Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and Key.
Speaker 2: Arms from Studio C see signor it's the first time.
Speaker 1: In a month.
Speaker 3: I've made it through that, Doug Coffing, that's fantastic progress.
Speaker 1: We're in a dimly lit room deep with from the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all
Speaker 1: on little Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our general manager, and.
Speaker 4: I couldn't decide to keep going back and Forest, do
Speaker 4: you have a favorite funny?
Speaker 1: You would say that I was just.
Speaker 3: Reading the morning newsletter I read every single day for
Speaker 3: Mark Alburn, and he said this is the first time
Speaker 3: in his career he can remember where when he got
Speaker 3: up in the morning, he checked his top twenty five
Speaker 3: news sources and No.
Speaker 1: Two had the same headline.
Speaker 3: Oh, and that was the lead story in that it's
Speaker 3: so spread out over what people think is a big
Speaker 3: story today, which obviously we get to decide what we
Speaker 3: think is a big story.
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, and there are several. Honestly, if I was
Speaker 4: gonna go with one, I.
Speaker 1: Don't even know Biden's nodule, the backlash, the nodule.
Speaker 3: On his prostate, among other things. Where are you on that?
Speaker 3: Do you what do you think happened? I was just
Speaker 3: watching News Nation today is you're flipping around the channels
Speaker 3: and everything like that. MSNBC has decided to not cover
Speaker 3: the story anymore. I'll bet they got so much pushback yesterday,
Speaker 3: I bet they got killed by a lot of their viewers.
Speaker 4: Wow to if it even in a minor way towards
Speaker 4: sanity in the center, they get.
Speaker 1: Murdered for it.
Speaker 3: They even they kind of led the way on the whole.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, this timing is beyond suspicious. They were
Speaker 3: like the lead on that yesterday. So but they were
Speaker 3: the first person to have a doctor on questioning that,
Speaker 3: but didn't cover it all today News Nation though, they
Speaker 3: just stated it flatly, like not like even analysis, just
Speaker 3: like news analysis. The guy they talked to, there are
Speaker 3: no coincidences in Washington. So the release of the medical
Speaker 3: information about Joe Biden obviously timed to, you know, throw
Speaker 3: clouds over the her tapes and the book coming out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just stated it as fact. Do you
Speaker 1: think that that's that clear?
Speaker 4: I just happened to read an email from one of
Speaker 4: our favorite correspondents who was rejecting that idea, saying that
Speaker 4: the announcement of the cancer thing would draw more attention
Speaker 4: to Biden's decline in age and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: And I'm not buying the argument. I think it is
Speaker 4: injecting the cloud of sympathy, right and and and.
Speaker 1: You know, here's an old fellow with a dread disease.
Speaker 1: He's near death.
Speaker 4: We can't be talking about him critically. Yeah, that fits
Speaker 4: beautifully does. And the other explanation is inexplicable. Yeah real,
Speaker 4: they just never tested him and never had any symptoms.
Speaker 1: No, come on, I.
Speaker 3: Took in so much news coverag yesterday and I'd say
Speaker 3: ninety nine out of one hundred doctors say it's impossible.
Speaker 4: But they didn't know about this earlier. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just doesn't That's not the way it works. You don't
Speaker 4: get to the level nine whatever reading on your prostate
Speaker 4: cancer the first time you get checked, right as president
Speaker 4: of the United States. But anyway, here's one aspect of
Speaker 4: it that we should not put up with as a people.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for years. I wish we could
Speaker 1: demand as a as a self governing country to get
Speaker 1: information back. We should have been.
Speaker 3: Able to demand yes yesterday, the media should have demanded,
Speaker 3: and people should have fell in line, knowing that voters
Speaker 3: will not put up with anything short of this.
Speaker 1: The doctor that looked at Joe Biden should have been
Speaker 1: on TV yesterday afternoon answering the question did you ever
Speaker 1: check him for prostate cancer?
Speaker 3: If not, why not? And if yes, what were the results?
Speaker 3: That should have happened yesterday afternoon. There's no reason for
Speaker 3: it to not. It's the president of the freaking United States, right,
Speaker 3: What's what's the reason to compel that? Though I agree
Speaker 3: with you, such a PARENTCYS as a governing body, everybody
Speaker 3: should have to tell us everything, all the time, immediately.
Speaker 1: About their personal medical reality. That's a stretch.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying I disagree exactly, but it's a stretch.
Speaker 3: They do it physical every single year. They talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it in a completely dishonest way. Yes, I
Speaker 3: think it's perfectly reasonable to ask the question did you
Speaker 3: check for prostate cancer? Okay, you want to politically say
Speaker 3: it's none of your business, Okay, roll the dice on that.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and say it's not the public's business, my
Speaker 3: own personal health's.
Speaker 4: I find this a really interesting conversation. Up where do
Speaker 4: we draw the line? I mean, if if the president
Speaker 4: has a rash on his ass, does he have.
Speaker 1: To disclose that.
Speaker 4: For instance, No, it's got a tendency toward acne, dandruff, And.
Speaker 1: So where where do you draw the line? And I
Speaker 1: don't way on the other side of you had a cancer,
Speaker 1: that the treatment causes you to have mental difficulties and
Speaker 1: trouble walking.
Speaker 4: Yes, that is one of the leading theories at this point. Yes,
Speaker 4: I would agree. I just again, it's the practicalities of
Speaker 4: it that I'm getting hung up.
Speaker 3: Think a different topic then if you're if you if
Speaker 3: the medical one is too complicated for you, pick the
Speaker 3: dog bite one, or you know, any of the any
Speaker 3: of the many things that happened, somebody should have to
Speaker 3: answer questions immediately.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I absolutely agree with you in principle, the
Speaker 4: dog bite one.
Speaker 3: That comes up because I was listening, I was watching
Speaker 3: a I was watching a podcast last night with reporters
Speaker 3: with with with one reporter making the point that early
Speaker 3: on in the Biden White House there they would cover
Speaker 3: up everything. He said, they wouldn't be transparent about the
Speaker 3: tiniest thing he said. At the very beginning, there was
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember, way back, there was
Speaker 3: a wedding. Somebody in Joe Biden's family got married, and
Speaker 3: they got married at the White House, which you're not
Speaker 3: supposed to do because that's a you're just not supposed
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 1: It's people's house, taxpayer thing. You can't do that clause
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And they light about that, and the
Speaker 1: reporter's like, this is so, I mean, why are you
Speaker 1: lying about this? I mean, you're not being honest about this.
Speaker 1: The dog bites, they weren't. They weren't honest about that.
Speaker 1: From the very beginning. There was a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different things that the guy saw. These are minor incidents,
Speaker 1: and why are you covering these up?
Speaker 3: And it's just the way they operated. They weren't honest
Speaker 3: about anything ever.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: I just don't know how to deal with this other
Speaker 4: than yelling about it on the radio. I mean, like
Speaker 4: Trump's first medical disclosures were hilarious.
Speaker 1: I mean, he wasn't even trying.
Speaker 4: He found a guy on the street who may or
Speaker 4: may not have been a doctor, who declared him the
Speaker 4: healthiest man to ever inhabit the planet Earth. And that
Speaker 4: was it was there a political price to pay, no,
Speaker 4: or at least not measurable.
Speaker 3: So I got the Jake Tapper book last night and
Speaker 3: I started into it, and I read quite a bit
Speaker 3: to go, and I've got some highlights from Matt.
Speaker 1: With the main takeaway being, first of all, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3: It's unintentionally hilarious, really completely unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1: They take themselves so seriously.
Speaker 3: They're letting the world know, they're pulling back the curtain
Speaker 3: and allowing you to get a glimpse.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just that it's hilarious. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3: I mean they open with a Shakespeare quote on the
Speaker 3: first page before they get into it. I thought, you've
Speaker 3: got to be kidding. You're going now way too self
Speaker 3: important here.
Speaker 4: This really gets to are our core question about this?
Speaker 4: Your core question about this? The answer appears to be yes,
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper and the other fellow who did some good
Speaker 4: reporting for Axios.
Speaker 1: At the time or whatever it was. But Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: is that bubbled in, that self delusional. He doesn't know
Speaker 1: that we know.
Speaker 3: New That's one hundred percent right, I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: soften that at all, because you've got the evidence of
Speaker 3: polls showing that majorities of Americans knew. So if majorities
Speaker 3: of Americans new and with zero sources inside the White House,
Speaker 3: why do you need any of those of you have sources.
Speaker 1: But and it's not like we had a vague suspicion
Speaker 1: it was denigible.
Speaker 3: But it is more than I had realized. The tightest
Speaker 3: inner circle, we're lying to everybody like at the next level,
Speaker 3: Like I don't know how they're you know, Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Is famously if you want a friend, get a dog,
Speaker 3: there are no you have no friends. I mean, everybody
Speaker 3: just doesn't what's in their best self interest. But I
Speaker 3: can't believe that there aren't more destroyed relationships. It'd be
Speaker 3: like if you were lying to me about something important
Speaker 3: to the show for years.
Speaker 4: And because I would obviously I would believe you. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's the way it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was like senators who had worked with other people
Speaker 3: who were now you know, chief of staff or whatever
Speaker 3: in the inner circle for for decades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who would say, damn, I'm a little worried about
Speaker 1: the president.
Speaker 3: I mean he looked roughly, don't trust me behind closed doors,
Speaker 3: He's fine, you know. And you take their word for
Speaker 3: it because it's somebody you've known for years.
Speaker 1: And you go out and repeat it yourself.
Speaker 3: Yes, because they wouldn't hang out to dry. This is
Speaker 3: somebody you've known forever, your close friends, and they did.
Speaker 3: They lied to like the people that have known forever.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think in DC, and Lord knows, I'm not a
Speaker 4: student of that culture. I find it horrifying in every way.
Speaker 4: But I have a feeling that the brighter the light
Speaker 4: in front of you, meaning the greater the power in
Speaker 4: front of you, the less the little lights behind.
Speaker 1: You are even visible.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're next to the ultimate power, that
Speaker 4: senator you worked with for twenty years, I don't even
Speaker 4: see his light anymore.
Speaker 1: Irony that Best Center, baby, because they're just crocodiles, those people.
Speaker 3: I guess I got one more thing on the cancer
Speaker 3: thing I want to say, But first we should start
Speaker 3: the show officially.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, remind me, Michael's gotta give me my monthly prostate
Speaker 4: exam during the commercial break.
Speaker 1: I don't want to forget.
Speaker 3: And full disclosure, we put all the pictures up on
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Speaker 6: If they came out and said, yeah, Biden knew about
Speaker 6: it five years ago, I wouldn't be shocked. If they
Speaker 6: came out and said Biden found out on Friday, I
Speaker 6: wouldn't be shocked. And I understand the excitement over an
Speaker 6: insidious democratic cover up about Joe Biden's mental decline. The
Speaker 6: thing is, though, it was a terrible cover up because
Speaker 6: we all knew.
Speaker 1: That new accept the big Foot media, and they would
Speaker 1: just such a fascinating psychological study. Yes, not only were
Speaker 1: they unaware, they were angry at the very suggestion that
Speaker 1: it was true, including the guy who wrote the book
Speaker 1: I was reading last night. Oh scream that Laura Trump
Speaker 1: for claiming it wasn't the stutter. Yeah, I'll have to.
Speaker 3: I got some excerpts from the book that are funny.
Speaker 3: I'll do my screed about the playing on their emotions
Speaker 3: from the Biden family, which I think they're doing, which
Speaker 3: is just unconscionable. It is really unconscionable what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They should be ashamed of themselves.
Speaker 1: We'll get there.
Speaker 3: They lack the capacity apparently. Yeah, we got Katie's headlines
Speaker 3: on the way. We got lots today. I hope you
Speaker 3: can figure out.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: The NBA has got to be happy that the New
Speaker 3: York Knicks have gotten on a roll because the final
Speaker 3: four teams are Oklahoma City, Minnesota, Indiana.
Speaker 1: And New York. That is not the star power they
Speaker 1: want or the big markets that they want. Oh probably not.
Speaker 4: I got lucky. New York made it in fantastic. I'm
Speaker 4: happy for them, the good folks, and they try real hard.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: What a crazy show we have today. Just too much
Speaker 4: to describe, So let's dive into it. Let's figure out
Speaker 4: who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 7: Starting with NBC, Trump allies shift from well wishes to
Speaker 7: suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis because he obviously did.
Speaker 1: The question is for how long? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 1: Trump allies did that? Yeah? Trump? This is from NYC.
Speaker 1: Trump like Joe Scarborough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I was listening to NPR on the drive
Speaker 3: in and they said, while initially offering well wishes. Later
Speaker 3: in the day, Trump turned to conspiracy theories about Biden's diagnosis.
Speaker 1: Is it a conspiracy theory? Really?
Speaker 3: Every single doctor I heard yesterday, like one hundred doctors
Speaker 3: said no way.
Speaker 1: They just found out about.
Speaker 4: This on Friday, every single one.
Speaker 1: I feel about.
Speaker 4: The phrase conspiracy theory very much like I feel about.
Speaker 1: The phrase fact check.
Speaker 4: It's an indication that the opposite is happening, but somebody
Speaker 4: is just trying to, you know, deny without denying.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 7: From the Hill, Natanya who says Israel will control all
Speaker 7: of Gaza take over aid deliveries.
Speaker 1: The old weight didn't work very well, did it.
Speaker 7: From the La Times, Palm Spring's bombing investigation turns to
Speaker 7: the explosives.
Speaker 1: How are they sourced and built?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I asked yesterday. Where does this guy
Speaker 3: learn how to build a bomb and where to get
Speaker 3: this stuff? So, yeah, I'm gonna have to read that
Speaker 3: La Times.
Speaker 4: Article the internet and around I'm guessing and what a lunatic?
Speaker 4: Oh anti human activist Shiemani from the Washington.
Speaker 1: Post Supreme court allows Trump.
Speaker 7: To cancel protected status for Venezuelans for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's quite the story.
Speaker 4: I'd hate to be a Venezuelan who has given the
Speaker 4: gift of temporary protected status by Biden and then have
Speaker 4: it disappear.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: So if the President can, with the stroke of a pen,
Speaker 4: declares something, the next guy can undeclare.
Speaker 1: It From ABC.
Speaker 7: Russia attacks Ukraine with drones after the Trump putin phone call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, biggest drone attack over the weekend. They tried to
Speaker 3: fire an intercontinental ballistic missile but it either didn't fire,
Speaker 3: or they changed their mind or something.
Speaker 1: Nobody's sure, but.
Speaker 3: They almost fired off one of those over the weekend,
Speaker 3: of course, which would have gotten a lot of.
Speaker 7: Attention USA Today, six inmates still on the run after
Speaker 7: escape from New Orleans jail.
Speaker 1: Search enters day five. There are parts of.
Speaker 4: The South, including Louisiana, that have a reputation for being
Speaker 4: a little fast and loose and sloppy and corrupt and
Speaker 4: old boyish, and a number of different descriptors. This would
Speaker 4: not discourage me from thinking some of those cliches are true.
Speaker 4: These guys just broke out with ease, were gone for
Speaker 4: eight hours before anybody had any idea.
Speaker 3: My favorite part is they left the message we One
Speaker 3: of them left the message behind It said too easy
Speaker 3: spelled too easy y lol.
Speaker 7: From the New York Post, French pizza chef confesses to
Speaker 7: killing reclusive man, then shopping and cooking his body in
Speaker 7: a pot of vegetables.
Speaker 4: Oh delicious, a French pizza chef. That's the horn part
Speaker 4: to me, does that even mean? French pizza chef?
Speaker 1: And finally, from the.
Speaker 7: Babylon b experts say AI unlikely to replace government bureaucrats
Speaker 7: because it's not soulless enough.
Speaker 3: And speaking of AI, so, there was a Shakespeare quote
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the new Jake Tapper book that
Speaker 3: I didn't understand and I was going to Google it,
Speaker 3: and I thought, no, I'm going to do chat GPT.
Speaker 1: I put it in chet GPT. What does this mean?
Speaker 3: Explained it at length with examples in a way that Google.
Speaker 1: Could have never done.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, sell your stock, yes, man, if you're
Speaker 3: not using chat GPT to answer simple questions, it's so
Speaker 3: much better than going.
Speaker 1: Or one of the other ones are terrific as well.
Speaker 1: You know the way I have stock in Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I'll get out of the way.
Speaker 3: Some of the revelations from the book, among other things
Speaker 3: on the way.
Speaker 1: So they done, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to
Speaker 5: end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote
Speaker 5: has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is
Speaker 5: any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he
Speaker 5: will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate
Speaker 5: for now.
Speaker 1: What about the Putin call? Remember we had a clip
Speaker 1: of that. What was that about? Show years ago? The
Speaker 1: Putin call?
Speaker 3: That's from like eight years ago, so I don't remember
Speaker 3: it at the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who,
Speaker 3: Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about
Speaker 3: two hours yesterday and takeaway seems to be I'm gonna
Speaker 3: let them work it out. Which where does that leave things?
Speaker 3: It leaves it as a win for Putin? I think yes,
Speaker 3: although the ball is in Trump's court because he has
Speaker 3: not said, at least as of yet, Okay, if you're
Speaker 3: going to let them work that out, does that mean
Speaker 3: them working it out while we continue to give a
Speaker 3: tremendous amount of aid intelligence aid? Maybe being the most
Speaker 3: important to Ukraine or not, because if it's or not,
Speaker 3: it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like those of us who would like to
Speaker 4: see the US backing Ukraine are digging through about our
Speaker 4: fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations.
Speaker 4: Just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know,
Speaker 4: feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and
Speaker 4: over again.
Speaker 1: Well, he does have to go one way or the other.
Speaker 3: We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the
Speaker 3: way we have for three years or not. And if
Speaker 3: we're not, that's a major change.
Speaker 1: I think it's more likely that one happens.
Speaker 3: Will he announce it or will it will it just
Speaker 3: become evident at some point, I don't know, after this
Speaker 3: period of Zelensky in Ukraine and Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable.
Speaker 4: To make it clear we want peace too, We're with
Speaker 4: you on this and putin never giving a single sign
Speaker 4: that he has any interest in Trump's piece too. No,
Speaker 4: if the US policy becomes well then you all are
Speaker 4: on your own. We're not going to support a Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Well then we've but it's not a nothing. We've cided
Speaker 3: with right now. In my opinion, I know one hundred
Speaker 3: that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed
Speaker 4: coming true. It was it was less than Putin showing
Speaker 4: you wasn't interested in peace right now. He gave Trump
Speaker 4: a long lecture of about why Ukraine belongs to Russia,
Speaker 4: and he said this will not end until the underlying
Speaker 4: problems are solved. Well, the underlying problems will not be
Speaker 4: solved until he has Ukraine correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: As Rich Lowry writes in The National Review, the play
Speaker 4: for the Kremlin is obvious here. It wants to keep
Speaker 4: pinching ahead with territorial gains, and if it continues to
Speaker 4: string along the negotiations, has to hope that Trump tires
Speaker 4: of the whole thing and cuts off USA to Ukraine.
Speaker 4: That would reward Putin's intransigent with an important diplomatic victory
Speaker 4: is split between the US and Europe, and a chance
Speaker 4: to make major advances against an increasingly hard pressed Ukraine.
Speaker 4: And the only reference really to Trump being tired of
Speaker 4: Putin and understanding that he's being played was that reference
Speaker 4: to Putin's tapping me along, But I mean to come
Speaker 4: out of the call yesterday and say, yeah, I think
Speaker 4: we made progress. I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Jd Vance presented it as as well, if you guys
Speaker 3: aren't interested, then hey, we're out. As if that is
Speaker 3: actually a neutral position, that is not a neutral position,
Speaker 3: that's a taking the side of Russian position. So I
Speaker 3: don't know if they're just trying, if they're trying to
Speaker 3: fool people by presenting it is like we're staying.
Speaker 1: Neutral on this or what. So the ball is.
Speaker 3: First off, I think in Trump's court, but then absolutely
Speaker 3: in Europe's court as they got to figure out what
Speaker 3: to do. So they had a big meeting over the
Speaker 3: weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things
Speaker 3: that came out of it. A big defense meeting of
Speaker 3: the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a
Speaker 3: couple of things. They announced. Germany is going to lift
Speaker 3: their prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World
Speaker 3: War Two, so they are going to, like France, start
Speaker 3: using nuclear energy so that they don't have to buy
Speaker 3: energy from Russia.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will
Speaker 3: does not present NATO a dilemma in five like had
Speaker 3: previously been thought if the war were to end soon,
Speaker 3: but could within a year, like they could be back
Speaker 3: up to speed enough within a year to present NATO
Speaker 3: a real bulemma of what do we do now? If
Speaker 3: they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's
Speaker 3: what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then
Speaker 3: I really liked this quote that came out of it.
Speaker 3: I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been
Speaker 3: playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure
Speaker 3: skate our way out of this.
Speaker 4: Oh that's some good ice sport metaphor slinging there, sir, Yeah, Adam,
Speaker 4: well done.
Speaker 3: That went with also one of the leaders saying the
Speaker 3: years of two percent funding of our military are over.
Speaker 1: It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there were days.
Speaker 4: I wish we had unlimited time for this sort of
Speaker 4: thing because it's so interesting.
Speaker 1: I have all sorts of interesting.
Speaker 4: Well I suppose you all will be the judge of
Speaker 4: that when I delivered it, but I found it really
Speaker 4: really intriguing analysis of Europe and everything that's wrong with it.
Speaker 4: I think the Russia attack on Ukraine following the annexation
Speaker 4: of Crimea and the attack on Georgia and everything else
Speaker 4: has has and Germany continuing to buy oil from Russia
Speaker 4: after that happened, and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Well, right, I think.
Speaker 4: It's finally gotten to the point that it's shaken the dopey,
Speaker 4: dopey Euros out of their torpor, their their their sleepiness,
Speaker 4: their fantasy land that they've been living in for the
Speaker 4: past a bunch of years. After you know, the US
Speaker 4: security umbrella enabled them to invest vast sums of money
Speaker 4: into welfare states and socialism and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: And and I would I would like to issue a
Speaker 4: hammering indictment against them for all of that crap. But
Speaker 4: I think they're right about Russia and Ukraine. We're not
Speaker 4: going to figure skate our way out of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. Here here's the takeaway.
Speaker 4: And this was going to be the takeaway after I
Speaker 4: built a case over many, many minutes.
Speaker 1: But I'll give you the takeaway.
Speaker 4: We need to work every day as a country to
Speaker 4: not become Europe. And there are a couple of examples
Speaker 4: of a great piece by Walter Russell Mead about why
Speaker 4: democracy is in retreat, and he cites several cases in
Speaker 4: Europe about anybody who does not go along with the
Speaker 4: very very mainstream view of who ought to get elected
Speaker 4: and what policies ought to be passed is decried as
Speaker 4: undemocratic and dangerous, like the AfD party in Germany. And
Speaker 4: I could go into detail on that. The more I learned,
Speaker 4: the more interested I get. But their definition of democracy
Speaker 4: is the results I want, and anything that challenges that
Speaker 4: is swept aside. Like the AfD ought to be in
Speaker 4: an alliance with the party that won.
Speaker 1: The most seats.
Speaker 4: It's obvious the effort to keep them out because of
Speaker 4: a few crack pots and being a little soft down
Speaker 4: Russia or whatever is just it's twisting the German political
Speaker 4: system into knots.
Speaker 1: They're subsessed with it.
Speaker 3: The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people
Speaker 3: can listen to their phone calls and read their emails.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about
Speaker 4: this is let me click over.
Speaker 1: I think it's right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So last week the German government officially designated the
Speaker 4: opposition party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement
Speaker 4: came from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
Speaker 4: their domestic intelligence agency, blah blah blah. Then on Wednesday
Speaker 4: they abruptly withdrew the extremist label. They will now monitor
Speaker 4: the party only as a suspected case, which still allows
Speaker 4: some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but
Speaker 4: under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report
Speaker 4: and it reveals that the evident against the AfD consisted
Speaker 4: not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial
Speaker 4: rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have
Speaker 4: triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream
Speaker 4: powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who
Speaker 4: dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what
Speaker 4: I was driving at. Their definition of democracy is democracy
Speaker 4: with the right results, and that's terrible. The other thing
Speaker 4: I really wanted to talk about is the Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal had a great piece about how huge tech is
Speaker 4: in the world economy right now, technology in general, and
Speaker 4: how tiny Europe's share of it is. The EU rivals
Speaker 4: I mean, it's in the same weight class more or
Speaker 4: less if you take it as a whole, the US
Speaker 4: economy and the Chinese economy.
Speaker 1: It's a juggernaut.
Speaker 4: But you want to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic.
Speaker 4: Apple's market value is bigger than the entire German stock market,
Speaker 4: for instance. There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta.
Speaker 4: In Europe, there's nothing even slightly close. And this Journal
Speaker 4: article goes into depth and has a bunch of different
Speaker 4: examples of native born tech people, German tech people who
Speaker 4: brought what they learned back from Silicon Valley to Europe
Speaker 4: and were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk
Speaker 4: averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
Speaker 4: lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth, and said no, and
Speaker 4: back to California they went, or other places. Yeah and so,
Speaker 4: and you know that list. I'm gonna hit it one
Speaker 4: more time and we free marketers. So hold all dragon fans.
Speaker 4: I know we're sad. And then we ought to have
Speaker 4: industry planning in tariffs and the rest of it. But
Speaker 4: Europe is crushed by a timid and risk averse business culture,
Speaker 4: strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
Speaker 4: and lackluster economic growth.
Speaker 1: Don't become Europe.
Speaker 4: That's what we as a country need to repeat to
Speaker 4: ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a
Speaker 4: small act of discipline and positive something or other. I
Speaker 4: believe in it very much, and say, let's not become
Speaker 4: Europe today.
Speaker 3: Like when you get up in the morning, use I'm
Speaker 3: going to be a good person today or or whatever
Speaker 3: your mantra is, right, I'm going to do kindness whatever,
Speaker 3: do God's will today and stay positive. Let's not become
Speaker 3: Europe today.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations.
Speaker 1: Yes, our two.
Speaker 3: I'll get into a little of what I pulled out
Speaker 3: of the first part of Jake Tapper's book that I
Speaker 3: started reading last night when I was in bed again
Speaker 3: unintentionally hilarious, along with some.
Speaker 1: Interesting nuggets about what was going on there.
Speaker 3: It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
Speaker 3: and it should not just disappear as a minor thing.
Speaker 3: Luckily it has not been for at least the last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. Now I need to promote a mail bag.
Speaker 3: It's going to go heavily into the two big topics
Speaker 3: of yesterday's show, especially Ai and Jack Black's grooming so
Speaker 3: fat so greasy is my headline. If I'm reviewing the
Speaker 3: Minecraft movie. You're not wrong. You can't wash your face
Speaker 3: before you walk out there. I mean, it's not asking
Speaker 3: a lot. Okay, all about on the way stay here.
Speaker 1: So the big beautiful, complicated bill, they had a vote
Speaker 1: Sunday night at ten That's the one we were talking
Speaker 1: about yesterday that it got out of committee. They voted
Speaker 1: at ten pm on Sunday night. I haven't heard a
Speaker 1: good explanation as for why the next vote is one
Speaker 1: am tonight tomorrow one am. Why are they doing that?
Speaker 1: Do you know? Are they voting after raves on Capitol Hill? Now? Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. Wake me up when it's time to vote.
Speaker 3: I want there's got to be a reason though, if
Speaker 3: you know text four one two nine five KFDC. I
Speaker 3: know what the Democrats are claiming, but I don't think
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 4: They're trying to steal it away in the dark of night, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, Like it's not going to come out in
Speaker 4: the papers the next day because normally the American people,
Speaker 4: because it's at noon, can storm in there and demand
Speaker 4: that they do something different.
Speaker 1: No, that's not the way it works ridiculous. Here's your
Speaker 1: freedom loving quote of the day. Love this one, Thomas Sowell.
Speaker 1: Keep it in mind. What's ominous is the ease with
Speaker 1: which some people go from saying that they don't like
Speaker 1: something saying that the government should forbid it. When you
Speaker 1: go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. Ah.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, mail Bag. Although we all have
Speaker 1: our things like I'm that way with leaf moors.
Speaker 3: I would like that to be banned by the government everyone,
Speaker 3: But just that that's reasonable. So speaking of quotes, oh,
Speaker 3: drop us a note mailbag and armstrung and giddy dot comes.
Speaker 3: Speaking of quote, we were talking about graduation quotes and
Speaker 3: what you might have on.
Speaker 1: Your mortar board and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: And let's see this is rich Salt Lake City wrote
Speaker 4: my daughters graduating from high school.
Speaker 1: Here's a photo of the quote she put in the yearbook.
Speaker 4: I feel like I have somehow succeeding in raising her
Speaker 4: properly because of your homespun wisdom. Her graduation quote was
Speaker 4: stupid should hurt.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. She credited her dad with that quote.
Speaker 4: Cool, even though that's been our slogan for many, many years.
Speaker 4: But that's fine. We will lend it to you rich
Speaker 4: if that increases the bond with your beautiful daughter. Happy
Speaker 4: to lend that. I liked another gal who's listed on
Speaker 4: this sheet. Her quote is long story short, I survived.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: Well, let's see how about this JT and libermore rights
Speaker 4: to claim that there aren't two parties any longer. This
Speaker 4: is the point we were talking about this. There's not
Speaker 4: really time to reset the discussion. But the parties don't
Speaker 4: stand for anything fixed or even semi fixed.
Speaker 1: They just change with the wind.
Speaker 4: The two parties we have today are stronger and more
Speaker 4: unified than ever before in American history. How else to
Speaker 4: explain how party members will no longer date across political lines.
Speaker 4: How else to explain the left's use of basketed deplorables.
Speaker 4: Bitter clingers are Biden's short but awful garbage, and they're
Speaker 4: not too distant past. There were fiscally conservative Democrats, there
Speaker 4: are socially liberal Republicans. You're free to cross party lines
Speaker 4: for the things you believed in. That's gone by the wayside.
Speaker 4: Saber metrics has taken over politics, and both sides now
Speaker 4: demand near complete loyalty in voting.
Speaker 3: A lot of it has to do with Citizens United,
Speaker 3: which is correctly decided, but that doesn't mean it was
Speaker 3: good for the country. The fact that you can raise
Speaker 3: you all these small amounts or attack somebody, a pro
Speaker 3: life Democrat or a pro choice Republican for instance, would
Speaker 3: get killed in the modern era. Well, Citizens United was
Speaker 3: about corporations making political contributions, and the left thought that's
Speaker 3: going to ruin everything, But no, it is the Internet.
Speaker 1: The Internet. Citizens United was completely insignificant compared to the Internet,
Speaker 1: which now moves mountains. Anyway, to finish up JT's point.
Speaker 1: To put in another way, we now have two parties
Speaker 1: defined by not being the other party called negative what
Speaker 1: is it called negative polarization? Yeah, anyway, Yeah, some good
Speaker 1: points there. Let's see, and he points out that.
Speaker 4: We're worse than a credit card holder making the minimum
Speaker 4: payment because we're borrowing the money to pay the interest
Speaker 4: on our debt.
Speaker 1: Good point.
Speaker 3: You're borrowing from your parents to make the minimum payment
Speaker 3: on your credit card. That's you're in bad shape.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Twenty fourteen, Hunter Biden thinks for behaving irresponsibly as a
Speaker 4: country on the topic of artificial general intelligence, powow quotes
Speaker 4: several people as saying, we're not nearly as far down
Speaker 4: the road. The technology we have today is not sufficient
Speaker 4: to get there, says one super giant AI startup guy.
Speaker 4: Then he describes how it's just a predictive thing. It's
Speaker 4: not thinking. Consider something as mundane as customer service. Chat
Speaker 4: pots are terrible, even though they deal with fairly restricted
Speaker 4: subject areas I'm summarizing here. Then he quotes one of
Speaker 4: the great AI guys of the early days who said,
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy or three to eight years from serious general
Speaker 4: artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: I want that to be true.
Speaker 3: I also know that's a minority opinion, and it's always
Speaker 3: farther off than they say. On the other hand, you know,
Speaker 3: we've got a couple of examples, including yesterday when I
Speaker 3: came up with an edgy name for a political party
Speaker 3: and was designing a logo, and chat GPT said, now,
Speaker 3: do you want to steer into the edginess of the name.
Speaker 1: With the illustration with the logo?
Speaker 4: You want to make it more stock like a political party. Okay,
Speaker 4: maybe that's not the artificial general intelligence, but it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Another example of AI amazing this here. But we're out
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that
Speaker 3: for the rest of our lives, probably as it takes
Speaker 3: over the world. The robot good point, and the robots
Speaker 3: start to swing their arms and knock our heads off.
Speaker 1: Boy, that video really made an impression on you, didn't it.
Speaker 3: Oh The Jake Tapper book unintentionally hilarious. I got some
Speaker 3: highlights from that. I was reading it last night in bed.
Speaker 3: How fun is that?
Speaker 1: An hour two Armstrong and Getty