1 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: Jetty and Key Arms ranged the Brother Studio. 4 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: See it is a tim lay let room deeper from 5 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 2: the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound the bowels, 6 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 2: I tell you, And today Little Friday, we're under the 7 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: tutelage of our general manager. Are you looking for a 8 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: serious and impactful or lighthearted I think a day if you. 9 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: Will, gay isn't happy or gay is an almost sexual 10 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: certain world. What in the game I would like lighthearting our. 11 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: General manager this morning today? Big Dumper, Okay, Big Dumper. 12 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: That is the charming nickname of young cal Raleigh, who's 13 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: the catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who just hit. 14 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: His sixtieth home run. 15 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: He is the home run hitnist catcher in the history 16 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: of the game and a hell of a nice young man. 17 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: I remember talking about Big Dumper earlier in the season 18 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: All Star Game. Interesting maybe maybe it was, but I 19 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 2: didn't realize he was on track to hit sixty home runs. 20 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: Holy crap. Yeah, he's having an amazing year and. 21 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:45,199 Speaker 2: To have the most grueling crippling position in baseball. 22 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: Have that sort of offensive capability or productivity is crazy, 23 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: and I hope you dump a lot. Oh boy, oh 24 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: mister president. 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: Well, I was reading some of the stats on Aaron 26 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: Judge from the New York Yankees, who's just like among 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: the best players who's ever lived, and thinking it all 28 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: got ruined by the steroid era because the mainstream casual 29 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: fan got in their head seventy home runs is. 30 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: A big deal. Sixty who cares? Fifty who cares? 31 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: Because of the weird steroid area where everything was out 32 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 2: of whack. And you got a couple players that you 33 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 2: take away the steroid area of the era, they're having 34 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: seasons people haven't had in sixty. 35 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: Years or one hundred years. If you're Aaron Judge, but 36 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: you just don't. 37 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: It just doesn't resonate in the same way because they 38 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 2: got blown out of proportion. In this piece about Kyle Rawley, 39 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,839 Speaker 2: they mentioned other great heavy hitters in the steroid era 40 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: and the short porch and Yankee Stadium that Babe Ruth 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 2: and Roger Merrish could just poke out like medium length 42 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: fly balls constant. And they also point out that mister Judge, 43 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: Aaron Judge of the Yankees is six foot seven, two 44 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: hundred and eighty pounds, right, and is oh we sure? 45 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: He's just one ball player and two guys and is 46 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: good one suit and it's gonna be the batting champ 47 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: this year hitting for percentage. 48 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: He's an amazing bag. That is incredible for a guy 49 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: that size. 50 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just you know, it's funny as we're 51 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 2: talking about this, my mood is lifting. Is there any 52 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: chance we can get America to watch sports again or 53 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: something and just be able to come together? And oh, 54 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 2: my god, did you see Aaron Judge last night? 55 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? I think he hit that ball five hundred feet? 56 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: What are your politics? I don't care. It was kind 57 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: of a cool game. 58 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 2: What is it where I found a tweet from Aaron 59 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: Judge about immigration from five years ago? 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: And so I won't watch him? 61 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: Right? 62 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: Right? Right? God, dang it. You're right, Hey, our fence 63 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: is sagging. We ought to pitch in and and fix 64 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: that together. Neighbor. Yeah, what are your politics? Good lord? 65 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: We're diseased, friends, diseased. 66 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: Well somewhat to that point. To get slightly more serious 67 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: on a day after more political violence. Ay, pull, that's 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: getting a lot of attention, and do you think the 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: way people talk about politics these days are contributing to violence? 70 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: Says the Fascist Court to quin. 71 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: According to Quinnipiac, one of your legit polling organizations, eighty 72 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 2: two percent of people obviously that has to include people 73 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: from both parties, eighty two percent of people say yes, 74 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: the way people talk about politics is contributing to violence, 75 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: and the. 76 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: Other eighteen percent are wrong or stupid. Correct. Yeah, if 77 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: you say no, what is your what kind of person 78 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: are you? What? What? I don't even know? 79 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: Your troll or something. And by the way, the other 80 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: question of how serious a problem do you think political 81 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: violence is today? Seventy one percent very serious, twenty two 82 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 2: percent somewhat serious, for a total of ninety three. Well, 83 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 2: that's good, it is good. Ened it took as much 84 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: violence as we've seen to get there. But yeah, at 85 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 2: least people are aware. I mean, there have been some 86 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 2: high pro you know what, that is exactly the wrong term. 87 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 2: There have been some what should have been very high 88 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 2: profile shootings lately. They happen to have come from the left. 89 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: There's plenty of right wing violence as well, But to 90 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: shooting up of the ICE facility, which we're going to 91 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: talk about the shooting up of a Sacramento, California television 92 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 2: station by a left wing activist lawyer guy. The number 93 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: of people who think, you know what I'm gonna do, 94 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna shoot somebody is way too high, Right, That's 95 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 2: why we should get into Joe and I happen to 96 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: take in a lecture on a podcast from an expert 97 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: who's been looking into people who commit these high profile 98 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: shooting things, whether it's school shooting's, workplace shootings, assassinations, whatever, 99 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 2: And there's a commonality that runs through a lot of 100 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: it that I think. 101 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: Would all be better off embracing and understanding. 102 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: One of the things being that a lot of the 103 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: times it's a suicide dressed in a cause. Right, the 104 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: research the person had been doing, or the time the 105 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 2: person had been spending on you know, talking to people 106 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: was all about suicide for a long time before they 107 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 2: pick a target to wrap it around. 108 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: So if they kill themselves. 109 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 2: Alone in their home, it will be completely unsung and 110 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 2: unnoticed except by the people closest to them. 111 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: So how do I, as an angry person. 112 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: Get lots and lots of people to recognize my performative suicide? 113 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: Wait? A minute. If I kill a bunch of other people, 114 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: everyone will pay attention, and well, go ahead, it's possible. 115 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: You remember, back in the day, workplace shootings were a 116 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: thing that kind of went away, and the schools became 117 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 2: very popular. I wonder if it's going to migrate to 118 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 2: politics now. Oh, the way you get all the attention 119 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 2: is pick a political figure. And to that point, the 120 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: other aspect of this expert's studies that really really interested 121 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 2: me was that so many of these people are what 122 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: we were just describing, or something close to it. They 123 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: were the desire to kill, looking for a cause, and 124 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 2: they would latch onto a cause and not be like 125 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: super into it. They'd learn some of the lingo and 126 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: post online. But as this expert pointed out, and it 127 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: was so eloquent, he said, they didn't labor for years 128 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 2: trying to change minds. They didn't put everything they had into. 129 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: The cause for ages. They weren't marching and lobbying and 130 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: demonstrating and spending their life. No, they just kind of 131 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: latched on it then decided, yeah, that's good enough, now 132 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: let's kill some people. Yeah. 133 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: There are almost no examples of people who were part 134 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: of a group or running for office or anything like that, 135 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: to try to change a situation. Their first like real 136 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: efforts to change a situation is violance, partially because they 137 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 2: want to kill themselves. 138 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: And have a reason. 139 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 2: I think it's interesting the way it fits in with 140 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: this weird thing that a lot of us have, where 141 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 2: if I don't post this somewhere, it didn't happen, whether 142 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: it's my wedding, my vacation, my kids first steps, or whatever. 143 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 2: If I don't post this and somebody sees it, it 144 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 2: like it has no meaning, and so that has trans 145 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 2: transferred now to suicides. If I kill myself alone in 146 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: my apartment, which is the way almost everybody's killed themselves 147 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: throughout history, it has no meaning. 148 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: I've got to it's got to get some attention. 149 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:36,839 Speaker 3: You know. 150 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: It was funny you read in my mind. I was 151 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: just going to say that. And I don't have the 152 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: figures in front of me, but I think we've all 153 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: seen them. 154 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: That the. 155 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: Goals of young people through the last handful of generations 156 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 2: have changed markedly, mostly in the direction of everybody wants 157 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: to be famous. I mean, everybody was aware of being famous. 158 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 2: In nine, Team fifty or whatever. It seemed like a 159 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: nice idea, but it wasn't anything you really took seriously, 160 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: partly because it was practically impossible. But now, more than 161 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 2: like wealth and a happy marriage, a successful career, more 162 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 2: than virtually anything, I want to be famous, and you 163 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 2: couple that with you know the other things we've been 164 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 2: talking about, and it's not a huge leap of logic. Okay, 165 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 2: a suicide everyone notices a cause of just kind of 166 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 2: latched onto and I want to be famous. 167 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: Let me think. 168 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm troubled and angry and can't find a 169 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: love and I have no purpose to my life and. 170 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I don't know what we 171 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: do well, yeah, what do we do about that? Don't know? 172 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: But that's some interesting stuff. 173 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that later, and you know, get 174 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 2: into the specific violence yesterday around the ice agents. Let's 175 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 2: start to show officially so we don't end up with 176 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 2: that FCC guy. I want to take us out of 177 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 2: the air, like Jimmy co I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe 178 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 2: Getty on this it is Thursday September twenty fifty or 179 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 180 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program. 181 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: Let us begin then officially, according to the FCC rules, rags, 182 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: the show starts at mark. 183 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 4: They're sort of trying to see what we do do 184 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 4: we flinch? And I think the finish answer is to 185 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 4: be cool, calm and collected, take a sauna, take an 186 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 4: ice bath, and then take the right action. 187 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 2: I can incorporate that into my day to day struggles. 188 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: A sauna and a nice bath. Who dad, that is 189 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 2: the the president, president or prime minister, the leader of Finland, 190 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: Alexander stub Good, but golf buddy of President Trump. We've 191 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 2: talked about a handful of times he has outsized influences. 192 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 2: The two have bonded and he's right there on the 193 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: border with Russia, the eight hundred mile border, and says 194 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: we need to keep calm, collected, take a sona. It's 195 00:10:54,040 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 2: a very finish attitude, very finished. They are a call people. 196 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 2: The world is still trying to figure out if Trump 197 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: is serious about, like really getting invested in helping Ukraine 198 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 2: take back territory, or if that was just shooting off 199 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 2: his mouth for a day and everything is status. 200 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: Quo or what. 201 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: I reread his comments and I have a theory. Okay, cool, 202 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 2: I got on the way every Thursday morning. We have 203 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: Joe's theory, so he can tune that in and Joe's 204 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: Thursday theory, and then we've got Katie's headlines coming up next. 205 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 2: So I just came across and Mark Halpern's newsletter today. 206 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 2: I read every day. I read a whole bunch of 207 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 2: different people's newsletters every day. But his newsletter today has 208 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 2: what easily should be the biggest story of the day, 209 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 2: and it has nothing to do with politics. We can 210 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 2: get that coming up along with Joe's Thursday theory that 211 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: he mentioned a little bit ago about what he thinks 212 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 2: Trump is up to read his post about Ukraine. Plus 213 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 2: the feed is going to drop the rate and your 214 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 2: mortgage rate will go up. Play with us for the explanation. 215 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 2: Why what right now, let's figure out who's reporting, But 216 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 2: it's lead story with Katie Green and. 217 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: Katie thank you guys. 218 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 3: Starting with ABC, director says ICE facilities are on high. 219 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: Alert after deadly Dallas shooting. 220 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 3: His FBI investigates as quote act of targeted violence. 221 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: So there's a lot now of each side trying to 222 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: make the claim that the other side is most of 223 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 2: political violence. So I take this with a bit of 224 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 2: a grain of salt. But at least MSNBC was reporting 225 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: that this. Talking to this guy's like brother and friends, 226 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 2: they were like, he went into politics at all. I'm 227 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 2: shocked by this. This sounds like a great example of 228 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 2: what we're just talking about. Because he offed himself. This 229 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 2: was a suicide that he wanted to be noticed. 230 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: I mean, because it. 231 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: Seemed, you know, is bullets had kill fascists or whatever, 232 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 2: and he ended up shooting a bunch of detainees. Yeah, 233 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 2: it sounds like he may have adopted this cause like 234 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 2: in the last week, and needed a reason around his suicide. 235 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: That's disturbing. 236 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 3: From CNN, the US economy grew at a three point 237 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 3: eight percent rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than 238 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: previously reported. 239 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 2: That's a pretty good number, being near four percent. Yeah, 240 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 2: I'll take that. Can't keep us down. Mark Hey, by 241 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 2: the way, I grew at three point eight percent last quarter, myself, 242 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: surprising economists, an exceeding expectation. Yes, it definitely exceeded expectations. 243 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: From USA. 244 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 3: Today, President Trump accuses the UN of quote triple sabotage 245 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 3: after technical mishaps during his visit. 246 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, full sabotage. 247 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 3: I don't know. 248 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 2: The fact that the escalator stopped the moment he and 249 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: Malania stepped on it, and then his teleprompter didn't work. 250 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 1: It's an awful lot. 251 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 3: And apparently if you didn't have an earpiece in, you 252 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 3: couldn't hear him because the audio where he was speaking 253 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 3: wasn't pumping through the speakers, so he was silent to 254 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,599 Speaker 3: everybody who didn't have one of those earbuds in. 255 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: You know, point quantity is a quality. 256 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 2: What would that shock anybody that somebody involved with the 257 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 2: UN was trying to screw with Trump? 258 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: Of course it wouldn't shock you. That's like a whole 259 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: thing is crazy. It's like an Okham's. 260 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 2: Razor thing practically right well, especially because I guarantee some 261 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: leakage of his speech occurred, and his speech, as you 262 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 2: may recall, included such notions as to hell's the point 263 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 2: of this organization? 264 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 4: These are the two things I got from the United Nations, 265 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 4: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter, thank you very much. 266 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, Justice Department will seek to indict 267 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 3: Comy on allegations that he lied to Congress. 268 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if they're going to get him 269 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 2: on the be able to get him on the thing. 270 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 2: They should, they should get him on But I just 271 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 2: don't know if there's any way the way he got 272 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: that whole Steele dossier into the media, briefed the president 273 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: on it so he could then that whole thing was 274 00:14:59,440 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: so odd. 275 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, scumbaggery is not a crime. From NBC. 276 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 3: South Korea says the North has four uranium enrichment facilities 277 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 3: to build nuclear weapons. 278 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: Wow. 279 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: From Fox Spicier and spicier Right from Fox News. 280 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: White House unveil's Presidential Walk of Fame with Biden portrait 281 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 3: replaced by autopen image. 282 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: Really they showed that on Special Reports last night. 283 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: He got portraits of all the presidents and then in 284 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: place of Biden, it's a picture of the autopen. 285 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: Oh that's some elaborate trollery. 286 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 4: Yes. 287 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: From study fines think aging means decline one in four 288 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 3: ailing older adults bounce back to ideal help okay, And 289 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 3: final from. 290 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: The Babylon Bee. 291 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: Us begs Bridget Macron to please please not submit photographic 292 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 3: proof that she is a woman. 293 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's just rude. That Sun told hilarious. 294 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 2: So here's a headline that just came across Starbucks is 295 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: going to close hundreds of stores across the country. 296 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: Hundreds. It doesn't say how many hundreds, but it says 297 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: hundreds and cut at least nine hundred jobs. Hmmm. 298 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's an economy thing. Like a 299 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: lot of the stuff we've been hearing about, people are 300 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 2: maxed out. 301 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. 302 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 2: I don't think you were here for the economic story 303 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 2: last week. That half of the consumer spending is by 304 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: the top ten percent of people with money out there, 305 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 2: So a lot of the consumer spendings two thirds of 306 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 2: the economy. A lot of the consumer spending is small 307 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 2: number of people that feel like they got money. Everybody 308 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 2: else not so much. And now I can wait oft 309 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 2: the eight dollars coffee every day and dropping that off. 310 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 2: How about the gigantic rise in the stock market powered 311 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: by a few stocks? 312 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, like five table anyone? Dang it? What is this show? 313 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: What is the point of this show? We need to 314 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: gather around and discuss what's the points of what we do? 315 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. 316 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 4: Officials recently discovered a skull and human bones and a 317 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 4: traveler's luggage at a Florida airport. 318 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: But since it's Florida, they just made him check it, 319 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: hi y'all doing before we get to Joe's theory of 320 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: the Day. Around Joe's Thursday theory, branding Jack. 321 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: Branding right trying to brand a new feature about how 322 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 2: serious Donald Trump is around the whole Ukraine thing, which 323 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: could be, you know, one of the biggest stories in 324 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 2: the world. This, this should be the biggest story in 325 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 2: the world, according to Mark Awprin's newsletter today. This is 326 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 2: being reported by Reuters. Chinese drone experts have flown to 327 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 2: Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at 328 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 2: a state owned weapons manufacturer. According to two European security 329 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 2: officials and documents that were seen by Reuters, the Chinese 330 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: experts have visited armsmaker I can't pronounce it, Russian company 331 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 2: on more than half a dozen occasions since the second 332 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: quarter of last year. 333 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: We now know. 334 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 2: During that time they also received shipments of Chinese made 335 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: attack and surveillance drones via a Russian intermediary, according to documents, 336 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: So China has been helping develop the drones and supplying 337 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 2: a lot of the equipment. 338 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: For quite a while. 339 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 2: It looks like so it's much more of us against 340 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 2: Russia and China and Iran than we even realized or NATO, 341 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 2: the West against China, Russian Iran, that is highly troubling. 342 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 2: It's and then the whole proxy thing that we've talked 343 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: about forever. Why that works, you know, I don't exactly know. 344 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 2: I mean, China is absolutely part of the war against Ukraine, 345 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 2: which is on the other side of it is US, 346 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 2: you know, in Great Britain, Germany, France, EU. In short, yeah, yeah, 347 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 2: they are friends of convenience, Russia and China, no doubt, 348 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 2: but a dangerous, dangerous coalition. Well right, especially getting to 349 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: what you're about to talk about. If Trump is serious 350 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 2: about Ukraine can take all their land back, maybe even more, 351 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 2: and you know, arming them in such a way and 352 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 2: supporting them financially in such a way, then it's really China, 353 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: Russia against. 354 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: The rest of the world. 355 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure Trump is serious about that. He 356 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: may just have been talking big. I wanted to mention 357 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 2: and very quickly on the topic of drones, a story 358 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 2: every nation wants to copy. 359 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: Iran's deadly Shaheed. 360 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 2: Drone militaries around the world are seeking a low cost, 361 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 2: easy to make way to exhaust an enemy's air defenses. 362 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: That's why these things are so sought after. I mean, 363 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 2: they're effective as an attacker in certain circumstances. We've seen 364 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 2: that in Ukraine certainly. But whether they're really really effective 365 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 2: is they're dangerous enough to provoke an anti aircraft response, right, 366 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 2: and we haven't seen it be successful yet. As Iran 367 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 2: sent all those drones into Israel a couple of times, 368 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 2: and Russia does it like night after night, night after 369 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 2: night after night in Ukraine. I guess with the theory, 370 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 2: at some point they'll run out of the anti aircraft, 371 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 2: anti missile stuff, and then you know, all hell breaks lose. Well, 372 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 2: the math is undeniable that Western stocks of the shells, 373 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 2: the ordinance, whatever the proper term is, is our dwindling. 374 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: Now. 375 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 2: I can't remember what the latest estimates are for how 376 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 2: much longer we can go at this rate, but it's 377 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 2: a much shorter time than the time it would take 378 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 2: to replace that ordinance. And there's so they may be 379 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 2: playing the long long game, and there's an incredible cost asymmetry. 380 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh right, exactly, another advantage of these Shaheed 381 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 2: drones and similar designs. 382 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: Wow, this is not good. So Joe's Thursday theory. 383 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 2: You were asking about what Trump's intentions really are toward Ukraine, 384 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: the Ukraine Russia war. People are calling it a one eighty, 385 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 2: a giant about face. The biggest news story to come 386 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 2: out of UN this week. It would be if it's real. 387 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. My theory is that it's not. 388 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 2: And I reread it's a it's a tweeter, it's not 389 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 2: a one hundred and eighty theories, it's ninety. I was 390 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 2: rereading his truth about the situation, and and it says 391 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 2: repeatedly things like I think Ukraine, with the sport of 392 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 2: the European Union, is in a position to win back 393 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: and win all of Ukraine back in its original form, 394 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 2: with time, patients and the financial support of Europe and 395 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 2: in particular the NATO, NATO, the original. 396 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Borders from where this war started very much an option. 397 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: Why not? 398 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 2: And then he goes into some detail, but at no 399 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 2: point none does he suggest that the United States will 400 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: do anything but sell armaments to Europe. So, like I say, 401 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 2: it's ninety degrees, it's it's away from the Biden. 402 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: We'll give you just. 403 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 2: Enough to survive. Plan It's all right. You guys want 404 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 2: some good offensive weaponry, We'll sell it. We'll sell all 405 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: of it. You want to you and use it however 406 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: you want. Yeah, we use it however you want. 407 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: Exactly. And in fact, Zelensky, this news is just breaking. 408 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: Did an interview with somebody or other, and he said 409 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: of the Russian leadership, they have to know where the 410 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 2: bombshelters are. 411 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: They need it. If they will not stop the war, 412 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: they will need it. In any case. 413 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: He insisted Ukraine would only target Kremlin officials and not 414 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 2: civilians because we are not terrorists. They have to know 415 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: that we in Ukraine. Each day we will answer. If 416 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 2: they attack us, we will answer them. And now he 417 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: was meeting with Trump extensively this past week, and he said, 418 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 2: if they attack our energy, President Trump supports that we 419 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: can answer on energy. He added too that Kiev was 420 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 2: seeking new long range weapons from the US. Quote, we 421 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 2: need it, but it doesn't mean we will use it. 422 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 2: Because if we'll have it, I think it's additional pressure 423 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: on Putin to sit and speak. Russia could use let's see. Oh, 424 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: and then I met Vedyev, who's always willing to shoot 425 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 2: off his mouth responded Russia could use weapons that a 426 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: bomb shelter wouldn't protect against the Americans should remember this, He. 427 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: Replied, on X. 428 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 2: Okay, that's a nuclear threat obviously. Sure, well that'll get 429 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 2: damn spicy if we give the weapons paid for by 430 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 2: NATO or however it would work, that Zelensky can really 431 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 2: fire into Russia in Moscow and wherever else, taking out 432 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 2: lead officials and energy grids and all kinds of things. 433 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 2: That's gonna get dang spicy. Yeah, they'll go after the 434 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 2: energy I think first, but yeah, yeah, it will definitely 435 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 2: uh up the antique. Well, it's a heck of a 436 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: cry from back in was it February sitting there with JD. 437 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 2: Vance yelling at him and Trump saying you don't have 438 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: the cards. You need to give up your land. 439 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: It's over. 440 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 2: You can't win, right. Yeah, I don't blame Zelensky for 441 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 2: being impatient. He shot off his mouth and he showed 442 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 2: up the present in his own white house, which was 443 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 2: a bad, bad strategic move. But remember his message was 444 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: you're wasting your time trying to talk to Putin. Putin 445 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 2: is a liar and a con man and he will 446 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 2: just string you along. And you know, it was a 447 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 2: bad day for him. He lost patience and he shot 448 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 2: off his mouth. But his message is absolutely landed now 449 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 2: in the White House. 450 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: Okay, we can move away from this story. 451 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 2: After I asked one more question, will China up their 452 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: game in terms of supplying Russia if Ukraine's upping theirs, 453 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 2: that's a great question. My level of certainty is low. 454 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 2: The war in Ukraine doesn't do China any good except 455 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 2: as a way to cement their frenemy relationship with Russia. 456 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 2: It's an incredible inconvenience because it's rubbing the This is 457 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 2: a really unpleasant metaphor rubbing the relationship with America. 458 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: Raw ew. 459 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 2: I mean, we've got trade problems, we've got rivalry views, 460 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: and now we've got Ukraine problems from Jesi and pings blistered, 461 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 2: you know, terrible inflamed, perspective shaped, it's terribly chafed. He'd 462 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 2: be much better off if that particular, uh, friction point 463 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 2: didn't exist. Remember who particularly, who's the guy particularly, but 464 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 2: who's the guy in the White House? Orbit has an 465 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 2: interesting name, that's been He was the one that announced 466 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 2: we weren't going to send any more stuff. Johnny, go 467 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: f yourself. That's an interesting name. Guy with the interesting name. 468 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: What nobody knew how to pronounce his name correctly? Uh, 469 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 2: he's the one that stopped the arms shipment, remember, without 470 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 2: Trump's approval. 471 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: That was a big story there for like three days, 472 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: like who ordered this? Anyway? 473 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 2: He's one of the we shouldn't be involved in Ukraine guys. 474 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 2: His trainers him one of the restraints. No, no, no, 475 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 2: no no underneath Pete Heath, he's like the assistant guy. 476 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 2: Why can't think his name anyway? Uh he His big 477 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 2: argument was China's loving this. 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So the 507 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 2: announcement that Starbucks closing hundreds of stores doesn't that fit 508 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 2: in with the whole People are starting to drop off 509 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 2: things that they don't necessarily need as expenditures because they're 510 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: maxed out on their credit cards and everything. Sure so, 511 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 2: I mean because one of the first things you can 512 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: get rid of is your five dollars cup of coffee 513 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: that you could make at home for eighty cents. Yeah 514 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: right right, Yeah, I've long been a I brew my 515 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 2: own guy. But Starbucks also expanded like Lunatics. Therefore a 516 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 2: while as it could be, it was just time to 517 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 2: exhale and right size. But now I think your theory 518 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 2: sounds good. Yeah, yeah, it almost seems like he could 519 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 2: be an economic principle that they use Starbucks as an example. 520 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 2: I mean, that could be like one of the very 521 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 2: first things you give up when you you got to 522 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 2: start tightening the belt. Plus those stores are pretty easy 523 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 2: to open, pretty easy to close, so pretty good economic indicator. 524 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: I would think. I'm going to figure out ingemar p daily. 525 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: I'm going to figure out who the guy's name was, 526 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: who the guy's name was, and and we'll have mail 527 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 2: bag coming up. Uh turning point. You know, the big 528 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 2: organization founded by Charlie Kirk is still running and growing 529 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: and everything, and it's still an open question of how 530 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 2: successful it will be and how much it will grow 531 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 2: without his leadership, because he was a a political, financial leader, 532 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 2: genius who was assassinated. It's coming to Berkeley in October, 533 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go, so I want to see one 534 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 2: of those events in person, So that'll be interesting not 535 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: too long from now. Yeah, that sounds great. I would 536 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 2: love to do on Berkeley's campus. I just I'll be 537 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 2: interested to see what that's like. Here's your freedom loving 538 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: quote of the day by an utterly unpronounceable sage from 539 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 2: I Believe Sri Lanka. 540 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: The first name is. 541 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 2: Twelve to fifteen letters, and the second and the last name, 542 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 2: Dwarf's the first name, so I'm not even going to 543 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 2: attempt it. We'll call him old beh Here's what they said, 544 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 2: continuing our theme about posterity, posterity, the future, our legacy. 545 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 2: The only way anyone can hope to live after death 546 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 2: is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for. 547 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: And that might not be like famous posterity. 548 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 2: That might be your family saying you remember, Grandpa always 549 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 2: did the right thing, even when it was really hard. 550 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 2: I mean, that's a legacy that brings tears to my eyes. Oh, 551 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 2: I certainly think you send you send your kids out 552 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 2: into the world as decent people. 553 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: That's all the legacy you need. 554 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 2: Right Indeed, Mailbag Elbridge Colby, Elbridge Colby, that the name 555 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 2: I couldn't think of. He is the guy only the 556 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 2: like under secretary at the second Death Uh who is 557 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 2: super don't get involved in Ukraine. He can't be happy 558 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 2: with this turn. Yeah, and the only person I've ever 559 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 2: heard of named Elbridge. 560 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: One of the few. Certainly you've got to be. 561 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 2: In a certain social class, a certain you know group 562 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 2: to give your kids one of those high falutin East 563 00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 2: Coast Ivy League names. 564 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: No kidding Elbridge, right. 565 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: And there are others that leave to mind, But anyway, yeah, 566 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: those were not my peeps. So first of all, we'll 567 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 2: begin with a nice meme from Tyler. We've gotten it before, 568 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: but I like it so much. It's a little golden 569 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 2: book for the kids, little bedtime story. Everyone I don't 570 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 2: like his Hitler, a child's guide to online political discussion. 571 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: Everyone I don't like is Hitler. We got a funny 572 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: comedy routine we're going to play later from a comedian 573 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 2: about that, and. 574 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: It's speaking of unfortunate. 575 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 2: The illustration on the cover is the Chancellor of Germany 576 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: from the nineteen thirties and striped pjs riding a sled 577 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 2: along a rainbow. 578 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: I think everyone you don't like is Hitler. Man, let's 579 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: say moving along. 580 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 2: Ryan from Houston dear Jack, Joe, I'm afraid with all 581 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 2: these schisms in our country, and with the shootings of 582 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 2: Charlie Clark, I mean Kirk, I mean Cook. 583 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: Well, that's unnecessarily humor. And now the shooting at. 584 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 2: A nice detention center leading to someone or multiple people 585 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 2: taking another shot at President Trump, and I imagine probably 586 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 2: ten percent of the population as Champagne on ice ready 587 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: to celebrate alas I see great bloodshed in our country's future. 588 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 2: Much like Jack predicting WW three. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, yeah, 589 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 2: I hope you're wrong too, my brother, let's see. Oh 590 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 2: my god, this is perfectly timed. Jim from Houston. I 591 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 2: can't decide if you guys are sarcastically hysterical or the 592 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 2: world's best salespeople for antidepressants like xanax or both. 593 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: I know, Jim, Jim, you're so right, and it said, 594 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: but we're affected by it too. 595 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 2: We were joking yesterday, I think it was off the air, 596 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: but that we were talking about, you know, nuclear war 597 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: and how China and Russia might be willing to spend 598 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 2: a million people for a million people to make some 599 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: sort of point because they don't give an ass about 600 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 2: human life, and we decided our new slogan should be 601 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 2: mushroom clouds and chuckles. 602 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: The arms Strong and Getty show. Next, does your pet 603 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: have cancer? Probably stay tuned. Oh my god, that's not funny. 604 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: That is not funny. 605 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 2: I'm mocking the fact that we're a bit of a 606 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 2: downer of a show. Well, mock it more funnily. Brian 607 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,760 Speaker 2: from Kansas City signs off, Go Chiefs, Go chiefs. Indeed 608 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 2: they need the routing. Good morning, old simple Jack and Joe. 609 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 2: Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty. I don't know what's 610 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 2: that reference? You know, Tiger's got nothing on me, Katie. 611 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 2: If you have a second, perhaps chat GPT then I 612 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 2: don't get the reference. Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty. 613 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 2: Is it a golf thing about you? I wonder anyway. 614 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 2: Brian writes, if my son is starting high school next year, 615 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 2: and yesterday we toured one of the local parochial schools. 616 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 2: It was amazing the difference between that and our government schools. 617 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 2: While my son's public high school is new with top 618 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 2: of the line facilities and the private school is thirty 619 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 2: seven years old. We found the level of attention on 620 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 2: acid dedemics and morals was incredible the private school. As 621 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 2: I've said before, I was for three years a federal 622 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 2: employee and was cut by DOGE this summer. 623 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: You know what, hang by your phone, Brian. 624 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 2: The White House is quietly re hiring a bunch of 625 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 2: people fired by DOGE because they've realized they need them. 626 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,799 Speaker 2: Like it's Social Security administration. They need somebody to answer 627 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 2: to the phones and answer people questions. Anyway, hello, he said, 628 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,240 Speaker 2: either way, the job market is rough, But we decided 629 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 2: yesterday we'll figure out how somehow to pull together the tuition. 630 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 2: The gender bending madness and progressive Volk virus has become 631 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,879 Speaker 2: too much, even in Kansas City. 632 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 1: Thanks for the note, Brian. 633 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, the vibe in the room of a private school, 634 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 2: particularly in my case of private Christian school versus your 635 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 2: public school, is way different. 636 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: It's just it's palpable. 637 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 2: In a funny coincidence, I had a great conversation with 638 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,399 Speaker 2: a good friend yesterday and he was telling the story 639 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 2: about a mutual friend whose kids graduated from a local 640 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 2: public school and did fantastically and had a really good 641 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 2: experience and have a very very bright future. Great family 642 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 2: that values studying and academics. Obviously, but hey, if your 643 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,040 Speaker 2: local government school is doing a great job with good, 644 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 2: solid teachers who aren't woke mind virus suffering lunatics, and 645 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 2: enjoy that wonderful service. But if your local schools are 646 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 2: progressive loney bins, get your kid out if you can. 647 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 2: If you missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and 648 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 2: Getty on Demand, another political killing yesterday, we'll get into 649 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,280 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty