WEBVTT - How Stopped-Up Are Ya? 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:12.280 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Getty enough, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.440 he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.840 The protests in Chicago as President Trump escalates his threats 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.480 against the third largest city in the nation. Trump resharing 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.800 a manipulated image on social media that places him in 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.080 front of the city, the image referencing the iconic nineteen 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.559 seventy nine film Apocalypse Now. The caption reads, I love 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.680 the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago About to 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.880 find out why it's called the Department of War, a 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.600 reference to his Friday executive order rebranding the Department of 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.680 Defense the Department of War. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.200 We're not going to war. We're going to clean up 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.360 our city. We're going to clean them up so they 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.920 don't kill five people every week. That's not war, that's 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:02.680 common sense. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.840 Well, he said that a full day later, after the 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:11.240 idiotic mainstream media dance to his tune, jumped to debate 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.880 with so little discipline, how have you not figured out 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.720 in a dozen years that he says over the top 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.200 things gets you to react to them like they're literally true, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.000 embarrass yourselves. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.760 Oh I don't see it that way. That's that's there. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.160 That's catnip to them. They get to rail against Trump 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.960 and they're mostly lefty viewers love it. How has that 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.040 worked for you? Though he got elected twice? I just 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.920 saw this suck in. Their numbers are declining by the moment. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.000 Is to forget how you A lot of them are 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.120 true believers, They're they're just they're delusional. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.559 Yes, he said, Chicago's about to find out why. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.200 It's called the Department of War. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.440 And then I saw serious conversations on CNN. What would 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.280 this mean? You think the Marines are going to be 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:00.720 sent in, will be will be shot? 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.200 What are you talking about? You morons? Yeah it is. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.440 You gotta admit so to have the president of the 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.160 High States, I say something like that is looney to Yes. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.760 Yes, if I didn't know who Donald Trump was, I 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.560 would pick that. But having been around him for oh 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.519 more than a decade, now I realize he's just he's 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:19.600 the troll in chief. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.520 So the troll and chief has threatened for weeks to 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.320 send the National ar to Chicago. What is clearly happening 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.960 is an immigration crackdown where ice will be going in 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.240 and getting rid of criminals and scumbags, and also illegals 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:39.760 who are merely illegals. Probably, But whether the National Guard 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.960 ends up involved at all is almost entirely functional whether 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.080 there's violence and insanity. If there's violence and insanity and 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.680 that prevents ICE from doing their jobs, they will Trump 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.320 will send in the National Guard. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.640 Let me interrupt briefly for a tease. Remember to ask 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.600 me about Prune's life later. Oh, okay, remember member discussion 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.240 for Friday, Michael Wright that out. Remember to ask me 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.799 about got it? Okay, something to look forward to. H 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.960 fat child mutilator JB. Pritzker, the Democrat governor of Illinois. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.000 I said, and I quote, the President of the United 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.520 States is threatening to go to war with an American city. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.639 This is not a joke. This is not normal. Yes, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.840 Illinois won't be intimidated by a wantity dictator literally a joke. Yeah, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.000 it's it's an effort at humor designed to provoke laughter 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.440 or well, as Jack said, it's it's a joke anyway. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.000 So a couple of notes about oh, you know what 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.200 I think, I think idiot Brandon Johnson is quoted in 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.120 here somewhere. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:51.400 Brandon dictator child mutilator for governor and for the mayor, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:51.800 you just. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:57.440 Go with idiot. Yeah, yeah, As Jeff Blair wrote a 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.080 great piece for the National Review, he's talking about the 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.720 shot spotter thing. Are you familiar with shot spotter? It's 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.200 a technology that is used in a number of places, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.240 including Chicago, was to echo locate live gunfire in bad 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.280 neighborhoods so the cops can get there quickly and stop 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.800 the blood lighting if they can. Well, activists, woke lunatics 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.960 have long said it's a tool of racial oppression because 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:28.520 it sends the cops to black neighborhoods disproportionately. Do I 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:33.720 even have to explain what's lunatic about that opinion? Probably 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:38.400 not anyway. So Brandon Johnson, the athnore mentioned halfwit, promised 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.400 during his election campaign to get rid of it. But 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.960 then you remember we were there for that the DNC, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.200 the Democratic National Convention, came to town when in the summer, 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.640 when crime is at it's worst. Anyway, so Johnson hypocritically 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.119 announced he would be canceling it only after a seven 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.360 month extension to get the city through the Democratic Convention 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:02.160 until September. And then, and Jeff writes, here's the whole 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.440 story where it transitions from outrage to farce and one 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.560 of the most inexplicably stupid moves of recent Chicago history. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.240 He announced this extension and deal while simult simultaneously insulting 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.719 shot Spotter as a company in a product at a 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.520 press conference without remembering to get shot Spotter's signature on 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:25.440 the extension first. Well, shot Spotter quite understandably told Johnson 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.720 they were declining his literally insulting terms and they were 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.920 simply going to switch off their services the next day, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.440 and he had to beg them for an extra two 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.760 months of winding down to the tune of eight point 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.400 six million dollars, which the shot Spotter finally said, okay, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.359 we'll do it for that. So nice job, Brandon, And 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.479 there's actually more to that. It's just ridiculous, But I 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.960 wanted to get to at least part of this. Rich Lowry, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.960 the fabulous editor in chief of the National Review. Brandon 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.440 Johnson is a moron, is the title of his piece, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.520 If Mayoral Idiots Here or a justification for a National 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.320 Guard deployment? Michael grab A grab a clip of Brandon 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.839 Johnson saying something idiotic? Would you through the years. Uh. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.560 If mayoral idiocy were justification for a National Guard deployment, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.320 the troops would be headed to Chicago right now. And 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.520 he's talking about Johnson the other day, going on and 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.080 on about we cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.160 We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.120 largest prison population in the world without solving the problems 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.240 of crime and violence. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.479 We're addicted to jails and incarceration, another prison. Just keep 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.240 locking people up until you don't have crime. Who the 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.200 people who break the law? Yes, that's an interesting policy. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.400 It's racist, it's immoral, it is unholy. It is not 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:42.839 the way to drive violence down. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.640 We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.080 us here in the first place. And then Rich Lowry 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.839 goes point by point, year by year and points out 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.800 how incarceration is indeed an answer to violence. It works consistently. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.800 Course it does. There's a sense. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.160 Offenders from harming anybody else well, And there's a small 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.320 percentage of people that are ever gonna steal or hurt people. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.840 It's a small percentage. You lock them up, then you're done, right. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.440 So Chicago had nearly six hundred murders last year and 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.360 the eighth highest homicide rate in the nation. And by 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.000 the way, homicide rates can be as misleading as they 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.920 are informative, because in a city like Chicago, you have 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.240 vast swathes of it where nobody ever gets killed. And 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.400 it's a big city both geographically and in terms of population. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.600 So what you're talking about is the Mrgery neighborhoods which 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.840 have an astonishing homicide rate, and those people don't deserve 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.480 to die just because they're black and the offenders are black. Brandon, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.840 We're gonna defend our democracy in the city of Chicago. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.120 We're gonna protect the humanity of every single person in 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.120 the city of Chicago. And we got the baddest freaking 0:07:54.240 --> 0:08:00.480 labor movement in the city of Chicago birth right here. Yeah. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.720 I could do twenty minutes without taking a breath on 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.560 how Brandon and his friends have ruined Chicago public schools 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.880 because the teachers' union runs them for the union and 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.760 not for the poor little children, who again frequently are 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.600 black or brown or whatever. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.960 So just politically, though overall, I think the wind so 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.360 easily goes to the side that's trying to crack down 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.239 on crime. People hear those numbers, the fifty some shot, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.760 the eight dead from Labor Day weekend, and when you 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.400 hear either the governor of the mayor saying we're going 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.560 to defend Chicago against what trying to stop that? 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.480 What is that? Yeah? We should probably thank Brandon Johnson 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.040 as a country because Chicago really has developed some great 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.200 trauma surgeons because they trace so many gunshot wounds. You 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.760 can have almost sixty people shot and only eight of 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.520 them die because the prowess of Chicago's surgeons. And we 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.959 tip our cap to you. Quick note. Charles Layman and 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.000 the Manhattan Institute pointed two studies that show the effect 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.200 of incarceration, finding one in one. After Maryland reduced jail 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.240 time for young adults, offenders committed on average two point 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.480 eight criminal acts and one and a half serious crimes 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.520 during the time they otherwise would have been behind bars. Wow. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.720 That's per person. Wow. And it's not true that we 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.520 drastically increased incarceration without effect. Imprisonment began to rise in 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.600 response to a historic crime wave beginning about a half 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.880 century ago in the infamous late sixties early seventies, after 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.800 which that wave finally receded. You can argue how much 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.360 putting people in prison was responsible for the reduction crime pure, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.880 but they clearly played a part. Homicide victimization rates doubled 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.240 between nineteen sixty and nineteen eighty and didn't begin a 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:52.000 consistent decline until the nineteen nineties. From nineteen seventy to 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.360 ZHO five, a staggering six hundred and seventy four thousand 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.080 Americans were murdered more than died in all of our 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.040 wars from World War II on. We've locked up the 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:06.920 people who killed other people, and the murder rate plunged. Brandon, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.640 you moron. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:14.679 And it's such a depressing story. Now how often you 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.280 hear about I don't even want to mention some of them. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.520 I heard over the weekend, Just a tragic story, and 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:26.080 the perpetrator had done this before and they were still out. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.600 It's just awful. And my final final note on this 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:36.480 is you look at the emotional data free greeting card 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.160 illogic of a Brandon Johnson, and you know who is 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:47.840 convinced by those awful arguments. Either the very naive, or 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.000 the completely ideological, or the very young, which is why 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.199 progressives from Britain to the United States are so enthusiastic 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.200 about getting sixteen and seventeen year olds to vote, because 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.040 you can convince a sixteen year old that, look at 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:05.040 these incarceration rates, that's proof that it's racist, and therefore 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.440 we must turn all these people loose from jails because 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.000 sixteen year olds lack the life experience and critical thinking 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.559 to understand what is so false, and man, you gotta 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.400 fight that voting. The age ought to be thirty, never 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:18.360 mind sixteen. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.679 Well, I overnighted prunes from Amazon and update on that 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.280 story from Friday, and a bunch of other things that 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.400 we need to get to. World leaders coming to the 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.719 White House again to talk about Russian and Ukraine, and 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.840 that'll be at the White House today and tomorrow. Much 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.400 stuff to get to stay here. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.920 Scientists say being more optimistic as we age could be 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.520 an early sign of dementia. In a related story, Biden 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:59.680 likes his chances in twenty twenty eight, just came across this. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.080 Those blue light glasses you wear, pretty good chance that 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:12.280 they don't do anything. Latest indication from the American Academy 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:18.280 of Ophthalmology blue light filtering glasses don't meaningfully reduce eyestrain 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.880 or improve sleep or anything else according to the idea 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.120 being it's the blue light from the devices that somehow 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.120 do something to your brain. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.360 Blah blah blah. It all seemed very reasonable. It seems 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:28.960 reasonable for me. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.120 I'm not like mocking anybody who believed it made sense. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.640 But they're saying their latest studies don't show that there's 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.439 any reason to think they do anything. Really, Okay, all right, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:40.959 you know. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.280 What's funny, there's a greater point there. The whole we 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.559 listen to the science, or you know, I represent science 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.040 or whatever, this view that science having pronounced something is 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.840 always right and is never overcome and questioning science is 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.160 somehow a sin and a terrible thing to do. Now, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.560 that's precisely what science is. It's questioning everything all the time. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.040 That's what you're supposed to do. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.160 Yeah, and studies are hard to replicate and often you 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.120 get different results. And if this story had any politics 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.320 behind it, like if Joe Biden had emphasized blue light 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.920 reading glasses and Trump had been against it or something, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.079 I mean, there would be you know, everything would be 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.120 different around the story. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.000 Right, So everybody. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.520 Digs in, Like when you get that new news that 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.880 came out last week that the ocean hasn't actually a risen. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.520 I've got more details on that. Okay, cool, yeah, oh yeah, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.920 depending on what town you're and there would either be 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.880 government subsidized blue light classes for junkies or another places 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.400 bonfires built in blue light classes. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.800 They were being smashed and burned right right, or people 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.680 be screaming at you if you were wearing blue light glasses. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.680 Light not p America. Oh my gosh, I'll tell this 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.600 story later. I went to an amazing ceremony yesterday, first 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.960 one i'd been to of when a kid in boy 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.640 Scouts gets his Eagle Scout. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.640 Oh was that powerful something? 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.480 Because my son is in Scouts now, and if somebody 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.439 in your troop gets Eagle Scout, everybody goes and all 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.800 the parents and it's a huge deal. I didn't know this, 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:09.920 very very cool, but I want to talk about that 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.560 later because I'd had one picture in there from when 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.880 he was in Scouting during COVID and I'm sure they 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.640 were just following their county state laws at the time 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.280 in California. Two kids in a canoe in a lake 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.320 with masks on, and I'm sure they were just doing 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.240 what they had to do to stay out of trouble. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.280 But I thought that is the craziest thing. That is 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.040 one of the stupidest things I have ever witnessed by proxy. Oh, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.600 you could not pass a respiratory disease from one person 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.000 to another outdoor in a canoe outdoors if you were 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.840 promised a million dollars if you could do it, not 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.640 unless you leapt on top of them and coughed into 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.640 their face intensely for about half an hour. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.080 But I'm sure there was the rules, and there was 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.440 the only way they're going to be able to get 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.000 to do what they wanted to do. So A Friday 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.560 ended up talking about to a certain situation I got 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.800 and why I needed prunes according to my doctor. And 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.280 again I emphasize I clearly am not using this show 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.320 to try to get dates, because if I were a date, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.160 if this show we're a dating app, that would be 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:11.960 a hard swipe. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.840 Left me talking about eating prunes. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.600 But so so the doctor told me get a bag 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.360 of prunes and then you start with one a day, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.720 and if that doesn't work, you go to a day 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.360 and you just keep upping it until you became a 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.760 you know, as regular as d West mail is what 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.520 you're looking for But the funny part of it was 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.000 to me was so I order on Amazon and and 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.720 we're out doing stuff when we come back and I say, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:38.760 my prunes are here. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.040 Package was at the door. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.240 And my son said, that is officially the oldest thing 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:50.600 you've ever said, Hey. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.640 That is That was disappointing. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.960 I almost had to sit down for a while and think, Wow, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.000 that's where I am in my life, where I get 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.120 in an excited voice. Yes, I don't say hey, look 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.320 at that girl or maybe a new car or anything. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.520 I say hooray, my prunes are here. That's wy I 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.200 crossed the line there. I'd say, that's disappointing. I'll let 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.120 you know how it works. Maybe I'll put a graph up. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.760 Or don't no, no, keep it to yourself. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.320 I think I'm doing a favor. We got a lot 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.080 of texts about it. It's I'm not the only person 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.320 in the world that's ever encountered this. According to all 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:23.080 the ads. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.960 That I see on television. M that's a good point. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.600 It's an ongoing problem in America. Too much cheese, that's 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.040 what I say. And apparently it ruins women's moods too. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.680 According to commercial I keep seeing on Fox news that 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.200 if your gut isn't regular, your moods aren't either. I 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.200 don't I've been in the state that you're describing, which 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.200 I wouldn't am. It's far too refined to mention. But 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.920 I don't think it ever fouled my mood. So I 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.720 don't know if he depends how stopped up you are. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:54.160 I guess. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.120 I don't know if you've been following this conversation, kind 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.960 of an online conversation that maybe you're into or not Twitter, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.360 conversation about where do our rights come from? As one 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.680 prominent US senator democrats that our rights do not come 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.960 from God. They come from the government that started a 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.280 whole thing. You talk about that, among other topics on 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.400 the way. If you miss a segment, get podcast Armstrong 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.719 and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.800 I think it sends a mess, really a message of strength. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.280 We're very strong. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.119 That's Donald Trump explaining why it's Secretary of War in 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.080 is at a Secretary of Defense. Now it's a Department 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.520 of War. And we'll talk a little bit about that later. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.280 I learned some interesting stuff about why we changed it 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.719 from war to defense that I didn't know. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.480 I thought I knew everything about it, and I did not, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.320 So stay tuned, Okay, intriguing. So speaking of defending ourselves 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:52.119 against well somebody, China, we're looking at you. The whole 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.280 Salt Typhoon hacking attack that you may have heard of, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.919 it was way bigger and more significant than was he 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.520 even discussed. I think it was last year a little 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.720 before that. Apparently the Chinese may have stolen data from 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.680 almost every single one of US Americans, not to mention 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.000 the other eighty countries. Well we're targeted. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.399 If you just started with TikTok, that would be what 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.119 seventy percent of the country. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.360 I don't know a lot of people have TikTok, and that's. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.800 Yeah, information they steal just by if you download that app. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.800 Well, right, right, And I know I have saved that article. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.560 I can't remember who wrote it, but actual oh, I 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.840 think it was Michael Pillsbury who wrote The Hundred Year Marathon, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.399 which is a great book about China's rise and their intent. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:48.399 But the Chinese intelligence services talk glowingly of TikTok and 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.040 what a valuable asset it is. And if that isn't 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.040 enough information for you, I don't know what you need 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.840 to hear, but anyway, So the sweeping cyber attack by 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.000 the group known as Salt Typhoon is China's most ambitious. Yeah, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.960 targeted more than eighty countries, may have stolen info from 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.320 nearly every American. They see it as evidence that China's 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.600 capabilities rivaled those of the US and its allies. It's 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.280 not clear whether a lot of the stuff was swept 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.919 up kind of accidentally, and whether it's being stored or 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.840 anything like that. You know, I, personally, knowing a little 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.160 bit about China's track record, I suspect that, Yeah, they 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.199 believe that information is power, even if you don't know 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.639 how you might use it someday, you just keep it. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:40.359 And then what the fear is that the range of 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.680 the attack blah blah blah. Security officials warned that the 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.520 stolen data could allow Chinese intelligence services to exploit global 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:52.680 communications networks to track targets, including politicians, spies, and activists. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.080 They have everybody's digital footprint. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.280 I wonder if they act, do they actually have the 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:03.960 ability to like coalesce, keep track of somehow, Like they 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.520 steal all the information from a twenty two year old 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.240 and that person twenty years from now, becomes a US senator. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.760 Do they have the ability to keep track of that? 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.000 I don't have any on you. I'll bet with Ai 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.679 they do now, maybe because you don't have to have 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.439 some poor analysts like you know, pawing through millions of 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.680 pages of digital blankety blank or doing Google searches. You 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.879 just ask Ai, Hey, Senator Jones, what do we have 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.720 on him? Here's his last known addresses? Blah blah blah. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.639 And in a similar ish story, you remember when the 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.480 Trump administration's contentious trade talks with China were going to 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.359 begin last summer, staffers on the House committee focused on 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:48.320 US competition with China began to get weird emails from 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.960 the committee's chairman, John Molinar, who is a Republican congressman 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:57.560 from Michigan. Several trade groups, law firms, US government agencies 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.560 had all received the emails, appearing to be from Molinar, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.320 asking for input on the proposed sanctions with which the 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.160 legislatures were planning to target Beijing. Your insights are essential 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.000 blah blah blah. Turned out to be the latest in 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.480 a series of cyber espionage campaigns linked to Beijing. They 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:22.080 were impersonating the guy trying to pump anybody for information 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.280 who's willing to give it to them, And they tied 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.920 that to when last year I think it was somebody 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:33.720 used AI to imitate Marco Rubio's voice, right and had 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.840 him leaving voicemails to people, to all sorts of foreign officials. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.160 That's going to happen a lot. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:45.240 Oh yeah, yeah, I wonder And just like in everybody's lives, 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.280 you're going to get a text that sounds like your 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.080 wife saying something ridiculous. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.600 I mean, just as just messing with you, isn't it 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.800 because it's so easy. Well yeah, apparently, Well, not only 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.960 do you have Marco Rubio being not you know, I said, 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.800 I almost said convincingly imitated, But it's not. It's his 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.880 actual voice emphasized digitally. It's like, you know, if you're 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.480 a guitar player, you know they have these digital amp 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.160 what do you call them imitations? There's there's a word 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.560 for it. Models that actually take the audio data from 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.200 you know, a Marshall amplifier or whatever, and they can 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.040 replicate it. You know, the sound waves are the same. 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.640 So yeah, it's his voice essentially. But yeah, you already 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.679 have Grandma's getting calls from their grandson saying, hey, I 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.920 got arrest that I need two hundred dollars bail blah 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.040 blah blah, send it right away. So yeah, I wonder 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.760 whether did the Marcos Rubio of the world and the 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.240 foreign ministers of Britain or whatever, did they already have 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:49.120 protocols in place where if I see a phone call 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.199