Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jack Katie and he.
Speaker 2: Arms Yo yo yo, A bunch of ingrates live from studio.
Speaker 3: C what he's in your that's what Trump's truth.
Speaker 1: Social a little bit ago said, are you ingrates out there?
Speaker 1: You're a very stupid person. I like that you ingrates
Speaker 1: live from studio. See a dimly lit room to put
Speaker 1: them the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound.
Speaker 1: That's where we are, and today we are toiling under
Speaker 1: the title of the show. One title today. Take it
Speaker 1: or leave it, that's what she said. It's summit time. Ooh.
Speaker 4: The face off in Beijing, Donald j versus Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched any earlier today when
Speaker 1: he arrived and walked off the plane and the pageantry
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 3: Sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I did not see that. Now looked like an Olympic
Speaker 1: opening ceremony or something. Wow. And they do it up
Speaker 1: right there in China. Yeah. Yeah, of churs. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get over on the world in variety of ways
Speaker 1: they have. I was just listening this is kind of
Speaker 1: a side note, but I was just listening to somebody
Speaker 1: explain on how those amazing electric cars that China has
Speaker 1: when they we've taken them apart, they're Tesla's. They stole
Speaker 1: all of Tesla's you know, intellectual property and built Tesla's
Speaker 1: for cheaper with you know, with the aid of the
Speaker 1: government and slave labor making them cheaper to build.
Speaker 3: So they just steal everybody's technology.
Speaker 1: Shocking, ass how Hey, you're never been more right, buddy,
Speaker 1: Shocking and utterly unsurprising.
Speaker 3: Right, are has that ever happened like that.
Speaker 1: In world history? Oh? Gosh no, no, not to this level. Obviously,
Speaker 1: everybody's always tried to do that, but at this level.
Speaker 4: You know, the truth of the Internet is that it
Speaker 4: has enabled wonderful things and horrible things, crimes and sickness
Speaker 4: and perversion. And you can stay in touch with your
Speaker 4: aunt more easily, so connect with your old.
Speaker 3: High school girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I mean, back in the.
Speaker 4: Day, the evil doers of the world wished they could
Speaker 4: steal our technology like that.
Speaker 1: Right, But I don't know, I think that should be
Speaker 1: pointed out more often when you have like that big
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal story that got so much attention A
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. Man, if China could sell their
Speaker 1: cars in the United States, it would decimate our hisstory,
Speaker 1: that's because they're building our cars for cheaper. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, I think this, what I'm about to say
Speaker 1: is really underappreciated, and I would love for it to
Speaker 1: seep into the popular consciousness. And it may.
Speaker 4: I noticed ephen The New York Times has a big
Speaker 4: article today about.
Speaker 1: America's public schools are terrible. We're at a huge crisis
Speaker 1: in education. The kids aren't learning. It's getting worse all
Speaker 1: the time. Oh boy, and it took them long enough
Speaker 1: to wake up to it.
Speaker 4: But anyway, here's what I'd love to see seep into
Speaker 4: the consciousness of Americans.
Speaker 1: On the left. It is absolutely obligatory to be self
Speaker 1: hating of your race, of your country, of your culture.
Speaker 1: It's obligatory in the same way you go down.
Speaker 4: You know, to some backwater Mississippi town in the fifties, say,
Speaker 4: and you've got a bunch of racists run around, a
Speaker 4: bunch of klansmen.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're don't like black folks. Of course
Speaker 1: they don't. That's what they are. And it's stupid.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna take their opinion on what's wrong with
Speaker 4: black people seriously, because you know their their minds are
Speaker 4: completely poisoned.
Speaker 1: And that's the way the American left is. They are
Speaker 1: completely poisoned against the United States of America, the greatest
Speaker 1: country on Earth, which has its sins and problems and
Speaker 1: challenges God knows, But that that knee jerk self hatred.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. We need to all understand that. You
Speaker 1: would say, then looking at Chinese electric car industry and
Speaker 1: marveling at it like they're better than us somehow without
Speaker 1: any scrutiny. Wow, so quickly? How how are they so
Speaker 1: far ahead of us?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 4: No, it's just it reinforces your priors, as you like
Speaker 4: to say, and so you don't.
Speaker 1: Even question it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Elon's on the plane, got off the plane with
Speaker 3: Trump today and Tim Cook from Apple and a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of other super heavyweights of business.
Speaker 1: I'd love for Elon to say, Wow, the car looks familiar.
Speaker 1: I mean like really really familiar. Like all the parts
Speaker 1: look so familiar to me. That's what he should say.
Speaker 1: He should say to somebody, do you know where the
Speaker 1: steering compressor is? Oh?
Speaker 3: You don't, I do it's right over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I put it. No, I've never seen
Speaker 1: his car before, but I know, yeah, thieve and thieves Chin.
Speaker 1: An interesting different thing is did you see this story
Speaker 1: about Nike and how Nike's no longer cool in China?
Speaker 1: I did see that. Yeah. And for first of all,
Speaker 1: all shoe stories, to me, they always leave out the
Speaker 1: fact that styles come and go and it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the quality of the shoe or anything else, right.
Speaker 3: They just do do you never hang around young people.
Speaker 1: Every person under thirty was wearing Adidas Sambas three years ago.
Speaker 3: Had nothing to do with the quality or anything like that.
Speaker 3: They just became the cool shoe.
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, Nike's were cool for a long
Speaker 1: time and they're not cool anymore. But so their brand
Speaker 1: is Alta, which they basically stole Nike's technology right on
Speaker 1: the super cool running shoes, made one that looks a
Speaker 1: lot like a Nike, but it's a Chinese shoe. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of it is nationalism. The young Chinese people now
Speaker 1: hate the United States because we're all adversaries. They should
Speaker 1: hate it to wear American brands now, it's like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing?
Speaker 3: But we should hate them.
Speaker 1: Yes, I can't believe there are NBA players that wear
Speaker 1: the Chinese version.
Speaker 3: Yes, but there are a couple.
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, formerly of the Warriors, so one of the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. It's wearing the Chinese shoe. That is
Speaker 1: just a stolen Nike shoe. It's Alta, I think is
Speaker 1: the brandy. I was looking them up on Amazon when
Speaker 1: I was reading this story. They look exactly like because
Speaker 1: I have a pair of the super fancy Nike running
Speaker 1: shoes for walking, but you're old. They're so amazingly comfortable.
Speaker 1: They're unlike anything I've ever worn me real.
Speaker 3: They're like, you don't have shoes on, you got a
Speaker 3: tip of brother.
Speaker 1: They're so unreal. The first time I ever put them on,
Speaker 1: I thought this is nuts, so I sprung for him. AnyWho, Alta,
Speaker 1: the Chinese brand, makes one exactly like it, except it's
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars instead of two hundred and.
Speaker 3: Ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, and they got those on Amazon. We ot
Speaker 1: if you want to promote the communist Chinese.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we ought to treat people sporting those like they
Speaker 4: got swastika is on their feet in nineteen forty three.
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, never mind China, Come on America.
Speaker 1: Oh the self hatred. It makes me insane. How can
Speaker 1: you be so blind to do all what do you
Speaker 1: call it a gratitude exercise or write a list or something.
Speaker 1: It's just it's such a perverse, intellectual deceit, and you've
Speaker 1: got to so blind yourself to some some just mountainous
Speaker 1: truths to believe that. And yet Oliver Academia teaches that
Speaker 1: to kids since they're little kids, right through grad school.
Speaker 4: Oh, it makes me murderous. I won't murder anybody, because
Speaker 4: that's a sin. But that is all correct. Me off,
Speaker 4: that is all correct.
Speaker 1: But I think most of those business people on that plane,
Speaker 1: including Trump, they're over there to just open up that
Speaker 1: giant market of a billion people, and they're perfectly happy
Speaker 1: if they can, you know, sitting around and making nice
Speaker 1: with China and making money off of them.
Speaker 4: So there's that also, Well, if the president takes that attitude,
Speaker 4: it's hard to yell too much about bassetball players who
Speaker 4: write whose agents told them, hey, we can get a
Speaker 4: better deal over here, and they're like, okay, right, you
Speaker 4: sign a forty million dollar deal to wear that shoe,
Speaker 4: and you never think of me.
Speaker 1: Trying Yeah, otherir comfy, great, Okay.
Speaker 3: I had one more point I was gonna make.
Speaker 1: Oh, and then you got the whole Trump keeps saying,
Speaker 1: because he just landed in China that Iran's really not
Speaker 1: not on the agenda. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a very big part of the I wonder how that
Speaker 1: works because the number one customer for Iran is China.
Speaker 3: China is their number one customer.
Speaker 1: How could that possibly not be a big part of
Speaker 1: what's being discussed here? For o soyaletically yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for oil. Yeah, I was reading what seemed to be
Speaker 1: a pretty even handed assessment of his Iran. The Uran
Speaker 1: situation caused more problems for the US or or China
Speaker 1: at the summit.
Speaker 4: Who's going to have leverage? And the essence of the takeaway.
Speaker 1: Was, it's kind of, you know, screwing up the US
Speaker 1: in a few ways, and China's got some challenges, but
Speaker 1: there are stockpile and oil and it's okay. Everybody's all right.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got some headaches, but not bad ones.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what story we're gonna have to get
Speaker 3: to after we start the show. Officially. Oh, I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday thirteenth, the
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty six. Armstrong, Getty. We approve of this program.
Speaker 4: All right, let's begin then officially according to FCC rules
Speaker 4: and regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go. At Mark, I have not lied to Congress.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask that, died to Congress as you. I'm
Speaker 1: not testifying here, sir, and I don't why maybe the
Speaker 1: next time you were off a seven thousand dollars barsab
Speaker 1: we can talk about. Well see there you go line again.
Speaker 1: You suggest the report I roasted right, you suggested it
Speaker 1: was public It wasn't public money, as you know. That
Speaker 1: was for fifty members half part. So it was a
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars bar tab. All my god.
Speaker 4: That was yet another low moment in American history. Cash
Speaker 4: Patel and Senator Dipstick Van Holland arguing about who's the
Speaker 4: harder drinker at what was passed off as a Senate hearing.
Speaker 4: But it was just a sniping fest. It was a
Speaker 4: poor George Washington rolling over in his grave.
Speaker 3: What was the point? What was the topic there? The
Speaker 3: bar tab?
Speaker 1: That they used taxpayer money for the bar tab, or
Speaker 1: they drink too much. Was it a claim that cash
Speaker 1: Hotel drinks too much?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Van Holland was saying that he had episodes of drinking
Speaker 4: and absences and his staff couldn't reach him.
Speaker 1: All that stuff.
Speaker 4: What was it in the New York Times for a minute,
Speaker 4: and cash Betel, not content to deny, went on the
Speaker 4: counter attack and accused Holland of running up a Van
Speaker 4: Holland of seven thousand dollars bar tab for some staff meeting.
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, that wasn't public money. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was probably a campaign contributor for money and you got
Speaker 1: them a tunnel or a you know, easier regulations or what. Look,
Speaker 1: if the topic is how much we'd drink, who paid
Speaker 1: for the drinks is not the issue at this point.
Speaker 3: Which what are we talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about how we spend taxpayer money or how
Speaker 1: much we drink. That's what I would have said, Trunk, Kara, Trunk,
Speaker 1: We're going to the topic of who drank the most.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you drank the most.
Speaker 1: Here's the story we got to get to and you
Speaker 1: never know if it's true or not because after Russia,
Speaker 1: there are so many stories in the New York Times,
Speaker 1: Washington Post, other places that turned out to be completely
Speaker 1: bogus from unnamed sources. But New York Times got a
Speaker 1: big story out today quoting a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: in our intelligence community that Iran has way more missiles
Speaker 1: and rockets and rocket launchers and all that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff than we were led to believe, like a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, their arsenal is more or less intact according to
Speaker 4: that story.
Speaker 3: Right, which, if it's true, is horrifying. What did we
Speaker 3: get for those fifteen thousand strikes? How do we not
Speaker 3: take those out? I mean, I don't know anything about this.
Speaker 1: Maybe it makes perfectly good sense, but I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: they still have that capability. Yeah, it didn't have the
Speaker 1: feel of a Russia gate pilot Capno, me, it did not.
Speaker 1: They certainly have every interest in declaring, you know, Trump
Speaker 1: of failure, and I haven't yet heard anybody come out
Speaker 1: and say that's absolutely not true. Yeah. Yeah, we'll bring
Speaker 1: you the facts and figures. They're surprising, Yeah, surprising and troubling.
Speaker 1: So we got headlines on the way and a bunch
Speaker 1: of other news. I hope you can stay here so
Speaker 1: later we'll have to get into the musk Altman Open
Speaker 1: aiy trial that's going on in Oakland. Here's my funniest,
Speaker 1: my favorite tidbit from yesterday. Altman I think himself complaining
Speaker 1: that in one key meeting, when this whole thing was
Speaker 1: coming apart, Elon wouldn't pay any attention. All he did
Speaker 1: was kept people showing people funny memes on his phone.
Speaker 3: Wow wow, which you can picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So one kind of non headline is very briefly,
Speaker 1: because you don't spread news that's not yours to spread.
Speaker 1: I will just say this about this segment and the
Speaker 1: person who usually participates Senate, everything's great, everything's great, moving along.
Speaker 1: Inflation ticked up. Maybe you heard that we've got kind
Speaker 1: of a breakdown. It's a rising energy costs for a
Speaker 1: main factor. Although interestingly, and I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into the bond markets. I mean, you could put an
Speaker 1: insomniac to sleep with a discussion of the bond markets.
Speaker 1: But the way they're acting is serious. Investors are thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: higher inflation for an extended period like maybe years, and
Speaker 1: probably no rate cuts, so we're going to bet accordingly.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, I like hearing that.
Speaker 1: Oh I hate it here, I hate telling you that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1: We're talking to a real estate expert the other day, saying,
Speaker 1: people who didn't buy like five years ago, raising both
Speaker 1: of my hands yes, thinking that, you know what, things
Speaker 1: have got to come down. Yeah, missed out and they
Speaker 1: may never get back in. And that's the way I feel.
Speaker 1: I thought, there's no way houses state is high, and
Speaker 1: with interest rates where they're I'm waiting, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get fulled this time, right, And I wait, I'm not
Speaker 1: going all two thousand and six again, exactly. I'm no fool.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I just missed out?
Speaker 1: I did buy in the sweet spot, thank you Lord.
Speaker 4: And that news makes me want to despair, just the
Speaker 4: wackiness of the economy. Here's my favorite economic statistic. And Jack,
Speaker 4: I know this is going to hit you hard. You
Speaker 4: might want to sit down. Breakdown of goods and services.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The price of canned produce rose five point seven percent.
Speaker 4: Damn it in the previous year. My green beans. I
Speaker 4: do love canned produce. Great, Scott, this is the US
Speaker 4: of a we get it fresh here. God, I remember
Speaker 4: the veggies we had to choke down as a kid,
Speaker 4: overcooked out of God, I'm gagging thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I thought I hated vegetables. Then I started getting them
Speaker 1: fresh and I'm like, wow, this is great.
Speaker 3: I've seen them on plates at places I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh oh boy. So the Prime Minister of Great Britain,
Speaker 1: hair Stormer may be going down. There's a possibility they're
Speaker 1: going to call for a new election, and he's got
Speaker 1: an approval rating at like fifteen percent currently ale bounce back,
Speaker 1: and so they might be going down.
Speaker 3: To whatever extent you care about that, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: But be nice to have somebody that might be a
Speaker 1: little more friendly toward us. He's super out there, hates
Speaker 1: the United States, and yeah, he's a left wing whackadoodle.
Speaker 1: I read more into that Sweden's big free market turnaround thing.
Speaker 1: You had to read down into it. We talked about
Speaker 1: this briefly yesterday. I'd love to get into it in
Speaker 1: more detail today, but you had to read down a
Speaker 1: ways to hear people admit that, Yeah, we let all
Speaker 1: sorts of quote unquote refugees and immigrants in who don't
Speaker 1: buy into our morals or our culture or our system,
Speaker 1: and they're forming gangs and they're doing crimes, and they're
Speaker 1: ripping off our generous state welfare system in ways that
Speaker 1: we didn't realize people would. We thought everyone was like us.
Speaker 1: Everything is downstream of culture. Don't give away your culture.
Speaker 1: So yesterday we never really got into that mayor of
Speaker 1: Arcadia suburb of Los Angeles who turned out to be
Speaker 1: working for the Chinese Communist Party. And it fits in
Speaker 1: with the chick that was sexing up the billionaire owner
Speaker 1: of the Milwaukee Bucks. Oh right, she turns out just
Speaker 1: came out today she is also tied to the Communist Party.
Speaker 1: And it's just an overall story of China's done a
Speaker 1: better job of getting spies into our country and getting
Speaker 1: themselves into our politics or into our billionaire's pants or
Speaker 1: whatever they're trying to do, or our congressman's beds, or
Speaker 1: you know whatever wherever they're trying to go from China,
Speaker 1: from twenty four year old sex pots to geek scientists
Speaker 1: to her grad assistants at your local university.
Speaker 4: Yeah they have, And I remember when was it? When
Speaker 4: did we talk about this? A lot?
Speaker 1: But the whole of society campaign to undermine the United
Speaker 1: States and surpass us. Like every trade, every profession, every
Speaker 1: person is tasked with doing that. So the big explosive
Speaker 1: story about how much more capability Iran has in terms
Speaker 1: of rockets and launchers and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: We can give you some of the details on that.
Speaker 1: It's troubling arm Strong and Getty. Are you aware of
Speaker 1: reports that Pakistan are are allowing their bases to be
Speaker 1: used to park Iranian aircraft? General Kane su I've seen
Speaker 1: one report on that. Was it accurate? Sorry, I think
Speaker 1: based on the variety of classific classification. Matt, let me
Speaker 1: just say, do you agree if it is accurate, that
Speaker 1: is sort of inconsistent with it being a peace mediator. Sure,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to comment on that based on the
Speaker 1: ongoing negotiations. Oh, I don't know why he didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about that. The Secretary, my word, Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: our Senator Lindsay grand So talking to Cain. General Kin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and General Kin didn't want to go there for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and Lindsey Graham kind of lost his mind a little later.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll play that later about how angry he got
Speaker 1: about You know, I don't trust these guys.
Speaker 3: No, he shouldn't trust them.
Speaker 1: They hid bin Laden from US, and they're letting Iran
Speaker 1: park their planes, so they can't be blown up and
Speaker 1: all kinds of other stuff, and they're the arbiters for
Speaker 1: this peace deal. It's ridiculous anyway, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get off on that. This is the story that's getting
Speaker 1: so much attention today. It's in the New York Times.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration's public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military
Speaker 1: is sharply at odds with what US intelligence agencies are
Speaker 1: telling policymakers behind closed doors. This is according to classified
Speaker 1: assessments from early this month that show Iran has regained
Speaker 1: access to most of its missile sites, launchers, and underground facilities.
Speaker 1: Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran
Speaker 1: has restored operational access to thirty of the thirty three
Speaker 1: missile sites it maintains along the Strait of.
Speaker 3: Horror Moves ooh by.
Speaker 1: Which of course, could threaten American warships and oil tankers
Speaker 1: transiting the Narrow Waterway. So I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about this, So I can't claim incompetence or you know, anything.
Speaker 3: Really, I don't know anything about this, but.
Speaker 1: I'm just shocked with after all that bombing and the
Speaker 1: idea that we had decimated their ability to you know,
Speaker 1: fire back at us that we, you know, really had
Speaker 1: some supremacy in the skies and could do whatever he wanted.
Speaker 3: That they got thirty of thirty three rocket launchers still
Speaker 3: going along the strait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do have supremacy in the sky and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But it looks and we ought
Speaker 1: to talk to Mike Lyons about this. I'm going to tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It looks like they went to ground in a way,
Speaker 4: they hid their stuff and buried it or whatever, took
Speaker 4: a deep underground knowing that the attacks were coming.
Speaker 1: In general, for the whole country, Iran still fields about
Speaker 1: seventy percent of its mobile launchers across the country and
Speaker 1: has retained roughly seventy percent of its pre war missile stockpile.
Speaker 1: According to the assessments, that stockpile encompasses both ballistic missiles
Speaker 1: which can target other nations in the region, and a
Speaker 1: smaller supply of cruise missiles, which can be used against
Speaker 1: shorter range targets on land or at sea.
Speaker 3: That is pretty troubling stuff.
Speaker 1: Now. At the same time, the story came out today
Speaker 1: that yesterday the story came out that the UAE had also.
Speaker 3: Bombed Iran during this whole war. Today, the story's out that.
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia joined Israel and US in the bombing oh
Speaker 1: and kept it quiet the whole time for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: I mean, that could disrupt a lot of their population.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it was a big, splashy headline that
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia joins the Jews and bobbing Muslims. Oh, you
Speaker 1: write that headline in Saudi, you get your hands chopped
Speaker 1: off if you're lucky. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And they say they have regained access to roughly ninety
Speaker 4: percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide.
Speaker 4: Minded of our last conversation with Mike Clients in which
Speaker 4: we were talking about the fact that given the narrowness
Speaker 4: of the strait of horror moves, and you know, just
Speaker 4: the modern weaponry drones and otherwise, you you practically cannot
Speaker 4: eliminated country's capacity to do violence. All you can do
Speaker 4: is eliminate their will to do violence by beating them
Speaker 4: down so hard they say, let me up, I've had enough.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it, but it's clearly true. Having lived
Speaker 1: through well, Vietnam is a really little kid when I
Speaker 1: you know, was reading about it later when I got older,
Speaker 1: but also Iraq, Afghanistan, now Iran, you just can't accomplish
Speaker 1: what you need to accomplish with airpower. You just can't, apparently,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't quite make sense to me, but it
Speaker 1: clearly is true. Unless you're gonna put you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand troops on the ground and go through cities
Speaker 1: with guys, you can't do what you want to do.
Speaker 3: Apparently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's a hell of a lot you can
Speaker 1: do by putting, say a missile launching system on an
Speaker 1: elevator and taking it six stories underground. Then we have
Speaker 1: to use our super giant ordinance to get to those
Speaker 1: and if you have hundreds of them, well it's just
Speaker 1: it's tough to make that happen. You gotta get your
Speaker 1: enemy to capitulate so he can move on to other topics.
Speaker 1: But it certainly seems to me on this that if
Speaker 1: Trump is going to as he said again yesterday before
Speaker 1: he got on the plane head in China, if he says,
Speaker 1: if he's sticking to his guns, and I sure hope
Speaker 1: he is, that, look, only one thing matters. They are
Speaker 1: not going to get a nuclear weapon. Then we got
Speaker 1: to go back to bombing the crap out of them probably, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine any other rule. The other thing that
Speaker 1: he's not going to say out loud, but I think
Speaker 1: is also true. They can't control the straight of poor moves, right,
Speaker 1: So I think that's just as true. If those two
Speaker 1: things are absolutes, no nukes, straight opens back up again.
Speaker 3: We got to start bombing the crap out of them again.
Speaker 4: Even then, it's going to be a tough nut to crack,
Speaker 4: especially the strait, given what I was saying about, you know,
Speaker 4: capability and drones and the rest of it. Here's what
Speaker 4: I love about events and laws and things that human
Speaker 4: beings do that I always accuse the Left of not
Speaker 4: taking into consideration. There are secondary effects. If a happens,
Speaker 4: how will people adjust? What will they do that will
Speaker 4: change the world. And convoys of heavy duty trucks are
Speaker 4: now barreling across the Arabian Desert as an escape valve
Speaker 4: from the jammed up straight of hor Mooz, And it's
Speaker 4: just absolutely spectacular.
Speaker 3: Stuff across the border by land. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lots and lots and lots of trucks mostly running
Speaker 4: around the clock, two drivers each. There's an executive at
Speaker 4: ALCOA former executive who's been watching this unfold and as connections.
Speaker 4: He says, six hundred trucks became sixteen hundred, became two,
Speaker 4: and now we've got thirty five hundred trucks running from
Speaker 4: the Gulf to the Red Sea. They paused just long
Speaker 4: enough to refuel while one dude sleeps in the back.
Speaker 1: And that's interesting because I didn't bring this. The other day,
Speaker 1: some Iranian foreign minister speakers whatever said our border is
Speaker 1: twice the length of the distance across the United States,
Speaker 1: our entire border around our country.
Speaker 3: You can't police all of that.
Speaker 1: We can move stuff over land and get stuff in
Speaker 1: and out of the country that way.
Speaker 3: I thought, that does sound like a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So here's an expert said, they'll they will
Speaker 1: have caught up. Well, okay, so he's in the fertilizer business.
Speaker 1: This one guy being quoted, who is this such Zoo
Speaker 1: or whatever the name of the guy is, or wrote
Speaker 1: the Art of War. Yeah, he's got to have some
Speaker 1: saying in there. This truism the other side gets a
Speaker 1: vote because that is the most truest thing about all
Speaker 1: fights in war and business deals or whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the other side gets a vote.
Speaker 1: You can come up with your plan, but they get
Speaker 1: to come up with their plan, and you don't always
Speaker 1: guess correctly what that's going to be. Right.
Speaker 3: So here's the.
Speaker 1: CEO of a Saudi state controlled mining company that was
Speaker 1: caught up in the blockade and serious about it and
Speaker 1: helped get the giant number of trucks going. He said
Speaker 1: they'll have caught up on its export backclog by the
Speaker 1: end of May. He said, whether I truly believe we
Speaker 1: could do it or two weeks, I don't know. The
Speaker 1: drive is making a meaningful dent in a fertilizer shortage
Speaker 1: that's threatening the global food supply. But we're making real progress.
Speaker 1: That's the only current leverage we have. If we're not
Speaker 1: going to bomb. The ideas were crushing their economy because
Speaker 1: they can't get anything in or out. Well, if they
Speaker 1: are getting things in and out, and if they're caught
Speaker 1: back up to normal in two weeks, then we got
Speaker 1: no leverage other than bombing.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's quite a development.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Yikes. The IRGC is no fat headed Maduro.
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Speaker 1: just rats and rat droppings that caused this problem. It
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Speaker 1: step down from rats. I mean, I don't want a
Speaker 1: lot of flies, but it's a different level of you
Speaker 1: got flies in your kitchen, I eat at your house
Speaker 1: and I don't dig it, but rats running around. Come on.
Speaker 1: And it's not just restaurant, it's also a couple of
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Speaker 1: as in you'll find in your slurpy between seven and
Speaker 1: eleven rat droppings. No, that's not true. That's actually not true.
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Speaker 4: they're pooping on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: Now, now, now that.
Speaker 1: San Francisco's trying, they're doing better. They got a new mayor.
Speaker 1: Are they going to enforce the nose smoking in the
Speaker 1: whole city? Though I don't know much about it, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: Listen to your show talking about Michael Jackson, which we
Speaker 4: were yesterday. I had contact with a couple of the
Speaker 4: Santa Barbara Sheriffs investigators back in the day.
Speaker 1: Who were looking into the allegations.
Speaker 4: Children were able to describe specific features about his pennis.
Speaker 4: How would a child be able to do that without
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Speaker 4: If you don't, that's fine too. He is one final
Speaker 4: pop culturally culturing note. We were talking about Mickey Mantle
Speaker 4: yesterday in the context that all of the men and
Speaker 4: his family died young. So he just partied like a maniac,
Speaker 4: figuring he was gonna die anyway, hastening his death.
Speaker 1: Better hitter than thinker, as it turns out.
Speaker 4: But what are you gonna do? We got this note
Speaker 4: from E. Mickey Mantle was a friend of my dad's
Speaker 4: cool when he moved to Lake Okanney, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Is that how you pronounced? He would hang out at
Speaker 1: my dad's house and got drunk as a three eyed monkey.
Speaker 3: I don't know that one I was.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what it means, but it's funny. I
Speaker 1: was in college at the time and was visiting my
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Speaker 1: four x six photo card for me and asked me
Speaker 1: what my apartment number was, so.
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Speaker 1: Wow, charming tale of the beish ball great drunk is
Speaker 1: a three eyed monkey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, iis drink. I'd use that one.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: On slightly more serious subjects, Michael, longtime correspondent, Michael writes,
Speaker 4: guys have a very dumb question. This trip to China
Speaker 4: with the president and all of the big names, Yeah,
Speaker 4: cabinet officials, Marco's going, Pete's going, and a bunch of
Speaker 4: like super heavyweight business people from the US. What's to
Speaker 4: stop China from doing something terrible, from locking everyone in
Speaker 4: the in a Chinese prison or even worse sentence.
Speaker 1: Is a bit of a trip.
Speaker 4: But the whole group are seen as evil by the
Speaker 4: left for associating with Trump, so there'd be no media
Speaker 4: backlash in the US, and Democrat politicians would say it's deserved.
Speaker 4: Seems like the whole world would just kind of shrug
Speaker 4: it off, like they do with everything. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just crazy. Well, that would be an act
Speaker 1: of war. I mean, that would be a declaration of war.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that occurrence. Yeah, I think maybe
Speaker 1: you are crazy. Michael but have a good and thanks
Speaker 1: for the note. Let's see Adam with a note about Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess we talked about this one more thing or something.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom in cal Unicornia persuaded the legislature to what's
Speaker 1: the difference of out law legalized jaywalking? Because jaywalking charges
Speaker 1: fell disproportionately on people of color, and any sane person
Speaker 1: would say, well, do they do it disproportionately? That's why? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it had to do a lot to do
Speaker 1: with the homeless situation too, So you don't have to
Speaker 1: you can just let the homeless wander around.
Speaker 4: Right and or legitimate well, right, yeah, citizens, law abiding
Speaker 4: citizens were like, you just gave me a ticket for this,
Speaker 4: while five junkies went across the street. Well, we can't
Speaker 4: do anything about that because they don't have an address
Speaker 4: and we can't find them because they won't pay. So
Speaker 4: we just enforced the law against the law biding. But anyway,
Speaker 4: numbers have just come out about the rapid increase in
Speaker 4: pedestrian deaths around the capital of Sacramento.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I will be today at noon for this thing.
Speaker 1: I've been going through every Wednesday, and the junkie population
Speaker 1: there is stunning yeah, I had no idea it was
Speaker 1: that bad because I hadn't been right there on that
Speaker 1: street on the other side of the Capitol in a while.
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: It's so gross, And Adam Rice, the timing was sadly perfect.
Speaker 4: After you guys were just talking about suicidal empathy, which
Speaker 4: I want to talk about more of it. When our
Speaker 4: genius governor signed off on the Freedom to Walk Act, God, I.
Speaker 1: Just vomited in my mouth a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's freedom so stupid.
Speaker 1: I made a mental note to check some obviously affected
Speaker 1: statistics after giving it some time.
Speaker 4: Blah blah bah. The decriminalization of jaywalking wasn't mentioned in
Speaker 4: the article, but it seems like a pretty obvious reason.
Speaker 4: I don't know what else to say. It's pretty low
Speaker 4: on my list of worries. Added to the things that
Speaker 4: make me feel like I live in the movie Idiocracy. Chairs,
Speaker 4: same to you, Adam Chairs, get as drunk as a
Speaker 4: three eyed mounk.
Speaker 1: Ah boy. Too bad about all the rat droppings in
Speaker 1: the restaurants.
Speaker 4: Your policy sucks and it does the opposite of what
Speaker 4: you intend, but it makes me.
Speaker 1: Feel good and it sounds noble. Oh my god, grow up,
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