Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and keep arms wrong get the Frum studio C
Speaker 1: signor they are in a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2: You put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 2: Communications Compound on a war footing. And today we're under
Speaker 2: the tutlage of our general manager, Donald J. Trump and
Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin on the phone. I wonder if they're going
Speaker 2: to catch up first before they get down the business.
Speaker 1: It's nice to hear your voice so flat.
Speaker 3: You how you hear many wives foot older?
Speaker 1: Your ex wife's other fun? Wow? How's your bracket looking? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I mentioned war footing because of the bombing in
Speaker 4: Israel overnight. So you got that going on too, which
Speaker 4: is not directly Donald Trump's delio, but I'm sure he's
Speaker 4: keeping an eye on it. And then he's on the
Speaker 4: phone with Putin as we speak, at least in theory.
Speaker 4: Last time they talked for ninety minutes, so it could
Speaker 4: be a while before the world gets any news out
Speaker 4: of how that phone call went. The I was reading
Speaker 4: Ian Bremer's stuff last night. He's a guy that takes
Speaker 4: a look at the world.
Speaker 1: That's his job. Brief description. But yeah's accurate enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he said, this is easily the most consequential
Speaker 4: phone call thus far of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot on the line. So we'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes.
Speaker 4: And so man, being president be something, I mean, just
Speaker 4: for anybody. You're gonna be on the phone for Putin
Speaker 4: for however long, making some really serious like historic decisions,
Speaker 4: and then probably within in a couple of hours, be
Speaker 4: on the phone with bb Net and Yahoo who's bombing
Speaker 4: the by Jesus out Igaza and uh and you know,
Speaker 4: dealing with that and then the ramifications there.
Speaker 3: If it were only the trade stuff that has been
Speaker 3: much discussed these days, that would be pressure enough, stress enough,
Speaker 3: complexity enough, I think for any one human being.
Speaker 1: I do notice that.
Speaker 4: And I since most people listen to this show are
Speaker 4: kind of into the news, you're probably aware that Israel
Speaker 4: started bombing the Palestinians were humas again yesterday. It is
Speaker 4: the Palestinians according to the mainstream media. I noticed the
Speaker 4: mainstream media, man ay, there is there is there is
Speaker 4: no hedging on this whatsoever. Immediately jumped into the how
Speaker 4: many people have died according to the Health Ministry, many
Speaker 4: of them children.
Speaker 3: I mean this, Israel launches deadly attacks, was the headline
Speaker 3: in the New York Times. Most attacks in war are
Speaker 3: that's kind of the idea.
Speaker 4: Right, And then quoting the enemy for how many people
Speaker 4: die and taking.
Speaker 1: Their word for how many of them are children? It's
Speaker 1: just insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it went from It was criticized to do that.
Speaker 4: Even Joe Biden himself criticized it. You can't take their
Speaker 4: word for it, he once said, but got so much pushback,
Speaker 4: and now all mainstream media goes with their numbers. According
Speaker 4: to Hitler, this many German children have been killed in
Speaker 4: Allied bombing and then you report.
Speaker 1: That as you imagine. No, it's nuts, right.
Speaker 3: I kept coming across the phrase the peace talks, specifically
Speaker 3: the talks over the next phase of the peace process
Speaker 3: had stalled. And there are days I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: in the midst of the Emperor's new clothes and everybody
Speaker 3: around me is walking around saying.
Speaker 5: Oh, the Emperor has a two state solution. Oh we
Speaker 5: love your two state solution, mister emperor. And anybody with
Speaker 5: any sanity is saying, let's see, let's check with the mass.
Speaker 5: Are you still vowing to wipe Israel off the face
Speaker 5: of the map the first chance you get?
Speaker 1: Yes? Check.
Speaker 3: Are you still vowing to wipe out the Jews and
Speaker 3: when you're done with them the Christians the moment you
Speaker 3: have the opportunity, Yes, So explain to me again the
Speaker 3: two states of solution and how that's going to work?
Speaker 1: Are you fantasy? Last?
Speaker 4: Are you still doing mocking touchdown dance celebrations when you
Speaker 4: hand over dead bodies you once claimed we're alive, sometimes
Speaker 4: not even the actual body.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 4: The talks have stalled, Jack, So it all ties together?
Speaker 1: Or should.
Speaker 4: Trump bombing the crap out of the houthies and now
Speaker 4: Israel Obama the crap out of Hamas it's all about
Speaker 4: Iran and so Trump said this in a Truth Social
Speaker 4: post late last night. Every shot fired by the houthies
Speaker 4: will be looked upon from this point forward as being
Speaker 4: a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran
Speaker 4: in all capitals, and Iran in capital letters will be
Speaker 4: held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will
Speaker 4: be dire, he wrote on Truth Social. So it's all
Speaker 4: tied together Huthis and Hamas. It's all about, hey, Ran,
Speaker 4: get your act together. Finally we'll see, finally, a little leadership.
Speaker 4: This violence, I believe will end much of the violence.
Speaker 1: Not immediately.
Speaker 3: It depends on which specific you're talking about, but the
Speaker 3: whole don't.
Speaker 1: And if you do, oh well we won't do much.
Speaker 3: We saw what that got us. Let's try something different.
Speaker 1: Please. Well.
Speaker 4: Politically, what's interesting is I don't know how much of
Speaker 4: Trump's bases the Tucker Carlson crowd don't. I really don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's one percent or twenty percent.
Speaker 4: I wish I had a better handle on that. But
Speaker 4: Tucker Carlson tweeted out yesterday, it's worth pointing out that
Speaker 4: a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly
Speaker 4: result in thousands of American deaths at Bay throughout the
Speaker 4: Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions
Speaker 4: of dollars the cost of future acts of terrorism on
Speaker 4: American soil, maybe even higher. Those aren't guesses, those are
Speaker 4: the Pentagon's own estimates, says Tucker Carlson. A bombing campaign
Speaker 4: against Iran will set off a war, and it will
Speaker 4: be America's war. Don't let the propagandists lie to you.
Speaker 4: And that was repeated by n Coulter and Candae Owens
Speaker 4: and a variety of people out there.
Speaker 3: Sure, I think at least some of that is probably true.
Speaker 3: All right, Tucker, Now do if we continue to withdraw
Speaker 3: from the strategic parts of the world a la Joe Biden?
Speaker 1: What's it going to be like that? How many people
Speaker 1: will tie? Then?
Speaker 3: Yeah, as the evildoers of the world are empowered, go ahead,
Speaker 3: do that one now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When I read that from Tucker Carlson, I was actually
Speaker 4: thinking we at some point, and this is grim, I realize,
Speaker 4: and easy to say when it's not you or your kid.
Speaker 4: My brother's no longer active military, but I'd be saying
Speaker 4: the same thing if he was still active in going
Speaker 4: into the Middle East. At some point, the United States
Speaker 4: is going to have a return to reality and history
Speaker 4: with wars where you lose thousands of people and it's
Speaker 4: not like you immediately pull out of the country because
Speaker 4: you lost people, because that's the way wars were.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's going to happen at some point.
Speaker 4: I don't want it to happen, but it's inevitable, especially
Speaker 4: with Russia and China continuing to push, at some point
Speaker 4: we're actually going to have to fight and take losses
Speaker 4: and have to overcome them politically, not just you know,
Speaker 4: just not just strategically.
Speaker 3: The fantasy that you can stop pushing outward, and I
Speaker 3: don't mean like geographically or spreading yourself centner and it
Speaker 3: cinner and a cinner, I mean being willing to project power.
Speaker 3: The fantasy that if you lose that willingness there will
Speaker 3: be peace is so incredibly foolish. And there's some very
Speaker 3: very intelligent people pushing it, and I'm a little mystified
Speaker 3: as to their thinking what they think will happen next.
Speaker 1: This could end up being a big political rupture, definitely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, political ruptures seem to be the norm
Speaker 3: right now, and our delights loping clip will illustrate in
Speaker 3: a moment. And I have a theory as to why,
Speaker 3: and it's a good one. It's a solid one.
Speaker 4: Okay, So let's start the show officially, Why the heck not?
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Speaker 1: Here we go leaping into action.
Speaker 6: At mark poll numbers for Democrats, only twenty seven percent
Speaker 6: of voters have a positive view of the party, the
Speaker 6: lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC's polling.
Speaker 1: You're a twenty seven person.
Speaker 7: You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of
Speaker 7: poppy hilarity just for you to get to the point
Speaker 7: where you're thirteen points below him. Your approval is only
Speaker 7: seven points above where it turns red and goes into
Speaker 7: low power mode.
Speaker 1: That's John start talking about the Democrats.
Speaker 4: Democrats approval rating which is historically low right now, of course,
Speaker 4: as so as the Republicans. It's just not as low
Speaker 4: as the Democrats. People are not into their big parties
Speaker 4: right now. No, indeed, and.
Speaker 3: Honestly, the worst thing you can possibly do for your
Speaker 3: approval rating generally is get power and be in charge
Speaker 3: the opposition party has it, cush Man, That is the
Speaker 3: way to be. You just howl about whoever's doing what
Speaker 3: in office, and you promise your followers that when you
Speaker 3: get office, by God, you will bring the paradise we've
Speaker 3: all expected and deserved.
Speaker 1: You know what. It's kind of like, kind of like
Speaker 1: being a non parent.
Speaker 4: You can really hang on to your beliefs of how
Speaker 4: you would raise it right, or what they're probably doing
Speaker 4: wrong to cause that kid to act that way.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, You're the smug military officer back at headquarters
Speaker 3: explaining how the battle ought to be going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, anyway, Uh so, we got Katie's headlines on
Speaker 4: the way, We've got some mail bag, we'll get some
Speaker 4: more news of the day, and man, as soon as
Speaker 4: any information comes out of that Trump Putin phone call,
Speaker 4: I'm interested in that. But he has not allowed readoubts
Speaker 4: of a lot of these calls with Putin in sort
Speaker 4: of the typical way like if you know, if you're
Speaker 4: on the phone with Macron or something like that.
Speaker 3: And I've found Trump's strategy so far to be kind
Speaker 3: of mystifying. And that speaks to the fact that he's
Speaker 3: keeping his cards close to his vest, and I suspect
Speaker 3: he will continue to do so after the call, So
Speaker 3: I don't expect much enlightenment.
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, Well, that's disappointing anyway, disappointment on the way.
Speaker 4: Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Speaker 1: So we haven't been covering this story at all. I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in bringing you up to speed.
Speaker 4: If you if you don't know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 4: just wait thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: It'll be over.
Speaker 4: But the parents of that missing college student want her
Speaker 4: declared dead?
Speaker 1: What is that all about?
Speaker 4: And a video came out yesterday of her puking by
Speaker 4: the hotel.
Speaker 3: Probably has to do with Dominican law and whether they
Speaker 3: can hold the the quote unquote witness that they've been questioning.
Speaker 4: Is your best guess that she was hammered, drunk, went
Speaker 4: in the water, got swept out to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe or maybe the two chance is involved. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's hard.
Speaker 3: You get a couple of drunk people in the wee
Speaker 3: hours on the beach, in the water, nobody around is
Speaker 3: like four in the morning, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 3: could be very very difficult to determine whatever happened. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so there is so much I want to get to today.
Speaker 3: Got a great Gender Benning Madness update, an explainer or
Speaker 3: two about kind of complicated stories going on in the
Speaker 3: news that are mystifying, and I've taken a little time
Speaker 3: to boil them down to the essence, including the shipping
Speaker 3: the gang members off to El Salvador and did the
Speaker 3: Trump administration defy and order stuff. It's actually pretty interesting
Speaker 3: when you get past the half wit news anchors and
Speaker 3: various administration people yelling at each other. So hope you
Speaker 3: can stay tuned. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
Speaker 3: the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 8: Thank you, guys, starting with the Washington Post. More than
Speaker 8: four hundred killed as Israel strikes Gaza, breaking ceasefire with Hamas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like that wording. What's that? From the
Speaker 1: well to the Washington Posts.
Speaker 4: Don't like that at all? Breaking the ceasefire. Gaza broke
Speaker 4: the ceasefire problem, not Gaza. Hamas broke the ceasefire by
Speaker 4: not agreeing to their end of it, which was returning
Speaker 4: hostages on time right.
Speaker 3: They had no intention of furthering the negotiations.
Speaker 1: Israel knew it. And then now it's time to get back.
Speaker 3: To the war.
Speaker 4: And as we already stated, that death number you're going
Speaker 4: is the enemy's death number.
Speaker 1: From the Free Beacon Columbia declined.
Speaker 8: To investigate swastika's sprawled throughout the Hamilton Hall because they
Speaker 8: were written in shock and could be erased.
Speaker 3: The hypocrisy and double standard of these walk institutions, including universities,
Speaker 3: are hilarious and more people ought to be aware of it.
Speaker 3: You go through lists of who got canceled for what,
Speaker 3: and then who got excused for Well, they were young
Speaker 3: and impressionable and made a mistake. It is exactly divided
Speaker 3: by your politics.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: From Politico, Trump Nixon's Secret Service protection for Hunter and
Speaker 8: Ashley Biden details totally about thirty agents to protect the
Speaker 8: president's adult children.
Speaker 3: Well, the Secret Service guys would be in too much
Speaker 3: danger from old drug dealer and art dealer people who
Speaker 3: are angry at Hunter.
Speaker 4: So Hunter Biden was he going to get Secret Service
Speaker 4: protection for the rest of his life?
Speaker 1: I paid for us.
Speaker 8: Bios for the next six months.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 3: It's only required through age sixteen, I heard, which is interesting.
Speaker 3: It was literally it's granted if needed.
Speaker 1: Okay. From NBC.
Speaker 8: After nine months in space, NASA astronauts who flew on
Speaker 8: Boeing's capsule are on their way home.
Speaker 3: Rescued by whose company m They don't want to say.
Speaker 1: I believe that's accurate from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 8: We are turning too many people into medical patients. They're saying,
Speaker 8: this is the swift rise for diagnosis for everything.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I pass through the journal every day. I missed that one.
Speaker 3: I have some really interesting stuff on xanax nation, but I'll.
Speaker 1: Have to seek that out. Yeah, I would like to.
Speaker 1: I would like to read that. Also.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of my doctor's saying to me a
Speaker 4: while back, what are we trying to do here? We
Speaker 4: got into the conversation about keeping people alive longer, but
Speaker 4: you're not really dig in life, were able to do much,
Speaker 4: and the doctor saying.
Speaker 1: What is our goal here?
Speaker 3: I am not like full on wound up about big
Speaker 3: pharma like some people are. On the other hand, where
Speaker 3: there is enormous profit, there are perverse incentives to turn
Speaker 3: you into a medical case or treat you or druggy
Speaker 3: or whatever. There's a hell of a lot of money
Speaker 3: to be made from CBS.
Speaker 8: Sports next heat game delayed after comedian Tracy Morgan appears
Speaker 8: to vomit on Madison Square Garden Court.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel good.
Speaker 8: It did not appear.
Speaker 1: He absolutely did vomit. Yeah, he peered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he saw the video of the guy in
Speaker 3: the Bronx eating the rat. Heard about that. More on
Speaker 3: that lane, Liz Lemon, I need to book it from Breitbart.
Speaker 8: Hilaria Baldwin defends her Spanish accent as quote code switching.
Speaker 1: Man, that's what it is saying. They mean to me,
Speaker 1: it is in a different way.
Speaker 4: It's I'm code switching to somebody more exotic and interesting
Speaker 4: for the media.
Speaker 1: Now I'm code switching back to my actual accent. Right,
Speaker 1: I am how you say? A Sony.
Speaker 8: From the Daily Mail, Little People rally outside of Disney's
Speaker 8: studio in protest of Snow White remake amid outrage over
Speaker 8: decision to replace them with CGI.
Speaker 4: Right, I missed this story. Somehow we got to get
Speaker 4: into this. So Okay, old Dinklage, Dinkleman, whatever his name,
Speaker 4: and the most famous small person in the world. He
Speaker 4: is involved in this and now know Little People and
Speaker 4: now CGI and something.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's just one.
Speaker 3: That's one of the dwarfs of outrage being directed at.
Speaker 1: This terrible movie.
Speaker 8: Okay, and finally, the Babylon Bee, single woman constantly stressed
Speaker 8: with no man around to tell her to relax.
Speaker 1: Oh, a multi layer joke. Relax, relax, hey smile, Oh
Speaker 1: you're trying today, No kidding, it's so.
Speaker 4: Cold of there. We got holding the news. Joe mentioned
Speaker 4: a bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. What's next?
Speaker 9: Another flight, another flight? Every day. The teams and teams
Speaker 9: are going to be out there every day, every day.
Speaker 9: The men and women of ICE are going to be
Speaker 9: in the neighborhoods of this nation, arresting criminal, illegal alien,
Speaker 9: public state they thrusts and National security thrust. Laurence, you're
Speaker 9: not going to stop us. I'm probably be a part
Speaker 9: of this administration. We're not stopping. I don't care what
Speaker 9: the judges think. I don't care the left tanks.
Speaker 4: We're coming as old wholemaner likes a booting out ofllegals
Speaker 4: in We'll be talking more about that later. And man
Speaker 4: it it polls well too, So that's tough if you're
Speaker 4: the party that's trying to be against that, because it.
Speaker 1: Bowls really well.
Speaker 4: Also have the latest on the snow White and the
Speaker 4: seven CGI Dwarves story, which here's controversy around. Usually controversy
Speaker 4: like this is completely bogus, and it's just to let
Speaker 4: you know there's a new movie out. This is real
Speaker 4: because of wolfism. So we'll get into that maybe an
Speaker 4: hour or two.
Speaker 3: Although my only comment, because we will discuss it next hour,
Speaker 3: is that if that were the only problem with this
Speaker 3: steaming pile of non entertainment, but my god, the organist.
Speaker 1: Has gone wild. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3: I believe it's a drug problem anyway. You know, musicians
Speaker 3: are you know, please where was it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, if that were the only problem this steaming pile
Speaker 3: of non entertainment had, well that would be something, but no,
Speaker 3: they wish that there was a real dwarf controversy because
Speaker 3: then people might actually want to see it. But more
Speaker 3: to come on that. A lot of people talking about tariffs,
Speaker 3: a lot of headlines these days. Fever pitch has always
Speaker 3: because Donald Jay is involved, and I and Jack have
Speaker 3: also at times said we wish Trump was being a
Speaker 3: little more explicit on what he's trying to accomplish, what
Speaker 3: the goal is and why it's good for America. And
Speaker 3: there's been some information on we got to bring manufacturing
Speaker 3: back and that sort of thing, and I think everybody's
Speaker 3: in favor of that. As long as you know the
Speaker 3: means of getting there aren't too insane. But I've been
Speaker 3: surprised he hasn't done a Reaganesque speech. And I don't
Speaker 3: mean just Reaganesque generally, but Reagan at the beginning of
Speaker 3: his first term, when inflation was rampant, he went before
Speaker 3: the nation and he said, look, here's my plan. It's
Speaker 3: going to be rough in the short term, but we're
Speaker 3: going to squash inflation and then things are going to
Speaker 3: be rosy.
Speaker 1: And a lot of America believed them.
Speaker 3: And he did it and it worked out almost precisely
Speaker 3: the way he said. And I've just kind of been
Speaker 3: waiting for Trump to do that, well, you know, in
Speaker 3: a more here's a speech kind of way. I mean,
Speaker 3: he talks to the American people every day, multiply interesting way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so both I was reading in The New York
Speaker 4: Times last night, both Tom Friedman and David Sanger, two
Speaker 4: of their more respected journalists, and for different reasons on
Speaker 4: different topics, but both of them were talking about how
Speaker 4: Trump has been the most disruptive and disruptive is not
Speaker 4: always a negative word, but have been the most disruptive
Speaker 4: president in eighty years. I mean since World War Two
Speaker 4: in the first fifty days. Would you agree with that
Speaker 4: or not? Oh yeah, wow, most president in eighty years.
Speaker 1: If he's not number one, he's tied for it. That's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, even if I'm going to quibble that,
Speaker 4: you have to be in be in that top couple.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, top tier. Sure.
Speaker 3: So the reception being, Hey, the World War Two, let's
Speaker 3: cruise along, this is going great, the post World War
Speaker 3: Two cruise along.
Speaker 1: Everything's going great.
Speaker 3: Period looks like it's coming to an end, and we
Speaker 3: ought to be a little proactive. Well, right, So that
Speaker 3: was the Ross doth Fat column that I read from
Speaker 3: the New York Times. Also, he's a conservative leaning gentlemen.
Speaker 3: His whole column was all about these things were already true.
Speaker 3: Trump's just recognizing they're truer saying it out loud. The
Speaker 3: economy is different, the world order is different. These things
Speaker 3: were already real, and he's just like.
Speaker 1: Leaning into it. So this is an interesting take.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, indeed, and there's a lot of truth to it.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, some of the means they're going
Speaker 3: about to do this stuff. I think he's a little
Speaker 3: ham handed, and maybe the communications not great, but you know,
Speaker 3: they'll work that out anyway. The folks involved in the
Speaker 3: tariff policy discussion, I think are aware of people like
Speaker 3: me saying, what are you guys doing? And so they're
Speaker 3: starting to talk to reporters and or whether on the
Speaker 3: record or off the record, and leaking and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. And the strategy is becoming more clear. And
Speaker 3: the Journal has a piece They've got four guys working
Speaker 3: on this, and they're talking about some of the negotiations
Speaker 3: that have been going on behind the scenes, which really
Speaker 3: help illuminate what they're trying to do. Officials have recently
Speaker 3: weighed whether to simplify the complex tax task rather of
Speaker 3: devising new teriff rates for our hundreds of trading partners,
Speaker 3: by sorting the countries into one of three tariff tiers.
Speaker 3: You know, fair countries that are good friends, kind of
Speaker 3: medium countries, and countries that are sticking us with tariffs,
Speaker 3: or I gotta stick family tariffs and try to sort
Speaker 3: them out. They later ruled out that proposal because they're
Speaker 3: still trying to sort out how to implement the rates
Speaker 3: and how to figure out who's who and so, and
Speaker 3: Trump has told them that the folks working on this,
Speaker 3: that you've got like till it's April second to come
Speaker 3: up with your plan, and so they're scrambling like crazy.
Speaker 1: But the goal of all of this.
Speaker 3: Is to get to a much more reciprocal world where
Speaker 3: all right, just to pick out, you know, Germany, if
Speaker 3: you're going to impose a tariff on our fine automobiles
Speaker 3: at thirty percent, well your BMW's and nowadis and VW's,
Speaker 3: we're gonna hit you with.
Speaker 1: The same thing.
Speaker 3: And by the way, which which I think is completely defensible,
Speaker 3: because speaking of the post WW two era, when America
Speaker 3: stood astride the manufacturing old world like a colossus.
Speaker 1: Europe was in ruins.
Speaker 3: Asia was either in ruins or living in huts, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, we'd say, all right, yeah, you can put
Speaker 3: a twenty percent tariff on our stuff so you can
Speaker 3: get your industry up and run in and we didn't care.
Speaker 3: But that that period is over now. So anyway, they're
Speaker 3: trying to get to reciprocal tariffs. You tax us thirty percent,
Speaker 3: we tax you at thirty percent. Oh you don't want that,
Speaker 3: Well how about we go with something low and reasonable.
Speaker 3: So they're trying to figure out how to get there.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a Rocky Ride. And complicating all
Speaker 3: this is these countries are not stupid, so you have
Speaker 3: even like a Germany for instance, as long as we're
Speaker 3: talking about them, and China is doing the same thing.
Speaker 3: But let's put China over there because there are mortal enemy.
Speaker 3: But Germany's saying, oh, oh yeah, you get to thirty
Speaker 3: percent on German cars now, but only ten percent in
Speaker 3: Mexico because of the free trade agreement Trump himself negotiated.
Speaker 3: So Galigi, we're setting up a plant now in Mexico
Speaker 3: with the same effective situation of our cars are way
Speaker 3: cheaper to sell in the US than your cars are
Speaker 3: to sell in Germany. And where are we going to
Speaker 3: set up a plant that Germany doesn't have a Mexico,
Speaker 3: so we're at a disadvantage. So again that's joy over
Speaker 3: the day. Germany doesn't have a Mexico. They need a Mexico.
Speaker 3: Doesn't everybody need a Mexico. Evidently, jd Vance has taken
Speaker 3: a big role now in the trade agenda development and
Speaker 3: has been hosting some of the hours long meetings at
Speaker 3: the Naval Observatory, which is for some reason where the
Speaker 3: Vice President lives in Washington.
Speaker 1: But it makes more sense to me, now interesting, but it's.
Speaker 3: So complicated because again, okay, so we're super great buddies
Speaker 3: with the l Salvador or England or whatever, and you
Speaker 3: figure that out as China, you think, ok, we'll just
Speaker 3: manufacture there, We'll send our crap through there because they
Speaker 3: don't have a high terriff on us, and then the
Speaker 3: US ends up not getting their tariff. So it's it's
Speaker 3: tough stuff anyway. So I think that's what they're they're
Speaker 3: working on.
Speaker 4: Following up on the other thing we were talking about
Speaker 4: earlier in the hour, and so Trump bombs the heck
Speaker 4: out of the Hoot, these Israel bombs the heck out
Speaker 4: of Hamas. Those are both Iranian backed groups. It's basically,
Speaker 4: you know, part of the proxy war with Iran. And
Speaker 4: Trump has threatened in the last couple of weeks that
Speaker 4: Iran needs to, you know, make a deal. He sent
Speaker 4: a letter to the Ietola you need to make a
Speaker 4: deal on this whole Iranian nuclear program you've got, or
Speaker 4: we're gonna take it out and it's going to be
Speaker 4: really bad for you. And Iran has not responded. And
Speaker 4: then I so I mentioned that Tucker Carlson, who's got
Speaker 4: millions and millions of followers, and not just like literal
Speaker 4: actual follower his Twitter account and his website, but people
Speaker 4: in that ideology. We got this text Tucker was on
Speaker 4: with Bongino's replacement yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 4: And Tucker said, Pakistan has nuclear weapons. North Korea has
Speaker 4: nuclear weapons. I don't want Iran to get nukes, but
Speaker 4: those other countries have nukes. So I guess suggesting letting
Speaker 4: Iran get a nuclear weapon would be better than military
Speaker 4: action with them that could turn into an actual war,
Speaker 4: which I do not agree with.
Speaker 3: But no, particularly because well, Pakistan's a wobbler. I was
Speaker 3: going to say, North Korea isn't run by religious fanatics
Speaker 3: who are bent on bending the war to Allah's will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: Your average Presbyterian in the US, or I'm not religious,
Speaker 3: I'm spiritual. They can't conceive of what a religious fundamentalist,
Speaker 3: how he sees the world raised from you when you're
Speaker 3: a baby. To believe that Islam should rule the entire
Speaker 3: world and anywhere it doesn't is a humiliation to God Almighty.
Speaker 3: And it is your sacred duty to spend every day
Speaker 3: of your life to to take care of that and
Speaker 3: spread Islam and make Islam the government of all of
Speaker 3: the earth. They don't they don't get that.
Speaker 4: This is just like solidified in my mind in the
Speaker 4: last dozen hours or so, and then I will get
Speaker 4: off this. But and I know I'm going to be
Speaker 4: accused of being a neo khan or chickenhawk or all
Speaker 4: those sorts of terms for a neo hawk, an chicken khan,
Speaker 4: a chicken con which is the worst. God help you
Speaker 4: if one moves in next door to you.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Similar to the topic of recognizing reality in a certain
Speaker 4: in a bunch of different areas, the economics, world order
Speaker 4: are different stuff. We might have to realize that the
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to fight some of the bad people.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to fight some of the bad people,
Speaker 4: actually engage with them, lose people, and fight them and win.
Speaker 4: That's going to have to happen like has always happened
Speaker 4: throughout history and.
Speaker 3: Were carefully and judiciously and never for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 4: We haven't really done that in a long time, right, right,
Speaker 4: But that I think that's coming, and it would be
Speaker 4: really obviously somewhat ironic. Is as often the cases with
Speaker 4: a case when people get elected president. Very sort of
Speaker 4: thing that they ran on ends up being in their
Speaker 4: lap and they have to make some decisions that he
Speaker 4: wanted to make. Trump, who ran a lot on, you know,
Speaker 4: getting this out of wars, and all these di's say
Speaker 4: he might have to be more engaged as a war
Speaker 4: president than any we've had in a long time. Quite possibly,
Speaker 4: that has happened so many times in history.
Speaker 1: That's the George W. Bush story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, though he took it way too far and lost
Speaker 3: his mind in my opinion. But anyway, my grand unifying
Speaker 3: theory on why both parties are so divided and how
Speaker 3: everything's crumbling.
Speaker 1: Next hour, cool, hopey, say.
Speaker 4: We'll get into the dwarf controversy CGI dwarves taking jobs
Speaker 4: away from little people.
Speaker 1: Cruel, absolutely cruel.
Speaker 3: I'm working on the headline little Men, Big controversy. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: it's a little heavy hand of the little men.
Speaker 1: I'm working on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Some of the quotes are something Joe's got
Speaker 4: mailbag on the waisty here, Trump and Putin are on
Speaker 4: the phone.
Speaker 1: Are they carving up Ukraine?
Speaker 4: Making a deal without Ukraine being involved in the conversation
Speaker 4: at home?
Speaker 1: Might be anyway as soon as details leak out. We'll
Speaker 1: have them for you.
Speaker 3: Got a lot to come next hour, indeed, including a
Speaker 3: freedom loving Quote of the day bassetball addition at least partly,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, a gender bending Madness update basketball edition partly.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the freedom loving Quote of the bit.
Speaker 3: Somebody really needs to write this on a whiteboard in
Speaker 3: front of me. I need Q cards like I'm on
Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live. This is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sent along
Speaker 3: by anonymous person interrupting our series of Teddy Roosevelt quotes.
Speaker 1: Just for the day.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the short version, Jack, Can you tell
Speaker 3: me if you want the longer version? Stupidity is a
Speaker 3: more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
Speaker 1: One may protest against evil.
Speaker 3: It can be exposed, and if need be prevented by
Speaker 3: use of force. Against stupidity, we are defenseless.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That is pretty good. I'll read you
Speaker 1: a little more.
Speaker 4: I've been reading, been meeting to read more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Speaker 4: I just never get around to it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion,
Speaker 3: in that it leaves behind in human beings, at least
Speaker 3: a sense of unease against stupidity. We are defenseless. Neither
Speaker 3: protests nor the use of accomplish anything. Here reason falls
Speaker 3: on deaf ears. Facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need
Speaker 3: not be believed. In such moments, the stupid person even becomes critical,
Speaker 3: and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as, inconsequential,
Speaker 3: as incidental and all this. The stupid person, in contrast
Speaker 3: to the malicious one, is utterly satisfied and being easily irritated,
Speaker 3: becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason,
Speaker 3: greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid
Speaker 3: person than with a malicious one.
Speaker 1: That'd be my life experience.
Speaker 3: That is one of the greatest breakdowns in dealing with
Speaker 3: a stupid person I've ever come across.
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Speaker 3: Data on the topic of Americans used to be much
Speaker 3: more mobile, and there was a big giant moving day
Speaker 3: once a year.
Speaker 1: If you didn't hear.
Speaker 3: It, it was our three of yesterday's show. Grab it
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Speaker 3: was one hundred percent agreement with you about people just
Speaker 3: picking up and moving and how great that was to
Speaker 3: chase where the opportunities are the way we used to.
Speaker 3: But it dawned on me that most households are made
Speaker 3: up to working people. Only one of those people has
Speaker 3: lost their job. Makes it harder to pick up and move.
Speaker 4: Wow, very wise, perception of being definitely degrees more difficult.
Speaker 3: Because of the length of the piece we're discussing yesterday,
Speaker 3: I left that out. The author did point that out,
Speaker 3: and also that in divorced couples, child custody agreements make
Speaker 3: it much harder to pick.
Speaker 1: Up it right, right, So the complexity of.
Speaker 3: The modern world has definitely hurt our ability to find opportunity.
Speaker 1: Wherever it lies, no doubt. Wow, rich and beautiful green
Speaker 1: organ rites.
Speaker 4: In fact, well, yeah, picking up and leaving when you
Speaker 4: got two careers that have to the in the same
Speaker 4: location start over again at the same time, it's a
Speaker 4: pretty daunting task.
Speaker 1: It is very complicated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, how can we hear little about SpaceX rescuing
Speaker 3: these stranded astronauts. The ten day mission turns into nine months.
Speaker 3: The government can't get them. I would point out the
Speaker 3: Boeing folks floundered Elon to the rescue, but the media
Speaker 3: barely mentions it. Yeah, well that's because he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3: Now he's evil, He's evil. Mfaae my favorite African American
Speaker 3: Elon rich and Oregon.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm supposed to sing this, but
Speaker 3: another Jay in San Jose writes on the sixth level
Speaker 3: of chess Trump gave to US. Iran nukes are part
Speaker 3: of the Russian deal. It's all part of that giant
Speaker 3: Omni deal Russia, China, Iran, god arafs.
Speaker 1: I play.
Speaker 4: I play one dimensional chess with my son, and I
Speaker 4: have lost eight times in a row.
Speaker 3: Now eight times in a row. Wow, the student has
Speaker 3: become the master. The master needs to up his game. See,
Speaker 3: I still call the Knight the Horsey. So I don't
Speaker 3: get any game currently. Concentration is my biggest foe. I
Speaker 3: just I space out and then I make mistakes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: tell me about it. Magnus and Tucson writes, aquifer depletion
Speaker 3: dust bowl. I remember hearing that we're depleting all the
Speaker 3: water in the aquifers in the Midwest, the West too,
Speaker 3: and when it's gone there will be a Midwest dust
Speaker 3: bowl for decades. Yeah, the climate change stuff is way overblown.
Speaker 3: It's a profit center for green new scammers. The pumping
Speaker 3: out the aquifers too fast stuff. I have talked to
Speaker 3: people who are completely responsible, saying, people who point out
Speaker 3: that just means underground water. Essentially, we're pumping it out
Speaker 3: way faster than nature. Then nature can replenish it, and
Speaker 3: we're making a serious mistake.
Speaker 1: I believe that to be true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dust storms that are causing fifty car pile ups
Speaker 4: in the Midwest that hasn't been around for a long time.
Speaker 3: And then this, I don't think we have time. We'll
Speaker 3: just start it and we'll finish it off next hour.
Speaker 3: But Eric, frequent correspondent guy it writes guys, because accuracy
Speaker 3: is your hallmark, I am compelled to respond to John
Speaker 3: from Kansas, who suggested yesterday's mail bag that the term
Speaker 3: woman is derived from the Old English womb plus man
Speaker 3: to mean woman. Well, this makes for a good story,
Speaker 3: I'm afraid is not supported by the literature. Yeah, even
Speaker 3: as I said it, I knew this is you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's disputed. All these things are other Oh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: I won't dispute that. The other possible explanations where the
Speaker 3: term woman came from coming up next hour.
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