist, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.200 or your tests are racist or sexist, then. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:35.760 You gotta do this, don't you. I mean, how else 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.720 are you going to get the right result you want. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:42.800 Yeah, it's a perverse and wrong philosophy, but yeah, people 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.080 believe that that's it. 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:46.119 You know, it's funny. 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.160 There's another article about DEI that I wanted to get 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.639 to at one point, but it makes the same mistake 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.040 that all of them make. They think DEI is actually 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.000 about diversity, and it's not. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:20:59.760 At its truth. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.480 Real activists believe in the whole critical theory. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:06.480 It's a racist country. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.960 The only difference between the achievement of you know, group 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:15.320