WEBVTT - Hitler & The Odd Message 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.240 Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Hetty. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.320 Are you saying that Americans could see empty store shelves? 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.080 No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.040 don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.159 They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils, 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:34.880 they can have five. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.280 That's the odd political messaging. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.919 It is the you have too many pencils message. Like 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.400 we said earlier, come on, be honest with yourself. If 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.040 Barack Obama or Joe Biden had lectured you you have 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.720 too many pencils, your kids have too many toys, how 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.440 would you have liked that? I just I don't understand 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.960 why he's going with that angle. If he wants to 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.880 go at the angle that we're in a tariff for, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.360 it's gonna be painful for a while. Things could be 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.160 more expensive, shelves might be a little bear, but it'll 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.720 turn around. We just need to stick it out. I 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.480 think he'd be in much better shape than you have 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.520 too many pencils? 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.959 Well, yeah, Or if he'd even let's put putting aside 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.720 the oddness of using pencils of toys instead of all 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.480 saying the reason your kids have so many toys and 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.759 they're so cheap is because we've been doing these unfair 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.400 trade deals with China and they're getting rich and we're 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.160 flooded with cheap goods, which has been kind of cool. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.320 But we can't give away America's manufacturing base. So yeah, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.520 things are gonna be a little more expensive, but we're 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.520 not gonna be enriching the communist Chinese. I would be 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.400 happy to be a spokesman. I mean, I think that 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:44.960 have been really effective messaging. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.400 Yeah, a little Johnny with his two hundred and fifty pencils, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:48.440 you spoiled brat. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.120 I'm telling you, he like writes one word and throws 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.000 each pencil away. He's so pencil rich. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.680 By the way, it's the Department of Homeland Security that 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:03.240 will pay for booting out the illegals. That's this is 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.160 breaking news. We had last hour, thousand dollars stipend to 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.680 illegals who self deport plane tickets and one thousand dollars, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.640 so we'll fly you out, give you a thousand bucks. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.520 Just get get upgrade to first class, get a meal, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.800 you're way back to wherever you're going. See if this 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.400 actually happens or how well it works. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.040 He also late in the day said he's going to 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.000 reopen Alcatraz for the illegals. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:36.920 So and announced a teriff via truth Social on movies 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.679 that are made outside of the US. I don't even 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:45.320 know what that means exactly, tariff on foreign made movies. This. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.919 You know, Look, there's a lot of stuff he's doing. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:53.280 This great restructuring trade deals, fine, especially with China, absolutely necessary, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:58.519 got it, But one guy being able to just announce 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.320 this sort of thing or call it off or say 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.840 he was kidding it. There's gonna be a Democrat in 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.959 the White House. We don't want him doing this. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.799 Man, people too chaotic, people still jump at the bait. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.480 So like the whole Alcatraz thing, I thought it was interesting. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.239 I was watching a bunch of news coverage this morning. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.480 Everybody took the Alcatraz thing one hundred percent seriously, talked 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.440 about how difficult it would be to do, and maybe 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.120 it's not legal and everything. I watched Fox and Friends 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.560 and they said, of course he's not going to do that. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.320 What he's just trying to I mean they dismissed it 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.720 that quickly. Yeah, they didn't even not even another breath 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.919 about it. He's just trying to draw attention to the 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.640 courts trying to stop him from booting out illegals. So 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.600 it's the whole to take him seriously or literally. Thing 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:44.040 continues to be a thing, and the same thing on 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:49.000 the third term situation, Trump running for a third term, Well, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.680 let's play the clip. He did meet the press for 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.920 the third time in one hundred and five days. Trump 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.600 did meet the press, Yes, which is beautiful transparency. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.960 I mean, we ought to require that not meet the 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.640 press necessarily because Kristen Welker is obnoxious. But the idea 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.880 that a president subjects himself to questioning by a hostile 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.480 source repeatedly, that ought to be a model going forward. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.440 It's fantastic. I feel like this is trolling, but we'll 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:19.480 discuss that afterwards. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.159 The Trump organization is selling hats that say Trump twenty 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:28.080 twenty eight. Yeah, are you seriously considering a third term, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.360 mister president, even though it's prohibited by the constitution? Or 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.400 is this about staying politically viable. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.800 I will say this, so many people want me to 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.479 do it. I have never had requests so strong as that. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.600 But it's something that, to the best of my knowledge, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.839 you're not allowed to do. I don't know if that's constitutional, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.239 that they're not allowing you to do it or anything else. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.000 But there are many people selling the twenty twenty eight hat. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.440 But this is not something I'm looking to do. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.039 I'm looking to have four great years and turn it 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:04.080 over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.359 to carry it forward. But I think we're gonna have 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.200 four years, and I think four years there's plenty of 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.320 time to do something really spectacular. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.080 And then he lays out were the headlines in the 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.920 New York Times. Trump says, no, I'm cool for one 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.520 Term's fine. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.839 Well, he got another news cycle out of it, Like, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.080 so it's a tough one, you gotta admit. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.719 I mean, that's that's a tough one. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.000 Mark Alpernoi's writes in his newsletter that Trump is the 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.720 most difficult person to cover in the history of journalism 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.080 because he does jerk people around control. So what are 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.000 you supposed to do if the sitting president says I'm 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.960 going to run for a third term, are you supposed 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.480 to say no, you're not and ignore it. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.640 That doesn't really make sense. You're right, you're right. Yeah. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.040 I mean if Reagan or Obama or whoever had said it, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.640 of course you gotta make that the first question the 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.480 next time you get to ask him anything. But with Trump, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.880 I feel like you gotta just ignore it and move on. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.279 Ask about the Terra War reminds me of when my 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.919 kids were kid and I would make It was a 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.800 game we played over and over again. I would make 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.440 some extraordinary and ludicrous claim about, you know, something I'd 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.240 done in my life or was gonna do whatever, and 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.200 they'd say, Dad, and I say no, no, really, and 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.120 they would grill me about it and try to catch 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.200 me in the lie and whatever. And it was always 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.640 fun and it was probably good for their minds, honestly. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.000 But Trump is doing that. Yeah, I might be running 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.960 for a third term. Well it's unconstitutional, you can't. You 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.000 can't do that, Or you say you're well that don't 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.479 many people want me to dad, Dad, you can't run 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.880 for a third term. I don't know. I'm looking into it. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:40.640 I just he's teasing, obviously to my mind, But again, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.839 what are you supposed to do? Ignore the sitting president 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.160 saying you're going to defy the Constitution and run for 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:47.599 a third. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.000 Term, right, and he's gonna move the Oval Office to Alcatraz. Okay, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.479 whatever can be stuck with this. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.880 The fact that they actually have the twenty twenty eight 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.520 hats on his website. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.560 Yeah, well it's it's a troll. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.760 It's just I mean, the day four of trolling, the 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.719 whole I'm gonna be Pope thing. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.320 Yeah, he keeps saying. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.560 Or his own site, they truthed out that AI image 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:13.600 of him is the pope. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.480 You know. Back in the day, my daughter, when she 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.200 was doing an internship, her her gig was to go 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:26.080 through many, many, many news sources and find out which 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.920 of that firm's clients were being mentioned in news accounts 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.600 and in what ways. So that sort of thing exists. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:39.280 If I'm, you know, maga media guy, I'm checking to 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.960 see how many places are talking about the Trump twenty 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.280 twenty eight hats and how many people are talking about 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.440 a third term the rest of it. And I'd say, yeah, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.200 we're still getting a fair amount of heat from this, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.040 and say, okay, put out a new edition of the hat. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.160 What the heck, let's keep the boiler going. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.160 So he does, that gets a lot of coverage, mentions 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.400 Alcatraze gets a lot of coverage. And I wonder if 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.240 that wasn't coordinated with Israel's announcement that they're going to 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.160 go in and take over Gaza, because that would be 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.480 the lead story. If it weren't for the couple of 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:17.000 Trump big things that he popped off yesterday, that might 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.840 absolutely be a coordinated effort. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.720 You know that. I would love to know that, just 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.000 not because it like matters to the future of the Republic, 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.920 but I would just like to know strategy wise, how 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.240 they how they look at that sort of thing. I mean, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.679 that makes sense because this is a huge move by Israel. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:41.040 They've approved a plan to occupy Gaza and control aid 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.000 distribution because the problem is and and look, there are 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.559 people who need food in Gaza, no doubt, but when 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:57.120 they allow aid in, it feeds and and and finance 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.000 is Hamas who is At this point, there's small an enemy, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.360 and there's no damn two state solution coming down the pike, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.920 and there's not gonna be. And so they're trying to 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.599 figure out, all right, how do we ensure our security 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.320 and get these people fed without enriching Hamas, and they're 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.960 essentially going to occupy the place and run it themselves. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.800 I was looking at some of the mainstream media coverage 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.160 of it earlier today and the New York Times. It 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.920 was funny. I don't know if this is intentional, just 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.280 a quirk of the website, but I would look at 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.760 the website and they had the videos. You don't need 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.600 to click on them. They're just running like on the 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.840 front page, as it were, of kids in Gaza clamoring 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.079 for food. They'd go from site to site to site 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.520 with kids holding their pans out begging for food, and 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.200 every article I would read, it would bring me back 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.560 to that video on the main page. No matter where 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.520 I departed, like the main website from, it always brought 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.199 me back to that video. And I wonder if that's 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.920 intentional or not. But as I was watching it, it 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.480 struck me that this is if Hamas had filmed this, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.439 I had a plan for ratcheting up sympathy for us 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.440 and anger toward the damn Jews. They'd handle it exactly 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.760 the way the New York Times did, right. I mean, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.640 it was like from central casting and as an after 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.240 thought in the story, they throw in. By the way, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.320 Israel says, you know, everything be cool if they let 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.800 the hostage. If I'm also let the hostages go. But anyway, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.199 in other news like no, no, no, wait a second, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.160 I got time, I got a minute. Let's talk about 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.520 the hostages. Let's talk about why they're still being held. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.760 Let's talk about how many of them were killed while hostages. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.000 Let's talk about how many of them might still be alive. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.959 Let's go ahead and talk about that. Don't just tack 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.440 that on in paragraphs seventeen and move on like it's 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.280 an afterthought. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:47.000 Come on, Oh, one more thing about the whole pope delio, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.560 So the conclave starts. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.280 I guess I did this. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.760 Had the story from Kim Commando last week about the 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.920 just unbelievable over the top. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.040 Security that they've got there. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:01.680 I mean, it's really impressive censors and and signal jammers 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.120 and everything like that to make sure this stays secret. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.280 Somebody rohans and lead curtains. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.920 Yes, crazy, somebody texted and I think very appropriately, it'd 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.679 have been nice if they to put anywhere close to 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.040 this kind of effort into stopping priests from raping kids 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:23.199 over and over again for decades and lying about it. Yeah, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.440 I mean I've been moving the priests around. I am 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.640 pro Catholic church on all and all kinds of different things. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.120 But that is just unconscionable, and they haven't even come 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.680 close to owning that, in my opinion. I mean, that's 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.240 a really good point. Boy, we wouldn't want it to 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.640 leak out ten minutes early who the pope is. But w' 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.800 move around a pedophile priest and hide it from you 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.960 and look you in the face and say your kids 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.199 safe here at our church. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.400 Yeah, that's rough, man, That is rough. Power corrupts and 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.560 bureaucracies protect themselves. It's all you have to know. And 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.760 just be on the guard against that. Always. Don't be 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.480 a naive sap no matter how you know auspicious an 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:12.200 organization ought to be. Power corrupts and bureaucracies protect themselves. Yeah, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.320 at the cost of children's souls. It's despicable. Oh, on 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.720 a much lighter note than that, lighter than childbread. Okay, yes, yes, considerably. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.600 Evidently everybody involved in the Conclave has actually seen the 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.720 movie Conclave or is very very aware of it, and 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.440 they talk about it all the time. Oh really, I 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.400 haven't seen it. I should. Yeah, Oscar Winner. I can't 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.439 remember what Oscar, but it's supposed to be really really good. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.040 Brutal politics and who gets to be Pope? 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.160 Speaking of movies, I watched two movies over the weekend 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.880 in my dB and one in the theater that I 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.439 would like to talk to dB my death bed, ah, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.600 because I am. I think I'm not long for this world. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.559 Have been sick for a month now you'll be missed. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.160 I'm a weak weak man. But that and other stuff 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:57.880 on the way state here. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.880 Next is a pardon for author JK. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:15.040 Rowling Jackie Kaki Rally without Jackie, you know, she created 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.720 a whole wizarding world, a wonderful. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.000 Place for overweight. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.400 Millennials to stake their entire identity. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.480 Well past the point of it being cute. I'm a hufflepuff. No, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:30.199 you work in staples. Let's keep it moving, let's go. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.560 It's a little, a little uncomfortable. Uh yeah, but a 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.800 good point, well well past the point of being cute. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.160 I like to one of the cast members, and they 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.960 got a great cast now in sn L. But one 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.800 of the cast members did his thing during the news 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.640 bit about how he's not going to get the real idea. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.160 I'm just not doing it. And I got in all 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.480 the paperwork this finally this weekend, submitted and I have 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.319 an appointment, so I'm not going to get it by 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.080 May seventh, but I'm not flying. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:03.280 Yet, so right well, speaking of JK. Rowling, interestingly enough, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.079 I just saw she tweeted this article that Scotland's top 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.800 social worker is accusing the bosses of that agency of 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.679 causing quote untold harm by abandoning child protection principles so 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.080 they didn't have to stand up against the radical gender ideology. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.080 She's coming out and proud now and saying we have 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.840 sacrificed children of this bizarre ideology. More on that another time, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.080 but speaking of Trump, and we were talking about is 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.960 an interview with Kristen Welker, and you know, the will 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.320 you follow the Constitution stuff we talked about at fair 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.520 length in hour two the beginning of our two. Not 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:42.200 to repeat ourselves, but she was trying to trap him 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.040 and he could have answered the question a little better. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.040 But the question of will you follow the constitution? Give 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.160 all these people a fair hearing, blah blah blah because 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.200 of due process. I was just helping my daughter study 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.120 for her constitutional law final in law school, and the 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.400 question of who gets due process in what way and 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.440 what the process is and blah blah blah. That's the 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.080 stuff lawyers argue about unendingly. So the idea like it's 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.600 a yes or no question. He answered wrong, just dishonest. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.360 He knew she was trying to trap him. He was 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.880 evasive when he didn't need to be. But anyway, and 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.760 the other thing we referred to a couple of times, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.600 kind of vaguely, is Howard Lutnick's piece. Is it Lutnik 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.680 or Besant? Besant in the Wall Street Journal? I said 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.440 Lutnik earlier. I apologize, But he was talking about Trump's 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.520 three steps to economic growth, and the first is renegotiating 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.600 global trade. I'm quoting. Now, Tariffs are an effective tool 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.320 for balancing international commerce. They reduce trade barriers in other countries. No, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.560 they don't, unless you mean they cause other countries to 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.320 go ahead and lower them themselves in return for US 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.480 lowering ours again opening more markets to American producers, while 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.960 also bringing back thousands of manufacturing jobs. So that would 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.680 suggest that a lot of the tariff stuff is just 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.880 it's bluster, its threats saying, look, you got to come 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.760 to the table and do better, or we're going to 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.000 tear a few. But it's not a permanent plan. It's 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.600 not a long term plan. And he talked about COVID 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.520 exposing vulnerabilities and the supply chain and the risk of 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.640 relying on other countries for critical stuff. Absolutely true. And 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.920 then he actually gets into making the twenty seventeen Tax 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.200 Cut and Jobs Act permanent, which I appreciate. Great Idea, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.800 goes into no tax on tips, overtime, social Security, some 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.440 of which strike me as somewhat wacky. Then he goes 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.640 hard at and I wish this had been, you know, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.800 more of a priority sooner. But I also need to 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.280 remind myself it's only May of year one of the 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:51.720 term deregulating the economy, rewakening our industrial capacity and raising 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.640 employment and wages through decreasing the horrific burden a red 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.080 tape on American industry that I love. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.800 Great Idea saw eighty percent of Americans want the Trump 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.160 tax cuts to be renewed. Eighty percent of the rich 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.360 jack the rich want that. That's what I hear. It's 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.400 the rich, and that must not be the way most 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.520 Americans interpreted those tax cuts, even though mainstream media told 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.080 them every day it was just a you know, a 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:16.880 sop to the ridge. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.119 Well, they saw it on their w two eighty percent 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.760 are strong and getty. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.480 We have no reliable heroes, and yet we still need protection. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:38.040 Witness Convincible, stronger than all of the Avengers rolled into one, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.760 and soon to be known as Earth's mightiest hero. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.240 Why would a god take orders from anyone at all? 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.439 Maybe I need to show you what I'm capable of. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.880 Country's gone off the rails and he's dangerous. The Avengers, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.199 you're gone. No one is coming to save today. Be 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:06.880 the people that are coming wait us? Yeah? Are you why? 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.120 You got someplace to be? I love that guy. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.680 So that's the New Avengers and the New Avengers. It's 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.080 called Thunderbolts. I watched it on Friday night with my son. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.439 Thought it was absolutely fantastic. I know a lot of 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.600 you don't watch Marvel movies unless you've gone with your kids. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.080 That's how I ended up into it. I'd never seen 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.680 one in my life. I remember old producer Sean would 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.760 come in and say that there's a new Captain America 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.400 this weekend. I think, dude, what are you doing going 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:42.320 to Captain America. You're thirty eight years old. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:37.439 And. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.280 I had never seen any the movies, but my kids 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.280 liked him, and some of them are really good. Many 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.800 of them are horrible. Went to Captain America like a 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.600 month ago as one of the worst movies I've ever seen. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.399 It was just so freaking stupid. They've trailed off badly 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.720 last couple of years. Boy, the critics who are saying 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.320 It's reinvented itself with this one, they're absolutely right. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:56.920 Thunderbolts. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.320 And the only reason I bring it up, really is 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.560 I thought it was It's basically the if you're a 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:08.040 film buff, seven Samurai or the American version, the Magnificent Seven. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.400 It's a group of people who, you know, they wish 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.199 they hadn't made the decisions they made in their lives, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.359 and they find themselves, you know, not feeling so great 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.280 about themselves, are feeling pointless, and they decide, hey, helping 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.440 other people and doing the right thing feels really good 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.720 and working together as opposed to alone. And I thought 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.760 it was a fantastic theme all the way around. And 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:33.800 then the bad guy and figure it's also hilarious. It's 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.240 by far the funniest Marvel movie. But I mean freaking 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.640 hilarious all the way through. Just I laughed so hard. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.040 I'd like to see it again because I missed a 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.639 lot of the jokes. They came so fast. None of 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:46.560 us can fly. All we do is punch and shoot. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:47.320 What is this. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.359 But the guy who suffered from depression, who became the 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.560 bad guy? Briefly, my son whispered to me during the movie, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.560 he said, this is the best version of depression I've 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.480 ever seen in any TV show where movie, which I 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.199 thought was really something, And we talked about that a 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:04.160 lot afterwards. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:08.960 So maybe that would strike your fancy. Just that the 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:14.680 way to portray that does not sound like mindless, idiotic 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.440 people punching each other entertainment. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.959 Such a different theme way, more adult relationship themes, not 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.439 like in a sexy way or anything like that, just 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.720 like adult themes of you know, a parent and kid 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.879 and working all that out and depression and stuff like that. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.760 I thought it was fantastic. At the end of the movie. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:35.120 I don't know if I've ever I think I've done 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.800 this one other time in my life. A bunch of 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.120 us just spontaneously clapped. I've never clapped at a movie 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:42.600 I don't think before my life and I clapped at 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:43.160 a Marvel movie. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.640 I thought it was that good. But so that's enough 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.040 of that. You'll either see it or you won't. 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.840 But the other movie that I watched over the weekend 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:54.359 in my deathbed, sick, and I don't remember what turned 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:54.840 me on to it. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:55.600 Oh, I know what. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.600 I was listening to the National Review podcast that I 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.480 do every week, and Charles c to be a Cook, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.040 who I love, said, if you've never seen The Bunker 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.160 with Anthony Hopkins from nineteen eighty two, it's the best 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.600 of those kind of movies ever made. And I had 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.280 never seen it. And so we're a lot of this 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:13.880 stuff is playing right now. 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:19.440 The Bunkers about Carol O'Connor and Maureen Stapleton making all 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.040 in the family right, they closed the bar and it's 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:21.680