1 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: The Armstrong and getting shot attention. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: Walmart choppers. 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 3: Instead of rolling back prices, America's biggest retailer just announced 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 3: they're raising them and they're blaming Trump's tariffs. How many 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 3: more stories are going to have to follow Walmart's lead. 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that story broke while we're on there yesterday. I 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: should have mentioned it. I just wasn't in the mood, 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: but probably should have been a big deal. Walmart saying 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 2: they're gonna raise prices because of tariffs. For one thing, 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 2: They're the biggest retailer in the world. Like Jake said, there, lion, lion, 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper. 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 4: And I was just gonna say, the list of voices 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 4: I can hear on our show that don't immediately sour 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 4: me to what they're saying is shrinking. David Muher of 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 4: ABC News, Please, I know if I need to know 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 4: what time of day it wasn't he had a watch. 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 4: I wouldn't ask him because I don't want to hear 18 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 4: his stinking voice. 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 2: And Jake Tapper, I'm. 20 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry, Jake, the great Sherlock Holmes style solver of 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 4: mysteries who figured out that Biden was senile. 22 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: Please more on that a little bit later. I'll tell 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: you what it is personal between Mark Alprin, who's got 24 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: a new TV show that's on YouTube every night. It's 25 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: on YouTube and somewhere else. It's really good. I mean 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: it looks like a TV show. He's sitting there in 27 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 2: a suit and tie with a TV storreter background, has guests. 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: But man, he is killing Jake Tapper and then with 29 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: receipts every single night. Maybe I get into that while 30 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: we're on it. Why the hell not? Why not? So 31 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: Tapper has got this book coming out next week right 32 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 2: where he's going to try to be the hero of 33 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 2: the story and bring you all these behind the scenes 34 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: details of what was going on with the cover up, 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: and practically everybody's well not true. I was gonna say 36 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: everybody's reaction, but no, The New York Times and The 37 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: Washington Post and CNN's own media person have reviewed the 38 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: book like, oh, oh my god, Jake Tapper has uncovered 39 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: some secrets that are oh wait till you hear this. 40 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 4: Okay, why don't we just say everyone who's not guilty 41 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 4: of precisely the same crimes as Jake Tapper have reacted 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 4: this way to jack Jake Tapper's. 43 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: Book right, And so Jake Tapper, as we mentioned yesterday, 44 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: I hired some PR firm when it became fairly obvious 45 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: that some people are like, oh, give me a break. 46 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: You can't set the fire, put out the fire, and 47 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: then take credit for taking you putting out the fire 48 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: and act like you didn't. I mean, nig We're not 49 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: just putting up with this. And so Mark Hauprin, whose 50 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 2: main thing is as a news guy, I think he's 51 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: got two things going for him. One, he got driven 52 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: out of the industry when he got me tooed around 53 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: what two thousand and twenty twenty one somewhere in there. 54 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people he's like, you 55 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 2: didn't come to my defense, screw you. So I don't 56 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: think he cares if he hurts any feelings here with 57 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: Carlin aut. 58 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 4: We're one of the first shows to have him back on, 59 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 4: by the way, and you know, I'm not sensing a 60 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 4: lot of gratitude, but anyway. 61 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: And the other end of it is he really is 62 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 2: concerned about the state of media and if people don't 63 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: believe the media, we can't hold any president's accountable. He said, 64 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: you can't hold Trump accountable because he lost all of 65 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 2: your credibility with Biden, and you know, vice versa. So 66 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: just the media can't do its job and we're doomed 67 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 2: if the media can't hold either party accountable, which is 68 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 2: obviously a problem. He regularly calls this, and he's absolutely correct, 69 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: the biggest media failure in US history. It absolutely is. 70 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: What would compare to pretending that the president is fine 71 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 2: for all those years? Anyway? So I think we did. 72 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: First of all, I can't just look at the list quickly, 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 2: handsome that clip I sent you to get Okay, here 74 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: it is here, it is. I want you to play 75 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: forty and let me set this up real quick. So 76 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: back toward this was before the election. Wall Street Journal 77 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: does a not even really strong piece about how Biden's 78 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 2: brain doesn't work anymore, and it made such waves in 79 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 2: the world of media. The Wall Street Journal says the 80 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: president isn't fit and mental, that he'd be to be 81 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 2: in office, and he's certainly to be president for another 82 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: four years. I remember presenting it to the good folks 83 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,679 Speaker 2: on our show, where we decided, yeah, this is good, solid, 84 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: a good solid accounting of that which all of us 85 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: can see with our own eyes. But man, he got 86 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: somebody's serious pushback, and that's when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC 87 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 2: went nuts and said, hey, look at the camera, af 88 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,119 Speaker 2: you if you don't believe this is the best version 89 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 2: of Joe Biden. I mean, people pushed back hard, including 90 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper, who had on various guests to counter the 91 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal narrative and let them say their piece 92 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: completely unchallenged on his showback at the time yesterday he 93 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 2: has the gall in trying to rewrite history to have 94 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 2: these Wall Street Journal reporters on and called them heroes. 95 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,119 Speaker 2: Here it is clip forty. They're with me now. 96 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 3: Two of the heroic reporters were covering this intensely during 97 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: the Biden years, any Lensky and Shevon Hughes. They are 98 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 3: with the Wall Street Journal. They reported in decline of 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 3: Biden's mental acuity back in June of last year. The 100 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 3: piece then quote behind closed Doors, Biden shows signs of 101 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: slipping participants in meetings that the eighty one year old 102 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden 103 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 3: is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics. 104 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 2: Unquote. 105 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 3: This is not the first time you guys have been 106 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 3: on I said it last year. Before the election, and 107 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 3: I'll say it again, the journalism you did was vi 108 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 3: and the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful. 109 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 2: Which you participated in the smear campaign by Democrats against 110 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal reporters at the time he helped along 111 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 2: And again getting to the Wholemark Alprin thing his TV 112 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: show last night, I mean, he's been dedicating so much 113 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: time to this. He had a segment where the next 114 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 2: day or the day of the Wall Street Journal piece, 115 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 2: Tapper had on Kons, Senator Kuhons, Big Biden advocate and 116 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: surrogate and on there and just tore into the Wall 117 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 2: Street Journal and says, where's the Wall Street Journal criticizing 118 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: Trump for when he gets a name wrong? And Tapper 119 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 2: let him say his giant piece, no pushback whatsoever. So 120 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 2: he participated. And the Democrats tearing down the Wall Street 121 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 2: Journal then has the balls to have them on yesterday 122 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 2: and call them heroes. I mean, that is another level. 123 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 4: And to make the point repeatedly in his introduction that 124 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 4: I've been on this story the whole time. I'd said 125 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 4: this last to eight year, I'm saying it now along 126 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 4: with that other stuff I said all through the Biden 127 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 4: years that I'm sure everybody remembers. Jake Tapper cannot hear 128 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 4: the Cosmos screaming at him, saying, Jake, you can't defend you. 129 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 4: This is not working. You're just reminding people of what 130 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 4: a liar you are. You cannot be your main advocate 131 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 4: because you got no credibility. 132 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: Chum. I don't know if it's gonna matter, because it's 133 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: people in the usual circles. If you read the Washington 134 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: Post in the New York Times, you're you're they're taking 135 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 2: in this book like, oh my god, did you hear? 136 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: And and Fox and everybody leaning right who already knew 137 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: Joe Biden was in the situation he is, you know, 138 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: are laughing at this book. But he must, he must 139 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: be worried to do what he did yesterday. This was yesterday. 140 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 2: Oh he had the Wall Street Journals reporters on and 141 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 2: called them heroes. I mean, how do you sit there 142 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 2: and do that. 143 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 4: It's pathetic, it's de and it's so clearly desperation. That's 144 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 4: what That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I would be embarrassed. 145 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 2: I would be embarrassed to go that far. 146 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 4: Yes, Uh, you know, it's funny. I just had the 147 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 4: feeling wash over me. 148 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: That. Uh, the. 149 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 4: Utter dishonesty of the mainstream media has been recognized by 150 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 4: the vast, vast majority of the American people. They're less 151 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 4: popular or less trusted than any institution but Congress, which 152 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 4: should make you shudder as a fan of the Constitution. 153 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 4: And and they're they're their punishment's already been exacted upon them. 154 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: They're laughing stocks. Here's the problem. Though it hurts us. 155 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 2: If it only hurt them, i'd be fine with that. 156 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 2: I don't care. But it's not. This is Helpern's point. 157 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: It's bad for the country. So you're they've been punished, 158 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: they've gotten what they deserved, but with having an eight 159 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 2: percent of approval rating. But that's a terrible place for 160 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: us to be as a country. And they're not great, 161 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 2: and they're not trying to dig themselves out of it. 162 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 2: They're making it worse. Well, I'll read from Mark Alprin's 163 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 2: Today he quote, I'm not against it, I'm having lots 164 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: of fun. He quotes Politico Today in his newsletter, This 165 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 2: is Politico Today. It was what happened in that debate 166 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 2: was a shock to me. Jake Sullivan told Playbooks Jack 167 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 2: Blanchard at Politico's Security summerd on Thursday. I think it 168 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 2: was a shock to everybody, So Jake Sullivan saying this 169 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: week that it was a shock to everyone around Joe 170 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: Biden when he showed up, that they acted that way. 171 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: House Les Alpin writes, no one can legitimately say they 172 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 2: were shocked by what happened in the debate because Biden 173 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 2: exhibited all the same behaviors in public four years, and 174 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: goes on to say, oh my god, reporters need to 175 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: stop asking Democrats, were you surprised by the debate? Or 176 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: should Biden have run for reelection? Or did you see 177 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 2: signs of decline in private? The correct question at this 178 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 2: p point is, given Joe Biden's obvious mental decline in public, 179 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: why didn't you speak up? That should be the only 180 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 2: question every single time, right right, And if you're going 181 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 2: to talk to reporters, it should be But the reporter, 182 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 2: given his obvious decline, why weren't you reporting on that? 183 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 4: There are only two possible Well, yeah, for the politicos 184 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 4: the one question, reporters another, But the only possible answer 185 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 4: for politicos would be I place my party above my country. Well, 186 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 4: the second answer might be, look, I go along to 187 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 4: get along. 188 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: That's what politicians do. 189 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 4: Third answer, and if they were going to be honest, 190 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 4: they would say this, Kamala Harris is an effing idiot. 191 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 4: I figured we were better off with old man Biden 192 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 4: his inner circle than that half wit from California and 193 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 4: her band of renegade dopes. 194 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: The why to that is, and this is what Alpen 195 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: points out all the time, is that they hated Trump 196 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 2: so much they just didn't want him to win. Whatever 197 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: kept him from winning. Yeah, that's answer for right, yep. Yeah. 198 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 2: And but to go so far to bring in those 199 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal reporters, they should have called him out 200 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 2: there on the show you're calling a well, I wish 201 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 2: one of them would have said, you're calling me a hero. 202 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: You had guest after guest on to terras apart at 203 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 2: the time. 204 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's weird, Jake. I was an idiot last year. 205 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 4: Now I'm a hero. 206 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 2: Huh. That's a great hero heroic coverage because they were 207 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: able to report what everybody already knew. 208 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 4: This is. 209 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 2: Well. I keep quoting Mark Comperany, he said last night, 210 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 2: we're through the looking glass. I don't even know what 211 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 2: to say anymore? Well? 212 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, what's your next book? Jake Nixon was 213 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 4: a little paranoid. You got a book about Carter, He's 214 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 4: a well meaning fellow, but didn't do it very well. 215 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 4: You got any more crazy revelations nobody saw God? 216 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: I mean, can Jake Tapper go any farther than this 217 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 2: calling them heroes? 218 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 4: Well, the harder he tries, the more sad and pathetic 219 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 4: it is, which is what I was trying to say 220 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: about the cosmos. 221 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 2: I mean, Jake, you just gotta let it lie. 222 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 4: Dude, you are the last person who ought to be 223 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 4: saying these things. 224 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think he's just completely self unaware? That's 225 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 2: what I wonder. I have been self delusional about things before, 226 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 2: and then when it becomes evident to me how wrong 227 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: I was, I'm amazed. It's like, wow, the human brain 228 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: can do that, or my human brain did this, or 229 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 2: but he doesn't seem to want to have that what 230 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 2: How interesting would that be if he did, If he'd 231 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: be willing to come on the air and say I 232 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 2: was so against Trump winning and so just very deep 233 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: in the idea of not helping him that I ignored 234 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 2: the obvious. That would be interesting. It would be more interesting, 235 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: it would be more believable. 236 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you raised an interesting pointer, Michael did at 237 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 4: the end. There You've never had any brain but the 238 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 4: one you've had. You know, all of us obviously can 239 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 4: say that. I wonder if there are people who are 240 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 4: just way, way, way more pliable to that sort of 241 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 4: group think than I can imagine being it's got to 242 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 4: be true. 243 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: Wow, it's Jack Armstrong and Joey, the Armstrong and Getty Show, 244 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show. 245 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 5: Class as the years ago were pushed to the side 246 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 5: in favor. Of course, we're prioritizing test scores, and STEM 247 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 5: now seen as a huge opportunity. According to one survey, 248 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 5: sixty six percent of all high schools now offer career education, 249 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 5: and it's being driven by economic demand. 250 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 6: I have construction companies and I have other employers coming 251 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,479 Speaker 6: to me wanting students right out of high school. 252 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: To be career ready. We need employees. 253 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a story last week about kids being 254 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 4: recruited straight out of high school for like, you know, 255 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 4: seventy five thousand dollars a year jobs in welding and 256 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 4: that sort of thing. Interesting how that's turned culturally. Speaking 257 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 4: of which you know. It's it's partly the change, the 258 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 4: amount of change. It's making everybody crazy these days. 259 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: It's also the pace of change. 260 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 4: Like I remember, it wasn't very long ago that we 261 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 4: were telling the youngsters who are like bringing their whole 262 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 4: selves to work and taking spirit days and the rest 263 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 4: of it. I mean, because it seemed like employees had 264 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 4: all the power. 265 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 2: And there was that employees to it Monday, and I'll 266 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: work half a day Tuesday and take Fridays off. I 267 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: demand to on Friday. 268 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're trying to tell you, trust us, this 269 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 4: will not last. 270 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 2: Well, it has. 271 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 4: Not not long ago. Everybody's replaceable, as the headline the 272 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 4: story the new the way bosses talk about workers. Not 273 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 4: long ago, bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset. 274 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 4: Today with a giant question mark hanging over the economy 275 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 4: less so today after the temporary maybe you trade deal 276 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 4: with China, But executives are pulling punches, pulling no punches 277 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 4: and saying employees need to work harder, complain lesson, be 278 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 4: glad they have a job. How work life balance is 279 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 4: your problem, said Emma. Is it's greed or gridet or something? 280 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 4: Emma greed is not a good name for this article, 281 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 4: but she's the co founder of the Skims shapewear company. 282 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: I should ask my dad how many times in employers 283 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 2: seemed concerned about his work life balance when he was 284 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: a young man out there starting. 285 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 4: Work life balance is your problem, she said. Starbucks, after 286 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 4: cutting in more than a thousand jobs, there's a new CEO, 287 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 4: Brian Nichols said, remaining corporate staff need to step it 288 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 4: up her own and own whether or not this place grows. 289 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 4: Jamie Diamond, in a profo he laced internal meeting, told 290 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 4: employees lamenting a return to work mandate that he didn't care. 291 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 4: I've had it with this kind of stuff. I've been 292 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 4: working seven days a week since COVID. 293 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 2: I come in. Where is everybody else? Man? If you 294 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 2: can concern yourself with work life balance, you should consider 295 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 2: yourself among the more privileged workers in the history of 296 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 2: work on planets Earth. If it is even an option, 297 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 2: that means you've got shelter and enough food and you 298 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 2: can start to decide, you know how much do I need? Right? Right? 299 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 4: And that's not to say it's a bad idea or 300 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 4: you shouldn't. You just have to keep it in perspective, 301 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 4: the shift in tone marks a shift in power. Now 302 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: the companies are shrinking their white collar staff, with jobs 303 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 4: harder to find, many workers are seeing pricks disappear and 304 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 4: their grievance is ignored, or. 305 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: That if you don't have the luxury of being concerned 306 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 2: about work life balance, that you're somehow unique in the 307 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 2: history of working right right, Yeah, let's see again. How 308 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 2: many of our parents ever had the ever had it 309 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: crossed their mind? 310 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 4: And interestingly, they mentioned a twenty twenty three episode where 311 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 4: this one company told staffers leave Pitty City. Well, that comment, 312 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 4: made in a video call, immediately went viral, sparking days 313 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 4: of headlines and worker backlash. The CEO quickly apologized, set 314 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 4: our comments were insensitive. 315 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 2: Now it's like they're all saying it. See how long 316 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: this lasts? 317 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The 318 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getdy Show. 319 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy just because of him. Here, you're the 320 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 2: only reason I'm here to a free to talk at 321 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 2: I'm not. That's Eemen, Alexander. He was a hostage of 322 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 2: Hamas for three years. How long has it been? Four 323 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty days or something? I don't remember exactly 324 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: since October of twenty three. He was on the phone 325 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 2: with Trump yesterday saying, the only reason I'm here, You're 326 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: the only reason I'm here. You saved my life, Trumpet 327 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 2: negotiating with somebody in Hamas and bypassing Israel on that 328 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 2: whole thing and getting the guy out. So that was 329 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 2: a good story. Over the weekend, we mentioned on Friday 330 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 2: how Bruce Springsteen had bad mouthed Trump in the United 331 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: States while he was kicking off his world tour in 332 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 2: Great Britain. We are annoyed by that. It was after 333 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 2: we got off the air on Friday that Trump truth 334 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: to this out about Bruce Springsteen. I see that highly 335 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 2: overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak 336 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 2: badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, 337 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 2: never liked his music or his radical left politics, and importantly, 338 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 2: he's not a talented guy. I love the stuff like low. 339 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 2: He's just a pushy of noxious jerk all caps who 340 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 2: fervently supported crooked Joe Biden and mentally incompetent fool than 341 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 2: our worst ever president who came close to destroying our country. 342 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 2: If I wasn't elected, it would have been gone by now, 343 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 2: sleepy dough Joe didn't have a clue as to what 344 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: he was doing. But Springsteen is quote dumb as a 345 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 2: rock unquote. I like how he puts quotes. I don't 346 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 2: even know exactly what that means, and couldn't see what 347 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: was going on, or could he which is even worse. 348 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 2: This dried out prune of a rocker prune also in quotes, 349 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 2: his skin is all atrophied. Trump, right, let me close 350 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: with the sentence. I'll say it again because it's just 351 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 2: too good, This dried out prune of a rocker, his 352 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 2: skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep his mouth shut 353 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 2: until he gets back into the country. That's just standard fair, 354 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: also in quotes. Then we'll see how it goes for him. 355 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 4: All right, I'm glad you find it so amusing. I 356 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 4: just I find it very amusing. 357 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 2: On what level? Help me understand skin is attributed? I 358 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 2: think it's hilarious that the president of the United States 359 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 2: is making fun of an old rock and roller for 360 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 2: having saying his skin. I just can't believe it's even happening, right, 361 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: And we can't be held responsible for what we find amusing. 362 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 4: That's fine. I just find it troubling. It's just weird. 363 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 4: It's hell weird. Yeah, uh so, anyway, although none of 364 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 4: that's really of any consequence. And uh and and and 365 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 4: Bruce is obnoxious and a blow hard and a limousine 366 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 4: liberal and not to shut up and plays damn music. 367 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 2: Anyway, Having said that, one of the own end quotes, 368 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 2: why do you think he puts word of random words 369 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 2: in quotes? 370 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 4: What is that? That happens a lot online. It's just 371 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 4: a way to emphasize that word. 372 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a cow capitalizing it or okay, gotcha, Okay, 373 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 2: I didn't get you onto that. There you go. Yeah. 374 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 4: And you know, Hunter Thompson used to do this way 375 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 4: back in the day, and people do it online too. 376 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 4: They capitalize a word like all caps, but just capitalize 377 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 4: it to phasizes. 378 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 2: I do that. 379 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 4: I've used that quote as an amateur linguist. I think 380 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 4: it's interesting how, you know, print language evolves to imitate 381 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 4: the speaking language. Anyway, uh so, yeah, and the other 382 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 4: thing Trump tweeted out. And for the record, I've got 383 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 4: a couple of things that I've been wanting to talk about. 384 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 4: How Trump, the Trump administration has essentially put out the 385 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 4: word disparate impact. The theory of disparate impact, meaning if 386 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 4: a lower percentage of black people get accepted to be cops, 387 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 4: that's proof that the test is racist. They said, that's 388 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 4: that's wrong, it's racist, and it no longer will guide 389 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 4: any federal policy. Huge victory for common sense, for meritocracy, 390 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 4: the rest of it. Nobody's talking about that move. It's 391 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 4: incredibly important. I say, well done. So the Trump's Energy department. 392 00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 4: So the Trump government said that that that's what they're 393 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 4: going to look at it. 394 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, the administrange because the Supreme Court unfortunately has said 395 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 2: disparate impact of the thing. 396 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 4: Bring it up again. That was an obscene couple of rulings. 397 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 4: Just idiotic, indefensible anyway, And another thing, I love this headline, 398 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 4: free the gas stove. Trump's Energy Department is ACKed dozens 399 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 4: of Biden appliances and regulations like one hundred thousand pages 400 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 4: of phony green new scam regulations are gone. 401 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: God I heard a good one the other day because 402 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: I have this last two dishwashers. I've had your modern 403 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: dishwasher because of all the dumb regulations they, as has 404 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 2: been pointed out by many people, you practically have to 405 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 2: wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher 406 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: because they don't do what they used to do because 407 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: of all these different environmental regulations. 408 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, so before I kicked Trump, I just wanted to 409 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 4: mention that. I mean, for instance, let's dig into this 410 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 4: a little bit. Gone are rules bad a wide swath 411 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 4: of gas stoves. Gone are the strict water standards governing 412 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 4: dishwashers and shower, And gone is the government wide effort 413 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 4: to force electrification of the economy through appliance regulations, all 414 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 4: part of a historic action the Trump administration announced today 415 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 4: reversing dozens of energy regulations, saving consumers more than eleven 416 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 4: billion dollars and cutting more than one hundred and twenty 417 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 4: five thousand words from the United States Code of Regulations. 418 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 4: Great stuff, great, great, great, save you money. 419 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Amen. Okay. I like when Trump says things like 420 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: in Brucebrington he has no talent. What I just find 421 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: that so bizarre. It's like screaming that Kareem abdul Jabbar 422 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 2: wasn't even tall, right, That's just absurd. 423 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 4: Anyway, So he was tweeting truthing out a bunch of 424 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 4: stuff the other day, including and I'll just go ahead 425 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 4: and shout the stuff that's in all caps. 426 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: Walmart should stop. 427 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 4: Trying to blame tariffs is the reason for raising prices 428 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 4: throughout the chain. Walmart made billions of dollars last year, 429 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 4: far more than expected between Walmart and China. They should 430 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 4: eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything. I'll 431 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 4: be watching, and so will your customers. Well, many exclamation 432 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 4: points as usual. I agree with Bernie Sanders or disagree 433 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 4: with Bernie Sanders. I don't like Bernie when he does 434 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 4: this sort of thing. Oh that was Trump, you'd say, yes, 435 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 4: this was also Trump. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamlaw 436 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 4: announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls. Her 437 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 4: plan is very dangerous because it may sound good politically. 438 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 4: This is communists, this is Marxist, this is fascist. Yes, 439 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 4: both statements by Donald Trump. Last year he blasted Kamala 440 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 4: Harris's proposal for price controls on groceries. Now he's attacking 441 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 4: Walmart for warning that it will have to raise prices 442 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 4: in the wake of the tariffs. 443 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 2: Well, and you know in claiming that Walmart would only 444 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: raise price is to make more profit. You made. You 445 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 2: made enough money last year. Basically is what he's saying. 446 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 2: He made billions last year. Okay, when has this become 447 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: a conservative thing? You tell companies you've made enough. 448 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 4: Money, Yeah, I'll be going to play your golf courses 449 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 4: for free, sir, because you made enough money last year. 450 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 2: So, and the other part of it is. 451 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 4: You know, it's it's a rebuttal of what he's claimed 452 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 4: himself for months. He said the foreign producers will pay 453 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 4: the full cost to tariffs, but now he's admitting that 454 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 4: Walmart and American retailer will have to eat some of 455 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 4: the costs or pass them on to their customers. And 456 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 4: Walmart's net profit margin is less than three percent. 457 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 2: Now, it's an enormous company. 458 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 4: So if you have two point eight percent profit on 459 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 4: you know, a company of that size, that's a hell 460 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 4: of a number. But it doesn't have a bunch of 461 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 4: room to absorb the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail 462 00:25:54,280 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 4: competition is incredibly intense, and Walmart's longtime comparative advantages has 463 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 4: been lower prices. And what bothers me is Number one 464 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 4: Trump trying to tell Walmart how to run its business, 465 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 4: and number two like that vague threat of retribution. 466 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's not cool. I'm I'm against that no 467 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: matter who's the president. 468 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 4: Sorry, if you're just a hardcore you know, Trump fan, 469 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 4: or or you figure if admitting anything is wrong, that 470 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 4: will weaken the case and Democrats will win and the 471 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 4: rest of it. 472 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 2: You know, I see your point, but I just can't 473 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: very very bernie aoc. You could imagine either one of 474 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 2: them shouting that on the no Oligarchs tour, right, Yeah, 475 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 2: Walmart is plenty of money. They have too much profit. 476 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 2: We'll hold the Walmart accountable if they raise prices. That's 477 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: a very Bernie Sanders thing to say. 478 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 4: And as always, my real concern and the reason I 479 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 4: bring this up, is the dumb stuff Trump does might 480 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 4: derail the fabulous stuff he does, and that would kill me. 481 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 2: Do you mean dumb politically or for the way Conservatism 482 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 2: out of work politically? I think the Republicans, you know, 483 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 2: going for this big, beautiful bill that gives perfectly healthy, 484 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 2: working age men free healthcare might be a good idea. 485 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 2: That's what bothers me. 486 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 4: Right right, I think, Yeah, the saying what he said 487 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 4: about Walmart and the rest of it, I don't think 488 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,719 Speaker 4: he's going to make much political difference. 489 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 2: At all. 490 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 4: I think the whole teriff thing will though. It'll mess 491 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 4: up the economy either. 492 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 2: A little or a lot. I don't even know where 493 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 2: we are in terms of politics and the parties and stuff. 494 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 2: It's very difficult for me to figure out. There are probably, 495 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: to the extent that they saw it, many many, many, 496 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 2: many would consider themselves Republican voters who said, yeah, screw 497 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: Walmart trying to raise. 498 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 4: Prices on us. Yeah, yeah, these are weird times. There 499 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 4: are no political parties. As we were discussing. 500 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 1: Earlier Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show. 501 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 4: But speaking of immigration, I'm trying to remember the situation 502 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 4: before Trump got in office. 503 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 2: How is the border doing? The border is secure? 504 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,959 Speaker 4: Oh, that's right, that's right. March numbers are in. This 505 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 4: year border patrol encountered two hundred and thirty people per day, 506 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty. Last year it was seventy two hundred. 507 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 4: Biden's miserable betrayal of the country on the border. I 508 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 4: hope there are some historians who are honest enough to 509 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 4: make it clear how unconscionable it was. 510 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 2: Well, Bob Woodward, no, you know, right where in his 511 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 2: book called it the biggest migration in world history. Yeah, 512 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 2: peacetime migration in world And all it took was a 513 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 2: couple of executive orders and empowering the border patrol and 514 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 2: it ended. It ended in the blink of an eye. 515 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 2: It also ended as presidency. So I do understand. Getting 516 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 2: back to the I don't understand the politics and some 517 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 2: of these issues. It's not like it's popular. Yeah, yeah, 518 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 2: it's terrible. 519 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 4: So we've been talking about, you know, tribalism and politics 520 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 4: and the way progressive minds think and how it's different 521 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 4: from conservatives on and off. I think you'll find this 522 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 4: as interesting and amusing as I did. 523 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 2: Michael. 524 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 4: We're going to start with clip number eighty one. We 525 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 4: will discuss briefly, and then there's a bit of a reveal. 526 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 7: Donald Trump announced this past week that he would be 527 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 7: urging Ice and other administration authorities to seek out people 528 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 7: living here illegally that had broken law to deport them. 529 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 7: So have a quote for you here that's been making 530 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 7: the rounds social media about the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. 531 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 7: We are a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our laws, 532 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 7: and I believe they must be held accountable, especially those 533 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 7: who may be dangerous. That's why over the past six years, 534 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 7: deportations of criminals are up eighty percent, and we're going 535 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 7: to keep focusing on threatsto our security. What's your thought 536 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 7: on that quote in that policy in general? I think 537 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 7: that policy comes from a place of like white American nationalism. 538 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has kind of like embraced this rhetoric of 539 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: like racism and xenophobia that is not beneficial to our 540 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: country at all. 541 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 7: I don't think that that quote really stands true. This 542 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 7: administration has totally not done anything moral. 543 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 6: This is really awful. 544 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 7: Amnesty does not necessarily mean that we're losing border security. 545 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 2: I think that Trump feels that way. 546 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 7: I think that's a bad decision because like the United 547 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 7: States should be open to immigrants, like it's like they 548 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 7: call it Lands with the Free for a reason, we. 549 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 6: Have to advocate for those kind of people when people 550 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 6: like in Congress, like Ocascio QUOTEZ, who is helping people 551 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 6: overcome these kinds of things. 552 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 7: Crimes do not nullify your humanity and people are coming 553 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 7: here in search of opportunity. 554 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 2: Oh my god, several of those were hard to take. 555 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to reason what those people in the short 556 00:30:59,080 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 4: term would be a fool. 557 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 2: I don't know that you'd have to have a class 558 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 2: because they're they're greeting card rhetoric level knowledgeable or have 559 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 2: thought about this not at all? They called for a reason, 560 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of argument. It's just so transparently stupid. 561 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 2: But wait, there's a twist. 562 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 7: I'm gonna show you the person that said that quote. 563 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 2: Undocumented. Is that surprising? 564 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, a little bit, because I thought it was the 565 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 6: Trump administration that said something like that. 566 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite surprising. I thought from Trump. I didn't 567 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 2: expect it to be Obama either. Why did you not 568 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 2: expect it to be Obama? Because I'm stupid? I just 569 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 2: I guess I don't know, like it just never. It 570 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 2: never occurred to me that it could be Obama. 571 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 7: Is that surprising that it's a quote from President Obama? 572 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 2: That was surprising? For sure? 573 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 7: Do you think it's still a practice of white nationalism though, 574 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 7: to deport criminal league aliens? 575 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 2: I think the way Trump's doing. 576 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 7: It it is, but president to this point in Trump's presidency, 577 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 7: Obama actually deported more people though, so it's in practice 578 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 7: it was more from Obama, though, what's your question? 579 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 2: Can I boil this down. I'd like your question. I 580 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: think I can boil this down very simply. 581 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 4: Self governance doesn't work, and children should be seen and 582 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 4: not heard, and we must institute a nationwide compulsory child test. 583 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 4: Are you still a child? And only when you receive 584 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 4: the a of adulthood tattooed upon your body will you 585 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 4: be able to speak your damn stupid mind. And there 586 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 4: will be a variety of standards shack. 587 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 2: If you. 588 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 4: Enlist in and serve in the military honorably for at 589 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,719 Speaker 4: least a year, if you are married, if you have 590 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 4: a child, if you have paid income taxes for five years, 591 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 4: there will be a number of standards. I have an 592 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 4: open mind about this, but unless you are those things. 593 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 4: For instance, if you are a college gender studies major, 594 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 4: never had a I don't want to hear an effing 595 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 4: word out of you. You don't know enough to advise 596 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 4: an eight year old on the world. Okay, just keep learning, 597 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 4: that's fine. That doesn't mean you're a bad person. It 598 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 4: doesn't mean I hate you. I don't want the new 599 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 4: person in the office to explain to me how things 600 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 4: really work around here. 601 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 2: Okay, unfair. I was going to go with a blanket 602 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 2: rule if you can't vote till you're thirty, but yours 603 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 2: probably more fair for people who get up to speed 604 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 2: on reality a little earlier, right right, Oh God, that 605 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 2: hurts my heart. 606 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 4: I've said this before, and I wish, you know, we 607 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 4: had the power and influence to spread it. 608 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 2: It's my only lust for like more reach of the show, 609 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 2: which is great now, it's going really really well, and 610 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 2: thanks so much for the support and for listening. 611 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 4: But I don't want to make any more money. I'll 612 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 4: take it if it comes, but I just wantanity to prevail. 613 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 2: And I wish more people knew this. Adulthood life is 614 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 2: a big, complicated. 615 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 4: Complex. It's like the Ford Motor Company. Okay, it's really 616 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 4: complicated and huge and sprawling. And if you die at 617 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 4: the age of eighty eight, your last week on earth, 618 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 4: you will learn something you didn't know. You young folks, 619 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 4: your college kids especially, you've been convinced by your professors 620 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,720 Speaker 4: that you can walk into the reception area of Ford 621 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 4: Motor Company and tell everyone exactly how it works and 622 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 4: how it should be run. As you stand there in 623 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 4: the reception area, having not explored any of that giant, 624 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 4: sprawling corporation, that's what you are doing. That's why you're 625 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 4: so blanking annoying, which I was. 626 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 2: At your age, But nobody paid a damn bit of 627 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 2: attention to what you said at your age, and they 628 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 2: were better for it, and I thought it was better 629 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 2: for it. Okay, boomer um. They call it the land 630 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 2: of the Free for a reason. Oh my god, we're 631 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 2: a nation of immigrants. Boom headshot got me. 632 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 4: The statue of liberty says, Oh, I can't argue against that. 633 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 2: You can't argue with a statue. I pull them on 634 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 2: a statue. Everybody knows that. 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