1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm Strong and Getty and 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: now he Armstrong and Getty. 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 3: The President eager to get the bill across the finish 6 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 3: line as we see prices rising amid the trade war. 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 3: He launched at Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, the cost 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 3: of some toys way up. A baby born doll that 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 3: cost thirty four ninety seven in March now costs forty 10 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 3: nine ninety seven, up roughly forty three percent last month. 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: An etches sketch cost fourteen ninety seven. Now it's twenty 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: four to ninety nine, a nearly sixty seven percent increase. 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 4: Wow, the humble let's just sketch twenty five bones. 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: That's wrong. 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 4: Wow, that's not a minor increase in price. Well, in 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 4: that baby born a you might as well have a 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,919 Speaker 4: real baby at that price to that Wow, the humble 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 4: edge of sketch doubling in price. Yeah, frustrating its artistic 19 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 4: so Elon Musk blaming the calling the bill an abomination. 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 5: We will get into that more later, because that's one 21 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 5: of the lead stories today, and the fact that it's 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 5: the lead story is kind of its own story. But 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 5: in addition to the big giant bill going through economically, 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 5: we got this tariff situation. I mean, I'd like to 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 5: know how many more prices there at the Walmart have 26 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 5: gone up that much. 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 4: That's a lot, right, right, Yeah, that's shocking. 28 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I can't get off the. 29 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 4: Edge of sketches is an example. I mean, at this point, 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 4: you can use a free app type for ten seconds 31 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 4: and generate a professional quality illustration of Joe Biden surfing 32 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 4: on the back of a dolphin smoking a bong in mallow. 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 5: And I want to do the sketch the stairstep stairsteps, stairstep, 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 5: stairsteps stairstep exactly painstakingly. 35 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 4: If you jostle it at all and it ruins all 36 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 4: your work. Yes, that instead of the uh chat GPT 37 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 4: or what have you. 38 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 2: Uh So, it's funny. I had a thought as we. 39 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 4: Were getting the material together for this segment, I'm picturing 40 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 4: myself back in college and no need for gladys. This 41 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 4: didn't actually happen taking some you know, high level political 42 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 4: science class where they said, all right, we're gonna describe 43 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 4: this scenario for you. You have two superpowers, one well established, 44 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 4: one rising. They are mortal enemies in sworn to dominate 45 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 4: each other, and yet they have a huge and life 46 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 4: sustaining trade relationship. Hostilities begin now keeping in mind each 47 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 4: country's best interests. How do you think lovedon? I would 48 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 4: I would think. 49 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 6: Wait, wait, how did they get? But why would they 50 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 6: have that rip? Who's whose ideal was this? This is undenable, 51 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 6: there's no sill to this. I'd throw out my hands. 52 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 6: And yet here we are. 53 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 4: It's time to look in the China Cabinet Trade Edition, China. 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 2: That's right, that makes me laugh every time. 55 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 4: Not very cleverly named a look in the China Cabinet. 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 4: As we consider number of stories about China again all 57 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 4: Trade Edition. First of all, Gavey knew someome of cal 58 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 4: Unicornia and Karen Bass and others are about to engage 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 4: in a closed door meeting with Chinese trade officials as 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 4: part of GAVI's attempt to establish California as some sort 61 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 4: of quasi nation. I suppose then have happy, joy joy 62 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 4: meetings with various Chinese corporations and trade officials, and that 63 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 4: sort of thing. Worth noting that, in a public warning, 64 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 4: a couple of years ago, during the horrific Biden years, 65 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 4: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that 66 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 4: state and local officials are at risk of being manipulated 67 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 4: to support China Chinese government's agenda, particularly through trade and investment. 68 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: Quote. 69 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 4: Financial incentives may be used to hook US state and 70 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 4: local leaders given their focus on local economic issues, the 71 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 4: bulletin said, but Gavey will be hobnobbing with the Chinese communists. Nonetheless, 72 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 4: moving along, here's the headline for you. You may have 73 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 4: heard that Trump, you know, hit China with the tariffs 74 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 4: and various tip tat retaliation took place. And one thing, 75 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 4: Sijin Ping and his new guy is new negotiator who 76 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 4: will talk about in a second if we have time. 77 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 4: He's a hard ass. He is interestingly Jack his name 78 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 4: is he? So you got he and she in charge 79 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 4: of China at this point. Slightly confused. I don't like 80 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 4: the pronouns heterosexual couple anyway. Anyway, he's a hard ass 81 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 4: and he is advice jan paying. Look, they need the 82 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: pressure of the rare earth materials for their magnets for 83 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 4: all sorts of technologies. 84 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 2: We just won't give them any rare stuff. 85 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 4: And or a couple of months ago they said they would, 86 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 4: but they're slow walking it badly. So the headline is 87 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 4: automakers race to find workaround to China's stranglehold on rare 88 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 4: earth magnets. Listen to this now, major manufacturers, fearful they 89 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 4: will have to shut down assembly lines both on electric 90 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 4: and conventional vehicles, are considering moving some parts production to China. 91 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 4: They're fearful they might have to shut down the production vehicles, 92 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 4: or mister President, move their production of certain parts to 93 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 4: China to avoid complete factory shutdowns. Automakers end up shifting 94 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 4: production to China, it would amount to a remarkable outcome 95 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 4: for a trade boar initiated by President Trump. That's what's 96 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 4: going to say, remarkable outcome. That's not exactly what the 97 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 4: plan was. A couple of the rare earth metals included 98 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 4: in the consideration Jack include disprosy. I was so excited 99 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 4: about pronouncing that, right, disprosium and urbium. 100 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 5: Urbium is a metal. You know we ought to play 101 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 5: rare earth mineral or made up? Yeah, no kidding, I 102 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 5: think I bought you this ring. 103 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: It's made of turbium, very rare, and the band dysprosium. 104 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 2: Oh moving along. 105 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,679 Speaker 4: China's new trade negotiator is a hard ass. 106 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 2: This is he, he to she. 107 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 4: The previous guy was a US educated realist who is like, 108 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 4: all right, we both need to make money. 109 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 2: Let's stay cool now. 110 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 4: This guy is a deaded communist, dedicated communist, and a 111 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 4: loyalist to shij and Ping. He a firm believer in 112 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 4: state control just like his boss. She has a clear 113 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 4: mandate of not catering to America. Last month's Geneva deal, 114 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: which China saw as a win, showed she the value 115 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 4: of sticking to his guns, according to people who consult 116 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 4: with senior Chinese officials, so they have decided to get 117 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 4: tougher and strategically. She feels empower to harden his position 118 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 4: from the first term of Trump because the arsenal of 119 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 4: trade tools China's built under his leadership include export controls 120 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 4: of critical materials used to make this the rarest stuff 121 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 4: we were talking about, and some other stuff but that 122 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 4: are necessary to make chips, cars and the F thirty 123 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 4: five jets. So it gives China the ability to cause 124 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 4: real pain for the US. And finally, anybody who's done 125 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 4: business with China's familiar with the idea of industrial espionage. 126 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 4: The self driving truck startup that siphon trade secrets to 127 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 4: Chinese companies. It's a company called Too Simple, Tu Simple, 128 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: and I want you to maybe have a uh TikTok 129 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 4: in the back of your mind or the idea of, well, 130 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 4: it's a Chinese company, but it's not, you know, it's 131 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 4: not a state run enterprise. A week after one of 132 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 4: America's largest self driving truck companies promised the US government 133 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 4: it would stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners, Too 134 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 4: Simple transferred a trove. 135 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 2: Of data to a Beijing owned firm. Why were there 136 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: a lot of deep Why were we sharing it in 137 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: the first place? 138 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 4: Let me get to that they want a lot of details, 139 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 4: said Jooling Han, us based Too Simple Holdings employee to 140 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 4: a colleague. Leading Chinese commercial truck manufacturer Photon, sought the 141 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 4: data from Too Simples many test drives around Texas very 142 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 4: time consuming, expensive, technologically challenging test drives of self driving 143 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 4: trucks all over Texas. Too Simple was the leader in 144 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 4: the global race to develop self driving trucks that could 145 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 4: solve chronic drive shortages, make freight hauling cheaper, bolster military operations. 146 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 4: Founded by two Chinese entrepreneurs with money from a Chinese 147 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 4: business mogul. The San Diego based company set a record 148 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 4: when it structs traveled eighty miles in Arizona without a 149 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 4: human driver, and the minute the Chinese based firm said hey, 150 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 4: we need all your data, they send it all. That 151 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,239 Speaker 4: is emblematic of what I'm always ranting about that Chinese nationals, 152 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 4: whether now or in the future, will be on the 153 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 4: hook for Shesion Ping's orders, all of them, every single one. 154 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 4: So what do I want to round up every Chinese 155 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 4: American or Chinese student in the car? No, of course not. 156 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: It's a impractical and be unnecessary. But the awareness that 157 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 4: that possibility is not only like extant that it. 158 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 2: Exists, but it looms large. 159 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 4: If you've got a a company started by two Chinese 160 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 4: citizens I think uh founded by two Chinese entrepreneurs with 161 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 4: money from a Chinese business mogul based in San Diego, 162 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 4: it's a troubling look inside the China cabinet. 163 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 5: If we end up losing to China or being surpassed 164 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 5: by China number of ways. The way we allowed that 165 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 5: to happen is one of the biggest stories in history. 166 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 5: It's like Athens and Sparta stuff. I mean it's just huge. 167 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the Trojan Horse, but over the course of 168 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 4: decades and an enormously complex operation. But the Chinese never 169 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 4: underestimate your enemy. 170 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 2: You know. 171 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 4: Not only did Sung two say that, but many generals 172 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 4: have throughout history, military theoreticians, they understand American people a 173 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: are super business horps it. If there's money to be made, 174 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 4: we're interested. And secondly, we're friendly and open hearted, and 175 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 4: we think everybody else is too until they've stabbed us twice. 176 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 4: They could stab us once and we think, well, maybe 177 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 4: that was a mistake because we're so naive about other 178 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 4: cultures around the world. So you combine that, you know, 179 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 4: business friendliness with just an open heartedness, and we're incredibly 180 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 4: easy to deceive as a people. 181 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 5: That's a nice little feature you put together there. I 182 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 5: got a handful of things that don't fit into any feature. 183 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 5: I just think they're interesting. Something somebody heard in a 184 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 5: government meeting yesterday that I found funny new movie that's out, 185 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 5: a biopic that I'm kind of interested in. A bunch 186 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 5: of other stuff on the way mine more details coming 187 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 5: out on that Ukrainian strike in Russia. Freaking fascinating, lots 188 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 5: of stuff on the way, stay here. 189 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 7: Colorado Rockies became the third fastest team to reach fifty 190 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 7: losses in an MLB history, making them the worst team 191 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 7: in the last one hundred and twenty five years. In response, 192 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 7: the team has announced that at future games they're changing 193 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 7: take me out to the ballgame to take me out 194 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 7: behind the shed and kill me. 195 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 4: Wow, it's a little dark kind of joke of that. Hey, 196 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 4: they'll turn it around. You're gonna bring some boys up 197 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 4: from Triple A. 198 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 2: It'll be fine. 199 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 5: Remember, originally the Colorado need to gold yeller on them. Yes, 200 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 5: Originally when the Colorado Rocky started playing, it was the 201 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 5: air is so thin and home runs unfair advantage, blah 202 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 5: blah blah. Now they're the worst team in one hundred 203 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 5: and twenty five years. 204 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: So yeah, whoops. 205 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 5: A number of things for you just came across this. 206 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: The Army has met its recruitment goal four months early. 207 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 5: That's a different vibe that we apparently have in the 208 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 5: country going right now than was happening under oh Man Biden. 209 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 5: Different story. This is from a government meeting. I'll be 210 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 5: very vague. I don't want to get anybody in trouble 211 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 5: who told me yesterday at this government meeting they were at. 212 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 5: It was an all day meeting. At the start of 213 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 5: one of the meetings, a woman raised her hand and 214 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 5: tearfully asked that the speaker stop saying you guys because 215 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 5: it was gender hurtful. So now the speaker says, y'all, wow, 216 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 5: I know it's hard to believe that actually exists. 217 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: Please then not use gendered language to advress everyone. Again. 218 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 2: That's the you people are crazy morons. 219 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 4: Meme of like a decade ago, or certainly five years ago. 220 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 2: When did the NBA Finals start? Michael? Is that tonight? 221 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: I believe so. Yeah, Pacers and City. 222 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 6: Yeah. 223 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 2: And I think the Thunder just gonna win the whole thing. Yeah. 224 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 5: I don't know what the ratings are going to be 225 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 5: like either, anyway, Uh, just gonna mention this. The Knicks 226 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 5: had the best run, the New York Kniggs had the 227 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 5: best run they'd had in a quarter of a century, 228 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 5: and they fired the code because they didn't make it further. 229 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 5: I have been with my favorite teams on the wrong 230 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 5: end of this many times. You have the best season 231 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 5: you've ever had, but don't make it all the way 232 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 5: to your fiery coach, and then it's another quarter century. 233 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 2: Before you ever get close again. I don't understand that. Yeah, 234 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 2: we would have gone all the way if it weren't 235 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: for that. 236 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 4: More on, let's switch everything out because we're automatically going 237 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 4: to be as good next year. 238 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, that's a funny thing that happens in sports. 239 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 5: Speaking of sports, a biopick coming out about one of 240 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 5: the more fascinating people in all of history of sports, 241 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 5: Raiders coach, then popular announcer than video game mogul. As 242 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 5: my son is super into playing Madden right now, John Madden. 243 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 5: Have you seen the pictures of Nicholas Cage as John Madden? 244 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 2: I have not let me test Cage. Let me text 245 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 2: that to everybody right now. 246 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, Nicholas Cage is going to play John Madden in 247 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 4: the bio pick And in this picture right here, he 248 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 4: looks exactly like young John Madden, who used to stroll 249 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 4: the line with his shaggy hair the sidelines as the 250 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 4: coach of the Oakland Raiders. 251 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 2: So looks pretty good to me. 252 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 4: I'd like to see a biopic of Nicholas Cage, who 253 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 4: will like make any movie that will write him a check, 254 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 4: no matter how ridiculous and is an extremely gifted actor. 255 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean he's had some great role goes 256 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 4: back and forth between super amazing art and then just 257 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 4: crap for a bacheic Maybe that's how he funds. 258 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 2: The art, right sure. And then for some reason yesterday 259 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: I came across this. 260 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 5: I know this was a story like six months ago, 261 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 5: the whole you can stop a baby from crying by 262 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 5: throwing a slice of cheese on their head? Have you 263 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 5: ever actually watched in these videos? 264 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 2: Not that I recall, pretty entertaining. It's lots sounds like it. 265 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 5: It's lots and lots of babies crying, and then you 266 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 5: throw a slice of that, you know, not really cheese, 267 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 5: American cheese on their head, and. 268 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 4: You're not throwing it at the baby. You're just tossing 269 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 4: it their head. Pretty close to throwing it at the baby. 270 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 4: I don't yeah it throwing it at the baby. You 271 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: throw the cheese I'm not comfortable slaps on their head 272 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 4: and then they stop crying, which is not surprising in 273 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 4: that if you know, if you've had a crying baby 274 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 4: and you say. 275 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 2: Hey, now what's going on? Who's who's in a good mood? 276 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: You know, you can. 277 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 5: You can just you just interrupt their flow or what 278 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 5: they're thinking about. Often they stopped crying, but so will 279 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 5: slice the cheese apparently, But it's pretty funny. 280 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, Katie, I don't know about the baby one, 281 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 8: but I have seen the trend where people are doing 282 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 8: this with their cats. 283 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: Oh really, hey, so I'm behind your toddlers of body training. 284 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 2: Isn't going well? Hit them in the head with a ham? 285 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 2: I mean, what the hell? This is child abuse. 286 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 4: I won't sit around chuckling about this so dary product 287 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 4: involved child abuse? 288 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 5: What do you do with the slice of cheese and 289 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 5: the cat? I mean, what what? What reaction are you 290 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 5: trying to get? 291 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 2: Exact same thing as the baby? 292 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 5: They just kind of lean back and you know, did 293 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 5: you to figure out why. 294 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 2: You just toss a piece of cheese on my head? 295 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 2: Cheese my face? 296 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 4: It is definitely an interrupter if you will, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 297 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 4: yeah yeah, it gets your. 298 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: Where was I before this cheese was thrown on my head? Ah? Yes, 299 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 2: the crying more news of the day. Ah what Elon 300 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 2: Musk said, ooh drama. 301 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 5: I feel a little complicit in this, although I still 302 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 5: think it was an interesting story. So There is a 303 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 5: been a couple of profiles on the daughter of the 304 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 5: weird flamethrower psychopath terrorist uh Boulder suspect's daughter dreamed of 305 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 5: studying medicine. 306 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 2: Now she faces deportation. 307 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 5: US day to day has As somebody pointed out, I'm 308 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 5: glad you USA Today found the real victim. They've done 309 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 5: zero profiles and any of the people burned in the attack. 310 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, USA Today is shameless. Yeah. 311 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 5: It is interesting though that it seems his daughter is 312 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 5: an American loving successful What a great country where a 313 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 5: woman can be a doctor person and her dad is 314 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 5: a nut job? 315 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: Is lomiest scumbag? Yes? 316 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 4: Correct, coming up next segment. And I don't think I'm 317 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 4: over selling this. I've figured it all out. I don't 318 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 4: think I'm over selling this. I've figured it all out. 319 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 4: We're talking the national debt and deficit and what the 320 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 4: future is going to be. Just because I've figured it 321 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 4: out doesn't mean you're gonna like it. 322 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 2: Stay with us. 323 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 5: My son hits me with that every once in a while. 324 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 5: You know that I've figured out the meaning of life. 325 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 4: Okay, finally, Yes, So this's got a lot of attention. Yesterday, 326 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 4: Peter Doocey in the White House press room. 327 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 5: This gets to the whole auto pen. Who was running 328 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 5: the country. Did Joe Biden know what he was doing? 329 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 2: Story? 330 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 8: Look at these last minute pardons, the big ones, Biden siblings, 331 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 8: Fauci January sixth Committee. Most of the big ones had 332 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 8: the same, very neat signature. We would expect that probably 333 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 8: to be the auto pen. There is one that looks different, 334 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 8: It looks authentic. Is this White House of the opinion 335 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 8: that the only pardon that would count is one of 336 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 8: the presidents signed himself. 337 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 2: Very interesting. 338 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: The President is making a good point when he discusses 339 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: the usage of the autopen. Who was running the country 340 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: for the past four years. Perhaps those documents were signed 341 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: with the autopen. Something that this I believe the Department 342 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: of Justice is looking into. As you saw Ed Martin 343 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: made an announcement at the Department of Justice this morning 344 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: to launch an investigation because the American people deserve answers. 345 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 5: So we have James Colmer, he's head of the committee. 346 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 5: I'll just sum up for him so he can move on. 347 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 4: He says they're going to bring some White House staffers 348 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 4: in front of Congress and do some grilling and we'll see. 349 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 4: But it is kind of interesting that in that flurry 350 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 4: of last minute pardons there's a bunch that appear to 351 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 4: be the auto pen. It's hard to argue that Biden 352 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 4: wasn't behind those, since it was his own family and everything. 353 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 4: But then there's one extra with a different signature. Did 354 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: somebody slide that in? And you know the most of 355 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 4: the most of these or was that the only one 356 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: the Mummy was aware of? 357 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: True? True? Yeah? 358 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, and the whole the whole move there 359 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 4: in the last week to take drug offenders and move 360 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 4: their life sentence to probation or whatever. Was that super 361 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 4: progressive staff members that were into that, or was that 362 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 4: a big Joe Biden caused his whole life? And I 363 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 4: remember at the time it. 364 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: Seemed kind of weird. Yeah. 365 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 4: I still predicted very little will come of this because 366 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 4: it's going to be impossible to nail down anything significant. 367 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 4: But yeah, there was the Pollit Buro, as Tapper and 368 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 4: Thompson called them in the book, were running the White 369 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 4: House to a large extent. I just I'm not sure 370 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 4: there's any goal at the end of this rainbow. 371 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 5: Which is disappointing. But then there's one story I forget 372 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 5: what the policy was. But when Mike Johnson became Speaker 373 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 5: of the House, he met finally got to meet with 374 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 5: Joe Biden, and he said, why did you sign the 375 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 5: whatever it was, because that, you know, hurts this and 376 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 5: hurts that and everything like that. 377 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 2: And Joe Biden said, I didn't sign that. I'm still 378 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 2: studying that. And Johnson said, no, you signed it. 379 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 5: So either the old senile man forgot he signed it, 380 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 5: which is perfectly believable. I mean, he talked about a 381 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 5: woman being dead, then two minutes later asked to talk 382 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 5: to her, so you know. 383 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: He told the same story twice back to. 384 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 5: Back, right, So he could forget signing a bill, or 385 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 5: somebody signed it for him and he didn't know. 386 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 2: Which is also possible. 387 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, at the time, I took it to be a 388 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: senility story, but it absolutely could be, you know the latter. Yeah, 389 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 4: I'm not saying don't investigate it because it's an interesting question. 390 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: I heard somebody say the other day. Not somebody. It 391 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: wasn't like the guideline at the grocery store. 392 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 4: It was a learned commentator saying, you know, the only 393 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 4: thing that the constitution says the president actually has to 394 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,959 Speaker 4: sign is a bill, but I don't know there are 395 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 4: probably statutes surrounding that. That's just something I heard coming up. 396 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 4: I've figured it all out. 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A leader in the global race to develop 436 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 4: self driving trucks, they sent a bunch of data to Beijing. 437 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 438 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 4: Within a year and a half of this coming, Delight 439 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 4: Too Simple voluntarily just shut down its US operations, auctioned 440 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 4: off its truck, delisted from the Nasdaq, Its leaders moved 441 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 4: hundreds of millions of dollars raised from US investors from 442 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 4: the company's accounts to China, according to legal documents, and 443 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 4: started new business ventures. 444 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 5: Wow, well, it's clear what happened there. The whole thing 445 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 5: was a ruse, the entire thing. 446 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would agree, or at least it was 447 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 4: using the United States for our assets and our freedom. 448 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 2: And the moment. 449 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 4: We said no, you're going way too far and sharing, 450 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 4: you know, confidential data with the Chinese communists, they said, 451 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 4: all right, we're out, We're taking our money, goodbye. So 452 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 4: just know what you're dealing with when you're dealing with 453 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 4: the Chinese. 454 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 2: Was I supposed to have something? 455 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. We could break now. I thought, 456 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 4: that's on talking on, Yeah, why not? After one more 457 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 4: quick mention, the phrase welcome in is driving people crazy? 458 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 5: What highly controversial? Welcome in? Does somebody say that to you? 459 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 5: When do people say that to you? 460 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 2: Oh? All the time they do, Oh yeah. 461 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 4: Welcome in, welcome homes or a restaurant all of the 462 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 4: above stores, and it's driving people great facilities. Yes, why 463 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 4: do people say welcome in all of a sudden Why 464 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,959 Speaker 4: not just welcome? Why? 465 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 5: I don't ever interact with people, so I'm the wrong person. 466 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 5: But also that gets to the whole we've got to 467 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 5: I saved this for today because I wanted to talk 468 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 5: about it when you were here. 469 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 2: The whole. 470 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 5: Is there a crisis with men, adult men and friends 471 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 5: in America? Aw, some people just claim there is. I 472 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 5: don't know if there is or not, But we'll talk 473 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 5: about that later. So coming up the solution to the 474 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 5: national debt problem. You're going to hate it. 475 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 4: Stay with us, Armstrong he Yetti. 476 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 3: Just days after leaving the Trump administration, Elon Musk ripping 477 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 3: into the bill at the heart of President Trump's agenda. 478 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore, Musk 479 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 3: posted on x this massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending 480 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 3: bill is a disgusting abomination. It comes just hours after 481 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 3: Trump declared the bill a big winner, but Musk now 482 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 3: insisting the bill will massively increase the already gigantic budget 483 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 3: deficit to two point five trillion dollars and burden American 484 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 3: citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt. 485 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 5: The rest of that tweet was Elon saying everybody who 486 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 5: voted for it should be ashamed of themselves. 487 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 2: Right. 488 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 4: One more voice, this is Senator John Thune of Sandy, 489 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 4: of South Dakota rather thirty three. 490 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 9: Michael, will this lead to higher deficits? The answer to 491 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 9: that is no, They're going to get growth in the economy. 492 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 9: And when the economy again is grow on expanding, you 493 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 9: get more government revenue. Add to that the almost a 494 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 9: couple of trillion dollars in cuts that are in the bill, 495 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 9: and you have the most significant reduction in spending and 496 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 9: biggest amount of savings in history. 497 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 4: Okay, so we're going did you want to throw in 498 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 4: one comment before we plunge ahead? 499 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 5: The saving The savings are always on the back end 500 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 5: and don't happen the the Yeah. 501 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. So through the use of two. 502 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,239 Speaker 4: Emails, we will set up the problem. Then I will 503 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 4: hit you with the obvious solution that is not only 504 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 4: going to happen, it's happening now. Cannibalism, that's part of it. 505 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 4: So JT writes, both sides live about taxes and spending. 506 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 4: They lie to us, probably to themselves. The so called 507 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 4: Big Beautiful Bill will make the Trump tax cuts permanent 508 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 4: until they aren't, and they will stimulate the economy more 509 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 4: than letting them expire. But our economic debt problem won't 510 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 4: be solved by keeping the tax rates as they are 511 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 4: right now. Tax cuts won't pay for themselves completely. 512 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 2: They never do. 513 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 4: Alternatively, tax rate increases never bring down the deficit or 514 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 4: the debt. The government just spends more, etc. Blah blah blah. 515 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 2: So that's the problem. 516 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 4: Obviously, nobody's willing to do anything about it politically. This 517 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 4: is a brilliant, elegant solution to the debt problem. 518 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: It is also horrifying. 519 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 4: This is from frequent correspondent Pawlow, who's compiled a couple 520 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 4: of different sources, and I am completely convinced if this 521 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 4: is in any way wrong, Please tell us why. Mail 522 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 4: bag at Armstrong e getty dot com. A theory about 523 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 4: Trump's economic strategy, and it's not just Trump's by the way, 524 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 4: to intro Intrapolo's flow, They're going to let inflation fix 525 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 4: the debt. 526 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: It's not a new idea. 527 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 4: Fixing it in a sensible way is probably politically impossible anyway, 528 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. We have an enormous debt, and it 529 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 4: is practically politically impossible to raise taxes enough or cut 530 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 4: spending enough to retire that debt and those deficits. So 531 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 4: what if we could enact a gigantic hidden tax that 532 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 4: people didn't realize they were being taxed. 533 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 2: That's inflation. 534 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 4: If you've been listening to the show, we explained it 535 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 4: many times how inflation is a hidden tax. You accumulate 536 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 4: a certain amount of debt, you print enough money and 537 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 4: put it out into circulation. 538 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 2: That million dollars of debt you owed. 539 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 4: A few years later, a million dollars feels like half 540 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 4: a million dollars. You know how inflation work. If it's prices, 541 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 4: it's in reverse. But it's almost like you look back 542 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 4: at the rent you paid in nineteen ninety four and 543 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 4: you're thinking, wow, that's quaint. Well what if that was 544 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 4: a debt, you'd think, wow, that's quaint. 545 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: I can pay that off. 546 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 4: Right. So, getting back to Powello's email, Trump wants to 547 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 4: goose the booming economy. He'll do it and let fiscal 548 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 4: policy resolve the situation later, or at least that's how 549 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 4: we'll rationalize it, and again the Democrats are fully on board. 550 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 2: My god, look at the inflation during the Biden years. 551 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 4: All it takes is a fed that keeps interest rates low, 552 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 4: come hell or high water, and inflation be damned. The 553 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 4: inflation that follows effectively lowers the debt and effectively taxes 554 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 4: everybody at an equal, hard to predict and probably very 555 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 4: high rate. That's probably a doable plan, just takes a 556 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 4: handful of people to pull it off. Anything that requires 557 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 4: Congress will probably never happen. It's called fiscal dominance. And 558 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 4: I've got a couple of articles that we could get 559 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 4: a little more into detail, slash into the weeds, but 560 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 4: you've got the broad outlines of it. We pay off 561 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 4: the debt through fueling inflation. 562 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 2: Well, just from. 563 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 5: A tax standpoint, if you treat it as a tax, 564 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 5: at least it gets spread among everybody, and it's not 565 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 5: the very very narrow tax base that is so incredibly 566 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 5: unfair and. 567 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 2: Keeps us from ever dealing with anything. 568 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 5: But that doesn't work in this case, because we just 569 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 5: can't keep spending more than we take in and hiding 570 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 5: it in Inflation is not a good idea. 571 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 4: Oh no, it's a horrifying idea. Yeah, it is, what's 572 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 4: going to happen. Yeah, Nick G. Lispie is a guy 573 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 4: who runs reason on their libertarians. He's a hardcore libertarian. 574 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 4: Oh he's wears the other jacket. It's the libertarian look. 575 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 4: He was, really, you want to be ready. 576 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 5: He was responding to Senator Tom Cotton who tweeted out 577 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 5: today our tax cuts were set up America for economic growth, 578 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 5: and he said, simply, Nick Gllspie said, simply not true. 579 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 5: The best thing you could do is reduce spending. That's 580 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 5: the one thing the government could actually control with spending. 581 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 5: And Republicans like Democrats, never cut spending yet. That's the way. 582 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 4: It's just like if you want a diet, you can 583 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 4: work out really really hard, but you gotta stop eating 584 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 4: cake and ice cream. You gotta stop taking in all 585 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 4: the glories if you really want to get it under control. 586 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 4: Sure you don't grow on the economy, that's all great, 587 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 4: But we gotta stop spending so much. 588 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 2: You just have to. 589 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 4: It's the only way you're actually going to ever get there. 590 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 4: But we won't, or we haven't yet. Well, I think 591 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 4: our two grimly realistic correspondents absolutely nailed it. Americans won't 592 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 4: consent to taxes high enough to take care of the problem. 593 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: Congress wouldn't even try to pass it anyway. 594 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 4: It's politically untenable, and as we've seen illustrated all too 595 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 4: vividly in the recent Republican effort to do anything about Medicaid. Yeah, 596 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 4: which if you're not familiar with it, it's gone from 597 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 4: a very small program that was supposed to help the 598 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 4: most beleaguered and poor among us to now a program 599 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 4: for millions and millions of able bodied working people who 600 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 4: just don't feel like working, and they're on the government 601 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 4: doll even raining that in slightly. The Democrats mobilized a 602 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 4: massive and fairly effective they're trying to render blind people 603 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 4: homeless and kick poverty stricken babies, and it worked enough 604 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 4: that Republicans backed off. They thought, there's no win in 605 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 4: this fight. Screw it, We'll just keep Medicaid as it is. 606 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, the Republicans I see on any of the talk shows, 607 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 5: they don't do a good job of selling it as Hey, 608 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 5: we got a bunch of lazy bums on Medicaid that 609 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 5: shouldn't be getting it. They must think that politically that 610 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 5: doesn't work, you know. 611 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 2: I read a piece by Carl Rove. 612 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people in the kind 613 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 4: of the newer Conservatism don't like Carl Rove at all. 614 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 4: And you know, he's got a flaw. He's got flaws 615 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 4: like all of us. But he was arguing and he 616 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 4: fleshed it out. I might be able to find it. 617 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 4: But he said, look, we've just got to pitch the 618 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 4: idea that there are freeloaders ripping off the system. Just 619 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 4: use the word freeloaders and point out how the freeloaders 620 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 4: are taking benefits from the blind people and the poor 621 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 4: people and the. 622 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 2: Babies, which is true. 623 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 4: And I read it and I thought, that's brilliantly obviously, 624 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 4: simply effective. But either the Republicans are gutless cowards, which 625 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 4: is certainly possible, or they have perceived that no, that 626 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 4: just it doesn't work, it's too easy to frighten people, 627 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 4: or we're. 628 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 2: Not even going to try. 629 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 5: Or is it that along with those freeloaders have been 630 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 5: voting republic in the last couple of cycles, they're now 631 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 5: Trump voters, They're now Republican voters. The freeloaders, Hello, we 632 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 5: can't be calling out the freeloaders. 633 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 4: Right, your rust belt, your Appalachia whatever, where the plant 634 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 4: is closed and everybody's on disability now and getting government checks. Yeah, 635 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,359 Speaker 4: it's the hillbilly elogy crowd. Honestly, JD tell us about it. Yeah, 636 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 4: that's really frustrating. Yeah, I'm sorry to bring you bad tidings. 637 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 4: But now that I see it, I see the problem 638 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 4: in the solution, it makes perfect sense. It's a puzzle 639 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 4: piece that fits. 640 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 5: The latest number from the CBO just came out on 641 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 5: the disgusting abomination and says the bill could add two 642 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 5: point four trillion dollars to the national debt over the 643 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 5: next decade. The CBO, of course, it's if it's your 644 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 5: opponent's bill, you claim it's accurate. If it's your bill, 645 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 5: you claim they never get it right, and then it 646 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 5: flips when they the other. 647 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:18,720 Speaker 2: Side has power. 648 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 4: Of course, keep in mind, is you pointed out quite 649 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 4: aptly not long ago. The spending is immediate, The savings 650 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 4: and the cuts are a few years down the road, 651 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 4: and they never end up happening. No, so the CBO 652 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 4: is underestimated. I would guess the adding to the debt. 653 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, and Mike Johnson can make accurate arguments about cutting 654 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 5: spending mathematically, but if the spending is down the road 655 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 5: when there will be a different administration in different Congress, 656 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,439 Speaker 5: and then they do away with it at the time, 657 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 5: doesn't make any difference. 658 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 2: And that has happened over and over and over again. 659 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, honey, if we buy this vote, I will give 660 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 4: up drinking and golf in twenty twenty seven. 661 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 2: My argument for us being right is just look at 662 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 2: a graph of US debt. 663 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 5: It only goes one direction, no matter who's president, no 664 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 5: matter who has control of all three branches, it just 665 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 5: goes one way. 666 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 2: Oh no, that's just a technicality. I don't see your 667 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 2: point at all. Oh my god, it's frustrating. Yeah, so 668 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 2: democracy doesn't work anymore. We tried. We gave it a 669 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 2: good try. 670 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 5: If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and 671 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,240 Speaker 5: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty