Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jackie and he
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Gatty. Can you give us any more sense
Speaker 2: of who exactly in I run?
Speaker 3: It is either.
Speaker 2: Left? Yeah, we had.
Speaker 4: I hate to say this in front of these young people.
Speaker 4: They're not children that I spoke to, most of them.
Speaker 4: They sound like adults to me, even though they are
Speaker 4: sort of children, right, they'll always be your children.
Speaker 2: But I hate to say it, but we killed all
Speaker 2: their leadership.
Speaker 4: And then they met to choose new leaders and we
Speaker 4: killed all of them. And now we have a new
Speaker 4: group and we can easily do that. But let's see
Speaker 4: how they turn.
Speaker 2: Out at O'Keefe a snooze talking to Donald Trump yesterday,
Speaker 2: and this conversation gets more interesting, starting with the whole
Speaker 2: it's all built around Trump saying we're negotiating, we're getting
Speaker 2: close in Iran responding with we're not talking to anybody,
Speaker 2: and then that whole thing. So Edie keep goes on,
Speaker 2: what makes trust them?
Speaker 4: I don't trust anybody. I don't trust you. I mean
Speaker 4: that's only because I know you. But if I didn't know.
Speaker 4: You'll probably have more trust. But I don't trust that.
Speaker 4: Why do you Why do you say that?
Speaker 2: Why do you say? What makes you trust? You? Think?
Speaker 2: I trust them?
Speaker 4: I don't trust them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wish he would have had at hand the
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan quote that is always so good. Oh, I trust, trust,
Speaker 2: but verify, which is a very fancy way of saying
Speaker 2: I don't trust you. I'm not going to say I
Speaker 2: distrust you because it would be insulting, but I don't
Speaker 2: I trust you. I just didn't need to be able
Speaker 2: to verify your doing everything you say you're going to
Speaker 2: do on a regular basis, because well, because I don't
Speaker 2: trust you, Right, they go on by, they're.
Speaker 4: Talking to me because they're going to make a deal.
Speaker 4: They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday
Speaker 4: that was amazing. Actually, they gave us a present and
Speaker 4: the president arrived today. It was a very big present,
Speaker 4: worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going
Speaker 4: to tell you what that present is, but it was
Speaker 4: a very significant prize and they gave it to us,
Speaker 4: and they said they were going to give it, so
Speaker 4: that meant one thing to me. We'd deal with the
Speaker 4: right people. No, it wasn't nuclear related. It was oil
Speaker 4: and gas related, and it was a very nice thing
Speaker 4: they did. But what it showed me is that we're
Speaker 4: dealing with the right people.
Speaker 2: Had everybody wondering, what's the great present that Iran sent you,
Speaker 2: like a set of lovely bookends or a pen or ah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I can't get past how obnoxious at O'Keefe is, but
Speaker 5: that's your department. Having been annoyed by him for an evening,
Speaker 5: I was at a different table.
Speaker 2: I sat next to him at a restaurant for several
Speaker 2: hours and I found him unbelievably pompous. But I shouldn't
Speaker 2: let that get in the way of this. But the question, well,
Speaker 2: why even talk to them? Then? Yeah, that's a dumb question.
Speaker 2: I think if you don't trust him, why negotiate with him,
Speaker 2: Because you have to negotiate with everybody. You have to
Speaker 2: negotiate with Putin and the war. You have to trust him. No,
Speaker 2: I'll practically everybody negotiate with you don't trust because in
Speaker 2: some deals you build in standards and sanctions and the
Speaker 2: rest of it, so trust has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: There are incentives and disincentives you jackass, right, But his
Speaker 2: only goal at O'Keefe is to try to present Trump
Speaker 2: his dumb or dufis or naive or whatever anyway. So
Speaker 2: another question, different journalist kind of gets to what the
Speaker 2: gift is that Iran gave us just the next clip
Speaker 2: fifty four red Flow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was related to the flow and to the strait.
Speaker 2: It was negotiating on who's going to control the straight from.
Speaker 4: Now on, we'll have control of anything we want. Look,
Speaker 4: if we can end this without more lives being done,
Speaker 4: without knocking out ten billion dollar electric plants at a
Speaker 4: brand new and the apple of their eye, I'd like
Speaker 4: to be able to do that, you know, but they
Speaker 4: can't have certain things.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know the things. I don't have to
Speaker 2: go over the list.
Speaker 4: But again it starts with no nuclear weapons and they've
Speaker 4: agreed to that.
Speaker 2: So Oran came out yesterday and said that non hostile vessels,
Speaker 2: including those belonging to are associated with other states countries,
Speaker 2: may may go through the Strait of horror moves. And
Speaker 2: then they also said that they are not negotiating with
Speaker 2: us because and here's the quote, our first and last
Speaker 2: word has been the same from day one, and it
Speaker 2: will stay that way. Someone like us will never come
Speaker 2: to terms with someone like you, not now, not ever.
Speaker 2: That's what Haran said, which leads you to this. Former
Speaker 2: CIA director John Brennan was on MS Now yesterday and
Speaker 2: asked about whether Trump says that we're negotiating, Iran says
Speaker 2: we're not, and the former CIA director said, well, I
Speaker 2: tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: which is just dandy. He ought to be in jail
Speaker 2: for perjury now. I realize Donald Trump once said I
Speaker 2: believe Russia over our intelligence. That was a horrible thing
Speaker 2: to say. He should have never said it, which we
Speaker 2: kicked him for it, kicked him that day for it
Speaker 2: because thats a terrible thing for Trump to say. But
Speaker 2: the former CIA director shouldn't go on cable news and
Speaker 2: say I believe Iran, Iran of all countries, I believe Iran,
Speaker 2: not the president. What is it? Where are we as
Speaker 2: a country now where that's the sort of conversations we have.
Speaker 2: That is a prostitute.
Speaker 5: He works for the network whipping up anti Trump fervor,
Speaker 5: and he will perform any act that will do that. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm going to betraying the truth betraying his vows, betraying
Speaker 5: his country.
Speaker 2: Well, and I'm sure their audience just loved it. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know exactly he's doing his job. Michael Clips sixty. Please,
Speaker 2: this is an Iranian American journalist.
Speaker 6: I would not believe that Ryanni regime, and never I
Speaker 6: have never in all the work I've ever done of
Speaker 6: their own regime, they do nothing but lie through their teeth.
Speaker 6: So I don't believe that when they say that there
Speaker 6: are no talks because they're supporters, which are twenty percent
Speaker 6: of the country, want to see the regime pummel the
Speaker 6: United States and Israel. So yeah, I believe talks are happening,
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 2: Think Trump is leaving.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brandon, shove that up your lion. Hind Anduida unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I hope I never become so partisan that I would
Speaker 2: root for in Iran or a Russia or a China
Speaker 2: over who's president because I don't like the president. I
Speaker 2: hope I never get that partisan. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you get that way, eh boy, Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 5: A couple of kind of counterintituitive pieces of journalism here
Speaker 5: an odd juxtaposition. This is from The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 5: the oil supply crunch is spreading from the Gulf to
Speaker 5: the rest of the world. For a glimpse of how
Speaker 5: much higher energy prices could still soar, look to beyond
Speaker 5: the West Texas Intermediate brand blah blah blah, at the
Speaker 5: center of the supply squeeze in the Middle East, traders
Speaker 5: are paying an eye watering one hundred and sixty dollars
Speaker 5: a barrel for the Emeradi oil that can dodge the
Speaker 5: Strait of horm moves far above those global benchmarks. And
Speaker 5: they make the point that because the world economy is
Speaker 5: interrelated and some of our allies use Gulf oil and
Speaker 5: and Asian countries blah blah blah fertilizer blah blah blah,
Speaker 5: that would be pretty expensive and the right it would be,
Speaker 5: but eye watering one hundred and sixty dollars a barrel.
Speaker 5: Now here's Brett Stevens, who is the token conservative in
Speaker 5: the New York Times editorial pages. Most Americans probably don't
Speaker 5: look back at March twenty twelve, if they remembered it
Speaker 5: at all. And I think of terrifyingly high gas prices
Speaker 5: in the month when the Hunger Games ruled the box
Speaker 5: office and President Barack Obama was on his way to
Speaker 5: a comfortable re election. The price of brint crude closed
Speaker 5: the month at around one hundred and twenty three dollars
Speaker 5: a barrel. That would be about one hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: five dollars a barrel in today's dollars, and as of Tuesday,
Speaker 5: despite around's effective closure of the state of Hormus and
Speaker 5: it's attack on neighbor's energy of facilities, it's hovering around
Speaker 5: one hundred dollars, slightly higher than the average inflation adjusted
Speaker 5: price since January of oh one, which is roughly ninety
Speaker 5: five dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as I mentioned the other day, one hundred bucks
Speaker 2: is about seventy nine in your pre pandemic numbers. So
Speaker 2: I don't understand any economics discussions that don't include numbers
Speaker 2: adgested for inflation. Their clickbait, their interest bait. Now, when
Speaker 2: you do it with a movie, box office or athlete salaries,
Speaker 2: this is the highest anybody's ever been paid to do this,
Speaker 2: or the most money a movie's ever made. Fine, go ahead,
Speaker 2: I mean, you're just trying to sell an entertainment product,
Speaker 2: but it's a lie. Also, you're not adjusting for inflation.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna do it around important statistics like
Speaker 2: the price of oil and whether or not we're gonna
Speaker 2: have a worldwide recession and that sort of stuff, come on,
Speaker 2: you're just you're not doing your job. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 5: I actually do remember that period, weirdly enough, because I
Speaker 5: decided to get into not day trading exactly, but individual
Speaker 5: stock trading. And I decided to get into the sector
Speaker 5: I was going to concentrate on was oil exploration stock,
Speaker 5: and gas prices just kept going up, or oil prices,
Speaker 5: I should say, just up, up, up, up up, And
Speaker 5: I was starting to think I was a genius. But
Speaker 5: I remember where those prices were because of those stocks,
Speaker 5: And yeah, we're energy has gotten significantly less expensive, way
Speaker 5: less expensive in general, other than at the moment.
Speaker 2: So yeah, again it's just clickbait. So oil is significantly
Speaker 2: less expensive than twenty twelve a year, you don't even remember,
Speaker 2: is anybody going to click on the following headline oil
Speaker 2: surges to slightly more expensive than average over the last
Speaker 2: twenty five years. No, nobody would click on that. Well,
Speaker 2: and then there's political advantages too, sure, so you got
Speaker 2: the media clickbait advantage. And then you've got the political advantages.
Speaker 2: Trump has gotten us into a terrible situation where bogged
Speaker 2: down and oil is so expensive.
Speaker 5: All right, this is my worst transition ever. These lying journalists.
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Speaker 2: We well you are die now I'm talking as well.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about baseball. Baseball starts tonight, but
Speaker 2: they got a new wrinkle. They got computers that are
Speaker 2: going to call balls and strikes sometimes.
Speaker 5: Interestingly, I have a brief note on how save metrics
Speaker 5: data is ruining basketball.
Speaker 2: Interesting also, Yeah, so stay tuned for all that and
Speaker 2: other things stick around.
Speaker 7: I wasn't expecting it. I was like, why is he
Speaker 7: coming out here? And he got on the mound and
Speaker 7: told me I made the Team's pretty cool. I mean honestly,
Speaker 7: I thought I was getting taken out of the game.
Speaker 7: I didn't know what was going on. Obviously, whenever the
Speaker 7: manager comes out are you're usually done. He just came
Speaker 7: up and told me I made the team, and everybody
Speaker 7: just said congrats. Caught me totally off guard. Went through
Speaker 7: a lot of hard times a few years ago. I
Speaker 7: never would have expected this. Looking back, I'm glad I
Speaker 7: kept my head down and kept hammering away.
Speaker 2: Pretty special. Wow, that had to be quite a moment.
Speaker 2: Then he struck out the last guy and he was done. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I saw the play by play when the manager came
Speaker 5: out in the infield came around and the manager walked
Speaker 5: up to the picture and like he said, any pitcher
Speaker 5: knows what to expect. And the manager said, hey, you
Speaker 5: made the opening opening day roster, and all of his
Speaker 5: teammates smiled big and clapped him on the back and
Speaker 5: all and he was trying to suppress you know, the
Speaker 5: biggest GrITT he's ever had in his life. Is really
Speaker 5: sweet moment, kind of a fun idea by the manager.
Speaker 2: Well, because we ruin everything is the way we do
Speaker 2: things ever since the TV era began in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: up until a few years ago, opening day men, every
Speaker 2: baseball team played and everybody who's rooting for the team,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of a kickoff of spring and
Speaker 2: it was kind of a cool thing. But of course
Speaker 2: we got to ruin stuff like that. So now the
Speaker 2: games come out drips and drabs to a certain extent.
Speaker 2: First game is tonight, Netflix first ever Netflix game Yankees
Speaker 2: at Giants. He got Aaron Judge playing eighty miles from
Speaker 2: where he grew up in Uba City or whatever. And
Speaker 2: then he got hometoime hero Logan Web who's also from
Speaker 2: northern California, as a picture for the Giants. Pretty cool,
Speaker 2: but it's a Netflix thing. If you don't have Netflix,
Speaker 2: you don't get to see the game, and it's the
Speaker 2: only game and whatever. More interesting thing is they're going
Speaker 2: to have computers calling balls and strikes if you ask
Speaker 2: for it. So you get a couple per game where
Speaker 2: you get to say, either the pitcher, the catcher or
Speaker 2: the batter can tap their helmet and say, wait a second,
Speaker 2: that wasn't a ball or it wasn't a strike. And
Speaker 2: then they go to the computer. First of all, are
Speaker 2: you in favor of that or not? I have really
Speaker 2: mixed like anything that slows down the game. I don't
Speaker 2: quite understand if they think the computer is more accurate.
Speaker 2: Why you didn't just leap to having the computer do
Speaker 2: all the pitches? What is that?
Speaker 5: Oh, there are all sorts of issues from bargaining agreements
Speaker 5: and unions to.
Speaker 2: Oh, it would just take too long. It's complicated. But
Speaker 2: doesn't that but from a making sense standpoint, aren't you
Speaker 2: just declaring by having the computers, the computers can get
Speaker 2: right all the time.
Speaker 5: We've just chosen not to. Part of it is it
Speaker 5: would so change the game. It would shock baseball fans
Speaker 5: to see how much change is the game for the
Speaker 5: weirdly unspoken strike zone to become the technical strike zone.
Speaker 5: Well here they don't want to do that all of
Speaker 5: a sudden.
Speaker 2: Here's what they learned, boy, in the strike zone thing
Speaker 2: I just heard I read about that. It's interesting. So
Speaker 2: rather than like chest to the knees or whatever you
Speaker 2: learned in the Little league, it's thirty two point four
Speaker 2: percent of your height and blah blah blah that the
Speaker 2: computer uses, but which obviously you couldn't calculate as a
Speaker 2: human being to that degree. One thing they found in preseason, though,
Speaker 2: is the catchers were right more often by far than
Speaker 2: the pictures of the batters, just because of the angle
Speaker 2: they have or whatever. So, yeah, batters and pictures challenging
Speaker 2: it didn't go as well as catchers, but it was
Speaker 2: just barely over fifty percent of the time that they
Speaker 2: the umpire got the call wrong. So there's two ways
Speaker 2: you could look at it. I was listening to NPR
Speaker 2: and they said, so, it didn't really make much difference,
Speaker 2: And I thought so half the time the umpire got
Speaker 2: it wrong. That sounds significant to me.
Speaker 5: Well, keep in mind, though, it is in the couple
Speaker 5: of times, one or two times per game, that the
Speaker 5: players believed it was the most egregious right miss call
Speaker 5: of the game. Half the time it was a strike
Speaker 5: or a ball.
Speaker 2: Half the time they got all right, but half the
Speaker 2: time they didn't. So I don't know. I would imagine
Speaker 2: it's going to grow from here. Over time, though, wouldn't
Speaker 2: you guess that it grows from twice a game to
Speaker 2: more often?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, I preferget.
Speaker 2: I don't like anything that slows down any games. I
Speaker 2: don't care if it's more accurate. I'm not one of
Speaker 2: those as long as they get the calls right. I
Speaker 2: don't take if it takes an hour of replay. I
Speaker 2: am not that person at all. I want the games
Speaker 2: to just go. And it was fine. I watched in
Speaker 2: my whole life. I enjoyed the games, and my life
Speaker 2: was not ruined by the occasional bad call. We yelled
Speaker 2: about the umps. It was part of it. Yeah, are
Speaker 2: the refs or whatever. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 2: how that works tonight. I would hate it as an empire.
Speaker 5: I think, uh yeah, well they do because their industry
Speaker 5: is going away. They'll just have to stand back there
Speaker 5: and assess whether it was a foul tip and whether
Speaker 5: somebody gets tagged out or forced out at the plate,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be a completely different line of work.
Speaker 2: Most of your other baseball teams play tomorrow. If you
Speaker 2: don't have Netflix, you don't get to watch the game tonight.
Speaker 2: That's going to make some people angry. Netflix only has
Speaker 2: three games the entire season, but they have the opening game.
Speaker 5: We're out of time to do the other NBA thing
Speaker 5: I was going to talk about, but maybe we can
Speaker 5: talk about that later, how data sabermetrics has kind of
Speaker 5: ruined the NBA squeeze that in later.
Speaker 2: Maybe fit that in with all kinds of prop betting
Speaker 2: that's going on that is a problem, including like government policy.
Speaker 2: That's really a problem. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: We turn out of a mystery in the oil markets
Speaker 8: and the suspicion that some people are getting very rich
Speaker 8: by trading on inside the information. In the minutes before
Speaker 8: President Trump's announcement Monday that the US would postpone strikes
Speaker 8: against Iranian energy targets, traders suddenly bet hundreds of millions
Speaker 8: of dollars on oil prices falling, which is exactly what
Speaker 8: they did.
Speaker 2: Huh. I'll be darned. So this happened, and it's getting
Speaker 2: surprisingly little attention, which I think is a problem. I
Speaker 2: think because the whole country feels the way I feel
Speaker 2: about it. Of Course, that happened, It's always happened, it's
Speaker 2: always gonna happen, and there's nothing I can do about it,
Speaker 2: which your both parties are doing it all the time,
Speaker 2: which really isn't good. That were that cynical and just
Speaker 2: accept the beating that we take from the rich and
Speaker 2: connected who somehow were alerted to the fact that Trump
Speaker 2: was about to go out and make an announcement that
Speaker 2: was going to make oil jump up. Here's Jill and
Speaker 2: CBS handled this in a very soft way. This is
Speaker 2: the new Berry Weiss CBS, where you don't just come
Speaker 2: out and call the president a liar or whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: like other networks do. Hasn't helped them in the yet,
Speaker 2: but anywhere. Here's Jill Sleschinger their business woman on CBS
Speaker 2: explaining how this how odd this is?
Speaker 1: Well, I think the most important thing in what stands
Speaker 1: out is that we saw a surge of trading activity.
Speaker 1: So if you look at this at six forty nine
Speaker 1: to six fifty one, there is this circle there that's
Speaker 1: a big jump up in activity. And then soon after
Speaker 1: we see the price of oil at the top and
Speaker 1: then it drops by ten percent literally in minutes fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes before this non public information.
Speaker 8: Is out, So somebody might have known something a little
Speaker 8: too early.
Speaker 1: It does appear that way, and why we care about
Speaker 1: this is that is not considered public information and someone
Speaker 1: seems to know it, and that's illegal, Tony. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the issue, is that this is essentially insider trading.
Speaker 2: That was a pretty gentle way of handling it, because
Speaker 2: it's obvious that there was insider training going on. Obviously.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a great story not long ago, and
Speaker 5: I referenced it a couple of times. I never really
Speaker 5: read anything the show, but the point of it was
Speaker 5: intelligence agencies around the world are watching the poly markets,
Speaker 5: prediction markets because politicians in every never I was saying,
Speaker 5: both parties are doing politicians in every country around the
Speaker 5: world are trading on insider information on these prediction markets,
Speaker 5: and the stock market is essentially a prediction market, so
Speaker 5: everybody's doing it everywhere, insider information. Blah blah blah. This
Speaker 5: is why you limit the size of government. But I've
Speaker 5: lost that fight, so I'm graciously accepting defeat.
Speaker 2: I think as a country that a lot of people
Speaker 2: are like I said, or where I am, you recognize that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: rich connected people get to do this. I don't get
Speaker 2: to do it. There's nothing I can do about it.
Speaker 2: If I dwell on it, I'll be less happy. So
Speaker 2: I think I'll just forget about it. That's very, very,
Speaker 2: very sane of you. Yes, I think. I mean it sucks.
Speaker 2: It sucks a lot, and I don't know how you'd
Speaker 2: ever get rid of it, because even if if you
Speaker 2: get like Elizabeth Warren's, people in Congress aren't allowed to
Speaker 2: trade stock, which I'm fine with. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's constitutional, but I'm fine with that or any stock
Speaker 2: with any committee that they're involved in that industry. Hold on,
Speaker 2: I'm about to sney.
Speaker 5: Oh oh oh, it's a soul trying to escape. According
Speaker 5: to Middle Ages popes.
Speaker 2: I got it. HPM RV or whatever it is that's
Speaker 2: going around MSRP. Even if you got Elizabeth Warren thing
Speaker 2: through where you can't trade on stocks as long as
Speaker 2: you're in Congress or whatever, you can't stop them from
Speaker 2: calling their wives or their husbands or their kids or
Speaker 2: where you're mean to be a pop for other than law. Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was thinking the Biden family really set a
Speaker 5: pace in their obvious you know, insider information dealing, influence pedaling,
Speaker 5: the rest of it. And I yelled about it like
Speaker 5: a lot of people did. The truth is the Trump
Speaker 5: family has taken is it doesn't do that per se,
Speaker 5: but they've made zillion dollars based on Hey Dad, what's
Speaker 5: gonna happen tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well yeah, and again everybody everywhere is doing this.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah that that that is. That is true. But on
Speaker 2: this one it was so much. It was so broad,
Speaker 2: I mean, and all these people minutes before he makes
Speaker 2: the announcement, all the trading going on, I mean, is
Speaker 2: very kind of Jill Sushionser and Tony Deakopa to act
Speaker 2: like it's an open question on what they're not. There's
Speaker 2: insider trading happening, and it's probably bipartisan it's probably spread
Speaker 2: out among all kinds of different people they got the
Speaker 2: tip on that. I'll tell you what, I'm a really
Speaker 2: honest guy. It'd be pretty damn hard if I knew
Speaker 2: there was about to be a giant announcement that's gonna
Speaker 2: affect this drug or that oil price or whatever electric
Speaker 2: vehicles and just keep it to myself. It'd be pretty
Speaker 2: hard to do, right, to not say to you know,
Speaker 2: tell you what, might I want to dump that ev
Speaker 2: stock we got before Tuesday? Just saying you do that too?
Speaker 5: Three times and they owe you an enormous favor and
Speaker 5: they pay back that favor someday. So it's like we
Speaker 5: were talking about the Epstein network. People are obsessed with
Speaker 5: the sex stuff. It was an insider trading network and
Speaker 5: the guy at the center of it happened to be
Speaker 5: a PERV. Yeah I know, yeah, well born into the
Speaker 5: wrong family, stupid working class.
Speaker 2: I really don't know that there's anything you can do
Speaker 2: about this. Try to keep it to as much of
Speaker 2: a minimum as you can.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, Why did you set up a
Speaker 5: rule and then give me thirty seconds to get around it?
Speaker 2: Right? I don't know if this is policeable in any
Speaker 2: meaningful way. Maybe just maybe the best you can do
Speaker 2: is have the news do what they did. We're aware
Speaker 2: of this. Just let you know we're aware of it.
Speaker 2: Sit well, and the Wall Street Titans are like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't care. But I just don't get too greedy,
Speaker 2: I guess, or don't push it too far. Don't think
Speaker 2: we're not paying any attention. I guess that's all you
Speaker 2: can do. Yeah, yeah, A final note from me.
Speaker 5: I am, as you know, a huge fan of the
Speaker 5: free market, and I despise capitalism or communism, socialism, so
Speaker 5: much of this sort of thing that is decried. As
Speaker 5: you see, this is the problem with capitalism. This is
Speaker 5: crony capitalism. It's the opposite of a free market with
Speaker 5: the free flow of information. It's the very very powerful
Speaker 5: who have a serious role in business. It's the government
Speaker 5: business nexus. That's where things get perverse.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know how that information got out so
Speaker 2: Trump knows he's going to go out and give that speech.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be a whole lot of other people that know that, though,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think. Well, it's like the uh, well, it's
Speaker 2: like any viral phenomenon, including word of mouth recommendation, I
Speaker 2: have three people on going to call. They each have
Speaker 2: three people they're trying to call, etc. Yeah. So if
Speaker 2: you had Marco Rubio's crowd, Pete Hegza's crowd, Trump's crowd,
Speaker 2: and all the staff involved, that'd probably be three figures
Speaker 2: at least. Right, did the Gang of Eight get briefed
Speaker 2: on this? Yeah? There you go. Now you're up to
Speaker 2: several hundred people with the staffers that would be aware
Speaker 2: of it, each of whom has friends. And you're some
Speaker 2: staffer making I don't know, sixty five thousand dollars a
Speaker 2: year make working eighty hours a week for Mike Johnson
Speaker 2: and you find out that this is going to happen.
Speaker 5: And you're worth three point eight million dollars in your salary. Yeah, gee,
Speaker 5: what's going on there? And they must be a real savior.
Speaker 5: They strengthened, They say, its very admirable, the real savor.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that happened and it will continue to happen for
Speaker 2: all of eternity and everyone knows it. That's right. Marjorie
Speaker 2: Taylor Green Margie Well, that discouraged me, that sat my
Speaker 2: will to live, was that your purpose was that what
Speaker 2: you were trying to do it wasn't actually, because like
Speaker 2: I said, I think we've all just made our peace
Speaker 2: with it. Yeah, the connected get to do this and
Speaker 2: I don't. And Bengo, thanks Michael, I lived to my spirits.
Speaker 2: That was good. Ah the old man. Don't we all
Speaker 2: miss Joe Biden. But that's how you get care, that's
Speaker 2: how you get there. Like Joe Biden, I wonder how
Speaker 2: long he was in DC before he started doing that,
Speaker 2: before he looked around and said, what, thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of people are taking advantage of the system we have
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to in a way that can
Speaker 2: help my family for all of eternity. I'd be a schmuck,
Speaker 2: is probably what you come to convince yourself. Uh huh. Yeah,
Speaker 2: your buddy at the Department of Labor, Hey, us Steel's
Speaker 2: gonna lay off like fifteen thousand people whoo to make
Speaker 2: a trade.
Speaker 5: Right over and over and over again. Or your brother
Speaker 5: in law does it for you or what have you.
Speaker 2: So I was listened to the Dispatch podcast the other
Speaker 2: day and they started with talking about sports gambling around
Speaker 2: March Madness really and just how much of it is
Speaker 2: done and how it has affected sports because we've got
Speaker 2: the stories from the last couple of years of major
Speaker 2: league pictures throwing the balls trade into the ground, or
Speaker 2: college basketball players, you know, shooting a free thrown that
Speaker 2: goes over the backboard or whatever because they were involved
Speaker 2: in some of the trading. But there are all these
Speaker 2: prop bets now on like governmental policy that you can
Speaker 2: get involved in. Will Maduro be removed from office, or
Speaker 2: will we attack Iran or stuff like that. And there's
Speaker 2: the real concern that if you can find a picture
Speaker 2: who's willing to throw a baseball straight into the ground
Speaker 2: because he's on the hook for some gambling debts, you're
Speaker 2: not going to find some buddy in government who influences
Speaker 2: policy direction or the other because of betting right almost
Speaker 2: certainly guaranteed to happen. Came across the.
Speaker 5: Report that there's this small time journalist, I think he's
Speaker 5: based in Israel whose job was just to do the
Speaker 5: little column on where a missile hit or whatever. And
Speaker 5: and he there's an Iranian missile that got through and
Speaker 5: caused like very minor damage in some town, and he
Speaker 5: wrote up the little report, you know, page fourteen c
Speaker 5: of the newspaper. He started getting death threats and offers
Speaker 5: of bribes and we will ruin yous.
Speaker 2: And blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Because some of the betting markets, the prediction markets, had
Speaker 5: bets of whether there would be any missile strike that
Speaker 5: got through in Israel on that day. Who knew you
Speaker 5: could bet it on freaking anything these days you can.
Speaker 5: So they were threatening his family, They were hitting him
Speaker 5: with I know where your kids go to school, saying
Speaker 5: you've got to retract that report and say it was
Speaker 5: an error.
Speaker 2: And so the question is is there anything that can
Speaker 2: be done about this now that they're betting on everything?
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was that specific bets on will
Speaker 2: any missiles get through to Tel Aviv tonight? You can
Speaker 2: bet on that. And then, of course the problem being
Speaker 2: at some point, does it sway people's decisions or do
Speaker 2: you you know I'm the guy who makes the decision. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I might as well make some money off of this.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to bet heavily and then fire the
Speaker 2: missile off at seven pm. That sort of thing that's inevitable,
Speaker 2: isn't it? Yeah? In one form or another? Yeah? Can
Speaker 2: anything be done about that? Pairaback legal gambling? No, this
Speaker 2: didn't exist before? Or is this all because the Internet exists. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a huge part of it. That is absolutely the
Speaker 2: catalyst for so much evil.
Speaker 5: I stick by my assessment that this ape has gotten
Speaker 5: too smart for its own good, and we'll bring itself
Speaker 5: to ruin.
Speaker 2: You say that I was bringing people down. You end
Speaker 2: the segment with we are bringing ourselves to ruin.
Speaker 5: It's inevitable. Okay, humanity is on the way out. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm at peace. I'm an old guy.
Speaker 2: There is no good luck. There's no other radio show,
Speaker 2: TV show or podcasts that talks this way. Oh that's true.
Speaker 2: I'm strong. Oh oh oh, the most depressing radio show
Speaker 2: there's There's nobody offering this product anywhere. I guess that
Speaker 2: makes us unique. We've got our own niche market. Oh yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey do you listen to that show that brings down
Speaker 2: every single damn day? Oh?
Speaker 5: I love them? Coming up yoga trend or parody. In
Speaker 5: recent days, we've brought you snake Yoga, Legit, Portland, sword
Speaker 5: Yoga in New York. I will present a new yoga trend.
Speaker 5: Is it real or parody? It's getting harder and harder
Speaker 5: to tell.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we could possibly know that. And
Speaker 2: other stuff on the way Armstrong, Hetty. Here is Katie
Speaker 2: Green to set up what we are about to hear.
Speaker 3: So, this guy is standing at a crosswalk and is
Speaker 3: approached by a Mingo food delivery robot, which proceeds to
Speaker 3: ask him to hit the crosswalk button for him.
Speaker 2: All right, huh, hello, what do you want? What do
Speaker 2: you want? You want me to press the button for you?
Speaker 2: You want me to press the button for your Mingo?
Speaker 8: You press it yourself, and you took a human job
Speaker 8: and you want me.
Speaker 2: To press the button for you. No, hello, cu excuse you,
Speaker 2: you excuse you. I'm oppressing nothing. You press it, go yourself.
Speaker 2: The relationship between human and artificial intelligence, rocky.
Speaker 3: And then he and then he crosses the street and
Speaker 3: just leaves the robot there.
Speaker 2: He goes the other way.
Speaker 5: These intentions clear, i'd say, angrily shouting obscenities. It a
Speaker 5: robot is proof that you need to relax. Perhaps you
Speaker 5: should consider yoga. Now, Katie, you're part of the committee.
Speaker 5: This is you will vote okay. This is Joe Getty's
Speaker 5: yoga trend or parody. I used to be a mess.
Speaker 5: I'm reading from a woman's account. What's her name?
Speaker 2: Elena High?
Speaker 5: Stress, corporate job, endless deadlines, a diet consisting of sad
Speaker 5: desk salads and existential dread. My body ache, my mind raised,
Speaker 5: my soul felt as empty as the gluten free bread isle.
Speaker 5: Then when ordinary Tuesday, while stress eating a turkey club
Speaker 5: in my kitchen, I accidentally struck something that was similar
Speaker 5: to the tree pose while reaching for the mustard. Blah
Speaker 5: blah blah, I had discovered sandwich yoga. What is sandwich yoga.
Speaker 5: It's the mindful practice of combining ancient yoga postures with
Speaker 5: the sacred act of holding and eventually eating a sandwich.
Speaker 5: The core philosophy is life is a sandwich, a delicious,
Speaker 5: layered experience best savored one mindful bite at a time.
Speaker 5: And the virtues of sandwich yoga include balance in every layer,
Speaker 5: mindful consumption, stress, release with zero equipment, and community and
Speaker 5: connection because we encourage people to get together and do
Speaker 5: this with each other. Actual yoga trend or parody.
Speaker 2: It's hard to say life is a sandwich is a
Speaker 2: pretty good line. Balance in every layer, that's right. The
Speaker 2: virtues of sandwich yoga Life is a sandwich, jack layer.
Speaker 2: Make your pronounce not a turd sandwich. I really have
Speaker 2: no idea it'd be a coin flip. It could be gating.
Speaker 2: I mean so silly now that anything's on the table,
Speaker 2: I'm going there.
Speaker 5: Past week, we've brought you a sword yoga and snake yoga. Michael,
Speaker 5: i'mtsa say real, Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have precisely
Speaker 5: one reel, one parody, and one coin flip.
Speaker 2: Not very helpful. I believe it.
Speaker 5: Gets thrown to the House of Representatives in the and
Speaker 5: the VP breaks the tie or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's parody, Okay, I was gonna say clearly, but
Speaker 2: not clearly it's not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are at least half a dozen things I
Speaker 5: can think of off the top of my head in
Speaker 5: which it is impossible to launch a parody. There was
Speaker 5: a rally in Brooklyn yesterday for dot dot Dom. Can
Speaker 5: you come up with something so outlandish?
Speaker 2: It's clearly not true. The latest TikTok trend.
Speaker 5: Is oh yeah, yeah, Hamadic Socialists of America are in
Speaker 5: favor of dot dot dot.
Speaker 2: Young people are hammering tax between their toes to I'm
Speaker 2: calling bs on that because young people are so soft.
Speaker 2: Oh boy called the toe tac challenge, a sixteen year
Speaker 2: old died in Pennsylvania. Parents are outraged and blah blah.
Speaker 2: Traditional yoga the hammer ring. Traditional yoga teaches balance. Sandwich
Speaker 2: yoga demands it.
Speaker 5: Try holding a fully loaded BLT in mountain pos without
Speaker 5: dropping the tomato. It builds core strength, focus, and deep
Speaker 5: appreciation for structural integrity.
Speaker 2: There you go. I had a BLT yesterday and I
Speaker 2: was reminded that I had my first BLT maybe ten
Speaker 2: years ago. I was in my fifties. First time I
Speaker 2: ever tried a belt, they always sounded gross to me,
Speaker 2: and then the first time I ever tried when I
Speaker 2: was like, Wow, this is fantastic. And I've had thousands
Speaker 2: of them since.
Speaker 3: Jack, You're amazing.
Speaker 2: You are constantly mystifying. I just always thought this out
Speaker 2: a terrible and had never taken a bite until I did,
Speaker 2: and I was like, wow, this is great. All right.
Speaker 2: Well the Humble Turkey on Rye next hour. Stay with
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