Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arms Strong and Jetty and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: People don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that
Speaker 3: they have transgender for everybody. And again the men and
Speaker 3: women's sports. What is that a ninety to ten deal.
Speaker 3: I don't even know who the ten would be, but
Speaker 3: they were in the fighting for it.
Speaker 2: And I try and.
Speaker 3: Say to myself, because you always like to understand where
Speaker 3: your opponent is, whether it's in business or anything else.
Speaker 3: Is there something I don't understand, but we don't understand it.
Speaker 4: So Trump did a big interview with Maria Barbromo yes
Speaker 4: day and a lot of different issues, but this is
Speaker 4: what's getting the most attention, so we can discuss.
Speaker 2: Look, I know that you inherited a mess, and you say,
Speaker 2: I don't been here far.
Speaker 3: Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to
Speaker 3: predict things like that. There is a period of transition
Speaker 3: because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth
Speaker 3: back to America. That's a big thing, and there are
Speaker 3: always periods of it takes a little time. It takes
Speaker 3: a little time, but I think it should be great
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it should be great.
Speaker 4: So the fact that he didn't immediately say no, there's
Speaker 4: not going to be a recession.
Speaker 2: Him understanding the way the media.
Speaker 4: Works and everything means something, right, right, I thought his
Speaker 4: very brief screen about you know, it's important in any
Speaker 4: sort of negotiation, I ask yourself, is there something I
Speaker 4: don't understand about the other side?
Speaker 2: Occasionally, because Trump's.
Speaker 5: Very simple populist messaging sometimes strikes people including me, is
Speaker 5: like crazy oversimplified, but that's often intentional, and occasionally he
Speaker 5: shows a glimpse behind the curtain, and he's much more
Speaker 5: analytical than he comes off. I think, right, can we
Speaker 5: break out of the either like Trump or you don't
Speaker 5: like him for just a minute to have this conversation.
Speaker 2: Sure, so he's talking to the listener, I know you can, But.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about friends I know who would never never
Speaker 4: be able to get past the they hate Trump so
Speaker 4: much or whatever. But he talked a little bit about
Speaker 4: having long term goals, thinking long term, how China thinks
Speaker 4: in centuries in the interview, and I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 4: On MSNBC this Morning where they do hate Trump so
Speaker 4: much they can hardly see straight. David Ignatius of the
Speaker 4: Washington Post saying this, He made a.
Speaker 6: Very interesting comment yesterday that I did pay attention to
Speaker 6: where he said China works on one hundred year cycle
Speaker 6: of planning in the United States goes horror to quarter,
Speaker 6: something I've heard from corporate CEOs for for years, and
Speaker 6: I think he's right about that. I mean, it's not
Speaker 6: to endorse the policies, but we do tend to get
Speaker 6: so caught up in these short term movements that we
Speaker 6: forget about what would be good.
Speaker 2: In for the long run in the country.
Speaker 6: But in any event, Wall Street's got the jitters today.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: And it reminded me is that we've been saying for
Speaker 4: years on this show. You always say that, you know,
Speaker 4: the Dow is not the economy, or what's happening with
Speaker 4: the stock market is not the economy. And Wall Street, man,
Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal gets quoted all the time. We
Speaker 4: quoted all the time, and it's a great newspaper, but man,
Speaker 4: they're a quarter by quarter what's best for the next
Speaker 4: quarter newspaper and a bunch of people who make a
Speaker 4: lot of money off of being able to read what's
Speaker 4: going to happen quarter by quarter by quarter. But I
Speaker 4: remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal years ago.
Speaker 4: There's never been any movement on this on how when
Speaker 4: reporting rules changed, and I don't remember when that happened,
Speaker 4: but we went from reporting, you know, yearly or whatever
Speaker 4: to quarterly to the stockholders really change the way we
Speaker 4: do business in the United States, and people.
Speaker 2: Started changing chasing that quarter.
Speaker 4: And if you've ever worked for a big company, you've
Speaker 4: seen them do things that you know is structurally a
Speaker 4: bad long term idea. But they did it because it's
Speaker 4: going to boost the stock price this quarter, and they're
Speaker 4: not worried about the next quarter till they get to
Speaker 4: the next quarter. And that's what Trump's trying to talk about.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you can actually do it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you can bring manufacturing back to
Speaker 4: the United States. We start making things here, and you know,
Speaker 4: China has its own orbit and we have our own
Speaker 4: orbit and they're separate and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you can do that in a
Speaker 4: one term presidency. But that's what he's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 4: A couple of thoughts.
Speaker 5: That is the challenge because it could easily take thirty
Speaker 5: years to do it thoroughly. And it's so easy to demogogue, right,
Speaker 5: difficult in between period in a democracy from the left
Speaker 5: and the right.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean if if a you know, Jos Shapiro whatever,
Speaker 5: decided that, you know, that's right, we got to onshore
Speaker 5: a bunch of stuff because China are dirty communists and
Speaker 5: bent on world domination and evil and it's it. But
Speaker 5: it would take a couple two three decades to thoroughly
Speaker 5: restructure the economy that way, and it's very difficult for
Speaker 5: democracy to do that. And of course Trump's only got
Speaker 5: four years and if his successor, whoever that might be,
Speaker 5: gets in and is willing to continue those policies. But again,
Speaker 5: the difficulty is we vote every few years, and the
Speaker 5: average voter is completely unsophisticated. Now, you folks, you've got
Speaker 5: in terms of savvy, you've got multiple PhDs. But you know,
Speaker 5: the average schlub who turns out to the polls having
Speaker 5: been convinced that they're going to take away the old
Speaker 5: people's social security or Trump's a new Hitler.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a hell of a lot of voters.
Speaker 5: And you can you can get those people fired up
Speaker 5: and cut off the world's wisest long term plan at
Speaker 5: the knees without even trying this.
Speaker 4: This is a really big picture issue though. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think this gets to the core of is an
Speaker 4: authoritarian system where one guy makes the decisions like China
Speaker 4: better than our system on this issue. We can people
Speaker 4: govern themselves on this issue, think long term and the
Speaker 4: reality of the new world.
Speaker 2: No, but thank you for asking.
Speaker 5: The other point I was going to make is actually
Speaker 5: kind of a preemptive answer to that question, and that
Speaker 5: is another thing democracy are famous for is being reactive.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite quotes from Churchill was when he
Speaker 5: said nothing changes until you're invaded. You can't get people
Speaker 5: to vote for strong national defense until the poo has
Speaker 5: hit the fan. I was thinking about this, oh, I
Speaker 5: was listening to a good podcast and really thinking deeply
Speaker 5: about the These are the things I daydream about. If
Speaker 5: I were to design a plan for either party to
Speaker 5: truly do long term reform of social security and medicaid,
Speaker 5: what would the messaging be, How would we approach that
Speaker 5: and like preemptively guard ourselves against the demagoguery of they.
Speaker 2: Want old people to starve?
Speaker 5: And honestly, I couldn't come up with anything that would work.
Speaker 5: We will do nothing about those situations until they crash,
Speaker 5: and then everybody will say how did this happen? And
Speaker 5: we will have to enact strong, unpalatable measures to save
Speaker 5: those two programs.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know how to head it off
Speaker 2: in a democracy.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to be discouraging, well like a bad talk
Speaker 5: show host, and I apologize.
Speaker 4: Dave Chappelle had a joke over the weekend of uh,
Speaker 4: this all sounds great until you're paying nine thousand dollars
Speaker 4: for an iPhone.
Speaker 2: The problem being.
Speaker 4: If China gets what they want, they're just gonna They're
Speaker 4: just gonna take the Apple factory, and we'ren't right and
Speaker 4: unless we're willing to send in the Marines, there's not
Speaker 4: gonna be any getting it back. And then we'll have
Speaker 4: to all of a sudden figure out how to make
Speaker 4: the iPhone or MacBook or whatever in the United States
Speaker 4: or in India or some friendly country or whatever. So
Speaker 4: it's either there'll be fifty thousand YUS four or five years.
Speaker 2: So it's either plan ahead or or it's gonna be worse.
Speaker 4: Since again, but if we can't deal with the simple
Speaker 4: math of social security as an issue as you've been
Speaker 4: talking about. Well, then we're certainly not gonna deal with
Speaker 4: the complexities of bringing manufacturing back to the United States
Speaker 4: because we found out during COVID all the medicines and
Speaker 4: masks and every every single thing you needed was made
Speaker 4: in China or somewhere else, because we don't make anything right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, other than certain aspects of Trump's foreign policy, which
Speaker 5: I don't like it all, there a hell of a
Speaker 5: lot he's doing that I think is great. I am
Speaker 5: uncomfortably reminded of when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor of
Speaker 5: California and he had like was it, five giant reforms
Speaker 5: and he decided to push them all through at once,
Speaker 5: which was a terrible tactical error, Yes, you lunkhead, because
Speaker 5: all of the special interest groups were able to pool
Speaker 5: their resources and energies and get it all defeated at once,
Speaker 5: where even though the pulling on the individual topics was very,
Speaker 5: very good, and I just I find myself thinking, if
Speaker 5: the disruptions to the economy because of a legitimate long
Speaker 5: term you know, brand of thinking make it really easy
Speaker 5: to demagogue against that, then there go the other budget cuts,
Speaker 5: all the enthusiasm for that will will go away. Elon Musk,
Speaker 5: the world's richest man is brought on this recession be
Speaker 5: fairly easy to sell and there goes the anti woke
Speaker 5: you know momentum. Maybe the reforming the universities in schools
Speaker 5: to get the Marxist you know, indoctrination out of them.
Speaker 2: I just I'm a little concerned. There's so much going on.
Speaker 4: Well, if you could get a group of economists to
Speaker 4: discuss this and check their trump fear, slash, love or
Speaker 4: hatred at the door, do we need to think? Okay,
Speaker 4: the whole globalization thing is over. That moment is over.
Speaker 4: China is going to have their sphere of influence and
Speaker 4: it might be half the planet. Everything is going to divide.
Speaker 4: We need to bring everything back or to friendly countries.
Speaker 2: Period.
Speaker 4: Would most economists agree with that or not? I wonder
Speaker 4: I think they would.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, I don't unless they have a much rosier
Speaker 5: view of China and its future than any sane human
Speaker 5: being could have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'd agree.
Speaker 4: If that needs to happen. There's going to be an
Speaker 4: ugly period of making that happen. Yes, or more likely
Speaker 4: it's going to be what you said, when when it
Speaker 4: all collapses or the war starts or whatever, that's when
Speaker 4: we'll have to figure out how to make a car
Speaker 4: in the United States, an iPhone in the United States,
Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff. I just I'm not I
Speaker 4: don't I can't go with you that far that it's
Speaker 4: all going to be made in the United States. I
Speaker 4: think it'll be more regionalism as opposed to globalism. And
Speaker 4: I just hope Trump's being realistic about well, he didn't
Speaker 4: even want it massing. He didn't want to make things
Speaker 4: in Mexico or Canada. Right now, It's exactly where I
Speaker 4: was going with this. I think you would have to
Speaker 4: go full on, like I don't want to get too
Speaker 4: technical here, partly because my memories of this crap pretty fuzzy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You don't want to go full protectionist, mercantilist, isolationist economics
Speaker 5: because that would that would so radically remake the economy,
Speaker 5: that would shake out over you know, half a century
Speaker 5: or more. I like the idea of a much tighter regionalism,
Speaker 5: but that's gonna involve because you know, Mexico, Guatemala, some
Speaker 5: of the South American countries have much lower labor costs.
Speaker 5: That's gonna involve some of the mass production being there
Speaker 5: and not all on shore. I think, I think that,
Speaker 5: you know, a mix of the two on shoring and
Speaker 5: regional cooperation.
Speaker 2: Is probably the sweet spot.
Speaker 4: But the Bernie crowd's got to be happy about trying
Speaker 4: to bring the jobs back to the United States.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah theoretically, Yeah, well that's interesting stuff.
Speaker 4: Again, he's got three and a half years to do it,
Speaker 4: whereas China's got a hundred year plan and one guy
Speaker 4: makes all the decisions.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be fun to watch. Tell you will it?
Speaker 2: Stock up on dried goods and ammunition.
Speaker 4: Folks, or horrifying A bunch of things to update you on.
Speaker 4: Gene Hackman, Lebron James.
Speaker 5: My favorite gender bending madness story of the year thus far.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that sounds good. All on the way stay here.
Speaker 2: Prime has launched.
Speaker 7: A new tool that will use AI to dub movies
Speaker 7: into English from foreign languages like Spanish, Korean, and Sylvester Sloan.
Speaker 4: Oh I love that man, so AI could uh, I
Speaker 4: don't have to read the dang foreign film.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 5: So it's gonna I put my headphones on late. The
Speaker 5: audio track is actually going to be translated. Yeah, AI
Speaker 5: could do that obviously with good acting skills. I don't
Speaker 5: know about that.
Speaker 2: But I hear the past in the voice.
Speaker 4: But if I'm reading it, what are my acting skills?
Speaker 4: I'm reading the well, you hear the.
Speaker 2: Voices on screen? Right.
Speaker 5: It's like the the Everywhere all the time, up and
Speaker 5: down and behind you movie that I thought was so good.
Speaker 2: I finally watched Ye so prime a new prime minister
Speaker 2: in Canada? Trudeau's out? Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Not yet? Okay, they haven't voted for a
Speaker 2: new one yet.
Speaker 5: The exciting realities of Canadian politics to come.
Speaker 2: Also next hour.
Speaker 5: What China is up to and how they're doing it
Speaker 5: is absolutely clear now, dramatic, shocking, terrifying.
Speaker 2: Stay with us. I just wondered if Christine was out yet.
Speaker 5: Speaking of gender bending madness, this may be my favorite
Speaker 5: gender bending madness.
Speaker 2: Story of the year thus far, though it is early.
Speaker 5: So in San Francisco, you got the uh, you got
Speaker 5: one full nude Russian bath house.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know what you're doing. I'm not a Russian.
Speaker 2: What what do is do?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Everyone I've heard the term bath house and then jokes
Speaker 4: about it. But I don't really know what a bath
Speaker 4: house is.
Speaker 2: You go, it's like a hot tubbery are you so
Speaker 2: can it's you soak in the hot tubs, into the
Speaker 2: mud baths or whatever. And but I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't go to them, or are they a sexual
Speaker 4: thing or are there are there above allegedly no?
Speaker 5: In reality, yeah, that was the big hookup place in
Speaker 5: San Francisco for years.
Speaker 2: That's where the aids spread so so rapidly. I was
Speaker 2: really ignorant on this topic.
Speaker 4: But so they are like real bathhouses that just regular
Speaker 4: people not wanting to have sex go to. I never
Speaker 4: talked to anybody's Yeah, got back from the bathouse, is
Speaker 4: going to go.
Speaker 2: Had a good time? Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: In a lot of cultures, and we're actually using up
Speaker 5: all the time for the actual story I wanted to tell.
Speaker 2: But you know what the hell?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Russians, Finns, your Northern Europeans bathhouses, hot springs,
Speaker 5: mud baths, saunas where you're naked, all that stuff is
Speaker 5: super common. But anyway, so this all nude Russian bath house,
Speaker 5: uh really it wants to have a ladies' night, so
Speaker 5: so the women's there can just be there if of
Speaker 5: whatever religious bent they are, that they're not supposed to
Speaker 5: be naked around men, or just don't want to be
Speaker 5: or whatever. And they published the new announcement of the Ladies'
Speaker 5: Night saying, quote, in order to shelter religious preferences of
Speaker 5: women in our community, only biological women will be allowed. Well,
Speaker 5: there was en up roar jack in San Francisco, and
Speaker 5: theanguage was quickly updated to sex assigned at birth.
Speaker 2: But then that was hosted.
Speaker 5: Of course, everything lives forever on the internet, and there
Speaker 5: are protests and counter protests and people yelling online and
Speaker 5: that sort of thing. Even though they quote several transgender
Speaker 5: people former fellas saying, look, it's one night a month.
Speaker 2: No sane person.
Speaker 5: Goes to the banya every day of the month anyway.
Speaker 5: But so then, and I'm going to hurry through this,
Speaker 5: they had to change it because nobody could agree on
Speaker 5: the terms to fallus and nonfallous nights, phallic and non
Speaker 5: phallic nights. Because if you're a woman and you go
Speaker 5: to the bath house on Women's night and there's a
Speaker 5: wang there, it is not women's night.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, it is.
Speaker 5: Trans women are women jack. According to people mostly in
Speaker 5: San Francisco and places like that. But the bath house
Speaker 5: is like, all right, what do we call it? So
Speaker 5: nobody with a chance shows up. As are going through
Speaker 5: about six different iterations, they came up with non phallic knight.
Speaker 5: Thank you for making the point better than conservatives ever could.
Speaker 2: I'm Christian, friends, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: This is what it sounds like at the Highatt Regency
Speaker 1: Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds of high school students from
Speaker 1: the Kentucky All State Choir uniting each night to sing
Speaker 1: our national anthem, a longtime tradition in the Bluegrass State,
Speaker 1: going all the way back to nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Braid, Yes, Brade, I knew how it ends.
Speaker 4: Bran.
Speaker 2: Let's get to come up. We've got things to do wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here with chills, my soul stir. Jack's bitching
Speaker 2: about how long it is? Wow?
Speaker 4: Nice little wow, let's move the metromenome up five clicks?
Speaker 5: All right, little kind of built to that moment. Fucking okay.
Speaker 5: I like the story for a little long, nice story.
Speaker 5: That is a beautiful set and beautiful singing. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean it was absolutely lovely coming up. Have cars gotten
Speaker 5: too technologically advanced. Now they're making everyone insane. I've been
Speaker 5: saying this for thirty years. Of course I'm a ludite.
Speaker 5: You are ali it, but and you like fast anthems.
Speaker 5: Everybody knows about you. But on the opposite end of
Speaker 5: the technological spectrum. As things get weirder and more bloody
Speaker 5: and horrible in the Ukraine, I don't want to talk
Speaker 5: about the war and foreign policy and Trump and all
Speaker 5: sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2: But two technical notes.
Speaker 5: Lately, as it's become kind of the experimenting experimental ground
Speaker 5: for all sorts of weapons systems that will be unleashed
Speaker 5: on other human beings for you know, the next half century. Promly,
Speaker 5: Russia is doing two things to adapt to the technology
Speaker 5: sophistication of the Ukrainians. Number One, they are now using
Speaker 5: train for goodness sakes, drones that are actually tethered to
Speaker 5: lightweight cable, extremely lightweight cable to communicate with the drones
Speaker 5: over short to kind of medium distances because they can't
Speaker 5: be jammed. Ah wow, it's like a landline for your drones.
Speaker 5: And they literally have spools of super lightweight wire that
Speaker 5: goes out how far I don't remember came across this
Speaker 5: a while back.
Speaker 2: But again, you're not going to send.
Speaker 5: One five miles away, obviously, it's you know, you're there
Speaker 5: at the front, and the other thing is on the
Speaker 5: Eastern Front, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields
Speaker 5: from centuries earlier to counter Ukraine's drone army.
Speaker 2: Horses and donkeys.
Speaker 5: The behooved animals carry supplies and soldiers to avoid the
Speaker 5: attention of drones, which can easily spot and strike armbored
Speaker 5: vehicles and other vehicles.
Speaker 2: Moving near the front lines.
Speaker 5: But you use a horse and a donkey, especially you know,
Speaker 5: in the dusk or dark hours, and then you can
Speaker 5: get by. So they're you know, it's not super widespread
Speaker 5: right now, but they're using horses and donkeys and manual
Speaker 5: trolleys now to move wood, supplies and even the injured
Speaker 5: for miles to and from the front because they're much
Speaker 5: less easily observed.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 5: Ukrainian forces are also experimenting with various unmanned land droney devices,
Speaker 5: including something a very dog like looking beast that looks
Speaker 5: like exactly out of one of those Boston Dynamics videos
Speaker 5: that inspire us all even as they're really freaking us
Speaker 5: out and giving us nightmares.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the next war we're involved in is gonna
Speaker 4: look a lot different than the previous ones, like that
Speaker 4: we're actually fighting. We're involved in all kinds of military
Speaker 4: conflicts around the world, but like where we actually have.
Speaker 2: Boots on the ground.
Speaker 5: As they say, it's funny that we haven't developed nomenclature
Speaker 5: what to call are various levels of violent involvement of
Speaker 5: the members of the military.
Speaker 4: Well, all that, because it gets to the whole Only
Speaker 4: Congress can declare war, but for the past however long,
Speaker 4: you use the same nine to eleven justification for every
Speaker 4: act you do all over the world, and the President
Speaker 4: can make the calls, right, the President or you know,
Speaker 4: the Secretary of State or even the CIA can declare
Speaker 4: not war. But I want you armed fellows to kill
Speaker 4: those people over there, right, Yeah, which is I'm sure Madison.
Speaker 2: Would go, wow, we never even thought of that. Anyway.
Speaker 5: On the other end of the technological spectrum, drivers are
Speaker 5: finding they wish smart technology in their cars was just
Speaker 5: a bit dumber. Now, Jack, you have always been a
Speaker 5: bit of a light eight when it comes to cars.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a matter of preference. I tend to
Speaker 5: like a little more technical sophistication in my automobile.
Speaker 4: They, in my opinion, you can't improve upon what the
Speaker 4: air conditioning system was. Forever you got a knob, you
Speaker 4: turn it toward blue for colder, red for warmer, and
Speaker 4: the speed of the fan.
Speaker 2: It worked perfectly fine. I don't know why we ever
Speaker 2: had to change it.
Speaker 5: Because a thermostats are a thing, and they're great. I
Speaker 5: want it to be seventy two degrees in my car.
Speaker 5: It'll get it there and hold it there for me.
Speaker 2: You don't have it. You don't want a red and
Speaker 2: blue thing in your home? Do you like?
Speaker 5: You're saying it's some cheap motel with cinder block walls.
Speaker 5: Come on now, anyway, Oh, teach their own, I say.
Speaker 5: But automakers have been adding more and more new tech
Speaker 5: features that go beyond the just the touch screens, assisted
Speaker 5: driving systems and companion home maps that have become ubiquitous.
Speaker 4: I know, I mentioned, I know the feeling. How many
Speaker 4: times have I screamed in my car various other places.
Speaker 4: But quit trying to help me with various things where
Speaker 4: they think they're doing me a favor.
Speaker 5: Stop trying to help me. Have we hit the point
Speaker 5: of too much. Yes, many driver states too much. The
Speaker 5: sharew had positive feelings about the intuitiveness of their car's
Speaker 5: controls was seventy nine percent in the year twenty fifteen,
Speaker 5: seventy nine percent. Nine years later's fall into fifty six percent,
Speaker 5: twenty three point drop.
Speaker 2: That is interesting. The trend was.
Speaker 5: Similar for and this is what really rung a bell
Speaker 5: with me, driver's perceptions of dashboard displays, screen interfaces, and
Speaker 5: the layout of instrument panels. Overall, people like it pretty well,
Speaker 5: but touch screens and it's funny. I've got a newish
Speaker 5: car and I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
Speaker 5: They quote this one bloke. He sees them as both
Speaker 5: an annoyance and potential hazard. Changing settings can require multiple
Speaker 5: taps and usually doesn't deliver physical.
Speaker 2: Feedback like the twist of a knob or the press
Speaker 2: of a.
Speaker 5: Button that you can actually feel for twist, how far
Speaker 5: you've twisted it, or whatever.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 5: Quote, you have to sit there and stare at what
Speaker 5: you're doing, which means you're taking your eyes off.
Speaker 2: The road, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a really cool car, but the touch
Speaker 5: screen is way too cumbersome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I shouldn't have to look and touch that many
Speaker 4: things just to turn on the radio. Too many screens
Speaker 4: flying around, too much attention. Yeah, it's quite amazing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I would agree.
Speaker 5: Some twenty eight percent of new car buyers favorite buttons
Speaker 5: over touch screens, with that number is growing. And then
Speaker 5: they get into a story that I don't know anything about,
Speaker 5: but I guess with a lot of electric cars, including Tesla's,
Speaker 5: but in this case a Volkswagen model, they're like crazy technically.
Speaker 2: Advanced, is that the right word.
Speaker 5: But this guy who lives in Canada, I believe, went
Speaker 5: out on a really cold morning and he's gonna try
Speaker 5: to remotely start charging it blah blah blah. But the
Speaker 5: doors wouldn't open because their sensor equipped handles were on
Speaker 5: the fritz in the cold. He had one of those
Speaker 5: cars that like senses your approach and the handles emerge
Speaker 5: and then they sense your fingers and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So he couldn't get into the car.
Speaker 5: He had to shimmy into his car through the trunk,
Speaker 5: like you had to back when your car was falling
Speaker 5: apart many years ago.
Speaker 4: My car does that because of the app on my watch,
Speaker 4: which I find just amazing. So because I'm wearing my
Speaker 4: watch with the car app on it, it opens the
Speaker 4: doors when I walk up to it.
Speaker 5: Now, you wouldn't think the three point one percent or
Speaker 5: three point one problems per one hundred vehicles of owners
Speaker 5: complaining about their door handles being different difficult sounds like
Speaker 5: a lot three point one per one hundred vehicles. But
Speaker 5: that's almost well, it's three percent. That's up from two
Speaker 5: tenths of a percent in twenty twenty. Was anybody unhappy
Speaker 5: you reach out and you pull on the handle and
Speaker 5: the door opens, right?
Speaker 4: See, that's another one to me? Was anybody unhappy with
Speaker 4: the door handle situation?
Speaker 2: Before? I thought it was fine?
Speaker 5: So there, it's about sixteen times as many problems now
Speaker 5: that they're so advanced and futuristic.
Speaker 2: So it would appear, at least for now that we
Speaker 2: are at the end of.
Speaker 5: Fancy and computer driven and futuristic is automatically a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4: I don't even know myself because I am a I
Speaker 4: am do lean toward the luod eyed end. But like
Speaker 4: the Tesla stuff and Apple stuff, I really really like.
Speaker 4: I feel like they do a really good job of
Speaker 4: figuring out what you want in a way that you
Speaker 4: want it versus a lot of other products. So there
Speaker 4: is a it's not all one or the other, it's
Speaker 4: all in the execution. So top of the list that
Speaker 4: people do, like wireless phone charging pads, yeah he did.
Speaker 5: And ventilated seats. Oh I'm a big fan, a little
Speaker 5: bougie for me. Oh please please, hot hot summer day.
Speaker 5: You got an air conditioner blown right on your heinis
Speaker 5: it on earth.
Speaker 4: Makes me feel like my pants are wet. And secondly,
Speaker 4: it's just it's it's to your pants are wet. It's
Speaker 4: too chancy. I feel like it's just setting myself up
Speaker 4: for a failure. I I'd rather be hot or cold
Speaker 4: than use that technology.
Speaker 2: Wow, please email.
Speaker 5: Your theories about what's going on there. That's a mail
Speaker 5: bagging armstrung and get eat one also very popular. Jack
Speaker 5: waiting on this for the ludite crowd because I'm sure
Speaker 5: you're representing a certain percentage of people.
Speaker 4: Rain sensing wipers. Yeah, I haven't found that many that
Speaker 4: work that well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great in theory. Yeah great.
Speaker 5: How about built in vacuum cleaners. Yeah, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: that's a thing. Yeah, who's got those?
Speaker 4: I don't remember where I came across that, but it's yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's internal in the car. And then you like,
Speaker 4: you can just plug in the hose. It's like if
Speaker 4: you've got the vacuum system in your house, which I've
Speaker 4: only seen on the whole house vacuum, but yeah, you've
Speaker 4: had that because I am bougie. Yeah, you just have
Speaker 4: a hose you plug into verious parts of the car.
Speaker 4: That would be pretty handy.
Speaker 5: So at the bottom of the wish list are passenger
Speaker 5: side screens like hmm, like screens to look at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was in somebody's fancy Mercedes lift over the weekend
Speaker 4: with my kids. We ended up with a fancy uber
Speaker 4: and it had a guy was showing me the screen
Speaker 4: on the passenger side.
Speaker 2: It was just for the passenger. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Okay, so people are not impressed with that.
Speaker 5: I've never seen one. An augmented reality visible on the windshield. Well,
Speaker 5: if you want to have a head on wreck, it
Speaker 5: sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And according to JD Power, drivers are underwhelmed by gesture controls,
Speaker 5: where one can say, increase the volume by rotating an
Speaker 5: imaginary knob in the air. You're an imaginary knob. Wow,
Speaker 5: that sounds great in theory. Again, but I could see
Speaker 5: like you try it, and you try it again and try.
Speaker 4: It again, like the Apple Vision pro. So you're doing
Speaker 4: things with your hands that its interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, if it.
Speaker 4: Worked, it might be fine. Again, it's the execution of
Speaker 4: all these things. A lot of these things would be
Speaker 4: great if they worked the way they said they were
Speaker 4: going to work.
Speaker 5: Right, And then they mentioned that with all the sensors
Speaker 5: on cars now for backup camera well forward cameras too,
Speaker 5: and parking sensors and whatever, a fender vendor can can
Speaker 5: cost you a hell of a lot of money, which
Speaker 5: has raised insurance rates as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Tesla is because of the aluminum body and
Speaker 4: the sensor and stuff like that, you get a tiny dent,
Speaker 4: You're going to spend fifteen thousand dollars on a tiny dent.
Speaker 4: Elon claims because the newer Teslas have a different sensory
Speaker 4: system than the other ones did with the cameras and
Speaker 4: everything like that. Elon claims they're going full You don't
Speaker 4: have to pay attention auto driving end of twenty six.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that. I don't think the government will
Speaker 4: allow it, will they the you don't have to pay attention.
Speaker 4: You can sleep if you want to.
Speaker 2: Color me skeptical. I'm pretty skeptical too.
Speaker 5: Final note of the evils of technological development. Here's a
Speaker 5: dude who likes to start his twenty four Toya, a
Speaker 5: tound of pickup remotely. He lives in you know, high
Speaker 5: elevation in Nevada, but that function doesn't reliably work with
Speaker 5: his key fob, so he begrudgingly starts it through Toyota's app,
Speaker 5: which charges a subscription fee. He points out, I got
Speaker 5: a thousand dollars a month payment. Now I got to
Speaker 5: pay another fifteen bucks a month just to be able
Speaker 5: to start it remotely.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the subscription fee thing, we've talked about that that's
Speaker 4: a growing you know you want you want this horse
Speaker 4: power because they can adjust it.
Speaker 5: You want this horse power, you pay extra per month.
Speaker 5: This upgraded stereoah, which I always get. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 5: pay a fee per month. Interesting And they mentioned finally
Speaker 5: Jack and this will glad in your heart. After owning
Speaker 5: the truck for a year and a half, he also
Speaker 5: recently bought himself a nineteen eighty five Chivy Silverado, which
Speaker 5: he can fix himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And sometimes when you get in those, if you
Speaker 4: ever get a chance to drive something like that, there's
Speaker 4: something like maybe it's nostalgia, but there's just something because
Speaker 4: it's so simple.
Speaker 2: It's just like.
Speaker 4: Relaxing in a certain way. So like, I know, I
Speaker 4: know everything that's going on here. I don't have to
Speaker 4: think at all. You have any thoughts on that, you
Speaker 4: can text us. We got more in the way to
Speaker 4: stay here.
Speaker 7: Arstro he Yetie, an Australian man who was credited with
Speaker 7: saving more than two million babies by repeatedly donating his blood,
Speaker 7: has died.
Speaker 2: At the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 7: Doctors pronounced him dead when they heard this sound.
Speaker 2: Wow christ Oh, that's kind of funny. Wow.
Speaker 4: It's an easy transition from that to the firing squad
Speaker 4: execution that happened in South Carolina over the weekend. We've
Speaker 4: only executed four people in this country by firing squad
Speaker 4: in the last half a century. We did one the
Speaker 4: other day. He's a scumbag by the way, or he
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know where his brain was. Now.
Speaker 4: He became a Christian and says he's remorseful or whatever,
Speaker 4: but he committed horrible, horrible crimes, beating to death people
Speaker 4: with baseball bats and whatnot. So anyway, strapped to a
Speaker 4: chair with a target placed over his heart, and put
Speaker 4: a hood over his head. Three Correction Department volunteers armed
Speaker 4: with rifles fired bullets, deciding to shatter on impact. I
Speaker 4: don't know exactly what that's all about. They stood fifteen
Speaker 4: feet away, which, if you don't know how far that is,
Speaker 4: is a distance from the free throw line to the backboard,
Speaker 4: So that's how close you are. Three dudes stood there
Speaker 4: and shot him. He was I thought this particular nugget
Speaker 4: was before the hood was placed on his head. Blah
Speaker 4: blah blah. I'll get to a statement in a minute.
Speaker 4: He was wearing a black jumpsuit with crocs. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: make it easier for me to shoot him.
Speaker 2: Actually, wow, oh, inappropriate.
Speaker 4: His ankles and wrists were shackled so that he couldn't
Speaker 4: like jump around, move around whatever. And he chose they.
Speaker 4: He chose the firing squad because he thought it was
Speaker 4: the least gruesome of the other alternatives, the other alternatives
Speaker 4: being in South Carolina eaten by dogs.
Speaker 2: And I don't know that is incorrect. I need a
Speaker 2: source that information.
Speaker 4: Actually, the other choices were actually the electric chair, which
Speaker 4: he said would cook him alive, so he didn't want that.
Speaker 4: And they do lethal injection like most states do who
Speaker 4: have the death penalty, and he was worried that there
Speaker 4: would be a rush of fluid into his lugs and
Speaker 4: lungs and he would drown. So he sounds like a
Speaker 4: bit of a whack job in addition to being a
Speaker 4: murderous scumbag. His final statement was to be one of
Speaker 4: love and calling to my fellow Christians to help us
Speaker 4: end the death penalty. And I for an I was
Speaker 4: used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty.
Speaker 4: He said in a statement at that time, I was
Speaker 4: too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why because
Speaker 4: we no longer live under the Old Testament law, but
Speaker 4: now live under the New test So.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting. Two perspectives on that. Number one.
Speaker 5: I was reading Theologian the other day talking about how
Speaker 5: the whole eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
Speaker 5: thing is not a cry for vengeance.
Speaker 2: It's a cry for proportionality.
Speaker 5: What they're saying is if somebody does something offensive, to
Speaker 5: you don't kill them in their family. Keep it proportional,
Speaker 5: otherwise it escalates and gets incredibly ugly. Second thing is
Speaker 5: I was reminded that Thomas jes Edison rather allegedly invented
Speaker 5: the electric chair to prove that alternating current AC power
Speaker 5: was unsafe because it could kill a person, and DC
Speaker 5: his preferred method of electrifying things was much safer and better.
Speaker 4: H So a number of states have turned to the
Speaker 4: firing squad. I guess if they ever start executing people again.
Speaker 4: There is some belief that it is incredibly painless. You
Speaker 4: will instantly die and feel milky you whatsoever? No, no
Speaker 4: sudden shock. But was it super bloody?
Speaker 2: Did they mention or anything? They did not? It's almost
Speaker 2: got to be, doesn't it. I heard it it was.
Speaker 5: I wonder if he was wearing some sort of special
Speaker 5: garment so it wouldn't be too much of a cleanup.
Speaker 2: I ain't dying in crocs. I'll tell you that you
Speaker 2: might have your standard. I'd like to go out with
Speaker 2: some dignity.
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