Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jettie
Speaker 1: and he arms range the drum studio. Ce see signors
Speaker 1: a dimly lit room deep with them the bowels of
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, Today Friday,
Speaker 1: heading into a summer weekend. We're under the tutelage of
Speaker 1: our general manager. The World's Funniest Baby. Okay, figure, it's Friday,
Speaker 1: We'll keep it light, the World's Funniest Baby. Kiss. News
Speaker 1: has reached me that Eddie Murphy's son has Mary Martin
Speaker 1: Lawrence's daughter Martin. They should decide to start a family.
Speaker 1: I believe the child resulting from the union will be
Speaker 1: the world's funniest baby. It's pronounced Martin, but yes, it
Speaker 1: will be a very funny child. Now, whether the infant
Speaker 1: hues toward Eddie Murphy's more intellectual, cynical brand of humor
Speaker 1: or Martin Lawrence is more mad cap faux idiot style
Speaker 1: science has yet to determine. Now, Martin Lawrence Sitcom was funny.
Speaker 1: I loved that show. That was really good. Yes, yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: funny people see those two kids.
Speaker 2: Luck Uh jeez, look at the list of news items
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 1: That's another reason I went with that GM. I just can't.
Speaker 2: The cure Closer to You. That's what I listened to
Speaker 2: on the way to work today. On Fridays, I listen
Speaker 2: to music instead of news. For some reason, I like
Speaker 2: your style and I went with Heartbreak today. So anyway,
Speaker 2: it sounded good in my car, but I don't know
Speaker 2: if it be in the proper mood all for the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a hot shower before you jump in
Speaker 1: a cold pool. It's so good, but it's probably not
Speaker 1: the right way to go. Uh yeah. There are a
Speaker 1: couple of cure songs, a lot of classic rock, and
Speaker 1: I think you have to include new wave stuff in
Speaker 1: that description. These pictures, did I stay closer to you?
Speaker 1: Pictures of you? You did? Pictures of You like their
Speaker 1: biggest hit seven minutes long Drinking, Yes, plenty long enough.
Speaker 1: There are a number of cure songs I cannot get
Speaker 1: tired of. Oh that's a good tune. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are plenty of classic rock songs. If I never hear
Speaker 1: them again till the day I die. If you told
Speaker 1: me that, Joe, you will never hear you know, song acts.
Speaker 1: I would say, Oh, that's fine.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: So are they a group that has gotten like back
Speaker 2: together to make the like we go around and play
Speaker 2: our greatest hits and make a bunch of money things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they have done that. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: them and great shows too. Oh I would like to
Speaker 1: see that. Yeah, AnyWho, and I love Robert Smith. They're
Speaker 1: bill lipsticked, haggard looking lead singer who famously Michael, if
Speaker 1: you can find this Cliff when he showed up was
Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and the
Speaker 1: reporter at chirped, are you as excited as I am?
Speaker 1: And he looked at her and said, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Essentially, I will say, as an amateur want to be
Speaker 2: musician who was attempting to write a song yesterday, any
Speaker 2: individual or band that can create a sound that is unique,
Speaker 2: like you hear it and you know who it is immediately.
Speaker 2: It's amazing with with you know everything that has been tried.
Speaker 2: If you can come up with a sound as a
Speaker 2: guitar player, singer, band, whatever, because of you know, all
Speaker 2: the different elements that is like, oh, well, that's clearly
Speaker 2: them or another band sounds like you. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: incredible that you can do that. I mean, that's some
Speaker 2: real art. I would agree to pull that off in
Speaker 2: the modern world.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, congratulations the Cure Rock and Roll Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame inductee twenty nineteen. Are you as excited as I am?
Speaker 1: But it sounds of but no, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: almost spin out my coffee colarious more people say need
Speaker 1: to say that to newscasters. You know, I've got probably
Speaker 1: the perfect sort of follow up to that kind of
Speaker 1: attitude that goes with our opening clips. So we should
Speaker 1: start the show officially. I was just gonna say, that
Speaker 1: is such an a andng thing to say, right, that
Speaker 1: is so us.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm gonna do one of my classic against
Speaker 2: the Tide rants about a feel good story.
Speaker 1: Well those are phrase yesterday, stomping the joy out of
Speaker 1: life Armstrong and Getty right, I'm about to, So let's
Speaker 1: start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Friday,
Speaker 2: summer May thirtieth year, twenty twenty five, where I'm strong
Speaker 2: in getting.
Speaker 1: Approve of this program. Let's get stomping. According to FCC
Speaker 1: rules and Regulations. The show starts at mark your word
Speaker 1: is a clar cy small A clar small e C
Speaker 1: l A I R c I S S M E
Speaker 1: n T because that is correct? Is this the n
Speaker 1: spell beat? So uh?
Speaker 2: The yearly script spelling Bee, and every news show in
Speaker 2: America or show of any kind is opening with that clip.
Speaker 2: And everyone that I've seen so far, the hosts similar
Speaker 2: to that woman at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: It's just so happy and giddy about it. Oh that's
Speaker 1: so sweet and special and blah blah blah, and I
Speaker 1: every year I say this.
Speaker 2: Watch the documentary spell Bound. It won an Oscar. It
Speaker 2: was all about this sort of thing. The kids were miserable,
Speaker 2: the parents were miserable. Many of them go on to
Speaker 2: have arable lives.
Speaker 1: They wait. They spend their entire summers not playing or
Speaker 1: having boyfriends or girlfriends, or doing anything or learning something
Speaker 1: useful or learning anything else that could make you a living.
Speaker 1: They study spelling like fifteen hours a day. It's like
Speaker 1: a weird OCD obsession that they either have or forced into.
Speaker 1: I didn't go with slavery. It's so great. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why. That isn't better known. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like just my own cranky opinion. Watch that documentary
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't walk away from that documentary thinking, oh, that's cute.
Speaker 2: I want my kid to study spelling words eighteen hours
Speaker 2: a day. Oh the babbling simpleton heard running morons of media.
Speaker 2: You can't have enough contempt for them. And I always think,
Speaker 2: you know, neither one of my kids is like this.
Speaker 2: But if my kid wanted to do that, I really
Speaker 2: think I would.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't like force them to stop, but I would
Speaker 2: have a conversation of is sure you want to put
Speaker 2: all your eggs in the basket of spelling?
Speaker 1: Right? It's just it's a bizarre mutation of what was
Speaker 1: a lovely idea. Hey, we'll have these little contests because
Speaker 1: spelling is important, and sure the kids can be proud
Speaker 1: of how well they do. And here's an incentive for
Speaker 1: them to learn to spell. Because it's a bit.
Speaker 2: Of a dry pursuit and in school it's words you
Speaker 2: come across regularly in life that you need to be
Speaker 2: able to spell.
Speaker 1: To write.
Speaker 2: Makes perfect sense. They turned it into this weird you
Speaker 2: memorize a bunch of words nobody's ever heard.
Speaker 1: Of from from from the world of Arcania.
Speaker 2: I mean, just nobody's ever going to use or have
Speaker 2: heard of you memorize these, It's it's a trivia contest, really, yeah,
Speaker 2: or or just a deep, deep, deep dive into etymology
Speaker 2: and destruction of rods and rice ands that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: which is fine as far as it goes. But it
Speaker 2: reminds me of you know, the guy who sets the
Speaker 2: world record for bouncing on a pogo stick. He bounced
Speaker 2: a million times on a pogo stick. No, that's supposed
Speaker 2: to be a fun to that you get a little exercise.
Speaker 2: There is absolutely no use.
Speaker 1: There's no purpose in jumping up and down on a
Speaker 1: pogo stick for twenty seven straight hours. None. It's a mania.
Speaker 1: It's a mental condition.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, and the kids are cute and everything
Speaker 2: like that, and good for them and everything. But you know,
Speaker 2: while again watch the documentary, it's not just my old
Speaker 2: man cranky opinion. What's the furthest you ever gotten a
Speaker 2: spelling bee?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know, fairly far, like the school
Speaker 1: championship or something. I can't remember. I remember doing pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd easily like I busted my ass to study. No,
Speaker 1: I just a pretty good spell.
Speaker 2: I definitely did not I would I was usually in
Speaker 2: the top quarter that would go out or something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, Michael about like that top quarter.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, respectable. There are uh do they still
Speaker 2: do spelling bees.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they do. I think of
Speaker 1: my kids' school, and this sounds very modern. It's uh
Speaker 1: because everybody had to participate. It wasn't like an option.
Speaker 2: Everybody stood up and did the spelling be But now
Speaker 2: it's a few people who are into it do it
Speaker 2: because probably they don't want to make kids who can't
Speaker 2: spell feel bad, because that's what we do everything.
Speaker 1: We we we you know, we don't want anybody to
Speaker 1: It's very important exactly and this is going to shock you.
Speaker 1: Kid's got an Indian name. They won the spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every damn kid I saw on the highlights was a
Speaker 1: South Asian extraction, every single one.
Speaker 2: And I think every kid featured in the documentary.
Speaker 1: There is Indian American kids compelled to study spelling words
Speaker 1: all day long. That's what the name of the show autim.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm amazed by the various countries India being one
Speaker 2: of them that their culture is such they come here
Speaker 2: and they absolutely bust ass and are incredibly successful. I
Speaker 2: know several adults that way. But the spelling Bee particular
Speaker 2: of it is odd.
Speaker 1: It is an extension of a cultural norm in which
Speaker 1: you will work as hard as it takes to be
Speaker 1: successful and you will not complain, which is unquestionably what
Speaker 1: is uh you know, propelled so many Indian Americans to
Speaker 1: great success in this country. I mean, to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: it's to be admired. I mean clearly Asian American folks
Speaker 1: do of all of all sorts. Just it's a cultural norm. Well,
Speaker 1: I think if it, if it gets taken to a
Speaker 1: ridiculous extreme like this, it's it's not to be admired
Speaker 1: at all. But you know, at its base it's it's
Speaker 1: it's good. We remember when COVID hit and businesses were
Speaker 1: being closed down in this stat made the rounds. I
Speaker 1: think it came out of the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: Various businesses that had money on hand to be able
Speaker 2: to survive two or three months being shut down, and
Speaker 2: like Asian and Indian owners had the most money saved
Speaker 2: up for a rainy day to be able to weather it.
Speaker 2: Way more than anybody else, which is just smart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: whether you can smell spell smart in some sort of
Speaker 2: weird way or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, so uh interesting. One more final note,
Speaker 1: and it's I don't think it's old man yells at clouds.
Speaker 1: I think it has more to do with my great
Speaker 1: philosophy of society. Culture is like a stream or a
Speaker 1: river with a current, and that current is not determined
Speaker 1: by what's best for you. It's frequently determined by what
Speaker 1: will make Mark Zuckerberg the most money. For instance, having
Speaker 1: you doom scroll endlessly, everybody's doing it around you. You're
Speaker 1: constantly staring at your phone. You've forgotten what it's like
Speaker 1: to be alone with your own thoughts. There's no question
Speaker 1: that that's not good for you, but everybody does it
Speaker 1: because that is the cultural current. One of the cultural
Speaker 1: currents that's unmistakable, you know, having lived as long as
Speaker 1: I have at this point in human history, is the
Speaker 1: professionalization of childhood pursuits. Yeah, and the spelling bee is
Speaker 1: a good I mean like baseball. You know, when I
Speaker 1: was playing baseball in the seventies and eighties, we played
Speaker 1: because we loved to play baseball, or maybe your dad
Speaker 1: was a ballplayer and he really wanted you to play,
Speaker 1: but you weren't very good and you dropped out eventually.
Speaker 1: But if you really really cared about baseball, you got
Speaker 1: really good at it because it's fun to win and achieve.
Speaker 1: And then at the end you're there. You are eighteen
Speaker 1: years old, somebody says, you know, you're a really really
Speaker 1: good baseball player, you want to play in college, and
Speaker 1: be like, yes, yes I would as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: as opposed to now, from the time you're six blanking
Speaker 1: years old, you're on this industrial pipeline, this professionalized you know,
Speaker 1: production system for producing college baseball players. The cart is
Speaker 1: in front of the horse, in my opinion, in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways has to do with fame and force.
Speaker 1: And I'm a big fan of fortune, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: But again, understand, when you're swimming because you want to
Speaker 1: swim that way, and when you're being swept up in
Speaker 1: the current, it can get a little philosophized, it can
Speaker 1: get a little spelling bsque. I have seen that although
Speaker 1: there is professional league for baseball, there is not for spelling.
Speaker 1: There's no Triple A, Single A or professional The big
Speaker 1: league's the show you made it to the show for
Speaker 1: the best center fielder in the world. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get why you killed yourself to get there. A
Speaker 1: speller in the world. We got head I expect to
Speaker 1: see you at the end of a bar, drunk and
Speaker 1: miserable on about twenty years, reminding us constantly that you
Speaker 1: want the spelling bee. We got headlines, we got clips
Speaker 1: of the week, we got all kinds of stuff. To
Speaker 1: stay here.
Speaker 2: A little bit later in the show, the ongoing conversation
Speaker 2: about AI and how it's either going to be not
Speaker 2: near as big a deal as some people claim, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be every bit as big a deal as some
Speaker 2: people claim, and you should pay attention.
Speaker 1: Well, at least those people with diametrically opposed opinions aren't
Speaker 1: the guys developing the thing. Oh that's right, they are.
Speaker 1: We didn't mention the biggest headline of all, but I
Speaker 1: assume you've heard it already. The tariffs are back on.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we led with the hair. The tariffs are off.
Speaker 1: Now it's back. The tariffs are back on.
Speaker 2: Peel's court jumps in temporarily pausing the ruling from the
Speaker 2: Trade court that found them illegal.
Speaker 1: So here we are. If I was a business person,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do. Oh no, No,
Speaker 1: it's absolute chaos. Appeals Court just said, now we're not
Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna stop them until we fully consider
Speaker 1: the question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a reversal, it's just a delay, not
Speaker 2: to disrupt the headlines completely. But I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Turley, you know, who is a Lean's foxy and
Speaker 2: trumpy and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Law professor.
Speaker 2: He thought the ruling by the Trade Court was absolutely
Speaker 2: and that the president doesn't have the emergency authority to
Speaker 2: do those sort of things, and thought that the appeals
Speaker 2: Court stepping in and staying this is a good idea
Speaker 2: because it needs to get the full looking at. And
Speaker 2: he also thinks Congress should jump in and take care of.
Speaker 1: This right now. Sure, I'll make a bet on that
Speaker 1: if you want to. I have not found a single
Speaker 1: commentator who I respect, whether trumpy or less so, who
Speaker 1: has said, no, they got it wrong. The president should
Speaker 1: be able to do this. Nobody, virtually, nobody thinks that
Speaker 1: except jd. Vance was making a silly argument. More on
Speaker 1: that later. And yes, we ought to have better trade
Speaker 1: relationships around the world. And I hope Trump can accomplish that.
Speaker 1: This just isn't the way to get there. We're down
Speaker 1: to two minutes already. Yes, we broke very very late.
Speaker 1: I blame you, oh Cramp. It was me rambling.
Speaker 2: I was looking at a bunch of different headlines from
Speaker 2: different sources. I find it very interesting that this ceasefire
Speaker 2: thing is exactly the same as all the other ceasefires,
Speaker 2: this one talking about not Ukraine and Russia, but this
Speaker 2: one being the Hamas and Israel. The US has broken
Speaker 2: it with the help of Egypt and Katar. Everybody's signed
Speaker 2: on it to US, US, Egypt, Qatar, Israel. Guess who's
Speaker 2: not Hamas. They're not happy with it. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a big update on Hamas and is Israel.
Speaker 1: But Hamas is saying no, this doesn't end the conflict. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna end it until we have crushed you,
Speaker 1: Saith Israel.
Speaker 2: Another court wing in story Trump's administration's ban on international
Speaker 2: students at Harvard blocked by a federal judge. Have some
Speaker 2: interesting statistics on judges stepping in and stopping what presidents
Speaker 2: want to do that might surprise you.
Speaker 1: We can get to later. Speaking of judges, how about
Speaker 1: the soups the Supreme Court ruling eight to zero that
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna summarize this very briefly. The whole environmental
Speaker 1: impact review thing has gotten completely out of control, and
Speaker 1: that these obscure organizations and boards and stuff are wielding
Speaker 1: way too much power. Had to do with a effort
Speaker 1: to build an eighty eight mile railway construction proposal in Utah.
Speaker 1: They put out a thousands of pages long environmental review.
Speaker 1: Then some boards said no, you haven't really reviewed it enough.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court eight zero said, all right, we got to
Speaker 1: rein this in So a whole bunch of money got
Speaker 1: paid in tariffs, like tens of billions of dollars. If
Speaker 1: it turns out it was illegal, what happens to that money?
Speaker 1: That is an interesting question. Do you get some back?
Speaker 1: Stay good for that? Armstrong and Getty. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 2: You know what Russell Brand's got working against him is
Speaker 2: he looks like a rapist? Oh boy, I don't know
Speaker 2: that he is. But you know how usually when you
Speaker 2: go to trial for something, they like clean you up
Speaker 2: in certain ways to make you look less like the
Speaker 2: sort of person that would do that.
Speaker 1: Sure, he seems to be going the other direction for
Speaker 1: some reason. Really. Yeah, he's a strange individual, no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Remember, if you're a long time listener at the Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty show, you remember years ago, I think it
Speaker 2: was because of the Olympics run or something like that,
Speaker 2: I ran the one hundred meter dash out in the
Speaker 2: parking lot. I ran a twelve nine hundred meter dash
Speaker 2: in work boots.
Speaker 1: Completely illegitimate.
Speaker 2: Again anyway, against a college mascot and a cheerleader or something.
Speaker 1: That's correct. That's correct. Yeah, the video still exists somewhere
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2: But I just thought of another athletic event I would
Speaker 2: like to try, which I'll explain after all. Feature you're
Speaker 2: leaving out the fact that I kicked a thirty five
Speaker 2: year field.
Speaker 1: Goal, which was really cool. After the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: missed a really important field goal, JO said I could
Speaker 1: do that, and he did. We went to a football field.
Speaker 1: He did. Couldn't anymore, but it was back in the day. Jack.
Speaker 1: Hey all, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond
Speaker 1: look back of the week. That was it's cow clips
Speaker 1: of the week. But in this moment, this morning, mock
Speaker 1: Strato Frappucino Whips of the Week. Video of President McCool
Speaker 1: and his wife Regitte pushing his face is going viral.
Speaker 1: It's a gaugeous peace did lose their stay away loser?
Speaker 1: It is lit sheep say LIPA power can change the
Speaker 1: definition of the words we use to describe reality. So
Speaker 1: you just said I will give a good afternoon. Really
Speaker 1: it's the afternoon. I identify as it always being the morning.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about, Yeah, get dressed.
Speaker 4: We're going to kill kid Cuddy Clarkord called combstailing her,
Speaker 4: but the rapper wasn't home at the time.
Speaker 1: And prosecutor say that John Wells proceeded to essentially torture him,
Speaker 1: demanding that he give up his bigcoin password. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lay down. I'm not get in the baid. I
Speaker 1: just want to call it, tell you good night. Mostly
Speaker 1: during why are you a good squirrel? Squirrel? Where squirrel
Speaker 1: elon musk rule as a special government employee coming to
Speaker 1: an end. I think it both can be can be
Speaker 1: can be big, or it can be beautiful, But I
Speaker 1: don't know if it could be both. Republicans on the
Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee are ready in subpoenas. We want to
Speaker 1: ask them, who gave you the authority to use Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's signature. We never got somebody that said we should
Speaker 1: never have done this. I can't believe we did it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gradations of honesty.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It looks as though the war in Gaza is raging
Speaker 1: on a level that we haven't seen. Present posting on
Speaker 1: truth Social that he may take quote three billion dollars
Speaker 1: of grant money away from fairy anti Semitic Harvard.
Speaker 4: The staggering setback for President Trump's aggressive trade agenda. The
Speaker 4: White House rebuking the court, saying it is not for
Speaker 4: unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.
Speaker 1: I've known him a long time, and something happened to
Speaker 1: this guy, and I don't like it. I don't think
Speaker 1: Putin has changed. I don't know what the President's talking about.
Speaker 1: Negitive rites. I only know of one really bad thing,
Speaker 1: World War three. I think this four is about to
Speaker 1: get a lot dirtier. Is it better to shower in
Speaker 1: the morning or at night? According to science? Tell you what,
Speaker 1: there's a fire burglary. I throw my shoes on, which
Speaker 1: are right next to the bed, next to my gun,
Speaker 1: my eyeglasses, and I'm ready to go. Some nights I
Speaker 1: sleep in a tracksuit and I think, you know, there
Speaker 1: could be action tonight.
Speaker 2: A couple of things I'm reminded of from the clips
Speaker 2: of the week. One, Scott Pelley is the most pompous
Speaker 2: human being on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: Yes, and pompousness to actual wisdom ratio is off the
Speaker 1: chart because he is a jackass.
Speaker 2: Also, that story about the crypto guy being tortured for
Speaker 2: two weeks by another already insanely rich crypto guy. Two
Speaker 2: NYPD police officers being questioned in that that were.
Speaker 1: Involved in driving the guy.
Speaker 2: One of them drove the guy to the house, and
Speaker 2: another guy stood watch. It's not known yet whether they
Speaker 2: had any idea what they were doing. But you got
Speaker 2: people with one hundred million dollars, they can throw around
Speaker 2: a lot of cash.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You hit most people with a
Speaker 1: seven figure offer, and many of their I would never
Speaker 1: fall away. Oh yeah, a million dollars not not impossible.
Speaker 1: There's a list of things I wouldn't do for say,
Speaker 1: five million dollars. But it's short. Would I participate in
Speaker 1: the torture of a crypto executive? Probably not. I'd like
Speaker 1: to get to know him. Maybe he's a bad gush
Speaker 1: most certainly not. I'm sorry. Did you say seven million?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Uh, ature's large sums of money. Interesting tariff thing for you.
Speaker 2: But the sporting event that I think I would like
Speaker 2: to do so Donald Trump is threatening to pull federal
Speaker 2: funding out of California's schools because of this transgender this
Speaker 2: boy who won the triple jump in the girls' high
Speaker 2: school meet, and the long jump, and I think maybe
Speaker 2: one other event I would like to try the well done,
Speaker 2: sir by the way, well done. I would like to
Speaker 2: go out in the parking lot try to do the
Speaker 2: triple jump and see if I could do better than
Speaker 2: the last place high school girl.
Speaker 1: I love that idea. Wow, it'd be a good video. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it in work boots again.
Speaker 2: We got into a conversation about it yesterday. Some people said,
Speaker 2: it's left left right or right right left, You do
Speaker 2: the same foot twice and then off the other one.
Speaker 2: But anyway, we don't want to get hung up on that.
Speaker 2: So the tariff situation. Did you know this I'll bet
Speaker 2: you did not. If it is deemed that Trump's tariffs
Speaker 2: were illegal, he didn't have the authority to do it,
Speaker 2: which was true for like twenty four hours before this
Speaker 2: other court came in and stated it.
Speaker 1: It'll probably end up being true again.
Speaker 2: If that ends up being the case that the tariffs
Speaker 2: were illegal, then those corporations did not have to pay
Speaker 2: them and they get that money back.
Speaker 1: Well, but each of those corporations either fully passed that
Speaker 1: along to their customers, passed along half of it to
Speaker 1: their customers, ate all of it, and didn't pass any
Speaker 1: of it on to the customers, and everywhere in between.
Speaker 1: And so if you bought a computer that was fifteen
Speaker 1: percent more expensive, do you get that money back? Does
Speaker 1: the company get to keep the money that they get
Speaker 1: back to they get send you a discount? How would
Speaker 1: you have any idea how much you paid in tariff? Boy,
Speaker 1: that's unspeakably tens of billions of dollars. It's not a
Speaker 1: minor amount of money. I forget what the total is,
Speaker 1: but it is tens of billions of dollars over a
Speaker 1: very short period of time. Yeah, yeah, wow, I just
Speaker 1: that's dizzy. Nobody, nobody has any idea how to unwind this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is true that the companies that paid the
Speaker 1: tariffs get the money back.
Speaker 2: And that makes sense. I mean it was it was
Speaker 2: against the law. If the courts decide that that the
Speaker 2: president didn't have the right to do that, didn't have
Speaker 2: the power to do that, great, but they didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: incur the cost in the end, as you're right poinding
Speaker 2: out right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some did, some didn't, some have did. Right.
Speaker 2: That will be a mess and I don't know if
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Speaker 1: Well, and can you imagine all of the the auditing
Speaker 1: that would need to be done if Joe's Imports, Joe
Speaker 1: Getty's Imports said yeah, yeah, we eight ninety percent of
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Speaker 1: that you you actually only ate sixty percent of the
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Speaker 2: They you know, for whatever how elastic or inelastic the
Speaker 2: product is, they put more of the tar iff they
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Speaker 2: One headline I didn't get to in headlines that I
Speaker 2: wanted to get on is this. You remember President Macrone
Speaker 2: and gets shoved around by his old lady wife right
Speaker 2: in the face in public and but you just had
Speaker 2: enough of his crap. Anyway, He said today that division
Speaker 2: between the two superpowers, the United States and China is
Speaker 2: the main risk currently confronting the world. That's interesting. I
Speaker 2: think he's right, but yeah, absolutely right. I'm glad he
Speaker 2: recognized that. I wish more people recognize that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another headline that the Trump administration has made
Speaker 1: new moves to decouple from China. What a weird frenemy relationship.
Speaker 1: This is so we tendency and enmittee.
Speaker 2: So we are going to get to We got a
Speaker 2: great California's crumbling that you should be interested in wherever
Speaker 2: you live. About the people that want to push the
Speaker 2: New Green Deal on you and get away.
Speaker 1: From fossil fuels. It's unbelievable. Wait, Lee Hall, it will
Speaker 1: cost you as financial ruin and make the environment worse,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Mail bag, Freedom loving Quota to the day
Speaker 1: coming up, stay with.
Speaker 3: Us on this five year anniversary of George Floyd and
Speaker 3: then the riots to follow.
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten about all the monuments that got torn down.
Speaker 1: I got a list of those. Maybe we'll get those later.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that just soured my mood right there, even
Speaker 1: bringing that up. Now the mood sour. Yes you are.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quota today. Whoop Thomas Jefferson. This
Speaker 1: is so good and could yield hours of discussion. Rightful
Speaker 1: liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits
Speaker 1: drawn around us by the equal rights of others. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good, now that there's more to it. Okay, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat that part. Rightful liberty is unobstructed
Speaker 1: action according to our will within limits drawn around us
Speaker 1: by the equal rights of others. I do not add
Speaker 1: within the limits of the law, because law is often
Speaker 1: but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates
Speaker 1: the rights of the individual. God. I can think of
Speaker 1: many examples. Yeah, yeah, The question becomes, can you run
Speaker 1: a society if everyone has an individual standard for deciding?
Speaker 1: Which is which I would argue mostly yes. I would
Speaker 1: rather attend to the troubles of too much liberty than
Speaker 1: too little too again paraphrase TJ himself. Love that I'm
Speaker 1: going to spend a lot of time a lot of
Speaker 1: your safety laws that it harms no one if I
Speaker 1: am taking this risk for myself, are right ridiculous? Under
Speaker 1: that standard, you wanting to ride your motorcycle without a
Speaker 1: helmet is an action according to your will that does
Speaker 1: nothing to the equal rights of others except within a
Speaker 1: socialist system, right, which is the great insidious, slippery slope
Speaker 1: of socialism. Right, If I have to pay for your stupidity.
Speaker 1: I therefore can interfere with it whenever I want my
Speaker 1: perception of your stupidity. Yeah, anyway, again, we could go
Speaker 1: on for hours about that, and perhaps we will, although
Speaker 1: although smoking costs US eight million times more than.
Speaker 2: The motorcycle crashes ever could and we don't outlaws smoking.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for like logic and consistency, you fool?
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Speaker 2: I got to post that picture on our Twitter later today,
Speaker 2: me with.
Speaker 1: A glass of milk staring at the sun. Use AI
Speaker 1: to create it back job Brandon Wright's guys, Regarding your
Speaker 1: recent conversation about scientific research and published papers, you should
Speaker 1: read the book Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie. He goes
Speaker 1: into great detail about the current miserable state of research
Speaker 1: papers from the replication crisis to that being. They publish
Speaker 1: a study and announce that it's a great breakthrough. Then
Speaker 1: five other labs try to replicate the study and say
Speaker 1: we're getting completely different data. Anyway, to outright fraud from researchers.
Speaker 1: It's very well researched and incredibly shocking. Again, that title
Speaker 1: is Science Fictions by Richie. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the Trump yank and money from
Speaker 2: universities and their ability to do research.
Speaker 1: I get how that's not good, but a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of research is worthless, a tremendous amount well, right, And
Speaker 1: they go immediately to no cancer cures now right, no
Speaker 1: helping prematurely born babies. Okay, let's keep those two things,
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going with the list. When we get
Speaker 1: down to dog park rights of masculine abuse, white supremacy
Speaker 1: culture studies, yeah yeah, I'm thinking no, let's see moving
Speaker 1: long erin with a great note. It just struck me
Speaker 1: the ceremonial virtue signaling that's become vogue among leftist institutions.
Speaker 1: They don't even notice how much of a self own
Speaker 1: it is before we start, I want to say that
Speaker 1: we are on stolen land. The fact that we are
Speaker 1: standing here is an atrocity occurring in real time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's today's agenda. You're right erin you're right to announce.
Speaker 1: This is a horror, moral horror which history mass als
Speaker 1: remember now new business right. I was in San Francisco
Speaker 1: last week doing some shopping and I looked up a
Speaker 1: shoe store I wanted to go to and on their
Speaker 1: website because I just look for the hours. On their website.
Speaker 2: At the top where it said the name of the
Speaker 2: shoe store, it says planted on the land once owned
Speaker 2: by the and then three tribes, I thought, you've got
Speaker 2: to be freaking kidding. You are dry shaving of shoe stores. Oh,
Speaker 2: you self important dope.
Speaker 1: See crap? Wow, Oh Aaron, I'm sorry, he said, I
Speaker 1: was supposed to say all of the above and up
Speaker 1: speak before we start. I want to say, or I'm
Speaker 1: stolen land. Yeah, my bead.
Speaker 2: And you don't think those tribes took it from someone
Speaker 2: else that had.
Speaker 1: It before you? You really believe that? Okay? Right right?
Speaker 1: How about them they're sitting here thinking, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: the mohawks we had that land. They killed our babies,
Speaker 1: they slaughtered our people, they enslaved our women. We had
Speaker 1: a declaration of that that land for sixty years. I
Speaker 1: know because I fought the Walkupoocies to get it right.
Speaker 1: It's killed the hell out of them too. Damn wakapoochies. Uh.
Speaker 1: Writer Jim the Writer in Corona, longtime friend of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty shows. But Jack askewhy it took so
Speaker 1: long for the Court of International Trade to block Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 1: The court couldn't rule until a plaintiff brought suit, and
Speaker 1: he lists the five plaintiffs. They were represented by the
Speaker 1: Liberty Justice Center, a nonpartisan but libertarian, conservative leading legal
Speaker 1: organization based in Austin, dahag.
Speaker 2: Why I understand that? I mean, I actually do understand it.
Speaker 2: At the same time, I dullared wise. Just wonder on
Speaker 2: a lot of these things, why we just can't jump
Speaker 2: to the end. Gay marriage, Do we have to have
Speaker 2: a plaintiff? Do we have to go through the whole thing?
Speaker 1: Just jump to the Supreme Court and rule on whether
Speaker 1: we can have gay marriage or not? As the on
Speaker 1: sanctuary cities and states, same on the president with tariffs.
Speaker 1: Do we need a plaintiff. Do we need to go
Speaker 1: through just get to the Supreme Court and decide was
Speaker 1: a plaintiff? Then what would you decide because there will
Speaker 1: be exactly Yeah, I understand why we can't do that,
Speaker 1: but I totally get your point. And then Jim signs
Speaker 1: off and he goes into some details, some of why
Speaker 1: it was a good ruling and some of the arguments,
Speaker 1: and then he gets to the important part of the note.
Speaker 1: You and Jack are the best thing ever on radio podcasts.
Speaker 1: Take all the vacations you can, but don't ever retire.
Speaker 1: You know, if I can make that bargain, I won't retire.
Speaker 1: We're we're almost out of time. The vacations you can
Speaker 1: include fifty two vacations. Then I say, you've you've fifty
Speaker 1: two vacations, you're working the system. Well, that would be dishonorable.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that, although I will consider it. We
Speaker 1: got some good stuff for hour two.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that the back and forth over AI
Speaker 2: really heated up this week for some reason. It's either
Speaker 2: going to doom us all or it's nothing to worry about.
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